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Including: The Place of the Noosphere in Cosmic Evolution,
Application of the Hypothesis of the Biosphere-Noosphere Transition
Over a period of five days, Electric Moon 3-7 (September 22-26, 2006) at the Parlamundi of the Ecumenical Fraternity of the Legion of Good Will, Brasilia, Brazil, some 300 participants from 19 countries enacted an event marking a conscious awakening to the next stage of the universal evolution of matter on behalf of the advancement of life and consciousness on this planet. The agenda included some 20 distinguished presenters speaking on a variety of themes pertaining to the biospheric crisis, elucidating causes and solutions, defining the menace of remaining unconscious regarding the effect of transnational corporations upon our health and well-being, or providing integrating perceptions of higher possibilities of human consciousness into this rapidly changing script, the biosphere-noosphere transition. (See Appendix I in downloadable pdf, Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights, Daily Program for details of speakers and their topics).
Utilizing this matrix of highly stimulating information as the springboard for fresh perspectives, three commissions were organized through a process of self-selection: Commission on Operation Earth Rescue; Commission of the Permanent Biospheric Congress; and the Commission on the Noospheric Ecological Spiritual World Assembly. The purpose of the organization of the Commissions was to demonstrate that not only was there a will to understand and analyze the problems and the general nature of the biosphere, but that an action program could be generated to creatively and positively resolve the issues of the humanly caused global crisis. Within the limitations of the five-days, the Commissions made their initial projections and timelines for accomplishing their goals. Their real challenge will be to continue their work following the Congress and remain in communication with each other. The next such World Congress focusing specifically on the Noosphere, will be held in Japan in mid-2009. At this time the Commissions will have completed the first stage of their work – general planning and creation of initial programs and projects. (See Appendix II in downloadable pdf, Summary of the Reports of the Three Commissions).
The common unifying aspiration of the Congress was a profound concern for a positive evolutionary advancement from the present state of crisis, now verging on world catastrophe. If there was one time-space point of convergence linking the three Commissions it was the proposal to establish the Republic of Altai as the world’s first “noospheric preserve.” For the Operation Earth Rescue, this issue involves the safeguarding of a pristine region of the Earth and its culture from the imminent threat of globalization; the sanctioning of the preservation of this land would constitute a primary act of the Permanent Biospheric Congress; and the exemplary status of Altai would provide a test-case for the Noospheric Ecological Spiritual World Assembly by which it could establish criteria for developing new standards for noospheric education and public policy.
There were a number of notable highlights to the Congress, including: the commencement of the five day program with the performance by five indigenous Amazonians in tribal regalia invoking prayers and highly spirited songs for the success of the Congress; the brilliantly executed educational video on our fragile biosphere presented by Tiahoga Ruge, Coordinator General of the Center for Sustainable Development of the Ministry of the Environment, Republic of Mexico; the equally fascinating video on the noosphere shown by Liubov Gordina, President of The Noosphere Spiritual Ecological World Assembly (NSEWA, Noosphere World Assembly); the wonderful and interactive demonstrations of noospheric education exemplified by Talgat Ashabakov and Nina Goncharova; the well-organized, systematically methodical description of the “invisible empire” of the transnational corporations, effectively presented by graduate student, Adriano Gonçalves; the dramatic moment in the discourse of Roberto Crema, Rector of the University for Peace, Brasilia, when the power suddenly went out, giving everyone a gratuitous post-technospheric moment of unity; the eloquent appeal for a unifying world government by veteran peace worker, Sir Reinhart Ruge, co-President of the World Parliament Association; the edifying presentation of the experimental work on the electromagnetic nature of noospheric telepathy by Alexander Trofimov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk; the ceremonial appearance and universal message of Brontoj Bedurev, spiritual leader of the Republic of Altai, who honored Congress convener, José Argüelles, for his efforts on behalf of the biosphere in general and the people and land of Altai in particular, by pinning the Vernadsky medal of science on the cloak with which he had just invested him. Brontoj also presented ceremonial scarves to co-convener, Vandir Casagrande, and to the heads of the three commissions, Liubov Gordina (NSEWA) Pedro Hernandez (Permanent Biospheric Congress), and Alexander Chavez (Operation Earth Rescue). Last but not least, and thoroughly manifesting the reality and nature of the new consciousness, was the brilliantly executed video presentation of the daily synchronic order cube meditation by Columbian video artist, Ariel.
Greater than the sum of the words and actions of the Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights was the feeling that arising from out of the ferment of the group interactions was the dawning of the next horizon of cosmic evolution as it is manifest on this planet: the Horizon of the Noosphere.
The recommendations of the Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights are comprehended in the implementation of the action programs of the three Commissions, over the next six years, as a broad re-envisioning of the human’s place in the evolutionary transition of the biosphere into the noosphere. More complete and ongoing progress reports will be forthcoming.
