An Insight From My Higher Self
Lately, I’ve been thinking deeply about evolution, consciousness, and where we really come from. These thoughts tend to surface when I tap into my higher self, that quiet, expansive state where ideas seem to arrive fully formed, not forced. I speak of this both spiritually and scientifically. To me, evolution is real, it is the physical observation of life unfolding, the gradual creation of the human being. But it also carries a deeper purpose: a drive to express, to learn, and to create, its Source at work. Science explains the how, the mechanisms and patterns we can observe, while spirituality speaks to the why, the feeling, the resonance behind it all. Both exist, and both are necessary to understand the fullness of our journey.
And one thought keeps looping back: evolution is messy. Unscripted. Improvised. It sweeps history up with it, keeps what works, discards what doesn’t, and somehow through trial, error, and unimaginable time creates a vessel capable of awareness. A vessel capable of asking: Who am I? Why am I here? The human body.
Viral DNA: The Invader That Became the Foundation
About 8% of human DNA comes from ancient viruses
endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors millions of years ago. Instead of being erased, fragments of these viruses embedded themselves into reproductive cells and were passed down through generations. This didn’t just happen amongst our ancestors either, it happened amongst all mammals at different points in time with different variations of the virus which is profound spiritually and amongst the scientific community.
What science observes as convergent evolution, spirituality recognises as intelligence at work. Evolution doesn’t waste, it repurposes and transforms. Across time, among countless possible biological pathways, the same solution was returned to again and again. One ancient viral sequence, once external and not part of us, was repurposed into something essential: enabling cell fusion within the placenta, allowing the foetus to coexist with the mother rather than be rejected. This quiet transformation made longer pregnancies possible, supporting the development of larger, more complex brains and higher survival rates. Life, it seems, remembers what sustains life and keeps choosing it.
The very thing that entered as an invader became foundational to life as we know it. This is evolution in its rawest form: try, keep what works, discard what doesn’t. A feedback loop. And that same principle exists everywhere even at the molecular level. RNA itself operates this way, copying, correcting, refining. Survival of the fittest isn’t about domination, it’s about what aligns well enough to continue. Maybe that’s not just survival. Maybe that’s consciousness refining itself.
Think about your own life how many experiences that once felt disruptive later became integral to who you are?
Genes That Turn On and Off: Consciousness in Conversation With the Body
Your DNA is not a static blueprint. Genes turn on and off depending on environment, stress, safety, nourishment, connection, and experience. This is epigenetics, the science of how life responds to itself.
Consciousness doesn’t directly flip genetic switches. But it creates the internal environment that determines which genes express and which remain silent. Your thoughts shape your nervous system. Your nervous system shapes hormones. Hormones shape cellular behaviour.
You are not separate from your biology you are in dialogue with it.
Ask yourself: which experiences are reinforcing your growth, expansion, and connection? Which are teaching your body to contract, survive, or guard itself?
Evolution Isn’t Clean, It’s Creative
Evolution doesn’t move in straight lines. It flows. It adapts. It sweeps history up and builds on top of what came before. It doesn’t seek perfection it seeks viability.
And yet, through this messy process, evolution created a body capable of holding consciousness with depth, nuance, empathy, creativity, and awe. Was consciousness the goal? Or is it the byproduct? Maybe consciousness isn’t something evolution was trying to create but something that naturally emerges when complexity reaches a certain threshold. A feedback loop: life experiencing itself → refining → expanding → becoming aware.
A Moment of Remembering
At a certain point in our evolution, something shifted. Humans didn’t just survive, we began to wonder. We painted symbols on cave walls, buried our dead with care, told stories of sky beings, gods, and teachers who descended from above. Across cultures that never met, similar themes emerged: knowledge brought from the heavens, wisdom gifted, consciousness awakened.
Science observes this as a cognitive leap, a sudden expansion in symbolic thought, language, and imagination. Spiritual traditions remember it as awakening. And perhaps both are describing the same moment from different angles.
Was this simply the next stage of evolution refining itself? Or was there an influence seen, unseen, internal, or external that helped consciousness recognise itself more fully once it was ready? We may never know. But the question itself is important, because it reminds us that human awareness did not arise in isolation. It arose in relationship with the Earth, the sky, and the mystery beyond what we can measure.
From the Big Bang to You: We All Originated Here
No matter how you interpret existence scientifically, spiritually, or somewhere in between one truth remains: everything in this universe originated here.
From the Big Bang, energy condensed into matter. Matter formed stars. Stars forged heavier elements. Dust became planets. Minerals, gravity, oceans, chemistry, RNA, life. Every step built on the last. Every sequence led directly to you.
Even if consciousness didn’t exist in the Big Bang moment (although I believe it did), every atom, every event, every ripple in the cosmos contributed to creating the environment for consciousness to arise in a body capable of experiencing itself.
Whether you believe in the soul, in Source, or even if you don’t, you cannot deny that these sequences led to our existence, to our awareness.
We are not visitors. We are continuations. We are expressions of the universe, conscious and reflecting.
We Are All Sons and Daughters of God/Source
When Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21), he wasn’t pointing to hierarchy, worship, or external authority, he was pointing to direct, personal connection with the divine. Similarly, when he said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6), or “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48), he was showing us that we all carry that same divine essence. We are all sons and daughters of God. Jesus’ life is the embodiment of that truth, the example, the way, the living reflection of what is possible when consciousness aligns fully with Source.
Your strongest connection to God, to Source, is not through ritual, permission, or external validation, it is through yourself. Through your awareness, intuition, and lived experience. No one else can access that channel for you in the way you can. And that is the part people forget. That is the part “they” don’t want you to remember.
When you recognise that you are both:
a biological outcome of billions of years of evolution and a conscious expression of the universe itself
…you stop outsourcing your power. You remember it. You embody it. You live as a reflection of what Jesus pointed to: that the kingdom of God is within you.
Final Reflection: Consciousness Remembering Itself
While evolution describes the unfolding of the physical body and the emergence of consciousness into the physical, I deeply believe that consciousness itself, the essence of the soul, exists beyond this lifetime. Through many forms and experiences, the soul learns, expresses, and explores. Evolution gave us the vessel, shaping the human body to hold awareness; reincarnation gives consciousness its ongoing journey, allowing the universe to experience itself in ever-expanding ways.
Evolution is messy. Life is unplanned. And yet here we are thinking, loving, creating rituals, and questioning reality. Maybe consciousness isn’t separate from this process. Maybe it is the process.
The universe didn’t just design us. But it became us. And now, through us, it gets to wonder where it came from.
Pause. Breathe. Feel your awareness. You are not small. You are not separate. You are the universe, conscious, curious, and remembering itself. You are a continuation of billions of years of cosmic and evolutionary unfolding, carrying within you both the physical echoes of evolution and the eternal journey of your soul.
You are not just here to exist. You are here to experience, to reflect, to create, and to remember the vastness of what you truly are.
I hope this reflection offered a gentle pause not to provide answers, but to invite curiosity. To sit with the possibility that life is more layered, more intelligent, and more interconnected than we’re often taught to see.
And remember,
We are all one.
Love & Light,
J♡
