| 10 Evilution
turn against the very special awareness that exalts you over the
creatures and links you to your Creator, and you set out on a
course of denial. You think that by making yourself less aware
that something is wrong, less aware of your suffering, less aware
of what is happening, you can make the problem go away. So you
choose, by means of drugs, drink, music, sex, and "positive
thinking"—all the worldly excitements of challenge and risk—to
submerge your human consciousness into an "evolving" animal
unconsciousness. You literally change yourself into a beast.
The very headlong desperation that propels your frenzied
escapes reveals to anyone still standing on the plateau of objective
understanding that, at some level of awareness, despite all your
denials, you do know what you know—namely, that there is
something wrong about death and dying.
So here you are, living on an animal plane, with two natures in
conflict, the higher gradually losing power to the lower. You know
something is wrong, but part of you is afraid to realize it. That
part of you would gladly dig a hole in the ground and bury itself
in it, rather than face the truth about its devolving condition, and
that is precisely what it does. The soul, having gradually yielded
power to this lower animal self, has become its captive in a dog-
eat-dog world wherein men kill, murder, and devour their fellow
men, emotionally and spiritually, as a matter of course, a world
ruled by pride, arrogance, violence, and deception.
Here, in the lower level of beingness we have chosen for
ourselves, every man, woman, and child is part of some ghoulish
food chain. Here we see only the takers and the taken, the eaters
and the eaten. The takers are closer to hell than the taken, but in
order to survive at all, and however briefly, you must become a
taker yourself before it's too late. So the taken dream of becoming
takers, and they are taken in by their dreams and the cruel system
they see as the "real world."
In this system, you are enlisted in the service of hell through a
military chain of command, doing unto others what has been done
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