Beyond Evolution

Natural selection is not something that only effects genetic material. It is dynamically intertwined with reality itself. Even the very thoughts we think are the result of a process that selects which ideas come into our conscious awareness according to the successfulness of the idea in competition with other ideas. A completely conscious person can actually become aware of this process and even consciously modify the selection criteria. Partially conscious people also modify the selection criteria of their awareness all the time, but they do it unconsciously.

This process – conscious or unconscious – is the basis of intelligence itself. What we perceive as intelligence in ourselves is the result of a process that extends out into our world, and even into the universe. Our brains are no more than organic transceivers for this intelligence. The more we open ourselves to it, the more “intelligent” we seem.

It is not possible to have any thoughts independent of your experience. Even basic instinctive urges are motivated by experiences that are stored in your genetic material, much as complex psychological reactions are the response to experiences stored in the synapses of your brain.

Yes, this implies that we are no more than automatons, or at least our bodies are. Yet, the intelligence that our bodies (and minds) respond to is WHO we really are. Enlightenment is the event of identification with the intelligence, and source of our physical form and all experience. Delusionment is the event of mistaken identification with the experience itself.

Both enlightenment and delusionment are necessary for any experience to occure at all. They are the fundamental events of reality. To have one, you must have the other. It is the constant transition from one to the other that comprises what we call experience.