This so called Liverpool Care Pathway is a travesty of all that the NHS is supposed to stand for and makes a mockery of the word "care".
My mother died in January 2010 and I now realise that she was effectively put on this diabolical scheme without our knowing then, that this was what it was. We were led to believe that nothing more could be done although following a discussion at the request of the family with doctors, they affirmed that they were unable to diagnose the precise cause of her condition. They could only surmise that it was due to a mixture of undefined causes due to old age. She was 85 and although she had leukaemia, we were told that many people lived normal lives with her condition with appropriate treatment and that it alone would not cause death.
Some weeks before she had had a fall in the garden but apart from bruising seemed none the worse for wear. A couple of days later she felt ill during the night and my father called an ambulance and she was admitted to hospital.
She appeared to be responding well but under the influence of painkillers tried to get out of bed right in front of the nurses station to go to the toilet and fell, breaking her hip. She underwent surgery and again responded well. Unbelievably, a day or two later, whilst in a private ward at the Musgrove Hospital in Taunton and again heavily drugged, she attempted to get out of bed to go to the toilet and inevitably fell again, necessitating a second operation!
Again she recovered remarkably well and three weeks later went home, managing to climb the stairs and getting around surprisingly well all things considered.
Some three weeks later she felt very ill and was readmitted to hospital and was never to leave. During the last seven to ten days, the family felt it was necessary to mount a 24/7 vigil at her bedside to ensure she was properly cared for. The best care came from agency nurses whose compassion, skill and dedication was notable by comparison to some of the permanent nurses.
My mother was a lovely, courageous and much loved lady. She was not given the opportunity to decide for herself whether or not she wanted to continue eating and drinking. A decision was made by the medical staff and meals ceased forthwith.
This is not care. This is politicians and doctors playing God and it is abhorrent and reprehensible. This is euthanasia in everything but name. When the life of the sick and elderly is treated with such cold blooded indifference it is no surprise that respect and standards of care suffer drastically as a consequence.
Ask yourself why the Liverpool Care Pathway was ever conceived of in the first place? What was wrong with NHS care that necessitated the introduction of this sinister scheme? Surely it was and is the duty of doctors and nurses to give the sick and dying the best care possible at all times anyway! Why do we need a special scheme? It is utterly ludicrous and totally unnecessary.
This scheme is a political and medical sham and whoever was responsible for it should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. It should be buried unceremoniously and never be spoken of or practised again.
Needless to say, although the doctors could not make a clear diagnosis while my mother was in hospital, they had no apparent difficulty stating the cause of death on the death certificate! I never understood that.
Lastly, those who invented this scheme should remember that one day, they may well be faced by it's consequences. Starvation is extremely unpleasant and cruel. The poor patients however are in no condition to express their pain. This is not care. It's torture in the name of saving money and meeting targets. It's disgusting.
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Sunday, December 09, 2012
When a bird falls
When an ant climbs up your leg, you feel it. When it drops off, you feel it. So it is with the entity that is the universe because every molecule is connected to every other molecule.
Is this how God knows when a bird falls to ground?
Is this how God knows when a bird falls to ground?
Friday, December 07, 2012
Creation - The Game (An Alien Perspective)
According to Airl the alien in the book Roswell - Alien Interview, the IS-BEs (eternal spirit forms) play games to relieve their boredom. According to the book the IS-BEs created their own individual holographic universes to play with. Over time they came together and decided to combine their work and create a physical objective universe, a real live game, as an experiment.
We also design and play many games to keep ourselves amused. More and more of these are computer games, many of which are largely based on plots involving domination usually through violent means of diverse imaginary enemies. It keeps players amused for hours at a time. I must admit that I have on occasion played them myself and enjoyed them.
Fortunately, when we kill our inanimate enemies in these games nobody really gets hurt. The only damage done is to the brain of the player which could be much more constructively employed for the betterment of him or herself and humanity as a whole. For some reason the makers of these games just dont understand the damage they are doing. Worse still, perhaps they prefer that we remain dumbed down, slaves to their money making products. They clearly do not understand the principles of connectivity nor the value and rewards of putting minds to constructive use. They could be helping solve the scandal of poverty, famine, pollution, the energy dilemna, war and saving the planet that houses us at the same time. When we go down, so do they! They don't seem to understand this simple truth.
Real life games however, played by politicians, dictators, scientists and corporations are far more deadly. These power games can and do cause real suffering and misery as each pursues their own selfish materialistic agendas at the expense of the majority of people on Earth and all it's passengers.
