Love and consciousness
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantial new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein
“If you wish to understand the universe, think of energy, frequency and vibration”
Nikola Tesla
“The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.”
Rudolf Steiner
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
Nikola Tesla.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Shakespeare
1-Introduction
1-Introduction 2-Puberty 3-Back to beginning 4-World in layers 5-Glass ceiling 6-Human thinking
7-Sadomasochism 8-Human motivation 9-Better way to think 10- Going through a transition
EMAILS 11- Robert to Helena - I can't explain 12- H to R - Don't analyse 13- R to H - A question of consciousness 14- H to R - Check the NDE 15- R to H - The critical mass 16- H to R - Use but don't abuse 17- R to H - What happens in our sleep 18- H to R - To sleep or not to sleep. 19- R to H - Don't create your own obstacles 20- H to R - Enough thinking
We talk about love with the same determination a farmer has for rain: “I need it, I want it, and I deserve it. It’s my turn, and I should have more. This is simply unfair!”
We often discuss love as if it were a tangible object, something with a specific shape, color, and weight. However, love is not an object that can be taken to a lab for scientific experimentation. It exists beyond the realm of science, where logic may not always apply.
Young children were asked what the word “love” means to them. A 6-year-old girl said,” Love is when the woman wears perfume, and the man wears aftershave, and they smell each other”.
We need to change the way we perceive love. How will you respond when your children come to you, curious about what love truly is? Will you tell them that people exist in society like eggs nestled in an egg carton—carefully lined up and seemingly together, yet devoid of real connection? Everyone may appear secure in their compartment. However, there is something even more important than feeling secure. They yearn for the warmth and intimacy that would break the barriers of their solitude, hoping that someday love will reach out and rescue them from their isolation.
Our quest for love starts with puberty. It marks the beginning of a long evolutionary process. It will be our primary concern for most of our lives.
2 - Puberty
Our love life starts with Puberty. After years of preparation comes the grand opening. The world around us has not changed, but everything is different. Our body is fully developed. We have found a way out of our isolation. We have reached adulthood! There is nothing more to be discovered. We are ready to vote and change the world!
We will soon discover that puberty is not the final answer. It is only the beginning. If something so important can happen to the body, something important can also happen to the soul. What is transforming a child’s soul into an adult’s soul? Is it an increase in consciousness? For instance, we become aware that the world’s population is divided into two categories. One is more familiar!
The human consciousness is limited:
As we explore our extended domain of consciousness, we discover its limits.
-Are we conscious of ‘life’? Can we tell the difference between a cat sleeping on the sofa and a stuffed cat? No. We can’t! We know by experience that life brings movement. We need to see movement to infer that there is life.
We are conscious of the consequences of life but not life itself.
-Are we conscious of heat? Do we get burned sometimes? Blisters are a consequence of excessive heat. Our body can tell us about the consequences of too much or not enough heat. We don’t have a sense organ that directly makes us conscious of heat. We must wait for the consequences and get burned.
-Animals know which food is good for them and which is not. We can’t differentiate between the good mushrooms and those that will kill us.
-Are we conscious of love? Are we limited to some consequences, such as sexual attraction?
Could the same limitations also apply to freedom, harmony, nutrition, will, and happiness?
Everywhere we turn, we face a need to push the envelope of human consciousness.
Human evolution is accelerating.
The Homo sapiens (that’s us) have been on planet Earth for more than 300 000 years. What prevented our ancestors from inventing computers, cars, planes, the use of electricity, AI, and going to the moon 100 000 years ago? Did they need a long period of preparation before a sudden change, like it takes us years to be ready for puberty?
The decline of the Roman Empire took 400 years. Today, we can observe a country rise and decline within a century. Our world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In less than a century, we went from using electricity to computers and AI. The world we live in may sound like the Stone Age to our grandchildren. This is a problem our ancestors did not have. It is only in the last 200 years that we have started to remodel our environment.
Human consciousness can be amplified.
In the 21st century, we have a choice.
-We can live like our ancestors and ignore the warning from puberty and let things happen as they may.
-We can also push the envelope of our consciousness and become a willing participant in our own evolution.
We can do with consciousness what our ancestors did with food. They saw seeds falling on the ground and producing more seeds. That gave them the idea of saving some seeds and planting them at the right time and in the right place. That was the beginning of agriculture. We can utilize the same idea and push the envelope of the limited consciousness that nature has given us.
Humanity could get divided between those who have expanded their level of consciousness and become willing participants in their own evolution and those who have not. Such a transformation could make the atomic bomb obsolete.
3 - Back to the beginning
Human beings have a body and a soul. They see the world through two windows. They become conscious of the material world through their body. They become conscious of the immaterial world through their soul. Their body and their soul determine the limits of their consciousness.
That does not mean that, in the vast universe, you can only find souls with bodies. Some people use intuition. They could also use energy, time, space, and many things we are not aware of. Our Grandchildren may find, someday, that some planets are inhabited with souls who are in no hurry to get united with a human body. We can’t blame them - Can we? As far as humans are concerned, we will limit our investigation to body and soul.
Our body:
It all started with only one cell. You could view this original cell as the Big Bang of your body. The contribution of our parents was limited to the introduction of a sperm cell to an ovum. Whatever happened after that was entirely out of their control. The mother cannot decide if she will have a boy or a girl. This is not the way to treat a woman. The first cell got divided in 2, 4, 8, 16… Those cells knew how to grow and multiply. The result is a human body that is much more complicated than anything a human brain could conceive.
-30000 to 50000 different proteins.
-60000 different kinds of toxins.
-Between 75000 and 100000 genes.
-More than one million different kinds of bacteria are in our mouths alone.
-10 million different types of blood cells.
-Trillions of cells are organized in groups within groups and react with other groups.
-Every second, our body completes about 500 trillion faultless copies of hemoglobin, a protein containing 10000 atoms in 574 amino acids.
-Number of organisms in the digestive system: 100 000 000 000 000.
All this is done without any help from the brain. We are not even conscious of it.
Nothing in the human body was created by the human brain.
The human body is not created once and for all. Every cell in our body is renewed approximately 10 times per year. Even our skeleton is renewed every 3 months and replaced by a new one that is not as good, and we don‘t know why. Scientists say that the atoms of our bodies are eternal. You may question the experience our scientists have of eternity. Those atoms have their own cycles, such as the water and nitrogen cycles.
The truth is that the human body is made up of a deviation
in the cycles of many millions of atoms,
and we don’t know how the traffic is regulated!
Our body comes equipped with sense organs. We would not have survived on planet Earth for more than 300 000 years without eyes to see, ears to hear, and a nose to smell.
