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We,The People, are not happy
21 - Homo sapiens UNITE
We, The People, are not happy!
In less than 200 years we invented computers, vaccines, cars, planes, subways, MRI and GPS. We landed on the moon. We built cities with millions of people. After all this work we found out that this is not the city where we want to live. Something is missing!
We built a pedestal without a statue.
It was a necessary mistake
It is from the material world that we learned how to think. We started by observing Nature and thought about what we saw. We discovered the laws of Nature. Scientists do not trust human thinking. They want every idea to be validated by an experiment. It is their way of getting Nature’s approval. The laws of nature are to our thinking what a pole is to the growing tree. We saw seeds falling on the ground, producing more seeds. We amplified this process of nature and developed agriculture. Developing agriculture made us conscious of the many cycles of nature and our place among them. Thinking about what we saw paved the way to the development of our consciousness.
In the last 200 years, we have developed a society based on our knowledge of the material world. We remodeled our environment to make it more comfortable. We made machines to amplify the amount of work a human body can produce. With AI we are amplifying the amount of thinking that human brains can produce.
The material world was a good place to start
but it is not a place to stay.
The more we develop the material world, the more we feel that something is missing in our lives. It is the feeling of a child in a world of robots. He does not need more things. He needs feelings. Our sense organs are in our body when it is in our soul that we need them most. Our life would be much easier if a soul could see another soul like a body can see another body. Individuals are in society like eggs in their cartoon. Neatly arranged, but without real contact. Our souls are in solitary confinement. There is a mistake in the design of the Homo sapiens, and it is too late for a recall.
Our society is made to handle bodies. We focused on the pedestal and neglected the statue.
Life should permeate the body
like heat penetrates an object
without getting attached to it
We have a body and a soul. That gives us two channels to relate to the outside world.
Our body is our link with the material world where everything has a weight, a size, a color. We call it ‘the easy way’ because the body comes with an assortment of sense-organs that let us see, weigh, touch, hear everything around us. No effort needed. There is a constant flow of free information coming to us. We only have to open our eyes.
Our soul is where we find love, ideas, consciousness, harmony and everything important in our lives. Unfortunately, what is important does not have a weight, shape or color. Our soul does not come with a set of senses organs like our body does. Our life would be much easier if a soul could ‘see’ another soul, like a body can see another body.
We made the wrong choice. I the last 200 years we followed the body channel. We explored the material world. We followed the path of least resistance. We developed what has a weight, a shape , a color. We developed what is not important.
The next step:
We observed nature. We thought about what we saw. We became conscious of our environment. We thought that mastering the laws of nature would make us free. It was a trap. Our sense organs are limited, and their limits became the limits of our thinking. Our body became our jail. The student became an inmate.
By observing the trajectories of distant stars, the astronomers discovered that our material world represents only 5% of our reality. The rest is made of dark matter and dark energy. For more than 300 000 years we have been focusing on 5% of the world and what is important in our life is the other 95%. The time has come to say: “Give me 95% or give me death.”
Thinking increased our level of consciousness. We became aware that limiting ourselves to the material world keeps us turning around in Plato’s cave. There is a way out. This is the next step of our evolution.
Something new:
As we go deeper, it seems that human life is divided into several states of consciousness independent of each other. 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 another world. We experience one state of consciousness when awake and another when asleep. A hypnotist can make us fully conscious that we are pedaling on a bicycle in the middle of the ocean. We keep moving from one state of consciousness to another like changing from one line of subway to another. We move in one direction until we jump to another. There is the wake-up subway line, the anesthetist line, the hypnotist line, the Near Death line. What we are looking for is the love line.
Consciousness is our new frontier.
What took us so long?
What prevented our ancestors, the Homo sapiens, from discovering electricity, TV, AI and computers 300 000 years ago? Is it something in ourselves or in our environment?
Could it be what we call human evolution? The main concern of our ancestors was to find food. They had to discover agriculture and increase their freedom before they could proceed any further.
Moving to cities created a new problem. They had to sacrifice some individual freedom. Everybody must drive on the same side of the road. They had to find a compromise between individual freedom and the new possibilities of life in society. We can understand that this conflict is slowing down their evolution. We may have to adapt our way of thinking to whatever we are thinking about.
