Science and Metaphysics
Here we will go a little beyond science, and walk into the shallows of metaphysics but not
drown in it. We can determine what we want by how it feels, but if we are working with the
physical world (Distal World), feelings do not count. Working with the inner world
(Proximal World) then feelings do count. There are two groups of feelings, the animal
instinctive feedings (hunger, fear, sickness) and the spiritual feelings based on insight, love
and goodness.
Choices
It all comes down to choices. At every little crossroad in our lives, minute by minute we
drift towards certain conclusions until one day some of us make a big choice. We are
always changing, growing, getting better or worse.
Enculturalization
We make all these choices surrounded by our culture that makes unconscious demands on
us that we don't notice. We use a language we did not choose, we must ware matching
shoes, we excuse ourselves for a sneeze or yawn. Thus most of us are enculturated and
domesticated but do not pay attention to it.. We learned to believe in our enculturalization
before we had the ability for independent thinking. We bought into everything until we
learned to say "no."
Don Miguel Ruiz (2000) says that domestication causes us to believe in images of
perfection that are used as the reference when we judge ourselves and others often
severely and unfairly. (Living in the U.S.A., Alison Raymond Lanier, 1981).
World Views
Ancient World View
Over the centuries man has speculated on the big picture. Lewis Brown (1926) wrote a
book called This Believing World that become popular in the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
circles. In the beginning savages explained the world as if everything was alive. Objects
were seen as spirits, ghosts and early religion provided the magic to pacify these beasts.
There were primitive gods everywhere that were to be feared and dealt with. Much of the
dogmas of modern religious are based on these early ideals.
Modern World Views
The church identified the mind, body and spirit as three separate things. How they worked
was a mystery.
In the 18th centry, efforts were made to establish new world views. Instead of elaborate
dogma, efforts were made to greatly simply how things worked. One of the simplest
was idealism.
Idealism
Idealism states that the mind is all that exists and that the outer world is but an mental
illusion. There is no real world, no body... its all in your head (oops). Believers included
Plato, George Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, and Hegel.
Dualism
Dualist said that the mind and the body exist but separately. The dualists include Plato,
Aristotle, Sankhya, the Yoga schools of Hinduism and the 17th century philosopher René
Descartes.
Monistism
The monists disagreed and argued that mind and body are really made of the same stuff.
Monists include Parmenides (5th century BC), and rationalist 17th century Baruch Spinoza.
Each of these philosophies looks at the same world though different points of view.
Everything is the mind as the mind is our lens to see the world. But we have to tend to the
body. If we don't the body make the mind weak. Also the mind needs guidance from the
spirit. If not the mind has its own life and nothing matters.
Deepermind
Deepermind is a philosophy that believes in the optimization of Body, Mind and Spirit.
Each can be seen as separate or as a whole depending on the point of view. Thus a person
is all three. But we can look at each aspect.
The body is physical, the mind reflects organization similar to software, and the spirit is the
root cause of goodness and all physical form. It is possible through correct decision
making to optimize all three aspects of one's self.
Deepermind attempts to use logic, data flow, mathematics to describe some aspects of
metaphysics. Much of this is unprovable by experiment, but by just observing the
problems reported in the news media, there has to be a better way. The better way is taken
from many sources and his held together through a belief in goodness, love and physical
reality.
Creation
Just to say there is the mind, the body and spirit does no speak to the obvious. We are
alive. There are causes, processes, and effects. Everything must have a cause.
In the beginning there was only God. God was the cause and the process was God and the
effect was God as there was nothing else but God.
1. Cause - God's Thought
2. Process - God's Law
3. Effect - God's Creation
Consciousness
Consciousness is the crack in the materialistic egg. Consciousness is not matter, energy,
space or time. Science finds it hard to explain.
Since God made everything, everything is God and so consciousness is part of God. When
we use our conscious will we are a creative cause. This cause becomes a process, and an
effect is made. We think about going to the moon, we make it happen and then we notice a
footprint on the moon.
God continues to create through man. Thus Man puts things into motion in a similar three
step manner:
1. Cause - Man's Thought
2. Process - God's Universal and Unchanging Natural Laws
3. Effect - Man's Creation
(I give credit to the Church of Religious Science for the basic understanding presented
here. As part of my creativity, I have expanded their teachings, based on some logic and
scientific principles.)
Feedback
Negative feedback, taking the output of a signal and inverting it and feeding to the input
acts to regulate. Positive feedback, taking the output of a signal and feeding back to the
input without inversion creates as oscillator.
Man uses negative feedback to correct his His senses pick up the image of his creation
and an image is formed in his mind for his consideration. If it is good, then the feedback is
positive and the creation continues. If it is bad, then the creation is changed to make it
good.
Crossover Points
As man causes a creative thought it passes into the physical realm. From cause to process
the idea crosses over from the mind into the physical process. There is a cause to process
crossover point here where the person through his or her mind pushes idea into the brain
for movement of the body.
There are other crossover points. The eye allows light from say a star to crossover into the
mind's eye of the observer. The photons from the star cross over to become an image in
the brain consisting of changes in chemistry and electrical activity. The image at the back
of the eye is up-side-down and reversed, but the brain corrects the image so the image
looks as it does so perfectly.
Another crossover point occurs with sound, as vibration of the air is transformed by tiny
hairs within the inner ear so that a sound image in terms of chemistry and electrical activity
crosses the brain.
Ideas too crossover the brain. They are processed and stored countless times until a
framework of working ideas is formed.
