Time & the Technosphere Book Review

I first got acquainted with the name of scientist, José Argüelles when I read frogdropping's hub, 2012 End of the World. Later, because I was interested in the topic of the Mayan 2012 end-of-the-world prediction, she suggested I read Argüelles's book, The Mayan Factor. Because that book was unavailable for me at the time I chose to read his 2002 book, the Time & the Technosphere: The Law of Time in Human Affairs.

The book was an extremely hard read for me, as it is a scientific work. But it does not remain within the boundaries of modern conventional science, but rather invents a science of its own - the science of time.

Argüelles presents us with a new concept of time in which time does not reside withing the first three dimensions of space known to us via sensory perception, but rather it is a new fourth dimension in itself. He called this concept the Law of Time and included in it his revolutionary approach of how we as human beings should perceive and measure our time so as to live and function in sync with the cosmic all-encompassing time of the universe.

Argüelles has been fascinated with the life's work of the Russian scientist V. I. Vernadsky (1863-1945) who invented and defined the concept of the biosphere as "the entirety of life as a single coherent unity, inclusive of its inorganic or semi-inert support systems such as the atmosphere and the hydrosphere" and so gave us a more precise and scientific understanding of what used to be referred to as the environment.

The significance of Vernadsky's work, however, lies in his mapping and forecasting of human evolution as a progression from what he called the biosphere to what the French scientist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called the noosphere, defined by him only as "the mental envelope of the planet above and discontinuous with the biosphere". In Vernadsky's thought, however, it is the entirety of the biosphere itself that evokes the noosphere. What this means is that mankind is in a progression towards higher, and possibly collective, consciousness. How does this relate to Argüelles's theory of the Law of time?

Without even attempting to summarize Argüelles's reasoning in very simple terms, suffice it to say that time is not what we think it is - it's not the same as duration. Each individual's consciousness is part of a collective conscience the source of which is in the fourth dimension of time. This time is not linear, as it is perceived by modern science, but rather radial or cyclic, meaning it's projected out of a source - possibly the core or a star, -  in a circular pattern and remains static, unchanged and motionless at every time or rather regardless of what locus of time you are at in space.

In other words, conscience is a function of time and is governed by the patterns of time, meaning nothing in our life - or even in the entirety of the biosphere - happens at random. We humans can feel the truth of this and at some point of our life even see the patterns and chain of events that led up to that point.

k@ri in her hub, Does Life Have Purpose?, writes:

"I could give you many examples of how seemingly random actions actually have purpose. It may take years to see the outcome of random happenings and recognize purpose. Looking back, over the years, I can see the patterns that connect various unrelated events in my life."

She also talks about how quantum mechanics proves the inevitability of how our conscious intent changes the outcome of seemingly random happenings of the past.

Those who wish to understand this concept are advised to read Argüelles's book, Time & the Technosphere: The Law of Time in Human Affairs. The promise of the book is a better and more fruitful conduct of everyday life made possible by a different measurement and organization of our time as well as, on the large scale, a way for mankind to reach the higher consciousness of the noosphere.

If you are now really to understand the concept - not just intellectually, but also spiritually and in body and soul, in a word, completely - your consciousness must risk a leap. In its profundity, this thought is simply not accessible to the contemporary abstract understanding. The book contains a warning for the reader: you must, for once, turn off the continual din of reason and listen with the ear of the heart.

Two worlds are met with here: on the one hand a timeless world, lying beyond reason, prehistorical and beyond history, - science will one day reach this world, but it won't be today's science, - and on the other hand a time-bound, historical world, that is chained to dialectical reason. Between them, there is no gradual passage now, but an abyss, which you must leap over. Nothing more is required here than revolutionary thought, a return to what once was understood. The modern astronomer will not understand the ancient astrologer, the modern priest will not understand the Egyptian hierophant, the philosopher will not understand the initiate, the chemist will never understand the alchemist.

I expect that reading this book may help anyone to make the 2012 paradigm shift, if you believe there will be one. We shall live in the supernatural. And yes, supernatural is nothing more than what the name suggests: something beside/above/beyond nature, governing nature. No one really thinks it's only nature that exist, do we?

Finally, I will leave you with a passage from the book, which might be of interest to those markknowlesian reason-, logic- and evidence-worshippers to whom this hub most certainly was of but little amusement. Yes, some aspects of the theory have already been proven. And you most certainly understand that without new provocative thoughts, ones of which evidence is yet to be found, there wouldn't be any movement or progression in our life.

"The noted Russian astrophysicist N. A. Kozyrev (1908-1983), whose work began half a century ago with the theory of the internal structure of stars, later conducted a famous series of experiments using telescopes, mirrors, and aluminum, in which he was able to confirm a receipt of information from distant galaxies prior to the time it took the information to arrive via light as a physical medium. In Kozyrev's own words: "The tests proved the existence of the effects through time of one material system upon another. This effect does not transmit a pulse (momentum), meaning it does not propagate but appears simultaneously in any material system. In this manner, in principle it proves possible to have a momentary relationship and a momentary transmission of information. Time accomplishes a relationship between all phenomena of nature and participates actively in them. Time contains the entire universe of still unexplored phenomena. The results of these experiments led Kozyrev to various conclusions, among them that time and duration are not the same thing, and that the velocity of time is instantaneously infinite. This being so, time must also be the factor or medium that accounts for the experiences of telepathy or other paranormal phenomena. A second, most provocative conclusion derived from his experiments is that time is actually generated as an instantaneous and even simultaneously radial transmission of information from the core of stars, a fact confirmed by the Law of Time's description of the synchronic order of time as being radial in nature."

If these conclusions are a bit far-fetched, if anything, the experiment proved that the medium of information transmission is non-physical or perceptible as such, and the transmission is probably instantanious. In other words, what you do or think right here and now will immediately and for eternity affect everything that was, is or will be in space and time.