Tap your inner shadow for courage, your inner trickster for audacity.
Dance a jig over God’s grave.
Laugh into the abyss.
Bridge the gap between opposites.
Life is short.
You only have so much time.
No fear.
Ride like lightning, crash like thunder.
Live on purpose, with purpose.
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Such laughter helps you go Meta with humor.
You're free to tap the Overman, to mock the gods, to leverage holy shrines into monkeyshines.
You trump small picture beliefs with big picture imagination.
Now enter God’s Gangster...
Infinity’s bullhorn: declaring God as Infinity itself, the interconnectedness of all things.
God’s gangster consistently redefines God, rebirths God, and allows God to be truly infinite, thus destroying all religious gods that came before it.
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VICTORY OF LIGHT!!!
The Power to control national life through national representatives is called politial power.
Representatives will become unnecessary if the national life becomes so perfect as to be self-controlled.
It will then be a state of enlightened anarchy in which each person will become his own ruler.
(MK Gandhi)
This is the story of a donkey. A donkey who was walking along when night fell. He was not sure what his destination was and how to reach it. And what made it worse was that he could hear the sounds of wild animals in the forest, where he had been grazing all day. It was too dark for the donkey to see beyond his nose. Fear gripped the donkey as he peered into the darkness ahead to see if he could make something of it.
Just as the donkey ambled about directionless, an owl from a
treetop hooted out to him, “Buddy! You cannot see at night, but I can;
maybe I should become your guide and show you the path.” The donkey
could not have asked for anything better. He guffawed with joy and
invited the owl to sit on its back.
With the owl perched delicately on his back, the duo made their way through the forest. The owl gave directions, and the donkey followed them. All night, the arrangement worked out well. They managed to avoid wild animals and see the light of day. The sun rose as the team reached the forest's edge, and a new day was born. In the sunlight, the donkey could see very well, but the owl was blinded by the light.
For a few minutes, there was confusion, but the owl, having donned the guide's hat, was reluctant to give up the leadership role. The owl was too attached to his seat on the donkey’s back and the power it gave him. So, even though the owl could see nothing, he continued to give directions.
The donkey did not think much about the arrangement that was well-suited to the night but defective during the day. He did not realise that he could see and did not need owl’s help navigating the forest. Even though he did not require a visual guide now, he continued to accept the owl as his guide. He never attempted to use his head or eyes and perceive that he could see during the day, hence he did not need a guide. He continued to follow the owl’s directions, which were not based on knowledge of the path ahead.
At one point, the owl instructed the donkey to turn left and immediately right. The donkey could see a deep, fast-moving river down the cliff. But he was following the guide and not thinking, so he did just as he was told. The donkey fell directly into the river and drowned.
We learn two things from this incident. There are times when we need guides, and no guide can be greater than the dharma guru or the spiritual teacher. However, it does not mean we stop seeing ourselves or examining things critically. All great seers have encouraged us to look for the Truth ourselves. They have also said to choose your guide after consideration.
Most ancient texts emphasise that both the teacher and the taught should fulfil certain qualifications. Indeed, the donkey did not have a choice during the night. However if he was alert during the day, he would have known that his guide was not helping him. In our lives, too, the same guide may not work for all occasions. Hence, Mahavir said appana sachame secche – search for the truth yourself.
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George Kavassilas experienced his first extraterrestrial contact experience when only 7 years old. The trauma he suffered from Gray aliens and experiences in the subsequent years with different Gray humanoids left a profound mark on him. In 2003, he had a radically different kind of contact with what he described as his extraterrestrial family that was very benevolent. The experience was incredibly uplifting and transformative, and led to him accepting a position as an Ambassador for one of the Galactic organizations interacting with humanity. He subsequently, met with prominent political leaders in the US and Australia interested in meeting and communicating with the positive extraterrestrials.
In this Exopolitics Today interview, Kavassilas explains how he came to understand three levels of imposition on humanity by extraterrestrials and their human minions during his contact experiences. He discusses these different levels and how humanity is better served following another path to the hierarchical systems disseminated by different extraterrestrial organizations, both benevolent and malevolent.
