A Room full of Experts

The means to save our democracy

I am talking to a room full of experts who know much more than I do, but they cannot speak. Only their eyes talk to me and guide me. This one word I keep using brings an expression to their eyes that I cannot understand. One by one, as others who speak enter the room, I use the word and they leave. The look in the non-speakers’ eyes is a combination of I warned you and something else I still do not get.

The Suneidesis

So, I am going to write the word here at the risk of you closing this article and moving on. It is conscience. Still with me? This English word is a complete farse. So if you thought of leaving, good for you. The Greek word suneidesis is translated conscience or consciousness in the Bible because English does not have a single word for suneidesis, which expresses them both as one. A phrase like co-conscientious awareness or co-moral consciousness would work, “co” indicating it is a collective activity. This is not a religious discussion, but rather one that just uses knowledge in the Bible. For Jesus said that if we do not believe in him, we should at least believe in his works, until we get to the meaning behind everything he did.

The word conscience is a farse because it makes us believe that we have awareness that is simply awareness without the conscience or others being involved. But the illusion does give us rest from what the conscience is constantly trying to tell us. Something is missing in our understanding, so we cannot interpret what it is trying to tell us. It is a part of our awareness telling us that we are ignoring a fundamental truth about life.

The conscience of our awareness is like the experts who know more than we do but do not speak. Our mind is like those who enter the room speaking but leave as soon as the word conscience is spoken. And rightly so, since our mind cannot focus too long on what it does not have the knowledge to understand. So let’s look into the eyes of our suneidesis, conscientious awareness, and let them teach us with everyday words that work, not from the everyday meaning of life, but from the fundamental truth about life, a life we are unknowingly experiencing without understanding.

The eye of our individual conscientious awareness is single, because it does not divide our conscience and awareness. Together, we see with the singularity of our combined conscientious awareness, and these eyes can tell us the fundamental truth about life because they are part of it. And this brings us to the second word that causes us to leave the room. Blindness. The act of believing that our eyes can see without the conscience is the act of blindness. It is why we cannot believe what our eyes are telling us is going on today, cannot understand why some people act the way they do, while saying the same about us or only thinking they know.

Recognizing what happens when two or more groups are blind and cannot see each other brings us to the third word that causes us to leave the room. Enemy. Blindness is ultimately the only enemy, but since we blind ourselves by choosing not to see with the eyes of our singularity, we are our own worst enemies. Then, in our universal blindness, we make each other our enemies by failing to use the essential attribute of life’s fundamental truth. The singular light of our conscientious awareness requires that we make each other more important in our world conscience without being against ourselves – so as not to eclipse each other but see each other in our singularity. We see with the light we see, called agapé light, the Greek word for love.

When two or more of us are blind to others and ourselves, by making ourselves more important, we are enemies of each other’s world conscience in our awareness. Those of us not blind love them as enemies of our own, enemies because they are trying to blind us to the world conscience without realizing it. This is called loving the enemies of our conscience, the principle. By loving them, we keep the singularity of our eyes to help them with the knowledge that brought us out of blindness.

This is the means of saving our democracy, for if enough of us follow the principle, we will restore the singularity of our conscientious awareness as the light of our nation. Talking about the knowledge needed to reach enough of us requires addressing our beliefs – concerning the fundamental truth about life. As explained in previous articles, I use the word Name to address who some of us believe is God and what others believe is Life. I use the word Word to address Christ or the meaning of Life.

Should Bear/Shall Bear

Many of us who see Name as God believe that what I am calling our singularity is heaven and that we can enter it only at the Resurrection and only if we believe in Word as Christ, with or without loving our enemies. And there are verses in the Bible to support what they believe, as well as ones supporting those of us who believe what I am saying here. So that we do not question each other’s beliefs or judge, I turn to one verse, concerning when we can enter the singularity/heaven, that has two legitimate meanings supporting both of us.

“Just as we have bore the image of [Word] made of dust, we also should bear/shall bear the heavenly image of [Word].” Many ancient Greek manuscripts say should bear as many say shall bear. This is not error. It is the wisdom of Name. Shall bear refers to the future, interpreted by some to mean after death and at the Resurrection. Should bear refers to the present, interpreted by some to mean that we have the opportunity right now to enter it, the singularity of our world conscience, by being transformed by the renewing of our minds – through the knowledge of the truth. No actual death is required, only the death of blindness.

Soulish and Spiritual Bodies

To prove by reason that there is no need for physical death, the word natural in the previous words, “it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual one,” is actually soulish. The word natural is associated with the physical body, leading one to conclude the spiritual body cannot exist without the physical death. But it actually states, “it is sown a soulish body; it is raised a spiritual body.” It states that the soulish body is associated with corruption, dishonor and weakness, referring to our blindness to the agapé light of Name in us. The spiritual body is associated with incorruptibility, honor, and power, referring to our oneness in the world conscience of Word, while our physical body still breathes on earth.

Neither side can claim that what the other believes is wrong, so if we respect the writings of the Bible, we should respect each other and consider how democracy protects us both. It also protects those of us who do not believe in Word as Christ, whether we have chosen to follow the principle or not. Nonetheless, the knowledge needed to reach enough of us to save our democracy requires only that we follow the principle.

We start by honoring the agapé that everyone has working within its boundaries, between family, friends and so forth. For it is the same agapé in the singularity of our conscientious awareness. However, if it is limited to such boundaries, it may be an agapé stronger than death, but it instantly becomes hatred stronger than death for anyone hating our loved ones. Blind to the world conscience in our awareness, we are our own worst enemies and enemies of our democracy – by not having learned how to love the enemies of our loved ones with agapé stronger than death.

In other words, by blinding ourselves with hatred, we tear at the singularity of our nation to protect our loved ones. But by setting up good boundaries in our world conscience, through the principle, we mature agapé between us. Our agapé is equally as strong as mature hatred but with eyes that see with the singularity of our world conscience. There is no better way to protect our loved ones and democracy.

Can we save our democracy?