Essay for
Dec 2003

Creation and Evolution

The human body is a magnificent mechanism. Its interconnectivity is amazing. Its self-repairing ability is outstanding. It can survive under extreme duress, within interior and exterior pollution with scant nourishment. You can work it, stress it, pollute it, injury it, abuse it and it just keeps functioning. When the body is under life threatening duress it begins shutting down everything that is not essential to its continued survival. The human body is a survivor. But —and it's a big but — it's transitory. It has temporary existence and when that existence is terminated the body is reduced to a few handfuls of dust: truly an ignominious end for such a fighting survivor.

From magnificent survivor to dust. Where has the life force that keeps the body functioning gone? Or, if the life force is the body itself, where in body is it located and where did it come from? The body comes and goes, creating a feeling of future loss, if not anger, as that which you know yourself to be will one day be no more. It does not make much sense to be and then not to be, but that is the way it appears to be. The body for all its survival interconnectivity cannot escape its inevitable demise. With that demise you apparently go with it. This establishes a sense of frustrating hopelessness or a 'don't care' attitude. If you achieve sensual happiness and physical joy from the body, you know all that happiness will one day be taken away from you. What value is there to be a body when you only have temporary use of it? One day you exist and next you do not; it all seems such a futile waste. Knowing this, one still tends to pamper the body with anything that is new, better or best: clothes, housing, vehicles or any construct or belief that makes you feel good about yourself. The body is indeed a captivating entrapment, albeit a fleeting one.

From a molecular perspective the body has far more space than what could be referred to as solid. From an atomic particle perspective even what has been referred to as solid is not solid, it just takes on an appearance of solidity. Looking at the human body from an atomic particle position it could easily be suggested that the human body is an illusion, albeit one that hurts when punched.

Darwinian evolutionists and creationists are at a stalemate concerning the origins of humankind. Creationists claim humankind is a direct result of a initiating creator source. Evolutionists claim humankind evolved from lower species of animals into a superior race of animals, namely us. Paradoxically both are correct. Both focus their attention upon the transient body, resulting in endless non-resolvable argument. If they simply switched their focus to consciousness, it would be discovered that they are both correct.

There is an initiating cause and there is evolution, both physically (transient reality)and non-physically (non-transient reality). There is really nothing to argue about. By simply focusing totally upon the human body they both have ignored the most important aspect of humans: consciousness. Both animals and humans have consciousness, the innate ability to see and know what is seen. How consciousness sees and knows, as well as what is seen and known, contains both an initiating cause and evolution.

Animals also have the same form of mind functions as humans: intellect, memory, imagination and intuition. But animals are limited or reactive to information; whilst humans have the ability to manipulate that information. Primarily that is the main difference, but that difference is a major one, dramatically altering the animal-human direction. Each animal-human, by manipulation of information, can now affect the totality, which an animal cannot do. Animals are limited to reaction and have no ability to manipulate information into ideas, ideals, constructs and beliefs. Only humans can do that. The manipulation can lead to equality of evolution based upon an experiential discovered moral and ethical base, benefiting all of humankind. Or, it can lead into endless violence, wars and destruction. The change from a reactive animal to a manipulating human-animal was initiated by accessing the spirit pattern of free will, allowing choice by choosing how to use the collected, adopted or created information.

The jump from animal to animal-human does alter the shape and dexterity of the body, as the body must now be able to evolve and create its thought forms. The reshaped or evolved body now has the physical ability to produce or bring into fruition its ideals and ideas. Simply having that ability makes it accountable, as it can now affect large numbers of humans and animals. But more importantly that individual body is now accountable for its own consciousness construction, as it has the ability to shape its evolution, potentially affecting others in that shaping. Or, microscopically it can affect the seen and unseen totality, as individual consciousness is from and a part of the infinite-totality. With myopic vision we witness the impact of individual consciousness on our society, but the greater impact is upon what we cannot see. And it is there in the area of what we cannot see where real accountability occurs, for it is there that individual consciousness arose from and is accountable to.

Whether you know or appreciate it or not, there are two worlds: spirit and physical. The physical world would not, nor could not, exist without the spirit world. The spirit world gives life to the physical world. The spirit world is infinite and the physical world is not. The physical world does not, nor cannot, arise out of nothing — it was created. Or, the spirit world contains the pattern and the physical world is the visible design of that pattern. To explore that further see 'String theory in Quantum physics' or read the section called 'Parallel Universes an Energy Loop' in the book 'Presence'.

The physical world contains the body and consciousness whilst the spirit world singularly contains consciousness. The jump from animal to human-animal is consciousness embodied, as that is where the spirit pattern of free will is amalgamated, allowing the body to evolve consciousness. See essays on 'Free will one and two' on the web site for clarification of that statement.

The human body is transitory; it has no permanent qualities. But animal-humans tend to project the physical body with all its mentally created attachments into the spirit world. And then create new worlds that somehow contain a new body — fashioned on the physical one — where it can continue to joyfully survive or be punished.

When the body goes, all the mentally created attachments to the body equally go. Everything that we now consider as our happiness is normally body connected, and it all goes. It cannot exist in a pure spirit world, only in a physical world. What belongs in the physical world stays here. What belongs in the spirit world goes there.

Apples are not oranges, and no matter how we manipulate an apple it will never be an orange. The world of apples is just that and the world of oranges is just that. If you are of an apple world and have never seen or tasted an orange, someone will have a trying time attempting to explain the world of oranges to you. The explanation will normally be limited to similes, as looks or tastes like. Or negatives, not this not that. But an apple eater tasting an orange then knows it essence, and it's not the taste of apples.

What survives physical death and what does not can create heated debates. The mind of an individual who has spent a lifetime endlessly developing better modes of personal security and ceaseless forms of physical stimulation would not want to survive in a world that can no longer provide that form of intoxication. That additive, accumulative stimulation aspect of mind cannot, nor could not, operate in a pure spirit world. Everything attached to that aspect of mind simply disappears along with the physical body, as they are energetically connected to each other. The remainder creates and embryonic-energy pattern for individual consciousness to reform within pure spirit energy, allowing consciousness, in that new form to continue its spirit evolutionary journey. What energetically resonates in one world remains there; what energetically resonates with another goes there. If there is nothing in the remainder, when the body and its attachments disintegrate, then there is nothing for individual consciousness to survive within. And, like animals, that consciousness would simply be assimilated back into the essence of creation to be as if it never was. If that is a little scary it should be, as you have been given all the tools for your evolution, and if you do not use them it is the same as rejecting them. If you reject them you equally reject what you are constructed from, which is rejecting your own continued survival.

You have been given the gift of life and the gift of free will to make that life eternal. By ignoring what you have been given, you reject your own existence. You have free will choice and if all you can do with that free will is enhance or be seduced by how, and in what conditions, the physical body lives you have make a choice, knowingly or not. Suggesting to choose wisely is most definitely an understatement.

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