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The puberty of the soul

We The people are not happy

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The puberty of the soul

Level of Happiness

1 Finland

2 Denmark

3 Iceland

4 Sweden

5 Israel

6 Netherland

7 Norway

8 Luxembourg

9 Switzerland

10 Australia

11 New Zealand

12 Costa Rica

13 Kuwait

14 Austria

15 Canada

16 Belgium

20 United Kingdom

Level of Happiness

1 Finland

2 Denmark

3 Iceland

4 Sweden

5 Israel

6 Netherland

7 Norway

8 Luxembourg

9 Switzerland

10 Australia

11 New Zealand

12 Costa Rica

13 Kuwait

14 Austria

15 Canada

16 Belgium

20 United Kingdom

23 United States

24 Germany

27 France

41 Italy

51 Japan

72 Russia

126 India

GDP per capita

1 Luxembourg

2 Switzerland

3 Ireland

5 Norway

6 Iceland

7 United States

8 Qatar

9 Denmark

10 Netherland

11 Australia

12 San Marino

13 Austria

14 Sweden

15 Belgium

16 Germany

17 Finland

18 Canada

19 Hong Kong

20 Israel

21 United Kingdom

22 France

36 Japan

67 Russia

72 China

143 India

We are not human beings

having a spiritual experience.

We are spiritual beings

having a human experience.

Teillard De Chardin

The human body is built to last around 120 years. Jeanne Louise Calment lived for 122 years and 164 days, from February 21, 1875, to August 4, 1997.

We could say that medicine and better hygiene have increased our life expectancy from 40 to 80 years. We have 40 more years to go. We are halfway. The goal is to die in good health, like a candle burning all the way to the end. That’s not going to be easy!

Our life is based on the idea that a good night’s sleep is important,

But what happens during that time does not matter.

Go figure!

Nature also offers a transition between sleep and wakefulness.

While falling asleep, we experience “HYPNAGOGIA”. It is a period when we are both half awake and half asleep. We are partially conscious and partially unconscious.

While waking up, we go through “HYPNOPOMPIA”. It would be the most enjoyable part of the day if the alarm clock didn’t ruin it.

These two transition periods provide a chance to improve communication between being awake and asleep. They serve as a link between our limited consciousness and full awareness. They offer a possibility to help us escape Plato’s cave.

We can amplify

We know that we can go to bed with a problem and wake up with a solution. We carried our problem through our Hypnagogia. We solved it at night using unlimited thinking. The solution made it through our hypnopompic. The process can work, but it has significant limitations. It reminds us of the beginning of our agriculture. We observed Nature burying some seeds to produce more seeds. We amplified the process and developed what became our agriculture.

We can handle ideas the way agriculture handles seeds. We want to create a transition between our material thinking during the day and our immaterial thinking at night. What matters most in our lives does not have a shape, a weight, or a color, and cannot be measured. This is what we need to focus on as we move from wakefulness to sleep..

Progress can be slow at the start, like farming. We might wake up with ideas that we quickly forget, just like forgetting our dreams. We can’t wait until after breakfast to jot them down. We also have to act on them. It’s like receiving mail in your mailbox—no more mail will arrive unless you clear it out every day.

It’s a question of persistence. It begins as a small drip. As the drip intensifies, the transition periods will grow longer. You are developing senses that have been ignored. You are training your neurons, just like computers are developing A.I. Both follow the same evolutionary path. We made ships bigger and bigger until transatlantic crossings were replaced with planes. A.I. could move from large corporations to individual minds.

Instead of looking at our body in a mirror

We may soon be looking at a screen

where AI will show our soul.

Instead of looking at our body in a mirror

We may soon be looking at a screen

where AI will show our soul.

What happens when we are asleep?

Instead of looking at our body in a mirror we may soon be looking at a screen where AI will show our soul.

He who looks inside wakes up,

He who looks outside dreams

Carl Jung

Could signals from our senses be replaced by signals from dark matter and dark energy? Do we experience a higher state of consciousness and greater freedom? Is it during our sleep that we are truly awake?

We understood that nature around us was far more complex than anything the human brain could grasp. We recognized that our perception of the world was limited by the information we received through our senses. We never expected it to be this bad. Planet Earth can be beautiful, but it is also a prison. A beautiful jail, but still a jail.

How would you react if your partner vanished for 25 years and then came back, saying he didn’t remember where he went or what he did?

This is what we spend one-third of our lives doing. The only reason it’s accepted in our society is because we all do it daily, in small portions, at the same time. The question remains: What occurs during 8 hours a day?

We assume that our lives are limited to what we are aware of. We should accept that at night, we are not mindful of what happens during the day; therefore, what occurs during the day doesn’t matter when we are asleep. Just because that sounds logical doesn’t mean it’s the right path to follow. It would lead to dividing our lives into two, fighting against each other. We’d be better off trying to cooperate.

We know that every evening, we leave our body in bed, much like we leave the car in the garage, and the driver is set free. The body is kept at the right temperature, with no noise or light. We want to prevent any signals from the sense organs from reaching the brain. This is strange. During the day, our lives are governed by the signals received from our sense organs. How can we live without them? Are we dead or alive when we are asleep?

Scientists have experiments showing that there is always some activity occurring in the brain. There is life, but this life does not use our sense organs. Scientists also have good reasons to believe that our brain utilizes 20% of the energy obtained from our food. How do we use all that energy without moving our bodies? Some brains should have been cremated long ago!

If the body doesn’t use all that energy, it could be utilized by the soul. During the day, our soul is immersed in the physical body. Our lives are controlled by signals from our sense organs. At night, our soul is free from the sense organs. Instead of seeing each other’s bodies, we might have direct access to each other’s souls. Every morning, the soul returns to her body, gets dressed, and goes to work!

Under those conditions, the body would be nothing more than a tool for the soul, used to gather energy from the material world and transfer it to the soul.

2-4 An Alien point of view

The human body is much more complex than anything a human brain could imagine.

From 30000 to 50000 different proteins.
60000 different toxins.
From 75000 to 100000 genes.
More than one million different kinds of bacteria are in your mouth alone.
10 million different types of blood cells
The human body has 30 to 40 trillion cells.
Trillions of cells are organized in groups within groups and reacting with other groups.
Every second, our body makes about 500 trillion perfect copies of hemoglobin, a protein with 10,000 atoms in 574 amino acids.
The number of organisms in the digestive system is: 100 000 000 000 000.

