Understanding Evolutionary Cycles and Phase Transitions

In the absence of this overall vision, it will be impossible to distinguish what are effective phase transitions between two different organizations of a system and, instead, the simple background noise with which they are confused. Before proceeding in the analysis of our historical cycle and highlighting what we consider its fundamental themes, we have decided to indicate some characteristic traits common to all evolutionary cycles to which Humanity on Earth is subject.

Structure of Evolutionary Cycles

When we speak of evolution we mean the transmutative process that leads an evolving substance to coincide with the evolutionary model in a finite time called duration. Every evolution presupposes a model with which the evolving substance can, at the end of the evolutionary process, identify. The model is the end and the goal of evolution and no evolutionary process can be studied or understood if we disregard it.

If in mechanical dynamics the trajectory of the analyzed body is perfectly determined by the initial conditions of motion; in an evolutionary process instead the dynamics of motion is determined by the end of the system in evolution. In an evolutionary process, a system activates the most suitable and best resources in its possession for achieving its own end.

With this we therefore mean that knowledge of the purpose of an evolution, that is of the evolutionary model, is determinant for understanding the phases and developments of the system and, in the absence of this, one will find oneself concentrating only on the whirlwinds and instabilities of a phase transition, which however are neither significant nor revealing of the final result of the process.

Besides the necessity of an evolutionary model we have spoken of a duration of evolution. Duration implies the idea of time, but this term involves distinct notions often confused among themselves:

• Time: is that reality or being that allows the evolution of a substance;
• Cycle: is that geometric organization with which time structures itself to allow an evolution;
• Evolutionary phase: identifies the permanence in a temporal cycle, in which it is possible for a substance to pass from one state to another of evolution.

In physical terms, the flow of time corresponds to the flow of free Energy. Time and Energy are two realities and conjugated quantities, inextricably linked to each other.

For evolutionary purposes, time organizes in the form of cycles. Time, structuring itself geometrically in cycles, offers to the individual or, more generally, to an evolving system, multiple occasions to perform its evolutionary work. A linear structure of time would lead to unrepeatable occasions that would not allow learning by the system. Conversely, cyclical repetition allows a system to absorb concepts, fix useful mutations and eliminate harmful ones.

Thus in life on Earth, for example, hour follows hour, day follows day and year follows year, offering multiple occasions and possibilities for one's own transmutation.

Time organizes itself geometrically in temporal cycles and thus allows an individual or, more generally, a system to enter an evolutionary phase that can last a high number of temporal cycles, until the system reaches its evolutionary end and aligns with the evolutionary model. From an evolutionary point of view it is not important if a system has realized its objective in a given cycle or another, as long as it has succeeded in the enterprise of realization.

Thus, from the point of view of one's own individual spiritual transmutation, it is not important for the individual to have succeeded early or late, as much as having succeeded.

It is important to highlight how every evolutionary phase has its ecological conditions and it is clear that these can be maintained stably only during a limited window of time, outside of which the cycle disintegrates to then reconstitute itself with other forms and in another time. In this phase of dissolution no evolution or evolutionary choice is possible, but only a mechanical development of the causes set in motion previously.

We have said that evolutionary cycles are a geometric organization that time assumes to provide the opportunity for evolution. If we analyze the individual structure of each cycle, we notice that some of its fundamental aspects can be understood by applying to it the key of the quaternary. In fact, each cycle can be subdivided into four fundamental phases.