Generally these recommendations may be summarized as:
While it is important to raise consciousness so that we may actually make changes in our everyday habits and lifestyle – like vegetarianism and planting trees – to assume full responsibility for all of our actions as well as to express our commitment so that we can avoid the worst and be genuinely prepared for the new, it is equally important to understand our planetary situation within the context of the processes of cosmic evolution of which we, in our self-reflective consciousness, form an integral part. In this regard, it is of the greatest value to place the widely acknowledged and increasingly accepted timeline – 2012 – in a framework that not only demonstrates the full nature of the cyclic process that is ending, but which also provides an exuberantly positive vision of the next stage of evolution that is about to unfold. This we present, only that our actions might be better informed.
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"The Place of the Noosphere in Cosmic Evolution"
The biosphere-noosphere transition is the function of a crisis engendered by a single planetary species, the human. For all of its technological prowess, the human has been unable to see beyond the limitations of its own unexamined consciousness. Instead it views itself as a conglomerate of seven billion particles in pursuit of a vast array of individualistic, sectarian, corporate, nationalistic, religious and ideological concerns that keep it incapable of coming to any unified decision or agreement about anything.
“... ironically, it is the shallowness of the view of humankind as a mass of particles with no higher destiny that is the cause today of increased ecological, ideological and moral problems that block a greater flowering of life. How could a limited conception of ourselves be the cause of far-ranging cultural and socio-economic troubles? The answer is this: our beliefs about ourselves in relation to the world around us are at the roots of our consciousness, and our values determine not only our immediate actions, but also how our conceptual belief structures consciously and unconsciously support our society and our inner evaluation of who we are. Our beliefs are increasingly determined by science and technology. At the same time human beings have an intuitive feeling their bodies are moved by their thoughts...”
– Prof. J. J. Hurtak, “The Importance of Kaznacheev’s Monumental Work for the Post-Modern World,” Introduction to Reflections on Life and Intelligence on Planet Earth: Problems of Cosmo-Planetary Anthropoecology, The Academy for Future Science, 2004, p. 5
If the noosphere is the mental sheathe accommodating the planetary intelligence, then it has everything to do with the quality and nature of our thoughts, not just individually but about ourselves as a species. If we do not change our consciousness, our inability to change will bring on the change that is necessary, however destructive that may be to our present day beliefs. In other words, the biosphere-noosphere transition is inevitable. In fact, we are hastening the change through our parochial, third-dimensional materialistic values and thinking about things. The question is: how well prepared are we to deal with such a radical evolutionary shift, a cosmic mind-shift, as it were? It is in the interest of educating ourselves about this coming event, that we pursue a deeper elucidation of the meaning of the noosphere.
First of all, even to grasp the idea of the noosphere – planetary mental layer – we must elevate our consciousness and open ourselves to the most general, elemental and cosmic principles of our life on Earth.
We, as a species, constitute a single organism woven into the fabric of the biosphere, “the place of the transformation of cosmic energy on Earth.” (Vernadsky) As living substance, the biosphere maintains its balance as a biomass constant consisting of the symmetry of two forms of life: autotrophic and heterotrophic. Autotrophs are those forms of living substance that are self-sustaining, thriving on mineral, water, atmosphere and solar-cosmic radiation – this is the green world, the plant kingdom in general, including the plankton and algae of the sea. Heterotrophs are the animals – from insects to humans – that live off other forms of life. Some heterotrophs are herbivores, some carnivores, and some both. The point is that the biomass constant is maintained as an equilibrium of the two kinds of life.
When we look at the crisis of the present day from this perspective, we see that the balance of the biomass constant has been greatly disturbed. The heterotrophic human species is consuming more autotrophic life than it is able to replace. This affects the biospheric balance in innumerable ways. But in addition to the two types of life, there is the factor of intelligence; in other words, living substance does not develop apart from an evolving intelligence, which is cosmophsycical in nature and not merely confined to life on Earth. As Russian scientists V.P. Kaznacheev and A.V. Trofimov describe it:
The human tendency to heterotrophy and its lack of compensation for the autotrophic world has become threatening. The living substance and the planetary intelligence came into existence as integral parts of the evolution of the universe’s intelligence. This Intelligence or Mind emerges as the observer, as a Subject in the objective world of the universe in order to reflect upon its own evolution and realize new energy/information processes. However, an abnormal cosmic phenomenon is taking place in our world today. Mankind’s propensity for aggressive heterotrophy has the potential to destroy the historical auto-heterotrophic balance on Earth.
