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The Invisible Technology
and The Singularity
Will Nanotechnology
Transcend Biology?
Andrew Linnell
Slide 1
jandrewlinnell@yahoo.com
Invisible Technology
Our Journey Tonight …
 What is Nanotechnology?
 Claimed Benefits
 Potential Dangers
 Merging of Man and Machine?
 The Prophecy of Kurzweil’s Singularity
 Anthroposophical Understanding
 What is going on here?
 How will this affect our future?
 What should we do? – Call to Action!
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 2
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 3
Ray Kurzweil’s Vision of the Future
Pioneer in the fields of
optical character
recognition (OCR),
text-to-speech
synthesis, speech
recognition
GNR
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 4
When Silicon Beings Surpass Carbon
The Singularity is reached
When AI surpasses HI with
Self-replicating intelligent machines
$2000 computer, 2020 = human brain, 2045 = Σ all human
Blue Brain Project
Mimic the Brain
www.eetimes.com,
May 28, 2008
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 5
The Singularity Movie
 GNR to make a “better” life and world
 “Humanity is fast approaching an era in which our
intelligence will become increasingly merged with
computers and trillions of times more powerful.
 This will be the dawning of a new civilization,
enabling us to transcend our biological limitations.
 Boundaries blur between human and machine,
real and virtual. Human aging and illness are
reversed, world hunger and poverty are solved,
and we cure death.”
 “Live long enough to live forever”
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 6
Life After the Singularity
 “The bulk of our experiences will shift from real reality
to virtual reality
 Most of the intelligence of our civilization will ultimately
be nonbiological, which by the end of this century will
be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than
human intelligence
 However, this does not imply the end of biological
beings, even if thrown from its perch of evolutionary
superiority [Kurzweil expects the rise of hybrid humans]
 Moreover, it is important to note that the nonbiological
forms will be derivative of biological design
 In other words, our civilization will remain human, indeed
in many ways more exemplary of what we regard as
human than it is today, although our understanding of the
term will move beyond its strictly biological origins.”
 Ray Kurzweil
Double Edged Sword of GNR
 The first half of the 21st century will be characterized by
three overlapping revolutions in Genetics, Nanotechnology,
and Robotics (GNR)
 Promise and peril: led some serious thinkers to propose
that we go very cautiously, possibly even to abandon them
 Bill Joy wrote, “We are being propelled into a new century with no plan, no control, no
brakes! The only realistic alternative I see is relinquishment: to limit the development of
the technologies that are too dangerous, by limiting our pursuit of certain kinds of
knowledge.” http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html
 Joy’s deep concern about the future grew out of Ray Kurzweil’s The Age
of Spiritual Machines
 Kurzweil: “Technology has always been a mixed blessing,
bringing us benefits such as longer and healthier life-
spans, freedom from physical and mental drudgery, and
many novel creative possibilities on the one hand, while
introducing new dangers. Technology empowers both our
creative and destructive natures.”
 http://wise-nano.org/w/Kurzweil_CTF_Essay
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 7
Invisible Technology Slide 8
Where is Technology Going?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-viruses-alive-2004
Can we
modify
genes?
InvisibleInvisible
When Will Nano-Products Arrive?
 Stain-resistant fabrics
 Time-release perfumed
fabrics
 Odor-eating socks
 Cosmetics & sunscreen
 Golf and tennis balls
 Clubs and racquets
 Paints
 Self-cleaning glass
 Water purifiers
 Capsules carrying
haemoglobin
 Water impurity testers
 Sprayable vitamins
 Ski wax
 Long-lasting paper
 Flat panel displays
 Flash memory devices
 Artificial silicon retinas
 Drug delivery systems
 Car parts
 Diagnostic agents for
use in MRI scans
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 9
A Few Scientific Studies of Dangers
 2004: environmental toxicologist Eva Oberdörster, SMU:
Fullerenes killed water fleas and extensively damaged fish
brains after exposure of only 48 hours at a relatively
moderate dose of 0.5 parts per million
 Gene markups in their livers were changed
 2002: CBEN (Center for Biological and Environmental
Nanotechnology) indicated that nanoparticles accumulated
in the bodies of lab animals and fullerenes could easily
travel through soil and be absorbed by earthworms thereby
entering the food chain
 This is a potential link up in the food chain to humans
 2004: British scientist Vyan Howard published findings that
indicated gold nanoparticles travel through a mother’s
placenta to the fetus
 2002: UCSD revealed cadmium selenide nanoparticles, also
called quantum dots, cause cadmium poisoning in humans
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 10
Removable From Our Environment?
 No known effective method
 Nothing in Nature “knows” what these are
 No “predator” – nothing can digest them
 Only fire (Old Saturn) sufficient to break chemical bonds
Morgellons Disease -- Collembola
 Symptoms: crawling, biting and stinging sensations;
granules, threads or black speck-like materials on or
beneath the skin; and/or skin lesions
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 11
Dangers – And Few Even Care
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 12
No Regulations,
Past Mistakes
 Asbestos
 Lead in petrol
 PCBs
 DDT - pesticides
 Synthetic hormones
 Fast food
Recent News
 Dr. Perricone's anti-aging products use Fullerenes
to carry active ingredients into the skin
 “These nanoparticles are extremely dangerous and
products containing them should be banned,”
demands Dr. Samuel Epstein, M.D. of Environmental
and Occupational Medicine at the University of
Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
 "The ultramicroscopic Fullerenes, also known as
nanoparticles, have been introduced without any
labeling into a growing number of Dr. Perricone's
anti-aging products, particularly skin creams and
Ceramic Eye Smoother. These are touted as
reducing wrinkles and firming up the skin surface.”
 http://www.world-wire.com/news/1001120001.html
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 13
Invisible Technology
Single-walled Carbon Nanotube
(SWNT)
• Stronger and stiffer than steel.
