A Survival Kit for the Upcoming Creators

By Benjamin Katz

The history of mankind can partly be understood as the history of our blindness of our mental limitations!

The three fundamental truths that we must face in order to survive/prevail on a long-term basis are as follows:
1. Everything is temporary, including Homo sapiens, his achievements, and his constructs.
2. We aregenerally speakingunwise regarding our conduct of the planets sustainable state. We act, in fact, as its vermin, not as its guardians.
3. Only by transcending ourselves will we pass on our valuable and noble essence to our future upgraded children. Sabotaging this transformation will imply our species decay and oblivion.

Realizing these truths, what did the author of this book do?

He followed Rumis words: Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah . . . It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

And that was exactly what he didhe built up a new Noahs ark.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543474879

Benjamin Katz

Born in Israel in 1945, Benjamin Katz fought in two wars and settled in Denmark in 1972. He studied psychology at the University of Copenhagen and has been practicing as a clinical psychologist since 1980, treating more than thirty thousand clients throughout the years. He is the author of twelve books. (See book list including this one. Most of them deal with the urgent need for us to evolve further in the future to survive and prevail.) Two aspects have attracted his attention in the last twenty years: the deteriorating mental and physical state of human beings adjusting to modern life or rejecting it, and the state of the planet that has gone from bad to worse. Once he figured out that the sharp decline of the mental and physical health of so many people is caused by our unhealthy lifestyle, lack of global sustainability, lack of foresight/oversight in global affairs leading to our deteriorating climate and living conditions, he found his mission: to define a new, evolved vision that aims to eliminate these factors. In this vision, he strongly rejects crucial aspects which constitute preconditions to our current well-being, such as modern lifestyle and its excesses, stressors, and crazy trafficking; the deterioration of global ecology due to consumerism, pollution and an unsustainable global economy; and demography and spirituality. Instead of this failed global conduct, he presents sustainable values, practices, global governance, and purposeful efforts to enable us to evolve beyond our mental limitations, shortcomings, and blind spots, which, if not altered, will become our doom.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgment

An Advice for the Wise

Words About the Writer’s Life Story and View

Introduction

Chapter 1    As a Potential Creator, Know Human Nature’s and the Mind’s Limitations

Chapter 2    The Age of Greed, God, Golem, and Gullibility: As a Potential Creator, Know Why Modern Civilization is Doomed

Chapter 3    The Age of Ultimate Necessity; How Will You Struggle in Order to Achieve Your Creator’s Mission!

Chapter 4    Related Thoughts by the Author

Glossary

Notes

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I wish to thank Shai Gabai, a good and noble friend, who had given me useful and inspiring feedback on this book and for backing me up with my former books. If just 20 percent of human beings on earth had his stature, there would be no need for messages like the ones I convey in this book.

AN ADVICE FOR THE WISE

Hubris will always pursue us as long as we bear in us sapiens short sight and self-destructiveness. Only a new paradigm promoting our further evolvement beyond sapiens’ limitations can offset this hubris.

—BK

To catch up with the ever-shifting reality, gestalt it into purposeful, evolving process for advanced intelligence, and steer this evolvement on top of the waves of the ceaseless, changing universe / our world means to become great cosmic voyagers and creators!

—BK

On 5/5/2017, the world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking stated in the Telegraph that we have around one hundred years to leave earth if we wish to survive as a species.

In October 2017, he declared in an interview in the Independent that we’ve come too far in destroying life conditions on earth as to change this course. He pointed out that by the current population growth rate, we will be around 11 billion by 2100, that air pollution rocketed by 8 percent in the last five years, and that more than 80 percent of people living in urban areas are exposed to dangerous quantities of pollution.

His analysis and solution—to go to the stars—lack, though, reliable strategy on how to resolve the problem that the culprit for our global predicaments (us, with our self-destructiveness and limited mental capacity) will comprise the crews who will man the spaceships that he wishes to send to new habitable planets.

Is the situation so bad that only by migrating to other planets will we survive?

