What happened to us?
Ok, so you've heard it all before. "There's nothing new here" you say. "Tell us the answer" you say. But if we really want to find out what is happening to our beautiful baby (remember every baby is a pure human being, ready to give and receive love) we are going to have to do a little bit more investigation.
Of who? Of ourselves of course. We must deconstruct everything we are, everything we believe. Everything we cling onto so dearly. Everything we thing is truth. Everything we believe makes us human.
We must take everything that anyone has ever told us and challenge it. We must stop believing that the government, our parents, our teachers, our employers, etc... know what's best for us. How can they? They were conditioned by their parents and the wider society before they started conditioning you.
Of course, if you still want to live in a violent, greedy, wasteful world, you can just forget we ever read this, and carry on as normal...
"Actually, that's a good idea" says you. "I'm not interested in all this nonsense. There's nothing wrong with me. And anyway, I'm much too busy for all this. I don't know why I ever came to this site." And that's your right as a human.
But if you, like me, have started to wonder how we, homo sapiens, the most intelligent species on the planet, have become so addicted, so greedy, so jealous, so fearful, so dominating (etc etc!) then maybe you have come to the right place. You see, I never gave a damn about anything or anybody else in life apart from myself, but then one day, I started to wake up. Wake up to what you ask? Well, nothing in particular, just the realisation that maybe all was not well on the planet that I inhabited. That all was not well with the way I was thinking. That all was not well with the way I was treating others.
So I started to write down things I believed were important to me, and to others in the world, and started to explore them. These explorations turned into the natural mind - waking up. I had no desire to sell millions of books, just to share my short journey into what it meant for me to be human with others. The book is not the ultimate guide to being human, that, unfortunately, you will have to find out for yourselves. But I promise you one thing, when you start your journey you will uncover more about yourself, the species we belong to and the world as a whole, than you would ever believe.
But don't take my word for it. Go and find out for yourselves. Unravel the conditioning that you have been burdened with and find a truly amazing universe waiting to be explored. And if you don't fancy trying it, then my advice is - don't! I cannot force you to change, for who am I to tell you what to change into! I cannot live your life. Your life is yours, and yours alone - although, as you will find out - the world is rather more connected than you first believe.
I wish you luck on your journey, although, ultimately, the life you live hasn't got much to do with luck, and isn't probably pre-destined either! If you decide to read the book, and start your own journey of self discovery, be aware that there is no easy path. You have been conditioned your entire life, and to deconstruct all that you are may be a painful process. I know!
But wouldn't it be great to be able to throw away the labels and find out once and for all, who you are underneath the drug addiction, the power, the fast cars, the poverty, the money (or lack of it), the job, the family, the children, the education, the titles? No? Well, I still wish you well in life!
Enjoy your short time on this planet. I plan to. But at the same time I remember that I share it with 6 billion of you, and the countless millions of
other species, quietly spinning somewhere in space.
Oh, who's the baby? That's me of course! Before I was conditioned! Wasn't I beautiful!?