Our main sense organ is our eyesight. It is far from perfect. It is limited between red and violet. We can’t see the infrared and the ultraviolet. Our hearing is better. We can hear 7 or 8 octaves. However, any dog can listen and smell better than we can. There are also senses of touch and taste, temperature, and balance. The purpose of all those senses is to send information to the brain. It was a good idea to place them in the head, close to the brain. This speeds up our reactions in case of danger.
Our soul
It is in the soul that you will find what is most important in one’s life, such as thinking, will, freedom, love, feelings, emotions, and imagination. Whatever does not have shape, color, or weight, and cannot be measured, is in the soul. Unfortunately, we don’t have sense organs in the world of the soul.
What is most important in our life is in our soul,
But our sense organs are in our body.
This design could use some improvements, but it is too late for a recall.
4 - The world comes in layers
Next, we have a thin layer of arable earth that can be found all over the planet. It is skinny but vital. Without it, there would not be any plants, animals, or humans. We don’t know where this layer comes from. The Earth was exposed to sunlight for many millions of years. The energy from the sun could have transformed the rock into arable land. This is pure intellectual speculation, of course. The only justification is that without the sun, planet Earth would be nothing but an icy piece of rock. All the life we can see on Earth comes from the sun. Adding a thin layer of arable land is the link that was missing between the sun’s light and the plants.
Do you remember the pictures of canyons showing layers of alluvium of different colors? That’s the idea. The human world is composed of layer upon layer.
-The first layer of Planet Earth is made of matter. This is the raw material from which everything else is made.
We are not sure where this matter originated. It appears to be a condensation of energy, and we are not sure where this energy originated. This layer does not contain any life, feelings, or ideas. Nothing but eternity!
Reverse engineering:
We can now engage in some reverse engineering regarding the creation of planet Earth. It all starts with a piece of rock orbiting the sun for millions of years. Under the sun’s influence, the rock’s surface is transformed into arable land. With increased exposure to sunlight, plants and animals begin to emerge. Eventually, humans follow. The fundamental idea is that everything on Earth originates from the sun and the passage of time - Quite a bit of time!
Layers appear:
- The layer #1 The layer of matter. It is the raw material from which Planet Dearth is made.
- The layer #2 The layer of the plants. To move from the layer of matter to the layer of plants, we add the ability to grow, to take a particular shape, to make seeds, and to reproduce. This is a lot.
- The layer #3 is the layer of movement. What differentiates the animals from the plants is that animals can move. They do it by changing the shape of their body. That requires brain and muscles.
-The layer #4. It is the human layer. We placed ourselves on top - Of course! You access our layer by adding thinking to layer #3. With humans, we are reaching the limits of the material world.
You will notice a continuous evolution in what we add as we move from one layer to the next. We start by adding something close to matter. As we move to higher levels, what we are adding becomes less and less material. To move from matter to plants, we add a change in the shape of matter. To move from animals to humans, we add thinking, which belongs to the realm of the immaterial.
With humans, we reach the limits of the material domain. Heat, life, thinking, freedom, and happiness do not have shape or weight. They belong to the immaterial world and manifest themselves in our material world.
We go from one layer to the next by adding something important. As we get higher, we distance ourselves from the material world and penetrate the immaterial. If we continue in that direction, we should be able to reach the level of love.
Yes and No. To dominate one layer, we need access to the level above it.
-Let’s take the level of the plants. The fruit trees do not last forever. Plants die and reproduce. How do you explain that the fruit trees can reproduce? That requires bees and pollination. The bees come from the animal layer. You need access to the animal layer #3 to understand the plant layer #2.
-The cow does not know what happened before her birth, and fortunately, she does not know what will happen after her death. The farmer does. You need access to layer #4 of the farmer to understand what governs the life of the cow on layer #3. The presence of humans on Earth has displaced many species of animals. Chickens, horses, and sheep would have disappeared long ago without the protection of the farmers. That means that we would need access to a level of understanding beyond human comprehension to understand what governs our lives.
To dominate our lives would require something better than thinking.
This is something that we don’t have.
This is our glass ceiling!
There is hope
Those layers are not watertight. One level can percolate into the level below. Take heat, for instance. It does not have a shape or weight, but it can manifest itself in the material world. Heat, freedom, consciousness, love, and harmony belong to a level above us. They manifest themselves at our level every day. We are conscious of their consequences.
Could we use what is at our disposal, and amplify it? Remember agriculture. Our ancestors observed seeds dropping to the ground and germinating. They decided to copy nature and to amplify the process. That was the beginning of agriculture and our civilization. We could do with love what they did with food. We may be able to amplify the little love that is at our disposal and amplify the process.
What is the purpose of human life?
This is a fundamental question for the human species. What are we doing on Earth? Some people found an answer in religion. Others look at philosophy. Others try to surround themselves with money. They are looking for something to buy. Happiness is only a consequence. We will never find the cause if we focus on the consequences.
The first step is to differentiate between happiness and enjoyment. You can enjoy a glass of wine. You should not rely on wine to have a happy life. Happiness can be a consequence of doing something meaningful. That will not come from our body. We know that after our death, all our material possessions will be recycled.
What makes our life on Earth meaningful
is more likely to be an improvement of the soul.
Plato (428 BC 348 BC) already had a similar concern.
He saw humans being prisoners of their own nature. He wanted to get them out of their cave. His solution was to develop philosophy.
Plato’s allegory of the cave still applies today.
Plato tells us of people who spent all their lives chained in a cave. They could only face shadows on the wall in front of them. They were convinced of the reality of those shadows because it was all they knew. One day, one of them was allowed to turn around. He discovered that, behind him, there was a fire and people moving objects in front of the fire. What he saw on the wall was not real. It was only shadows. Later, he was also allowed to exit the cave and discover a much broader universe. He must have been a good man because he went back to the cave trying to help his old friends. They did not believe him. Instead of being grateful for his help, they treated him as an enemy.
5 - The glass ceiling
After 2300 years, Plato’s allegory of the cave remains relevant. We are prisoners in a cave, and this cave is our own body. Our limits are the limits of our sense organs. We think that we are free while we keep turning around our cave. There is a universe outside waiting for us. The first step is to become conscious of our limitations. We need an increase in consciousness.
Amplifying the consciousness at our disposal could be a way to get around our glass ceiling.
We are already working on it. When a teacher gives mathematics problems to his students, he does not expect them to find a new solution. His goal is to make his students aware of a solution that already exists. He wants to increase their level of consciousness. This is the main purpose of our education system. Today, all the facts are at our disposal on the internet. The question is: What do you want to get conscious of?
As far as we can tell, there are many levels above us: Consciousness… Harmony…. Freedom… feelings, Love. Freedom and love are like sisters. They come together. Are we ready for the level of pure love? Could we handle it? Are you sure that we would not get cremated?
Consciousness seems to be a step in the right direction. If it is not the destination, it is part of the journey.
