Showing posts with label Edward R Close PhD. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 17, 2022

THOUGHTS ON SUNDAY: OUR SONG TO SING

 



THOUGHTS ON SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022,

THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE

TRANSCENDENTAL PHYSICS BLOGSITE

© Copyright July 2022, Edward R Close

 

Hello and Welcome!

To those who are following my latest series of blogposts, thank you very much. I really appreciate your interest. To those for whom this may be the very first of my Transcendental Physics blogposts you’ve ever read, I welcome you and hope you will find something of interest here. This is the 584th post, including about a dozen videos, published on this blogsite, since my wife Jacqui and I initiated the site ten years ago, in July 2012, when I was a young man of only 75 years.

 

I would like to invite you to consider browsing the site archives. There are many subjects related to science and spirituality addressed here. Type a word or two describing your interest in the search box and see what comes up!

 

Transcendental Physics is exactly what the title implies: Science transcending materialism; and TDVP is an expanded model of reality that explains the physical universe as simply part of the much greater cosmic reality which includes all of the phenomena of life, mind, spirit, and consciousness. If you don’t find your topic of interest addressed here, please submit a question and I will answer it if I can. Of course, I don’t pretend to know everything, but I have been described as a polymath by several authorities on the subject of creative intelligence and I have received achievement awards from government and academic organizations across the US and several other countries. You can also find me in YouTube videos of interviews on New Thinking Allowed, with Jeffrey Mishlove, radio interviews on Coast to Coast with George Noory, interviews with Shirley MacLaine, Joyce Riley on the Power Hour, and others.

 

In this series of blogposts, I have been explaining, in considerable detail, the metaphysical basis and mathematical logic behind the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP), a comprehensive model of reality that Dr. Vernon Neppe and I have developed over the past twelve years. The TDVP is an evolving model of the reality we experience as living, breathing human beings. From my point of view, TDVP is a result of the natural evolution of Transcendental Physics, which I introduced in Part V, Summary and Conclusion, of Infinite Continuity, a book I wrote between 1986 and 1989. Transcendental Physics is specifically defined on pages 178,179, and189.

 

This science transcending materialism began by including consciousness as a fundamental part of reality and TDVP concludes by proving that a Primary form of Consciousness of which human intelligence is a faint reflection, actually exists. TDVP is more than a theory, it is a song about reality, a song that Dr. Neppe and I are here to sing, and Jacqui is is always part of the choir!. It is a song reuniting science and spirituality, a paradigm filled with reverence and awe for the amazing Infinite Intelligence that exists behind everything. You are invited to join in. Your comments and questions are welcomed.

 

ERC- 7/17/2022




 

 


Wednesday, April 13, 2022

A NEW APPROACH, PART NINETEEN: REALITY EXPLAINS ITSELF

 


A NEW APPROACH, PART NINETEEN: REALITY EXPLAINS ITSELF

© Copyright 2022, Edward R. Close, PhD

I am aware that the threads contributing to the central theme of this series of posts may be difficult to follow. We are dealing with a number of new concepts, ranging from simple to complex, that are addressed by TDVP. These new concepts may seem unrelated until you realize that every aspect of reality is intimately connected to every other aspect of reality at the deepest level. Physically, that deepest level is the quantum level, and quantum level phenomena cannot be understood by applying analyses that were designed on the macroscale before we knew that physical reality is quantized on the quantum scale. Unfortunately, problems and paradoxes generally cannot be resolved within the paradigm that created them: A new paradigm is needed.

When the existing mainstream paradigm has ripened to the point where all but a few insignificant details have been filled in, science must go through a major paradigm shift in order to proceed. TDVP is the major paradigm shift needed today. Expansion of the basic scientific assumptions to enable science to include consciousness and spiritual phenomena has been needed for a long time. By revising the assumption of objectivity to expand science beyond simple materialism, TDVP has resolved the problems of conflicting theories, and has explained many things that were either not addressed at all, or only poorly explained by mainstream science.

From Simplicity to Complexity in a Few Easy Steps                                         As human beings, we find ourselves in the middle of a reality that stretches from the unimaginably small to the unimaginably large, extending in all directions in three-dimensional space. When we are born, we seem to have awakened in the middle of a confusion of human drama that stretches from the far distant past, into an uncertain future, along an imaginary one-dimensional timeline defined by events, good, bad, and everything in between, occurring in the past, present, and future.

In the mainstream scientific models developed prior to TDVP, objectivity was assumed to be completely independent of the consciousness of the observer. This unwarranted assumption led to a number of conceptual contradictions and paradoxes at the quantum level. The paradoxes found in science result from errors in the models constructed by the scientists, not in objective reality. Reality reflects the stability of the proton, the most stable object in the universe, with patterns repeating endlessly, not the chaos and instability that conflicts between quantum reality and everyday macro reality would cause.

Rather than deal with the unwarranted assumption, mainstream scientists choose to call the conflicts in their paradigm “quantum weirdness” and say things like “If you aren’t shocked by quantum physics, then you haven’t understood it!” and “Just accept the weirdness and move on!” For nearly 100 years, mainstream scientists have tried to patch the two main theories of physics: relativity and quantum mechanics together by trying to explain the stability of the proton with odd concepts and ephemeral particles like gluons and the Higgs boson, with little real success. The theories just got more complex and even weirder with dimensionless, massless particles that somehow impart mass to other particles. As it turns out, physical reality is not made of solid particles, it is made of rotating and expanding energy and consciousness.

In TDVP, on the other hand, we have gone back to the basic assumption of objectivity and included the consciousness of the observer in the model as one of the dimensions of reality. We represent the dimensional domain of this world that we experience through the senses, with the notation 3S-1t-1c, where S represents space, t represents time, and c stands for the individual consciousness of an observer, and the integer in front of each letter is the number of dimensions of that type. The reality contained in the 3S-1t-1c dimensional domain is only a small part of the totality of existence, the part revealed by the filters of our limited physical senses. We know now that more than 95% of reality is not apprehended by human physical senses because it is either simply not detected by the senses, and/or it is not physical.

It is only with the recent discovery of gimmel, the non-physical part of reality, that actually makes the proton so stable, and logical and technological extensions of our mental acuity and physical senses, that we have become minimally aware of the larger, non-physical part of reality. The comprehensive model of reality that we call TDVP incorporates both physical and non-physical phenomena. It is also important to note that the results of TDVP analyses upholds and verifies Einstein’s assertion that space and time “claim no existence of their own.” They are dimensional parameters of the external structure of the combined mass, energy and consciousness contained within n-dimensional domains.

In the TDVP model, the dynamic phenomena that make up objective reality are further described as consisting of measurable amounts of mass, energy, and consciousness, existing in finite dimensional domains having at least nine measurable dimensions. This is indicated by the notation 3S-3T-3C. The letters S, T, and C are capitalized in this notation, as opposed to the lower-case t and c in the notation 3S-1t-1c, to reflect the difference between what exists in reality and what is perceived by the physical senses of a human observer.

The triadic structure of 3S-3T-3C dimensions is not arbitrary. It reflects a mathematical invariance inherent in dimensional domains. I discovered this invariance while applying the process of dimensional extrapolation, and in the development of the quantum calculus (CoDD). Dimensional extrapolation is the name I gave the process of moving the focus of analysis from a dimensional domain with n dimensions, into the next dimensional domain, i.e., the n+1 dimensional domain, where the number n can be any positive integer.

Calculating the value of the unitary projection from a domain with a given number of dimensions, n, into the next domain with n+1 dimensions, we find that it is always an nth root of unity, which becomes the consistent unit of measurement for the added dimension of the expanded (n+1)-dimensional domain. After each series of three projections, the unit of projection out of the n-D domain into the (n+1)-D domain is an increasingly more complex number. This sequence of increasingly more complex units is consistent with the fact that the contents of dimensional domains become more and more complex with each additional dimension, exhibiting more detail and increasingly subtle qualities, as the phenomena become more hyper-dimensional.

In addition to the measurable variables of dimensions, there are measurable variables related to the contents of the dimensional domains. They are the variables measuring mass, energy, and conscious content. Proof of the following statement is straight forward, but beyond the scope of this post.

In the quantum calculus (CoDD) all variables can only take on integer values because all phenomena in physical reality are quantized.

The integer value (1, 2, 3, …) of a given variable in an observation will be a specific whole number, depending on the phenomenon being observed and measured. The quantized mathematical measurements of objective phenomena existing in the nine finite dimensional domains represented by 3S-3T-3C are variables of three types: 1) variables of extent defining the boundaries of the space-time-consciousness domain containing the phenomena; 2) variables of content defining the substance of the space-time-consciousness phenomena contained within the domain; and 3) variables of intent defining the quality, meaning, and purpose of the phenomena being measured.

