I watched some videos lately with Andrew Cohen explaining his Evolutionary Enlightenment. As we talk more and more about evolution in a spiritual context (Ken Wilber, Spiral Dynamics regarding values-economies--cultures), and as this is going out of any phenomenological verifiable self-experience, I decided to begin to explore the different views about it and what science can tell us.
There are two things that I have explored :
- the origins of life (in other words, why manifestation ?) (Andrew Cohen's response : because there is nothing else to do, because of Consciousness love for itself (a kind of Kosmic narcissism)),
- evolution.
Not being very knowledgeable on those topics, I found information about Richard Dawkins, Intelligent Design, The Skeptic Magazine as a starting point. There are quite a few videos on Youtube. (see also 'Stupid Design' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_nqySMvkcw )
Dawkins 'The Purpose of Purpose' : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT4EWCRfdUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBkiT0zyYm0
Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine lays out a "Baloney Detection Kit," ten questions we should ask when encountering a claim. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUB4j0n2UDU
I also stumbled upon an article on Wikipedia about The meaning of Life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life
It presents a nice overview.
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