Once upon a time, there was a time of darkness and lasted for 1000 years. At some time before this period a wrong turn was made and we got stuck in the dead end of delusion, fog, stillness and madness. All we could do as a sign of life was move the limbs from the inertia pushing from the centuries and hold onto the inherited pieces of knowledge imprinted in the everyday patterns without a meaning, hoping for a miracle of fitting the puzzles of life blindfolded with ignorance and confident with naivety. It bears the name of the dark ages. In the search for answers to understand their predicament people looked inside their inheritance, to history when it was better and the beautiful arose to live with us, what was different then? They needed to look outside of the contemporary narrative, that one was hacked, so they checked deeper, further back to the Greeks and the Romans decoding the stories, paintings and the sculptures and they found … nothing, they were not able to understand the missing piece of the message that which was hidden on plain sight the one you could feel so clearly but not catch or formulate.

A fresh perspective arrived on the nature of matter; it came from an unlikely place one that was so different from the narrative. It made the way in with a special promise, if one developed the right understanding and put in the work, offered endless gold. It was the magic. Was this a case of desperation and the magic beans? Actually, many tried, and tried, and tried and in due time it did work, this work achieved riches beyond any imagination, riches that changed the way of life for whole mankind.

This new way of thinking came about from the collision of a very rigid dogma with wild imagination. While the work to “make” the gold was chugging along there was also the matter of articulating, describing “this”, developing the reason “why” to the others. The effort started again looking at history for the reasons why it should work, they checked far and wide through all the human reasoning from further back the Egyptians and Hindus, the very beginning all the history. They said all knowledge, for all, came from the same source long ago, and as such all knowledge was considered, it was accepted was welcome. And something new was born a different view for the beautiful, a different perspective for life. And in this amazing time of rebirth the beautiful started to appear again. And then magic was approved and accepted within our realm. As we can expect the magic was too much to deal with, too scary so they just took a little piece of it and locked in a box. What was this magic? What is in this magic? Truth happens on the physical world, always! This little phrase is the magic and we called it science.  Even though framed with fictional limits it changed the world. As we progressed in building with science, we thought we know everything, the more successful the application become the more ambitious our aim. We were convinced, now we know everything and we can explain everything, we just need to go deeper in the box down to the elementary particles, there is the answer. And the silliness to explain the outside of the box by going deeper inside the box has become the highest level of science. Let’s take the magic that science “locked up” and free it from the box so it can continue to build the world.

The answer is in you and you are the answer. I wake up in the morning and see the sunlight, feel the warmth, smell the coffee and the experience is an affirmation to me, the owner of this experience, and I accept it. I go out in the world and interact with family and friends’ other people and listen and experience the interaction and when it is supportive, enriching. The positive feedback from outside to my life is a sign that I am in the truth. But there are other times when is hard to open the eyes because of the darkness, the cold, the stench and this is a warning to me, the owner of this experience. I go out in the world and there are no interactions but rejections. The negative feedback from outside is telling me this cannot be the truth, how to accept this kind of truth? Then the contract of my life is drawn from the beginning of my life, and there it is my first breath, my first heartbeat as the signature. I accept it from the beginning. And I am told to let go, let go of the challenge. Because it is the truth. This is a fundamental condition to our existence, it does not mean that; we deserve it or intended everything that is happening, no this means that with our actions and our lack of knowledge (for the impact) we built the reality that we live in, we made it. I need to keep (or be used for) the balance of the whole, so the ship can keep going. Did I play my role or allowed the ship to go astray by moving aside?

If we are to take a single step towards knowledge, we must accept that Truth happens, always! I call this the first Postulate and is more than a common-sense statement it is an undeniable condition of human existence. What will you say if you took a look at your life? Do you have the courage to look? Can you find the words? Did we let the river go upstream?

There is a little nudge to consider all the facts.

“Yet they could easily reach agreement if only they dropped the word “physical.” “Physical” is not the only criterion of truth: there are also psychic truths which can neither be explained nor proved nor contested in any physical way. If, for instance, a general belief existed that the river Rhine had at one time flowed backwards from its mouth to its source, then this belief would in itself be a fact even though such an assertion, physically understood, would be deemed utterly incredible. Beliefs of this kind are psychic facts which cannot be contested and need no proof.”

