Our material jail

Food and shelter are the main concerns of the Homo sapiens. When animals cannot find enough food, their species disappears. The same thing could have happened to us.

What could be done about food rationing? The process in use today is that the plants use photosynthesis to absorb the energy from the sun.  This energy is transferred to animals and humans in the form of food. We already have the solar panels transforming the sun’ energy directly into electricity. We also know that some vitamins can only be created by exposing our skin to the sun’s light. We may not be far from a possibility to bypass the plants and get our energy directly from the sun.

What could be done about shelters? Could we get some control of the outside temperature? Our struggle with global warming may be a step in the right direction. Global warming could do for shelters what solar panels are doing for energy.

Without our need for food and shelter, we could spend most of our time in the shade of a tree, singing, playing with the kids, talking about life, consciousness, feelings, harmony, love… Without this constant threat from the outside, we could turn our attention to the inside. We know that our body gets recycled and disappears after our death.  What happens to our soul?  We need a body to live like we need shoes to walk. The purpose of walking is not to use our shoes. “What is the purpose of our life on earth?”

We cannot blame our starving ancestors for neglecting that question. They were not equipped for their struggle to survive. Humans get conscious of the outside world through their senses. The main one is our vision. It is limited to a narrow range between red and violet. We cannot ‘see’ the infra-red and the ultra-violet. Any dog can hear and smell better than us. We cannot run very fast and cannot fly. We were proud of our superior thinking until we discovered that we have a very limited use of our 80 billion neurons.  The slime molds can solve – without a head and without a brain - some problems better than us. Moreover, we are told that the material world represents only 5% of reality. The rest is made of dark matter and dark energy. That makes you wonder how the Homo sapiens could survive in the earth’s environment for more than 300 000 years. Did they get some help from the dark matter and the dark energy that they did not know existed? It also makes you wonder why a normal soul would want to get associated with such a body, even for a short period of time.

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Then came agriculture

The first reprieve in their fight for survival happened about 12000 years ago. It is called the neolithic revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_revolution

By watching seeds falling to the ground and producing more seeds, they got the ideas of amplifying the process and invented agriculture. That was a revolution. That was the beginning of our liberation from the dictature of food rationing. There was some light at the end of the tunnel.

They could have used their new freedom to devote some time to the real purpose of their life. Maybe some of them did.

Our Neolithic Agricultural Revolution was followed by the Arab Agricultural revolution, the British Agricultural revolution, the Scottish Agricultural Revolution and the Third Agricultural Revolution (1930 – 1960). So far, we have had 5 opportunities to escape the material world. There is more to life than to reproduce. In the 21st century, farmers represent about 5% of our population. That means that we don’t have to spend more than 5% of our time looking for food. What are we doing the rest of the time? Are we making bigger and bigger shoes? Imagine that after our death, we look back and see that we have wasted most of our life. It will be too late for despair and suicide!

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The material world has been teaching us how to think

In the material world, we can take measurements and do experiments. Mother nature is always at your side to show us our mistakes and guide our thinking. Neglect gravity and you will get an instant reminder! We learned to think by studying the laws of Nature. It was also an opportunity to find our place in the world, above matter, plants and animals. We also found that there are many levels above us.

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There may be a way out of our predicament

What is dominating one level in nature, can also be found in lower levels in a more rudimentary way. Love at a higher level can be reduced to sexual attraction at a lower level. There is a possibility for mankind to get access to a higher level by amplifying some characteristics that we already have. If the level above mankind is the level of consciousness, we may have a possibility to break our glass ceiling and reach a higher level of consciousness by developing the consciousness that we already have.

It seems that some people have already found a way to make full use of their 80 billion neurons during the day. We call them geniuses. We don’t know for sure how they do it. What is important is that much more can be implemented in the human body than we are aware of. What is implemented in their body can be implemented in all the bodies of the Homo sapiens. There is a possibility that we can all become geniuses.

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It is also a challenge

A.I. can amplify our thinking. It will also amplify our thinking mistakes. Are we going to create a world of Angels or a world of Demons? There is a race between the development of our thinking and the development of our consciousness. In the material world Mother Nature was always at our side to guide our thinking. How can we be sure that we don’t need her approval anymore? We need a guide in the world of feelings that can replace the laws of nature in the material world. This guide could be a feeling of true happiness. We have some. We need more.

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Mother Nature could help…whether we want it or not. We may soon run out of oil and other sources of raw materials. That will greatly reduce our use of machines and oblige us to distance ourselves from the material world.

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The human evolution is accelerating

It took us 300 000 years to make a bicycle but in less than 100 years we went from the bicycle to landing on the moon. One possible explanation for this sudden development may be that we have reached some critical mass of the human brain. We learned from making atomic bombs that an explosion can happen above a critical mass. It may not be a coincidence that the human explosion happened at the time of an explosion of the world population. The 20th century was a time where people moved to cities of many millions of individuals connected by the internet.

What happens in radioactivity could also happen in other areas. We may discover that other critical masses exist in other domains.

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The task ahead:

Our challenge, today, is to be fully conscious that we were, for many years, prisoners of the material world. We now have a possibility of getting out of our jail. Our way to freedom is not in our body and the outside world. It is turning our attention inside, to our soul.

What is most important in our life is love, freedom, consciousness, music, beauty and many things that do not have a shape, a weight and a color. We cannot experiment on them in a lab. We have to use in the immaterial world the thinking that we learned in the material world.   After learning to swim in the shallow, we have to venture to the deep waters.

We must increase consciousness like agriculture increased food. We have to study what we have and amplify it. The professor does not expect his students to find a new solution to a problem of mathematics. He expects them to become conscious of a solution that already exists. The main purpose of education is to increase consciousness.

Story tellers have already imagined a world where animals can talk. What they imagined yesterday may be what we will realize tomorrow. Animals have a brain, lungs and a tongue - just like us. Someday, we may be able to give them what they need to be able to talk. That would get them out of their jail. That would improve their life… and ours. We may help ourselves by helping the levels below us.

 

Many things will have to change. We may have to change our idea of Good and Bad, Freedom, Love … We must free ourselves from abusing money. We need a new financial system that respects individual freedom. We must get our sadomasochism under control

The door to our freedom is in our brain.  We must become willing participants in our own evolution.

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