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Kimi: Removed redirect to Evolutionary Theory

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			The '''LP Evolutionary Theory''' is the Lightning Path's account of the evolution of creation as the self-unfolding of the [[Fabric of Consciousness]] through the seven [[Evolutionary Stages]] of The Great Work — from the Big Bang of physical creation ([[Stage Two]]), through the coalescence of worlds and the emergence of life, to the evolution of a [[Pinnacle Species]], and finally to [[Healing]], [[Reconnection]], and [[Graduation]] into advanced interplanetary [[World System\|World Systems]]. The theory nests the social and cognitive stage-theories of [[Law of Three Stages\|Comte]], [[Stages of Cognitive Evolution\|Donald]], and [[Robert Bellah\|Bellah]] inside the larger evolution of consciousness, treating them as partial accounts of a single underlying process. It holds that the present [[Polycrisis]] marks a [[Phase Transition]] point in that process: the pivot into Stage Six (Healing and Reconnection) and, at the cognitive level, into the [[Harmonic Stage]].<ref>Mike Sosteric, "Mysticism, Connection Experience, and the Utopian Turn," ''Lightning Path Research Blog'', n.d., https://repo.lightningpath.org/articles/journalistic-pieces/lightning-path-research-blog/mysticism-connection-experience-and-the-utopian-turn.html.</ref> In LP terms, evolution is the universe waking up to itself; the LP Evolutionary Theory is the map of that awakening.
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			==Notes==

			===What Evolves===

			Where Comte's evolving entity is knowledge, Donald's is representational architecture, and Bellah's is the religious symbol system, the LP's evolving entity is '''consciousness itself'''. Creation is the [[Fabric of Consciousness]] expressing, experiencing, and coming to know itself; evolution is the name of that process at scale. The cognitive, religious, and social sequences documented by Donald, Bellah, and Comte are real, but they are sub-processes — the local signatures, in mind and society, of the deeper movement toward [[Connection\|reconnection]].

			===The Seven Stages of The Great Work===

			The schema is laid out on the [[Evolutionary Stages]] page: Stage Two ([[Expansion]] / Big Bang), Stage Three (Coalescence), Stage Four (Emergence of life and of a [[Pinnacle Species]]), Stage Five (evolution of the Pinnacle Species toward an advanced [[World System]] and [[Harmonic Social Structure]]), Stage Six ([[Healing]] and [[Reconnection]] of [[Spiritual Ego]] and [[Bodily Ego]] on a global scale — our current stage), and Stage Seven ([[Graduation]]).

			===Relation to Comte and Donald===

			The LP accepts the stage-logic of Comte and Donald but rejects the positivist foreclosure built into both. For Comte, the positive stage is "the fixed and definitive state" of the human mind; for Donald, the sequence is in principle open but remains materialist. The LP Evolutionary Theory holds that the theoretic/positive mode is a stage, not a terminus: the [[Harmonic Stage]] succeeds it, restoring to science the [[Connection]] that positivism pathologized.<ref>Merlin Donald, ''Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991), 381–82.</ref>

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Michael: Redirected page to Evolutionary Theory

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Redirected page to Evolutionary Theory

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