Dwapara Yuga

This blog is an almanac of observations around Dwapara Yuga and Paramhansa Yogananda's teachings. The age of Dwapara can be characterized by a breakdown of the idea of a material world and a growing consciousness of the underlying unity of peoples, energy and nature. The Dwapara community of interest is more than any one family, group, city, race, religion or nation, inclusive of the whole world. Any profits are donated via the One Laptop Per Child Charity. All articles are open to comments.

4/11/09

Dwapara Yuga Space Conquering Machines

A theme of Dwapara Yuga is the breaking down of barriers of space:

1775 First military sub - David Bushnell

1884 First skyscraper - William Le Baron Jenney

1903 Heavier than air flight - Wright Brothers

1942 V2 Rocket - Werner von Braun

1943 Scuba- Jacques-Yves Cousteau

1943 Maunsell Sea Forts - Guy Maunsell

The Maunsell sea forts gave rise to today's oil rigs and perhaps in line with their Dwapara Yuga significance gave rise to pirate radios, rivaling government controlled airwaves in Europe, and one of the first modern micronations, Sealand, mocking the authorities of larger nations with its pomp of flag, passports and currency.

Surprisingly, very little has publicly spun off from the Gulf Wars I and II, although long term it may be perceived as the IT war with so much computer controlled gadgetry being brought into play to lower casualties. Hopefully we wont be building Skynet ;)