"Void; On the shore" (painting #4) Krallosvierd series, 6' x 7' oil on canvas

    Human Beings: We are the mammals that know what it is to be a mammal and therefore we are above all others, or something like that. The fact is though that part of what we know is that we do not know so much. Where we come from in the cosmic sense is part of the unknown nature of everything and the complex puzzle of evolution on Earth holds so many twists and turns for lifetimes of study and exploration. We are the greatest mystery of all. This is not something to deny or hide from. When mystery is ignored and we pretend to know more than we do, then that is when ignorance is enhanced and we know even less than before.
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The top human...

   The top or chief human being is the one believed to have many powers and abilities depending upon with mythical system is referenced, but most definitions commonly include all human senses from hearing and seeing to feeling, thinking, judgment, and emotion, etc., even if it is not explained how this could be without physical form. Often referred to simply as "He" or "Him", Lord, God, Allah, Jesus, etc., this supreme being may also be called simply the "higher power" or universal energy, etc.. In most belief systems, the supreme humanoid being is readily available to each individual instantly upon request through prayer or ritual no matter how many thousands, millions, or even billions of people engage in this mental activity at the same time. One of the general promises made by the majority of the gods is eternal life, though not a single person I've spoken with has taken the time to consider what that proposition might really be like and how it would really work for billions of people from all eras and times would interact in a mythical heavenly realm for billions of years, etc. The definitions and forms behind the various beliefs are left fuzzy and general and seem to serve only as incentives for avoiding being a bad person under the general rules of the belief system or religion, even though one set of rules deemed good by one group is seen as bad by another.
In general, the central theme of many religions is the belief in a super humanoid deity of super version of the race, group, tribe, or society holding the beliefs.
  Someone once said, "Everyone is an atheist" for they don't believe is any of the gods (except their own). In the new Indiana Jones movie, there is a line about something god would do and he says "That depends on what god you believe in"....and that's the main point here...this site goes beyond all the many beliefs and gets at what is underneath it all and above...the real universe beyond belief.
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Immortal motivation...

   Nowhere in the accepted defintion of homo sapien does it include an immortal everlasting supernatural soul except inside religious belief and mythology. Many people believe in and accept this facet of a human being without question as part of the teachings they have been taught as fact and truth. If they were to examine this belief and seriously consider the ramifications of it, they might find some drawbacks to this contract. If one can imagine sitting upon a fluffy white cloud playing a harp, this might be nice for a while, but then extend this into years, decades, millenia...and then into hundreds of billions of years only to begin another eternity after that. This does not hold much appeal does it? Also include every other human being in this mythical system and you have quite alot of harp music going on for eternity :"-)...or fill in your own myth and run the same scenario.
   My point is that many beliefs are not well thought out and often the reference to "Him" is accepted as meaningful even though the male sexual reference does not relate at all to what a person says they actually believe and mean by it. It's all a very fuzzy and assumed and taken for granted system by which the strangest and most bizarre things can be believed without question or examination and terms that do not relate to the myths conflict with definitions in the imagination and it all gets very confusing. What ends up happening is that a person lives with delusion and illusion rather than reality and grounded Earthly beliefs.
   It's like being fast asleep.

The Flock Phenomenon

Understanding another persons thoughts and feelings can be one of the most difficult undertakings a human being can enter into. Finding common ground and feeling understood, having trust and agreement, knowing deeply what another feels or believes, and belonging to a group, tribe or family, can all be powerful drives and desires. This innate need or desire can sometimes be taken advantage of by various types of seemingly friendly individuals or groups and instinct to flock together can lead to behaviors, beliefs, and actions that might not be what is wanted after-all.   Group illusions or ideas can become fantasy worlds leading down a path of destruction, confusion, and delusion. Someone recently wrote to me about an idea they had heard that humanity was in a mystical period of Ascension into a higher form of consciousness or spiritual being, or something like this, which in the cold light of reality just sounds like mass death under some kind of group illusion of mystical transformation myth to me.
The reality of modern times is not an easy thing to look at, but to be awake and face what is really going on is key and important in the process of making change and building a better future. There is no need to paint mystical magical divine natures over top of what humanity is doing in the world, and if there is a convergence of thought and a gathering of common consciousness going on it may just be that people are waking up in time to stop the human race from flushing itself down the toilet. Even though that may not be the wondrous mystical event one might wish it to be, it is still beautiful and amazing and part of the globalization of the human race in the age of instant world wide web contact and connection.
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Let me tell you what you want....
What we want and need, as advertised. For a unique and interesting view of what humanity thinks it wants and what it is going to get, watch a clip from the extraordinary film, "How To Get Ahead In Advertising" by keywording it in and clicking on the film clip. People in power creating desires and needs fulfilling manufactured needs bringing about catastrophic horror in the name of profit, or something like that. This clip is just one that says a great deal about what it is to be human in modern times and why as we "advance" as a species we grow nearer to extinction.
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"One of the first things I was taught as a child was that I was not from Earth. Of course, it was not put in alien extraterrestrial terms exactly, but rather in mystical heavenly soul sort of terms. It was not until I was about 16 years old that I figured it out. I am a human being...and an Earthling."

