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Started by Dharmadeva
Sat, 21 Aug 1999 00:00
Humans in labs - the way of the future?
Author: Dharmadeva
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 00:00
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It was author George Berhard Shaw who said that "Animals are my friend.. and I don't eat my friends." It seems that intelligence is not the problem as much as basic human decency, respect, acceptance, and kindess. Devotion--spiritual love, is humanity's greatest asset. "Spiritual or intuitional development is possible through the happy blending of civilization and science." Civilization--the happy blending of culture and material development--represents what you call basic human decency. Today, science has surpassed our civilization, hence we often do not use science in the service of humans, animals and plants. So, the shadow side of increased scientific development (ie. in a society such as ours where science has surpassed civilization) is that capitalist profiteers-- whose hearts are without respect, acceptance and kindness-- may use science in a way that is detrimental for the spiritual upliftment of all planetary beings. That's why PROUT emphasizes the devlopment of a human civilization in which humanity can express and cultivate all its highest and sweetest aspirations. To enable such a society to grow, P R Sarkar advanced PROUT, the social philosophy with its emphasis on cooperation, decentralization, self- sufficiency, ecology, and so on. Most important is a concept he calls prama--dynamic equilibrium or dynamic homeostasis, a concept which would enable all scientific developments to create minimum sideeffects and be in harmony with the environment as it's a principle deeply embedded in the procreation and evolution of the universe itself. So, will humans be totally self contained units that would be produced chemically into someones's image? It is of course too early to predict exactly how this future procreation will take place, but when P R Sarkar says that "So many things now done directly by the Supreme Conciousness may be done in the future through the medium of individual human beings" I assume it to mean that we will find ways to become intermediaries and procreate by combining the various elements of creation, but not that we necessarily will become "selfcontained units." To do this harmoniously, our hearts will have to be much much bigger than our heads! :-) He is not, as some spiritualists, saying that we should return to some past eden when everything was simple and harmonious, because life has always, in essence, been a path of struggle to become more whole. So He acknowledges that human evolution is a continous creative force that will go on forever. As change is the only constant in this universe, so we will manifest our creativity (including procreation) in many new ways in the future. Is human sexual union considered wrong? As you know, Tantra in the West is mistakenly known as solely the Yoga of Sex. But as Vimala MacClure wrote in her book A Woman's Guide to Tantra Yoga, Tantra is the "yoga of everything," including sex. For us, sexual union is a natural way for a couple to express their love. . Am i to assume that we will loose energy with the production of humanly produced children BUT can use this extra not utilized 'energy' to produce offspring of art and the like? Sounds like a good assumption. Will the future lab produced humans be all female, male or androgynous? Again, I'm just speculating, but I would assume that there will still be both males and females as we represent, in physical form, the expression of the Cosmic principles of Shiva and Shakti. ---- "The main characteristic of PROUT-based socioeconomic movements is that they aim to guarantee the comprehensive, multifarious liberation of humanity." P R Sarkar http://www.prout.org Home of the Progressive Utilization Theory http://www.globaltimes.net Home of Global Times magazine
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