ENLIGHTENMENT: and THE EXPERIENCE OF ILLUMINATION

 

 

ENLIGHTENMENT: THE ANSWER FOR WHICH THERE IS NO QUESTION

Here is my declaration of the simplest Truth that I can say about myself:

I am.

Anyone saying “I am”, seems to be stating an obvious truth. Existence as a conscious being is the beginning of all cognition. If the existence of consciousness as “I am” were not a given, then nothing could be said. There would be no one to say it. It is a declarative statement, i.e. a sentence with a subject and a verb, but no object. Logically, therefore it is an answer, not a question. But to what is it an answer? It is easy to say I am, but there is no adequate question to evoke the declarative answer “I am!” Yet, to function as a human being, I must assume that I exist. I must also assume that you exist, and we will both agree, I think, that we are living human beings and that there are a great number of other human beings on this planet somewhat similar to us. but, if we accept the fact that I am, and you are, i.e. that we exist as conscious members of a group of physical beings called human, who can be identified with certain physical features and activities, then we have a logical framework within which to function and interact with the world of other people and things.  

Potential answers to the question “What or who am I?” are legion: “I am a man; I am a woman; I am a human being; I am a teacher; I am a parent, I am a politician; a used-car salesman, ; etc., etc., …” But none of these substitutions for “I am”, or “you are” really answer the important question: “What is the essence of conscious existence?” Those answers only describe what you might be busy doing, not what or who you are.  No, the statement “I am” is a declaration: It is an answer for which there is no adequate question. But we must find a way to ask it. Why? Because unless you know who or what you are, how can you possibly know how you fit into reality and what you are supposed to do? “I am” is a declarative answer, but most of us are too occupied with the ever-changing challenges of daily life, to even begin to wonder about what the proper question is.

Personally, I have busied myself over the past 84.5 years imagining that I was an infant, a boy, a salesman, a farm laborer, a student, an inventor, a musician, a woodsman, a speleologist, an amateur anthropologist, a physicist, a student, a husband and father, an actuarial mathematics technician, a computer programmer, an academic mathematician, a math teacher, a writer and poet, a professional hydrologist with the National Institute of Hydrology, a geologist, a geophysicist, a philosopher, a student of Eastern religions, a Kriyaban Yogi, a logician, a linguist, a systems analyst, a mathematical modeler, a PhD environmental engineer, a husband and father again, an environmental planner and project manager in the US, Puerto Rico,  and Saudi Arabia, a university professor and continuing education instructor, a professional mentor in math and science, a hydrogeologist for a nation-wide consulting firm, a professional engineer (PE) a staff hydrogeologist and director of business development for a large company in the Middle East, an entrepreneur, an alternative healthcare practitioner, a research scientist, a bio-psycho-physicist, a guest scientist on talk shows, and an invited speaker at conferences across the US and internationally, with varying levels of success at each of these attempts at having an object to the “I am” statement.

The point is that none of these descriptions explains what it means to say ‘I am”. If and when I stop doing every one of these activities, I’m pretty sure I will still exist. After ceasing every activity I have ever participated in, I could ask: “Am I a  _______?” filling in the blank with any of the activities listed above, and the answer would be “No”. But I will still exist. So who, or what am I? Perhaps the real question is: How do I ask this question in a way that will produce a meaningful answer?  We can agree on what it means to be a human being, but what does it mean to be conscious? Can I explain my awareness, expressed by the statement “I am”, as a result of  any one of the roles mentioned above? Maybe by being a scientist? After years of applying the scientific method, would it be possible for me to say: “I am a scientist.” and “I have discovered the theory of everything!”?

I am pretty sure that you know, or have heard of someone who has made these statements, or perhaps you have even made one or both of them yourself. But I think you will agree that these two statements, taken together, on face value, imply a lot of things that may or may not be true. But first, before we can find out whether or not they contain information that is meaningful in relation to the assertion “I am”, we must understand the language in which they are written. Unless you are familiar with the English language, without translation, any information these statements may contain is not available to you; the statements are completely meaningless for you. They are just strange marks on a piece of paper, or in this case, images created on your computer screen by electronic impulses coming from another computer. Interestingly, even our methods of communication reveal how remote our connection with the reality of being is!

Behind the images on your computer screen there is one, or a series of computer programs, composed of a series of algorithms that are translated from another language, a simple binary code, composed entirely of strings of zeroes and ones. Behind that is another computer program that interprets statements written or spoken, into the binary code; and behind that there is a conscious English-speaking being who formulated these statements as thoughts. But how do you know this is true? You may actually be communicating with a computer program.

If you are active on social media, or if you have attended online seminars, then you have communicated with robotic computer programs that are designed to interact with you in a human-like, conversational manner. The fact that computers can be programmed to appear to talk with you, like, e.g., asking you questions and following up with specific responses depending upon your answers, is why programs have been devised to determine whether a communication originates from a conscious human being or some form of artificial intelligence (AI). Such tests are called Turing Tests, after the British mathematician Alan Turing. Let’s assume that the two statements in question “I am a scientist” and “I have discovered the theory of everything” originated in the mind of a conscious being, and try to analyze them.

Both of these statements begin with “I”, the first person singular pronoun, followed by a verb that specifies a relationship between the person represented by “I”  and typically, some other person or object. The verb in the first statement is “am”, the present-tense form of the verb “to be”, indicating the current existence of a conscious being who thinks in English. I think nearly everyone agrees that conscious beings, including oneself, do exist. But how can you prove to me that you exist? You could be a holographic computer simulation, an AI android, or you might be a figment of my imagination. Can I prove that I exist, in some meaningful way? The second statement tells us that the “I” is identified as a scientist who thinks he or she has a conceptual and/or mathematical model describing “everything”. But if this scientist happens to be a mainstream physicist, then “everything” only means physical things. Even such a limited model is evidence of complex thinking, and thus implies that there is probably a conscious being who made the statement, or at least a computer program written and initiated by a conscious being.

Rene Descartes’ famous statement “I think, therefore I am” might sound like an answer to the question of what it means to be a conscious being, but the idea that thinking implies existence does not imply that thinking and existence are the same thing. If it did, then I would cease to exist when I am not thinking,  In deep sleep, e.g., with no dreams, do I cease to exist? That famous statement, however clever it may sound, raises more questions than it answers. We have to ask additional questions like: what exactly is thinking? And, if thinking implies being, then does being imply thinking? I think most of us would agree that it does not. Thinking and being cannot be equated unless inanimate objects can think. For example, most people agree that furniture exists, but, in general, we don’t believe that a table or chair can think. So, if thinking implies existence as a conscious being, as Descartes claimed, then we need to ask: exactly what is thinking, and does it imply consciousness? Descartes’ famous statement might have been based on the belief that thinking is the defining function of “I am”,  – But is it?

