Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour. This week I bring to your attention an excerpt which we have titled – Evolution & Dissonance from the book titled ‘The Mind Field’ by Robert Ornstein. In this book the late Robert Ornstein extends his argument to the sacrosanct psychiatric profession, as well as to meditation, parapsychologies, shamanism, and the numerous trademarked “awareness systems.” And the author in the books preface highlights a very thought provoking aspect, he points out that  – We are now on the threshold of a new understanding of man and of consciousness, one which might unite the scientific, objective, external approach of Western civilization and the personal, inward disciplines of the East. Evolution & Dissonance Cultural evolution is much more rapid than biological evolution. An alteration in learning or the acquisition of a skill can be transmitted quickly between individuals, or with modern means of communication transmitted to an entire culture, yet our genetic structure remains unchanged. Thus the biology of living systems always lags behind alterations in the environment or the social situation. The human remains basically unchanged genetically since the Stone Age. The primary aim of physical evolution is biological survival, both of the individual and of the race. At points in the history of a large population system, individual survival may proceed along the same parameters as the survival of the population, though at later points on the curve of increasing population and social complexity there is often a dissonance between them. It is in large part a human’s increasing mastery over his environment that cleaves the individual and collective prerequisites of survival and occasions the need for new choices, and new development. Excerpt from ‘The Mind Field’ by Robert Ornstein I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link: The Mind Field Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s. Namaste! a class="a2a_button_pinterest" href="https://www.addtoany.