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biology, psychology and education, even in a breakthrough new humanity and it may
hard-core physical sciences: all these are the be interpreted in a naturalistic way. But
first preliminary signs that a new humanity if we accept that Nature is not something
and with it, a new creation, is emerging out blind and mechanical but a Conscious-Force, a
of the old. Supernature, driving the processes of Nature
from behind, then we shall interpret these
It is going to assert itself more and more signs in another way. Whatever it may be,
until slowly we shall see a clear distinction the evolutionary process once activated, as
between two layers of humanity, — a higher is clear, cannot be stopped. It is only going
humanity moving towards a new species to increase by the years and the decades as
breaking out of the old as man broke free from is also evident. But of course, we still have a
the apes, and the normal humanity upgraded choice, — to collaborate with the evolutionary
to a greater harmony, idealism, aesthesis and impulse or else to resist it. While the fate of
a more conscious dealing with environment evolution itself and of humanity at large may
and the world and its creatures. There will not depend upon it, the fate of individuals as
possibly be many other sub-species just as well as of nations will surely depend upon it.
there were a number of them between the
higher ape and man. What may happen to References
the rest of humanity unwilling to change and
evolve under the pressure of the evolutionary 1. The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother,
forces, a humanity closer to the animal or Volume 2. 2 ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
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outright dangerous to humanity itself (what Ashram Trust: 2003, p. 159.
a
was known as the rakssasic and asuric type) is
a matter of prophesy and speculation. It may 2. Ibid., pp. 163-64.
collapse as others before him.
3. Ibid. pp. 166-68.
We can stop at these preliminary speculations.
But the evolutionary pressure is likely
to continue with increasing force as more
and more human beings move towards the
Evolution Next. It may continue for a couple
of centuries until the number of human beings
in transition towards a higher state reach a
tipping-point and make a leap towards the
supramental being, the creation of tomorrow.
Of course, some may pass off these signs of

Dr. Alok Pandey, an editor of NAMAH and a member of SAIIIHR, is a doctor practising at the Sri
Aurobindo Ashram.

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