Adults Recalling Their Childhood. The Inevitable Experience of Looking Back at Your Childhood. The Human Species Looking Backing in History and Seeing Its Own Future Too! For the Current and Future Survival of the Human Species Versus The Self-Destruction of the Human Species. By: Mr. George D. Patnoe., Jr! October 25th, 2018.

Adults Recalling Their Childhood.

The Inevitable Experience of Looking Back at Your Childhood.

The Human Species Looking Backing in History and Seeing Its Own Future Too!

For the Current and Future Survival of the Human Species

Versus

The Self-Destruction of the Human Species.

By: Mr. George D. Patnoe., Jr!

October 25th, 2018.

Some life experiences are so personal that every human being must experience those life experiences alone, unless you have someone to talk to who can hold a conversation with you about you and your mental experiences. HUM! Mental experiences! Well, believe it or not folks, my dear readers, your internal mental experiences are much more important than your external worldly experiences, especially if you expect to live long enough to remember your childhood’s way of life.

The older people know what I am writing about because they have passed the mental dividing line of mentally looking backward at their lives instead of mentally looking forward at their future life including their deaths. That mental dividing line happens at time periods for every human being. But sooner or later you can bet that your memories will come back to haunt you like a ghost in the night. This mental experience can not be stopped so you better watch what you do and think when you are growing up living your life before the great mental dividing line experience of looking back versus looking forward happens to you.

Why am I writing about the fact that you are going to remember your childhood you may be wondering yourselves. Because so often on a very regular basis I have this uncanny and moreover extraordinary experience when two ideas pop up into my life at the exact same moment of time, like it did this week. So now I will write about it for the fun of it and to give my dear readers something to think about besides your petty little human lives. I do not mean to be insulting, but the truth is the truth when it comes to the big facts of life.

To be more specific in this case it happened when I was reading a book titled ‘Running from Safety.’ by Richard Bach and a few days later I started watching the Netflix movie series titled ‘Knightfall.’ They both had something that was common which happens to every human being if you live long enough to experience what I term the mental dividing line between looking purely forward to your future to if not almost but sometimes looking completely at your past inside your mind’s memories of your life all the while knowing that one day you will die and leave planet earth.

I had started reading a book by Richard Bach titled, ‘Running from Safety.’ I have to admit it took some reading into the book to get me interested. I almost put the book down for a later time, which meant for good. But I like reading Richard Bach’s books. If you recall he wrote the books Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions. If you have not read those two books you are missing out on good mental adventures. Richard Bach was an United States Air Force pilot whose love for airplanes and other flying craft and flying in general reaches no bounds whatsoever. But Richard is also a writer too.

I started watching the Netflix movie series Knightfall one night and the next night until I watched six hours of the series in one night just to get to the end of the movie series. The movie was about a man named iLandry du Lauzon of the Knights Templar and how he needed to mentally return to his boyhood to help him solve a problem in his current and immediate future life. Both his childhood and his adulthood needed to solve a mystery which made for a very good movie serious to watch. Of course the movies series was good for other reasons too, in my opinion.

‘Who are the Knights Templar?

‘The Knights Templar was a large organization of devout Christians during the medieval era who carried out an important mission: to protect European travelers visiting sites in the Holy Land while also carrying out military operations. A wealthy, powerful and mysterious order that has fascinated historians and the public for centuries, tales of the Knights Templar, their financial acumen, their military prowess and their work on behalf of Christianity during the Crusades still circulate throughout modern culture.’ Taken from the web.

So a common denominator for both the book and the movie for this online essay and story is that two grown adult men mentally looked back at their childhood life to recall childhood experiences to solve problems in their adulthood life. Richard writes about and describes his personal experience of talking to his nine year self Dickie while iLandry du Lauzon in the movie is concerned with finding a Holy Grail or a cup that Jesus drank from over two thousand years ago.

I have met many different types and kinds of human beings throughout my life. Some of them have told me their stories and I wrote them down in my 2007 writing blog titled 52 Stories in 52 Weeks at www.tastethewind.blogspot.com.. You have to search for the year 2007 to read all of my 52 Stories in 52 Weeks. But if you want to read them, the stories are there for the reading. I have learned that many people have memories that they can never forget even if they wanted to forget them for one reason or another.

I have learned one thing about people who have told me their life stories or usually just one story that changed their life or had a big influence on their mental memory bank. That one thing is that before they die or leave planet earth they will never forget certain life changes and experiences because those experiences are embedded into their human brains and minds like water that is soaked into a sponge. They may get some details wrong, but not the general event, if they were had been drinking or drunk or had been taking drugs or both drinking and drugs.

But the problem is that both childhood memories and even adult memories can be very tricky to remember properly. A human being might remember a very specific event and that human being might have some details partly wrong or completely wrong, even if something did happen to them. Or they may remember every detail exactly as if it happened yesterday. The human brain and mind and consciousness is a very tricky thing to handle, especially by yourself. But sometimes that is all you have to help you; your own brain, mind, and consciousness.

The human brain is hardwired basically the same way in every way for every human being. But the software or the inputs into that hardwired human brain minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, for years and years can begin to work certain changed mental perceptions when a human being crosses that mental dividing line from looking constantly into its future into with their individual and personal life experiences to mentally looking back or recalling your individual and personal human history. Recalling childhood memories is a purely mental experience which every human being processes as they get live longer and longer.

