Oh Man, Know Thou Thyself

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1 spirit Oh Man, Know Thou Thyself soul life A welding together of man and machine? Andrew Linnell jandrewlinnell@yahoo.com 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 1

2 Opening How does a spiritual being greet you? Each human is a spiritual being How do you respond? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 2

3 Opening Skit after words on Know Thyself Man sits, stares at pencil Vulcan appears behind, Oh Man, Know Thou Thyself Man: Huh? That sounds so dated dude. Thou?? Vulcan puzzled, Dude? Hmm, Hey you! Know Yourself! Man: Wow, that sounds pretty bossy. Around here we respect human freedom. Vulcan: We need to get into the right mood of soul Man: Geez, this sounds like work and for me work is a 4- letter word. Vulcan: for a conversation Man: Hey, this commercial is almost over and my show then begins. Let s do this later. Vulcan: Sure, we re both busy beings. When? Man: I dunno. Set up a time with my Google Assistant. Vulcan dejected turns away, takes a step, stops, What s a Google Assistant? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 3

4 Opening How does a spiritual being greet you? Each human is a spiritual being How do you respond? Thou Art! Now a conversation ensues What do you say or ask for? Oh Lord, won t you buy me a Mercedes Benz, Comfort, a life of ease for me and my loved ones? What is prayer? Meditation? How is wisdom gained? How does real love evolve? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 4

5 Conversation The Stars once spoke to Man. It is World-destiny That they are silent now. To be aware of the silence Can become pain for earthly Man. But in the deepening silence There grows and ripens What Man speaks to the Stars. To be aware of the speaking Can become strength for Spirit-Man. Rudolf Steiner 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 5

6 Green Snake and Beautiful Lily On entering this large cavern under the earth, the Snake can at once perceive that there are four kingly figures standing in the four corners: a Golden King, a Silver King, a Brazen King, and in the fourth corner a Mixed King, put together in the gayest manner of all kinds of other metals. The moment the Snake enters the cavern and lights up the figures, the Golden King puts the very significant question: Whence comest thou? From the crevices, where the gold lives, answers the Snake. What is more splendid than gold? asks the Golden King. Light, is the Snake's reply. The King asks further: What is more comforting than Light? Speech. [The Word. Conversation] No one will doubt that these words are not meant to give just pictures, but that they also have a significant content. 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 6

7 Green Snake and Beautiful Lily cont. As the Snake enters the cavern a crack opens in the Temple where the four Kings live and there enters the Old Man with the Lamp. He is asked why he comes at that moment, whereupon he says the remarkable words: Do you not know that my lamp may illumine only what is already illumined? that I may not lighten the Darkness? After the Snake has lit up the objects in the room he may also come in with his wonderworking Lamp. Now a conversation takes place between the Kings and the Old Man with the Lamp. He is asked: How many secrets do you know? Three, he answers. Which is the most important? asks the Silver King. The open one, replies the Old Man. Will you open it also to us? asks the Brazen King. As soon as I know the Fourth. And now come the most significant words of the whole story: I know the Fourth, said the Snake, and whispers something into his ear; whereupon the Old Man with a great voice cries out: The time is at hand! 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 7

8 Schedule Friday June 1, Lecture, Vulcans and the Future Body Saturday June 2, Workshop Trinity St. Paul Centre Theme: Can We Build a Moral Technology? 09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea, Social 10:00-11:00 Meditative Approaches for Vulcan Conver. 11:00-12:00 Counterbalances to modern technology 12:00-01:00 Lunch 01:00-02:00 Eurythmy 02:00-02:15 Break coffee/tea 02:15-03:15 MysTech: not the what but the how 03:15-04:00 Discussion: The Challenge of Our Times 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 8

9 Introduction: Two Concepts to Explore For the Future Human Body What we re NOT discussing: Atma or Spirit Man 1. Conversation. Can a machine speak? Google Assistant with Duplex video the Turing test What is this machine saying spiritually? Know yourself? What is NOT present that is in a human? 2. Welding together? Was Steiner a proto-transhumanist? NPR Innovation Hub: no free will, only the bio-basis not yet found 11May2018, The Biology Behind Evil, Free Will, And Everything Else Popular (materialistic) futurologists Attachment of machines to the human body Artificial Intelligence Kurzweil s Singularity Are #1 and #2 related? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 9

10 Transhumanism Overview Futurologists such as Ray Kurzweil predict 2045* as when AI robotic intelligence will surpass human intelligence [Before then] we want to preserve the best of what it is to be human and maybe even amplify that Nick Bostrom Transhumanism will lead humanity forward to understand a simple truth: that the spectre of ageing and death are unwanted, and we should strive to control and eliminate them Zoltan Istvan Why is this imagination important for Anthroposophists? The role of human imaginations for our future Christian Kromme 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 10

11 Tech Impact On Our Teens Depression 8th graders who spend 10 or more hours a week on social media are 56% more likely to say they are unhappy than w/less. 8th graders who are heavy users of social media increase their risk of depression by 27%. Teens who spend 3+ hours a day on electronic devices are 35% more likely to have a risk factor for suicide. Girls, especially hard hit, have experienced a 50% rise in depressive symptoms. Addiction: dopamine surges, hijacking techniques Shame campaign like tobacco and car seats needed? Wait Until 8th urges parents regarding smartphones 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 11

12 Intended Addiction Chamath Palihapitiya Former Facebook VP Conference at Stanford CBS News 12/12/2017 The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse. No cooperation. Misinformation. Mistruth. And it's not an American problem. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem. So we are in a really bad state of affairs right now, in my opinion." 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 12

13 Tech Impact On The Rest Of Us American Psychiatric Assoc.: Half of millennials worry about the negative effects of social media on their mental and physical health A recent Pew Research Center survey noted that more than 70 percent of Americans were worried about automation s impact on jobs (Steiner: 90% of jobs gone) "Got to regulate AI/robotics like we do food, drugs, aircraft & cars Elon Musk Annals of Technology, October 23, 2017 Issue Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords Once, robots assisted human workers. Now it s the other way around. by Sheelah Kolhatkar 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 13

14 What is Missing? Knowledge of the Human Being In order to create needed counterbalances Renaissance 2.0 Tomorrow 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 14

15 End of the Old Mysteries Ahriman Must Have His Incarnation for Cosmic Balance Not to scale Lucifer Ahriman Lord of Death 4 th 15 th 20 th Century 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 15

16 Paradise Coming? What Does Steiner Say? Out of pain, out of the destruction of life consciousness When a being works against disintegration and decay then it is a living being. If it is able to let death arise within it and to transform this death continually into life, then consciousness arises. Consciousness is the strongest of all forces that we encounter. Consciousness, or conscious spirit, is that force which out of death, which must be created in the midst of life, eternally makes life arise again. Life is a process which is concerned with an outer world and an inner world. Consciousness, however, is a process which has to do only with an inner world. An entity which can die externally cannot become conscious. An entity can only become conscious that creates death in its own center and overcomes it. -- Origin of Suffering, 8Nov1906, Berlin, GA 55 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 16

17 What is Technology? and Overcoming Our Fears Offers emancipation from labor (and from Nature) Allows mankind to rise above ( to conquer ) Nature Mankind becomes aware of its separateness (freedom) Who gave technology to humanity? Hephaestus/Vulcan (God sourced) Cain and Tubal Cain (Masonic tradition) Tools based on the lifeless of the human body 1. Augment limbs (tools) 2. Augment rhythmic (steam engine, piston) 3. Augment nerve/sense (telescope, microscope, camera) 4. Augment thinking (computers, AI) is it still just a tool? By taking on our dead thinking, are we freed for living thinking? What will we do with our free time? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 17

18 But What is Human Thinking? Human thinking is the shadow-image of mental pictures and beings belonging the astral plane Thoughts that are in the head must be pictured as living beings on the astral plane Beings of the most varied kinds are at work there Their mental pictures and deeds cast their shadow-images These processes are reflected in the human head as thinking Footprints blood flow Continuous streams move between astral plane and head The Etherization of the Blood, 1Oct1911, GA 130 Astral Plane Etheric Physical Head 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 18

19 Link Between Thinking and Machines? Gradual development of these still imperfect, primitive machines into a kind of machine which depends upon vibrations, and where the aim is to make the machines effective by means of vibrations or oscillations, by means of movements which run a periodic course. Everything is hastening towards such machines. Man as Symphony of the Creative Word, lectr 2, 20Oct1923, Dornach, GA 230 how the motions of human moods allow themselves to be translated into wave motions on machines Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric, lecture 12, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 19

