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Clean Energy Technology is Here To Use
Ojai, Calif.-- The world has finally decided it's time to go green, improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions.
There is one inventor-innovator who has come up with one way to achieve this end. Hungarian-born, Lazlo Farkas, has developed a plan that would revolutionize our public transportation system. And it can work starting right now.
His plan will convert transit and school buses into all-electric and electric hybrid buses, powered from off-vehicle alternative and renewable energy sources, and, in the near future, by hydrogen.
Farkas' system transfers clean energy from the road surface to the vehicle, using wireless power transmission. Buses are recharged invisibly on the go, running 24/7, without visiting traditional fuel pumps.
The inventor emphasizes that, "The technology is here and it's real. It will be safe, fuel efficient, clean, quiet and comfortable--far less expensive to operate than current buses.
"I believe, that these are the energy savings and environmental improvements that California and the rest of the country are looking for. Our system meets the Governor's goal of doubling vehicle mileage by 2010. We can accomplish this goal now, at least for school and transit buses."
It is hard to understand that when all this technology exists that no one has come forward to fund a start-up project. All of us need to get behind projects like this for the sake of the planet and our own welfare.
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Lazlo Farkas worked for the U.S. Space shuttle and Hydrogen Fusion Energy program, for many years, before coming up with his clean energy system for school and transit buses. Please go to www.ettek.com for a full animated video on the technology, and information about Energy Transport Technologies, Inc.
Portions of this article from Westside Today.
Controversy Concerning Identity of Gnostics
by Helene Vachet
Our readers should be aware that a new book, Not in His Image:
Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology and the Future of Belief written by John Lamb Lash has raised considerable controversy in the area of Biblical scholarship.
His main thesis is that the Gnostics were not early Christians but "the elite of Pagan intellectuals" and the last of the pagans.
He also hypothesizes that the Archons, (followers of the demiurge, the creator and builder of the material world), were alien visitors to our planet. Scholar, Jonathan Kirsch, in his review from the Los Angeles Times book review section on December 3, 2006, compares the work of Lash to that of Robert Graves, author of The White Goddess , which linked many religious experiences to the ancient world.
This is a compelling book that gives greater importance to paganism regarding the formation of our beliefs today and might prove to be pivotal in this field.
In the spring, 2003 issue of New Perspectives Magazine, "Gnosticism: A New Look at an Old Tradition," I gave an overview of Gnostic thought beginning with Dr. Stephan Hoeller, a profound scholar who has written several books on Gnosticism.
To my knowledge, he has always called the Gnostics an early Christian sect while tying in their doctrines with the teachings of Carl Jung and categorizing the Gnostics themselves as "spiritual libertarians".
For the winter, 2004 issue of New Perspectives, in "New Findings on Early Christian Thought," I reviewed Beyond Belief , describing new findings regarding the gospels of Thomas by Princeton scholar, Elaine Pagels. Although this article wasn't about Gnosticism, per se, the Nag Hammadi find was an important source mentioned and is the basis for much of what we know about Gnosticism today.
Pagels is also the author of The Gnostic Gospels , which also places Gnosticism as part of the early Christian movement.
It will be interesting to see which side of this controversy gains the most support as time passes. We will keep you informed!