Our body is way above our head -)

We don’t even fully understand what happens inside our own bodies. We don’t know all the chemistry needed to digest a simple meal. We don’t know what occurs to our bodies during the eight hours we are asleep.

What is happening is more than just regular maintenance. There is some creation at play.

Removing 75% of a liver enables the body to fully regenerate the entire liver.

The human body is incredible, but its brain can be a disappointment. You cannot compare a human brain with the complexity of a body that makes 500 trillion perfect copies of hemoglobin, a protein made of 574 amino acids and 10,000 atoms.

Before claiming that humans will dominate the universe, it would be good to keep in mind that modern humans are 98.8% genetically similar to chimpanzees, 75% to chickens, and 60% to banana trees. Click here for details.

2-1 The human body

2-7 Plato's cave

2-8 To sleep or not

2-2 The human brain

2-9 NDE

2-13 Puberty of the soul

2-3 Not very smart

2-10 Fractals Opposites

2-4 Alien opinion

2-11 New way of thinking

2-14 Homo sapiens UNITE

2-5 World in layers

2-12 Happiness as guide

2-6 Glass ceiling

2.1 The human body

It is so complex that we had to divide our medical field into over 100 specialties, including Urology, Neurology, Cardiology, Ophthalmology, Pathology, and many others.
How did we end up with such a complex body? Do we deserve it? Is it a mistake?

The human body is made of a detour in the cycles of atoms.
Our body cells are replaced about 10 times a year. Even the calcium in our bones is renewed every three months. Why do we keep discarding healthy skeletons and replacing them with weaker ones? It makes sense to build a strong skeleton when we are young and maintain it throughout our lives. Nobody is perfect! Who manages the traffic of all those cells moving in and out? Before becoming part of your skeleton, this calcium might have been in an eggshell. It could be headed to a sardine in the ocean. Have you ever wondered how your body manages to move all those atoms to the right places at the right times?
Calcium is just one of the 60 minerals our body needs. Our skin renews itself every 4 to 5 weeks. Every second, our bodies produce about 20 million new cells to replace the old ones. Without humans, these atoms would follow their natural cycles. There’s no reason to believe they would miss a detour in a human body!
Everybody relates to the rest of the universe through the cycles of the atoms. We are never alone.
And there’s more. We might need to rethink how we see our environment. A tree is more than a piece of wood. It is part of the carbon cycle. That takes time. We cannot isolate the tree from time. We cannot look at a tree like we would look at a picture of a film. That would be misleading. The image of a horse jumping over a fence doesn’t mean that horses can fly.
We don’t know where those atoms originate and where they are going.
That should keep us humble.

Scientists assume that atoms are immortal. You might want to question the experience our scientists have with immortality.
The human body is high maintenance.
It needs to be fed three times a day. It must always be kept at the proper temperature. It doesn’t smell good unless it is washed regularly. Hair and nails need to be trimmed periodically. We must take this body to the dentist, the doctor, and the eye doctor. All we can hope for after all this tender loving care is that it doesn’t hurt!
You might wonder why a soul would choose to connect with such a body - even if only briefly.

2.2 The human brain

What is the origin of human thinking?

Let’s assume that the Big Bang released a certain amount of thinking. This is a limited genetic trait to be shared among humans. What do you think will happen as the world population increases? Every individual share would shrink. Such a theory isn’t the best way to make friends.

Another possibility is that thinking on Earth increases proportionally with the human population. That would imply we can generate thinking out of thin air. A middle ground between these two extremes is that human thinking results from a complex process far beyond our understanding.

To evaluate our thinking, we compare ourselves with other animals. That’s cheating. We should compare the development of our brains with the development of the rest of our bodies. That would make us very humble.

We hoped that mathematics could help. It can provide a shortcut around reasoning. At the core of mathematical logic, there is a formula. If you know the formula, you don’t need the reasoning. To find the surface of a rectangle, you only need to remember that it is multiplication. Nobody will ask you why. Mathematics can be used to avoid reasoning. Of course, someone had to find the formula. We call him a genius and put his name in the dictionary. This is our way of protecting our ego.

There must be a way to explain the discrepancy between our mind and our body?

One explanation might come from our history. When an animal detects danger, it knows how to react. Birds fly away, zebras run, fish swim. When a human perceives a threat, he may hesitate between different responses. Should he hide? Run away? Call for help? Throw stones? Climb a tree? We insert thinking between the danger and our response. That takes time! A fraction of a second could mean the difference between survival and becoming a meal. The more you think, the lower your chances of survival. Eliminating the most capable thinkers for millions of years before they had a chance to reproduce lowers the average IQ of the population. We are the survivors because we are the ones who are less thoughtful. Homo sapiens survived because of their limited thinking!

Can we rely on human thinking?

Scientists admit that our thinking isn’t always reliable. They insist that everything be confirmed through experiments. They require Nature’s approval. They argue that we should examine the facts and use our reasoning. Why connect reliable facts with flawed thinking that might cause chaos? Does that make sense? We expect A.I. to improve human thinking. Is that reasonable? How can we be sure that we no longer need Nature’s approval? We don’t want to repeat with AI the mistake we made with money. We don’t want to create a servant that can become our master.

Let’s assume the first aliens we meet are friendly and understanding. They’re even willing to help. The conversation might go like this.

“You started by using stones to make tools to go hunting. That kept you busy for thousands of years. After trying to master the level of matter, you are now trying to master the level of the plants. You watched seeds falling to the ground and go to waste. You realized that you could get more food by collecting the seeds and planting them in the right spots. That was the beginning of your agriculture. It was a good idea, but it took you more than 200,000 years. Without your big ego, you would have said: “How come it took us so long to get such a simple idea! We must not be very bright!”
We have observed humans for many centuries. There is something about you that we do not understand. For example, you cannot accept the idea that something bigger than yourself can be alive. You don’t have an issue with viruses, microbes, bacteria, fish, cats, and dogs being alive. Yet, you cannot accept the possibility that life may also exist on planets, in solar systems, and in galaxies. You see nothing more than a collection of raw materials on other planets. How can you be so blind! We know that your vision is limited to the range between red and violet. This is not an excuse!

Something else: You don’t know which food is safe or which mushrooms will poison you. All animals instinctively know what to eat. This is basic. How come humans don’t have that?

We cannot understand that you want to live in society and remain isolated at the same time. How do you explain that you would rather have a cup of coffee in a busy place and use your computer to avoid real contact with others?

