The over reliance on technology may lead humanity to a level where simple abilities such as multiplications or reading a city map will become paranormal!
As a child, I remember my mother making rather complex multiplications mentally, without the help of a calculator; my friends in Africa told me that their elders would sniff the air and could predict with very high accuracy the chances of rain during the day. During my youth years whenever I visited a new city, the first step was to get a map; today I just open my smartphone to find my way around wherever I travel.
Young people today cannot even imagine life without computers and smartphones. They rely on technology for almost for everything: from driving around, planning the day, making simple calculations, to even finding love. What technology can do today is amazing and yes, I am sure it has increased our work productivity multiple times. But should we devolve everything to A
The problem is that our civilisation seems to bet everything on external technologies at the price of ignoring and losing human abilities and skills.
Our societies invest so much in profit driving technologies while we don’t really understand ourselves, we don’t always know what motivates us and what scares us. Even worse, we don’t understand the world and we are losing contact with nature, the only grounding and inspiring element in our lives.
For decades, the education systems have focussed on accumulation of knowledge and technical skills because they were marketable at that time. Knowing ourselves was not only useless but would have been even counterproductive. Or with the rise of the AI, all repetitive and knowledge driven tasks will be performed by AI according to AI experts (see Noah Juval Harrari) with many humans at the risk of becoming “obsolete”.
The things we can do thanks to the digital revolution today are amazing; the risk is that by over relying on them, we risk loosing basic skills, not even mention develop further human abilities.
With AI slowly taking over may of such repetitive skills, it is both an opportunity and a necessity to turn inwards and develop new ways of using our mind and consciousness!
Previous cultures and civilisations have developed more inwards and therefore were more advanced from this point of view. It is generally accepted that such civilisations understood consciousness much better than we do today and they were able to use the power of the mind in ways that today are unimaginable. For example, Shamanic cultures were much more connected to nature, they allegedly communicated with the spirits of animals and plants in order to bring healing and bring balance in the community in the environment. They used to “read” the stars in order to cultivate abundant crops instead of poisoning the soil. Telepathy, foresight and out of body experiences have been intensely documented. Hindu yogis are known for surviving for long periods without water and food, for appearing in two places at the same or performing miraculous healings (see The Autobiography of a Yogi).
Impressive structures built around the world such as the Pyramids and their perfect alignment with the stars attests of an excellent understanding of the movement of the stars and their impact on humans.
It is high time we look back with humility and curiosity
Traces of previous very advanced civilisations abound everywhere around the world and new sites are discovered every day, see such sites documented by Graham Hancock, a ‘pseudo-scientist’ according to the established academics. (Hancock himself does not consider himself a scientist but a journalist).
However the established academia today denies vehemently even the possibility of more advanced previous civilisations; the only agreement is that structures such as Sacsayhuaman (Cusco, Peru) or the Pyramid of Giza are examples of perfect engineering and that the populations that built such structures had no tools. Thus the constructions are labled as ‘seven wonders of the world’ therefore no need to dig further.
I cannot help by wonder what we could learn as civilisation if we accept that we don’t know a lot; that despite recent technological advances, we do not know much about consciousness and we do not know much about human nature, we don’t know much about plants and animals and we don’t know much about the nature of the Universe.
I cannot learn but wonder what our civilisation could learn from the previous ones by using the technologies that we have today and do more research in this area.
Instead, the established academia treats as backwards and best-case scenario as pseudo-science, any type of knowledge and wisdom that does not come from sources that can be rigorously measured, counted and verified through.
We need to stop treating as backward and naïve everything that does not fit the currently accepted thinking paradigm and start learning. We need to take a step back and accept that we don’t know everything and that we might have gotten some things wrong; this happened before and several times.
In the meantime, we need more of us need to turn to what is already available to us today to develop our social skills, to learn more about connecting with each other and with the natural world, about the starts and the Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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