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#1
19.04.2015, 19:27:38
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Shamans, Scientists, and Consciousness
The first “scientists” were shamans (witch doctors, magicians, sorcerers, astrologers, etc.). They believed that matter itself was alive, indwelt by spirit beings who controlled it, and that by appeasing these entities through ritual and offerings they could gain favor with the spirits, manipulate the natural world, and harness the forces of nature. The pagan societies suffered every kind of disaster and humiliation at the hands of their gods, yet continued to supplicate them for help. Even more astonishing is the fact that modern man has revived a belief in Gaia (Mother Earth) as a living organism of which we are all a part. This pagan superstition, promoted by Vice President Al Gore, is at the heart of much of today’s ecological movement.
In every culture throughout history shamanism has been based upon the belief that the spirit world could be manipulated by thoughts firmly held in the mind, by words repeatedly spoken, and by pictures formed in the imagination. The modern application of these ancient shamanic beliefs is found in the Power of Positive Thinking, Positive Speaking, and visual*ization. All three of these occult techniques are practiced today in the arenas of education, psychology, business, and within the church. Modern science was birthed when it was discovered that the physical world of nature is controlled not by elves and gnomes and spirits but by definite laws. The ever-more-sophis*ticated implementation of these laws has produced today’s civilization. The discovery of these laws caused materialistic science to imagine proudly that it was capable of uncover*ing all the secrets of the universe. Reluctantly, science was forced to admit that consciousness lay outside its province. Thoughts were not physical, nor were the minds which conceived them. Ethics and moral*ity, a sense of truth and justice, and an appreciation of natural beauty poetry, and music lay outside the natural world of rocks, trees, and even animals and could not be explained in materialistic terms. As humanistic psychology metamorphosed into transpersonal psychol*ogy and parapsychology gained acceptance, it became evident that psychic powers ex*isted which defied the explanations of the physical sciences. Materialism was dead. 
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#2
19.04.2015, 19:29:22
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A New "Scientific" Paganism
Yet mankind had become so accustomed to the dominance of science that (contrary to Einstein’s advice) it continued to look to science for authoritative direction in the new realm of the nonphysical or spiritual. Thus science took on spiritual trappings and became the new paganism. At its altars the world continues to worship human achievement and poten*tial in anticipation of the day when its high priests will have conquered not only space and the atom but will have unlocked every hidden secret of the occult as well. At last mankind will have achieved virtual immortality as master of the universe. This ancient lie of the serpent to Eve, kept alive in pagan religions and the occult, having now donned the mask of modern science is ripening to reap God’s wrath upon this world.
The prestige of science backing the new paganism has virtually guaranteed its accep*tance by the educated world. Mixing science and religion turns God into an impersonal energy source to be tapped by scientifically applying universal laws. Not only the physical world, but now the spiritual as well, can be controlled “scientifically.” Such is the deadly delusion that seduces modern man. The old occultism, like karma and reincarnation, was based upon a presumed “law of cause and effect.” When the witch doctor slits a rooster’s throat, sprinkles the blood in a certain pattern, and mumbles a secret incantation, the spirits must respond with their magic as part of the bargain. So it is with the new paganism and its new rituals. The only differ*ence is that the formulas are scientific and the priests and priestesses have donned the new robes of laboratory researchers. (to be continued) Notes Cited in Heaney, Sacred, p. 61. Eddington, cited in Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physi*cists, ed. Ken Wilber (New Science Library, 1984), p. 5. Wolfgang Smith, Teilhardism and the New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the Teach*ings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (TAN Books, 1988), p. 242.
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#3
19.04.2015, 20:01:17
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Pot sa intreb de unde iei aceste texte in engleza?
N-ar fi mai usor sa postezi un link, si opinia ta personala asupra subiectului?
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#4
19.04.2015, 20:13:03
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Citat:
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#5
20.04.2015, 00:11:47
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Mod hibrid