1. Evolution & life: There’s an impression that our possible explanations for life’s development are limited to an intelligent designer standing outside time & space (God) or mutations selected for by Malthusian pressures (Darwin), but there’s another aspect: the cosmic nous.
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2. We’re all familiar with dog owners who become like their dogs, and I’ve certainly met “snake-like” people who kept snakes and actually articulated their jaws like snakes. This, it seems to me, is a non-genetic and non-divine form of intelligence at work—the cosmic mind or nous
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3. This nous either wants certain types to develop, or can be harnessed to direct a person’s development in a certain way. Oswald Spengler and CG Jung suggested that land can shape people, e.g. Jung said that European Americans were becoming like Native Americans in appearance.
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4. This is the nous at work. It could also explain demonic possession. The photo below is of a NY psychologist with strong progressive politics who killed herself recently. I take this photo as an example of demonic possession. That which you worship shapes you—possesses you.pic.twitter.com/n7Y518hTHY
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Further proofpic.twitter.com/aH3gNQG85R
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