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Evolution Next — IX

The next great leap

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
Mankind seems to be trapped in a never-ending series of problems where each solution brings fresh problems
in its wake. Despite all our advancements and achievements, we stand on the threshold of self-destruction.
A closer look however reveals that this very threat, this crisis may well help us force open a hitherto unseen
inner door and we may emerge suddenly in a new dimension of consciousness. At its bottom this crisis seems
to be an evolutionary crisis where we have to either take courage and faith to cross the inner chasm towards
the New or else fall back on our old ways but only for the worse. The first signs however indicate a new
emergence and although the battle between the new and the old is far from over, at least a few human beings
the world over are taking the first infant steps towards a new humanity of tomorrow.

Evolution is not a linear movement in time fresh and new. She departs from the expected.
but a complex many-sided movement where The playing with quantity is over; it is time
order and chaos run into each other, both to express a new quality.
preparing the field for the next leap. At first
there is a systematic development of the same This qualitative leap is of course not in an
type and the difference is mostly in the scale entire vacuum. If one were to look closely,
and pitch, of degree and quantity of the same one would see that the new possibility that
process. At times during this process, Nature emerges with a new species was hidden
experiments with anomalies, introducing somewhere and what we thought as anomalous
the touch of chaos and randomness, as if was simply an attempt to uncover that, albeit
she were attempting at something foreseen prematurely. One can see this process in the
through experiments with designs. This evolution of humans as well as dolphins.
is very much as a scientist would do in a Nature created a number of sub-species so
laboratory. Then, after playing this way for as to say that would eventually be cast aside
a long time, she suddenly gets into her own and the final product remain in land and in
‘Aha’ moment, wraps up the knowledge of the sea respectively. But each sub-species
all her experiments and creates something would develop an odd feature that would

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