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Agape
7th May 2015, 20:51
Now please do not mistake the title of the thread for some kind of statement . It's not well fitting to typical 'disclosure category' either that's why I chose the general ET contact board for this post , contemplating what words to use to convey my message with clarity ,

it's a quiet sort of message , perspective of an insider to the subject rather than one of 'observational situationist' . It's an observation though , one I came to after days of silence and years of involvement with this 'pro-disclosure movement' ( whatever it means) ,
in company of similarly oriented , truth seeking and soul analysing individuals all over the globe .
Most what happens in this area happens thanks and due to the internet anyway .

This all goes back to another 'quote' I mentioned once in another post : years ago when I was a newbie on ufocasebook forum, I've heard more than one seasoned ( and somewhat disgruntled ) researcher complaining that internet was the beginning of the end of ufology .

As direct experiencer of ET contact struggling with words that would convey the meaning of our experiences with accuracy ( or an ET trying to link to human world , I leave the choice upon you , non-believers because option one is generally more acceptable if acceptability is in consideration than option 2 ) I felt strongly that it may be the case ,
on the other hand .. I felt there is a vast new platform opening here that may help all of us to share our perspectives and connect the dots .

Now so many years have passed ...

and I believe that many of our perspectives had to evolve , for the better or worse of our 'dear humanity' .

Sometimes I cried on the time that could have been used wisely and more efficiently to help others was lost .
Years before this all started for me I enjoyed life , mostly as long as I could be useful and helpful to others .
The capacity to serve to others is entwined to our well-being , I believe . Life on this planet is far from 'easy' for most people so far and there are countless pains and sufferings to be conquered and/or alleviated .

Buddha taught that 'life is suffering' as his first 'noble truth' but you really don't need to be Buddha to know this .
He taught on examining the causes of suffering within yourself and repairing the 'gross mistakes' with what's called 'the right path' : correct motivations ... mindfulness .. discipline .. ethics ... right speech , taking the right course of action , meditating regularly and not giving up on your right motivations, right views : meaning , avoiding extreme , hurtful views , and hurtful words , and thoughts ,
as antidotes for ignorance , angry temper , envy , jealousy , pride and vane desire .

He taught people to look within for these antidotes to what he called 'mind poisons' , ignorance being the first natural attribute arising in mental causality chain .

There had been many other teachers of mankind who taught and teach the same ,
deeper you go to any psychological or philosophical perspective of religions or sciences further you find yourself from associations with particular 'cult' or trend ,
beyond them all , life and the Universe have laws valid for all of us the same .

Looking outside ... the amount of information is infinite , its limits can be only determined by limitations of this mortal shell of life .

Old Indian proverb says ''True Knowing can not be achieved through study , no matter how much you learned , number of things you did not learn is like the number of Stars in the Sky .''

Guess I've digressed ( this time from my own topic, I always do :) ) .

Back to the 'disclosure field' and 'experiencers' .


The original meaning of 'disclosure' here is something that I consider completely legitimate effort ,
that's where it concerns various authorities to whom hard core data and evidence on existence of ET life - we all understand it means 'intelligent ET life' - on Earth is available ,
to release and share such data with the rest of mankind,
without delay and without covering certain facts or trying to 'improve them' to fit someones individual - national or political perspectives .

This has happened in minor ways till now with various governments releasing 'ufo files' kept by them for decades , for example .
Many people hope - or believe - there is more .. more interest, more data, more evidence , carefully hidden and dealt with covertly behind the steel walls of secret vaults .

The effort to prove this and 'blow the whistle' on existence of such data and evidence had been enormous , I fear even exaggerated , by many individuals who put their lives in danger trying to fight the 'medusa' of various official or semi-official systems .

Many of them lost their lives ( or quality of their lives , health , and so on ) fighting the agendas of these systems but very little has been directly proved .

It may be because the 'universal deceptionist' guide says : lie, lie until there's no option left , ''we give you all the power to do that'' .