In the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD) the basic units of measurement are three-dimensional, having the same volume as the free electron, and an expression that completely describes the form and substance of a finite object occupying a finite portion of reality will have nine dimensions and three categories of content. Thus, a complete description of the object will be a function of twelve variables. But an expression for the same object observed through the five physical senses of the average human being, is a function of only eight variables, written as f(x,y,z,t1,c1,m,E,C) in conventional mathematical notation.

Because the quantum equivalence units of the calculus of dimensional distinctions are three dimensional, the development of a whole new system of mathematical notation is necessary. Even the fundamental operations of mathematics have to be redefined in the new system. I developed the basics of this system between 1986 and 1989, and published it in Infinite Continuity, a book released in1990. Unfortunately, this book is no longer in print, but I have reproduced most of the theorems and their proofs in other papers and books, including in an appendix of Transcendental Physics, a book published in 1997, available on Amazon.com.

The development of a new mathematical system is not a trivial task - see for instance, G. Spencer Brown’s elegant work, Laws of Form – so I will not try to reproduce it here for several reasons, including its length and the necessity of introducing a totally new and different type of notation that is very hard to reproduce in this format. Also, this discussion is not intended to be a rigorous scientific paper. It is an attempt to explain, to the best of my ability, in terms that anyone can understand, the need for, basis of, and importance of the calculus of dimensional distinctions.

In his book, Laws of Form, G. Spencer Brown develops a primary calculus and uses it to derive the laws governing the innate forms of objective reality, He starts by saying that the severing of a space brings a whole universe into existence. Symbolizing the act of the severance of a space with a distinguishing mark indicating the difference perceived between the inside and outside of a finite closed space, he uses the symbol in two equations, one expressing contraction and expansion, the other expressing the reversal of distinction, or cancellation. Then he uses these equations as the initial equations of the primary calculus, a system of logic that he calls the calculus of indications.

Using this primary calculus, he proves a number of theorems that reflect the general logical form that bears a remarkable resemblance to the finite structures that we observe in the physical universe, and the logical structure of systems in human thought, ranging from the structures of atoms to the structure of biological systems, to human languages. The calculus of dimensional distinctions is similar to Brown’s calculus of indications, with some significant differences.

It is truly amazing that, if, as Brown’s work strongly suggests, all of the complexities of the physical universe follow automatically from the simple act of the drawing a distinction. But, even though Professor Brown begins his development of the calculus of indications by defining the basic unit of calculation as the drawing of a distinction between inside and outside by a conscious entity, he adheres to the unwarranted assumption of the object’s independence of the existence and state of consciousness of the observer by leaving consciousness out of the formulation of the calculus. This exclusion makes the logic of the calculus binary. The inclusion of consciousness in the quantum calculus of TDVP makes its logic tertiary.

The perception of a 3S-3T-3C phenomenon by individuals (human or other sentient beings) may vary, and they may be incomplete relative to the reality being observed. Depending upon a given observer’s state of consciousness, the dimensional domains perceived will have different numbers of S, T, and C dimensions, ranging from 1 to 3. The difference can be indicated by writing the number of dimensions in front of the S, T, and C. If, for a given observer, the number of dimensions in either space, time, or consciousness is less than 3, then S, T, or C will be written in lowercase, indicating that the observation is an incomplete perception of reality. Dr. Neppe and I have called this individual perception indivension. For example, the notation describing the observational domain of the average human being at this time in the planetary time cycle is 3S-1t-1c, totaling five dimensions, but a person with expanded consciousness who can see 3S-2t-1c, e.g., would, in effect be aware of a quantum plane of time containing a range of possible futures, and would have a scientifically describable view of reality, known now as a psychic ability.

Depending upon how many and which kind of dimensions of reality a given conscious being is able to perceive, that person will be clairvoyant, telepathic, or even all-knowing. Such abilities are very rare at this point in planetary time because we are still more than 10,000 years away from the next high point in consciousness evolution. For a more detailed description of the periodic cycles of planetary time, see The Holy Science by Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, who is Paramahansa Yogananda’s Guru, and Secrets of the Sacred Cube, a cosmic love story by Ed & Jacqui Close.

By application of the TRUE analysis of TDVP, Primary Consciousness is revealed as the only reality.

[I often refer to the quantum calculus (CoDD) analysis of reality as TRUE analysis, because the quantum equivalence unit based on the rest mass and volume of the electron, is the Triadic Rotational Unit of Equivalence, which is a volumetric, i.e., three-dimensional, unit of measurement.]

The finite structures appearing in the 3S-1t dimensional domain that we know through the physical senses as the physical universe, are incomplete, or partial manifestations of logical patterns existing in Primary Consciousness. And each conscious soul contains quanta of Primary Consciousness, acting like a seed that has the potential of eventually growing into a state of Oneness with Primary Consciousness.

The Human Condition


We are seeds of Primary Consciousness and the only meaningful purpose of finite reality is to provide a field in which we can grow if we choose to. Everything that enhances spiritual growth and increases our chances of fulfilling our potential is good, and anything that hampers or blocks spiritual progress, is counter to the purpose for which finite reality exists, and is therefore, evil. This is the true definition of good and evil. The opportunity to choose either good or evil and progress or regress spiritually, is the true purpose of life. That choice is often a difficult one, but you can know what is good and evil, who is good and who is evil by the fruits of their actions.

Every thought and willful action of a soul identifying itself with a physical body has an effect on that soul’s physical, mental, and spiritual growth. Actions that a soul chooses to take, that results in healthy physical, mental, and spiritual growth, moving the soul toward the goal of Cosmic Consciousness, expands that soul’s individualized consciousness, and actions chosen that result in diminishing or reversing spiritual growth, causes that soul’s individualized consciousness to contract. 

The trauma of being born, ejected painfully from a warm, secure place where we have no unfulfilled needs, and thrust into a frightening world over which we have no control, causes us to forget our past, and forces us to deal with an unknown future over which we have no control. No wonder babies cry when going through the ordeal of being born into this world! Only the natural love between mother and child makes this ordeal tolerable. Each of us has to deal with this world of pain and potential suffering while in a limited, still forming physical, mental, and spiritual body that makes up our existence as an individual soul. The trauma of this transition causes us to forget who we are, and we begin to believe in the illusion of beginnings and ends. Forced into this dichotomy, our lives in the delusion of duality on this planet begins.

Within that slowly forming organism we come to know as our own  body, we have a brain, a biological physical object with amazing complexity of structure and potential. It is, however, at any point in three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time, finite, and thus it is an uncomfortable confinement for the mind, which is the thinking part of the soul, a quantum of infinite intelligence. And so, upon birth into a new physical body, we begin to live in the basic dichotomy, a dualistic or binary existence at the interface between the finite and the infinite, the discrete and the infinitely continuous. The effort to understand reality from this waystation on the threshold of Infinity is overwhelming for the finite physical brain, but the infinite mind instinctively knows that it is possible to advance through expanded states of consciousness, toward the perfection of the soul. Just before the time of birth, at the time of death, and in deep sleep, we are on the threshold of a transcendental state of consciousness. See Part One in this series, entitled The Threshold, posted on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2021.

As spiritually evolving souls, we have willfully chosen to separate ourselves temporarily from the Infinite to experience the painful descent into finite reality by being born on this little planet, even though we know that to survive here, we must identify with a limited physical body with all of its inherent suffering and pain. Why? Because we desire to be with family and friends we knew in past lives and experience the wonders of the physical universe.

When consciousness is condensed this far, however, and confined to limited awareness to the point of identifying completely with a physical body, we eventually feel our separation from the Infinite intensely, and feel that we are trapped in an inescapable situation, as an uncomfortable speck of painful awareness lost in a vast sea of tumultuous competing forces, over which we have no control. When partially awakened, we begin to realize that we have given up the freedom and joy of spiritual existence, and we may find ourselves in the state of despair that is called the dark night of the soul. The only escape to be found is by turning back to the love of the Infinite.

In the depths of our consciousness, we know that we are immortal souls, and that the suffering of birth, life, and death, is a process of purification that is necessary in order for us, as seeds of Primary Consciousness, to learn and grow, and eventually become whole spiritual beings. The illusion of time is the barrier that separates us from the goal of eternal Oneness, from which we have fallen, but never completely separated. Life is just something that happens again and again until our consciousness is expanded to the point that are fully aware of what and who we are.

