Jacob` Ladder Towards Evolving, Wise Civilization Beyond Sapiens

Benjamin Katz

Description

This book presents a sort of a climbing up to a complex, contextual knowledge of who you and we are,what makes us destroy our life prospects and how to come over this hurdle which is built up in our minds/brains. The book presents thus an understanding of the human condition/nature and a way to transcend and evolve beyond these self defeating mechanisms to a new, upgraded Homo.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 20 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669851615
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Also by Benjamin Katz:
Jacob’s Ladder toward Evolving: Wise Civilization beyond Sapiens (2023)
Advanced Evolving: Wisdom beyond Sapiens’s Mental Constraints, Escapism, and Self-Destruction(2022)
A New Global Survival Faith (2021)
Stupid Sapiens: Evolve or Become Extinct (2019)
365 Years of Solitude, Sufferings, and the Rise of the Creators: 2020–2384 (2018)
Den forvandlende og forvandlede Bustan. Min sandfærdige, fiktive og magiske livshistorie (Dansk,2017)
A Survival Kit for the Upcoming Creators (2017)
A Portrait of a Visionary Trans Human and His Work (2015)
The Inevitable Human and Godless Faith (2015)
A Paradigm for a New Civilization (2013)
I, the Reluctant Creator (2012)
Global Psychology: Solving Eddie’s Dilemma (2008)
The Fifth Narrative: The Wiser Ascent of Icarus (2004)
A Journey of Enhancement (1999)
The Green Man from the Bustan (Hebrew, 1998)
Temporary link to the author’s website: https://authorwebservices-vip.net/XLUS/839047
JACOB` LADDER TOWARDS EVOLVING, WISE CIVILIZATION BEYOND SAPIENS
Benjamin Katz

Copyright © 2022 by Benjamin Katz.
Library of Congress Control Number:
2022919114
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Softcover
978-1-6698-5160-8

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Scriptures marked as “(HEB)” are taken from the The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary © 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. Used by permission.
 
 
 
 
Rev. date: 10/20/2022
 
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Who Is the Writer and His Life Story
Introduction
 
Chapter 1 We Are Torn Apart by a Defective, Fractured Mind
Chapter 2 Our Fractured Mind in modern times Brings about Our Doom (Unsustainable Civilization and Mass Destruction)
Chapter 3 How Can We Evolve beyond Our Current Destructive Mindset and Mental Constraint?
 
Epilogue: A Possible Future to Come?

The meaning with your life:
The meaning with your life
you can from faith / personal preferences derive,
but it is nothing unless humanity will survive, thrive, and, for our further evolving, strive
We are all but Maj Fly creatures without long-term survival / evolving drives and features
Humanity is divided in two coarse groups: 1) A minority of wise sapiens, working for global sustainability/ our further evolving and 2) a huge majority of ordinary sapiens, engaged in power projections, wars, looting the earth, and pursuing their self-interest.
The first group pursues the following:
I died as mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was human,
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die human,
To soar with angels blessed above.
And when I sacrifice my angel soul
I shall become what no mind ever conceived.
As a human, I will die once more,
Reborn, I will with the angels soar.
And when I let my angel body go,
I shall be more than mortal mind can know.
― Rumi

