Evolution & Therapy

Evolution – 

Evolution – 

Evolution… 

Baboons and beasts, 

cells and phylogenetic things, 

cavemen, 

stones and flints and Charles Darwin. 

Is it true? 

Are the fittest always surviving? 

Does being “fit” change with eras of history? 

Were dinosaurs not fit 

for the time? 

Can you hear them? 

I hear them in my office. 

I hear all of evolution in my office – 

peeps and sounds and cries and whispers and 

hopes 

and all that it means to be a living, growing entity with a big brain. 

Evolution demands that we grow, 

that we reach greater heights than our parents, 

that we have more fulfillment and choice 

and 

that we raise kids 

more capable of knowing themselves 

and 

creating peace and world harmony. 

In our parent’s cells, 

in their bones and their blood, 

they want to provide for us more than they had. 

Oh, the delight and drive for humans to become parents. 

To care for newborns, 

to bring into the world something of us 

to leave behind ourselves, 

but a little better. 

This process enabled some folks to discover the wheel 

and some to discover fire 

and some to learn about antibiotics 

and some to educate their children 

and some to learn that their child has emotional needs. 

In fact, this wheel has spun for centuries and centuries. 

And in the western world, 

we have the luxury of 

many basic human needs 

fulfilled. 

With these taken care of, 

we have the luxury to step up a notch on Maslow’s pyramid. 

So rare in history, 

an opportunity to 

fine tune ourselves, 

to strengthen our emotional coping, 

to heal and expand, 

grow and seek, 

to become happier people than many generations before. 

How wonderful, 

when we arrive at this place, 

whatever place inside us that longs to grow and heal.