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B. F. Skinner Psychologist, Behaviorist
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"A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy."

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel."

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Jerry Garcia Musician
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"I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"But the power of God cannot be so determined and measured, for it is uncircumscribed and immeasurable, beyond and above all that is or may be. On the other hand, it must be essentially present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf."

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