Fog of War, Terra Swarm (Smart Dust) | Juxtaposition1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-b2LUhjYeE

"Human augmentation merges technology with biology to enhance capabilities beyond natural limits, spanning areas like prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces, and genetic engineering.

CRISPR (acronym of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria and archaea. Each sequence within an individual prokaryotic CRISPR is derived from a DNA fragment of a bacteriophage that had previously infected the prokaryote or one of its ancestors. These sequences are used to detect and destroy DNA from similar bacteriophages during subsequent infections. Hence these sequences play a key role in the antiviral (i.e. anti-phage) defense system of prokaryotes and provide a form of heritable, acquired immunity. CRISPR is found in approximately 50% of sequenced bacterial genomes and nearly 90% of sequenced archaea.

Molecular communications systems use the presence or absence of a selected type of molecule to digitally encode messages. The molecules are delivered into communications media such as air and water for transmission. The technique also is not subject to the requirement of using antennas that are sized to a specific ratio of the wavelength of the signal. Molecular communication signals can be made biocompatible and require very little energy.

Neuromodulation is the physiological process by which a given neuron uses one or more chemicals to regulate diverse populations of neurons. Neuromodulators typically bind to metabotropic, G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) to initiate a second messenger signaling cascade that induces a broad, long-lasting signal. This modulation can last for hundreds of milliseconds to several minutes. Some of the effects of neuromodulators include altering intrinsic firing activity, increasing or decreasing voltage-dependent currents, altering synaptic efficacy, increasing bursting activity and reconfiguring synaptic connectivity.

Smart Dust is a system of many tiny microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) such as sensors, robots, or other devices, that can detect, for example, light, temperature, vibration, magnetism, or chemicals. They are usually operated on a computer network wirelessly and are distributed over some area to perform tasks, usually sensing through radio-frequency identification. Without an antenna of much greater size the range of tiny smart dust communication devices is measured in a few millimeters and they may be vulnerable to electromagnetic disablement and destruction by microwave exposure.

Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves. The infrared spectral band begins with the waves that are just longer than those of red light (the longest waves in the visible spectrum), so IR is invisible to the human eye. IR is generally (according to ISO, CIE) understood to include wavelengths from around 780 nm (380 THz) to 1 mm (300 GHz). IR is commonly divided between longer-wavelength thermal IR, emitted from terrestrial sources, and shorter-wavelength IR or near-IR, part of the solar spectrum. Longer IR wavelengths (30–100 μm) are sometimes included as part of the terahertz radiation band. Almost all black-body radiation from objects near room temperature is in the IR band. As a form of EMR, IR carries energy and momentum, exerts radiation pressure, and has properties corresponding to both those of a wave and of a particle, the photon.

PAVE PAWS (PAVE Phased Array Warning System) is a complex Cold War early warning radar and computer system developed in 1980 to "detect and characterize a sea-launched ballistic missile attack against the United States". The first solid-state phased array deployed used a pair of Raytheon AN/FPS-115 phased array radar sets at each site to cover an azimuth angle of 240 degrees. In accordance with the Joint Electronics Type Designation System, the "AN/FPS-115" designation represents the 115th design of an Army-Navy fixed radar(pulsed) electronic device for searching.

Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than other radio waves but longer than infrared waves. Its wavelength ranges from about one meter to one millimeter, corresponding to frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz, broadly construed."

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Man–Computer Symbiosis | 1960 Licklider's Paper
https://rumble.com/v72igxg-mancomputer-symbiosis-1960-licks-paper.html

"PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) is the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1959.

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist who is considered to be among the most prominent figures in computer science development and general computing history.

“Man–Computer Symbiosis“ is a work by J. C. R. Licklider published in 1960. The paper contained ideas now considered fundamental to the modern computing revolution.

The work describes Licklider’s vision of a complementary relationship between humans and computers at some time in the future. According to Bardini, Licklider envisioned a time when machine cognition (” cerebration”) would surpass, and become independent of, human direction, as a basic stage of development within human evolution. Jacucci et al. describe Licklider’s vision as the very tight coupling of human brains and computing machines.

