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The Wisdom of Occam

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William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347) was an English Franciscan friar who is famous even today for having devised a problem-OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAsolving technique that scientists now honor mostly in the breach: Occam’s razor. Occam’s razor states that when there are competing hypotheses, the one that requires that we made the fewest assumptions should be selected. Or in other words, the simplest explanation is likely to be the best explanation.

Occam’s wisdom often comes to mind as I browse my favorite popular science magazines, seeking evidence that mainstream physicists might at last be getting a clue. Sadly, that evidence is slim. Rather than veering back toward the ageless wisdom of Occam, the fact that their theories have been driven so entirely off the rails by their refusal to study all of reality has led physicists into ever-greater absurdities. For example, they are still grappling with their need to make a multiverse theory work in the face of not much evidence that it has any connection with anything. To quote the linked article, in the past six years the Large Hadron Collider (“LHC”) has “failed to yield any of dozens of particles that many theorists had included in their equations for more than 30 years. The grand flop suggests that researchers may have taken a wrong turn decades ago in their understanding of how to calculate the masses of particles.” Gee, ya think? Even the Higgs Boson, the LHC’s one big success, apparently isn’t panning out as hoped.

We have talked here about the fact that physicists are trying to understand – by their own measure – only 5% of what they know exists. We have talked as well about the 27% of the universe that is “dark matter,” but in fact the real stumper seems to be the 68% of the universe made up of “dark energy.”  At the link is yet another article wandering over a flaky field of ideas that seem to have no connection to anything that we might think of as real. The fact that dark matter and dark energy don’t interact with or give off photons of light, that indeed they don’t seem to be made up of particles, is a frustrating anathema to people in such a drilled-down, highly specialized field that they call themselves particle physicists.

Another theory of particle physicists is that the universe might be a hologram. Apparently indeed it is a hologram, but not in any particle-physics sense. Shortly before his death two decades ago, Michael Talbot wrote The Holographic Universe, a book so beautifully grounded in reality and so easy for you and me to grasp that it puts modern science writers to shame. If you haven’t read Talbot’s masterwork, you have been denying yourself a life-changing experience! All the scattered nonsense in the linked article, though, doesn’t rise to even a rational level, let alone to Michael Talbot’s brilliance. Rather than investigating the possibility that all of reality might be a hologram, particle physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are testing just a property of string theory, which is yet another dead-ended attempt to unite Newtonian and quantum physics.

Dear friends, I apologize for the snark. I know better! But my frustration at this point is as great as their own. Since The Fun of Staying in Touch came out in August, I have guested on dozens of radio shows and heard from many of the hosts their frank delight in learning at last so many glorious and simple truths that are basic to our shared reality. It is difficult to avoid a sense of frustration when humankind is hungry to know what is true, and modern physicists are obsessed with studying just the various subatomic particles that make up five percent of reality.

At some point, what was forgivable confusion about having reached so many dead ends becomes a willful refusal to admit one’s errors and humbly step back and start again. We are at that stage now in physics. And it is all because for more than a century physicists have refused to examine the evidence for a greater reality that has been provided by abundant communications from the dead and supplemented by Max Planck’s great insight that human NPG 65,William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester,by Unknown artistconsciousness is primary and pre-existing. All of mainstream physics’s present wounds are self-inflicted.

Modern physicists’ ongoing navel-contemplation has begun to make them so irrelevant that the study of the next great wave in physics must be led by just a few pioneers. First among them is Thomas Campbell, whose consciousness theory of everything as set forth in his book, My Big T.O.E, is a must-read if this field interests you. And his pioneering work is ably supplemented by many researchers – most not even scientists – who are figuring out how reality works. We are doing what physicists should be doing! Eventually they will come in and do it better. In the meantime, we hobbyists have the joy of making glorious new discoveries that posterity will show to have been on the cutting edge.

We are finding out that the greater reality is not complicated, after all. It is more wonderful than our most optimistic imaginings, but at its heart it is profoundly simple. And somewhere, William of Occam is smiling.

