So, the takeaway of the latest Spotlight titled "Nothing in Life is Free" is that the good ETs can only help humanity if humanity changes first. The means to get there is a crisis that functions as a catalyst for the change.
Let's put aside that this "problem-reaction-solution" strategy is what bad people use as well. Let's say the so-called good ETs have good intentions. But you know me – I have a question:
Why do they tell us that we need to change without telling us what our wrong behavior actually is?
Let's assume there's a good reason for not telling us.
So, let's look at the wilderness – the crisis.
While we don't know what the so-called good ETs think our wrong behavior is, we do know one thing: The crisis will bring the possibility of change.
So, what actually is the crisis then?
It can't be just another war. This planet knows war too well. People are already accustomed to it.
Can it be the threat of extinction? I don't think so. Just look at the cold war between the U.S. and Soviet Russia. The bad guys know how to make use of fear-mongering to strengthen the system.
No, it must be something that weakens the grip of the bad guys.
An opportunity.
So, the logical question is: What does humanity want, but fear to ask for while the prison is still running?
Can a whole civilization even answer this question? Or is it something that each individual has to answer for themselves...
What do you want?
My first impulse is to say I want more time. I want a longer life span and the opportunity to learn more.
Then, I also think I want to learn about how other civilizations have managed longer life spans. If the tech is there to extend life and memory, surely how others approach having these things is an very old, ancient history. I'd like to learn more about the history of universal civilizations and how they dealt with the psychology and social science of being in a civilization that invented so much.
We use to live longer, in fact before that we didn't die, we were allowed to go to all the different dimensions and move freely within this construct.
We don't need life extension, we need to stop 'entropy'. That is what causes aging...in other words, they suck on our life force, which causes entropy.
Sometimes constraints are good I think. If I had too much freedom, I'm not sure I'd make good choices. If I could do anything and go anywhere, my soul could wander wildly across the universe. If everyone else could do the same, would anyone ever connect again? There's something to be said for self-restraint. I'd like an intermediate stage of freedom before taking the training wheels off.
@Just Another Isby
You think that because you forgot you were free before you came into this construct. What's wrong with going all over and adventuring off to where ever? You can't lose your connect to source, it's within you in your heart center. It's like a black hole. For lack of better expanation.
You think freedom you'd do something that would be overkill or not sure what you 'fear' you'd do if you were truely free, don't think of it in a human type scenario. Just remember when you were free before you came here.
If everyone was free originally, something apparently went wrong because people made some bad choices. Some people used their freedom for nefarious ends so I think we should be careful to think what freedom means. Freedom is a good idea but there's a history about how it can be misused.