AWARENESS AND CONSCIOUSNESS

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Consciousness and awareness. Do not confuse “awareness” with “consciousness” They are not the same thing. Awareness is variable, it can change. There are an infinity of levels of awareness. You can be acutely aware of something like excruciating pain, and totally unaware of nearly everything else. Awareness is conditional. Consciousness is absolute. Consciousness is the primary form of reality. Awareness is secondary and fleeting.

Recently, I heard a scientist saying: “We are searching for the ‘source’ of consciousness in the human brain.” Searching for the source of consciousness in the human brain is like searching for the source of happiness in the muscles of a smiling face. You will not find it there. Consciousness has no source. It is the source, the source of all things. The brain is merely a receiver.

Rene Descartes famously said: “I think, therefore I am.” Was he implying that thinking is consciousness? If he was, then he was wrong. Literally, “I think, therefore I am” equates thinking with being. Does that mean that thought is the source of being? I don’t think Descartes thought this through very well. And yet much of modern science is based on Descartes’ thinking.  If thinking ceases completely, being does not go away. Thinking is not the source of being, any more than the brain is the source of consciousness. Consciousness has no source, it is the source. Primary Consciousness has no beginning and no end; and neither do you!

Expand your consciousness today. You are surrounded by life and beauty!  Be aware of everything around you, then expand that awareness to include the earth, the sky, and the cosmos. Don’t limit your awareness to what is going on in your head, or in your immediate surroundings. Go beyond awareness, become Consciousness itself. 

ERC 7/14/17

THE PRIMARY PRINCIPLES OF REALITY

THE PRIMARY PRINCIPLES OF REALITY:

THERE IS ONLY ONE REALITY, ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED

AND CONSCIOUSNESS IS WHAT CONNECTS THEM

I have been working for most of my adult life, and perhaps much longer, on what may seem to be three unrelated projects:

1. Trying to convince mathematicians that my 1965 proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem is valid;

2. Trying to convince scientists that consciousness, not matter, is primary, and

3. Trying to understand the True Nature of Reality and how I relate to it.

Finally, after all these years, I have realized that these three things are not unrelated at all, but in fact, they are intimately and deeply related. In a flash, I saw the deep unity of mathematics and science within the Sacred Oneness of all things. This realization doesn’t mean that science and mathematics as we know them are wrong, -they are just incomplete. Understanding how they are connected is, for me, an important part of understanding how we, as conscious human beings, are connected to the Whole. For me, this was an enlightening step of self-realization: the realization that the individual self, is, in reality, a spark of the greater Self of Holistic Reality. 

A Nobel-Prize-winning physicist who graciously agreed to review some of my mathematics once wrote: “You seem to regard maths as something like poetry, where you look for deep meaning in the explanations someone has given.  But mathematics is not like that…” 

While his comments about my 1965 proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem were insightful and helpful, this statement reveals a basic difference in our understanding of what mathematics actually is. The difference is understandable: For practical purposes, math is often considered to be nothing more than a man-made tool for solving quantitative problems. But that is done at the expense of dividing reality up into parts that are then erroneously believed to be unrelated. The point is that the underlying unity of mathematics and science has been hidden and nearly lost with the current practice of academic specialization, i.e., treating them as separate disciplines.

Just as mathematics, as the underlying logic of reality, is what connects the fractured disciplines of “the sciences”, Consciousness, as the underlying substrate of Reality, is what connects the fractured philosophical and religious beliefs of mankind. 

Ed Close, July 9, 2017

PUTING NEGATIVE COMMENTS ABOUT TDVP INTO PROPER CONTEXT

I’ve mentioned in my blog posts that more than 200 scientists worldwide have reviewed the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP), by Dr. Neppe and myself, and other writings by one or both of us. Because negative comments always seem to get the most attention, sometimes it seems that we are always having to defend our ideas from attacks by materialists and atheistic scientists. But a number of peer-reviewers, including scientists and philosophers, some of whom are highly regarded worldwide, have commented favorably and even endorsed TDVP in superlative terms. So I thought I would post some positive comments by some of these important scientists who have reviewed our work to put the negative comments into proper context.