So was/is this universe nothing more than an IS-BE "experiment" and if it is, where does God feature in it? Aril said there is no such thing as a monolithic God. All IS-BEs she says, are creators including us, apparently. She claimed that she was part of an empire called the Domain who she asserted were top galactic dog. The Domain though benign had no particular empathy towards us but made it clear that Earth was theirs and anyone contesting this would be summarily dealt with, so not entirely benign then!
Now comes the $64,000 question! Where and how did the concept of "divinity" come into all this? On the face of it, it seems there is no such thing. However, could it be that "playing" in a physical universe rather than a holographic one was the true beginning of a process leading to a state of awareness of divine enlightenment? The galactics allude in their channeling, to their innocence of any knowledge of evil or consequence.
According to them, the creation of the universe was designed to create only joy. They had no experience of any other state. Their holographic designs were joyous creations that enhanced their state of being. They would have been works of art painted into a blank canvas of opaque infinity. However, they were not real. It was their version of going to the movies only unlike Hollywood their plots were innocent and beautiful. The holographs were not living things, just pictures that gave their creaters an abstract sense of pleasure. They could be created or deleted without consequence.
In the same way when we design and play our computer games we get a form of abstract pleasure from it because we know its not real. Its just a game. We feel no "real" empathy with the fictional figures we delight in killing. Its just a score, not a death. Actions whether negative or positive have no "real" consequences. There's no blood, no grieving relatives, no revenge and no pain.
However, in a physical world there is blood, death, grieving, revenge and so on. We are affected by consequences. Hunger, misery, greed, joy, love all have physical consequences but it seems that these galactic beings/forms had no comprehension of this which is not surprising, all things considered. No surprise either then, that the "experiment" went awry.
Suddenly they were confronted literally by the realities of objective physicality. Suddenly they began experiencing the consequences of action and reaction of which they apparently had little or no concept. They entered the university of life where all states of being exist at different vibrational levels.
This was not how it was supposed to be. What to do? They became trapped in a real game of flesh and blood life. They began competing, arguing and fighting amongst themselves in the same way as we have done for thousands of years. In the long passage of time they begun to realise the only way to overcome strife and conflict was through the application of love and more than that, survival depended on it.
If this is how it happened then this was the moment physical enlightenment began and the moment that the worth of the divine love from which they emerged, found value and comprehension. As above, so below. We too are coming to that point.
Furthermore, love brings huge rewards in terms of self fulfilment resulting ultimately in a state of total bliss. There can be no better outcome to any game. It is the ultimate result and thus becomes the ultimate objective of a successful outcome to the
ultimate game.
However, before we can consider this as logical or feasible account of reality we must
ask and answer the question, where did IS-BEs come from? How were they created and what or who created them? There can only be one possible answer. They emerged from the energy that seperates everything from nothing.
How is this possible? I dont know but if they exist they could not have come from anywhere else. Perhaps they evolved/emerged from a combination of energy waves resonating at specific frequencies. There is no other way since energy is everything and everything is energy. We know frequencies are sounds and that they shape matter. This must be at the heart of creation. This must also be how inanimate matter was transformed into animate matter. It is also how the nature of animate matter is transformed from one state to another.
If God exists and it was he/she/it/they that designed the universe this entity must
have been a consequence of eternal existence rather than it's creator. Unless there is a physics we are unaware of, energy in some form, is without doubt the only possible substance separating everything from nothing. No energy, no anything. The big question, the only question, is what is/was the nature of this energy.
What we can say with some certainty is that because energy cannot emerge from a state devoid of anything, it is eternal and infinite. If this primal energy was resonating at the frequency of pure love, then that has to be the source of divine love, that we call God and from which everything emerged, including possibly the wonderfully innocent but flawed IS-BEs who not understanding or having experienced any other state of being, did not understand the difference between play and reality! Only when one has experienced opposite states can one understand the state in which one exists. This is the meaning of enlightenment and the purpose of the journey.
When Adam ate of the apple of knowledge, he and Eve lost their innocence and moved into the flesh and blood game of life. Their's is the story of the IS-BEs.
We also design and play many games to keep ourselves amused. More and more of these are computer games, many of which are largely based on plots involving domination usually through violent means of diverse imaginary enemies. It keeps players amused for hours at a time. I must admit that I have on occasion played them myself and enjoyed them.
