Hilarion: Evolution is seen over and over from the purely Darwinian perspective of survival of the fittest, but really in its essence it has to do with consciousness, the shared consciousness of all beings manifesting as a collective, as beings to work out issues, as to understand each other, for the specific avenue of loving each other, learning about each other, living together in ways in which that harmonious living gives way then to deeper and deeper ways of communication, understanding, and ultimately evolution.
This is happening at the soul level for many beings on your planet, but clearly the leaders of this on your Earth are the humans. They are the ones that are also in the place of misconception about the wholeness, about how their actions are indeed interfering on so many levels with the communication between plants and animals, with the consequent death of various species, with the destruction, pollution, and other aspects happening on your planet.
Yet, here again it is by the misconception that eventually these things will right themselves because of competition, because of survival of the fittest. It is really not correct, because a very powerful motivating factor here is the consciousness itself, the consciousness of the whole. That, to a large extent, many human beings deny, are not willing to accept and work with on a conscious powerful level.
It is true that this is the basis of many native, aboriginal, Native American and other philosophies that are discovered in your world when you look into past history. But it is with the dawn and the spreading of Western civilization and other aspects all over your planet that deny these components that this difficulty has emerged.
Understanding that larger principle--from wholeness it begins, into potential separation, then back to wholeness--you understand the way in which all of these things operate and see it for its larger perspective. All of the nature spirits, all of the Devic orders, know this. They feel it. They recognize the joy in the competitive spirit of the competition in nature as a dance, as an aspect you could say of beauty, of enjoyment of the sport of it. But never with the intent of it being any more than that--only just a game.
So, then you have so many parallels to this in your world, of the way in which aboriginal cultures, Native American cultures, and others, cannot understand the competitive spirit of professional sports, for instance, that requires that there be a winner and a loser, and that the loser suffers the agony of defeat, and the winner the thrill of victory, and this is not to be shared on some level.
