THE ANSWER

When we moved back to Southern California in 1987, it was as if we had died and gone to Heaven. Over a period of ten years, our little family—comprising Jacqui, our son Joshua, who was ten years old in 1987, and myself—had  experienced a series of relocations that took us from Tampa Florida to Tennessee, Missouri, Colorado, and California; then to Europe, Saudi Arabia, and India; back to Missouri, back to California, back to Saudi Arabia, to Massachusetts, and finally back to California again.  During  those ten years, Jacqui survived a life-threatening bout with cancer, Josh survived the confusion of a variety of very different schools, and I survived a battle with the company that employed me as an environmental engineer because I tried to save a fragile desert ecology located on the Red Sea about half-way between Jeddah and the Holy Land. And we survived the Whitier earthquake that destroyed the house we rented north of downtown LA. Our lives had been like the hot-and-cold burning Hells of the Tibetan board game known as Rebirth! For us, coming back to Southern California and relocating to Rossmoor just north of Seal Beach was wonderful! We thought we’d probably stay there for the rest of out lives. But, God had other plans for us.

A popular bumper sticker in LA in 1987, something I saw while driving from our home in Rossmoor to my place of employment as a hydrogeologist in the offices of a Long Beach consulting firm, read: “Jesus is the answer!” with the iconic Christian symbol of a fish. I had to laugh out loud when I saw a counter bumper sticker emblazoned with the star of David, and “What was the question?” In my mind, I heard this quip humorously verbalized with a Jewish accent.

The bold, perhaps even rash title of this commentary is “The Answer”; so, if this blurb is ‘the answer’, then what was the question?  In my opinion, the key question that both science and religion should try to answer is: “What is consciousness?”   Why is this such an important question?  Because consciousness is the only thing we normally experience.  It’s our direct connection with Reality. Therefore, for sentient beings, Consciousness is Primary. So, the question becomes: ‘What is consciousness?’ and the answer is: Consciousness is Primary. Period, full stop, end of story.  As Max Planck once said, Consciousness has to exist prior to anything we can talk about. He said: “We can’t get behind consciousness.” But, of course, that is not the end of the discussion, so please read on. While you’re here, you may want to browse the more than 600 posts in the archives of the blog dealing with many more questions and answers relating science and religion to consciousness. Reply to any of them if you will; comments are always welcome.

CONSCIOUSNESS IS PRIMARY

Exactly what do I mean when I say consciousness is primary? Mathematically, it means that consciousness is the only truly independent variable there is. Scientifically, it means that consciousness is ultimately the only thing that actually exists. Spiritually, it means that literally everything is part of the reality that many people call God.

Over the years since 1987, I have proved, - at leat to my satisfaction and that of a few others - with mathematical logic and physical science, that a measurable non-physical reality exists behind all things, and Dr. Vernon Neppe, the first mainstream scientist to understand my proof and endorse it, named it Gimmel. Now, some on the atheistic left question whether I am a scientist, and others on the fundamentalist right question whether I am a Christian. While I have earned degrees in mathematics, engineering, and science, and I have studied philosophy and the world’s major religions, --- and I have supported both progressive and conservative ideas ---I do not identify as a scientist, mathematician, engineer, philosopher, theologist – or as a Republican or a Democrat. These labels relate to things that I have been involved in, done, and will probably still do in the future, but they are not who I am.

I am retired now, living in my beloved native land, in the Mark Twain National Forrest of the Southern Missouri Ozarks. But, if I am not any of those things mentioned above, then who or what am I? The answer is very simple:  I am consciousness.

ERC   9-16-2025, Close Waldheim, my home in the woods

THE WORLD IN CRISIS - THE CHOICE

 

THE COVID CRISIS A BOLD ATTEMPT TO REPLACE GOD 

For several years, I and a few others have been trying to alert humanity to the great danger in the idea that government and materialistic social organization can replace God. Now, many people are finally beginning to wake up to that danger, but, just as some of us predicted, it may be too late to stop the evil that is resulting from the misguided “Great Reset”, or “New World Order” being forced upon us by the obscenely wealthy, self-appointed rulers of the world.

This evil intrusion into our lives is just the current incarnation of the ego-driven Empire-building Tyranny of the past, but the ordinary people of the world today are no longer uneducated peasants, so we should not be as easily controlled by deliberate misinformation as our ancestors were in the past. Unfortunately, it appears that many of us are still very gullible, capable of being brainwashed over time by the neurolinguistic programming of totalitarian operatives, and we are also easily lulled into complacency by all the luxury and mind-numbing electronic technology money can buy.