Kavassilas emphasizes the benefits of understanding the fractal nature of the universe and how an individual soul is capable of integrating with the Omniverse is a way that is unique to humanity. He distinguishes the path of Integration, which he calls “the journey home” with the path of Ascension, which he believes to be yet another hierarchical system promoted by those wishing to establish a new cosmic religion with some extraterrestrials posing as gods. Kavassilas’ views on the soul, ascension, the chakra system, and the journey home are both provocative and essential to understanding the big exopolitical picture confronting humanity.
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Disaster Shamanism (or Apocalyptic Shamanism) in a nutshell:
The Disaster Shaman recipe combines aspects of The Shadow with aspects of The Hero and then mixes in a little Trickster humility. The combination of these archetypes creates a particular flavor of nontraditional shamanism that spearheads healthy Cosmic Law into the unhealthy lawfulness that surrounds us.
A Disaster Shaman is a force of nature first, a person second. They sow radical revolution in order to reap progressive evolution. Healthy balance is primary. Even if it comes at the expense of comfort and security. Disaster Shamanism (or Apocalyptic Shamanism) is the interdependent shamanic response to apocalyptic times.
The primary tasks of a Disaster Shaman:
–Heal disaster situations through shamanic cosmology and ecopsychology.
–Listen to Universal Laws to discern the difference between healthy and unhealthy.
–Live moderately so that others may moderately live.
–Diagnose and heal Nature Deprivation.
–Transform weaponry into livingry.
–Bring “water” to the Wasteland.
–Rewild the overly domesticated.
The Four Pillars of Disaster Shamanism:
–Eco-consciousness (The 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse)
–High humor (The Sacred Clown)
–Hero expiation (The New Hero)
–Self-overcoming (The New Oracle)
6 Signs You May Be a Disaster Shaman
1.) You heal disaster situations through shamanic cosmology and ecopsychology:
You empower the disempowered and lift the downtrodden through shamanic reengineering. Your philanthropy is not money, necessarily, but sacred energy. You realize as Henry David Thoreau did: “To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” But you do not preach.
You teach by eco-conscious example, using ecopsychology as a direct method to reintroduce the afflicted to the healing properties of the greater cosmos, using a post-modern shamanic cosmology as a medium for safe passage into higher realms of thinking about the human soul.
2.) You listen to nature in order to learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy:
You use a nature first culture second approach to life. You are a space that the cosmos fashioned to feel its own grandeur, and you are not afraid to feel the double-edged sword of that grandeur. You are a custodian of interconnection, attuned to the paradoxical reality of the human condition as being both god-like and animal-like, and so you operate outside the cultural framework of right & wrong.
3.) You live moderately so that others may moderately live:
Living moderately is challenging, but you embrace the challenge, knowing that the liberation of the soul is worth going through any amount of hardship. Living this way upturns convention and undermines tradition, creating a sacred space for new world-building. And because your load is so light and you are so adept at practicing moderation, you tend to exist on the periphery.
4.) You are skilled in diagnosing and healing nature deprivation:
You teach people how to live sustainably within their immediate environments. You even take the concept of re-wilding to the next level, applying it to human beings as well as non-human animals, so that they can rediscover a sacred spirituality by getting back in touch with Nature and the human soul.
5.) You are adept at transforming weaponry into livingry:
You realize that if moderation isn’t taught as an imperative for a healthier world, then the volition of people will become immoderate and militarized, and the world will therefore be unhealthy. As a disaster shaman, you realize that times of crisis are the best times to teach, and that teaching by non-violent, demilitarized example, is the best method of teaching.
It will be your creative vision that will transform the destruction inflicted by the weapons of unsustainable men into the creative force for progressive technologies created by sustainable men.
6.) You are willing to die in order to bring water to the Wasteland:
You have the courage to rise up out of the mass-destruction of unsustainable men and dare to become a sustainable force of nature. Art is your medium. Creativity is your vehicle. Sacred play is your power, and not even death can prevent your message from being translated.
As a disaster shaman, your creative play is your power. You are neither scientist nor priest, but artist. You are Artist incarnate. Your sacred art is like water for parched souls. And you have the audacity to bring it to them, despite the powers-that-be. You have no fear. For you realize that safety is an illusion and security is a prison in an ever-changing, ever-evolving cosmos.
