Does the World Evolve or Elove?

By Mitchell Jay Rabin

Host of A Better World

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It is awfully striking that what our highest aspiration is, to consciously evolve as a species into the fullest expression of our human nature, involves a word so intricately intermixed with it: to Evolve and to Love...but a couple of letters off from each other. Is there a significance? Can we infer one, impute one? Can we simply gently forge a relationship between loving and evolving in our brains, through the dendritic relations, re-shaping our neuro-circuitry along lines most desirable? Can you imagine if our evolution was really predicated on our ability to love, love well, deeply, fully, always and everywhere, with everyone and all sentient living things?! Would that not just be one of the most fun ways to grow into our human fullness which we could then describe as nothing short of Divine?

What if we just made a whole host of different assumptions about life, that it's not "hard, difficult, dangerous, risky, cliff-hanging", but rather, "smooth, easy, flowing, light, full of joy, love, compassion and pleasure?" What kind of world would we have?

Knowing what we know about energy, morphogenetic fields, quantum reality and critical mass/tipping points, what if we were to 'tip' in another direction through massive acts of love, like the sun sending beams warming up the planet? What if we were to at least temporarily to let go of our personal darker, shadowy attachments, anger, shame, guilt, embarassment, negative belief systems about the nature of 'reality'? Whoa, a breath of fresh air!

This Christmas was so beautiful. Honestly, I wasn't with my family of origin, love them as I do. I was with another family, a group of homeless people, so-called, at a local church, where another unsung hero, Dafne, of the Carribean restaurant at 14th and 2nd Ave., served a Jamaican-style Christmas dinner to nearly 75 folks who really needed some nourishment and a warm meal. A group of us were there to sing carols and to serve up a hot meal, forming a feeling of bond and family among people who, for whatever reason, or down on their luck, and need a helping, loving hand. When I'm not with my own direct family, I have been with these folks, and it's truly the most beautiful way to spend Christmas that I've yet discovered. It lets one know that there really is, down deep, one heart, and we're all a beat within it.