COME EXPLORE THE PHENOMENA OF MIND
What do I mean by “the phenomena of mind”? I’m talking
about mind as I experience it, of course, i.e., what I think of as my mind, because that is the mind I know.
But, why would I be egoistic and self-centered enough to think that you might
want to explore the phenomena of my mind? What is different about my
mind? Is it really worth spending your precious time and energy to try to learn
about things that I have thought about or may be thinking? --Maybe.
In 1958, I had the rare privilege of visiting for a
brief while with a man who, my friend, who introduced me to him, said was over
100 years old at the time. He was known as Dr. Mahija. I was an undergraduate college
student, and because I was impressed with Dr. Mahija’s wisdom and knowledge, I
expressed a desire to return and learn from him. His response was: “You can do
as you wish, but I’ve found that most people know far too much to learn
anything from me!”
More than 60 years later, being a senior citizen
myself now, I appreciate the truth Dr. Mahija spoke that day far better than I
did then: Most people are not interested in what you or I think. Most people are
pretty much closed-minded and self-absorbed. That is only natural, however, because,
after all, for most of us, it is our own life and immediate family and friends that
are important to us and our happiness and success, or failure and frustration
as human beings.
There is no denying that your own consciousness is all
that you normally experience directly.
Everything else, you must learn about very indirectly through reading, hearing,
and a process of observation and inference. Images of the rest of Reality, the
reality that exists outside of your own mind, is automatically filtered through
the lenses of your own belief system, a unique system that has been carefully
crafted by acceptance of authority, and to some extent, by your individual efforts
to think about the world and your place in it.
That which does not appear to be understandable within
your belief system, is generally ignored or rejected by your brain in such a
definite way that you will give it no credence, and you may never even remember
that you encountered it at all. We’ve
read, for example, of aboriginal tribes living on remote islands, who literally
could not see massive sea-going
vessels that anchored near their islands, because their brains had no images in
them with which to compare these huge objects, and so their minds simply rejected
the alien images as meaningless.
As human beings, our perceptions are very limited. We
are only capable of seeing a very thin band of the spectrum of electromagnetic
energy, and of hearing only a very limited range of vibratory sound. If,
suddenly, we were able to see and hear the vibrational frequencies generated by
things that exist in dimensional domains beyond those to which our physical
senses have access, then, like the aborigines, our brains would ignore and/or
reject the images generated by those unfamiliar energies, and remain ignorant
of the existence of the things that
generated them. The human brain, and perhaps those of other sentient creatures,
for purposes of creature comfort, protection and survival, are designed to fill
in, and even pave over, i.e., replace,
unknown images created by what we perceive, with images with which we are already
familiar.
Among the 370-plus posts in my Transcendental Physics
blog there are discussions, papers, proofs, poems, and ideas that I think may
appeal to many. There are posts that will strike a familiar chord with you, and
there may be things that will have no meaning for you, but I believe that there
may be some things there that are important for you to know about, some things
that are real, but that you might never encounter elsewhere. But just my belief
that this is the case is probably not enough to motivate you to explore very many
of the posts to be found there. Why should my posts be any more important or
meaningful than the millions of other well-developed ideas and concepts that
are out there to be found on the
internet today? I’ll try to answer that question in the following way:
Almost ten years ago, when I was 72, I learned that I
had a gift. It was a gift that,
apparently, I had had all my life, but a gift I didn’t really know about. By a
gift, I mean something one is ostensibly born with, that is so rare and highly
developed, that it is far beyond that which the average person can experience.
It seems that I had an extraordinarily high IQ. Not just a MENSA-level mental
acuity, but a one-in-a-billion, extremely rare intellectual gift.
In my opinion, it was a blessing that I never knew
that I was exceptionally gifted until late in life, because I’ve seen what
happens when one person or a group of people come to believe that they are
superior to everyone else. I lived through World War II, all the wars we’ve
been involved in since, and more recently through the rise of political
correctness. Belief in the absolute superiority of a person or group of people
over everyone else, is very dangerous, and absolutely crippling for
individuals, society and the progress of civilization in general.
Our country was founded on the idea that absolute
power corrupts absolutely. The idea that there are kings, persons of royal
blood, or divine descent, who by virtue of their inherent superiority, are
entitled to tell the rest of us what to think, say and do, was rejected by our
forefathers, who left other parts of the world, primarily Europe, to escape
such tyranny.
The statement that "All men are
created equal" was a basic part of the philosophy of those setting up the
government of the United States of America. Historians have called it “the most
important single phrase" of the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson used
the phrase in the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the declaration of
independence from the British Empire. He committed it to paper in 1776 at the
beginning of the American Revolution. After that, it was quoted in writings and
speeches by many of the most important people in the early political and social
life of our nation. The final form of the phrase was penned by Benjamin
Franklin. His wording of the idea appears in the
second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence as follows:
“We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed.”
But, what do these words
actually mean? What did they mean to Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin? What
did they mean to the King of England? What are they interpreted to mean today?
When these words were
written, only 242 years ago, New England was dominated by a group of wealthy
men, i.e., men who owned property. This group of men, to which Jefferson and
Franklin belonged, were declaring their independence from the oppressive rule
of the King of Britain and Ireland, King George III. Most of these men, including
Jefferson and Franklin, in addition to owning real estate, also owned slaves.
The safety and well-being
of women, children and the elderly, in an often-hostile environment, was the
responsibility of these men, a responsibility which they took very seriously.
