Part 6: Higher Learning

A new way for us to approach learning in a more conscious manner

This article is part of the Unified Consciousness Framework series. To gain the maximum benefit from reading this series it would be wise to read them sequentially.

Before covering this part of the framework, it is worth briefly summarizing the previous part, as the two of them are connected. It was in the previous part where we looked at facts and truth, the scientific process, and the body of information and knowledge that it has produced. We started to understand that the natural unfolding of that process results in an increasing amount of information being produced, eventually bringing us to the position we find ourselves in today. In this ‘Age of Information’, we have essentially arrived at the point where we have a huge amount of information available to us, usually being able to be presented to us at the touch of a few buttons.

On the surface of things, we may think that this would be a positive set of circumstances to find ourselves in when engaged with the task of searching for the Truth but, once again, we need to delve deeper into this matter to look at the subtle nuances that are a part of the process of clearing our conscious perception. Ironically, we find that, at some point, the increasing amount of information available to us actually starts to become a hinderance with regards to the progress we are able to make with the process.

One of the issues is that having an increasing amount of information available to us results in us being unable to physically sift through all of this information, analyse it, and then arrive at some valid conclusion with regards to it. Compounding this is also the fact that this vast amount of information is not static. There is more information being produced and added to this body of information every single day. This means that, if the information is being produced faster than an individual or group of individuals is able to process it, an entirely valid conclusion can never be arrived at just by analysing the information itself.

It is at this point that I refer back to the analogy which was created in the previous part of the framework. In that analogy we had outlined a scenario of a boat that had a hole in the bottom of it, through which water was gushing in. This resulted in the boat beginning to sink. Essentially, the problem that required solving in this analogy was for the individual to somehow stop the boat from sinking. Many people in this situation would start by getting a bucket and bailing the water out. Although the action of bailing the water out with a bucket would seem to be helpful, as was pointed out in the previous part, if the water is coming in through the hole faster than we can bail it out with the bucket, eventually the boat will end up sinking anyway. We can therefore either sit and try to bail out the water with a bucket and hope that we can do this faster than the water is coming in, or we need to find some other solution to the problem.

Bearing this in mind, it is much more prudent for us to approach this problem by first addressing the issue of the hole in the bottom of the boat, by plugging it. Once the hole has been plugged, we can then deal with the water that has already entered the boat through the hole. This is a much wiser suggestion, because by doing this we prioritise the tasks that result in the least amount of water entering the boat in the first place. By plugging the hole, we would also resolve the root issue, which means that no additional water would come into the boat after the fact.