Why are human beings deeper than other creatures?

With all due respect to our brethren in the animal kingdom, there's no question that human beings sit atop the earthly hierarchy. After all, it's not as if ants developed the Space Shuttle or a chipmunk penned Macbeth or northern birds each other with their final Florida destination. While it would be nice to sit back, thump our chests, and extol the many virtues of mind and body, the true human experience didn't necessarily happen because we're smarter.

It happens because we're deeper. That, folks, begs a pretty big question: Where does the being in human being come from? Think of "being" as existing on three levels.

Who we are and what we feel represents a highly fluid meshing of many forces in all three levels: Automatic Being. The most primitive of the levels, this one is essentially categorized by our animal within. We are hungry, we eat.

The emotional center in your brain just decides how you feel and your mental motherboard tells you not to overthink. Just act. Educated Being.

If level one is primal, then level two is cultural or social. We learn how to feel or behave in certain situations, and then act accordingly. Much of these actions are based on routines of how we've learned to do things and aren't instinctual.

Here, our brains receive information, process it for a moment, and move on. Authentic Being. This third level is what separates man from meerkat.

It involves the human capacity to enlarge our attention, to contemplate the big picture, and to be open-minded enough to think beyond primal instincts and learned, habitual behaviors. Like driving a car. You just get in and go to work without thinking about how to get there.

Most of our lives are spent driven by external factors and motivators (striving for that pay raise or promotion), as opposed to intrinsic ones with a higher ideal (a love of the work you do and your purpose). So to find your true, authentic self and be happy about what we find, we must know how we exist in relationship to other things - specifically to other people and to the world at large (one of the reasons why being and finding a buddy are so important). When we break through the instincts and the habits, we break through a level of superficiality that many people typically tend to live with.

And that's when we break through to a deeper experience in life. This takes time, practice, and energy; in fact, our brains can dramatically increase energy consumption levels when we focus.

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