The Festival of Existence

A global consciousness would not only significantly further our evolution, it would also help visualize our interconnectivity as sentient beings. The accumulative effects of our existence would suddenly be made extrovert, not only visible to the observing transcenders, but to the dancers of the Dancefloor of Existence as well. In a sense, it would be like turning on the light in the club and moving the party outside in the daylight, where suddenly everyone can clearly see each other and how many of us there truly are. The music would keep playing, because even though all information would be available, does not mean that people would automatically want to seek it out. Human nature will always be human nature after all and most people need a purpose and guidance on the Infinite Freeway. But rather the music would start to get personalized, everyone would hear it differently so that it sounded pleasing to their ear. Many would perhaps start making their own music. At the same time the music would still follow the same beat, but it would be a beat that was very basic and generic, one that everyone could join in on and sing along. In a society driven by reason, all humans think alike because all our thoughts come from the same global consciousness. We see the achievements of our ancestors as natural steps towards our stage, we see the lessons learned from the use of religion, society and culture as sources of control and the long term futility of such efforts. Instead, everyone thinks for themselves, of course some more than others, but because our source of information is the same, everyone will move in the same direction and eventually dance to the same beat.

This was the utopia that Baruch de Spinoza, the godfather of pantheism, and many later transcenders dreamt of. Like me, Spinoza believed that if a society was fueled by information and reason it would be infinitely more long-lasting than a society based on control. As such, when I speak of society in this context, I mean the Trinity of Control, i.e. using society as an excuse to exercise control over the masses, in a Machiavellian sense. However, as history has repeatedly shown as well, due to the presence of pretenders and human/animal nature, our animalistic slumbering dark side inherent in all of us, humans will always need some framework of rules to maintain stable living conditions. Like everything else, the Trinity of Control is still subject to the laws of nature as well because it is being acted out by animals, namely us. Thus even in this utopian global society, we still need laws and protection from pretenders. The point is that if the dancers, i.e. the masses, are all part of a global consciousness then they will have a better understanding for the working of society and the need to preserve it. They will be aware that they are dancing to a well thought out beat, but still have the power to enjoy the music in their own way, and potentially contribute and embellish it. And while the dancing is now taking place outside they also have a full view of who is playing the music, and the choice to move on to other areas, should they so desire. Thus it would no longer be a Dancefloor of Existence but more like a Festival of Existence. An outdoor concert spread out in a large natural stage where people are free to come and go as they please, bringing their family and friends along with them and bringing their own food and drinks. Then the difference between the dancers on the Dancefloor and the ones in the Festival is essentially the difference between slaves and citizens. Slaves just pound away to the beat with no full knowledge of their surroundings, like the slaves onboard Roman ships of war, while citizens dance to the music by choice, because they enjoy it and share this joy with the people around them. They are dancing together, while slaves are simply droning away by themselves. They never acknowledge the people around them because they themselves are not thinking as individuals in a larger context. Thus they would never consider a greater good, because their world begins and ends with themselves. This is the side effect of playing music that turns citizens into slaves. By controlling them through strength as suggested by Machiavelli, who otherwise was a great transcender with great insight into human nature, you are only creating a temporary solution and such societies will and have continuously done so, collapse unto themselves.

 

Becoming a Global Collective Consciousness, Becoming One

This Network of Legends that flows through the space-time created by the Universal Clockwork could in many ways be viewed as blood bringing life to all areas of a body which in this case would be the Universal Clockwork itself. Without a Network of Legends working as a circulatory system and constantly shifting matter around the universe, the Clockwork would be hollow and immobile. However, as far as we currently understand the majority of this Network of Legends is made up of inanimate matter, of dead objects. Indeed, if we are the only living pieces in the Network of Legends of the entire universe, then our reach is currently still very limited. Maybe this is because we are still in the very early stages of this particular Universal Clockwork. Maybe once we have reached our full potential, if allowed by circumstance, our own network will spread to the furthest reaches of the Clockwork, perhaps even starting to influence the actual mechanics themselves.

To do this, we as a species need to move from the micro-level to the macro-level. A step in this direction could be to become a collective consciousness. In many ways this happens automatically when we build our thoughts on the foundations of those that came before, and ensure that those that come after will do the same. In that way we are pooling not only the collective minds of everyone alive at the moment, but the collective minds of everyone that ever lived together, fully taking advantage of our species’ potential and strength in numbers. Globalization and the Internet is rapidly speeding up this process. By sharing all our information across cultures and languages, more and more people are arriving at the same conclusions. Only in the sheltered countries that persist on controlling the flow of information, either for religious, societal or cultural reasons, vis-à-vis the Trinity of Control, by controlling the flow of information, the users of the Trinity are also controlling the minds of their subjects, maintaining the status quo and their elevated position in that particular society but simultaneously halting human development.

But with a true global information network at everyone’s fingertips, this kind of control could become futile. All the citizens of the globe would have access to the highest level of knowledge independently and thus all attempts to control how people think would fail. This is because if all the information was available to everyone, by our very similarity in physicality and nature, people would reach the same conclusions. The Patterns of Recognition demonstrate this fact. History have repeated itself time and time again, simply because humans are inherently the same. The only difference are the times and paradigms in which we have existed. These have been very different and thus shaped the varied culture and anthropological societies that have and does exist today making up our Network of Legends. But now, because of modern communication technology, the accumulative ideas and knowledge of our entire species up until this point in evolution can now be made available to everyone equally. Not just the clerical or academic elite, but everyone. When that happens, for the first time in the history of our species, we have a chance at a global collective consciousness and a shared paradigm. This is pretty big news. But it would only work if ALL information is available. If you only see part of the picture, you are still susceptible to the influence of the Trinity of Control. Thus it is also up to the individual to gather as much information as possible and to be able to disregard the bullshit. Because obviously there is a lot of that floating around the Internet as well (present outlet exempted of course J). More on that later.

But the first step is just having the information available on equal basis. Like Michio Kaku states in Physics of the Impossible, these tendencies could be the first steps towards becoming a Type I civilization and when that happens we can finally start making permanent solutions to pressing issues such as conservation, overpopulation, climate change and essentially everything. Peace on earth. We could finally create a true global culture, without eradicating the multitude of cultures that history have already created, but rather just starting to think in-sync and thus catapulting ourselves significantly higher up the evolutionary ladder to unprecedented levels. And then things start to really get exciting, because as history has also shown, once we start pooling our intelligence and efforts together, humanity can achieve truly remarkable things. True, we have also created horrible things but the benefit of a global consciousness is that if we all think ourselves as being one people, then we won’t have anyone to fight. At least not for the time being.