6 - The human thinking
We get conscious of the world around us through our body and our soul. We started with the body because it comes equipped with sense organs. We use our brains to think like we use our legs to walk. Let’s get some details.
The human body is marvelous. Unfortunately, it comes equipped with a brain that is a total disappointment. To make us feel great, we compare our thoughts with those of animals. This is cheating. We should compare the development of our brain with the development of our own body. Every second, we complete about 500 trillion faultless copies of hemoglobin, a protein containing 10000 atoms in 574 amino acids. How does that compare with the human brain? Our body is way above our head!
Here is a test of human thinking that would dissipate any doubt.
“If Mary’s daughter is my son’s mother, what is my relationship with Mary?”
This is a simple question about the relationship between grandparents, parents, and children. No mathematics. No calculations. Only thinking.
Another test of the human brain:
We take a series of coins and put them in alignment and number them 1, 2, 3, 4… all heads up.
- We flip the coins 2, 4, 6… and all the multiples of 2.
- We flip the coins 3, 6, 9, 12… and all the multiples of 3.
What are the coins that are still heads up?
You may object that the human brain has remodeled our environment. We created computers, planes, MRIs, antibiotics, atomic bombs, and cell phones. We went to the moon..... That’s true, but we did all those things by combining many simple ideas. A computer is made of millions of simple ideas. We connected millions of brains producing millions of simple ideas. It only shows that it took many people to put together many simple ideas. That does not mean that the individual human brain has improved.
The scientists are the first to say that human thinking is not reliable. Every human idea must be confirmed by experiments. They always need the approval of Mother Nature. It took Einstein four years to gain some recognition from the scientific community after publishing his theory of relativity. Without experiments, it may never have been accepted.
We can assume that after the Big Bang, a limited amount of thinking appeared in the universe. It could have condensed into the human brain. Do we become increasingly dumb as the world population increases, and a limited amount of thinking must be divided among more and more people? Do we generate thinking just by ourselves, out of nothing? This is something to think about!
There is something special about human thinking. It is that we can think about our thinking. Scientists do it all the time. They collect information and develop a theory that explains the links between all the facts they have collected. This is thinking. Later, they get more information and must revise their theory. This is thinking about their thinking.
It appears that within our brain, there is a smaller brain that controls the use of the larger brain. Why not? If the world is made of layers, the human brain could also be made of layers!
Telling people that their brain is limited is not the best way to make friends. They would prefer to hear that the universe was created in such a way that it can be dominated by human thinking!
We are not the master of our ship.
We are only trying to master the wind blowing in our sails.
How can we explain this enormous discrepancy between our mind and our body?
When an animal sees danger, it knows what its reaction should be. Birds fly away - Zebras run - Fish swim. When a man perceives a threat, he may hesitate between different responses. Should he hide? Run away? Call for help? Throw stones? Climb a tree? Man introduces thinking between being aware of the danger and his reaction. That takes time. A fraction of a second could make the difference between survival and becoming a meal. The more you think, the lower your chances of survival. Eliminating the best thinkers for millions of years before they even have a chance to reproduce lowers the IQ of the general population. We are the survivors because we are the dumb ones. The Homo sapiens survived because of their limited thinking. Are we smart enough to find a better explanation?
7 - Sadomasochism
An Alien looking at planet Earth through his telescope would see 8 billion individuals moving around like ants. He may be wondering what the cause of all this animation could be. We need food and shelter. That does not explain everything. A couple of centuries ago, approximately 85% of the population was comprised of farmers. Today, they represent less than 5% of the population. We should be free from basic needs 80% of the time. What keeps us so busy?
We have long-term and short-term motivations.
The human body is high maintenance. It must be fed three times a day. It must be kept at the right temperature at all times. It doesn’t smell good unless we keep washing it regularly. We don’t know what happens during our 8 hours of sleep. Even if you spend one hour a day keeping your body in working order, you should have more than 14 hours of leisure per day. Something is missing somewhere.
Behind the short-term motivation of the individual lies the long-term motivation of a society. Civilizations appear and fade away like flowers bloom and wither. We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization, followed by the Greek and Roman cultures. More recently, in the 15th century, Portugal was the leader of Europe. In the 16th century, Spain was the leading power, followed by the Netherlands, France, and England. All those countries seemed to follow the same process. The individuals who lived at the time were not conscious that they served the same purpose. We are not separate individuals. We are a flow of people like a river running across the centuries. We serve a purpose, consciously or not. Something is missing in our understanding of life. Sooner or later, we stop what we are doing and ask ourselves:” What is the purpose of all this? What am I doing here? Is it worth it?” Earth may not be hell, but it is not a paradise either. It looks more like purgatory.
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To answer the question of “What are we doing on Earth?”, some people use religion. Others decided that they will be happy when they have enough money or become famous. We are all looking for love. The problem is that we don’t know where to look. Looking for love cannot be a daily activity.
How is motivation implemented in Nature?
Let’s take a labyrinth.
At first, we sent water to fill the labyrinth. It filled all the dead ends and found its way to the exit. Water is driven by gravity.
The next step is to replace the water with slime mold. It is this gluey thing spreading on dead trees in the forest. It has no head and no brain. However, it is used to improve our computers because it can solve problems faster than we can. The slime mold will fill all the dead ends of the labyrinth. It will also reach the exit. After reaching its goal, the slime mold will remove what is filling the dead ends and could be put to better use elsewhere. Slime mold is motivated by the search for food.
Now, let’s place humans at the entrance of the labyrinth. They are not driven by gravity. They are not looking for food. They lack real motivation. They may not find the exit. Motivation could be the key to success. It lacks shape, color, or weight. You will not find it in the material world. The key to success is in our souls.
Love could be the leading motivation in our lives. Unfortunately, we don’t have the necessary sense organs to guide our search. All we know is that we will not find it in money or in the material world. The answer will come from our soul and our motivation.
8- Human motivation
An Alien looking at planet Earth through his telescope would see 8 billion individuals moving around like ants. He may be wondering what the cause of all this animation could be. We need food and shelter. That does not explain everything. A couple of centuries ago, approximately 85% of the population was comprised of farmers. Today, they represent less than 5% of the population. We should be free from basic needs 80% of the time. What keeps us so busy?
We have long-term and short-term motivations.
The human body is high maintenance. It must be fed three times a day. It must be kept at the right temperature at all times. It doesn’t smell good unless we keep washing it regularly. We don’t know what happens during our 8 hours of sleep. Even if you spend one hour a day keeping your body in working order, you should have more than 14 hours of leisure per day. Something is missing somewhere.
Behind the short-term motivation of the individual lies the long-term motivation of a society. Civilizations appear and fade away like flowers bloom and wither. We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization, followed by the Greek and Roman cultures.
