HYPER-TERRESTRIAL
Nick Lake
February 2018
‘Extra’ generally means ‘more,’ ‘beyond,’ ‘additional.’ A supplemental quality, a bonus. The extraterrestrial was terrestrial before it earned its ‘extra.’ The extraterrestrial most likely still is terrestrial. Extra cannot imply that its terra is ultimately lost. Without its territory the entity has lost its means, it has abandoned its cause. There is no post-terrestrial in a living biology. We may be able to fathom some form of post-biology in etheric consciousness, but not in a living biology.
The non-living entity, though interesting, is not our focus today. While transcension, the higher plane, the spirit realm are notions within our theoretical realm, we do not distinctly know a class of entities that originate there. Angels, perhaps? Devas? We cannot devote this particular discussion to that space. For what if these forms we seem able to envision and interact with in the inner dimensions are rather a bacterial intelligence? Imagine: Ecosystem-bound living entities with the capacity to communicate through mind images: The fungus spores that travel through space, the bacteria that clings to the meteoroid and seeds the dna/rna template for the evolution of our species and all others on this planet.
All biological life forms we know of are wholly reliant on the multiplicity of bacteria. The prominence of bacteria cannot be understated. They are the decision makers, the management, the primary infrastructure, the gut that we are told to trust, our ultimate ancestor. The whole may not be more than the sum of its parts. The parts are integral and cannot be reduced by sole focus on the whole. Those who recognize emergent properties must not risk reductionism by ignoring the complexity required to generate those emergent properties. At every level within a grand entity there are the entities within it that guide and support it constantly. The parts are alive and living their own radical lives amidst love, joy, terror, symbiosis.
A technological biology that abandons its biology is doomed and incoherent. The mistake of valuing a whole above its parts manifests when its parts are ignored, and the whole slowly unravels from within. A terrestrial human being is only what it is because of its multi-species symbiosis, a unification of diversity. We are entirely dependent upon the complex weave of cell, fungus, bacteria, virus. We have become what we are by the genetic fusion of other-dimensional species. This mention of other-dimensional species does not imply species from a realm entirely separate from ours. Other dimension here simply implies an organization of a different size. The virus exists in a different dimension. It sees and operates within a smaller space, an alternate dimension that overlaps and directly influences our dimension. We are co-creative of the same reality. This is not elsewhere. It simply must be seen with different sized eyes.
An extraterrestrial capable of space migration and technological upgrades must recognize and value its inner multi-species harmony, and it must cultivate its inter-species evolution if it is to grow beyond its present limits. Its inoculation must be regular and sincere. The complexity of the micro biome will not have been underestimated if they have successfully traveled through interstellar space for any substantial time.
The perpetuation of the human species, or of any complex macro species thus becomes the perpetuation of the entire vast web of inter-species cohabitating life forms. The baby human must be exposed to its mother’s bacterial rich colostrum. The baby human benefits from exposure to the co-evolving herd of cattle upon organic pastures. The human baby needs to eat dirt, touch the earth, integrate chemicals from foods such as fruits and flesh that have been saturated in an atmosphere of yeasts and molds. We are nothing without these interrelations. The survival of the human species is a meaningless concept if it does not include the survival of these parts that make us whole, that we would die without, that we would never have been without. The whole is meaningless without its parts. The whole is unreal without its parts. We cannot survive isolated from our micro-allies. Nor could the extraterrestrial.
The extraterrestrial may thus be alternately clarified as a hyper-terrestrial (HT). The hyper-terrestrial is still bound to its origins via its genetic lineage. Its premise is still recognized, its ancestors-as-itself still deified within itself-as-a-god. The hyper-terrestrial loves its origins and recognizes its dependence upon those “lesser beings” that constitute it. These beings would never be considered “lesser beings” in this HT language. Rather these microbes that function as the sustaining allies of the macro-entity would be worshiped and cultivated. The HT could not persist without its inoculation alliance. The HT is thus devoted to its parts. To survive multiple generations of interstellar space travel, the hyper-terrestrial is hyper-eco-literate to a degree we as earth bound entities have not yet needed to achieve. The hyper-terrestrial brings its terra with it everywhere. Its technologies are thus biologically bound and biologically based. A technology that is void of biology may easily decompose via entropic diffusion. A technology that is biologically based may continually restructure itself by its miraculous self-organizing nature.
“If you want to travel fast, go alone. If you want to travel far, go together.” A successful extraterrestrial must be a hyper-terrestrial. It must embrace its reliance upon its community of microflora and microfauna and only then will it be able to travel far through deep space, together.
This togetherness, the reliance upon a community of organisms that “are not you” in order for there to be a “you” at all is the conceptual structure mankind apparently misses in their pursuits of space travel and in their historical common life on planet Earth. Without this recognition of other organisms and other species being irrevocably bound within the definition of a whole human it becomes more clear how humans have been able and willing to destroy the Earth without thought to consequence. Our deities have been isolated from the physical. No relevance for our personhood is placed on the bacterial relationship. But who might we become if we sincerely honored our micro-collaborators, our parts?