"Organs come into being as a result of the need for specific organs (Rumi). The human being's organism is producing a new complex of organs in response to such a need."
Humans (homo sapiens) have evolved into the most powerful species because of our machine-building capabilities. A machine is a constructed device which transforms one form of energy into another, decreasing entropy.
Tools, language, and social organization are examples of machines. 1 Human social organization is a machine in which the components are living beings. Machines have enhanced human evolution by decreasing entropy in their concepts, actions, and organizations, increasing the amount of useful energy at our disposal.
Evolution, of whatever kind and at whatever level, involves simpler structures organizing into more complex structures: particles evolving into atoms, atoms evolving into systems such as animals, plants, galaxies, stars and planets.
"The concept of entropy was first proposed by Clausius in the nineteenth century to refer to a property of all closed systems by which they lose their capacity for performing useful work. Another way of saying the same thing is to say that they are gradually transformed into their most probable state. This latter statement of the concept of entropy was formulated by Boltzman. A third way to describe entropy is in terms of a decrease in the coherent information in a system. The greater the coherent information in a system, the lower its entropy. The more chaotic and disorganized a system, the higher its entropy. This view was derived by Claude Shannon in the late 1940s and is mathematically equivalent to the other formulations of entropy. "
John David Garcia, Creative Transformation
The Two Kinds of Evolution
We must keep in mind that there are two different kinds of evolution:
Humans are conditioned to believe that the course of human life (including human evolution) is directed by political-economic rulers. Such an idea couldn't be more incorrect.
Had political-economic rulers directed humankind's destiny throughout history, mankind would by now be extinct!
In past eras--and clearly at the present time--the trend in mankind's experience is that ignorant but cunning rulers are destroying the ecosystem and human minds through an ideology of egomania. This will result in the impossibility of new concepts and inventions being created through ordinary means.
The present rulers are literally sub-human**; they do not have the intellectual and moral capabilities to lead society in a productive and positive direction. They will self-destruct, as the results of their insanity catches up with them.
There is a "type" 2 of human that possesses supra-human capabilities and guides human destiny.
Ordinary physical evolution possesses these distinguishing characteristics:
Each evolving system incorporates all the properties and information of its subsystems plus certain new properties and information of its own design. The new properties and information are epiphenomena of the new higher-order self-creating system--autopoiesis. 3
Each system is composed of a central organizing nucleus with simpler interdependent subsystems in the periphery, for example, cells and their nuclei, humans and the brain, human societies and their central governments
Each time a new level of self-creation (autopoiesis) evolves, a new dimension of complexity occurs: nucleons becoming atoms, atoms becoming molecules, molecules becoming bacteria, bacteria becoming nucleated cells, cells becoming metazoa, metazoa becoming human, humans becoming supra-humans
The Evolution of Intelligent Man (Homo Sapiens)
Modern man's advanced development began with the appearance of homo sapiens, the first creatures who, through their development of reason and language, were capable of understanding.
Prior to homo sapiens, members of the homo habilis and homo erectus strains had trained themselves in such skills as fire-making, hunting, shelter-building, and food gathering.
But to them, human experience was merely a series of events without long-term significance. With humankind's development of language and reason it became possible to pass down one generation's accumulated understanding to the next generation, to create what we now call a culture.
Homo sapiens' physical evolution has been almost entirely cultural, not biological. In fact, it appears that we are somewhat degenerating biologically. The main process of bipedal primate mammal (hominid) physical evolution has been the increasing ability to create and use machines. The homo sapiens species has carried the main trend of machine development to its logical conclusion: we are becoming increasingly dependent on machines.
Homo sapiens have evolved physically in a unique manner: through psychosocial adaptation, that is, through constantly developing mental powers and organizational systems. We have no evidence that any other animal group has ever evolved in this same way.
Two astounding mutations have taken place within the homo sapiens species, one physical, one spiritual. The physical mutation is the capability of INVENTION; the spiritual mutation is INSPIRATION.
