Development and print science

You will observe, therefore, why during the last thirty years of teaching, I have continually emphasized the need to develop a truly spiritual and psychic sensibility, plus the power to establish a scientific telepathic relationship. I have thus laid the foundations for Print Science, having as an analyzer and transmitter interpreter, the enlightened mind, correctly oriented.

With these words the Tibetan Master was promoting ideas about development in 1949.

FOREWORD: of machines and systems

Never before in the history of mankind has the theme of "development" been so appealed as in the twentieth century; and of this century, it was perhaps, the 60s the decade in which more initiatives were undertaken in the world to achieve it. The “economicist” vision of development generated serious human and ecological crises in all parts of the world, without taking into account, that the formulation of development models implies a previous step: “rethinking” development. The theory of development has evolved almost at the same speed at which the world has been transformed, basically due to the revolution of technology and with it communications, which results in the possibility of accessing information in real time.

In the era of mechanization it was believed that the universe was a machine that was created by God to perform his work. Man was expected, as part of that machine, to fulfill God's designs, to do his Will. This belief was combined with another one of more ancient origin, that is, that man had been created in the image and likeness of God. From these two beliefs it was obviously inferred that man had to create machines to do his job. In the era of systems, many wills participate, playing only a small part, according to a model of division of labor. The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

In this article I will explain how development emerged with the Age of Systems and approaches the Age of Ideas. I will talk, moderated by the Tibetan and synchronously to three characters who lived at different times of time, who contributed their ideas during a 30-year stretch (Djwal Khul 1919-1949, Marshall McLuhan 1950-1980, Rusell Ackoff 1970- 2000 and Manuel Castells 1980-2010) and the way telematics brings us closer to telepathy. The following table will guide us in your understanding.

DEVELOPMENT: models and ideals.

MM: Pope told the English world what Cervantes had said to the Spanish world, and Rabelais to the French, in relation to the printing press. It is a delirium. It is a transforming and metamorphosed drug, capable of imposing its postulates on all levels of consciousness. But for us, in the decade from 1960 to 1970, the printing press has much of that strange retrograde character of cinema and railroad. By belatedly recognizing their hidden powers, we can learn to intensify the positive virtues of the printing press and, above all, to better understand the much more powerful and recent forms of radio and television.

DK: The current trend towards progress, which is clearly observed in the breed, allows you to acquire knowledge and transmute it in wisdom, and thus get to acquire the full illumination. . Illumination is the main purpose of education and to such a purpose technology has contributed.

MC: By technology I understand, the use of scientific knowledge to specify ways of doing things in a reproducible way . Among the information technologies include, like everyone else, the convergent set of microelectronic technologies, computer science (machines and software), telecommunications / television / radio and optoelectronics. In addition, unlike some analysts, I also include in the field of information technology genetic engineering and its set of developments and applications in expansion.

DK: Knowledge-wisdom must be replaced by intuitive understanding, being, in fact, inclusive participation in the creative activity of divinity. The divine idea has to become a feasible ideal, and this ideal has to be managed and manifested in the material plane. The creative thread, more or less prepared, has to be put into active and conscious function.

MM: For educated societies, it is not easy to understand why illiterate peoples cannot see in three dimensions, or in perspective. We assume that this is the normal mode of vision, and that no training is needed to view photographs or movies. The knowledge of the alphabet gives people the power to focus their eyes a little ahead of any image, so that they capture it in its entirety at a glance. Illiterate people have not acquired this habit and do not look at objects in our own way.

MC: Indeed, this tension between noble alphabetic communication and sensory and thoughtless communication underlies the frustration of intellectuals opposed to the influence of television, which continues to dominate the social criticism of the mass media.

MM: The liberal mentality is convinced that true values ​​are private, personal, individual. Such is the message of simple literacy. However, new electrical technologies propel it towards a need for total human interdependence. The medium is the message.

RA: However, much of what students learn in the educational process does not derive from what is taught, but from how it is taught. In education, perhaps more than in any other domain, the medium is the message.

DK: I have previously used a very significant phrase and I wonder if it has caused a definite impression on any of you. I have spoken of wisdom knowledge as a synonym of force-energy. Applied knowledge is Force that expresses itself, applied Wisdom is energy in activity. With these words I have expressed a great spiritual Law that will be useful to consider carefully.

A. A: The information is contained in descriptions. Knowledge is communicated by instructions. Understanding is communicated through explanations.

