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destiny. It is the victory of the Eros over Thanatos, whereas the mechapistic worlview is the victory of the latter over the former. While man (ego) dies, mankind (self) never dies. Individual death enriches mankind in the promise of its continuity. A birih is nothing but the manifestation of a karmic potency whereas a death is but its transformation. Like every new spring they enrich evolution adding to the quality of the quantity. Evolution must turn inwards
In an overcrowded planet with no extra space, every new birth obviously looks like a further turn of the entro. phic screw. But this space problem is immediately solved when we look at the infinite space of the self within. And the planetary compression of large number of people within the limited surface space enveloped under what Teilhard de Chardain calls the noosphere--the symbotic planetary mind globally interwined by the electronicsatellite-communication-transportation network-points the shift of the evolutionary direction towards the inner space of the self, turning quantity into quality. Biological evolution definitely points towards its continuation as Psychological Evolution, i.e. as the evolution of the Mind or Consciousness.
The phylogenetic evolution actually came to an end some 50000 years at the onset of Thought. Since then the process turned inward as manifested in the evolution and development of language and culture, through which man, unlike any of his evolutionary predecessors, was able to preserve his collective memory and transmit it across generation ad infinitum.
In the evolutionary advance from here we can clearly distinguish two succeeding stages : that of (1) the mythological worldview underlying the period of the agricultural revolution stretching across many millennia since man began his settled life, and (2) the rational world-view underlying the industral revolution covering the four/five centuries of the modern period, the Western expansion, and
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