Spontaneous Evolution

Excerpt

Introduction

A Universal Love Story

This is a love story. A love story for the entire Universe: you, me, and
every living organism.
Act I opened billions of years ago when a wave of light from the sun
collided with a particle of matter. That spark of love between Father Sun
and Mother Earth gave birth to a child on this blue-green spheroid. That
precocious child, called life, has made Earth its playground ever since,
multiplying into an endless array of magnificent forms. Some of those
forms are with us today, but many more have become extinct and will
never be known.
The curtain rose on Act II of this love story some 700 million years
ago when certain single-celled organisms decided they'd had it with the
single life. Realizing they couldn't live alone, they turned to one another
and said (in whatever primal language single cells speak) "Baby, I need
your lovin'." And thus, the multicellular organism was created.
Act III began over a million years ago when multicellular organisms
evolved into the first consciously aware humans to arrive on the scene.
With consciousness, life was able to observe itself, reflect, and create its
own future. Life could experience and appreciate love and joy. Life could
even laugh at itself and, eventually, come to write books like the one you
hold in your hands.
Act IV traces the evolution of human clans who joined forces and
carved the globe into nation states. At the present time, we find ourselves
near the closing moments of this act, wondering if the play ends here, like
a Greek tragedy that always ends badly. Looking at our chaotic world of
human dysfunction and environmental crisis, we seem to be headed for
an inevitable train wreck. Fortunately for us, the Greeks also had five-act
plays; these were comedies filled with laughter, joy, happiness, and love.
Spontaneous Evolution is a story about how we can safely navigate
from Act IV to Act V. The good news is that biology and evolution are on
our side.
Inherent within all living organisms is an innate drive to survive,
known by science as the biological imperative. Contrary to what conventional
science and religion have been telling us, evolution is neither
random nor predetermined but rather an intelligent dance between organism
and environment. When conditions are ripe-either through crisis or
opportunity-something unpredictable happens to bring the biosphere
into a new balance at a higher level of coherence.
While we often perceive of examples of spontaneous remission as miraculous
healings that happen by the grace of God, looking a little deeper
we see something else at work. Quite often these fortunate individuals
actively participate in their own healing by consciously or unconsciously
making a key, significant change in their beliefs and behaviors.
So here is the bad news and the good news. The story of human life
on Earth is yet to be determined. If there is to be an Act V, it will depend
on whether we humans are willing to make changes in our individual and
collective beliefs and behaviors and whether we are able to make these
changes in time.

From the book, Spontaneous Evolution, by Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.