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The Grand AnalogyUncompromising Atheism, Real Science of Humanity'The thought of the women and the swamp and the forest around themreawakened thoughts that had been tormenting me for years. Thoughts aboutour connection to nature. We seem to be wandering outside it, but how canthat be? Aren't we made of the same coils of DNA as everything living?Aren't our closest relatives the other great apes (chimpanzee, bonobos, gorillasand orangutans)? Now only orangutans still live in the trees

whence we came

,wandering like nomads through the canopy, without permanent nests, the waywe must have wandered once upon a time. Was it settlement that cut us off from nature? Are we human because we left paradise?(Linda Spalding,

The Follow

, Bloomsbury, 1998, Page 2.)'we behave culturally because it is our nature to behave culturally, because natural selection has produced an animal that has to behave culturally,that has to invent rules, make myths, speak languages, and form men's clubs,in the same way that the hamadryas baboon has to form harems, adopt infants,and bite its wives on the neck.'(Lionel Tiger & Robin Fox,

The Imperial Animal

,Secker & Warburg, 1972, page 20)

To the memory of Parmenides

ContentsIntroductionPage 3Part ISome Ideas on the Idea of Super Being1Idea OneScienceSpencer on the Social OrganismPage 62Idea TwoMythologyOuspensky's Esoteric Thoughts on Super BeingsPage 31Chapter IIThe Evolution of the Idea of IndividualityPage 523Idea ThreeCraftGierke on the Natural Law Theory of SocietyPagePart IIThe Grand AnalogyStuff from Evolution from Molecules to MenPart IIISuperorganic RealityThe Exoskeleton - An Idea Too Far The Idea of the Exoskeleton, using Coker re Spencer, Lilienfeld, Schaffle & Wormsto guide my exposition from early artifacts of the intellectual depositPart IVSociobiology - The Modern Mirage