Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Saturday, June 2, 2012
The Final Frontier
During the 1950's and 60's Outer Space was being heralded as the final frontier for man to conquer.
We had emerged out of the trees and onto the grasslands.
We had left the grasslands of Africa for lands unknown.
We had built sea-sailing vessels to cross the great oceans.
And we had mastered aeronautics and created airplanes, blimps, and helicopters.
The next logical step was outside of our planet's atmosphere and into the great black abyss.
Baby steps were made, we landed on the moon and sent out hundreds of probes.
But, unlike all other arenas of human technology, space exploration did not have an explosive acceleration, but rather, withered and came to a virtual halt. Why was this?
Some say it was lack of competition with the Russians, or, impossibly large budgets. My bet was that the engineers and scientists along with the upper echelons of American government realized that Space travel had little to offer present day man. The ships and programs were prohibitively expensive and the programs themselves seemed to produce little of scientific or material value. A combination of these drawbacks caused man to withdraw his full effort from space. Technology and resources went towards communications(The Internet, TV, music) and to an ever more powerful military technologies. Leaving man without an [obvious] frontier.
The hidden frontier is within our own minds. The same hyperspatial reality that was plumbed by Shamans, medicine men, and mystics throughout history. It can be accessed with meditation, yoga, breathing, and any number of hallucinogenic substances. Isn't it strange that the very government that was so for Space Travel is against this other alien frontier?
In Space Travel they saw possible material gain and strategic military advantages. The only treasures that one can plunder from the interior of the mind are new ideas or modes of being. These are of no interest to those who hold our material lives in check. This is why they have begun an inquisition and repression of the exploration of this new interior frontier.
Good luck psychonauts.
We had emerged out of the trees and onto the grasslands.
We had left the grasslands of Africa for lands unknown.
We had built sea-sailing vessels to cross the great oceans.
And we had mastered aeronautics and created airplanes, blimps, and helicopters.
The next logical step was outside of our planet's atmosphere and into the great black abyss.
Baby steps were made, we landed on the moon and sent out hundreds of probes.
But, unlike all other arenas of human technology, space exploration did not have an explosive acceleration, but rather, withered and came to a virtual halt. Why was this?
Some say it was lack of competition with the Russians, or, impossibly large budgets. My bet was that the engineers and scientists along with the upper echelons of American government realized that Space travel had little to offer present day man. The ships and programs were prohibitively expensive and the programs themselves seemed to produce little of scientific or material value. A combination of these drawbacks caused man to withdraw his full effort from space. Technology and resources went towards communications(The Internet, TV, music) and to an ever more powerful military technologies. Leaving man without an [obvious] frontier.
The hidden frontier is within our own minds. The same hyperspatial reality that was plumbed by Shamans, medicine men, and mystics throughout history. It can be accessed with meditation, yoga, breathing, and any number of hallucinogenic substances. Isn't it strange that the very government that was so for Space Travel is against this other alien frontier?
In Space Travel they saw possible material gain and strategic military advantages. The only treasures that one can plunder from the interior of the mind are new ideas or modes of being. These are of no interest to those who hold our material lives in check. This is why they have begun an inquisition and repression of the exploration of this new interior frontier.
Good luck psychonauts.
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