Elissawa Carpazio worked in business applications of IT. She has been a departmental head in several international companies. She is also a student in psychotherapy, bereavement, and end-of-life care, and a hospice volunteer.
We can feel the enthusiasm of scientists when they talk about technology developments. They show us the potential they want to work out to help and advance humanity. They are animated by a goodwill that pushes them to do their part to improve living conditions. Their presentations are fascinating and tempting.
Fear of the new leads to petrification. Keeping everything the same means freezing everything. The seed of the spirit needs freedom to express itself and begins to rebel when it is imprisoned by artificial rules created out of fear and designed to keep everything as usual. Evolution goes forward. New developments are needed. And yet it is a tightrope walk to want to help humanity by means of technical achievements. It is so easy to get caught up in devilish spirals and lose sight of the real goal, spiritual realisation. Due to the fragmentation of the complex world, the vision of the bigger picture is lost, and we often end up with pseudo-solutions that run counter to the actual intention.
Especially in this time of innovations showing tempting possibilities, it is important to develop discrimination to distinguish the real from the unreal. We encounter delusion and manipulation everywhere. It is fascinating to see what technical possibilities are available. Yet it’s difficult to decide what is morally justified and what is not. Science is not truth, but rather a structuring of knowledge, and the knowledge is always in the field in which one is searching. Like everything, science is also part of the system, caught in a web of obligations, liabilities, and interests. The ethical discussions conducted by science are very profound and attempts are made to foresee and weigh all possible effects, but the views held and the effects to which attention is drawn are always dependent on one’s own worldview. Since the prevailing worldview is materialistic, morality alone will not get us anywhere, because every logic of argumentation moves within this worldview and looks there for the moral legitimisation for actions.
The outer form, the body, must be seen for what it is, a means to an end. We are to make use of form to express the divine nature. We have made great advances in science, but still operate on the physical plane. In a time of transformation, it is the view of the world that needs to be transformed. We need to incorporate the idea of the spiritual world into our view and into discussions.
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