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Also by Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna and Rupert SheldrakeTrialogues at the Edge of the WestAlso by Ralph AbrahamChaos, Gaia, ErosDynamics, the Geometry of Behavior (with Chris Shaw)Foundations of Mechanics (with Jerrold Marsden)Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications (with Jerrold Marsden and Tudor Ratiu)Chaos in Discrete Dynamical Systems (with Laura Gardini and Christian Mira)Also by Terence McKennaThe Invisible Landscape (with Dennis McKenna)Psilocybin: The Magic Mushroom Growers' Guide (with Dennis McKenna)Food of the Gods The Archaic Revival True HallucinationsAlso by Rupert SheldrakeA New Science of LifeThe Presence of the PastThe Rebirth of NatureSeven Experiments that Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary ScienceNatural Grace (with Matthew Fox)The Physics of Angels (with Matthew Fox)RUPERT SHELDRAKETERENCE McKENNARALPH ABRAHAMTHE EVOLUTIONARY MINDTrialogues at the Edge of the UnthinkableTrialogue Press
THE EVOLUTIONARY MIND Trialogues at the Edge of the UnthinkablePublisher: Trialogue PressP.O. Box 1360, Santa Cruz, CA 95061Phone: 408-425-7436Fax: 408-425-8612Email: ahraham@aerialpress.comCopyright 1998 by Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproducedby any means or in any form whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except for brief quotations embodied in literaryarticles or reviews.First Edition; Typography by Page [ Curtis Printed in the United States of AmericaLIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATASheldrake, Rupert.The Evolutionary Mind: Trialogues at the edge of the unthinkableby Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, and Ralph Abraham.xvi 194 pp. cm.ISBN 0-942344-13-8 (pbk.)1. Cosmology. 2. Panpsychism. 3. Consciousness. 4- Gaia hypothesis. 5. Chaotic behavior in systems. 6. Religion and science — 1946. I.McKenna, Terence K., 1946- . II. Sheldrake, Rupert. III. Title.98-90256 CIP10 987654321In Memory of Father Bede GriffithsContentsPreface.xiiiChapter 1. Grassroots Science.1The increasing predominance of big science and large institutions. Public alienation from science. The possibility of radical research on abudget of less than 50. How amateurs could help revitalize science. The role of computer networks. The continuing need for institutionalscience. A complementary relationship between grassroots and institutional research. Holistic medicine and low-cost medical research.Declining science budgets. The popularity of dinosaurs. Psychedelic explorations as an example of a grassroots research. Radical research bystudents. The revitalizing of scientific education.Chapter 2. Psychedelics, Computers, and Mathematics . .19Nearly all innovators in computer graphics take psychedelics. Ralph's experiences in the 1960s. Visual mathematics and psychedelicimagination. The need for emotional involvement. Visual metaphors and the footprints of meaning. Psychedelic experience is made of mindbut not just our minds. The language of patterns. The decline of literacy and the rise of visual intelligence. Television as an addictive drug.Computer graphics and the forms of flowers and beetles. Mathematical landscapes. Mathematics a marriage of heaven and earth.
