Dear Carter,

If the human species has survived for millions of years till now, the chances are equally good of it surviving millions of years into the future. We are adaptable enough. IF Earth becomes uninhabitable after some centuries or milleniums, we might migrate to another host planet. No big deal.

You (or Garreau) take it forgranted that we haven't heard from intelligent life from outer space yet. Who knows, they might already have contacted us. Haven't you heard about Area 51 and Area 52? ;)

Don't worry about intelligent species passing the "final exam"........eventually they all will, provided they are *intelligent* enough.

Cheers!
Navin

Hi Carter,

Who is doing the work?

Look around for the answer - everyone is doing the work. Every one of us is faced with the same challenges, and each person has to do the work and find the next level, inside. We are all meant to break through to the next level. We have to, the only way out is... the way up.

I'd laugh if someday we found out that we are the only living planet in the universe! On the other hand that would be pretty swell if that wasn't the case. Cheers to Life!
Amanda

When the earth formed some 4.6 billion years ago, it was a lifeless, inhospitable place. A billion years later it was teeming with organisms resembling blue-green algae. How did they get there? How, in short, did life begin? This long-standing question continues to generate fascinating conjectures and ingenious experiments, many of which center on the possibility that the advent of self-replicating RNA was a critical milestone on the road to life.

Before the mid-17th century, most people believed that God had created humankind and other higher organisms and that insects, frogs and other small creatures could arise spontaneously in mud or decaying matter. For the next two centuries, those ideas were subjected to increasingly severe criticism, and in the mid-19th century two important scientific advances set the stage for modern discussions of the origin of life.

In one advance, Louis Pasteur discredited the concept of spontaneous generation. He offered proof that even bacteria and other microorganisms arise from parents resembling themselves. He thereby highlighted an intriguing question: How did the first generation of each species come into existence?

The second advance, the theory of natural selection, suggested an answer. According to this proposal, set forth by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, some of the differences between individuals in a population are heritable. When the environment changes, individuals bearing traits that provide the best adaptation to the new environment meet with the greatest reproductive success. Consequently, the next generation contains an increased percentage of well-adapted individuals displaying the helpful characteristics. In other words, environmental pressures select adaptive traits for perpetuation.

Repeated generation after generation, natural selection could thus lead to the evolution of complex organisms from simple ones. The theory therefore implied that all current life-forms could have evolved from a single, simple progenitor.

Writing without thinking!

My hand covered by technology. My brain, witness of artificial realities. My love, my baby, pushed at the war front, pushed to design clothes for high standing civilization, for a society calculating each manifestation like coming from God.

Monitor off, my shoes in, shutting home's door, Eva Cassidy sweet voice echoing in my heart. Trees full of colors. A finger pointing the earth, the automnal fresh wind, connected with wind spirit. An inside black area moving. Need of resurrection. Mouth and nose giving access, full of colorations passing through my field, each cells ready to sing; granted!

Pregnant, God bless the child.

A street, one and soon many of them. Cars, speed and noise. A blind hits my shoulder and disappears in the smoke. Computerized eyes analyzing all moving objects. The baby moves a feet.

Eva...Eva... your voice... sweety I have problem with the communication.

Coughing... felling inconfortable... slowly my body get painted in black, my head spinning, my feets stopped, confused, no where to go.

I want to get on board. I do not have a ticket.

Force unknow. Powerful, a shout from hell. I do not know what to do with this warrior calling for justice. They all say; his bad, take care, don't listen to him... but I am sorry this is a part of me. The law doesn't give him any rights. Now he is furious. He said to me that I do not know anything about him simply because I am scared to listen.

Fire in my heart, power, go, I open you a door. Fragil been virilized, do not loose your mind but feel the warm.

Energized, myself again, full of possibilities. I make a steep ahead. My heart yelling, yelling: burned everything that is not who you are. These invisible flames come out from you to all. These flames will come back from all to you.

Say the words and make an end! The baby will be born.

Hello Carter and Everyone,

Getting off topic for a minute, Jean-Francios mentions singer Eva Cassidy's sweet voice and I would like to add that just the other day I was listening to her sing "over the rainbow," and I must admit that I listen to her rendition of this song for that "one note" that opens her voice completely and she soars with that note to places unknown to our human understanding.

Some people reach enlightenment through meditation, Eve reached it through her voice, her ability to reach a note that very few can attain with fullness and range at the same time. I listen to her sing this song and experience the beautiful surrender of a voice to a note and I know the "ear of the Universe" is listening with me.

peace ruth

Enlightenment or god realisation is ..........

well it just is

another can not really write about it, a Journalist for spiritual understanding! LOL I never knew such people existed until now. Imagine getting paid for talking about nothing eh?

what is very amusing in that respect is that if anybody here has ever spent some time with an enlightened person, then they will inform you that talking the talk is bullshit.....

