CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED

The proposition of this document is we all share a consciousness with each other at the present moment, limited by our ability to attend to it and not by the constraints described by the physical sciences. We have our will and it is perceptible to others through what may be called the subconscious medium and if we are good our will expresses healing or language rather than illness towards each other. To limit our wills we debate each other using two parameters: reason and conscience. The voice that is often referred to as our conscience is actually the communication from others who are aware of us and are rejecting our will.

Although there are millions of cases of psychologically documented hearing of voices that are not those of persons physically present (audible hallucinations of schizophrenia) our society has rejected their presence, however, they are present and it is not a mental illness to perceive them unless those voices are of an ill will. This denial of the shared consciousness of human beings is characteristic of the secular mode and its legal system within which nothing without physical evidence can be acted upon. It is wrong to deny our perception of those not near us physically yet at or within our consciousness and to attempt to claim negation of their influence so that we can do what is not justified, and that which our reason and conscience protest. Our reason and conscience fed by our fellow human beings through this subconscious mode of communication cannot be cursed at or sworn away without the repercussion of the reactions of those who are aware of the unreasonableness or violation of conscience that our wills present.

Reasons support a cause and conscience represents others opposing that cause when the conscience opposes the cause of the will. Others have causes of their own and we oppose them as their conscience when their causes oppose us. In our opposition towards others on behalf of their conscience I believe it is against our social and civil rights to behave towards each other in a non-friendly manner. Within our cause must be the polite and mannerly behavior of a refined person for our human rights to be realized. It is when our conscience opposes us impolitely that mental illness (folk etymology: men telling illness) is present. One of the most pressing problems of mental illness is repetition of insults based on the principle of any kind of discrimination. Such acts are prosecuted by law when they are physically evidenced and should be rejected in the shared consciousness of us all.

THE MERITS OF RELIGION WITH REGARD TO THE CONSCIENCE

As a Catholic my religion begins with God. The Christian God does not claim to be the God of an exclusive people or nationality or ethnicity. By being the God of all creation our God brings all of humanity into one species, one family, which is contrary to the doctrines of discrimination of various kinds which seek to bestow more rights on one person or group than another.

The Christian belief in never ending life prevents us from imparting death and illness towards the consciousness of others. The Catholic religion and the Christian religions realize that men are telling each other health or illness and the belief in eternal life prevents us from telling illness. The belief in miracles also fosters an extreme optimism in everything we think. Thus the Christian is at all times delivering good news rather than ill will. The trace of telling illness is present in the concept of Hell, but in Catholicism Hell is to be feared and not given until the last judgement, which is always far in the future.

Other religions lack the individualistic aspect of Christianity, they become more secular in establishing the family as the just order of society. In the non-messianic religions a hierarchy is established with the father over the son, the man over the woman, and the employer over the employee rather than a democratic structure in which the many as individuals have more power than the few. In our Catholic religion we have God, the creator, we have Jesus, the humanity of divinity, and we have the Holy Spirit, the living force through which we communicate outside of physical means that is present throughout the universe. With all these aspects we recognize not only God the creator but human beings and their suffering and we can sympathize with them rather than viewing them as insignificant, unimportant, and unworthy of respect compared to God. And with the Holy Spirit we have the medium of divine communication and it is within this medium or mode that we are either virtuous or sinful.

Judaism is also good and do not make the mistake of believing that the Jews invented the law and that all they do is practice not being convicted of breaking it. The ten commandments are commandments, not law! The commandments tells us not to do something, they do not tell us that we will be punished if we get caught doing those things, they say do not do it and give no system of justice and punishment for breaking them.

THE SECULAR

In the secular I find instead of God and the Holy Spirit the “virtual mode” a name I learned through the shared consciousness. The virtual mode is supposed to describe a medium of communication (mode) and at the same time emphasize virtue, but without announcing any association with God. In fact Virtue takes the place of God and is male and the mode takes the place of the Holy Spirit through which we communicate. This leaves the Son, the citizen, the human being without representation as the communicator. Thus we find a familial structure in the secular idea of what reality is. In the way just indicated there is a parallel between the secular and the religious or the Christian based society. To this extent I find that in my consciousness society is the man and the woman joined but not personified as within religion.

The first and some say the greatest among the virtues is Justice. No other virtue among the cardinal or modern virtues is institutionalized as much as Justice. The symbol of justice is a woman holding a scale while blindfolded. The justice system, while willing to listen to the reasons and acknowledge the state of the conscience of the perpetrator or litigants, concerns itself only with the physical which is a perversion of the virtue of Justice. Justice so limited to the physical is not the same as the virtue of Justice. In fact the word virtual means being such in power, force, or effect, though not actually or expressly such. The virtue of Justice cannot be made into a physical system of laws and sentences for virtue belongs to individuals and to their conduct as well as their wills.