20 Link Between Thinking and Machines? Hitherto undiscovered forces within human nature will be discovered, forces that will work on outer electric and magnetic forces. The first problem is to bring together human beings with the mechanical, which will have to prevail increasingly in the future. The second problem consists in calling upon the help of the spiritual circumstances. -- Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric, lecture 12, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178 When a ray of light streams into your eye, the sun spirit is streaming in with that ray of light. The spirit of the sun is the substance of the finer breathing. With our sense perceptions, we breathe in the manifold ingredients of the spiritual sun. You have there an important view of the human being from one direction. As one unfolds in an etheric body, one develops in the etheric body thinking - the thought of the universe. -- Pastoral Medicine, lecture 8, 15Sep1924, Dornach, GA 318 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 20

21 Breathing and [Dead] Thinking Above breathing is more refined Nerve-sense process: modified inhalation Active in the ethers Warmth & Light Middle breathing: air (inhale to lungs) & water (exhale) Below breathing is more coarse Digestion: modified exhalation Metabolism: What remains behind of inner activity from exhalation Active in the element Earth Jehovah breathed breath into man and he became a living soul (Genesis 2:7) 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 21

22 Inhalation Natural Science: we inhale oxygen Spiritual Science: we also inhale formative forces w/air An activity directed by the astral body A human being comes into being in the element of air When asleep, microcosmic astral body leaves thus macrocosmic astrality is all the more active Control of inhalation during sleep comes from outside That is why breathing during sleep is different Earth forces, climate, and other factors can make cosmic astrality abnormal 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 22

23 Thinking as Refined Breathing In head: process not in the element of air but in warmth Macrocosm: breathing-in but not a breathing-out of warmth What is exhaled by the nerve-sense system becomes united with what is being inhaled by the mediating lungs The nerve-sense system carries on inhalation as a taking-in light from outside What is taken in is not released again to the outside It is given over to the coarser breathing process of the lungs To the air inhalation and thus carried farther into the organism Cosmic warmth enters the human organism by way of breathing Carried by the inhalation of warmth into the human organism: Ethers of Light, macrocosmic-chemism, and macrocosmic-life Inhaled Vitality: Light ether, chemical ether, and life ether AI can perform only what is lifeless (dead thinking) 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 23

24 Exhalation (not same substance) Natural Science: we exhale carbon dioxide mixed with air Spiritual Science: not a passive process but active Process occurs in the fluid element through etheric body When asleep, etheric remains with physical body; no change [recall descriptions of Atlantean atmosphere] Exhalation is colored by the moral impulse Can this be used? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 24

25 spirit soul life 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 25

26 spirit WHAT ARE THESE VULCAN BEINGS? soul life Where do they come from? answer in Occult Science How do they affect human evolution? What is their ultimate role (with humanity)? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 26

27 Esoteric Science: Old Saturn Saturn - Warmth Thrones sacrificed their substance Egg-shaped warmth entitites Current Archai were at human stage Known as Spirits of Personality Laggards unpopped kernels 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 27

28 Evolution After Old Saturn 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 28

29 Saturn Arises Saturn 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 29

30 Esoteric Science: Old Sun Sun Etheric Kyriotetes sacrificed their substance Air-Fire-Light Life to entities Death at cycle end Current Archangeloi at human stage Known as the Spirits of Fire Laggards unpopped kernels 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 30

31 Jupiter Results Jupiter Saturn 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 31

32 Esoteric Science: Old Moon Moon Astral Dynamis sacrificed their substance Water-Air-Fire-Light-Chem/Tone Ether Via traversals of the zodiac Development of Wisdom Current Angeloi at human stage Known as Spirits of Twilight Laggards unpopped kernels 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 32

33 War in Heaven Happened after Old Sun and as Old Moon began God directed some Dynamis, Mights, Spirits of Movement to become Beings of Hindrance Eventually leads to evil today Purpose: new hierarchical beings will be strong Old Sun: Cosmos of Strength 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 33

34 Mars Results Mars Jupiter Saturn 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 34

35 Esoteric Science: Earth Earth Ego Exusiai sacrificed their substance Earth-Water-Air-Fire-Light-Chem-Life Via traversals of the zodiac Love and Freedom We are now on the human stage What s Next in Evolution? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 35

36 Cosmic Evolution Metallicity (origin of heavy metals 4 th solar system) Saturn - Physical Primal Beginnings Sun Etheric Cosmos of Strength Moon Astral Cosmos of Wisdom Earth Ego Cosmos of Love 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 36

37 Evolution of Sun After Earth Separation 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 37

38 Expulsion of the Vulcans - homeless Vulcan 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 38

39 Expulsion of Mercury Vulcan Mercury 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 39

40 Expulsion of Venus Venus Mercury Vulcan Residents Venus Angels Mercury Archangels Vulcan Archai 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 40

41 Earth-Solar System Each planet is a home to a set of beings Earth is where the human stage exists Today s sun withdrew with finer elements During Hyperborean Epoch, a recapitulation of Old Sun Negative space with sun For the advanced beings, e.g. Elohim (or Exusiai) and others Others expelled later: Vulcans, Mercury, Venus beings Today s moon later withdrew with coarser elements During Lemurian Epoch 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 42

42 Earth Evolution Epoch Recapitulate Cosmic Element: Body Polarian Old Saturn Warm nebula, Saturn forms Hyperborean Old Sun Jupiter forms Sun separates Lemurian Old Moon Mars forms Sun-split: Venus & Mercury Moon splits off Atlantean none 4 group souls: bull, lion, eagle, angel-man Warmth: physical Air-light: etheric, Vulcan w/sun being Water-chem: astral Earth: Ego, Hardening of matter R. Steiner, Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, 9Jun1909, Budapest, GA 109 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 43

43 When Was Our Darkest and Hardest Era? Before the exit of the moon, everything that should have been habitable on earth was often hardened, crusted, withered, mummified. There was actually a period when souls were seeking in vain for bodies for their own evolution on earth. The consequence was that certain beings simply could not at that time have returned to the physical plane as men. These beings then went to other cosmic bodies that had separated from the sun, namely, to Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. -- Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, GA109 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 45

44 Was That Our Most Difficult Era? Or Today? There was a time when the majority of these beings who should normally have incarnated on the earth according to their nature and their stage of evolution, placed themselves under the protection of the beings of Mars, Jupiter, Venus or Saturn, having ascended to and populated these cosmic bodies. Only the strongest souls found it possible to cope with the stubborn bodies and keep them flexible. It was only the best soul material that then came again to the earth, because its power to master the stubborn bodies was the greatest. But under such conditions evolution could not have progressed. -- Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, GA109 Later return to earth: in groups from planets races (Lemuria & Atlantis) 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 46

45 spirit WHAT ARE THESE VULCAN BEINGS? soul life Where do they come from? How do they affect human evolution? What is their ultimate role (with humanity)? Vulcan beings, Supermen of Vulcan, Supermen of Venus, of Mercury, and of the Sun, will unite with this earth-existence -- - Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, GA109 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 47

46 Task of the Vulcan Oracle On Atlantean continent we should distinguish between oracles of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. On Atlantis, people who were suited to develop this or that cognitive capacity were chosen from the population and assigned to one of the seven oracles. Of the seven oracles, which were named after the seven planets in ancient Atlantis, the Sun Oracle stood out from all the others, but next to it the Vulcan Oracle prepared itself in secrecy for its future task. [now] The Principle of Spiritual Economy, lecture 11, 31May1909, GA109 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 48

47 What Is the Cosmic Vulcan Influence? From another point of view therefore, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn may also be called the liberating planets; they give man freedom. On the other hand, Venus, Mercury and the Moon may be called the destiny-determining planets. Vulcan lies between Mercury and Moon In the midst of all these deeds and impulses of the planetary individualities stands the Sun, creating harmony between the liberating and the destinydetermining planets. The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets, 27Jul1923, Dornach, GA 228 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 49

48 Post-Atlantean Cultural Ages (PACA) PACA Cosmic Comment 1 st India Saturn recapitult Memory to Polarian, unity 2 nd Persia Sun recapitulatn Mem to Hyperborean, dual 3 rd Egypt Moon recapitln Mem to Lemurian, trinity 4 th Gr-Rm No cosmic recap HB here, MoG Memory to Atlantis, Ego arrives 5 th now Confronting evil Deepest into matter Freedom, fulfill Egypt 6 th Slav Philadelphia Wisdom Love, Persia 7 th American WAA, rescue, Moon returns Purification, separate, India Sixth Epoch R. Steiner, Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, 9Jun1909, Budapest, GA 109 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 50

49 Revelations: Our Future Earth Epochs Epoch Cosmic Lowest Body Comment 5 th now Seven letters Physical Deepest plunge into matter, Freedom 6 th Seven seals Etheric Wisdom Love, Rescue Evil HB, morality on face 7 th Seven trumpets Astral Separate/8 th sphere, dissolve matter Jupiter R. Steiner, Rosicrucian Esotericism, lecture 7, 9Jun1909, Budapest, GA 109 And Apocalypse of John, lectures 3, 8, 10, 1908, Nuremberg, GA 104 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 51