• They conduct electricity better than copper
• Conduct heat better than diamondsC60
(Buckminster-
fullerene)
Carbon Nanostructures
Philosopher’s Stone
The Dodecahedron and The Fullerene
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 15
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 16
Steiner on Facing Human-Mechanical
 “The will is there to harness human energy to
mechanical energy
 These things should not be treated by fighting
against them – that is a completely false view
 These will not fail to appear; they will come
 What we are concerned with is whether, in the
course of world history, they are entrusted to
people who are familiar in a selfless way with the
great aims of earthly evolution and who structure
these things for the health of human being or
whether they are enacted by groups of human
beings who exploit these things in an egotistical or
in a group-egotistical sense
 It is not a question of what; the what is sure
to come; it is a question of the how, how one
tackles these situations
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 17
Robotic Arms for Humans
December 2, 2009
 A group of European scientists say they have
successfully connected a robotic hand to a man who
had lost an arm, allowing him to feel sensations in the
artificial hand and control it with his thoughts.
 The experiment lasted a month. Scientists say it was
the first time an amputee has been able to make
complex movements using his mind to control a
biomechanic hand connected to his nervous system.
 The Italian-led team said at a news conference
Wednesday in Rome that last year they implanted
electrodes into the arm of the patient, who had lost his
left hand and forearm in a car accident.
 The electrodes were removed after a month, during
which the man learned to wiggle the robotic fingers
and make other movements.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091202/ap_on_he_me/eu_italy_robotic_hand
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 18
Linking the Brain to Mechanical Arms
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 19
Turn Thoughts in Action: BrainGate
http://www.braingate.com/
“If the patient still has the ability
to “think” about movement,
BrainGate™ has the potential to
interpret and re-connect those
signals, thus allowing the patient
to move those limbs simply by
thinking about it.”
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 20
Heal the Blind via Sensory Augmentation
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 21
Brain Augmentation
 Man and Machine
 Marvin Minsky, MIT
 Replace the brain
 Reverse engineer
 Embedded
computer
 Wireless internet
 GPS
 National ID
 Credit card
January 30, 2005 Invisible Technology
Nanotechnology and Virtual Reality
 Wireless sensory
augmentation
 Implantation at or
even before birth
 It will become the
norm
 Visual & audio easy –
how about touch?
 A New Maya – a
second “reality”
 Mental context switch
 Need for a threshold?
Guardian?
 Whispers the
foolishness of a
spiritual world
January 30, 2005 Invisible Technology
Is This the Man-Machine Mystery?
 Integration: Man-Machine
 Artificial limbs, organs,
nerves, muscles
 Sensory augmentation
 Computer implantation
 Brain-internet connection
for full Virtual Reality
 Biologically compatible
vibratory systems
 RFID technology implanted
in forehead
 Required for business
 Influence on machines
Recent News on Man-Machine
 Pets and livestock (ears), equipment
 Alzheimers, diabetics, immigrants, soldiers,
sex offenders, children, employees
 Readers monitor blood, whereabouts
 VeriChip with RFID & GPS, also Digital Angel
 Size of grain of rice, $150
 VIP clubbers
 No place for money
 VeriMed
 Home use
 Marketeers’ dream
 Why Stop Here?
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 24
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 25
Designing Your Baby (Eugenics ?)
Eliminating defects
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 26
How? Nanobots
 Deliver medicinal
directly to affected
area
 Repair internals non-
invasively
 “Surgically” remove
tumors
 Manufacturing
 Personalized
 Self replicating
 Issues:
 Removal from body
 Grey ooze
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 27
Today’s Stage for Human Activity
 Life
 Chem/Tone
 Light
 Warmth/Fire
 Air
 Water
 Earth/Dark
 Electricity
 Magnetism
 3rd Force
Physical World
Super-Nature
Etheric Realm
Sub-Nature
Virtual Reality
What is Software?
Software emulates a
process. We think
about the steps of a
process, then we
freeze it – kill it.
We separate it from
the world to focus
only on the process.
Hence software is:
• Dead
• Separate
• Dark
• Cold
Compare to the 4
Ethers.
As we delve into sub-Nature, so must
we, in balance, rise into Super-Nature
The Battle For The Etheric Realm
 1st step towards Spiritual Consciousness
 Meditation
 Reincarnation: memory of past lives
 Ahriman’s intent to pull the Human down
 Man and Nature as machines
 Downplaying of morals, free-will, love, thinking
 Sub-Nature and Super-Nature
 Attachment of a 2nd Being : For Jupiter?
 Did Humans to Angels on Old Moon?
 Logos appearing within the Etheric
 Reflection of love in the etheric body
 Etheric technology revealed
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 28
Sub-Nature’s Image of the Living
 Sub-Nature is developing using Super-
Nature as her archetype
 From Life came the Lifeless
 As Excretion
 Physical transformed from warmth of Old Saturn
 Will pass away at the end of Earth’s Ages
 Philosopher’s Stone as Living Carbon
 Trans-substantiation versus GMO & nanoparticles
 Scientist’s Workbench as Altar
 Reverence for the Wisdom embedded in Nature
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 29
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 30
Attachment of a Second Being
“During the course of the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch, so
many problems have lost all inner, vital warmth. The
countless questions which confront us when we study
Spiritual Science with any depth, simply do not exist
for the modern man with his materialistic outlook. A
different form of experience will come to the man of
modern times. In his own opinion he knows ever so
well; he observes the material world, uses his intellect
to establish the interconnections between its
phenomena and believes that all its riddles are solved
in this way, never realizing that he is simply groping in
a phantasmagoria. But this way of working coarsens
and dries up his ether-body, with the ultimate result
that the [Ahrimanic] powers, like a second nature,
will attach themselves to him. The Balance in the World
and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman, Rudolf Steiner
Note Similarity to Angel as a Second Being
January 30, 2005 Invisible Technology
Confronting Ahriman
 “In an ether-body that has been parched by
materialism, Ahriman will be able to dwell.
 It is our duty to educate children in the future in such a
way that they will be competent to understand the
spiritual world.
 The ether-body must be quickened in order that the
human being may be able to take his rightful stand, fully
cognizant of the nature of the being who stands at his
side. If he does not understand the nature of this second
being, he will be spellbound by him, fettered to him.”
 “We, in our age, must get the better of Ahriman by
enriching the Ego with the wisdom that can be born
only from knowledge and investigation of the spiritual
world, i.e. from Spiritual Science.”
