Transcendental Physics

LET THERE BE LIGHT

2024-08-23T13:40:00.000-07:00

REFLECTIONS OF LIGHT ON THE JOURNEY

Edward R. Close

In the early evening of September 17, 1960, I made my way up the steep winding switchbacks of Mount Washington Drive, just north of downtown Los Angeles, much as I had many times before. Approaching the summit of this outlier of the Hollywood Hills, I turned right onto San Rafael Avenue just below the southwest corner of the beautiful, well-tended grounds of the International Headquarters of Self-Realization Fellowship. I was on my way there that particular evening for my initiation into the practice of Kriya Yoga. I found a place to park, and as I walked through the entrance gate of the SRF grounds and along the driveway beside the print shop toward the main building, I breathed in the subtle aroma of gardenias that were blooming somewhere nearby. I stopped and took a deep breath of the sweet fragrance. When I exhaled and relaxed, I felt the deep peace that pervades these hallowed grounds where saints have trod, filling my soul.

Kriya Yoga is an ancient scientific method designed to speed up the natural expansion of individualized consciousness and help wandering lost souls to reunite with the eternal reality of the Infinite Source. The gradual reuniting of your soul with the Infinite is accelerated when you choose to consciously focus on the life-sustaining energies that operate involuntarily in the respiratory and circulatory systems of your body. The practice of Kriya synchronizes these energies with the opposing energies flowing in the spine, and the outward flow of energy is slowed to the point of suspension, allowing the spiritual Light of Primary Consciousness to become directly perceptible in the spiritual eye. Over the past 64 years, I’ve found that the daily practice of the Kriya techniques that I began to learn that evening so long ago, have proved to be very practical, producing positive results that have greatly improved the quality of my life.

The initiation was being conducted that autumn evening by Sri Dayamata, a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, who was the last of a revered lineage of Spiritual teachers originating in India. At the time of my initiation, Daya-ma, as we affectionately called her, had been President of SRF for five years, and I was living in Topanga Canyon, northwest of LA. I had been allowed to attend evening meditations with the monks on Mount Washington while I was studying a series of lessons that were written by Yogananda just before he entered Maha Samadhi, his final conscious exit from the physical world in 1952. Because I had been allowed to meditate and study with some of the most advanced kriya yogis alive at that time, I was able to finish the one-year preparatory course in just four months. I had passed the final exam, and I was prepared to be initiated that evening.

At the time, I didn’t fully understand what an honor it was to be accepted and initiated into this advanced spiritual practice by Sri Dayamata, the way I was. It wasn’t until years later that I realized that I had been involved in the effort to bring the science of Kriya Yoga into the modern world for a long time, especially during one of my previous lives in India and Tibet. There were indications of the importance of this initiation for me, and some of the other events in my life, That were accompanied by phenomenal bursts of spiritual light. The light I am talking about is not just the electromagnetic vibrations that enable us to see with our physical eyes, it is the total brilliance of the fundamental essence of light that emanates from the spiritual domain.

At one point in the ceremony, very suddenly, a fiery three-dimensional ball of light appeared, spinning only a few inches in front of my forehead, and I could see it with my eyes open or closed! I had never seen anything like this before, and I have not seen anything quite like it since. I accepted it as validation that this was the right spiritual path for me, but I didn’t know what it actually was. About ten years later, I described the initiation light that I experienced to one of the monks who was a direct disciple of Yogananda, and asked him what he thought it was, and why had it appeared to me? He said he thought it was an unusual blessing given to me by God through Dayamata, and that because I was a scientist, she knew that even a glimpse of the light emanating from the crown chakra would encourage me to embark on a study the spiritual eye and the source of spiritual light. Of course, she was right!

As I look back on my life of nearly ninety years now, I realize that the unusual spiritual light phenomena that I saw during many of the most important events of my life, including the spinning ball of light that I saw during my Kriya initiation, were glimpses of a much greater reality, perceived through the functioning of the spiritual eye, a feature of human consciousness sometimes called the “third eye”. Details about what the “third eye” is and how it functions is beyond the scope of this discussion, and I am constrained from discussing the details of the kriya initiation and the techniques taught by the SRF lineage of spiritual masters by policies that I agreed to long ago. It is still necessary to keep these policies in place to safeguard against the ego-based misuse of the consciousness-altering techniques of kriya. But I want to touch upon the nature of the eternal light of spirit and attempt to explain how it relates to physical light, the expansion of consciousness, and the all-important evolution of the human soul.

Individual realization of the true nature of reality is called enlightenment for a reason: The fabric of reality is light. Ultimate enlightenment is the realization that we are eternal beings of light, capable of expanding and contracting our bubbles of consciousness from one quantum to infinity. But when we choose to identify ourselves with physical bodies to experience physical pleasure and pain, we limit our growth and awareness to the space-time domain existing where the finite, quantized reality of the physical universe and the infinitely continuous multi-dimensional domain of spirit meet. Individual consciousness, as we know it, is a direct result of this intimate contact of the finite with the infinite. It is as if we have our feet planted in two different boats, each moving on the waters of existence at different rates of speed, in different directions. Unless we realize that we are beings of light, capable of expanding beyond space and time, then, at critical junctures, we must endure great pain and suffering as we are forced to choose just one of one of the two boats.

That evening in the autumn of 1960, I saw the pure light emanating from the multi-dimensional domain of Spirit for the first time in this life, and it certainly encouraged me to get to work on expanding my consciousness. And I have since come to realize that the narrow band of electromagnetic energy that we perceive shining through the limited space and time of the physical world, is only a faint reflection of the awesomely beautiful spiritual light that illuminates the spiritual domain of the soul.

Every life in the physical world provides us with opportunities to learn and grow spiritually, i.e., to become more and more enlightened. So, in case someone might be interested, I will attempt to summarize what I have learned as a result of using the kriya consciousness expanding techniques for 64 years, starting with some astoundingly profound truths. But first, I must clarify what makes a truth profound, as opposed to a less important, trivial truth. Danish physicist Niels Bohr explained this distinction when he said: “The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false, while the opposite of a profound truth is also true.” You may find this statement somewhat confusing, but it provides a way to distinguish between a profound truth and a trivial truth. Here are some important examples:

1. There is no such thing as nothing. This is a profound truth arising from the fact that there is something real that does exist. The undeniable truth that ‘something exists’ implies that the exact opposite statement, i.e.: ‘nothing does not exist’ is also true.

2. A state of absolute nothingness never existed and will never exist. Profound truth #1 and its opposite, coupled with the law of conservation of mass and energy, verified by every scientific experiment ever performed, allows us to definitively answer the question that the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz called the first and most important question that science should ask: Why is there something rather than nothing? The profound truth that a state in which something presently exists, coupled with the universal law of the conservation of matter and energy implies that ‘a state of nothingness’ can never have existed, cannot exist now, and will never exist in the future. Thus, the popular big bang theory of the origin of the universe as an explosion of something from nothing, is pure science fiction. Something has always existed.

3. Reality is the sum total of everything that has ever existed, exists now, and will ever exist. This profound truth is implied by profound truth #2 with the realization that space-time has no existence of its own.

These three profound truths verify Planck’s breakthrough realization that he described with the following statements: “There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind, and this mind is the matrix of all matter.” As we shall see, Planck’s realization leads to a picture of reality very different from the materialistic belief of mainstream science.

It’s very important to note that Albert Einstein agreed with his good friend and colleague, Max Planck. Einstein said: “Concerning matter, we've been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to a point of visibility; there is no matter.”

Einstein added to Planck’s enlightenment regarding the fundamental variables of physics by pointing out that proof of general relativity implies that the assumption that space is a uniformly existing background, in which all things exist, was also wrong. In June 1952, less than three years before his death in April 1855, in a special appendix to his popular book titled Relativity, the Special and the general Theory, a Clear Explanation that Anyone Can Understand, He made this point, stating that “Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way, the concept of ‘empty space’ loses its meaning, and space can claim no existence of its own.”

From 1981 until 1986, while living and working in the Middle East, I had time between jobs to do some serious thinking about what these bombshell statements made by Planck and Einstein really meant. I reasoned that if the common assumptions about the most basic variables of our scientific model of physical reality, i.e., matter, energy, space, and time, that seemed so obvious were wrong, then our model of the nature of reality, being based on those assumptions was also wrong.

If Planck and Einstein were right, the concept of matter measured in units of mass mathematically equivalent to a huge number of units of energy determined by the equation E = mc², with the concept of energy measured in units defined by the amount of force required to move the mass of an electron through a unit of space in a unit of time, and all four variables are dependent upon the “existence of a conscious and intelligent mind”, then a new calculus, a new mathematical logic that includes a unitary measure of consciousness was needed. So, I began working to adapt G. Spencer Brown’s primary calculus of mathematical logic, as defined in his book Laws of Form, for application to, and analysis of the interface of consciousness with relativistic, quantized physical reality. No small task.

I realized that to create an internally consistent quantum calculus designed to deal with the infinite continuity of mind interacting with the finite quantized nature of physical reality in a mathematically and logically consistent manner, I had to define a basic quantum equivalence unit for all of the fundamental units of measurement. To avoid the inconsistency of the basic unit of consciousness turning out to be mathematically incommensurable with the basic units of mass, energy, space, and time, the basic quantum equivalence unit had to be based on the mass or equivalent energy and the volume of the smallest sub-atomic entity, which happens to be the free electron. To emphasize the unit’s dimensionality, I called this basic unit of the calculus the triadic rotational unit of equivalence (TRUE).

At this point, an important question arises: What if mind and matter are intrinsically incommensurable? If so, consciousness can’t be quantized in any logically consistent way. The obvious way around this conundrum is: If physical reality reflects the logical structure of Primary Consciousness, it will be internally consistent only if the logic of Primary Consciousness is internally consistent. The fact that we exist in a complex, highly structured physical universe that appears to conform to a set of cause-and-effect laws that we are able to discover, and are in the process of discovering, suggests that the logical structure of Primary Consciousness is internally consistent. The bottom line is that the way forward is to assume that Primary Consciousness and its reflection in physical reality are logically consistent and proceed to define the most basic quantum equivalence unit by setting both the mass-energy equivalence and volume of the free electron to unity and see what happens. In other words, the proof is in the pudding!

When I applied the electron-based quantum calculus to the analysis of the logical structure of the most stable object in the universe, the proton, the quantized measure of organization linking the conscious intelligent mind with physical reality emerged as the third form of the essence of reality with no intrinsic mass or energy. We, Dr. Vernon Neppe and I, chose to represent this new variable with Gimel, the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

Converting the total mass and energy of the proton to TRUE units of energy, we found that without the presence of a specific number of mass-less, energy-less units of Gimel contributing to the total volume and angular momentum of the proton, it would not be stable. Including the units of mass-less Gimel allowed us to calculate the exact mass and volume of the stable hydrogen atom in TRUE units. The addition of units of Gimel in subatomic structure also allowed us to calculate the exact mass and volume of the neutron and explain how and why neutrons are formed in the more complex atoms of the periodic table. The success of this preliminary application of the new calculus was encouraging.

We found that every stable atom contains the specific number of TRUE units of Gimel that are needed to make it geometrically symmetric and stable. We were not surprised to find that the elements and compounds that have the most Gimel are the elements that support intelligent forms of life. Happily, the existence of Gimel also explains many, if not all of the paradoxical puzzles and the “weirdness” of quantum physics that physicists like to talk about. With dozens of successful resolutions of the logical paradoxes of particle physics and some predictions verified experimentally, we consider the theory we called the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) no longer hypothetical, and the original assumption of a logically consistent electron-based quantum equivalence unit has been verified.

The presence of volumetric quantum equivalence units (TRUE) of Gimel in atomic structure turns out to be mathematically related to the wave lengths and frequencies of light released by radioactive decay. The exact volume of TRUE units of the orbital electrons and Gimel existing in each energy shell explains the complex electron energy-shell geometry of atom structure. I want to use the rest of this discussion to focus on the knowledge of this intimate relationship of Gimel to consciousness and light at the quantum level because I believe that a deeper understanding of this relationship can help us to understand how meditation techniques like Kriya can accelerate the growth of mental and spiritual virtue and affect positive results in the physical world that could very well save human civilization from self-destruction and extinction on this planet.

The discovery of Gimel and its role as the measurable organizer of subatomic structure, provides us with a new understanding that allows us to focus on ways that we can consciously connect with the infinite continuity of Primary Consciousness while occupying finite physical bodies. Visualizing the geometry of progressive unitary projection into hyperspace provides us with a way to project our individualized consciousness from the finite, quantized world of physical existence into the infinitely continuous domain of Spirit. This is possible only if the most basic phenomena that make up all aspects of reality, including mass, energy, gimel, and consciousness, is light.

The images of the reality that we are aware of through our senses, we conceptualize in our minds as objects interacting in space and time according to the logic and intent of Primary Consciousness, and we call our descriptions of the elements of that primary logic that we have been able to discover and formalize in the language of mathematics, the laws of nature. I am forever grateful for the realizations of the Spiritual Masters of all times and for the insights of Einstein, Planck, and Bohr, that led to the discovery of Gimel, the link between mind and matter, between the finite and the infinite, because otherwise, most of us alive on this planet today would only be able to imagine what it might be like to experience the perfection from which the divine light that forms all of reality radiates.

As conscious beings, we can never be satisfied with the forms that manifest at the low vibratory energy levels available to us as finite physical beings evolving toward the perfection of the infinite, timeless, all-pervasive expanding form of Primary Consciousness that we so imperfectly reflect. What we see and think of as solid matter and tangible energy in the form of objects and living beings in the dimensions of space and time, are really only incomplete images of perfect forms, vibrating and flickering like faint reflections of the divine light dancing in the multi-dimensional domain of Primary Consciousness.

Individual conscious beings in the physical universe are animated and motivated by an innate desire to live, feel, and experience progressively greater dimensional domains of reality. This innate desire for more awareness originates in the spiritual nature of the substrate of reality coming out of Primary Consciousness, and it drives the long-term physical, mental, and spiritual evolution of cosmological reality. Understanding this intellectually is the first, and unfortunately, the easiest step toward conscious positive expansion of individualized consciousness. The concrete visualization of a path from intellectual understanding to spiritual enlightenment is possible in one lifetime for any human being alive on this planet, but the road from imagination to actualization is very difficult. Thinking about enlightenment and actually achieving it are two very different things.

Fortunately, help is available from a few historical figures who have achieved ultimate enlightenment and in the teachings of others who have achieved high levels of enlightenment beyond that available to the average person. You will be able to find the enlightened souls, whether they are in physical form or not, when your urgent need to know the true nature of reality becomes greater than your desire for physical pleasure. If you seek them in earnest, and you develop the ability to see the divine light of the spiritual eye, then you will know them by the light that shines within them and by the fruits of their actions.

As we descended from the last highest age of mental and spiritual virtue into the dark age that reached the lowest point around 500 A.D., techniques for consciousness expansion were still being taught by a few individuals who reached the ultimate enlightenment as spiritual masters in previous lives. Small groups developed in the presence of these special beings to enjoy the loving fellowship they engendered, but when they were gone, the groups they established soon devolved into social organizations that we now call religions, as their teachings were subverted by political opportunists incapable of understanding the actual meaning and intent of the teachings, into ways and means to control people.

Fortunately, the essence of the knowledge and technologies developed during previous ages of enlightenment are stored in stone structures around the world both by technological means and natural processes. Such storage comprises the planet’s memory and preserves information that might have otherwise disappeared along with most of the evidence of the last post-materialist civilizations, destroyed by natural weathering, cataclysmic volcanic eruptions, and platonic subduction. We should also be thankful that practical methods of consciousness expansion like the kriya techniques mentioned here have been preserved by a few advanced souls reincarnated for the specific purpose of helping humanity survive. Thankfully, the knowledge and wisdom needed for spiritual evolution is never completely lost. But, because of the great disparity between the slow progress of cosmic time and the brief endurance of human life, the efforts of individual lives may seem tragically futile unless effective consciousness-expanding spiritual techniques like kriya are known and practiced diligently.

Research and application of the mathematical logic of the quantum calculus has proved that the structures of energy and mass that comprise physical reality are stable only because of the existence of Gimel, and total mass as energy and Gimel are conserved in every experiment and observable natural process. Therefore, Gimel and the consciousness its existence implies have always existed and will always continue to exist, even if human beings foolishly destroy themselves during the dark ages of mechanistic materialism.

Primary Consciousness is expanding into and back out of the infinity of itself in hyper-dimensional reality, but the individualized bubbles of consciousness that we possess as human beings in the four dimensions of space-time, are capable of expanding and contracting. This is what makes practices like the kriya techniques so useful. To understand how and why an energy focusing technique like kriya can be very practical and effective as a spiritual practice, it is helpful to think of reality, from electrons to atoms, from molecules to living cells, from plants and animals to human beings, and everything else that exists in the universe, as consisting of light.

By simply beginning to concentrate on the sensations of your breath flowing in and out of your lung as light, you can gradually increase your awareness of other deeper, more subtle movements of energy in your body that are associated with consciousness, and become aware of the movement of consciousness itself, as light.

There are some venerable traditions hidden within the major religions of this world, discounted by modern science as arcane and mysterious at best, that are remnants of the original teachings of fully realized spiritual masters from previous cycles of enlightenment. These venerable spiritual traditions include Sufism in Islam, Tibetan Yoga, Zen Buddhism, Jewish and Christian Mysticism, Sikhism, Jainism, various forms of Raja Yoga in Hinduism, and other cultural traditions now forgotten and/or hidden in the illusions of space-time and matter. All of these traditions contain some form of concentration on the spiritual light of the soul, similar to the kriya techniques. For example, Sufi Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan advises the advanced seeker to “fashion a body of light and become a being of light”.

Everything is ultimately made of some form of light, and every conscious entity has a radiant aura of light associated with its existence. Subtle spiritual bodies exist, whether you can see them or not. But, if you see no light within yourself, don’t be discouraged. With some determination and effort, you may be able to tap into the spiritual structures manifested by some of the various traditions mentioned above. Jesus, as a Rabbi teaching his followers how to pray and how to live, is quoted in the Book of Matthew saying, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” I can attest to the truth of this, having experienced it personally on occasion while focusing on the light of the spiritual eye.

Based on experiences with the higher-dimensional phenomena of spiritual light like the one I’ve discussed here, I conclude that physical vision is a dim reflection of spiritual vision, and I believe that “if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light” was a metaphor that an enlightened man named Jesus used to direct spiritual seekers to turn their attention to the spiritual reality within. If we consciously withdraw the energy normally wasted on distractions and focus it on the spiritual eye and the light existing within, then we can allow the whole spectrum of the light of Primary Consciousness to fill our minds and bodies, and God’s healing Love will begin to manifest in our lives.

ERC 8/23/2024

WHY EVERYONE SHOULD MEDITATE

2024-03-23T19:07:00.000-07:00

WHY MEDITATE?

Why should scientists - or anyone else - learn how to meditate? Answer: because one cannot describe what one has not experienced, and the only thing we experience directly is our own consciousness. As human beings, most of Reality is outside of the sphere of individual consciousness. Without direct experience of Reality, one can only imagine and hypothesize about what the nature of Reality might be. That’s why the world is awash in theories about what could be, and there is a great thirst for the Reality that is.

While theories about Reality may be good, and they may be partly true, they will never explain the Reality that actually exists. Fortunately, the universe exists primarily to offer possibilities for conscious beings to experience Reality; but, before you can have a direct experience of anything, you must dissolve the blinding bubble of belief that you have created around yourself by your own ego identification. Dissolving that illusive bubble is what meditation is all about.

I was born as Edward Roy Close in 1936, and partly because I remembered past lives in Tibet, India, the Middle East, and Europe, I chose to be a scientist this time, earned degrees in mathematics, physics, and environmental engineering, and studied the metaphysics behind the world’s major religions on the side, so that I could learn - and/or remember -how to meditate. Unfortunately, most mainstream scientists are too ego bound at present to even consider learning how to meditate, thereby missing the main point of being conscious by limiting their investigations to the dead-end belief system of materialism. Fortunately, a few of us are beginning to see beyond the cage of our physical limitations and may eventually escape into the greater Reality of Cosmic Consciousness. I am blessed to have met some who have.

Sri Daya Mata, the President and spiritual leader of Self-Realization Fellowship was one, and she initiated me into the practice of Kirya Yoga on September 17, 1960, in Los Angeles. In the 1960’s and 70’s, while I was working for the Department of Interior in Arlington Virginia as one of the seven charter members of the Government’s first Environmental Systems Group, I wrote and/or co-authored a number of papers on the mathematical modelling of environmental systems. I also completed the first year of my PhD program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland during that time, and I wrote my first book between 1969 and 1972. At the same time, I was meditating daily using the Kriya techniques, and serving as the Self-Realization Meditation Group Leader in Washington DC. I called the book I was writing “The Book of Atma”. It was published by Libra Publishers in New York in 1977. In it, I tried to describe some of what I had learned from my meditation experiences.

Chapter II of the Book of Atma was about Meditation. In it I pointed out the fact that the experience of meditation is more difficult to describe than the taste of a tree-ripened mango or the exhilaration of sky diving, and that one should not confuse meditation techniques with meditation consciousness. They are two different things. The Kriya techniques, designed to align body and mind with spirit, were passed down from an age of higher mental and spiritual virtue. See The Holy Science by Sri Yukteswar Giri and The Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahamsa Yogananda, for details.

In 1989, after spending a few years in the Middle East, and some time in India, I published my second book, Infinite Continuity, a book introducing the calculus of distinctions, which reconciles relativity with quantum theory. Before it was published, I sent a copy of the manuscript to Stephen Hawking, asking him to review it. Being an atheist, he didn’t like it and saw it as pantheism. Infinite Continuity has been out of print for more than thirty years now because of lack of interest. Most scientists were not willing to invest the time and effort it takes to learn a new mathematical logic linking consciousness with relativity and quantum physics – or, for that matter, even to learn how to meditate.

In 1996 at the University of Arizona, during the Tucson II conference Toward a Science of Consciousness, I presented a short infinite-descent proof of the existence of non-quantum receptors in consciousness. That presentation, along with other things I had learned in meditation, became the basis of my third book, Transcendental Physics, ISBN 0-934426-78-3, Paradigm Press, 1997, and a later edition, ISBN 0-595-09175-X was published by iUniverse in 2001.

Between sessions of the week-long meeting in Tucson, I was able to meet many of the leading thinkers in consciousness studies from all around the world. During a brief encounter with one of them, who happened to be a Nobel-Prize winning physicist, I asked him if he had started meditating yet. He reacted as if I had suggested that he should try to contact space aliens with a Ouija board! I had read some of his work, so I knew that he wouldn’t be that open-minded; but I thought since he was presenting at this meeting, he might be interested in learning how to expand his consciousness to become more self-aware and less self-absorbed! Apparently not!

The meditation consciousness that can be experienced through the regular and prolonged practice of Kriya Yoga can include the ability to descend to the quantum level of physical reality and see electrons, quarks, protons, neutrons, and atoms. This ability is known by advanced yogis as a siddhi (mental virtue) called Anima in Sanskrit. Using it, you can see that the elementary objects that make up the physical universe are not particles, they are energy vortices in the substrate of Reality.

EXPERIENCE THE MIRACLE OF REALITY

2024-02-26T09:25:00.000-08:00

IS REALITY MIRACULOUS OR ORDINARY?

Yes, it is true, as Albert Einstein said, you can live your life as if everything is a miracle, or as if everything is ordinary.

It is also true, as Niels Bohr said, that the opposite of an ordinary truth is a falsity, but the opposite of a profound truth may also be another profound truth!

Now, recall that in Hamlet, William Shakespeare said: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

From these three quotes from three famously wise people, I have to conclude that I may choose to experience reality as very common and ordinary, or as divinely miraculous, and this choice can yield one of two profoundly different results: either the experience of misery and boredom, or joy and ecstasy!

WHICH DO YOU CHOOSE?

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RE-IMAGINING REALITY

2024-02-24T08:56:00.000-08:00

CAN YOU RE-IMAGINE REALITY?

There’s a lot of talk these days about re-imagining things, like re-imagining the meaning of words, re-imagining gender, re-imagining government, re-imagining civilization, and re-imagining life in general. But there is a problem with this: To believe that you can re-imagine reality, you have to imagine that you were the one who imagined it in the first place.

There is a kernel of truth in thinking that you might be able to re-imagine things that are difficult in your life, but trying to re-imagine something that is objectively real, something that you did not yourself imagine in the first place, is fraught with challenges and some dangers that have to do with human error and a basic mis-understanding about what time is. To try to explain what I mean by this, I will relate things that have happened to me during my lifetime that led me to the discovery of gimmel, the non-physical third form of reality, existing in addition to mass and energy.

I was born in 1936, just after the ‘great depression’ in the San Francois Mountains of Southeast Missouri, to monetarily poor descendants of European immigrants. My father was twenty-eight years old, and my mother was only nineteen when they fell in love, and all they had when they married was twenty dollars and their clothes. When my mother was a little girl, her mother made her clothes from cloth cut from flour sacks. By today’s standards, my folks were very poor, but they were rich in the traditions of rural American families who worked hard, grew their own food, and lived normal lives, close to the land and nature.

My father, born in 1908, served four years in the US Army (1925 -1929), and he volunteered again in 1941, to serve in the Navy until the end of World War II. At the war’s end, he was a petty officer in the Amphibian Scouts and Raiders, later to be known as the Navy Seals. My mother and I traveled by train from Arcadia Missouri to Ft. Pierce Florida in the Summer of 1945, to be with him for a few days before he was transferred to Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay to be part of the invasion of Japan that was planned to occur in November 1945, in retaliation for the Japanese surprise attack bombing of Pearl Harbor Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, killing 2,403 Americans and wounding about 1,200 more, including military personnel and civilians

The invasion of Japan never happened because of the first, and so far the only deliberate use of atomic bombs to kill human beings. Approximately 200,000 Japanese were killed by atomic blasts detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaka Japan on August 6 and August 9, 1945. The horror of those bombings ended World War II and saved the lives of thousands of US sailors and marines, including that of my father. The military strategists planning the invasion had expected in excess of 90% casualties in the first-wave amphibian forces, because the Japanese, including nearly all civilian males, were eager to die honorable deaths defending their homeland in classic Samurai fashion.

As a pre-teen child living in the hills of Southern Missouri during WWII, I didn’t experience the horrors of the War directly, but I remember the air-raid drills, food rationing, news reels in the local movie theater, and daily radio reports very well, and things that happened to me personally during the decade of the 1940s and something that happened to me in the Great Pyramid in Egypt in 2010, caused me to think of time in a very different way than most people do. Those events included a number of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and two near-death-experiences (NDEs) The first NDE occurred when I was struck by lightning in 1947. I have related details of my memory of those experiences in my autobiography, so I won’t take the time or space to do that again here and focus instead on the insights they gave me into the nature of time.

As I’ve reported in a number of blogposts and published books and papers, I agree with Albert Einstein, who concluded, based on the implications of general relativity, that empty space “has no claim to an existence of its own”. Similarly, time also has no claim to an existence of its own. Put another way: space has no meaning without the existence of objects, and time has no meaning without the occurrence of events. These conclusions have some far-reaching implications about the nature of reality, that I have talked about in other posts and publications, so here, I will focus only on what they reveal about the nature of time.

Time, specifically the observation and measurement of time, depends upon the functioning of consciousness in the 3-D physical domain, and consciousness, as experienced by most of us, most of the time, only allows us to perceive the one quantum of time that we think of as the present. As long as one identifies as a physical body with all of its limitations, the past is always gone, and the future is yet to come. As physical beings, part of something called “reality”, the only time we ever experience is the present in the ‘here and now’. But the gift of consciousness comes with the ability to remember the past and imagine the future, giving us the illusion of the existence of a continuous timeline. But OBEs and NDEs dispel this illusion, showing us that all things that exist, ever existed, or will ever exist are available in the eternal here and now.

For example, after my first NDE when I was an eleven-year-old, that occurred when I was struck by lightning while swimming in a creek, I began to have occasional spontaneous OBEs, during which I saw things existing beyond the quantized space-time domain of the here and now. Some of the things I saw were independently verified almost immediately after the OBEs that revealed them, while others were not verified until years later. Most of the things I saw seemed trivial and unimportant to me at the time, including even some memories of past lives. I never shared those memories with anyone until I began to realize that they were not just imaginative dreams, many years later.

In the summer of 1951, after discovering the work of Albert Einstein, I had an OBE, the impact of which assured me that I would become a scientist following in Einstein’s footsteps, and after earning degrees in mathematics, physics, and environmental science and engineering, and several years of studying consciousness, in late February and early March of 2010, sixty-three years after my first NDE, I had another one in the Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau in Egypt. You can find more detail about this second NDE by searching for ‘The Great Pyramid’ in the archives on this blogsite, and I have shared even more detail in my autobiography.

Like my first NDE, this one also involved a discharge of electricity, but it was much more intense and traumatic than the first one. Others who were in the Pyramid near me when it happened, actually saw the discharge, and I still have a scar where it struck my forehead. I realized later that all of this was only the outer evidence of the rapid down-loading of an amazing amount of complex information that went on continually for two days.

Every time I closed my eyes, even after I was carried out of the Great Pyramid, I saw a continual flow of faces and symbols, and heard a stream of voices speaking in several different languages. This didn’t end until we were in the Ancient City of Petra in Jordan two days later. After that, I had several interesting Deja-vu experiences during the next three days on Mount Nebo where Moses died, and on the Jordan River where John baptized Jesus. A few years later, in a chance meeting with a psychic who had authored a book on Pyramid Energy, a popular subject in the 1970s, I was told that my experience in the Great Pyramid was part of a world-wide shift in human consciousness.

All of the OBEs I have had over my eighty-seven plus years, especially those that were connected with these NDEs, confirmed my conclusions about the nature of time and strengthened and deepened my understanding of the relationship of space and time to consciousness. Spatial dimensions are a sub-set of the dimensions of time, and time dimensions are a sub-set of the dimensions of consciousness, and Primary Consciousness is the infinite substrate in which all nine finite dimensional domains of space, time, and consciousness exist. What does this mean? It means that we have access, through our connection with Primary Consciousness, with all existential events, past, present, and future. It means that we are immortal souls, sleep-walking on this planet until we finally wake up to who we really are and what our purpose is!

Back home, when I continued pursuing the work on the consciousness research started in 2008 with Dr. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, the founder of the Pacific Institute of Neuropsychiatry, I began to understand some of the information downloaded into my brain in the Great Pyramid and see how it related to relativistic experiments with clocks and measuring devices moving at high rates of speed and quantum physics experiments like the double-slit, delayed-choice experiment. I also began to see how those experiments actually confirmed my NDE-and-OBE-based conclusions about the nature of the 9-D space-time-consciousness dimensional domain, containing the mass-energy-consciousness substance of reality.

By application of the existential quantum mathematics of the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD), with the natural triadic rotational units of equivalence (TRUE) defined as the basic quantum equivalence unit, I concluded that time has three dimensions, analogous to the triadic dimensionality of space, and colleagues started asking, “what are the 3 dimensions of time?” Stephen Hawking, the famous author of A Brief History of Time, after a brief review of the early manuscript of my book Infinite Continuity, a book about reconciling relativity and quantum physics with applications of the CoDD, said: “I cannot imagine three dimensions of time!”

A common statement I heard very often, was “We know what the three dimensions of space are, but what are the three dimensions of time?” This statement is perfectly emblematic of the common mis-understanding most people have about the nature of time, a common error that I am addressing here. Most people think that they know what the three dimensions of space are. Ask anyone, and they will very likely say “length, width and depth”, or some similar expression about the measurement of things. But such an answer does not define the concept of ‘space’, it only describes an imaginary framework for measuring the geometry of objects and the distances between them.

Space, as Einstein discovered, has no existence of its own, and time is exactly the same kind of non-existent conceptual fiction as space, created for the purpose of measuring the extent of duration between observed events. The problem with this is that these conceptual fictions lead us to the belief that there is a universal ether-like space-time backdrop in which objectivity reality exists and occurs, but a uniform space-time background demonstrably does not exist. Time is not something that flows at the same rate throughout the universe. The extent of its duration depends upon the variables of relative motion and mass and energy of the object observed and that of the observer.

Space-time dimensions are simply variables of extent. My late wife Jacqui was not a university-trained mathematician, but she understood this intuitively. In the lyrics of a song that she composed in the early 1970s, while working for Frank and Nancy Sinatra Music in Nashville, she wrote: “Time is just the distance between what I am and what I shall become.”

Space-time dimensions are measured in terms of variables of extent, and they actually have no existence of their own. It is the contents of the domain they define that has substance and meaning. Space-time is non-existent without content and intent, and any description of reality that does not include all of the basic variables of content, extent, and intent, i.e., mass, energy, space, time, and consciousness, is incomplete.

The variables of extent, i.e., the variables of space, time, and individual consciousness, are dependent upon the substantial content of mass, energy, and individualized consciousness, and the intent of individual and Primary Consciousness, for meaning and purpose. The three dimensions of time are local time, planetary time, and cosmic time, but they have no existence or meaning, unless they describe the extent of events involving quanta of mass, energy, and consciousness existing in the domain they frame, and, finally, as discussed earlier, consciousness, like mass and energy, measured in quantum equivalence units of gimmel, only occurs in whole-number units.

Discovery of the mathematical proof of the existence of quantum equivalent units of gimmel, the massless organizer stabilizing every proton in existence, was intellectually satisfying from my point of view, but it raised a new persistent question that came from friends and colleagues, as well as from materialist skeptics in mainstream science. That question was: ‘Exactly what is gimmel?’ It wasn’t long before I realized how similar this question was to the question ‘What is consciousness?’

Like consciousness, gimmel cannot be defined in terms of anything else, because, just like Max Planck said, “We cannot get behind consciousness”, we also cannot get behind gimmel when describing stable physical reality! So, gimmel is the measure of consciousness that exists in every proton and every electron shell, organizing every atom of every element of the periodic table! But now, a still deeper question arises: How does gimmel, the measurable aspect of consciousness, relate to the three dimensions of time? The answer to this question lies in the logic of the geometric symmetry organized by gimmel in atomic structure, individual consciousness, and the cosmos.

Returning to the statement above, declaring that the three dimensions of time are local time, planetary time, and cosmic time, let’s focus on them one at a time: Local time is what an individual soul experiences when identified with a physical body. It is based on the motions of localized biological processes. Planetary time is periodic and symmetric, based on the motion of the planet in the solar system, and cosmic time is based on the measurement of the speed of light. All of these measurements of time can be made commensurable in TRUE units by setting the speed of light equal to one.