ERC – 4/13/2022


Saturday, April 2, 2022

NEW APPROACH PART EIGHTEEN

 



WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

© Copyright 2022, Edward R. Close, PhD

Introduction

I have a friend who is a certified member of more than 30 high-IQ societies, with very high-level entry requirements. Even most of the members of MENSA would not be able to qualify for membership in them. No one would doubt that my friend is an exceptionally gifted person. But he is not very happy. Why would he feel the need to join so many high-IQ societies? What is he trying to prove? What should he do with his life? Is his life worth living? These are serious questions that I will not try to discuss further in a public forum because I respect my friend’s privacy, and because the academic subject of intelligence is only peripherally related to the subject I want to discuss in this post. I do, however, want to make a point that I think is relevant:

A person’s intelligence quotient (IQ) is nothing more than a measure of his or her relative intellectual potential. That number alone is not very important. What the individual does with that potential IS important.

When I was a junior in High School in Houston Missouri, my classmates, and I were given a battery of aptitude tests and the standard Stanford-Benet IQ test. Most of us didn’t take the tests very seriously. They were administered by Mrs. Roberts, the school’s guidance counselor, for the purpose of helping us know what we might be able to do with our lives. We were shown our scores on the aptitude tests but were not told our IQ scores - for obvious reasons. The guidance counselor, who also taught English, knew that I was interested in science and mathematics, and she also knew that I had very little interest in other subjects. What Mrs. Roberts said during my private counselling session, changed my life forever. She said: “You scored in the 99 percentiles on all of the aptitude tests, and your IQ is good enough that you should be successful in science, engineering, or anything you might choose to do.”

Students were being told at that time that people going into professional careers should have IQs in the 120 to 125 range. So, I assumed that I had probably scored somewhere in that range. I was curious about how I had done on the IQ test, but when I asked, she said: “Your score on the IQ test is unimportant. It’s just a measure of potential. What IS important, is what you do with that potential.” She paused to let me think about what she had said, and then continued: “If you become the greatest scientist who ever lived, but can’t communicate what you learn to others, it is meaningless!" I knew that what Mrs. Roberts had said was true, and from that moment on, I began to take my education more seriously.

Looking back, I realize that none of us lives in a vacuum. While success in life depends primarily on our own thinking and actions, what we have, the raw material of mental resources that we have to deal with life, is what God and our ancestors gave us. I know that some of my ancestors, including a great grandfather on one side, and a great uncle on the other, were well-educated professionals, but beyond that, I know very little about them. My ancestors immigrated from Europe, England, Scotland, and Ireland to America from about 1720 to 1850 and eventually to the Midwest. My grandparents on both sides came to the St. François Mountains before Missouri was a state. It was still part of the Louisiana Territory on the frontier of a new nation. They came here seeking the freedom to live their lives as they saw fit.

The two small villages, where my parents were born, about 20 miles apart, were basically mining camps, several days’ journey by horse and wagon south of St. Louis. Life was hard, and they worked hard to help support their families. Education beyond the eighth grade was not an option for either of my parents. My mother dreamed of being a dancer, but she never had the opportunity to fulfill that dream. Because she was one of the eldest in a family of ten children, she had to help care for her younger siblings, and she married my father at the age of 19 and became a mother and a housewife. My father had some natural skills and the ability to build things, so he became a carpenter, later a small business owner, and after World War II, a police officer.

I was born in the relatively peaceful time period between World War I and World War II. When I began talking at the age of nine months, my mother realized that I had a better than average ability to learn, so she began teaching me to read and write and basic math before I was old enough to go to school. School was easy for me, and my parents encouraged me, telling me that I could be anything I wanted to be. My maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather were of German descent, and my best friend was from a family of German descent, so I learned German at an early age, and because I found languages interesting, I started learning Spanish and French at the age of eleven or twelve. Algebra and geometry were easy for me, and I discovered Einstein’s special theory of relativity the summer I was fourteen. It opened a fascinating new world for me, and I decided that I wanted to be a physicist.

I was blessed to have the ancestors and parents I had, to be born when and where I was, and to grow up close to nature in peaceful times, and finally, to have the opportunity to apply myself in ways that might benefit my family and maybe even humanity in general. When the tests indicated that I had the potential to succeed at whatever I wanted to do, it simply verified what my parents had been telling me from day one: I could be whatever I chose to be. Unlike my friend who is obsessed with IQ, I knew that IQ was not nearly as important as motivation, so I applied myself in order to try to achieve whatever my potential might be. I never knew or cared what my score was on that high school IQ test, until I was 72 years old – technically a senior citizen. Why and how I came to know my IQ is not important, but I learned that I had scored above 165 on that high school test. Later, my scores on the graduate record exam, the Army General Classification Test (AGCT), actuarial systems analysis tests, and a High-IQ society test, taken when I was 25, 28, 50, and 72, respectively, indicated that my IQ was higher than 165. But the rarity of IQ scores above 165 makes assigning an exact IQ number meaningless, and as Mrs. Roberts the guidance counselor said, what my IQ may or may not be, is really unimportant. What I do with whatever potential I may have, is what’s important, and that brings us back to TDVP.

My only reason for revealing the fact that I have an IQ in the same range as people like Einstein, Planck, Bohr, Pauli, and Gödel, scientists who have discovered some of the deepest secrets of reality, is to lend credibility to the claim that TDVP is the long-awaited paradigm of the future that expands science to include non-physical reality. Dr. Vernon Neppe and I have certainly made this claim - because we believe it - and it has also been made in writing by others too, namely some of the 200-plus scientists world-wide who have reviewed our work. Those whose statements lauding TDVP are quoted in many of our papers and books, include some very accomplished individuals with PhDs in physics, geophysics, astrophysics, and other sciences.

Having an exceptionally high IQ does not necessarily give one an advantage in life or make one happier than most. In fact, a person with an IQ above 175, lacking other positive human qualities like emotional maturity and social skills, may become a very unhappy, lonely, antisocial individual who will never fit into normal human society. In this regard, IQ is not unlike other relative measures of human existence and abilities. Physical size is a good example. In America, the average height of adult women is 5 feet 4 inches (2.63 meters), and the average height of men is 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 meters). A few inches more in either case can be an advantage. But the advantage goes away when it becomes extreme. Excessive height becomes a negative for women quicker than it does for men. A woman who is 6 feet to 6 feet 2 or 3 inches tall may be good at sports, but the extra height will be a social disadvantage. A man who is 6 to 7 feet tall may be good at sports, and still be considered normal otherwise. But a woman who is 7 feet tall or more, and a man who is 8 feet tall or more is likely to be disadvantaged in many ways.

In IQ scores, anyone with a score within one standard deviation (15 points) on either side of the average score of 100, which includes 68% of the population, should not have much trouble fitting in. Those in the 115 to 130 range will, like good athletes, be capable of being successful easily, and those in the 130 to 145 range (the MENSA entry level is 132) should be able to excel and still fit into society quite well. This would be comparable to 6-to-7-foot athletes. Those with scores from 145 to 160 should be exceptional at whatever they do, like the top echelon of athletes who often become celebrities, but just as often have problems fitting into society; and those with IQs much above that will, like people who are 9 or 10 feet tall, not fit in anywhere very well. All they can hope to do is to use their special gift in some marginally beneficial way.

What does IQ have to do with truth? Not nearly as much as people with above average IQs like to think it does. Successful people, especially those in the 130 to 160 IQ range, because of their exceptional ability to reason, often believe that whatever they reason to be true, is true. More often than not, however, they are wrong. Some highly intelligent people, despite their potential to do good, actually do great harm. Because they know they are very intelligent, they convince themselves that they are superior to everyone else and believe that that gives them the right to tell everyone else what to do. There are many historical examples, pharaohs, kings, tyrants, and dictators, people who essentially believe that they can replace God. Unfortunately, as the world population increases, there are more of these psychopaths.

The reason that people sometimes outsmart themselves in this way, is because they fail to examine their own a priori assumptions. That is to say, their own brilliance blinds them to the fact that the logical system they believe in is based on some assumptions that have been accepted without proof because they cannot be proved using the logical system within which they arise. This self-referential fact about all consistent logical systems was proved by the brilliant mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1933. The logic proving this fact is called the incompleteness theorem. (Note that a mathematical theorem is not a theory. It is a hypothesis that has been proved.)

Before we go on to discuss what truth is, I want to be sure that you get three very specific things from this introduction: 1) You shouldn’t accept what any human being says as truth on face value, because conclusions produced by even the most intelligent person who ever lived, no matter how brilliant and no matter how logically rigorous the reasoning may be, may still be wrong if even one assumption behind the system of logic being used is wrong. 2) Be aware that the most impeccable logical reasoning, perfectly applied, may not be able to prove the truth or falsity of a given statement, in the context of the logical system within which it is stated, however  true or false it may sound. 3) These two pitfalls in the search for truth can only be avoided by in-depth critical examination of basic assumptions. In the first case, wrong assumptions must be identified based on direct evidence, and removed or replaced. In the second case, basic assumptions may have to be expanded or augmented, based on direct evidence, before the statement can be proved to be true or false.

