The Future Birth of Man By: Thomas M Easley

As we are, we assume that man—the human race as we know ourselves to be—is alive. And we assume as well, even before God, that man has the unique and preeminent  right to ascertain and denominate what is and is not alive.

But what if we are not what we seem? What if we are alive, but not yet born? What if our perception of the laws of physics, and God, or gods, essential to all religions, are only partly made? What if science and religion are not bookends between which all of reality is compressed?

To even the most casual practicing observer, it’s obvious that our assessment of God and the forces governing the material world are as different today from those of the past as today’s assessment will be to those in the future. This implies at the very least that any determination we make today, however well proven or deeply believed, will break down under future change much like the laws of physics break down on the crest of a black hole’s event horizon. This being so, we can safely argue that our perception of today’s world, if it will have little or no relevance in the future, has little or no relevance now. We only believe it does, with the same conviction that we believe we’re alive, that we believe “I” is the center of our identity, that fairytales are for children, God for adults, and faith for believers. 

Though we do try, it is very difficult for us to face life honestly. This is so, perhaps, because we lack the indifference of objective vision. We are not evolved enough to see through the faultless eyes of truth because truth prosecutes, and we fear the effects of such prosecution. In general no one believes in what weakens us, not intentionally. We believe in what makes us strong, and belief in what makes us strong strengthens the illusion that doubting our belief is wrong. But doubt seeds and fertilizes the imagination, which in turn grows the mind, which in turn advances human vision and human evolution.

For my part, in response to this realization, I have done all possible to minimize my dependence on defined and decided beliefs and facts, and to revaluate human spirituality, purpose, and behavior from the point of view of the species itself. Though not absolute in its objectivity, our species awareness of us as individuals within it will be unattached and indifferent.

Therefore, to better my comprehension of specie’s awareness, and it’s more objective indifference to us, I do all possible to remain self-aware in the present of those massive interacting self-organizing systems, laws, and processes which lead to species scale-of-vision perspectives, and a greater understanding of our own human specie’s self-organizing principles.

Indeed, the view that a cell in our body would have of its place in the whole of our body—a species scale-of-vision perspective—is possible for us. We can see as the species sees, but it’s a difficult perspective to sustain, and even more difficult to utilize.

After years of work and study, my scale-of-vision remains primarily human perspective biased, anthramorphic, more self-absorbed than self-aware, and this, according to my observations, is true for everyone. But this can change, barring too much resistance in us from our abhorrence to undefined borders and the fear of insignificance perpetuated in us by possessive “I” attachment.

Every mood we feel, thought we think, item we own, desire we have, need not be seen by us as essential to what makes us real; as “I” attached. “I” is not the center of individual identity, and it never has been. We are not one, we are many. There is no “I” to attach to, no center around which our identity revolves.

Fear of insignificance cannot define significance, only it’s absence can.

Hierarchical conformations; indifferent multiple self-organizing systems, laws, and processes intermingling—scaling from subatomic levels, to towns, cities, nations, stars and galaxies, to black holes and the vacuum of space, constitute an accumulated blend that leads to this reality in this moment everywhere in time.

Big things lead to these words on this page, to this moment in which you are reading them and the opportunity, here and now, to affirm that being insignificant, as we are, does not separate us from reality—it awakens reality in us. A reality focused by present awareness which makes it possible for us to see how we are seen within the species by the species, and to begin considerations as to where we are within the species’ evolutionary cycle.

Perhaps we are alive in the embryonic state of species evolution. If so, the question, “are we alive, but not yet born,” becomes preeminently meaningful. And, how to assess the importance of that moment in time in which the human species leaves the womb—the future birth of man—becomes a question of even greater depth and purpose.

To become more observant moment after moment; more self-aware of self-organizing systems, laws, and processes, and the impact on human evolution of this awareness not only excites the brain to challenge perceived limits, it’s our best means of graduating our scale-of-vision to something closer to God, and all systems, laws, and processes that make reality possible for us.

The practice of a practicing observer; a practice without want of proof, or faith, this is where we begin, where we always begin—we open our eyes, see, and understand that our awareness of a question, which is not an answer, is the answer to it.

CHANT HARE KRISHNA MAHA MANTRA 

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ALWAYS BE HAPPY