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EXPLORING WHAT WE ARE AND SHAPING OUR FUTURE

AT THE CORE OF OUR EXISTENCE, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A HUMAN BEING?

This is one of the most important questions we can ask. Not as an academic or philosophical inquiry, but as an essential search for the realization of the next step in human evolution.

Of course, it is impossible to give a definitive answer in a constantly evolving cosmos. Nevertheless, the answers we find are crucial to our evolution as a species.

The answers to the question "What does it mean to be human?" define the society we live in now and in the future. The answers from past times serve as a benchmark and starting point, so it is necessary to understand history in order not to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

What the consciousness of the future will look like depends on the consciousness we are practicing now.

ON AN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, THIS QUESTION LEADS TO ANOTHER QUESTION WHAT I AM?

In fact, the two are inextricably linked. I firmly believe that we must find answers to these two questions in order to master the great challenges of our time. If we do not provide intelligent answers, the future will most likely become a devastated landscape of unjust and cruel societies.

What qualifies me to ask these questions, and even more, to claim the authority to answer them? Quite simply, because I am human.

We must answer the essential questions of life ourselves, each of us must find the answers within ourselves.

We cannot place our fate in the hands of experts or leaders. Of course, there are very smart people who do their part, but they cannot be the ultimate authority. We should not forget that we owe the current state of the world to experts and leaders.

TOXIC SOCIETY

Let's not kid ourselves, we live in a toxic society. This has become all the more obvious in recent years, but it has never really been any different. Even Buddha, 2,500 years ago, asked, Why do we suffer? Our history unfortunately leaves no doubt that we are the most dangerous, destructive and brutal species on earth. Of course, there is also the other side, love, compassion, understanding, creativity and an extraordinary mind. But these do not set the tone in our society. The law of the strong and the ruthless is still the force that moves the world.

BRIEF DREAM

There was a brief period in Europe when we lived the dream of a truly humane society, and in the 1990s, when the Cold War ended, for the blink of an eye, we saw a peaceful and fair society rising on the horizon. Today, this dream is death, and we are closer to a third-world war than ever. Depression reaches epic scales, we work harder every time for less money, neo-nihilism has become the new normal, we are witnessing real-time genocide on TV, and the list can go on.

HOPE

There is also hope. Many people are becoming more and more aware, and some are dreaming of the great awakening. This is good and has huge potential. Unfortunately, most approaches are not well-thought-out and take little, if any, account of the central role of consciousness in the process of change.

POLITICS AND HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS

The political approaches generally do not have access to higher levels of consciousness, and those who work with these levels are hardly interested in politics.

My work consists of bridging the ordinary life with the higher levels of consciousness. In other words, wisdom has to become the main factor in our society, therefore in politics.

I will publish a serie of articles that will get to the bottom of these two questions and then put them in the context of the development of our society. In order to finally show new ways that mean a radical change in what is meant by being human and which society can emerge from this.

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WE ARE LIFE ITSELF AND NOT JUST PEOPLE

The kernel of reality, the essence that pulsates vibrantly at the core of the cosmos, is Life itself.

All other dilemmas, conflicts, quandaries, and existential riddles ultimately flow into this one existential ocean: Life. The clarity that pierces the fog of our waking lives comes from recognising our dual nature: we are, first and foremost, the very manifestation of Life, and secondary to that, the human form that it has assumed.

A DANCE OF PARADOXES

Our humanity, in its rawest, most exposed form, is the grand tissue woven from the threads of joy and despair, wisdom and folly, happiness and suffering. It’s a dance of paradoxes, where our frenzied pursuit of something more, something beyond our ordinary existence, engenders an almost comical irony. In striving to transcend the limitations of our human form, our mortality, to claw our way towards an imagined reality, we become blind to the miraculous fact of existence, reducing us to mere personal identities.

In this reckless chase for an illusory ‘more’, the intrinsic value of our humanity is obscured, snuffed out. This is the fertile breeding ground of our torment, our madness. The futile attempts to seek something beyond life are the very elements that deny us our human potential. A paradoxical predicament indeed, where our striving for more devours the very ‘chance’ we crave.

AN ALTERNATE PATH

Yet, life is not devoid of mercy; it offers us an alternate path, a possible solution to this paradoxical predicament. The key lies in the sober realisation of our human form as a unique expression of life itself.

This shift in perspective is transformative; we cease to perceive our human form as the centre of existence, but rather, an embodiment of the exuberant dance of life. This realisation, a quiet acceptance and celebration of our duality, liberates us.

To comprehend our existence as a manifestation of life itself opens the floodgates to untold possibilities. To recognize our human form as a sentient expression of this cosmic dance is to grant ourselves a chance — a chance at true understanding, growth, and self-realisation. It is to finally grasp that being human does not diminish our connection to the universe, but rather, it deepens it, magnifies it, sanctifies it. This is the opportunity that lies nestled within the core of our existence.

Such is the dance of Life and Humanity — a dance that demands participation rather than spectating, exploration rather than living in the comfort zone. It is a dance of chance and no chance, of surrender and action, of paradox and resolution. Yet, in this dance, we might just find the rhythmic beat of our true selves — the life-force, the primal pulse that links us to the cosmos, the acknowledgment of which gifts us the highest chance of all: the chance to truly live.

If we have a chance to overcome our madness, it could be through this understanding:

We are Life in the form of a human and not a human who has a life.