Dwapara Trinity - politics, religious discension and scientific discovery

In his new book, The Invention of Air, author Steven Johnson relates the story of Joseph Priestley—scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin, friend of Thomas Jefferson—an eighteenth-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the discovery of oxygen, the founding of the Unitarian Church (rejecting the Trinity), and the intellectual development of the United States.

In the 1780s, Priestley had established himself in his native England as a brilliant scientist, a prominent minister, and an outspoken advocate of the American Revolution, who had sustained long correspondences with Franklin, Jefferson, and John Adams. Ultimately, his radicalism made his life politically uncomfortable, and he fled to the nascent United States. Here, he was able to build conceptual bridges linking the scientific, political, and religious impulses that governed his life. And through his close relationships with the Founding Fathers—Jefferson credited Priestley as the man who prevented him from abandoning Christianity—he exerted profound if little-known influence on the shape and course of our history.

In so doing, Priestly was an unacknowledged Founding Father of the United States and his life story makes him a Founding Father of Dwapara Yuga combining the elements that define the age:
- Casting off political oppression - praise for US and French Revolutions
- Casting off religious oppression - dogmatic acceptance of Trinity in 'mainstream' Christianity
- Understanding the deeper nature of the world and communicating it openly and widely in a manner reminiscent of today's Open Source movements

Dwapara Yuga: Behind the many, one

As any student of traditional martial arts knows, behind the exotic Chinese, Thai, Brazilian vocabulary, one finds the same 'kick', 'punch', 'throw' and greater or lesser vocabularies of physically possible movements and counter movements.

Similarly, in any profession behind the technical jargon and obfuscation are hidden a small number of defining principles the knowledge of which drives fee rates. Senior corporate management are often drawn from consulting or accounting companies whose partners have seen enough variants in different companies to discern the patterns and apply them for themselves e.g. layoff employees, increase productivity short term, raise stock prices, cash out options and move on, or another such as price, quality, timeliness, pick any two!

In the book Civilization One: The World Is Not as You Thought It Was, the authors show that ancient units of length, weight and time (beginning with stone circles in Britain) were derived from astronomical data illustrating a level of knowledge only recently reached by ourselves. Further, they show that our modern Imperial and indeed metric systems have the same bases: new expressions of astronomical constants.

In Kriya Yoga, with Babaji and Lahiri Mahasaya, we have an ancient technique linking the breath to evolution in a spiritual sense, a constant of our bodies and this world, which recurs throughout history and geography, changing only its names and outer forms from Christianity to Buddhism to Islam and beyond. Seven lampstands or seven energy centers, spirit or breath, once the formula is known the names of the variables are of no consequence.

This esoteric constancy is the mirror of the exoteric constant of one God worshipped in many forms and ceremonies, often a reflection of the worshippers: an angry God for the angry, a compassionate one for the compassionate and a golden opportunity for the more Machiavelian of priestly classes to achieve dominance. As Osho once observed, where there are days of carnival and celebration, the background must be one of limitation and oppression. Priestly classes today have forms reflecting 'secular religions' of consumerism, communism, fascism, nationalism, the fading expressions of Kali Yuga thought forms, each exploiting the many for the benefit of a few mafia-family-like instigators.

As the wheel of Dwapara ascends such truths become more and more evident to greater and greater numbers of people transforming and simplifying our relations with one another.

For example, 20 years ago, corporate data centers outstripped anything in the consumer space. Today, the average consumer harnesses such powerful tools from Satellite TV, to an iPhone, to Google, to TurboTax that corporate IT appears archaic and unresponsive. This one generation move has caught many corporations and governments out as they scramble to appear relevant in a world that will no longer tolerate their layers of gatekeepers and self-serving secrecy.

Dwapara Yuga Video Acknowledgements (~3 mins)

Built using iSpeak IT software (apologies to Steven Hawking) and iMac platform from the "Acknowledgements" chapter of the Dwapara Yuga book mixing the author's color photos with historical B&W ones from the Kriya Yoga Lineage.

Also available here on youtube.com

Dwapara Yuga: Birth dates and epochs

In Malcolm Gladwell's recent new book, Outliers, he argues "Superstar Lawyers, Math Whizzes and Software Entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside normal experience -- the outliers of the title. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky -- but all critical to making them who they are."

Incarnation occurs at the precise time and place astrologically compatible with the soul and into a family, group and culture resonating with it.

As the ages ascend and descend, key individuals and groups are tuned into the age, for example in reformers, technologists and meditators presently, following examples such as Yogananda born centuries ahead of his time.

Dwapara book now also available on Amazon Kindle

The Dwapara Book is now available on Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader, a device potentially as revolutionary in the book publishing world as the iPod/iTunes have been in the music publishing world.

Apple is now the #1 retailer of music in the US, passing Wal-Mart in April, 2008.

As the WSJ recently noted, the Kindle, no matter how ground-breaking, is currently out-of-stock following a plug on the powerful "Oprah" TV show.

All of these trends are themselves symptomatic of the space-defeating nature of Dwapara Yuga whereby people are no longer limited to the physical stocks of local stores, or waiting days for national or international shipments but can increasingly access copyrighted information instantly.

Any profits are donated to the One Laptop Per Child Charity (laptop.org) - two donated so far in 2008.