S.W. Pringle
Psyche-Genetics, as the title implies, is concerned with the intimate atomic relationship between the body and soul of MAN: It examines the on-going cycle of mankind’s social and spiritual evolution - from the infancy of our Stone Age, all the way to the end of our cycle as transcendental Cosmic sages in a future Age yet to come, when no more children will be born: It provides a unique portrait of all three Great Houses of MAN and the journey through Time and Space that we are taking. It tells us who we are; why we exist; and where we are going: It brings attention to the nuclear threat of the present moment and the great difficulty we are all having in letting go of the pseudo-intellectual teenage arguments and reckless gambles of a dying Steel Age.
The author is of Scottish/Afrikaner/Jewish/ Bantu ancestry. He was born in South Africa in 1941 in the middle of a World War. Raised from childhood in the Apartheid system, he was witness to the rise and fall of one of the most controversial social experiments in the sorry history of colonial occupation. In 1973, a metaphysical encounter with the Divine nature of Atomic Consciousness initiated a profound alteration in his sense of self-awareness. It focused him on solving the riddle of existence.
An international documentary film-maker; initiated in Animism, Shamanism and Yoga, and ordained as a Buddhist minister in a Zen monastery in Japan in 1979, he brings to the table a life time of research into the ancient history of mankind’s social and spiritual evolution. Uniquely positioned in Time and Space; beginning with Africa as the cradle of human psychology, with added experience in the Middle East and the Far East, in normal and paranormal research; few other cultural observers have been as privileged or as spiritually motivated by social conflict as he, to delve into the dual complexity of the human psyche and reveal a portrait of ourselves, and where our evolution is taking us, so comprehensively or so convincingly.
There is no issue more unsettling on the planet today than the divide over the origins and sovereignty of man. Who are we and whom do we serve? Are we the result of random evolutionary event with no allegiance to anyone but ourselves? Or are we the creation of an almighty God with an eternal destiny to fulfill? Those questions are at the heart of the split between Church and State. Libraries of laws have failed to define that ethical divide and close all the loopholes. When one considers all the wars that have been fought over this subject, and what is at stake now that the instrument of Armageddon is at hand, it is astonishing that such a fundamental criteria for establishing a general harmony of thought and feelings among all men is not on the front burner of every educational, political and religious organization on the planet. Obviously serious work is being done on it, but not at anywhere near the top level of any major government – and so the battle rages on - underneath the veneer of civilized intercourse in some areas, and boiling over in others, without the faintest sign of ever finding resolution. This issue lies at the very root of our global confusion. It begins right in our classrooms at the first grade level, and gets more confusing as we work our way up from there. The simple fact is: if we are not sure of how we got here and why we are here, we can never be sure of who we are, or of our purpose, or where we are going, if anywhere. With heaven largely factored out of the modern scientific mind, the whole world is left without any meaning to existence, other than endless consumption. The covert nature of this underlying pointlessness can be seen everywhere if one cares to look beneath the superficial nature of the way we live our lives. There is long-term aimlessness within every level of human management. In undeveloped countries the inability of governments to reassure their citizenry of a reasonably secure tomorrow, added to the removal of the hope of God from their constitutions, borders on social and religious chaos. Not knowing the truly meaningful answers underscores a massive crisis of human identity, at both the personal and collective level.
