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      I want to point out a direct variation of Line-level consciousness, using a more three dimensional viewpoint.  I have drawn a rough curvature of the planet with three little buildings on it and will make up one story.  It is a horizon delusion and has to do with perspective.  

     You live at a place where you can look on this horizon and see the three buildings.  In the building on the left, during daylight hours there seems to be a civilized, happy, creative kind of activity -- people painting and playing music.  When you look at the middle building you see very little human activity, but there are other manifestations of activity.  Noxious fumes and smoke, loud unpleasant noises, and moans and shouts come from inside the building.  The third building looks similar to the others but as far as you can tell, nothing ever goes on.  No noises or people.  The building is just there.  

     This scenario represents Line-level consciousness and corresponds to the line drawn through the brain of the diagram of the nervous system.  It is literally a prison of three dimensional consciousness, which continually creates an artificial horizon.  But then from the second part of the drawing we have changed the perspective, rather it is the consciousness of the viewer which has changed the perspective, and this artificial horizon has been altered.  Now these three separate buildings are indeed connected by doorways so people can pass from one building to another.  In the building that previously appeared inactive are the mine shafts from which everything is ultimately derived.  In the middle building, where the fumes and noises came from, are the looms to make canvas for the painters and the brass foundries to make trumpets and trombones, as well as paper mills for writing.  

     If you were seeing these buildings from an ordinary perspective, you would see three separate buildings.  A person would say of the first building, that they are good neighbors, while of the middle noisy, smelly, building, that someone should surely get it out of the neighborhood.  While of the third apparently unused building, they would wonder if it was abandoned.  When you are locked into 3-D consciousness, you are limited to this artificial horizon.  Neither the building that you thought you approved of or the one you thought you disapproved of, which, of course supported the one you thought you approved of, would be in operation were it not for the one that apparently is doing nothing.  All three are connected.

     Throughout history, including a resurgence right now in this part of the world, there has been a cry over the danger of illiteracy.  What does this movement reflect?  What is the ultimate horizon beyond the limited one that the Blue department has been attempting to detail?  The cry is that humanity needs an electorate that is at least literate and familiar enough with the issues to discuss and analyze them.  This message regarding the danger of illiteracy vibrates somewhere in everyone.  The reality beyond the voices speaking about the dangers of illiteracy, is that such people can't properly think of acting, thus they are limited to acting only.  From a wide viewpoint, action would be a less efficient way for an individual to aid in the overall growth of Life.  I'm speaking of somebody approaching real illiteracy, which is virtually impossible today, but someone who is almost nonfunctional verbally.  The operations of Life's building is run more and more from the upper stories.  Of course, action is absolutely necessary when we talk about the level of mining, manufacture and distribution.  But the speed of Life's growth is accelerating beyond an arithmetic progression to the point where there is the continual need for people to be able to think about acting instead of acting.  Those in the mines must act, but what would happen if research and development took place under the direction of action, solely?  What would get done?  If you could take someone whose center of gravity was in the mines and move them to research and development and confronted them with a brainstorming session, they would want to knock all the equipment off the table or jump over to a computer keyboard to get started.  To them it is like, "All this talk, talk, talk is a waste of time.  We've got to do something."

     If action is what is necessary, there is no amount of thinking about action that will suffice, but without the ability to think about acting rather than simply acting, we would all still be in the mines.  Life would not be growing.  It would not be able to grow beyond the mining level.  The danger of illiteracy  lies not in political considerations.  The danger, in a real sense, is the inefficiency of simply acting without ever thinking about the action.