The Predator Inside

As human beings whether it is a gang, community, nation or religion we love to praise and make individuals into our heroes, so as individuals we love to fit in, impress and want to be admired by our belonging groups. Our heroes might range from a sports star, rock star, a movie star or a military individual, we are proud to include them in the group we belong to.

When cubs or kittens play-fight or pounce at each other, it helps them to become successful and efficient predators. In boxing our boxers practice sparring to get ready for a fight. With our evolving nature we should be aware and test our limits of friendly competition, but taking it too far can literally lead us to prejudice and discrimination which actually is taking us backward from spiritual evolution.

Practicing to kill each other is related to our animal side: by now, shouldn’t we have evolved to be spiritual entities? Why are we still putting other animals above us?

We compare our heroes with predatory creatures like lions and eagles; we glorify their bravery and write poetry to inspire our coming and new generations. Why do we have this deep desire to be predators? Why do we feel inspired by stories of bravery of our ancestors? And why don’t we question the behavior and philosophy of conquering, disrespecting, and even killing other human beings?

As a spiritually-evolved entity, at least individually by now we should have the upper hand on our animal side because of our religious education. However, if you look at the general population, there is very little control; on the contrary, the more religious you are, the more you are willing to kill someone who does not agree with you.

A balanced individual would have to not only create balance between animal and spiritual side they would have to juggle all departments of life so it would right to call them a CEO. We are designed physically as creatures but we are internally ripened with compassion, personal sense of justice, sacrifice, forgiveness and above all ability to love.  We are not only a creature with spiritual side ingrained within we have the ability to evolve to a God-like spiritual entity.

As an individual  its our responsibility to live life with personal and individual balance, so our temporary or mortal life is a harmonious melody. The first priority and responsibility of a mortal is survival, so if you live in the bush, just like other creatures you have to survive—even by eating other creatures as food.

If your fridge and cupboards are full of food products, you don’t have to kill anything to survive. You can take matters to the extreme and kill other creatures just because you can or because you enjoy killing. Personally, I think we should be evolving much further than we already have. When people go fishing for sport, they catch and release; this act shows I can but I will not. It is an individual evolution. Taking what you need to survive is one thing, and killing for sport is another.

Back to our comparison with predators: if you kill to eat and feed your off springs can logically be looked at as survival but playing with live food before you kill it is not an evolved act.

Since we are in the process of evolution and during this process, nothing is one hundred percent right or wrong. With our belonging groups preaching that our knowledge is unquestionable, politically our sense of belonging over rides what we think individually. In reality if we are learning everyday something new, we can’t really judge or defend our knowledge because of its evolving nature. This sense of belonging related and conflicting knowledge can be quite confusing for the individual.

For instance, we reward acts of bravery with medals and admiring them for generations to come. Logically if the medal is for killing opposing human beings and regardless of their innocence. This act should be questioned because every evolved society of humanity has law and order with the justice system which calls for punishments for such actions. Our evolution should teach us to work against these killing urges. Since our civilization has been working against our animal urges why, after thousands of years of civilization we still have nothing to show, especially when it comes to our politics of sense of belonging related conflicts and wars. I like to think and ask this question, where is the disconnect?

This contradicting knowledge of human societies creates confusion and actual conflicts, especially when it comes to less-evolved individuals or groups. If we can’t balance the beast from within with the spiritual entity residing inside of our physical bodies, we need to evolve to become a CEO who can balance, foresee, and evolve towards our fullest potential.

The biggest problem or hurdle is our politics of sense of belonging, which can only be harnessed individually because as groups we would never go for losing powers so it has to be by the individual. This balancing act with the equally powerful sense of freedom is within reach of the individual if they can understand and overcome the belonging group’s politics.

If your group is always singing songs of honor, pride, and bravery, remember it’s all about the ego related to that sense of belonging. If you live by the ego, pride and honor it is related to your politics of sense of belonging. Which has the potential to cut you both ways; it’s not only harmful to others or opposing groups, it is harmful for you as well individually. Because it has the potential to create guilt, which can potentially cause mental health issues and can be a heavy burden for the soul to carry throughout the mortal life.

It’s time to evolve to come out of the group mentality: this philosophy has done enough damage to humanity. It is time to join humanity as one entity; it’s time to rethink past or ancestral knowledge for the sake of coming generations.  Just by looking at our nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction should shake one into their core. If they continue on the same path we are on, predictions in our holy books may come true.

Personally I look at God as a compassionate and loving entity, not some other entity who is hell-bent on destroying humanity. I optimistically believe we have the power to change the outcome by evolving to the next level and that is going to come from the bottom up, not from the top down evolution.

Today Internet has connected humanity in such a way; we can turn things around to change the path to heaven on Earth instead of hell on Earth. Our previous knowledge is a sure way to hell because we are creatures who have the potential to kill for fun—but at the same time we have the ability to evolve to unchain ourselves from our destructive ancestral knowledge.

With the help of the Internet, we can connect with each other beyond the walls and boundaries of our so-called security. Whether it is to control this life on earth or secure a spot in heaven, it is all related to our ancestral knowledge. I have said it before, and will say it again; if you learn something new every day, it is clear proof that our knowledge is not complete. An incomplete knowledge should not have the power to take someone’s life regardless of what society you belong to. As an evolving entity, we should be passionate in reaching our potential instead of blindly believing what our ancestors preached to us. They did the best with whatever they had so blaming them or carrying on with their legacies is not the correct path; we need to create a new way of living which belongs to humanity as a whole.

I am all for evolution from our previous knowledge, individual freedom and equal human rights through out the humanity. I believe most decent people would want that as well, so we should take advantage of our present abilities like Internet to connect with humanity as a whole instead. Since politics of our belonging groups has been and still is bringing the worst out of us individually we individually need to take charge to say no to the  politics of prejudice and discrimination  and work against our animal urges to give our spiritual side a lift.