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Try #2: A complete short rational theory ...

Jan 30, 2002 07:03 AM
by Cronje van Heerden


I have taken an interest in Theosophy for a while. Í have just always felt
that there must be an more succinct way to answer the questions of the
Universe.

I have scribbled down my main thoughts. I have gone for
a more rational approach, attempting to demystify mysticism. Following the laws of logic as far as possible.

My main differences/additions to the general theosophic thought relates to the mathematic nature of the Universe and the mechanisms of the soul.

Equation theory
By Cronje van Heerden

A rational perspective on the mysteries of the Universe. Through applying logic I have come up with the following unified theory. The main questions I am addressing, are the age old questions, what is the purpose of the universe, and how should we live. I have picked up my belief system from various sources, always working with the logical process, that if something seems to be true from various different sources, then it most likely will be true.

My biggest problem with most religions, or belief systems, is their failure to be able to explain the mystical, or the creation of mysticism. Mystifying an aspect of the human existence is very natural, for it is physically impossible to examine ourselves objectively.

I also believe that when we are searching for answers for our existence, we can’t separate the ultimate goal of the human race from the goal of everything else in the Universe. We are all part of the same system.

I strongly believe that nobody is wrong in anything they believe. Everybody has a reason for every fact that they know to be true in their lives, and to argue with anyone’s point of view is pointless. Rational thought and discussion is the way to expand our understanding of everything.

I also strongly believe that searching for answers to the mysteries of the Universe, can give you practical solutions for living a rich and fulfilling life Every person has the ability to understand as much of the Universe as the next one, he is just not given the same opportunity.
Base Theory
Dimension 0
I am going to build my Universe from the bottom up. Starting at the very beginning of the Universe, and building everything that we experience in our lives from that theory.

I will put forth that the most mystical, in fact the only mystical, unexplainable phenomena in the Universe is the concept of “nothing” or “zero”. A main reason for our inability to explain it, (other than putting it into relation to “something”), is because it is such a simple and basic concept.

Quickly try to explain the concept of nothing to yourself. Complete nothingness, is the absence of everything or anything. We are not able to measure it, or assign any qualities to it whatsoever. It is dimensionlessness.

Now, from what I’ve picked up from physics, and universe theories from what I’ve read, is that nobody really has the answers to all the questions what our Universe is made up out of. There is no proven theory for what gravity really is. And even the most theoretical particle science advances, doesn’t really bring us closer to the truth of the Universe, it just gives us smaller subject matter, with more complicated mathematical equations.

An interesting point I have come across though – is the interesting relationship that exists between so called matter, anti-matter and energy. Basically everything around us, and ourselves, and everything that we can see, is made up out of matter. This relationship, although not completely understood by scientists, suggests to me as to the real answer behind everything – the Universe. Basically, if you combine matter and anti-matter – you get nothing – with energy given off in the reaction. We have proven that light travels at a constant speed. And there is also the dual nature of light – that it is a both a wave, and particle. If we use all these fact we can draw up a theory like follows.

First, there is the concept of nothing. Let’s refer to it as Dimension 0. You can’t give any attribute to anything in Dimension 0 – other than saying it is nothing. It is after all nothing, so concepts like mass, time and space are quite meaningless.

Dimension 1

Let’s assume that we live in a binary Universe. Everything seems to work in pairs. Now say for instance, that you get the phenomenon that nothing splits in two. And then each part of the two halves divides again ad infinitum. The result will be an infinitely complex mess of matter, anti-matter and energy. (The three are interchangeable as far as scientists can tell, or I can understand). Remember however that you can’t destroy the concept nothing. So nothing is still there, and if it was possible to look at nothing from the outside, it will look no different than before the split. Of course, Dimension 0 has no time either, so the moment of split is eternal, and is Dimension 0 is unchangeable.

So what caused the eternal split? The answer is – nothing. Try to visualise it in the following way. Put your two hands together, the distance between your palm is nothing. Let’s keep in mind that the concept of nothing is indestructible, and we keep on calling the distance between your palms nothing. This space between your hands is the Universe. Let’s have matter and anti-matter together at one point at the middle point between your two palms, and say that the sum of all matter, and all anti-matter is nothing. When you move your palms apart, the nothing doesn’t just stay in one point – it has to be spread over the complete distance between your palms. This distance between your palms, is our current reality. Our position in the Universe, that defines us inside nothing.

