The Unfinished Animal: Human Beings & The Evolution of Consciousness

This talk explores the Theosophical view of human beings as unfolding, self-developing entities whose true nature is not fixed but emergent.

Drawing on Gerald Heard’s striking description of humanity as “the one creature of infinite promise,” we will examine the idea that human evolution proceeds inwardly through education, culture, and self-knowledge.

The presentation reflects on the dangers and necessities of opening the mind to deeper questions, and how sincere inquiry, rightly guided, becomes the path by which the “unfinished animal” awakens to its superhuman potential.

Stephen McDonald has been an active member of the Theosophical Society since 1976. He is a past President of the Blavatsky Lodge in Sydney, and is currently the National President of the TS in Australia. Stephen has had an enduring interest in the work of Krishnamurti and Theosophical classics, such as The Voice of the Silence and Light on the Path. For many years, Stephen ran a private clinic as a homeopath and later became a lecturer at Torrens University. He holds a Master of Health Science degree from Newcastle University and a Graduate Certificate in Teaching.

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The MTS is committed to providing events that align with and further The three objects of The Theosophical Society:

• To form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour. • To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. • To investigate unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in the human being.

However this being stated, the MTS does not endorse any health, spiritual, science-related, philosophical or theological /other assertions or claims made by any facilitator we host.