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Sunday, September 18, 2022

EXTRA-PHYSICAL REALITY

 



EVIDENCE OF

EXTRA-PHYSICAL REALITY

Manifest in Manifold Quantum Forms

Touchstones of Consciousness Expansion

Revealing the Meaning and Purpose of Life

© Copyright 2022, Edward R. Close

 

“Wink has not touched my eyes, ever since I saw Thee!”

-      Paramahansa Yogananda in Cosmic Chants

Introduction

Individual self-awareness is a spiritual gift that was received by certain lucky lifeforms existing on this planet about 6000 years ago. The gift of gifts was bestowed by a vastly more advanced form of consciousness than we now possess, for which we should be forever grateful, because those lifeforms were our ancestors. The sublime gift of individual self-awareness, however, includes the double-edged sword of free will, which makes the prospect of an individual, unassisted by any more advanced entity, accelerating the natural expansion of his or her awareness a daunting, if not almost impossible challenge. At this point in this 12,000-year cycle of planetary time, as spiritual beings occupying physical forms, we have a limited measure of free will, with only a few options to choose from. But the choices we make are critical. They determine, through the inexorable rules of cause and effect, whether we will advance, stall, or regress on our long twisted and tortured journey toward the perfection of Cosmic Consciousness in this lifetime.

 

Some of the choices that are open to us are good and some are bad with respect to the advancement of our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. We have enough intelligence in the innate brain power of the physical forms of our species to analyze our circumstances from day-to-day and make good choices - if we keep the purpose of life and the goal of spiritual advancement in mind. But this is hard. The most basic fundamental choice we have to make is the choice of accepting or rejecting the existence of a higher or perfected form of Primary Consciousness as the source of our being and the reality we experience. If we make the right decision, then the eventual realization of our identity as part of, or perhaps even one with the Infinite is our reason for existing, the purpose of life and our ultimate goal. Whether you choose to work with or against the purpose of existence and the logical structure of the physical, mental, and spiritual reality created for that purpose, is up to you.

 

In the past and future, forever existing in three-dimensional time, the average spiritual virtue of conscious beings once was and will again become much more highly developed than it is now. In those times, average individual conscious beings communicate with each other by the speed-of-light transmission of mental images formed in the individual fields of finite reality by a process that can best be described as the sending and receiving of integrated forms of the complete continuum of energies radiating from objects existing in reality. That spectrum includes the quantized energy frequencies that are received through the five physical senses. The perceptions of light, sound, taste, touch, and smell that we associate with specific objects are relatively small fragments of the total perception that is possible for an individual whose consciousness is fully expanded.

 

When we realize that the gifts of conscious self-awareness and freewill that were bestowed on our ancestors and passed down to us in our DNA make it possible that by choosing wisely, we can eventually become sufficiently advanced physically, mentally, and spiritually to be able to receive and re-create multi-dimensional images accurately reflecting the manifold forms existing in reality and transmit them as meaningful thought forms to other conscious beings, we will be motivated to do everything we can to accelerate the expansion of consciousness. Currently, however, the average individual is effectively imprisoned in a physical body, with perceptions of objective reality fragmented by the quantum mechanical processes of the physical sense organs, and consequently, limited almost completely to indirect interactions with reality and with other conscious beings. Communication of our thoughts is further limited by the uncertainties of language, illogical expression, and the confusion of spoken and written words.

 

In this post, I am trying to explain some very subtle, complex concepts in terms that anyone can understand. What makes this more challenging than it should be, is the fact that certain key words that I must use are used by others, with different educational and experiential backgrounds, to mean something slightly different than what I mean when I use them. In the context of the TDVP model, there are key words that have very specific meanings, so I must define them as clearly as I can. They are sometimes used in contemporary society in vague and confusing ways. For example, we often hear the word “dimension” used instead of the correct reference, which would be “dimensional domain”.

 

Saying that we can “see dimensions” or that we may experience “being in another dimension” are inaccurate and improper uses of the term. Dimensions cannot be seen because, as Einstein said, space and time have no existence of their own. We can see objects that have dimensions, but we cannot see dimensions; and no one and nothing can exist in a single dimension. I have defined key words like dimension in other posts, videos, and various publications about Transcendental Physics and the CoDD, but to avoid the confusion that results from a reader thinking that key words mean something different than what I intend them to mean, I will provide the appropriate key definitions here so that you don’t have to stop to look them up elsewhere.

