Where are you in the cycle?
An organism possessing a rational mind who can see the dualism (ie. good vs bad, male vs. female, before vs. after etc.), is in a privileged position to discover "something" profound. I am keeping this "something" deliberately cryptic and keeping it to be discovered by yourself, if you dare! But I will talk about the people/organisms/beings who are searching for it and how much they can discover. The types of organisms who can potentially have this dualistic rational mind include:
1. Human/Transhumans [H+]
2. Future Humanoids from Chimps and Monkeys, if earth survives that long enough and if humans are generous enough to allowed such instead of trying to make them slaves.
3. Atlantians or Hyperboreans
4. Olympian, Celtic, Druidic, Hindu, Chinese, Arabian, Persian, Aryan, Aztec or other mythical beings
5. Extraterrestrial/Pleiadians/Annunakis/Alien intelligence
6. Sumerian/Egyptian/Canaanite/Phoenician/Semitic mythical creatures
7. Any other conceivable physical, intelligent organisms anywhere in the universe with a rational mind.
What is this thing that these organisms can discover? This thing is the thing that you already know but do not understand, hence you are looking for it. In contrast, the things you don't know absolutely you can not even imagine it and will not know it ever, most likely because it does not exist. If you know something and understand it completely, you are not interested in and hence not looking for it. What does the organism, who are possessing a rational mind, know and hence trying to understand and searching for it? What is the Grandest thing they can discover? Please note that I did not used the word invention, because there is nothing to invent here. The thing or Truth always existed, but when you find it, you call it discovery. Invention is, in one sense, still discovery because it is mere permutation and recombination of things assembled in such a way that it looks brand new but the raw materials or energies always existed to begin with.
Based on the extent of the journey and how much they understand what they already know, these organisms can be categorized as following: [Note, it's not a strict category. It's just a continuous gradation for the purpose of understanding. One person can be at different phases at different points of times depending on his effort and sincerity. The same organism can be at different phases at the same time too!]
1. NonCyclers:
These are ordinary law abiding citizens. They are consumed by their mundane task of feeding and proliferating themselves. They are very docile, dependent on authority because they cannot think for themselves. Their main concern is food, sex, health, safety and pleasure. To have all of these, all they need is some money and their chief motivation of life to earn money. Typically they take pleasure from TV, sex, booze, footballs etc. Occasionally, they build up social bonding with their family and immediate neighbor, but they are afraid to make relation with outsiders. They are afraid of anything new and unorthodox. They abide by the prevalent religion or social customs and they have no questions in their life to ask, because everything can be asked is already answered for them by scientist, religious leaders, government or some sorts of authorities. They live a happy life and dies. Nobody will ever remember them again just after two generations, and even within these two generations, only family members will occasionally remember them, often with despise. They work in the assembly lines of productions which will be used by subsequent strata. Back in the old days they were called gentiles but now they are called good, law abiding citizens.
2. QuarterCyclers:
This group arises out of the awareness of the fact that there is more to life than what the NonCyclers are doing. They try to understand the world. They feel that they can do better. They start the famous "Hero's Journey" but without knowing what they exactly want. They learned some techniques that they are good at, trained themselves in colleges and universities. They achieved some confidence, self esteem and learned how to respect others and be respected by significant others. Out of their intrinsic abilities, they might pursue a very different paths. Some of them becomes painter, artist, actor/actress, musician, novelist ect. The practitioners of this arts track make themselves believe that they are satisfied in their life and tries to become content. They find their purpose of life in arts and by expressing what they do, they are trying to satisfy their inner impulses of creativity. However, at the end, they remain unsatisfied, although skillfully pretending not to, out of their self-esteem and feigned confidence and to protect themselves from cognitive dissonance. Out of this dissatisfaction, gradually they becomes more and more impulsive and started to degenerate, which is manifested as sexual experimentation, celebrity craze, drug uses, suicides, or utter renunciation of arts profession altogether. Those who perceive arts as not a good way to express their creativity, follows the science track. They are concretely rational, logical, mathematical in their thinking and works. Ebullient with enthusiasm, they try to do real science, discover useful things that the potential to serve the humanity well but near the end, they have an eerie sense of incompleteness in their task and if they are honest with themselves, many will regret that they have spent their whole life chasing a ghost! Like other humans, a scientist's soul yearns for the truth, but with contemporary science, all you can do is to check what are the things which are not true ["falsification" theory put forwards by Karl Popper]. Additionally, they will see many of their original scientific works are being commercialized and now being used by the corporations and politicians against their original intentions. The humanity will remember them for a longer time for their good task but they themselves are not happy and have a vague feelings that they have wasted their own lives, chasing a goal which they never achieved, never suspected that most of their goals were not genuinely self-created, rather, those goals were imposed or injected by the society for its mundane needs. Seeing the utter uselessness of arts and science for their own lives, the smart, charismatic, pragmatic ones decide to build a better society by controlling the lower strata and becomes a politicians or in more extreme case revolutionaries. They use scientist, artist, music, TV and media as his tools to impress the NonCyclers and simultaneously carefully suppress the sciences that can become an inconvenience for them to achieve their goals. They will eliminate anybody who is not in agreement of their "vision" and wage ideological or military war in home or abroad. Once they have achieved their "vision", slowly but surely, in their own lifetime or down the road when they are watching it from their graves, they will come to realize that, no matter how good and original their intention or vision was, the ideology or political structure degenerates and becomes a new monstrosity to oppress the meek. To their dismay, they are either assassinated by the same people for which they devoted their life to or see the horror of the monster that they have created and then repents for their mistakes but without any hope of redemption. Seeing the disharmony in the world, once in a while there comes some revolutionary anarchist who tries to undo the harm, but is doing so they are creating more harm than ever before! And finally seeing the all these mess, the remaining of the people who are helpless but wise becomes depressed and start medicating himself by drugs, smoking or some real medications. In some cases, the wise depressed starts to write and becomes world renown critics, novelist, poets etc. The humanity remembers them for even longer time for their excellent works but they themselves are depressed, unhappy, becomes more and more isolated and dies miserably.
