Homo Futuris and the World of the Future

By Kayros O'Hara

This book refers to the global problems of today and the future of the planet. What awaits us at the bottom of the abyss of consumption? How to preserve the Humankind? Is emergence of a superman possible and what will be his abilities? How the scientists, the visionaries and the futurists see the world of the future? What will be the world of corporations? The book invites the reader to thoughtful reflection on these important questions of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paravitta
• Release date: Jun 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223240389

Kayros O'Hara

Kayros O'Hara is the author of several books about history of the Mankind with a special emphasis on the achievements of great philosophers and spiritual leaders throughout the ages. He has also written books on the "Secrets of Longevity" shedding light on "mysteries of immortality" through the prism of different practices and teachings. His book "From Runic Symbols to the Language of the Universe" views different scripts including numeric language. It questions what the cosmic universal language could be, that would allow us to communicate with extraterrestrial minds. The latest book by Kayros O'Hara, "Homo Futuris and the World of the Future", is a must-read for all the people who seek the truth about the current situation of the world we live in, who are interested in thought-provoking predictions of what our reality could be and how the possible scenarios can be changed. Kayros O'Hara also writes screenplays ('Billion") and is the founder of the "Phi-Fi" genre: Philosophical Fiction ("Almarisia"). Last but not least, Kayros O'Hara is a social activist and ecologist who realizes projects intended to help our planet. He is the creator of the International Academy of Education, a non-commercial school for children, the founder of "Portal Electi" Club and "Paravitta" organization that runs under the motto "VIA INTENTO ABSOLUTIO" (life in search for the Absolute). 

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"If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.

...By 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight, they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant."

Bill Bryson. ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’

Man is Nature, spiritualized by Consciousness. He has to strive for Harmony of the two beginnings — Conscious and Natural. At the dawn of humanity, people were just discovering the miraculous aspects of this Harmony for themselves through the prism of awareness of Nature’s wonders. They were genuinely amazed by the gifts that were opened before them by Nature: each day held a discovery — new territories, new pleasures. Everything’s first-time and new! So the primary people sought to fix those discoveries to pass them on their off spring. Thus memory arose; then the information appeared — the first overt manifestation of the immaterial in the entirely material world (through the eyes of a primeval man).

Later on, basing on that information, the descendants mastered the world increasing their memory as an intangible asset, which belonged exclusively to humans — for Man was the only one who could comprehend it. It was in that virtual knowledge that a man saw his chief distinction from animals, since animals were not altogether able to transfer their memory in a vivid, symbolized, or comprehendible form.

From then on, Man understood that his accumulated knowledge is the most valuable asset, what identifies him from the rest of the beings in the surrounding world. ‘Identifies’ — exactly, as then, everything that man touched and modified, carried his presence, a part of his identity, personality. And then Man began to create his own ‘man-made’ world; although everything he did as a creator, he compared with Nature, trying not to cause obvious harm to his Mother’s world. Nature was associated with nothing but Mother, all the time renewing the world.

Long time domination of matriarchy (over 30 thousand years) made it possible to preserve Mother Nature’s world in its pristine and primordial genuineness, not permitting the masculine transforming power to dominate — both constructive and destructive.

Female — motherly, intuitive, and naïve — constituent of a human being did everything to protect the planet from excessive — both constructive and destructive — influence of restless and purposeful activity of masculine constituent. But the consciousness evolution process induced to desire and to act. Consciousness tirelessly reminded Man that while discovering this world, use it for your own self-development — improve habitat, and create your own world. If you love life in all of its manifestations, it will open new aspects of being, not yet manifested. Just envision, see those imaginary and illusory realities, still fantastic today; and soon they will show themselves to you, and all your dreams will come true. That is what Consciousness whispers in the ear, securing the idea of exclusive and monopolistic right of Man over this World. As one of the ancient wisdoms read, Although Man is a small part of this world; everything in this world is created for him. (1)

In present period, there is a slogan even more persistent: Everything for a man; everything in the name of man! (2) To be more precise, for his consciousness, perception, creative comprehension. Animals cannot comprehend all the grandeur of this world; they naturally and intuitively interact with it, live and adapt to it. Just to live and adapt — it is not but for the human mind, which, to a certain extent, is opposed to the material world, as if it is nothing, ‘anti-being’ within being. And Man is always fluctuating between absolute freedom of spirit and limitations of the material world.