 

Reality: Everything that exists

Existence: Anything that can be experienced directly or indirectly as objectively measurable forms of mass, energy, and consciousness

Mass: The one-dimensional measure of the resistance of a real object to motion

Energy: The one-dimensional measure of the total force of  angular and/or linear momentum of a real object or system of objects

Vortex: A multi-dimensional object rotating in three or more dimensions (Plural: vortices)

 

[Note: Rigid physical particles cannot rotate in more than one plane at a time, but vortices can, and quantal vortices combine volumetrically, not linearly. This fact, in conjunction with the combinatorial restrictions required by Fermat’s last theorem applied to objects of three or more dimensions, limits the number of elementary vortices that can combine to form a stable complex object to three.]

 

Dimensions: Two-dimensional measurements of extent in space, time, and/or consciousness

Space: A three-dimensional volume created by the existence of real objects

Time: The extent of duration of events that change real objects in any way  

Consciousness: The partial or complete multi-dimensional awareness of reality

Distinction: any finite form that can be distinguished from the rest of reality in any way (Synonym: conceptual object)

Manifold form: A multi-dimensional shape of three or more dimensions

Mathematics: A broad term that includes all logical forms of objective numeric, algebraic, and geometric calculation

Calculation: The process of transforming one distinct objective form into another one, that is equivalent to, but different from the original form by applying one or more of the fundamental operations of mathematical logic  

Calculus: A logically consistent system of operations designed to perform mathematical calculations

The Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD): A calculus with the basic rules of  mathematical operations re-defined for calculation in the arithmetic, algebra, and geometry of multi-dimensional distinctions based on the measurable physical characteristics of the electron.

 

The Origin of Logic and the Structure of Reality

Pure mathematical logic arises in human thought as a reflection of the innate structure of a primary form of consciousness existing in all of physical reality, including in the physical structure of our brains. Because of this, a system of mathematical logic using the mass and volume of the smallest and most elementary stable object in the universe, the free electron, as the basic unit of quantum measurement, is arguably the most appropriate calculus we could possibly use to analyze the quantized reality of the physical universe. That is exactly what the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD), mentioned so often in these posts, is. Application of this calculus to analyze the physical combination of two up quarks and one down quark combining to form a proton, the building block of the stable structure of the physical universe, was the logical place to start, and that application led directly to the discovery of gimmel, the organizing factor conveying the logical structure of Primary Consciousness into physical form at the quantum level of atomic structure.

 

Mass, Energy, Space, Time, and Gimmel

The next logical step after the analysis of the proton and the discovery of the existence of gimmel, was a CoDD analysis of the simplest atom, the hydrogen atom, which consists of one electron and one proton. What that analysis and subsequent applications of CoDD analysis to the atoms of the periodic table reveals about the nature of reality and the relationship between physical reality and consciousness was simply amazing! More than fifty problems and paradoxes unresolved in the standard model of particle physics were resolved by the discovery of the existence of gimmel. Most of the results of the CoDD analyses have been published in journal articles, blogposts, and books. Lists of dozens of relevant references in the blogsite archives can be accessed by searching for references on the opening page of this blog, and a few of the most relevant are listed at the end of this post. The results of applying the quantum calculus, sometimes called TRUE analysis in the references, agree exactly, or within measurement error, with experimental data and with the conclusions of prominent paradigm breakers like Max Planck and Albert Einstein.

 

In the last appendix added to the last edition of Einstein’s little book, Relativity, the Special and the General Theory, in which he provided “a clear explanation that anyone can understand” in 1952, less than three years before he died in 1955, he concluded that space and time have no physical existence of their own. Applications of the CoDD confirm this conclusion, but it is also true that measurement of the spatial and temporal dimensions of physical objects and events creates the illusions of space and time and reveals the structure of the manifold forms of objective reality.

 

Like space and time, gimmel has no mass or energy, but the existence of specific calculable volumes of gimmel in the protons, neutrons, and electron shells of atoms, explains why the measured mass of atoms that form the physical universe is always greater than the combined mass of the quarks and electrons that are in them. It is because when gimmel expands the spacetime volume of atomic structure to make the atoms stable, it increases the total angular momentum of each atom, which also increases the total mass revealed in experimental data. In this way, gimmel creates the space, time, mass, and energy that counteracts the losses of mass and energy that would otherwise occur due to the vortical expansion of the physical universe.

