The Endgame

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Dr. Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D.

The Endgame

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PsychoNoetic clearing can change human nature and thus change the very course of evolution.  How does PsychoNoetics do this?  By clearing the dominance paradigm and making way for the emergence of the consciousness paradigm. This is the endgame, the end of the game that we and all of evolution are presently in, and the beginning of a new evolutionary game for humanity – and thus for the earth.

The progression of illusion

A thing is essentially a perceptual category. Because we perceive “everything” as a thing it is natural that we come to perceive ourselves as things as well. However natural this is – it is also an illusion. In essence we are not things, we are individual centers of the one consciousness, and consciousness, in all its many forms, is the one thing that is not a thing!

 A thing is anything that can be perceived or conceived as separate from anything else.

The illusion of thingness gives rise to the illusion of separation.  In this we feel ourselves as separate individuals, separate from other people, separate from other sentient beings, separate from our families and our communities, even separate from the ecosystem that supports us.

This illusion of separation is, in turn, the genesis of the ego or “I” concept. As ego we sometimes feel separate even from the parts of our own bodies. We also feel separate from the greater body of consciousness which, of course is the genesis of the body-spirit split.

Finally it is the illusion of separation*, with all of its felt implications, that in turn has created the dominance paradigm in all sentient beings and is sustaining it in the human species.

* The illusion of separation and its consequence in the dominance paradigm is an inevitable, perhaps even necessary stage in pre-human evolution. Under the circumstances no other way forward could evolve. However separation and dominance by force in the human species will stop human evolution (except perhaps the evolution of technology) dead in its tracks, will very likely result in the de-evolution of the human species and perhaps its eventual extinction, as well as damaging, perhaps irreparably, ecosystem of the Earth itself. Changing the dominance paradigm to the consciousness paradigm requires acts of consciousness themselves, i.e. first becoming conscious of the dominance paradigm, second consciously changing it.  The best way to do this that I know of is through PsychoNoetics.

Changing human nature

We can change human nature through PsychoNoetics by clearing the dominance paradigm throughout the evolutionary sequence. The sequence of evolutionary clearing consists of the following:

  • evolutionary memories
  • collective memories
  • past life memories
  • present life memories
  • present life beliefs, emotions and intentions (BEI’s)

This will clear the way for the emergence of the consciousness paradigm. Of course more might have to be done in the way of education for the consciousness paradigm to assert itself as the main engine of evolution but this will at least dissolve the resistance to its emergence.

The emergence of the consciousness paradigm will change human nature, change the course of human evolution and thus save not only humanity itself but the rest of the Earth from humanity.

Jeff Eisen, Ph.D.

 

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False Sovereignty

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Dr. Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D.

False Sovereignty

The real problem with humanity

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As long as we are caught in the dominance hierarchy, and to some extent all of us are, we are not completely sovereign.

The dominance paradigm is not only a concept; it is an emotional state which gets triggered.  This emotional triggering is, at least to some extent, hormonal, and is experienced either as the exhilaration that arises when people think that they are on top of a situation, as the subservient “looking to the other” that arises when people submit to dominance, or as a competitive striving for ascendency.  Of course, most people are someplace in the middle, dominant to some, submissive to others, but always secretly, even unconsciously competitive.  But whatever our position, as long as we are in it, in the dominance paradigm, we are not completely sovereign.

There are some varieties of false sovereignty to look out for. One, perhaps the most seductive, is the false feeling of independence that comes to people when they are on top of the pecking order. However when these people are toppled from their position, or in situations when they are not on top, they are no longer sovereign and don’t even feel that way. There are two other varieties of false sovereignty that people who do not customarily live in competitive situations are prone to confuse with the real article. One variety arises when there is no one to assert dominance over, the other arises when there is no one to assert dominance over them. However, when someone who feels they are “not in the dominance paradigm” is challenged, either by the appearance of someone truly dominant, or someone to dominate, their true colors emerge, and it becomes apparent that they are also caught up in it.

True peer-to-peer relationships, true dialogue, can only take place between sovereign individuals. As long as the dominance paradigm prevails, the top dogs, by force or one of its derivatives like money or political power, will sooner or later overrule those they disagree with, and take for their own any underdog ideas which they agree with. In the best case scenario, which from my point of view is also the worst-case scenario, those individuals that have the best ideas rise in the hierarchy to be top dogs themselves, and then, unless they are absolutely awake, succumb to the same “abuses of power” as the other top dogs.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely

We need to exit completely from the dominance paradigm and go to a new evolutionary principle that I call the consciousness paradigm. In the dominance paradigm, force or one of its derivatives is the principle that propels people to the top and thus orders the hierarchy. But in the consciousness paradigm, consciousness itself becomes the ordering principle. Of course, there is an inevitable, transitory stage in which the people that have the best ideas are propelled to the top, but in the best of all possible worlds, in the pure consciousness paradigm, not the most conscious person but the most conscious idea becomes the ordering principle. When this happens the power will move from the individual to the idea. The better idea, and, of course, whoever has it at the moment, will lead the way.  But since ideas tend to build on one another they are always changing, always evolving.  In a true dialogue, as the ideas build upon one another, first one idea and the person who has it leads the way, then another. This then is the true consciousness paradigm,.  It and it alone can change the direction of human evolution.

This is the real Conscious Evolution, and it can only take place in a society of truly sovereign individuals.

Jeff Eisen, Ph.D.

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The Dominance Paradigm

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Dr. Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D.

The Dominance Paradigm

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The dominance paradigm is definitely the elephant in the room. We think it is outside of us and it is, but it is also inside of us, every one of us, and it is there that we have to start combating it.

The pecking order or Dominance Paradigm is not merely an explanatory concept; it is part of our evolutionary heritage. Programmed into our genes, wired into our reptilian brain, more than an emotion, it is a state of consciousness.  It is real, as real as an adrenaline reaction, as real as the fight or flight state, as real as anger and as real as love. Whether it takes the form of submission or dominance or someplace in between, we are all susceptible to it. It is a universal potential that affects not only humans but all vertebrates. But in humanity it is an affliction.

The dominance paradigm is the elephant in the room. Unremarked upon, largely unseen, it is the foremost ordering principle in human society. It governs most relationships, whether between individuals, families, sports teams, religions or even nations.

It is why, no matter what utopia we envision, what scheme of governance we try, no matter whether it is brought about by evolution or revolution, some semblance of the “same old shit” gradually emerges. It is why power corrupts. It is why passive individuals become aggressive when behind the wheel of a car, and why meek individuals can coalesce into lynch gangs. It is the submission which you are fighting when you give yourself a pep talk, it is that which the football coach is combating when he arouses the adrenaline and testosterone in his losing team.

