The Evolution of Human Consciousness

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The Evolution of Human Consciousness
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Contacting John Provost

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The Evolution of Consciousness
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The Big Bang
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The History of the Cosmos
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The Archaic Stage

• This is the stage of our earliest ancestors.
  Probably existed from about 5 million years ago
  until about 200,000 thousand years ago.

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The Age of Stone Tools

• This dawn age represents the great transition
  from mammals in general to men and women in
  particular.

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The Magic Stage

• Everything is interconnected and this leads to a
  magical view of the world. 200,000 thousand years
  ago until about 12,000 years ago.

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The Mythic Stage

• Stories were how people made sense of their world
  and found answers to questions about where they
  came from and where they were going.

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The Mental Age

• If the mythic stage started about 12,000 years
  ago the mental stage started about 3,000 years
  ago and gave birth to the great axial sages.

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Why is there anything rather than nothing?