Thus – if you could look at Dimension Zero from outside, you would see nothing. But the forces making up nothing are completely different.

Energy is the first result of this split, because as we know all matter is made up of energy. Because the concept of time is neither present in Dimension 0, nor when you work with energy (as proven by relativity), this moment of split falls outside the realms of time as we understand it. Therefore I will call it the eternal split. The moment of the creation, the present, and the destruction of the universe is all out of time, it is happening now, it has been happening forever, and it will keep on going on forever. This is difficult to understand right now, but I’ll try making it a bit clearer later.

At the moment of the eternal split we have equal amounts of light (the matter and the anti-matter parts) projected into the Universe with a certain vector. As we know, light travels at a constant velocity, which is the velocity of that initial eternal split. But light also has a particle nature. So we can safely say that lots of light particles will act in the same way as balls on a pool table. They are subject to the laws of physics. If you set a ball into motion on a pool table, the end result of the effect was determined at the moment you determined the direction and velocity of the cue ball. And of course, the laws of physics hold true everywhere – not just on pool tables. So it is safe to say that the initial direction and velocity of all light would stay the same for all eternity (eternity for our practical analysis). I would call this first stage of the Nothingness split, Dimension 1. At this stage we’ve got the concept of direction, and as a result of that direction, also gravity.

Let’s discuss the second phase first and then get back to gravity

Dimension 2

We know that matter is made up out of energy. So in those first few moments, when every light particle got its direction, it was on a collision course with lots of other light particles. And under conditions of those first few moments of the eternal split, a lot of matter was formed, moving at high velocities from a central point. This is pretty close to the description of the Big Bang Theory. At this point, where the light fuses into the building blocks of atoms, and atoms we get Dimension 2. At this stage our reality of humans starts forming, with concepts of time, distance, mass etc. coming forth.

Mathematic Equation of the Universe
Mathematics is the Universal language. It is irrefutable scientific proof of every process on earth.

Scientists use mathematic equations to describe their surroundings. And everything in the universe can be described mathematically.

The Universe is the divine mathematical equation. Every particle in the universe is part of the mathematical equation putting everything relative to each other.

Take the simple equation 1=1. This equation can be complicated into infinity i.e

(1+4)/2-1=(5*10)-49

which still gives the same result. Now let us take the mathematical equation for infinity ∞.
∞ = ∞


According to base theory infinity and nothing, are the only two indescribable, and unimaginable concepts. And also, if you take the base theory to be true, you’ll be able to prove the nothing and infinity is the same thing. Because infinity is the border of nothing. Thus
∞ = 0
That is the equation that describes the universe. If you take this formula, and increase the complexity in this manner.

∞/2 + ∞/2 = 0 and thus ∞/2 = - ∞/2
This equation would indicate the initial split process, where matter and anti-matter parts, and are started to be examined separately. We, of course, live in the matter part of the equation. That is why anti-matter doesn’t form part of our every day existence.

Now if you take this equation, and increase the complexity 10 million times, using the same concept of split realities, you’ll have a very complicated formula. Take that complexity level, to the mathematical power of another billion or so, and you might find that the equations are just about on the complexity level of our every day lives.

This is how the concept of time is described mathematically. The human consciousness is a part of the equation at a certain level of complexity in the equation. This perspective on the equation, determines the perception of time relative to everything else.

It is easy for us to describe our immediate reality in the form of maths or science. It is a simple process describing the movement of the glass on the table. It is on our same level of the Universal equation, physically right next to us. The closer something is to us in the equation, the easier it is to describe. It is very difficult to describe the motion of a glass on the other side of the world, but if you had enough information (enough knowledge of the equation) you would be able to describe it. (Like for instance somebody describing the movement of the glass to you over the phone)

If you try to describe something on a different level of the equation than yours, for instance describing the glass on the atomic level, it becomes a lot more complicated. And trying to describe it on a subatomic level will become even more complicated. Our science is not advanced enough to even do that sufficiently – and that is just two levels up on the equation, on something right next to us.

