Person Of The Week: Robert Bartini

Robert Ludvigovich Bartini was an Italian born Russian aircraft designer and scientist. Bartini joined the Italian Communist Party in 1921 and fled the country after the Fascist takeover in 1923. Bartini was secretly transferred to USSR as an aviation engineer where he worked on experimental designs.

Apart from being an exceptional scientist and engineer, Bartini was a philosopher who theorized the existence of a six dimensional world, in fact, this theory became known as “Bartini’s World”.

Bartini theorized that time, just like space, has three dimensions. We can safely assume that the linear movement through time is no longer a singular vector. Movement through time and space takes on the same characteristics. Just as we would move backward or forward in space, so we can move forward and backward in time.

Person Of The Week: Helena Blavatsky

Elena Petrovna Gan, better known as Helena Blavatsky, was an influential mystic and a founder of the Theosophical Society.

Blavatsky was born in 1831, in Russia. Her father, Peter von Hahn was of ancient German nobility, and her mother, Elena Fadeyeva was a Russian novelist.

Between the years of 1848 to 1858, Helena Blavatsky spent her time travelling the world, visiting various countries such as Egypt, Germany, India, and Tibet, where she studied Buddhism for two years.

In 1873 Blavatsky moved to New York City where she founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 together with Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge.

Theosophy subscribes to the idea that all religions are attempts to help humanity evolve to greater perfection. The basic tenets of this philosophy hold that the cosmos is a conscious entity, fulfilling its own evolutionary path. The spiritual manifestations of this consciousness are known as Monads, which may appear as angels, human beings, or in other forms. Blavatsky thought of Monads as manifestations of the human soul.

Theosophist hold that human civilizations undergo seven stages of recessional development. The seven stages encompass seven Root Races, with the modern humans belonging to the fifth rootrace, the Aryans.