Going Within: Why the Future of Intelligence Lies in Consciousness, Not Algorithms

A shift is happening—from external validation to internal knowing. Are you ready?

Globally we are in a time of deep transition from getting our reality interpreted outside of us, to going inside ourselves, and interpreting it from within.

For millennia, during times of crisis and uncertainty, humans have sought out external sources to interpret their reality. In early times it may have been sages, prophets or mystics. Later they sought it from religions.

During uncertain times it seems, as humans, we can’t make sense of what is happening. There are lots of unknowns in our lives, and we want to know where we are and also what lies ahead of us. In this regard we give our authority over to external agencies and institutions to explain the gaps in our knowledge, by allowing them to interpret it for us.

Over the millennia this reliance on religions was taken over by governments. As modes of communication were limited in those eras, it was straightforward for governments to control the narrative that their citizens were exposed to.

As the years passed, governments would use whatever tools were at hand to best get their propaganda ‘message’ out, telling their citizens what to believe.

I remember reading about propaganda during the world wars being dropped as leaflets from planes.

In trying to work out which World War this occurred during, I came upon an academic text examining 500 years of propaganda and surveillance across the globe since 1500! So governments over the years have obviously become very skilled at the craft of interpreting reality for us.

At different times over the centuries, books were also burned to ensure that any alternative interpretation of reality was destroyed.

Books were also banned. When I was in Australia I read that books had been banned into the 1970’s. It reminded me that films were banned in Ireland up to the 1980’s such as Monty Python’s the ‘Life of Brian’ and Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’, on religious grounds.

Interpretation of reality has become ‘controlling the narrative’.

In some ways we might think that today’s world of labelling text as ‘misinformation’ and censoring is new, but as we’ve seen, it has a long history.

The arrival of the internet has given people huge scope to discover new realities. It has also been used by authorities to filter and continue their implementation of propaganda using this new medium. Countries have been filtering data through internet service providers (ISP’s) for years. Although it is put forward as being about the limiting of pornography and violence, political narratives are bundled into the filters, to ensure the ‘right’ information is seen by the country’s citizens.

And news that looks like it comes from around the world emanates from only 5 sources, yes only 5:

• Reuters

• .ANP

• AFP

• European Journalism Centre

• Project Syndicate

All the other outlets get their ‘news’ from these 5 sources. Everywhere you look, you will see these sources mentioned as if what they say is ‘the truth’.

It’s easy to see that with only 5 sources, and predominantly Europe based, that reality would be interpreted in a very specific and orchestrated way.

How we interpret our Reality

That’s all very well for how the information gets to us, but what do we do with it when we get it?

Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman tells us that we devote one third of our brain area, to re-creating what we see inside our heads. So we don’t ‘see’ what we see.

I thought our eyes worked like a camera and our brains are given the exact image seen by our eyes. This is not the case. For example, if we see a tomato, one third of our brain re-creates the tomato and provides that re-created image to the rest of our brain for processing.

A lot of this re-creation in our brains of what we see, is based on our past experience of events, already stored in our brains. This can result in a very distorted view of reality if it’s only based on our limited experience. This is one of the areas I work with clients on, to clear the inner distortions so that they can see their life through a more clear lens.

Going Within

Over centuries we have come to rely on getting our information, our reality, interpreted for us, by outside sources. This has now gone full circle where we now find ourselves in a situation today in which we cannot believe anything external to us. I have found myself going online to get some idea of what is going on with different global situations, only to find it impossible to trust what is presented, even research articles.

Yet all this is perfect for the period we are in. Our consciousness is transforming to one which ceases to rely on external sources for its information. But instead finds everything it needs within. When I originally read the prediction that humanity would be going through this phase, I thought it would be a gentle transition of slowly going within, and over time beginning to trust our inner sources of wisdom. I didn’t realise the process would involve making the outside sources into such a hall of mirrors, they became impossible to trust, and forced us to have nothing else except our inner resources to rely on.

Inner Reality

Thankfully in parallel to all that has been going on in the outside world, there were also people journeying into our inner psychological landscape and preparing the way for us. In the earlier times it was mainly indigenous shamans that mapped the inner worlds.

The shaman and mystics of primitive societies are considered – and rightly – to be superior beings… the shaman is the man who knows and remembers, that is, who understands the mysteries of life and death. - Mircea Eliade

Traditions in the East had their own pioneers. In India, two thousand years ago, the Upanishads completed an extensive body of work on Consciousness, revealing underlying truths through direct experience. The Upanishads would influence many later schools of thought and spirituality.

In the west in the 20th. Century, Carl Jung developed a huge body of work on the psyche and the collective unconscious, including describing its contents and mapping it out (see image below).

Jung posited, through his own personal work, like the Upanishads, the important role of direct experience in discovering what is true for an individual.

We must also remember that artists, painters and poets have also given us incredible insights over the centuries in what they discovered as inner truths based on their own direct experience.

Plant Medicine

We also have help from the natural world. Plants have been used for millennia by indigenous people to journey inwards. Currently there is a new wave of interest in Ayahuasca, Peyote, Psilocybin and mushrooms. Institutions like John Hopkins University are now running many research programs on psychedelics.

As American ethnobotanist and mystic Terence McKenna said:

People talk about how there are no frontiers left anymore; actually it isn’t true, you can turn your living room into the helm of Magellan’s ship, it’s simply that the great unexplored dimensions are internal and psychological. To the people that say adventure has fled and its all hum drum, I just know that they have forgotten the five grams of psilocybin mushrooms sitting in their refrigerator.

Like all interpretations, it’s important to also understand what science is now informing us about the fundamental fabric of the universe.

Fundamental Reality

We know from Quantum Physics that the fundamental fabric of the universe, from which everything emanates, is geometry. The easiest way is to see it visually. The image below (from Nassim Haramein) shows this core aspect fundamental fabric as ‘spinning packets of energy’ called Planck Spherical Units.

We’ve moved a long way from the atoms and electrons making up the basic level of the universe I was taught in school.

And these spherical units, when viewed front-on form a very familiar image which you can see in the image below. You can see the spheres and where they overlap you get the familiar vesica piscis design. This design has been referred to as “the flower of life.”

Incredibly, this design was found on a wall in the 6000 year old Osirian Temple in Abydos, Egypt. Were they interpreting reality then? It was the only image on the whole temple and one could almost feel it was put there for us to discover it.

What has been incredible to discover, is that this geometry is not only the fundamental fabric of the universe, but is also conscious. It is purposeful. We can refer to it in many ways, Spirit, God, the universe, but in whatever sense we do, it is now with the understanding that it is all conscious. From the fundamental fabric of each spinning spherical unit all the way up to the complex world we see around us. There were only a few scientists like David Bohm, and more recently theoretical nuclear physicist, Amit Goswami, who understood the universe was conscious, and spoke in terms of a ‘self aware universe’, but now there are more and more.

Sovereignty

It’s time we took our sovereignty back for interpreting our own reality. In whatever way that feels right for you to do. Take back your power of interpreting your reality. Now is the time to do it. There are many ways to do it as I’ve outlined above. Your own journey will be unique but we all stand on the shoulders of giants who have journeyed inward to what Joseph Campbell’s book title appropriately describes as “The Outer Reaches of Inner Space.”

Enjoy the adventure!

Vincent

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Images:

Main image - Art by Shawn Marie Hardy

Image of leaflets: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/default/archive-collection/propaganda-leaflets/

Image of Book burning: Image via www.flashbak.com

Images of Spherical Units via Nassim Haramein on Instagram

Image of Osirian Temple in Abydos, Egypt – via the internet