The Making of New Age Man, Chapter VI

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We each exist in a state of circumstances beyond our control. Our body cells live in a state of circumstances beyond their control, as do the molecules within, as do the atoms within, as do the subatomic particles within. Externally, we exist in an out of control universe, with exploding stars. A big rock could fall from the heavens and end all life on Earth.

Time waits for no subatomic particle, nor any man. Cutting edge science now finds that choice exists in subatomic particles. Choice is our's as individuals, and as societies. We are not here because we are here. The above description of the state of circumstances leads to only one logical conclusion: universal choice; otherwise, we wouldn't be here.

Given this case, how do we humans fit in the overall scheme of things? We come equipped to observe far more than any other life form on the planet. It is the individual's choice of how much he observes. The more he observes, the more his choices. By observing, we've the choice of flying to the moon or blowing ourselves up. One might say we chose to eat the forbidden fruit and now we've the choice of making man as powerful as the gods or history written in the rocks.

Applying the above mentioned scenario, it is interesting that there was a sharp drop in readers of The Making of New Age Man when in Chapter V, "Freedom," I wrote about RVing with Karen and Joe. It may be that most don't like the transitory life. Trans" is a prefix meaning across, or through, denoting movement. Transformation means to change in nature, the process by which deep structures are converted to surface structures. Sorry, folks, but that's where we are. You either move with the tide of change or sink to the bottom.

When I read the history of man, my view is that over the ages we've been led to this point by an authoritarian world bent on controlling us. That control now threatens to make the biblical prophecy come true: we are not long for this world.

Now for the good news. The scientific understanding that gives authority the power to blow us to hell has now crossed the bridge of new understanding. Along with the physical makeup of the universe is universal consciousness. Nothing could exist without it.

If you want to know how something works, you take it apart and examine the parts. That's what science has done, and is doing. Until the late 1950s, science believed that all matter was composed of electrons, protons, and neutrons, and even believed they could not be split into anything smaller. Powerful particle accelerators required a new model of the atom.

In 1964, American physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig developed a theory of particle physics that proposed quarks as the building blocks of protons and neutrons, borrowing the word from James Joyce's novel, Finnegans Wake, which contains the phrase, "three quarks for Muster Mark."

To give you an idea of what the future holds, nobody knows what we're looking at, but most of the progress being made in science is being made in quantum physics. There were only two types of quarks to describe the proton and neutron: the "up quark" and the "down quark." However, at the same time of the arrival of the quark, physicists discovered new elementary particles, including kaons, which they called "strange." The explanation of these particles required a third type of quark, so physicists named it the "strange quark" to make three quarks for Muster Mark-the up quark, the down quark and the strange quark.

They used the three-quark model through the 1970s to learn about the internal structure of the proton. These experiments supported the existence of quarks and gluons inside protons, but they had not yet actually been discovered. In 1970, they predicted the existence of a fourth quark, called the "charm quark." Thus, a particle containing the charm quark, the second-generation partner of the strange quark, alas, came the discovery in 1975 of a third-generation "lepton," another building block of matter, which led scientists to predict the existence of a third generation of quarks. The "bottom quark" came along in 1977.

Pioneer Enrico Fermi's name lives on in the Enrico Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory at Batavia, Illinois, which houses machinery that stands 3 stories tall and weighs about 5,000 tons. Four-hundred-fifty physicists coordinate their efforts around the Fermilab, which houses an accelerator big enough to build the energy required to see a "top quark."

Where were you while all of this scientific understanding took place?  It is more than likely that you were living routine lives, not willing to take any chances, leaving well enough alone.  

In February 1995, the discovery of the theorized "top quark" was a big day for quantum physicists. The top quark, an essential in the construction of matter, was a giant step forward. This quark, which no longer exists in nature, played an essential roll in the primordial past. In the world of particle physics that even quantum physicists don't fully understand, this elusive giant (about the size of a gold atom) is extremely short-lived, but held to be of great importance to matter's early construction. The top quark, the "top kick" of the atom's organization, came along after physicists had struggled for considerable time to fill a hole in the standard model they envisioned for atoms. Knowing what controls atoms, a standard model predicting that three generations of quarks should exist, each one containing two different quarks.

Where are we now? Walter Bagenot, a British economist, asserted: "It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations." Man does not bow to his failure to recognize a child's boundless imagination.  For shame!  It means giving us the usual one-suit-fits-all lead.

During our RVing lives, we read signs in the national forest advising us not to feed the animals. We don't have the good sense not feed humans.  Men, the same as animals, become dependent.  If I'm any judge of what's going on now, we will become less oriented to the material things in life, more in tune with universal consciousness. But I can only speak for myself. My life keeps getting better and better.