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The Bear and I: Sign Posts Part One

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The Bear and I: Sign Posts Pt One

“Matter at its most fundamental level cannot be divided into independently existing units or ever be fully described. Subatomic particles aren’t solid little objects like billiard balls, but vibrating and indeterminate packets of energy that could not be fully quantified or understood in themselves. Instead, they were schizophrenic, sometimes behaving like particles-a set thing confined to a small place-and sometimes like a wave-a vibrating and more diffuse thing spread out over a large region of time and space-and sometimes like both a wave and a particle at the same time. Quantum particles are also omni-present.”   The Field: Lynne McTaggart

A friend (affectionately known as the Bear) recently voiced concern about me. He was worried, he said, about my form of expression which he felt bore a schizophrenic tendency to speak through what I call ‘signs;’ ‘signs,’ he supposes, that ‘aren’t even there.’ The Bear, an intellectual cyber-nerd, blessed wholly with musical brilliance, (when he's NOT impersonating Robbie Williams, that is!) is wonderfully dynamic yet can also be fiercely protective over an ideologically established point of view. The Bear has often professed a failure in understanding me at all; it is as if I speak from a perverse language of altered meanings. I find myself momentarily feeling judged over being known, experience the loss in connection and I have been known to exhibit a rather unpleasant emotional response, marked by frustration… not good! Such moments have not endangered the friendship. The Bear has always maintained the necessary desire to understand me and my desire to shake the Bear into knowing the ways I see the world refuses to diminish. I feel I have to find the words that could uniquely trigger the necessary reflections within the Bear himself… such intensity was learnt in childhood, I’m sure. The wish to be understood once bullied my inner child yet now I sense such determination is somehow a blessing, that having dug into so many words within words, I am revealed into the magick that dwells within the spaces of narrative journeys, permitted to enter the sacred grove that grows throughout the history of all literature, irrespective of chronological order or supposed cultural identity.

The heart of the matter is knowing these moments of misunderstanding only occur when I am trying to express those infernal sparks of meaningful insights, those vital illuminations of truths essential to the vast internality that is self, the self being serendipitous in its motivational force. My quest in relation to the Bear is honourable insofar as my journey concludes only when the Bear’s quest, aiming to unite his microcosm of self to the macrocosm of the universal, begins in the process that will:

• Enrich the Bear’s personal experience by expanding visionary capabilities, the transcendental of the Logos, and,

• Open the channels to the myriad of reflections and messages that are scattered across time and space, connecting awareness to what is already connected, infinitely expressed through the HE(in)ART.

Rather, it’s found throughout all the Arts and we must also include science here, for science, although reductive and potentially restrictive in certain circles, investigates the nature of life. It is no co-incidence Shakespeare reiterated and thus tried to amplify the words nature/nuture and natural, consistently playing the listener into questioning the secular world of government and power, forces that affect the culture in such monstrous ways as to seriously jeopardise the very nature that is humanity. As Stephen Pinker says in his new book The Blank Slate, ‘today’s intellectuals deny the existence of human nature, claiming that each of us is born a blank slate upon which the environment writes.'  Obviously, such a philosophical doctrine as the ‘blank slate’ has suited the ideology of maintaining control and power over the innate of humanity, a power that had once been depressed by theological means, doctrines steeped in hierarchal injustices, focusing on ideas that make promises in another world, a world that is specially awaiting the death of the victims, sufferers and martyrs from this one. Whilst enforcing focus on such unknowability, such ideology has not only served a grave injustice upon humanity in terms of the joy of life in the here and now, but has successfully detached us from a source that can be joyously creative and inspiring and, for many, determinately divine. Keeping people depressed has always been the intent of any hierarchal leadership. Think about it; to be depressed is not particulary a self-induced mind state; most psychologists will argue their role is in the digging out of the underlying cause. It would be a hard job to prove depression as anything other than an inflicted state of being, biological reasons aside. On the whole, societies have endured having ideologies pushed down onto the consciousness that fixiates a given cultural norm. Ideas become so entrenched as to confuse what constituates human nature yet if we step back and read within the gaps, we find disturbing facts that prove mankind has been manipulated by visual devaluations of anything that would compromise true empowerment. In truth, there has been a consistent diminution of anything that sparks humanity’s incredible gifts that can heal, inspire growth by interaction, appreciate knowing how equality is the only true state that could exalt creative individuality.

