PART ONE — THE PAST
“...all matter
originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of
an atom to vibration which holds the atom together. We must assume behind this
force is the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the
matrix of all matter.“
Max Planck (1858—1947)
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918
“Reality
is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one.”
Albert Einstein (1879 –1955)
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921
Chapter 1
Who is right?
"A fanatic is a man
who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt."
Aldous Leonard Huxley
British author (1894—1963)
As I’ve stated in
my DELUSIONS—Pragmatic
Realism, fundamentalists are always right. Be they of religious persuasion, or steeped in
scientific jargon, they are always right.
For thousands of
years, some very wise people attempted to break into the mystery of the
Universal Laws. Those running religions called them dogmas, the scientific authorities referred to them as... facts. On the other hand, many saints, mystics, even Saviours, as well as noted scientists,
tried to know, let alone understand, what Einstein called “the thoughts of God”. “The
rest are details”, he’d said.
And, in a way, he
was right.
The problems is,
however, that in the phenomenal reality all details count. Atoms, subatomic
particles such as electrons, protons, quarks... they all count. Even waves
count. Do they have anything to do with the thoughts of God? Well, this depends on who or what we mean by ‘God’.
And yet, though
neither group would admit it, both religious and scientific communities continue
to try to make sense of the phenomenal reality, while supposedly realizing that
it is only an illusion.
Why?
At long last
Albert Einstein supplied us with an answer. Because:
ALL IS ENERGY.
The ‘visible’
universe might be constructed of (supposedly) ‘solid’ particles, such as atoms,
but in fact, atoms are no more than energy vibrating at a very slow rate. Till
now we recognized movement mostly by changing localities of matter. Now we had
to look at staying in the same location, but vibrating at different rates.
One might have
thought that this single statement would put to sleep the eternal struggle
between “mind and faith”.
Not so.
It not only didn’t
provide an answer but, instead of defining what might be the thoughts of God,
we now had to decide: what is energy.
Back to square
one. Though... not quite.
First, let us define what we mean by vibration. In scientific
terms, it refers to the transducer which metamorphoses energy. Originally it was merely:
“a device that converted variations in a
physical quantity, such as pressure or brightness, into an electrical signal,
or vice versa.” 4
Today we accept
that a transducer can convert one form of energy into another, essentially by
changing its rate of vibration.
Our built-in
transducer is not of phenomenal construction. It consists of the energy of
Consciousness. What makes this energy different from all the other energies is
that it is omnipresent. It is to our thought processes what air is to our
lungs. In fact, when reduced to the very first principle, we are
individualizations of the
Omnipresent Energy of Consciousness. An omnipresent Transducer.
That’s it. No more
and no less.
However, there is
a snag in this ointment. While we abide in his phenomenal reality, the process known as evolution has
developed a system of developing artificial intelligence. It is a biological
computer known to us as our brain. Some 100 billion neurons working overtime to
keep us alive. They communicate with each other by firing an electrical or
chemical impulse between 5 and 50 times every second across the junction
between two nerve cells.
According to
Wikipedia:
“Each individual
neuron can form thousands of links with other neurons (and) in this way, giving
a typical brain well over 100
trillion synapses (up to 1,000
trillion, by some estimates).
This AI (Artificial
Intelligence) serves to produce consciousness which manifests as ego. While ego
separates us from the rest of the Universe, it is indispensable for the
transient survival of our phenomenal body. When our individualized
Consciousness leaves our physical enclosures, the artificial consciousness is
often in sufficient rapport with the ‘real’ consciousness, to survive until the
next reincarnation.
So... who is right?
I question both,
the religious and the scientific theories. It is likely that each one of us must define reality for oneself. After all, we are individualizations
of the omnipresent Consciousness. Yet there is a strange, for me irresistible
boon to my conclusions. My philosophy not only assures me of immortality but
enables me to abide, here on Earth, in the antechamber of Heaven. Even if it is a temporary heaven of Devachan (which will be explained in chapter 2).
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