And we are at a certain phase of these fluctuations, hopefully peering into misty horizons of the third Millennium, trying to pierce with our thoughts into the dim and distant Past, still aspiring to guess, foresee or calculate our Future.

For thousands of years, human nature remains unchanged. On Assyrian clay tablet, dated circa 2800 BC, archeologists read the following inscription: I have a feeling that the world is living its last days. Bribery and corruption reign everywhere... Since those old days, there always were certain people, anxiously expecting for the Apocalypse and the end of the world to come. Here are some of those expectations that have become the most famous:

100 AD — First Christians expected the end of the world right aft er the second coming of Christ. According to some interpretations, it could happen immediately aft er the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles. Overall, anticipation of the Apocalypse has been peculiar to the followers of Christianity — on the other hand, the peoples of Asia have always been more good-natured and optimistic.

1000 AD — Nice and solid date. At the end of the Millennium, many Christians believed that God had measured exactly one thousand years of human existence, starting from the birth of Christ. Th ere are chronicles describing panic and terror spread throughout entire Europe. Days and nights people were repenting of their sins in churches, giving away their property and hiding at the monasteries.

1666 — Th e British were especially afraid of this date, agitated by a certain local ‘fortuneteller’ who had been foreshadowing the great fi re purging the Earth. Authorities managed to quench the riots only aft er arresting the troublemaker.

1910 — Europe was panic-stricken. Newspapers spread the rumors that, on May 18, 1910, the planet Earth would be hit by a comet, which tail consisted of lethal gas — cyanide. Crooks reacted immediately by putting capsules with antidote on sale which might have helped people to survive in the forthcoming calamity.

1985 — In 1978, the British general John Hackett wrote a novel ‘The Third World War: August 1985’ with a description of war between USSR and USA that dragged in all their allies into its vortex. The book was a bestseller; however, the prediction never came true. Nonetheless, it was in 1985 when Perestroika started in the USSR; after that, the Soviet Union collapsed and the Berlin wall came down. Perhaps, those were the aftershocks of the clandestine war, which had been secretly run for all those years.

December 23, 2012. — Another wave of suspense boils down to this date, raised by a certain reading of the ancient Maya records, once foretelling that our world would be facing a serious ‘Perestroika’. Soon we will know what it could have meant. Seems like one more unfulfilled mythical forecast.

We ought to know what real dangers constitute a threat to the world we live in.

Global problems of the present and future of the planet

The evolution history of life forms on planet Earth is the History of deaths of a huge number of species of flora and fauna.

"No one knows how many species of organisms have existed since life began. Thirty billion is a commonly cited figure. Whatever the grand total, 99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

...In nearly every case, for both big extinctions and moderate ones, we have bewilderingly little idea of what the cause was. At least two dozen potential culprits have been identified as causes or prime contributors: global warming, global cooling, changing sea levels, oxygen depletion of the seas (a condition known as anoxia), epidemics, giant leaks of methane gas from the seafloor, meteor and comet impacts, runaway hurricanes of a type known as hypercanes, huge volcanic upwellings, catastrophic solar flares.

We know that Earth’s magnetic field changes in power from time to time: during the age of the dinosaurs, it was up to three times as strong as now. We also know that it reverses itself every 500,000 years or so on average, though that average hides a huge degree of unpredictability. The last reversal was about 750,000 years ago. Sometimes it stays put for millions of years — 37 million years appears to be the longest stretch—and at other times it has reversed after as little as 20,000 years. Altogether in the last 100 million years it has reversed itself about two hundred times, and we don’t have any real idea why. It has been called ‘the greatest unanswered question in the geophysical science’."

We may be going through a reversal now. The Earth’s magnetic field has diminished by perhaps as much as 6 percent in the last century alone.

