06.30.08
New Age evolutionism
A Brief History of Evolutionary Spirituality
Three centuries of progressive thinkers reveal that evolution has always been a fundamentally spiritual concept.
Is this really true? Out of context New Agers will make mincemeat of the statement, even as the sausage of Kant, Schelling, Hegel under the misleading label ‘idealism’ is connected to the new ‘evolutionary ideology’ of the gurus.
Another liability is the hopeless confusion of ‘involution’ and ‘evolution’ in New Age circles. This distinction has never been clarified. To use the term ‘evolution’ threatens still another piece of dead meat in that sausage. Maybe let German idealists alone, unless you care to study them, or create a consistent evolutionary theory that is practical and sorts out the various usages, a task, I can assure you, that is completely beyond the capacity of systematically muddled New Agers.
Study of the eonic effect can help here: a genuine depiction of ‘evolution’ in terms of history and the evolution of man, that has some empircal and practical aspects, and which can create a context for the study of the evolution of religion, and yet give some meaning to the sense desired, but mislabeled ‘evolution’ as ’spiritual practice’.
The term ‘evolution’ has been botched by Darwinists, but the New Agers have done no better, and it is false that these gurus are ‘evolutionary guides’.
James said,
June 30, 2008 at 9:47 pm
One order of the WIE pu pu platter!!
nemo said,
July 1, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Wie gets to be repetitive and always with the same dubious characters. It is hard for many to grasp that an enlightened buddha might still be unable to resolve the issue of evolution.
Dov Henis said,
August 13, 2008 at 3:46 am
Life’s Chirality And Circadian Rhythm,
Evidence Of Updated Darwinian Evolution
(a recompilation)
A. Updated life’s concepts:
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/20/122.page#423
- Earth life consists of three strata: genes are primal organisms, genomes are evolved 2nd
stratum organisms, and cellular organisms are evolved 3rd stratum.
- Life’s evolution started at genesis.
- Life’s evolution is not random. It is biased, driven by culture.
B. Earliest evidences of updated Darwinian evolution:
- Life’s chirality
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/122.page#387
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=180&#entry327715
- Circadian rhythm
http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=135&#entry301299
Suggesting,
Dov Henis
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q–?cq=1
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