0191 9067/83 $3.00 + .00 Copyright ' 1983 SUN SAT Energy Council AN ASIAN PERSPECTIVE: “FIN DE SIECLE” MACRO-INSURANCE CENTER ON AN EQUATORIAL ISLAND MANABU NAKAGAWA Hitotsubashi University Kunitachi. Tokyo', Japan Abstract — This is a rough sketch of a new type of macro-insurance, which is designed to address the pessimistic conditions of the end of this century. It is expected to create a huge monetary fund for the maintenance of space facilities and construction of macro-financial center on the Earth space port located at an equatorial island as well as SPS-rectenna in equatorial Asian countries. INTRODUCTION: SOUL AND BODY There are legends in countries of eastern Asia including China. Korea and Japan about a hermit who lives in the mountains and is capable of performing miracles. In Japan, such a hermit is called “Sennin” who is capable of releasing and freeing his soul from his body, and flying to wherever it wishes to go. Sennin legends originate from Taoism, which regards soul and body as two separate entities. In India, we find a similar belief a soul transfers from one body to another in cycles of death and life. Buddhism aims at enlightening the believers so that they can end this cycle and live in the eternal world of soul. Dualism of this kind which treats soul and body as separate entities exists in the Western thought as well. Contemporary example are young American hippies going to India, or practicing Yoga and meditation in search of freedom of their soul, or the so-called teleportation. It appears that in the inner depth of human psychology there is a strong desire, programmed in DNA, to free the soul from the body, for the body is enslaved within the cycle of life, old age, sickness, and death. LIBERATION TOWARD THE SPACE In the twentieth century, human beings have advanced space engineering, launched rockets, freed themselves from the Earth's gravity, and began exploring outer space. Apparently, these developments may have resulted from the urge of their soul or the prime power of life as programmed in the DNA to emancipate itself from the constraints of their body and the existing environment. A Japanese biologist, Dr. Tairo Oshima, raises a hypothesis that the DNA of a gene, which controls life on Earth, is bored with having earthly creatures as its container and has begun to look for a different new container on other stars (1). A similar view is put forth by Dr. Robert Jastrow in his “Silicon Life” hypothesis (2).
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