What’s the matter with all the fights that you have all the time? We can understand that you must eliminate your microbes to stay healthy. That’s okay. Wherever there is life, species compete for survival. Changes and renewals are necessary. In spring, trees grow new leaves. They fall in autumn and grow again the following year. We can understand building cities and tearing them down before rebuilding new ones. But that doesn’t explain why you kill each other. Could there be a disconnect between your thinking and your feelings? Making atomic or biological weapons requires a lot of thinking but no feelings. On the contrary, feelings would get in the way.

Don’t you know that thinking needs to be guided by feelings?

You are not the kind of neighbors we like to have. Not only do you pollute your air and water, but you also send your plastic all the way to the bottom of the oceans. There is no limit to your careless behavior. Before you arrived, planet Earth had blue skies, clear water, and no need for dumps. A little paradise! If you truly want to do something to save the Earth, you should consider moving to another planet. There are millions at your disposal. There must be some already covered with trash where you would feel at home.

2-3 We are not as smart as we think

We cherish the idea that human thinking will enable us to dominate the universe, reaching even the galaxies we have never seen. This might be wishful thinking!

Let’s start with a simple question.

If Marie’s daughter has a son, what is Marie’s relationship to the father of this grandson?

No math. No calculations. This is a straightforward question about family relationships. How does that make you feel?

Another example of our limited thinking:

• We take a series of coins. We line them up and number them 1, 2, 3, 4… all heads up.

• We flip the coins 2, 4, 6… and all the multiples of 2.

• We flip the coins 3, 6, 9, 12… and all the multiples of 3.

Which coins that are still head up?

No need for complex calculations. Some simple reasoning will suffice.

The slime molds

While walking through a forest, you might see old logs covered with a yellow coating. These are slime molds. They could change how we think about ‘intelligence’. They are at the limit between plants, animals, and fungi. They don’t have a brain or a head, yet they can solve some problems better than we can. We use their ‘intelligence’ to improve our computers. One day, they might become a crucial part of robots. Imagine robots without a brain doing things we can’t do ourselves. They could tell us in a millisecond that Marie is the stepmother of the son’s father.

Slime molds might say:

“People solve problems by thinking about them. They build ideas on top of ideas. Eventually, they require the most powerful computers to handle a problem that we can solve very easily without even thinking about it.”

Should we accept the idea that there could be a better way to solve problems than relying on human thinking?

We, The People, won’t let a slime tell us what to do. We have an answer:

“Slimes don’t communicate with each other. They don’t understand writing or music. There are many things they can’t even imagine. They ignore everything outside their area of expertise. They are specialists in a certain field, but their scope is limited. Every plant and animal could be filling a slot within nature’s endless realm of knowledge. Why does nature make flowers grow on top of a mountain where no one can see them? The answer could be that “There was a place for a little domain of possibilities on top of that mountain.”

Children seem to understand all of this. They don’t rely on logic. They are smart. They sing, dance, draw, paint, and shape objects with modeling clay. They know that what is important in life isn’t always visible. They could highlight the significance of certain parts of our lives that we tend to overlook.

We need schools where parents can go

and learn from their children how to reawaken their imagination!

Fortunately, mathematics offers more than just skills. It serves as a way to free your mind from the material world. Once we learn to count, we can count anything—from our fingers to the number of people in a room, the stars in the sky, or particles so tiny that the eye cannot see them. Mathematics is a means of going beyond the limitations of the physical body. It can expand our understanding of nature.

Humans have a role in the world. They are fulfilling a natural purpose. The duck, the slime, humans, and the rest of creation share one thing: They underestimate what they are unaware of.

We built computers. This is an achievement we can be proud of. Could it be a proof of our advanced thinking?

Maybe not! Computers are made of millions of simple ideas contributed by many different people. That doesn’t mean the human brain improved the day we started making computers. It only shows that we needed many people to put together a multitude of simple ideas.

Computers follow the overall trend of human evolution. Our ancestors began by making tools to hunt. Those tools were simple objects. The next step was to build machines with many parts. With computers, we continue to move from the physical world to the digital one. With AI, we are moving even further in the same direction. Humans are distancing themselves from the material world. What could be our next step? The development of feelings?

Every child is an artist

The problem is how to remain

An artist once he grows up

Pablo Picasso

Hypnotism

The hypnotist will say:

"We knew it. We warned you, but you didn’t listen. When we hypnotize people, we bypass their thinking. We can make them believe that they are in the middle of the ocean, pedaling on their bicycle.

Most of the day, your thoughts stay on the back burner. You spend 60% to 70% of your time on autopilot. This is what causes you to miss your exit on the freeway. Ask someone a question they don’t expect, and they will probably ask you to repeat it. He was on autopilot. He needed time to come back to Earth."

Not only is human thinking different from what we expected, but the way we use our brains also seems somewhat limited. It resembles demonstration software that lets us test before we get the password.

2-5 The world comes in layers

Level 1: Matter:

These are our raw materials. Physicists began with a list of 60 elements. Today, they probably have around 100 basic elements, to which we add all possible combinations of different atoms. At the matter level, there is no life, no feelings, no movement, nothing but eternity!

That can be misunderstood. Planet Earth is more than a collection of raw materials. We only see many combinations of basic elements. There is more to Planet Earth than matter.

Level 2: Plants:

You create plants by adding something essential to matter. Plants absorb energy from the sun to grow, produce seeds, and reproduce.

Without plants, there would not be food for animals and humans.

Level 3: Animals:

You reach the level of animals by adding movement to plants. Animals move by changing the shape of their bodies: some walk, some fly, some swim, and some run. That requires a brain, nerves, and muscles to change the shape of their body. We assume that there is life when we see movement. This is our criterion of life. That does not mean that everything that moves is alive. There is a lot of movement in the electrons of an atom. So far, we have not considered the electrons to be alive.

Level 4: Human beings:

They are made of matter. They have their own shape. They are moving. They also think. That does not mean that animals cannot think. The main difference is that human thinking is more developed.

We move from one level to the next by adding something important.

It is tempting to assume that there is nothing between God and us. Reality may be different.

Above us are some things that are important but hard to describe. Click “List of Angels in Theology”. You will find many levels above us that you didn’t expect. We named them Angels, Archangels, Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, and many others. What we know for sure is that the world around us consists of many separate layers, and there could be many layers above humans. We should expect to find as much difference between us and the next level above as there is between us and animals. We are on the 4th rung of a tall ladder with many more rungs to go.

What might the levels above us be made of? You may notice that what we add becomes less physical as we move from one level to the next. The level above humans could be entirely immaterial.

