The human race and every one of us as an individual is at the crossroads. The cross has long been the symbol of Christianity, but the so-called Christians of the past and at present do not know what the cross really symbolizes. They think that the cross symbolizes Christ overcoming our own sins for us. In actuality, Jesus set an example for us and died for the truth, and the time has come see the truth that he worked to spread and live in it. We must separate the wheat from the chaff...
The fact is that crucifixion was a very common form of torture and execution at the time Jesus Christ lived, and he was executed by the Romans because they saw him as a threat to the ruling power. He was executed in the same way that thousands upon thousands of slaves and criminals were executed. The cross symbolizes something far more important and profound than a savior outside of oneself and other stories that people want to believe in. It symbolizes the painful way that Jesus and many others died. It symbolizes the brutality, violence and torture that has occurred and is occurring in this world. It symbolizes the crossroads that we are at. The cross asks the question...
The fact is that crucifixion was a very common form of torture and execution at the time Jesus Christ lived, and he was executed by the Romans because they saw him as a threat to the ruling power. He was executed in the same way that thousands upon thousands of slaves and criminals were executed. The cross symbolizes something far more important and profound than a savior outside of oneself and other stories that people want to believe in. It symbolizes the painful way that Jesus and many others died. It symbolizes the brutality, violence and torture that has occurred and is occurring in this world. It symbolizes the crossroads that we are at. The cross asks the question...
DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOR THIS WORLD?
Imagine being in the skin of and looking through the eyes of a hungry velociraptor in a think forest, locked on to the sound and smell of a potential meal nearby. You chase down a very young, lost and frightened brontosaurus, and jump at his neck, clawing and biting until he collapses. The vicious hunt has resulted in a massive feast to satisfy the hunger that burns within. You tear away at the flesh mercilessly and selfishly, as if this were your last meal. Your senses are stimulated by the savory taste of the meat and the smell of fresh blood as you immerse yourself in the pleasure of eating. Suddenly, you are toppled over forcefully, and the searing teeth of a tyrannosaurus rex rip open your abdomen as you shriek with fear. There was no sense to be alert, no chance to react with your head buried in that gourmet feast. You were caught off guard.
Imagine being in the skin of and looking through the eyes of a wildebeest, running on the hot sands of the Serengeti plains with a large herd of other wildebeests. You remain on guard, but the predator threat is somewhat subdued with the safety in numbers as you migrate to find food and water. Your thirsty group arrives at a flowing river. Finally, this aching thirst will be quenched! Unbeknownst to you, a vicious female lioness sits still in the nearby bushes, careful not to alert the group of her presence. You dip your head down into the water, and feel a rush of sensory refreshment, a moment free of care, unaware that this will be your last drink of water. You sense danger as you feel the scurrying vibrations of the footsteps of your group. As you lift your head out of the water to run away, sharp teeth sink into your neck with the forceful bite of the hungry lioness, and you collapse to the ground in a rush of fear, pain, and surprise as you slowly die in the mouth of your predator.
Imagine being in the skin of and looking through the eyes of a recent ancestor, homo erectus, an intermediate transition species from the great apes to the homo sapien. You are the strongest and most fierce of your tribe. As night falls, the sexual urge rages within you, and you drag a female away from her resting place by the fire, and proceed to have your way with her in the middle of a field under the moonlight. This is common practice, and no one would dare try to compete or quarrel with someone as brutal and ruthless as you. You operate on the pleasure principal while propagating the species at the same time. As you reach orgasm, you close your eyes to your surroundings and immerse yourself in the animal pleasure. When you open them, you are face to face with a sabertooth tiger. Intense pleasure instantly shifts to intense fear as the killer cat pounces on you and tears open your chest, proceeding to eat you and your mate alive. You were immersed in sensory pleasure, blind to the dangers lurking around you.
What did you notice about all these situations? Immersed in pleasure, you let down your guard. At present, mankind is chasing pleasure, eating, drinking, and mating like never before, satisfied and contented our gourmet meals, our beer and wine, our promiscuous and careless sexual behavior, blind to the disasters that await as we forcefully walk the path of destruction, raping the land, chasing the horizon, corrupting our children, killing our perceived enemies and hoarding nuclear weapons. The situation could not be more dangerous, and most people don't even realize it, which makes it even more dangerous. People are too blind to know they are blind.