My daughter asked me recently why anyone would do such a thing. For her, the idea that mankind is completely disempowered by such means makes no sense and sounds too incredible. Yet, as I said to her, we evaluate in terms of conscience, obviously an innate part of human consciousness for its presence has always been realised; from the beginning of text, conscience has been exploited as seen throughout all the major religions in the world. In other words, our goodness is to power a weakness. But what happens when we remove human conscience from the equation? As I said to my daughter, we are awakening to the horrific knowledge that these powerheads have no conscience and are driven only in terms of power. They actively work against human nature, able to do so because we have become too accustomed to the depressed state of being, too busy responding to the negatives to even question our nature as being all-good. There was a moment, not so long ago, when I was debating such political nonsenses with the Bear who took the stance at the time that I was an idealistic freedom fighter... (and let's not imagine the ideal has any potential reality in this present political state... most universities and establishments render it mere fantasy.) The Bear believed I was not typical; he suggested I was thinking from an isolated intellectual position, most people incapable of realising such self-management for the good of all. But as a parent and as someone who questions the discrepancies I experience between inner self and cultural life, I can vouch how education has followed a systematic process of 'dumbing down' societies, especially within the mainstream. I cannot equate the education I received outside of England; it was possitively challenged yet worked on the belief that the pupil had rights to concentrate his/her talents in subjects that offered his/her best potential. Like Steiner philosophies, we worked with colour/music/preformance, well all arts as much as word, classrooms often artistically reflecting the subject at hand. We were shown the history of literature as a process that questions mankind's meaning in life; we acted the world as written by Shakespeare, we were shown the beautiful meanings of algebra (rather than merely accepting its existence and learning the equations.) Questioning the diverse standards as possibly national, I discovered my peer group in England also realised their standard of education far exceeded the standards we see today. I will be writing another blog about educational concerns soon and would appreciate your thoughts on the subject. However, I will add that none of this is usually enough to convince most without creditable facts, seen in black and white; it seems we have to have proof to be believed these days, a truly sad state of affairs in terms of human worth. Our experiences no longer account for much. So be it. I would ask anyone questioning the validity of educational standards to research the 'Black Papers' on the 1970's and investigate the subsequent acts that have enforced our children learn a 'consumer-orientated education,' 80% of whom will remain beneath the average intellectual levels, 20% utilised for the jobs that will keep the 80% in the mundane spheres. It is all there for the learning in black and white. (I looked at Derek Gillard's Education in England.) So in response to the Bear's analysis, I would argue that the bits of me he assumes seperate me from an average, are in fact, parts that my education refused to comprimise. All society can appreciate and is more than capable of understanding Shakespeare/algebra/preformance etc. In response to my daughter, I reiterated the necessity to think in terms of power for only then can she witness that in order to retain such global power, humanity has been kept in the dark of his own goodness deliberately. I asked her what would happen if we collectively re-learnt and exercised our amazing gifts to heal; what would happen to the immensely rich health authorities that govern the health of the world? What would occur to the need for governance if we realised life as a positive experience, and that true individuality comes from interactive creativity? Shakespeare is the Bard of English Literature because he saw society for what it was and his plays allow all to see it, placing the observer in the middle of all there is! No... they do not want Shakespeare realised in the masses. And we have a history that has actively obliterated difference;burn the witches, label living without a built structure as savage, create (a hierarchal/capitalist 's default) monetary difference then take poverty and instil ideas that such lack is a state of lowliness. It is a fashioned ideology, a mighty big illusion! What right do we actually have to ignore the people who have died trying to expose the ideological lie? It's time to wake up, inform ourselves and acknowledge human nature has been repressed, depressed from the affairs we live in. Human nature has been evaluated as a corrupting force! But how bizarre is that when we live in the midst of corruption without even having human nature validated? We are perverse in ignoring the obvious because of the very nature never acclaimed, acknowledged! (Nietzsche pointed this out when realising men accept corruption assuming they are dealing with other men with values and intent to do good.) I ask you to make truth and goodness whole. Look into the lives that have been negated, subjected to appauling invectives, all becausde they wrote in favour of nature and nuture. Writers have been censored, assaulted, threatened with criminal prosecution just for voicing in favour of realising our true, innately good natures! (See JP Rushton's The New Enemies of Evolutionary Science).

I believe we have merely forgotten how to question/know/read ourselves; it is a simple fact that such a misuse of power is not natural to the majority, to humanity as a whole. In effect, we cannot identify with the coercive and manipulative core behind the ultimate destructiveness in the world today; we are similarly oppressed by a history that can assert humanity has always been like this… Humanity has always been a territorial war-hungry animal, yeah? Do we really believe this true? The depressed will always show their depression. What a head-trip!

 

So, back to the matter in hand and to get to the nitty gritty! Hopefully… I aim to show the Bear how his ‘ass about face’ assumption is the mark of the biggest cultural dispossession of humanity’s power in the western world: the DEPRESSION of all that is assigned to the brain's right hemisphere in the brain, leading to left-sphere dominance. I will examine the ideas and consequences behind the indoctrination, which determines that to see in terms of signs, associations and relative meanings exhibits, in negative context, ‘schizophrenic’ tendencies. This is a distorted perspective as far as I know… at immense cost to both the individual and the collective community of humanity. In truth, any mindset that rejects another should automatically learn to question the denial on a personal level; the universe has a peculiar tendency to show what needs to be seen/learnt and that includes acts of closure within oneself. Once we direct our thinking to recognising denial and questioning both acts and reactions, we can see how we represented the microcosm of an entire history that proves, over and over, a failure to open to the new, evolve with difference, appreciate other cultures as having valuable insights. History proves our ignorance, time and time again, always in the present of undoing nothing. We live on a beautiful planet yet we have failed to note the imaginative state of Eden as a feasible parable; such a metaphorical failure manifests the cancerous eco-geographical monsters we know today. Did we really assume Eden unnatural to earth, hung up on a Golden age ‘back there’ somewhere? How did we fall into the idea that history proves our progress? We don’t ask enough of questions!

We have accepted so many wrong answers as reality that we have maintained the reality! We are like the old laws of science that merely describe what is, or is not! In fact, we have mostly accepted another’s projection of what is, or is not! We are all reflections of the science that stripped the cell down into its multifarious components without ever asking ‘why?

I will post part two very soon.  Any comments will be appreciated!

