Virtual Intelligence

Probably the worst source of information, predictably, is the easiest to come by -- which are collectively, what we recognize as “mass media” -- designed for easy penetration into the consciousness of people. But whether that is the most useful information to have, is now being questioned by increasingly many. In fact, having “their” information, may be the greatest “handicap” for one seeking to optimize their own functioning and controlling their own lives.

The mass media messages is about doing what others would like us to do -- and not necessarily what is personally best for us to do to maximize our own advantage and provide for our own greatest happiness. That is the primary right and imperative of every individual who can recognize this highest calling of being true masters of their own existence -- and that is far more meaningful than primitive notions of being masters of the world and the universe.

One is the world and universe -- not partially and fragmentarily, but wholly, not in the egotistical sense of projecting one’s desires and inadequacies on the world, but in the awareness that the world is one’s interaction with the rest of it. Nothing is occurring in isolation to everything else -- nor is the individual acting in opposition to the environment. One is the environment, just as the environment is the individual -- and if that is the case, than why make the distinction at all? Indeed, why?

Is one better off in thinking that one is apart from the total environment (universe) -- even defining oneself as the struggle against it, or would a life be more complete and full to regard oneself as the totality of all intelligence and everything that ever happened and is? This is far from being a very trivial consideration and an argument of semantics -- or meaning, because the great reported lack in people’s lives (though often not defined so clearly), is this lack of meaning and purpose, despite all the "busyness" of their activities.

In fact, the busier one gets, the more likely it is to hear one self-assess that the more meaningless and purposeless, life seems to be. Some people even have a notion that if they were to cease their activity for a moment, the entire world would come crashing to a halt -- and they would be responsible for all failings, and so they must tirelessly and unquestioningly spin the wheels and engines of society just that much faster -- and the ultimate crime against society, the world, themselves and God, would be stilling their minds and bodies even for a moment to contemplate -- without interposing themselves as the sole mover of it all.

Of course, such a picture of reality and actuality is a great delusion many otherwise competent people are laboring under, and why all their strivings create so much mischief and futility for the world.