<TITLE>Sorting Out Your Orientation: Social Consciousness vs Evolving Consciousness

Sorting Out Your Orientation: Social Consciousness vs Evolving Consciousness

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All of us at one time or another have to sit back and do a little self-analysis and figure out just what our personal orientation is, especially when faced with what seem to be impossible choices and problems. Very often, problems arise because of beliefs that one has accumulated, many of them arising from having been immersed in social consciousness. As one moves out of social consciousness and its perverse, mechanistic way of looking at the universe, one discovers more universally applicable ideas and more evolving perspectives that appear to function as a closer approximation to the way all reality structures really are. It is in this spirit that we provide a comparative chart that may help you sort out your orientation. The comparison is between (1) a static social consciousness and (2) an evolving consciousness that is proceeding on the journey of discovery. You can decide which elements might reflect where you are relative to each issue. The following comparative chart is (c) 1994/1995 Leading Edge Research Group, P.O. Box 7530, Yelm, Washington 98597. Again, the purpose of the chart is to stimulate thought and contemplation. Whether you agree or disagree with the examples is irrelevent. It is an exercise.

SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS OR EVOLVING CONSCIOUSNESS

"Laws of Karma" OR Creativity

Cause and Effect OR Is-ness

Polarity and Duality OR Unity

Externally Controlled Destiny OR Internally Manifested Destiny

Past, Present and Future OR Absolute Eternal Now

Polarities as Misery OR Polarities as Learning

Lower Self & Higher Self OR One Self as Part of the Creator

Identification With Body OR Identification With Whole Being

Ego and Cultural Image OR Value of Consciousness Acquiring Wisdom

Searching for the Path OR You Are The Path

Failure as a Defeat OR Learning, Evolution, Wisdom Through Experience

External Technology OR Consciousness and Energy Create the Nature of Reality

Win-Lose Reality OR Win-Win Reality

Reality Follows Pre-destiny OR Reality Follows Thought

Creation Through Mass Manipulation OR Creation Through Thought and Feeling

Soul as Abstract Concept OR Soul as Recorder of Experience and Feeling

The Creators External OR The Creator Internal

God as Separate OR God as Part of Identity

Fear Ruling Destiny OR Love as Reality

Alter-Ego / Anti-Christ OR Unaltered Ego

Separation from Self OR Love Self and Father Known as One

Worship OR Beingness

Father as Singular External OR The Father as All

Universe as Complex External OR Universe as Connected Unity

Humans as Bastards of the Universe OR Beings As Creators of Universes

Humans OR Sons of the Living Cause

Human Having Spiritual Experience OR Spiritual Being Having Human Experience

Love in Judgement OR Love in Freedom

Projection of Responsibility OR Adoption of Responsibility

Right and Wrong Belief Systems OR All Beliefs Are Right and True

Mystery of Presence on Earth OR Experience

Power is the Name of the Game OR Consciousness is the Name of the Game

Space is Emptiness OR Space is Consciousness

Positive & Negative as Opposites OR Positive & Negative as Complementary

Love as Possession of Projection OR Creative Flow and Will as Love

The Father To Be Worshipped OR The Father As Part of Identity

One Reality as Separate OR Infinite Realities as One

Memory in the Sub-conscious OR Memory in the Soul

Soul as Etherial Concept OR Soul as the Holder of Truth

Alter-Ego or Brain as Body-Mover OR Soul as the Ultimate Body-Mover

Brain as the Carrier of Information OR Soul as the Carrier of Information

Humans as Amnesiacs OR Beings as Christed Creators

Preoccupation With Doing OR Beingness and Isness in Motion

One Life to Live OR Life in Infinity and Continuity

Experience Without Knowingness OR Experience In Knowingness

Knowingness as Thought OR Knowingness as Feeling

Freedom as a Social Right OR Freedom as Life Force Essence

Separateness OR Individual But One With the Father

Loving Another as Separate OR Loving Another as Yourself

Hating Another as Separate OR Realization of Hating a Mirror of Yourself

Priority is Programmed Survival OR Priority is Fulfilled Beingness

The Brain Creates Thought OR The Brain Receives Thought

Self Consists of Projected Images OR Self is an Is-ness

Repetitive Experience OR Experience Owned

Focus on Laws OR Focus on Internal Responsibiliy

Positive and Negative Experience OR Experience Yielding Wisdom and Personal Truth

Focus on Social Symptoms OR Focus on Social Causes

Following Ideals of Others OR Following Your Own Inner Path/Ideal

Love Others First OR Love Self and God First

Making People Happy OR Happiness Within People

Simplicity as a Puzzle OR Simplicity as a Reality

Intellect OR Feeling

Looking to Others for Answers OR Looking Within For Answers

Self-Limitation OR Allowance of Self

Having the Emotion OR Living the Emotion

Initiating Others OR Initiating Self

Belief Defining Self with Self-Judgement OR Being with No Self-Judgement

Taking On Opinions of Others OR Listening to Feeling and Intuition Within

Ordaining Truth OR Becoming Truth

Philosophy Contemplated OR Philosophy Lived

Preoccupation With Differences OR Focus on Functional Similarities

Looking for the External Path OR Being the Internal Path

Social Consciousness OR Multi-dimensional Consciousness

The Alien Problem/The Human Problem OR Adventure in Evolution and Accumulation of Wisdom

