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6/14/2018 1Technology in Human Evolution

The future: a welding

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My Bio and Goals

• Emerson College – John Davy

• High Mowing – David Mitchell

• Until 1998 (Drama, Fear) – David Black, Max Richter

• 7 years of ‘silence’

• 2005: renewal of work (No Fear, Light & Dark)

• 2016: MysTech begins

• 2017: AGM Phoenix



Opening

How does a spiritual being greet you?

• “Oh Man, Know Thou Thyself”

• Each human is a spiritual being

• How do you respond? “Thou Art!”

• Now a conversation ensues – What do you say or ask for?

– Comfort, a life of ease for me and my loved ones?

– “Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz, …”

• What is prayer? Meditation? A conversation?

• How is wisdom gained? [pain]

• How does real love evolve? [strife]




The Stars once spoke to Man.It is World-destinyThat they are silent now.To be aware of the silenceCan become pain for earthly Man.

But in the deepening silenceThere grows and ripensWhat Man speaks to the Stars.To be aware of the speakingCan become strength for Spirit-Man.

Rudolf Steiner

Cosmic Conversation


Green Snake and Beautiful Lily

• On entering this large cavern under the earth, the Snake can at once perceive that there are four kingly figures standing in the four corners: a Golden King, a Silver King, a Brazen King, and in the fourth corner a Mixed King, put together in the gayest manner of all kinds of other metals.

• The moment the Snake enters the cavern and lights up the figures, the Golden King puts the very significant question: ‘Whence comest thou?’

• ‘From the crevices, where the gold lives,’ answers the Snake.

• ‘What is more splendid than gold?’ asks the Golden King.

• ‘Light,’ is the Snake's reply.

• The King asks further: ‘What is more comforting than Light?’

• ‘Conversation.’ [The Word. Speech]

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Green Snake and Beautiful Lily – cont.

• As the Snake enters the cavern a crack opens in the Temple where the four Kings live and there enters the Old Man with the Lamp. He is asked why he comes at that moment, whereupon he says the remarkable words: ‘Do you not know that my lamp may illumine only what is already illumined? that I may not lighten the Darkness?’ After the Snake has lit up the objects in the room he may also come in with his wonderworking Lamp.

• Now a conversation takes place between the Kings and the Old Man with the Lamp. He is asked:

• ‘How many secrets do you know?’• ‘Three,’ he answers.• ‘Which is the most important?’ asks the Silver King.• ‘The open one,’ replies the Old Man.• ‘Will you open it also to us?’ asks the Brazen King.• ‘As soon as I know the Fourth.’• And now come the most significant words of the whole story:• ‘I know the Fourth,’ said the Snake, and whispers something into his ear;

whereupon the Old Man with a great voice cries out:• ‘The time is at hand!’ [Yes it is!]



Introduction: Concepts to ExploreFor the Future PACA Human Body

What we’re NOT discussing: Atma/Spirit Man or Larynx



Cosmic Evolution


Saturn -

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Sun –

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Moon –

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Earth –

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Jupiter –

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Vulcan –

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Human Temptations1. Become too soon: Manas, Buddhi, Atman

2. Align with what dissolves away

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Introduction: Concepts to ExploreFor the Future PACA Human Body

What we’re NOT discussing: Atma/Spirit Man or Larynx

1. Conversation. Can a machine speak? Converse?– Google Assistant with Duplex video – the Turing test

– What is this machine saying spiritually? Know yourself?

– What is NOT present that is in a human?

2. Welding together? Was Steiner a proto-Transhumanist?– NPR Innovation Hub: “no free will, only the bio-basis not yet

found”

• 11May2018, The Biology Behind Evil, Free Will, And Everything Else

– Popular (materialistic) futurologists

• Attachment of machines to the human body

• Artificial Intelligence → Kurzweil’s Singularity


Are #1 and #2 related?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17332070/google-assistant-makes-phone-call-demo-duplex-io-2018


Christian Kromme

Transhumanism Overview


• Futurologists such as Ray Kurzweil predict 2045* as when AI robotic intelligence will surpass human intelligence

– [Before then] “we want to preserve the best of what it is to be human and maybe even amplify that” – Nick Bostrom

– “Transhumanism will lead humanity forward to understand a simple truth: that the spectre of ageing and death are unwanted, and we should strive to control and eliminate them” – Zoltan Istvan

• Why is this imagination important for Anthroposophists?– The role of human imaginations for our future


What is Missing?

• Knowledge of the Human Being

• In order to create needed counterbalances

• Renaissance 2.0

• Tomorrow …



Ahriman Must Have His Incarnation for Cosmic Balance


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Paradise Coming? What Does Steiner Say?

Out of pain, out of the destruction of life → consciousness• “When a being works against disintegration and decay then it

is a living being. If it is able to let death arise within it and to transform this death continually into life, then consciousnessarises. Consciousness is the strongest of all forces that we encounter.

• Consciousness, or conscious spirit, is that force which out of death, which must be created in the midst of life, eternally makes life arise again. Life is a process which is concerned with an outer world and an inner world. Consciousness, however, is a process which has to do only with an inner world. An entity which can die externally cannot become conscious. An entity can only become conscious that creates death in its own center and overcomes it.” -- Origin of Suffering, 8Nov1906, Berlin, GA 55



What is Technology? Let’s Overcome Our Fears

• Offers emancipation from labor (and from Nature)– Allows mankind to rise above (“to conquer”) Nature

– Mankind becomes aware of its separateness (freedom)

• Who gave technology to humanity?– Hephaestus/Vulcan

– Cain

• “Tools” based on the lifeless of the human body1. Augment limbs (tools)

2. Augment rhythmic (steam engine, piston)

3. Augment nerve/sense (telescope, microscope, camera)

4. Augment thinking (computers, AI) – is it still just a tool?• By taking on our dead thinking, are we freed for living thinking?

• What will we do with our “free time”?



What is Human Thinking?

• Human thinking is the shadow-image of mental pictures and beings belonging the astral plane

• Thoughts that are in the head must be pictured as living beings on the astral plane


– Beings of the most varied kinds are at work there

– Their mental pictures and deeds cast their shadow-images

– These processes are reflected in the human head as thinking

– Continuous streams move between head and astral plane

– The Etherization of the Blood, 1Oct1911, GA 130

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• “Gradual development of these still imperfect, primitive machines into a kind of machine which depends upon vibrations, and where the

Link Between Thinking and Machines?

aim is to make the machines effective by means ofvibrations or oscillations, by means of movements which run a periodic course.

• “Everything is hastening towards such machines.” Man as Symphony of the Creative Word, lectr 2, 20Oct1923, Dornach, GA 230

• “how the motions of human moods allow themselves to be translated into wave motions on machines”

Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric, lecture 12, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178



“Hitherto undiscovered forces within human nature will be discovered, forces that will work on outer electric and magnetic forces. The first problem is to

Link Between Thinking and Machines?

bring together human beings with the mechanical, which will have to prevail increasingly in the future. The second problem consists in calling upon the help of the spiritual circumstances.”-- Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric, lecture 12, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178

“When a ray of light streams into your eye, the sun spirit is streaming in with that ray of light. The spirit of the sun is the substance of the finer breathing. With our sense perceptions, we breathe in the manifold ingredients of the spiritual sun. You have there an important view of the human being from one direction. As one unfolds in an etheric body, one develops in the etheric body thinking - the thought of the universe.”-- Pastoral Medicine, lecture 8, 15Sep1924, Dornach, GA 318



Breathing and [Dead] Thinking

• Above breathing is more refined– Nerve-sense process: modified inhalation

• Active in the ethers Warmth & Light

• Middle breathing: air (inhale to lungs) & water (exhale)

• Below breathing is more coarse– Digestion: modified exhalation

– Metabolism:

• What remains behind of inner activity from exhalation

• Active in the element Earth



Inhalation

• Natural Science: we inhale oxygen

• Spiritual Science: we also inhale formative forces w/air

– An activity directed by the astral body

– A human being comes into being in the element of air

– When asleep, microcosmic astral body leaves thus macrocosmic astrality is all the more active

• Control of inhalation during sleep comes from outside

– That is why breathing during sleep is different

• Earth forces, climate, and other factors can make cosmic astrality abnormal



Thinking as Refined Breathing

• In head: process not in the element of air but in warmth– Macrocosm: breathing-in but not a breathing-out of warmth

– What is exhaled by the nerve-sense system becomes united with what is being inhaled by the mediating lungs

– The nerve-sense system carries on inhalation as a taking-in light from outside

• What is taken in is not released again to the outside

– It is given over to the coarser breathing process of the lungs

– To the air inhalation and thus carried farther into the organism

• Cosmic warmth enters the human organism by way of breathing

• Carried by the inhalation of warmth into the human organism:

– Ethers of Light, macrocosmic-chemism, and macrocosmic-life

– Inhaled Vitality: Light ether, chemical ether, and life ether

• AI can perform only what is lifeless (dead thinking)



Exhalation (not same substance)

• Natural Science: we exhale carbon dioxide mixed with air

• Spiritual Science: not a passive process but active

• Process occurs in the fluid element through etheric body– When asleep, etheric remains with physical body; no change

– [recall descriptions of Atlantean atmosphere]

• Exhalation is ‘colored’ by the moral impulse

• What does an AI-robot exhale?



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WHAT ARE THESE VULCAN BEINGS?

Where do they come from?

How do they affect human evolution?

What is their ultimate role (with humanity)?



