Quantum Computing -- another harbinger of ascending Dwapara Yuga

 

 

Quantum Computing is taking off per McKinsey. It's a field that only began in 1980 -- https://www.mckinsey.com/.../how-quantum-computing-could...

 

Quantum technologies, although in their infancy today, have the capacity to transform our world much as the generations of classical computers that followed the Manchester Baby back in 1948.

 

In the 2020s just as in the 1940s, a major driver for innovation is cryptography and government funding.

 

#quantum

Origins of modern postural yoga -- more East & West than Vedic

 

I recently discovered Singleton's book that makes clear that modern postural yoga although marketed as a product of Vedic India is more a hybrid of colonial and post colonial globalization.

Yoganadaji's particular take on postural yoga, the Yogoda or Energization Exercises, was itself a mix of ancient Indian techniques, military fitness routines, and body building exercises.

 

We can see similar processes in traditional martial arts like Karate where Okinawan techniques were influenced by Western Boxing and military training programs, especially as they were scaled up in universities with large programmed classes and less emphasis on personalized / one-on-one tuition.

 

MMA is another example of globalized sports training. It comes from a rule book based around Vegas/Live TV entertainment needs and a ready made talent pool in US high school wrestling. 

 

Its early development was tied to the Scottish Gracie family living in Brazil, where they adapted Japanese Jujitsu to a local culture of one-on-one wrestling, with bare feet, no weapons, and bystanders not interfering with fighters.

Have we entered a New Age, perhaps the Age of Aquarius?

The short answer is yes.  Since the year 1900, we have seen tremendous advances in technology improving our physical lives, from penicillin, to refrigeration, cars, planes, computer networks, and smartphones.  We have also seen a growth in personal freedoms, from the ability to vote, access to medicine, schooling, career choices, buying homes, and global travel.

This period has also led to expanded interest in the realms of psychology, spirituality, and self-improvement generally, as more and more people meet and exceed their external needs and begin to look to their inner needs.

Yuga or Great Year

A longer answer is that although everyone knows the cycles of day to night, phases of the moon, and passage of days in a year (and Zodiac signs), there is another and much longer rising and falling cycle that is much less well known.

It was familiar to the ancients and explains our present age. The ancient Indian Vedic civilization called it the “Yuga” and the later ancient Greeks called it the “The Great Year.”  Rather than being a 24-hour day, approx. 30-day lunar cycle, or approx. 365-day calendar year, it spans 24,000 years. 

In 1894, Swami Sri Yukteswar, a well-known yogi, popularized the idea drawn from ancient Vedic texts (and the subject of many worldwide stories from demigods to the deluge) of a cycle that raises consciousness gradually over 12,000 years and then lowers it over the following 12,000 years.

By his astronomical calculations, we entered an age of understanding of energy and expansion in consciousness called “Ascending Dwapara Yuga” from 1900 AD.

Dwapara Yuga or Bronze Age

The Greeks and many other ancient cultures shared this idea of a “Great Year,” with the ages of man, ascending from an “Iron Age,” to a “Bronze Age,” “Silver Age,” to a “Golden Age,” before falling in reverse order.  The chart below details those ascending ages, their durations, and main characteristics. 

Ages with Vedic / Greek name Kali Yuga / Iron Age Dwapara Yuga / Bronze Age Treta Yuga / Silver Age Satya Yuga / Golden Age

Length 1,200 years 2,400 years 3,600 years 4,800 years

Characteristic Materialism and ignorance Space-annihilators Time-annihilators Harmony with divine plan

The ages do not abruptly transition from one to another but gradually transition like everything else in nature.  For example, our present age of Dwapara Yuga began in 1700 AD and we fully entered it in 1900, with a 200-year period of transition.

Since we are only just entering the Dwapara Yuga, what we see in society are conflicts such as the Civil War (1862), WWI (1914), WWII (1939), the Cold War (1945), and even the war in Ukraine (2022) that are gradually lessening the grip of Kali Yuga institutions and ushering in a full expression of Dwapara Yuga.

