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| The modern world we live in is very different from the world human beings lived in 100 years ago and even more different from the world we lived in 100 years before that. Compared to the age of the planet, or even to how long modern humans have existed, the last couple hundred years is not a very long period of time, roughly two to three lifetimes, yet we have catapulted ourselves into a very different reality since then. This has occurred because we have used our powerful minds to conquer the physical world that we live in and we have been very successful at this. We are still physical creatures so there remain limits on our ability to live in the external environment even with all our innovations. We cannot walk around naked at the north pole and not freeze to death, but as far as basic human needs are concerned we have hit the ball out of the park. We have mastered our physical world in so far as our lives are very comfortable, even luxurious for some. The next step in the maturity of our species is that we have one remaining challenge to face which is to master the part of ourselves that has mastered this physical world, our minds. The relationship between the mind and the world, which includes our own bodies, is a very unique one because thoughts are not physical, yet they are still generated by the human organism our thoughts reside in. As completely dependent on our minds to navigate through this mind-made world, most of us including myself don't know a lot about how exactly this relationship works. We just know that we have thoughts, a lot of thoughts, and we have learned to manage them in a functional way in order to live our lives as successfully as possible in the world we have created, but this is not where the challenge ends. Just like there is a relationship between our minds and our physical bodies, there is a relationship between this world and the Earth. The thoughts constantly speeding through our minds are still being fueled by our bodies and, in the same way, the world we live in as much as we have mastered it is still being fuel by our Earth. Would you destroy your body to live in your mind? No, because your mind cannot exist without your body. Then why would a species destroy its planet in order to make its world better if the world cannot exist without the planet? Because the species is out of control. Sadly, there are extreme medical cases when a person's body can continue living even though their mind is no longer functional. The same is true regarding our planet. It can easily exist without us, but we cannot exist without it. However, if we do not learn to master our minds, we will not exist on it very much longer compared to how long we existed before our minds mastered the physical world. Our last challenge as a species is not to conquer outer space or to invent some new type of technology. It is to master our powerful minds. All the problems of our world have become mental. They only manifest themselves physically. We are the source of all humanity's problems and we can be the solution if we succeed at this last challenge. Saving the world, which includes saving ourselves, is truly an inside job. It starts with our minds. Luckily, we have one special ally in this challenge, something that is even more powerful than our minds.
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