One of the reasons that spiritual people like ourselves have not been able to change the world into a more positive place is we cannot agree on how to change it. My belief is that God (or the Universe) wants us to grow and evolve. It is looking to find the 2% that is new and unique. It wants greater complexity in thought and action.
Humans are the (current) result of billions of years of evolution. The first organisms only had single cells. Then evolution added multi-celled organism. Cells inside a multi-celled organism began to specialize. Evolution caused organs to develop. Different species emerged.
The human brain is made of 3-layers. The base is the reptilian brain. Then a mammalian brain evolved to cover the reptilian brain and increase the complexity of the species. And next a neo-cortex evolved to cover both. More complexity.
Now technology is effectively increasing communication between humans. Writing evolved to store and transmit ideas, the same way our brains evolved to store and transmit data. The printing press then allowed greater and faster dissemination of information. In just over a century and a half we have added the telegraph, telephone, cell phone and internet. Greater leaps in the evolution of thought are now possible because technology now allows greater spread of information.
Some people think humans are a virus on the planet and they are destroying the planet. They want to reduce the population of the planet and return to a farming society. They seek stagnation for the human race. I say stagnation is a form of death. The force that opposes God seeks stagnation and death. Those of us that seek to serve the desire of the One need to seek evolution and growth.
Population pressure will lead humanity to move off the Earth into space and to create cities under the sea. These are good things. Life seeks to seed the solar system and beyond, to create something new, to create a third. Mars + humans yield a third.
Of course humanity needs to overcome problems like pollution of the environment. But it is the pollution and backlash against it that causes the impetus for change.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
-Mohandas Gandhi
As a final note, I want to say that spiritual people that seek to change the world can’t use spiritual tools developed thousands of years ago. The consciousness of man has evolved and the tools we use to create higher consciousness need to evolve too. Find and use the latest and greatest tools. A well trained meditator with the latest tools can learn to meditate in the largest city in the world… or a war zone. Can you?
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