Entropy - Quareness Series 227th "Lecture".
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift." (Albert Einstein).
Defying the second law of thermodynamics, it would appear that we humans as living systems can increase in order and evolve. As we go through periods of growth and retardation we make choices...some wise and some not so...and potentially become open to experience moments of profound insight. It could be said that our consciousness expresses itself in the material and social world by virtue of our genetics. Indeed it would seem that our genome may be precisely structured to facilitate the reflection of universal consciousness in individual life but we have to make the right choices in order to capitalise on and develop this potential, thereby enabling human life to break free of the second law by growing in wisdom. In this regard it seems reasonable to cite the fact that mind and body are two sides of one coin for us necessarily involving the participation and integration of every level of physical reality from the gross to the most subtle, from classical to quantum mechanical. Higher human functions then must necessarily involve individual consciousness linking with universal consciousness?
Here perhaps we can see how the evolution of human consciousness is directly challenged by any process of genetic modification which by definition edits the precision of the genome/
epigenome and impacts its capacity to reflect universal consciousness. It's already established from extensive research that the health of an organism is inevitably challenged and mutated by genetic editing...often cited as unintended consequences of genetic modification. Indeed it's looking like genetic editing could be an evolutionary dead end because of failure to appreciate or protect the depth of genetic subtlety and precision supporting the expression of consciousness...the essential characteristic of sentient life.
By way of contrast we can point to the long standing recognition of the exploration of human consciousness as the gateway to health, happiness and enlightenment.
We could say that our problems mostly are the result of past actions and present decision-making and trying to resolve such one at a time through analysis, discussion, diplomacy, regulation or individual action may be an unrealistic prospect. Both history and experience tells us that trying to solve a problem on the level of the problem more often than not appears to create more problems. Could it be that in order to truly solve problems we need to come out of the field of problems and access a new element of knowledge (shades of A. Einstein again)? Here exploring our human consciousness through a process of transcending may help as it develops our relationship with the ground state of universal consciousness...a field inherently devoid of problems because it is unified. And because of its unified nature, it necessarily promotes the evolution and growth of living systems.
This degree of insight into how we might usefully go about resolving many of our difficulties could be pointing to an intriguing possibility that there may be an eternal part in each of us that participates in the immortal fractal of life's code.
Drawing upon such boundless sources as
Sunlight, magnetism and loving consciousness,
And no longer operating as closed clocks winding down,
We may reclaim our birthright as open system dynamic beings
Becoming weavers of order in the universal fabric, as we participate
In the immortal fractal of all of life's eternal coded pattern, ever ready to
Bloom again and again without end.
In this way we may get to quieten the entropy within
And restore coherence between body and cosmos,
Finding our way back to Eden.
It would seem that our connection with the cosmic organising power may be the very thing that drives human creativity and ensures our wellbeing...like it says in the Book of Genesis - "God created man in his own image". Regardless of whether we take a religious or scientific view of natural law, we can recognise the universe as a lawful integrated whole finely tuned to ensure we are all governed by and of necessity must all participate under natural law in order to grow in knowledge and experience. And we may risk triggering many unintended consequences whenever we interfere with this symbiosis between cosmos and consciousness.
Sean.
Dean of Quareness.
October, 2025.