Some Thoughts on Evolution
by John Lawrence, August 10, 2019
A more evolved being is to human beings what human beings are to cats. That's it in a nutshell. We know a cat can't do algebra or calculus, but the human mind is capable. Logic would tell us by extrapolation that there might be possibly a more evolved being, whether they exist right now somewhere in the universe or nor, whether human beings could evolve into them or not, whose mind was capable of things which are utterly impossible for human beings to comprehend just as a cat can't possibly comprehend higher math.
Clever Hans was a hose that his owner supposedly had trained to do math. Apparently Hans could add, subtract, multiply and divide. The horse would tap his foot four times, for example, when his owner asked him to add 2 plus 2.The horse was even able to understand German! He belonged to a man called Herr Wilhelm von Osten. Von Osten was a teacher who taught math at a school. He was an amateur horse trainer. Von Osten took his amazing horse around the country demonstrating that he had been able to teach the horse math. Scientists became interested in Clever Hans. The psychologist Carl Stumpf got a group of people together to study what was happening. His assistant Oskar Pfungst was the main investigator. It was discovered that the horse could sense when the owner wanted him to stop tapping as long as he had eye contact with the owner. The conclusion was that the horse didn't really understand math!
So what would a more highly evolved human mind be capable of? Clairvoyance, precognition - extra sensory perception (ESP) in general. Perhaps some humans have already had a mutation in their genes which gives them some of these powers. Edgar Cayce was the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic "readings" to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come.
Later in life, Cayce would find that he had the ability to put himself into a sleep-like state by lying down on a couch, closing his eyes, and folding his hands over his stomach. In this state of relaxation and meditation, he was able to place his mind in contact with all time and space — the universal consciousness, also known as the super-conscious mind. From there, he could respond to questions as broad as, "What are the secrets of the universe?" and "What is my purpose in life?" to as specific as, "What can I do to help my arthritis?" and "How were the pyramids of Egypt built?" His responses to these questions came to be called "readings," and their insights offer practical help and advice to individuals even today. Cayce accurately diagnosed many peoples' medical problems and either referred them to a doctor or advised a cure. He didn't need to be in the same room with them. He only needed to know their address.
So maybe Cayce had a gene flip that enabled him to have a "universal consciousness." If this mutation spread throughout the human race, we might assume that humans will have evolved to a higher being in the same way that certain gene changes spread among the higher apes which allowed them to evolve from apehood into humans.
The book, "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain," details much of the research the Russians have done on this subject of paranormal and parapsychological events. The authors present six new chapters of post-Cold War activities. They offer evidence indicating that the Russians have been successful in harnessing psychic energy and show how Russian scientists advised Pentagon officials on controlling the thoughts of David Koresh during the 1993 Waco, Texas standoff. Well, let's ask the psychics how we get rid of war and get universal peace and prosperity. Or how do we solve global warming? That would be really an accomplishment for "universal consciousness."
So while there are individuals capable of harnessing psychic abilities, these abilities have not spread into the gene pool of the whole human race just as, I suppose, that the gene for language was manifested at first only in a few individuals before it spread to encompass the whole human race. It might even be possible for a cat or a horse to evolve into a hypercat or hyperhorse that was capable of doing math. Evidently some hyperevolute humans exist or have existed (Cayce died in 1945 although there is still an institute bearing his name). At the present time most humans simply are incapable of answering questions like "What happens after I die?," What is the ultimate fate of the universe?," What existed before the universe came into being?," and so forth and so on just as a cat is incapable of doing calculus.