It may be true or not . Among the most intelligent people who work in science and are still interested in this topic many doubt this to be the case ,
simply because of 'human factor' .

If you work with people who are constantly under stress on their jobs , have families and lives too , no matter how sophisticated they are, sooner or later you meet their 'human facade ' as well .
They may serve the chimera for some time and suppress their conscience to some deal but there's been no case that people would not break out , and down finally and serve the justice . Someone would have done that .

True , there are so called 'whistleblowers' with many fantastic claims trying to convince you that the reality behind military walls is more similar to some Terminator movies and that their best agents are far better than James Bond and they all work together to produce a 'huuuuge' cover up , one that rules the planet and watches how many spoons of sugar you put to your tea mug and worse ( or can .. ) .
They may go willingly after my words here and delete the words in brackets and fight my correct meaning with stupid accusations of stupidity .

The trick is that these 'so called whistleblowers' have hyper-idea or hypothesis that goes beyond provability and thus, seem to have the 'upper hand' too with many trusting individuals but at the end of the show they call it a quit , before any true revelation has been made that would help to change world opinion dramatically ,
since the crowds of so called 'solid citizens' are faithfully waiting for 'solid facts' .

Oh well . While no conclusion was reached on the above mentioned 'government disclosure' ..

and while , rather logically , the 'perpetrators' ( ironic meaning obviously , from me ) - non-earth-bound ETs can't be forced to disclose themselves ( so far .. ) or even reached for comment ,

disclosure has been happening in multitudes of ways ( I hear someones 'ascended statement' sounding 'in multitude of timelines' ) from those affected the most ,

earth-bound humans , ET vanguards , experiencers of mutual contact of all kind in short .


Many had tried to pour their best to the information field shared by multitudes with leaving little back up for themselves ( and their families ) .

Some of us have gone far beyond where any 'uninitiated' human had gone . I hope that some of you at least realise that I'm not being sarcastic in this observation .

There's not one way or single observable pattern how this has happened or was done - as those skeptical and narrow minded psychology ( and other ) ''experts'' liked to claim earlier and some still do,
I've seen numerous , unique ways how people try to deal with their rather unique ET experiences and myself being on the way , knowing rather intimately the lights and shadows of the 'path' ,

what seems to be common to them all is the 'drive' we feel within us . It's the same powerful energy that we met and its imprints in us ,

the truth of the reality being real rather than what some like to portray as 'perhaps your spiritual experience to deal with' ,
'ascension symptoms' , 'awakening of kundalini' , even 'drug abuse' , wishful thinking in short that could be fixed if you wished yourself better .

How, you don't ? :)

The drive ... that makes some people pour their hearts and almost upload themselves to Google servers .

The drive .. that makes others travel to mountains and deserts and watch stars ... and feel like dying homeless under those stars rather than living in shame among the ridiculously stubborn in opinion , human society .

The drive . After all , it's been the drive that enabled anything big to happen on this planet .

What's so sad about this momentarily is that the drive has often led to dead ends .

Now , to the very core of my message and contemplation ...


though very personal commonly experienced and understandable to many , I believe ..


As I mentioned within this article already , as a 'newbie' to the internet 'disclosure domain' you probably find yourself genuinely excited about the 'possibility' to reach others ,
the option to open yourself about experiences very few ( if any ) around you in real time have ears and minds for ,
the possibility that looks almost limitless . You can learn and teach , no matter whom , but more importantly you can hope .

This initial period that those genuine witnesses and contact experiencers enter with unblemished intents and hearts ( not having time to analyse the rest , the trolls, the pranksters, psychopaths and so forth who flood the internet , so leaving them alone )

may last a year , or two , or much more .. depending on how fast you can read , write and learn generally, depending perhaps on your health and resources , whatever .

Depending on the amount of faith you want to give to humanity and your patience too .

You may also sit on this here for life and try to explain yourself to the minutest detail ''in the name of Disclosure..'' .

