God is love

Where is Heaven?

2008-09-25T16:11:00.000-07:00

I can't find it.

I looked everywhere.

I looked all over town.

I even bought a map.

Can you show me where Heaven is?

Maybe it's in outer space somewhere?

Perhaps it's orbiting some distant star?

Maybe we can just skip the whole do good deeds thing and just hop a flight to Heaven.

Maybe one day we will find out which star hell is orbiting.

If we do we can rescue people.

For a fee of course.

I think I'll start selling "Hell Insurance". Pay your monthly premium and I'll get you out of Hell.

Offer available to us residents only. Some Terms and conditions may apply. Offer not valid in all states. Isn't that why you go to church and pay tithe every month? Some restrictions may apply. Not guaranteed to work. Blah Blah Blah... NO REFUNDS!

So where is heaven?

Either it's inside of space or it's somehow outside of space.

If it's outside of space how is that logically possible?

Is space a confined area like a box?

With Heaven and Hell being outside of the box?

Is the edge of the universe perhaps made out of Cardboard?

Could we cut our way through and gain early entry into Heaven?

Now I don't think that anyone is suggesting that Heaven is located within space.

However if it's not located within space how is it logically possible.

How is it logically possible for it to exist outside of space?

Continued in PART II A new world

Notes from the Editor
My usage of heaven within this post is interchangeable with other forms of afterlife beliefs. I didn't want to use afterlife because some people could conceivable argue that perhaps the dead become ghosts and wander around invisible. I felt that Heaven simply made for a cleaner argument. In other words it's used to make a point not to promote any specific doctrines or dogmas.

Lsd burning man and god.

2008-09-24T16:30:00.000-07:00

When asked.

How was your LSD TRIP?
This is only for open minded individuals, i can spare the nasty and ignorant remarks regarding my question. I have been spiritually awakened by this most beautiful drug time and time again. Please tell me about your experiences with LSD/ACID

thank you and have a beautiful day

Burning Man

I did it at burning man. Burning Man is an annual festical based on radical self expression. Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been is like trying to explain what color to a blind man. Click here for photos of burning man. It's common for people to burn something of theirs so I threw my clothes in the fire and danced around naked. I did it because it kinda symbolic of refusing to be mainstream.
Pictures from Burning Man

So I danced threw the crowd. I wanted to go really deep so I started dancing kinda like how the indians dance around a fire. I started going to other realms and stuff. At one point I opened my eyes turned to the first person their, I felt full of brotherly love for all people I hugged the person and in that moment all of existence crashed down into a single point of light in a void. I had a revelation "this is what people refer to as god" I had a second revelation "god is love". Then the single point of light burst around me recreating the whole world. At this point I had the realization that 90% what I was taught about god as a child is garbrage. I continued dancing. When I closed my eyes I would go to the familiar psychadelic realms. I lost track of time because I was dancing around a humungous fire I grew scared that I might accidentaly fall in so I opened my eyes to look. When I opened my eyes I was in the middle of the fire dancing naked. I jumped out of their as quick as I ******* well could. Even though I wasn't burned by the fire I wasn't planning on waiting until I was. I was afraid of going into the fire again but I go deeper when I close my eyes and I wanted to go deeper so I closed my eyes again. I ended up going into the fire quite a few times. One time I almost tripped on some peice of metal from the burning man. Another time their was this lady sitting next to the fire staring into it intensly then right in front of here face I stomp on this big flaming log. So she's sitting their lost in thought then boom this foot steps on the red hot log in front of you sending sparks flying every where. She looks up and its some naked hippie and he smiles and dances off into the fire. Her eyes almost popped out of her head. At some point I also stepped through someones stomach. I felt everything that was happening in his stomach. Poor guy probably doesn't even know what hit him.

The three big things I learnt from this experience are.

1. Their is a god.

2. That god is loving (I reject the notion of hell)

3. The world as we know it is an illusion.

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein

Does the moon exist only when someone is looking at it?

Excerpts taken From Ray Bradley Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University.

Recently, one of Einstein's young friends, Abraham Pais, reported that round about 1950 Einstein had asked him if he really believed that the moon existed only if he looked at it.

Einstein himself had no doubts as to the answer. In his view the commonsense belief is correct. The moon does exist in objective reality whether or not anyone is observing it.

So why did he ask the question?

He did so because he had long disagreed with a lot of the most important and influential physicists of his time, about the interpretation of that area of physics known as quantum physics that deals with the behaviour of objects in the microphysical, subatomic, world. Many of these physicists were committed to an interpretation from which it follows that nothing - the moon included - exists unless it is being observed. Einstein wanted to know whether Pais was on his side or theirs.

Realism versus Antirealism

Einstein himself was a realist. He believed that there is a real world that exists independently of the human mind.

Many quantum physicists were, and still are, antirealists. Many believed, and many still believe, that there is no such thing as an objective reality.

