First Animal Forms
The first animal forms of the atma (core-self) after it came out of the brahman spiritual effulgence are being discovered or figured by the scientists.
What about the so called transcendentalists?
What are they discovering in meditation about this?
Did you start out as God and then became undone and then you are not resuming yourself as God?
Or did you start out as practically nothing and now you are claiming yourself as God or claiming that you will go back to being nothing (nirvana/brahman efullgence)?
Read this and see if it makes senses, that you were like this initially:
http://www.livescience.com/58622-jellyfish-evolved-before-sponges.html