DK: Wisdom communicates through interpretation of meanings, meanings. The force of knowledge concerns the personality and the world of material values; Wisdom energy is expressed through the thread of consciousness and the creative thread, since they constitute two strands twisted into a single cord. The thread of energy-wisdom is the thread of life when it has merged with the thread of consciousness is also called the rainbow bridge.

MM: It is not known how to have a price and distribution system like ours without a long and extensive literacy experience. But we are realizing these things quickly, as we enter the electronic age. Because the telegraph, radio and television do not tend in their effects towards the homogeneity of the printing culture, and they predispose us to an easier surveillance of non-typographic cultures.

MC: Information technologies based on electronics (including electronic printing) have an incomparable memory capacity and speed of combination and bit transmission. The electronic text allows a much greater flexibility of feedback, interaction and configuration, as every writer who uses a word processor will recognize, thus altering the same communication process.

MC: Microelectronics changed all this by introducing a "revolution within the revolution." The advent of the microprocessor in 1971, with the ability to place a computer on a chip, changed the world of electronics from top to bottom and, in reality, the world.

DK: The revelation arose after 1975, being given on a broad scale through radio. At the beginning of the next century an initiate appeared who continued the teaching that would come from the same source of "Impression", because my task is not finished.

MM: However, it would have been so difficult to explain Gutenberg's innovation to a 16th-century man, as it is today to explain the total difference between television and film images. Today we like to think that the mosaic image of television and the pictorial space of photography have much in common. Actually, they have nothing in common. Neither did the book and the manuscript. However, the producer and consumer of printed pages conceived them as a direct continuation of the manuscript.

DK: Civilization concerns the masses and race consciousness, while culture concerns the individual and the invisible spiritual man. Therefore, a civilization that fully expresses the true culture lies in the distant and future development of humanity.

MC: The industrial society, by educating citizens and gradually organizing the economy around knowledge and information, prepared the ground for the human mind to have the necessary powers when new information technologies were available.

MM: The printing press, by converting vulgar languages ​​into media or closed systems, created the uniform and centralizing forces of modern nationalism.

RA: Systemic thinking, expansionism and objective teleology provide the intellectual basis of what could be called, at least tentatively, the Age of systems.

DK: The Master of the Atlantean era began to teach his disciples that the physical body was really just an automaton, and to achieve purity they had to take into account the emotional body and the nature and quality of their usual desires. In this race the first personal magnetism slowly began to manifest.

MM: Today, with the advent of automation, the ultimate extension of the electromagnetic form of production organization, we are trying to contend with such new organic production as if it were mass mechanical production.

RA: In the post-industrial revolution, man seeks to develop and use instruments that perform mental work instead of physical. Together, these technologies make control mechanization possible, that is, automation.

MC: At the end of this intellectual itinerary, impressive in many areas, a fundamental idea emerges: automation, which receives its full significance only with the development of information technology, increases dramatically.

RA: The invention of the telegraph in 1840 was followed by telephone, wireless communications, radio, television. This technology has to do with the transmission of symbols, or communication. In 1940 appears the computer that logically manipulates symbols.

MM: From the telegraph and the radio, the globe has contracted, especially, to the size of a global village. Tribalism is our only resource since the discovery of electromagnetism.

DK: There is an interesting parallel between the three methods of telepathic work, its three techniques of realization and the three main forms of communication on Earth. Instinctive telepathy-train-telegraph travel, intellective telepathy-sea-phone travel, intuitive telepathy-air-radio travel.

MC: The audiovisual culture took a historical revenge in the twentieth century, first with the cinema and radio, and then with television, overcoming the influence of written communication on the souls and hearts of most people.

RA: Scientists exploring the use of electricity as a source of energy found that it was not easy to observe it. Therefore, they developed instruments such as the ammeter, ohmmeter and voltmeter to observe it through them. Such instruments generate symbols that represent the properties of objects or events. Such symbols are called data.

MC: In 1975 Harvard researchers isolated the first mammalian gene from rabbit hemoglobin, and in 1977 the first human gene was cloned. From that moment on, a career began to establish commercial firms, most of them arising from the main universities and hospital research centers. Both journalists and investors and social activists were impressed by the tremendous possibilities that inaugurated the ability to develop the engineering of life, including human life.

DK: The higher degree learner uses the powers of the three worlds - of meaning, of cause and of being - to complement the purpose of the Human Development Plan. Connectivity is presented as the communication channel between the apprentice and the Plan directors.

MC: Interactive computer networks grow exponentially, creating new forms and channels of communication, and shaping life as it shapes them.

