QUOTE(minkus @ Dec 20 2007, 03:00 PM)

Humans always want more, more
I believe that in general we did fell from a higher spiritual state into a lower one wich is more materialistic, certainly here in the west.
I believe it happened (sort of) in the opposite direction. We were in a lower state (lower meaning more earthy, lower dan tien, less individual, more infinite) and came up to a higher state (higher into our heads, developed individuality became very finite).
note that there is no connotation of lower = bad and higher = good or visa versa.
We used to be much more connected to the earth and its resources, not really identifying ourselves as separate from it and from our 'tribe'. There was a study done on amazonian tribes where they tried to teach them maths (counting in descreet individual units) - the amazonians couldn't do it, and couldn't learn to do it - you'd give them 5 apples and they couldn't count them, or even have a concept of them as individual discreet, separate objects.
so it's no surprise that our head based culture that is focused on separateness and individuality invented a language that is binary and static. (Taomeow would have some very interesting things to add here, I'm sure)
So when we were in the lower realm we had less of an individual will and intent, now that we have this individual will, we have less connection to the non-individual, eternalness that was available in the lower realm.
I believe that our challenge is to take this finite individuality and take this infinite connectedness and get them mating... and this is where the middle realm comes in - it's in between finite (upper) and infinite (lower) and the result of the mating of those is something like Love...
aliens and stuff are the result of the dance of the finite mind meeting with the infinite belly...