CONCLUSIONS, (sequel to DELUSIONS) Pt.2 of INTRODUCTION

And this brings us, more or less, up to date. We are all ignorant. Not because we’re all mentally deficient, only because the Universe is stranger than we can, as yet, imagine. This last opinion also belongs to Richard Feynman.

Don’t you just love honest people, let alone honest scientists?

While I do not blame Richard Dawkins for anything within the field of his expertise, I do hold his namesake, Richard Feynman directly responsible for my drifting into the field of metaphysics.

Science was, for me, no longer enough.

After all, science is supposed to be a method, not an answer to all the unknowns. Science produces theories that are taken as working hypotheses until a better theory makes the unknowns just a tad clearer. Just a tad. There is no hurry. We have eternity to find the answers, and by then, the questions will have changed.

That’s the beauty of metaphysics. It reaches beyond physics. Beyond what is. It reaches into the field of what could be.

To be quite honest even after I started writing CONCLUSIONS, I had only a vague idea of what I was going to write. What I did, however, I doubled the time I allotted to contemplation. I’d relax in a prone position, close my eyes, tried my best to eliminate any external detractions, and waited. Within a week I begun to see where I was going. Within two weeks, I started writing.

And then, one day, it came to me.

Finally, I had a clear idea of what this book is going to be about. Conclusions, yes, but what conclusions - that was the point. On Thursday, October 31st, 2019, I saw the Universe in all its glory. Gradually I shall unfold my vision to you. The only surprising thing I discovered was that the mystery, the secret of the “thoughts of God” (to use Einstein’s expression) had been unfolded to us thousands of years ago. Only our pride, our egos, and perhaps our greed, stopped us from assuming the humble role which we are destined to play here, on Earth, in this phenomenal reality.

On the other hand, our purpose is so magnificent that we did not dare to face the truth.

Well, now we must.

The Age of Aquarius demands it of us. We must stop leaning on, relying on, and blaming our leaders for our successes and failures. We must take our rightful place in the scheme of things. In the infinity of the Universe. In the infinity of time.

We must grow up. 

 DELUSIONS—Pragmatic Realism

CONCLUSIONS, (sequel to DELUSIONS) Cont. INTRODUCTION

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."

Robert Green Ingersoll

American social activist, orator and agnostic (1833—1899)

(Please, don’t forget, we are part of nature.)

I shall no longer pretend to follow in Richard Dawkins’s illustrious footsteps. Any man who purports that the phenomenal Universe ‘happened’ out of nothing, or even out of a ‘Big Bang’, does not deserve to be taken seriously. On the other hand, I do like his sense of humour. Anything he does not understand he deems to be nonsense. Like the Bible, which he, (as well as all people who wish to use it to control people’s minds, behaviour, and pocket), regards as a religious document, whereas in fact, it has nothing whatsoever to do with any religion.

The Bible is no more and no less than a compendium of knowledge, compiled over countless millennia, which suggests how to lead a happy life. Hence, it teaches us, how to create our own phenomenal reality.

Admittedly, it has been usurped by various religious fraternities, and used it as a carrot and stick to control those of weaker minds, or even just softer hearts. Don’t get me wrong: there are a few bona fide saints amongst their ranks. Very few, and very many ersatz saints who had been canonized for political purposes. Just like the Noble Prize.

While I still admire Mr. Dawkins’s predisposition to praise the literary merits of the King James Bible of 1611, while ignoring its content, I do wish he’d stop deluding himself that he has any idea what the Bible is about. For that one needs at least an elementary knowledge of symbolism, of which he is sadly bereft. He might find my DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL SYMBOLISM of some help.

By contrast, the rest of our illustrious scientists continue to treat the Universe as a conglomerate of material objects, completely ignoring the brighter minds amongst them who reached the conclusion some time ago, that ALL IS ENERGY. Not only that all matter could be converted to energy as in E=MC²  but, as an example, like a hydrogen atom that consists of 99.9999999999996%  empty space, and the essence of the remainder is still energy.

And then, in 1927 Louis de Broglie demonstrated the wave-like behaviour of particles which became the basis of the quantum mechanics, which also, to this day manages to confuse even the best brains in the scientific community.

De Broglie was followed by Max Planck, Schrodinger, Born, Heisenberg, Dirac, Bohr, not to mention our dear old Albert Einstein. Finally Richard Feynman, who (together with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger) has been awarded the Nobel Prize for “their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.”

Having been awarded the Nobel Prize, Richard Feynman publically assured us that:

“It is safe to say that no one understands Quantum Mechanics.” 

I am delighted to belong to such an illustrious fraternity of famous, ignorant scientists. I, too, am ignorant.

(To be continued) 

 

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(DELUSIONS/CONCLUSIONS - Chapter 2 Cont.)

Where We Were

As for life on Earth, it all sounds fairly promising until we return to Einstein. As our phenomenal reality is to be no more than an illusion, it seems that we are creating it with our minds, with our thoughts and desires, and eventually with our resulting actions. We and we alone create realities that we regard as real.

