STONES AND BONES

 

REFLECTIONS ON A PILE OF BONES

Getting some exercise with Max today, walking in an area that was logged off a few years ago, I saw some small crystals sparkling at me from a rock lying at my feet, tiny facets glinting in the sun. I raked aside the leaves a bit, to get a closer look, and came upon a pile of weather-bleached bones, probably deer. While Max enjoyed a chew, I relaxed and began to think. Not too long ago, perhaps a year, this had been a live, breathing, warm-blooded creature, not all that different from me, a live, conscious entity, walking through the woods, looking for a place to lie down and die. Is that what I am doing, even though I have no such thought in mind? It’s just a matter of fact, that sooner or later, I will leave behind a pile of bones too, the now-sturdy bones to which I am attached, that have enabled me to experience the pleasures and pains, joys and sorrows, glories and griefs of life on this planet.

Then I thought of my parents. I know where their bones lie buried, they are side by side, just as they were in life, and there’s actually a place reserved there for my bones too, when I’m done with them. The bones of my parents, my four grand-parents, and one pair of great-grand-parents are buried in three different graveyards in Iron and St. Francois Counties in Southern Missouri. But, beyond that, I don’t know. Their parents, grand-parents, great-grand parents, etc., my ancestors, left behind a lot of bones, scattered across the landscape with various strands of DNA in their marrow that make up some of what and who I am today. They left their bones behind years ago somewhere in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; piles of bones, extending back in time, even to the Pyramids and the Ancient City of Petra, and beyond. Stones and bones… and what memories were recorded, stored to be hidden or revealed, in those stones and bones! Will I ever know? Yes, I think so, because nothing is ever totally lost, nothing is created or destroyed, only changed in form, and clues always remain.

I have big thick book, compiled by one of my mother’s cousins, tracing one line of my ancestry back to Central Europe, and I have had my DNA analyzed. From family history, facts and fictions passed down, I thought I knew that I was half German, about a quarter Irish, about a quarter Scott, but part of that might be Native American ‘Indian’. Past five or six generations, seven at most, - that’s a mere 150 years or so - DNA tracing is more of an art than a science, even though it is being improved as we speak. It turns out that there’s little doubt that what I thought I knew about my ancestors from family lore, was only a very rough estimate of the truth.

Analysis and re-analysis of my DNA has revealed that the one-half German part was actually from a mixture of ancestors who lived in what is now Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, and Russia, and their ancestors, along with those of my Scott and Irish immigrant ancestors, were probably mostly Vikings! Also, some of the German part also had roots in Eastern Europe, Northern Africa, Greece, and the Middle East. Even farther back, of course, we are all related unless you are a recently-arrived ET! At any rate, the history of this ball of mystery revolving around a medium-sized star, on the fringe of an arm of the Milky-Way Nebula, is cleverly written in stones and bones!

ERC- 2/3/2021

PAST LIVES AND DNA

THE VOLUMETRIC PATTERNS OF MATTER,

LIFE, CONSCIOUSNESS, and DNA

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.- John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist

The simple idea John Wheeler foresaw as the future of science is the principle of quantum equivalence, the idea behind the Triadic Rotational Unit of Equivalence (TRUE), a term I coined sometime in 2010 or 2011, while working on the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) with Dr. Vernon Neppe. While the mathematics that TRUE engenders, which I call the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD), is complex, the principle of volumetric equivalence is simple and easy to understand: Reality is volumetric. It’s that simple! There are no zero-dimensional particles, no one-dimensional trajectories, and no two-dimensional electrons. All real objects have volume, and to pretend they don’t invites confusion and paradox.

The importance of the simple realization that reality is volumetric can be seen in an analogy: Consider a cross-section of a living organism, like slicing a living animal into two halves. While revealing a lot of information, one cross-section can never explain how the internal organs of the living being function. Even multiple cross-sections, unless there are so many of them that they include every quantum unit of width, do not convey the whole picture. And even then, the volume must not be limited to three dimensions. The fourth dimension of time is crucial, and we have found that the combination of elementary particles, and many other natural processes are not fully explained without expanding the hyper-volumetric analysis of real phenomena to nine finite dimensions embedded in an infinite field of consciousness.