And to this day, [those] who...know the self as I am Brahman [the ONE], become all this universe.
Even the gods [any other dimensional beings] cannot prevent his becoming this, for he has become their Self. ...if a man worships another deity thinking: He is one and I am another, he does not know.
He [who does not know] is like a sacrificial animal to the gods. As many animals serve a man, so does each man serve the gods. Even if one animal is taken away, it causes anguish to the owner; how much more so when many are taken away!
Therefore it is not pleasing to the gods that men should know this [that they are the ONE].
-- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, I.iv.10
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-- Kalikakrama, as quoted in the Shiva Sutras translated by Jaideva Singh
Awakening means understanding what is happening
-- The Masque of Anarchy, Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Elevate yourself above the battlefield.” ~Robert Greene.
Life is a battle. It’s a battle against bewitchment. It’s a battle against sloth. It’s a battle against the pollution of the mind, body, and soul. Most of all, it’s a battle against entropy.
You are going to die. There’s no wiggling out of this absolute fact. In the meantime, you have your life. But everything in your life is at war against you. Entropy is ever present, eating away at what you think you own, slowly taking away what you think is yours.
As James Salter said, “There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.”
You turn away from entropy, again and again. You distract yourself with this or that task. You go on an adventure. You fall in love. You start a business. You start a family. You erect fortified comfort zones. But entropy will always be there, looming like a moth attracted to your fire. It smashes itself against all the shields you’ve erected. It outflanks you, an abyss you dare not stare into.
In the slow war with entropy, it will steal your adventure. It will eat away at your love. It will dismantle your business. It will separate your family. It will topple your walls. Death is always there, a looming specter. It whispers into your ear, “Live!” it says, “I am coming.”
“Live!” it says. But how best to do that on a battlefield? Is it better to ignore it and curl up in a ball at the center of your comfort zone? Is it better to cling to what you know, to pacify yourself, and lean on outdated religions? Is it better to escape through drugs or other addictions?
Or is it better to rise above it all and transcend your attachments with a good sense of humor?
The battlefield doesn’t have to be a warzone filled with dead bodies and hyperviolence. It can just as easily be your life. It can just as easily be you against death, you against your own mortal angst, you against God.
On a long enough timeline there is no timeline, at least regarding your own. Which is why it behooves you to live your best life. To utilize a sound strategy, especially in the face of tragedy. And the soundest strategy is elevated nonattachment.
As Seneca said, “It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.”
On any battlefield, it is always wise to elevate yourself above it. To gain a bird’s-eye-view. To go big picture to see how all the small pictures clash. To go Meta to see how everything connects to everything else. To gain perspective despite your fallible perception.
You elevate to prioritize what matters and what doesn’t. To figure out what to give a fuck about and what to let slide. As Rumi said, “The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
The great part is that what’s important and fulfilling is entirely up to you. But there will always be consequences for your choices. There will always be the greater law of the universe to contend with. Better to align what you give a fuck about with the healthy dictates of the cosmos so as to avoid the unhealthy consequences of ignoring them.
You elevate to understand the difference between healthy and unhealthy. To distinguish between written manmade laws and unwritten universal laws. To discover why written laws shrivel into nothingness beneath the primacy of the unwritten law of the interconnected cosmos. As Hermann Hesse said, “As anywhere else in the world, the unwritten law defeated the written one.”
You elevate to discover your own conscience as pure law. To become the personification of checks and balances. You see how the answer is teaching people how to become bigger than the law, how to gain the capacity to have their own conscience as pure law, and how to become a more valuable human.
As Niels Bohr said, “Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.”
Because only elevated people with their own conscience as pure law will have the courage and humor needed to make things better than they are. Only elevated people with their own conscience as pure law will have the audacity to paint the universe red with their insouciant curiosity, to mock the sinister self-seriousness that outflanks them, and to create their own meaning.
