MrRaphael Langerhorst Life, as a whole, constantly evolves. There is nothing separate in the universe - everything is included in it, thus, there is only one life. Forms are used to represent or express life. Only by forms life seems to be separated. Thus all expressions of life are ultimately connected and are included in the universal life. By separating this universal life into many expressions or representations, evolution is made possible. Life is still one grand whole, but expressed in many forms, which allows these separations to become conscious entities or beings. When these separated expressions of life return, now consciously, to their united state, one cycle of evolution is completed and life has grown, enriched by conscious entities that have grown out of unconsciousness. We will define the term "evolution" as the process that leads from unconsciousness to consciousness. 2004Raphael Langerhorst G System Philosophy Since there is only one whole life, how does it come that we see so many different forms of life? The question actually answers itself, as it says that we see only different "forms" of life. But then, people may say that they just don't feel "whole" with everything else they see. To answer this, we need to think about consciousness. Life is made up by beings, some of them conscious like humans, some of them unconscious, like plants and most animals. Seeing the wholeness is a matter of being conscious about it. We, as humans, are at least conscious about the fact that we exist. But this doesn't mean that we are conscious about everything. To demonstrate this simply try to figure out what makes up your consciousness... so it seems that we are not fully conscious, which ultimately leads to the conclusion that we have not yet reached our goal of evolution. Life itself must, in the end, be whole, otherwise we would not be able to interact with our environment. We can conclude this when we think about interaction with our environment. We wouldn't be able to ever sense our environment if we were not connected to it in some way. Nothing, that is not connected to each other at all, can in any way take note or be aware about each other, think about it. This means, that we are somehow connected to each other, thus being part of the same one thing - life. Now we should probably take a closer look at the process of evolution itself. Before an universe manifests, life is already there - in an unmanifested but united state. There are many conscious and many unconscious beings in this wholeness. But because nothing is manifested there is no "evolution" taking place. In order for this wholeness to evolve, the universe needs to manifest itself. In this manifested universe of conscious beings also unconscious entities are taken in which can only become conscious in a manifested universe (see above). But not only these yet unconscious entities become conscious but also the already conscious entities become "more" conscious. As we have seen separation is what allows for consciousness to evolve. Now let's take a look at densitiy of matter. Atoms, for some time thought as the most elementary building block, consist themselves of smaller building blocks - electrons, protons, neutrons. Lately we heard that even this is not the end, there exist plasma, tachyons and whatever scientists call these building blocks. In addition it is shown that matter actually consists solely of energy. Now, what about these building blocks? It shows that the physical matter (the so called "elements") is the densest part of the universe. In this level of density it is possible to definitely separate forms from each other. This separation is what makes the development of individual consciousness possible. Life (the unconscious entities) takes form in this separated matter. During a long time these beings are being influenced by external things (separated in form) and are thus able to develop self consciousness which leads to individuality. Now that the unconscious entities have developed consciousness the goal that still has to be reached is consciousness about life as a whole, which is the goal of evolution - as far as we humans are concerned with it anyway. In the next chapter we will look at this part of evolution.