Metaphysical Cosmology

"Reality is just an illusion."   -   The Finder The combined implications of recent developments in the understanding of neuroscience and quantum physics represents a profound break thru in our understanding of the basic nature of reality. Apparently it is consciousness that determines whether a quanta becomes matter or remains pure energy. In the quantum world view, there is not much that exists in the physical world. Atoms are just little sparks of energy, and everything, including living cells are comprised of atoms. In fact, DNA is only a blueprint for the design of our cellular structure, while it is consciousness switches on of our stem cells and  determines their fate. So, the mechanistic, linear dualism of Issac Newton and  René Descartes must now give way to a dynamic new non-local physics where we are no longer locked in to past events as victims of painful experiences in our past or even our own genetics. What this does is to deliver us from the old, static paradigm of Darwinism and the fatalistic grip of behaviorism in which we are portrayed as helpless and rather hopeless victims; aliens in an alien world, subjugated to forces we can neither or control or understand. According to Dr. Henry Grayson and others, the new reality is a much more spiritual matrix in which new beliefs actually open up new neural pathways to support what we are to become. In this new reality we are co-creators rather than doomed and powerless victims of past and present traumas and events. This is timely and hopeful stuff to a world locked an old deterministic view, steeped in negative programming and beliefs, objectification and commodification. A quanta is tens of millions of times smaller than an atom. The size of the simplest atom (hydrogen) is approximately 100,000 time larger than the proton it contains, or in other words, the ratio between the size of the hydrogen atom to its nucleus is about 100,000. So matter is composed almost entirely of empty space and some electricity, and that includes our physical body. But if you've stubbed your toe on a table leg, you know it is quite real. The idea of metaphysics is how not to stub your toe. Metaphysics seeks answers beyond measurable matter, energy, space, and time. It explores the mysteries and meanings of all that exists and may be thought of as a cousin to Physical Cosmology, which is the area of science dealing with the material origins, history and fate of the universe. Cosmology was a subject of metaphysics before the Copernican Revolution. However, since Einstein's theories, cosmology has been primarily concerned with physics (applying numbers to things). Physics takes the world apart piece by ever smaller piece, trying to figure out the puzzle of existence. Cosmology is "a branch of study concerned with the origins and nature of the universe." Theoretical metaphysics has not yet been proven by science and metaphysical cosmology did not give way easily to physics. Copernicus developed the "heliocentric" theory of the universe, and when Galileo backed him up, the cosmology of the Roman Church, cosmology built on the solid foundation of Aristotle's metaphysics as introduced into the Church by Thomas Aquinas, received a shock heard throughout the Western World: the Earth was not the center of the universe. Galileo was actually put on trial for contradicting the Church in this matter. Metaphysical Cosmology is an area of philosophy that deals with our place in the universe and the nature of reality beyond its physicality, including understanding and explaining why everything came to be. Metaphysical cosmology puts the universe into one comprehensible object so that it may be examined as the whole, including the study of how human beings are related to the universe. So it is like holding the universe in your hand as if it was a single intelligible object, for the purpose of defining Man's place in the universe, as well as the possibility of a some thing "holding" the universe. How can a human being living on earth be related to the universe? We are all parts and parcels of the universe since we cannot disconnect or sever our relationship. In realistic terms, in order to maximize and capitalize on this relationship, we must walk in harmony with the universal laws. If we walk in harmony with the universal laws our rewards shall be plentiful, abundant and overflowing, and happy. Thwarting universal laws is a downward spiral into failure, suffering and despair. But why are there so few people in the former category? Apparently it boils down to emotion - to the simple fact that early in their lives many if not most people are made to feel that they are not good enough. The appropriate mode of feeling and behavior is somehow missing or under-developed in their lives. One of the early issues in metaphysics is the idea of evil. Shamanism and religion seek power over evil. The problem is fear. In the game of approach and avoidance, we are necessarily hard wired to avoid trauma, it is built-in and automatic - at the cellular level. Approach is basically about food and procreation while avoidance is about survival. The complexity of modern life offers many threats that were unknown to primitive humans. Complexity just came with the territory and is usually not optional. Food, shelter, procreation, even life itself sees increasingly complicated, fragmented or polarized.How can we feel good when so many experiences and things are mass produced, synthetic, industrialized? Not just goods and services, even food gets tainted and degraded but so does the quality of our lives. Personal relationships are often too casual to be lasting and meaningful. Even high end categories of music and art too often seem marginalized, dismally struggling over failures. Degradation of the environment and the media are looming problems that we seem to tolerate out of a lack of respect for where and who we are.We now know yet somehow fail to see that we occupy the best and only jewel-like planet in all of the know physical universe. Yet we behave like abandoned infants fowling our own nest, howling at the darkness. Your sub-conscious is always listening. By changing your own thought processes and beliefs you will begin to reprogram your life to accept positive thoughts and experiences. When your sub-conscious is aware of the positive reality, your choices will be influenced by more positive actions, which lead naturally to more positive outcomes. Everyone on the planet has some capacity to master the principle of mind over matter, but you need to understand how to use your mind power to do it. One of the ways you can develop using mind over matter is to practice turning all of your negative thoughts and beliefs into something positive. Take time to sit and think about what it means to control your life with your mind. Consider how everything in your life appears when you are happy. Think about a very content and peaceful time in your life. The bad things in life don’t seem as bad when a person is satisfied with the way things are going. Another very simple way to begin using mind over matter is to start using meditation and affirmations which are excellent ways to begin the re-programming process. Start with the little choices, take a stand, avoid whatever is negative or toxic. Make a decision to choose kindness, beauty, and truth. This will lead to right choices on the big issues. If there is any real magic this is it! Our best hope is to wake up to the beauty of our world and pay more attention to our possibilities. It is not rocket science –either you care or you don't. It's time to wake up and grow up! We can no longer continue to behave like spoiled and selfish children,  and must realize  that we are children of the universe, and regain a sense of awe and wonderment. Perhaps then we can begin anew, by learning to treat each other and our home with love and respect. The Matter With Things - Ian Gilchrist Diana Welsh Pasulka  -  Her Website Metaphysical Cosmology on YouTube

