light which illuminates all facts, a curve that all lines
must follow." Over the course of the past half century since its
publication, this prophetic statement has turned out to be true, as
evolution has become a defining framework in which we are beginning
to understand virtually everything - from biology and technology to the
interior dimensions of reality like our psychology, cultural worldviews,
and even spirituality.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin goes on to propose in Chapter 3: The
Grand Option of his book, which he aptly entitled The Future of
Mankind ... "This being so, let us look at the human species
and SEE IF we can fit it into the scheme. Because we ate a part of it,
because the rhythm of its growth is infinitely slow in comparison with
our own, and because its grandeur overwhelms us, Mankind, in its
total evolution, escapes our intuitive grasp. But may we not see
reflected in the life around us things that we cannot see directly
in ourselves? Let us study ourselves in the mirror of other living
forms. WHAT DO WE SEE ? "
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e aggregate of consciousness-bearing
cells of the evolving Earth, are not yet awake to
our role as a planetary organism, so too the
noosphere is not yet fully conscious.
When humanity becomes conscious of itself as
a single organism and unites to activate the
noosphere, we will find the collective resolve
and will to reconstruct the biosphere and divert
the energy of the human race from a path of
destruction based on a mechanised abstraction from
nature to a new harmonic order of super-organic
reality based on an entirely different state
of consciousness than has yet existed on Earth.”
José Argüelles
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t perspective to those who would espouse the coming of "The Chinese Miracle" -
"The collapse has already started and the Central Party Committee and aspiring members are already well aware of this fact and all its implications. I suspect even they doubt their ability to ensure a so called "Soft landing" ! Published figures from official sources are worthless. Inflation is headlined at 4-5% yet in 2011 ran at a real rate of around 16-18%. Non performing loans to provincial governments and large state industries are variously officially published at 30%. Many in China know the true figure is in excess of 60%. The High Speed Rail "Project" is bankrupt. In October circa $475 (million) equivalent was injected into the project and did little more than pay 9 months of unpaid salaries. Many large companies are under enormous financial pressure as their contracts to provincial and military customers are not being paid.
A number of Tier one cities and provinces have been allowed to sell bonds. Why do governments sell bonds? Just like the west to raise finance. Just like the west raising capital finance to pay day to day revenue expenses is not sustainable practice, as Europeans will now tell you! The main 4 banks published large increases in profit but only made 2.5% provision for bad debt. Even with a rate of 30% bad loans this seems ridiculously small.
House and more importantly land prices, have collapsed in the past 4 months.
The Lewis point has been passed and indeed the need to move to an internal and innovative high tech economy must be the way forward however there are two major problems. The move should have been started a decade ago. Instead of wasting money on so much useless construction and corruption the government may have been better off building social support so the Chinese would save less and spend more. Now salaries are high enough to render, what were already minute profits, none existent and the populace is at best a little nearer spending on mass.
The second problem is the education system and the controls propagated by the communist party. This education system beats innovation and independent dynamic thought out of the populace. Chinese television is always telling the viewers how great China is and how much they develop and innovate. In reality, in virtually every case, they have only moved to a higher level of high tech copying and glitzy marketing.
Finally, look to western and south western China. What is happening in Chongching. How is it that, after recent events involving his deputy Wang, Bo Xilai has not been removed by Beijing? How is it that the party secretaries of neighbouring provinces and cities can openly pledge allegiance to this man? How in November last year was he, a mere party secretary, sent to Chongching under a fair size cloud of disgrace, able to mount military exercises? A good half of Chinese military is stationed in western China! What is this Princling's true relationship with Jiang Zemin, the last Communist Party Chairman, who never supported Hu Jintao and is known to continue to agitate in the background while retaining substantial loyalty from the military? How many in the west understand just how popular Bo Xiali is with the masses. Were you aware that under his leadership many Maoist practices have been re-introduced? I would suggest the possibility of a rather more interesting than usual change of leadership might just be on the cards this time round! I for one watch with fascination and concern.…
rom John
Hazard, entitled Manifesting the Noosphere, IS right on time and on
point. Jose Arguelles may be dead, but as John Hazard has so succinctly
summarised ... Arguelles has left us with a beautifully written book he
calls “Manifesto for the Noosphere.” He clearly envisions a new
synthesis of collective human awareness, a new state of mind that is
a shared experience.
“Just as the biosphere is the unified field of life and its support
systems…so the noosphere is the unified field of the mind, the
psychic reflection of the biosphere. Because we as a species, the
aggregate of consciousness-bearing cells of the evolving Earth,
are not yet awake to our role as a planetary organism, so too the
noosphere is not yet fully conscious. When humanity becomes
conscious of itself as a single organism and unites to activate the
noosphere, we will find the collective resolve and will to reconstruct
the biosphere and divert the energy of the human race from a path of
destruction based on a mechanised abstraction from nature to a new
harmonic order of super-organic reality based on an entirely
different state of consciousness than has yet existed on Earth.”
... and John Hazard concludes - Somehow, part of the description for
how we get there from here is caught up in our perception of time.
Mostly, our way of thinking about time is by thinking about the big
hand and the little hand on a clock. Time is linear, and we perceive
it when we pay attention to the phase of the moon, or the rising and
setting sun. And of course, we get older day by day.
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minster Fuller's VECTOR EQUILIBRIUM • IDEAS, namely "point, line, surface" I have recently been trying, with the help and assistance of my son-in-law Richard Bishop • who is as equally committed as a sculptor...
... to Fuller's very own long & in depth Leonardo-like Understanding of the importance of the tetrahedron • I have been lately focussing on Richard's ideas for a "HOLE @ CENTRE" of triangular surfaces, which would in some way better establish an understanding of the totality of my IDEA for a new model of the United Nations, whilst utilising those holes to communicate by way of the transmission of twixt all concerned of "a beam" of THE UNIVERSAL LIGHT of UNDERSTANDING.ALL of which has manifested [IT]self since I first became aware at Grammar School, of the very importance of geodesic construction, whilst studying Physics, Maths Pure & Maths Applied, at 'A' LEVEL GCE, as well as ART and subsequently the the purchase of and construction of a model of a Wellington Bomber.
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