I Don’t Know What’s Going to Happen and That Scares the Shit out of Me

Feeling into this historic moment and why love is the only answer worth giving

A Ukranian refugee carries her dog from war to safety.

What happens next? I don’t know, you don’t know, nobody human knows. That’s one of the scariest aspects of being human.

Apparently, it’s also one of the reasons aliens, also referred to as non-human intelligences (NHIs), feel jealous of us. At least that’s what I read in an amazing book by Whitley Strieber. Apparently, some of these NHIs experience time differently, so they know what the future will bring. No, I can’t really make sense of that, but according to Strieber, this is one of the reasons some of these NHIs seek communion with us. They want to possibly have this experience of not knowing.

I wonder if you may be like me and you’d like to trade places with them? Wouldn’t it be nice to know if our species is going to survive our latest and possibly greatest threat to our continued existence? Wouldn’t you like to know that what’s going on in our world isn’t going to lead to our annihilation?

Be careful: What if you found out that’s precisely what is going to happen? What if you knew the end date? But knowing this, you couldn’t do anything to stop it. Do you really want to live with that?