At Last!
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than the establishing of a new truth or fact
Charles Darwin
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while
Albert Einstein
It has been a long journey, but as the ideas I’ve been trying to explain are so alien to the current social paradigm I thought they needed spelling out carefully.
The implications of Darwin’s Origins released Man from the dead hand of Church orthodoxy, freeing us to think for ourselves about the nature of Life. ‘Evolution’ even forced us into being responsible for our own thoughts, knowledge and behaviour. You might say it was thus a logical conclusion to the Reformation. All this was good, and Man has benefited hugely from the discoveries of science and their practical implementation via engineering.
But it’s cut both ways. Through no fault of the great man himself, Darwin’s ideas have been grossly misinterpreted by lesser minds and vested interests, resulting in eugenics… genocide… and the despairing fog of panomie that much of the world now finds itself in. The nihilism that Materialism promotes has sunk down roots that grip the body of the world like a black cancer. There is no hope. Science has said so.
The largely ancient ideas re-presented in this book are equally as world-shaking as those in Origins. But they go further, and release Man not just from Church dogma, but also from the mad dogma that science (‘Science’) has adopted. D+ is the call to shake off our mental chains; to think for ourselves, as Saint Paul (‘Test everything’) and the Royal Society (‘Nullius in Verba’) recommend, and to rejoice in the fact that the universe is not pointless, but an enormous school in which we control our own destinies.
There would seem to be no limit to our potential.
Man’s only enemy is his ignorance, and his bigoted defence of it.
§ Socrates: ‘A life unexamined is a life not worth living’.
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DarwinPlus! is not just a bunch of theoretical stuff: it’s a programme for living: ‘vital’ in every sense of the word.
It’s so simple: just be nice. Give, don’t grab. Smile, don’t frown. Share a little more. Bring balance back into your life: don’t work too hard or play too hard … find a sense of proportion. Do you need more money? Or ‘status’? Wouldn’t you rather be happy? After all, if all the stuff in this book is moderately accurate in its conclusions, then you are immortal, and what matters for your own personal evolution is what sort of person you are and not what big daft car you own.
Don’t go dishing out flowers to everyone on the bus. They’ll just think you’re nuts. But do give up your seat to someone if they need it more than you; and graciously allow people ‘After you…’. Yes, some will take advantage of you. Don’t worry about it. That is, quite literally, their problem. But mainly, you will find people respond with grace, and you will thus have literally spread a little more happiness in the world. After a while, you will begin to develop a quiet inner glow, and, unseen by you, so will the people whose lives you have touched, and who have gone on to spread a little more happiness elsewhere, passing on your own example. If you engage with the ideas in this book, they will change your life as they have changed mine. You will enjoy a single glass of wine more than the previous desperate half bottle (or case?) a night. You will find vampire films, the latest ‘art’ sensation, commercial fashions, and much of ‘modern culture’ bereft and corrupt and not worth your attention.
Love for your fellow beings, even the weasels, will slowly blossom as you accept that you are not superior to them, and that they are engaging with their own karmic struggles in their own way and at their own pace, just as you are engaging with yours. Even Hitler thought he was doing what was right, remember. Always forgive… (which does not mean ‘always abjectly surrender’) and you will become at peace with the world. Life will become welcoming instead of frightening. As Plato urged: ‘Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle’. As a powerful rule of thumb:
Never resist a generous impulse
And remember, your life is your choice.
If you live for the greater good as you perceive it you will find purpose in your life, and happiness as an inevitable by-product.
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As a source of constant inspiration, you might make up a card and place by your bed. Write on it:
LIFE IS WHAT I
We should remember that Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Darwin, Wallace, Mendel, Planck, Einstein, Heisenberg, and many other truly great names in science were Idealists, so there’s nothing to be frightened of in the idea of ‘Idealist science’.
§ ‘I maintain that cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest incitement to scientific research.’ Einstein.
The principles associated with D+ will only have value if they are acted upon. Positive actions will build up happiness in the world as more of us see the rational point of morality and kindness and sharing, and at last feel free to abandon the frightened creed of Greed is Good. We will enjoy our new-found sense of purpose, and our own responsibility for our own future. There is an old and rather glib-sounding maxim that is full of truth: ‘We are ‘human beings’, not ‘human doings’.’
What matters is the way we are, in the small stuff of everyday life, kind words and positive thoughts, not whether we ‘rise to the top’ or have sixty tarty handbags. Socrates again: ‘Beware the barrenness of a busy life’.
So… if you know a millionaire who is looking for something worthwhile to spend his money on… have a word with him, or send him a link to this book. We catch more flies with honey than vinegar. So just be nice…
I wish you joy. Drop all your dogmas, and you will find it.
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If you have enjoyed DarwinPlus! and think the ideas behind it should be more widely known, please tell as many suitable people as you can think of. Word of mouth is the only way for these ideas to become widespread at the moment…
And please encourage the people you pass it on to to do their bit too? And so on?
Can you write reviews for blogs or magazines?
Or raise the ‘D+’ ideas in forums on science or religion or whatever?
