Humans have been conditioned to progress slowly, through gradual evolution, by building carefully on an existing body of knowledge. But every major advance that has changed the entire face of civilization has come about through a drastic change - a quantum leap. Look at Copernicus and his assertion that the world revolves around the sun, Edison's discovery of the incandescent light bulb, or the historic first flight of the Wright brothers.
These advances could never have come about through evolution, but were only possible through revolution in human thought and experience.
To take a quantum leap requires our willingness to abandon the comforting familiarity of old beliefs and conventions. We must be willing to move from inspiration, from what we call "the body electric", because it is only this that can propel us beyond our current belief systems, to a whole new level.
There is no question that physical immortality requires a quantum leap. Humans have always died. All of our belief systems agree absolutely on the inevitability of physical death. To awaken from the sleep of death obviously requires a great leap into the unknown.
What may not be so obvious is that this single jump, as difficult as it might seem, is not enough. A single quantum leap would be enough to build a new body of knowledge, an immortal belief system - but then we would soon find I ourselves drifting back to sleep in that new familiarity.
What we are finding is that unending aliveness requires a continual movement from our inspiration, from our body electric. Just as quantum physics completely redefined our knowledge of physics, so must we now adopt a whole new paradigm for human development. It is no longer enough to build slowly on what has gone before, or even to take the occasional leap into the unknown. To live without end we must learn to make quantum leaps a way of life.
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