We are in a Human Project

 no. 7276

We are in a Human Project   

Humans need to know a few things before knowing about the Project.  

One is to know the "self". 

A "self" is something happening rather late in each of the humans. First you have a body, but you are only a lump of flesh can only breathe and eat. You will not know even yourself. You do not know your own name nor your own self. You cannot use the word "I" until a later stage.  A "self" is a later development.

 

If you have a "self", you have a leader in you. You can control your body. However, you need to feed your own body, and satisfy its many desires. Your body is your first tool and your own slave. If you cannot control it, it will control you. Your "self" is not the same as your body. Traditional thought about life is that life is only a mixture of body plus a mind and this could be the main trap for humans. Matter and mind concept has created a wrong path for many to chase after material interest. They do not understand why life is so short and that produced worries. Earthly interest is the only thing some people are seeking after. They thought mind is only a vague idea which is not important at all. 

Wise people on earth soon divide themselves into two groups. One is Matter-First and the next is Mind-First. Humans have been fighting for a very long time in history due not only in religious reasons, but in this philosophical difference. 

What is the basic form of human beings? 

It might not be matter, nor mind, but a very special form like a Project of the Universe. 

The Project is built with matters.  All matters are perishable, or decayable and sometimes replaceable. Yet the Project is not. There is a format for each one matter in the Universe, and all the formats have been pre-installing an element to perish in time. There is a life span for everything. Nothing can last forever.

 The two longer-lasting things are the mind and the Project. 

Minds are growing and mixing constantly. Each life may have a mind to govern itself. Minds are like controlling powers of the Project; they kept things going. Minds are building the Project with perishable materials; therefore the matters in the Project must be changing always, yet the minds did continue. 

Minds are inheritable. Lives vanish, minds remain.  Everyone on Earth are a part of the Project. Everything is decayable, and the only non-decayable thing is in the Project which is controlled by minds. 

Are all minds non-decayable? It is hard to determine. However, it is the longer-lasting mixture of minds that keep things going. 

The Project itself is alive and non-decayable. We have a growing Project and we are parts of the growing Project. 

And an interesting question is how long could the Project be growing. Will it be forever? It is very likely to be forever; it depends on some more studies about time and space, etc. 

Now let us get back to the views of an individual. 

First you have a body, and the body soon acquired a "self", which is possibly the early activities of a mind. And the mind is not separated and not alone. Many things have and will be communed into the mind. Languages, ideas, civilizations, are all basic elements of a mind. A mind is but a little part of a grand mind. And the most important feature of any mind is its urgent need to communicate with other minds.  A lonely death is the major nightmare of many. The need for communication is vital. 

Why it is vital? It must be a built-in feature of the human species. And the need for communication is not only for you to have a happy moment but for the need to exchange and mix up ideas for the human wisdom. Human wisdom is based upon the communication of all human beings and in the future, human wisdom might lead humans to go forward for a more important goal. 

And this basic function of human minds is in its growing. We are in the early period of minds as we have a short history of civilizations which are not more than a few thousand years. In the millions of years ahead, a better human wisdom is expected and by then, all old problems like poverties and wars are ended and we can foresee future humans will be happy to create another species of humans. New planets will be found and prepared, hoping the new species of human would have a far better human wisdom to work for the future Projects of the Universe. People will not be seeking a self-interested longer life but the perfect growth of a better future. It has been a build-in quality in human nature. Any life will produce offspring and so do the human species. This is the reason why people are questing and going onward always.  

Life is short and bodies die, but the grand wisdom remains. The Project is always waiting ahead for everyone. My own body is not a selfish aim in my life. Very short-sighted people seek only individual need and when they finally come to the end of their life, they felt sad feeling not satisfied. If one can see the human species are going on like a grand mind of wisdom and generations of bodies keep on coming and going, just to make the grand mind more mature and will finally bring all the human species into a higher form of success and people are witnessing the grand beauty of it all, one will be extremely satisfied. 

The question is can "I" see it? 

Yes if you are concerned with the Project, you will see it. 

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Books by Lee Chard

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