If you look at the nature of maths and science, it is interesting to see that you can normally only describe something in relation to something else. Look at the way mathematical equations are set up, they always try to simplify something complex to our level of reality which is easy to understand. It is possible though, to take the simplest base concepts, on our level of reality, and make it infinitely complex. Of course, the concept of infinity is exactly the same as nothing. Nobody is able to describe it mathematically, even though we use the concept in maths.

I believe that one of our mistakes has been in science that we have always been describing things on our level of reality, and looking upwards in the equation. At some stage, you always get to something indefinable. That is where the concept of nothing/eternity comes into the equation and you’re not able to go any further.

By looking at the equation theoretically from the beginning, and knowing what the indefinable factors are, it is very easy to describe everything else in the equation.

Gravity
I’ve always questioned what gravity is. And I’ve got assorted answers from “Gravity is caused by the rotation of the earth” to more recent explanations of graviton particles. I don’t know much about graviton particles …

Gravity is simply the initial direction of the eternal split. We know that energy has a particle nature. And we know that if a particle is moving at a certain speed – that it requires an external force to make it change direction. There are lots of physics rules set up to explain these phenomena. This again hold true for matter right through the universe. Our whole planet earth is travelling with a constant velocity around the sun that is travelling at set path through the galaxy, which in turn is travelling through the Universe. Because the Universe is made up of Energy from the eternal split, the velocity the earth is travelling is still the same as at the split, just after countless collisions, or calculations in the Universal equation.

Thus to move the earth out of its gravitational orbit with the sun, it would need an external force from outside to affect it. This could be a large asteroid which is on a collision course with earth. When it hits earth, earth’s orbit will change – causing havoc on earth. But the sum and total of the direction and the velocity of the earth and the asteroid will be unchanged (from basic physics).

Gravity is not a force; it is the inevitable course, the vector direction that has been determined by the eternal split, the logical next step in the Universal equation. Let’s say you’ve got two atoms in space that appear to attract each other. The appearance of attraction is only an illusion because we can’t see the whole picture. Those two atoms have been on a collision course since the eternal split. It just took them a long to reach where they are.

So the conglomeration of matter can be seen as eddies in the flow of energy, complex sub-equations in the Universal equation.

End of the world
There could be no end of the universe. The eternal split is a continuous process. It is a process that is happening outside time. Matter can be neutralised by anti-matter to become nothing again. Dimension 0 is eternal though.

What we can understand
This piece of writing is just my way to explain the Universe. It is another version of what man has been trying to do for ages in words, teachings and books. Philosophers have come to the realisation a long time ago that, the greatest wisdom, is to know that it is impossible to know everything.

This makes perfect logical sense, because it is a physical impossibility to understand something that you are only a part of. Our brain capacity has evolved to the point where we can try to define our surroundings, and with each addition of information to the sum of human knowledge we come a bit closer to perfect understanding. If we could find a way through technology to increase capabilities of consciousness, we might be able to understand the Universe better. But full understanding and knowledge can only come, if each elementary unit of the Universe is known to us.

Our explanations of the Universe are a lot like trying writing an abridged version of a big publication, like say, the Bible, while you are only given a glimpse of every 10th page. Your abridged version’s message would be distorted and incomplete. If you compare your abridged version, with somebody else’s that has been given a glimpse of different pages, it will be possible to see that you are both writing from the same source document. But there will be huge differences in interpretation, and content. And without having the same source data, you will find the writers of the different abridgements defend the validity of their version of the truth.

Applications
It is necessary to accept the above base theory as true to continue. You don’t have to believe it (It does lack significant scientific proof), but by accepting it – we can investigate our surroundings to test the validity of the theory according to our own lives. And if we know what we’re looking for, we might even be able to give more scientific proofs as well.

I believe that within any theory, when dealing with something as a whole as the universe, the same theme would reoccur in all things that are part of the whole. Thus, same concepts that hold true for human interaction will hold true for atomic interaction.

The same principles of the human life cycle can also be seen in the cycle of civilisations, star systems, galaxies, and ultimately the universe. Each complicated process in the Universe is based on the same principles that keep the Universe itself going. Some would see this as a logical fallacy; it’s just one of those things where instinct will have to lead you.

Origins of earth
As is known from cosmology, every element in the earth’s surface is the product from a long destroyed star system. Energy starts out through the Universe, and with its collisions with other energy, the melting pots of the stars – goes through different phases of grouping, until it ends up where it is at present. Our reality, our piece of the equation.