What is most important in our lives are ideas, love, feelings, and consciousness. They do not have a shape or a weight. Could the level above us be made of energy? Heat? Consciousness? Love? Freedom? Could it be a level of souls without a body?

When searching for life on other planets, we look for a body. We search for water because here on Earth, bodies are made of 80% water. We limit our investigation to levels below human existence. We should not use the sky as a screen on which we project our own film. How can we be sure that the levels above us do not consist of energy, heat, or souls without a body?

We stand at the crossroads between material and immaterial worlds. We have a body and a soul. The time has come to break free from the limits of the physical realm and reach the next level beyond humankind.

We were taught in school that the world consists of matter, plants, animals, and humans. We naturally saw ourselves as being at the top and did not investigate any further.

Reality may be a bit more complicated. We are suspended between the infinitely small atoms and the vastness of the universe. This is not a very comfortable place to be for someone who pretends to dominate the universe.

2-6 Our glass ceiling

Homo sapiens (that’s us) have been on planet Earth for over 300 000 years. During that time, we believed that “reality” was limited to our planet Earth, our solar system, our galaxy, and anything we could see in the sky. We thought the universe was confined to what we were aware of. Modern science is pushing us out of our comfort zone.

The only way scientists could explain the trajectories of distant stars was to accept that 27% of the universe is made of “Dark Matter” and 68% is composed of “Dark energy.” This is our dark side!

Our material world accounts for only 5% of reality.

Telling people that they are prisoners of a small jail isn’t the best way to make friends. The media did not run big headlines like: “Give me my 95% or give me death.”

How can we pretend to understand our place in the world when we are only aware of 5% of reality? How can we find our way to the level above us? Let’s try two extrapolations.

First extrapolation:

We start with the three levels below us: matter, plants, and animals.

Everything begins with matter. It is our fundamental material.
We move from the level of matter to the level of plants by adding the ability to grow, to take a particular shape, to make seeds, and to reproduce.
We move from plants to animals by adding the ability to move. That may require nerves, muscles, and a brain to use them.
We move from animals to humans by adding the ability to think.

You will notice that what we are adding becomes less and less material as we move to higher levels. We started by adding something that has a shape, such as seeds. The next step was adding a modification of the previous shape. The last step was adding something immaterial that has no shape. We continue to utilize the possibilities of the earlier levels and introduce a new one that must be significant.

To reach the next step above us, we must add something immaterial.

Second extrapolation:

To control one level, we need access to the level above it.

How can you explain that water in the ground can defy gravity, rise into the air, and take a specific shape? You need access to the level of the plants to understand what happens to matter.
How can you explain that fruit trees can reproduce? You need bees and their pollination. You need access to the level of animals to understand the level of the plants.
The cow does not know what will happen after her death. The farmer does.

To dominate the human level, we need to access the level above us.

To dominate one level requires access to the next level above it.

We can infer from our two extrapolations that understanding the purpose of our life on Earth requires access to a higher level beyond humanity. That would require something greater than human thinking.

Getting access to the level above us

requires something that we don’t have.

This is our glass ceiling.

There is hope.

The different levels are not sealed. The best example is heat. It lacks shape, color, size, or weight. It does not belong to our material domain. However, it manifests itself in many aspects of our lives. Without heat, planet Earth would just be an icy rock. Heat belongs to the immaterial world. It manifests everywhere without attaching itself to our material world.

Another example is love.

We start with love at the highest level. It is the love of the universe. The next level is love embodied in a couple. At the lowest level, love is reduced to sexual attraction.

Another example is thinking.

Humans are not the only ones capable of thinking. The lion chasing a zebra must assess how fast, how long, and which way the zebra might run to escape. The lion might make smarter decisions than we do, even with our computers and GPS.

Another example is the molds.

They seem to have access to a limited yet powerful way of thinking.

It seems that Mother Nature has provided everyone with a way to improve. At every level, you can find some implementation of the level above as a stepping stone.

There is a current going through humanity.

There is a flow moving upward from matter to higher levels. This flow begins with the energy plants receive from the sun. We get this energy through our food and send about 20% of it to our brain. The sun’s energy reaches the physical level and cycles back to the human brain. This creates a cycle that starts above us and returns to that level. We can tap into this flow as we go upward.

2-7 Plato's allegory of the cave

Plato (428/347 BC) tells us that without philosophy, human life would be reduced to the life of a prisoner in a cave. We could go one step further by replacing philosophy with consciousness.

It was 23 centuries ago that Plato wrote his allegory of the cave. His main concern was the importance of philosophy in our lives. He also claimed to be the smartest man on Earth because he recognized how little he really knew. We can interpret this as an invitation to explore what lies beyond his allegory of the cave.

We only become aware of freedom when we experience it.

Plato’s message is ‘Get up and walk out of your cave.” That won’t be easy. The people in his cave didn’t accept the idea of a new reality. They resisted change, and so do we. Our challenge isn’t learning something new but abandoning old habits. Our newspapers didn’t run big headlines like ‘Let’s break our chains.” It will take time for us to accept that a door has opened to a new world.

Let us add another chapter to Plato’s allegory:

Plato has his explorer return to his cave to help his fellow men. That is very commendable, but let’s imagine a different ending. Suppose our explorer chooses to stay outside the cave. You can picture what happens. He meets a woman and falls in love. He becomes aware of new feelings and a different reality.

The woman made him aware of feelings he had not expected. He discovers that his first cave is inside a larger one, which itself is inside yet another bigger cave. We might say that he was climbing a staircase, and with each step up, his consciousness expanded.

Let's water the little seed.

Freedom, consciousness, and love were already planted in our explorer like seeds waiting to be watered. What happened inside him resembled what occurred around him in nature. Seeds are buried in the ground just as he was buried in his cave. If you don’t water the seeds, nothing grows. Nature waters them and makes them sprout. Seeds find the sunlight and thrive in a different world. It’s their new reality. Consciously or not, we keep watering little seeds buried in our subconscious. Pushing the boundaries of our consciousness is a source of happiness.

Every stress in our life is an opportunity to bring something to the surface that can help us overcome our problems. This is how we nurture our small seeds. This is how we find happiness.

Let's add another chapter to Plato's allegory:

The previous chapter introduced the concept of love between two people. Plato already understood what would follow. It is the ‘platonic’ love. That means a feeling of love that does not depend on another person. It is detached from the material world. It is the love of the entire universe! This love moves through the world like the wind passing through a tree—without becoming attached.

Living a human life involves nurturing seeds already deep within our souls, such as freedom, consciousness, and love. It is through developing them that we become aware of a new reality.

