Plants vs. Zombies: Cheat Code

Have you seen the video clip of a man walking like a zombie out of a coronavirus testing clinic and into public? People scattered in fear.

Funny-not-funny.

The global mood is panic, because “it’s the zombie apocalypse!” Humans love both drama and challenges. Life and evolution thrives on adversity and chaos.

When there’s not enough “evolutionary fuel,” we dramatize reality either through fiction or games. The classic challenges in dramas or games are:

1. Human vs. Nature
2. Human vs. Society
3. Human vs. Machine
4. Human vs. Fate
5. Human vs. Human
6. Human vs. Self

In the Time of Corona, we’re experiencing all 6 conflicts simultaneously. The corona virus plays the roles of Nature, Machine, and Fate. Our collective response to it plays the roles of Society, Humans, and Self, reflected in declaring pandemics, quarantines, and “social distancing.” The archetypal conflict can be summarized in a few ways:

• Success vs. Failure
• Life vs. Death
• Being vs. Non-being

At the resolution of the conflict, we are compelled to ask ourselves:

• Who are we going to be?
• What are we to become?

A Game of Life

Plants vs. Zombies is a game. The game developer describes this game in the following way:

“What do you do when there's a zombie on your lawn? If you answered 'start planting flowers to defeat it,' then you've likely heard of Plants vs. Zombies. ... You need to think fast and plant faster to stop all types of zombies”

The game encapsulates all the drama that humans harness to force change and evolution. Deep in our subconscious mind, we know that being a mindless animal in survival mode isn’t the best thing for human survival. Dramatic stories of the zombie apocalypse are a reflection of a thinly-veiled call-out on the human condition.

Also in our subconscious, is a deep knowing that:

• desire to survive is also an evolutionary force
• higher-order, salutogenic mechanisms make humans and plants alike, thrive

There is a new game in town

We can evolve consciously. If we take the view from 50,000 feet, we see that this instance of coronavirus mutation is one in a long chain of zombie -- ahem -- virus mutations. The antagonists keep getting tougher and wiser, and so must we.

We need to take human evolution into our own hands. Evolution was a purely random process, until now. We’ve discovered that salutogenic mechanisms can produce positive epigenetic changes in a species. We can unleash the power of inner-organic technologies that produce salutogenesis.

This new game makes the old game boring. The old game is: there are very deadly threats and we must go into fight-or-flight -- panic -- in order to survive. When we learn to evolve consciously, the classic archetypal struggles seem like we got the “cheat codes.”

If you’ve ever mastered a game, then you know it becomes boring after a while.

What’s next?

Bigger Purpose

The biggest game in town is conscious evolution. Our awareness of conscious, salutogenic mechanisms become a mechanism of evolution itself. We become programmers. But instead of boring “fight-or-flight” -- “Barricade the doors! Get the guns! The zombies are coming!!” -- we can be inspired by a much bigger vision.

Big, visionary purposes build empires. To build a systematically strong empire with a big vision in the 2020s requires:

1. Growing your life and business from the modern world to the next, metamodern world, and
2. Evolving out of codependency -- as individuals and corporations -- and into interdependence, which transcends and includes both independence and conscious coworking.

Building a metamodern empire takes courage and fortitude. The result could be failure, but there are fates worse than failure, or death.

Superhuman Cheat Code

The current times demand that we defend our future by developing our inner-organic technologies to awaken salutogenic mechanisms that result in superhuman potential. With these metamodern capacities, we will build ourselves, and our businesses, to evolve with the times, absorb shock and disturbance, and transmute that energy into further growth.

Advanced, specialized meditation techniques have cracked the code on the relationship between the body, brain, and mind, and have created a code for evolving into a metamodern human, with superhuman capacities.

The mystery of how people have naturally acquired superhuman skill has been solved. The answer lies in the wisdom of evolution and the human drive to discover and understand.

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