Recommended Reading: ’

Pinker, Stephen: The Blank Slate (BCA, London New York Sydney Toronto 2002) See also Pinker’s The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, two publications that expand on this subject

The Bear and I: Brain Matters Part Two

The Bear and I: The Being of Mindfulness Part Two

I was assured to know Serendipity was still working beautifully, when the Bear sent me a link to a site that deals with the dynamics of the human brain; the Bear has been investigating the nature of altered realities and such synchronised context should prove how the psyche of the DNA is very much into exalting its interconnectivity, consciously seeking to expand. Everything we are and do is in some way related to the whole of what we are collectively… if we fail to miss the multiplicities, it is simply that we have learnt compartmentalisation. It is a matter of questioning how one thing in our life connects to another… and another… and another! No matter how distant they seem! We are globally attached, spinning on the same axis....

You can see the site here: http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/dna.html

 

Hemispheric Synchronisation!

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act,
Falls the shadow
T.S.Eliot

The chart below can best explain the composites that our minds are capable of embracing; the chart clearly shows the fundamental and complementary roles of the left and right hemispheres of the brain:

Left Thread	Right Thread
Particular	General
Local	Non-Local
Objects	Relationships
The ONE	The MANY
Precise (quantitative precision)	Approximate (qualitative precision)
What (Who, Which)	Where (How, When)
Tonic	Harmonic
Internal Linkage (within)	External Linkage (Between)
Syntax/Semantics	Semantics/Precepts
Single Context	Multi Context
Exaggerate, Distort	AS-IS
Known	Unknown
Ordered	Disordered
Non-Change	Change
Ordinality	Cardinality
What IS	What IS NOT
Delusion	Illusion
Repression	Suppression
What WAS	What COULD HAVE BEEN
What WILL BE	What COULD BE
+1/-1	Zero/infinity
Text	Context
Foreground	Background
Quantitative	Qualitative
Expression	Behind Expression
Self	Others
The Dot	The Field
Particle Interpretations	Wave Interpretations
Metonymy (part-for-whole)	Metaphor (whole-for-whole)
Axon-like (pulse, FM = SEQUENCE, Ordinality)	Dendrite-like (wave amplitude, AM = SIZE, Cardinality)
Neuron	Synaptic 'soup'
Dopamine biased (internal linkage emphasis, internal integrity)	Serotonin biased (external linkage emphasis, social integrity)
Psychosis, schizophrenia	Neurosis, depression
Identify	Re-identify
Blend, bound (feeling terms for whole, parts)	Bond, bind (feeling terms for static/ dynamics)
Vectoring	Way pointing

In 2000, my daughter’s neurologist told me, after questioning and my performing some motor neurological tasks, that I had what is known in the practice as a Grasshopper brain, that is to say, both hemispheres assimilate and order information symbiotically. It certainly explained several anomalies I had encountered throughout my life, like the seemingly useless ability to write backwards from the time I could write forwards, (at high speed) working out mathematical/algebraic formulae without full understanding of how I ever arrived at the answers, (a certain detriment when considering how one must now show one’s workings!) and the natural affinity I had as a child to interpret and read hieroglyphs. As the neurologist confirmed, my early years were confusing in the conventional sense; I strained to understand the systematic expectations in processing information in an educational setting. Whereas fellow colleagues built answers upon a base system, I would have seen the end result yet had to work in reverse to fill in the pieces that seemed of little consequence in effect but were crucial in forming the body of any argument. (Perhaps one could argue it was because of such adaptation, I learnt naturally to see what lay within the spaces…)

I have, in the past, been acutely aware that my way of seeing the world was deemed unusual and I have suffered myself greatly for it. I walked a capricious path along the arrow of time, collecting and assimilating life experiences as ‘always-already’ in the flux. My ego-self had once conviction of isolated difference yet in recent years, in juxtaposition to the revealing truisms that expose the coercive and lying nature of political greed, there has been an increase in the chiming of mirrors, in the reflections of ancient absolutes, an upsurging of clarity in the transforming state of joy. Science made its leap. There is now, more than ever, an understanding that we have been ideologically and culturally repressed, undressed of true individuality, psychologically bereft of a true enlightenment. Look to history and observe the anti-nature of the power establishments that have deliberately debased sexuality, deformed divinity, enforced knowledge as a ‘civilised,’ ‘civilising’ power, retained and mystified the mystical in ancient doctrines and exploited sacred symbologies, all for the sake of masquerading as the all-encompassing third-eye in an ultimate God-given right to control-thus inflicting non-sense-able conformity across the globe. Yet, it is a fact that when you retrieve Truth for oneself and coalesce its Beauty, the Quest will always be in locating the means in which to emulate another’s flowering occurrence, recollected within the purest memoir of self. We are all echoes in the boundless reiteration of a quantum drum, capable of knowing the ineffable and affecting the collective communion.

There has recently been a lot of scientific investigative interest in the performance of the two hemispheres, especially in terms of hemispheric dominance and what affects/effects such dominance of one hemisphere over another. It is a peculiar fact that when Einstein’s brain was removed after his death and examined, (it is still pickled in a jar in Kansas!) his brain was found to have an unusually large corpus callosum, the part of the brain that connects and serves as a conduit or a bridge between both hemispheres. (A famous clairvoyant healer Edgar Cayce also left his brain for scientific research and his brain exhibited the same characteristics.) Neurologically, investigations have found without resorting to the usual logical, linear steps, those with a larger corpus callosum focus attention so intensely spatial that they are prone to losing a sense of the outside world. Early reading and development of abstract thought are typical characteristics yet this does not follow they excel in the early years; Einstein’s school report once defined him as a boy who would never go far in life! Scientists have concluded that the asset of such brain processing comes later in life, when the formal operative thinking, (the ability to move beyond the concrete world and work with abstractions) has matured a ‘decorum’ of structural order.