More recently, in the 15th century, Portugal was the leader of Europe. In the 16th century, Spain was the leading power, followed by the Netherlands, France, and England. All those countries seemed to follow the same process. The individuals who lived at the time were not conscious that they served the same purpose. We are not separate individuals. We are a flow of people like a river running across the centuries. We serve a purpose, consciously or not. Something is missing in our understanding of life. Sooner or later, we stop what we are doing and ask ourselves:” What is the purpose of all this? What am I doing here? Is it worth it?” Earth may not be hell, but it is not a paradise either. It looks more lAn Alien looking at planet Earth through his telescope would see 8 billion individuals moving around like ants. He may be wondering what the cause of all this animation could be. We need food and shelter. That does not explain everything. A couple of centuries ago, approximately 85% of the population was comprised of farmers. Today, they represent less than 5% of the population. We should be free from basic needs 80% of the time. What keeps us so busy?
To answer the question of “What are we doing on Earth?”, some people use religion. Others decided that they will be happy when they have enough money or become famous. We are all looking for love. The problem is that we don’t know where to look. Looking for love cannot be a daily activity.
How is motivation implemented in Nature?
Let’s take a labyrinth.
At first, we sent water to fill the labyrinth. It filled all the dead ends and found its way to the exit. Water is driven by gravity.
The next step is to replace the water with slime mold. It is this gluey thing spreading on dead trees in the forest. It has no head and no brain. However, it is used to improve our computers because it can solve problems faster than we can.
The slime mold will fill all the dead ends of the labyrinth. It will also reach the exit. After reaching its goal, the slime mold will remove what is filling the dead ends and could be put to better use elsewhere. Slime mold is motivated by the search for food.
Now, let’s place humans at the entrance of the labyrinth. They are not driven by gravity. They are not looking for food. They lack real motivation. They may not find the exit.
Motivation could be the key to success. It lacks shape, color, or weight. You will not find it in the material world. The key to success is in our souls.
Love could be the leading motivation in our lives. Unfortunately, we don’t have the necessary sense organs to guide our search. All we know is that we will not find it in money or in the material world. The answer will come from our soul and our motivation.
9 - A better way to think
We explored every possible way to use the material world to reach the level of love - starting with puberty.
What is most important in our lives, such as freedom, thinking, love, life, heat, and happiness, come from higher levels. They manifest themselves sufficiently on our material level to make us conscious of their importance. Some sense organs to detect them would be most welcome. Unfortunately, if they exist, they must be reduced to the state of embryos.
We learned from science that human thinking is not reliable. Ideas need to be confirmed by experimentation. This is how we get Nature’s approval. Thinking is only a tool, and we are responsible for the way we use it.
Describing our idea of love is not easy because our vocabulary originated in the material world. It is made to handle objects. Moreover, everybody gives the word love a different meaning based on their own experience. Imagine a boy saying, “I love you,” and the girl asks, “What do you mean by that?” The boy would not know what to say! Don’t you think that she has the right to know?
We need a different way of thinking.
How can we pretend to be free if we are not even free to choose what we are going to think about?
Imagine a society completely dominated by human logic. Making decisions that cannot be justified would send you to a psychiatric hospital run by robots using AI. It would be a society full of gadgets doing many things without any feelings, such as atomic bombs. You would suffocate. An education based only on thinking would replace freedom with rules. Ideas are blind. They need to be guided by feelings.
The nature around us is much more complicated than anything the human brain can handle. Our reaction is to break everything into little pieces with the hope that the smaller pieces will have smaller problems, easier to handle. When you break a cookie, you have three components. You have the two pieces and the link between them. We know how to handle the pieces. They belong to our material world. Their link is in the little gap between them. It is easy to forget. We end up with a dust of atoms without any possibility of using them to recreate the trees, the flowers, and the birds. We have removed life. We are good at killing.
Instead of letting our thinking pull us down by using analysis, we should use synthesis and move up.
Here is an example. Whatever we see in nature is not unique. It is one of the many implementations of a more general idea. We should look for other similar implementations. After noticing something special in the shape of cauliflowers, we could look for a similar idea in the lightning, the lungs, the branches of a tree.... That would lead to the discovery of fractals. Observing an association of opposites in the ovule and the spermatozoa should lead to other associations of opposites, such as brain and nerves, chlorophyll and blood… We would become conscious of the feelings hidden behind the ideas.
We should also apply this new thinking to the way we look at ourselves. Instead of investigating what makes us different from one another, we should investigate what we have in common. Humanity is made of individuals isolated in their own skin and trying to get out of their isolation. We will not escape our jail by dwelling on our differences. We should search for what we have in common. Synthesis must replace analysis.
Our efforts to understand should produce changes in our brains. This is the purpose of going to school. We learn how to learn. What is important is not the number of books we read but the books that remodel our brains.
Thinking needs humans like birds need trees. The birds don’t belong to the trees and no individual tree is indispensable. What is needed is a group of trees to support a group of birds. That would mean that individual thinking is part of a more general thinking, whether or not we
are conscious of it.
10 - We are going through a transition
In the material world, we learned that:
- Through our body, we are introduced to a world where everything has a shape, a weight, and a color. Our sense organs make it easy to explore this domain. Unfortunately, what is most important in our lives, such as life, harmony, will, feelings, happiness, and love, cannot be found in our material world.
- We also found that the world comes in layers. We are limited to the layers of matter, plants, animals, and humans. Above us is a glass ceiling. We may have to find a way around this glass ceiling before we can reach the level of love.
- Through our daily life, our sense organs collect information. We use thinking to discover the general idea behind them. Making experiments is our way of asking for Nature’s approval.
- The material world is our base camp. It is a necessary step before we can explore the immaterial world of the soul. It is in the material world that we learn to think. Our sense organs and Mother Nature are always by our side to guide us on the right path. Our first contact with nature is gravity. Try to forget it, and you will get an instant reminder.
- Avoiding mistakes is not enough. We need to be pointed in the right direction. Thinking needs to be guided by feelings.
Fortunately, what dominates one level is also implemented, albeit more rudimentarily, in the levels below. Humans do not have a monopoly on thinking. We also find it in animals. You can even find some thinking in the slim mold that does not have a head or a brain.
There is hope. There is a possibility to amplify what comes from the level above us. Our next level seems to be consciousness. We should amplify the limited consciousness nature gave us. This could be a way to break our glass ceiling and get closer to the love level.
After the body reaches puberty, we can experience a “puberty of the soul”. That requires a different way of thinking. We cannot collect information through sense organs. We cannot conduct experiments and observe one cause producing a single effect. Mother Nature will not be at our side to guide our every move. After learning to swim in the material world, we must venture to the deep end of the souls’ world.
