Our civilizations used to live atunned to higher dimensions. Their knowledge of the physical world, the concrete, was not as great as ours. But in the Higher Planes, they lived in synchronicity with the deities and spiritual realms they believed in, not making it about religion or faith, but rather infusing divinity in the mundane. Life and all of its dimensions were sacred. Yet it could be short for most. If there were discoveries, they were shared only with a few, making progress constricted to the physical circles of ancient humanity.
Our civilization lives to their higher technological potential. Knowledge is shared in a measure never before even conceived by our species, connecting individuals and their brains at a speed indistinguishable from instantaneous. Yet we live disconnected than ever. Isolation is a pandemic, depression is at its all time high, and even what used to be sacred feels mundane.
How can we built a future were ancient knowledge of higher spirituality and modern capabilities of higher quality of life coexist?
Our path towards the Convergence of Times can start with fiction to shape the culture, knowledge to bridge times, and products to manifest the abstract.
Fiction is all shapes of art. Words describing worlds. Painting, digital or physical, creating windows to other realities. Music that resonate with the rest of the senses. Fiction shape stories that can shape reality. First, by the culture.
And it is culture the main engine of change. It is the container of ideas from the collective, restraining which thoughts and experiments are given space to flourish, or are condemn to oblivion. It is culture the constrains that allow us to imagine what we can create and build.
Fiction can help us reshape the world towards a higher vision of our spirits and technology coexisting for a better humanity.
Knowledge build bridges of all kinds. Our species is capable of progress because of our capacity to share knowledge, and do so across time.
Our ancestors gathered all sorts of knowledge. While their tools to store it and share it might have been primitive, some of them survive the test of time and reaches us, albeit fragmented, most of the times.
But we are blessed by having direct descendants from our ancestors whose most important role has been to guard knowledge from ages past. They are living bridges with the worlds we used to know, and are now rediscovering, finally recognizing the value they can bring.
Because the birth of our modern times came with the neglect of what we valued. Disconnection occurred not by accident but with intentionality.
But that can be changed. Knowledge is beginning to find its channels and its receptors, now easier and faster than ever because of our digital technologies. Preservation of knowledge can come from newly crafted technologies. The Blockchain itself can become the new stone library of the past. One that cannot burn, and cannot be susceptible by a single point of failure.
Knowledge can be preserved, reshared, and valued again. A higher collectible consciousness can emerge from the intersection between our ancient and modern knowledge.
Poetic as it may be to talk about fiction, culture, knowledge and consciousness, the only way to create a higher reality is by the concrete. Making the sacred part of our everyday again is the challenge. Products can be the solution.
It may prove a challenge of its own to appreciate products as a way to manifest the abstract value of a higher collective consciousness, yet it is how we can act after reflection.
Products, after all, already shape our lives. Our devices can be portals to unlimited worlds, the objects that populate our houses and our minds carry visions of the world that justified their creation. And we accept those realities and manifest them by adquisition of products.
We salute the extreme version of capitalism that exploits and destroys because we feed the organizations that are lead by that point of view and make it acceptable. We not only accept but support our disconnection to the divine by our consumption of superficiality and poison.
There are other ways. Impact oriented brands create products that have a vision of a better future behind their design. Conservation of our Earth, connection to our roots, distribution of progress are but a few examples of what can be bought and supported by our own consumption.
Using products that feed the vision of a higher world help us manifest it. Surrounding our daily lives with products aligned with our larger goals bring a sense of coherence within ourselves, and the communities we identify with.
A higher version of our worlds can be supported by finding and consuming products with coherence as a priority.
Change can be extreme if the right ingredients are put together. Finding them, giving them the shape of our end vision for a higher lifestyle is the challenge.
If we aim for the intersection of our ancient knowledge and spiritual consciousness, and our modern capabilities for wellbeing and creation... We can hope for a divine future.
Luis Carranza Perales