We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment –Richard Dawkins (1941-present)
We may be machines, but we are not blindly programmed. We are a renaissance awaiting.
There are grasshoppers which can turn into locusts when specific environmental factors emerge. With no change in the genotype (DNA), a completely different and unrecognizable phenotype (body) can manifest itself when the landscape changes.
We have been around a long time. Genes, once active but now masked and dormant, can come to life when we start paying attention to different qualia in the landscape. When we notice new landmarks and follow new pathways we can re-awaken masked genes. We can completely transform ourselves with conscious ritualing.
Many a prophet has preached the golden rule. Let’s look for evidence of that in our surroundings and pray there is some of it in our DNA to be triggered!