Clearing the Shanty Towns of Concretion to Build Genuine Consciousness

I had to find the courage to reset the counters to zero: that moment when a person decides, honestly and with complete detachment, to empty their consciousness of all the “mental idols” planted in it in the name of religion and false sanctity. If you want to build a philosophical system that can withstand the storms of doubt and take in the light of truth, you must first have the courage to demolish the shanty towns of Concretion that have settled in your mind and turned it into a heap of narrow, material concepts. I saw with sorrow how anyone who held a different opinion was treated within those traditional sectarian circles as a foreign body to be cut out. It became clear to me that traditional systems lack the immunity that Abstraction confers — the immunity that marks a genuine consciousness grounded in understanding rather than in blind imitation. A consciousness grounded in Abstraction does not fear diversity, nor is it terrified by questions. It can hold every form of difference within the oneness of the great divine Source. A consciousness sunk in Concretion, by contrast, is fragile by nature: it always needs high walls of rigidity, reprimand and prohibition to protect a stunted identity that it mistakes for absolute truth. Out of that heap of rubble I began to lay the first foundations of my philosophy — a philosophy that refuses to imprison the station of God within material images, and holds that any truth which does not produce moral elevation in the conduct of the one who holds it is, in reality, a sick and mistaken understanding. Ethics is the only Balance on which an authentic connection with the Absolute is weighed. Through this journey I came to believe that every divine text is a living light, addressing us here and now as vicegerents, directly, far from the clamour of intermediaries who have tried to monopolise understanding and freeze it. Abstraction is the key that frees the text from the fetters of narrow human interpretation, so that revelation becomes once again a creative energy that builds the Spirit and ennobles the heart, and truly makes of the human being a vicegerent who builds edifices of consciousness with an open heart and a mind that sees the light of God in every direction. Hashem Nassar All rights reserved