Manifestation for a second Rennaisance

To understand the meaning of words one must understand their roots in culture. Etymology is the study of the roots of words and their origins. To look at how manifestation is achieved today one must define it by a more current and up to date definition based on this principal.

I believe that manifestation is actually present now and that the wonders of our creative potential have simply been mistranslated over time. We need look no further than the word TECHNOLOGY.

Technology comes from the words techne which means craft and ology or the study of something. To study is to become wise and wisdom comes from the root word wicce the root word of wicca. Techne also means craft, so witchcraft is truly the crafts of the wise!

In other words we won't have a massive blast of godlike powers like a superhero. We may have the opportunity through great adversity to become more creative about how we solve our problems, becoming wise or, wizards. So if that blast of cosmic power is from a laser is it not any less miraculous?

In understanding the technology that we take for granted also look at the former incarnations of its uses.

Alchemy was where we get the root word of chemistry 'chem'. The chimera was one out of many animals representing the concept of a compound being. We get this same idea represented in chemistry when molecules form bonds to become compounds. Down to the most finite atoms we simply are adding and subtracting the positive and negative elements. Duality is always present even at the most basic levels as we are all binary.

Astrology was where we got astronomy from which was how we charted the course of sailing vessels and the passage of solar and lunar cycles. How is one separate from the other when one considers the astrotheology found in most modern religious texts. Astro is the star, coming from the goddess Ishtar of Mesopotamia. The Babylonian numerical system of base 60 is where we get our time keeping from. Yet again we have advanced scientific concepts from ancient peoples. The magical concepts yet again relating to a scientific principal only give evidence to what was once known as magical may just be as well technological.

We must remember that writing was a new concept and that the symbolic nature of ideas was not represented in commercial terms yet. These gods may have also been logos of the ideas to supplement the cuneiform tablets. The definition of the root word logos is log, Greek for speech or word. This is also where we get the root of the suffix ology or the study of something.

This is not to deny the power of symbolic thought as the subconscious creative side of our brain relies upon it. Rather it is in direct support of it, as I can explain. Magic in this way is simply a conversation with the subconscious self or our dark side. The side of us inside of us that exists deep within the darkness of our bodies or the side that requires enlightenment. Magic is simply a subliminal conversation to feed our brain a waking dream and all the pageantry and ritual is just writing the code back into our brains other half, the creative side. Again we have the duality of the brains hemispheres in control.

Conversations with god, meditation, spell craft, automatic writing, many things may help to increase our abilities to manifest ideas and concepts that can modify our world in very positive ways. The word Psychology comes from the goddess Psyche which is also where we get the word psychic. In etymology she was the animating spirit or anima which reflects motion. Science also shares her root word. Science is the observation of a change which also requires motion.

Genesis is creation which also has the root word of gen, such as generate or genetics. Applied sciences can create wondrous things when used efficiently, beneficially and responsibly. Motion is either generative or regressive. So this leads into ethics itself. As we walk into light away from darkness we also walk toward the generative energy and away from the entropic or destructive forces. Solar and lunar gods and goddesses symbolize this, as well as the current theme held by this generation of "waking up".

To summarize the point of this you only need to look up the etymology for manifestation itself. In Latin manifest comes from the word manifestare which means to discover. In other words manifestation IS applied science. You must manifest positive change that generates positive outcomes utilizing the knowledge endowed to you by your creator.

If we use the power of applied science in a positive way we can reshape our world in ways unimaginable. Look at how computers have shaped our destiny already. The computer came from an abacus to form a simple punch card weaving loom. This could be argued as the first industrial machinery or primitive 3d printed computed graphics. Mathematics being the roots of this clockwork computing was a direct result of the Babylonian base 60 time keeping, we take for granted today.

Pioneering the new frontiers of technology is the second Renaissance, and we are all manifesting this right now in the present. If we look into the works of Ray Kurzweil we can find the evidence of Moore's Law. Moore's law is the observation that over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. This is why you can now watch this video on your cellphone when decades ago it took entire rooms to have the computing power of a pocket calculator.

If we realize the potential that exists within us we will have the solutions to our problems well within our reach. As Carl Sagan once said "A Glorious new dawn awaits..."