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 32
The Voice of Technology
 The body, this mass of biomolecules, is a machine
that acts according to a set of specifiable rules... We
are machines, as are our spouses, our children, and
our dogs... I believe myself and my children all to be
mere machines. [Rod Brooks, Director of CS-AIL, MIT.]
 The neural code is the software whereby the brain
transforms raw sensory data into perceptions,
memories, decisions, and meanings. [John Horgan
Science Writer and Author of Rational Mysticism]
 The more we learn about our brains, the more ways we
will find to improve them. …With further advances, no
part of the brain will be out of bounds for
attaching new accessories. In the end, we will find
ways to replace every part of the body and brain –
and thus repair all the defects and flaws that
make our lives so brief. Needless to say, in doing
so, we'll be making ourselves into machines.
[Marvin Minsky, Director of MIT Media Lab]
Will Robots Inherit the Earth? (Scientific American, October 1994)
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 33
Minsky: on Soul and Spirit
 “Many thinkers firmly maintain that machines will never
have thoughts like ours, because no matter how we build
them, they'll always lack some vital ingredient.
 They call this essence by various names--like sentience,
consciousness, spirit, or soul. Philosophers write entire
books to prove that, because of this deficiency, machines
can never feel or understand the sorts of things that
people do.
 However, every proof in each of those books is flawed by
assuming, in one way or another, the thing that it
purports to prove--the existence of some magical
spark that has no detectable properties.
 I have no patience with such arguments.
 We should not be searching for any single missing part.”
The Emotion Machine, Simon and Schuster, 2006
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 34
What About the Human Spirit?
Trans-Spirit is a natural science branch
where “researchers seek to achieve a complete
scientific understanding of spiritual phenomena
and, based on that understanding, to develop
techniques and technologies for inducing ‘spiritual
experiences’ at will
Trans-Spirit aims to focus almost exclusively
on the physical mechanisms that predispose
human beings to believe and behave according to
religious and spiritual norms.” Trans-Spirit: Religion,
Spirituality and Transhumanism, Journal of Evolution
and Technology, 2005 Vol. 14 pgs 39-53, Michael
LaTorra, New Mexico State University
Heart Transplants Inherit Memory
 Dr. Paul Pearsall contends that the
heart thinks, feels, remembers, and
communicates with other hearts
 An 8-yr. girl received the heart of a
10-yr. girl who had been murdered.
 Psychiatrist: girl said she knew who
the murderer was.
 Police notified who were able to track
him down by following the girl’s
instructions and convict him on the
evidence she had provided
 Clues about: the time, the weapon, the
place, the clothes he wore, etc.
 Everything the girl said was true
 Does the transplanted heart take with
it its etheric heart and its memories?
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 35
Reincarnation?
 http://www.fox8.com/wjw-reincarnation-txt,0,1190900.story
 http://www.reversespins.com/proofofreincarnation.html
 11 year old James Leininger – James Huston
 The most documented case of reincarnation
 Recalls over 50 memories from past life
 World War II Pilot's family believes it is their
reincarnated brother based on child's memories
 See book "Soul Survivor"
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 36
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 37
Are These Thresholds?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-viruses-alive-2004
C60
“And No Stone Shall Be Left Unturned”
 “We are living now in the epoch of evolution that may
be called the Mineral Epoch; and our task is to
permeate this mineral world through and through with
the spirit within us.
 “What you have done to the mineral world passes into
the very atoms and does not vanish without a trace.
Every such atom bears a trace of your spirit and will
carry this trace with it.
 “Whether an atom has at some time been in a
machine, or has not been in a machine, is not a matter
of indifference. The atom itself has undergone change
as a result of having once been in a machine, and this
change that you have wrought in the atom will never
again be lost to it.” The Atom as Coagulated Electricity,
GA93
 Nanotechnology’s Relationship to Quantum Physics
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 38
What is the Atom?
 The atom is nothing but coagulated electricity.
 Thought itself is composed of the same substance.
 Before the end of the fifth epoch of culture,
science will have reached the stage where man
will be able to penetrate into the atom itself.
 When the similarity of substance between the thought
and the atom is once comprehended, the way to get
hold of the forces contained in the atom will soon be
discovered and then nothing will be inaccessible to
certain methods of working.
 It is impossible to conceive what might happen in such
circumstances if mankind has not, by then, reached
selflessness.
 The attainment of selflessness alone will enable
humanity to be kept from the brink of destruction.
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 39
Evolving Human Consciousness
 “Moreover, through your having changed the atom,
through the fact that you have united the spirit in you
with the mineral world, a permanent stamp has been
made upon the general consciousness of mankind.
 “Everything that is performed without regard to self,
that is connected with the interests of another, helps to
intensify and to strengthen our consciousness in
the future struggles for existence.
 You build a church for others, not for yourself.
 “Whatever is achieved in the way of development of
consciousness in the world does something to further
the evolution of the consciousness of every single
being, even if such a being has not actually worked at
the development of his own consciousness.” The Atom
as Coagulated Electricity, GA93
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 40
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 41
Summary of Nanotechnology
 Invisible Technology
 Ahriman’s wish to work invisibly
 Approaching atomic where matter disappears
 Newtonian physics no longer valid
 Appeals to greed, vanity, and egoism
 Also provides opportunity for selfless work
 Applies mostly to sub-nature
Super-nature: Etheric  Astral  Spirit
Sub-nature: “Fallen” etheric forces
 Electricity (light)
 Magnetism (chemical)
 3rd force – nuclear? (life)
To remain healthy, as deeply as Man penetrates
into sub-nature, so must he rise into super-nature
What Will Be Our Future World?
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 42
 “What is now around you will become your inner life.
You will take into yourselves what is now the mineral
kingdom and it will become part of your inner being;
similarly the plant kingdom. What surrounds you in
nature will become your inner being.
 “What we ourselves prepare and make ready in
the world — that is what will constitute our future
existence.
 “The measure of what you yourself place into the world
is the measure of the consciousness that the world will
give back to you.
 “What we do with the mineral world, with the
plant world, with the animal world, and with men,
that we shall surely become.”
