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It's been a year since founding the International Space Sciences
Organization, an enterprise pursuing breakthrough understandings in
science.
We are studying the ideas encountered at the leading edge of physics and
consciousness research. In 1999, ISSO Science has begun to organize its
experimental agenda; and has since been following many promising paths of
hypothesis and test. We believe that a few years of concentrated and
structured studies can yield several remarkable insights in physics, with
significant implications for 21st century society.
We als'o recognize a responsibility to create educational and entertaining
programming to convey the wonders and dangers ,of scientific knowledge to
minds everywhere, enriching with the sense of spiritual meaning which
science can, yet does not often, uniquely convey. The ISSO Studio team is
just beginning to form, but our first productions have been underway for
some time. Stay tuned through 2000.
Having invested much of my greatly exaggerated net worth to bring ISSO to
this point, I'm in ~he process of raising capital for our projects, and one
first private briefing has been held. The group that gathered on October 12
talked about a whole range of ,different still-early concepts, but at the
center rested ~his point: physics does not have answers to its most
important questions, yet. There are profound implications following from
this fact. Our understanding of Nature progresses in successive
approximations of resolution, revealing her most potent secrets only when
we
are ready. This is why Neanderthals didn't obtain access to nuclear forces
to settle arguments overland, food, and ,mates.
What can be seen in the leading edges of physics and consciousness
research;
not to mention in the evening news, suggests to me that education in
spiritually integrating science is about as high a global priority as can
be
imagined.
One final note on the subject of positively influencing human affairs. The
Carl Sagan Foundation (CSF) , a not-for-profit organization, has been formed
in memory of one of the greatest visionaries who ever lived. Founded by
Carl's wife and partner, Ann Druyan, CSF is presently raising capital for a
pioneering effort to transform the healing environment within a new
children's hospital in the Bronx. Images of Cosmos and new learning tools
from science have been designed into its walls, floors, ceilings, and
systems, turning the sterile and frightening landscape of the hospital into
a place of discovery and inspiration. '
I have been privileged to make the first $1 million contribution to CSF. I
hope that others approached by Ann's team can' find room in their hearts for
a gift to the children to be touched by this effort, establishing a model
for children's hospitals around the world, and expressing thanks for Carl
Sagan's inspiration.
Stay well,