Of course we're not alone in being intelligent beings in the universe. We share this very planet with dolphins, orcas and other cetaceans at least as intelligent as us, and we treat them appallingly putting them in tiny pools and training them to do tricks for our children to enjoy.
We share the same DNA with pigs, just arranged in a different order, and pigs are as intelligent (by our understanding) as a 3 year old human child, and we treat billions and billions of them appalling for their short brutal lives confining them in crates they can't even turn around in.
Our cousins the monkeys and apes are models for diseases like Parkinson's (which is associated with use of pesticides and drinking breast milk from another species in the first place) so that Pharma can say they've tested their ineffective and toxic drugs on them and make lots of money.
If alien life came to this planet it would be imprisoned, experimented on and killed. Humans would not sit down and talk to them and ask their advise.
The wisdom of our beings, also called the universal consciousness, is in all of us. We just need to stop the chatter on Twitter etc long enough to be able to hear it; before we annihilate ourselves and most other things on this planet. However species come and species go. Civilisations come and go; indeed we're watching the decline of the US empire before our eyes. Humanity will certainly cease one day, whether we do the 'right' things or not.
I don't think it's the fear of being alone that drives us. It's the fear of death, we’re afraid that we're not really needed, that we’re not the most important species that ever existed, that we’re not actually eternal nor are we in control.
Letting go of all these things, accepting that we will die one day, that we’re far from being alone in intelligence and wisdom, brings the freedom to live with each other and other animals, our fellow travellers through space on this lump of rock, which no one knows how we ended up on, in peace, kindness, mutual respect and companionship.
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Are we alone in the universe?
'The wisdom of our beings, also called the universal consciousness is in all of us.'. Well said, indeed we will perish as a species, but with some stroke of luck I'm hoping a collective consciousness cleanses the planet of the cancerous criminality we see currently...
Beautifully written.