It took most of the matter caught up in the earth grouping, millions of years of collisions to get where they are at the moment. All the different elements in the earth’s core, was formed in the cycle of a long exploded sun.

This means that not only do the elements that make up the raw material come from giant complex collisions elsewhere in the Universe, but also their position relative to each other. This is a difficult and somewhat abstract concept. A good way to explain it might be to look at how a gun is fired. The weight of the bullet, and the force with which it is projected from the gun, are both factors that will determine where it will hit, apart from where the gun was aimed. And thus how much damage it will do.

Life actually did form on the planet through the electrical interaction of certain carbon and nitrogen compounds, but it was no accident. It is the product of millions of year’s interaction, and refinement of processes, that started with the eternal split.

Then, through mutation, and natural selection, different species evolved through millions of years to bring us at our current level of civilisation.

This is not a random process though. Every particles position in the earth system has been determined by the formation of star system. I believe this is the very obvious method that information is carried through the Universe. You can call it the Universal soul, and this Universal soul is the method by which I will explain many mysteries of earth later.
The Soul
I have started off to say, that I don’t believe in anything mystical. Mystifying something is just a way of admitting that you are incapable, or unwilling to keep track of facts.

A human being – (the same as other living thing, or plain energy) – is just a sum of its experiences. Its collisions and interactions with other energy in the Universe. It is a piece of the Universal equation that is examined on its own. A very complicated equation, but still just an equation that must adhere to the same rules and basic concepts as even the simplest basic equation. In the same way that you need two hydrogen atoms to collide, to form a star system, you need the right biological interaction to conceive offspring. You need the right combination of energy to form an idea.

I like the think of the human mind as a kind of very complex long play record. A kind of thought machine. Your genetic material provides you with the recorder and the player. (Your mind and body). And then everything that has a physical influence on you since the day you are conceived provides the material that is recorded. Your parents, friends, peers, siblings, teachers, surroundings, the media, even the moon and the stars. Everything that is perceived either consciously or subconsciously by any of your 5 senses is recorded in your body. Due to the complexity of the human mind, and the complexity of the stimuli, the wealth of information and experiences stored in our mind becomes our consciousness.

What is the difference between man and animal then? Why are we conscious of our existence when animals don’t appear to be? I believe it’s purely a difference in the size of the recording matter. Other animals simply do not have the brain capacity to store enough information to constitute a consciousness, or form a complex language. Our minds follow the same pattern that is seen in the Universe of self exploration. It is a process our soul follows to its end purpose, full self knowledge. We have got the necessary genetic tools to become sentient beings. Not all of us use those tools though.

Most people are dismayed by this thought. Do we perish completely when we die? Is that really the end? Are we just animals? I definitely don’t believe that, although at face value that is what my theory states.

Let me give my explanation for what our soul is. If you move a glass of water that is standing on the table, the event of moving the glass is recorded in your neural network by 3 senses, sight, touch and hearing, through the process of electro-chemical reaction with the glass. This information is stored, classified and integrated into your mind according to a specific set of rules. You can recall the sensory effects of moving the glass, and because of its classification relative to other information, you can reason out the current position of the glass. But, the movement of the glass is also recorded in the physical world, by the glass actually being in a different position than it was. This record is indestructible. Even if you were to vanish from the face of the earth, the glass will still be moved. And nobody can counteract the movement, without causing a new event.

I believe that this physical indestructable record of your action, is the mechanism through which the soul is transferred. Thus your soul does not travel around with you in your body, and is released when you die, but it travels through the consequence of every action your body has on the Universe. And the nature of the action, determines the course of the consequence. This explanation does take some of the strain off philosophers to find higher spiritual meaning in the machine that constitutes our physical body.

But where does your soul come from in the first place? Your brain gathers and stores information from every sensory effect in your lifetime. Just like the food that “collides” with you in its universal journey of you, so does all other energy (and matter) that “collide” with you change you irrevocably. Some just to a greater or lesser extent.

From the day you are born, your neural record starts recording everything
you can perceive with your five senses. Everything around you has an effect on the program that is stored in your mind, certain things have more effect than others e.g. your parents.

