Transhumanity: Individual and Collective

(Once again, a further excerpt from my current work-in-progress, currently titled 'The Fifth Element, or The Omnidirectional Waveform of Consciousness:')

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As individuals, we are modes
or modifications of one ultimate Reality,
nodes of the infinite Consciousness of God,
a localized expression of the starry Multiverse.

All men and women are

“children of immortality” ***

-- we are each a shining node of the Eternal
the same as waves are nodes of the rolling ocean.

But the indwelling presence of our communal Spirit
smolders also with an urge
for overstepping the personal boundaries of the self,
an entrance into a collective hybridization
of Spirit and Matter.

“As the Soul is present in all persons,
so it is in every period of life.
It is adult already in the infant man.” ****

God is thus entirely immanent in us,
yet awaits His full transcendent flowering
in a transhumanity yet to come.

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The expanding interiorization of humankind
via the rapidly emerging telesphere
continues to accentuate
and will inevitably exteriorize
the communal Consciousness
long sensed dimly
but as yet never fully explicated or explored.

“Man is now the agent of evolution,
whether he knows it or not;

but he will perform his role better
if he is a conscious agent.”

The many millions of men and women,
themselves products of the evolution of Consciousness,
are now poised to become active participants
in the continuing unfoldment of creation.

“Man’s role is to be
the instrument of the evolutionary process
on this planet,

the sole agent capable
of effecting major advances
and of realizing new possibilities for evolving life.” *****

It is not only in man
that the forward movement of evolution
is now carried on,
but also by man.

It is man who must invent
and discover the future,
and whose imaginal creations will in turn
take into their own hands
the future direction of the world
and gradually replace the blind impetus of nature
with the active and progressive realization
of the eternal life
of an Infinite Spirit.

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As the earthly sustainability of the race continues to wane,
the future development of the human species will be aimed
both further out into space
and inwards into the hidden depths of the mind
-- and ultimately to the Divine Source
of both the inner and outer reaches
of our endless voyaging.

It is here that we shall at last discover
our implicate communal Oneness,
and henceforth integrate our cosmic introspections
into the rounds of our daily waking life,
both singular and collective.

No one will any longer hold the outmoded belief
in a ‘personal soul’
needful of any intervening salvation.
Sacramentalizing even the most base and common in life,
each and every event of our waking and sleeping lives
will become a means whereby
enlightenment can be reached
and actively realized.

Everything that can and will be invented
or implemented for the betterment
of our forward collective progress
shall be deemed fair and just,
so long as it contributes
to the communal human Spirit’s
ever-advancing mastery of Matter.

-- For our being human
is nothing more than being
the willing and able participant
of our shared communal Oversoul
in the here and now
of the phenomenal waking world.

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Consciousness is indeed
the communal Spirit within us
-- the one and only Spirit,
the anima mundi, the World Soul,
the great Heraclitean conflagration
shrugging off the innumerable golden sparks
that we are --
and it is in the image and likeness
of this Spirit
that we shall indefinitely persist
in redefining what it means
to be human.

Our possibilities will continue to broaden
as our experience of the universe continues
to deepen and richen.
Recognizing each and every man,
woman and child on this earth
as an integral aspect of
our One and only Self,
and all aspects of human life as sacred,
promoting the betterment of earthly existence for all
will become the prime spiritual objective of the age.

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On and on flows the rising wave of Consciousness,
running through countless human generations,
subdividing itself over and over again
into individuals who (like little rills)
pour back into the great river of Life itself,
simultaneously interweaving and dissolving
in the rippling outflow of the cosmological flux.

All in all,
the body of Humanity holds together,
and all yield to the same tremendous push –
the God-urge welling up
through our fleshly flower
to shape the roundness
of the future perfect fruit.

If the Deity itself dwells
at the heart and core of the atom,
if everything is God
and every least scintilla of matter deomorphic,
then Humankind
is the Cosmic Child
in embryo.

In the words of Sri Aurobindo Ghose:

"Man is a transitional being;
he is not final;

for in him and high beyond him
ascend the radiant degrees which climb
to a divine supermanhood.” ******

Humanity is an unfinished model,
a prototype of better,
more conscious and cosmic,
things to come.

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*** Svetasvara Upanishad, 2:5.
**** Emerson, The Oversoul.
***** Julian Huxley, New Bottles for New Wine.
****** Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Man and the Supermind.

******************************(to be continued ...)

Posted by Upwinger at July 17, 2005 04:05 PM