@Cameron AzimiTabrizi Thanks for joining the group, Cameron, and for your thoughtful question. The nature of this question is such that we know what we want to see happen: that the world can meaningfully advance, that we are not stuck in the current situation, that we will make best efforts in that direction. Wishful/hopeful/visionary thinking aside, there is the diagnostic question of the current situation. My answer is more pessimistic in short term but ultimately optimistic in long term: worse than being stuck, the world is increasingly spiraling out of control as evidenced by how easy it is now for morons to gain a dangerous concentration of all sorts of power. We’re sowing the seeds for more violence and terrorism down the road. The world isn’t just stuck, but is sinking deeper and deeper into insanity: it’s decaying. The long term good news is, of course, a new world awaits ahead: once this one implodes under the weight of its ignorance and stupidity, new and better forms of society will emerge driven by enlightened people. The current age is the darkest period in human history — look at the so-called dark energy and dark matter — but we have found the light decades ago. It’s just a matter for people in the future to rediscover that light.

@Maryam Zayed Thanks for joining the group, Maryam. I kind of know what’s going on in the world — increasing chaos and mess as a result of worsening ignorance (especially in the fields of particle physics and cosmology where true knowledge is supposed to take place) — and I look forward to hearing about the profound awakening you have experienced before I venture to guess any possible causal relationship. Perhaps the presence of overwhelming darkness makes one see the light most clearly?

@Crystal Escalante Thanks for joining the group, Crystal. So many questions, indeed, but the good news is they can all be answered by one simple plain truth.

@Jerri Stanback Thanks for joining us, Jerri, and for your very unusual question — behind these three plain words hides some profound logic. The best way to answer this question is to answer another question: what’s the nature of existence? What exactly exists? Are there many things that exist together, or just one thing? The only logical answer is that all is energy: whatever exists is but a form of energy — there’s no nothingness. It then follows that whatever source you are looking for, it can only be energy itself. The profound logic mentioned above refers to the notion of “selfhood” — any understanding, any knowledge, is in final analysis an act of a part of energy to understand and know itself in various forms. This notion also speaks to the principle of self explanation — one must explain the universe with the universe itself, it being both the cause and effect, hence transformation.

@Sage A. Thanks for joining this group, Sage. You’re the second one to ask such a question — please see my replies earlier to the same question posed by @Jerri Stanback. The one-word answer: energy. The two-words answer: rotational energy. The one-sentence rationale: because energy is the only entity that exists in myriad forms and endless transformations.