Hello, from Craig

[Craig Maciolek]

Hello,

My name is Craig Maciolek and I have recently had the fun experience of making a connection to "The Twelfth Insight". The books of Mr. Redfield are not new to me, although I have never read any before. Many friends and strangers have suggested them to me, and to be honest I have wanted to read "The Celestine Prophecy", but it has always been just a logical desire. Every time I came near the book, at someones house or in a bookstore, I had a very deep reaction for me to get away - that it wasn't something for me. Until a few days ago, that is.

I was in the public library looking through the new book shelf when I picked up "The Twelfth Insight". Now, normally if I find an interesting book I will look to see if there are previous books in the series and go read those first. However, recognizing immediately this series something in my brain said, "Well, I guess this isn't for me and I will just put it back." Much to my surprise the book stayed in my hand. No, joke... over the next few minutes I was surprised to find that I hadn't put the book back yet. After the third try I gave up and decided to take the book home. (I even got a good laugh from some people as I did a little pantomime trying to shake the book out of my hand.) As I turned the pages I found myself very comfortable with the story, was intuitively familiar with it like an old friend, and I immediately recognized the principles as a different perspective of what I had been working on for the past fourteen years.

I have always been a very intuitive person even though I only came to be aware of it in my twenties. Back when I was in college studying forest management, I had developed a discomfort with the common Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection as Darwin put forth. At the time the question was very simple, "Why call it Natural Selection if everything is of nature? What is Unnatural Selection and who is capable of it?" I recognize now that this question was just a mask I put on the discomfort I felt... and continued to feel... nagging away at the back of my head. Eventually, as the nagging got worse and after a bunch of crazy experiences, I decided to sink into trying to figure out what my problem was. To do this I started free writing to see what came out.

I would like to say that was the beginning of a beautiful journey of discovery, but it wasn't. In hindsight, I am very happy I walked this path, but I cannot say that enjoyed every moment of it... in fact, I even hated some of it. What happened was a long laborious process of trying to figure out how to scratch this itch, and the more I got into it, the more it consumed me. (To the point where, as part of a bunch of other events, I became flat broke and living with my mother and dealing with the endless negative flow of energy coming from family and friends who do not try to listen or understand, they dismiss what I am doing as worthless because there is no money involved.) Immediately the free writing showed me that I was on the right track, however, it was limited to how complex an understanding I could build with it alone; free writing for me is a reactive process where I write until something come out that glows to my intuition. I had to develop, through trial and error, a system that I call Mind Archaeology(http://designedevolution.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/mind-archaeology/). Where, through free writing I collect these shards of intuitive information, process them by examination of each idea by itself, then try to connect these pieces together with other shards, and then try test them out in the reality before us. The miserable part is how the every eureka moment of getting several pieces to fit together successfully is followed by the depression of knowing how much more there is to discover.

Eventually, I came to understand my discomfort. My problem with the popular understanding of evolution is not that I thought Darwin was wrong, but that it focuses completely on the physical. The physical aspect is clear when we look at the fossil record, the lining up of different species to see the small progressive changes as life evolved forward. However, further consideration shows that these changes are mostly reactions to changes in the energy flowing through an ecosystem; energy flows such as the food cycle, water cycle, heat cycle, carbon cycle, spiritual cycle, and so forth. Whether that change is cause by the behavior of individuals - war over resources - or by some outside influence or process - asteroids and ice ages, when these interactive energy flows change individuals have to adapt. (Consider that the two great evolutionary steps forward in the size of our brains occurred during rapid and catastrophic changes in the Earths Climate; and that our climate is poised to go through another period of rapid change.) Thus, I developed a theory of evolution that saw life, individuals, as stop-gaps in the flow of energy. Just like circuits in an electronic device that directs energy though a complex device.

The upshot is that the current popular view of evolution theory is based on the perspective that we must fight and manipulate people around us for control of resources, but a more accurate and successful perspective is (I would argue) that the only thing individuals need to do is control and manage the energy that flow through us (something that animals do naturally even though we project our combative bias onto them). And, if we are capable of choosing how we direct the flow of energy through us, then our understanding of the evolution process must include this evolved capacity as part of the process. And so I press on.

Int he end, to completely confuse you. I press on with the understanding that I learn more about myself from the process of trying to figure this out than from actually figuring this out.

Anyway, that is the nuts and bolts of my story. If anyone is interested I keep a blog of my evolution stuff (plus links to other things I am doing) at http://designedevolution.wordpress.com/.

Have fun,
Craig - CAMaciolek@lavabit.com

[carpediem48]

Welcome Craig

I'm so glad you started and ended your post with the word fun

I shall relax and laugh at the anxiety I felt when I didn't immediately understand your generous post

Seeds have been sown and I thankyou

Maggie
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