Theos-Talk Archives (October 2004 Message tt00186)

In a message dated 10/08/04 8:29:34 AM, clarity12.1@j... writes:

>Now imagine a savant kid about 13 who knows all this stuff explaining it
>to Ted a bright young man who has a deep curiousity--a need to know.
>
>What does the character need to know and why... thus why is this info so
>important to humanity now and how can we help them SEE it and understand
>its value.
>
>It needs to be playful, visual, dramatic and methphoric, thus project 
memorable
>moments of time released insights for the viewer.
> 
>r

Well, that's why we need theosophically minded "artists" who can interpret 
the scientific explanation of the theosophical truths, and find the right 
metaphors, word pictures, and other "magical" tricks of the audio/visual, poetic, 
and illustrative arts that reaches above the rational mind, and inspires an 
intuitive understanding in the higher mind -- that even a child as young as seven 
can comprehend. 

For an example, we might look at the way Einstein explained relativity as 
word pictures and metaphorical analogies in his first papers -- that, he said, 
was written so that a child could understand it. When I read them at eight -- 
(my father was an early believer and student of Einstein and perhaps he used me 
as test subject:-) -- it generated pictorial images in my mind that made much 
sense to me, and afterward I could intelligently answer questions about it. 
Later, I was able to use that comprehension to help me intuitively grasp the 
concept of ABC as an almost instantaneous epiphany -- similar to the way 
Einstein intuited E=mc^2 (from studying the SD when he was a teenager) -- long 
before he sat down to try and explain it in words and had to invent a new 
mathematics of tensors (or tensional vectors) to picture it both metaphysically and 
scientifically. Incidentally, this intuition was what inspired him to study 
physics and eventually become a professor -- so he could use the language of 
science to explain it to the scientific community. Later, it was up to the audio 
visual artists to made it clear to ordinary people without any scientific 
background. If I remember, Peter Ustinoff narrated and played a leading role in 
beautiful documentary on Nova with a humorous and interesting story line that 
fully illustrated all of Einstein's theories. 

As another example of how science can be made understandable to a 13 year old 
in words, metaphors and pictures, I suggest reading Stephan Hawking's fully 
illustrated "The Universe in a Nutshell." All one has to do to add theosophy 
to his explanations -- is to include consciousness in the equation, and overlay 
the metaphysical ideas of Cosmogenesis and Anthropogenesis as put forth in 
the SD, and more or less fully explained (from a scientific and multidimensional 
geometric, graphical visualization point of view) in the ABC theory. It's 
also good to remember that a picture is worth a thousand words

Incidentally, I have no trouble explaining ABC to a curious child before he 
is conventionally educated, or to an older person who is intuitively 
spiritually minded and curious about the technicalities of how they came to be. It's 
also easy to explain it to someone who has already studied theosophical 
metaphysics in some depth. The big difficulty is in trying to explain it to either an 
uneducated or educated person who is not spiritually minded, philosophically 
oriented, or curious about how the universe actually works. Not to say that 
it can't be done with artistic use of animation, word pictures, and other 
audio/visual graphical methods -- along with a gripping and sensitively dramatic 
story line that can absorb a broad audience's interest... In spite of the 
"message," BTW -- which can, and must be (if such a presentation is to gain mass 
media exposure) -- mosty subliminal. "After all," as Shakespeare might have said 
(and probably did:-), "it's the story that counts."

Best wishes,

Leonardo
http://tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics