First, let me give credit to so many people that have influenced me in developing this theory.
I am proposing a theory that the purpose of evolution is to create the more perfect observer. Throughout evolution, as the eye evolved, so did our sense of separation, therefore the “I” evolved simultaneously. I will also bring in Bohm’s the Implicate order, wholeness and the holographic universe. It will all tie in together.
The Eye is part of our Central Nervous System which exists in 2 parts, the brain and the spine. The eye as spoken of in the Science Daily: “Retina, the light sensing tissue on the bottom of the eye, can be considered an integral part of the central nervous system (CNS). During fetal development, it matures from part of the brain and its innervation closely resembles that of the brain.” The implications of this is that the eye is part of the brain, but even moreso, the discovery is that: Research from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) shows that retinal changes may be detected earlier than brain changes. (sciencedaily.com). What that shows is that the eye has the capacity for evolving the brain.
Any organism creates an energetic connection with our environment through our nervous system. Mostly the Eye. If the eye is not available then that organism will do it through their dominant sense. For human, they will likely revert to the ear which is an extension of the eye. The inner ear and the muscles that move your eyes are intimately connected through a reflex called the vestibulo-ocular reflex or VOR. There are only two junctions between nerves along the path of this reflex, making it one of the fastest in the body. We can thank these reflexes to help us focus clearly when we move our head. This is referred to as gaze stability. As soon as you move your head, the vestibular apparatus in the inner ear senses the precise direction and speed of that movement and tells your brain about it. The brain then uses that information to instruct our eye muscles to counter the head movement and keep whatever you’re looking at in focus. So the eye becomes the overriding sense that is used to evolve us.
Let’s talk about the “soul”. In many traditions, it is thought that he “soul animates the body”. The word soul shares an origin with the word Sol, which means the sun. In ancient archetypes, the Sun was a symbolism of the soul and self, but also for the reasons listed. Soul is the light inside us. This is not just a religious or spiritual notion, but also tangible and measurable. When the soul is embodied, it generates heat through various bodily functions. We are a steady 98.7 degrees farenheit. Notice when the soul no longer occupies the body, it then get’s cold. Another thing to think about, we breath in oxygen and exhale’s CO2. Fire breaths the same way. And if you were to put alcohol on the fire, it would increase it’s temperature, and the same thing for us, our temperature increases with alcohol. Therefore when there is life and soul in the body, it takes on the same qualities as fire. Fire is sensed by us from its heat and light which is perceivable by the eye and our skin. Essentially our nature is light.
In Jungian concepts of archetypes, he sees the 4 elements as “motive forces” which means the force or forces that cause something to move or, in a sense, the force that induces motor action. So the water is not just water, it’s the archetypical force that is expressed in consciousness and how consciousness operates. Fire is not just fire, it is expressed as our soul and the movement of our soul. And wind is not just wind, it is expressed as spirit that moves our emotions. In Buddhist philosophy, all the mysteries of life are hidden within our body.
Have you ever thought why we worship God as if God is separate from us, it is because it is to put our ego in place so that we then don’t realize God is separate from us anymore and when we worship God we are also worshipping and praising ourselves. !!WOW
When we talk about light, many times it is spoken in terms of awareness, hence the light of awareness. The first sense life has is photosynthesis, where plants response to the sun and uses its energy to make chlorphyl. So life would respond to light. This then showed up in jelly fish who have light receptors. Over time, that sensitivity to light started to get formed in animated life as the pitted eye.
“True eyes probably started with the development of photosensitive pits, such as those found in planaria (flatworms). There is evidence that snails in the Cambrian period, some 570 million years ago, possessed such pit eyes, but there is more than one biological ancestor for the subsequent rapid evolution.”
It is thought of that the “Cambrian explosion” happened the way it did because of the development of the eye. The Cambrian explosion is a time where life seemed to evolve and diversify extremely quickly and is dubbed evolution’s “big bang”. So once the eye came on the scene, so did diversity. As life was evolving on this planet, it kept on seeking to “see” more. We see something very curious in the flat worm. It developed the first sensitivity of light with “eyespots”, shows the first presence of a brain and first time life was split into male and female. Let’s take that correlation. Eyespots are the first instance of pitted eyes, which in turn created a brain to process the information. The presence of the brain split life into male and female. It turns out that male and female principles of life are such that it could not be contained in one organism, but still operated as one. The eye allows us to see separations which creaed a brian that then further separated us into male and female. As the eye would evolve, it would take in more information and in turn would evolve the brain.