The principle of quantum equivalence is simply the recognition that everything in the cosmos is composed of combinations of volumetric equivalence units of mass, energy and consciousness. The fact that everything can be measured in multiples of a minimum volume, a quantum unit, was first indicated with the discovery by physicist Max Planck in 1900, when he found that radiant energy only occurs in multiples of a very small unit. Put that together with the mass/energy equivalence of Einstein’s E = mc², the TRUE and the discovery of gimmel, the volumetric form of reality that has no physical mass or energy, and you have the elegantly beautiful and simple idea Professor Wheeler envisioned. All the phenomena and processes of reality are volumetric in multi-dimensional space-time.

I’ll not go into the details of the definition of the fundamental mathematical operations of the CoDD and the derivation of the TRUE here; we’ve published them elsewhere. In this post, I want to look ahead to some exciting applications made possible by using the CoDD and Dimensional Extrapolation to shed new light on many things from cosmological to quantum, from galaxies to quarks.

The Universality of TRUE, the Quantum Equivalence Unit

To our delight, Dr. Neppe and I found that calculations in TRUE volumetric units at both the quantum scale and the cosmological scale agree within very small margins of measurement error with empirical data obtained in the Large Hadron Collider, and the Hubble “dark matter, dark energy” data. It turns out that gimmel, the agent of consciousness in physical reality, helps explain things at both ends of the spectrum of observation and measurement. For the first time in modern science, we have a way to put consciousness into the equations and explain things that have puzzled mainstream scientists for decades, like the Cabibbo quark mixing angle, why quarks combine in threes, intrinsic fermion spin, and as many as fifty other paradoxes and puzzles. Even more exciting, is the fact that by putting consciousness into the equations in the form of gimmel, we are beginning to explain why and how organic life forms are vehicles of consciousness in the physical universe.

Expanding the Understanding of the DNA Genetic Code to Include Consciousness

When we realize that the structure of reality is volumetric, it is no surprise that biologists were only able to begin to “decode” human DNA when they realized its molecular structure was a three-dimensional spiral. The gimmel-rich compounds in DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), provide a molecular blueprint that consciousness uses to build and sustain functional living organisms. RNA, or ribonucleic acid, also high in gimmel content, limits the development of organic life forms to forms within the DNA blueprint.

Your DNA contains the information consciousness uses to build your body, including organic structures that result in brain capacity, eye color, hair color, height, and the detailed features of your face. But, all your physical features are encoded in less than 5% of your DNA’s molecular structure. The rest is mental and spiritual information that enable the physical vehicle of your body to manifest the many nuances of your nature as a human being.

In the previous post, discussing the survival of consciousness and the possibility of reincarnation, I mentioned the hypothesis that there might be a connection between memories of past lives and DNA.

This post is an expansion of that hypothesis. Perhaps comparing the DNA of those who have past-life memories with their DNA might be a way to test the viability of this hypothesis.

This brief introduction is intended to provide an example of how TDVP opens the door to a deeper understanding of what Dr. Neppe has called bio-psycho-physics.

THE URGE

THE URGE TO WRITE

I know I’m not the only one who has ever been afflicted with this urge, but it seems to intensify as I age. It’s as if I must get the ideas that are constantly streaming into my head down on paper before they fade away like the images of a dream, like crystals of hoar frost melting on a sunny February morning.

The joy of life rises in my consciousness, like the waters of an artesian fountain and cannot be suppressed. It is a blessing and a curse. I cannot wait for money or the opportunity for my thoughts to be published, so I am thankful that I can post them here, with the hope that they will be gathered in the future and recorded in a more permanent way. They are like the tracks of a pre-historic creature in a sand dune of mud bank of his time, only to be buried in layers deposited over the ages, and perhaps thus preserved to be uncovered at some future date. When uncovered, will they be deemed meaningful, or considered as chaff to be scattered in the wind? Hopefully, some future soul will discover them, recognize them as the rare treasures I believe them to be, and be inspired by them. In that way, if in no other, I will live again.

To what do I attribute my exuberant verbosity? Perhaps there is a clue in my ancestry. My ancestral origins are varied and diverse: In the DNA of my eight great-grand-parents I find, in no particular order: traces of Scot, English, Irish, Scandinavian, German, Jewish, Middle-Eastern, and North African blood. Going back four more generations, there are also traces of DNA from Greece, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula. Perhaps I got the best luck of the draw from all these ancestors and cultures. Perhaps this diversity is the reason I am blessed with insights that may escape the notice of most people. I think there may be a correlation between this diversity of heritage and the diversity of my thought, and even my IQ.

