The Supraconscience of Humanity

Humankind evolved through three psychological stages - subconscience, conscience, and supraconscience. Ritual and myth, cosmology and theism marked phases of psychic integration, initiating our supraconscience evolution. Four archetypes: temperance, _the great chain of being,_ Biblical interpretation, and Divinity became the Cosmic consciousness of secular man. Study of Scripture developed a communal supraconscience. Mystics' dedication showed us the deeper meaning of a life purpose. Yet, heretics taught man faith in the superior power of the free mind. Heresy helped evolve humanity's secular supraconscience. Indeed, the exponential growth of psyche's powers and the continuous revelation of new, secular knowledge seems the fulfillment of Revelation. Finally, the enlightened understood that when God created the earth, he included evolution so that our kind would evolve a superior nature. Hence, religious and scientific, secular and humanistic developments reveal themselves to be the primary powers accelerating human evolution. Together, they have nurtured humankind's ever-evolving supraconscience.

Edward H. Strauch, Ph.D., lived and taught in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Micronesia for thirty years. Thought he received his Ph.D. in literary criticism and comparative literature, his travels led him to study how traditional beliefs evolved in both non-western and western cultures. From myths, rituals, theisms and cosmologies, he learned how man's archetypal subconscience developed into a religious supraconscience and eventually transformed into the secular supraconscience of modern man, thus creating the supraconscience of humanity.