WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Currently this question weighs heavily on the collective consciousness of humanity. We feel battered and uncertain given the direction our world is headed. Considering the triple whammy we face from a pandemic, global warming, and the threats to our very political and social norms, is it not time for people to choose a new direction going forward?
Experts everywhere have stepped up to the challenge, eager to offer their own solutions, frantically waving red flags, hoisting banners, and filling social media with their warnings and predictions. This quest fills the horizon. What is to be our future?
Where are we going? Before we dive into this question, let’s back up momentarily to a question I posed in the previous blog: Why am I here? If you truly understand why you are here, the question of where you are going fades into oblivion. It no longer has any relevance.
Why is this, you ask? If you merge with Existence, you will automatically flow in the direction that Existence is flowing. And that direction is always right. Only…We hesitate, because to flow with Life seems to fly in the face of worldly realities. So, what choice shall we make? To flow with Life? Or to wrest our destiny into our own hands, to choose a path that navigates the dangers that lie ahead?
When you feel you are separate from Existence, the choice seems clearcut. What would life be without the right to choose? Let’s focus on this idea of choice first and see how it plays out. The world will tell you that success, even happiness, comes from choosing wisely. It seems self evident. Many people can look back on their lives, especially with the benefit of hindsight, and see all the mistakes they have made. And wish they had the opportunity to chose differently, to achieve a different outcome.
Like a generation of baby boomers, I lived through one of the most remarkable periods in human history: the sixties. Frankly, you would have had to be there to fully appreciate what that time meant. While it was turbulent, the sixties also embraced tremendous optimism. Rarely in a single decade has humanity grown so much collectively. Civil rights, the Summer of Love, the Cuban Missile Crisis, space travel, even the Vietnam War contributed so much to our growth as humans and the direction the consciousness would move going forward.
We were optimists and confident that the world we passed on to our children would be a brighter place, a place where human beings would be treated with dignity and allowed to bloom and grow to their fullest. This was the dream. And the expectation.
But that is the past. Now we are faced with a future that has brought new and unexpected challenges. What path forward shall we embrace? And when has a decision ever been more critical, where a false step carries consequences that will haunt our future?
One path is highly visible and ever so seductive, glittering as lights flash, as a chorus of voices echoes the promise of what lies ahead. This is the path of the Machine Age, where machines will make our lives easier, more productive, more innovative. In just a few generations machines have evolved from being tools to becoming partners. The Machine Age promises not just to make our world better, but to enhance us individually as well. We can become something greater than human. Machines will not only monitor our health, they promise to extend our life spans. And dare we say it, offer the possibility of immortality (in some yet to be determined fashion).
We have seen these possibilities reflected in movies and literature—the opportunity to evolve into a superhuman (if not outright superheroes). We can come a synthesis of the biologic and the machine. We can merge with the Machine World, to be enhanced in a limitless fashion.
How inconceivable it will be to our grandchildren that people once drove cars by making their own decisions, independent of machine input. We can certainly see the change in modern cars where autonomous driving will soon be the rule. In time, the concept of “driving” with any human input will disappear.
Meanwhile, science is pursuing avenues where the regulation of our bodies will be turned over to machines, as implants, chips, and nanobots will control functions once part of our normal cycles. The promise: Machines will to do it more precisely. Over time, humans will stop trusting themselves and rely exclusively on machines. In the process what we have known as the human consciousness will be forever changed as we shift our trust to something… artificial.
Already there are many proponents of the Machine Age among us, spokespeople who promise a utopian world if we simply turn over its functioning to machines. Machine people wish to suppress the apparent chaos of Life. They prefer to bring everything under control, to make things better, more manageable. I understand their rationale: On the surface the world will appear more orderly, more predictable. The chaos will finally be reined in. No more surprises.
Except for this one: The farther we go down this road, the more we will forget what it was like to be human. Everything will have to reflect the machine decision criteria. That will be the standard: predictable, organized, under control. You can understand why some governments and individuals champion such an outcome.
Only… Life will be completely and utterly dead. There will be no place for creativity. For love. For the unexpected. For any expression of what is ultimately human. Mother Stella has repeatedly warned us against such a future even as we rush to embrace it. While it may look like the safe bet—to place our trust in the machine—if we elevate the artificial over Life, all is lost. This is too great a price to pay.
Mother Stella once told me that if you attempt to explain how Life works, you must speak the language of the Infinite. And the language of the Infinite seems to fly in the face of conventional wisdom. People who are completely immersed in worldly conditioning will be unable to hear. Or to see. On the other hand, if you are even a little awake, there is something inside you that is capable of understanding.
The language of the Infinite… You have to be reminded of its music, its rhythms. Above all, understand this in your heart of hearts: Nothing trumps the human. Because what we call human is a reflection of the Divine. Remember: If you have forgotten who you are, in that forgetfulness you will indulge in much nonsense. It is time to wake up. The path to Wholeness, to Existence does not go through the machine. Nothing artificial can ever open that door.
You have been given a glimpse of the future these past few years should we continue down this path to the Machine Age. Let me be clear: It will destroy our humanness. While we may survive as forms, everything else that makes Life so dear will be lost. In this very moment, Life is reaching out to you with this reminder. Ask yourself this question: Are you ready to become the vast human being you were meant to be, to become a Universal Being? This is the path forward, the human path.