 

The existence of gimmel in the vortices of the nuclei and the electron energy shells not only fine tunes the physical structure of atoms to make them symmetric, but it also balances them magnetically and electrically. This internal self-contained stability created by the existence of gimmel in atomic sub-structure eliminates the need for phantom particles that impart mass and create mysterious forces to hold the atom together. Without gimmel, there would be no stable atomic structure, and the expansion of the universe toward infinity would accelerate causing reality to approach a state of  maximum entropy in nano seconds, after which there would be no objective reality.

 

I developed a formal proof of the existence of a non-physical third form of reality linking quantized matter and non-quantum receptors in consciousness in 1995 and displayed it as a poster presentation in 1996 at the Tucson II Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference at the University of Arizona, and published it in Transcendental Physics, Paradigm Press, Jackson Missouri in 1997, but that original proof was expressed in the notation of a precursor of the current form of CoDD that almost no one in mainstream science wanted to try to understand. With the help and encouragement of one who did, world-renowned polymath Dr. Vernon Neppe, a conventional mathematical proof of the existence of the third form of the essence of reality was published in the book Reality Begins with Consciousness in 2015, and it was while preparing to write this book that we decided to call the third form of reality gimmel.

 

Gimmel Provides More Answers

After a couple of years of additional research and analysis, I realized that gimmel is empirical evidence of a primary form of consciousness conveying logical structure into physical reality at the quantum level by organizing elementary vortices in the infinitely continuous field of reality to form stable atoms. Thus, gimmel is the long-sought-after link between mind and matter. Discovery of gimmel and its role in creating and maintaining stable atomic structure is evidence of the existence and stabilizing impact of a primary form of consciousness in every atom of the physical universe. Discovering the patterns of gimmel in every atom of the universe is like finding the fingerprints of God all over the reality he created!

 

The existence of gimmel also answers the question that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz posed more than 300 years ago. He considered this question to be the most important question that science could ever hope to answer when he asked: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” The answer is that there is something rather than nothing because the existence of gimmel makes the stable existence of atomic mass and energy and the measurable dimensions of space and time possible. Furthermore, application of the CoDD to the formation of protons proved that gimmel had to exist before the formation of any stable atomic structure could occur. The prior and continuing existence of gimmel, imprinting the logical structures of consciousness on physical reality, tells us that there was no beginning and can be no end to the existence of physical reality. The forms of reality are continually changing in logical cause-and-effect ways that can be discovered with a sufficiently advanced form of analysis, but the total essence of reality will always exist, in some form.

 

The inescapable conclusion is that there has always been something; and, consistent with the law of conservation of matter and energy, which must also apply to gimmel, since mass and energy cannot exist without gimmel, there never was, is not, and never will be a state of absolute nothingness. In plain English, there is no such thing as nothing. But, because nothing is, by definition, the absence of something, we have fallen into the mistake of thinking of zero as representing the existence of nothingness. In applications of the CoDD, we see that any that concept that can only be represented as one-dimensional is only conceptual, and not part of objective reality. Zero is a one-dimensional concept indicating the absence of a finite localized subset of objects, not a state of absolute nothingness.

 

The Quantum Calculus

Setting the basic unit of quantum measurement equal to the mass and volume of the smallest stable energy vortex, which happens to be the free electron, normalized by the quantized nature of reality, and using it as the primary naturalized unit of quantum equivalence, which I call the Triadic Rotational Unit of equivalence (TRUE), ties the CoDD existentially to objective reality. Because of this link to existence, in application, the CoDD is capable of distinguishing a construct of mathematical symbolism that does not actually exist, from those that do. In this way, gimmel logically distinguishes reality from conceptual fantasy.  The process of  adapting a calculus to logic, was developed by G. Spencer Brown in his book Laws of Form. Providing a detailed explanation of that process is beyond the scope of this post, but is worth mentioning here because, to my knowledge, no one else had done this before Brown did in 1962, or since I first did it1989, when I applied the CoDD adapted for logic to several logical paradoxes in physics, and published the results in Infinite Continuity, unfortunately, currently out of print. 

