EVOLUTION versus DEVOLUTION

For reasons quite unknown to me, people, virtually all people I know, imagine that evolution proceeds in a straight upward incline, ending up in, what they consider to be a place of Eternal Rest. By contrast, Verdi's Yago, or perhaps Shakespeare’s and Verdi’s librettist Arrigo Boito, the Italian poet, journalist, novelist, and composer, and in my opinion a formidable philosopher, asserts his faith in our future with words:

La Morte è il Nulla.

È vecchia fola il Ciel!

Loosely translated...

Death is Nothingness.

Heaven is an old wives' tale!

That’s right: the old folly of Heaven. A place of RIP. Of Requiescat in Pace—wherein we are sentenced to do nothing for eternity. Sentenced to eternal boredom.

Yet, Darwin had a point.

We all advance though not always in the prescribed direction. Darwin's theory was alive and well when our Phenomenal Universe stretched back some 13.77 billion years. That was yesterday. Today we must face a brave new world.

An eternal Universe...

All that’s left of Darwin’s theory is complexity. Nature seems to crave ever-increasing complexity. Darwin seems to have perceived that.

And there is more... Today's Phenomenal World is made up of energy. Energy that ferments in constant metamorphosis, that makes the reality we perceive with our senses an illusion. A reality that milliseconds ago didn't yet exist in its present form. A world, constantly hovering on the edge of extinction, a world made up of our thoughts and desires suspended in fragments of eternity.  

So what keeps us going?

The answer is hidden in — what Albert Einstein called — the Thoughts of God. You can read all about them in my extended essay, a brief book if you like, by that name, that is about to be published. And why are the Thoughts of God hidden? Because they, too, are energy. Pure energy. Energy vibrating at an infinite rate, hence are 'confined' to omnipresence.

It is the Energy of Infinite Potential.

An Energy of what is, of what was, of whatever could be. It has the quality of slowing down its rate of vibrations into infinite diversity, thus creating infinite transient, phenomenal realities.

Everything we perceive with our primitive senses is made up of this Energy. The whole Phenomenal Universe: all the galaxies, the stars, the planets. The space in-between. Yes, even the Black Holes. All of our reality. Including our bodies.

We continue in Vicious Circles. Neither better nor worse. Just different. We not only contribute to it but are the diversity created by this Universal Creative Energy.

And how?

Because this Energy has one trait that makes the phenomenal world possible. It is Consciousness. We are all Children of the:

OMNIPRESENT

INEXHAUSTIBLE

INDESTRUCTIBLE

CREATIVE

CONSCIOUSNESS

 

And yet, there are the Few that advance. Just a few. The Chosen Ones. The rest....?

The rest you can read in my book by the same name, coming soon. Enjoy!

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 This is a preview of the forthcoming book.

Enjoy!