26 May 2012

The Next Step in our Evolution and what it Costs


Hasn’t consciousness been the primary vehicle of evolution in humans?  We realised that tools could make us powerful - that brain can outsmart braun and lead to its demise.  We made it, the sabre-toothed tigers didn’t.

The information age is the latest, and most drastic, transition period in humanity’s history.  We are now able to do virtually anything that people have ever managed to do since the dawn of time.  Us, personally, with a few taps on a keyboard.  What?!  We can learn almost anything, and communicate with almost anyone!  The Jungian collective subconscious is fast becoming conscious, and with united attention, I’m sure we can penetrate the veil that conceals Reality behind the secular.

Our kryptonite?  Busyness.  In a world where your mind is trying to fix a gazillion issues at once, there are few gaps in our linear thinking that allow us to even notice what’s happening – both inside ourselves and “out there”, as if there is a difference.  We are products of our culture, and culture is changing exponentially.  This evolving identity of ours can be disconcerting and scary, and shouldn’t be left to it’s own devices.  It’s essential for us to take the time to set the tracks of our own neuroplasticity routes.  When evolution is blind, it’s animalistic.  When it’s controlled, that’s the self-regulating “image of God” at work.

The move from the material to the mental plane has been happening for centuries, millennia.  But it’s evident more so now than ever.  A person can make thick cash by using their mind alone.  What are stocks?  Mutually agreed upon currencies, just like real currency is.  It’s no longer necessary for us to labor physically in order to thrive.  Is that a good thing?  It perpetually fills our mind with circulating abstractions and can easily steal our peace.  What is success?  You answer that.

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Information age as these ones and these zeros
are heroes when knowledge brings power
Information craze has got us trapped in this overload mode
with wisdom so elusive in this hour

But come on my friends.
just cos convenience calls, we've forgotten we can turn off the phone
and where does the invasion end when we invite it to control our own homes in silence
Your attention is a priceless commodity.

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