Words of those of the past reverberate in my consciousness today: My Grandfather Tyndall (Scot-Irish DNA contributor) said: “What is t’be will be, if ‘t ne’er comes t’pass!” and “I reckon what’s fur ye’ll no gae past ye!” My grandmother Martz said: “Ist es ein schone Madel, o’ ein Bubala Baby?” and “Er ist zu klug, um zu leben!“

Everyone should honor their parents, grandparents and all their ancestors back as far as memory and science can recall. There will be individuals of whom you can be proud, there will be mediocre work-a-day folks, and there will be some you’d rather not know about. But there is wisdom in a statement posted by someone on Face Book recently. They said: “I’ve checked my DNA, and guess what? I’m a child of God!”

EDWARD R. CLOSE BACKGROUND

March 2010 on the Frankincense Trail in Petra

Edward R. Close, PhD, PE, DSPE, PDCF 

At an early age, I had experiences that, I found out later, were considered to be very unusual. They included memories of other lives, and what are now called out-of-body experiences, - OBEs. Also considered unusual, by most people, I have vivid memories of events that happened before I was one year old. I did not have to learn languages and mathematics, I remembered them. I was speaking complete sentences at nine months. My grandmother said I was “too smart to live.” - I didn't know it, but apparently I was not your normal average child.

Later in life, a world-renowned authority on intelligence identified me as a “child prodigy” and included me in a study to determine how child prodigies do later in life. But, at the time and place where I grew up, there were no programs for the gifted, and I was allowed to enjoy a reasonably normal childhood. But, different than most of my classmates, by the age of 14, I was engrossed in the works of Albert Einstein and knew that I wanted to be a theoretical physicist. Also at about that age I enrolled in a home study course offered by the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC) and read books on many different metaphysical belief systems. But my strongest interest was science and I went on to earn scholarships and degrees, knowing full well that what I was being taught in the classroom could not explain my OBE experiences.

Raised in a family of mixed backgrounds and beliefs, ranging from devout Judeo-Christians to atheists, I tended to be skeptical of religious claims and was agnostic concerning metaphysical beliefs, a position consistent with what is required of a scientist. But, while applying the scientific method and pursuing a practical career in science and engineering, I could not deny the reality of the experiences that produced verifiable information by means that could not be explained in the scientific paradigm of academic physics, chemistry and biology.

Many people have experiences that defy explanation by the current materialistic scientific paradigm, but most tend to forget, or ignore such experiences. Scientists, especially, tend to deny them and try to explain them away with elaborate rationalizations, because scientists are ostracized from the mainstream scientific community and denied grants and tenure, and even in some cases lose their jobs if they even talk about such experiences. Also, it appears that for most people, strange childhood experiences tend to fade away after puberty, but my “unusual” experiences did not fade away with age. In fact, they continued, and even intensified, prompting me to leave the mainstream and pursue independent research, that eventually led to the publication of three books: “The Book of Atma”, 1979, “Infinite Continuity”, 1990, and “Transcendental Physics”, 1997; books that posit that consciousness, not matter, is primary.

In 2008, I was admitted to the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE) based on documented IQ test scores well above the society’s entry level. As I advanced rapidly to the highest earned level in ISPE, Senior Research Fellow, I became acquainted with Dr. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD and we began to work together on a consciousness-based model of reality. This work intensified after we met in person in Amsterdam in February of 2010, resulting in the production of a number of technical papers and our first book together, “Reality Begins with Consciousness”..

As I mentioned above, my experiences challenging conventional scientific explanation have not subsided. In 2010 in the Great Pyramid in Egypt and in the Ancient City of Petra, in Jordan, I experienced a series of OBEs during which a lot of interesting information was downloaded into my brain. Much of it was visual and mathematical, but when it was verbal, it seemed to be a mixture of ancient Egyptian and Aramaic. I find it very interesting that my DNA, analyzed recently, while from mostly European gene pools, contains traces from the Middle East and Northern Africa. 


Update November, 2019
Since writing this, Dr. Vernon Neppe and I were blessed by receiving several awards, including the Whiting Award from the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry for our work, and I was elevated to the rank of Diplomate by the largest vote on record of the membership of ISPE .

