The evolution of consciousness and human survival
Karan Singh
I think that the future of the human race is now in grave danger. Arthur Koestler has suggested the hypothesis that chilling man is a creature programmed for self-destruction: that there is something in his psyche that finally lead to its destruction. In this context, the ancient myth of Atlantis is fascinating to me. Atlantis was a great and glorious civilization, prosperous beyond imagination, that shone with all the achievements of science and technology. And we are told that Atlantis was submerged under water one day, unable to survive its own technological ingenuity.
Could it be we were the new Atlantis? I would ask you to reflect on this question, because science and technology have given us all the glittering wonders again, but wisdom languishes. growing knowledge and wisdom languishes.
The man is literally reached the stars and the fantastic achievements of medicine and engineering are obvious. However, the man seems to have met today with this terrible poison, hatred, envy, fear, lack of inner peace, the continuing conflict between the hostile forces that seem to dominate the world today.
I think the key lies in the future of human consciousness. This great gift of the gods, the gift of consciousness, has grown over millions of years from single-celled organisms until now the human state. Where do we? Is there any reason to suppose that the evolution of consciousness comes to an end with our present human state? Or perhaps we are balanced on the threshold of a leap to a new level of consciousness? Why evolution should end with us? Something that is embedded within the whole evolutionary process seems to be pushing the consciousness to a new jump, which alone can ensure human survival. It is important to remember the big difference between this leap in consciousness and those that occurred previously. The animals did not actively participate in its evolution to human beings was an evolution in the dark. But today we have, for the first time, a species capable of cooperating with the evolutionary force, and that may help to produce this higher consciousness. We are not just blind instruments. We are individuals aware of ourselves, and that is where we find the key to the importance of spiritual effort.
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