Not only did we evolve from these animals, we were them. What did you think, you just showed up here at the top of the food chain without having to go through the entire evolutionary cycle? Is that fair? Do you not see the beast within yourself, the primal instincts common to all animal life? Don't lie to yourself.
Evolution is no longer just a theory; it is a proven fact beyond a reasonable doubt. When all the evidence supports evolution, and none refutes it, a rational, honest person has to accept it is true. Not only do we have a lot in common physically with all animal life, now there are no missing links with DNA evidence. You are genetically connected to all animal life on this Earth down to the bacteria at the ocean floor, the bottom of the cycle. Human DNA is approximately 98.4% identical to that of chimpanzees. The instinctual beast is within each and everyone of us, no matter how tamed it is by society. We are animals, not separate from the cycle, and we have clawed our way to the top. We eat, digest food, reproduce, sleep, and feel pain like all conscious animal life, including bacteria.
We lived, died, and even went extinct as every predator and every prey to get to where we are now. We had to. We viciously killed and were eaten alive countless times. You can put yourself in the skin of any of the lifeforms in those scenarios above.
The only thing that makes us different than other animals is a mind that can think and reason. We have evolved a rational mind, which makes us mankind. Other animals have more powerful senses of sight, hearing, smell, feeling and/or taste. Our advantage is our indirect awareness of the environment, a mind that can imagine and think abstractly about the past and future. We are like an island in the sea of animal life, and we can see our position on the edge of the animal realm. If we don't use our minds to evaluate and accept what the evidence says and live accordingly, we are not using what makes us different, and we pass up the ultimate opportunity.
Submitting to delusion and ignorance is a primitive defense mechanism. Almost everyone is falling for belief in believing, belief in faith, and the countless myths and fantasies that separate mankind. People don't realize that no matter what you believe in or have faith in, reality does not change. Belief is the opposite of truth. The best story ever told is not even close to the real story.
Nature doesn't waste anything, and mankind wastes everything. In addition to burning up the limited resources on Earth, we are wasting our opportunity to know the true situation, to know the real story, by submitting to faith in myths instead of seeking truth. We are the only animal that knows for certain that it will die as a result of our indirect awareness of life. This knowledge is a curse and a blessing. A curse, because the subconscious and conscious fear of death keeps people from seeking truth; people try to escape death, and they end up escaping and missing life by hiding behind myths and beliefs. This puts us in a deep sleep, dead to life. A blessing, because this knowledge gives us a chance to overcome fear and death to know true life here and now - it gives us a chance to do the things that transcend death while we are alive.
The history of mankind has not shown much of a fundamental difference in behavior compared to the animals we evolved from. Up until the end of the last world war, our world was very violent. Throughout the history of mankind, there has been torture, war, murder, greed, rape and all sorts of other animal behavior. Most of the time, there had not been police to call. You have been tortured and also the torturer, the king and the peasant, the killer and the victim throughout the history of mankind, just as you were the predator and prey throughout the rest of our evolutionary past. The times we live in now are not much different except that society has tamed the beast within. Thus, we are living in a period of relative peace and prosperity.
All throughout our evolutionary past, we had to kill and compete to survive. For the first time in history, we no longer have to kill and compete to survive. For the first time in history, we can know the true situation, we can see what all the evidence is saying, and we can consciously evolve out of the animal cycle, the realm of the beast, that we all evolved from. This time of relative peace and prosperity gives us a chance to consciously evolve past this violent, instinctual behavior and share the world for the benefit of all. This is no easy task, because our brains have been programmed by about 700 million years of evolution to harbor these powerful primal instincts.
The instinctual mind, the beast within, still runs this world, even though the primal instincts are tamed by society for the most part. The beast within most noticeably shows itself through violence and aggression, such as war, gangs, rape, and other criminal activity. You wouldn't have to go back very far in our evolutionary history to a point where we were all acting violent animals. People think nature is so beautiful, because they are not looking at the nature of nature. It is literally kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, predator and prey. Wild animals have to hunt to eat, and most fail and starve to death or are eaten alive by predators. This is obvious when looking and wild animals, but the beast also occupies mankind and runs our world.
Are you not aware of the horrible realities people are experiencing in some places around the world? Have you been too caught up in the pleasures of this world, drinking your beer, traveling to new places, playing games, driving your luxury car, chasing pleasure, enjoying casual sex? There are people being tortured and killed right now. There are many people starving, unable to muster up the energy to move. There are people slowly dying from infections because they do not have shoes on their feet or adequate medical attention. There are many women and children being trafficked and held in captivity, being sold as sex slaves, and being raped. Are you aware? Do you even care? You had better become aware and start to care, because you can and will end up in the unlucky seat someday if you don't see the balance of the universe. What goes around comes around.
