Future thrills

History is a description of what we have done, what happened. History is always tinged with peoples´ opinion, inclusions/exclusions, preferences, interpretation and must be seen in the light of present circumstances. History may change over time. What elements we include in history or see as important also determine the history we see.

So speculating about the future and what the endpoint of history will be is not easy, it could be part of an exercise in planning, of choosing a contemporary path to serve us well as regards our own future.

The driving forces are often strong and beyond our control. Part of it may be found in culture, technology, the environment, ethics, agendas of nations/organizations/people, religion and discoveries. Strong personal qualities and activities may also influence the course of history.

The basis for future developments is found in many places: science, politics, human needs, conflicts of various kinds and environmental change including natural catastrophes or trends. There may also be agendas unfolding as people put their thinking into practice, thus vastly influencing  what others do.

Factors talked about now is local versus global, self-government versus global control. Will there be world domination by some force – by a nation – like the Mongols, the Romans etc. -  or will a strand of thinking, an idea find its way into our lives? It could also be that China and India will emerge on the world stage and balance Western domination, even put the US in the shadows.

The future of ownership is another interesting topic – will ownership be distributed or will concentration increase? New political systems may arise – like the use of co-intelligence principles, or the opposite which could be a global government with wide powers, or will it be a mixture of many systems? Big corporations owned by financiers seeking profit is today a moving force in many areas, and if this is coupled with big government we could have a new situation developing affecting our lives.

Politics is the important method ruling our lives today, but this could change as politicians are are appearing more and more unreliable and unable, or if common pool resource management becomes common. Markets are the norm for most things today, but this could change if new practical solutions are found for production and distribution of things that today are sold in markets. Candidates could be medicines, limited resources of many kinds, commodities.

The rule of law is the basis for most sensible states today and this will probably continue in the future, even be strengthened. An individualistic culture is seen today and this could change too as people become socially more responsible.

New kinds of societies are hard to fathom today, but changes in the past have been big and new entrants may be found.

Technology will be important – the chemical world will grow, new understanding will be found about our minds and bodies, the digital world will continue to change our lives radically and make possible a host of technologies, including positive and negative activities.

The practice of foresight and planning should increase in many areas – but humans have always had a tendency to act after the fact. The biggest challenge is maybe increased distribution of knowledge and of  science so that people can help themselves.

So – pure speculation is what this is – we all live in the present and do what we must do – we do not plan history´s development – or are there people out there with agendas that they work hard to carry through over the years? If this is so it is scary and it would have been nice to know!

Non-scientists should grasp what is going on in the world of science. Sometimes it seems that basic science is waiting in the wings while technological advances using known science has the main focus. It all is about making money, making products to sell. In this way we are maybe losing track of the knowledge of the really big questions.

But science is surely moving ahead – physics, chemistry, medicine, others – new discoveries all the time. We all need to understand the major events as they unravel. The science will surely make an impression on our daily lives. Take genetics for medicine, food, energy – there will be great discoveries. There is far too little information about developments today – we are losing touch, information is lacking.

The most basic part of science is that there is life. This is an unsolved mystery. All the atoms that are you has a life force binding it all together. We do not know what this life force is and why our atoms hang together the way they do. So the cooperation of these atoms is at present a mystery, although there must be a logic or system in there. Humans are not what they were or will be – they keep changing or adapting – otherwise they would probably disappear. Species of the Earth regenerate for a while and then they disappear.

We know lots of species that have been here, but we dont’t really know what is going on – the number of species on the Earth is unknown. These processes are only found on the Earth as far as we know. But scientists are constantly looking for knowledge.

The conditions under which we live on this Earth seems to be precisely balanced – there are restrictions that make us live on a very small part of the Earth and its atmosphere.

The lack of knowledge about the Earth is amazing: the numbers of organisms here seems to be huge and we are maybe surrounded by millions of species that we have not yet seen.

And how did it all start? One spot of creation or many and then gradual adaptation? Is the system behind it the same for all creatures? And then the big question is if it is possible for us to destroy it all?

Ecologically we are behaving badly and unsustainably: We take large amounts of resources from the Earth, we make bad air, water, changing the surface of the Earth, killing life.

So where will we go – into destruction or positive developments? Does it matter what we do? Is science on the right track? Why are the basic questions about the Earth and life still unsolved? Is there a factor missing that we have not seen yet?

There is always new science – the worlds knowledge is increasing – it is important that we understand what is going on. It is also completely certain that what we know today will soon be outdated – this is the eternal truth. There will always be change.

Our world is built up from bits of untested, unexamined, received truths. Example: Our body and our soul are different things – we say. The Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo suggests they are the same thing, but in different states – like ice and water. Do we know? What is the state of our knowledge? How do we go about finding out?

Another philosopher Paul Brunton has said – modified by me:

Philosophy must concern itself with basic facts: relativity of time and space, illusions, feelings – the big question is what experience really is. We only know what our senses tell us – we are surface seers. All experience is made to fit into the pattern of our existing ideas. To know the world as it really is, we would have to expand our field of awareness to a higher dimension and find relations, both to other things and to oneself. Knowledge can exist only by being based on relations, and it is always relative.

The philosopher must split knowledge into two forms:

• the state of things as they are presented to our five senses
• the state of things as they really are in their essential nature

To understand reality we must first understand the unreal.