WIE.. lol.... the question is the problem...you either surrender to enlightenment or you do not...

it is very very simple and you need not worry about it at all.

here is an E-mail I have copied between myself and someone I know who is gaining some understanding, this person has suffered terribly with loss of people and materialistic value..and here is an e-mail between me and that person.... this is the real stuff..it costs nothing...there are no journalists...it is the stuff plain and simple... nobody trying to sell you a hand full of nothing.

now you see it now you dont! get lost Mate!

Hi Simon,

I've a feeling that you are an old soul if you don't mind me saying so. You too seem to have an innate wisdom and understanding of things.

I have never read Lord of the Rings. I love to read as well, but usually fairly light feel good stuff to escape into.

I'm glad to hear that my email made it to Heather but hers as yet has not made it to me. Peculiar? I look forward to it though, although I wonder what went wrong?You're the computer buff, what do you reckon?

My biggest news of the week is that I've just managed to sort me a three day week instead of four, by dropping 1.5 hours. I think I mentioned to you that I felt work was taking over in my life and I just don't have enough time at home to do all those things that us Mums have to do. Something was going to have to give,and I was hoping it wasn't going to be me! But with a bit of rearranging, starting earlier ,finishing later and working through lunch, I've got to an arrangement that feels good. I just have to do a few lift shares to get the girls to Christians school so I can pick them up from there, and its all worked out. Do you ever find that when you try to do something that isn't quite right it doesn't "flow", but then when you do get it right it does flow,everything falls into place like magic, without effort. Thats what happened for me today.We'll be a bit shorter of money but I'm planning to do lots more home cooking (cheaper!) and just be a little less frivolous. I am a Leo and love the finer things in life that generally cost money. Don't know what you think of star signs, I'm not madly into them but they definitely are an influence I feel.

This sweet elderly couple brought me the biggest ever box of Thornton's chocolates you ever saw today. I issued them a very foldable lightweight wheelchair last week on the spot (which we don't usually do, they have to be ordered), but because she is terminally ill with cancer we can bend the rules a little. They were so grateful and he tried to give me a tenner at the time.I tried to convince him I couldn't possibly take it, so he said he'd be back. Low and behold they turned up today. But the thing was I shouldn't have been there, I should have been on a home visit 30 mins earlier, but I was running late and just leaving as they turned up.So that was really nice for me and I hope nice for them cos they got to give them to me rather than leave them at reception.Isn't it funny though don't you think when things work out like that, like there is a divine guidance at play.I went off on my visit even later after spending a little time with them, thinking" what am I doing?" I was driving in the opposite distance from the girls school with time running out and still a visit to do. I was realising that I was going to be incredibly late for the girls unless something amazing happened. But I felt I just couldn't turn back cos I had a visit at a nursing home to do. Lo and behold it turned out to be a really quick visit, I was out of there in !0 minutes and got to school on time. I love it when things all work out in that way, almost in accordance with an underlying harmony that you just have to have faith in. Do you find that happens to you in your work?

Think I'm going to be bowled over when I see my Dads pilots licence.

Bye Simon, love Deb xxx

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Hi Debs,

I know exactly what you mean about the harmony in life, Nature is itself self complimentary and is a natural flow of unity if you take the time to notice and appreciate it, there is an old Zen saying that goes "The Grass Grows By Itself" . really everything is already perfect, it is we that adds a problem to any situation you care to imagine. Sometimes I feel that if we had an hour each day to sit still and not talk or move or do anything to just sit and reflect on ourselves and notice the flow of our life then we would be far more in touch with eternity and always have a good day. Deepak Chopra speaks about that all of humanities misery is caused by the inability to sit still, close the eyes and do nothing for half an hour each day. There maybe a Divine Guidance at play as you have said, I know that anything is possible there are countless things you can imagine or do at any moment you choose to do it, we take that for granted because we have always had the ability to imagine or do certain things but in actual fact that is itself a miracle. For me personally God is the most self evident thing I can possibly conceive in fact God is everything I can know, there is nothing but God and it is as simple as that, I don't have to go to church or to a Mosque or read the bible or anywhere else to have to know that I just simply accept that in everything I witness, even horrible things are the result of endless possibilities that is the divine miracle of life. There are endless permutations of what god means to different people, there are many things you can add and subtract to what the meaning of God is and I have friends who are of Muslim faith and some are Buddhists and I have been to the Mosque with some of them and meditated with them. I always come back to the same conclusion above that God is the very essence of all things and when you know that experientially and accept that then things begin to flow by themselves for sure.