It explains depression, but it also explains mania. Because just as it accounts for the universal potential for submissiveness, it also accounts for the universal potential for dominance. The general, the president, the dictator, the King, the world champion, the celebrity, the famous author, musician, artist, they are as much in the thralls of the dominance paradigm as are the world’s losers, the homeless, the addicts and drunks, the legions of wage slaves, the oppressed citizens of poor countries, even the oppressed citizens of rich and powerful countries.

Nothing to lose

Actually the most comfortable place to be is in the middle. Those of us in the middle, neither the oppressor nor the oppressed, just part of the machinery that transmits power, feel safest and suffer from the least amount of stress.  But we are equally caught in the dominance hierarchy, and perhaps more unfree than those at the top or the bottom. Because those at the top have almost infinite power, and to an extent power is freedom. While those at the bottom have little or nothing to lose, and as the Kris Kristofferson song goes “Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”

The mistake that most top dogs make, sooner or later, is greediness. They take too much and leave too many people with little or nothing to lose, and that – more than high sounding principles or a sense of injustice – is what really enables revolutions.

Prosperous societies seldom revolt, no matter how dictatorial the government is that gives them prosperity. They have too much to lose and too little to gain to take a chance on rebellion, besides they are more likely to foresee that any change, sooner or later, is likely to degenerate into the same old thing.

Real revolution is rebellion against the dominance hierarchy itself.

Real revolution starts with rebellion against the dominance hierarchy itself. In order to have a revolution or even an evolution that works, in order to change things and keep them changed, we have to free ourselves, both individually and collectively, from the tentacles of the dominance hierarchy – in all of its guises.

Almost all of us, playing the different roles in our lives, are in different places in the dominance hierarchy; sometimes at the top, sometimes at the bottom, but more frequently between the two. Perhaps you dominate your children (at least for a time), or your spouse, or your employees, or at least your dog. Perhaps you’re submissive to your spouse, or your teacher, or your boss, or to a state trooper. But in the dominance hierarchies that really count, you’re someplace between the two – neither the top dog nor the absolute underdog, having a voice but not being free to voice your opinion. Of course you are free to voice your opinion about how you want your Starbucks coffee, whether you want to go to the beach or the mountains for your two week vacation, or your favorite color.  But you are not free to voice your opinion where it matters, and particularly, not loud enough to be heard, to really make a difference. If you do that the top dogs, either with their own fists or by the fists that they employ, will try to dissuade you, fine you, excommunicate you, imprison you, and at last resort buy you.  If even that fails to silence you, they will kill you.

The process of disentanglement from the dominance paradigm has to proceed from the inside out. It starts, by necessity, with facing the fact that you are in it. It is not enough to see it intellectually, you actually have to feel it in your gut. You have to notice how it changes not only your thinking but your feeling. You have to taste the hormones and neurotransmitters that course through your system and then taste their change when you move up or down in the hierarchy. Then and only then will you be motivated to free yourself from its clutches. Then and only then will your struggle begin – and even then only if you’re a certain kind of person.

It is only after you recognize the dominance hierarchy in yourself and are at least partially free of it (it’s probably impossible to be completely free of it) that you can take it into account and thus realistically envision alternative socioeconomic structures and forms of governance that are themselves free of it, do not encourage it in people, and do not have a tendency to deteriorate into it.

Jeff Eisen, Ph.D.

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Energy, Money and Power

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Dr. Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D.

Energy, Money and Power

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Evolution has largely progressed by the dominance paradigm which in turn has been based on the principles of survival of the fittest or might makes right. This has created a power hierarchy in which qualities like strength, size, aggressiveness etc. dominate collective and unitive qualities like wisdom, altruism and humanism. This power hierarchy, as one of the principles of evolution, worked reasonably well for lower orders of animal life, but for the higher orders, and particularly for the evolution of the human species, it has become increasingly counterproductive.

Money and in particular currency is just a symbol or medium of exchange for energy. But in the Econocracy that rules the first world and is fast spreading across the rest of the globe, it is energy used as “power-over”!  This power-over is energy used in the dominance paradigm, to direct human labor and force things to happen in a way that the top dogs believe will best benefit them.

Can the energy of money be disassociated from power-over so that is just energy itself, free to be applied when and how it is needed? The answer is probably not, at least not without changing the nature of the dominance paradigm itself. We have to move from this dominance paradigm and its associated power hierarchy to a sapiential hierarchy.*

*A hierarchy is a vertically organized system of holons in which the whole system is directed by the uppermost holon. A power hierarchy is a hierarchy directed by the most powerful holon. Sapient means wise or knowing.  A sapiential hierarchy is a hierarchy directed by the wisest or most knowledgeable holon, i.e., the highest consciousness.

The way money is made is inseparable from its meaning

The energy of money cannot be disassociated from power-over because the way capital accrues is inseparable from the meaning of money. The ways in which capitalists and corporations profit and the meaning that money takes on create a feedback loop.  Each energizes the other in an infinite and lethal progression; so that in order to change the one you have to change the other.

If capital is the accumulation of money, and money is just a symbol for energy, then energy is capital. However, it goes deeper than that. Since money is not just energy but energy as power-over, and since this power-over is directed by human consciousness, the quality of this consciousness will ultimately determine how this energy is used, and how it will affect our fate and the ecosystem that supports us. This is why the quality of the consciousness at the top of the socio-economic hierarchy is so important; and why it is equally important to change the way capital is accrued, because this is the only way we can change the meaning of money and thus the dominance paradigm itself.

Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? There is no answer which is always right.  It all depends on the way you look at it. Everything is just an element in a complex, interdependent feedback loop. But there is a center and that is consciousness. Every social system is a projection of an underlying consciousness, and consciousness is informed by every social system.

One consciousness is a feedback loop that includes the dominance paradigm, the perception of scarcity and an emphasis on individual survival.  This creates what I call selfish self-interest. Another consciousness , one much higher , is a feedback loop that includes the sapiential hierarchy, a sense of unity of all life, a spiritual connection with nature, and a perception of potential abundance.  This consciousness creates enlightened self-interest.

Selfish self-interest is only interested in numero uno and the rest of the world can “take a long walk off a short pier” as far as it is concerned! Whereas enlightened self-interest is simultaneously concerned with the thrival of the whole system – seen as a continuum from the cellular to the ecological level, not sacrificing either the individual or the human race, but seeing that that they are assembled from the cellular level, and supported and sustained by the entire ecology.

It is both self-evident and axiomatic that the feedback loop of selfish self-interest can only bring about over-consumption, overproduction, scarcity and destruction. Whereas on the other hand the feedback loop of enlightened self-interest will make a positive contribution to the humansphere at every level, and thus will create more and more abundance.

How can we change the consciousness that is at the top of the socio-economic hierarchy, by changing the way capital is accrued!  How can we change the way capital is accrued?  By redefining profit.  How can we redefine profit?  Read the Omnius Manifesto.

Jeff Eisen, Ph.D.

