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I remember when I sat and meditated four years ago, while in Kutztown, Pennslyvania.

A smoldering pipe was gently taken from my hands and smoke billowed into the air in front of me.  The world was spinning and I was standing still as I focused on reality.  I stared into the forest in front of me and sensed a being – a faceless intelligent entity of some sort.  Almost immediately I realized that I was face to face with Nature and upon this insight She revealed to me what was in store for mankind…

To say that evolution has no teleological end is a safe assumption, for we do not have objective data to support a certain teleology.  Though it seems clear that evolution has created beings of a higher and higher orders of complexity, still the simplest of creatures - single and multicelled organisms - live on where their more complex forbearers have not.  Could there be a purpose to evolution or could we develop one? These thoughts occur to me now, but they were nowhere near my consciousness before I met Nature.

I was shown by this intelligence the past, present and future of evolution.  The landscape before me became some sort of chart full of pulsing images and glyphs.  The spirit of Nature, living in this forest in front of me-from which emerged the protohumans (who were conveniently standing to my right) – spoke to me in a way no language can do justice to.  As my friends and fellow explorers morphed backwards in time into loin wearing, spear holding, pygmie tribals, my own consciousness was launched forward into time.  Soon these pygmies would evolve beyond their humble beginnings.  Man would meld with the machines – embodied in the silent highway construction machinery that lay to my left.  The miracle of human consciousness and creativity merged with the flexibility and efficiency of the machine.

Technology is not standing in opposition to nature, as many like to believe.  Technology is the product of nature and we shall merge with our children, the technological devices we create, and transcend the bounds of our minds and bodies, while retaining the spirit imbued in our consciousness.  The teleological end of evolution is coming soon.  It will happen when the human species can invoke the spirit of Nature, take conscious control of our genetic source code, and engineer a limitless future.