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Part 1
The word electricity first entered the English language in a 1650 translation of a treatise on the healing properties of magnets by Jan Baptist van Helmont, a Flemish physician and Rosicrucian who worked on the borderline between natural magic and modern chemistry.
Many of the earliest books and treatises on electricity described the force in distinctly alchemical terms, with such names as,
Now it is taken for granted how almost everything we use today is plugged into some invisible power grid.
We take little or no notice of how our devices and household appliances produce electromagnetic fields that mesh with all the other unseen fields into an ecosystem of electro-energies.
Electricity, said Rudolf Steiner,
That is,
It is because of this that Steiner warned humankind to,
In a lecture from 1925, Steiner says.
Rudolf Steiner made great efforts to outline aspects of the various forces acting against humankind's development...
One of these forces he termed as 'Luciferic,' and the aim of these forces was to sever the connection between the human world and the realm of spirit.
The other forces he named as 'Ahrimanic,' and the intention of these forces was to draw humanity into their realm, that is,
What makes Steiner's observation central to my exploration of what I call the Inversion is that he was perhaps the first figure - or spiritual researcher - to publicly,
Specifically, how anti-developmental impulses - Ahrimanic impulses according to Steiner - are connected with the forces of man-made electricity and magnetism, the same energy processes that information and computing technologies are based upon.
As electricity, light is highly compressed into a sub-material construct.
The inner qualities of natural light are distorted into an artificial form below that of its original state. And from this, human technologies are created; technology utilizes natural energies condensed into sub-natural - i.e., artificial-states.
According to Anthroposophical researcher Paul Emberson:
Through technology the human being is externalizing its own nature, manifesting an expression in material creations. Such outer creations can be seen as projections of a person's own nature.
The shifts to occur in technology will be reflections of the changes occurring in human beings themselves. Yet since the human being is caught up within the material inversion, becoming ever more entangled within physical matter, such technological creations or 'expressions' will not come from a place of pure consciousness.
Current technological developments and processes are not only an expression of our wishes and desires - the human ego - but are also expressions of a machinic impulse that runs through humanity via their embodiment in this inverted reality...
That is,
Technology is also an intermediary medium through which humanity can access and interact with other forces and realities.
If we examine some of the most recent technological innovations, we can see that there is a marked potential for doing more than processing operations within this current reality.
As an example,
As quantum science has discovered, such states as,
Such a unified field is also related to the zero-point field from which matter-reality manifests.
In other words,
Within such a realm, other dimensions, other realities exist; and many quantum scientists are cognizant of this potential.
David Deutsch, a British physicist and pioneer in the field of quantum physics, stated in 2005:
Similarly, Geordie Rose, the founder of D-Wave Systems that created the D-Wave Quantum Computer, stated in a similar talk:
Later on, Geordie Rose confessed that when standing next to his quantum computer,
Yet just how a person is able to distinguish between an 'alien God' and a demon has puzzled humanity with this dilemma for millennia.
Around the same time, in 2014, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk was warning of the dangers and high risks of advanced technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI).
He famously stated that,
As one more example from many, we can point to the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known as CERN) which many have suggested could be a means for accessing other dimensions.
In a briefing to reporters, Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN, stated:
The pattern emerging here is that through technology,
However, the inner state of the human being needs to be taken into account here for we are not dealing with external events alone.
And when humanity's lower nature is in contact with, or attracted to, those forces beyond the present physical reality,
As has been stated within the occult sciences, it
is more often the lower nature of the human being that is
sought out, for alliance and unhealthy bonding.
These technologies are not being introduced into a vacuum, but,
As yet, there are not only no real understanding of the effects to the biological nervous system and human consciousness:
The great challenge facing humanity as it steps into the future is how to manage its relationship, and increasing merger, with technology; especially in regard to the presence of the 'machinic impulse.'
What is clear is that for Steiner, and his fellow spiritual-science researchers, these new technologies have tremendous metaphysical weight attached to them.
Furthermore,
(Extracted from 'The Inversion - How We Have Been Tricked into Perceiving a False Reality')
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