Reflections on Life and Intelligence on Earth, pp. 20-21
In this context, “intelligence” is the noospheric dynamic in the evolution of life in the universe. We would also suggest that both the imbalance of the autotrophic-heterotrophic relationship as well as the contemporary default of planetary intelligence may well be corrected by the manifestation of the noosphere as a conscious regulating mechanism of the totality of life on Earth. The appearance of the noosphere as a conscious evolutionary phenomenon is undoubtedly a precisely timed factor – the meaning, again, of the 2012 date. It is, therefore, imperative to comprehend the total nature and meaning of the noosphere as the expression of a consciously directed intelligence (as distinct from a haphazard unconscious intelligence).
During the initial presentation of the Congress entitled, “A brief history of time and the crisis of the biosphere,” a graphic exposition was made of “The Place of the Noosphere in Cosmic Evolution.” The synthesizing image of this graphic was drawn from a description of the history of the noosphere in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Man’s Place in Nature (1955), pp. 81-82:
Supposing we imagine, inside a solid comparable to our terrestrial globe, a wave starting from the South Pole and rising up towards the North Pole. Taken over its whole course the wave in question advances in a curved and therefore “converging” medium: and yet, at the same time, during the first half of its passage (as far, that is, as the Equator) it is spreading outwards; beyond that point, however, it begins to contract upon itself. Well, then: if we follow the historical development of the noosphere, we may truthfully say that it seems to conform to an exactly similar rhythm.
From its origin until our own time, mankind, while gathering itself together and already in the first stages of organization centered upon itself certainly went through a period of geographical expansion during which its first concern was to multiply and inhabit the earth. And it is only quite recently that “once the frontier was crossed,” the first symptoms appeared in the world of a definitive, global, folding back upon itself of the thinking mass within a higher hemisphere: and once that has been entered, it can, under the influence of time, advance only by contracting and concentrating upon itself.
The graphic implementation of this fertile description – an elucidation of the hypothesis of the biosphere-noosphere transition – presupposes a planetary whole system design science. This is a branch of cosmic science comprehensively integrating studies in aesthetics, art and cultural history, comparative and interdisciplinary studies in whole systems thinking, inclusive of studies in cosmology, astrophysics, geology, the biosphere, and the history of science in general.
The hypothesis of the biosphere-noosphere transition may simply be stated: When in the process of the complexification of matter the biosphere reaches a point of maximum crisis – biogeochemical combustion – it converts or mutates into a new condition, the noosphere. This climactic stage of complexification of the biosphere is crowned by the acceleration of life and intelligence, culminating in the construction of the artificial structure of the technosphere. But this planetary structure – globalization or the sphere of material technology and its economic means – is only preliminary or antecedent to the noosphere.
Noosphere refers to the planetarization of consciousness. Therefore, a critical point in the transition to the noosphere is the consciousness of a critical minority sufficient to engender, by their awareness and subsequent actions, the actual passage of the noosphere going from the individualized unconscious chaos of the technosphere to the incipient cosmic order of the noosphere as a conscious regulating mechanism. At the same time, since biosphere and noosphere are functions of cosmophysical laws governing planetary whole system design science, the precise moment of transition and its contributing factors can be elucidated and mapped out, hence “The Place of the Noosphere in Cosmic Evolution.”
Before describing and commenting on the principle image of the graphic, (clearly divided into an unconscious, pre-2012 lower half and conscious, post-2012 upper half) it is important to define key factors in the planetary whole system design format. According to levels of generalization and complexity, these factors include:
I. Universal planetary sphere and its processes. (lower left hand corner)
a. Planet, cosmic sphere accommodating
b. Hominization, the horizon of vitalized matter capable of evolving
c. Noosphere, the advanced state of the planetarization of consciousness
The point is that there is no hominization without a planetary sphere and no noosphere without a planetary species capable of supporting cosmophysical properties of intelligence and the consequent emergence of consciousness. The bipolar nature of the planetary (cosmic) sphere defines both the psychoevolutionary trajectory of “man” (representing the hominization of matter attaining consciousness – “living intellectual matter”) and the psychogeographic description of the noosphere in its evolutionary trajectory through its two phases: radiation and divergence (unconscious), and compression and convergence (conscious).
II. The interdisciplinary science of planetary whole system design is predicated on the perception of the Earth as an evolving whole system, consisting of five major subsystems:
The planet itself, as a condensation of stellar matter placed into a particular orbit around a host star, is a medium for the evolution of consciousness, and represents a vehicle for the intelligent unfoldment of the cosmic evolution of matter.