The saving grace is that the people and organizations pushing this horrible agenda are fallible human beings. They are not gods, or even the superior beings they pretend to be. They will eventually fail and self-destruct, because their theory of reality is based on the big lie of materialistic atheism in one or another of its various pernicious forms. Sometimes it is called social engineering, sometimes national socialism, democratic socialism, or communism, Whatever re-defined words of political “woke-ism” Leftists may devise to camouflage and promote the Great Lie of Marxist ideology, they cannot produce a utopian Heaven on Earth.

The current breed of duplicitous communists are frighteningly adept at reversing the very meaning of good and evil, but ultimately, the truth will prevail, and they will fail, as they have every time they have surfaced from the darkness of their covert ego-driven desires to control the world in the past. Their actions always result in misery, death and destruction for millions - the exact opposite of the utopia they promise. The most frightening thing is that the Biblical prophecy of the death and destruction of a large portion of the world’s human population in the “End Times”, something every compassionate human being would like to avoid, is actually happening right now.

In the 1960s, I became aware of two startling predictions: A foreign graduate student in theoretical physics, a Chinese National, inadvertently revealed to me during a private philosophical discussion, a secret hidden in plain sight. While taking advantage of the policy of international diversity in one of our major universities, he was actually part of a carefully planned covert operation by the Chinese Communist Party, designed to undermine and infiltrate American’s liberal educational system. He told me that he believed that the days of the Democratic Republic of the USA were numbered. He bragged that they already had operatives in every branch of American government, education, and even entertainment! He predicted that Communism would soon be the dominant governing power in control of the world. I didn’t believe it at the time, but now I can see the results of the actions of those covert operations, and the surprising irrational support they have at the highest levels of US government.

I also became aware, that Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of Self-Realization Fellowship, who taught love, tolerance, and the importance of knowing God, agreed with the Biblical prophecy about the so-called End Times, and said that perhaps as many as 3/4ths of the world’s population would perish in the next great war. I believe we are now in that next great war. Many people are dying because of it, even though it is not a shooting or bombing war. In my opinion, based partially on the works of Sri Yukteswar Giri, published in his book The Holy Science, this is happening because of the low level of mental and spiritual virtue in the human population today.

Sadly, the carnage is probably just beginning with the deaths of millions from the man-made Corona Virus that “escaped” from China, and effects of economic lockdown, events that occurred at the exact time that the Rogue, anti-establishment US President Donald Trump was stopping the flood of Chinese Communist operatives into the US; and his actions were also beginning to have serious impact on the Chinese economy and the Chinese Communist Party’s advancement toward the goal of world domination. Was all of this just a coincidence? I don’t think so.

Anyone who looks at these events objectively and does not suspect deliberate timely cause and effect relationships, is obviously very naïve about how communism works. A regime that does not value individual human life, even of their own people, and operates on the firm belief that the ends of the imagined communist utopia justify whatever means they deem necessary, is not going to hesitate to release a slow-acting bio-weapon into the world to stop a threat to their often stated goal of world domination.  

We all mourn the untimely death of innocents, but, in fact, even new-born babies may not be as innocent as we might like to believe. There is sound scientific evidence that individual souls exist before physical birth, and after physical death. Unless an individual soul has made the choice of accepting the transcendental Source of Love that we call God, that soul is not innocent, because according to the Christian Bible, all have sinned, and the sins of past generations are passed down to new generations:

“You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.” Exodus 20:5

“The Lord, the Lord, is the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.” – Exodus 34:6 & 7

Unfortunately, a major purging of the evil doctrine of materialistic atheism from human thought is necessary from time to time. It appears that we are now in one of those times, and many will die. Only the “meek” i.e., the pure of heart, those who have made the right choice, and have the flame of the Love of God in their hearts will survive.

We all have the opportunity to make the right choice. What is the right choice? It is simply the choice between aligning yourself with spirituality or dialectic materialism, with good or evil, with God or Satan, with the Spiritual Light, or the darkness of evil, regardless of what you call it. But unfortunately at this time, only a very few alive today will make the right choice. Again, the Bible assesses the grim probabilities this way:

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there at: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it”. Matthew 7:13-14

This is not very good news for many of us and many of those we love. The good news is that, if you are still alive, and even if you have deliberately chosen evil, you can still choose to return to the Light. But it is not about joining a different activist group, voting for, or donating to a particular political party, or even leaving or joining a religion, it’s about a change that you can make in your heart. If you choose God and Love over materialism and death, on the altar of your heart, your desires and actions will change accordingly. You will be able to evaluate the deeds of others by the fruits of their actions; you will be able to discern truth from lies, no matter how passionately they are presented, and if you have truly made the right decision, you will feel the presence of God in your heart and in your mind, showing you the way and prompting you to take the right action.

