Love and consciousness
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4 - The world comes in layers
Human beings have a body and a soul. They see the world through two windows. They become conscious of the material world through their body. They become conscious of the immaterial world through their soul. Their body and their soul determine the limits of their consciousness.
That does not mean that, in the vast universe, you can only find souls with bodies. Some people use intuition. They could also use energy, time, space, and many things we are not aware of. Our Grandchildren may find, someday, that some planets are inhabited with souls who are in no hurry to get united with a human body, and we can’t blame them! As far as humans are concerned, we will limit our investigation to body and soul.
Our body:
It all started with only one cell. You could view this original cell as the Big Bang of your body. The contribution of our parents was limited to the introduction of a sperm cell to an ovum. What happened after that was completely out of their control. The mother cannot decide if she will have a boy or a girl. This is not the way to treat a woman. The first cell got divided in 2, 4, 8, 16… Those cells knew how to grow and multiply. The result is a human body that is much more complicated than anything a human brain could conceive.
-30000 to 50000 different proteins.
-60000 different kinds of toxins.
-Between 75000 and 100000 genes.
-More than one million different kinds of bacteria are in our mouth alone.
-10 million different types of blood cells.
-Trillions of cells are organized in groups within groups and reacting with other groups.
-Every second, our body completes about 500 trillion faultless copies of hemoglobin, a protein containing 10000 atoms in 574 amino acids.
-Number of organisms in the digestive system: 100 000 000 000 000.
and much more...
All this is done without any help from the brain. We are not even conscious of it.
Nothing in the human body was created by the human brain.
The human body is not created once and for all. Every cell in our body is renewed approximately 10 times per year. Even our skeleton is renewed every 3 months and replaced by a new one that is not as good, and we don‘t know why. Scientists say that the atoms of our bodies are eternal. You may question the experience our scientists have of eternity. Those atoms have their own cycles, such as the water and nitrogen cycles. The human body is made up of a deviation in the cycles of many millions of atoms, and we don’t know how the traffic is regulated.
Our body comes equipped with sense organs. We would not have survived on planet Earth for more than 300 000 years without eyes to see, ears to hear, and a nose to smell.
Our main sense organ is our eyesight. It is far from perfect. It is limited between red and violet. We can’t see the infrared and the ultraviolet. Our hearing is better. We can hear 7 or 8 octaves. However, any dog can hear and smell better than humans. There is also a sense of touch and a sense of taste. The purpose of all those senses is to send information to the brain. It was a good idea to place them in the head, close to the brain. This speeds up our reactions in case of danger. We also have more senses, such as temperature and balance. Their purpose is to send messages to the brain and make us conscious of our environment.
Our soul
It is in the soul that you will find what is most important in one’s life, such as thinking, will, freedom, love, feelings, emotions, and imagination. Whatever does not have shape, color, or weight, and cannot be measured, is in the soul. Unfortunately, we don’t have sense organs in the world of the soul.
What is most important in our life is in our soul,
But our sense organs are in our body.
This design could use some improvements, but it is too late for a recall.
Our love life starts with Puberty. After years of preparation comes the grand opening. The world around us has not changed, but everything is different. Our body is fully developed. We have reached adulthood! There is nothing more to be discovered. We have found a way out of our isolation. We have reached freedom! We are ready to vote and change the world!
We will soon discover that puberty is not a final answer. It is only the beginning. If something so important can happen to the body, something important can also happen to the soul. What transforms a child’s soul into an adult’s soul? Is it an increase in consciousness? For instance, we become aware that the world’s population is divided into two categories. One is more familiar.
The human consciousness is limited:
As we explore our extended domain of consciousness, we discover its limits.
-Are we conscious of ‘life’? Can we tell the difference between a cat sleeping on the sofa and a stuffed cat? No. We can’t! We need to see movement to distinguish between them. We know by experience that life brings movement.
We are conscious of the consequences of life but not life itself.
-Are we conscious of heat? Do we get burned sometimes? Blisters are the consequence of too much heat. Our body can tell us about the consequences of too much or not enough heat. We don’t have a sense organ making us directly conscious of heat. We have to wait for the consequences.
-Animals know which food is good for them and which is not. We can’t differentiate between the good mushrooms and those that will kill us.
-Are we conscious of love? Are we limited to some consequences, such as sexual attraction?
Could the same limitations also apply to freedom, harmony, nutrition, will, and happiness? Everywhere we turn, we face a need to push the envelope of human consciousness.
Human evolution is accelerating.
The decline of the Roman Empire took 400 years. Today, we can observe a country rise and decline within a single century. Our world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In less than a century, we went from using electricity to computers and AI. The world we live in may sound like the Stone Age to our grandchildren. This is a problem our ancestors did not have. The Homo sapiens (that’s us) have been on planet Earth for more than 300 000 years. It is only in the last 200 years that we have started to remodel our environment. What prevented our ancestors from inventing computers, cars, planes, the use of electricity, AI, and going to the moon 100 000 years ago? Did they need a long period of preparation before a sudden change, like it takes us years to be ready for puberty?
Human consciousness can be amplified.
In the 21st century, we have a choice.
-We can live like our ancestors and ignore the warning from puberty and let things happen as they may.
-We can also push the envelope of our consciousness and become a willing participant in our own evolution.
We can do with consciousness what our ancestors did with food. They saw seeds falling on the ground and producing more seeds. That gave them the idea of saving some seeds and planting them later at the right time and place. That was the beginning of agriculture. We can use the same idea and amplify the limited consciousness that nature gave us. Humanity could get divided between those who have expanded their level of consciousness and become willing participants in their own evolution and those who have not. That could make the atomic bomb obsolete.
We talk about love with the same determination a farmer has for rain: “I need it, I want it, and I deserve it. It’s my turn, and I should have more. This is simply unfair!”
We often discuss love as if it were a tangible object, something with a specific shape, color, and weight. However, love is not an object that can be taken to a lab for scientific experimentation. It exists beyond the realm of science, where logic may not always apply.
Young children were asked what the word “love” means to them. A 6-year-old girl said,” Love is when the woman wears perfume, and the man wears aftershave, and they smell each other”.
We need to change the way we perceive love. When your children come to you, curious about what love truly is, how will you respond? Will you tell them that people exist in society like eggs nestled in an egg carton—carefully lined up and seemingly together, yet devoid of real connection? Each individual may appear secure in their compartment, but deep down, they yearn for the warmth and intimacy that would break the barriers of their solitude, hoping that someday love will reach out and rescue them from their isolation.
Our first encounter with love is puberty. It is only a start.
1 - Introduction
1 - Introduction 2 - Puberty 3 - Back to the beginning 4 - The world comes in layers 5 - The glass ceiling 6 - Human thinking 7 - Sadomasochism 8 - Human motivation 9 - We need a better way to use our brain 10 - What we learned from the material world.
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A - Robert to Helena B- Helena to Robert C - Robert to Helena D- Helena to Robert E- Robert to Helena F- Helena to Robert G-Robert to Helena H- Helena to Robert I- Robert to Helana J- Helenat o Robert
Puberty
