Irrespective of all religious denominations, philosophies, sects or new-age schools, the force within evolution is leading humanity - impersonally, disinterestedly and universally - to a critical point of choice where it must decide, consciously, to surpass itself and radically CHANGE ... or else become extinct.

The AGENDA, an extraordinary document of 6000 pages or 13 volumes, about this urgent need for a conscious choice by all humankind to create its own destiny and become the future of the human species, explores the process, in purely experimental terms, leading to a next stage of evolution - a nearly inconceivable endeavour, for what, e.g., would happen to a fish-with-gills who suddenly attempts to discover, to emerge into and then to live in this new 'air' - this wholly unknown, 'other' atmosphere beyond its old water-bound milieu imprisoned beneath a certain, established 'surface' ?

For the first time in the history of the Earth, a species - our own human species - will be able to participate CONSCIOUSLY and WILLINGLY in its own transformation to a future state of being.

This is an unprecedented invitation, therefore - open to everyone who feels concerned by the question - to collaborate, consciously and willingly, in the adventure of an accelerated evolution of the human species to its next, its FUTURE state - to attempt to realize the next being, a future being, after 'man.'

'MAN IS A TRANSITIONAL BEING,' said the great Bengali visionary and explorer, Sri Aurobindo, who originally foresaw the possibility for humankind's conscious participation in its own metamorphosis to a happier, future state.

From time immemorial, this evolutionary thrust contained within Life itself has inexorably led all life-forms, of which humanity is merely the most recent, to mutate and to transcend themselves - but for the effort to be realized on Earth now, it must not become denatured by any church's intentions nor by any new religious sect's dominance, nor lost in vague nirvanic mists, nor in any way whatsoever submerged or compromised by interested ambitions.

To begin with, a central key in this process of collaborating with our own evolution to a new, future state of being is to try to make all our diffuse aspirations CONSCIOUS and then to try realize physically, materially, within our very cells, this new stage of life - no, not in any ethereal "heavens" but here on the Earth itself, where evolution has indeed always been rooted.

Evolution will go on with or without us, in any case, and the present deplorable, self-destructive, cruel and ego-ridden state of humankind, with or without its collaboration or consent, 'will be surpassed' and superceded by a higher, more conscious, egoless and more harmonious species - so, rather than passively or blindly undergoing the evolutionary process, why not choose to consciously collaborate in this inevitable advance and participate in an unprecedented, captivating, universal adventure?

Reading Corner:

The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo
On Himself
The Riddle of this World

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