Fortunately, when we kill our inanimate enemies in these games nobody really gets hurt. The only damage done is to the brain of the player which could be much more constructively employed for the betterment of him or herself and humanity as a whole. For some reason the makers of these games just dont understand the damage they are doing. Worse still, perhaps they prefer that we remain dumbed down, slaves to their money making products. They clearly do not understand the principles of connectivity nor the value and rewards of putting minds to constructive use. They could be helping solve the scandal of poverty, famine, pollution, the energy dilemna, war and saving the planet that houses us at the same time. When we go down, so do they! They don't seem to understand this simple truth.
Real life games however, played by politicians, dictators, scientists and corporations are far more deadly. These power games can and do cause real suffering and misery as each pursues their own selfish materialistic agendas at the expense of the majority of people on Earth and all it's passengers.
So was/is this universe nothing more than an IS-BE "experiment" and if it is, where does God feature in it? Aril said there is no such thing as a monolithic God. All IS-BEs she says, are creators including us, apparently. She claimed that she was part of an empire called the Domain who she asserted were top galactic dog. The Domain though benign had no particular empathy towards us but made it clear that Earth was theirs and anyone contesting this would be summarily dealt with, so not entirely benign then!
Now comes the $64,000 question! Where and how did the concept of "divinity" come into all this? On the face of it, it seems there is no such thing. However, could it be that "playing" in a physical universe rather than a holographic one was the true beginning of a process leading to a state of awareness of divine enlightenment? The galactics allude in their channeling, to their innocence of any knowledge of evil or consequence.
According to them, the creation of the universe was designed to create only joy. They had no experience of any other state. Their holographic designs were joyous creations that enhanced their state of being. They would have been works of art painted into a blank canvas of opaque infinity. However, they were not real. It was their version of going to the movies only unlike Hollywood their plots were innocent and beautiful. The holographs were not living things, just pictures that gave their creaters an abstract sense of pleasure. They could be created or deleted without consequence.
In the same way when we design and play our computer games we get a form of abstract pleasure from it because we know its not real. Its just a game. We feel no "real" empathy with the fictional figures we delight in killing. Its just a score, not a death. Actions whether negative or positive have no "real" consequences. There's no blood, no grieving relatives, no revenge and no pain.
However, in a physical world there is blood, death, grieving, revenge and so on. We are affected by consequences. Hunger, misery, greed, joy, love all have physical consequences but it seems that these galactic beings/forms had no comprehension of this which is not surprising, all things considered. No surprise either then, that the "experiment" went awry.
Suddenly they were confronted literally by the realities of objective physicality. Suddenly they began experiencing the consequences of action and reaction of which they apparently had little or no concept. They entered the university of life where all states of being exist at different vibrational levels.
This was not how it was supposed to be. What to do? They became trapped in a real game of flesh and blood life. They began competing, arguing and fighting amongst themselves in the same way as we have done for thousands of years. In the long passage of time they begun to realise the only way to overcome strife and conflict was through the application of love and more than that, survival depended on it.
If this is how it happened then this was the moment physical enlightenment began and the moment that the worth of the divine love from which they emerged, found value and comprehension. As above, so below. We too are coming to that point.
Furthermore, love brings huge rewards in terms of self fulfilment resulting ultimately in a state of total bliss. There can be no better outcome to any game. It is the ultimate result and thus becomes the ultimate objective of a successful outcome to the
ultimate game.
However, before we can consider this as logical or feasible account of reality we must
ask and answer the question, where did IS-BEs come from? How were they created and what or who created them? There can only be one possible answer. They emerged from the energy that seperates everything from nothing.
How is this possible? I dont know but if they exist they could not have come from anywhere else. Perhaps they evolved/emerged from a combination of energy waves resonating at specific frequencies. There is no other way since energy is everything and everything is energy. We know frequencies are sounds and that they shape matter. This must be at the heart of creation. This must also be how inanimate matter was transformed into animate matter. It is also how the nature of animate matter is transformed from one state to another.
If God exists and it was he/she/it/they that designed the universe this entity must
have been a consequence of eternal existence rather than it's creator. Unless there is a physics we are unaware of, energy in some form, is without doubt the only possible substance separating everything from nothing. No energy, no anything. The big question, the only question, is what is/was the nature of this energy.
What we can say with some certainty is that because energy cannot emerge from a state devoid of anything, it is eternal and infinite. If this primal energy was resonating at the frequency of pure love, then that has to be the source of divine love, that we call God and from which everything emerged, including possibly the wonderfully innocent but flawed IS-BEs who not understanding or having experienced any other state of being, did not understand the difference between play and reality! Only when one has experienced opposite states can one understand the state in which one exists. This is the meaning of enlightenment and the purpose of the journey.
