My most favorite clip about life and the evolution of consciousness was left to us for our amusement by the late Itzhak Bentov, in this video interview about the Evolution of the Soul and the Nervous System.

It is marvelous that this interview can be found on the YouTube. It is a part of the whole interview that can be found on on the DVD From Atom to Cosmos.

It is somewhat interesting that both Heraclitus and Laozi (Lao Tzu) both observed that the world is in a constant flux and always changing and evolving. For them, there was no one Truth, but rather a constant changing world that can go this way or that.

Heraclitus famously said:

You cannot step in the same river twice.

Laozi’s Dao De Jing makes many analogies to life and flowing water. Water is forever changing and overcomes all. Interestingly, Laozi and Heraclitus lived at about the same time, 500 B.C. and one can only conjecture whether their thoughts evolved independently as part of the greater human consciousness, or whether their thoughts were shared by traders and travelers.

As life forms of all types explore, learn, and evolve, that which was True one instant nor longer is True. All has changed, because we are always changing.

During the interview, Bentov presents his views, that we are all always evolving as part of human conssciousness, that there is are transcendent souls that continues to evolve as part of the greater human consciousness, and that we are evolving no matter what. In other words, there is no rush.

No matter what, we will change and evolve, and it is all a matter of which direction we wish to go.