But then the human brain, mind, and consciousness begins its slow and long or sometimes very fast and short journey into the realm of the dying stage of life, (if you believe in the dying stage of life) and the death and after stage of life too. It can not be avoided for every human being on planet earth. Some humans die a good death and other humans die a bad death. But so too is the human species facing such issues now. The human species can look at its past, its very slow and long history of evolution and development and it can look into its future too which is always an uncertain mental phenomena.

The real issues for each human being is that those living memories within the brain, mind, and consciousness are very real and living creatures within the realm of the human mind and consciousness. Until it is realized that maybe they are nothing at all when dying and when a soul travels into the afterlife. Sometimes memories linger with no problems whatsoever and sometimes memories have to be handled in various ways. In the end though, the future is more important than the past for each human being. Even death must be handled one way or another way which is another futurist mental experience for every human being.

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This is the dividing line between individual and personal memory recall and looking into the future versus the whole collective human species recalling its historical past and then looking into its own future as a human species, for the survival of the human species.
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The Collective Human Species. Looking Back at Its Past and Looking Forward Into the Future.

If you think about what I wrote about above the dividing line in this essay and story, it is the same sort of experience with the collective human species too. The human species loves to study the history of the cosmic universe, the planet earth and the other planets too. The human species loves to study itself, the cavemen, the dinosaurs, and all of the life on planet earth too. The human species loves to study the physical memory of the cosmic universe, planet earth, life on planet earth, and even beyond planet earth too. The human species loves to search for life in outer space. The human species looks to study itself too, its biological body, its human brain, mind, and consciousness. That is all fine and good and normal and natural for understanding all there is to know about how we got to where the human species is now.

Here is the rub or dilemma. The human species should really be more worried about its future than its past. No matter what happened in the past, the past is gone and the future is always arriving tomorrow. The human species must be more worried about future because the human species is changing faster and faster in more and more different ways. Some of those ways are controllable and some of those ways are uncontrollable. That is very a very dangerous scenario. Some of those ways are good and some of those ways are very bad for the human species. But how is studying the dinosaurs or the cavemen going to help solve the modern day problems and issues facing the current and future human species?

The collective human species is like the man and boy in the book ‘Running from Safety.’ And the collective human species is like the main character iLandry du Lauzon in the Netflix movie serious ‘Knightfall.’ It is normal and natural to look and remember the past, to recall the past because that is how the human brain, mind, and consciousness works and operates. As a matter of fact it is really mentally impossible not to look at and remember the past within the mind of each living human being, just as it is normal and natural to look back at the history of the cosmic universe, the planet earth, and the stages and states of living matter on planet earth. There is no harm in it and there is a lot to be learnt from looking back and recalling the past events of any historical aspect of any level of life.

But there must be a moment of time, a dividing line between looking back at the past of anything and remembering the past and even studying individual and personal memories and looking towards the future and getting ready for the future, even getting ready for death itself and any possible afterlife. And so it is with the collective human species. The human species must begin to consciously look towards its future for its current and future survival and not towards its own destruction and death as a collective human species.

There has always been the cosmic question, “Did the cosmic universe and especially and specifically life on earth happen by luck, by chance, or by a God who is a divine designer or Supreme Intelligence. Well maybe it does not matter how or maybe it does matter now. But now that the human species is alive and living, maybe the real question or the more important questions should be how is the human species going to consciously survive into the future not by luck or by chance, or even by a Supreme Intelligence, but by its own conscious decision to make the correct choices instead of making the wrong choices and decisions.

In a many ways, the human species is in one big freaking mess. It loves sex partly because it believes it is the greatest pleasure ever, even if that is a mental delusion. It loves to take mind altering drugs in all forms for pleasure, for fun, and for escapism too. It loves to make bigger and better weapons of war and mass destruction, even if there are already enough nuclear weapons to currently destroy every living creature on earth many times over. It loves to live the good live not caring one ounce about the poor and starving people on planet earth. And even more importantly it seems, the human species does not care about its own current and future survival, as a conscious problem and issue that all nations and countries must come together to form the very correct plan of action to insure and ensure that the human species does not destroy itself.

Old time religion is dying. Local and global politics is becoming more depended on the fear of bombs and controlling economics than of mutual understanding and communication. Different cultures are still different while at the same time they are becoming more common. Like everyone gets to go to a Walmart or Starbucks or a McDonalds all over the world if they have money, even if their religions and clothes and cultures are different.

Maybe Richard Bach or some other writer should write a book titled, ‘Running Towards Safety.’ for the current and future survival of the human species. With the subtitle being, ‘Running into the Future Survival of the Human Species. Or maybe that is my job as a writer because that seems to be my general writing theme for so many of my online lectures and essays.

There are so many lessons of the historical past that should have been learnt and never forgotten. But it seems to be the the collective human species simply forgets its own really big mistakes, the effects of all of the human blood that has been spilled during all of the big wars, like the America’s Civil war, the WWI and WWII wars, etc, etc, etc. The human species is forgetting that war and weapons of war does not solve any local or global problem. War is a very expensive and illogical solution and not a good answer when communication between global leaders should always be the answer to any local or global problem and issue, no matter what that problem and issue is at that moment in time.

Every major nation on planet earth is making bigger and better weapons of war with the intent of going to war if it war is decided to be the answer to anything that needs protecting by a local or national leader. Really? Is war ever going to be the answer if it destroys the human species? No! War is never the answer for truly solving human made problems. Well, one thing is very certain. If another world war ever happens, then another dividing line will have taken place which could lead to the destruction of the human species.

After that, no more dividing lines for the human species, individually or collectively!