TRANSFORMING CONSCIENCE INTO CONSCIOUSNESS

By Sadhana Kay Needham (December 2010)

Part 2

CONSCIENCE AS MASCULINE PRINCIPLE

“Soul movements, from mind to spirit, are what orientate growth of belonging,
mind and conscience towards transcendence or transformation leading to
consciousness.”

It was Plato that once spoke about the “rule of law” and the “rule of man.” Man made
belonging has employed the “rule of man” to manipulate ownership, possession and
demarcation of boundaries of belonging for thousands of years. The rules of
belonging have served mans ego and power politics above the laws of life and
existence itself. Has this in itself been in service of life?

Around 350 BC. Plato wrote:

“Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the
collapse of the state, in my view, is not far off; but if law is the master of the
government and the government is its slave, then the situation is full of promise and
men enjoy all the blessings that the gods shower on a state.” (1: Plato)

SERVITUDE AS RELATED TO ORDERS OF BELONGING

The man made laws of belonging have seemingly been subject to “some other
authority” (states of ego/ mind/conscience itself), “that has none of its own.” These
states are disconnected states; they are secondary states that take their life from a
connected primary source. Man made laws of belonging appear fictional when
reflected in the sphere of a feminine mirror. Also reflected in this mirror are the facts
that authority, self mastery and existential law are embedded in the primary nature of
mother earth itself. Beyond belonging to conscience, there exists an archaic law that
gives men authority when they dare to serve the feminine; or as Plato puts it, become
its “slave.” Servitude as related to transformation means:

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a. A state of subjection to an owner or master.
b. Lack of personal freedom, as to act as one chooses.
2. Forced labour imposed as a punishment for crime:.
3. Law A right that grants use of another's property (2:The Free dictionary.)

These states of servitude represent life’s earliest hierarchies and orders of growth
from the tiniest atom to complex cultural systems of civilization. For example atoms
are more fundamental than cells simply because a cell is able to contain or include an
atom, whereas an atom is unable to contain or include a cell.

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 What comes first has precedence over what comes second. This hierarchy is
measurable and identifiable by its quantum capacity to include, contain or
embody.

The rules of true authority emerge out of the observation that the small is unable to
contain the big and that growth happens from the lower to the higher levels of
development. So our value system of servitude respects that belonging has
boundaries:

1. Locked into psycho-biology we remain in a state of subjection to something higher

and greater than ourselves.

2. We lack personal freedom, to act as one chooses.

3. If we oppose the higher force we experience guilt for being out of order
(existential crime) and punishment that imposes itself upon our labour/actions.

4. Just as the cell grants the use of its space to atoms we are bound by hierarchy and
order in time and space.

ASPECTS OF ORDERS OF BELONGING

Servitude is fundamental to sovereign belonging in its search for self-mastery.

Sovereign belonging respects that there are lower and higher quantum dimensions of
individual organisms; that function within those boundaries of belonging. Organic
harmony, growth and unity are dependent upon this. It is not only so with matter and
quantum dynamics it is also true of lower and higher levels of understanding,
awareness and consciousness. For example the lower state of consciousness is unable
to penetrate or transform the higher and yet the higher state of consciousness is able to
do this. The higher level of consciousness has the greater force behind it; simply
because it already contains, or is inclusive of that lower order of consciousness. A
lower level or dimension of consciousness will have less force behind it. A weaker
force is unable to move beyond to something greater until it meets the greater force at
least equally. So here we have living physics in action creating consciousness.

We experience these “more or less” forces, of greatness, in our skills and abilities to
meet other moving objective realities or forces, with an equal amount of force. If we
do that we are able to manifest the opportunity to move forward. If we do not do this
we relinquish our opportunity to grow. Transformative practice requires integration of
equal metaphysical weight, in a right order and direction of action; before awareness
is able to facilitate transcendence. Not only that, our potential for growth always is
entirely dependent upon the interaction of two opposite forces i.e.

