The Flight of the Eagle and the Condor

The Flight of the Eagle and the Condor –
The Changing Scientific/Social Paradigm of Unity
People throughout the world yearn for change. The current inequality of wealth,
deprivation of resources, and destruction of the environment have brought civilization to
a precipice to which humans attempt to cling while desperately seeking a new path
forward.
Yet the fear which drives them to hold on to whatever security they think they may have
found prevents them from being open to the possibility of social transformation based
on equality, abundance, and sustainability. They may dismiss the ideas of a Resource
Based Economy as a “utopia”, cite previous attempts to rectify social ills as “draconian
impositions of uniformity”, and declare such plans impossible on the basis of
competitive, egocentric “human nature”.
However, fear is only useful when it is a useful biological response to actual physical
danger; if you are looking at a hungry tiger, for instance, while you read these words. In
this essay I wish to present a path of the head and the heart when they are not being
strangled by unfounded fear. I will call this approach “The Flight of the Eagle and the
Condor”.
I first became acquainted with the legend of the Eagle and the Condor at the World
Summit Mini-Conference January 11-14, 2018. Here is an example of one way this
story is told.
The Legend
(from Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins)
Nearly every culture I know prophesies that in the late 1990's we entered a
period of remarkable transition. At monasteries in the Himalayas, ceremonial
sites in Indonesia, and indigenous reservations in North America, from the
depths of the Amazon to the peaks of the Andes, and into the ancient Mayan
cities of Central America…They tell variously of a New Age, the Third Millennium,
the Age of Aquarius, the Beginning of the Fifth Sun, or the end of old calendars
and the commencement of new ones.
Despite the varying terminologies, however, they have a great deal in common,
and “The Prophecy of the Condor and Eagle” is typical. It states that back in the
mists of history, human societies divided and took different paths: that of the
condor (representing the heart, intuitive and mystical) and that of the eagle
(representing the brain, rational and material). In the 1490's, the prophesy said,
the two paths would converge and the eagle would drive the condor to the verge
of extinction. Then, five hundred years later, in the 1990's a new epoch would
begin, one in which the condor and the eagle will have the opportunity to reunite

and fly together in the same sky, along the same path. If the condor and eagle
accept this opportunity, they will create a most remarkable offspring, unlike any
seen before.
http://www.mtnmath.com/condor.html
My Experience: Communist China and Tibetan Buddhism
“In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all time…scientific truth is always a
paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.” - Marx
“Do not believe anything on mere hearsay…but whatever, after thorough investigation and reflection, you
find to agree with reason and experience, as conducive to the good and benefit of all and of the world at
large, accept only that as true and shape your life in accordance with it.” – Buddha
I was personally overjoyed to be included in the Mini- Summit, as the World
Summit works towards social transformation using the wisdom from this legend as a
fundamental guiding principle. For it was the necessity of integrating educated scientific
intellect with awakened spiritual consciousness that I realized was necessary after my
two-year stint in the People’s Republic of China in 1983 -1985. I had gone there in order
to experience first-hand life in a (formerly) communist country.
During my time at university, I had become convinced of the applicability of Marx’s
analysis of economy and history in creating a just, elevated society. I was an active
member of a revolutionary communist party in the U.S. However, my experience in the
P.R.C. indicated that the structure of a state-run economy did not remove class conflict
and inequality in itself, and that the necessary “ communist” values of unity and sharing
were not the guiding motivating factors behind society.
It was during my trip through Tibet, my time in Lhasa, and residence in Nepal that I did
experience these factors in my contact with the indigenous people there. Coincidentally
I was given a copy of “The Turning Point” by Fritjof Capra, in which the similarities
between Quantum Physics and Eastern Spirituality were applied to social relations. I
suddenly understood that the so-called “dialectical materialism” that Communist theory
touted actually avoided recognizing the most obvious dialectical pole inherent in
Communism, that of the dialectic of materialism and spiritualism. Without a
transformation in the development of unity in consciousness, the imposition of uniform
material circumstances upon people would always fall short of the communist goal.
Definition of the Concepts of the Eagle and Condor in the 21 st Century
In the thirty years which have followed my realization in Tibet, the unity of the Eagle and
the Condor has fortunately begun to take place, beginning in the 1960s with the
reverberations created with the mass destruction by the predatory Eagle in World War

