FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS HUMANS ASK ABOUT THE CORE QUESTIONS OF BEING HUMAN– Part I

I know; I am undoubtedly the only one with such esoteric thoughts. I must ask for your indulgence because these questions come from pondering the three innate but unresolved issues each human faces that may or may not be answered. The three innate questions or longings of the human heart are:

• What does it mean to be human at the deepest level possible?
• How can I love fiercely and thus begin to fulfill what it means to be at the next level of my human evolution?
• What is the truth beyond human concoction? Is it absolute, without the possibility of change or corruption? Who determines what is good or evil?

What follows is what I received in my Lectio Divina contemplations due to my meditations. I offer the Teilhard map (unattributed) to show you my thought processes and the matrix against which I make my meditations dynamic.

What does it mean to be human at the deepest level possible?

• Is there another level of intelligent progression that results from my species moving through space and time, picking up consciousness and complexity?
• Life comes from life, but divine nature does not come from nature.
• Knowledge begets awareness and the ability of the mind to wonder about reality with both visible and invisible characteristics (physical reality has matter and the laws of nature, while mental reality can look at physical reality and move deeper in awareness).
• There is no entering the spiritual universe naturally or automatically. Unlike the laws of nature, the laws of the spiritual universe require humans to use their reason and ability to choose what is good for them to abandon reliance on only the physical laws of nature and mental cognitive results to discover both visible and invisible dimensions based on humanity alone (the World), and move forward with a higher level of human evolution, the purpose why we are created in the image and likeness of pure knowledge, the creator.
• When able to reason and choose what makes them happy, humans won’t necessarily select what is good for them but what gives their human nature pleasure rather than pain (B.F. Skinner). All of us choose what we think is good for us. The question becomes, “Who determines what is good for us, looking at the totality of our evolutionary path? (See Teilhard map above)
• Humans are caught in a loop of repetition, unable to break into that next level of evolution without help from outside their nature. Nature does not have the power to reach that next level of our humanity with the energy at its disposal, not assuming a totally new nature but being the fullness of what nature intended us to be all along.
• To help humanity open up the possibility of moving to the next level of our consciousness, one that does not use the effects of human logic nor proof of historical existence, each individual as an individual must abandon all that we know to possess all that we know in the light of our next level of humanity, a much higher awareness of how all reality is interconnected.
• Because human intelligence could not reason to this next level without help, the creator gave us of Himself to not only tell us again what we needed to do to make that leap but also show us the way, but a way that is at odds with what our human reasoning has given us to this time. We had to be taught how to accept the effects of original sin and all that goes with that, to make a YES choice to the invitation of Christ to be one of the family, actually being adopted sons and daughters of the Father, not angels or servants, but inheritors of this next level of reality open to all humans.
• Knowing that we know sounds sophomoric, but it is the paradigm shift of all life from self-awareness to the hostage of our animality (all that is living except humans).

How can I love fiercely and thus begin to fulfill what it means to be at the next level of my human evolution?

• The motive for moving us from one level of citizenship of the world to inhabitants of the citizenship of heaven doesn’t come from us but from the creator in the form of a person who is pure love, sharing divine energy with those who know how to access it (Lay Cistercian Spirituality et al.).
• Philippians 2:5-12 is the core of my Lectio Divina because it encapsulates why a God whom we can’t see would want to trifle with humans, not as the Greek or Roman gods in their heavens, but to show us how to walk our way of the cross because Christ, the Mystic Hero, did it for us.
• Death is not a door we approach upon the death of our physical body, one which we can not open, but rather one that leads to the permanency of what we have discovered about love as we have lived and loved and had to begin over and over again. Now, the faithful have the Real Presence of Christ in their hearts, in that Holy of Holies in their temple of the Holy Spirit that is their body.
• Satan is the Ruler of the World (John 14) and seeks to seduce our species with promises of fulfillment and what it means to be human. I think of this as being a citizen of the world (not bad as much as inadequate to move to the next level of my evolution).
• Love is both a word in the language of the world and in the language of the kingdom of heaven (on earth as it is in heaven). What those words mean through the centuries depends on the ideologies and philosophies individuals assimilate into their unique worldviews.
• We know the meaning of love because Christ first loved us and bid us to love others as He has loved us.
• The Catholic Church is the collective deposit and reposit of how to love others and the stories of those who succeeded (Saints) and failed. It is the School of Love, which we practice daily as Lay Christians and members of His Body of Christ.
• Fierce love is taking He who is love inside us in Eucharist and just waiting peacefully seated next to the one we love, Jesus.
• For as long as we inhabit the limitations of our corruptible body, we must resist the lures of the world to define what love means and hold us hostage to a powerless level of humanity that does not include our next level of human evolution, adoption as sons and daughters of the Father.
• Learning to love is a lifetime process. “Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.” (St. Augustine)