This neural record walks around the world in your body, and it has an effect on the physical world. Either, by affecting simple things, like eating food, or complex things like interaction with people. The way in which it interacts with the world, is completely dependant on how your mind was programmed. This effect that your body has, is your soul. The simple changes, like moving a glass on the table, although irreversible, have little meaning to your indestructible soul, because the change doesn’t promulgate itself. Teaching a person something, causes a complex change in a complicated being. This change will go on and grow in the person it was taught to, and cause further change in both simple and complex objects.

The interaction with a human being is probably the most complicated stimulus that could be found on earth. We interact with each other on various levels of sensory stimulation. That is why one’s parents play such an integral part in one’s personality.

Astrology can account for so many similarities in personalities around the world, because of the same influence stars have on humans from far away. Think of the similarities between people with the same parents, or same teachers.

Thus your soul is not something you carry around in your body. It is the sum of effects that your body has on the Universe. You are the product of the consequences of other peoples’actions. Thus, your soul is eternal. It will live on in the influences you have on your physical environment, and the influences you have on other people.

Most people are dismayed at the thought of their soul being something as vague and intangible as simply their physical effects on earth. It is actually a wonderful realisation to come to. Your soul is not something small and mystical that is carried around in your body. It is an indestructible force that is combined out of everything you have touched directly or indirectly in your life.

The difference between my view of the soul, and the traditionally held one, where the soul information is stored. Traditionally it is believed to be in your body, in your mind. I propose it is stored everywhere else, in everything that your body, voice, or image has been in contact with. This concept, o your ego being separate from your physical body is very difficult to conceive, but if you think about it, it makes sense.

Your effect on the Universe is indestructible and eternal. The glass of water that you moved, will even have an effect on the way the whole star system explodes, and will then effect the formation of the next star system.

Reincarnation
If you accept the explanation of the soul, then the concept of reincarnation becomes very easy to explain. It also fits in very snugly with previous explanations of the dynamic of reincarnation.

You are the reincarnation of all those that have come before you, and that have caused every one of sensory stimulus records that constitute your consciousness.

You are not just the reincarnation of your parents, but of everything that has affected them in their lifetime. And because the Universe moves as a single unified pattern, other people’s experiences and information can pass to you through the organisation of matter around you.

In this way you are reincarnated according to the karmic rules of the Universe. You basically course the plot of your soul yourself.

The only difference with traditional views, is that you are not reincarnated as a single entity. Every action’s consequence is reincarnated seperately. If you can visualise the equation we had in the beginning, a good deed (love calculation/equation complication) will set in motion a dominoes effect in the equation that will spread far. A bad deed (fear calculation/ equation stagnation) will have no change in the equation, no further self exploration, no eternal life etc …

Now these deeds create karma that will not be reincarnated into a specific body, but countless separate entities. To explain this better I will need a mathematic colour coded computer model to show how the soul works in the equation.

But now you’ll tell me that that a person can’t help if he does something bad, he can do nothing else; because he can only act according to the way he was programmed from the day he was born. And I would agree with you completely, but, you are being programmed as you are reading this book. If what you read makes sense to you, you take it up in your programming, and if it doesn’t you discard the information. Thus, you have the power every day to change your destiny. Of course, due to the nature of the universe, everything is predestined, but the future is hidden to us, because we lack significant data to extrapolate the future from the present.

The moment someone convinces you that you have full power over your own destiny, and then you will have it.


Good and Evil
Firstly, good and evil are manmade concepts, and they only have meaning when examined relatively. You can’t have good without evil.

One of the most basic characteristics of man (and all living beings) is their survival instinct. This is a very logical instinct to develop, over a long period of time, especially seeing as those life forms without survival instincts die.

Basically most of human behaviour can be traced back to their basic survival skills. And human social behaviour can be traced back to how humans survive in a group.

If you analyse, what we see as crime, and what we see as doing good in our modern world, you will always be able to draw a parallel between the action, and the initial corresponding personal or social survival instinct.

If you murdered someone, less of the group survived. If you stole from someone, you decreased their chances of survival. Certain sexual practices, or foods, promoted disease. It is very easy to find the reason in our moral systems, out of the history of man. With the course of time, these survival instincts, especially if they are still relevant, become part of the human core of knowledge.

The problem with a morality system, is that all people that are expected to work together in the same group, didn’t necessarily have the same morality development.

