Sampooran Singh
At the biological evolution, the unit of life is a cell, the self-duplicating molecule. At the psychosocial evolution, the unit of life is experience: the object is the experiencer, and the relation between the subject and the object is experiencing. An experience is the product of experienced, the experiencer and the experiencing. There is interface interaction via photon transfer between the subject (recalled memory) and the object, in philosophical language this is called grafting the subject on the object, which results in mutilation of the object. One is not aware of the pure object but aware of the mutilated object. At the spiritual evolution, the pseudo-subject goes to abeyance, the non-reactional attentivity takes over as the subject, so the unit of life is perception. In perception, the original (the Absolute, the Fundamental Vibration) and the mirror image (the pure perception) are identical, so pure perception implies perception of the wholeness.
At the psychosocial evolution, one plays the role of a doer or an experiencer. At the spiritual level, he proceeds from the doer and the experiencer to the witnesser, the non-reactional observer. At the psychosocial evolution one is aware of a miniscule information or a fragment and even here he distorts the fragment. At the spiritual level one has awareness of the Whole, or "Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement" in the words of David Bohm. The evolutionary impulse of life is pushing mankind to accept spirituality, which is perception of the wholeness and living in the light of that feelingful understanding Jonas Salk stated, "The characteristics of this species is not one of social, political, or economic power. It is one that possesses evolutionary qualities of insight, foresight and creativity.“ [9]
| [9] Jonas Salk, Anatomy of Reality 1983; in The Holistic Bulletin, 1992, No. 2, p. 18 |
| [10] Sampooran Singh, Ed., The Human Survival: The Emergence of a new Golbal Civilisation, Chandigarh: Faith Publishers, 1993. |
The natural law governing all plants and animals is that they are open to the environment but closed to the Absolute. At the level of psychosocial evolution of man, the mind-brain system, or the cultural belief structure is also governed by the law that it is open to the environment and closed to the Absolute. At the level of spiritual evolution, the mind-brain system is open to the Absolute and closed to the environment. It implies that the mind-brain system is in commune with Nature, or it vibrates on the same rhythm as Nature. As in nature there is no plain and misery, so spiritual evolution leads to ending of all human suffering and every man will revel in peace, freedom and bliss. [10]
Psychosocial evolution adds to stress at every moment. Spiritual evolution ends stress, so mind-brain system is in a state of relaxation at all moments. Spirituality or science of life leads man from mechanistic and repetitive mode to creative and spontaneous mode of life; it leads man from wretchedness to blessedness from creatureliness and helplessness to freedom and fearlessness; it leads man from pain and suffering to freedom and bliss.