 If you found a charitable institution or have contributed something
to its foundation, what you have contributed will become an
integral part of you. ” The Atom as Coagulated Electricity, GA93
January 30, 2005 Invisible Technology
Historical Picture
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Dark
Abraham
Moses
Age
Lucifer
Ahriman
Meeting
with
“next”
humans
and with
super
humans
15th Century
repetition
new formsOld forms
July 20, 2009 On the Road to Jupiter Slide 44
Vulcan –
3rd depth
Venus –
2nd depth
Jupiter –
Sub-Nature
7 Stages of Earth Condition
Saturn -
Physical
Sun –
Etheric
Moon –
Astral
Earth –
Ego
Gods
Create
Creates
Man
Fire
Air
Water
Earth
Jupiter –
Manas,
Super-
Nature
Venus –
Buddhi
Vulcan –
Atman
Warmth
Light
Tone
Life
Etheric
Hierarchy = 12
Laws of Polarities
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 45
Overlapping Evolutions
 On Old Moon the Angeloi were at the human state
 Their appearance was quite different from ours
 Quite different conditions existed
 We developed to an advanced pre-state of the Earth
evolution
 We became a troublesome concern for the Angeloi
 In the descending Earth evolution the Jupiter
Humans arise
 On Jupiter, they will have advanced to a new and
different form of man
 These Jupiter men exist already now just as we
existed upon Old Moon
 They exist not externally visible but as
supersensible beings
The Mission of the Archangel Michael, V, The Michael Deed and the Michael
Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence, November 29, 1919
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 46
Overlapping Evolutions, cont.
 These sub-human beings’ character consists of an
impulse which strongly coincides with the human
power of will
 They now appear from below as beings produced in
Ahriman’s realm
 They play into where we are most asleep – our will
 Ahrimanic influences act through those with obscured
consciousnesses
 “as long as one does not take into consideration
these forces as forces objectively existing in the
world just as one takes into consideration what
today is called magnetism, electricity, and so forth,
one will not gain an insight into human nature”
 Today's natural science does not contain man, merely
the physical body
The Mission of the Archangel Michael, V, The Michael Deed and the Michael
Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence, November 29, 1919
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 47
Mankind’s Continued Becoming
 In the beginning, form was given to all by the Gods
 5th Epoch: Man given power to give form for minerals
 Just as in the past the Gods created the mineral world
from a chaotic mass, so our cathedrals, inventions and
even our institutions are the germs for a future world
 So We Must Transform the Earth
 Into a temple of truth, beauty, and goodness
 6th Epoch: Man transforms the plants
 Man will be able to create and give shape to plant-life
 7th Epoch: Man transforms the animal kingdom
 Man will give form and have power over animal life
 And at a still higher stage, he will be able to reproduce
his like by an act of conscious will (love)
 Gods allow Man to delve into sub-nature for Jupiter
 But for health, we must be balanced with super-nature
Rudolf Steiner, An Esoteric Cosmology XV
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 48
Love and Jupiter
 "Just as wisdom was evolved upon the Moon, in order that it might
now be found in all things, so in like manner is love evolving
 Love came into existence first in its lowest, its most sensuous form, during
the Lemurian period
 Love will become ever more and more spiritualized, until at last, when the
Earth has reached the end of its evolution, the whole of existence will have
become pervaded with love as today it is pervaded with wisdom
 The Beings who will wander about upon Jupiter, just as human
Beings move about upon the Earth, will find love exhaling from all
creatures, the love which they themselves, as Human Beings, will
have placed there during their life upon the Earth
 They will find love in everything just as we today find wisdom everywhere
 Then human beings will develop love out of their own inner selves in the
same way that they are now little by little evolving wisdom
 The great cosmic love that here upon the Earth is beginning its existence
will then permeate all things.“ Rudolf Steiner, Gospel of St. John, Hamburg
 Wisdom to Cosmic Love to The Father. Manas to Buddhi to Atman
 Question: As Earth is permeated by Wisdom from the Kyriotetes, what
beings will we assist to build a Jupiter permeated by Love?
Conclusion and Call to Action
 Involved Union of Concerned Scientists?
 Are we limited by our comfort zones?
 Nanotechnology is but the beginning of The
Road to Jupiter
 We must wrest from Ahriman what’s needed
 Humans becoming co-creators
 Battle for the Etheric
 Blind Humanity from seeing Christ in the Etheric
 Trans-substantiation, raise flesh to Etheric
 Must balance sub-Nature with super-Nature
 Waldorf Schools
 Spiritual Science
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 49
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 50
Facing the Future
“We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror
of what comes towards Man out of the future. We
must acquire serenity in all feelings and
sensations about the future.
We must look forward with absolute equanimity to
everything that may come. And we must think
only that whatever comes is given to us by a
world-directive full of wisdom.
It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely,
to live out of pure trust, without any security in
existence - trust in the ever-present help of the
spiritual world.
Truly, nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail
us.” Rudolf Steiner
The What is sure to happen, what matters is the how
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 51
Rudolf Steiner Bibliography
 An Outline of Occult Science,
1909
 Egyptian Myths and Mysteries,
9/2-14, 1908
 The Balance in the World and
Man, 11/20-22, 1914
 The Realm of Language, The
Lost Unison between Speaking
and Thinking, 7/17-18, 1915
 Inner Impulses of Evolution,
Mexican Mysteries and Knights
Templar, 9/16 – 10/1, 1916
 The Karma of Vocation, 11/4-
27, 1916
 The Karma of Materialism,
7/31-9/25, 1917
 The Work of the Angels in
Man’s Astral Body, 10/9/1918
 Rosicrucian Esotericism, 1909
 Theosophy of the Rosicrucian,
1907
 The Challenge of the Times,
11/29 – 12/8, 1918
 The Influences of Lucifer and
Ahriman, 11/1-15, 1919
 The Mission of the Archangel
Michael, 11/21-30, 1919
 The Reappearance of Christ in
the Etheric
 The Boundaries of Natural
Science, 9/27 – 10/3, 1920
 Life between Death and a New
Birth as Image of the Future
Jupiter, 10/21, 1921
 Michealmas and the Soul-
Forces of Man, 9/27 – 10/1,
1923
 The Michael Mystery, 3/1925
Also,
 Battle for the Etheric, Nick
Thomas, 1995
Slide 52
Backup slides
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 53
Mixing Humans with …
Humanzee may already have been done!
