There has been a lot of conflict surrounding the evidence and theories related to evolution in America. Whether humankind evolved from primates or not might end up being beside the point, indeed it might be totally irrelevant.
There can be little disagreement, however, that the direction in which the American community is “evolving” today will not lead to a better life for most of us. We have clearly made many poor choices including our social-economic system. Perhaps it’s time to “rethink” those choices.
For example, in 1888 Edward Bellamy’s utopian novel, Looking Backward, or 2000-1887 expressed his doubts about the direction in which laissez-faire capitalism was starting to overtake the nation. “Conceived as ‘a mere literary fantasy, a fairy tale of social felicity,’ the book is actually a sharply pointed and skillfully directed exposure of the inadequacies of the private-enterprise system, of the inefficiency and material waste to which that system leads, and worse, of the attrition of human values that results from it.”[i]
Good choices are based in Truth, but what is the Truth? David Hawkins has a few interesting and yes, controversial ideas about the Truth surrounding human evolution. “The nonlinear domain is invisible, without form, and beyond time, dimension, or measurement. It includes qualities and meanings, and power emanates from its intrinsic essence. The source of power and creation is in the invisible, nonlinear domain and by the exercise of will can result in form. The visible world is therefore the world of effects and the interaction of forces. It is out of inspiration and volition that action arises by assent of the will, which has the capacity to activate possibilities or options.”[ii]
We may have a larger role to play in which direction we “evolve” than we previously thought. And to that end, perhaps we might re-examine the nature of Reality (Oneness) itself.
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Supplemental Reading: Evolution, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 1
#73 The Nonlinear Domain
[i] Davidson, Marshall B. The American Heritage History of The Writers’America. New York: American Heritage, 1973, p. 268.
[ii] Hawkins, David. The Eye of the I. Sedona, Arizona: Veritas Publishing, 2001, p. 297.