Early in humankind's physical evolution we began to store mental and social information: how to build and use machines. This kind of knowledge has to be learned after birth, it is not instinctual or innate--no hominid is born knowing how to build any machine. With the development of language, this information could be passed from one generation to the next. Beyond the capability of building and using machines, the extraordinary power of invention was the essential mutation which made a new type of psychosocial evolution possible.
An invention is a new machine which can increase the "fitness" of a particular species. "Fitness" refers, in physical evolution, to a species' capability for producing progeny. In spiritual evolution, "fitness" means the capability of understanding higher knowledge: humankind's essence as an expression of a Higher Being.
"May not you and I be confluent in a higher consciousness, and confluently active there, though we now know it not? We finite minds may simultaneously be co-conscious with one another in a super-human intelligence."
William James A Pluralistic Universe
How Human Intelligence Can Be Lost
Humans produce inventions by rearranging the physical, mental, and social environment into new systems which produce new and more effective ways of acting and thinking. Until recently, the benefits of invention were dispersed throughout the entire human species. The ability to invent and pass on the knowledge of inventions to the next generation was the major direction of physical evolutionary change. However, several perturbations 4 have recently been introduced into the total human equation by a Demonic Cabal:
The destruction of the American educational system--the same destruction replicated in other countries throughout the world
The deliberate development of a mindless citizenry which can be manipulated by brainwashing and
propaganda
The destruction of the political and moral structures on which America was built and the substitution of a new reactionary ideology:
The terrifying result of this cabal's destruction of our culture is that the mental capability of masses of humans does not allow for cultural knowledge to be passed on from one generation to another. Within the last several generations, critical knowledge of our culture has not been transferred. The ignorance of the current masses is particularly calamitous in the areas of social knowledge, leading to an easily manipulable citizenry.
The critical inventions which have been responsible for humankind's physical evolution include: tools, language, government, agriculture, science, mathematics, computers, radios, etc. The continued manufacture and improvement of such inventions requires an educated workforce.
The deranged cabal which now rules the political-economic systems throughout the world delude themselves into believing that they can destroy people's minds and still have a functioning civilization. Their indiscriminate destruction of mental and social capabilities is inevitably leading to the breakdown of our society.
The machines humankind has developed become extensions and amplifiers of our bodies and serve the same functions as the more specialized organs in other species. Airplanes enable us to fly faster and farther than any bird, telescopes and microscopes enable us to see better than our unaided eyes, language enables us to process, store, and exchange information in a way which is analogous to the nervous system of our body. This linguistic capability is further amplified by computers and telecommunication systems. Humanity is forming an interdependent relationship with these machines. Its knowledge of and use of these machines depend on effective education--the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next.
The physical essence of human culture is a unified whole of persons, machines, and knowledge. No part can survive without the others. Human civilization is a collective reality which transcends our biological limitations. If you remove mind (reason and awareness) from human society it will soon self-destruct. A discerning examination of current history discloses that this is now beginning to happen.
The Emergence of the Sub-Human
In my recently published book, The Perennial Tradition, I outline Plato's heroic struggle to wrest humankind from the destructive grasp of the oral mythological tradition (Homer and the dramatists) and instill in humans the capability of reasoning. 5
"Once it is accepted that the oral situation had persisted through the fifth century, one faces the conclusion that there would also persist what one may call an oral state of mind as well; a mode of consciousness so to speak, and . . . a vocabulary and syntax, which were not that of a literate bookish culture. And once one admits this and admits that the oral state of mind would show a time lag so that it persisted into a new epoch when the technology of communication had changed, it becomes understandable that the oral state of mind is still for Plato the main enemy."
Havelock, Eric A. Preface to Plato
Study of Plato's struggle to replace the "oral state of mind" with a rational mind-set is particularly timely because the twenty-first century is experiencing precisely the opposite trend: the deliberate destruction of the rational mind-set and devolution to the "oral state of mind." Whereas Plato assisted humans to evolve from the oral, non-rational stage to the rational, literate stage, we are presently seeing the devolution from the rational, literate level of human development back to the pre-literate, oral, non-rational level.
