Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The evolution of our minds (#922)

I feel certain that 2500 years ago the Greeks felt like they were on the dawning of a new age of enlightenment that would propel society into a magnificent model for science and great human interaction. The possibilities that presented themselves to eager minds to leap by bounds through the past animalistic behaviors we enforced upon one another to a higher level of understanding and cooperation. They must have felt the exhilaration within their bodies brought about by the ability of their minds to manipulate matter like never before. A true dawning of a new age. Yet we have learned through history that might conquered enlightenment and stalled whatever brilliance that had prospered back then for another 2000 years. The fits and starts of the evolution of our minds has been an inconsistent one through time. It is as if a force is unwilling to allow for enlightenment to prosper. We seem to allow ourselves the seductive attraction of a little more as opposed to a lot more. it is not our nature to crawl when we have previously walked. When we allow for things to change and disappear our will from the greatness we all have within us to a lesser quantity for the sake of fear, we all lose again when we could have gained so much. I have resigned my understanding of the phenomenon of denying progress to ourselves as an evolutionary one. We seem to not want to have what we rightly deserve because we cannot imagine it. Our minds will not let us accept that we are a race of humans that have the ability to jump past obstacles with agility and spirited resolve. We have it within us to be the great human race but as the evidence shows we are not yet all on board with this same belief. Hopefully our time on Earth will not run out before we can live up to our mighty potential.

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