Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00327)

Aug 30 2005

RE: Latest scientific news from Physorg.
Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon
Man's FORM EVOLUTION ? 

Dear Kathy:

As I learn from THEOSOPHY :

Savage and civilized cultures have co-existed since the beginning of time.
They are not would-wide slices in co-existent time, indicating the maturing
of all groups, tribes races at one and the same time.

Look at our present. We have in remote areas hardly a touch of
civilization -- and the "savages" there, uncultured and illiterate, use our
discards as though they were miracles - inexplicable, irreplaceable,
sometimes useless, but in all cases matchless -- and to them valuable.
What use is a watch to them? 

This perspective is often lost in civilized areas (see this )

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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 
 
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! 
 
 
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they 
carried us. 
  
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get
tested for diabetes. 
  
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored 
lead-based paints. 
  
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we

rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took 
hitchhiking. 
  
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. 
  
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. 
  
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. 
  
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE 
actually died from this. 
  
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar
in it, but we weren't overweight because 
  
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING ! 
  
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back

when the streetlights came on. 
  
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. 
  
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down 
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the 
bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. 
  
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no

99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell 
phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........
  
WE HAD FRIENDS 
and we went outside and
found them! 
  
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no 
lawsuits from these accidents. 
  
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us
forever. 
  
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, but we made up games with
sticks and tennis balls, and although we were told it would happen, we did
not put out very many eyes.   
  
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang 
the bell, or just walked in and talked to them! 
  
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't 
had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! 
  
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They

actually sided with the law! 
  
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers 
and inventors ever! [ Is it worth advertising? ]
  
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. [ Are
we better ? ]
  
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned 
 
HOW TO 
DEAL WITH IT ALL! 
   
And YOU are one of them! 
 
CONGRATULATIONS!   
 
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You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as

kids, before the lawyers and the government [and Greed and Fear ] regulated
our lives for our own good. 
  
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave
their parents were. 
  
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with ----------- !!!!,
doesn't it?! 
 
Don't gnash your teeth - you're already on your second or third set! The
dentist will love you!

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Back to interpretative and theoretical anthropology: 

Take the present cyclonic catastrophe in New Orleans and the So. East U S A,
and, recall that analogy of the last year's end -- the Tsunami in So Asia,
and the Indian Ocean countries. 

Suddenly civilization failed. How many could / or were able to cope with
primitive conditions suddenly imposed on them?  

How many of us city and town dwellers know anything about current village
life, as it is presently lived there ? -- crops, husbandry, fishing, etc?
To us they are the uncultured -- perhaps we think of them as a lower kind of
human being ? 

The "survival skills? Who teaches and who learns them? What are essentials
for self and others? Can we organize them? 

Take away electricity, gasoline (petrol), purified water, and the shelter
(and conveniences, such as running water, and sewage disposal) of a home or
an apartment -- who knows how to start a fire with wood, stone and friction?
or with a Sun-lens? 

How to keep warm and dry? Where to find shelter? What can we use as a
cooking pot? 

Do we know how to swim, or float on water for a while? [A plastic trash bag
stuffed in our pocket takes up little room but it would help us float, if
dumped off a boat in a river, lake or sea -- and with that, we could even
rescue others.]

Do we carry a good pen-knife (or matches in a water-proof container) all the
time? 

When we enter a room do we automatically check for the exists? 

Need one go on in a practical manner?

"Be Alert, be Prepared!" - is also one of the Theosophical mottoes.

Best wishes, 

Dallas

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ps

Here are some references to help

{ with courtesy of the T P H, Pasadena }

SECRET DOCTRINE References


NEANDERTHAL MAN

of earliest Paleolithic age II 722-4 
skull of, not apelike II 193n, 729 
skull of, average capacity II 686n, 687



PALEOLITHIC MAN. See also Cro-Magnon

Africo-Atlantean stock II 740-1, 790-1,
age of II 206 
Atlantean karma & II 721, 741 
civilized man lived beside II 522, 717 
disappeared II 741 
Neolithic & II 722-4 
non-cannibal II 715, 716n, 723 
not fr "missing link" II 717 
not small-brained II 686n 
in Palestine before nephilim II 775 
period betw, & Neolithic man II 715n 
remains of, at Kent's cavern II 724 
remarkable artist II 715-21 
savage & civilized II 317 
skeleton of, superior II 257-8