When Adam ate of the apple of knowledge, he and Eve lost their innocence and moved into the flesh and blood game of life. Their's is the story of the IS-BEs.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Theory of God and creation
We and everything in the Universe are a manifestation of something. We call this something God for reasons that are unclear since no one knows who or what God is or how he/she/it came into being. So suggesting we need only look into our hearts to find the something which we call God sounds like gobbledygook to many. However, if we are a manifestation of "God's" essence then of course by looking at and into ourselves we see a part of that essence. I leave you with the following thoughts:
It is clear that a state of nothing is an impossibility since there is SOMETHING which could not emerge from a state of nothing. Therefore this SOMETHING is by definition an eternal state. The question is what is the SOMETHING? The answer is energy. Nothing can exist let alone evolve without it. Energy is the primal eternal force that is the difference between nothing and something.
This primal eternal energy must therefore be the source of all existence. Everything in the objective physical and invisible universe is of or originates from it and is therefore "genetically" connected to it, so to speak.
Energy resonates frequencies of which there are an infinite number. Since this eternal energy source exists in infinity, energy is also infinite. Thus this primal eternal energy = existence = life = energy = life ad infinitum. The universe and everything in it is an energy form resonating at differing frequencies. All energy forms are both receivers and transmitters of energy waves at various frequencies. Love is an energy with a specific frequency as are all thoughts.
To transform these frequencies into a physical image/sound requires that we are tuned in to those channels. Thus the universe is a combination of countless fluctuating frequencies. Our reality is determined by the input/output of all incoming and outgoing frequencies. The more we send out energy waves of love the more we change our reality for the better and visa versa. This is how and why we are joint creators of our own reality.
The Russian physicist Dr. Korotkov's GVD photographic energy detecting technology has already demonstrated that the energy of plants rises or diminishes on detecting the intent of persons in their vicinity. The intent, be it positive or negative is transmitted as energy waves resonating a frequency which the plant is able to detect. There can be no other rational explanation. It demonstrates perfectly the connectivity of one energy form with another.
This is where science and spirituality join. The Bible tells us that God is love. Love is an energy form. A self sustaining creation can only be built on love or the wave energy of love. One built on any other energy form would inevitably self destruct since it would contain elements of conflict.
It is said that in "the beginning was the word and the word was with God". In a sense this theory confirms this except the word is in fact a sound wave frequency of the emotion of "love" and "love" is the word we give this sound wave. Thus one might say the "God energy" is truly love from which everything has emerged. God is the energy of creation, one might say. Since everything emerges from this primal energy, everything is related and thus connected to it.
It is clear that a state of nothing is an impossibility since there is SOMETHING which could not emerge from a state of nothing. Therefore this SOMETHING is by definition an eternal state. The question is what is the SOMETHING? The answer is energy. Nothing can exist let alone evolve without it. Energy is the primal eternal force that is the difference between nothing and something.
This primal eternal energy must therefore be the source of all existence. Everything in the objective physical and invisible universe is of or originates from it and is therefore "genetically" connected to it, so to speak.
Energy resonates frequencies of which there are an infinite number. Since this eternal energy source exists in infinity, energy is also infinite. Thus this primal eternal energy = existence = life = energy = life ad infinitum. The universe and everything in it is an energy form resonating at differing frequencies. All energy forms are both receivers and transmitters of energy waves at various frequencies. Love is an energy with a specific frequency as are all thoughts.
To transform these frequencies into a physical image/sound requires that we are tuned in to those channels. Thus the universe is a combination of countless fluctuating frequencies. Our reality is determined by the input/output of all incoming and outgoing frequencies. The more we send out energy waves of love the more we change our reality for the better and visa versa. This is how and why we are joint creators of our own reality.
The Russian physicist Dr. Korotkov's GVD photographic energy detecting technology has already demonstrated that the energy of plants rises or diminishes on detecting the intent of persons in their vicinity. The intent, be it positive or negative is transmitted as energy waves resonating a frequency which the plant is able to detect. There can be no other rational explanation. It demonstrates perfectly the connectivity of one energy form with another.
This is where science and spirituality join. The Bible tells us that God is love. Love is an energy form. A self sustaining creation can only be built on love or the wave energy of love. One built on any other energy form would inevitably self destruct since it would contain elements of conflict.
It is said that in "the beginning was the word and the word was with God". In a sense this theory confirms this except the word is in fact a sound wave frequency of the emotion of "love" and "love" is the word we give this sound wave. Thus one might say the "God energy" is truly love from which everything has emerged. God is the energy of creation, one might say. Since everything emerges from this primal energy, everything is related and thus connected to it.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The big questions answered.
