Harsh Catalyst

[APeacefulWarrior]

If it helps any, think of it this way. Many, most, or maybe even all of us here on these forums CHOSE to be here, at this particular time.

Why incarnate at this particular time? While that's going to be an individual question, I'd say a lot of it invariably has to do with these being literally the MOST "interesting times" in all of human history. NOTHING since the invention of agriculture has transformed human society so globally, and there's never been a period of so much change in such short a timespan.

We're somewhere in the middle of the biggest, largest, and farthest-reaching reorganization of human society that's ever happened. Globalization is a fire spreading across the planet, and there's just no telling how the next few decades are going to turn out. Or who's going to get burned. (At least from a veiled human perspective.) The world is converting from a nationalist\tribalist outlook to a global\species-based view with amazing rapidity, and such massive changes are causing equally massive blowback and aftershocks.

Yet here we are, choosing to live a life here and now when we could have just as easily had a quiet life of farming in medieval China or something. Could it be BECAUSE a life lived right now is going to be extra interesting?

I think so.

That harsh catalyst is basically condensed catalyst. It's the power of a hundred scientific revolutions going on at once, a thousand governmental reorganizations, a million spiritual awakenings, all crammed into a span of time that's ultimately only going to be about as long as a single human life. A life lived right now is a goldmine of experience many, many times beyond the most intense sensory assault any of our chronological ancestors ever had to endure.

Basically, most\all of us signed up to take a ride on one of the biggest and scariest roller-coasters around. About all we can do now is hang on and try to enjoy the ride.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!