Carl Jung, Collected Works, Vol 11 [553]

 

 

Astrologically we are entering the age of Aquarius, entering a time of enlightenment and better understanding. I found this on Google 😊, one of the first hits, that summarize it well:

"For eons the power has rested in traditional, oppressive hierarchical structures, and their beliefs dictated our reality," says Sesay. "[In the Age of Aquarius,] the power is turning over to the individual, and giving the freedom for you to choose your own reality based on what aligns with your soul."

I find a problem with this saying no one is, just giving away anything, it never has it never will. However, it might be correct if there is no turning over the power, if the power you seek it is already there with you. And all you have to do is unlock it, recognize it, claim it and keep what’s in you. 

On the previous two posts I defined; Reality is comprised from two parts Real and Imaginary, with their matching definitions, and Life is a bridge between Real and the Imaginary. The evolution being the most significant supporting fact of the second, the better the bridge the more abundant the life. Now we need to take a look at the mechanism of life.

Our human heritage displayed on all religions and beliefs, from the millennia of existence, has one common thread; the fabric of reality, our world, is based on absolute truth. Lately another perspective came along we call it scientific and it makes sense to use this method because it is something we know for sure, something we can repeat, something we can then utilize. This perspective agreed and was founded on this very belief, the fabric of reality is absolute truth.  And it matched up with all existence and movement of matter, we find the responsible law and then all can be explained. However, when focus was then shifted to use science to explain and predict life, the success from studying matter started to wane off.  So, what can the science do? Surrender to superstition and betray its own principles, there is no need we need to find the corresponding law and then all will be explained. Matter is at the center of all, we just need to integrate all the forces as they happen to all the involved particles and voila, will find the answer. And all this work has given us nothing and it will give us nothing, because science made an assumption and forgot something. Maybe by discarding the Imaginary science abandoned its own principles?

While science is fantastic in dealing with matter. To understand life, we need something more and that something is the feminine, the anima. Feminine is the key to decipher the chaos seemingly behaviour of life, and maybe further. This knowledge looks like was acquired before in the ancient times, but hidden in myth can not be grasped in a clearly defined and conscious form anymore. We can witness through our very existence that life is a result of the masculine and the feminine, but how to define these two components? In our inheritance we have the symbolism of the masculine being the sun and the feminine being the moon. Let’s look at the light in earth through these symbols, during the day the light will be everywhere and shine on everything, during the night only the light reflected by the moon will come to earth. So here is a proposition, masculine is the flow from Imaginary to the Real and feminine the flow from the Real to the Imaginary. Everything that happens in the Real must be reported back to Imaginary and for safety (tampering) reasons this function must be unconscious. The main interest for the masculine, the animus, will be to decipher ideas and build them into form, the main interest for the feminine, the anima, is to observe, evaluate the form, the matter and convey the idea to the Imaginary. Feminine, or anima, or what I call the verification function is the higher function as it is the one who should “know” the truth and closes the loop. What is reported and is verified can continue to exist what is not will perish.

A shamanic practice will use some obscenity to render one semiconscious and hijack the anima function, however this looks like a small trick when we look at the scale of what marketing or politics do. Meditation and prayer are good examples of how we consciously use the anima function. I will go ahead and apply this theory on many of the aspects of life and that will be controversial and also very dangerous, if without responsibility for one own action. But in the current situation, I think necessary.

While it fits very well with the various social phenomena and the data available (as the “proof”), This is just a theory and lots of work is needed to turn it into a discovery, I do believe that this is the direction we need to look and the door we should open. When we enter there will be a sign:

WELCOME TO Aquarius

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Some time ago around the middle of the 19^th century a paper was written on the origin of the species from natural selection. As more evidence was discovered, the picture of how life appeared started to take shape and arrive in the current form. We know it now with the name; evolution. The story begins with the universe coming to be around 14 billion years ago from big bang. Then life started around 3.8 billion years ago on earth as a bacterium of sorts. These single cell organisms evolved and evolved for 3 billion years to finally create a multicell organism, 0.9 billion years ago. A basic form of sexual reproduction appears. At this point evolution seems to accelerate the pace, 0.5 billion years ago some sort of animal appears and at around 200 million years ago the first mammals walk the earth. A bipedal creature starts walking 4 million years ago and then the first resemblance of a human 100 thousand years ago. Agriculture and civilization start 12 thousand years ago and then; the latest news is the writing of these thoughts 😊.

