Conservationist and revolutionist June 14, 2005 8:56 AM
There are two main streams in conscious Evolution; one are Conservationist others are Revolutionist.
On care2 already are some conservationist groups, one themselves call Conservationist as well, other is Sustainable development, and so on.. Their activities should help us to protect our planet from disasterous human activities. With conscious and reasonable planning we could continue to live on our planet without making some serious damage. It could buy to us some time before things on Earth become too nasty. Other good thing is birth control. There are two groups on care2 dedicated to this, but without some influence on world global population growth. Of course all that can`t stop pollution and further procreation unless some great catastrophe happens and turn situation back to normal.
In rapidly growing field of conscious Evolution there are already organizations founded to help the global industrial development become better adapted to nature, since nature cannot adapt to us. Social movement for conscious Evolution is led by Barbarra Marx Hubbard, and spiritual movement is founded by Andrew Cohen. It is interesting to mention that they are both Judes!? you can tell it by their last names and indeed they are. In Brabarra marx Hubbard`s organization you must PAY for their courses!!! you see? you must pay if you want to help the Earth. Everything changes but judes business talent never. Andrew Cohen also ask charge for their lessons. He is promissing that by massive enlightenment and with rise of global higher consciousness world could become more happier place and thus avoid big catastrophe? After Karl Marx again judes are the one who lead us to "promised land" to some new utopia on Earth, but like marx`s utopia failed for neglection of some natural laws, it can happen again this time with much more disasterous consequences. There will be NO another chance for us. We have only one planet. And this planet can`t be ideological poligon for some honky-tonky experiments. No metter how nice and promissing they might looks like. Evolution has it`s laws and that is the laws we must learn about, not business or spiritual laws. To rise Evolutionary consciousness is much harder job, and it is still on beginning.
Other mainstream are revolutionist. They are quite differ between, about their look on how to use our knowledge to improve our further evolution but we all agree that : we have to use our knowledge to influence Evolution in the way we want. That is main difference to the Conservationist who want to keep world going like this. Trouble is that evolution does not want to keep things the same. World is constantly changing and advancing and it is better to change consciously then chaoticaly like now.So we MUST get involved becouse we as conscious beings have greatest responsibility for life on Earth. There are several main organization in this area; Extropy and Transhumanist.org founded by Max More and Nick Bostrom and Prometheism.org from Matt Nuenke. First two are very alike and are adressing only to human evolution. They both are fascinated with scientific development and believe that modern science itself is capable to solve any human problem from politics to death! Yes they believe in scientific immortality, by cryonics or uploading nevermind, and it is one absolute Sciene Fiction ideology. They completely neglect spirituality, religion and all other 'prejudices', don`t believe in soul or reincarnation, and don`t care much about pollution. They would be sutisfied to remain on Earth as cyborgs in postapocalyptic desert, no metter if they would be only survivors as long as they are alive. As you can see they have nothing in common with us nor with Evolution either so we won`t waste our precious time any more. Prometheist together with Cosmotheism.net make with some other sister sites (all coming from same origin) "Conscious Evolution Alliance". This pretensious movement claim to be new religion? on secular basis. This means that it is religion without god, soul, and anything other which scientificaly cannot be aproved. But neverthless they pretend to be more 'holistic' (apostrophes are theirs!) then other similar movements since they occasionaly have topics related to spirituality, hermetism, etc..although there is no spiritual ground in their own ideology!? Prometheism is infact one Eugenic movement trying to improve white race by conscious selection and planed mating with best and most inelligent Europeans. How they decide who is most intelligent or best is very problematic question. In all of these 'revolutionist' movements there is no mention of happy planet for all. So what is so revolutionary in it? Just to improve our physical bodies with high technology? I wouldn`t mind something more radical.
I think that only revolution on this Earth would be the one which could bring happines to ALL living creatures to whole nature. So revolution needs to be holistic and global. We have that possibility now if we use our great power on benefits of all. If we develop our science on holistic way to serve everybody. Our bodies and our civilization must change in the way they will never again pollute enviroment. Human needs and whole industrial civilization is made to pollute more or less and can`t exist on other way. For that reason new intelligent and consious beings have to be created, who would have all pleasures and comfor without to harm the others. Nature can be changed also in the way to avoid killing for food, to create for example plants which produce fruits and vegetables so rich in proteins that no hunting would be neccessary. Whole planet should be organized to consciously decrease pain and suffer on the amount where life would be revolutionary different then today.