Where are we going?

Guy Dauncey has some ideas:

....The core of the problem may also be that we can’t agree if there is a spiritual reality or not. If there is no spiritual reality, we are confined to material choices in a material world, governed by the laws of entropy, with or without free will. If there is a spiritual reality, we have to decide if spirit and matter are separate and conflicting realms, as most religions propose, or harmonious, in which case the laws of physics and the laws of spirit must integrate, and will one day be a post-mathematics of heaven and the soul. And if they integrate, they have presumably always integrated, even before there was time. This, in turn, means that evolution carries a spiritual dimension, which people like Teilhard de Chardin, Sri Aurobindo and Ken Wilber have been saying all along. So what do you think? Where are we going? Here are 12 possible answers which could start a dinner-party discussion... 1. Nowhere. We’re just material organisms, driven by selfish genes. There is no inherent direction; it’s up to us to make what we want out of life. 2. To heaven. As soon as the conflict in the Middle East has triggered Armageddon, everyone who has accepted Jesus into their hearts will rise into heaven in the Rapture. Amen. 3. To heaven on Earth, United Church style. Everyone will become kind and loving. 4. Nowhere. We’re caught on an endless wheel of suffering, with or without reincarnation. Spiritual enlightenment is the only way out. 5. Into space. Our destiny is out there among the stars. Let us boldly go! 6. To freedom, and the American way. Bring em on! God, democracy, Wal-Mart and Visa will prevail over all unbelievers. 7. To scientific socialism, and the sister/brotherhood of all humanity. Marx, Lenin and Castro were right after all. 8. To ecological collapse. We humans are too powerful a predator species. We are out of balance with nature, and will cause Earth’s ecosystems to collapse into disorder. 9. To entropy, and the final collapse of material order. The sun will go supernova, and the universe will experience a heat death. Meanwhile, it’s up to us to make what we want out of life. 10. To syntropy. Spirit will continue to evolve as it seeks spiritual, natural, planetary and cosmic harmony. 11. To a super-technological future. All problems will be solved by robots, nanobots, and the crew from Red Dwarf. 12. Nobody knows. And that’s the scariest (or most exciting) thought of all.