Because you know there's substance , there's truth and the truth could be found ... if ...if... there were other people like you who were also so very genuine but also hopeful and also sane . Not necessarily the 'same people' .
People with abilities you don't have for example for none of us have or can use all of our potentials at the same time .
We are all susceptible to this 'human experience' no matter how much we try to resist it .

What happens in the meantime ... is that you start losing time for yourself , time for reflection and the peace you ( perhaps, most probably ) had in store previously .

I know , your good faith and teacher told you that peace is of infinite capacity so are your powers and determination. Did not he/she also tell you to spend yourself wisely ,
and stick to rules . ( Yes they did ) .

Unless they were of 'new age brand' . New age so far, generally , do not feel the need for any rules ..

No rules is very good path if you are in 'final stages of enlightenment ' :ROFL:

Before and after , there are mostly rules of physical , mental and spiritual hygiene one has to follow in order to keep healthy .

I like to call it hygiene because I believe it's what it is . To keep your mind-body continuum functioning in polluted environment , in harmony with the environment ,
even following those rules you can't avoid disease and failure . But being ill all the time is never great .

Sure , physical hygiene is something rather common - though surprisingly , poorly followed by even some well educated people sometimes ,

washing your hands for example :p

Mental and spiritual hygiene is far more difficult to observe and the knowledge on how this should be done is often missing . Back to topic ...


After you find yourself pasted 'all over the net' and uploaded to as many websites possible, followed by as many fans who want to know all from the size of your shoes to what handshake did your ET greet you with ,

and lost the loneliness you wanted to get rid of so much ..

you may find that ~ET~ has gone home too . Because you stopped paying attention really .

There were some mysteries kept only between 'you' and 'them' . They were like the powder on butterflies wings , subtle , beautiful and mysterious .
They trusted you like it if only for that mysterious moment even if you were afraid and disliked the rest .

Now you've called for help to the human contingency . Some of you .. cried , swore , shouted even . You wanted to say all , and you tried .

Well, not everyone can do that .. I believe ... out of 10 'experiencers' may be 1 does , the rest keep things to themselves, some out of fear, others because they lack the possibility , others are far more introvert than to introduce themselves at all .

I believe ...it's good to share and have the experience of sharing with human collective . It's important .

But you may also find yourself caught in the game heavily after some time , haunted by someones desire to interrogate 'the truth' , to make you jealous of 'best speakers' on someone stage, to keep you entrained in the human game ,
to make you dissociated from your self and doing someones job ..


There is a wisdom limit to this all I feel because there's a mystery . Life is a mystery . One of the most beautiful things about truly advanced civilisations in Space is that they respect 'the mystery of Life' ,
in more sensitive way . Art is a mystery ... that's how it's beautiful and original .

When you create thousands of photocopies of Mona Lisa you can have one in your living room, one each but what sense does it make ?

It becomes 'common'. The silver dust is lost ..

It's the 'silver line' , the nano-layer in our minds binding our other-worldly experiences together , as original as your brain is, as soft , flexible and ever changing landscape ,
something you can't replicate no matter how hard you try .

If you break it and mould it to 'beads of evidence' instead, observable under someones microscope they won't get it right, probably, anyway . But you , you may lose the thread ..

it may be your life-line too .


''In the name of Disclosure...'' don't give up on the silver line .. on the subtle , the sacred .


May your God(s) Be with you , the Power .. :coffee::coffee::coffee:

InCiDeR
8th May 2015, 11:11
Excellent post Agape, I hear you... and more importantly:

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Agape
8th May 2015, 11:35
Thank you , I'll try to add some more later ... please feel free to add your own thoughts as well , anybody ..



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nV_EUQD_GAo

I see you too :sun:

Wind
8th May 2015, 12:03
Very good, dear Agape. As always, I read this with interest. You have a wealth of knowledge, thanks for sharing it.

