Man, or human existence, is a moment or stage in the evolutionary struggle of the total Realm of Nature toward a Condition of absolute identification between matter and energy.
Man himself is like the spectrum of light visible to the human eye. He is made up of only a few colors. And what ‘colors’, or kinds of existence, precede and follow Man are a Mystery to Man, just as what kind of experience precedes the birth and follows the death of any individual is a Mystery to that individual. – Adi Da Samraj
The Vision of Fear-No-More 