[A group of Dutch geologists and paleontologists from Utrecht University, after years of studying the fossils of ancient mammals, reported the following: according to Professor Jan van Damme, every two-and-a-half million years the Earth’s orbit changes, so that our planet was not too close to the Sun in order not to burn up. After each shift , a cold snap commences on the Earth, resulting in dying 90 percent of all life; and evolution begins anew. The Dutch claim that the last such planetary catastrophe occurred 250 thousand years ago. Thereafter, Homo sapiens appeared. According to Nature’s schedule, next spell of coldness will start not until after two-and-a-quarter million years. (Scientific comments)]

Space is full of dangerous cosmic rays that in the absence of magnetic protection would tear through our bodies, leaving much of our DNA in useless tatters. When the magnetic field is working, these rays are safely herded away from the Earth’s surface... Currently, more than 3.5 thousand supernovae have been registered. At a close supernova explosion, neither the atmosphere nor the magnetosphere will be able to protect the Earth from severe radiation.

...As of July 2001, twenty-six thousand asteroids had been named and identified — half in just the previous two years. With up to a billion to identify, the count obviously has barely begun. ...Some two thousand asteroids big enough to imperil civilized existence, regularly cross our orbit. But even a small asteroid — the size of a house, say — could destroy a city. The number of these relative tiddlers in Earth-crossing orbits is almost certainly in the hundreds of thousands and possibly in the millions, and they are nearly impossible to track.

In the 1960s, while studying the volcanic history of Yellowstone National Park, Bob Christiansen of the United States Geological Survey became puzzled about something that, oddly, had not troubled anyone before: he could not find the park’s volcano. It had been known for a long time that Yellowstone was volcanic in nature — that is what accounted for all its geysers and other steamy features. But Christiansen couldn’t find the Yellowstone volcano anywhere. In particular, what he could not find was a structure known as a caldera.

Just at this time NASA decided to test some new high-altitude cameras by taking photographs of Yellowstone, copies of which a a thoughtful official passed on to the park authorities on the assumption that they might make a nice blow-up for one of the visitors’ centers. As soon as Christiansen saw the photos, he realized why he had failed to spot the caldera: virtually the whole park — 2.2 million acres — was caldera. The explosion had left a crater more than forty miles across — much too huge to be perceived from anywhere at ground level. At some time in the past Yellowstone must have blown up with a violence far beyond the scale of anything known to humans.

Yellowstone, it turns out, is a supervolcano. Imagine a pile of TNT about the size of Rhode Island and reaching eight miles into the sky, to about the height of the highest cirrus clouds, and you have some idea of what visitors to Yellowstone are shuffling around on top of. (3)

The Yellowstone eruption of two million years ago put out enough ashes to bury New York State to a depth of sixty-seven feet or California to a depth of twenty.

The ash fall from the last Yellowstone eruption covered all or parts of nineteen Western States (plus parts of Canada and Mexico).

Nature — mostly through volcanic eruptions and decay of plants — tosses about 200 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, nearly thirty times as much as we do with our cars and factories.

So far, the Earth’s oceans and forests (which also pack away a lot of carbon) have managed to save us from ourselves, but as Peter Cox of the British Meteorological Office puts it, ‘There is a critical threshold where the natural biosphere stops buffering us from the effects of our emissions and actually starts to amplify them.’ The fear is that there would be a runaway increase in the Earth’s warming." (4)

Today’s solar flares and plasma emissions are the most intensive in the last one thousand years; and these figures continue to grow. Over the last thirty years, the Earth’s temperature has noticeably increased. As compared with 1975, the Earth’s general volcanic activity increased 500%; as compared with 1963, natural disasters frequented 410%.

As compared with the beginning of the last century, the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere has increased 30% — and 10% of that has been covered over the last thirty years. The increase in its concentration leads to the so-called ‘greenhouse effect’ — as a result, global warming is evident. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the lower atmosphere is at its highest level over the last 420 thousand years.

The ice covering Greenland is melting; same with that of the Antarctic. For this reason, the sea level significantly increases. Permafrost around Scandinavia also decreases due to the melting of ice, emitting gas out of the peat moors — methane, which, in turn, along with carbon dioxide, contributes to the enhanced greenhouse effect as the catalyst.

As a result of human activity, there has been a warming in the range of 0.5°C. However, if the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles (compared with its level in the pre-industrial era), i.e. increases extra 70%, there will be extremely drastic changes in the life activity of the Earth. First, the average temperature will rise by 2-4°C (by 6-8°C at the poles); and that, in turn, will cause the following irreversible processes:

— Ice cap melting;

— Raising of the sea level;

— Flooding of the multiple coastal areas;

— Changes in moisture circulation on the Earth’s surface.

