Is the human culture evolving the process of human spiritual evolution nowadays?

By Cristiano Lima – teacher, translator and theologian

It is said that the famous quote by William Shakespeare “to be or not to be – that is the question” can be considered a philosophical question. So based on that quotation we can ask the following question: what does “to be or not to be” mean within a view of an evolutionary context? It is known that we, humans, have the abilities to create many things and we have the potential to produce culture and technology in order to advance our specie further more in the universe. Who could have imagined humans landing on the Moon or launching a prone just to step on comets and other planets as Mars or Venus?

In addition, it is necessary to answer some important questions – who are we really? How can we deal with ethics and human values? Why do we keep on making wars against each other in this twenty-first century?

It is important to understand that human beings have stopped evolving after becoming the only specie “to put halt to natural selection of its own free will”, Sir David Attenborough has said it and he predicts “the cultural evolution” in the future.

At the dawn of our civilization, humans tried to produce a cultural evolution through different languages, religions and different points of view at the world. For example, the Greek created Philosophy. Other peoples created different kinds of cultures giving us a chance to have a blend of cultures and knowledge. We, human beings, have reached the last edge of our own spiritual evolution and it is important to us.

In conclusion, the main purpose of our evolutionary cultural heritage is just to learn how we can respect each race ethically and spiritually. We need, as humans, just to be ethical not to accept that ten per cent of humans are very much richer while ninety per cent of people worldwide are trying to survive. It is unacceptable to live in a world where one billion people have plenty of food but other one billion people do not have enough food to feed their offsprings. Our last edge of our evolutionary and spiritual process is just to overcome these challenges and because of that, we need to embrace friendship, peace, dialogue and fraternity in our world.