We have been involved with the question of Evolution for a long, long time. Today the argument centers on: How did we get here? The two sides turn out to be, “We got here through a series of lucky rolls of the genetic dice”, or “God planted us here because we are just the way he always wanted us to be.” In the 1920’s the issue was: Did we come from monkeys? Apparently no one wanted to be a monkey’s uncle. So for almost 100 years we have not gone very far in answering this question, and we won’t any time soon.

There is a much better way to look at this problem. Brain biology studies reveal we come equipped hard-wired to seek some connection with Divinity….all seven billion of us. Atheists remind us that we do not have to go along with the crowd if we choose, but the crowd is trying to find and express God. Let’s suppose the Bible is right when it starts off our story with, “In the beginning, God…” and lets suppose the Evolutionists are right when they see evolution as the mechanism God used to create all of this stuff we see every where. By the way, Darwin attributed the first cause to God. If you are able to drop your intellectual filters long enough to see this concept, you are ready to move beyond a hundred years of conflict with Darwin.

The conflict has been centered all this time on the question: Where did we come from? This is one of the Five Big Questions. The other four are: Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we going? and What Time is it? All five questions are involved in this issue, but the one that will move us quickly beyond the past 100 years of conflict is: Where are we going?

Scientists are now entertaining the probability that we are still evolving….along with everything else on this good earth. In fact, the only two things that seem to have reached terminal evolution are the sharks and cockroaches……these rascals have been like this for a million years. Everything else is not like it used to be, or like it is going to be in the future.

Try this for a thought experiment: If you are over thirty, a part of your life was spent in a computer-free world. So you are able to describe yourself as pre- and post-computer. Now think about any six-year-old kid in America. He already knows a lot about computers and how to use them. These kids’ brains’ and neural networks are being re-wired as a result of hours and hours before computer screens. So right here we see brains being adapted to a new environment…..kids brains are evolving!

But, of course, this is threatening. Suppose we could look 100 years forward. We might discover that our newly evolved brains understand that much of what we see in 2012 as right and proper is, by that time, wrong and outmoded, or as the hymn says: “New truth makes ancient good uncouth.” If you are convinced and certain that your faith in the God you worship is fully and completely right, then the mere thought of being uncouth is a real problem. In some cases that has been enough to go to war over and in America today it is enough to divide us into at least two camps that can no longer speak to each other.

What if we hold the reins of change loosely and discover that evolution, as the process by which we change and adapt, has a target or a goal for man….and man is being propelled, step by step, into a different or evolved species. Today some of our advanced thinkers tell us that as we go to higher states of consciousness, our brains will have to activate what many of our scientists consider today as Junk DNA whose purpose we do not currently fully understand. Evidence is already present to suggest our brains are evolving to activate the mechanisms we will need to perceive new dimensions and new realities that are as hidden from our current senses today as electricity used to be.

God don’t make no junk and He is not finished with us yet. Ready or not, we are still evolving and the state to which we are going is as real as the state we have reached thus far through our long species-wide evolution. There is a target toward which we are headed and it answers the second question of the Evolution Controversy……where are we going?

He is also the Founder and current Director of The Kundalini Research Foundation which is dedicated to helping science find ways to understand how a Kundalini experience re-wires the human nervous system which results in many new talents being brought into a person’s life without warning or training. To begin your search in this field once you have seen these two videos, find Gopi Krishna’s early book, The Biological Basis of Religion and Genius.

Gopi Krishna was the only person in the last century to record his experiences in English as he was going through the difficult process of becoming Enlightened. These two interviews with Gene tell you the story behind this one-of-a-kind formative event for Humanity’s next five hundred years.

Enjoy and Marvel that such an event happened in our lives.

Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg from Chuck Robison on Vimeo.

We interviewed Joseph Chilton Pearce at The Monroe Institute in Favor, Virginia as part of the 40 Days and 40 Nights Video Tour in October 2011. For nearly half a century, Joe has been probing the mysteries of the human mind. Author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Magical Child Matures, Bond of Power, and Evolution’s End, one of his overriding passions remains the study of what he calls the “unfolding” of intelligence in children.

