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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Our Challenge Is To Transcend Our Evolutionary ApeHeritage
Published: 2022-07-20
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuTTP1cRux8
Title: Our Challenge Is To Transcend Our Evolutionary ApeHeritage
Published: 2022-07-20
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuTTP1cRux8
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our challenge is to transcend our evolutionary ape heritage did you know chimpanzees hunt smaller primates for food they do they're actually very skillful hunters due to their size their strength and especially their intelligence they coordinate their attacks working together to cut off the escape routes of their prey to greatly increase their success rates scientists have even frequently observed them using crude spears to kill a small2/18
primate species called the lesser bush baby for their meat one of the many interesting things about this behavior in our primate cousins is that they are so good at hunting that they can become victims of their own success wiping out entire populations of prey in their area red columbus monkeys have been hunted to the brink of local extinction in uganda by chimpanzees hungary for a quick3/18
protein fix solely because they've been gobbling up those delicious little guys faster than they can reproduce sound familiar the tendency of homo sapiens to overburden our ecosystem with our consumption is not unique to us and is not new in fact it looks like we've been on this trajectory toward ecocide since our ancient evolutionary ancestors began evolving extra brain matter and it is possible to just stop4/18
there and conclude that we are no different from our chimp relatives in this sense that we will keep over hunting the red columbus monkey until there are none left that we will keep depleting and destroying our biosphere until it can no longer sustain life that the human brain differs from the chimpanzees only in intelligence not in wisdom that we are in essence no difference from the5/18
cyanobacteria at the dawn of the protozoa era a new species showing up on the scene and causing a mass extinction event in the ecosystem overburdened by their rapid flourishing you do also however have the option of openness to the possibility that maybe just maybe our species is destined for greater things that maybe just maybe we have within us the capacity to transcend the mindless patterning of6/18
our evolutionary ancestors and move into a mindful relationship with this planet and its life forms that maybe just maybe this whole human adventure doesn't need to end in disaster after all from what i can tell the only people who find this idea outlandish are those who have never experienced a great unpatterning of their own who have never healed the wounds of their past and transcended the7/18
unwholesome mental habits which were given to them by their conditioning to anyone who has experienced a dramatic transformation from dysfunction into health it's obvious that any human could potentially go through such transformations as well or even all humans it is possible that our descendants will look back on humanity's existence on this planet from prehistoric times up until this crucial present moment as a kind of bridge8/18
between animal life and a new terrestrial expression that isn't driven by the unconscious conditioning patterns that have driven the movements of every species on this planet from the very first single celled organisms onward that what we're experiencing right now at this critical juncture is what it looks like before the emergence of the earth's first conscious species an unconscious human is one driven compulsively by deep-seated mental9/18
habits they don't really see and can't do much to control so they'll often find themselves engaged in unwholesome behavior patterns like addiction unkindness greed and neurosis and making the same mistakes over and over for reasons they don't quite understand a conscious human is one who doesn't have unseen conditioning pulling the strings from behind the scenes in their subconscious mind because they have done their work and10/18
drawn their inner demons into the light of consciousness where they can be healed so they are able to move through life deliberately and in the interest of what's best rather than compulsively and in a way that spreads trauma to others a conscious humanity would mean that this way of functioning blossoms throughout the entire species doesn't it kind of look like that might be what's happening like11/18
all the chaos and confusion of these strange times could simply be the birth pangs of a species whose relationship with consciousness is about to take a dramatic pivot the increasingly shrill mass media narratives rapidly approaching white noise saturation the increasingly widespread awareness that our society's rules are made up and we can change them whenever we want the mysterious increase in incidents of spiritual awakening as reported12/18
by teachers of enlightenment just how god damn weird everything's been getting these last few years i think it's possible i think it's possible we are moving as a species toward an adaptation that will enable us to survive in a situation which is very different from the one we first emerged in as every species eventually does if it doesn't go extinct if this is indeed what is13/18
happening it stands to reason that it will be an adaptation that prevents us from wiping ourselves out via ecocide or nuclear war and that a collective movement into consciousness is what that adaptation will look like a conscious species would be able to work in cooperation with its ecosystem rather than compulsively consuming it due to primitive impulses to obtain and dominate and egoic impulses to be rich14/18
and have more a conscious species would be able to convert civilization from competition-based models into collaboration-based models where rather than trying to climb over each other to get ahead we all work together to make sure everyone has what they need to live a conscious species would no longer see the sense in dividing itself up into separate competing nation-states which brandish armageddon weapons at each other out15/18
of fear and greed the more i learn about humanity and the more i learn about myself the more possible such a world appears to be sure the world's a chaotic and distressing mess right now but so is childbirth however bad things get for us as long as we're still alive our problems are nothing that can't be fixed with a collective movement into consciousness anyway that's my16/18
pet theory right now and the cool thing about my theory is that if you like it too you don't have to wait for it to come true you can start becoming more conscious on your own right now and leading the charge for the rest of us investigate your true nature heal your wounds be responsible with your actions and begin working to coax all your in darkened17/18
bits into the light and then hopefully the rest will follow if they don't worst case scenario is that you wind up a lot more happy and functional than you otherwise would have been because you brought so much more consciousness to your inner processes and your habits of perception and cognition this is where the real adventure is at in my opinion this is where the rubber meets