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We,The People, are not happy
1-2 Money
1-3 Sadomasochism
Let’s face it. Sadomasochism is a motivation hidden deep in our subconscious, waiting for a chance to surface. We see it at every level, from daily life to the geopolitics of nations. We don’t talk about it because it’s not something to be proud of. It appears in so many aspects of our lives that we consider it to be ‘normal’.
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How can you justify risking your life on the freeway to save a few seconds when you have nothing urgent to do?
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Did you ever take a chance and run out of gas? A little bit of sadomasochism might have influenced your decision.
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Casinos are rooted in sadomasochism. They calculate the odds for many different games. The more you play, the closer you get to those mathematical chances, which are not in your favor. The gambler prefers to focus on feelings. When he loses, he feels like a failure and should be ashamed. When he wins, he feels in control and superior. He becomes the king, and everyone must pay him. In gambling, sadomasochism overrides any rational thinking.
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To satisfy our addiction, we even use our judicial system. We use the Law to impose our point of view on others. We justify our actions by saying, “It is for their own good.” The truth is that some sadism is present in all of us. Even ideas like “Love your neighbor,” when combined with human nature, can result in an outbursts of sadomasochism, like the Inquisition.
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Think about the countless wars throughout our history. Wars are chances to suffer and inflict suffering on others. They’re not the best way to resolve conflicts, but we keep fighting.
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After winning a battle, it was a common practice for the Romans to torture the defeated.
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Think of the tortures of the Middle Ages: boiling people in hot water, wrenching their tongues, burning their eyes with hot irons. A popular form of entertainment was watching them burn at the stake. They used the excuse that someone had done something wrong to justify torturing him. What could have motivated them other than sadism?
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What we call ‘geopolitics’ is sadomasochism at the government level. In a more civilized society, when there’s a conflict, all the politicians involved in the fighting would be charged with war crimes. They would be sent to The Hague. The judge would decide who can go back home and who must go to the battlefield to remove the mines.
Search “Torture” and you will be surprised to see the many ways people have invented to make the victim suffer as much as possible for as long as possible. What was the motivation behind it? Sadomasochism is part of human nature. We may have inherited some of those genes, and this is not something to be proud of.
When people don’t have any stress, they create some. To fulfill this need, they turn to religions, governments, social conventions, and anything within their reach. Religious beliefs that cannot be proved or disproved are a perfect excuse. We satisfy our sadomasochism by saying, “God made me do it.” We imprison those who don’t follow the majority’s way of thinking. We justify our own morality by pretending that it’s for the public good.
Sadomasochism is part of human nature.
Should we try some empathy?
• Our ancestors didn’t learn to use fire without getting blisters. That was just the start. They realized that everything comes with a cost. No pain - no gain!
• Life in society would not be possible without some rules. Everybody must drive on the same side of the road. Sadomasochism begins with unnecessary regulations. “Use but don’t abuse” the need for some rules.
• Some people need BDSM.
• We live in a world driven by money, wars, oppression, crime, geopolitics, and fanaticism…
Think of them as compost that we recycle. We should use them the way flowers use dirt.
Even the most beautiful flower needs manure.
Could we be proud of some sadomasochism? The souls you see on Earth want to speed up their development. Their goal is to free the soul from the material world. They understand it won’t be easy, and they accept the challenge. They are willing to pay the price to grow faster. Shouldn’t we be proud of them?
The sadomasochists struggle with ‘restriction’ and ‘fear’. Could that be a common concern, though
to a lesser degree? Can we find ‘restriction’ in our lives? We build everything with straight lines,
but nature does not depend on straight lines. Flowers don’t grow like TV antennas. Our way of
thinking might be limited. This is our ‘restriction’.
Are we also plagued by fear? We need to join a community. We fear being alone. Imagine an astronaut accidentally losing connection to his spaceship. He is isolated in the universe. This is a basic fear buried deep inside us. We understand that we are suspended somewhere between the infinitely small atom and the infinitely vast universe. This is not an enviable position for someone who claims to dominate the universe.
An Alien looking at planet Earth through his telescope would see 8 billion individuals moving around like ants. He may be wondering what the cause of all this animation could be. We need food and shelter. That does not explain everything. A couple of centuries ago, approximately 85% of the population was comprised of farmers. Today, they represent less than 5% of the population. We should be free from basic needs 80% of the time. What keeps us so busy?
We have long-term and short-term motivations.
The human body is high maintenance. It must be fed three times a day. It must be kept at the right temperature at all times. It doesn’t smell good unless we keep washing it regularly. We don’t know what happens during our 8 hours of sleep. Even if you spend one hour a day keeping your body in working order, you should have more than 14 hours of leisure per day. Something is missing somewhere.
Behind the short-term motivation of the individual lies the long-term motivation of a society. Civilizations appear and fade away like flowers bloom and wither. We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization, followed by the Greek and Roman cultures. More recently, in the 15th century, Portugal was the leader of Europe. In the 16th century, Spain was the leading power, followed by the Netherlands, France, and England. All those countries seemed to follow the same process. The individuals who lived at the time were not conscious that they served the same purpose. We are not separate individuals. We are a flow of people like a river running across the centuries. We serve a purpose, consciously or not. Something is missing in our understanding of life. Sooner or later, we stop what we are doing and ask ourselves:” What is the purpose of all this? What am I doing here? Is it worth it?” Earth may not be hell, but it is not a paradise either. It looks more like purgatory.
