Further than Before- Pathway to the Stars

by Matthew Opdyke

  Due to misunderstandings of purpose and methods as well as, in too many cases, greed and misery—or linear, myopic, and fear-focused thinking, resources are driven to near-depletion or read-off as infeasible in order to drive costs in the direction necessary for the sole outcome of increased gains for those who already have so much. Costs are seen as skyrocketed despite the priceless value of the results that would be possible from the many helpful and beneficial scientific studies that could otherwise be provided to so many more in much less time. Access in so many ways seems extremely limited to those who wish to invest time in research, development, and realization of positive and concrete results and outcomes that could help others—even from trusted scientists (which is a fierce tragedy of its own right). In some ways, heroes do come along to help, but they are assaulted by those who claim to help but do nothing.

  Progress, improvements, and even aid to mitigate untold suffering in many ways is diminished to a bureaucratic crawl, all too often. In so many ways, the information that ought to be available to each citizen is not available to highly studied and skilled professionals or engineers. Those who could conduct the studies and build the mechanisms necessary in order to move the resultant cures and solutions to any crisis, or increase the quality of life, or move the many sciences forward to the next level of advancement or improvement, are left uninformed.

  Research-rich advances could be moved forward in an efficient manner if enough powerful “superheroes” of economics and information were ethically involved in funding and proliferation of this capacity. In doing this, not only would they as economic and informational curators, geniuses, and benefactors prosper, but they would also be appreciated by those they helped to live healthy, happy, and meaningful lives. Additionally, while they do this, they too would benefit because their workforce would do so much more with an increased ability to work longer, with more ingenuity, and a mind for greater advancements. Loyalty would become second nature due to an assurance, in this manner, of well-being.

  We may not need to overhaul our economic systems, but perhaps it would be more advantageous for all—even the greedy and selfish if we were to have economies that valued life, longevity, and the well-being of others over immediate and materialistic wealth. Quality of life and well-being of those entrusted by our stewardship can provide abundance and prosperity to everyone within our circle of influence, and with so much more to enjoy. There are more than enough resources and possibilities for each individual involved to enjoy enabled, compensated, and even appreciated contributions to the advancement of humanity. Doing this will result in more time and opportunity to explore the Universe and enjoy life while breeding more loyalty, and self-governance through purpose and clarity-driven innovation.

  We all know that lust for power over others, mindless greed, and materialism sickens the very nature of our existence, right down to our physiological and neurological health. So I ask, why not treasure well-being over merely assumed and thusly compensated wealth. Reasonably and wisely shared prosperity, where privilege with overabundance leads to more education and capacity to be involved among the masses and thereby an increase to quality of life on the whole, while also bringing further clarity to our compassion for others. In so doing, we will be able to live knowing that those whom we serve, love us and are leading more joyous lives. No one needs to lose a thing when opening windows of joy to others, instead we can create a healthier, more structured, and abundant world of beauty for all, even as we expand throughout our Universe.

  While it is understandable from a psychological perspective the serene, calming, and respectful effect that high-quality leadership offices may imbue, wouldn’t we prefer to have that while also having the opportunity to enjoy nice chats with the masses over campfires and nice beverages, while looking up at the stars and sharing experiences from the past and dreams of the future, rather than solely and morbidly ruling over a desiccating and disintegrating populace that is the result of corruption, brutality, toxicity, slander, negligence, or greed?

  Perhaps we could value education and health via contribution by way of moving our value system to one of innovation and productivity with a purpose of increasing overall well-being rather than one of increasing the necessity of monetary gain for that sake alone—with a system where everything needed is there and unnecessary stressors give way to advancements that both preserve life and the quality of it.

  In so many ways, we are so very close to overcoming the “longevity” obstacle and even arriving toward options for personal enhancement, but the well-being and neurological health hurdles seem to evade far too many. Ultimately, we need to preserve life, and in many ways, those that actually help to improve and preserve life most are the humble people working hard to barely survive. In some cases, they impart a better life for their children or others who they share this mortal existence without notice. This is a form of psychological evolution. In many other unnoticed ways, that which helps us, even more, are stem cells, white blood cells, and other microscopic organisms working in tangent with us and in other completely intriguing ways, they are the largest creatures or cosmic super constructs we know of or have yet to discover.

  What I have mentioned about sciences to study was certainly not an all-inclusive list—one need only conduct their own research through readily available resources, such as Google or Wikipedia and university journals, to find amazingly abundant lists and categories of sciences to understand. As we do, we’ll no doubt realize that there will always be so much more we have yet to learn and thus, can do.

  We can have fun along the journey in our own lives and along the way to advancement in order to achieve our greatest of dreams. With so much knowledge to gain, so much literature and text to pore over, and so much wisdom to impart between each other, we will certainly need to share the burden of large resources of comprehensive information by being transparent about advances in science and health-related developments and by developing large database networks to fuse complex ideas together. In this way, scientists in one area of expertise can see how certain areas of study they focus on can affect other areas of expertise focused on by others who are also well-trained, well-studied, and have the clarity of vision to advance society to a better day. By doing this work we will find an increase in wisdom, which will result in new breakthroughs, and we will find new promise in so many other aspects of life—we will expand our knowledge of and access to all that the Universe has to offer.