This naturalization of the speed of light links all objective measurements of existential phenomena to TRUE, allowing us to convert all unitary systems of measurement, including Planck units and SI units, to TRUE and express the laws governing the form and substance of reality in Diophantine equations reflecting the underlying logic of Primary Consciousness. That’s why the CoDD produces so many explanations and resolutions of contradictions and paradoxes in mainstream science.

Now, we are finally ready to produce a definitive answer to the question asked in the title of this blog post: “Can we re-imagine reality?” The answer is really very simple: We can re-imagine our own subjective conceptual models of reality by changing our own a priori assumptions to be more nearly aligned with the logic of Primary Consciousness; but we cannot re-imagine existential reality. It is what it is. At the present time in planetary chronology, we have about 25% free will. The other 75% of experience is predetermined by the logic of Primary Consciousness, traditionally known as “the will of God”.

We are now 424 Earth years into the 2400-year ascending Dwapara Yuga. As we traverse the remaining 10,376 years to the next Satya Yuga, the high point of physical, mental, and spiritual virtue, when the average conscious being will be one with Primary Consciousness, with 100% free will. See Shri Yukteswar’s book The Holy Science for the best available explanation of planetary time.

ERC Petra 2010

CONSCIOUS THINKING

2024-02-18T20:27:00.000-08:00

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THINKING

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so!” - William Shakespeare, in Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2.

“Je pense, donc je suis!” (I think, therefore I Am.) - René Descartes, the “first principle of philosophy” in Discourse on the Method.

According to these two famous quotes, the ability to think is an amazing gift from God that we have as human beings! Our ability to think implies existence and gives meaning to everything. But, what exactly is thinking? And who, or what is it, that thinks? Physicist Max Planck shed important light on these questions when he said:

“We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we [think and] talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”

So, thinking is a function of consciousness. But then, we have to ask: ‘Exactly what is consciousness?’ The dictionary definition of consciousness is: “The state of being awake and aware of one’s surroundings.” But upon analysis, we see that this doesn’t suffice as a definition because awareness and consciousness are not the same thing. One can be conscious without being aware of one’s surroundings. We find no definition of consciousness as a thing in and of itself, without reference to the physical senses, yet we know that a person who is asleep and deprived of all sense stimuli is still conscious.

Are consciousness and biological life the same thing? No. Verified OBEs and NDEs are proof that they are not. Our very best scientists and philosophers admit that they do not know what consciousness is in the same way we know what awareness and cognition are. We can see why this is the case, when we realize that the process of trying to investigate consciousness scientifically is like an eye trying to look at itself without a mirror. As Planck’s statement implies, we cannot look at consciousness from a point outside of consciousness.

Is thinking and being the same thing, as Descartes implies? I don’t think so. Thinking in the words of a language of some sort is just one function, perhaps just one of the simplest functions of consciousness after the act of drawing the distinction of self from other-than-self. Other functions of consciousness include identifying with the distinction of self, focusing and organizing distinctions in self and other-than-self into logical patterns, and experiencing a range of qualia. Note: Qualia (Latin singular: quale, meaning kind of experience) is a term that philosophers use to describe the properties of our conscious experience of objective phenomena. In other words, qualia are the details that we are aware of in reality and/or in our personal model of reality, based on memories of personal experience.

Attempting to define consciousness is an exercise that very quickly leads to a spiral of circular reasoning into the heart of creativity and a new understanding of language, mathematics, and logic. It’s like looking into a dictionary to learn what a particular word means and finding, within the definition given in the dictionary, another word, the meaning of which is also unknown. Then, of course, you have to look up the definition of that word, only to find that it is defined using the word we were looking up in the first place!

There actually is no ultimate definition of consciousness possible because, as Planck says, we cannot get behind consciousness. We can talk about what consciousness feels like, what it enables us to do, what it is similar to, what forms it can take, but not what it actually is, because everything else we experience depends on the existence of consciousness, and ultimately, the existence of consciousness in objective reality is a paradox. I am motivated to paraphrase quantum physicist Niels Bohr: How wonderful it is that we have uncovered a paradox, because now we have an opportunity to make some real progress! The paradox of the ‘a prior’ existence of consciousness is the key to understanding the nature of reality and even to understanding the nature of human existence.

Considering the nature of human existence, I want to encourage you to read Extracts from Adam’s Diary by Mark Twain. Not only is it a very humorous commentary on the biblical book of Genesis and the meaning of words, but it is also an entertaining look at the basic man-woman relationship. Adam blames everything on Eve at first, but by the end of the brief look into his diary, we see that she has convinced him that he was actually to blame for everything all along. At the end, he says: “I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. At first I thought she talked too much; but now I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life. Blessed be the chestnut that brought us near together and taught me to know the goodness of her heart and the sweetness of her spirit!”

It will only take you about ten minutes to read Twain’s Excerpts from Adam’s Diary. So please go to https://www.online-literature.com/twain/3264/ and read it, and then go to my blogsite at www.ERCloseTPyhsics.com for more about consciousness, thinking, and the nature of reality.

CONSCIOUS THINKING, LOGICAL SUSTEMS AND THE NATURE OF REALITY

As I said, the paradox of the ‘a prior’ existence of consciousness is the key to understanding the nature of reality. This is so because the organizing function of consciousness is found existing as what Dr. Vernon Neppe and I call gimmel, the measurable third form of reality in the heart of the proton, the most stable object in the universe, and in the energy of the electron shells surrounding the nucleus of all stable atoms. That stability is created by the organization by gimmel of the total angular momentum in every atom of the physical universe, completing the stability of atoms of the physical universe as basic unitary logical systems. In the composite forms of reality, gimmel also completes the physical universe as a finite 5-D logical system consisting of three spatial dimensions, one temporal dimension, and one dimension of consciousness. The logic of this system is the reflection of the logic of the 9-D infinity of Primary Consciousness, which is the infinite Mind of God, within which everything is embedded.

The form of each 4-D atom is a toroidal energy vortex with the triadic content of mass, energy, and gimmel as its total quantized substance. The form of the cosmos is a 5-D toroidal vortex, expanding out of, and back into itself periodically. The energy form of each conscious thinking individual is also that of a torus of dynamic spiritual energy rolling through the cosmos and expanding into or contracting away from the 9-D domain of Primary Consciousness as a consequence of that individual’s conscious actions. 9-D Primary Consciousness is forever mathematically self-referential without beginning or end. (Coincidentally answering Leibniz’s most important question: “Why is there something rather than nothing?”: There is something rather than nothing because there never was, and never will be a state of absolute nothingness!)

Physical reality, as the form of the finite manifestation of Primary Consciousness, also exists without beginning or end, constantly changing in form, creating the illusions of beginnings and ends, but with no creation or destruction of the substance of reality. This is reflected in the natural law of the conservation of substance, measurable in quantum equivalence units of mass, energy, and gimmel. The inclusion of gimmel, the conscious portion of physical reality linking individual quantized consciousness to the conscious substrate of Primary Consciousness, assures the spiritual immortality of our souls. Finally, we see that reality is a self-referential continuum ranging through all dimensional domains from finite quantized physical reality to the infinitely continuous infinity of the consistent logical system of the Spiritual Reality of Primary Consciousness in God.

IS AI THE END?

2024-02-16T10:48:00.000-08:00

AI and CONSCIOUSNESS

I have been a student of mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, geology, and cosmology since 1951, earning several degrees, including a PhD in environmental engineering in 1988, and because of several spontaneous out-of-body experiences (OBEs) that occurred early in my life, I have also been a seeker of metaphysical knowledge, exploring the perennial philosophy of Aldous Huxley, the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC), Theosophy, Zen Buddhism, Tibetan Yoga, Jewish and Christian Mysticism, and Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) yoga meditation techniques.

I have practiced a form of pranayama (yogic life-force control) since 1960 as an initiate in the Kriya consciousness expansion techniques taught by Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, and I have also been involved in consciousness studies with several well-known researchers in the field for the last 40 years. I have been a computer programmer, an actuarial mathematics technician, a mathematical modeler, and US Government systems analyst. I believe that this multi-field background provides me with a unique perspective from which to comment on artificial intelligence and the nature of consciousness.

With all of the concerns we are hearing today about AI computing machines, like their becoming conscious and taking over the world with the potential of destroying us, let me point out that you can only believe that such a thing is possible and that it might happen, if you not only don’t believe in God, but you also don’t believe that you have a soul. My discovery in 2011 of the indirectly measurable non-physical aspect of reality, now known as gimmel, existing in every atom of the universe, proved to me that, if man-made machines become conscious, they will do so only within the existing laws of nature, which are actually the physical manifestation of Primary Consciousness. i.e., the Mind of God, the substrate of all reality. So, let not your heart be troubled about AI! It is subject to the laws of the universe. Floods, fire, and atomic bombs have not destroyed us, and AI will not destroy us either. The Mind of God is the matrix from which all that exists arises; it is the only reality, and AI, like any other human artifact, is part of it.

In order to prove or disprove the existence or non-existence of God for myself, I have practiced Kriya Yoga techniques daily, for a little more than 63 years. I am happy to report to you that the Loving Omnipresence of God is real and that it is provable not only by personal experience, but also by the existence of quanta of gimmel. Without it, there would be no physical universe, no planet Earth, and no human beings. At present, artificial intelligence is only a poor imitation of the real thing, and it is subject to the laws of the universe. AI is already able to out-perform human beings in speed of computation, and algorithmic learning; but numerical calculation and finite memory are only small parts of intelligence, and they are merely tools of consciousness, not consciousness itself. Yes, AI, like sticks and stones, slings and arrows, guns and bombs, is capable of destroying us, if we are stupid enough to let it. But, the destruction of the humanity by AI would not be the triumph of a superior species of consciousness over us, it would just be the stupidity of suicide!

For more about this, go to my blogsite: www.ERCloseTPhysics.com .

THE MATHEMATICS OF IMMORTALITY

2024-01-25T13:53:00.000-08:00

THE CALCULUS OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS

THE MATHEMATICS OF IMMORTALITY

Edward R. Close, BA, MST, PhD, PE,

Distinguished Fellow, ECAO

Existential and Conceptual Mathematics

This is a discussion about mathematics, consciousness, and eternity. Let’s start by asking: What is mathematics? Almost no one alive today knows what mathematics is, and public education is largely to blame. For something that starts out with the simplest, most boring ideas imaginable, like counting things, distinguishing between groups of things based on their similarities and differences, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, and recognizing equivalences, the subject we call mathematics, as it is taught in our schools today, is complex, confused, and confusing. What we are taught about mathematics today is a muddled mixture of half-truths that only reveal the tip of the iceberg of the logical structure of objective reality. Emblematic of the unnecessary confusion of academic mathematics is the fact that the word describing the subject is a plural noun. If mathematics is plural, then what are its parts? If you are familiar with what passes for education in this world today, then you would probably agree that the word ‘mathematics’ refers to all of the methods of quantitative reasoning. Arithmetic is one subject, geometry is another, algebra is one, and the list goes on to include all of the subjects that involve calculation.

From simple arithmetic to the most advanced form of quantitative analysis, mathematical subjects were developed to deal with numbers and numerical problems. They are logical procedures that transform numerical descriptions of things, simple statements of obvious facts, into quantitatively equivalent expressions that provide answers to some of the questions we like to ask about the things we see and experience. In short, mathematical subjects are designed to provide effective ways to analyze the reality we experience.

I think that most people, including most mathematicians, will probably agree with this definition and be happy to add a few more subjects to the list, including ‘the calculus’, a specific analytical method developed in the natural science of Western Civilization more than 300 years ago. I, however, disagree with using the label ‘the calculus’ to describe a specific mathematical procedure. I do so in an effort to try to eliminate at least one source of confusion that comes from using the same word to describe two or more different things. Mathematical terminology should be as simple and precise as possible. But, like many words borrowed from an ancient language, the original meaning of the word calculus has been obscured in modern usage.

Most dictionaries give some form of two different definitions for the word ‘calculus’, with the mathematical operation of infinitesimal approximation developed by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, known as “the” calculus, generally given as the number one definition. This reflects current common usage and tries to legitimize the mis-use of the word calculus for one specific method of calculation. Here’s an example of what I found online:

1.      Calculus: a branch of mathematics that deals with the finding and properties of the derivatives and integrals of algebraic functions by methods that were originally based on summations of infinitesimal differences. The two main types of ‘the calculus’ are differential calculus and integral calculus.

2.      Calculus: any method or logical system of calculation and analytical reasoning.

Definition number 1 attempts to describe one specific member of a subset of operational methods belonging to the larger set defined by definition number 2. The fact that a specific mathematical method has been called “the calculus” by those who use it to solve a specific class of problems involving change in objective forms over time, is a prime example of how we have mis-used basic grammatical forms of words borrowed from earlier forms of the Indo-European languages to represent recently re-defined or re-discovered concepts. The word ‘calculus’ is the diminutive form of the Latin word calx, which means ‘stone’. Thus, ‘calculus’ means small stone or ‘pebble’. The current usage of the word calculus in English, and in most other modern languages, came about because the Romans used small pebbles arranged in columns on a counting board to make the task of counting things, and performing simple mathematical operations like addition and subtraction, easier. The different mathematical tasks performed by moving pebbles on the counting board became known as ‘calculations’ because of the use of small, round stones (calculi) on the board.

The simple counting board with movable pebbles evolved into the abacus and later into calculating machines, while the meaning of the word calculus evolved into a general descriptor for all known methods of calculation. A thousand years later, the word calculus was re-cycled and used again. This time it was mis-appropriated to represent a method for finding the limiting values of the sums of infinitesimally increasing or decreasing differences, and first mechanical, and then electronic calculators using simple binary logic were constructed. This use of the word calculus to represent two categorically different levels of computation is just part of what makes mathematics difficult and confusing for many students today.

The subject of mathematics, or more precisely, mathematical logic, is about much more than just dealing with numbers. If that were not true, we wouldn’t need the word mathematics at all, we could just use the word ‘numbers’ and call math the study of numbers. So, what is the actual meaning of the word mathematics? There are a number of different definitions given in online dictionaries now for the word ‘mathematics’. They differ slightly, depending on the avocational orientation of the person writing the definition; but the simplest one I’ve found is “Mathematics is the study of number, quantity, and space”. The key concept underlying the three proper nouns in this awkward definition, number, quantity, and space, is the concept of ‘separation’. ‘Study’ implies separation of the student (or students) and that which is being studied. Or, more generally, mathematical reasoning arises from the separation of things after the primary separation drawn by every conscious being, which is the distinction of ‘self’ from ‘other-than-self’. ‘Quantity’ implies that substances exist that can be separated into different categories based on the nature of their content and extent, and space is defined by the measurable extent that separates objects.

If mathematical reasoning is based on separating things, as in the conscious act of drawing distinctions, then considering mathematics as a study of numbers without reference to the consciousness that perceives objective existence, is misleading and incomplete. If mathematics is to be useful as a tool to study the nature of reality, then, in addition to numbers, mathematics must deal with things that have measurable features of content, extent and intent; it must deal with substances, shapes and forms that exist in the real world, and with consciousness itself. It must at least include the subjects we call geometry and mathematical physics. The word ‘geo-metry’ literally means ‘earth measurement’, but since the time of Euclid, it has been used to mean more than just the measurement and study of the shape of the earth. It is the study of the shapes of separate and combined objects, and ‘physics’ is the study of physical objects that are separate, have weight, and occupy measurable volumes of space.

In the book, Laws of Form, arguably one of the most important books ever written about the form of the logical system of thought underlying existence, logician George Spencer Brown emphasizes the concept of separation, when he says that the theme of his work “is that a universe comes into being when a space is severed or taken apart.” The laws that Brown reveals with his calculus of indications, implicate the existence of an underlying intelligence within which individual conscious minds may exist and resonate. However, Brown shied away from addressing the probable existence of a meta-mind, or even an existential meta-reality existing behind the logical forms manifested in the structure of the physical universe, because of the difficulties that the requirement of existence imposes on logical analyses and the application of inductive and deductive reasoning. To avoid these difficulties, he chose not to link the logic of calculation to existence until the process reaches a meaningful conclusion, and then only if it is necessary to interpret the results in a real-world meaningful way. The calculus I will describe here differs from Brown’s calculus of indications in several significant ways, but most importantly, in the calculus of dimensional distinctions, the linking of mathematical logic to existence is restored to its rightful place of importance.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Mathematical logic is the logic of existential separation, reflecting the physical, mental, and spiritual structure of objective reality. Without the organizing presence of consciousness in the processes of calculation, mathematical logic is simply a binary thought form; yes or no, zero or one, true or false. Boolean algebra and the calculus of indications of G. Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form are forms of symbolic notation for the simple operations of binary logic. With the inclusion of the conscious action of the drawing of distinctions and numerical indicators of dimensionality, the primary calculus becomes a system of triadic logic, and the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD), a naturalized extension of the primary calculus, is its notation. It is important to note that while a system of symbolic mathematical notation is a human invention, the form of mathematical logic underlying reality is not. The form of existential mathematical logic reflects both the substance and the shape of objective reality. Any useful symbolic representation of mathematical logic is a written language that can be learned and used by conscious beings, and thus mathematical logic is ‘the language of science’.



As Max Planck noted, all meaningful definitions imply that some form of consciousness exists behind the symbols. He said: “We cannot get behind consciousness, everything we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”

With this understanding, we realize that the innate logical structure of existence is mathematical in nature and that the ‘creation’ of the physical universe, in the Biblical sense of Genesis, cannot be the “creatio ex nihilo” (creation from nothing) imposed upon Christian thought by church theologists after 553 A.D. when the ‘anathemas against Origen’ were forced on the Catholic Priesthood by Roman Emperor Justinian, under the threat of death and destruction, for purely political purposes.

The stable logical forms of the physical universe are existential. They are real. They are the essence of reality. In other words, mathematics is the study of the innate logical form, the structure of reality, manifesting in the physical universe in the existence, geometry, and substance of objective reality. Sadly, the exclusion of Euclidian geometry (sometimes called ‘plane geometry’) from the basic requirements of public education in the US, along with the deliberate removal of any mention of the existence of any higher form of intelligence behind objective reality, is in large part what has brought about the downfall of modern education.



A beautiful little Book titled Analytische Geometrie, published in German in the late 1800s, a book that I found in a box that my father bought for a dollar at a garage sale when I was a teenager, reveals far more about the origin and logical basis of mathematics than anything being taught in today’s colleges and universities. After I absorbed the contents of that book and two other books on natural science during the summer of 1951, memories of things I learned in past lives began to surface in my consciousness, and I began to see the connecting links between mathematics, linguistics, natural philosophy, and the logical structure of reality, as it is ‘educed’ or drawn out of the empirical existence of Primary Consciousness and manifestly expressed in conscious lifeforms as experience in the physical universe. And it became clear to me that the mathematics being taught in our schools was based on inconsistent and erroneous assumptions. But the failures of the conceptual mathematics of public education is not what this essay is about. It is about the logic of the primary calculus of Consciousness, existence, and Immortality.

In an effort to avoid losing readers who may not have much in the way of math and/or science background, I will do my best to define technical terms as I go. The word ‘empirical’ means “information based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation and measurement or conscious experience, rather than theory or pure logic.”

The word ‘math’ comes from the Proto-Indo-European root ‘mendh’ meaning ‘to put together or learn’ this root word is also related to Greek, Slavic, and German words meaning mindfulness, awake, intelligent, observant, thoughtful and careful, revealing the fact that mathematical reasoning is a fundamental part - and I would argue, the most important part - of the meaningful education of young minds, along with reading and writing skills.

While we’re at it, let’s have a look at the word ‘education’, because it actually does not mean what is implied by ‘education’ in our schools today. Here’s a typical modern definition found in an online computer search:

“Education : The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university in the modern system of public education.”

Contrast this with the original meaning of the word ‘education’: The root word ‘educe’ comes from the Latin verb 'Educare' which means 'to lead out or bring forth'. In times of greater mental and spiritual virtue, we understand that the knowledge that is being brought forth into the expanding consciousness of individual sentient beings is present in the substrate of reality in the form of higher-frequency energy patterns that can be received and absorbed by conscious beings who are sufficiently aware and ready to receive it.

Today’s computer definitions of the word ‘education’ are definitions of indoctrination, not definitions of learning. That’s why no one with common sense can understand mathematics now in the depth that it is understood in the ages of higher mental integrity both before and after the present time. What I experienced in the summer of 1951 by reading a few books on basic math and science and thinking deeply about what I read, was education! What I experienced in years of public and private schools after that, was a mixture of education and indoctrination – and I can see that formal education has gotten progressively much worse in the past sixty years.

When education is entrusted to government, and the government becomes corrupt, the purpose of public education becomes indoctrination, which then progresses on into crass political propaganda, as the government becomes increasingly more corrupt, using public education to make sure it retains its power. Unfortunately, this is the natural evolution of bureaucratic social organizations in times of low mental and spiritual virtue like the time we are experiencing now. Sadly, real mathematical logic has been lost in the processes of ‘modern’ education. This essay is an effort to right the floundering flagship of reason once again.

Why is understanding the seminal relationship between mathematics and education so important in the course of an effort to explain the difference between existential mathematical logic and conceptual mathematical imagination? Because we need to know how to determine, beyond reasonable doubt, what is real and what is false. Using mis-guided conceptual mathematics instead of empirically proven existential mathematics to solve real-world physics and engineering problems leads to unnecessary complications and error. In particular, it yields incommensurable scalar values in solutions of descriptive algebraic equations that do not represent anything that actually exists in the real-world, but are, never-the-less, reasonable fictions used to make the Standard Model of scientific materialism seem to work.

Believing that conceptual mathematical forms are real leads to erroneous and often paradoxical answers and conclusions. Prime examples of such fictional concepts are the much sought-after ephemeral dimensionless and massless ‘particles’, that are imagined existing and “imparting” mass or other characteristics to other ‘particles’ of matter in order to make a particle-based quantum theory seem to work. There actually are no solid particles of matter in the stable atomic structure of objective reality at all. Elementary quantum-scale objects are entirely different in form and substance than the conceptual illusions called particles. - But I am getting a little bit ahead of myself. To assure that the quantitative results obtained from mathematical calculations are valid in the domain of human experience, we have to use mathematical logic, operations, and procedures that correspond with processes that actually exist. Otherwise, the solutions to mathematical equations and our interpretations of them are questionable; they often have incommensurable numerical values, and they are usually wrong.

More definitions: 1) Commensurable means having a common measure of size, extent, or content. Therefore, in the context of this discussion, the word incommensurable refers to numerical values that have no common unit of measurement, i.e., no common divisor. 2) Scalar values are numerical values representing the magnitude of a measurement, as opposed to vectors or volumetric values, which include geometric (shape) and content (substance) information defining the phenomena being analyzed. In physics, for example, a number representing relative motion, used in a sentence like: “The speed of light is constant and equal to 299,792,458 m/sec., relative to all observers, regardless of relative motion” is a scalar numerical value, while an object’s ‘velocity’ and impact are values that include geometric information like the direction of motion relative to the reference frame of the observer in a finite multi-dimensional matrix and content information, like mass/energy equivalence, and density.

Max Planck realized that the concept of solid physical matter is a conceptual illusion and said: “There is no matter as such! … All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”

In the conscious, quantized world that Max Planck discovered - the world we actually live in - the measurable mass of any physical object is equivalent to a specific amount of energy quantized in an integral multiple of an extremely small quantum equivalence unit. Even though Planck made this discovery more than 100 years ago, at about the same time his friend and colleague Albert Einstein discovered that measurements of space and time are mathematically dependent on the velocity of the object’s motion relative to the observer, modern mainstream science still hasn’t understood what these discoveries imply about the nature of reality. In the current planetary time-cycle, just ascending out of the dark ages of negative mental virtue called the ascending Kali Yuga, this isn’t surprising. Most people today don’t understand the simple difference between the numerical value of zero, re-introduced into scientific thought about 1,523 years ago, and the concept of ‘nothing’.

Belief in the possibility that a state of absolute nothingness could exist is a conceptual illusion created by observing changes that occur in geometric forms. Forms come and go, but the essence of substance does not. The illusion of nothingness is completely dispelled by understanding the universal law of conservation of mass, energy, and consciousness, revealed by applications of the Primary Quantum Calculus that I started developing in 1986 -1989. The CoDD is based on the fact that physical objects are, as Planck discovered, quantized. All measures of mass, energy and consciousness occur only in multiples of the smallest possible, stable quantum equivalence unit. That smallest quantum unit is objectified by the mass, volume and structure of the free electron. Using the mass, volume, and form of the free electron as the tri-rotational unit of equivalence (TRUE), a number of the contradictions and paradoxes existing in the current scientific paradigm are resolved. See articles by Neppe and Close or Close and Neppe published in IQNexus.

Using the quantum equivalence unit (TRUE) as the basic unit of the Quantum Calculus, normalized and naturalized to the mass and volume of the free electron links mathematical operations of calculation directly to objective physical reality, and reveals and clarifies the importance of the difference between existential and conceptual mathematics. With the natural basic unit of measurement normalized to unity and equated to the smallest stable subatomic reality, the CoDD becomes a powerful tool for proving or disproving scientific hypotheses.

[It may be necessary to clarify the meanings of two key words here, words that are sometimes confused. Those two words are ‘theory’ and ‘theorem’. A theory is a speculation or hypothesis that has not been proved, while a theorem is a mathematical statement that has been proved.]

The effectiveness of using quantum calculus theorems to prove scientific hypotheses was demonstrated in Infinite Continuity, a book I published in 1989 (unfortunately, this book is currently out of print). The quantum calculus was also used to prove scientific hypotheses in Reality Begins With Consciousness, a book published by Neppe and Close in 2015, as well as in posts on my Transcendental Physics blog site: www.ERCloseTPhysics.com .

There has been a very unfortunate rift between theoretical and applied mathematics due to institutionalized specialization, beginning about a thousand years after the time of Plato and Aristotle. Because of this rift, modern mainstream science has failed to see the powerful potential of using mathematical theorems to test hypotheses of natural science. When I mentioned using the CoDD to prove one mainstream physical hypothesis and disprove another one having to do with the Big-Bang-red-shift expanding universe theory, during a discussion about TDVP, two very successful mainstream scientists, one a Nobel prize-winning physicist, and one an astronomer, said “Mathematics isn’t like that!”

In regard to the conceptually fragmented mathematics that mainstream scientists were (and still are) being taught in major universities and that they had been using for their entire careers, their dismissive statements about the possibility of using mathematics to test scientific hypotheses were perfectly understandable. The mathematical methods used by mainstream scientists today were developed before the discoveries by Planck and Einstein, when the matter and energy of physical reality were assumed to be existential and infinitely continuous. The connection between Mainstream mathematical methods and reality is incomplete and flawed because the units of measurement being used were arbitrarily chosen from a variety of human-scale measurement standards that were, and are, mathematically incommensurable, and “the calculus” was based on assumptions that are invalid in physical reality. But, when the basic units of measurement are equated to the smallest stable existing quantum and numerical and volumetric unity, mathematical incommensurability is eliminated.

Applied mathematics for the past 300-plus years has been dominated by the infinitesimal calculus of Newton and Leibniz. But the mathematical theory behind the infinitesimal calculus contains mathematical constructs that are both existential and conceptual, real and fictional, based on a priori assumptions. (a priori means self-evident, needing no proof). This mixture of incompatible assumptions does not cause obvious problems in the mathematical results for human-scale problems, because the logical contradictions in the theory are obscured by the extremely large differences in scale between the domain of our indirect experience of reality through the physical senses, and the extremely high-energy, high-velocity phenomena occurring at the extreme edges of the quantum and cosmological scales. The basic problem arises in the difference between discrete and infinitely continuous variables and the difference between existential and conceptual forms. These problems only come to light when the analysis is extrapolated or extended down to the unitary quantum scale.

The methods that Newton and Leibniz devised to overcome the huge measurement-scale differences between human measurement and the constants of physical reality, depend on the derivation of linear algebraic functions that accurately represent problems being addressed, and also approach finite values approximated by converging series of numerical ratios as the scale-variables approach zero. While the resulting infinitesimal approximation limits yield useful solutions for human-scale problems, they produce both irrational and transcendental numerical values in the analytical results. But irrational and transcendental numbers are not integers and therefore do not represent existential quantized realities, because, by definition, non-quantum phenomena do not exist in a quantized reality. This paradox is a direct result of conflating non-existential mathematical concepts with existential mathematical realities. An important quantum-level investigation where this problem becomes especially significant and troublesome, is in the scalar unitary projection from a three-dimensional domain into another domain with an additional dimension.

Applying Newton’s laws of motion and the law of parsimony, we can see immediately that the simplest way for unitary vectors to project sequentially from each existential dimensional domain into the next and form a stable rotational symmetry connecting up to four sequential dimensional domains, is for each vector to project orthogonally (at an angle of one-fourth of each rotation relative to the previous vector). As a result of the limits of mutual orthogonality in each triad of dimensional domains after the first projection, the scalar magnitude of every third projection has the scalar value of a different dimensional complex root of unity.

The forward end of each projecting vector is located one quantum length distance into the next dimensional domain, so, if that next domain is an n-dimensional domain, the vector’s length has to be equal to an n^th root of unity for its volume and magnitude to represent the existential quantum location, as well as the equivalent scalar and volumetric units in the n-dimensional domain.

Application of the Law of Parsimony, sometimes called Occam’s razor, to the mathematics of the unitary projection from each and every dimensional domain into the next one, has the advantage of eliminating numerical incommensurability from the 3- to 5-dimensional domain mathematics, which validates CoDD theory by matching empirical evidence. What is the law of parsimony? It simply says that when there is more than one potential path, a natural process will follow the simplest and most direct path to its logical end, in effect choosing the easiest path over other possible paths that are more complex. Einstein evoked the law of parsimony in his work. He expressed it as a primary principle of God and nature. He said: “Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber Boshaft ist er nicht!” (The Lord God is impeccable, but he is not deceptive.) In other words, the intelligence behind reality does not deliberately and maliciously make things more complicated than necessary to achieve the logical end result, just to make things difficult for us!

To understand how the use of both existential and conceptual mathematics in the quantitative analyses of objective phenomena produces contradictions in our understanding of reality at the quantum and cosmological scales, we need to have a closer look at some of the fundamental concepts of mathematical logic to see how we can tell the difference between those that represent things that actually exist, and those that do not.

The simplest definition of a physical object, taken from that old entry-level college physics book I studied in the summer of 1951, is “it is that which has weight and occupies space”. To meet the requirements of this definition, an object in the dimensional domain of human experience has to exhibit quantifiable variables of extent and content that can be measured by a conscious observer. There are three geometric concepts in common usage that clearly do not meet these criteria: they are points. lines, and planes. This should be self-evident, but for clarity and emphasis, I will elaborate.

A point, the conceptualization that mathematicians call ‘a mathematical singularity’, has zero dimensions, and thus it has no extent, and no capacity to contain anything. It is, therefore, a useful concept of human imagination, but objectively non-existent. A line has one dimension, so it has extent, but no capacity for a single quantum of content. The length of a finite line segment can be measured by a conscious observer, but because it has no capacity for content, it does not meet the criteria of an existential object. A plane has two dimensions, and the area of a finite part of a plane can be calculated by a conscious observer, but it still has no capacity for containing quanta of mass, energy, or consciousness. A 2-D plane is therefore, like its logical precursors, geometrical points and lines, a useful concept, but it can claim no existence as a physical object existing in the dimensional domain we experience through our senses. Points, lines, and planes do not exist in physical reality. They are concepts drawn from the 5-D domain of Primary Consciousness and thus can only be approximated in the quantized 4-D domain of the physical universe.

There are several things to be learned from this simple analysis. In the sequential order of the logical expansion of an individual consciousness, the first three dimensions of existential reality are dimensions of space; the fourth is a dimension of time; and the fifth is a dimension of consciousness. The CoDD becomes a quantum calculus with tertiary logic, when the first three dimensions combine in a volumetric unit of geometrical extent, substantial content, and conceptual intent. This may seem like a leap into unchartered speculative territory, but it is justified because it produces results that resolve many of the perplexing paradoxes and contradictions in the current scientific paradigm, and it reveals the elegance of the higher-dimensional logic of the cosmos. The first 3-D domain, integrated as a volumetric unit combined with a 3-D unit of time and a 3-D unit of consciousness, completes the logically consistent finite 9-dimensional domain, embedded in and reflecting the logical structure of the Infinite field of Primary Consciousness known in previous times of high virtue as the Akasha.

Results obtained with applications of the CoDD, based on the free electron quantum equivalence unit (TRUE), include explaining why only three specific sizes of quarks can combine to form stable protons and atoms, why neutrons have the specific mass they have, why fermions have an intrinsic ½ spin, why the Cabbibo quark- mixing angle has the value it has, why elementary objects spin at near light-speed angular velocities, and much more. Another important thing that has emerged, is the fact that consciousness manifests physically as measurable content in sub-atomic structure at the interface of space-time dimensional domains. We have obtained ample mathematical proof of this in several publications, including Reality Begins with Consciousness, Neppe & Close, PNI, Seattle WA, 2015, and Is Consciousness Primary? AAPS Vol. 1, Edited by G.S. Schwartz & Marjorie Woollacott, Waterside Productions, Cardiff CA, 2019.

The Origin and Role of Individualized Consciousness

Consciousness flows continuously out of the infinitely continuous substrate of reality, which is the Primary form of Consciousness, and into physical manifestation to form and inform conscious entities and enable them to gain experience in the physical universe. Expanding out of, and back into Primary Consciousness in a continuous cycle, this 9-D closed recycling process forms a toroidal energy vortex, and the logical structure of Primary Consciousness is conveyed into the physical universe in these spinning vortices.

Quantized reality is ultimately a logically consistent system of elementary potential and kinetic quantized energy vortices, and increasingly complex finite arrangements of those vortices are organized by the intelligence radiating from Primary Consciousness to be received in semi-stable structures that are complex enough to absorb some of the ultra-high frequencies of an internally consistent 9-D domain, contained in, and governed by the logic of the infinitely continuous, all-encompassing field of Primary consciousness. Otherwise, no metaphysical logic or mathematical science comprehensible to individualized conscious beings, would be possible. In this quantized reality, individualized conscious minds like yours and mine exist at the interface between the infinitely continuous field of Primary Consciousness and the finite quantized reality of the physical universe.

