Issue No.21 - Polo De’Marco Magazine Issue No.21 - International Edition | Page 141

Q1. You have been quoted as saying, “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” Take us from this quote to its manifestation in your new book just out entitled, “Metahuman”. DC: Starting with my medical background, I was fascinated by how perfectly the cells in our bodies operate, living entirely in the present--a cell has so much trust it typically stores nutrients and oxygen for just another three seconds. But, there’s a discon- nect with us as people. We re-enact the past and anticipate the future, skipping over the present mo- ment, the eternal now. The new book is about going beyond the illusion/spell/fantasy that keeps us from being conscious here and now. Q2. The Greek word meta means beyond. Hence, the concept of “going beyond” is the plausible motivation for us to embrace the metamorphosis to metahuman. Describe brief- ly what is involved for us to reach this “place”, and the experience that lies in “going beyond” through challenging the everyday construct of the “what you see is what you get” mentality, and the dictum to be in the world, but not of it? DC: The basic concept is simple. Humans have two levels of awareness. One is occupied with the demands and affairs of daily life, the world of the five senses. The other level is the domain of con- sciousness, looking at what it really is. I argue that consciousness, in and of itself, is the source of what we value most: love, compassion, insight, intuition, curiosity, creativity, and personal evolution. The mind didn’t create those things. They are part of the human setup. So why not go beyond the first level to gain access to these ultimate values? Q3. We are the only known species that con- sciously shapes its future, entangled in a world preoccupied with material progress, often overlooking the miracle of our very existence, according to “Metahuman”. Explain how be- coming metahuman takes us beyond what we see as human behavior to self-design a life filled with peak experiences and infinite possi- bilities, allowing us to be the “dreamer in life, not the dream”? DC: Those are big concepts and high aspirations. I remain convinced that existence doesn’t contain con- sciousness; existence is consciousness. Homo sapiens is a species of consciousness. So you have to take the whole Darwinian notion that mind somehow evolved from mindless one-celled organisms and rewrite everything. Start with pure consciousness as the basis of everything, and you discover that infinite possibilities are the natural state of our lives. The book then describes what to do once you have this “aha” moment. Q4. In achieving a metahuman state, how does this impact our interactions with other hu- mans, metahumans, society, and ultimately, a possible “metasociety”? DC: It’s best not to dwell on “metahuman” as if this is like sci-fi mutants in comic books. Going beyond is natural. We do it every time we search for answers. As Einstein said, “The level of the solution is never at the level of the problem.” Our relationships con- stantly remain at the level of problems, as indeed our whole lives do. Find the “meta” level of your own awareness, and a life based on the level of the prob- lem is transformed.