Learning from Hiroshima

Learning from Hiroshima

From6th August 1945

To 6th August 2014

What have we learned?

What can we do?

Learning from Hiroshima We know we have currently more than 2000 atomic weapons on the planet, each almost one thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb named “ Little Boy” which burnt and flattened Hiroshima 70 years ago.

Learning from Hiroshima This stockpile of weapons is many times more than what is needed to destroy human civilization on this planet.

Learning from Hiroshima But we do not seem to be too disturbed by this state of affairs. In fact each country tries to gate-crash into the nuclear club and proudly obtain the dubious distinction of having a nuclear arsenal.

Learning from Hiroshima The Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine, (MAD) , projected by the USA, appears to be working. It really has prevented a nuclear war. So far……

Learning from Hiroshima Newly emerging countries such as India and Pakistan, heeding the success story of MAD, have also decided to get MAD.

Learning from Hiroshima There have been a few hiccups. During the Cuban blockade imposed by President Kennedy against the nuclear build-up at Cuba by the Soviet Union, we did hold our collective breath for a while. We did wonder if it was safe to be MAD.

Learning from Hiroshima Also during the escalation of periodic acts of hostility at the Indo-Pakistan border, there have been times when we came very close to calling the bluff of MAD.

Learning from Hiroshima It may not be too long before a non-state organization, seeking to push its own objective, may be successful in seizing hold of a nuclear weapon. The world is full of real mad persons to whom the MAD doctrine is not applicable.

Learning from Hiroshima There is also the chance of starting an accidental nuclear exchange with the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the reduction of effective control over its use.

Learning from Hiroshima But still we have refused to invest in creating a more sane and dependable system of protecting ourselves.

Learning from Hiroshima In other words, we have learned to love the Bomb. We have grown accustomed to being MAD.

Learning from Hiroshima We have also learnt from research carried out at Hiroshima how to combat the deadly effects of nuclear radiation. After all, ‘civilian bombs’ such as Chernobyl and the effects of a tsunami on nuclear plants at Japan can also be as devastating as a limited nuclear strike.

Learning from Hiroshima We also did not waste much time after Hiroshima, to carefully measure the destructive effect in order to make more efficient and more powerful bombs, in order to burn and kill more human beings.

Learning from Hiroshima We have enjoyed success beyond all our expectation in creating numerous efficient weapons of mass genocide. Associating the words ‘enjoy’ and ‘success’ and ‘efficient’ with genocide does seem a mockery of the human race.

Learning from Hiroshima We seem to be raising each generation of children as hostage for a mass human sacrifice. Have we mutated so radically in the post nuclear age, in the last 70 years ?

Learning from Hiroshima Although anti-nuclear street protests have diminished over the years, the nuclear threat has not diminished. The nuclear stock-pile is growing.

Learning from Hiroshima What should we really learn from Hiroshima ? and equally important, what can we do ?

Learning from Hiroshima The very nature of a nuclear device can offer us hints on what to learn and get confident to act on our learning.

Learning from Hiroshima The vast amount of energy released in a nuclear device is a result of a chain reaction of the splitting of atoms.

Learning from Hiroshima Before the first experimental nuclear test was carried out at New Mexico, USA, there was some speculation among the select group present, that the controlled chain reaction sought for, may become an uncontrolled chain reaction.

Learning from Hiroshima This event, although said to be a distant 100 to 1 odds, could result in a splitting of the crust of the earth. In other words, there was some risk of murdering our mother earth, the womb of human kind.

Learning from Hiroshima But besides finding a way for a chain reaction to occur resulting in a terrible destructive consequence, we have also found a way to channel the energy in a creative peaceful direction.

Learning from Hiroshima Now we must use the above scientific principles in a deeper way, to use the principle of chain reaction, not just for helping to produce electricity, through nuclear power plants, but to empower each of us.

Learning from Hiroshima We already know that every structure on our planet is composed of atoms : air, water, rock, trees, animals, humans …….. the very planet and all on it, enveloping it and within it.

Learning from Hiroshima This organic inter-connection and inter-penetration is actually far deeper than what the above characteristic of nature points to.

Learning from Hiroshima Modern physics has pointed to an underlying more fluid field of energy than that composed of atoms or even particles of atoms. Our intimate relation with the planet, with our solar system and even beyond is not restricted to atoms being the final indivisible building blocks of creations. That is old physics.

Learning from Hiroshima When we look at the violent separation which we designed at Hiroshima 70 years ago, we must remind ourselves of the strong underlying unity which exists by default….. a unity which we trained ourselves to break, although temporarily.

Learning from Hiroshima Without the existing natural unity, there could not have been any artificial forced temporary separation, no extravagant, destructive and wasteful show of energy. The separation indicates the unified state.

Learning from Hiroshima It is this default condition of unity which we should recognize and remember from Hiroshima.

Learning from Hiroshima So let us retain our unity and use our energy within safe bounds. We should not yet aspire to become stars, burning brightly to provide the surrounding worlds with energy.

Learning from Hiroshima By taking heed of unity, we have a chance to avenge the past. We have a chance to dance with joy. In a way, we really are miniature individual stars, learning to blossom eventually into full size ones.

Learning from Hiroshima This is possible since we are not just physical robots. In common with the other great kingdoms of nature, the vegetation and animal kingdoms, we have another unified field to enable communication and inter-action : Feelings.

Learning from Hiroshima and although still not admitted by science openly, basic emotional activity is present even amidst the inmates of the mineral kingdom. But right now it is not necessary to stray into this particular debate.

Learning from Hiroshima The physical unity we have with our universe provides us with an explanation of the mechanical unity of the One : it is the left-over of the ultimate unity which was the state at a Big Bang, the birth of a universe. It was the change-over from the compressed latent consciousness towards the growth of full universal consciousness.

The Big BangThe start of a Universe

Learning from Hiroshima The emotional unity developed and presently existing, affords each of us the facility to dance with joy, without treading on each other’s toes.

Learning from Hiroshima So how does Hiroshima remind us of a way to empower ourselves?

Learning from Hiroshima Besides common physical and emotional fields linking all of us, human beings have developed one more specialized atmosphere : the unified field of thoughts.

Learning from Hiroshima When properly understood, the latent energy of this field, which allowed the energy to be displayed for destruction in the fire ball and the shock wave at Hiroshima, can be used to surpass the above and demonstrate great benevolent activity.

Learning from Hiroshima Our intellectual activity, developed over millions of years, has resulted in this refined unseen but nevertheless actual energy field flowing through and around each of us.

Learning from Hiroshima Our thought creations do possess high energy and can and are being transmitted and received each moment by each of us.

Learning from Hiroshima But since most of us are not accomplished artists, most of our sub-conscious thought creations contribute to what may be termed high energy smog.

Learning from Hiroshima This mostly neutral energy of ours can be used by those comparatively few beings amongst us who know how to, both for good or evil purposes.

Learning from Hiroshima We know we think, we know thoughts require energy to exist, we know energy is indestructible. So let us admit we are creating patterns of this high frequency form of energy incessantly.

Learning from Hiroshima