The real purpose of Human life

Question from the Internet:

Is the purpose of our lives to find meaning and happiness in this world?

My answer:

I would adjust your question, saying that the meaning of our lives is to find our purpose and then obtain unprecedented happiness as a result of finding and fulfilling our purpose.

Even now, we are constantly searching for personal happiness and fulfillment. Our whole life is about nothing else but trying to gather all morsels of fulfillment and happiness we can for ourselves.

Moreover, without some kind of goal or purpose, we simply cannot live.

The main problem with unemployment, for example, is not the financial difficulty, but it is the lost purpose and that an unemployed feels useless and unwanted in society.

I also believe that the majority of the “dementia epidemic” — especially in Western societies — is due to the same reason. Most retired people live alone and disconnected from their families, and many go to nursing homes or try to ”enjoy retirement” on their own. As a result, they gradually lose their “human purpose” in life which is based on our mutual connection to others and is based on us serving others in some respect.

Especially in the West — although all developing nations strive to achieve the Western lifestyle — we consider ourselves as “standalone,” unique, and individual beings who “deserve” to care mostly about themselves and spend most of their lives on “self-realization.”

This is a very deep and vast misunderstanding of our lives and role in reality.

It is true that our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic nature makes us focus only on ourselves while we all feel as if the Universe revolves around us.

However, from nature’s viewpoint — which is the actual and correct viewpoint in the natural Universe — human beings are simply individual cells or cogwheels in humanity’s integral body, which integral human body is also a fully integrated and interdependent part of nature’s all-encompassing, life-creating, and life-sustaining system.

Today, even in Western society, we have recognized and grudgingly accepted that we have evolved into a globally integrated and interdependent world society where we have to mutually cooperate in order to survive. This general understanding has not yet been expressed in actual action. This is why we are still awfully helpless in the face of our growing global problems, and this is why we still think we can “solve problems” through ruthless competition, conflicts, and wars with each other.

Sooner or later, either through worsening and intolerable suffering or as a result of a wise and conscious recognition and education, we will realize that we will have to rebuild human society — from the local to global levels — on the template of nature’s harmonious and balanced system, where the mutual, kept homeostasis serves as the basis for life.

We consciously and proactively have to further develop ourselves, so above and against our inherent nature, we will become able to form such human interconnections and mutually complementing coexistence where we all become like healthy cells of the same body.

The meaning of our human life is to understand that our actual Human purpose is to develop into nature’s only fully conscious, willingly integrated, and still independent mind and collective consciousness, where we all combine our individual desires and viewpoints into a unique “super intellect” which we can all access and use.

As a result, we will also acquire a perception of reality that we all contribute to. This way, we will achieve a truly objective “composite” perception of reality that is unbounded by the restrictive and subjective coordinates of time, space, and motion.

When we finally fulfill this human purpose and achieve the collective human consciousness and perfect and unlimited perception of reality, a never-before-sensed experience and happiness will engulf us as we become partners in nature’s life-creation and life-nurturing.

Through the mutually beneficial and complementing interconnections we form, all the bounty, resources, treasures, and energy nature has to offer will stream through us like healthy and transparent capillaries of the body.

This is the life-experience that is ahead of us, according to nature’s deterministic and purposeful evolutionary plan. The only thing that is missing is our conscious and willing participation!