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To answer the question of “What are we doing on Earth?”, some people use religion. Others decided that they will be happy when they have enough money or become famous. We are all looking for love. The problem is that we don’t know where to look. Looking for love cannot be a daily activity.
How is motivation implemented in Nature?
Let’s take a labyrinth.
At first, we sent water to fill the labyrinth. It filled all the dead ends and found its way to the exit. Water is driven by gravity.
The next step is to replace the water with slime mold. It is this gluey thing spreading on dead trees in the forest. It has no head and no brain. However, it is used to improve our computers because it can solve problems faster than we can. The slime mold will fill all the dead ends of the labyrinth. It will also reach the exit. After reaching its goal, the slime mold will remove what is filling the dead ends and could be put to better use elsewhere. Slime mold is motivated by the search for food.
Now, let’s place humans at the entrance of the labyrinth. They are not driven by gravity. They are not looking for food. They lack real motivation. They may not find the exit. Motivation could be the key to success. It lacks shape, color, or weight. You will not find it in the material world. The key to success is in our souls.
Love could be the leading motivation in our lives. Unfortunately, we don’t have the necessary sense organs to guide our search. All we know is that we will not find it in money or in the material world. The answer will come from our soul and our motivation.
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14 From Helena to Robert Check the NDE
What was the reaction of your friends when you told them about love? Keep in mind that your friends are in a dark cave, and you don’t even know, yourself, how you got out of that cave.
Fortunately, there is a way out of our predicament. Our consciousness may be limited, but it can be amplified. We have been working on that problem for a long time already. To love people is to be conscious of them. It is more than being mindful of their presence. It is being conscious of their state of mind. You find this between a mother and her baby. She knows why the baby is crying. No need for words and reasoning. She is conscious of what needs to be done. Between adults, you may not know the details of their past, but you are conscious of the influence that their past had on their soul.
You can get some idea of what an increased consciousness is like by talking to people who have gone through a near-death experience. Many of them have new abilities that they kept after this experience. The most common one is that they know what people around them are thinking. Be careful of what you are thinking if you go to one of their meetings. (There is one every month in most big cities.) If you see a big nose, try to think, “What beautiful hair”. You are swimming in increased consciousness. They may be aware of something about you that you forgot. Search ‘Near Death Experience’ and you will find hundreds of people of all ages who have surprising stories. Most of the time, it happened during surgery. This is not something I would recommend! We say that they lost consciousness. I would rather say that they were not conscious of their physical body. Do we need a physical body to be conscious? This is not on my list of sense organs.
What happened to both of us is that we became conscious of one another. After a big hug, there is not much more to talk about. This is what could help your friends.
15- From Robert to Helena – Critical mass
Helena, I keep thinking of what transformed our relationship. The only explanation I could find comes from the atomic bomb! No mathematics. I promise!
Take a small sphere of radioactive material. The energy generated varies with the volume of the sphere (4/3π R³). The energy lost varies with the surface area (4πr²). As you increase the size of the sphere, the volume increases faster than the surface area. You reach a point where there is more energy generated than energy lost. You have an explosion. This is called “the critical mass.”
Are you still there? Something similar could happen to people. As long as they are separated, nothing much happens. It is only when they get together that they can reach a certain “human critical mass”. The problem is that there may not be enough energy between the two of them to reach that point.
The idea is simple but difficult to believe. Look at the people around you. Each one can generate some love, but not enough to elevate himself to another level. Take two of them at random, and most of the time, their total energy is too small to reach the ‘critical mass’.
Let’s see what could be missing in many people. One possibility is that they are still attached to the material world. They cannot detach themselves from their own body. Most people struggle to make the transition from being a separate individual to becoming half of a couple.
Another possibility is a lack of freedom. Love and freedom come together. When I was a teenager, I was saving my money to buy a record player. Thanks to inflation, the price of the record player increased faster than my savings. It was a race I could not win. Soon after I abandoned any hope, a neighbor bought himself a new record player and gave me the old one. It seemed to me that renouncing reaching a goal in a specific way opens the possibility that it can be reached another way. By detaching myself from using my savings, I introduced freedom into the system. That opened new possibilities.
The general idea is that many people are still prisoners in Plato’s cave. The more knowledge they acquire in the material world, the more they become prisoners of that knowledge. It is more difficult for a surgeon to change professions than it is for a blue-collar worker.
Before you dismiss my critical mass as a crazy idea, let me tell you how it can also be found in human history. The homo sapiens have been on Planet Earth for more than 300,000 years. How come nothing much has happened until the last two centuries? How come the steam engine, the planes, GPS, the computers, and AI did not appear 100 000 years ago? The answer could be that humans were dispersed on the surface of the Earth. There was too much distance between them. The invention of agriculture allowed people to move to cities. Over the past 200 years, the population of cities has continued to increase. A computer is composed of millions of simple ideas contributed by millions of different people. The computer made the internet possible, which further enhanced communication between individuals. More and more brains are becoming increasingly interconnected. That should lead to human beings achieving their critical mass and a higher level of consciousness.
Helena, I predict that more and more people will find their puberty of the soul together.
I would go even further. We will become conscious that Homo sapiens is the seventh stage of human evolution. It is not a question of selecting one race or one religion. Dividing the world’s population into countries fighting one another does not make sense. Either the seventh attempt of Homo sapiens will succeed, or they will disappear from the Earth’s surface like the dinosaurs.
Instead of fighting one another, we’d better unite and look for a way to get out of Plato’s cave. The love between two human beings is pointing in the right direction.