Everyone does what they do, either out of necessity, or from out of their moral development framework. There is no one that actually thinks they are a bad person, every action of every person is perfectly justified to him when he does it.

Thus, to judge an action as good or bad is silly, and uninformed. All you can do is adhere to the basic rules of society, of what has been proven over years to be either positive or negative effects on society as whole.


Fear and Love
It is quite interesting when you relate the concepts of fear and love to how matter reacts with the Universe. And how we can determine the purpose, and the cause of our life on earth.

Let’s assume for a moment that most religions have the right idea (just to stay completely objective) that to advance life, is the right way to live life. Let us think of everything that is considered as good and bad deed in most religions. Any action that advances life, or knowledge, is seen as good and noble, and any action that hurts life or the quest for knowledge is seen as evil.

Now think of our pool table Universe model again. When two balls collide, they affect each other. The more collisions a ball or group of balls experience with stationary balls, the slower they will move, until a faster ball will collide again to set it free and set it on its course on the Universe. A collision that sets about a course of action that will further life, and thus knowledge, is perceived as us to be a collision of love. And a collision that hinders life and knowledge is a collision of fear.

This process can be seen as well when we look at the Universal equation that describes the motion of the pool balls. Every time a piece of the equation is extended or complicated, to put it relative to another part of the equation, it is seen as a calculation of love. The calculation that causes no further complication, or hinders complication of the equation, causing stagnation, is a calculation of fear.

Everything in our reality is made up out of the effects of complex energy collisions. Our body is made up out of matter, which is made out of energy. Even our thoughts are only complex matter and energy reactions.

The more fear, or derivatives of fear like hate, anger etc, the less complication will occur in and around our part of the equation. In this way your soul can get caught up in a perpetual web of fear, which we can see as hell. Your soul can always get caught in a current of love, which will rocket you through the process of self knowledge, which we can call heaven.

Think of people in history who had the biggest effects on humankind. Think of Jesus of the Christian faith. He was as close to the perfect man as anyone else in history. He was driven only by love, with almost no fear/anger. Because of this amazing love he possessed – he had a huge influence on the world. A huge positive effect. This puts him in heaven, at the right hand of God.
What is God then?
I do believe in God. I have chosen to find a description for him more in rational thoughts than in mysticism.

We as humans appear as cognitive beings, and all we’ve got is a bucket full of electro-chemical tissue interaction to make up that consciousness.

God is everything. God is the universe. Now most people will say: ''How can you give inanimate objects like stars and asteroids the qualities of a sentient being? "Then, try to think of the Universe in terms of our own brains, with energy interaction on a cosmic scale. That is the divine consciousness. That is the energy interaction that is omnipotent, omniscient, and has been forever, and will be forever. God is the whole Universal equation.

Another nice way to prove this theory is to look at the way God is described in most religions. God is love. Then if you look at our equation, in order for an equation to be there in our reality, it had to calculated from a ‘love’, or complication calculation. Therefore, everything that has happened in the past has been caused out of love. Thus the whole equation, up to the point of the eternal split is just one big computation of love, and that is God, the whole of the equation.

Trinity
While reading up on the matter is was very interesting to see all the different permutations of the threefold thinking came up in spiritual belief systems, and science.

The most familiar to me is the holy trinity in the Christian faith. The father, the son and the Holy Ghost. According to the theory, the father is the past, the whole of the equation before your current perspective, which is pure love. The son is the present, the current calculation in the equation that will provide the new equation. And the Holy Ghost is the future. It is the predestined logic path of the equation, but is hidden to anyone in the equation, because we do not have access to all the data that makes up the calculation of the next equation.

This same concept can be seen in the Kabala tree of life. In fact the whole theory can be easily fit into the Kabala tree of life, or any religion.

Religion
The wonderful thing of my theory, is that is doesn’t have to make allowances, or adapt itself to other religions. It actually explains them.

Religion is a way of answering man’s basic questions about existence. Who am I? Why am I here? Etc. The more sense a religion makes, the easier it is to believe in it. This is very much the same as providing accompanying proof to a theory.

What happens is this. In man’s search to answer the big questions, he draws from the records in his mind the events that happened in his life, and puts them together in such a way as to explain the main questions. Once you have come up with a solution to the big questions that are proved logically by the events and teachings in your life you would have a belief system.

