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Consider This:
Note: In most cases, when we make a statement involving numbers of this and that or percentages of numbers, we are either quoting sources or simply offering what seems to us to be reasonable estimates.

Many of us are experiencing a very powerful sense of rushing forward into the new. We are all aware of the acceleration of events in all areas of our lives. We are pondering on the causes and forces that are driving this event chain.

In an appendix to his Nine Chains To The Moon Buckminster Fuller provided, as only he could, an exhaustive listing of scientific advances and inventions from ancient times to the 1936. From about the time just preceding the Renaissance, the acceleration of scientific advances and technological development is very obvious.
For purposes of this consideration, I will point out from innumerable post 1936 examples just a couple that indicate the accelerating rate of this acceleration.
From the beginning of recorded history to the first controlled powered airplane flight in the U.S. at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina December 17, 1903 was, who knows how long?
First manmade object to reach the moon September 13, 1959.
First human on moon July 20, 1969.

From Kitty Hawk to the moon in 56 years and 10 years later, man walks on the moon.
Electronic room sized computers developed in 1940-45.
Personal computer with 2 floppy drives and a 10 megabyte hard drive 1991.
5 pound “notebook” computer with millions of times the processing power and storage capacity, 1995. Today, the flash card in my Cool Pix 3 10Megapixel digital pocket camera can hold 4 gigabytes of data.

As we are all aware, there are many other examples of this acceleration in all areas of human life that could be noted.

There is another perhaps even more amazing acceleration ongoing as we write:

In the year 1000, it is estimated that there were 275 million people on the planet.
In 1650 it is estimated that there were 500 million people on the planet.
It took 650 years to make 225 million people.
In 1804 the estimate is 1 billion.
It took only a 150 years to make 500 million.
In 1900 approximately 1.6 billion.
It took about 100 years to make 600 million
In 1965 3.3 Billion
It took 65 years to make 1.7 Billion
In 2009 6.8 Billion.
It took 44 years to make 3.5 billion.

Astounding! Yeah….

But what is going on here? What is the result of this amazing population acceleration? Could there be a connection between the population acceleration and the acceleration of science and technology developments as well as all the other areas of human life?

I think so.

Consider this:
We know, guess, that the level of intellect or intelligence varies among individuals, some being rather “smarter” than others. We considered, rather ambitiously, that perhaps 25% were what we could call members of group A, the intelligentsia, and these would range from “genius” to average, “IQ” range from 300 to 110 or so. Another 25% would be members of group B. O.K. or sort of average, “IQ” range from 109 to 95 or so. The remaining 50% would be group C at relative stages of “ignorance”.

So, we could guess that there were 68,750,000 or so group A people on the planet in year 1000. Assuming that the percentages of the various groups stayed the same as the centuries rolled by, the numbers of group A people on the planet by 1650 was 125 million, by 1800, 250 million, by 1900 there are 400 million group A people on the planet, and by 2009 there are 1.7 billion group A people on the planet.

Now, recalling this bit from the Agless Wisdom Teachings:
"Humanity is intended to be the medium wherein certain activities can be instituted. It [Humanity] is in reality the brain of the planetary Deity, its many units being analogous to the brain cells in the human apparatus. Just as the human brain, made up of an infinite number of sentient responsive cells, can be suitably impressed when quiescence has been achieved, and can become the medium of expression for the plans and purposes of the soul, transmitting its ideas via the mind, so the planetary Deity, working under the inspiration of the Universal Mind, can impress humanity with the purposes of God and produce consequent effects in the world of phenomena." A Treatise on White Magic P.527

So, what do you think? A connection? Does this put population growth in a proper perspective?

My thinking is that the planet functioning under the Principles and Laws of the Plan can beautifully support several billions more of us. Try to think beyond the myopic horizon of the separated individual.

It is quite clear to me that the problems we are encountering in terms of starvation and disease and general destruction of the planet's environment and life support systems have been generated by our self centered economic and political systems. When those 1.7 billion group A brain cells shift their focus form personal aggrandizement and enrichment to the Common Good and the General Welfare we will see the dawning of Aquarius as it has been Planned.
Tom Carney
April 2010