Hi virions,
A while back, you may remember, I made an off-hand reference to the
The web page for the article in question is:
http://deoxy.org/critmass.htm
A quick summary (from the web page):
"Critical Mass of Enlightenment" as a potential eschatology, and I'd
like now to make a few points (and hopefully stimulate a discussion).
"The critical mass of enlightenment can be defined as the smallest
number of awakened human beings whose collective influence can
initiate a significant shift in global consciousness. The process of
creating enough enlightened ones to achieve this critical mass can be
likened to the transformation of coal into diamonds. The pressure of
surrounding human unconsciousness creates an urgency in the potential
enlightened one to awaken from illusion. The total weight of so much
unconscious 'carbon' exerts a tremendous pressure, through which a few
coal stones reach the appropriate mass to become 'diamonds.'
I've thought much more in depth about this since my reference a few weeks ago, and have come to the tentative conclusion that perhaps the entire eschatology is wrong -- that, in essence, the "total weight of unconscious carbon" has exactly the opposite effect than that proposed above. Those on lower levels pull down, not push up. This is certainly my own experience in life -- it's hard to become enlightened when nobody around you is, but much easier with the help of a "master" (with hemorrhoids :-) or two.
Is the core idea still sound? The mechanism for the emergence of
"buddhatomic Christs" (great term!) is missing, but, *given* that
emergence (via vectors like Virus?), can those buddhatomic Christs
pull the mass of humanity up from the depths? If so, is the age so
ushered in utopian?
ERiC