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It's not a Biospheric Crisis, but a Noospheric Emergency. Envisioning theRegeneration of Planet Earth
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The Noosphere & Communication with Cosmic CivilizationIt's not a Biospheric Crisis, but a Noospheric Emergency - Envisioning TheRegeneration of Planet Earth
Position Paper, Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric RightsSubmitted by Galactic Research Institute - Foundation for the Law of TimeStatement of the Problem
" ... it is unscientific to accept the concept of a biosphere and to reject the concept of a noosphere. The noosphere is as much a part of earthas any other sphere, such as the hydrosphere. Indeed, by virtue of itsbeing the cause of most ecological woes and the seat of all ecological action, the noosphere should, from the ecologist's standpoint, be themost crucial layer. Its health and its protection from man's own perversity should beone of his concerns. For obviously noospheric pollution is the source of all pollution."
P. R. Masani, "The Ecology of the Noosphere ..." (1995)When it is said that "noospheric pollution is the source of all pollution," we arespeaking of the role of the human thinking layer in the whole system scheme of the
planetary design. This design constitutes an evolving dynamic. By bringing thenoosphere into a discussion of the biospheric crisis, we are recognizing that unless webring our minds to bear on the meaning and nature of the noosphere that we will notsolve the biospheric crisis. First of all, this means recognizing the impact of the humanthinking layer on all of the evolutionary and dynamic biogeochemical cycles of Earth'ssystem."BE WORRIED. BEVERYWORRIED." The April 3, 2006,
Time
magazine specialreport on global Warming cover story shouts for your attention: "Climate change isn'tsome vague future problem - it's already damaging the planet at an alarming pace.Here's how it affects you, your kids and their kids as well."The way
Time
pitches this story you would think climate change was the villain,thereby deflecting attention from the idea that global warming might be a function of noospheric pollution. The damage emanating from human depletion of resources and consequent emission of greenhouse gases would not havecome about if the human thinking layer - as the noosphere - had not firstengineered the concepts of machine technology, and the fossil fuelconsumption or atomic energy required to operate this vastcomplex, the technosphere. We must understand that the distinguishingfeature of the human element in the biosphere is the capacity tosimultaneously evolve and then participate in the thinking layer of theplanet, the noosphere.Without understanding the meaning and evolutionary purpose of the noosphere as theself-reflective mind or mental layer of the planet, we will not truly comprehend the kindsof solutions necessary to reestablish a viable future for the planet. As P. R. Masanipoints out, thus far," the ecological movement falls short, the common stumbling backbeing the neglect of the noosphere." This is very much to the point. Just as mosthumans are barely conscious of being a functioning - or malfunctioning - member of the biosphere, even fewer are aware of participating in a collective mental field calledthe noosphere.This noosphere is the mental field that we take for granted as the psychologicalenvironment common to all. This unconsciously enclosing mental environment ischarged with assumptions, and, depending upon what part of the world you might bein, it may be filled with glaring contradictions. The mental assumptions of a farmer inIowa may be very different from those of a farmer in the interior provinces of China,much less of one in Iran. Yet, no matter where we are, we generally assume that whatwe assume every one else assumes, and that if someone assumes differently, it is theywho are wrong and not we. This is the unconsciousness of the noosphere.Considering Earth as a whole system, we must now take responsibility for the thoughtswe create that charge the mental field or thinking layer of the Earth with the actualcauses for everything that ails us and the planet today. Not only must we takeresponsibility for our own thoughts, we must also realize the relativity of our thinkingand our assumptions in relation to everybody else's thinking and assumptions - andperhaps rethink our whole program. If we could see our species-wide thinking layer asa sphere covering the whole planet we would see it as a faulty patchwork web,politically, religiously and ideologically divided, morally obtuse, saturated by the effects
of profit making greed - and anything but unified. It is the wildlyinconsistent and incoherent play of forces within this thinking layer, thenoosphere, that perpetuates and propels the political, religious,nationalistic and corporate decision making that shapes the everydayworld. Until we truly become conscious of it, it will remain out of controland continue to wreak havoc on the biosphere.It is not just the ecologist's neglect of the noosphere that is a stumbling block to thesolution of the world problem, but the reluctance of scientists in general to admit thathuman thinking and its subsequent endeavors within the biosphere might have aneffect - such as global warming. This is because most scientists are reluctant to reallyexamine and own what is in their own minds. If human industry - the biosphericdisrupting and destroying needs of the technosphere - is the root of the environmentalproblem, than the root of human industry is in the human mind. The dolphin didn'tinvent the clock, but man did. And the clock came from the human mind. When maninvented the clock and made it an inextricable part of the noosphere, he let loose apandora's box of mechanization and monetary politics that swiftly transformedhimself, his mind and his world, making him the indisputable predator-dominator of the planet, ruthlessly plundering the Earth for what his machine demanded of him.We would like to see a magazine cover bearing the headline:
Special Report - Noospheric Pollution
BE WORRIED. BEVERYWORRIED. Noospheric pollution isn't some vague futureproblem - it's already damaging the planet at an alarming pace. Here's how you createand perpetuate it, and how your kids and their kids will do the same - unless wechange our mind now.The radiation of man is the hominization of the Earth. By technologically radiating outover the planet the homo sapiens has inadvertently brought the noosphere intomanifestation, or rather, has spread it out as an unconscious twilight mental zonecovering the entire world. The human noosphere has had an impact on the planet thatis geological in nature, causing species wide extinctions and unprecedented climatechange, not to mention depletion of vital resources like rain forests, oil, plankton, andcoral reefs.It is the world wide impact of human thought and its transformation intomachine technology that has made the noosphere a planetaryphenomenon, albeit an unconscious one. Now this noosphere is in theprocess of becoming conscious. As slowly more humans come to termswith the fact that it is our thinking that is at the root of the destruction of the world, thenoosphere comes that much closer to becoming conscious. But first it must go throughan intermediate phase - the cybersphere. As the externalization of the noosphere intoan electronic network, the cybersphere is the virtual nervous system of the planet.
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