III. Stages of Intelligent unfoldment in the Cosmic Evolution of Matter capacitated by the planetary sphere. The tendency of matter is to develop in the direction of irreversible complexification and to ultimately evolve into the condition of cosmic consciousness. Within the planetary sphere, these stages or horizons of matter include:
a. Crystallization. Molecular compounds self-organized into strict sets of generally symmetrical/geometrical form structures – cubes, octahedrons, hexagons, or combinations and clusters thereof, etc.
b. Vitalization. Stage at which the complexification of matter experiences the capacity for autogenesis and self-replication. Engenders biospheric horizon.
c. Hominization. Stage at which vitalized matter becomes vehicle of intelligence capable of sustaining consciousness. Beginning of noosphere as unconscious planetary medium.
d. Superhomization. Stage at which consciousness and intelligence attain planetarization or full noospheric consciousness and functioning
While the science of planetary whole system design is concerned, in general, with the interaction of all the systems upon each other, its specific focus is the transitional role played by the human in what is referred to as the biosphere-noosphere transition. The hypothesis of the biosphere-noosphere transition defines the present moment as the apex of the planetary evolutionary design process, as it is everywhere evident that the thinking element has attained a geologically impactful status, e.g., global warming/climate change. According to the biosphere-noosphere hypothesis, this effect of human thought on the planetary whole system is a sign of the commencement of the next major evolutionary shift, from the biosphere to the noosphere. The focus of the Galactic Research Institute (GRI), originator of the Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights and of this graphic description of the history of the noosphere, is to define the precise timing of this transition, and, in advance of this shift, to predicate “noospheric states of mind or consciousness.”
To this end, we may turn our attention to the main image of this graphic, following the global description provided by Teilhard de Chardin. The graphic is largely self-evident and is meant to be studied and contemplated on its own terms. Nonetheless, we offer some descriptive comments and definitions to assist in the study of this illustration.
Description of the History of the Noosphere
from Pole of Psychic Generation “A” to Pole of Psychic Convergence “Ω”.
This graphic represents a geography of consciousness as distinct from a time space topography. The main image occurs between the horizon of hominization and the post-noospheric horizon. Two smaller spheres, above and below these two horizons, represent the “luminous self-existing God-Source” which is both the origin and destiny of the evolution of matter and consciousness. An axial column divides the main sphere vertically, connecting the noospheric Alpha of the South Psychic Pole, and the noospheric Omega of the North Psychic Pole.
It is immediately evident that the equatorial line – the date 2012 – represents the demarcation between the two phases of the evolution of the noosphere – Phase I Hominization, and Phase II Superhominization. The time scale is relative and, in general, more compressed the closer one is to the poles.
Noosphere Phase I: Socialization of Expansion – Civilization, Individuation, Hominization
Increasing Divergence – Unconscious Noosphere.
Arising from the Alpha South Pole of Psychic Generation and within the radiative, divergent phase of Noosphere I, there are three horizons:
The Biosphere-Noosphere Transition – 2012-2013
The final Climax of Matter and transformation into Cosmic Consciousness.
“Within this {cosmosphere}, the human represents the transformative evolutive medium and pivot point for spirit to acquire its necessary self-reflective knowledge to complete its universal character. It is this spiritual purpose that endows the human its enduring inner truth.”
– Cosmic History Chronicles Volume II, Book of the Avatar, p.240
The 2012 equatorial line of the noospheric globe defines the limit of divergence, radiation and the socialization of expansion. Civilization is on a collision course with its environment; it is devouring the biosphere with advanced technospheric acquisitiveness (heterotrophy of artificial means), while within itself, it is committing suicide by means of war, terrorism and the accelerating inability to psychically integrate and socially accommodate the rate of change generated by the technosphere.
The exponentially accelerated pace represents the extreme of mechanization and artificial time – the driving force behind the monetary politics that converts matter into the commodified substance of addictive consumerism. “Economics, as an organism, is destroying the Earth’s face and threatening the existence of the human being.” (Kaznacheev & Trofimov, Reflections ... p. 31) The seeming inconvertibility of the present technospheric order of globalization – the complex of dominating nation-state structures, corporate organizations and supporting economic system, taken as a whole – constitutes a type of unconsciously generated holographic field fractal, a collective belief so pervasive it is assumed to be a bedrock reality, yet it is in the nature of a mass hallucination.
Threatened on all sides by climate change, terrorism, war, crime, and social degeneration, the globally dominating holographic field fractal is on the verge of collapsing, imploding, splintering apart. This is what is portended by the 2012 line of demarcation between Noosphere I and Noosphere II, the Phase of Hominization is about to end. The stage of Superhominization is about to begin. It is important to bear in mind that the noosphere is a cosmic horizon that represents a shift to the predominance of the role of consciousness and intelligence in the evolution of matter and life in the universe.
