nicolaas wrote:I think we all believe in something is it God or evolution theory.
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I believe evolution is the key to everything, and I mean everything, including 'God' if you like. He/She/It is still evolving.
So I think Charles Darwin was right, as far as he went. Simple single-celled life-forms gradually developed into more complicated organisms.
What I find very difficult to believe are the two extremes of scientific and religious belief:
1. Scientific: That the process of evolution was entirely by chance and
accident, aided by the process of Natural Selection so only the most
efficient survived
2. Religious: That some all-wise, all-powerful Super Being had to go thru
the laborious process of evolution to come up with humans. And that
this supposedly all-loving Being would create all the cruelty in Nature
and the 'survival of the fittest' theme running thru it.
What I think is far more likely, and this is backed up by evidence/messages from the Spirit world, is that each stage of evolution was planned by Spirit.
What is Spirit? It is another word for whatever animates living things. The soul, the life-force, conscious energy if you like.
Some of the latest quantum theories, such as those of Ronald Pearson, say that consciousness originates in something called the i-ther (similar to the pre-Einsteinian notion of the 'ether') which permeates the Universe. Clearly there is something seriously wrong with orthodox science, as it just doesn't add up. They can't even find over 90% of the matter in the Universe. I-ther would help explain this.
According to messages from the Spirit world, in between lifetimes we plan our next one, if we feel we need to come back to Earth or some other planet again. We reincarnate in order to learn lessons, or teach other people lessons, and to progress and develop. This again, is evolution.
So if we plan our future life circumstances, then all life-forms could well also plan the next tiny stage in their physical evolution. This seems far more likely than the notion that complicated internal organs in living things which all have a very specific purpose and function just came about 'by chance'.
Since everything is evolving very gradually, including Spirit, then the slow process of evolving life-forms is logical. Also the 'survival of the fittest' thing is more understandable, since there is no Supreme Being planning everything centrally.
I believe just as single-cells, which can exist as life-forms on their own (ameba) joined together to form more complicated living organisms, so the life-force or spirits of lower life-forms join together to create more complicated life-forms.
The ultimate goal of our physical and spiritual evolution is to exist as pure spirit or conscious energy if you like, and then to merge into one supreme unified conscious energy field, which some call the Great Spirit, and others might call 'God'. But a 'God' which has evolved gradually, not one that existed in that form at the very beginning.
So, to summarize, yes I believe in evolution, but evolution guided by intelligence. Not the intelligence of a Supreme Being, but the mind/intelligence of the life-forms themselves. We are constantly planning our own development, during our lives, in between lifetimes, and eventually in our pure Spirit form when we feel we have no need to reincarnate on Earth or elsewhere again.
Spirit also teaches that there are many levels or dimensions on the Other Side, from very basic ones to very highly developed ones. Most of the messages received thru mediums, etc. come from the levels nearer to our physical Earth plane.
Quantum mechanics also postulates the existence of many dimensions or universes interpenetrating each other. Each one would seem perfectly real and 'physical' to those living in it.
It is as if we were all tuned on our TV sets to one station - say BBC 1 in UK, and were totally unaware of all the other stations broadcasting.
Those who only believe in what they can sense around them with their five senses are way behind the times.
Such things as out-of-the-body experiences (OOBEs) and near-death experiences (NDEs) in which people report accurately on things which are happening far away or while they are clinically dead on operating tables, are proof that mind exists separately from our brains, which are more like radio receivers controlling our physical bodies.
People blind from birth have had OOBEs or NDEs and reported accurately on their surroundings, colors, etc. which they have never seen before.
Professional skeptics, like Dr Susan Blackmore, who insist all NDEs are hallucinations brought about by drugs and lack of oxygen are very selective in what cases they examine. They ignore the vast volume of evidence where this 'explanation' does not fit the facts.
There is none so blind as those who won't see. Or rather, as those who don't want to see.
My advice would be to approach everything with an open mind and with no pre-conceived ideas. Or at least, not to let any pre-conceived ideas close your mind to other explanations. This is the only way our knowledge of all these things can expand.
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