      'The Zero Point Energy Field is a repository of all fields and all ground energy states and all virtual particles-a field of fields. Every exchange of every virtual particle radiates energy.' (See McTaggart, The Field, p.28)

Although Einstein’s theories are being challenged today, (something Einstein himself was aware of in creating a space within his equations for that unseen matter, identified now as the Zero Point Energy Field) he still represents an emblem of ‘radical thought,’ an original thinker, a man capable of stepping outside accepted norms and daring to imagine the difference that could potentially represent a bigger, universal truth. Yet Einstein was certainly not uniquely gifted because of the physical variance that allowed hemispheric synchronization! Rather, Einstein’s brain acts as a catalyst, showing scientifically how interhemispheric transfer of information between the left and right brain produces a more integrated system, creating dynamic brain performance. It is not, however, a phenomenon of the minority genius. Today, Binaural Beat Technology proves to increase activity across the corpus callosum, exercising and strengthening the bridge of communication and, amazingly, the corpus callosum grows larger! There is a relative shift in hemispheric dominance (from left-brain to whole-brain dominance) and hemispheric synchronization, actualising harmony and unity in the brain-state. Tests prove singular hemispheric dominance can be reduced into firing a more interactive state, (that many report as inducing a more meditative perspective) capable of integrating the transmissions of information between thought and sensory feedback systems. In truth, we are all budding Einsteins! We need simply to exercise our ability to fire on all levels, so to speak, and experience hemispheric synchronisation.

The Science of Left

We should first look at the way we have been conditioned into left-brain dominance. Western ideology has always presupposed a certain view of scientific method of validating ‘what is’, which is often called inductivism or observationalism. This form of validating the world is, once again, heavily saturated in the ideology that man is born a clean sheet; all experience, thought, and consequent action of the individual is causal from the big ‘out there.’ The environment causes simple ideas (Locke) or impressions (Hume) to arise with in the individual. We have been led into viewing the world picture in a very deterministic manner, one that Titchener (psychologist) conceptualised when he said,

"We are agreed, I suppose, that scientific method may be summed up in the single word observation'; the only way to work in science is to observe those phenomena which form the subject-matter of science.”(1)

Karl Popper who wrote in the terms of The Philosophy of Science, proposed new ways of evaluating and studying science. Popper, like others, showed how mechanistic sciences represent a model of reality at variance to the rich evolving nature of reality.

The miracle for me has always been in cell’s ability, in gestation, in knowing how to differentiate when the DNA holds no obvious and particular independent coding from one cellular genetic to the next. Whilst we read about stem cells and learn of the outcry that doctors have been using abortive embryos to extract and use such cells, science is no closer to admitting there’s a mysterious force of the unseen that accounts for such differentiation. According to such laws, science again states truth is always ‘out there,’ therefore empirically asserting the suggestion that there can be no truth in man himself.

Karl Popper's claim that ‘the criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its ‘falsifiability,’ is a viable statement. The growth of scientific knowledge begins with an ‘imaginative proposal of hypotheses,’(2) from which the scientist must search for illustrations or situations that falsify or negate the hypothesis. After rigorous attempts have been made to find the hypothesis untrue, the scientist may tentatively accept the hypothesis as true. However, if the hypothesis is found untrue, the scientist must reject his hypothesis. Popper claims that tentative acceptance is the only form of productive thinking that exists… Instead of the typical null hypothesis (whereby experimentation is based on trying to prove a negative is indeed negative) science should accept the new/strange/difference at face value but follow rigorous attempts to falsify the theory, thus actively researching to disprove it! Popper saw the nihilism of Pandora’s hope in theorists like Marx, whose materialism was stagnant and despairing, placed in juxtaposition with scientific thinkers like Einstein or Fitsche. 

Popper has set forth not only a working definition of a scientific theory, but has also ensured an environment wherein scientists can progress in the processes that is life. Even when scientists are wrong, science can still grow. He advocated an active ‘Open Society’ across all disciplines; that is to say, Popper voiced for a vital unity in epistemological/scientific and social disciplines... Popper also spoke against the pretensions of secret societies, the ‘planners and politicians who claim the right to impose their blueprints on the rest of us by virtue of their supposed knowledge on the course of history.’ Likewise, in contrast to Logical Positivism, Popper never held with ideas that saw non-scientific activities as meaningless or intellectually disreputable. What is disreputable is psuedo-science, when empirical theorists refuse to be deflected by observational disproof.

It is not, therefore, positive action nor is it good enough to assume how seeing in signs, associations and relatives is to see things that aren’t even there; Popper would have encouraged the Bear to accept the different perspective as an active presence in his life and would then have him work diligently to prove such thinking a falsehood, blindness... delusional and schizophrenic.

We need to broaden our horizons and accept our education as having been deliberately narrowing. I could never understand the so-called intellectual establishments who refuse to allow inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches and linkages between the various fields of study. There was I having to argue in terms of politicised Anglo-American feminism-with the argument that woman is exactly the same as man, entitled to the equal rights…entitled to enter the hierarchy… to rise to male standards…I mean! Yuck! As if political recognition is some value-mark of identity and freedom! The effect? Think of the Iron Lady, Mrs M Thatcher, the epitome of a woman’s ultimate power under such a frigid ideology! And anyway, (more to the point) what was the point debating gender in such terms when all along, science had proved the brain gendered? Such reductive thinking once again demolishes any ‘potential’ for the discovery of essential woman, let alone free masculinity from the history of his self-choking necktie.