Because of my writings and my work with Dr. Neppe, I was invited to be part of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Science (AAPS Global) and attended the first meeting of the founders at Canyon Ranch near Tucson AZ in August, 2017. I was asked to contribute a chapter to the academy's first published volume, Is Consciousness Primary? which was published in 2019. My wife of 43 years ascended to the subtle realm of higher dimensionality December 15, 2018, after writing much of the material that went into our third book together, Secrets of the Sacred Cube, A Cosmic Love Story, published in September, 2019, just before my interviews on New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove.

Links:

Information on how to get Secrets of the Sacred Cube, A Cosmic Love Story

http://www.erclosetphysics.com/2019/10/autographed-copies-of-secrets-of-sacred.html

Is Consciousness Primary? [my contribution is Chapter 4 and Appendix A]:

Http://www.Amazon.com Search for “Is Consciousness Primary?”

New Thinking Allowed ERC Interview No. 1: The Delayed-Choice Double-Slit Experiment Scheduled for release October 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXqRnad00dI&t=1161s

New Thinking Allowed ERC Interview No. 2: The Constancy of the Speed of Light 

Scheduled for release October 21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHliZ8ezu1s

New Thinking Allowed ERC Interview No. 3: Spiritual Practice and Scientific Inquiry 

Scheduled for release November 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYAkX4-LsR8

New Thinking Allowed ERC Interview No. 4: The Mysterious Component of Reality 

Scheduled for release November 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWN0rM88bUg&list=UUFk448YbGITLnzplK7jwNcw

Links to all six of my interviews with Dr. Mishlove are posted on this blog under New Thinking Allowed.

ER Close, November 30, 2019

PROOF BEYOND PROOF

PROOF BEYOND PROOF

Push beyond the limits of the physical body. This is possible because mind is superior to and stronger than the physical body. Then push beyond the intellectual limits of the mind. This is possible because you are more than body and mind. Science has now proved that. Relativity and quantum physics have pointed the way and TDVP has proved the existence of dimensions of consciousness within and beyond space-time, and demonstrated its effectiveness in the role of creator of reality and organizer of mass and energy. To grow and succeed, we must always continue to push beyond the boundaries of what is experienced and known.

Swinging out from the limestone bluff, I feel the rope go taut, as I rappel down the slice of Earth’s ancient record in stone into the abyss below. That breath-taking step into nothingness includes the understanding that I have gone beyond the point of no return. If the rope breaks, or the limestone crumbles, I could fall to my death on the rocks below. But the anticipation of finding a new world to explore, a world no one else has ever visited, --that makes it worth the risk. The unknown beckons to me, and even though this leap into the unknown may end in failure and defeat, it may also result in discovery and revelation.

With the muscle of mind, you may catapult beyond the edge of the current paradigm. What if you discover that reality is more than matter and energy interacting in time and space. Suppose you discover that time is three dimensional. The phrase “We may never know …” fades away. But, leaping into the vast unknown realm of an expanded scientific paradigm is just as dangerous as leaping into an abyss with a thin safety line, perhaps even more dangerous. Just ask Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Gregor Mendel, Georg Cantor, and many others including none other than Albert Einstein.

Copernicus didn’t dare publish his finding that the Earth circled the sun, not the other way around, he knew that he would have been ostracized and ridiculed, to say the least. During his life, his ideas were considered unscientific by scientists and blasphemy by theologians. He finally saw a copy of his work published when he was on his death bed. Galilleo accepted the Copernican heliocentric theory and discovered scientific facts that contradicted the widely held paradigm of his day, and the Catholic Church put him under house arrest for the rest of his life. Mendel discovered the basic laws of genetic inheritance which he published in 1866. His paper was ridiculed and then completely ignored by mainstream science until long after his death.

Cantor tried to bring the study of infinity into mathematics. He was ridiculed for his efforts. The leading mathematicians of the day harshly criticized him for mixing philosophy and religion with mathematics. He died in depression and poverty, knowing that he had been discredited by his peers. The importance of his contribution of infinite sets to number theory were not recognized until long after his death, and some still do not accept infinity as real even today. Einstein’s first published paper on relativity was ridiculed by mainstream science, and called utter nonsense and unscientific by British and American scientists. The Nazis stripped him of his membership in the Prussian Academy of sciences, seized his properties in Germany and had a public burning of his books. As in the case of Cantor’s infinities, there are still scientists who do not understand relativity and believe it is a flawed theory. However, Einstein did enjoy a general recognition of his genius while he was still alive, and one can only hope that this is indication of a lessening of the rancor and viciousness of scientific and religious dogmatism.

