QUESTION 6: The purpose of our life
19- Life purpose
Now that we have the pieces of the puzzle, we can try to get a general view of our life on earth. We are not trying to prove or disprove something. We just want to present a story that people could agree on, independently of their race, gender, age, philosophical or religious background.
Humans have a body and a soul. After their death, the atoms making their body are recycled. It is in their soul that we should look for the purpose of their life.
During the day, our body senses are sending limited but strong signals to our brain. They are like the sun that prevents us from seeing the stars.
At night, the soul is not limited by our senses. There is no sun preventing us from seeing the stars and we can be fully conscious. At night everybody is a genius.
-People are not born equal. Some are born gifted for music, painting, mathematics, memory…. Their message is that a lot more can be implemented in a human body than what we see every day. We are in a cave, and we consider as normal to keep turning around our cage. Their message is that we must get out of our jail. Plato allegory of the cave still applies.
-We could learn a thing or two from animals.
Molds can easily solve problems that we find very complicated. Could there be something on earth that is better than human thinking?
Molds also show us the advantages of assembling many individual cells into one big cell. The resulting mega cell has many possibilities that the small individual cells did not have. That could explain the human development in the last 200 years when individuals moved to big cities and the internet improved communications between individuals. Think of what could happen if we could merge all the brains of all the Homo sapiens!
There is a current going through the earth and through our life. There is a cycle starting from the light of our sun and going down to the material world. This current goes through the plants and the humans and gets back as energy in the human brain. The body reveals to the soul its attachment to the material world and 20% of the energy that we get from our food is used by our brain.
We may be underestimating the importance of our sleep. The main purpose of our activities during the day is to collect what the soul will need at night. We collect energy from our food. This is not particular to humans. We see the importance of digestion in the smallest elementary cells. It is also during the day that we can have abrasive contacts with other people and with our environment. At night the events of the previous day can get associated with the energy in our neurons to produce changes in the soul.
The brain keeps working day and night. During the day, it uses the body as a tool to collect information and energy. At night it processes what was assembled during the day to improve the soul.
That makes life on earth look like a purgatory. It is a place where the souls are sent for improvements like the bodies are sent to hospitals. Expect some pain.
The main improvement could be an increase in consciousness. We may be able to break our glass ceiling and get access to the next level above us. With a better understanding of the purpose of the human species we could take part in our own evolution.
An increase of consciousness could convince us that the main purpose of our soul is to detach itself from the material world. Our life is a fight for freedom.
Future historians may divide man history in two parts:
Before and after we knew what we were doing.
This is getting us far away from the scientific rigor. This is not a domain where we can do experiments, unless we treat our life like an experiment.
Adding more pieces to our puzzle could improve the general view.
This is only one possible step in a long march. What is important is to get started.