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No real conflict exists among the various concepts of intelligent design, evolution, creationism and Darwinism.

The presumed conflict is unnecessary and its elimination is astonishingly simple, except that it requires a change in attitude.Some of us may have arrived on earth as human beings through Darwinian evolution, others may have descended from the survivors of cataclysms, some have lived in Atlantis or Lemuria, or they may have arrived from other planets, accidentally landed on earth and got stuck here.

In all our searches for theories and meanings for life we have failed to consider spirit. No theory of everything will advance until spirit has been included in the research. Generally, we only examine what is known and familiar. Our higher selves are mostly unacknowledged.

Intuition is inseparable from spirit. Despite the prejudice many people have against various forms of spiritual communication, such as ouija boards, palmistry, trance readings, hypnosis and telepathy, they are ways to connect with our personal spirits. Dreams are often acceptable intellectually, yet we continue to seek answers while disregarding the truths that dreams present. We do not listen to ourselves; this is our main problem. As children, we did pay attention to our spirits but our opinions and beliefs were routinely excised by the opinions of our parents and other teachers.

As a civilization, we had our knowledge of spirit legislated out of existence the 325 CE Council of Nicea; no more paganism, no more plant spirits, no more self-knowledge. Instead, the wise priests understood that if we had an inkling of how much we knew within ourselves, we would have no need of priests, no reason to pay them for advice, no reason to give them power over our behavior, no guilt for our sins.

We study lower forms of life, not higher. We tried for years to get higher primates to speak our language, then one day Jane Goodall hit upon the idea of finding out what they say. She listened and watched, and sure enough there was communication. Francine Patterson taught sign language to gorillas and recognized their intelligence. Gorillas appear to be a cut above the rest of us regarding, say, environmental or parental harmlessness. It turns out gorillas do not have the proper larynx for verbal communication with us.

If our minds could conceive higher beings than we are, we could communicate with our waiting spirits. It would help if we could imagine an entity without ego.
Ineffables are present in our daily lives. Some spirit entities have found subject humans who are willing to listen to them. All they ask is that we pay respectful attention to their communications.

The spirit world refers to our Earth as the university of physical experience. At birth we leave the spirit world and come to earth to learn to rise above physicality. We come here to evolve spiritually, that is, to progress from aspects of physicality through physical emotion, through mental logic and mental philosophy, to arrive at spirituality. Next we may aspire to become spiritual initiates and possibly masters. We're all doing it, all of us, in different ways, at different speeds.

Non-verbal communication is rampant, though often unrecognized. Spouses know what the other is about to do or say. Parents have eyes in the back of their heads. Those are spiritual connections. Some types of dreams are spiritual connections. We are receiving spiritual guidance all the time, information we need for evolution and enlightenment.

My little brother and I communicated without words and we both left our bodies lots of times. We all once had childhood abilities that we forgot or rejected as we grew older. Plenty of kids have secret playmates. One of my sons, Robert, had an invisible friend he thought might be Jesus. Jesus gave him the answers to arithmetic problems until Robert felt it might be cheating and opted out. As a youngster I used to enter a room and hear all the words that had been uttered there recently. I heard my step-mother's secrets that way and not wanting her secrets, I purposefully rejected that ability. All of us are approaching spirituality and we use personal methods which seem perfectly ordinary. We are often surprised that other people do not perceive things the same way we do.

Spirits do exist in our lives and they communicate if we let them. We let them when we grow quiet, when we enter nature and shed the pressures and busyness of our chosen ways of life. Plant spirits are very accessible during our quiet times and are happy to be acknowledged. They work for us, they tell us how to heal things. They love gardeners who talk to them -- and those who listen.

A tao exercise for contacting your higher self is to find a half hour of your own, sit with back straight and feet flat on the floor with soft music if possible. Breathe in a concern, e.g. a mortgage, a mother-in-law, a new grandchild, a tree, whatever, hold it, (I use seven heartbeats) and breathe it out slowly. Next breath, take in a new concern, breathe it in, hold it and breathe it out. Your spirit will make a visit to each of your concerns and that's all that needs to be done. All these concerns are found in your subconscious and can be released, however temporarily, to your benefit.

Marjorie Giles is an award-winning essayist. She studied fiction and creative writing at San Francisco State University
She spent her childhood in Santa Barbara, CA where her motherk became a disciple of (then) Swami Yogananda Marjorie contracted polio while pioneering biophysics at Yale in 1950 and began using a wheelchair. She then secured a position at the new Stanley Laboratory at U. C. Berkeley, and was able to support her children on her own
She wrote a weekly column for the Rabbit Creek Journal in the Sierra Foothills as well as arts reviews for the Appeal Democrat and other periodicals. She won a history book competition, which resulted in "An Illustrated History of Yuba and Sutter Counties" and formed a writer/illustrator partnership with one of the contributors, David Giles

Their partnership, Inkwell, has published Northern California history books, haiku, biography and juvenile adventure. Marjorie is preparing a third edition of Under the Plum Tree: The Tao of Everything by Chung Fu

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Written by Marjorie Giles