The Road Foreword
All men; that is a human, sentient male; can do something they never believed was possible and always desired to do. They desired to do it so desperately that it drove them crazy, derailed our sentient state, and wrecked any hope of humanity becoming what Nature always intended: a loving, emotionally stable and mature, rational, sentient race that respects itself instead of constantly tearing itself down and relying on fictions. "Omigoodness, we're human" rather than "We're only human" is the vast difference.
We are so close to educating the heart that it hurts.
The long answer is a bit more complicated. I'll get into that in later posts.
Conscious evolution
Conscious adaptation to circumstances is how a sentient race evolves itself. It makes of evolution something that is no longer willy-nilly. We aren't there yet.
Humanity, once completely liberated by sentient cognitive function, which is the ability to comprehend so much more than an animal and seek clarity, will accelerate the race's evolution into new directions. It's not about intelligence. It's about clarity. It is not about educating the mind. It is about educating the heart.
Conscious evolution is all about adaptation to realizations that our sentient, conscious awareness makes apparent. It is a matter of no longer denying what our sentience reveals. Animals react to circumstances by instinct and suppress what is not understood. Conscious evolution will supplant witless revolution for the human race.
The subconscious is where a sentient race puts realizations that they have not been willing or able to process, just like an animal. It causes madness as we seek to hide from the clarity our sentient capabilities reveal and demand. The more momentous the realization, the more difficult it is to suppress.
One such subject is so momentous that we attempted to prevent any trace of it to remain. That is, of course, impossible for a sentient race whose awareness seeks answers and demands clarity.
We become extremely uncomfortable when the subject is broached (so, be prepared).
Because it is so momentous, clarity suffered a debilitating blow. As we age, we learn to obscure it entirely from sight. That is what we attempt to teach our children. That is what children have and always will rebel against, until the whole truth is revealed.
We will be truly sentient when we can gather our thoughts as a species and adapt to that which our sentience has made so crystal clear.
This is a story about what liberates both the mind and the heart of humanity. We can think and live consciously, rationally, amidst a mature emotional backdrop of stability and balance by no longer pandering to the animal.