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IT’S ONLY HUMAN…

human: 1) of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens. 2) consisting of human beings (the human race). 3) of or characteristic of humankind, esp. as being weak, fallible, etc. (is only human). 4) showing warmth, sympathy, etc. (is very human). – n. human being (Latin humanus)

Though the sense receptor system through which humans perceive the world around us is relatively tiny and delicate compared to that which is sensed, seen, and experienced, we seem to believe that we are bigger and more substantial than we actually are. Ruled by our instincts, DNA, chemical balance, environment, and mental states, social structure, and belief systems, etc., the control and freedom we have as individuals largely lies within our imaginations. The human realms of reality, truth, fact, knowledge, and so on is just that…a “human” realm. After all, “we’re only human”. The limitations, exaggerations, extrapolations, imaginations, and so forth and so on, of the human race is believed and agreed upon to be something more than it is. The “truth” is mostly a matter of opinion or faith and mass agreement of the particular society or times and what was once known as the tried and true nature of life and the universe in the past is now only part of history, myth, and legend, seen as figments of the imagination of past peoples. In the past, these workings and trends could come and go with relatively no impact on the world as a whole. Now in modern times this is not the case. These behaviors, errors, myths, and misguided “knowledge” have lead to massive changes to the entire ecosystem of Earth in ways that can never be reversed or repaired.

Believing that the universe began in a primordial seed in no/time-no/space, that the human “soul” exists in an extraterrestrial alternative dimension, and that humans are divine created by a supernatural entity, and somehow above the natural world, etc., have lead to a re-evolution of the planet turning it into something other than that which is conducive to life as we know it. Beliefs that we are separate from the ecosystem in which we evolved are at the heart of what is killing us. Ideas are our downfall.

The one thing that allows for any hope at all is that the very thing that is killing us is the one thing we have the most power over to change…our minds. And, at the time of this writing, there is still time to change (of so I believe)…I’m only human after all, and that’s the reason I have faith things will somehow turn out ok.

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Thought process... (2001, edited from 1981 journal entry)

The cosmos is not what we think it is.
Thinking is a human process, of course. Human process allows people to conceive of things in their environment and beyond. This process, being a human one, is human-centric with a tendency to anthropomorphize, ascribing human characteristics to other things. The relationship in this process also tends to make of reality that which is understandable. It is part of human nature to tend to make things understood and to find answers to our questions. That which is understandable and accepted is what is taught in school. Some of us did not accept what we were taught. I was one of those who did not accept things as real, true and believable in school. Some of the things I was taught seemed to be only concepts designed to suit what people wanted to believe. In truth, the big questions were without answers, but answers were given anyway. Reality itself turned out to be one of those concepts. I was shocked and delighted at the same time. So much of what I was taught in school and church, from television and movies, and from family and friends was actually a collection of beliefs, ideas, myths, dogmatic repetition, and otherwise learned behavior. The whole world, and even the whole universe, was open to discovery. I wanted in on it. My eighth grade science teacher did not really know where the idea for the Big Bang Theory came from or why anyone thought such a ridiculous idea could have any merit whatsoever. For some reason, this thrilled me incredibly and fueled my twelve-year-old fancy such that it changed my life. Dreaming about the nature of the cosmos became a daily vocation, and questioning everything became a great joy in my life. Even the Amoeba was a total mystery! How marvelous is that? After class, in Junior College Biology this time, the professor confessed that it was just not really known how these microscopic creatures live, motivate, digest and reproduce. Though he had some very interesting information about chemical reaction, attraction, and the basics of life, but in general, it was a mystery.
Though I dreamt of being the one to find The Grand Unified Theory of Everything, as I grew older, it was exciting enough to discover that this formula and basis for this search was fraught with error and assumption, and was in fact impossible to solve the way it was being thought about. The Big Bang Theory was also never a very good idea from its first invention, and even the name was not really appropriate beyond being a catchy one expounding upon the classic myth of genesis. Popular science in general left a great deal of room for improvement and discovery. The idea that gravity came from folds in space/time, and that the speed of light was constant, and that the red shifting of distant light must equate to velocity, were all among the ideas in need of replacement. Though I did not grow up to be The Father of The New Cosmology, by this time in my life, after decades of work, research, dreams and vision, I have a thing or two to say that might be of interest to those of creative and inquisitive thought. It is especially important for more young students to learn about these “job openings” and the wide-open nature of science, philosophy, cosmology and the field of consciousness studies, etc. This is the work of a dreamer, artist, lover of mystery, and an investigator of the world of modern cosmology. As an artist, the way I expressed ideas in cosmology was to make images in oil on canvas paintings. In place of mathematical formula and scientific theory, symbols and shapes told a story of a large scale cosmic structure from which everything we now see could have sprung. It is art related to science and vision and idea produced by years of yearning to know something more than what I was taught.

From "Zoid's" coloring book, copy right 1980.