Human Devolution

1. Challenging the Scientific Worldview: Opening Minds to Alternative Truths

To rule out the possibility of belief in another’s reality is to encapsulate that reality and, thus, to impose implicitly the hegemony of one’s own view of the world.

Breaking Hegemony. The book challenges the scientific community's often rigid adherence to a single, materialistic worldview. It advocates for open-mindedness and the consideration of alternative perspectives, particularly those from ancient wisdom traditions. This is crucial because dismissing other realities can lead to intellectual encapsulation and the imposition of a dominant, yet potentially limited, viewpoint.

Embracing Diverse Knowledge. The author encourages scientists and scholars to approach Vedic perspectives on human origins with the same seriousness afforded to Western scientific models. This involves acknowledging that metaphysical models from different spiritual traditions are serious contenders for truth, not merely relics of a bygone era.

Beyond Dogma. The call is for a scholarship that transcends the limitations of both scientific and religious dogma, embracing a more holistic approach to understanding the universe and our place within it. This requires a willingness to question established paradigms and explore new avenues of inquiry, even if they challenge conventional wisdom.

2. Forbidden Archeology: Unearthing Evidence of Extreme Human Antiquity

Perhaps if Professor Whitney had fully appreciated the story of human evolution as it is understood today, he would have hesitated to announce the conclusions formulated, notwithstanding the imposing array of testimony with which he was confronted.

Knowledge Filtration. The book highlights the systematic suppression of archeological evidence that contradicts the Darwinian theory of human evolution. This "knowledge filtration" involves rejecting or reinterpreting findings that suggest a human presence far earlier than currently accepted timelines.

Examples of Suppressed Evidence:

• The California gold mine discoveries, where human bones and artifacts were found in early Eocene deposits (50 million years old).
• The Hueyatlaco site in Mexico, where advanced stone tools were dated to approximately 250,000 years ago.

Challenging the Paradigm. The author argues that this selective rejection of evidence is driven by a bias towards the prevailing theory, rather than an objective assessment of the facts. This bias prevents a genuine exploration of alternative explanations for human origins.

3. Revising Evolutionary Timelines: The Case of Advanced Species in Ancient Strata

Quite recently, an alternative explanation has been offered by Mr. Gee...the suggestion is that the angiosperms, gymnosperms and insects of the Saline Series may represent a highly evolved Cambrian or Precambrian flora and fauna!

Challenging Darwinian Timelines. The book presents fossil evidence that contradicts the Darwinian picture of the evolution of nonhuman species. This evidence comes from the Salt Range Mountains in Pakistan, where geologists found evidence of advanced flowering plants and insects in early Cambrian periods (600 million years ago).

The Salt Range Anomaly:

• The discovery of advanced plant and insect fossils in Cambrian layers challenges the standard evolutionary timeline.
• Some geologists proposed a massive overthrust to explain the anomaly, but others found no geological signs of such an event.
• One geologist suggested that these plants and animals appeared in the Salt Range area millions of years earlier than anywhere else in the world.

Need for Revision. This evidence suggests that the current Darwinian account of the evolution of not only humans but also other species is in need of revision. It calls for a reevaluation of the fossil record and a consideration of alternative explanations for the origin and diversification of life.

4. Genetic and Developmental Biology: Questioning Darwinian Evolution

Unlike genetic data derived from living humans, fossils can be used to test predictions of theories about the past without relying on a long list of assumptions about the neutrality of genetic markers, mutational rates, or other requirements necessary to retrodict the past from current genetic variation.

Genetic Speculation. The book critiques the use of genetic evidence to support the Darwinian theory of human evolution. It argues that attempts to pinpoint the time and place of anatomically modern human origins using genetic data have resulted in mistakes and contradictions.

Fossil Evidence as a Check:

• Fossil evidence provides a much-needed check on the rampant speculations of genetic researchers.
• Archeological evidence for extreme human antiquity contradicts current Darwinian accounts of human origins.
• Fossils can be used to test predictions of theories about the past without relying on assumptions about genetic markers or mutational rates.

Challenging the Foundation. The author argues that the Darwinian theory of evolution is in trouble right from the start, as scientists have been unable to demonstrate the origin of life from chemicals in any truly scientific way. This calls into question the very foundation upon which the modern evolutionary synthesis is built.

5. Alfred Russel Wallace: Bridging Science and the Spirit World

A superior intelligence has guided the development of man in a definite direction, and for a special purpose, just as man guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms.

Wallace's Shift. The book uses the work of Sir Alfred Russel Wallace, cofounder of the theory of evolution by natural selection, as an introduction to an alternative explanation for human origins. Wallace's extensive experiments into the paranormal led him to revise the worldview of science.

The Spirit World:

• Wallace concluded that the universe is populated with spirit beings.
• He proposed that minor spirit beings are in contact with the human population on Earth, usually through mediums.
• Wallace believed that more powerful spirit beings may have played a role in the origin of species.

Implications for Human Origins. Wallace's work suggests that a superior intelligence has guided the development of humans in a definite direction and for a special purpose. This challenges the Darwinian account of human origins and opens the door to alternative explanations.

6. The Tripartite Human Being: Matter, Mind, and Consciousness

There is, according to me a completely new domain of facts and physical states of space of which we have no idea.

Beyond Materialism. The book proposes that before asking "Where did human beings come from?" we should first ask "What is a human being?" It suggests that it is more reasonable to assume that a human being is composed of three separately existing substances: matter, mind, and consciousness (or spirit).