Observation
Descriptions are always based on an observer watching the progress of a cause changing
into process, producing an effect that is reflected back to the mind.
Consciousness is difficult to observed directly, as the thing that is observing cannot
observe itself directly. As we raise our consciousness high enough we can see into our
self and others.
However there is a quantum leap in consciousness. Just as a piece of paper with writing
only one side can be read when the observer is looking at the writing and cannot be read
when the observer is looking at the back side.
So is it when looking at a human, one can see atoms, chemicals, cells and circuits, but this
is look at the blank side of the paper. We have to see consciousness from the conscious
view point, otherwise we are blind.
Zero Point of Observation
All our senses images travel down nerves to the brain. The senses take things in three
dimensions and translates them so they travel down the nerve. This is a three dimensional
to one dimensional transform.
At the end of the last nerve, the one dimensional image is translated to zero dimensions. It
ends somewhere as a point. Otherwise it would continue to travel. This zero point is
observed by a higher dimension, that of consciousness.
Time stops at the zero point. It takes time for the image to travel the nerve. When it gets to
its resting point it stops. It is no longer moving, and like a black hole time stops too.
We Are Beyond the Zero Point
We exist as experiencers of the body on the other side of the zero point. We witness the
world through the knothole of the zero point.
Not all the information in the brain goes through the zero point. Only what we experience
crosses. The other processes are not experienced, but they happen. The brain is attending
to all the things it needs to do to keep us alive. Breathing, heartbeat, chemical balances
and all performed without control.
Loss of Consciousness
The zero point from the brain side can stop working. When we sleep and are not dreaming,
then the zero points are shutdown.
The zero points require energy from the consciousness side in order to operate. If they are
shut down, then consciousness itself looses energy and consciousness can slip away.
Like two computers sharing information, when one locks up, the other computer can lock
up as well. This is because they are waiting for a handshake. Consciousness waits for
acknowledgment through the zero point for a person who is unconscious.
Layers of Consciousness
Consciousness is concerned with emotions, thought and sensory information. All three
must pass through the zero points. An image of the body and its surroundings is created
in the brain and also on the conscious side of the zero point. Information stored in the
brain is duplicated on the other side from the zero point.
Thus consciousness can ponder what to do next, and execute its will power to select the
next thought and any activity.
As the body moves, the image of the body in the brain moves and the image of the body in
conscious moves two. Thus the body can be seen in layers. It has a layer corresponding
to the brain image and the non-physical image beyond the zero point.
Like layers of cloth, what happens in the brain is duplicated on the other side of the zero
point. And verse-versa. This the cloth is bidirectional.
Mental Illness and Entanglement
The brain can have physical illnesses. But the brain can also become slowed down,
confused, or speeded up due to lack of reference. There are three references, that of
reality, that of other people and that of the Source of goodness.
Without reference, there is no degree of importance, and classification becomes a tangled
mess due to lack of a hierarchy.
The Brain is a Bag of Marbles
A healthy brain has a hierarchy. Processes are arranged in layers. Multiplicity of the brain
means conflicting and isolated meanings emerge. The goal is to have one integrated
personality.
Each marble is a simpleton that is an expert at one small job. For example, one
simpleton job might be to recognize a rose, and another to understand if the rose is a pretty
one. The marbles are not aware of the big picture as this is reserved by consciousness on
the other side of the zero point.
Hierarchy is a requirement otherwise things would overlap in purpose. Higher layers would
not observe and control lower layers. There are many structures in the brain so this
hierarchy of layers must be very complex and actually unknowable. We cannot think about
things if the thing we are thinking about is the object itself. It is like the same hand drawing
itself.
The Source
Beyond the zero point there is higher layers that one can just speculate about. We receive
inspiration and understanding knowing that there are non-physical beings above our non-
physical being.
Without God, we become lost. We lose track of what is good. One of the most essential
steps in overcoming our problems is to believe in God. Those in Alcoholics Anonymous
use the twelve step program to help them stay sober. The second step is so essential:Came
to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Goodness Really Exists
I was at a astronomy party, and while sharing a telescope, I got into a conversation. I made
some remarks about what we were seeing. "There must be a God, just look at the vastness
of space." My friend said he did not believe in God. I asked him if he believed in goodness.
He thought for a moment and said no. I asked if it was ok if I kicked him. He said no. I said,
"Then you want me to be good?" and he said yes. And I asked him, "Do you think goodness
exists?" Of course he said, "Yes indeed."
Migration of Lower Marbles
If there is a vacuum in the upper levels due to lack of purpose, and no spiritual
considerations, the lower simpletons such as the urge to keep clean or to eat gain power.
Thus we have people who constantly wash their hands or eat all the time. As this process
continues, the person seems to sink into crudeness and vulgarity.
Love
When the references are working well, and the Source of Goodness is near at hand, other
people feel close there is love. There is also love of material things, of invention and the
arts.
Evil
Evil is just the lack of goodness and love. When things are ignored, when there is no
control, when there no love then things are cold and dark. Evil is not a substance but a
lack of substance.
When one turns off the light they do not turn on darkness.
Thus apathy, not wanting to learn and grow is evil. Not wanting to help is evil. It is just a
vacuum of love and goodness and has no power except to cause pain. The lack of air, light
or food is bad, but if there was no air, no light or no requirement for food, then we would
not miss these essentials. Thus is no evil per se.
Just as Love is associated with goodness, fear is associated with the lack of goodness.
Fear is the belief that bad things are going to happen. But there is no badness, and no evil.
There is only a lack of goodness.