Recently I watched two documentaries that got me thinking about something that many of us never consciously consider and yet is a major part of the world we live in.  One of the documentaries was called ‘Coded Bias’ in which some clever people discover that artificial intelligence which uses data that is gathered from our collective use of the internet has some inbuilt biases for example biases against women and biases against people of colour.  The interesting thing about this is that the artificial intelligence uses raw data that is fed into it and it produces a result which is an accurate reflection of the world we live in.  The problem of course comes in when we try to use artificial intelligence to carry out tasks such as recruitment or facial recognition or performance evaluations.  Then we run into problems because the system naturally perpetuates the biases we already have and makes them even worse.  The biases in our society such as the ones mentioned above naturally find their way into the system because the system can only work with the information it is fed.  In layman’s terms, this is what is known as garbage in, garbage out.  Unfortunately, this is taking place in the world of technology which these days is affecting our lives more and more in ways that we don’t even know yet.  The worst part about it is that it took people who are really smart in I.T. and mathematics to notice this problem.  In other words, this is something that the average person would never actually be able to notice.

The biases in our society such as the ones mentioned above naturally find their way into the system because the system can only work with the information it is fed.  In layman’s terms, this is what is known as garbage in, garbage out. 

Which brings me to the title of this article.  What is the fallen consciousness?  The fallen consciousness is something like the bias that is hidden inside all the raw data that is difficult to perceive, but becomes very clear once the data runs through the system because of the result it produces.  Basically, the fallen consciousness is a way of thinking that is very hard to notice or perceive in yourself or in others, but it becomes very clear from the results it produces.  How many times have we looked at the world we live in and wondered why is the world is in such a mess?  Well, it is because of the garbage in, garbage out phenomenon.  We are constantly feeding garbage into the system and then we wonder why the system produces garbage.  But what exactly do I mean when I say we are feeding garbage into the system?

Well, this now brings me to the second documentary I watched which is a prime example of how we feed garbage into the system.  The documentary is called ‘Inside Job’ and it talks about a topic that many of us are familiar with.  The financial collapse of 2008.  How did this collapse happen? It happened because of greed.  Greed is an example of the fallen consciousness because it is a way of thinking that says I am the most important person; I should be able to have everything I want and everyone else can pretty much go to hell; I am more deserving than anyone else of all the good things life has to offer.  Now, if you meet a person with this way of thinking, you would probable not be able to see it in them immediately.  They probably don’t even see it in themselves.  This way of thinking only becomes clear once it is taken through the system and then it produces a result, which in this case was the global financial collapse.  Many of us of course suffer from various degrees of greed, but in this case, it was greed that was taken to the very extreme and it produced an extreme result which then became obvious to everyone.

Another good example of this same way of thinking is clearly emerging from the ongoing covid-19 pandemic and specifically on the issue of vaccines.  What is clearly emerging is what is starting to be known as vaccine apartheid, which is whereby the rich countries are grabbing for themselves most of the vaccine supplies in the planet, in many cases much more than they even need, while the rest of the world goes without.  One of the features of the fallen consciousness is that it thinks that you can hurt others without actually hurting yourself.  What we are seeing with the vaccine apartheid is that as the rich nations grab for themselves all the vaccines, we are giving the virus time to mutate and form other variants that are then going to prolong the pandemic and maybe even eventually render the vaccines we currently have useless.  If only we could distribute the vaccines more equitably around the globe, we could significantly slow down the spread of the virus and its ability to mutate.

I hope you are now starting to see what the fallen consciousness is.  Its not just one thing, its many things.  It’s a way of thinking that says some people are better than others, some people are more deserving than others, there is not enough for everyone, I can hurt others without hurting myself, etc.  If you feed enough of this way of thinking into the system, then you end up with the world we live in today.  The world we live in is a reflection of the fallen consciousness, it is a reflection of what we have been feeding into the system, knowingly or unknowingly.

The world we live in is a reflection of the fallen consciousness, it is a reflection of what we have been feeding into the system, knowingly or unknowingly.

