Help Improve Script for the video Climate Change is a chance for human beings to consciously evolve by developing the capacity to be selfish

Draft Commentary on the video - can humanities become self-aware

For the third part of the video-the voice-over, i know it sucks. So i am looking for people willing to help me with

 1- background music with no vocals

 2- replace my voice-over with a group dialogue or a better energy-charged voice-over

 3- improve the visuals presentation, suggest relevant video clips.

Something I wish to add to the script is that, the chronic build-up of endorphins is really a chronic experience of pain, for endorphins being able to produce pleasure, which is just the other side of the coin of pain, like love/hate, and since most of us grow up with it, we cannot feel the blissfulness. This realization allowed me to be more compassionate, I think.

SCRIPT

Listen to your heart.

There is a sacredness in every heart beats, continuing without the need to be controlled.

There is a rhythm to life.

In the cycle of death;

As they naturally self-balance.

As all earth systems are, self-balancing.

Unless prevented from doing so. 

Thousands of years ago, some of the human beings created language, where they labelled black & white, happiness & sorrow,  you & me, society & I.  Other human beings found it useful, and they evolved the ability (to) represent realities. Thousands of years later,  their evolutionary advantage enabled them to build powerful globalized institutions,  so powerful, they were able to change the geological system of the planet (i.e. climatic system) As they accepted that was happening, and searched for ways to  not forget the relationships and the contexts from which each of “I” was born. Humanities evolved again. They became self-aware of thier themselves as an inseparable whole.

They began by asking themselves: Is it possible to solve the problem at the same level of consciousness which created it?

The evolution took place when some of they examine the structure of their thoughts. Each thought is made of memory. Each memory is a reflex in the nerve system. Each reflex is a chemical change in the body. As some memory is experienced through pleasant  sensations which involves the releasing of endorphins. When this is reinforced again and again. A  reflex may be chronically connected to endorphins. When one does nothing, the body naturally removes the chronic built-up of the endorphins (pleasant sensations), which gives  a sense of discomfort. When one subsequently tries to change it, the reflex is thus able to mobilize the body to defense against it.

Part II

Upon hearing this story, you started to test this it out for yourself. You asked:

  If the totality of human beings and their activities acting on the planet is altering the climatic system of their only planet.

Is it the same neurophysiological structure of thoughts, which, having created the problems,  then trying to solve it?

Is this self-denial what prevents nature’s elf-balance and  the inherent tendency to self-righten?

The question is then,

Can a mind which tries to solve problems as if it is separated from the problem, be aware of itself doing this?

Can the humanities as a whole, operate with all their senses awaken?

That is,

Can the totality of the humanities as we are now, be selfish? For to be selfish is to put close attention on ourselves. To feel the sense of unity and completeness, Just before the rise of thoughts, time, self.

 Can the humanities as a whole, be selfish?  To be selfish is to love oneself before you try to love others.  To accept yourself as who you are, without the need to become. Because, we already are.  Like everything in existence. Ephemeral in our manifestations, but eternal in our capacity to feel them.

Can the humanities as a whole, be selfish? Selfishly aware of our dreams, aspirations, possibilities we are committed to, the feeling of participating in something bigger than ourselves? Be free from the isolated boundaries of nations, religions, ideologies, systems of beliefs, the conclusions, knowledge?  Be free from the limits of thoughts?

  Can we, in moment of sorrow, anxiety, uncertainty, great sense of deprivation, a pursuit of pleasure and the endless pain of a thousand years of tears. Give attention to them? To listen to the body, in full acceptance?  To let it self-express. To let the authenticity, love within us shine beyond the thoughts and demands of its institutions?

To allow our inherent ability to self-balance, 

to heal the broken hearts,

to heal the broken relationships

In expressing what we deeply care about,

to heal the broken world.

For being simply selfish is

 to express ourselves

as love itself.

Part III

The story I was telling, and I am interested in you testing it out for yourself,  is that problems like climate change are really challenges for human beings to consciously evolve.

Which involves developing the capacity to be selfish –putting close attention on ourselves at every moment, because the collective attentions of human kind have been institutionalised and fixed on helping others and objective attainment/avoidance.

The stories can be summarised in 2 points:

1-      All systems spontaneously self-balance.

2-      It is now being prevented by an incoherence in thought, that thought as a system, denies itself:   Thought represents the reality to us, and it denies that it merely represents it.

Thus, climate change, like all other experience of problems, becomes a mere a symptom of a pattern. Inwardly, it is manifested as the thinking pattern of problem-solving:  the instance of trying to solve a problem as if I am separated from the problem itself.  Outwardly, it is manifested as economic, political, legal institutions currently being globalised:  institutions based on extraction, manipulation nature including human beings  towards centralised locations for the purpose of profit consolidation and asset accumulation.

