Cosmic Evolution and the Human Mind

In the beginning there is no eye to see.

From there to now the mind awakens in order to be 

Able to observe and discover 

Cosmic meaning.

And so biology  

Sets about trying to watch Itself 

To learn to look at what it is doing. 

Not with large eyes yet

But close in vision for finding food 

While growing a brain

Swelling in reaction and reflection 

Opening new windows of new perception

Of what was seen in need. 

Meanwhile in sleep began to dream 

Random stories mixed up in parts 

Born in tales of fear and hope

Good and bad, life and death 

Seeking rest from the awakened state 

Of feeding’s violent senses 

Now even more confused about what is real

Inside and out

The eye awakened the brain with sight in both 

But which is which?

Yet to be discovered in Time’s pace

Acquired in the experience of its place

In struggle’s feeding 

As the self seeks nourishment 

In the cycles of light 

While the mind was dreaming in the night 

Sleep resting from trauma and fright 

Embraced the ego 

Looked at itself 

In victory’s rest or defeat’s failure

In a mirror of scattered reflections 

Here the mind was born 

To seek to understand what the eyes had seen 

With the brain’s doing 

In and out of the dreaming 

It grew to see also

Into the mirror of the self 

And there Cosmos found a brain 

To bond with life

And guide it’s new eye 

And discovered self 

In growing a mind 

In a new capacity 

In naked matter reaching 

In a new dimension of meaning 

And guiding its purpose 

Now it can reach beyond its organic home 

And view existing’s purpose   

And begin the next chapter in evolution’s story 

Able now to reach beyond sight 

Into knowing to fill the opened mind with light

With an Eye to hold open 

To see and guide itself 

In the universe of becoming 

Now able to reach ever deeper 

Into infinity’s dimension

Into meaning’s purpose of existing

And to continue creating evolution’s story 

Into another dimension of itself 

Yet unseen.

The creation of the mind 

Has become the potential 

In a biological outcome 

In the neural hierarchy of the animal kingdom 

Assigned to the human species 

To gather the means to create the mind 

As the way for Cosmos to See

And find the next step for the universe’s destiny  

In evolution’s continuing history 

Of life conscious of itself  

In its experience in becoming

It is biological life on the Earth 

That holds the key 

To the Cosmic capacity 

To reflect on itself and see 

What it needs to create its own destiny

Through the creation of the human mind 

With the purpose of serving the totality 

Of every kind.