Here is the most extraordinary account of a near death experience I have ever read. If you want to know the answers to all your questions about life, death, the universe and much more, take some time to read this incredible account. It is truly astounding.
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Molecular consciousness (part 2)
This is Part 2 of this fascinating paper.
You will never see the world in the same light again. It will help you shake yourself free from the rigid dogmas that science and religion have locked themselves and us into for centuries. It will in brief open your mind.
Friday, May 25, 2012
The nature of reality?
I came across this statement in an email.
"Everything you experience in life, every event, occurrence, object, person –
is nothing more than a figment of your own thoughts, beliefs and words".
My thoughts on this concept of reality are the following:
Whilst there is much debate about the true nature of reality the above I am certain is some way off the mark. If you think about it logically, the idea that everything you experience is a figment of one's own thoughts is ludicrous. Much happens in life that one could never imagine and therefore one could not have thought into your own reality. Why would one seek famine, torture, rape, poverty, war and so on? If it were my choice I would live in paradise surrounded by joy and happiness.
However that is not the reality we perceive which is more often than not a tapestry of many colours and emotions, some of which are those we choose whilst others are diametrically opposed. Therefore if anything, we experience a combination of our own reality intermingled with that of others. It could not possibly be otherwise since everything is inter-connected.
We therefore must experience a collective reality which in extreme cases collides with and even overruns our individual thoughts or desires. In other words our "reality" often conflicts with that of others. For example Hitler's reality massively affected the collective reality. I did not dream up or wish this abomination upon myself or anybody else. Nor did I "invent" Gadaffi, Saddam Hussein, Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin or any other vile dictator. Nevertheless we all experienced their twisted visions. The same could be said of many positive experiences. These are equally overlaid with the imprint of universal consciousness of which my thoughts are a minute part.
Most ordinary mortals/souls desire love, peace and harmony. When the opposite realities of such ego-maniacs collide with ours a battle of wills ensues and the dream turns into a nightmare. We experience both states whether we want to or not. This could not be clearer.
The input of both negative and positive energy constantly affects the overall frequency of universal consciousness which is possibly what forms the reality we experience. No thought or mind is an island unto itself. How could it be? The idea that your reality is "nothing more than a figment of your own thoughts" is clearly a flawed one and serves only to confuse rather than enlighten us as to the true nature of reality and the entity we call God.
What do you think?
"Everything you experience in life, every event, occurrence, object, person –
is nothing more than a figment of your own thoughts, beliefs and words".
My thoughts on this concept of reality are the following:
Whilst there is much debate about the true nature of reality the above I am certain is some way off the mark. If you think about it logically, the idea that everything you experience is a figment of one's own thoughts is ludicrous. Much happens in life that one could never imagine and therefore one could not have thought into your own reality. Why would one seek famine, torture, rape, poverty, war and so on? If it were my choice I would live in paradise surrounded by joy and happiness.
However that is not the reality we perceive which is more often than not a tapestry of many colours and emotions, some of which are those we choose whilst others are diametrically opposed. Therefore if anything, we experience a combination of our own reality intermingled with that of others. It could not possibly be otherwise since everything is inter-connected.
We therefore must experience a collective reality which in extreme cases collides with and even overruns our individual thoughts or desires. In other words our "reality" often conflicts with that of others. For example Hitler's reality massively affected the collective reality. I did not dream up or wish this abomination upon myself or anybody else. Nor did I "invent" Gadaffi, Saddam Hussein, Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin or any other vile dictator. Nevertheless we all experienced their twisted visions. The same could be said of many positive experiences. These are equally overlaid with the imprint of universal consciousness of which my thoughts are a minute part.
Most ordinary mortals/souls desire love, peace and harmony. When the opposite realities of such ego-maniacs collide with ours a battle of wills ensues and the dream turns into a nightmare. We experience both states whether we want to or not. This could not be clearer.
The input of both negative and positive energy constantly affects the overall frequency of universal consciousness which is possibly what forms the reality we experience. No thought or mind is an island unto itself. How could it be? The idea that your reality is "nothing more than a figment of your own thoughts" is clearly a flawed one and serves only to confuse rather than enlighten us as to the true nature of reality and the entity we call God.
What do you think?
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Searching for the nature of God
The next big question that needs resolving is the nature or form of the creator. I do not pretend to know who or what God is. I claim only to have reflected upon the question deeply for almost longer than I care to remember. The following are therefore merely my reflections in written form.
