Featured Discussions - Theosophy.Net2024-03-28T22:59:49Zhttps://theosophy.net/forum/topic/list?groupUrl=future-theosophies&feed=yes&xn_auth=no&featured=1New Mediatag:theosophy.net,2012-03-16:3055387:Topic:1099402012-03-16T20:41:19.203ZJames Davishttps://theosophy.net/profile/JamesDavis
<p>Theosophy is no longer just in TS published books but is finding form, and I think increasingly will, in motion pictures and videos. A lot of so called "science fiction" and "fantasy" is threaded through with basic teachings of Theosophy. Theosophy is being given out again via a world-wide psychic thought exchange in which book writers, script writers, and graphic artists are participants. Some of these "mediums" are unconscious of what they are doing yet do it quite well. Others are…</p>
<p>Theosophy is no longer just in TS published books but is finding form, and I think increasingly will, in motion pictures and videos. A lot of so called "science fiction" and "fantasy" is threaded through with basic teachings of Theosophy. Theosophy is being given out again via a world-wide psychic thought exchange in which book writers, script writers, and graphic artists are participants. Some of these "mediums" are unconscious of what they are doing yet do it quite well. Others are partly, conscious, having read a little in esoteric writings. Are there any fully conscious ones who know exactly what they are doing and why?</p>
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<p> Best Thoughts,</p>
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<p> James</p>
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<p></p> Future Theosophy - Analog or Digital?tag:theosophy.net,2012-02-13:3055387:Topic:1074702012-02-13T08:48:59.047ZCapt. Anand Kumarhttps://theosophy.net/profile/CaptAnandKumar
<p>Theosophy is a study of inquiring into the nature of reality. A number of varying types of methods are employed to understand and explain this, by Philosophers and the Scientists alike. From the scientist’s point of view the question can be approached better if we could figure out whether the nature of Reality was Analog or Digital?</p>
<p>Within the context of this discussion, Analog is something which is continuous and reducible to a mathematical algorithms and digital is what is…</p>
<p>Theosophy is a study of inquiring into the nature of reality. A number of varying types of methods are employed to understand and explain this, by Philosophers and the Scientists alike. From the scientist’s point of view the question can be approached better if we could figure out whether the nature of Reality was Analog or Digital?</p>
<p>Within the context of this discussion, Analog is something which is continuous and reducible to a mathematical algorithms and digital is what is considered to be discrete or discontinuous in general. As this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital" target="_blank">Wikipedia page</a> states:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete (discontinuous) values. By contrast, non-digital (or analog) systems use a continuous range of values to represent information.</i></p>
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<p>Thomas J Mcfarlane, a distinguished physicist, has tried to look into this in his 2011 paper titled, “<a href="http://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/McFarlane_FQXi2011McFarlane.pdf" target="_blank">The Distinct Nature of Physics and Cosmos</a>” summarizes that:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>…</i><i>it is concluded that any description of reality by physics is necessarily discrete at its foundations. This conclusion points to a more fundamental insight into the nature of reality beyond the scope of physics.</i></p>
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<p>While looking into how physics works, he further quotes Heisenberg:</p>
<blockquote><p>... <i>The measuring device has been constructed by the observer, and [so] we have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.</i></p>
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<p>So, wherever in nature we find order, it may be possible to reduce to it to a mathematical formula and therefore an analog form. But what about where there is chaos or where the information appears in discrete values? McFarlane concludes:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Reality in its totality, then, encompasses both the cosmos (order) and its complement (chaos).But, more fundamentally, it is prior to the even distinction between cosmos and chaos, form and formlessness, discrete and continuous. Its ultimate nature is therefore ineffable, beyond the scope of mathematics, physics, and even thought itself, which depends on making distinctions. Insofar as it can be known at all, it must be known through other means.</i></p>
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<p>Will Future Theosophies attempt to know the nature of the reality by <em><strong>other means</strong></em> as suggested by McFarlane, And will those means be Analog or Digital?</p> Future Theosophies - A Geek's Eye Viewtag:theosophy.net,2012-01-29:3055387:Topic:1069312012-01-29T23:15:06.403ZJoe Fultonhttps://theosophy.net/profile/JoeFulton
