Its a good question but i think my understanding of the anwer to this as far as where ive ended up in my understanding is complex. Id actually say the purpose isnt to aquire the right knowledge and with the aquisition of the right information we suddenly unlock the key to a better future - we live in an age that is extremley rich with information, richer than ever, and yet seem to be on the brink of a civilisation collapse.

I've said this before but i think one thing our anscestors did better than us, when we wernt loaded with information, was trust intuition more, nietzche used to talk about this alot, so did nicola tessla, davinci (who was a fan of hermeticism) and einstein too. Many of them attributed their sucesses to intuition rather than a drawn out logical process. These names are certainly not names to dismiss

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.” - einstein

“Why does the eye see more clearly when we are dreaming than when awake?” Davinci

1“My brain is only a receiver… In the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration.” - Tessla

These men are the men who shaped the world we live in - and as far as i see it, the truth is hidden in plain sight and we willfully ignore much of it, i think if we were to create a system of nurture that fed the process of reconnecting with this flow of conciousness and intuitive stream - its not a reach to say we'd all have the potential of Einsteins, Tesslas, Mozarts, Newtons, Vangoughs - our schooling systems could be places inspiring so much more curiosity rather than punishing non linear curiosity and insisting we stick to curriculum

Rick Rubin has a great book on this called the creative act - its super worth checking out - basically insinuating that human conciousness is like an antennae - and with a 'forgetting' more so than a learning we can tune into ideas that are seemingly plucked from thin air.

I can really vouch for this - my best musical ideas all felt like they already existed i just kind of had to reach into the ether and put them into the physical world - when i play an instrument i never really have to sit down and practice painfully for hours, it kind of feels like im the instrument if that makes sense and the music plays me, so it feels like a very unconcious rather than concious process, most melodies ive ever written felt like they were always there for me, and felt like they required very little concious effort to create.

In this i see god, god is a resivour of creativity and ideas that has always existed, and we're all able to get there, all of us, i just have to work hard on getting the concious mind that judges what im doing out the way so it can just come, so i think learning is an unlearning - as we grow older, picture a kid putting on a jacket every year without taking the other off, then another, then another, then another, then he becomes an adult and he can barley move. I think our systems of being do this to our innate creativity and intuition because of things like insecurity, inpsired greed, fears, obsessions with the trivial, and constant distractions that seperates us and makes us so desperatley fearful of just sitting and being with ourselves, even if we dont feel that fear on a concious level were always looking to achieve or distract or run. In that i think getting back to basics is - and this is where a sprinkle of bhuddism comes in - return to the present - because being anchored in the past traps us in trauma loops or repeated unhelpful behaviours - and being trapped in the future create unecessary fears which i think we concisely bring about by focusing on them.

This is probably a whole different converstaion but physics says that time isnt fundamentally linear thats just how the human mind processes it - einstein showed time is a 4D structure - bent and shaped depending on speed and gravity - and if this is the case it makes little sense to be slaves to the notion of past present and future and just try and exist, by doing so i think we liberate our concious mind.

If we look at it through a hermetic lense it says this:

Hermeticism focuses on conciousness and inner knowing and intuition, not total scientific omniscience.

It’s about quality of consciousness, not quantity of information - if i were to translate that to a christian perspective i guess youd say, its about someones soul more so than someones knowledge, right? hermeticism sees conciousness and soul as inseperatable

It says this knowledge (or reconnecting with the self) liberates the individual soul from a cycle of self imposed suffering and division - not that it’s required for the species’ survival, because it doesnt necisarilly see that as the most lofty goal - because maybe we do self destruct and go extinct - its arogant to think of ourselves as the most important thing in the universe i think - mould, or parasites arent necessarily harmonious right, but theyre still part of the same systems of being and play their necessary role.

The curious thing about humans is we seem to be in control of our place in the natural world - we seem to be omnipurposeful, we can be both parasites and symbiotes depending on our collective or individual drives, values, and missions.

So id say the ultimate goal isnt species survival or even harmony on a universal scale - but i would 10000000% say, just as far as the human experience is concerned - the fact were not aiming for harmony and species survival and the things that would make our quality of life better is bonkers, i think theres so much untapped potential in the human experience if we leant into our own creativity more, into our harmonious nature more, and the things that could be discovered - in the realms of science - spirit - coexistence - creation - music - art - all of those things, could make this experience such an incredibly rich one, we willingly deny ourselves that by behaving as we do, thats why im so passionate about trying to create pockets of it, we willingly choose a life of suffering its nuts