Ears evolved a couple of million years after the eyes according to the current consensus of a time space reality. Ears seems to be a necessary sense to support sight. It helps to create a “whole” picture. When we see and hear things, it helps to develop the eye towards depth in objects.
The eye needed language to fully develop into the perfect observer. Language also support sight. Research has found that when you add new words for colors, that you can actually see more colors. So there is evidence that language helps us to “see” things both physically and metaphysically.
As this evolution took place, the amount of data that had to be processed was now expanding the regions of the brain to incorporate 3d hearing and language.
Now there are two types of vision in the animal world. One is binocular or linear field of vision of the predator. Binocular vision allows there to be an overlapping field of vision where it offers the senses a three dimensional experience. In nature this primarily shows up in the predator. The drawback is that has a limited scope of vision and can only handle a “line of sight”, (a straight line along which an observer has unobstructed vision.) So essentially the animal cannot see if anything is coming behind it. However, for predators, the advantage is precision, as predators usually hunt in areas of their food source as well as the reduction of any animals that they can fall prey to. The other vision is widest field of vision, where eyes were placed separately and most preys have that so they can see a threat coming from behind it. We also have night vision, where the cornea is so large that it can see six times better than we can in the dark. Now here is the interesting part, almost all animals do not have their sclera (white part) showing, except for us. The theory is, that we can now tell when we are gazing at each other or another object. The other object is another way to alert each other that something is going on. However, it also creates intimacy and bonding. Based on the sclera reflecting light, we can see ourselves in someone else’s eyes.
As information is being filtered into the brain, the brain has to process this information, the brain is also forming into cognitive awareness of self, hence “I”. The more our nervous system, and more specifically our eyes are enhanced, the more we feel separated, the more we develop the “I” consciousness where we know ourselves to be separate entities from the rest of the world. So as these two things evolved, so did our spectrum of feelings. More and more we interpret emotion into feelings. Just like naming colors, naming feelings has the same affect on us. The more we can name diverse feelings, the more we can feel them. Ultimately though there purpose is to guide us back to unity.
Separation = Adverse feelings
Unity = Pleasurable feelings
The Eye has been used in many places to denote a higher evolution. For instance, the “all seeing eye” that is used on the dollar bill. Noticed the eye caps off the pyramid to denote the place of unity. They state it is the unity of all religions, but if you look at the eye cap, it is glowing with light which is symbolic of the 7th Chakra which is unity, which is also called “Enlightenment”. We see the eye is Egypt as a place of spiritual evolution. In the movie Avatar, they would say “I see you” which is akin to the Indian word Namaste which loosely means “My divinity sees your divinity.” Even the word “enlightenment” is alluding to the only sense we have that can interpret light which is our eyes.
In this evolution of the eye, we find that the brain was wired to trust and believe in what it is seeing. The brain is what we call the central nervous system and the eye is the peripheral nervous system. Our eye is actually our lens, it is not, however, how we see. We see because the brain interprets the information coming through the lens. We evolve the brain, we evolve what we can see. We now now that conscious evolution is much faster than natural evolution. Although science now tells us that we consist of 99.9% empthy space and that our electrons seems to being bouncing in and out of perceivable reality, our eyes have been keenly crafted and formed to detect only the matter and lock the matter from waveform into particle reality. If you look at the word particle, it shares its root with “Participate”. We are all participating in the belief that we live in a solid universe. The holographic model feels that we belong and was created from an Implicate Order. This order has layers and is creating layers. However, we are oscillating between third dimensional reality and the deeper levels of the implicate order. The theory is, if we can go deeper in our mind to connect with hidden layers, we will find that reality bends and can be influenced and directed towards what we would call miracles. The most effect method is deep states of meditation with your eyes closed. It is thought that when people are in deep prayer, they are influencing and affecting the implicate order, therefore it appears on the explicate order.
This all means that our more perfect observer has to turn inward. Now that we pushed all the boundaries of our nervous system with creating a solid reality, we must now take what we now to see within, which includes our own issues, our own potentials and how we impact the world. In this space, we are not operating from the external, but the external becomes the operating system of what we have connected to internally. Meaning that we can now manifest and activate realities that exist in the implicate order to produce new realities that are by our design by tapping into the “Great designer” or “Great Architect”.
If you notice everything in the universe is manifested like an eye. There is something called the centrifugal force. The centrifugal force is enacted in anything that moves according to the waveform and frequencies of the universe. It creates the spiral (spiral shares the same orgins as the word “spirit”). When a spiral is created, there is always an “eye” in the middle. The Eye of the storm, the Eye of the galaxy. The eye is the calm, where everything is singular. Hence “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” Matthew 6:22.