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Future Human Evolution

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The question of future human evolution has been faddish among popular-science types. Some argue that origin_2162104243human evolution is at an end because our culture and our ease of travel make further natural selection impossible. Others, though, see us likely evolving in ways that will radically extend our earth-lives, including perhaps fertility into our eighties, interfacing our brains with robots, and even coming up with ways to download ourselves right to computers and thereby become “immortal.” It is spectacular to see them continuing to miss the whole point of our being alive.

In order to understand the likely course of future human evolution, we first must understand what human beings are:

1)    Human minds are part of eternal Mind. These human bodies and brains that may or may not be continuing to evolve are nothing but temporary probes that we use to experience the illusion of earth-life. Our minds remain part of eternal Mind. That is who we really are!

2)    We never began and we never will end. The evidence that human minds survive our deaths is so abundant and so consistent that it is impossible for any open-minded person who examines the best evidence to reach a different conclusion.

           So the kinds of human evolution that would be useless and counterproductive are the very kinds of human evolution that scientists are most eager to see! Longer lives on the earth plane? Ways to somehow imprison our minds in electronic widgets? No one who has the foggiest understanding of what human beings actually are would consider these ideas to be anything but crazy.

Evidence indicates that human evolution is entering a new and extraordinary phase. Our bodies now are good enough to allow us to experience useful lives on earth that are as much as ninety years long. Given the purpose of human life, that seems to be quite long enough. Abundant evidence indicates that we are here to learn to love perfectly and learn to forgive completely. That is the reason for human life, and based upon all the evidence, I have come to suspect that it is the only reason the universe exists at all.

So our bodies have evolved to be sufficient vehicles. From now on, what will be evolving is our MINDS.

Of course, nobody can be sure where the evolution of our minds will take us. Extrapolating to the future from the past is tough. But if – as I suspect – our minds are evolving, then evidence very strongly suggests that here is where that evolution is going:

 1)    We will develop much better ways to communicate with the dead. Expect this to happen within the next fifty years, and probably a great deal sooner. Once the dead are able to give us guidance in how to better develop our minds, we can expect that development to become more rapid.

2)    We will concentrate on learning how to love. The kind of love that the evidence suggests we are supposed to be learning during our lives bears little resemblance to what most of us now think of as love. It’s much more than being kind within families! It’s more like perceiving every human being on earth as equally and infinitely loved. As Jesus says, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ (Matthew 22:39) Our minds are so densely connected that at the level of our minds your neighbor actually is yourself. “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven…. Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:43-48)

3)    We will concentrate on learning how to forgive. The sort of radical forgiveness that we are on earth to learn is not optional. It doesn’t depend on whether we like the perpetrator, nor does it matter the degree of harm done. Instead, we are required to learn to forgive every wrong of every degree as if it never happened. It is impossible really to love properly unless we can forgive completely. In addition, of course, there is the fact that once each of us eventually dies we will be made to feel every wrong that we ever have done to others in our lives, and we will be asked to do the hardest thing that any of us ever will do: we will be required to forgive ourselves. “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” (Matthew 7:1-2). Learning to forgive while we are alive is the greatest gift that we can give to ourselves!

4)    We will stop seeing people as inherently evil. Never again will we see one another as selfish, combative, the fallen sons of Adam, base parts of nature red in tooth and claw. That is an old, fallacious view of humanity that was grounded in Two Familiesa false materiality.

5)    We will develop a glorious new understanding of what human beings actually are! Once every one of us knows that human nature is at last understood, and that the view of all of us being discovered really is beyond-belief glorious, there is nothing in our lives that will not change.

           Every human being on earth and everyone in the afterlife levels is a powerful eternal being whose mind is part of Eternal Mind and densely connected to all other minds. In the most profound sense, we all are one. And in our perfected state – in the state to which our minds are certainly evolving – every human mind in all of reality is profoundly, completely, and perfectly good.

 

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The Third Wave of Physics

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One of the primary indications that what the dead have been telling us is true is the fact that the study of the Einsteinafterlife turns out to be giving us a whole new physics. It isn’t about death at all. Instead, it is the next stage of quantum physics, the end toward which medical practice is tending, the answers to astronomers’ greatest questions, and the final retort to anthropologists who consider people to be just apes. It is the brand-new physics that physicists have been struggling to assemble for a hundred years. It’s a Consciousness Theory of Everything that seems to solve the biggest problems in modern science.