Thinking consists of the formation and manipulation of symbolic images that are assumed to be more or less accurate representations of certain aspects of reality that have meaning in the mind of the one who is doing the thinking, or perhaps in the logical circuitry of a computerized robot. But if a robot, or any form of AI can in fact think, at least based on this rudimentary definition of thinking, then it raises questions about the relationship of AI to consciousness, and that is something I can address, but, in fact, one has no basis to discuss how AI is related to consciousness, unless one knows what consciousness is. And the most basic experience we have of consciousness is the awareness of “I am”. So let’s return to the investigation of the statement “I am”. To do this properly, one must go beyond what is currently considered to be science. That does not mean abandoning the scientific method, but it does mean going beyond the limits of materialistic assumptions and applying the scientific method to consciousness and its interface with the physical universe.

When we investigate this openly and honestly, we discover that there is ample empirical evidence that non-physical aspects of reality are as real as the physical aspects of reality, and that the rules of logic apply to both. This suggests that the known laws of physical nature need to be adapted to apply to the non-physical. This should not be a surprise. If reality is defined as everything that exists, then there is only one reality, and it contains everything that exists very nicely, including life and consciousness. The contradictions we see are in man’s theories, not in the nature of reality.

I have been tempted to say: “I am a scientist”, and since consciousness is included in my model of reality, I have a “theory of everything”, but one critic who identifies himself as a physicist, has said that I may have been a physicist once, (he was impressed with my application of relativity to sub-atomic dynamics) but, in his opinion, I am no longer one. – Actually, he’s right!.-  I learned mathematical physics as part of my formal university training, but I progressed beyond being a physicist a long time ago. Physics as we know it is just one of many academic specialties, not a comprehensive study of everything we experience as human beings. Because no one with a finite mind can hope to know everything about everything, there is a real need for specialization. And if you specialize, you can certainly learn more and more about less and less in our colleges and universities; but it’s pretty easy to show that much of the ‘more and more’ we are taught, does not really describe the reality we experience, and is therefore wrong, incomplete, or at least subject to being replaced in the future. Contrary to what most people believe, science is not the final answer to questions about the nature of reality. Some aspects of today’s science will be recognized as failed hypotheses tomorrow, and some ideas rejected as unscientific today will be recognized as scientific facts  tomorrow  Science is forever a work in progress, proposing hypotheses and testing them against reality. By definition, that is exactly what the scientific method is.

Dr. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD and I have developed a comprehensive model of reality known as the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) that incorporates both the physical and the non-physical aspects of reality. Notice that the title does not contain the word “theory”. Application of the mathematical logic of TDVP has resulted in the discovery of a measurable form of non-physical reality that explains more than 50 things either poorly explained, or not explained at all by the current standard model of mainstream science, and it has been verified by predicting a number of quantifiable results that are in exact agreement with meticulous experimental data from highly respected empirical sources, including the Large Hadron Collider and the Hubble Space Probe. Having been tested and verified, TDVP is no longer a theory.

Admittedly, TDVP has been accepted by only a small number of highly qualified scientists, and it is still rejected by most mainstream scientists simply because it dares address non-physical phenomena as real. One Nobel Prize winning physicist who agreed to review our work, when speaking of my paper laying out the basic mathematical logic of TDVP, said: “Your paper reads more like the writing of a magician than a mathematician! And you  seem to see some deep meaning behind the equations; and math just isn’t like that!” These were not intended as compliments, of course. He even claimed to have “refuted” our theory, but when I pointed out a blatant error in his reasoning, he became angry, saying: “Th]s is about reviewing your work, not criticizing my math.”

I still maintain that the math and physics behind the proof of the existence of a measurable non-physical form of reality is simple and straight-forward enough for a bright high school student, or entry-level physics major to understand, and it might even be understood by a PhD physicist, if he or she actually tries to understand it, instead of just looking for a reason to reject it. But this post is not about responding to critics of TDVP, or presenting the reasoning and empirical evidence proving the existence of gimmel, the non-physical form, and the validity of TDVP, We have done that multiple times over the past decade in a number of published books and peer-reviewed papers that are readily available in the archives of this blog, or on the website www.BrainVoyage.com, on Amazon, and from other book sellers. This post is not about argument, it’s about the deep meaning behind the math and science of TDVP and the nature of consciousness.

Taking the Non-Physical Leap

In this post I encourage you to take a leap, much like the way quantum physicists asked everyone to take a “quantum leap” 50 or 60 years ago. That was a leap from a deterministic scientific paradigm to the probabilistic paradigm of quantum mechanics. I am asking you to take a leap from the current materialistic paradigm to a more inclusive post-materialist science. TDVP tells us that every aspect of reality is connected at the quantum and sub-quantum level, - especially consciousness! As Nicola Tesla predicted, science has made more progress in one decade of TDVP than was made in the entire previous history of modern science, by opening the door to the study of non-physical phenomena. It just hasn’t been recognized by mainstream science yet. Max Planck explained why mainstream science resists paradigm shifts, saying: “Science doesn’t progress by convincing the old guard, it progresses from funeral to funeral”, and we have discussed this problem of paradigm-shift resistance in several published books and papers. So now let’s turn our attention to the “! Am”, the answer for which there is no adequate question.

Experiencing the I am

The sense of self, or the first conscious distinction of self from other, is the primary distinction of reality, separating finite, quantized reality from Infinity. In notes I made in 1958, and expanded upon in an essay in 1968, I stated: “The essence of existence is differentiation.” Part of this essay was published in my first book, The Book of Atma, Libra Publishers, New York, 1977, page 58., where you will find the following: “…through the act of differentiation, the whole universe, as we perceive it, follows.” This is essentially the same concept expressed by G. Spencer Brown in Laws of Form, George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. London, 1969, in a Note on the Mathematical Approach, page v: “The theme of this book is that a universe comes into being when a space is severed or taken apart.”, I elaborated on this further as the basis for including consciousness in the calculus of distinctions in Infinite Continuity, C and C, Los Alamitos, California, 1990, pages 8 and 13, and again in Transcendental Physics, Paradigm Press, Jackson, Missouri, 1997, pages 120, 181,192, 317, and 322, where the quantized calculus that I call the calculus of distinctions was introduced and used in an infinite descent proof of the existence of a non-quantum final receptor in the conscious process of perception. This brings us to the threshold of the possibility of solving the mystery of conscious being, the “I am”.

The mathematical proof of the existence of gimmel, the quantifiable non-physical aspect of reality, in every quark, proton, and atom of the universe, illuminates, at last, the deep fabric of reality: Within the multi-dimensional fabric of reality, gimmel is the subtle bridge between the finite and the infinite, between quantized physical reality and the infinitely continuous extent of consciousness and spiritual reality.

The vortices spinning in the expanding fabric of reality (quarks electrons and protons), mistakenly perceived as particles by physicalists, would decay quickly back into the uniform entropic state of the conscious substrate, without the stabilization provided by gimmel. But the difference between intellectually understanding the necessity of the existence of gimmel as the organizer and stabilizer of physical reality, and seeing beyond it into the self-effulgent heart of reality, is like the difference between seeing a picture of a delicious meal, and actually eating that meal. It is also beyond the difference between thinking about light, and seeing a light bulb or the sun; it is more like the difference between seeing light and being light.  

