We Choose to Go to the Moon

Many years ago, the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, “Because it is there.” Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb...

A Lonely Speck in the Great Enveloping Cosmic Dark

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in...

Source: Pale Blue Dot  by Carl Sagan

The Earth May Now Be a Mere Planet Moving Around the Sun

The earth may now be a mere planet moving around the sun, but man is no longer confined to it. His spiritual energy, his reason, his brain power, his psyche, his consciousness have become the center and the purpose of...

Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World  by Frank E. Manuel

A Radical Change to Astronomy and Cosmology

The years when Jesuits established their first schools coincided with the beginning of the so-called scientific revolution and the origin of modern science. In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus had published his book, De revolutionibus orbium celestium, in which he proposed the...

Source: Jesuit Contribution to Science  by Agustín Udías

The Greatest Change in the Mind of Man Since the Dawn of Creation

It may be postulated that this single bit of physical awareness brought about the greatest change in the mind of man since the dawn of creation. Before Magellan's time, mankind had simply accepted as self-evident the fact that there was...

Source: JFK  by L. Fletcher Prouty

Reverse the Vacuum and Blow the Air Back onto the Planet

We’ve got to act fast. Step one, we reverse the vacuum and blow the air back onto the planet.

Source: Spaceballs

Novus Ordo Seclorum

The new reality they sought was radically secular and stridently simple. The ideal was not the balanced complexity of the new American federation, but the occult simplicity of its great seal: an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid over the words...

Source: Fire in the Minds of Men  by James H. Billington

That Pain Won’t Stop Until the Twin Towers Come Crumbling Down

I can still feel the pain right now and Hulk Hogan that pain won’t stop until the twin towers come crumbling down

Some Catastrophic and Catalyzing Event

Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.

US Superior Military Strength and Intelligence Hegemony

US superior military strength and intelligence hegemony can only be transformed into power and real global strength if there are conflicts – wars and terrorist attacks – that threaten the multipolar world order of the civilian economic-political system.

Such Catalytic Events Afforded Precious Opportunities

Both foundation network-building and the rise of America to globalism were also symbiotically connected to catalytic global events: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, for example; the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 and the...

2001 Is a Nonverbal Experience

Playboy: One critic even called 2001 “the first Nietzschean film,” contending that its essential theme is Nietzsche’s concept of man’s evolution from ape to human to superman. What was the metaphysical message of 2001? Kubrick: It’s not a message that...

A Perfect Secular Order Will Emerge

Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were the Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority.

Source: Fire in the Minds of Men  by James H. Billington

A New Idea Disturbs the Existing Stock of Ideas

Thus, we may say that a new idea disturbs the existing stock of ideas and distorts the accepted frame of reference. In our endeavor to restore the former coherence and balance, to remedy the disturbing situation, we are compelled to...

Source: Nature and Human Nature  by Lawrence K. Frank

A New Way of Looking at the Universe

A NEW way of looking at the universe and man's place in it was urged upon the scientific world by Lawrence K. Frank, of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, New York, before the American Association for the Advancement of Science....