THE INNER FORCE MEETING THE OUTER, OR AN INTERNAL FORCE

MEETING AN EXTERNAL FORCE

Here the container meets the contained,

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 The boundary meets the beyond

The less meets the more

The weak meets strength

We are able to observe by these movements that they flow forward in a certain order
always towards the bigger or the greater. In reverse (without consciousness) they flow
towards having less and being contained in the small. Movements towards death such
as collective paternal domination, have attempted to keep the big within the
boundaries of belonging, “blood and territory,” (3: Booth K, Dunne T and Cox M)
within the small. This too is in the service of life. The small is able to function like a
map with guidelines ensuring fixed, safe, recorded and repeated patterns that provide
a systemic environment of protection and nourishment for cohesion, development and
emergence of strength, ego, mind, abilities, and skills necessary to survive. However
if we are able to grow awareness of something higher than survival, we are able to
interrupt the direction of reverse flow (unconsciousness.) In fact we are able to
remove the reverse gear altogether and very simply and easily move forward to the
creative future, leaving the container behind. How do we achieve this and what is the
criterion that enables this transformation?

These movements of soul could be called Mind-spirit movements

MIND- SPIRIT MOVEMENTS

Soul movements, from mind to spirit, are what orientate growth of belonging, mind
and conscience towards transcendence or transformation leading to consciousness.
These movements or directions might also be called orders of survival’, or
movements towards death; right up until an individual’s value system honors quality
of life, “metta”, (see footnote below) feminine principle and mother above quantity,
father or masculine principle and matter. Another name for mind-spirit movements is
conscience. Conscience is a force of sleepiness, it is weak, unconscious. The
systemic fields of force that move beyond belonging are forces of wakefulness,
consciousness; they have strength. Conscience is conceived, nourished and put into
action, entirely by elements of man made belonging, mind itself, ego and masculine
characteristics of divinity.

Masculine Characteristics of Man Made Belonging/conscience/mind/ego:

Borrowed knowledge attained via imitation, repetition, blind love, loyalty, agreement
and intellectual generational bonding of past adhering to present.

Static, horizontal movements of repeated morphogenic patterns, in a closed field;

transferred by linear left brain logical thinking; disconnected from truth, life and
nature.

Secular, scientific, mathematical, idealistic and fundamental reasoning; genetically

determined by psycho-biological, social and cultural past memory.

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Preoccupation with domination and conquering of outer objective domains of
dominion related to willpower, the will to annihilate, destroy and survival of the
group or tribe.

Restrictive and overly coherent boundaries and man made laws that exclude and
prevent integration of the free will of individuals separate from, different to or
existing outside of the group or tribe.

Loss of connection to roots in earth, body, nature, feminine principle and life death
life processes of recreation, stunting psycho-spiritual growth, integration and
transformation.

Having outlined these characteristics, is it now possible to also acknowledge that this
too has been in the service of life? If we return to the understandings discussed
previously, defining the orders of belonging, we may be able to see that much of the
whole history of mankind is held in one small collective container/institution, of
exclusive private property labeled “father.”

“Matriarchy preceded Patriarchy.”

“FATHER – The institution of father is something invented by man; it is not a natural

thing at all, it is institutional. Some day it may disappear because there was a time
when it was not there. For thousands of years humanity lived without the institution of
fatherhood. You may be surprised to know that the word “uncle” is older than the
word ‘father’, because matriarchy preceded patriarchy. The mother was there and the
father was not known, because the mother was meeting, merging, melting with many
people. Somebody had to be the father, but there was no way to find out. So all were
uncles- all potential fathers were uncles. The word “uncle” is older in every language
than the word “father.”

