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The
Significance and Value of The United Nations In The Age of Gold
There are many things
about The United Nations that are not so obvious but that upon
closer inspection are extremely important and revelatory. Perhaps
the most important of all of these is the realization that The UN is
one of the most recent and advanced manifestations of humanity’s
evolving consciousness that we have. The starting point for such a
realization is to understand that civilizations and cultures
including all values, institutions and art forms are nothing more
than the out picturing of the dominant consciousness of the time.
Thus, by looking at the world wide evolution of the institution we
call government, we get a very clear idea of the direction and
progress of the evolution of humanity’s consciousness.
In general, the
direction of evolution, as far as we can track it with relative
data, has been from a separative self-conscious vision and notion of
reality to a realization of the fact of the wholeness or unity, or
oneness of reality. In terms of government the evolution of
consciousness has patterned out over the centuries as a kind of
pendulum movement between the notion of the divine right of kings to
rule the world, to the realization of the collective right of the
larger whole to determine its own destiny and progress. There have
been periods of startling movement from the rule of Kings and Nobles
toward a more collective kind of rule, and then lots of back sliding
and then another jump forward.
The “divine right” of
the King to rule was probably derived from the belief that in very,
very ancient times a “King” was actually a highly evolved being who
was acting as a messenger of God. This Being incarnated into the
human race and was assigned the task of leading, by example and
wisdom, an infant humanity into its maturity. When we look at
humanity as a whole we can see that it has indeed evolved into a
place where it can take on the rule and guidance of itself. It
becomes apparent not only that humanity can, but that it must rule
itself, for self direction and regulation is the sign of maturity
and adulthood. Thus, this evolutionary development can be clearly seen in the gradual development of power sharing with larger and larger groups of individuals and the shifting of “rights” from an exclusive individual or group of individuals to the collective whole. One of the amazing things to realize about this expansion of power and rights sharing is that as the size of the collective grew, the power to achieve and create also grew. The principle of evolution that is noted here is that as consciousness expands through the inclusion of larger and larger segments of the field, power is shared. As power is shared it does not, as has been assumed from the separative self-conscious perspective, become weaker. As power expands it too becomes more powerful. This is an example of how synthesis or as it is known in physics, fusion, works.
It becomes important
for us all to understand that the birth of the United States of
America was an action of a collective consciousness. Although
implemented through the courage and strength of a few dozen
individuals, the drama that played out in 1776 was actually the
culmination of several hundreds, if not thousands, of years of the
evolution of consciousness.
Those drafters and
signers were all the sons of women and men. That they were
individuals of great courage and collective wisdom is well known.
However, they were also individual representatives of what humanity
was and is capable. These individuals were able to see from a group
conscious point of view. They could understand to a very expanded
degree the fact of the non-separate relationship of Humanity, its
intrinsic interrelatedness and, likewise, the natural divinity of
every person and hence the notion of universal equality. The birth
of The United States of America was the result of the culmination of
a phase of consciousness expansion implemented through many, many
more individuals all over the world than those present at the
drafting of the actual documents of independence.
The creation of the
United States, through the power of a collective human
consciousness, was and remains today a human creation. It signifies
an unprecedented expansion, not of European/American consciousness,
but of human consciousness. What happened in Philadelphia those
couple of hundred years ago does not belong to the United States. It
was the product of and belongs to Humanity, and it precipitated a
giant leap forward in the development of government not for the
United States of America, but for Humanity.
In terms of their
meaning and significance, the principles stated in the Constitution
are incredible, startling pronouncements, and we have as yet to
fully understand the meaning and significance of many of these
ringing truths. For example take just the statements “All men are
created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain
inalienable rights.” These are amazing ideas, and, as I have said,
we have only scratched the surface of their deeper significances.
As our consciousness
continued to expand from the separative self conscious vision into
the new field of group consciousness, humanity banded together to
stop a major attempt by the forces of retrogression to re-institute
the old forms of government, the divine right of some superman to
rule the world. The collective and allied efforts of humanity proved
to be more powerful than those of the retrogressors, and were
successful. At the close of that successful effort to protect and
cherish our eons long advances into a new state of conscious
understanding regarding the nature of the world, we came together
and gave birth to the United Nations.
The creation of the
United Nations some 60 years ago was the next natural step for
humanity. The startling notions of universal self-determination,
equality and inalienable rights were extended to the entire world.
While The United Nations is perhaps not the only, or the first, it
is, because of its vision and inclusive reach to the entire globe
and all of humanity, regardless of race, national origin or creed,
the most significant cultural and governmental structure or
institution to which humanity has ever given birth. The product of a
group conscious mindset and point of view, the United Nations is
humanity’s first ever international/global cultural and governmental
structure or institution. It is truly the prototype of the future
government of the One Humanity.
It should come as no
surprise that retrogressive forces are expending huge amounts of
energy and killing vast numbers of people in a frantic and last
ditch effort to stop the forward movement of the expansion of human
consciousness. These forces of retrogression, the same forces that
mounted and prosecuted both phases of the World War, are attempting
in every way possible to shore up the crumbling structures of
special privilege and power through the expansion of the illusion of
separative and materialistic reality. There are those now and there
have always been those, the entrenched recipients of separative
privilege and power, who, using the weapons of greed and fear will
stoop to anything and stop at nothing to maintain their power and
privilege.
However, these
children of the night, the retrogressive forces of another time
might just as soon stand upon the edge of the world and try to stop
the sun from rising. The UN and indeed the United States, could not
have come into form unless human consciousness had evolved into the
space where it could see and understand the essential unity of the
Human Race and the divine right, not of Kings, but of every single
human being, to self determination, “to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.”
Once seeded in human
consciousness, this comprehension of reality will never be able to
be stopped from growing and blooming. As we have begun to understand
the nature of the Life within which we move, we are more able to see
that the truths of yesterday and indeed, the Truths of today,
although true and noble for yesterday and today, are not the end of
Truth. There are new understandings and new possibilities awaiting a
courageous and noble race, the race we call Humanity.
For example, our group
conscious comprehension of the basic inclusive nature of reality has
grown greatly over the past 200 years and is rapidly including the
three lower kingdoms of nature. We have come to realize that human
life is inextricably involved with the health and life of the planet
itself. Thus, we are very concerned about global warming, about the
spread of poison in our air, water and food supplies through
chemical fertilizers, waste products from oil and gas production and
the use of atomic munitions like depleted uranium. We are concerned
about many, many very unhealthy processes in food production and
consumption. The principles of cooperation and sustainability are
rapidly replacing the principles of competition and greed for
immediate profit. And, we have, many, many of us, finally come to
the realization of the futility of war as a problem solving
methodology, and are unalterably opposed to its use. It takes only a moment to understand that all of those problems which are making life almost unbearable for many, many millions of our brothers and sisters around the world are the results of programs and processes that have been derived from a separative self conscious point of view. And it takes only a moment more to understand that the solution to these problems really lies in a group conscious concept, which is precisely what we have in the United Nations. These are humanity’s problems. We made them through thousands of years of separative and exclusive, unconscious living. Now we have birthed the United Nations and the avenue to the solutions to Humanity’s problems lies open before us. It remains for us to see this, to protect it and to use it.
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