Quantum mechanics is telling us that the world is created from an infinitely malleable, ‘mind-like’ substance that is capable of being formed into absolutely anything ‘imaginable.’
In other words, quantum mechanics is telling us that the universe seems to be constructed from an extremely advanced and ordered version of the same fundamental substance that composes our thoughts and dreams.
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“Time does not exist independently of the life that notices it…
“The past exists only as ideas in the mind … in the present moment.” – Robert Lanza.
Where were you when creatures like the one above existed over 400 million years ago?
In the Hindu’s Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna; “Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.”
An early Christian called Origen believed that souls existed before they were born.
Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.’
“Johnny said ‘tell me of Grandpa Robert.’ I was surprised…I had not told stories of him, and I could not imagine where he had heard his name. He had died before I had even married.
“‘How do you know about Grandpa Robert?’ I asked. ‘Well, Momma,’ he said with reverence, ‘he’s the one who brought me to earth.'”
Dr Bradford Skow says that the past, present and future all exist together
According to the Buddhists, it is best not to keep on being re-incarnated.
“To transcend suffering one must cease the cycle of arising and cessation. Of birth and death.
“Early Christians, before Constantine took over the religion, had a much different view of the soul and its relationship to God than mainstream Christianity does today.
“It viewed the soul as having a past history with God and was destined to rejoin God in the future, and that Christ came as an example of how we accomplish this task and to make make it possible in an all new way for us to achieve our union with God.
“In many ways this teaching wasn’t that much different than what Buddha taught concerning the soul and its relationship with the Absolute. Christ taught we must be reborn in the spirit and Buddha taught we must transcend this world and our attachment to it.”
Where were you over 400 million years ago?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of philosophy Dr Bradford Skow says that the idea that time flows like a river is not correct.
Instead he claims the past, present and future all exist together
“If we were to ‘look down’ upon the universe, we would see time spread out in all directions.
“Events exist in different parts of space-time.
“While installing central heating in the cellar of the Treasurer’s House in 1953, Harry Martindale was witness to an astounding sight.
“Roman soldiers, dressed in green tunics and wearing plumed helmets, appeared suddenly through a wall of the cellar, they then marched, dishevelled and dejected, through the cellar before disappearing.”
Dr Bradford Skow says that time does not flow like a river.
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Dr Bradford Skow says that space-time is a ‘block universe’.
A ‘block universe’ can be compared to a movie reel, where all the parts of the movie exist at the same time.
Dr Skow says that events, such as the American Revolution or 9 11, exist in different parts of space-time.
He points out that according to quantum physics, “the future isn’t set until we measure a quantum object – at which point its state becomes fixed.
“Viewed this way, we live on the leading edge of a growing block universe, with future possibilities coming into existence every time we take measurements.
“So each ‘now’ determines the future, a future that is always just beyond our reach.”
To the Buddhist, the world (Samsara) is full of movement and an awareness of Time.
But Nirvana is blissful and still; and has no Time.
“You can picture this … as a vast blue sky, and the world of time and change is just a little tiny cloud passing within it…
“The cloud arises, the cloud stays a bit, and the cloud goes, but the vast empty sky remains untouched by it…
“You are the vast empty sky and this whole universe is a tiny cloud within you.
“Through …. ignorance, however, you have forgotten your true nature as the motionless sky and mistakenly identified yourself as the ever-changing cloud (or a small part of the cloud)…
“It’s the same as the old ‘mirror’ analogy: your mind is a perfectly clear mirror, and the world is reflected in it.
“You first must discover that you are the mirror and become free of the reflections.
“Then you must discover that the reflections are not separate from the mirror. At that point you become Free as the Absolute Unity of mirror-and-reflections together…
“Everything is like a dream, is like dew, is like a bubble or a flash of lightning. Nothing stays but is always in a process of change.
“Rather than being some constant, fixed reality, this whole universe constantly appears and disappears.
“But there is a way to experience the true nature of this constantly changing universe.
“Simply do not become attached to any outside world.
“Don’t become attached to names and forms.
“If you keep that point, then your mind is not moving.
“You attain that names and forms are fundamentally empty.
“This whole universe is completely empty. You are completely empty. Nothing ever comes or goes. Nothing ever appears or disappears.
“When you keep this mind, you soon attain your true self.”
-Zen Master Seung Sahn, The Compass of Zen, pp. 127-129
“Waking up from the dream means realizing that nothing ever happened. With Enlightenment there is no history. It has been burned out of existence. Time itself has been destroyed.”
-Andrew Cohen
The security chip on a credit card is a two-dimensional surface which allows us to see a three dimensional object.
