One of the main reasons I started working on my theory of empathy and telepathy was because I noticed our physical selves were leaking into the digital etherium – with only faces and words to guide us, we have become unknowingly a largely telepathic society, with or without our concession.  This is how we may be forced to communicate from now on.
Telepathy to me is definitely not like streaming media – it is more based on the emotional association to the message being received. Empathy though is the ability and foreknowledge of developing good relationships with people despite any telepathic messages ( telepathy is like catching one good or bad thought, one sentence from a complex emotional state ) – so empathy  is a more innate and ability to cue into people’s emotional states for the improvement and preservation of the relationship, and subsequently our self esteem.

Originally I asked myself: is this an opportunity for us to hide – or will this be an opportunity for some to go deeper and beyond the plan to dehumanize each other?

In my estimation, some people have begun to discern other people’s emotional states – but this is rarer than anticipated, as our society has become largely blunted to suffering through overexposure to the media.

What is the media? Apart from artists, writers and journalists, it is a managed plan for both marketing and sometimes propaganda. It changes swiftly, confusing those who try and follow, scattering our opinions, shaking us in our own intuitive cores, and leaving us for the most part feeling powerless – and we are not.
Who are they?

We are. We are consuming ourselves. Ask yourself, what part can you play in improving our own existences, not just beyond survival, but towards opportunity and a promising cultural evolution.

As I am sure some of you are, I have to really look, nay, peer deeply into the back stories, the missing stories, the gaps and the obvious messages, and these days do research across all the channels and sources world to find a consensus opinion on what we want. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately not all of us are inclined to develop a website, or a company reflecting a better opinion or aspiration.  Now what used to be people to me have become consumables, faces have become products – and our emotional value has dissipated as we continue to market ourselves.

I feel that there is a deep need for people to speak about themselves, but they are losing their message by over exposing themselves. This in turn dehumanizes any of the attempts to improve the state of our world.  It’s the old tale of ‘crying wolf’.

Now, left with only print and images, I can rely solely on my momentary connection to each person that I encounter  – only one second in the exposure, and cannot base my entire opinion on either a ‘print’ or ‘media’ connection, nor on one meeting with these people, as I know how fluid they can be, and how their behavior changes from moment to moment. People are by nature truly beautifully insecure, and this journey has been so interesting for me at times as it levels the playing field but frightening at times as well, when I see the influence these people could have and the insecurity they display despite their influence.

All we are left with are ciphers and electromagnetic matrixes to make our decisions about the most vital parts of our lives – our emotional selves and our relationship to each other, and our home.
I sincerely hope that the path for many of us to becoming a largely empathic and compassionate society does not encompass more suffering. The question I have been grappling with, and will update you on in time is:  does a person have to suffer or witness suffering in person to become empathic? Or are there those that suffer and who witness it possibly not? Are there those just born with the potential for good, or do they need more validation that they are born for good?
For now, listen to your own natural responses to the imagery – go beyond the programming, and use whatever means, whatever deity, whatever religion or belief you have to transcend some of these fabrications to guide yourselves. Ask yourself: I know this news channel or company thinks this is right: do I think it is right? Do I have to think like everyone else to be right?

Like evolution, empathy is not discretionary – it exists despite of religious teachings, despite controls – it is by the grace of God, or by the grace of humanity, truly the one thing that may help us ascend beyond the labels designated to us and designed by economists and politicians – and fall into your true emotional  and spiritual selves by ignoring both the good and the bad? Can we now discover our consciences? This is the right time to do so.

Copyright Carmen Miro 2012