MY PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
As my Face Book Friends
know, yesterday I celebrated my 9x9 = 81st birthday. Thank you again
for all the wonderful birthday wishes, comments and blessings. I wish to send
Love and Light to each and every one of you, and please know that I am going to
be around for a while longer, I still have a lot to do.
Would you believe that
someone asked me a few years ago: “How long have you been retired?” My response
was: “Retirement is not a meaningful word in my vocabulary.” What on Earth
makes someone think I’m retired? People retire when they are tired of what
they’ve been doing, and/or are getting ready to die!
Concerning death, the
cerebral comedian Woody Allen said:
“I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t
want to be there when it happens!”
I believe we are on
this Earth to learn that life and death are passing dreams from which we all
must one day waken, and for most of us, it takes a while. I worked as an
actuarial mathematician, writing computer programs for the Univac computer for
a major insurance company in downtown Los Angeles 57 years ago and saw statistics
that showed that most men (I think it was about 87%) died within 6 months after
retirement. I decided right then, never to retire.
How long do I plan to
live? Let me answer that by quoting British biologist Thomas Huxley:
“The rung of a ladder was never
meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to
put the other somewhat higher.”
There is still so much to learn. I believe when one
stops learning, one starts dying.
“Try to learn something about everything and
everything about something.”
- Thomas Huxley again.
I’ll go a bit further than that: Pick out something
you love, it could be anything; I
believe that if you really try to learn everything
there is to know about something, anything real, and get even close, you’ll
know a lot about everything else.
Most of you know about my efforts to get mainstream
science out of the dead end of gross materialism. I’ve just finished writing a
chapter for a book being published by the Academy for the Advancement of
Post-Materialist Science that proves that the reconciliation of relativity and
quantum physics in the new paradigm Dr. Vernon Neppe and I have developed,
eliminates materialism as a valid metaphysical basis for science. Mainstream
scientists who are self-acclaimed atheists hate this because it threatens their
world view and overturns their life’s work. Some have resorted to calling us
names.
No real scientist can possibly be an atheist. Because
atheism does not meet the necessary criteria to become a scientific hypothesis.
A scientific hypothesis must be “falsifiable”, i.e. it must be testable, and
capable of proof or disproof. The hypothesis that God does not exist cannot be
proved. On the other hand, the reality that nothing would exist without the
organizing action of a higher form of consciousness is provable, - by direct
experience. But mainstream scientific egos think they are authorities on the
subject, declaring that because they haven’t experienced anything greater than
their own egos, no one has!
Quoting Huxley again:
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has
involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Interestingly, Huxley, the grandfather of Aldous Huxley,
the author of Beyond the Doors of
Perception, defined himself as an agnostic. And that’s fine, every scientist
should be an agnostic, especially about his
own field. An agnostic is a skeptic, a doubter, a “doubting Thomas”. Concerning
God, about all an agnostic can say is that God, if he exists, hasn’t appeared
in front of him, or spoken to him. Of course, that is probably because most scientists
don’t know how to stop thinking long enough to hear Him!
I have learned to live as if something wonderful
is about to happen, - because it does, and has, repeatedly! Every day I see the
sun rise is a wonder. The fact that there is something instead of nothing is an
on-going miracle. Your existence as a conscious being is a miracle beyond miracles.
My plan, when the time comes to leave this body, is to
exit consciously, unafraid and expecting something wonderful to happen!
Edward R. Close, October 8, 2017
