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One of the things we can extract from our recent explorations of humans as primates is that evolution sometimes takes significantly longer than we might imagine and yet sometimes it takes place relatively quicker – not evolution from start to finish but bytes and pieces of evolution. Momentum factors in. Evolution is ongoing, sometimes pausing, stagnating and de-evolving. Evolution is like ocean waves moving forward, backward and sometimes seemingly not at all.
Specific kinds of evolution does not always happen for an entire group and definitely not at the same time. Only some life forms evolve under a given set of conducive sustained conditions, and for those, evolution can manifest differently. Evolution is not one size fits all. This we already know by observation of many processes.
The point of remembering we are Animals, Mammals and Primates is just to remember humans are not a detached, self-originating exclusive club.
Little by little, as we revisit the messages of Phase Zero and Phase One, hopefully we will loosen the stifling hold our current perceptions have on us.
We are not primarily African, Asian, South American, Mexican, etc.
We are not primarily Primate, Mammal or Animal.
Though it might seem corny, we are more Earthlings or Earth beings than any of those. The soil of elements in us* is worldwide.
We could continue on, back tracking out into the Universe of birth, but those who will, get the point.
We are stretching, pushing and pressing on towards home. Nature forces are “against” us and forces are “with” us. Only the small human portion of nature has the capacity to actually be against or for us. There are more power tools/weapons at work than genderism, racism and all other evil discriminations put together.
Once we begin to stop suffocating self-esteem with suboptimal identifiers, we will be able to be saved from ourselves by ourselves in primordial form.
In the midst of this process of processes, we will realize more and more of all else. We will again make proper use metaphor as the swinging door to understandings.
For the truthfully observant, there is an undeniable similarity and sameness between ourselves and all other aspects of nature that helps us realize distinction, though necessary, is still the smallest aspect of life and existence.
We have just left Phase Zero where Everything is Everything and we are now just in the beginning stages of Phase One and differences among species SEEMS huge.
So all we really need to understand about human evolution is that humans evolved from nature, out of nature and is nature – just like all else.
*If we understood the nature of food sufficiently enough, as we again must, we would know we are exactly what we eat, no matter how we consume it.