The best analogy in our 4-D physical reality that I can think of to compare this with, is the interface of two extensive bodies of water like the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Because of differences in density due to different concentrations of dissolved solids and different kinetic energy in these bodies of water, reflected in measurable differences in turbidity, temperature, and color, the interface of the two oceanic bodies is visible on the surface. Carrying this analogy a little farther, the vortices spinning off on one side or the other and swirling along the interface, are analogous to elementary ‘particles’ spinning in the four-dimensional space-time energy field of the physical universe, and the fluid essence of the waters is analogous to the essence of the conscious substrate field of Primary Consciousness.

Like all analogies, this analogy comparing forms of mass, energy, and consciousness to spinning vortexes along the interface of bodies of water is not perfect, but it is close. The next step in this model of reality is to expand the mathematics of multi-dimensional domains from 3-D to 4-D and 5-D and inspect existential and conceptual mathematical structures relative to each of the dimensional domains. To explain this clearly, I need to define the word ‘dimension’ much more precisely than the way it is thought about and used in common parlance today. Anyone who has watched a few episodes of the Twilight Zone TV series that was aired 50 years ago and has been amplified in TV and movies ever since with improved special effects technology, understands what is meant by references to things “existing in another dimension”. However, this common terminology is imprecise. In fact, nothing can exist “in a dimension”. Things exist in dimensional domains, not in dimensions.

Dimensions are imaginary lines conceptualized with the intent of defining reference frames for measurements of the extent and content of physical objects. In the mathematical description of a reality that contains multiple objects, the values of those measurements are quantized, but variable, and therefore they are called variables. Spatial dimensions are conceptual reflections of existing objective forms and, as Einstein observed, they therefore “can claim no existence of their own”. There is no such thing as space without objects, and no such thing as time without events. Thus, there is no objective backdrop called space-time without content. And content, the substance of reality, is measured in variables of mass, energy, and now, in the CoDD, for the first time in this time cycle, also of consciousness.

Until I narrowed the focus of the calculus of indications developed by G. Spencer Brown in 1969, by including consciousness and existence as requirements for the logical analysis of physical reality and developed the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD) in 1986, consciousness was assumed by mainstream science to have no existence of its own and no measurable variables of content or extent. In scientific descriptions, the observer was - and still is - represented by a dimensionless point, a mathematical singularity, with no direct connection to, impact on, or influence on objective reality. This was coupled with the belief that physical reality had existed for billions of years without meaningful organization or purpose before life evolved and living organisms became self-aware. In the current belief system of scientific materialism, self-aware individualized consciousness is imagined to be a very recent development and an epiphenomenon of physical evolution. We know now that this belief is false, and that consciousness cannot be equated with biological life. I knew this before I was born this time, because I remembered being aware of objective reality before entering my new infant body.

After the summer of 1951, when most 14-year-olds were fascinated with Marilyn Monroe movies and Elvis Presley’s music, my idol was Albert Einstein. I had fallen in love with science; but, as I said, I knew, even before discovering relativity, that the assumption that biological life was necessary for consciousness to exist, a major premise underlying modern science, was simply wrong. I had experienced objective conscious awareness outside of my physical body, and I had memories of being identified with other living physical bodies before this one. But it would be many years before I would be comfortable talking about these experiences and memories because I didn’t have the vocabulary to describe them, even though they were an important part of my personal experience contributing to my conceptual model of reality.

Once you realize that consciousness is a fundamental part of reality, rather than a random by-product of physical evolution, your understanding of reality is changed forever. Generally, in times of low mental and spiritual virtue in time cycles like the one we are in now, out-of-body awareness comes upon individual conscious beings when they are barely ready for it. It dawns on them like an explosion of light and expanding consciousness, over which they have little or no control. This is because, as individuals born on this planet during the slow growth of human civilization and group consciousness, we are surprised by sudden glimpses of the beauty and elegance of the higher frequencies of spiritual reality that surrounds us and informs physical reality. In flashes, we become aware of the interface of our perceptual domain with the higher- energy frequencies of domains with additional dimensions, domains that we cannot experience through the physical senses developed at this time in our bodies.

Mathematical Modeling and Mandelbrot’s Fractals

As a mathematical modeler of environmental systems who had had dozens of spontaneous out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and temporarily expanded states of consciousness by 1985, I was motivated to try to find ways to expand my conceptual model of reality to include the world of greater depth and beauty that I had experienced during my OBEs. The result was the CoDD, and later, the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm, with the help of Dr. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD. But my first inkling of how dimensional interfaces could be modeled came about 15 years earlier. I knew that non-existent conceptual planes could not be warped and curved by gravitational forces to form interfaces between dimensional domains, as some scientists tried to imagine it; that was too simple. Observation and measurement of existential interfaces reveal that they are rarely smoothly distorted planes. Projecting unitary vectors across interfaces between dimensional domains in quantized reality, involves encountering dynamic irregularities that were first described geometrically as ‘fractal dimensions’ by Felix Hausdorff in 1918. Fractal geometry was later used in the computer modeling of the interfaces of masses of different density by Polish-French-American mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot and members of the Department of Interior USGS water Resources Division Systems Analysis Group, including me, in the early1970s.

I first became aware of the idea of fractal interface surface geometry in 1970, when I first met Benoit Mandelbrot. It was before he had developed computer programs to display the beauty of fractal geometry. At the time, I was a junior member of the newly formed US Department of Interior Water Resources System Analysis Group in Washington DC, and Dr. Mandelbrot was working for IBM in Watertown New York. We worked together a few times, modeling the development and movement of storm cells along weather fronts, and I had the privilege of being one of the first to review his paper using fractal geometry to model the coastline geomorphology of the largest of the British Islands.

At that time, I didn’t realize how important fractal interface geometry would become in my study of consciousness and multi-dimensional quantum calculus because the iterative set of equations that became known as the Mandelbrot set, producing interesting patterns in two dimensions, was very simple. It wasn’t until much later, when I expanded the concepts of interface dynamics to 3-D domains and beyond and studied John von Neumann’s work on the interaction of quantized energy with consciousness, that the importance of fractals became apparent. It wasn’t until 2012, after Mandelbrot passed on to the other side, and John von Neumann had almost replaced Albert Einstein at the top of my list of most revered and respected mathematical scientists, that I learned that Dr. Mandelbrot had studied under von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1953-1954, while I was still in high school.

While working on a model of the interface of the infinitely continuous field of consciousness with quantized sets of spatially extended forms of physical objects and developing a primary quantum calculus, I realized that in order to succeed in my efforts to introduce an existential quantum calculus, I had to re-unite several fields of mathematics and natural science that had drifted apart in modern times as objective mathematical logic was distorted in mainstream science by the inclusion of non-existential concepts. Over the years, the inclusion of non-existential concepts resulted in the evolution of disparate fields of theoretical and applied mathematics with incommensurable basic units, incompatible basic assumptions, and specialized methods with their own terminology. This distortion of natural science was happening in large part due to the academic inbreeding of institutionalized intellectual specialization and dumbed-down educational system.

Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries

Euclid of Alexandria was one of a very special group of intellectual souls with superior mental and spiritual virtue who reincarnated from the last Sat Yuga to preserve the core concepts of mathematical logic through the dark age of the descending Kali Yuga. Mathematical geometry, or the Logic of Form, originally part of natural science, was based on mathematical axioms like those described in Euclid’s Elements around 300 BC. The axioms of Euclid were self-evident a priori statements about simple forms like lines, planes, angles, and circles; shapes that could be drawn on flat surfaces, and a few simple volumetric solids. Euclid’s geometry was the only kind of geometry known to Western science for more than 2,000 years. But in the first part of the 19^th century, circa 1813 - 1825, several mathematicians, independent of each other, - notably the prominent German mathematician Carl Friederich Gauss - began to explore what became known as non-Euclidean geometries.

Non-Euclidean geometries were developed by assuming that the fifth postulate of Euclid’s Elements could be arbitrarily replaced with conceptual alternatives. Two major branches of logically valid non-Euclidean geometries were developed simply by assuming that parallel lines could converge or diverge at infinity. Convergent lines produced geometries of convex surfaces, like spheres and ovaloid shapes called hyperbolic geometries, and divergent lines produced geometries with concave surfaces, called elliptic geometries. They were called hyperbolic and elliptic because of the shapes of the curves that the erstwhile parallel lines projected onto their surfaces. In this way, Euclidean geometry became just one of an infinity of manifold geometries. It is, however a very special geometry because it is the only flat, or ‘plane’ geometry.

Confusing conceptual geometry with existential geometry caused mathematicians to think that the square root of negative one was an imaginary number because it could not be located in a 3-D spatial domain. But ‘imaginary’ and ‘complex’ numbers are actually real. They existent in domains with more than three dimensions. Many problems in electronics and thermodynamics, involving energy transfer, cannot be solved without them. The appearance of imaginary numbers in solutions to equations describing n-dimensional domain phenomena, indicate the existence of an additional dimension. When a problem is described by an algebraic equation in a 3-D framework and the three solutions involve ‘imaginary’ or ‘complex’ numbers, the existence of a 4^th dimension is indicated.

In a conscious projection from one multi-dimensional domain into another, awareness of an n-D domain implies the existence of an (n+1)-D domain. For example, a 3-D reality cannot be envisioned without the awareness of time, the 4^th dimension, and we cannot conceive of the dimensions of the 4-D space-time domain, without observing or measuring them from consciousness in the 5^th dimension. I think that is how mathematicians like Minkowski, Hilbert, and Friedman, realized that the 4^th dimension had to be a dimension of time, while studying Einstein’s theory of relativity. It is also how I realized that the 5^th dimension has to be a dimension of consciousness. The elegance of this vision appeared when I realized that each unitary projection into an additional domain was a root of unity, linking complex analysis to existential math in dimensional domains of 6 or more dimensions.

The conceptual development of non-Euclidean geometries led some people to mis-interpret fractal geometry as a geometry with fractional dimensions. This is not the case of course; fractional dimensions do not extend into other dimensional domains; they are objective measures of the existential roughness of interfaces between quantized domains of different mass and energy densities. The CoDD replaces the conceptual mathematics of imaginary points, lines, planes, and interfaces with the hyper-dimensional interfaces of individualized consciousness with existential reality in Primary Consciousness. Care should be taken not to confuse hyper-dimensional domains with non-Euclidean geometries.

Scientific Meditation

The title of this section is an example of double entendre (an expression that has two valid meanings, one obvious, the other obscure). In this section, I will be writing about scientific meditation techniques and about objective results from meditations that have been empirically and statistically verified. In 1996, I enjoyed doing a poster presentation at Tucson II, Toward a Science of Consciousness. My presentation was about the interface of consciousness and quantum physics. After one of the sessions, I asked a well-known physicist who was presenting, a man whose work I admired, if he had started meditating yet. He looked at me as if I had asked him if he had spoken with space aliens and said “No! why should I?” I didn’t get a chance to explain to him why I thought he should meditate, but I did have evidence that certain consciousness altering meditation techniques could make scientific investigation more productive. At that time, I had been practicing Kriya Yoga pranayama techniques of consciousness expansion for 36 years.

In my autobiography, I have written about some personal OBEs that started happening spontaneously when I was about 12 years old. During these experiences, my visual and audial senses were greatly enhanced and magnified. These experiences were temporary states of consciousness similar to those described by Patanjali in the Anima Sutra as Siddhis (powers of the soul). What I was experiencing was one of the eight siddhis that are attained through prolonged deep meditation. Experiencing them at an early age in this life was evidence that I had practiced pranayama techniques in past lives. This particular siddhi enables you to focus your sphere of consciousness to a point as tiny as an atom, proton, quark, or free electron.

In 2019, I collaborated with Dr. Vernon Neppe and Dr. Surendra Pokharna (Neppe V, Pokharna S, Close E., Besant- Quantal Clairvoyance. IQNJ. 2019, 11: 3, 5-72. 200706 V10.43) Our study documented statistically valid evidence that Dr. A. Besant and associates, using rigorous experimental criteria, described the quark sub-structure of atoms, and obtained valid information about other subatomic structures in 1908 by practicing the Anima Siddhi meditation techniques found in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Yoga means ‘union’ in Sanskrit. The Besant experiments probed the 92 known natural atoms of the Elements. At about the same time Annie Besant et al were probing subatomic reality using the anima siddhi, mainstream science was considering the elan vital or ‘life-force’ theory put forth by French philosopher Henri Bergson in his book Creative Evolution in 1907. Elan Vital was rejected by science because of lack of physical evidence.

Our 2019 study of Besant’s data provides indisputable empirical evidence documenting psi abilities operating during deep Yogic meditation. The data is statistically significant, with a statistical probability of about one in a billion-billion, with correlation coefficients approaching one. The results are virtually fraud-proof because the Besant data has been available for more than 100 years, and the correlation with the Neppe-Close Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) was proved with TRUE quantal unit values, empirically validated and 100% replicable.

The Discovery of Gimmel, the Stabilizer of Logical Structure

The most noticeable and most remarkable thing about the physical universe is the great abundance of energy it contains. Everything is constantly moving. As conscious beings, we seem to be located in the middle of everything, moving relatively slowly while the largest things and the smallest things, farthest from us, things that we can detect through our physical senses, are moving much faster than we are. Both larger and smaller things are spinning and spiraling at such tremendous velocities that their rotation and spinning give them two kinds of stability: stabilities of form, which can be spherical, oval, or vortical, and stabilities of repeating patterns, that can be vibrational, orbital, or spiral. Some natural processes involve all of these forms and patterns, persisting for different lengths of time, from nanoseconds to eternity.

In the quest to understand the nature of reality, an important question to ask, is: Which physical object in the universe is the most stable ? The answer is the proton. Most of the objects that make up the elements of the periodic table, the stuff that mainstream scientists call hadronic matter, decay over time, and most of them decay very quickly relative to human time. But protons never decay, or if they do, their half-life is longer than the estimated age of the big-bang universe, which keeps getting older and older as we continue to learn more about it.

An even more important question, as it turns out, is: Why is the proton so stable? When I first learned about the amazing, functionally eternal stability of the proton, I was pretty sure that if I could learn why the proton is so super stable, then I would also be able to answer Leibniz’s most famous question, which was: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” Given the second law of thermodynamics, that says that entropy (disorder) always increases with time, explaining why things deteriorate and decay, Leibniz realized that there wouldn’t be complex structures in the first place, unless something very different had happened to override the entropy of natural decay sometime in the past, so he concluded that the first thing science should have asked, was “Why is there anything?”

Planck discovered the fact that there is no such thing as matter. This means that the subatomic objects cannot be particles of solid matter. If they are not particles, then what are they? An in-depth look at them in anima siddhi meditation reveals that they are energy vortices spinning in at least two or three dimensions simultaneously, in accordance with Newton’s 3^rd law of motion (for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction) because of the expansion of the 4-D universe. We also see that mass is simply the measure of how much an object resists to a force causing it to change its vector of motion.

Another expanded state of consciousness siddhi allows you to slow objective time down by speeding up the rate of your metabolism. When you do this, you see that quantal vortices combine by merging like spinning drops of water, and the combination formed has the combined angular momentum of the merging objects, obeying the conservation of energy law. Electrons are single 3-D, 1 TRUE unit vortices that are spinning at the speed of light. Up-quarks are 2 TRUE unit vortices spinning in 2 dimensions, giving them 2² = 4 TRUE units of mass due to their angular momentum. Down-quarks are 3 TRUE unit vortices spinning in 2 dimensions, giving them 3² = 9 TRUE units of mass due to angular momentum. Protons are composed of 2 up-quarks and 1 down-quark, and they must contain an integer number of TRUE units cubed, to be perfectly symmetrical and not decay due to unbalanced angular momentum.

When I returned to the US after my NDE in the Great Pyramid of Giza Egypt in 2010, described in my autobiography, I began to apply the CoDD to analyze the merger of three quarks to form a proton, to see if I could discover why the proton is so stable. When I converted the data from the Large Hadron Collider for the mass of up- and down-quarks into naturalized TRUE units and combined their 3-D forms using CoDD logic, I was surprised. The Diophantine equation for the combination of two up-quarks and one down-quark did not yield an integral value for the TRUE unit cube-root of the volume of the proton. That meant that the proton couldn’t contain a whole number of quanta and would therefore be asymmetric and fly apart and decay due to its unbalanced angular momentum. In other words, the proton, composed of two up-quarks and one down-quark, shouldn’t be any more stable than any other subatomic object! Could I have made an error in logic or arithmetic? It had happened before, because I’m a mathematical modeler, not necessarily always a meticulous number cruncher, so I checked and re-checked my reasoning and my calculations. But there was no error. The proton couldn’t be as stable, as it clearly was in LHC data. How could both be true? I was confronted with a paradox!

Then, a remarkable thing happened! I remembered three famous statements about paradoxes, problems, and mathematical completeness. The first one was a profound statement by Danish physicist, Niels Bohr. When he was told that a quantum experiment that he had designed had produced contradictory results, he exclaimed: “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress!” The second statement was from Albert Einstein, who said: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” And the third was the essence of Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, which proved that valid questions can be asked in a consistent logical system that can’t be answered within that system. At one quantum moment, these three profound statements converged in my mind to clarify a truth that made me realize that my computational paradox wasn’t a dead end, and together with what I already knew about conceptual and existential reality and mathematical modeling, that truth would enable me to resolve the proton paradox, and the end result was an amazingly profound discovery about the nature of reality: It has been designed with a purpose.

These statements by the three famous physicists are intimately related to each other, and also to existential reality, consciousness, and the discovery of Gimmel, the measurable organizing factor of physical reality and conveyer of the logic of Primary Consciousness into the physical universe. Bohr’s statement was a welcome answer for those who saw Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem as the end of mathematical certainty. I think David Hilbert was one of those thinkers, because his dream, his life’s work, was to accomplish the task of identifying the complete set of logically consistent axioms with which all mathematical questions could be proved or disproved. The incompleteness theorem was a disaster for Hilbert’s dream, because it proved that what he hoped to accomplish was impossible.

Some mathematicians thought that the incompleteness theorem implied that there were valid hypotheses that could never be proved or disproved. That is true in the absolute sense; however, the incompleteness theorem also implies that reality is potentially infinite, and therefore, a given hypothesis can be proved or disproved in a logical system that is expanded to encompass it. This is true because any consistent bubble of consciousness is a logical system by definition, and that makes Einstein’s statement relevant because it implies that a finite consciousness bubble can always be expanded to include more of existential reality.

When I encountered the proton paradox, I had already had a background that included a BA degree in mathematics and sufficient coursework in geology, physics, and mathematics for Master’s degrees in all three subjects. I had worked as a mathematical modeler in a US Government Systems Analysis Group for several years and earned a PhD in environmental science and engineering with a one-year residence at Johns Hopkins University, and I was actively involved in ground-breaking bio-psycho-quantum-physics research with Dr. Vernon Neppe MD, PhD, founder of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute. I had also been practicing Kriya Yoga consciousness-expansion techniques for 60 years, and I knew that the profound truths spoken by Bohr, Einstein, and Gödel fit in perfectly with my model of everything, to provide me with an insight of considerable significance. It was an insight that would enable me to complete my life’s mission to help bring science out of the dead-end illusion of materialism by producing empirical evidence that the organizing feature that stabilizes physical reality is pure consciousness, proving that the logic of consciousness is the primary underlying form of reality.

The Truth is not owned by anyone. It is freely available for anyone to discover. However, I would be egregiously remiss if I did not express my gratitude to the Eternal Light of Primary Consciousness, the Source of everything, and to the line of Spiritual Masters and teachers who have been my guiding lights throughout my journey of many lives, inspiring every true vision and thought I had. They are Christ, Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, Kabir, Plato, Maha Avatar Babaji Maharaj, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar Giri, Paramahansa Yogananda, The Aten incarnate: Amenhotep, Patanjali, Maitreya Buddha, and many other Fully Enlightened Beings. They are listed in no particular order here because they are all One with Primary Consciousness.

The Mathematics of the CoDD stable merging of combinations can be summarized in one mathematical expression. It is the doubly-infinite summation shown below, where m indicates the dimensional domain and n is the number of existential objects merging into the stable object represented by X_n+1 :

For anyone unfamiliar with this type of notation, it represents a double infinity of equations from which every combination theorem of the primary calculus can be derived. However, I will limit the demonstration and comments given here to an abbreviated presentation of the logical process that conveys order into chaos and led to the discovery of the existence of gimmel, in TRUE units, organizing every stable proton in every atom of the periodic table of elements.

The insight mentioned above was the realization that the proton paradox is easily resolved by expanding the system of existential logic to include a third form of the essence of reality that manifests physically as mass and energy. If the substrate of reality, i.e., the Akasha or zero quantum field is not composed of mass or energy, but pure consciousness which can manifest in a third form as well as mass and/or energy, then the proton can contain a combination of all three, producing a total number of TRUE units equal to a perfect cube, making it perfectly symmetrical and therefore virtually eternal!

Quark Merging Conveyance Equations

With Solutions Leading to Proof

of the Existence of Gimmel

n

m

Combination Equations

Meaning

1

1

(X₁)¹ = (X₂)¹ → X₁ = X₂

Sequence of Identities

2

1

(X₁)¹ + (X₂)¹ = (X₃)¹1 +1 = 2;   2 + 1 = 3;   3 + 1 = 4, …

Closure of Integers

With respect to Addition

2

2

(X₁)² + (X₂)² = (X₃)²

Pythagorean Triples

2

2

(3)² + (4)² = (5)²

9 + 16 = 25

First Primitive

Solution of (2,2)

2

3

(X₁)³ + (X₂)³ = (X₃)³

No Solutions (FLT*)

3

3

(X₁)³ + (X₂)³ + (X₃)³ = (X₄)³

CoDD Quantum Addition for (3,3)

3

3

(3)³ + (4)³ + (5)³ = (6)³         27 + 64 + 125 = 216

First Primitive

Solution of (3,3)

3

3

(1)³ + (6)³ + (8)³ = (9)³

1+ 216 + 512 = 729

Second Primitive    Solution of (3,3)

3

3

(24)³ + (38)³ + (106)³ = (108)³

The

Hydrogen Atom

* Fermat’s Last Theorem proved that there are no integer values for a combination of two quantized objects, but Diophantine integer solutions do exist for three quantized objects.

These Diophantine (integer) solutions of the conveyance equations, besides explaining why only three quarks can form stable nucleons and why protons are so stable, provide the exact number of TRUE existing in free and energy-shell electrons, up- and down -quarks, and in protons and neutrons. When the total TRUE units of mass/energy, and gimmel in each atom of the periodic table of elements is calculated, some very interesting patterns emerge. For example, the elements that are necessary for biological life, and those that are supportive of life, have higher concentrations of gimmel than those that are detrimental or destructive. See table below.

Evidence of Intelligent Design

Nth ELEMENT

(N = number of electrons)

Mass

TRUE Units

Gimmel

In TRUE Units

Total

TRUE Units

Percent Gimmel

RANK*

Relevance to

Life

1 Hydrogen

18

150

168

89.3

1

2 Helium

80

256

336

76.2

2

3 Lithium

142

364

506

71.9

4

4 Beryllium

182

528

710

74.4

5

5 Boron

222

656

878

74.7

4

6 Carbon

240

768

1008

76.2

1

7 Nitrogen

280

896

1176

76.2

1

8 Oxygen

320

1024

1344

76.2

1

9 Fluorine

382

1168

1550

75.4

3

10 Neon

400

1280

1680

76.2

2

11 Sodium

462

1424

1886

75.5

3

12 Magnesium

480

1536

2016

76.2

2

13 Aluminum

542

1680

2222

75.6

3

14 Silicon

560

1792

2352

76.2

3

15 Phosphorus

632

1936

2558

75.7

2

16 Sulfur

640

2048

2688

76.2

2

17 Chlorine

702

2192

2894

75.7

3

18 Argon

808

2368

3176

74.6

3

19 Potassium

782

2448

3230

75.8

2

20 Calcium

800

2560

3360

76.4

1

21 Scandium

906

2726

3632

75.1

3

22 Titanium

968

2880

3848

74.8

4

23 Vanadium

1130

3024

4154

72.7

4

24 Chromium

1148

3136

4284

73.2

4

25 Manganese

1110

3289

4390

74.7

4

26 Iron

1128

3382

4510

75.0

3

27 Cobalt

1190

2536

3726

68.1

4

28 Nickel

1196

3632

4828

75.4

4

29 Copper

1292

3808

5100

74.7

3

30 Zinc

1310

3920

5230

75.0

3

31 Gallium

1416

4096

5512

74.3

4

32 Germanium

1480

4240

5720

74.1

4

33 Arsenic

1518

4458

5976

74.6

5

^*Rank of Relevance to Consciousness and Life: All of the natural, stable and semi-stable elements of the periodic table are necessary, to some degree, for the existence, maintenance, and spiritual evolution of organic life forms capable of receiving the vibrational frequencies and patterns of consciousness. This table ranks the first 33 natural elements from 1 to 5, 1 having the highest percentage of gimmel, the organizing feature of consciousness that makes intelligent life possible on this planet. Hydrogen is ranked #1 because it is Primary and essential, not only for the existence of biological life, but also for all other elements to form. Elements ranked 2 are necessary to support life, and Those ranked 3 and 4 play minimal roles, usually in compound combinations with other elements that mitigate or neutralize the negative and harmful or destructive effects that they would otherwise have on conscious organic life forms. Elements ranked 5 are lethal. It is also interesting to calculate gimmel percentage for biological chemical compounds. The DNA/RNA nucleic acid molecules score high percentages, as does water.

Every conscious being has a model of reality built up of experience-based memories and logical or fanciful extended images in his or her mind. Everyone tends to believe that his or her own personal conceptual model of reality is reality - until it clashes with existential reality in a way that becomes uncomfortable or even intolerable. Biological life provides opportunities for conscious beings to correct and improve their conceptual models of reality, and this process is called learning. From a point of view outside of your bubble of consciousness, the learning process is an expansion of the bubble of your personal conceptual beliefs about reality to contain more and more of actual existential reality. The goal and purpose of life is to expand your consciousness until it is congruent with existential reality. Until then, there will be problems and paradoxes.

During this lifetime, as I’ve reported in my autobiography, my Transcendental Physics blogsite, and elsewhere, memories of past lives and between-life experiences have surfaced because of the consciousness expansion due to my daily practice of the Kriya Yoga techniques. When an individual’s bubble of consciousness expands beyond the physical body, even temporarily, that individual begins to see more of reality and realize that the paradoxes of one multi-dimensional domain can be resolved in expanded higher-energy dimensional domains.

Conclusion:

Consciousness is primary. Stable structure exists in physical reality only because of the presence of gimmel, the organizing function of consciousness. None of the dynamic forms of matter, energy, and consciousness, have any independent existential reality of their own. The forms and substances of reality are innately interdependent. We can’t have one of them without the others. This becomes obvious when an individual consciousness expands into the quantum and cosmic domains. If any part of reality - mass, energy, time, space, or consciousness - is left out of the mathematical description of objective reality, science is incomplete and the reality that we experience in the mid-range of observation and measurement is logically inexplicable. But, as part of the Akashic substrate of Primary Consciousness, your consciousness and mine is immortal, and the purpose of our existence is to expand our bubble of consciousness and light. We are immortals, on our way to becoming One with Primary Consciousness.

WHO KNOWS

2023-12-24T15:06:00.000-08:00

WHO KNOWS?

“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? – The Shadow knows!” These words were the dramatic opening lines of an American radio show about a super detective that reached its peak of popularity when it was narrated by Orson Welles, about the same time I first heard the crackling static of a radio set that I built myself with a Quaker oatmeal box, copper wire, and a quartz crystal in the little town of Pilot Knob in Arcadia Valley, Missouri. That was many years ago, but now is a good time to ask that question again, because evil certainly does lurk in the hearts of men, and women, or whatever some of the poor, deluded citizens of our world today imagine themselves to be, in these days of deliberately induced confusion.

Words have meaning, but their meanings are imparted by the intent of those who are speaking. In these days when clever politicians can be bought for a few million dollars, and our elections are decided by carefully worded lies, who can know what the truth is? and who can know what evil lurks in the hearts of those who lie? The answer was given by a certain Jewish man named Jesus, who spoke at about the same time the evil of the Roman Empire reached its peak in the depths of the Dark Ages on this planet. Using analogies that existed in nature so anyone could understand, Jesus said, “Beware of false prophets. Just like thorn bushes do not bear grapes and briars do not bear figs, evil people do not produce anything that is good. You will know them by their fruits!” In other words, don’t be misled by the words that politicians and thieves use, but instead, understand who they really are by looking at the fruits of their actions.

If you are offended by my promotion of the words of a man whose memory became the icon of a huge religious organization, then you are a part of the problem at the heart of the sickness that infects our civilization today, not part of the solution. Remember that Jesus was not a Christian, just as Krishna was not a Hindu, Buddha was not a Buddhist, and Mohammed was not a Muslim. Jesus was not a Jew either, not according to the Sadducees and Pharisees of Orthodox Judaism at the time. He was a Spiritual Master, not a religious or political man. Religious organizations are not necessarily spiritual, they are just as religious and political as the individuals who run them. They reflect and magnify the evil, more often than the good, that lurks in the hearts of men. We can know what people and organizations are by their fruits, not by what they call themselves, or they promise!

A liar will promise whatever he believes will persuade you to contribute to his cause. But because he is a liar, the outcome of his cause, and consequently of your contribution, will not be good. So, be careful to avoid contributing to causes that have produced evil results in the past, or even to causes that might produce evil results, because by doing so, you risk becoming either deliberately, or unknowingly, complicit in the perpetuation of evil. The world, and indeed, even the universe and the cosmos are governed by inherently natural laws of mathematical logic and precision, and unfortunately, ignorance of those laws does make you immune to their effects.

Because we live in a physical world whose continued existence literally depends upon the stability of balanced dualities, from the quantum level to the cosmological scale, the minds of conscious beings in human form, including yours and mine, contain elements of both good and evil. As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Unfortunately, human religious and political organizations tend to magnify the extremes. So, in order to distinguish truth from falsehood, we need remember the historical past. As philosopher George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” And the past is replete with serious religious and political mistakes that violated natural law, resulting in untold misery and pain, death and destruction. Things better to be avoided.

If we are to avoid repeating the actions that led to horrible results in the past, it is very important that we remember our past history as it actually happened, not as we wish or imagine it may have happened. When we take an objective look at the fruits of their actions in the past, there is very little difference between religious and political organizations. They are both social organizations, and social organizations, based on religious and political ideas, have produced both good and bad results. In fact, human social organizations, regardless of what they are called, are formed and motivated by a mixture of religious and political ideas. Thus, like human consciousness itself, they contain both good and evil. But one thing is obvious: When social organizations are based on materialism, the pain, suffering, death, and destruction they inflict, are likely to be more horrific. This is because materialists are either ignorant of, or willfully reject the existence of the underlying spiritual nature of reality, and believe that ultimately, they will suffer no negative consequences for evil actions they may secretly commit against others. They believe that when the electro-chemical sparks that animate their physical brains flicker out, they will simply cease to exist. This is the most dangerous delusion of human existence because it involves rejection of the logical cause-and-result nature of reality, and the immortality of souls.

On Christmas Day we celebrate the birth of that Jewish man named Jesus, and we must marvel at the evil of the humanity that sought to kill one whose only desire was to save them from their own inherent evil. As I see it, the humanity that did that still exists today, not very much different in spirit from the humanity of 2000 years ago. Instead of opening our hearts to Him and the realization of the eternal nature our souls, most of us still worship at the altar of materialism, regardless of what we profess to believe. But let not your heart be troubled, The science of TDVP and the mathematics of the Calculus of dimensional Distinctions, mentioned often in my Transcendental Physics blog www.ERCloseTPhysics.com prove beyond doubt that your soul is immortal and fully capable of receiving the consciousness of Christ. Have a Merry Christmas, 2023 and a Happy New Year.

IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP

2022-10-30T10:58:00.001-07:00

ENOUGH!

It's time for us – or for me, at least, - to speak out loudly and clearly, and say: ENOUGH! Because today, the truth has been almost completely undermined by lies, and the most diabolical and destructive lies are being put forward as truths. If you no longer know what to believe, then you need to understand that the general clouding of human consciousness, to the point that we might not be able to distinguish truth from lies, is and has been the goal of the enemy all along. It’s really nothing new, it’s just more insidious right now. How did we come to this? To answer this question, we have to take a longer view than that of one life time, or one century. The evolution of consciousness on this planet occurs in 24,000-year cycles.

There was a long period of time, from about 22,000 years ago until about 1,000 BC, during which consciousness was more advanced than it is now. From about 700 BC through the lowest point in spiritual virtue on this planet in 499 A.D., to about 1700, we human beings were suffering through the deep dark ages of the soul. After that time, we began the slow ascent toward higher levels of mental and spiritual virtue in this cycle of planetary time. World War I and World War II were efforts of the enemy to stop this increasing light of truth and keep humanity in darkness for as long as they could. For more about the planetary time cycles in our solar system, see The Holy Science by Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri and posts about time cycles on this blogsite and Secrets of the Sacred Cube, a Cosmic Love Story, by Ed and Jacqui Close.

When the Satanic forces of duality, represented by deluded human beings who infiltrated the religious, educational, and governmental institutions of the declining civilizations of the last cycle sought to perpetrate their evil global dominance into the new ascending cycle, saw that they were losing their grip on humanity with the victory of freedom over tyranny in the defeat of the imperialist socialistic axes of Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan, ending World War II, they began planning ways to organize and use the remnants of evil forces to resist the slow movement toward the enlightenment of the people of Planet Earth in more subtle ways.

After the end of World War II, recognizing that brute-force dominance had failed, the Satanic forces began searching for more subtle ways to control the thoughts of human beings. Using the same basic negative principles employed by in the “Holy” Roman Empire to subvert Christianity, by Hitler in Germany, Stalin in Russia, and Mao in China, the mis-guided minions of evil resumed their attacks on the vulnerable members of humanity. In the 1960s, deluded proponents of global communism started planting long-term sleeper-cells and using neuro-linguistic programming to undermine the growing freedom of Western Civilization in Europe and America.

I learned about this long-term infiltration first-hand in 1962 when I was a graduate student in theoretical physics, from a Chinese Communist student-spy who, along with thousands of other communist intelligence agents had infiltrated America’s open systems of education, communication, politics, and entertainment. We were classmates in an intensive summer-school quantum physics course. He came to America as a graduate student in physics after studying in Russia for four years. He saw me as a potential political convert and confided in me during a weekend of social drinking.

At the time, I dismissed what the Chinese grad student told me as the fanciful delusion of one or a few foreign students who were communist ideologs; but later, I learned more about the widespread infiltration of American institutions, while I was a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University and a charter member of a US Government Systems Analysis Group during the time period 1965 – 1977.

