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The history of Euthenics is recorded early in the 19th century and inspired by Ellen Swallow Richards, and in the original sense "the science of better living". It was perceived originally as the altering of an external world, when this is terribly misleading. We use knowledge to alter our environment which then alters our living conditions. We want to keep seeking knowledge, but we must also retain it in order to gain more. Thus, the mind is actually also altered in two ways. In altering our external existence and connection to it, we must know that even though most of the outside world is seemingly not in our control, we can control our habits pertaining to it, and we can do that by controlling ourselves. By realigning our essential habits, we alter our genetics as well, and the planet. This is also visible in the natural world of life as other species evolve based on their habits and desires. Some examples are the shark and its habit of swimming and eating. The shark is now the most evolved for that habit because the shark did not try to change and develop a new preferred habit, but got better at what it was already doing. Other species evolve in many ways but they change based on the two basic premises, habits and exposure. Our environment is one of the premises in our existence, and it has really become overbearing because of our amusement in it. Instead of learning the lessons given to us by the life on the planet, we play with it to adorn ourselves in it mostly. We can easily be misguided by this in our evolution process, and begin to believe we can survive without the environment, or create our own somehow, out there, and there is no livable planet within living distance even in our own galaxy. Maybe we need to wake up. Just maybe, we never get out of here until we get it right. In this sense, our true essence sits within our spirit power and our connection to the energy we use, transform, dispose of, and interact with, through all these states of consciousness. It would be critical to balance the whole process in order to learn what our true nature is, and possible realities beyond our assumption experienced. Some refer to Euthenics as a study that only deals with the consequences of a problem and that eugenics deals directly with the problem. I would view this as not thinking correctly. Adjusting our habits has millions of time more power than changing one gene in hopes of preventing diseases we can't even understand why they are in the first place. Why are we attempting to stop diseases without looking at the habitual and exposure pattern made and informing people of that early in life? The answer is, we are greedy. If eugenicist are saying they deal directly with the problem and euthenics is worthless, it looks like they are lying. Eugenics seems to be saying, go ahead with what ever habits you [are secretly informed to believe] and we'll fix it from the back end. This is nothing more than a ploy to keep you into the loop of designer life and human control. The consequences of not seeking further knowledge and respect concerning our habits and our true environment connections is jaded to say the least. It is not to take away from human life to inform human life based on existing data which clearly shows an overlaying system upon the life process, and manipulation of it for purposes of profits disguised as the good of man. Euthenics does not remove life, but a system run amuck can destroy life by letting it grow and feeding from it. It is the feeding that is the problem. Our bringing life into the world is natural, its more the information that is missing that you would think a species as smart as we are would be able to convey to a new life just brought into the world. Better said, our education system is highly controlled and designed by foundations with other interests. It's time for a second thrust in the study and practice of Euthenics as a Euthenist. You can help balance emotional habits with incoming intelligence for human behavior that just so happens to have earth as a partner instead of a device to be used up and sucked dry. Our polluting the planet may have no effect on it whatsoever except for one factor, and that is us and our demise from ignoring it for so long. Euthenics, the original word, was coined back in June of 1894 by Ellen Swallow Richards and described in an article entitled, The Disappointing First Thrust of Euthenics. Her insight was against the same battle we fight today concerning aggressive use of the planet. She used her wisdom to evaluate the local water systems in the area of Poughkeepsie, NY where Vassar College is located today.
This was a beginning of reason applied to thinking and reminds me of Thomas Paine and his writings related to his Age of Reason. Without reason, we only have the word of man as God. Today, we live a life of chance engrained into our education through the games we play. The idealisms are only those who have the most interest and/or power, and our society is horribly compulsive in nature, not only in habits, but environmentally. In a darker sense, we are two experiments in progress. One, for the highest interests and control of others, and one, for our higher order in spirit. The spiritual essence of humans is commonly thought to be a ghost. I would only agree in the physical sense, not spiritual. Most people believe in a supreme being or deity, yet this is a foundation alert. The grounding is by man, and it is intended to sway you. I was asked this question over 30 years ago. A better insight into perceiving a God, or higher power, would be to separate it from a being, for a being is physical. Man has relentlessly pulled any possibility of spiritual power into their realm of physicalism thinking. Yet, this may be our true home or dimension we can't perceive while in a body until we reach a level in understanding the science of our environment in a euthenics way. (written: 17 February 2007) This begins by opening the euthenics doorway to ourselves in essence with the laws of nature, and nature's god in one house. Below are some previous writings. -----
Our spiritual balancing of our interaction with earth and its
consumables can only lead to better living, and conditions to exist for
future generations in any dimension ahead. Euthenist.org is committed to
advancing and networking a better scientific understanding
psychologically of human and earth science. Altering an External World (May 2009) This is the common plug that has been applied to Euthenics in an attempt to kill it, or to add dismay in the mind about the truth pertaining to its concept. By taking the words of Ellen Swallow Richards and twisting them just right, the whole concept is plugged. It really is a matter of saying it just right, and the mind is altered into a preferred state of awareness. The statement that Euthenics was intended to alter the external world is not what Richards was at all describing it seems in her work. It was rather a mathematical result that stemmed from seeking knowledge and cooperation of that knowledge as a replacement for bad habits, of which are sorely admired. So, as time as passed, it was easier to say using the term "altering of an external world" as close to the top of the concept as possible, and this under normal circumstances would raise eye brows. An example, and there are many, would be facts pertaining to our current environment, such as global warming. Scientists have already told us that there is no evidence of any effect on the cosmic intentions of Earth and it's existence. We are told the Earth is sick, principally that it is heating up. Although, recently that has all changed with the sun spot activity dropping off the charts. Basically, all the information that is provided tells