If anyone tries to sell you an idea of God then they are an arsehole and you should tell them to go forth and multiply because they are as lost as you are if they think they can know or even sell you the understanding of such a thing,

If I stopped you on the street and tried to sell you an awareness of your own big toe... What would you think! Plain and simple...... knowing god is like knowing your own big toe..left or right.... i cant tell you anything about your big toe that you do not already know about it....

God is that personal...it is like your big toe...it is yours... it might not be the prettiest big toe in the world..but it is all yours....surrender to that and know and love it as yourself..and you will be as enlightened as the stars that shine bright in the heavens.

did that cost you anything???

'-)

Solutions to the problems mentioned already exist, no scientific breakthroughs required.

The issue is with implementation and awareness.

The planet and everything on it was perfectly designed, a blue green paradise. The “Human Organism” having grown to the size it has, has not integrated itself well, mostly because it’s systems are flawed as a result of ignorance and greed.

You want a real world example?

People will talk about water shortages and scarcity of water. I point out the fact that the planets surface is 70% water, I think that destroys that Illusion.

I think it is all about consciousness.

Higher consciousness will raise the consciousness of everything around it. As exposure to this consciousness grows all of humanity will be lifted by it.

Systems designed from the perspective of a lower consciousness are disrupted and collapse when higher consciousness manifests.

The Prevail Scenario seems like it has a few elements of what the future of civilization might look like. But I also don't think that the transformation of civilization is going to be because of something like You Tube. I mean really...

Some of us will survive. Why? Because killing off six billion of ANY kind of animal is really, really hard to do. It's like killing cockroaches. In the beginning, lots of them are dying really fast, but after a while, the killing slows down, and more and more of them keep on emerging from places you didn't expect.

The idea that innovations that help us survive will come from small groups makes sense. Why? Because small groups can move faster, are more quickly adaptable to changing environments, and are more generalized.

Like Google, for instance. It made rapid progress from the garage to the international business scene. But I predict that there will come a day at Google, just as at Amazon.com and Microsoft before it, when a brilliant young technologist approaches the corporate leadership with a revolutionary new approach, and they say, "Well, traditionally, we haven't done it that way, and we're not sure how the investors will respond..." And then Google will be just like the rest of them, and we'll be waiting for the next band of garage geniuses to change the world.

So yes, we'll survive, just in the same way that SOME reptiles survived the extinction of the dinosaurs, and some plants always manage to survive a volcano eruption.

As for a sudden wave of enlightenment overtaking humanity and preventing, say, masses of people in China from wanting to own a car because it pollutes, well, don't bet the farm on that.

So Yogi's prognosis is this: it's going to get worse before it gets better, but mother nature has been creating more and more resilient creatures for over a billion years now, and that resilience, while it may not propel us into an age of enlightened civilization, will allow some of us to survive and begin the long, hit-or-miss process of rebuilding a once great civilization.

I take for my model here the oldest cultures in the world. If you look at the world's oldest surviving cultures, they are not the most advanced. In fact, a good argument could be made that younger cultures are more advanced. Why? Because they can grow rapidly from a smaller population base, and are not held in check by past traditions - again the same principle by which a garage start-up can evolve faster than a mega-corporation.

Unfortunately for the USA, we are leaving the era where we are the start-up geniuses, and entering the phase where we become one of the megatraditions that actually blocks progress.

For example, the energy sector. When it came to the industrial revolution and oil based technology, America was young and fresh and led the way to developing autos, gasoline, and plastics-based manufacturing.

But now that something different is needed, we have become the big old dinosaurs, unable to feed off anything but the same oil-based economy we have been nourishing ourselves with for a century. We see all around ourselves the changing environment, and we know what it means, but we just don't seem to have the collective will-power to break our rock solid addiction to oil and the lifestyle it has provided us.

So some smaller, faster moving and more innovative economies are going to have to rise to the challenge.

We are yet to see who that might be. Part of the problem is that any such fast-moving and highly competitive model will have to be able to evade or withstand an all-out assault from the dinosaurs of oil, including, as we have seen, military invasion, sanctions imposed by the dinosaurs, propaganda attacks, and corporate espionage. All that and develop and market the new technologies, too. Big challenge.

So it will be interesting...if I survive to see it all happen.

Here is another example.

Salt used to be worth more than Gold. That is where the word salary comes from. It was great for food preservation etc.

Some genius of higher consciouness realized they could flood a shallow pool with seawater and allow the water to evaporate leaving an abundance of salt when the sodium and chlorine crystalized to form salt.

With such an abundant supply the value of salt dropped enourmously and transformed the world.

The scenario is set to repeat itself, this time instead of salt it will be energy.

Hello Ruth and everyone!

Well, if anyone wants to discover or simply to listen Miss Eva Cassidy, click on my name.

