Dwapara Yuga Scientist Arthur Eddington

Eddington is famous as the father of modern Astrophysics and popularizer of the works of Einstein to the English speaking public.

Eddington was clear in his writings on the harmony between scientific investigation and religious mysticism, itself a Dwapara Yuga theme.

It was his solar eclipse expedition in 1919 that provided one of the earliest confirmations of Einstein's theories, making front page news and Einstein an international celebrity.

The less well known story of Eddington's expedition is that there had been little enthusiasm for any such work from 1914 onwards because of WWI and the idea that all international cooperation should end and that, as a German, Einstein's theories were not worthy of attention.

Eddington thus became a footnote to the much more widely known story of the Manhattan Project and the dawning of the Nuclear Age in 1945. The atomic bomb was made not by native born Americans but by a team 75% of whom had been born elsewhere. Had such a racist attitude persisted the Allies would never have won the war, leaving National Socialists and Communist Socialists to divide the Earth.

In 1918 the authorities in Britain had gone so far as to want to imprison Eddington for his Pacifist Quaker beliefs and support for international cooperation, denying his legal rights to being an objector of conscience. The 1919 expedition was actually part of a deal to avoid imprisonment.

Eddington first studied Physics at Manchester University, England. Manchester (at the time nicknamed Cottonopolis as the world's first industrialized city)'s University was founded by a cotton merchant who had grown rich through international trade, emphasizing technology and not religion in its outlook. It is the home of Jodrell Bank historically one of the most important Astrophysics Labs in the world. The much older Oxford, Cambridge and Durham Universities for centuries were factories for priests and later vicars - even the great Newton was almost tripped up by the need to take Holy Orders. It was at Manchester that the Atom was cracked in the early 1900s and the first stored program computer developed in the 1940s.

Thus Eddington in both exploring finer forces, sharing knowledge without artificial barriers and developing the study of astrophysics, a cornerstone of past higher ages, was a scientist for Dwapara Yuga.

Dwapara Yuga Explorer Roald Amundsen

Although best known for beating the British to the South Pole, the Norwegian Amundsen's first expedition and scientific exploration was in 1905 when he successfully navigated the North West Passage across the top of Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific and determined the then location of Magnetic North.

It was not just the breaking down of barriers and determining finer forces at the dawn of Dwapara Yuga that make Amundsen a Dwapara Yuga explorer but the mindset with which he did it.

From Columbus on, European explorers had tried to find the Northwest Passage and failed. A mindset of themselves against nature and a condescending attitude to the Inuit natives had characterized their failures, particularly in the Victorian era - often leading to agonizing deaths on the supposedly barren snowscapes.

In sharp contrast, Amundsen perceived that a small team with a small boat working in harmony with nature, befriending and learning from the Inuit, training professionally and learning systematically from all previous attempts could prevail. He would return to an independent Norway, which had just thrown off Swedish control and go on to prove the same Dwapara principles in beating the then might of the British Empire in its South Pole Expedition.

PBS TV Show: Story of India

In this landmark six-part series for PBS (airing January 2009) and the BBC, Michael Wood embarks on a dazzling and exciting journey through today's India, "seeking in the present for clues to her past, and in the past for clues to her future".

This is an astoundingly interesting and well done series in the Author's opinion, well worth the investment of time of recording from the air or checking out upcoming DVD release.

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