Cosmic Ciizen

Personhood, Bodyhood and the Right to Not Be Aborted

Conclusion Part 2

Ever so slowly, the population is being turned into psychopaths—numbed, indifferent, uncaring, callous to the sufferings of others, quick to resort to violence on the plea of race, entitlement, or hurt feelings. In this way we have allowed a malefic mentality to influence and dictate our worldview, and corral us into their dystopian future. It is past time for us to wake up and recognize how we have been pitted against each other, and how the cult-like, inquisitional demand for conformity of thought is being thrust upon us.

It is said that among the intelligent, there are always differences of opinion. The intelligent will recognize and appreciate this fact, since no one can claim to possess all truth. The empirical senses of human beings are imperfect, able only to process a fragment of the available sensory data. In addition, we are subject to making mistakes, falling into illusion, and the propensity to cheat—ourselves and others—afflicts us. We require diversity of opinion, and the person who points out the defect in our argument is our friend, not our enemy. Only tyrants, psychopaths, and the weak-minded seek conformity of opinion, enforced through coercion, bullying, lawfare, and brutality.

The American Founding Fathers had a difference of opinion with the unyielding King of England. The inevitable result was the Revolutionary War—brave men standing up to the king’s unjust decrees, willing to die to be free from royal tyranny. In the war’s aftermath, they crafted and bestowed upon the people the Constitution and Bill of Rights, defining documents that would measure all future aspirants for high office and safeguard the new, fledgling Republic. That gift was not a mandate for the conformity of thought and behavior being demanded today. It was to serve as the basis for an assembly where thoughtful and competent men, honorably and selflessly representing their constituents, could freely and eloquently express their opinions, work out their differences, and thereby secure the welfare of all. Some things were "self-evident," but what was not self-evident could be investigated and debated. In such an atmosphere of honest, intellectual debate, "iron would sharpen iron," and everyone would benefit.

Today, the Founders’ descendants, who hold the future of the nation in their hands, have failed to learn this crucial lesson of tolerance for opposing ideas. Instead, they have become adept at ignoring and devaluing the substance of contrary opinions while attacking and silencing those who deviate from official dogma. They have turned the ad hominem slur into an art form. 

As we have stressed here, being born into the human family is already an exceptionally rare and special event. For the countless living beings hovering in the ethereal earth environment waiting to obtain a body, getting one that is human is extremely difficult. 7 billion humans may seem like too many to some, hence the cries of "overpopulation!" But that number pales into insignificance when compared to the many quadrillions of animals, fish, birds, and bugs, of all species, that share this planet. It is far easier and more common for living beings to find bodies among those other species than to get a chance at entering human bodies. Not only that, but out of the many millions of sperm cells that are deposited in the cervical canal after a male ejaculation, only one, except in rare cases, will make it to the ovum.

Securing a human body is a mighty, nearly impossible feat. How has it come about that some human beings, lacking vision and compassion, are now intent on destroying the embryonic bodies of those who, after a long, hard struggle, finally reach the womb and what they hope is safety and the opportunities the human body affords? When will these individuals stop "playing God"?

We have been gifted with intelligence sufficient to understand how the invisible spiritual spark of energy becomes visible by taking on a gross body and how it again becomes invisible at death, retreating once again into the ether. Caught in the cycle of conception followed by death, that spark will again appear before us in a new body.

Ancient Vedic cosmology describes the human body as a yantra, a machine, or a vehicle. In the animal kingdom, that vehicle runs on four legs, like an automobile on four tires, while the human machine runs on two legs. How the modern automobile, the Yantra, is built is a mystery to most of us. In the modern factory, however, the sight of the myriad, enormous, programmed robots toiling mechanically to assemble a car based on the engineers’ schematics, is certainly an amazing sight. How much more sophisticated is the human body? Has it been designed and built merely so we could run around like a proud but spiritually unaware animal on two legs, competing with each other, obsessed only with eating, sleeping, mating and fearing/defending?

The Modern Auto Assembly Line: Robots Doing What Humans Used To Do

It is said that the human body is the best tool in the universal toolkit, one exquisitely designed to help the living being, the original spirit person, understand her existential position. It is an extremely sophisticated machine that comes fully equipped with its own set of built-in sensory and motor tools for learning, exploring, and experiencing both the gross and subtle environments. This machine is so elegant that with it, the person can conceive of and invent unique tools for satisfying her quest to learn, explore, and experience.

From conception to death, these bodies remain just a clump of cells—a few at conception, more and better organized in adulthood, but a clump of cells nonetheless. These "cell clumps" require protection and freedom from injury, and the natural, cosmic arrangement aims to provide that freedom and protection. This sophisticated construction is also programmed to replicate itself with a little outside help in order to continually protect and elevate the species.

Wise Indian ascetics declared that, ultimately, the purpose of the body is not merely to learn, explore, and experience ever newer ways to eat, sleep, mate, and defend ourselves. Those activities are meant only to keep body and soul together on our existential quest. They taught that the human mission is to pierce through both the gross and subtle material realms and become a permanent seer and experiencer of the original state of spiritual personhood. It is to move beyond mere material, body-focused personhood, dictated by mundane law and social custom. In that state, we not only transcend the repetition of death, rebirth, old age, and disease but can also permanently manifest our eternal nature of bliss and cognizance.

Pro-choice is normally a euphemism for "pro-abortion" or "pro-baby-killing, where the only so-called choice is to kill. However, choice means that we may choose to harm or protect, to abort or give birth. Those choices come with responsibilities and consequences, and by choosing, we select what future karmic reactions we will enjoy or suffer. What goes around comes around. Choosing wisely is the responsibility of all who have attained the human form.

