This document provides an overview and summary of a presentation on nanotechnology and the singularity. The presentation discusses what nanotechnology is, the potential benefits and dangers, and Ray Kurzweil's vision that artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence by 2045. It summarizes Kurzweil's predictions about the merging of humans and machines and life after the singularity. The presentation addresses both the promises and perils of developments in genetics, nanotechnology and robotics, and calls the audience to thoughtful action. It summarizes some scientific studies on dangers of nanotechnology and challenges of regulating new technologies. The presentation ends with a discussion of confronting dangers and maintaining a spiritual understanding of humanity's relationship with emerging technologies.
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!
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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
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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
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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
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?
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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
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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?
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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