Practical Application of TDVP in Today’s Reality

We have a very serious situation in the world today, with several groups of intelligent people espousing conflicting beliefs about what the truth is. These conflicting beliefs have already caused a lot of violence and will probably lead to more violence if the truth isn’t revealed and recognized. Is there a way to determine what the truth really is? Yes, there is, and it involves the critical examination of basic assumptions as discussed above, followed by comparison of the conflicting belief systems with existing truth, and correction.

In the last post, we answered the first of the three questions posed at the end of post number sixteen. We uncovered the truth about who you are. You are not a name, you are not what you do, and you are not a physical body. You are a quantized bit of pure consciousness. This totally refutes the basis of identity politics so prevalent today. As pure consciousness, you are immortal and forever part of Primary Consciousness, the reality behind all things. The reality that is Primary Consciousness has been detected by physical science as the Zero-Point field within which all objects in the physical universe exist as temporary continuity perturbations.

Understanding these truths brings about the realization that violence with evil intent harms everyone, including the perpetrator, and ultimately, it is the perpetrator who will pay the most. This raises the concepts of good and evil, which also have to be related to truth and falsehood, existence, and non-existence. while exploring these relationships, I will address the remaining two question from post number sixteen. Questions two and three were: 2) How can you recognize what can help or hinder your physical, mental, and spiritual progress? And 3) how can you find the path leading to the ultimate goal? To answer number two, we begin by examining the basic assumptions behind the concepts of truth and reality.

Truth and Reality

Historically, mathematicians and logicians have chosen to separate truth from existence in the basic assumptions of logic and the primitive equations of mathematics, in order to make the proofs they produce as general as possible, so that resulting theorems and syllogisms can describe the universal principles and laws of the natural sciences. This approach served us very well until Max Planck discovered that physical reality is quantized. Recall that in earlier posts, we saw that in order to develop a consistent system of quantized mathematical logic, reality had to be defined as everything that exists. Thus, in the quantum calculus of TDVP, truth is equivalent to existence, and existence is reality, but in the mathematics of contemporary mainstream science, this equivalence is not recognized except in special cases where the equivalence is obvious.

An in-depth examination of basic assumptions has revealed a paradox in contemporary science, providing us with a basis for making some progress. Revising this basic assumption of reason by restoring the equality of reality and truth, as required for a logically consistent quantum calculus, resolves the paradox, and the process of infinite descent leads to the discovery that the non-physical aspect of reality that we call gimmel, and the discovery that we exist as quantized non-physical consciousness are two aspects of the same thing. That thing, which I am calling Primary Consciousness, is the fabric of the universe and the only reality. With the truth that the existence of a stable physical universe is only made possible by the existence of quanta of non-physical reality in atomic structure as well as in consciousness, we can proceed in future posts, to answer questions two and three.

ERC – April 2, 2022


Thursday, March 17, 2022

NEW APPROACH PART FIFTEEN

 

FIFTEEN: TIME AFTER TIME

 Copyright 2022, Edward R. Close, PhD

My last blogpost was entitled “Messages from Reality”. The main point of the post was to say that your life, your personal reality, whether it consists predominantly of the fulfillment of hopes and dreams, or failures and disappointments, is the result of your day-to-day interaction with the world of human drama that has been going on for centuries within the space-time structure of the eternally expanding universe. That on-going world of human drama, with all of its joys and sorrows, treasures and rewards, dangers, and discomforts, may be happy and uplifting one day, and distressing and depressing the next, but, make no mistake about it, you, yourself have played the major role in making your life what it is. Your actions in the past are the cause of your present experience of life, and your actions in the present are the cause of your future state of being. You are the architect of the fate of your soul.

Sometimes, you might believe that you are an innocent victim of cruel, random circumstances, but there is no such thing as an innocent human being. The Apostle Paul spoke about this in the first century AD, when he said: “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God…” - Romans 3:21-23. “All have sinned …”  What about an infant who dies a horrible death? What about those who suffer and/or die as unavoidable collateral damage from war or other violence, in which they are not active participants? Why are some people born into poverty, disease, and depravity, while others are born into lives of health, wealth, and happiness?  The answer to questions like these is the very best kept secret of the world of human travail; but the answer is obvious once you see it: We are immortal spiritual beings who evolve spiritually over long periods of time with a modicum of free will.

Do you imagine that you were created out of nothing just a few years ago, when your mother gave birth to you? If so, then you might also imagine that you will just cease to exist when your body is no longer able to function. But that would be a miracle of the first order, since it would violate every bit of empirical evidence attesting to the general truth of the conservation of everything that exists in some form. You may ask: if consciousness is immortal, then why do most of us not consciously remember everything we have experienced in the past? The blocking of the memories of birth and death, and other traumatic experiences is simply a forgetfulness of convenience. Your subconscious mind has devised a way for your ego to protect itself from being confronted with the painful memories of past horrific experiences and regrettable actions that would overwhelm.

To resolve this paradox, we must discover the hidden history of the endless cycles of planetary time. The timeless Masters of Spiritual Consciousness have preserved the truth about the relative cycles of planetary time for us through the darkest ages of this planet and have revealed it to those who have ears to hear and eyes to see; and now science is beginning once again to uncover the subtle clues hinting at the true nature of reality, as the average mental virtue slowly increases. We, you and I, dear reader, are living in a time when science and spirituality are beginning to converge again. A wonderful time to be alive!

Humanity as a whole, however, is still a long way from the optimum point of physical, mental, and spiritual enlightenment, and the road ahead is not easy. The evil side of duality does not give up easily. Jesus underlined this sad, unfortunate truth of his time and ours, when, in the Sermon on the Mount, he advised us:

"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

Another way of saying this is: Worrying about what might happen tomorrow is a waste of time. Not only that, wasting your valuable time and attention by thinking about an evil that you believe is likely to happen based on the facts at hand, will make it even more likely to happen, because the evil of the world is like the consciousness of a vicious animal, it senses your fear as weakness and is emboldened to attack. Focusing on the potential for good, on the other hand, however remote it may seem, repels the forces of evil. We also find this theme in the book of Job:

“For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.” Job 3:25

Evil and suffering are things we must deal with as part of the dualistic reality of human experience on this planet in order to grow spiritually, and the story of Job is a stark example of how we are tested by it. In this story, Job represents human consciousness, the concept of God represents the ultimately good purpose of reality, and the fallen angel Satan represents the evil that can befall us. Even though Job cursed the day he was born, when good allowed evil to bring pain and suffering into his life, he would not denounce the ultimate good purpose of life, and because of that, in the end, he was blessed. The moral of the story is: No matter how horrible the pain and suffering that you must endure in this life may be, never lose sight of the ultimate good and the unfathomably wonderful purpose and goal of existence and your life.

The nature of reality in this elementary school we call life on Earth, is a repetitive pattern of suffering in spacetime that seems endless. The good news is that things are slowly improving, and the fact that there is a way to transcend the patterns of planetary time all together, through the expansion of consciousness by intent, is even better news. Understanding this will help us to see the value of persevering through the pain and suffering of physical life, as Job did. To this end, a brief review of the ancient concept of planetary time cycles should be helpful.

The illusion that the progression of time is linear is an illusion of locality. It is created by the fact that the average human lifetime, whether one month, or one hundred years, is very short relative to the slow spiral of planetary time within galactic time. Like the illusion of locality of the flat earth, it is dispelled only by an expansion of consciousness, and the average awareness of human consciousness rises and falls in cycles of 24,000 years: 12,000 rising, and 12,000 falling. We are presently still 10,477 years from the next peak of human virtue, and only 1,523 years past the last lowest point in this cycle. For more detail concerning the determination of the world’s position in the cycles of planetary time, see The Holy Science, written by Sri Yukteswar Giri in 1894. The Eighth edition of this book (1990) is available from Self-Realization Fellowship. Also see Secrets of the Sacred Cube, A Cosmic Love Story, Part X, Cycles of Consciousness and Time, pages 364 – 382, Close, E.R. and J.A., 2019.

Fleeting glimpses of memories of past lives, future lives, and between lives, seen in dreams, meditation, and prayer, are products of consciousness expansion, and the increasing number of reports of near-death out-of-body experiences, heralds the beginning of the awakening of humanity to the larger reality within which the physical universe exists. And finally, the discovery of gimmel, the non-physical part of reality in the scientific framework of the TDVP quantum mathematical model, presages the expansion of science beyond the dead end of the mis-guided doctrine of materialism.

