心智和意識的成長即是脫離原始的「演化」，它是萬物都在經歷的過程。而「演化」和「走向真理——更大真相」是同一件事。當一個人心智更成熟、意識更擴展，能辨識和覺察出人生中哪些是「原則」、哪些只是「過程中的現象之一」就更不會混淆。而不論是就社會、種族或就個人而言，那都會是一份非常巨大的禮物。
當你也能明白「演化」是個過程，是個人們「可以控制的過程」時，你就不會常把「過程」或過程中的「現象」和「原則」混淆了。
例如這幾個觀念：「孩子絕不能輸在起跑點、獲利才能生存、適者生存、占星術、神祕學、因果律、物競天擇、有土斯有財…」，你認為哪個是過程和現象、哪個是原則 ？哪個可以帶你走向更大的真相？
大部分人都認為演化只是一個「一直都在進行」的過程，而不是一個「他們正依照某些自己認為的〝原則〞在導向」的過程。思考此問題時，他們聲稱「我們依照……原則在演化，而演化的原則嘛……」，卻說不出原則到底是什麼。因為，從來沒有人教導或提醒他們去覺察什麼是「原則」什麼是「過程中的現象」。不想停留在這演化階段的朋友，請檢視+反芻這篇對話：
覺察【演化之「過程現象」與「原則」的差別】
所有的物種都在演化。而演化——效用是觀察出什麼對你們有用(what serves you)的，並做行為上的調整—— 似乎不斷以一個方向在進行，而離開另一個方向：它不斷邁向萬物合一(unity)，脫離各自分離(separation)。
這並沒有什麼異乎尋常，因為，合一是終極的真相，而「演化」和「走向真相」是同一件事，只是不同名稱(unity is the Ultimate Truth, and “evolution” is just another word for “movement toward truth”)。
尼爾：我也注意到「觀察什麼對你們有用，並做出行為上的調整」聽起來有點像「適者生存」(“survival of the fittest”)——我們的指導原則之一！
聽起來很像，不是嗎？
所以，現在已是時候，讓我們來「檢視觀察」一下這個事實：「適者生存」（也就是，人類的演化）並沒有達成，反而是整個人類物種已面臨災難——實際上是被自己所毀滅——因為人類一直把這「過程」視為「原則」。
尼爾：噢 ，你把我搞糊塗了。
這過程叫做「演化」。而引導這過程的「原則」，是那「指引你們演化路線」的東西。
你說的沒錯。演化是「適者生存」。但那是過程。不要把「過程」和「原則」混為一談 (do not confuse “process” and “principle”)。
如果說「演化」和「適者生存」是同義詞，而如果你們又宣稱「適者生存」是一種指導原則，那麼你們不就等於是在說「演化的指導原則是演化」嗎？
然而，這就是一個「不知道自己能控制自己之演化過程」的物種所說的話。這是將自己降格為一種「認為自己只是自己演化的觀察者」的物種所說的話。因為大部分人都認為演化只是一個「一直都在進行」的過程，而那不是一個「他們正依照某些(自己認為的)〝原則〞在導向」的過程。
因此，該物種就聲稱「我們依照……原則在演化，而演化的原則嘛……」。卻沒有說出那原則是什麼。因為他們始終都把「過程」和「原則」混淆了。
反過來說，這物種在清楚了演化是個過程——是一個他們可以控制的過程——時，他們就不會把「過程」和「原則」混淆了，而會有意識的選擇一個原則(consciously choose a principle)來指導它的演化過程。
這叫做「有意識的演化」(conscious evolution)。而你們物種才剛剛到達那裡。
摘自《與神對話 III》第19章
The point is that all races and species are evolving, and evolution—the purpose of observing what serves you, and making behavioral adaptions—seems to keep moving in one direction, and away from another. It keeps moving towards unity, and away from separation.
This is not surprising, since unity is the Ultimate Truth, and “evolution” is just another word for “movement toward truth.”
Neale: I also notice that “observing what serves you, and making behavioral adaptations” sounds suspiciously like “survival of the fittest”—one of our Guiding Principles!
It does, doesn’t it?
So now it’s time to “observe” that “survival of the fittest” (that is, evolution of the species) is not achieved, but, indeed, entire species have been doomed—have actually self-destructed—by calling a “process” a “principle.”
Neale: Oops. You lost me.
The process is called “evolution.” The “principle” which guides the process is what directs the course of your evolution.
You are right. Evolution is “survival of the fittest.” That is the process. Yet do not confuse “process” and “principle.”
If “evolution” and “survival of the fittest” are synonymous, and if you are claiming “survival of the fittest” as a Guiding Principle, then you are saying, “A Guiding Principle of Evolution is evolution.”
Yet that is the statement of a race which does not know that it can control the course of its own evolution. That is the statement of a species which thinks itself to be relegated to the status of observer of its own evolution. Because most people think that “evolution” is a process which is simply “going on”—not a process which they are directing, according to certain principles.
And so the species is announcing, “We evolve by the principle of … well, evolution.” But they never say what that principle IS, because they have confused the process and the principle.
The species, on the other hand, which has become clear that evolution is a process — but a process over which the species has control—has not confused “process” with “principle,” but consciously chooses a principle which it uses to guide and direct its process.
This is called conscious evolution, and your species has just arrived there.
