You might read about how responsibility can replace feelings of guilt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also the story of ego<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tip of the top of the iceberg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The total self is an iceberg. Conscious mere-ego is the tip of the top of the iceberg \u2015 thinking there is no \u2018I\u2019 except for the ego itself. In this, there is no reckoning with the iceberg except the upper tip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [Note, by the way, that this is no speculation, but hard-core science, backed by tons of evidence.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mere-ego thinks it makes many things happen \u2013 including unfortunate ones \u2013 which it doesn\u2019t. This way, it places guilt where there is none: at its own doorstep (as well as others\u2019 doorsteps). Mere-ego needs<\/em> this feeling of guilt. Eventually, it relishes<\/em> in this because it needs guilt as part of the explanation for its own existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mere-ego has no intrinsic motivation, no \u2018energy\u2019 by itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n How could it have since it\u2019s an illusion? Yet this kind of illusory, emergent existence is reality-related with real consequences. Like: someone may jump out of a window for fear of an illusory monster chasing him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guilt gives the illusory impression that there is an intrinsic motivation to the mere-ego. This way, the latter has become the very basis of the Western judiciary system since at least the Byzantine era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beneath the tip of the top<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Many motivations \u2013 thus also motivated actions \u2013 come from the rest of the iceberg but are explained by mere-ego as the result of coincidence or \u2018some external factor.\u2019 There are many candidates to choose from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the rest of the iceberg is not seen, it can hardly be seen as the source of anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Imagine mere-ego quite suddenly getting to see the iceberg while still thinking guiltily\u2026 This situation risks bringing immense feelings of guilt for tips of tops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That should be taken seriously! Humans are not made for dealing with a massive degree of guilt. Therefore, there are rightful reasons to counter such feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following are three main reasons for a guiltless future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1) The issue itself<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Guilt belongs to an age-old view of the human being that just isn\u2019t correct. Inevitably, an increasingly more correct view will be brought to the fore through ongoing science \u2015 whether or not people are ready for this. Science generally doesn\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that technological evolutions may be halted, and scientific insights may be pushed aside. Science itself however \u2013 of the basic kind that shows people who they are \u2013 is eventually unstoppable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We need a guiltless future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2) Oriented toward oneself<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Toward oneself, it would be devastating to feel guilty for issues \u2013 such as the entire domain of psycho-somatics \u2013 where responsibility is direly needed. This keeps people from taking that responsibility, resulting in massive unnecessary suffering, disease, and premature mortality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An ever-evolving A.I. will show people that they can take responsibility \u2015 therefore, in fact, that they are already having it in-depth. It will be scientifically shown to what a huge degree the mind influences the body in many ways, in sickness and health, in life and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We need a guiltless future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3) Oriented toward others<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Toward others, the feeling of guilt and the running away from responsibility would keep creating enemies (guilty ones, of course) \u2014 a phenomenon already happening way too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, with more technology (and, again, even more so using A.I. in non-Compassionate ways), mere-ego can do more damaging things to others out of guilt and trying to get away from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We need a guiltless future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AURELIS aims to let people see the iceberg.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is what empathic Openness<\/a> is about. It is also the Openness that AURELIS points to in many domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a challenge. At the same time, it is necessary since the situation becomes increasingly worse as long as this Openness isn\u2019t realized. Without it, we are sleepwalking from world crisis to world crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wanted, urgently: Compassion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here lies an immense responsibility for the sciences of the mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, it\u2019s a responsibility that is seldom taken.<\/p>\n