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“Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.”

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Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven, but life more abundant in real time in history. We are speaking of the next stage of our social evolution.”

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Book:Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

“Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.”

Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

“Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.”

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Author:Matt Ridley

“When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.”

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Author:Fred Polak

“Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.”

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Book:Awakened India

Source: Awakened India

“To this culture warrior, gay marriage is not a vital issue. I don't believe the republic will collapse if Larry marries Brendan. However, it is clear that most Americans want heterosexual marriage to maintain its special place in American society. And as long as gays are not penalized in the civil arena, I think the folks should make the call at the ballot box. Traditional marriage is widely seen as a social stabilizer, and I believe that is true.”

“I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.”

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Book:A Sand County Almanac

Source: A Sand County Almanac

“Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.”

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Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human