The Evolution of Consciousness - The entire history of mankind affects our inner life, mostly without our knowledge. Often this influence on our soul is so subtly and finely ingrained in our patterns of behaviour that we view them as a matter of course, unaware that and how they separate us from what we really want and what is important to us. In a way, our personal life story represents a miniature repetition of human cultural development in general. The challenges we are confronted with our individual lives are similar to those that all man-kind has had to take up. Thus, we can learn from our precursors in history how we might succeed in life but also how we might fail.