After 300,000 years of very slow evolution, Earth is awakening. The first step, in the past 200 years, was to remodel our environment. In the 21st century, we started sending rockets into the vast universe. That should be balanced by getting deeper in our exploration of the human soul. We may soon meet some Martians. Are we going to explain that our life is dominated by freedom, consciousness, motivation, and love? Their reaction could be: “You have some? Show us! We want to see what it is.” The truth is that we enjoy the consequences without having any control over the cause. The lawyers call that having the usufruct. We use them like we would use the computer in the library. What are we going to tell the Martians? The best we can find on the library’s computer is an exchange of emails between Helena and Robert. They had a trip inside the human soul and came back with a few answers and a few questions.
11- Robert to Helena: I can't explain.
I have been home for three weeks, and I have spent three weeks thinking about our relationship. I used to call this place my home. Now, everything has changed. My home is where you are. I went to your country to build a dam. After the dam was built, they refused to extend my visa. I had to leave. Today, there is an ocean between us. Water got us together. Now water is keeping us apart. I look forward to my company sending me to build another dam in a country where we can be together again. In the meantime, we have emails.
How can I explain what love is?
I haven’t mentioned our relationship to anyone around here. I’m not sure how I could put it into words. When I left, I was a separate individual, just like them. Today I am ‘half a couple’ and everything is different. What happens to the couple is more important than what happens to the individual. What I used to call love was very different from what I know today. It was, in fact, nothing more than a way to escape solitude. As a separate individual, I became acquainted with fear. To protect ourselves, we build a fence around us. Unfortunately, this fence works both ways. It also prevents us from having contact with others. The price we pay for avoiding pain is isolation and fear. This is not something to be proud of. Love unites. Isolation brings fear.
To avoid the big subject, I tell my friends about little things to amuse them.
-There were drawings sent by the head office that were never received. Somebody at the post office was collecting stamps. The solution was to buy a machine that prints the price instead of using stamps.
-There was also the famous tunnel on the railroad that was too small for the big tanks. An engineer at the head office stated that he had raised the question but never received an answer. They had to find big trucks and a new itinerary, with bridges strong enough to support the weight of our big tanks.
-Some of our stainless pipes disappeared mysteriously. Not all of them. Only the pipes of a certain size. The mystery was solved when somebody bought an engraved stainless-steel bracelet at the local market. It had the dimensions of our pipes.
-A friend was driving on the freeway when he was trapped in a big traffic jam caused by an accident. He kept moving slowly and asked his wife to look at the map and see if there was a way to get out of their predicament. He was looking at the map when he rear-
ended the car in front of him. When the policeman asked him “Did you see the stop lights of the car in front of you?” his answer was: “I can’t tell”.
12 - From Helena to Robert - Don't analyse
Robert, don’t analyze. You could kill it.
Our relationship introduced us to a different world. You may need to adjust your thinking.
Here is an example: To me, a car is a means of transportation. Men’s reaction when they see a car is to take it apart to see how it works. To me, car parts on the garage floor don’t make a means of transportation anymore. They have killed something.
I think that people move by altering the shape of their bodies. It is a good start, but somewhat limited. We cannot fly. We cannot run very fast for very long. We need a better way to move. Engineers found a solution. They put the bodies in a box and move the box. The result can be a car, a plane, a ship, or a subway. All of them are different means of transportation. I don’t think of them as various ways to combine steel and plastic.
Chemists have reduced all the creations to a combination of chemical elements. They started with 64. Today, they have more than 100 elements. The mountains, the oceans, the trees, the flowers, and the human bodies can be explained by combining 100 elements.
They forgot that size matters. How can you explain that we can keep our tattoos when all the cells of our skin are replaced every 4 or 5 weeks? The explanation is that we should think at the cellular level rather than the skin level. We don’t renew our skin in one piece like the snake or the lobster. We renew the cells one by one. The ink of our tattoo is not a cell of our body any more than the filling in our teeth. It does not get renewed. When discussing tattoos, we must consider the level of the skin, not the level of human cells - size matters.
We think of water as a clear liquid. The chemist thinks of water as a combination of hydrogen and oxygen. We think at the level of the swimming pool while the chemist is thinking at the level of the molecule. What is united for us is divided into two parts for the chemist. Objects have a limited size, and size matters in the material world. Time and space seem to be two different things for us. They could be combined and inseparable if we could think at the level of the solar system.
The immaterial world will make us change our way of thinking. Feelings are in people like birds are in the trees. All we can say is that without the birds, something would be missing in the trees.
Robert, your thinking can take you down from the general to the details. If you keep going in that direction, you will end up at the level of the atoms. You will reduce the car to a bucket of atoms. You will reduce the means of transportation to dust! What is important is that you don’t forget the links between the parts. They will keep your thinking focused on the immaterial instead of dwelling on matter. Thinking will make you free if you keep it under control.
How would you investigate our lives? You would not cut us into small pieces – Would you? What is important are the links between us. They will not be found in the material world.
13 -Robert to Helena - It's a question of consciousness
OK. Helena. I understand. I cannot cut a human being into small pieces. However, I want to know what I am doing. I want to be a willing participant in my life. Is that asking for too much?
I thought of telling my friends, “Think of puberty. Something was added to you that you least expected. Something that you could not have imagined. Something that you have been preparing all your life.”
From the time we get up until they go back to bed, we keep moving things around. We tend to handle everything as we handle objects. The only explanation I can see for this behavior comes from our sense organs. They are the perfect tools to cut everything into small pieces.
Unfortunately, all our sense organs are in our body, while it is in our soul that we need them most! We put aside what is essential in your life and focus only on what does not matter. That makes us look like a joyous band of sadomasochists. Moreover, the messages our sense organs send to us are loud and powerful. They are like the sun, preventing us from seeing the stars.
You are saying that my thinking can go both ways. It can cause me to spiral down to the material level. This is the domain of isolation and fear. It can also make me spiral up to the level of unity and love.
To explain our relationship, Helena, I also thought of using the analogy of night and day. At night, everything appears in black and white, like in the old films. Some people are born that way. They think that it is normal to be color blind. How would you explain what a color is to someone born color blind? Would you say that it’s like a layer of paint covering everything? This layer has no thickness. It is also inside everything. When you cut a piece of wood, the color appears inside the wood. Several colors can be mixed to make a new color. How can you explain what color is to someone who has always lived in the dark? You would soon get discouraged. All you could say is: “Just wait. Sooner or later, the sun will rise. It will make you aware of the colors that have been there all along, waiting for you to become conscious of them.”
Right now, some people are agonizing in hospitals. Their bodies are in ruins. Their veins have collapsed. Part of their body has been removed. The rest hurts. Despite that, there is somebody next to their bed who loves them more than ever. Beauty becomes important when you have nothing better to offer.
