INSIGHTS ON LIFE

Activating Your GodSelf

Chapter One: A Glimpse of Utopia

You wake up on a given morning, stretch yourself with a reviving yawn and step out of the bed. The first thing you realize is that things have changed from the way you left them the night before. The floor on which you set your feet is cold smooth, not the rugged floor you know of; the bed from which you rose up is not the same bed you thought you slept on – this is a bed that just collapsed itself into a couch right in front of your eyes!

What is happening?

Your eyes instantly move to the walls and you shudder at the fact that your walls are made of transparent glass and the amazing exterior view calls you on. You step over and are doubly stunned to find yourself located on the top of a 50-feet residential skyscraper. Below you is a stunning view of a cityscape the like of which you never saw in your whole life – awesome futuristic structures lined up across the horizon like a cut-out from the world of a science fiction movie. Flying cars crisscross your view in such symmetrical traffic you wonder how each speeding vehicle isn’t colliding with another.

This view is spellbinding and at the same time confusing. Where are you and how did you get here? This is so strange to you. You slept off sleeping in your dark room somewhere in a remote suburb, and you woke up here? Is this the future or are you dreaming?

To find out, you slap yourself to feel you are indeed alive and well. Yes, it is you. You run over to the door and see it locked with a different locking system; no door knob. There is a palm-print recognition panel on the wall. Your whole right palm is your key. So you place your palm on it and the door slides open before you. You thrill at it and smile. Wow! This is so amazing; you say to yourself.

As you step out through the door, you see a complex system of elevators spiraling up and down the center of this cylindrical mass residential building of which your small room is part. Common people traffic themselves to and fro as they go about their business. You join them; you feel the difference of this elevator, not the single pod elevator you know of. This is a spiral vehicle moving you in descending circular motion to the ground floor.

You get to the ground floor and notice that the spiral is just a case for the conveyor that took you down. You marvel at such design and as you turn back to continue your gradual discovery of this new world, you bump into an android robot cleaning up mess on the floor as it slides past you. It turns to you and sends a warm warning for you to watch out. Wow! That was a talking robot! Amazing, you say.

Then, around the circular lobby of this tall building, you see people doing amazing stuffs with their minds, spellbinding creative stuff. Children can levitate objects over their hands. Some adults are performing magical feats the likes of which are not rehearsed. Everything is magical and seemingly supernatural all around you.

The levels of the minds of the people you see around here have upgraded to something you do not yet have an idea of but which you feel you can as well do. And the truth is you can. Now you can tell something is way out of your understanding at the moment and this curiosity launches you out to the exterior of the building and you see a well ordered world. Even the air is fresher than what you normally breath.

Through the continued moments of your time, you discover more to this world than you have seen. The civilization of this dispensation is an advancement of the world you once knew. The forms of previous things have taken on newer forms: the cars flying over your head are advanced concepts from the same cars that drive on roads, only their forms have changed. Telecommunication systems have advance also and you have a choice of a wide range of options. You could communicate with a phone on which video calls are as cheap and fast as voice calls. You could enter a telepod to transport your virtual self over long distances so that you and whosoever you want to communicate with can do so like in actuality. They see you and how you are dressed with your full facial features and body movements, and you see the same thing of them. You can touch your virtual selves, consider documents, and see material things as they actually are, but can’t transport them via the telepod. This is a new type of telecommunication.

In this world, everything has changed. Healthcare system is a do-it-yourself affair. You simply have to walk into a diagnostic computer pod to check what ailment registers on your body and get it fixed on the spot. The sciences have made such breakthroughs and discoveries to increase human life on earth and to battle diseases as quick as they come. The sciences have saddled themselves with new endeavors: mind-communication, interplanetary travel and distant-voyage space missions. We have found alien life. We have discovered we are not the only ones in the universe. Beings like us, some as human as ourselves, some different from us, and even more advanced than us, visit us and we visit them. There are wide exchanges with these advanced extra-terrestrials for the promotion of life and business across the galaxies. The expanse and nature of the Universe is no longer a hoax or some contraption of the disturbed mind of an isolated science fiction writer. The Universe is indeed wide, inhabited by diverse life forms and we are just one of these. It is a huge community with levels of advancement and civilization. And the idea of GOD now surpasses what the religions have before now told you. You have a healthy awareness of the Grandness of the Almighty, the Luminous Supreme Being whose Mind regulates the Universe. Not a small man seated on a cloudy seat.

As you consider yourself in this awesome utopian world, enthralled by the level of advancement and the superb quality of life, everything you’ve seen thus far starts dissolving before your very eyes. And in a blink, you wake up in your little room in the suburb of your normal world. You have just awakened from a dream. You have been given the privilege to see what the world can look like many years from now. You want to return to sleep, to remain there, but you can’t. You have to face reality.

Do you think what you have just experienced could be impossible?

Do you think it is impossible for common people to live in high-rise housing structures and to assess services that used to belong exclusively to the rich?

Do you think it is impossible to communicate telepathically with another person over long distances and see them as they are as though you two were having real physical interactions?

Do you think it is impossible for interstellar travel to become the norm like traveling from Lagos to Abuja or from New York to London?

You think it is impossible for mankind to find other life forms in the universe, to interact with intelligent creatures like ourselves, thereby expanding our understanding of the universe and the joy of living in it?

The possibilities today were once the impossibilities of yesteryears. Think about that. And everyone who is going to be part of a future where creativity has no bounds will have to develop the mindset of a creator. The future will belong to gods, to those who from the depths of their souls design the new face of the world.

You can be part of this race of creative beings. You can play a conscious and active role in the tomorrow that is coming. You only have to know you already are. Through the pages of this book, you shall see your true self before your own mirror.

Victor Negro is based in Lagos. He writes on matters of life and existence as he thinks, preferring a better understanding of common questions.