Bear in mind that, if you hate the persons pushing a particular political agenda and feel an urge to call them names, wish them harm, and seek to ostracize them from human society, then you are actually part of the problem. If you want to do harm to those you believe to be evil because of their beliefs and deeds, the party they affiliate with, or their language, accent, or the color of their skin, then you are part of the problem and evil still rules your heart, not God. The admonition to hate the sin, but not the sinner, is always good advice.

Making the right choice requires serious soul-searching. Those who profess belief in God and the tenants of a faith, even attending temple, church synagogue or mosque, performing superficial actions to present a façade to convince themselves and others that they are good, and then commit actions contrary to that professed faith, are not just hypocritical, they are liars, and their actions are evil. This applies especially to politicians using faith for gaining political power. This is the true meaning of “taking the Lord’s name in vain”, and their duplicity shall not go unpunished. If they do not reap the rewards of their evil actions in this life, then they certainly will in the next one.

Those who believe that they can manage reality better than God, and willfully plot to control the population and depopulation of the Earth, and those who falsify election results, or prevent citizens from voting, are committing evil acts. They are stealing the rights of others. They are the Judases of our time. They are selling the soul of humanity to the evils of technology and those who own it, for material wealth and power. They will soon find that they have purchased a prominent place in a special hell of their own making.

Have you bought into the intellectual lies that no one knows what lies beyond the grave, that there is no proof of the existence of spiritual life, and that there is no form of consciousness greater than the feeble light flickering within the finite human brain? Do you believe that time and space have an independent existence of their own? If you believe these things, then you are lost in an intellectual trap and the false doctrine of scientism has become your religion.

Among the more than 500 posts in the archives of this Transcendental Physics blog, I have provided mathematical proof of the existence of the Infinite Intelligence in the form of the multi-dimensional field of Primary Consciousness, i.e., God. And the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP), developed by Dr. Vernon Neppe and me over the past decade provides an empirically-based framework for the Post-materialist Science of the future.

With proof of the existence of non-physical reality, highlighted by the discovery of gimmel, the fingerprint of the Devine Intelligence organizing reality, in union with mass and energy in every atom, there is no longer a logical basis for the metaphysical belief in materialism. The false hypothesis of Creatio ex Nihilo, forced upon Christianity for political reasons by a Roman Emperor in 553 AD, is finally invalidated. You can learn more about this in my book Secrets of the Sacred Cube, a Cosmic Love Story, if you want, and you can have the experience of knowing the reality in your own heart right now, if you choose.

Finally, let me make my point as clearly as I can: This choice you have in this life is binary. It may be the only choice you have in life that is absolutely binary. In this, there are no shades of grey, you either believe and come to know God, or you don’t. At this point in time you are either among those who choose to know God and Eternal Life, or you are doomed to suffer death and destruction because of your own actions. It is as simple as that.

If in your heart, you have rejected your “First Love”, i.e., the joy beyond all understanding in the Love of the Infinite Reality, the matrix from which you originated as a Devine spark, and believe in the dead-end future of AI and materialism, if you believe that when your physical body dies, as it must, the spark of consciousness that is you ceases to exist, then for you, the wages of this belief, the real original sin, are death and destruction. If this describes you, then as the Bible predicts, the odds are very slim that you will repent and find that “strait and narrow gate” in this lifetime. But do not despair, because whether you know it or not, your soul is immortal, and while you may have given up thinking of God, He has not given up thinking of you. If He did, you would immediately cease to exist.

ERC-June 24, 2021

SEARCH FOR THE VOICE OF REASON

 

SEARCH FOR THE VOICE OF REASON

The first three paragraphs below are repeated from my FB post,

It is hard to find a voice of reason among those who are politically motivated, because the world of politics is an imperfect world of conflicting ideas, created by imperfect human beings. I believe that most of us are basically good people who want to see the good in other people, and long for a more perfect union, but who among us is perfect?

We often fail to see the potential for evil that lurks in our own hearts. It is far too easy to believe that you are the one with perfect judgement, the one who actually knows the difference between good and evil, and therefore, anyone who disagrees with you must have been lured to the dark side by the lies of that “other side”. If only those who agree with us were in control, the world would be a wonderful place!

I grew tired of the hatred and name calling evoked by some of my posts as they touched on the current political upheaval, and vowed to discontinue posting political opinions. But some Face Book friends pointed out to me that to refuse to stand up for what’s right is to allow evil to prevail. It is conventional wisdom that sometimes it is necessary to fight fire with fire. But if you fight evil with evil, everyone gets burned.