I realised in such moments that whilst women have had to assert the right of voice, in doing so she let go of the very symbols laced in his-stories that had now raped and reasoned her into such a politically disheartened world. Beyond the demonised whore Magdalene and her Mother-in-Law, the virgin Mother, is a sensual essence, the experience of woman. Let us not be blinded to the even more obscure realisation that man has also been ripped apart from his dynamic Pan-self, his 'raw' bloodied and turned backwards into 'war.' Standing under a foreboding and ultimately wrathful godfather, man must also face the fact that his sex has been made to feel Luciferian. His penetrating life force is within the hellfire, fallen and twisted…

It’s Blake’s sick Rose…

Perhaps I argue from the perspective of my formative years, where a Flamenco stamped winged movements of purest passion upon...into my character… but this land, this England, this northern West... is virtually dead to it. All held in political containers… separated, disjointed within a system layered in variants of dominating factions. It is no mistake of judgement either; it’s deliberate; keep the disciplines as narrow as possible, maintaining knowledge as separate entireties... keep them always at odds. Patent that thought! Ownership is becoming a perversity that our egos buy into. How many people realise even our genes have been patented? Are people ever told how to consider such ownership? The idea is so integrated that the western world continues to buy stars in their name…

We have learnt all we know through the voices of the past, extending the ideas of yesteryears through the passages of time. I have many examples from university of people telling me, no… warning me, to save certain insights for myself, for my essays; others were apparently known to be quoting me without even a footnote. But I would not have had the ideas, or visions as some called them, without a) the text and b) the others. It is time to halt with the idea that we, as individuals, can possess knowledge for materialistic personal gain. Our knowledge flows conceptualised where space and time cannot; some of us simply press our imaginations deeper into the wells of inspiration. What we let out should impress another; that is the correct flow. In all probability, I expect any momentary insight could never been said without the energy and voice of another.

Matter is a range of possible things yet no particle of matter has any meaning in isolation; matter is always-already in relation to everything else…

  I will post Part three soon! Comments, as usual, are welcomed!

(1) See: E. B. Titchener, Lectures on the Elementary Psychology of Feeling and Attention 1908

(2) See: Edwards, Paul, Editor: Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (Vols 5 and 6. (1967) pp 398-401.

(3) See: The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (NY, London Oxford University Press 1995) p.702

Recommended Reading: The Field Lynne McTaggart

The Bear and I: The Multiplicity of Rightfulness. Part Three

 

Be in Multiplicity

If the Doors of Perception were cleansed,

Everything Will Appear to Man as it Is:

Infinite… (William Blake)

At the University of Aarhus, Denmark (may 2002) there was a second European conference of the International Society of literature and science. The conference was based on scholars having forged transversal lines and links between the various fields and wanted to further investigate and discuss such interdisciplinary approaches and linkages between the study of culture, literature, visual arts and techno-science, basically between science and the arts. Their ideas encompassed the connectivity seen in the following examples:

• Links between fact and fiction

• Transversal lines between science and story-telling

• Links between cultural imaginaries and scientific practices

• Semiotic-material practices

• How metaphors matter and matter performs metaphorically

• Intersections and incommensurability between visual arts, literature,

• Culture and techno-science

• Translations between physical and virtual spaces

• Cyborg identities and cyborg bodies

The list continues but the point is, whilst many discuss such interplay, the value has yet to filter into any semblance of interconnectivity within our universities. All I witnessed throughout my last three years of study was active resistance to any suggestion of a scientific compliment other. Not that I would have any understanding of this without the education I received, but University thinking would have me compounding all into that reductive thinking in the very compartments many literary authors opposed! Come to think of it, throughout the history of the western literary tradition we could even argue how authorial success is eminently found in the voices that resisted the political norm, the permeates of hierarchy, that cultural sycophant. Many authors are the subjected ‘others,’ connecting to their culture through inscription.

What a cunning decoy… this education system of ours! Get the Einsteins, the Jungs or the Blakes of this world enlisted in the only place offered to them in terms of expressing their truths, the universities that behold the universals! When the really bright sparks stand in the self-researched glories of the PhD, get them working for the same system that has no intention of allowing any of their beautiful truths to fall onto the grassroots. The system will never let the subaltern speak, nor will it be overtly honest with scientists’ integrity. Watching the devastation of Hiroshima, Albert Einstein said,

“If I had only known… I would have become a plumber.”

I believe there’s a rather potent hermetic message in there somehow but I will leave that for you to fathom! Do not allow such a manipulative closure of your Self or your fellow’s humanity! Consider the beautiful totality within quantum laws, allow yourself ‘to see the world in a grain of sand.’ The overt message is to allow the multidisciplinary into the everyday, assimilate, coagulate and communicate your discoveries! Consider there is no line of progress, only the process that continues to unfold. There is neither order nor absolute conclusions for you unless you enter the chaos of your own potential that is capable of manifesting coherence in any moment. The ineffable is right there… within you. With acceptance of the mind’s dualistic perspectives, we may transcend the conceptualisation of the immediate as having no greater significance. Self-conscious differentiation transports us away from observing everything as being of the same basic, ordinary, nature and consciousness that remains universally and timelessly the same. In mystic shadows, there is the synchronisation, the synthesis of oppositions, where we experience duality whilst in a non-dualistic consciousness.

And there is the truth.

 

The Quantum of Right

The field is the only reality...

Einstein.