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Objective Money Solution

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dr. Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D.

erg, an internationally accepted measure of energy
Peter Rae, a former banker banker and brilliant economist, has proposed a similar alternative to Evolutionary Advantages of an Energy-Backed Currency called the “objective money solution”.  It values money against the energy balance sheet of the nation or community, and bases itself on a unit of energy called the “Erg”, an internationally accepted measure of energy. Energy is the stuff that everything is made of (“matter is energy reduced to visibility”).

Peter observes that the potential or actual energy of everything is measurable. This listing, which takes solar power, wave-power, human power, etc. into account, represents the credit side of a nation’s balance sheet. The debit side will contain a listing of wasteful energy consumption, e.g. numbers of gas-guzzling cars; numbers of electrical appliances, etc. Add these up, and we have the negative side of the balance sheet. The differential between the two sides represents the value backing of this country’s currency.  This could readjust the relative values of the world’s strongest currencies, with the US dollar weakening and the oil and sunlight rich Middle East and countries currencies strengthening

I also agree with Peter’s statement that this system will take the valuation of currencies out of the hands of speculators and places it back with governments and their people – if they find new sources of energy supply; develop better ways of releasing potential energy; and of reducing energy consumption, they will be able to put more genuine value behind their currency, so affecting their exchange rate and international standing.

You can read the entire blog here, as well as Peter’s UK-based holistic systems think-tank,  the Light Living Laboratory (LLL).

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Energy-Backed Currency

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dr. Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D.

The Evolutionary Advantages of an Energy-Backed Currency
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Energy-Backed Currency


The problem with money

The problem with money is that it either has to have intrinsic value in itself, like gold, or it has to be backed by or exchangeable for something that has intrinsic value. The abandonment of this principle, and the worldwide move to fiat currency, money freely printed and backed only by the soundness of the country or bank that issued it, has been brought the world’s economies to the verge of collapse in short order.

The world needs to return to the sound money policy of backed currencies, currencies that either have intrinsic value in themselves or are readily exchangeable for something that has intrinsic value. In addition, this move has to be worldwide. In other words whatever the currency is, whether it is Dollars, Euros or Pounds, for maximum exchangeability, it has to be backed by the same commodity or basket of commodities.

For thousands of years money has been literally either gold or silver coinage.  Then, with the advent of paper money or currency, it became redeemable in either gold or silver. Although various countries played games with the price of gold, it was not until the Nixon administration that the US abandoned the gold standard entirely, and the other countries of the world, promptly followed suit.  This unbacked currency is called fiat currency.

Fiat currency, because it is only back by the financial stability of the issuing country, has numerous advantages and disadvantages. Basically however they all can be reduced to the ability of national banks (in the United States the Fed) to print as much currency as they feel the need to and then make up a fitting rationale for doing so. The problem with doing so arrives when the net worth of the country (GNP) in question has no relationship to its currency, or worse yet, an inverse relationship.  In these cases, as more and more currency is printed, its value is diluted and its buying power goes down.  This turn raises interest rates, decreases the value of savings and pension plans, penalizes those living on fixed incomes, impoverishes the many and concentrates all wealth into the hands of the few.  Clearly this system is not sustainable.

We need to go back to backed money, but what to back it with?

Many people think that getting rid of money altogether is the solution.  But this is a “throwing out the baby with the bathwater” solution that will not really solve anything. Instead it will leave us without a universal medium of exchange and set us back to a very primitive, barter economy. Sort of like going back to the horse and buggy because the internal combustion engine creates air pollution, instead of going forward to non-polluting fuels. So getting rid of money is the last thing that we want to do. Instead we need to return to a backed currency, and a universally backed one at that, but the problem is what to back it with.

We could return to the gold standard, a solution that has many adherents, but also many drawbacks. One of these drawbacks is that gold, aside from its scarcity, has not much intrinsic value in itself. There is not a lot you can do with it except admire it, hoard it and make jewelry from it. But the biggest of these drawbacks is its scarcity itself. It means that we have both a scarcity-backed currency and a scarcity based economy – the disastrous situation that has been dominating human affairs since the dawn of civilization. In addition, both feedback to support the survival consciousness * that created the system in the first place.

* Survival consciousness is the belief that there are not sufficient resources to support everyone; therefore one has to strive and compete, both individually and as a group, in order to be sure of getting their share.

Don’t get me wrong, this is not a condemnation of survival consciousness, for it is survival consciousness that has been the primary engine of evolution, not only human evolution but the evolution of all life.  It is as simple as this… forms of life that do not strive to survive, don’t survive.  It is not only the survival of the fittest that counts, it is the survival of the most competitive.

Although as the engine of evolution, scarcity-based survival consciousness is eminently necessary, in humans, it breeds separation, conflict, greed, envy, competition and all of the other, interrelated ills of modern society, and has brought us to the brink of collapse, not only as a nation but as a world. Of course it is still needed and always will be, but it is necessary to balance it with something more positive, something that promotes harmony and cooperation, something that doesn’t de-motivate individuals to compete, create and innovate but rather redirects that evolutionary flow to more constructive goals. We need to balance scarcity-based survival consciousness with a consciousness that is abundance based, let’s call it abundance consciousness.

There are currently many proposals on the table for this shift, most of them well-meaning and many of them exemplary, but they all share one problem. They butt heads with the one system that, more than any other, dominates the human consciousness  (at least in the first world). That is the economic system itself, which I call Econocracy.* Every proposal, every innovation, every initiative for reform is ultimately weakened if not totally defeated on the economic level. This is nowhere more true than in the proposals to make business and corporations more conscious, for conscious businesses, (i.e. those incorporating humanistic principles) despite some exceptions, incur restraints and expenses, which make them less competitive and therefore less likely to survive.

The only way around this problem is to redefine profitability itself.  The only way to do that is to move from a scarcity-based economy to an abundance based economy. And the only way to do that is for the world to abandon fiat currency. However this does not necessarily mean returning to the gold standard, which would be returning to a scarcity backed currency.  Instead we need to advance to an abundance backed currency.

Let’s start by backing our currency with the calorie or erg *

I am proposing then, that we measure and reward those enterprises and actions that come out of a specific kind of consciousness of – the consciousness I call enlightened self-interest.  These would be any enterprises and actions that make a positive contribution to the humansphere (as opposed to those enterprises and actions that impact the humansphere negatively).

This is redefining profit, but it is redefining profit through shifting currency from the present scarcity base to an abundance base. We could begin this endeavor by backing the present fiat currency, not with gold (the ultimate unit of scarcity) but with a unit of potential abundance, a unit of energy, the calorie or the erg.

*An erg is the unit of energy and mechanical work in the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system of units, symbol “erg”. Its name is derived from the Greek ergon, meaning “work”.[1]

An erg is the amount of work done by a force of one dyne exerted for a distance of one centimeter. In the CGS base units, it is equal to one gram centimeter-squared per second-squared (g·cm2/s2). It is thus equal to 10−7 joules or 100 nanojoules (nJ) in SI units.