Through the ages, the religions that have become most widespread are those that contain the most applicable truths in the greatest cross-section of humanity. The ones that are closest to the truth.

Another important facet to keep in mind when looking at the effect of religions on earth is the way in which it propagates itself. The nature of having a religion is such that a member of the religion has to believe in it completely. If you believe in something, you would defend your views to other people as far as your application of logic allows. Thus it happens that whole groups of people defend their religion to the point of damning others, or even killing them (which is a very effective way of defence).

Most of the earlier religions didn’t have this inbuilt defence mechanism, and when superior logic was developed on the topic, they were quickly transplanted with the new ways of thinking.

This inbuilt defence mechanisms of the great belief systems, is most probably what causes so much distress with the reading this chapter. People are taught from a young age that it is wrong questioning the belief system they are brought up with.

The Spanish Inquisition was a good example of religious defence mechanisms. Less harmful ones are currently applied at the moment though.

If that belief system wasn’t imprinted well enough, another belief system with superior practical proof will probably supplant it at some stage through the person’s life. If it was imprinted well enough, the person would refuse to even consider any practical proof given by any other belief system.

Religion is a great way to civilise man. It lets different groups work together towards the same goal, within the same general rules. It is also very convenient, because it lifts the responsibility off the individual in the quest for answering answers, to questions that appear too big for him to solve.

Predestination

As we have seen, with the direction of light, and the theory of gravity – everything is on a set course from the eternal split in the Universal Equation. This means that the course of every basic building block of the Universe is predestined from beginning to end. The only entity to have full knowledge of this predestination though is God (the full equation), because if one is in the equation, it is impossible to know everything that will effect your current equation.

This thought has got a tendency to make people despair and grow fatalistic. Some people get depressed, thinking that it is impossible for them to change their future because everything is predestined. They are right in believing everything is predestined, they are wrong in believing that they can’t change it.

Thought is the most powerful force in the Universe. Well, just as powerful as the force of gravity – they are all part of the same system. The trick comes in realising that you have complete control over the thoughts in your head. If you are able to read this, and absorb it, then you have got the power in your mind to control your own thoughts. And human thought controls all human action.

The only effect that the knowledge of predestination should have on us is to free us from worry and despair. We can live in the wonderful knowing, that every decision we have made, and will make will be the right decision. We can only make decisions with the tools that are available to us, namely our minds. And our mind is the result of our life experience, generated by our surroundings, recorded on our physicality, which is in turn produced by our genetics.

Predicting the future
Predicting the future is easy. Let’s say we want to predict the future of our glass of water standing on the table. We can predict that the glass will stay in its position until it is moved. Because we are controlling all the forces that can make the glass move, we are aware of all the variables involved in the movement of the glass. Therefore, if we decide not to move the glass – we can determine how long it will stay in the same position.

Because the Universe is a single entity, every piece of matter, was in collision contact with every other piece at least one stage in the past. The result would flow from this that the course of all objects, are in some way mirrored by all other objects.

Back to our pool table model. If you are only able to see half the table, and you know how the balls on the table are laying. By examining the effects of the balls on the half you can see, you’ll be able to predict the position of the other balls with accuracy as good as your understanding of physics.

This is the same in our everyday lives. All the information of our surroundings is stored in our neural network, and is sorted mathematically subconsciously. This subconscious mathematical process is what we refer to as instinct. Or being psychic in some cases.

We learn from experience that a certain chain of events will have a certain result. And when our subconscious mind puts together the maths of a previous chain of events, it will create the sensation of an instinct to warn us of the event happening. In simpler forms, this is the basis of all human behaviour.

This instinct’s accuracy varies with each subconscious mind’s math aptitude, and your perspective relative to material informatics. Some people in history have shown remarkable ability to predict the future accurately. There are even more people that only got a few things right – and some that were completely off the wagon. We don’t hear that much about them.

Faith can move mountains
In a purely material world – it doesn’t seem probable to have an objects move with no opposing forces working in on it. There does seem to be reliable accounts of the process though.

Let’s suppose that pure thought can move an object at will. But let us also remember that the thought of the will to move the object has the same eternal split origin of the actual moving of the object. This knowledge of being able to move things with your mind is not a very easy state of mind to achieve. Especially as it seems so improbable, and mostly unnecessary, because lifting it with your hand requires much less thought.