Above we see a hologram which is flat and two dimensional, but, which can be seen as non-flat and three dimensional.
Some scientists think that we live in a hologram and that we are simply ‘a projection’ from that hologram.
The hologram contains all the information needed to project us and our world into three dimensional things.
Some scientists believe that all ‘things’, or particles, are really just one interlinked thing.
Some people believe that ‘consciousness’ creates everything that there is.
Some scientists believe that all ‘events’, past, present or future, are actually taking place at the same time.
And what about your ancestors, the single celled creatures – the earliest form of life?
“Single-celled slime moulds demonstrate the ability to memorize and anticipate repeated events, a team of Japanese researchers reported in January 2008.”
So the single-celled creatures have “brain function”, although they have no brain at all.[15]
We can tune into different frequencies.
The psychiatrist Stanislav Grof “had one female patient who suddenly became convinced she had assumed the identity of a female of a species of prehistoric reptile…
“Grof encountered examples of patients regressing and identifying with virtually every species on the evolutionary tree…
“Moreover, he found that such experiences frequently contained obscure zoological details which turned out to be accurate…
“Grof had patients … with little or no education who suddenly gave detailed descriptions of Zoroastrian funerary practices and scenes from Hindu mythology…
“Individuals gave persuasive accounts of out-of-body journeys, of precognitive glimpses of the future, of regressions into apparent past-life incarnations…
Choosing to be happy? “As Grof recently noted, if the mind is actually part of a continuum, a labyrinth that is connected not only to every other mind that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and region in the vastness of space and time itself, the fact that it is able to occasionally make forays into the labyrinth and have transpersonal experiences no longer seems so strange…
“In his book Gifts of Unknown Things, biologist Lyall Watson describes his encounter with an Indonesian shaman woman who, by performing a ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees instantly vanish into thin air.
“Watson relates that as he and another astonished onlooker continued to watch the woman, she caused the trees to reappear, then ‘click’ off again and on again several times in succession.”
Professor Kater Murch (above) has found that by knowing the future of a cat, its life in the past is altered.
Professor Kater Murch, at Washington University, has found that by knowing the future outcome of a particle, its state in the past is altered.
Things are made out of tiny ‘particles’.
According to the scientists, when you come a cross a ‘particle’ it does not have a ‘fixed state’ – until your mind decides what its ‘fixed state’ will be.
In other words, if you come across Mr Schrödinger’s cat lying very still on the grass, the cat is neither dead nor alive – until your mind decides what its ‘fixed state’ will be.
Let us imagine that you have a very strong feeling that the cat will be alive and well next year.
Then the cat is currently not dead.
The future has affected the present.
Christians believe that things go better when you tune into the Holy Spirit.
The Taoists would call the Holy Spirit the Tao.
When you are tuned in, the cat is not dead.
What are the essentials of Taoism?
Some Taoists and Christians and others believe that bliss can be achieved when:
1. You believe that, when tuned in, life works out for the best.
2. You are compassionate
3. You are moderate (Avoid extremes)
4. You are humble (The selfish ego is switched off)
5. Everything is in balance
6. Being tuned into the Holy Spirit or the Tao or whatever you want to call it, you go with the flow (You are not battling against the Holy Spirit or Tau)
7. You avoid the use of force; you avoid pitting your will against the universe.
Eventually the cat will die, but it will continue in the Spirit.
Is life an illusion?
1.EmptyHub (If everything is just an illusion) refers to the parable of Jesus “about a son who leaves his father’s home, squanders his wealth, returns destitute and poor, only to be loved even more…
“To put it another way, one has to pass through the false in order to know the true.”
The son learns to be part of ‘God’ rather than an individual selfish self.
As Jesus said: “I and the father are one”.
“Living beings resist the zero state so they can experience enjoyment out of what is essentially nothingness.”
“We don’t get to see who is truly there in front of us because we’ve painted them in a hue in an effort to fit them into our paradigm of what we believe a ‘loving’ relationship should be/look like.”
4. There is a belief that if we can detach ourself from our sense of being an individual self, then we are detached from physical and emotional discomforts.
5. The philosopher George Berkeley argued that a thing only exists as an idea in someone’s mind.
Quantum theory tells us that an unobserved small object exists only in an unpredictable state, with no defined location or motion until the moment it is observed.
6.Socrates and Plato argued that beyond what we think is real there lies a world of ‘perfect’ forms.
“Everything that we see is just a shade, an imitation of how things truly are.”