This is, however, not to say that every idea thought to be crazy by the mainstream of human thought is genius waiting to be recognized. Some ideas are just crazy. Yes, unfortunately, not every leap into the unknown will yield new science and a paradigm shift. There are many, many more ways to be wrong than there are to be right. Perhaps this is why it is sometimes said that there is a fine line between genius and insanity. Actually, however, genius and insanity are at opposite ends of the mental spectrum. It is just judgements made by comparing genius and insanity with the established mean that makes them look similar to those passing judgement.

IS TIME TRAVEL POSSIBLE?

Suppose for a moment, that I am not crazy, and there is actually a way for individual consciousness to, in effect, travel to any point in three-dimensional time. If I look back seven generations, averaging about 20 years per generation, to about 140 years before I reached adulthood, that would be around 1810 or so, I find that I had 128 great, great, great, great, great grandparents living at that time. Each pair of them contributed ½ of their DNA to a child who would become one of my 64 great, great, great, great grandparents, and each pair of them contributed ½ of their DNA to a child who would become one of my 32 great, great, great grandparents, and so forth, down to my parents. This means that each of my ancestors living in 1810 contributes no more than 1/128 = 0.0078125 = 0.78125 % of my DNA. That’s just under 1% of their DNA that each of them contributes to the physical makeup of the person I am now. So why do I look almost exactly like my grandfather on my father’s side?

We have been told that each parent contributes 50% of his/her DNA to a child. Actually, it’s not that simple. The 50/50 split only applies to the phenotype DNA that governs most physical characteristics. There are two types of DNA and one (mitochondrial) comes only from the mother. Mitochondrial DNA tell the cell how to produce and use proteins necessary for growth and health. Concerning physical characteristics, each human being has only 23 DNA molecules called chromosomes that combine in pairs to form 46 molecules. The child gets half of each of the 46 DNA molecules, i.e., 23 from each parent, and then they are re-combined to form the 46 unique DNA molecules of the child. This means that, since 23 is an odd number, slightly more than half will come from one pair of grandparents. We are also told that the recombination of the chromosomes in the child is random. This is a code word for ‘we have not yet discovered the complicated mathematics that governs re-combination.

Back to my 128 great, great, great, great, great grandparents, who lived barely 200 years ago: We are told that each person's DNA is unique, but that is not actually true; all human DNA is composed of only 23 pairs of the same four DNA molecules. So there are only a finite number of possible combinations. This means that there may be human beings with the exact same combination of 23 pairs of four DNA molecules. So you may have a doppelganger. In fact, you probably do, but that person may not be alive at the same time you are. There are also external factors that can cause mutations in the DNA, so for all practical purposes, the DNA sequence for a specific individual is virtually unique differing from one ancestor to another, all the way down the line to you and me.

Several years ago, I was told by a German friend that I had a doppelganger in northeastern Germany. He had met someone there who he thought looked exactly like me. It is the pattern of arrangement of 23 pairs of four molecules that determines each individual's physical characteristics, so it is possible that I had a doppelganger in Eastern Germany, especially when we look at where my 128 great, great, great, great, great grandparents originated 200 years ago: 56 were from Northern England or Scotland, 28 from Ireland, 22 from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Northern Germany, 4 from Finland or eastern Russia, 6 from Eastern Europe (East Germany, Poland and Ukraine), 4 from the Iberian Peninsula, 4 from Western Europe (Germany and Switzerland), 2 from Greece, and 2 from Northwestern Africa. If I met my doppelganger tomorrow, would we be like clones? No. Our differing experiences since birth will have changed us in many ways, --but there’s more.

A PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF TDVP

The mathematics of the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm, the true quantum unit analysis using Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence (TRUE) reveals that, as conscious beings we are more than matter and energy changing through time and space. Each atom of each molecule contains units of gimmel which convey the logic of Primary Consciousness into the physical world. It is mathematically demonstrable that living organisms have significantly greater proportions of units of gimmel than other substances, giving living organisms the freedom of conscious choice. And this changes everything.

As conscious beings, we have the potential to go beyond matter, energy, time and space. We have the ability to leap into the unknown and survive. We have the ability to see into the greater reality that exists beyond the prison bars of matter, energy, space and time, into the infinity of Primary Consciousness. Because we can expand our consciousness, we are potentially infinite.

See See http://www.erclosetphysics.com/2016/02/the-simple-math-of-true-units-continued.html for the basics of TRUE Analysis.