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History that is ignored (making it useless) ironically has a tendency to repeat itself. Computer programmers would call this unwanted repetition of an action a ‘loop’ causing a system to malfunction. Eventually, if the loop cannot be broken, the whole system is likely to crash. Humans often get themselves stuck in similar individualistic loops with harmful addictions by ignoring or not accepting evidence about the nature of humans, a given substance, circumstance, or behavior.

Knowledge of the past and present are useless if they are ignored, misconstrued, or misunderstood. Herein lies a major problem with subjective reality. Consciousness is simply a state of physical existence until perceptions and judgments are formed and clung to – then it becomes “reality”. All perceptions and judgments are products of the mind. Only when an experience can be accepted and classified is the experience considered “real”. When humans can agree on what is “real” it becomes “truth”. Intrinsically, by accepting the classification of what is “real” and “unreal”, “true” and “untrue”, humans’ system of consciousness becomes based off of what has already been established and set in stone. If reality is actually objective (a paradigm through which humans usually cannot perceive – only god) then there is no “ultimate truth” through which all that is real is based; at least not without there being some “ultimate lie” through which it is experienced.

Is the Earth flat? It sure was for a long time until humans detached from their firm belief that it was and opened their minds to other possibilities. How many planets are in our solar system again? Is the physical reality which humans have perceived, classified, and accepted all that really exists? Every text that contains a shred of religious or spiritual ideology suggests that there is indeed much more to reality than this physical domain of atoms and laws. Unfortunately, by attaching entirely to one philosophy it can become impossible for humans to open their minds to even fathom other possibilities of reality.

The progress of civilization is currently causing a great amount of global, economical, spiritual, and sustentative pressure. The problems of the individual are quickly becoming the problems of all as diseases grow with population, economies and communities struggle with war and power expression and protection, and, however speculatively, the popular means of production and transportation considerably affect the atmosphere.

Now it is time for a new paradigm through which to experience. Hopefully, the current major shift in consciousness is one of peace, understanding, and compassion. If humans collectively awaken to their own warped interpretations of reality and find the courage to exist without entirely clinging to any single idea, we may find a new understanding open to limitless possibilities. Science is fortunately even starting to catch up to the exponentially urgent need for new possibilities of an infinitely limitless reality beyond the boundaries of this physical existence.

It is not a question of whether or not the human species can avoid their own self-destruction until this shift in consciousness can effectively secure the path. Instead, it is a matter of self-actualization in this very moment. Let inevitable change manifest from the self. Let the self manifest from the inevitable change.