by José Argüelles/Valum Votan
A reversal of world values, a spiritual concept of the Earth as God-created and sacred is in order before we two leggeds can be environmentally effective on a global basis.
Ed McGaa, Eagleman, Mother Earth Spirituality. (1990)
The acceleration of Earth changes ... is intimately connected to the fact that we live in a prevailing world-view that is anything but sacred. A sacred world-view is one that views things as a whole, where every part or detail of nature in some way is a manifestation of a divine presence or a divine law. In such a world-view respect for all that exists is the supreme guiding principle.
The rape of nature, the degradation of the biosphere, the deterioration of social and moral values of the predominant global civilization can all be attributed to the loss of sacred view. Instead of a wholeness – holiness – of vision, there is a separation, a secular divisiveness that propagates itself into ever more finite, analytical bits of information, until we arrive at the present situation, where, decapitated of a hierarchy of values, chaos and anarchy reign in every aspect of human endeavor. Not the least of this atomization of the whole is the rise and dominance of the individual ego, aided and exacerbated by the ultimate cyber-technologies of social networking.
The rise of secular, materialist science since the 17th century has been the principle factor and driving force underlying this state of affairs. In establishing a thoroughly profane world-view and world order, modern science is also at the root of the consumer-oriented society of profligate values and a profound disconnection from nature – resulting in a disordering of the sacred whole.
If modern science is the engine driving the creation of a sacred disorder planetary in scope, art is its reflective medium. Since the scientific revolution the course of art has spiraled into its own devolution of disassociation and devaluation of any clear, socially coherent vision. Modernist and post-modernist art side by side with a pop-culture that, for the most part, relentlessly descends into ever-greater depths of vulgarity, vividly mirror the schizophrenic loss of sacred view.
This degeneration of values owes much to the notion that art and science are separate disciplines and value systems. In a whole system or sacred view this is not the case – science as knowing and art as doing are mutually interactive.
... it is clear that the evolutionary pendulum is swinging. The reversal of world values toward a spiritual concept of the Earth as God-created and sacred is inevitable. There is a dialectic higher than that of materialism – a cosmic evolutionary dialectic that operates by principles of self-transcendence.
When an organism reaches a state of irreducible complexity and whole system crisis, in order to survive, it advances to a new level of simplicity and experiences a radical re-organization of its functions to encompass an expanded world-view. In the evolutionary cycle of the planet, of which we are integral members, this new order is referred to as the noosphere – the great awakening of mind and spirit that beckons ...
The momentousness of the noospheric shift cannot be under-estimated. It is the greatest event in Earth’s history since the transition from Matter to Life 500 million years ago. Now Life gives way to the world of Mind. Life is but the intermediate term between Matter and Mind. As Earth once evolved from the Proterozoic to Paleozoic eras, it now advances from the Cenozoic to the Psychozoic – the noosphere, the unified mind of the Earth and the consequent spiritualization of Life and Matter.
This magnificent mutational shift will advance our perceptions into a whole and sacred way once again. This whole order perception is the natural condition of the universal mind. Cosmos proceeds from the Universal One, the source of sacred being, the breath of the universe, endowing everything with a sacred wholeness, from the atoms to the human being, the two-legged treading upon the Earth. And as everything is interconnected, the human is but an expression of the Earth, the bearer and transmitter of Earth’s mind, the noosphere.
The universe never stopped being sacred; it is only humanity that lost its sacred view. Restored to intrinsic wholeness, the noospheric human will discover that art is the principle medium of the evolution of consciousness throughout the cosmos, and that underlying this artistic intent is a sacred science that proceeds from the whole to embrace the multi-dimensional universe by a single unifying law.
As the perceptual organs of the Earth, humans will innately operate with sacred view. We will not separate and divide as we once did, but realize reality as sets of mutually complementary functions within a whole – the sacred round. We will understand quite simply: Art is how we do things; science is how we know. We cannot do something properly without a way of knowing, while knowing without doing is useless. All knowing is of a whole system; all doing advances the order of the whole.
The consequence of the emerging consciousness of the noosphere will be the spiritualization of art and science as well as their fusion into a new quality of perception: geoaesthesis, the intrinsic perception that the Earthly environment as a whole is organized according to cosmic laws and harmonic aesthetic principles. Geoaesthesis will be the perceptual mode, geoaesthetics the guiding principles of a spiritually unified planetary art and science.
Geoaesthetics will provide the organizational design of the new planetary social order. Informed by the synchronistic and simultaneous knowing of the noosphere, the new discipline will also provide the means of higher mental or paranormal technologies for cleaning up the environment and transforming waste into art.
The noospherically attuned human will learn by these new principles to function as terrestrial antennae to moderate the electromagnetic field directly and establish communication with cosmic civilization throughout the universe. Liberated from the linear concept of time rooted in an arbitrary point in history, and returned to living by the great cycles of the universe, the human will realize time as the principle medium of both art and telepathy. New undreamed of vistas will be opened for the practice of geoaesthetics: Earth will be transformed into a radiant work of art.
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