Because this is a new foundational science – it’s the third great physics, beyond Newton and Planck – for those few of us who have figured it out enough to understand what the dead are revealing, it makes popular science magazines lots of fun. Scientific American and Discover are my favorites. They are full of accounts of the groping that frustrated scientists still are doing, trying ever more desperately to make insanely complicated and ultimately ridiculous theories make sense. We can see where they are going wrong. We can guess at the eventual solutions to their problems that will be documented only when physicists at last take over from hobbyists the thrilling new study of consciousness-based physics.

All the current scientific foolishness would be pass-the-popcorn time if it were not so tragic. The plain fact that physicists are trying not to be too plain about is that none of their theories for unifying Newtonian physics with quantum physics have panned out. The Great Hadron Collider was their best shot. And except for finding what they believe is the Higgs Boson – apparently found now, but still inexplicable – they have been unable to find any of the particles that all their grand unifying theories have predicted.

As you know if you have been reading these blog posts, the third wave of physics isn’t complicated. It’s simple. In recent weeks I have been sharing with you modern science’s stupidest problems, together with possible third-wave-of-physics answers. As I hear from readers, I find that these discussions are resonating with you, so here for your delectation are three basic third-wave observations based upon what the dead are telling us:

  • Your brain does not generate your mind. Why is this basic fact so hard for scientists to accept? There is so much evidence that your brain is just a receiver and transmitter that the case is really open and shut, but just one new tidbit should suffice. As of 2014, the human genome has been calculated to comprise 19,000 genes, which is more than 2,000 fewer genes than the genome of C. Elegans, a transparent nematode of a thousand cells that is just one millimeter long. Nearly all the genes in the human genome actually predate the emergence of primates. Now, IF the human brain generates the mind, then where are all the genes that would be required to account for intelligence, personality, emotions, speech, and all the other unique abilities that make us so decisively the dominant species?
  • Consciousness is all that exists. We cannot say this often enough. Whether the base creative Consciousness (or Mind) is greater than human consciousness, or whether our minds once free of our bodies are of precisely the same base creative force as Mind, is something that nobody knows for sure. Max Planck said that human consciousness is primary and pre-existing, which was the greatest discovery in history; and sadly, he was altogether ignored. Your consciousness is eternal and powerful. You never began, and you never will end.
  • The only way to unite Newtonian and quantum physics is with a Consciousness Theory of Everything. Theorigin_4290962747 fact that physicists don’t yet realize this is the reason why they have been so long in the weeds. The theory of everything that is most consistent with what the dead are revealing to us is set forth in Thomas Campbell’s My Big TOE (2007). If mainstream physicists come to their senses before Dr. Campbell makes his transition, then he is a shoo-in for a Nobel Prize. If you are an ambitious young physicist, then you ought to read Dr. Campbell’s book. He is getting on in years, and the award is never posthumous, so perhaps the Nobel Prize that is going to be given for a Consciousness Theory of Everything might have your name on it!

These are three core facts of the third wave of physics. Your great-grandchildren will be learning them in school. What interests me most, of course, is what these core facts tell us about who and what human beings really are, and that is what we will discuss next week.

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Inching Toward Reality

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Particle physicists put up a brave front, but they are going through difficult times. All their current theories about the nature of reality – string theory, the multiverse, and what-else-have you – are turning out to have serious flaws. UniversePerhaps if they will return to that old saw, Occam’s Razor, and rethink reality along simpler lines, they will save themselves some headaches. In fact, courtesy of our beloved dead, the answers to many of their questions have been under their noses for more than a century.

I am becoming ever more confident that the 27% of the universe that physicists call “dark matter” because it interacts with gravity but not with photons of light are the six or so energy-based levels where the dead reside. They exist precisely where we are, but at graduated vibratory rates between this material universe and the Source level, the highest energy level of which we are aware.

I admit to having poked good-natured fun at physicists who are earnestly studying a mere 5% of what exists as if that were the whole of reality. Five percent! But apparently physicists are at last beginning to look more closely at the dark matter that is at least six times greater in volume than all the visible matter and energy put together.