3. HalfCyclers:
Those people who are brilliant enough to see the fallacy of the QuarterCyclers's thinking and way of pursuing life, start to examine everything very carefully. They start to dissect the assumptions that lead to the demise of QuarterCyclers. They study logic, mathematics and science carefully not to fall in the same trap that scientist, revolutionaries, politicians fell. After deep contemplation, they find the hidden assumptions behind those disciplines and the causes of the futility of such efforts. They found the real problem of all of these are linked with their own existence. For example, if there is an effect, there must be a cause behind it. Only the scientist or statistician will call it a chance. He is wise enough to see the weakness to all of these reasoning and finally reaching a point when he can see the irreconcilable dilemma. People cannot tolerate gaps in their thoughts, technically know as cognitive dissonance. They have to take a side. Most of the cases, their mind cannot operate without filling the gaps in their thoughts. To fill up the gap, they have to take some kind of actions. Those who are more rationally minded fills the gap with a "leap of faith" and becomes the Fidels. This includes Church high fathers, Popes, Muslim caliphate or mullah, or High Priest of other religions who often act as a backbone for the society including for the politicians, or governments. Those who are more empirically minded refuse to fill the gap for lack of evidence, becomes agnostic or atheist, who often act as a backbone for scientist. Together, this group always creates the establishment and some eminent members of this class or their direct disciples become the presidents or the rulers of the lands. They strive to solve the unsolvable problems of the nations but at the end always fail to establish the promised "kingdom of haven" on earth. In either way, they are trying to handle the gaps of their knowledgebility but cannot overcome it. The disciple of the either schools [Fidels or Infidels] with sufficient moral, ethical and rational power becomes philosophers who exert a even longer lasting influence on humanity. Despite all these, deep inside they are still anxious about the gap that they have connected by faith or non faith, and hence at unease. To compensate that uneasiness, they work even harder, pray even harder, or do experiments even harder without finding any way to eliminate it completely and remains uncomfortable till the end.
4. FullCyclers:
By some mysterious ways, some people came to realize completely what they were originally looking for. Frequently they use the term "Divine Grace" by which they have found the true mystery of existence without any gaps in their Knowledge. This group includes Prophets, Mystics, Buddhas, Grand Sufis, true Seeers, Esotericist, Occultist and the true Enlightened one. These people understand the things that they know without any shadow of doubts and hence completely content and satisfied. They are completely aligned with nature and its harmony. They typically
try to communicate, although their language is mostly incomprehensible for the
rest. The rest of the people know that whatever the FullCyclers are saying must be true but they do not just get it completely. They becomes confused, often infuriated. Out of envy and insecurity of QuarterCyclers or HalfCyclers, the FullCyclers often get killed, because QuarterCyclers and HalfCyclers have been searching for the same thing for their whole life without success and these FullCyclers are creating an immediate threat to their establishment. After killing them, they make themselves the true disciple of the FullCyclers and propagate a new religion or scientific discipline roughly based on their teachings that will only strengthen their own preexisting establishments. In some rare cases, some FullCyclers avoided death miraculously and lived a completely happy, illustrious life. In either ways, these FullCyclers emerge as the prototypical role models and becomes the immutable, everlasting original "archetype of the archetype" of life for the whole humanity.
5. MultiCyclers:
There are some FullCyclers who travels the cycle of life several times and becomes the MultiCyclers. As you can expect, this group is extremely rare to find but have a profound and sustained indirect effect on humanity. These MultiCyclers are impossible to recognize unless you are a FullCycler or MultiCycler. They seems to be a regular law abiding citizens, just like NonCyclers, but are silent and hermetic in nature. They never communicate their Knowledge. These are the hidden masters scattered among all the Cyclers (ie. Farmers, Shepherds, Workers, Poets, Travelers, Writers, Journalist, Parents, Philosophers, Humanitarians, Physicians, Scientist, Mystics, Janitor, Homeless, you name it) who are supporting and nurturing the humanity, preventing it's own collapse despite all the mess that the rest have created. They are acting literally like the "Atlas" who is holding the world on their shoulder! In exchange of theses great services, they don't even want any credit or recognition because they they know what they are doing and why they are doing. Most of the works of theses individual MultiCyclers are then taken under the brand name of "Scienctific-Industrial-Religiopoliticomilitary Complex" operated and orchestrated by the HalfCyclers for their own benefits. Those MultiCyclers know Everything and Nothing and hence they are silent. Their lips of wisdom is closed excepts for those with understanding. A MultiCycler's life might look like the following picture and as you can see, technically they can be found anywhere in the circle, intermingled with any Cycler, but in silence.
Let me finish this article by asking a rhetoric question: In what phase of the life cycle are you currently in?