21st Century Science and Technology

July 15, 1999

What is Required in the 21st Century

"Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense...if all our common sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago."

It should be of no particular surprise that the scientific revolutions of the 21st century, by definition, are expected to proceed from the base of our present understanding of the universe. That unforeseen future developments will shock, amaze, and change our notions of reality forever goes without saying. It is the nature of the future to do so. Our present moment, this place that our collective knowledge inhabits in the fabric of space and time, creates the landscape, that is the "mindscape" upon which our material brains "roll". As noted by San Francisco based futurist/physicist Dr. Jack Sarfatti, this rolling of the material aspect of our mental function deforms or transforms the very landscape of our thoughts, which in turn guide the material "ball" of the human brain as it travels this dynamically changing landscape.

Beyond the metaphor there lies a genuine reality. If thoughts guide our material selves in their daily activities, then surely our material bodies influence the activity of our minds and spirit. This great struggle between the material/physical reality of our being, and the conceptual/idea like aspect of experience, and the spiritual/emotional essence of the "soul" is both harmonious union and chaotic destruction. We struggle to find stasis in our existence. As wisely noted by Saul of Tarsus, later to be known as Paul, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate to do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who is doing it, but it is sin living in me." What is "sin," but by definition error. Paul struggles because "the law" defines the right path, the program by which a balance is struck. The struggle is a mighty battle between mind and body, between thought and spirit. The moral path is the path that frees the struggling from the struggle, the self from selfishness, the pain of attachments broken from the errors that connect them. In our age we understand clearly the result of errors in our guiding program - our computer crashes, the network fails, the system collapses. For Saul of Tarsus, it was a miraculous intervention that brought about his conversion to Paul the Christian. We forget too easily that the landscape is subject not only to the deformations of our own material/physical reality, but it is also under the influence of beings greater than ourselves. We are not alone in this universe.

As for the nature of such deformations of thought, one need only look to the collective examples found in this most violent of centuries. Examining the material aspect of our beings as the whole cloth and fabric of our existence, we fail to understand the deeper reality that guides us. Whole movements rise and fall, and carry many into deep destruction by the error of false understanding. The human race is entangled in misinformation and self-gratification. Our material aspect becomes heavy and deforms our thoughts, which collectively give rise to waves of error in the program. We are destined for the "pit of eternity" - a black hole torn in the fabric of our minds by the weight of the errors of our material actions. If our being is an eternal struggle between "errors doing battle," how does one find "truth?" Our religions seek to impart "truth" upon the masses, yet where is the struggle fought more intensely than where "religious truths" clash one against the other? Others may raise the hope that science will become the means of our salvation. Science may bring insight into nature of our material existence, but the insight is deformed by the struggle between mind and body. Our deep insights produce new means of greater destruction, driven by the errors in which human beings are collectively embedded. To be human is to be "only human" in our errors. We are certainly not "geometrically pure" in our desires. We are not moved by the deepest fundamental structures of Platonic form, that realm that is home of the "angelic," but by the deformations of thought upon which our brains rest. Our thoughts have become basins guiding us into deeper errors, guiding our material selves towards collective destruction.

The "thought-like" part of our existence moves the "material icons" of our selves into position. We examine and rely upon this movement for the mapping of reality. It is by this mapping of material icons that we are able to manipulate our material beings with meaning. Alone, the "thought-like" mover is Spirit, alive and without form. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters". We require the creation for our meaningful existence. The icons of our material being provide the structure that defines our movement in the eternity. They mark the relationships that define who, what and where we are, where we came from, and where we are going.

How do we choose to enter the 21st Century? Do we choose to continue on the path of errors laid upon errors? Do we fight, struggle and die? The time has come to make a decision. Yet we cannot decide based on the knowledge that "our ways are based upon errors" for error is essentially inherent for mortal beings. We are born into "original sin" because we are not complete in our knowledge. Complete knowledge implies absolute guidance. We cannot guide our own actions of our bodies perfectly without error, let alone move mountains. The icons that have paved the path in the landscape of our thoughts and spirit are in conflict with each other.

Every attempt to redirect the body of our action is subject to a "back action" by the body upon our thought. We are in need of a greater "thought" than we ourselves can generate. This is by no means a metaphor. Although it may seem that this mind-body problem is merely abstraction, merely a way of talking about human psychology, it is in actuality the foundation stone of the next revolution in an actual process that will indeed rearrange the landscape upon which our material existence is played out. A greater thought than the self-generated back actions of human brain upon human mind will transform the human being. The human race contemplates 21st century genetic engineering. In actuality, the 21st century will not fulfill the dreams of mankind precisely because those dreams are based upon human errors.

What is required to transform the human race is a thought greater than we can think. Thoughts from beyond the collective human consciousness. The landscape of the human mind is about to undergo a revolution. The mystery is deep and profound. It stares at us from the depths of our dreams. It awakens us in the middle of the night to face the tenuous terrors of the reality of our souls. Our dream has changed, and in changing our dream we have sent the movement of the ball of our material being into a deeper basin. Where does this particular basin lead? What will we find when we arrive?
 

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