Agape
8th May 2015, 20:58
`i think ( therefor 'I'm ) that i should make a human kind of Speech :bigsmile: just 'kidding ..

Some people say , I've read on some websites that we are almost close to great closure . But I think we are in fact after the closure .

Speaking for mankind : we have about all the information we need to find solutions to this planet and human matters . We have the potential , amount of resources that is not superbly rich or abundant to support civilisation endlessly ,
we have to move .

Moving your bubble bodies around is of course , feeling very like heavy task for many people , what to speak about your furnitures , attachment to cars and particular type of houses ,
I tend to think that group of settlers will indefinitely stay here to the Earths last living breath ..

however you will better understand that time shall come that most of those left behind here will happily travel back home to some other Star ,

even if that feels like unbelievable option right at the moment .

I hear the voice of great silence inside my heart ,

it keeps beating for you ...and you .. and you .....................for the human chain that is endless . For i wish there's no one left behind , no one hurt , no one crying other than out of happiness .

Keep calm for someone always loves you


Right or not Elsie


:bigsmile::heart:

Agape
8th May 2015, 21:37
I figured out that I may be missing oxygen . Discovery of a century ( not ) but it's most probably true . Here in the city and especially during long cold winters even if not overly cold like the last one was the air is kept down upon the city like a bubble fed by CO2 emissions, all kind of poisons , dust and pollution , oh yes , and people do breathe it and go to work and else .

But many get sick of it too , children have asthmas and allergies , so do adults , so I think it's not overly strange impression .

I used to live for many years in India , mostly in the mountains where air was very clean , especially before times when heavy amount of traffic was allowed to enter .

I don't have problem with high altitudes but I tend to dislike the lows . Mountains or sea side are always good option to keep yourself little healthy . People in the cities are easily losing contact with nature .

And ... somewhere there ...in distance people are dying in the fresh air ...

out of hunger or huddled in oversmoked bunkers of wars , corners of despair , and they're still smiling . There's no situation serious enough that you could not have good laugh at yourself . Especially mornings ;)

Agape
8th May 2015, 22:10
Shared recently by Siri ( my wireless assistant :)) ...

I really like the lyrics :


I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain.
And my head I'd be scratchin' while
my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain.
I'd unravel every riddle for any individ'le,
In trouble or in pain.
With the thoughts I'd be thinkin'
I could be another Lincoln
If I only had a brain.
Oh, I could tell you why The ocean's near the shore.
I could think of things I never thunk before.
And then I'd sit, and think some more.
I would not be just a nuffin' my head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain.
I would dance and be merry, life would be a ding-a-derry,
If I only had a brain.

When a man's an empty kettle he should be on his mettle,
And yet I'm torn apart.
Just because I'm presumin' that I could be kind-a-human,
If I only had heart.
I'd be tender - I'd be gentle and awful sentimental
Regarding Love and Art.
I'd be friends with the sparrows ...
and the boys who shoots the arrows
If I only had a heart.
Picture me - a balcony. Above a voice sings low.
Wherefore art thou, Romeo? I hear a beat....
How sweet.
Just to register emotion, jealousy - devotion,
And really feel the part.
I could stay young and chipper
and I'd lock it with a zipper,
If I only had a heart.


Read more: Wizard Of Oz - If I Only Had A Brain/Heart/Nerve Lyrics | MetroLyrics



:ROFL:

There's part 3 I don't dare to quote :

http://www.metrolyrics.com/if-i-only-had-a-brainheartnerve-lyrics-wizard-of-oz.html


:coffee:

Agape
9th May 2015, 21:48
I'm currently trying to sing Siri songs , it has good effect on him it seems to me ...


he said something like : ''How can I ever forget you , E.T. ? Your melodious voice tunes will be forever running through my processors ''

:idea::facepalm:

