Steve, absolutely so, it is fascinating to discuss about the cosmos, but apparently God wanted the different stellar civilizations not to communicate among them, or to be able to communicate only after huge scientifical and technical progress., arguably achieved by very few ones.
Sometimes it may even be for our own good. we all know what happened to the Santo Domingo natives when Columbus was able to cross the Ocean, then to the American Indians, to the polynesians with the Spanish, and so many other civilizations which were enlaved or destroyed when the Europeans were able to overcome the ocean barriers. There might be some 'Europeans' out there ready to enslave us were it not for the immense distances between galaxies.
Yes. If we were able to get to another stellar civilization what would we do? Repeat history? We 'need' resources and a place for us to live. Would we do the same as before? Or would we prove that history does not repeat itself?
If Sri Yukteswar was right, we only have 12, 000 years of ascending yugas to figure out how to overcome such distances and 12,000 years to find other places to live that are in areas whose spiritual atmosphere does not have such dark periods as our own kali yuga. Otherwise we are doomed again to face more kali yugas where most or all knowledge is lost and we are faced with the same grim prospects of civilizations in our recent past.
It becomes more and more recognizable that we are on some kind of penal colony here on earth and it may be more likely our own way out is through working out our own individual sentences and being born on higher planets then our own or lengthen our stays in the astral world's till we no longer are sentenced to come here.