What makes the calorie or erg a unit of abundance?

Energy, like consciousness itself, is infinite. It cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed or transferred. On a practical level a calorie or erg-based currency would nudge human consciousness towards the abundance consciousness of enlightened self-interest. I say this because as advances in technology create alternative sources of energy which are greener, less invasive and more abundant, energy becomes less and less expensive, which means that humanity becomes richer in it, and therefore richer in general. One practical consequence of this advance towards cheaper energy is that as energy becomes more abundant, countries could print more money without diluting its value. The present reliance on fossil fuels is almost completely a result of manipulation by energy and mining companies to keep the economy in a scarcity mode.

Abundant and inexpensive energy is not only a primary component of prosperity itself, but it frees humanity to move from scarcity-survival consciousness to abundance consciousness, which in turn throws open the doors to connection, collectivity, love and unity.

Calorie or erg backed currency is just a start

Calorie or erg backed currency, the redefinition of profitability from consumption to contribution and the accompanying creation of abundance, is just a start. In time we could back the currency with a basket of commodities, beginning with the calorie or erg but going on to other units of positive energy like electricity and horsepower.  Then as the refinement of measurement capabilities advances, we could go on to all sorts of indices of “positive energy” like water, food, and essential services like medical care. In a positive, abundance and human value based economy; virtually the whole GNP (gross national product) could back the currency.  Of course that is a distant goal, but it could and should start with a move to the calorie/erg backed currency.

Dr. Jeffrey Eisen

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Oneness Perceived, A Window Into Enlightenment

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Dr. Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D.

Peer Reviews:

“…a thrilling ride through the passionate and inspired contemplations of a powerfully enlivened mind as it careens, often wildly, through a torrential stream of insight and realization.”—What is Enlightenment Magazine

“This work focuses on releasing unconscious karmic memories, which allows for the return of a naturally harmonious relationship to the “All.” Engaging and thorough…”
—Shift at the Frontiers of Consciousness (Institute of Noetic Sciences), March-May 2004

“…an especially recommended addition to Religion, Spirituality, and Metaphysical Studies reading list.”
—The Bookwatch, January 2004

Oneness Perceived is a sutra for our culture and our time. It conveys the viewpoint of enlightenment in a clear and systematic way. In the spirit of pure inquiry, the author develops a comprehensive theory of consciousness and uses it to illuminate religion, mysticism, science, and psychology. The book returns psychology to its earlier roots in phenomenology, taking introspective and subjective experience as the starting point and not as something to be discarded because it is “unscientific.”

“Dr. Eisen brings the Eastern idea of Oneness solidly into the realm of Western thinking and beautifully integrates spirituality and science, mysticism and psychology, quantum and classical physics. In presenting perception as the pivotal process that creates form from non-material potential, Oneness Perceived shows how a unified field can contain both Oneness and the dualities we recognize as reality. This book does much to advance the paradigm shift now evident in the growing literature on this subject.”
— Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D., Evolution Biologist, Futurist and author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution Biology Revisioned (w. Willis Harman) and A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us

“Oneness Perceived is an exploration of the basic questions of life, the nature of consciousness, our connection with the world and one another and the search for happiness and fulfillment. No one seeking ultimate truth can afford to bypass the vital issues that lie at the heart of this book. Oneness Perceived distills the wisdom of the humankind’s greatest spiritual explorers and joins it with psychology, philosophy and science to create the basis for a genuine, Western Dharma.”
— Larry Dossey, MD, Author: Healing Beyond the Body, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words

“Not since Ken Wilber has a new voice shed so much light on the nature of consciousness and reality. Jeff Eisen advances humanity’s understanding of itself, in both its capacity for illusion and its capacity for self transcendence. If you are serious about enlightenment, you owe it to yourself to read Oneness Perceived.”
— Thom Hartmann, author of …The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global Transformation, and The Prophet’s Way: Touching the Power of Life.

“Dr. Jeffrey Eisen has made a timely contribution to the growing literature of a consciousness-based paradigm. His introduction of nondual consciousness to the psychology of perception is a major contribution in that field.”
—Amit Goswami, Ph.D., author of The Visionary Window, The Self-Aware Universe, and Physics of the Soul

“Jeff Eisen is a brilliant Socratic explorer who takes us on a journey to Oneness…raising questions and giving responses which illuminate the fundamental question of human existence: How we can experience our Oneness?…I recommend it.”
— Barbara Marx Hubbard, President, Foundation for Conscious Evolution and author of Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential and Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence

“It offers a marvelous and insightful discussion about consciousness as experience from the state of enlightenment. I have not seen anything else like this.”
—John White, M.A.T., author of Kundalini: Evolution and Enlightenment

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On illusion…

ONENESS IS REALITY

ONENESS PERCEIVED IS DUALITY

DUALITY IS ILLUSION

ONENESS PERCEIVED IS ILLUSION

 

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Duality and Illusion

The relationship between Oneness and duality is wholly a matter of perception. Whenever there is perception, Oneness divides into a perceiver and a perceived, a subject and an object. In other words, Oneness becomes dual. Oneness and duality are the same thing from different points of view; as are reality and illusion.

More precisely, duality and illusion arise from any and all points of view, whereas Oneness and reality exist only from no point of view, A point of view is a necessary condition for perception. Perception without a point of view is as contradictory and meaningless as perception without a perceiver.

Illusion

All perception is illusory. Illusion is an inescapable consequence of the duality of perception, is the duality of perception. Illusion enters with the perceiver. The sheer existence of a point of consciousness in Oneness sensing another creates duality and illusion.

When one confronts oneself with this premise, one confronts the ultimate dilemma of the human condition: the impossibility of knowing reality. Throughout history, contemplative people have tried to find a way out of this limitation without fully appreciating why it is impossible. Alchemists and their successors, scientists, try to get around it by peering ever deeper into macrocosmic and microcosmic space, as if duality could be resolved just beyond the limits of resolution of our unaided senses. All sorts of experiential metaphysicians ranging from shamans to gurus to academic psychedelicians explore inner space through trance, meditation or drugs. All attempts, however, are destined to fail because of the intrinsic limitations of perception.

Primal and Qualitative Dualism

The very occasion of perception splits Oneness into perceiver and perceived. This is primal dualism. The sensorium then selects relevant modalities and sensory perceptions and dualizes them into experiential qualities by putting them on a subjective continuum of which the point of consciousness of the perceiver is the referent, zero point, or fulcrum of the duality. This is qualitative dualism.

The Second Realm

ONENESS HAS NO APPEARANCE.

APPEARANCE HAS REALITY,

BUT IT IS NOT THE REALITY OF ONENESS.

APPEARANCE IS A SECOND REALM OF REALITY.

