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The Homo sapiens (that’s us) have been on planet earth for more than 300 000 years. All that time we assumed that “reality” was limited to our planet earth, our solar system, our galaxy and whatever we could see in the sky. We thought that the universe was limited to what we were conscious of. Modern science is changing all that.

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The only way the scientists could explain the trajectories of distant stars was to accept the idea that 27% of the universe is made of “Dark Matter” and 68% is made of “Dark energy”. This is our dark side! Our material world is nothing more than 5% of reality.

The media did not have big titles such as: “Give me my 95% or give me death”. Telling people that they are prisoners of a small jail is not the best way to make friends.

How can we pretend to know our place in the world when we are only conscious of 5% of reality?

 

There is about the same difference between us and the level above us as there is between animals and humans. To move from one level to the next requires the addition of something important. How can we find our way to the level above us? We can try some extrapolations.

 

First extrapolation:

  • We move from matter to plants by adding the ability to grow, to take a certain shape, to make seeds and reproduce.

  • We move from plants to animals by adding the ability to move. That may require some nerves, some muscles, and a brain to use them.

  • We move from animals to humans by adding the ability to think.

We keep using the possibilities of the earlier levels and add a new one that must be important.  We start by adding a shape, followed by changing shape and thinking. Chances are that the next step will not have a shape, a weight, and a color. It will not be something that the scientists can take to their lab and experiment upon. Could it be something like theology?

 
Second extrapolation:
To control one level, we need access to the level above it.

  • How can you explain that the water in the ground can overcome gravity, rise in the air, and take a certain shape? You need to have access to the level of the plants to understand what happens to matter.

  • How can you explain that fruit trees can reproduce? You need the pollination of the bees. You need access to the level of animals to understand the level of the plants.

  • The cow does not know what will append after her death. The farmer does.

To understand the level of humankind we would need access to the level above us.
 
To understand the purpose of our life on earth, we would need access to the level above humanity. That would require something better than human thinking – something that we don’t have. This is our glass ceiling.
 
The purpose of our life is to find a way around our glass ceiling.
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There is already, in each of us, something coming from the level above us.

Each level has some characteristics of the level above in a simplified way. Animals can do some thinking. The general rule is that the main characteristic of one level percolates to the lower levels. This can be used as our step ladder to the level above humankind. We should use what percolated to our level, from the level above us.

 

There is a current going up.

There is a current going up from matter to higher levels. This current starts from the energy that our soil receives from our sun. This energy is used to grow plants. Humans get this energy through their food and 20% of this energy is sent to our brain. The energy from the sun comes down to the material level and goes back up to the human brain. We could take advantage of this current on our way up.

 

The scientists could help.

They are saying that our material world does not stand for more than 5% of reality. They make us conscious that we are confined to a small jail and should try to escape.

 

The human evolution is accelerating.

It started very slowly. It took us 300 000 years to make a bicycle. Fortunately, we are catching up. In the last two centuries we went from the bicycle to landing on the moon. This happened while the world population was multiplied by 8. That may not be pure coincidence. In the past two centuries many people left the country to come and live in big cities.  There was also the invention of computers and the internet and a tremendous increase of the means of communications. What is happening between people may be like what is happening in an atomic bomb. As you increase the volume of a mass of radioactive material you reach a point where the energy generated (function of the volume) is higher than the losses (function of the surface) and produces an explosion. By putting many human brains together, you can reach a point of rapid development.

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