Hidden Potential

“The story of the Human Race is the story of men and women selling themselves short”
- Abraham Maslow (Psychologist).

In the three and a half centuries since the plague Adam Smith’s model for the Industrial revolution has improved standards of health and education by utilizing the resources of the Earth. But in the modern era it’s clear we have now conquered the Earth, so much so, that we are now just beating it to death.

Civilization is the result of our understanding and manipulation of nature. However, we ourselves are also part of nature. We are born, we grow older and we die and our bodies function according to the same laws of the universe as everything in nature. So when we look in the mirror, we are also looking at nature. Omnipresent, nature is the reality of our existence.
The power of nature is as great as the entire universe, because it is itself the processes which created and sustain the substance of everything we know. By elimination there can only be one other force which exist, and that is consciousness. Modern scientific research has currently evolved to a point of studying our own conscious influence at subatomic and molecular levels. By understanding our influence at this level we should begin to be able to understand the potential of our ability in our larger everyday world.

The Hawthorn Effect - (Quantum physics)
‘When recording the reactions of subatomic particles it was observed that the results were not consistent due to the apparent effect of the observers influence on the particles due to their expectations. Thus the observer has to be included in the parameters of the experiment.’

My question is; - Do we have a fate, or a destiny? By this I mean, is life just somthing that happens to us, or are we missing the point of our potential?

Until recent discoveries such as Einstein’s Condensate winning the Nobel Prize in 2001 which have been making ‘holism’ the cutting edge of Quantum science, the public view has been somewhat pessimistic to the likelihood of us having any free will at all. This has been because of our method of analysis being based on breaking things down into separate systems. This is known as the causal or deterministic philosophy.

Freewill has been the central issue of mankind throughout all cultures of the world. Modern science (Einstein) has taught us that everything in the Universe at a base level is a form of energy. Through history mind power has always been talked about in terms of Energy because the meaningful experiences of our life are best summarized by wide characteristics and whether they are positive or negative to us. In China the energy of life is known as 'Chi', in India 'Prana', in ancient Egypt as 'Heka' and in old England it used to be called 'Weyrd' and the practices for developing our influence of energy and our general understanding of our place within it, are known as 'Chi Kung' – (I.e. Energy Practice), 'Yoga', 'The Horian Way', and the 'Way of Weyrd' respectively.

The key in all these arts is our 'state of mind', in short before we can meaningfully understand our effects outside of ourselves we need to understand our own inner controls and motivations.
Our desires all share something in common, whether we desire to be rich, famous, super fit or even in love, they are all expressions of how we would like to feel. It is difficult to achieve our goals if we feel bad or negative. Our feelings are a vital part of our consciousness and they drive us like the wind in our sails.

Many of today’s illnesses are caused by lifestyles of depression and stress. In the U.S. the antidepressant drug Prozac is so common that is has been nicknamed vitamin P.
The popular medical view is that depression is caused by an unnatural chemical imbalance in the brain of low serotonin levels. However this is only a symptom. If we are not happy then we are enduring, which is natural, but to have the strength to endure we need a reason, or an understanding. In short the cause of long term depression is itself our need to understand. This is the human condition, the search for Enlightenment, the proverbial Holy Grail.
In our heart most of us abhor the suffering we see in the world, but also feel powerless to do anything about it. We each look for an enemy, a target to put things right but there is no single ‘Dr Evil’ planning to take over the world. There are just bad ideas running wild and unnoticed through each and every one of us. There are two main reasons that we have allowed these bad ideas to go unnoticed. The first is the belief that there is no God and so the Universe is out of control consequently it can’t be our responsibility. The second is that God exists, but is a separate entity from us, and so what happens is his responsibility. There is however an alternative.