What is the truth beyond human concoction that is absolute, without the possibility of change or corruption?

• The third innate and unspoken tug at our humanity for resolution is truth.
• Truth is the resolution of the first two longings of the human heart and mind. It is the application of what is to the human predilection for switchy thinking as THE template.
• The problem with humans is that we are a collection of individuals, not at all connected together. Each of us has reason to try to unlock the mysteries of the human mind and heart, but we are condemned to the limits of each of our lifespans.
• Collectively, we can accumulate knowledge (as of the last thirty thousand years), but in terms of being the only person to approach all this technology and “mindformation” happens within me.
• What this does to truth is make all truth subjective, hostage to me assimulating it and giving it my personal YES or NO for its existence in my three universes (physical, mental, and spiritual).
• Science comes closest to truth without the corruption of individual interpretation. Still, because of the freedom to choose, it is objective to its scientific subscribers (and I am one of them) but irrelevant to those who don’t know the language or concepts. Yet science is an important key to moving us to that next step in our evolution, but it lacks the humility to look beyond the borders of matter. It is held hostage by the truth of its own principles, ones that can’t possibly move humanity to that next level of intelligence progression.
• This is why I say that human nature (the collective collection of individuals) doesn’t have the energy to move our humanity to that next level intended by nature (see Teilhard map).
• As good as human nature is—and it can be both noble (high-end) and animalistic (low-end)—our species reached the end of its natural selection because it ran out of matter in the physical and mental universes.
• Here we are, then hostage to our own nature (original sin), we keep bumping up against that wall separating our mental universe of matter instead of reaching resonance with our destiny by moving to that next level, one that is invisible to the human eye and is suspect by what we know of knowledge and love in the visible world.
• Truth is to have the energy to move our nature to its next level, but it exists outside of what we know about knowledge and love from our individual reason and freedom to choose alone.
• Only one other nature exists outside of our nature, putting aside animal nature for the moment. This nature is absolute truth, without corruption or change, outside of human existence and comprised of the interactions of pure energy. It is self-perpetuating and does not have the corruption of a beginning or an end. It is energy that does not admit of incremental movement of consciousness or complexity, characterized by human individual free will or the limitations of human life on earth.
• Absolute truth is pure knowledge, pure love, and pure truth, all one, yet all diverse, existing harmoniously in a divine nature.
• So, suppose all this is so good that the automatic solution to humanity becomes what nature intended. How do we get some of that “whatever it is” to make our humanity filled with knowledge, love, and truth, those three innate longings of the human spirit, collectively and individually? Do you see the impact? Again, we are held hostage by the limitations of our human nature, as noble or despicable as that can be.
• The solution was permanently embedded in the fingerprints of that absolute knowledge, love, and truth (the image and likeness of the Divine Nature), which left an indelible mark or tattoo on each atom, a signature if you will, or maker’s mark. See the Teilhard map to view how all reality moves in complexity and consciousness toward its fulfillment of who it is.
• Our human nature needed help to lift us up to the next level of our evolution, one that is not “apart from” our nature but “part of it.” These three innate longings are central to my spirituality, not some wildly unrecognizable fable about a garden, a snake, and some naked humans.
• Absolute truth is the template where what seems to be completely illogical or a fairy tale, as some call it, is the only one that answers these three fundamental longings in my human heart. The sign of contradiction is the key that opens up the lid just far enough to give us hope that the word of Christ, the promises of eternal life, the way of living life now at its maximum, to know how to love, and to rest assured that truth indeed is what reality looks like.

Continued with Part II

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