To one who has caught even a glimpse of the self-effulgent source of “I am”, and consciously moved beyond the threshold, even for an instant, into the radiance of Love emanating from that source, everything perceived and believed to be real before that experience, is seen to be ephemeral and evanescent by comparison, like clouds of whirling mist trying to hide the sun. I have described my experience of seeing this internal illumination before. The first time was in my first book, The Book of Atma, on page 53 and 54, published in 1977, 17 years after I experienced it on September 17, 1960. The second time was 20 years later, in Transcendental Physics, on page 205, at the beginning of Chapter 8, “The Doorway of Light”. During my initiation into the practice of Kriya Yoga, performed by the President of Self-Realization Fellowship at the Headquarters of the organization on Mt. Washington, just north of downtown Los Angeles, I beheld within my consciousness a spinning ball of light, the color of fire. It was three-dimensional, and as real as any object I have ever seen. But no verbal description can convey the striking transcendental reality of the experience. Its like trying to describe the taste of an exotic fruit to someone who no taste buds, or trying to describe the beauty of a fresh blooming rose to a blind person, - only more so!

I am not the first to try to describe the experience of seeing the innate radiance of the soul. A number of other writers have described this experience in various ways. I will mention a few of them. E.g., In his book: Choosing Reality, a Contemplative View of Physics and the Mind, B. Alan Wallace, while describing Buddhist meditation techniques, says:

“As one continues to apply oneself to the practice, there eventually arises an acquired sign. To some, this sign appears to the mind’s eye like a star.”

 Dr. Richard Bucke, MD, in his book Cosmic Consciousness, The Classic Investigation of the Development of Man’s Mystic Relation to the Infinite, describes his own experience of illumination, as part of his investigation of 50 cases of individuals awakening to the next major step in the evolution of human consciousness. He calls this next stage “Cosmic Consciousness”. The book is filled with descriptions of experiences of inner illumination, some written by the subjects of his investigation themselves. Those Dr Bucke considered as examples of Cosmic Consciousness include some well-known names like Moses, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Paul, Mohammad, Socrates, Spinoza, Sir Francis Bacon, William Blake, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Alfred Tennyson, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Ramakrishna Paramahansa.

It is very important to note that the fact that Dr. Bucke’s examples are mostly men (only 4 women were included) should in no way be taken to imply that he thought women did not experience spiritual illumination. It simply reflects the state of the world’s spiritual virtue in the 1800s affecting the information that was available for analysis. (See the discussion of the cyclic nature of planetary time in Secrets of the Sacred Cube, a Cosmic Love Story, Part X: Cycles of Consciousness and Time, pp 364-382.) In my opinion, it is likely that as many, or perhaps even more women experience the inner spiritual light, than men, because women are in general more sensitive and more likely to experience Spiritual Love, and the essence of Spiritual illumination is Love. One of the people in Dr. Bucke’s study who was a woman, identified only by her initials: C.M.C, wrote such a wonderful account of her experience that I want to quote her here. I would like to include every word of her beautiful, open and honest account of what she experienced, but it is too lengthy. I encourage the reader to get a copy of this classic book and read her whole story. Here are a few excerpts from pages 323-330 in Cosmic Consciousness:

Case of C.M.C. in her own words

“I was born in the year 1844. I have been told that as a child … along with my youth there was an air of thoughtfulness that belongs to more advanced years… I went to church and Sunday school, listened attentively. … The sermons were old-time presbyterian – the day of judgement, the sinner’s last condition, the unpardonable sin, and all those things so dreadful to a serious, imaginative child. The older I grew, and the more I thought, the more puzzled and bewildered I became. I wept bitter tears over the suffering of Jesus, grieving that my sins should have nailed him to the cross! How could he be God? I could not understand…. How terribly I felt when I learned that without the Gospel the heathen could not be saved. The cruelty and injustice of it made me almost hate God for making the world so. I joined the church, however, thinking that it might bring me peace and rest. But, though feeling more safe, I was just as far from satisfied…. The vastness and grandeur of the God which I felt in nature I could never reconcile with the God of the Bible, try as I would, and of course I felt myself a wicked skeptic in consequence…. At twenty-two I was married. Ten years later, a change of place broke up the old routine of my life, giving me new associates and interests…  Tyndall’s ‘Belfast Address’ was the first really thoughtful book (from the point of view of modern science) I had ever read, and it was a revelation to me. The question of design or purpose in nature, of individual mortality, etc., was left for scientific research to discover, if to be discovered at  all. My attitude was that of an agnostic.”

After this change of location, friends, interests, and attitude, while still struggling to understand the meaning and purpose of life, CMC suffered a serious illness along with what sounds like a psychological crisis, commonly called a nervous breakdown. After recovering, she continued:

“But now, into this life, past its meridian and apparently fixed for good or ill, was to come a new element which would transform me, my life, and the world to me. The soul, the deeper self, was to awake, and demand its own!  An irresistible force was to be aroused, which should, with mighty throes, rend the veil behind which nature hides her secrets. …Passing over the interval between this time and September 1893 as unimportant, except for the constant struggle within me, I proceed to describe, as well as may be, the supreme event of my life, which undoubtedly is related to all else, and is the outcome of those years of passionate search. I had come to see that my need was greater even than I had thought. The pain and tension deep in the core and centre of my being was so great that I felt as might some creature which had outgrown its skull, and yet could not escape. What it was I knew not, except that it was a great yearning – for freedom, for larger life – for deeper love. There seemed to be no response in nature to that infinite need. The great tide swept on, uncaring, pitiless, and, strength gone, every resource exhausted, nothing remained but submission…I let go of myself! In a short time, to my surprise, I began to feel a sense of comfort … never before had I experienced such a feeling of perfect health, - I wondered at it. And how bright and beautiful the sky! I looked at the sky, the hills and the river, amazed that I had never realized how divinely beautiful the world was!. The sense of lightness and expansion kept increasing…. The life and joy within me were becoming so intense…that all objective phenomena were shut out. I was seeing and comprehending the sublime meaning of things. The great truth that life is a spiritual evolution, that this life is but a passing phase in the soul’s progression burst upon my astonished vision with overwhelming grandeur. Oh, I thought, if this is what it means, if this is the outcome, then pain is sublime! Welcome centuries, eons of suffering, if it brings us to this! And still the splendor increased. Presently, what seemed to be a swift, oncoming wave of splendor and glory ineffable came down upon me, and I felt myself being enveloped, swallowed up….Now came a period of rapture so intense that the universe stood still, as if amazed at the unutterable majesty…Only one in all the infinite universe! …In that same wonderful moment …came illumination. I saw with intense inward vision the atoms or molecules, of which seemingly the universe is composed …material or spiritual – rearranging themselves, as the cosmos (in its continuous everlasting life) passes from order to order. What joy when I saw there was no break in the chain – not a link left out – everything in its place and time, World systems all blended in one harmonious whole. Universal life, synonymous with universal love! How long that period of intense rapture lasted, I do not know – it seemed an eternity – it might have been but a few moments. …In the morning I woke with a slight headache, but with the spiritual sense so strong that what we call the actual material things surrounding me seemed shadowy and unreal. My point of view was entirely changed. …The ‘subjective light’ (it seems to me) is magnetic or electric – some force is liberated in the brain and nervous system – some explosion takes place – the fire that burned in the breast is now a mounting flame.”