II. Militarily, there were instances of ill-equipped but unified peoples in Asia fighting off
Western Imperialist occupation. Scientifically, not only have investigations into Quantum
Physics given rise to new advanced technologies, it has revealed an underlying energy
which runs through the entirety of the universe, the so-called Zero Point Field. In terms
of social and cultural evolution, the influx of Eastern teachings have made practices
such as Mindfulness and Meditation commonplace in the West. Institutionalized forms
of discrimination against the African race, such as the Jim Crow laws in the U.S. and
apartheid in South Africa, were rejected through PASSIVE resistance and collective
social pressure. The re-emergence of Aboriginal Peoples and Cultures has evoked
growing validation and support, and they too are overturning the illegitimate exploitation
of Mother Earth by rapacious capitalism through unified peaceful resistance.
Thus the Eagle and the Condor can be associated with a variety of terms currently
embraced by society:
• Masculine and feminine energy (not biological sex)
• Yin and Yang
• Patriarchal and Matriarchal
• Science (technology) and Spirituality (consciousness)
• Particles and Waves
• Classical and Quantum Science
• Explicit and Implicit Order
• Head and Heart
• Intellect and Feeling
By integrating both ends of the seeming dichotomy, the birth of a new paradigm can
take place. The teleological scientific paradigm of the ancient world, in which
”everything happens for some reason/contributes to some good”, was replaced by the
causal paradigm of the Scientific Revolution, in which “everything that happens is
caused to happen in that way”. Now it is time for a universal paradigm to evolve in
which the two are combined.
Dualism, Monism and Holism
Another way of interpreting the legend of the Eagle and the Condor is through the
concepts of Dualism, which separates experience between Subject and Object, and
could be related to the Eagle, and Monism, which is the theory that denies the existence
of distinction in any particular area, the recognition that all-is-one, which might be
related to the Condor.
Extreme applications of these philosophies in society can lead, on the one hand, to the
exaggerated importance and deification of the individual (consumer) over the needs and
values of the group, as can be seen in popular Western society, and the almost
complete subordination of the individual will and unique development to the collective,

as can be seen in the first decade of Communism in Russia and China and present-day
North Korea.
The approach that is needed today is enlightened holism, which is the theory that the
parts of a whole are in a relationship of intimate interconnection. They cannot exist
independently of the whole, nor can they be understood without reference to the whole.
The whole is, thus, greater than the sum of its parts. Fortunately, this is an essential
tenant of the Resource Based Economy.
“As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster values about
clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a
complete inventory of the Earth’s resources, will form the basis for a holistic
approach to cybernated decision-making.” – Jacque Fresco
Practical Implications for Change Makers
From a holistic point of view, the Eagle and the Condor are indivisible, they must fly and
work together in order to give birth to something greater than either of them individually
can create. We change-makers need to take a lesson from this. It is time for all groups
dedicated to the manifestation of a human society in which the whole of life is supported
and the individual is able to achieve his/her highest expression to discard any practice
or conviction that separates them from the others.
Those of us rooted in the mental, scientific, intellectual, individualistic, material and
technological world of the Eagle need to open to and adopt practices that bring us in
contact with the spirit and the heart. As mentioned earlier, meditation and mindfulness
are proven methods towards this end, as are a great many techniques developed in
psychology, human development, and indigenous groups.
For those of us rooted in the feeling, spiritual, heart, universal, consciousness and
ecological world of the Condor, it is necessary to deepen our understanding and
education in systems, methods, and subjects that elevate our understanding and
facilitate or work. There are a number of books, Youtube channels, groups, and
education venues for deepening knowledge.
When I review all the cases from the past 50 years that show the increasing strength of
the unified Eagle and Condor, I can only become optimistic about the possibility of
achieving the Resource Based Economy within the near future. The work being done
toward holding the first World Summit is based on this guiding principle. Through
meditation and education, I try to contribute my gift. Everybody has a gift. “The meaning
of your life is to find your gift. The purpose of your life is to give it away.”