After watching the movie Lucy I realized how far we are from reaching a higher state of consciousness.
The movie is based on the fact that we are only using 10% of our brain and presents the consequences of what a human would experience should he reach the other 90% of their brain: mind control, instantaneous learning, supersonic multi-tasking, efficient emotional life. This is pretty cool but it does not tell us how to move from 10% to 100%. The movie's character gets the additional consciousness through drugs. I thing drugs can give you a partial window into additional consciousness but suppress some of your usual consciousness so you end up living a new but ephemeral experience before coming back to your usual conscience.
So the question is how do you evolve naturally from 10% to 100% ? and what are the things that prevent you from moving up?
One way to analyze this is to look at what the current purpose of the use of our 10% is currently.
Humans are currently driven by a quest for pleasure and auto-satisfaction which they interpret as happiiness.
If we had to give satisfaction points to different things in our lives we could make a general rule that:
- Body Pleasures get a 10 - food, sex, posession
- Social Pleasures get a 5 - approval, recognition, power, success
- Spiritual Pleasures get a 1 - nature, family, introspection
=16 points
The way i see it is:
If you are happy to see your family, the spiritual variable is probably the one that will less satisfy you. The approval, the food or the affection you'll get from seeing your family is what will satisfy you. If one doesn't get those pleasures, the spiritual sense of having a family would not be enough in a lot of instances to keep members seeing each other.
So we live in a world where the essential pleasures are the less attractive and the most futile pleasures are the most attractive and rewarding.
Now, let's say we live in a world where:
- watching a sunset gives twice the pleasure as eating your favorite meal after not having eaten for 10 hours.
- helping someone by donating 1$ to them gives you ten time the pleasure of having sex
- eating amazing food transcends you into a sense of gratefulness for the immense well being that is being brought upon your body when you eat.
In such a world, all your actions would conspire towards trying to maximize your pleasure and therefore every choice would be made towards the essential and spiritual pleasures vs the more social or body oriented ones.
So how can we do to invert the scale of our pleasure centers to reach a higher percentage use of our brain through the essential pleasures and therefore evolve to a higher consciousness?
- Some ways suggest to remove yourself from Body and Social Pleasures in order to reach directly the essential pleasures (any isolation like religion or practice) but unfortunately that is not compatible with our current society and therefore this way is hard to spread for us to collectively evolve.
Grounded, solid but not powerful enough.
= Spirituality Only (10 points)
- Another way is to add spirituality as the #1 aspect of each moment within body pleasures and social pleasures. But this is just marginalizes you from society and and isolates you from being able to communicate with other fellow humans and therefore evolve with them. Spirituality plays an almost too powerful boost which removes you from the real world and launches you too high in the spiritual pleasures center,
= Body 10, Social 10 and Spiritual 10 (30 points)
- One way that i appreciate the most, would be to use spirituality as a way to balance the way you live your social and bodily pleasures as well as spiritual pleasures.
This uses spirituality as an equalizer and leaves the possibility of a collective use of spiruatility in every human pleasure.
= Body 5 Social 5 Spiritual 5 (15 points)
Bottom line is balance and conscience with concrete social realities and abstract metaphysical spirituality are the only path to true evolution.
The movie is based on the fact that we are only using 10% of our brain and presents the consequences of what a human would experience should he reach the other 90% of their brain: mind control, instantaneous learning, supersonic multi-tasking, efficient emotional life. This is pretty cool but it does not tell us how to move from 10% to 100%. The movie's character gets the additional consciousness through drugs. I thing drugs can give you a partial window into additional consciousness but suppress some of your usual consciousness so you end up living a new but ephemeral experience before coming back to your usual conscience.
So the question is how do you evolve naturally from 10% to 100% ? and what are the things that prevent you from moving up?
One way to analyze this is to look at what the current purpose of the use of our 10% is currently.
Humans are currently driven by a quest for pleasure and auto-satisfaction which they interpret as happiiness.
If we had to give satisfaction points to different things in our lives we could make a general rule that:
- Body Pleasures get a 10 - food, sex, posession
- Social Pleasures get a 5 - approval, recognition, power, success
- Spiritual Pleasures get a 1 - nature, family, introspection
=16 points
The way i see it is:
If you are happy to see your family, the spiritual variable is probably the one that will less satisfy you. The approval, the food or the affection you'll get from seeing your family is what will satisfy you. If one doesn't get those pleasures, the spiritual sense of having a family would not be enough in a lot of instances to keep members seeing each other.
So we live in a world where the essential pleasures are the less attractive and the most futile pleasures are the most attractive and rewarding.
Now, let's say we live in a world where:
- watching a sunset gives twice the pleasure as eating your favorite meal after not having eaten for 10 hours.
- helping someone by donating 1$ to them gives you ten time the pleasure of having sex
- eating amazing food transcends you into a sense of gratefulness for the immense well being that is being brought upon your body when you eat.
In such a world, all your actions would conspire towards trying to maximize your pleasure and therefore every choice would be made towards the essential and spiritual pleasures vs the more social or body oriented ones.
So how can we do to invert the scale of our pleasure centers to reach a higher percentage use of our brain through the essential pleasures and therefore evolve to a higher consciousness?
- Some ways suggest to remove yourself from Body and Social Pleasures in order to reach directly the essential pleasures (any isolation like religion or practice) but unfortunately that is not compatible with our current society and therefore this way is hard to spread for us to collectively evolve.
Grounded, solid but not powerful enough.
= Spirituality Only (10 points)
- Another way is to add spirituality as the #1 aspect of each moment within body pleasures and social pleasures. But this is just marginalizes you from society and and isolates you from being able to communicate with other fellow humans and therefore evolve with them. Spirituality plays an almost too powerful boost which removes you from the real world and launches you too high in the spiritual pleasures center,
= Body 10, Social 10 and Spiritual 10 (30 points)
- One way that i appreciate the most, would be to use spirituality as a way to balance the way you live your social and bodily pleasures as well as spiritual pleasures.
This uses spirituality as an equalizer and leaves the possibility of a collective use of spiruatility in every human pleasure.
= Body 5 Social 5 Spiritual 5 (15 points)
Bottom line is balance and conscience with concrete social realities and abstract metaphysical spirituality are the only path to true evolution.
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