This illusion of our own innate perfection is the delusion that drives some of us to try to shut down all voices that we disagree with. But that is the antitheses of what our country was founded on. If we are to hold on to the narrow thread of the right to pursue life, liberty and happiness that was carefully woven into our Constitution and Bill of Rights by the founding fathers of this great nation, then we must listen to other voices, search our own hearts, recognize our own faults, and pray for guidance.

“In God we trust” was not just a political slogan of the founding fathers, it was a recognition by a group of very wise men of the reality of their own human imperfection. They came to this wilderness on the other side of the world to escape the tyranny of those who thought it was their divine right to control the people of this planet. As free individuals, they created a government of the people and sought to secure it for everyone. And, while the nation they created is not perfect, it was a step in the right direction.

At this time, when to some of us, evil seems to be winning, I believe that there is hope. The world has not come to an end just because the side you favored is not in control, people can learn, and there is some evidence in the political world that reason will eventually prevail. Consider these quotes by Winston Churchill who helped save the world from the threat of global socialism and extreme social engineering during the second world war:

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

 

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Don’t lose hope, God is still in control. Continue to pray.  

If we lose our connection with the Higher Intelligence that upholds the natural laws that rule the universe with mathematical precision, we descend into the chaos of our own making. So, in this time of conflicting ideas, we must stand up against the tyranny of those who believe that they have the right to silence anyone who disagrees with their opinion. Do your own fact checking. That’s hard to do, when the mainstream media outlets are controlled by the same people who seek to control you. The forces of evil can cancel free speech, but they can’t cancel God.

ERC – Sunday, February 7, 2021

SECRETS OF IMMORTALITY

THE SECRET OF IMMORTALITY

I don’t usually post on this blog unless I think I have something to say that I think may be of general interest. Since returning from Eastern Europe in mid-March, the task of moving from my home of nearly 30 years, out into the Ozarks and working on some short presentations about the immortality of the soul for Grig Oprea of Ars Moriendi, have kept me pretty busy. But when I sent presentation number 14 to her yesterday, Grig, saying that she wants me to stay healthy, suggested that I should take a vacation. I am now living on the edge of the beautiful Ozarks area that has been my favorite vacation spot, my recharge area for many years, and all I have to do now is step outside, and I’m on vacation! I feel so blessed!

I cannot think about how blessed I am without being eternally grateful to Jacqui, the love of my life for more than 43 years. In so many ways, she made who I am now possible! As some of you may know, she let me know, with clarity and certainty, after she left this earthly stage a year and one half ago, that she is still conscious. I am working toward getting a small book, simply called “Survival!” published soon. It contains the details of the double-blind experiment set up by Dr. Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona, during which Jacqui proved that she still exists. This may be the most definitive scientific documentation of the survival of the consciousness of a departed soul yet produced. I think it will give many doubters the evidence they need!

I have written about memories of past lives recalled by Jacqui an me in books and papers, and for those who don’t think that reincarnation is Christian, please read Secrets of the Sacred Cube, by Jacqui and me. Jesus taught about reincarnation, and it was removed from the scriptures by a Roman Emperor, not by spiritual Christians.

So, what is the secret of immortality? Live life as if you knew you are immortal, - because you are! You are your immortal soul, not the body that you now inhabit. That is not to belittle the importance of your bodily existence. This life is a gift from God, meant to give you an opportunity to learn and grow spirituality. Without an awareness of the reality of that opportunity, life is meaningless: “Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”! With that realization, life is wonderful.

One more thing: Love is the most real of all real things! If you love someone, and are loved in return, you are blessed. Love makes life worth living. It is such a blessing because it is a foreshadowing of God’s Love. To love someone unconditionally, body, mind and soul, and have the same unconditional love returned, raises your vibrational energy above that of this earth. It is preparation for what is to come: the ecstasy of Cosmic Consciousness. True Love allows you to live life as if something miraculous is about to happen every moment, - because it is! True Love is the sweet nectar of life, reflecting God’s eternal Love. I have been blessed to have that kind of love more than once in this life.