The Elements of Human Existence:

• Matter: Ordinary chemical elements that make up the physical body.
• Mind: A subtle, but nevertheless material, energy associated with the human organism and capable of acting on ordinary matter in ways we cannot explain by our current laws of physics.
• Consciousness (or Spirit): A conscious self that can exist apart from mind and matter.

Expanding Explanations. This assumption widens the circle of possible explanations for human origins. It allows for the consideration of factors beyond the purely material realm, such as the influence of mind and consciousness on the development of biological forms.

7. The Cosmic Hierarchy: Beings at Different Levels of Reality

The relations between Jehovah and his creatures can be neither too numerous nor too near. In the increased distance between God and man have grown up all those developments that have made life mournful.

Cosmic Division. Having established that the human organism is composed of matter, mind, and consciousness, the book proposes that the cosmos is divided into regions, or levels, of matter, mind, and consciousness, each inhabited by beings adapted to life there. This cosmic hierarchy includes an original God inhabiting a realm of pure consciousness.

Levels of the Cosmic Hierarchy:

• A realm of pure consciousness inhabited by an original conscious being (God) and individual units of consciousness.
• A subtle material region of the cosmos inhabited by a subordinate creator god and many kinds of demigods and demigoddesses.
• An earthly realm inhabited by humans like us.
• An underworld inhabited by ghosts and demons.

Cross-Cultural Study. The book establishes the existence of this cosmic hierarchy of beings in a cross-cultural study of cosmologies, using the Vedic cosmology of the Shrimad Bhagavatam as a model for comparison. The cosmologies share many features.

8. Observational Evidence: Apparitions, Angels, and Aliens

We ask our readers not for belief, but for doubt of their own infallibility on this question; we ask for inquiry and patient experiment before hastily concluding that we are, all of us, mere dupes and idiots as regards a subject to which we have devoted our best mental faculties and powers of observation for many years.

Categories of Evidence. The book documents categories of observational evidence for the existence of conscious beings at various levels of the cosmic hierarchy. This evidence includes communications from surviving conscious human selves, apparitions of departed humans, and possessions of living humans by spirits of departed humans.

Evidence for a Cosmic Hierarchy:

• Cases where humans are possessed by beings with extraordinary powers provide evidence for superhuman creatures existing in extraterrestrial levels of the cosmic hierarchy.
• Marian apparitions and apparitions of angels also provide such evidence.
• Historical accounts of appearances of avatars provide evidence for the existence of a supreme conscious being.
• Modern reports of unidentified flying objects and the "aliens" associated with them.

Reinterpreting UFOs. The theory of purely mechanical UFOs breaks down under careful investigation, and the UFOs and aliens come to resemble beings inhabiting extraterrestrial levels of the world's traditional cosmologies.

9. Paranormal Modification: Consciousness Shaping Biological Forms

A growing body of evidence suggests an association between religious involvement and spirituality and positive health outcomes.

Consciousness and Biology. The human devolution concept posits the action of superior intelligences in the origin of the human form and the forms of other living things. This depends on the ability of consciousness to more or less directly influence the organization of matter in living things.

Evidence for Paranormal Modification:

• Laboratory experiments in which human subjects are able to mentally influence the growth of micro-organisms.
• Distance healing by prayer and other miraculous cures.
• Birthmarks that appear to have some relationship with wounds a person experienced in a past life.
• Reports by prominent scientists who have witnessed mediums produce human limbs or complete human bodies.

Implications for Human Origins. If the forms of humans and other living things are the result of intelligent manipulation of matter, this suggests that the universe itself may have been designed for human life and other forms of life.

10. A Universe Designed for Life: Evidence from Modern Cosmology

These six numbers constitute a ‘recipe’ for a universe. Moreover, the outcome is sensitive to their values: if any one of them were to be ‘untuned’, there would be no stars and no life.

Fine-Tuning for Life. Scientists have discovered that numbers representing fundamental physical constants and ratios of natural forces appear to be finely tuned for life to exist in our universe. This suggests that the universe itself may have been designed for human life and other forms of life.

Explanations for Fine-Tuning:

• Simple chance: The odds against the fine-tuning are too extreme for this to be a credible explanation.
• Many worlds: This posits the existence of a practically unlimited number of universes, each with different values for the fundamental constants and laws of nature.
• Intelligent providential creator: This suggests that some intelligent being designed the universe for life.

Vedic Cosmology. The Vedic cosmology also speaks of many universes, but all of them are designed for life. This supports the idea that the universe was created with a specific purpose in mind.

11. Human Devolution: A Vedic Synthesis

The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.

Devolution from Consciousness. The book outlines the concept of human devolution, bringing together the various lines of evidence presented in the previous chapters. We do not evolve up from matter; rather, we devolve, or come down, from the level of pure consciousness.

The Vedic Account of Human Origins:

• Originally, we are pure units of consciousness existing in harmonious connection with the supreme conscious being.
• When we give up our willing connection with that supreme conscious being, we descend to regions of the cosmos dominated by the subtle and gross material energies, mind and matter.
• For this purpose, we are provided with bodies made of the subtle and gross material energies.

Intelligent Guidance. The human devolution concept posits a first living thing from which other living things develop by a process of reproduction with modification. But the process is intelligently guided.

Last updated: March 13, 2025