“The key to growth is the production of
higher dimensions of consciousness
into our awareness.”
What prevented our ancestors from understanding the laws of Nature 300,000 years ago? From the very first day, gravity was already there to draw their attention. They couldn’t survive alone; they needed to be part of a group. What was missing was consciousness.
We may not be smarter than our ancestors, but we are more aware. Somewhere along the way, they became aware of the laws of nature. They started thinking about a fact. This thinking led to a level of awareness that triggered more thinking. It was the start of a wave of progress. Consciousness was buried in human nature, waiting to be nurtured.
Having a new idea doesn’t mean you’ve created something. It simply means you’ve become aware of an idea that already existed in nature. We don’t invent or create things — we only become aware of what already exists. Human history shows a gradual increase in consciousness.
We become aware of the world around us through the information received from our senses. The main senses are our eyes and ears. This is called our “Primary Sensory Dominance.” Up to 55% of our communication is through body language, 38% through the tone of our voice, and only 7% through the words we say.
What counts is who you are rather than what you say.
The primary goal of our life is to expand the boundaries of our consciousness.
Consciousness and health:
Imagine that we could tell the value of our food just by looking at it. Processing food removes some nutrients and adds other substances. Consumers are often unaware of how processing impacts their food. The Amish don’t eat processed food and have a very low rate of cancer.
Since we aren’t directly aware of how our food impacts our health, we often have to wait for the long-term effects and get sick.
Consciousness and the natural laws of nature:
Fractals show how the universe is constructed. Symmetry and the pairing of opposites are another example. Another law of nature could be “Use but don’t abuse.” There could be many more laws of nature that we have yet to discover.
Our consciousness may change:
Don’t rely on the dictionary to give a clear definition of consciousness.
“Despite centuries of analyses, definitions, explanations, and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives. Perhaps the only widely agreed notion about the topic is the intuition that it exists. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied and explained as consciousness.”
For many centuries, the lives of Homo sapiens centered around their perception of their environment. Their awareness was limited to the red and violet parts of the spectrum. In the last two centuries, we’ve used tools to discover infrared, ultraviolet light, microbes, and galaxies. We’ve gone even further. We accept the existence of particles so tiny that we can never see them. Our instruments tell us about their mass, speed, and electrical charge… These observations form the basis of our understanding of those particles. One day, a new experiment might reveal the presence of a different ‘thing’. This ‘thing’ sometimes acts like a particle… or two. Our concepts may have to change.
Our level of consciousness seems to be as limited as our senses.
Human history is a story of consciousness. Two thousand years ago, we recognized ourselves as part of a tribe or small village in the forest. Later, we became aware of belonging to a country or a religion. Today, we identify with civilizations like “The East” or “The West.” We have not yet reached the point where we see ourselves as Homo sapiens. Let’s keep in mind that all of us come from the same Big Bang. The same atoms keep circulating between the trees, the oceans and our bodies. Somewhere along the way, a ‘group soul’ may have emerged, which then split into individual souls.
Problems and solutions
Our ancestors were aware of their need for food and shelter. Sometimes food was abundant, and other times they had to rely on tree bark for nourishment. That was a sure way to become aware of a problem! After realizing the problem, they became aware of its solution.
Today, we have ‘Education’. The teacher uses his knowledge to help students become aware of what he knows. The goal of a mathematical problem is not to find a new solution but to make students aware of an already known solution. The purpose of education has shifted. With his computer, the student has access to all the knowledge accumulated by humanity. The question for the student is: “What do you want to become conscious of?”
We need to be aware of others.
We have a ‘need to belong’. We need to be aware of other people. This goes beyond noticing their presence. It involves sharing their feelings, their joys, and their sorrows. This is where you find ideas, freedom, love, and harmony.
After exploring the physical world, we must explore the immaterial world. After learning to swim, we should venture into the deep end.
Watching the stars can lead to harsh deception. The millions of stars you see only represent 5% of reality. The rest is made up of dark matter and dark energy. They are in the universe and in us. Someday, we might find that death is to a man what a black hole is to the stars.
We don’t rely entirely on scientific measurements. A mother could “know” why her child is crying without needing explanations. You might realize that someone is lying to you. Sometimes, we feel safe or threatened without an apparent reason.
13-Consciousness is the key
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We,The People, are not happy
Can we increase our level of consciousness?
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We have to be conscious that we have two channels of communication with the world around us.
We can communicate through the body or through the soul. The body channel has sense organs. This is the easy way. Unfortunately, it keeps us in the material world. We are turning around in Plato’s cave.
It is in our soul channel that we experience feelings, ideas, freedom, love, harmony, and can satisfy our need to belong to a group. Our center of gravity is in our soul – not in our body.
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The purpose of the body is to extract energy from our food and place it in our brain, at the disposition of the soul.
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It is also from our body that we discover the laws of nature and learn how to think.
The body is a good place to start
but not a place to stay.
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We must be conscious of the limited use we have of our brains, at least during the day. We could be born with this handicap, like we are born with sadomasochism.
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We share with other animals a flow going through our body, called food. Animals absorb energy from their food and bring it to their brain. Plants absorb the energy from the sun and make it available to animals. We are never alone.
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After our death, our bodies are recycled. Our need to belong could originate in the souls being recycled. We could rejoin a master soul like drops of water fall from the clouds, get reunited in the ocean, and get back to the clouds.
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The sense organs of animals may be more developed than ours. They know what to eat and what to avoid. Their hearing, their vision and their sense of smell can be much more developed than ours.
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We have to get conscious of the purpose of the Homo sapiens on Earth.
We are the 8th attempt of Mother Nature to use human beings. We don’t want to fail and be eliminated like the dinosaurs. The individuals cannot succeed one by one. It is the Homo sapien species that will survive or not.
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The most important part of our lives could be our sleep. This is when the soul is free from the sense organs. It has at its disposal the energy stored in the brain. It can process the memory of the facts of the previous day to improve itself.
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.
“Nature is a gentle guide,” said Montaigne. Let’s see if we can find in Nature examples of evolution moving by steps after a long preparation.
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The world’s population remained stable for 300,000 years until it was multiplied by 8 or10 in the last 200 years.
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Countries do not follow the same evolution at the same time. There is always one country ahead of the others. In every country, we observe a waiting period that leads to a burst.
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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.
-It takes a long time for the bud of a flower to grow until one morning you find it in full bloom.
The human body follows the general principles of how everything happens in nature. A sudden change following a long period of preparation.
Could we experience a puberty of the soul?
Our evolution began very slowly—thousands of years of slow evolution leading to a sudden development in the last 200 years. What could be causing this sudden leap?
Over the same 200 years, the world’s population increased sharply. 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? We may have to reconsider the environment of our souls. An increased consciousness could transform the environment of the human soul like puberty transformed the environment of the human body. We could be watering a tiny seed waiting to sprout.