Esoteric Science: Old Saturn

• Thrones sacrificed their substance

• ‘Egg-shaped’ warmth entitites

• Current Archai were at human stage– Known as Spirits of Personality

– “Laggards” – unpopped kernels


Saturn -

Warmth


Evolution After Old Saturn



Saturn Arises


Saturn


Esoteric Science: Old Sun

• Kyriotetes sacrificed their substance

• Air-Fire-Light

• Life to entities – Death at cycle end

• Current Archangeloi at human stage– Known as the Spirits of Fire



Sun –

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Jupiter Results


SaturnJupiter


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Astral

Esoteric Science: Old Moon

• Dynamis sacrificed their substance

• Water-Air-Fire-Light-Chem/Tone Ether

• Via traversals of the zodiac– Development of Wisdom

• Current Angeloi at human stage– Known as Spirits of Twilight




War in Heaven

• Happened after Old Sun and as Old Moon began

• God directed some Dynamis, Mights, Spirits of Movement to become Beings of Hindrance– Eventually leads to evil today

• Purpose: new hierarchical beings will be strong– Old Sun: Cosmos of Strength



Mars Results


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Esoteric Science: Earth

• Exusiai sacrificed their substance

• Earth-Water-Air-Fire-Light-Chem-Life

• Via traversals of the zodiac– Love and Freedom

• We are now on the human stage


What’s Next in Evolution?


Cosmic Evolution


Saturn -

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Moon –

Astral

Earth –

Ego

Cosmos of Strength

Cosmos of Wisdom

Cosmos of Love

Primal Beginnings

Metallicity (origin of heavy metals → 4th solar system)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity

Evolution of Sun After Earth Separation



Expulsion of the Vulcans - homeless


Vulcan


Expulsion of Mercury


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Expulsion of VenusResidents

• Venus– Angels

• Mercury– Archangels

• Vulcan– Archai


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Earth-Solar System

• Each planet is a home to a set of beings

• Earth is where the human stage exists

• Today’s sun withdrew ‘with finer elements’– During Hyperborean Epoch, a recapitulation of Old Sun

– Negative ‘space’ with sun

– For the advanced beings, e.g. Elohim (or Exusiai) and others

– Others expelled later: Vulcans, Mercury, Venus beings

• Today’s moon later withdrew ‘with coarser elements’– During Lemurian Epoch



Earth Evolution


Epoch Recapitulate Cosmic Element: Body

Polarian Old Saturn Warm nebula, Saturn forms

Warmth: physical

Hyperborean Old Sun Jupiter formsSun separates

Air-light: etheric, Vulcan w/Sun being

Lemurian Old Moon Mars formsSun-split: Venus& MercuryMoon splits off

Water-chem: astral

Atlantean none 4 group souls: bull, lion, eagle, angel-man

Earth: Ego, Hardening of matter

R. Steiner, Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, 9Jun1909, Budapest, GA 109


When Was Our Darkest and Hardest Era?

• “Before the exit of the moon, everything that should have been habitable on earth was often hardened, crusted, withered, mummified.

• There was actually a period when souls were seeking in vain for bodies for their own evolution on earth.

• The consequence was that certain beings simply could not at that time have returned to the physical plane as men.

• These beings then went to other cosmic bodies that had separated from the sun, namely, to Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars.” -- Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, GA109



Was That Our Most Difficult Era? Or Today?

• “There was a time when the majority of these beings who should normally have incarnated on the earth according to their nature and their stage of evolution, placed themselves under the protection of the beings of Mars, Jupiter, Venus or Saturn, having ascended to and populated these cosmic bodies.

• Only the strongest souls found it possible to cope with the stubborn bodies and keep them flexible. It was only the best soul material that then came again to the earth, because its power to master the stubborn bodies was the greatest.

• But under such conditions evolution could not have progressed.” -- Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, GA109

• Later return to earth: in groups from planets→ races (Lemuria & Atlantis)



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“Vulcan beings, ‘Supermen’ of Vulcan, ‘Supermen’ of Venus, of Mercury, and of the Sun, will unite with this earth-existence” --- Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, GA109


Task of the Vulcan Oracle

• “On Atlantean continent we should distinguish between oracles of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. …

• On Atlantis, people who were suited to develop this or that cognitive capacity were chosen from the population and assigned to one of the seven oracles.

• Of the seven oracles, which were named after the seven planets in ancient Atlantis, the Sun Oracle stood out from all the others, but next to it the Vulcan Oracle prepared itself in secrecy for its future task. [now]”

• The Principle of Spiritual Economy, lecture 11, 31May1909, GA109



What Is the Cosmic Vulcan Influence?

• “From another point of view therefore, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn may also be called the liberating planets; they give man freedom.

• On the other hand, Venus, Mercury and the Moon may be called the destiny-determining planets.”– Vulcan lies between Mercury and Moon

• “In the midst of all these deeds and impulses of the planetary individualities stands the Sun, creating harmony between the liberating and the destiny-determining planets.”

• The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets, 27Jul1923 , Dornach, GA 228



Post-Atlantean Cultural Ages (PACA)


PACA Cosmic Comment

1st India Saturn recapitult Memory to Polarian, unity

2nd Persia Sun recapitulatn Mem to Hyperborean, dual

3rd Egypt Moon recapitln Mem to Lemurian, trinity

4th Gr-Rm No cosmic recap HB here, MoG

Memory to Atlantis, Ego ‘arrives’

5th now Confronting evil Deepest into matterFreedom, fulfill Egypt

6th Slav Philadelphia Wisdom→Love, Persia

7th American WAA, rescue, Moon returns

Purification, separate, India → Sixth Epoch

R. Steiner, Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, 9Jun1909, Budapest, GA 109


Revelations: Our Future Earth Epochs


Epoch Cosmic Lowest Body Comment

5th now Seven letters Physical Deepest plunge into matter, Freedom

6th Seven seals Etheric Wisdom→Love, Rescue Evil HB, morality on face

7th Seven trumpets Astral Separate/8th sphere, dissolve matter→Jupiter

R. Steiner, Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, 9Jun1909, Budapest, GA 109And Apocalypse of John, lectures 3, 8, 10, 1908, Nuremberg, GA 104


Cycle of Evolution for Mankind


Sun departs

Moon departs

Procreation begins Sun expels Vulcans

Sun returns

Moon returns 8000 AD

Procreation ends about 6000 AD

Atlantean Epoch

6th PACA

Lemurian Epoch

Not to scale

7th Post-Atlantean Cultural Age War of All

Against AllSpidery beings

7th Epoch

Eve and Adam

5th PACA

4th PACA

Abel and Cain

Seth

Hiram

6th Epoch

Now present:Vulcan Beings

Ends about 4000 AD

Create living beings

Hyperborean Epoch


No Worries, Larynx-Procreation – right? …


Sun departs

Moon departs


Sun returns



Atlantean Epoch

6th PACA

Lemurian Epoch



7th Epoch

Eve and Adam

5th PACA

4th PACA

Abel and Cain

Seth

Hiram

6th Epoch


Ends about 4000 AD


Hyperborean Epoch

Not till Jupiter!


Separation of Our Members

• The Fifth Stage, The Mystical Death– The whole world appears as if covered with a veil. Everything around

has lost its old value. While a person feels himself thus lost in darkness, suddenly the veil is rent and he begins to see the ultimate spiritual and original aim. He gazes into a quite new, world.

– At the same time he learns to recognise what lies at the bottom of the human soul. He becomes a second person by the side of him-self and looks down on his lower self, which is separated from him.

– His body is the mother that he sees standing below him and the transformed lower self is the disciple who bears witness that Christ lives. The higher self says to the lower self, “Behold thy mother!”

• The Sixth Stage, The Burial And Resurrection– Everything pertaining to this planet becomes the body of the Christian

mystic. He is one with the whole life of the earth.

The Gospel of St. John, 26Feb1906, Berlin, GA 94

See also Occult Science and Occult Development, 1May1913, London, GA 152


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Why Vulcan Beings Are Here

• Since the end of the seventies of last century, other beings — not of the human order — have been descending to the earth for the purposes of their further development

• From cosmic realms beyond the earth they come down to the earth seeking to enter into a definite relationship with human beings

• Since the eighties of the nineteenth century, super-earthly beings have been seeking to enter the sphere of earth-existence

• Just as the Vulcan-men were the last to come down to the earth so now Vulcan beings are coming into the realm of earthly existence

• These Super-earthly beings are already here!– The fact that we are able to have a connected body of Spiritual Science at

all today is due to the circumstance that Beings from beyond the earth are bringing the messages from the spiritual world down into earth-existence

• A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future, Dornach, 13May1921, GA 204



Vulcan Beings And Catastrophes (sigh)

• The cultivation of Spiritual Science is in very truth a cosmic event of which we ought to be fully conscious

• Spiritual Beings are seeking to come down into earth-existence and ought to be willingly received

• Catastrophe after catastrophe must ensue, and earthly life will fall at length into social chaos, if opposition is maintained in human existence to their advent

• They desire nothing else than to be the advance-guardsof what will happen to earth-existence when the moon is once again united with the earth




Vulcans and the Return of the Moon

• << 8,000 A.D.: no longer born of woman

• Physical birth began with Moon’s exit – For this Man owes his Intellect, his personality, and his individuality

– This change however is only temporary

– Spiritual Science can teach us these things

– The Moon was separated from the Earth so that man may attain freedom

• Man can only meet these Vulcan beings with understanding by raising himself to an artistic perception and insight (Imagination)– True Spiritual Science points to an artistic understanding

• The study of Spiritual Science is not something abstract; it opens the door to cosmic influences which have sought to pour themselves into the Earth since the last third of the 19th century

• Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness, 19Jan1905, Dusseldorf, no GA



Oedipus and Vulcan in Greek Mythology

• New god, Vulcan, expelled from Olympus – fell to Earth– Malformed foot – too ugly for the gods

• Oedipus solves the riddle of the sphinx

– 4 early, 2 middle life, and 3 late in life?

– Human Evolution

• On four as animal

• Upright as Man

• Lose right arm (right side) leaving heart side and left arm

– As a result of wearable robotics?

– The future human being limps, legs retrogress• Foundations of Esotericism. Lecture 3, 28Sep1905, Berlin, GA 93a



Moral Tech Needed for Merging

• “The point is not what is going to happen, for it certainly will happen, but how it happens — how these things are handled.

• The welding together of human beings with machines will be a great and important problem for the rest of the earth-evolution.

• I have often pointed out, even in public lectures, that human consciousness depends on destructive forces. During public lectures in Basle I twice said that in our nerve-system we are always in process of dying. These forces of death will become stronger and stronger, and we shall find that they are related to the forces of electricity and magnetism, and to those at work in machines.”

