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Evolution or Devolution?

"We did not evolve up from matter", says best selling author, Michael Cremo, in Human Devolution. "Instead we devolved, or came down from the realm of pure consciousness or spirit".

Modern science and the world's great wisdom traditions, including the Vedic philosophy of ancient India support this view.

Physical reality is a devolved plane of existence which we can occasionally break through via out-of-body experiences and "psychic" phenomena. We are capable of transforming ourselves into an entirely new, enlightened order of beings.

There is solid scientific evidence showing how the " conscious self" can exist apart from the body but that knowledge has been systematically filtered out of mainstream science by a process of knowledge filtration. "Any time knowledge filtration takes place you can expect a great deal of resistance, criticism, and ridicule when it is exposed and challenged," says Cremo.

"If we did not evolve from apes, then where did we come from?" The question of human origins has always been a hot topic among philosophers and scientists. Today, most of them accept the Darwinian account that humans came into existence about 100,000 years ago, having evolved from more apelike ancestors.

The Vedic literature gives us another account of human origins - human devolution. To put it in its most simple terms, we do not evolve up from matter but devolve, or come down, from spirit. The human devolution process, the process by which conscious selves enter human bodies on earth, has been going on for a very long time. Evidence for a conscious self that can exist apart from mind comes from medical reports of out of body experiences (OBEs). During traumatic events such as heart attacks, blood stops flowing to the brain and the subjects become unconscious. Some subjects report separating from their bodies at such times and consciously observing their own bodies. The reality of such experiences has been confirmed by medical researchers.

Can Devolution Be Reversed?

The Vedic cosmology speaks of many universes. Beyond all of these universes is the level of pure consciousness, or spirit. Originally, we exist there as units of pure consciousness in harmonious connection with supreme consciousness. When we lose our united connection with supreme consciousness, we descend into the physical world of illusion - the world of mind and matter. It is a false reality, an illusion of our sense perceptions. This raises the questions: Did we descend into this space-time dimension by choice or were we captured? Can our "Devolution" be reversed? Can we restore ourselves to the original pure state?

Every great spiritual tradition offers the means for accomplishing this - spiritual teaching, prayer meditation, yoga and psychic power development. We are capable of transforming ourselves into an entirely new, enlightened order of beings.

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