Scientifically viewed things in their ultimate character are indeed fields of electronic and protonic energies moving at speeds – a state of absolute rest does not exist – that is an illusion. The universe is not so much a structure as a flow, it is the microcosmic world of atoms: electrons are constantly rotating, protons are ceaselessly vibrating.

Thoughts are constantly flowing – mentalism demonstrates that our experience of the whole world is nothing but our thoughts of it. The ultimate stuff of the universe is light, restlessness being the ultimate state of the universe, and where reality is.

Modern science began by studying and describing the properties of things, and it can end only by discovering their ultimate substance, and this will land it in metaphysics. Atoms are not the last word nor matter the last substance. Atoms have been divided and found to be waves. The worlds is not a stable one but a process of happenings and the universe is in a state of permanent change.

Thing’s actuality reveals itself as mentally made – ideas and emotions, there is nothing else. Mind and the world are inextricably intertwined, mind is the only reality – mentalism is the doctrine that concludes that there is nothing but mind, we cannot step outside our mind. Ideas can not exist separately without a thinking being to hold or generate them. A full suspension of the mind’s activity results in sleep or coma, full resumption of it in wakefulness.

There is also another factor present underneath the individual experience of the world, a creative and contributive factor which is beyond his control and his consciousness. The individual and the unknown super-individual gives an explanation of the existence and structure of the experienced world. Thus although we started with sense-impressions as our first view of what is real in the experienced world, we are compelled to conclude that a super-individual is present as a mental factor.

Our sense-impressions arise from a creative power of our own minds which functions independently of our intentions and above our conscious self. There must be an unknown cause for the constant succession of thought forms – a super-individual mind must be present.

Existence cannot be limited merely to what is given in human sensations, there must be a universally diffused mind – a primal, permanent and self-subsistent one, a boundless mind which is a supreme mind. We are not merely the self-absorbed witnesses of our own impressions but also the co-sharers of a common experience, a constantly perceiving permanent super-mind.

The very act of thinking is a creative one as it manufactures its own time and space. The cosmos in its entirety is but a thought form of a cosmic thinker, working subconsciously behind the individual mind, and which will fill the gap we have in our understanding. We must recognize the working of another mind upon our own. This then is a third thing which must be a higher form of consciousness.

The presence of an omnipresent mind must recognize a relation not only between the world and the individual but also between the world and a universal mind.

The mental operations of all men are in the end related to each other and this is why they all see the same world in the same space-time order. Their own multiple existence in a single larger mind can be described as thousands of cells existing in a single larger body. This determines one man’s world experience from within himself and also determines another man’s. There is a hidden unity enclosing all human minds – the universal mind – the supreme mind – the World-Mind – is the soul of nature.

Remove thought and you remove things; annihilate mind and you annihilate matter. Man has difficulty with this partly because its paradoxical unfamiliarity and partly because of his own deep-rooted prejudice in favour of materialism.

Mentalism defines the universe in this way, and science has taken the first step towards the discovery of this truth. Whatever science has been in the past – the world is just one’s thought! Will science lead us to mentalism?

Who can tell – but when we do not know the important thing is to keep on speculating, making guesses and hypotheses. One day we will surely know.

(Note: A proton is the mobile part of the water molecule and is the carrier of energy/signals in biological systems. Protonic conduction takes place in the aqueous system present in all living matter – bioproticity.)

There are many people thinking in ways that are not mainstream and they do not accept the official view. There are a number of subjects where this takes place: sprititualism, government conspiracies, alternative medicine, aliens, economic rip-offs, theory of evolution, hidden agendas of many kinds – there are a lot of ideas in the world.

There are also a lot of things we just plain do not understand fully: climate models, the working of the brain, the enigma of what life is, the financial system, why there must be wars, what causes illnesses like cancer, rheumatism, life in the deep oceans.

Some have to do with our state of knowledge and one day we will understand, others are fixed ideas that never seem to die. And new ones of both kinds keep coming up.

This has to do with the working of the human mind: We are not logical beings, we do not think straight or cleverly enough, we accept some authorities, others not, we are full of emotions, there are special interests, we remember and we forget and there are economic interests as well.

Some of these ideas or controversies are very old and do not seem to let go. We deride most, but they stay in there. The world’s people seem to want to have it this way – it is entertaining. Now and then we must accept that ideas are accepted and new truth is found. In the confusion where we do not know the truth fully authors make good money from their books and films.

The case of the hollow Earth is an outstanding example. We really have no solid proof that the Earth is a compact whole and that the inside is hot and molten. The deepest hole we have drilled is about 12 km and this is much less than 1% of the way to the center.

Once the Earth was flat, but now we know more. Through the ages speculation has led us into concepts like the underworld, subterranean kingdoms, hell and even inhabited worlds. Several shell theories have been put forward and even now some people will not let it be – they claim the world is hollow. Concave hollow Earths have also been proposed.

Scientists – our masters who have shown consistent lack of knowledge of most things in the process of human learning – maintain that gravity and modern understanding of planet formation make it certain that the Earth is hollow with a molten core. A hollow Earth would have much lower gravity. There surely is heat in there, but we do not know for sure how deep it goes – we have never been there, it has not been measured.

Experiments with deep drilling have been proposed, but never realized.

So what is there to say: Speculation will continue – remember also that we have never been there so basically we do not know. One day we surely will know.

In the meantime – surely we should speculate – form hypotheses – test them – so we can say that they are no longer hypotheses. It is also about having a free mind: Do you dare that?