So, the secrets of immortality are open secrets, hidden in plain sight! All you have to do is open your heart to giving and receiving love. Then, every leaf, every blossom, every cloud frolicking across the blue, is filled with wonder. You behold God’s presence smiling at you from every rose, every daisy, and every daffodil. Identify yourself with that Love, not the frail, ephemeral vehicle of muscle, blood and bone that is your temporary covering in this life. But don’t denigrate God’s gift to you of a wonderful, beautifully functional body, honor the earthly vehicle of spirit that some think of as you, renovate it, clean it out of the dust and cobwebs of negativity, shame and doubt, use it as a Holy Temple. Dedicate it to the Loving Source of Reality. Light a candle of reverence to the Spirit that inhabits it, and live life to its fullest. This is the message from Grig Oprea and me on this beautiful day of our Lord, May 29, 2020,

ERC 

REFLECTING ON THE STATE OF THINGS

REFLECTING ON THE POLITICAL DIVIDE

Today, America, and perhaps even the whole world, seems deeply divided. You may feel prompted to speak out against one side or the other; and that’s OK; but be careful! This is a subtle trap. If you find yourself being caught up in the vitriol of the division, if you are begining to hate those on the side opposing the side you think is right, beware! You are falling into the trap. You are becoming blind to the fact that we are all One. We all all children of the Most High. Our differences are quite minor, unless magnified by hatred.

Be advised that God is in control. If He were not, the cosmos would have devolved into utter chaos eons ago, the planets of our solar system would have spun into the sun, the sun would have exploded, and life as we know it would have ceased to exist.  But it hasn’t. This planet has continued to spin nights and days for billions of years, and conscious beings have spun their dreams of growth and positive development for hundreds of thousands of years. Human beings have loved and hated one another as long as two or more have formed a relationship, or a society. We live in an expanding bubble of positive growth, nurtured by Love and Light, protected from physical chaos by the meaning and purpose of a Higher Consciousness which opperates beyond our understanding as finite beings.

Whether you want to call that Higher Conscious Reality God, or Nature, or the Conscious Cosmos, makes no difference; It exists. If It did not, the laws of the physical universe, which we have discovered, tell us that no stable universe could possibly have developed from a vast explosion without the action of an organizer, and if the chaos of the explosion was harnesed and molded into the extremely complex stable reality of even the simplest life form found on this planet, then if that organizer were to go away, the expanding chaos of the explosion would destroy any existing stable structure in a nanosecond.

Once caught up in the dichotomy of political division, we tend to think that this division and animosity is the worst we’ve ever known. But that is not so. We have been more divided in the not-so-distant past. In our Civil War, for example, neighbors slaughtered neighbors, brothers even fought brothers. I am old enough to have met, when I was very young, yet older people who fought in that horrible war. I grew up playing on the earthen works of Fort Davidson in Pilot Knob, Missouri, where hundred of Union and Confederate solders died. I have visited Manassas, in Virginia, and shed tears for the lingering souls of young men who died there while local farm families watched the war’s first battle from horse-drawn wagons at the edge of the field. And many such divisions have split societies on this planet in the past. No, such division is not unique. But let us pray that we have grown enough spiritually to avoid bloodshed this time, and in the future.

The Creator of this bubble of life in an otherwise chaotic universe is not dead, nor is He absent. That organizing factor exists within each and every one of us. All consciousness is part of and linked eternally with the Higher Consciousness of the Cosmos. It is your job (no small task) to reconnect with that Cosmic Consciousness in your heart of hearts, and then to work to awaken that awareness in all hearts!

If the world seems wrong to you, it is a sure sign that you need to change yourself. You can only do so by making that reconnection with the Love and Light of the Higher Consciousness of the Organizer in your heart.

ERC – 02/15/2020

WORRY ABOUT GOD

 

DON’T WORRY ABOUT GOD

A lot of time has been wasted by humankind in the history of life on this planet worrying about God. Is there a Supreme Being who created everything? If so, where did He/She/It come from? If there is no God, then why is everything here that’s here? Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said: “The most important question is: why is there something rather than nothing?” Given that there is something, if there is a God who created it, is that God still here? Or is he beyond the creation we are capable of experiencing? Ludwig Wittgenstein said: “Where of one cannot speak, one must remain silent.” Let’s think about this for a minute. … a minute should be enough!

There are three possibilities: 1) God exists. 2) god does not exist. 3) God kind-of exists, e.g., maybe He/She, or Whatever, created all this, including us, soon got bored with it and us, and went off to do something else.

If 1) is true (the most popular answer) then there is no need to worry about Him/Her, or Whatever, … If He/She, or Whatever did all of this, i.e., created the amazingly intricate clockwork reality we can experience everyday if we don’t get completely lost in self-pity, then He/She, or Whatever, is certainly capable of taking care of Himself/Herself, or Whatever. No need to worry about Him/Her, or Whatever. It’s even less productive to try to convince others that He/She, or Whatever exists. It’s better to just get on with your life.

If 2) is true, then trying to convince others (the majority) that they’re wrong is very counter-productive, and a complete waste of your time. It’s better to just get on with your life.