If you look at the normal process of human mind forming, it is only after you have seen other people using their hands to lift glasses, that you might consider it possible for you to do it as well. And if your hand, which is similar to the demonstrator, wasn’t there, you would have difficulty believing that you can lift the glass as well. And if your general sense of Newtonian physics wasn’t there, you’d find it less difficult to move it with your mind.
Ghosts and spirits

In the same way that your will to move the glass, and the glass moving had the same origin in the Universal equation, so can ghosts have an effect on our reality. It works on the same basic concept, that if a person’s will or need to live, or someone else’s belief in the existence of another entity is strong enough, physical reality can be affected.

This would also explain why it is so difficult to measure the activities of ghosts, and why they rarely want to perform for sceptics. If someone is sceptic enough, no action will be able to persuade him otherwise.
Aliens
As we have said in our base theory, all matter, and the start up equation of everything has been in the universe since the very start of the equation. Thus, the information from all the planets that earth is made up of is still featuring in some way or another.

This is the most logical explanation for alien sightings I can think of. If there were civilisations on the planets caught up in earth’s equation, they would still affect the course of everything on the planet. And in the same way that ghosts can make a difference in physicality or perception to our surroundings, so can the aliens as well.

In this way, Aliens are controlling all life on the planet. We do not know the extent to which they have advanced, but it makes sense that we would see the ghosts, and be influenced by the height of the advancement – just before their destruction, or rather redistribution through the Universe.

This is not something that we should fear. We are affected and controlled by many factors, governments, teachers, parents. It is just the natural course of things. Our controllers are just acting on the behaviour of the entities that control them, and so will we one day be in control of others.

Ancient Knowledge
Ancient civilisations seem to have had superior knowledge than us today. There is the all the mystery surrounding the pyramids and legends of lost cities. It is very difficult for us to think that someone could have been more advanced than us. But if you look at where the knowledge comes from, it is not all that strange.

All technological advancement is only the next logical step in the equation. And the equation has been reworking and refining itself over billions of years. Every new discovery is just a rediscovery of something discovered in the past. That is why it will happen that scientists make the same discovery in different parts of the world at the same time. It is just how the equation unfolds previous knowledge to the current players of the equation.

We find it strange that ancient knowledge like the book Genesis in the Bible can contain so much truth about the creation of the world as we have learned through science later, in the form of analogy. It is just another example of how previous information is reiterated in every day life.
Power
It is a well-known fact in contemporary society, that knowledge is power. This is actually truer than we can even think. If you look at the people that are considered powerful, they are the ones with the most influence over other people.

All power can be traced to superior knowledge. Power lies in knowledge of the future. And the more you know about the present, the better feeling you will have about what will happen in the future.

Thought and Happiness
Happiness relates to love, in the same way that unhappiness relates to fear. Happiness is a simple choice you make. You don’t need anything to be happy, you just need to decide to be happy. Ok, the argument would logically follow, ‘If happiness is a choice, why doesn’t everyone choose to be happy?’, or ‘If every person’s life is predestined, surely everyone can’t be happy’. These are valid arguments, but with very simple answers. Everyone doesn’t know that they can choose to be happy, and when they believe this they can make that choice. And everything is predestined, including the fact that you are reading this right now. If these words have enough power, they can change your mind set, and you can be truly happy.We know that thought is as powerful as any other force in the Universe – and if you have happy thought, you’ll experience happiness.

If you send out the thought that you need some form of material wealth, firstly, the thought going out is that you don’t have what you want at the moment. And if not having something is the leading thought at that moment, there’s is no way that you can have it .. due the the power of thought. If you want something, the only way to get it is to follow a route that has been proven by other people to get what you want. For instance, if you want a lot of money, you won’t be able to have a lot of money, until you’ve followed the route of working hard for a long time to get it. There is a subtle trick to this way of thinking though, because you can’t cheat your own thought. So you can’t just say ‘I don’t want a new car’, you have to believe it. Or even better yet ‘I don’t need a new car’will completely absolve you of your need.

This is as far as I’ve written down. There is still much that needs to be put into words, and even more that needs to be cleared up. At least now, I have a rational model think from.


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