Intelligent life in the universe



Sometimes, life seems like a never-ending puzzle, with millions of pieces, ever changing and never completing. The missing pieces of the puzzle only open up the next level of experience, and hardly ever lead to insights into tidbits of truth worth memorising in stone.

Yet, some artefacts made of stone survived millennia to tell us about the human past. Carving stone takes more time, skill and effort than writing a blog entry, yet in comparison to the latter, has proven more reliable to survive the changing tides of human evolution.

Our current civilisation, emerged and shaped by the childhood of humanity, might leave its legacy with the Georgia Guidestones, lots of plastic and radioactivity. The net as living, collective historian of the evolution of mankind might not survive as long as the Sphinx or smaller morsels of information cast in stone.

The collective mind of today seems rather insane - not hopelessly and incurably insane, yet more and more dangerously insane. Human curiosity doesn't stop to ask about its origin, its heritage. The myth provided by the consensual reality of (western) societies might contribute to this collective confusion.

Science currently dominates the myth making game in the Western World, yet the revolutions in scientific thinking of the 20st century haven't been transferred into the common meme pool. Let's shortly wrap the scientific narrative about the origin of man.

About 14 billion years the Big Bang happened, with really strange things happening in the very first few moments (a second or so), until all matter drifted away from each other, shaping stars, planets, galaxies and so on. The chemical elements we know of were created by fusing hydrogene, stars breed all the stuff we see around us. Due to our metabolism every atom in our body will be replaced within about seven years, we are literally made of star dust.

According to contemporary scientific belief, chemical 'life' differs drastically from human life (and I totally agree). However, the clay humans animate, has a long story attached to it, actually an extra-terrestial story. It might blunt Occam's razor a bit to prefer the complex cosmology with Big Bang and all, and disregard God's six day job of creating the universe 6000 years ago, but then, I'm convinced by the evidence presented in favour of this ancient, maybe even rusty universe.

Wikipedia states the age of our planet as four and half billion years, so each and every atom found on this planet had spend already billions of years floating though space before ending up in human bodies, cars, computers and pizza. Earth started off very hot-tempered, a bubbly metal core spew various elements onto a slowly solidifying crust.

During this time, this planet got hit by a large celestial object, and lost some of its mass to give birth to the moon. The continuing volcanic activity build the foundation for an atmosphere, the impact of other objects made of ice most likely contributed to the abundance of water we still enjoy today.

When life started exactly remains unknown, somewhere between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago. It developed in the ocean surrounding Pangaea, the massive single continent that broke up about 250 million years ago. Humans or their ancestors missed out on this super-continent, and made their appearance between 1.5 to 6 million years ago. For at least a million years or so, hairless, upright walking members of human family know how to control fire, inventing their own ways to transform energy.

Homo sapiens sapiens, the name given to the current evolutionary phenotype of time-binding humans, exists for about 200,000 years, according to Wikipedia 'history proper' began about 8000 years ago in the region known as 'Middle East'. My head buzzes with all the numbers, especially when I attempt to bring our 'knowledge' about the universe and mankind into a consistent picture.

We distinguish different species by their genetic outfit, and all humans share a similar DNA structure. Homo sapiens sapiens has shared this planet with other human species, another bit of evidence pointing to evolution as law of nature. The methods to look back into time we have at the moment have limits, as organic material deteriorates usually very fast.

Cultural forms to transmit historical information let us stitch back a sketchy picture of something like the last two millennia, yet merely a couple of hundred years with more reliability and credibility. Although the principle of 'scientific objectivity' never dominated among any documented society, we assume that historic scribes did exactly act like this, and reported 'truthfully' about the events around them.

I tend to believe that signal/noise ratio of 'historical' information goes along a Bell-curve, and any source needs a healthy dose of skepticism. Veracity seems of little importance in mass media reporting, and facts rarely make headlines. The field of history represent rather a story collecting than a fact detecting human endeavour. The diversity of explanations around the events of September 11 2001 typifies the amount of story-telling emerging after an cataclysmic event.

We can hardly claim to know for sure what happened in the last ten years, so speculations about events spanning hundreds or even billions of years back can't be considered as facts. Written history, the way we understand it in 2011, only captures a tiny aspect of the adaptions of evolution the human race experienced so far. Yet any group of people has oral traditions telling about their origins.

Many of these creation myths vanished from memepool, many others survived in different shape and forms. As we 'know' the true story, Big Bang and all, studying those old stories can't provide any more useful parts connecting to the puzzle of human existence. All this talking about Gods obviously indicates a naive, pre-civilised concept of reality.

Yet some facts from the past remain unexplained. Many civilisation mastered technology in ways we can't explain or recreate with today's methods. The pyramids demonstrate amazing engineering skills thousands of years before the advent of the computer, which nowadays assists the construction of awe-inspiring mega-structures.

One explanation given for some marvels of the past includes extraterrestrial visitors. Do aliens exist?

I don't know. Yet many stories about aliens exist, and some of them quite old. A friend made me curious by talking repeatedly about UFOs, and so I went on a quest to find out more. I was told an eyewitness account of a sighting, and had a distant sighting myself some time later, but hadn't bothered investigating this phenomenon in the collective story pool of the WWW.