As an environmental engineer and mathematical modeler in support of a government-wide movement toward computerized management by systems analysis, inspired by World Bank President and former US Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, I had occasions to interface with some of the left-wing political operatives embedded in US Civil Service. I left US Civil Service and went into private consulting in the 1980s in large part because I did not want to be part of this subversion of American democracy.

Now, in an all-out last-ditch effort to continue to enslave the masses, the mis-guided minions of evil are mixing materialistic Marxist utopian propaganda with the threat of nuclear war to force humanity into a state of submission under global communism. It won’t work if we simply wake up and realize that the ultimate goal of forced globalization before humanity is mentally or spiritually ready for it, is to control humanity, prevent the enlightenment of individuals, and thwart the ascendance of good over evil.

GOOD AND EVIL – AND THE PURPOSE OF LIFE

I have addressed the concepts of good and evil, the purpose of life, the existence of consciousness, and Infinite Intelligence in other posts on this blogsite that can be accessed by searching for these subjects. But I will summarize definitions of them here to make the content of this post more complete by itself.

One of Shakespeare’s most quoted lines is:

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

This line from Hamlet, uttered by the Danish Prince in a discussion with his old schoolmates Rosenkranz and Guildenstern in support of his feeling that Denmark had become a prison for him, highlights a human attitude that is one of the Satanic force’s most effective tools in the effort to derail human spiritual advancement. Hamlet’s statement expresses a belief in relativism – not to be confused with Einstein’s relativity, which is a mathematically deterministic system of logic that is the exact opposite of relativism.

Relativism is the belief that good & evil are whatever society collectively believes them to be. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Reality, including the stable structures of the physical universe, while constantly changing in meaningful ways, is a manifestation of the logic of the Infinite Intelligence behind the physical universe and cannot be affected substantially by the egoistic desires of individual finite conscious beings.

When we realize that Primary Consciousness exists in every aspect of reality, and that the purpose of the existence of objective reality is to provide endless opportunities for individual conscious beings to experience physical existence and expand their consciousness by choice to attain the state of awareness that includes the entire cosmos, defining good and evil becomes easy. Anything that expands individual consciousness toward the goal of Cosmic Consciousness is good, and anything that blocks or reverses that expansion is evil.

The purpose behind all learning processes is to expand the finite consciousness associated with an individual body, mind, and soul. Eventually, all positive physical and intellectual exercises that expand individual consciousness will merge into some form of spiritual practice. So, wherever you are on the path to ultimate enlightenment of Cosmic Consciousness, choose the spiritual practice associated with a lineage of spiritual teachers that makes sense to you.

ERC 10/30/2022

THE JOURNEY TO COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS

2022-10-20T09:41:00.005-07:00

CONSCIOUSNESS, BIRTH, LIFE, AND DEATH

A Spiritual Journey

INTRODUCTION

I want to begin this post by acknowledging that the many different aspects of the basic components of human experience listed in the title above have been the stuff of dreams, poems, symphonies, love songs, and books, as well as endless academic and common place discussions about the nature of reality, from the beginning of civilization as we know it, until the present moment. Is it possible to address such important human experiences in any meaningful way in one short blogpost? Perhaps not. But in meditation I have seen what I believe to be memories of events that have occurred in multiple lives and between-lives in what I think may be the conscious zero-point quantum field, known in times of more advanced mental and spiritual virtue as the Akashic record. They appear in a form that I would describe as an unbelievably colorful multi-dimensional fabric of interwoven threads of consciousness, forming elegant patterns in the endless holistic tapestry of Reality. If I can convey even a tiny hint of the transcendental beauty of my vision of this majestic tapestry that I think of as the mind of God, then I will be happy.

WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?

First, it is important to realize that the illusions of beginnings and endings, like births and deaths, have no meaning without the prior existence of some form of consciousness. Scientists sometimes speak about the birth, life, and death of stellar objects like stars, the nearest one of which is our sun; but this clearly anthropomorphic conceptualization is dependent upon the prior existence of some form of highly intelligent consciousness. In 1931, Max Planck, the German physicist who discovered that physical reality is quantized, when interviewed by a reporter for The Observer, a newspaper based in London England, put it as plainly as I believe anyone can, when he said:

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness.”

We know that consciousness exists, because we experience it directly as our own self-awareness and the ability to draw the distinction between self and other. In fact, consciousness is the only thing that we experience directly. If there is nothing behind consciousness, then, it follows that the ultimate reality behind everything is an a-temporal, non-local, primary form of consciousness, perhaps what has traditionally been called Spirit. But when our current mainstream scientists ask: “What is this thing we call consciousness?” they come up against a blank wall, because it is beyond the limits of their materialistic assumptions. From the point of view of an objective conscious observer, we can trace the distinctions of objective reality from the galaxies of the expanding big-bang universe, all the way back to the stable patterns of information that have meaning in sub-atomic structures, such as neutrons, protons, electrons, even down to the unstable patterns of mass and energy that exist for short periods of time as quarks, and the whole super-ephemeral particle zoo; but, when trying to define what consciousness is, science has no answer because the finite, quantized human brain, is limited by the scientific method, and the mathematical reality of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which reflect the infinite continuity of Primary Consciousness.

THE PARADOX OF SCIENTIFIC DEFINITIONS

We would like to think that the various institutions that we call modern mainstream science, are the embodiment of a well-defined, effective method of investigation, collectively known as “The Scientific Method”, a procedure designed to obtain true knowledge about the true nature of reality. Unfortunately, this is not the case, even though those of us who identify as scientists have to pretend that it is, to earn university degrees and obtain the funding needed to apply the methods of investigation that we have learned in one or a few areas of specialization. To understand the nature of this scientific self-deception, we have to step back from our fascination with the physical accomplishments of modern science, engineering, and technology, for a moment, and think about ontology and epistemology. For readers who might not be familiar with these terms describing philosophical enquiry, ontology attempts to determine what actually exists, while epistemology is an effort to understand what knowledge of reality is, and how we know about it.

You may be surprised to learn that the definitions of basic scientific concepts are produced by closed intellectual processes of circular reasoning. Due to the fact that we have no direct experience of the objective reality we assume to exist in the form of separate objects independent of our consciousness, definitions of the things that we have come to regard, for various reasons, as elementary components of objective reality, are actually verbal or written interpretations of mental images constructed from physical, electrical, and magnetic energy pulses, vibrating in narrow ranges of frequencies, transformed by complex physical, chemical, and mental processes as they are transferred in various ways, through space and physical media of various densities, impacting the cellular, molecular, atomic and subatomic structure of transmitters and receptors, evolved for that purpose in our physical bodies, until they finally impact our consciousness to be translated into thought and become the afore-mentioned verbal and written expressions.

This self-referential circular reasoning is the only basis we have for believing that an objective reality actually exists. The circular nature of scientific reasoning becomes obvious when we realize that we are only directly aware of our own consciousness, and unless we can expand our consciousness beyond the boundaries of our physical bodies, it’s the only thing we have. If, as Max Planck declared nearly 100 years ago, consciousness is primary, then we cannot define it in the way we define everything else. It can only be defined in terms of itself. We may talk about how consciousness functions as the organizer of the patterns that we perceive in reality, and we can even identify different forms and states of consciousness, but we can never define consciousness itself, we can only experience it.

When someone says you can’t argue with the science, like certain government employed physicians did recently, to help totalitarian governments control the citizens of the Earth, he reveals the fact that he doesn’t know what science is. When a scientist is not skeptical of the results of his own experimentations, he is no longer a scientist, he is a believer, and his science has become a religion or a political ideology. The next step on that slippery slope is irrational zealotry. Belief in an absolutely knowable physical reality is belief in a false god, an idol. Real science is never complete because reality is infinite. That is actually what the proof of Gödel’s theorems tells us: Finite symbols and ‘theories of everything’ cannot describe reality, they can only describe a portion of the process of reality evolving and changing itself within Primary Consciousness. This means that the stated goals of ontology and epistemology, i.e., complete knowledge of what actually exists, and complete understanding of how we know about it, will never be achieved. But this is not a cause for despair. No matter how much we learn about the nature of reality, there will always be more to learn, because Gödel’s theorem has proved that reality is infinite.

The disparity between descriptive science and reality becomes obvious when we analyze the process of definition. A word or symbol used to describe a scientific concept or object is defined in a dictionary by suggesting that it means the same thing as another word or symbol - or something similar. This is a prime example of circular reasoning. For example, the British Dictionary defines the scientific method as “a method of investigation in which a problem is first identified and observations, experiments, or other relevant data are then used to construct or test hypotheses that purport to solve it.”

In the light of Gödel’s theorem, analysis of this definition of the scientific method reveals the fact that if a problem can be resolved with the logic of the system within which it has been articulated, then the solution will be present in the statement of the problem. This was one of the two major points of G. Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form. He demonstrated this brilliantly by showing that complex logical syllogisms could be solved almost instantly by merely looking at the form of the statement of the problem expressed in a primary calculus like his calculus of indications.

The popular American word book, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, defines the scientific method as “principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.”

Wikipedia says: “The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century (with notable practitioners in previous centuries). It involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed, given that cognitive assumptions can distort how one interprets the observation. It involves formulating hypotheses via induction, based on such observations; experimental and measurement-based statistical testing of deductions drawn from the hypotheses; and refinement (or elimination) of the hypotheses based on the experimental findings. These are principles of the scientific method, as distinguished from a definitive series of steps applicable to all scientific enterprises.”

One of the most Influential philosophers of science in the entire 20th century, Austrian-British thinker, Sir Karl Popper, rejected logic-based induction- deduction definitions of the scientific method like those cited above, in favor of defining the scientific method as a process of “empirical falsification”. He believed that theories developed from experimental data could never be proved in the absolute sense that mathematical theorems are proved, but that they can be falsified if they happen to be untrue or incomplete, by performing experiments designed to test them.

If you keep searching, you can find dozens of other ‘definitions’ of the scientific method. Some list five steps in their attempts to define it, others articulate seven steps. You can pick the one that makes the most sense to you. Scientists pride themselves in the accuracy and precision of their detailed definitions and descriptions of reality, but the most precise definition possible, is completely useless. If the words comprising the subject and object of a sentence defining a scientific term are precisely equivalent, then the definition is a tautology, stating the obvious, essentially saying ‘It is what it is!’ In mathematical notation, such a precise definition is an identity of the form represented by X≡X.

My point is that the idea that there can be a complete and precise theory of everything expressed in one, two, three, - or any finite number of words and equations - is indicative of the inherent delusion of the finite mind; but scientists should never give up trying to find a theory of everything, because it is like the carrot on a stick suspended in front of a donkey to keep him moving in the right direction. In this donkey and carrot analogy, the finite mind is analogous to the donkey, coaxed to walk, or perhaps even to run after the carrot dangling in front of him on a pole, and the illusion of a finite theory of everything is the carrot.

Based on glimpses of the Akashic record, we can logically extend this analogy by upgrading the conscious, warm-blooded animal, the donkey, to a self-aware intelligent human being; the carrot to the human being’s mental image of “the glory of God”, inspired by a glimpse of the splendor of the Akasha. Such a ‘carrot’ should motivate the individual conscious being to do everything within its power to find a way to expand its sphere of consciousness toward the ultimate state of oneness with the Infinite within its lifetime. This brings us to the next, and most important definition related to consciousness.

WHAT IS LIFE?

Discovery of the existence of specific numbers of quantum equivalence units of a non-material component of objective reality (ERC 2011) that we chose to call gimmel (Neppe & Close, 2015) present in quarks and electrons, and the fact that they had to exist prior to the formation of any stable material structure, i.e., for any physical reality to exist, proved that Planck was right when he stated that he could tell us as a result of his “research about the atoms” that there is “no matter as such!” and that we must “regard matter as fundamental…as derivative from consciousness” and that “We cannot get behind consciousness.” Confirmation of this declaration about the nature of reality has profound implications concerning what life is.

The discovery that something non-material had to exist before the first stable elementary object could form, and the demonstration that that non-material gimmel performs the primary function of consciousness by organizing quanta of mass and energy into meaningful structures, implies that gimmel is consciousness. Gimmel, and therefore consciousness, is not just fundamental, as Planck suggested, but it is primary, and as the primary source of stable reality, consciousness cannot be defined as equal to or similar to anything else. Gimmel is the bridge between physical and non-physical reality.

If life and consciousness were the same thing, then we could answer the question posed above by declaring that: “Life IS consciousness!” But consciousness and life as we experience them on this planet, cannot be the same thing, since consciousness is primary, and therefore had to exist before the elementary particles and objective materials that make up organic life forms, could evolve. Unlike consciousness, life can be defined in terms of the interactions of other pre- or co-existing things comprising the morphogenic processes that manifest the logical structures of consciousness.

Collectively, these processes, existing in animal, plant, and fungal species, combine for the purpose of making the survival of some members of those species possible, thereby making survival of some continuing form of the species possible. These processes are iteratively manifested and perpetuated in transformative cycles of reproductive birth, growth, decay, death, and re-birth. Thus, life and consciousness are categorically different things. Proof of the primacy of consciousness as the undefinable reality behind physical and non-physical reality (mass-energy and gimmel) implies that consciousness can and does exist without biological life, but life cannot exist without consciousness. A growing body of experimental data and objectively verified personal experiences confirms this.

WHAT IS BIRTH, AND WHAT IS DEATH?

The life that you are living consists of a sequence of events that you are experiencing as a conscious being. You are, however, not experiencing those events directly. You are experiencing them through the filter of a finite bio-physical organism that you identify as your body. It has specialized cognitive and sensing organs designed for the purpose of consciously drawing finite distinctions in the infinitely continuous fabric of the reality of Primary Consciousness. Your life is distinguished from other lives contributing to the multi-dimensional fabric of Reality by the characteristics encoded in the DNA of your body. Your life is distinguished in time by two events of profound importance, impacting, your body, mind, and soul. We call these events birth and death. They mark the beginning and ending of a series of relationships with unique associations of symbiotic organisms whose DNA patterns and processes form a counterpoint to the blueprint of your DNA. Together, they guide the way your body develops, reacts, to stimuli, and eventually decays and dies.

Your mind is the link between your physical body and the spark of Primary Consciousness that is your soul. As a spark of Primary Consciousness, your soul has a modicum of free will that allows it to modify the patterns set up by the DNA codes you were born with. The amount of free will a conscious being has depends on where that individual soul is on its journey of spiritual development. According to my spiritual mentors, about 75% of the actions of souls living on this planet at this time are determined by their DNA, leaving about 25% to be chosen by free will. It is through the available choices that an individual may accelerate, stall, or reverse its progress on the journey of spiritual development.

The physically and mentally traumatic events we call birth and death simply mark the beginning and ending of a temporary association of an individual soul with the appropriate organic lifeforms and situations that give your soul valuable opportunities to make decisions that will expand the consciousness of the soul to a greater understanding and experiencing of the reality of Primary Consciousness. Your birth is not the creation of something from nothing, and your death is not the destruction of your soul. Your physical body and brain are not blank slates created at birth, upon which your life’s story is written, just to be destroyed when your physical body dies. Your soul existed before the birth of your current physical body and will continue to exist after that body has ceased to function. The extent and content of the domain of the consciousness of your soul will be enhanced, stultified, or reduced by the experiences and choices you make during your life. Due to the law of the conservation of mass, energy, and gimmel, nothing is ever created or destroyed, but only changed in form. The conditions of life are the effects of previous causes, and the experiences and actions of life are the causes of future conditions; so, it behooves us to choose from the options open to us wisely.

THE REST OF THE STORY

We become very attached to some of the conditions of our lives, the bodies we identify with while in them, and the illusions of opportunities to satisfy desires. But peace beyond understanding is only experienced outside of the physical body. As consciousness expands, it becomes possible, under certain conditions, to experience extra-corporeal awareness while alive and still return to the body. These experiences are called out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and they can occur under a variety of conditions. Based on personal experience, I will divide them into three categories for discussion here:

1) Consciousness-Projection Experiences (CPEs), which are OBEs that sometimes occur spontaneously when the body is relaxed and the mind is in prayer, meditation, or between wakefulness and sleep.

2) Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) are OBEs that occur under extremely traumatic conditions when the physical body is severely damaged or diseased and ceases to function temporarily.

3) Between-Life Experiences (BLEs) are exactly what the name indicates: experiences of consciousness before birth or after the death and disintegration of the physical body of a specific life.

In this post I will only discuss the third type of OBEs in any detail, because they are part of the normal spiritual journey of every conscious being alive, while the other two are relatively rare experiences, only happening to souls who have accumulated spiritual and mental virtue a little bit beyond the average.

Between-life experiences that are remembered in dreams or meditation, become more and more beautiful and detailed as you grow in spiritual and mental virtue on your journey from the first flash of self-awareness to the ecstasy of Cosmic Consciousness. In later stages of Spiritual progress, they are almost always important meetings with your Spiritual Advisors in which your reason for entering the next life is revealed. Sometimes the setting is a marbled hall surrounded in shelves of books and windows overlooking beautiful landscapes.

Resolution of the paradox of the finite mind trying to define the infinite reality in which it exists, reveals a paradox of circular reasoning and the profound truth of the infinitely continuous self-referential nature of the omnipresent form of Primary Consciousness existing behind, beyond, within, and throughout Reality. You actually are that! Peace.

ERC 10/20/2022

2022-10-10T11:43:00.000-07:00

PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

ALWAYS EXPECT THAT THE VERY BEST THINGS YOU CAN IMAGINE ARE REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN; ALWAYS PREPARE FOR THE VERY WORST THINGS YOU CAN POSSIBLY THINK OF; AND BE PREPARED TO ACCEPT THE WILDEST SURPRISE THAT ACTUALLY BECOMES REALITY.

ERC 10/10/2022

REALITY AND ILLUSION

2022-10-09T10:25:00.002-07:00

THE GREAT ILLUSION & THE GRAND REALITY

© Copyright October 2022 Edward R. Close

Hidden In Plain Sight

There are two extreme views of reality. This is not just the case for people who call themselves scientists, it is also true for all consciousness beings: One of the extreme views is called Determinism, the other is called Probabilism, and, of course, there are many views that fall in between, and views that are mixtures of the two extremes. Every conscious being has a view that falls somewhere on that imaginary line between the two extremes, and the appropriate question becomes: Is there a ‘correct’ view; a view that corresponds with the reality that actually exists? The determinist says yes, the probabilist says no.

The determinist believes that reality is a logical system that exists objectively and changes over time according to natural laws that, while they may be very complex, can be discovered and understood. The probabilist believes that reality is ultimately a system of random processes, within which natural probability distributions occur that favor certain outcomes, and that even the outcomes that have become regarded as ‘laws of nature’, like F = ma and E = mc², are only approximately correct at any given point in time. Determinists tend to believe in the existence of an intelligence behind everything, while Probabilists tend to be agnostic or even atheistic.

It turns out that they are both wrong - or, more accurately, as relativity and quantum physics have shown, and now, new discoveries in the expanded paradigm that we (Neppe & Close) call TVDP have verified, they are both right and wrong, and therefore, neither, reflecting the logic of a reality of more than four dimensions. The dichotomy between Determinism and Probabilism, a split that leads to endless debate, is much like the division between Biden Democrats and Trump Republicans in America today, and between the Globalists and Nationalists worldwide, in that they are just the dramatic warp and woof of distraction by belief, designed to obscure the true nature of reality. The majesty and elegance of reality is hidden by misunderstandings presently common among human beings about the real nature and interaction of matter, energy, space, time, and consciousness.

Max Planck exposed some of the basic illusions that human beings have about the nature of matter and energy, Albert Einstein uncovered some of the basic illusions we have about the nature of space and time, and together, they dispelled the illusion that these four basic variables of physicality form a fixed universal background in which all things exist, and all events happen. With their surprising discoveries, mass, energy, space, and time, the basic measurable aspects of physical reality that had been the four solid corner posts of classical scientific materialism for many years, were shown to be interacting parts of an ever-changing holistic reality, whose measured values expand and contract from one observer to another, depending upon secondary and tertiary conditions like velocity and acceleration. With the discovery and study of gimmel, the quantifiable impact of a primary form of consciousness (See the list of relevant publications at the end of my post on Extra-Physical Reality, posted on this blogsite September 18, 2022), further illusions are revealed.

A Matter of Life and Death

A dear friend, uniquely well-trained in both science and theology, after reading my third book, Transcendental Physics, and after someone he loved very much died, had two questions:

1) Is there a reality independent of what we think about it?

2) Where did she (his much loved one) go?

These important questions are examples of the type of questions that Gödel’s incompleteness theorems prove may exist in any consistent logical system. They simply cannot be answered in terms of the system within which they are asked. The proof of Gödel’s theorems was, according to professional mathematicians of the time, “so novel that only those intimately conversant with the technical literature of a highly specialized field [the symbolic logic of set theory] could follow the argument…”. With the risk of appearing to be ‘beating a dead horse’ again, I must remark that the calculus of dimensional distinctions (CoDD), the geometric-mathematical system that I have talked about so often in these posts, makes proof of the incompleteness of finite logical systems so simple as to be almost trivial.

The drama of conflicting opposites is easy enough to get caught up in, because it provides some relief from the boredom typical of those who have not yet learned to think beyond the obvious. When I first started teaching mathematics, in a secondary school in the US public school system in Mid America sixty years ago, it was not at all uncommon to hear teenagers arguing about something, calling each other “ignernt”. (Yes, that’s the way they pronounced the word ignorant). Once, upon entering a classroom where such an argument was in progress, - I think it was on my first day of teaching - I took the situation as an opportunity to teach. I pointed out that there is nothing wrong with being ignorant. In fact, everyone is ignorant of something. For example, I told them, I knew nothing about brain surgery. The punchline was: “There is a remedy for ignorance. It’s called education”. I’d like to think that I prevented some unnecessary violence, maybe a black eye or some pulled hair. I enjoyed teaching mathematics. It was very rewarding to see young minds begin to think at least a little beyond the obvious, and I learned that most people, even in college and university, have no idea what mathematics is, what critical thinking is, or what constitutes proof of a scientific or mathematical hypothesis.

What does this have to do with the greater illusions of life and ultimate reality? Conflict is universal, and conflict of opposites can lead to violence and, on a large scale, to group psychosis, and possibly to another world war, with the needless injury and death of billions of the souls now occupying physical bodies. Our leaders today are acting much like those teenagers, unaware of the potential results of their aggressive defense of their own ignorance and the desire to punish the perceived ignorance of others. We’ve been down this road many times before since the descending ages of the last peak of mental and spiritual virtue more than 10,000 years ago. Adding to the danger this time, are the false idols of artificial intelligence and the irrational belief that anyone can “reimagine” reality, past, present, and future, and by doing so, remake reality in their own imperfect image. We live in dangerous times. Our survival as a viable species on this planet depends upon understanding the difference between illusion and reality.

The Significance of TDVP and the Discovery of Gimmel

The Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) is a meaningful expansion of the current scientific paradigm, expanded to include consciousness as a quantifiable variable in a 9-D geometric mathematical model of reality. The discovery by Neppe and Close while applying the quantum calculus of the TVPD, the calculus of dimensional distinctions (the CoDD), that no stable physical universe could exist without the third form of reality beyond mass and energy, a form with no mass or energy of its own, that we chose to call gimmel, has changed everything. Not only can we explain things that mainstream science cannot explain and consequently has to accepted as “weird”, but we can also answer questions that materialistic science will not even ask, and we can distinguish existing reality from conceptual fantasy using the TRUE analysis of the primary quantum calculus (the CoDD) of the TDVP.

Questions and Answers

With the knowledge and experience gained from application of the new science of TDVP to numerous experimental and conceptual investigations, how will I answer the questions my dear friend asked? Let me address them one at a time. The first one was: Is there a reality independent of what we think about it? In the current mainstream scientific paradigm, the answer is an unequivocal yes, because current science and technology are built on the very assumption of the complete independence of objective reality from the state of consciousness of the observer. My answer at this time is also yes, but it is a qualified yes, because the extent to which it is true depends on the level of consciousness of the “we” in the question he asked. At this point in the relative time cycles on this planet, reality is mostly governed by the Primary form of Consciousness, independent of the functioning of the sparks of self-consciousness identified with localized physical life forms, but in the future, this will change due to the gradual increase in mental and spiritual virtue among conscious beings living on this planet.

The second question my friend asked was: Where did she (his loved one who died) go? The answer is: She didn’t go anywhere; at least not in the sense meant in the context of physical reality. Even her physical body did not go anywhere when she died, it just began to disintegrate because the billions of TRUE (quantum equivalence units) that kept it organized and functioning in a way that kept it alive, were no longer able to perform the necessary organizing and maintenance processes to do so, due to the effects of irreparable damage or disease. Where did the organizing gimmel units go? Like the physical components of her body, the meaningful components of her soul still exist in an expanded domain of our multi-dimensional reality, because the law of conservation of mass and energy is operative for all of reality. Nothing is ever created or destroyed by natural or man-made processes, it only changes form.

What is the solution to the currently mushrooming of real, potentially disastrous problems created by those who, through ignorance, are trying to play the roles of petty gods, with no concern for the collateral damage of widespread pain, suffering, and loss of human lives? A combination of real education and enlightenment of the electorate is the answer. But it must be education about the actual facts that exist, not of the half-baked ideas someone wants to reimagine about the past, present and/or future, and it must be the spiritual enlightenment of expanding individual consciousness, guided, if necessary, by those few rare individuals who have reunited with the Presence of Primary Consciousness. The discovery of gimmel leads directly to proof of the existence of enlightened beings and the existence of the Primary form of Consciousness that creates, maintains, and evolves the stable structure of physical reality and organic life forms supporting the spiritual evolutional of our eternal souls toward the ultimate goal of Cosmic Consciousness.

The great illusion is the splitting of reality into opposing extremes to keep the conflicts going to benefit the wealth and power of those who want to play God. This dangerous game is promoted by Earth-dwelling ego-based psychopaths in the same evil spirit of the despots and tyrants in the list of evil rulers in the recent history of the human race, as we moved past the lowest point in mental and spiritual virtue in this planetary time cycle in 499 AD. The Grand Reality is the magnificence and elegance of the Infinite Intelligence hidden in plain sight that connects and unites us through the self-less Love and the creative energy of Primary Consciousness.

ERC 10/9/2022

SOME PREDICTIONS

2022-10-02T19:01:00.007-07:00

WHAT IN THE WORLD WILL HAPPEN NEXT?

© Copyright October 2022 Edward R. Close

The Human Condition

We are living in difficult times. In one sense, it’s no worse than any other time, but in another very real sense, we are entering the most dangerous time since World War II. We are, in fact already in WW III, the Tribulation, and the End Times predicted in scripture. We are experiencing an epic struggle between good and evil. Absolute lies are being promoted as truth and the truth is often hidden or distorted for political purposes. This struggle between good and evil has always been there, hidden by the fake battles of left vs right or democrats vs republicans. The forces of evil are not stupid. They do not play by anyone’s rules. They don’t wear black hats or intimidating uniforms to announce their intention to do evil, they rely on stealth; but they have been emboldened by the human complacency that overtook us as we were finally coming out of the dark ages, and now they are panicking because they know that they will ultimately fail. But, like cornered animals, they are now becoming most dangerous.

Trying to Bring Order out of Chaos

I know I am faced with a challenge here; the challenge of speaking truth to people who have become deeply divided due to the efforts of the dark side of humanity that is operating through certain individual evil souls, reincarnating time after time as tyrants, trying to hang on to the physical and psychological control of the masses that they gained through physical violence and subversion in the times of the lowest ebb of mental and spiritual virtue in this planetary time cycle, known as the dark ages. As spiritual beings, we are trying to emerge from the spiritually darkest 2400 years of this round of Earth’s planetary time cycles, consisting of 1200 years of descending virtue and 1200 years of ascending virtue; time periods centering around the lowest point in current human history, 499 AD, together known as the descending and ascending Kali Yugas, spanning the time period from 701 BC to 1699 AD.

What we are experiencing now are the last gasps of the evil forces of the Kali Yugas trying to hold on to their power over humanity as we move into the Dwapara Yuga. In the West, the resistance to spiritual growth is surfacing in the form of the remnants of despotic rulers and monarchs still reluctant to relinquish economic or psychological control and the illusion of superiority. We are only 1,522 years past the lowest point and still 10,478 years from the next peak of mental and spiritual virtue for the average conscious being on this planet, so the forces of evil are still strong.

The Incompleteness of Order

Order is conveyed into the finite, quantized physical universe from the infinitely continuous spiritual source of reality by the incarnation of spiritual souls living in physical bodies that act like antennas to receive certain frequencies of energies that are part of the order of the Spiritual Cosmos needed for survival. But chaos is also conveyed into physical reality in the same way by evil souls who want to perpetuate the dark ages and feed on the energies of evolving souls, thereby retarding their progress. The incompleteness theorems, proved by Kurt Gödel in 1933 as we were entering the ascending Dwapara Yuga, describes the eternal incompleteness of all finite logical systems, including the logical order of the physical universe. The finite physical universe is never complete, expanding eternally into the infinity of Cosmic Consciousness.

Existing on the Edge

As human beings, we exist on the multi-dimensional interface between the infinite spiritual realm and the finite quantized physical reality of inhabitable planets with organic life forms, giving us the opportunity to evolve spiritually. We live through numerous individual lives, progressing from being barely aware, to self-awareness, to Cosmic Consciousness as beings of light who are one with the Infinite intelligence that provides the positive order of reality that endures in the face of the negative forces of chaos.

The Fallacy of Binary Thinking

I have taken pains in these posts to make the point that the binary thinking of True vs False, “Us vs Them”, Boolean Algebra, and the ones and zeros of AI computer programming must be replaced by triadic logic (as in the TDVP model of reality of Neppe & Close) as we progress into times of newly expanded consciousness, for science to progress. Specifically, as relates to the current series of fabricated crises designed to depopulate the planet and keep economic and military control in the hands of the self-appointed global elite, the “us vs them”, left vs right, Republican vs Democrat form of binary thinking is just what the dark forces need, to hang on to their power. They are not interested in those games as such, other than as cover for their true objectives, and as a minor plus in their efforts to reduce the numbers of the masses currently living on this planet.

The greatest danger to the orderly progression of human beings toward any sort of happiness in the physical realm and the eventual ecstasy of Cosmic Consciousness is not global warming or mobs of white supremacists, or Black Lives Matter rioters, it is those who think they can replace the Cosmic Intelligence that creates, maintains, and evolves the logic and order of physical reality and dictate to the rest of us how, or even if, we can live our lives. We have far too many idols and false gods today, and the imperative: “everyone should vote” is dead wrong. Voters need to be informed. Every uninformed or mis-informed voter is a contributor to the chaos necessary for evil to succeed.

How do you become informed? Do your own research, but not on Twitter, Google, or the mainstream media. “Garbage in, garbage out” is not just true for the AI of computers and news commentators, It’s just as true for the average human brain. If you have no direct knowledge about a candidate, do not vote for him or her. If your own thinking is all you have to go on, use some common sense. How can you know who to vote for, when the difference between a psychotic liar and a professional politician is almost always undiscernible on the surface, the answer is obvious: You will “know them by their fruits”, i.e., by the results of their actions. That’s the proof, not what they say they will do. Politicians are trained to say what people want to hear.

What Does the Future Hold?

I think anyone with some awareness of what has been going on for the last 40 years, and especially the last six years, is waiting, with some level of anxiety and trepidation, ranging from mild concern to abject fear, to see what is going to happen next. Here are my thoughts about the situation: I don’t favor a red wave or a blue retention of power next month or in 2024. I would rather see more voters, and those responsible for the openness and integrity of our elections, become actively and devotedly non-political and fact driven by personal knowledge. I would like to see candidates with a desire to serve and with no allegiance to anyone because of donations or political favors, find their way into office. Some experience in management is good, but career politicians who have become multi-millionaires, or even billionaires while in office, are not public servants, they are parasites.

My predictions:

I don’t agree with those who predict doom and gloom. I believe that we have progressed far enough spiritually in the last 300 years, that the truth will eventually prevail, despite all the efforts to hide or distort it by many politicians on both sides of the isle. I predict that common sense and informed consensus will prevail. Those behind globalism will fail because the people are slowly waking up. No slavery of any kind will be tolerated much longer. The global elitists are pushing for more war to hide their crimes against humanity, and the average human being is susceptible to neurolinguistic programming, so there is great danger of civil unrest after the election next month, regardless of who wins the elections, especially if it’s overwhelming one way or the other.

Republicans will regain control of both houses of congress if election fraud is held to a minimum. But then, they will have to seek out and eliminate the globalists subversives among them who have been bought by the billionaire psychopaths, to get anything positive done. Contrary to the expectations of most American conservatives and independents, after the midterm elections, the Democrats will also purge their ranks of Leftists who are working to destroy America and Western Civilization. Before 2024, America will re-emerge as the bastion of freedom and liberty it has been for the past 200 + years.

A global government will eventually be established, I think by the year 2141, but not by coercion, and we may be allowed to join a galactic alliance of some sort after the year 2541.

ERC 10/02/22

References: The Holy Science, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Self-Realization Fellowship, Fifth Edition, 1957

The Book of Atma, E.R. Close, Libra Publishers, New York, 1977

Also see THE FUTURE OF AI AND CONSCIOUSNESS posted in this blog 11, 2022

EXTRA-PHYSICAL REALITY

2022-09-18T20:00:00.002-07:00

EVIDENCE OF

EXTRA-PHYSICAL REALITY

Manifest in Manifold Quantum Forms

Touchstones of Consciousness Expansion

Revealing the Meaning and Purpose of Life

“Wink has not touched my eyes, ever since I saw Thee!”

- Paramahansa Yogananda in Cosmic Chants

Introduction

Individual self-awareness is a spiritual gift that was received by certain lucky lifeforms existing on this planet about 6000 years ago. The gift of gifts was bestowed by a vastly more advanced form of consciousness than we now possess, for which we should be forever grateful, because those lifeforms were our ancestors. The sublime gift of individual self-awareness, however, includes the double-edged sword of free will, which makes the prospect of an individual, unassisted by any more advanced entity, accelerating the natural expansion of his or her awareness a daunting, if not almost impossible challenge. At this point in this 12,000-year cycle of planetary time, as spiritual beings occupying physical forms, we have a limited measure of free will, with only a few options to choose from. But the choices we make are critical. They determine, through the inexorable rules of cause and effect, whether we will advance, stall, or regress on our long twisted and tortured journey toward the perfection of Cosmic Consciousness in this lifetime.