It is a question of consciousness. Colors and love are all around us, whether or not we are conscious of them. Helena, you opened my eyes. That could be what they mean when they talk about a third eye, at the center of our forehead.
With freedom comes responsibilities. If thinking is a tool at our disposal, we are responsible for keeping this tool in good working order. Unfortunately, we inherited a thinking polluted with sadomasochism.
We started looking for love through our bodies because the body has sensory organs that can help our investigation. These sensory organs have their own limitations. We can only smell what is close to us. It takes a noise as loud as a thunderclap to be perceived from a great distance. Even with glasses, we cannot see very far. That means that our investigation of love is not only limited by the number of sense organs we have but also by the distance they can cover. There is a zone of influence surrounding each one of us. Being too close to someone is perceived as an invasion. The distance between human beings is important.
That could explain what happened in the past 200 years. It was a time when the invention of agriculture made it possible for many people to leave the farm and move to large cities. The distance between individuals was reduced. The exchange between brains became much easier. This evolution led to the development of computers. The computers made the internet possible, followed by AI. This is only the beginning. Each development opens the door to a new one. Human evolution is accelerating. We started an avalanche. Each new invention is taking us further away from the material world. The cause of our evolution in the last 200 years is not the development of the human brain. It is a shorter distance between the brains. Our center of gravity is moving from the body to the soul.
This evolution is amplifying both the positive and the negative aspects. Sadomasochism can be found at every level of our society.
-Casinos are made to satisfy the needs of sadomasochists. When you lose, you are a failure and should be ashamed. When you win, you are the master, and everybody must pay you.
-Some signs along the sidewalks may say “No parking north of here.” If it is raining, you have to wait for a sunny day. Why not say” No parking on this side”? Do we really need the North Pole to park a car, or are we using any excuse to insert a little masochism in every detail?
-An endless succession of wars dominates our history. We recognize that wars are not the most effective means of solving problems. Why do we keep doing it? Wars are a good opportunity to suffer and inflict suffering on others. A few thousand years ago, the winners used to crucify the vanquished. They pretended that it was a way to scare future enemies. Good excuse! What they wanted was to satisfy their need for sadism.
-In the Middle Ages, our ancestors used the excuse that somebody had made a mistake to torture him. The goal was to watch him suffer as much as possible for as long as possible. Search “Tortures” on the internet. You will be surprised to see the refinement the human brain is capable of to satisfy its masochistic needs.
-Today, we still use wars. We don’t torture as much as we used to. When we do, we know that it is not something to be proud of. We try to hide it. We often try to justify wars in terms of geopolitical concerns. It is a lie. If you need protection from your neighbors, you should be nice to them instead of resorting to violence.
-That does not mean that sadomasochism has been eliminated from our society. We are still trying to impose our will on others. When we cannot convince others that our ideas are the best, we try to make them the law of the land and use the government to impose our way of thinking on the entire country. We don’t hesitate to deprive others of their freedom. This is sadism.
- Religions have been used extensively. As they cannot be disproved, it is easy to use them to impose your way of thinking on others.
-To satisfy our need for sadomasochism, we use our political convictions, our work, our family, and anything else at our disposal. We dream of what the best society should look like, we build it, and we oblige everybody to participate. This is depriving others of their freedom. We forget that one day, as a child, we built a nest for the birds, but the birds never used it.
We could say that we inherited the genes of our ancestors. That does not explain where our ancestors got those genes. There is another possibility. The souls that we see around us have chosen to get associated with the human body. The best you can expect is that your body does not hurt. Who would want to be a prisoner of such a body, even for a short time? Some masochism would help. The souls that we see on Earth may be a selection of the most masochistic souls available for reincarnation.
14 - Helena to Robert - Check the NDE
What was the reaction of your friends when you told them about love? Keep in mind that your friends are in a dark cave, and you don’t even know, yourself, how you got out of that cave.
Fortunately, there is a way out of our predicament. Our consciousness may be limited, but it can be amplified. We have been working on that problem for a considerable amount of time already. To love people is to be conscious of them. It is more than being mindful of their presence. It is being conscious of their state of mind. You find this between a mother and her baby. She knows why the baby is crying. No need for words and reasoning. She is conscious of what needs to be done. Between adults, you may not know the details of their past, but you are conscious of the influence that their past had on their souls.
You can get some idea of what an increased consciousness is like by talking to people who have gone through a near-death experience. Many of them have new abilities that they kept after this experience. The most common one is that they know what people around them are thinking. Be cautious about what you think if you attend one of their meetings. (There is one every month in most big cities.) If you see a big nose, try to think, “What beautiful hair”. You are swimming in increased consciousness. They may be aware of something about you that you forgot. Search ‘Near Death Experience’ and you will find hundreds of people of all ages who have surprising stories. Most of the time, it happened during surgery. I wouldn’t recommend this. We say that they lost consciousness. I would rather say that they were not conscious of their physical body. Do we need a physical body to be conscious? This is not on my list of sense organs.
What happened to both of us is that we became conscious of one another. After a big hug, there is not much more to talk about. This is what could help your friends.
15 - From Robert to Helena - The critical mass
Helena, I keep thinking of what transformed our relationship. The only explanation I could find comes from the atomic bomb! No mathematics. I promise!
Take a small sphere of radioactive material. The energy generated varies with the volume of the sphere (4/3π R³). The energy lost varies with the surface area (4πr²). As you increase the size of the sphere, the volume increases faster than the surface area. You reach a point where more energy is generated than lost. You have an explosion. This is called “the critical mass.”
Are you still there? Something similar could happen to people. As long as they are separated, nothing much happens. It is only when they get together that they can reach a certain “human critical mass”. The problem is that there may not be enough energy between the two of them to reach that point.
The idea is simple but difficult to believe. Look at the people around you. Each one can generate some love, but not enough to elevate himself to another level. Take two of them at random, and most of the time, their total energy is too small to reach the ‘critical mass’.
Let’s see what could be missing:
-One possibility is that they are still attached to the material world. They cannot detach themselves from their own body. Most people struggle to make the transition from being a separate individual to becoming half of a couple.
-Another possibility is a lack of freedom. Love and freedom come together. When I was a teenager, I was saving my money to buy a record player. Thanks to inflation, the price of the record player increased faster than my savings. It was a race I could not win. Soon after I abandoned any hope, a neighbor bought himself a new record player and gave me the old one. It seemed to me that renouncing the idea of reaching a goal in a specific way opens the possibility that it can be reached in another way. By detaching myself from using my savings, I introduced freedom into the system. That opened new possibilities.
The general idea is that many people are still prisoners in Plato’s cave. The more knowledge they acquire in the material world, the more they become prisoners of that knowledge. It is more difficult for a surgeon to change professions than it is for a blue-collar worker.