CRO-MAGNON

American natives, Basques, & II 792 
Atlantean karma crushed II 740 &n, 741 
Canary Island Guanches & II 678 &n, 740 
in Europe before glaciers II 740n 
large-brained race II 678, 687 &n, 740 
offshoots of Atlanteans II 678n, 740 &n 
in South France II 790n


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ANTHROPOGENESIS

fallen angels key to II 274 
materialistic & occult II 157, 651 
Stanzas of Dzyan on II 15-21 
various systems of I 213-22, 308; II 83-5, 168, 274, 797


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ANTHROPOID(S). See also Ape, Gorilla, Pithecoid

born in mid-Miocene I 184n 
brain size of, & man II 193n 
bred in sin by Atlanteans II 193-5, 200, 286, 679, 688, 689 
chasm betw man & II 189, 665n 
created by senseless man I 185n 
crossbreeding produced II 262, 286-8 
descended fr man II 185, 187, 287-8, 682 
fossil relics of man & II 675-80 
have degenerated II 676, 682 
human features of II 688n 
"human presentments" I 183 
hybrids possible in fourth race II 195 
man &, common ancestor II 646 
man preceded, in this round II 1 
monsters ancestors of II 184n, 201, 375 
none before Miocene II 688n, 690n 
none in "brighter" Atlantis II 679 
Pastrana species fr II 717n 
some, will be human in fifth round I 184; II 261-3 
third round ape-man & II 730 
unnatural, accidental creation II 261 
will die out in our race I 184



ANTHROPOLOGY II 67, 437, 645-55, 686

dates of, differ fr Secret Doctrine II 794 
French school of II 288 
genesis of, begins at wrong end I 246 
modern, & occultism II 71 
occult, & human eye II 295


ROUND, THIRD

animals fr man in II 186-7, 684-5 
ape image of, man I 180, 190; II 728-9 
ape-man of, & anthropoid II 730 
astral relics of, used in fourth round II 730 
developed fire, earth, water I 251-2 &n 
developed third element (water) I 252 
fossils fr II 68n, 684, 712 
globe watery in I 252n 
human monad & animal kingdom in II 185 
insects & birds created in II 290 
latest human arrivals fr II 168 
lunar fathers human at end of II 115 
lunar gods lead humans in I 174 
man huge & apelike I 188-90; II 57n, 185, 261-2, 688n 
man passed animal stage in II 299 
man's changes in, parallel fourth II 257 
man's stature decreases I 188 
manus of II 309 
perception of water in I 252 
relics of, objectivized II 731 
shadowy man of, & fourth I 233 
some pitris human in I 182 
third race repeats, man I 188-9 
types formed fourth round types II 257 
Vasishtha-Daksha's sons in II 78


ROUND, FOURTH

animals of, consolidated fr third round II 186-7, 730 
anthropoids' monads will pass into astral human forms I 184 
apes reached human stage before II 262 
appearance of vegetation in II 290n 
astral man in beginning of II 170 
buddhas appointed to govern in I 108-9 
cataclysms most intense II 149 
crustacea, fishes, reptiles preceded physical man in II 594n 
developed fire, air, water, earth I 251-2 
diagram of root-races in II 300 
door to humankind closes I 173, 182, 184-5 
Earth settles, hardens I 159 
Earth's existence prior to I 252-3 &n 
equilibrium betw spirit & matter I 106, 192; II 300-1 
ether visible toward close of I 12, 140 
fifth & sixth round men in I 161-2; II 167 
first speaking race of II 452 
forms of, fr third round II 257, 684 
four lower principles developed in II 167 
four only of seven truths given in I 42 
humanity as two sexes eighteen million years old I 150n 
humanity develops in I 159 
intellect develops in I 189 
latest arriving monads in II 168 
mammals fr man in I 455; II 168-9, 186-7, 635, 683-4 
man an animal up to mid- II 161 
man first mammalian in II 1, 155, 187; II 288 
man on Earth fr beginning of II 254 
man physical in II 310 
man ready for mind in mid- II 161-2 
man's frame ready at beginning of II 660 
man storehouse of seeds for II 289-90 
manus in II 309, 321 
materialization in II 68n 
Matsya avatara & Vaivasvata in I 369 
matter spiritualizes at mid- I 185-6, 232 
mid-, ends descending arc I 232; II 180 
mind link betw spirit & matter in I 182 
minerals receive final opacity in II 730 
minerals, vegetables before man I 159 
Noah story & beginning of I 444n 
pitris evolve shadows on globe A I 174 
pitris ooze apelike forms I 180 
polar continent lasts entire II 400n 
pre-septenary manvantara II 308n 
primordial vegetable life II 712 
produced hard material sphere I 260 
Secret Doctrine volume two deals w I 22; II 68n 
sedimentation 320 million years ago II 715n 
seven pralayas in I 172 &n; II 329 
seventh stage of materiality II 308n 
shadowy man in, as in third I 233 
sixth sense & permeability I 258 
those who refused to create in I 191 
turning point I 182, 185-6 
Vaivasvata Seed-Manu on globe D II 146-7 
vegetation of, & soft minerals II 730 
veiled record of, in Puranas II 253 
we are now in I 232; II 47, 301, 307, 434