To quote a wonderful article in the August issue of Scientific American entitled “Could Dark Matter Make Invisible, Parallel Universes?”, “Scientists are increasingly considering the possibility that dark matter, in particular, is not just a contrivance to account for the motion of visible matter but a hidden side of the universe with a rich inner life. It may consist of a veritable zoo of particles interacting through novel forces of nature—an entire universe interwoven silently with our own.” “Observations suggest it outweighs ordinary matter by a factor of 6 to 1. Galaxies and galaxy clusters are embedded in giant balls, or ‘halos,’ of dark matter.” “Could there be a hidden world that is an exact copy of ours, containing hidden versions of electrons and protons, which combine to form hidden atoms and molecules, which combine to form hidden planets, hidden stars and even hidden people?”

Oh, yes indeed! That the afterlife levels outweigh this material level by a factor of 6 to 1, that they do indeed have a “rich inner life,” and that they would be concentrated on material galaxies all makes perfect sense. And yes – joyously! – to the authors’ speculation about those glorious “hidden people.” Dark matter harbors billions of people that – silly us! – we used to think were dead.

           The afterlife levels are as real as this material universe. We have been receiving abundant and consistent communications from denizens of those levels for nearly two hundred years, so it feels good finally to see some physical evidence of their existence!

But the folks doing this speculating are particle physicists, so they continue to make one unfortunate error. They cannot conceive of a kind of matter that is entirely consciousness-based, and is not composed of the vortices of energy that they fondly still think of as particles. Insofar as we have been able to determine, the matter in the afterlife levels neither possesses matter-based particles, nor needs them.

The venerable Max Planck was one of the greatest physicists of the (in many ways frustrating) twentieth century. He received the 1918 Nobel Prize in physics, and he is remembered now as the father of quantum theory. He should have received a second Nobel Prize for propounding the even more important theory that what we think of as human consciousness is primary and pre-existing. In 1931 he said, ”I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” He seems even then to have understood what modern evidence now insists is true: human minds are integral parts of the Source that brings this universe into being.

           Now let’s take a closer look at the dark energy that is 68% of reality. Like dark matter, it interacts with gravity but not with matter-based photons of light, and considering that it makes up two-thirds of the universe, physicists seem origin_4290962747remarkably incurious about it. The authors of the article quoted above dismiss it by saying,“As for dark energy, its only role appears to be to accelerate cosmic expansion, and the available evidence indicates it has remained completely unchanged over the life of the cosmos.” Unchanged it may have been, but if it is Max Planck’s pre-existing consciousness energy, then it certainly has not been inactive. It continues even now to hold every aspect of this universe in perfect suspension.

           Positing that dark energy is consciousness energy helps to solve another scientific problem. As was said here in a recent blog post, 80% of the visible light in the nearby universe is not photon-based. All that light could very well be spiritual light that has its origin in the dark energy that we already know makes up most of the universe. Having seen a burst of spiritual light as a child, I can tell you it is much brighter than sunlight. I’m not quite ready just yet to state that dark energy has to be the Source Itself… but that is almost certainly what it is.

 

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There Is No GOOHF Card

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After two experiences of light in childhood, naturally I was an ardent Christian. Having married a Catholic, I was a Catholic origin_1045120420Christian, a Catechism teacher, a Lector, and such a devoted daily reader of the Bible that I have read it cover-to-cover at least a dozen times. Each time I got to the final page of Revelation, I would read the New Testament a second time and then plunge back in with Genesis I. I was a Christian with a Capital “C.”

But during all those years, I also was reading volumes of early-twentieth-century communications from dead people. In hundreds of British and American communications, never have I found any evidence that God or another religious figure ever has judged anyone; nor have I seen the smallest hint that the death of Jesus makes an afterlife difference. Gradually, the disconnect between what Christianity insists is true and what the dead were telling me became so unbearable that I stopped altogether reading the Bible in my early fifties. I still went to Mass for my husband’s sake, but I tried not to listen. I tried to ignore the life-size, full-color bleeding Jesus who looked down sadly from the cross above the altar.

It took me further years of researching the afterlife before I developed enough conviction to be able to say these words aloud: “Christianity is wrong. Jesus does not redeem us.” I ducked, but there was no lightning bolt. At that point, I was no longer a Christian.