So when we speak of the advent of the noosphere we are referring to the mental disclosure of a new cosmically generated holographic field fractal – one that will replace the old one. All it would take for this to occur is a momentary break in the planetary electromagnetic field brought about, say, by an immense Coronal Mass Ejection, or even a shift in the sun’s polar magnetism. In that momentary rupture of the terrestrial electromagnetic field, many negative conditioned beliefs (memories) could be erased or severely scrambled, and, more significantly, a new operating holographic field fractal might be instantaneously set in place. In this way the next wave of cosmic evolutionary intelligence would reveal itself. Because of their tendencies to endure and transcend, universally positive thought-forms would withstand the electromagnetic rupture to be retained in the fresh perceptual context or anticipation of something wondrous and new about to unfold. The new collective hologram would seem like a fairy tale come true. In some such manner can we envision the coming of cosmic consciousness – the planetary noosphere.
However this unprecedented event is to occur, it is generally agreed that something has got to give. With the exponential curves of carbon dioxide, global warming, population increase, species extinction, war, drought or any combination thereof, some rupture in the apparatus of civilization and its psychosocial consequences is inevitable. The potential for the biosphere to be transformed into a necrosphere is there. But this is only if we ignore the spiritual dimension and assume that all that exists are the interactions occurring in the third dimension physical reality. This is not the case – we live in a multidimensional universe.
Virtual reality shows that we are starved for release into a parallel world, an imaginal realm that is not just a reflection of our worst nightmares, but of our highest, most sublime aspirations. In the time allotted before 2012, we can exert in the construction of a planetary telepathic matrix to capacitate the disclosure of the new cosmic holographic field fractal – the supermental model of the conscious noosphere (CREST13 Project). We can bring our best parallel world into phase with where we are. “We assume that only the interaction with the cosmophysical parallel world we live in and its assimilation can be the ‘demiurge’ that will saturate and change the atomic/molecular field structures so that we may survive in this new planetary environment.” (Kaznacheev & Trofimov, Reflections … p. 33)
Noosphere Phase II: Socialization of Compression – Psychic Totalization – Superhominization
Increasing Convergence – Conscious Noosphere.
63. The Universal Laws and Programs prepared Centuries ago had been prepared in accordance with the Time Units of the World. At the moment, Time has gained Speed. Dates are approaching.
64. The Scarcity of Time is being mentioned as a result of the Time Period which will be accelerated even more.
65. You are faced with a change of Age. Do not forget this. Everything will settle in its course silently and profoundly.
66. Your Planet, which will go through a Cosmic Age for three centuries, will reach the GOLDEN AGE only afterwards.
– “General Information,” The Golden Age, Passages from The Book of Knowledge, Mevlana Foundation, Istanbul, 2000, p.61
The highest and the best in us assumes that we make it through the eye of the needle, December 21, 2012, participating in the greatest adventure we have ever encountered – a planetary mutation of consciousness called the advent of the noosphere. This is Noosphere II, the superhuman phase of increasing convergence, the conscious noosphere. In the new post-2012 reality the world has changed in every way – for the better. History has definitively ended. A new cycle has begun. With clarified perceptions and fresh mind, the incredible vista of entry into cosmic civilization lies ahead of us. All will be felt, perceived or known according to each one’s capacity.
In this cycle of Noosphere Phase II, there are three complementary horizons:
In 1944 Vernadsky wrote, “Statesmen should be aware of the present elemental process of transition of the Biosphere into the Noosphere. The fundamental property of biogeochemical energy is clearly revealed in the growth of the free energy of the biosphere with geological time, especially in relation to the transition into the noosphere … only man transgresses the established order … upsets the equilibrium, though whether he materially cripples the transforming mechanism or merely redistributes it, we cannot at the moment be sure.”
We now know the changes are irreversible. The role of civilization has been accomplished. The cosmophysical force of mind working through the human organism has reshaped the Earth and the future. The transition to a new geological era is now inevitable. What had been taken to be a side-attribute of the complexification of matter – human thought and consciousness – has proven to be an indisputable force of nature, reshaping the environment and Earth’s geology. However, it is not the Earth that shall be destroyed, but merely the outer casings of civilization that will be shut down or swept aside – and very soon. This is what Vernadsky warned about. What we can do is prepare. Through the Three Commissions formed at the Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights we have offered a prescription for facilitating the transition. To change our way of life now is the best preparation. To simplify our diet and life style, to cease violence to ourselves and the Earth, to support positive change, to purify body and mind, to establish new communities, to exert in telepathic exploration (CREST13 Project), and to reach out in compassion and skillful means wherever we can. For this transition is but a passing moment. The Dawn is about to break – and with it, a new world, a new heaven, a new Earth. Those who are ready will be renewed with it. Let us have no doubt: Noosphere is the only future.
The work of a number of prior investigators lays the foundation for the hypothesis of the biosphere-noosphere transition, foremost among them V.I. Vernadsky, who defined the nature of the biosphere through his pioneering work, Biosphere (1926) and first explored the notion of the biosphere-noosphere transition though numerous works, most notably, Problems in Biogeochemistry II (1944). It was Vernadsky, along with French paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who coined the word noosphere in 1926. It is particularly in his summarizing work, Man’s Place in Nature (1955) that Teilhard de Chardin fully defines the evolution of the noosphere as a planetary phenomenon, addressing the transition to its next stage – “superhominization” – or the planetarization of consciousness.