Some of the choices that are open to us are good and some are bad with respect to the advancement of our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. We have enough intelligence in the innate brain power of the physical forms of our species to analyze our circumstances from day-to-day and make good choices - if we keep the purpose of life and the goal of spiritual advancement in mind. But this is hard. The most basic fundamental choice we have to make is the choice of accepting or rejecting the existence of a higher or perfected form of Primary Consciousness as the source of our being and the reality we experience. If we make the right decision, then the eventual realization of our identity as part of, or perhaps even one with the Infinite is our reason for existing, the purpose of life and our ultimate goal. Whether you choose to work with or against the purpose of existence and the logical structure of the physical, mental, and spiritual reality created for that purpose, is up to you.

In the past and future, forever existing in three-dimensional time, the average spiritual virtue of conscious beings once was and will again become much more highly developed than it is now. In those times, average individual conscious beings communicate with each other by the speed-of-light transmission of mental images formed in the individual fields of finite reality by a process that can best be described as the sending and receiving of integrated forms of the complete continuum of energies radiating from objects existing in reality. That spectrum includes the quantized energy frequencies that are received through the five physical senses. The perceptions of light, sound, taste, touch, and smell that we associate with specific objects are relatively small fragments of the total perception that is possible for an individual whose consciousness is fully expanded.

When we realize that the gifts of conscious self-awareness and freewill that were bestowed on our ancestors and passed down to us in our DNA make it possible that by choosing wisely, we can eventually become sufficiently advanced physically, mentally, and spiritually to be able to receive and re-create multi-dimensional images accurately reflecting the manifold forms existing in reality and transmit them as meaningful thought forms to other conscious beings, we will be motivated to do everything we can to accelerate the expansion of consciousness. Currently, however, the average individual is effectively imprisoned in a physical body, with perceptions of objective reality fragmented by the quantum mechanical processes of the physical sense organs, and consequently, limited almost completely to indirect interactions with reality and with other conscious beings. Communication of our thoughts is further limited by the uncertainties of language, illogical expression, and the confusion of spoken and written words.

In this post, I am trying to explain some very subtle, complex concepts in terms that anyone can understand. What makes this more challenging than it should be, is the fact that certain key words that I must use are used by others, with different educational and experiential backgrounds, to mean something slightly different than what I mean when I use them. In the context of the TDVP model, there are key words that have very specific meanings, so I must define them as clearly as I can. They are sometimes used in contemporary society in vague and confusing ways. For example, we often hear the word “dimension” used instead of the correct reference, which would be “dimensional domain”.

Saying that we can “see dimensions” or that we may experience “being in another dimension” are inaccurate and improper uses of the term. Dimensions cannot be seen because, as Einstein said, space and time have no existence of their own. We can see objects that have dimensions, but we cannot see dimensions; and no one and nothing can exist in a single dimension. I have defined key words like dimension in other posts, videos, and various publications about Transcendental Physics and the CoDD, but to avoid the confusion that results from a reader thinking that key words mean something different than what I intend them to mean, I will provide the appropriate key definitions here so that you don’t have to stop to look them up elsewhere.

Reality: Everything that exists

Existence: Anything that can be experienced directly or indirectly as objectively measurable forms of mass, energy, and consciousness

Mass: The one-dimensional measure of the resistance of a real object to motion

Energy: The one-dimensional measure of the total force of angular and/or linear momentum of a real object or system of objects

Vortex: A multi-dimensional object rotating in three or more dimensions (Plural: vortices)

[Note: Rigid physical particles cannot rotate in more than one plane at a time, but vortices can, and quantal vortices combine volumetrically, not linearly. This fact, in conjunction with the combinatorial restrictions required by Fermat’s last theorem applied to objects of three or more dimensions, limits the number of elementary vortices that can combine to form a stable complex object to three.]

Dimensions: Two-dimensional measurements of extent in space, time, and/or consciousness

Space: A three-dimensional volume created by the existence of real objects

Time: The extent of duration of events that change real objects in any way

Consciousness: The partial or complete multi-dimensional awareness of reality

Distinction: any finite form that can be distinguished from the rest of reality in any way (Synonym: conceptual object)

Manifold form: A multi-dimensional shape of three or more dimensions

Mathematics: A broad term that includes all logical forms of objective numeric, algebraic, and geometric calculation

Calculation: The process of transforming one distinct objective form into another one, that is equivalent to, but different from the original form by applying one or more of the fundamental operations of mathematical logic

Calculus: A logically consistent system of operations designed to perform mathematical calculations

The Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD): A calculus with the basic rules of mathematical operations re-defined for calculation in the arithmetic, algebra, and geometry of multi-dimensional distinctions based on the measurable physical characteristics of the electron.

The Origin of Logic and the Structure of Reality

Pure mathematical logic arises in human thought as a reflection of the innate structure of a primary form of consciousness existing in all of physical reality, including in the physical structure of our brains. Because of this, a system of mathematical logic using the mass and volume of the smallest and most elementary stable object in the universe, the free electron, as the basic unit of quantum measurement, is arguably the most appropriate calculus we could possibly use to analyze the quantized reality of the physical universe. That is exactly what the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD), mentioned so often in these posts, is. Application of this calculus to analyze the physical combination of two up quarks and one down quark combining to form a proton, the building block of the stable structure of the physical universe, was the logical place to start, and that application led directly to the discovery of gimmel, the organizing factor conveying the logical structure of Primary Consciousness into physical form at the quantum level of atomic structure.

Mass, Energy, Space, Time, and Gimmel

The next logical step after the analysis of the proton and the discovery of the existence of gimmel, was a CoDD analysis of the simplest atom, the hydrogen atom, which consists of one electron and one proton. What that analysis and subsequent applications of CoDD analysis to the atoms of the periodic table reveals about the nature of reality and the relationship between physical reality and consciousness was simply amazing! More than fifty problems and paradoxes unresolved in the standard model of particle physics were resolved by the discovery of the existence of gimmel. Most of the results of the CoDD analyses have been published in journal articles, blogposts, and books. Lists of dozens of relevant references in the blogsite archives can be accessed by searching for references on the opening page of this blog, and a few of the most relevant are listed at the end of this post. The results of applying the quantum calculus, sometimes called TRUE analysis in the references, agree exactly, or within measurement error, with experimental data and with the conclusions of prominent paradigm breakers like Max Planck and Albert Einstein.

In the last appendix added to the last edition of Einstein’s little book, Relativity, the Special and the General Theory, in which he provided “a clear explanation that anyone can understand” in 1952, less than three years before he died in 1955, he concluded that space and time have no physical existence of their own. Applications of the CoDD confirm this conclusion, but it is also true that measurement of the spatial and temporal dimensions of physical objects and events creates the illusions of space and time and reveals the structure of the manifold forms of objective reality.

Like space and time, gimmel has no mass or energy, but the existence of specific calculable volumes of gimmel in the protons, neutrons, and electron shells of atoms, explains why the measured mass of atoms that form the physical universe is always greater than the combined mass of the quarks and electrons that are in them. It is because when gimmel expands the spacetime volume of atomic structure to make the atoms stable, it increases the total angular momentum of each atom, which also increases the total mass revealed in experimental data. In this way, gimmel creates the space, time, mass, and energy that counteracts the losses of mass and energy that would otherwise occur due to the vortical expansion of the physical universe.

The existence of gimmel in the vortices of the nuclei and the electron energy shells not only fine tunes the physical structure of atoms to make them symmetric, but it also balances them magnetically and electrically. This internal self-contained stability created by the existence of gimmel in atomic sub-structure eliminates the need for phantom particles that impart mass and create mysterious forces to hold the atom together. Without gimmel, there would be no stable atomic structure, and the expansion of the universe toward infinity would accelerate causing reality to approach a state of maximum entropy in nano seconds, after which there would be no objective reality.

I developed a formal proof of the existence of a non-physical third form of reality linking quantized matter and non-quantum receptors in consciousness in 1995 and displayed it as a poster presentation in 1996 at the Tucson II Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference at the University of Arizona, and published it in Transcendental Physics, Paradigm Press, Jackson Missouri in 1997, but that original proof was expressed in the notation of a precursor of the current form of CoDD that almost no one in mainstream science wanted to try to understand. With the help and encouragement of one who did, world-renowned polymath Dr. Vernon Neppe, a conventional mathematical proof of the existence of the third form of the essence of reality was published in the book Reality Begins with Consciousness in 2015, and it was while preparing to write this book that we decided to call the third form of reality gimmel.

Gimmel Provides More Answers

After a couple of years of additional research and analysis, I realized that gimmel is empirical evidence of a primary form of consciousness conveying logical structure into physical reality at the quantum level by organizing elementary vortices in the infinitely continuous field of reality to form stable atoms. Thus, gimmel is the long-sought-after link between mind and matter. Discovery of gimmel and its role in creating and maintaining stable atomic structure is evidence of the existence and stabilizing impact of a primary form of consciousness in every atom of the physical universe. Discovering the patterns of gimmel in every atom of the universe is like finding the fingerprints of God all over the reality he created!

The existence of gimmel also answers the question that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz posed more than 300 years ago. He considered this question to be the most important question that science could ever hope to answer when he asked: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” The answer is that there is something rather than nothing because the existence of gimmel makes the stable existence of atomic mass and energy and the measurable dimensions of space and time possible. Furthermore, application of the CoDD to the formation of protons proved that gimmel had to exist before the formation of any stable atomic structure could occur. The prior and continuing existence of gimmel, imprinting the logical structures of consciousness on physical reality, tells us that there was no beginning and can be no end to the existence of physical reality. The forms of reality are continually changing in logical cause-and-effect ways that can be discovered with a sufficiently advanced form of analysis, but the total essence of reality will always exist, in some form.

The inescapable conclusion is that there has always been something; and, consistent with the law of conservation of matter and energy, which must also apply to gimmel, since mass and energy cannot exist without gimmel, there never was, is not, and never will be a state of absolute nothingness. In plain English, there is no such thing as nothing. But, because nothing is, by definition, the absence of something, we have fallen into the mistake of thinking of zero as representing the existence of nothingness. In applications of the CoDD, we see that any that concept that can only be represented as one-dimensional is only conceptual, and not part of objective reality. Zero is a one-dimensional concept indicating the absence of a finite localized subset of objects, not a state of absolute nothingness.

The Quantum Calculus

Setting the basic unit of quantum measurement equal to the mass and volume of the smallest stable energy vortex, which happens to be the free electron, normalized by the quantized nature of reality, and using it as the primary naturalized unit of quantum equivalence, which I call the Triadic Rotational Unit of equivalence (TRUE), ties the CoDD existentially to objective reality. Because of this link to existence, in application, the CoDD is capable of distinguishing a construct of mathematical symbolism that does not actually exist, from those that do. In this way, gimmel logically distinguishes reality from conceptual fantasy. The process of adapting a calculus to logic, was developed by G. Spencer Brown in his book Laws of Form. Providing a detailed explanation of that process is beyond the scope of this post, but is worth mentioning here because, to my knowledge, no one else had done this before Brown did in 1962, or since I first did it1989, when I applied the CoDD adapted for logic to several logical paradoxes in physics, and published the results in Infinite Continuity, unfortunately, currently out of print.

Logical Systems and Personal Conceptual Models

Most of us think that what we believe is firmly rooted in reality, but when belief systems are analyzed and traced back to their most fundamental concepts, we find that the basic ideas about reality upon which they are built, are often unproved and/or temporarily unprovable assumptions or beliefs about the nature of reality. Your brain creates conceptual models of reality from data input from the senses during conscious experiences of interactions with the environment as a critical part of physical survival mechanisms. These models are stored in special brain cells modified for that purpose and kept handy for quick reference.

Our personal models of reality are continuously modified, especially when we are young, learning by pain of trial and error about things in the external environment that are dangerous, like hot stoves, venomous snakes, etc. New sensual input is continually compared with relevant details in the conceptual model stored in our brain cells, as our personal model of reality is formed. Because of the importance this model has for our physical survival, it is locked in and accepted by our conscious minds as identical with reality itself. By the time our physical bodies have matured, these models and especially the assumptions buried deep within them, are almost impossible to change.

So, we see that our individual belief systems are based on our conceptual models of reality, not necessarily on what actually exists. We experience reality in a very indirect and fragmented way through the physical senses and given the way beliefs are formed and/or adopted, an individual conscious being’s belief system, regardless of how logical and well thought out it may be, may not reflect what actually exists. When properly analyzed using the CoDD, we find that one or more of the underlying a priori assumptions about the nature of reality in many, if not most belief systems are incorrect. If we want to advance spiritually, we have to find a way to correct our erroneous a priori assumptions and move on into the new domain of reality that becomes available to us in the expanded reality of a new paradigm.

The Purpose

I have written much about logical systems, conceptual models, and the CoDD because of the important role they played in the discovery of gimmel and the important role I believe the CoDD will play in the science of the future. I also believe that, because the calculus made the discovery of gimmel possible, a basic understanding of it should help readers to understand TDVP. But it is even more important as part a conceptual foundation preparing the reader to see that it is possible to accelerate the expansion of individual consciousness. This is the existential core of the message coming through my meditations, and the reason that I am inspired to write. I keep writing because I know that a verbal explanation, no matter how good, can always be better, and I know that I am just a conduit conveying ideas as best I can, not the source, and the source is available to everyone, so, even if I never write another word, someone will pick up the thread and be blessed and/or burdened to receive even more detail than I have. Infinity is a deep well.

I know that this blogpost is already too long, but I am not going to apologize for that because the subject I am trying to cover is wide and deep, and Like Albert Einstein, I sincerely want to provide a clear explanation that anyone can understand. Analytical details, from the logic of CoDD to its application and results, are already available in some form in previous posts and publications, so, for now, I am going to forego describing any more details to connect the dots, and try to make a multi-dimensional quantum leap. Ultimately, my job is not just to teach people how to do math and understand the science, my real mission is to teach you how to expand your consciousness and re-connect with Primary Consciousness and the ultimate experience.

Love is The Ultimate Experience

Love is the most wonderful example of infinity. It resolves all opposites. Pure love is infinitely patient, because the essence of Primary Consciousness (God, if you want to think of it that way) is Love, and in love, everything exists exactly as it is supposed to exist. When you are on the ultimate spiritual path, there are no accidents. Your existence at this place and time is no accident. You are not the result of the accidental sticking together of random bits of matter, define by some as debris flying away from an unexplainable explosion billions of years ago. You are something special. Every atom in every cell of your physical body has a specific number of TRUE organizing units of gimmel embedded in it. Every speck of dirt in the universe has millions of organizing units of gimmel. Without them, the logic and structure of the reality being studied by science, and the scientists themselves, would not exist.

It was no accident that my brilliant research partner, Dr. Vernon Neppe, and I happened to be in Amsterdam on the same day to meet in person for the first time, with prior planning on our part. It was no accident that I had a near death experience a week later in the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Ten years later, it was no accident that I stayed longer than planned in Romania. It is no accident when we fall in love. When we realize that the real essence of existence is Love, we fall in love with reality and we know that even the lowliest form of existence is a manifestation of Love, the pure essence of reality, with infinite purpose and meaning, and we know that everything is exactly as it is supposed to be.

The story of your life is already written. The Author of that story knows exactly what you need at every point in your journey to grow spiritually as fast as you possibly can. Everything is provided for that reality. All you need do is choose to re-connect with Primary Consciousness to become Love itself. The final paradox to be resolved is the conundrum that even though, from your point of view as a sentient being, you have the free will to choose, the One whose consciousness is everything, knows what choice you will make, because that One’s time is three-dimensional. In the re-revolving nine-dimensional reality of the cosmos, every event of the past, present, and future already exists.

- ERC 9/18/2022

References:

In the archives of this blog

1. The Simple Math of TRUE Units, the True Unit, the Conveyance Equation and the Third Form of Reality – Posted Feb, 1, 2016

2. Putting Consciousness into the Equations of Science, a series of posts: Part 1 through Part 20:

Putting Consciousness into the Equations of Science, Part 1: The Third Form of Reality (Gimmel) and the “TRUE” Units (Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence) of Quantum

Followed by subsequent posts, to Part 20, Summary and Conclusions – Posted Jan. 5, 2016

3. TRUE Units and the Natural Elements of the Periodic Table – Posted March 11, 2015.

In peer-reviewed and published references:

1. Close, ER, Is Consciousness Primary, AAPS Vol. I, Edited by GE Schwartz & MH Woollacott, Waterside Productions, Cardiff CA, 2019

2. Neppe, VM, Close, Reality Begins with Consciousness (Fifth Edition) Seattle WA, 2014

3. Close ER, Neppe VM: The thirteenth conundrum: introducing an important concept, TRUE units – Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence. IQNexus Journal 7: 2; 60-71, 2015

4. Close ER, Neppe VM: Fifteen mysteries of 9 dimensions: on Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence and new directions, Part III. Neuroquantology 13: 4; 2015.

Related publications:

1. Close ER: Appendix B: 1965 Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, in The Book of Atma. Edited by. New York: Libra Publishers. pp. 93-99 1977.

2. Close ER, Neppe VM: Translating fifteen mysteries of the universe: Nine dimensional mathematical models of finite reality, Part II. Neuroquantology 13: 3; 348-360, 2015.

3. Neppe VM, Close ER: The concept of relative non-locality: Theoretical implications in consciousness research. Explore (NY): The Journal of Science and Healing 11: 2; 102-108, http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307(14)00233-X/pdf 2015.

4. Close ER, Neppe VM: The eleventh conundrum: The double Bell normal curve and its applications to electron cloud distribution IQNexus Journal 7: 2; 51-56, 2015.

5. Close ER: Infinite continuity: a theory integrating relativity and quantum physics. Los Angeles: Paradigm Press, 1990.

6. Close ER: Transcendental Physics. Lincoln: I-Universe, 2000.

7. Brandin V, Close ER: The calculus of dimensional distinctions: Elements of mathematical theory of intellect. Moscow: 2003.

Relevant references by other authors

1. Morgart E: The theory of everything has nine dimensions: The sparkling diamond and the quanta jewel turn quantum physics and the nine-pronged world of consciousness— on its ear. USA Today Magazine: 1 (January); 66-68, 2014.

2. Brown GS: Laws of form. New York: Julian Press, 1977.

3. Tegmark M: Our mathematical universe: My quest for the ultimate nature of reality. New York: Knopf, 2014.

THE QUESTION WITH THE MOST IMPORTANT ANSWER

2022-08-20T11:14:00.003-07:00

The Key to the Universe?

ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER EVERY MEANINGFUL QUESTION THAT CAN BE ASKED HAS A MEANINGFUL ANSWER

© Copyright August 2022, Edward R Close

Can every question that can be asked, have a meaningful answer? You may believe that there is an easy yes or no answer to this question, but before you rush to give your answer, take a few minutes to think about it. This is not a trivial question. If you google it, you will find different answers given by a number of competent thinkers, with a number of different reasons why they believe the answers they give are correct. Their answers range from a definite “yes” to “only if it is a meaningful question” to a definite “no”.

Some answers are worth thinking about before you come to a conclusive answer of your own. Consider, for example, the answer given by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a German polymath who lived more than 300 years ago. Leibniz developed the infinitesimal calculus at roughly the same time as Sir Isaac Newton, but even though Newton is given credit for “inventing” the calculus in the English-speaking world, it is Leibniz’s notation that we use because he was able to explain why the calculus worked better than Newton did, and his notation was more effective for the dimensional analysis of equations with multiple variables than Newton’s was.

Among the many amazing things that Leibniz did, you will find that he also answered our question in the affirmative, and the prime example he gave to support his answer was his analysis of the question “why is there something rather than nothing?” His answer to that seemingly unanswerable question was: There is something rather than nothing because God created everything that exists, and the Infinite Intelligence that is God has always existed and will always exist. But a number of brilliant thinkers have said no to the question of whether there is an answer for every question for a variety of reasons, and many who have thought deeply about it realize that the question may be as important to us as human beings as the answer may be.

In this post, I am going to agree with Leibniz and answer yes, there is an answer to every question, but my ‘yes’ is a qualified answer, and my reasons for answering in this way are different than the reason given by Leibniz. Not because he was wrong. In fact, it is provable that he was right, but my reason for answering yes differs from his because of the existence of a very important mathematical proof that provides us with information that was not available during Leibniz’s lifetime. That theorem, proved by an Austrian mathematician named Kurt Gödel, is known as the incompleteness theorem.

The answer to any question requires a declarative statement. And, according to the theory of types famously developed by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, any statement must be either true, false, or meaningless. But, if you have been reading my posts, then you should know that the theory of types was radically amended by G. Spencer Brown in his monumental work, Laws of Form, when he proved that some statements designated as “meaningless” may actually be complex paradoxical statements that include the logical equivalence of complex numbers with “imaginary” components, represented by multiples of the square root of minus one, as, for example, in solutions of certain algebraic equations of the second degree or higher. What does Leibniz’s answer and the incompleteness theorem have to do with whether every question that can be asked has an answer or not? I’m glad you asked, because the answer is related to the extent of our knowledge about the nature of reality and the expansion of consciousness.

The incompleteness theorem proved that there are meaningful questions that can be asked that cannot be answered in the logical system within which they have been stated. Some of the leading philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists at the time the incompleteness was proved to be true thought at first that this meant that there could be very important meaningful questions that could never be answered. But most soon realized that that is not necessarily what the proof of the incompleteness theorem implied. If the system of logic within which a seemingly unanswerable question was asked could be expanded with an appropriate new axiom, then there would actually be a meaningful answer within the newly expanded paradigm.

This truth was proved with applications of Brown’s calculus of indications interpreted for logic in Laws of Form. Application of Brown’s calculus to questions that could not be answered in the existing logical system were shown to produce meaningful answers, if the logical system could be expanded to include the conceptual equivalence of imaginary numbers. He gave examples of intractable engineering problems that were successfully resolved with complex number solutions, and he also provided demonstrations that proved that complicated logical syllogisms can be solved much more easily with the logical system extended to include the equivalence of imaginary numbers, than with complicated classic symbolic logic methods that do not include analogs of imaginary numbers.

Application of the quantum calculus of the TDVP, i.e., the calculus of dimensional distinctions (CoDD), makes this point stand out even more clearly because it deals directly with the dimensionality of the question that is being analyzed. Appearances of imaginary numbers in the solution of a quantized CoDD equation indicate that an additional dimension, beyond the measured dimensionality of the expression of the question is involved, and when the logical system is expanded to include the additional dimension, a valid answer is available. The CoDD solution of the three-dimensional equation representing the combination of two up quarks and a down quark to form a proton is a prime example of this increased clarity. Because the dimensionality of the equation expressing the combination is explicit in the notation, the existence within each quark of specific numbers of quantum units of something we decided to call gimmel is revealed; and surprisingly, the units of gimmel that are revealed represent additional measurable components of reality that cannot be categorized as either matter or energy.

The measurements of finite units of mass, energy, space, time, and their combinations are the only tangible evidence we have of the existence of the physical universe as a separate objective reality outside of the consciousness associated with our individual physical bodies, so now we need to pause and ask exactly what does the existence of something measurable that is neither mass nor energy tell us about the nature of reality? It tells us a lot, including the fact that that nearly 95% of objective reality is non-physical.

I submit to you that this is probably why the inventive genius Nikola Tesla said: “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” The TDVP has explained more than fifty things ignored and unexplained, or poorly explained, in current mainstream science. It is also remarkable that TRUE analysis, based on the mass and volume of the electron and the triad of mass, energy, and consciousness in the drawing of distinctions, reveals the existence of three categories of nine mutually orthogonal dimensions in the six-directional domain of finite reality. Perhaps this is why Tesla also said: “If you knew the magnificence of 3, 6, and 9, you would have the key to the universe.”

Finally, if every meaningful question that can be asked has a meaningful answer, and we can prove that it does, then we must ask: What is the most important question that can be asked? If we can identify that question, and the existing logical paradigm can be expanded with the inclusion of an axiom that guarantees the existence of the correct answer to that question, then that answer will be the most significant thing that any conscious being can ever discover.

ERC – 8/20/2022

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NOW IT MUST BE SAID

2022-08-16T04:37:00.001-07:00

THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE SAID

© Copyright August 2022, Edward R Close

Entrance into The Mind and the Brain

Where do our thoughts come from? Why do I wake in the middle of the night with a head full of ideas that come from somewhere unknown? Tonight, the thoughts that wakened me just after midnight included: “This has to be said!” As usual, the thoughts that enter my mind in this manner come in triads. Tonight, they were insistent and specific:

1) “Wake up! This has to be said! You know what the questions are, here are the answers:”

2) “Judge not, lest ye be judged!”

3) “You shall know them by the fruits of their actions!”

What were the questions? Recalling them, and the information that links the questions to the answers, was just a matter of reversing the mental process that awakened me and pulling the whole story out of the state of consciousness that I was experiencing while I was sleeping.

The questions were:

1) Why have people become so divided now, that both sides are expecting violence to erupt at any moment and why do they totally believe that it will be instigated by those evil people on the other side?

2) Why are some politicians, people we have elected, and some people in the media, people we used to trust, blatantly lying to us?” Are they truly evil, or are they just misguided and brainwashed by foreign entities that want to destroy our way of life?

3) How can we know who is lying and who is telling the truth?

In the last fifty years, neurologists have mapped the brain pretty thoroughly and we know that when information comes in, in the form of pulses of energy from the sense organs, is it processed and automatically directed along neural pathways in the basal ganglia of the brain that have been identified by science and are well known:

The basal ganglia are collections of grey-matter cells situated deep in the white matter of the cerebral hemispheres. There are four main groups of basal ganglia: the striatum, globus pallidus, subthalamic nucleus and substantia nigra.

These ganglia in the brain are connected by numerous neural pathways. The various inputs from the sense organs are received by the caudate nucleus and the putamen from the cerebral cortex, thalamus, subthalamus, and substantia nigra of the brainstem. The function of the basal ganglia in these locations is to compare the incoming information with information that has been accepted previously as valid, by the conscious mind of the individual and stored in memory. The new information is either accepted as true or rejected as invalid, on the basis of these comparisons. If accepted, it is integrated as part of the model of reality existing as patterns in the mind of the individual and passed via the previously mentioned numerous direct and indirect pathways on to the globus pallidus, the main output nucleus. The globus pallidus sends the patterns of energy pulses back to the cortex via the thalamus and other structures, along the many direct or indirect pathways, forming a loop that is repeated over and over again, until the new information from the senses that has been verified, is fully integrated into the individual’s conceptual model of reality. This model, whether a true representation of reality or not, modulates that person’s thoughts and actions, both voluntary and involuntary.

The way the brain processes and validates or rejects input explains how we can become so divided. We tend to lose sight of the origin of our conscious thoughts and confuse our internal conceptual models with reality. Our conceptual models are almost always constructed from hearsay. Most of our basic ideas about reality are adopted from the beliefs of other people, mainly people that we trust as authorities because of their position in life or their stated convictions and their strength of personality, not from our own direct experience of reality. This makes us particularly susceptible to the propaganda of those who want to control people for their own personal gain. This brings us to the answers.

The Things that Have to be Said

When we judge those ‘evil’ people on the other side of the deep division that splits us apart around the world today, into those who want government to take care of us and those who don’t, we are falling into the very deep trap that has been set for us by those who are truly evil; and we have become involved in the vicious circle of confusion promoted by ‘we said - they said’ mentality. Once there, how do we know who is the evil lair, and who is telling God’s Truth? Some of us have even become convinced that ‘the truth’ is whatever we want it to be. The slippery idea that we can “re-imagine reality” has become common today. This too, is part of the cleverly evil trap that was laid especially for those of us of European descent during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson (1913 – 1921).

One hundred years later, in 2021, we actually reached the point of fruition of the evil plan, where those who dare to question the authority of government, and even mention the “God”, as a concept to be taken seriously, are immediately condemned as out of touch with “modern thinking”, stupid, and dangerous! The conspirators who put this into motion so long ago, are back among us even now, reincarnated to enjoy the fruits of their actions. Actually, they have been with us all along, gleefully watching the plan unfold, wittingly or unwittingly, as minions of Satan. Yes, my friends, Satan is real. He is to the Author of Reality as anti-matter is to matter. On this earth, he is the equal and opposite force that keeps the duality of material reality going. Of course, those of us on the other side have also been here all along, working to counterbalance the lies and keep truth alive.

In Secrets of the Sacred Cube, a Cosmic Love Story, published in 2019, Jacqui and I provided some of the details of how the opposing forces of good and evil were already playing the game that is going on today on the world stage around 500 A.D., at roughly the lowest point in the dark ages. Eventually, the forces of good will win and the forces of evil will perish because evil is always based on lies, but in the meantime, we must deal with the realities of the conflict.

The message I was asked to bring to you tonight, is that when you judge others in the heat of the battle, you are definitely playing with fire, because you may be unwittingly becoming part of the problem; but you can know who is lying and who is telling the truth by looking at the fruits of their actions. When you do this objectively, without allowing yourself to fall into the trap of judging the wrong people based on a model of reality that you have accepted from others, you will soon see who the players are on each side. When you do, you will realize that the division is not between democrats and republicans or liberals and conservatives, it is between good and evil.

ERC-8/16/2022

SOLVING THE ULTIMATE PUZZLE

2022-08-14T14:26:00.002-07:00

SOLVING THE PUZZLE OF LIFE

© Copyright August 2022, Edward R Close

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” – Niels Bohr

Introduction

What’s it all about? Well, actually, it is in fact, about YOU! But don’t misunderstand; it’s not about the little egoistic you, sometimes feeling befuddled, struggling like a hapless worm to survive in a hostile environment. It’s not about any of the fake personas that we have created over the course of many lifetimes to cover up the horrible fear of oblivion that grips every emerging conscious lifeform, and from which every ego so desperately desires to escape. No, not any of that nonsense. The real reason that this planet, our solar system, and the billions upon billions of galaxies and stars of the physical universe, expanding into the cosmic majesty of Infinity, and all of the experiences that are available in life, death, and beyond, exist at all, is for the sole purpose of providing you, me, and every soul in existence with opportunities for the real “I Am” to emerge from the muddy darkness of material existence into the Eternal Light of Spiritual Reality, with the full realization of our true nature as bright-shining Immortal Spiritual Beings, filled with the Love and Light of God.

In previous posts, I have taken great pains to point out that the real geniuses of science, the paradigm breakers, Albert Einstein, and Max Planck, have actually agreed with the transcendent realized masters of spirituality and believers in the perennial philosophy, when they said:

“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. … We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind.” And “Space and time can claim no existence of their own. … What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to a point of visibility. There is no matter. …Time and space are not conditions of existence, spacetime is a model we have developed for thinking.”

In this post, I will carry this line of thought further, going beyond the limits of the binary thinking of contemporary science, into the tertiary quantum logic of the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) and the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD). It is high time for humanity to break out of the materialistic binary thinking of dimensions of space and time, common for the past 3,000 years, and expand into the three, six, and nine dimensions of the quantized reality of Space, time, and consciousness in which we actually exist.

Let’s think about this for a minute: When we realize that science is just beginning to emerge from a period of time that included the very lowest point of mental and spiritual virtue on this planet during the last 24,000 years, as explained in The Holy Science by Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, it becomes apparent that binary thinking is a natural mode of thought and communication for the citizens of the planet when the ability to see any deeper into reality is lacking in the consciousness of human beings in general. As thought began to progress beyond the basic requirements for physical survival, and spoken language was slowly developing again for person-to-person communication, drawing, and marking on clay tablets, wood and stone was a natural way to record and supplement memory, which was unreliable and often distorted. Even up to the present time, communication is mostly two-dimensional, whether displayed on the printed page or the screen of a computer. But binary thinking and two-dimensional visualization leave a lot to be desired.

The low point in the current planetary time cycle of Planet Earth occurred in 499 AD, but some of the knowledge from the highest point of mental and spiritual virtue in this cycle, which occurred in 11,501 BC, was preserved in stone monuments and recorded in multi-dimensional forms of communication, the remnants of which barely survived in ancient libraries to be interpreted by a few advanced souls who reincarnated for that purpose during the darkest period of planetary time from about 700 BC to 1700 AD. Binary logic is sufficient for mechanical calculations dealing with the concepts of mathematical singularities, one-dimensional, and two-dimensional conceptual domains, but it is woefully inadequate for dealing with the realities of three or more dimensions. The science of the future will have to operate on the basis of tertiary logic and the most basic fundamental operations of arithmetic, i.e., addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, that we are taught as children, will have to be redefined for consistency with the multi-dimensional relativistic quantum calculus that is needed to describe the quantized reality in which we exist.

This transition to tertiary thinking is never easy in any time cycle, but it will have widespread application in logic, mathematics, and every field of science. It will also prove to be a necessary transformation in the thinking of the average citizen of human society before we can move beyond identity politics, tribalism, and bloody warfare. Current materialistic binary thinking is not only holding scientists back from even realizing that there is a need for a fundamental change in thinking, but it is also threatening to divide us in a way that could set civilization back, at least temporarily. all the way back to the stone age.

Fundamentally, we have to get beyond the barrier created by Bertrand Russell when he broke away from the deeper spiritual thinking of his mentor, Alfred North Whitehead, and promoted binary logic in the theory of types, with the axiom that a statement had to be either true, false, or meaningless. Ironically, the theory of types, even though it identified three types of statements, actually locked us into binary thinking because the third type was discarded as ‘meaningless’. The British logician George Spencer Brown corrected this error and published it in his book Laws of Form in the 1960s. He introduced the fourth type of statement, reflecting the self-referential imaginary numbers of pure mathematics. He described the situation as follows:

“In ordinary algebra, complex values (which include real numbers and the square root of minus one) are accepted as a matter of course and the more advanced techniques (of science and engineering) would be impossible without them. In Boolean algebra (and thus in all our reasoning processes) we disallow them. … At the present moment we are constrained, in our reasoning processes, to do it the way it was done in Aristotle’s day.” Brown included complex values as fundamental in the development of his calculus of indications and showed how complicated logic problems could be solved much more easily with application of the primary calculus he developed, than with contemporary binary thinking.

Russell acknowledged Brown’s discovery, but unfortunately, the scientific community was not ready to accept it yet, and Brown suffered a fate somewhat similar to that of Georg Cantor, mentioned in my last post. The fact that people like Ram Das, Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Charles Tart, and Ed Close were interested in what Brown had to say in the 1960s and 70s, caused most mainstream mathematicians and scientists of the day to shy away from his monumental work as “too esoteric” to be considered seriously. I have relied on Brown’s brilliant work and acknowledged his influence many times, from around 1980 until the present. When my research partner, Dr. Vernon Neppe tried to contact Brown to explain how we were using and extending his work in 2013 or so, he was uninterested. He was busy watching the Wimbledon tennis finals at the time, and asked in an irritated tone; “How did you get this number?” I decided to try to contact him later, in 2016, only to learn that he had passed away in August of 2015, at the age of 93.

