Sometime ago, the protagonist in one of my novels (Sacha—The
Way Back), made this comment.
“When the
prophet of yore said that ‘ye are gods’, he forgot to add that to be gods you
must act like gods. And gods don’t make mistakes. We do.”
There is a fundamental difference between the
potential and its fulfilment. We, humans, are particularly spoiled.
Our genome carries hereditary information that spans
millions of years. Even before we became bipeds our bodies went through
evolutionary cycle accumulating primary knowledge, which enabled us to climb
the evolutionary ladder. In case anyone thinks that they’ve reached an
evolutionary apex, then let me assure them that we have a few billion years to
go, before we are likely to be able to understand what evolution is all about.
Before we shall be gods even by today’s standards.
Of course, by then, a billion years hence, our
expectations will have risen.
Yet, even today nature spoils us beyond reason. According to “Live Science”, Jan 24, 2013 report - “The average male will produce about 525
billion sperm cells over a lifetime...”
By contrast, women are born with an average 2 million egg follicles, yet by
puberty, ‘only’ about 450 follicles will ever release mature eggs for
fertilization. Luckily, this puts man’s absurd abundance in check.
Why such abundance? Such unmitigated
waste? Such seeming ridiculous potential?
Ah, yes, it must have to do with our
potential. Somebody else is controlling our bodies; the use of our mind is
obviously lagging behind.
Given enough follicles, 25 billion
sperm cells represents the potential each man has to populate not just the
whole planet, but a habitable planetary system, or even a goodly segment of a
galaxy—all by himself. Women do not have to worry. Many wise men told us that we
all take turns, in alternate reincarnations, in the sexual orientation. And if
worst came to worst, we would be limited, together, to 450 follicles each. A
lot better than “Adam and Eve”! No wonder some of us, men, expect a minimum of
72 virgins.
Never mind…
This may sound like science fiction,
but if you have a better reason for the absurd abundance of our physical body
then I’d like to hear it.
But let us take a step further.
If our physical potential represents
a potential many billions of times greater than we can utilize today, could our
mental potential be any less? Would we not need an equal abundance in
mind-power to rule and/or administer our galactic segment even as… perhaps, our
elder god-brothers do today?
Just think. You and I might be 25
billion times smarter than we are now.
If we take our present condition seriously,
the status of gods-in-waiting, then we might think again how to conduct
ourselves here and now—even if we are, at present, no more than babes in arms.
Winston thought so. Let me know what you think. Try my Winston
Trilogy. Or at least, the last part.
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