She goes on to describe in stunning detail how her life was totally changed, all her fears dissolved, all her desires satisfied in that moment of illumination! And she ends with:

“That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward, we find at last within ourselves. ’The Kingdom within! The indwelling God!’ are words whose sublime meaning we never shall fathom.”  

Henry David Thoreau, another of Dr. Bucke’s examples of cosmic consciousness, asks:

“With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?”

Here is part of a description of Dr. Bucke’s personal “illumination” experience:

“All at once, without warning of any kind, he found himself wrapped around as it were by a flame colored cloud. … he knew that the light was within himself. Directly afterwards came upon him a sense of exultation, of immense joyousness… followed by an intellectual illumination quite impossible to describe.”

One of the best descriptions of the experience of enlightenment comes from The Collected Works of Ramana Maharishi, on page 19, in the chapter titled “Enquiry into the Self”:

“The purpose of all the scriptures is this enquiry into the Self. It is declared in them that the annihilation of the ego-sense is Liberation.” He advises: “Do not even murmur “I”, but enquire keenly within what it is that now shines within the heart as “I”. Underlying the unceasing flow of varied thoughts, there arises the continuous, unbroken awareness, silent and spontaneous, as “I-I” in the Heart. If one catches hold of it and remains still, it will completely annihilate the sense of “I” in the body, and will itself disappear as a fire of burning camphor. Sages and scriptures proclaim this to be Liberation.”

The importance of the experience of the inner light is also mentioned numerous times In the book The Holy Science, by  Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, the Guru of Paramahansa Yogananda. Here are a few examples:  

Page 25: “Atoms…are the throne of Spirit, the Creator, which shining on them creates the universe. They are Maya, the Darkness, as they keep the Spiritual Light out of comprehension.”

Page 34: “Man, turning toward his Self and advancing in the right way, perceives the Spiritual Light…”

Page 39: “Any advanced sincere seeker… becomes able to direct his (or her) organs of sense inward to their common center – the sensorium, … the door of the inner world – where he comprehends the voice … and sees the God-sent luminous body …”

Page 40 – 41: “The 2^nd birth. Through this luminous body,… believing in the existence of the true Light – the Life of the universe – (the seeker) becomes baptized or absorbed in the holy stream.”

Page 53: “… the heart becomes perfectly purified and, instead of merely reflecting the spiritual light, actively manifests the same.”  

Page 60: “Philosophers (serious truth seekers) being able to comprehend the internal electrical Light that shines within them, find their hearts’ love flowing energetically toward the Light that relieves them of all causes of excitation, cools down their system to a normal state, and invigorating their vital powers, makes them perfectly healthy, both in body and mind. They accept this Light as their Divinity or Savior.”

Page 76: “Thus perceiving, (the seeker) naturally believes in the existence of the true Spiritual Light, and withdrawing self from the physical world (repenting), concentrates… on the sensorium. … This entrance into the inner world is the second birth…”

Page 94: “When Ego, the son of man, comes to the door, comprehends the Spiritual Light, and becomes baptized therein… passing through this door … entering into the spiritual world, receives the true Light and becomes the son of God.”

Concluding Remarks:

Self Inquiry, mentioned in previous posts, is the intensive investigation into the “I am” experience of consciousness, and beyond. This investigation can begin with the practice of religious focus and prayer, or meditation techniques developed and taught by those who have actually made the journey from the limiting quantized world of the physical senses, all the way to the infinitely continuous world of Spiritual Enlightenment. At this time, there are such a precious few real Spiritual Masters who have been, and still are the guiding lights helping suffering humanity to make it through the last 4000 difficult years of relative spiritual darkness, but their influence is the only thing that will save our species from fear, suffering, and self-destruction.

 

For those who ask: “Why do some people, (like CMC, quoted above) have such wonderful transcendental experiences, while others see nothing, or have horrible experiences during NDEs?” The reason is quite simple: We are all at different points on our cosmic journey. That’s why different teachings speak to different individuals. If the ultimate goal of life and existence were easy to attain, there would be no need for this physical universe! But if you can see or feel nothing beyond the physical world with its mixture of pleasure and pain, take heart and have hope, and please realize that there are such wonderful experiences in your future!

 

At this time in the 24,000-year planetary cycles of periodic increase and decrease of mental and spiritual virtue, we are only about 1530 years into the current 12,000-year era of increase, so the average human being alive today will not understand much of what the amazing Spiritual Masters of this world have to say. Since, as human beings, souls have a measure of free will, the teachings of the Masters, fossilized in the religious dogmas of many religions, are often misunderstood and sometimes even deliberately misinterpreted by those who do not understand. Most inhabitants of the planet at this time do not realize that the purpose of existence in general, and the complex organic life forms in which we find ourselves confined, in particular, is to afford billions of individual souls endless opportunities to learn and grow spiritually.

 

The good news is that an increasing number of people are having meaningful glimpses of the spiritual guide-posts, and even the ultimate goal of existence in voluntary and “spontaneous” cases of enlightenment like those studied by Dr, Bucke. Some are the result of many years of serious study and investigation into the nature of reality, culminating in either deliberate or divinely guided Self-Inquiry, while some are the result of traumatic near-death experiences (NDEs) or momentary out-of-body experiences (OBEs). There is additional  good news in the fact that during the last 50 years, more scientists are investigating these occurrences of expanded consciousness.

 

TDVP, as we have indicated, represents the much-needed paradigm shift to provide a fresh, much more comprehensive framework for the scientific study of consciousness expansion into higher-dimensional domains. This paradigm shift may seem painfully slow in coming, especially to those of us who have experienced even a nano-second glimpse of the reality behind all phenomena, but once the light of spiritual illumination breaks through the barrier of ignorance called materialism, the flood of Truth will overwhelm the world!

 

To bring this long post to an end, I want to briefly address three questions related to my interpretation of TDVP as the science of the future, that I am often asked in some form:

 

Question: Why do you stress Indian (Hindu) and Tibetan (Buddhist) Yoga meditation techniques? Answer: Those were the paths to God that spoke most clearly to me early in this life. But the Yoga meditation techniques taught by most Western teachers, are not actually real meditation. I explain this in The Book of Atma, page 7: “What is meant here by meditation must be absolutely clear. The various techniques and mental processes for concentration and relaxation (as taught by yoga instructors in the West) is not …meditation as used in this writing. These are preliminaries to meditation… what is meant here is the actual …coming face to face with the naked reality of Soul – or Atma. … A recent writer on the subject of meditation said ‘Of course meditation is not a cure-all …’” In the Book of Atma I went on to say that actually, real meditation (in the form of Self-Inquiry leading to direct experience of God) IS a cure-all, a cure-all, once and for all time! CMC’s story, and others documented in Bucke’s book Cosmic Consciousness attest to this. A direct experience of Cosmic Consciousness eliminates the irrational fear of death, because then you know, without any doubt that your soul is immortal.