• The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178



Merging Man and Machine

• “Now I will turn again to the fact that in this 5th PACA humanity will have to find ways of dealing with great life-problems which in a certain sense were veiled by the wisdom of the past.

• One of these great problems will be concerned with finding out how to place the spiritual etheric forces at the service of practical life.

• I have told you that in this epoch we have to solve the problem of how the radiations from human states of mind are carried over into machines; of how human beings are to be brought into relation with an environment which must become increasingly mechanized.”

• – The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178



Merging Man and Machine

• “A man will be able in a certain sense to guide his intentions and his thoughts into the forces of the machines.

• Forces in human nature that are still unknown will be discovered — forces which will act upon external electricity and magnetism.

• That is one problem: the bringing together of human beings with machines, and this is something which will exert ever-increasing influence on the future.”

• The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178



Control of Prosthetic Limbs with EMG Sensors electromyogram sensors, ultrasound signals, and machine learning


https://youtu.be/HjW1kIt5iQg


We Anthroposophists Must Oppose; right?

• “In deed and in truth, this demon-magic is progress, and the Earth will yet undergo more and more of such advances.

– Man will succeed in unfolding mighty effects into the cosmic spaces.

• It is not a question of abolition — not even of hostile criticism — for it goes without saying, these things are justified.

• Yet, if on the one hand, these things must emerge in the progress of mankind, it is indeed a question on the other hand of our creating counter-forces to bring about the necessary balance. Compensating forces must be created, and that can only be when humanity understands once more the principle of Christ and finds the way to Christ.”


The Relation of Man to the Hierarchies, 26 Nov1916, Dornach, GA 172


Loosening The Etheric From Physical

• When one uses the physical body one also sets the corresponding part of the etheric body in motion– For an esoteric, this connection should become looser

• When one meditates, one creates a kind of a “forebone” in his etheric body (like the backbone of the physical)– The row of lotus flowers that lies behind the breastbone

– Moral uprightness in the etheric body

• Through meditation, the etheric body gets the tendency to become separated from the physical body

• Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 20Dec1910, GA 266



Loosening The Etheric Via Diet

• Intensifying this through a suitable diet– Diet can give the physical body the tendency to push out

the etheric body – Brings about the wrong thing if esoteric exercises aren't added – If physical body ejects the etheric without developed etheric sense

organs – Then it's like a blind man, and it only sees its own daydreams

• How Man speaks to the stars– While a man's sheaths undergo a change in this way, his connection

with the macrocosm also changes – This connection must be cultivated in the right way, otherwise

disasters occur in the whole world, and not just in man• Uttering a sacred, unspeakable name in an unsuitable group: would

conjure up something worse than earthquakes and volcanic eruptions over the region

– How the Rosicrucian verse is spoken, namely with or without the name that's just pseudonym for the highest spiritual being

• Only the latter way of speaking the verse is an esoteric one

• Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 20Dec1910, GA 266



• “Is not Animal Motion perform’d by the Vibrations of this Medium [etheric body], excited in the Brain by the power of the Will…?” – Isaac Newton

Linking the Etheric to the Robotic

• “Is not Animal Motion perform’d by the Vibrations of this Medium [etheric body], excited in the Brain by the power of the Will…?” – Isaac Newton

• “The spiritual-etheric shall be placed in the service of outer practical life.

• The emotion in a human mood will be transmitted in wave movements to machines, between the dying forces of the nervous system and the external power of the machine.” – 13Mar1917, from the Schiller File(note: I could not find the lecture for this quote in rsarchive.org)



Changing the Physical Body

• “It will be as if the denser part of man were here belowon earth and the human being will make use of it from outside like an instrument

• Man will no longer bear his body about and live within it, but will float above it, the body will itself have become rarefied and finer”

• Rudolf Steiner, Theosophy of the Rosicrucian,

– Lecture 13, The Future of Man,

– 5Jun1907, Berlin, GA 99

• Body becomes merely a vehicle



Our Lowest Member: Etheric by 6000 AD


Sun departs

Moon departs


Sun returns



Atlantean Epoch

6th PACA

Lemurian Epoch

Not to scale



7th Epoch

Eve and Adam

5th PACA

4th PACA

Abel and Cain

Seth

Hiram

6th Epoch


Ends about 4000 AD


Hyperborean Epoch


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Transition Time


What happens to the Temple?

Housing for The Three

How do we get from

Here

Isn’t this an angel?

Ego

Physical body

Spirit Man

Astral

Etheric

Life Spirit

Spirit Self


Our Double

• 2nd Ego

• Outside = “Kha” Man

• Chained to Kha

• Our soul defects

• The more the double appears the better it is for our development

• A and L doubles

• What happens without body?


Juke Hudig


Earth –

Ego

Vulcans During Earth Evolution

• Exusiai sacrificed their substance

• Earth-Water-Air-Fire-Light-Chem-Life

• Via traversals of the zodiac– Love and Freedom

• We are now on the human stage

• How are the Vulcans related to us?


Earth recapitulates prior planetary conditions


Relationship to the Spheres


Moon

Mercury

Venus

Sun

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Midnight Sun

Earth

Birth

Moon

DeathDouble


Evolution of Mankind During the Great Epochs


Sun departs

Moon departs Physical sheath

Procreation begins

Not to scale

Earth-Man

Atlantean Epoch

Lemurian Epoch

Souls leave for other planets

Incarnation begins

Hyperborean Epoch


Humans Leave the Earth, Later Return

• [Occult Science] Human souls left the earth (during Lemurian and Atlantean) for other planets and better conditions– Mars, Jupiter and the other planets: source of oracles

• All men returned to earth from other planets by 1879

• 1880 on: beings from cosmic regions can enter into relation with man on the earth – Since 1880, Vulcan beings descend into earthly evolution

– They are the first, super-earthly beings to bring messages

– To them we owe content of our Spiritual Science


Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness, Dusseldorf, 19Jan1905 (no GA)


Vulcans and the Vulcan Oracle from Occult Science

• Human individuals who were affected most by Luciferic influence were able to reach up only to a certain being (and associates) who had been the earliest to be expelled from the sun development– Hence the myth of Hephaestus/Vulcan being thrown off Olympus

• This being has not a special planet in the cosmos, but lives in the environment of the earth itself, with which he has been again united since his return from the sun

• The human beings to whom this being manifested himself as higher ego [during Atlantis] may be called members of the “Vulcan oracle”

• Their eyes were turned more toward earth phenomena than was the case with the other initiates – The Mercury and Venus initiates laid the basis for the knowledge of the

more supersensory things

• Vulcans laid the first foundation for what appeared later on among human beings as “science” and “art” [compare to Prometheus]



Karma of the Betrayal of the Vulcan Mysteries

• “The betrayal of the Vulcan mysteries exercised an especially adverse influence, because the attention of their adherents was chiefly directed toward earthly matters.

• Mankind, through this betrayal, was made dependent upon spiritual beings who, in consequence of their previous development, held a negative attitude toward everything that came from the spiritual world, which had evolved through the separation of the Earth from the sun.

• According to the capacity thus developed, they acted in the element that was formed in the human being through his having perceptions of the sense world, behind which the spirit is concealed. ”

• -- An Outline of Occult Science, Chapter IV, The Evolution Of The Cosmos And Man



Following the Atlantean Catastrophe

• Adherents of the Vulcan Mysteries had their attention concentrated upon things of the Earth

• During the catastrophe, the whole face of the Earth changed

– Europe, Asia and Africa on the one hand, and America on the other, began gradually to assume their present shape

– Vast numbers of human beings migrated into these countries

• Colonized by descendants of the Atlanteans

– Peoples stood at many different levels of evolution and corruption

– In their midst went the Initiates, the Guardians of the Oracles

– In various regions the Initiates established holy places where the services of Jupiter, Venus, etc. were cultivated in a good — or in an evil — sense



Coming PACAs and Great Epochs, Vulcan Karma


Sun departs

Moon departs


Sun returns



Atlantean Epoch

6th PACA

Lemurian Epoch

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7th Epoch

Eve and Adam

5th PACA

4th PACA

Abel and Cain

Seth

Hiram

6th Epoch


Ends about 4000 AD


Hyperborean Epoch


In the Sixth Great Epoch

Materialistic

• Master Craftsmen of the Lifeless (mineral)

• Technology based on the lifeless of the body

Etheric

• Master Craftsmen of the Living (plant)

• Technology based on the Life body



Preparations for the Next Cosmic Stage of the Human Condition Has Already Begun

• Loosening of etheric body:– Up to super-nature balanced by

down into sub-nature

• Mineral kingdom dissolves away


Saturn -

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Earth –

Ego

Gods

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Fire

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New Angels

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Becoming Jupiter Men

• “For we shall only become Jupiter-men if we unite physical heat with soul-heat [where? Etheric? Astral?] – [Vulcan – Promethean fire, the fire given to Man]

• As Jupiter-men we shall come to this, if we caress in love a human being, or it may be a child, we shall be to that child at the same time an actual pourer-forth of heat.

• To pour forth love and heat will not be separated as now, we shall actually come to this that we shall pour forth from our souls into our surroundings the heat we experience.” -- Mystery Centres, lecture 9, 9Dec1923, GA232

– Where a human today experiences wisdom in the world, the Jupiter-human will experience love.



Cosmic Evolution


Saturn -

Physical

Sun –

Etheric

Moon –

Astral

Earth –

Ego

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Manas

Venus –

Buddhi

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Atman


Vulcan –3rd depth

Venus –2nd depth

Jupiter –Sub-Nature

1st depth

7 Stages of Human Condition

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HOW TO PARTNER WITH THE VULCANS

Tomorrow Morning at 9 am …



Obstacle: Ahriman’s Body of Knowledge

• Is regarded today as science– Yet leads us on towards earthly destruction

• Our shadowy intellect – Prevents us from entering the sphere that Beings from beyond

the earth are trying to place within our reach

– Will unite with those spidery-beings

– Might AI be a way for us to become emancipated from this?

