HAVE WE EVOMORPHED YET?

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OUR BEHAVIOR SHOWS
WE ARE MORE LIKE APES
THAN HUMANS . . .
WHY?

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These chimps (apes) are our closest relatives with 98.6 percent of the exact same genes, and, who are very, very violent by natural temperament -- but so are we, as evidenced by the daily news.

Is our human concept of ourselves as having the highest intelligence of all species, ideal or real? A desire to evomorph into humans?  Or are we just another species of apes:  The Hairless Apes?

If you look like a Hairless Ape, act like a Hairless Ape, then you are a Hairless Ape.

Perhaps, we are still struggling to evomorph into the Human species with an intelligent Human Mind, but have not yet let go of our past Ape Mind.

Will we make it before we destroy ourselves and all other life, everything?

However, nature will not let us destroy everything.
Nature has no preference for species:
The highest species who survive
shall inherit
the whole
world.

Since Humans are a species of apes,

to survive means we need

we need to leave the past behind

and evomorph into Wisdomkind

the highest species of all

by becoming Virtuous,

and, thereby,

solve all problems with

The Clear Way of

The WisdomPeace Lightforce

of The Buddha (The Holy Spirit)

as taught to us by the nature of

Iesos Christos in
(Jesus Christ, Dalai Lama)

The Holy Bible.

Copyright © 2008, Cherie Phillips

Ape Sleeping . . .

July 27, 2008.  I wish I could get a clearer picture.

This ape has wrapped his arm around his head while he sleeps which gives a distorted look to his head. Perhaps this is a defense to protect himself even while sleeping. It makes him look quite fierce.

Therefore, it is actually his arm that you see on top of his head, not a "hairdo".

The picture in the camera shows his cute face with closed eyes, but I cannot reproduce it well here.

I will keep trying.

The Honolulu Zoo provides the opportunity for any visitor to study the social aspects of apes, our closet living relatives.  However, because of their violent nature, even the zookeepers at the Honolulu Zoo will not enter their domain, not even to feed them, for fear of being killed!!!

They are far more dangerous than even the Sumatran tiger.  The zookeepers feed them by dropping food from a cliff that surrounds their domain.

Observing them through a glass window at the zoo is like looking back into our own human past in one of the rare opportunities provided by a zoo (must see for all tourists in Waikiki).

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July 27, 2008.  Apes playing around and having fun.
The light brown splotches shining on the two apes playing together are light distortion.

While they have private areas in their domain (it is quite large and open terrain) we watch them eat, mate, kiss, love, fight, kill animals (birds, cats that wander in), and even kick the glass to scare us while viewing them.

The chimps (apes) have been co-evomorphing until our human species branched out of the apes with a newly designed genetic Mother who gave birth to a new species, Wisdomkind with the nonconscious Wisdom Mind of The Buddha (Holy Spirit).

However, we have been transitioning in the Intermediary Stage called Humans, who are Hairless Apes, enabling us to make our own body coverings while in the process of growing higher mental functions called virtues: Reason, Courage, Justice, Self-Discipline, Empathy, Compassion, and Patience.

Thus, the apes and humans have different genetic Mothers which requires us to function with different mental functions that must be empowered if our species is going to survive. Indeed, our genes, the brains of the BacterVira (stem cells), are programmed such that if one fails to function with virtues, then that soul will not survive, and will be destroyed as a failure.

At this point in time, we are far enough advanced intellectually to completely separate from the nonconscious Ape Mind, and, instead, to function from the nonconscious Wisdom Mind of The Buddha (Holy Spirit) along with the conscious Virtuous Self Mind.

This process of evomorph occurs individually, and some of us have not yet reached their potential intellectual functioning, while others are having difficulty letting go of the default nonconscious Ape Mind that allows us to function effortlessly with "no" need for any conscious "self" functions, and, thus, our default actions are effortless and apelike.

Further, the Ape Mind is based upon pain and pleasure, impulses, desires, pleasurable food choices, and with little requirements for conscious thinking, actions, food choices, and decision-making with the higher functions of virtues.

Perhaps this is why humans find it so difficult to resist evilness, and why we need daily spiritual lessons to be good - as our genetic past struggles to run free with our violent memes of the past from which we evomorphed. 

The term, "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkins (a scientist), which essentially means memories that function like genes in being passed on to others and may even continue being expressed through succeeding generations.

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Foot of our closest related species resting against a rock while sleeping.