I need to point out that Laws of Form did not deal with the physics of extra dimensions, even though the similarity of ‘the Form’ to atomic structure was noted, and it was suggested toward the end of the book, that leaving and reentering the form at deeper levels of dimensionality might open the door to a deeper understanding of the nature of reality. But an even more important implication of the quantum calculus of TDVP based partly on Brown’s calculus of indications, with the discovery of gimmel, is the way every conscious being may understand the mystery of life and his or her place in it. The link below will take you to a YouTube video of me talking about gimmel, “The Mysterious Component of Reality” on New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWN0rM88bUg. Click on it here or copy and paste on your browser to watch at your leisure.

The Puzzle of Life

In one of his most popular songs, John Denver sang a catchy line that goes like this: “Up in the morning, I’m as fit as a fiddle; coffee’s in the pot and cakes on the griddle. Life ain’t nothin’ but a funny, funny riddle! Thank God I’m a country boy!” That expresses one attitude toward life, but of course there are other possibilities. But I submit to you that this is what life is all about: solving the riddle of life and existence. What does it mean to ‘solve this puzzle’? It means resolving the paradoxes and the many polar opposites presented to us by reality, like existence and non-existence, the infinitely large and the infinitesimally small, consciousness and oblivion, stupidity and enlightenment, and life and death.

At some point, we have to realize that solving the puzzle of life is what we are here for, and clearly a single lifetime is insufficient for anyone to accomplish this. Many well-known people, and millions of ordinary folks, have memories of past lives that have been verified, I have memories of several, myself, but, despite the fact that the majority of the human beings on this planet profess belief in the transmigration of souls in some form, Western Civilization labors under the delusion that we are given only one life. While it is true that while portraying a specific role scripted by the DNA in the bodies we currently occupy, we have this one life to live, our souls are immortal. This truth was contained in many ancient records that survived the dark ages in the form of what we now call gnostic religious scriptures, but the Roman Emperor Justinian I forced the Bishops of the Catholic Church to remove all explicit references to the immortality of the soul from their teachings under the threat of death, for purely political reasons in his Anathemas against Origen in 553 AD. I have written about this in some detail, partly from past-life memories of that time, in Secrets of the Sacred Cube, a Cosmic Love Story, published in 2019.

As most of my readers know, I began my academic career as a student of the basic science of physics at the age of fourteen, inspired by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. I found the undeniable utter simplicity and experimental validation of physics totally captivating. Fortunately, as Einstein and Planck did, toward the ends of their lives, I outgrew that fascination with physicality very early in this life, realizing that there is much more to the reality we experience than matter, energy, space, and time. About a decade ago, a vocal critic of my work developing the mathematics underlying the simplicity of physics, because he was impressed with the way I applied the principles of relativity to the dynamic physical characteristics of the electron, declared that “You may have been a physicist once, but you are no longer a physicist!” Of course, he did not mean it as a compliment, but he was right. I had moved beyond the simplicity of materialism in my thinking, long ago.

“A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.” – Niels Bohr

Laws of Form, Mathematics of Consciousness, and the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions

The way I expanded my thinking about science and life in general, already many years ago, was by embracing the logical paradoxes and contradictions of mathematics and resolving the epitome of the opposites listed a few paragraphs above: “existence and non-existence, the infinitely large and the infinitesimally small, consciousness and oblivion, stupidity and enlightenment, life and death.” The logical method of the resolution of opposites is something I wish to convey to you in this blogpost. In other words, I would say that in order to solve the puzzle of life and existence, one must adopt the attitude of the Danish Quantum physicist Niels Bohr, who said:

“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” He also said: “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”

The same attitude was expressed by G. Spencer Brown, a British author and logician while discussing his book Laws of Form and his calculus of indications at a meeting in the Esalen Institute in Big Sur California in 1973. He explained to a small group of people on the leading edge of modern thought at the time that the major theme of his work was that the imaginary numbers of Boolean algebra are not really imaginary. Instead, the square root of minus one is a mathematical paradox that expresses the self-referential nature of reality and provides a way to formally expand logic beyond the limitations of simplistic binary thinking. One of the people privileged to attend that meeting, Cliff Barney, pointed out the fact that the square root of minus one is a paradox similar to the self-contradictory statement “This statement is false”. He explained it this way:

“The square root of minus 1 is a logical paradox; if the "1" is negative, it can't be a square, and if it's a square, it can't be negative. Nevertheless, designers use √-1 in equations while building space ships that real men then fly in. Brown, in his days as a computer engineer, used the imaginary Boolean values to devise a safety system for British Railways that operates by counting and uncounting the number of wheels passing a given point. Real trains use this system, big wheels run by faith and little wheels run by the grace of God.”

For more about this meeting of minds, or confusion of minds, depending on how you look at it, can be found on line by clicking on the links below.

https://www.kurtvonmeier.com/the-aum-conference and https://www.kurtvonmeier.com/who-is-g-spencer-brown-and-where-is-that-marvelous-music-coming-from

To be clear, the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions, the mathematical heart of the TDVP of Close and Neppe, is the logical completion of the transformation from binary thinking to tertiary consciousness, that was started by G. Spencer Brown in Laws of Form. The triadic connection between physics, conceptual modeling, and consciousness was completed when the mathematics and physics creating the stability of the proton and the development of the TRUE quantum equivalence unit based on the mass and volume of the electron led to the discovery of the quantifiable existence of consciousness in the form of a new form of reality that is neither mass nor energy, that we call gimmel. Consciousness, at long last, has been included in the equations describing the reality. Let’s look at what this means in regard to the experience of life and death and the existence of individual conscious beings like you and me.

There are three ways, at this time, that individual conscious beings are reacting to being alive: 1) Some assume that life is an accidental by-product of material evolution, and that consciousness is just a temporary freak of nature. Believing this, they try to get through life with as little pain and suffering as possible and welcome the oblivion of death when it comes. 2) Some accept life as a strange, undecipherable puzzle that can’t be solved. Their mantra is: just accept it and enjoy it as much as you can whenever you can. 3) Others see life as having meaning and purpose and as an opportunity to learn and expand consciousness through the experiences of physical existence. If you’ve been reading and understanding my posts, you will know which attitude is the correct one.

Once we realize that the sole purpose of everything that exists, from the smallest quantum of mass and energy to the wholeness of the entire cosmos is for the spiritual development of consciousness from the bare awareness of being to the complete enlightenment of Cosmic Unity, the way we look at existence, non-existence, matter, energy, space, time, consciousness, and our own life and death, changes forever. The logical paradoxes, including the paradoxes discussed earlier, and the mathematical paradox of the square root of minus one, when resolved by growing and expanding consciousness, become doorways to the additional dimensions of reality.

Solving the Puzzle

When I first read Niels Bohr’s statement quoted at the beginning of this post (“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”), I couldn’t think of a single truth, profound or otherwise, that had an opposite that was also true. But once I accepted his statement that paradoxes are opportunities for progress in the expansion of consciousness and began to resolve the paradoxes of contemporary physics and mathematics, examples of what he was talking about popped up like flashes of gold nuggets in the black sand at the bottom of a prospector’s pan. For example, resolving the expanding universe paradox and the God paradox (See my July 16 and July 27 posts.) revealed the fact that the finite mind of an individual could be expanded into the bounded infinite series of the uncountable infinity of infinities of the mind of God. This meant that consciousness, in contrast with the quantized nature of physical matter and energy, is infinitely continuous. That, in turn, implies that, as conscious beings, we are all connected through the infinite continuity of spirit. Thus, the profound truth that in Spirit, we are all one and the same, and the opposite of that profound truth, the fact that every soul is unique (in terms of where that soul is on the journey from minimal awareness to Cosmic Consciousness) is also true!

Finally, if we adopt the attitudes of Niels Bohr and G. Spencer Brown, that logical paradox is the doorway to an expanded awareness of reality: accept the conclusions of Max Planck and Albert Einstein that matter, energy, space, and time are human ways of thinking about reality, not reality itself and that the conscious intelligent mind of God is the reality behind it all; and consistently adopt approach number 3, based on the knowledge that life has meaning and purpose as an opportunity to learn and expand your immortal consciousness through the experiences of physical existence, then, with focus, concentration, and will power, you can expand your awareness of reality by resolving the opposites of every logical paradox as they arise, see beyond the limitations of matter, energy, space, and time, and move forward during this lifetime on your own unique path to Cosmic Consciousness.

ERC – 8/14/2022

Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

A GUIDED TOUR OF DIMENSIONAL DOMAINS

2022-07-31T22:10:00.003-07:00

GEORG CANTOR (1845 -1918)

ANCIENT WISDOM MODERN SCIENCE

© Copyright July 2022, Edward R Close

Introduction

For most readers, the last post should probably be considered a prerequisite to reading this post. Because the subject matter is complex and interconnected with some concepts explained in detail in the last post, even if you have read it, re-reading the last post is probably a good idea before proceeding with this one.

Describing experiences of consciousness expansion that have resulted in the awareness of additional dimensions in a way that someone who has no conscious awareness of such experiences can understand, is very difficult, but not impossible. It is like trying to describe a rare tropical fruit to someone who has never seen or tasted such a fruit. To convey an idea that has any resemblance to the experience, it is necessary to resort to comparing it with something that the person knows about that is similar to the thing one is attempting to describe. If there are no handy analogies, then we must rely on the weight of axiomatic logic and empirical evidence.

A Practical Approach to the Direct Experience of Quantum Reality

Most psychologists, parapsychologists, bio-psychophysicists, and other post-materialist scientists, agree that consciousness is the only thing we actually experience directly. On the other hand, material objects, assumed to be discrete, separate, and outside the boundaries of the directly accessible domain of our consciousness, are perceived indirectly as a result of patterns of vibratory energies radiated from external objects to impact the receptors of our sense organs, and then be processed internally.

The impacts of incoming energy packets on sense receptors create patterns of electrical impulses corresponding to the spacetime patterns of the external objects. These patterns of electrical impulses are conducted along highly specialized neurological pathways to the brain where mental images are formed that are virtual models of the physical forms of external objects.

Finally, the images are interpreted by consciousness as current information about external objects and are used to react to the external reality and they are also stored for later comparison with new images created from energy impulse patterns that are constantly arriving from outside the physical boundaries of individual consciousness. In this way, conscious beings gradually expand and fine tune their awareness of the external environment in a process we call learning.

Images created within the consciousness of an individual can be either objective or imaginary. At this point in the process of spiritual evolution on this planet, experiences of internal objectivity are rare. Most of the real time brain activity results in imaginary, rather than objective conceptualizations. Brain cells are very sensitive to the slightest stimuli, including minute piezometric physical pressures, changes in electrical potential, chemical processes, and even the subtle impact of bioluminescence.

Despite the efforts of consciousness to manage brain activity, the relatively random stimulation of brain cells can cause energy transfers across synapses (the gaps between neurons) linking unrelated stored images and/or verbal memories to form all sorts of garbled images whose forms and structures reflect reality to some extent, but do not necessarily correspond with objective patterns of reality. This is especially true when an individual is not focused on goal-driven activities or during periods of relaxation and sleep. We call these garbled images dreams. This is why it is necessary for most of us at this point in time, with our low level of planetary mental and spiritual virtue, to study and use time-honored meditation techniques to “become still and know” that the Primary form of consciousness is what has traditionally called “God”.

The physical body, or more accurately, the brain and central nervous system, consisting of sense-organ receptors, energy-conducting neurological networks, and electrochemical impulse processing centers, supported by the skeletal and muscular structure of the body, acts as a temporary vehicle for quantized consciousness and as a sending and receiving station in the field of vibratory energies that comprise the universe we live in. The purpose of the physical relaxation and mental focusing methods like those of hatha yoga, one-pointed Zen concentration, or Sufi dancing, and the various forms of prayer and religious contemplation, is to still the uncontrolled semi-random confusion of distorted thoughts and mental images so that the innate logical structure of pure, undistorted Primary Consciousness can be received.

Meditation techniques are practical methods designed for eliminating static and tuning the receiving apparatus of the brain and central nervous system to the radiating frequencies of Primary Consciousness. This is easy enough to describe, but very difficult for most of us to achieve. When the body is completely relaxed and the mind chatter has been stilled, certain archetypical inner-objective phenomena begin to appear as light and sound phenomena. The objectivity and clarity of these inner manifestations of spiritual reality received through the spiritual senses are typically more vivid and real than the sights and sounds of the physical world received through the physical senses.

Depending on the individual soul’s level of mental and spiritual advancement, and possible affiliation with a specific spiritual or metaphysical lineage, various forms of the astral light of the spiritual eye and/or the causal sound of the creative cosmic energy emanating from the Primary Conscious Source, may be seen and heard by focusing on the sensitive areas, above and in front of the eyes, and to either side of the medulla oblongata, behind the ears.

At first, the astral light coming into your consciousness from the point above your physical eyes may look like white waves swirling in a deep royal blue field. This has been likened to the wings of a descending dove. The astral light may sometimes form the image of a human eye looking at you, a rapidly spinning ball of fire, or a star surrounded by a golden halo. The sound emanating from the medulla may sound like rushing waters, or like the humming of a huge motor that vibrates and may produce periodic thumping or knocking sounds. The written and spoken forms of aum, om, amin, and amen are vocal sounds used to mimic the basic sound of creation, interpretated as meaning “so be it.”

After a while, as the conscious focus of the individual intensifies, the energies of light and sound will merge, first with each other, and then with the energies of the processing centers in the spine. When this happens, the five electrical energies are felt to withdraw from the physical sense organs and converge to form a 360-degree state of awareness, and all of the life functions of the physical body slow down and become suspended, including breath, heartbeat, and ego identification with the body. This elevated state of consciousness, described earlier as the threshold of the four states of consciousness, is not only the threshold of rebirth and entry into spiritual life, but it also brings “peace beyond understanding” to the mind, and extends the life of the physical body by at least the amount of time spent in this state.

In this OBE-expanded fourth state of consciousness, (after waking, sleeping, and dreaming) everything from the quantum scale to the galactic and cosmic scale is experienced directly as part of one’s own consciousness. After an OBE, when returning to identification with a physical body, memory of the OBE may be lost, partially retained, or fully retained depending on a number of factors, the most significant of which is the relative state of mental and spiritual development of the individual. If the OBE is caused by a very traumatic experience like a NDE, or was experienced after death, or just before the next physical birth, the shock of the experience may obliterate the memory. After many births, lives, and deaths, the transition gradually becomes less traumatic, and a more complete memory of the event may be retained. When some of the abilities of the unfettered soul are retained and are accessible in the physical body, they will likely be considered to be “gifts” or siddhis when used by the individual in the physical world.

Experiencing The Dimensional Domains of Reality - A Guided Tour

Having experienced the dimensional domains personally, during three NDEs and a number of less traumatic OBEs, that were both spontaneous, and resulting from the practice of consciousness expanding Kriyas, what I propose to do, is take you on a guided tour of the dimensional domains of reality. Most people believe that we exist in a world of three dimensions of space and one of time, that all of us see and experience, and that other dimensions, if they exist, are somehow hidden from us. Questions I often get from those who have heard me speak about the nine dimensions of reality are: What are these other dimensions? Where are they? and why can’t I see them?

These questions are wonderfully perfect examples of the type of questions Gödel’s incompleteness theorem predicts. They are perfectly reasonable questions, logically articulated in plain English, that cannot be adequately answered in the logical system within which they are conceived. To properly answer these questions, we must look at the a priori assumptions behind them and hope to correct the errors and/or inadequacies that we find there. And that, of course, is exactly what we’ve been attempting to do in this series of posts. So, what are the assumptions behind the belief that we exist in a world of three dimensions of space and one of time, dimensions that we think we see, that prompts us to ask; What are these other dimensions? Why can’t I see them? And where are they?

The main problem is the erroneous assumption that we see dimensions. I have taken some care in these posts to point out that this is not true. Recall that Einstein said: “Time and space can claim no existence of their own. … Time and space are not conditions of existence, spacetime is a model for thinking.” His point was that the dimensions of space and time are simply useful concepts for describing the extent and dynamic nature of material objects. No one sees dimensions. We see material objects, and they have measurable dimensions. Why can’t we see the other dimensions? Because we don’t see dimensions, we see the objects that require them for objective expression. If there are existing objects that we cannot see, then there may also be dimensions we are not aware of. Are there realities we cannot see?

Spiritualists and religious people say “Yes!” Materialists and atheists say “NO!” And proponents on both sides are convinced that they are right! Skepticism is justified, but absence of proof is not proof of absence, and science based on belief is science that will change. Can we see things that don’t exist, and not see things that do? Of course! Let’s continue.

Einstein also agreed with his friend Max Planck that there is no matter as such, behind the appearance of matter is a force, and behind that force is an intelligent mind, Furthermore, he said: “Matter is spirit reduced to a point of visibility. There is no matter.” And no one has seen an electron with their own two physical eyes; so, yes, we do see things that don’t exist, and fail to see things that do, and the discovery of non-material gimmel using mathematical logic and LHC data proves that there are aspects of reality that require dimensional domains beyond three dimensions of space and one of time.

What Einstein did not realize, or, if he did, he was not prepared to talk about in those days to avoid losing his standing as a physicist, is that mass and energy are also simply useful concepts for describing the measurable content of dimensional domains, that allow us to think about and describe objective reality in the same way that space and time are simply useful concepts for describing the extent and dynamic nature of material objects. The measurement variables we call mass and energy, have no more existence of their own than do the measurable variables we call the dimensions of space and time. It’s the reality behind the measurements that are of interest, not the measurements themselves. But this is a subject for another time. The focus of this post is dimensions and dimensional domains.

The guided tour begins with the identification of an arbitrarily chosen zero point because we need a starting point. But don’t confuse zero with ‘nothing’, there is no such thing as nothing. Zero is our starting point from which to conceive of a series of dimensional domains. As such, it becomes the reference point for the whole tour, tying it to our conscious experience of reality. It may be useful on this tour of dimensional domains to think in terms of sets and subsets again: Zero is the null set in the potentially infinite set of dimensional domains. Mathematicians think of such points as mathematical singularities, but on this tour, we need not be overly concerned with what mathematicians think. We need only think of points on a line created by extending the zero point. Our zero is the null or ‘empty’ set, and the line is the first leg of our tour, a dimensional domain containing an infinite number of points, identical with the zero point, no matter how short or long the line may be. Thus, the concept of infinity enters the picture on the very first leg of our tour of dimensional domains.

As we move on, our second dimensional domain is a plane, created by a sideways movement of the line extended from the reference point. An area of the plane, regardless of its shape or size, contains an infinite number of lines identical to our first dimensional domain. Our third dimensional domain is a volume that contains an infinite number of planes identical to our second dimensional domain. Thus, we are seeing a sequence of dimensional domains that have increasingly larger capacities to contain all of the infinities of points located in the prior dimensional domains. Potentially an infinity of infinities!

At this juncture in our tour, I will point out to you that the third dimensional domain is the first stop on the tour that has the capacity to contain anything other than dimensionless points. This fact turns out to have great significance in our understanding the nature of dimensions and dimensional domains. This is very important to appreciating the rest of the tour. The infinity of infinities is as important on our tour as mountains are on a tour of the Alps, so please let me explain.

The substantial reality we experience is made up of what we think of as matter and energy. But, the starting point, plus the first and second stops on our tour, i.e., the domains of the line, and the plane, contain nothing but infinities of dimensionless points. They have no capacity to contain matter and/or energy because even one quantum of matter, measured as mass, the resistance to motion, has a finite volume, and energy, as expanded mass, requires even more volume. In addition to mass and energy, something called consciousness exists. Our consciousness exists, of course. Otherwise, I could not be writing this, and you could not be reading it. And finally, we know from the work of Einstein and Planck, verified by TDVP, that there is no such thing as empty space. What does this mean? It means that dimensionless points, one-dimensional lines, and two-dimensional planes, have no existence of their own, while mass, energy and consciousness are three-dimensional and do.

As Einstein said: “Spacetime is a model for thinking. The dimensions of space and time have no existence of their own.” The three dimensions of space and one dimension of time are mental constructs to help us to think about objects that actually do exist. So, has our tour of the point, line, and plane, mental concepts that have no existence of their own, and no capacity for containing anything but dimensionless points, a waste of time? No, because these concepts help us to realize, in a step-by-step way, what dimensions really are, not what we think they are, and how they relate to objects that actually exist. Now that we see that dimensions and dimensional domains are ideas for thinking about reality, not stand-alone parts of reality with an existence of their own, let’s continue on with our tour of dimensional domains and see how studying them helps us to think about the things that do exist in our experience of reality, even things that we can’t see with our physical eyes.

Not only do the concepts of dimensions and dimensional domains help us to think about reality, but also, as part of a logical system that is internally consistent, they provide us with a way to move consciously from domain to domain and describe that movement with mathematical precision. The process of movement from a dimensional domain with N dimensions, to a domain with N+1 dimensions, which I call dimensional extrapolation, once experienced, is easy to envision and describe. [Note that N is restricted to whole numbers because physical reality is quantized, and, as we have seen, so are dimensional domains.]

Any standard unit of extent can be envisioned as the magnitude of projection from any point in any N-dimensional domain. But, for simplicity, envision the projection as one unit perpendicular to the dimensions of the N-dimensional domain. Why perpendicular? In fact, the angle of projection does not have to be 90 degrees, but any other angle makes the envisioning more difficult, and more importantly, it greatly complicates the mathematical description of it and calculation of the location of the end point of the projection in the N+1 dimensional domain. The purpose of using a coordinate system and locating the end point of each projection relative to the beginning point of the projection and ultimately to our zero-reference point, is to tie everything on our tour to real conscious experience with a consistent system of mathematical logic.

Most readers will find it easier to envision the projection as perpendicular, and will find it more comfortable to envision the dimensional extrapolation with Cartesian coordinates, rather than with angular values in polar coordinates, or in any other system of coordinates, because most people have been at least minimally exposed to the Cartesian system of coordinates in an elementary math class, and even if not, anyone can google “Cartesian coordinate system” and find an explanation with a simple diagram.

I use a natural system of coordinates in triadic rotational units of equivalence (TRUE) a quantum application of the calculus of dimensional distinctions (CoDD), which I found to be a very natural way to envision dimensional domains; and the primary calculus adapted for symbolic logic provides us with an easy way to determine existent from non-existent forms. – more on that to come. - However, no knowledge of coordinate systems or abstract mathematics is necessary to participate in this tour. Consciousness is the only pre-requisite.

The reasons for minimally describing these mathematical concepts are: 1) to let you know that the statements I make are not random ideas thrown up against the wall of contemporary science to see what will stick! They are provable concepts resulting from the careful application of a well-thought-out system of mathematical logic and meticulous empirical data from the Large Hadron Collider, related to the electron. And 2) the mathematical analysis of the dimensional extrapolation process reveals invariants in the relationships between N-dimensional domains and N+1 dimensional domains that remain the same for every value of N. (That’s why they are called invariants.) Moreover, they have been verified by direct observation, and that brings us back to our guided tour of dimensional domains.

As we look back at the dimensional domains we have envisioned and moved through by dimensional extrapolation, we see that each of the projections of one unit each, from the zero point to the 3-D volume, added a new dimension to the domain and the geometric shape of each successive domain. This means that every point that exists in an N-D domain can be exactly located with N unique numbers. Those numbers are the coordinates of that point. And we notice that the geometric shape of each domain depends on the contents of the domain. We also notice that we can see the N-dimensional domains only from the vantage point of an N+1 dimensional domain. For example, when we were in the 2-D plane, we could see the 1-D lines and the zero-reference point among the infinity of points occupying the lines, and after we projected into the 3-D domain, projecting 90 degrees above the plane, we could see the plane below us and everything in it. Therefore, by extending the logic, we can say that we can only see or envision a 3-D domain and everything in it from a 4-D domain, a 4-D domain, and its contents from a 5-D domain, etc. Thus, we have discovered an invariant feature of dimensional domains.

Discovery of this invariance is very important because it allows us to explain how we know that the one dimension added to the 3-D domain is time, how we know that the 3-D domain contains objects of mass, energy, and gimmel, and why the time dimension we experience is unidirectional, and finally, even what the dimensions from 4-D to 9-D are.

As we attempt to continue our tour and move from the dimensional domain with three dimensions to the domain with four dimensions, we run into a problem. We find that the integer unitary projection that worked when moving from the line to the plane and from the plane to the volume, does not work to move us into the 4-D domain! An integer projection, or any multiple of that projection, produces an end point that is still located in the 3-D domain. We know this because the end point of the projection can also be located with three unique integer coordinates.

To move into the 4-D dimensional domain, the unitary projection, and therefore the new dimension being added, cannot be an integer! At first, this seems like an unexpected dead end or roadblock for our tour. There seems to be no road to the next stop. In each of the previous projections from domain to domain, calculation of the distance to the end point of each new projection has been done by a CoDD application of the Pythagorean theorem, producing a new expanded (in terms of the number of dimensions) dimensional domain in each case. Suddenly it does not work for the next logical step of the journey! It’s a paradox!

What are we to do? Is there a way forward? As I struggled with what appeared to be impossible, facing failure, about eleven years ago, it was almost as if Niels Bohr tapped me on the shoulder, saying “Paradox? – Opportunity!” If the projection from 3-D to 4-D cannot be an integer, what could it be? I will spare the reader the painful trial and error calculations using rational fractions, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, etc. and act as if the logical answer were clear from the start. As often happens, though, after hours of hard labor, it turned out that the answer was right in front of me all the time.

Remembering that in our quantized reality (the physical universe), dimensions of space and time have no existence of their own, and that the quantum nature of mass and energy shapes the dimensional domains, I realized why the process failed using 1 or any real number when projecting from 3-D to 4-D: At the point in the tour when the next dimensional domain suddenly has the capacity to contain volumetric objects, not just dimensionless points, plane geometry becomes solid geometry. The quantized units themselves become three dimensional, and the third Projection, i.e., the projection from 3-D to 4-D, has to become the third root of unity, i.e., the square root of minus one, usually symbolized by the lowercase letter і.

When the unique property of the square root of minus one was discovered by mathematicians like Rene Descartes about 400 years ago, it was called an “imaginary” number because it could not be located in three-dimensional space, like the “real” numbers could. While understandable, this choice of terminology was very unfortunate, because it set the understanding of mathematics back a few centuries. The square root of minus one is no less real than any other number. Why this is true is interesting, but it’s a subject for another time. Back to our tour.

When projecting from a dimensional domain with three dimensions into one with four, locating the end point mathematically becomes more difficult because the limited number of integer solutions obtained using the Pythagorean theorem are further reduced from the Pythagorean triples to even rarer Diophantine solutions in accordance with Fermat’s Last Theorem. The point is that the process of dimensional extrapolation does not change when we attempt to project from 3-D to 4-D. The nature of the projection from one dimensional domain to the next does not change, only the form of the unit of projection had to change from the root of unity appropriate for the 3-D domain to the root of unity appropriate for the 4-D domain. It changed from one to the square root of minus one. In the process of the Pythagorean calculation, the fact that (і)² = -1 helps explain the “arrow of time” in the experience of 3S-1t.

It is important to note that the unit of projection is also the unit of measurement of the added dimension. This means that if time is the 4^th dimension, as relativity has proved it is, then, for consistency, time should be measured in multiples of the square root of minus one. If this indication is ignored, as it is in current mainstream science, some important facts about the geometrical structure of dimensional domains are overlooked. Those facts are: 1) After every third 90-degree projection, the unit of measurement changes to a different root of unity, and 2) that change affects the nature of the experience of the next group of three-dimensional domains.

For readers who might not know, a root of unity is a number that, when raised to an integral power, is equal to one (unity). This may sound very abstract and complex because most people who have not studied mathematics beyond the computational level have never heard of the nth roots of unity, or ever had to deal with them. However, the reality of the existence of different roots of unity for each dimensional domain is actually very simple: Think of the projection from an N-dimensional domain to an N+1 dimensional domain as a bridge that must be mathematically and geometrically consistent with the domains at both ends of the bridge for it to work, allowing us to move from one domain to another.

The Dimensions Beyond Three of Space and One of Time

As we enter into the experience of the connection between the 3-D domain and the 4-D domain, it is appropriate to ask ourselves if there is anything we are missing or ignoring. It should not come as a surprise to realize that that we are! As mentioned earlier, your consciousness and mine exist; otherwise, we could not be having this thought conversation. We have thoughts about the content and extent of dimensional domains . When we thought about the movement of the zero point, there was the content of our thought and the extent of the movement. Thus, in addition to the points, lines, and planes, etc., we became aware of the distinction of extent between inside and outside (of our consciousness) and the distinction of change, or time. Thus, we are aware of five dimensions from the very start, as soon as we are self-aware, not three, as most people suppose. Those five dimensions are: three of space, one of time, and one of consciousness (your own). Why do we pretend that we are only aware of three dimensions?

Put another way, why do we assume that only things outside the awareness of self are real, and ignore the real content of self? The answer is simple: Once we accept the separation of self from other, we see that everything out there is constantly changing, and the only way to try to protect the comfort of the changelessness we feel “in here”, is to pretend that we are not part of what is going on “out there” to the best of our ability. We withdraw our awareness of the inner objectivity of consciousness to a dimensionless point and pretend that it has no connection with the changes of physical reality, like painful birth, growth, decay, illness, and death. But, trying to ignore outer reality only makes it seem even more real, and survival of the physical vehicle of our consciousness becomes the imperative priority. How can we take time and effort to learn about the objective realities behind physical reality at the quantum level if the physical vehicle we are so intimately attached to is constantly in peril?.

The answer is as simple as it is challenging: We must work to expand our consciousness in both directions, outward, to encompass more of physical reality, and inward to encompass more of the spiritual reality. So, reality is multi-dimensional, with at least nine finite dimensions: including three of space, three of time (my timeline, yours, and that of Primary Consciousness), and three of finite consciousness, yours, mine, and the combination of many.

A Return to the Paradoxes of Time and Infinity

This tour would not be complete without returning to the resolution of the two paradoxes we discovered while investigating assumptions and determining how TDVP conclusions, consistent with the quotes from Einstein and Planck, conflict with current common beliefs about dimensions and dimensional domains. Those paradoxes were: The “Mind of God” paradox, found in the July 7 post, and the “Expanding Universe” paradox, in the July 16 post. Let’s see how what we’ve learned on this tour resolves these paradoxes.

Both paradoxes revolve around profoundly erroneous assumptions about time, consciousness, and infinity. Basically because of our fear of the pain and suffering of the physical body that we have chosen to identify with, we ignore the dimensions of time and consciousness that don’t seem to have anything to do with the day-to-day survival of the physical body, and as a result, we limit ourselves to the illusion of a 4-D universe that appears to be expanding from an ancient explosion out of nothingness, into a future infinity of nothingness. This is the greatest lie of all great lies. It was perpetrated by the Roman Emperor Justinian I in his Anathemas Against Origen, forced on the Catholic Church in 553 A.D., in his effort to absorb Christianity into the Roman Empire, after the truth of the immortality of the soul was preserved through the darkest of the dark ages by a few spiritually advanced souls who reincarnated from the higher ages for that purpose. See Part VI of Secrets of the Sacred Cube, a Cosmic Love Story, ER and JA Close, 2019.

When, through consciousness expansion in seven directions (Front, Back, Right, Left, Up, Down, and Inward), we see through the single spiritual eye instead of the two physical eyes, we understand that nine-dimensional reality expands out of itself and back into itself at the same time - the time we call the present – and the illusion dissolves.

So, what about the paradoxes? It turns out that Georg Cantor was right. There are at least two kinds of infinities. He called them “countable” infinities and “uncountable” infinities: The smaller infinity, whose members could be counted by pairing them up with the natural numbers (1, 2, 3, …), and a much larger infinity that could not be paired with the counting numbers. It is a sad commentary on the history of the science of mathematics that mainstream mathematicians rejected the genius of Cantor and drove him to a nervous breakdown and death in a psychiatric ward in Halle Germany, because of their narrow-minded materialism.

To resolve the two paradoxes, it helps to think of the two types of infinities as geometrically open and closed, or unbounded and bounded. This can be easily visualized by returning to an analogy of points and lines. The countable infinities are analogous to equally spaced points on a line representing the natural numbers (1, 2, 3, …), which form an infinite, open or unbounded set, while the uncountable infinities are analogous to the infinite set of points geometrically enclosed between the natural number points, bounded by integer points on either side. So, the unbounded infinities, the smaller type, cannot be realized in a finite universe, but the bounded infinities, the larger type, can!

The mind of God paradox is resolved because bounded infinity does exist within the finite universe, and the expanding universe paradox is resolved because reality is not limited to four dimensions. Nine-dimensional reality is expanding out of and into itself in each present moment, like a giant toroidal Mӧbius strip.

Summary and Conclusion

Finally, let’s summarize the results of our analysis in these posts by comparing commonly held beliefs about matter, energy, space, time, consciousness, and infinity, with objective reality as it is revealed by the study of quantum physics, relativity, and TDVP.

COMMON BELIEF	REALITY
The rate of the passage of time is uniform throughout the universe.	The rate of the passage of time of an event depends on relative motion and the volumetric mass-energy field density where the event occurs.
Space & time are uniform throughout the universe, independent of mass and energy.	The geometry of spacetime varies depending on quantum field density.
Simultaneous events are independent of the observer and can be identified with synchronized clocks.	Clocks measure the local passage of time where they exist. Therefore, simultaneity is observer dependent.
Space & time are infinitely divisible.	Constant light speed requires space and time to be 3-D and quantized.
Objective reality is independent of the observer.	The measurements and observable aspects of objective reality depend on the motion of the observer relative to the measurable objects.
Objective reality is limited to four dimensions, 3 of space and 1 of time.	Objective reality is nine-dimensional, including 3 of space, 3 of time, and 3 of consciousness.
Infinity is an unattainable perfection.	Infinities may be either open or closed. Closed infinities may be encompassed within the expanding fields of consciousness.

“Time is the only distance between what I am and what I shall become.” – A line from the lyrics of a song written and performed by Jacquelyn Ann Hill circa 1974.

“Time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we think. Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, determined by the external world.” - Albert Einstein

Scientists, if they are honest, will admit that they have no idea what consciousness is. This is because consciousness is identical with reality, and therefore it is impossible to describe the reality of consciousness in any way except in terms of reality itself, and such a tautological statement is not a valid scientific definition.

