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We,The People, are not happy
1-2 Money
We have a body and a soul. That gives us two channels of communication with the world around us.
Our body is made of matter. It is our connection with the material world where everything has a weight, a color, a shape. Everything in this domain can be measured and we can make experiments. It is the domain of predilection of science. It is where you find our basic needs for food and shelter. This basic need applies to everybody, humans, animals and even plants. The first million you make (in any currency) goes to food and shelter. It is the most important use of money. The next million is not as useful as the first one. The more money you make, the less useful it becomes. The same idea applies to nations. The second billionaire is not as useful as the first one. Too many of them are a waste of money. The basic idea is “Use but don’t abuse”.
The souls domain is more complicated. This is where you find what is more important in our lives such as ideas, feelings, consciousness, happiness and love. They don’t have shape, color or weight. We cannot make experiments. Our soul’s domain requires a different way of thinking. In Nature, an organism starts with one cell and this cell knows how to divide and reproduce. This is beyond the possibilities of the human brain. We cannot make a robot by placing one cell on top of a stack of steel, copper, plastic, aluminum and letting this cell use the raw material to make the robot. Our soul’s domain is our next frontier. We have to make every part ourselves and put the parts together. We don’t really create. We only use what was created and put pieces together.
Our soul’s domain is our next frontier
There must be a connection between body and soul, but we are not sure what it is. Could our health influence the way we think? It is confusing. We could drink our coffee alone, but we prefer to go to a store and be surrounded by many people also drinking coffee. So far, so good. We also bring our computer to be sure that nobody will talk to us. Go figure! The News is telling us about politicians making decisions about the economy. You cannot blame them for being confused. They were not selected for their expertise in economy.
Animals fight for food and shelter and a way to reproduce. In animals it is called Instinct. Humans share the same needs, but they also have thinking and logic. People in advertising found a common motivation between the way men buy a car and women buy a dress. Their decision is based on instinct, and they use thinking later, to justify their choice. Confusion! Confusion!
Let’s see if we could reduce the level of confusion in our lives. That would save a lot of time and energy.
Our lives have changed a lot in the past 200 years. Our grandparents did not have TV, telephones, cars, planes, rockets, vaccines, MRI, computers, satellites, the internet, and the atomic bombs. Historians will say that after 300 000 years on planet Earth, the Homo sapiens (that’s us) are waking up. How come those Homo sapiens did not think of that long ago? Imagine what our lives would be like if our ancestors had invented the computer 200 000 years ago! If we could do it again, what would we change in our grandparents’ lives? Should we tell them, “Instead of fighting like dogs in WWI and WWII and destroying everything, you’d better stay home, take care of your wife and children, and build a better world.” Can we be sure that our children will approve of the world they inherit from us? Our latest invention is AI. Many jobs will disappear. We are moving from “I am the master of my ship” to “I am trying to master the wind blowing in my sails.” We can’t rely on the media to give us the information we need. We want a general view of our future. They give us details about the past.
More than eight billion people are wondering what they are doing on Earth. If so many share the same question, there must be a common answer that is independent of race, gender, age, and religion that everyone can agree upon. No one can claim to have the final answer. Let’s try to develop a broad, open-minded view of human life on Earth. The best way is to put ourselves in the shoes of one of those visitors from another planet who are supposed to come and visit us at any time. Mother Nature knows what she is doing. She must have a good reason to keep us alive for so long. We must fit somewhere in the universe. For instance, Aliens could tell us, “Your body was designed to live 120 to 140 years. Your medicine and better hygiene have prolonged your life from 30 to 80 years. That’s 50 years of progress. That’s good, but don’t forget that you are only halfway!”
1 - Foreword
An Alien looking at planet Earth through his telescope would see 8 billion individuals moving around like ants. He may be wondering what the cause of all this animation could be. We need food and shelter. That does not explain everything. A couple of centuries ago, approximately 85% of the population was comprised of farmers. Today, they represent less than 5% of the population. We should be free from basic needs 80% of the time. What keeps us so busy?
We have long-term and short-term motivations.
The human body is high maintenance. It must be fed three times a day. It must be kept at the right temperature at all times. It doesn’t smell good unless we keep washing it regularly. We don’t know what happens during our 8 hours of sleep. Even if you spend one hour a day keeping your body in working order, you should have more than 14 hours of leisure per day. Something is missing somewhere.
Behind the short-term motivation of the individual lies the long-term motivation of a society. Civilizations appear and fade away like flowers bloom and wither. We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization, followed by the Greek and Roman cultures. More recently, in the 15th century, Portugal was the leader of Europe. In the 16th century, Spain was the leading power, followed by the Netherlands, France, and England. All those countries seemed to follow the same process. The individuals who lived at the time were not conscious that they served the same purpose. We are not separate individuals. We are a flow of people like a river running across the centuries. We serve a purpose, consciously or not. Something is missing in our understanding of life. Sooner or later, we stop what we are doing and ask ourselves:” What is the purpose of all this? What am I doing here? Is it worth it?” Earth may not be hell, but it is not a paradise either. It looks more like purgatory.
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To answer the question of “What are we doing on Earth?”, some people use religion. Others decided that they will be happy when they have enough money or become famous. We are all looking for love. The problem is that we don’t know where to look. Looking for love cannot be a daily activity.