ROUND, FIFTH. See also Fifth Rounders

anthropoids & men in I 184; II 261-2 
ether familiar as air in I 12, 140, 257-8 
field of resurrection (Norse) II 100 
higher senses will grow in I 258 
manus for II 309 
men have been incarnating I 161 
mind fully developed in II 162, 167, 301 
permeability of matter in I 258

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-----Original Message-----
From: Cass Silva
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 8:34 PM
To: 

Subject: Latest scientific news from Physorg.


Cass: Another confirmation that Neanderthal and australopithecus shared the
same place at the same time.

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ASU researcher Ana Pinto is shedding some light on an age-old mystery in
anthropology: What was the relationship between Neanderthals and early
humans? 

When the team's test excavation reached the 12th level, they found what they
had been hoping for: primitive scraping tools, fashioned out of retouched
stone flakes, lying next to bone fragments of some prehistoric feast. The
tools differed from those normally associated with modern humans, indicating
they belonged to a Neanderthal culture. 

Given that Pinto's evidence shows that Neanderthals and modern humans shared
a common location at a time when evidence shows that both species may have
been in Europe, it seems likely that the two species would have encountered
one another. 



Cass: Keely's invention might still be verified yet!

August 29, 2005 

Chemists are several steps closer to teasing hydrogen fuel from water
using man-made molecular devices that collect electrons and use them to
split hydrogen from oxygen. 

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Cass: Is Einstein's theory being questioned?

Either of these two scenarios rules out Einstein's cosmological constant. In
their paper Linder and Caldwell show, for the first time, how to cleanly
separate Einstein's idea from other possibilities. Under any scenario,
however, dark energy is a force that must be reckoned with. 

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Image: Today's universe is expanding at an accelerating rate because dark
energy counteracts the force of gravity. In the early universe matter was
closer together, and gravity still slowed its expansion. 

Says Linder, "Because dark energy makes up about 70 percent of the content
of the universe, it dominates over the matter content. That means dark
energy will govern expansion and, ultimately, determine the fate of the
universe." 

In 1998, two research groups rocked the field of cosmology with their
independent announcements that the expansion of the universe is
accelerating. By measuring the redshift of light from Type Ia supernovae,
deep-space stars that explode with a characteristic energy, teams from the
Supernova Cosmology Project headquartered at Berkeley Lab and the High-Z
Supernova Search Team centered in Australia determined that the expansion of
the universe is actually accelerating, not decelerating. The unknown force
behind this accelerated expansion was given the name "dark energy." 

Prior to the discovery of dark energy, conventional scientific wisdom held
that the Big Bang had resulted in an expansion of the universe that would
gradually be slowed down by gravity. If the matter content in the universe
provided enough gravity, one day the expansion would stop altogether and the
universe would fall back on itself in a Big Crunch. If the gravity from
matter was insufficient to completely stop the expansion, the universe would
continue floating apart forever. 

"From the announcements in 1998 and subsequent measurements, we now know
that the accelerated expansion of the universe did not start until sometime
in the last 10 billion years," Caldwell says. 

Cosmologists are now scrambling to determine what exactly dark energy is. In
1917 Einstein amended his General Theory of Relativity with a cosmological
constant, which, if the value was right, would allow the universe to exist
in a perfectly balanced, static state. Although history's most famous
physicist would later call the addition of this constant his "greatest
blunder," the discovery of dark energy has revived the idea. 

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Image: Dark energy is an exotic repulsive force that could make up as much
as three-quarters of the cosmos. Possibilities include a cosmological
constant or dynamical quintessence, both of which can be represented by
scalar fields, like a field of springs covering every point in space. For a
cosmological constant (left), each spring would be the same length and
motionless. For quintessence (right), each spring would be stretched to a
different length.