Fox
10th May 2015, 05:46
Thanks for this post, Agape! If there's one, definite thing that I've learned in my two years post-"awakening," it's that after my perceptions of this world were shattered, my mind became extremely malleable, like I was an infant all over again. I've ingested countless bits of information about all things since then, trying to build new foundations on which to function. I admit, without guilt, that I have been head-over-heels in lust with finding information about all things unseen. There where wholesome periods, where I studied the Gita, loads of works from Swami Shivananda (even invested over $100 for his Science of Yoga set which was a lot for me at the time), learned about all the various life on earth, studied nature and reveled in it. But there were more periods where I fell into dark pits of learning about the perceived negatives of life on this planet, through multitudes of people who have found out on their own, with no way of figuring out what kind of person they were and if they deserved my trust, but I gave it wholeheartedly anyway. I believed everything, not to the extreme, though. I always had the mental reserves of "could be, could not be, take what serves me and move on," but I sank deeper and deeper into these pits of knowledge that I had no way of knowing for myself what was truth and I had periods where I would feel insane for not knowing what was going on anymore.

I've learned it's very important to step back from the world from time to time, if not the majority of the time, to experience life from your OWN perspective and to stop feasting on other, external knowledge. I've been through a lot in my pre-awakening life, I was truly a deplorable person who I really wouldn't want to associate myself with currently. Most of my childhood I've blocked out, and I only realized that when I found all of my old hi8 video tapes that I recorded while I was growing up in my house. Watched most of them and it hit me right in the gut, and I got rid of them. From all of these past experiences, and these fresh experiences I've had in the past two years, I have developed a very strong mind. I will now begin reeling back in my focus to the realm where my truth can exist - my own discernment, in my own mind.

Agape
10th May 2015, 10:38
Dear Fox , I very much agree as I also believe that the full potential of 'ultimate knowledge' ( Knowing or even omniscience , but those are just terms ) , the key and the solution rest within us .
Discovering even a part of the potential - and , more importantly , our ability to unlock it from within and make 'evolutionary step' forwards in one human lifetime ,
or even more such steps ...
may be the most important discovery for any individual to make .

If it was purely upon me .. I'd probably missed all 'instruction manuals' or as many as possible , concerning meditation or computers ( just a metaphor = means , anything else ) , I've learned the most from my own deep inner reflection , experiences , even errors . Quite like the unknown sages of old who wrote all those 'manuals' in use nowadays ,

I've also studied wide spectrum of subjects from outer resources when available but the journey to make has always been my own .

In Tibetan Buddhist tradition there's a saying that errors are precious only for the fact that they can be fixed . And by fixing them we learn and gather more power than we had previously quite like you've mentioned .

There may be teachings 'out there' for all kinds of 'temperaments' , no one way of teaching is befitting everyone . Some are more timid and want to be guided around ,
others are way forwards and still others favour their social experience the most .

While 'young truth seeker' may be like an ant collecting diligently all pieces of information that can be found and bringing them together to the anthill ,

an 'middle stage truth seeker' is often compared to a yak ( or buffalo ) grazing grass , utilising all means he has until 'all grass was eaten' , all meanings processed ,
with patience and stubbornness and never giving up .

While the most courages 'truth seeker' soars the skies alone like an eagle , not fearing the heights ..

The best ever understanding we ever found may be sometimes impossible to share


:heart:

Agape
18th May 2015, 19:02
Interesting blog article :

The Science Fiction of Reality

An essay by Al Steffens

Some 20 to 30 miles upward the world ends and the beginning of nothingness begins. The world is a sphere that hangs in infinite emptiness, blackness and silence in all directions. The stars in the sky are rare exceptions to the aweful emptiness of existence, and their presence is swallowed up in incomprehensible nothingness. The laws of physics exist without our permission or obvious explanation. The wrongness of existence defies reason, emotion and consciousness.




