How far can humans go?

Straight out of the gate with my first Newsletter and it is with the intention to demonstrate the eccentric and somewhat romanticized scope of what the future holds for humans.

For me, this gives me hope that we can somehow be better, greater, more aware, more considerate - just basically less basic and predictable than the aggregate seems to currently be. Is that me having a highly developed sense of prescience or do you see the direction this is all going in too?

When I look out there into the sky for “what else is there?”, I am repeatedly met with the work of Nikolai Kardashev. Kardashev is one of those rare individuals in which you question, is he even human?

Every so often, these individuals come along and change the world on some level, or they just seem to have answers and insights that seem otherworldly. Nikola Tesla was another, Confucius another, Marcus Aurelius, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare—the list could go on, but you get the point. People who think differently, talk differently, and are often pigeonholed as ‘eccentric’ or ‘difficult’ because they don’t conform to the standard paradigms.

Kardashev was the creator of the Kardashev Scale, a way of categorizing civilizational advancement and grading its development. Based on Kardashev’s scale, planet Earth is currently Type 0, or, to be more accurate as Michio Kaku put it, we are probably 0.85.

Where we need to get to, if we are to take Kardashev’s scale and use it for our own need to understand things through compartmentalization, is a Type 1 civilization.

So, That Brings up Three Questions:

1. What is a Type 1 civilization and what does it look like?

2. How many types or levels are there?

3. What does all this have to do with health, fitness, and well-being?

According to Kardashev, a Type 1 civilization is where we are able to harness the power of the sun and the elements we experience on planet Earth, utilizing this abundant, ubiquitous energy, thereby making it free energy for all. He went further to describe the sort of environment and, ultimately, the consequences of such a breakthrough. It looked like a planet in peace, united and able to get along in an authentic way.

Imagine the reduction in stress, allostatic load, and low vibrational frequencies that contribute to ill health in such a world with free, sustainable energy. Imagine all the discourse from the different factions arguing for and against fossil fuel mining just melting away. Imagine how much more balanced, fair, and abundant society would be in which energy—the one thing that powers everything—was free, accessible, and sustainable.

That answers question one, but it’s a concern because, according to the astrophysicist Michio Kaku, we have about 100-150 years to get to Type 1, or we are possibly not going to make it as a species.

When it comes to how many levels there are, it varies—three, five, or seven—and now even fanciful levels of 1000 give people poetic license to think creatively. Some say it’s impossible to comprehend what a Type 7 civilization could be capable of, especially judging this from a standpoint of Type 0. That’s a fair point, but as humans, our quintessential strength is also our greatest weakness: we’ll still have a go or an opinion regardless.

At Type 2 civilization, we can harness the energy from the planet’s main star (the sun) through the use of a megastructure, otherwise known as a Dyson Sphere. At this stage, we would also colonize other planets in the solar system, and as we know, Mars is next on the list. Mercury and Venus are too extreme in temperature, and the gas giants—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—are non-habitable.

How does this link to well-being and fitness? In a world of heightened awareness, peace, love, joy, happiness, and enlightenment, every one of the 60 trillion cells in our body becomes healthier and more aligned.

Ailments, viral infections, and disease are combated quicker through the power of the mind. The choices we make become more informed and aligned with what our bodies need.

It’s funny when you consider what a Type 1 civilization is; you start to look at all the things around you that need improvement. That takes motivation and a will to change.

What works on a higher level also works on a lower level.

Let’s conclude this newsletter by saying if we need the will to change and evolve into a Type 1 civilization, then developing that will and drive within yourself is the starting point. As Steven Covey taught us in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People… start with the end in mind.