Following, often unknowingly, in the footsteps of certain influential "Idealist" philosophers like the eighteenth century philosopher, Bishop Berkeley, antirealists hold that what we call "reality" is merely a mental construct and hence that things like the moon exist only in so far as human beings are observing them.

Among these idealist-minded physicists were some of the greatest physicists of the 20th century. Two of them - Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg - had contributed, along with Max Planck and Einstein himself, to establishing the foundations of quantum physics

Einstein agreed with Bohr and Heisenberg about the experimental data that had been obtained when they had tried to carry out simultaneous measurements of the position and momentum of subatomic particles like electrons. It simply couldn't be done, for reasons having to do with Planck's discovery that energy comes in multiples of little packets called "quanta".

But what was the significance of the fact that it can't be done?

The Antirealist Interpretation

Bohr and Heisenberg gave an explanation that has come to be known as the "Copenhagen Interpretation" according to which each of the following claims is true:

Antirealist claim 1:

Physical theories should restrict themselves to what can be observed or in some way measured.

In Heisenberg's words:

The hope that new experiments will lead us back to objective events in time and space is about as well-founded as the hope of discovering the end of the world in the unexplored regions of the Antarctic.

Some physicists would prefer to come back to the idea of an objective real world whose smallest parts exist objectively in the same sense as stones or trees exist independently of whether we observe them. This however is impossible.

As a later physicist, David Bohm, put it when describing the Copenhagen interpretation (with which he disagreed):

In the usual [Copenhagen] interpretation of the quantum theory, an atom has no properties at all when it is not observed. Indeed, one may say that its only mode of being is to be observed; for the notion of an atom existing with uniquely definable properties of its own even when it is not interacting with a piece of observing apparatus, is meaningless within the framework of this point of view.

Antirealist claim 2:

It is "meaningless" to talk about an object existing except when it is being measured.

Thus Heisenberg claimed:

The concept of the path of an electron between two successive measurements is meaningless.

Likewise another physicist, Percy Bridgman, put it:

Since an object never occurs naked but always in conjunction with an instrument of measurement or the means whereby we obtain knowledge of it, the concept of 'object' as something in and of itself, is an illegitimate one.

Max Born was fully aware that this claim derived from a philosophical decision to adopt a certain methodological principle for the interpretation of experimental results:

Modern physics has achieved its greatest successes by applying the methodological principle that concepts which refer to distinctions beyond possible experience have no physical meaning and ought to be eliminated.

Antirealist claim 3:

Since measurements can only be carried out by conscious human beings, and objects don't exist except when they are not being measured, objects can't exist independently of human consciousness.

This claim was made by early defenders of the Copenhagen interpretation and is still being made by a number of its current supporters.

Thus, in his 1979 Scientific American article, Bernard d'Espagnat wrote:

The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experience.

And the contemporary physicist, David Mermin, explicitly contradicted Einstein when, in 1981, he wrote:

The moon is not there when nobody looks.

If antirealism were correct, and nothing can meaningfully be said to exist unless it is observed by a conscious human being, then most of our commonsense beliefs and most of science itself - such as the sciences of cosmology (to do with the Big Bang theory of the origins of the universe) and evolutionary theory (to do with the origins of the human species) - would have to be rejected.

Double slit experiment

Quantum entanglement

the quantum realm Excerpts taken From Timothy Ferris

There's no crisis within quantum physics itself. The standard model of quantum mechanics is internally consistent, and its equations accurately predict the behavior of all natural phenomena to which they have been applied.

the universe remains as it was in the beginning, when all places were one place, all times one time, and all things the same thing.

The results were to reveal that the classical assumption is wrong-that nature is in some sense nonlocal. From this odd finding sprang considerations so astonishing as to render plausible the physicist Henry Stapp's opinion that Bell's theorem constitutes "the most profound discovery in science."

Bohr was right (nonlocal effects do occur in quantum systems) and Einstein wrong (there are no hidden variables to explain nonlocality). Nature-on the subatomic scale at least-really is nonlocal.

Fiddling with one particle really does mean that its sister particle is altered, instantly, even if it is far away

What might that mean? It might mean that the universe is interconnected in some deep and as yet only dimly perceived way, on a level where time and space don't count.

A scientific clue to this new vision may be found in the odd consideration that photons do not "experience" time.

We understand from special relativity that time slows down for space travelers as they approach the velocity of light. At light speed, the speed that photons move in a vacuum, there is no time at all. So a photon "traveling" from point A to point B does so, from its point of view, in zero time-meaning that, in some sense, the two points aren't separate!