Qualities are the appearances or perceptions of things rather than their reality. Appearances are the terms in which an organism knows and thinks. Appearances are all that non-cognitive organisms are guided by. Cognitive organisms are guided by appearances as well as representations of appearances and manipulations of these representations.

Perceptual experience is not the same as the object of perception, but is an emergent phenomenon. By and large, it is all that we’ve got. The emergent reality of perceptual experience, if you choose to call it reality, I call the Second Realm of reality or just the Second Realm.

Thingness

It is interesting that even admittedly mental constructs, ideas, emotions, and events are frequently called things. Most of us would readily agree that calling these things things is a metaphor for physical things, but it is more than that. It is evidence that we both perceive and conceive in terms of thingness.

So what is a thing? First and finally, it is a perceptual illusion, a category, sensory or cognitive. It is the perception of separateness, of something, anything, that can be distinguished in any way whatsoever from anything else, and in perception everything can.

On Reality…

The Problem with the Direct Perception of Reality

The problem with our quest to know reality is us. We want to know reality in the same sense that we know a perception; we want to know what it looks, smells, tastes, sounds and feels like, but it is not to be! The only qualitative fact about reality that we can be reasonably certain of is that it is not qualitative.

Quantum Physics

With all that it is discovering or positing, quantum physics still struggles to know all things in perceptual terms, to fix things, to determine indeterminacy, to find a level of description where things will be things again, or at least concepts, which we know are the same thing. Because things can be perceived but not known, all things and all theories are metaphors, everything is a metaphor for everything else! Because every metaphor is in perceptual terms, all metaphors, all theories of reality are perceptual-centric, that is, they start from the false center of human perception.

A Fundamental Fallacy?

First metaphysics and then physics have been looking for the fundamental stuff, the building blocks of the universe, for thousands of years. But perhaps the pursuit of fundamental stuff is a wild goose chase. The very concept of stuff feels suspiciously like an analog to physical matter, a cognitive perceptual illusion.

Perhaps the idea of fundamental stuff is a fundamental fallacy and the entire reductionist strategy a mistake. What if at bottom there is nothing, that is no material thing, and the universe consists of something like hierarchical gestalts of interrelationships of emergent phenomena that have no underlying, fixed identity or form. What if the universe consists of the appearances of existence, motion, change, form, creation and destruction, etc., without anything moving, changing, forming, creating and destroying except appearance itself?

From No Thing, Something Comes

The most fundamental cosmological question of all, the one that has to eventually be answered for man to have a sense that he really understands, is how did something come out of nothing. I do not pretend to have the answer. Perhaps, the whole answer, like Oneness itself, will never be known in human terms, will in the final analysis prove to be unknowable. But I do know that the key to the riddle, as in most riddles, lies in how we are asking the question.

How did something come out of nothing? Let us reexamine the question. Something and nothing, like beginning and end, are dualities, perceptual illusions, while thingness itself is only a perceptual category. It’s obviously a trick question. Perhaps the question, indeed the very problem, is an illusion.

The Eternal Present

In two dimensional time, the past is a memory or inference, the future a projection, both constructs, belonging to the conjectural world of cognitive perception, two illusions.

What then is the reality of time, time unperceived? It is the eternal present. The present is all there is. In illusory time, the present is a point between future and past. But in real time the present is infinite, always here, an infinitely long time.

Big Deal

If Oneness contains death

And everything in Oneness is one

Then everything is dead.

If Oneness contains life

And everything in Oneness is one

Then everything is alive.

DEAD … ALIVE … What’s the difference?

You think you know it when you’re alive

And it’s a big deal.

You won’t know it when you’re dead

And you won’t care!

On God…

The Two Faces of God

Oneness, the God within, voidness, Isness, Self, Buddha nature, is one face of God.

Oneness perceived, duality, illusion, appearance, manifestation, thingness, is the other face of God.

Oneness is the invisible face of God, that which can never be known. It is the potential from which all things spring, to which all things return, which all things eternally are.

Duality, oneness perceived, illusion, is the visible face of God, the face that takes on an infinity of appearances. It is the organism living in the illusory world of its perception, living in a cosmos that exists only from its point of view, and living in it as if its survival is paramount.

Evolution of Oneness: The God Process

The people who protest evolutionary theory and believe only God could create life are not entirely mistaken, more misled. Their error is to anthropomorphize the God principle.

On the other hand, evolutionists may make the mistake of seeing a mechanistic universe at work instead of the God principle at play. Everything that works has to work somehow, but that does not mean it is a machine.

God must be the evolutionary principle. All other roles are beneath it.

The Mind of God

God knows everything because he is everywhere… is everywhere… is all aspects of all things. He is not outside but inside, not separate but One. He knows through being, not through perceiving. He does not perceive but rather he is. Therefore, he is not limited by subject-object duality. The limitation of God, on the other hand, is that he can’t perceive. He can know but he cannot know that he knows. He knows but there is no “he” to know.

In this sense, all sentient creatures are the “he’s” of God. All sentient creatures are the means by which God knows [in the perceptual sense]. They are the eyes of God, also his ears, nose, tongue and fingers. Mankind, however, is more; not only are we the eyes of God, we are also his mind!

We do not provide just another set of senses for him, but with our exquisitely developed powers of cognition and cognitive perception, we lend him our capacity to question and understand, to reflect. For we, not God, for better or worse, are Homo sapiens sapiens, the creatures that do know that they know!

On Self…

Thingness and Self

The self perceived is also a thing, that is, a perceptual category. It is anything that can be perceptually distinguished from anything else. Only it has to meet one additional criterion: we have to identify it in some way with “ourself”, or a projection of it.

There is one significant difference between the perceptual category that is a thing, and the perceptual category that is a self. You can only perceive a thing, but you can perceive from or at least through the thing that is a self! This fact is so extraordinary that it provides an auxiliary definition of a self. A self is a thing that provides a perspective for perception.

At this point we have to make the distinction between the perceived self as an object of perception and the Self, which is the perceiver itSelf.

Original Perception

Self-concept perceiving self-concept is fundamental to the dynamic by which illusion, further self-concepts and ultimately personality, evolve. The first act of perception, wherein a gestalt in Oneness perceives itself as self in a field of non-self, rending itself dual and illusory, is original perception. The self pole of this duality becomes the seed of self-concept. That is, it develops into self-concept through successive acts of perception. The other pole, non-self, becomes the world or world concept. This act of original perception has been committed countless times and will be committed countless more until life extinguishes. It is repeated every time a life is organized in Oneness.

The Way the Universe Knows Itself

But what is the medium that this experience of consciousness exists in, you quite rightly ask. Isn’t it consciousness as well? Well yes, but upon examination that is not as contradictory as it seems at first. The problem of studying consciousness was elegantly summarized by the futurist Peter Russell as trying to use a flashlight to try to find the source of its own light. That is truly the limitation… but what if you use two flashlights? Then, you can shine the light of one on the other. After all, it’s the same light, the same consciousness, no matter where you find it, or which source it’s emanating from.