Other thinkers contributing to the planetary whole system design premise are R. Buckminster Fuller (Synergetics and Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth), James Lovelock (Gaia Hypothesis), and a host of Russian “cosmist” researchers, including N. A. Kozyrev, V. P. Kaznacheev, Alexander Trofimov, and Alexei Dmitriev, all members of the Russian Academy of Science. Seminal works by Kaznacheev and Trofimov include: Cosmic Consciousness of Humanity: Problems of New Cosmogony (1992), and Reflections on Life and Intelligence on Planet Earth: Problems of Cosmo-Planetary Anthropoecology (2004). The monumental work (Synthesis of Yoga, The Life Divine, etc.) of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother has also addressed the issue of supermental evolution and the transformation of matter from the perspective of Integral Yoga. The conception of the Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights and background research into the hypothesis of the Biosphere-Noosphere Transition for this document are facets of the Noosphere II Project of the Galactic Research Institute (GRI) (www.lawoftime.org). The CREST13 Project (Centers for the Restitution of the Natural Mind) is sponsored by the GRI. The GRI is a research affiliate of the ISRICA (Institute for the Scientific Research and Investigation of Cosmic Anthropoecology) headed by academicians V.P. Kaznacheev and A.V. Trofimov, members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk. The GRI is also affiliated with the NSEWA – Noosphere Spiritual Ecological World Assembly – founded and supervised by Liubov Gordina, expert of the State Duma (Russian parliament) in Russia.
Regarding the meaning of 2012, the recently released film, “2012, The Odyssey,” comprehensively reviews the significance of this date. For more information see: www.2012theodyssey.com, www.sacredmysteries.com
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Preamble and General Daily Program for the Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights
I. Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights: Earth Rescue Action Plan, Preamble:
In a recent series on BBC News Online entitled “Planet Under Pressure”, the following six pressure points were identified;
1. Food. 1 in 6 people suffer from hunger and malnutrition (that is more than one billion people). 30,000 children, age five or less, die every day from hunger.
2. Water. by 2025, two thirds of the people will be living in areas of acute water shortage
3. Energy. by 2010 oil production will peak and supplies begin to decline.
4. Climate Change. World’s greatest environmental challenge - global warming - increased floods, storms, drought, impacting biodiversity and upsetting civilization.
5. Biodiversity. Earth is now entering its sixth major extinction phase - this one wholly due to human factors.
6. Pollution. Hazardous chemicals are now found in the bodies of all newborn babies, one in four people worldwide are exposed to unhealthy concentrations of air pollutants on a daily basis.
As BBC puts it, “all six problems are linked and urgent, and so a list of priorities is of little help.... it is pointless to preserve a species and habitats if climate change will destroy them anyway.” This is what is meant by a whole systems problem. To be advocating for trees or equalization of wealth or AIDS control is futile unless one considers that a whole systems failure is across the board, and to cure one problem we have to cure the whole problem. Which brings us to the seventh pressure point, the factor without which none of the other problems would exist.
7. Human population growth. People often just say “population growth,” or “the environment” and don’t think it has anything to do with them. But it is human population growth that is at the root of all the problems on the planet today. And it is the human being’s unwillingness to face that he/she alone is the culprit that perpetuates the problems which only grow exponentially with every day that passes. Human denial and irresponsibility is so overwhelming that it is morally repugnant to consider that these statistics are well-known, yet no world leader will even begin to think of the whole set of issues as the only real agenda facing not only humanity, but the entire planet today. War is truly irrelevant in the face of these problems. But humans, it seems, would rather make war than face reality. Human beings won’t even face up to, accept or understand that they constitute a component in a larger system called the biosphere. This is because the twin nemeses of nationalism and privatization dominate their thinking to such a degree, that humans are mentally crippled by their addiction to these habitually biased patterns of thought.
According to the analyses of the Law of Time, the human being’s population curve began in 1750, because that is when the human mind set locked into the irrational and mechanistically accelerating 12:60 timing factor. This element alone set the human species off from the rest of the biosphere and allowed it to create an alienating technospheric superstructure that exists on the consumption and destruction of Earth’s natural resources at the expense of millions of other species and the quality of air and water everywhere.
Since the unconscious immersion in the errant timing frequency is at the root of the human inability to stop, much less perceive how it has caused the chaos on Earth, the Law of Time also states that the only way to deal with the problem is to first call a halt or a moratorium on all present day world processes, including a universal cease fire, in order to adopt a new calendar based on a perpetually harmonic timing standard. By means of the new universal standard the human species can create a new biospheric covenant between itself and the Earth. Since most humans, including the present human Earth civilization leadership, seem incapable of considering this opportunity to avoid their own destruction, it becomes incumbent on those who do see this solution clearly and logically, to take all appropriate measures to make this possibility a reality. This defines the underlying goal of the Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights.
