Perhaps More Physicists Should
Start Studying “The Secret Doctrine”
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
If the theosophical movement would limit itself to showing the positive aspects of present-day science, it would be the same as indirectly stimulating the many nonsensical and naïve statements made by our scientists in a number of issues, including the future of the Earth.
One fine example of scholarly ignorance and “scientific” naiveté is shown below. It’s a text on Stephen Hawking’s speculations about the future of our planet.
His technocratic views, his dense materialism and blind absence of perception of the fact that our humanity is still evolving and learning at the ethical and moral levels are located somewhere between the realms of the comic and the tragic.
There are in fact many scholars do not seem to suspect that the Universe has a soul, just as Gaia, our Planet, has one. They don’t want to see that Nature is alive and Intelligent, or that there is a difference between the end of a civilization and the end of its planet.
They seem to want, instead, extra amounts of money to make brilliant researches on how to live in other planets. This is, of course, one more example of the fact that Theosophy is more updated than never in the 21st century. “Scientific” absurdities of the day may be fashionable. But the fact under the surface is that they get outdated as soon as they are announced. They are like moths and flies of a day.
Perhaps the theosophical movement should start saying something as a contribution so that these profound scientists will be able in due time to recover some common sense. They should follow the ethical and humanistic example given by Albert Einstein - as shown by Sylvia Cranston in her biography of Helena Blavatsky - and carefully study the two-volume original edition of “The Secret Doctrine”.
I reproduce below most of a text on the ideas defended by Stephen Hawking in 2010, according to whom it is time to think of abandoning the Earth. It has never occurred to his mind that our humanity will evolve and learn the lesson of the present time, just as it has learned others lessons in the past.
According to Theosophy, the Planet Earth will be habitable as long as the present humanity needs it at the physical plane. But in a distant future mankind will have reached a stage of development in which physical life will not be needed any longer.
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Stephen Hawking’s Warning:
Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction
Andrew Dermont on August 6, 2010.
Let’s face it: The planet is heating up, Earth's population is expanding at an exponential rate, and the natural resources vital to our survival are running out faster than we can replace them with sustainable alternatives. Even if the human race manages not to push itself to the brink of nuclear extinction, it is still a foregone conclusion that our aging sun will expand and swallow the Earth in roughly 7.6 billion years.
So, according to famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, it’s time to free ourselves from Mother Earth. “I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space,” Hawking tells Big Think. “It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn’t have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let’s hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.”
Hawking says he is an optimist, but his outlook for the future of man's existence is fairly bleak. In the recent past, humankind’s survival has been nothing short of “a question of touch and go” he says, citing the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963 as just one example of how man has narrowly escaped extinction. According to the Federation of American Scientists there are still about 22,600 stockpiled nuclear weapons scattered around the planet, 7,770 of which are still operational. In light of the inability of nuclear states to commit to a global nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the threat of a nuclear holocaust has not subsided.
In fact, “the frequency of such occasions is likely to increase in the future,” says Hawking, “We shall need great care and judgment to negotiate them all successfully.”
Hawking says he is an optimist, but his outlook for the future of man's existence is fairly bleak. In the recent past, humankind’s survival has been nothing short of “a question of touch and go” he says, citing the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963 as just one example of how man has narrowly escaped extinction. According to the Federation of American Scientists there are still about 22,600 stockpiled nuclear weapons scattered around the planet, 7,770 of which are still operational. In light of the inability of nuclear states to commit to a global nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the threat of a nuclear holocaust has not subsided.
In fact, “the frequency of such occasions is likely to increase in the future,” says Hawking, “We shall need great care and judgment to negotiate them all successfully.”
Even if humans manage to avoid a nuclear stand-off over the next thousand years, our fate on this planet is still pretty much certain. University of Sussex
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