The image of a wise old man with a white beard in the sky is of a God made in our image. That is highly improbable as as I am sure most would agree. Therefore if there is a God we must search for a more plausible understanding that somehow ties in with the reality we perceive and our limited understanding of science as well as the insights of ancient and modern mystics.
In brief the only answer I can come up with is that the universe and everything in it is derived from a source of energy. Without it nothing would exist. I have to believe if there were a God he/she/it would have to be in some way, shape or form a source of energy, perhaps the source of energy from which everything emerged. If this were so this source or force would have to be conscious and intelligent, perhaps the source of all consciousness. This energy the source of consciousness would be the driving force of everything both visible and invisible. From it would emerge all the forces that combine to create the visible and invisible universe. Einstein said that if there are laws (of physics) then logically there must be a law maker. These laws are encoded in the molecules that make up the universe and everything in it.
The universe is itself illusory. The molecules from which everything is made are 99% empty space yet the objects we see appear solid. Scientists tell us that if the solid matter contained in every human on Earth were collected and combined it would be no larger than a sugar cube! These are mind boggling facts that are almost beyond our comprehension. In essence we see objectivity where in reality there is only empty space. It's almost as though someone or something has painted a picture on a blank canvas; only the canvas is emptiness. I have never seen a painting materialise out of thin air. A painting requires an artist and his paints. Furthermore the artist must possess a consciousness that enables him or her to envisage the image he wishes to create. Above all he needs energy to undertake his task. This is I think a good analogy because it encompasses the necessary functions of the creative process.
For it to work though we need some evidence of the nature of consciousness. What is it? Is it a function of the mind or is it an external force that is visibly imbued in the fabric of the universe itself? To try and answer this question I have read up on experiments that indicate that plants and water possess consciousness. Plants, it is claimed have a higher level of conscious than some lower levels of insects and animals. Like plants, water apparently responds consciously to positive and negative frequency stimulation as do we humans. Interestingly we are ourselves largely composed of water as are plants. If this is true then there is a strong possibility we will discover consciousness at some level everywhere and in everything in the universe. Indeed the entire universe may well be a conscious entity. It is therefore not beyond the bounds of reason that the universe is a manifestation of consciousness and that consciousness is what we call God. As we are discovering, everything appears to be interconnected to everything else. This interconnection indicates that there is no objective separation of galaxies planets, plants or other elements such as water or ourselves. In which case the whole universe is an active and reactive single conscious entity where everything is connected to everything else.
In other word the entire universe is the manifestation of it's creator, the entity or force we call "God".
This explanation of the nature and form of God is I believe one that is believable. It is that of the artist, the grand designer rather than one occupied by the petty detail of our personal lives. It is nevertheless no less comforting because I do believe the words, "God is love" is at the heart of this consciousness. There is a good argument to be made for this hypothesis but that must be for another time. Suffice it to say that when one acts out of love the world becomes a much brighter place. There is enormous comfort and hope in this vision of God. If we follow the path of enlightened love we can raise our levels of consciousness and become part of the blissful and boundless joy that such a state can bring. If not we walk blindly and joylessly on a path of darkness. These appear to be self evident, fundamental, eternal and inescapable truths, the only real truths that really exist. This is the truth of God in my humble view.
Lastly, I have never believed that the universe spontaneously self combusted into existence from a state of nothingness. A state of nothingness is a contradiction in terms. If it existed it would be something. It is therefore an impossibllity. This being the case there can never have been a beginning nor can there be an ending. There is just an eternal state of being and this state of being is in constant evolution. This concept defies the understanding of science which must have a beginning and an end to everything and that is why science continually finds itself going down blind alleys. They have as yet failed to understand that if God exists he/she/it is the science they study. If this is right, God is the ultimate law maker, the artist par excellence.
The image of a wise old man with a white beard in the sky is of a God made in our image. That is highly improbable as as I am sure most would agree. Therefore if there is a God we must search for a more plausible understanding that somehow ties in with the reality we perceive and our limited understanding of science as well as the insights of ancient and modern mystics.
In brief the only answer I can come up with is that the universe and everything in it is derived from a source of energy. Without it nothing would exist. I have to believe if there were a God he/she/it would have to be in some way, shape or form a source of energy, perhaps the source of energy from which everything emerged. If this were so this source or force would have to be conscious and intelligent, perhaps the source of all consciousness. This energy the source of consciousness would be the driving force of everything both visible and invisible. From it would emerge all the forces that combine to create the visible and invisible universe. Einstein said that if there are laws (of physics) then logically there must be a law maker. These laws are encoded in the molecules that make up the universe and everything in it.
