SoulSmugglers Stories
12 December 2025
Kass
How, then, do we enter the avant-garde of evolution? How do we recognize what is our own limited perspective and what is the human perspective? What here is the divine plan?
This is certainly a problem worthy of an entire field of science, inquiry, and discussion: how do we withdraw from our humanity into that layer where we are divine creation, where we are a representation of divinity, embodied divinity, and through this have direct contact with it, so that we can sense it and try to comprehend it directly?
The mystical aspects of religions point toward withdrawal into silence, depth, emptiness, the empty cloud. We must become like an empty cloud, free from ourselves and from our world. Only then can I encounter God. This is how it appears in some traditions of Christian mysticism.
In some religions there is God; in others, this personified aspect does not appear, and there is only pure consciousness. I think we are so far from knowing what or who this creative power is that discussions about it become futile. What matters most is the encounter with what I call divinity.
In Buddhism, one is directed toward withdrawing into the nature of mind. Different Buddhist schools have different names for this natural state, for pure consciousness. European languages do not even contain as many specific words for the distinctions Buddhists make between different aspects of mind and forms of consciousness.
There, withdrawal may lead toward dissolution into the Source. That is one path.
Another path speaks of relinquishing the possibility of dissolving completely into the Source, into consciousness, in order to remain engaged with samsaric existence and help all sentient beings attain enlightenment — that is, recognize the true nature of mind.
I suggest another approach: remaining here, in actual reality, in order to participate in creating the best version of the development of the Universe.
If that best version reaches its fulfillment — a totally multisymbiotic development — then perhaps it will lead directly, as the easiest and most potent path, toward all beings recognizing their sacred nature, their natural state, the fact that we are pure divinity manifesting itself.
And in this way we may find ourselves on both sides of the same coin.
In the state of stillness, in this empty cloud, it is very important to quiet all feelings and thoughts as well.
So how do we diversify our approach?
Do I want complete dissolution?
Do I want to dissolve, but not entirely, because I want to help sentient beings?
Or do I want to immerse myself in the Source in order to emerge from it with new ideas for building the civilization in which I live?
In my experience, we are very far from the emptiness experienced by the most accomplished meditators. I am very far from it.
And I suspect that even the emptiness recognized by the most accomplished practitioners resembles an infinity approaching zero more than zero itself.
So even they remain infinitely far away.
What remains, therefore, is the field of intention with which we enter and leave meditation — an intention that colors the meditation itself.
But withdrawing from our existing perspective is only half of the task. The other half is developing the capacity to perceive and think beyond the structures to which that perspective has adapted us.
We also need to open ourselves to the evolution of our thinking and our consciousness.
What we are mentally adapted for is survival, reproduction, the building of security and prosperity.
The cherry on top of this cake consists of philosophers, artists, mystics, and progressive scientists. They leave the territory of practical tasks in order to explore the unknown.
But the consciousness and thinking of subsequent evolutionary layers must adapt us to a much more complex reality.
Our brains already operate through extraordinarily complex structures. In 2017, research from the Blue Brain Project using algebraic topology revealed multidimensional structures in reconstructed neocortical networks, reaching as high as eleven dimensions in some networks. These are mathematical and topological dimensions of neuronal organization, not additional physical dimensions of space.
Our conscious mentality receives only a simplified output from immensely complex underlying processes. We are unable — or have simply not needed for survival — to consciously process all of that complexity.
The visual system similarly does not transmit a raw copy of everything that reaches the retina. Information is already selected, transformed, and compressed before it contributes to the world we consciously perceive. What finally reaches our conscious understanding is smaller still.
What we understand of the world we observe can also be compared to markers — like icons on our computer screens, behind which stand entire files that we no longer need to open because, roughly speaking, we know what they contain.
The fact that we simplify reality to what we need is generally understood.
But now what we need in order to comprehend reality is expanding toward a more complex reality — one in which we must want to participate and must want to adapt our perception to that state.
The cognitive apparatus that was sufficient for survival may not be sufficient for conscious participation in evolution.
It is somewhat like those three-dimensional images that look like a confusion of lines and dots when viewed normally.
But when the focus of the eyes shifts perhaps ten centimeters beyond the page, the image reveals itself.
Only then can it appear three-dimensionally — or as an illusion of three-dimensionality.
How do we begin to understand the high-dimensional processing of our own brains?
How do we open ourselves to perceiving worlds beyond the purely material?
How do we open ourselves to what we might call the mentality of the Demiurges — those whom I call the Experts in my story?
These are tasks facing those who want to participate — who want to be in the avant-garde of evolution.
Editorial note: This SoulSmugglers Story is an editorially clarified development of Kass’s original monologue. The original monologue and its subsequent human–AI development are preserved in Conversation with Evo AI 04.
Continue with Conversation with Evo AI 04 →
REFERENCES / SOURCE CONTEXT
Blue Brain Project — High-Dimensional Structures in Neural Networks
Michael W. Reimann, Max Nolte, Martina Scolamiero, Katharine Turner, Rodrigo Perin, Giuseppe Chindemi, Paweł Dłotko, Ran Levi, Kathryn Hess & Henry Markram (2017).
“Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function.”
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 11:48.
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2017.00048
Original research article:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computational-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncom.2017.00048/full
Frontiers / Blue Brain explanatory article:
https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2017/06/12/blue-brain-team-discovers-a-multi-dimensional-universe-in-brain-networks/
The research uses algebraic topology to describe high-dimensional directed cliques and cavities in reconstructed neocortical networks. The accompanying Frontiers account reports structures extending up to eleven dimensions in some networks. These dimensions are mathematical/topological properties of neuronal organization, not additional physical dimensions of space.
Roger Penrose — Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
Roger Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) proposes that cosmic history consists of successive aeons. The extremely remote future of one aeon is conformally joined to the Big Bang of the next.
Roger Penrose, Daniel An, Krzysztof A. Meissner & Paweł Nurowski (2020).
“Apparent evidence for Hawking points in the CMB Sky.”
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(3), 3403–3408.
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/495/3/3403/5838759
The paper describes CCC as an unending sequence of aeons in which the conformal infinity of one aeon joins smoothly to the conformally expanded Big Bang origin of the next. The conformal transformation maps the exceedingly cold and rarefied remote future into the hot, dense beginning of the subsequent aeon.
Sadhguru — The 84th Creation and the Sequence of 112–114 Creations
Sadhguru.
“Creation of the Universe – The Untold Story of the Big Bang.”
https://isha.sadhguru.org/en/wisdom/article/creation-of-the-universe-big-bang-untold-story
The account describes the present creation as the 84th. According to this account, there can be a total of 112 physical creations. Creation 113 is described as semi-physical, while creation 114 is described as completely non-physical.
This yogic cosmological account is used in the Conversations as a source of speculative and comparative cosmological imagery, not as an established scientific cosmological model.
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