Or engage with your fellow students or lecturers?
Or come up with any other ways of getting the ideas ‘out there’?
Please contact me here if you think we can work together on something. Please note that I can’t engage in general discussion but will welcome creative suggestions and comments. Please also note that all abuse will be deleted with a sad shake of the head… and a smile.
Thanks.
Chas Griffin
Bibliography
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have laboured hard for
Socrates
A few books you might enjoy, as mentioned by Chapter…
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Mysteries and Poltergeist by Colin Wilson
Supernature I and II , Lifetide, and The Romeo Error by Lyall Watson
The Book of the Damned and Lo! by Charles Fort
The Reach of the Mind by Professor JB Rhine
The Infinite Hive by Rosalind Heywood
The Origin of Species (1st/6th editions) by Charles Darwin
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The Blind Watchmaker and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Language of Genes by Steve Jones
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The Hidden Gospel by Neil Douglas-Klotz
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Teach Yourself Logic by AA Luce
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A Short History of Biology and Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov
An Encyclopaedia of Evolution by Richard Milner
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Why Us? by Dr James Le Fanu
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Life After Life by Dr Raymond Moody
Consciousness Beyond Life by Dr P van Lommel
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A Pattern of Islands by Arthur Grimble
The World of Ted Serios by Dr Jule Eisenbud
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The Bible (King James Version)
In particular
The Torah/Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament), especially Genesis or Exodus
The Four Gospels
Ezekiel
Revelation
The Koran
The New Testament Apocrypha
The Bhagavad Gita
The Dhammapada
The Jesus Mysteries by T Freke and P Gandy
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Richard Hittleman’s 30 Day Yoga Meditation Plan
Fourteen Lessons in Yogic Philosophy, An Advanced Course in Yogi
Philosophy, Gnani Yoga, and Raja Yoga by Yogi Ramacharaka
The Book of Enoch
Past Lives by Sue Carpenter (an excellent overview of reincarnation theories)
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Discourses by Meher Baba
Voices of the first Day by Robert Lawlor
The Kybalion http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/kyb/index.htm
Reincarnation: the Phoenix Fire Mystery by Joseph Head and SL Cranston.
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Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by S LaBerge and H Rheingold
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Seven Experiments that Could Change the World by Rupert Sheldrake
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Life before Life by Helen Wambach
Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr Brian Weiss
The Link by Matthew Manning
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Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife and The Airmen Who Would Not Die by
John G Fuller
Glimpses of the Devil by M Scott Peck
Thirty Years Among the Dead by Carl Wickland
The Elements of Ritual Magic by Marian Green
True as the Stars Above by Neil Spencer
A New Science of Life by Rupert Sheldrake
The Secret Life of Plants and Secrets of the Soil by Peter Tompkins and
Christopher Bird
Biodynamic Gardening by John Soper
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The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
Hands of Light by Barbara Brennan
Phantoms in the Brain VS Ramachandran
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The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
An Outline of Theosophy by C W Leadbeater
Raymond, or Life and Death by Oliver Lodge
Parapsychology and the Nature of Life by John L Randall
Secret Wisdom by Ruth Clydesdale
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The Findhorn Garden by the Findhorn Community
The Magic of Findhorn by Paul Hawken
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In Search of the Double Helix by John Gribbin
Thirteen Things That Don’t Make Sense by Michael Brooks
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About the Fourth Dimension by Charles Hinton
Flatland by Edwin A Abbot
Einstein’s War by Matthew Stanley
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
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The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Teachings of Don Juan and A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
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And a few more, not by chapter…
The Natural Depth in Man by Wilson Van Dusen
Is There an Afterlife? by David Fontana
The Trouble With Islam Today by Irshad Manji
The Memory of Water by Michel Schiff
The Thoughtful Guide to God and Evolution of Consciousness by Howard Jones
The Occult and Beyond the Occult by Colin Wilson
On Death and Dying and On Life After Death by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
You Have Been Here Before by Dr Edith Fiore
The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
The Silent Path by Michael J Eastcott
The Pilgrim’s Companion by F Aster Barnwell
Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
The Secret Path, A Search in Secret Egypt, The Quest of the Overself, and
Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga by Dr Paul Brunton
From Intellect to Intuition by Alice Bailey
Parting Visions and Transformed by the Light by Dr Melvin Morse
World Scripture, Paragon House, 1991: excellent for showing the commonality of all religions.
The Challenge of the Mind by Ryuho Okawa. If you haven’t been persuaded by my own blundering efforts, Mr Okawa is your man.
Embracing Mind by Wallace and Hodel is a slightly more academic approach, but extremely readable.
Origins by Phillip Day. An enthusiastic analysis of why Darwinian evolutionary theory seems to be ‘wrong’. (He and D+ might disagree on a few things here). Very good on missing links.
The Facts of Life and Alternative Science by Richard Milton
The End of Science by John Horgan
The Sense of Being Stared At by Rupert Sheldrake
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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science measured against reality is primitive and childlike.
Albert Einstein