chapter 8,9,10,11

Chapter8-The Origin of the human
Fossils and genetic have been obtained on human origins. Our human odyssey began six or seven years ago with a population of a hundred thousand chimp-like apes living near Africa. More than fifty thousand years ago in northeast Africa some of these modern humans moved out altogether. There population in Africa is small as five thousand. This small group cross the red sea. Some worked on the coast line of India. Other departed into Europe. Becoming a human took place when early people learned to externalize consciousness. By creating marks on bones in wet clay, humans made a way to cast there consciousness into an enduring form outside of themselves. The great insights of humans could now be preserved in poetry, paintings, pose, so human culture became a DNA outside the body.

Chapter9-Becoming a Planetary Presence
It was inevitable that we would become completely fascinated by our symbol system. Whether in pictographs, alphabets or numbers. These codes became our pattern for organizing society and civilization. Earths surface became a grid filled with numbers of latitude and longitude. That was all movement to control over the seas. A modern form of consciousness was to transform all these symbolic knowledge into a machine. A machine is a physical system that focus energies towards satisfying some human desire.

Chapter10-Rethinking Matter and Time
A simple way of understanding the creative self organization of matter is to take the perspective of universe and earth evolution. The deep truth about matter is neither Descartes nor Newton realized that over the course of four billion years ago that molten rocks transformed into monarch butterflies. They fell into the fantasy that there role was to reengineer inner matter. The organic sense of time ties to cycles of nature. In its place modern humans invented mechanical time.

Chapter11-Emerging Earth Community
We seek patterns that connect us to a vaster destiny. A vital participation in earth is unfolding. There is nothing more than mysteries as destiny. Everything in the universe seem to have a role. The stars had a work of creating elements. Earth species has its unique role to play for the larger community. Our destiny has something to do with our desire to journey and to experience the depths of things. This is why we are here so deeply of the powers of the universe we become human form of the universe.