Bohm and others have likened the implicate universe to a hologram

One makes a hologram by illuminating the subject with a beam of laser light that has been run through a beam splitter, creating two beams-a process akin to the dual-slit experiments central to thinking about quantum weirdness-and exposing a sensitized glass plate to the light reflected from the subject. The plate contains no visible image, but when illuminated by a similar pair of coordinated beams of light it produces a three-dimensional replica of the hologrammed subject that seems to hover in space. This image is intriguing in itself-there is no lower limit to its resolution except that imposed by the wavelength of the light used to make it-but of particular interest, in terms of a cosmological metaphor, is the way information is recorded on the plate: Shatter a hologram, put one of its fragments in the laser beam, and what you see is not a piece of the original image but all of it. The image is dimmer and a bit "noisier," but spatially the whole thing is there, in this and every other fragment.

What if the universe is like that?

Suppose that, as string theory implies, the universe began as a hyperdimensional bubble of space, all but four of the dimensions of which compacted to form what we today call subatomic particles. Those particles look to us like zillions of individual things, but that is merely their appearance in the four dimensions of spacetime. In hyperspace they could very well still be one thing-could, therefore, be not only connected but identical. (Wheeler to Richard Feynman: "Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass." "Why?" "Because they are all the same electron!" ) In that case, we live in a universe that presents two complementary aspects. One obeys locality and is large, old, expanding, and in some sense mechanical. The other is nonlocal, is built on forms of space and time unfamiliar to us, and is everywhere interconnected. We peer through the keyhole of quantum weirdness and see a little of this ancient, original side of the cosmos.

To assert that the universe is deeply interconnected is to echo what mystics have been saying for thousands of years.

Buddhism seeing through the illusion

While he(Heisenberg) was working on quantum theory he went to India to lecture and was a guest of Tagore. He talked a lot with Tagore about Indian philosophy. Heisenberg told me(NOT ME) that these talks had helped him a lot with his work in physics, because they showed him that all these new ideas in quantum physics were in fact not all that crazy. He realized there was, in fact, a whole culture that subscribed to very similar ideas. Heisenberg said that this was a great help for him.

Niels Bohr had a similar experience when he went to China. As a result of those influences, Bohr adopted the yin yang symbol as part of his family coat of arms when he was knighted in 1947.

Mind backwards projecting through time

intangible

Quantum basement

second law of thermo dynamics

rethinking time

Time may not exist

What does religion have to say about this?

Eastern religion.

Buddhism.

"Reality is an illusion" - Lazaris

What about western religion? Christianity, they disagree with every one right? We are all going to hell if we don't realize how right they are right?

He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." Matthew 17:20

Faith is synonymous with belief.
Synonym. A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.

"Belief creates reality" - Lazaris

"Reality is a result of expectation" - Lazaris

"If you want to know what you believe look at the world around you, that's what you believe." - Lazaris

When I went to church they never told me that Christ taught some enlightened teachings. This is what they taught me Click Here