Dr. Larry Dossey has published a completely unsolicited paper on the importance of TDVP as he sees it. Here are some key statements from Dr. Dossey, published in the journal Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing.  To download the article go to: (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2017.04.001)

“… At this precarious stage of our existence, humanity has never needed a paradigm shift such as TDVP more than now. … Enter Neppe and Close…TDVP stands supreme among the many contributions to science in general. … I resonate especially with the consciousness-related implications of TDVP…In their TDVP and the concept of STC — ‘Space-Time-Consciousness’ — immortality for some aspect of consciousness is a key implication. This feature arises not through the revelations of religion, but through mathematical and empirical rigor.

This is an enormous contribution whose significance may surpass, even the profound implications of TDVP for cosmology and physics, in general. …Neppe and Close have reversed the dismal conclusions of materialistic science toward consciousness, and have made the concept of immortality and the survival of bodily death scientifically respectable. …The main contribution of Neppe and Close has been made, the deed is done. This may make all the difference in humanity’s psychospiritual equipoise. 

…It is difficult to imagine a greater contribution.”

Dr. David Stewart, PhD, DNM. Physicist, Mathematician: “I rank Dr. Edward R. Close and Dr. Vernon M. Neppe as peers of the major authors of modern physics and mathematics. I equate them with greats, such as Planck, Einstein, … Newton…. Their work has clarified, and extended the science and mathematics that these geniuses originated …I foresee the day when they will both be awarded other honors, such as a Nobel Prize in Physics and (equivalent in) Mathematics.”

Dr. Adrian Klein, MDD, PhD, PhD, Israeli Dimensional Biopsychophysicist and Consciousness Researcher: “The 21st Century's revolutionary paradigm shift”; … “Unprecedented brilliance and potentially limitless scientific and philosophical outreach …yielding a fresh and accurate understanding of various investigation fields of Nature, and opening … groundbreaking development perspectives for Sciences”.

Dr. Alan Hugenot DSc., Physicist and Engineer: “When taken altogether, the entire work is worthy of several separate Nobel Prizes”.

Dr. Joyce Hawkes PhD, FAAAS, biophysicist: “…any one of these [31] areas, let alone the combination would be a very substantial reason for Drs Neppe and Close to be recipients of major prizes”.

Here are brief comments by seven more scientists in seven different disciplines. The first two are recognized as leading experts in their disciplines in the world and the other five are very prominent scientists:

Stan Krippner PhD Transpersonal Pscycology: [Reality Begins with Consciousness is] “destined to become a classic in the literature on shifting paradigms and worldviews”

Dean Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist at IONS: “RBC [is] in a radical multidisciplinary class by itself”

Alan Bachers PhD: “an astonishing and prodigious accomplishment!”

John Poynton PhD: “encyclopedic … broad exploratory paradigm for new scientific ideas”

Lance Storm PhD: “a paradigm shift that hails in, if not, beckons for, a kind of scientific overhaul and shift in thinking”

Helmut Wautischer PhD “will shape philosophical discourse … a profound value to the future of humankind…masterful…”

Dr. Frank Luger (Canada) “astonishing that you could combine deep scientific notions with mysticism”.

Regarding my earlier book “Transcendental Physics” Here are a few unsolicited comments from readers:

Dr. Philip Petersen, PhD, Astrophysicist “Transcendental Physics is a rare treat… a substantial contribution to the advancement of quantum interpretation.”

Dr. Henry Swift, PhD, Experimental Physicist “This excellent book provides the next paradigm shift!”

Dr. David Stewart, PhD, DNM, Geophysicist, Author, Reccognized worldwide Expert in alternative Medicine “Science was confined in a self-imposed cage with the majority of the universe on the outside. Ed Close has broken the bars and forged a key link in the chain of advancement of mankind for the ages. This book should be read by everyone who seeks the truth... It could change your entire outlook of life forever, and change it for the better.”

Joseph Slabaugh, BSc “I bought Dr. Close's book Transcendental Physics and reviewed the proof of the existence of the original quantum receptor, which is a work a genius.”

