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The world we live in
23 - Homo sapiens UNITE
We would not be surprised if, someday, some Aliens paid us a visit. They may get us out of our comfort zone. For many years, they could have sent us messages that we are not conscious of. They could already be here. After the crop circles, the heat waves could be their desperate way to get our attention. We should get ready to introduce ourselves.
We could say that we have a body and a soul. Our body is our connection with the material world. This is where we got acquainted with the laws of nature and learned to think. We can do experiments. This is our way to be sure that nature approves of our way of thinking. The body is made of millions of atoms coming together at the right place and the right time. Those atoms keep circulating between the trees, the oceans, the flowers and the mountains. We are made of a detour in their cycles. We don’t know who is responsible for the traffic. This is above the limits of our brain. What we know is that our body is our connection with the material world. It comes with sense organs easy to use. We only have to open our eyes to receive a flow of information. It can even be overwhelming. Our sense organs are like the sun that prevents us from seeing the stars. Fortunately, at night, we can switch to another state of consciousness where sense organs are not allowed.
Our other way to communicate with the world is our soul. This is where we have feelings, life, consciousness and everything that cannot be measured and experimented upon. This is where we find what is important in our lives. Unfortunately, our soul does not have sense organs. A soul cannot see another soul like a body can see another body and this is most unfortunate. Our sense organs are in our body when it is in our soul that we need them most.
Some people have their center of gravity in their body. Some have it in their soul. On planet Earth, the evolution goes from the material to the immaterial. We moved from looking for food to computers and ideas. We started by making tools to go hunting. Then we made machines using many parts. Recently, we made computers to help us handle the material world. Our last invention is AI. It amplifies our thinking by using everything we ever put in computers.
The problem with our tools is that they do not come with notions of good and bad. Radioactivity can be used to make electricity and atomic bombs. We started with the bombs. This problem will be with us for centuries. The problems created by AI could be even worse. Atomic bombs can destroy a city, but AI can influence the lives of everybody all over the world. The development of our thinking in the material world needs to be balanced with the development of good and bad in our soul. That does not mean that we should not use nuclear energy to produce electricity. It means that the development of the soul should precede the development of thinking in our brain. When we don’t, Mother Nature is not at our side to prevent mistakes and we suffer.
On Earth, we are free to choose between working on our soul or suffering.
How can we get out of our predicament?
Humans and animals have two concerns that dominate their life. They need to eat and to sleep. They need a body and a soul. A question comes to mind. There must be a point of contact somewhere between body and soul. Where could it be? Could the answer be in the brain?
On Earth, the body represents only 2% of our weight but sends to our brain 20% of the energy extracted from our food. This energy could be used, by the soul, at night, to process what happens the day before. We could use our body as a tool to improve our soul. That does not mean that the purpose of life on Earth is to eat as much as possible. “Use but don’t abuse” is a law of Nature to be followed.
To get out of our predicament we should provide our soul with what she gets from our body. That means moving our center of gravity from the material world to the immaterial. This is how we can become willing participants in our own evolution. It is not easy. We go back to the question:
“What could motivate a soul to get associated
with a human body, even for a short time?”
Our relationship with society will change
We were born naked and hungry. Our main concern was to receive. When we become 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 someone else’s money?” We should replace “How much money can I get out of this?” with “What effect this venture will have on my soul?” All it would take to change this 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 implement the changes.
We have a guide. It is happiness. True happiness is a consequence of improvements in the soul. It will motivate us to become willing participants in our own evolution.
A question remains. Should we renounce individual freedom before we can join society? 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. We need life in society to reach the critical mass that will get us access to a higher consciousness and higher freedom.
We need life in society to reach the critical mass
that will get us access to a higher consciousness and higher freedom.
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.
Future historians may divide human history into two periods: “Before and after humans knew what they were doing.”
The Homo sapiens have been looking for an answer to that question for 300 000 years. Progress was slow until the 20th century when we started remodeling our environment. It is not clear what our ancestors were waiting for. One possibility is that they needed a high concentration of the population in big cities. We now have a world population of 8 billion with 47 cities with more than 10 million people. Proximity helped the communication between the brains. A computer is made of millions of small ideas from millions of different people. From computers came the internet that increased communication even further. We started an avalanche. We reached the ‘critical mass’ of the human brains like we reached the critical mass in radioactivity.
By increasing the quantity of radioactive material, you reach a point where an explosion becomes possible. The energy generated increases with the quantity of radioactive material ( ) The losses are function of its surface ( ). As you increase the size of a sphere, the volume increases faster than its surface. You reach a point where the energy generated is higher than the losses. This is the critical mass that triggers the explosion.
Something similar could happen to human brains.
Put many brains together and you will reach a point where a chain reaction becomes possible. As long as the world population was dispersed over the Earth, the brain concentration was not sufficient to trigger a chain reaction. We had to go through the development of agriculture and move to big cities before many brains could merge and work on the same project. The process accelerated. All those people who lived in the last 300 000 years were not conscious that they needed to reach a critical mass before they could trigger rapid changes.
What happened in the last two centuries is that the changes were concentrated in the material world. We did not differentiate between amplifying the good and amplifying the bad.
The material world was a good place to start
It is not a place to stay.
This is where we are now. We created a society based on our body channel of communication. We found that 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.
There is hope:
Our life is made of different states of consciousness. We jump from one to another without transition. The two more common are being awake and being asleep but there are many more. A surgeon can use anesthesia to make us unconscious of what he does to our body. Some people who had an NDE (Near Death Experience) during surgery are telling us of separating body and soul. They talk about pure bliss, perfect happiness, even a connection with God. The hypnotist can make us fully conscious of being on a bicycle and pedaling in the middle of the ocean. With puberty comes an increase of consciousness. Today, we have all the knowledge accumulated by humans at our disposal in our computers. The question to the student is “What do you want to become conscious of?” We are on the 4th level above matter, plants and animals. The next level seems to be consciousness. This is our next frontier.
Consciousness is our next frontier
Nature is showing the way.
The difference between two levels is always important. Moving from our 4th level to the level above would make us a genius. Our limit is what can be implemented in the human body. This is not pure imagination. We already have people among us with surprising abilities. We call them geniuses. Some of them acquired higher consciousness by accident after being hit on the head. Some are born that way. All of them show us how an increase of consciousness can transform human lives. We watch them like we watch the Olympics. We don’t pretend to compete with the athletes, but we share with them the fact that we have a human body. The difference is only that something different was implemented in their body.
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 may be filled with a simple increase of consciousness. Our grandchildren may replace years of university with an injection of passwords!
We also have the slime molds. When in difficulty, they merge their bodies. If slime molds can merge their bodies, humans could merge their brains.
We are like eggs in their cartoon, neatly arranged but without real contact. Our souls are in solitary confinement. The society we built is a pedestal without a statue. We keep turning around 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
