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17 - Consciousness
“The key to growth is the production of
higher dimensions of consciousness
into our awareness.”
Don’t rely on dictionaries to get a clear definition of their consciousness. You will not find anything better than this:
“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.”
It started in the material world.
Let’s start with the newborn baby becoming aware of gravity. This reminder of the material world will be with him all his life. It will be followed by the development of thinking and becoming conscious of the importance of his soul.
They become conscious of the stars simply by looking at them. To this observation, they add thinking and energy and make telescopes. They use their telescopes to increase their awareness of the stars. They start by observing nature from a reduced level of consciousness. They seek ways to increase their consciousness by using their thinking, their will, and their energy. They use the material world to make tools that will prolong their sense organs. The use of these tools will increase their level of consciousness, and they restart the same cycle from a higher level of consciousness. Today, 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?” The combination of thinking and consciousness starts an avalanche.
One question remains: Why did they wait so long to start their avalanche?
Their consciousness may change
One day, a new experiment might reveal the presence of a different ‘thing’. This ‘thing’ sometimes acts like a particle… or two. Many concepts may have to change. Observing distant stars led to the discovery of dark energy and dark matter surrounding them. This association of opposites increases consciousness.
Human history is a story of consciousness. Two thousand years ago, they recognized themselves as part of a tribe or a small village in the forest. Later, they became aware of belonging to a country or a religion. Today, they identify with civilizations like “The East” or “The West.” They have not yet reached the point where they see themselves as Homo sapiens. Let’s keep in mind that they all come from the same Big Bang. The same atoms keep circulating between the trees, the oceans, and their bodies.
They have a ‘need to belong’. They 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 developing their level of consciousness in the physical world, they must explore the immaterial world. After learning to swim, they should venture to the deep end.
For many centuries, the lives of Homo sapiens centered around their perception of their environment. Their vision was limited to the red and violet parts of the spectrum. In the last two centuries, they have used tools to discover infrared, ultraviolet light, microbes, and galaxies. They went even further. They accept the existence of particles so tiny that they can never be seen. Their instruments tell them about their mass, speed, and electrical charge… These observations form the basis of their understanding of those particles.
Can they increase their level of consciousness?
Their goal is to reach the level 5 above matter, plants, animals and humans. They started by using the material world and their sense organs. This is only the beginning. What is most important is in their soul. The next step could be to become aware of the influence that everyday life has on one's soul. So far, this influence was limited. This is what happens with corruption. They know that it is detrimental to the soul, but the body prevails. The material world is overwhelming. It keeps them turning around in Plato’s cave. Their center of gravity is in their soul – not in their body.
The body realm is a good place to start
but not a place to stay.
This is where they hit a wall. They keep turning around their everyday material life from the time they get up to the time they fall asleep. Their body is their jail. Their souls are in solitary confinement. That may satisfy a certain need for sadomasochism, but this is not what they are looking for.
What do they know that could help them escape their jail?
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People are made of two components: One body and one soul.
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They get energy from their food. About 20% of this energy is sent to the brain. What happens to it? If this energy is reserved for thinking, the brains of those who don’t use it would be cremated. There must be another use!
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They have 86 billion neurons that are not fully used during the day. Could they be used at night?
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The connection between body and soul seems to be in the brain.
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Their sense organs are their channels of communication with the outside world. What made them free is now limiting their freedom.
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At the base of their motivation to escape their jail is a need for love and freedom.
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Their evolution is accelerating. It reveals a need to move their center of gravity from the material to the immaterial domain.
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After their death, their bodies are recycled. Their need to belong could stem from their souls being recycled. They could rejoin a master soul like drops of water falling from the clouds, getting reunited in the ocean, and then getting back to the clouds.
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The message from the slime mold is that there could be better ways to use the human brain.
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They don’t know what happens in their sleep.
They are hitting a wall.
This wall could be what happens in their sleep. It is a time when their body is in a quiet place without any light or noise. Their brain does not get any information from their sense organs. They are free from the limitations of their body. During the day, their life is dominated by their body. At night, it could be dominated by their soul. During the day, they ‘see’ each other's bodies. At night, they may be able to ‘see’ each other's souls. No need for sense organs and their many details. They are replaced with a picture of the soul. That would explain why they don’t need the soul's sense organs during the day. They have direct knowledge at night.
Every evening, they assemble in the brain: the memory of what happens during the day, the energy from their food, and the need for the soul's improvement. All this is placed at the disposal of their soul.
They don’t know what happens at night. That would make anybody suspicious. During those 8 hours, the soul could select what can serve its improvement. What is left could be recycled by the body the next day.
Their problem is that they don’t really know what happens at night. They are not conscious of it. They don’t even know why they don’t know!
All they can do is imagine a day when their souls have reached perfection. There is no more need for a body to collect energy from plants and make painful mistakes during the day. Their souls would not need a body anymore. They could live on any planet of their choice. They may remember planet Earth as a good place to start until they graduate for a higher level of consciousness.
Puberty of the soul
After puberty, the world around them has not changed, but everything looks different. They went through a long period of preparation leading to a burst. Their sex organs were like a seed, stored away, waiting to be planted. Puberty appears to be the final stage of their physical development. What could be next? Is there more to life than just continuing the species?
“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 10 in the last 200 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khFjdmp9sZk
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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 an explosion.
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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 long period of preparation followed by a sudden change. If puberty can happen to their physical bodies, something similar could happen to their souls. It would even be surprising that something important could happen to the body without any repercussion on the soul.
What are they waiting for?
300 000 years is a long time to wait for puberty. What they have seen over the last 200 years is the world's population being multiplied by 10. Like their puberty, this is a slow development followed by a sudden change. What could be the connection?
Let’s go back to the details. A computer is made of millions of simple ideas from millions of different people. Humans did not get smarter the day they started making computers. This only shows that they needed many people to put together many simple ideas. The improvement did not come from individual contributions but from the number of individuals.
As long as they were spread all over the Earth, the concentration of the brains was not sufficient to generate rapid improvements. They had to go through the development of agriculture and move to big cities before many brains could participate in the same project. Computers led to the internet and improved communication between brains. This is how the process accelerated.
All those people who lived in the last 300 000 years were not conscious that they were participating in the same evolution. They were watering a little seed waiting to sprout.