How is motivation implemented in Nature?
Let’s take a labyrinth.
At first, we sent water to fill the labyrinth. It filled all the dead ends and found its way to the exit. Water is driven by gravity.
The next step is to replace the water with slime mold. It is this gluey thing spreading on dead trees in the forest. It has no head and no brain. However, it is used to improve our computers because it can solve problems faster than we can. The slime mold will fill all the dead ends of the labyrinth. It will also reach the exit. After reaching its goal, the slime mold will remove what is filling the dead ends and could be put to better use elsewhere. Slime mold is motivated by the search for food.
Now, let’s place humans at the entrance of the labyrinth. They are not driven by gravity. They are not looking for food. They lack real motivation. They may not find the exit. Motivation could be the key to success. It lacks shape, color, or weight. You will not find it in the material world. The key to success is in our souls.
Love could be the leading motivation in our lives. Unfortunately, we don’t have the necessary sense organs to guide our search. All we know is that we will not find it in money or in the material world. The answer will come from our soul and our motivation.
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14 From Helena to Robert Check the NDE
What was the reaction of your friends when you told them about love? Keep in mind that your friends are in a dark cave, and you don’t even know, yourself, how you got out of that cave.
Fortunately, there is a way out of our predicament. Our consciousness may be limited, but it can be amplified. We have been working on that problem for a long time already. To love people is to be conscious of them. It is more than being mindful of their presence. It is being conscious of their state of mind. You find this between a mother and her baby. She knows why the baby is crying. No need for words and reasoning. She is conscious of what needs to be done. Between adults, you may not know the details of their past, but you are conscious of the influence that their past had on their soul.
You can get some idea of what an increased consciousness is like by talking to people who have gone through a near-death experience. Many of them have new abilities that they kept after this experience. The most common one is that they know what people around them are thinking. Be careful of what you are thinking if you go to one of their meetings. (There is one every month in most big cities.) If you see a big nose, try to think, “What beautiful hair”. You are swimming in increased consciousness. They may be aware of something about you that you forgot. Search ‘Near Death Experience’ and you will find hundreds of people of all ages who have surprising stories. Most of the time, it happened during surgery. This is not something I would recommend! We say that they lost consciousness. I would rather say that they were not conscious of their physical body. Do we need a physical body to be conscious? This is not on my list of sense organs.
What happened to both of us is that we became conscious of one another. After a big hug, there is not much more to talk about. This is what could help your friends.
15- From Robert to Helena – Critical mass
Helena, I keep thinking of what transformed our relationship. The only explanation I could find comes from the atomic bomb! No mathematics. I promise!
Take a small sphere of radioactive material. The energy generated varies with the volume of the sphere (4/3π R³). The energy lost varies with the surface area (4πr²). As you increase the size of the sphere, the volume increases faster than the surface area. You reach a point where there is more energy generated than energy lost. You have an explosion. This is called “the critical mass.”
Are you still there? Something similar could happen to people. As long as they are separated, nothing much happens. It is only when they get together that they can reach a certain “human critical mass”. The problem is that there may not be enough energy between the two of them to reach that point.
The idea is simple but difficult to believe. Look at the people around you. Each one can generate some love, but not enough to elevate himself to another level. Take two of them at random, and most of the time, their total energy is too small to reach the ‘critical mass’.
Let’s see what could be missing in many people. One possibility is that they are still attached to the material world. They cannot detach themselves from their own body. Most people struggle to make the transition from being a separate individual to becoming half of a couple.
Another possibility is a lack of freedom. Love and freedom come together. When I was a teenager, I was saving my money to buy a record player. Thanks to inflation, the price of the record player increased faster than my savings. It was a race I could not win. Soon after I abandoned any hope, a neighbor bought himself a new record player and gave me the old one. It seemed to me that renouncing reaching a goal in a specific way opens the possibility that it can be reached another way. By detaching myself from using my savings, I introduced freedom into the system. That opened new possibilities.
The general idea is that many people are still prisoners in Plato’s cave. The more knowledge they acquire in the material world, the more they become prisoners of that knowledge. It is more difficult for a surgeon to change professions than it is for a blue-collar worker.
Before you dismiss my critical mass as a crazy idea, let me tell you how it can also be found in human history. The homo sapiens have been on Planet Earth for more than 300,000 years. How come nothing much has happened until the last two centuries? How come the steam engine, the planes, GPS, the computers, and AI did not appear 100 000 years ago? The answer could be that humans were dispersed on the surface of the Earth. There was too much distance between them. The invention of agriculture allowed people to move to cities. Over the past 200 years, the population of cities has continued to increase. A computer is composed of millions of simple ideas contributed by millions of different people. The computer made the internet possible, which further enhanced communication between individuals. More and more brains are becoming increasingly interconnected. That should lead to human beings achieving their critical mass and a higher level of consciousness.
Helena, I predict that more and more people will find their puberty of the soul together.
I would go even further. We will become conscious that Homo sapiens is the seventh stage of human evolution. It is not a question of selecting one race or one religion. Dividing the world’s population into countries fighting one another does not make sense. Either the seventh attempt of Homo sapiens will succeed, or they will disappear from the Earth’s surface like the dinosaurs.
Instead of fighting one another, we’d better unite and look for a way to get out of Plato’s cave. The love between two human beings is pointing in the right direction.