What Plato didn’t tell us is that we face a problem. We water everything: not only the seeds but also the weeds. Everything can grow in our garden—the good and the bad.

Plato encourages us to go beyond our limitations and seek freedom. He imagined people who spent their entire lives watching shadows on the wall in front of them. The shadows are their “reality.” One day, one of them is set free and able to leave the cave. He discovers the outside world and finds a new “reality,” a new freedom, and a new consciousness. It seems (to us and today) that freedom and consciousness go hand in hand. We can’t blame the people in the cave for not knowing about a freedom they had never experienced.

This is an illustration of Plato’s cave. What you see at the bottom left is a group of people. All they know of the universe is the shadows on the wall in front of them.

Let us try to extrapolate.

Humans have both a body and a soul. They view the universe through these two windows. It is within their soul that you find life, love, happiness, consciousness, and everything that has no shape, weight, or color. It is the realm of the immaterial.

Their bodies are their windows to the material world, where everything has weight and shape. This is what you see in Plato’s cave. To survive in Earth’s environment, the human body needs to see, hear, and smell. It requires sense organs. This is what happens to the people at the bottom left of the cave. They are only aware of what their eyes can perceive. Their sense organs limit their understanding. The shadows they see on the wall are restricted to red and violet. They are unaware of ultraviolet and infrared. The very sense organs that make them aware of their environment can also limit their knowledge of the universe. Their sense organs are their boundary. Their own body is their cave.

There is hope

Plato’s cave has an exit.

There is a chance that thinking could help us break free from our prison. We are told that our brain is constantly active, both day and night. Our brain might serve as a bridge between the material and immaterial worlds. Descartes might have said: “I think at night, therefore I am.”

We have two windows to the world: our body and our soul. Unfortunately, our sense organs mainly focus on our body, even though it is in our soul that we need them most. Relying solely on thinking would require human thinking to be perfect. Look around you. Are you certain that human thinking cannot be improved? Plato might have had a good reason to keep those people circling in their cage. The material world makes us aware of the laws of nature. Gravity will stay with us from cradle to grave. Any idea can be verified with an experiment. Mother Nature will always be there to guide our thinking. We need to spend time in the material world to educate our minds before we can explore the world of the soul.

We rely on the material world to develop our thinking, and we need thinking to enhance our consciousness.

2-8 To sleep or not to sleep

2-9 Near Death Experience

We could dismiss NDE (Near Death Experience) as Voodoo, but we need all the help we can get. Let’s be cautious and keep an open mind.

You can find this at many civic centers. About 50 people of all ages, men and women, dressed like everyday folks, with nothing religious or political about them. A speaker recounted what happened after he fell from a tree while trying to cut a dead branch. He was severely hurt and taken to the hospital for emergency surgery. That was completely unexpected in his life. He was a dentist. He thought his life was well organized and perfectly predictable.

He said that during the operation, his heart stopped beating. He had no blood pressure and was not breathing for more than 30 minutes. He was clinically dead. A doctor could have signed his death certificate and sent him to the morgue. Since the 1980s, surgeons have discovered ways to reanimate dead bodies and bring them back to life. We always believed that death was a one-way street. Apparently, the body and soul can be separated and rejoined. The man was not promoting a book or introducing a new faith. There was no hidden commercial motivation.

When the surgeon visited him at the hospital a couple of days later, his patient told him what happened while he was under anesthesia.

At one point during the operation, you told those around you in the operating room, ‘We are losing him!’ I was fully aware the whole time. I was above the operating table, hanging from the ceiling. At first, I didn’t realize that it was my body you were working on. I felt great — no more pain.

I could hear and understand everything people were saying in the operating room. You got impatient with your assistant, didn’t you? Not only could I listen to what everyone was saying, but I also knew what they wanted to say even before I heard their voices. I could guess what they were thinking. I could also move around the room. I only had to think of a specific place, and I was instantly transported there. That might sound ungrateful, but after a while, I got tired of watching you. I decided to explore other rooms in the hospital. It was easy. Without a body, there is nothing to stop you from passing through a wall and taking a look at what’s on the other side…

As you can imagine, in the 1980s, patients returning after surgery with such stories were referred to a psychiatrist. An assessment was made of the differences between the patient and a “normal” person. Medications were prescribed to help the patient behave in a more ‘normal’ way. Most of the time, it worked! The patient understood that medications could become the central part of their diet. The only way to avoid this issue was to say, “I got confused because of the stress of the operation. I am feeling better now. Forget what I said.”

For many years, the speaker kept his secret to himself. Today, about 2% or 3% of the population have experienced an NDE—maybe more. There are millions of people with similar stories. They are no longer sent to psychiatrists. Instead, they have international organizations such as IANDS, NDERF, ADCRF, and OBERF, each with its own website.

There was a break, and it was even more fascinating. Audience members were discussing their lives after the NDE. Some of the abilities they had during their NDE trip remained. Some people can guess what others are thinking. If you ever go to one of their meetings and see a big nose, try very hard to think,” What beautiful hair”! Keep in mind that people around you can ‘view’ your thoughts like you see their nose.
Some people in the audience were discussing the experience of meeting someone for the first time and forming a powerful impression. They thought that they already knew that person. A woman saw a girl singing on TV in a foreign language and felt like it was her sister singing. Nobody could explain it. Maybe they met in a previous lifetime. Perhaps this is related to what we call ‘love at first sight’.

This meeting can give you the impression that we are going through life as we walk in the fog. We are only conscious of what is needed to survive on Earth. We live like children who are not aware that someday puberty is going to change their lives.

The speaker said that his life changed overnight. He bought a piano and started learning music. He attended concerts and visited museums. He distanced himself from some of his acquaintances and made new friends. His NDE transformed his life. It opened a door for him.

For most of us, that door remains closed. We need a good scientific proof that could be accepted in a court of law. Search for NDE on YouTube and see if you can find testimonies similar to the one at the Civic Center.

Let’s keep in mind that we are looking for a way out of Plato’s cave. We must think out of the box. Our logic may not apply. NDE is opening a door. Are we going to explore what is behind that door or remain outside?

In 1970, Raymond Moody published “Life after Life”. Raymond Moody is the father of the modern NDE movement.

2-10 Fractals and association of opposites

There are many ways to observe the world around us. Fractals and the association of opposites are only two of them.

Fractals

Fractals were discovered in 1970 by Benoit Mandelbrot. He was using computers to connect mathematical formulas to shapes. That may not be your idea of having a good time, but we need people capable of doing such things. You start with one point, and the mathematical formula gives you the next point and the next, and the next, etc.