George Church, a genome researcher at Harvard Medical School:
• Use Neanderthal genome to bring one to life
• Implant embryo in chimp
Why?
• Neanderthal may have genetic immunity to human-specific
diseases such as HIV or smallpox
• Lead to new gene therapy or drug treatments
• “Unethical not to clone them!” We could learn from them
• Creating “a sibling species” would give us more genetic diversity
Sound like Exploitation?
Neanderthals:
95% of their
DNA sequence,
and 99% of
coding DNA
sequences are in
common
Unsolved History broadcast Discovery Channel March 27, 1998
Edible Nanostructures?
 Crystals consisting of cubes made from six gamma-
cyclodextrin molecules linked in three-dimensions by
potassium ions
Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 54
preservative
Edible?
Sugar ring
Cyclodextrin

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Invisible Technology and the Singularity

  • 1. The Invisible Technology and The Singularity Will Nanotechnology Transcend Biology? Andrew Linnell Slide 1 jandrewlinnell@yahoo.com Invisible Technology
  • 2. Our Journey Tonight …  What is Nanotechnology?  Claimed Benefits  Potential Dangers  Merging of Man and Machine?  The Prophecy of Kurzweil’s Singularity  Anthroposophical Understanding  What is going on here?  How will this affect our future?  What should we do? – Call to Action! Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 2
  • 3. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 3 Ray Kurzweil’s Vision of the Future Pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition GNR
  • 4. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 4 When Silicon Beings Surpass Carbon The Singularity is reached When AI surpasses HI with Self-replicating intelligent machines $2000 computer, 2020 = human brain, 2045 = Σ all human Blue Brain Project Mimic the Brain www.eetimes.com, May 28, 2008
  • 5. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 5 The Singularity Movie  GNR to make a “better” life and world  “Humanity is fast approaching an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly merged with computers and trillions of times more powerful.  This will be the dawning of a new civilization, enabling us to transcend our biological limitations.  Boundaries blur between human and machine, real and virtual. Human aging and illness are reversed, world hunger and poverty are solved, and we cure death.”  “Live long enough to live forever”
  • 6. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 6 Life After the Singularity  “The bulk of our experiences will shift from real reality to virtual reality  Most of the intelligence of our civilization will ultimately be nonbiological, which by the end of this century will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than human intelligence  However, this does not imply the end of biological beings, even if thrown from its perch of evolutionary superiority [Kurzweil expects the rise of hybrid humans]  Moreover, it is important to note that the nonbiological forms will be derivative of biological design  In other words, our civilization will remain human, indeed in many ways more exemplary of what we regard as human than it is today, although our understanding of the term will move beyond its strictly biological origins.”  Ray Kurzweil
  • 7. Double Edged Sword of GNR  The first half of the 21st century will be characterized by three overlapping revolutions in Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics (GNR)  Promise and peril: led some serious thinkers to propose that we go very cautiously, possibly even to abandon them  Bill Joy wrote, “We are being propelled into a new century with no plan, no control, no brakes! The only realistic alternative I see is relinquishment: to limit the development of the technologies that are too dangerous, by limiting our pursuit of certain kinds of knowledge.” http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html  Joy’s deep concern about the future grew out of Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines  Kurzweil: “Technology has always been a mixed blessing, bringing us benefits such as longer and healthier life- spans, freedom from physical and mental drudgery, and many novel creative possibilities on the one hand, while introducing new dangers. Technology empowers both our creative and destructive natures.”  http://wise-nano.org/w/Kurzweil_CTF_Essay Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 7
  • 8. Invisible Technology Slide 8 Where is Technology Going? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-viruses-alive-2004 Can we modify genes? InvisibleInvisible
  • 9. When Will Nano-Products Arrive?  Stain-resistant fabrics  Time-release perfumed fabrics  Odor-eating socks  Cosmetics & sunscreen  Golf and tennis balls  Clubs and racquets  Paints  Self-cleaning glass  Water purifiers  Capsules carrying haemoglobin  Water impurity testers  Sprayable vitamins  Ski wax  Long-lasting paper  Flat panel displays  Flash memory devices  Artificial silicon retinas  Drug delivery systems  Car parts  Diagnostic agents for use in MRI scans Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 9
  • 10. A Few Scientific Studies of Dangers  2004: environmental toxicologist Eva Oberdörster, SMU: Fullerenes killed water fleas and extensively damaged fish brains after exposure of only 48 hours at a relatively moderate dose of 0.5 parts per million  Gene markups in their livers were changed  2002: CBEN (Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology) indicated that nanoparticles accumulated in the bodies of lab animals and fullerenes could easily travel through soil and be absorbed by earthworms thereby entering the food chain  This is a potential link up in the food chain to humans  2004: British scientist Vyan Howard published findings that indicated gold nanoparticles travel through a mother’s placenta to the fetus  2002: UCSD revealed cadmium selenide nanoparticles, also called quantum dots, cause cadmium poisoning in humans Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 10
  • 11. Removable From Our Environment?  No known effective method  Nothing in Nature “knows” what these are  No “predator” – nothing can digest them  Only fire (Old Saturn) sufficient to break chemical bonds Morgellons Disease -- Collembola  Symptoms: crawling, biting and stinging sensations; granules, threads or black speck-like materials on or beneath the skin; and/or skin lesions Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 11
  • 12. Dangers – And Few Even Care Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 12 No Regulations, Past Mistakes  Asbestos  Lead in petrol  PCBs  DDT - pesticides  Synthetic hormones  Fast food
  • 13. Recent News  Dr. Perricone's anti-aging products use Fullerenes to carry active ingredients into the skin  “These nanoparticles are extremely dangerous and products containing them should be banned,” demands Dr. Samuel Epstein, M.D. of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health  "The ultramicroscopic Fullerenes, also known as nanoparticles, have been introduced without any labeling into a growing number of Dr. Perricone's anti-aging products, particularly skin creams and Ceramic Eye Smoother. These are touted as reducing wrinkles and firming up the skin surface.”  http://www.world-wire.com/news/1001120001.html Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 13
  • 14. Invisible Technology Single-walled Carbon Nanotube (SWNT) • Stronger and stiffer than steel. • They conduct electricity better than copper • Conduct heat better than diamondsC60 (Buckminster- fullerene) Carbon Nanostructures Philosopher’s Stone
  • 15. The Dodecahedron and The Fullerene Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 15
  • 16. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 16 Steiner on Facing Human-Mechanical  “The will is there to harness human energy to mechanical energy  These things should not be treated by fighting against them – that is a completely false view  These will not fail to appear; they will come  What we are concerned with is whether, in the course of world history, they are entrusted to people who are familiar in a selfless way with the great aims of earthly evolution and who structure these things for the health of human being or whether they are enacted by groups of human beings who exploit these things in an egotistical or in a group-egotistical sense  It is not a question of what; the what is sure to come; it is a question of the how, how one tackles these situations
  • 17. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 17 Robotic Arms for Humans December 2, 2009  A group of European scientists say they have successfully connected a robotic hand to a man who had lost an arm, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial hand and control it with his thoughts.  The experiment lasted a month. Scientists say it was the first time an amputee has been able to make complex movements using his mind to control a biomechanic hand connected to his nervous system.  The Italian-led team said at a news conference Wednesday in Rome that last year they implanted electrodes into the arm of the patient, who had lost his left hand and forearm in a car accident.  The electrodes were removed after a month, during which the man learned to wiggle the robotic fingers and make other movements. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091202/ap_on_he_me/eu_italy_robotic_hand
  • 18. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 18 Linking the Brain to Mechanical Arms
  • 19. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 19 Turn Thoughts in Action: BrainGate http://www.braingate.com/ “If the patient still has the ability to “think” about movement, BrainGate™ has the potential to interpret and re-connect those signals, thus allowing the patient to move those limbs simply by thinking about it.”