A relentless investigation of the smallest quantum of reality, the electron, reveals that it and the whole reality of the cosmos are one and the same thing: self-referential isness - that which is all that is, that happens to have the form of a nine-dimensional torus expanding out of and into itself at the same time, and that time is the present.

ERC -7/31/2022

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science

2022-07-23T08:48:00.000-07:00

CONTINUING WITH THE ANALYSIS OF INFINITY AND TIME

© Copyright July 2022, Edward R Close

Resuming the Discussion After a Brief Pause

Dear Reader: Last Sunday I took a break from discussing the a priori assumptions underlying our beliefs about time and infinity to celebrate the anniversary of the launching of the Science and Spirituality YouTube Channel and this blog site ten years ago, and to honor the memory of my late beloved wife, Jacquelyn Ann Hill-Close, who was my greatest supporter and helpmate for more than forty years. I also mentioned the important work of my good friend and colleague Dr. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, who has contributed so much to the development and promotion of these ideas. My blogposts reflect some of the work we have done together that led to the formalization of the scientific paradigm shift we call TDVP, and the philosophy of unified monism. Several others have supported this research, including people reading these posts. I want you to know that I appreciate your interest, questions, and comments very much.

So now it is time to get back to the current discussion. Our latest findings require some radical changes in human beliefs about the nature of time and infinity, so I want to discuss what those changes are, how they necessitate re-assessing the basic assumptions about the nature of reality, and how those changes will affect the way we do science and the way we live our lives. A brief re-cap of the major points of the last few posts will help us get back on track.

Reality is the ultimate logical system that all scientific theories seek to model as accurately as they can. Paradoxes arising in any system of logic are evidence of either incorrect or incomplete a priori (self-evident) assumptions. While applying the methods of TDVP to develop and test our model reality, we reached some conclusions that are consistent with statements made by physicists Albert Einstein and Max Planck, the architects of relativity and quantum physics, toward the end of their careers.

Max Planck said: “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force … We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind.”

And Einstein agreed with Planck. He said: “Space and time can claim no existence of their own. … What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to a point of visibility. There is no matter.”

These statements about what is behind the appearances of the physical world are, in my opinion, more important than all of the technological advances their work has inspired because they actually link modern science with ancient wisdom. In brief, that is what my posts are about: putting together the pieces of the puzzle of existence that are left over from the last high point in the natural cycles of human mental and spiritual virtue that barely survived destruction during the dark ages of materialism that lasted about 2,400 years, reaching its lowest point around 500 A.D.

While investigating assumptions and determining how conclusions consistent with the quotes from Einstein and Planck conflict with current common beliefs, we uncovered two very interesting conflicts: The “Mind of God” paradox, described in the July 7 post, and the “Expanding Universe” paradox, in the July 16 post. Niels Bohr, another important physicist in the paradigm shift of the last century, observed that paradoxes in scientific theories are not game stoppers; they are actually wonderful opportunities to advance, because the paradoxes are only in our theories, not in reality, and paradoxes in theories can be resolved by making appropriate changes in the a priori assumptions of the system of logic supporting the theories and expanding the area of research accordingly. That is the process I am trying to articulate in these posts. The first step in this process is examination of the assumptions behind what most people believe about consciousness and the nature of reality.

In my preliminary analysis, I identified the a priori assumptions relevant to the mind of God paradox to be assumptions about the nature of time and infinity. The a priori assumptions about time and infinity are relevant because the mind of God is generally assumed to be infinite and perfect, and time is generally assumed to be flowing from past to present, to future, uniformly throughout the universe. The statements by Einstein and Planck, based on their research, as well as results of our TDVP analyses, directly contradict these assumptions.

I began the analysis by identifying the set of axioms related to the existence and nature of infinity first, in the July 7 post. The analysis of the axioms related to infinity revealed the mind of God paradox. The relevant assumptions that led to this contradiction were identified as 1) the assumption that the perfection of the primary form of consciousness, i.e., the mind of God, the ultimate logical system, is infinite, and 2) the assumption that God is perfect. These two assumptions may both be true, but the problem that gives rise to the paradox, is a third assumption: the assumption that perfection is marred by incompleteness, i.e., that infinite perfection must be complete by definition.

If the mind of God is a consistent logical system, which it must be for science to be possible, then application of the incompleteness theorem implies that the mind of God is incomplete. This conclusion is consistent with the empirical evidence that the universe is expanding, but a 3-D universe cannot expand indefinitely unless it is expanding into absolute nothingness. But the statements of Einstein and Planck, as well as the conclusions of TDVP, imply that there is no such thing as empty space, which is the actual definition of nothingness. This is the second paradox, which I have called the expanding universe paradox. Incidentally, I touched on this paradox when I applied the primary calculus to the Olber’s paradox in my second book, Infinite Continuity published in 1990 (now out of print).

In the July 16 post, I suggested that the expanding universe paradox will not be resolved quite as easily as the Mind of God paradox because it involves expanding the axiomatic basis of the scientific model of reality to the extent where we can understand why the speed of light is the upper limit of relative motion, why there have to be extra dimensions existing beyond the three dimensions of space and one of time, and why time and space, like mass and energy, must also be quantized. This is why I referred to the resolution of the mind of God paradox, by proving that infinity is incomplete, as a potential resolution, pending the analysis of the assumptions underlying the common understanding of time. In that post, I also suggested that expansion of one’s personal consciousness to encompass the understanding of new a priori assumptions about time and infinity has interesting practical applications.

Before I can finish the analysis of the concept of time and connect the dots of the logic that leads to practical applications and resolves both of these paradoxes, I need to describe the metaphysical framework of the TDVP unified monism that became clear to us (Dr. Neppe and me) as a result of the discovery of gimmel, the empirically measurable link between the realities of spiritual consciousness and infinity to the zero-point quantum field of the physical universe.

If the structures of individual consciousness (like yours and mine), the visible finite universe, and the entire cosmos, are all subsets of the logical structures of the infinite mind of God, then a consistent unified metaphysical basis for explaining all of the conscious experiences of reality emerges, in which the infinite cosmos is perceived as identical with the mind of God, and all things that exist within the expanding universe are thoughts in the mind of God, thoughts that appear to us to be finite physical objects, materialized in the 4-D domain of spacetime.

In this philosophical and metaphysical framework, the on-going expansion of the universe is evidence of the long-term purpose of existence, which can be characterized as the opportunity for the progression of conscious beings toward physical, mental, and spiritual perfection. But for finite conscious individuals, infinite perfection in three dimensions is a forever moving target. An attainable goal, however, is the actualization of finite living organisms of mass, energy, and gimmel serving as vehicles for consciousness expansion in the nine-dimensional self-referential cosmos. These entities are expanding consciously into the nine-dimensional domain of space-time-consciousness in relatively perfect physical, astral, and causal bodies.

Spiritual Implications, Yoga Siddhis, and Remote Viewing

Quantum-level phenomena exist far below the threshold of visibility for the sense organs of human beings, but they are visible to us in astral, causal, and spiritual perception by means of the latent innate abilities of consciousness in its more advanced states. These abilities are called siddhis in the Sanskrit writings that survived from the ages of higher mental and spiritual virtue before the dark ages of materialism. At this point in the current cycle of planetary time, the average individual conscious being has not reached the level of excellence in physical, mental, and spiritual development to be able to use enhanced capabilities of advanced forms of consciousness. We may, however, have momentary glimpses of quantum and/or cosmic reality when these abilities surface in OBEs or NDEs, either spontaneously, or in meditation-induced states of altered consciousness. References to these abilities can be found in all of the ancient scriptures of the world, described as spiritual gifts in English, or as siddhis (Sanskrit), ruach menachot (Hebrew), geistige gaben (German), dons spirituels (French), daruri spirituale (Romanian), etc.

It should be noted that states of consciousness expansion with enhanced perception can sometimes be accessed temporarily by the ingestion of hallucinogenic substances. But this approach is NOT recommended and should be strictly avoided by most people because without proper precautions, it can lead to uncontrollable negative states of mind with serious psychological problems, even long-term debilitating mental illness. At this point in time, individuals who have succeeded in advancing permanently by interrupting the natural progress of their spiritual evolution with drugs are extremely rare. I know of only a few, and they were already significantly advanced spiritually before they used mind-altering hallucinogens.

On the negative side, I have personal experience with at least a dozen cases of serious psychological disorders resulting from the use of hallucinogenic substances. I was able to study two of them in some detail, and in those cases, their spiritual progress was actually reversed. Their lives were so negatively impacted that one spent the rest of his life in a mental institution, and the other died. Very sad and tragic results underlining the dangers of drug use.

Remote viewing is another form of heightened extra-sensory perception worth mentioning because considerable scientific evidence is available documenting the practice of remote viewing, especially in applications developed for military surveillance (See e.g., the publications of Stepan Schwartz), and also for police investigation of difficult missing persons and murder cases. In addition, there is important new scientific evidence documenting remote quantal viewing coinciding quite well with some scriptural descriptions of spiritual powers or gifts. For more information on this, see the published report on the scientific analysis of the Besant-Leadbeater meditation viewing of atomic structure:

https://www.pni.org/groundbreaking/Neppe-Pokharna-Close-BESANT-IQNJ-11-3-2019-190901.pdf

There is evidence of people who were born with extra-sensory abilities, or who have developed them as side-effects of states of expanded consciousness achieved by practicing certain types of meditation techniques, surfacing now in popular books, as well as in scientific studies by pioneers in the fields of bio-psychophysics and other post-materialist sciences. See the website at: https://www.aapsglobal.com/

The Discovery of Gimmel and Verification of the TDVP Model

As explained in previous posts, gimmel, the link between physical and non-physical reality, was discovered while applying the calculus of dimensional distinctions (CoDD) and TRUE analysis within the metaphysical framework of the TDVP, in the mathematical application I call dimensional extrapolation, to determine why the proton is so stable. (TRUE is the acronym for triadic rotational units of equivalence, also called quantum equivalence units in some of our publications.)

Detailed TRUE analyses of various combinations of sub-atomic quantal energy vortices, - called elementary ‘particles’ in mainstream physics - have also yielded resolutions and explanations of more than fifty paradoxes, problems, and previously poorly explained processes in particle physics and quantum mechanics, with results matching experimental data. The details of some of these cases have been documented by Neppe and Close, peer-reviewed, and published. Thus, TDVP escapes the common criticism leveled at multi-dimensional theories like the ever-popular physicalist string theories that are internally consistent but produce no new information that can be tested against the empirical evidence of observation and experimental data. The proof of the existence of gimmel also improves the advantage of TDVP over other theories by providing the practical applications that I am discussing here for the first time.

TRUE Analysis and the Speed of Light

With many decades of training in, and practice of consciousness-expanding techniques as a Kriyaban yogi (I was initiated by Sri Daya Mata, President of Self-Realization Fellowship, and direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda on September 17, 1960), I have personally combined methods of practicing inner objectivity combined with the external objectivity of the scientific method to investigate reality at the quantum level. Because of this training and practice, it came as no surprise to me that there was an extremely high level of correlation between the results of the Besant-Leadbeater atomic clairvoyance experiments carried out in England between 1895 and 1932 and recent TDVP TRUE analytical results. (The Pearson-r correlation coefficient was 0.9996, with the probability of occurring by chance of less than one in a trillion.)

Using the yoga siddhi of making anything appear as large or small as needed, and the quantum calculus of TDVP with TRUE, to investigate the relativistic speed of light limit on acceleration, I saw how to prove the fact that, not just mass and energy, but also space and time are quantized at the quantum level of objective reality. Here is the multi-dimensional CoDD logic of the proof, reduced to contemporary mathematical notation:

The speed of electromagnetic radiation (light) is given by c = ∆s/∆t = 1, where ∆s and ∆t are quantum equivalence units of space and time, respectively. As we descend to the quantum level, we see that because the speed of light is constant with regard to any observer, regardless of relative motion, ∆s/∆t is equal to 1 at every level of measurement. This means that, as the observer perspective is reduced to magnify quantum phenomena, and the measures of ∆s and ∆t become smaller and smaller, they cannot shrink to zero, because the end result, 0/0 is not equal to 1. As any high school math student knows, it is mathematically undefined. Therefore, the smallest value ∆s and ∆t can reach, preserving the constancy of light speed, is one quantum equivalence unit, where one TRUE of space divided by one TRUE of time equals one: 1/1 = 1. Therefore, space and time cannot be infinitely divisible as most people assume, they are quantized at the quantum level, just like mass and energy.

This discussion of ancient wisdom and modern science will continue in the next post. ERC – 7/23/2022

Sri Daya Mata

THOUGHTS ON SUNDAY: OUR SONG TO SING

2022-07-17T10:42:00.002-07:00

THOUGHTS ON SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022,

THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE

TRANSCENDENTAL PHYSICS BLOGSITE

Hello and Welcome!

To those who are following my latest series of blogposts, thank you very much. I really appreciate your interest. To those for whom this may be the very first of my Transcendental Physics blogposts you’ve ever read, I welcome you and hope you will find something of interest here. This is the 584^th post, including about a dozen videos, published on this blogsite, since my wife Jacqui and I initiated the site ten years ago, in July 2012, when I was a young man of only 75 years.

I would like to invite you to consider browsing the site archives. There are many subjects related to science and spirituality addressed here. Type a word or two describing your interest in the search box and see what comes up!

Transcendental Physics is exactly what the title implies: Science transcending materialism; and TDVP is an expanded model of reality that explains the physical universe as simply part of the much greater cosmic reality which includes all of the phenomena of life, mind, spirit, and consciousness. If you don’t find your topic of interest addressed here, please submit a question and I will answer it if I can. Of course, I don’t pretend to know everything, but I have been described as a polymath by several authorities on the subject of creative intelligence and I have received achievement awards from government and academic organizations across the US and several other countries. You can also find me in YouTube videos of interviews on New Thinking Allowed, with Jeffrey Mishlove, radio interviews on Coast to Coast with George Noory, interviews with Shirley MacLaine, Joyce Riley on the Power Hour, and others.

In this series of blogposts, I have been explaining, in considerable detail, the metaphysical basis and mathematical logic behind the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP), a comprehensive model of reality that Dr. Vernon Neppe and I have developed over the past twelve years. The TDVP is an evolving model of the reality we experience as living, breathing human beings. From my point of view, TDVP is a result of the natural evolution of Transcendental Physics, which I introduced in Part V, Summary and Conclusion, of Infinite Continuity, a book I wrote between 1986 and 1989. Transcendental Physics is specifically defined on pages 178,179, and189.

This science transcending materialism began by including consciousness as a fundamental part of reality and TDVP concludes by proving that a Primary form of Consciousness of which human intelligence is a faint reflection, actually exists. TDVP is more than a theory, it is a song about reality, a song that Dr. Neppe and I are here to sing, and Jacqui is is always part of the choir!. It is a song reuniting science and spirituality, a paradigm filled with reverence and awe for the amazing Infinite Intelligence that exists behind everything. You are invited to join in. Your comments and questions are welcomed.

ERC- 7/17/2022

TIME IS NOT WHAT WE THINK IT IS

2022-07-16T10:13:00.007-07:00

ERC 2010

TIME, THE STUBBORNLY PERSISTENT ILLUSION

AFFLICTING CONSCIOUS BEINGS

Introduction

These posts reflect the results of my on-going efforts, for about 70 years now, to understand the true nature of reality. These efforts were prompted by an experience I had at the age of fifteen, an experience that set me on a path of science, education, and self-study. After many years, when Dr. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, and I first met in person in this life, in Amsterdam in 2010, we were both professionals who had been successful in different fields of science for many years. We discovered that we had reached similar conclusions about the nature of reality, despite the differences in our cultural and educational backgrounds, so we joined forces to combine and advance our work, and together we developed the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP), a model of reality based on our independent research and the work of several notable scientists of the past, including Albert Einstein and Max Planck, who were instrumental in the last major paradigm shift, a shift in the understanding of the nature of matter, space, and time that prepared the way for a more comprehensive shift to the science of the future which will include the reality of consciousness and Spirit.

Together, we have made an astounding number of discoveries, but by far the most important finding of TDVP was the discovery of gimmel, the third form of volumetric reality which proved to be the organizing non-physical component of atomic structure without which there simply would be no physical universe.

We discovered gimmel while applying the quantum calculus I had developed using normalized data for the electron and quarks from the Large Hadron Collider to define natural quantum equivalence units. When the quantum calculus I developed in 1986, called the calculus of dimensional distinctions (CoDD) was used to analyze the structure of the most stable known physical object in the universe, the proton, the non-physical component of objective reality was discovered.

In this series of posts, I am identifying the assumptions that need to be more accurately defined in order to expand the logical system of scientific analysis to include the non-physical aspects of phenomena experienced by conscious beings, and, last but not least, to resolve the “Mind of God” paradox revealed in the last post. This paradox arises from the proof that infinity is necessarily incomplete. In the last post, I explained that the Mind of God paradox results from certain erroneous assumptions about infinity and time. The assumptions associated with the concept of infinity were explored using set theory, and in this post, I will focus on the assumptions associated with the concept of time.

The Cultural Aversion to Mathematical Logic, A Brief Lament

Before getting into the details of the assumptions underlying our illusions about time, as revealed by the logic of relativity, quantum physics, and the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP), please permit me the luxury of briefly calling your attention to the recent historical trend toward a pandemic of public disinterest in mathematical logic. I find this cultural aversion, which is especially prevalent in the United States of America, regrettable, and lamentable because it has the potential of completely destroying Western Civilization by devaluing the critical thinking skills that were preserved from times of higher mental and spiritual virtue in the distant past by a handful of philosophers of natural science.

We live in an era of explosive mass media sound bites that have short-circuited critical thinking to the extent that the mere mention of the word ‘mathematics’ or ‘logic’ causes the average American to quickly turn away and look for an easily accessible shiny object promising immediate gratification. During my lifetime, (I started public school in St. Louis Missouri in 1940) I have seen the attitude of American public education change from one of honoring intellectual achievement to one of promoting dull mediocrity. As a result, mathematics has become confused with the simple repetitive operations that computers can be programmed to do, and the elegance of pure reason is in danger of being lost to the average person, allowing self-serving individuals in our government and educational institutions to promote a false intellectual elitism that does nothing but divide the citizens of our county and promote class warfare.

OK. Now I will get off my soapbox. But I hope that this brief rant will encourage readers to pause and think about some basic concepts of mathematical logic as they apply to consciousness and the conceptual models of reality that we are discussing. Here are some thoughts along that line:

· Scientific paradigms are systems of logic designed to model reality, the ultimate system of mathematical logic.

· No model of reality is a theory of everything unless it includes consciousness because consciousness is a major part of reality.

· The system of mathematical logic underlying reality has the same mathematical structure as the logic of consciousness.

· Only a conscious mind can create a logical model of the way consciousness experiences reality because only consciousness can experience itself as part of reality. Therefore, the reality that we experience is a product of a conscious mind.

Time is a very subtle part of the consciousness we experience directly, so let’s have a look at what Einstein actually said about time:

“We (physicists) know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”

“When you think about it, time is an arbitrary construct”

“Time and space are modes by which we think

and not conditions in which we live”

“Time and space are not conditions of existence,

spacetime is a model for thinking”

– Albert Einstein

Relativity, Quantum Physics, and Assumptions about Space-time

Albert Einstein spoke about time on many occasions, and his quotes seem to bounce back and forth in one’s mind like the endless reflections of a rainbow around a bright light in a house of mirrors. They reflect the illusions of both time and space because together, as spacetime, they form the 4-D conceptual domain known as Minkowski space. They also allow us to have a peek at Einstein’s state of mind when the quotes were uttered or written. By the end of his life, Albert Einstein had begun to recognize the foreshadowing of the next great paradigm shift away from simple materialism, looming as the result of the acceptance of the counter-intuitive discoveries of quantum physics and relativity, but he would not abandon the convictions of a deterministic physicist. His clinging to a physicalist mind set is revealed in statements like:

“The physicist seeks to reduce colors & tones to vibrations, …thought and pain to nerve processes, in such a way that the psychical element as such is eliminated from the causal nexus of existence, and thus nowhere occurs [in the physicist’s model of reality] as an independent link in the causal associations. It is no doubt this attitude, which considers the comprehension of all relations by the exclusive use of only ‘space-like’ [and by extension, ‘time-like’] concepts as being possible in principle, [to represent] what is at the present time, understood by the term ‘materialism’ since ‘matter’ has lost its role as a fundamental concept.”

A mind like Einstein’s, much like science itself, evolves over time, and, I know that, like many other thinkers and writers, I tend to pick the quotes, as much as possible, that coincide with what I believe – and/or know. I also believe that the last insight he had about this subject and took the trouble to write down and publish, is likely to be the best one. In the 5^th and final appendix to the 15^th and last edition of his classic book; Relativity the Special and the General Theory, a Clear Explanation that Anyone Can Understand, on June 9^th, 1952, less than three years before he passed on to the other side of the one-way mirror of consciousness, he wrote:

“It is characteristic of Newtonian physics that it has to ascribe independent and real existence to space and time as well as to matter, for in Newton’s law of motion the idea of acceleration appears. But in this theory, acceleration can only denote ‘acceleration with respect to space.’ Newton’s space must thus be thought of as ‘at rest’, or at least as ‘unaccelerated’, in order that one can consider the acceleration, which appears in the law of motion, as being a magnitude with any meaning. Much the same holds with time, which of course likewise enters into the concept of acceleration.”

I recommend reading Appendix V, the final addition to Einstein’s “clear explanation that anyone can understand” in its entirety for yourself, if possible, because it gives you, in Albert Einstein’s own words (translated from the original German, the native language in which his thoughts were formed), about as clear a picture as you will find of his thoughts about some of the most important concepts behind the theory of relativity. In that appendix, titled “Relativity and the Problem of Space”, Einstein articulates the reasoning that leads to a very important view of space and time that I want to emphasize and elaborate in the context of the analysis we initiated in the last post.

In this last footnote to his explanation of relativity, he concludes that, unlike objects with measurable amounts of mass and energy, space and time cannot “claim any independent existence of their own”. This is a very important factor in determining how we can proceed to complete our analysis in the effort to resolve the mind of God paradox because it means that the assumptions underlying the notions of time and space, key elements in the concepts of acceleration, relative motion, and sequential events, cannot be represented as sets, or elements of sets of existing objects in the same way the assumptions about infinity were in the last post. We must, therefore, find a different way to analyze the assumptions that have created the current wide-spread persistent illusion of time.

In addition to the quotes above, a few more quotes may help to clarify the logic of the axiomatic assumptions that need to be corrected to resolve the mind of God paradox and provide the basis of the shift to a new, more comprehensive phenomenology that is provided by the TDVP model. (Phenomenology is the study of consciousness and the experience of reality.) Einstein made no claim to be the first to see a problem with assuming that space, and by extension, time, possess the same level of objectivity ascribed to matter and energy:

“Time and again since remotest times, philosophers have resisted such a presumption. Descartes argued somewhat along these lines: space is identical with extension, but extension is connected with bodies; thus, there is no space without bodies and hence no such thing as empty space. … The weakness of this argument lies in what follows. It is certainly true that the concept of extension owes its origin to our experiences… But from this it cannot be concluded that the concept of extension may not be justified in cases which have not themselves given rise to the formation of this concept. Such an enlargement of concepts can be justified indirectly by empirical results. The assertion that extension is confined to bodies is therefore of itself certainly unfounded. We shall see later [in this appendix], however, that the general theory of relativity confirms Descartes’ conception in a roundabout way. … The psychological origin of the concept of space, or of the necessity for it, is far from being so obvious as it may appear to be… The idea of space, however, is suggested by certain primitive experiences.”

He goes on to provide an example of the “primitive experience” in the awareness of physical objects placed in boxes. Such an experiences gives rise to the concept of space as something fundamental but does not prove that “empty space” would not still exist if neither objects, nor boxes, nor any kind of containers existed. The reader may have already realized that the boxes and objects example he describes is equivalent to a set theory conceptualization, even though Einstein does not identify it as such. In the set theory language of the last post, one would argue that, if there were no objects, and no sets of objects, finite, or infinite, then a null, or empty set would have no meaning. On the other hand, because there is no way to test this empirically, the argument does not prove conclusively that there would be no space or time without the existence of matter and energy. (This weakness also applies to the argument about infinity in the last post.)

Next, he explains how the principals of relativity, i.e., “no preferred reference frame and constant light speed”, in the special theory of relativity - which deals with uniform unaccelerated relative motion - eliminates the psychologically intuitive concepts of universal spacetime and simultaneous events, consistent with Lorentz’s work and the Michelson-Morley experiment. Then he discusses the details showing how the general theory of relativity does, indeed confirm Descartes’ logical leap to the conclusion that there is no such thing as “empty space”, and consequently no such thing as spacetime without material events. It can be summed up this way:

Physical objects are not in spacetime, but physical objects are spatially and temporally extended. In this way, the concepts of ‘empty space’ and time without events lose their meaning.

Next, I want to show how the conclusions of Planck and Einstein about the quantized and relativistic nature of matter-energy and space-time, combined with the potential resolution of the mind of God paradox from the last post, require fundamental changes in our basic intuitive assumptions about time.

Recall that Max Planck, said “There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force … We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind.” And Einstein agreed with Planck. He said it this way: “Space and time can claim no existence of their own. … What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to a point of visibility. There is no matter.”

However, input data in the form of electro-chemical impulses that the physical sense organs deliver to the brain through the neurological networks existing in our bodies for the conscious mind to process and store as mental images, lead us to assume things about processes that we can’t see because of the extremely small-scale size of quantum phenomena. We think that objective reality is made up of matter and energy interacting dynamically in space and time. The a priori assumptions that support the concept of the existence of an external objective reality are the assumptions that matter, energy, space, and time are actual existing things that make up objective reality. Einstein and Planck are telling us that this is not true.

Our assumptions seem to be verified by the fact that we can measure matter as mass, energy as force, space as volumetric dimensions, and time as duration of physical events, all of which we perceive through the senses. But this handy verification is clearly circular reasoning because our proof of the existence of physical objects depends upon the existence of physical objects, and proof of the existence of time as an objective reality, depends on the existence of mass-energy events that depend upon the existence of time!

Reality and The Role of Intuitive Assumptions

Our intuitive assumptions about infinity and time play a powerful role in the shaping of our beliefs about reality and even affect how we live our lives. Given that reality is what really exists, it should be obvious that when assumptions behind our beliefs are at odds with reality, many problems will arise because erroneous beliefs lead to mis-guided, ineffective, and possibly even destructive self-detrimental actions. In the last post and in this one, we have identified the a priori assumptions underlying beliefs about infinity and time that are held by most people, and we have seen how they are in conflict with the realities that are revealed by empirical investigation and logical analysis. The task now is to put what we have found out about infinity and time into the proper perspective related to what actually exists as objective reality, into practical application.

The universe is remarkably complex and stable, exhibiting numerous precise cyclical patterns that recur without beginning or end for as far as we can see or detect by logical extension, into the distant past and foreseeable future, despite the experimentally documented entropic decay of complex atomic, molecular, and macro structures with the passage of time. The universe appears to be expanding into an endless, perhaps even an infinite extension, toward the most distant visible objects, the enormous brightly burning stars called quasars. Because the contents of the dimensions of reality are quantized, we have been able to push our investigation, conceptually at least, down to the smallest quantum, and to trace the remarkable complexity and stability we perceive all the way down to the most stable physical object in the universe, the proton.

We found the proton to be a combination of three rapidly spinning objects called quarks, only one of which, the up quark, even begins to approach the stability of the proton. It is only gimmel, which occurs in measurable quantum equivalence units of volume, but with no mass or energy, that gives the proton additional mass and amazing stability. The fact that the total angular momentum of the three quarks is conserved and increased significantly in a mathematically predictable way in the proton, raises the question of why elementary objects like electrons and quarks are spinning relative to all observers at such high rates of rotation in the first place; an important question that no current theory other than TDVP, attempts to answer.

The answer turns out to be relatively simple, requiring nothing more complex than Newton’s Third Law of Motion: “For every force in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction”. Elementary objects at the quantum level are spinning because the force expanding the universe evokes an equal and opposite reaction, which is the sum total of the inertia created by the spinning of localized vortexes (called elementary particles) in the fabric of reality. OK, I can hear someone saying: but now you have to answer an even deeper question: Why is the universe expanding? A flippant answer might be: “Because empty space sucks!” But we’ve just been explaining that there’s no such thing as empty space! - I can imagine Niels Bohr jumping up and down, dropping his pipe, and spilling his box of matches all over the floor in excitement and anticipation of the progress we are about make!

This paradox cannot be resolved quite as easily as the Mind of God paradox because it involves expanding the axiomatic basis of the scientific model of reality to the point where we can understand why the speed of light is the upper limit of relative motion, how one can perceive the extra dimensions beyond the three of space and one of time, and why time and space, like mass and energy, must also be quantized. I also want to get into how consciousness expansion related to this new understanding of time leads to an interesting practical application. But, since this post is already somewhat long, I will stop here and continue with this train of thought in the next post.

ERC – 7/16/2022

THE MIND OF GOD PARADOX

2022-07-07T20:14:00.001-07:00

THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THE MIND OF GOD

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. … We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. … I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates (the existence of) consciousness.” - Max Planck, the First Quantum Physicist

I completely agree with these statements by Max Planck. My agreement is based on more than sixty-four years of my own on-going study and research that has convinced me that, far from reflecting outdated unscientific religious faith, as many mainstream materialists like to think, Planck’s conclusions gathered above were, as he implies, based on a clearheaded appraisal of scientific investigation based on meticulous experimental design and real data. He was not expressing a wishful fantasy or subjective opinion. He was articulating a set of valid logical conclusions and predicting the science of the future. In my opinion, the conclusions clearly articulated above were written by a genius who was far ahead of his time!

It is, however, easy to say that we, and all of the details of the reality we experience, are materialized thoughts of a higher form of intelligence that is beyond our ability as human beings to comprehend. That appears to be the basis of traditional philosophies of religion and spiritual mysticism. But if Max Planck’s scientific view of reality is correct, and everything is materialized thoughts of an omnipotent transcendental mind, then exactly how does that work? Is it possible that we may be able to understand the processes and mechanisms by which an infinite mind is thinking us into existence? If this is the case, then discovering and understanding those mechanisms and processes will be of immense importance to us as individuals, and even more vital to the future of humanity.

The Way Forward

The last statement of the last discussion, posted July 2^nd, listed the three types of potentially consistent logical systems that make up the reality we experience. They are: 1) Incomplete parts of reality that are perceived by individual conscious beings primarily through the senses, 2) Mathematical models of the logical systems of the laws that govern reality, and 3) The finite objective universe visibly expanding into infinity.

The full statement, which is consistent with Planck’s statements, also says that those three logical systems, which are by definition, subject to the conclusions of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, reflect the innate patterns of logic existing in Primary Consciousness, i.e., the mind of God. But is this merging of science with spirituality actually warranted by empirical evidence? And is there a paradox? Yes, and yes, of course there is, and we shall see that, instead of being a problem, that is a profound blessing and an opportunity to learn!

The Mind of God Paradox

If the three logical systems that form the reality we experience are incomplete, and they are reflections of the logical patterns of the mind of God, then the proof of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem implies that the mind of God is incomplete! This conflicts with the traditional religious belief systems that proclaim the absolute perfection of God. And this conclusion that the Mind of God is incomplete could even be considered as evidence that, instead of being created by a higher form of intelligence, we are, in fact, only creating the concept of a God-like potential ourselves, as we try to expand our collective consciousness by accumulating more and more factual knowledge and understanding more about the nature of reality.

Now, what we have here is what I like to call a Niels Bohr moment! Recall that Bohr said:

“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress!”

Here’s the crux of our paradox: How can a Perfect, Infinite God have an incomplete mind?

Let’s remind ourselves what the incompleteness theorem says:

In any consistent logical system, contradictions may arise that cannot be resolved using the logic of the system within which they have been stated.

Or as Einstein put it: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.”

It is very important to realize that the incompleteness theorem proved by Kurt Gödel does NOT say that there are paradoxes that can never be resolved. It simply says that there are perfectly valid questions that can be asked in any consistent logical system (modern science, for example) that cannot be answered within the system of logic in which it was articulated.

As I have pointed out before, reality is the ultimate logical system, and paradoxes arising in a consistent system of logic are evidence of either an incorrect or incomplete set of a priori (self-evident) assumptions. Paradoxes can actually be resolved by making appropriate changes in the system of logic we are using. How do we do that? We have to start by critically examining the relevant existing a priori assumptions of our system of logic. What are the a priori assumptions in this case? They are assumptions about the existence and nature of time and infinity.

So, let’s first have a look at the assumptions underlying the concept of infinity, The average person rarely thinks much about infinity, and those who do, including most mainstream scientists, assume that infinity is unattainable in the real world and therefore impossible to define, study, or further analyze. In the late 1800s, however, one mathematician in Germany disagreed with this assumption. That mathematician’s name was Georg Cantor.

Set Theory and Cantor’s Infinity of Infinities

The Russian-born German mathematician, Georg Cantor (1845 -1918), like Max Planck, was a genius 100 years before his time. He boldly investigated the concept of infinity, even though most of the mainstream scientists and mathematicians of his time considered infinity to be a concept of religious philosophy, and therefore, not at all a proper thing for a mathematician to study or even to consider as a real thing. Cantor paid a terrible price for his heresy against the mainstream establishment. After his brilliant discoveries were rejected out-of-hand by a leading member of his chosen profession, he suffered a series of nervous breakdowns and died in a psychiatric sanitorium in Halle Germany at the age of 73.

About 20 years after Cantor died, the methods that he developed to study infinities were generally accepted. Interestingly, they are the exact same methods used by Kurt Gödel to prove the incompleteness theorems. What are those methods? They are the fundamental methods of what is now known as Set Theory, a theory of mathematical logic that has proved to be very useful in many fields of scientific investigation. The concept of “a set” is so simple that it is often introduced in basic math classes as if it were a completely self-evident concept. Examples of sets are everywhere: like the set of desks in a classroom, the set of students in a class, the set of cars in a parking lot, etc. The concept of set is strongly related to the fundamental functioning of consciousness. So how does set theory handle the concept of infinity?

