A. It is now time for the Invisible College to tell Earth people the
whole truth about the nature of spiritual beings, especially the
basic cosmology about the origin and destiny of the human soul.
We
told you to leave the material in the next few chapters out of
Spiritual Revolution because we did not want to describe certain
things we intend to do in the future before we were fully prepared
to do them. These technical preparations have now been completed.
Our psychic network for fighting Theocracy is now in place and
already exchanging fire with the enemy, so it's now safe to tell
more.
Jeffry Goodman's "hitch-hiking spirits" theory is a good way to
begin.
Q. The "hitch-hiking spirits" theory described in
The Genesis
Mystery is actually quite vague. For example, Goodman doesn't try to
explain the ultimate origin of organic life, but deals mostly with
the development of modern human beings out of pre-humans. When I
read the book, I assumed that if his interventionist theory of
evolution is valid at all, it should apply to the entire course of
evolution, including the creation of life itself.
Many of the modern biochemical experiments that have tried to
simulate the creation of life out of non-living matter have shown
that the probabilities of its happening by chance alone are so low
that it's reasonable to dismiss this theory as invalid.
I have
assumed for a long time that spiritual beings intervened in the
creation of life on Earth, as well as in the creation of modern
humans. However, this raises several additional questions.
How did these spirits get here, and why would they want to travel to
planets without organic life?
You have already explained that the
soul is nourished on energy from the body and that spirits have to
incarnate or they will starve, so why would they go to a place where
they couldn't survive?
A. Ordinary human spirits don't do it deliberately.
Some advanced
civilizations have a form of rapid interstellar travel that makes it
possible for disembodied spirits to travel from one world to another
at speeds much faster than the speed of light. When they get to
their destination, they incarnate there.
However, such interstellar
travel by spirits involves risks, and they sometimes get lost in
transit and end up on a planet other than the one they intended to
visit. If the equipment needed to project spirits over interstellar
distances does not exist there, they are marooned. If spirits find
themselves marooned on a planet devoid of life, they eventually die,
unless other spiritual beings are able to rescue them.
This will be
discussed further later.
Q. The universe consists almost entirely of empty space. Don't most
of the marooned spirits end up in interstellar space, with only a
very few landing on planets at all?
A. No, the interstellar transportation process doesn't work like
that.
Travel can occur only if there is a large mass of physical
matter at the other end. However, the spirit will still pass through
the process even if the mass isn't the one intended as its
destination.
Q. I assume that marooned spirits use their psychic powers to start
creating organic life, even though they realize they won't survive
long enough to benefit from the process.
A. Yes. There's a lot more to it than that.
We gave a very
incomplete version earlier to you and to others on your planet when
we said that some advanced civilizations of the past have had a sort
of religion that encouraged people to go around the universe
creating organic life on every planet that was geologically ready
for it.
This is a true statement as far as it goes, but what we
didn't mention is that such civilizations were very different from
ours, as different as a colony of social insects such as bees or
ants is from a herd of horses or a pack of wolves.
We also mentioned that the civilizations that sent out such original
missions of creation seemed to be enemies of the civilizations
ancestral to our own, and that our ancestors were partly responsible
for driving them away, but we didn't tell the full story.
Let's
leave this subject for a later chapter, and continue describing how
spirits create organic life on planets that are ready for it and
then guide the process of evolution until intelligent beings
develop.
However, we should point out that everything we say about the
origin
and evolution of life on Earth is just scientific speculation. We're
reasonably sure it's accurate, but it's not based on detailed
historical records.
Q. Why don't you have access to the histories of all the advanced
civilizations going back millions of years? Surely all such
societies would have sophisticated equipment for storing
information, better than our present computers here on Earth, so my
assumption would be that information about all of them would be easy
to obtain.
Even if civilizations are always rising and falling,
communication between them should ensure that history and other
information gets passed along. After all, we Earth people, primitive
as we are, still possess many important written records of our own
vanished civilizations.
A. Well, you have a few written records from the ancient Greeks,
Hindus, Chinese, etc., but there are still huge gaps in your
knowledge.
For example, what percentage of the ancient Greek poems,
plays, histories, and scientific works that you know the titles and
authors of (from references in surviving works) have been lost?
Q. I can't even guess at the figures, but I get your point. Much
more has been lost than has survived. Does the same apply to
electronic data storage as used by advanced civilizations, then? I'm
surprised that such people have not worked out methods of storing
information for very long periods of time.
A. Advanced civilizations don't use electronic computers, nor do
they store much of their data in durable physical forms equivalent
to books, photographic film, sound recordings, etc.
The equipment
they use to store and process information is made of living organic
matter and is relatively fragile, so it's not that hard for specific
historical knowledge to be lost. Also, the symbolic systems for
storing data are neither alphabetic nor digital, but are versions of
the system used for memory storage in the human brain.
Such systems
are extremely complex, and translation from one system to another is
often very difficult.
As long as a particular civilization is viable, it retains the
information that the people in it want to retain. If it breaks up,
the souls of the people who survive the break-up go to other
civilizations, which have their own history, their own store of
information they consider valuable.
