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there's a lot of different ways to look at The Human Condition The Human Experience a lot of them are valid many of them are valid this is one particular way as I've been explaining over the the days we've been here together I'm looking at The Human Condition through one particular lens it's a lens of enlightenment in an evolutionary context so there's a particular or there's a particular Vantage Point orientation perspective weighing seeing all this that I'm sharing with you it's not the only way to see The Human Condition and there are many other ways as I said that are that are equally valid it's just that in the context of this particular teaching this particular orientation which has a particular goal which is evolutionary Enlightenment there's a particular goal in order to achieve that particular goal that's because we are want to achieve a particular goal then therefore it's essential if we want to achieve that particular goal that we are able to embrace this particular way of seeing and looking at The Human Condition most importantly and most especially our own that if you realize the evolution of Consciousness and culture is is a very important matter and if you realize it for Consciousness and culture to evolve you actually need to participate in that process in order to participate in that process you need to become significantly more enlightened and more involved evolved than you are now significantly more evolved and enlightened and liberated than you are right now we're talking about a significant leap not a minor shift not not a minor development major Quantum Leap of shift and transformation you get the difference by the way because anybody can get a little better at anything you know what I mean anybody can get a little better at anything it doesn't mean much as happy just a little better before you were a little worse now you're a little better it's like it doesn't mean it doesn't that doesn't really show up but we're talking about a Quantum Leap and transformation from some kind of and we'll discuss this a little bit more later on some kind of horizontal self-improvement versus a vertical sleep into a radically different orientation so you you actually become then a comp you know a radically different manifestation expression of you you're not just a little different you're really different you get it so where's that so if you realize that you know that which we'll get to because this is kind of how the whole teaching is set up if you realize that the evolution of Consciousness and culture from a non-dupe perspective of non-duality which we'll speak more about is entirely dependent upon your own transformation this teaching gives me infinite ways to Corner the individual but it when you realize and recognize as we will talk about and we once again we haven't talked much about this yet from a perspective of evolutionary non-duality that the the evolution of the interior of the cosmos depends upon you in other words when you realize this is really important and that you all have that you as an individual have a part to play and that your own significant evolutionary development transformation evolution is pivotal in the process that the process can't evolve and and change and develop unless you do if you insist on being a stuck person who will not change then you are holding up the whole show right that from a certain point of view it's only one way to look at it but from a certain point of view a certain Vantage Point you're holding up the entire show by your conscious or unconscious irrational refusal to change and to evolve if you realize in that way is what's pretty important that I get moving because I certainly don't want to die and be accused by whoever and whatever committee I'm going to have to face you Andrew Cohen because of your conscious and unconscious refusal to evolve and to walk your talk held up the whole show and look at the common consequences of your refusal I just don't want to deal with that so if for whatever reason we we realize that all the things we've been speaking about here are really important then then the truth is the only way this shift can be made is is by you the individual coming to a similar point in your own Evolution and development like I did which is you have to realize that it's in your hands that it's it's in your hands and the big key here is that you're not a victim and that's the big challenge you know you have to that the victim orientation if you're a victim it means you're wounded if you're a victim means you're wounded and a wounded person isn't like everyone else because they have unique problems that that give them a special um a special form which means they don't have to live up to these high expectations like if you go to the Army or the you know if you go to the military and you know you're missing you know an arm or a leg or you know you know if there's something terribly wrong with you get the dispensation you don't have to go to join the military because there's something fundamental wrong with you that makes you incapable of being a soldier right you have a unique issue you can't expect the guy to go on the battlefield he doesn't have an arm he can't hold the gun with just you know we understand and we say well of course you know you that's we can't expect you to go out on the battlefield because you have a special problem right so in this is the same way how it works at least psychologically how it works is for from for most people when they're challenged the way it works is that if you see yourself as having a special problem and most of us do secretly secretly you know we have some unique particular problem that nobody really can appreciate how severe or special it is if you have a special problem that you are uh if you believe that you have a special problem then um there would then it will never occur to you then it will never occur to you that you need to be ready now it's just very simple it'll never occur to you because your fundamental orientation to life when you're challenged is that you're not ready because you have a special problem you follow I'm not ready because I have a special problem and what you're at and what you're going to be and in those moments when you're challenged what you're going to be seeking for from other people who you trust is sympathy you're going to want other people to sympathize with this position you've taken in relationship to your own history that you have a special problem and you want the others out there to give you that dispensation the special dispensation where they realize I understand you couldn't possibly be ready to do this because you have a special problem and I recognize you have special problems so that's totally okay and then you get to like stand off to the side you know and not feel quite as bad about it you get the idea pretty yucky stuff you know the word yuck in all I don't know the translation of yoga and all the many different European languages of people here but it's it's not nice so you know and this is pretty serious stuff you know what I'm saying here is very serious it applies to most people in some shape or degree across the board some people have a strong dose of this and some people have have it very mild and a lot of people in between but this does this does almost universally apply to most people at a certain stage of development especially for a lot of a lot of the people that are interested in interested in these kinds of out of their cultural state of stage of development where they're interested in these kinds of teachings they usually suffer consciously and unconsciously from these kind of from taking these kinds of positions in relationship to their own history and to the Future