There is some good news coming in about some progress done in regard to global environment, the preservation of species, the mortality of babies, and service supplying for impoverished people around the world. They are small victories in small battles, but in the real, crucial war for our long-term survival, we are losing. The constant rise of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere (in 2017, our CO2 emissions grew by 2 percent since the last year), growing global pollution, overconsumption, overpopulation, and the dwindling of earth’s resources all point in the direction of oncoming global catastrophe. American troops won all the battles in Vietnam but lost the war. This is humanity’s alarming global state right now, and therefore, there is a growing alarm in Hawking’s declarations.

It is obvious by now that our greedy nature and shortsighted mind-set has created a great deal of global existential threat for our further future. Neither our gods nor our technological innovations are going to save us from ourselves and our shortsightedness unless we transcend our own inbuilt mental limitations. We can’t keep on bluffing ourselves that we can make it without transcending ourselves. Any enduring solution for our further survival requires sustainable life conditions and entirely new and advanced mind-sets for future evolving beings. These are the preconditions, without which there is no future for our progenies.

I have a burning wish that the day of reckoning of this perilous state of humanity will soon dawn upon the wise, influential, and persuasive among us. That instead of denying our mental deficiencies, we will work for upgrading ourselves—or many of us—into much wiser and farsighted beings than we are today or, rather, very soon. I have a hope that this process will take place before our shortsightedness and greed will make us redundant.

Most of you, people, will instinctively resent such straightforward and terse statements. Many of you nurture the conviction of being the crown of creations, born in the image of God, and second to the Almighty. But only in the world of idealization. God is love and wisdom, and love and wisdom are the driving engines of humanity. In our real life, both are often absent!

Therefore, if you are a wise and open-minded reader, you’d better come to terms with the following premises for a new future for us as upgraded species: A new game, with new rules and new participants. Nothing less than that will do to save the best of us in the future. This book serves as a wisdom kit to guide you on how to make it happen while avoiding the worst of sapiens’ pitfalls.

WORDS ABOUT THE WRITER’S LIFE STORY AND VIEW

You are what your deep driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.

—Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Be ready to pave alone part of your life road. Many pursue their preconceived, trodden path, no matter what convincing evidence you show them regarding your road. But bright, brave ones will join.

—BK

Once when I was around five years old, shortly after the war and after visiting the nearby deserted bustan, my father asked me if I knew how to tend a bustan, which is the Arabic word for orchard. He was good at tending trees, flowers, and honeybees. He explained to me that in a blooming bustan, there are many different trees, and one has to water them in a hot climate like ours. He asked me whether the trees needed more. I said that they needed manure since I saw him spread chicken manure in a ditch under our trees around the house. He asked me whether there was more one could do. I shrugged my shoulders because I did not know. Well, he said that there must be reasonable distance between the trees; otherwise, they could not get enough nourishment and sunlight and would wither. If you plant them very close, only the strongest will survive, and their fruits will be tasteless.

Is there more? he asked. I did not know what to answer. He said that in a bustan, the gardener had to uproot the weeds all the time; otherwise, they would strangulate the trees. A good gardener will do this weeding all the time if he wishes for a healthy and prosperous bustan. And he said, lastly, something that saddened me—that trees got sick and old like us humans. A gardener had to care for them, heal them if it could be done, but when there was no hope, he had to uproot them and plant new ones. This is important in order to keep a bustan healthy and ever-evolving, he said.

During my séances with the bustan, I, for the first time, heard the melody that has followed me ever since. How odd it might seem that I found my melody in an Arabian bustan that had been deserted due to the war. Many times in my youth, I went to this orchard, and I have never since met its equal.

One day, I returned to my bustan. It was gone. As I came nearer, I could see the felled logs and overturned roots. For a moment, I pondered whether it had only been a dream because the bulldozers had leveled even the small surrounding hills. Within a few years, long rows of almond trees were planted in the bustan’s place. Times had changed. Now it was all about profit, and time was money. The age of efficiency painfully dawned upon all of us.

Today the kibbutz is surrounded by the well-known plane fields and regulated plantations. There is a plastic factory, and the trees must work overtime through the pesticides that have slowly seeped into the groundwater.

This was how my life story started, which