Pensive

The journey of life started from individual existence to the cult.
In later period of history, it started running back to the individuality, to cross the limit of individual identity and to identify ourselves as not humans but as forces, the chunks of energy condensed into complex systems of materials.
The systems or bodies, with mind and heart as we know them are mere tools to solve the complexity and reach the truth. Hence we must protect, nourish and enhance the tool into a sharper device of sensing the paths that would lead us to the truth, for the device cannot sense the crude, formless and shapelessness of naked truth.
This is the stage most of us are in. The age of physical and biological evolutions, though not over, is no more the center of growing future. The physical system of human body is advanced enough to start a newer adventure.
So has the era of cults and herds gone. The groups of individuals are required when the basic needs are to be fought for, like the freedom, safety and survival.
The groups still exist when men are learning the world of facts, numbers. When that stage is gone, comes the stage of thinking. Here the groups are loosely bound, and only interact while sharing the new findings of the individuals.
It is sheer joy of sharing and no more dependency. In this stage men find the basic principles that govern the ways of world. They learn the universal laws that have created the innumerable oceans of facts and numbers they have learnt in previous stage.
The journey beyond this point cannot be shared with the cult. Every visionary walked on it alone, whether he liked it or not. This was the part of journey which brought them closer to the ultimate truth. There is no verbal communication possible in this last journey. That is why we have no record of it, no set steps to walk on, and no guide lines to follow.
But yes, all these stages do not have sharp boundaries of start and end. This is the general direction in which all of us are moving. Every one is in different stage of the journey. So there will be no common code of conduct for every one.
Some need to survive in the cults and groups and some need their solitude. Some would just need sharing individuals and some might have reached beyond any interaction with the world.
Nothing is perfect for everything is perfect in different perspectives. The work done by an individual is not comparable to the work done by other individual, nor is it comparable to the work done by a group of individuals. Because each one of them has a different need. So "the perfect" for everyone differs in their respective space time frames.
Aha! And it took me such a long time to understand! I will work with others when I will face the need to do so. Or I won't if I don't have to.

We all are born with a purpose. Some of us know it, others do not. But we do the things that we have to do, whether we know them or not. Without that we are not supposed to return back.
Back to what? I know not.
The journey of evolution starts from a protein strand, the basic unit of life and ends at the level, even more fundamental than that.
The protein strand developed into a vegetative plankton cell. Then came the marine plants and other organisms, dependent on the breath of oxygen. They evolved into more complex systems of life, harnessing the crude natural materials into food for their basic needs, invertebrates, vertebrates, monkeys and humans.
The more the complex the system, more did it process the nature to make its life comfortable. Humans topped the effort by achieving the most comfortable life on earth. If we look up at the history of human settlements, we feel proud and deserving of all this comfort. But breaking the boundaries of comfort everyday, the humans raced into the unending hunger for comfort.
What was the purpose of that entire journey? To be comfortable or something better than that?
If we look back once again, it was a journey from individual existence to cult and back to individual again. But it is not to stop at the individuality but progress even further.
That is why men always wanted to find the crux of their existence, the force behind all this world of unfathomable complexities. They were never happy being the most comfortable creatures on the earth.
Why is it so that more we dig into solving the complexities, they get even more complex? One answer leads to ten more questions? What lies at the end of this journey of questions? Generations of men have died solving this puzzle.
Everyone tried to find answer through their own methods.
Physicists tried to physically reach the core of the existence. They broke the atom and reached the assumptions and hypothetical theories of quantum physics.
Genetic science tried to make some sense out of the great pool of knowledge written in code in each cell of life.
The historians are fighting over the pages and pages full of history of universe and earth and humans, to see the truth under the missing links of facts.
Some thought that all this effort is mundane and they walked on the path of spirituality. They say that this is the fastest way to seek the truth if you dare to believe and walk on it.
Whatever be the path, every one of the pioneer visionaries who trod those unknown paths did find the same truth. One and wholesome and integrated as nothing possible to be "created", but it exists as the timeless, space less, perfection in itself.