The institution of fatherhood came into existence with the invention of private
property; they are joined together. The father represents private property, because
when private property came into existence everybody wanted his own child to inherit
it. ‘I will not be here, but a part of me should inherit my property.’ Private property
came first, and then came the father. …it is the whole idea of private property that has
created the father that has created the family that has created the ownership of the
woman by the man. If there was a time when there was no father, no private property,
a day is bound to come when there will be no private property – the father will
disappear.” (4: Osho)

“Peter Reason supports this in his citing of the work of Eisler, Swimme and Berry as
opposed to the thinking of Colgrave and Wilber (5a.). These former thinkers speak of
evidence of sophisticated, complex, matristic Neolithic societies. Marija Gimbutas
and Merlin Stone pioneered these insights into “Goddess” cultures, and many other
scholars have developed it since. There appears to have been many pre-patriarchal
cultures with highly developed reflective awareness, indigenous traditions knowing
deep Wisdom. Reason says,

It is difficult to believe that these complex societies were based on a pure form of
original participation: that there must have been a high degree of purpose, planning

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and reflexiveness. Yet the social organization was articulated in terms of equality and
partnership (5b.) ( 5. Glenys Livingstone)

These are the basic cornerstones of understanding and transformation that each human
being needs to reach, deep within them, in order to begin to truly belong and
understand life beyond belonging. These understandings are keys for both inner and
outer transformation. Man alone without the great feminine force cannot belong
anywhere except in a fictional self made prison (container/institution) of mind leading
to suicide or insanity.

THE DEATH WISH-SUICIDE OR INSANITY

“The evolutionary line of development of the masculine principle, is fully

evolved when willpower generated by ego/mind/conscience; or the power of will
held within that ego, is able to, or has the inner strength necessary to kill or
transcend itself.”

When the self organizing, evolving field of the masculine principle reaches “critical
mass”, (see footnote) we are individually and collectively forced to face death. Our
biological evolution from monkey to man has been a purifying process of refining the
animal within. However the animal is not fully evolved until the personal power level
of its very own willpower reaches the “kill or be killed” threshold existing right on the
boundary of the container/institution- called man/mind/ego/conscience. Critical mass
begins to emerge as chaos. We are able to understand this “death wish” when we are
catapulted into unknown chaotic disturbances of life that toss us into an unknown
ocean of pain and circumstance beyond our control. In our deepest most personal
moments of pain, if we have followed the line of transformation to the bottom, we
confront this death wish. Either we become so angry we wish the other dead or we
wish our self dead. This wish at this time is actually a homeostatic impulse that
screams to us that “death is needed; death is needed in order to live again, in order to
survive.” Some structure in the mind/ego/conscience is ready to dissolve and return to
source. The living ecology of that structure demands that we “obey”, absorb and serve
truth.

“Knowledge can be imparted but it cannot be absorbed as easily as it is

imparted.” (6: Lao Tzu)

The level of awareness, strength and acceptance we are able to demonstrate during
these times of great pain, will dictate whether we are able to pass the boundary of
belonging to beyond belonging. If we are able to fully acknowledge the “death wish”
as an integral medium for transformation of consciousness we are able to transcend
our self. However totality is the key here, 100% acceptance and awareness is
necessary for this alchemy to work. A certain completion and wholeness of the
masculine principle needs to be achieved and integrated fully, before we have the
strength to be able to move forward and upward to newer levels of consciousness. It
is the attainment of this masculine power alone that moves us back into the sphere of
the mother or feminine principle beyond belonging, to recreation.

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 THE GREAT MOTHER

Erich Neumann, author of The Great Mother: An Analysis of The Archetype has
gathered some quite convincing facts, acquired from artifacts that reveal that the
human ego was at one time universally perceived to be masculine and light itself.
That ego and the masculine principle are symbiotic and one and the same
phenomenon. His writing maneuvers a shift in human consciousness that calls for an
interruption to the pattern of this symbiotic relationship. He insists that the survival of
the human race depends entirely upon this; that the human ego must develop a new
way of relating to life that includes and serves the feminine. (7: Neumann)

These insights are supported by modern physics and scientific understanding that “if it
were not for the peculiar ecological position of the earth there would never have been
any life. Indeed, all forms of life can be seen as variations of ways in which living
organisms capture the energy of the sun.” (8: The Vernon Society) Perhaps our
human collective history has built a primal to present morphogenic matrix of patterns,
all engineered to “capture the energy of the sun,” (the masculine principle.) What if
the aspects of masculinity that have dominated value structures crossing cultures of
time for thousands of years are full of light? What if the masculine principle of sun
and light has reached a point of “critical mass” and the feminine principle is more
than ready to begin reflecting that light into all the dark corners of the earth? We
don’t have to imagine a state or level of critical mass that has embodied fully, wholly
and soully, the essence of the masculine, we are living it, and we are it!