You elevate to get ahead of the curve. Above the battlefield, you see how everything is on the curve. No exceptions. You’re able to develop a good sense of humor. You use it to level the battlefield. Bias is squashed. Circular reasoning is straightened. Cognitive dissonance is curtailed. Ideologies are flattened. Your mind opens wide to the vital difference between possibility and probability.
Self-as-world and world-as-self becomes the supreme perspective. Egocentrism is trumped by eco-centrism. One-dimensional independence is subsumed by multidimensional interdependence. You see how it’s okay to shed outdated skin. To cut the dead weight. To burn off the dross. Life is too short to waste precious energy on outdated concepts or living in regret. The past is the past. Elevated above the battlefield, you see how it’s okay to forgive yourself and forgive your ancestors for their ignorance. It’s okay to move on.
When you elevate yourself above the battlefield, the world opens, the fountainhead overflows, the Philosopher’s Stone reveals itself. It launches you past cultural conditioning, indoctrination, and brainwashing. And as the world opens up, so do you. Your mind opens. Your heart swells. Your soul unlocks. You become a sponge for higher knowledge, hungry and hopeful for novelty. Adaptable and improvisational, you become a dancing Lao Tzu Master.
Elevated above it all, your radical sense of humor transforms the battlefield into a daisy field. Hardheartedness is transformed into lightheartedness. Seriousness is transformed into sincerity. Nihilism is transformed into adaptability. Hubris is transformed into humility. Fear is transformed into fuel.
The absurdity of the cosmic joke is a blackhole sun? So be it. Elevated above the battlefield, you’re able to turn the tables on your existential angst and have a laugh.
About the Author:
Gary Z McGee, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man. His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide-awake view of the modern world.
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Could alien life exist in a parallel
universe? Computer simulations from two new studies suggest the idea
might not be out of this world.
Should the search for alien life in our universe come up empty-handed, it might be worth checking in on a neighboring universe instead.
According to a new pair of studies in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, there’s a decent chance that life-fostering planets could exist in a parallel universe — even if that universe were being torn apart by dark energy.
The idea that our universe is just one of many, perhaps infinite, other universes is known as the multiverse theory. Scientists have previously thought that such parallel universes, if they exist, would have to meet an extremely strict set of criteria to allow for the formation of stars, galaxies and life-fostering planets like those seen in our own universe. [5 Reasons We May Live in a Multiverse]
Dark energy is a mysterious, invisible force thought to exist in the empty spaces of our universe. You could think about it as the archnemesis of gravity; while gravity pulls matter closer together, dark energy flings it apart — and dark energy is winning this cosmic tug-of-war handily.
Not only is our universe expanding, thanks to the constant, invisible push of dark energy, but the rate of that expansion is also getting faster and faster every day. It's thought that, as more empty space appears in the universe, even more dark energy appears to fill it. (Dark energy is not the same as dark matter, which is an abundant, invisible form of matter thought to be responsible for some very weird gravitational phenomena around space.)
Scientists don't know exactly what dark energy is or how it works; some think it's an intrinsic property of space — what Einstein called the cosmological constant — while others attribute it to a fundamental force called quintessence, with dynamic rules all its own. Others don't even agree that it exists. But whatever it is, everyone can agree that there's a whole lot of it: According to the best current estimates, nearly 70 percent of the mass-energy of our universe may be made of dark energy.
This quantity, for whatever reason, is in the right range to allow galaxies to grow and foster life. It is thought that if we lived in a universe with too much dark energy, space might expand faster than galaxies could possibly form. Too little dark energy, and runaway gravity could cause every galaxy to collapse in on itself before life ever had a chance to appear.
But the question of how much dark energy is "too much" or "too little" is a topic for debate — and it's this issue of quantity that the authors of the new studies hoped to narrow down.
Across several experiments, an international team of researchers from England, Australia and the Netherlands used a program called Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environmentsto simulate the birth, life and eventual death of various hypothetical universes. In each simulation, the researchers adjusted the amount of dark energy present in that universe, ranging from none to several hundred times the amount in our own universe.
The good news: Even in universes with 300 times as much dark energy as ours, life found a way.
"Our simulations showed that the accelerated expansion driven by dark energy has hardly any impact on the birth of stars, and hence places for life to arise," study co-author Pascal Elahi, a research fellow at the University of Western Australia, said in a statement. "Even increasing dark energy many hundreds of times might not be enough to make a dead universe."