The result is beautiful shapes that keep moving. They have color, movement and shapes like the wood burning in the fireplace. You could keep watching them for hours.

Fractals can be found everywhere

In biology (ramifications of branches, similarity of patterns, animal morphology, etc.)
In anatomy (blood vessels, lungs, etc.)
In geology (country coasts, mineralogy, dendrites, etc.)
In meteorology (lightning, cyclones)
In astronomy and cosmology.

pinecones, romanesco broccoli, trees, seashells, ferns, peacock feathers, pineapples, clouds, snowflakes, rivers, trees, and fingerprints.

Fractals surround us. For thousands of years, we were surrounded by fractals and nobody noticed them. That does not make us look very bright.

Association of opposites

Our hands are the mirror image of each other. This is an association of opposites designed to work together.

In mathematics, we have the circle and the straight line. The circle has a limited circumference. The straight line is infinite.
Brain and nerves: One brain, inside a bone (the skull), round shape. The nerves have an elongated shape, outside the bones.
Our DNA is a combination of a circle and a straight line.
Ovule and spermatozoa. One ovule with a round shape, moving very slowly, is associated with thousands of small and elongated spermatozoa moving very fast. You wonder how those two could cooperate!
The light from our sun associates particles and radiation.
It is by exploring distant stars that we discovered the dark matter and dark energy around us.
Animals and the human population were divided into males and females.
Our body is in the material domain where everything has a shape and a weight, and we have sense organs to keep us aware. Our soul is in the immaterial domain. This is where we find our most profound feelings that cannot be seen or measured, and we don’t have the sense organs to keep us aware.
The rule “Use but don’t abuse” is an association of opposites.
If you look for associations of opposites, you may not find any. If you don’t look for them but remain open-minded, you will see associations of opposites all around you. Attraction and Repulsion of magnets - Past and Future.

Fractals and the association of opposites can be used together.

To make fractals, you use a mathematical formula where one input gives you one output. You reintroduce the output and use it as the next input, and repeat millions of times. This is how you get from one point to the next. You use a little loop (the mathematical formula) to get an infinite line (the fractal). This is similar to associating a circle and a straight line.

Could we extrapolate?

A point of a fractal, alone, is worthless. It is its connection with the other points that makes the fractal. What is important in a human being is not his body but the connections between his soul and other souls. Unfortunately, our bodies lack the sense organs to make us conscious of it.

2-11 A new way of thinking

Scientists have decided that human thinking is unreliable. Ideas must be tested through experiments. This is how we earn Nature’s approval. Thinking is just a tool, and we are responsible for the way we use it.

It was from the laws of Nature of the material world that we learned to think. That was a good place to start, but that might not be a good place to stay. After learning to swim, we have to venture to the deep end.

We may have to distance ourselves from the scientific way of thinking.

Imagine a society completely ruled by human logic. Making decisions that cannot be justified would land you in a psychiatric hospital run by AI-powered robots. It would be a society full of gadgets performing many tasks without any feelings, like atomic bombs. You would suffocate. An education based solely on thinking would replace freedom with rules. Ideas are blind. They need to be guided by feelings.

When you break a cookie, you have three parts: the two pieces and the connection between them. We know how to handle the pieces; they belong to our physical world. The connection in the small gap between them is easy to forget. As a result, we end up with a dust of atoms, unable to use them to recreate the trees, the flowers, and the birds they come from. We have removed life.

We are skilled at killing

Thinking needs humans like birds need trees. The birds don’t belong to the trees, and no individual tree is essential. What’s needed is a group of trees to support a group of birds. That suggests that individual thinking is part of a larger thinking process, whether or not we are aware of it. Instead of relying solely on experimental proof, we could seek guidance from within. We don’t measure a mother’s love — do we? — but it remains a vital part of our lives.

Is there a better way to study Nature?

After noticing a process in Nature we could look for something similar elsewhere. This is how we created agriculture. Our ancestors watched seeds falling to the ground and growing later to make more seeds. They amplified the process. If they had cut the seeds into smaller and smaller pieces, we would still be starving.

Using fractals.

They would lead us from the fern to the pineapple, to trees, pine cones, snowflakes, rivers, clouds, animal morphology, blood vessels, lungs, country coasts, lightning and astronomy. Fractals would make us feel part of the universe instead of pretending to be its master.

Example: A car using an internal combustion engine is based on the idea that fuel can store a significant amount of energy in a small volume. In a cell phone, the source of energy is the battery. If you can develop batteries, they may reach a point where they can be used in cars. The conventional car manufacturers need expertise in battery manufacturing.

We could use the association of opposites.

If everything comes from the Big Bang, then everything is connected to everything else. As far as we can observe, nature has long used the concept of dividing things into two. This is how our lives got started. Our body began as a single cell that was split into two cells. The process continued to produce 4, 8, and 16 cells. The result is – Male and female – Intelligence and instinct – body and soul – The infinitely small and the infinitely large - The material world and the immaterial.

Dividing into two can create two parts with contrasting properties meant to complement each other.

The ovule and the spermatozoid have opposite characteristics. These two opposites are obviously designed to work together.
In the human body, the brain and the nerves are designed to work together.
It was through exploring distant stars that astronomers discovered dark energy and dark matter deep within us.
We divide the world between good and evil.

After noticing something remarkable in nature, we should look for similar things elsewhere. Is there a general idea from the Big Bang getting implemented in many different ways?

We must learn to think as a species, rather than separate individuals.

Many things could happen in the next two centuries. People might move to another planet. So far, the light from our sun is growing plants, and we get our energy from the plants.. Our grandchildren might find a way to bypass the plants and get their energy directly from the sun.

What matters most in our lives, such as freedom, thinking, love, life, heat, and happiness, come from higher levels. How do we become aware of them? Where are the organs that make us conscious of freedom, thinking, love, heat, happiness, and life?

There are several possibilities.