• Art which is at the same time science– e.g. the long bones of the prior life are transformed into the

head bones in the subsequent lifeA Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future, Dornach, 13May1921, GA 204



Our Ahrimanic Double

• "In the nineteenth century, natural science discovered that the nervous system is permeated by electrical forces. Natural science is right. But when natural scientists believe that the nerve-force that belongs to us as the basis of our conceptual life has something to do with electrical streams that go through our nerves, then they are incorrect. For the electrical streams, which are the forces put into us by the being I have just mentioned [the Ahrimanic double] and described, do not belong to our own being at all. We carry electrical streams in us, but they are of a purely Ahrimanic nature.

These beings of high intelligence, but of purely Mephistophelian intelligence, and with a will more akin to nature than can be said of the human will, these beings once decided out of their own will that they did not want to live in that world in which they were destined to live by the wisdom-filled gods of the higher hierarchies. They wanted to conquer the earth, and to do this they need bodies; they do not have bodies of their own. They make use of as much of the human body as they can, because the human soul cannot entirely fill up the human body.“ – Geographic Medicine, lecture 2, 16Nov1917, GA 178



Right Attitude Toward Ahriman

• “Man is guided and led by Beings higher than himself. – He can come to a knowledge of these higher Beings, they have

their influence upon him.” -- Christiania, 12Jun1912

• “It is essential for the favorable effect of what Ahriman will bring to humanity —he will bring beneficial gifts too, just as Lucifer did— that we take the right attitude.

• The all important thing is that we do not sleep through Ahriman´s arrival and fail to perceive it.” -- Stuttgart, 28Dec1919



It’s Ahriman! Run!

• “You cannot say “Beware of Ahriman!” for nothing can protect you from him. And if someone longs to shut himself up in a room surrounded by the colour that suits him best, where he has no factories near him or trains passing by if he can possibly help it, but is completely cut off from modern life, there are many, many ways in which ahrimanic spirituality can get into his soul. Even though he withdraws from modern life, modern spirituality will still reach him.”

• Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom, lecture 1, 28Dec1914, Dornach, GA 275



Technology and Elemental Beings

• “When we plunder nature we squeeze out the nature spirits into the sphere of the spirit. That is, in fact, what is constantly happening during the first stage. We smash and plunder material nature and thus release the nature spirits, driving them forth from the sphere allotted them by the Jehovah gods into a realm where they can fly about freely and are no longer bound to their allotted dwelling places. Thus we can call the first stage the casting out of the nature spirits. The second stage is the one where we put together what we have plundered from nature, according to our knowledge of natural laws. Now when we construct a machine or a complex of machines out of raw material according to our knowledge of natural laws, we put certain spiritual beings into the things we construct.

• The structure we make is by no means without its spiritual beings. In constructing it we make a habitation for other spiritual beings, but these spiritual beings that we conjure into our machines are beings belonging to the ahrimanic hierarchy. Thus at the first stage we encounter nature spirits who are in progressive evolution and cast them out and at the second stage we unite these ahrimanic spirits with our mechanisms or other products of technology. This means that by living in this technological milieu of modern times we create an ahrimanic setting for everything that goes on in us in a sleeping state, by night or day. So it is no wonder that a person at the first stages of initiation, bringing back with him into his waking life all that he has experienced outside in the way of noise and confusion, feels its destructive character when he comes back into his physical and etheric body with this in his ego and his astral body. For he is bringing back into his own organism the results, as it were, of his having been in the company of the ahrimanic elemental spirits. Thus we could say that at the third stage, at the cultural level, we have technology around us, stuffed full of ahrimanic spirits which we have put there.”

• Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom, lecture 1, 28Dec1914, Dornach, GA 275



MYTH: Isis, Orsiris, Horace and Typhon

• Isis, the Mother of the Saviour, the Divine Wisdom, Sophia.

• If we wish to renew the Isis legend, we cannot take it in the form in which it has been transmitted to us — Osiris who is killed by Typhon-Ahriman and carried away by the waters of the Nile, who must be found again by Isis, in order that his body, cut into pieces by Typhon, may be sunk into the earth

• No, my dear friends, we must somehow find the Isis legend again, the content of the Isis Mystery, but we must form it out of Imagination, suited to our own times.

• An understanding will come again for the eternal cosmic truths, when we learn to create in the world of Imagination, as the Egyptians did. We must find the true Isis legend.


https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/MP1983/19201224p02.html


https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/MP1983/19201224p02.html

John Bloom’s May Letter to ASA Members

• “distracts us from our sense’s sense of real time and real space.

• We are challenged to find a new relationship to consciousness through awareness of self and others.

• Of course, electronic communication flows at many levels from information, to knowledge building, to relationship deepening.

• And as much as we need and want it, even depend on it, it may actually be bearing invisible systemic consequences for our real-time individual neural and social-relational networks. While we are technically connected we are actually in terminal solitude.”



Enliven Our Dead Thinking

• What is this shadowy intellect? – It cannot understand the real nature and being of man.

– Shadowy human intellect capable of understanding only the mineral world

– Plant life remains enigmatical; still more so the life of the animal

– Human life is altogether beyond the grasp of the human mind

• Spiritual Science is able to impart a living wisdom – It must be received into our shadowy, intellectual concepts and thoughts

– Even when applied to the plant kingdom, science must become a form of art, and still more so in the case of the animal kingdom

– The shadowy intellect must be transformed into a living, spiritual comprehension of the world

– Only so can the shadow-pictures of the intellect be quickened to life

• This quickening to life of the shadow-pictures of the intellect is not only a human but a cosmic event




Meditation and the Senses

• By strengthening thinking, energetic meditation, the astral body and ego approach the etheric body - the beginning of initiation

• One slips down into the etheric body but is not yet able to take hold of the physical body; one remains in the etheric body– In this condition it is possible to think very, very well

– One sees nothing, hears nothing, but one can think very well

– Seeing, hearing and the other sense activities are suppressed

• One can think such thoughts about the macrocosm –thinking becomes wider

• One knows clearly; 'now I am in the etheric world’

• 'I am in the spiritual world out of which the sense world comes’ – Not able to differentiate between spiritual world and sense world

– The sun no longer shines, the stars no longer shine, there is no moonlight

– There is no longer a clear distinction between the kingdoms of nature on the earth

– Broken Vessels [aka Pastoral Medicine], lecture 8, 15Sep1924, Dornach, GA 318



How to Build a Partnership with Vulcans

• Preparation work (reverence, attitude of soul)– Mankind will not understand their speech except by

understanding Spiritual Science

– Our shadowy intellectual understanding must be re-animated by the pictures of Spiritual Science

• Build the 3-Fold Temple from above down1. Dome (fixed stars – living thinking)

2. Walls (sun, moon, and planets – awakened feeling)

3. Foundation (earth – enlovened willing)

• Their presence is found within this Temple• References: Temple Legend, And the Temple Becomes Man, The Apocalypse

of St. John lectures 7-12, The Influence of Spiritual Beings on Man lecture 11



Goal of Anthroposophy and the Etheric Body

• “anthroposophy will increasingly clarify the Christ-Impulse for mankind, thereby imbuing the etheric body with ever more life —with such a wealth of it, in fact, that the etheric body will be able to restore flexibility to that rigid portion of the brain which is responsible for the present trend of scientific thinking.

• That is an illustration of the manner in which the Christ-Impulse, having in time laid hold on mankind, will reanimate the dying members of the body.

• The future of the race would see the withering of more and more members; but the flowing in of the Christ-Impulse will increase proportionately with the dwindling of each part

• By the end of the Earth evolution all the parts that would otherwise have perished will be revivified by the Christ-Impulse, which will have saturated the whole etheric body: the human etheric body will have become one with the Christ-Impulse.” -- The Gospel of St. John, lecture 12, 5Jul1909, Kassel, GA 112



The Lost Word

• When the Sun separated from the Earth, the Word was entombed in the Earth

• Man will raise this Word from the lifeless but first the spirit must live in him to enable the Word to sound

• This is the mystery of Pentecost, the tongues of fire

• Man then becomes a messenger of the Godhead, proclaiming the inner Word out of his own free will

• A perpetual Whitsun Mystery



Summary

• We must learn to work with the Vulcans – For the rest of Post-Atlantean Cultural Ages

– Content of Spiritual Science comes from them

• Loosening of the etheric – Christ in the etheric leads– As physical body withers away, etheric body takes its place

– Physical incarnation coming to an end: 4000 to 6000 AD

– Humanity needs technology to bridge 6000 to 8000 AD

• The Ahrimanic obstacles will be transformed– Vulcans’ evolution requires for them to now participate on earth

• Ahriman must have his incarnation: good for our evolution

– Technology takes on the lifeless, even in thinking• Frees us to develop Imagination and living thinking

– This will lead to endowing life in our creations (with love)



The Stars Once Spoke to Man

The Stars once spoke to Man.It is World-destinyThat they are silent now.To be aware of the silenceCan become pain for earthly Man.

But in the deepening silenceThere grows and ripensWhat Man speaks to the Stars.To be aware of the speakingCan become strength for Spirit-Man.

