Evolving Complexity Equals Evolving Love
©2013 Courtesy of Georgeanne Judd
Excerpted from Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment
by Dr. Marc Gafni
From quarks to atoms to cells to molecules, onward and upward Teilhard de Chardin, Abraham Kook, and many other evolutionary mystics point out that complexity is but the outside view. The interior–not addressed by Jantsch or any of the chaos theorists–reveals that the higher the level of outer physical complexity, the more evolved the inner depth of consciousness.
What emerges is that the movement of evolution is the movement to ever-higher levels of complexity and consciousness. At this point, the eye of the mind has reached its limits. Now, a new faculty of perception enters our conversation, what the Christian mystics called the “eye of the spirit,” what the Sufi teacher Rumi called the “eye of the heart,” and what Hebrew mystics called the “hidden eye.”
The eye of the spirit, deployed throughout recorded time by the great realizers in all the traditions, in a great double-blind experiment of spirit, always revealed the same inner picture. The eye of the spirit sees clearly that the inner fabric of consciousness is none other than love. It would therefore be entirely accurate to say that the Eros of evolution is none other than the force of love.
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