Future generations will laugh (or cry) in contemptuous hindsight at our apathy and boredom. Why try to change the world? Why get off the couch? The individual doesn't matter anyway... right? We can be bored because science has solved all mystery… right?

No! The individual is empowered by technology more than ever. No-one has solved the Mystery of Existence--no one *knows* why there is something rather than nothing. Each day the world becomes more dynamic. Each decision you make carries more weight than ever. Cultures are mingling in new and profound ways.

Think the world is boring?

Terrence McKenna:

"If you think the world is empty of adventure, then, you just haven't been hanging out with the right crowd. On a Saturday night, within the confines of your own apartment, on 5 grams of psilocybin mushrooms in silent darkness, I guarantee you will believe that Ferdinand Magellan should take second place to you."

The future is up for grabs. Existence is a Mystery. We are flotsam, floating in a sea of we-know-not-what. Wonder is the perfect fuel, Einstein:

"He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle… A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms…"

We have a day on the calendar devoted to secretaries, to mothers, to the Earth… Why not have a "live passionately day"? On that day, everyone would jump out of bed in the morning. 100s of times a day they would stop what they are doing and ask, "Am I awake right now? Am I living deliberately?"

Think of the synergy of 6,000,000,000 humans living passionately for one day!

In the same way a mental entity emerges from the interactions of 10s of billion of neurons, a kind of mental field –what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called the "noosphere"—arises from the interactions of humans.

Like LSD and the other psychedelics, be a catalyst for the electrocution of the nervous system of this usually drowsy super-organism, and in the following flash of sentience, help us catch a glimpse of the infinite multi-verse in which we find ourselves.

Let's live deliberately and communicate passionately; let's ride the bellowing, orgiastic tide of an awaking synergistic organism, an organism made of other supernova-individuals.

Even the nuclear-bomb magnitude sleeping in an atom is only a candle when next to the burning-sun potential in our slumbering super-organism of humanity. Help me awaken the unfathomable giant!

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Daniel Poynter

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