Does Size Matter? Lesson 51

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Basically, we are asking ourselves is the essence of self, the mind, separate from, and using, the body. There are many arguments, which we shall explore in more detail, which support the hypothesis that this is in fact the case.

Interesting question number two.

There are, at a minimum, four propositions for the creation of the world, and life as we know it.

1. The universe always existed, and always will exist. It is eternal.

2. The universe was created in six days by the Creator, who rested on the seventh. This is a literal interpretation. The day is a 24-hour period.

3. The universe was created as in example 2 above. In addition, it all occurred several thousand years ago, as we measure time. All the fossil records, and other scientific data, which indicate that the earth and the universe are much older our human misinterpretations of the data. Fossils for example, were put there intentionally by the Creator, for some purpose we do not yet understand.

4. The universe, containing all its dimensions, including the four the we know, as well as the beginning of space and time as we perceive them, was created by the Big Bang, a massive explosion of highly compressed plasma. At the genesis of the universe, the explosion of this matter created space and time as well as all of the atoms and molecules of matter that we know today.

As you can see, there are multiple versions of the creation of the universe. Versions two and three, indeed, may be possible. However, given present human knowledge, they must be accepted on faith, and are unprovable.

Like versions two and three, version 1 and 4 are not mutually exclusive. The universe could have always existed, and at the same time gone through this cycle of explosion, matter formation, expansion, contraction, compression. In this case, the contraction is caused by gravitational attraction. Basically, the giant explosion runs out of steam and quits throwing matter outward. Like a rubber band, stretched to its limit, it starts to pull in again. Ultimately, all matter is compressed into this plasma soup, the specter of creation.

We must ask ourselves one important question at this point. Do we believe that the Creator intentionally leaves on answerable questions, mysteries. Are there supposed to be those things that we humans never understand?

Given the rate in growth of human knowledge, that proposition would seem to be rather unlikely. Many things, that we today understand, were once considered to be unknowable mysteries. The rate of growth of human knowledge has been, and will most likely continue to be, exponential.

Let’s assume for now, the versions one and/or four are accurate. This means that the universe as we know it is billions of years old. It may be the first time, or it may be that 12,000 time that the universe has gone through this process of expansion and contraction.

So this essentially leaves us with a series of questions:

1. Is the body a mechanical vessel used by the mind is a vehicle in which the mind can navigate in these four dimensions, or, is the mind an emergent property of those constantly renewing cells that we call the body?

2. Is the body and intentionally formed artifact by the mind, or, in accident of a natural process that we call evolution.

3. How did the universe, which contains our physical bodies, evolve? Was it accidental, or intentional?

4. Is the physical universe, as we know it, accidental or intentional?

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Existing in Four Dimensions. Lesson 60

Introduction

We are told that we live in a four dimensional universe. Length, width, height the three dimensions that exist in space. That which exists in those three dimensions also passes through the dimension we call time.

Time, the fourth dimension, by our perception, always marches forward. The arrow of time, as the physicists call it, always points to the future. However, as explained by noted physicist Stephen Hawking, there is nothing in physics which tells us that the arrow of time always points to the future. It may be our senses, our built-in, hardwired psyche which can only perceive the forward movement of time. In reality, in science, there is nothing to prevent time from flowing like a stream, with twists and turns and eddies which disrupt its forward flow.

But even more astonishingly, he tells us that the laws of physics, as we understand them, tell us that there must be more than four dimensions! Hawking states that for the equations of physics to work, there must be at least seven dimensions, and nothing excludes the possibility that there are many more.

These new dimensions (or at least new to us mere mortals) are not perceptible with sight, sound, taste, touch or smell – the classical human senses. These extra dimensions would require a sixth, and possibly seventh or eighth, sense to perceive.

This presents up an interesting conundrum. If the dimensions themselves cannot be perceived with our existing senses, perhaps the mechanism for perceiving them cannot easily be perceived either. the dimensions exist, perhaps there is a portion of ourselves that also exists in some or all of those dimensions. And, perhaps there is some sort of interface between our mind, brain, and the extra dimensional existence.

We may postulate that there are indeed, senses which connect to our mind and exist in those other dimensions. Perhaps they are underdeveloped, immature. Perhaps, we have allowed them to atrophy. Perhaps they are stronger in some people than others. However, it does not preclude the possibility that we do have a sense, and in existence, in those other three or more dimensions.