Rudolf Steiner



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Q&A

“Man’s history shows that every kind of labor becomes detached from feeling and from the human soul – and changes into a soulless thing, the more the spirit learns to master forces which it can find within the senses’ realm. Each day productive work grows more mechanical – and so does life itself.”[Strader, The Guardian of the Threshold, Scene 1] -- R. Steiner, Mystery Dramas


spirit

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EXTRA MATERIAL



Rudolf Steiner References

1. The Temple Legend

2. Three Streams in the Evolution of Mankind

3. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts

4. The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman

5. The Karma of Vocation

6. The Karma of Materialism

7. The Karma of Untruthfulness

8. Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy

9. Colour

10. Boundaries of Natural Science

11. Secret Brotherhoods

12. The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness

13. The Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral Body

14. The Apocalypse of St. John

15. The Evolution of Consciousness

16. A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future

17. The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge

18. Geographic Medicine

19. Man as Symphony of the Creative Word

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More Rudolf Steiner material can be found online at www.rsarchive.org

References

1. Greyson, Bruce, The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: PraegerPublishers, 2009

2. Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind: Houghton Mifflin, 1976

3. Lanza, Robert, Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys: BenBella Books, 2010

4. Laszlo, Ervin, The Immortal Mind: Science and the Continuity of Consciousness beyond the Brain: Inner Traditions, 2014

5. Lockley, Martin, How Humanity Came Into Being, The Evolution of Consciousness, Floris Books, 2010

6. Rosenblum, Bruce, Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness: Oxford University Press, 2011

7. Francis, Keith, Rudolf Steiner and the Atom, Adonis Press8. Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, 1818 9. Welburn, Andrew, The Mysteries, Floris Books, 199710. http://www.theoi.com/Ther/Automotones.html for information about

the automatons of Hephaestus

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Recommendations

1. Movement: Get up twice per hour – get tea, go chat– Stand, don’t sit for more than 5 hours per day

2. Eyes: Place screen near window – look outside often– 20-20-20 rule

– Go everyday, same time, for a long walk, 10K steps/day

3. Know your home’s EMR and its sources– iPhone app (Fallen Angel Creations)

4. Shut down at night (turn off power esp. WiFi)– And at dinner, make it engaging, sacred

– No screen time within an hour of bedtime

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6. Smart meters - avoid

7. Fasting (weekly), habit changes (monthly), annual blood tests


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Some Other Dangers

• Sabotage

• Control (by ego or group-ego)

• Pain of separation (some will ‘fall’)

• Education

• Health

• Enforcement of status quo (stop evolution)

• Loss of movement (then loss of body)



MysTech: Mysteries of Technology

• Currently sponsored by The Center of AnthroposophicalEndeavors (CFAE) of Seattle, WA.– Started back in 1982 as Friends of Anthroposophy– Founded

• Golden Garden Waldorf School and Seattle Waldorf School• Two puppet theaters

– Hosted hundreds of lectures, workshops, and performances

• MysTech COO, Frank Dauenhauer– Graduate of High Mowing, class of 1984

• First High Mowing class to be introduced to the technology course developed by Andrew Linnell and David Mitchell

– CFAE board member since 1996– Became CFAE Executive Director October of 2016

• Membership to support R&D– Moral interface to machines– Journal, website, classes



Coming Destruction of 5th PACA

Is it wrong to oppose evil's destiny of destroying life as we know it?

• Were the Rahkshasas necessary for evolution to move from Atlantis to Post-Atlantean Ages?

• Was Judas’ betrayal necessary?

• Would it be wrong if we were to prevent the War of All Against All?– “Until now, the elemental spirits of birth and death have been guided by

the gods, influence has been limited to the coming into being and passing away of humans at the physical level

– But the civilization of our own and future ages has to be such that these spirits can be active in technology, industry, commerce, …

– They will also have to become used to the idea that progress in civilization will gradually make it necessary for us to use the elemental spirits of birth and death

– And in doing so, humanity will have to live with the fact that a destructive element becomes part of human evolution



Spirits Of Birth And Death

• The elemental spirits of birth and death are messengers of Ahriman

• The iron necessity of world evolution forces the gods to use Ahriman's messengers to control birth and death– When they [the gods] ask the elemental spirits to act on their behalf they do

not allow the powers of these messengers to enter the physical world

• But as civilization goes into its decline, from the 5th PACA onwards, this element has to come in again, so that catastrophe may be brought about

• Human beings must use these powers themselves– Ahriman's messengers are therefore an iron necessity

– They have to bring about the destruction that will lead to the next step forward in civilization

• This is a terrible truth, but it is so, and nothing will avail where this truth is concerned but to get to know it and to see it clearly”


The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, lecture 4, 6Oct1917, Dornach, GA 177


Must We Merge With Machines?

• Google, the company whose maxim is “Don’t be evil,” has given itself over to a vision of the future in which human and machine morph into a monstrous hybrid.

• As Google’s cofounder Sergey Brin recently declared, “We want to make Google the third half of your brain.”

• Brin and Larry Page, the visionary entrepreneurs who together founded Google, are unabashed enthusiasts and promoters of what has come to be known as “the Singularity,” a vision of the near future in which human beings and machines merge so that illness, old age, and even death become things of the past.


“I’d rather not” … Eric Utne, 2011


Anthroposophy Answers this Q

Yes, we must!1. Ending of the Age of Incarnation (infertility) < 6000 CE

– But physical earthly life must continue another 2000 years

– Procreation through the larynx comes much, much later

2. “Weld” with machine– “The welding together of the human nature with the

mechanical nature will be a problem of great significance for the remainder of earthly evolution.”

– “It is not a question of the what in this case; the what is sure to come. It is a question of the how, how one tackles these situations. The what lies in the meaning of earthly evolution. “

3. Giving Ahrimanic beings a physical embodiment

4. Moral and mechanical belong together


What???


Wrong Polarity through Gemini

• “These forces, however, will be left aside by those who try to achieve their whole purpose through the polaric duality of positive and negative forces.

• The forces which enable the spiritual to stream down to earth with the aid of positive and negative magnetism come from Gemini; they are the midday forces.

• In ancient times it was known that cosmic influences were involved in this, and to-day even exoteric scientists are aware that in some or other way positive and negative magnetism lie behind Gemini in the Zodiac.

• The aim will be to paralyze all that could be gained through a revelation of the true duality in the cosmos — to paralyze it in a materialistic, egotistic way by means of the forces which stream in particularly from Gemini and can be placed entirely at the service of the human “Double.”

• – The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178



Wrong Polarity through Sagittarius

• “Other brotherhoods, concerned above all to divert attention from the Mystery of Golgotha, will try to make use of the duality in human nature — the duality which in our epoch embraces man as a unity, but includes within him his lower animal nature [sacrifice of Chiron].

• A human being is really a centaur in a certain sense: his humanity rests on his lower animal nature in its astral form.

• This working together of the duality in man gives rise to a duality of forces. This duality of forces will be utilized particularly by certain egotistic brotherhoods, chiefly from the side of India and the East, in order to mislead eastern Europe, whose task it is to prepare for the sixth post-Atlantean epoch. These are Midnight forces.

• And this will be done with the aid of the forces which work in from Sagittarius.” – The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178



Secrets Disclosed

• “First, there are the capacities having to do with so-called material occultism. By means of this capacity — and this is precisely the ideal of British secret societies — certain social forms at present basic within the industrial system shall be set up on an entirely different foundation.

• Every knowing member of these secret circles is aware that, solely by means of certain capacities that are still latent but evolving in man, and with the help of the law of harmonious oscillations, machines and mechanical constructions and other things can be set in motion. A small indication is to be found in what I connected with the person of Strader in my Mystery Dramas.

• These things are at present in process of development. They are guarded as secrets within those secret circles in the field of material occultism.

• Motors can be set in motion, into activity, by an insignificant human influence through a knowledge of the corresponding curve of oscillation. By means of this principle it will be possible to substitute merely mechanical forces for human forces in many things.”



Mechanical Occultism

• “The possibility will thus come about of rendering unnecessary nine-tenths of the work of individuals within the regions of the English-speaking peoples. Mechanistic occultism will not only render it possible to do without nine-tenths of the labor still performed at present by human hands, but will give the possibility also of paralyzing every uprising attempted by the then dissatisfied masses of humanity.

• The capacity to set motors in motion according to the laws of reciprocal oscillations will develop on a great scale among the English-speaking peoples. This is known in their secret circles, and is counted upon as the means whereby the mastery over the rest of the population of the earth shall be achieved even in the course of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch.”

• The Challenge of the Times, Lecture 3, 1Dec1918, Dornach, GA 186



Facing the Future

• We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards Mankind, out of the future. We must look forward with absolute equanimity to whatever comes, and we must think only that whatever comes is given us by a world direction full of wisdom.

• It is part of what we must learn during this age, namely to act out of pure trust in the ever present help of the spiritual world; truly nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us.

• Therefore let us discipline our will, and let us seek the awakening from within ourselves, every morning and every evening.

Rudolf Steiner



Past Evolution of Mankind


Sun departs

Moon departs

Sexual Procreation

Not to scale

Earth-Man

Atlantean Epoch

Lemurian Epoch

Souls leave for other planets

Hyperborean Epoch

Human body “reptile-like. M-F” Foundations of Esotercism, 16Oct1904, GA 93a


What is Your Picture of the Future (2050 →)



What Are the Good Purposes of Technology?

• Vulcan: tech god abandoned by his own mother, Hera– Next generation after Zeus

– Sons usurp the throne

• Emancipation from labor– Physical

– Mental• Freed from dead thinking

– Google Assistant video

• Future of the double?– Man possessed by demons

• Mark 5:1-18

– To move ‘higher’ we must

push down that which we

then must redeem later


https://www.facebook.com/circuitbreaker/videos/2045943969031755/?t=10


Healing of the Man Possessed by Demons

• Then Jesus demanded, “What is your name?”• And he replied, “My name is Legion, because there are many of us

inside this man.” 10 Then the evil spirits begged him again and again not to send them to some distant place.

• 11 There happened to be a large herd of pigs feeding on the hillside nearby. 12 “Send us into those pigs,” the spirits begged. “Let us enter them.”

• 13 So Jesus gave them permission. The evil spirits came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the entire herd of about 2,000 pigs plunged down the steep hillside into the lake and drowned in the water.

• 14 The herdsmen fled to the nearby town and the surrounding countryside, spreading the news as they ran. People rushed out to see what had happened. 15 A crowd soon gathered around Jesus, and they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons. He was sitting there fully clothed and perfectly sane, and they were all afraid.16 Then those who had seen what happened told the others about the demon-possessed man and the pigs. 17 And the crowd began pleading with Jesus to go away and leave them alone.