And at structural level, both the problem-solving mind-set and the institutions are based on the presumption that there is this ‘black’ existing separated from my drawing the distinction from ‘white’’, that there is this “I” existing somewhere separated from the rest of what is in existence, from the context, the relationships.

The way I am presenting, this pyramid structure is based on a model of thinking. At the bottom, the mental model is the structure of thought

So a part of my video is dedicated to examining the structure of thoughts.

I started by borrowing from David Bohm, a quantum physic scientists and his theory of the neurophysiological construct thought. According to my interpretation of it, thoughts consist of memory, which consists of a reflex induced through a chemical change in the body which the brain is a part of.   A memory comes from experience of us interacting with reality which includes the totality of senses: feeling, smell, taste, which generates pleasant sensations  induced by a chemical called endorphins. etc.   Some reflexes, as result of being reinforced again and again, have chronic built-up of endorphins,   the result is that,  any attempts to remove it or change it or to do nothing will result in  removal of endorphins, which produces discomfort or apparent unpleasant feelings, and this would mobilise the body to defend that particular reflex.    One of such power defensive reflex for some people is “I”.

Another way to look at these whole thing is that if we treat pain as when our body send message to us that we need to stop doing whatever we are doing, for example, over stretching, so that it can re-balance itself.  

But, suffering is when we actively invest into the conditioning and building up of endorphins in others’ thought systems by associating certain words with producing pleasant/unpleasant sensations in the body.  For example, if you don’t do this, I will slap you, you do that I will give you an ice-cream.   And because the thought doesn’t tell us that it is a collective system, we end up feeling painful ourselves as others doing the same to our body*.

According to the two points above, I draw two implications:

1-      The things we do to solve problems now are perfectly causing the problems. Stop trying to solve problems will create conditions allowing the experience of problems to dissolve 

2- So how to do that? Since the endorphins built-up related to certain word like “I” happens in the body, if one pays close attention to our body which is producing it,   because with attention comes acceptance. In acceptance, there will be no more thoughts trying to trigger defensive reflexes.    At that very moment, the body, as part of the natural system, will not be prevented from its spontaneous self-balance; and start generating self-rightening thoughts and actions which happens to rectify the problems.

Therefore, in being selfish, which is simply to be. 

And nature would have all the endorphins built-up which constitutes the content of mankind’s consciousness, including millions of years of sorrow and pain removed.

As our bodies express themselves,

As love itself.

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So I am interested in working with people who want to design small experiments within our own lives to test these stories.  Because thought, like language, is collective in nature, it is best to be tested as a group, where the inconsistency of this system can be corrected through our collective attentions.    The process of testing it would already be a liberating experience for some.

   If you are interested in how we can test these things out or to design process for emergence during your planning of initiatives and projects together, I can connect you to people who can facilitate the process.

Sources:

Music

Reincarnation (from ghost in the shell) - Kenji Kawai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBvwhnmUxDA

Tiluk Kamod - Khuda Kay Liye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEdcpUn8cQY

Young Artists For Haiti - Wavin’ Flag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB7L1BIDELc

David Bisval - Knaan - Waving Flag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wjZG6vOEZ0

Video Clips:

Amy Zhang, UN COP15 Copenhagen

Me: UN COP13 Bali, Free Hug Day at HKU

Contact Movie Intro: Universal Zoom out from Planet Earth

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=xb2vgG_c0g8

HONG KONG time-lapse film HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glryiXmH05U&feature=related

hong kong island: tilt/shift time-lapse 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_YeTcDvh6w&feature=related

Sunrise from Space (HD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf4LJdQdEZI&feature=related

More information:

Roger Burton: Minutes I took of our 8 meetings together 

Krishnamurti: What Has Happened to Mankind? (Video/short article)

David Bohm: Thought as a System (Online Book via HKU library) 

Osho: Making Love is a Sacred Experience  (video)

Peter Senge: The Fifth Discipline; The Necessary Revolution (books) 

Lao Zi: Dao De Jing (道德经) (online book)

Ouspensky: The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution  (short lecture note)

Gregory Bateson: Is consciousness a sufficient feedback system for evolution?  (Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity)

Climate Chance: http://thenetworkforchange.org (student network based at HKU)

If you are in China:
气候变化是人类意识灵性进化的一个机会：自私才能自爱， 爱自己才是爱地球. http://www.tudou.com/progr ams/view/NoseciOawu4/ 

See http://www.facebook.com/vi deo/video.php?v=4424275671 15&saved for the short version. 

Background of the making of the video/ Example of An experiment to test out the story from the video:http://hkccc.tumblr.com/po st/1328173861 
Or sponsor/participate a proposal for introducing the experiments into your own curriculum: 
http://www.slideshare.net/ Serenagao/living-lab-propo sal

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