Essays
Consciousness Evolution As Seen From The Eiffel Tower
Humankind has viewed compulsive thinking as a natural state and clarity as an occasional exception. But what if clarity is our natural state and compulsive thinking is an aberration?
If you made a stack of Buddhist texts about dealing with the monkey mind, how high would it be?
The Eiffel Tower springs to mind.
Mastering the monkey mind is a valuable skill to learn, of course.
But only if you have one.
What if the mental noise is a neurological disorder; an evolutionary leftover from animal kingdom neurology that is out of place in our modern world? Is that a more empowering perspective?
A large body of scientific evidence indicates the noise arises from neuronal hyperactivity in the default mode network and limbic lobe. What if this imbalance could be sustainably normalized by changing the expression of a genetic switch? Would that be interesting?
What if the treatment was massively-scalable into the human population? Would that be transformative?
We have entered the Third Millennium, where possibilities are constrained only by imagination. Genetic technology will raise the science of consciousness to new heights, and open a future where
every individual can realize their cognitive potential.
A Lifetime of Pleasure in One Night
Imagine having a lifetime of pleasure in one night. What would that look like? What would it feel like?
Better yet, imagine having a lifetime of pleasure in one hour.
Then make three copies of the hour so you have four hours strung together.
What would that look like? What would it feel like?
What would you be like in the morning? How would you change?
Imagine going into a tanning salon where you stand up in a booth instead of lying down on a bed. Imagine you close your eyes and are bathed in 10,000 watts of light. What does that look like? What does it feel like?
Now imagine 100,000 watts of light.
Imagine the light goes along with the pleasure. So you have a lifetime of pleasure in one hour while being bathed in 100,000 watts of light. Then make it four hours.
Now you have the true measure of human consciousness potential.