Cosmic Overviewmany prior dramas

Gold

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Ahriman



Post-Kali

Focus was on overcoming Lucifer

Focus now on confronting Ahriman

Silver

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Cosmic Overview many prior dramas


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Ahriman


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Post Atlantean Evolution

Dark Age

15th C 20th C

Meeting with “next” humans and with Vulcans

repetitionnew formsold forms


Ahriman’sIncarnation

Lucifer’s Incarnation

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Spiritual world full of beings


Closeup: Post Atlantean Evolution

Dark Age Ends

15th C 20th C

Meeting with “next” humans and with Vulcans


4th

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Renaissance 1.0 Renaissance 2.0

1879

Old Mysteries ↓Materialism ↗

Leonardo da Vinci

Materialism ↓New Mysteries ↗

Who?

now


Dawning of Renaissance 2.0

• “We are standing at a definite point in the evolution of humanity in the sphere of art and in many other spheres of spiritual life — at a point where the Spirit speaks clearly to us of new riddles.

• And just as in the time of the [1st] Renaissance man was destined primarily to orientate himself to the past in order to work his way through to the new, so it is with our own external knowledge and perception of the universe.

• All that has been produced by the modern age since the 16th

century is only the preparation for a living experience of the universe in its forms and movements which now stand before us as riddles.”

• Ways to a New Style in Architecture, lecture 3, 28Jun1914, Dornach, GA 286



Now! Experiencing the Etheric Christ

• Separation of etheric and physical at death

• It is only in the twentieth century that a renewal of the Christ-Event will begin, for this is when a certain general heightening of human powers of cognition begins. It brings with it the possibility that in the course of the next 3,000 years, and without special clairvoyant preparation, more and more persons will be able to attain a direct vision of Christ Jesus [but not with the physical eyes]

• Christ becomes the Lord of Karma, so that in the future it will rest with Him to decide what our karmic account is

-- From Jesus to Christ, lecture 3, GA 131

• Year 2000 + 3000 = Year 5000 as end of Christ’s Appearance in the Etheric – what will this mean for human physical and etheric bodies?



• After 15th Century – beings ascending, finished work

• Spirits of Personality (Archai) to level of Exusiai (Form)

• Archai do not intercede but wait for us to rise to them

• Freedom

• Michael

• 1879 on

• Atma

• Evolution towards Jupiter has begun!

Mid-Point Changing of the Guard




R. Steiner, Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, lecture 5, 7Oct1917, GA 177

• “We really are no longer in this world to take care of our own organization; we do still incarnate, but no longer in order to take care of our own organization

• This organization evolved until the middle of the Atlantean age, or until ancient Greek times when, human bodies were as perfect as they can be during time spent on earth– Not until Jupiter will humans achieve a higher level of physical perfection

• Now, we are really here to be part of a downward curve of evolution, to incarnate in order to learn and experience all manner of things by the very fact that we are in bodies which are dying, increasingly crumbling and withering away

• The fact is that anything we inwardly develop and inwardly are, will no longer become part of the outer physical body to the same extent as it did in the past – The Exusiai are moving on …

• Consequence of this will be all kinds of changes in development”

Now in Devolution – Get Used to It!


Renaissance 2.0

• Has already begun, a revolution within Science

• Begin with the Human Being– Epistemology: How do we know that we know

• Or what we know?

• What must be at the first gate for all Science?

• Thinking about thinking, cognition as a mental process

– What of the human being is earthly?

– What is heavenly? What is our relationship to the stars?

– 3-Fold Human: Head (nerve-sense), Heart/Lungs (rhythmic), Limbs (metabolic) – Thinking, Feeling, Willing

• Fixed Stars, Moving Stars, Earth : Spirit, Soul, Body

– 4-Fold Human: Elements and Ethers (and sub-physical ethers)



A Revolution in Science is Underway!

• Materialism still rules – but its strength is eroding rapidly

• A new paradigm, a new view of reality

• A new model of the human being is desperately needed

• We have about 20 more years to ensure Renaissance 2.0 is established -- Steiner’s goal



Astro-Physics

• The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow



Many Fields of the Revolution

• Ecology

• Agriculture and Nutrition

• Botany, Zoology, and Biosciences

• Medicine

• Anatomy

• Optics, Color, and Light

• Fluid Dynamics

• Education

• More …



What is Needed to Guide Renaissance 2.0

• Epistemology: fundamental to science

• “It is due to our mental organization that the outer world is given to us, at first without its corresponding concepts.”

• “Intuition adds that part of the reality—the concept—which is lacking in the percept.” “From every real thing the relevant elements come to us from two sides, from perceiving and from thinking.”

• “The moment a perception rises up on the horizon of my observation, thinking also becomes active through me. An entity within my system of thoughts, a particular intuition, a concept, joins itself to the perception.”

• “The act of knowing or cognition is the synthesis of percept and concept.” – R. Steiner, The Philosophy of Freedom

• Thinking is a spiritual activity



Are There Dangers Ahead?

• Mind is a "society" of tiny components that are themselves mindless

• If machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new super-intelligence could replace humans as the dominant life form on Earth.

• Sufficiently intelligent machines could improve their own capabilities faster than human computer scientists, and the outcome could be an existential catastrophe for humans.

• Superintelligence would be difficult to control or restrain



In the Near Future, Michio Kaku @ WGS Dubai

• The word ‘computer’ will disappear because the devices will be ubiquitous: along our streets, clothing, and in us

• “There will be nothing that is not a computer”

• 3D printing: if you can imagine it, you can create it – Shoes, jewelry, rain gear, tools, parts, toys

– Download and print it at home

• Medical monitoring, medical nanobots you swallow

• Smart meters, smart toilets, smart walls– Built-in screen(s) for TV, laptops, phones, security, AR

• https://futurism.com/michio-kaku-life-20-years-future/


https://futurism.com/michio-kaku-life-20-years-future/


In the Near Future, Jennifer Gidley

• Australian psychologist and educator• University of Technology, Sydney

– Institute of Sustainable Futures

• President of the World Futures Studies Federation• On Australian Steiner National Curriculum Project team• “We are at a critical point today in research into human futures. Two

divergent streams show up in the human futures conversations. Which direction we choose will also decide the fate of earth futures in the sense of Earth’s dual role as home for humans, and habitat for life. …

1. Scientistic: dehumanising, and atomistic, based on a mechanistic, behaviourist model of the human being, with a thin cybernetic view of intelligence.

– The transhumanist ambition to create future techno-humans is anti-human and anti-evolutionary. It involves technological, biological, and genetic enhancement of humans.

2. Humanitarian, philosophical, and ecological, based on a view of humans as kind, fair, consciously evolving, peaceful agents of change with a responsibility to maintain the ecological balance between humans, Earth, and cosmos” -- Contrasting Futures for Humanity: Technotopian or Human-Centred? Paradigm Explorer, Sept. 2017




Transhumanism: overcoming biological limitations


Comparing Visions of the Future

Ray Kurzweil• Transcend biology by merging with

non-biological systems

• Merger of our biological thinking and existence with our technology

• By 2030 man will be less human and more machine, with bodies filled with nano-robots and artificially enhanced to be much stronger and billions of times more intelligent

• "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal" Time

Rudolf Steiner• “The welding together of human

beings with machines will be a great and important problem for the rest of the earth-evolution.” -- The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3

• “Man will chain a second being to him … feel the urge to think materialistic thoughts, to think, not through his own being, but through the second being who is his companion” GA158

• “Our science must lead the way, must prepare for what has to happen with the bodily essence in the future.”

• “What you think today, that you will be tomorrow” – The Temple Legend, lecture 13


http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html


Entering a Machine as an Extension of Body

• Becoming comfortable operating an automobile

• Becoming comfortable operating an auto-humanoid– From within, not like the movie Avatar

• Emancipation– Physical labor

– Mental labor

– What have we sacrificed?

– What will we sacrifice?

– We’re all in this together – Reincarnation – Rosicrucianism



Attachment of a Second Being

“During the course of the Fifth PACA, so many problems have lost all inner, vital warmth. The countless questions which confront us when we study Spiritual Science with any depth, simply do not exist for the modern man with his materialistic outlook.

“A different form of experience will come to the man of modern times. In his own opinion he knows ever so well; he observes the material world, uses his intellect to establish the interconnections between its phenomena and believes that all its riddles are solved in this way, never realizing that he is simply groping in a phantasmagoria.

“But this way of working coarsens and dries up his ether-body, with the ultimate result that the [Ahrimanic] powers, like a second nature, will attach themselves to him.

The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman, Rudolf Steiner



In the Age of Artificial IntelligenceBeing Human

• Founder of the Future of Life Institute, MIT professor

• How will Artificial Intelligence affect jobs, justice, crime, war, society and our very sense of being human?

• “AI will transform our economy, our culture, our politics and even our own bodies and minds in ways most people can hardly imagine.“

• What would Steiner say?



Trend for Embedded AI Platforms


Singularity: when AI surpasses HI


How Does This Compare to the Human Brain?



Spirits of Birth and Death

• Now being freed up; entering industry and commerce– At the boundary between spiritual world and physical world

• Wherever electricity is used, there is demon magic. Demon magic signifies progress – we should not oppose progress – Karma of Vocation, lecture 9, GA 172

• In the fifth post-Atlantean cultural age illusion, Maya itself, will be seized upon by Evil. It will all be permeated by cleverness, intelligence [AI]– Leonardo da Vinci, His Spiritual and Intellectual Greatness At the Turning

Point of the New Age, Rudolf Steiner, Berlin, February 13, 1913, GA 62



Spirits of Birth and Death

• The human being can only come to spiritual freedom by growing strong against the resistance provided by evil. – We must not regard Evil from the outset as one would, who in

the fullness of his egoism merely wanted to get away, to flee from it

– Learn to know them and what lives and moves in the very depths of things

– We cannot do so but we must penetrate it with consciousness; we must learn to know it — really learn to know it [evil]

• All progress takes this course: wherever what has been created falls into ruin, we know that out of that ruin new life will always blossom – Leonardo da Vinci, His Spiritual and Intellectual Greatness At the Turning

Point of the New Age, Rudolf Steiner, Berlin, February 13, 1913, GA 62



Building Anthroposophy Upon Science

• “What was quite impossible in earlier times — to find any reality in the external world — is now a possibility through the very circumstance of our having become inwardly hollow. And this possibility will increase. …

• Ancient times reached knowledge of the world through knowledge of man. Speaking theoretically, we might say that what man went through as a life-process was, when completed, knowledge of the world; and with knowledge of the world in his consciousness, he could work back to man.