Many pro-life activists are deeply religious people, but it is not necessary for us to espouse a belief in any particular religio-social treatise to be convinced of the eternal personhood of human beings and of all other living entities. That searing truth can be understood through open-minded, independent research, deep reflection, and our own practical experience. We do not need a religion to teach us that all our activities in the material world ultimately end in frustration and death. We can learn this from simple observation. Regardless of how much we are able to accumulate and accomplish, we disappear, and, eventually, time erases our name from the collective memory, even from that lonely park bench dedicated in our honor. 

Source: Verywell, Chris Raymond

Surely, life must have a purpose higher than mere engagement in mundane activities. It is for this reason that our knowledgeable ancestors sought to enlighten us through the physical artifacts and the words they left behind.

We can therefore appreciate that it was out of a sense of concern for future generations that the religious literatures of the world and even some mundane works were composed. For example, after their alleged enslavement and final exodus from Egypt, Israelite sages penned the Old Testament to give instructions for ensuring the welfare of the tribes. Christians promote the New Testament as a compassionate blueprint for the salvation of all humanity with the slogan, "Jesus Saves". Other scriptures are also born from the same desire to benefit future generations of human beings, and to leave them a path guaranteeing their highest good.

On the path to enlightenment, the Buddhist initiate is encouraged to develop the five virtues of faith, morality, hearing, charity, and wisdom and to practice the principle of ahimsa, non-violence, in thought, word, and deed.

In the ancient Hermetic teachings central to Egyptian cosmology, we find this gem:

Hermes next inquired about the road by which the wise attained to Life eternal, and Poimandres continued: "Let the man endued with a Mind mark, consider, and learn of himself, and with the power of his Mind divide himself from his not-self and become a servant of Reality. (The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus. Courtesy)

It is unlikely that the mindful person who has marked, considered, and learned of himself, who understands what is his "not self", and who has become a "servant of Reality", would ever entertain the idea of feticide or the genocide of his fellow man.

In the same way, Vedic cosmology was also propounded with a sense of urgent concern for the welfare of all living beings, especially humans. It offered recommendations and prohibitions suitable for the development of the highest spiritual intelligence. Because the human form is so rare and attained with such difficulty, the sages advised:

Asato ma sad gamaya

Tamasi ma jyotir gamaya

Mrtyu ma amrtagamah 

Give up the temporary, the unreal, and come to reality, to the truth. Don’t remain in the darkness. Come to the light. Give up the path of endless rebirth and death, the Samsara, and embrace the path of deathlessness.

This is the Shanti Mantra from the Hindu Upanishads, one incorporated into the liturgy of many Indian devotional schools. It is sometimes sung as a prayer to the Divine:

Lead me from the untrue to the truth. Lead me out of the darkness to the light. Lead me out of death to immortality.

Regardless, one does not have to be a devotee of any particular faith or even a religious person to appreciate the sublime truth contained in these words. The human body is endowed with finely developed faculties that allow the person within to contemplate his existential position. It is seen as a divine portal, the best facility for the eternal person to transcend the material world of rebirth and death and attain his original, spiritual environment and identity.

Clearly, Peter Thiel, the other five billionaires mentioned in Part Eight, and many others who are anxious to prolong their lives on this chaotic, degraded, and war-ravaged planet, will appreciate the third line of this invocation. Unfortunately, they are like a modern-day Don Quijote, The Man of La Mancha, tilting at the windmill of death and rebirth. They are destined to remain deluded in their quest for deathlessness, due to believing themselves to be the body or the mind that has allowed them to accumulate so much wealth and, by extension, so much power and influence. Being bereft of spiritual knowledge, they cannot understand that the body within which they reside is, by design, destined to fail. Were they armed with this practical knowledge, they could engage their great wealth and resources not in the quixotic quest for bodily longevity but in solving the existential riddle of rebirth and death—before the borrowed energy of the body has to be given back.

In concluding this series of essays on Personhood, I’m left with many unanswered questions. Here are a few of them:

Shall we dare hope that those who champion the destruction of the embryonic, difficult-to-attain human body of other eternally existing persons will one day, soon, have a "road to Damascus" epiphany, resulting in a change of heart, like Dr. Haywood Robinson and Dr. Beverly McMillan did? Ignorant of the subtle, yet elegant, forces of nature acting to sustain our species, will they persist in viewing these post-conception "starter bodies" as only lifeless, useless "clumps of cells"? What will it take to put them in awe of how those magical, mystical cells, one day, became you and me? Will they grow a softer heart and eyes of compassion sufficient to perceive the eternal person in utero, developing his brand new body? Will our axeman factories be shuttered for lack of a need for his heartless skill with the Sopher clamp, his Molochian child-slaying ax? Will mothers develop the subtle ears to hear the voice of their future daughters and sons calling to them from the ether? Or will they, after accidentally, carelessly, and mindlessly conceiving them, persist in consigning them to the sacrificial fire of abortion, butchering them on the blood-soaked altar of convenience, so-called "women’s rights," and "reproductive healthcare"? Will they finally see these terms as euphemistic fig leaves for cloaking and justifying child murder?

The answers to these questions are unknown. Perhaps they are only food for thought for those few already in the trenches, locked in the struggle against the forces of eugenics and planet-wide genocide. We seek positive answers, but the karmic burden on the blood-drenched earth is so great that the coming psychic and physical reset is almost inevitable. I can only urge the anti-lifers to meditate deeply upon the Golden Rule:

Do not inflict upon others what you do not want inflicted upon you.

My hope is that enough of us will heed the words of the Shanti Mantra, the invocation for peace, because those who are killing and destroying the peace of others are destined to experience neither peace nor safety.

tamasi ma jyotir gamaya.

Let us get out of the darkness of ignorance and embrace the light of divine knowledge and truth.

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