50 Cycle of Evolution for Mankind Not to scale Sun departs Hyperborean Epoch 7 th Epoch Sun returns Moon departs Eve and Adam Abel and Cain Lemurian Epoch 6 th Epoch 7 th Post-Atlantean Cultural Age Create living beings Moon returns 8000 AD War of All Against All Spidery beings Procreation begins Sun expels Vulcans Seth Atlantean Epoch Hiram 4 th PACA 6 th PACA 5 th PACA Procreation ends about 6000 AD Now present: Vulcan Beings Ends about 4000 AD 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 59

51 No Worries, Larynx-Procreation right? Not till Jupiter! Sun departs Hyperborean Epoch 7 th Epoch Sun returns Moon departs Eve and Adam Abel and Cain Lemurian Epoch 6 th Epoch 7 th Post-Atlantean Cultural Age Create living beings Moon returns 8000 AD War of All Against All Spidery beings Procreation begins Sun expels Vulcans Seth Atlantean Epoch Hiram 4 th PACA 6 th PACA 5 th PACA Procreation ends about 6000 AD Now present: Vulcan Beings Ends about 4000 AD 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 60

52 Separation of Our Members super The Fifth Stage, The Mystical Death The whole world appears as if covered with a veil. Everything around has lost its old value. While a person feels himself thus lost in darkness, suddenly the veil is rent and he begins to see the ultimate spiritual and original aim. He gazes into a quite new, world. At the same time he learns to recognise what lies at the bottom of the human soul. He becomes a second person by the side of himself and looks down on his lower self, which is separated from him. His body is the mother that he sees standing below him and the transformed lower self is the disciple who bears witness that Christ lives. The higher self says to the lower self, Behold thy mother! The Sixth Stage, The Burial And Resurrection Everything pertaining to this planet becomes the body of the Christian mystic. He is one with the whole life of the earth. The Gospel of St. John, 26Feb1906, Berlin, GA 94 See also Occult Science and Occult Development, 1May1913, London, GA 152 sub 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 61

53 spirit soul 7 th Inning Stretch life Drinking from a fire hose 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 62

54 spirit WHAT ARE THESE VULCAN BEINGS? soul life Where do they come from? How do they affect human evolution? What is their ultimate role (with humanity)? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 63

55 Why Vulcan Beings Are Here Since the end of the seventies of last century, other beings not of the human order have been descending to the earth for the purposes of their further development From cosmic realms beyond the earth they come down to the earth seeking to enter into a definite relationship with human beings Since the eighties of the nineteenth century, super-earthly beings have been seeking to enter the sphere of earth-existence Just as the Vulcan-men were the last to come down to the earth so now Vulcan beings are coming into the realm of earthly existence These Super-earthly beings are already here! The fact that we are able to have a connected body of Spiritual Science at all today is due to the circumstance that Beings from beyond the earth are bringing the messages from the spiritual world down into earth-existence A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future, Dornach, 13May1921, GA 204 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 64

56 Vulcan Beings And Catastrophes (sigh) The cultivation of Spiritual Science is in very truth a cosmic event of which we ought to be fully conscious Spiritual Beings are seeking to come down into earthexistence and ought to be willingly received Catastrophe after catastrophe must ensue, and earthly life will fall at length into social chaos, if opposition is maintained in human existence to their advent They desire nothing else than to be the advance-guards of what will happen to earth-existence when the moon is once again united with the earth A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future, Dornach, 13May1921, GA 204 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 65

57 Vulcans and the Return of the Moon << 8,000 A.D.: no longer born of woman Physical birth began with Moon s exit For this Man owes his Intellect, his personality, and his individuality This change however is only temporary Spiritual Science can teach us these things The Moon was separated from the Earth so that man may attain freedom Man can only meet these Vulcan beings with understanding by raising himself to an artistic perception and insight (Imagination) True Spiritual Science points to an artistic understanding The study of Spiritual Science is not something abstract; it opens the door to cosmic influences which have sought to pour themselves into the Earth since the last third of the 19th century Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness, 19Jan1905, Dusseldorf, no GA 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 66

58 Oedipus and Vulcan in Greek Mythology New god, Vulcan, expelled from Olympus fell to Earth Malformed foot too ugly for the gods Oedipus solves the riddle of the sphinx 4 early, 2 middle life, and 3 late in life? Human Evolution On four as animal Upright as Man Lose right arm (right side) leaving heart side and left arm As a result of wearable robotics? The future human being limps, legs retrogress Foundations of Esotericism. Lecture 3, 28Sep1905, Berlin, GA 93a 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 67

59 Moral Tech Needed for Merging The point is not what is going to happen, for it certainly will happen, but how it happens how these things are handled. The welding together of human beings with machines will be a great and important problem for the rest of the earth-evolution. I have often pointed out, even in public lectures, that human consciousness depends on destructive forces. During public lectures in Basle I twice said that in our nerve-system we are always in process of dying. These forces of death will become stronger and stronger, and we shall find that they are related to the forces of electricity and magnetism, and to those at work in machines. The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 69

60 Merging Man and Machine Now I will turn again to the fact that in this 5 th PACA humanity will have to find ways of dealing with great life-problems which in a certain sense were veiled by the wisdom of the past. One of these great problems will be concerned with finding out how to place the spiritual etheric forces at the service of practical life. I have told you that in this epoch we have to solve the problem of how the radiations from human states of mind are carried over into machines; of how human beings are to be brought into relation with an environment which must become increasingly mechanized. The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 70

61 Merging Man and Machine A man will be able in a certain sense to guide his intentions and his thoughts into the forces of the machines. Forces in human nature that are still unknown will be discovered forces which will act upon external electricity and magnetism. That is one problem: the bringing together of human beings with machines, and this is something which will exert ever-increasing influence on the future. The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 71

62 Control of Prosthetic Limbs with EMG Sensors electromyogram sensors, ultrasound signals, and machine learning 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 72

63 We Anthroposophists Must Oppose; right? In deed and in truth, this demon-magic is progress, and the Earth will yet undergo more and more of such advances. Man will succeed in unfolding mighty effects into the cosmic spaces. It is not a question of abolition not even of hostile criticism for it goes without saying, these things are justified. Yet, if on the one hand, these things must emerge in the progress of mankind, it is indeed a question on the other hand of our creating counter-forces to bring about the necessary balance. Compensating forces must be created, and that can only be when humanity understands once more the principle of Christ and finds the way to Christ. The Relation of Man to the Hierarchies, 26 Nov1916, Dornach, GA 172 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 73

64 Loosening The Etheric From Physical When one uses the physical body one also sets the corresponding part of the etheric body in motion For an esoteric, this connection should become looser When one meditates, one creates a kind of a forebone in his etheric body (like the backbone of the physical) The row of lotus flowers that lies behind the breastbone Moral uprightness in the etheric body Through meditation, the etheric body gets the tendency to become separated from the physical body Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 20Dec1910, GA 266 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 74

65 Loosening The Etheric Via Diet Intensifying this through a suitable diet Diet can give the physical body the tendency to push out the etheric body Brings about the wrong thing if esoteric exercises aren't added If physical body ejects the etheric without developed etheric sense organs Then it's like a blind man, and it only sees its own daydreams How Man speaks to the stars While a man's sheaths undergo a change in this way, his connection with the macrocosm also changes This connection must be cultivated in the right way, otherwise disasters occur in the whole world, and not just in man Uttering a sacred, unspeakable name in an unsuitable group: would conjure up something worse than earthquakes and volcanic eruptions over the region How the Rosicrucian verse is spoken, namely with or without the name that's just pseudonym for the highest spiritual being Only the latter way of speaking the verse is an esoteric one Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 20Dec1910, GA 266 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 75

66 Linking the Etheric to the Robotic Is not Animal Motion perform d by the Vibrations of this Medium [etheric body], excited in the Brain by the power of the Will? Isaac Newton The spiritual-etheric shall be placed in the service of outer practical life. The emotion in a human mood will be transmitted in wave movements to machines, between the dying forces of the nervous system and the external power of the machine. 13Mar1917, from the Schiller File (note: I could not find the lecture for this quote in rsarchive.org) 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 76

67 Changing the Physical Body It will be as if the denser part of man were here below on earth and the human being will make use of it from outside like an instrument Man will no longer bear his body about and live within it, but will float above it, the body will itself have become rarefied and finer Rudolf Steiner, Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, Lecture 13, The Future of Man, 5Jun1907, Berlin, GA 99 Body becomes merely a vehicle 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 77

68 Our Lowest Member: Etheric by 6000 AD Not to scale Sun departs Hyperborean Epoch 7 th Epoch Sun returns Moon departs Eve and Adam Abel and Cain Lemurian Epoch 6 th Epoch 7 th Post-Atlantean Cultural Age Create living beings Moon returns 8000 AD War of All Against All Spidery beings Procreation begins Sun expels Vulcans Seth Atlantean Epoch Hiram 4 th PACA 6 th PACA 5 th PACA Procreation ends about 6000 AD Now present: Vulcan Beings Ends about 4000 AD 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 78