From a scientific point of view, the existence of life outside our tiny planet has a high probability. Astronomers have begun identifying solar systems with planets, and the sheer number of the billions of galaxies with billions of stars indicate how little we really know about our universe. We love the metaphor of the needle in haystake, yet the needle Gaia hides in the haystake Milkyway, which makes finding life elsewhere tricky.

Contemporary science has little ideas how to explain interplanetary travel, and shows little interest in considering visits from outer space. The level of xenophobia seems rampant in the 21st century, and if someone won't open their heart to an 'alien' member of their own species, they would hardly welcome visitors from other planets.

And when in doubt, ask Hollywood. The majority of movies warns about dangerous aliens, so we better avoid hoping for their arrival. Just like the real existing US empire they will invade this planet mercilessly to destroy infrastructure, rob resources and enslave us. Hmm, sounds like the evil aliens have already won the battle, but let's rewind for a second.

Humanity hardly tipped its toes into the ocean of the Milky Way, so swimming like a dolphin in it to master interplanetary travel requires some advanced technology. Mankind brought much suffering among itself by using technology for military purposes. The childhood of humanity looks cruel, bloody, savage from a conscious point of view. Technology fuelled the game of war, trying to establish fear into the nature of the human race.

Anyway, it's too late to be afraid, it seems like the aliens have already reached us. Unless they control the  33 bloodlines running the economic matrix of this planet, they seem to be friendly. Otherwise, the gap in technology should have seen this planet obliterated easily, according to Buzz Aldrin.

More thoughts on this topic will come. Wouldn't it be a great PR stunt if some UFOs hovered over the royal wedding today? A bigger life audience can hardly be reached soon....

Authentic spiritual teachings are teachings from direct experience devoid of prejudice, provincialism, or predilection. That is based on eternal living tradition motivated and animated by a living truth. Compare that to dead teachings, rote memorization, conformity, and mechanical obedience to external authoritative systems and one can easily understand human history and its discontents. The champions of institutionalized tradition only create prisons and traps, because their own egos and and prideful identities live in a mental prison. They become jealous and scornful of those who have escaped.

Eye is watching you,
it's no lie, it's true!

Reichians, disciples of Mr. Spock and the Summerhill school, etc. have called attention, with some impatience, to the brutality and stupidity of many of our traditional child-rearing methods.These methods are "brutal" and "stupid" only if, like the above-mentioned heretics, one regards the goal of child-rearing as the production of a sane, balanced, creative [NOT CRATED] human being. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN THE GOAL OF ANY SOCIETY IN THE REAL WORLD. The traditional child-rearing methods are quite logical, pragmatic and sound in fulfilling the real purpose of society, which is not to create an ideal person, but to create [CRATE] a semi-robot who mimics the society as closely as possible - both in its rational and irrational aspects, both as repository of the wisdom of the past and as the sum totalof all cruelties and stupidities of the past. Very simply, a totally aware, alert, awakened (unbrainwashed) person would not fit very well into any of the standard roles society offers, the damaged, robotized products of traditional child-rearing do fit into those slots.

In case I never mentioned, feel free to guess or ask about any of the quotes here.

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Peacemeal

Carving words with electronic ink into the global memepool,
synthesizing, meshing up the eclectic new old school.
Creating alternate meanings by strange association,
getting ready for another inevitable disassociation.

Attracted by distraction, distracted by attention.
Amazing inventions dilute all focused intention.
It feels so good to watch the rat race,
it feels so good to judge the rat race.

Fit in or get voted out, in tv and politics.
Both using the same deceptive tricks,
just to keep a Matrix alive,
where only strong survive.

The wheels spin on, big and small.
A single moment captures it all.

Blur-b

grounded, skyhooked.
totally underbooked.

moving in circles
growing in size
completing the cycles
letting light rise.

time stands still,
with a sweet flow
syncing at will
let your heart glow.

Let the rhythm take you in
let the fun of freedom begin
Nothing is as it seems,
dare to live your own dreams -
grounded, skyhooked.

Meaning can only be made after you have destroyed the search for meaning itself.

Tarot is a working model for the Multidimensional Self. Each card reflects a facet of who we are. A deck of cards is a neurological autobiography. The deck you design, in order to ring true, will have to communicate what is true to your own Central Nervous System and not just our socially, conditioned assumptions... The Fool that persists in his folly becomes wise.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves [...] into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

In the lives of early hominides, accidental death would like have been commonplace. Whatever the fatal maimings and disembowelments. however, and whatever the sense of no-moreness, a concept of death as inveitable, as mine, and as the lot of all living creatures would not have been thereby grasped. On the contrary, there might well have been a vague sense that "barring such a fate, I will go on 'forever'" In other words, only with experiences of natural death might the concept of death have taken root. Only through such experiences might it have been realized that a certain nullifying fate was inevitable and mine.

In the appearance of the-Other-in-death, a no-moreness of similarity is set against a persistence of similarity. It is of course an initial sense of likeness that awakens both - the still resonating and the dilute similarity of self to Other.