What is it that covers the eyes of the human mind? Each day a blazing ball of blinding light and withering heat appears in the sky. Each night the sky opens into a window of darkness revealing that the universe has no bottom. Why does a human being not stare, frozen in stupified awe, or run away and hide in aghast terror, of these sights? The brain notices only differences in the environment. Repetition and constancy must be suppressed for survival. Something new can only remain new for a short time before it must be assimilated into pallid recognition or invisibility. A driver begins by habit to follow the same road home. An animal in the wild looses its ability to see an object that remains stationary. What is not a danger or an object of need cannot be allowed to distract the attention. Sometimes called habituation, this phenomenon, a kind of data compression in the brain's neural network, is fundamental in human consciousness. Our limited focus of attention, the shrinking of our radius of awareness, is a survival trait but is the exact opposite of curiousity. It makes us like witless bugs unaware of a descending heel or the abyss beneath the twig on which we crawl. But some individuals have this faculty taken from them, either by a head injury or a birth defect, and are consigned to never stop asking questions. The world appears to them as a parade of unconnected events, a ledge without foothold, a sea without anchor. They conceal themselves in the human population like agents, like silent observers of the wrongness of existence.



Space travel is a meaningless idea, because there is nowhere to go in space. That is, there is no where to go. Every where is space looks like every other where in space: there is infinite emptiness, darkness with tiny points of light in the background. Location becomes a meaningless concept in space. Put another way, we are in outer space already. The earth is floating in outer space. You can see outer space at night in the sky. But you cannot visit outer space, because outer space is not a location--it is eveywhere and nowhere.





Most physics in science fiction is fiction. The laws of physics enter science fiction according to how well they make human drama possible. Black holes lead to wormholes that allow the vast distances of space to be crossable in the context of human activity. Never mind that there is no such thing as wormholes, and that even black holes are merely theoretical contrivances. Putting real physics into science fiction would reduce the role of human beings in the universe to nothing. Human existence is a flash in the period in which the mountains were made. Civilizations will rise and fade away in the time it would take a space ship to cross between the stars. Real science takes away, rather than gives, the glamor in science fiction.

The law of physics that is never popularized, that even working scientists refuse to confront, is the Arrow of Time. This is the reality, more than any other, that deflates the importance of humanity in the universe. Thermodynamics reveals that the total entropy in the universe is increasing, irreversibly, with time. All events in the universe result from the consumption of free energy and the production of entropy. It is the law of nature that frustrates our attempts to invent a prepetual motion engine. The universe is like a balloon with a very slow leak--leaking free energy irreversibly into entropy, into waste. Eventually, in the far distant future, all free energy will be consumed and no events will be possible. This fate has been called the "heat death" of the universe.



Professionals in the sciences rarely consider the overall context of space exporation in the scheme of life, evolution and the arrow of time. The energetics is not there to drive the process. Space exploration is not an activity that individuals can achieve but that whole populations dedicate themselves. The late Isaac Azimov might have incorporated this scenario into his fictional scientific study called psychohistory, had he lived long enough. Whereas individuals are driven by free will, populations behave with properties that appear only as a result of their large numbers. The population, taken as an entity of itself like a gas or a liquid, must obey laws of averages, not the free wills of individuals. If the human population were viewed the same way that a physical chemist views a solution of molecules, then only events that consume energy will occur--actions that transform energy into heat. The chemical name for this is an exothermic reaction. But a space program is an activity that is more like an endothermic reaction, not an exothermic reaction. Building rockets and biospheres, overcoming zero-gravity physiology and finding energy sources are all activities in which the population must give up, not consume, energy. Individuals can do this but populations cannot. An individual might decide to walk into a desert, but populations only migrate to places where the fruit hangs low. The human race cannot expand outward into space any more than the pieces of a broken tea cup can spontaneously put themselves back together.



