Video: Overnight Capture of Milky Way Galaxy over Texas Sky by William Castleman LINK
Song: The Long Way Home by Lindstrøm

Look around you.  We live in an unprecedented era.  A time where our species has the ability to feed, cloth and shelter every one of its members, and live as the dominant species on the planet in peace.

Since the beginning of time, we have suffered.  Life it is basically a process of suffering to weed out the ineffective versions of a species.  We used to participate in that process.  Not that long ago, we too played on the same field as other species on this planet, and competed to feed, to pass on progeny and to claim stake to a piece of the experience of life on this rock we all share… Earth.

But today, we live in a era where we are on the verge of resolving almost every problem that survival could deal us.  Even the ones that haven’t been solved yet are no longer and issue since we have in place a system we call Science which studies and analyzes the nature and composure of the very world around us.  This allows us to rely on a steady pace forward because with loyalty to the universal imperative of logic, we will eventually understand every natural phenomenon, every natural process.

The key word in the sentence above is eventually.  Just as we had to understand the measurement of mass, the measurement of distance, mathematics and a whole bunch of other sciences to be able to send a member of our species to our moon; we have to give time for our science to build on itself with logic as it’s guide, to become masters of the understood universe.  Imagine a species that continued to revere science to progress and instead of destroying itself over imaginary stories of who’s God is better.  Imagine where we would be now?  Would we have travelled the Solar System?  Would we have understood how to preserve and create life?  Would we have served our Creator better by having respected and revered It’s creation so much so, that we would not allow our childish egos get in the way of fulfilling our role as custodians of Life?

This is exactly what we have become.  In a a world where we can live without suffering, where we understand how to extract natural resources, where we can educate every person to the same level of knowledge, we choose to value gossip, entertainment, consumerism, and the abyss of ignorance (I just can’t bring myself to literally say it).  We have made the choice that “which top is in season next fall”, or “who is going to be the next American Idol?” is more important than feeding every member of our species, and making sure that every generation is better equipped at understanding science so that it may evolve and progress to a higher state of respect for our universe and this miracle called Life.

Test explosion of the TSAR1 Russian Hydrogen Bomb. What you see is the initial explosion which at it's core behaves like and is the temperature of a little star.

Look around you, in every corner of the world, you see death, destruction, financial issues, corruption, and someone saying that they are different or special compared to another human being.  We still haven’t evolved out of the level of animalism that doesn’t require the ego to be massaged with the expression of “dominance” to justify it’s importance?  Doesn’t that make you sad?  That without knowing it, we all participate in a game which is basically that we are all trying constantly to delineate our dominance over each other?  We buy clothes that identify us as separate individuals and care that we define our “image” to make sure we are perceived as individuals.  We use the material world that we have become masters at manipulating (i.e. Making clothing, machines that move us around, and buildings that condition our air, and boxes that preserve our food, and pills that kill infection, and on and on…) to prove that we are better than each other.  How you dress, what you drive, where you live and how you eat.  I am better than you.  And he is better than me.  Oh, and look, she is better than him.  Our simple animal minds still can’t expel this primitive notion of exertion of dominance in order to pass on our genes.

I say we have that opportunity.  But those who ask you to just believe, and not question.  They are the ones who are stopping us.  They are the ones who are asking of you to stop your rightful place amongst the stars, and become a stellar species.  One that serves to spread the gift that it’s Creator gave it… Life.  The “faith-pushers” are the ones who as you to remain ignorant of how it all works.  That has been the battle since the beginning.

Whether history takes a turn to the right direction before it is too late for this species to surpass this primitive and final step to the next level of “being” is to be decided.

The problem is that I regret to inform you, but that decision is actually in your hands.

Religion Gone Bad...

You see.  You, me and everyone around us, is a member of this modern era of the story of Homo Sapien Sapien.  Put your Bibles, Torahs, and Korans down and listen carefully.  Every generation has had this chance.  But obviously, none have heeded to the task.  This generation can.  Imagine if every one us tried to elevate each other. Imagine a world where we learned from our atrocious past and didn’t kill each other over ignorance of each other?

We live in this world this way, because we choose to.  Thus our choices create the story.  If you bought piece of clothing in a store in America, you have voted and stated that it is okay to have another human being paid the equivalent of 10 cents to work a whole day in a factory so that you can conveniently “choose” your “style” without effort or suffering.

The Social Contract

We enslave each other friends.  We all do it, and we all silently agree that it is okay.  It is as Jean-Jacques Rousseau stated, “The Social Contract”.

As I said, I would like to make it to your attention that we, are choosing to sign this contract.  Thus our world today.  Our economies, our religious debates, our racist positions, and every one of our problems.  That is because as science has done up to now, if we take the time to understand something with the humility of respecting that fact with logical analysis only, we are rewarded with the ability to solve that problem.  The fact that we still have these simple problems, and more, shows how we have turned back, and decided to look the other way from science.
So we head down the splendid path of the species that could, but never did.  Everyone has head of stories of the theoretical people of Atlantis, a long lost civilization what was far more advanced than we are?  We all live with theories of the end of the world, and 2012.  We have been accustomed to the idea that the end is coming?  Why is that?  Why isn’t it possible for us to learn, and evolve.  Use our science to figure out interplanetary travel, and spreading life to the corners of our galaxy?  We did this when we chose to leave our countries on a boat made of wood to discover what’s out there across the ocean.  Why did we stop?  So once we explored and occupied every corner of the planet, we could build as many Gaps, Star-Bucks and McDonald’s we could on it?  I think not?  Something is stopping us.  Our social contract is broken and needs to be replaced.

We’ve had 10,000 years of civilization to figure this out, and we still fight and bicker and conquer each other to prove our dominance.  Don’t you feel it’s time we grew up?

Could it be possible that we wind up like the characters of the stories we hear about Atlantis?  I mean even if the outlandish idea of Atlantis doesn’t resonate with you, you have 6 sets of rule of most of the planet by different “Mini-Civilizations” (i.e. The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Persians, and Mongols) to prove that this needs to change.

We are doing the same thing people.  Over and over.

I makes me sad when I meet people and I talk about these things, that they look at me with bewilderment and amazement at the same time, and ask… “Wow… it is nice to see people who think this way are out there”.  I wonder, it’s in every one of us.  If we only took the time to come outside at night, and look up at the stars and wonder what goes on out there, we would contemplate these things.  I’m not different than the others, I only choose to open my eyes now, and learn.

Maybe if we all thought of our species, Life, and our planet with a different level of respect, there would be more people having this conversation and things would be different on our planet right now.

Night shows the truth.  Look up.  What you see is reality.  During the “illusion” of the day, the light from the sun takes away your ability to see the reality of what exists outside our world.  Night is a gift.  When you turn off the light bulb of our solar system, you get to see what it looks like out there.  How of us get how important that is?

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