In the new "oral tradition" that has overwhelmed our culture, we have two new icons: Obama, the con-man, and a new Homer, Homer Simpson. These two creatures serve as clear representations of the current "greed-is-good," anti-mind, people-are-stupid, whatever-you-can-get-away-with-is-okay sub-human. 6
Plato saw the oral, non-literate state of consciousness as a crippling and poisoning of the mind, the creation of a false "reality" which individuals are made to believe in. In our current TV-movie-pop-music culture a total counterfeit "reality" is created, people do not see what is really going on--only what the media tells them is happening.
This is why Homer Simpson is a revealing icon for the contemporary retrogression to a state of "exuberant ignorance." Homer is not only a TV character--one step from reality, he is also a cartoon character--another step removed. The fact that people watch this cartoon character means that they have become entranced by a shadow on Plato's cave, a phantom specter. They are losing any taste for reality.
"When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk: culture-death is a clear possibility."
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Obama the glib con-man is an embarrassment to any thinking American. His press conferences are total shams: being tossed softball questions and his non-answers and inane posturings. He asserts falsehoods openly as unquestioned truth, and no member of the press has the courage to call him on any of his barefaced lies. The fact that the American people aren't rising up and demanding the impeachment of this sub-human is sad proof that the minds of many have been destroyed by the demonic cabal's mis-education, brainwashing, and propaganda.
Plato clearly recognized that man's evolutionary advancement requires that we come out of the primitive mind-set and gain the capabilities of rational thought and self-consciousness--the ability to see what's really going on in the world and in our own minds. Plato had seen first hand the power of a destructive burlesque of Socrates which helped to form prejudices based entirely on lies, leading to Socrates' execution by the state. Little wonder that Plato feared the corrupting influence of mindlessness on society!
Evolution and Possible Devolution of Ordinary Humans
Man's Achieve- ment of Language
The Oral Frame of Mind
Man's Achieve- ment of Reason
The Enlightenment
Reversion to Oral Frame of Mind
Back to the Stone Age
Homo Sapiens evolved physically through the development of capabilities such as the invention of machines. In our early struggle for survival against the forces of nature and man-killing predators, violence was a legitimate response. Unfortunately, most humans have continued to use physical and psychological violence in our new environment where this is completely counterproductive. Physical evolution isn't designed to produce moral beings. It is a blind force, a mechanism of competitive warfare geared only for survival.
The Nazi "experiment" in Germany proved that human cunning can be used to build exceptionally powerful systems of mass destruction. Nazi scientists, for example, had already produced jet airplanes before Germany's defeat in World War II. But the harnessing of human capability exclusively for purposes of destruction and imperialistic conquest also bring with it the sure decimation of intelligence. The Nazi leaders were not intelligent enough to use their resources in an ultimately effective manner. The same is the case with the present Obama cabal-puppet.
A violence-based society attempts to destroy all spiritual values: art, compassion, intelligence, creativity, community. A sub-human cabal is forcing people to concentrate our machine-development capabilities to build weapons of destruction. That branch of human evolution has reached the point of no return--leading to the ultimate devolution of humankind. The twentieth century was the bloodiest in human history.
Humankind's spiritual evolution has included social inventions such as constitutions, bills of rights, judicial systems, the Platonic process of dialectic, and ethical principles. These remain a part of our human heritage which will be passed down to future generations, no matter how much they may fail to understand them. If modern humans are to evolve, it must be in terms of our spiritual capabilities. We must put our tendencies toward violence behind us and develop moral systems by which to live in peace.
If we look exclusively at humankind's physical evolution, we discover a very bleak picture. But we must remind ourselves:
Had political-economic rulers directed humankind's destiny throughout history, mankind would by now be extinct!
Fortunately, humankind's evolution involves both our physical and spiritual development and there are universal forces at work guiding our evolution in a positive direction.
"I am building my expectation of a new phase in human affairs upon the belief that there is a profoundly serious minority in the mass of our generally indifferent species. I cannot understand the existence of any of the great religions, I cannot explain any fine and grave constructive process in history, unless there is such a serious minority amidst our confusions. They are the Salt of the Earth, these people capable of devotion and of living lives for remote and mighty ends."
