Evolutionary Spirituality
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Evolution is the process of change -- ongoing transformational change. It is the cumulative development of life, unfolding slowly and incrementally, with occasional sudden bursts of creativity, with evolutionary opportunities sprouting in climates of crisis. We are living through one of these disorienting bursts of creativity and crisis right now.

Through evolution new forms appear -- new organisms, new partnerships, new conditions, new systems. Some of them last and some don't. Evolution tests things out. Evolutionary testing goes on at every level, all the time. The universe does it. Life does it. Human societies do it. You and I are doing it every day -- sometimes in our lives, sometimes in our minds, sometimes in our conversations. New patterns rise and fall.

From an evolutionary science perspective, over time evolution has gone from

  • cosmic evolution to include also
  • stellar evolution and
  • geologic evolution and
  • biological evolution and
  • (difficult to say the time order here:) social and cultural evolution and the evolution of technology and tools and the evolution of consciousness

The term evolution is also used metaphorically, in reference to any kind of change - for example of an idea or a project, a city or a problem - sometimes even when the change referred to does not have an evolutionary character.


Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

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