From: jeffp@netcom.com (Jeff Papineau)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Is Technology a dead end?
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:02:22 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Someone wrote to me, regarding one of my recent posts, asking who is
Rodenberry, and whether or not I thought we really needed technology.
Since I have thought about this some, I took the liberty of publishing
my reply in the hope thier are those that would be interested in the
subject, and who could add to the conversation. 

Before you comment, please give some thought as to what I have said,
and whether or not your comments really ADD to the converstation. 

In reply: 

Gene Rodenberry, as in Star Trek of course. Most I don't think have
picked up on his metaphysical views by watching the show, but if 
you had met him, I'm guessing he was not much different than talking
to John Winston. He was out there, and far ahead of his time, while having
a very open viewpoint. I guess Star Trek is like many books out there, that
are written on or you can read on more than one level.

Yes, man seems to have a need or desire for technology. We have the myth of
Adam and Eve that could be interpretted in this way in fact. And in and of itself,
it is not bad. And niether is Communism, in and of itself bad. But it is how a 
few would seek to exploit the many corrupting the ideal into something 
negative that seems to always get us in the end. In that respect, Capitalism
has only been mildly better to us than Communism, since as Capitalists, we
pollute, and squander the resources of the planet in the name of the almighty
buck.

So it's like anything else, if you don't use it wisely, it can be bad. Most
people don't think about the balance of culture that the Mayans had. They
respected the earth, and had some balance in the culture. They respected
science as much as the heart center of conscousness, and worked from what 
I consider to be a very balanced view of the nature of their place in the 
universe. (I know they sacrificed humans and babies, but those people believed
to die that that manner was a great honor.) All that asside, If we could achieve
balance in our culture, instead of focus on technology and power, then it
would be great; every new technological thing we came up with. But we can't,
and that is where technology is a trap. We become single minded about it,
and we are willing to let all else go to hell if we can only have a 
faster 486!


In the final analysis, we don't really need technology after a certain point. 
We do need communications of a sort, we need transport, but we need to know when to
say enough, and focus on stopping war, famine, drought, and bring the entire
mass of humanity along with us on the path...

The other major issue is that, ultimately, all technology is in our heads.
We have the finest tech right within us, and don't even know how to develop
it or use it. Jesus showed us, and many other prophets throughout history
showed us that we can manifest that which we WILL to be. That is very important
to remember, because it means that ultimatly (don't tell anybody) technology
is a false hope, a dead end, and a waste of time. We can manifest that which
truely makes use happy, that which we truely need and makes life fulfilling,
by willing it into existance. I mean pull the bread directly from the ether.
And bilocate, and telekinesis, and astral-traval, and remote view. These
are the ultimate final frontiers, beyond what we see on Star Trek. Because
if we can evolve into that which our teachers have tried to show us we
really are, then we possess the wonders of the universe within each and
every one of us, and we could be waisting our time looking to external devices
to do thise things for us, instead of developing our own conciousness by other
means. 
If you read the Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East, you will
understand better of what I am speaking about. A man went into the Himilayan 
mountains about the turn of the century, named Spalding. He met people that
introduced him to the Masters of the Christ plane. They could materialize
before him, and perform what we today would consider miricles. But it's 
really only a question of development mentally and spritually. 

The best way I can give you an example of what life like this might be like
is if you have used Virtual Reality. IF you have, then you know that after
a very short while, you are just about as happy in your virtual world as
you are out here in "real life", so it's not that far to take the step and
hypothysis that "what we believe in our minds is the only reality that matters
and that reality, for the most part, is an individual affair." You can share,
but you DON'T have to. In fact, the individule experience is much more 
profound to the existance than the shared experience, because it is the
manifestation of our free will. At some point, evolution of consciousness
requires that entities form union of conciouseness, but that's another subject
I won't get into right now.

So if we develope to the point that we no longer need the external apparatus
in order to enjoy our virtual reality, then what we do by astral-projection,
remote viewing in the past/present/future, what we do to manifest our will
on our environment through mind is the only technology we need, and the only
power that matters. At a certain point in evolution, one could argue, we lose
any necessity of having a body... or we can choose to have or not have a body at
any time, through our use of free will, such as the Masters have shown us.
But now this is getting further out than most people want to think about at this time.

One final word here: 
In another post I will detail the upcoming International UFO World Congress
to be held in Nov/Dec in Las Vegas this year. Speakers from the US and all
over the world will meet to discuss the world-wide phenomena, and to view
pictures/video/film footage of UFO' taken all over the world. Researchers from
China,  Russia, and other countries will give us a good idea of how the UFO mystery is not based
in the US alone. 

AS a point of interst that touches on the aspects of what I have been talking
about, there  is one speaker who will talk of his involvement in a remote-
viewing technology that his company is contracting for the US government.
When you really look into it, you will find that our government is
profoundly interested in the esoteric, much as the Russians and Hitler were.
Well, his company has contracted to do remote-viewing of past/present /future
events for the goernment, and he will be speaking about it at the conference.
Can you imagin the power of being able to predict accuratly, future events,
or being able to go back in time, to view past ones?

Should be a real mind-bender to hear him speak.

Jeff-
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