Sentience, Conscious Awareness, and the Trajectory of Life
Before the human race, evolution was exclusively a matter of genetics. With humanity, Nature introduced conscious awareness, which creates an unsurpassed way in which a sentient race can improve itself and everything around it. It is evolution on a sentient scale through application of conscious awareness.
We no longer need genetic changes to improve into a sane, sentient state. We need to use the tools and skills that Nature has already provided.
The advent of conscious awareness (sentience) extends the Trajectory of Life and provides a tool to improve and renew life.
So far, it has driven prehumanity mad because it remains more animal than Human.
Nature has left humanity to evolve itself beyond the bounds that just genes can provide. Taking the reins for ourselves, as Nature intended, has bewildered prehumanity. Until now.
Before humanity, thought was limited. It remained a feeble representation of awareness until the advent of humanity. It remains less than required for a sentient race because of the gaping hole in the Great Narrative.
Attaining sentience, isn't like flipping a switch. The heightened intellect and conscious awareness that comprise our sentience have been developing for hundreds of thousands of years and continues to improve. It is an ongoing effort. Clarity has yet to make its appearance. We remain blinded by reality as well as blinded to reality.
Lofty concepts like love, peace, and noble characteristics can take us into intriguing realms. But, these very Human characteristics remain stunted and blunted by the stupour of the animal. Unfettered conscious awareness, clarity, is necessary for humanity to succeed as a sentient race. As long as we let anything remain purposely obscured, we will remain in the stupour of the animal.
Our conscious awareness has remained constrained, befuddled and bewildered. A natural desire for a sentient race is to seek clarity and, yet, we have avoided it with considerable effort (see post titled 90%).
Conscious awareness allows us to question, "what is?" and extrapolate further by asking the question, "what can be?" These concepts are further refined by asking the question, "what if?"
So far, we have remained stuck on the idea of "can we?" There is no doubt. We can do whatever we desire, from destroying all life on Earth to molding life on Earth into something tremendous.
These abstract ideas and ideals mean nothing on their own. Reason, which humanity was also gifted, can and should complement the effort. It has yet to show itself. Irrationality still rules. Clarity remains disabled, overwhelmed by nonsense that should not exist. We have, so far, willingly avoided clarity.
If, in the overall scheme of life, an idea is attractive but the results remain tentative, we retain the idea, attempt to refine it, and study its potential and validity versus circumstances.
Concepts, like love, peace, and noble characteristics(e.g. honor, integrity, dignity, grace, elegance, generosity, compassion, etc) have mostly proven unworkable, so far. Though they hold promise, more and more they have become labeled as wishful thinking because our conscious awareness remains witlessly handicapped, constrained. Our conscious awareness has mostly only interpreted what our animal ancestry and legacy has presented. All because we could not face one discrepancy of the animal's existence.
Our conscious awareness became increasingly capable around three millennia ago. The circumstances humanity was forced to confront exceeded our capacity to comprehend and adapt as a sentient race at the time. We have since become fixated on avoiding that which is relentlessly revealed by our sentient awareness. Each generation has the same questions and has become humbled into witless acceptance
Irrationality continues to prevail. Once accepted, irrational explanations are extremely difficult to vanquish because they are irrational. They obscure clarity by justifying nonsense. Irrationality continues to build on the deceits we told ourselves long ago, warping our existence further, until we finally peer through the fog we created due to our past.
Our inability to achieve those higher ideals is due to a single irrational concept accepted long ago. "We are only human." More exactly, we are only prehuman. There was only one situation that caused us to accept this most irrational concept.
Humanity never gained respect for itself due to a crucial realization of our conscious awareness long before we could interpret it correctly. That has inhibited humanity's sentient ideals. The current state of coitus contains both a lie and a truth. We rejected the truth and accepted the lie. The lie is that everything is fine with coitus. The truth is that Humanity can improve the state of coitus into a loving Human event.
Our conscious awareness was duped. We became convinced that we are no more than a sophisticated and dangerous animal. In other words, "we are only human", which, once we gain clarity, will be expressed as, "they were only animals." (past tense; prehumanity)
We remain in a stupour of bewildering proportions.
Our conscious awareness revealed too much too soon. A key link regarding what makes us Human remains missing. Our intellect could not keep up with what our conscious awareness revealed and we never recovered. We learned, in the face of unacceptable circumstances inherited from the animal's state with which we could not yet contend, to use deceit as a tool rather than face a bewildering issue. The human race blinded itself. The heart was never educated, as Aristotle proposed.