69 Transition Time How do we get from Here to HERE? Spirit Man Life Spirit Spirit Self Ego Astral Etheric Physical body What happens to the Temple? Housing for The Three Isn t this an angel? (no) 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 79

70 Our Double 2 nd Ego Outside = Kha Man Chained to Kha Our soul defects The more the double appears the better it is for our development A and L doubles What happens without body? Juke Hudig 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 80

71 Vulcans During Earth Evolution Earth Ego Exusiai sacrificed their substance Earth-Water-Air-Fire-Light-Chem-Life Via traversals of the zodiac Love and Freedom We are now on the human stage How are the Vulcans related to us? Earth recapitulates prior planetary conditions 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 81

72 Relationship to the Spheres Midnight Sun Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Birth Earth Double Death 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 82

73 Evolution of Mankind During the Great Epochs Not to scale Sun departs Hyperborean Epoch Moon departs Physical sheath Lemurian Epoch Souls leave for other planets Incarnation begins Procreation begins Atlantean Epoch Earth-Man 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 84

74 Humans Leave the Earth, Later Return [Occult Science] Human souls left the earth (during Lemurian and Atlantean) for other planets and better conditions Mars, Jupiter and the other planets: source of oracles All men returned to earth from other planets by on: beings from cosmic regions can enter into relation with man on the earth Since 1880, Vulcan beings descend into earthly evolution They are the first, super-earthly beings to bring messages To them we owe content of our Spiritual Science Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness, Dusseldorf, 19Jan1905 (no GA) 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 85

75 Vulcans and the Vulcan Oracle from Occult Science Human individuals who were affected most by Luciferic influence were able to reach up only to a certain being (and associates) who had been the earliest to be expelled from the sun development Hence the myth of Hephaestus/Vulcan being thrown off Olympus This being has not a special planet in the cosmos, but lives in the environment of the earth itself, with which he has been again united since his return from the sun The human beings to whom this being manifested himself as higher ego [during Atlantis] may be called members of the Vulcan oracle Their eyes were turned more toward earth phenomena than was the case with the other initiates The Mercury and Venus initiates laid the basis for the knowledge of the more supersensory things Vulcans laid the first foundation for what appeared later on among human beings as science and art [compare to Prometheus] 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 86

76 Karma of the Betrayal of the Vulcan Mysteries The betrayal of the Vulcan mysteries exercised an especially adverse influence, because the attention of their adherents was chiefly directed toward earthly matters. Mankind, through this betrayal, was made dependent upon spiritual beings who, in consequence of their previous development, held a negative attitude toward everything that came from the spiritual world, which had evolved through the separation of the Earth from the sun. According to the capacity thus developed, they acted in the element that was formed in the human being through his having perceptions of the sense world, behind which the spirit is concealed. -- An Outline of Occult Science, Chapter IV, The Evolution Of The Cosmos And Man 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 88

77 Following the Atlantean Catastrophe Adherents of the Vulcan Mysteries had their attention concentrated upon things of the Earth During the catastrophe, the whole face of the Earth changed Europe, Asia and Africa on the one hand, and America on the other, began gradually to assume their present shape Vast numbers of human beings migrated into these countries Colonized by descendants of the Atlanteans Peoples stood at many different levels of evolution and corruption In their midst went the Initiates, the Guardians of the Oracles In various regions the Initiates established holy places where the services of Jupiter, Venus, etc. were cultivated in a good or in an evil sense 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 90

78 Coming PACAs and Great Epochs, Vulcan Karma Not to scale Sun departs Hyperborean Epoch 7 th Epoch Sun returns Moon departs Eve and Adam Abel and Cain Lemurian Epoch 6 th Epoch 7 th Post-Atlantean Cultural Age Create living beings Moon returns 8000 AD War of All Against All Spidery beings Procreation begins Sun expels Vulcans Seth Atlantean Epoch Hiram 4 th PACA 6 th PACA 5 th PACA Procreation ends about 6000 AD Now present: Vulcan Beings Ends about 4000 AD 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 91

79 In the Sixth Great Epoch Materialistic Master Craftsmen of the Lifeless (mineral) Technology based on the lifeless of the body Etheric Master Craftsmen of the Living (plant) Technology based on the Life body 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 92

80 Preparations for the Next Cosmic Stage of the Human Condition Has Already Begun Element Fallen Ether Etheric Saturn - Physical Fire Air Electricity Sun Etheric Gods Create Moon Astral Water Magnetism Warmth Light Tone 3 rd F.E. Earth Ego Earth Loosening of etheric body: Up to super-nature balanced by down into sub-nature Mineral kingdom dissolves away Life Jupiter New Angels Jupiter Sub-Nature 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 94??????

81 Becoming Jupiter Men For we shall only become Jupiter-men if we unite physical heat with soul-heat [where? Etheric? Astral?] [Vulcan Promethean fire, the fire given to Man] As Jupiter-men we shall come to this, if we caress in love a human being, or it may be a child, we shall be to that child at the same time an actual pourer-forth of heat. To pour forth love and heat will not be separated as now, we shall actually come to this that we shall pour forth from our souls into our surroundings the heat we experience. -- Mystery Centres, lecture 9, 9Dec1923, GA232 Where a human today experiences wisdom in the world, the Jupiter-human will experience love. 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 95

82 Cosmic Evolution Saturn - Physical Human Temptations 1. Become too soon: Manas, Buddhi, Atman 2. Align with what dissolves away Vulcan Atman Sun Etheric Venus Buddhi Moon Astral Jupiter Manas Earth Ego 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 96

83 7 Stages of Human Condition Element Etheric Saturn - Physical Fire Gods Create Warmth Hierarchy = 12 Vulcan Atman Word Air Electricity Sun Etheric Light Moon Astral Water Magnetism Tone Death Life Earth Ego Earth Man Co-creates Jupiter Manas, Super- Nature Jupiter Sub-Nature 1 st depth Venus Buddhi Heat/ Fire Light Venus 2 nd depth Vulcan 3 rd depth 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 97

84 spirit soul HOW TO PARTNER WITH THE VULCANS life A Meditation Practice Tomorrow Morning at 10 am 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 98

85 Schedule Friday June 1, Lecture, Vulcans and the Future Body Saturday June 2, Workshop Trinity St. Paul Centre Theme: Can We Build a Moral Technology? 09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea, Social 10:00-11:00 Meditative Approaches for Vulcan Conver. 11:00-12:00 Counterbalances to modern technology 12:00-01:00 Lunch 01:00-02:00 Eurythmy 02:00-02:15 Break coffee/tea 02:15-03:15 MysTech: not the what but the how 03:15-04:00 Discussion: The Challenge of Our Times 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 99

86 The Stars Once Spoke to Man The Stars once spoke to Man. It is World-destiny That they are silent now. To be aware of the silence Can become pain for earthly Man. But in the deepening silence There grows and ripens What Man speaks to the Stars. To be aware of the speaking Can become strength for Spirit-Man. Rudolf Steiner 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 100

87 spirit soul life EXTRA MATERIAL 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 101

88 Rudolf Steiner References More Rudolf Steiner material can be found online at 1. The Temple Legend 2. Three Streams in the Evolution of Mankind 3. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts 4. The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman 5. The Karma of Vocation 6. The Karma of Materialism 7. The Karma of Untruthfulness 8. Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy 9. Colour 10. Boundaries of Natural Science 11. Secret Brotherhoods 12. The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness 13. The Work of the Angels in Man s Astral Body 14. The Apocalypse of St. John 15. The Evolution of Consciousness 16. A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future 17. The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge 18. Geographic Medicine 19. Man as Symphony of the Creative Word Technology's Role in Human Evolution 102

89 References 1. Greyson, Bruce, The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Praeger Publishers, Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind: Houghton Mifflin, Lanza, Robert, Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys: BenBella Books, Laszlo, Ervin, The Immortal Mind: Science and the Continuity of Consciousness beyond the Brain: Inner Traditions, Lockley, Martin, How Humanity Came Into Being, The Evolution of Consciousness, Floris Books, Rosenblum, Bruce, Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness: Oxford University Press, Francis, Keith, Rudolf Steiner and the Atom, Adonis Press 8. Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Welburn, Andrew, The Mysteries, Floris Books, for information about the automatons of Hephaestus Technology's Role in Human Evolution 103

90 Facing the Future We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards Mankind, out of the future. We must look forward with absolute equanimity to whatever comes, and we must think only that whatever comes is given us by a world direction full of wisdom. It is part of what we must learn during this age, namely to act out of pure trust in the ever present help of the spiritual world; truly nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us. Therefore let us discipline our will, and let us seek the awakening from within ourselves, every morning and every evening. Rudolf Steiner 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 104

91 Saturn Sun Moon Earth Life Motion Warmth Fallen Ether Sub-physical province of Light Air Ethers Electricity Lucifer Tone Water Earth Where to What is matter? from here? Magnetism Ahriman Densification Third/Death Asuras Spatial Polarities 1. Up-down 2. Front-rear 3. Left-right 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 105