Have we collectively all taken fully from the father principle, or has that father
principle totally taken us? Are we all not sitting in the father’s sphere of influence
bound by guilt and innocence and missing the mother? As family constellation
workers we all know the systemic implications and consequences of such a lop-sided
position of soul. We have experienced the strength that becomes available when we
are able to adjust position according to order, hierarchy, balance and servitude.
Hellinger has shown us a way to do that. We not only have the maps of belonging, we
have a guided pathway beyond belonging into the living dynamism of life, love and
beauty in the wide. The response-ability is ours to grow, change, live and share.

“CONSCIENCE Conscience goes on making you a fool. Situations change, but

conscience cannot change, it cannot grow – conscience remains static. You go on
living with ideas that were given to you in your childhood, by your ignorant parents,
ignorant teachers. And you will live according to them, and you will suffer much.
And your response will never be true because it will never fit with the situation. You
will always be lagging behind.

Responsibility simply means the capacity to respond to the reality as it is-and it

changes, the reality changes, and the conscience remains fixed. That’s the difference
between conscience and consciousness. Consciousness is a mirror. Conscience is a
photoplate. Once a photoplate is exposed, it is finished; it catches the picture and then
that picture remains forever, fixed. It cannot grow.” (9. Osho)

Calls for a new ecological position of relating to the male/female principles of soul
are emerging out of our FC collective mind. A new integral approach to family
constellation is beginning to reshape and reform the knowing field. New themes and

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memes reorienting psychology towards movements of the mind-spirit and spirit-mind
are needed to facilitate the levels of multiple intelligences involved in soul unification
processes. Transformation education mainstreaming the science of meditation to
implement reflective awareness is necessary to underpin conscious change.
Transformation education is what ensures our sciences remain living sciences and our
arts a continuous flowering of beauty and all that is qualitative in life. Belonging then
becomes an evolving state of blooming into the creative future, bringing life to the
seeds of yesterday. Part three of this series of essays will outline practical ways and
means to implement and work with these current changes emerging in the fields of
family constellation.

“……if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

R. Buckminster Fuller

FOOTNOTE:

Critical Mass- definition of: An amount or level needed for a specific result or new
action to occur. The minimum amount or number required for something to happen.
A state of ripeness or fullness needed before something new can emerge out of the
old. The outermost boundary or limit required before transformation or transcendence
can take place. - Sadhana

Metta– definition of: (Pāli; Devanagari: मेता) or maître (Sanskrit) is loving-kindness,

friendliness, benevolence, amity, friendship, good will, kindness, love, sympathy, and
active interest in others. It is one of the ten pāramīs of the Theravāda school of
Buddhism, and the first of the four sublime states (Brahmavihāras). This
is love without clinging (upādāna).
Wikipedia English - The Free encyclopaedia

REFERENCES

1. Cooper, John et al.Complete Works By Plato, page 1402 (Hackett Publishing, 1997

2. The Free Dictionary by Farlax: ser·vi·tude

3. Booth K, Dunne T and Cox M (eds). How Might We Live? Global Ethics in the New
Century. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2001 p. 1.

4. Osho, The Book P. 517, Philosophia Ultima

5. Glenys Livingstone Ph. D., PaGaian Cosmology, Chapter two.

5a. Peter Reason, Participation in Human Enquiry P24.25.
5b. Merlin Stone, When God Was A Woman P24, 25.

6. Lao Tzu, My Own Quotes: His Masters Voice 2009

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7. Neumann, Erich (1955). The Great Mother: an Analysis of the Archetype.
Pantheon Books. Repr/7th edition, 1991, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

8. The Vernon Society – The Return Of The Renaissance Person: The New Unity
Of Liberal Arts.

9. Osho, The Book P. 246, The Fish In the Sea Is Not Thirsty