Happy Birth Year: Zero Point Civilization
Reboot and recreation is both a demand and an invitation to reconnect to the source of all matter and energy in our known universe. The growing common name for the home base we must surrender to and touch is the zero point. Previously known as God, Great Spirit or the Tao today we can establish a more accessible, more scientific, less metaphysical touch point that in no way diminishes its ineffable, transcendence. The “peace that surpasses all understanding” can actually be understood, but that state will not be achieved without much strain and sacrifice to maintain an open channel to the one doorway, the zero point, by which all existence enters and exits.
My theory of zero point is the inevitable evolved keystone for humanity’s highest and largest form of organization…the civilization. Defeating both time and entropy requires an ability to reform and refresh. To date, successful civilizations have needed reboots driven by war, famine, plague and natural disaster to force a concrescence centered upon a will to live and a fear of death. Powerful medicine. Masculine medicine…that often forgets its feminine counterpoint of homeostasis. Sleep and gravity are the overlooked ground points which must be the center of all life and organization up to and including the civilization.
Today mankind is experimenting with terribly entropic forces of nuclear weapons, robotics, artificial intelligence, psychological warfare and pharmacopeia (both man-made and Nature-derived). It seems to this author we humans will need a lot of gluten to hold in one piece, in one holistic organization all the leaven we have already and shortly will be ingesting into the human loaf. I, for one small cell in the the common human life on Earth, have a recipe I am called to share to hold in one harmonious piece the beautiful diversity and complexity that is humanity.
What if from every apparent division within this reality, every endless loop of ignorant spinning and every conflict embedding into our cellular memory could be understood as the human superpower? What if all religions as diverse as monastic asceticism to devil worship could be seen and embraced as facets upon the diamond hardness of human resilience? What if the organization of the single human evolved over countless generations shaped and tested by this biosphere is the divine blueprint, the Holy Grail of all human wonder and yearning?
A civilization is the name we humans give to a human organization derived from individual humans willingly choosing to commit a portion of our free will and free action to a structure that returns a greater amount of security and well-being than what are surrendering. Every living organism is evolved from individual cellular organisms choosing to join a win-win agreement with other cells for mutual benefit. Our trillions of cells that have organized to be my human writer and reader can only do so due to this principal of win-win commitment that allows language and complex communication. Civilizations of many humans lasting well beyond the single human lifetime is exactly the same expanded story of individual human evolution.
The zero point for the individual human is both homeostasis and orgasmic. Both passive and active extensions centered around a dimensional doorway through which humans are born from and die into. In programming computer code this is known as a sub-routine. In a vehicle drivetrain, this is known as the flywheel. Either a mass or an energy (or both) that is an important component of the greater machine that can maintain momentum and do work but is isolated from the greater organization. This is life on Earth in relation to the greater cosmos.
Our body’s level of homeostasis and our psyche’s sense of self determine each living organization’s ability to recover from disturbance or disease. Our civilization’s level of harmony and its economic and spiritual integration determines it ability to recover from internal and external shock. Humanity as a whole also has a health quotient determined by its ability to suffer and bare contradiction and to reconcile division in the face of cosmic disturbances. All three levels of human organization operate upon the same laws.
For the first time in recorded human history, we can both minister and nurse ourselves, our communities and our biosphere by the same laws and principals by which we humans were evolved and for the cosmic purpose we humans exist upon Earth. We live in an age with enough scientific and mystical understanding to actually see into the inner workings of the incredibly complex organizational structure upon which life exists.
This is the birth year of the zero point civilization. Happy birth year!!!