Cremo and devolution

[sackett]

http://www.humandevolution.com/

"Forbidden Archeology documented a massive amount of evidence showing that humans have existed on
earth for hundreds of millions of years. Such anomalous evidence, contradicting Darwinian evolution,
catalyzed a global inquiry, "If we did not evolve from apes, then where did we come from?" Human
Devolution is author Michael A. Cremo's definitive answer to this question.

"We did not evolve up from matter; instead we devolved, or came down, from the realm of pure
consciousness, spirit," says Cremo. He bases his response on modern science and the world's
great wisdom traditions, including the Vedic philosophy of ancient India. Cremo proposes that
before we ask the question, "Where did human beings come from? we should first contemplate,
"What is a human being?" Cremo asserts that humans are a combination of matter, mind, and
consciousness (or spirit)."

I hope Cremo is old stuff here. What depresses me is that a campus group here at Wayne State has shelled out good money to bring him here to speak. And flog his books. And discs. And mystical crystical healing oil. And and and . . . .

[El Greco]

Originally posted by sackett

"We did not evolve up from matter; instead we devolved, or came down, from the realm of pure consciousness, spirit," says Cremo.

Obviously Cremo has progressed far more than the rest of us in the devolution scale...

[Dragonrock]

Originally posted by El Greco


Obviously Cremo has progressed far more than the rest of us in the devolution scale...

Thank you Greco, I needed that. :)

[pupdog]

But it's VEDIC so it must be right. And his book got an excellent review on his Web site.

[Brian]

http://www.concertlivewire.com/jpegs/devo.jpg

[Undodog]

:)

"God made man,
But he used the monkey to do it."
Jocko Homo - Devo

[Darat]

Originally posted by sackett
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"If we did not evolve from apes, ....snip...

Wow, almost 150 years later and some people are still saying this?

[Bikewer]

Could it be the fellow wandered through a Scientology temple on his way out of the Vedic tradition?

[neutrino_cannon]

Originally posted by Bikewer
Could it be the fellow wandered through a Scientology temple on his way out of the Vedic tradition?

That's what I thought too, though scientology's doctrine on this is somewhat different. We're evolved from bivalves or somesuch li'dat.

Gotta love that forbidden archeology.



Whatever that is.

[Agammamon]

Someone needs to remind this guy that we didn't evovle from apes. We and apes evolved from a common ancestor. If he's going to be spouting harebrained theories without a shred of evidence to back them up and expects me to believe it then he needs to get the details right.

[Hexxenhammer]

Originally posted by Agammamon
Someone needs to remind this guy that we didn't evovle from apes. We and apes evolved from a common ancestor. If he's going to be spouting harebrained theories without a shred of evidence to back them up and expects me to believe it then he needs to get the details right. Well, we evolved from apes, just not modern apes. The human and chimp common ancestor was an ape.

end anthro geek mode

[NullPointerException]

The idea of dualism is absurd and baseless, its just so old that people automatically give it credit. Just ask to see his soul, when he fails to produce it declare him a witch and loudly ask for a lighter to burn the offendor.