Pictures from burning Man

2008-09-23T16:31:00.000-07:00

The holographic Paradigm

2008-09-02T22:57:00.000-07:00

In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations. University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. A hologram is a three- dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the light of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first and the resulting interference pattern (the area where the two laser beams commingle) is captured on film. When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object appears. The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the rose. Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole. The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts. A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes. This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something. To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm offers the following illustration. Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at its side. As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them. When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case. This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment. According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality. Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram. In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected. The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky. Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web. In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a universe in which nothing is truly separate from anything else, time and three-dimensional space, like the images of the fish on the TV monitors, would also have to be viewed as projections of this deeper order. At its deeper level reality is a sort of superhologram in which the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously. This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into the superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past. What else the superhologram contains is an open-ended question. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the superhologram is the matrix that has given birth to everything in our universe, at the very least it contains every subatomic particle that has been or will be -- every configuration of matter and energy that is possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse of "All That Is." Although Bohm concedes that we have no way of knowing what else might lie hidden in the superhologram, he does venture to say that we have no reason to assume it does not contain more. Or as he puts it, perhaps the superholographic level of reality is a "mere stage" beyond which lies "an infinity of further development". Bohm is not the only researcher who has found evidence that the universe is a hologram. Working independently in the field of brain research, Standford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become persuaded of the holographic nature of reality. Pribram was drawn to the holographic model by the puzzle of how and where memories are stored in the brain. For decades numerous studies have shown that rather than being confined to a specific location, memories are dispersed throughout the brain. In a series of landmark experiments in the 1920s, brain scientist Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat's brain he removed he was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it had learned prior to surgery. The only problem was that no one was able to come up with a mechanism that might explain this curious "whole in every part" nature of memory storage. Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the concept of holography and realized he had found the explanation brain scientists had been looking for. Pribram believes memories are encoded not in neurons, or small groupings of neurons, but in patterns of nerve impulses that crisscross the entire brain in the same way that patterns of laser light interference crisscross the entire area of a piece of film containing a holographic image. In other words, Pribram believes the brain is itself a hologram. Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain can store so many memories in so little space. It has been estimated that the human brain has the capacity to memorize something on the order of 10 billion bits of information during the average human lifetime (or roughly the same amount of information contained in five sets of the Encyclopaedia Britannica). Similarly, it has been discovered that in addition to their other capabilities, holograms possess an astounding capacity for information storage--simply by changing the angle at which the two lasers strike a piece of photographic film, it is possible to record many different images on the same surface. It has been demonstrated that one cubic centimeter of film can hold as many as 10 billion bits of information. Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve whatever information we need from the enormous store of our memories becomes more understandable if the brain functions according to holographic principles. If a friend asks you to tell him what comes to mind when he says the word "zebra", you do not have to clumsily sort back through some gigantic and cerebral alphabetic file to arrive at an answer. Instead, associations like "striped", "horselike", and "animal native to Africa" all pop into your head instantly. Indeed, one of the most amazing things about the human thinking process is that every piece of information seems instantly cross- correlated with every other piece of information--another feature intrinsic to the hologram. Because every portion of a hologram is infinitely interconnected with ever other portion, it is perhaps nature's supreme example of a cross-correlated system. The storage of memory is not the only neurophysiological puzzle that becomes more tractable in light of Pribram's holographic model of the brain. Another is how the brain is able to translate the avalanche of frequencies it receives via the senses (light frequencies, sound frequencies, and so on) into the concrete world of our perceptions. Encoding and decoding frequencies is precisely what a hologram does best. Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a translating device able to convert an apparently meaningless blur of frequencies into a coherent image, Pribram believes the brain also comprises a lens and uses holographic principles to mathematically convert the frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our perceptions. An impressive body of evidence suggests that the brain uses holographic principles to perform its operations. Pribram's theory, in fact, has gained increasing support among neurophysiologists. Argentinian-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli recently extended the holographic model into the world of acoustic phenomena. Puzzled by the fact that humans can locate the source of sounds without moving their heads, even if they only possess hearing in one ear, Zucarelli discovered that holographic principles can explain this ability. Zucarelli has also developed the technology of holophonic sound, a recording technique able to reproduce acoustic situations with an almost uncanny realism. Pribram's belief that our brains mathematically construct "hard" reality by relying on input from a frequency domain has also received a good deal of experimental support. It has been found that each of our senses is sensitive to a much broader range of frequencies than was previously suspected. Researchers have discovered, for instance, that our visual systems are sensitive to sound frequencies, that our sense of smell is in part dependent on what are now called "cosmic frequencies", and that even the cells in our bodies are sensitive to a broad range of frequencies. Such findings suggest that it is only in the holographic domain of consciousness that such frequencies are sorted out and divided up into conventional perceptions. But the most mind-boggling aspect of Pribram's holographic model of the brain is what happens when it is put together with Bohm's theory. For if the concreteness of the world is but a secondary reality and what is "there" is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically transforms them into sensory perceptions, what becomes of objective reality? Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of the East have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think we are physical beings moving through a physical world, this too is an illusion. We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the superhologram. This striking new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's views, has come to be called the holographic paradigm, and although many scientists have greeted it with skepticism, it has galvanized others. A small but growing group of researchers believe it may be the most accurate model of reality science has arrived at thus far. More than that, some believe it may solve some mysteries that have never before been explainable by science and even establish the paranormal as a part of nature. Numerous researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, have noted that many para-psychological phenomena become much more understandable in terms of the holographic paradigm. In a universe in which individual brains are actually indivisible portions of the greater hologram and everything is infinitely interconnected, telepathy may merely be the accessing of the holographic level. It is obviously much easier to understand how information can travel from the mind of individual 'A' to that of individual 'B' at a far distance point and helps to understand a number of unsolved puzzles in psychology. In particular, Grof feels the holographic paradigm offers a model for understanding many of the baffling phenomena experienced by individuals during altered states of consciousness. In the 1950s, while conducting research into the beliefs of LSD as a psychotherapeutic tool, Grof had one female patient who suddenly became convinced she had assumed the identity of a female of a species of prehistoric reptile. During the course of her hallucination, she not only gave a richly detailed description of what it felt like to be encapsuled in such a form, but noted that the portion of the male of the species's anatomy was a patch of colored scales on the side of its head. What was startling to Grof was that although the woman had no prior knowledge about such things, a conversation with a zoologist later confirmed that in certain species of reptiles colored areas on the head do indeed play an important role as triggers of sexual arousal. The woman's experience was not unique. During the course of his research, Grof encountered examples of patients regressing and identifying with virtually every species on the evolutionary tree (research findings which helped influence the man-into-ape scene in the movie Altered States). Moreover, he found that such experiences frequently contained obscure zoological details which turned out to be accurate. Regressions into the animal kingdom were not the only puzzling psychological phenomena Grof encountered. He also had patients who appeared to tap into some sort of collective or racial unconscious. Individuals with little or no education suddenly gave detailed descriptions of Zoroastrian funerary practices and scenes from Hindu mythology. In other categories of experience, individuals gave persuasive accounts of out-of-body journeys, of precognitive glimpses of the future, of regressions into apparent past-life incarnations. In later research, Grof found the same range of phenomena manifested in therapy sessions which did not involve the use of drugs. Because the common element in such experiences appeared to be the transcending of an individual's consciousness beyond the usual boundaries of ego and/or limitations of space and time, Grof called such manifestations "transpersonal experiences", and in the late '60s he helped found a branch of psychology called "transpersonal psychology" devoted entirely to their study. Although Grof's newly founded Association of Transpersonal Psychology garnered a rapidly growing group of like-minded professionals and has become a respected branch of psychology, for years neither Grof or any of his colleagues were able to offer a mechanism for explaining the bizarre psychological phenomena they were witnessing. But that has changed with the advent of the holographic paradigm. As Grof recently noted, if the mind is actually part of a continuum, a labyrinth that is connected not only to every other mind that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and region in the vastness of space and time itself, the fact that it is able to occasionally make forays into the labyrinth and have transpersonal experiences no longer seems so strange. The holographic paradigm also has implications for so-called hard sciences like biology. Keith Floyd, a psychologist at Virginia Intermont College, has pointed out that if the concreteness of reality is but a holographic illusion, it would no longer be true to say the brain produces consciousness. Rather, it is consciousness that creates the appearance of the brain -- as well as the body and everything else around us we interpret as physical. Such a turnabout in the way we view biological structures has caused researchers to point out that medicine and our understanding of the healing process could also be transformed by the holographic paradigm. If the apparent physical structure of the body is but a holographic projection of consciousness, it becomes clear that each of us is much more responsible for our health than current medical wisdom allows. What we now view as miraculous remissions of disease may actually be due to changes in consciousness which in turn effect changes in the hologram of the body. Similarly, controversial new healing techniques such as visualization may work so well because, in the holographic domain of thought, images are ultimately as real as "reality". Even visions and experiences involving "non-ordinary" reality become explainable under the holographic paradigm. In his book "Gifts of Unknown Things," biologist Lyall Watson describes his encounter with an Indonesian shaman woman who, by performing a ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees instantly vanish into thin air. Watson relates that as he and another astonished onlooker continued to watch the woman, she caused the trees to reappear, then "click" off again and on again several times in succession. Although current scientific understanding is incapable of explaining such events, experiences like this become more tenable if "hard" reality is only a holographic projection. Perhaps we agree on what is "there" or "not there" because what we call consensus reality is formulated and ratified at the level of the human unconscious at which all minds are infinitely interconnected. If this is true, it is the most profound implication of the holographic paradigm of all, for it means that experiences such as Watson's are not commonplace only because we have not programmed our minds with the beliefs that would make them so. In a holographic universe there are no limits to the extent to which we can alter the fabric of reality. What we perceive as reality is only a canvas waiting for us to draw upon it any picture we want. Anything is possible, from bending spoons with the power of the mind to the phantasmagoric events experienced by Castaneda during his encounters with the Yaqui brujo don Juan, for magic is our birthright, no more or less miraculous than our ability to compute the reality we want when we are in our dreams. Indeed, even our most fundamental notions about reality become suspect, for in a holographic universe, as Pribram has pointed out, even random events would have to be seen as based on holographic principles and therefore determined. Synchronicities or meaningful coincidences suddenly makes sense, and everything in reality would have to be seen as a metaphor, for even the most haphazard events would express some underlying symmetry. Whether Bohm and Pribram's holographic paradigm becomes accepted in science or dies an ignoble death remains to be seen, but it is safe to say that it has already had an influence on the thinking of many scientists. And even if it is found that the holographic model does not provide the best explanation for the instantaneous communications that seem to be passing back and forth between subatomic particles, at the very least, as noted by Basil Hiley, a physicist at Birbeck College in London, Aspect's findings "indicate that we must be prepared to consider radically new views of reality".