 

Question: Why didn’t Jesus talk about meditation in the Bible? Answer: Actually, he did. A central element of his teaching was that “The Kingdom of Heaven is within.” And the word meditation is found many times in the Bible. Translators often thought of prayer and meditation as very similar, or even the same thing. Also, the wording of the scriptures has been changed many times over the years by those with the power to do so, for personal and political reasons. See Part VI, page 177-230, Secrets of the Sacred Cube.)

 

Question: Why mix science and spirituality? Answer: There is only one reality and therefore, one truth about the nature of reality. The organized search for truth was artificially divided up during the Dark Ages because of lack of understanding and lack of mental and spiritual virtue. Unified Monism is the proper metaphysical basis for the investigation of the nature of reality.

In periods of higher mental and spiritual virtue in the time cycles of both past and future, the roles of priest, scientist and physician often were, and will be again in the future, combined in one enlightened being. (See Secrets of the Sacred Cube for a brief description, and  The Holy Science for a full explanation of planetary time cycles.) It is time for more to see the Light of the soul and re-unite the search for truth.

 

ERC – May 15, 2021

HOW TO BEAT THE PANDEMIC

 

In these strange times, when greedy politicians and the wealthy control freaks who back them, have stolen ten months of our lives, we all need to take a break from this nightmare. You can turn the tables on them, and take advantage of the self-quarantine, lockdown, or whatever form of forced isolation you are experiencing at this time, by making it an opportunity to re-connect with the Essence of Reality. Most of the human race has lost touch with the simple Joy of Being because of the daily, constant immersion in the intoxicating delusions of the world. I don’t know about you, but I have an innate, fundamental need to reconnect with essence of reality ever so often. For most of us, reconnection with Reality seems to happen spontaneously, maybe only once or twice during a lifetime. It may be triggered by a moment alone in nature, the witnessing a beautiful sunset, being fully awake in a forest by a waterfall, or sometimes it is occasioned by the shock of a near death experience. But it is always uplifting, inspiring, a moment of enlightenment and Self-Realization.

For you, however, if you are one of those among us who have come to realize that life as a human being is a wonderful opportunity to reconnect completely and permanently with the essence of Reality, whether you think of it as God, the Over-Soul, the transcendental Self, Nature, Infinity, or Primary Consciousness, then reconnecting with Reality is your reason for living. If this describes you, then I want to encourage you to seize the moment, forget about the current pandemic, the election, and any and all negative personal concerns that make you feel sad, angry, defeated, discouraged, or hopeless, and right now, for just one moment, allow your innate consciousness to expand into the depth of the moment and ascend into the heights of the multi-dimensional Reality that embraces us. It will change your life forever.

If you can release all your memories and anticipations, good and bad, both your past and present, and your imagined future, if only for an instant, your consciousness may become free to return once again to its original state. Experiencing this even once, will open your eyes to the real purpose and meaning of being. But most of humanity at this time, is loath to take this leap into Reality due to habitual attachment to the physical body and a paralyzing fear of the unknown. The paradox of being both finite and infinite at the same time, looms as an impossible barrier to moving into the awareness of the Infinite Self. The finite living organism that you have identified with, has a great fear of pain and suffering, including the imaginary prospect of ceasing to exist, even though the Great Spiritual Masters of all times tell us that death is an illusion. Their universal message to us is that our soul is immortal, and that even when your physical body dies, or is destroyed, and no longer exists, you will still retain the spiritual awareness that you have attained as a conscious being living life on this earth. 

Turn the tables on the Pandemic: Choose to rejoice in the opportunity to experience Reality. Live life in joyous ecstasy, despite the efforts of tyrants to impose their delusions on the rest of us. Declare the Glory of God! Make a joyous noise that may be heard around the world! Create a pandemic of Love.

ERC 11/19/2020

INTELLIGENCE, ENLIGHTENMENT, AND REALITY

 

Neppe and Close

ON INTELLIGENCE, ENLIGHTENMENT, 

AND THE NATURE OF REALITY

The human intellect is finite, self-referential, devotedly self-centered, and its own best friend and worst enemy. Sometimes it obscures more than it illuminates, and Its most devious activity, which it even hides from itself, is the continuous frantic shoring up of the delusional belief that the real world is consistent with its carefully created conceptual view of itself and reality. The more intelligent and logically efficient the individual human mind, the more insidious this self-deception becomes. 

Each of us has developed or adopted our own conceptual model of reality that seems to us to be very real. However, an individual conceptual model existing in the mind, even if internally consistent, is often found to be inconsistent with the conceptual models of others, and it is very unlikely that any of them are entirely consistent with reality. With a limited correspondence to realty, our views of the world are more or less manageable finite models of reality, existing only within our skulls. But, because we each believe that our own conceptual model is actually reality itself, we build up all sorts of walls of internally consistent logic to protect it from the intrusive influence of any other world view that might conflict with it, and even from actual, existing reality. To the extent that an individual’s mental world appears to coincide with the consensus worldview of the society in which he or she resides, even though that consensus is also very unlikely to coincide with reality as it actually exists, that individual is considered to be reasonably sane and knowledgeable.

At this point in human history, most of us tire, quite early in life, of having to work to find truth for ourselves. This makes us very vulnerable to the influences of ready-made imaginary conceptual consensus worldviews created by various political, religious, and educational organizations whose leaders seek to control us under the pretense that they are more enlightened than we are, or that their beliefs are truths revealed by someone who is, or was, more enlightened and aware of the nature of reality than we are.

This brings up a series of important questions related to the concepts of worldviews and truth. Let’s start with: 1) What is truth? 2) What is enlightenment? 3) Are there many levels of truth and enlightenment? 4) Who is qualified to say what truth is? 4) Is there an ultimate or final state of enlightenment? And 5) If there is an ultimate state of enlightenment, has anyone ever attained that state?

Beginning with the question of what is truth? I submit that a statement is true, if and only if, it corresponds 100% with reality. That, of course, raises deeper questions: Exactly what is the true nature of reality? Is it mutable or immutable? That is to say, is reality absolute and changeless, or is it evolving?  If it is immutable, then it cannot be affected by what we do or think about it. If it is evolving, then we must ask: is it changing in response to our thoughts and actions, or is it altogether independent of us, changing randomly, or evolving toward definite goals according to its own rules? And, finally, are we, or can we ever be, capable of knowing reality well enough to determine whether our conceptualizations of it are true or not? 