As a prerequisite of human–computer symbiosis, Licklider conceived of a “thinking center”, incorporating the functions of libraries and new developments in information technology, connected to other such centers through computer networks.

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J. C. R. or “Lick“, was an American psychologist and computer scientist who is considered to be among the most prominent figures in computer science development and general computing history.

He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee modern-style interactive computing and its application to all manner of activities; and also, as an Internet pioneer with an early vision of a worldwide computer network long before it was built. He did much to initiate this by funding research that led to significant advances in computing technology, including today’s canonical graphical user interface, and the ARPANET, which is the direct predecessor of the Internet.

Packet switching ‘paternity dispute’:
In 1990, Leonard Kleinrock said:

The thing that really drove my own research was the idea of a message switching network, which was a precursor to the packet switching networks. The mathematical tool that had been developed in queueing theory, namely queueing networks, matched perfectly the model of computer networks. Actually, it didn’t match perfectly, and I had to adjust that model to fit the realities of computer networks. Then I developed some design procedures as well for optimal capacity assignment, routing procedures and topology design.

Stephen D. Crocker (born October 15, 1944) is an American Internet pioneer. In 1969, he created the ARPA “Network Working Group” and the Request for Comments series. He served as chair of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2011 through 2017."

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Man-Computer Symbiosis by J. C. R. Licklider
IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960:
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html

Paper Summary:
"Man-computer symbiosis is an expected development in cooperative interaction between men and electronic computers. It will involve very close coupling between the human and the electronic members of the partnership. The main aims are 1) to let computers facilitate formulative thinking as they now facilitate the solution of formulated problems, and 2) to enable men and computers to cooperate in making decisions and controlling complex situations without inflexible dependence on predetermined programs. In the anticipated symbiotic partnership, men will set the goals, formulate the hypotheses, determine the criteria, and perform the evaluations. Computing machines will do the routinizable work that must be done to prepare the way for insights and decisions in technical and scientific thinking. Preliminary analyses indicate that the symbiotic partnership will perform intellectual operations much more effectively than man alone can perform them. Prerequisites for the achievement of the effective, cooperative association include developments in computer time sharing, in memory components, in memory organization, in programming languages, and in input and output equipment."

The Collected Works of Charles Fort | Charles Fort

Existence sits between positiveness and negativeness, between the real and the unreal. Nothing achieves absolute being or absolute nonbeing, only approximations varying in their degree of realness. This quasi existence operates through perpetual attempts at positiveness, though harmony, equilibrium, and order all express the same unrealizable state. So do regularity, stability, and consistency. Unity, system, organization, individuality—these aren't different concepts but synonyms for one condition that remains forever out of reach. Every phenomenon strives toward this completeness by excluding other phenomena, yet this exclusion remains necessarily false because continuity pervades all things. No positive differences exist to establish boundaries.

Red merges into yellow through orange, making any classification based on redness versus yellowness fundamentally invalid. Definitions collapse under scrutiny because all defined things merge into what they supposedly differ from. Life can't be positively distinguished from chemistry. Electricity can't be separated from magnetism or heat. Animals grade into vegetables at their merging points. Science functions as one expression of this universal attempt at positiveness, systematizing data to approximate realness while damning the unassimilable. The damned constitute excluded data that Science can't integrate into its quasi system, forming processions of the accursed whose acceptance would destabilize existing organizational structures.

Fort's catalog is extensive and bizarre. Stones that Science initially denied could fall from the sky. Butter. Blood. Colored substances. Hailstones of impossible sizes, including one the size of an elephant at Seringapatam, India, and snowflakes 15 inches across in Montana. Blue moons and green suns appeared alongside brilliant sunsets following the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, though these atmospheric effects showed up in Trinidad before the eruption occurred and in Natal, South Africa, six months prior, contradicting orthodox explanations entirely. Black rains, red rains, pink snow, jet black snow, blue hailstones all descended. So did punk, silk, charcoal, paper, wool, and resin.