He is a self-avowed iconoclast, unafraid to speak out against the myriad ways in which contemporary American culture fails to nurture the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs and yearnings of our young people. Part scholar, part scientist, part mystic, part itinerant teacher, Pearce keeps in close touch with the most brilliant men and women in each field. He creates a unique synthesis of their work and translates the results into a common language.

His most recent book, Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit: A Return to the Intelligence of the Heart (2007), is critically important for where we are now. Our organized religions are stuck in centuries of a particular way of thinking that makes it very difficult to address the changes going on the world of thought today.

Over and over on this tour we met brilliant thinkers and scientists who are making the journey from the intellect to the heart along an unchartered and unmapped path. In our interview, Joe shows us the importance of living from the heart, regardless of what the mind says.

“….take it”, Yogi Berra. We are fast approaching a fork in the road for the whole world. In his 1990 book Power Shift Alvin Toffler said: “For this is the dawn of the Powershift Era. We live at a moment when the entire structure of power that held the world together is now disintegrating. A radically different structure of power is taking form. And this is happening at every level of human society.” Things are changing, like it or not.

Our prophets of doom are all revved up for a coming catastrophe. And almost everyone you know has a private list of all the things that are wrong. And just to sweeten the load, we have divided ourselves into at least two major camps that have lost the ability to speak to each other. We have somehow created the most fearful time in our known history.

This fear-full, self-fulfilling prophesy does not take into account Free Will, the first law of the Universe. We are free at any time to change our minds and change our lives at superluminal speeds. Ask someone you know who decided on the deepest level to reject cancer’s power and experienced a sudden and permanent remission. In giving us Free Will, God gave us the moment-by-moment choice to express the deepest of our longings, and he built us so that our deepest longings are his Will.

The opportunity at this fork is that many of us are accepting the call to change our minds and rise above all the fear and negativity and see, explore and help others experience a bigger picture. This means living above the level where separations appear real, rising all the way up to where we see only one. ONE is EVERYTHING. Science seems to be seeing it most often. The very atoms that form the stars are the same atoms that form our bodies.

From this viewpoint we can derive a very simple rule: If something creates separation, it is moving in the wrong direction. If it creates inclusion, it moves us closer to God and our deepest desires and each other. Consciousness is knowing we are One and, because we are one with all, we cannot, on the deepest level, kill, eliminate or remove anyone or anything from the One, which is eternal. Loving our brother as ourselves is not just a good idea, it is the law.

Recently the Dali Lama said: “My religion is Kindness.” No labels, no doctrines, no rituals, no exclusions of any kind, no holy causes, just this: be kind to each other. The Master Jesus said it, as has every other Master whoever lived: Do to everyone, as you would have him or her do to you. This is the other side of the fork in the road we are approaching.

Now imagine what would happen if enough of us decided that Kindness really was the Great Way. Imagine a world without war, with enough food and water for all 7 billion of is. Imagine free energy, free education, free health care, housing for everyone. And each person with a true voice in the outcome. If we really believed in our universal Oneness, we would have no fear that someone could kill us. And having just celebrated Easter, we Christians have professed to believe death is not real.

Will this change ever occur? Yes. The fork in the road is here for that purpose. There is evidence that other civilizations, long lost, took actions that led to their destruction, and they got there by using their Free Will. We, with our 30,000 nuclear bombs and drones, could finish off the whole world in less than 24 hours. And you would really have to stretch the truth to believe that is what a loving God wants as an expression of His Will.

So the fork we can choose to take is the fork that leads to union with each other and with the whole universe. Is that Pie in the Sky? Yes! Apple Pie! Will we make the right choice? Yes! Who will lead us there? You and I will. Every time we choose Oneness over separation, we move ourselves one step closer to the union of Oneness that is our heart’s desire. The teachings of the Buddha can be summed up in three words: “Come and See.” Take that fork.