ERC – 3/17/2022 

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

NEW APPROACH INSTALLMENT FIVE

 


NOTE: I am posting this installment separately and in sequence in the first blogpost of this series so that you can read it here or in context below. 

FIVE; PARADOX AND PROGRESS

I happen to share the birth date of Danish physicist Niels Bohr. Not the same year, but the same month and day. He was born in 1885 and died when I was 26 years old. Bohr was one of the main players in the drama surrounding the birth of quantum physics, and the primary spokesperson for quantum mechanics in the famous Einstein-Bohr debate over quantum uncertainty. Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist who inspired me to become a scientist when I was fourteen, sparked the debate by proposing an experiment that challenged the validity of the concept at the heart of quantum mechanics known as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. That experiment, based on the belief that elementary particles were tiny, localized particles of matter, became known as the EPR paradox because Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen were the authors of the paper. The EPR experiment presented physicists with a real paradox because it demonstrated that, if elementary particles were what physicists thought they were, then the expected outcome of the experiment disproved the uncertainty principle. To Einstein, that meant that quantum mechanics was, at best, an inconsistent or incomplete theory. Niels Bohr understood this, but the following quote illustrates his attitude toward paradox:

"How wonderful that we have met a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."

This is the proper attitude for a scientist. Science only advances when paradoxes within its logical structure are explored and resolved. If it is a real paradox, it can only be resolved by expanding the existing model of reality. A real paradox reveals the incompleteness of the existing theory. All other so-called scientific advances are just the filling in of the details of an existing model, which requires no original thinking. Problem solving within the established paradigm is not science, it is engineering. Engineers are practical thinkers who solve day-to-day problems by applying science-based technology. I am not denigrating engineering. I made a living for myself and family for many years as a registered professional engineer (PE).  Engineering is about using science to solve technical problems, while science is about thinking outside the box and testing hypotheses about the nature of reality. Scientists should be looking for problems that cannot be solved using the engineering methods existing within the current paradigm. About problems that lie beyond the reach of engineering thinking, Bohr said:

“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”

There is a wealth of insight in these two sentences. They contain deep truths about problems that can be addressed using mathematics, the language of science. The first sentence is true about any problem. However simple and easy, or deep and difficult a problem may be, if it is properly stated in the language of the paradigm within which it has meaning, then the solution, i.e., the answer to the question that it poses, is actually contained within the question itself. Any meaningful problem in an algebra text will demonstrate this fact.

The information needed to solve a problem is always contained within the statement of the problem. All that needs to be done is to translate the statement of the problem from English, German, or whatever, into mathematical expressions, so that you can use well-defined operations of calculation to transform the statement, through a series of simple steps, into a new form that is recognized as an answer. The second sentence relates specifically to the “great and deep” problems that Bohr concerned himself with as a scientist. If the problem is truly deep and difficult, we will have to “change our thinking” i.e., we have to think outside the box by expanding the paradigm, or developing new methods, to solve it.

I realize that there may be people reading this who already understand the points I am making. This post is not for them. It is for the millions of people out there, the average citizens of planet Earth, who shrink away in horror anytime they see the word “mathematics”. If you are one of those who hates mathematics, I am quite sure that it is because you were never taught what mathematics really is. What I want to do here is change the way you think about mathematics. Let’s start with the meaning of the word. It doesn’t mean “difficult stuff with numbers and abstract symbols”, as most people think. The word mathematics comes from the Ancient Greek word máthÄ“ma (μάθημα), meaning “that which is learned” or “what one is able to know”. Mathematics is not just “the language of science”, it is the heart and soul of science.

I have had several years of experience teaching mathematics, from practical applied math to mathematical physics, and advanced mathematical modeling, so I am not just blowing smoke rings. My first job, after earning a degree in physics and mathematics, was teaching math in the Newburg Missouri Public High School, where I was the complete Math Department. In my second year of teaching there, my students swept every category in a regional math contest where we were competing with several much larger schools. Even though I used the textbooks supplied by the state, I didn’t follow the state lesson plans. I always related mathematical principles to common-sense ideas that my students could relate to and understand. Over the years, I have had several very gratifying success stories teaching, but the first one happened at Newburg.

The first day of school in my first year at Newburg, a young man from a rural farming area south of Newburg, walked up to my desk as students were filing into the classroom and said:

“Mr. Close, my name is Gary Haven. I just want you to know that I don’t like math. I am only here because general math is a requirement for all Freshmen.”

“OK Gary,” I replied, “Thank you for being so honest! I just want you to know that I’m going to see what I can do about changing your mind about math.”

The second year Gary took every math class he could cram into his schedule, and eight years later, he graduated from one of the best engineering schools in the county with top honors in electrical engineering.

Mathematics should not be about showing others how smart you are. It should NOT be about learning how to manipulate abstract symbols to solve complicated problems, even though you may learn to do that. It should be about learning how to think rationally in a way that will increase your understanding of reality and make your thinking more efficient and effective. In my opinion, the way math is taught in our schools today, from grade school to grad school, is really stupid, and almost criminal. The way math is fragmented and turned into mindless memorization of detail, alienates and repels students, robbing them of an opportunity to develop critical thinking skills.

Learning to use mathematical tools to solve practical problems is important; but using calculators and computers to solve numerical problems without understanding the underlying principles, is a recipe for disaster. Pure mathematics should be understood to be what it actually is: a simple reflection of how your mind and the universe works. Science is about what we can say about the reality we experience, and math is about how we can say it in the most efficient way.  

Before I get into my explanation of a system of logic, I call the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD), a calculus that describes reality more precisely and efficiently, I want to introduce you to some key concepts needed to understand non-physical reality. They concern the axiomatic nature of science and the threshold between every-day consciousness and Turiyananda, the joy of experiencing pure consciousness.

First, an axiom is a self-evident truth. All systems of mathematical logic have two or more axioms upon which they are based. Within any consistent finite logical system of thought, an axiom is a question that cannot be answered within the system that allows it to be stated as a meaningful statement. I like to think of an axiom this way:      

The Question that cannot be Answered is the Answer that cannot be Questioned.

We have been told by some very intelligent people, specifically British mathematical philosophers Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, that there are only three types of statements: 1) True, 2) false, and 3) meaningless. Sounds rather obvious, doesn’t it? If we accept this declaration, then we can ignore and discard meaningless statements because, well, because they are meaningless! If statements that appear to be meaningless in the context of our current understanding of reality are eliminated from consideration and we accept the statement of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (another very intelligent person) that for every meaningful question there must also be a meaningful answer, then every meaningful statement is ultimately either true or false.

This binary thinking is in fact, the basis of the logic, philosophy, science, mathematics, and computer technology of Western Civilization. It turns out, however, that despite the fact that these axiomatic statements were pronounced by some of the most highly intelligent people of the world in recent history, none of these statements are true.

In the next installment of this series, I will explain how and why there are actually four types of statements in any language, including mathematics, not three, and I will also explain how this fact leads us back to the threshold of Pure Consciousness and the doorway to extra dimensionality where we will see how pure number theory relates to consciousness.

ERC – 12/29/2021


Tuesday, December 28, 2021

NEW APPROACH, INSTALLMENT FOUR


NOTE: Read Part Four here and/or in context in the first post of this series, posted on December 24, 2021.


FOUR: WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY

Every life is made up of a series of events experienced by the individualized consciousness of a soul through one particular unique dynamic aggregate of atoms, cells, and organs, with which the soul has temporarily identified. That organic aggregate, with a finite number of brain cells, is the physical vehicle for that soul for the duration of that lifetime. The nature of the events that a soul experiences in a lifetime through a physical body in this way is determined by the cause-and-effect content of the soul’s past lives and the choices made in those lives and between lives. Events that are normal for one soul, may seem extraordinary and bizarre to another soul because we are all at different points in our spiritual journey from bare, minimal awareness to Cosmic Consciousness.

As human beings, we all have access to the Threshold described in these posts, and the four states of consciousness: waking, sleeping, dreaming and Turiya, or Pure Consciousness. The purpose of these posts is to offer a new explanation of life, conscious experience, and mental, physical, and spiritual virtue, that is consistent with the scientific method. The conclusion that you are an immortal soul and that there is meaning and purpose behind all things is not new, it is consistent with the core teachings of the Spiritual Masters of all ages, all advanced civilizations, and all real science. The key to understanding reality has always been, and will always be, available to you in the depths of your own consciousness. What is new, is that now there is absolute proof that anyone can understand, that the non-physical domain of reality is more real than the physical. As a living soul, you can evaluate this conclusion in the laboratory of your own consciousness, the nexus of your body, mind, and spirit, which is also the Sacred Temple of your soul.

