Re: Loren Wilder wants my thoughts on evolution.

See From Mckee Psychology (author of Story): http://williammistele.com/mckee.htm

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Robert McKee is the only real Buddhist I have ever met (though I am sure he would disclaim being a Buddhist). This is because he focuses on the insight generated through actual experience in real life situations. McKee: "Life is about the ultimate questions of finding love and self-worth, of bringing serenity to inner chaos, of the titanic social inequities everywhere around us, of time running out. Life is conflict. That is its nature."

History, as compared to evolution, is slightly hard to grasp. There are many factors involved. We don't always know what is going on underneath or behind the scenes.

Divine Providence knows, I am sure. But mere mortals have to struggle and insight doesn't always rise above the mountains that block our sight here on the valley floor of time.

I tend to favor the great man theory. In each century, a few men (or women if you prefer who molded the men in the first place) shape history. Churchill was a focal point of the last century. Without him, England would have made a disastrous peace with Germany. Upon one man turns the fate of a planet.

It appears we are moving forward having finally caught up with the Roman Empire after the dark ages and then continuing on from the Renaissance and Reformation. Two hundred years ago we were riding horses and now so many advanced technological achievements.

But one solar flare as occurred in the 1840's and our power grids will be down between a month and six years. Some things you only learn to deal with after they happen they are so unexpected.

If there was an Atlantis, which many recall as being more advanced than we are even now, someone failed to do their job--they let power in some form rise to a level that the risks taken threatened their very existence. They bet on rising to new heights and they lost the bet. (Atlantis walked out of the casino of time with empty pockets).

I am not sure it is like baseball that gives you three strikes. You may not get to repeat the mistakes of Atlantis a second time.

Since I hang out with mermaids/undines, I have access to their perspectives. They think human beings are half dead, half zombies, because the capacity for feeling among Homo sapiens is so incredibly weak. Will is good. Intellect great. Productive capacity to make things that endure--outstanding, well, not as good as Rome, Greece, and Egypt. Our concrete will deteriorate in a few centuries so that all our buildings will fall down. But the effort is there.

But love, feeling, empathy--why we are right there next to the Atlanteans taking risks that threaten our very existence, because the nurturing, caring, and fulfilling others needs has not improved. There has been zero advance in that regard--evolutionary score of development of watery feelings of empathy: Human race: Zero. [well, maybe the 2 per cent out of a possible 100]

Evolution? History? Hard to grasp. The mermaids may look at the future and see us as being already extinct, but I think we will make it. It will only take one or two unprecedented and original interventions, that is miracles, on the part of Divine Providence to pull us through.

Evolution? It comes down to a personal question for me--how do I feel about taking ten thousand years to recapture what we once had, about having to start over again from the stone age? Having had anti-gravity machines, wireless electricity, magical healing crystals and then having to learn to farm again, reinvent anatomy and mathematics and architecture?

I feel it was really a gift to mankind. Take away the magic and the direct interaction with the spiritual worlds so that human beings could focus almost exclusively on the external world. The advantage of a race of extroverts is that they don't know how to destroy the soul, only the body. Living here in this time is kind of like being on vacation.

No one is experimenting with the kind of power that can destroy the entire astral plane. It is relaxing, refreshing for a change. Human beings with their dynamite, cannon balls, bombers, nuclear weapons, lasers, etc. they are so innocent (that is, they don't know real malice), so naive, so ignorant of real power. Like I say, being here is like being on vacation.

But if you really ask me like "Come on. Don't hold back. Tell me what you really think." I will answer: there is no such thing as time or evolution. In this moment, we are what we wish to be. We are a part of may realities. The future is not separate from the past or the present. To quote a mermaid woman: "There is no 'I was" or 'I will be.' There is only 'the now."

The part of ourselves that is constrained by the limitations and restrictions of "linear" time is very small. Even so, the physical world is worth fighting for. This has got to be one of the most beautiful planets in this galaxy. The human race may not know this. But I choose to fight. This fight will not take place in the physical world but in the soul (in a place outside of linear time). It is a matter of whose heart can dream the best and brightest dream.

(Or, if you like poetry, the last mage of Atlantis: "One day we will meet again and together dream a better world with a greater love and greater will." May it so be.)

The universe is on fire with wonder, beauty, and ecstasy. I would like to see that beauty manifest on earth while humanity is still here.