At first thought, it would seem that there are two possible answers to the question of whether we can know reality: Either we are capable of knowing reality, or we are not. The answer is that, as finite physical beings, we can, if reality is finite, and if our physical brains contain, or can evolve to contain, enough cells, circuits, and synapses to correspond with the complexity of reality. And the answer is we cannot, if reality is infinite, unless our cognition is not limited to the capabilities of the physical brain. So, now we see that there are two even deeper questions that we must ask and answer first, in order to address this cascade of important questions, they are: Is reality finite or infinite? And is consciousness capable of operating outside of the physical body and beyond the functions of the brain?

At last we come to core questions that can and must be answered conclusively. Not only is there a growing mountain of solid evidence generated by scientists who have the courage to go beyond the limits of the current mainstream paradigm of materialistic physicalism, despite establishment censorship, but there is also a growing number of people who have had personal experiences of consciousness outside of and beyond the physical body and brain, who are speaking up. 

As a scientist with both overwhelmingly positive experimental evidence that the physical universe is an epiphenomenal series of forms arising from the substrate of Primary Consciousness, and direct personal experience of my own consciousness operating outside of my physical brain and body, I can answer the last question above, without hesitation, in the affirmative. It should be understood that the acceptance of this evidence and experience constitutes a real paradigm shift from the assumption that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of physical reality, to a paradigm recognizing consciousness as fundamental, if not primary. 

Consciousness definitely can function outside of, and beyond the physical body. I have seen evidence of it in meticulous experimental data, and experienced it myself, in near-death experiences (NDEs) and out-of-body experiences (OBEs). I have written about this in Secrets of the Sacred Cube, a Cosmic Love Story, Close, ER and JA, 2019. From the perspective of the multi-dimensional field of primary consciousness, which mainstream physicists call the zero point field (ZPF), the body’s brain and nervous system acts primarily as a receiver of the logical patterns of primary consciousness, and secondarily as a transmitter and organizer of the logical patterns of consciousness in the physical world. 

Working our way backward, the next question we can answer is: “Is reality finite or infinite?” All the evidence points to the conclusion that reality is infinite. Mainstream science generally treats reality as finite, only because their tools of observation and measurement have a finite range of application. But as we refine the tools and discover more of reality, the finite reality that physical scientists are studying is constantly expanding and changing. This is why science is always incomplete. This is why the history of science shows many examples of radical changes in the body of statements considered to be scientific facts. 

Also, Gӧdel’s incompleteness theorems prove that any representation of science as an internally consistent system of logic can never be complete. Thus, all internally consistent logical systems are capable of expansion. In addition, the red shift in light from distant stars indicates that the physical universe also follows this pattern of expansion into the unknown. So, even if a valid model of the physical universe can be said to be finite at any given moment in time, dynamic reality will expand beyond that, in the next instant. This conclusion that reality is functionally infinite brings us to a point where we can answer all of the questions posed above. Let’s take them in the order:

1) What is truth? Answer: 100% correspondence with reality. 1a) What is the nature of reality? Answer: Reality is the totality of everything that exists. 1b) Can we ever be aware of reality? Answer: Yes. That is the function of the mind and the senses.1c) Is reality finite or infinite? Answer: Reality is dynamically infinite. 1d) Do our thoughts and actions affect dynamic reality, does reality change according to specific discoverable rules, or does it change randomly? Answer: Our actions do affect reality, and reality does not appear to change completely randomly, as evidenced by the existence of the many verifiable deterministic laws of physical science. 1e) is consciousness capable of operating outside of the physical body and beyond the electrical and chemical functions of the physical brain? Yes, at least to a limited degree, and perhaps it will behave more and more that way as reality evolves. 2) What is enlightenment? Answer: Awareness and understanding of the nature of reality. 3) Are there various levels of truth and enlightenment? Answer: Yes. Distribution of the levels of enlightenment in individual consciousness beings forms a normal bell-shaped curve, and the body of truthful knowledge expands with the increasing levels of enlightenment. 4) Who is qualified to say what truth and enlightenment are? Answer: The most enlightened among us. 4) Is there an ultimate or final state of enlightenment? Answer: Yes there must be, but it is a moving target, due to the dynamically infinite nature of reality. 5) Has anyone ever attained the ultimate state of enlightenment? Answer: Yes, I believe so, but I cannot prove it.

This last answer requires additional explanation and some careful exploration of the interface of our individual consciousness with reality. These answers bring us to the deepest level of finite cognition, on the threshold of infinite continuity, where we have several choices. The road most travelled is the acceptance of the teachings of established authorities with blind faith and belief. Another choice is indulgence in self-deception, and a third choice is the search for conscious enlightenment. However, the analogy of forks in the road is not strictly valid because the three choices enumerated here are not mutually exclusive. Combinations of the three are open to us. Each of us must decide. 

As I  said, I believe there are ultimately enlightened beings, but I cannot prove it. Of course, it will be a great thing if ultimate enlightenment exists and if help is available to us from that level of intelligence and knowledge. But we cannot prove that an ultimately enlightened being exists because if such a being does exist, then by definition, that being exists both within, and outside of, and beyond, the domain of finite beings and finite logical systems. Fortunately, however, this inability to comprehend is a one-way feature of an infinite reality, because, while you may be unable to fully perceive the world and functional existence of a completely enlightened being, such a being, if one exists, can be aware of you and your world. There are two ways that this one-way restriction can be understood: by analogy, and by inductive mathematical proof of the existence of levels of intelligence superior to finite human intelligence.

As an analogy, consider an individual living micro-organism on your body, or in your immediate environment. While that specific micro-organism is able to act within its miniature world, and react to its environment with a natural rudimentary form of intelligence, it is unaware of your existence unless something you do affects it directly, and even then, it has no way of knowing anything about you, your world, or your level of intelligence. If something you do affects its world, it will be experienced by the micro-organism as part of its natural reality. If a fully enlightened being exists, then the analogy is that the micro-organism is to you as you are to the fully enlightened being. 

From a mathematical point of view, when a quantum calculus with a multi-dimensional quantum-equivalence unit and validated Diophantine (quantum integer) theorems are applied to the physics of the proton, as Dr. Vernon Neppe and I have done in TDVP, we find that there would be no stable atomic structure without the existence of a non-physical form of the substance of reality. Many papers, several books, and a number of posts on this blog have been published detailing this discovery and its implications. This non-physical feature of reality, which we call gimmel, guides the development of physical reality in an intelligent and purposeful manner. The existence of a Primary Intelligence acting prior to the development of the physical universe is revealed by inductive reasoning, and the existence of a spectrum of conscious enlightened beings operating between Primary Intelligence and human intelligence, is revealed by deductive reasoning. Again, it is important to note that this is the beginning of a paradigm shift from the assumption that matter is primary to the realization that consciousness is primary. 

Why is this important? Because when a new scientific paradigm is introduced, people capable of funding the needed research into its validity naturally ask established scientists to evaluate it. But most scientists who are well-established in the current paradigm, will be totally incapable of evaluating an actual paradigm shift. A recent example of a panel of scientists with training in mathematical physics asked to evaluate TDVP (the Neppe-Close Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm) will serve as an example.