I feel foolish now about not having gone back sooner to reading only the Gospels. I remembered enough of what Jesus had said to know that some of it jibed with the afterlife evidence, but still I was afraid that perhaps he had said some things that were glaringly untrue. And, Christian or not, I still loved Jesus. I couldn’t bear to test him.

I think you know the rest. Jesus is not wrong! Despite two thousand years of Catholic custody, and despite having been translated from Aramaic to Greek and then from Greek into English, the words of Jesus in the Gospels are at least 95% consistent with what we began to learn from the dead only recently. Jesus knew things about God, reality, death, and the afterlife that he could not have known if he had not come to us directly from God. Little things. Big things! Dear friends, even though Christianity is wrong, Jesus is absolutely right.

I am naïve enough to hope that others who love Jesus will be heartened to find this validation, but I realize how unlikely that is. Christianity is based in fear, and Christian clergymen have a powerful tool for keeping loyal congregations. They are purveyors of the Get Out Of Hell Free (“GOOHF”) Card. In most denominations, following the teachings of Jesus turns out to be optional, doesn’t it? Just be a member of this particular church, accept Jesus as your personal savior even as late as your moment of death, and you have a free pass into heaven.

So, what does Jesus have to say about the non-Gospel Christian GOOHF Card?

           “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?… You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’” (Matthew 15:3-9)

           “You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men… You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions.” (Mark 7:8-9)

Hmmm. And what does he say about clergymen who teach something other than what he teaches in the Gospels?

           “Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted in the marketplaces, and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely.” (Mark 12:38-40)

           Oops! If I were a clergyman, I think the least I would do would be to ditch the flowing robes and the fancy prayers.

Over and over in the Gospels, Jesus says that he came to earth as our teacher, and he told us back then what the afterlife evidence of the past two hundred years now shows us is true: we are required to learn during our lives on earth how to love more perfectly and forgive more completely. That is why we are here. And there are no shortcuts.

           “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40)

           “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven…. Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:43-48)

What wisdom does Jesus have for Christians who believe they have their GOOHF Card in hand, so they don’t need to follow the Lord’s teachings?

           “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ ‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go. Which of the two did what his father wanted?… I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.” (Matthew 21:28-31)

“I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 8:11-12) (The outer darkness that Jesus describes does exist, and emphatically you do not want to go there.)

           In frustration at those who worship him while ignoring his teachings, Jesus says somewhat crankily, “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” (Luke 6:46) “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31-32)

Jesus seems to have had such an aversion to religions that lately I am coming to wonder whether, rather than establishing yet one more religion with its own slate of non-Gospel, human traditions, what he really may have intended to do was to teach us that we can approach God individually, and thereby free ourselves from religions altogether.

“When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your origin_3393763298Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6:6)

Dear friends, no matter which denomination you choose, Christianity cannot give you a Get Out Of Hell Free Card. You cannot be “saved” on your deathbed from the folly of having wasted a lifetime’s opportunities to learn to love and forgive. So please don’t do that! Instead, please begin today to read the red letters in your Gospels, the glorious living words of Jesus. Our beloved Wayshower and Best Friend speaks to us as truly now as he spoke two thousand years ago, and his words remain the best short course in how to live the most perfect life. As Jesus says, “I shall be with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20)

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Love is All You Need

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Pregnant MomOne of the things that is most certain about the afterlife evidence is what it tells us is the reason why we even are alive at all. Why are we here? What is human life for? The very fact that there exists such an exquisite and gloriously planned afterlife for each of the seven billion struggling on earth, and the uncounted billions who already are there, strongly suggests that all our lives on earth must have a pretty spectacular purpose.

An overlong but nevertheless enjoyable article in The New York Times of July 18 explores the fact that all the things that most of us strive for cannot make us happy, but instead, from wealth and power and fame right through every pleasure of the flesh, they too often disappoint us. The very title of the article – “Love People, Not Pleasure” – gives away the point toward which it labors: having stuff only tends to make us more miserable, while the true source of happiness is loving others. Or in the pithier words of the eighteenth-century poet, William Blake: “I sought my soul, But my soul I could not see. I sought my God, But my God eluded me. I sought my brother, And I found all three.”

