The Numinous Way and Galactic Exploration
One of the fundamental aims of the new way of life which is The Numinous Way is to create an entirely new type of society. This new society would be based upon the principles of Cosmic Ethics, and thus upon the law of personal honour. In addition, and as explained in other essays, it would be a rural society, of a small size in comparison to all modern States and nations.
Thus, this numinus community would most certainly not involve large national or supra-national industries, as it would not be reliant upon the usury, and the supra-national trade and commerce, which all modern States and nations depend upon.
Instead, a new type of technology - and thus a new type of industry - would be developed, for The Numinous Way both in principle and in practice is opposed to the exploitation of the Earth - and the exploitation of the living beings of the Earth - which exploitation is inseparable from capitalism and the modern industries, and technologies, deriving from, and dependant, upon capitalism and supra-national commerce.
This new, acausal, technology - which The Numinous Way seeks to develope - would work in harmony with Nature just as it would eschew any and all exploitation both of our natural resources and the livings beings, both human and otherwise, which inhabit this planet which is our home. For this acausal technology would not require the urban way of living which now dominates the modern world.
It is this new acausal technology which can - some time in the not
too
distant future - create the means we need to explore and settle the new
frontier which is Outer Space.
The New Acausal Technology:
The basis for the new acausal technology is the science of causal
and acausal. This new science is firmly based upon the
principles
of Cosmic Ethics just as it represents the cosmic world-view which
underlies
The Numinous Way itself. The essence of this new, experimental,
and
cosmic science is the apprehension of Unity: that is, the moral, the
honourable,
quest for wisdom and understanding based
as such a quest is upon the empathy inherent in Folk Culture.
In respect of Space Travel, there are two possibilities. The first is the development of entirely new machines which generate and use acausal energy, and then the further development of the new technology underlying such machines in order to use acausal energy as the source of propulsion.
The second is the development of living, organic machines [see Acausal Science ] - of which a prime candidate is a thinking, living, computer - and thus the creation, or discovery, of a new type of being capable of travelling among the stars.
Of these two, the most likely - at least in foreseeable future - is
the development of machines which use acausal energy as a means of
propulsion.
David Myatt