Khabira and Lokesh, you fail to understand the differences between consciousness, unconsciousness, and (sick or healthy) mind. If you had the opportunity to chat with a great tyrant, you will find them extremely lucid, and I would say of reasonably high consciousness. Yes they may be able to hypnotize the unconscious masses into war, but they themselves are not part of this deep unconsciousness. It is not their consciousness that is the problem, it is their mind. They are in the possession of a sick mind.
If you have a thought like let’s say “wouldn’t it be nice to kill someone”, then as a normal, sane person you would view this thought as a bad idea and as coming from your repressed bundle of unconscious anger. However if this thought repeatedly pushes into your consciousness, and in the right (read that as wrong) social environment, one day you may have that thought and decide to give it a positive rather than negative judgement. Then it belongs in your consciousness and then a psychopath or serial killer is born.
Of course the more conscious (or meditative) a person is the less likely this is to happen. Also, as you rightly point out, the more conscious (or meditative) a person becomes, the greater the chance of the sick mind becoming healed. In other words, a separate consciousness will be able to witness the rage and the thought “wouldn’t it be nice to kill someone”. The rage dissipates and the thought loses its life force. When you become less identified with this, as you rightly point out, you as ego are no longer attached to (or positively identified with) this ‘evil’. The so called ‘evil’ will have less potency, and be drawn back to where it belongs in the unconscious. Hopefully this person continues to grow in awareness and remains in a nurturing environment. Then the process will never happen again.
Just have a look at Sheela. She is highly conscious. She was for a time a caring and sensitive being. She is now in a caring and sensitive role of looking after the terminally ill (or the dying or whatever). Yet this women poisoned, conspired to murder, and attempted to murder. It is not her consciousness that is the problem. It was her mind. I hope that no longer is the case. I sincerely hope that it is not the case for the current people in powerful posts within the Osho movement, despite it looking to the contrary.
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