The Professor and the Prophet: On the Evolution of the Human Mind

This imagined encounter with the ancient Zoroastrian Prophet, Zarathustra, in the present times features the exchange between the Prophet and a contemporary Professor. The Prophet, informed by Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, is moved emotionally by the amount of suffering human beings continue to inflict on each other. Zarathustra calls for a Higher Mind, the product of rapid human evolution in a world that reveals how maladaptive Home sapiens is. The Professor speaks of the nature of t...