It is a well accepted fact that the base of the human brain is reptilian.
Millions of years ago a great cosmic cataclysm wiped the dinosaurs from the Earth. Over 90% of all life forms perished. The climate and typography of the planet was radically changed. Over time a whole new set of life forms populated the planet that were more suited to the new environmental conditions. After a few more great cataclysmic events happened, and another change in the population of the planet, humans appeared on the horizon. Where did they come from?
The dinosaurs were the dominant species of their era, man is the dominant species of his era. Coincidence or design?
Here is where it becomes a little esoteric. The biosphere of the Earth is a mass of living material consisting of billions of species from single cell organisms to complex mammals, all living in a giant web of interconnected and interdependent life. The Earth is the host of this biosphere, this living mantle of life. Is this also by design or fluke? I believe the Earth itself is the living being - the Mother of all life on it. Like our own bodies are host to a great variety of parasites, bacteria all living in symbiotic relation to each other, the Earth is a macrocosm of similar relationships of being living in symbiotic relationships. The Earth is the source of the energy/life force that allows life to exist and flourish.
After the great cataclysms of the past when most of living thing perished and the medium for life to exist, the biosphere, had changed, life renewed itself with a whole new paradigm of life forms suitable to the changed conditions. By looking at life as a continuum and integrated whole, we see that life itself is the one thing that does not perish, that it never has had an end or beginning, at least not that we could ever ascertain. So, it is the biosphere that has evolved to adjust to the changes of the environment that has been altered by cosmic forces. Every paradigm has had a dominant species, each evolving from the ashes, like a Phoenix bird, reinventing itself to accommodate the new conditions. With each cataclysmic event and rebirth, the brain evolved a new lobe, adding to its complexity and usefulness.
Some might call this a spiritual evolution but I think it has more to do with something as simple as the life force inherent in the Earth evolving to suit the changing cosmology of the universe. Hell, the Universe itself may be a living being with our solar system being just one atomic structure within its "body".
There it is in a nut shell. Obviously it is much more complicated than that, but it is a beginning for discussion.
Millions of years ago a great cosmic cataclysm wiped the dinosaurs from the Earth. Over 90% of all life forms perished. The climate and typography of the planet was radically changed. Over time a whole new set of life forms populated the planet that were more suited to the new environmental conditions. After a few more great cataclysmic events happened, and another change in the population of the planet, humans appeared on the horizon. Where did they come from?
The dinosaurs were the dominant species of their era, man is the dominant species of his era. Coincidence or design?
Here is where it becomes a little esoteric. The biosphere of the Earth is a mass of living material consisting of billions of species from single cell organisms to complex mammals, all living in a giant web of interconnected and interdependent life. The Earth is the host of this biosphere, this living mantle of life. Is this also by design or fluke? I believe the Earth itself is the living being - the Mother of all life on it. Like our own bodies are host to a great variety of parasites, bacteria all living in symbiotic relation to each other, the Earth is a macrocosm of similar relationships of being living in symbiotic relationships. The Earth is the source of the energy/life force that allows life to exist and flourish.
After the great cataclysms of the past when most of living thing perished and the medium for life to exist, the biosphere, had changed, life renewed itself with a whole new paradigm of life forms suitable to the changed conditions. By looking at life as a continuum and integrated whole, we see that life itself is the one thing that does not perish, that it never has had an end or beginning, at least not that we could ever ascertain. So, it is the biosphere that has evolved to adjust to the changes of the environment that has been altered by cosmic forces. Every paradigm has had a dominant species, each evolving from the ashes, like a Phoenix bird, reinventing itself to accommodate the new conditions. With each cataclysmic event and rebirth, the brain evolved a new lobe, adding to its complexity and usefulness.
Some might call this a spiritual evolution but I think it has more to do with something as simple as the life force inherent in the Earth evolving to suit the changing cosmology of the universe. Hell, the Universe itself may be a living being with our solar system being just one atomic structure within its "body".
There it is in a nut shell. Obviously it is much more complicated than that, but it is a beginning for discussion.
