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#1960 - Monday, October 25, 2004 - Editor: Jerry
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Alpha World Escape...
"You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing
to another; you cannot escape the revelation of the identical by
taking refuge in the illusion of the
multiple."
--(Casaubon) Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum.
"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all
those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the
madness, melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in a human
situation."
--Graham Greene
"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or
suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that
means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with
it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from
it."
--Jiddhu Krishnamurti
"The efforts which we make to escape our destiny only serve
to lead us into it."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"On the whole, audiences prefer that art be not a mirror
held up to life, but a Disneyland of the soul, containing
Romanceland, Spyland, Pornoland and all the other escapelands
which are so much more agreeable than the complex truth."
--Geoffrey Wiseman
"To escape criticism - say nothing, do nothing, be
nothing."
--Elbert Hubbard
http://www.hiddenmysteries.com/redir/index154.html
Hidden Mysteries Books
Man's Cosmic Game LUH
by Giuliana Conforto
Are we all part of a Cosmic Game, or rather an interactive 4D
movie, playing characters who ignore its Authors and pretend to
call it 'reality"? This hypothesis is suggested here in
simple scientific terms and, surprisingly, fits holy texts, such
as Bible and the Gospels perfectly and, also, many ancient
legends and myths.
Human bodies might actually be sophisticated transient terminals
of one eternal Memory; although they can move and feel emotions,
they don't yet coincide with their true Selves, who are the
immortal players of Man's Cosmic Game, beyond the 4D movie.
The challenge is now to become what we truly are: protagonists of
the Cosmic Game, seeking our own evolution and so achieving the
sixth sense: consciousness.
Oneness of sciences and religions is the key-point of the book;
human origins, goals, life and death assume a scientific meaning.
Astrology and psychology are both interpreted as sciences of a
rhrell known cosmic field.
The observed universe is just one of many universes, that we
cannot observe, as long as our perception is limited to only five
senses. If we trust ourselves and passionately seek inner truth,
we can achieve the sixth sense, perceive them all and therefore
conquer our own immortality.
Man's Cosmic Game is a journey in time through parallel
universes, i.e. stages of the human body's genetic evolution,
which is now possible for all true inner seekers.
Summary
Chap. 1 - SCIENCE AND CONSCIENCE - The illusion - Light - The
horizon of visibility - Dark matter - The event horizon - The
platonic cave - Scientific Method - Experiment - A cat between
life and death - Measure - Theory - The conscious observer -
Emotional channels - Eros and Psyche
Chap. 2 - THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE - The Structure - Trinary logic
- The "Verb" - Gravity - Electroweak - Nuclear -
Alphabet - Messengers - Leptons - Hadrons - Vacuum - Mother
substance - The Royal Family - 4D Cosmic TV - Superspace - Bodies
of light - The soul and self-consciousness
Chap. 3 - MAN AND KNOWLEDGE - The tree of knowledge - The fall -
EDEN, a cybernetic tale - Perception - Sight - Hearing - Touch -
Thought - Memory - Brain and Mind - Expulsion from Paradise -
Minor mind - The Zodiac - The end of times - States of
Consciousness - Body-soul synergy
Chap. 4 - SUPERCOSMOS - Cosmic Copulation - The invisible
partner- Alchemical marriage - The Source of Life - Infinite
Universes - Normal universes - The kingdom of the dead - Parallel
universes - The Genetic Plan - An alien game - Man's cosmic
evolution - Man's origins - Stars, planets and men
Chap. 5 - EVOLUTION IN PROGRESS - Towards a new world -
Hyperspace travel - Human genetic evolution
TECHNICAL NOTES - Atoms and molecules - Anthropic principle -
Black and white holes - Dualism versus trinity - Einstein's field
equations - Entropy, time and temperature - Higgs field - Mass,
energy and rhythm - Non-local properties of particles - Olbers'
paradox - Relativity theories - Superspace- Symmetry break -
Uncertainty Principle - Weak Interactions - References - Glossary
- Analytical Index
~ ~ ~
Excerpt
MAN AND KNOWLEDGE
3. 1- The tree of knowledge
How does knowledge happen? Do we formulate a faithful image of
"reality", or do we invent an arbitrary one? That is
the question, outlining two alternatives, which has been asked
throughout the whole of philosophy without suspecting that there
could be a third comprehending them both. Previously suggested by
many savants in the past, the third can now be identified in
technical terms by quantum physics, with its basic uncertainty
principle. "Reality" is not an "object",
independent from the subject, but only one of many probable
virtual realities, that become real if, and only if, the subject
observes it.
In spite of many perplexities, quantum physics is a winning
theory, the basis of all technologies which invade the markets
nowadays, from quartz watches to television or computers;
Evidence that we live in a cybernetic supercosmos where many
virtual universes are possible, depending on the observer's
choice,
"Reality" is just that particular channel that we
humans choose from all the many probable universes or TV
channels3. How do we choose it though? And why do we choose this
particular one? Here we suffer and run endlessly towards goals,
which dissolve into the air like mirages in the desert, when we
reach them, and are then replaced by new ones which inevitably
leave us with the rushing, loneliness, and in the end old age and
Inevitable death.
Death is the mystery of human existence on Earth; it hovers over
life either like a taboo to ignore, or an event to cry about; the
more so when it is repeated, diffused or amplified by the mass
media. Yet myths, philosophies and legends speak about immortal
gods. In the Old Testament of the Bible, an eternal paradise is
described, the Garden of Eden from which man is banished because
of a sin· tasting the fruit of the tree of good and evil or the
tree of knowledge that God had forbidden. Since then man has been
exiled from his original state of wellbeing, prosperity, and
perennial communion with all.
But why is knowledge a sin?
Daily Dharma
CHANGE INTO FIRE
"Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to
him, 'Abba, I fast a little, I pray and meditate,
I live in peace and as far as I can, I purify my
thoughts. What else can I do?'
"Then the old man stood up and stretched his
hands towards heaven. His fingers burst into
flame like ten lamps of fire and he said 'Why not
change entirely, into fire?'"
~Story of the Desert Fathers
From the book "It's a Meaningful Life", written
by Bo Lozoff, published by the Penguin Group.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670889105/Angelinc