Theos-Talk Archives (October 2001 Message tt00134)

Does anyone believe this evolution of consciouness is
inevitable or merely a product of a synchronicity of
events? Must everything, at some stage or another,
pass through a state of consciousness?


--- Etzion Becker <etvionbb@netvision.net.il> wrote:
> Talking about the evolution of human consciousness
> and its attributes, it is
> interesting to note, that only till a few hundreds
> of years ago, we didn't
> see perspectives. See art pictures till 400-500
> years ago. No perspectives.
> Even in ancient Egypt. Something has been happening
> to us the past few
> hundred years , and I think more things yet to come.
> Etzion
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mic Forster <micforster@yahoo.com>
> To: <micforster@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 5:25 AM
> Subject: Theos-World Memories of Past Lives
> 
> 
> > There was an episode of The Simpsons where Homer
> > Simpson steps through a vortex to find himself in
> a
> > strange world. The scientist comes along and
> explains
> > to those present that Homer has entered a three
> > dimensional world, as opposed to the two
> dimensional
> > cartoon world. As the scientist explains the
> concept
> > all the other characters find it hard to grasp.
> And so
> > it is with the notion of the fourth dimension -
> time.
> > I have spent many hours contemplating how one can
> > perceive such a dimension, though I have had
> little
> > success. That was until a few weeks ago when I
> finally
> > realised how I could view the fourth dimension -
> it
> > was starring at me the whole time. I was examining
> a
> > sediment core that had the environmental history
> of a
> > sawmp just outside of Sydney over the last 1000
> years.
> > Each layer in that core told a different story for
> a
> > particular point in time. Looking at the entire
> core
> > you could see a story. It then occurred to me that
> I
> > was looking at the fourth dimension. In the next
> > moment it occurred to me that every book that was
> ever
> > written was done so in order to record the fourth
> > dimension. Viewing evolution from a purely
> Darwinistic
> > perspective it can be seen that there has been a
> > gradual evolution towards perceiving the fourth
> > dimension. It starts with simple spatial memory.
> Then
> > memory over a longer time period develops, for
> example
> > Pied Currawongs cache small birds in the fork of
> trees
> > for later consumption yet the Currawong must
> remember
> > where that bird was cached. Memory gets better, as
> > with hunter/gatherer humans who have no written
> record
> > but their memory is passed down through stories
> and
> > other means. For example, Indigenous Australians,
> > walking through their land, sing the song of their
> > ancestors before them. These songs reflect the
> > creation of a certain landmark, eg a waterhole or
> a
> > rock. As the songs are passed onto each generation
> > unchanged so to is knowledge of the geography of
> the
> > land. Memory got even better with the advent of
> > writing and, later, the printing press. Today I
> can
> > step into a library and "remember" the creation of
> the
> > universe, the solar system, what the climate was
> like
> > 400 million years ago, what sort of animals I
> would
> > have found back then etc etc. Although I have no
> > memory of events that happened to me personally in
> > past lives, I do have this cumulative memory, or
> > psuedo-collective memory, that I may take
> advantage of
> > for the benefit of myself and others.
> >
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