Oneness is one flashlight, unexperienced consciousness. But when Oneness individuates, to the extent that the individuated parts perceive themselves as apart, the parts act as separate flashlights and they can shine their light on one another. This is the way consciousness experiences consciousness! This is the way the Universe knows itself!

Isn’t this what nature does? Isn’t this the universal solution of all creation, the two flashlight solution, polarity, division, perception and duality? Before the flashlight divides, there is just consciousness without experiencer or experience, unexperienced consciousness. After the flashlight divides, you have experienced consciousness, knowing that you know. You have an experiencer and therefore you can have an experience.

On Oneness…

Self and Other

To know Oneness tangibly is the longing of the soul. The yearning for tangible knowledge of Oneness is the yearning for escape from that condition of separation, from the inherent limitations of our individual existence.

This yearning, however, misdirects us. Real wisdom and understanding come not from trying to know Oneness qualitatively, as if it has qualities like “blue” and “warm”, but from knowing from Oneness.

Oneness As God

Oneness is not a mystical principle of any sort, at least not if mystical principles are thought of as beyond the ordinary. If the spiritual dimension is real, I suppose Oneness encompasses it, since it encompasses everything that is real, but it is not the spiritual dimension as people ordinarily conceive of it. Indeed, I suspect nothing is. Neither is Oneness God in any of the usual senses of the word. It is a broader concept than God and a less personal one. It doesn’t hold any secret for man, and it doesn’t care a fig what he does or what happens to him. Oneness is simply what is, and it is a mistake to reify or deify it. However, if we ask the question what does Oneness have to do with God and spirituality, the answer is everything. …

One of the main contentions of Oneness Perceived is that there always will remain a mystery, an unknowable. Off the edge of the perceptual map, beyond the flatland of knowledge, into the unknowable, will forever lie that space that the cartographers of science will be able to do no better than indicate with the legend “Here there be dragons”.

Oneness and Consciousness

That which knows existence

Is identical to the existence it knows.

This is the underlying unity. How do we describe Oneness? Not by what it is, but by what it is not. Not a perceptual category, it is no thing. Devoid of physical characteristics, it is the void. Without qualities, it lacks dimension, materiality, space, location, velocity. Without past or future, it is eternally now. Neither here nor there, it is everywhere. It is only an inference, insubstantial, void and unknowable. Yet, beyond argument it exists, because without it, there would be no existence to perceive. To indicate that though void it exists, pervasive and omnipresent, we have to call it something. Another good name for it is presence.Oneness cannot be known in its reality; it can only be perceived. Perception gives Oneness its appearances, solidifies the ghost. Oneness takes on its substance by colliding with the substance of our senses and the cunning of our minds. Oneness cannot be known in its reality because there is no thing to be known.

The Ultimate Tautology

In some way “why existence exists” is a non-question, traceable to an implicit assumption of duality between existence and nonexistence. This non-question is the ground of all illusion, all religion and all natural philosophy. Simply and unequivocally, existence exists because nonexistence cannot exist. Nonexistence is a contradiction in terms and the statement “nonexistence cannot exist” is the ultimate tautology.

When you get to the ultimate tautology, you have come to the end of the line. If you take it seriously, it ends duality, ends thought. It is the master koan. Hold it in meditation and you will be plunged into the void of non-duality.

There’s nowhere else to go

Beyond words, behind thought

Dropping out of time

Hurling out of space

The instantaneous journey without end

To where you always were.

De-Void

Can you know Oneness?

Only as the void.

Can you perceive from Oneness? That’s the whole point.

Is Perception from Oneness being God? If you choose to call it that.

Why is the void de-void, what is it and why go into it? The void is void because it is devoid of perceptual and cognitive qualities… nothing more and nothing less. That does not mean there is no existence there, just that there is no thing there [thing as a perceptual category].

So what is the void?

The void is Oneness, or more accurately the experience of Oneness. Why? Because in one sense Oneness is all there really is! Perception and cognition, the tools of the mind, dualize. They create a spectacle of qualities, things to enchant and entrance, color and form, time and space. But these things are illusions. All that is real, prior to perceptual dualization, is Oneness.

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Currency, Capital and Evolution

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Dr. Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D.

Doing away with money
Currency, Capital and Evolution

Why doing away with money is the last thing we want to do!

Download PDF: humansphere.org/currencycapitalevolution

Motorized vehicles and the roads they travel on, agriculture and food distribution, refrigeration, telephones, televisions, computers, and the internet, mining, refining and manufacturing, modern medicine from drugs to surgery to intensive care – these are only a handful of the myriad things that make up the technosphere, those co-evolutions of ideas and things that society enjoys.

These inventions and discoveries, among others, have not only accelerated the evolutionary process to an unprecedented degree but have brought about a new era in human evolution, shifting its foci, that which is being evolved, from the human body (including of course, the brain) and the natural environment, to the human body and the manufactured environment, i.e. technology.

Some of the lines of invention that have been responsible for this evolution are the invention of writing, morphed into the printing press, the typewriter, the photocopier, the computer screen etc., the invention of numbers morphed into mathematics and measurement, the discovery and use of radio waves, the discovery and use of electricity, the invention and application of the scientific method, and of course, the emerging theory of evolution itself – but the list is endless.

One of these lines of invention, one that facilitated and enabled the development of almost every other one, was the invention of money or currency, which led to banking, bookkeeping, transfer of funds, capitalism, and all sorts of financial transactions.

Currency is the common denominator of value that makes these derivative things possible. Before its invention, one could only accumulate wealth in specific forms, like cattle or land or grain, and you could only use it by bartering, for instance, exchanging your chickens for another person’s grain. But this system was extremely limited.  The bartering parties had to live close to one another, and they had to need what each other was offering. With the development of currency these limitations were lifted and many possibilities presented themselves.  After its development one could sell what one produced for currency, whether in the form of beads, shells, silver or gold, and then exchange it for any other goods or services that were for sale. This, along with its offshoot, banking, permitted the accumulation of wealth in the form of that readily transferable and universally applicable form called Capital.

The invention of money, with all that it led to, is the primary engine that has been driving the evolution of the technosphere, the partnership or co-evolution of the human brain and human technology. It is survival consciousness that motivates people to conceive and develop technical solutions to their own problems, but it’s the profit motive that motivates them to develop technological solutions to humanity’s problems – and it is money and capital that supports them while they are doing it.

It is clear that currency and capital are not evil. On the contrary, they are great inventions, great evolutionary advances, as essential to the evolution of technology as are the invention of the wheel, language, writing, numbers, and the scientific method. The evils which they are heir to are not intrinsic to their nature; they are evils, not of use, but of abuse. This is a characteristic which they share with most evolutionary advances, both biological and technological.