Frank Jusczcyzk, University Professor and Author “I met Dr. Close and his wife recently at an Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Close was presenting a lecture on transcendental physics… I was impressed by the thoroughness and abundant detail he was able to communicate in a limited time. I subsequently bought his book, Transcendental Physics, and read it with great enjoyment… I feel that Dr. Close's book should be made required reading in our public educational system from the secondary level on…

“What I like most about Dr. Close's approach is his determination not to equivocate or temporize about what he is saying. Not beholden to outside influences such as career advancement, celebrity, or the prospect of gaining lavish research grants, Close flatly endorses the existence of a non-physical universe that has always existed and which is given localized reality by our individual, feed-back loop consciousnesses. He specifically supports the findings of the Double-Slit Experiment, the Copenhagen Interpretation, the Many-Worlds Interpretation, and the evidence for a non-local reality... most sources were not willing to go as far as what seemed to me to be the inevitable implications of what quantum physics was revealing. Dr. Close, in effect, says, ‘This is how I see it in its entirety, and the rest of you mealy-mouths can go take a flying leap.’ Refreshing.”

Milton Grasle, Author “It's refreshing to read something where the author is committed to the truth. Many scientists, or most scientists, are so bound up with an extremely narrow view of the scientific method that they never consider anything outside of that realm. I'm not saying that Ed Close doesn't follow the scientific method when analyzing his subject. He does that, but he also is open-minded enough to go a step farther and ask some very important and hard questions about the true nature of reality. This book is worth reading.”

Robert T. Krone, Scientist, Composer, and Polymath Dr. Ed Close: Paradigm Shifter Extraordinaire "In his blockbuster book, 'Transcendental Physics,' Dr. Ed Close shines the Light of Truth… Dr. Close exhibits that he is, indisputably, the new heavyweight champion of the world of physics and the noetic sciences. Dr. Close is truly a logistician's logistician, a mathematician's mathematician, a physicist's physicist, a scientist's scientist, and a polymath's polymath. His four decades of thought and meditation have been carefully distilled and …have culminated in a masterful work, 'Transcendental Physics,' that will cause Dr. Close to go down in history as… one of the truly Great Thinkers of All Time, a Scientific Paradigm Shifter alongside the likes of Sir Isaac Newton and Dr. Albert Einstein."

Anonymous Amazon Customer “This was one of my all-time favorite books,... The topic - the link between matter and consciousness - is intrinsically fascinating, and any attempt to explain it represents an ambitious undertaking which the author handles quite well. Although I'm not an expert in quantum physics I do have some background, and found this book persuasive and fun to read.”

You'll notice that several of the quotes even say that our work is worthy of the Nobel Prize. That's nice to hear. But, in fact, we have both, together and seperately already recieved several awards. Together, e.g., we have received an international award for excellence in education and the coveted Harding Award from the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE) for exceptional service in the advancement of science and knowledge. 

Transcendental Physics is available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and other book handlers nation wide. Reality Begins with Consciousness is available as an e-book on www.BrainVoyage.com.  

ON THE BIAS OF MAINSTREAM SCIENCE

RE NEGATIVE COMMENTS

This blog is meant to put the comments of one mainstream scientist who posted negative comments related to TDVP on a post stating that scientists are beginning to understnd that the universe is itself conscious into proper context.  

DISSCUSSIONS WITH MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS

Over the years, since 2008, when we started working together on the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm, a scientific paradigm shift from materialism to a consciousness-based understanding of reality, Dr. Vernon Neppe and I have had discussions and correspondences with hundreds of scientists all around the world. In addition, we’ve done workshops and presentations at a number of conferences. For example, in February 2013, at the invitation of Dr. Stanly Krippner, PhD and Dr. Irma Azomoza, PhD, we had a workshop attended by 150 people and presented two plenary addresses in front of about 3,000 at the International Conference of Science and Spirituality in Puebla Mexico. More recently, in 2016 and 2017, we held a workshop and spoke at conferences in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Scottsdale Arizona. I’ll be speaking in St. Louis Missouri and in the Bay area of Northern California at the Sunrise Center in Corte Madera later this year.

We have found, as have others trying to bridge the gap between science and spirituality, that many scientists, with the vested interest of a lifetime of working within the materialistic, and often atheistic paradigm of so-called mainstream science react angrily to the suggestion that their world view might be wrong. Some of them become so upset that occasionally they become verbally abusive, assaulting us and our work by resorting to expletives and name-calling. Hardly what you would expect from real scientists who are supposed be open-minded enough to weigh the evidence and go where it leads.

In fact, I have no problem with anyone who wants to align themselves and their future with scientific materialism; it is their right to believe whatever they want to believe, but I also have the right to believe that the evidence is increasingly clear that reality is much more than matter and energy interacting in space and time, and tht scientific materialism is a dead end. And the list of things not explained by the current materialistic paradigm that TDVP explains elegantly, grows all the time.

