8 - The brainjuice theory
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We,The People, are not happy
Let’s go back to the beginning. All our life, we keep alternating between being awake and being asleep, like turning the pages of a book. Giraffes sleep only 10 minutes at a time because it puts them in danger. Koala can sleep for 20 hours. Humans are somewhere in-between with 8 hours of sleep per day. We follow the same cycles of night and day as all the animals, .
We have a body and a soul. That gives us two ways to communicate with the outside world. Without them we would be nothing more than the primitive cells in our oceans. Their life is centered around eating and looking for food, and we share the same preoccupation.
The implementation of life on Earth started with the absorption of food from the environment. Matter is the source of energy supporting life on planet Earth. With energy came life, love, freedom, harmony, ideas, and feelings that do not belong to the material world. It may be more exact to say that our limited consciousness gives us some access to life, freedom and love. We value them and make them part of our soul.
We should not assume that all the planets of all the galaxies have copied the Earth. They could have beings with more than two channels of communications, and every channel could open the door to a world that we cannot imagine. The same universe can be seen through different filters and experienced in many ways. We cannot miss something are not aware of.
During the day, our life is dominated by the material world of our body. It is a time when we can see, smell, touch and hear what is happening around us. Our sense organs are giving us a lot of information from the material world. Unfortunately, they represent only 5% of reality. It is a place of direct contact with the laws of nature. This is where we learn to think. Forget gravity and you get an instant reminder. Wherever we turn Mother Nature is at our side to confirm our way of thinking. Scientists do not trust human thinking. They require the approval of Nature. Ideas must be confirmed by experiments.
From the material world of the body, we extract energy and learn to think. It is a good place to start. It is not a place to stay.
Fortunately, we can sleep. Our eyes are close. No noise. No light. This is where you find freedom, harmony, love, paintings, music and all those things that do not have a shape, weight, color but are important in our lives. We can’t explain why our sense organs have been placed in our body when it is in our soul that we need them most. Imagine souls with their own set of sense organs. No need to say “I love you”. It would show. Sleeping could be the most important part of our life. Different souls could have different shapes and different colors. Some could smell good and some would not. Different states of consciousness would make us live in different domains.
Sleeping could be the most important part of our life.
We have access to different domains of consciousness. This can happen when we get hypnotized or get a Near Death Experience or get hit on the head by accident like Jason Pagett. All those domains have something in common. They are totally independent of each other. We cannot transfer memory from one to the other. The only connection between them is our body and we are not using it. We may have some walls in our brain like we use walls in our computers. As far as we can tell, most of us are limited to two levels of consciousness: The body life and the sleep life.
What can we do with a body and a soul?
A dead man is a body without a soul. If we can accept the idea of a body without a soul, we should also accept the idea of a soul without a body. Nobody is perfect. Let’s assume that we need some improvement. That requires some energy and our best source of energy is matter. That would explain why so many souls decide to get associated with a physical body. (Einstein would approve). Every morning the soul changes into another channel of consciousness, gets into a physical body, gets dressed and goes to work. You are a normal human being. Some days you do something good and someday you do something that you are not proud of.
Then comes the evening. You don’t want to remain in a physical body for too long. This is not a very pleasant experience. The best you can hope for is that it does not hurt. You go there like you go to the food store to get groceries. We know that 20% of the energy in your food is sent to your brain. The best time of your day is when you go back to bed. You can get back to your original state of consciousness and be yourself again. Everything you need is at your disposal to improve your soul. You have the energy from your food. You have 86 billion neurons in the brain waiting to be used. You also have a certain amount of good and bad from your last day on Earth and all night to process it. This is the raw material you are going to use to improve your soul. Someday, you will have a good catch, and some day, you would better stay in bed all day. The next morning, you are a little better or a little worse than the day before.
The general situation of human beings is as follows:
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During the day, we extract energy from our food.
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The brain stands for only 2% of our weight but uses 20% of our energy.
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When falling asleep, our brain is at the disposal of the soul:
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86 billion neurons waiting to be used,
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20% of the energy available from our food
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Memory of the ‘good and bad’ that was experienced the day before.
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One third of our time to process what happened the day before.
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This is more than a coincidence. We spend our days preparing the improvement of our soul at night.
Moreover, planet Earth may be the best location for such activity. We start every day with the experience gained the day before. Progress would be much slower if the Earth turned more slowly and we would have to operate on a cycle of 5 days awake and 2 days’ asleep. We benefit from what bankers call compound interest. The slower the cycle, the higher the benefits.