• If today you pass through forms, life, and consciousness of this world, what you really reach in this way is knowledge of Man. Everything else in the knowledge of nature vanishes, and Man becomes comprehensible. In the same way, from having gained knowledge of the world, Man becomes comprehensible as a three-membered being — nerve-sense being, rhythmic being, and metabolic being. From Man we can then pass again to knowledge of the world.” -- How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again? Lecture 4



Reality in the Consciousness Soul Age

• “In our time, if a man really strives to reach life through forms, he must be able to say to himself: Even if I hold concepts ever so beautiful from this or that traditional religious confession, they may be quite fine, but I still do not attain reality by means of them unless I can also set the opposite concept before me.

• The reality, our true being, only shines into us and what we bear within us is merely the reflection.” – lecture 5

• Spirits of Form, were active; they revealed themselves to each supersensible consciousness. Now, it is the Spirits of Personality who work in Imagination of those who go to meet them (except in pathological cases).



From Natural to Spiritual Science

• “This present-day development demands of us that we strip away all that is out of date in current science, and really find our way into new thought-forms, so that in them we may reach not antiquated visions, but imaginations built up with all our will, which we may then offer to the objective process of the spiritual world and receive back verified.

• When one attains a consciousness that is outside the body and outside the course of life, that is really in the spiritual world, then will and conceptions flow together again into one reality.

• Man must for once dive down into this purely material life, so that, independent of it, he may gain the spiritual.”



Higher Stages of Spiritual Development• The Fifth Stage, The Mystical Death

– The whole world appears as if covered with a veil. Everything around has lost its old value. While a person feels himself thus lost in darkness, suddenly the veil is rent and he begins to see the ultimate spiritual and original aim. He gazes into a quite new, world.

– At the same time he learns to recognise what lies at the bottom of the human soul. He becomes a second person by the side of him-self and looks down on his lower self, which is separated from him.

– His body is the mother that he sees standing below him and the transformed lower self is the disciple who bears witness that Christ lives. The higher self says to the lower self, “Behold thy mother!”

• The Sixth Stage, The Burial And Resurrection– Everything pertaining to this planet becomes the body of the Christian

mystic. He is one with the whole life of the earth.

The Gospel of St. John, 26Feb1906, Berlin, GA 94

See also Occult Science and Occult Development, 1May1913, London, GA 152


super

sub


When is Modern Technology OK to Use?

• Transition Era: are children differently ‘equipped’?

• Let the foundations be constructed first– From where does a baby come?

• When the human “motor system” is ready (after)– Age 0: physical body born. Age 7: etheric body. 14: astral body

– Importance of Play, Imitation of the Human

• Lead by example like a god

• When what is built from above is ready for Earthly life– Puberty

• Importance of Movement– Postural alignment. Eurythmy. Rhythms. Harmonic oscillations.



Renaissance 2.0 in Educationa counterbalance to today’s technological thrust

• “The essence of the human being can be understood only in connection with the cosmos”– “The human being is directly coupled to the cosmos”



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Body-Soul Development by era

• Lemuria (moon separated)

• Atlantis (phys incarnation)

• Post-Atlantean

• I. 56 49 earth

• II. 48 42 speech

• III. 41 35 stars

• IV. 34 28 33 – Christ

• 1879 V. 27 21 Today 27 (Michael’s era)

• VI. 20 14 Year 4,000

• VII. 13 7 Year 6,000 – women are infertile

Year 8,000 – moon returns


L7A1

A2

A3

A4

A5A6

A7

PA1

PA2

PA3

PA4 PA5

PA6

PA7

Each pie slice represents ~2160 today-years

Source: Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness, 19Jan1905, Dusseldorf




Sun departs

Moon departs

Incarnation begins

Sun returns

Moon returns

Incarnation ends

Atlantean Epoch

6th PACA

Not to scale

7th Post-Atlantean Cultural Age

War of All Against All

Spidery beings

7th EPOCH

5th PACA

4th PACA

6th EPOCH Create living beings

Lemurian Epoch

Hyperborean Epoch

now


Temple Legend lecture 10



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WHAT HAPPENS IF/WHEN WE NO LONGER HAVE A PHYSICAL BODY?

Many authors artistically feel this future



Before Incarnation can End …

• Achieve full control of astral body– Convert it to Manas

• How?– Recognize we are Prometheus

• Chained to the Mineral Kingdom

– Freedom – become angel-like • Via the labors of Heracles

– Sacrifice our inner centaur

• Oh well, lots of time, right? – How many incarnations?

– 4000 yrs left → about 5 or 6 more incarnations

– Then a 2160 year period of non-natural body life on earth • Helping others with their karma



Ending of Physical Bodies

• “In a time not all that far ahead, possibly as early as the 7th millennium, all women will be infertile on earth”– Withering and crumbling of human bodies

– Before the earth has gone through all its stages

• People would no longer find anything to do on earth– Relationship between inner life & physical body must change

– Must find a different way to relate to earthly existence

– “final stages of earth evolution will make it necessary for them to do without physical bodies and yet be present on earth”




End of Incarnation in 6th PACA

• “A time will come in the physical evolution of the earth — it will be after the year 5,700 — when, if he fulfils his rightful evolution, man will no longer tread the earth by incarnating in bodies derived from physical parents. In that epoch, women will be barren; children will no longer be born in the manner of today, if evolution on the earth takes its normal course.”

Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences, 18Jan1920, GA 196



What Takes the Place of Incarnation?

• “There must be no misunderstanding about such a fact as this. Something else, for example, might come about.

• The Ahrimanic Powers, which under the influence of the impulses working in men today are becoming extremely strong, might succeed in preventing earth-evolution in a certain respect.

• It would then become possible for men — by no means for their good — to be held in the same form of physical life beyond this time in the 6th or 7th millennium. They would become much more like animals, while continuing to be held in the grip of physical incarnation.

• One of the endeavors of the Ahrimanic Powers is to keep humanity fettered too long to the earth in order to divert it from its normal evolution.”




How Long Will This Last?

• “However, if men really take hold of the best possibilities for their evolution, then in the 6th millennium they will enter for a further 2,500 years into a connection with the earthly world of such a kind that they will, it is true, still have a relationship with the earth, but a relationship no longer coming to expression in the birth of physical children.”


• “The Exusiai have given form to the crystal which we extract from the Earth, just as we build our monuments and our machines. Just as in the past the Gods created the mineral world from a chaotic mass, so our cathedrals, inventions and even our institutions are the germs from which a future world will come to birth. Neither cathedrals nor machines have been built in vain.” An Esoteric Cosmology, lecture XV, GA94



Who Will Help Us Through the 7th PACA?

• Human fertility which depends on the powers of light for its impulses will gradually come to an end in the 6th PACA

• The powers of darkness will have to intervene so that the affair may continue for a time

• 6th PACA: Seeds for it lie in the East of Europe– Develop powerful tendencies which do not allow physical human

reproduction to continue beyond the 6th PACA

– Let the earth enter into a form of existence in soul and spirit

• 7th PACA: procreation will be guided by impulses from the cast-down Angels, will come from America

[What kind of bodies are these?]




to HERE?

Transition Time


What happens to the Temple?

Housing for The Three

How do we get from

Here

Isn’t this an angel?

Ego

Physical body

Spirit Man

Astral

Etheric

Life Spirit

Spirit Self


Becoming Stunted Angels?

• Arriving too soon? – Right speed, fullness, strength– Opportunities to attain higher

members from Ahriman

• How do we develop strength? – Overcome obstacles

• God instructed Dynamis – For Old Moon– War in Heaven – asteroid belt– Some angels ‘fell’

• Old Moon different from Earth? – Hardening, matter– Why? Development of the Ego

- From Universe, Earth, and Man



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FERTILITY CHANGING:DOES SCIENCE AGREE?

Fact Check



USA Fertility Rate

• Millennials prefer pets over children


• 1957: 122.9 births per 1,000 women

• 2016: 59.8 births per 1,000 women> 50% decline in 59 years!

http://www.lifenews.com/2017/02/20/child-free-millennials-choose-pets-over-kids-who-needs-children-when-we-can-cuddle-our-pets/


Emancipation from Birthing

• CRISPR– Edit for best

– Rid the worst

– Mutations

• Synthetic– Stem cells

– Skin cells

• Ready made adult – Who needs childhood?

– Will a bionic robotic unit await your next incarnation?


Growing Infertility

• Chemotherapy effects

• In-Vitro Gametogenesis (IVG): – Creating babies from skin cells

– Embryo “Farms”• Replace sperm banks with skin banks

• Redefines “having some skin in the game” – fake paternity cases

• Select best from 100s, 1000s (if rich)– Destroy the rest

• Make embryos from multiple “donors”– 3-Parent babies now legal in England


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/creating-babies-skin-cells-what-vitro-gametogenesis-what-are-risks-1600491

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116407-uk-becomes-first-country-to-give-go-ahead-to-three-parent-babies/


Future of Incarnating in the West

Bioethics

The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction • Henry Greely, professor law and genetics at Stanford,

bioethicist

• Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) selects embryos free from specific inherited diseases (today, what tomorrow)

• Take a cell from each early embryo, screen its DNA for inherited mutations, and then decide best one to implant

• Use DNA sequencing to provide parents with genetic likelihoods

• Return to asexuality– Possible to generate eggs from male skin cells

– Sperm from female cells

– Cheaper and much easier than harvesting eggs from ovary



Future of Incarnating in the West

Bioethics

The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction

Possible marketing

• We cannot fully guarantee your child will be healthy, but here are over 4,000 diseases we can guarantee your child won’t have

• You spend $30,000 on getting the car you want; how much is the baby you want worth to you?

• How much will your baby cost you over 21 years?

• Can you still afford a baby?



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WILL WE THROW OUT THE BATHWATER WITH THE BABY?