  Through longevity, kindness, compassion, productivity, and innovation, we can compound upon our wisdom rather than lose untold potential altogether as the breath of life sadly decreases to a stop. To be able to enjoy life with the awesome abilities gained from the collaborative efforts of both understanding and harnessing the powers of the convergence of sciences, we’ll need to find many ways—effective ways—to safeguard the many powerful tools produced from those that do not share the goal of well-being for others nor themselves.

  In order to safeguard our capabilities, we'll need to make sure that there are processes in place to prevent the effects of disastrous designs by those with malicious intent from drawing us backward and against the ethics of longevity and well-being, as we are enabled to gain access to and interact with these technologies. We need to do what we can to prevent any effort on the part of malevolent individuals in bringing about unimaginable horrors upon all of life as we know it.

  Neuroscience can be a strong force for protection, intellect, and wisdom. This science needs to be understood in depth along with psychology, gene therapy, and through many other integrated efforts and technologic tools in order to create mechanisms that will eliminate the potential for disaster as access by individuals that have malicious intent may destroy all of life as we know it.

  It is also necessary to understand that in some cases many great advances will actually come from those deemed radically insane, so it is incumbent to allow study by many of whom we fear to still be possible, yet we can likewise create fail-safes t
o prevent horrible ends from harming anyone. In many other cases, while most advanced civilizations in other distant locations beyond our current scope of knowledge may tend toward being benevolent, during our universal journeys we may also run into very malevolent and highly advanced civilizations whose designs for us are counter to our survival. Thus, the more we know about every aspect of science and how to turn that into the networked powerhouse of the preservation of life, understanding, and its well-being, the more power and promise we will have Universe-wide.

  However, when it comes to public safety, great technologies may need control mechanisms until access to disaster mitigation is available to all at a moment’s notice. For that, we may need to advance beyond fingerprinting, retinal scanning, and voice identification—and notably so, since none of these security measures can identify intent. Highly sophisticated neuro-scanners with a democratic provision for access may be the answer. Whatever it is that may be the answer here, we know it will take the collaboration of many healthy minds and caring individuals to set the bar high enough for the legacy of humanity to prevail.

  We must write the rules. We must not hide away in mediocrity. We, the people, must engage in civil discourse on a daily basis, we must engage in settling matters at the lowest and least escalated level, and then work with our legislators, our executives, and our judicial officials to settle matters at the highest possible levels—perhaps we will need to become the legislators, executives, and judges, with the necessary influence.

  How many people must we lose, due to the sluggish pace in innovation and advancement—which is a result of altogether too much litigation, patenting, and negligence of laws toward the well-being of others—before we make the necessary changes?

  How much longer must we go on in life, while losing even more precious friends and family members before we discover that advancements wrought by infusing something into our character as we go along, something with a solid foundation, something as simple as compassion, will preserve more lives sooner and with fewer costs to everyone affected?

  Whatever it is we find ourselves doing or whatever changes we make, we must find ourselves overcoming unnecessary, overly complicated and expensive obstacles, by resolving doubts caused by distractive naysaying about progress so that we can live enriching lives, rather than acquiesce our existence to delusion, corruption, negligence, and eventual non-existence.

  That which has no compassion at its core, brings about the fruits of delusion, because only by working together can we overcome the laws of chaos which will overcome humanity unless we actually overcome chaos itself, by bending it to our will, and by beginning with the spirit of organized unity and kindness. There is much to be said by the simple comparison of the wildfire and the fire which occurs in our fireplace to warm us during cold parts of the year—in the case of negligence in science, chaos becomes uncontrolled and leaves ruthless destruction in its wake.

  We must reach out to each other, educate ourselves in so many ways, create safeguards so that if someone is lacking in ethics, or needs the necessary therapies, we can develop the means to overcome their own demise and its unfortunate negative effects, and help them—and by association ourselves.

  While there are many individuals with unhealthy minds full of miserable ends for anyone but themselves, ultimately, we know that if we look around or even contemplate the many wonderful people we know, there is no doubt we will find ourselves pondering upon even more countless and amazing examples of human beings and humanity’s friends that we do know—who have inspired us toward greatness and with whom we’ve shared joy with throughout our lives. No doubt there are countless selfless and gracious people and wonderful companions of life whom we would most certainly appreciate having around for the long-haul since it is not just for ourselves, but for them also that we evolve.

  Living, breathing, and being around long enough with excellent health allows us to not only compound upon our wisdom and gain an understanding of how our bodies work, but they allow us to use those very same resources, to include body, mind, knowledge, capacities, and even dreams, all of which nature itself has given us, to improve upon every noble goal and their results.