 

Logical Systems and Personal Conceptual Models

Most of us think that what we believe is firmly rooted in reality, but when belief systems are analyzed and traced back to their most fundamental concepts, we find that the basic ideas about reality upon which they are built, are often unproved and/or temporarily unprovable assumptions or beliefs about the nature of reality. Your brain creates conceptual models of reality from data input from the senses during conscious experiences of interactions with the environment as a critical part of physical survival mechanisms. These models are stored in special brain cells modified for that purpose and kept handy for quick reference.

 

Our personal models of reality are continuously modified, especially when we are young, learning by pain of trial and error about things in the external environment that are dangerous, like hot stoves, venomous snakes, etc. New sensual input is continually compared with relevant details in the conceptual model stored in our brain cells, as our personal model of reality is formed. Because of the importance this model has for our physical survival, it is locked in and accepted by our conscious minds as identical with reality itself. By the time our physical bodies have matured, these models and especially the assumptions buried deep within them, are almost impossible to change.

 

So, we see that our individual belief systems are based on our conceptual models of reality, not necessarily on what actually exists. We experience reality in a very indirect and fragmented way through the physical senses and given the way beliefs are formed and/or adopted, an individual conscious being’s belief system, regardless of how logical and well thought out it may be, may not reflect what actually exists. When properly analyzed using the CoDD, we find that one or more of the underlying a priori assumptions about the nature of reality in many, if not most belief systems are incorrect. If we want to advance spiritually, we have to find a way to correct our erroneous a priori assumptions and move on into the new domain of reality that becomes available to us in the expanded reality of a new paradigm.

 

The Purpose

I have written much about logical systems, conceptual models, and the CoDD because of the important role they played in the discovery of gimmel and the important role I believe the CoDD will play in the science of the future. I also believe that, because the calculus made the discovery of gimmel possible, a basic understanding of it should help readers to understand TDVP. But it is even more important as part a conceptual foundation preparing the reader to see that it is possible to accelerate the expansion of individual consciousness. This is the existential core of the message coming through my meditations, and the reason that I am inspired to write. I keep writing because I know that a verbal explanation, no matter how good, can always be better, and I know that I am just a conduit conveying ideas as best I can, not the source, and the source is available to everyone, so, even if I never write another word, someone will pick up the thread and be blessed and/or burdened to receive even more detail than I have. Infinity is a deep well.

 

I know that this blogpost is already too long, but I am not going to apologize for that because the subject I am trying to cover is wide and deep, and Like Albert Einstein, I sincerely want to provide a clear explanation that anyone can understand. Analytical details, from the logic of CoDD to its application and results, are already available in some form in previous posts and publications, so, for now, I am going to forego describing any more details to connect the dots, and try to make a multi-dimensional quantum leap. Ultimately, my job is not just to teach people how to do math and understand the science, my real mission is to teach you how to expand your consciousness and re-connect with Primary Consciousness and the ultimate experience.

 

Love is The Ultimate Experience

Love is the most wonderful example of infinity. It resolves all opposites. Pure love is infinitely patient, because the essence of Primary Consciousness (God, if you want to think of it that way) is Love, and in love, everything exists exactly as it is supposed to exist. When you are on the ultimate spiritual path, there are no accidents. Your existence at this place and time is no accident. You are not the result of the accidental sticking together of random bits of matter, define by some as debris flying away from an unexplainable explosion billions of years ago. You are something special. Every atom in every cell of your physical body has a specific number of TRUE organizing units of gimmel embedded in it. Every speck of dirt in the universe has millions of organizing units of gimmel. Without them, the logic and structure of the reality being studied by science, and the scientists themselves, would not exist.

It was no accident that my brilliant research partner, Dr. Vernon Neppe, and I happened to be in Amsterdam on the same day to meet in person for the first time, with prior planning on our part. It was no accident that I had a near death experience a week later in the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Ten years later, it was no accident that I stayed longer than planned in Romania. It is no accident when we fall in love. When we realize that the real essence of existence is Love, we fall in love with reality and we know that even the lowliest form of existence is a manifestation of Love, the pure essence of reality, with infinite purpose and meaning, and we know that everything is exactly as it is supposed to be.

