Sunday, December 11, 2005

We are all myths

Visit #1 – Creation

Double Helix arrived to the family late. The family was a big group really, of several hundred beings.

“So, how is the project going?” they asked DH.

“I can’t believe it took me seven days to finish the first part of it. I call it Creation.” DH answered. “But I am very happy with the complexity of it all. Now I have to wait a while to see how it develops.”

“What did you do about life?” they asked.

“I decided to have many different forms of it. I started with the simplest kind and at the end, created a complex being – I am calling it the human. The more complex beings, also known as animals, are all in pairs; I divided every living thing into two – left my mark everywhere,” smiled DH. “My human has free will, it is self conscious and I provided it with great potential.”

“You are aware of the fact that we don’t have very good results with free will, right?” they asked again.

“Oh, yes, I saw the data. But I trust that this is going to be different. As I mentioned, I put my mark on everything I created. Balance and the need of balance is on all levels of existence. I will be back reporting soon.”


Visit #2 – Evolution

After a period of time, Double Helix went back to the Earth to see how things had developed in the interim, filing this report to the project supervisors:

Project Earth is going well. All living creatures are developing and adapting rather nicely to their environment. Some new species turned up and some old ones disappeared. I find it very aesthetically pleasing. The human, on the other hand, is giving me much trouble. I left it, in my opinion, in the most beautiful part of the planet – they will later call it the Garden of Eden – and it seemed content. It is the perfect being – I put all of my gifts into it. The three components that my project is based on – the material, the emotional and the spiritual – are united in a perfect body. Their DNA consists of the XX, XY, and YY variation. Still, it bothers me that I see no change in them. When I asked them how they are, they said:

“We are overseeing all living and non-living things on this planet, as you commanded us, Creator. As we observe animals and plants, we are aware of the fact that we are a higher being. We don’t have disgusting bodily functions to deal with, because we get our energy for living from our spiritual source. Our body, although it is material, is never sick, because it is perfect. Unlike the animals, who use primitive sounds to communicate, we communicate mind-to-mind with animals, plants and our higher spiritual selves. Unlike animals, we don’t follow our instincts, we simply don’t have them. Also, we don’t have to be afraid of death and fight for our life, which is what most animals do, because we are immortal. We are special, perfect and holy creature. But we are wondering, what is our purpose on the planet? What is it that you created us for, Creator?”

I am afraid I don’t know what to say. Please help.


The Supervisors sent this reply:

Double Helix, Your project should show some experiment with the evolution of life in connection with individualism. We don’t see it in your description of the higher beings. You will have to make corrections and submit a progress report midway through. Count about 200.000 rounds of your planet around its sun in the linear time frame before you do so. Good luck.


Part # The Report

Interim progress report by Double Helix,
The Project: Experiment Planet Earth


Following the advice of my supervisory group, I changed the premise of the Experiment as follows: My perfect human being was transformed into two – following the rule for animals – imperfect beings, a female and a male. Their DNA is now accessible for change through evolution; mutations are possible. I removed the spiritual part of the being and left only material and emotional sides. With this, the bodily functions became much like those in animals - humans now have to eat solid food for energy and fight for their survival. They have powerful instincts like sex and fear of death. I added one special instinct from the spiritual realm: love. Communication regressed into a primitive sound-based system.

I used the red laser light technology to erase undesirable knowledge and memories from the initial perfect human being. I must say that it did not work well – humans carry some memories with them and some of them are able to access the ancient knowledge more than others. This causes a lot of confusion, but I am not correcting it, because it also creates interesting outcomes. They even used a very similar instrument to the red laser light in one of their movies for the same purpose – erasing memories. Please take a note of this insufficiency. I will provide examples of the malfunction below.

The new humans developed quickly into several different races. From their memories, they created myths about me and about their origin. They seem to have the compulsion to name everything and to look for an explanation for everything and if there is none obvious, they just make one up and want other humans to believe in it. They fight over who should believe in what. The primitive sound-based system they use for communication – language – developed in hundreds of variations on the planet. They all talk but don’t understand each other! In these systems, they have basically the same explanation for their existence. Leaking through are some memories of creation and so the myth is about a first male and a first female – Adam and Eve. Later some of them remembered their spiritual side that was taken away from them – Lilith. Poor things, they don’t understand why Lilith was sent away. They demonized Lilith, and idealized Adam as the father and Eve as the mother of human kind. I was right to predict that the male ego will govern in the earlier part of development and that the struggle for having Lilith reunited with them will go on in many different forms. These forms are: religions, philosophy, and science. They are all trying to explain human nature, how does it work and why. Lilith is portrayed as a woman who refused to submit to Adam (as spirituality does refuse to submit to ego) and Eve is imagined to be much more submissive (as the part of the subconscious that can be controlled by the ego). Human males, who wrote most of the early myths, are mystified and intrigued by Lilith and are not sure what she represents. They are happy she got chased away. It seems to be part of mankind’s collective quest for balance, which is part of their changed DNA.

These humans are still looking for their purpose. They are scared of death and are trying to fight it or deny it, and this instinct governs the majority of them, basically stripping them of their free will. Another big group is governed by a different instinct – the desire to be special and to be recognized as such by masses of other humans. They tell each other tales of special beings called heroes. These heroes are very much like the perfect being at the beginning of the experiment, but the humans are thinking in their own mindset and they are imagining them female or male. They even use the term the holy trinity, though they don’t mean by this unity of spiritual, emotional and physical. Narratives are present everywhere and create a system humans call culture. They are very proud of their cultures and find great comfort in them.

Individuality is what these later humans believe in most deeply, even though no human can survive alone, not physically or emotionally. Even those who say that they believe in collective consciousness and the collective itself, are acting individually because they are pushed by their instinct to be different from the majority. Being part of the group, but being special is one of the challenges of these humans.

Entire populations think that they are better than others – males think that they are destined to lead over women and children. Lighter skinned humans think that they are better than darker skinned humans. They have elaborate theories about these principles and their scientists are working on legitimizing these theories. Their religions justify males ruling over females, and racism and eugenics support lighter skinned dominance. They also create narratives to feed their egos, which is very surprising to me.

What I see as a ruling principle through this first part of the experiment is that they miss me. They are ready to give up their free will and consciousness to have me around. I can’t be around, of course, so they make up narratives or delegate some of my characteristics to some humans and due to this, masses of humans are happy. But it also leads to unexplainable things where one mass of humans kills another mass of humans. Any suggestions about what to do with this?

All in all, the experiment is going much to my satisfaction, after the necessary changes at the beginning. Humans are evolving, pushed by their instincts, curiosity, creativity and free will. They understand much more now than at the beginning, but they are still searching. I would like to further encourage this. For my specific plans for the second half of the experiment, please see attachment. I would be happy to consider suggestions from the group of supervisors.