DK: The issue of telepathic communication could be designated with a more subjective name that better interprets the universal stage and prior to direct telepathic reception. Among the Masters, telepathy is not considered a science that has to be imparted or demands effort or consideration, but instead is interested, mainly, in the Science of Printing.

MC: This new social structure is associated with the emergence of a new mode of development, informationalism, defined historically by the restructuring of the capitalist mode of production towards the end of the 20th century. .

DK: A well-trained mind will capture the fleeting impression, subject it to the effect of mental activity, which will make it concrete, will produce the required form and, when it has been correctly created and oriented, it will eventually lead to the exteriorization of the registered impression, which took shape as intuition and opportunely found its place in the mental plane.

MC: The uses of new telecommunications technologies in the last two decades have gone through three distinct stages: automation of tasks, experimentation of uses and reconfiguration n of the applications. In the first two stages, technological innovation progressed through learning by use, in the third stage, users learned technology by creating it and eventually reconfiguring the networks and finding new applications .

DK: Impression Science is the name given to the process by means of which the necessary relationship between the units of life is established: Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity. These three large groups of Lives, are printed continuously and in turn become printing agents .

MC: Some advanced research experiments in the interaction between human and computer, are based on the use of adaptive brain interfaces, which recognize mental states from the signals of spontaneous electroencephalograms (EEG) online, based on the theory of artificial neural networks.

DK: From the common telepathic perception, to a state of consciousness characterized by a trained sensitivity. Develop a controlled spiritual recognition, understood and directed towards useful hierarchical purposes. With these words I have given a very simple definition of the process that we technically call Print Science.

MC: In Italy, computer scientist José Millán and his colleagues managed to show experimentally that subjects equipped with a compact electroencephalographic helmet (EEG) could communicate by consciously controlling their thoughts. Its approach was based on a mutual learning process through which the user and the brain interface matched and adapted to each other.

DK: The Science of Printing could ultimately be considered as the fundamental science of consciousness itself, because the result of contact and impact leads to the awakening and development of consciousness, and to that growing perception that characterizes every form in The manifested world. They will also see why the disciples and workers of the world have to act as MINDS, as receptive intelligences and as creators in mental matters. All this is related to the Science of Printing.

RA: One cannot specify the information needed to make decisions until a valid explanatory model of the decision process and the behavior of the system in question has been constructed. The mind is that system.

DK: The creative thread, in one of its three aspects, in past centuries, has been slowly woven by man. This fact is verified by the creative activity of man, during the last two centuries, so that today the creative thread is, in general terms, a unit in regard to the human whole and especially to the individual disciple, forming a strong compacted warp. on the mental plane

EPILOGUE: of ideas and information

Humanity has already reached a degree of development in which it has obtained a definite understanding of the Development Plan. Certain Members of the Hierarchy are allowed to know the details of the Plan, details that are protected by this Printing Science. We can say, for greater understanding, that "printing" governs and conditions all those who belong to the Board of the Planet and whose abstract mind is highly developed.

The purpose of the "Gutenberg galaxy" was to show why the literate man was willing to desacralize his way of being, being impressed by the repetitive character of the printing press as "magical", and using it as an alternative form of the wheel to pray, in The case of the Chinese. The divorce between poetry and music was reflected on the printed page for the first time. Poetry demonstrated its creative capacity.

For The Tibetan Master, the history of the world is based on the emergence of ideas, their acceptance, their transformation is ideal and their timely replacement by the imposition of new ones. Evolution is the process by which forms respond to contact, react to impact and obtain greater development, usefulness and activity. "God in the machine" is a mirage that emerges when technology is overvalued, just as "magic work" is the mirage that emerged from the omnipotence of ideas.

Rusell Ackoff states that the Age of Systems arises from a new vision, a new mission and a new method, it is a synthesis of the Age of the Machine and its antithesis, which is still being formulated: the Age of ideas. It invites us to reconcile the policies with the principles to achieve the proposed ends, because while the policies are decision rules, the principles are rules of action. Regarding the social effects of information technologies, Manuel Castells proposes the hypothesis that the depth of its impact is a function of the ability to penetrate information in the social structure.

But the transport and processing of information is nothing more than one of the keys to access the technology of light. Online communication, combined with the flexibility of the text, allows for ubiquitous and asynchronous space / time programming. This ability of the light as a message carrier has been made possible by the domain of the ordered light source that gave access to the laser. After the analog blackout we can only make the transition from digital to high definition, allowing clarity in our hearts, to facilitate the mind to project the pure light of the soul and after the skills are impressed they can get online.

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