The Transcendentalists and the Zulus share a similar notion as is embodied in the Law of Compensation which has life as a learning experience.
The buddhist doctrine of no self would have us focusing on awareness rather than the preconceived idea. While some of us may feel that we are a variety of "self" ever evolving, when we look deeper into what we are we find ourselves even abandoning the idea of self.
I think the area of agreement among all treading all spiritual paths is that idea of trial and error.
Teilhard de Jardin many peoples' favorite Jesuit Scholar who nearly got excommunicated from the Church for his paleontology which included more than a hint of recognizing evolution is someone I also think of as indicating just how we are evolving from megamolecular sea bottom stuff into wise almost etherial beings who may even find life in some form outside of physical matter and that part of our experience we call life as we know it. We don't need to project what that will be, only to continue.
If we are evolving from stuff dating back to billions of years before human life as we know it, but can't see that we all must have a connection to all that stuff of that time when the planets and the cosmic goo from whence they coagulated were formed, how can we expect to evolve individually?
That idea of individual evolution has to be the emphasis not only in our personal spiritual lives but should be extended to be the basis of all education.
It already is in good schools in most places without regard to nation or state - and there will be an effort to offer an ability to each child to develop a sense of growing into an evolving world which is as Teilhard de Chardin said, is either diverging, synthesizing, or groping. The latter is the trail and error part of it.
After that we hang together, are hanged separately, etcetera. There is both a Fritz Perls rule and its inverse that I consider too in the realm of a positive world view based on unselfish awareness - that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
The inverse Perls rule is that a band is as good as the worst player in the group.
That's both the synthesis and the diversification part in a metaphor.
Namaste all ye creatures of light!
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