The universe is itself illusory. The molecules from which everything is made are 99% empty space yet the objects we see appear solid. Scientists tell us that if the solid matter contained in every human on Earth were collected and combined it would be no larger than a sugar cube! These are mind boggling facts that are almost beyond our comprehension. In essence we see objectivity where in reality there is only empty space. It's almost as though someone or something has painted a picture on a blank canvas; only the canvas is emptiness. I have never seen a painting materialise out of thin air. A painting requires an artist and his paints. Furthermore the artist must possess a consciousness that enables him or her to envisage the image he wishes to create. Above all he needs energy to undertake his task. This is I think a good analogy because it encompasses the necessary functions of the creative process.
For it to work though we need some evidence of the nature of consciousness. What is it? Is it a function of the mind or is it an external force that is visibly imbued in the fabric of the universe itself? To try and answer this question I have read up on experiments that indicate that plants and water possess consciousness. Plants, it is claimed have a higher level of conscious than some lower levels of insects and animals. Like plants, water apparently responds consciously to positive and negative frequency stimulation as do we humans. Interestingly we are ourselves largely composed of water as are plants. If this is true then there is a strong possibility we will discover consciousness at some level everywhere and in everything in the universe. Indeed the entire universe may well be a conscious entity. It is therefore not beyond the bounds of reason that the universe is a manifestation of consciousness and that consciousness is what we call God. As we are discovering, everything appears to be interconnected to everything else. This interconnection indicates that there is no objective separation of galaxies planets, plants or other elements such as water or ourselves. In which case the whole universe is an active and reactive single conscious entity where everything is connected to everything else.
In other word the entire universe is the manifestation of it's creator, the entity or force we call "God".
This explanation of the nature and form of God is I believe one that is believable. It is that of the artist, the grand designer rather than one occupied by the petty detail of our personal lives. It is nevertheless no less comforting because I do believe the words, "God is love" is at the heart of this consciousness. There is a good argument to be made for this hypothesis but that must be for another time. Suffice it to say that when one acts out of love the world becomes a much brighter place. There is enormous comfort and hope in this vision of God. If we follow the path of enlightened love we can raise our levels of consciousness and become part of the blissful and boundless joy that such a state can bring. If not we walk blindly and joylessly on a path of darkness. These appear to be self evident, fundamental, eternal and inescapable truths, the only real truths that really exist. This is the truth of God in my humble view.
Lastly, I have never believed that the universe spontaneously self combusted into existence from a state of nothingness. A state of nothingness is a contradiction in terms. If it existed it would be something. It is therefore an impossibllity. This being the case there can never have been a beginning nor can there be an ending. There is just an eternal state of being and this state of being is in constant evolution. This concept defies the understanding of science which must have a beginning and an end to everything and that is why science continually finds itself going down blind alleys. They have as yet failed to understand that if God exists he/she/it is the science they study. If this is right, God is the ultimate law maker, the artist par excellence.
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
God
If there is no #God, life and death are meaningless as they are without purpose or consequence. The how and the why are worthless pursuits.
It is impossible to accept this synopsis because to do so would mean that everything (the universe and all that it is) is for nothing. To believe that it evolved by mere chance, came from nothing, means nothing and is of no consequence, is too stretch logic to breaking point.
Everything that happens everywhere, whether it be the birth and destruction of stars or galaxies, or the way we and all living things live and die has purpose and meaning. To suggest then that the Cosmos from which life evolved is not imbued with the same meaning and purpose that is demonstrated in everything we see is to admit that logic itself is meaningless.
That makes even less sense than believing in God. If science is based on logic then science has nowhere to go since the Universe itself is apparently without logic.
It is impossible to accept this synopsis because to do so would mean that everything (the universe and all that it is) is for nothing. To believe that it evolved by mere chance, came from nothing, means nothing and is of no consequence, is too stretch logic to breaking point.
Everything that happens everywhere, whether it be the birth and destruction of stars or galaxies, or the way we and all living things live and die has purpose and meaning. To suggest then that the Cosmos from which life evolved is not imbued with the same meaning and purpose that is demonstrated in everything we see is to admit that logic itself is meaningless.
That makes even less sense than believing in God. If science is based on logic then science has nowhere to go since the Universe itself is apparently without logic.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
What or who is God?