While family members were not considered “property” in the same sense that
houses, land, livestock, and slaves were, they were not considered equal to the men
either. In the early days of our country, women, children, slaves and men without property were not entitled
to vote. That right was reserved for property-holders, i.e. men, who, had a significant
stake in the future of the country because they owned part of it.
Before you condemn these
slave-owning men who were the founders of our country, bear in mind that this
was a huge and important step away from the conditions prevalent in the rest of
the world, where virtually no one had any rights except those granted to them
by the ruling class of kings and priests, who were believed to be anointed and
ordained by God to rule over them. In the many Kingdoms around the world,
everything belonged to the ruling class, including even the subjects who were
allowed to inhabit the kingdoms, and their personal circumstances, good or bad,
were meted out solely at the pleasure of kings and priests. And our founding fathers didn’t
invent slavery. Slavery existed throughout the rest of the world. It began in
the dawn of human history as the practice of conquerors forcing the conquered
to do the manual labor required to repair the ravages of war and to maintain
the empire thus established.
Today, we’d like to believe
that the idea that “all men are created equal” refers to not just men, but at
least to all human beings, maybe even to all living things in some sense. But we
also have to recognize that this equality can probably only be true in some
sort of spiritual, or overall potential sense, not in the literal sense of physical
or mental traits. Clearly, most of us were never physically equal, at birth, or
any other time, to Shaquille O’Neil, nor are any of us intellectually equal to
Albert Einstein or other geniuses of the past, or present. Jefferson and
Franklin were not stupid men; they could look around and see that there were
others who were their superiors in any number of ways. With these words, however,
they were expressing an ideal upon
which they believed a better government could be established.
To be gifted physically or
mentally does not make one intrinsically superior to anyone else. But everyone
should be free to use and develop their own unique gifts to the maximum extent possible
in his or her lifetime, otherwise such gifts are wasted. But no one should be
condemned or looked down upon for their gifts or lack thereof: Prejudice and reverse prejudice are two
sides of the same evil coin, and should not be the basis of condemnation or
avoidance.
So, please have a look at
the ideas, poems, discussions, cogitations and proofs recorded in my blog, with
an open mind. Maybe you’ll find something of value there. Please read and
consider as many of them as you will. I don’t claim to be all-knowing or
infallible. The possession of the gift of a high level of intelligence does not preclude
error or fallacy. The smartest person in the world can still be wrong, and
wisdom is often simple and plain. But civilization moves forward with the fuel
of new ideas, and my blog posts contain some new ideas, including the discovery
of the mathematical and physical necessary of the existence of a non-physical
aspect of reality we call gimmel. Each
post in the blog has a list of Key Words and Phrases. Type in those that are of
interest into the search box, or make up some of your own, and explore!
I will appreciate any
feedback, questions and comments, positive or negative.
--Edward R. Close 6/6/2018
Drawing from what you said about how we normally only process a fraction of the complete energy spectrum that DOES reach us all the time, I highly recommend you read the following if you haven't yet:
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Keep in mind, however, that as you said, every perception we get is filtered by the lenses of our belief system.
Thank you for this link. I read this several years ago, but am pleased to have it available again. I have lost or misplaced my copy, but I have a copy of Leadbeater's book "The Chakras", which I purchased in Baltimore in 1969. It has some of the same ideas in the preface and in the chapter on developing the chakras.
ReplyDeleteOh... I need to read that other book then :)
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DeleteI am educated layman who first heard of your work via 'new thinking allowed' on youtube. As I am not a mathematician, I am curious why your proof of Fermat's Last Theorem goes unrecognized despite its brevity? Eleizer Yudkowsky, an AI polymath, once stated that the odds of a theorem being wrong is approximately 1 in 1000. It would seem to my mind a very short proof is far more likely to be without errors and easier to know if its true, whereas a very long proof might actually be false given all the steps.
ReplyDeleteCan I find a valid copy via Amazon? Also, do you believe it could be verified without any special knowledge and thus something any professor could verify? I remember the interview on 'New Thinking Allowed' stating it used techniques that were common at the time.
I do this for my own interest primarily, perhaps something to pass along to my kids as I refused to believe in anything infinite as a teenager. But of course your collaboration with Dr. Neppe "closes" so many problems I had with those ideas. Its wonderful. And yet, I still need more confirmation given my lack of expertise. Surely recognition of your prior success would help with funding?
Also do you have any desire to be interviewed for posterity or at least historical reasons? I plan on trying to get your ideas to various professors I know or new. Yet it feels like this is in vain. It feels like I am missing something very basic.
Hello Wayne, Thank you for your interest. I quite agree with you that a short proof is less likely to contain errors that are difficult to identify than long, convoluted complex proofs. My proof depends on application of a very basic mathematical theorem: the Algebraic Division Algorithm. The proof is much less complicated than the reasons that it hasn't bee generally recognized! I will be happy to get a copy of the 1965 proof of FLT to you. If you type "Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem", or "FLT65" into the search box at the upper left of the Transcendental Physics blog, it should bring up the proof and relevant discussions. There is also a detailed history of the submittal of the proof to professional mathematicians and how and why it has been ignored and/or misinterpreted for so lomg on the blog site. I can email the proof and relevant material to you so you'll have hard copies to study at your liesure. I am snowed under with papers to edit, and a lot of other things right now, but I definitely will try to get the proof and pertinent discussions to you as soon as I can. Thanks again for the interest.
DeleteWayne, I'm on FB, so if you are also, send me a friend request and we can communicate more easily.
ReplyDeleteExcellent! I will friend you before I fall asleep. Thanks!
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