92 Evolution Mankind During Earthly Condition Not to scale Sun departs Hyperborean Epoch Moon departs Physical sheath Lemurian Epoch Incarnation begins Souls leave for other planets Procreation begins Atlantean Epoch Earth-Man 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 106

93 During Earthly Evolution of Mankind Not to scale Sun departs Hyperborean Epoch Spirits of Hinderance begin work Moon departs Physical sheath Lemurian Epoch Incarnation begins Souls leave for other planets 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 107

94 Coming Destruction of 5 th PACA Is it wrong to oppose evil's destiny of destroying life as we know it? Were the Rahkshasas necessary for evolution to move from Atlantis to Post-Atlantean Ages? Was Judas betrayal necessary? Would it be wrong if we were to prevent the War of All Against All? Until now, the elemental spirits of birth and death have been guided by the gods, influence has been limited to the coming into being and passing away of humans at the physical level But the civilization of our own and future ages has to be such that these spirits can be active in technology, industry, commerce, They will also have to become used to the idea that progress in civilization will gradually make it necessary for us to use the elemental spirits of birth and death And in doing so, humanity will have to live with the fact that a destructive element becomes part of human evolution 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 108

95 Spirits Of Birth And Death The elemental spirits of birth and death are messengers of Ahriman The iron necessity of world evolution forces the gods to use Ahriman's messengers to control birth and death When they [the gods] ask the elemental spirits to act on their behalf they do not allow the powers of these messengers to enter the physical world But as civilization goes into its decline, from the 5th PACA onwards, this element has to come in again, so that catastrophe may be brought about Human beings must use these powers themselves Ahriman's messengers are therefore an iron necessity They have to bring about the destruction that will lead to the next step forward in civilization This is a terrible truth, but it is so, and nothing will avail where this truth is concerned but to get to know it and to see it clearly The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, lecture 4, 6Oct1917, Dornach, GA 177 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 109

96 Must We Merge With Machines? I d rather not Eric Utne, 2011 Google, the company whose maxim is Don t be evil, has given itself over to a vision of the future in which human and machine morph into a monstrous hybrid. As Google s cofounder Sergey Brin recently declared, We want to make Google the third half of your brain. Brin and Larry Page, the visionary entrepreneurs who together founded Google, are unabashed enthusiasts and promoters of what has come to be known as the Singularity, a vision of the near future in which human beings and machines merge so that illness, old age, and even death become things of the past. 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 110

97 Anthroposophy Answers this Q Yes, we must! What??? 1. Ending of the Age of Incarnation (infertility) < 6000 CE But physical earthly life must continue another 2000 years Procreation through the larynx comes much, much later 2. Weld with machine The welding together of the human nature with the mechanical nature will be a problem of great significance for the remainder of earthly evolution. It is not a question of the what in this case; the what is sure to come. It is a question of the how, how one tackles these situations. The what lies in the meaning of earthly evolution. 3. Giving Ahrimanic beings a physical embodiment 4. Moral and mechanical belong together 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 111

98 Wrong Polarity through Gemini These forces, however, will be left aside by those who try to achieve their whole purpose through the polaric duality of positive and negative forces. The forces which enable the spiritual to stream down to earth with the aid of positive and negative magnetism come from Gemini; they are the midday forces. In ancient times it was known that cosmic influences were involved in this, and to-day even exoteric scientists are aware that in some or other way positive and negative magnetism lie behind Gemini in the Zodiac. The aim will be to paralyze all that could be gained through a revelation of the true duality in the cosmos to paralyze it in a materialistic, egotistic way by means of the forces which stream in particularly from Gemini and can be placed entirely at the service of the human Double. The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 112

99 Wrong Polarity through Sagittarius Other brotherhoods, concerned above all to divert attention from the Mystery of Golgotha, will try to make use of the duality in human nature the duality which in our epoch embraces man as a unity, but includes within him his lower animal nature [sacrifice of Chiron]. A human being is really a centaur in a certain sense: his humanity rests on his lower animal nature in its astral form. This working together of the duality in man gives rise to a duality of forces. This duality of forces will be utilized particularly by certain egotistic brotherhoods, chiefly from the side of India and the East, in order to mislead eastern Europe, whose task it is to prepare for the sixth post- Atlantean epoch. These are Midnight forces. And this will be done with the aid of the forces which work in from Sagittarius. The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3, 25Nov1917, Dornach, GA 178 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 113

100 Secrets Disclosed First, there are the capacities having to do with so-called material occultism. By means of this capacity and this is precisely the ideal of British secret societies certain social forms at present basic within the industrial system shall be set up on an entirely different foundation. Every knowing member of these secret circles is aware that, solely by means of certain capacities that are still latent but evolving in man, and with the help of the law of harmonious oscillations, machines and mechanical constructions and other things can be set in motion. A small indication is to be found in what I connected with the person of Strader in my Mystery Dramas. These things are at present in process of development. They are guarded as secrets within those secret circles in the field of material occultism. Motors can be set in motion, into activity, by an insignificant human influence through a knowledge of the corresponding curve of oscillation. By means of this principle it will be possible to substitute merely mechanical forces for human forces in many things. 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 114

101 Mechanical Occultism The possibility will thus come about of rendering unnecessary nine-tenths of the work of individuals within the regions of the English-speaking peoples. Mechanistic occultism will not only render it possible to do without ninetenths of the labor still performed at present by human hands, but will give the possibility also of paralyzing every uprising attempted by the then dissatisfied masses of humanity. The capacity to set motors in motion according to the laws of reciprocal oscillations will develop on a great scale among the English-speaking peoples. This is known in their secret circles, and is counted upon as the means whereby the mastery over the rest of the population of the earth shall be achieved even in the course of the fifth post-atlantean epoch. The Challenge of the Times, Lecture 3, 1Dec1918, Dornach, GA 186 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 115

102 Past Evolution of Mankind Not to scale Sun departs Hyperborean Epoch Moon departs Lemurian Epoch Human body reptile-like. M-F Foundations of Esotercism, 16Oct1904, GA 93a Souls leave for other planets Sexual Procreation Atlantean Epoch Earth-Man 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 117

103 What is Your Picture of the Future (2050 ) 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 118

104 What Are the Good Purposes of Technology? Vulcan: tech god abandoned by his own mother, Hera Next generation after Zeus Sons usurp the throne Emancipation from labor Physical Mental Freed from dead thinking Google Assistant video Future of the double? Man possessed by demons Mark 5:1-18 To move higher we must push down that which we then must redeem later 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 119

105 Healing of the Man Possessed by Demons Then Jesus demanded, What is your name? And he replied, My name is Legion, because there are many of us inside this man. 10 Then the evil spirits begged him again and again not to send them to some distant place. 11 There happened to be a large herd of pigs feeding on the hillside nearby. 12 Send us into those pigs, the spirits begged. Let us enter them. 13 So Jesus gave them permission. The evil spirits came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the entire herd of about 2,000 pigs plunged down the steep hillside into the lake and drowned in the water. 14 The herdsmen fled to the nearby town and the surrounding countryside, spreading the news as they ran. People rushed out to see what had happened. 15 A crowd soon gathered around Jesus, and they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons. He was sitting there fully clothed and perfectly sane, and they were all afraid. 16 Then those who had seen what happened told the others about the demon-possessed man and the pigs. 17 And the crowd began pleading with Jesus to go away and leave them alone. 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 120

106 End of the Old Mysteries Age Not to scale Gold Cosmic Overview many prior dramas Abel Focus was on overcoming Lucifer Cain Focus now on confronting Ahriman Silver Bronze Lucifer Post-Kali Ahriman Abraham Moses Dark 4 th 15 th 20 th Century 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 121

107 End of the Old Mysteries Cosmic Overview many prior dramas Age Not to scale Gold Silver Bronze Lucifer Post-Kali Ahriman Abraham Dark Moses 4 th 15 th 20 th Century 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 122

108 End of the Old Mysteries Cosmic Overview many prior dramas Not to scale Lucifer Ahriman 4 th 15 th 20 th Century 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 123

109 Post Atlantean Evolution Not to scale Lucifer s Incarnation repetition old forms new forms Ahriman s Incarnation Spiritual world full of beings Dark Age 4 th 15 th C 20 th C Meeting with next humans and with Vulcans 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 124

110 Closeup: Post Atlantean Evolution Not to scale Renaissance 1.0 Renaissance 2.0 Old Mysteries Materialism Leonardo da Vinci Materialism New Mysteries Who? 4 th Dark Age Ends 15 th C th C Meeting with next humans and with Vulcans now /1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 125