Often non-religious thought is called secular, but what secular actually refers to is the temporal world (as opposed to the eternal). To the extent that the United States of America separates the eternal from the temporal, the religious is separate from the eternal. As such the secular world is, as it is said to be, the consciousness in which we have no communication with God, the Holy Spirit, or the Son except the words of scripture. In the secular world God, trinity or not, does not determine what will happen, he does not set events on a just course and mankind has complete dominion over the earth with the exception of nature, which mankind may in fact be considered a part of rather than above when we accept the theory of the Evolution of the Species. In this environment one cannot call his conscience God and the so-called “little voice in your head” must belong to other citizens. In the secular world I can have no better reason and conscience than that I have with the other human beings of whom one is within the awareness. If a conscience is an inhibiting sense of what is prudent, then a sound mind is generally thought to be a mind in which there is no rejecting of other citizens in such a way so as to disturb the mind. In the shared consciousness, some of these citizens are implicitly reasoned together with and others are naturally mistrusted. Unlike the non-secular world no God is available to provide perfect or improved reasoning or conscience and so one is required to think in terms of what one knows from the world rather than what is unknown.

In a worldly realm of consciousness, where only our experience and that of those of whom we are within their awareness is available God becomes a way to introduce new citizens into our consciousness. God, or religion, provides the extra benefit of providing someone who respects the tenets of the religion from which he comes. This is an improvement over nationalism since it is international, an improvement over the trades since religion is not restricted by occupation, and an improvement over races since it is not restricted by heredity. The problem then arises that the religion is not God, nor are its members as good as God. Also, I cannot remove God from the secular world since I learned of him in the secular world.

MENTAL ILLNESS AND DISTURBANCES OF THE MIND

The origin of some mental illness is obvious: Men (& women) telling illness towards the person who suffers from their message of illness. A voice from others in society that will not cease to behave in a hostile way towards the patient is what causes the mental illness known as schizophrenia. The person cannot put down the hostile source and the friendly source has not overcome it either. Probably the most prominent reason that some sources are hostile towards others is the male dominance model of society, the one in which the dominant male has all the power to punish or reward and, contrary to the principle of equality, is seen as moral and therefore good. This age old idea of the father having all the power, including over life and death, in a family has extended into society to the point of being known as the conservative political doctrine. When citizens feel that bad behavior needs to be punished by society rather than that good behavior needs to be nurtured, the fatherhood instinct of those who support absolute power of fathers through the ruler is spread throughout politics and the shared consciousness of the citizens.

As a many man dictatorship, the conservative movement creates absolute power, which is illegal and so has to be exercised outside of the law, to punish the threats and to reward themselves. The threats they perceive are not only towards the nation, but also to the structure that they themselves embody: the family with absolute power at the top. Thus those who are supportive of the absolute power of the head of the family, be it the nuclear family, the human family, or any such family in between, are punished by fostered hostility in the shared consciousness that is so powerful that citizens are unable to function as they would in an equitable society. There is an enmity between the unmarried citizen who does not support the dictatorship of the many and the married citizen who supports the absolute rule of the head of the family. With the backing and reinforcement of the spouse, the married citizen inflicts what the unmarried citizen and the doctors who examine him characterize as disordered thinking - the source of mental illness. The direct causes of this would be recognized as socio-psychotic if it were not for the fact that it is the married citizens that claim ownership of the occupations that decide how to present the problem to society. Add to this that it is the married citizens who are those who benefit from the treatment of this disorder economically and through the financial markets and it is the fact of life that things are done for the service of the heads of families is society.

Probably the scenario that explains this best is the phenomena of God within the shared consciousness. Orthodox religion tells us that God’s words are found in the scriptures alone and not in the consciousness of human beings. We have, at this time, members of society that praise God alone and heaps abuse upon all others. The parents of our society tell their children to listen to God in their shared consciousness and others do the work of answering the questions of their children using reason and conscience. But when remuneration is due for such answers the parents attribute the work to God and give him the credit while they heap abuse on the real providers of their children’s and their own divine reasoning. They remunerate God and themselves for being loyal to him thus explaining themselves as worthy of all they have in excess of equality in society. The rest of us they give illnesses and contempt as they teach that in their “virtual mode” or shared consciousness only God is worthy of worship and the rest of humanity worthy only of bankruptcy and indigence, grave sin and disparagement.