a koan for Humanity - Introduction
by P. Ola Jannhov
on How To Balance the Impossible
Introduction
Introducing the Meta Mental as a potential next evolutionary update, a reinvention of consciousness.
Any mental concept has something of a map to it, doesn´t it?
Theories and models are somehow maps to help us orient in the lands of abstractions.
If you´re in a city and you need to go someplace, you look at the map and go;
“third side street to the left”
and that´s all you need to check. The structure of the city, with the blocks forcing you to walk down streets, the road signs telling you where about you are, is enough most of the times to help you to your goal.
But out in nature, in the middle of a forest … all you see are trees, more tress and even more trees. You might not know what ´s north and south, what´s up and down on a map. There are no (house-)numbers on the trees, no signs helping you out.
Time is a bit like that wild nature.
All you see ahead are appointments in your calendar. Like trees with space in between.
But time further ahead .. predictions, based upon events in the past, hoping that the future is somehow going to be reliable.
It isn't.
Black swans, disrupt happens.
Faster, more often.
Time get´s wilder, not tamer.
You need a compass.
In nature, in the forest the compass will help you with somethings. With a map and some knowledge of orientation, you´ll find your ways through the forest.
But how how to navigate "in time"? Evolutionary and developmental theories deliver maps .. but what about a compass? What is it that has the quality of a compass?
Your heart some say … well yes, but heart if somewhat limited (more on that later).
Your intuition some say … well yes, but intuition is also somewhat limited. It´s in itself rather a quality of the mental, similar to the way instinct is related to body and heart is related to the feeling realm (more on that later).
I simply assume that a kind of "compass" is yet to be discovered and this online book project is hinting at some qualities of such a compass.
You could say it´s a Turquoise or maybe Coral attempt.
You could see it as a reinvention of consciousness.
You might sense it.
Hopefully it stays with a Koan quality to your mental mind, because it should in itself be an evolutionary update beyond our minds and mental capacities of today.
The compass will somehow be Meta Mental.
Like a forth leap in human evolution. A new, forth quality of the instruments awareness/consciousness uses in the realm of Form.
These three qualities so far being something like these:
- Life through a body, earliest humans,
- Life through a body – sensation – feeling, humans evolving from maybe 50.000 years to 5.000 years ago,
- Life through a body – sensation – feeling – feelthink – thinking – purely abstracted mental thinking, humans evolving from maybe 5.000 years ago to today,
Meta Mental might be added, like this:
- Life through a body – sensation – feeling – feelthink – thinking – purely abstracted mental thinking – meta mental, humans still to come.
So far we know 1, 2 and 3.
What could Meta Mental mean?
Let me first sell it to you. Why should you bother?
Think about your hand. Five fingers.
A million years ago humans made rough tools with their hands. Through out time, as Feeling and later Thinking got added, we have at the same time become even more skillful with our hands and those five fingers, haven´t we? Think of a gold smith, a wrist watch maker, a musician, a brain surgeon .. and so on.
The hand has been there all the time. Is does not go away. It got “better” as the realms Feeling and Thinking evolved.
Now please think about your thinking.
Think about that thinking of yours becoming even more skillful, just the way the hand became more skillful.
That will be your take away, the benefits. You´ll be even smarter, faster, more comprehending, grander. And you will be more humble, loving, caring and kind. And you´ll be more alive, vivid, bodily happier (should I write sexier also?). (more on that later)
Interested?
Ok, that was the sales rap for Meta Mental on a personal level.