Bipedalism brought about back problems.  Agriculture brought about nutrition- related diseases as well as private ownership of land. The development of language brought about the ability to live in the mind, the mental representation of reality, rather than in reality itself. The development of the automobile brought about air pollution, traffic jams, strip malls, suburbs, and the paving over of large sections of the Earth. Yet to give these things up is unthinkable.

Almost all evolutionary advances have disadvantages and bring about potentials for abuse. It is almost impossible to foresee them and possibly even disadvantageous to do so. However, as they appear, it is possible to rectify them. Of course, going back to a time before the evolutionary advance is always tempting, but it is rarely either desirable or feasible. Almost always the solution lies in going forward to greater consciousness and newer, cleaner, more humane technology.

The age of technology in human terms has been relatively brief, whereas in evolutionary terms it has been less than an instant. From the first glimmerings of global warming to the present has taken less than 20 years, and yet the topic is on everyone’s minds. We are seeing both despair about it and the increase of popular pressures against it, and the need to reverse the process is fast gaining universal acceptance. The popular pressures are, of course, desirable and necessary, but the accompanying despair is exaggerated and misplaced. Despite the resistance of entrenched interests, things will inevitably change and change for the better. Change always happens and will continue to do so. Some of these changes will, in turn, create new problems, but those too will be solved. And the solutions will largely be going forward not backwards, and they also be amalgams of emerging consciousness and emerging technology.

This being said, because of the increasing pace of change and increasing rate of environmental destruction, we are clearly in a crisis.  Can we arrest, reverse and above all redirect destructive and out-of-control technologies quickly enough to forestall a cascade of ecological and economic collapse. I don’t know. But what I do know is that while an increase of demonstrations and demands for systemic revolution raise our awareness, they are not going to be enough unless accompanied by a program for change – one that is progressive rather than regressive, one rooted in history as well as systems theory, one that blends hindsight with foresight, one that is profoundly thought through, one that is a win-win for all concerned parties, and above all – one that is doable.

There is a famous experiment in psychology, where a dog is placed on one side of the chain-link fence and a plate of meat on the other. When a dog is only moderately hungry, he readily finds his way around the fence and to the food, but when he is starving, he can’t even see the solution that is obvious, even the solution that he knows, and he just claws at the fence and howls. The economic situation is even more desperate.  There is no obvious solution and the way forward is unknown.  This said, it is even more important to keep calm and try to find a solution, rather than just clawing at the fence and howling.  The Omnius Manifesto is just a start, but it is a start in the right direction.

Think about it!

Jeff Eisen, Ph.D.

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Foundations of a Global Econocracy

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Dr. Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D.

Foundations of a Global Econocracy


Of course we must further our self interests
But in order to know what they really are
We first have to know who we are

We think we live in a democracy or social democracy, and we feel that we are better off than people who live in a theocracy, autocracy or communist bureaucracy.  However, all of us who live in the “first world” of presumably democratic nations actually live in an Econocracy. 

The bare bones definition of the democratic system is a government that represents the will of the people, further defined as the majority of individual opinions, expressed by a voting process. The fundamental consciousness’s out of which democracy arose are two. The first is survival consciousness, the evolutionary drive to survive that is a constant in all species of life, without which no individual would survive, no species would differentiate, and evolution itself would grind to a halt. The second is individualism, our human perception of ourselves as separate body-minds, wholly responsible for ourselves and our needs, with not only the right but the obligation to meet those needs.

When survival consciousness is expressed through human individualism, something happens.

On the collective and corporate levels, individualism and survival consciousness morph into the right to profit. Implicit in individualistic thinking itself, though perhaps not spelled out, is the right to profit from our labors and the protection of this right.  This further implies that the individual is responsible for himself and accountable for his actions. He sinks or swims by his own efforts and the results of these efforts, beneficial or not, ultimately flow to him.  In order to best get their individual needs met, individuals frequently band together in a succession of collectives, ranging from families to nations to corporations, but individualism is always the driving consciousness, and thus, the individual tends to sees himself as the basic unit of everything from the human species to human society.

These individualistic drives to survive and to profit are the engines of our economies.

An econocracy is also government, or should we say rule, by the collective will of individuals, but these individuals are economic entities, usually though not always corporations. The ‘system’ that we have created to rule ourselves by, is not a democratic government any more than it is a theocracy, dictatorship or a communist bureaucracy; rather it is corporate feudalism.  But instead of a feudal master, we have corporate masters, quasi individuals empowered by our government and legitimized by the universally accepted and legally protected, “right to profit”.  These quasi individuals or corporate entities conflict with and largely supersede not only the sovereignty of individuals, but also that of nations.  What is more, in so far as these corporations have become globalized, we live in a global econocracy.  In fact, globalization is the establishment of a global econocracy.

So econocracy is formed by the extension of the same consciousness, the same belief systems that formed democracy, but self-interest of corporate entities is very different than the real self-interest of individuals, and therefore an econocracy is very different from a democracy. Two ideas, logical and seemingly innocuous, have mutated individualistic consciousness into econocratic consciousness.  The first was the idea (made law), that a group of individuals could incorporate into one mega-individual and enjoy roughly the same privileges and protections as a sovereign person, including of course, the right to profit from their collective labors.  The other is the invention of double entry bookkeeping, which by the simple comparison of two columns of addition, expenditures and income, supply an reliable (though illusory) means of determining whether, at the end of the day, one’s business has operated at a profit or a loss.

The subtle, almost invisible ways in which an econocracy differs from a democracy constitute a kind of doublethink, a doublethink that contributes mightily to the internal inconsistencies of western societies.  One aspect of this doublethink is that the rights of the corporation have gradually replaced the rights of the individual as the basis of society, which means of course that corporate survival and corporate interests, not the survival and prosperity of the individual, have become the economic engine. Despite the propaganda that the corporate owned media is feeding us, corporate interests have become the highest priority of our society, more important than the quality of life, more important than life itself.

It follows from this doublethink that all profits flow first to the corporation and then through to the individuals that direct it, own shares in it, and are employed by it.  This separates these individuals from the corporation, so that for the most part it is only the corporation that can be held accountable while the individuals in it profit.  This further enables individuals to be shielded from punishment for wrongdoing, and much more significantly, from having to face the personal and moral implications of knowingly committing and profiting by irresponsible, inhumane and criminal actions.  This shielding of the individual enables their directors to ruthlessly, single-mindedly and irresponsibly pursue the bottom line to any extent that they think they can get away with. To make things worse, it is the duty of the Corporation to maximize profitability for its shareholders by any legal means possible.

In the corporate charter, the right to profit morphs into the obligation to profit.

Widespread and unthinking acceptance of this logic has morphed individualistic consciousness into econocratic consciousness, but the root consciousness that has enabled this process is individualism and it to this that we must look to find the cure.