Before you dismiss my critical mass as a crazy idea, let me tell you how it can also be found in human history. The homo sapiens have been on Planet Earth for more than 300,000 years. How come nothing much has happened until the last two centuries? How come the steam engine, the planes, GPS, the computers, and AI did not appear 100 000 years ago? The answer could be that humans were dispersed on the surface of the Earth. There was too much distance between them. The invention of agriculture allowed people to move to cities. Over the past 200 years, the population of cities has continued to increase. A computer is composed of millions of simple ideas contributed by millions of different people. The computer made the internet possible, which further enhanced communication between individuals. More and more brains are becoming increasingly interconnected. That should lead to human beings achieving their critical mass and a higher level of consciousness.
Helena, I predict that more and more people will discover their own puberty of the soul simply by coming together. I would go even further. We will become conscious that Homo sapiens is the seventh stage of human evolution. It is not a question of selecting one race or one religion. Dividing the world’s population into countries fighting one another does not make sense. Either the seventh attempt of Homo sapiens will succeed, or they will disappear from the Earth’s surface like the dinosaurs.
Instead of fighting one another, we’d better unite and look for a way to get out of Plato’s cave. The love between two human beings is pointing in the right direction.
16 - From Helena to Robert – Use but don’t abuse
Robert, I am confused. Love does not solve problems. It dissolves them.
Sometimes I think that a slow evolution has enabled us to reach a critical mass, producing an explosion. Sometimes I feel that we have found a way to break through the glass ceiling. I know that what happened to us was an increase in consciousness. I am not sure what consciousness is and how it happens. With a new possibility comes a new responsibility. I am discovering a new law of nature that does not come from a science book: “Use but don’t abuse.”
We must respect other people’s individuality. The facy that you can have a complete answer to any question, implies that there are questions that you should not ask. Leave room for freedom. Love and freedom come together, like sisters. Make sure you only ask what you truly need to know. This is part of detaching yourself from the material world.
You said that you want to be a willing participant in your own evolution. This will not succeed unless it is part of a more general process found in Nature. I read somewhere that some animals commit suicide to ensure the survival of their species when food gets scarce. Some flowers continue to turn during the day to face the sun. I am sure Darwin could help you find better reasons to let you participate in your own evolution. The body’s puberty does not happen at random; it occurs when we are ready to think about it. Nature made it a stopover on our way to a soul transformation. Puberty starts with a long period of preparation to give you a chance to wake up and participate. This is more than a basic need. It is the purpose of our lives.
Now I understand why I dislike logic. It is because there is no freedom in logic. I don’t like questions with only one possible answer. I prefer multiple answers with the option to add my own. We are like two stars turning around each other, linked by their distance. That may not sound logical, but I like it.
There is something we didn’t discuss. It is what happens when we are asleep. This is a black hole in human life that we would rather ignore. We assume that nothing happens unless we remember it. That’s not very humble – Is it? Our teachers, at school, did not like questions for which they didn’t have an answer. That does not mean that these questions can be ignored.
17 - From Robert to Helena – What happens in our sleep.
What happens during our sleep? That’s a question with many possible answers and plenty of freedom! I understand why you like it.
All we know is that our brain represents only 2% of our body weight and uses 20% of our energy. What happens to all that energy? We don’t know. Some people should be cremated!
My answer would be that, at night, the soul is free from the limitations of the body. The soul leaves the body in bed like the driver leaves the car in the garage. Freedom at last! We leave the body in the dark and make sure that no sound will wake us up. We want to prevent any information from our sense organs from reaching the brain. We want to be sure that the sun does not prevent us from seeing the stars.
We also know that the brain continues to function 24/7. The activity may be reduced in some parts of the brain, but certain functions continue to operate. All these precautions could be paving the way for something important.
We find ourselves in the position of a detective, searching for clues and trying to understand what happened. We are in the dark! One possibility is that the soul could utilize the energy at its disposal in the brain to process what is stored in memory. The purpose of all this would be to improve the soul. Getting associated with a human body is an opportunity to get the necessary energy to improve oneself and move to a higher level of consciousness.
That would also explain the amount of sadomasochism found in human beings. Who else would volunteer to spend most of the day trapped in a human body? All the souls you see around you have something in common. Without some help from sadomasochism, they may not be here trying to improve themselves.
Can you find a better answer? There may be a more efficient way to send energy to the brain than going through the plants and the human digestive system. How can we be certain that some souls would not prefer to be in the sun instead of on planet Earth and get their energy directly from the source?
That would be evolution in the fast lane. We may not be ready for that.
My two cents
18 - From Helena to Robert - To sleep or not to sleep
Interesting! During the day, we see the bodies but not the souls. At night, it is the opposite. We cannot see the bodies, but we can see the souls – Naked. That would explain why the souls do not have sense organs. At night, they don’t need sense organs to see each other.
Robert - I am not sure I would like it. Too much promiscuity. Could you do it in such a way that, at night, we can see the souls of the people we have loved? That may not be the right thing to do. Many people never find real love in their lives. They would be very lonely. They don’t deserve that. Make it in such a way that, at night, we see the souls of all the people we have loved in all our previous incarnations! If you don’t believe in reincarnation, find something else, but don’t leave people alone, at night, in the middle of nowhere!
Let’s be serious. ‘To sleep or not to sleep.’
I like the idea that, at night, our souls could get together. They escaped the limits of the human body. They are free! They can see all the details of each other’s souls. They can make better decisions. That would explain why, whenever in doubt, it is recommended to “sleep on it”.
We could go even further. We could say that it is only when we are asleep that we can really be ourselves. Plato’s cave could be the human body. We get out of it every night by falling asleep, and every morning the soul gets back in the body, and the body gets dressed and goes to work!
One question remains. What is the purpose of dividing our lives into two parts? This question is not limited to humans. Animals also spend most of their time sleeping. They seem to have even more problems than we do deciding what to do the next day. Why can’t we be conscious during the day of what happens at night? Would that prevent us from feeling free?
Anyway, I prefer the Earth's evolution to the evolution on a fast-paced planet. I am in no hurry. Life is a journey. Not a destination.
19 - From Robert to Helana – Don’t create your own obstacles
Helena, I had a strange idea that could apply to our relationship.
I woke up in the middle of the night for no good reason. After checking that there was no noise and that I was not too cold or too hot, I wanted to go back to sleep as soon as possible. I kept my eyes closed. I tried to avoid thinking. That did not help. The more I wanted to sleep, the busier I was with the thought that I didn’t want to think! Go figure! To fall asleep, I had to stop thinking that I wanted to fall asleep. It reminded me of trying to undo a knot on a rope. The more you pull, the tighter it gets.
