If we look at the phenomenon of evolution and its underlying forces and processes, we can question the wisdom of nature in bringing out our present humanity. We have neither the strength of a lion nor the swiftness of a deer. We have lost the spontaneity and simplicity of the vegetal and the animal world and replaced it with a complex mental structure, a haze and a maze that often conceals more than it reveals. We have disinherited the natural resistance of the animal world and replaced it with an unending list of medicines and diagnoses that often only add to the burden of health rather than relieve it. We have been endowed with intelligence, but often enough it only adds a crookedness and cunning to the stealth and camouflage of our animality. The insect hedonism has found gigantic proportions. Our speech, an instrument of communication, becomes very often one for division; it confuses more than it clarifies.
And yet, we are the apex of nature’s grand evolutionary journey!
But there is another view, a new vision. It is to see man as a transitional being, a strange cross between the demi-god and beast, an irrationally rational link between the unconscious intuition and freedom of the animal to the conscious intuition and blissful freedom commanded by the gods. Therein lies the uniqueness of man.
He is a bridge between his lingering animal past and yet unborn godlike future. His true greatness and glory is in being able to accelerate his own evolution into something greater and more beautiful.