111 Dawning of Renaissance 2.0 We are standing at a definite point in the evolution of humanity in the sphere of art and in many other spheres of spiritual life at a point where the Spirit speaks clearly to us of new riddles. And just as in the time of the [1 st ] Renaissance man was destined primarily to orientate himself to the past in order to work his way through to the new, so it is with our own external knowledge and perception of the universe. All that has been produced by the modern age since the 16 th century is only the preparation for a living experience of the universe in its forms and movements which now stand before us as riddles. Ways to a New Style in Architecture, lecture 3, 28Jun1914, Dornach, GA 286 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 126

112 Now! Experiencing the Etheric Christ Separation of etheric and physical at death It is only in the twentieth century that a renewal of the Christ- Event will begin, for this is when a certain general heightening of human powers of cognition begins. It brings with it the possibility that in the course of the next 3,000 years, and without special clairvoyant preparation, more and more persons will be able to attain a direct vision of Christ Jesus [but not with the physical eyes] Christ becomes the Lord of Karma, so that in the future it will rest with Him to decide what our karmic account is -- From Jesus to Christ, lecture 3, GA 131 Year = Year 5000 as end of Christ s Appearance in the Etheric what will this mean for human physical and etheric bodies? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 127

113 Mid-Point Changing of the Guard After 15 th Century beings ascending, finished work Spirits of Personality (Archai) to level of Exusiai (Form) Archai do not intercede but wait for us to rise to them Freedom Michael 1879 on Atma Evolution towards Jupiter has begun! 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 128

114 Now in Devolution Get Used to It! We really are no longer in this world to take care of our own organization; we do still incarnate, but no longer in order to take care of our own organization This organization evolved until the middle of the Atlantean age, or until ancient Greek times when, human bodies were as perfect as they can be during time spent on earth Not until Jupiter will humans achieve a higher level of physical perfection Now, we are really here to be part of a downward curve of evolution, to incarnate in order to learn and experience all manner of things by the very fact that we are in bodies which are dying, increasingly crumbling and withering away The fact is that anything we inwardly develop and inwardly are, will no longer become part of the outer physical body to the same extent as it did in the past The Exusiai are moving on Consequence of this will be all kinds of changes in development R. Steiner, Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, lecture 5, 7Oct1917, GA 177 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 129

115 Renaissance 2.0 Has already begun, a revolution within Science Begin with the Human Being Epistemology: How do we know that we know Or what we know? What must be at the first gate for all Science? Thinking about thinking, cognition as a mental process What of the human being is earthly? What is heavenly? What is our relationship to the stars? 3-Fold Human: Head (nerve-sense), Heart/Lungs (rhythmic), Limbs (metabolic) Thinking, Feeling, Willing Fixed Stars, Moving Stars, Earth : Spirit, Soul, Body 4-Fold Human: Elements and Ethers (and sub-physical ethers) 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 130

116 A Revolution in Science is Underway! Materialism still rules but its strength is eroding rapidly A new paradigm, a new view of reality A new model of the human being is desperately needed We have about 20 more years to ensure Renaissance 2.0 is established -- Steiner s goal 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 131

117 Astro-Physics The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 132

118 Many Fields of the Revolution Ecology Agriculture and Nutrition Botany, Zoology, and Biosciences Medicine Anatomy Optics, Color, and Light Fluid Dynamics Education More 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 133

119 What is Needed to Guide Renaissance 2.0 Epistemology: fundamental to science It is due to our mental organization that the outer world is given to us, at first without its corresponding concepts. Intuition adds that part of the reality the concept which is lacking in the percept. From every real thing the relevant elements come to us from two sides, from perceiving and from thinking. The moment a perception rises up on the horizon of my observation, thinking also becomes active through me. An entity within my system of thoughts, a particular intuition, a concept, joins itself to the perception. The act of knowing or cognition is the synthesis of percept and concept. R. Steiner, The Philosophy of Freedom Thinking is a spiritual activity 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 134

120 Are There Dangers Ahead? Mind is a "society" of tiny components that are themselves mindless If machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could replace humans as the dominant life form on Earth. Sufficiently intelligent machines could improve their own capabilities faster than human computer scientists, and the outcome could be an existential catastrophe for humans. Superintelligence would be difficult to control or restrain 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 135

121 In the Near Future, Michio WGS Dubai The word computer will disappear because the devices will be ubiquitous: along our streets, clothing, and in us There will be nothing that is not a computer 3D printing: if you can imagine it, you can create it Shoes, jewelry, rain gear, tools, parts, toys Download and print it at home Medical monitoring, medical nanobots you swallow Smart meters, smart toilets, smart walls Built-in screen(s) for TV, laptops, phones, security, AR 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 136

122 In the Near Future, Jennifer Gidley Australian psychologist and educator University of Technology, Sydney Institute of Sustainable Futures President of the World Futures Studies Federation On Australian Steiner National Curriculum Project team We are at a critical point today in research into human futures. Two divergent streams show up in the human futures conversations. Which direction we choose will also decide the fate of earth futures in the sense of Earth s dual role as home for humans, and habitat for life. 1. Scientistic: dehumanising, and atomistic, based on a mechanistic, behaviourist model of the human being, with a thin cybernetic view of intelligence. The transhumanist ambition to create future techno-humans is anti-human and anti-evolutionary. It involves technological, biological, and genetic enhancement of humans. 2. Humanitarian, philosophical, and ecological, based on a view of humans as kind, fair, consciously evolving, peaceful agents of change with a responsibility to maintain the ecological balance between humans, Earth, and cosmos -- Contrasting Futures for Humanity: Technotopian or Human-Centred? Paradigm Explorer, Sept /1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 137

123 Transhumanism: overcoming biological limitations 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 138

124 Comparing Visions of the Future Ray Kurzweil Transcend biology by merging with non-biological systems Merger of our biological thinking and existence with our technology By 2030 man will be less human and more machine, with bodies filled with nano-robots and artificially enhanced to be much stronger and billions of times more intelligent "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal" Time Rudolf Steiner The welding together of human beings with machines will be a great and important problem for the rest of the earth-evolution. -- The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge, lecture 3 Man will chain a second being to him feel the urge to think materialistic thoughts, to think, not through his own being, but through the second being who is his companion GA158 Our science must lead the way, must prepare for what has to happen with the bodily essence in the future. What you think today, that you will be tomorrow The Temple Legend, lecture 13 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 139

125 Entering a Machine as an Extension of Body Becoming comfortable operating an automobile Becoming comfortable operating an auto-humanoid From within, not like the movie Avatar Emancipation Physical labor Mental labor What have we sacrificed? What will we sacrifice? We re all in this together Reincarnation Rosicrucianism 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 140

126 Attachment of a Second Being During the course of the Fifth PACA, 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 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 141

127 Being Human In the Age of Artificial Intelligence Founder of the Future of Life Institute, MIT professor How will Artificial Intelligence affect jobs, justice, crime, war, society and our very sense of being human? AI will transform our economy, our culture, our politics and even our own bodies and minds in ways most people can hardly imagine. What would Steiner say? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 142

128 Trend for Embedded AI Platforms Singularity: when AI surpasses HI 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 143

129 How Does This Compare to the Human Brain? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 144

130 Spirits of Birth and Death Now being freed up; entering industry and commerce At the boundary between spiritual world and physical world Wherever electricity is used, there is demon magic. Demon magic signifies progress we should not oppose progress Karma of Vocation, lecture 9, GA 172 In the fifth post-atlantean cultural age illusion, Maya itself, will be seized upon by Evil. It will all be permeated by cleverness, intelligence [AI] Leonardo da Vinci, His Spiritual and Intellectual Greatness At the Turning Point of the New Age, Rudolf Steiner, Berlin, February 13, 1913, GA 62 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 145

131 Spirits of Birth and Death The human being can only come to spiritual freedom by growing strong against the resistance provided by evil. We must not regard Evil from the outset as one would, who in the fullness of his egoism merely wanted to get away, to flee from it Learn to know them and what lives and moves in the very depths of things We cannot do so but we must penetrate it with consciousness; we must learn to know it really learn to know it [evil] All progress takes this course: wherever what has been created falls into ruin, we know that out of that ruin new life will always blossom Leonardo da Vinci, His Spiritual and Intellectual Greatness At the Turning Point of the New Age, Rudolf Steiner, Berlin, February 13, 1913, GA 62 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 146

132 Building Anthroposophy Upon Science What was quite impossible in earlier times to find any reality in the external world is now a possibility through the very circumstance of our having become inwardly hollow. And this possibility will increase. Ancient times reached knowledge of the world through knowledge of man. Speaking theoretically, we might say that what man went through as a life-process was, when completed, knowledge of the world; and with knowledge of the world in his consciousness, he could work back to man. If today you pass through forms, life, and consciousness of this world, what you really reach in this way is knowledge of Man. Everything else in the knowledge of nature vanishes, and Man becomes comprehensible. In the same way, from having gained knowledge of the world, Man becomes comprehensible as a threemembered being nerve-sense being, rhythmic being, and metabolic being. From Man we can then pass again to knowledge of the world. -- How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again? Lecture 4 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 147

