With our world imperiled to where the possible extinction of humanity is a real subject, the most important thing that could happen would be to adopt a new story of who we are and what we are doing here.
It's not a matter of "seeing into the afterlife," but in recognizing that it exists and is not the humdrum heaven and horrific hell of orthodoxy. It is a deeper existential dive than the one you mention. Once we successfully take that dive, we can better appreciate being human and cherishing the earth. It is difficult to appreciate these things with a nihilistic approach, at least it is for me and most people I know. Thanks for the link. I will check it out later. Meanwhile, you might want to check out the writings of Sir Oliver Lodge and Professors James Hyslop.
I have read a little of Swimme and his inspirations, including Alfred North Whitehead, and Teilhard de Chardin, and the problem I see with them is that they do not actually use the words, life after death, afterlife, consciousness surviving death, whatever. They imply that such exists, or one might infer that they exist, but the person of normal intelligence is never really sure what they are saying. It is apparently too unscientific for them to use such verbiage and so they continually beat around the bush on the subject and make little or no progress with their ideas among the masses.
It's a deeper dive at who we are and what we're doing here that they are dealing with than the relatively peripheral issue of seeing into the afterlife. What they deal with motivates this life to be lived in appreciation for being human where we cherish the Earth and don't just treat it as there for our use. I suggest you dive more deeply into Brian Swimme. Here's a good half hour to look at: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/767509795
Here is a different take. Work like Brian's helps elevate a small segment of population's consciousness directly and a larger section indirectly by raising the frequency. But it is the education movement called Social Emotional Learning that has the best chance of making the fundamental change needed in human consciousness because it doesnt directly aspire to do so and therefore has a chance to go mass. SEL proves that human pain, conflict and dysfunction - personal and collective - derive from lack of skills in self and relational management and a mindset that values non-judgment behaviors and other life skills. Taught comprehensively pre-K to 12 in all schools, it will produce the most evolved generation in human history - one not trapped in the passed-along lack of skills and one- up mindset that is the bane of human existence and accounts for everything from nuclear weapons to pedophilia and everything in between. The world is an effect. The cause is how well or poorly we re trained to deal with its realties. Change how kids are trained, and they will produce the world Sue envisions.- - Jay Levin
I am so in synch with this. There are a few kindness programs for young schoolchildren that have the same effect: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_if_schools_taught_kindness. Long range, these things are of inestimable value. And, we need to survive long enough for the results to take effect and is why I'm looking for what we could do now.
I will be present. I feel that Brian activate on us that hidden memory in our DNA.
It's not a matter of "seeing into the afterlife," but in recognizing that it exists and is not the humdrum heaven and horrific hell of orthodoxy. It is a deeper existential dive than the one you mention. Once we successfully take that dive, we can better appreciate being human and cherishing the earth. It is difficult to appreciate these things with a nihilistic approach, at least it is for me and most people I know. Thanks for the link. I will check it out later. Meanwhile, you might want to check out the writings of Sir Oliver Lodge and Professors James Hyslop.
I have read a little of Swimme and his inspirations, including Alfred North Whitehead, and Teilhard de Chardin, and the problem I see with them is that they do not actually use the words, life after death, afterlife, consciousness surviving death, whatever. They imply that such exists, or one might infer that they exist, but the person of normal intelligence is never really sure what they are saying. It is apparently too unscientific for them to use such verbiage and so they continually beat around the bush on the subject and make little or no progress with their ideas among the masses.
It's a deeper dive at who we are and what we're doing here that they are dealing with than the relatively peripheral issue of seeing into the afterlife. What they deal with motivates this life to be lived in appreciation for being human where we cherish the Earth and don't just treat it as there for our use. I suggest you dive more deeply into Brian Swimme. Here's a good half hour to look at: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/767509795
Short, sweet & profound. Thank you.
Here is a different take. Work like Brian's helps elevate a small segment of population's consciousness directly and a larger section indirectly by raising the frequency. But it is the education movement called Social Emotional Learning that has the best chance of making the fundamental change needed in human consciousness because it doesnt directly aspire to do so and therefore has a chance to go mass. SEL proves that human pain, conflict and dysfunction - personal and collective - derive from lack of skills in self and relational management and a mindset that values non-judgment behaviors and other life skills. Taught comprehensively pre-K to 12 in all schools, it will produce the most evolved generation in human history - one not trapped in the passed-along lack of skills and one- up mindset that is the bane of human existence and accounts for everything from nuclear weapons to pedophilia and everything in between. The world is an effect. The cause is how well or poorly we re trained to deal with its realties. Change how kids are trained, and they will produce the world Sue envisions.- - Jay Levin
I am so in synch with this. There are a few kindness programs for young schoolchildren that have the same effect: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_if_schools_taught_kindness. Long range, these things are of inestimable value. And, we need to survive long enough for the results to take effect and is why I'm looking for what we could do now.
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