The atom is enlightenment itself. Man is ignorance himself. If through humility we can at least come to see that we are no "greater" than atoms then maybe we can transcend our ignorance. We are made of atoms, but have, through our ignorance, separated ourselves from nature and are destroying life and the perfection of the gifts we were given by the creator. Follow the trail of our "enlightenment," trying to be more than we are, and you will find the road to hell. When we were One with the gifts of life, living and dying in harmony with creation, it was already paradise. The only thing that is not enlightenment is man and his ignorance and separation. It's all harmony but we are raping it by thinking we can transcend it. Trying to become more than man is unconsciously striving for hell, thinking you are looking for heaven. Heaven is all around you, you can't get any higher than right now. It's an illusion. Think about 7 generations from now, our descendants, and all our striving on this earth, cars, planes, plunging metal tubes into the earth to suck out oil to burn into smoke in the atmosphere, starving the top soil by monocrop farming and killing the forests, all to try and become more than man. Are we creating heaven or hell for them? You aren't going to be born anywhere else. We are just sperm and egg, made of atoms, unions of dancing DNA. Trust me, ground your spaceships. You don't want to be born on mars. There is nowhere else to go. It's all right here. And you can't get any higher than right now. You can't become more than man. You can only become yourself. And who we really are will rebel against the savage rapists we have been taught to be.