Ancient Memories and Evolutionary Consciousness

Posted on January 12, 2008
Filed Under Awareness, Spirituality |

As I traveled home from work a few nights ago, I happened to look out across the extensive plains that surround our town. Through the dusk, I noticed a large herd of cows had been put out to pasture. For a few moments my mind rushed backwards thousands of years to the plains of Africa and the vast herds which roamed there. There was a feeling of oneness with life back then; with the life of nature, with the life of the herds.

When the evolution of individual consciousness occurred within humanity, we began the slow retreat from that feeling of oneness. We fell deep into our own minds and there discovering our intellect, used it to seek an entirely different understanding of the world and of ourselves.

Slowly humanity emerged from the blanket of dim self-awareness into a world of pure individualism. Through that development a new relationship with reality was built; religion and science – and almost lost in the depths of time; mysticism.

It’s that ability to stand as an individual being which separated us from the environment around us. An evolutionary process in consciousness, which can be seen mirrored in the development of consciousness in the baby as it grows into childhood and then adulthood.

There are moments – like that one I mentioned above – where our consciousness remembers that time of oneness, but for the most part we have become something very different to that time. I think it was a necessary step – it brought us closer to a physical understanding of the universe.

Yet for some of us, our consciousness yearns for those ancient times; though it’s not about the desire to return. It is instead another step in the evolution of consciousness, as we re-discover that all encompassing awareness – and unite it with all the knowledge and understandings our individuality has granted.