What happens when we scratch a match? We don’t create light and heat. They existed long before we made matches. We merely give heat and light an opportunity to manifest themselves in our material world.
Any part of our body can make us aware of heat. If the body doesn’t need a specific sense organ for sensing heat, then the soul might not need sense organs for life, freedom, love, and happiness.
Another possibility is that the sense organs exist in the soul’s world but are limited to embryos - nothing more than small seeds waiting to be watered.
At night, we can see people’s souls just as clearly as we see their bodies during the day. There’s no need for sense organs.
We could start with a trilogy composed of dark matter, dark energy, and ordinary matter. A human being and everything else would be a combination of these three. They could be nested inside one another like Russian nesting dolls. The smallest doll could be made of matter. The next one could be the soul. The following might be consciousness. All these dolls could be connected, much like fractals.
The human body is composed of deviations in the cycles of atoms. These processes create trees, flowers, oceans, and mountains. We are part of the world, and the world is within us. We are never truly alone.
Do you want to make a horror movie? Imagine that the Martians know how to bypass human consciousness. They have us under control. They treat us like a herd. They are using us like we use cows. Sometimes they make humans fight one another and watch the fighting, just for fun, like we watch cockfighting. How can we blame them for treating the level below them the way we treat the level below us?
Treat the levels below you like you want to be treated by the levels above.

Problems can have multiple solutions.

Example: Our food problem.

Thousands of years ago, we gathered fruit with our bare hands. Later, we used stones to cut meat, marking our first improvement. This was followed by associating power with existing tools and having a horse pulling the plow. Today, one person using machinery equipped with a powerful motor can produce enough food to feed many people. Farmers make up only 5% of the total population. As we have evolved, we have found better solutions to our food problems.

The best way to handle problems is not to drain the resources of the material world. We should aim to access higher levels of thinking.

We should also apply this new perspective to the way we see ourselves. Instead of focusing on what makes us different, we should examine what we share. Humanity consists of individuals confined within their own bodies, trying to break free from their solitude. We won’t escape our imprisonment by focusing on our differences. Instead, we should seek common ground. Synthesis must replace analysis.

Our efforts to understand should lead to changes in our brains. That is the purpose of going to school. We learn how to learn. What matters most isn’t the number of books we read but the books that reshape our brains. The purpose of education is to increase consciousness.

Instead of judging people only on their IQ

We should also consider their level of consciousness.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except how we think.

Therefore, we are heading toward a catastrophe beyond understanding.

Humanity will need a new way of thinking if it hopes to survive.

Albert Einstein

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena,

it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” –

Nikola Tesla.

“If you wish to understand the universe, think of energy, frequency, and vibration.”

Nikola Tesla

The time has come to understand that supersensible knowledge

must now emerge from the materialistic grave.

Rudolf Steiner

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, and simpler.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing good or bad; thinking makes it so.

Shakespeare

People who don’t hear the music believe that the dancers are crazy.

2-12 Using happiness as a guide

Before looking for happiness, we should consider our chances of survival.

We represent the final efforts of Mother Nature to utilize the human species (from the Ardipithecines to Homo floresiensis).

https://www.britannica.com/list/human-ancestors

Many did not survive; they were cut short. What is Mother Nature going to do with us? We must admit that, over the past 200 years, human actions have mostly been harmful. We plunder natural resources. We pollute the air, rivers, and even the oceans. We are depleting oil reserves and possibly minerals in the soil. We leave behind plastic and radioactive waste that will last thousands of years. We even caused global warming. Would you blame Nature if she decided to end her last effort to use humanity?

Let’s assume, for now, that this was simply a matter of immaturity. We are learning the first law of nature: “Use but don’t abuse.” We deserve a chance to get back in line and keep our lives aligned with nature.

Should we pursue happiness inside ourselves or outside of ourselves?

Let’s start with the outside; it’s simpler. Our idea of perfection is a government that would “give” everyone happiness. We’ve looked at various forms of government over the past 2,000 years, but we still haven’t found the perfect one. Maybe we’re asking the wrong question. Humans are individuals, isolated from one another, each inside his own skin. Yet, they want to live in society. How can we live together and be isolated at the same time? Something has to give. It won’t be the others; it’s the individual who has to change.

We might begin with a list of countries ranked by how happy their citizens are.

Let’s compare the GDP (The body) with happiness (The soul)

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/happiness/

The Scandinavian countries always lead the way. They might be hard to copy. Do you know that those people trust politicians?

Discovering our life’s purpose and pursuing happiness

often follow the same path.

Happiness is a consequence:

Happiness cannot be treated like an object in the material world. It is not a personal belonging. It belongs to the world of the soul and is a consequence of what happens to the soul.

The first step is to distinguish happiness from simple enjoyment.

In this video, people often fail to distinguish between physical enjoyment and true happiness from the soul. You might enjoy a glass of wine, but can you depend on wine for a fulfilling life?

People are looking outside themselves. The first thing that comes to their mind is money. They have a good excuse because their senses are focused outward. What they see around them is the material world. This might explain why their first attempt to find happiness is by seeking material possessions.

The second step, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi4p_ActSQE&t=34s, shows people being reunited with their animals. We know that people can relate to cats and dogs. You might be surprised to see how strong the bond they can have with monkeys, donkeys, tigers, lions, geese, and even fish and alligators. It’s more than just enjoyment. It’s pure joy. This isn’t something money can buy. It’s universal happiness that even animals can feel.

In real life, enjoyment and genuine happiness often go hand in hand. True happiness can be so rare that we don’t always expect to find it. If you ask people about the moments of true joy in their lives, you’ll notice that these moments don’t happen very often.

There is nothing wrong with enjoying ourselves if we don’t become prisoners of it and forget our main goal, which is seeking true happiness.

In short:

Happiness is a result, caused by an improvement in our souls.

The first step is to free the soul from its attachment to the material world. This is something we can work on, and we have a lot of work ahead.

The next step is to elevate the soul by raising our level of consciousness. This is how we can break through our glass ceiling.

Any improvement of the soul will feel like happiness that can motivate us to participate in our own evolution.

2-13 Puberty of the soul

After puberty, the world around us has not changed, but everything looks different. We realize we went through a long period of preparation leading to a burst. Our sex organs were like a seed, stored away, waiting to be planted. Puberty appears to be the final stage of our physical development. What could be next? Is there more to life than just continuing the species?

If puberty can happen to our physical bodies, something similar could happen to our souls. It would even be surprising that something important could happen to the body without any repercussion on the soul. Should we expect a shift from the child’s soul to the adult’s soul?

“Nature is a gentle guide,” said Montaigne. Let’s see if we can find in Nature something similar to puberty.

The world’s population remained stable for 300,000 years and was multiplied by 10 in the last 200 years.
The whole world does not follow the same evolution at the same time. There is always one country ahead of the others. France dominated the 18th century. In the 19th century, it was England. In the 20th century, America. The 21st century may belong to China. India and Africa are waiting for their turn. It seems that a minority of the world population got lucky for a limited time. In every country, we observe a waiting period that leads to a burst.
All the religions are waiting for a final apotheosis.