There is really not much, if anything, to feel good about or be content with in this world. When you see the truth, you see that this world is suffering because of our ignorance of the balance. You see what we had to go through to get to this point, our true past. It is better to recognize reality than to act happy and content. The only thing to be content and concerned about is the truth and its potential to transform us and this world.
As a collective society, especially in the United States, we operate on the same pleasure principle as the animals we evolved from, but in a more indirect way. We still chase pleasure and avoid pain, but we have morals and societal values to consider, and legal consequences if we break the law. This has dampened the violent and sexual impulses, but the animal instincts of greed and selfishness are reflected in our society of conspicuous consumption and instant gratification, and the rest of the world suffers and aspires to the illusion of our "fulfilling lifestyle." America is destroying the environment almost single-handedly, and if other countries try to live like we do, the environment will not be able to handle it, and mankind will be destroyed. Nature doesn't waste anything, and mankind wastes everything. We have no choice but to be honest and admit that how we live is not fulfilling and change our way of life before it is too late.
We can and must see the true situation and our true past and consciously evolve past our destructive primal instincts, including fear, greed, sex (for solely pleasure), violence, hate and all other animal aggression and violent behavior. We consciously become more than animals by doing the exact opposite of what the beast within wants us to do. We do it because we can, because we have the opportunity. To be able to know our true past and the present truth is to have the ability to consciously evolve out of the animal evolutionary cycle, to rise above it. For the first time in history, we have that ability; thus we are now at the crossroads. We must become more than just smart animals while we have the chance. We must use the rational mind for its ultimate purpose - to learn and spread the truth to overcome the instinctual beast within. If we do not, we pass up an opportunity that is only available to life at the very top of the animal evolutionary cycle, and nature does not waste anything. Use it or lose it.
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves." - Lord Byron
Overcoming the beast within is imperative if the human race is to survive. For the first time in history, we have the weaponry capability to wipe out mankind on a global scale. We must recognize the beast within that runs this world and controls us. This is the only true battle to be fought - the battle between truth and deception. We fight not other people, but invisible hosts of evil. The beast is no longer invisible to us; we can see the true situation. We can see our evolutionary past and that we now have a chance to consciously evolve past our violent and selfish animal instincts. This does not mean that we get rid of our instincts, but they will no longer be in control of us. We have no choice but to consciously evolve in a very short period of time. We must overcome millions of years of evolutionary programming while we are not putting all of our energy into survival. This is our window of opportunity, and it may not last very long...
Imagine what would happen if there was a nationwide power outage, and the power could not be restored. This is not unrealistic - a natural disaster could do it, a bombing could do it. In a few days, there would be no clean water, food would become scarce, and communication along with society would break down. The basic necessities of survival would not be available, and the beast would be turned loose. Riots would ensue, looting, killing, raping and robbing, possibly even cannibalism. We would return to the laws of the jungle. The social upheaval and the release of primal instincts would make the problem much worse than you can even imagine. Do not think it cannot happen; it has happened on smaller scales in the past. When the basic necessities of survival are not accessible, the beast will sell its soul to eat. The beast lurks beneath the surface, tamed by society, and if society breaks down, the beast shows its true nature. We must overcome the beast within.
Only the truth can overcome the beast within. The question is, will you acknowledge it or ignore it? Like everything else in the universe, evolution is a balanced cycle. You are currently at the end of the cycle, the top, the crossroads. You currently have a chance to take the next and final step in evolution and leave the animal realm forever. This is the ultimate opportunity, period. What will you do? Where will you go? Because it is a cycle, there are only 3 ways to go when you die physically...
1) Come back as a human.
If you do not understand the truth and what it means, the awareness you achieve in this life will be reborn at the level of a human, and you will have another chance until you see the truth and understand what it means.
2) Leave the animal cycle and go to a heaven.
If you understand the truth, acknowledge and spread it, commit completely to the truth and give back to it for it to transform your mind, and seek to know the living truth (life in the present), you have reached the ultimate level of awareness, and you (the awareness) will never be born in a world run by the beast again. You have evolved past the animal realm, and you leave the cycle. You have consciously evolved past the deceptive mind of man and your primal instincts, and they are no longer in control of you. You (the awareness) will be reborn in a world of pure love (a heaven) and will live eternally in the present, sharing life with others who live completely in the present.
