Conclusion

Doing What You Want to Do
 
            The completion of a scientific cycle is marked by the drawing of conclusions.  Having engaged with the phenomena of inquiry, testing it with our hypothetical framework, we ask ourselves if we have intuited correctly or not.  Having lived with the principles described in this work have I experienced progress as a reality?  Yes, the results of my inquiry suggest that progress is possible and necessary to our survival.  My continued survival is the testament to my research as well as the growth of inner unity, the cooperative feeling between mind, body and spirit that enables me to engage with the world with a radical decrease in fear, that feeling of terror that once separated me from my purpose.  Now that I am free from this fear I do what I want to do, I am free.  This state is conclusive but I will also describe a few tangential conclusions that represent the working knowledge gained, intuited directions for further engagement.  But to summarize I find that personal unification is a complex response to a complex problem that enables the simple satisfaction of doing what one really wants to do.  This is the essence of the science of living, identifying those internal drives that are pure and working toward their satisfaction.  In living by one’s highest ideals one discovers that all regressive activities are submissions to outside pressures, the opposite of one’s desires or freedom of choice, they are instinctual naïve responses to fear.
 
The Breakdown
 
            As we face those thieves of life, those industries that arouse the fears that enslave us (debt, military, drugs, entertainment, etc.) it is obvious that any reversal of engagement whereby one refuses to conform leads to an inevitable psychic collapse since the mechanisms for our enslavement are so holistic.  This most painful moral and spiritual implosion causes acute disorientation as one leaves his/her primary operating system behind hoping that something better awaits them.  They fall.  This breakdown is what people are avoiding when they remain committed to self-destructive behaviors far after they become aware of their suicidal course.  This refusal to shatter one’s cage is often conscious.  It is like standing at the edge of a great cliff knowing you must jump into the water below but not having the courage to do so you hold on.  There are many who avoid daily their desire to do what they want to do.  This gives me compassion.  Being trapped in a machine that works to destroy you is a terror unlike any other.  Just like jumping off of that cliff the fall is painful and intensely frightening.  However, it is over quickly and the refreshment experienced when reaching the waters of purpose has no comparison.
 
The Certainty of Victory
 
            Once one lives in the certainty of one’s purpose with unrelenting commitment there is no doubt about the power to be found there.  Faith is not something that can be cultivated and translated into courageous action, it is the result of action and experience.  It is a result, the only result we look for in this science of living.  Faith turns into a belief that one’s desires are doorways to progress and contentment.  Continuing to mistrust one’s heart reveals a pessimism about existence.  The man or woman unified by this process experiences the purity of a soul connected to the cosmos and once there cultivates this feeling of oneness in their bodies, lives and communities without shame, without compromise, and without second guessing the certainty of their victory over darkness.  Purpose is radical.  Purpose is passionately expressed.  Purpose is pursued.  Purpose is desired.  Purpose drives us and protects us.  It is the anti-purpose, death, that makes enthusiasm first necessary but then inevitable as we realize that the miracle of our existence is a victory in itself, that we are a living example of the reality of progress.  When one becomes aware of a solution the manifestation has almost arrived.  Those of us desiring of progress need only reach for it when it is presented.  In this way we are in partnership with that force that inspired our insights initially.  An alignment with purpose, engagement with it, grants us a foresight that can almost be understood as prophetic.
            The certainty of victory helps us in our confrontation with darkness.  Anger and sadness are symptoms of doubt.  It is our developing certainty about progress that helps us lovingly engage with adversarial people, institutions or forces.  It is the certainty of victory that helps us challenge false authority in a way that is teachable, equitable, in a way that evidences a belief in miraculous healing.  This work is the result of hours spent in the certainty of victory and is valuable as such.
 
