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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The Goal

In the last episode of season 1 of Start Trek - The Next Generation - "The Neutral Zone", the Enterprise encounters an old vessel, apparently from around early 21st Century. In it they find crypts with deep-frozen people. They end up thawing three of the people. During the episode, there are several conversations between the folks from the 21st century and the crew of the Enterprise - who are from 24th century.
During one of these conversations, Capt. Picard was trying to explain to that 21st century business man, that now there is no need for money anymore. That humanity has figured out how to clothe and feed everybody. The business man then asks: "What is the challenge?". Picard's answer is something in direction of "To improve ourselves, and to contribute".
I really like that particular episode. It shows a humanity that has grown, developed, and matured to the point where we don't have to war each other anymore. And where we don't have to worry about and concern ourselves with plain survival.
Instead, our survival is guaranteed. The goal for people is not anymore to amass wealth and possessions. We are focusing on developing and contributing.

My goal for this blog is to contribute to our species getting there – and hopefully sooner than the 24th century that Start Trek is set in.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Revolutions

Looking at our history, several times we had reached a point in one or another topic, where we had to make a fundamental shift. The old, traditional way had reached it's limit – to go beyond it a completely new approach was needed. Usually what happened, though, was that the folks believing or having a vested interest in and following the “old way” didn't want the change. The fought tooth and nail to continue the tradition. However, there was too much pressure built up to force the change through anyhow. Such a dramatic change, or the struggle to implement it, we call a “Revolution”.
One such revolution happened about five six centuries ago in Europe. Until then, the monks were the conveyors of information. Their mystical explanations of our material world, however, did not meet the observations of some educated non-clergy. The result of that revolution was the birth of the sciences.
Another type of revolution started to happen in the 1700s and continued until the early 1900s. The masses of the population was suppressed and unable to life a fulfilled life, due to the form of government. When the need for being able to make something of their lives became to big in the people, the political revolutions were fought. In many parts of Europe these revolutions replaced monarchy with democracy. In then European colonies, these struggles brought independence and self-government.
In the late 1800s the industrial revolution started. Manual production was too costly, in terms of how much human-resource was needed. The discovery of how to employ natural energy to help in the process of creating goods, allowed the dramatic shift in standard of living, that occurred in the last 100 years.
And the late 1900s brought the computer and the Internet. The old way of communicating and of storing and making information available had reached it's limits. Today, anybody in the world, who has Internet access has access to more information right in their living-room, than is stored in the library of congress!
Albert Einstein once sad something like: to find a solution for a problem it takes a smarter mind than the one that created it. Looking at all the problems we have currently in our world, we have the knowhow and ability to fix every single one of them! The only thing that is missing is the will to do so. A fundamental shift in our priorities is needed, our goals, and our definitions of successful, fulfilled have to change dramatically. We need a Spiritual Revolution.


The Mission

Today, we have all the information necessary for us, all of us, to live a happy and fulfilled life without worries about food, shelter and clothing. And we have the means to access that information anywhere in this world.
Theoretically, there is no need for anybody in this world to be hungry anymore. Every person, no matter where they live, could be capable of contributing to the benefit of this creation. Technically, we would be very well able to feed and clothe everybody, to provide education for every single person in this world.
But we still have people starving to death. We still have wars. The larger part of the human population of this planet is still just trying to stay alive for one more hour, one more day.

Why? If there is no need for this anymore, why is it still the case?

I find, it is because we are spiritually still too immature. Apparently, so far we have concentrated all our effort on understanding the material world around us. We have focused on technical progress. Spiritually, we are still at the same point as we where 500 or 1000 years ago!
I think, if we want to be able to fix all the problems we face today, we have to focus on our spiritual development.

This blog is dedicated to explore this topic. I hope it will inspire, educate, enlighten. I hope it itself will be a contribution to this “Spiritual Revolution” that we are so in need of...