Changing the Physical Body

• Avatar time?

• Relieving duties of the spirits of birth and death

• “It will be as if the denser part of man were here below on earth and the human being will make use of it from outside like an instrument

• Man will no longer bear his body about and live within it, but will float above it, the body will itself have become rarefied and finer” [etheric]

• Rudolf Steiner, Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, Lecture 13, The Future of Man, 5Jun1907, Berlin, GA 99

• "...Only then do we gain knowledge of the true inner life, and we learn to recognize that our real self, our higher 'I', is widely extended over the world around us. The only “external world” is now our own body.“ -- Steiner, GA 94



Physical Body as a Machine

• “Meditation influences the work of the astral body upon the physical and etheric bodies during the night. Only beneficent beings must be allowed access to the human being ... He who seeks initiation must achieve the utmost calm. This includes the avoidance of all stimulants, especially alcohol.”

• “The relation of the astral body to the physical body, is like that of a workman to his machine, but with the difference that in this case the workman is in the machine, he ensoulsthe various parts, and makes them move. This resemblance of worker to machine applies even better when the person lies asleep. The astral body then works from outside. What does it do? It makes good the damage suffered by the physical body during the day.” -- The Gospel of St. John, 26Feb1906, Berlin, GA 94





Sun departs

Moon departs

Incarnation begins Vulcans expelled

Sun returns

Moon returns

Incarnation ends

Atlantean Epoch

6th PACA

Not to scale

7th Post-Atlantean Cultural Age

War of All Against All

Spidery beings

7th EPOCH

5th PACA

4th PACA

Seth

Hiram

6th EPOCH Create living beings

Vulcan Beings

Lemurian Epoch

Abel and Cain

Hyperborean Epoch

Eve

Adam and Eve

nowGreek gods:

Hephaestus and Prometheus


Task of the Vulcan Oracle

• Atlantean oracles – Betrayal of Vulcan Oracle mentioned

– Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. …

• “On Atlantis, people who were suited to develop this or that cognitive capacity were chosen from the population and assigned to one of the seven oracles.

• Of the seven oracles, which were named after the seven planets in ancient Atlantis, the Sun Oracle stood out from all the others, but next to it the Vulcan Oracle prepared itself in secrecy for its future task.”

• The Principle of Spiritual Economy, lecture 11, 31May1909, GA109



Vulcans to the rescue

• Since 1880 Vulcan beings descend – From between the Moon and Mercury– Seeking entry to earthly evolution– To them we owe Spiritual Science– First Super-earthly Beings to bring messages

• They seek to be the fore-runners of the end of the earth and the return of the moon

• Understand their speech only through Spiritual Science– “Our shadowy intellect must be re-animated by Spiritual Science

• The human race does not welcome these Beings– Shock after shock will arise and the earth will dissolve into chaos if

these Beings meet with opposition from humanity”

R. Steiner, Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness, Dusseldorf, 19Jan1905 (no GA)


Question: why Vulcan? Hephaestus


Emergent Sciences

“The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional … and there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.”

• Louis de Broglie

– Quantum physicist

– Nobel Prize 1929

– all matter has wave properties



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• MysTech Membership to support R&D– Journal, website, classes – outreach, building awareness

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Conclusions

• Fearsome future forecast, but we will not fear it

• Building the Temple in the midst of infertility– Etheric Temple – with Etheric Christ

– Inviting Vulcans into our evolution

• Prepare our future according to divine will

• Cultivation of the Mysteries of Technology is justified– Inner being, moral being, intention, fire

– Robotics likely necessary for our future

– Hephaestus (= Vulcan)

• God of Technology & Smiths

• Representatives here to help us



Context

• Building a man-made world – Build first the Temple

– Then, like a child, we learn to build Jupiter

• With the gifts from Ahriman (future)– Those to be on the human stage of Jupiter are here now

– Once-Sun beings, Vulcans, are here to help

• Cosmos where Love is experienced as now Wisdom isPainting by Carolina Allen



Further Research

• Robotic bodies into which we ‘avatar’?

• Countenance for these bodies– Good and Evil revealed

• Who can use such bodies?– Other humans? Other beings?

• And my double?

• Jupiter-Humans?

• Moral Technology?– Interface

– As a driving force

– Mechanized Beasts

• What’s Physical Reality?



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Q&A

“Out of desperate circumstances, the new Christ experience will evolve.

Trying outer circumstances will become inner soul trials.

Out of these soul trials, vision will be born.” -- R. Steiner, For the Michael Age


Facing the Future

• We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards Mankind, out of the future. We must look forward with absolute equanimity to whatever comes, and we must think only that whatever comes is given us by a world direction full of wisdom.

• It is part of what we must learn during this age, namely to act out of pure trust in the ever present help of the spiritual world; truly nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us.

• Therefore let us discipline our will, and let us seek the awakening from within ourselves, every morning and every evening.

Rudolf Steiner



Recommendations

1. Movement: Get up twice per hour – get tea, go chat– Stand, don’t sit for more than 5 hours per day

2. Eyes: Place screen near window – look outside often– 20-20-20 rule

– Go everyday, same time, for a long walk, 10K steps/day

3. Know your home’s EMR and its sources– iPhone app (Fallen Angel Creations)

4. Shut down at night (turn off power esp. WiFi)– And at dinner, make it engaging, sacred

5. Cell and cordless phones – keep away, use speaker mode, ECO– Cell phone sleeves: https://www.safesleevecases.com/ (99%?)

6. Smart meters - avoid

7. Fasting (weekly), Habit Changes (monthly), Annual blood tests


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Is Electricity Evil?

• During the 5th post-Atlantean epoch, people will have to struggle with evil in the same elemental way in which they struggled with birth and death during the Atlantean age

• Particularly through the control of the different forces of Nature, the impulses that lead to evil will send their influences into the world in an immense, gigantic form

• The forces of good will have to grow out of the opposition to evil, and man will have to draw the strength for this opposition out of spiritual sources

• This will take place above all during the 5th epoch, when the exploitation of electric forces, which will assume quite different dimensions from those which they have assumed so far, will enable man to spread evil over the earth, and evil will invade the earth by coming in an immediate way out of the forces of electricity.”

• The Overcoming of Evil, R. Steiner, Dornach, November 4, 1917, GA 273



Modern Technology and the Role of Evil

• Wherever electricity is used, there is demon magic– Demon magic signifies progress – we should not oppose progress – R.

Steiner, Karma of Vocation, lecture 9, GA 172

• In the fifth post-Atlantean epoch illusion, Maya itself, will be seized upon by Evil. It will all be permeated by cleverness, intelligence

• The human being can only come to spiritual freedom by growing strong against the resistance provided by evil

• Human beings will have to accustom themselves to regard the inrush of the forces of Evil as an inrush of very laws of Nature– We will learn to know them and what lives and moves in the very depths of

things

• We must not regard Evil from the outset as one would, who in the fullness of his egoism merely wanted to get away, to flee from it– We cannot do so but we must penetrate it with consciousness; we must

learn to know it — really learn to know it

• Above all, in our time, already a force is preparing in the realm of human beings a force which tends to create illusions that are harmful and destructive – R. Steiner, The Problem of Faust, lecture 6, 4Nov17




https://www.intorobotics.com/35-robots-in-agriculture/

The LettuceBot combine computer vision and robotics to act 90 times per second with a precision of ¼-inch


https://www.intorobotics.com/35-robots-in-agriculture/

Do I have to Do This? Can’t someone Else?

Why Must we confront?

Clarity (know what the machine is not)Strengthening one’s will

Ahriman‘s Gifts – needed for our future

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. ....

In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized”

– supposedly J. W. von Goethe (but it is not)



Mystery of Golgotha


Andrea Mantegna, 1457

Past Future


Temple and Mystery of Golgotha

• Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.“ – John 2:19, NIV

• If we have no physical body, how will we work on Atma?



History of the Temple

• (Pyramids, shrines, … )

• First Temple – Solomon’s– Babylonians in 587 BC

• 2nd Temple – Zerubbabel’s– Romans in 70 AD

• Face – Façade – Countenance to inner, Holy of the Holies

– Michael as countenance of Christ, future humans …

• What is the Third Temple?




Solomon’s Temple


First Temple’s Main Characters

Solomon

• Concept, blueprint

• God – Self

• Receive!

• Reverence – abundance

• He leadeth me

• Cool – detached

Balkis

• Queen of Sheba

• Focus of human soul

Hiram

• Know-how, construct

• Community – God

• Deed!

• Spiritualize Earth

• I will to transform

• Fire – Arts – Sciences


Abel Cain


Will the Human Being Become the Temple?

• Head Above Stand on Earth

Heart between mediates

Not aloft, not swimming

• Abel/Seth legacy Cain legacy

• What is above? What is beneath?

• I am a son of god Grace/Will Raising my Self

Dome Walls Foundation

Stars, Zodiac Spheres Earth

Only you can order/beautify this temple!

Who can enter this temple besides you?

Etheric Christ (but that’s not all!)



Cell Phone Safety

• Keep the phone away from your bed at night.

• Carry the phone in a purse or a backpack, not in a bra or pocket.

• Use the speaker or a headset to talk, rather than holding the phone close to your head.

• When streaming a video, hold the phone away from the body.

• Text rather than talk.

• A cellphone emits more RF energy when it’s showing fewer bars on its display because it needs to yell louder to keep connected – use phones that use home internet



Schedule


Friday June 1, Lecture, Renaissance 2.0

Saturday June 2, Workshop

9 am - 1 pm Theme: Can We Build a Moral Technology?

• 08:45 - 09:00 Coffee/tea, Social

• 09:00 - 09:05 Welcome, Logistics, Introductions

• 09:05 – 09:30 Meditative Approach for Vulcan Converstn.

• 09:30 - 10:30 Merging through Rhythms and Ethers

• 10:30 - 10:45 Break coffee/tea

• 10:45 - 11:30 Discussion: Protecting, countering, confronting, MysTech: “not the what but the how”

• 11:30 - 13:00 Discussion: The Challenge of Our Times

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life together of man and machine? - mystech

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