  • 20. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 20 Heal the Blind via Sensory Augmentation
  • 21. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 21 Brain Augmentation  Man and Machine  Marvin Minsky, MIT  Replace the brain  Reverse engineer  Embedded computer  Wireless internet  GPS  National ID  Credit card
  • 22. January 30, 2005 Invisible Technology Nanotechnology and Virtual Reality  Wireless sensory augmentation  Implantation at or even before birth  It will become the norm  Visual & audio easy – how about touch?  A New Maya – a second “reality”  Mental context switch  Need for a threshold? Guardian?  Whispers the foolishness of a spiritual world
  • 23. January 30, 2005 Invisible Technology Is This the Man-Machine Mystery?  Integration: Man-Machine  Artificial limbs, organs, nerves, muscles  Sensory augmentation  Computer implantation  Brain-internet connection for full Virtual Reality  Biologically compatible vibratory systems  RFID technology implanted in forehead  Required for business  Influence on machines
  • 24. Recent News on Man-Machine  Pets and livestock (ears), equipment  Alzheimers, diabetics, immigrants, soldiers, sex offenders, children, employees  Readers monitor blood, whereabouts  VeriChip with RFID & GPS, also Digital Angel  Size of grain of rice, $150  VIP clubbers  No place for money  VeriMed  Home use  Marketeers’ dream  Why Stop Here? Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 24
  • 25. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 25 Designing Your Baby (Eugenics ?) Eliminating defects
  • 26. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 26 How? Nanobots  Deliver medicinal directly to affected area  Repair internals non- invasively  “Surgically” remove tumors  Manufacturing  Personalized  Self replicating  Issues:  Removal from body  Grey ooze
  • 27. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 27 Today’s Stage for Human Activity  Life  Chem/Tone  Light  Warmth/Fire  Air  Water  Earth/Dark  Electricity  Magnetism  3rd Force Physical World Super-Nature Etheric Realm Sub-Nature Virtual Reality What is Software? Software emulates a process. We think about the steps of a process, then we freeze it – kill it. We separate it from the world to focus only on the process. Hence software is: • Dead • Separate • Dark • Cold Compare to the 4 Ethers. As we delve into sub-Nature, so must we, in balance, rise into Super-Nature
  • 28. The Battle For The Etheric Realm  1st step towards Spiritual Consciousness  Meditation  Reincarnation: memory of past lives  Ahriman’s intent to pull the Human down  Man and Nature as machines  Downplaying of morals, free-will, love, thinking  Sub-Nature and Super-Nature  Attachment of a 2nd Being : For Jupiter?  Did Humans to Angels on Old Moon?  Logos appearing within the Etheric  Reflection of love in the etheric body  Etheric technology revealed Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 28
  • 29. Sub-Nature’s Image of the Living  Sub-Nature is developing using Super- Nature as her archetype  From Life came the Lifeless  As Excretion  Physical transformed from warmth of Old Saturn  Will pass away at the end of Earth’s Ages  Philosopher’s Stone as Living Carbon  Trans-substantiation versus GMO & nanoparticles  Scientist’s Workbench as Altar  Reverence for the Wisdom embedded in Nature Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 29
  • 30. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 30 Attachment of a Second Being “During the course of the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch, so many problems have lost all inner, vital warmth. The countless questions which confront us when we study Spiritual Science with any depth, simply do not exist for the modern man with his materialistic outlook. A different form of experience will come to the man of modern times. In his own opinion he knows ever so well; he observes the material world, uses his intellect to establish the interconnections between its phenomena and believes that all its riddles are solved in this way, never realizing that he is simply groping in a phantasmagoria. But this way of working coarsens and dries up his ether-body, with the ultimate result that the [Ahrimanic] powers, like a second nature, will attach themselves to him. The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman, Rudolf Steiner Note Similarity to Angel as a Second Being
  • 31. January 30, 2005 Invisible Technology Confronting Ahriman  “In an ether-body that has been parched by materialism, Ahriman will be able to dwell.  It is our duty to educate children in the future in such a way that they will be competent to understand the spiritual world.  The ether-body must be quickened in order that the human being may be able to take his rightful stand, fully cognizant of the nature of the being who stands at his side. If he does not understand the nature of this second being, he will be spellbound by him, fettered to him.”  “We, in our age, must get the better of Ahriman by enriching the Ego with the wisdom that can be born only from knowledge and investigation of the spiritual world, i.e. from Spiritual Science.”
