I was speculating about evolution this morning. But it was an expanded idea of evolution. It was more a vague notion of an idea that involves and encompasses spirituality. One that goes beyond the bonds and bounds we usually accept as “reality”. Think on this a bit: think on the vast expanse of space. Think on the countless other planets and other life forms there are out there. Add a spiritual dimension to this. Let your mind be blown. (Not literally. Not ‘blow me mind down, Olive’). Just let your mind be open and accept the parlance of the hippie and feel the essence of the sentiment of the expression. Open up! Lighten up, Francis!

Okay. I grant that all that is dreamy and hyperbole perhaps. But there are indeed countless inhabitable worlds out there.

Likewise when one allows oneself to think of spirituality in light of materialism. We can know to understand spirituality as non-material energy. What we consider reality and totality (physical ‘reality’) might well then be very limited .

Put the two together, one inhabitable earth, one life of material “reality” and you get institutions and understandings and religions and science that are limited and crippled. Spiritual reality explodes these limitations to meaninglessness. There are a multitude of lifeforms out there. There is an obliteration of time and space correlation as we think we know it. Evolution is going on in the expanded spiritual unlimited space and time context. It is an evolution that works towards a perfection and a beauty that is the Realm of Wisdom/Kingdom of Heaven. It is going on all around us. It is within us without us. It is the unseen juxtaposed on the seen and it is so transcendental and beyond as to be also beyond understanding and knowledge.

The evolution I’m speculating about is an evolution that is impossibly beyond our understanding of evolution as it pertains to material earth and it is impossibly beyond our “religion” and the faith doctrinally attached to that.
It sounds crazy, all this talk about material earth but maybe it might sound less crazy if I put it another way. We are not material beings on a material earth at all but we are energy. We are spiritual beings of non-material non-matter who take up material life forms temporarily in context of the physical being in the particular place the spiritual non-material non-matter being is temporarily housed. Do I begin to make sense yet?

Consider what we think of as religion. It only pertains to this earth, not to a spiritual span of unlimited possibility on-going newness. Consider also life. We are convinced there is only one, with final judgment to determine the status of an eternal afterlife. In such a context all ideas such as evolution, karma, justice, value of life and everything else are an absurd meaningless unworkable joke. What we are trained to consider as a universal religious truth within the predominant religion featuring a monotheistic universal God only applies to an insignificant spec. Literally.

And to think that this currently predominant religion which is really within even this impossibly limited framework truly is only a localized set of worship and doctrinal [laws] applicable to a smallish group of hardscrabble middle eastern tribes, twelve in number, who are loosely cohesively ordered and more than fairly incestual in a very clannish sort of way. Somehow this defensive grouping forged in an atmosphere of threat and existential danger infused itself with Indian spiritual concepts from the wilderness north of Rishikesh and transformed itself into a tightly-cohesive empire-threatened and persecuted organized grouping which later become the transforming adaptation of orthodox choice to a murderous Imperial Emperor and his murder-mongering and blood-thirsty mother. This novice religion became the persecutor itself and developed its doctrinal ideas from a position of strength for years and years, effectively shaming and killing out any true open spirituality in the course of gaining all the traction of power and acceptability of doctrinal law. It is the imperial empire.

Then there’s what earth-bound material-bound “reality” doctrine does. It demands conformity. It dedicates to power/(righteousness) preservation and it attempts to squelch out and snuff out all who can see the infinite beyond, who can know that existence itself is timeless and formless, that we “beings” are energy. It owns the law and it owns the definition of crazy. (And I know I am crazy to even attempt to ‘educate’ about it).

Enough of the one-world, material-world “religion”. The idea of one life is just as absurd. Evolution in this context is the developmental process that merely passes traits on from a dying generation to a future living generation. It passes on, of course, the will to life, in the form of fittest life survival and legacy. Religion in such a pairing of contexts and science in such a pairing of contexts can seem to be at odds relating to a fight between intolerant ignorance and fear versus enlightened illumination and conquest of fear. But, then again, they can be in concert when it comes to the fear and significance afforded to death. Temporal life/eternal death fear is debilitating and drives religion and the fear of death. The fear of the unknown and of finality drives concepts of evolution in striving to instill traits that live on despite the harsh reality of death.

Everything bound within these limited constraints is tainted: the concept of justice, the concept of karma (which in this context is an absurd joke), the purpose of evolution. Positive thinking in this context is a cheap scam aimed at cheating death through delusion of skirting, denying, and eluding fear. The best that can be achieved is an epicurean sophistry that convinces one that one is living the well-lived life in contrast to the other best alternative: fear-based depravity-dripped puritanism with eyes on the prize convinced of the prize yet all the while with footing so tenuous as to constitute a severely mentally-ill dysfunctional living doubt constantly denied with doctrinal self-help pep talks. No wonder there is so much mistrust in our post-modern existence.

