The New Ecological and Energy
Frontiers of the Third Millennium
- By Dr J J Hurtak PH D PH D ©Copyright 1995 J.J Hurtak
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A critical evaluation of our future on Earth needs to be made with an eye focused on the environment. Space observations have rejuvenated the venerable disciplines of mathematics, geology and physics, bringing us into an awareness of the environment with a view never before imagined. The reality of our fragile environment can be seen in terms of our past and present which has made our future more and more predictable.

This paper will briefly examine the historical picture of our environment as acquired by modern remote sensing technology with a focus on environmental planning. The current interest in and concern for ecology and environment has been largely influenced by information gathered from airborne and spaceborne technologies which have led to new scientific approaches to survival on planet Earth.

1. Introduction: A vision of the present
In the aftermath of the cold war, the measure of the injury done to our planet and to ourselves becomes only too clear. In the twenty years since the first Earth Day, the Earth has lost approximately 500 billion acres of forest, a region fifty times the area of Switzerland. Devastation has spread over approximately 300 billion square miles to devour more land than is presently cultivated in China. Thousands of plant and animal species with which we have shared the planet no longer exist. At the same time, our human population has increased by 1.6 billion during these two decades, a greater number of human beings than all those who populated the Earth in the year 1900. The farmers of the world have lost approximately 480 billion tons of humus, a quantity equivalent to all the land capable of cultivation in China.

What are we to do about this sad situation? My colleagues throughout the world have reviewed environmental data gathered from airborne and spaceborne technologies and have decided to share their data banks of information and their calculations with educators and leading thinkers in the scientific community so that pressures can be placed on the violators and we, in turn, can prepare others for a quantum leap in consciousness sensitivity towards our planet.

2. Historical view of Mother Earth
Let us begin by examining the past, especially the Third World cultures and their philosophies regarding Mother Earth. This paper will look at some of the sub-surface intrigues and consider what ground penetrating radar and remote sensing can provide us in terms of opening up whole new environmental and sociological realities.

2.1 Mexico past and present.
The ancient cultures had a great appreciation for Mother Earth. In the monuments of Mexico and Central America the image of Coatlique, the embodiment of Mother Earth, is often pictured with enwrapments of snakes around her form. The anthropologist's interpretation is that these snakes represent the forces of Nature and the balance of super-nature.

The ancients clearly understood that the inability to maintain a balance with Nature would lead inevitably to their own destruction and ultimately to planetary death, biospheric collapse and ecological suicide. In ceremonial Aztec dances at the historical lunar and solar megalithic sites, the peoples of Mexico and Central America celebrated the awakening of the primordial phases of human evolution with reverence for Mother Nature and honor for all life.

Coatlique, with her goddess-serpentine face, represents the different stages of evolution and the balance of the architecture of life. In these ancient rites-of-passage, the drums played during the ceremonial dances symbolized the awakening of nature and the invitation for humans to participate with nature via dance, which would bring forth the spirit of another god, Quetzalcoatl. The plumed-headdress worn by the dancers represented the feathered serpent with the energy of the sun that empowers the Earth and its human subjects. The dance steps themselves were often circular, the spiral turns representing the Earth and sky movements with their various stages of birth, death and rebirth. There was also an attempt to overcome the devouring aspect of nature and the Totentanz, the steps which, if not performed properly, would lead to death and imbalance. Ultimately, in the ritual, the marriage with supernature occurred and the dance was complete.

In the Aztec culture, dance was choreographed and arranged between the pyramidal temples so as to balance the energies. It was seen as a repose between the two forces of energy. At Tenochtitlan, it was positioned between the solar temple pyramid and the lunar temple which represented the feminine aspect of the Godhead, with the lunar pyramid on its altar. Mathematically and architecturally speaking, there was great emphasis placed on the female procreative power interacting with Mother Earth and the procreative cycles of life in balancing the solar and lunar powers of waxing and waning.

Thus, the dance is humanity's careful balance and adagio movements and entanglements though the cycles of entropy and decay that must be conquered by the proper use and technical orchestration of the earth's vibrations and musical pulses that are built into the soundscapes of Mother Earth, overcoming the separation between the sacred and the profane. The theme I would like to emphasize is that we are now having to rediscover what the ancients already knew, as we emerge into the Twenty-First Century-the importance of balancing ourselves with Mother Nature.

This vast knowledge of how to balance nature was present in the Aztec proto-city for modern-day Mexico City, Tenochtitlan, at the time of the Spanish conquest, with its massive area that could house a quarter- to one half million inhabitants. For a city such as Tenochtitlan to grow and flourish, elaborate hydraulic resources of canals and water systems were developed with a very precise view toward Mother Nature. In fact, throughout the Mayan and Aztec community centers of Central America, we find models for present-day hydrology and some solutions to our own needs for environmental renewal.

(Of which Dr James Hurtak is the Director of the Academy of Future Sciences California)

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