The key is complete internal and external honesty, integrity, and love of self and others. At the low point of human virtue on this planet, in 499 AD, the average individual alive on the Earth was unable to comprehend much beyond the basic physical realities related to survival. Only the most advanced souls, reincarnating from the apex of the last high point of virtue in 11,501 BC, were aware of Truth. A number of advanced souls reincarnated between 500 BC and 500 AD to help us through those dark times. Outstanding among them were Jesus of Nazareth and Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, but there were many others, who played lesser roles in preserving the basic truths until the mean mental and spiritual virtue of humanity advanced to the point that Homo sapiens might survive. I will identify some of them in the posts to come.

As I have indicated in previous posts, I don’t believe that you have to have a PhD in mathematics, physics, or any other specialized discipline to grasp the importance of the discovery of gimmel, the measurable non-physical part of reality, at this time. Why is it important? Because belief and faith were absolutely necessary in the times of descending virtue and the first ascending age, known as the descending and ascending Kali Yugas (701 BC to 1699 AD) by the ancient Indian Rishis and they are still essential for the majority of human beings now, but knowing is always better than belief or faith in the words of others, when proof is available. It is for this reason that I want to make the proof of the existence of non-physical reality as available to as many as I can.

There are two kinds of proof: The first happens when one has the direct, immediate experience of truth. The second is in gaining indirect knowledge of truth through mathematical or logical proof. The first is superior to the second, but direct experience of truth is only available to the majority of humanity at this time of still low spiritual virtue, by what is known as the Grace of God, which can be attracted by cultivating pure love and devotion. In the natural process of planetary time where we are now, about 362 years into the 2400 years of the second ascending age, the Dwapara Yuga, the increase in mental virtue is such that more people are capable of understanding the proof through reasoning than through the direct experienced of pure love.

I have been trying to reach people through both avenues: devotional and intellectual, but because of my background in science and mathematics, I have tried to make the mathematical logic proof available to scientists first. TDVP, developed in intellectual partnership with Prof. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, is the culmination of this effort. This new series of posts is an effort to find a better, more workable mix of the two avenues, intellectual and devotional. I will continue to try to express the logic-based proof of the existence of gimmel in terms that the average person can follow, while pointing to the doorway to spiritual advancement available in the consciousness of every sentient human being. My sincere hope, dear reader, is that I might be able to help you to find it.

Organized religiosity, intellectualism, and scientism are subtle traps. They are like shiny objects that lure truth seekers off the narrow path that leads to the real goal. The real goal of life and all forms of existence is the ultimate enlightenment of conscious beings, an ultimate state of being that some have called Cosmic Consciousness. That is the sole purpose of creation. Recognition of this fact gives us real hope and real meaning to our lives. This is especially true when we realize that the goal of ultimate enlightenment is ours to attain through acquisition of knowledge, alignment with truth, and spiritual evolution that can be accelerated, delayed, or hampered by our own actions.

I am hopeful that by this time, if you have read this far, you understand that I have no idea how many posts there will be in this series, or even how much detail I will be able to convey. I only write when I am inspired to write, and even though I am the one writing these words, I do not think that I am the source of what I write. I leave it up to you to decide where you think the ideas I express may come from. I can only pledge to make these ideas as understandable as I can. I will appreciate any comments, questions, and suggestions from serious readers.

Happy New Year. Rejoice in the potential of 2022.

ERC 12/28/2021


Tuesday, September 21, 2021

THE HARVEST: PREDICTIONS, OPINIONS AND EXPLANATIONS


 

THE HARVESTING OF SOULS

Overhead, two red-tailed hawks

Float on the morning breeze,

While in the forest hunger stalks

Its prey among the falling leaves.


Clouds roll in to block the sun,

And hint that frosty nights draw nigh,

But ere the harvesting is done

More living things will have to die.


No one grieves for dying leaves,

But everyone who draws sweet breath,

Laments the loss of unknown lives,

And abhors the thought of painful Death.

 

We fear to see our names to be

In the Grim Reaper’s bloody rolls,

But is there any way this cannot be

A massive harvesting of souls?

 

The seeds were planted long ago

Upon this spinning ball of mud,

A fertile garden meant to grow

Crops of muscle, bone and blood.

 

Structures made of living cells,

Connected row on row,

Like artfully crafted citadels,

Designed for Souls to grow.

 

But now so many have succumbed,

To the lure of Satan’s goals,

Marching, mind and soul benumbed,

Into the Harvesting of Souls.

ERC – 9/16/2021

I am not writing this because I am expecting to change opinions. I am writing because, if even one human being can alerted to what is going on and find the way to escape the massive headlong plunge into oblivion being engineered by the self-appointed elite, covert groups promoting a Godless global utopia over which they expect to rule, then it will have served a purpose.

I retreated from public argument about this subject a few months ago because when speaking of facts about which I had first-hand knowledge, I was attacked, called names, sworn at, and censored by people who have been subtly brainwashed by the covert elite. I am not so thin-skinned that such attacks bother me much, because I have weathered such attacks before from misguided atheistic zealots who imagined that they were scientists or intellectuals. But when friends for whom I care very much, accused me of repeating conspiracy theories, and started parroted “fact-checking” propaganda from the liberal echo chamber, I realized that the brainwashing had gone much deeper than I realized. But now, I am prompted by spiritual imperatives to speak truth as I see it.

I first became aware of the long-term plans of global Marxism to undermine American academic intellectual freedom in 1962, when I was a graduate student in theoretical physics. I didn’t take it too seriously at the time because the claim came from a Chinese National grad student after he had had a few too many drinks, so I dismissed it as delusional bravado, even though Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev was saying the same thing publicly.

In 1968 I was recruited as one of the charter members of the Department of Interior Systems Analysis Group, specializing in environmental modeling. In this position, I was active in state-of-the-art mathematical modeling of environmental systems, which included developing predictive climate-change models. During the years I was in Washington DC (1969-1972) I became aware of long-term efforts to undermine the US Democratic Republic form of Government as specified in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, by Socialist operatives covertly embedded in government and the ranks of un-elected Civil Service employees.

In 2018, after rising to the top echelons of three different international ultra-high IQ Societies, I was approached by members of an elite, globally influential group with promises of fantastic financial assistance and benefits, including the world’s best medical treatment for my wife Jacqui, who was dying of acute kidney failure. All I had to do was pledge allegiance to their cause, and promise to “follow instructions without question, when the time came.” This requirement of blind obedience gave me pause, because I have always considered myself an independent thinker; but with the prospect of saving my loving partner’s life, and having unlimited funds for travel and research, I felt had to consider the offer very seriously. Ultimately, I balked and broke off communications with the group for two reasons: 1) When we were presented with all her options by the medical experts, Jacqui, who had already suffered through many years of severe pain and more than six years of daily dialysis, decided - against my expressed will - to avoid further painful medical treatment and go on hospice; and 2) as I learned more about this “elite” organization who were promising so much, their rituals, procedures, and goals, I realized that I could not go down that path. It is not an exaggeration to say that I believed to do so would have been tantamount to selling my soul to the Devil.

Disclaimer: I cannot, and will not, provide details about the global organization mentioned above, or name the individuals who contacted me. I will remain silent concerning such details, because I must, for a number of compelling reasons that the reader may or may not be able to fathom.

I believe that my experiences over more than forty years as a student, teacher, physicist, mathematician, hydrologist, hydrogeologist, systems analyst, professional engineer (PE), writer, and consciousness researcher, living, working, and traveling in forty US states, and  fifteen countries, studying in eight universities, including state universities in three states, private schools, and Johns Hopkins University, earning degrees in mathematics and physics, a PhD in environmental science and engineering, and pursuing independent post-doctoral research in physics, medicine, psychology, and consciousness studies, give me a right to speak. Those experiences have provided the background for my current worldview and understanding of the nature of reality.

I have published over eight hundred papers and articles and ten non-fiction books. I have received awards and international recognition in multiple fields, including environmental engineering, quantum physics, education, and alternative healthcare modalities, and I have been identified as a polymath by experts in organizations that study human intelligence. I have enjoyed membership and earned certification in at least nine exclusive intellectual and professional associations and societies, including the National Honorary Mathematics Society, the American Institute of Hydrology, and the American Society of professional Engineers, as well as MENSA and other high IQ Societies. I am currently a Distinguished Fellow of the Exceptional Creative Achievement Organization, a Diplomate (the highest earned rank) in the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, and a Distinguished Life Member of two additional ultra-high IQ organizations.