I want to give a small analogy of how the fallen consciousness basically makes the world hell for everyone who lives in it.  Imagine there’s a giant wall and on the other side of the wall is paradise.  All humanity needs to do is come together and find a way that will enable everyone to climb over the wall into paradise.  Sounds easy enough, right?  But as everyone is busy thinking of how we could find a way for everyone to enter into paradise, a rumor begins circulating among the people.  The rumor says that actually, there’s not enough room for everyone in paradise.  Only some people will be able to go to paradise, not everyone.  Now, no one has actually been to paradise, so no one actually knows whether this is true or not.  But sooner or later, everyone starts believing that there is not enough room in paradise for everyone.  What starts happening is that some people give up on the idea of ever making it to paradise and decide to just make do with what is here on this side.  Some people even completely forget that they were trying to get to paradise and they just find other things to do and other ways of distracting themselves.  Soon, only half of the population is even trying to get into paradise.  This is the first level of the fallen consciousness.

Of the people that are now actively trying to get into paradise, suddenly another rumor starts circulating.  It seems that actually not everyone deserves to enter into paradise.  This becomes very confusing for many as its not clear exactly what this means.  Soon, many criteria start emerging as people try to determine who is worthy of entering into paradise and who is not.  Some say only a certain race deserves to enter, some say only a certain religion deserves to enter, some say only a certain gender, only a certain skin color, only a certain profession, only a certain sexual orientation, etc.  The criteria is really arbitrary and everyone tries to come up with their own version.  This causes a lot of tension as most people believe their criteria to be correct and reject everyone else’s criteria.  People start discreetly supporting the criteria they agree with while opposing the criteria they don’t agree with. Soon enough, laws have to be created which subtly and not so subtly support one criterion and then it becomes necessary to brutally enforce these laws because many people violently oppose the laws.  The curious thing about this particular level of the fallen consciousness is that many people can clearly see that this is unfair when the criteria works against them, but they are not able to see the unfairness when it works for them.  This is the second level of the fallen consciousness and as you can see it is a very chaotic system that keeps everyone very busy fighting and arguing about who is deserving and who is not and everyone tries to prove that they are deserving while at the same time trying to keep out those they consider not deserving to enter paradise. 

While everyone is busy trying to sort out the mess, about one percent of the population comes together and says look, it would be nice if all these people could get into paradise, but imagine how much nicer it would be if only we were in paradise.  We could basically have it all!  We would have so much that we would never again have to lack.  So, while everyone is busy fighting each other, why don’t we come up with a system that will allow only us to enter into paradise and leave out all these other dummies that are fighting amongst themselves?  The next level of the fallen consciousness is thus created.  Of course, this has to be well hidden from everyone else so that no one would know what is happening.  The one percent called this level capitalism, which is a clever way of disguising the fallen consciousness of greed (Boris Johnson the PM of the UK very eloquently confirmed this recently).  The one percent then got everyone to accept that indeed this is the best system, maybe even the only true system, it is based on meritocracy therefore guarantees that only the truly deserving can actually make it into paradise.  Capitalism therefore becomes the dominant way of thinking and everyone is fooled into agreeing that anything else is dangerous and false. 

As you can imagine, what was initially a simple task has now been transformed into the most impossible task imaginable.  Everyone apart from the one percent is now living in hell on earth and some start blaming god for creating such a messy situation.  If god was all powerful and all good they say, then he would never have allowed this to happen.  Therefore, the only conclusion is that either god doesn’t exist or he is not all powerful or he is not all good.  Of course, what they fail to realize is that god did not create the fallen consciousness that produced the mess.  The people themselves created the fallen consciousness and they fed it into the system and the system produced a result.  The only way out of the mess is to stop using the fallen consciousness and simply come up with a system that allows everyone to cross over into paradise.  Simple enough task, wouldn’t you say?

I hope this article helps you understand what the fallen consciousness is and enables you to see it in yourself and in others.  Obviously, the fallen consciousness comes in many shapes and forms but I hope you can now see how it runs through and affects everything in the world we live in.  My sincere hope is that we start realizing that the only way out of this mess is to create a just world in which the fallen consciousness has no place.