Ed Close July 6, 2017

PREDICTING THE FUTURE

WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

On this Independence of the USA day, what does the future hold for our nation and the world? Read on to see what I predict.

Can the future be predicted? I will set the stage for answering this question by examining two statements that many people believe to be true. More than likely, you have heard these statements in thoughtful discussions, or even read them in print. The first is:

1. “No one knows what the future holds.”

Do you think this is true? Can you prove it that it is true? That would involve proving a negative, and this brings up the second statement, one that is often cited as one of the “laws of logic” by those who don’t know any better:

2. “You can’t prove a negative.”

In fact, BOTH OF THESE STATEMENTS ARE FALSE!

Let’s take statement #1 first: Can psychics actually see into the future? Did Nostradamus really predict the death of the king Henry II of France, world wars and the rise and fall of the Third Reich, and a lot of other things? Skeptics point out that most of Nostradamus’ quatrains are couched in vague terms that can be interpreted in several ways. Believers counter that he had to make most of his predictions in coded form and leave out names for the most part in order not to get into trouble with the church or royalty. Being beheaded for heresy or treason was a real danger in those days! Perhaps the most convincing Nostradamus prediction was one of his first, published in 1555:

Here is the Nostradamus quatrain in question, translated from the original French:

Century 1 Quatrain 35

The young lion will overcome the older one,

On the field of combat in a single battle;

He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage,

Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.”

King Henry II of France died in 1559 as the result of a jousting accident just 4 years after this quatrain was published. His opponent was six years younger than he was, and both had lions on their shields. The “single battle” in the second line is interpreted as the jousting match. The younger man’s lance was splintered and pieces of the broken lance went through the slits of King Henry´s helmet (the golden cage) and pierced his eyes and brain. The king died 11 days later after suffering paralysis, convulsions and respiratory problems – “Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.”

Whether you believe that some people have the ability to see into the future or not, in some respects, the future can be predicted. In fact, that is what science is all about, using ideas, principles, and mathematical relationships that have been tested and proved to be valid, to predict the future. Given current conditions, science predicts the future locations of moving objects like elementary particles, missiles, and planets. In fact, in the 16^th and 17^th centuries, many scientists thought that the initial conditions of the universe could be discovered, all that of the future of the cosmos could be predicted using Newton’s laws!

More recently, science has discovered that time is not the simple linear, ever flowing forward dimension that it seems to be. See articles and papers (including some on this blog) about the double-slit and delayed-choice experiments. It now appears that the cosmos, of which we are a part, is conscious, and if we can expand our consciousness, the past present and future can be revealed. This is no longer unprovable mysticism.

Now, about statement number two: Of course there are negative statements that can be proved. Let’s take a simple example: Someone might make the statement “There are no round windows in the Empire State building!” This statement can be either proved or disproved simply by inspecting each and every window in the Empire State Building.

Actually, any given statement, positive or negative can be either true, false or unprovable in the system within which it is stated. It’s just that negative statements are often very hard to prove or disprove, and then, of course, there’s that third possibility: negative statements that can’t be proved or disproved within the limits of what is presently known. Will they become provable when more is known about the nature of reality?

Statement number two is itself a negative statement. So, if it is true, then it can’t be proved to be true. So is this a statement that cannot be proved or disproved? No. It is easy to prove that statement number two is false, because if we can prove even one negative statement to be true, then statement number two is false; and I can give numerous examples of negative statements that can be proved.

In fact, every high school algebra student learns to prove negatives. Take for example the negative statement that there are no integer (whole number) solutions for the equation X²–X= 1. This is a type of equation mathematicians call a quadratic equation, High school students learn that such equations can be solved using a simple formula, and that there will be two, and only two solutions to a quadratic equation. Applying the formula, we see that the two solutions for this equation are ½(1 +Ö-3) and ½(1 - Ö-3), neither of which is a whole number, proving the negative statement “there are no integer solutions to this equation. Notice that in proving this negative statement, we went outside the world of whole numbers, into the realm of complex numbers.