The 4-degree increase in the Earth’s average temperature means

a 15-degree warming at the North Pole and raise of the global sea level by 140 cm that will set off  flooding of many cities, such as Shanghai, Tokyo, Amsterdam, New Orleans. Two-hundred million people are under risk of staying deprived of their homes. Flooding of coastal areas in Vietnam and some African countries has already caused waves of migrations.

In addition, the 4-degree warming threatens the most part of the Amazon rainforest with destruction, since decreased humidity will increase the likelihood of forest fires. The Earth’s climate will become more rigorous: droughts will take turns with heavy rains; and that will make it hard with the agriculture. (5) Still, a threat to biological diversity will remain a huge problem. The extinction rate of both flora and fauna species will increase substantially.

"We now have sufficient evidence of rapid climate changes. Apparently, global warming can melt polar ice too quickly. This leads to admission of too much fresh water into the sea around Greenland. Excessive accumulation of fresh water will bring the currents of the great ocean conveyor (6) to a stop, which moves from the surface of the water off  the coast of Greenland into the depths of the ocean. It will weaken the oceanic heat distribution at the poles that will induce a greater storm activity... Climatologists believe that these changes may occur very quickly, over the next ten years. Climatic changes on such a scale can plunge the Earth into environmental and economic chaos. In the Pentagon’s October 2003 climate report, it was noted that terrorism did not constitute the most serious danger for the country but abrupt change of the global climate. Obviously, this report appeared to be not too handy for the Administration, so they did not pay enough attention to it. Th e future of civilization depends on how we react to this threat." (7)

Dr. Gianluigi Zangari from National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Frascati, Italy, basing on satellites data states that the Gulf Stream, ensuring a mild climate in Europe and stabilizing global climate thermoregulation processes, has almost completely disappeared. The physicist considers the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico the main cause of this phenomenon. Oil has eliminated the peripheries between layers of warm and cold water, therefore slackening the undercurrents and even stopping them in certain areas. People have not worked out the methods of neutralization of consequences yet, caused by such a disaster. The use of dispersants on the spot did nothing but covered the extent of the damage. Part of the Gulf’s area has been successfully cleaned of oil film; but it is not possible to remove oil at great depths. According to some experts, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues; and this means that the probability of the Gulf Stream’s self-restoration dissipates with each passing day. According to Dr. Zangari, the disappearance of the Earth’s main warm current has already brought on severe weather deviations this summer, such as floods in Europe and China, droughts in Russia and Asia. Further, there is a threat that the planetary seasons would mix, causing crop losses and mass migrations.

Australian scientists predict that in the next hundred years, climate change will be much more rigid than it was thought previously. The new model takes into account the rate of population growth, the growth of per capita energy consumption, and the use of different sources of energy. Their ‘predictions’ are presented in the form of 300 maps and tables showing data on current and expected amount of precipitations, water evaporation, the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and condition of the protective ozone layer.

The thinning of the ozone layer led to the active reproduction of blue-green algae in the oceans. Due to increasing pollution, these seaweeds, in turn, began to produce organic molecules, which experts later called ‘the devil’s bullets’. These ‘bullets’ are deadly to all living creatures as they act on the body as biological radiation.

The biggest threat is that up-to-date filters are practically useless in protecting us from these ‘killing molecules’. They were found even in the super-clean (as it was previously thought) vaccines against AIDS. According to scientists, ‘the devil’s bullets’ are capable of completely destroying humanity in a hundred years — unless, of course, the world civilization does not kill itself before that, or transforms humanity into something different — more-or-less natural — or into a more artificial formation...

The euphoric fall into the abyss of consumption...

Globally, that is how we can express the main aspiration of virtually all political and economic systems, ideologies, and nations.

It was 1851, when the great French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire anxiously predicted: "As the new example and the new victims of inexorable moral laws, we shall perish by what we thought was our life-giver. Engineering will make us so Americanized, progress will create such great atrophy of everything spiritual in us, that the bloody, sacrilegious or unnatural dreams of the utopians could