Discussion 2: The World Democracy of our Conscience (Suneidesis)
Do not surrender it in your heart.
When the eyes of our heart are open, everyone touches our conscience (suneidesis)1 and we develop a world suneidesis.2 But at the same time, we have a blind part in our heart, hard to recognize because every time we get close to it, something in this world appears in it and distracts us. No one touches our suneidesis in such a blind part—so we are forced to focus on ourselves there, make ourselves more important than others in the singularity of our democracy, knowingly or not. The same exists in the blind part of nations, making themselves more important than other nations in the singularity of our world democracy.
As expected, we use moral standards to govern the blind part of our suneidesis and thus judge others to justify our self-importance. Regardless of our beliefs, when the principle governs our overall suneidesis, we recognize our blindness and work with others who use the principle to govern theirs. We open the eyes of our heart again and everyone touches the democracy in our world suneidesis.
Usage of the words Name and Word
To keep my personal beliefs from being a distraction to this knowledge, I call the singularity Name, meaning the Name of Life, the Name of God, or the Name of any other belief one may hold. Knowledge that I attribute to coming directly from Name, from the singularity of our co-conscientious awareness, I call Word, meaning the Word of Life, the Word of God, or the Word of any other belief one may hold.
One of the highest meaning structures of Word, reasoning with this knowledge, is the world democracy of our suneidesis. Within it is the national democracy of our suneidesis, undergoing the fulfillment of the times of the nations. In these unparalleled times, we need the principle to keep either level from becoming a blind part. For as we sit precariously under the threat of losing the democracy in our country, know that the mere threat seduces many into surrendering democracy to blindness in their heart. Fortunately, the principle frees us from judging our fellow citizens who have already surrendered it, offering a way back, a bridge over our national suneidesis.
Under pressure, we all surrender it at times at least for a moment, forced to resort back to moral standards alone to govern our suneidesis. During these moments, we cannot comprehend how Word’s judgment, the reasoning of our suneidesis, can be based on the principle. For blindness holds onto its blindness of the past. The light of democracy in our suneidesis though overlooks past failures if we practice the principle, developing our moral standard to strengthen co-conscientious awareness of our singularity in Name.
Israel and Palestine’s World Suneideseis (plural)
To maintain the world democracy of our suneidesis, we need to make the democracies in Israel and Palestine’s world suneidesis more important than our own, for their vision and blind parts work in our politics. Like all nations in the fulfillment of times, their politics are in a perpetual struggle between parties using different moral standards or interpretations of them to govern their suneidesis, with only one party at times showing signs of understanding the principle.
Challenged by the ancestral blindness in Israel and Palestine’s world suneidesis, all nations are held together in their reasoning by resisting such blindness. And when successful, they develop, by their further choices, Word’s highest meaning structures of democracy in their heart. The singularity among all national suneideseis is held together by the reasoning working in the singularity of our world suneidesis in Name.
Can we save our democracy? (Index)
Suneidesis is pronounced soon-eye-day-sis. After reading the link explaining it, you will see how central it is to this teaching. Using this foreign word regularly in discussions helps us get accustomed to experiencing something new and positive in our awareness. When the word conscience is used, it will refer to the aspect of suneidesis that involves right and wrong, but this aspect cannot be separated from our co-conscientious awareness of all things.
If I understand that my awareness of something as simple as a cup includes co-conscientiousness, I do not allow myself to get blinded by the cup alone but know it as part of all creation at the hands of the Creator or the universe, depending on one’s beliefs. I can easily picture people like Jesus doing that all the time and believe that suneidesis reveals that we all have the same potential.
The repetition of suneidesis is meant to challenge you to consider this dimension in your awareness. Apologies, but it will only be a necessary annoyance until it becomes natural.