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Re: Theos-World Re: Bees Knees

May 02, 2007 05:51 PM
by Cass Silva


Leon
  I am so glad you have brought up this issue.  I get frustrated when only receive mail about who said what, who did what 100 years ago.  It seems to me that the world is going quite mad at the moment and as theosophists we are still dallying with the founders.  Is this truly what HPB wanted when she gave us the Ancient Teachings?
   
  We can only assist others if we get HPB's teachings out to the general public.  I am busy on several forums which are curious about what she actually had to say.
   
  When I see Theos Talk all I can think is about Barbra Streisand, "Talk amongst yourselves"
   
  I think the time for study is over, it is now time for action.  Now time to walk the walk.
   
  Cass
  

leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
          Rad,

Guess that's the way it has to be. One way or the other, the planet someday 
will have to be cleared of the bulk of its human population that keeps 
increasing in greater and greater numbers to eventually reach a point -- which is 
not too far off -- where the global ecoology can't support them and their 
infrastructures any longer. 

Besides, isn't it necessary to make room for the new cycle of the now 
infiltrating sixth family race -- with a higher level of mental/moral (Buddhi 
nature) development -- so as to continue the human evolution to an even higher 
level before the sixth subrace appears? (Or is it subrace and root race?) I 
have no trouble wrapping my mind around that aspect of theosophical teachings... 
Since the possibility of such round and race evolution it describes, is 
perfectly consistent with the ABC model -- which sees evolution, on all its levels, 
and particularly the physical, much like the "morphic resonance" interaction 
of hyperspace morphogenetic or "morphic" fields, as explained by Rupert 
Sheldrake in his book "A New science of Life."

Both Blavatsky and I (among many others, I suspect) thought this culling 
could be caused by a sudden geographic pole shift, or series of volcanic disasters 
due to intelligent nature reflecting back mankind's accumulated evil 
thoughts. Or, if it occurred as the result of human actions -- we could have 
anticipated a global warming and massive floods, a worldwide pandemic, or a globally 
catastrophic nuclear war. 

Who would have thought it could be the lowly bees that were destined (or 
chosen) to do the work? They gave us our nourishment, and now, they seem to be 
taking away.

It's ironic... But looking at the way mankind's greed and ignorance of their 
true nature have done it to themselves, it seems quite appropriate, don't you 
think? 

Isn't the purpose of each of our lives, to learn the lessons that we need to 
know to arrive at self realization and to achieve a "nucleus," then a seed, 
and ultimately a tree -- as a universal brotherhood of all mankind -- so as to 
continue its further evolution toward its ultimate godlike nature -- with each 
of us a consciously aware part of it? Isn't that the ultimate reward for all 
individual points of Mankind's consciousness on this globe who manage to 
survive through the whole lifetime of the manvantara without losing their 
conscience or inner light, and perhaps ending up isolated in the world of dark matter? 
So, what's lost, if much of the current world population is starved out of 
existence? Especially, since they are the one's who caused it. Doesn't 
perfect justice in the form of karma, as you sow, so hall you reap, rule the 
world? And, aren't the lives of our descendents as important as our present 
lives? Especially, if such descendants could be part of the incoming higher 
evolved mankind that we will ultimately be reborn into. Much food for thought 
here, eh... Even for the skeptics -- who can't imagine or think about any 
possibility of consciousness beyond their present material lifetimes. 

BTW, the theosophical origin of the bees and the ants, along with us -- as a 
necessary support of the ecology that, in turn, supports the universal 
consciousness expressed in Man -- might make sense if we assume that HPB was using a 
metaphor, i.e., Moon as a substitute for Mother or primal matter, out of 
whose bosom all life arises and evolves. She also taught that the physical moon 
was simply the shell of the dead Earth left over from a previous 
manifestation or Manvantara -- that was necessary to stay and encircle around so as to 
help maintain the orbit of the earth, and support the circadian rhythms of all 
life, as well as acting as the mirror to reflect the highest spiritual rays of 
the Sun during sleep -- to regenerate the life energy used up during waking 
hours.

As I see it, all of that is easily explained, scientifically, by analogy and 
correspondence -- from the standpoint of the ABC field's initial radiation, 
fractal involution and subsequent evolution -- based on the second fundamental 
principle of cyclic (harmonic) laws of electrodynamics... That act in 
conjunction with the (first principle) ineffable zero-point origin of mother SPACE with 
its abstract motion or spinergy, and the (third principle) ultimate purpose 
of evolution, supported by reincarnation and karma.

So, maybe the bees are really our saviors -- both in the beginning and ending 
of our lives on Earth. 

Sounds pretty reasonable to me, and perfectly in accord with the theosophical 
teachings.

What do you think?

