Showing posts with label Alexis Carrel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexis Carrel. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Wake yourself up! Here's a good place to start.



How to Walk Out of Any Dark Mental Movie by Guy Finley

Guy’s just reminding us what ACIM has taught, Robin  Duncan mentions on one of her ACIM commentary tapes (50’s series) and what the premise of Busting Loose was all about.

Job 22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Introduction to the Spontaneous Unfoldments™ of Kenneth G. MIlls
Kenneth G. Mills and The Star-Scape Singers "Melody For The World"
"This is absolutely luminous music.
It is like a shaft of light breaking through the clouds!"

 ~ Melissa Manchester

Saturday, March 3, 2012

The Twilight Club

The Twilight Club was a venerable tradition of ethical activism originally founded in the late 1870’s as a “learned circle” of visionary thinkers from diverse disciplines. Inspired by the British philosopher Herbert Spencer, the founding members included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, Edwin Markham, and several others. Their stated purpose was that of ethical and cultural renewal of their world.

Poet's Code of Ethics

In the later decades of the 19th Century, the British philosopher, Herbert Spencer, took an honest look at world trends and predicted that civilization was on a downward trend, for culture, beauty and ethical practices were neglected in society. He believed that politicians were not likely or able to change the trends. If there was to be a change, how would it come about? He believed the poets, visionary thinkers and artists of the world would have the solution. In Britain he inspired men such as Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Darwin to consider the problem. In America, his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Howard Bridge, Richard Watson Gilder, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walt Whitman, Edwin Markham, Henry Holt, John Burroughs, Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie took up the question. These men, searching for a way in which to change the negative direction of society to positive action, formed a gathering, calling themselves the Twilight Club, because they met at twilight—not simply the twilight of the day, but, as they saw the situation, they were meeting at the evening twilight of the 19th Century and the morning twilight of the 20th Century—at the twilight of civilization, unless the downward trend could be stopped.


Man must remake himself.

French-American surgeon Alexis Carrel was the winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in medicine, for his pioneer transplant work at the University of Chicago and with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
“Man, the Unknown” was reprinted in America fifty times after the first publication, and was translated into eighteen languages.
“The science of man will be the task for the future. Man must now turn his attention to himself. The development of the science of man, even more than that of the other sciences, depends on immense intellectual effort. We must realize clearly that the science of man is the most difficult of all sciences. Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself. To progress again, man must remake himself.”

Alexis Carrel ( 1873 – 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation. He is also known for making famous a miraculous healing at Lourdes by witnessing the event Like many intellectuals before World War II he promoted eugenics.
Eugenics is the "applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population", usually referring to the manipulation of human populations.
By the mid-20th century eugenics had fallen into disfavor, having become associated with "racial hygiene", human experimentation, and the extermination of "undesired" population groups.
In Canada, the eugenics movement gained support early in the 20th century as prominent physicians drew a direct link between heredity and public health. Eugenics was enforced by law in two Canadian provinces.
In 1928, the Province of Alberta, Canada, passed legislation that enabled the government to perform involuntary sterilizations on individuals classified as mentally deficient. In order to implement the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta in 1928, a four-person Alberta Eugenics Board was created. These four individuals were responsible for approving sterilization procedures. In 1972, the Sexual Sterilization Act was repealed, and the Eugenics Board dismantled. During the 43 years of the Eugenics Board, it approved nearly 5,000 individual sterilizations, and 2,832 procedures were actually performed.
The campaign to enforce this action was backed by groups such as the United Farm Women's Group, including key member Emily Murphy.
As in Alberta, the British Columbia Eugenics Board could recommend the sterilization of those it considered to be suffering from "mental disease or mental deficiency".