133 Reality in the Consciousness Soul Age In our time, if a man really strives to reach life through forms, he must be able to say to himself: Even if I hold concepts ever so beautiful from this or that traditional religious confession, they may be quite fine, but I still do not attain reality by means of them unless I can also set the opposite concept before me. The reality, our true being, only shines into us and what we bear within us is merely the reflection. lecture 5 Spirits of Form, were active; they revealed themselves to each supersensible consciousness. Now, it is the Spirits of Personality who work in Imagination of those who go to meet them (except in pathological cases). 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 148

134 From Natural to Spiritual Science This present-day development demands of us that we strip away all that is out of date in current science, and really find our way into new thought-forms, so that in them we may reach not antiquated visions, but imaginations built up with all our will, which we may then offer to the objective process of the spiritual world and receive back verified. When one attains a consciousness that is outside the body and outside the course of life, that is really in the spiritual world, then will and conceptions flow together again into one reality. Man must for once dive down into this purely material life, so that, independent of it, he may gain the spiritual. 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 149

135 Higher Stages of Spiritual Development The Fifth Stage, The Mystical Death The whole world appears as if covered with a veil. Everything around has lost its old value. While a person feels himself thus lost in darkness, suddenly the veil is rent and he begins to see the ultimate spiritual and original aim. He gazes into a quite new, world. At the same time he learns to recognise what lies at the bottom of the human soul. He becomes a second person by the side of himself and looks down on his lower self, which is separated from him. His body is the mother that he sees standing below him and the transformed lower self is the disciple who bears witness that Christ lives. The higher self says to the lower self, Behold thy mother! The Sixth Stage, The Burial And Resurrection Everything pertaining to this planet becomes the body of the Christian mystic. He is one with the whole life of the earth. The Gospel of St. John, 26Feb1906, Berlin, GA 94 See also Occult Science and Occult Development, 1May1913, London, GA 152 super sub 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 150

136 When is Modern Technology OK to Use? Transition Era: are children differently equipped? Let the foundations be constructed first From where does a baby come? When the human motor system is ready (after) Age 0: physical body born. Age 7: etheric body. 14: astral body Importance of Play, Imitation of the Human Lead by example like a god When what is built from above is ready for Earthly life Puberty Importance of Movement Postural alignment. Eurythmy. Rhythms. Harmonic oscillations. 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 151

137 Renaissance 2.0 in Education a counterbalance to today s technological thrust The essence of the human being can be understood only in connection with the cosmos The human being is directly coupled to the cosmos 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 152

138 Body-Soul Development by era Lemuria (moon separated) Atlantis (phys incarnation) Post-Atlantean I earth II speech III stars IV Christ 1879 V Today 27 (Michael s era) VI Year 4,000 VII Year 6,000 women are infertile Year 8,000 moon returns 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 153 PA2 PA1 PA3 A7 PA4 A6 PA5 L7 A5 PA6 A1 A2 PA7 A4 A3 Each pie slice represents ~2160 today-years Source: Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness, 19Jan1905, Dusseldorf

139 Cycle of Evolution for Mankind Not to scale Sun departs Hyperborean Epoch 7 th EPOCH Sun returns Moon departs Lemurian Epoch 6 th EPOCH Create living beings 7 th Post-Atlantean Cultural Age Moon returns War of All Against All Spidery beings Incarnation begins Atlantean Epoch 4 th PACA 6 th PACA 5 th PACA Incarnation ends now 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 154

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141 spirit soul life WHAT HAPPENS IF/WHEN WE NO LONGER HAVE A PHYSICAL BODY? Many authors artistically feel this future 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 156

142 Before Incarnation can End Achieve full control of astral body Convert it to Manas How? Recognize we are Prometheus Chained to the Mineral Kingdom Freedom become angel-like Via the labors of Heracles Sacrifice our inner centaur Oh well, lots of time, right? How many incarnations? 4000 yrs left about 5 or 6 more incarnations Then a 2160 year period of non-natural body life on earth Helping others with their karma 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 157

143 Ending of Physical Bodies In a time not all that far ahead, possibly as early as the 7 th millennium, all women will be infertile on earth Withering and crumbling of human bodies Before the earth has gone through all its stages People would no longer find anything to do on earth Relationship between inner life & physical body must change Must find a different way to relate to earthly existence final stages of earth evolution will make it necessary for them to do without physical bodies and yet be present on earth R. Steiner, Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, lecture 5, 7Oct1917, GA 177 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 158

144 End of Incarnation in 6 th PACA A time will come in the physical evolution of the earth it will be after the year 5,700 when, if he fulfils his rightful evolution, man will no longer tread the earth by incarnating in bodies derived from physical parents. In that epoch, women will be barren; children will no longer be born in the manner of today, if evolution on the earth takes its normal course. Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences, 18Jan1920, GA 196 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 159

145 What Takes the Place of Incarnation? There must be no misunderstanding about such a fact as this. Something else, for example, might come about. The Ahrimanic Powers, which under the influence of the impulses working in men today are becoming extremely strong, might succeed in preventing earth-evolution in a certain respect. It would then become possible for men by no means for their good to be held in the same form of physical life beyond this time in the 6 th or 7 th millennium. They would become much more like animals, while continuing to be held in the grip of physical incarnation. One of the endeavors of the Ahrimanic Powers is to keep humanity fettered too long to the earth in order to divert it from its normal evolution. Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences, 18Jan1920, GA 196 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 160

146 How Long Will This Last? However, if men really take hold of the best possibilities for their evolution, then in the 6 th millennium they will enter for a further 2,500 years into a connection with the earthly world of such a kind that they will, it is true, still have a relationship with the earth, but a relationship no longer coming to expression in the birth of physical children. Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences, 18Jan1920, GA 196 The Exusiai have given form to the crystal which we extract from the Earth, just as we build our monuments and our machines. 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 from which a future world will come to birth. Neither cathedrals nor machines have been built in vain. An Esoteric Cosmology, lecture XV, GA94 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 161

147 Who Will Help Us Through the 7 th PACA? Human fertility which depends on the powers of light for its impulses will gradually come to an end in the 6 th PACA The powers of darkness will have to intervene so that the affair may continue for a time 6 th PACA: Seeds for it lie in the East of Europe Develop powerful tendencies which do not allow physical human reproduction to continue beyond the 6 th PACA Let the earth enter into a form of existence in soul and spirit 7 th PACA: procreation will be guided by impulses from the cast-down Angels, will come from America [What kind of bodies are these?] R. Steiner, Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, lecture 14, 28Oct1917, GA 177 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 162

148 Transition Time How do we get from Here to HERE? Spirit Man Life Spirit Spirit Self Ego Astral Etheric Physical body What happens to the Temple? Housing for The Three Isn t this an angel? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 163

149 Becoming Stunted Angels? Arriving too soon? Right speed, fullness, strength Opportunities to attain higher members from Ahriman How do we develop strength? Overcome obstacles God instructed Dynamis For Old Moon War in Heaven asteroid belt Some angels fell Old Moon different from Earth? Hardening, matter Why? Development of the Ego - From Universe, Earth, and Man 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 164

150 spirit soul life Fact Check FERTILITY CHANGING: DOES SCIENCE AGREE? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 165

151 USA Fertility Rate Millennials prefer pets over children 1957: births per 1,000 women 2016: 59.8 births per 1,000 women > 50% decline in 59 years! 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 166

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153 Emancipation from Birthing CRISPR Edit for best Rid the worst Mutations Synthetic Stem cells Skin cells Ready made adult Who needs childhood? Will a bionic robotic unit await your next incarnation? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 168

154 Growing Infertility Chemotherapy effects In-Vitro Gametogenesis (IVG): Creating babies from skin cells Embryo Farms Replace sperm banks with skin banks Redefines having some skin in the game fake paternity cases Select best from 100s, 1000s (if rich) Destroy the rest Make embryos from multiple donors 3-Parent babies now legal in England 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 169

155 Future of Incarnating in the West Bioethics The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction Henry Greely, professor law and genetics at Stanford, bioethicist Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) selects embryos free from specific inherited diseases (today, what tomorrow) Take a cell from each early embryo, screen its DNA for inherited mutations, and then decide best one to implant Use DNA sequencing to provide parents with genetic likelihoods Return to asexuality Possible to generate eggs from male skin cells Sperm from female cells Cheaper and much easier than harvesting eggs from ovary 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 170

156 Future of Incarnating in the West Bioethics The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction Possible marketing We cannot fully guarantee your child will be healthy, but here are over 4,000 diseases we can guarantee your child won t have You spend $30,000 on getting the car you want; how much is the baby you want worth to you? How much will your baby cost you over 21 years? Can you still afford a baby? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 171

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158 spirit soul life WILL WE THROW OUT THE BATHWATER WITH THE BABY? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 173