The sky reveals aerial constructions suggesting purposeful design. Something like a man surrounded by machinery moved over Louisville in September 1880 under apparent control. The French fishing smack Jeanne Frederic reported a large, black, bird-like object off Normandy in July 1910 that fell into the sea, bounded back, and disappeared. September 1910 brought processions of round objects over New York City that crowds watched for several hours. Fort proposes that stars exist not at impossible distances but as points in a concave shell land surrounding earth. Dark nebulae appear as bare patches of this shell. The Horse-head nebula stands out like a mountain peak, solid looking, with light coming over its summit as dawn tops a mountain but not penetrating through it. The America nebula takes the shape of North America with islands of light out from its Gulf of Mexico. Stars may be volcanoes in this shell land, their variations corresponding with solar movements as reflections from points of land or from lakes in extinct or dormant craters. Some variable stars maintain periods of about a year, which remains inexplicable if they're trillions of miles away but makes perfect sense as reflections responding to the sun's spiral motion around this almost stationary earth.

Biological anomalies manifest in patterns suggesting organized rather than random occurrence. Something killed sheep at Ennerdale in 1810 by biting jugular veins and draining blood without consuming flesh, behaving unlike any known terrestrial predator. Throughout early 1874 in Ireland, sheep died with throats cut and blood drained, leaving 42 instances across three townlands with footprints long and narrow showing strong claws. At Badminton in 1905, Sergeant Carter of Gloucestershire Police stated definitively that dogs don't suck blood from sheep and leave flesh untouched. Something black and enormous slaughtered sheep at Edale in 1925, leaving carcasses with torn legs, shoulders, heads, broken backs, and ripped flesh. In Russia during 1893, an unknown beast terrorized the Orel Government, attacking predominantly women, sometimes killing and devouring victims. Hunts involving three officers, 130 men, and armies of 1,000 peasants organized by Prince Sherincki failed to locate the creature, which disappeared when war was declared upon it. These biological phenomena cease when publicity intensifies or when organized response reaches certain thresholds, suggesting intelligence beyond animal behavior.

Cyclical patterns pervade Fort's observations. The damned won't stay damned, with salvation preceding perdition in rhythms of heavens and hells. What gets excluded today becomes the excluding tomorrow. New stars were repeatedly discovered by amateurs while professional astronomers failed to observe them despite equipment aimed at relevant sky regions. Nova Pictoris shone as a third magnitude star for 44 nights in May 1925, visible over observatories on four continents, yet professionals photographed it somnambulistically without recognizing it. The June 1918 nova was discovered widely except by astronomers, who required telegram notifications from multiple amateurs before acknowledging it. New stars appear in clusters suggesting eruptions in one region of especially active volcanic land, with Nova Cygni III appearing close to where preceding new stars had erupted. Mysterious disappearances occur in patterns: the Danish training ship Kobenhoven vanished with fifty persons in December 1928, the British Atalanta disappeared with 250 persons in 1880, and the German bark Freya was found abandoned and damaged in October 1902. Coordinated attacks manifest rhythmically, like the twelve men injured in quick succession across different parts of Brooklyn in April 1893, almost all by falling from high places or being struck by falling objects, or the three soldiers struck senseless by unseen forces on successive nights in Colchester, England, in April 1911.

