The future. Mysterious, fascinating, enigmatic – and sometimes unsettling. A great many publications have explored the future, from science fiction to quite realistic projections of what may unfold within our current lifetimes and those of future generations on Earth. Most of these works, however, overlook what I consider the most essential question: the question of the psychological and spiritual development of the human being.

We generate endless hypotheses about technological advancement – the possibilities and risks it brings – but spiritual development is treated as an afterthought by most authors. This is a significant oversight, because it is spiritual and psychological/emotional development that will ultimately determine our existence. These are the keys to the true evolution of the human being – not merely the evolution of a physical animal using increasingly advanced methods to build shelter and acquire food, but the real evolution of what is most precious in us.

What, then, is the essence of this evolution and development? Our scientists and philosophers debate it, because we are still, as a species, only beginning to know ourselves and to discover the capacities of our own minds. We can, however, broadly accept that the mental and psychological evolution of the human being is bound up with the expansion of consciousness and self-awareness – with the discovery of one’s natural inner state – which leads to ever-greater understanding and, through that, to flourishing in whatever realities we experience.

Through experience, we learn things that cannot be understood by merely reading about them. You cannot know how a cake tastes if you’ve never tried it; you cannot know what another person feels unless you’ve experienced similar emotions yourself. It is experience that enriches us and our consciousness, making our minds ever richer.

But experience alone is not the whole picture. I subscribe to the view that there exists a “super-mind” – one that created this reality and others, within which everything we perceive with our senses and grasp with our thoughts exists, ourselves included. This mind is commonly referred to as God.

I hold that a human being, at the inner – spiritual – level, possesses subtle but crucial evolutionary qualities: a microcosmic reflection of the qualities of that super-mind.

In practice, this manifests as our deeply embedded connection – programmed into us at the moment of creation – to the ideas and aspirations of that super-mind, of which we are a part. A human being who explores themselves at that inner level – having shed the shallow overlays of ego and the animal instincts that once served our physical vessels’ survival – can discover their “divine essence.” Understanding one’s own nature in this way provides a foundation for thriving wherever one may be.

This is because, as a person discovers that divine element within themselves and in everything around them – learning to understand their relationship to it – they move toward their natural and ideal state: the opposite of the illusory separation from the whole. This illusion has been a byproduct of the not-particularly-happy, egocentric, and body-glorifying path of development that our current society has taken.

So what is the vision of the future that I wish for you – and for myself?

It is humanity reaching a greater understanding of itself and the structure of its own mind. The understanding that one can choose for oneself what to enrich that mind with – and equally, what one does not wish to plant there. And ultimately, an understanding of the surrounding reality, over the shaping of which we have far greater influence than we currently realize.

Jakub Qba Niegowski – Extrasensory Awareness Development Specialist

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