So specific information about a
particular planet is often not available.
Q. While we're talking about the remote past, what about the
creation of the universe?
A. The universe is cyclical. It really doesn't have a beginning or
an end.
The
Big Bang theory, which most of your scientists now
accept as proven, is valid; but it's just one component of a Steady
State theory that operates on a larger scale. There is another
parallel part of the universe which is contracting toward a
Big
Crunch at the point where/when Earth astronomers observe evidence of
the Big Bang.
That part of the universe is composed of anti-matter
and time flows backwards there.
The "heat death" points in our own part of the universe, the points
where particles of matter lose all their energy and motion, are also
the points at which particles become anti-matter and pass into the
other part of the universe to start falling towards the Big Crunch.
In other words, the universe didn't really have an origin at all.
There wasn't a point in time when the universe didn't exist, because
the very definition of time is as a measurement of changes in matter
and energy.
Therefore, time cannot exist unless matter and energy
also exist. It is simply a dimension as length, breadth, and height
are dimensions; and this makes it part of the universe, not
something independent of it.
Now, let's get back to our discussion of the creation and evolution
of life by saying that the astral souls of all intelligent beings
contain a template for the DNA molecule and all the precursor
chemicals that compose it.
If the surface waters of an Earth-like
planet are close to the correct temperature and have the right
chemicals dissolved in them, disembodied spirits with the proper
technical knowledge can create life by
psychokinesis alone.
There is
no need to visit planets in space-ships and "seed" them physically.
Q. Is this organic life always of the same type as on Earth? In
other words, is DNA as we know it the basis for all life in the
universe?
A. No, there are other kinds of organic life on the surfaces of
other kinds of planets, and also non-organic forms who live in the
interiors of stars, comets, gas-clouds, and other bodies of matter.
They all have different kinds of souls, composed of different kinds
of astral matter, and there is almost no communication between the
different kinds of life.
Q. Why is this? Can't they communicate telepathically, even if a
soul from one type of environment can't incarnate in a body from
another?
A. This is barely possible but not really feasible, because the
different types of organic and astral life use very different kinds
of symbols to communicate, and also think at different rates of
speed.
Q. This sounds similar to a problem that people here on Earth can
have with electronic computers. It's often difficult to exchange
data between two computers because they have different kinds of
processing units, internal clock speeds, or software. However, it's
almost always possible to design additional hardware and software
that will allow data exchanges between the two computers. Can't
advanced human civilizations invent equipment for communicating with
these other forms of life?
A. Your analogy doesn't really apply. All of your computers were
designed by and for human beings.
The common denominator between two
different computers is the person who understands both. There is no
such common denominator between people and vastly different forms of
intelligent life.
Q. Please continue explaining how intelligent life is created.
Especially, I'd like to know more about the relationship between the
body and the soul.
A. The human astral soul is both an alien parasite or
symbiote, and
a natural part of a human being.
All mammals have astral souls, but
the astral soul of a human being is extremely different from the
astral soul of an ape. Human beings were radically altered by
psychokinetic genetic manipulation to become physically different
from other apes.
The brain, the hands, the sense organs, the general
musculature, and the organs used in standing and walking erect are
all very different in humans than they are in apes. However, the
scientists who recently started mapping the DNA structure of
anthropoid apes found it much more similar to that of humans from
what they had expected.
And when genetic science begins to learn the details of how random
mutations usually change
the DNA structure, the scientists will
discover that the genetic differences between apes and humans don't
fit the usual patterns. They'll realize that the particular loops in
the DNA molecule that causes the genetic differences between people
and apes have an artificial or alien look to them.
That's because
they actually are artificial: changes made by spirits from other
worlds that were familiar with genetic patterns different from those
on Earth.
The somatic soul of the human species was genetically altered just
as radically as the body, and is also very different from the
somatic soul of an ape. The human somatic soul's nervous system is
much more highly developed for transmitting and using astral energy,
and the attachment point for the astral soul is much more highly
developed.
This attachment point allows any human astral soul to
incarnate, including those used to incarnating in bodies very
different from human bodies on Earth. In other words, there is a
sort of standardization among human-type bodies on many different
worlds to allow them to be linked to a wide variety of astral souls.
There are often problems of astral tissue-compatibility if body and
soul are too different, but it is still possible for many different
types of astral souls from many different worlds to incarnate on
Earth.
One of the chief characteristics of intelligent beings compared with
similar non-intelligent beings is that both the body and the astral
soul show strong evidence of
neoteny. For example, many scientists
on Earth have noticed that an adult human being retains many
physical characteristics found in an anthropoid ape during infancy
or childhood, but lost as it matures.
When a neotenous salamander like an axolotl retains its gills while
becoming sexually mature, the resulting neotenous adult is
physiologically more primitive, meaning that there is less
specialization of the tissues and organs than in a normal adult of
the same species. Human beings are physiologically more primitive
than other large primates such as gorillas, baboons, or chimpanzees.
