Multisensory Human. Kathy L. Callahan

it was through the human body that the soul would be able to express the constructive force of the mind and use these faculties to manifest spiritual attributes rather than gratify physical desires. Our journey in the earth plane thus became one of progress, not decline, here a little, there a little, the enlightenment overcoming the darkness. “… and man’s evolving, or evolution, has only been that of the gradual growth upward to the mind of the Maker.” (3744-5) Through the constructive force of the mind, the soul reversed the downward spiral of devolution and began instead an evolutionary journey back to the state of God Consciousness which was ours at the beginning of our creation.

       What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason. How infinite in faculty … In action how like an angel. In apprehension how like a god. The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals!

       —William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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       Our Mental Legacy: The Evolution of Human Consciousness

       In the Word was the Beginning … the beginning of Man and of Culture.

       —Leslie A. White, The Science of Culture

      AS we consider what we know of man’s dual nature, it might seem that such an existence would be one of continual indecision and chaos, as the individual is pulled in two directions, spiritual attributes versus physical desires. Fortunately, there is a third aspect of ourselves, which helps us bridge the gap between the two. This aspect is the mind, or our mental abilities, which mediates between the promptings of the soul and the desires of the body. In this chapter, we will first consider what the readings say about the constructive power of the mind and then examine the scientific evidence regarding the evolution of human consciousness.