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A Bit of Back History

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A bit of back history.

(Courtesy of Khan Academy)
(a) “Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, evolved from their early hominid predecessors between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago. They developed a capacity for language about 50,000 years ago.

The first modern humans began moving outside of Africa starting about 70,000-100,000 years ago.
Humans are the only known species to have successfully populated, adapted to, and significantly altered a wide variety of land regions across the world, resulting in profound historical and environmental impacts.

Though there were once many kinds of hominids, only one remains: Homo sapiens. Extinction is a normal part of evolution, and scientists continue to theorize why other hominid species didn’t survive.”
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(b)  (from Access your Wisdom) 

It’s important to understand why we are global in the current situation.  It does have to do with Wisdom; that is, lack of it.

All of us, yes, you and me, are participants in the evolution and growth of Earth and life on this magnificent planet. We are here together to make the changes required to move from the chaos we are currently experiencing.

This chaos has been going on for a long time, centuries, but increasingly since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution around mid-1760s. This saw inequality of a different sort emerging from the previous royalty, aristocracy, and an increasing upper class versus the general population.

Suffice to say, the division between these groups and the emerging worker/labourer of the Industrial Revolution with poor wages and working conditions, coupled with legislations to ensure that these divisions are magnified, became wider and deeper. The degree varied in countries. Greed and thirst for power, however, knows no boundaries.

To bring it back to now, the increasing chaos was accelerated and intensified with the health crisis which officially began in 2020. The financial damage done to the average person and business is beyond description and continues to haunt the world at the time of writing in mid-2023.

It will not abate in the foreseeable future; economies will attempt to crawl out of the “black hole”.

Only intelligent thinking and subsequent actions, applying WISDOM, will start to relieve the catastrophic situation many are facing.

FOR MORE: Introducing Wisdom

 

Wisdom – Part 2

The discussion of Wisdom has, at least, two components:

  1. That the speaker or writer is at least of a certain age (that will be dependent on culture) and,
  1. That, the person has no age restriction. This one is because my 8 year old granddaughter can come up with pearls of wisdom missing in some adults.

This Wisdom discussion will relate to Component 1.

What is Wisdom? The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus (2007) enlightens us thus:

  1. The quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment.
    (My addition: on whatever the discussion topic is about)
  2. The body of knowledge and experience that develops within a particular society or historical period. (My addition: on the relevant topic)

History is resplendent with the life and wise accomplishments of men and women who helped create how we live today. Sadly, the amount of information via official education is negligible and yet, much of that is what has formed today’s world.
(My addition: How is a youngster and even an adult supposed to make sense of the extremes we experience today?)

So, what does the above definition actually mean? We know that each of us sees and therefore experiences the same situation differently.

Ask half a dozen people the details of an event they each witnessed at the same time, and you’ll get half a dozen different versions. They may have commonalities but that’s it.

Each of us views experiences according to
– our past experiences,
– our biases,
– our religious involvements,
– our spiritual connections,
– teachings of people of past or present influences
– and so on
.

Oh, dear, what is really ours? Actually, not much!

In other words, we see things from our memory and our current model of the world.

This, of course, makes the discussion of Wisdom even more complicated. Whose wisdom is it then? Remember, Wisdom is dependent on

  1. Whether we have experienced something
  2. Whether we have knowledge about it. If we haven’t experienced it, it presupposes that we have done much research on the topic to become informed (not limited research or hearsay).
  3. So that, we can make a good judgment about it.

Whatever perspective you have on any topic, I ask the following:

  1. Let’s keep comments, opinions, and discussions clean and respectful – that’s part of Wisdom.
  2. We are all on this Earthly journey together. The energy we transmit, circulates to the furthest corner of Earth and influences events.
  3. We are all co-creators with our thoughts and actions.

Basically, we  all want the same in life.

FOR MORE: Education and Wisdom

Back to Part 1 

Wisdom – Part 1

WHAT IS WISDOM?

PART 1
Wisdom is not an easy term to define, to understand nor to practice in daily life at this time in our human evolution.  The application of Wisdom today is like a lost art, a dinosaur, to living life with inner peace and tranquillity, caring for ourselves and others, and consideration and respect for all.

Wisdom, by osmosis, enables us to energetically transfer those qualities to everyone we come in contact with.

Wisdom is not something that we talk about these days, it’s like a “cute” thought, a relic of past eras, part of the “academic” realms, a past characteristic that has no place in today’s “superior” world of gadgetry, consumer madness, having to possess the latest fad, when mental illness has become the norm.

We now talk of cleverness, intelligence, intellect, craftiness, shrewdness, marketing ability (largely for the extraction of people’s money and to enrich others) and so on.

We are told what is good for us, so that we no longer think for ourselves. Lies flood what we read and hear to perpetuate how others want us to behave.

It’s like we live in the “crazy mirrors” section of a carnival. We are not supposed to evaluate what is regurgitated by these deceptive mirrors. You know what I’m getting at, don’t you?

Consequently, I’ve divided the topic of Wisdom into 2 parts.

FOR MORE: Link to Part 2.

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