Humanity is on a long journey of developing consciousness. Over hundreds of thousands of years we have developed and evolved, from Homo Habilis, through Homos Erectus, Neanderthalis and Denisova to Homo Sapiens. And our homo sapiens brains continue to gain more understanding of our material surroundings and our social possibilities and responsibilities. We have gone backwards as well as forwards, implying that we have an innate yardstick by which to judge this – perhaps “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”?
If you believe, as I do, that we all exist in a morphic field of humanity, or collective unconscious, that guides our world view and which we feed as our individual world views change, if sufficient people develop a particular view that will spread to others and infect whole populations. Western nations have for the last 30 years or more been infected by a worldview that holds kindness to individuals as more important than the well-being of society as a whole, even if that kindness to an individual causes obvious harm to others. This view is starting to subside and we wait to see what comes next.
I consider this to be similar to the way we have changed views over the centuries, from acceptance of slavery, feudalism, religious dogma, through the renaissance enlightenment to the scientific rejection of the spiritual nature of humans. I speak of course of the European and Western nation experience. Eastern philosophies have avoided rejecting the spiritual in the process of embracing science, and some nations are still at the stage of subjugation to religious dogma.
In discussing how human worldviews have changed over thousands of years we cannot avoid talking about perceptions of ‘god’ and how that has and is changing. So let us undertake another speculation – Human Gods; Alien Gods – for which I will ask you to imagine three things are possible, the first two of which I expect will shortly become common knowledge:
- That aliens exist and can visit earth at will.
- That matter can be manipulated in alchemical and. anti-gravity ways.
- And that some aliens may be genetically quite close to humans but able to have significantly longer lives.