Chapter 3. What Hawaii Tells Us About Evolution.39These volcanic, mid-oceanic islands are a laboratory for evolution in isolation. On the islands themselves, ecosystems are divided up by lavaflows. Comparison with evolution on other island systems and in the Amazon basin. The evolutionary importance of variety for its own sake.Hawaii as a microcosm of the Earth itself. Creative adaptation, morphic resonance, and the evolution of habits. The movement of entireecosystems. Spores, ducks' feet, and the colonization of Hawaii. How do migrant birds find new island systems? How did the Polynesiansfind Hawaii? Contemporary cultural evolution.Chapter 4. Homing Pigeons .57Many animals can home or migrate, but no one knows how. Research with pigeons has refuted all theories based on known scientificprinciples. Homing cannot be explained in terms of smell, the sun, landmarks, or magnetism. An unknown sense or field seems to beinvolved. Pigeons linked to their home by a connection like an invisible elastic band. Can pigeons find their home if the home is taken awayfrom the pigeons, rather than the pigeons from the home? Results of preliminary experiments with mobile lofts. Does homing depend on asixth sense or an inherited map? How language inhibits our ability to imagine the mind of a pigeon. The different relationship of animalminds to time. Homing as a pulling from the future. Pigeons and their lofts linked by morphic fields. The nature of social bonds. The wayshamans know the future. The connection of shamanic knowledge with the knowledge of animals.Chapter 5. The World Wide Web .77What the World Wide Web is and how it goes beyond the Internet. Worldwide browsing and creativity. The Web as the basis of the noosphere of the future. Boundary dissolution. But is it just for nerds? The absence of the feminine. A vast increase in the accessibility ofinformation. Do we really need more information? Research on the quality of time using databases on sunspots, accident rates, etc. The Web'sresemblance to psychedelic experience. Creativity and self-publishing. Who does the editing? Can the proliferation of special interest groupshave any unifying effect? Could the Web improve our realtionship to the environment or to local communities? A future telepathic collectivity.Chapter 6. Research With Psychic Pets .91Many pets seem to know in advance when their owners are coming home. Inexpensive research with pets an example of grassroots science. Isscience too rigid to assimilate animal telepathy, even if the evidence were overwhelming? The ancient shamanic roots of communication withanimals. How does telepathy work? Morphic fields as a basis of interconnection. Resonance, time, and precognition. Fractal wavelets. Howlanguage deceives us about the nature of time. The advantages of music. How animals respond to intentions. Hunting, shamanism, and theevolution of consciousness.Chapter 7. Fractals.109The sandy beach and fractal boundaries. Chaos and the Milky Way. Fractal boundaries destroy determinism. Multiple personalities andboundaries in the mind. Dischaos in personal relationships. Polytheistic psychology. Fractalization and unity. Dischaos therapy. Drugs,journeys, and the increasing permeability of boundaries. Aboriginal cultures and openness to others. Our obsession with privacy. Walledfortresses and fractal labyrinths.Chapter 8. Time .123The Big Bang as scientific orthodoxy's free miracle. Cosmic evolution toward increasing complexity. The pull of a transcendental attractorlocated in the future. The Omega Point. History as the shock wave of the end of time. Myths of history. Time is speeding up. The JudeoChristian tradition is inherently apocalyptic. Will the end of history be confined to the Earth, or will it be some kind of cosmic transition? Theimpact of comets. Hyperspace. The dissolution of all things. Terence's prediction of the end in 2012 AD. Visions of the transcendentalattractor.Chapter 9: The Heavens .143The rediscovery of the life of nature. The ancient sense of the sacred-ness of the heavens and the Earth. The secularization of the heavenssince the seventeenth century. Consciousness in stars and galaxies. Heavenly bliss. Modern ignorance of the heavens. Astrologers findmeaning in the sky, but don't look at it. Angels. SETI, the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. Journeys out of the body. Are psychedelicvisions localized? The evolution of complexity. The loss of interest in space exploration. Contacting the intelligences of the stars in alteredstates of consciousness. Elizabethan star magic. Modern sun worship. A new synthesis of astrology and astronomy.Chapter 10. Utopianism and Millenarianism .159