The story of your life is already written. The Author of that story knows exactly what you need at every point in your journey to grow spiritually as fast as you possibly can. Everything is provided for that reality. All you need do is choose to re-connect with Primary Consciousness to become Love itself. The final paradox to be resolved is the conundrum that even though, from your point of view as a sentient being, you have the free will to choose, the One whose consciousness is everything, knows what choice you will make, because that One’s time is three-dimensional. In the re-revolving nine-dimensional reality of the cosmos, every event of the past, present, and future already exists.

-      ERC 9/18/2022

 

References:

In the archives of this blog

1. The Simple Math of TRUE Units, the True Unit, the Conveyance Equation and the Third  Form of Reality – Posted Feb, 1, 2016

2. Putting Consciousness into the Equations of Science, a series of posts: Part 1 through Part 20:

Putting Consciousness into the Equations of Science, Part 1: The Third Form of Reality (Gimmel) and the “TRUE” Units (Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence) of Quantum     

Followed by subsequent posts, to Part 20, Summary and Conclusions – Posted Jan. 5, 2016

3. TRUE Units and the Natural Elements of the Periodic Table – Posted March 11, 2015.

 

In peer-reviewed and published references:

1.      Close, ER, Is Consciousness Primary, AAPS Vol. I, Edited by GE Schwartz & MH Woollacott, Waterside Productions, Cardiff CA, 2019

2.      Neppe, VM, Close, Reality Begins with Consciousness (Fifth Edition) Seattle WA, 2014

3.      Close ER, Neppe VM: The thirteenth conundrum: introducing an important concept, TRUE units – Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence. IQNexus Journal 7: 2; 60-71, 2015

4.      Close ER, Neppe VM: Fifteen mysteries of 9 dimensions: on Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence and new directions, Part III. Neuroquantology 13: 4; 2015.

 

Related publications:

1. Close ER: Appendix B: 1965 Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, in The Book of Atma. Edited by. New York: Libra Publishers. pp. 93-99 1977.

2. Close ER, Neppe VM: Translating fifteen mysteries of the universe: Nine dimensional mathematical models of finite reality, Part II. Neuroquantology 13: 3; 348-360, 2015.

3. Neppe VM, Close ER: The concept of relative non-locality: Theoretical implications in consciousness research. Explore (NY): The Journal of Science and Healing 11: 2; 102-108, http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307(14)00233-X/pdf 2015.

4. Close ER, Neppe VM: The eleventh conundrum: The double Bell normal curve and its applications to electron cloud distribution IQNexus Journal 7: 2; 51-56, 2015.

5. Close ER: Infinite continuity: a theory integrating relativity and quantum physics. Los Angeles: Paradigm Press, 1990.

6. Close ER: Transcendental Physics. Lincoln: I-Universe, 2000.

7. Brandin V, Close ER: The calculus of dimensional distinctions: Elements of mathematical theory of intellect. Moscow: 2003.

 

Relevant references by other authors

1. Morgart E: The theory of everything has nine dimensions: The sparkling diamond and the quanta jewel turn quantum physics and the nine-pronged world of consciousness— on its ear. USA Today Magazine: 1 (January); 66-68, 2014.

2. Brown GS: Laws of form. New York: Julian Press, 1977.

3. Tegmark M: Our mathematical universe: My quest for the ultimate nature of reality. New York: Knopf, 2014.


Sunday, June 19, 2022

CONSCIOUSNESS AND LOVE

 


THE SUBTLETY OF CONSCIOUSNESS - AND LOVE

© Copyright 2022, Edward R Close

Today, I feel an urge to write about the subtlety of the one and only thing that we, as conscious beings, experience directly: the wonderfully expansive and universal form of consciousness known as Love.

The Linguistic Barrier

First, I am prompted to say a few words about language: Language is a reflection of the logic of both mind and Spirit. It is also a filter that is full of cultural nuances, and it often obscures the truth one attempts to convey. Although I might write in any one of several languages, and I might prefer German for logical precision, or Romanian for subtle heart-felt nuance, I am writing in my native tongue of US English. English is at the same time, both a wonderful and a horrible language! It is wonderfully flexible in that the words, put out in order, nearly any, still understood can be. But English is actually full of words borrowed from other languages and as such, it is horrible in that it is about as linguistically confused and confusing as a human language can possibly be. The confusion is most noticeably ubiquitous in the use and misuse of the common vowel sounds, A, E, I, O, and U.