We started an avalanche:
With the concentration of human bodies came the concentration of human brains. Not only did the people get closer together but they improved their ways of communicating. After the computers came the internet that increased communication even further. We started an avalanche. Today, AI is amplifying people’s thinking like our machines amplify the amount of work the human body can produce.
A question remains. Should we renounce individual freedom? When watching a sunset on the ocean, we see millions of little sparks. We are those little sparks united by the same sun. The connection is not at the level of the sparks. It is at the level of consciousness, and we may have to renounce some freedom to reach a higher level of consciousness. It is like accepting death to get eternity.
Thinking and consciousness are helping each other. We start by observing nature. We think about what we see. We become conscious of our environment. An increase of consciousness triggers more thinking. It seems that everything comes two by two, like we walk on two legs. There is also male and female, electricity and magnetism, time and space, individual freedom and togetherness.
Aliens could describe life on Earth by saying:
“The souls who want to accelerate their development need a source of energy. That’s the purpose of Planet Earth. It is a place where every soul can get associated with a human body. Those bodies need to eat. They were made for that purpose. Their atoms keep moving between the ocean, the mountains, the plants, the birds, the trees, the flowers and the bodies of plants, animals and humans. Whatever is regulating this traffic is way above their head.
During the day, the body is overwhelming. It extracts energy from the plants and sends 20% of that energy to the brain. At night the souls abandon the sense-organs of the material world and return to the soul’s world. This is where they use the energy from the plants and all their neurons to process the events of the previous day.
It is at night that humans can assemble all the elements necessary to improve a soul.
It is a 24-hour cycle. Every day can use the improvements of the day before. They don’t have to wait until their death to take advantage of their life on Earth. The improvement would be much slower on a planet, spinning more slowly and having longer days. Bankers call it ‘compounded interest’. Life on Earth is not Hell, but it is not Paradise either. Planet Earth would make a good Purgatory.”
Planet Earth would make a good Purgatory
Our limit is what can be implemented in the human body.
This is a domain where future reality is intertwined with utopia. A human being can be a genius. Some are born that way. It can also happen by accident. Any one of us could become gifted in chemistry, painting, mathematics, music. Some of us could remember the weather of every day of our life, or every note of an opera. They give the impression that the human brain is divided into many sections separated by walls like we have walls in our computers. (We may have created our computers in our image). Most of us are born with limited access to our brain, while geniuses have passwords giving them access to all their neurons. The gap between us and geniuses could be filled with a simple increase of consciousness. Our grandchildren may replace years of university with an injection of passwords.
This is not a task for isolated individuals. It will require the contribution of millions of individuals, like our computers are made of millions of simple ideas from millions of people. The slime molds come to mind. When in difficulty, they merge their bodies. It solves many problems. If slime molds can merge their bodies, humans could merge their brains.”
If slime molds can merge their bodies,
humans could merge their brains.
We created machines to amplify the amount of work the human body can produce. Today we are creating AI to amplify human thinking to amplify human thinking. We are distancing ourselves from the material world. We don’t have the laws of Nature to correct our mistakes. If thinking, left alone, can produce atomic bombs, it could be wise not to turn AI completely loose.
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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 the material to the immaterial world.
At every level we see a limited implementation of the levels above. Animals are capable of some thinking. The love from a higher level can be implemented in a body as sexual attraction. Heat, harmony, love, consciousness comes from a higher world and penetrates our world. We are part of Nature and Nature is in us. All we need is to become conscious of what we are doing.
Our relationship with society will have to change
We are born naked and hungry. Our main concern was ‘to receive’. As parents, our main concern is ’to give’. The way we look at society today is “I want money. It is all around me. How can I get some? How can I get more?” Giving on the material level relates to receiving at the soul’s level. We should replace “How much money can I get out of this business?” with “What effect will this business have on my soul?”. All it would take to change our attitude is an increase in consciousness. Don’t expect much help from governments. When enough people have reached a certain level of consciousness, changes will come naturally. Government will only implement the changes.
Changes are accelerating. We cannot pretend to be the master of our ship anymore. We are only trying to master the wind blowing in our sails. We are entering a domain where the laws of Nature are replaced by the stars in the sky pointing us in the right direction. We need to help each other by improving our individual level of consciousness.
Future historians may divide human history into two periods: “Before and after humans knew what they were doing.”
The time has come to make the statue of our pedestal.