In the broad vision of this Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights, the Earth is now in a state of hyperextended emergency. This whole system crisis defines a contextual environment referred to as the biosphere-noosphere transition. The critical deadline for facing reality and joining forces with the inevitable processes of transformation is 2012. For this reason, the Congress plans to implement an overall plan, The Thirteen Moon Operation Earth Rescue - Mission 2012. There are only six years until the deadline. It is up to us to put in motion an action peace plan, and convene our own systems of governance, asserting our biospheric rights in accord with the biosphere-noosphere transition which is now rapidly underway.
How long is the present system going to last, anyway? Can’t we see the handwriting on the wall? The increase in natural disasters this past year (2005) alone has left many humans numb and frightened. But if we consider that many of these disasters are the result of the effects of our own greed and thoughtlessness upon the environment, then might we not want to do something about it? If we really understood the fundamental change the Law of Time offers the human mental and social organization, then wouldn’t we want to see all of the resources of the Earth placed in alignment with the Law of Time on behalf of an Operation Earth Rescue? For this is what is required - a whole system effort to rescue the planet from too many centuries of sheer mismanagement.
Let’s envision an Operation Earth Rescue - a resource and information gathering hub that would identify existing emergency aid and charitable groups and organizations, as well as individuals with “worldly power and influence,” to inform and enlist them in the 13 Moon Earth Rescue Peace Plan. With such a hub in place - and there are now enough natural catastrophes occurring that we need a rolling plan of getting aid to the different disaster zones - we could then set up a constructive whole systems engineered follow-up program. This follow-up would include: community reconstruction, reforestation, education about new systems of agriculture, alternative energy and how lifestyles impact the environment, new systems of time and thought, and the nature of the biosphere and world situation in general - all with an eye to helping shift certain ingrained habits, for instance, from carnivorous to vegetarian diet, or from industrial jobs to garden economy and cottage industry.
A second objective of Operation Earth Rescue is to create a global network of alternative energy producers and suppliers. This would be done in the context of information gathering regarding the actualities of the global warming and its impact on shorelines and weather patterns by 2008. Then, to implement programs in places of need, we would require the creation of Operation Earth Rescue Teams, flying the Banner of Peace and offering emergency assistance in areas of natural disaster or even war-ravaged communities; teams to help set up alternative energy systems; or Operation Earth Rescue Reforestation Corps; not to mention Operation Earth Rescue Emergency Garden Communities. In other words what we need is a global equivalent to the original Peace Corps, a 13 Moon Earth Rescue Mission. This would involve training in meaningful roles many young people who today are filled with aimlessness and despair about the future.
In a time such as the Closing of the Cycle, the possibilities for positive transformation are without end. The Old can longer sustain itself, and the New is bursting to be born. “He who is not busy being born is busy dying.” (Bob Dylan) The New Time of Thirteen Moons means that we are giving birth to a new belief system, a new compassion for the Earth and everything that the Earth seeks to sustain - including ourselves.
II. Pax Cultura Pax Biospherica
Thirteen Moon Operation Earth Rescue - Mission 2012 - Planetary Peace Plan
Proposed Program, Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights
Day One: Core, Electric Moon 3, Kin 7, Blue Resonant Hand, September 22, 2006, Equinox
Key Theme: Statement of the Problem - World Catastrophe, Extinction and Human Population Control. It’s the only biosphere we’ve got. 2012 is just a few years away, so there is no time to waste putting the Thirteen Moon Emergency Earth Rescue Peace Plan into effect. It’s a whole system problem which demands a whole system solution. Operation Earth Rescue would, first of all, be a resource and information gathering peace hub. Operations would be based on a consideration of the whole system as experiencing a biospheric phase shift - into the noosphere and the new solar age. Everything is in transition. We must admit old order whole system failure because it is non-responsive to biospheric whole system needs. The solution: Establish immediately a Planetary Biospheric Congress and Noospheric World Assembly to supervene in planetary affairs. The Second Planetary Congress will affirm our biospheric rights by creating three principle commissions to define these three planetary organs (Earth Rescue Operation, Biospheric Congress, Noospheric Assembly). The commissions will be formed at this time to present their findings on the final day of the Congress. The forthcoming recommendations will provide key goals and guidelines for the aftermath of this Congress.
Day Two: Signal, Electric Moon 4, Kin 8 Yellow Galactic Star, September 23, 2006.
