At 11:30 on Sunday, 27th April 1980, as I was strolling across Wimbledon Common to the pub for lunch, a big bang erupted in the utmost depths of my psyche. At the time, I was developing an innovative marketing programme for Decision Support Systems (DSS) for IBM in London.
This unprecedented event was necessary to understand the root cause of the unprecedented exponential rate of technological development taking place today, at the culmination of billions of years of bifurcating evolution, as this chart illustrates:
By starting afresh at the very beginning, the creative power of Life, emanating directly from the Divine, has led me from the Alpha Point of evolution to its Omega Point and back again to the Source, along the lines that Julian Huxley and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin foresaw in ‘Transhumanism’ and The Human Phenomenon, respectively, published in the 1950s.
However, because this apocalyptic epiphany is unprecedented in the entire history of human learning, there are no words in any language to describe what has happened to me since that fateful day. The best that I can say is that all the divergent streams of billions of years of bifurcating evolution in the horizontal dimension of time have converged within me in a megasynthesis of everything in the vertical dimension, in the Eternal Now.
But Life had well prepared me for this unprecedented event in human evolution. In essence, it was an antidote to a cataclysmic trauma that I suffered about seven weeks after my conception at 16:00 on 16th October 1941, when my 3½-year-old brother blindly ran in front of an army lorry and was killed instantly.
Because this trauma occurred on the day that my mother’s pregnancy was confirmed, it set up a couple of behaviour patterns in my unconscious, which inhibited me from becoming assimilated into the culture I had been born in during infancy and childhood. In adolescence, seeing that I was living in a world that is at war with itself, I abandoned religion, science, economics, mathematics, and logic, as they were being taught to me.
Nothing that I learned during my formal education could lead me to Love, Peace, Wholeness, and the Truth, which I longed for more than anything else. I have now found what I was looking for because when I set out in 1980 to integrate all knowledge in all cultures and disciplines I had very little to unlearn. With the intelligence and consciousness that I enjoy today, I can see that Life has healed my fragmented mind and split soul in Wholeness.
However, this use of the word Life, with a capital L, is unknown in the mainstream of Western civilization. Even among those who have similar experiences of the creative power of Life, when I use the word, it does not usually evoke the spark that was aroused on Wimbledon Common 46 years ago and which has been guiding every moment of my life ever since.
Nevertheless, what I see with a Holoramic ‘Whole-seeing’ vision is present within all humans, albeit hidden in the sub- and unconscious behind our cultural conditioning, passed from one generation to the next for hundreds and thousands of years. So, could we become free from what our parents and teachers taught us?
One who urged us to do so was J. Krishnamurti, author of Education and the Significance of Life, Freedom from the Known, and The Awakening of Intelligence. Similarly, helped by conversations with Krishnamurti in her thirties, Vimala Thakar discarded everything that has been transmitted to our minds through the centuries, as she described in On an Eternal Voyage.
In 1984, inspired by Krishnamurti and Mohandas Gandhi’s Satyāgraha ‘Truth force’, Vimala highlighted the utmost importance of starting afresh at the very beginning in the opening paragraph of Spirituality and Social Action: A Holistic Approach with these wise words: “In a time when the survival of the human race is in question, continuing with the status quo is to cooperate with insanity, to contribute to chaos.”
She therefore asks, “Do we have the vitality to go beyond narrow, one-sided views of human life and to open ourselves to totality, wholeness?” For, as she says, “The call of the hour is to move beyond the fragmentary, to awaken to total revolution.”
However, K, as he called himself, lived in a very privileged position, not available to most of the rest of us. In particular, he never touched money, the most divisive force on the planet. As he said at one of his gatherings, the Krishnamurti Foundation, in India, Europe, and the USA, provided him with the funds he needed for his travels and basic daily needs.
Nevertheless, even though politicians are spending many billions of dollars and other currencies to kill their fellow human beings, surely there are sufficient financial resources among the decent folk on Earth to bring a modicum of sanity to our deeply troubled society before the inevitable demise of Homo sapiens ‘wise human’ within a decade or three.
For myself, I need some financial support for one final project that I would like to complete during my mid-eighties so that people could understand what I am saying. Because the true meanings of words have been corrupted over the centuries by fragmented, deluded thinking, for many years, I have been using etymology to trace the meanings of words to their roots and common ancestors in the Proto-Indo-European language as much as possible.
Accordingly, I am systematically collecting words and terms that we could all use in the collective in a hyperlinked and indexed Glossary of nearly 500 terms. However, the website holding the Glossary is severely damaged. So, if I could find a skilled Drupal web developer to help me, it could be updated and further developed for the enjoyment of many others.
Let us then trust that the brilliant Light of Consciouness, radiantly streaming from a black hole at the centre of the Universe, could intelligently awaken more to what is happening to us all as a species. Further details on my own life story are contained in a six-page article on ‘A Liberating Work Ethic’ that I published yesterday and in several other pieces that I wrote during the winter, accessible through links in recent posts on the right.