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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : World Academy
of Science for Creativity
In January 1988, Osho again talks of a World Academy of Sciences
for Creativity, which he had envisioned in Rajneeshpuram.
I have my vision, and I want my people to be aware of the vision.
This ashram is not only for the old and the retired who don't
want to do anything but need shelter and food. That has been the
situation with ashrams in the East….
I want this ashram slowly to develop into a World Academy of
Sciences for Creativity. This will be perhaps the greatest synthesis
ever. Your search for religious truth in no way hinders your search
for the objective reality, because both areas are absolutely separate;
they don't overlap.
You can be a scientist and a meditator. In fact, the more you
go deeper into meditation, the more clarity, the more intelligence,
the more genius you will find flowering in you which can create
a totally new science.
The old science was created as a reaction against religion.
The new science I'm talking about is not a reaction against anything,
but an overflowing energy, intelligence, creativity. Politics
corrupted science because its own interest was only war. Religions
could not accept science because they were all superstitious and
science was going to demolish all their gods and all their superstitions.
Science has passed these three hundred years in a very difficult
situation, fighting on the one hand with religion and on the other
hand, unconsciously becoming a slave to the politicians.
I want this place to grow and I am making arrangements for a
world academy of sciences and arts totally devoted to life-affirmative
goals….
Just a few days ago Dr. Masashi Murakoshi from Japan was here.
He has been working for twenty years in Hiroshima, experimenting.
As the radiation of the atomic explosion becomes less and less,
he has come upon a far more important discovery than Albert Einstein
himself did. He went to Hiroshima and wondered at the fact that
atomic energy, radiation, is destructive only at a certain quantity.
At a lesser quantity it is very creative, very productive, immensely
helpful.
He himself, when he had gone to Hiroshima, was forty-five years
old. Now he is sixty-five years old, but looking at him you would
not say he is sixty-five; he still looks as if he is forty-five.
His colleagues are dead and those who remain cannot believe the
miracle that has happened to him.
Radiation in small quantities is life-affirmative. It is the
higher dose that destroys.
I have been in contact with scientists, Nobel Prize winners,
who have been fighting for my rights in other countries. In Italy
eighty-four of the most eminent people have just signed a protest
against the government. Amongst those eighty-four there are at
least six Nobel Prize winners. The same is the situation in Germany
and in Holland.
These Nobel Prize winners, eminent scientists, artists of different
dimensions, will constitute the academy, and they will make efforts
to change science's whole trend of being destructive.
Our sannyasins—and there are many who are scientists, artists,
physicians—will help the academy. We will arrange scholarships,
and people from all over the world can come and study a new way
of science, a new way of art that affirms life, that creates more
love in humanity and that prepares for the ultimate revolution.
That ultimate revolution is a single world government—because
while the world does not have one government, you cannot stop
wars. Each nation has to have its own military, its own defenses,
its own weapons, and there is competition as to who has more destructive
power. But once there is one world government there is no need
of any armies, air forces or navies; all these can be transformed
into services dedicated to life, to the whole of humanity.
And the World Academy of Sciences will be the first step, because
if we can take scientists from all over the world slowly out of
the grip of the politicians, all the power of the politicians
will be finished. They are not powerful; the scientist is the
power behind them. And the scientist is in a difficulty, because
there is no institute in the world which will give the scientist
enough of the materials, instruments, machines that he needs to
work with….
It seems existence is arranging for the money that we will need
to create the academy. Another very important man in Japan, who
holds many foundations for humanitarian services, is also coming
to see whether it is possible to bring money from those many foundations
to create this world institute. And it will have support from
all over the world, from all the scientists without exception,
because now everybody is seeing that they are serving death, not
life.
We can have the greatest library for scientific research and we
can have sannyasins working, studying. The synthesis will be that
everybody who is working in the institute will also be meditating,
because unless meditation goes deep in you, your love sources
remain dormant. Your blissfulness, your joy remain unblossomed.
Man is not for science, science is for man….
Scientists are in a difficulty. They cannot work individually;
they have to work under a government. The government's interest
is war, and no religion is going to support them because their
findings go on destroying religious superstitions.
There is an immense vacuum which I want to fill by creating a
world academy absolutely devoted to life, love, laughter—absolutely
devoted to creating a better humanity, a better and more pure,
healthy atmosphere, to restoring the disturbed ecology.
I have called these two people, and Dr. Murakoshi has already
been here. He has already created a few things which radiate atomic
energy, but in such minute doses that they help; they remove diseases,
they give more well-being.
He has made for me, specially for my bathtub, a small radiator
disk: just ten minutes and the whole bathtub becomes full of radiation.
Just to check whether it works or not, I have used the bath; it
certainly works.
He has made a few belts filled with radiating material, and sannyasins
are using them and are finding immense energy that they have never
had before. He is going to come with more gadgets that he has
invented.