The vowels are the heart of a language. They start at the back of the throat and proceed to the lips, connected to facial expressions, picking up emotion and nuance on the way. They carry most of the real content of thought. They are connected to emotion and can be energetic, or soft and intimate, loaded with nuance and meaning, while consonants are hard sounds, separating and framing the content expressed by the vowel sounds. In older, more heart-centered languages, the vowel sounds are pure, pronounced: Ah, Eh, ee, Oh, oo. In English, we pronounce these five letters as: Aye, ee, ai, O, ee-you, but when they are used to spell words, we sometimes revert partially to the older usages, and sometimes not. We often pronounce the most common vowel, which is “E” with the original pronunciation of the letter “I”, and about 80% of the time, while speaking, we pronounce most of the vowels as “uh”!

But, to get to the heart of the expressions of human consciousness, we have to go deeper, beyond the cultural overlays of our many different contributing languages, some of which are contemporary, while others appear to have origins in the distant past, and perhaps even in other parts of the universe, when the physical expressions of mental and spiritual virtue were at a much higher level than they are now. This feature is, in fact, another reflection of the cyclic nature of three-dimensional time. Some of the most ancient languages found on Earth are more sophisticated than any of our modern languages. Hebrew, Ancient Egyptian, and Sanskrit are examples.

The Illusions of Separation

The infinite continuity of Primary Consciousness is effectively hidden from us by the extremely small-scale, finite quantization of fine-structure physical reality and the limitations of our macro-scale sense organs, that are only sensitive to very narrow bands of frequencies and amplitudes of vibrational energies. And perception by way of the physical senses is complex and very indirect, depending upon multiple energy transmission and reception processes, both outside our physical bodies and within the finely tuned neurological network leading to detailed comparisons of incoming impulses with virtual images stored in our brains.

Physical perception is focused on features of the environment that have significance for individual and group survival and reproduction, because the long-term goals of spiritual evolution cannot be attained if individual conscious beings do not survive the challenges and dangers of physical existence. The physical survival of the individual depends on a sharply localized focus at the level necessary to minimize the probability of physical harm or destruction. This focus leads to the virtual exclusion of the awareness of other, broader aspects of reality that are less critical for immediate survival, especially during the early stages of the organic growth and development of the physical vehicles of consciousness. But mere survival is not sufficient to explain the functioning of individual intelligent spiritual consciousness.

Touching the Heart

Every aspect of reality, even the most gross physical feature imaginable is imbued with the elegance of Primary Consciousness at the quantum level. As Spirit awakens in the course of the evolution of infinite consciousness in an individual, awareness of this in-dwelling glory is the origin of much beautiful music and poetry; and, when one soul sees this wonderful depth and beauty in the soul of another person, true love is born. But, love, like any other profound force of nature, must be handled with great care. Just like all of the energies flooding reality can be used for good or ill, love can be used to nourish the heart of another, or it can be used as a weapon. So, when you touch another’s heart, you must do so with the utmost care and tenderness, because when a heart is open to receive love, it is at its most vulnerable.

Just as there is a fine line between genius and insanity, there is also only a fine, gossamer film, thin as a butterfly’s wing, between love and hate. Jesus said “In my Father’s house are many mansions …” – John,14:2, and in this world of good and evil, there are also many self-constructed cells of pain and suffering. The misuse of love is the surest way to build one for yourself. So never say “I love you” unless you mean it.

To be in love, to give and receive love with all your heart, is to be fully alive at long last. Pure Love, like Pure Consciousness, is beyond the words of any language because they are one and the same. In Pure Love, the ego is gone. You cannot describe the experience of Love because the entity you have identified with and tried unsuccessfully to guard from all harm for eons, no longer exists. The body and soul have melted; the lover and the beloved have become one. Your drop of consciousness has become the Sea of Eternal Love.

ERC – 6/19/2022


Friday, May 29, 2020

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 


Monday, May 11, 2020

THE END OF THE WORLD?



THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
Before reading this blog, I recommend watching Planet of the Humans by Michael Moore Presents by clicking on this link:


I have to admit that I was hesitant to watch anything presented by Michael Moore, a well-known left-wing ideolog. But I wanted to see exactly what it was that had upset my friend so much. The film is directed and narrated by Jeff Gibbs, a life-long environmentalist, and it turns out that it has a lot of well-researched information in it, and it explains how and why the modern environmental movement has failed.

Most of you know I have a PhD in environmental science and engineering, and I earned my living as a certified environmental professional and a registered professional environmental engineer (PE), and I love nature and animals of all kinds, but I never became an environmental activist. This film and my response to it explains why.

I watched this disturbing film through to the end. And yes, there is a lot of truth presented here. I can verify two major points that are made in the film:
First, It is an ecological fact that that species generally die off or even go extinct once they have exploited their niche. Second, the environmental movement has largely failed due to the fact that the people funding it are dependent on the very same system they are trying to fight.

However, the picture is not as black and white as the film paints it. For example, the forestry industry is not evil when managed properly. Trees are a renewable resource and older trees need to be removed periodically to maintain a healthy growth of younger trees. Nature gets rid of dead and dying trees by lightning strike fires and other natural phenomena. Death, of a plant, animal, or even a species is just part of the natural cycle of existence. Fear and hate are the real anathamas of conscious joy and bliss. The film feeds the fires of fear and hate by dividing us against ourselves, and sees no way out. However, many of the companies and groups that the film paints as inherently evil are not wholly evil.

But the most important thing missed by the producers of this film is something unique to the human species: the ability to see beyond the material, and to discover the potential to evolve spiritually. Unfortunately, the picture presented in this film totally ignores even the possibility that ultimately, God is in control. This atheistic view, that totally misses the meaning and purpose of life, is supported by the dead-end materialistic philosophy of mainstream science. But trusting science without God is like riding in a supercharged sports car at breakneck speed with no steering wheel.

So, in my opinion, the answer is: Don't give in to fear. The world is a place of constant change. In a sense, yesterday's world is gone today, and the end of the world as we know it is coming tomorrow, but it is not the actual end of the world. Don't forget God; He never forgets you! Fear destroys your immune system, and hate is a cancer that eats your soul. Love is the answer.


ERC 5/11/2020


Wednesday, April 22, 2020

EXTREME LOVE, AN ADDITION TO THE PREVIOUS POST




AN ADDDITION TO THE PREVIOUS POST
 It is rare that I find a need to change one of my posts after it has been posted, other than for typos or a word change here and there. But my  last post may be an exception. I should mention that I have received far more positive responses on the post than negative, but two people whom I love, and respect very much had problems with the post. Interestingly enough, both are women who are deeply committed to helping people cope with death and dying. One is a hospice nurse, who helped save my life in Egypt, and the other is the founder of the Academy Ars Moriendi (Academy for the Art of Dying) in Romania and Austria. She has also helped save my life by bringing me back from grief and despair. Also, this happens at a time when I may be facing the prospect of death and dying myself. Are there any accidents? In a reality created by a loving God, I think not.

Lab tests have shown that I had elevated PSA levels that could mean prostatitis or cancer. However, I have been down this road before, and I know the cause, and the cure. I was given a natural medicine protocol by a great medical intuitive several years ago. I will not name the intuitive or the natural medicines I use here because I would be accused of trying to sell something. Besides, medicine, natural or otherwise, is not enough alone. The most powerful part of the protocol I use is spiritual, consisting of prayer, visualization, and meditation. I have applied the protocol now, and after three difficult days, I have passed the peak of the curve and am rapidly approaching normal health again!

Returning to the post that offended two of my dearest friends, let me accept the fact that I did not make myself clear enough, and then say that I think the apparent disagreements are a matter of interpretation. By using the words “phony crisis”, I did not mean to imply that the suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic is not real, only that it was manufactured and used for political purposes by those on the extreme left, and perpetuated by those on the extreme right. 

I must correct the possible impression I may have given, that only the extreme left is culpable. People who have gotten extremely wealthy and powerful are equally guilty of trying to control us. In the extreme, both left and right are evil. It is just that, in my opinion, the extreme left is more subversive and devious because they operate by pretending to be compassionate until they see they have to use violence to maintain their power. The extreme right is more obviously evil from the outset.