The first thing, then, in an expanded spiritual experience of the vast unlimited unseen, is to transcend this limited psychotic barbaric yalp of fear. It’s best, probably, to start with overcoming the fear of death. When the one-world, one-life doctrinal trap is transcended the first thing to go is that irrational fear of what death is. Death in context of unlimited lifetimes in unlimited space within an unlimited expanse of life-forms in unconstrained time-space into indiscernible uncountable spiritual realms becomes something to be embraced and not at all feared. Fear of what death really is does not compute. Struggles to maintain life as if it is the only life (not only that we get but the very only on which exists) are absurd jokes. When we can understand true death then in a healthy way we can accept it as the positive that it truly is.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Just knowing the true natural not-to-be feared positive nature of death doesn’t mean go on about life so unworried about death that one courts death. No! It is not this at all! Life is meant to be lived preciously and preserved with all we’ve got even if we develop (or ‘evolve’) to a point where there is absolutely zero fear of death at all. This preservation of precious life is in accord with the way we by default consider evolution anyway: as an endless fight for survival and for fitness to survive, even if it only means passing on our traits to the next living generation.

And I maintain stubbornly that this view of an unfeared death is indeed healthy. The two friends that I know, the one who pled the second on his troubled life and gunned himself down and the other one who drank himself to death, neither were without fear of death. I know this well, knowing them. Neither would I say by any stretch, either, that either one of them had a “healthy” approach to death (or life, for that matter). And without naming names, I can say that I personally know quite a few “Christians” who have driven themselves into a crazed fear of debilitating dysfunction in proportional relation to the certainty that they have been “saved” by the Only One who can redeem them from this eternal death-grip.

But, let’s take this concept of a healthy positive embracement of death sans fear. Let’s apply it to the entire earth. For, since we are all of spiritual non-material essence who can take physical life form anywhere in a vast and infinitely varied universe, what do we need a particular material earth for? Absolutely nothing, HUH! So it’s absurdly and extraordinarily irrational, then, to fear the end times. And it might be pointless to be as hyper-concerned we are with “saving” the earth or preserving the earth. Except that, no. Even knowing that death is much more natural and positive then we heretofore have afforded it and therefore not at all worthy of fear, still it is a right and fitting thing to preserve. We must give every attention to preserving the earth as we routinely and habitually do to preserve the lives of ourselves and all other loved ones.

But, if the world ends, it is not the inane insane fear-based thing of spectacular earth-bound religion’s melodramatic culmination. It is no big deal and might well be a step in the process of time-space obliterate spiritual evolution of the vast unlimited universe.

Most people would, if they allowed themselves to free-think, think of evolution in this spiritual sense as a development whereby the inhabitants of the earth all reached a positive state of development of the spirit as to have outgrown the earth (perhaps in numbers of ‘critical mass’) and then were able to leave a dead planet to move on to a higher realm. When I look around this maya physical earth, though, I see something entirely different. I see a vast number of a majority of crass, materialistic, fear-mongering physical beings of sensational focus. Namely, thinking in terms of chakras, I see a whole lot of red-chakra (physically depraved), yellow chakra (physical fighters and bullies), green chakra (feelings-based and emotional) and even blue chakra (intellectually driven) beings. I see and encounter another significantly smaller in terms of number but steadily growing roster of spiritually inclined beings reaching higher and higher levels of transcendent energy vibrations.

I observe and experience a world in which communication across these lines is nigh impossible. The higher the spiritual develop the more difficult it becomes not only to reach the chakra-bound but to even exchange anything resembling ideas or understanding at all. These “reality”-based materialists seem to have taken a Mitch McConnellesque tack of reflexively opposing and obstructing and severely blocking any attempt, however feeble, to achieve anything remotely “bi-partisan.”

The way I see evolution vis a vis the death of the earth going, within the context of what I have observed, is more like this: a “critical mass” of evolved spiritual beings reach the higher unseen levels of spiritual development. They become more and more cut off from an ignorance-loving fear-mongering materialist-depending crass mass of humanity. The evolved reach that spiritual energy “critical mass” and move on elsewhere to some other existence in the vast unlimited universe, leaving the crass mass of humanity to their own devices. No one who cares to even attempt to help this crass mass of humanity move any further along the spiritual evolution development remains. The crass mass of humanity somehow or other (and there are many such ‘doomsday’ scenarios) manage to render the earth inhabitable. The earth ends with a wimper and not a bang, but maybe a nuclear bang. It could all end just like a beach house come down. Spiritual evolution continues on pretty much as ever. [Same as it ever was] [Water flowing underground].

And, lest anyone take this above speculation to be an arrogant assertion that “I am better than you”, well no. Realize that absolutely every being, however seemingly depraved, is on the path. For we are all on the path to the Realm of Wisdom/Kingdom of Heaven. We are destined to the destiny of creation, let Hercules himself try as he may to derail this. You do not meet any one under any condition who is not “on the path”. As Jesus once put it, “very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him”

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