Continuity renders all systematic attempts provisional. Islands appear distinct in a dark sea yet remain projections from the same ocean floor, their apparent individuality an illusion of incomplete perception. Human individuals exist not as discrete entities but as localized expressions within an inter continuous nexus, continuous with environment, merging into infinitudes of interdependent complexes. All motion expresses equilibrating rather than equilibrium. All being constitutes intermediate failure between absolute success and absolute failure. This existence functions as embryonic organism developing toward states unrealized, with phenomena corresponding to metabolic processes where positivizing and negativizing conflicts maintain the hyphenated condition. Certainty uncertainty, good badness, order disorder pervade without resolution into either extreme. The mathematical and regular characterize the Universal alone, while local phenomena express only approximations corrupted by external forces preventing complete systematization. Science operates through hypnosis rather than proof, compelling belief through dominant force rather than demonstration, since nothing can be proved where no positive standards exist for judgment. Acceptance replaces belief as methodology because cells in embryos assume different appearances across developmental eras, with firmly established forms resisting change and impeding development. Temporary acceptance facilitates adaptation where rigid belief ossifies. Fort assembles excluded data through conventional methods of theologians, savages, scientists, and children because no positively different methods exist where all phenomena merge continuously. The quest involves not absolute knowledge but higher approximations to organization and consistency than preceded them. Truth, beauty, justice, and all idealized states remain realizable only in the Universal, that besides which nothing else exists. Local attempts to achieve these states through exclusion and boundary drawing fail inevitably due to relations with outside forces, yet phenomena must attempt such positiveness to achieve even quasi being. This creates the paradox animating existence: all things attempting to become universal by excluding other things, though exclusion itself prevents universalization.

Bibliography (All of Fort's Books to be posted in the Private Group Soon)
"The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Volume 1" (The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, Wild Talents)
"The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Volume 2"

Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe | Rudolf Steiner
April 9—May 16, 1920, GA 201
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA201/English/RSP1972/

Lecture is also known as: Mystery of the Universe The Human Being Image of Creation
Lecture Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlDL-W0EVzM

Excerpts gathered from: The Celestial Ethers & Plasma by Douglas Gabriel

Lecture I
"Man can find absolutely nothing in the Universe unless he finds it first in himself. He does not experience, for instance, the assuming of the upright position, being in the vertical; and so, he is not aware that he is in a vertical position for the simple reason that he moves together with the Earth in a certain direction which adheres to the vertical. Neither does he know that he makes his breathing movements, his digestive and eating movements, as well as other movements, in a direction through which the Earth also moves in a certain line. All this adherence to certain directions of movement implies an adaptation, a fitting into, the movements of the Universe."

"The ability to think of the Universe as an organism depends on our learning to understand the hieroglyph of the organism we have before us. We must learn to perceive Man as a hieroglyph of the Universe, for he gives us the opportunity of seeing near at hand how different are above and below, left and right, before and behind. We must learn this first in Man, and we shall then find it in the Universe."

Lecture II
"At the present period in human thought we compress the whole world within abstract lines of space, standing perpendicular to one another and forming the three dimensions of space, whereas in its life aspect this three-dimensional world proves to be much more complicated and much more concrete."

"After yesterday's suggestions, Dr. Stein has taken the trouble to construct a model showing the movements which result when we follow Man together with the Earth, or in other words the movement of the Earth taken in its absolute sense. If instead of following this time the motion of plant-forces in spirals, I follow the movements described by Man with the Earth, I again come upon a spiral, but one which is progressive. This spiral gives us an illustration of the real movement of the Earth at one and the same time or picture of the Sun. Suppose for a moment that the Earth is here and the Sun there. An observer sees the Sun in this direction. (see diagram) The Earth progresses, but exactly in a line behind the Sun. When the Earth is here, the observer now sees the Sun in another direction. The Sun advances still further, the Earth follows, and once again the observer sees the Sun in the other direction. That is to say, he sees the Sun at one time on the right, and another time on the left, owing to the way in which the Earth follows the Sun."

"The Earth moves behind the Sun in a screw-like line, the Earth moving along always with the Sun. And if we view the line from above, we get a projection of the line, and the projection shows a lemniscate."

"Now, all this will make it clear that we can certainly speak of a daily motion of the Earth around her axis, but by no means of a yearly motion of the Earth around the Sun. For the Earth follows the Sun, describing the same path."

"Various other facts show that we have no right to speak of such a revolution. That line which should be apparent to us, and which would correspond to the progressive motion of the Earth in her relation to the Sun, is not to be found [in scientific calculations or theory]."