Experts everywhere have stepped up to the challenge, eager to offer their own solutions, frantically waving red flags, hoisting banners, and filling social media with their warnings and predictions. This quest fills the horizon. What is to be our future?
Where are we going? Before we dive into this question, let’s back up momentarily to a question I posed in the previous blog: Why am I here? If you truly understand why you are here, the question of where you are going fades into oblivion. It no longer has any relevance.
Why is this, you ask? If you merge with Existence, you will automatically flow in the direction that Existence is flowing. And that direction is always right. Only…We hesitate, because to flow with Life seems to fly in the face of worldly realities. So, what choice shall we make? To flow with Life? Or to wrest our destiny into our own hands, to choose a path that navigates the dangers that lie ahead?
When you feel you are separate from Existence, the choice seems clearcut. What would life be without the right to choose? Let’s focus on this idea of choice first and see how it plays out. The world will tell you that success, even happiness, comes from choosing wisely. It seems self evident. Many people can look back on their lives, especially with the benefit of hindsight, and see all the mistakes they have made. And wish they had the opportunity to chose differently, to achieve a different outcome.
Like a generation of baby boomers, I lived through one of the most remarkable periods in human history: the sixties. Frankly, you would have had to be there to fully appreciate what that time meant. While it was turbulent, the sixties also embraced tremendous optimism. Rarely in a single decade has humanity grown so much collectively. Civil rights, the Summer of Love, the Cuban Missile Crisis, space travel, even the Vietnam War contributed so much to our growth as humans and the direction the consciousness would move going forward.
We were optimists and confident that the world we passed on to our children would be a brighter place, a place where human beings would be treated with dignity and allowed to bloom and grow to their fullest. This was the dream. And the expectation.
But that is the past. Now we are faced with a future that has brought new and unexpected challenges. What path forward shall we embrace? And when has a decision ever been more critical, where a false step carries consequences that will haunt our future?
One path is highly visible and ever so seductive, glittering as lights flash, as a chorus of voices echoes the promise of what lies ahead. This is the path of the Machine Age, where machines will make our lives easier, more productive, more innovative. In just a few generations machines have evolved from being tools to becoming partners. The Machine Age promises not just to make our world better, but to enhance us individually as well. We can become something greater than human. Machines will not only monitor our health, they promise to extend our life spans. And dare we say it, offer the possibility of immortality (in some yet to be determined fashion).
We have seen these possibilities reflected in movies and literature—the opportunity to evolve into a superhuman (if not outright superheroes). We can come a synthesis of the biologic and the machine. We can merge with the Machine World, to be enhanced in a limitless fashion.
How inconceivable it will be to our grandchildren that people once drove cars by making their own decisions, independent of machine input. We can certainly see the change in modern cars where autonomous driving will soon be the rule. In time, the concept of “driving” with any human input will disappear.
Meanwhile, science is pursuing avenues where the regulation of our bodies will be turned over to machines, as implants, chips, and nanobots will control functions once part of our normal cycles. The promise: Machines will to do it more precisely. Over time, humans will stop trusting themselves and rely exclusively on machines. In the process what we have known as the human consciousness will be forever changed as we shift our trust to something… artificial.
Already there are many proponents of the Machine Age among us, spokespeople who promise a utopian world if we simply turn over its functioning to machines. Machine people wish to suppress the apparent chaos of Life. They prefer to bring everything under control, to make things better, more manageable. I understand their rationale: On the surface the world will appear more orderly, more predictable. The chaos will finally be reined in. No more surprises.
Except for this one: The farther we go down this road, the more we will forget what it was like to be human. Everything will have to reflect the machine decision criteria. That will be the standard: predictable, organized, under control. You can understand why some governments and individuals champion such an outcome.
Only… Life will be completely and utterly dead. There will be no place for creativity. For love. For the unexpected. For any expression of what is ultimately human. Mother Stella has repeatedly warned us against such a future even as we rush to embrace it. While it may look like the safe bet—to place our trust in the machine—if we elevate the artificial over Life, all is lost. This is too great a price to pay.
Mother Stella once told me that if you attempt to explain how Life works, you must speak the language of the Infinite. And the language of the Infinite seems to fly in the face of conventional wisdom. People who are completely immersed in worldly conditioning will be unable to hear. Or to see. On the other hand, if you are even a little awake, there is something inside you that is capable of understanding.
The language of the Infinite… You have to be reminded of its music, its rhythms. Above all, understand this in your heart of hearts: Nothing trumps the human. Because what we call human is a reflection of the Divine. Remember: If you have forgotten who you are, in that forgetfulness you will indulge in much nonsense. It is time to wake up. The path to Wholeness, to Existence does not go through the machine. Nothing artificial can ever open that door.
You have been given a glimpse of the future these past few years should we continue down this path to the Machine Age. Let me be clear: It will destroy our humanness. While we may survive as forms, everything else that makes Life so dear will be lost. In this very moment, Life is reaching out to you with this reminder. Ask yourself this question: Are you ready to become the vast human being you were meant to be, to become a Universal Being? This is the path forward, the human path.
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