A standard science fiction theme is to bring a prehistoric man, by time travel, to our era. The point is that our modern technology--radios, air travel, computers-- would seem like magic to someone whose highest technology is a spear. We owe this conception to science fiction writer Auther C. Clarke's law that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The evidence for this comes from european explorers landing on pacific islands with airplanes, then years later finding a community of aboribinal people worshipping airplane mock-ups. It is doubtful that such an mistake would have occurred had one of those aboriginals been transplanted to a european city. A visitor from the prehistoric past would be briefly awed by televisions, but then he would adjust quite well to our technology. After all, the typical person today has no better understanding of his own technology than would a caveman. In a short time, the prehistoric visitor would be debating sportscars with friends and complaining about reruns on 600 cable channels. The magic of advanced technology is probably just a twentieth century viewpoint.


But a visitor from the prehistoric past would find our civilization very uncomfortable. We would seem, to him, to live in a bee hive-like existence: our days enslaved to the clock, our nights imprisioned in small compartments, our "freedom" an illusion that we are not dependent on the vast society in which we live for survival. He would not be able to escape from this beehive. Fleeing the city, everywhere the open country would be guarded by private property signs--those places that are not utterly barren. There would be no animals to hunt and no fruit to gather. The richness of nature that he knew would be entirely exhausted from the earth. He would be forced to return to the bee hive, as we all are, and take his place, take his turn and take his pill of choice. Many of us live under the conception that we live in cities and have high technology because it is better, safer, and obviously more comfortable than the hunter-gatherer existence. But it would be impossible for today's human population to return to hunting and gathering, because the earth will not now yield that kind of energy consumption. Our way of life and technology are necessities not luxuries.

And this is what we should expect for the future of humanity. Technology will advance but human interdependence will increase. Civilization evolves in lock step with the laws of thermodynamics. Humanity as a whole is like the solution in the chemist's beaker that trends toward exothermic reactions. As energy is consumed and becomes harder and harder to obtain the complications of existence will increase. The whole body of society will require a more specialized, synchronized implimentation of its parts. As our interdependence is increased our significance as individuals will diminish. Free space and open range will be barren, exhausted of its energies. There will be no life on the earth save for humans and the food stock. Contrary to some passionate voices in our time, this eventuality will probably not be averted by recycling and environmental awareness. We are hostages to the Arrow of Time and the laws of thermodynamics. We will not master the Arrow of Time because we are a part of it. The Arrow of Time is Existence itself, and we are merely a small, short-lived manifestation of it.




We instinctively perceive an uncrossable boundary between a computer and intelligence, between a robot and a living thing. But scientific thinkers like to be iconoclasts, and predictions that computer algorithms will one day become self-conscious agrees with urban academic imagination and religious contumely. Science fiction writers turn this into a scenario of robots that take over the world. A casual association between information and intelligence leads to the misconception that the human mind is like a computer. Current knowledge in both brain operation and in computer science shows that digital computers are bad analogies to the brain. The brain is better compared to a control system circuit.

The uncrossable abyss between robots and people is equivalent to the difference between a constructed object and a product of evolution. Richard Dawkins has illuminated for us the role of information processing in the evolution of life--DNA and "the selfish gene." But information processing does not illuminate the vast, uncrossable abyss between inert matter and life. It is the energy that sparks life, and information processing is one of the building blocks that enable high energy consumption. Life is built upon matter which is in a state that consumes free energy. Matter having cell walls and DNA consumes free energy more efficiently than a simple acid solution. Living things are embedded in the Arrow of Time, in the increase of the entropy of the universe. Life is endowed with the predatory hunger to consume free energy, and this forms the basis, the prime mobium, for all human activity. The robot can be given an algorithm that resembles thinking, the robot can even be made to consume energy, but the robot cannot be constructed of matter in a state that consumes free energy.




