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AUDIO - You Were Born For Such a Time as
This
President James O'Dea The Institute of Noetic Sciences
"What the inventive genius of mankind
has bestowed upon us in the last hundred years could have
made human life care free and happy if the development of
the organizing power of man had been able to keep step with
his technical advances."Albert Einstein 1932"Science
is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is
a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists
than as information processors."... Stephen Jay Gould
1942-2002
"A human being is part of the whole
called by us universe , a part limited in time and space.
We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something
separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest
to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...We shall
require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind
is to survive."
Albert Einstein
"What the inventive genius of mankind
has bestowed upon us in the last hundred years could have
made human life care free and happy if the development of
the organizing power of man had been able to keep step with
his technical advances."
Albert Einstein 1932
"The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all
science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no
longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as
dead: his eyes are closed."
Albert Einstein
"Science is not a heartless pursuit
of objective information. It is a creative human activity,
its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors."
Stephen Jay Gould 1942-2002
"A human being is part of the whole
called by us universe , a part limited in time and space.
We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something
separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest
to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...We shall
require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind
is to survive."
Albert Einstein
Socrates speech on "The Cause and Effect
of Love" 419 B.C. "Those who are pregnant in the
body only, betake themselves to women and beget children -
this is the character of their love; their offspring, as they
hope, will preserve their memory and give them the blessedness
and immortality which they desire in the future. But souls
which are pregnant - for there certainly are men who are more
creative in their souls than in their bodies - conceive that
which is proper for the soul to conceive or contain. And what
are these conceptions? - wisdom and virtue in general. And
such creators are poets and all artists who are deserving
of the name inventor. But the greatest and fairest sort of
wisdom by far is that which is concerned with the ordering
of states and families, and which is called temperance and
justice. And he who in youth has the seed of these implanted
in him and is himself inspired, when he comes to maturity
desires to beget and generate. He wanders about seeking beauty
that he may beget offspring - for in deformity he will beget
nothing - and naturally embraces the beautiful rather than
the deformed body; above all when he finds a fair and noble
and well-nurtured soul, he embraces the two in one person,
and to such an one he is full of speech about virtue and the
nature and pursuits of a good man; and he tries to educate
him; and at the touch of the beautiful which is ever present
to his memory, even when absent, he brings forth that which
he had conceived long before, and in company with him tends
that which he brings forth; and they are married by a far
nearer tie and have a closer friendship than those who beget
mortal children, for the children who are their common offspring
are fairer and more immortal." Plato's "Symposium"
translated by Benjamin Jowett in 1871
Religion,
Ecology and GlobalisationWe need a new vision and a new consciousness
to unite humanity
by Dr. Michael Ellis ©2008
The
Renaissance of Humankind
by Dr. Michael Ellis ©2008
A
Basic Call to Consciousness The Hau de no sau nee Address
to the Western World
Geneva, Switzerland, Autumn 1977
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