H. G. Wells
The Next Step in Human Evolution: the Supra-Human
Though ordinary humans are rapidly losing the ability to understand reality, a small contemporary group is accessing supernormal knowledge through portals into Higher Consciousness. They are making knowledge available about what is actually going on in the world--beyond what the demonic cabal's media lies say is going on. And, of critical importance, they are preserving higher knowledge in books and Web sites which will be available when conditions have degenerated to the point where a rudely awakened mass of people will suddenly say: "How can we get out of this intolerable situation? What knowledge do we need to re-build a sane and progressive world?"
Mankind's spiritual--and physical--evolution has been guided by seers such as Hermes, Plato, Jesus, Rumi, Francis of Assisi, and Shakespeare.
"We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with freedom and choice and with honor, as though the maker and molder of thyself, thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. Thou shalt have power to degenerate into the lower forms of life which are brutish. Thou shalt have the power, out of thy soul's judgement, to be reborn into the highest forms, which are divine."
Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man
We must distinguishes two different strains or "types" 2 within the human species:
Ordinary human beings within a culture
Human beings who have undergone a spiritual transformation through initiation into a Higher Consciousness and are harbingers of the evolutionary Supra-Human
Supra-Humans (Clement of Alexandria referred to them as "True Gnostics") are not just superficially different in degree from ordinary humans; they are a different "type" altogether. They represent a distinct higher level of being within the Man (Homo) genus and the homo sapiens species--the new evolutionary strain that is now emerging. They are distinguished from ordinary homo sapiens by their:
Ability to live in both the terrestrial and the spiritual worlds simultaneously
Outwardly, these supra-humans appear the same as ordinary human beings; the difference is internal and spiritual and can only be discerned by members of the same "type." Supra-humans are confluently active in a higher consciousness, co-conscious with one another in a super-human intelligence.
In each era of human history, adepts in the Higher Consciousness have made exoteric knowledge available to the people in general to enhance their evolutionary development. This knowledge has served as the basis for periodic social advancement, as in Pythagoras' cultural center at Croton, Plato's Academy in Athens, the Neo-Platonic center in Alexandria, and the seventeenth and eighteenth century Enlightenment in Europe and America. To specific students, they have taught the esoteric knowledge of spiritual and cultural regeneration.
There is now present an entirely new factor in human evolution which began about ten thousand years ago. Whereas up to that time, human evolution had been primarily powered by unconscious physical and social stimuli, it is now possible for human evolution to be advanced through conscious effort.
The new supra-humans compose a race of adventurers, dwelling invisibly among mankind, who have evolved to the point of being able to deliberately and actively return to the divine Fount of Reality. They have attained Being, union with the One, and teach these mysteries to authentic seekers. Because of this, they have a unique importance for the evolution of the human race in revealing humankind's full potential and how this potential can be realized.
"When goodness grows weak,
When evil increases,
I make myself a body.
In every age I come back
To deliver the holy,
To destroy the sin of the sinner,
To establish righteousness."
Bhagavad Gita
This new "type" of person has discovered that humans are--in their essence--expressions of the One Higher Being. The being of humankind is a manifestation of the Universal Being and our evolution is the unfolding and realization of this Everlasting Spirit. Since all humans "live and move and have our being" in this Eternal Mind, we evolve by gaining a progressively creative and discerning understanding of this Universal Spirit.
"There is really developing above us another hominisation, a collective one of the whole species, and it is quite natural to observe, parallel with the socialization of humanity, the same…psycho-biological properties rising upwards on the earth that the individual step to reflection originally produced. . . .
"This second phase of hominisation is to be conceived of as the 'spirit of the earth,' the central element of the mind of a sentient planet. We are faced with a harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses equivalent to a sort of super-consciousness.
Teilhard De Chardin, Phenomenon of Man
Advanced humans are realizing in their own lives and then teaching others how to become co-conscious with one another in a super-human Intelligence. Whatever is known within this super-consciousness is known at all points. Social evolution involves learning to create institutions which provide for the development of each individual to the limit of our potential.
