Evolution: One of the Three Most Important Considerations in Modern Spirituality

What kind of importance should we place on evolutionary consciousness and awareness regarding our spiritual practice?  Ken’s answer goes straight to the point: "It’s one of the three or so most important considerations for spirituality today."  To explain why this is so, Ken first delves into the two kinds of enlightenment found most often in the world’s spiritual traditions: an "emptiness-only" formless realization, and a "union-with-all-that-is-arising" nondual realization.  A nondual realization is literally one with the entire world of form—and we now know that the world of form is evolving!

Here’s why evolution matters:  If you are not hip to the fact that we live in a world that develops, you are going to have a partial enlightenment; and if you have a partial enlightenment, you are going to be a crappy bodhisattva.  Knowledge of evolution was not part of the world of form when Buddha lived, so he’s off the hook—but you’re not.  If you don’t take responsibility for this new realization, who will?  There’s no better place to start the exploration than with this jam-packed interaction....