In the US, we can see this most clearly in a changing society striving to embrace individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information rather than treating people just as undifferentiated members of large collectives.

If you would like to know more, there are some excellent books that cover this subject in much more detail.

The Yugas

The Great Year

The Holy Science

Dancing Shiva Nataraja @ CERN

Rather beautiful that there is a large dancing Shiva at CERN in Switzerland where the W and Z bosons were discovered and the World Wide Web was invented.

https://detechter.com/the-scientific-symbolism-of-the-statue-of-shiva-nataraja-at-cern-switzerland/ 

Ben Franklin / Poor Richard, the Founding Father of Dwapara Yuga

 New PBS series

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/benjamin-franklin/

Russia vs. Ukraine -- Dwapara Yuga vs. Kali Yuga

Russia's war of aggression is Tanks vs TikTok, an embodiment of Kali Yuga vs Dwapara Yug, as Russia's  fascist kleptocracy tries to take over a modern democracy.

 https://www.cityam.com/putin-invasion-ukraine-war-against-old-new-tanks-versus-tiktoks/

 

War in Ukraine

 

The war in Ukraine has done two thing --

1) Re-focused minds away from Covid and 

2) Raised parallels to 1939.

WWII's power blocks appear to be reviving with new casts.

 

Axis dictatorships are being played by Russia and China.

 

The Allies are aligning democracies including the US, UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and many more.

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/03/05/the-war-in-ukraine-is-going-to-change-geopolitics-profoundly

Chakra Guide

 

1	Top of head Crown	Sahasara	Samadhi Union
2	+ Between eyes Spiritual eye	Ajna	Dhyana Meditation	Ruby Surya	Super Ether	Sun + Leo	Aum
	- Medulla Oblongata		Dharana Concentration	Pearl Chandra (Moon) Hessonite Rahu (Ascending node of Moon) Cat’s Eye Ketu (Descending node of Moon)		Moon - Cancer
3	Throat Cervical	Vishudha	Pratyahara Withdrawal	Emerald Budha	Ether	Mercury + Virgo - Gemini	Yudhisthira	Rushing Waters
4	Heart Dorsal	Anahat	Pranayama Breath Control	Diamond Shukra	Air	Venus + Libra - Taurus	Bhima	Bell
5	Navel Lumbar	Manipur	Asana Posture	Red Coral Mangala	Fire	Mars + Scorpio - Aries	Arjuna	Harp
6	Reproduction Sacral	Swadisthan	Niyama Self-Purification	Yellow Sapphire Bṛhaspati	Water	Jupiter + Sagittarius - Pisces	Nakula	Flute
7	Base of spine Coccyx	Mulandhara	Yama Moral Code	Blue Sapphire­­­­­ Shani	Earth	Saturn + Capricorn - Aquarius	Sahadeva	Bumble Bee

Bija – seed mantras - navratna – 9 gems

SUNDAY - Ruby – Surya – Sun - Vitality, energy, magnetism, willpower
Om sum surya yanamaha

MONDAY - Pearl - Chandra – Moon - Enjoyment, peace, contentment, happiness
Om som soma yanamaha

TUESDAY - Red Coral – Mangala – Mars – Self-control, focus, power, energy, will power, can do spirit
Om mang mangala yanamaha

WEDNESDAY - Emerald – Budha – Mercury – Speech, clarity, communication, perception, intelligence
Om bum budha yanamaha

THURSDAY -Yellow Sapphire - Bṛhaspati – Jupiter– Guru to the Gods
Om gum gurave namaha

FRIDAY - Diamond – Shukra – Venus – Creative spark, “divine sugar”
Om shum shukra yanamaha

SATURDAY -Blue Sapphire – Shani – Saturn
Om sham shanaye yanamaha

Hessonite – Rahu - Ascending node of Moon – Ida – Extroverted – Pull us into the world
Om ram rahave namaha

Cat’s Eye - Ketu - Descending node of Moon – Pingala – Introversion – Inner perception
Om kem ketave namaha