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"In the center of everything rules the Sun; for who in this most beautiful temple could place this luminary at another or better place whence it can light up the whole at once? ...In fact, the Sun sitting on a royal throne guides the family of stars surrounding him...the Earth conceives by the Sun, and through him becomes pregnant with annual fruits. In this arrangement, we thus find an admirable harmony of the world, and a constant harmonious connection between the motion and the size of the orbits as could not be found otherwise."-- Copernicus
The publication of "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium)" by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) in 1543 marked a complete break from the entire system of ancient astronomy previously conceived by Greek scientists such as Eudoxus, Callipus, Aristotle, Apollonius, Hipparchus, and ultimately by Claudius Ptolemy. The system which those Greeks had developed has been termed the geocentric (Earth-centered) theory of the universe. The new system which Copernicus propounded has been termed the heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the universe.
By ascribing to the Earth a daily spin on its own axis, which gyrated, and an annual orbit around the Sun, which was stationary, Copernicus evolved a new system of the universe which opposed Aristotle, who had cogently argued the fixity of the Earth. This provided a superior alternative to Ptolemy's geocentric universe, which had been propounded in his "Mathematical Compositions" (also known as "The Almagest") and which dominated the astronomical conception of humanity for over 1400 years.
In Western Christendom the views of Aristotle and Ptolemy had been elevated to the level of religious dogma, and to many thoughtful intellectuals of the Renaissance, those views stifled further development in science and were long overdue for revision. The geocentric theory had also been used as the "scientific" basis for the Christian theological/cosmological notion of a two-dimensional flat world existing sandwiched in parallel between Heaven above and Hell below. Copernicus was the first to successfully challenge the authorities of antiquity. In his search for a true picture of the "divinely ordained cosmos", Copernicus dethroned the Earth from the center of the cosmos and opened a new path which was to lead to the eventual dethronement of "God" himself.
Copernicus, however, refrained from publishing his work for nearly two decades. He feared the ecclesiastical jitteriness, which arose out of the dissensions between Catholics and Protestants. For his work might cause sufficient scandal for him to be charged with impugning the "authority" of the Church through his assertion that the earth was neither fixed nor at the center of the universe. That assertion might be construed as contradicting one "authorized" literal interpretation of certain passages in the Bible. But Copernicus was finally prevailed upon by his friends to allow his student, Rheticus, to publish his work. Toward the end of 1542, Copernicus was seized with apoplexy and paralysis; on May 24, 1543, an advance copy of his work was presented to him. On that same day he died, leaving behind a magnificent contribution -- a revolution in man's concept of the universe.
No longer could the Earth be considered to be the center of the universe nor could it be considered the epitome of creation or the center of all change and decay with the changeless cosmos encompassing it, for it was now a planet just like the others, simply yielding to mathematical description. No longer was it accurate to state that the Sun "rose" or "set" upon the Earth nor was it valid to view the universe in terms of "up" and "down" or "above" and "below", for those concepts were all perceptual delusions and had meaning only within the confines of the geocentric universe.
The revolution of knowledge that began with the publication of "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres" and led to the further discoveries by Johann Kepler (1571-1630), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), and Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is rightly termed "The Copernican Revolution". The value of the Copernican Revolution, however, does not end in the fact that Copernicus brought about a complete shift in man's philosophical conception of the universe. He epitomized a revolution in man's consciousness as well.
Through his identification of the physical structure of the universe, Copernicus eloquently demonstrated the power of reason and consciousness when unhindered by perceptivity-bound preconceptions. Through Copernicus, the universe evolved from a mere sensory/perceptual experience into a conceptual scheme or design which transcended immediate human perception. For perceptivity-centered consciousness does not take perceptual experiences as data but as conclusions, whereas conceptuality-centered consciousness takes experience, perceptual as well as conceptual, as data and constructs a model that reflects the structural design of the universe. There is a subtle but unmistakable distinction between the two, and that distinction is what the Copernican Revolution exemplified in the history of human consciousness.
A profound restructuring of consciousness and a considerable conceptual leap is required to conceive of a heliocentric universe in which the Earth is in motion around the Sun while spinning on its own axis. Copernicus vividly demonstrated the conceptuality-centered conscious mode at the dawn of modern history and elevated human consciousness to the level that had once been achieved by the Greeks 1700 years before him.
Perception is always concerned with events, whereas conception is primarily concerned with interrelations between events. And the universe is the complex aggregate of the whole interrelations of events in existence. In order to comprehend that complex aggregate of interrelations known as the universe, one must transcend the seeming subjective reality of perceptual experience and construct a conceptual map in concordance with logic that best reflects the underlying design principles of the universe. By moving from the perceptivity-centered to the conceptuality-centered, one enters the realm of objective reality, and it is the knowledge of objective reality that gives the power to harness and control the universe -- power that can be claimed only by a conscious being.
When one is fully integrated in conceptual consciousness, he can enter the sphere of Neothink. Neothink is forward moving integrated consciousness completely free of mysticism. Neo-Tech is the system of knowledge through which Neothink is fully realized. What the Copernican Revolution started Neo-Tech completes, and brings forth a new revolution, the Neo-Tech Revolution, which will take humanity into dimensions of knowledge never before imagined.
Since its birth about 3000 years ago from the bicameral mind, consciousness has taken three distinct modes of operation: the first is the perceptivity-centered mode that emulates the bicameral mind and takes perception as the conclusive picture of reality while using concepts to rationalize perception -- exemplified by the geocentric concept; the second is the conceptuality-centered mode that takes experience, perceptual as well as conceptual, as data to construct the conceptual model of reality -- exemplified by the heliocentric concept and the Copernican Revolution; the third is the Neo-Tech/Neothink mode, that operates contextually, synergistically using both hemispheres of the brain to develop never before known integrations and concepts.
Frank R. Wallace's epochal discovery, Neo-Tech, was not only a breakthrough in knowledge but also a revolution of human intellection. Neo-Tech and Neothink are symbiotically linked in the same manner as the Copernican Revolution and the conceptuality-centered mode. Every time a new integration of knowledge is formed, an element of Neothink is always involved. However, except for Neo-Tech, no system of knowledge has ever identified a contextuality-centered, Neo-Tech/Neothink mode. Thus, no system of knowledge has ever explored the unseen dimensions of Neo-Tech/Neothink and developed it to its fullest potential. With the Neo-Tech/Neothink mode, the perceptivity-centered mode becomes obsolete and the conceptuality-centered mode evolves into entirely new dimensions.
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