"It is in a spiral, screw-like path that the Earth follows the Sun, boring her way, as it were, into cosmic space."

"I have already indicated, however, that there is another movement which manifests in the phenomena of the Precession of the Equinoxes—the movement of the point of sunrise at the Spring-equinox through the Zodiac, once in 25,920 years. When the vernal equinox has come back again to the same place, the alterations that will have taken place in the whole human race are such that the human form will be quite dissimilar to what it is now."

"...Man, as he now is, built up in accordance with the forces of the periphery and of inner movement, with the forces too of the organs and of the metabolic system, is complete and finished in his dependence on the forces from without; and now he is able, with his complete and finished organization, to sever himself from this connection."

Lecture III
"If we thus seek in the world outside what we experience inwardly, we come indeed to the feeling that we are not

"The Moon however is to be referred to as quite another world, which is, as it were, inserted into ours, and which indicates the breathing process of our Universe, as the Sun indicates the interpenetration of our Universe by the [Cosmic] Ether."

"For one must be quite clear that Sun matter, and any other matter, Earth matter for instance, can under no circumstances be brought into a simple relationship; because the matter of the Sun is, in comparison with the matter of the Earth, something absorbing and sucking, while the latter exerts pressure. The motions which express themselves in nutation are motions proceeding from the astral world, and not from anything that can be found in Newton's principles."

Lecture IV
"This, however, obliges us to conclude that we cannot speak of a revolution in an elliptical path of the Earth around the Sun, for if the attraction be mutual, we cannot have a one-sided motion of the Earth around the Sun, but both must revolve round a neutral point. In other words, this revolution cannot take place in a manner that would allow us to look on the Sun's center as the pivot, but the pivot must be a neutral point situated between the center of the Sun and the center of the Earth [the barycenter of the solar system]."

"And in this we have to do not only with an aggregation (in the Sun) of this absorbent ether in the outer Universe, but also with the fact that this ether is distributed far and wide, everywhere to be found, coexisting with the force of pressure, the absorbent force. We ourselves carry this force of suction in our own etheric bodies."

"One must learn to regard the present conception of the world as an absolute delusion."

Lecture IV
"The fundamental nature and construction of the Universe cannot be conceived in its reality without continual reference to Man. Again and again, we must try to find in the Universe outside, what exists in one way or another in Man."

"I have already often drawn your attention to this correspondence between Man and the world in which he evolves. I have pointed to the fact that Man, in his rhythm of breathing—18 per minute—manifests something that is in remarkable accord with other processes of the Universe. We make 18 respirations per minute, which gives when calculated for the day, 25,920 respirations. And we arrive at the same number when we calculate how many times the sun rises at a normal life term of 72 years. That also gives about 25,920 days; so that something may be said to exhale our astral body and on falling asleep and inhale them again upon waking—always in conformity with the same number rhythm."

"Take the 18 respirations per minute, making 1,080 per hour and in 24 hours 25,920 respirations; that is, we must multiply: 18 X 60 X 24 in order to arrive at 25,920."

"Thus, when we multiply 72 years by 365, and consider the human span of life as one day, we have the human life as one day of the Macrocosm. Man is breathed out, as it were, from the Macrocosm; his life is one day in the macrocosmic year."

"...This revolution, this circle described by the Precession of the Equinoxes, indicating the macrocosmic year, as already known to the Egyptians thousands of years ago (for they looked upon this period of 72 years as very important), this apparent revolution of the Vernal point is connected with the life and death of Man in the Universe—with the life and death, that is, of the Macrocosm."

"We have, thus, three worlds interpenetrating one another, inter-related; but we must not attempt simply to combine these worlds from the point of view of causality. Three worlds, a three-fold world, as Man is a three-fold being; one, the world of sense surrounding us, the world we perceive; a second world whose presence is indicated to us by the motions of the Moon; and a third which makes itself known to us by the motion of the equinoctial point, or we might say, by the path of the Sun. This third world indeed remains about as unknown to us as the world of our own willpower is unknown to our ordinary consciousness."

