Passengers of consciousness

Our way of perceiving the physical environment, of understanding our relationships and our way of being in the world is changing. And thanks to this technological metaphor that represents the establishment of the “global information village”, we are beginning to be in a position to admit that there may also exist a “global village of consciousness”, of intentions, of emotions, of desires.

As a knower immersed in the known, the human being does not have a place of impartial observation. The laws that sustain and explain the world around us, the logos, are insinuated behind what is observed like shadows, throwing clues, yes, breadcrumbs along a fabulous but uncertain path.

Elusive like that fish that slips through our hands just when we think we have caught it, jumping back into the river, the essential nature of things escapes us.

We are at the same time the hand trying to catch the fish and the fish itself, submerged again, fighting for its life upstream.

A fish that knows the stream, its rocks and bends, the danger and the need, but, because it is submerged in it, is unaware of the existence of water.

We human beings, undeniably more gifted than fish at jumping, have the ability to deduce, question and abstract the essential, capturing aspects of that “logos” that we intuit.

In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Stanley Kubrick film shot in the 1970s, an impressive action takes place in which primitive man, equipped with the tibia of the animal he is devouring, defends himself from a competitor who is trying to snatch his leftovers.

The act of using a bone as a weapon, of instrumentalizing any object to give it a practical use other than that for which it was conceived, implies a high level of abstraction and represented a leap in the evolution of our species, but we are not the only animal capable of doing so.

What was then a giant leap, and in the film it is celebrated by the primitive making that same tibia dance in the sky, as if it were a graduation cap, was the realization that we had the capacity to do it.

The conversion of Homo Sapiens into Sapiens Sapiens, the one who knows that he knows. And that is a distinctive sign.

The caveman’s tibia spins in the sky, describing an unpredictable parabola of one hundred and thirty thousand years, the time elapsed since that great discovery until today. The time between that bone, launched into the void, and any of the communications satellites currently in orbit.

We know that we know, but we don’t know exactly what, and we learn by throwing balls into space or building metaphors that allow us to approach principles that we understand better through their practical application.

That has traditionally been our main lever for progress in understanding the mystery that surrounds us.

The digital revolution, for example, reminds us of something we may have suspected but can no longer deny: The physical representation of a content, the format, is not relevant. What is important is the information, the logos, the mystery.

That fact that now seems obvious to us was not so clear just a few decades ago.

and makes such a qualitative difference in our understanding of our environment that it is not yet possible to determine where the next step will take us.

The Ark of the Covenant, including the tablets of the law, petroglyphs, mural paintings in ancient Egyptian tombs, and vinyl records, as a format that is clearly in transition, have been venerated as cult objects because there was no physical possibility of separating the content from the object that housed it.

Our diaries are no longer bound volumes that we renew every year and collect on a shelf. Our diaries are data that hangs in a digital cloud and can be accessed from any electronic device, anywhere, at any time. More importantly, all of that data is stored electronically in virtual “silos” that we all have access to.

Once again, technology, the practical application of the principle, shows us the way. The fish may not yet understand the existence of water, but it is beginning to notice that it is wet.

Our way of perceiving the physical environment, of understanding our relationships and our way of being in the world is changing. And thanks to this technological metaphor that represents the establishment of the “global information village”, we are beginning to be in a position to admit that there may also exist a “global village of consciousness”, of intentions, of emotions, of desires.

A form of interpersonal connection, still unexplained, that goes beyond sensory communication and generates states of consciousness or collective realities. We call this meeting place, this global village of consciousness, “System” and the methodology that allows us to access this source of information “Systemic Facilitation”.

Searching is part of our destiny and perhaps, as an adaptive quality, constitutes the most effective element when it comes to guaranteeing our collective survival on the planet.