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Number: 981 Name: MEDITKESTS

Address: J.E.D.CLINE1 Date: 890910

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An article written for an

audience which is adept at

envisioning. Meditation is used

to envision an alternative way to

restore Earth's ecology while also

having a thriving expanding civilization.

Keywords: meditation, KESTS, habitats,ecology

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Title: CAN WE SAVE THE EARTH BY DEVELOPING SPACE?

by J. E. D. Cline September 10, 1989

Subtitle: Meditatively envisioning an alternative way to

restore Earth's ecology while also having a thriving

expanding civilization.

Meditation can be passively receptive, and it can be

creatively constructive. As in dreamily watching and in

actively envisioning. Analogous to reading and writing; to

listening and talking; to appreciating a painting and with

paint and brush creating a painting. I invite you to

dreamily watch the flow of ideas as you read this article,

and then to actively envision an alternative path which

could lead to restoring the planetary ecology while

providing a vastly expanding civilization at the same time.

In meditation first consult your inner Source of Higher

Wisdom as to your participation in this.

This active envisioning meditation may be of a

different nature than you have previously experienced. It

will picture the energy flow of ideas as they create a new

technology out of well-established scientific principles;

then continue with the energy flow of ideas better known in

technology to construct a great habitat for mankind's

greatness while reducing the burden of that greatness on the

Earth's resources. Think of a Mother Earth very pregnant

with Mankind proudly giving birth to her wonderful

offspring....

Let's start with a simple idea and then grow it,

stretch it, add to it, until it has the appearance we

choose. Start with the idea of tossing a ball into the air.

See how you grasp the ball, speed it up and aim it upward,

let go and watch it arc high above, then back down to ground

again. Next, throw the ball again into the air except this

time instead of your hand doing the speeding-up of the ball,

put a magnet in the ball and have another magnet in your

hand, and let the magnet fields push/pull against each other

to toss the ball without otherwise touching the ball. Next

toss, use the magnetic field of electrical energy to push

against the magnet in the ball, flinging it upward. Still

with me in this mental painting? You might want to back up

some and re-run occasionally.

Next plug a high powered energy source into the

ball-tosser, so powerful that the ball goes up extremely

fast. Let the ball with the magnet inside become an endless

string of small objects with magnets in them steadily being

flung rapidly upward. See this stream of small objects

moving so fast that they need a tube around them which keeps

the air out of their path, and let the magnets in that

stream pull upwards a little on that tube so as to support

its weight. See the stream of magnets flung out at just the

right speed to coast clear out of the Earth's atmosphere,

all the way up to where the telephone and television relay

satellites are located (called GEO, Geosynchronous Earth

Orbit, because it is stationary with respect to the earth

surface's daily rotation.) The stream continues on around

the planet, returning back to its starting point on the

ground. The electrical magnet tosser speeds the stream of

magnets back up again then back upward in a continuous loop

from the ground to GEO and back.

Now, on the tube that surrounds the flowing stream of

fast magnets, attach tracks, like cablecars or the new high

speed traintracks that use magnets to keep the train from

quite touching the tracks, so it can go very fast. Let this

train be big enough, and the supporting stream of magnets

big enough, that a lot of people and construction materials

can ride it from the ground up to the site of the telephone

and TV relay satellites.

Let those people build the first of a string of very

large hollow innertube-like structures. Each innertube is

over a mile across. Inside they are about 500 feet wide,

are filled with air, and lazily rotate just enough so that

it feels just like the gravity on the ground inside the

tube. The tube is built of metal, and windows allow sunlight

inside. Up there where there is no day/night nor clouds,

so that seven times the sunlight reaches every square foot,

as compared to the average sunlight reaching a square foot

on the ground.

Divide the inside of each tube into six equal sections.

Alternate sections are each occupied by an intensive farm a

half mile long and 500 feet wide, slightly curved as in a

mountain valley. There, corn, wheat, rice, vegetables and

citrus trees grow splendidly in the endless sunlight. Ponds

hold a fish farm, and the water from the fish farm waters

to crops. Chickens, rabbits, a few cattle also thrive there

on the grain crops.

In between those agricultural areas there are the homes

and light-industry areas. These three suburb sections are

also resembling half-mile long valleys, with homes and

landscaping built up and down the valley sides, complete

with lawn, trees, birds, playgrounds. Pumps supply a flow

of water flow as in small streams in the park areas, where

perhaps Koi brightly swim.

With this string of innertubes already started high

above the earth surface, standard space technology can go

from there to our moon, to get the raw materials for

building the rest of the string of innertubes. A similar

tube transportation system is built up from the Moon's

surface, and soon a flow of raw materials moves from the

Moon to GEO for the construction of the remainder of this

string of innertube-like space habitats, eventually built

all the way around the Earth. Since each innertube

comfortably houses and supports 10,000 people, and there is

room for one and a half million of the innertubes in GEO,

then there is room for up to 15 billion people to live very

well there, triple the whole earth's current population.

These space habitats will be designed to be nearly

closed ecological units, so everything is designed with 100%

recycling in mind. Some of the resulting recycling methods

may be useful for the few people who choose to remain

permanently on the earth surface as caretakers.

Let each nation have several of those tubes with

streams of fast magnets that we first envisioned, carrying

trainloads of people and materials up to GEO. So each

nation has access to the string of innertubes, where the

population can resettle at: first the excess populations,

then others as soon as the quality of life there becomes

better than that on the ground. Each nation then has the

opportunity to begin the restoration of its earthland back

into ecological balance, perhaps eventually allowing the

entire Earth to become as one gigantic international park

area, where a great abundance of kinds of living creatures

such as elephants, lions, crows, sparrows, whales and

porpoise can again thrive. And lastly to this envisioned

picture you are painting, let it happen soon enough before

vastly more kinds of species have vanished forever, and

before the world is completely covered with our garbage

dumping. (We are currently causing an average extinction

rate of one species of lifeform per week, mostly in the

rainforests being slashed and burned for new crop area; and

worldwide we are having to find places to pile two million

tons of garbage each week.) Time has a price.

And perhaps most of all, let this whole picture of

advancing civilisation while also restoring the planetary

ecological health be achieved and populated by people who

have learned to live in peaceful constructive wisdom,

meditating.

Thank you for your help in making possible this

alternate path for restoring our planet while providing an

ever-improving civilization. Meditative active envisioning

IS the first step in creating anything, you know. In your

first reading of this while dreamily watching the flow of

the growth of ideas toward goals, what does your inner Wiser

Self tell you intuitively about your response to this?

Bio: J. E. D. Cline is active in combining metaphysics with

science/technology, with the objective of improving the

quality of life for all. A member of the staff of

Meditation Magazine, he is a practitioner/minister through

the University of Metaphysics. He mostly earns a living in

electronics development work, and has contributed 22

articles on space transportation and colonization in the

GEnie Spaceport Library.

J. E. D. Cline. Permission is granted for material to be

distributed without restriction, provided credit is given to

GEnie, SPACEPORT, and J.E.D.Cline.

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