Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tt00001)

I don't quite get it.  I agree that the article is important and
thought-provoking.  The part I don't get is how it shows that
modern archeology is approaching HPB's teaching so much.

The basic assertion of the article, or at least it seems so to
me, is this: ".  .  .science and THE SECRET DOCTRINE are in
agreement on sequences and many events in the fossil record."

Unfortunately, the only example of similarity of sequence given
is the agreement that dinosaurs left the scene before the rise of
the mammals, presumably including semi-modern (4th root-race) or
modern (5th root-race) humanity.  Is this such an important point
of "agreement"? After all, either the dinosaurs left first or
they didn't--a fifty-fifty chance.  Another thing to consider, of
course, is that science has the event occurring 50+ million years
before HPB did.

The article proceeds to explain this by calling into question
radiometric dating--i.e., the possibility that radioactive decay
started out slowly and then speeded up to its current pace.  The
author says we must therefore be "bilingual," converting, for
example, a SD time of 18 million years ago into its "scientific
equivalent" which would be 130 million years ago.  Interesting.
It would have been even more interesting, however, if the author
could have shown how modern archeology is now starting to
question its own radiometric dating systems (I don't know if they
are or are not).

Then, in my opinion, the article sort of disproves its basic
contention about agreement regarding sequences of events.  We
learn that humans and dinosaurs actually ~were~ on the planet
together--in fact, the 3rd root-race and dinosaurs disappearing
together as a result of the same planetary cateclysms.  Granted,
humanity had not yet "began to separate into two sexes" at this
point; however, it is hard to envision modern science and HPB
smilingly shaking hands on this mutual knowledge.

So anyway, while I liked the article, I didn't think it
necessarily showed that modern archeology is making a
"considerable approach" toward what is contained in THE SECRET
DOCTRINE.  Ditto for its passing mention of modern medicine,
biology, and physics which are supposedly "approaching more the
thinking of the wisdom tradition" because of the advent of
holistic medicine, morphogenetic fields and quantum consciousness
[?].

Thus, while perhaps I "didn't quite get it" enough to be as
"inspired" by the article as Rich was, at least I thought it was
an interesting stretching exercise.  .  .  .