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otseng

2008-08-25T14:35:00.000-07:00

Muse unintended

2008-08-13T21:37:00.000-07:00

Is their any evidence to prove god will torture men in hell?

2008-07-13T16:25:00.000-07:00

Can you present any concrete evidence that god is going to torture people for eternity?

Even the most evil men who have ever existed have never tortured even one person for eternity.

Even the most cruel judge has never sentenced even one person to eternal suffering.

To say that god would do such implies that god is more evil and more cruel than the most cruel and most evil person who has ever lived.

That's a pretty serious accusation to level against god without evidence.

Do you have any concrete evidence to back up such a statement.

When I say concrete evidence I don't include the bible because the bible was written by men and as you are aware men are capable of misinterpretations, misrepresentation and misunderstandings. The bible was written by men then Rewritten by men and rewritten and rewritten and rewritten and rewritten.

When I say concrete evidence I mean. Has god himself ever descended from heaven in person to tell you that such is true?

Or are you like the blind following the blind?

Talking Meat

2008-06-08T16:38:00.000-07:00

Cold DEAD Mass

and the chemical reactions it produces can explain
everything.

You are a peice of meat. Thats all you'll ever be.

You are a flesh and blood robot.

You are a genetic robot.

You are a Meat Puppet.

You are borg.

Carrying out your genetic programs.

Your like the latest fashion.

You are like a Spreading Disease.

Kinda like a planetary hereditary DISEASE.

Destroying your host with your toxic waste by-products.

Rest assured.

YOU are INCAPABLE of love.

YOU are INCAPABLE of caring.

Real love and real caring are not possible for a robot.

Your caring is nothing more than a chemical phenomena occuring within your meat. It's sole purpose is to enhance genetic survival rates.

You can NOT love. Love is impossible for you.

You don't really love.

And... NO ONE LOVES YOU.

NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOU EITHER.

Who's pulling your strings?

It's your DNA.

Do you think your thoughts are yours?

Your DNA made the meat you use to think.

It also makes the chemicals that react within your meat to create what you know as thinking and feeling.

Your emotions are nothing more than the chemical strings your DNA uses to control you.

You don't love your kids either.

In fact the ONLY reason you don't EAT your own kids and some animals do... and you are just an animal.

Is because you have inherited the programming not to.

All you hopes, dreams and aspirations can be summed up in three words.

"PEICE OF MEAT"

Cause that's what you are.

TALKING MEAT!
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Hail Dehumanization

Hail Racial Supremacy

Hail Survival of the Fitest

Hail Nihilism (from the Latin nihil, nothing) is a philosophical position which argues that existence is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.

Atheism vs christianity

2008-04-25T09:49:00.000-07:00

One lie or the other.
You can have your lies.
I'm seeking the truth.
So what's the truth?
You want to know?
I don't know the truth.
I don't know how life came to be.
I don't know how life is possible.
I don't know where consciousness comes from.
Neither do you.
Neither does science or religion.
None of us know.
I'm not a christian because it's a big lie.
I'm not an atheist because it's a big lie to.
If all I have is 2 lies to choose from I'll choose neither and admit I don't know it all.

Praise God!

2008-04-24T16:29:00.000-07:00

When you are in church, singing praises to god.

Do you ever imagine the torment that Your Fellow Man is enduring at the hands of the god you so energeticaly praise?

How is this an example of the botherly love that christ taught for all men?

Human sacrifice

2008-04-14T23:09:00.000-07:00

Human sacrifice in America it’s more common than you think. Even in the world of today. We all know that the ritual of human sacrifice was practiced in ancient times by such ancient cultures as the Incans, Mayans, Aztecs and even the Jewish tradition contains human and animal sacrifice in the old testament of the bible. So sacrifices were common among some ancient civilizations but what about modern culture.

Surely no one would consider such a bloody barbaric method of appeasing god in modern times. Surely no modern man or woman would take part in such an evil ritual. Surely the only ones who would commit such an atrocity are evil satanic cults. The truth is that rituals of human sacrifice aren’t monopolized by satanic cults. In fact millions and millions of people in America alone will fanatically attest to the power of human sacrifice to appease god and gain favor in the eyes of god. That’s right modern civilized ordinary folks involved in religions based on human sacrifice.

Now what is the reason for human sacrifice? Why would any one want to engage in such barbaric rituals? A common reason to adhere to the ritual of human sacrifice is based upon the belief that favor will be gained in the eyes of god for such a sacrifice or that sins will be forgiven. Often the reason for human sacrifice rituals is to be rewarded in the after life or to get a more favorable afterlife. Now the more valuable the sacrifice the more sin is forgiven or the more favor gained in the eyes of god. So a goat is more valuable than a chicken, a cow is more valuable than a goat and a human is more valuable than any animal as a sacrifice.

Is their any evidence to prove that these rituals actually influence the will of god? I don’t have any evidence that human sacrifice has any impact on the will of god but people involved in these cult religions are fanatic in their insistence on the power of human sacrifice to purge themselves of sin.

How much of the general public is engaged in religions that adhere to the principals of ritualistic human or animal sacrifice? What modern religions still conduct these rituals? Other than Satanism I know of at least one Major religion with millions of devout followers around the world. That believes in the power of human sacrifice. They even have ritualized the cannibalism of their human sacrifice. Regularly performing mock cannibalism ceremony’s in their churches. This isn’t some demonized satanic cult either. It is a mainstream accepted glorified common household religion with millions of fanatical supporters. With priests and churches in almost every town all across the county and the world. You may even practice it.

Has anyone ever died for your sins?

Proper use of English: F@CK!