This is especially true of the voluntary musculature. It is well
known that all the great apes far exceed human beings in relative
strength, because of differences in the muscle structure. Notice too
that there's a marked gender-difference in humans in muscle
structure as well.
The adult female, with her smoother voluntary
muscles and a more extensive layer of subcutaneous fat, is more
primitive and more neotenous than the adult male.
Q. Yes, and I've also read that all human embryos start out as
somatically female, and that a fetus with an XY chromosome develops
male characteristics later.
A. Many technologically advanced races of people use genetic
engineering (modification of the genes before conception) and
biological engineering (modification of the body during
embryological development by the use of hormones and other
chemicals) to repress the development of the secondary sexual
characteristics and to increase the neotenous characteristics.
This
is why so many dreams and visions of space people show them as
rather androgynous.
Q. What is the advantage in neoteny? What do Earth people gain from
not being as strong as the other great apes? And why would advanced
people want to be weaker still?
A. There are three reasons why humans living under primitive
conditions were genetically engineered to have less sheer muscular
strength than ordinary apes.
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The first is that if the process is
properly done, they gain considerably in co-ordination and are much
better at doing delicate manipulations with their hands.
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Second,
having less muscular strength stimulates people's intellectual
development by encouraging them to use tools and develop technology.
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The third reason is that neoteny significantly slows down the
maturation and aging process, giving people more time to develop
their minds than animals have.
Since humans are physically immature and
dependent on others for so long while they are growing up, this also
gives them an opportunity to learn many things from their elders
that they might not learn if they became independent adults sooner.
Advanced human civilizations inhibit the secondary sexual
characteristics and certain kinds of muscular development even more,
for exactly the same reasons. They gain a longer lifespan, better
general health, and physical equality between the genders; and they
lose very little, because they don't need great physical strength
nearly as much as they need good balance, agility, and coordination.
If such a body is kept in good general muscle tone, it has greater
endurance against fatigue than a more heavily-muscled body and is
more resistant to many kinds of injuries.
Also, most advanced human
societies reproduce entirely by
ectogenesis, so there is no need for
people to be capable of ordinary mammalian reproduction.
Q. Some readers will interpret that last sentence as implying that
advanced human societies have eliminated sex entirely. I know this
isn't true because of my past life memories, but you still should
explain the subject further.
A. Most advanced societies have separated sexuality from
reproduction.
Why create the human body by having it grow inside an
adult as a parasite, when it can be grown much more efficiently in
an artificial environment? Notice the paradoxical attitude that so
many Earth women have about bearing children: on one hand, they know
the future of the human race may depend on it, but on the other,
they also know it's damaging to the body and seriously interferes
with other aspects of adult life.
Especially, pregnancy and child
rearing are ready-made excuses for placing women in an inferior
social status.
However, sexuality itself still exists in all advanced human
societies for emotional, social, and psychic reasons. The
androgynous people you see in your dreams are all sexually
functional males or females.
On the average, advanced humans tend to
be more sexually active than primitive humans, because their
physical and mental health are better, and because they don't have
to work as hard for basic survival.
Q. This explains a lot of things I've guessed and wondered about all
my life. Now, please try to tell us the whole truth about "gods" and
the original creation of human beings. I'd especially like to get a
more detailed explanation of the fragmentary messages I've gotten
over the years asserting that the human astral soul is a parasite or
symbiote.
Do godlike beings actually exist, and if so, why have you
been so insistent all the time I've been writing this book that I
say they don't exist?
A. We thought we had already explained why many Earth people have an
instinctive feeling that the soul is an "alien parasite" attached to
the body, but we'll try to make it clearer.
The somatic soul of a
human being contains many structures not found in the souls of other
primates.
Some of these produce a form of neoteny in the body;
others could cause the brain to develop into a high-quality
bio-computer; and still others allow astral souls of many different
types to incarnate in human bodies.
This gives many people the
feeling that there is something alien about the soul.
The reason we said earlier that gods don't exist is that the
statement is completely true in the context in which we were using
it. Throughout human history on Earth, some spirits have pretended
to be gods, using a definition of the term that allows them to rule
over human beings without being accountable for their actions.
These
definitions assert that gods are greatly superior to humans in
wisdom and morality, encouraging people to let deities deny them
their rights to consent of the governed.
However, the human spirits making these claims are simply lying.
They are not superior to ordinary people except in possessing
certain forms of knowledge and power; and in moral terms they are
significantly inferior because their very existence depends on
enslaving and exploiting living people and other disembodied
spirits.
Since pretending to be gods is one of the chief sources of
Theocratic power, we have had to attack it very strongly in Part
Two.
Now it is time for us to look at spiritual reality from an even
larger perspective, and to deal with the idea that intelligent
beings greater than humans actually exist. There are two types,
"elementals" and "gods," and we will start describing them in the
next chapter.
However, let us end this chapter by saying that
everything we've said previously about gods and human rights still
stands.
The elementals and gods we are about to describe are still
not morally superior to humans, and it is our duty - the duty of
advanced human civilizations on other worlds and people on Earth as
well - to stand up to these beings and demand our rights as
sovereign individuals.