There is no need, however, for anyone to think they need the aforementioned Binaural beat treatment! Quantum physicists’ have found practises that can best exemplify humanity’s incredible ability to transform and initiate changes, proven through tried and tested experiments in the field of consciousness. Reassuringly, there is a path of least resistance! I will not bore anyone with my wonderment in quantum physics but it is true to say physicists have found the triggers that can cut across the unnatural bridge of hemispheric dominance and a little investigation can unleash pure potential. In the highly acclaimed book The Field, Lynne McTaggart unifies the principles from the top frontier physicists working around the globe, pioneers in a new world view that proves we exist as a “coalescence of energy… in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is central to our being and our consciousness; it is the alpha and omega of our existence.” (The field, p xv) What we perceive as real, the static material world of matter is completely unsubstantial in the quantum world; electrons and nuclei are perpetually popping in and out of existence. What is perhaps more considerable is the nature of the field itself, what we conceive as empty space, as an ocean of vibration- forces that transport the most vital form in the universe; the concentrated presence of thought. As Dr Wayne Dyer says, the world of quantum physics provides the ‘hard evidence for what spiritual masters have been telling us for centuries.’ We are all masters capable of change, possessing our own internal third eye of observational prowess-birthed in hemispheric synchronisation- that can unearth difference. The visionary breathes sight into the space, hearing the ancestral voices singing infinitely upon vibrating waves.

Fine Tuning

The quality common to all researchers in the quantum field has been ‘a simple willingness to suspend disbelief and remain open to true discovery, even if it meant challenging the existing order of things.’ (The Field p 16) Dr Karl Pribram had concurred the language of the brain is the ‘language of phase, amplitude and frequency, the spectral domain.' We perceive the world by resonating with it… 'aiming to be on its wavelength.^”

I look at it as tuning in to the miraculous, opening channels that disbelief has always kept locked shut. And this is not mere poetic fantasy either; physiology proves that emotional, mental and physical concepts are potentially enforced by neuron repetition, ‘Fire together… Wire together!’ In other words, our minds have learnt various patterns of how to see the world and developed automated modes of response in relation to past experiences; we have literally moulded our synaptic processes into set patterns of behaviour, especially in terms of how we see the world. The initiative starts to break those long-term relations by interrupting chemical-thought process, principally by observing the effects within the self. It is as simple as taking heed to how we sound, what we say, noting how others respond to us and importantly, assign awareness to how we feel. The Buddha would advise paying attention to our surroundings, conscious of mindful reactions occurring in the vibrational presence of I, within any given space. Essentially, we may learn how to see the physical self from the outer sides and whilst doing so, become aware of how others may see us; thus, we trigger new neurological pathways to open. From ‘out there’, we are able to distinguish the models we had fashioned from past experiences. To break moulded patterns, one need only pay attention to other perspectives… so, observe intently. We then become the subjective-objective. We become the multiple. Monumentally, we become enabled to the visionary inscribed in the metaphor of the blinded poet, from Homer to Milton to Derek Walcott’s Omeros. It was only after the naïve Gloucester had suffered having his eyes plucked out, could he know to cry, ‘I stumbled, and I saw!’

So, start to envisage yourself in quantum levels of being! Research… investigate… partake in discoveries that keep resonating/repeating themselves around you and remember to share your discoveries too. Listen and learn different areas of thought, find an alternative to what you read; participate in what is different! And vibrate in the collective!

Climb into the quantum understanding that there is no ‘you’, no ‘me’, no ‘not-you-me’ duality in your body in relation to the universe; leap into the knowledge of the one, all encompassing energy that is. Irrevocably, it is time we discover our humanity; that is to say, we need to remember our essential natures beyond nationalism, cultural defines, sex, colour or creed. Science can finally prove the beautiful, reflect a sense of the divine, and dissolve the boundaries that have suffocated half of our brain! Defy conditioning that dictates how you see this world.

Clasp your individuality in your hands and seek the new focus! Seek and you shall find!

 

Signs of the Miraculous

I shall exemplify the incredible affect our exquisite minds can have in and on our miraculous life.

Water

Dr Masaru Emoto first started studying water in the 1990s, and was soon to publish astonishing and supremely beautiful photographs of water crystals taken under the microscope. Exposing water to Hado, ( as the intrinsic vibrational pattern at the atomic level in all matter and the smallest unit of energy. Its basis is the energy of human consciousness) Emoto discovered through diverse and sublime water crystals that thought/intent is everything on water. Emoto set up many experiements and I cannot say any other than get his book and see the extraordinary miracle for yourself! (Book details are found at the end of this chapter) The crystal below is of Mozart's incredible influence on water, the vibrational force creating a unique water crystallisation! (Intriguingly, Mozart’s music has also been found to trigger hemispheric synchronisation.)

 

Tap water in cities subjected to chlorine treatment failed to form crystals at all, with no sign of the characteristic hexagonal (6-fold) symmetry of snowflakes. Partial crystals sometimes appeared, as if trying desperately hard to be a clean water. Whenever the quality of water was good, complete crystals formed, each distinctive in detailed pattern and colour. Some of the loveliest, most perfect crystals were from natural, unpolluted water sources.

What is probably the most astounding fact in Emoto’s work is the crystallisations brought into being by meditating certain thought processes into the water. A recent film, based on quantum ways of seeing the world, called What the Bleep Do We Know? uses Emoto’s images, highlighting the Chi of Love water crystal...

 

Now, to me.... that is breathtakingly divine....

Here's another amazing crystalisation brought into being by meditating upon love and gratitude:

The Divine Fire Within: Water and Light

Physicists have already found how atoms and molecules exhibit collective behaviour, forming coherent domains. Water has the quality of becoming ‘informed’ into single coherent waves, tending to polarise around any charged particle, storing and carrying information even if the molecule is removed. (Consider homeopathy! The dilutions still carry the energy charge of a molecule no longer in existence within the solution.)