Beauty for one is mundane for another.

Riches for some is near poverty for another.

Physical possession for one, are but fetters restricting freedom for another.

Even happiness of one is a state of boredom for some.

And so forth.

I’d suggest that the only purpose of our life in this the illusory reality of the phenomenal Earth is to practice and prepare our consciousness for extended periods we are about to spend in Devachan. After all, 1500 years might be regarded as eternity by some who choose conditions which, in higher reality of Devachan, might have no value at all.

Reenter the mystics, prophets and messiahs.

From a mundane point of view, there is one thing that sets them apart. They had the knowledge, and hence the power, to manipulate matter. Now that we know that (according to our science) all matter is energy at different rates of vibrations, and that our reality is an illusion, this ability sound a lot easier to accept.

All we need do, here and now, is to imagine what our “heaven” should be like, and act as though we could bring it about. We know that like attracts like, no matter how illusory. If you believe in happiness, the chances are much greater that you will be happy. The same goes for all other traits of character which, being a state of consciousness, is the only energy that is real. Yes, even here, on Earth.

So all we really must do, here, on Earth, in this illusory reality, is to make sure that our likes and dislikes are such as would assure our happiness for at least 1500 years. Later, in another stint on Earth, we might change our minds and reach out even higher.

I strongly suspect that Devachan is merely another state of consciousness, in which we create a reality that suits our predilections, at least for a while.

But whatever happens, whatever the truth about building one’s reality of one thing I am certain. There is no “requiescat in pace”, and that would be my version of Hell. Imagine even 1500 years of undisturbed peace without any challenges to conquer.

Not for me.

Hence, to repeat Theodore Roosevelt, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

(TO BE CONTINUED IN A DAY OR TWO)

 

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(DELUSIONS/CONCLUSIONS - Chapter 2) Excerpt.

Where We Were

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

 Theodore Roosevelt,

26th U.S, President (1858—1919)

For countless years, probably countless millennia if not millions of years, we imagined that we live on Earth for no particular reason, other than to survive for as long as we could. This, after all, seems to be the principal preoccupations of other species, of other animals, who have not yet begun to create their own, artificial realities.

And then came mystics, prophets and even messiahs.

They, until recently, were the only ones who suggested that we are more than flesh and bones. That we can create realities that we can pretend to be real. They also suggested that life on Earth is not the only form of existence, but rather a transient state of becoming, when-after we shall move, on ‘dying’ (vacating our illusory bodies), to a higher reality. Those ideas were summarily exploited by men who created religions, for the sole purpose of controlling man’s minds. For what purpose they did so, we shall leave for now. While they tended to live in unprecedented luxury compared to those whose minds they controlled, they were also directly responsible for creating, installing and protecting countless architectural, sculptural and painting treasures, which, to this day, we recognize as works of art, and that often serve as inspiration for wonderful compositions of music.

And then came Albert Einstein and, with a single sentence upset the philosophical, religious and even practical apple cart. He proclaimed that:

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

So much for life on Earth.

Unless...

Unless the only purpose of life on Earth is to prepare a state of consciousness in which we want to spend extended periods. Some Mahatmas¹ claim that the stages between reincarnations in the ‘valley of tears’  can last, on average, 1500 years.

Hence, we don’t retire to do nothing for ever-after, to exist eternally in a state abysmal boredom usually referred to as Heaven, but be retire to Devachan, which is a temporary abode which”

“...is regarded as the place where most souls go after death where desires are gratified, corresponding to the Christian belief in Heaven. However, Devachan is a temporary intermediate state of being before the soul's eventual rebirth into the physical world.” (H.P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary. Theosophical Publishing Society, 1892, page 98)

Let us make sure that we do not confuse Devachan with the Christian version of  Purgatory, which is far, far more unpleasant state of consciousness than Devachan. While Devachan can be a stint wherein we are rewarded for having created the existence of joy and pleasure, the Purgatory is a purely punitive condition. According to Christian doctrine, we are not sent there as a reward, but a punishment. After all, all Christianity is built on the carrot and the stick philosophy with the absolutes of Heaven and Hell as unchangeable, irrevocable, permanents states of consciousness.

Alas, for the rest of us, we prefer to believe in Christ’s teaching, and not in the perverted version of it promulgated by the sacerdotal fraternities. After all, Christ said that “Kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21). We must assume that the Kingdom of God is as close to Heaven as we can get.

Nevertheless, H.P. Blavatsky, purporting the philosophy of theosophy, assures us that:

“Through Wisdom and Knowledge, one can reach Nirvana and be free from the cycle of birth and death, and even the "false bliss" of Devachan. (H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine)

We wouldn’t be able to verify if the bliss of Davanchan is real unless we’ve been there. There are, however, several people throughout history who have strong recollections of previous lives.