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An Open Mind Is A Precious Gift Of all the ways people today are polarized the standoff between science and religion stands out. Science is a a fact-based or a faith-based ways of thinking and explaining the world. Science seeks to explains all of the interior dimensions of human experience through physical and chemical processes of the brain. Spirituality means different things to different people. For some, it's primarily about a belief in God and active participation in organized religion. For others, it's about non-religious experiences that help them get in touch with something bigger than ourselves, such as nature, compassion, empathy, generosity. Science and Spirituality can be agents for personal development and for controversy as well. Existential crisis, or dread, is about moments when we question whether their lives have meaning, purpose, or valuue. "The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."   -Carl Sagan Our latest psychology will likely include a third category onto the mix. Stoicism, which is school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. According to the stoics some things can be changed and some cannot, especially our brains. But recent neuroscience tells us otherwise. A Dynamic Unity of Reality might describe reality from only one substance. As Aristotle explains, Metaphysics is the study of the One Substance (and its Properties) which exists and causes / connects all things, and is therefore the necessary foundation for all human knowledge. Aristotle's philosophy became official chirch dogma in the middle ages. Despite several thousand years of failure to correctly understand physical reality (hence the current postmodern view that this is impossible) there may be a solution. If we can unite Science with Metaphysics.   ' Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.' - Leibniz The study of human consciousness has seen profoundly important discoveries emerge in the past couple of decades. Old science tells us that we are mechanical systems governed, fundamentally, entirely by impersonal laws. But now we are coming to a new understanding that we actually create our reality moment to moment. Noted physicists and mathematicians, as well as psychiatrists and neuro-physiologists, are now supporting this opinion. According to panpsychism consciousness pervades the universe and is a fundamental feature of it. Apparently the universe is connected by a vast quantum energy field. Traditionally the universe is the expression of a universal mind that transcends personal awareness. A drop of rain falling into the ocean loses its it individuality and once again IS the ocean. The statement that mind is everything is a similar analogy. A profound understanding of this opens a doorway to deeper inner spiritual alchemy. Physical reality can be described in terms of Space, a Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) where the electron is a spherical standing wave. It is easy to show that the Wave Structure of Matter is the correct solution as it deduces the laws of Nature (the fundamentals of Physics & Philosophy). While the Wave Structure of Matter is obvious once known, to begin it will seem strange simply because it takes time for our minds to adjust to new knowledge. Harmony arises from a Wave Structure of Matter in Space (we are all interconnected in this space that we all commonly experience). This unity of reality (God, Brahman, Tao, Spirit, Energy, Light, Vibration) is central to all major world religions, thus their common moral foundation of 'Do unto others as to thyself' as the other is part of the self. Yet we continue to be our own worst enemy. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world".   (Mohandas Gandhi) Clearly our world is in great trouble due to human overpopulation and the resultant destruction of Nature, climate change and the pollution of air, land and water. The best solution to these problems is to found our societies on truth and reality rather than past myths and customs (which invariably cause harm). Our perception of the world is influenced by our expectations. These expectations, also called "prior beliefs," help us make sense of what we are perceiving in the present, based on similar past experiences. Our negative core beliefs drive our dysfunctional immediate beliefs in the forms of attitudes and rules. A desire for identity consistency may help explain why we can be so uncomfortable engaging with opinions that challenge our beliefs. The human instinct to survive is our most powerful drive. There are many examples of hard-wired human instincts that help keep us alive. Perhaps the most obvious case is the fight-or-flight response. But people's inner monsters come in various forms, some more recognizable than others, and that we are all one random encounter away from tragedy. Only recently have we learned that our brains and minds are so full of flaws and cognitive quirks that reward survival more than knowing truth. “For some of our most important beliefs, we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs. Considering how little we know, the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous—and it is also essential.” —2002 Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman The internet is clearly a very good way to get new knowledge visible to the world, a world now in great need of wisdom from truth and reality.  It is our purpose here to editorialize internet content to call attention to new and helpful information in order to gain a better overview. During The Renaissance the size of the known world tripled. During the past few decades astronomers have discovered that there are likely trillions of galaxies and almost an uncountable number of planets. It remains to be seen how this may affect who we really are. If you have or want a study/discussion group I can provide many media files and Texts, mostly taken from the internet.     aldoran@mail.com Science buddhism and paychotherapy The Seer -our other site