Over and over, the dead who were communicating with us a century ago and the upper-level beings communicating with us now have said that the meaning and purpose of our lives is learning to love one another more perfectly. That’s it! That’s all.

           Of course, Jesus told us all of this two thousand years ago. He reduced the Old Testament’s Ten Commandments to just one commandment: that we learn how to love.

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” (John 13:34)

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40)

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven…. Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:43-48)

To love perfectly is to be perfect. The whole meaning and purpose of every life on earth is to learn to love one another as we love ourselves, which is something else that Jesus said to us: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39). (Note: Jesus didn’t say “Love your neighbor as if he were yourself,” but he pointedly just said “as yourself” – because, as origin_3393763298evidence shows, your neighbor is yourself.)

To be perfect, we must learn to love everyone on earth more perfectly! We must love every curmudgeon, every mass-murderer, and even our far-beyond-despicable ex-spouse. “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.” (Luke 6:32) The love that we were born to learn is perfect love from our deepest heart for everyone, and even for the most unlovable.As A Course in Miracles tells us, everything that happens in our lives is “either love or a call for love.” So no matter the question, love is always the answer.

The dead tell us that we are here to learn how to love, our dominant religion echoes that wisdom, and experience tells us that love is the root of true happiness. That makes it simple, doesn’t it?

 

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Finding God and the Afterlife?

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As you might surmise from my blog posts of June 28 and August 4, I am fascinated by dark matter and energy, origin_4290962747and struck by the possibility that they might be, respectively, the post-death levels of our reality and the base creative force (Mind, Source, or God – your choice). The 95% of the universe that is composed of dark matter and dark energy is called “dark” because it won’t interact with photon-based light. It is demonstrably not material, but that makes it not one bit less real! And, more and more, we are coming to suspect that dark matter and dark energy might in fact be the afterlife levels and the Source. Consider:

  • The post-death levels have been established by abundant and consistent evidence pulled together over the past nearly 200 years, and they exist precisely where we are. If they were detectable by us at all, we would imagine that they would not react with the photon-based light of this level of reality, but they might interact with gravity. Dark matter fills that bill precisely. It is said now to make up 27% of the universe, while physical matter makes up less than 5%. Given that there are about six afterlife levels beneath the Source level, the proportions here seem to be amazingly right.
  • Consciousness is primary and pre-existing. Quantum physicist Max Planck figured this out more than eighty years ago. He said: ”I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
  • The base creative force is continuously creating this universe. As we have come to understand it, Mind exists outside of time as a kind of consciousness grid that continuously creates this material universe as something like a thought. Physicist Sir James Jeans brilliantly observed, “The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.” For Mind to be detectable only as dark energy, and for it to make up 68% of the universe and be evenly integrated with it throughout, is about what we would expect.

What has me circling back again to dark matter and dark energy is my beloved Scientific American, which seems to be stumbling toward our point of view at breathtakingly glacial speed. Its most recent issue contains an article entitled “Could Dark Matter Make Invisible, Parallel Universes?” The article’s authors tell us that “Dark matter seems to be a sea of invisible particles that fills space unevenly; dark energy is spread out uniformly and acts as if it is woven into the fabric of space itself.” Yup and yup. Some of the afterlife levels are as solid-seeming as this material level of reality, but they are made of a purer, consciousness-based matter; and the grid of Mind which suspends and continuously creates this universe is indeed woven into its very fabric.

For the past two centuries, mainstream scientists have ignored the afterlife evidence altogether, so even today they mostly have no clue that there is an evidence-based explanation for dark matter and dark energy. Nor are they seeking such an explanation, since everything that they do at this point is safely inside their material box. It is as if they were modern-day explorers setting out to discover a whole new world by peering through beach-based telescopes and squinting very, very hard. Is dark matter made up of WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles)? After all, WIMPs don’t much interact with light. Or no, it might be super-WIMPS!

But this article tells us that at last scientists are beginning to see that “there is no reason… that dark matter should be as boring as astronomers tend to presume.” So they are beginning to speculate that dark matter might indeed be a whole “hidden world” that is identical to our own. Is it possible that there are “hidden physicists and astronomers even now peering through their telescopes and wondering what their dark matter is, when in fact their dark matter is us?”