So, now that I am over my most recent bout with pain and discomfort, and can focus better, I think I will not change the previous post, but add this explanation. Evil is evil, whether it dresses itself up as the left promising utopia, or as the right promising wealth and prosperity for all. Neither ideology can deliver what they promise. America, and the world, needs to come back to God, who is as far from one extreme as the other. The only extreme acceptable to Him is extreme love.


ERC 4/22/2020

Friday, April 17, 2020

SPACE, TIME AND CONSCIOUSNESS (a summary)




A FEW WORDS ABOUT SPACE, TIME AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Space and time, dimensions that are measurable in variables of extent, have no existence of their own. As Albert Einstein said, ”Space-time does not claim existence on its own, but only as a structural quality of the field.”  (see link: http://www.erclosetphysics.com/2016/) 

But what does this mean? Is there a practical application, or is it meaningful only in the context of theoretical physics? I believe it has practical applications, even if we don’t yet know what all of them may be, because this statement is no longer just a theoretical concept. The hypothesis is subject to falsification, making it a valid scientific hypothesis, (see the work of Karl Popper) and with the discovery of gimmel, and the explanation of empirical observations that are inexplicable by mainstream physicalism, it is now demonstrable fact, not just theory.

Consciousness shares the feature of dimensionality and is partially measurable in variables of extent, much like space and time. Does that mean that consciousness also has no existence of it’s own, as physicalists claim? No. The answer is demonstrably NO, because consciousness is also measurable in variables of content, like mass/energy and gimmel. This is demonstrated mathematically and physically in Transcendental Physics, Reality Begins with Consciousness and TDVP.

Please click on the link given in two paragraphs above and read the six short posts that appear for more detail, and then click on  “WHAT IS LOVE?” at the bottom, to grasp my understanding that LOVE is the connection between Primary Consciousness, the substrate of reality and the physical universe. In these seven relatively short posts, you will find an explanation of what I believe to be true, what I have learned in my almost 84 years of this life. I think it is in a form here that anyone can understand. I just read through it, and it took a little more than 15 minutes. It may take you a little longer. If you find it worthwhile, please share with your friends. If you find it not your cup of tea, that’s OK too.

ERC 4/17/2020


Tuesday, April 14, 2020

ODE TO LOVE



THE ETERNAL SONG
© 2020 Edward R Close

“Sleep has not touched my eyes, ever since I saw you!” The mystic’s expression says so much with so few words! That’s why, to most, it doesn’t appear to be a statement of fact; it sounds more like poetry, or song. If we try to analyze it, it will make no sense. But it’s not meant to be analyzed, it’s meant to be sung; and when you understand it, you will sing. You will have no choice. Your heart once awake to the pure ecstasy of knowing the true nature of Reality, nothing but an expression of God’s love, will burst forth in endless song.

There are glimpses of this Eternal Song in any good song or poem, in any moment when one feels the ever-flowing sweet joy of Life. They are glimpses of God, brief moments of wakefulness, momentary freedom from the deep sleep of ordinary life. Like flashes of sunlight through fleeting holes in a blanket of wind-blown, low-lying clouds. But awakening to the Song Eternal is like seeing the sun from a point far above the grey clouds of mist swirling around the earth: The awakened Soul is at last continually bathed in the Light of God’s Love!

“Love is blind!” Cry those who are outside love’s glow; because a soul in love is oblivious to physical flaws the object of their adoration may have, flaws so apparent to everyone else! But the exact opposite is the truth: It is the critics who are blind; blind to the glory of true love because the swirling mists of earth have clouded their vision.

ODE TO LOVE 
Dedicated to Grig Oprea, and Lovers everywhere

The experience of Love is beyond all words and symbols, but for you, my beloved, this must be said: Through our mutual love, free and natural, the clouds of doubt can be dissolved forever, and sleep will never again touch our eyes!

Love does not depend on things of earth,
Its depth transcends both death and birth
It is there, quite plain for all to see,
It is God’s free gift to you and me.

The clouds that wander thru the sky
Are never born, and they do not die,
They’re drops of mists, like you and me,
They must merge and fall into the sea.

So it is with us, you see,
While on the earth we seem to plod,
The song we sing is free,
As we merge into the mind of God!

The secrets of this universe,
Hidden in the quarks and stars above,
Are revealed as we immerse,
In the eternal music of God’s Love.

ERC 4/14/2020