Individualism and survival consciousness

On a radical level, individualism itself begins in a mistake, a mistake I call false identity. False identity is the erroneous perception or belief that one is a thing, a thing called an individual. Moreover, any other existence that one has, particularly consciousness itself, is a property of that body.  A host of erroneous conclusions derive from these premises.  Among them the following:

  1. This body consciousness is completely mortal and destructible.
  2. This body consciousness is, for all intensive purposes, separate from all others.
  3. This body consciousness is also separate from the natural world.
  4. Its survival is dependent upon the accumulation of other things, things that can serve as resources such as food, shelter, weapons, tools, money, other people etc.

Econocracy is a form of representative government

Communist governments  like Russia, Cuba and China have themselves become mega corporations, completely run for profit, whose citizen- employees provide a low-cost, captive workforce that labors for the benefit of the ruling class of politicians and bureaucrats, and in return are given the bare minimum of benefits, just enough to keep body and soul together and forestall a revolution.

While in the United States and other “democratic” countries, corporations and their interests are increasingly allied with government.

This notwithstanding, we must always keep in mind that, like democracy, econocracy is a form of representative government, and resist getting into an us versus them, polarized mentality.  Econocracy, for better or worse, arises from econocratic consciousness, which, as we have said, is a projection of the individualistic survival consciousness of human nature itself.

There is no them; the problem is us.

At the same time we must understand the limitations of individual action.  There is little profit in making ourselves uncompetitive in a competitive world; and individual action is not only ineffectual, it can backfire, just as taking the law into our own hands can.  In a complex society the need for a government by law is widely accepted, whatever forms this government takes.  If we want to reshape our world, grass roots pressures have to align with practical programs. We need to reshape econocracy into a more human and sustainable form without sacrificing its many benefits.  We need to analyze the structural faults that have made it go so far astray and correct them.  We need to disassemble the procession of media disinformation, re-educate ourselves, and conceive a new economic system, humane and sustainable, yet progressive, rewarding and motivating, by which we may govern ourselves.

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Introducing the Omnius Manifesto

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Dr. Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D.

Occupy Wallstreet Movement Goes Worldwide

Introducing the Omnius Manifesto

An abundance-based economic solution


Something to Be For

In order for change to happen it is not enough to be against greed or even for stricter government regulation and corporate accountability, you have to have a program, a plan to make this change. And this program has to be well thought out, rooted in a deep understanding of the present system and a high but also practical vision of the changes that have to be made. The whole systems economics paradigm of the Omnius Manifesto is that vision and is a true plan of action to change the system that forms not only our economy, but also our very consciousness.

Over two decades ago, Dr. Jeff Eisen started to develop his ideas and techniques to shift human consciousness. In time these crystallized into Omnius and PsychoNoetics, and in the past year have been embodied into the PsychoNoetic Science Institute (PSI). Two years ago Jeff drafted the Omnius Manifesto, his proposal for a way of shifting human consciousness by shifting the present economic paradigm, but it is not until now, with the birth of the Occupy Movement, that the energy has arisen that could make it become a reality. As the Occupy Movement well understands, now is the time for humans to realize their oneness and their unity with earth. In our fragile world that threatens to break apart in so many ways, it is crucial to recognize our common enemies that can only be conquered if we pool our resources and proceed as “everybody-all-at-once.”

The Omnius Manifesto not only details what needs to be done, but also explains how to do it and why it must be done that way. It is a true integral solution, one that will completely revise the economic paradigm and benefit the 99% of humanity being represented by the occupy movement, including the billions of people employed by the national and multinational corporations. But the solution is larger than the Occupy Movement presently imagines. Shifts in consciousness do not come about without serious intervention and as long as we are ruled by a system which is incompatible with the well-being of humanity and the ecosystem which supports it, we will be at psychological odds with ourselves.

We can try to change human consciousness, but the truth is we are not going to succeed very well if we neglect to change the system that forms it. In fact, for the most part the very people who are trying to change things eventually face the choice of either bucking the system and being made powerless by it, or joining and being corrupted by it. Truly the only hope is to change the system itself.

There are many proposals on how to fix the capitalist system and the corporations it spawns, but most are looking to either elevate the consciousness of management (with the idea that an increase there would trickle down the ladder of corporate practices), or elevate the consciousness of consumers (with the idea that informed buying would influence corporate practices from the bottom up.) Despite the considerable merits of these initiatives, we fear they are doomed to only a moderate success, so long as the way that the corporations profit does not reflect their consumption of resources, both natural and human.


Instead, the idea of profit must be redefined.

It is clear that we have to build accountability and responsibility into the corporate mind. But the question is – how to do this? We believe the most realistic answer starts with redefining profitability, in other words, making it profitable for the corporation to contribute to the humansphere and unprofitable for it to consume without recycling and restoring. The only way to do this is to make corporations accountable for the real costs of their doing business, to make them fully responsible for the consumption and the destruction they cause, and to make them pay for the real costs of repairing the damage (if indeed repair is possible). Thus, profit is redefined from corporate gain to whole system gain—or to put it another way, we shift the bottom line from the corporation to the ‘humansphere’.

What you can do


Click here to read the complete manifesto

It is only nine pages. Study it. If you are not drawn to it; forget about it. You have another path. But if you do like it, if it excites and inspires you, send it on to everyone on your e-mail list. In order to have a chance of success it has to reach the right people, it has to go viral.

Also this proposal is far from complete. It does not have all the answers; it does not even have all the questions. That’s why we need your participation. These are two questions to think about and act on.


1) Who needs to read this, and how can you get a copy to them?

2) Where does it need to be implemented first, and how can you help us do it?

If you want to go even further and enter into a dialogue with us, suggesting strategies, pointing out obstacles, or just calling our attention to what we’re missing, or if you want to volunteer your energetic and/or financial support please contact us to see how we can work together.  Send e-mail to: action@humansphere.org 


The new mainstream is being built now… now is the time!

So far, we have integrated the manifesto on the blog as a primary outlet for dialogue. However, we intend for the Omnius Manifesto to evolve into a much larger and more comprehensive document to iterate vigorously on all facets.  In order to have a chance of success, deep dialogue is required amongst the willing for an integral approach and true understanding to emerge.

Please consider sharing The Omnius Manifesto and the supporting paper Foundations of Econocracy on the web to help spark a global conversation about the future of humanity.

With Gratitude,
Dr. Jeffrey Eisen, PhD
Cullen Kowalski, MBA

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p.s. Here are some powerful slogans that could be used at “Redefine rallies” and even put on signs. Can you think of any others? Can you help us distribute them?

1) Redefine profit, contribution not consumption

2) Profit should be profiting humanity

3) Corporations are not people, they are accountable to the people

4) Don’t destroy the corporations, evolve the system

5) It’s not the corporation, it’s the system

6) Evolution not revolution

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