  If we choose to evolve—perhaps nature may be able to take a much-needed break, that no doubt it has enabled us to give it. Evolution has armed us with sufficient minds to take over for a while. Being the kind of friends to Nature we would appreciate having, ourselves, we can become as the kind of doctor or surgeon we’d prefer to have as we go into that timeless slumber until restitutions have been made and healing is made possible. However, we will never evolve to the degree with which we need to if we limit ourselves, our knowledge, our wisdom, our experiences, and our analysis based on and due to some illogical stigma, which has no basis in our own or our loved ones’ well-being.

  Quite cyclically and in quite the interwoven fashion, each of the things I’ve discussed, when used in their appropriate context, affords us the ability to increase our lifespans, as well as the coherent healthiness of our minds, all in the interest of preserving our history, our consciousness, our wisdom, our art, our romances, and our legacy. If we foster an environment that foments healthy frames of mind, by reducing factors that create an environment of malice and greed, it is possible that even our economy will be more focused on improvement of life, exploration, and discovery.

  The value of each individual can be reciprocated. Our health, our minds, and our mindset of healthy behaviors can win the quest of preserving life and exploring the ends of the Universe. Through our shared efforts as mentioned above, we can begin harnessing the scientific capacity to develop systems that allow us to gather the materials flying around dangerously at any planet, via mining asteroids, which have been estimated by many to carry an average value of 20 Trillion US Dollars of essential ores, a piece. Between the orbits of Venus, Earth, and Mars there are at least twenty-thousand of these dangerous, yet resource heavy, asteroids that could bombard Earth’s atmosphere and destroy all of life and the evolution nature has made through us, setting sentience back again a few million years.

  So, why not mine them? Why not pay off all national debts? Why not pay for high-quality healthcare for all? Why not pay for high-quality education for all and even correctional services for all who might need them? While doing so, we should also consider gathering the millions of bits of space-junk, meteors, meteorites, and asteroids between the Earth and Jupiter by developing complex filtration systems with resource processing capabilities to eliminate damage caused by these objects. While using those resources to establish bases on the Moon, Mars and its moons, the Asteroid Belts, the moons of the outer region gas giants, and the dwarf planets and their moons, we also need to factor in and develop systems to ensure gravitational balance and systemic integrity.

  Through this primary initiative, when it comes to space travel investment, we can fund an end to national debt, bring an end to poverty, proliferate all that is necessary to ensure healthy physical states as well as healthy mental states, establish effective systems of education, preserve life, and prepare for intergalactic journeys farther than we’ve ever gone before. This alone would fund the development of worldwide IMCs capable of exploration of the stars and the galaxies, replete with the colonization of many distant worlds, and ultimately the preservation of diversified life and shared history throughout the Universe.

  There are also the asteroid belts between Mars and Jupiter, as well as asteroid groupings in large quantities leading and following Jupiter, all of which number at more than 1.6 million, and again there are countless asteroids sharing the orbits of Neptune and Pluto in the Kuiper Belt, leading almost all of the way out to the Oort Clouds which encapsulate our solar system with comets of water and other materials. All of this can certainly lead to shared prosperity where we can achieve our highest and most amazing of goals, while creating protective systems and shielding for our world and the solar system itself—but only if the decisions being made aren’t done so with minds
lost in chaotic delusions of greed and dominion over others, rather instead these decisions are made with kindness, compassion, life, longevity, and well-being at the core of the decision-making process—as long as they are done with universal ethics and morality.

  If we value each individual and their contributions we will be astounded at the results, as is evidenced in any professional or scientific journal articulating how morale affects ingenuity and innovation—even in workplace environmental management analysis. If we achieve the well-being of those around us more of us will be able to take control of our lives with clarity, our minds with wisdom, our hearts with health, and the results will be positive in every aspect, from innovation, to exploration, to the ultimate reality of harnessing the potential that lies before us as the Universe beckons our assistance and we answer the call, even for its own survival.

  To rise to the occasion of long-term existence and discovery, we must be greater than we are now by beginning the process of evolving ourselves. We must provide an enriching and overall healthy environment with visionary leadership for our children and even each other. We must give each other opportunities for greatness and then we can go further than before, as we create our pathway to the stars.

  We must also keep in mind, that with all we know, learn, or understand, we must never operate solely or only based upon what we “know” now or “believe,” but in addition to what we have yet to know or have yet to believe. There is a vast array of exciting journeys ahead of us, based on what we will yet learn to believe, analyze, and provide to each other. We certainly must test the limits of the laws and theories before us, to ensure we are not holding ourselves back from our full potential. While embracing both what we know, and yet will learn, the beauties of the Universe can be beheld by all.

  We must value every hard truth and every discovery while ensuring any theory of “all things” is malleable to improvement based on further evidence and facts. With an inner core of a “well-being” mindset that is unchangeable and respect for evidence and truth, wisdom will begin to take a priceless and fantastic shape in our reality, and passion for precision, pride in perfection, balanced with open-mindedness and a broader view will graduate us to a different level of resolution in life which will allow us to have more clarity and an understanding of our place in this world and how we are integrated with everything in it. Our consciousness, our intuition, and its use will help us to harness the powers given us, and the scope of the realities that surround us will provide us with a vision of something amazing, healthy, and full of meaning and possibilities.