Theos-Talk Archives (February 2002 Message tt00893)

Dear Leon,

I appreciate very much the information you offer, that related to 
science itself as well as your own experiences and those of your 
friends and acqaintances. It is a rare privilege to be allowed inside 
the realm of science in such a way. 

Sometimes it seems as if the world, and humanity with it, may be 
trembling on the brink of destruction. We have such power and so 
little control, so little ethical understanding of what we are doing, 
it seems. It sounds puny and trite to say it, in the face of such 
huge issues as now face humanity, but I do believe that each one of 
us has the power within to change everything. If we realize that we 
are a part of all life, that the center of our being is the same as 
the center of all, of the universe and everything in it, then we can 
realize also that every act makes a difference. We have so many 
opportunities every day to make choices in accord with the law of our 
nature, our best ethics, our highest ideals. Our choices, even the 
smallest most insignificant-seeming decision, have the power to be 
the one thing needed to make a difference for all. There are no 
little things. I wonder, can we expect our governments, our military, 
our leaders, to be better than we are? Given the tremendous issues at 
hand, do we have time to procrastinate? Is any one of us so perfect 
that we never behave in a selfish, thoughtless, or greedy manner? It 
seems to me that this is one area where theosophy can be tremendously 
beneficial to the individual, helping him to discover how to become 
part of the solution instead of remaining part of the problem. And 
such an individual can become a positive factor in the human 
equation. 

In the meatime, I suppose it helps also to practice acceptance. After 
all, if this is the state of our world, it is so because we helped to 
make it so. And if we are doomed by our technological/scientific 
expertise, then maybe this time we will learn the lesson we have been 
trying to teach ourselves for so many eons, that all life is one and 
that everything counts. 

Best wishes,
Adelasie

On 26 Feb 2002 at 2:11, leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:

