Negamuse wrote:Being a science nerd (I once went on a road trip to see the Large Hadron Collider) I'm interested in discoveries. I read yesterday that somebody has managed to make metallic hydrogen, for example, which is interesting because it might be an enabling technology for a bunch of things. A room temperature semiconductor, that lets us do power storage way more cleanly and efficiently, has usages in space travel...
I mean space is another thing, we're just about on the edge of maybe going multi planetary as a species. AI is cracking open a bunch of hard problems. In medicine, we're understanding how the body actually works on a more fundamental level all the time. Our understanding of genetics is improving all the time with gene editing becoming possible, we've even managed to see inside the human brain non destructively letting us map it as a network we have access to rather than a zoomed out, closed off blob with areas of interest but a lot of questions about how things work at a fine grained level. In medicine we're kind of again poised right on the edge of understanding how so many things that kill us work, kinda apropos in a pandemic. But in talking about conditions we couldn't touch before, shit there's even people saying we could end some of the problems we have with aging. Not living forever in a body that keeps deteriorating but won't die, but in stopping the things that make old age so bad for so many people. We could be active and useful and capable for longer, and ok yes maybe live longer too.
It's all just slightly beyond where we are now. A decade is a long time to do a lot of this stuff in. Though I admit at the moment I'm reading these things with a feeling of "wow I hope were able to survive long enough as a species to see that happen". And none of it will matter unless we change things to make the benefits available to everyone. Everyone knows my political views, I'm not going to import them into another thread. But I'm basically an optimist: a lot of this stuff is exciting *because* it has a huge opportunity to make life better for everyone. To bring us into the post-scarcity time where the problems and divisions of the past don't matter any more.
I know it's been a while since you wrote this but since this thread was bumped I felt to react to this because I missed it the 1st time. All the "solutions" you talk about that are supposedly fixed by science are not really solutions at all, yeah maybe on the surface but soon or late old problems arise in a new jacket. They just create more of the same problems because consciousness, the root of all existence, is ignored in all this. Despite all technological advances, they are more of the same mind created solutions that do not fix any root problems. Moreover, those solutions are only necessary because the mind created these problems in the first place. If we cannot evolve out of this duality we will always be stuck in this loop of problems > solutions > new problems > new solutions > etc. End this is literally eternal (suffering).
Why go multi-planetary if we cannot even take care of our Earth in the 1st place? Even if this would happen, we would end up creating the same problems on those other planets, because fundamentally nothing changed, we did not evolve consciously, only technologically so we end up re-creating the same dysfunctional patterns. This "technology is gonna save us" is such a naive view. I mean, a permanent technological solution always seems to be just around the corner. THIS time it will really save humankind, but did one ever really work in the long run? It's a classic carrot and stick example. Only recognizing the peaceful and fulfilled nature of our own Being will save us.
The body is a magnificent creation of natural intelligence, but how many people truly know and feel their energy-body, instead of living in their mind all the time, which is stuck in a prison of dualistic language? People are so driven off from their body and stuck in their illusionary world inside their head that this creates all kinds of mental and physical illnesses. And that is obviously a problem. But instead of addressing this by bringing attention
inside the body, ultimately realizing we are not a body with consciousness, but rather Consciousness having a body (a fundamental difference), solutions are trying to be found outside of it trough the mind, technology, gene modification, etc. It's all totally a waste of time and energy if consciousness, which is fundamental to all existence, is ignored. It means ignoring the nature of oneself, that is what is meant by sin in the bible. To miss the mark of existence.
When you stop identifying with your body and mind, you will see that problems actually don't even exist because nothing is personal on the deepest level. Everything is just happening and there is One that is just experiencing of all this, as Oneness. And there is nothing that opposes Oneness, because it has no opposite, it just is. Even death is seen as a duality between the birth and death cycle. Problems and conflict arise when one sees oneself as a person, a separate fragment, cut off from the Source of Being. Therefore, especially now in this time, it is more important than ever before to start recognizing ones true nature. If not, it is going to be a hell of a ride, and it will be too much for many.
The real problem for the ego is the question "who or what am I?". And the answer to that question is to be found when you divert attention inwards, towards That which even exists before attention. And rest attention there in the peace and stillness of your true Self. Then the rest will come naturally.
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