Heaven is a place that is not run by the beast. The world we live in is not a heaven, because it is run by the beast. To get there, you must set your intent on the truth and the life and try to find, define and spread the truth. You must try to bring heaven to earth to evolve past this world.
3) Go to the bottom of the cycle.
If you understand the truth and what it means, and you ignore it, fail to acknowledge it and/or try to avoid it by hiding behind myths and beliefs, you make the greatest possible mistake, and you take the greatest fall. You failed to use your rational mind for its ultimate purpose - to overcome deception and the beast within - even know you knew better. If you act like a violent animal after you know the truth and what it means, you cannot evolve further, and you lose everything. You passed up the ultimate opportunity, and you go to the bottom of the evolutionary cycle. It would not be fair any other way. You will have to go through it all again to get to this point again, where you can know and understand the world you live in. Do you want to go through it all again?
You (consciousness/awareness) are immortal, and life is perfectly balanced, so it cannot be any other way. We can now know the true situation. We can know the truth. It will transform us as individuals for certain and also our world if we acknowledge it and live in it while we have the chance.
You may be saying that none of this can be known for sure, that we can not know for sure that consciously being more than an animal will get us to heaven. However, you can know for sure that it is your only chance. In an infinite universe, it absolutely must be possible for a time and place to exist where there is a world that is not run by the beast, by primal instincts. The only way you can possibly get there is by consciously being more than an animal, by learning and spreading the truth to overcome the beast within. The truth is the way. When you know the truth, you know it for certain, but before that, you just have to go with the odds, because it is the only truth you can know when just starting. Faith may be all you can have in this world if you do not spend enough time with the truth for it to transform you completely. The only faith you need is faith in the value of the truth and faith that there is a time and place where the beast is not in control, a heaven. Do you want to live for this world?
This absolutely does not mean that faith is the goal or that there is a heaven up in the clouds that you will rise to if you simply have faith in faith or believe in a story. You can and must do what you can with this life here and now to try to bring heaven to earth or die trying.
You only have two choices: to act like an animal, or to act like something better. If you want to stay in the animal realm, just act the way everyone else acts, and you will continue to be one in this life for sure, and most likely be one in the next life after you die. If you want to be something different in this life for certain and have the only chance to get to a heaven, do not be an animal this time around. If you are wealthy, you must give away your excess wealth, or you have no chance. You must show your moderation to all men. Don’t live like a violent animal. It is that simple.
Except for what is necessary to live life, do not do what all other animals do if you want to be different from them. Life is always present.
From now on, when you watch the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, the news... put yourself in the skin of the animals you are watching. It will take on a whole new dimension. Try to imagine what they feel - the fear, the pleasure, the pain...
You have been through it all; you were there. Now you are here, and other animals are where they are. You are not better or worse, just at a different point in the animal evolutionary cycle. All animals are the same and live balanced lives; the only difference is that mankind can know the truth and leave the cycle. Will you be an animal, or something more? You have been through it all at least once, and you are currently at the top of the cycle with the opportunity to leave the cycle forever. Which way are you going to go? Those who do not know and remember the true past are doomed to repeat it. You have been the killer, the torturer, the rapist, the victim... you have starved and suffered, feasted and hoarded... you have been eaten alive, tortured, and raped... you have gone back and forth between the extremes for countless lifespans to get to this point. Do you want to go through it again? Do you want to live for this world?
This is your chance to leave the animal realm forever, to center yourself between the extremes.
Envision the image of the cross. One way is horizontal which is a circle, the path that all animals are on, the evolutionary cycle. The the other part of the cross represents the vertical or spiritual way that is not a circle. The goal is to get on the infinite path.
You are now at the meeting place of the two lines, the crossroads. Only by learning and spreading the truth and consciously being more than an animal will you be able to leave the circular path, the realm of the beast, and get on the infinite path to eternal life.
Our ultimate purpose is to know and spread the truth and to consciously evolve out of the animal realm we all evolved from and are in now.
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You should make it a habit to read this post or watch an episode of shows like Blue Planet or Life everyday so that you do not forget where we came from, what we are part of now, and what we are working to escape out of. If you are not reminded constantly, the collective mind of this world will make you forget, and you will not escape it. It is impossible to escape without constant effort.