This is merely an example of a more general concept. Would it be possible that the fact that we want something is, by itself, creating some obstacle? You are going to think that I am a masochist. Maybe I am, and I am not alone. The harder we want something, the more elusive it becomes. Perhaps there is a quiet wisdom in surrender—a kind of nocturnal grace that emerges only when we let go of our desperate need for control and, instead, allow ourselves to drift with the current of our deeper selves. Maybe our souls, unbound at night, can teach us how to relinquish—not abandon—the tight knots of longing.
This makes me think! The solution may be in the way we use our thinking. While we are awake, we are surrounded by the material world. That pulls our thinking down to the details of the material world. The solution could be to turn our thinking up, toward the immaterial. That reminds me of something you said: “If you cannot live without it, you are not ready for it.” In other words, if you cannot detach yourself from the material world, you will never reach the level above.
That does not mean that planet Earth was designed to attract the souls of masochists, but a little dose might help.
Have a good night's sleep, Helena.
20- From Helana to Robert - Enough thinking
Robert, I think that we have done our homework. We decided which direction to pursue. We must detach ourselves from the material world. We have to increase our level of consciousness. We may have to change our way of thinking. We could get hurt, but it will be worth it.
We took all the necessary precautions. The time has come to rise and walk towards our destiny. Enough thinking. No more delays. Getting prepared may be wise, but it does not count as an achievement. What is important is what we do with our lives.
Whether we are right or not, puberty does not happen gradually. It is brutal. Nature wants to ensure that we receive the message. After learning to think in the material world, we are entering a new world of increased consciousness.
People talk about the signal-to-noise ratio. What is important is the signal. The ratio usually is around 80/20. That means that only 20% of their time is productive, and most of their time is spent on implementing details.
For us, we will use the ratio cause-to-consequences. For instance, people need to move from one place to another. This is the cause. The consequences are that some people spend their lives machining parts for cars, planes, and subways, while others drive taxis and make weather forecasts. We will not get back together by going to the airport, watching planes landing, and people going through customs. These are consequences. To find the causes, we must look within ourselves.
That could be scary! The two primary motivations that can be seen in many people, including us, are love and sadomasochism. Love unites. Sadomasochism separates and makes them fight. What we can do is to separate in our lives what increases our consciousness from what is a waste of our time.
As far as sadomasochism is concerned, the first step is to get conscious of it. Removing it will give you a feeling of freedom. This is a source of happiness.
In short, to get back together, we need to look inside and increase our level of consciousness. This is how we can work on the causes and let the consequences follow.
Higher consciousness leads to loving the whole world. The love between two human beings is a step in this direction. This is how we can participate in our own evolution and enjoy real happiness.
See you soon, Robert
14 From Helena to Robert Check the NDE
What was the reaction of your friends when you told them about love? Keep in mind that your friends are in a dark cave, and you don’t even know, yourself, how you got out of that cave.
Fortunately, there is a way out of our predicament. Our consciousness may be limited, but it can be amplified. We have been working on that problem for a long time already. To love people is to be conscious of them. It is more than being mindful of their presence. It is being conscious of their state of mind. You find this between a mother and her baby. She knows why the baby is crying. No need for words and reasoning. She is conscious of what needs to be done. Between adults, you may not know the details of their past, but you are conscious of the influence that their past had on their soul.
You can get some idea of what an increased consciousness is like by talking to people who have gone through a near-death experience. Many of them have new abilities that they kept after this experience. The most common one is that they know what people around them are thinking. Be careful of what you are thinking if you go to one of their meetings. (There is one every month in most big cities.) If you see a big nose, try to think, “What beautiful hair”. You are swimming in increased consciousness. They may be aware of something about you that you forgot. Search ‘Near Death Experience’ and you will find hundreds of people of all ages who have surprising stories. Most of the time, it happened during surgery. This is not something I would recommend! We say that they lost consciousness. I would rather say that they were not conscious of their physical body. Do we need a physical body to be conscious? This is not on my list of sense organs.
What happened to both of us is that we became conscious of one another. After a big hug, there is not much more to talk about. This is what could help your friends.
15- From Robert to Helena – Critical mass
Helena, I keep thinking of what transformed our relationship. The only explanation I could find comes from the atomic bomb! No mathematics. I promise!
Take a small sphere of radioactive material. The energy generated varies with the volume of the sphere (4/3π R³). The energy lost varies with the surface area (4πr²). As you increase the size of the sphere, the volume increases faster than the surface area. You reach a point where there is more energy generated than energy lost. You have an explosion. This is called “the critical mass.”
Are you still there? Something similar could happen to people. As long as they are separated, nothing much happens. It is only when they get together that they can reach a certain “human critical mass”. The problem is that there may not be enough energy between the two of them to reach that point.
The idea is simple but difficult to believe. Look at the people around you. Each one can generate some love, but not enough to elevate himself to another level. Take two of them at random, and most of the time, their total energy is too small to reach the ‘critical mass’.
Let’s see what could be missing in many people. One possibility is that they are still attached to the material world. They cannot detach themselves from their own body. Most people struggle to make the transition from being a separate individual to becoming half of a couple.
Another possibility is a lack of freedom. Love and freedom come together. When I was a teenager, I was saving my money to buy a record player. Thanks to inflation, the price of the record player increased faster than my savings. It was a race I could not win. Soon after I abandoned any hope, a neighbor bought himself a new record player and gave me the old one. It seemed to me that renouncing reaching a goal in a specific way opens the possibility that it can be reached another way. By detaching myself from using my savings, I introduced freedom into the system. That opened new possibilities.
The general idea is that many people are still prisoners in Plato’s cave. The more knowledge they acquire in the material world, the more they become prisoners of that knowledge. It is more difficult for a surgeon to change professions than it is for a blue-collar worker.
Before you dismiss my critical mass as a crazy idea, let me tell you how it can also be found in human history. The homo sapiens have been on Planet Earth for more than 300,000 years. How come nothing much has happened until the last two centuries? How come the steam engine, the planes, GPS, the computers, and AI did not appear 100 000 years ago? The answer could be that humans were dispersed on the surface of the Earth. There was too much distance between them. The invention of agriculture allowed people to move to cities. Over the past 200 years, the population of cities has continued to increase. A computer is composed of millions of simple ideas contributed by millions of different people. The computer made the internet possible, which further enhanced communication between individuals. More and more brains are becoming increasingly interconnected. That should lead to human beings achieving their critical mass and a higher level of consciousness.
Helena, I predict that more and more people will find their puberty of the soul together.
I would go even further. We will become conscious that Homo sapiens is the seventh stage of human evolution. It is not a question of selecting one race or one religion. Dividing the world’s population into countries fighting one another does not make sense. Either the seventh attempt of Homo sapiens will succeed, or they will disappear from the Earth’s surface like the dinosaurs.
Instead of fighting one another, we’d better unite and look for a way to get out of Plato’s cave. The love between two human beings is pointing in the right direction.