When I first encountered Swami Nitty-Gritty (Adano Christopher Ley) in 1975, I had not the slightest clue I was joining a boot camp for Spacefaring Immortals …
… although my involvement in the Gurdjieff Work made me aware of the “bliss-stokirno” needed to power trans-space ships like the Karnak across the universe.
I’m now an associate (in fair standing) of the negentropic AARP – the Atomic Association of Regenerative People.
Konstantine Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), the pioneering “Father of Space Travel,” proclaimed …
“Earth is the cradle of mankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) wrote …
“There is a long road ahead, and the stars are only way stations, but we have begun the journey.”
Swami Nitty-Gritty, the Kit Carson of the Aquarian Age, said …
“This environment came before you, and in the process was an INVESTITURE, and the investiture goes, ‘Go forth and multiply.’ That’s after you have the breath given to you. You realize that the breath is given to you as a gift. And He [God] said, ‘Go forth and multiply, and Xerox yourself, and have dominion over the universe.’ Not over the planet or a little 8 by 10 square-foot. Dominion, not ownership. The universe is a pretty big place to go around having dominion in it.”
Alan Harrington (The Immortalist: An Approach to the Engineering of Man’s Divinity, 1969) wrote …
“Neither light years nor microscopic infinity need frighten us. Quintillions of molecular forms, a drifting assemblage of rocks — what is so impressive about the sheer multiplicity of things? There may be as many cells in my little finger as there are stars in the Milky Way. It doesn’t matter. We are the cosmic virus. Galactic convulsions may some day be wrought by this tiny speck of the whole. Endless systems of rocks, a universal scrap heap, can become our building stones to be glued together and used as a base for satellite worlds whenever we need them. We will learn to manipulate the planet’s own magnetic field. We will throw aloft shields of particles against cosmic rays. We will learn to forecast space cataclysms and guard against nova explosions that took place millions of years ago. One day we will discover how to navigate our globe like a new Noah’s Ark, and steer the planet’s course between flames and black cold; package ourselves if need be into electronic impulses and shoot for distant galaxies out of harm’s way.”
Marshall T. Savage (The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps, 1992, 1994) wrote …
“A million years,a thousand millennia from now, our progeny will look back in space and time to the glimmering dawn of galactic history. At the base of the awesome branching tree that is their living galaxy they will perceive a tiny blue-green seed. That morsel of life, they know as the Mother of all planets. From that single cosmic micro-spore will have sprung a pan-galactic riot of Life. Throughout the coruscating star clouds will pulse a blizzard of animate matter, vibrant and alive, defiant of entropy. A hundred billion stars saturate the velvet sky with the virescent color of hope. Lovers, poets, and children beyond numbering, giggle, chortle, and laugh; filling the once silent voids with the most sacred music of consciousness. Macroscopic minds of a hundred billion hundred billions contemplate planes of mentality unknowable by us; yet for all their prodigious majesty, these demigods will reflect on our time with wonder.”
Let’s not wait for the Pleiadians to contact us.
Let’s meet& greetour Space Brotherson their own vastturf of 800 Pleiadian star systems.
NASA, you suck. Let’s infuse your bloatocracywith some Young Blood and New Ideas.
Things were much better whenNASA had Swami Nitty-Gritty astheir adviser. :)
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May 10, 2011 @ 2:20 pm shellinspector
Atom,
Forgive me for throwing in some conflicting thoughts, I think it is my nature, .. to come with anti-thesis to most things I hear:-) I wonder why that is? What do you think it is a sign of?
What makes man seek new frontiers? Curiosity, hunger for new impressions? New actions, new journeys, new jobs, new mates, new places to visit?
Maybe we need new playground to exercise our own nature to be able to discover ourself better and to learn about ourself?
Oftentimes, new context and new settings is the only things that allows us to see how we would feel and how we would act. And our actions and our emotions shape the karma of the future. Exercising our karma, in turn, teaches ourselves lessons that we otherwise would never learn. The perpetual progression through “Samsara”, the illusive theater of existence.
If someone wants to “go far away”, go traveling to discover new things? Does that maybe hide a trauma in a broad sense of the word ‘trauma’ ? Or is going traveling a part of our pristine divine nature? Do great enlightened masters have desire to go to far worlds? Or have the learned their lessons and understand that there, in essence, no new things between heaven and earth (no irony intended :-)?
May 13, 2011 @ 4:19 pm atomb
Contrarians and iconoclasts (like myself) are often powered by father or authority traumas.
Traumas, like “squares” in astrology, have a silver lining.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj said (I Am That, 1973), “The idea that I am not the body gives reality to the body, when in fact, there is no such thing as body; it is but a state of mind. You can have as many bodies and as diverse as you like; just remember steadily what you want and reject the incompatibles.”
Spiritual “authorities” – other than Sri Nisargadatta and company – offer us a choice between Agent Smith or Neo.
If they’re both the same “person” (as they were in the movie, The Matrix) perhaps we can choose to be BOTH. :)