-The Christians are waiting for the last judgement.

-Some of the Jews believe that they will be judge the day they die. Others believe in resurrection and the Day of Judgement. They are both telling us of a long period of preparation leading to rapid changes.

-In the Islam faith ‘Yawm al-Din’ means the day of judgement.

The world’s population remained stable for 300,000 years and was multiplied by 10 in the last 200 years.
The whole world does not follow the same evolution at the same time. There is always one country ahead of the others. France dominated the 18th century. In the 19th century, it was England. In the 20th century, America. The 21st century may belong to China. India and Africa are waiting for their turn. It seems that a minority of the world population got lucky for a limited time. In every country, we observe a waiting period that leads to a burst.
All the religions are waiting for a final apotheosis.

-The Christians are waiting for the last judgment.

-Some of the Jews believe that they will be judged on the day they die. Others believe in resurrection and the Day of Judgment. They are both telling us of a long period of preparation leading to rapid changes.

-In the Islamic faith, ‘Yawm al-Din’ means the day of judgment.

The human body follows the general principles of how everything happens in nature. A sudden change follows a long period of preparation. It takes a long time for the bud of a flower to grow until one morning you find it in full bloom.

We could experience a puberty of the soul

Our evolution began very slowly. It took thousands of years to invent the bicycle, but only two centuries to go from the bicycle to landing on the moon. What could be causing this sudden leap?

Over the same 200 years, the world’s population was multiplied by 10. That may not be a coincidence. It was a period when many people left the countryside for big cities. Many minds gathered and focused on the same problem. The advent of computers and the internet helped concentrate human brains, which could explain an acceleration in the evolution of the human soul.

Sending rockets to other planets raises questions about our relationship with aliens. Should we be friends or foes? Comparing souls will become more vital than comparing bodies. If they are more advanced, we will need to catch up.

Can we accelerate our own evolution?

The first step is to free our souls from the physical world.

Let’s begin with a simple example like ‘chocolate’. How do you detach yourself from chocolate? You could retreat to a cave free of temptation. That’s commendable, but there’s no guarantee you won’t return to your craving once you leave the cave. A better approach is to face your craving until something inside your soul shifts, giving you the strength to enjoy food without losing control.

We use our bodies to become conscious

of our connection to the physical world

and to cause changes in our souls.

After conquering chocolate, you can take on bigger challenges. You might try to reclaim your freedom from the TV. This is harder because TV has light, movement, and sounds—attributes of life, TV, and the burning wood in the fireplace. We’re drawn to TV as if attracted to life itself.

Who decides how much time you watch TV? Is it the screen or you? What you need is a TV with pedals! When it’s not worth pedaling, the TV stops! The goal is to use TV in moderation. “Use but don’t abuse” is a law of Nature.

As you progress, you’ll work to free yourself from financial limitations. Our servant has become our master. Everyone needs food and shelter. But we don’t want money to control us and influence all our decisions. Being free from money means being free from matter’s hold. Your soul won’t ascend to higher realms if she cannot control her desire for money. Remember the story of the giant who couldn’t stand because he was tethered to the ground by many tiny ropes. Money binds our spirits to the physical world with countless small ropes.

Think of the light at the end of the tunnel. You are not only freeing your body, but also helping your soul leave Plato’s cave. You are increasing your freedom, love, and level of consciousness.

We can support this evolution by focusing more on things that uplift the soul, like music, painting, sculpture, education, and what we generally call “the Arts.” They are guiding us in the right direction. They point to our glass ceiling.

How many more tiny seeds are hidden deep inside us, waiting to be watered?

2-14 Homo sapiens - UNITE.

To be conscious or not conscious

That our body is our jail

That is the question

Before improving our lives on Earth, we need to make an unbiased assessment of how we live.

• The real question is: “What could motivate a soul to associate with a human body,

even for a short time?”

• We see the world through two windows: our body and our soul. We focus on what has shape, weight, and color. They make up only 5% of our reality.

• Body and soul can separate and reunite in the operating room without death. Something similar seems to happen every night when we fall asleep.

• Plato’s allegory of the cave still applies. Our body is our cave, and we are in solitary confinement.

• There is a glass ceiling that blocks us from reaching level 5 and above.

• We don’t know what level 5 consists of. It might be consciousness. It could be love. There might be several levels between us and love.

• What is symptomatic at one level can be implemented more simplistically at lower levels.

• Our life is split into two separate domains: sleeping and awake.

• We know that sleeping is vital, but we don’t know why.

• Our brain uses 20 times more energy than expected, and we don’t fully understand the purpose of those 100 billion neurons in our brain.

• Our sense organs are in our body, but it is in our soul that we need them most.

• We will not dominate the universe with our thinking.

• We are under a glass ceiling, on the fourth step of a long staircase.

• It is through the material world of planet Earth that we learned how to think. We now need to expand this way of thinking to the immaterial world.

• Sadomasochism is part of human nature. Many aspects of our society, including our numerous wars, serve this need. We live in a ‘masochist bondage’ scenario.

• After eliminating the dictatorship of kings, we replaced it with the dictatorship of money. Today, we live in a society of ‘debt bondage’.

• We don’t want to repeat the same mistake with AI that we made with money. We don’t want to create a servant and let that servant become our master. We don’t want to add an “AI Bondage” to our ‘Debt bondage’.

• After a slow evolution that spanned thousands of years, we are now entering a period of accelerated evolution.

• The puberty of the soul could be followed by the puberty of the body.

After we die, our bodies will be recycled. What remains of our lives are the changes on our souls. We should focus on what is central to our lives, such as feelings, harmony, freedom, consciousness, intuition, and love.

https://www.britannica.com/list/human-ancestors

If we fail, Homo sapiens might follow the same path as the Ardipithecines, the Australopithecines, Homo habilis, Homo ergaster/erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, the Denisovans, Homo floresiensis…. and the dinosaurs.

We may not be the captains of our ship, but we are trying to master the wind in our sails. We can turn our failures into lessons learned. We aim to become willing participants in a changing world.

There is no room in our future for conflicts over territory, oil, ideologies, water, ego, or natural resources. The time has come to stop fighting each other and start fighting for a common cause.

When we observe a sunset over the ocean, we see millions of tiny sparks. What matters is that they reflect the light from the same sun. We are those individual sparks, connected under the same sun.

Future historians might divide human history into two eras: “Before and after humans knew what they were doing.

The criterion of success is a soul that can be in a body,

like heat penetrates an object, without getting attached to it.

HOMO SAPIENS – UNITE