  • 32. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 32 The Voice of Technology  The body, this mass of biomolecules, is a machine that acts according to a set of specifiable rules... We are machines, as are our spouses, our children, and our dogs... I believe myself and my children all to be mere machines. [Rod Brooks, Director of CS-AIL, MIT.]  The neural code is the software whereby the brain transforms raw sensory data into perceptions, memories, decisions, and meanings. [John Horgan Science Writer and Author of Rational Mysticism]  The more we learn about our brains, the more ways we will find to improve them. …With further advances, no part of the brain will be out of bounds for attaching new accessories. In the end, we will find ways to replace every part of the body and brain – and thus repair all the defects and flaws that make our lives so brief. Needless to say, in doing so, we'll be making ourselves into machines. [Marvin Minsky, Director of MIT Media Lab] Will Robots Inherit the Earth? (Scientific American, October 1994)
  • 33. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 33 Minsky: on Soul and Spirit  “Many thinkers firmly maintain that machines will never have thoughts like ours, because no matter how we build them, they'll always lack some vital ingredient.  They call this essence by various names--like sentience, consciousness, spirit, or soul. Philosophers write entire books to prove that, because of this deficiency, machines can never feel or understand the sorts of things that people do.  However, every proof in each of those books is flawed by assuming, in one way or another, the thing that it purports to prove--the existence of some magical spark that has no detectable properties.  I have no patience with such arguments.  We should not be searching for any single missing part.” The Emotion Machine, Simon and Schuster, 2006
  • 34. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 34 What About the Human Spirit? Trans-Spirit is a natural science branch where “researchers seek to achieve a complete scientific understanding of spiritual phenomena and, based on that understanding, to develop techniques and technologies for inducing ‘spiritual experiences’ at will Trans-Spirit aims to focus almost exclusively on the physical mechanisms that predispose human beings to believe and behave according to religious and spiritual norms.” Trans-Spirit: Religion, Spirituality and Transhumanism, Journal of Evolution and Technology, 2005 Vol. 14 pgs 39-53, Michael LaTorra, New Mexico State University
  • 35. Heart Transplants Inherit Memory  Dr. Paul Pearsall contends that the heart thinks, feels, remembers, and communicates with other hearts  An 8-yr. girl received the heart of a 10-yr. girl who had been murdered.  Psychiatrist: girl said she knew who the murderer was.  Police notified who were able to track him down by following the girl’s instructions and convict him on the evidence she had provided  Clues about: the time, the weapon, the place, the clothes he wore, etc.  Everything the girl said was true  Does the transplanted heart take with it its etheric heart and its memories? Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 35
  • 36. Reincarnation?  http://www.fox8.com/wjw-reincarnation-txt,0,1190900.story  http://www.reversespins.com/proofofreincarnation.html  11 year old James Leininger – James Huston  The most documented case of reincarnation  Recalls over 50 memories from past life  World War II Pilot's family believes it is their reincarnated brother based on child's memories  See book "Soul Survivor" Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 36
  • 37. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 37 Are These Thresholds? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-viruses-alive-2004 C60
  • 38. “And No Stone Shall Be Left Unturned”  “We are living now in the epoch of evolution that may be called the Mineral Epoch; and our task is to permeate this mineral world through and through with the spirit within us.  “What you have done to the mineral world passes into the very atoms and does not vanish without a trace. Every such atom bears a trace of your spirit and will carry this trace with it.  “Whether an atom has at some time been in a machine, or has not been in a machine, is not a matter of indifference. The atom itself has undergone change as a result of having once been in a machine, and this change that you have wrought in the atom will never again be lost to it.” The Atom as Coagulated Electricity, GA93  Nanotechnology’s Relationship to Quantum Physics Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 38
  • 39. What is the Atom?  The atom is nothing but coagulated electricity.  Thought itself is composed of the same substance.  Before the end of the fifth epoch of culture, science will have reached the stage where man will be able to penetrate into the atom itself.  When the similarity of substance between the thought and the atom is once comprehended, the way to get hold of the forces contained in the atom will soon be discovered and then nothing will be inaccessible to certain methods of working.  It is impossible to conceive what might happen in such circumstances if mankind has not, by then, reached selflessness.  The attainment of selflessness alone will enable humanity to be kept from the brink of destruction. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 39
  • 40. Evolving Human Consciousness  “Moreover, through your having changed the atom, through the fact that you have united the spirit in you with the mineral world, a permanent stamp has been made upon the general consciousness of mankind.  “Everything that is performed without regard to self, that is connected with the interests of another, helps to intensify and to strengthen our consciousness in the future struggles for existence.  You build a church for others, not for yourself.  “Whatever is achieved in the way of development of consciousness in the world does something to further the evolution of the consciousness of every single being, even if such a being has not actually worked at the development of his own consciousness.” The Atom as Coagulated Electricity, GA93 Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 40
  • 41. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 41 Summary of Nanotechnology  Invisible Technology  Ahriman’s wish to work invisibly  Approaching atomic where matter disappears  Newtonian physics no longer valid  Appeals to greed, vanity, and egoism  Also provides opportunity for selfless work  Applies mostly to sub-nature Super-nature: Etheric  Astral  Spirit Sub-nature: “Fallen” etheric forces  Electricity (light)  Magnetism (chemical)  3rd force – nuclear? (life) To remain healthy, as deeply as Man penetrates into sub-nature, so must he rise into super-nature
  • 42. What Will Be Our Future World? Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 42  “What is now around you will become your inner life. You will take into yourselves what is now the mineral kingdom and it will become part of your inner being; similarly the plant kingdom. What surrounds you in nature will become your inner being.  “What we ourselves prepare and make ready in the world — that is what will constitute our future existence.  “The measure of what you yourself place into the world is the measure of the consciousness that the world will give back to you.  “What we do with the mineral world, with the plant world, with the animal world, and with men, that we shall surely become.”  If you found a charitable institution or have contributed something to its foundation, what you have contributed will become an integral part of you. ” The Atom as Coagulated Electricity, GA93