Reviewers reviewed a single unpublished Close-Neppe paper and noted, as a negative comment, that they could find no references to some of the key terms of TDVP in papers in mainstream mathematics and physics journals. It apparently did not occur to them that if they found such references, it would prove that they were not new ideas. Also, one reviewer confidently declared that, contrary to our conclusion that gimmel, the non-physical aspect of reality discovered by mathematical analysis as reported in the paper, there was no evidence of consciousness in atomic or sub-atomic structures. Then later, the same reviewer admitted that science currently has no idea what consciousness is. The question one has to ask this reviewer is: How can you declare no evidence of something, if you don’t know what you are looking for? 

Although a fair number of qualified scientists have expressed confidence in TDVP as a real paradigm shift, there are several more examples of the type of current-paradigm circular reasoning highlighted above offered by mainstream scientists. It appears that Max Planck was right when he said: 

“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. … Science progresses from funeral to funeral.”

Dr. Neppe and I – and a few other competent scientists who have reviewed it - are convinced that TDVP, based on the sound experimental data of the Large Hadron Collider and the logic of quantum calculus analysis, is a valid paradigm shift from the limited scientific materialism of today’s mainstream science, to the broader consciousness-based science of the future. We are definitely not following the road most travelled, even though our new paradigm preserves much of the mainstream paradigm, while expanding it to include consciousness. Are we on the path of self-delusion, or enlightenment? It's up to you to decide.

ERC 11/07/2020  

THE NEXT STEP

THE NEXT STEP IN THE APPLICATION OF 

THE TDVP CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED PARADIGM

Based on the findings of Transcendental Physics, the mathematical processes of the Calculus of Distinctions and the philosophical framework of TDVP (the shift to a consciousness-based scientific paradigm), we know that reality has a definite logical structure, a major part of which is hidden because it is not available to our physical senses or extensions of them. Fortunately, it is revealed by the logical structure of pure mathematics.

TDVP explains that Primary Consciousness (PrC), the source of all stable, mathematically logical structure, is the underlying field of all reality. Everything is embedded in it. Entities that appear as particles in the three-space, one-unidirectional-time dimensional domain (3S-1t), are actually perturbations in the PrC field. They form and fit into the matrix of the PrC logical structure projected into 3s-1t. This means that quarks, protons, electrons, neutrons, radiation, molecules, organic life forms, planets, suns, and the cosmos, are inevitable, reflecting the logical structure of PrC.

Pure mathematics, as exemplified by the Calculus of Distinctions, reflects the logical structure of Primary Consciousness and all reality. The perturbations of the PrC field that we see as objects, are actually composed of 9-D energy vortices. This is revealed by the math and is verified by physical realities not explained by mainstream physical theory, such as quark mixing angles, fermion spin and triadic combinations of quarks and electrons, protons and neutrons.

The fact that a major part (it turns out more than 95%) of reality is hidden from the five senses associated with physical bodies, should not come as a surprise. Experimental science has shown us that the physical senses are reduction valves, allowing only that small portion of the radiation, vibration and dimensionality needed for survival, into the processing functions our brains. In our logically structured universe, the main purpose of physical organic life forms is to serve as vehicles for the development of consciousness. This development of individualized consciousness and the accompanying expansion of awareness is traditionally called spiritual growth, which leads to enlightenment.

OK! So, physical reality is a matrix of PrC field perturbances interacting with each other according to universal laws. Enlightenment, however, sounds to most people (including physical scientists) like an almost unattainable mystical state. What practical application does TDVP  have for you and me as personalized individualized consciousness in physical bodies? How does this knowledge enhance our lives or improve our chances to progress into more advanced states?

We are told by the saints and sages of all times and traditions that enlightenment can include an awareness of the interconnectedness of all things. So it is reasonable to expect that knowledge of the universal laws that govern the interactions of all things, will give us the ability to make crucial decisions that will result in starting on a path to true enlightenment and happiness. 

The knowledge that every particle of the hierarchical structure supporting the processes that make up our physical bodies, contains non-physical components (we’ve called them triadic rotational units of equivalence (TRUE) of gimmel) that convey the logical structure of Primary Consciousness, assures us that there is meaning and purpose in our existence. An awareness of the PrC field brings an awareness that all things, not just the organs and processes of physical bodies, are connected in a multi-dimensional way.

The next step is to develop a deep awareness of the reflection of Primary Consciousness conveyed by gimmel in every quark, proton, neutron, electron and atom, and every single molecule of our physical being. By deep concentration on the consciousness existing in and pervading all things and by aligning your individual consciousness with the laws and logic of Primary Consciousness, you can traverse an otherwise physically hidden path to maximum physical and mental health and eventually, spiritual perfection.

ERC 11/25/2018

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE

THE NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEEP NATURE OF REALITY

Humpty-Dumpty Science

I’ll probably get a lot of flak for this post, especially from pseudo scientists who like to compartmentalize their studies and their lives and think science and spirituality have nothing to do with each other; but I don’t care. If you don’t see all of reality as open to inspection and contemplation, and restrict ‘science’ to the study of some finite aspect of the physical universe, in my opinion, you are a pseudo scientist. I don’t mean this in a pejorative way, you are, of course free to study whatever you please, and much good information comes out of artificially isolated studies like physics, chemistry and biology. But such tunnel-vision studies also distort reality and hamper our progress toward a deep understanding of reality.

Most mainstream scientists are so focused on the details of their specialties that they lose sight of the fact that no matter how they try to limit and separate them, their specialties are part of an infinite reality that includes consciousness and spiritual experience. Most university administrations, however, strongly discourage faculty members from going beyond the field they were hired to teach. This is why, while I have earned degrees and coursework credit in at least ten universities, I have pursued most of my research outside the restrictions of any organized educational institution.

Reductionism has been the main tool of science for the past 300 plus years. Particle physics is the ultimate application of reductionism, isolating natural atomic and sub-atomic particles and smashing them together to blast them apart and look at the pieces. It is like smashing a watch with a hammer and looking for time in the pieces. The whole is always more than the sum of the parts. The deeper reality is destroyed by the process of tearing an object apart.

Really great scientists, like Newton, Leibniz, Planck, and Einstein, just to name a few, were integrators, they did not limit their fields of interest to the ‘approved’ subjects of the world of academia. Newton delved into arcane subjects as much or more than physics, but did not publish his findings because of the narrowmindedness of most scientists, the churches and the general public in his day. Leibniz was a polymath pursuing a deep understanding of natural science in general, and medicine, mathematics, linguistics, and philosophy in particular. Planck concluded that matter is an illusion created by patterns of energy and that an infinite intelligence is behind it all. Einstein famously wanted to know God’s thoughts. But academia and most mainstream scientists today pursue the pseudo-scientific path of disintegration.