On the other hand, we cannot confirm Blavatsky’s thesis as, to my knowledge, no one yet achieved “absolute Wisdom and  Knowledge”, hence failed to return to Earth.

(1) Mahatma means "great soul", derived from Sanskrit (maha) meaning "great" and (atman) meaning "soul, spirit, life". 

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My brother came to see me, today. We discussed this and that, and later, since he has a Ph.D. in physics from Leeds, UK, our conversation turned to physics. Particle physics, or as I like to call it, non-pragmatic reality.

I told him about the empty space business. About our reality not being there. Or here, so to speak. I was hoping he’d cheer me up.

He didn’t.

He said that the latest coming directly from the hot tub is nothing. I mean that atoms occupy, well, zero space.  That, according to the particle physicists, they are points. Non-dimensional points. They are called point-particles. That atoms are there but not really, as far as mass is concerned.

No mass?

Not in particle physics. It’s useful, he said. They don’t take up any space. It’s how physicists see the particles when mass is, well, mass and size or shape, or… the structure is irrelevant in a given context…

So they are not really there? 

Oh, they are there. Sort of.

What about the Earth, I asked? Is Earth a point, too?

Sure, he replied.

And the universe?

He just looked at me.

So much for Pragmatic Reality of particle physics.

Then I tried again. What about the Big Bang, then? It must have had an enormous black hole to initiate the expansion of the whole universe. The mass of our own black hole, at the center of Milky Way, is said to be about four million times that of our Sun. And our little solar system is only some 27,000 light-years away from the centre of the Milky Way—from the mother of all the black holes in our galaxy. I wondered how long it would or how long it will take to swallow us whole.

A point, he replied. A point.

You’re kidding, right?

No. Particle physicists never kid. Science is too vital. The whole reality would collapse if we did. Wouldn’t it? I must have looked dubious. You see, he added, before the Big Bang there was no time or space. Hence…

A point, I finished for him.

I must have continued to look a bit lost.

You see, he began again, for example, from far enough away an object of any shape will look and behave as a point-like object.

This time it was I who just stared at him. He continued talking. In the theory of gravity, we often discuss a point mass, meaning a point particle with a nonzero mass and…

I stopped paying attention. 

My wife looked up from the settee. I’d rather be a fish, she said. When we both looked at her, she added, but not salmon.

Yesterday we saw a movie on TV about salmon. They, seemingly hundreds of them, have reached the end of their journey. Three brown bears were gorging themselves in shallow water. The salmon made an only half-hearted attempt at escape. What would have been the point? They came here to die.

It’s all a delusion, I thought. Like God?

I thought that Dr. Dawkins would be pleased. On the other hand, the non-physical universe of spiritual, mental and emotional whimsy suddenly became even more real. At least for me. How about you?

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CONCLUSIONS—Pragmatic Realities.

Prompted by my wife, I am forced to write a sequel to my DELUSIONS—Pragmantic Realism. The only fair title that comes to mind is CONCLUSIONS—Pragmatic Realities.

Below the Foreward to the book.

FOREWORD to DELUSIONS

I am reminded of a story about a seeker, a man from the West, coming upon two Buddhist monks. They were sitting in contemplative silence, some distance apart. After waiting for a respectful while, in an attempt to understand the Infinite, the tourist asked the first monk:
    “Is there a God?”
    The monk opened his eyes, looked with patient tolerance at the traveller and replied, “Of course not.”
    The seeker shook his head in deep disappointment. Yet, the scientific part of his brain smiled with satisfaction. On the other hand, having been trained in the scientific method he felt a deep void in his heart. His upbringing and training precluded the existence of the permanent; of something he could fall back on if all else failed, and in science, things changed constantly—even the universe. But, he was a seeker; he refused to give up. After another while, he approached the second monk and repeated the same question,
    “Is there a God?”
    The second monk opened his eyes, looked at traveller with inherent compassion and replied, “Of course. I am.”
    It sounded like a Zen Koan. Or, in Master Hyakujo’s words, “The enlightened man is one with causation.”
    The seeker remembered: “The perceiver and the perceived are one.”
    Contented, the seeker went on his way.

    
    My CONCLUSIONS?

Not much has changed. The Buddhist monks still sit in contemplative silence. They still ponder the Infinite within and without them. Another man from the West asked the same question as his predecessor did some years ago:
    “Is there a God?” 
    The monk turned his dreamy eyes at the tourist.
    “Define what you mean by God.”
    The tourist was stumped. Didn’t Baruch Spinoza once say that: “To define God is to deny God.” Of course, to define means to limit, and if you limit God then He’d no longer be God. And least, not the Almighty One. 'He', that’s already a limitation. Perhaps He’s a She. Or a hermaphrodite? Or not even human at all.
    Well, maybe the Greeks were right. Who could tell what billions of years could evolve? Maybe there are many gods.
    “Never mind,” the tourist said. He didn’t want to place limitations on the Unlimited.
    The monk smiled knowingly.     

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