I have also studied the world’s major religions and esoteric sub-groups, including the Essenes, the Rosicrucian Order, Kabbalah, Dao, Zen Buddhism, Tibetan Yoga, Sufism, and advanced Yoga meditation techniques, which I have practiced daily since 1960, when I was initiated as a Kriyaban by Sri Dayamata, President of the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles California. I have been a charter member of three different exclusive groups of thinkers, dealing with the environment, health care, and human consciousness. Does all this make me an authority on subjects related to the current world crises? Not necessarily, but it does suggest that I may have a uniquely well-informed point of view. 

Please bear with me as I try to provide you with the proper context within which I believe my comments about the nature of Reality, human experience of Reality, and the current world crisis may be understood. First, I want to ask you to think about everything in terms of modeling. Not in the sense of abstract academic mathematical modeling, with complex equations, algorithms, and theoretical paradigms, with which I am uniquely familiar, but in a much more basic way, in the form of thinking of the images we create in our minds as models of reality. This is appropriate and practical, because conceptional analog modeling is what our minds do. For more on this, refer to my blogpost “The World in Crises – The Choice,” posted June 24, 2021.

The average conscious being at this point in the physical and spiritual evolution of this planet, acts as if his or her mental images are identical with reality, but in fact, they are not. Science has shown that our experience of reality through the five physical senses is very indirect. Elementary science books describe how various forms of vibratory energy emanate or are reflected from physical objects and impact receptors in our eyes, ears, noses, fingers, and taste buds, activating electrochemical impulses that are carried by the extensive nervous systems in our bodies to our brains, where we interpret this data as information about the physical characteristics of objects existing in reality. Over time, complex mental images of the reality that we believe to be “out there” are built up in the neural networks in our brains, and all new incoming data are compared with those images. Because mental images are not stable, and are affected by emotional dynamics like desire, fear, and expectation, there is no guarantee that they are anything close to a one-to-one correspondence with reality. But we continue to take our mental images to be reality - literally making the mistake of confusing the map with the territory. This conflation of conceptual mental images with reality is the basis of much confusion and opens the door to the eternal struggle of good versus evil.

Because of my extensive training and experience in environmental modeling, I think it is appropriate here to briefly discuss the science and politics of the climate change issue. While it is true that a few politicians have backgrounds in science, most do not, and when career politicians say they are following the science, you can be almost certain that they are not! They will reference science when they think it supports their political agenda, and totally ignore it when it does not. Scientists are human beings too, and their success and recognition, especially in academia, most often depend on getting adequate funding. Wealthy political activists are happy to fund scientific research only if they believe it will support their political agendas, and scientists will emphasize outcomes potentially favorable to the political agendas of potential benefactors in proposals in order to increase their chances of getting funding.

Because of its complex multi-disciplinary nature, predictive environmental modeling is as much an art as it is a science. Comprehensive climate-change models have scores, if not hundreds of variables for which data are available and/or can be collected, and an important part of mathematical modelling is analyzing the relative sensitivity of the model results to minor changes in those variables. The modeler can justify “tweaking” the model by making slight changes to parts of the model that are affected by sensitive data input variables, based on inherent sampling error and professional judgement, and is likely to lean toward adjustments that will favor the outcome pleasing the people funding the research.

Is climate change “an existential threat” to human life on this planet? Yes, in the same sense that a tsunami or a tornado is. But analysis of the data from biological records like growth rings in ancient plant fossils, geological records in the ancient formations of the earth’s crust, and thousands of years of hydrologic records preserved in polar ice cap boring cores, shows that much greater climate changes than those caused by recent human activity have occurred repeatedly in the history of our planet. A few degrees of temperature change will affect human life and activity, but destroying a robust economy in the name of slowing or stopping climate change will affect people’s lives negatively much more quickly and tangibly. Should we limit the negative impact of human activity on the environment as much as we can? Of course. But claims that we are all going to die from climate change in a few years is more than hyperbole, it is blatant political fear mongering. The effects of the economic lockdown of the past 18 months in response to the COVID pandemic is ample evidence that there are much more serious man-man threats to human existence than climate change.

The major conflict behind all the crises threatening civilization today can be understood in terms of the universal struggle between good and evil. And indeed, many people see it that way, but there are differences of opinion about what is good, and what is evil. Only a seriously deranged individual would deliberately choose evil over good, but of course, we have seen that happen in the past in totalitarian governments, notably in Russia, Germany, and China, resulting in millions of deaths, and it will most likely continue to happen. It is easy to be fooled by political operatives who use lies and half-truths to stoke fear and hatred to divide a free society. Our options do not often appear in the form of simple binary choices. Rather than black or white, the choices we are confronted with, often appear to come in many shades of gray.

A very real problem lies in the fact that neither pure good nor pure evil exists in isolation, and the world we experience exists because of the separation of self from other. This is the basic duality of physical reality. (See G. Spencer Brown, Laws of Form, and Close, ER, Transcendental Physics.) But we know now that the physical universe is only about 4.9% of reality, and the other 95.1% is non-physical. (See Neppe and Close, The fourteenth conundrum, IQNexus Journal 2015). Based on the model developed by Dr. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, and me, I conclude that all dynamic processes, including physical change, are driven by the slow progress of finite consciousness toward Cosmic Consciousness. (See Neppe & Close, Reality Begins with Consciousness, Close, ER & Close, JA, Secrets of the Sacred Cube, A Cosmic Love Story, and Sri Yukteswar Giri, The holy Science.)

The references cited above are mentioned only to emphasize the fact that besides extensive experience in education, government, and independent mind-matter research, the observations and conclusions I want to present here are also supported by a comprehensive scientific paradigm that has not been seriously challenged. These references and other relevant publications are listed in more detail at the end of this article for anyone who wants to pursue the science further.

Disclaimer: I, and I alone, am personally responsible for the definitions, axiomatic principles, and conclusions presented below. Every reader has the right to accept or reject them.


CRITICAL AXIOMATIC DEFINITIONS AND PRINCIPLES

Reality consists of everything that exists phenomenologically.

Aspects of conceptual models in human minds that do not correspond to existing Reality are false.

Everything that exists is embedded in, and part of the infinitely continuous field of all-pervasive Primary Consciousness.

The sole purpose and goal of existence is the spiritual evolution of consciousness from simple awareness to Cosmic Consciousness.

Cosmic Consciousness is complete realization of oneness with the Self of Infinite, all-pervasive Primary Consciousness. Jesus of Nazareth, Krishna, Gautama Buddha, and a few others are historical examples of this.

Good and evil exist in the world of duality. Good is anything that promotes spiritual evolution toward Cosmic Consciousness. Evil is anything that hampers or reverses spiritual evolution.

Therefore, good and evil are equivalent to existence and non-existence, phenomenologically, and have the logical indicative values of True and False, respectively.

Within the limits of the innate logic of Primary Consciousness which manifest as the Laws of Nature, conscious beings have free will to choose actions that result in either good or evil, as defined above. Ultimately, only Pure Consciousness exists.

Absolute truth and reality do exist, despite the popular notion that reality is whatever a persuasive liar can make people think it is.


OBSERVATIONS, CONCLUSIONS, PREDICTIONS AND OPINIONS

Based on my understanding of the comprehensive model of Reality referred to in the archived posts in this blog, and in numerous technical papers and books as the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP), validated by extensive verification with experimental data from mainstream science, including from the Large hadron Collider, other quantum physics experiments, the Hubble Space Probe, and my personal experience, I am confident in presenting the following observations, conclusions, predictions, and opinions. I realize that in today’s ultra-emotional, politically-divided world, what I have to say will likely be about as effective as a teardrop in a tornado, but I still feel that I must speak up.

Observations and Conclusions

The good news is that we are in the early stages of a 12,000-year period of ascending mental and spiritual virtue, so things are slowly improving. The bad news is that there is a lot of negativity and resistance to positive change, because we are only a little over 10% into this ascending time cycle.

The current crises impacting all the nations of the world are of our own making. Because public education in the USA has been systematically converted to political propaganda centers that ignore spirituality, promote immoral perversion, and create a subservient working class, the majority of souls now incarnate are more often choosing evil than good. Because so many uninformed self-centered actions have been counter to the purpose and goal of conscious existence, i.e., positive spiritual evolution, we are beginning to experience a sharp increase in deaths and dying. This purging of the Earth of evil is in fact, a sign of the times, and constitutes a major harvesting of souls.

How did this happen in the USA, the first nation in modern history to break from the tyranny of the ruling classes and create a government “of the people, for the people, and by the people”? That’s difficult to explain in a short blog, but I must try.