Sadly, no, the authors reason. There are rules of physics that exclude the notion of hidden people, and anyway dark matter is six times more abundant than visible matter. For reasons so boring to a layperson that we won’t enumerate them here, the authors conjure up a different kind of matter that “may emit and reflect hidden light” that is invisible to us, which is why dark matter remains unseen. Ahem. Apparently actual scientists don’t read magazines like Scientific American, or they would have noticed a recent article that indicated that eighty percent (eighty percent!) of the light in our nearby universe has no apparent source. Dark matter, anyone?

“An equally intriguing possibility is that dark matter interacts with dark energy,” the authors tell us. They even speculate that dark matter “somehow triggered the emergence of dark energy.”

UniverseWell, no. It’s the other way around. Dark energy – which is, please recall, some 68% of the universe! – triggered the emergence of both dark matter and this material universe. Outside of time, it continuously holds it all in perfect suspension. But this simple explanation is something that most scientists cannot even consider because science maintains atheism as a fundamental dogma. No mainstream scientist who values his career will come remotely close to finding God.

As I learn more about dark matter and dark energy, I become ever more confident that indeed these deepest mysteries of science are perfectly explainable. Occam’s Razor, a theory much-beloved among scientists, holds that the simplest explanation generally is the best explanation. And what explanation could be simpler? Dark matter is the six or so levels of afterlife reality below the Source level, each of them roughly the size of the universe and clustered more densely where there are heavenly bodies; And dark energy is the Source level, Mind, the Matrix, the Uncaused Cause, the only thing that independently exists. It will take mainstream scientists awhile longer to get there, but I am betting as of today that eventually they will be forced to conclude (very much against their will) that in finding dark energy, they have inadvertently found God after all.

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Suicide

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I guest frequently on radio programs, and some recent hosts have ask me to address the suicide of Robin Williams with the hope that I can comfort the many people who love that beautiful man. I love him, too. But I have little comfort to give to radio Robin Williams Starlisteners, and I don’t plan to discuss his passing on my own weekly program, Seek Reality. The best news that the afterlife evidence offers to us about suicide is that it is not all bad news.

To understand why killing yourself never is a good idea, it is important to know a few basic things. Briefly:

1)    The chance to learn on earth is a gift. We are told that there are many more people wanting to live an earth-life than there are bodies to accommodate them, and we who are here are the fortunate ones who were given this phenomenal opportunity.

2)    We plan our lives. In close cooperation with our guides and with those who will be important in our lives and their guides, each of us writes a pre-birth plan. We cannot say for certain that every bad thing that happens in our lives is planned, but the evidence is strong that we eagerly plan to have bad things happen so we can grow spiritually. An easy life is like an easy gym session: it doesn’t build much spiritual muscle.

3)    Each of us plans two or three possible exit points into our lives, and suicide never is one of them. As soon as we have gotten whatever spiritual growth can be wrung from this lifetime, our higher consciousness takes the next exit and we happily boogie outta here.

So, you can see the problem. We petitioned for the chance to come here, and we planned whatever lesson is making us think now that we would rather die than see it through. If we commit suicide, we land back in the Summerland and we face our post-death judgment phase while we are struggling with the horrible realization that we screwed up very badly.

God doesn’t judge us. No religious figure judges us, and that is bad news since perhaps a loving God would have compassion on us for our mistake in taking our own lives. Each of us is our own afterlife judge, and the evidence is strong that we judge ourselves ruthlessly. We know what we intended! We planned to have great spiritual growth come from whatever caused us to kill ourselves, and we entered this lifetime hungry for that growth. Instead, we threw our chance away. We blew it!

The way suicides handle their self-judgment seems to vary considerably:

1)    Sub-adults forgive themselves easily. Children and people even into their twenties seem not to have trouble forgiving themselves, and they get tremendous loving support.

2)    The old and the dying generally forgive themselves. There seems to be a sense on their part that they have wrung most of the value out of this lifetime, so hastening their imminent departure was a forgivable decision.

