Whilst zandtao begins this description of his vision - as presented and discussed in zeer-consciousness - with his standard ditthi warning, for zandtao vision is a deep insight - perhaps the deepest insight? zandtao considers it as "close to truth" or he would not have used the term "vision". Having given that emphasis, the reality is still the same - it is a view of society; each individual must come to understand their own views including how much of zandtao's vision they accept.
Intro-vision of human infrastructure
In this  introduction we will put forward a vision of society, and throughout we will be examining human development in terms of that vision. It is necessary to have a vision of human infrastructure - how can we consider practice in terms of awareness and awakening if there is no vision of human infrastructure to give that awakening context?
We will keep the human vision as simple as possible - as few assumptions as possible; as a seeker you can develop the vision further but remember that the egoic mind tries to make attached complexities of ego to confuse and divert. Biologically a human being comes from the father and mother, and this has many ramifications for the Sacred Wound, but this biological description does not address ontological infrastructure - what a human being is and aspects of their functionality. If we don’t have a vision of this then awakening and practices are relatively confusing.
As the biological process is happening there is a consciousness evolving; consciousness joins the biological seed and begins the aspect of conscious evolution associated with that human. How a human lives their life is part of evolving consciousness. Once consciousness unites with the human seed development occurs on a conscious and subconscious level - mind-consciousness and brain-consciousness. The baby’s body grows eg its liver grows. Of course other aspects of the baby's body grows but this is not intended as a detailed analysis of every aspect of human growth - this is an intro-vision of human infrastructure. Whilst brain-consciousness enables life’s development of ageing unconsciously, Unity-consciousness uses conditioning for its own ends - primarily survival. As part of that conditioning to a greater or lesser extent mind-consciousness develops self-esteem for survival in society. As adults the path of Unity-consciousness expects us to lose that self-esteem, and simply evolve consciousness but as explained in the intro-vision of society below that doesn’t necessarily happen because of society’s defilements.
Unity-consciousness provides us with graces to help us follow our paths, and these graces are described differently depending upon your practice. The purpose of our own consciousness and life’s development is to consciously love and evolve Unity-consciousness through our mind-consciousness. Our mind-consciousness expects to work with those graces to evolve consciousness once mind-consciousness has released conditioning.
For zandtao’s own discussion of how consciousness evolves zandtao wants to describe a partial vision that he calls characteristics of consciousness, and wants to give a description of a human to show how those characteristics function. If the graces worked without restriction there would be no need for a description, but once there is conditioning the functioning of the graces becomes restricted. For the human being conditioning creates restrictions that limit the evolving mind-consciousness - restricts mind-consciousness from evolving Unity-consciousness. In detail the restrictions of conditioning can be mentally confusing but in terms of vision zandtao wants greater simplicity and indicators of what the main restrictions are and how mind-consciousness can work with the graces to end those restrictions.
A human being experiences those restrictions as attachment to ego, a spectrum of suffering and long-term clingings to contents or characteristics. Ultimately if mind-consciousness can end these restrictions then mind-consciousness can evolve Unity-consciousness. In terms of practice then mind-consciousness looks to release these 3 restrictions of egoic attachment, suffering and clingings thus evolving Unity-consciousness. Throughout thezeer how these restrictions appear in humans and how mind-consciousness can end these restrictions through practice will be detailed.
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