THE DANGERS OF BELIEF AND THE NEED TO KNOW
Edward
R. Close © December 18, 2016
“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe
in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.” – Sir Isaac Newton
I want to elaborate a little on some of the statements
made in my last post, entitled “the connection between
the physical and the spiritual and why mainstream science continues to miss the
point”. I like to make my posts as ‘stand-alone’
as I can. Sometimes this is hard to do when the ideas involved are complex.
First, the real connection between the physical and the
spiritual has been discovered and scientifically defined by Close and Neppe, and
published in peer-reviewed technical papers and in articles for the layperson.
Briefly described, the discovery came about through the application of TRUE quantum
unit analysis. (Reminder: TRUE stands for Triadic Rotational Unit of
Equivalence.) A third form of the substance or content of reality, something real in addition to mass and energy, was
discovered to be necessary in every atom of the universe for there to be any stable physical reality. We call
that third form “gimmel”.
Gimmel cannot be measured directly the way mass and
energy can, but it contributes very significantly to the spin (energy) and angular
momentum (force) of elementary particles in a way that makes them stable, much
the same way a spinning top or gyroscope is stable. Gimmel makes the formation
of life supporting elements possible. It turns out that gimmel is consciousness,
or at least the agent of consciousness in the physical universe, and
consciousness is spiritual and ultimately non-physical.
Second, believers in spirit and a higher intelligence
may have been shocked a little when I said that “believe” may be the most
dangerous word in the world. Ministers and theologians make a point of telling
their followers that they must have faith
and believe. This is not necessarily
a bad thing, because they usually ask you to believe something good; but we
must be very careful about what we believe in. Many religious and political
beliefs have proved to have deadly consequences, as I pointed out in the last
post. And it is always better to know
something than it is to just “believe” it.
Sometimes, a faulty belief system leads people to
think they know something that turns
out to be false. To wit, I quoted mainstream scientists who’ve said: “We know
that dark matter is some form of
matter, we just don’t know what that form is.” This demonstrates how the ‘knowing’
of something based on a faulty belief system, in this case, the belief in the
completeness of materialism, leads to an unwarranted conclusion. We have
demonstrated, with high confidence, that dark matter and dark energy are
gimmel, and gimmel is neither matter, nor a form of matter. Matter is measurable
as mass and energy, gimmel is not. Not only that, as Planck said, “There is no
matter as such.” Mass, which we associate with weight on the macro scale, is actually
an effect of the resistance to motion caused by the multi-dimensional spin of
quanta.
Real data from the double-slit delayed-choice experiment
demonstrates the fact that quanta have no localized form until a conscious
choice prompts an act that sets up the conditions that cause quanta to manifest
as particles or waves. It is only when an irreversible distinction is observed that
the illusion of space and time is created in the mind of the observer. Thus the
consciousness of observers and the distinctions of mass, energy, space and time
are inseparably linked in the perception of physical phenomena.
A conscious entity automatically compares what is
observed through the senses with a limited number of images, subjectively
constructed in mind from memories of experiences imperfectly stored in and
retrieved from that entity’s unique neurological system. This process of
experience, storage and retrieval, and subjective
interpretation is the basis of the
belief systems of conscious entities. As I pointed out, it is likely
that most of the members of the mainstream materialistic priesthood, like the
inquisitors of the medieval church, actually believe that they are right, and
don’t realize that they have bought into a belief system based on unsupported,
and now unsupportable a priori assumptions.
Mainstream scientists don’t realize that they are constantly misrepresenting
and distorting Planck’s quantum physics and Einstein’s relativity by talking
about massless and dimensionless particles and a supposed warping of
space-time, in spite of clear statements by Planck and Einstein that there is
no matter, space or time independent of mass and energy, and, more importantly,
there is no knowledge of physical reality without consciousness.
This brings us back to the Sir Isaac Newton quote at the
beginning of this post:
He who
thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God
But he who really thinks has to believe in God
Materialism is a very attractive belief system for
scientists because it greatly simplifies their job. They don’t have to concern
themselves with the really hard questions like: What is consciousness? How and
why are we conscious? How has the existence of complex living organisms exhibiting
consciousness come about? And how could the highly organized complexity of a
physical universe that is perfectly balanced to support living vehicles for
consciousness come about in a universe dominated by the physical laws of thermodynamics
that describe the tendency of purely physical systems to break down and decay?
Materialism is an overly simplistic and now completely
unsustainable belief system. The sooner mainstream science recognizes this
fact, the sooner we can move on to the science of the future, a science much more comprehensive and inclusive of all human experience. The longer
science lingers in the dead-end backwater of materialism, promoting the fallacy that existence has no meaning, the greater the
danger that the human race will destroy itself.
Is it necessary to believe in an Infinite
Consciousness as Newton suggests? Ultimately, yes.
A universe with no higher
consciousness than the intelligence of limited human beings is doomed to fail.
Such a belief system cannot sustain itself. But the general understanding of
the existence of a much higher intelligence, which is ultimately spiritual, not
physical, whatever we choose to call it, will gradually become clearer as we open
our minds to the infinity of reality and grow spiritually. So I urge
everyone to have confidence. The finite consciousness we experience is capable
of developing much further, even approaching the goal of understanding the Mind
of God.
In spite of the tendency of mainstream human thinking to cling to the limited
and limiting belief system of materialism, the Truth will eventually emerge. Even
those who suffer from the mental illness of atheism will not be lost forever.
Think of them with as much love and compassion as you can. Even the most
misguided are redeemable.
