http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_will_our_kids_be_a_different_species.html

Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species? 

This presentation by scientist Juan Enriquez gives panentheists interesting "food" for thought and is a wonderful opportunity to engage in conversation with others who may be impressed by Enriquez's vision along similar lines. Considering that these "new species" may evolve out of a particular materialist gene, which causes the destruction of conscious beings, "the former, imperfect ones"... First, I would have to define "consciousness" and "conscious beings," there is and has never been any better or superior being than a Conscious being. But few believe in the full potential of unconditioned consciousness which they themselves have not reached.

So, what a scientist like Enriquez and others are not asking themselves, perhaps because of the "if you are a hammer you see the whole world as a nail" kind of syndrome, is that besides the linear concept that it is only now, in our Present, that we have reached an optimum understanding of humanity without honoring that in the past there have been beings who have experienced the PRESENT in a continuum with eternity. 

In other words, there has been superior wisdom in the past, which has been available to some people who have followed the righteous ways (Vedic, Adwaita, Buddhist, Sufi, Christian Mystics...) which are not accesible and will never be available to scientists utilizing technology or any kind of man-made instruments. 

So, what are we missing? I believe that we are missing honoring exploring the human identity in silence and in awe. 

Learning about the life experiences of sages, whether they have been recognized by scientists and academics or not can be helpful. I want to bring to our attention the life of a wise mystic called Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa who barely learned how to write his name, though he had internalized ancient tests of philosophy and committed many to memory, lived by many of their principles, was honored by contemporary philosophers in India and in England, i.e. Huxley, and others, but whose explorations on the farthest and deepest human experiences did not depend on technology or any mechanical apparatus.

I wonder if we are confusing multiplicity of personalities with the undifferentiated experience of being, which does not belong to a given elite, but is the matri-patrimony of everyone. What in Samkhya philosophy is described as a gradual progression from self to Self, from individual to Universal experience

June 9, 2012

To be continued...