“Divinity means unfolding and expressing life in new ways. Divinity means radiating peace, bliss and beauty in the world. Divinity means overcoming the limitations of nature in new ways” Amit Ray.
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed.
I have talked a bit about humanity’s Transformation. When it finally came about it was literally like waking up from a bad dream. If it hadn’t been for the triggers of the Covid era we may not have done it. Humanity had been so trapped in a way of thinking that followed a mentality of victimhood that it had to be a hard jolt of reality to be able to allow us to liberate ourselves and follow a new path of exploring who we really are.
A major trigger was the choice we had to make between remaining human or becoming part of an artificial intelligence (AI) matrix (see Becoming Different – AI parts 5 and 6 {July 2022}). Technologists of the early Twenty First century had come so far so quickly with computerizing everything in our lives that most people thought of it as only an improvement of our lifestyles with no downside. I do recall watching many of the movie films of that time that showed technology trying to take over (e.g. The terminator, The matrix). The Kurzweil conundrum, as we now call it, was born out of a vision by a computer scientist of that megacorporation of the time, Google. The conundrum was whether we could improve our humanity through the implantation of technology into our bodies and supplanting human intelligence with faster and more efficient artificial intelligence. Basic AI had become so ingrained within our technology; the majority could never conceive of it as anything but benign. After millennia of our humanity being subdued, we no longer could recognize just what amazing beings’ humanity truly were.
As many spiritual gurus of the pre-Covid era said, “If you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them.” We felt so limited in controlling our lives that we resigned ourselves to merely reacting to life as victims of life’s circumstances – usually with anger, frustration, trauma, and violence. Most certainly did not feel as though they were co-creators of life responding from a deeper place of Compassion, Love and Peace.
The AI advocates tried to convince us that they could make us a better kind of species. They would eliminate emotions and bring pure intellect to the fore to let us control our world. We were told a hive mind connected through the cloud would permit us to live in peace and security. So many were convinced that humanity was so flawed in its biological evolution, and that technology was capable of solving anything, that transhumanist AI seemed a good way to go.
Around the world, the major religions had captured what it meant to be a divine being many centuries before. Most religious teaching told us we were all subjugate to a Divine entity and that only through strict adherence to these teaching would we find salvation in the afterlife. AI promised transcendence beyond human limitations and that was appealing to many who had rejected orthodoxy. In the late 2020s as AI was being imposed on hundreds of millions of people, great discussion ensued about the route humanity was taking. As luck would have it, the Cabal were trying to use AI to control populations through social credit scoring, a CBDC, and herding people into city exclaves for better management purposes. Our choice was to meekly accept what was happening (to not choose is still a choice) or to rebel and look at our personal divinity as something worth keeping.
Our Divinity – our ability to transcend human limitations – not as part of any religion but as part of our natural essence. Religions have used this word for millennia to focus on beings that did transcend their human essence, but we each have this ability to be divine. The limitations we perceive about ourselves are merely those that were programmed into over millennia. We all have this divine spark that manifests through our creative and intuitive abilities. For example, when we write, think deeply beyond the mind-chatter, produce unique works of art, and enter states of flow (see Flow parts 1, 2, and 3 {Aug-Sept 2019}), we connect to this divine spark that is within every one of us. The spark that we had been taught to ignore even when we expressed it in unique ways. We didn’t need AI to transform ourselves, just a belief that were already uniquely divine already and with just training could find that super-humanness within ourselves without the need for technology.
What we needed was to disregard the minor differences between us and concentrate on our shared beliefs and values. Once we came together in true community building to find new ways to ‘survive’ and live this became much easier to accomplish. The Cabal always focused on the differences to create discord, thereby making it easy for them to control us. Once we got past ancient tribalistic beliefs that our identity was almost entirely subsumed by the tribe to which we perceived we belonged. The Psychologist Sigmund Freud called this phenomenon ‘The narcissism of minor differences’ (the idea that it is precisely the minor differences between people who are otherwise alike that form the basis of feelings of strangeness and hostility between them).
Modern culture and consumerist-materialism provided an avenue by which you could tweak a thousand little details of your possessions and lifestyle to differentiate your sense of self-identity from that of others. Psychologist Meg Jay in the 2020s said: “Genealogy is no longer enough; the modern self is composed of personality, career, location, hobbies, and, most predominantly, tastes. Taste in music, in clothes, in politics — what you like and don’t like. And yet there are two potential problems that grow out of leaning too heavily on the narcissism of minor differences: 1) the tendency to define yourself by what you’re not, and 2) a focus on trivialities over fundamentals”.
Jay continued, “Distinctiveness is a fundamental part of identity…But different is simple. Like the easiest way to explain black is to call it the opposite of white, often the first thing we know about ourselves is not what we are—but what we aren’t. We mark ourselves as not-this or not-that…But self-definition cannot end there. An identity or a career cannot be built around what you don’t want. We have to shift from a negative identity, or sense of what I’m not, to a positive one, or a sense of what I am. This takes courage.” And it was in new kinds of groupings that so many found the courage to be themselves. Because of my parent’s encouragement I was able to community educator that helped foster this new paradigm of change.
Even with our personal sovereignty, it wasn’t about being special but about being the best we could be at whatever it was we did. At my age I don’t recall who said this but it still rings true in 2112 as it did in 2022. ‘Instead of worrying about whether we perform the human fundamentals in a slightly different way or style than others, we should simply care about doing them excellently. Rather than worrying about the hipness of your faith life, concentrate on loving your neighbor. Instead of caring about whether you’re a cool urban parent or an ordinary suburban one, the question should be: am I an excellent parent? Instead of fixating on whether you have a job that’s more unique than that of your peers, focus on whether you’re adding value to the world in whatever work you’re doing. Instead of seeking after building a big home, concentrate on the structure of your integrity. Become a person of your word? Now that would be a significant difference!’
TBC …………………
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