<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #800000;">Theosophies of the Future</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #003366;">It's interesting to speculate on theosophies of the past and all those who have left their mark along the way. In addition we have those who are still making their mark, both in traditional and "popular" theosophies.…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #800000;">Theosophies of the Future</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #003366;">It's interesting to speculate on theosophies of the past and all those who have left their mark along the way. In addition we have those who are still making their mark, both in traditional and "popular" theosophies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #003366;">But what about the Theosophies of the future? Who writes those? What do they look like? Where are the gods, the creative forces and the means to carry out the plans of divinity?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #003366;">In this interconnected world, we have the ability to gather the best of all traditions, old and new, to synthesize new ways of understanding our existence and come up with new ways of seeing how we relate to it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #003366;">There are any number of connections we can draw in forming these traditions. We can enquire into the nature of dark matter, dark energy and other cosmic phenomena and explore how those tie in with our mind...and perhaps "universal mind?" In the realm of the extremely small, we look at how developments in quantum physics affect our view of consciousness. This leads to entire new areas of speculation. Examples could involve a deeper understanding of randomness and its role in evolution. And ultimately there is the base concept of consciousness as the primary reality of all existence. Can we perceive it? If yes, how? If no, why not?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #003366;">Then there are the "environmental theosophies," those vast areas of thought and awareness that didn't even exist a few years ago. There are environmental theosophies, best described in James Lovelock's "Gaia Hypothesis,' and the various schools of thought exploring the relationships with us, our environment and the effects of our thoughts and actions towards the quality of the elements and compounds that make up our planet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #003366;">Then there are "economic theosophies". These lie in the realm of human behavior and desires. They cover our interactions and how we perceive value. Our values feed directly into, and from our beliefs about us, our world, including those involving survival, fulfillment and actualization. The flip side of these is greed and the tendency for us to "overdo it." Economic theosophies also cover the structures we create to shape our impact on the world around us and to either assume or abnegate responsibility for our efforts. This not only involves us on an individual level but those constructs that we create to enable activity over large areas and diverse groups of people.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #003366;">Finally there are the new "social theosophies". These involve our greater understanding of cognition and neuroscience. These deal with the narrowing breach between the understanding of our physiology and our inner life. We are slowly getting a deeper grasp on how hardwired we actually are and how much of our lives are determined to a greater or lesser degree by not only our genetic makeup but also the choices we make throughout life. It can be the one-too-many Big Mac, the decision to be absolutely right and win that argument or any number of other thoughts and activities that we decree to become part of our heritage, either as productions of the mind or of the body.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #003366;">There are other theosophies waiting to be discovered and explored. Where will they be found, recognized and acted on. Who knows? One thing is for sure. They are out there.</span></p> Future Theosophy - a Visiontag:theosophy.net,2012-01-29:3055387:Topic:1069242012-01-29T21:43:26.863ZJohnhttps://theosophy.net/profile/JohnEMead
<p align="center"><b>Future Theosophy</b></p>
<p>Discussion of theosophy in the future is a very difficult task. First, the ability of a human to prognosticate with any degree of specificity is near impossible. Second, the future events under discussion may rightfully be questioned as to whether the label “theosophy” is at all accurate and applicable. Creating a mechanism to handle either needs to be addressed. The first issue is unsolvable in specifics, until actual forecasting of a future…</p>
<p align="center"><b>Future Theosophy</b></p>
<p>Discussion of theosophy in the future is a very difficult task. First, the ability of a human to prognosticate with any degree of specificity is near impossible. Second, the future events under discussion may rightfully be questioned as to whether the label “theosophy” is at all accurate and applicable. Creating a mechanism to handle either needs to be addressed. The first issue is unsolvable in specifics, until actual forecasting of a future event is obtainable. However, some aspects can be approached (see below). The second issue can be solved only by some solid definition of the term “theosophy”. That piece of the problem can be addressed. Furthermore, when properly done, the first item may then also be addressed. The broad scope of concepts regarding the future of theosophy must be able to include any theosophy available to the unfettered future mind of the theosophist. Predetermined limitations must be minimized to absolve the theosophist. The definition used for the term theosophy must contain only the minimal requirements for a working definition. The research in the last several decades have fortunately done this for us. Thus, we start with the widely accepted definition of “theosophy”, as created empirically by Antoine Faivre from centuries of available literature.</p>
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<p><b>What is meant by “Theosophy”?</b></p>
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<p>The three Characteristics of Theosophy:</p>
<p>1) Divine/Human/Nature Triangle: The inspired analysis which circles through these three angles. The intradivine within; the origin, death and placement of the human relating to Divinity and Nature; Nature as alive, the external, intellectual and material. All three complex correlations synthesize via the intellect and imaginative processes of Mind.</p>
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<p>2) Primacy of the Mythic: The creative Imagination, an external world of symbols, glyphs, myths, synchronicities and the myriad, along with image, all as a universal reality for the interplay conjoined by creative mind.</p>