I have put temporarily a few of her songs.

Enjoy,
Jean

Hello Richard!

Everything that crystalized spirit will have to learn back what is Flood. If not, by jailing spirit, Warriors will have to appear and fight. If the warriors are too weak, confusions will prevail.

But this time, maybe we could take a spirit crystalizer and use it has an example of what we should do to really help others to join the water. There is a lot of big fish out there that could be easily used.

Bahhh This is just a crazy idea, a lot of blah blah like always, used for the profit of the crystalizers!

Sorry to disturb... but peace cannot be created from words only and specially not from blog spheres that create dependance.

The love of me I left behind...

Did you know Life gives us love in guaranty...

http://www.drdeepchop.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Mieke, we love you!
Thanks Simon to share!

Carter quotes Garreau:

“Perhaps, he said, that is why there seem to be so few galactic friends out there sending us messages. Maybe there simply aren’t many who pass the final exam”.

In “THE DRAGONS OF EDEN” Carl Sagan says something like “the practical benefits as well as the philosophical insights likely to accrue from the receipt of a message is immense, it will show that there are advanced civilisations, that there are methods of avoiding the self-destruction that seems so real a danger of our present technological adolescence. Thus the receipt of an interstellar message would provide a very practical benefit that in mathematics is called the existence theorem, in this case the demonstration that it is possible for a societies to prosper with advance technology!”

Is the doomsday clock really ticking? After all Islam has its politicized Ayatollahs and the Taliban and the Americans their evil twin - their own Christian Fundamentalists, who threaten freedom worldwide while moving heaven and earth to turn a fight against terrorists into Armageddon.

Even Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” is beginning to sound sarcastic at times.

A note for Ron Saywack, Richard Dawkins will speak in Pasadena, Menlo Park and San Francisco between the on the 28th, 29th and 30th of October.

Dear Jean Francois,

Thanks so much :)
Sent you an email.
Great site, lovely music. And i do mean yours :)
Love,

Hi Simon,

I just read your email exchange hereabove.

You just rock!!

When i was a kid i could put my big toe into my mouth and it tasted delicious lol

Love, xxxx

Dear Carter,

Thank you for this radically enlightening article.

The change will happen inside and both heaven and hell are always available.

Life is just a big fair. Every day new challenges, new chances, make your choice.

Anyone heard of the Merkaba, the inner light vehicle. You can fly with it at the speed of light. Recently i made it in a virtual reality world, seen from different directions it looks like a plane, like a saucer, like a stealth fighter, like a star....

"When the sun shines on the mountains,
and the night is on the run,
It´s a new day, it´s a new way and i fly out to the sun"

Love,

Hello Jean Francois,

Beautiful pictures, very touching.

peace ruth

Dear Mieke,

You are most welcome and it was a great pleasure to pay tribute to you as a friend and as a very warm soul and celebrate your birth.

My Love to you and your people

Love Simon xx xx

http://desaulniers.homelinux.net/about/

Merci très de Jean-Francois de site créatifs pour partager aussi, je pense à faire une présentation de toile pour Noël 2006 musique d'utilisation, les images, la technologie d'animation et éclat. Peut-être nous pourrions proposer quelque chose ensemble ?

Aimer Simon

Dear Carter

I absolutely support the Prevail thesis.

Life is a recursive evolutionary experience. Individuals and small groups respond and adapt more nimbly to both current states and to the barely-visible edges of future states. When they get off-track, life itself provides the feedback that either throws them off the track all together so they can do no further harm, or gets them back on track.

Everything else is dreaming, thank God. No person or group of people is wise enough to understand what does or does not benefit life in the long run. The limits of human life and the stultifying drag of large group dynamics make it impossible for a person or group to have a strong effect on life as a whole, for more than a short period of time.

love, Heather

Hey,

nice article thr....refreshing and keeps ur mind making and putting loads of these questions ahead....but at the end... gives u a clear thght as otherwise the intellect is at ease na....

it was good...keep inspiring fresh thgts....
someones at least gettin enlightened!
be well
TD

Sounds like an interesting book on a subject we need to face in light of the accleration of both technology and population on this small planet.

I am very interested in your continuing articles on the subject of 21st century spirituality and related subjects. I believe the first step is to give credibility and weight to alternatives to current mass religions. I've been looking into "humanist spirituality" and while there are some good articles on it, they are very few and far between. Why is that?

I've decided to direct my blog in that direction. To me, Humanist Spirituality is what it sounds like: rational humanism with a spiritual edge. Humans throughout history have needed some kind of cosmological big picture in which to fit. I propose to help create a new kind of spirituality. And I look forward to bouncing ideas off of you, and to our input.

Sincerely,
David