Isaak Bentov On The Evolution Of The Mind
“What happens a million years from now? The majority of humans are more highly evolved, and the cutting edge of evolution are very very highly evolved, they may not have a physical body […] I suggest you would find them in the mental hospitals. They live in a different reality, naturally they can’t function very well, so the “safe place” would be the mental hospital, unless they could integrate their view of reality into another. It is the nervous system which is evolving, supported by bones and muscles and tissues, and so on, it gives us the picture of reality, we don’t see beyond UV and infrared, we only hear maybe 20Hz to 20kHz maximum. As we are evolving, this window widens and opens up more and more, we see more and more of the same reality, but we assume we see a different view of reality, but it is a different view of the same reality.”
Interviewer: “Before you were talking about the people in mental hospitals and they are geniuses, they have an expanded perception of reality, what is the nature of the reality they see?”
“Well, take for example, the boy who says “look mom, there’s our dead grandmother,” and is taken to a psychiatrist and is given medicine or electroshock therapy, and he no longer sees them.”
“In the olden days, these things used to be called a miracle. Now take this fellow, St. Paul, a ball of light lowers and Jesus says “leave our people alone,” and he changes his actions and the church is constructed and public relations is hightened. Now, take someone driving down the highway has the same happen, a police would pull him over and arrest him for having a psychotic break, but this is what we’re doing to the miracles, flattening them out.”
“It’s not that the body has a soul, but the soul has the body. It is the soul that is evolving, ultimately, carrying the body with it.”