us they know practically nothing about our external environment. So why would Richards attempt to tell you this back in 1900, when as of today, we still have no answer? The institution of cooperation is greatly feared, as this brings power that is converted into habits that change overnight removing the power obviously from people who do not care about these things. In reality, they only see us as food. It is seemingly ridiculous to imagine us changing our environment, as we would have to change first. Then, over time the Earth would look different, and possibly react different, of which could be measured and studied. But, this comes back to the same old line, that being, to keep you at bay. The magic plug in some sense places a momentary lapse of reason into your mind, as though Euthenics is some off the wall study related to meddle, something only seen as intrusion, when it lays at the foundation of who we are, how we live, breath, and think. By telling you that this is a meddle, you assume the intrusion, curiosity is thwarted, and you move on not getting the truth, thus building your own bridge, and mainly off the existing structure built from early ages that is the available programs being installed. External forces are not controllable. Cooperation is. These are the two prongs of the plug by reversing them, and it is surely used in many ways simply by telling you that you can make a difference which may be assumed externally, or by what you have around you that is of value and convenience. You never see the toxic well floating where the mountain used to be or have to drink from it. All the while you are told to perceive something that is senseless in order to keep the division fired up between the prongs. Cooperation is heavily laced with propaganda, as in the division of the parties which are seething with the policy defined as a numbers game. This forces cooperation on top of the law maker's external world, which is then perceived as us. Richards seemed to have the intention of creating the condition for which we could survive, as a people, not as sick beings on a sick planet. Corporate interests prevailed, and her original dream did not continue mainly because of distraction and propaganda formulations preventing knowledge and truth their secret rendezvous. Added December 5, 2009 The following are quotes contained in the book, "Euthenics - The Science of Controllable Environment", A Plea for Better Living Conditions as a First Step Toward Higher Human Efficiency, © Whitcomb & Barrows, Boston 1910 Chapter 3: HOPE "The real significance of biological evolution has not been grasped by the people in general. It is that man is a part of organic nature, subject to laws of development and growth, laws which he cannot break with impunity. It is his business to study the forces of Nature and to conquer his environment by submitting to the inevitable. Only then will man gain control of the conditions which affect his own well-being." "Physical education has had its vogue, but too much as an endeavor apart, not as a necessary element in the whole. The pedagogical world is now becoming convinced that physical defects are more often than not the basis of mental incompetence, and this leads logically to the teaching of the laws of right living in a practical way, not merely as lessons from books, but as daily practice." Chapter 6: THE HOME AND THE SCHOOL "One must not displace the other, for one cannot replace the other, but rather the home and the school must react on each other." "We have millions for research in the realm of domestic animals and nothing for the application of science to the rearing of children."
"Man has awakened to the fact that he is 'the sickest beast alive' and
that he has himself to blame, and, moreover, that it is within his power
to change his condition and that speedily." "State hygiene is necessary to supplement municipal hygiene." Chapter 9: WOMAN'S RESPONSIBILITY "The city woman has amused herself because she has seen nothing better to do with her time. The utilization of her ability is all that is needed to regenerate city life. Without it all efforts will prove fruitless. Education of all women in the principles of sanitary science is the key to race progress in the twentieth century." "When civilization as it is called, persuaded woman to give up manufacture and to become a buyer, the first step in the disintegration of the home as a center of information, as well as of industry, was taken...This sense of ignorance, this subconscious loss of power over things, only increased the effect of that fatalism which the control of machinery was leading man out from under." "As conditions are, the twentieth century sees a strange phenomenon - the most vital of all processes, the raising of children, carried on under adverse conditions; human labor and life being held of as little account as in the days of building the pyramids." "The architecture of a city tenement house is to blame for the silent but certain transformation of the home into a sty. Instead of accepting this condition as inevitable, like a law of nature, and accepting its consequences, all experience demands of those who believe in the monogamic family, that they make a united and persistent fight on the evil which threatens the slowly acquired qualities secured in the highest form of the family. It would be unworthy of us to permit a great part of a modern population to descend again to the animal level from which the race has ascended only through ćons of struggle and difficulty. When we remember that very much, perhaps most of the progress has been dearly purchased at the cost of women, by appeal of her weakness and need and motherhood, we must all the more firmly resolve not to yield the field to a temporary effect of a needless result of neglect and avarice." "Only when the social mind and conscience is educated and the entire community becomes intelligent and alert can legislation be secured which places all competitors in a level where humanity is possible." © Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842-1911) Quotes contained in the book by various authors The schools have made their beginning; the homes have not yet started; they wait the impulse from without." Dr. H. M. Eichols, Inspector of Schools. Paper before Conference of Women Workers, London 1904 "The whole difference of modern scientific research from that of the Middle Ages, the secret of its immense successes, lies in its collective character, in the fact that every fruitful experiment is published, every new discovery of relationships explained. In a sense, scientific research is a triumph over natural instinct, over that mean instinct that makes men secretive." H. G. Wells, New Worlds for Old Additions: Richards was seemingly inspired by some of the thoughts of H. G. Wells and repeatedly quoted him in her book, and she died amidst the Teddy Roosevelt years of warring and the invasion of the Philippines. I am unable to determine her relationship with Wells if any, or if she was aware of his associations that history has revealed to us. I am also unable to determine as of yet if the concept of eugenics had been developed or inspired from her work, but there are many likely relationships that would have stemmed out of the concept in their transformation and misconceptions. It seems that Wells may have had many colors to his coat and may have also been influenced by the times. November 09, 2003 Edwin Black article in San Francisco Chronicle highlighted in The nazis idea of murdering Jews, Gysies, and communists in gas chambers was an American idea The reader may also reference a short video here and Howard Zinn writings of American history which explicitly describes the events of these times. |
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