The literary origins of Utopia. Utopians hope that the virtues of the past will be restored. The Judeo-Christian roots of millenarianism.Millenarians believe history is about to end. Scientific utopianism and the ideology of progress. New age Utopias. Terence as a psychedelicUtopian. And also as a prophet of the apocalypse. The big bang and the irrational. The acceleration of history. The transcendental object atthe end of time. New models of time. Chaotic transformation. Millenarian visions and self-fulfilling prophecy. The cosmic dimension. Theend in 2012?Chapter 11: Father Bede's Letter.177Father Bede Griffiths, an English Benedictine monk who lived in India, was Rupert's teacher. His letter about our book Trialogues at theEdge of the West. He found a lack of the sense of the mystical, or of ultimate unity. Terence puts this unity at the end of time. Ralph connectsit with the unity of the evolutionary process. Rupert sees it in the Holy Trinity. The Judeo-Christian faith in God's action in historical time,and at the end of time. Evolutionary theology. The cosmic attractor. Indeterminacy and the structure of time. Entelechy and the time wave.Freud and Thanatos, the death principle. Birth throughout the universe.Biographies. .191PrefaceWe have been firm friends since we first met in 1982, in California, and have been meeting at regular intervals ever since, both in the UnitedStates and in England.We spend most of our time together talking, trying out ideas, arguing, speculating, and enjoying each others' company. Our professionalinterests and backgrounds are very different: Ralph is a chaos mathematician and pioneer in the field of computer graphics; Terence is apsychedelic explorer, ethnopharmacologist, and theorist of time; and Rupert is a controversial biologist, best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance, the idea that there is an inherent memory in nature. We also share many interests and enthusiasms in common, not least ouraffinity for India, where we have all lived at different times.We soon found that these three-way discussions were especially stimulating and fruitful, at least for ourselves. We had no thought of thesebeing anything other than private meetings of friends. But after some six years of these informal conversations, we were asked by NancyLunney, of the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, California, to lead a weekend workshop together. As a consequence, our trialogues emerged intothe public domain in September 1989. These discussions, together with others we held at Esalen in private over the next two years, formedthe basis of our book Trialogues at the Edge of the West, published by Bear and Co. in 1992.This book has been translated into Dutch, French, German, Polish and Portuguese, and many people have told us that they found itstimulating, and that it has sparked off lively discussions among groups of friends. We have been encouraged to find that ideas andconversations can spread in this way, and hope that the present book will enable this process to go further.We have continued to meet as opportunities have presented themselves, and this book, The Evolutionary Mind, is based on discussions atEsalen in September 1992; in June1993 in the West of England, at Hazelwood House, in the Devon countryside; and at Terence's rainforest retreat on the slopes of the volcanoMauna Loa, on the Big Island of Hawaii, in September 1994.We have called this book The Evolutionary Mind because this title best summarizes the common themes of our discussions. Most arestrongly influenced by the idea of evolution— of life, science, technology, culture, and indeed the entire cosmos; and also by the prospectsfor a greatly enlarged understanding of minds, expansion of experience, and transformations of consciousness beyond anything we can atpresent conceive.We are very grateful to Becky Luening of Wordrhythm for the accuracy of her transcriptions, and to Paul Herbert for the gift of hisrecordings. And once again we are indebted to Nancy Kaye Lunney and the Esalen Institute for hospitality.Grassroots ScienceRupert: As the organization of science becomes increasingly professional and institutional, big science increases in its scope and power. Moreresearch gets directed into huge projects like particle accelerators and the human genome project. Inevitably these attract funds, prestige andresearchers away from the more traditional, low expense, low prestige branches of science. The tendency toward big science and fewer
"centers of excellence" is going on all the time. Access to big money is coming to dominate the whole structure of science as we know it.This is merely a carrying further of the process of professionalization and institutionalization that's overtaken mainstream science in thepresent century.In the 18th and 19th centuries, the situation was very different. Charles Darwin, for example, never held an academic post in any institution.In his books, for example in my favorite one, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication,1 the research base on which he wasdrawing was that of practical plant and animal breeders, animal trainers, pigeon fanciers, colonial administrators, and so on. In other words,there was a vast wealth of knowledge and experience that fed into Darwin's kind of science, hardly any of which came out of governmentfunded scientific institutions.We now see a completely different picture, as the non-professional experience becomes increasingly marginalized. You can't do researchuntil you've got a Ph.D., and you're in an institution, and you've got a grant, and you can write the kind of proposal that impresses acommittee of professional scientists.Organized science is moving fu
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