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centuries now and in which causation is grounded not in logic and reason but in resonances, is going to be a very unstable place, even compared to the probabilities of the quantum physics.
The modern man dismissed God and took the destiny of the planet and the cosmos in his hands. But he did this in the conviction and with the certitude of eternally valid cosmos defined by Newtonian-Cartesian laws, and at: a time when the planet had plenty of space for the expanding Europeon population to migrate. Co-evolving cosmos
In an evolutionary cosmos, with an ecologically depleting and over-populating planet, with no space for millions and millions to go, with human egoism and possessiveness, irrationality and greed remaining what they are, human hope and the planetary health may indeed turn out to be bleak. If the ethical responsibility of man demands of us to bring in a new and higher kind of certitude to the undertaking of the Co-Evolution running down to the millions of years now to come, it requires of mankind a collective transition from Ego to Self, from the. meso-cosmos to the meta-cosmos.
The survivability and certitude of this evolutionary cosmos depends upon the individual and collective human will in bringing about this meta-cosmic transformation by creating societies-local, national, global-within the framework of a new world order that is conducive to human liberation and evolutionary fulfilment. Such a.. meta-cosmic transformation and new world order is impossible to b: conceptualised outside a new vision of Reality in which the external and the internal worlds of man merge upon a functioning Ego-Self axis both at the microand the macro cosmic levels.
So it is no wonder that the evolutionary cosmos that rests on formative causations and memory fields instead of the eternal laws of gravity and causality and the rational perfectibility is closer to the mystic worldview of the East.
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