Humans Need to Be Governed OR Humans Are Self-Governing Embodied Spiritual Entities

SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS	OR	EVOLVING CONSCIOUSNESS
"Laws of Karma"	OR	Creativity
Cause and Effect	OR	Is-ness
Polarity and Duality	OR	Unity
Externally Controlled Destiny	OR	Internally Manifested Destiny
Past, Present and Future	OR	Absolute Eternal Now
Polarities as Misery	OR	Polarities as Learning
Lower Self & Higher Self	OR	One Self as Part of the Creator
Identification With Body	OR	Identification With Whole Being
Ego and Cultural Image	OR	Value of Consciousness Acquiring Wisdom
Searching for the Path	OR	You Are The Path
Failure as a Defeat	OR	Learning, Evolution, Wisdom Through Experience
External Technology	OR	Consciousness and Energy Create the Nature of Reality
Win-Lose Reality	OR	Win-Win Reality
Reality Follows Pre-destiny	OR	Reality Follows Thought
Creation Through Mass Manipulation	OR	Creation Through Thought and Feeling
Soul as Abstract Concept	OR	Soul as Recorder of Experience and Feeling
The Creators External	OR	The Creator Internal
God as Separate	OR	God as Part of Identity
Fear Ruling Destiny	OR	Love as Reality
Alter-Ego / Anti-Christ	OR	Unaltered Ego
Separation from Self	OR	Love Self and Father Known as One
Worship	OR	Beingness
Father as Singular External	OR	The Father as All
Universe as Complex External	OR	Universe as Connected Unity
Humans as Bastards of the Universe	OR	Beings As Creators of Universes
Humans	OR	Sons of the Living Cause
Human Having Spiritual Experience	OR	Spiritual Being Having Human Experience
Love in Judgement	OR	Love in Freedom
Projection of Responsibility	OR	Adoption of Responsibility
Right and Wrong Belief Systems	OR	All Beliefs Are Right and True
Mystery of Presence on Earth	OR	Experience
Power is the Name of the Game	OR	Consciousness is the Name of the Game
Space is Emptiness	OR	Space is Consciousness
Positive & Negative as Opposites	OR	Positive & Negative as Complementary
Love as Possession of Projection	OR	Creative Flow and Will as Love
The Father To Be Worshipped	OR	The Father As Part of Identity
One Reality as Separate	OR	Infinite Realities as One
Memory in the Sub-conscious	OR	Memory in the Soul
Soul as Etherial Concept	OR	Soul as the Holder of Truth
Alter-Ego or Brain as Body-Mover	OR	Soul as the Ultimate Body-Mover
Brain as the Carrier of Information	OR	Soul as the Carrier of Information
Humans as Amnesiacs	OR	Beings as Christed Creators
Preoccupation With Doing	OR	Beingness and Isness in Motion
One Life to Live	OR	Life in Infinity and Continuity
Experience Without Knowingness	OR	Experience In Knowingness
Knowingness as Thought	OR	Knowingness as Feeling
Freedom as a Social Right	OR	Freedom as Life Force Essence
Separateness	OR	Individual But One With the Father
Loving Another as Separate	OR	Loving Another as Yourself
Hating Another as Separate	OR	Realization of Hating a Mirror of Yourself
Priority is Programmed Survival	OR	Priority is Fulfilled Beingness
The Brain Creates Thought	OR	The Brain Receives Thought
Self Consists of Projected Images	OR	Self is an Is-ness
Repetitive Experience	OR	Experience Owned
Focus on Laws	OR	Focus on Internal Responsibiliy
Positive and Negative Experience	OR	Experience Yielding Wisdom and Personal Truth
Focus on Social Symptoms	OR	Focus on Social Causes
Following Ideals of Others	OR	Following Your Own Inner Path/Ideal
Love Others First	OR	Love Self and God First
Making People Happy	OR	Happiness Within People
Simplicity as a Puzzle	OR	Simplicity as a Reality
Intellect	OR	Feeling
Looking to Others for Answers	OR	Looking Within For Answers
Self-Limitation	OR	Allowance of Self
Having the Emotion	OR	Living the Emotion
Initiating Others	OR	Initiating Self
Belief Defining Self with Self-Judgement	OR	Being with No Self-Judgement
Taking On Opinions of Others	OR	Listening to Feeling and Intuition Within
Ordaining Truth	OR	Becoming Truth
Philosophy Contemplated	OR	Philosophy Lived
Preoccupation With Differences	OR	Focus on Functional Similarities
Looking for the External Path	OR	Being the Internal Path
Social Consciousness	OR	Multi-dimensional Consciousness
The Alien Problem/The Human Problem	OR	Adventure in Evolution and Accumulation of Wisdom
Humans Need to Be Governed	OR	Humans Are Self-Governing Embodied Spiritual Entities