Becoming part of the solution

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This post argues that the quality of our consciousness, which includes wisdom, understanding, and love, is more important for personal growth than accumulating information. As we mature, we learn to synthesise our experiences into more comprehensive perspectives, realising that everything is interconnected and interrelated. Love, as an attitude and value, can facilitate consciousness development, but intellectual analysis may not always be sufficient. To truly grow, we must cultivate low-entropy consciousness and move beyond rational analysis.

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”Clearly, growing up within a larger reality has much more to do with raising the quality of your consciousness than accumulating information.

What matters most is the development: of wisdom, understanding, and the capacity to love – which are not primarily intellectual achievements. As you grow up, you learn to synthesise your experience data into larger and larger perspectives until eventually everything is seen to be interactive, interrelated, and a part of everything else. (The love I am referring to here is an attitude, a value, a way of interacting and being, and needs no specific object on which to focus.)

Facts and intellectual knowledge can help point in the right direction and perhaps pick around the edges of how to grow quality, but to truly “get it” requires that one go beyond rational PMR causal analysis. Analysis fails because you can never collect more than a small percentage of the relevant facts required for a rational, logical conclusion when dealing with Big Picture issues – and because love is not an intellectual result. Love is the result of low-entropy consciousness.”

Tom Campbell