TÉMA PRVNÍHO SETKÁNÍ: “Degenerace v průběhu historie a konec kalijugy”

ÚRYVEK: Our terror of insecurity and impermanence leads us to invent technological “solutions” in order to eradicate all risks of death, illness and all that we consider to be a problem. Thus, we produce pesticides, chemical fertilizers, antibiotics, drugs and all kinds of “sciences,” devices and machines — from nuclear energy to genetic engineering — that disrupt the ecological balance on which our lives depend both in the so-called “external world” and “inside our own bodies”. We try to destroy the “negative” side of the coin of existence — the side featuring death, suffering, illness, discomfort, insecurity, hard work, pain and so on — by constantly putting corrosives on it. Nowadays, corrosion has worn away so much of the coin that it is about to reach the side we wished to preserve — life, joy, health, comfort, security, leisure, pleasure and so on — and thus put an end to human existence. By trying to destroy death we have come to the brink of bringing all life to an end. (zdroj)

DOPORUČENÉ ČTENÍ NA SETKÁNÍ: The Perennial Philosophy’s Degenerative View of Human Evolution and History, strany 857-870