Improving the soul is hard work. It takes many cycles of night and day.
Life on Earth is not forced labor, but it is a lot of work. It is not Hell, but it is not Paradise either. Earth would make a good Purgatory.
Earth would make a good purgatory.
Consciousness is our new frontier.
Can we think of heat without something being hot? Our way around this problem is to introduce the ‘calory’. It can be isolated and measured. We can think of it as an object and objects belong to the material world. This is known territory.
Imagine what our life would be like if we could make anything from the soul world manifest itself in our body world. Planet Earth could be immersed in love. What a change! Love does not solve problems. It dissolves them.
The same idea can apply to what we call ‘life’. It does not have shape or weight or color. It is difficult to think of life without somebody being alive. We keep creating life, all day long, without paying attention to what is happening. Millions of dead cells are being replaced with new living cells. To generate new living cells is to create life. Our body gets completely renewed 10 times a year. We are a source of life on Earth, and we are not alone. Animals and plants could also take part in an ongoing creation of life in the universe. They are part of the 95% of dark matter and energy and can manifest themselves in our 5% of the material world.
The same idea that applies to heat and life could also apply to feelings, compassion, energy, love and whatever we usually consider to be related to our soul. The key to this world is an increased consciousness.
Consciousness is our new frontier.
With an increase of consciousness comes increased responsibility. Can we be sure that we would not amplify sadomasochism? We may have to start by improving our notion of good and bad.
A puberty of the soul
Do you remember puberty? The world around you had not changed, but everything looked different. You went through a long period of preparation leading to an awakening. Sex organs are like a seed, waiting to be watered. Puberty appears to be the final stage of a long preparation leading to a final development. What could be next? Is there something more to life than perpetuating the species? “Nature is a gentle guide,” said Montaigne. Let’s see if we can find in Nature examples of a slow evolution leading to sudden hatching.
Scratching a match does not create heat and light. They existed long before we made matches. Scratching a match gives heat and light an opportunity to manifest themselves in our material world.
There is plenty of heat all around us. It is in the air, furniture and computers. Nothing is at absolute zero temperature. We cannot see heat. We don’t have a sense organ for heat, but we can sense it with any part of our body. Heat is our proof that we can give the immaterial world an opportunity to manifest itself in our material world.
We can give the immaterial world an opportunity
to manifest itself in our material world.
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The world’s population remained stable for 300,000 years until it was multiplied by 10 in the last 200 years.
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It takes a long time for the bud of a flower to grow until one morning we find it in full bloom.
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In the industrialization of each country, we see a period of preparation, leading to rapid changes.
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All the religions are waiting for a final apotheosis.
-The Christians are waiting for the last judgment.
-Some of the Jews believe that they will be judged on the day they die. Others believe in resurrection and the Day of Judgment. They both have a long period of preparation leading to an outcome.
-In the Islamic faith, ‘Yawm al-Din’ means the day of judgment.
If puberty can happen to our physical body, something similar could happen to our soul. It would even be surprising that something important could happen to the body without any repercussion on the soul.
We may have something to learn from the slime molds.
They don’t have a head or a brain. They eat and move like animals. They can solve complicated problems better than humans with computers. They seem to be alive. They could be a reliable source of information.
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After 1mn 20sec in this video, you can see slime molds merging their bodies when they run out of food. Merging bodies sound unbelievable to a human brain, but that should not stop us. We have been told by scientists that human thinking is unreliable anyway! - Don’t we? Let’s push the envelope of human imagination. Under stress, the slime molds merge their bodies. Under the same conditions, humans could merge their souls.
During the day, we can only communicate through our sense organs. During our sleep, we can communicate through our souls. At night, one soul could ‘see’ other souls, like during the day, one body can see other bodies. This is not complete merging. We are not as gifted as the slime molds. When we die, human souls could merge like the slime molds merge their bodies.
That may sound completely crazy but remember what people said about landing on the moon, not long ago.
The critical mass:
We have developed many technologies in the last two centuries: TV, cars, computers, cell phones and a lot more. What prevented our ancestors from doing that 200 000 years ago? Did they miss a ‘critical mass of the brain’?
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 with 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 take part in the same project. Computers led to the internet and the internet improved communication even further. That started an avalanche. This is how the process accelerated. All those people who lived in the last 200 000 years were not conscious that they were taking part in the same slow evolution followed by rapid changes.
This is not a domain where we can ask for Mother Nature’s approval by doing experiments. It is only a domain where a limited consciousness can try to assemble a limited number of clues.