The newborn.

Let us, for a few moments, consider the human infant from conception to birth.

We start out with two cells, one from the father and one from the mother. The male cell literally penetrates the female cell and the two combined forming what is called a zygote. This zygote develops for a while as a bunch of undifferentiated cells. This collection of undifferentiated cells is called a blastocyst.

The blastocyst then starts to begin its transformation into a little human, the embryo. In this embryonic stage, the being is dependent upon the mother for life itself.

After about eight weeks, the embryo is recognizable as human, and becomes a fetus, where it develops from about the end of two months through the ninth month. Then the fetus is born is a human baby.

The development of the brain

What is amazing about this is that the newborn baby has almost as many neurons, or brain cells, as it will ever have. The vast majority of the brain cells are functioning at birth, with only a small percentage being created throughout the next eight years or so.

The newborn brain is a sponge soaking up information at a tremendous rate. But, let us compare the human versus the fish, or the frog, less-developed life forms. The human is helpless at birth. The fish and the frog hatch and are on their own, with no need for the parent, in most cases. They are capable, at that very early age, of getting food, recognizing danger, knowing night from day, and much more. All of this is accomplished with a comparatively tiny brain. They are pre-programmed to behave in a certain manner. They run on what we call instinct. Knowledge they are capable of learning, beyond instinctive behavior, is minimal at best.

Humans do have some instincts. They do have some automatic, or reflexive behaviors with which their preprogrammed, and which are present at birth. Some stay with us our entire lives. However, surprisingly, some of these instinctive behaviors seem to disappear if not developed.

A disappearing skill.

Many adults are afraid of the water, and cannot swim. Did you know that the human infant has no such fear?

If you take a newborn infant, just home from the hospital, filled a bathtub about halfway, and put the baby in facedown, it will instinctively hold his breath underwater, float to the surface, float on its back, and begin to breathe. It has no fear. It does not drowned. It is an instinctive behavior, regardless of the parents learned feelings towards water. Some small infants, just a couple of days of learning to be in the water, will even flip back the other way, facedown, and then flip back over just for fun! So this mental programming exists at merely hours old.

It is interesting, that if one waits too long after birth to develop this natural tendency to survive and flourish in an aquatic environment, the instinct virtually disappears. The toddler who has never been exposed to submersion and water will become afraid. The child who was exposed from birth, will not.

This points out nearly 1 of potentially many abilities, capabilities, and natural tendencies with which people are born. Many of these natural tendencies, like swimming, atrophy if not developed early in life. It is much easier, much less work, to develop an early instinct in a baby than to retrain the child on an instinctine skill that was lost shortly after birth through non-use.

Relearning lost instinctive skills.

Fortunately, as we have seen with swimming, just because an instinctive skill has been lost, or repressed, does not mean that the skill is gone forever. Some people may naturally recover these lost skills over time. Some people may, through training and coaching, reignite their ability to use those skills.

One frequently seen variation is the development of an instinctive skill when one of the normal, humans faculties has been lost. Brain damage, loss of sight or hearing, partial paralysis, and a variety of other physical limitations may bring about the presentation of one of these capabilities. This would seem to imply, while dormant, these capabilities, nonetheless, still exists within us.

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Existing in Four Dimensions.Lesson 61

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Skills, talents, and dimensions.

The human infant is born with a natural tendency, and instinctive behavior, to swim. He or she is also born with a natural instinct to role play, to imitate him play the behaviors he or she sees her in older children and adults around him. We have, in the last 10 years or so, seen a dramatic increase in what we can teach children, and what they can let. This is due more to the fact that the attitude of the children's teachers have changed, not that there has been any evolution in the human brain. One side effect of this learning, however, may be that by teaching children more, earlier, we diminish the instinctive behaviors that would normally develop during that time.

In the years before preschool, daycare, kindergarten, etc. human children may have in fact, use that time to develop skills which today's society has caused to atrophy. In our haste to develop brighter, smarter children, have we stunted some formerly instinctive behaviors that used to develop in that time? Does taking time to fill the brain with knowledge of our choosing diminish the ability of the brain, distracted if you will, from developing skills that we don't recognize that we need any more?