"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
Instead of accepting the view of human society which the ruling cabal tries to force on us--that we are all isolated egos struggling against all other egos--we can develop the understanding that we are all part of a greater whole. As we gain a more discerning understanding of our unity within the Universal Mind, our evolution comprises the manifestation of this understanding in mental and physical forms. Evolution is the process of Higher Intelligence manifesting itself in its production of self-conscious life.
Humans possess the image of the Higher Consciousness in which they have their own being: self-awareness, autonomy, and the power to create through the manifestation of their thoughts. Humankind is presently suffering because it has allowed its thoughts to degenerate to egomania, the struggle of each against all others, and the view that the highest values are wealth and fame.
The only way for a Higher Being to evolve spontaneous individuals is to allow them to manifest whatever ideas they receive through inspiration or create and awaken to their own ultimate reality. So humans are created with the possibility of freedom and allowed to discover themselves. What we discover is that the universe is a government of law: we reap what we sow; wrong acts are their own punishment and right acts are their own reward.
We discover that, contrary to the prevailing myth that earthly rulers control human destiny, Higher Being has established Laws whereby we experience what we manifest. Higher Mind is guiding our progressive development of understanding, compassion for fellow-humans, and the ability to enter into an inviolable super-consciousness.
"There is a continuum of cosmic consciousness against which our individuality builds but accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a mother sea."
But to them, human experience was merely a series of events without long-term significance. With humankind's development of language and reason it became possible to pass down one generation's accumulated understanding to the next generation, to create what we now call a culture.
Early in humankind's physical evolution we began to store mental and social information: how to build and use machines. This kind of knowledge has to be learned after birth, it is not instinctual or innate--no hominid is born knowing how to build any machine. With the development of language, this information could be passed from one generation to the next. Beyond the capability of building and using machines, the extraordinary power of invention was the essential mutation which made a new type of psychosocial evolution possible.
Humans produce inventions by rearranging the physical, mental, and social environment into new systems which produce new and more effective ways of acting and thinking. Until recently, the benefits of invention were dispersed throughout the entire human species. The ability to invent and pass on the knowledge of inventions to the next generation was the major direction of physical evolutionary change. However, several perturbations 4 have recently been introduced into the total human equation by a Demonic Cabal:
The deranged cabal which now rules the political-economic systems throughout the world delude themselves into believing that they can destroy people's minds and still have a functioning civilization. Their indiscriminate destruction of mental and social capabilities is inevitably leading to the breakdown of our society.
Obama the glib con-man is an embarrassment to any thinking American. His press conferences are total shams: being tossed softball questions and his non-answers and inane posturings. He asserts falsehoods openly as unquestioned truth, and no member of the press has the courage to call him on any of his barefaced lies. The fact that the American people aren't rising up and demanding the impeachment of this sub-human is sad proof that the minds of many have been destroyed by the demonic cabal's mis-education, brainwashing, and propaganda.
If we look exclusively at humankind's physical evolution, we discover a very bleak picture. But we must remind ourselves:
Supra-Humans (Clement of Alexandria referred to them as "True Gnostics") are not just superficially different in degree from ordinary humans; they are a different "type" altogether. They represent a distinct higher level of being within the Man (Homo) genus and the homo sapiens species--the new evolutionary strain that is now emerging. They are distinguished from ordinary homo sapiens by their:
Outwardly, these supra-humans appear the same as ordinary human beings; the difference is internal and spiritual and can only be discerned by members of the same "type." Supra-humans are confluently active in a higher consciousness, co-conscious with one another in a super-human intelligence.
The only way for a Higher Being to evolve spontaneous individuals is to allow them to manifest whatever ideas they receive through inspiration or create and awaken to their own ultimate reality. So humans are created with the possibility of freedom and allowed to discover themselves. What we discover is that the universe is a government of law: we reap what we sow; wrong acts are their own punishment and right acts are their own reward.
