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We,The People, are not happy
22 - Homo sapiens UNITE
We, the Homo sapiens, have a body and a soul. That gives us two ways – at least - to communicate with the outside world. The question is:
“What could motivate a soul to get associated
with a human body, even for a short time?”
After a long preparation of more than 200 000 years, we started developing our body channel. We followed the path of least resistance. The body comes with a set of sense organs. We can see, touch, hear, smell and become conscious of the world around us. It is a domain where everything has a shape, a weight, a color. This is how we discovered the laws of Nature and learned to think.
In the last 200 years, we created a society based on our body channel. It was a good place to start. It is not a place to stay. We need more than a comfortable body. We have been fighting the wrong battle. The material world is pulling us down when the soul wants to reach higher levels. We misuse money. We let sadomasochism dominate our life. We let our way of thinking get limited to the material world.
We are now learning that the material world represents only 5% of reality. Are we wasting most of our time on Earth? We should pay more attention on what does not have weight, shape or color such as love, freedom, consciousness and happiness. Without them we are like eggs in their cartoon, neatly arranged but without real contact. Our souls are in solitary confinement. Our society is a pedestal without a statue. We keep turning around in Plato’s cave instead of looking for a way out. We look for solutions around us, in the material world when the answer is inside ourselves, in our soul. All we can ever find around us is people like us who could not find their answer inside.
Our souls are in solitary confinement
The day has come to do for our soul what we did for our body. We observed seeds falling to the ground and producing many more seeds. We collected seeds and planted them at the right place and the right time. This is how agriculture changed our lives. We can use the same idea. We can observe what our life does to our soul and amplify the process.
It is a tall order because our soul does not have sense organs like our body has.. Imagine that we could see each other’s soul like we can see each other’s body. The time has come to say: ”Give me 95% or give me death!”
There is hope:
During our sleep, we leave our body in a quiet place. Eyes closed. No noise. No need for our sense organs. It seems that we are entering the soul’s world. Our life is divided into several domains of consciousness disconnected from one another. We use one consciousness when awake, another when asleep, and many more when under anesthesia or hypnotism. We keep moving from one state of consciousness to another. Our best chance to explore our soul’s domain may be to investigate our sleep.
Consciousness is our new frontier.
The results can be surprising. A simple increase of consciousness could fill the gap between us and geniuses. Some acquire higher consciousness by accident after being hit in the head. Some are born that way. All of them show us that increased consciousness can be implemented in the human body. The time has come to start working on the statue. After learning to swim, we must venture to the deep end.
Nature is showing the way.
Today, we have all the knowledge accumulated by humans at our disposal on our computers. The question is “What do we want to become conscious of?” We cannot ignore anymore what could happen in our sleep. Our daily activities could be nothing more than a preparation for what happens at night. We could spend the day collecting energy that can be used at night by our 86 billion neurons, to process the good and the harm of the previous day. The energy assembled during the day could be used at night for what is the main purpose of our life. That would make our body an instrument at the disposal of the soul.
We should be able to do with our brains what the slime molds can do with their bodies when they are in danger.
They merge their bodies because a collective body can achieve what is not possible with individual bodies. We should be able to do with our souls what the slime mold can do with their bodies. We can achieve together what nobody can do alone. We can get out of our isolation and break our glass ceiling. That could explain the motivation behind our human development in the last 200 years when individuals moved to big cities and the internet improved communication between individuals. If slime molds can merge their bodies, humans could merge their brains.
Our new frontier is consciousness. 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 brain to produce changes in the soul.
We have, on planet Earth, all the help we need. We have the laws of Nature to train our thinking. The atoms of our body keep circulating between matter, animals and human bodies to remind us that we may be a very small part of the universe, but we are part of something really great. We have bodies to provide the souls with the energy.
Our material world can be penetrated by heat, life, harmony, consciousness and love. We can amplify what we already have and develop our soul’s world. We can do for our soul what agriculture does for our body.
We must get out of our cocoon like chicks must hatch and discover the world. We, the Homo sapiens, are united by the same problem. We should consider the society that we have created to be only a first attempt. We never do something right the first time. It was only a place to start.
So far, we have created robots in our image. We developed their body and neglected their soul. We should not use robots until they can refuse to do something unethical, respect other robots’ freedom and experience feelings…...
The time has come to stop fighting one another and start fighting for a common cause. There is no place in our future for conflicts over territory, oil, ideologies, water, natural resources, ego gratification and glory. The time has come to move our center of gravity from our body to our soul.
At every level we see a limited implementation of the level above. Animals are capable of some thinking. Physical attraction is a lower implementation of love at a higher level. Nature is pointing us in the right direction. Agriculture let us move to cities that became big metropolises. From better communication between people came computers. From computers came the internet and the internet made it possible for humans to reach the critical mass of their brain.
We can do for our soul
what we did for our body.
Give me 95% or give me death!
Our grandchildren are going to explore a much wider universe. They may not understand why we had to drag our body wherever we went.
“Grandpa, you don’t have to drag your body behind you, everywhere you go. Everybody knows that soul and body can be separated and put back together. You are already doing it every evening when you fall asleep, and every morning when you put them back together. All you need is to do consciously during the day what you used to do unconsciously at night. How come nobody thought of that before Grandpa?”
We have a guide. It is happiness. True happiness is a consequence of improvements of the soul. It will motivate us to become a willing participant in our own evolution. The survival of the species comes before the survival of the individual. That should not be construed to sacrifice individual freedom to the dictature of a government. It comes from individuals who decide that it is in their own interest to unite. When we see a sunset over the ocean, we see millions of tiny sparks. They reflect the light from the same sun. We are those individual sparks, connected through the same sun.
The time has come to turn our attention inside instead of focusing on the outside world. Our problem is a lack of consciousness. This is our new frontier. A higher level of consciousness would open a door to the 95% we have to explore.
Future historians may divide human history into two periods: “Before and after humans knew what they were doing.”
Associating our brain with other brains is not incompatible with individual freedom. It is by associating our brains that we increase our level of consciousness and consciousness makes us free. The time has come to cast off our moorings and get together to explore the souls ‘world.
Life should permeate the body
like heat penetrates an object
without getting attached to it