Chapter Six "Different Points of View: Universal Consciousness and Separate Consciousness" continued... 

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 “Unfortunate son, but true.  And those with separate self consciousness will defend their views with twisted logic.  Some people will say ‘So what if I think my country is the most important?  It’s good to have national pride.  It doesn’t change anything about any other country, it just helps this one be better.’  If you don’t think that such an attitude has no effect on other countries, consider the atrocities that one country will often inflict on another.  Or that a country will stand by and allow   to happen to the citizens of one country, but not in another. Imagine invading soldiers regularly using bayonets to cut babies out of the wombs of 9 month pregnant women in the street, for purposes of genocide. That happens.  But as long as it only  happens in countries that other countries don’t care about, no one cares.  As things are, such things are nearly never reported in the news media of the world.  What if it was going on in Chicago?  England, France, Mexico?  Do you think we would not even be hearing about it?  If ALL the churches in Britain were being destroyed by invading armies, and the priests tortured, would it not get on the news?  It would not only get on the news, but many countries would send troops over there to stop it in an instant.  How’s that for national pride?  What national pride? It all depends on what our separate selves consider ‘extensions’ or relations of themselves, or have selfish stake in.

         Some people have begun to transcend ‘pride of country’.  Again, this is good, but it does not go far enough.  So few have a truly global feeling of family, but there are some who do.  But even environmental and humanitarian consciousness is still limited, and a person could accidentally cause terrible disasters acting from limited perception, even if their intention was only to help. 

         All these expansions of consciousness are steps toward the ultimate expansive and caring consciousness, Universal Consciousness.  But they are still all variations of separate self consciousness - limited by so many constraints, and ultimately mistake ridden and destructive. Oh, how many tears have been shed in the wake of things gone wrong, and the cry is echoed ‘But I was only trying to help’.

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