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Namah Vol. 23, Issue 3, 15th October 2015

Evolution Next — V

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
We can regard evolution as a mechanical, inconscient process or a conscious unfolding. If it be the
former then there it is like a blind and random process at a mega scale where no one really has any
particular role in it. But if it is a conscious process with a direction and a plan, then we can not only
observe it but also consciously participate in it. There are several levels at which Nature unfolds itself
creating several levels of self-awareness. What is seen as unconscious at one level may well be seen as
conscious at another. What appears as lifeless and inert at one level of vision and understanding may
appear teeming with life and even idea at another, life pushing matter to organise itself in certain
ways.

Whether we call the evolutionary Force deep enough and without an a priori bias,
labouring in creation as Grace or an unknown the indications are more that it is a conscious
factor ‘x’ may not much matter as long as we process taking place in unconscious beings,
feel that there is a Conscious Force, a beings who are not conscious of anything
benevolent Power that is working behind the beyond the external events and changing
scenes to help us through this complex circumstances and landscapes of their life.
evolutionary maze in which we find ourselves Preoccupied with the small and the insig-
‘caught’. We are again faced with a crucial nificant, engaged overwhelmingly with the
choice to walk in the evolutionary trail. We outer and the immediate field of our little
can, like Darwin, Dawkins and others, regard journey from birth to death and its hopeless
evolution as a freak event happening at struggle for survival, we fail to notice the
irregular intervals, pushed and precipitated larger picture. For at the end if it is all about
by unconscious forces of Nature which is survival of an individual then it is an
itself a mechanical thing. Or else we can absurdity since even if we were to outsmart
regard evolution as a conscious process every other species and individuals, death
initiated and guided by a conscious Intel- and destruction will still visit us and
ligence that operates within and behind the checkmate our strategies. We are always
boundaries of Nature. Logically one can faced with this enigma of something that is
argue from either side, though if one looks or seems far more powerful than our

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