Monotheism and The Relative God
 
            Men and women cultivating their purpose in the creation of prescient principles of community development are merely re-affirming that as a society we share a consciousness or group psychology or culture.  It is this network of trust that we have always understood to be the one God that oversees our relations with interests in justice, equality and love.  The cultivation of monotheism has once again fallen out of fashion due to the corruption of civilization.  The insidiousness of this degradation is far-reaching even affecting those who are spiritually inclined by making them fearful of a social God, one that has some presence in public relations.  However, engagement in progressive thinking and language is engagement in monotheistic cultivation.  It is effort pointed toward the spiritual enhancement of humanity as a group.  For this reason when I work toward the reduction or elimination of the wealth/poverty duality I must take advantage of a technique for social manipulation that has and always will be affective.  The technique I refer to is something I call commandment communism; it is the act of affirming that the sharing of resources has been ordered by God and that God will enforce it if necessary. Every once in a while a few brave souls stand up under the great shadow of an oppressive empire and declare that God has commanded that we share more equally the earth’s bounty.  They do this without apology and without doubt, doing so because they come to realize that commandment communism is the only thing that will work, that will defy rationalization and argument.  It is essential that the declaration have a threatening tone.  Otherwise, why would it need declaration?  The idea that God could be angry with a group of people for certain reasons is one we have suffered too great a distance from.  It does not require the utilization of human force, so it does not threaten our pacifism, but it does express a growing frustration and willingness to accept a certain kind of God, a kind that the rich would prefer we not adhere to.
            The conclusion I am drawing here is that those of us working toward progress must see in monotheism our greatest tool.  If we resist a culture as violent and oppressive as this one we must embrace something powerful as creation itself as our rock, our foundation, as the very source of our equality and self-discovery.  I say this politically but only because I could never adequately express the nature of my friendship with that God that overlooks all of us.  My friendship with God is innately relative and therefore requires no description; it is of no use.  It is the nature of monotheism that it is strictly political.
            We must be careful with a relative understanding of God.  The relative God evidences a growing sophistication in our ability to imagine higher levels of complexity but it can be used to rationalize behavior that contradicts sanity.  We have developed greatly our capacity to embrace the individual approaches to the existential questions that mark our cosmological view but when we seek to protect our relative morality in matters that affect others we are rationalizing abuse.  Any person that affirms a belief in equality cannot do so without a dependence upon some metaphysical source.  Otherwise, they would be unable to escape the futile end of rational argument whereby one cannot prove the existential values of things such as peace, security, happiness or survival.  Therefore, any enthusiasm for equality or peace is evidence of an internal, sometimes subconscious, belief in divinity.  As much as this might anger those who take comfort in intellectual detachment, logic without an acceptance of the mystery of existence, is a kind of nihilism that has no room for equality or fellowship.  Only those willing to brave a commitment to exploring the existence of the one God that unites us as a species will find a unification with the deepest level of desire where one’s purpose is expressed and achieved.
            God need be no more complicated than that mechanism securing our continued survival as a species through the cultivation of material, spiritual and emotional equality.  Personally, I revel in the complexity of the universe.  I see it as a reflection of the rich and infinitely profound intelligence that unites with me more and more every day as I continue to serve my purpose but this is a kind of romance and spiritual luxury and it is not required for social progress.
            In summary, our deepest desires reveal to us the creative core that makes us divine creatures.  Alignment with the intuitive impulses that drive us toward higher consciousness grants us a vision of reality that is plastic.  The science of living is a process that helps one recover the magic of the imagination whereby we engage with this plastic universe, empowered by that singular entity that unites us.  Whether we call it God or the collective unconscious or the law that singular vision, the united concentration of effort pointed toward fellowship, has as its purpose the cultivation of life in this largely lifeless universe.  In the existential war between darkness and light we are aided by these forces and our understanding of them.  Those of us who work in this way encouraging the enlightenment of humanity affirm that the light is good, that life is good, that good is good, that existence is good, that the cold dark nothingness that preceded us and surrounds us is to be conquered by the bright shining star of humanity, the Godly creature that spreads light across the cosmos. 

The End