Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky is known all over the world as the founder of modern cosmonautics, who developed the theory of airship and rocket construction. But there is another, little-known Tsiolkovsky, who described from the position of monism his point of view on the structure of the Universe and the place of man in the manifested by him slender hierarchy of universal beings and entities.
The importance of these studies for mankind is demonstrated by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s statement that he developed the theory of rocket building only as an appendix to his researches devoted to cognition of the principles of functioning of the Universe and to research on this basis the fundamental possibility of resettlement of mankind from the Earth and in the settlement of the Cosmos by people. Rockets for him are only a way, only a method of penetrating into the depth of the cosmos, but by no means an end in itself.
The set of ideas, hypotheses, theses, which made up the content of his philosophical works, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky himself called “Cosmic Philosophy”. Its central element is the doctrine of the meaning of life modeled with the help of scientific methods and its comprehension in the process of realization of moral practice.
The scientist has written many philosophical works, which are little known to the general reader due to their silence for many years. This Project is an attempt to break the “conspiracy of silence” around the philosophy of the cosmic visionary, who tried to find answers to the questions posed to human civilization by the beginning of the “space age”.
New thinking is impossible without searching for the meaning of life beyond the boundaries of everyday life in the unity of the inhabited cosmos.
All published works are based on the philosophical works (articles, notes, letters, books) of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, which are devoted to the search for answers to the eternal questions – Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we headed? Each individual e-book includes not only the text of the work, but also archival photocopies of these works in handwritten or typewritten form with the author’s edits.
Despite the fact that all of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s philosophical works are now classified as public domain, the results of many of his studies have not been published to date even in Russian. These works remain little known. This is mainly due to the fear of bureaucrats in the academic sphere for the consequences for their careers, since the content of most of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s philosophical works contradicts the modern scientific paradigm and, accordingly, looks “unscientific”.
Deeply understanding the essence of what is happening, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky argued:
“…any question can be scientific if it is answered sooner or later. Unscientific questions include all those questions that remain unanswered. But man is gradually unraveling some riddles of this kind…”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
, “The Theory of Cosmic Eras”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky attempted to look into such distant historical periods of the Universe’s development, which are “incomprehensible to the mind of man” and tried to describe these periods in simple human language. Readers today can access his articles: “Unknown Intelligent Forces”, “The Monism of the Universe”, “The Wandering of Atoms” and many others.
Many researchers of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s life and work call him a prophet, emphasizing the fact that Tsiolkovsky was in contact with the “unknown intelligent forces” of the Universe and served as a kind of intermediary between them and people, making public their will in the form of a description of the “structure” of the Universe….
“Actually, Tsiolkovsky was in constant contact with the unknown intelligent forces of the universe. The writer Viktor Shklovsky, who met with the famous elder several times and came to Kaluga especially for this purpose, recorded the following conversation on the hot tracks:
”Evening. Tsiolkovsky asked me:
- Do you talk to angels?
- No, – I answered quietly into the hearing tube.
- According to the structure of the head could talk.
- And you? – I asked.
- I talk all the time…”.
Valery Demin, “Tsiolkovsky”. Series “Life of remarkable people”
Addressing his readers, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky said:
“I will try to restore what has been lost to mankind in the sonnets of millennia, to find the philosopher’s stone that he has dropped.”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, “The Living Universe”, 1923.
“Be attentive, strain all your energies to assimilate and understand what is set forth. My energy alone is hardly enough to convince you. Join your own and your friends. I will not bring any authorities to my work, except the authority of exact science…
For your exertion, for your attention, you will be rewarded, I won’t say a hundredfold, it’s too weak, but immeasurable. There are no words to express the benefits you will receive for your labor. There is no measure for these benefits. That measure is infinity.”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, “The Living Universe”, 1923.
“All matter in the universe is stirring. Man or other creature is matter, wandering throughout the universe. The fate of a being depends on the fate of the universe. Every intelligent being must be imbued with the history of the universe. Such a higher point of view is necessary. A narrow point of view can lead to delusion.”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, “The Necessity of a Cosmic Point of View”, 1934.
Project Objective:
- To make the philosophical works of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky publicly available and absolutely free for all;
- To overcome the “conspiracy of silence” around his philosophical works;
- To open them a “second breath” and give them a “new life”.
How we do it:
- We create e-books based on manuscripts and typewriters from the archive of K.E.Tsiolkovsky’s works;
- We organize them in the form of e-books in PDF format;
- We distribute books free of charge via the Internet;
- We translate selected articles into different languages of the world using the most modern translation systems;
- We collect materials on the Internet that can be attributed to the scientific heritage of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and publish them.
Why it is important?
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s writings are unique:
- They contain clear, simple, and at the same time, profound answers to complex questions that concern many readers: What is an “atom”? What is “matter”? How does “living” differ from “dead”? Are there “spirits”? Is there a “god”? Can there be beings living on our planet that are more advanced than humans?…
- They help readers to look at the world in a new way and realize their unity with the inhabited universe.
The works of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky can help every reader to better understand the Universe and realize their place in it!
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