Extra sensory perception: ESP

There are a variety of talents which those interested, in what is commonly called, the paranormal or extra sensory perception (ESP), claime to possess, or have observed. There are potentially thousands of skills and claims. Undoubtedly, summer parlor tricks. Others, often use mysterious (to the uninitiated) technology, and as we all know, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. But out of the hundreds, and maybe thousands, of skills claimed -- those which we are to be concerned with; those which have some science behind them, amount to no more than a handful. There are six, in particular, that we shall discuss:


1. Claraudience / Clairvoyance. These abilities are the ability to hear, see, and/or no something that is happening in a distant place, with no temporal tools or technologies for gathering the information.

2. Telepathy. The ability to know what someone else is thinking, without any physical clues.

3. "Out of body experience" (OBE). The ability to use what appears to be the senses, site, hearing, touch, taste, smell, in a location which is remote from the physical body, without electronic or mechanical assistance.

4. "Past Life Regression" (PLR). The ability, usually but not always under hypnosis, to experience memories accumulated by another, now deceased, person.

In addition to these four relatively well-documented capabilities, there are also the following which may be less well scientifically explored, but merit consideration:


1. Déjà vu. There are many forms of déjà vu, including the commonly felt "I'd been here before" or "I've done this before" feeling that people occasionally get or experience. Closely related to this is the experience many military personnel feel in a combat situation -- the feeling or knowing from which direction the threat is coming, and how far away it is.

2. Precognition. Knowing or experiencing an event before it happens. It manifests itself similarly to Claraudience and Clairvoyance, however, those para-sciences are at the same time he has, or shortly after the event, whereas precognition happens before the event occurs.

We shall examine each of these capabilities in the following mini lessons.

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Clairvoyance / Clairaudience

Clairvoyance means, literally, seeing at a distance, while clairaudience means hearing at a distance. In the mainstream, the term clairvoyance is used to mean either. Generally, the experience manifests itself in the visual, audible and sometimes either other senses.

The concept of "at a distance" is what is generally meant to mean far beyond the normal human capacity for hearing and seeing. The phenomenon may manifest itself in the next city, or halfway around the world.

The clock.

In our first case study, the subject, or the person handing the experience, was tearing up old wall-to-wall carpet in the living room, when suddenly, the clock in the kitchen literally fell off the wall and made quite a racket. Instantly, when that happened, the subjects said that his uncle, over 1000 miles away had just passed away. The people with him chastised him for such negative thinking. They replaced the clock on the kitchen wall and completed tearing up the carpet and padding.

Less than an hour later, the subjects aunt called, explaining that her brother had passed away less than an hour before.

The bird.

In our second case study, the subject had just arrived at home, and was getting something to eat. A bird hit the front window of the house. Fortunately, the bird was not injured, and although dazed, got up and blow away. At that instant, the subject realized that his grandmother, about 400 miles away, had passed away.

About five minutes after the bird struck the window, the telephone rang. It was the subjects uncle. His uncle often called. There was nothing unusual in that. However, this time, he said to his uncle "grandmother just passed away. " The uncle was astonished. He hadn't yet been able to reach his sister to tell her, and was calling his nephew with the news.

Strong emotion.

Births, deaths and other traumatic personal conditions often evoke a similar reaction in people. Usually, this skill manifests itself in young children or teenagers who are less inhibited about speaking what is on their mind than our adults. Adults sometimes have the same feelings -- but are conditioned by society to ignore them.

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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor & the latest discoveries in physics r-10-120

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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard University train neuroanatomist who is currently a professor at the University of Indiana school of medicine. Jill survived her massive, left brain stroke, and lived to write about it in her book, My Stroke of Insight (New York: Penguin Group, 2006).

It is interesting to compare her own account and experience to that of  author Carlos Castaneda is an author who wrote a series of books in the late 1960s and early 1970s about his experiences with a particular Yaqui Native American named don Juen Matsu.

Taylor and Castaneda may, at first, seem to be a very strange combination to include in the same sentence. However,  if one examines the experiences their which they write about in their respective books, one is struck by the totally amazing similarity in the observations and descriptions.  Taylor's experiences were the result of a massive left brain hemorrhage, or stroke where Castaneda's experiences were intentionally, if reluctantly at first, sought out.

Here is Taylor's account of her experience



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