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<p>3) Access to Supreme Worlds: The awakening within, inherently possessing the faculty to directly connect to the Divine world(s). The existence of a special human ability to create this connection. The ability to connect and explore all levels of reality; co-penetrate the human with the divine; to bond to all reality and experience a unique inner awakening</p>
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<p>The above characteristics are the most complete and also the minimal set with which to achieve our objective.</p>
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<p><b>The Scaffold of Future Theosophy from Two Hermetic Keys of Space and Time</b></p>
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<p>Following a simplistic and unfettered approach, as reflected within the above spirit, we need only two fundamental keys from which future guidance toward a new theosophy may be erected. These come from and evolve from Thrice Greatest Hermes and the Emerald Table:</p>
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<p>1) The key for the <i>spatial</i> connections in theosophy, i.e. the second verse in the 'Emerald Table' of Hermes Trismegistus:</p>
<p>"That which is above is like to that which is below and that which is below is like to that which is above, to accomplish the miracles of (the) one thing"</p>
<p>Note this refers to the Spatial Dimension. i.e. epistemologically it is externalism and internalism; theosophically as mind (human) as the mesocosm between the macrocosm and microcosm). Note the Eastern Philosophy version: “What is here is there, What is not here is nowhere”.</p>
<p>(<i>Vishvasara Tantra</i>; trsl. Arthur Avalone, <i>The Serpent Power 1919, p 72.</i>)</p>
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<p>The second key is retrieved by actually using the technique of theosophy. One need act theosophically, using the three characteristics above, upon the first key of spatial dimensions. The analogy between space and time as interchangeable creates the second key. This is the <i>temporal</i> equivalent to the first key and completes the Hermetic set of keys for both time and space. This is one of the great results that surfaced in the 20th century by theosophists, actually doing theosophy by using the three characteristics ('Die Gnosis' by Hans Leisegang, 1926; and 'Le Tarot' by Marc Haven, 1923):</p>
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<p>2) The key for the <i>temporal</i> connections in theosophy.</p>
<p>"That which was is as that which will be, and that which will be is as that which was, to accomplish the miracles of eternity"</p>
<p>Reference from <i>Meditations on the Tarot</i> by Anonymous, 1985. Note: Anonymous is known to be Valentin Tomberg (1901-1973).</p>
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<p>The above, created in the theosophical revolutions of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, is the starting point for the 21st century. The better definition, and the two “Keys To Theosophy”.</p>
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<p><b>Key One - Opening the Future with Science as Primary</b></p>
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<p>Opening the door with the first key. The primary focus will shift. The first will be last and the last will be first. Hence, Science takes the dominate side of the equation.</p>
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<p>Key One: That <i>(deemphasized)</i> which is above is like to that which is below and <i>(new emphasis)</i> that which is below is like to that which is above, to accomplish the miracles of (the) one thing</p>
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<p>Therefore, the first characteristic of theosophy, which involves the triangle of macrosom-mesocosm-microcosm, is now driven by the knowledge of the macrocosm and it will correct misunderstandings within the microcosm. This compliment <i>must be required</i> for a consistent understanding. This is also true of the third characteristic of theosophy. The supreme world within, or epistemological internalism, becomes increasingly just a new form of externalism. The knowledge of psychology, biology and brain are realized through an externalism within science.</p>
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<p><b>Key Two - Revealing the Future Past</b></p>
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<p>This key unlocks the second characteristic of Faivre. First note that Archetypes are <i>spatial</i> – unchanging constants, but exist in the above and time is immaterial. Myth is a narration of a particular idea that is <i><u>eternal in time</u></i> but not a universal within the spatial. A good example is War, as viewed as a removal of a hierarchy. Most war, even religious war, is based on removal of a hierarchy. Nature abhors a hierarchy. It not a respecter of individuals. Nature changes in a manner known <i>eternally</i> through <i>time.</i> The point is to not confuse s<i>patial analogy and typology</i> with <i>temporal eternal ideas</i> through myth. Hence, the Arab Spring was in a sense a theosophical event. The overthrow of a hierarchy. These events are active and are manifestations of eternal myths/ideas. They live and happen eternally. Also, myths are cultural. With global cultures interacting through information flow, expect new global myths but only to represent an eternal myth/idea. The recasting of a myth in a global language. Perhaps the term Arab Spring itself is a new mythic, eternal event, in a new global culture.</p>
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<p>The theosophist of the future will still be the Tarot's Major Arcanum Card I, the Magician. The one who performs the three characteristics as derived by Faivre. Doing so with ease. Precisely tuned and transformed from the theosophical revolution of the twentieth century with new understandings and preparation for the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</p>
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