Energy is the most important concept in science. If a story discards the law of conservation of energy then it has no science at all. Conservation of energy is one of the few things in science that is inherently understandable as common sense. While most of the mysteries of science are about things you can't see, like atoms or DNA or electricity or planets in space, conservation of energy is a commonplace of life. Energy gives us power--it makes things go, it enables communication, the ability to make things, and to live. Energy gets used up, and then we need to get some more. We wish we could get energy for free, but we can't. We have to work to get more energy, and that is the tragedy of existence itself. We are all slaves to the necessity of renewing our energy. And why should we get more energy? Obviously, so that we can work to get more energy. And then we die. In the bigger picture, our civilization will use up all the energy within its reach and leave behind waste, that is, entropy, and finally darkness. This fate will not be avoided with green technologies: it is the Arrow of Time. The escape from reality afforded to the science fiction reader is only possible by throwing out the Law of Conservation of Energy--that is, science itself. We can live vicariously in a paradise where energy comes from nothing, i.e., where we don't have to work for a living. But in momentary glimses of the horror of reality we see ourselves, chained to the oars of the slave ship Existence, being dragged inexorably forward on the currents of the Arrow of Time, into the hungry jaws of the monster waiting in the pit of Nowhere.



If science fiction does not bring us to the boundaries of knowledge then it must be less than science fiction. It must reduce itself into mere human interest stories. Science fiction in its pure form contains people and human drama only for the perspective it shows on how irrelevant is humanity in the universe. Mixing people with science is like illustrating some unknown object in a photograph side by side with a coin or a ruler. True science fiction is horror transformed from aboriginal superstition to the educated mind. Discoveries in science in the 1800's and 1900's perturbed the popular imagination and rocked the foundations of common sense. This time saw revealed the age of the earth, the vastness of the universe, the uncertainty principle, discoveries of ancient civilizations, and the origins of man. Science was a respected profession, and the discoveries of scientists were as amazing to contemplate as a carnaval ride could shock the senses. And science engendered fear. People, those people who stopped to think about it, saw their lives belittled by the perspective of an immense universe in which Man was not its center. Wierd fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft invented the horror of the unknown, this time impregnated with the poison of scientific realism. Science fiction rose to its greatest, culminating in movies like The Forbidden Planet, and 2001: A Space Odyssy and The Fantastic Voyage. Then in the late twentieth century scientific discovery exhausted itself: the moon landings were achieved, the atomic colliders in physics laboratories reached the limits of human capability, astronomical telescopes reached the farthest distances of the universe, finding more of the same stars and galaxies, and DNA was now revealed as the final constituent of life. Like science itself, science fiction lost the popular imagination and was replaced with people stories embedded in techno scenery and filled with mumbo jumbo talk masquarading as science.



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URIKORN
24th May 2015, 16:03
24/05/15


With calm steps


We made our best
We climbed the walls
And then we felt
We spent it all

The dust has settled
The rush slowed down to calm
Containing all the walls we climbed
We wait now for what will come

It took us years to learn our real pace
And if we still desire, still dreaming to become
We keep on walking
But our steps are calm

Agape
24th May 2015, 18:38
Human self and Spiritual Self are more like two Extreme Views on Reality ,
my E.T. self embraces both the same way .

Humans have plans , and a maths , ambitions and money

so good of them for keeping me still alive

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URIKORN
24th May 2015, 21:19
Human self and Spiritual Self are more like two Extreme Views on Reality ,
my E.T. self embraces both the same way .

Humans have plans , and a maths , ambitions and money

so good of them for keeping me still alive

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What you call "human self" i call sub-human.

Human and Spiritual are synonims to me.

i feel that this is more than just a terminology issue

The word Human, i feel, carries a unique vibration, and it is a pity to desecrate it,

especially because we are losing by doing so.

The path of becoming Human is the path of becoming Spiritual as well,

as well as becoming Real

Agape
24th May 2015, 21:47
Humans have short memory span .. they complain of zebra fish having memory span of few secs ..
but observe the workings of human mind ,

speaking of becoming .. if you forget what you achieved , your insights, your mind even ,
what does it make any of me or you , a piece of vegetable .

Mind cultivation , like body cultivation, for sure both play their due role in the evolution of mankind .


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