That's good news for fans of extraterrestrial life and the multiverse theory. But a bigger question remains: If galaxies could still thrive on so much dark energy, why did our universe get handed such a seemingly small amount?
"I think we should be looking for a new law of physics to explain this strange property of our Universe," co-author Richard Bower, a professor at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology, said in the statement.
Of course, finding new laws of physics is easier said than done. Scientists won't give up easily — but perhaps, to hedge their bets, they should also look for a parallel universe where some intelligent life has already done it for them.
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None of us have seen actual soul(spirt) that lives in our body with our naked eye.
The Svetasvatara Upanishad (श्वेताश्वतरनोपनिषद् or Śvetāśvataropaniṣad) explains the actual dimension or size of soul.
Śvetāśvataropaniṣad is associated with the Krishna Yajurveda and contains 113 mantras in 6 chapters. It is estimated to have been composed around 4th century BCE.
Most of this Upanishad is attributed to Sage Svetasvatara (Sveta-Asvatara i.e the one owing a white mule).
Other commentators are Adi Sankaracharya, Vijnanatma, Shankarananda and Narayana Tirtha.
Śvetāśvataropaniṣad is the earliest textual exposition of a systematic philosophy of Saivism, for the first time elevating Rudra to the status of Īśa (Lord), a god with cosmological functions such as those later attributed to Siva.
balagra sata bhagasya
satadha kalpitasya ca
bhago jivah sa vijneyah
sa canantyaya kalpate || Svetasvatara Upanishad (5.9)
Translation : When the upper tip of a hair follicle is divided into one hundred parts and again each of such parts is further divided into one hundred parts, each such part is the measurement of the dimension of the spirit soul.
Similar description has been made in Chaitanya Charitamrita by Swami Prabhupada.
keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya
śatāṁśa-sadṛśātmakaḥ
jīvaḥ sūkṣma-svarūpo ‘yaṁ
saṅkhyātīto hi cit-kaṇaḥ || Chaitanya Charitamrita; Madhya Lila; 19.140
That means, a hair tip has to be divided into ten thousand parts and one such part is Cit-Kana (particle of spirit).
Which means that the individual particle of spirit soul is a spiritual atom smaller than the material atoms, and such atoms are innumerable.
Bhagavad Gita also mentions size of soul.
It states that soul is imperishable and cannot be seen with naked eye.
avinasi tu tad viddhi
yena sarvam idam tatam
vinasam avyayasyasya
na kascit kartum arhati || Bhagavad Gita 2.17
Translation : That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul.
Mundakopanishad further explains the places where soul resides in human body.
eso ’nur atma cetasa veditavyo
yasmin pranah pancadha samvivesa
pranais cittam sarvam otam prajanam
yasmin visuddhe vibhavaty esa atma || Mundaka Upanishad (3.1.9)
Translation : The soul is atomic in size and can be perceived by perfect intelligence. This atomic soul is floating in the five kinds of air (prana, apana, vyana, samana and udana), is situated within the heart, and spreads its influence all over the body of the embodied living entities. When the soul is purified from the contamination of the five kinds of material air, its spiritual influence is exhibited.
Also Prana (Life) moves between Eye, Heart and Throat while we are awake, sleeping and dreaming (3 states of mind explained as Tri-Puras).
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.” ~Cheryl Strayed
Nobody is coming to save you from yourself. No God is coming to ease your death anxiety, no matter how much you want to be placated. No “authority” is coming to guide you through the brambles. Your suffering will always be a thing. It’s your responsibility alone to integrate it. You are the only hero you will ever know.
But the only way to get to know your inner hero is to sharpen yourself against the pain. Sharpen yourself against your suffering. Sharpen yourself against your existential dread. Then use this sharpness to pierce the veil between your cultural conditioning and your innermost darkness. Get down deep. Dig into the muck and mire of your humanness. Penetrate the blinding light. Get your “hands” dirty.