If 3) is true, then He/She, or Whatever, is gone, and worrying about Something that’s nowhere to be found is a waste of time. It’s better to just get on with your life.

Conclusion: It’s just better to get on with your life.

Wittgenstein, and many other philosophers, scientists, and theologians, and even quite ordinary people, have spoken and written volumes and volumes about many things whereof one cannot speak. Those things eventually include the ultimate Nature of Reality and God, which, in my humble opinion, are one and the same thing. It’s better to take what Reality has given you, and just get on with your life.

But, what if Reality gave you the ability to think about things about which you cannot speak because there are no words with which to describe them – like God or the Ultimate Nature of Reality? Such as was probably the case with Leibniz and Wittgenstein. What if you find yourself to be a rarity among human beings with an Intelligence Quotient at the leading edge of the bell curve, who’s mean, and average is 100? What if you find yourself as rare as one in one-billion? Are you doomed to be lonely, even in a crowd?

A few years ago, I managed to corner a very intelligent young man named Doug on board a cruise ship for a few minutes, and tried to explain the Neppe-Close Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm to him. He later publicly warned people that talking with me for as little as10 minutes was hazardous. He said it might even cause your head to explode!

Have I led a lonely life? No. Reality provided me with a wife and son who understand everything I think about and say, - sometimes better than I do!

If you can’t understand everything I say about TDVP, or anything else I ramble on about, don’t worry about it. Take what Reality has given you, and get on with your life! Don’t worry about where you are on the bell-curve of human abilities. It makes no difference what your IQ or aptitudes are; it only matters what you do with them! I didn’t know I was the rarity that I apparently am until I was 73 years old, and that was a good thing. Had I known sooner; I would not have been able to live a normal life.

Whether the answer to the question about God is 1), 2) or 3), makes no difference in the Greater Scheme of things. Whether you have an IQ below 100, or above 200, also make no difference in the over-all movements of the planet Earth, the Solar System, the Milky-way Galaxy, the Universe, or all of Reality. Whether the real answer to the question about God is 1), 2) or 3), it’s pretty clear that human beings are a work in progress. The idea that all of us were created equal at birth, if anyone ever thought so, is obviously false.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Constitution of the USA: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness...”

Based on the evidence of his knowledge and accomplishments during his lifetime, I believe Thomas Jefferson was a rare human being, doubtless on the leading edge of any measure of  human abilities. So it is very unlikely that he labored under the delusion that all men (or all human beings) are created equal at birth. If we are all created equal, then creation has to be an on-going thing, so that we are not completely created until we are, in fact, all equal; but we believe as free citizens of this world, that, regardless of our abilities, or lack thereof, we have the right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness to the best of or abilities, i.e., with what Reality has given us in each life. For a more complete explanation of what this is all about, see Secrets of the Sacred Cube, A Cosmic Love Story, by Ed and Jacqui Close, to be available any day now.

But don’t worry about God. If God exists, He/She or Whatever, can take care of Himself/Herself, or Whatever. If God doesn’t exist (a very unlikely reality in my opinion), then you’re on your own… Good luck with that!

ERC August 29, 2019

THE GRAND ILLUSION

THE GRAND ILLUSION

Time and space, however persistent they may seem to be, are illusions.

Matter and energy are much less persistent than time and space,

and they’re not what they seem to be.

All four are manifestations of consciousness, fleeting as a lightening flash.

The truth is neither “out there”, nor in the X-files; it is deep within.

If you go deep enough, the truth you’ll find is the same for everyone.

There is no evidence that consciousness is plural, that matter is real,

that energy is eternal, that time is linear, or that space can exist by itself,

Yet we dream that these illusions are real. Why not try to wake?

 We sleep as solid matter, we stir as energy, we dream as plants and animals,

And we wake as God.

Himmel und Erde müssen vergeh‘n, aber der Geist bleiben besteh‘n!

Cerul și Pământul trebuie să dispară, dar Duhul va rămâne vreodată!

Heaven and Earth must pass away, but Spirit shall ever remain!

WHAT IS GIMMEL? MY ANSWER.

IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN GOD, CONSCIOUSNES AND GIMMEL?

© 2019 by Edward R. Close

The purpose of this post is to follow up on the discussion of the question “What is Gimmel”, Posted Wednesday, March 15^th, which summarized the derivation that led to the discovery of gimmel, and ended with:

“Now, ask yourself: if gimmel is not mass or energy, exactly what is it? Everything physical is measurable in variables of content (mass and energy) and variables of extent (space and time). Gimmel cannot have even one unit of mass or energy. If it exists in space and time, what is it? There are clues in the quantum math and physics derivations that led to its discovery, but what do YOU think it might be? Please post your thoughts in “comments”. or send me a Facebook message”.