This is from the same ape as shown sleeping above.  The apes like to prop up their feet against the large rocks while the sleep or even when just resting.

The apes walk around on the bent lower finger parts only.  I thought they walked flat-footed, but they do not.  If you notice, the next time you try to lift yourself up, if you use your bent lower fingers, it is much more comfortable.

We can learn from our relatives.  I believe that it is shown in the recent version of the movie, "King Kong" when the gorilla first arrives to greet the beauty.

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The ape on the right is drinking water from a creek while the other apes sit together and chat.

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This ape is looking right at me. How fascinating, we made eye contact.

While watching the apes and seeing all their moods, for the first time, I really understand our own species when I see us in the "wild" state.   As Joyce Meyer says:  "I am not yet where I want to be, but thank God, I am not where I used to be."

These apes are violent, and that explains why we are miserable when we stray from a peaceful mind, because we, the hairless apes, are trying to evomorph out of our violent heritage.  Can't we see this?   It makes sense.

Somehow I can relate to these apes because after observing them for many months, I see so much of our own species in gestures (clapping their hands), how they grasp things, the competition between them, playing sport games, and one starts a fight and they all go "wild" running around throwing things, and kicking the window, and so forth.  I watch them hording food, scraping it into a pile, and then chewing on the sunflower seeds and spitting out the shells.

There is something, perhaps a challenge, that makes us want to see ourselves as better than "apes." Yet, can you not see our species struggling to evomorph? Trying to let go of our past? Being consciously aware of who we really are is the first step in letting go of the past.

WisdomPeace from The Buddha (Holy Spirit) as described in our Bibles, guide us to evomorph so that we know the clear way.  That is what religion is all about as religious leaders teach us to give birth to our Buddha (Holy Spirit) along a clear pathway to higher levels of order.  We cannot do it ourselves because our brain is connected to the nonconscious Ape Mind and we have to learn to let go of its commands, and, instead, we command it to submit to our conscious authority as guided by our nonconscious Wisdom Mind.

Thus, the Wisdom Mind is the nonconscious part of our brain that is more evomorphed than the conscious part that we use for self thinking functions, and, The Ape Mind is slowly learning to submit and becomes the animal functions that protect us like guard dogs enabled with powerful animal instincts and senses.

The nonconscious high level Wisdom Mind guides us daily, showing us how to evomorph, and helps us move through time in a clear pathway to higher levels of intellectual development through experience and knowledge as we learn and study and observe all life.

We must resist the urge to return to our discarded genetic past; but rather, we should keep moving forward through time with increasing order by daily achieving Self-Discipline along with all of the virtues:  Reason, Courage, Justice, Self-Discipline, Empathy, Compassion, and Patience. Self-Discipline and Compassion are vital to achieve at the onset as we learn to properly care for our body as the temple of our Buddha (Holy Spirit).

Further, we need to fulfill our species' Manifest Destiny of Wisdomkind:  to be caregivers of all life and protectors of the environment, and, thereby care for the quality of life and happiness of others and all living things in a healthy nurturing world surrounded by beautifully protected nature.

All life of every species deserves the highest attainable quality of existence.  Wisdom of The Buddha (Holy Spirit) empowers us to achieve our destiny.

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This ape is drinking water from their usual creek at the zoo.  Notice that they drink by placing their mouth in the creek (as a dog or cat would do) rather than cupping their hands and drinking as we like to do.

It seems rather dangerous bending over like this.  What if this were in the jungle and the water had crocodiles?  You don't want to put your head in there, but rather you would use your hands. Try it and see how vulnerable you feel. Put your head in the sink and drink the water from the faucet.  That makes you feel more vulnerable than drinking from your hands or a cup. But, of course, my brother used to dunk me at times, and maybe that is why I feel vulnerable.  Do you?

There is an instinct that we have as a preference not to drink like this.  But, why does this ape feel safe?  Perhaps, this ape is smart and knows that the water has no predators there, but that still would not explain their preference.

However, this tells me that these apes never lived in the wild surrounding by predators, but are more domesticated than they ordinarily would be.  I understand that they originated from the St. Louis zoo, but where they came from before that, I don't yet know.

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Ape playing around at Honolulu Zoo

Isn't this a darling pose? While playing around, this ape pauses in clearly pensive thought as she looks at her hand.  I have seen human children thinking like this, as they first learn by discovering themselves.

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May 2008.  Apes enjoy the beauty of this blooming tree at the Honolulu Zoo, and they also enjoy eating the pink blossoms.

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