RETURN

TO SPACE

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Friction with the atmosphere is REALLY HOT !
You are entering Mother Earth from space.
Soon you will be on the surface,
at the Land of Tepuys.



STILL IN TIME TO LEARN ABOUT LIES

HURRY UP. YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE!



FEW MINUTES LEFT FOR LANDING
LAST WORDS RECEIVED FROM HOME:

  The Lord replied to the Venerable Sariputra:

"In some village, city, market town, country district, province,
kingdom, or capital there lived a householder, old, advanced in years,
decrepit, weak in health and strength, but rich, wealthy and well to do.
His House was a large one, both extensive and high, and it was old,
having been built a long time ago. It was inhabited by many living beings,
some two, three, four, or five hundred. It had one single door only.
It was thatched with straw, its terraces had fallen down,
its fundations were rotten, its walls, matting-screens, and plaster were
in an advance state of decay. Suddendly a great blaze of fire broke out,
and the house started burning on all sides. And that man had many
young sons, five, or ten, or twenty, and he himself got out of the house".

"When that man saw his own house ablaze all around with that
great mass of fire, he became afraid and trembled, his mind became
agitated, and he thought to himself: 'I, it is true, have been competent
enough to run out of the door, and to escape from my burning house,
quickly and safely, without being touched or scorched by that great
mass of fire. But what about my sons, my young boys, my little sons?
There, in this burning house, they play, sport, and amuse themselves
with all sort of games. They do not know that this dwelling is afire,
they do not understand it, do not perceive it, pay no attention to it,
and so they feel no agitation. Though threatened by this great fire,
though in such close contact with so much ill, they pay no attention
to their danger, and make no efforts to get out' ".

from The Saddharmapundarika
Buddhist Scriptures



60 SECONDS FOR LANDING
ABOUT THE FIRE:

Despite we could "lose future taxi drivers by improving education"(1).
If we are willing to save our house and our family, our friends,
from that great mass of fire burning all around, unnoticed to us,
then we need more than better education, better citizens.

We need deep changes.

If you  rely on "computers and Internet to bring real power back
to individuals, helping to build new alliances between like minded
radicals sitting at their terminals, using e-mail and web pages to
spread news and mobilize battles"(2). Forget it: "Computers do nothing
to alter the rapid global centralization of power. Computer techno-
logy may be the single most important instrument ever invented
for accelerating the growth of centralized power"(3).

ALL Mediation is THE FIRE burning our house,

Mass Media are the worst pyromaniacs.

Television, radio and newspapers serves as "worldwide agents of
imagery for the new global corporate vision; computers are the
nervous system that facilitates the setup of new global organizations"(4).

We are pyromaniacs too...

We are teached to buy,  play, sport and amuse ourselves slaves of
media designs, fashions, interests; even our most encumbered ideals
and struggles are used by the media to enslave us, to mediate us.
Behind the screens is the search for freedom, in front of it,
where you are sitting right now reading this words, you are no more
than a modern mediated slave helping others to be slaves too.
If we are not careful about this, sometimes we even mediate others,
becoming us also pyromaniacs who enjoy playing with THE FIRE.

Ignorance is one Combustible
fueling the fire in our lives.

Blind Faith in Technology
is also feeding the flames.

"The skills, aptitudes and attitudes that were necesary to
industrialize the Earth are not the same as those that are needed
now to heal the Earth, or to build durable economies and good
communities. Science without passion and love can give us no
good reason to appreciate the sunset, nor can it give us any
purely objective reason to value life. We want concrete fact with
a high light on what is relevant to its preciousness. Faith in tech-
nology is built nearly everywhere in education as a kind of blind
acceptance of the notion of 'progress'. This technological funda-
mentalism deserves to be questioned: is technological change
taking us where we want to go? What effect does technology
have on our imagination and particularly on our social, ethical,
and political imagination?."(5)

IN CASE OF FIRE
BREAK GLASS
And use Light and Love

A powerful fire extinguisher conceivable to stop this fire must
be filled with a mixture of Modern Science and Ancient Knowledge.
Only by understanding, teaching and using the Scientific Method
plus the Traditional Method, is possible to hope advance for humanity.

Science as the light in the darkness, Tradition as the love in that light.
But most important is the way we imagine this great extinguisher:
We don't know yet how to prepare the mixture safely,
your help is needed to discover how...



OPEN PARACHUTES...
LANDING NOW

[ Click on landscape for final landing ]






(1) There are some complaints about teaching more science to children:
that then there would be no one to drive taxis in the world.

(2) (3) (4) Words written by Jerry Mander.
Published in The Ecologist, Volume 29, No. 3, page 171.

(5) Words written by David Orr.
Published in The Ecologist, Volume 29, No. 3, page 232.