What is the engine that drives us?
Question from the Internet:
“If humans are always striving to change something in their lives despite their position, does this mean humans are designed to always have something that keeps them growing and moving?”
Yes. We have an insatiable and irrepressible engine inside us, that keeps pushing us toward constant change and growth.
This incredible engine is the human ego. There is no other difference between the rest of nature, between humans and for example other developed primates but the human ego.
Without this ego constantly urging, inciting, and inviting us to explore, change, develop, consume, and destroy everything we can put our hands on, we would have remained the same like chimpanzees or orangutans for millions of years.
Without the insatiable and irrepressible human ego, we would not be human.
On the other hand, the human ego, in its original form — blindly growing and intensifying, excessively consuming and ruthlessly competing — beyond a certain threshold makes us exist and behave like cancer. And we crossed and left that threshold decades ago.
As a result, human has stopped actually and positively developing — since we have reached the maximum level of development the ego in its original form could achieve — and we are now self-consuming, destroying everything around us, including ourselves.
It is a bit similar to how during childhood we go through rapid and incredible quantitative growth which then changes to qualitative growth and maturation through our adult years. Humanity has not gone through this shift yet. We want to remain children, we want to continue the reckless and aimless quantitative growth even if it destroys us.
This is why we urgently need a unique, purposeful, and highly practical educational and scientific method. This method can explain to us and make us feel our inherent nature. We can open up, sense, and explore the ego driving us in everything we do. We can also see and feel how this ego becomes absolutely destructive without the proper care and control over it. Finally, we can learn how to harness and channel the ego’s incredible and irrepressible power towards positive, constructive, mutually responsible and mutually complementing goals and purpose.
Our “Human” part and uniqueness is our conscious ability to recognize who we are, what forces, desires, and intentions drive us, and how we can modify, change and control the intentions and goals that define what we do and how we exist.
As a result, we can consciously learn how to adapt ourselves to each other so we all become healthy cells in humanity’s single, mutually integrated living organism. This will also help humanity to find its mutual integration and conscious partnership with nature.
Going through this process and becoming nature’s only conscious, integrated, and at the same time independent observers and equal partners is our Human purpose in existence. With the help of the above-mentioned special method, we can use our engine, the human ego to help us become Human — instead of destroying us like cancer.