Man after Man

Preface

100 years after Charles Darwin's death, evolution is today's theme. We know, or we think we know, how species have evolved and how man was born. Yes, but after that...? "Man is not the summit of the evolutionary process" said somebody at the beginning of this age of mutation. "Evolution goes on and Man will be surpassed". The one who has thrown this stone in the pond of human habit was called Sri Aurobindo and lived in India. And it is in India where lived the one who continued, not the evolutionary thought, but the evolutionary action of Sri Aurobindo. He called her Mother. She was born in Paris in 1878. Her body was buried in Pondicherry in 1973.

So we went to the Nilgiris, the blue mountains of South India, to interview a French writer, a seeker, whom Mother called Satprem and who was the witness of her evolutionary work for almost 20 years.

Will there be something else after this painful and senseless man that we are? Or do we have to resign ourselves to catastrophe and extinction of human species? The present man has maybe reached his end. Yes, but after that? The answer is not to be found in any wisdom, revelation or prophecy. It's hidden, Satprem tells us, where Sri Aurobindo and Mother searched for it: deep down in our body's cells.

"And yet, it's eve. And at dawn..., we will enter the splendid cities"¹