He loves me so much that he informed me that it will be better
if I move the ashram to Japan, because there he has contacts with
the emperor, with other scientists. And he is ready to found the
academy and provide the money that will be needed—and it
is going to be an enormous amount of money.
But I have informed him that Japan is running out of land. It
is the most crowded country in the world; they have even made
artificial islands in the ocean, and they have floated a few to
create industries on them.
Secondly, Japan is very costly. Its currency is now the most valuable
in the world. It will prevent my poor sannyasins from going there…and
to be there for months will be too costly.
I have called him and I am certain I will convince him that this
is the right place. The whole of Koregaon Park is for sale!—and
we are finding sources of money to purchase the whole of Koregaon
Park. Then all the gadgets can be used by every sannyasin. Mechanisms
can be managed to purify water, to purify air—because Poona
is utterly polluted. But one thing is good about India: things
are cheaper, and people can come from every country, be here for
three or four months, and then in eight months back in their country
they can earn enough and come back. There is no need for them
to work here.
Here is their temple of meditation. And I want all the dimensions—the
best musicians to teach you music, the best artists to teach you
painting, the best poets to teach you the experience of poetry
and the expression of it.
I am an incurable dreamer.
But I can say to you that whatever I have dreamed in my life,
I have managed it, without doing anything. Just a proposal to
existence….
For four months a sannyasin remains here. He will learn much about
natural cultivation, how to live in tune with nature, not against
it; how to make your life free from all bondages that the past
has imposed on you….
The most important thing for the academy will be to create pure
science, just the way I am making every effort to create pure
religiousness.
Man can have inside him a pure religiousness—that means
love, that means silence, that means meditation—and also
a sense of pure science, so that no branches of science go on
doing work unnecessarily which is destructive to other parts.
The second great thing the academy has to do…Up to now science
has developed accidentally. There has been no sense of direction;
people just went on discovering anything without any idea for
what. Moving accidentally, still they have created much, but it
is in the service of destruction. Pure science will give the sense
of direction and a unity of all the sciences, so that science
works as a whole, not as different branches….
There are so many things that the world academy has to do. The
first thing is to spread around the world the idea that misery
is unnatural, that sadness is sickness, that the lust for power
needs psychiatric treatment, that a man who goes on gathering
money is mad.
And once we make the whole of humanity aware of the dangers of
our past ways of life and where the whole past is leading us—to
a global suicide—it will not be difficult to convince the
intelligent, the young, to drop the past and to welcome the future.
The world academy, devoted in every sphere to creativity, is going
to happen. I don't like to prophesy, but once in a while…This
is my prophecy: the world is not going to be finished by idiot
politicians. All over the world, that's all they are doing—preparing
the funeral pyre for the whole of humanity. We are going to stop
it. And if they insist, we will tell them, "Jump into the
funeral pyre yourself!"
Once we can get rid of the priests and the politicians, the whole
earth will become so full of peace, silence, love…so many
flowers and so many rainbows. We have been in the wrong hands;
the world academy has to create an atmosphere so that these wrong
hands are no longer powerful.
We have destroyed so many trees that the oxygen layer on the earth
has fallen low. That is affecting everybody's health, because
without oxygen you cannot live. We have created industries, and
the smoke from those industries has such chemicals that it has
made holes in a certain layer around the earth, the ozone….
We have done the same stupidity by sending rockets to the moon;
those rockets have also made holes. But perhaps it has all happened
unconsciously. Nobody was aware what the effects were going to
be.
The world academy is a conscious effort to do everything perfectly
aware of what the consequences will be. Small experiments can
be done which will give us the idea of the consequences. Right
now there are thousands of inventions of scientists which have
been purchased by the vested interests and are lying down in their
basements; they have never been brought into the market for the
people to use.
Because we are behaving so insanely, any invention is bound
to change many things. Perhaps many industries will be closed
because a better product, more life-affirmative, is available.
Now those industrialists will try to purchase the rights and keep
those scientific discoveries hidden from humanity.
Even Dr. Masashi Murakoshi was approached by the greatest nuclear
manufacturer of America who said, "We want to purchase all
your discoveries and all the things that you have made. Whatever
the price, say it and you will be given."
But Masashi is a man of tremendous courage; he refused. He said,
"That means all my life's effort will be lying somewhere
down in your basements." He is not ready to sell his patents;
he wants to give the patents to the academy so that millions of
dollars can simply come here just from his small inventions.
The second man I mentioned is one of the most respectable men
in Japan and has many foundations in his hands, with millions
of dollars for any humanitarian purpose. I cannot think what more
humanitarian purpose there can be than creating an academy of
sciences and arts totally devoted to life and to enhancing life.
This is going to happen. When I am saying this is going to happen,
I am not saying it; I am simply a vehicle for existence. I know
perfectly well that when it comes from my absolute nothingness
it is a message from existence itself.
It is going to happen.
Nobody can prevent it.
And this is the only hope for the new man and the new humanity.
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