  • 43. January 30, 2005 Invisible Technology Historical Picture Gold Silver Bronze Dark Abraham Moses Age Lucifer Ahriman Meeting with “next” humans and with super humans 15th Century repetition new formsOld forms
  • 44. July 20, 2009 On the Road to Jupiter Slide 44 Vulcan – 3rd depth Venus – 2nd depth Jupiter – Sub-Nature 7 Stages of Earth Condition Saturn - Physical Sun – Etheric Moon – Astral Earth – Ego Gods Create Creates Man Fire Air Water Earth Jupiter – Manas, Super- Nature Venus – Buddhi Vulcan – Atman Warmth Light Tone Life Etheric Hierarchy = 12 Laws of Polarities
  • 45. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 45 Overlapping Evolutions  On Old Moon the Angeloi were at the human state  Their appearance was quite different from ours  Quite different conditions existed  We developed to an advanced pre-state of the Earth evolution  We became a troublesome concern for the Angeloi  In the descending Earth evolution the Jupiter Humans arise  On Jupiter, they will have advanced to a new and different form of man  These Jupiter men exist already now just as we existed upon Old Moon  They exist not externally visible but as supersensible beings The Mission of the Archangel Michael, V, The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence, November 29, 1919
  • 46. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 46 Overlapping Evolutions, cont.  These sub-human beings’ character consists of an impulse which strongly coincides with the human power of will  They now appear from below as beings produced in Ahriman’s realm  They play into where we are most asleep – our will  Ahrimanic influences act through those with obscured consciousnesses  “as long as one does not take into consideration these forces as forces objectively existing in the world just as one takes into consideration what today is called magnetism, electricity, and so forth, one will not gain an insight into human nature”  Today's natural science does not contain man, merely the physical body The Mission of the Archangel Michael, V, The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence, November 29, 1919
  • 47. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 47 Mankind’s Continued Becoming  In the beginning, form was given to all by the Gods  5th Epoch: Man given power to give form for minerals  Just as in the past the Gods created the mineral world from a chaotic mass, so our cathedrals, inventions and even our institutions are the germs for a future world  So We Must Transform the Earth  Into a temple of truth, beauty, and goodness  6th Epoch: Man transforms the plants  Man will be able to create and give shape to plant-life  7th Epoch: Man transforms the animal kingdom  Man will give form and have power over animal life  And at a still higher stage, he will be able to reproduce his like by an act of conscious will (love)  Gods allow Man to delve into sub-nature for Jupiter  But for health, we must be balanced with super-nature Rudolf Steiner, An Esoteric Cosmology XV
  • 48. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 48 Love and Jupiter  "Just as wisdom was evolved upon the Moon, in order that it might now be found in all things, so in like manner is love evolving  Love came into existence first in its lowest, its most sensuous form, during the Lemurian period  Love will become ever more and more spiritualized, until at last, when the Earth has reached the end of its evolution, the whole of existence will have become pervaded with love as today it is pervaded with wisdom  The Beings who will wander about upon Jupiter, just as human Beings move about upon the Earth, will find love exhaling from all creatures, the love which they themselves, as Human Beings, will have placed there during their life upon the Earth  They will find love in everything just as we today find wisdom everywhere  Then human beings will develop love out of their own inner selves in the same way that they are now little by little evolving wisdom  The great cosmic love that here upon the Earth is beginning its existence will then permeate all things.“ Rudolf Steiner, Gospel of St. John, Hamburg  Wisdom to Cosmic Love to The Father. Manas to Buddhi to Atman  Question: As Earth is permeated by Wisdom from the Kyriotetes, what beings will we assist to build a Jupiter permeated by Love?
  • 49. Conclusion and Call to Action  Involved Union of Concerned Scientists?  Are we limited by our comfort zones?  Nanotechnology is but the beginning of The Road to Jupiter  We must wrest from Ahriman what’s needed  Humans becoming co-creators  Battle for the Etheric  Blind Humanity from seeing Christ in the Etheric  Trans-substantiation, raise flesh to Etheric  Must balance sub-Nature with super-Nature  Waldorf Schools  Spiritual Science Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 49
  • 50. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 50 Facing the Future “We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards Man out of the future. We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensations about the future. We must look forward with absolute equanimity to everything that may come. And we must think only that whatever comes is given to us by a world-directive full of wisdom. It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely, to live out of pure trust, without any security in existence - trust in the ever-present help of the spiritual world. Truly, nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us.” Rudolf Steiner The What is sure to happen, what matters is the how
  • 51. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 51 Rudolf Steiner Bibliography  An Outline of Occult Science, 1909  Egyptian Myths and Mysteries, 9/2-14, 1908  The Balance in the World and Man, 11/20-22, 1914  The Realm of Language, The Lost Unison between Speaking and Thinking, 7/17-18, 1915  Inner Impulses of Evolution, Mexican Mysteries and Knights Templar, 9/16 – 10/1, 1916  The Karma of Vocation, 11/4- 27, 1916  The Karma of Materialism, 7/31-9/25, 1917  The Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral Body, 10/9/1918  Rosicrucian Esotericism, 1909  Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, 1907  The Challenge of the Times, 11/29 – 12/8, 1918  The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman, 11/1-15, 1919  The Mission of the Archangel Michael, 11/21-30, 1919  The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric  The Boundaries of Natural Science, 9/27 – 10/3, 1920  Life between Death and a New Birth as Image of the Future Jupiter, 10/21, 1921  Michealmas and the Soul- Forces of Man, 9/27 – 10/1, 1923  The Michael Mystery, 3/1925 Also,  Battle for the Etheric, Nick Thomas, 1995
  • 53. Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 53 Mixing Humans with … Humanzee may already have been done! George Church, a genome researcher at Harvard Medical School: • Use Neanderthal genome to bring one to life • Implant embryo in chimp Why? • Neanderthal may have genetic immunity to human-specific diseases such as HIV or smallpox • Lead to new gene therapy or drug treatments • “Unethical not to clone them!” We could learn from them • Creating “a sibling species” would give us more genetic diversity Sound like Exploitation? Neanderthals: 95% of their DNA sequence, and 99% of coding DNA sequences are in common Unsolved History broadcast Discovery Channel March 27, 1998
  • 54. Edible Nanostructures?  Crystals consisting of cubes made from six gamma- cyclodextrin molecules linked in three-dimensions by potassium ions Nov. 18, 2010 Invisible Technology Slide 54 preservative Edible? Sugar ring Cyclodextrin