Comprehension, clarification, and guidance of our own existence, due to conscious awareness and reason, are Nature's most powerful tools to lead human, sentient life into unbelievable realms of success, far exceeding genetics. To do so, we must liberate ourselves from the stupour of the animal which is retained due to the bewildering issue of coitus.
We remain stunted due to that lingering issue. Our ancestors crafted a thorough scheme of denial, resembling the River Lethe, regarding the one most important aspect of sentient existence. We can supersede the animal in every way.
When we approach the key issue that hobbles our sentient awareness, our minds go blank. We avoid the issue at all costs because it bewildered our ancestors. It need no longer bewilder us.
We have gone down a long and weary path of developing self-defeating concepts like supernatural beliefs, existentialism, and authoritarianism, persistently denying our own staggering potential.
An animal's reactionary viewpoint, reminiscent of a death wish, utilizes violence to achieve obscure, witless, and meaningless goals. That is defeatism, not sentience. It is also a purposeful distraction from that which bewildered our ancestors. It is antics of an animal.
The break in the chain began when humanity faced an immensely perplexing situation far beyond its initial sentient comprehension and ability to cope and adjust.
Our early ancestors had not yet developed the powers Nature grants a sentient race in the form of knowledge, reason, and intellect. Instead, through imagination and creativity, we obfuscated and blockaded the attainment of a fully functional sentient state, since the issue was beyond their ability to cope.
The curtain of obfuscation, constantly reinforced by distractions, has grown to untold proportions over the millennia.
In front of the curtain, we see a demented race. What lies behind the curtain is our Humanity.
Humanity, in its earliest days, was put in the awful position of resolving a seemingly impossible issue or forcing blindness on humanity.
Resolving the issue, at the time, was just not possible. That left obfuscation on a scale that is difficult to imagine. For very important reasons, the dilemma was considered dangerous to contemplate in the absence of resolution.
Sentient awareness never rests. It is always seeking clarity. This is a fundamental trait of sentience that we have yet to fulfill. We continue to obscure the most crucial problem and, in so doing, cause havoc. Mostly for the female gender. Mostly by the male gender.
The animal perspective that remained in place frantically obscured our awareness of one particular issue regarding an animal's existence that does not apply to a sentient race in full mastery of its sentient capabilities.
Our conscious awareness continually pounds against the bars erected to block clarity. The rage experienced by every youthful generation is an attempt to break through the nonsense. It took my entire lifetime to do so.
The issue was created when the first form of life engaged in the activity of creating life while only one gender achieved a state of bliss that is obtainable by both genders of a sentient race.
Nature made animal life in such a way that it could exceed the animal's expectations, once it attained a sentient state. All of the equipment, all of the tools are available. All we need to do is use our sentient capabilities to succeed.
This became apparent due to the conscious awareness provided by its sentient state. The animal perspective of humanity, as long as it remains in an animal state of stupour, just curses knowledge and its sentient state, making it impossible to even confront the issue, much less succeed. We have intentionally blinded ourselves. All because of some witless animals calling themselves human three millennia ago.
The curse on knowledge, first pronounced over two millennia ago, was wrong in every way. It was not knowledge that cursed us. It was lack of knowledge.
Resolution is ridiculously simple to implement, once we free ourselves of the animal and accept the knowledge that can transform us into something truly sentient with conscious awareness finally free to roam all aspects of a sentient existence.
The issue created by conscious awareness is simply stated. For a sentient race, there are two desires for coitus. Please oneself and please one's mate. The two desires have never consistently converged during coitus because the full capability of a sentient race has never been applied.
The resolution is incredibly simple once the animal's witless blinders are removed.
In the current rendition of coitus, just like an animal, one gains pleasure while the other provides pleasure. That is fine for witless animals. It is an unacceptable predicament for humans of either gender. It wreaks havoc on everything regarding the sentient state for both genders.
Men take, women give, and it begins in bed. We are trained in such a way from the point of puberty. It makes men selfish and women empty. It need not remain that way. Human resolution is clear and straightforward. (see Explanations)
We remain a demented animal out of sorts with its Human potential. Our Humanity requires that the animal act of rutting become the human act of loving.
The only complete resolution is when the unassisted act of creating life also becomes an act that creates love by sharing the incredible, transcendent gift of ecstasy that the act of coitus can provide for both genders. The act only creates love when the transcendental gift is shared. Anything less is not worthy of a sentient race and does not fulfill the concept of love.
Both genders suffer in its absence in different ways. Our concept of love remains warped and damaged because of the lack.
