Charles Darwin’s research as published in his book “ The Origin Of Species “ , propagated the theory of Survival of the Fittest , which suggests that animals survive in the jungles by killing and defeating others less capable than the fittest.
Animals killed because they depended on scarce resources. If you
did not kill as an animal, you were amongst those who were
eaten. Competition evolved as a tool of survival because animals
genuinely needed to develop competitive fighting skills to survive.
However, due to the repetitive energy cycles which govern all energy
movement in the universe, these dominant thought cycles continued to repeat
though external circumstances kept changing as humans evolved from
animals.
Human beings continued to believe in the illusion that if you are not
a winner, you would be a victim without any genuine cause. Though,
there was no animal-like associated helplessness arising from an
inability to grow resources, definitions of success and power were
blindly carried over from the animal mind-set.
Success in the animal world, came from defeating others because resources
were not enough for all; and they could not grow resources as human
beings could; but success in the human world was falsely assumed to
be that which came from defeating others wherein scarcity was
artificially created for fun or learning.
Just as power in the animal world was equated with violence and
killing, power in the human world was defined by emotional bullying/
killing of the optimistic human spirit. .
Therefore, success and power in the human world, as blindly imitated from
the animal world, were defined by a survival instinct and not by an increase
in inner peace or happiness.
Thus, it came about that, as human beings advanced from animals,
their bodies evolved but the thinking patterns remained stuck at
rudimentary energy cycles where the belief was that ‘you have to
competitively crush others to dominate ‘.It was firmly believed that
competition was necessary to survive as it had been when human
ancestors were animals.
Hence, though teeth were replaced by guns as the brain
evolved from being animal-like to human-like, the
technological improvement did not erase the primitive need to
kill to survive. The concept of the ‘enemy ‘and ‘a need to kill
another’s spirit to survive oneself’ continued to be accepted as
gospel.
This crux of fear based thinking has not changed though human
civilization has evolved technologically. A vicious circle of scarcity and
competition has resulted as a circuitous chain of evolution.
Circumstances of life manifest in alignment with dominant thinking cycles.
Since there was a belief in scarcity of resources, it manifested such that human beings genuinely feel trapped in cycles of scarcity wherein the scarcity
is inappropriately advertised by excessive focus on comfort, greed,
deprivation, fear, poverty, future dangers and traditional criteria of right
& wrong. Usually, individual consciousness is ruled over by mass
consciousness and we allow others to decide how life should be.
The education system has developed an imitative mechanism of
learning such that, the cycle of feeling helpless individually and as a
mass, has continued automatically from the competitive animal’s
mind-set. In alignment with the laws of automatic repetition of
energy cycles, instead of promoting meaningfulness and peace in life,
education has been imparted in a way which has fueled energies of
compromise, helplessness and negative competition.
Animals felt helpless without competing because their intelligence
was limited to grabbing food and shelter whereas human beings feel
helpless without competition and bitterness, because of repeated
patterns of thinking being carried over from animal conditioning.
Logic is ignored by repetitive energy/ thought cycles until it is
imposed by deliberate changes in the super-structure made by a
higher, more positive consciousness.
The human soul is a co-creator unlike the animal soul which is
a passive receiver. Therefore, the responsibility of creation of
happiness, peace and sufficient resources for survival is as much
human as God’s in the human world. We cannot blame God or
external factors for our problems just as the primitive man could not
blame God for not giving rain on time.
Abundance can be created in the human world by choice, unlike the
animal world which is dependent on luck and rain. The imaginative/
abstract / creative brain power which human beings have and
animals do not have, automatically places humans on a higher realm of feeling intricacies of life and being in control.
This blog is an excerpt from my book - Spirituality in Education
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