2007-11-09T07:44:00.000-08:00

An hilariously funny video that teaches you how to effectively use one of the most versatile words in the English language.

Religion vs spirituality

2007-10-29T20:03:00.000-07:00

the difference between Religion and Spirituality?

Spirituality is like the love of god and religion is the love of DOGma. DOGma is a real dog compared to god.

What is love?

2007-10-29T16:43:00.000-07:00

Christ says god loves you god loves all men equaly. So what does that mean? Really what does it mean? What is love? Lets define love. Now to some people love is sex. You love some one you have sex with them. So based on this definition of love god loves you = God wants to have s.ex with you. HEHEHE. God loves all men equaly means that heaven is a great big o.rgy. So this is obviously a silly example. Other people hold it that god loves you but... if you don't earn his love he will torture you for eternity. So god loves you = well actualy god doesn't love.
So this is my definition of love. Love has 7 components, 7 the perfect number. They are: Accepting, Understanding, Respecting, Caring, Admiring, Giving and (can't remember the last one). So this means that god accepts you (god sees you as okay). God accepts you, EVEN when you don't accept yourself. God accepts you, EVEN when NOBODY else accepts you. And god accepts others. God accepts others EVEN when YOU don't accept them. God accepts others EVEN when THEY don't accept themselves and God even accepts them EVEN when NO ONE ELSE accepts them. So this means that god understands you. God understands you he understands why you do the things you do, EVEN when you don't understand yourself. God understands you, EVEN when NOBODY understands you. And god understands others. God understands others EVEN when YOU don't understand them. God even understands others EVEN when THEY don't understand themselves and God even understands them EVEN when NO ONE ELSE understands them. God isn't up their condeming us because he understands us. WE are condeming us. We are condeming us because we don't understand. We are condeming us because we don't have gods love and understanding. God doesn't see us as bad and wrong WE see us as bad and wrong.
(So this means that god respects you(god sees your value). God respects you, EVEN when you don't respect yourself. God respects you, EVEN when NOBODY respects you. And god respects others. God respects others EVEN when YOU don't respect them. God respects others EVEN when THEY don't respect themselves and God even respects them EVEN when NO ONE ELSE respects them. So this means that god cares about you. God cares about you, EVEN when you don't care about yourself. God cares about you, EVEN when NOBODY cares about you. And god cares about others. God cares about others EVEN when YOU don't care about them. God cares about others EVEN when THEY don't care about themselves and God even cares about them EVEN when NO ONE ELSE cares about them. So this means that god admires you god sees your beauty). God admires you, EVEN when you don't admire yourself. God admires you, EVEN when NOBODY admires you. And god admires others. God admires others EVEN when YOU don't admire them. God admires others EVEN when THEY don't admire themselves and God even admires them EVEN when NO ONE ELSE admires them.

How loving is god?

2007-10-27T07:56:00.000-07:00

How loving is god?

For god so loved the world that he killed all life plus or minus a couple of animals floating in a boat?

Is that how loving god is?

God is more loving than that. God is so loving that god didn't flood the earth.

For god so loved the world that he killed his only begotten son so that he who ever believeth in christian propaganda shall not perish but have ever lasting life?

Is that how loving god is?

God is more loving than that. God is so loving that god does not require human sacrifice and god does not require animal sacrifice.

For god so loved the world that he's comeing to destroy it?

Is that how loving god is?

God is more loving than that. For god so loves the world that he's NOT coming to destroy it. Don't believe the lies.

How loving is god?

Do you have to earn gods love?

God is so loving you do not need to earn gods love.

You do not need to deserve gods love.

You do not need to be good enough for gods love.

All you have to do is be willing to recieve it.

So i've read your post and gotten an Idea of how loving god is. So is this how loving god is? No god is even more loving than this. God is more loving than I can express in writing.

God is so loving it will take you an eternity to recieve the full enormity of the love that god has for YOU.

God is love
God is loving
God loves everybody and God loves YOU!

Who do you worship?

2007-10-26T01:47:00.000-07:00

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Have you ever asked yourself who you worship?

It's a good question to ask. If you have never before stood in the presence of god how do you know who you worship?

We have all heard the statement that the bible is the word of god. I think god can speak for himself. If the bible is the word of god hen you worship a book.

If Christianity is god you worship the beast. Think about it what is the beast? 666 it's man setting himself up as god. Christianity is a religion taught by men to men for men.

Every week your priest gets up on the pulpit and speaks to the congregation on behalf of god. Man speaking for god. Your priest also collects money for god in the form of a tithe. Yet god never receives any of that money. Your priest is lying to you and stealing from god.

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The bible claims to be the word of god. The bible was written by men and rewritten and rewritten and rewritten. It's the word of man setting it's self up as god. Man speaking for god.

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Your religion speaks for god. Your religion is a religion of man.

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666 mark of the beast and it's on your religion.

If the bible is the word of god you worship a lie.

