Travel along, sing a song, side by side

One humanity ahead

Heads-up, we the American people. Individuals we didn’t cast any votes for determine outcomes of elections, like the DNC not holding primaries for the presidential nomination and there are states that are only allowing Biden on the ballot, like Supreme Court judges appointed by the political party in charge when a judge happens to dies, and like gerrymandering to swing elections to reigning parties. Checks and balances don’t check or balance things anymore. It’s breakdown time.

The thread that maintains a string of aliveness is where we learn. Thinking back to single-cell creatures in our long-ago ancestry, through to humanity in primitive times and then to us, the universe is a creative place, always superseding itself. And the whole past is the core that’s inside our flesh now, traveling along, singing a song called evolution.

Humans are such a spiffy creation, but with design being a capacity that only humans have, what designed us? Where did selections for the survival of the fittest come from? How did the single-celled creatures become us? And think about the eye in vertebrates. It’s a mechanism. Parts work together. How did that interaction arise? Materialist science says just wait, answers to come -- all things to be figured out. I don’t think so. But can we talk about this? Where is weighty conversation about where we came from and what life is all about? I’m not so keen on listening to experts as I am on talking with them, and I’m hoping this will be a year we do a lot more thinking together.

Then, there’s the deal where humans are a species. Think about gorillas warring with each other. Or zebras. Or salmon. Then look at us. From our evolutionary triumph, instead of using our gifts to make our lives beautiful we’re worse off than the other species. For just one demonstration, after we made up land ownership, grabbing all the parcels as we discovered them, we made up borders. Now, look at the U.S. southern border, where some of us humans are treating other of us humans inhumanely, and realize that, instead, if we sensed ourselves to be one humanity, we could build temporary housing in border towns so no fellow humans would be clawing for survival.  

Getting a better story, where we’re sacred creatures in a sacred universe who of course would take care of Earth and each other, could be the over-riding challenge of our time. To meet it, we need engagement to co-create what’s to come.

The place for high-minded thinking where I hang out -- and even there I encourage more probing -- is SMN, the Scientific and Medical Network:

For fifty years, the Scientific and Medical Network has been bringing together acceptors of the existence of a fundamental unifying and transcendent reality. Now, given the state of the world, there is a pressing need for a worldview that goes beyond the materialist ethos and provides an orienting sense of meaning and purpose. It is more important than it ever has been to show humanity’s spiritual essence compatible with enlightened scientific thinking.

With internationally renowned speakers and visionaries, we provide a creative forum at the interfaces of science, spirituality, consciousness, and well-being. In a spirit of open and critical enquiry, we integrate ‘heart’ and ‘head’, connecting intuitive insights with objective reason.

Join our dynamic international community and become part of our movement of informed personal and professional exchange!  

I can’t find any other place to get as personal with forward thinkers, and, with a heads-up for the site being slow, this nudge to engage there with me is what’s in the box in Santa’s hand that’s my Christmas present for you!

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