Their history and chronology only consists of two eras: the
Just writing about all this gives me goose bumps. Every single time I hear them or think about them, they seem unbelievable to me. All the knowledge that stemmed from science and the metaphysical beliefs of the ancient—to them—times has been concentrated, adapted and reshaped to create something single and united: Volkic preaching. Dogmatic faith— or rather the dogmatic part of all religions— has been replaced but without tampering with its substance. Quite the opposite, since religions were exempt from the age-old burden of simplistic details that had obviously been inspired by the human mind. As a result, the moral and emotional elements and treasures of every religion then came to the surface and were finally highlighted. So here, religion no longer becomes subject to criticism or questioning after each scientific progress and breakthrough. It doesn’t get “refuted” every now and again and it’s no longer forced to constantly and desperately defend itself.
He continued, citing as an example the fact that cremation was now more widespread and that those alive no longer expected “to be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” He quoted the Bible word for word! I couldn’t hold back my laughter when the words came out of his mouth... This man has his ways…
He says that maintaining the self-consciousness of the ego is now enough to save them from the threat of the old narrow and finite biological destiny of humans. So the death and decay of the body doesn’t matter to them anymore.
“Did man of the ancient, unenlightened years,” he asked, “mind the findings of biological research, which showed that every seven years there remains nothing of a human’s material self since all our body cells are renewed?” At this point, even the youngsters laughed.
He mentioned familiar names, like Nietzsche who, in Lain’s words, tried to "destroy every spiritual value and affect the validity all previous spiritual victories ", and Darwin whose mistake was “his excessive belief in the cognitive abilities of man.”
“The Darwinian Theory is indeed compatible with the divine gift of life,” he said, “but only if you see it as a separate, individual point of view instead of the absolute truth. Because, in that case, you ignore the millions of different species of rational living creatures that inhabit millions of other planets. But I guess that’s how it goes… Just like the
He also said that thanks to this divine element of undiagnosed texture, all the species of the universe tend to rise higher and higher, both spiritually and intellectually speaking, having managed from a bestial state of organic matter to end up creating a whole history of culture. Coming to the end of the lesson, he spoke again about the “self-cultivation of the spirit" that goes together with overall biological evolution.
HOW TO LIVE ACCORDING TO PROFESSOR LAIN
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