> Dear Adelasie,
> 
> Unfortunately, the advanced technology that follows the leading edge
> of new scientific discoveries that have any relationship to the
> fundamental energies of interest to theosophy, are mostly under the
> control of the government... Whose primary interest in the face of
> their current world views and concerns, are military applications,
> followed by the vast economic potentials for those who supply the
> weapons of war, as well as the communications, defense materials,
> record keeping, and control systems necessary to carry out worldwide
> military operations and protect the lives of soldiers in the field --
> among other military considerations. Also, most of these products also
> have potential civilian applications of great economic value. Thus,
> in the face of the nature of the military as well as the political
> mind, the exigencies of their work, as well as the eventual economic
> considerations, along with the plums of material gain that are held
> out for the successful civilian application of their discoveries and
> inventions -- ethical considerations have to be put aside by the
> government and military leaders, as well as the technologists who work
> on these advanced scientific and technological projects.
> 
> On the other hand, the theoretical and experimental scientists who
> discover the fundamental theories that stand behind these
> technologies, are for the most part highly ethical and moral in their
> private lives, but do not let these considerations effect their
> thoughts or interfere with their work as they unfold the secrets of
> nature in their perennial search for ultimate truths (and/or potential
> fame and gain from their discoveries) without being inhibited by the
> possible harmful applications of their work. There are also many
> scientists -- while fairly religious, and even theosophical thinkers,
> as Einstein, and many of his colleagues and followers were -- who
> still cannot control the applications of their theoretical work, even
> though they decry the possible misuse of their discoveries for non
> ethical or immoral purposes. 
> All they can do is warn us of the possible consequences or dangers,
> as 
> Einstein did in his later writings... (Even though he was the one who
> was impelled by Leo Szilard to inform President Roosevelt of the
> Nazis' search for atomic weaponry based on their theories, that led
> the US toward developing the A-bomb.) 
> 
> So, there's a fine line to be drawn between those who use science
> intentionally for nefarious or unethical purposes, and those who use
> it for what appears to be good purposes in the face of their world
> concerns. But, even those applications may cause harm (or "collateral
> damage") -- as well as save lives in the defense of their family,
> friends, or countrymen. It's hard to say, then, what constitutes the
> ethical and moral use of science and its resultant technology -- in
> the face of these disparate concerns on all levels of government,
> defense and economics -- that, ostensibly, as they see it in their
> limited views, contribute to the well being of the majority of people.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, the concerns of the leaders of countries, don't always
> correspond with the needs of the people (as contrasted with their
> "wants"). Vide, the continued use of fossil fuel as a source of
> energy required by almost all scientifically based technologies, that
> causes pollution and damage to living beings as well as to the ecology
> of the Earth's biosphere. 
> 
> This can only change, when science and theosophy become merged into
> one "Gupta Vidya" or Grand Unified Theory of Everything (including
> consciousness) -- that all mankind can accept as the only truth
> necessary to govern both their personal and communal lives on Earth.
> 
> Referring to the many scientists and engineers who worked successfully
> on the first Atomic bombs during WW II, many of them were quite
> disturbed by the application of their work in destroying so many lives
> at Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- But, their mitigation was that so many
> more lives of their own countrymen were saved by not having to face a
> costly invasion of Japan. This, of course, doesn't reduce the moral
> responsibility for so many lost lives... And, some scientists went
> through difficult emotional problems, depressions and nervous
> breakdowns after the war ended. 
> 
> For example, one of my close friends, Dr. Sebastian Perchion, a
> nuclear physicist and engineer who was instrumental in designing the
> trigger mechanism on the initial A-bomb, had a nervous breakdown soon
> after Hiroshima. And, after three years in a Trappist monastery doing
> penance, he went to Nepal following in the footsteps of another
> disallusioned scientist, Richard Alpert (Baba Ram Dass) and became a
> Llama of the Ningmapa sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Returning to the US,
> after several years in a Tibetan monastery, besides changing his
> profession to become a nuclear biologist (like Leo Szilard) he studied
> theosophy in depth for over a year (orally, through me, as a "reader"
> and interpreter of the SD, since he was semi-blind as a result of the
> flash of the Alamagordo "Trinity" test bomb) -- and later, based on
> this study, became my collaborator in helping correlate the ABC theory
> with modern relativity, quantum and string theories. During this
> period, he taught me the fundamentals of relativity, quantum and
> string physics, with emphasis on the technological and engineering
> aspects which aligned with my professional training as a chemical
> engineer along with a strong background in physical chemistry coupled
> with electronic and mechanical systems and industrial product design.
> 
> Unfortunately, Dr. Perchion died (in 1987) before completing the
> mathematics necessary to justify the ABC theory as being, at least,
> analytically consistent with all the other modern theories of physics.
> Since that time, however, the mathematical developments of 10
> dimensional Superstring theory leading to the 11 dimensional M-brane
> synthesis, are finally beginning to mathematically justify the ABC
> concept we envisioned as a direct scientific interpretation of the
> theosophical Cosmogenesis theory of "coadunate but not consubstantial"
> field involution and evolution -- as described symbolically by HPB in
> the SD. 
> 
> The difference in thinking however is that most M-brane theorists
> still look at the their theoretical developmental problem from a
> materialistic or reductive "particulate" point of view -- while ABC
> considers it from a geometrical waveform "informational" direction --
> giving the photon "field" nature primacy over the electron "particle"
> nature as described by conventional physics... Thus, allowing ABC to
> consider energy transformations using coherent (laser) light
> transformed in a spiral-vortex pattern through specialized crystalline
> structures, as well as to incorporate an explanation of consciousness,
> perception and organic "life" energies as part of its technological
> and theoretical, as well as its humanistic aspects. 
> 
> Thus the ABC approach toward zero-point energy transformations are
> based on inductive resonance processes acting between coadunate fields
> of "information," similar to the "coenergetic" transformational
> "consciousness" and "perceptive" processes in sentient beings (whether
> in wakeful or dream states) that do not require any mechanical action
> or moving parts. 
> 
> However, while most of the theoretical work is soon to be completed,
> none of the "reduction to practice" of potential technologies related
> to healing, ecological damage repair, "free" non polluting energy,
> antigravity, space drives, information storage, etc., has been carried
> out -- while my colleagues and I have been and are still studying the
> potential misapplications, and deciding how to avoid or divert them...
> Hopefully, to prevent the mistakes made in the past (and present) with
> technologies stemming from materialistic thinking and personal greed
> -- without prior theosophical, karmic, and other ethical and moral
> considerations. 
> 
> I hope this gives you some further food for thought, both from a
> technological as well as a theosophical scientific point of view, with
> regard to the future potentials of these new scientific "paradigms"
> that will begin to be applied in the very near future -- whether
> through development of ABC or through the current work in zero-point
> M-brane physics -- both of which are in close agreement with
> theosophical principles and metaphysical philosophy.
> 
> LHM
>