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Thread ID: 16408 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-01-24
2005-01-24 17:39 | User Profile
Aviation, the Cosmos, and the Future of Man
by Charles A. Lindbergh
July 1969
[url="http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=1991"]http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=1991[/url]
[font=Verdana][size=2][size=2][QUOTE]Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishment as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery. Science, in fact, forms many paths branching from the trunk of human progress; and on every periphery they end in the miraculous. Following these paths far enough, and long enough, one must eventually conclude that science itself is a miracle -- like the awareness of man arising from and then disappearing in the apparent nothingness of space. Rather than nullifying religion and proving that ââ¬ÅGod is dead,ââ¬Â science enhances spiritual values by revealing the magnitudes and minitudes -- from cosmos to atom -- through which man extends and of which he is composed. [/QUOTE][QUOTE]I believe early entrance to this era can be attained by the application of our scientific knowledge not to lifeââ¬â¢s mechanical vehicles but to the essence of life itself: to the infinite and infinitely evolving qualities that have resulted in the awareness, shape and character of man. I believe this application is necessary to the very survival of mankind. [/QUOTE][QUOTE]Science and technology inform us that, after millions of years of successful evolution, human life is now deteriorating genetically and environmentally at an alarming and exponential rate. Basically, we seem to be retrograding rather than evolving. We have only to look about us to verify this fact: to see megalopolizing cities, the breakdown of nature, the pollution of air, water and earth; to see crime, vice and dissatisfaction webbing like a cancer across the surface of our world. Does this mark an end or a beginning? The answer, of course, depends on our perception and the action we take. [/QUOTE][QUOTE]We know that tens of thousands of years ago, man departed from both the hazards and the security of instinctââ¬â¢s natural selection, and that his intellectual reactions have become too powerful to permit him ever to return. It seems obvious that to achieve the maximum scope of awareness, even to survive as a species, we must contrive a new process of evolutionary selection. [/QUOTE][QUOTE]That is why I have turned my attention from technological progress to life, from the civilized to the wild. In wildness there is a lens to the past, to the present and to the future, offered to us for the looking -- a direction, a successful selection, an awareness of values that confronts us with the need for and the means of our salvation. [/QUOTE][QUOTE]If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, manââ¬â¢s potentialities appear to be unbounded. Through his evolving awareness, and his awareness of that awareness, he can merge with the miraculous -- to which we can attach what better name than ââ¬ÅGodââ¬Â? [/QUOTE][QUOTE]Will we then find life to be only a stage, though an essential one, in a cosmic evolution of which our evolving awareness is beginning to become aware? [/QUOTE] [/size][/size][/font]
2005-01-24 18:24 | User Profile
...Always in motion is the future...
...Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering...
...Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away...to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless...
2005-01-24 18:35 | User Profile
[QUOTE][font=Verdana][size=2]Rather than nullifying religion and proving that ââ¬ÅGod is dead,ââ¬Â science enhances spiritual values by revealing the magnitudes and minitudes -- from cosmos to atom -- through which man extends and of which he is composed. [/QUOTE] Could we stay on topic please. [/size][/font]