RAF Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard
In 1935, RAF Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard believed he experienced a parallel universe.
Goddard was aboard a biplane going to inspect a dilapidated out-of-use airfield near Edinburgh, in Scotland.
Goddard encountered very severe weather on his way to the airfield, but upon approach suddenly exited into calm, clear skies.
Looking down at the airfield, which he expected to be a litter strewn, weed choked mess, he saw a completely new and renovated airstrip that was in use.
According to the Gospels, one evening Jesus and his disciples were crossing the Sea of Galilee in a boat.
Thailand. In the right state of mind, some people can avoid pain and injury.
1. “Everything is only part of impermanent psychological processes…
“Letting go is the end of suffering.” [11]
Buddhism’s View That Evil Is an Illusion – John Piippo
Hinduism and Buddhism (and Christian Science) suggest that by applying mind over matter, suffering can disappear.
2. According to Mary Baker Eddy, there is no pain, only “belief in pain”
3. The Taoist idea of yin-yang suggests that everything is fine if we avoid the extremes.
A game of golf can be a pleasant mix of up and down.
“The story of Noah and the flood story, the creation of man out of clay, Cain and Abel, the gardens of Eden, the tree of knowledge, creation of Eve from Adams rib, and numerous other myths, like the throwing of Moses in the river after he was born, are all stories found recorded on Sumerian clay tablets dating 5000 years back in time.”
Jesus said that the Heaven is within us.
“You interact and converse, create conflict and resolutions, get emotional and involved…”
In Zoroastrianism we find the equivalents of baptism, communion, guardian angels, heaven, worship on Sunday, the celebration of Mithras’ birthday on December 25th, celibate priests who mediate between man and God, and the Trinity.
BUT, what if the Zoroastrians have not got it quite right?
“We go on in trust, always looking forward, accepting each test as triathlon athletes determined to pass and not just well, but intact, because in spite of the incessant repeats, it makes the good, the pure, the honest, the natural reverent and holy, gifts from somewhere else reminding us the world we desire really does exist and one day we are destined to reach it.”
Here are some people’s thoughts about life:
1. “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received.
Bart D. Ehrman
(God’s Book of Eskra, Prof. S. L. MacGuire’s translation, Salisbury, 1922, chapter xlviii, paragraphs 36, 41).
“The earliest of the manuscripts of the New Testament which are still in existence, do not date back beyond the middle of the fourth century AD.”
(Catholic Encyclopedia, op. cit., pp. 656-7).
The World’s oldest Bible is the Sinai Bible.
We pick and choose every moment, which dimension we head down in our finite lives.
6. Anthony Peake takes the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics as a literal truth and merges this idea with the time theory of John William Dunne (1875–1949) which says that the past, present and future all exist simultaneously with the outcome being that people can enter the future in dreams or the past by deja vu.
We encounter ‘a pretty teenage girl’.
What we perceive is our brain’s best guess at what the girl is like.
Donald Hoffman believes that human perceptions of girls and other things are all illusions.
Donald D. Hoffman is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, with joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the School of Computer Science.
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The scientists who study quantum physics say that an object does not exist until we observe it.
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What is Reality?
Norway 1905
“When we produce a thought, that thought can change us and can change the world in a good way or in a bad way.
“If it is right thought, if that thought is produced in line with right thinking, then it will have a healing, nourishing effect on our body and on the world.
“Just by producing right thinking you can change the world. You can make the world a better place to live…”
Dharma Talk: The Buddhist Understanding of Reality
In John’s Gospel, Jesus says: “It is the Father who lives in me who carries out his work through me…
“If you live your life in me, and my words live in your hearts, you can ask for whatever you like and it will come true for you.”
In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus says: “Give and men will give to you – yes, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over will they pour into your lap…
“The kingdom of God is inside you.”
Particles are constantly popping in and out of existence, according to the scientists.