"This has been interpreted as demonstrating that the Sun stands still, and the Earth revolves round it. In reality, it is not so; the Earth moves along behind the Sun. The observer sees the Sun to the right when the latter has arrived at one point of the spiral path, while the Earth is here. Next, he sees the Sun to the left, then again right, then left, and so on. All this gives the observer, who judges by outward appearances and loses sight of his own movement, the impression that the Earth revolves round the Sun."

"From this you will realize how great a possibility of deception arises when one judges by exterior appearances; for here indeed a relativity of motion exists. We can really affirm that those who now calculate the apparent motion of the Sun do not perceive their own motion and omit to take into consideration the relation between the Sun and the Earth."

"I should like you to try to form a true idea of what I have said about course or motion in a screw-like line, because one can visualize, in a model such as this, the fact of the Earth following in the wake of the Sun; and then we shall be able to go on to what I should like us to attain tomorrow, namely a true understanding of the facts before us."

"But I will show you first how to gain a conception of the true relation of the Earth to the Sun—that the Earth actually follows the Sun in its path—by searching for the one thing that will show us this relationship, namely certain processes in the human organism connected with the representative of the Sun in man—the human heart. For it is by taking our start from the knowledge of Man that we must seek to attain to a knowledge of the Universe."

"We only learn the significance of certain connections which we read from the stars, when we understand the corresponding processes in our organism; for what lies within our skin is no other than a reflection of the organism of the outer world."

"Look at the principal course of the blood-vessels in the human organism. Seen from above it is like a looped line. Instead of drawing it, we should follow the hieroglyphs inscribed in our own selves; for then we would learn to understand the nature of the qualities in the Universe outside.

The heart does not work like a pump driving blood through the body, but that the heart is moved by the circulation, which is itself a living thing, and the circulation is in its turn conditioned by the organs. The heart, as can be followed in embryology, is really nothing more than a product of the blood's circulation."

"Just as the movement of the heart is the product of the life-force of the circulation, so the Sun is no other than the product of the whole Planetary System. The Sun is the result, not the point of departure. The living co-operation of the solar system produces in the center a hollow, which reflects as a mirror. That is the Sun! I have often said that the physicist would be greatly astonished if he could travel to the Sun and find there nothing of what he now imagines, but simply a hollow space; nay, even a hollow space of suction which annihilates everything within it. A space indeed, that is less than hollow. A hollow space of such a nature is less than hollow space merely receives what is put into it, but the Sun is a hollow space of such a nature that anything brought to it is immediately absorbed and disappears. There, in the Sun, is not only nothing, but less than nothing. What shines to us in the light is the reflection of what first comes in from Cosmic space—just as the movement really within our self at all, but that with our real Ego we are in the Universe, poured out into the Universe. Instead of searching behind the external Universe for 'vibrations', the atomists should seek their own Ego behind the phenomena and then try to find out how their own Ego is placed into the outer Universe is, as it were, poured out into it. Just as with color, we should try to ascertain whether we feel we must plunge into it or whether we feel ourselves repelled by it, so, as regards the structure of our organism, we should feel how the three directions, above and below, forwards and backwards, right and left, differ concretely from one another; we should feel how differently we experience them inwardly, when we project ourselves into the Universe. When we are aware of ourselves as Man standing on the Earth, surrounded by the planets and fixed stars, we begin to feel ourselves as part of all these; it is not a matter merely of drawing three dimensions at right angles, but of thinking concretely about the Cosmos and penetrating into the concrete reality of the dimensions."

"We distinguish in some way what takes place in the four realms,—what is above and below the plane of the Zodiac (Willpower), and what is right and left of the plane (Feeling); or again, we can consider what lies on this or on the other side of the plane (Thinking). We feel that something is connected with this differentiation, something of cosmic happening, namely, that which manifests in recapitulation, as we have it for instance in what we designate as the "course of the year."

