Avoiding Extinction Hall, Dan., Ph.D, Avoiding Extinction: The Transitioning of Humankind from the Present Nightmare to the New Enlightenment. First edition, Leading Edge Research Group, 1995. 8½ x 11, Velo binding, 130+ pages, with master index. This book will be one of the most significant causal factors in shifting the present paradigm governing Western Civilization from its current preoccupation to one based within quantum-based society. This book takes up the critical task as defined by Buckminster Fuller in these terms: " Quite clearly, our task is ... to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate social patterns that will enable us to avoid extinction." Introduced is the concept of the basal paradigm as the most basic belief system underlying civilization. It identifies four major basal paradigms underlying Western Civilization, and the emergence of materialistic scientism as the polar opposite of Judeo-Christian monotheism. Materialistic scientism is a materialist philosophy that has given rise to the "Church of Scientism", science as religion, and to the various forms of state socialism that have plagued the twentieth century. Avoiding Extinction discusses the origin of biology and evolutionary theory in the work of French naturalist Jean Baptist Lamarck, "the most important scientist of the 19th century," and explains the repudiation of Lamarck and his theory, transformism, as an expression of reactionary political bias. Transformism maintains that the environment is influential in biological transformation -- a fact of nature which materialist scientism avoids in its quest to maintain a paradigm involving the philosophical and socialogical ideas of Darwin and Malthus, who maintained that "a responsible elite" must take charge if the planet "to put the brakes on the amoral, unprincipled population." The Malthusian premise, which also encourages neglect of the population, population reduction mandates, and indirect killing, also provides for the advent of behaviorism, mind control paradigms and other devolving political policies which suppress the development and evolution of the planet, while deliverately creating disorder in order to justify "population control." The book discusses the adoption of Malthusian principles by Darwin, the subsequent replacement of the idea of "natural selection" by "scientific selection" and eugenics polices, and the rise of Neo-Darwinism and the pre-occupation with genetics and geneticists , who see themselves as establising the basis for a "new theory of evolution" based on faulty assumption of the primacy of DNS, which supports a multi-billion dollar industry destined to function as a manipulative premise of global socialism. Avoiding Extinction then launches into a masterufl treatise on the nature of cellular structure, particulary the cellular membrane and the work of Dr, Bruce Lipton, revealing that cells still operate (until they run out of spare parts) with the nucleus and genes withdrawn, but that cells go comatose when the frequency receptor proteins in the cellular membrane are removed, meaning that physiological primacy is in the cellular membrane, not in the genes. Both Dr. Hall and Dr. Lipton maintain that in light of the evidence, the primary theme of evolution is the increase of "intelligence" - the frequency-gathering capability of the cell, and postulates that "struggle" in the iological realm (a major theme in Darwinism and in its current social applications) is a necsessary consequnce of the operation of the reproductive system, defined as the means by which organisms master the dimension of time. A masterful piece of work that also provides the theoretical proof for the Gaia hypothesis. A 21st century work, only from Leading Edge Research. If you'd like more information, please contact us via email trufax@cco.net