Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00684)

Re Science, New Point Loma Books
  
Ken:  Thanks for the information on Osvald 
Siren.  I hope you post such historical 
information once in a while, as you were 
in a unique position to know a lot of things 
that no one else was.  Point Loma publishes 
a lot of unique books.  Glad to hear 
about Plummer's "Mathematics of the Cosmic 
Mind," which I just told someone about.  
One on science that you published that I 
thought was exceptional and deserves more 
attention is Tyberg's "The Science of Nature."  
(Somewhat off-the-wall Review below.)
   
  THE SCIENCE OF NATURE, Oluf Tyberg, Point 
Loma Library Series,  paperback, 79 pp., 
$8.00 (Introduction, Henry T. Edge)
  
  If someone understands this book on 
the first read through, they are a better 
man than I! It is, however, well worth 
studying and probably studying well until 
understood. Tyberg was a mechanical engineer 
and a member of the old Point Loma Theosophical 
Society. He attempts here to introduce a 
new paradigm for understanding nature and 
critiques the attitude of science, seeing 
science as a method only or means-whereby 
of utilizing Nature but not really explaining 
anything of its real essence. I believe he 
is on the same fundamental insight as expressed 
in Chilton Pierce's The Crack in the Cosmic Egg.
  
  I happened to come across the following 
notice in the April, 1945 Theosophical Forum:
  
 "Oluf Tyberg's The Science of Nature - The 
following interesting item has ben found among 
some old papers of Oluf Tyberg. It points 
to the time, as it is dated May 15, 1926, 
when he first began working out his striking 
and original scientific and theosophical 
theories which were finally imbodied in 
his series of articles called The Science 
of Nature, which last year was published 
as one of the Theosophical University Studies.
 "'Ever since I learned about Theosophy, 
I have been searching for something which 
to me was quite indefinable, but which I 
knew existed, and which lately I have in 
a quite incomprehensible way actually 
stumbled over. When I picked it up and 
began to examine it, I recognized it to 
be the mathematical proof of the first 
fundamental proposition of The Secret Doctrine, 
and discovered that this truth could be 
presented so axiomatically as to remove 
it completely from opinion, persons, place 
or time. As a mathematical equation it 
is so simple and direct that a mere child 
can understand it; as a mathematical 
symbol it is so profound and revealing 
that the highest intellect may contemplate 
it with awe, wonder and respect. Official 
science may attempt to ignore it for a 
while, but this will not be possible for 
long, and when it does succumb its methods 
of research will be changed, its philosophic 
concepts revolutionized, and Theosophy 
will appear in a new light.'"
   
 For those who followed the TV program 
Star Trek: The Second Generation, this 
book seems to me something that might be 
a basic textbook in whatever school the 
character called "The Traveler" went to. 
"The Traveler" is able to travel time and 
space through the realization that time 
and space are functions of the mind. Tyberg 
presents our physical reality as manifestation 
of the Organic Being that all our existence 
is. The language is somewhat difficult 
and also I think maybe there aren't adequate 
English words for some of his ideas. Our 
indoctrination into the ways of thinking 
of science which are also in basis the same 
as the approach of conventional religion, 
makes it very difficult to conceive of 
Nature and ourselves as one organic whole, 
rather than as ourselves sitting somehow 
detached and separate from Nature and 
manipulating it.
  
This book seems sort of a short hand 
version of what could have been a BIG book. 
My intuition (for what that might be worth) 
tells me that the different paradigm he 
is trying to present is "true", but I can't 
say I understood everything! For those 
willing to sweat over every paragraph in 
order to understand something worth 
understanding - this will give adequate 
exercise to your mental muscles.
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  <18. Re: New Point Loma books
    Posted by: "'Cuervo'" Kensmall@earthlink.net tortugacuervo
    Date: Wed Nov 8, 2006 12:22 am (PST)
  <Jake - thanks for the post. In addition:
  <"Spirit and Presence in Chinese Art" by Oswald Siren'
  <and reprints of the long out of print 
book by Gordon Plummer, "Mathematics of 
the Cosmic Mind" re-issued as "Sacred 
<Geometry of the Living Cosmos" which is 
essentially a study in Blavatsky cosmogenesis 
correlated with sacred geometry to derive 
deeper meaning, correspndences and 
interconnectedness.
  <Siren' was a long time Pont Loma Theosophist 
(he frequently visited and his daughter 
was a student there at the school)  beginning 
early in the period of Katherine Tingely 
around 1910 through the dePurucker time 
and after until his death in 1966. He 
was curator of the Stockholm museum and 
world authority on the history of Chinese 
art, writing his scholarly illustrated 
<7 volume 'Chinese Painters, Leading Masters 
and Principles'. This book contains many 
inner and more Theosophic elements, especially 
his chapter on 'Chan Buddhism and Painting' 
and his comments on 'Spirit Resonance': 
<"..they listened to the innermost recesses 
of their own consciousness as well as in 
every phenomenaon of nature: mountains 
<and brooks, winds and waves, flowers and 
falling leaves, all revealed to them a 
reflection or an echo of the 'Universal 
Mind.' " and "the inner treasure is the 
essence ofr mind, the buddha-nature or 
spiritual consciousness, which sees and 
grasps thingsw wihtout deliberation or 
definitions." etc.
  
<find more information on Point Loma 
Publications at www.wisdomtraditions.com
  <Ken 
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