"Man was at one time, as regards his inner conditions, bound to the outer course of the Universe, but he has broken away from it. Civilized Man today has almost entirely broken away from the course of outer Nature."

"And again, when we consider how the Sun moves—whether apparently or in reality, does not matter—advancing a little each year in what we call the Precession of the Equinoxes, when we consider the number of years it takes the Sun to make this journey round the whole Zodiac, once more we get 25,920 years—the Platonic Year."

"...We can in actual reality observe the 'breathing' of the Macrocosm. We only need to notice the path of the Moon in 18 years or, in other words, the Nutation of the Earth's axis [Chandler wobble]. The Earth dances, and she dances in such a manner as to describe a cone, a double cone, in 18 years and this dancing is a reflection of the macrocosmic breathing. This takes place just as many times in the macrocosmic year as the 18 human respirations during the microcosmic day of 24 hours. So, we really have one macrocosmic respiration per minute in this Nutation movement. In other words, we look into this breathing of the Macrocosm through this Nutation movement of the Moon, and we have before us what corresponds to respiration in man."

"We have therefore not only to consider a world which is spread out before us, but another world which projects into, and permeates our own."

"Just as we have before us a second part of the human organism, when observing the breathing process, namely the rhythmic man, as opposed to the perceptive or head man, so we have in what appears as the yearly Moon motion, or rather the 18-year motion of the Moon [node], the identity between one year and one human respiration; we have this second world interpenetrating our own."

"The Sun is not a ball of gas; but in that place where the Sun is, there is something less than empty space—a sucking, absorbing body, in fact, while all around it is that which exerts pressure. Consequently, in that which comes to us from the Sun we have not to do with anything constituting a product of combustion in the Sun; but all that has been transmitted to the Sun from the Universe is raged back."

"Where the Sun is, is emptier than empty space. This can be said of all parts of the Universe where we find Ether."

"In the same way, not only does matter become empty space, but it becomes negative, less than nothing—emptier than emptiness: it assumes a 'sucking' nature. Ether is sucking, absorbing. Matter presses. Ether absorbs. The Sun is an absorbing, sucking ball, and wherever Ether is present we have this absorbent force."

"Here we step over into the other side, the other aspect of three-dimensional space—we pass from pressure to suction. That which immediately surrounds us in this world, that of which we are constituted as physical man and etheric man, is both pressing and sucking or absorbing. We are a combination of both, whereas the Sun possesses the power of suction only, being nothing but ether, nothing but suction. It is the undulating wave of pressure and suction, ponderable matter and ether, that forms in its alternation a living organization. And the living organism continually breathes in the astral; the breathing expresses itself through the Moon motion. And here we begin to divine a second member or principle of the world's construction; the one member—pressure and suction, physical and etheric; the other, the second—astral. The astral is neither physical nor etheric but is continually inhaled and exhaled; and the nutation demonstrates this process."

"Briefly, the facts are that if we notice the path of a fixed star and notice the point where the Sun stands over it, we find that at the end of 72 years the star occupies the same position on the 30th of December, while the Sun only reaches that point again on the 31st December. The Sun has lost a day. After a lapse of 25,920 years, this loss is so great that the Sun has described a complete revolution [around the zodiac] and once again is back upon the place we noted. We see therefore that in 72 years the Sun is one day behind the fixed stars. Now these 72 years are approximately the normal life period of Man, and they are composed of 25,920 days."

"Thus, when we multiply 72 years by 365, and consider the human span of life as one day, we have the human life as one day of the Macrocosm. Man is breathed out, as it were, from the Macrocosm; his life is one day in the macrocosmic year."

"...This revolution, this circle described by the Precession of the Equinoxes, indicating the macrocosmic year, as already known to the Egyptians thousands of years ago (for they looked upon this period of 72 years as very important), this apparent revolution of the Vernal point is connected with the life and death of Man in the Universe—with the life and death, that is, of the Macrocosm."