Japanese physicist Kunio Yasue discovered water plays a vital role in organising discordant energy into coherent photons, in a process called superradiance.(1) We can think of water as a physical medium, a channel that conducts not only the signature frequency of the biological process, but organised into patterns, can also carry the imprint of wave information; water not only sends signals but amplifies it so as to be read at a distance! Whereas water is usually in a state of random disorder, microtubules (cellular scaffolding) within neuron/dendrite cells within the brain contain water that has a perpetual state of coherence, a state that enables photons of light to travel a pulse along the microtubules, what Hameroff calls the “light pipes” in a phenomenon known as self-induced transparency. (2) Able to work at the quantum levels of ‘action at a distance,’ the light tubes resonate in unison, accounting for the instantaneous operations within the brain. Superradiance would certainly account for EEG findings that show brain activity strives for synchronization, seeking interhemispheric equilibrium!

We can learn to see the reflections, the patterns that insist we are the microcosm painted throughout the layers of all material being, mirrors of the macrocosm. We can compare these ‘light tubes,’ (when acting as ‘waveguides’ for photons) to the ley lines of ancient tracks… spread across the body of Earth, with their alignments focused by the energy of sun rays. Like the sites ‘seemingly’ unconnected to the main ley lines, the ‘light tubes’ can act as tiny tracks for lesser light waves that fire upon all sites! This applies to the body of man and land alike. What may appear unconnected is connected by the unseen yet once connected physical relationship which holds its attraction for life, for infinity! It is this relationship that permits the famous quantum dictum, ‘action at a distance.’ Physicists know that once association has been made, interconnectivity will continue endlessly. I could knock into someone by accident, not knowing him/her before of after the incident, yet our connection is made; we will vibrate a connection thereafter! How amazing is that?

Science now proves conclusively that we have synaptic thunderstorms occurring throughout the brain; certain images, and audible resonates or physical responses fire measurable light on specific areas of the brain. (Remember! It is these storms that can become 'fixated.') Yet amazingly, tests now prove that when we close our eyes and are asked to remembering/to imagine a scene from earlier, the same light storm occurs in the same area of the brain!

So... Do the eyes see... or is it the mind? This is the hermetic spark of our own interior miracle, the ability for that thunderbolt of light to spark upon water, our very own interior electrochemical synthesis. We really are the Bear’s vision he had one evening; we are all water sacs, sparkling light within... without…

Newton’s material world in which the material follows absolute laws of motion in time and space - the mechanistic universe - is unfounded, as is Descartes' ideology that resulted in the concept that we stand outside this universe looking in. Our consciousness, erased from the centre, had then to contend with Darwin’s theories. But we are not an evolutionary accident, nor do we need to be the best at another’s expense to survive. We are not genetic terrorists! Nor do we have to believe life is about winning at finales, reaching nonsensical conclusions. We can finally share in the deconstruction of such separateness, shedding ego-manic distrust for the humble Id of totality and unity. We are a proven energetic charge of living potential!

 

Beyond Time and Space

Scientists later discovered that these brain light rays act as a signalling radar, vibrating an interaction out into the field itself, associating and transferring electrons, beyond any laws of distance. Our conscious minds are immediate and can act at a distance.

That demands some thinking about... a pause for reflection, surely?

Fritz-Albert Popp, amongst others, went on to conclude with the heretical thought,

“Consciousness was a global phenomenon that occurred everywhere... and throughout the body, not just in the brain. Consciousness, at its most basic, was coherent light.”

There is also the added anomaly in the Copenhagen interpretation, that famous quantum statement that the observer affects electron measurability; the electron freezes into a particular state until the act of observing is over, when it resumes its state of potentiality. We project, we affect! In essence, if all matter resumes a state of potentiality unless observed, does any matter have absolute form? This is a question that the film, What the Bleep Do We Know? shows most succinctly. For now, it is suffice to realise our powerful position in terms of being the observer. Do other’s projections... yours… or my own... govern this world?

We have walked into a timely epoch, my friends. We have all heard the mantra to, ‘wake up!’ Now we can scientifically justify our intent to enter the plethora of inter-dimensional spaces, experience altered realities without the ridicule from ‘out there’ that would have convinced us we were experiencing a nervous breakdown! For there is no true reality, nor is there a sub or un-conscious; there is only the right hemisphere awaiting acceptance for hemispheric synchronisation. Let your right be heard! Let your quantum light create! Be a vital part in creating the world around you! Repeat and own what Nelson Mandela would have us remember:

Our deepest fear
is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn't serve this world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God
that is within us;

It is not just in some of us - it's in everyone!

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others! (1984)

 

The Physical Reality of Rightful Change

In a world of constants, when light falls on a semi-transparent mirror, exactly half reflects, the other half transmits through the mirror. When a single photon arrives at the mirror, it will either reflect or transmit at a 50/50% ratio. With such binary absolutes, when science became able to record the wave transformations of ‘negative entropy’ (the move away from potential randomness into ordered coherent states) the effect of living consciousness on the field offered no such absolutes, although the results were staggering. (These experiments were designed to show conscious thought as having ability to cause material effects. If merely by observing matter, we affect it’s potentiality by fixing it into a given, then somehow the observer was creational, able to master the outcome. Scientists had only to prove it conclusively.)

