« Researchers and inventors give
humanity weapons, encouraging their aggressive instincts, but they also give
them comfort, encouraging their instinct for laziness. Do they have anything to
be happy and proud of in providing people with so many ways to destroy
themselves? When humans are not annihilating one another with weapons, they are
slowly losing both their physical resistance and their psychic faculties
because of all the devices they have at their disposal sparing them all effort.
On the face of it, this is progress: yes, the machines are progressing, but not
humans! Humans are becoming weaker. This is why those who think about things,
including some scientists, are increasingly beginning to doubt whether all this
technical progress is contributing to the good of humanity.
Obviously, there is no question
of putting a stop to technical progress: it is Cosmic Intelligence that is
encouraging humans to conduct research. We must never stop seeking, inventing;
we mustn’t neglect any of the possibilities offered to us by physical matter.
What we do need to do is take scientific research in a different direction.
For, actually, when humans have learned how to work on their psychic matter,
they will be able to make full and good use of all the riches to be found on
the physical level. Technical progress will only be true progress for them if,
alongside it, they also look within and place their efforts under the authority
of spirit. »
~ Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov ~