Looking at the timeline something becomes very clear, the more we advance on the evolution timeline the more it accelerates. Initially the organism is very simple and yet it takes a really long time to evolve, when the organism changes even a little bit, then we can expect that further progress to a more complex form from random events should take more time?  If we are to believe that the matter recombines itself, then the support is not there. We should have still been worms? Consider this example for illustration; we are gambling and we are using only one dice, it takes 3 billion years to win, then another dice is added for the game to continue now we win in 0.5 billion years and when we win again another dice is added and so on.  And the more dice are added the faster we win, really? Maybe my example has some mistake, let’s consider another comparison. The cell is represented by a brick once we have the brick available it takes much faster to build a house, … hmm by randomly throwing it without aiming. That does not work either. Once the organism evolves the chances for change increase, the more chances the more time should take.

The problem we have is with the assumption of randomness that is not supported by the facts. If only the brick had a brain, hey maybe that’s it. There’s got to be a smart function within the organism and as it evolves that function evolves as well. It seems that increasing the number of possible options increases the possible chances of winning in this game, accelerates the evolution progress. Also, we note the evolution is not deterministic towards some specific choice, no. It goes like, I want to be a yellow flower, yes you are rewarded, I want to be a red flower, yes you are rewarded, I want to be a fish in the see, yes you are rewarded, I want to fly up in the sky, yes you are rewarded, I want to run in the land, yes, yes, yes you are rewarded.  

So, evolution is pro choice, but it has to be a good choice and this is another discussion. Now we still need to figure out something; evolution? Yes absolutely, but what did evolve? To say that is an evolution of matter, is a mathematical sophism, a fallacy.

The current explanation is the driving mechanism is by natural selection via survival of the fittest. Let’s take a close look of this logic; first there is a choice being made by the organism or animal, most likely from the circumstance, environment this choice results in advantage and the advantage corelates with longer existence, survival. The choice was not made for survival the reward for the choice was the survival. Let’s take an example we have a dog and would like to teach the dog a trick, when the dog does the trick, we reward with a treat. The treat was not to reward the treat, the treat was a reward for the trick. If the dog could talk, I think he would say that tricks are the motivator for more reward.

Remains only one supported answer, at the root of the evolution is a thinking mechanism, the psyche.  And this has a huge implication especially with the evolutionary psychology. In a nutshell the current narrative says humans (at the top of evolution) are animals with a bag of tricks we collected trying to stay alive. And with animal what it is meant is mainly; a material arrangement without any imaginary capacity.

Survival of the fittest does not explain the multitude of life or the need for progress of a particular species. And in particular the presence of the imaginary at the top, the advanced species should be with quick reflexes to adapt rather than being distinct by a cumbersome ability of dreaming and dreaming without any fruits 😊

Now let’s consider psyche as the real evolutionary subject, the ability to “think” and make a choice evolved.  This other approach is to take the myth and the imaginary as part of the reality from the beginning. Then we could apply a comparing or matching function, there is a map of sorts. Everything that we are told and given as a fact about the evolutionary theory of the natural selection can be used directly and applied as evolution of the species through exercise of choice, augmentation of the psyche. One makes a choice or another and it creates, materializes or it destroys, disappears; this is evolution, not the other way around. If we take the imaginary as a part of the reality how to understand the evolution then?

Let me give a modern metaphor, in the beginning we had a telephone landline and used it for internet connection we could get email, then it got better we could see pictures. Then the connection improved to DSL and now we can listen to music, the connection improved even more with cable and fibre and now we can see movies, play games and all sort of things. As the connection becomes better so does the appearance and functionality, proportionally this is the relation we see between the imaginary and the evolution. Now let’s consider the evolution of the imaginary, as I defined on the other post, it is the driver of evolution. Now the definition of all life becomes very clear and simple.

Life, is communication with another realm.

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