Yet McTaggart tells us,

“Every scientist engaged in consciousness research was thinking the same thought. Why was it some people were more able to influence, and some conditions more conducive to influence, than others? … Dr William Braud looked hard for the common thread in all… experiments. He noticed several characteristics, which tended to more readily guarantee success: some sort of relaxation technique (…meditation, biofeedback for example); reduced sensory input or physical activity; dreams or other internal states and feelings; and a reliance on right-brain functioning.”

Braud worked with findings reported by the Moscow Brain Research Institute’s Laboratory of Neurocybernetics. Using transcendental meditation techniques, the institute had conclusively proved meditation as an exercise that improves the areas of the cortex dealing with the assimilation of information, with a marked increase in the functioning of communication between left and right brain hemispheres. Meditation opens the doors of perception a little further! Using techniques of the ganzfeld, German for ‘whole field,’ (a method that reduces sensory input by blindfolding the volunteer in a soundproof room whilst using headphones to play low volume static) Braud showed, alongside others, how thought projection/telepathic experiments were in all cases more successful by a staggering 82% after meditating! The odds were billions to one… It would seem ‘the left brain is the enemy of the field,’ yet it takes only the practise of relaxation techniques, those basic brain exercises, to improve right hemisphere response and induce synchronisation. Opening the channels that are receptive to the field’s frequencies proved symbiotic with the knowledge that the field is constantly tapped into and mobilized; it would seem the interior mutterings of everyday life inhibits the ability to perceive it. The relaxed, passive and receptive world of the field proves highly responsive to our intent in extending superradiance into the world. As The Field exemplifies, conclusive testaments of the dynamic relationship between humanity and the field highlight many areas of conscious agility, like remote viewing, healing, intuition, telepathy, clairvoyance and many similar information phenomena. All seem to be easily explained by means of the nonlocal quantum hologram... (more to come on this!)

Quantum physics reincarnated the aether, known collectively as the zero point field, a seething cauldron of quantum potential and unmanifest energy where particles and antiparticles spontaneously arise and then disappear. The very fabric and structure of space/time itself is again in question; it’s structure and its metric under intense investigation have raised far more questions than answers .  For the purposes of this web entry, we will be focusing in the near future on, a) the emission/absorption phenomenon, and b) the structure and mechanics of non-locality. 

A powerful and telling series of experiments conducted by Dean Radin at the University of Nevada (1997) followed a decade long set of equally significant experiments by Brenda Dunne, R. Nelson and Robert Jahn at Princeton University. (1988) Their experiments provide insight as to the subtleties involved in this level of mind/brain functioning.  Jahn, Nelson and Dunn provided overwhelmingly that subjects could intentionally produce statistically skewed results in mechanical processes normally thought to be driven by random processes. Radin went further; he discovered that audiences watching a stage performance would skew the output of nearby random number generators during periods of high emotional content in the stage performance. The thesis in  the Princeton experiments was that participant intentionality created a non-random effect to bias the skewed  distribution.  In the Radin experiments the results were not intentional, as the participants were unaware of the experiment, but the hypothesis was that  attention (in particular, rapt attention) drove the system away from chaos (randomness) and toward greater order (reduced entropy).  These results suggest that attention and intention provide closely correlated  outcomes, and furthermore, that  randomness may not be a general property of nature... that what is perceived as random noise in a system may be information (a pattern of energy) that is not in resonance at that moment with the particular perceptual system, yet is in the process always of becoming...

In the upcoming installments of The Bear and I, we will investigate what this means in layman's terms and how we can best apply ourselves to a) opening the right hemispheric channels and b) learn what effects we can best achieve in doing so. We will encounter new ways in which to view the world and will especially question Truth. This web entry started in the desire to explain/justify how I evaluate truths which seem surreal and at odds with the Bear's. The practices which follow can offer viable explanations and working definitions.... In the meanwhile, knowing all we have just learnt, I leave you with these following thoughts... for a little rumination! Don't forget... you are more than welcome to comment as usual!

Einstein once said that Imagination is far greater than knowledge... this is a statement that appears contrary to a world that tells us knowledge is the ultimate power. But consider... Imagination is always the forerunner of any knowledge, of any material existance in this physical plane we inhabit... Without imagination, nothing innovative can materialise... no new story be written... no alterior truth be realised. We change our perspectives frequently as science moves along the arrow of time... Paradigmatic shifts in cosmological truisms have been our conductors, orchestrating our perceptions and playing into our thinking. Yet always... the great Imagination is primary to any given material...

Pause a little while... and play and tease the word, I-magi-nation... I, either I of the individual personal... or else, I as an eye... of interiority. Then we have the Magi, plural of the Magus... the Mage of Wisdom, the internal knowing... investigate for yourself what Magi are sparkled throughout time, both East and West, North and South! From the Zoroastrian astrologer-priest from ancient Persia, from which is derived the terms magic/ magician, to the wisdom of the three magi of the bible, and shamans.... seek Imaginations ancestral voice! And finally... the Nation. Anyone who has delved within the microcosm of his/her internal self will vouch for my observation when I say that the more we delve within, the bigger the expanse of the universe becomes....

Ingenious, wouldn't you agree?

Recommended Reading: Emoto, Dr Masaru: Messages from Water (HADO Kyoikusha Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 1999/2001)

1. See: M Jibu, S Hagan, S Hameroff et al: Quantum Optical Coherence in Cytoskeletal Microtubules, Implications for Brain Function. BioSsystems 32: 1994

2. See: Hameroff, SR: Ultimate Computing Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology (Amsterdam, North Holland Publishing, 1987)