The key to integrating suffering is to give yourself an edge. Preferably a sharpened edge. If you have no edge, then you have no leverage. And leverage is the difference between suffering toward strength or just plain suffering for suffering’s sake.
If you have no leverage, then your suffering will tend to consume you. You will drown in bitterness and resentment. But if you have leverage, you’ll have the potential to subsume your suffering.
So, the question becomes: how do you give yourself an edge? That’s where the shadow comes in.
Look at the shadow like you would a speck of dirt in an oyster. The only way the speck becomes a pearl is through assimilation into the oyster’s environment. Similarly, the only way the shadow becomes an ally is through assimilation into the environment of the self.
In your youth it was necessary to repress the shadow to achieve discipline; in your maturity, it is vital that you integrate it to achieve individuation (enlightenment). The alternative is resentment and bitterness.
Shadow integration is facing the bitter truth within you and then being radically honest about what you discover. When you face the bitter truth within, your capacity for truth outside expands. Your once disoriented Self clicks together because the missing pieces become self-actualized. You become oriented to your suffering. Such orientation becomes a sieve that filters weakness from strength. It separates the wheat from the chaff.
Honoring the shadow births honesty, which gives birth to humility, which gives birth to humor. Such rebirth creates a sharpness, a razor’s edge. Bitterness, weakness, and pettiness fall away because a sense of sharpened wholeness cuts through it all.
You get ahead of the game. You gain a fierceness. You grow teeth. The ability to transform a negative into a positive becomes manifest. You’re able to transform pain into power, wounds into wisdom, setbacks into steppingstones, tragedy into transcendence, loss into laboratory, and shadow work into soul craft.
When you integrate your shadow, you begin the psychological process of individuation. Depth, rootedness, and stability is born. You become more grounded, more secure in your skin, more independent in your moral judgments, more courageous and self-reliant.
Your suffering becomes a wave you surf into greatness rather than a wave that pummels you into meekness. You surf over pain, tragedy, loss, and setbacks. You become the tip of the spear, spearheading adaptability despite mortality, integrating shadow work despite darkness, and transforming suffering into self-overcoming. You become the forerunner of the Truth Quest cutting through the “truth.”
The future opens wide. Your shadow guides you out of the shadows. You become integrated. You become whole. Plato’s Cave becomes nothing more than a shed cocoon behind you. You arrive. You come alive—darkness balanced by dawn; light sharpened by shadow—a force of nature to be reckoned with.
Integrating suffering is mastering the shadow aspect. It’s utilizing pain as a whetstone. As Rumi said, “The cure for the pain is in the pain.” Indeed.
The diamond in the rough is created by the rough. Great character is forged in the furnace of adversity. Pain is mere kindling. The pebble is a mistake to the oyster but a pearl to the master. Likewise, the shadow is a mistake to the uninitiated but gold to the initiated.
Initiate yourself. Strike gold by integrating your shadow. Allow your fortified foundations to crumble away. Dig into your innermost darkness. Discover what makes you tick, what makes you fall apart, what makes you crack. Then glue it all together into a stronger version of yourself.
Making your darkness conscious is self-mastery. Mine the gold from the abyss and then transform it into your magnum opus.
It’s in the fall from grace, in the broken pieces of shattered soul, where vivid, raw, wholesome wisdom lies. It’s where the shadow’s gold glimmers. Where wounds are transformed into wisdom. Where the heart is inverted into a womb. It’s where the ashes give birth to the Phoenix.
As Nikita Gill said, “Heroes are meant to be forged golden from the blaze.”
About the Author:
Gary Z McGee, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man. His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide-awake view of the modern world.
At the quantum scale, what we do in the present can impact what happens in the past. This is shown through what's known as the quantum delayed choice, or quantum eraser experiment.
One of the founding fathers of quantum theory, Max Planck, who is often credited with originating quantum theory - a feat that won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918 - once stated: "I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."
Fast forward to today and there are several experiments in multiple fields showing that Planck was right. Consciousness is fundamental and it is directly intertwined with what we call physical material matter. It may even be required for matter to exist. You cannot explain consciousness in terms of the existing fundamentals like space, time, mass, and charge. As a result, the logical thing to do is postulate whether consciousness itself is something fundamental to the existence of reality, to view consciousness itself as one of these fundamentals, but I digress.
