As I said my main goal is to point out the immense, unspeakable, beauty of the cosmos to my fellow readers. To do this I will emphasize openness to the Cosmos that surrounds us. Generally we are more open to the human society, and we feed on the theories, practices and so on that make our civilizations more efficient. We are able to put millions of people in a very small place and they all comply with the rules, they mostly think alike, they don't kill each other, they don't rob each other too much. It all works, and it's great, and I don't want to contribute to destabilize this wondrous achievement. However, it should be possible to replace the fears, superstitions and lies that glue our society together with the truth. Or isn't it?
If people didn't believe in heaven or hell, in a punishing God, if they saw their own selves, and humanity as a whole, as a random event of millions of years of evolution, would it interfere with the ability to respect others' private space and right to live life in their own way? Would we became blinded by light, by truth?
Unfortunately I believe this to be the case. But I also believe that people who are not ready to face the abyss of existence (that we are but a part of an immense universe in which we do not have the central role) will simply deny it. They will take a short look at the abyss and then they'll take again the safe refuge of religion and superstition, taking the lies for truth and imagining the gargantuan story of which we are part as just a figment of the imagination. They will prefer to wear blindfolds while walking on the edge of a precipice. As long as they don't see it, as long as they have the second coming to wait for, or reincarnation to minimize death, they won't feel a thing. Good for them!
I speak openly because of this: I want to scare away all the people that are not ready to read me. Unlike Thomas Paine I do not believe that people are ready for an "age of reason". Indeed I think we will never be, at least not with these bodies and brains. Slowly, when cures for diseases improve our life-spans, the more we approach to being eternal through changing our minds from biological compounds to organically engineered compounds (in a few thousand years if all goes well, or a few millions if things go awkward), the more we will approach unlimited cognitively ability, the less we'll have to face death, the more we will be willing to accept our role in history. Today, we are so insignificant than just to look at our species in this little speck of dust orbiting a dull star in some corner of the galaxy is sufficient to put down all our dreams of grandeur. And that is too much for almost all of us.
In the historical period in which we live only those with a great desire for truth will follow it, accepting our smallness and vulgar rarity. I don't expect that these kinds of speeches will have many readers, much less to become mainstream. In the future yes, all this and much more will become clear to our descendants. But not yet.
So, to those who search the truth I propose two main strategies to "open our eyes" to the beauty and mystery of everything that surrounds us: we will not deny anything that we see, we will not affirm what we do not understand. In one sentence, we must be true to our own experience. Following this precept we will be sure that our mind will follow our experience. Generally this does not happen and we generally deny and affirm what is socially useful. For instance members of a certain community will adamantly affirm that there is no such thing as telepathy, while members of a differently community will adamantly affirm that there is such a thing as telepathy, etc.
If we want to know the truth we have to despise all human membership considerations. We have to listen to what it is that we really can see, know, experience, etc. In my case, I have experienced many things that, according to the well-educated society, are impossible.