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Namah Evolution Next — XIV

has always been a nomad, a wanderer who But one thing is becoming more and more
is seeking for some new world or perhaps obvious. It is useless to hold onto the old
in quest of some ideal state of a perfect law forms and institutions of the old world order,
of his individual and social living. But this however high and grand and beautiful they
quest and seeking became more and more may have been in distant and not so distant
widespread leading to a disruption of settled times. The old ways simply do not work
ways of living and experimenting with new anymore. At best they serve us temporarily,
possibilities from drugs and music to neo- like a sketchy patch-work on a cloth that is
religions and cults. Add to it the sudden torn beyond repair or a palliative given to
bursting of knowledge beyond its seams and ease our pain. What we need however is a
the rapid transfer of information at the touch new garment, a new and radical remedy,
of a button, and our individual and collective a new understanding and vision, a new
life has become exceedingly simple and conception and perception, a new way and
complex at the same time. Simple in terms a new law of life. But the new way and the
of space and time, which have shrunk while new law is still not in sight. Or perhaps it is
complex with regard to the human beings evolving even as the way of human existence
inhabiting it, since, unlike previous times, evolved out of the animal as man began
man’s life has become crowded with many exploring the jungle and make settlements
experiences of many kinds and at many of a new kind that would change the face of
levels. Our consciousness has become many- the Earth. Nevertheless all this is creating a
sided so to say and it is not easy to integrate state of confusion. Temporary though this
all this variety of experiences into a unified confusion is, yet it is enough to cause palpable
field of individual psychology. And we may distress among those caught between two
well say that the change has just begun! worlds as beings of transition.

The Wisdom working behind the present Amidst all this confusion we see the birth of
confusion today’s children which symbolically represents
the birth of the New amidst the Old. These
We are as if put on Evolution Fast Forward, children are challenging and engaging at
as if many lifetimes are entering into a single the same time. They are like the unsettled
lifetime and therefore the assimilation and nomads of early humanity searching for
integration is becoming more and more their true dharma like a new species that
difficult. It is idle and futile to focus on the is trying to understand who they are and
good and bad of this jump-time. Only the still why they are. The answers that satisfied the
unfolding future will show it to us. It is also old world do not quite satisfy them. Like
futile to complain about this change since the first human being queer to the animal
such is the Will of the Time-Spirit and those world, at once weak and strong, afraid and
who trust that there is a Wisdom working frightening to the settled order of the jungle,
in the heart of all flux and drift, however this new humanity is at once wise and foolish,
meaningless and paradoxical it may seem, frightened of the old humanity as well as
cannot but trust that there is Wisdom behind a rebel against it. Clearly a new species is
this rapid transition. slowly but surely emerging out of the old

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