From a purely mathematical point of view, there are an infinite number of infinities, and every infinite set is based on one or more provable axioms or a priori (self-evident) assumptions. The idea that there could be different sizes of infinity seems counter-intuitive, but an example of a set of infinities of different sizes that can be easily visualized is the set that includes the infinite set of points on a line, the infinite set of points in a plane, and the infinite set of points in a volume of space. These form a sequential set of infinite sets where the first set is a subset of the second set, and both are contained in the third set. The number of points on a line is infinite, but since a plane contains an infinite number of lines, the infinity of points in a plane is larger than the infinity of points on a line, and the infinite set of points in a volume is even larger. While this seems intuitively obvious to me, a rigorous proof that there are infinite sets of at least one size between the size of countable sets and the size of uncountable infinite sets depends upon a famous proposition, the continuum hypothesis, being false. FYI, Cantor postulated that the continuum hypothesis is true, but failed to be able to prove it during his lifetime.

The continuum hypothesis says that there are two different sizes of infinite sets. The smaller-sized infinite sets have a one-to-one correspondence with the members of the infinite set of integers (1, 2, 3, …). Cantor called such a set a countable set, for obvious reasons, and the larger size of infinite sets is represented by the infinite set of the real numbers (the integers plus the rational numbers existing between them), which Cantor called uncountable because they could not be paired with the infinite set of integers. The importance of proving whether or not the continuity hypothesis is true, was emphasized by David Hilbert when he made it number one in his famous list of 23 important unsolved problems of mathematics, published in 1900. Only eight of the 23 problems have been resolved to date according to the consensus of professional mathematicians, and the continuum hypothesis is not among the eight that have been resolved.

There are ten basic axioms that are typically introduced by a mathematician in a formal presentations of set theory. [An axiom is defined as a statement that is either assumed as a priori (i.e., self-evident), or has been proved with rigorous logic from an a priori assumption, and is therefore accepted as true.] There are potentially an infinite number of set theory axioms because some axioms are themselves infinite sets. However, in our effort to resolve the Mind of God paradox, we only need to undertake a critical examination of the a priori assumptions of set theory that are directly related to the fundamental concept of the existence of infinite sets. Here is a set of relevant axioms and axiomatic definitions:

· The axiomatic definition of set theory: Set theory is the system of mathematical logic that deals with collections of similar objects called sets. The objects that make up the sets are called members, or elements, of the set. Pure set theory is a calculus that deals exclusively with sets, so the only sets under consideration are those whose members are also sets. The theory of the hereditarily finite sets, i.e., those finite sets whose elements are also finite sets, the elements of which are also finite, is actually formally equivalent to the calculus we call arithmetic. Since arithmetic is already well-defined and axiomatically sound, the main focus and purpose of set theory is the study of infinite sets.

· The axiom of the existence of infinity: There exists an infinite set that contains all definable sets (both finite and infinite) as elements or subsets, including the zero, or empty set.

· The axiomatic definition of countable infinities: An infinite set is countable, if and only if all of its elements can be paired with the infinite set of integers (1, 2, 3,…).

· The Axiomatic definition of uncountable infinities: An infinite set is uncountable if its elements cannot be paired with the infinite set of integers.

· The axiomatic definition of equally infinite sets: Two infinite sets are the same size, if the elements of one set can be paired one-to-one with the elements of the other set.

· The axiom of sizes of infinities: There are at least two different sizes of infinities: The size of countable infinite sets, which is equal to the size of the infinite set of integers and the size of uncountable infinite sets like the infinite set of real numbers, which contains the infinite set of integers and the rational numbers existing between them, making uncountable infinite sets necessarily much larger than countable infinite sets.

Discussion

The fact that the dynamic interactions of the existing logical systems of the three types listed in the previous post and again above, have produced the stable reality that we experience, provides us, as conscious beings, with a unique opportunity to investigate and understand the nature of reality. In the process of doing so, we came upon a striking paradox that I have called “The Mind of God paradox”.

Combinations of the three types of logical systems cannot form a physical universe stable enough to support conscious life forms, unless they conform to the same symmetric patterns of rotational volumetric extent that exists in the innate logical dimensional structure of space, time, and consciousness. The symmetry needed for the stability we experience in our natural environment is provided at the quantum level by specific numbers of triadic rotational units of equivalence (TRUE) of gimmel, the non-material third form of objective reality, discovered while applying the calculus of dimensional distinctions to analyze the stability of the combination of two up quarks and one down quark in the formation of a proton. And, of course, as we all know, each positively charged proton pairs with a negatively charged electron to form hydrogen, by far the most abundant element in the universe.

What does hydrogen have to do with set theory, the incompleteness theorem, space, time, consciousness, and the mind of God paradox? I’m glad you asked! The hydrogen atom is a finite set with three finite subsets: one electron energy shell, enclosing one proton, containing three quarks, comprised of an asymmetric number of quantal units (TRUE) of mass and energy, which is a rotational set of objects that only becomes stable in union with an appropriate number of units of gimmel. Gimmel, like the dimensions of space, time, and consciousness, has no physical existence, i.e., no mass or energy, of its own, but the existence of gimmel in the electron and quarks, expands the hydrogen atom into a symmetrical rotating structure that would be unstable without it, in which case, there would be no universe to support organic life, the vehicle of conscious minds, a finite set within the infinite set of logical systems that is the Primary form of Consciousness called the Mind of God.

Conclusion

Our study of set theory axioms related to infinity has revealed an error in the assumptions that gave rise to the Mind of God paradox. That error is the mistake of equating perfection with completeness. The exact opposite it true: The Primary form of Consciousness, i.e., the Mind of God, is infinite, but we didn’t realize that infinity is never complete. This conclusion is consistent with the truth revealed in the proof of the incompleteness theorem. Expansion of the consciousness of the finite is movement toward perfection, but perfection is a moving target, and that movement introduces the concept of time.

I mentioned that I considered the a priori assumptions about time and infinity to be relevant to the Mind of God paradox, and I chose to begin this critical examination of the relevant assumptions underlying the systems of logic we know as mathematics and science by first looking at assumptions about the existence and nature of infinity. In the next post, I plan to continue with a critical examination of our assumptions about time.

ERC – 7/7/2022

MODELING REALITY

2022-07-02T17:54:00.001-07:00

ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE

Christians are encouraged to ask God for things. In the Bible we find: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:" - Matthew 7:7.

And Jesus is quoted again in John 16:24, saying: “Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete”.

Asking and receiving

One evening about seventy years ago, inspired by the equations and powerful explanations of physical reality revealed by a man named Albert Einstein, I stood on the bank of a pond on my parents’ farm in South Central Missouri, looked up into the twilight of the gathering darkness of a warm summer evening, and spoke to the God of my ancestors – the God to whom my mother taught me to pray every night before going to sleep, the God who my father assured me heard every word and responded in the most appropriate way to every prayer. I looked up, trying to express the burning desire of my heart, and said aloud: “God, I want to know everything!”

The immediate response I received exceeded anything I could ever have imagined or can ever hope to adequately describe. I have written about this before. The first time was in my first published book: The Book of Atma, (Libra, 1977). [Used copies of the book are available on Amazon. For those who might like a new copy, I still have a few]. Memory of this experience is described on pages 48 and 49 of The Book of Atma, but you might want to read pages 43 to 49, or more, to get a better sense of the experience in a more complete context.

Seventy years have passed, during which time I have studied mathematics, science, the meaning of life, and explored the roots of consciousness. I have also explored rivers, caves, and jungles, around the world. I have worked and lived in a dozen states and half-a-dozen countries, published books, articles, and papers; but I am still trying to explain what I experienced that evening. Why? It is human nature to want closure, absolute certainty, perhaps even the ability to explain the inexplicable. But the most amazing and inexplicable thing of all is the fact that we, you, and I, in this moment, exist as conscious beings, capable of learning and growing in physical strength, mental acuity, and spiritual virtue, in a finite universe that is rapidly expanding into infinity! Why and how is this possible?.

How is it that we are conscious? And what exactly is consciousness? For me, discovering that, because it is primary, consciousness cannot fully explain itself was key to answering these profound questions. I have to say that it was the essence of the answer I received that summer evening in 1952, even though it would take me years to understand, and even more years to discover that one must learn to leave the body and be born again to embark on the path of Self-realization. I know now that the spontaneous experience of expanding consciousness I experienced that day in 1952 was not the first, or the last occurrence an out-of-body experience (OBE) for me.

I had a near-death experience (NDE), a dangerous type of OBE, in the Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau of Egypt in 2010. When my research partner, Dr. Vernon Neppe heard about it, he remarked that, while the question of the meaning of the experience was an important one, at least for me personally, the more important question might be: Why was I the only one, among all of the people who entered the pyramid that afternoon, to have such an experience? I know the answer to that question now, but it is very difficult to explain. Part of the answer is that, with a background in the study and teaching of mathematics over the course of several lifetimes, I was consciously and sub-consciously aware of the history of mathematics in human thought. In particular, I was aware that in 1931, an Austrian/American mathematician named Kurt Gödel published two proofs known as the incompleteness theorem.

Because there is some confusion about what the word “theorem” actually means, I think I should provide a precise definition of the word here, before discussing the incompleteness theorem in this context. The words theory and theorem are sometimes confused because they sound very similar, but, in fact, the meaning of the word theorem is almost the exact opposite of the meaning of the word theory. A theory is a hypothesis, something that may be true, but has not yet been proved, while a theorem is a logically precise statement that has been proved mathematically. A scientific theory, even one that is favored by many scientists, is still open to debate, challenge, and testing. On the other hand, when a quantitative hypothesis, called a conjecture, has been proved with mathematical logic, it is elevated to the status of a universal truth known as a theorem.

The Incompleteness Theorems

Rigorous mathematical proofs like Gödel’s are tedious, even for many mathematicians, especially because of the narrow specialization that is encouraged and institutionalized by the academic structure of modern universities. However, no serious attempt to understand the nature of reality can be undertaken without reference to the universal incompleteness of logical systems proved by Gödel. That’s how important the incompleteness theorem is. Fortunately, why it is so important, is not that hard to understand. Defined as everything that actually exists, reality is the pre-eminent logical system within which all consistent logical systems must exist, and the truth of Gödel’s incompleteness proof applies to all consistent logical systems, including reality itself.

In this post, I will only discuss the conclusions of incompleteness, without the lengthy details of rigorous proof. For those of you who might like to work your way through the complexities of the mathematical logic leading to the conclusions, I would like to recommend the little book (barely over 100 pages) titled Gödel’s Proof, New York University Press,1986, by Ernest Nagel and James R Newman. It was written for the “non-specialist”, in a very readable, narrative style, with historical details that put the proof into proper context and emphasize its importance to modern science and mathematics.

It is worth noting that when Harvard University awarded Gödel an honorary degree in 1952, his incompleteness theorem was cited as one of the most important advances in logic in modern times. Einstein remarked to a colleague toward the end of his life when his health was failing, that some days, he only bothered to go to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in order to talk with Kurt Gödel! In my opinion, one of the most likely reasons for this was the implication that Gödel’s proof has on the idea of a “theory of everything” (TOE), an idea made popular by Einstein’s successful combination of universal gravitational and electromagnetic forces in one consistent system of mathematical logic in the theory of relativity.

Despite the complexity of the proofs, the universal truths revealed by Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are really simple, as most profound truths are. Understanding the incompleteness of consistent logical systems leads to the conclusion that in any consistent model of reality, including the hypothetical TOE dreamed of by many theoretical physicists past and present, contradictions will arise that cannot be resolved with the logic of the system within which they are stated. Gödel’s proof dashed the hope of ever developing a complete axiomatic system of mathematical logic, something that was arguably the most important goal in the famous 23 Problems of Mathematics listed by David Hilbert, who was considered by most to be the leading mathematician of the time. The conclusion that no logically consistent system can ever be complete is consistent with the accelerating expansion of reality indicated by the red shift in the light from distant stars.

Red shift data implies that the visible 3-D universe is expanding, with the most distant objects moving away from us at velocities approaching the speed of light. The experimentally verified equations of relativity imply that the maximum relative velocity of accelerated objects in our universe is limited to speeds less than the speed of light. This means that, even if we were able to travel toward the most distant star at a velocity very near the speed of light, the edge of the visible universe will have receded even farther than the distance we will have traveled in the time taken to reach the point where the edge of the expanding universe was relative to the Earth’s location when we started the journey. Finally, the TDVP model, based on empirical data from the Large Hadron Collider, and verified with explanations of Standard Model paradoxes and puzzles, implies that reality occupies nine finite dimensions expanding into and out of the infinity of Primary Consciousness. Thus, reality is Infinite, and human consciousness, confined in a finite body, is incapable of comprehending it.

The way out of this “Catch 22” intellectual bind, has been glimpsed by many during lucid OBEs, and the infinity of Primary Consciousness has been fully experienced by spiritually advanced souls who have transcended the currently prevalent zeitgeist. But even though memories of some aspects of it may be retained by some after they return to “ordinary” finite consciousness, the experience of the Infinity of infinities of Primary Consciousness cannot be described in the finite terms of any language. Like reality itself, logical systems of conscious expression are expanding into infinity as reality evolves in ways that support the positive growth and expansion of individualized consciousness .

The Rubik’s Cube, a Simple Analog Model of Reality

An analog model is a model whose elements are analogous to the basic elements of that which is being modeled. The analogy can be in the form of miniaturized versions of the things being modeled, or in the form of finite elements that relate to each other in the same way the elements of the things being modeled relate to each other. The nine mutually orthogonal, one-sub-cube thick planes of the cube are analogous to the quantal planes of the physical, mental, and spiritual realities, and they interact, when rotated, in the same way that the dimensions of those planes of reality interact with each other in the expanding universe.

The Rubik’s cube, considered by most people to be just a toy, or, at best, an infuriatingly frustrating puzzle, is, in fact, an amazingly accurate analog model of the geometric dimensional structure of physical reality! Ernö Rubik, the Hungarian architect who built the first 3x3x3 articulate cube of wooden blocks in 1974, called it the “Magic Cube”. He used it as a geometrical model to teach mathematical set theory to students in his classes at the Budapest College of Applied Arts, where he was a professor of Architecture from 1971 to 1979.

After being rendered in plastic and featured at the Spielwarenmesse (Toy Fair) in Nuremburg Germany in 1979, the Rubik’s cube became available on the world market as a novelty in 1980. In 1981, I bought one and took it with me to Saudi Arabia, where I was employed as the environmental planner for the industrial city of Yanbu at the west end of the trans-Arabia pipeline on the Red Sea. During the Hijra month of Ramadan that year, because I was not yet eligible for vacation, I was in Yanbu with some extra time on my hands, so I spent some of it solving the cube. Fast forward 30 years, to 2011, after two more trips to the Middle East, one in 1985, and one in 2010, I discovered that the cube could be used to model the nine dimensions of the Hydrogen atom, the simplest and most abundant element in the universe, an atom comprised of the three dimensions of the electron, combined with the six dimensions of the up and down quarks in the proton! This became the inspiration for the model I used for application of the quantum calculus to describe the innate dimensional structure of objective reality, including the dimensions of space, time, and consciousness.

Reality, thoughts that make up individualized consciousness, and equations describing the laws of nature, are of course not the same things in the 3D-1t world of finite things, but they do reflect the same eternally consistent innate logical system of Primary Consciousness, which is the mind of God.

ERC- 7/2/2022

THE PURPOSE OF EXISTENCE

2022-06-26T11:48:00.001-07:00

WHAT IS THE NATURE OF REALITY

AND THE PURPOSE OF EXISTENCE?

Introduction

You might think that trying to answer the two questions posed above is a little over-ambitious for a blogpost of a few hundred words, but the nature of reality and the purpose of existence can be summed up in two sentences:

1) Reality is everything that actually exists.

2) The purpose of existence is to provide opportunities for individuals like you and me to expand our consciousness from the awareness of limited finite portions of reality to a comprehensive awareness of the entire cosmos, as it expands into infinity.

End of blogpost? No, the proof that this characterization of the nature of reality and the purpose of existence is correct lies in the pudding of the explanation of how I arrived at these conclusions in the first place.

In this post, I am using a method of presentation that I first heard described by the elderly pastor of a little country church in Southern Missouri when I was a child. When asked how he planned and delivered his Sunday sermons, he said: “Well, first I tell them what I’m fixin’ to tell them, then, I tell it to them - and after that - after I have told it to them, I explain to them what I just done told them!”

I have told you what I’m fixing to say in answer to the two questions posed in the title above. So, in the rest of this blogpost, I will tell you briefly how I arrived at those answers, and then I will repeat the answers and more, in the summary and conclusion at the end of the post.

Kappa Mu Epsilon Honorary Mathematics Fraternity

Relevant Academic Research and Writing Background

I first became a published author in this lifetime in 1955, as an undergraduate college student majoring in physics and mathematics, and a member of an on-campus creative writing club. I earned membership in Kappa Mu Epsilon, the National Honorary Mathematics Society in 1956. I taught high-school mathematics and science and worked on an MS in theoretical physics from 1962 to 1965. I co-authored several professional papers while working as a charter member of the US Department of Interior Systems Analysis Group from1967 to 1976, and I also began working on my PhD during that time.

My first non-fiction book, The Book of Atma, with unique proofs of several important mathematical theorems in the appendices, was published by a major New York publisher in 1977. While working as an environmental engineer, hydrogeologist, and Director of Business Development for major engineering firms in Saudi Arabia, parts of the Middle East, Boston, and California, from 1981 until 1987, I continued to work on my PhD and my derivation of the calculus of distinctions.

I published the basics of the calculus of distinctions with applications to physics and symbolic logic in Infinite Continuity, in 1990, and in 1997, I published Transcendental Physics, Integrating the Search for Truth, after the manuscript won first prize in the non-fiction book category in the Heartland Writer’s Guild in 1995. Over the next five years, as I founded and built Close Environmental Consultants, and EJC Enterprises, and Transcendental Physics attracted the attention of several of the leading researchers working in the application of quantum physics to consciousness studies.

From 2001 to 2005, I collaborated with Russian mathematician Vladimir Brandon of Interphysica Lab in Moscow, and contributed to the book, Elements of Mathematical Theory of Intellect, published in Moscow in 2003. In 2003, I also published Big Creek Geology, History, Folklore, and Trail Guide, followed in 2005 by Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science, and in 2007, Nature’s Mold Rx, the non-toxic Solution to Toxic Mold.

In August 2008, I qualified for membership in The International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE), and in 2009, began collaboration with Dr. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, founder of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute in Seattle Washington. Dr. Neppe and I authored Reality Begins with Consciousness in 2011, and we have published numerous papers and articles for a variety of technical journals and online magazines from that time until the present.

Over a period of less than ten years, I rose through the ranks of the ISPE to earn the title of Senior Research Fellow and was elected to Diplomate status in 2018. During that time, I was also honored as a distinguished Fellow of the Exceptional Creative Achievement Organization, and became a Lifetime member of ISI, with documented IQ in the top seven one-hundredths of one percent of the unselected adult population. I was recognized as a gifted polymath and became a member of International MENSA’s Exceptional and Profoundly Gifted Special Interest Group. Dr. Neppe and I received the highly coveted and rarely bestowed Harding Award for outstanding contributions to ISPE and human society, and in February 2013, we received the Gabino Barreda Award for excellence in science and education from the Mexican Government in Puebla Mexico.

From 2000 until 2020, I was an invited guest speaker at twenty-seven conferences in ten states, Mexico, Australia, and Romania. During that time period, I also spoke at Mensa meetings, and was interviewed on numerous radio and TV talk shows, including Coast to Coast with George Noory, (twice), The Power Hour with Joyce Riley, (numerous times), and Shirley MacLaine’s Independent Expression Radio. I have also done several YouTube discussions on New Thinking Allowed, Conversations on the Leading Edge of Knowledge and Discovery, with the brilliant host of Thinking Allowed, Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove.

My last book, Secrets of the Sacred Cube, A Cosmic Love Story, with considerable detail about modeling, and a wealth of additional information, was published in 2019, and in 2020, I was honored with the unique Immortality Science Award from the Academia Ars Morendi, in Bucharest Romania, and currently, I am International Ambassador and titular President of Ars Morendi, an honor bestowed on me by Ms. Grig Oprea, the inspirational founder of the Academia. Finally, My next book is Survival, documentation of a controlled scientific experiment proving the survival of the consciousness of my late wife, Jacquelyn Ann Hill-Close, set up by Dr, Gary Schwartz, accomplished professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery at the University of Arizona, and Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. The Survival manuscript is with a European publisher now and is expected to be released in the late Summer or Fall of this year.

Despite the amount of recognition I have received, with honors, awards, speaking engagements, participation in conferences and talk shows, and acceptance into several ultra-High-IQ societies, I still felt very honored and humbled when Dr. Schwartz, asked me to participate in the very first Summit meeting of the founding members of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (AAPS) at Canyon Ranch near Tucson Arizona in August 2017. I was invited to participate in the Summit because of my work on the TDVP post-materialist model of reality with Dr Vernon Neppe. As a result of being part that meeting, I was also asked to write a chapter in the Academy’s first published volume: Is Consciousness Primary? This important compendium of essays, on why the scientists present at the August 2017 AAPS summit think that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of reality, is available on Amazon, and more information is available on the AAPS website, which can be accessed by clicking on the link: https://www.aapsglobal.com/

My chapter in AAPS Vol. I is titled: Mathematical Unification of Mass, Energy, Space, Time, and Consciousness. An early version of AAPS Vol. I also contains an appendix that I prepared, introducing the Calculus of Distinctions, a system of quantized mathematical logic critical to the understanding of the role of consciousness in physical reality. Regrettably, my appendix was eliminated from the final edition of Vol. I because of editing constraints and the very considerable difficulties associated with the creation and importation of the unique graphic symbols needed for the proper presentation of the calculus. However, the basic reasoning proving the objective existence of gimmel, the non-material part of reality that stabilizes the atoms of the periodic table of elements, is translated into contemporary mathematics in my chapter.

I highlight this important connection with Dr. Schwartz and the AAPS because the existence of my chapter in the Academy’s first published volume is an important additional resource for anyone interested in the mathematical logic behind the paradigm shift embodied in the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) and the resulting proof of the existence of gimmel, the measurable third form of objective reality, besides mass and energy, arguably the most important scientific discovery of this century.

The Fundamentals of Conscious Existence

I have made the point in earlier posts and publications that, as conscious beings, we are all involuntary model builders. We have to be model builders, simply because we do not experience objective reality directly. The only thing we experience directly is our own consciousness, the content of which consists of memory images of past experiences and the patterns of energetic impulses currently impacting consciousness through the five senses.

The many forms of vibratory energy flooding the cosmos are filtered by the processes of perception to avoid sensory overload, and the frequencies critical to the survival of the physical vehicles of consciousness are automatically processed by involuntary neurological processes, and compared with the images of pre-existing models of reality, which are comprised of a huge number of patterns of chemically activated electrical impulses stored in the neural networks of the brain for access as mental images. They are, of course, not reality itself. They are personal models, composed of mental images of an existing dynamic reality that changes over time, and they may also be distorted to some extent by false ego-driven fantasies. Never-the-less, new informational patterns are compared with the existing patterns stored in your brain, and are accepted as real, or rejected as meaningless, depending upon whether or not they are consistent with your internal models of reality.

The fact that a stable objective reality actually exists outside of the accepted confines of your immediate physically conscious vehicle, is evidence of a real, consistent underlying logical structure that is there to be discovered by conscious beings equipped with sensing mechanisms capable of perceiving and understanding it. If that were not the case, no science would be possible. If, on the other hand, as a conscious being, you are not happy with your experience of existence, it is probable that it is your consciousness that needs to be changed, not reality. The objective reality of the physical universe is not intrinsically good or evil, it just exists, reflecting the logic of the primary form of consciousness, supportive of your existence as a living organism, but largely independent of your awareness of it.

At this stage in the evolution of the mental and spiritual virtue of human consciousness on this planet, the only thing that the average human being experiences directly is his or her own consciousness, which contains an internal model of reality composed of mental images stored in the memory of the ego, which is one’s own immediate personal sense of self, and the perceived relationship of that ego to reality. But, because the essence of a person’s individualized consciousness is an imagined self-centered reality, tacitly accepted as real, it is very difficult for us to change our internal models to make them more closely aligned with the reality that actually exists.

If you try to “re-imagine” reality in an egoistic effort to force reality to conform to your internal model, then you will be fighting an uphill battle that you will lose in the end. Objective reality reflects the logical structure of Primary Consciousness, which will prevail over the impact of individual models, even if objective reality may be affected by the combined impact of individual conscious entities at the quantum level, a theory of existence sometimes called consensus reality.

Reality is only one thing, and it is holistically perfect in the sense that it is the only truly logical system that actually exists in any present moment. But time is a very tricky illusion. As Albert Einstein noted in his last appendix to his theory of relativity, space and time have no existence of their own; they are dimensions of the extent of reality that simply do not exist without the existence of at least one quantum of objective content. And objective content is composed of mass, energy, and gimmel. Notice that I said mass. Not matter. As Max Planck declared: “there is no matter as such” and as Einstein observed, and TDVP analysis validates: mass proves to be nothing more than a measurement of the resistance of an object made up of rapidly spinning components to acceleration by an external force.

Application of the calculus of dimensional distinctions to the combination of two up quarks and one down quark to form a proton (the most stable physical object in the universe) results in the discovery that a specific number of units of non-material gimmel is necessary to make the proton, and consequently all of reality, stable. This, in turn implies that everything that exists in the physical universe consists of whole numbers of quantum triadic rotational units of equivalence (TRUE) of mass, energy, and gimmel, exhibiting measurable dimensions of space, time, and consciousness. In plain English, existence consists of finite manifestations of Primary Consciousness in the form of the unified spinning of vortices of mass, energy, and gimmel, expanding cyclically into and out of the infinity of Primary Consciousness.

Summary and Conclusion

Applications of the quantum calculus reveals the fact that reality consists of all of the logically consistent combinations of mass, energy, and consciousness that are possible, interacting in nine finite dimensions within the infinite field of Primary Consciousness. As such, physical reality is a finite reflection of the logic of Primary Consciousness, expanding continuously out of, and back into itself, making the nine dimensions of space, time, and consciousness nonlocal, non-linear and cyclic. Specific conclusions that follow from the application of the logic of the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD), using the mass and volume of the free electron as the natural basic quantum equivalence unit, to analyze quantum phenomena, include, but are not limited to the following:

· Reality is the totality of everything that exists.

· The elementary spinning objects that make up the atoms of physical reality are not particles of solid material; they are symmetrical vortices, spinning in at least three mutually orthogonal dimensions in the infinitely continuous field of Primary Consciousness, exhibiting specific quantum measures of mass-energy, spacetime, and gimmel.

· The universe provides life-supporting physical worlds on which individual conscious beings have the opportunity to learn how to expand their consciousness and advance on the path of physical, mental, and spiritual virtue, if they choose to do so.

· None of the basic measurable variables of reality, space, time, mass, energy, and gimmel have any objective independent existence of their own. They only exist as complementary elements of the objective manifestations of consciousness.

· Consciousness is not only a fundamental aspect of existence, it also is the primary essence of existence, from which everything arises, evolves, and eventually returns.

In the next post, I will introduce an objective method of modeling that I believe can help anyone understand the mystery of their own existence.

ERC – 6/26/2022

CONSCIOUSNESS AND LOVE

2022-06-19T05:56:00.001-07:00

THE SUBTLETY OF CONSCIOUSNESS - AND LOVE

Today, I feel an urge to write about the subtlety of the one and only thing that we, as conscious beings, experience directly: the wonderfully expansive and universal form of consciousness known as Love.

The Linguistic Barrier

First, I am prompted to say a few words about language: Language is a reflection of the logic of both mind and Spirit. It is also a filter that is full of cultural nuances, and it often obscures the truth one attempts to convey. Although I might write in any one of several languages, and I might prefer German for logical precision, or Romanian for subtle heart-felt nuance, I am writing in my native tongue of US English. English is at the same time, both a wonderful and a horrible language! It is wonderfully flexible in that the words, put out in order, nearly any, still understood can be. But English is actually full of words borrowed from other languages and as such, it is horrible in that it is about as linguistically confused and confusing as a human language can possibly be. The confusion is most noticeably ubiquitous in the use and misuse of the common vowel sounds, A, E, I, O, and U.

The vowels are the heart of a language. They start at the back of the throat and proceed to the lips, connected to facial expressions, picking up emotion and nuance on the way. They carry most of the real content of thought. They are connected to emotion and can be energetic, or soft and intimate, loaded with nuance and meaning, while consonants are hard sounds, separating and framing the content expressed by the vowel sounds. In older, more heart-centered languages, the vowel sounds are pure, pronounced: Ah, Eh, ee, Oh, oo. In English, we pronounce these five letters as: Aye, ee, ai, O, ee-you, but when they are used to spell words, we sometimes revert partially to the older usages, and sometimes not. We often pronounce the most common vowel, which is “E” with the original pronunciation of the letter “I”, and about 80% of the time, while speaking, we pronounce most of the vowels as “uh”!

But, to get to the heart of the expressions of human consciousness, we have to go deeper, beyond the cultural overlays of our many different contributing languages, some of which are contemporary, while others appear to have origins in the distant past, and perhaps even in other parts of the universe, when the physical expressions of mental and spiritual virtue were at a much higher level than they are now. This feature is, in fact, another reflection of the cyclic nature of three-dimensional time. Some of the most ancient languages found on Earth are more sophisticated than any of our modern languages. Hebrew, Ancient Egyptian, and Sanskrit are examples.

The Illusions of Separation

The infinite continuity of Primary Consciousness is effectively hidden from us by the extremely small-scale, finite quantization of fine-structure physical reality and the limitations of our macro-scale sense organs, that are only sensitive to very narrow bands of frequencies and amplitudes of vibrational energies. And perception by way of the physical senses is complex and very indirect, depending upon multiple energy transmission and reception processes, both outside our physical bodies and within the finely tuned neurological network leading to detailed comparisons of incoming impulses with virtual images stored in our brains.

Physical perception is focused on features of the environment that have significance for individual and group survival and reproduction, because the long-term goals of spiritual evolution cannot be attained if individual conscious beings do not survive the challenges and dangers of physical existence. The physical survival of the individual depends on a sharply localized focus at the level necessary to minimize the probability of physical harm or destruction. This focus leads to the virtual exclusion of the awareness of other, broader aspects of reality that are less critical for immediate survival, especially during the early stages of the organic growth and development of the physical vehicles of consciousness. But mere survival is not sufficient to explain the functioning of individual intelligent spiritual consciousness.

Touching the Heart

Every aspect of reality, even the most gross physical feature imaginable is imbued with the elegance of Primary Consciousness at the quantum level. As Spirit awakens in the course of the evolution of infinite consciousness in an individual, awareness of this in-dwelling glory is the origin of much beautiful music and poetry; and, when one soul sees this wonderful depth and beauty in the soul of another person, true love is born. But, love, like any other profound force of nature, must be handled with great care. Just like all of the energies flooding reality can be used for good or ill, love can be used to nourish the heart of another, or it can be used as a weapon. So, when you touch another’s heart, you must do so with the utmost care and tenderness, because when a heart is open to receive love, it is at its most vulnerable.

Just as there is a fine line between genius and insanity, there is also only a fine, gossamer film, thin as a butterfly’s wing, between love and hate. Jesus said “In my Father’s house are many mansions …” – John,14:2, and in this world of good and evil, there are also many self-constructed cells of pain and suffering. The misuse of love is the surest way to build one for yourself. So never say “I love you” unless you mean it.

To be in love, to give and receive love with all your heart, is to be fully alive at long last. Pure Love, like Pure Consciousness, is beyond the words of any language because they are one and the same. In Pure Love, the ego is gone. You cannot describe the experience of Love because the entity you have identified with and tried unsuccessfully to guard from all harm for eons, no longer exists. The body and soul have melted; the lover and the beloved have become one. Your drop of consciousness has become the Sea of Eternal Love.

ERC – 6/19/2022

n	m	Combination Equations	Meaning
1	1	(X₁)¹ = (X₂)¹ → X₁ = X₂	Sequence of Identities
2	1	(X₁)¹ + (X₂)¹ = (X₃)¹1 +1 = 2; 2 + 1 = 3; 3 + 1 = 4, …	Closure of Integers With respect to Addition
2	2	(X₁)² + (X₂)² = (X₃)²	Pythagorean Triples
2	2	(3)² + (4)² = (5)² 9 + 16 = 25	First Primitive Solution of (2,2)
2	3	(X₁)³ + (X₂)³ = (X₃)³	*No Solutions (FLT)**
3	3	(X₁)³ + (X₂)³ + (X₃)³ = (X₄)³	CoDD Quantum Addition for (3,3)
3	3	(3)³ + (4)³ + (5)³ = (6)³ 27 + 64 + 125 = 216	First Primitive Solution of (3,3)
3	3	(1)³ + (6)³ + (8)³ = (9)³ 1+ 216 + 512 = 729	Second Primitive Solution of (3,3)
3	3	(24)³ + (38)³ + (106)³ = (108)³	The Hydrogen Atom

Nth ELEMENT (N = number of electrons)	Mass TRUE Units	Gimmel In TRUE Units	Total TRUE Units	Percent Gimmel	RANK* Relevance to Life
1 Hydrogen	18	150	168	89.3	1
2 Helium	80	256	336	76.2	2
3 Lithium	142	364	506	71.9	4
4 Beryllium	182	528	710	74.4	5
5 Boron	222	656	878	74.7	4
6 Carbon	240	768	1008	76.2	1
7 Nitrogen	280	896	1176	76.2	1
8 Oxygen	320	1024	1344	76.2	1
9 Fluorine	382	1168	1550	75.4	3
10 Neon	400	1280	1680	76.2	2
11 Sodium	462	1424	1886	75.5	3
12 Magnesium	480	1536	2016	76.2	2
13 Aluminum	542	1680	2222	75.6	3
14 Silicon	560	1792	2352	76.2	3
15 Phosphorus	632	1936	2558	75.7	2
16 Sulfur	640	2048	2688	76.2	2
17 Chlorine	702	2192	2894	75.7	3
18 Argon	808	2368	3176	74.6	3
19 Potassium	782	2448	3230	75.8	2
20 Calcium	800	2560	3360	76.4	1
21 Scandium	906	2726	3632	75.1	3
22 Titanium	968	2880	3848	74.8	4
23 Vanadium	1130	3024	4154	72.7	4
24 Chromium	1148	3136	4284	73.2	4
25 Manganese	1110	3289	4390	74.7	4
26 Iron	1128	3382	4510	75.0	3
27 Cobalt	1190	2536	3726	68.1	4
28 Nickel	1196	3632	4828	75.4	4
29 Copper	1292	3808	5100	74.7	3
30 Zinc	1310	3920	5230	75.0	3
31 Gallium	1416	4096	5512	74.3	4
32 Germanium	1480	4240	5720	74.1	4
33 Arsenic	1518	4458	5976	74.6	5