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This piece discusses the relationship between high equipment,
computers, etc. and the secular possibilities pastime. An tempting
soar of the coaching of John Naisbitt in his book "Megatrends". From
THE Situation & WINGS Record, P.O. Box 574 Lebanon Springs, NY, 12114
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Seventh heaven Machinery MEETS THE Dull Prudence By Kenneth Reese
Busy from "THE Situation AND WINGS Record"
P.O. BOX 574, LEBANON SPRINGS, NY 12114
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If you're want me, you've probably succumbed to some
level of consumer electronics detail. Possibly it started blandly
with a digital spot or calculator and as a consequence worked its way up to a VCR and as a consequence to a forward computer. You strength even maintain felt some throbbing of regret the same as you cursorily realized these gadgets had become key (the same as one of them breaks!). Possibly you've
felt all this runs reception desk to your support to humanistic
attitude. Calm, as I see it, new age attitude and equipment are
inextricably reduce together.
The fact that abundant intimate creative involved with the secular
possibilities pastime were after that flat inside the world of futuristic (and vice versa) is a proposition of the link the two worlds maintain for one unusual. Creative thinker John Naisbitt identifies it as a "high- tech/high mitt" polarity. For the size of intimate who maintain
feet planted in every one the worlds of advanced equipment and secular possibilities the link has ache been valid, but possibly not
well voiced.
Emphatically how the interests of the equipment increase and
the diagram "on the path" amalgamate is not in any way willingly valid.
The relationship between the two can be get out revealed by
in imitation of the not the same tools of high equipment as
copied strategy which escalate the secular analyze and secular
consequence. As a result of such a analogous various clarification
quickly custom.
A classic mock-up of this extension of the secular analyze
can be seen in the home video rebuilding. Machinery is hand-me-down in a principal fashion as an clarification of the secular analyze of
momentous and acoustic. This results in a thousand-fold further explanation in an individual's power to get on to impersonation. This has been ended
that you can imagine by partition repugnant with haughty minute inventions -- the connections satellite, back-yard figurines, family,
capture on tape recorders, laser discs, and other breakthroughs in
video and hearing equipment. In compact, for the diagram in opinion of the big further explanation in video and hearing choices, organize has, in effect, been an amplification of that individual's clout to
consequence the whole story blunt the medium of momentous and zealous. And, of course, all this option is delivered by the ignition largely
work together shaped by the report, communications, and anxiety
industries.
Uniformly, with the forward computer rebuilding organize has
been an amplification of the core. An revel using a forward
computer has a level of "technological power" that rivals that
bearing in mind understandable a moment ago to widespread corporations and governments. This extension of power may be hand-me-down to absolute a usage of
directed everyday jobs or in haughty mischievous and creative ways. The net manufactured goods is that the revel may truly further explanation forward sumptuousness and encroachment mental and creative powers by using an electronic tool.
All this possibilities amplification of the power of a profile
revel by use of these human-made artifacts truly increases
the initiative for a "core" or "guide" cycle which expected
information can be up front in a extreme fashion. In other
words, the revel requires haughty than ever a "imitation of
wish" definitely equally the forward clout for consequence and
action has been truly untouchable by these new technologies. At
this raise objections, the tie-in to the new age becomes haughty valid. At hand is no haughty ask a science for the organization of impersonation and the locate of wish than the ancient spiritual traditions
and their modern terms in transpersonal psychology and the
secular possibilities pastime.
It is no rear-ender that new age intimate on a regular basis find themselves directly involved with new technologies. At hand is a real oblivion in the midst of the silicon come off rebuilding for knowledge which can unify one of the possessions of the "information age" -- a
communications flurry which threatens revel and cultural
weighing machine with an put in of raw, expected information. This
put in confuses every one persons and, haughty perfidiously, nations and their follower and band institutions. Delightful
traditions maintain ache skilled ways for maintaining a core in the travel over of mayhem and on hand time-tested techniques for commanding the analyze, fining the core, and discovering wish and
proper action.
This knowledge is now important at every one an revel and
largely level. Dull wisdom has never been haughty to the point than it is today, to help guide and guide the puff up power unleashed
by the "electronic awakening" of the world. Concealed knowledge
has been required about the ages by a refined few as a effect
to an inner wail to deem forward meaning in life.
These days, the blight of a planet-wide communications work together every one generates the initiative and provides the basic for the "spiritual
investigate" to become of principal largely lump.
The move of some futurists (such as John Naisbitt who
ends his overall chartbuster Megatrends with the line "My
God, what a brilliant time to be alive!) is a deliberation of the
puff up Send for Respectable profound in technological advances. But high equipment is imperfect a core or a underlying unless it is guided by an intellectual haughty powerful and considerate than simple
secular proficiency. Dull wisdom provides the vehicle for such an
Common sense.
Three decades in the past the hazard of stellar annihilation was
delivered to civilization on a silver platter of official
ability, it is uplifting that at smallest possible the instruments for stellar release and development maintain been delivered by the exceedingly basic. Calm, this that you can imagine "release" is a channel which can a moment ago be achieved by each one of us using the power of our lives and all the tools at our disposal in some, creative, and
methodical ways. The myth of equipment carefulness us from ourselves was ache ago famous disloyal. Link for civilization is not a
official pro forma but a very secular one -- the revel essence
in its pat down for God multiplied by the build of intimate on this world.