I believe that some, even brilliant scientists, fall into the category of pseudo scientist. A prime example is Niels Bohr (with whom, incidentally I share a birthday – same day and month, not year) who believed that physics is not about discovering the deep meaning of reality, but simply about reporting experimental results in a way that others can understand. This is the attitude of most experimental scientists, and I’m not condemning it; in fact, I have great respect for Bohr and many other experimental physicists. But, in my opinion, study and research should ultimately be for the purpose of advancing our understanding of reality as a whole. Thus, fragmenting science into unrelated fields of study is, in my opinion, pseudoscience.

Putting Humpty-Dumpty Back Together Again

“All the King’s horses, and all the King’s men, couldn’t put Humpty back together again.” The King’s horses and men are the pseudo scientists of academia. Even most so-called independent research organizations are beholden to the government-industrial complex for funding, and while they are busy focusing on the power or money motivated goals of their funders have precious little time to look for the deeper nature and meaning of reality. It is up to a few renegade researchers like Neppe and Close to put the pieces back together to see how they fit into the broader picture of consciousness and spirit.

Thankfully, it turns out that when the blinders of limited discipline, money, greed, and ego are removed, and the holistic nature of reality is kept in mind, we see that the patterns we call the laws of physics are simple reflections of the deeper mathematical logic that lies behind them. I say ‘thankfully’ because if this were not the case, the universe would be chaotic and doomed to self-destruct at any moment according to the laws of entropy. By putting the fragments of modern science together in the context of the integrating actions of consciousness, TDVP has put Humpty-Dumpty science back together again. Keys to this re-integration of sub-atomic reality are the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions, TRUE quantum units, Dimensional Extrapolation, and the Conveyance Equations, analytical tools that I have developed over the past 25 years.

Application of the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions, a system of mathematical logic more comprehensive, and logically prior to all other calculi, to the experimental data of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), using the electron to define the most basic quantum unit of measurement, has allowed us to bring the action of consciousness, and in fact consciousness itself, into the equations of science. Derivation of the ultimate quantum distinction, the Triadic Rotational Unit of Equivalence (TRUE) and the Conveyance Equations and TRUE analysis of elements of the Periodic Table was presented in the “THE SIMPLE MATH OF TRUE UNITS CONTINUED” posted February 6^th, 2016. To read this post, copy and paste the link below into your web browser.:

http://www.erclosetphysics.com/2016/02/the-simple-math-of-true-units-continued.html

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING

Now, this may be the most difficult thing for me to convey, and it may be the hardest thing for you to accept, but it is by far the most important: A deep understanding of the Nature of Reality as inter-related combinations of TRUE units of mass, energy and consciousness can help you to understand the inter-connectedness of all things, and a deep understanding of Dimensional Extrapolation can help enable you to transcend the limitations of your physical body, experience the beauty of higher dimensional domains and become one with Primary Consciousness.

The deep realization of the fact that your physical body, and the entire physical universe are in reality just tips of the iceberg of the Eternally Infinite Reality, and that you are so much more than a physical body, will free your immortal soul from the cage of its temporary identification with the body, the finite mind, and fascination with money, sex and possessions. It is my hope that you may be blessed with a vision of the science of the future that will allow you to integrate the fragmented experiences of physical, intellectual and spiritual reality into one unified holistic experience of Reality. The idea that we are all part of Infinite Reality filled with ever-expanding Beauty, Love and Light is beyond the comprehension of the finite mind. But realization of the fact that we are more than the physical body and can experience Reality directly by consciously transcending our self-imposed limitations is the ultimate liberation and enlightenment.

IS HALF THE WORLD CRAZY?

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think science and logic can explain everything, and those who don’t. You might call the two camps ‘Rationalists’ and ‘Romanticists’. And they often find themselves at odds with each other. An extreme example of this is the heated arguments between Creationists and Atheists. Those in the one group think that there is nothing that science can’t explain, and those in the other group think there are things that science can never explain. There are those in both groups who think the other group is insane!

Believe it or not, the battle between these two types has actually been resolved. There would be no fights if everyone on both sides realized this. There is a pure math theorem that settles such arguments once and for all, and I’m going to tell you about it here. But if you are firmly entrenched in one camp or the other, don’t get yourself all geared up for the ecstasy of victory or the agony of defeat. It turns out that both are partly right, and both are partly wrong.

How can a mathematical theorem possibly resolve such ardently defended beliefs? You ask. It seems as though the brains of these two types may be hard-wired very differently, as some claim is the case for liberals and conservatives. (Liberals tend to be romanticists, and conservatives tend to be rationalists, though neither will admit this.) And how can both sides be partly right and partly wrong? Surely, you’re either right or wrong, right? No. Let me explain:

Scientists, and even mystics and romanticists, like to think their belief systems make sense, and any belief system that makes sense is based on some sort of logic. The idea that the universe is a logical system, obeying discoverable laws is strongly supported by the fact that we can now predict with exquisite accuracy the future location of every planet in our solar system and many other, human-sized, and even very small atomic and sub-atomic details. So, given that the universe is a logical system, even if we don’t understand all of the logic, it obeys a set of pure math theorems known as Incompleteness Theorems, proved by the Kurt Gӧdel 85 years ago. These theorems prove conclusively that no logical system can ever be said to be complete. This may sound abstract and of little consequence in our daily lives, but such is not the case. What these theorems tell us is that the universe, and science as well, are never complete. Science is forever incomplete because any logical system describing the universe is always incomplete.

Does this mean that there are things that science can never explain? Yes and no. The incompleteness theorems tell us that there are things that we can conceive of that science, as it exists now, cannot explain. But that doesn’t mean those things can never be explained. A logical system may be expanded with new a priori concepts that will make things explainable that were previously inexplicable. So there will always be things that science cannot explain, but any given thing, inexplicable now, may be explained in the not too distant future. So rationalists are correct when they say that science has the potential to explain any given conceivable thing, but romanticists are also correct when they say that there will always be things that science cannot explain. Another way to say this is: science is man-made and finite, while reality is natural, not man made, and infinite. Our experience of reality can be divided logically into three parts: the known, the partially known, and the unknown.

I don’t think our brains are hard-wired to be one or the other. We are just inclined to think we know more than we actually do. But, in fact, we can never know everything. If the part of reality we have come to be most familiar with is easy for us to quantify and explain, we tend to be rationalists; if it is complex and unexplained, we tend to be romanticists or mystics. Will either side ever win? The incompleteness theorems tell us NO. Realizing that this is the case is liberating. Realizing that this is so is enlightening because it enables us to see that those other people are not really crazy, they are just seeing a different part of reality than we are. Except for the circumstances of our lives, we could be them!

On any given day, you might become primarily rational, primarily romantic, or an equal mixture of both. But that’s a third type, isn’t it? As we’ve seen in TDVP, Reality is triadic, and, in keeping with that, there may be three types of people, not just two: those who believe in science, those who don’t, and the third type: those who just don’t care. They’ll take either side and argue about anything, just for the fun of arguing. I don’t think this third type has hard-wired brains either, but it’s likely that those in either of the first two groups will think that the brains of this group just rattle around in their heads like pea-gravel in a tin can!