There were a number of good responses that tended to be in one of two forms: Responders thought gimmel might be either evidence of God or Spirit’s creation of a stable physical universe, - or gimmel might be some form of consciousness. Of course, the two are not mutually exclusive; the form of the answer appears to depend of the belief system of the person responding. People with a belief in some form of organized theology tend to believe that gimmel is evidence that God created the universe. But that is a philosophical answer, not a scientific answer. People with personal experience of Spirit can make that leap, and that is wonderful. It is a clear answer for them, and provides a testimonial for others who seek answers, but I agree with Leibniz who said if something is real, there is a logical path to its discovery and validation. The discovery of gimmel validates the existence of something non-physical in the very most basic structure of the universe.

The discovery that gimmel exists in every particle of physical reality, from quarks to electrons to atoms, and the fact that the highest levels of gimmel are present in the elements and organic compounds that provide the basis for life and consciousness, tends to support the theory of intelligent design, especially if gimmel is consciousness, or the agent of consciousness that organizes the physical universe in a logical manner.

As pointed out in the previous post, gimmel clearly provides an answer to Leibniz’s question, concerning why there is something, rather than nothing: The derivation of quantum equivalence units (TRUE) proves there would be no physical universe without gimmel. It is worth noting that Leibniz’s answer was theological: In his view, there is something because, in the beginning, God created it. But this answer can only avoid the infinite regression of what was before creation of the universe, if God, then what is God, and what was before God, etc, if creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing) is assumed as axiomatic.

As explained in the August 30 post, “QUESTIONS OF SURVIVAL AND REINCARNATION”, creatio ex nihilo was an ad hoc theory invented by early Christian theologians to protect the Catholic Churches from the Emperor Justinian I, who threatened to destroy them if the Christian scholar Origen’s interpretation of the Christian teaching of the pre-existence and post-existence of the human soul was not removed from their scriptures. Despite their frantic efforts to comply with Justinian’s brutal edict, some evidence of the original teaching remains in the scriptures today. For example, Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you”.

Origen, born in Alexandria, was the most prolific Christian writer of the third century AD, producing more than 6,000 treatises on Christian philosophy and theology, including commentaries on the Hebrew scriptures and the teachings of Jesus recorded in scriptures some of which became known as the New Testament. He wrote about the eternal existence of souls in “De Principalis” as follows:

"Each soul enters the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defects of its past lives. Its place in this world is determined by past virtues and shortcomings."

If this is true, as conscious beings, we are finite sparks of infinite consciousness, evolving spirituality in a reality designed for that purpose. The illogical absurdity of creatio ex nihilo and the paradox of infinite regress are both avoided if all individualized consciousness, i.e., souls, are actually part of Primary Consciousness (traditionally anthropomorphized as God) which has always existed and will always exist. And, if Primary Consciousness is realized as the infinitely continuous substrate of reality, then gimmel is evidence of the intelligent design of the universe. While the discovery of gimmel is new, the conclusion it suggests is not. I think Max Planck, the father of quantum physics, saw where his discovery of the quantization of mass and energy was pointing. In an Interview published in 'The Observer', 25 January 1931, p.17, He said:

“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.”

In 1944, in a speech entitled Das Wesen der Materie (The Nature of Matter), delivered in German, which was his native tongue, Max Planck said:

Es gibt keine Materie an sich. Alle Materie entsteht und besteht nur durch eine Kraft, welche die Atomteilchen in Schwingung bringt und sie zum winzigsten Sonnensystem des Alls zusammenhält. Da es im ganzen Weltall aber weder eine intelligente Kraft noch eine ewige Kraft gibt—es ist der Menschheit nicht gelungen, das heißersehnte Perpetuum mobile zu erfinden—so müssen wir hinter dieser Kraft einen bewußten intelligenten Geist annehmen. Dieser Geist ist der Urgrund aller Materie.

I have seen two or three translations of this statement, none of which, in my opinion, fully capture Planck’s meaning. Here is my translation:

There is no matter in and of itself. All matter arises and endures only by means of a force which causes the atomic particles to vibrate and holds them together to form the tiniest solar system of the universe. But since there is neither an intelligent force nor an eternal power in all the physical universe – mankind has not managed to discover the passionately-desired perpetual motion — so we must accept that behind this force is a Conscious intelligent spirit. This spirit is the primary source of all matter.