What do you turn on, when you turn on?

The basic rhythm of the galaxy is turn on, turn off... Free energy, structure, release/control, turn on/turn off, the oscillating rhythm of turn on/turn off... Expansion-contraction... Turn on... turn off... The body breathing to the old basic rhythm, turn on/turn off, open/close, in/out, contract/release, speed up/slow down, get free/get hooked
the cellular trip is through the body...

What do you turn on, when you turn on?

The proportions remain astronomical, the mammalian body, the human body, incomprehensively galactic, trillions of cells centering around structured organs, all interconnected, humming with market transactions, weather reports, pollution ratings, stellate arterials, watery canals jammed with plasma planets, humicological mysnerian clusters, white corpuscle comets, endorphan spaceships commuting, a whole monstrous galaxy breathing through terrestrial networks of living forms, all in communication, an 18-inch layer of slime covering a metal-rock planet, and every isolated organism around a 25,000 mile breathing diamater, in close connection with the one hold, the biological web...

What do you turn on, when you turn on?

Reincarnation center, densely packed genetic energy, and outwardbound from this compressed center, a web of molecules weaving the cellular fabric, exchanging, expanding, looking into the organic networks surrounding...

What do you turn on, when you turn on?

The cerebral headquarters ring by a sensory duline of a billion cell stations receiving and transmitting energies from within, and from without the somatic galaxy, the common sense organs: odor, taste, touch, balance, temperature, posture, movement, lightwaves, nightwaves, soundwaves, each sense organ operates on the same rhythm, on/off, open/up, close/down..,

What do you turn on, when you turn on?

Alternating current...while the body galaxy centers on a tightly compact DNA strand, every organ consolation within the body zodiac orbits around the brain, the brain- galactic headquarters of the nervous system, filling corporial space with flasing electric messages, out and back, off on, synaptic conversation, becoming amino acid architects snuggly protected in miniaturized general motor plant engineering cell chambers, design more and more complex fischer bodies.

What do you turn on, when you turn on?

This year's standard equipment, a 13 billion cell brain hooked up to stereophonic audition receivers, bifocal self-modulating auto tuning retinal video cameras, cell battery powered kinestetic magic eye shock adjusters, gustatory liquid analyzers, lingual pollution detectors, self-regulatory nasal gas traps for analysis and evaluation of very old chemical contentenergy moves, structure captures, around and around floating somatic constellations, cycling, circling...

What do you turn on, when you turn on?

The major structures have been identified for millenia by astro-biologists, philosopher priests, healers, observers of the fleshly heavens.

What do you turn on, when you turn on?

Each unit of energy in this cosmic dance, charged with attraction, repulsion forces pulling towards, escaping from, intensely contracted nuclear energy at galactic center explodes, scattering suns, hurdling out across one million light years, each stellar fragment, itself highly charged, spins through web fabric fields of radiant energy...

The use of these abusive methods violates international hu-
man rights standards. The likely illegality of the program was
known to the agency and debated within the agency. Those ad-
vocating for the use of abusive techniques such as waterboard-
ing should have known that the US had prosecuted these same
techniques as torture. Health professionals who were involved
in its justification, design and implementation should have
known that professional ethics prohibit health professionals
from complicity in such harmful acts against prisoners or de-
tainees. It is precisely to avoid such complicity that health pro-
fessionals have recourse to professional codes of ethics, as well
as international standards of medical conduct. Familiarity with
these codes – not to mention basic human decency – should
preclude such conduct, making clear to health professionals
and government institutions both its essentially unethical na-
ture and illegal status under international law.

How to lose touch with reality

Words cannot handle global experiences well. Language breaks apart rich, complicated global experiences into relatively impoverished component parts.

[F]or the young child, language creates a wide gulf between a familiar nonverbal world of experience and a new world of words. This schism is confusing and at times painful. For the first time in its short life, a young child has to hold on two different versions of the same event. Life will now be lived more in parallel. The simple wholeness of experience has been broken, the verbal and non-verbal constructions of experience will live together all the same.

We come back down to earth and recontact that original ground which gave us our first footings and which has never actually disappared but has only been buried under a vainglorious and myopic view of languge. Weaning ourselves away from the thought that all thought is language-dependent, and equally, from language-dependent thought, we wean ourselves away from a basically object- or substance-tethered metaphysics. In turn, we afford ourselves the possibility of grasping the momentous significance of movement and change, and of attaining to a metaphysics quintessentially attuned to the dynamic nature of an animate world and animate forms. A process metaphysics accurately describes the natural world, the living forms that inhabit it, and the natural contours of life itself. Thinking in movement is not only coincident with the metaphysics, it is the methodological point of departure for its formulation.

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Meme war

There's a problem that seems rather strange.
It's now known as Climate Change,
It was once called Global Warming,
but that was way too alarming.

Yet alarmed we shall be,
about melting poles and rising sea,
floods, droughts and raging storms
as our climate hazardly transforms.

A war of words has erupted,
and logic has been corrupted.
Yet no one will unveil
that the problem isn't real -
It's just another part of the wicked game
of killing democracy while keeping its name.