A classic experiment used to examine the role of consciousness and its relationship to matter is the quantum double-slit experiment. In this experiment, tiny bits of matter (photons, electrons, or any atomic-sized object) are shot toward a screen that has two slits in it. When there is no measuring device placed on the screen, the tiny bits of matter act as a "wave" and create an "interference" pattern on the other side where a wall is placed to catch the pattern.
Because there was no measuring or observation device used to see what slit the matter went through, we cannot know what path it took. When the pattern on the wall is examined to see what path it took, it represents a wave of possibilities, meaning the matter (particle) went through both slits, and one slit, and interfered with itself, which should be physically impossible. Welcome to the wacky world of quantum physics.
The kicker is, however, when an observation device is set up to observe what slit the particles go through, the particle then only goes through one, thus collapsing the wave pattern and forming a pattern that is representative of the particle only going through one slit.
Here is a great visual clip of the experiment from the controversial documentary, What The Bleep Do We Know.
https://youtu.be/x-BE8YkNzVg?feature=shared
In other words, the behaviour of the matter changes when we decide to measure it, almost acting as if it is aware that it's being watched.
“Observations not only disturb what has to be measured, they produce it...We compel (the electron) to assume a definite position...We ourselves produce the results of the measurement. (M. Mermin, Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age.” (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1990, referenced by Dr. Dean Radin, From A paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Physics Essays explaining how this experiment has been used multiple times to explore the role of consciousness in shaping the nature of physical reality.)
If this isn't already mind-altering enough for you, one famous theoretical physicist, John Archibald Wheeler, pondered what would happen if we don't interfere with the photons on their way through the slits. What would happen if we didn't set up a measuring device to observe what slit the matter went through, and instead, what if behind the back wall, there were detectors?
One detector is focused on each slit, and just before the particle lands on the screen after it has passed through the slit device, the detectors are pulled away. When no one could detect which slit the photon had gone through, there was a wave pattern, but when the detectors were in place, there was no wave pattern, similar to observing the particles before they went through the slit. No observation produced an interference pattern, and observation formed a one-line, one-slit pattern.
If they collapse to a state of particles from a wave at the moment of detection, after they have gone past the slit device, this means that even though they went through the slit unobserved and should produce a wave (interference) pattern, the very act of observing, still, instantly transforms them into particles and collapses the wave function.
This begs the question, how could these detectors interfere with something that had already happened? It would mean that what happened in the present changed the past. The very act of detecting the particles after they go through the slit determines how they went through the slit, either as a wave or as particles. How is this possible? In other words, again, what we chose to do in the present with regards to the detection of the tiny bits of matter, changed how the tiny bits of matter behaved in the past, in this case, how they went through the double slit screen.
Like the quantum double slit experiment, the delayed choice/quantum eraser has been demonstrated and repeated multiple times. For example, physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have conducted John Wheeler’s delayed-choice thought experiment, and the findings were published in the journal Nature Physics.
In 2007 (Science 315, 966, 2007), scientists in France shot photons into an apparatus and showed that their actions could retroactively change something that had already happened.
“If we attempt to attribute an objective meaning to the quantum state of a single system, curious paradoxes appear: quantum effects mimic not only instantaneous action-at-a-distance but also, as seen here, the influence of future actions on past events, even after these events have been irrevocably recorded.” (Asher Perez. Israel Institute of Technology, Department of Physics).
To make the experiment easier to understand, Wheeler used a cosmic scale explanation. Imagine a star emitting a photon billions of years ago, heading in the direction of planet Earth. In between, there is a galaxy. As a result of what’s known as gravitational lensing, the light will have to bend around the galaxy to reach Earth. It has to take one of two paths, going left or going right. Billions of years later, if one decides to set up an apparatus to “catch” the photon, the resulting pattern would be an interference pattern, as explained above in the double-slit experiment. This demonstrates that the photon took one way, and it took the other way. A "wave" of possibilities, but the way it took has not been defined.