Len
P.S. And that doesn't let me off the hook either... Since back in the early 
seventies, I was entrapreneurially working on starting a worldwide cellphone 
empowered communication network. Was it my good karma to have failed in all 
my previous enterprises leading to that one -- which also never could be 
consummated due to my lack of sufficient personal wealth? Although, there were 
plenty of other such electronic business startups that made it all the way to 
the present morass of bee extermination, and ultimately, a goodly portion of the 
human race... If that really is the cause, and not equally greed-driven, 
worldwide biochemical dispersion, global warming, etc. Either way... Same 
difference. We did it to ourselves. And, by now, I think it's much too late in 
the game to reverse any of it. Somehow, however, it makes me happy to have 
been a technological business failure. </:-)~

In a message dated 5/2/07 10:02:51 AM, rpera@austin.rr.com writes:

> 
> Well,
> Â 
> Blavatsky said that only bees, ants and rice made it to Earth from the 
> Moon. I could never wrap my head around that â??from the Moonâ?? stuff, but I have 
> always acknowledged another import of her statement: that bees are ESSENTIAL 
> to life on this planet.
> Â 
> The web of life is SO fragile.  We got along without cell-phones for long 
> enough after carsâ?¦ dâ??ya think we could give them up to save life as we know 
> it?  (Then again, perhaps it is that very thing, â??life as we know itâ?? that 
> should not be savedâ?¦) Either way, according to Einstein (one of your mentors) we
> â??ve only got a few years leftâ?¦ Who wouldâ??a thunk it would happen this way?  
> Oh, Iâ??m sure a few people did. 
> Â 
> And there is a certain radical beauty about it: no â??terrorist threatâ??, not 
> some â??foreign dictatorâ??, no individual â??evil manâ??, but just us â?? every one 
> of us phone-carrying humans is to blame â?? innocently, and yet collectively.  
> Weâ??ve â??technologicizedâ?? ourselves into oblivion. Thatâ??s been the 
> overriding â??terror visionâ?? all along hasnâ??t it, that weâ??d do ourselves in?  Hey, we 
> were right!  I mean wrong� I mean right about being wrong.  Wrong-headed, 
> that is.  Irresponsible, un-steward-like, rushing to permeate the planet with 
> deadly, invisible, odorless micro-waves without first testing ALL of the 
> possible fall-out. 
> Â 
> Why?
> Â 
> Greed first, then convenience. Greed on the part of mega-corps who saw how 
> marketing cell-phones to everyone and their sister would yield unprecedented 
> profit, and our notion of convenience: never having to stop to make a phone 
> call, and the seduction of the self-importance that luxury engenders. 
> Â 
> What a price to pay for it!
> Â 
> Oh well.  Itâ??ll be interesting to see just how selfish humans are when, in 
> a very short amount of time weâ??re all squarely faced with letting go of 
> something we considered â??Progressâ?? but is in the end the opposite!
> Â 
> Its been a fun ride (sorta-kinda),
> Radames Pera
> Â 
> Â 
> 
> Â 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LeonMaurer@aol.com [mailto:LeonMaurer@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:47 PM
> To: undisclosed-recipients:
> Subject: Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
> Â 
> The Independent newspaper (London), 15 April 2007.
> Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
> 
> Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony 
> collapse' of bees
> 
> By Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross
> 
> It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some 
> scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food 
> shortages, as the world's harvests fail.
> 
> They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile 
> phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre 
> mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of 
> the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that 
> the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - 
> was beginning to hit Britain as well.
> 
> The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' 
> navigation systems [cf. the honeybee 'waggle' dance in the psychophysical 
> sixth-dimension], preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way 
> back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back 
> this up.
> 
> Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly 
> disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many 
> apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die 
> singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid 
> the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere 
> near the abandoned hives.
> 
> The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all 
> American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its 
> commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast.
> 
> CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and 
> Greece. And last week John Chapple, one of London's biggest bee-keepers, 
> announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned.
> 
> Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west 
> England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: 
> "There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK."
> 
> The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops 
> depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees 
> disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".
> 
> No one knows why it is happening. Theories involving mites, pesticides, 
> global warming and GM crops have been proposed, but all have drawbacks.
> 
> German research has long shown that bees' behaviour changes near power 
> lines.
> 
> Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to 
> return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who 
> carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible cause.
> 
> Dr George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the US government and mobile 
> phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: "I am convinced 
> the possibility is real."
> 
> The case against handsets
> 
> Evidence of dangers to people from mobile phones is increasing. But proof is 
> still lacking, largely because many of the biggest perils, such as cancer, 
> take decades to show up.
> 
> Most research on cancer has so far proved inconclusive. But an official 
> Finnish study found that people who used the phones for more than 10 years were 
> 40 per cent more likely to get a brain tumour on the same side as they held 
> the handset. [BEB: from memory, there are more handsets per capita in Finland 
> than anywhere in the world.]
> 
> Equally alarming, blue-chip Swedish research revealed that radiation from 
> mobile phones killed off brain cells, suggesting that today's teenagers could 
> go senile in the prime of their lives. [BEB: I thought they already were.]
> 
> Studies in India and the US have raised the possibility that men who use 
> mobile phones heavily have reduced sperm counts. And, more prosaically, doctors 
> have identified the condition of "text thumb", a form of RSI from constant 
> texting.
> 
> Professor Sir William Stewart, who has headed two official inquiries, warned 
> that children under eight should not use mobiles and made a series of safety 
> recommendations, largely ignored by ministers.
> 
> 
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