Michael Cremo - Human Devolution - A Vedic Alternative To Darwin's Theory

1999, p. 177). The beings told Sequoyah, “This is one of the big problems on Mother Earth. You’re only here temporarily. These bodies of yours are just tools that you’ve been given to learn with” (Mack 1999, p. 177). Attachment to these material bodies is the source of suffering for the conscious self within the body. Sequoyah said he wanted to return. During the return voyage, he again saw the stars passing. Then came the sun and the moon. He found himself in the garden where he had first seen the craft, and then he went through the vortex of swirling colored light and found himself once more on the bed in the house of his friend in Norman, Oklahoma.

For Mack, the paranormal aspect of the UFO phenomenon assumes great importance. Mack (1999, pp. 268–269) said, “Efforts to pin down physical evidence for the existence of UFOs and the material aspects of abductions will and probably should continue, if for no other reason than the fact that they corroborate the actuality of the phenomena. But I am increasingly convinced that the subtle and elusive nature of the abduction phenomenon is such that its secrets will be denied to those using a purely empirical approach, who try to keep observer and observed, subject and object, totally separate.” Mack (1999, p. 269) added, “It appears ever more likely that we exist in a multidimensional cosmos or multiverse. . . . The cosmos . . . far from being an empty place of dead matter and energy, appears to be filled with beings, creatures, spirits, intelligences, gods . . . that have through the millennia been intimately involved with human existence.”

Conclusion

In 1999, I gave a lecture on forbidden archeology to the faculty and students of the University of Olsztyn in Poland. As usual, I presented evidence for extreme human antiquity that problematizes the current Darwinian theories of human origins. During the question session, I was asked if I had an alternative to the Darwinian theory. I presented a brief summary of the human devolution concept. I mentioned also that Poland was the homeland of Copernicus, who made a revolution in astronomy, ending its geocentric focus. I suggested to the audience that it was now time for a Copernican revolution in biology, ending its geocentric focus. I was surprised when the audience burst into loud applause. Yes, it is time for not only an extraterrestrial biology, but an extradimensional biology, with a cosmic hierarchy of beings ranging from a supreme intelligent being, to demigods, to human beings of our type. Within this system, the origin of human beings would have to be explained in relation to the other beings present in the hierarchy.

Paranormal modification and Production of biological form

For thousands of years, humans have been involved in the intelligent modification of biological form and development, through selective breeding. In this way, one can produce plants and animals with desirable features, including desirable size, color, and rate of growth. Darwin himself used the results of such intentional modification of biological form as one of the pillars of his theory of evolution by natural selection. He reasoned that if in a short period of time we humans can induce such changes on a small scale, then just imagine what mutation and natural selection can accomplish over millions of years. In other words, Darwin appealed to something visible to us (selective breeding within an existing species) to demonstrate something invisible to us (the origin of new species). But there is another visible kind of intelligent modification of biological form and development. It goes beyond the conventional processes of selective breeding that Darwin used as evidence for the possibility of evolution of complex new forms. I am talking about paranormal modification of biological form and development. This paranormal modification can take place in many ways, including the mentally transferred intentions of human agents, the transference of impressions from mothers to embryos within their wombs, the transference of physical modifications from one life to another by agency of a surviving soul, and the influence of superhuman beings from the lower levels of the cosmic hierarchy on the human organism. If we can detect within our experience such visible modification of biological form and development by paranormal means, we are justified in assuming that more powerful agents might be able to accomplish more. Instead of simply making changes within an existing species, they might be able to manifest new biological forms by their greater paranormal powers. The reasoning is essentially the same as Darwin’s. In this chapter, we shall review cases involving both human and apparently superhuman modification and production of biological form.

Modern Scientific Reports on Cellular modification in laboratories

We begin our review with cases of human agents acting on singlecelled organisms under laboratory conditions. Some of these cases are summarized by Dossey (1993, p. 190). In one set of experiments Barry (1968) had ten persons try to slow the growth of fungus cultures. From a distance of 1.5 yards, the experimenters concentrated on 194 culture dishes for fifteen minutes, willing them not to grow. The cultures were then placed in incubation for several hours. Out of the 194 culture dishes,

151 showed slower than normal growth. Tedder and Monty (1981) replicated Barry’s experiment, this time using a group of subjects who were stationed at distances from one to fifteen miles from the fungus cultures. This group was able to retard the growth of the fungus in sixteen out of sixteen attempts. Nash (1982) had sixty subjects attempt to influence the growth of bacteria cultures. He reported that the subjects were able to retard and increase the growth rate to a significant degree.

Describing another set of experiments by Nash (1984), Dossey (1993, p. 190) stated, “Sixty university volunteers . . . were asked to alter the genetic ability of a strain of the bacteria escherichia coli, which normally mutates from the inability to metabolize the sugar lactose (“lactose negative”) to the ability to use it (“lactose positive”) at a known rate. The subjects tried to influence nine test tubes of bacterial cultures—three for increased mutation from lactose negative to lactose positive, three for decreased mutation of lactose negative to lactose positive, and three tubes uninfluenced as controls. Results indicated that the bacteria indeed mutated in the directions desired by the subjects.” This is significant, because the subjects were able to affect not only growth but the genetic structure of the organism.

Dossey (1993, pp. 191–192) noted: “Although skeptics often criticize spiritual healing as being simply the result of suggestion or a placebo response, the above experiments show that this cannot be true, unless skeptics wish to attribute a high degree of consciousness to bacteria and yeast. These results suggest that the effects of spiritual healing can be completely independent of the ‘psychology’ of the subject.”

Beverly Rubik conducted laboratory research on “volitional effects of healers on a bacterial system” while director of the Institute for Frontier Sciences at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The experiments were performed using the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium, a very well studied organism. The chief subject in the study was faith healer Olga Worrall, who had demonstrated positive abilities in other experiments.

One set of experiments involved volitional effects on bacterial cultures infused with low and high concentrations of the antibiotics tetracycline and chloramphenicol, which inhibit growth to various degrees. To influence the cultures, Worrall would hold her hands close to, but not touching, the culture dishes. After about 20 generations of bacterial reproduction (bacteria reproduce by dividing in two), the cultures that Worrall acted upon were compared with the control cultures. In all cases there was a significant increase in growth of the bacteria in the cultures treated by Worrall.