Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

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[Francis]

Evidence Challenges Darwin’s Theory
Best-selling Author Further Defies Evolutionists

San Diego, CA – Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s Theory (Torchlight Publishing,  September 2003), the highly anticipated sequel to the controversial bestseller Forbidden Archeology,  continues the literary drama with the same astute attention to detail and ground breaking revelations as its predecessor.

Forbidden Archeology documented a massive amount of evidence showing that humans have existed on earth for hundreds of millions of years. Such anomalous evidence, contradicting Darwinian evolution, catalyzed a global inquiry, "If we did not evolve from apes, then where did we come from?" Human Devolution is author Michael A. Cremo's definitive answer to this question.

"We did not evolve up from matter; instead we devolved, or came down, from the realm of pure consciousness, spirit," says Cremo. He bases his response on modern science and the world's great wisdom traditions, including the Vedic philosophy of ancient India. Cremo proposes that before we ask the question, "Where did human beings come from? we should first contemplate, "What is a human being?" Cremo asserts that humans are a combination of matter, mind, and consciousness (or spirit).

Human Devolution contains solid scientific evidence showing how a subtle mind element and a conscious self that can exist apart from the body have been systematically eliminated from mainstream science by a process of knowledge filtration. "Any time knowledge filtration takes place you can expect a great deal of resistance, criticism, and ridicule when it is exposed and challenged," says Cremo.

Michael Cremo is no stranger to resistance. In 1993 when Forbidden Archeology was released there was a vast array of response. From anthropologist Richard Leakey calling it "...pure humbug" to Fingerprints of the Gods author Graham Hancock referring to it as "One of the landmark intellectual achievements of the late 20th century," it has received both positive and negative international attention. In addition, in 1996 when NBC aired its special The Mysterious Origins of Man, hosted by Charlton Heston, and featured the book, establishment scientists felt so  threatened by this program that they lobbied the Federal Communications Commission to censure and fine NBC for airing it (read the complete story in Forbidden Archeology's Impact).

Despite the criticism surrounding it, Forbidden Archeology is a huge success. Both it and Human Devolution present human origins in a new perspective. The two books are the culmination of eighteen years of research. The result, unlike the early creationist perspective, offers a new scientifically based take on human origins. Forbidden Archeology gave us the cover-up and now Human Devolution brings us the true story.


Scientists have recently announced the discovery in Kenya of some interesting footprints, found in layers of rock about 1.5 million years old. . Researchers describe them as anatomically modern. That is to say, the foot structure is the same as in human beings like us. But most scientists today would never even dream of suggesting that the footprints were made by humans like us. According to their understandings, humans like us did not exist 1.5 million years ago. We had not evolved yet. Most scientists now believe the first humans like us came into existence about 150,000 years ago. So the Kenya footprints are ten times too old for modern humans. So the scientists attributed the footprints to the apeman called Homo ergaster, which some scientists believe to be a kind of Homo erectus. The problem is that we do not know what the Homo erectus foot structure was really like. No one has ever found a foot skeleton of Homo erectus. So at the present moment, the only creature known to science that has a foot just like that of a modern human being is in fact a modern human being, like us. Maybe in the future someone will find a foot skeleton of Homo erectus (or Homo ergaster) that is fully modern in it’s anatomy. But that has not been done yet. So if we are going to stick to the facts, to the evidence that we really have, then the most reasonable thing we can say is that the scientists in Kenya have found evidence that humans like us existed 1.5 million yeas ago. And this contradicts the current evolutionary accounts of human origins. Michael Cremo


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/science/27foot.html?_r=2

[jimtzu]

interesting..  i saw the newspaper article.  have you read either of the books, francis? 

[Francis]

No, but I plan to do read the one on devolution.

[Francis]

Here's the main problem with cooperating with evolution:

"The will to exist evolves vehicles of manifestation ; the
vital principle generates life and stimulates activity, and the
intellectual principle develops new contents of consciousness.
All these, in the first place, spring from the deep fontal
impulses in the Soul to move, to stand forth, to open out,
to unfold, to express, to create and to make manifest. But as
a natural consequence of these evolutionary impulses, the
Soul changes its centre, and, in a mystical sense, is said to
depart from its summit, losing knowledge of its Real Being,
and forgetting its allegiance to its Source.
Hence it lapses, so to speak, from the Above to the Below,
there to gain experience and knowledge. This is what is
implied by the fall and descent of the Soul,
The evolution alone of the Soul s secondary principles
cannot restore the Soul to a consciousness of its original but
innocent state, because, since these principles are secondary
and subsidiary to the Soul, they can neither change the Soul s
essential nature nor cause it to be united to that from which
it proceeds.
Therefore, it is evident why evolution alone neither changes
humanity s essential nature nor leads the Soul of Man to its
goal.~ Jnana Marga Manual No. 3

[henry]

i notice that co-creation with evolution is interesting and blissful. eros and agape.  . showing up is a prerequisite?  . best teleological wishes ....henry 

[Francis]

The question arises; if not evolution, then what, if anything, leads the soul back to its goal of allegiance to Source? Logically, it’s most likely the renunciation and vanquishing of the impulses that led the soul astray in the first place. Jesus went to the wilderness, Odin hung from a tree, Buddha meditated and Thoth went to Amenti.

[henry]

i'm not very conversant in these areas Francis . my point of view is best represented by the notion of Evolutionary Panentheism. if interested you can read summaries of 2006, 2007 evolutionary metaphysics conferences at Esalen Center for theory and research. and now, back to baseball ...henry