Global Collective Consciousness

[Anderz]

Is for example Facebook a beginning of a collective human consciousness? I haven't used Facebook much, but I heard that people on there are total egos with fake facades who hate each other, or at least that anger is the fuel that gets it going, something like that.

Therefore Facebook it probably more like a cocoon for humanity as a caterpillar (separate ego identification). And what will happen is that instead of the caterpillar continuing to grow it will start to dissolve! And then new social interactions will emerge that will be the beginning of the butterfly state of humanity (the global consciousness).

It will be a leap into a completely new state of social interactions, from experiencing ourselves and others as separate to actually experiencing our selves as one planetary organism. Another symbolism is the phoenix rising from the dragon having burnt itself to ashes.

[Anderz]

Some New Age people and religious people talk about human ascension and a change to another state of being. But that dismissed the immense value our world has in terms of uniqueness and creative growth and development. Our struggle as humanity throughout history has had a definite purpose. So the change as I see it will happen within our current world. Sadhguru talks in this video about how we - and especially leaders of the world - need to change our intent from focusing only on separate things to focusing on the planet as a whole. And he also said "you just have to increase your desire. Why are you stingy with your desire?" He meant increasing our sense of self to include everybody as the global self.

 

[Anderz]

Some may believe that living forever on earth as for example described in the Bible wouldn't work because of population growth. But that's only when looking at it from a linear historical perspective. As Peter Russell explained in his documentary The Global Brain, the brain of the human fetus grows at an accelerating rate until suddenly the growth of new brain cells suddenly radically slows down. And after that the brain focuses on developing interconnections between the brain cells.

From a fractal evolutionary perspective the same will happen with the human population. And we have already started to see this slowing down of population growth. Some countries even have negative population growth.

And then further into the future we will be able to colonize other planets and even create new planets! Even though that's way into the future it shows that living forever in this universe (and ability to travel to other universes) is a possibility. And it fits the fractal evolution view. Just look at how disconnected we humans still are. Despite new technologies like the internet, people can hardly live together peacefully as married couples. So there is a lot of interconnections within humanity still needed.