If there is a God would he/she/it be the supreme energy that controls every living cell? Is this perhaps how cells developed different functions, some cells developed into skeletons, others into eyes, limbs, leaves, trees and so on. Could these cells have developed in such a structured way by chance, haphazardly or randomly to produce the extremely complex world we live in?
Watching David Attenborough's fascinating programs on life on Earth and Brian Cox in the Wonders of the Universe, they give no rational or scientific explanation for the way in which cells developed into complex and complementary structures, each enhancing and enabling life to thrive and survive. This developmental process is simply assumed to have taken place given the visible end results but no indication is given as to how this occurred. The why is clear, the creation of a living viable and sustainable eco-system, but the how is far from clear. It is unscientific to simply say that organisms "developed" skeletol frames, limbs, eyes, lungs, etc. without understanding how. As we can see all around us this process could not have been random, i.e. without purpose. You cannot concoct a chicken curry without the right ingredients and you cannot concoct intelligent life without intelligence. Or if you can where is the proof?
Is the answer that each cell required a catalyst, an instruction, and/or an intelligence to meatmorphose in a certain way as part of a pre-determined grandiose creational scheme? Where is the proof to the contrary? I have yet to see it.
Watching David Attenborough's fascinating programs on life on Earth and Brian Cox in the Wonders of the Universe, they give no rational or scientific explanation for the way in which cells developed into complex and complementary structures, each enhancing and enabling life to thrive and survive. This developmental process is simply assumed to have taken place given the visible end results but no indication is given as to how this occurred. The why is clear, the creation of a living viable and sustainable eco-system, but the how is far from clear. It is unscientific to simply say that organisms "developed" skeletol frames, limbs, eyes, lungs, etc. without understanding how. As we can see all around us this process could not have been random, i.e. without purpose. You cannot concoct a chicken curry without the right ingredients and you cannot concoct intelligent life without intelligence. Or if you can where is the proof?
Is the answer that each cell required a catalyst, an instruction, and/or an intelligence to meatmorphose in a certain way as part of a pre-determined grandiose creational scheme? Where is the proof to the contrary? I have yet to see it.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
The Purpose of Everything
One cannot find fulfillment in superficiality nor enlightenment without struggle. The same struggle that brings enlightenment is also the catalyst that drives evolution without which life would stagnate and die.
Current theory holds that the universe as we know it, came into being at the time of the Big Bang. In the course of this momentous explosion all matter was somehow imbued with positive and negative energy. The positive forces are the forces of construction and the negative are those of destruction. It is the balance between the two that ensures that life must struggle to survive thus growing stronger in the process; thereby increasing its chances of survival.
These reactionary and opposite forces are plainly visible everywhere in the natural universe. They are even evident in the human spirit which struggles to balance it's destructive and contstructive side. In spiritual terms, we can call the positive side of our nature, a force for good and the negative side a force for evil. Strangely in English if you remove an "0" from good you get "God" and add a "d" to evil and we have "Devil", the force of God and the force of the Devil. Is this what we really mean when we talk about God and the Devil?
As nature shows us, evolution is dependent on struggle, as is enlightenment. These two opposite forces have been essential to the progression and survival of life since the beginning of time. War is the embodiment of hate, greed and corruption while peace is the embodiment of love, compassion and enlightenment. All these things are the outcome of equal and opposite forces that were released in the creative soup or perhaps pre-existed in the i-ther from which matter materialised. I do not believe that the universe was generated from a state of "nothingness". That makes absolutely no sense.
One must assume that since it has always been this way that it will always be this way for such is the nature of evolution and life as far as we can see it. However, if this is the case, then what is the purpose? We know what the point of struggle is and we know that it's outcome, either by accident or design is enlightenment or knowledge. Is this the purpose of everything and if so to what end? Perhaps as there was no beginning, there is no end either.
I suspect that the struggle will go on until and if, mass enlightenment reaches a certain plateau at which point some kind of transformation in the state of being might occur, Utopia perhaps. Perhaps we will become builders of life rather than destroyers of life.
In the final analysis what does all this mean? It means that the impact on life of negative and positive energies or forces is undeniable and self evidently present in nature. Since there can never have been a state of nothingness, it suggests that these forces have always been present and were therefore instrumental in the creation of the universe and therefore life as we perceive it. This is at the very least is circumstantial evidence of a creative force that understood the need for equal and opposing forces for the birth, progression and survival of life.
On the other hand might we conclude that the purpose of everything is life itself and that enlightenment is essential to the preservation and even creation of life? When all is said and done, the greatest visible forces in the universe are the creative and destructive forces of life, both paradoxically essential for the promotion of life.
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