Every human soul, consisting of body, mind, and spirit, contains all the seeds of good and evil, reflecting the dual nature of the world. And because Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” even the best of intentions may be subverted by the evil inherent in this world.

Governments require burocracy, and burocracy magnifies the inherent evil harbored by those who run it. This has happened with the introduction of evil retrogressive political philosophies of totalitarian government by a variety of loosely associated, self-proclaimed “elite” groups who seek power. These groups are the current reincarnation of the same type of evil tyrants, abusive Monarchs, Emperors, and dictators who ruled in the past, now appearing as Marxist Communist and Socialist politicians who believe that they are destined to rule over the uninformed masses. They are typically materialists who deny the existence of any form of intelligent consciousness greater than their own. Of course, not all people in government are evil, so how can we know who the evil politicians are? That question was answered in the Sermon on the Mount: “Ye shall know them by their fruit” – i.e., the fruits of their actions.

Many Marxist and socialist ideas are attractive, and not all people who espouse them are evil. But, in general, Marxist groups work to suppress the liberty and freedom of the individuals they seek to govern. Because they deny the human need to learn and grow spiritually, they are perpetrators of evil, whether they are conscious of it or not. When allowed to gain sufficient power, it is not unusual for atheistic autocrats to begin to believe that they have the right to decide who lives and who dies, and they believe that their actions are for the greater good of humanity.

This psychopathic assumption of a god-like role is a serious form of mental illness, and such autocrats often regress spiritually to the point that they enjoy participating in perverse sexual rituals, swearing blood oaths to subversive organizations, and committing ritualistic murders, even participating in depraved Satanic practices.

Evil is much more subtle today than it was in the days of tribal rulers, kings, and emperors. Instead of subjugation by overt brute force and violence, those coveting power over others now generate fear in more subtle ways. They subvert the meaning of common words and phrases to portray evil perversions as good, and label spiritual practices as evil. Lies are presented as truth and traditional beliefs are ridiculed as foolish and naïve.

The Apostle Paul warned: “There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God — having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.” — 2 Timothy 3:1-5 

Today’s ruling elite have become increasingly evil political parasites. They and their enablers became wealthy by taking advantage of the opportunities of the free society of America, and now openly use their wealth to buy votes, steal elections and consolidate their power. Their successes enable them to believe their own lies and praise the false utopian governmental theories epitomized by Marxist economics and dialectic materialism. These career autocrats are not traditional American Democrats or Republicans. They are opportunistic societal parasites who have infiltrated both major political parties, and with their wealthy enablers now control the major news media, entertainment, sports, and much of the un-elected ranks of civil service. They identify as compassionate humanists but reveal themselves “by the fruits of their actions” to be functional atheists and haters of good virtue. While ridiculing and condemning all forms of authentic spiritual practice, they often pretend to believe in one or another of the traditional organized religions, solely in order to garner popular support. A reasonable conclusion is that, as their power increases, only the “second coming” of the consciousness called Christ will be able to stop them. But this second coming will not be in the form expected by most Christians, and cannot be predicted. See The Resurrection of the Christ Within You, a revelatory commentary on the Teachings of Jesus, listed below.

Predictions

Expect things to get worse before they get better, with many more deaths during the next six months. The Earth will be depopulated because of the deliberate corruption of civil society. It appears now that approximately 75% of the pre-harvest human population may die. The self-appointed elite will be rudely awakened from their delusions of grandeur, to find that they have far less control of the horrors they have unleashed on the world for personal gain than they imagined. They and their enablers will comprise most of the harvested souls, whose fate will be destruction.

 “…wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat … strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

Despite the fear and panic caused by suppression of personal liberty and freedom by the efforts of the autocrats to control the masses, a brighter future of increased awareness of the innate spiritual nature of Reality is coming for those who survive the massive harvesting of souls, as then level of mental and spiritual virtue increases and Christ Consciousness becomes manifest. They will inherit the New Earth, purified, and purged of the corruption of the past.

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.”

The idea of a one-world global government is neither new, nor necessarily evil. There will be a global government in the future. But it will come about as a natural result of the positive development of mental and spiritual virtue, not coercion by tyrants.  

Opinions

In my opinion, the micro-organism known as SARS-CoV-2, capable of causing the severe flu-like symptoms of a disease called COVID-19, is a man-made genetically engineered bioweapon created in a Chinese lab funded and controlled by members of covert US globalists in cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party. The most likely scenario, in my opinion is that it was deliberately crafted from a natural corona virus as one of several bioweapons created for the purpose of protecting and furthering the spread of Marxist Communism worldwide.

These enhanced viruses were manufactured under the guise of “gain-of-function research,” originally initiated in the US to learn more about how viruses mutate. They were considered by most scientists with no political or monetary interest in the project as dangerous, so the work was covertly transferred to China, where the CCP could control it.

The subversive forces pushing global Communism did not expect their candidate to lose the 2016 US Presidential election, or the US economic boom that was caused by the rogue president’s lifting of many of the controls they had managed to implement over the past fifty years.

I believe their operatives released the first bioweapon being prepared in the Wuhan lab where they could blame lax security conditions, but because the release was forced prematurely, the enhanced SARS-CoV-2 bioweapon was not quite ready. As a result, the infections were not as deadly as expected. The mortality rate was similar to that of a normal flu.

Because of these unexpected problems, globalist activists embedded in the US political parties, in all three branches of government, and in civil service organizations - notably the CIA, FBI, and CDC - took immediate action - mostly illegal and unconstitutional - to stop the rogue President and destroy the booming US economy that threatened the dominance of global Communism.

A backup plan to control the uninformed independent thinkers and the rogue President’s backers with fear generated by illegally mandated lockdowns, questionable preventive protocols and hastily prepared tests and vaccines was hastily implemented. The CDC and complicit doctors focused on Covid-19 infection rates, which were as high and wide-spread as common colds and flu, and death rates were inflated by various means to stoke fear.

Finally, the mask and vaccination protocols being proposed as mandates to be forced on the general public are not science based, they are politically motivated. They are clearly inappropriate for many individuals, including me, and should not be mandated for everyone. I will explain explicitly why they are not appropriate for me personally, why I rarely wear a mask, and why, so far, I have chosen not to be vaccinated for SARS-CoV-2.

My personal reasons for not complying with the government’s suggestions for dealing with the Covid pandemic have nothing to do with politics. As a registered professional environmental engineer with years of experience in hazardous waste remediation and disposal, a certified mold inspector, and an experienced healthcare researcher, I have worn surgical masks, N-95 and P-95, respirators, partial and full-face protection, and other types of personal protection equipment (PPE) many times, when appropriate for various type of exposure to health hazards.

There are specific situations when a surgical mask can protect a doctor or healthcare worker from pathogens in the bodily fluids of infected patients, or help prevent the spread of infectious disease from a sick person who might be coughing or sneezing, but there is no scientific evidence that wearing a mask for long periods of time, indoors and outside, has any effect on the spread of viral epidemics. In fact, there is evidence that continual wearing of masks can have detrimental health effects and make respiratory infections worse. There is no scientific justification for general mask mandates. However, everyone should wear a mask when it’s appropriate, and I might wear one when there is no scientific justification, in the presence of those who have no knowledge of the science (like our current President and his enablers) to avoid unnecessary harassment.

I believe that it is very likely that far more people will die as a result of the attempts of a loosely associated cabal of self-appointed elites to take advantage of the impact of an infectious disease they manufactured to social engineer a global government based on Marxist principles, than from the COVID-19 pandemic itself.    

Even though I am among those considered to be at risk, simply because of my age, I have not chosen to get vaccinated for the following reasons: 1) I have none of the illnesses often typical of people in my age group and much younger groups. 2) I have avoided pharmaceutical drugs, over-the-counter medicines, and vaccines for more than 40 years, and yet have had only one or two short episodes of mild cold or flu-like symptoms in the past 12 years, indicating a strong natural immune system. 3) In 2020, I was exposed, in close quarters, to hundreds of people with COVID-19 symptoms without masks, and yet I developed only very mild symptoms and was classified as asymptomatic and voluntarily self-quarantined.

I choose not to take the shots offered for COVID-19 or any other corona virus flu because my research and personal experience tells me that taking them would not protect me or anyone else and could impact my natural immunity.

In summary, as a multi-discipline scientist with decades of relevant experience, I see evidence that the current triad of world-wide political, psychological, and physical health crises, are entirely man-made under the direction of mis-guided people with evil intent. These ill-conceived psychotic attempts to play God are now out of control and will probably result in a harvesting of aberrant souls of truly Biblical proportions.

ERC- 9/21/2021

 

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