159 Changing the Physical Body Avatar time? Relieving duties of the spirits of birth and death It will be as if the denser part of man were here below on earth and the human being will make use of it from outside like an instrument Man will no longer bear his body about and live within it, but will float above it, the body will itself have become rarefied and finer [etheric] Rudolf Steiner, Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, Lecture 13, The Future of Man, 5Jun1907, Berlin, GA 99 "...Only then do we gain knowledge of the true inner life, and we learn to recognize that our real self, our higher 'I', is widely extended over the world around us. The only external world is now our own body. -- Steiner, GA 94 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 174

160 Physical Body as a Machine Meditation influences the work of the astral body upon the physical and etheric bodies during the night. Only beneficent beings must be allowed access to the human being... He who seeks initiation must achieve the utmost calm. This includes the avoidance of all stimulants, especially alcohol. The relation of the astral body to the physical body, is like that of a workman to his machine, but with the difference that in this case the workman is in the machine, he ensouls the various parts, and makes them move. This resemblance of worker to machine applies even better when the person lies asleep. The astral body then works from outside. What does it do? It makes good the damage suffered by the physical body during the day. -- The Gospel of St. John, 26Feb1906, Berlin, GA 94 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 175

161 Cycle of Evolution for Mankind Not to scale Sun departs Moon departs Eve Hyperborean Epoch Adam and Eve Lemurian Epoch Abel and Cain 7 th EPOCH 7 th Post-Atlantean Cultural Age Sun returns 6 th EPOCH Create living beings Moon returns War of All Against All Spidery beings Incarnation begins Vulcans expelled Greek gods: Hephaestus and Prometheus Seth Atlantean Epoch Hiram 4 th PACA 6 th PACA 5 th PACA Incarnation ends Vulcan Beings now 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 176

162 Task of the Vulcan Oracle Atlantean oracles Betrayal of Vulcan Oracle mentioned Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. On Atlantis, people who were suited to develop this or that cognitive capacity were chosen from the population and assigned to one of the seven oracles. Of the seven oracles, which were named after the seven planets in ancient Atlantis, the Sun Oracle stood out from all the others, but next to it the Vulcan Oracle prepared itself in secrecy for its future task. The Principle of Spiritual Economy, lecture 11, 31May1909, GA109 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 177

163 Vulcans to the rescue Since 1880 Vulcan beings descend From between the Moon and Mercury Seeking entry to earthly evolution To them we owe Spiritual Science First Super-earthly Beings to bring messages They seek to be the fore-runners of the end of the earth and the return of the moon Understand their speech only through Spiritual Science Our shadowy intellect must be re-animated by Spiritual Science The human race does not welcome these Beings Shock after shock will arise and the earth will dissolve into chaos if these Beings meet with opposition from humanity R. Steiner, Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness, Dusseldorf, 19Jan1905 (no GA) Question: why Vulcan? Hephaestus 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 178

164 Emergent Sciences The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. Louis de Broglie Quantum physicist Nobel Prize 1929 all matter has wave properties 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 179

165 MysTech: Mysteries of Technology Sponsored by The Center of Anthroposophical Endeavors (CFAE) of Seattle, WA. Non-profit, started in 1982 as Friends of Anthroposophy Founded other Anthroposophical organizations Hosted hundreds of lectures, workshops, and performances MysTech Membership to support R&D Journal, website, classes outreach, building awareness Inner development inreach, becoming builders Moral interface to machines cultivate MysTech.co: devoted to cultivating moral technologies Founding meeting June 12, 2017, 10 founding members Exploring waves, resonance, harmonics, boundaries, more More info at: 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 180

166 MysTech Pioneer: Hans Jenny 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 181

167 Cymatics.org 14hz to 30hz sweep. Square wave 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 182

168 Cymatics.org Sine wave & alcohol 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 183

169 Conclusions Fearsome future forecast, but we will not fear it Building the Temple in the midst of infertility Etheric Temple with Etheric Christ Inviting Vulcans into our evolution Prepare our future according to divine will Cultivation of the Mysteries of Technology is justified Inner being, moral being, intention, fire Robotics likely necessary for our future Hephaestus (= Vulcan) God of Technology & Smiths Representatives here to help us 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 184

170 Context Building a man-made world Build first the Temple Then, like a child, we learn to build Jupiter With the gifts from Ahriman (future) Those to be on the human stage of Jupiter are here now Once-Sun beings, Vulcans, are here to help Cosmos where Love is experienced as now Wisdom is Painting by Carolina Allen 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 185

171 Further Research Robotic bodies into which we avatar? Countenance for these bodies Good and Evil revealed Who can use such bodies? Other humans? Other beings? And my double? Jupiter-Humans? Moral Technology? Interface As a driving force Mechanized Beasts What s Physical Reality? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 186

172 spirit Q&A soul life Out of desperate circumstances, the new Christ experience will evolve. Trying outer circumstances will become inner soul trials. Out of these soul trials, vision will be born. -- R. Steiner, For the Michael Age 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 187

173 Facing the Future We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards Mankind, out of the future. We must look forward with absolute equanimity to whatever comes, and we must think only that whatever comes is given us by a world direction full of wisdom. It is part of what we must learn during this age, namely to act out of pure trust in the ever present help of the spiritual world; truly nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us. Therefore let us discipline our will, and let us seek the awakening from within ourselves, every morning and every evening. Rudolf Steiner 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 188

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175 The LettuceBot combine computer vision and robotics to act 90 times per second with a precision of ¼-inch robots-in-agriculture/ 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 190

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177 Why Must we confront? Do I have to Do This? Can t someone Else? I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.... In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized supposedly J. W. von Goethe (but it is not) Clarity (know what the machine is not) Strengthening one s will Ahriman s Gifts needed for our future 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 192

178 Is Electricity Evil? During the 5th post-atlantean epoch, people will have to struggle with evil in the same elemental way in which they struggled with birth and death during the Atlantean age Particularly through the control of the different forces of Nature, the impulses that lead to evil will send their influences into the world in an immense, gigantic form The forces of good will have to grow out of the opposition to evil, and man will have to draw the strength for this opposition out of spiritual sources This will take place above all during the 5th epoch, when the exploitation of electric forces, which will assume quite different dimensions from those which they have assumed so far, will enable man to spread evil over the earth, and evil will invade the earth by coming in an immediate way out of the forces of electricity. The Overcoming of Evil, R. Steiner, Dornach, November 4, 1917, GA 273 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 193

179 Modern Technology and the Role of Evil Wherever electricity is used, there is demon magic Demon magic signifies progress we should not oppose progress R. Steiner, Karma of Vocation, lecture 9, GA 172 In the fifth post-atlantean epoch illusion, Maya itself, will be seized upon by Evil. It will all be permeated by cleverness, intelligence The human being can only come to spiritual freedom by growing strong against the resistance provided by evil Human beings will have to accustom themselves to regard the inrush of the forces of Evil as an inrush of very laws of Nature We will learn to know them and what lives and moves in the very depths of things We must not regard Evil from the outset as one would, who in the fullness of his egoism merely wanted to get away, to flee from it We cannot do so but we must penetrate it with consciousness; we must learn to know it really learn to know it Above all, in our time, already a force is preparing in the realm of human beings a force which tends to create illusions that are harmful and destructive R. Steiner, The Problem of Faust, lecture 6, 4Nov17 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 194

180 Mystery of Golgotha Past Future Andrea Mantegna, /1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 195

181 Temple and Mystery of Golgotha Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days. John 2:19, NIV If we have no physical body, how will we work on Atma? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 196

182 History of the Temple (Pyramids, shrines, ) First Temple Solomon s Babylonians in 587 BC 2 nd Temple Zerubbabel s Romans in 70 AD Face Façade Countenance to inner, Holy of the Holies Michael as countenance of Christ, future humans What is the Third Temple? 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 197

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184 First Temple s Main Characters Solomon Abel Concept, blueprint God Self Receive! Reverence abundance He leadeth me Cool detached Hiram Cain Know-how, construct Community God Deed! Spiritualize Earth I will to transform Fire Arts Sciences Balkis Queen of Sheba Focus of human soul 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 199

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186 Will the Human Being Become the Temple? Head Above Stand on Earth Heart between mediates Not aloft, not swimming Abel/Seth legacy Cain legacy What is above? What is beneath? I am a son of god Grace/Will Raising my Self Dome Walls Foundation Stars, Zodiac Spheres Earth Only you can order/beautify this temple! Who can enter this temple besides you? Etheric Christ (but that s not all!) 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 201

187 Cell Phone Safety Keep the phone away from your bed at night. Carry the phone in a purse or a backpack, not in a bra or pocket. Use the speaker or a headset to talk, rather than holding the phone close to your head. When streaming a video, hold the phone away from the body. Text rather than talk. A cellphone emits more RF energy when it s showing fewer bars on its display because it needs to yell louder to keep connected use phones that use home internet 6/1/2018 Technology in Human Evolution 202

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