One could also choose to “peek” at the incoming photon, setting up a telescope on each side of the galaxy to determine which side the photon passed to reach Earth. The very act of measuring or “watching” which way the photon comes in means it can only come in from one side. The pattern will no longer be an interference pattern representing multiple possibilities, but a single clump pattern showing “one” way.
What does this mean? It means how we choose to measure “now” affects what direction the photon took billions of years ago. Our choice in the present moment affected what had already happened in the past.
Below is a great video of Wheeler explaining.
https://youtu.be/u54IPWqF6no
My mind is blown just writing this article, I can't stop thinking about it and what it could mean, and how factors associated with consciousness are, in more ways than one, intertwined with what we perceive to be our physical reality.
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” ― A quote often attributed to Nikola Tesla
Why does all of this matter? Because it's one of multiple experiments showing a strong connection between consciousness and physical matter. What does this mean at the classic physics scale? What does it mean about the way we think, feel, and perceive? What does it mean when we are talking about solutions to problems we are facing on our planet? If human consciousness could be so fundamental with regard to the 'creation of our reality', why aren't we talking about it more? What impact would changing the way we look at our world have on the human experience? What would happen if we started to see things in a different light?
“We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible, absolutely impossible, to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics. In reality, it contains the only mystery.” – Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate of the twentieth century (Radin, Dean. Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences In A Quantum Reality. New York, Paraview Pocket Books, 2006.)
By Arjun Walia
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In a world where time appears to be racing forward, and the shift to a new Earth seems imminent, it's crucial to understand the magnitude of the choice before us.
The concept of transitioning to a new Earth is not merely a fantastical notion but a profound shift in consciousness and reality.
This transition has been foreseen by visionaries and seers throughout history, and the signs of its approach are becoming increasingly evident. The urgency of the matter cannot be overstated.
The two are not the same.
I’m talking about the power to affect events; the power to move toward more freedom from oppression, the power to sweep away the garbage of control being exercised over us.
I’m talking about the power to fight and win against evil.
The power to create an enterprise based on merit.
The power to expand that enterprise.
The power to resist slave masters.
The power to rise above the mob mislabeled “democracy.”
The power of the individual to stand up, speak out, and the power to break the chains of cause and effect that would box us in.
The power to invent new realities.
The power to reject those who say we should have no power.
The power to defeat those who claim we must be as weak as the weakest among us.
The power to go beyond the inhibiting strictures of The Group.
The power of the individual to think, and think for himself.
The power to make one’s own future.
The power to stand alone, when necessary.
The power to choose, freely, to work with other honest and honorable individuals.
The power to tear off the masks of groups who pretend to work for the greater good.
The power of the individual to succeed in what he is doing, and not abandon what he is doing because others are failing.
The power to reject the lowest common denominator.
The power to make freedom with responsibility the center of life.
The power to go beyond what we’re told the individual is capable of doing.
The power to reject the shame and guilt other people tell us we should feel. The power to shrug that off like dust.
The power to neutralize and destroy evil Collectivism.
The power to walk freely, even if others insist on crawling.
The power to remove dictatorships over body, mind, and soul.
The power to reject conformity.
The power to use all this power without enslaving others.
There is an obvious and crucial difference between individual power and hostile power over others. There should be no limit on the former, and every limit on the latter.
The law, applied correctly, should enforce the latter.
Because we live in a time of massive Collectivism, individuals are afraid to speak out on their own behalf. This is a fatal mistake.
Collectivism (the group is all) is a con designed to make it seem that enlightened leaders can rule and act on behalf of everyone in the same charitable way. This is unworkable. More than that, it’s a ruse criminals use to rise to political power. Meaning: control. They proclaim themselves prophets and messiahs of a better world---but they’re seeking slaves.
The individual stands against all forms of Collectivism and their disguises.
Within those forms, there are always individuals who aim to gain and use power over others.
If there were an individual who could take off from the ground and fly over rooftops and swoop above streets, it would take about an hour for angry mobs to gather below him, shake their fists, and try to bring him down.
Regardless of their claimed reasons for attempting to destroy him, their real reason would be: they’re pledged to weakness. That’s their ace in the hole. That’s all they have. The “flying man” is unassailable evidence that weakness is not all there is.