What high school students are most often not taught is that a negative statement can sometimes be proved true by turning it into a positive statement, and showing that the positive statement leads to an obvious contradiction. In the example just given, if we turn “there are no whole number solutions” into the equivalent positive statement; “Whole number values of X in the equation always produce contradictions, and show that this is true, then we have demonstrated that there are no whole number solutions to this equation, and the negative is proved. This proof is more difficult than plugging numbers into a formula, but much more revealing about the nature of mathematics and reality.

Now, statement number one is a negative statement: “No one can know the future.” We can turn this into a positive: “The future is unknowable.” And now, this is easily proved false. Anytime I apply scientific principles and predict a future event, I have proved that the negative statement “No one can know the future” is false.

Now, do the new revelations produced by applying the mathematical logic of the calculus of distinctions and the principles of TDVP prove that knowing the future in more complete way is possible? Does this mean that there are and always have been a few people with the ability to see the future? I think so, but you can decide for yourself.

The new science and mathematics developed by Neppe and Close have proved that consciousness exists in every atom of the universe. Can we, by connecting with that consciousness, know more of what the future holds? I believe so; and speaking only for myself, I will venture to make some predictions about the future. In honor of Nostradamus, I will present my predictions in poetic form.

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ARE ONE

Who are we? Where did we come from? Can we ever know where are we going?

Stepping out of our skin, we see that all is One, and we are on our way to knowing

That time is of our own invention. Drawing the distinction of self from other,

We fall into deep delusion, dreaming we are separate, each from one another.

But now, knowing that consciousness is One, we stand before an open door:

Stepping out of our narrow bony dungeons, we see the truth as never before.

Laid out before us, like a map upon the floor, the branches of cause and effect

Run, predicting timelines, through choices made, with which we may connect.

So what do we see? The evolution of consciousness is cyclic: rising and falling

Rising and falling; advancing through world events both beautiful and appalling.

But the Spirit of the Cosmos is the driving force, the material world is incidental

To the cyclic growth of the Sovereign Soul. Cosmic Consciousness is elemental.

Like a river’s relentless ebb and flow, regardless of earthquakes, wars and famine,

The course of nature’s spinning way supports conscious spirituality, not Mammon.

So, take heart, even though we see that we’re on the brink of great catastrophe:

It is almost certain that millions will die in a brief but bloody World War Three.

Unsustainable, as they are, major cities will be destroyed in little more than a day,

With less pain and suffering than by the natural corruption of social rot and decay.

What comes after the purge will be a far better world at last, for those who survive.

With re-connection to the Cosmic Universe, they’ll be thrilled each day to be alive!

Of course, I would rather see the unhinged radicals on all sides relent of their obsessional ranting and raving, hurling insults, and resorting to violence, and turn to finding peaceful solutions, but I don’t see that happening. I think the polarization has gone too far. Unfortunately, if history is any indicator, human development advances from catastrophe to catastrophe. The bright spot in this stormy cloud of predictions is that consciousness and life, its vehicle for advancement, are intrinsic, not accidental, and ultimately, an advanced, deeply spiritual form of life will win.

Edward R. Close July 4^th, 2017

LISTEN CAREFULLY AMERICA!

LISTEN 

From the first bright streaks of morning’s light,

To golden mid-day, to evening’s red, and night.

From the roaring storm with lightning strikes of fear and pain,

To the welcome pattering of soft shining silver pearls of rain,

From the depths of the Canyon Grand,

To the highest mountain’s snowy peak,

Embrace the wonder of this, our land.

We have what so many others seek.

In this land, the USA, each one is free

To speak, and sometimes rant and rave.

No one should be a victim meek,

And no should be another’s slave.

But don’t forget to have respect for the others’ points of view.

Slanderous words will reflect, and wreak their havoc upon you!

Some are easily misled by political deceit, greed and desire,

But don’t you slide into that quagmire, it’s a deep dark hole,

To rise above this awful curse, out of judgmental line of fire,

You need to listen to His Voice, right there within your soul.

Edward R. Close June 30, 2017

SUNRISE

SUNRISE SURPRISE

The Earth turns, the Sun rises,

What was hidden is revealed:

Awareness brooks no surprises;

Nature’s secrets are unsealed!

From quark spin to stars’ shine,

The unknown revolves into the known,

Quantum Truth is on the line,

The Lord God is on the phone!

Pick up! Pick up! While it yet rings,

Ever spreading from the Sun,

His is the Heart within all things:

Love unites, and we are One!

E. R. Close, June 27, 2017