TAKING IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL
APRIL 7, 2011. For the past two weeks, I’ve been writing extensively about genetic engineering and the human future. Now I want to move to another level, one which some people will think is esoteric.
Looked at from a particular angle, the mad dash for knowledge about genes is, actually, a sub-category of a much larger obsession:
THE DESIRE TO DISCOVER WHAT EXISTS.
This may, at first glance, seem like an empty truism.
Well, of course we want to know what exists. We want to know it at the bottom of the sea and out in the stars and within our own minds and in realms outside the normal channels of perception. Of course we want to journey to those places and find out what’s there.
Nothing wrong with that, right?
But there is a problem. Along with that urge to discover what exists in all these places, there comes a glitch.
We search for design and pattern and structure and system, in order to reach the highest kind of knowledge about existence, and then all our forward motion seems to bring us back around to the place where we began: ignorance.
Oh yes, we’ve found out a great deal along the way, but about the nature of life and the life-force itself, we’re still at the starting gate.
Many physicists experience this. For their whole careers, they probe the realm of micro particles, they accumulate massive amounts of information, and then they see these particles as neutral dead entities, and they wonder where life went.
There needs to be a new approach.
Instead of the Discovery Process, there needs to be something else.
It’s not a question of looking in the wrong place for enlightenment and illumination, it’s a matter of the Looking itself.
I’m not, however, proposing we all go blind.
We need a different platform.
Design, structure, system, and shape are not the end of the voyage. They are objectives that serve lesser goals. They are real and very useful and fine and good—but they are limited.
Obsession means people don’t see that. They think the structure and system are the grandest end-points.
This obsession is a deep part of human programming. When operating at full-bore, it obscures the farther shore.
It keeps the human race in one place.
It absorbs people with magnetic force.
And all programming is meant to limit power.
It is meant to divert and ultimately confuse us.
When the goal of discovering-what-exists takes over to the point of obsession, it forms a mesh of reality that surrounds us.
It is the meta-program that allows the matrix to have strength.
It is the externally applied input that keeps the whole matrix humming.
It’s interesting to reflect on those three Matrix films, and how they disintegrate step by step, from the discovery of the reality-prison—and the rush of adrenaline which ensues—on to the mindless war—as if that kind of struggle will actually free anyone.
The collapse of the storyline mirrors what happens when the impulse to see through to the Final Structure tries to continue past that point: there is nowhere to go.
Why? Because the heroes are really only armed with the all-consuming desire to uncover What Exists. Beyond that, they are clueless.
There is something about that voyage that degrades like an element with a very short half-life. It sputters out. The heroes revert back to older, more basic programming. Fight, conquer territory, defend, attack.
One: the thrill of profound discovery. Two: then the feeling of vacuum and confusion. Three: then the reversion back to primitive hatreds. With that sequence—now you are talking about the real Matrix.
In the arena of genetic research, there is the hope that, someday, we will find a gene which will somehow “wake up” all the dormant circuits in the brain—and then we will gain back fantastic insight and power. But based on what scientists have so far unearthed, is there any reason to believe this? Or is it just one more illusion which propels us forward on the voyage of discovery?
No one wants to swallow a bitter pill. Everyone wants to believe that what he is believing will bring him into port. Everyone wants to believe the voyage of discovery will finally reveal, not just the secrets, but the immediate means to transcend the limited programming of life in this Continuum.
However, we must consider that the road to such a place is a different kind of road.
I’m not talking about religions or myths or fairy tales or the collective unconscious. I’m not talking about revisiting some paradise.
Coming: Part 2.
JON RAPPOPORT
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