Reclaiming The Unconscious
“you lose everything
when you don’t love yourself
- and gain everything when you do”
If we traced the code responsible for life back to the emergence of the first genetic material, it would take us to the bottom of the ocean. As the first protoplasmic cell separated from the rest of the universe, we became. We pursued separation by continuing to differentiate, emerging and unfolding, being informed by and informing the embryonic substance we bathed in.
In classic Jungian symbolism, water is the unconscious. To emerge out of water is to be born. During baptism, those repentant for their sins purify themselves by immersing in water. Sharks, the magnificent creatures that survived every extinction that wiped out almost everything on the planet, trigger our deepest feelings on fear, death, and survival.
Graham Hancock coined the expression “War on Consciousness” to describe efforts made by authoritarian governments to keep individuals from accessing consciousness, a violation of individual freedom.
The human body, being 70% ocean, remains tied to its primordial predestinations. Unfortunately, its unconscious, which happens to be the gateway to consciousness, has the capacity to be weaponized and used against itself.
You may know about the famous Masaru Emoto experiment where positive intentions repeated to water caused her to form beautiful, aesthetically pleasing crystals while negative intentions made her form disorderly patterns. Every vibration experienced by water is captured by its arrangement. When you make a toast, the intentions from your words are imprinted in the water so that by drinking the water, you drink in the blessings.
Cells, which are not filled with water but an aqueous gel-like semifluid solution, store a memory of the traumatic events of our past.
If you haven’t already seen the Harvard commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace, “This is Water”, I urge you to do so. I return to it time and time again whenever I get caught up in the false realities of living.
The problem is that we experience the world through our past. In the documentary “The Social Dilemma”, we are shown the negative impacts that AI, algorithms and social media have on our psyche. The problem with algorithms that they don’t create new behavior; they reinforce and are reinforced by existing behavior. As we go about our daily lives, operating from our traumatic imprints, we feed these impressions into the algorithms we interact with, and the more we interact with these algorithms, the more deeply these patterns are embedded.
The documentary urged software engineers and designers to be more conscientious when designing these products. As someone who was a pretty crappy software engineer at Facebook, I don’t think that fully solves the problem. At Facebook, my job was taking data from one table and putting it into another table. Each click, like, comment, and scroll gets fed into an algorithm that goes through hundreds of different systems worked on by hundreds of different teams. Each team is responsible for a tiny piece of the whole ecosystem whose complexity is so large that it’s impossible for any human mind to design it in a way that would yield a predictable result.
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
In my opinion, the real danger of AI isn’t in the potential of warfare between humans and sentient robots, it’s that these systems have become so intricately integrated into our daily lives that it’s impossible to unravel the good from the bad.
I personally would much rather be attacked by Google maps than to be without it. We are a civilization of AI. Think about how quickly Netflix churns out movies these days. These are not stories based on people’s personal experiences. Storytelling used to be the only way for us to pass down information to the next generation, and now stories are being written by machines.
So exactly how doomed are we?
I agree with Elon Musk that humans are no match for advanced AI. However, I know of something that’s more powerful than humans and robots combined: Nature. The same nature that carves everything out of beautiful mathematical relations and sacred geometries and embeds every piece of it with the same code needed to create the whole. Nature has existed long before and will continue to exist long after humans. If nature wanted to wipe out either humans or robots, a simple natural disaster will do the trick.
“You guys have severed your connection with spirit. Unless you reconnect with spirit and do so soon, you’re going to bring the whole house of cards down around your heads and ours.”
In order to avoid the potential dangers of AI, we must bring back our connection with nature. Since we are built from nature, connection to nature is connection to ourselves.
Fortunately, what got us into this mess can assist us in getting out of it. We can use the body’s susceptibility to be imprinted to bombard it with positive vibrations. Every time you tell your body, “I love you”, it hears it and remembers it. Try starting and ending your next workout with the phrase “thank you body” and see whether you feel different afterwards. This isn’t to say there isn’t plenty of work to be done for getting rid of the patterns that hold you back; however, the more love you show yourself, the more connection you will find to yourself. Whole body awareness (also known as whole body consciousness or embodiment) is the antidote to endless thought loops.
Free will is choosing to vibrate at the highest possible frequency. When you vibrate at the frequency of unconditional love and boundless compassion, you are untouchable. The Age of Pisces was all about unconscious mind control and operating in the dark like using religion to control the masses. Fish are master escapists, and Pisces has the symbol of two fishes. As we transition into the Age of Aquarius, we change from a water sign to an air sign by bringing the unconscious to the surface. This is the age where we recognize how inextricably connected we are. This is the age of brotherhood and sisterhood. Your pain is my pain. Your happiness is my happiness. No longer will we allow individual freedom to be cut up and sold for profit. We will recognize that it doesn’t matter who we’ve been hurt by in the past, what’s important is that the hurt stops now.
We were always meant to return to wholeness. Divinity is our birthright. To finish off the blog post, I would like to raise a metaphorical glass. May we always feel our connection to each other. May we heal from our pain by being the embodiment of love. Finally, may we always operate from a place of kindness and compassion. Cheers!
