I like to discover secrets in the universe and the biggest secret I have found is Attention. Pay attention in life and with enough attention anything will yield to you. This is not just from my life experience I have discovered it but I have been looking what the wise males from India have said. My favourite Indian guru is called Sadhguru.
Sadhguru have also clearly stated it in videos that if you just pay attention in life you can know anything. It opens up the door to know. It opens up that same curiosity that you had when you were younger. Slowly we get lulled into a fake state where we believe we are smart and know everything already. Or we become scared of keep exploring the world so we stay safe in our little box of the world.
A big truth is that most people live their life on auto-pilot and barely pay attention even 10 minutes a day. What I mean with pay attention is actually pay attention with a certain level of intensity. Just because we are observing or looking at something doesn't mean we truly pay attention to what is going on. We can still be in an extreme sleep mode. Which makes us feel unengaged with life. You want to have a certain level of intensity and actually look at something deeply.
For example if you want to know all about your body then you will need to pay very close attention to it and especially it's breathing. You have to pay attention to what your body is trying to tell you. Since the truth and the deep intelligence is within. The intelligence that can turn a Banana into a human is in your body! Life is being created from inside! But we can pay attention to anything to start to open up the door to know.
For example we can also decide to pay attention to the external reality and just pay attention to what happens without any mega fast labels of what is going on. It usually takes around 10-40 minutes to get into a zone of attention by closely paying attention about everything that goes on around you. Literally down to every single atom in this universe.
This may sound crazy but it's really not since we do not know a single atom in the entire universe.. We pretend we know things to create certainty in our life so we feel that we have some stable ground to rest back on. Since when we go to the feeling of not knowing it sounds super scary. But not knowing is an amazing possibility! Since it makes your intelligence hyper aware of everything and pays mega slow attention to all so it doesn't miss any value that may be of extreme importance.
There are other similar words that people many times use like awareness, observation and more. But they are usually not as razer sharp and clear as attention. Clearly we can do things way more complex if we would want. But I like to find the best core words to use that will help people the most in their life. And currently attention is one of those words.
One interesting thing with this current Era is all the evolution that we will see with these portable gadgets since people are totally addicted to them. It started with the new big screen smartphone generation that started to show up in 2012. Clearly we can see that people are getting massive value back in return for their time spent. Or else they wouldn't use it. Clearly humans have massive amounts of free time to look at things deeper. More humans in this Era are thinking than ever before.
This means that we will see lots of confusion and fear. What also may happen is that people may get trapped in thinking just in Intellect terms which isn't really life. The Intellect are mainly good at slicing things up in more bits and pieces. In the past they used divide and rule tactics. But trying to run the whole world based on a core model of the Intellect that is very flawed. Since people in life have their own model of the world. And trying to box in a world with the Intellect it will become very annoying and wanting to escape.
The intellect is only good at slicing things up in more different pieces. Like a surgeon needs a scalpel to perform a very difficult task on a human operation. But even that these days is being replaced with robots that can do thousands of similar operations in a super small time for better accuracy. So you can see how it keeps going in an inception loop down a Rabbit hole that probably has no end to it. I actually enjoy it and love to spend attention with limitless holes. But I can understand why someone may find that frustrating.
You don't have to tangle your life up like this with the Intellect or Mind. You can just pay attention to objects that you interact with in the real world. And that will eventually give you the best answers to come out from within. I mainly think this happens because we are more powerful than we think we are. Since we in the past was possible to build pyramids. And we still haven't reached that level of Intelligence yet. It looks like the universe always hits a high point and then that it resets itself. Maybe because of boredom.
There are also many people that try to grasp or grab onto something but you can't do that with Attention. You have to respect and appreciate stuff for what it is and then make adjustments. That is just being a true realist. Especially in this age it's extra weird since we truly just stare into a screen that keeps showing us new random content all the time.
This means that anyone that can manipulate 1s and 0s and convert them into a photo, video or audio faster will win. We are getting closer to that time now. It's very clear for me that the future world will involve lots of statistics since humans love that. And how there will be easier to access something that is further away from you at the moment. Since there is currently a mega high demand to climb Mount Everest but if you can re create this experience in just a headset then you will win every single time. Since then the cost of travel is gone since there is no need to travel. You can pay attention in your own home with new exotic experiences.
But it also remove lots of excitement from peoples life. I sort of feel they need to find that again. If you go look at the normal real world on the Internet then you can always see that the more crazy gets float to the top since it's about sensational stuff that you want to click on. But I think that the clickbait age is eventually coming to come kind of final state. Which is good since then people can focus on more important stuff. Like we have real many world wide issues people would be able to help out with.
Be attentive is that 1 thing that everyone think they do but all ignore. Since it sounds so boring and obvious. But usually the things that sounds like the most common sense stuff that is exactly what people are ignoring!
People also have many core habits that makes it impossible to learning how to focus for example most people drink alcohol weekly. Which means that after they done it, it will take a few days for them just to get down to the same level as a sober attentive person. Also how many people use drugs, smoke and take pills. It modifies their state and we don't really know what they are taking or if we really can trust them.
I think in the future every single person will be on the Blockchain and we will be able to keep track on anything about a person. And I really hope that it works and how people may be able to keep their scores up by paying attention of the interesting stats that will show up! Many people have feared the idea of a world with reputation scores but I think it's awesome since it will add real accountability! If people don't have this then they will just do whatever and not care about anything. I think that the world need some caring to be able to create a beautiful world. But then we also need to combine the new mega fast data world with real slower old school attention. Out source all our speed needs to the computers while we sit still and relax and look deep into nature and consider who we are.
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