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10 - The glass ceiling
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.

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?
The difference between us and the level above us could be comparable to the difference between animals and humans. Moving from one level to the next requires adding something important. How can we find our way to the level above us? Let’s try some extrapolations.
First extrapolation:
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We move from matter to plants by adding the ability to grow, to take a certain shape, to make seeds and reproduce.
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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.
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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.
Second extrapolation:
To control one level, we need access to the level above it.
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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.
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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.
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The cow does not know what will append after her death. The farmer does.
We would need access to the level above us to understand our level.
We need access to the level above humanity to understand our life’s purpose on earth. 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 get through our glass ceiling.
Something is already coming down 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 food, and 20% of it is sent to our brains. 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.
The human evolution is accelerating.
It started very slowly. It took us 300 000 years to make a bicycle. Fortunately, we are catching up. We have gone from riding a bike to landing on the moon in the last two centuries. This happened while the world population was multiplied by 8. That may not be a pure coincidence. In the past two centuries, many people have left the country to go and live in big cities. There was also the invention of computers and the internet and a tremendous increase in communication. What happens between people may be like what happens 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), which produces an explosion.
By putting many human brains together,
we can reach a point of rapid development.