Key Theme: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves. We are all dying of the diseases resulting from our addiction to industrial society. We know that what we eat is destroying the planet, so let’s change our diet now. Vegetarianism is the path to the next stage of our evolution, which is toward an elimination of aggression, and an increase in compassionate enlightenment. Stop killing animals and free up the food supply immediately, restore the land, and promote reforestation. We need new evolutionary precepts for attaining superhuman health and planetary restoration. We need to educate ourselves about how our eating and lifestyle habits affect the biosphere. We must envision garden communities and a garden economy and begin to implement this vision with renewed vigor. We must take health into our own hands and realize that alternative therapies and healing methods are all that we need. By cooperating with the councils of Indigenous elders we will tap into one of our greatest resources. A Planetary Healing Council is to be formed from these considerations and deliberations. This Council will be part of the Earth Rescue Operation.
Day Three: Gateway, Electric Moon 5, Kin 9, Red Solar Moon, September 24, 2006
Key theme: Pax Cultura Pax Biospherica. Only the emergence of a new planetary culture of peace can restore stability to the biosphere. This is predicated on a new time and a new calendar which reformulates the human mind into a perpetual harmony, establishing a new life mission - time is art, to replace the old, time is money. The new time values will assist in the conversion of existing wealth and institutions according to new artistic and cultural priorities which reintegrate the human back into the biosphere. A consequent abandonment of the concepts of nationalism and privatization of wealth will aid in converting to the new cultural artistic social goals. We must further empower the Banner of Peace as the standard under which we may effect change through existing governments by having them recognize the Banner and the Day Out of Time/Peace through Culture Day as a universally recognized day of world peace. This will be the first step toward fulfillment of the new vision: “Art Now, War War No More - That Beauty May Prevail On Earth.” A Planetary Peace Through Culture Council will be formed from these considerations and deliberations. This Council will be part of the Earth Rescue Operation.
Day Four: Polar, Electric Moon 6, Kin 10 White Planetary Dog, September 25, 2006
Key theme: Energy Crisis and Alternative Realities. The entirety of human civilization is based on consumption and waste of energy. The 12:60 timing frequency fueled the second great economic revolution of the species. The first was the agricultural revolution which created domestic life and cities. The second economic revolution, made possible by the mechanization of time and human labor, was the industrial revolution which established factories as the sources of wealth and jobs. This is the common thinking. By wealth is meant surplus wealth, and by jobs is meant alienated labor that runs the factories or any of the service industries necessitated by industrial life (banks, governments, hotels, airports, etc.). The main point is that all of this creates a wasteful superstructure that consumes energy at a rapid rate creating health hazards and an unhealthy lifestyle in general. We must assess our alternative energy solutions, create a working network, and begin to implement them in select Earth Rescue Emergency areas immediately. We must further assess the components of the new lifestyle of a genuinely postindustrial Earth based civilization, and plan accordingly. The Planetary Alternative Energy Network will be formed from these considerations and deliberations. This Network will be part of the Earth Rescue Operation.
Day Five Cardinal, Electric Moon 7, Kin 11 Blue Spectral Monkey, September 26, 2006.
Key Theme: Preparing for the Noosphere. We must understand the meaning of the biosphere-noosphere transition and manifest the New in the midst of the chaos of the old, now. There is no longer any time to wait. We must set now the guidelines for the creation of the Planetary Biospheric Congress and the Planetary Noospheric World Assembly. The Planetary Biospheric Congress will be constituted of representatives from the world’s bioregions, and will have the responsibility, among other things, of equalizing wealth and establishing just and equitable terms of commerce and trade that are in accord with the biosphere's operating principles. The Noospheric World Assembly will be the higher guiding council drawing on spiritual wisdom and whole systems analysis of the world crisis. Recognition of the CREST13 network of centers for establishing a telepathic network for activating the noosphere, and of the new cosmic science, must be supported and brought to the fore, for they hold the ultimate key to shifting the world paradigm. We need to be educated about what the effects of the shift to the noosphere will be on human self-perception and consciousness. During the final session the commissions organized to establish the Earth Rescue Operation, Biospheric Congress, Noospheric World Assembly, as well as the Planetary Healing Council, Planetary Peace through Culture Council and Planetary Alternative Energy Network will present their findings and recommendations for implementation.
For the Congress to be a success it must be conducted in the form of the New Time. All participants will be grouped according to five Earth families. Each of the five days it will be the responsibility of the PAN representatives - planetary kin - of the daily Earth Family to attend to the organization and comfort of the participants and to provide every assistance to the speakers and commissions and councils and ceremonies that are established for that day. Sessions for the instruction in the 13 Moon calendar and Law of Time will also be the responsibility of the Planet Art Network as well as any artistic presentations that may be appropriate for the ambiance of the Congress.
In addition to the plenary sessions, and the meetings of the different councils and commissions there will also be
Foundation for the Law of Time
Galactic Research Institute