Acknowledgments
Once I read about two Jewish delegates who participated in a Zionist congress a long time before Second World War and the foundation of the State of Israel. They started discussing heatedly regarding what was the best solution for the persecuted Jewish people in Europe. The first Jew advocated staying in Europe, cultivating the Jewish culture, identity, and the spoken language, Yiddish.
The second Jew advocated immigrating to Palestine in order to create a safe haven for the Jews, a Jewish homeland with its specific/local culture and a new language, Hebrew.
As they could not settle their differences, the second Jew said, “You take the Jewish culture, lifestyle and language in the diaspora, and I will take the vision regarding a Jewish homeland with its new culture and language.`
Those who learnt history know pretty well who of them was the real visionary and which solution prevailed.
I started to work on my vision around 1998. Its focus was to save humanity by altering it, reducing its blindness and self-destructive impulses.
Nowadays—2023—the state of our planet and humanity is going from bad to worse, signaling oncoming global catastrophes in this century and beyond. This worsening state of the human world activated my old imagination in 1998 for creating a viable vision for humanity, which may save it—altered—one day. I designed a vision/mission beyond our time/nature, without illusion of win-win progress toward it. I knew it would be bloody, harsh, and tearful, but it might save us from our self-defeating follies, I believe. And thus a circle in my life has been completed: I was born due to a vision regarding a new homeland for a persecuted people, and I am leaving behind a vision that may save persecuted humanity—on the verge strangulating itself—due to our inherent contrasts/nature.
Prologue
WHO IS THE WRITER AND HIS LIFE STORY
I, the timeless passerby
Our world has become ashen gray.
First disappeared human flies of Maj,
Then the old/new protective walls
Folk just faded away.
Many others went astray.
All of them drowned in
Oblivion Bay.
Yet I, the timeless passerby,
Am here to stay
with a guiding RAY
which paves the WAY
beyond human nature
self-destructive sway

I owe my life to my parents, being young, idealistic, and visionary, who sensed the growing danger in Europe for the Jews, who identified the establishment of a safe Jewish state for the Jews as an utmost necessity and pursued their vision of establishing a Jewish homeland. The rest of their family members, together with 6 million other Jews who did not believe in this vision, perished in Nazi concentration camps.
I was born in Palestine when it still was an English dominion, or colony (1945). My childhood was shadowed by atrocities and wars with the Arabs and by the trauma the Holocaust had inflicted on my parents and the Jewish population in Palestine.
My kibbutz bordered on Negev desert land and was peopled by feisty young Marxists. My parents and their comrades left Poland in 1936 to start a new life, liberated from heavy Jewish mentality, European anti-Semitism, and centuries of waiting for a Mashiach. They sensed the oncoming danger for Europe’s Jews and identified the impending necessity of acting resolutely and building a safe home for the Jewish people. It was risky, but they manned themselves up.
They never saw their families in Poland and Ukraine again.
This new life should inspire a new man liberated from past ties—a proud and fearless human being, productive and filled with solidarity toward the progressive forces throughout the world.
So I was born in a kibbutz where vision turned into a mission, and it was awesome to experience the wings of history lifting people from their muddy life up to struggle for something greater than their own, and other people’s, ordinary lives.
Before the independence war in 1947–48, the kibbutz was surrounded by Arabian villages and the mutual relationship was well. But in 1947–48, a war broke out, and all the village’s inhabitants fled to Gaza. When the war ended, the kibbutz was razed to the ground after the attack of the Egyptian army, and the Arab population—those who are Palestinians today—were gone. When I, as a little child, returned to the kibbutz in 1949—we were evacuated during the war—the Arabian villages with their mud-built houses were gone, razed to the ground by tractors. In a very short time in my childhood, I learned much about human, history, life, ideals, wars, visions, and the importance of identifying impending necessities in the right time and supplementing them with a viable and motivating vision, in order to face them best.
Wars and Human Nature: Soldier Time
The wars in which I participated taught me a brutal lesson, yet they too contributed to my view of life without an impending necessity and a vision/mission to face it is but mental ennui . Some bullets and mortars passed just beside me, and three times it was as if I was the target, but they hit either beside me or other people beside me. So in the battlefield, I learned that luck and coincidence in our lives play a tremendous role beside vision, mission, and executing strategy and force. I learned that in a fraction of a second, you risk being a lifeless body or a mutilated human being. I saw soldiers and people becoming in a fraction of a second invalid. And if you survive these wars, you learn to appreciate life as a gift … which you have an obligation to keep making better for the common well. Wars teach you something very fundamental about what it is to be a human being beyond our polished civilized manner and humanistic life view. You come to understand that wars will not disappear from the face of the earth as a result of naïve, humanistic, wishful thinking or religious scripture or prayers. Only by fundamen