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.