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PAGE FIFTEEN; SPECIAL REPORT PAGE 4
IN DEFIANCE OF SCIENCE
THINKING COSMOS
Clearly the world and the Cosmos within which it exists
are 'thinking' entities. The intricacy of the systems that
support the whole thing, its responsiveness to events
and changes, the sense of destiny with which the world
seems to be embued; all these indicate a dynamically
interactive entity that has self-protection at its heart.
Almost human, huh?
Events are no more than random field disturbances in the waveform fabric of life. They possess no coherence, no pattern, no continuity. They are devoid of meaning. Random, meaningless, empty. And world events? They, too, are without any deeper significance than their occurrence.
....It is, perhaps, unfair to extend the mechanical Cosmos paradigm so far. But doing so only highlights its incompatibility with what we know, feel, believe or understand to be true. So let us look at the events of 1967 from the opposite point of view.
....As this is going to take a fairly substantial stretch of the imagination (if you are a scientist, don’t bother), let us drop in feet first. Here are three key precepts:
1. The Cosmos lives for evolution. It is the
evolutionary Impulse that pushes life and
the world forward, it is the evolutionary
impulse that maintains the Cosmos.
2. The Cosmos cannot abide a vacuum.
3. Although technological advancement can
be seen as evolution of sorts, the Cosmos does
not see it so. Technology merely tinkers with
the external aspects of reality, evolution happens
at the level that supports that reality.
....Now let us put these precepts together. By the mid-60s, the Western world had gone a long way down the road towards viewing reality as existing exclusively on the outside. It had taken more than 2000 years to get there but get there we had. And, in the process, we had gained ascendancy over many Laws of Nature.
....But, as any cursory examination of world history reveals, we had made little or no progress as a species seeking to develop its humanitarianism. History, ancient and modern, is as we all know little more than a blood bath. No progress. No evolution. Just better techniques to destroy life.
....That we are part of the Cosmos is undeniable. That, however, is only half the truth. To a large extent we are the Cosmos. It is us, here in the arena of life, who make things happen. It is we who create the state of the world (and, if we did but know it, support the entire illusion of reality). That is why, although the Cosmos supports evolution in every aspect of creation, it is the evolution of people that really matters to it.
....Evolution cannot happen, however, without some vision of our own place in the Cosmos and of the power and potential of our own consciousness in creating that Cosmos. To lose that vital link to the truth would spell the end of the Cosmos as we know it. Life would descend into chaos. Social structures would crumble. The anarchy of self-interest would ensue.
....It would, in fact, be just like now only worse.
....But in 1966, on the very brink of selling our souls forever to the plastic demon, a few were pulled back from the edge of dissolution to rediscover their source.
....That the same source gives rise to every aspect of the Cosmos was, of course, purely coincidental.
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