You could retort: what about modern progress? Haven’t we ourselves steadily achieved space-flight, nanotechnology and particle colliders? Or did someone else toss us these ideas as well? Let’s find out.
Before all else, we are researching the question of happiness, its achievement through realization of the meaning of life and of one’s purpose, which, in turn, comes from understanding the nature of creation, your soul and the program for its fulfillment. This is in no way related to colliders and nanotechnology, and they, just like all other technological achievements, will not bring anyone happiness. In fact, they’ve become yet another barrier on the road to it.
At first glance this sounds strange, but only at first. Upon closer examination we find a completely different picture.
In the first place, it has been precisely established that the brain does not develop thoughts, but rather serves only as their receptor and point of transfer to the nervous system. The transmission of these thoughts results from some “psychological principle” which is located outside the person. This is the opinion of John Carew Eccles (1903—1997), Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine, and is shared by many of his colleagues and upheld by the numerous examples from everyday life of people who, in general, have no brains. We’ll return to this question in the next chapter, but at the moment we’re simply establishing this fact in order to shine a light on the sources of our progress.
Second of all, the transition from one era to another does not occur instantly, but takes place over a certain period. It reminds one of a natural awakening, with no alarm clock. In the ultimate phase of the sleep cycle, the influence of the factors which gave rise to the cycle is constantly weakening and it becomes possible to take in new information. Recall what we said earlier about the intensity of the Earth’s magnetic field: “2,500 years ago it was 1.5 times greater than it is now. A sharp fall in the intensity occurred 500 years ago, and in the intervening 200 years it has decreased to its current levels.”
This means that 500 years ago, that is, in the sixteenth century, a “window of opportunity” for progress opened. As is known, it is connected with the scientific development, known as the scientific revolution, which took place in Western Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. All the works produced before this time are considered by scholars to be “pre-scientific.”
Then, 500 years ago, humanity faced a choice of paths for its development. There were two choices: theological or technological. And while the Church at that time was extremely influential, mankind all the same chose the second path, beginning a movement away from God towards materialism.
Only that which can be measured, weighed by logic, researched with the help of physical instruments and reproduced many times under laboratory conditions is considered to be scientific. The human soul does not fall under this category, and for this reason not only does it remain outside the framework of scientific research, but its very existence has been subjected to doubt and even denial. Scientists who try to punch a hole in our ignorance by researching “forbidden” topics that lie beyond the bounds of orthodox science have been expelled from the official scientific community. Every sort of commission imaginable for rooting out pseudoscience has ruthlessly hounded these daredevils without even taking a look at their scientific merits and knowledge.
In the Soviet Union, for example, the genial scientist and academician Igor Tamm was rudely criticized for having taken liberties in his textbook The Fundamental Theories of Electricity (1946) when he lightly touched upon the theory of torsion fields influencing biological processes. This theory didn’t fit within the traditional framework of prevailing materialist notions and “smelled of” idealism. As a result, the material that “compromised legitimate science” was removed from the textbook and Tamm, like Galileo, was forced to renounce his views. Academician Tamm escaped this “minor scare” and later, in 1958, even became a Nobel laureate.
History knows many similar examples of the hounding of forward-thinking academics, and many such trailblazers were, in earlier times, awaited not by the critiques of their colleagues, but by the fires of the inquisition, the guillotine, or the psychiatric ward.
In connection with this, we would do well to recall the universal Law of Conservation, which reads: “If something is added in one location, that same amount is lost in another.” In this instance this means that a strong leaning to the side of materialism leads to a sharp reduction (and in places to complete obliteration) of knowledge about the soul and all things associated with it. If, in scientific circles, and in society as well, official science is considered the highest authority, then all those who put forth ideas about the World of Souls, guardian angels, telepathy or communication with the souls of the dead are instantly labeled “mystics” and equally accused of stupidity.
In the third place, the technological path of development brings with it a great threat for all of humanity.
In April of 2009 all the major world news agencies distributed materials from a report by American scientists studying the Sun’s behavior. This report was named “Severe Space Weather Events – Societal and Economic Impacts” and contained information about the possibility of a “perfect solar” electromagnetic storm hitting the Earth in September 2012. Scientists predict that as a result an electromagnetic catastrophe will take place on the Earth: all energy and heating systems will go out of commission, all transformers will be burned out, and it will be impossible to replace them. The factories that produce them will also be paralyzed.
One probably doesn’t need to be an expert to imagine what would happen if the world was left without electrical energy.
In reality, the report shouldn’t have been called “Severe Space Weather Events” but rather “Severe Consequences of the Technological Path of Development, Which We Rashly Chose 500 Years Ago.”
The things is, magnetic storms are a frequent phenomenon on the Sun, and storms of the magnitude reported by these American scientists have struck the Earth before, but didn’t lead to any catastrophes. The last such storm took place in 1859, but humanity came to practically no harm at all. At that time the world wasn’t dependent on the sources of energy without which we can’t even take a step today.
However, don’t be too quick to panic. Russian scientists, who study the Sun no less carefully than their American colleagues, do not share their pessimism. Boris Somov, head of the Department for Solar Physics at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, announced that the level of modern science doesn’t allow us to see that far ahead. The furthest in advance that we can predict solar flares is one week.
We fully share the opinion of the Russian scientists. Science today is not even in a condition to predict the precise date of the impending eruption of a volcano that is strewn with sensors. It fails to notice the massive asteroids flying a dangerously close distance from Earth. Tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes as a rule spring upon us abruptly, and the weather forecasts are generally grossly far from reality even just a week ahead of time.
But this theoretical catastrophe does, of course, resemble actual events. The six million residents of Canada likely still remember when, in 1989, they were left without power for a period of 9 hours after a magnetic storm. Ten million residents of various European countries lived through a similar headache in 2006 after an energy failure in Germany.
And so, we can come to the conclusion that by the beginning of the twentieth century humanity had already acquired enough technological development, materialist frame of mind and spiritual ignorance (not counting certain exceptions). It’s well known how and in what direction development proceeded in the course of the last hundred years: the Epoch of Ignorance tenaciously held in its embrace almost all of humanity, but its grip on civilization weakened with each year. People simultaneously began to feel the positive energies of the incoming Epoch of Aquarius.
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