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Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

adaptability rendered them stronger, healthier, faster and more compatible with their

particular ecological niche.
Mating contests between males brought out the strongest and best, enabling the
victors to pass on their new qualities to their offspring. It was precisely this
competitive mating behavior that ensured the transmission of positive qualities that

became encoded in their genetics.
In most species, the external appearance of the male played a pivotal role during
mating by displaying to the female the degree of his adaptability to the ecological
niche they occupied. Thus, in the animal world, the males' outer and inner qualities
determined sexual activity, while the females, in most cases, played a passive role in
mating, merely accepting the attention of the victorious males.

Humans, as part of living nature, certainly played under the same rules that
nature created in the course of evolution of life on Earth. But, aside from his animal
instincts, man has a spiritual side that sets him apart from the animal world. Though
initially man's sexual behavior was no different from that of other highly organized

animals, still, during the evolution and development of his spiritual values, man
began to set himself apart from primeval nature by his sexuality as well.

What are those qualities that allow us to differentiate man from the rest of nature
on the basis of his sexuality? Let us explore and try to fathom what permits us to
consider Homo sapiens' sexuality as a sign of a new, qualitative step in his evolution.
Is it, perhaps, only conceit — only our wish to create an illusion of our own
uniqueness — that compels us to regard ourselves as a distinctive manifestation of
nature, even vis a vis our dominant natural instinct?

So, is it self-delusion or a realistic, qualitatively new step in the relationship
between male and female — or, to put it more politely, between man and woman...?

Homo sapiens is a social creature: i.e., from the moment of birth, then through
maturation and the rest of his life, he moves among people, among human society.
From the first moment of life, he begins to absorb, from communicating with others,
the information amassed by previous generations. The information thus transmitted
and absorbed by the brain transforms both the brain and its human owner. When the
quality and quantity of the information absorbed reaches a critical value the usual
miracle takes place — consciousness arises. Such a miracle can unfold only in a

social environment, because the needed information can only be amassed by
preceding generations for transmission to new generations in the form of experience.

With the emergence and growth of human consciousness, the qualitative
structure of the human spirit starts to change and evolve. A full human astral body
develops, composed of primary matters G and F, followed by a first mental body,
made up of G, F and E — linked to intellectual power and flexibility rather than
physical prowess. The development of brain and intellect became a necessary step,
without which future generations would have been unable to evolve.

Such favorable emotional strides by man — unlike the development in other
living organisms— meant more than just positive mutations manifested by optimal
adaptability and physical prowess (both of which played a significant role in the
relationship between male and female). They also represented an enhancement of
cerebral development and a broadening of man's spiritual evolution.

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