Can you begin to see how this would have confounded our ancestors? They were at a loss for resolution and, yet, coitus had to continue. They handed down their bewilderment and defeat, generation by generation. With each generation, we became more convinced that there was nothing to be done.
Men can easily overcome what has seemed an insurmountable barrier to our ancestors who clamped down so hard on the matter that exploration of unassisted Loving Coitus became impossible for millennia (see Explanations). It is just a matter of mastering certain muscles. Do not confuse that with strengthening muscles.
Humanity works best by consensus and the gathering of forces applied to an issue. Coitus is the only aspect of life that humanity has been unwilling to explore consensus or apply the slightest effort.
That is the dilemma which our ancient ancestors were forced to confront without the necessary knowledge and awareness that were just beginning to develop. The results of the last three millennia, in the absence of loving coitus, are not even a surprise.
We twisted the situation and ourselves into knots because we were convinced that men could not succeed. The silent implication was that men were undeserving of a sentient state. We mistakenly accepted the conclusion that we are no better than an animal at the most important act of life that does not fulfill sentience until the pleasure is fully shared, thus relegating ourselves to a monstrous existence beyond the bounds of the animal but far from the vistas of sentience and unobstructed conscious awareness.
Transforming coitus into loving act transforms humanity into a fully sentient race. It frees us from the shackles of the animal entirely.
Transforming the life-creating act of coitus is the missing piece of the puzzle to fulfill our Humanity.
The lack has induced the human race's emotional upheaval and, through obfuscation which resulted in a state of stupour, impeded our conscious awareness, reason, and fulfillment as a sentient race since the very beginning.
The phrase make love has meaning. Rutting is not making love. It obviates a fully shared experience for both genders.
Loving coitus is the crucial aspect of the Trajectory of Life that allows a sentient race to take the reins of its existence into its own hands as its conscious awareness can finally fully awaken without obstruction.
Love and the nobler qualities are the natural result of a fully functional sentient life. We cannot strive for them. They are not an effort of conscious will, as we have attempted for three millennia. We cannot force love and noble qualities down the throat of humanity. It is not something that is learned in a book. Words are not enough. All I can do is present the problem, but the problem still must be resolved by men that are tired of failing at love. The male gender must finally learn it can love.
Love and noble qualities are inherent in a fully sentient state of existence. It is only a matter of accepting them, educating the heart. They are the first steps along the extended Trajectory of Life provided by unobstructed sentient, conscious awareness of life.
Our dystopia is a by-product of the stupour that is eliminated with ease by a race in command of its sentience as it begins to direct the Trajectory of Life for its own benefit.
It is not utopia. It is stable and mature emotions, rational thought, conscious awareness, and reason transforming our higher ideals into actuality as sentient awareness gains its mastery of life by succeeding at the act of love. It is human. There is no downside.
Men were undone by the misbelief that a certain aspect of their sentient existence was beyond their measure.
Nature provided all that is required for a man to achieve loving coitus with ease. It only requires our sentient capability of conscious mastery of muscles to overcome the animal's instincts that relegates the act to rutting. It is explained, to some extent (enough to succeed), in Explanations. There is more detail in the various books but the summation is in Explanations.
Noble characteristics will appear in full force once the male gender gains its sentient confidence and retains its self-respect.
The obfuscation of the situation began over three millennia ago due to the bewilderment of a newly minted sentient race that became consciously aware of something that was beyond their knowledge to correct.
The obfuscation became a force of its own over the long millennia as it was inadvertently and subliminally embellished to counter our growing conscious awareness. It is the disturbing thought that we dared not confront. Only the cowering, witless fear that there is nothing to be done holds us back today. We now have the necessary knowledge.
The Trajectory of Life has now crossed the threshold into a creature that should be seeking the limits of its own tremendous potential. So far, we have only sought the limits of destruction.
With human consciousness, we have the potential for love, rational thought, noble characteristics, and mastery of life. That is far beyond the bounds of any animal. There is a lot yet to learn about love.
As I ponder all of this, it seems that, once the dam bursts, the flood of our unconstrained thoughts will clear away the underbrush in short order.
Even this transformation into a race that can think and love unfettered does not seem the end of the line for the extended Trajectory of Life that sentience is gifted.
It is more like beginning to apply the tools Nature provided to reach the next level of the Trajectory of Life, whatever that might be.
As is my druthers, that makes me ache to know what is on the other side. What tremendous vistas does this open?
It will be humanity's first step into the domain of conscious evolution.
This is a branching point of life in which infinity splits. The split infinity begins with success at being sentient and comprehending love. The past will belong to the prehuman. The future to the Human, sentient being.
