What is the most awe-inspiring place in nature?
Question from the Internet:
“What is the most awe-inspiring place in nature?”
There are many “awe-inspiring” places in nature, it would difficult to chose any of it to name it the “most awe-inspiring”.
On the other hand, we could build a “place” in nature’s system that could become truly the “most awe-inspiring”, as the center and all-important hub of the whole system.
Humanity has a unique evolutionary purpose and role in nature, there is a reason we think we are the peak of evolution’s pyramid. This is a potential ability which we haven’t started developing towards yet.
Nature’s system is “blind and instinctive”. It is a perfectly harmonious, mutually integrated and mutually complementuing system, where each element – on the still, vegetative and animate levels – automatically and instinctively perform their roles, but without conscious understanding or participation.
And while we pride ourselves about being “conscious beings”, and consider ourselves higher than other animals based on our human consciousness, actually what we consider “consciousness” today is simply an illusion. We could say, that we are “consciously watching ourselves” performing blind and sintinctive calculations and actions, 100% driven by our inherently selfish, egotistic and indicidualistic instincts.
We do not act by free choice at all, and we do not make any conscious decisions, since everything is nautomatically supervised and controlled by the inherent human ego, which simply wants everything for its own sake, at the expense of everything and everybody else.
It is this key principle that is behind history’s helplessly recurring vicious cycles and our own generation’s blind stumble from crisis to crisis towards seemingly inevitable self-destruction.
Just as a side not, it is funny that we also pride ourselves over building an “Artficial Intelligence”, when we do not even understand our own consciousness, and we are not even conscious beings yet.
But we have the actual ability and obligation – from evolution’s point of view – to become truly conscious and truly Human beings.
For that, the inherently separated, scattered and hostile elements of humanity – all the separate and egotistic individuals – have to willingly and consciously build a nature-like, mutually responsible and mutually complementing integrations and network. But in our case, this will not be a blind and instinctive process, it will be the opposite. We have to build this nature-like integration in humanity consciously and purposefully, specifically above and against our inherent instincts.
And when we do so, humanity and this integrated network between us will become nature’s most awe-inspiring place.
It will be not only awe-inspiring but outright “divine”, since through our integration we will build a “supernatural” – above inherent nature – and totally unparalleled collective consciousness, that will become capable of not only supporting and overseeing nature’s total system from within, but we will also fully understand each and every cause and effect process that contributes to creating and sustaining life.
Moreover we will also feel and understand the source, the goal and overall purpose of the whole system as if we ourselves designed and controlled it. So compared to this all-knowing and all-comprehending Human consciousness, all other part or “wonder” in nature is just a beautiful backdrop not more. Moreover, we will not look at nature’s system as something “external”, like going on a safari or something. We will actually and tangibly feel the whole system as our own parts we exist with and within as integral parts.