"We have, thus, three worlds interpenetrating one another, inter-related; but we must not attempt simply to combine these worlds from the point of view of causality. Three worlds, a three-fold world, as Man is a three-fold being; one, the world of sense surrounding us, the world we perceive; a second world whose presence is indicated to us by the motions of the Moon; and a third which makes itself known to us by the motion of the equinoctial point, or we might say, by the path of the Sun. This third world indeed remains about as unknown to us as the world of our own willpower is unknown to our ordinary consciousness."

Zodiac - Complete form
World of the Planets - Internal Motions
World of the Elements - Activity of the Organs
Earth - Metabolism

"And now consider, if we understand the form of Man in all its nature and conditions, and find the possibility of tracing it back to the Zodiac—that is, to the world of fixed stars—then and then only are we able to form, from Man, an idea of all that is visible to us in surrounding space; for it cannot be investigated by mechanical or mathematical means, but only through a knowledge of the complete form of Man. Neither are planetary motions to be examined merely by means of a telescope. With a telescope one finds their positions—setting it first to one star and then to the other, finding the angle, and in this way discovering the positions. What is actually present in the processes of the Planet-World is something that is formed from within outwards. It is by a study of the activities in the saps and juices in Man that we shall learn to understand the planetary motions. Similarly, if we comprehend our own organic activities we shall also understand what goes on in the Elemental world; and when we are able to understand what happens in Man in the moment when earthly substance is introduced into his metabolic system, we shall possess the key to the Earth activities and be able to separate them spatially from all extra-earthly activities."

Subnature and supernature in of the physiology of the plant and man - The real Basics of nutrition | Ehrenfried Pfeiffer

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"It was my endeavor when I was a young person in the year 1919 came here to Dornach, 1920, 1921, here as a monastery and apprentice, as they say, did all the work, it was my endeavor, at that time, a very specific thought, a very specific questionto Rudolf Steiner. The thought was this: If today's civilization is transformed by the Applications of energies, physical energies, the means electricity, magnetism and other energies - the Atomic energy had not yet been discovered - leading to this because the in lies in the nature of these energies, which only serve to decompose, to disintegrate can lead to disintegration, as is the case in the application of these energies, even in technology ultimately is that they can only lead to decay, that it would be necessary to channel an energy of life into the technology to now use this energy, which Lawfulness of structure, of life within itself naturally carries such thoughts into people, could trigger sensations and will impulses that we now, instead of technically destroying, disintegrating, bomb,that we now learned to equilibrate that we learned to build, synthesize, grow, develop.

That was the question I asked Rudolf Steiner whether there was a such energy that one then releases into the world from the Goetheanum could carry as the answer, as a building up, as a Counter-answer to the dismantling. Rudolf Steiner then pointed out that this energy in certain material implementations in human body could be studied. He pointed out that this energy is generally what we the ethereal Image forces, the etheric body, Heat ether, light ether and so on. I I am not referring to the courses and lectures, but to the direct answer to this problem. It was my thought that Question: whether not by a discovery and application of such energies it would be possible to establish a social technique and social order to create. Rudolf Steiner's answer was that he A few very simple experiments suggested, which I then carried out for him and he from whose course said he had the answer of the spiritual world through the experiments and the answer was: It is not yet time that this ethereal energy is made known and can be introduced. I was then obliged to to keep the whole area completely silent, and I am still today still according to Rudolf Steiner's instructions obligated. But I then asked: what are the conditions, that the spiritual world agrees that the customer of this new energy can be researched, known and possibly applied? Then Rudolf Steiner said - and this is the reason why I would like to present at least this part of the answer, also with the thought that perhaps another time this will no longer be can do -: A condition, so that these Energy is not abused, is that a social Order in the sense of the three-partition idea would have to take place, at least in a small area on Earth a consistent social order in the spirit of the spiritual be carried out. It would not be the spiritual world that give consent that these ethereal energies are only would be discovered unless that happened.