Awareness: the master sense of our future.

The secret to understanding our future begins with an understanding of awareness and its evolution. Awareness relies on the evolutionary mechanism of memory for escaping the momentary existence that time delivers to the spatial universe. It exploits the continuity unifying space and time to build a bridge between time past, time to come and the reality of the instant.

Like life awareness has evolved and it may be part of life or may be a parallel aspect of the universe that has bonded with the process that has brought us to where we stand. Whatever its status is we are beings able to look at both and admire all that brought us here.

 

The human relationship with awareness is profound but like all things familiar it is abused, taken for granted and twisted to the individual needs. There is a form of awareness common to living forms that bestows the gift of communion with their surrounds. It began with physio-chemical actions alone that changed the habits of those beings but they didn't know the gift of awe and wonder or have any enjoyment at all of the spectacular chance that placed them there. Then evolution added touch and smell, memory and fear as life learnt its place within its environmental frame but still there was no awe, no feeling of a place made by forces unknown. And experiences of being alive, are not isolated to animals with each branch of life whether they be plants, insects, microbes bestowed with its own peculiar form of awareness.

 

It is awareness evolved beyond the previous norms that gives our race attributes of religion, speech, inspiration, mysticism and reason. But our past has been dominated by a misunderstanding of awareness that misdirects our appreciation. Awareness is in reality a sense of similar dimensions to all the others that unite us with our environment. However it is more advanced than that of hearing, touch or smell but still in essence it is a sense betowed on man that also has an evolutionary past. But it is a sense so far evolved that its very presence tears at the fabric of our being mortal. We yearn and ache beyond our station of beings destined to die and in that state of human distress the worst of us can emerge.