“The Master does not see evil as a force to resist, but simply as an opaqueness, a state of self-absorption that is in disharmony with the universal process, so that, as with a dirty window, the light can’t shine through.
“This freedom from moral categories allows him his great compassion for the wicked and the selfish” – Stephen Mitchell
“The Tao regulates natural processes and nourishes balance in the Universe.
“It embodies the harmony of opposites (i.e. there would be no love without hate, no light without dark, no male without female.)”
4.Henry C K Liu wrote in the Asia Times about Taoism.
“Excessive amounts of the good can be bad.
“Poison kills. But when handled properly, it can cure diseases.
“Without poison, there can be no medicine.
“To employ poison to attack poison is a Taoist principle.”
The secret is to avoid extremes.
Americans carrying out torture in Vietnam.
How should we act?
We should avoid producing unintended consequences.
“Not taking premature or unnecessary actions keeps all of one’s options open, so that the most appropriate action remains available.
“Actions always elicit reactions.
“Each action taken provokes reactions from all quarters that, taken together, are always more powerful than the precipitous action itself. It is the ultimate definition of the inescapable law of unintended consequences.”
“To follow the dao (path) of life is to go with the natural flow of life and to avoid going against it.
“The ethical theories of Taoism lean toward passive resistance, believing that evil, by definition, will ultimately destroy even itself without undue interference.
“Yet it would be a mistake to regard Taoism as fatalistic and pessimistic, instead of the ultimate sophistication in optimism that it is.
“Only by not applying effort can one achieve that state in which nothing is not attainable effortlessly.
“A little ambition is a good thing. Total elimination, even of undesirables, is an extreme solution, and it is therefore self-defeating.
“Life is a prison from which one can escape only if one does not try to escape. It is the desire to escape that makes a place a prison, and the desire to return that makes it a home. Home is not where one is, it is where one wants to return.”
“Love the world as yourself; then you can care for all things.”
From Buddhism: “Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.”
Buddha: “See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?”
From Islam: “There is a reward for your treatment of every living thing.” Muhammad also said: “None of you is a believer until you like for others what you like for yourself.”
From Christianity: “Do unto others as you would have them do to you.”
11. Professor Robert Lanza believes that Death is an illusion.
He believes that it is our minds that create space and time.
He believes that Life creates the Universe.
Robert Lanza and Deepak Chopra, in an article entitled Evolution Reigns, but Darwin Outmoded write:
“Darwin’s theory of evolution is an enormous over-simplification.
It’s helpful if you want to connect the dots and understand the interrelatedness of life on the planet – and it’s simple enough to teach to children between recess and lunch.
“But it fails to capture the driving force and what’s really going on.”
Lanza believes that until you observe the sky as blue and the girl as pretty, everything exists in a state of probability.
But wait a moment.
Some people would say that the sky would exist even if no one was observing it.
Some people would say that our universe existed before people came into existence.
So, some people will not like Lanza’s ideas.
Lanza believes that there are many universes.
Lanza explains that everything which can possibly happen is happening at some point across these multiverses.
So, you may think you have died in one universe, but you are still alive in another?
Lanza says that that when we die our life becomes a ‘perennial flower that returns to bloom in the multiverse.’
Lanza writes: ‘Life is an adventure that transcends our ordinary linear way of thinking.
“When we die, we do so not in the random billiard-ball-matrix but in the inescapable-life-matrix.’
Lanza refers to the famous double-slit experiment involving a particle and two slits in a barrier.
When the scientist is watching, the particle goes through one slit or the other.
But, if the scientist is not watching, the particle acts like a wave and can go through both slits at the same time.
This suggests that the behaviour of the particle is decided by the mind of the scientist.
Lanza’s Answers to Basic Questions:
What created the Big Bang?
Answer : No ‘dead’ universe ever existed outside of mind (“Nothingness” is a meaningless concept)
Which came first, rocks or life?
Answer: Time is a form of animal intuition.
What IS this universe?
Answer: An active life-based process
This is reflected in the seven principles of biocentrism:
1st Principle: What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness.
2nd Principle: Our external and internal perceptions are inextricably intertwined. They are different sides of the same coin and can’t be divorced from one another.
3rd Principle: The behavior of matter is inextricably linked to the presence of an observer.
4th Principle: Without consciousness, “matter” dwells in an undetermined state of probability.
5th Principle: The structure of the universe is explainable only through biocentrism. It’s fine-tuned for life; life creates the universe, not the other way around.
6th Principle: Time doesn’t have a real existence outside of animal intuition.
7th Principle: Space, like time, isn’t an object or thing that has an independent reality.