What is Gimmel? My conclusion is that gimmel is real evidence of the existence of the Conscious Intelligent Spirit Planck spoke of; Gimmel is the fingerprint of God, if you will.

I’d like to end this discussion with one of my favorite Einstein quotes:

“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.”

GOD'S MAGIC TRICK

THE UNIVERSE IS GOD’S ULTIMATE MAGIC TRICK!

Copyright © Edward R. Close 5/23/2018

Albert Einstein said: “Rafinert ist der Herr Gott, aber Bohaft ist er nicht!” (The Lord God is clever, but he is not malicious!)

God is indeed clever! He has fooled scores of mainstream scientists for hundreds of years, and continues to do so. I’m sure He finds their attempts to explain the universe as a vast machine very entertaining. No matter how many clues he gives them, they seem to be unable to see through the clever illusion displayed before them as the physical universe. Why? Because they can’t seem to shake the initial misdirection, the illusion that something called solid matter exists, and consequently, they haven’t been able to look behind the curtain of matter.

God is the master magician. Before talking about His clever trick in more detail, let me start with a simple analogy: The disappearing paper-wad trick I used to entertain my son when he was very young, and my grandchildren when they were very young: The trick is one of misdirection. You place a small paper-wad in your left hand and ask the child to pay close attention to it. You cover it with your right hand, and then you close your right hand over it and quickly raise your closed fist, showing the empty palm of your left hand. Then you quickly bring your right hand back down beside your left hand with open palm, showing that both hands are empty. The paper-wad seems to have mysteriously disappeared. This trick is especially entertaining to on-lookers who can see you pitch the paper-wad over your shoulder with the upward motion of your right hand. For children, and sometimes even adults, if you have a clever way of hiding the thrown paper-wads, it sometimes takes a number of repetitions of the trick before they catch on.

God plays a similar, but a much more clever trick with the physical universe. He projects the idea (misdirection) that there are separate material objects and particles by placing consciousness in a limited physical body with limited organs of perception that do not allow you to see the whole picture, and then challenges you to see through His trick. A few have caught on and have seen a glimpse of God’s slight-of-hand, for example:

Max Planck said: "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as the result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."

Albert Einstein said: “There is no such thing as an empty space, i.e. a space without a field. Space-time does not claim existence of its own, but only as a structural quality of the field.” – Relativity, the Special and General Theory, page 155 of Appendix V.

In a letter Paul wrote: “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” - 2 Corinthians 4:18

Jesus said: “Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand.” Luke 8:10

Let’s suppose for a minute that these quotes, from different types of thinkers, are not just vague metaphysical hypotheses or philosophical wanderings, but real glimpses of the truth, and that they are all glimpses of the same thing: the true nature of reality. Then we see that there is no matter as such, space-time has no existence of it own, and behind the illusion that is seen, is the true, but unseen reality. Now, let’s bring in a few more pertinent ideas and see if we can understand the nature of God’s magic trick.

First, Newton’s third Law of Motion: For every force, there is an equal and opposite force.

Second, the existence of gimmel, the third form of reality, neither mass nor energy and therefore non-physical, proved necessary for subatomic stability, discovered by application of the Close-Neppe Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP).

Third, the generalization of the Law of Conservation of mass and energy to include all reality: mass, energy and gimmel.

Now, suppose with these three facts in mind, your faculty of perception is suddenly freed from the limitations of the tiny bands of electromagnetic and physical vibrations available to your sense organs, and you are pure consciousness; what do you see?

You see that gimmel is the fabric of reality, expanding to infinity at the speed of light. At the same time, the force of that expansion is countered (per Newton’s third law) by the inertia of vortices spinning in the fabric of reality with angular velocities accelerated to the speed of light. All the forces of the universe balance out, and thus, the sum total of the dynamic interactions in physical creation is zero. And there you have the essence of God's trick: The everything and the nothing,:the cosmic illusion.

“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free!” (John 8:13)

How freeing is it, to know that there is no matter as such, no empty space or time, and that your consciousness, as a spark in the fabric of reality (gimmel) is conserved forever! Matter, energy, space and time are complex, multi-dimensional illusions created by the expansion of the fabric of reality, for God’s (and your) entertainment. With this knowledge, you can relax and enjoy the drama with Him, knowing that it is all an illusion, -a very persistent illusion to be sure- but ultimately, it’s God’s very special magic trick!

You have to hand it to God! His illusion is the ultimate, most clever illusion, and it’s the only show in town! Abraham and Moses were right; Jesus of Nazareth was right, all of the spiritual masters of the past were right, and the materialists are still looking at the disappearing paper-wad! Now you see it, now you don’t!

Wake up! and enjoy God’s shauspiel!