quote from the book..to read more click on the link http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/9535/Vedanta/life.htm " We come now to living organisms, including ourselves: How do we fit into this grand scheme? The problem, at first sight, seems insurmountable since the grand scheme, as we have sketched it, arises through apparition, yet the apparition itself implies a perceiver, and perceivers, as we know them, are embodied in forms which imply billions of years of preliminary, transformational evolution. The chemical elements of which the Earth is made required billions of years of galactic and stellar evolution for their manufacture in the stellar interiors, for their distribution through interstellar space by explosions and stellar winds, and for their subsequent accumulation in the clouds of dusty hydrogen from which our sun was born. Then, following the formation of the Earth from that solar nebula, the development of such a complicated organism as man required another several billion years of genetic evolution, from the blue-green algae through the simple poly-celled organisms, the mud worms, the chordates, the vertebrates, the fish, the finbacks, the mammals, and, finally among the mammals, the primates, including man. (There is, of course, nothing final about it. We think of it as final only because we see it from our own point of view.) All these things arise by transformational causation from the apparitional hydrogen but how can the apparitional hydrogen exist without perception?"