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«The Final Appeal to Mankind» by Nicolai Levashov
                  Preface 2

                  It is a great honor and privilege to help bring this book to the world. I know that
            many of you reading it for the first time will find in it rational answers to the most
            profound life-long questions: the origin of life, of man, of man’s place in his world and
            the cosmos, and the nature of the soul.

                  The work speaks for itself: it is so original that many will have difficulty believing
            that so much information could have come from the mind of one person. It would be a
            mistake, however, to think that the information given in The Final Appeal to Mankind
            was received by Levashov from some higher authority. We are all too inclined to “pass
            the buck” of the responsibility for our lives, to some entity beyond us. Indeed, I believe
            that what Levashov has found about man and his nature are things that we could have
            known  long  ago  had  man  evolved  naturally  and  had  the  courage  to  ask  the  right
            questions.
                  Nicolai Levashov is endowed with remarkable abilities to consciously move his
            spirit outside his body to other spiritual and temporal dimensions, and to see within
            and mentally influence living and non-living matter both locally and at a distance.
            While these talents provide information not readily available to most people and permit
            Levashov to perform mental experiments testing his working hypotheses, for the most
            part the discoveries documented here are the product of Levashov’s unrelenting search
            for the truth using a process of thought that is scientific in the best sense of the word,
            but without being mechanistic nor mystical.

                  It  is  difficult  for  those  of  us  who  have  been  enculturated  in  mechanistic
            reductionistic  science  to  imagine  that  there  could  be  another  way  of  investigating
            nature that would yield consensually valid, repeatable findings with predictive value.
            Yet there is an entire tradition of such a process of investigation that preceded, then
            paralleled, the rise  of mechanism, but which was never  embraced by the scientific
            community  of  the  time.  Practiced  by  few,  this  more  functional  thought  process
            remained hidden from general view, or the findings generated by this process were
            irrationally dismissed as “mysticism.”
                  The few in modern times who did utilize a more “functional” thought process
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            were scientific thinkers such as Goethe ,1 Rudolph Steiner , the French philosopher
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            Henri Bergson , and the physician and scientist, Wilhelm Reich , who formalized the
            process. The key to their process of thought and investigation was what Goethe called
            “active,  imaginative  perception,”  that  is,  the  reliance  on  subjective  sensation  and
            mental  imagery  to apprehend and comprehend the  object under investigation. This
            demanded a trust in the clarity of one’s sensations and perceptions, an unobstructed
            contact with oneself and the external world.

                  In the case of Steiner and Reich, what was harvested from this thought process
            was often objectified in the physical world through experimentation, yielding many
            remarkable  products  including  means  of  significantly  fructifying  the  soil  without


               1  Bortoft, Henri, The Wholeness of Nature, Lindisfarne Press, 1996.
               2  Steiner, Rudolph, The Course of My Life, trans. Olin Wanamaker Hudson, New York, Anthroposophic  Press, 1951.
               3  Bergson, Henry, Creative Evolution, New York, The Modern Library, 1911.
               4  Reich, Wilhelm, Ether, God and Devil, Orgone Institute Press, Rangeley, 1949.

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