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Highlights
- A new kingdom evolves every billion years or so.
- Author(s): Samuel C Avery
- 332 Pages
- Science, Life Sciences
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About the Book
Soul of the Kingdom presents the evolution of biological kingdoms (plants, animals, etc.) as advances in the organizational structure of consciousness. Sensory organs create orders of collective consciousness among individual cells. A new kingdom is evolving now as the perceptual realms of individual humans are collectivized by electronic media.Book Synopsis
A new kingdom evolves every billion years or so. A kingdom is evolving now, within human consciousness.
Organic molecules combine into the first kingdom - bacterial cells, which amalgamate into the second kingdom - complex cells, which colonize into the third kingdom - animals. The consciousness of each higher-level organism remains reducible to that of its parts, but takes on a wholeness over and above its parts. Individual cells experience photons, but the organism as a whole sees.
The evolutionary process continues in the current era: cities evolve circulatory systems, electrical grids, and municipal plumbing. Television moves human consciousness from direct visual perception to the mediated experience of a pixel screen, while virtual reality programs create consciousness entirely distinct from physical reality. But mindless process is not adaptation. Civilization cannot face the hard realities of life on Earth without a spiritual realization of humanity in relation to the natural world.
The kingdom will not live without its soul.
Review Quotes
"The evolutionary proess contiinues in the current era: cities evolve cirulatory systems, electrical grids, and municipal plumbing. Television moves human consciousness from direct visual perception to the mediated experience of a pixel screen, while virtual reality programs create consciousness entirely distinct from physical reality. But mindless process is not adaptation. Cvilization cannot face the hard relities of life on Earth without a spiritual realization of humanity in relation to the natural world. The kingdom will not live without its soul."