Had a think about this new scheme I'm using. Following the questions on the two Gods in the bible, namely the jealous God "Yahweh Aleph" and the forgiving God "Yahweh Bet" it seems that they occupy different levels of the schema. The Jews are positioned at Level C. Indeed anyone who wages dualistic war between people on "sides" is at Level C. So since Yahweh Aleph supports the Jews against their enemies then "Yahweh Aleph" is actually an entity at Level C too! Perhaps this is why Yahweh Aleph is so jealous he lives alongside the gods of all the other nations and so has strong competition not least that favourite of the Israelites the god Baal. This is why Yahweh Aleph says "no gods before me," there are other gods but you Jews must place me at the front. This is Level C existence.
It's remarkable that the moment that Jesus had this experience is recorded in the Bible.
“It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs” [Matthew 15:26]
He is refusing help to a woman based just on her race: a Canaanite. Jesus was a racist to begin with. Even he was at Level C. But during this encounter he says that her faith has saved her daughter. Suddenly being born a Jew is not the only requirement to get Yahweh Aleph's blessing, those with faith can get it. Suddenly the whole of humanity has access to God. Jesus realises that God is really Yahweh Bet the God of all! And this is Level F in the schema.
I mean it is ridiculous if you think about it that God would divide his creation into favourite and least favourite creations, especially when all these creations are made from the exact same dust that they return to. This is Level C: separating creation into parts.
So just recap the other levels which are simpler.
A - psychopaths. People who can see no further than themselves. The world and everyone in it exists just to serve them.
B - mafia. People at this level can see that other people matter, but only if they have some family or other personal connection.
C - states. This includes all people who can only see as far as their country, leaders, religion, race. The reason for writing so much about this level at the moment is both Remembrance Day and the Israel war. To takes sides in war we need only be able to see as far as our own side. Blindness of the other side, sticks us at Level C.
D - humanity. People at this level see the connection between all humans. we all have a mother, we all feel sorrow, we all want to be happy (even if some of us try to find it in the weirdest ways). When John Donne says "the bell tolls for you" he is showing awareness that all humans share the same life.
E - all life. Expanding our awareness we see it is not just humans that want to be safe and well. Our pet dog does, even our hamster. Actually all life is irreplaceably precious and should be treated like it were a diamond. God made all this, it is to be marvelled at not exploited. Vegetarians and Vegans probably occupy this level realising that the life of animals is as valuable, if not more valuable, than the meat. We get more pleasure from knowing an animal is well than eating its flesh.
F - this awareness is beyond Things. The Creator is not himself created. So when you appreciate that there is an existence at all then you enter Level F. It's not an inventory of the Universe, Level F can be appreciated looking at a raindrop: it is there! This God is not jealous cos there is just One. When Jews talk about being the creators of Monotheism they need take a step back and think what they are talking about. Jesus was the first (and perhaps last) Jew to get to Level F for when you hear Rabbis and Jewish teachers speak they seem oblivious to this. Being Jewish has you firmly stuck at Level C.
G - there are many levels even for God.
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We do not occupy just one level, but swirl between them. There may be a moment when we dive into the queue at the supermarket thinking about what we want, and are oblivious to the elderly person struggling with their shopping. Our mind has shrunk to A. Perhaps afterwards with Type C mind we may recall this Type A mind and think it was small and narrow and we would have been wiser to offer our place in the queue and even help with the shopping. This is why you get these odd contradictions. A person can be loving to their dog, and then sit down to eat a steak. You might think the life of a dog and the life of a cow were the same. Although for many a dog becomes part of the family and so that is just Level B existence. This is why a Nazi can shoot a Jew and then return home and be a loving husband, or a Jew can shoot a Arab, or anyone kill in war and then return home a hero. This is what you expect from Type C mind. Likewise you expect a person to kill their neighbour over a dispute if they have Type A mind. Type C people have a legal system that restricts the freedom of Type A. God at Level F has a spiritual system that restricts the freedom of people below that system especially Type C. So while Type C may think they win the war, they always lose in the long run. Violence always breeds violence. Pax as discussed before is the peace that comes from superior firepower. But empires and Pax are only temporary and all come to grief. Even Type A mind can get a kind of "peace" this is where we get the freedom to do whatever we want even at the expense of other people. If we were fearsome and powerful the world can indeed seem to walk in step with us, and we feel like we are getting everything we want. But being at Level A we don't see the wider picture of how we impact the people around us. Before long what looked like the world being in step, starts to be a world out of step and things get hard again. We start to think the world is against us again and this cycle continues until we glimpse Level B. But this cycle occurs at all levels. Its my provisional belief that there is nothing special about Jews other than their consciousness. They behave in a way that leads to hatred, and I believe that stems from an implicit hatred at the heart of Judaism. Being Type C entities committed Jews cannot see the hatred they cause in the Gentiles. They can use as much power and prayers to Yahweh Aleph but without awareness of Type D Jews can only ever see half the picture, and the other half will always eventually come crashing in as a complete mystery that disrupts the otherwise perfect Type C world.
Few people will ever get to Level D solidly. We will find our minds crash down to Level C sometimes and feel hatred of a "side" perhaps in politics or in war. We will find our minds crash down to Level B and get angry at someone at the school gates for acting superior and disrespecting our family. We will often crash down to Level A and feel personal hurt and feel we need to protect ourselves and act only for ourselves. But as our consciousness grows the number of times we crash down reduces and we stay down for less time.
It seems to me that one of the main attacks on people of higher consciousness is pointing out hypocrisy. An "animal lover" who does huge amounts of work to help animals is seen eating a steak. The moment people see them exhibit a lower than Type E mind it is assumed that Type E mind does not even exist. People below Type E who have no perspective in Type E mind use this to justify their own mind. Of course they don't notice that eating a steak is just one instance of lower than Type E, and they are being selective to not look at all the other evidence of a higher mind.
Political Media is very good at cancelling people by selecting instances of a particular mind and ignoring the rest. This is why Yahweh Bet is so important. Level F and the forgiving God allows for the slow process of gradually growing and for mistakes and trips and collapses to smaller minds. "Its not the falling, its the getting up again" kind of logic. Those who repent of lower states express firm growth and solid brightness in higher levels. That is literally the only thing that matters. Looking down on lower levels and seeing they are lower is what growth is all about.
BUT there is no ultimate level (well there is but from this "level" the issue is no longer levels at all, and any "mind state" can be looked down upon). It means that there is no possibility of feeling "superior". True a mafia type individual who has the protection of their family (Level B) can look down on a basic psychopath and see them as weak and isolated (Type A) but the Police (Type C) then slam a mafia person in prison and they look down on them. And so it goes on. We are best being happy to have risen above lower levels, help others do that, and spend our time growing into the next level.
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