Synopses & Reviews
In order to start a discussion on any new idea, or even a proposal, a baseline must be established. It is a bit like going to a psychiatrist and askingfor a diagnosis on a human subject. The psychiatrist must conduct a series of tests to determine the subject's baseline condition to see how theneurons are firing. In this chapter we will attempt to baseline our knowledge of the day and see what inspires the biological life to explore, toplan to go, and to aspire to move to a different planet.Let us think of a giant spaceship named paradise. In this spaceship, there is a group of beings including man that has disobeyed the commander. Thecommander must evict this group from the paradise per the rules of the spaceship. So the commander looks for a suitable planet. Let us call thisplanet the Earth. The spaceship hovers over the Earth. The commander lays down the law to this group and says: get down. He then foretells themmore bad news that some of you will be the enemies of the other (i.e. you will shed each other's blood). At the end of the verdict he gives them alittle good news: and for you, this Earth is the destination and has in it all the provisions that you will need to survive, for a time.Well That time is up; the time has come for the biological life on Earth to start a journey in the cosmos on its own strength, and the first stepshave already been taken.1.1 The Urge to ExploreThe urge to explore and to multiply takes a Monarch Butterfly from Canada across the United States to Mexico, some two thousand miles. Its wings barelyspan a few inches and the body weighs not even a quarter of an ounce and yet it fearlessly soars across the Great Lakes and into the Great Plainsfacing every predator and hostile elements that are unthinkable from its point of view. The pilgrimage happens every year and the Day of Judgmentarrives for a generation of the monarchs with the same frequency. There is grace and beauty in this exploration. It has in it a goal; it has in it fullsuccess; and it has new life. It has in it the beautiful death of the old and after the burial, the beginning of a new sacred mission of the nextgeneration.