evolution

In writing this invitation to consider using the Collective Consciousness to shape your life with, I am aware that talking about it is very closely related to our human evolution. That is the case both on an individual level, as well as on the level of the Community of humans Earth.

Always, when people on an individual level evolve and make other choices in their words and deeds, they influence the community they are in.

I am inviting you to look consciously at your choices, because your choices influence not only the quality of your own life, but (surely when enough of us make similar choices.....) the quality of life of the community we live in and the environment we all live in.

Seeing how that works, is not rocket science.

We help ourselves moving forward in live and in doing so, we are playing a part in moving mankind forward, in evolution.

Before I share my ideas on how to evolve individually and as a species from 'here and now' to a future with high quality of life, I'll give a summary of human evolution (already slightly coloured in the direction of the next piece).

When I was taught about the human evolution, from pre-historic cave-man all the way to ‘us, now’ , the various stages were highly related to the development in how (new) available  materials got used.

Using  ‘stones and bones and wood’ , the hunter gatherers, created settlements, where the ‘ terrain’ became differently used.
We explored the (surface)  of the world , mapped it over the centuries and settled in it, driven by the needs and curiosity of an expanding population.

Around 1750, an important revolution took place, that literally changed the face of the earth, big time, with an enormous impact on our human evolution because  it increased in speed: the industrial revolution.

We found in the earth the resources that would fuel up this high speed movement: coal and later oil.

It impacted every corner of our society: work, life style, social interactions, leisure, the look and feel of our environment.....

Products were easier to produce and distances were more quickly covered. The creative curious explorative beings we are: we had found ourselves fantastic toys to play with and made inventions at high speed.

We found ways to not only power up our factories and trains, to make  products and high speed transportations available to the masses. We found ways to bring that power to the people’s homes: electricity to fuel up home life, fuel to fuel up the use of cars.

It took quite some manual labour to keep this process  moving, so after a while people couldn’t satisfy their built-in desire to explore as much, because they needed to work now, most of the time.

Luckily, new ways of exploring the world were brought to the homes too.

When you worked hard enough, you could now have a car, to move around in and explore or visit family further afield more frequently.
And also:  television was invented: the world came to you now.
We loved it. It was fascinating.

From these discoveries that it was now possible to be quickly involved in worlds, apart from your own life sphere, the impulse came for a revolution in sharing information: the internet was born.

First, it was attached to wires and you had to be in a fixed place to have access to it. Like phones, in the early days.
But the necessary computers were developed smaller and smaller (and more powerful too) and as they became portable in size, we could ‘be in touch’ all the time, at ever increasing speed.
We could satisfy all our needs now 24/7 with no delays: shopping, social, education, entertainment... you name it, the internet offers it.

We love(d) it!

But those who are looking up from being fascinated by what is to be experienced on our devices, or looking within experience the impact this life style has. We are burning up, at high speed. More, more, more and faster, faster, faster is not only not sustaining the environment and we are destroying our outside world, the earth ... destroying mankind in the slipstream of that.

But also more, more, more and faster, faster, faster is also not sustaining deep core natural human needs.......and  we are destroying our own inner world.... destroying kindness in the slipstream if that.

Is this what we want? Is this what we choose?
is there no way back?

Going back is not really the direction evolution takes us, naturally.

But if we choose something else, evolution can bend again in another direction.
It can be a super small little thingy, that has the potential for enormous impact.

My suggestion is to go from resourcefuelness to resourcefulness.
I’ll describe what that is in my next blog post.