Theos-Talk Archives (March 1998 Message tt00088)

Here are some remarks (and book references) to Steiner's contribution to
Ufology.
Brenda

Gone forever was the craven search for "messages" from spaceman.
Dr. Steiner had presented in modern scientific form, for
modern consciousness, the necessary cosmo-conception and valid
indications for the renewal of human life and culture along
functional lines. His work was not confined to things normally
deemed of the spirit. He went deep into such seemingly
compartmentalized realms of thought as medicine and economics,
pedagogy and biology, pharmacology and zoology, drama,
philosophy, and agriculture. Everything he touched, he renewed
and revivified.
Jules Saurwein, the Paris savant who had known all the great
thinkers of the times, deemed Steiner the most impressive figure
in European cultural life in the 20th century. With my mounting
suspicion of orthodox conceptions, I contrasted the two or
three lines devoted to Steiner in the encyclopedias with the
overwhelming, massive literature he left his fellow humans. I
could not square the incomprehension and the sequestration of
Steiner's genius with the inflated biographies in the same
encyclopedias out lining the lives of the life-killing
developers of nuclear weaponry.
Franklin Thomas presented me with a monumental book entitled
"Man or Matter" by Ernst Lehrs, Ph.D., one of Steiner's own
students. An electrical engineer and mathematician, Dr. Lehrs
presented in this book not only the history of man's cognitive
impasse -- out of which has sprung the Great Impasse of ufology -
but also the method of surmounting these difficulties. All of
it was presented in a healthy and modern way on the bedrock laid
by Goethe and later modernized and expanded by Steiner.
Lehrs spread himself out over such seemingly unrelated
disciplines as optics, biology, meteorology, geology, botany,
and mechanics, unifying these diverse fields in a functional
approach so that one could see the inner connections they all
bore to each of her. This book had a decisive influence on me.
I had already begun field research in UFO photography. I was
putting to the test the fundamental suggestion for photographing
invisible presences in the atmosphere of the earth that had been
given to me during the final phases of my experiments with
psychic communication.
"Man or Matter" acquainted me with the Goethean approach to
optics, light, and color; and, the more I experimented, the more
Goethean I became. Lehrs also dealt in detail with the visual
ray or eye beam -- a ray of biological energy by which
consciousness is carried outside the body to objects in space.
Armed with this knowledge, some simple occult exercises, and
conventional cameras with conventional infrared film, I began
the practical field work. The knowledge involved and methods
employed will now be described.
Excerpt from:
THE COSMIC PULSE OF LIFE
(c) 1976 Trevor J. Constable
Revised and Enlarged Edition:
(c) 1990 Trevor James Constable
Published through special arrangement with:
Merlin Press, Tustin, CA,
by Borderlands Research Science Foundation
PO Box 220, Bayside, CA 95524
(707) 825-7733