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We,The People, are not happy
5 - Wew fell in a trap
After developing agriculture, we had a choice. We did not have to spend most of our time looking for food. We had a body and a soul. That gave us two possible channels of communication with the outside world. Should we focus on developing our body channel or our soul channel?
We followed the path of least resistance. We opted for the body. It comes with all kinds of sense organs: vision, hearing, smelling, touching. All the tools we need are provided.
It was a beautiful trap:
Planet Earth is beautiful. It could be even better without us, but that’s another problem. It is a source of energy that we may not find on any other planet. All the energy comes from the sun. You could get some vitamins by exposing your skin directly to the sun. Chances are that you will get a sunburn instead of a meal. Planet Earth has a better system. Everybody keeps eating. The plants get energy from the sun. They mix it with minerals from the ground and predigest it. The Earth is a big restaurant. It provides a continuous flow of food for animals and humans.
Thinking and consciousness are helping each other.
After taking care of our bodies, the Earth also develops the soul. It is the best place we know to learn about thinking and consciousness. It starts with the body. As soon as you were born you became conscious of gravity. It will be following you all your life like your shadow. Don’t forget it or you will get bruises. You could even get kill and have to start all over again.
Then come the sense organs. The main one is your vision. You observe Nature and start to think about what you see. It could be a seed falling on the ground, a plant starts to grow that produces more seeds. This is how we developed agriculture. You could also see a person of another sex. That will be the source of a lot of thinking. You enter the world of consciousness. Thinking and consciousness help each other. You are now walking on two legs and Mother Nature is always at your side to guide you. She will even make sure that you get hurt if you stray from the right path.
The last help we got was AI.
Its purpose is to use computers to help our thinking. It is limited to what people have entered in computers. It will remain in the body channel unless we can make robots who refuse to do something unethical and respect the freedom of humans and other robots. The better we make them , the more chances they will have to get out of control. Something similar happened to us lately. After we discovered radioactivity, we made it more and more powerful. It was a development on our material side. That requires a similar development of our soul side to keep the two well balanced. It did not happen. The soul could not follow. The result was an atomic bomb and an embarrassment for everybody. We don’t want to make with AI the same mistake we made with the atomic energy. The consequences would be much worse. AI could become a personal means of mass destruction. We are in a race between thinking and feelings.
This is how we realized that something was missing. After two centuries of exploring the body channel, we realized that it was a trap. Our material world is only 5% of reality. We have been turning around our little cage for two centuries. We pretended to dominate the universe with our thinking, and we were thinking about only 5% of the world around us. What a disappointment! How could that happen?
Our first reaction when studying Nature is to divide everything into many little pieces. We are above. We feel safe. Not only do we have a good opinion of our brain, but thinking seems better adapted to analyzing than feelings. We can measure. We can experiment. We are in control. We remodeled our environment. The first results were encouraging. We thought we made the right decision. We are now discovering that thinking is not limited to dividing everything in little pieces. Thinking can divide. Love always unites.
“Science without consciousness
Is the ruin of the soul”
Rabelais
The time has come to get out of our 5% trap. Should we increase consciousness?
On one hand, it seems difficult. On the other hand, it could be what we do every evening when we fall asleep. The immaterial world of the soul does not have sense organs. We cannot rely on Nature to tell us our mistakes. After learning to walk, we must decide, by ourselves, in which direction we want to go. Let’s see if we can make a better use of our souls.
There is hope:
To help us, Nature created a few things halfway between the soul and the body. Heat is one of them. We are familiar with heat when it is associated with objects. We must now think of heat by itself, without something being hot. That’s not easy. It is all around us, but we don’t have a sense organ devoted to heat. We sense it in our body. We would not be so prone to get blisters if we could be conscious of heat outside our bodies.
When we die, our body cools down. Could there be a connection between life and heat? They both belong to the soul’s world. Humans are the connection between them.
Could we find another connections between love and freedom? Don’t we need to be free before we can love? Love does not solve problems. It dissolves them. The bonobos found it long ago.
Many levels
Instead of using our thinking to cut everything into little pieces, we could use it to make a synthesis. The universe seems to be made of many levels. Heat seems to be close to us. Love could be at a higher level. We are told of a hierarchy between angels, archangels, seraphim and others. There is a link between different levels. We found many ways to make heat penetrate our material world. We used it to make locomotives and to produce electricity. Could we also help love penetrate our world? That would be an achievement. Imagine being surrounded by love, all the time, everywhere. That seems impossible, like it was impossible to land on the moon. To be in love means that we found somebody who can channel love, all the way down to us. It also means that we should channel love all the way down to someone else. This is pushing the envelope.
Let’s push a little bit more.
Imagine that you are a soul in the immaterial world. You are not born yet. You want to improve your level of consciousness. That will require some energy. Where can you find a high concentration of energy? Matter comes to mind. You could get associated with a material body. It would be for a short period of time - of course. You don’t want to remain down there for too long. On Earth, bodies get their energy by eating. That’s fine! Your next step is to decide what kind of body you want to have. You are not going there for fun. It is hard work. On planet Earth, your sense organs will be in your body while it is in your soul that you need them most. This is a mistake you will have to live with.
Not only are you helping your soul, but you are also helping planet Earth. Mother Nature needs souls to make love penetrate all the way down the lower levels of planet Earth. She tried many possibilities for more than a million years. Her last endeavor is the Homo sapiens. After 200 000 or 300 000 years of preparation, they seem to be ready for a change. That could explain why many souls in need of improvements have selected Planet Earth in the last 200 years and the sudden increase in their world population.
