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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: We're Here To Become As Conscious As Possible
Published: 2022-06-15
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERfv7eXy9Xw
Title: We're Here To Become As Conscious As Possible
Published: 2022-06-15
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERfv7eXy9Xw
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we're here to become as conscious as possible if there is a purpose to human life as near as i can tell from these severely limited sense organs and this very limited brain it's to become as conscious as possible if you were given a video game to play without knowing anything about it one of the first things you'd probably try to work out is what the objective2/15
is how do you do well in the game what do you need to do to move from this part of the game to the next part how do you win if you didn't receive any instructions you'd probably try to deduce the game's objective by seeing what actions make things better for the character you're controlling on the screen does the game reward your character for solving the3/15
puzzle do you get points for killing the space aliens does it make a happy noise and move you to the next level when you find the blue key whatever makes things better for the character and their progress through the story probably has something to do with the game's objective if i were looking at the human experience with the same kind of detached big picture perspective as4/15
someone playing a video game i reckon i would eventually deduce that what makes things better for the characters in the game is the expansion of consciousness i'd probably first start to notice that things get better for humans as they become more aware of the way their world works as their understanding of tool making medicine and plant life expands so too does their ability to survive and5/15
reproduce when their understanding of science really takes off i'd notice their population explodes alongside those expansions i might later notice that human life tends to become less unequal as people's awareness of the plight of others expands by expanding their consciousness of what other people's experience of the world is like a slow realization begins to dawn that we're all basically the same and it doesn't make much6/15
sense for some people to be treated differently from others this expansion would happen in the same movements as expansions and philosophical sociological psychological political and historical understanding i might also notice that individual humans tend to experience greater enjoyment of life as their own personal consciousness expands as they become more conscious of how their actions affect others they begin moving more harmoniously in society as they become7/15
conscious of their own unique psychology and their personal history of trauma they find themselves doing fewer self-destructive things if they become deeply conscious of how thoughts perception and experience actually happens on a fundamental level they may find themselves embodying what spiritual traditions call awakening or enlightenment i'd probably start noticing that in fact every major positive change in the way humans operate whether for an individual or8/15
for a group of any size is preceded by an expansion of consciousness and i would probably deduce from there that this humanity game we're all playing is about becoming as conscious as possible of as much as possible becoming conscious of our own inner processes as individuals becoming conscious of the human condition and becoming conscious of what's true about the world around us from there i assume9/15
i would deduce that anyone who was on the frontier of expanding human consciousness in any way or in any direction is playing the game well and that those who are stagnating without learning or growing haven't quite gotten the hang of it yet if you choose to accept this as a legitimate perspective then it would make sense to assume that our short time on this planet is10/15
best spent expanding consciousness in some way or in all ways you may even find that expanding consciousness in one way helps your ability to expand it in other ways you may find for example that expanding your awareness of how your own mind operates gives you more awareness of how other people's minds operate and how they can be manipulated by powerful people using propaganda you may also11/15
find for example that expanding your awareness of the plight of people less socioeconomically and geopolitically advantaged than yourself expands your personal awareness of the various socioeconomic and geopolitical dynamics which have given rise to the way your life is right now you may also find for example that expanding your consciousness of your own inner processes gives you a serenity which makes it easier to look squarely at12/15
the horrors you encounter when expanding your awareness of what's going on in the world and gives you the humility to see that you are not fully separate from those horrors this game of humanity will keep improving as long as our consciousness keeps expanding i'd go so far as to say that's the only thing that can make things get better and that failing to do so guarantees13/15
things will get worse like a video game i believe we humans are free to either win this game or lose it we will either keep expanding our awareness of what's really going on in this weird universe our mothers birthed us into or we will wipe ourselves out by a nuclear war or ecocide either way if you choose to accept what's being said here we do have14/15
the power to make things better by exactly one unit of human effort we can help spread awareness of what's going on in the world by fighting the lies we've been told by the powerful and drawing attention to things the powerful would rather keep hidden we can help spread awareness of the human condition with art and with empathy we can expand our own consciousness by getting very