If god is coming to destroy the earth you worship Satan the destroyer.

If god flooded the earth you worship Satan the deceiver.

If Jesus is god you worship man.

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God is more loving than that!

2007-10-25T01:42:00.000-07:00

What if I told you that god is more loving than the bible?
Do you have enough faith in god to accept it?
What if I told you that god is more loving than you can imagine?
Would you believe me?
What if I told you that god is more loving than you previously considered him to be?
Could you accept that?

What if I told you that god's power is measured by the majesty of his love not by his ability to kill humans in large numbers.
Are you ready to see how incredibly beautiful and loving god is?

Crimes against God.

2007-10-24T01:20:00.000-07:00

Christianity is guilty of crimes against humanity and crimes against god.

Christianity is guilty of religious persecution. This is a crime against humanity and a crime against god.

Christianity is guilty of burning people at the stake. People. This is a crime against humanity and a crime against god. All people are a part of god.

Christianity is guilty of homosexual persecution. This is a crime against humanity and a crime against god. All people are a part of god.

Dance Gypsy Dance

2007-10-22T23:33:00.000-07:00

Around the World, People Living in Harmony

2007-10-22T00:47:00.000-07:00

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The Seven Wonders of the World

2007-10-21T19:28:00.001-07:00

christianity and god

2007-10-13T20:36:00.000-07:00

My parents were don't care atheists and my aunt was hardcore christian. So she took us to church with her. My aunt did the best she could to indoctrinate us but when I grew up I was basicaly an atheist.
I am however no longer an atheist.
I have seen god.
I know what people are talking about when they talk of god (to bad they don't know what they are talking about).
I don't have faith in god. God is a fact. Their is no room for faith.
This world is an illusion.
God is more real than the floor you stand on.
I'm not a christian.
Seeing god didn't make me a christian.
In fact seeing god proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that christianity is full of shit.
The very first thing I realised upon seeing god is how full of shit christianity is.
If I could tell you one thing about god it is this.
God is loving.
I don't mean it in the traditional christian sense.
I mean it for real.
When I say god loves you it means their is no hell.
No need for human sacrifice.
No need to drink blood.
No need to be perfect.
No need to bend over backwards.
No need to jump threw hoops.
No need to swallow crap from your priests mouth.
It is out their.
It doesn't judge you.
It doesn't look down on you.
It doesn't reject you.
It doesn't see you as bad.

Heaven and Hell

2007-10-10T18:42:00.000-07:00

God made man in his image. God is pure love and so humans are loving. The most basic human nature is to be loving. All humans are inherintly loving. It is the natural state for a human. All humans who are not loving are !!IN!! an abnormal state it comes from being so damaged and hurt it comes from being in so much pain. Hell isn't something that comes when you die. It's all the pain that you are in now. Do you know what euphoria means? To most people it means really really happy. It's latin it means eu = (normal) phoria = (state of being). Euphoria is the normal state of being. If you don't feel constant euphoria you are in dysphoria which is abnormal state of being. The reason we don't feel euphoria is because we carry emotional pain around inside ourselves. This pain kills the euphoria. (How come I don't feel this pain?) Our bodys are naturaly capable of releasing pain killers. In war when someone has their arm blown off the doctors give the person morphin to numb the pain. Our body is capable of releasing a pain killer that is 45 times more powerful than morphin. If that's not enough for you. Your body is capable of releasing a painkiller that is 200 times more powerful than morphin. Suicidal people have these painkillers in them in much larger quantities than average people. When people kill themselves it's out of the pain raging inside them that they don't even feel. These painkillers BLIND us to the pain.

God doesn't need servants

2007-10-10T16:27:00.000-07:00

God didn't create you to be his servant. He didn't create you because he needed someone to clean his toilet and lick his boot. God created you out of love. God created you NOT so that you could love him but so that he could love you. You are not obligate to love god. You have the choice free will. The reason god gave you free will is so that you would have a 50% chance of loving him 50% chance. Because --> you <-- can choose not to love god -----> YOU <----- CAN CHOOSE TO LOVE GOD. The choice belongs to you. When you finaly choose to love god if you ever choose to love god it will be because ---> you <--- choose to love god. If god was threatening you with hell it would not be your choice to love god. God gave you free will. For you will to be free it has to be free of coercion. If god created you as a servant only capable of loving him you could not choice to love him that choice would not be yours it would already be made for you. The only way you can choose to love god is if you are also capable of not loving god. It's your choice you get to make it. God created you to be his equal. So that you could stand on the same level as him. God does not see you as INFERIOR god sees you as an equal. God didn't create you to lick his boot.

Space/Time Foam

2007-10-09T20:53:00.000-07:00

Infinite energy and dynamism at the finest levels of the universe! Quantum physicist John Hagelin, PhD, at the David Lynch Weekend, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa. (March 25, 2006)