3)    People in midlife who kill themselves may be unable to manage self-forgiveness. I don’t think that anyone knows the statistics, but evidence is strong that many who kill themselves in midlife in order to avoid a planned catastrophe – divorce, bankruptcy, a career crisis, whatever – will find self-forgiveness to be difficult or impossible.

Our ability to attain the higher afterlife levels is based on our rate of spiritual vibration. Evidence suggests that nearly everyone who has lived a reasonable life achieves at least the third afterlife level. But if you are unable to forgive yourself for something you have done in life, then gradually your spiritual vibratory rate will slow. You will find it harder and harder to remain on the third level. You will have plentiful love and counseling, but ultimately unless you can forgive yourself you won’t be able to maintain even the second afterlife level. You will end up in what Jesus called the outer darkness, “where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Where does this leave our beloved Robin Williams? He was an ambitious being when he entered this lifetime. He chose a horrendous set of lessons, combining complex interpersonal problems and extraordinary professional success with mental illness, and reportedly also Parkinson’s Disease. Wow! Any one of the four would be a tough row to hoe, and he chose them all. He was only in his early sixties, which today is late middle age. And he is bright. He is intense. I worry that for him, self-forgiveness may not be easy.

Fortunately, though, Robin Williams is very much loved. And for us to send love to those who have recently died seems to assist them in maintaining their spiritual vibratory rate, and even to assist them in self-forgiveness. Whenever I am asked about the fate of people who commit suicide, I always say that suicide is a disastrously bad idea and explain why that is true, but I also urge everyone to send love and light to loved ones lost this way, and to pray for these people in Robin Williams Quotewhatever prayer tradition makes sense to the mourner. If everyone who loves Robin Williams will do that, then I am confident that he is going to be fine.

As is true of everything else that we once might have regarded as sin, the problem with suicide is not the deed itself, but rather it is the tremendous sense of guilt that suicide can bring. Don’t even think about killing yourself! The problem with killing yourself is that it is impossible for your mind to die.

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Seek Reality Radio

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SEEK REALITY is on Web Talk Radio as of January 5, 2015, with a new podcast every week. And it continues on the Contact Talk Radio Network live on Saturdays at 10:00 a.m. pacific time, 1:00 p.m. eastern time.

Podcasts of all of our programs are available for free on iTunes.

Here are my Seek Reality radio programs from early July through the end of 2014 that are available now for download on iTunes:

7/5 – Gary Schwartz on His Latest Research – Gary Schwartz is the foremost traditional scientist working in this field today, and whenever he is my guest we have fun and make news!

7/12 – Donna Smith-Moncrieffe Talks About Using Spiritual Energy – Donna is a fearless researcher with some amazing insights to share.

7/19 – Victor Zammit – Victor and Wendy are stars of the afterlife-research world. Their Zammit Friday report is a must-read, so if you don’t yet receive it, go to victorzammit.com and subscribe!

7/26 – Dianne Collins Talks About “Quantum Thinking” – Dianne’s book, Do You Quantum Think?, is an impressive and exciting piece of work, and hearing her talk about how she arrived at her conclusions is a delight.

8/2 – Robert Kopecky Talks About How to Survive Life (and Death) – Robert Kopecky survived three near-death experiences, and the result was a delightful book of wisdom. We will be discussing the only things that matter and how to live life to the full.

8/9 – Hillis Pugh Talks About Gratitude – Hillis Pugh teaches the power of gratitude and gratitude affirmations, which is a topic very important to me as well. His book is Thank You Thursday.

8/16 – Rosemary Ellen Guiley Talks About Afterlife Communication Methods. – Rosemary is a gifted psychic, and a powerhouse of information about how we can use ancient methods to better communicate with our dead loved ones.

8/23 – John McGrail Talks About His Book, The Synthesis Effect – John is an expert on personal empowerment and how to make the most of your life using techniques based in our quantum reality.

8/30 – Dave Edwards Talks About His Tragic, Triumphant History – Having lost his beloved and their newborn child, Dave was driven to the edge of despair until those very loved ones intervened and transformed his life. His is a gripping, uplifting story.

9/6 – Carol & Mikey Morgan Discuss Signs from the Dead – Our beloved Carol and Mikey were of considerable help as I was writing The Fun of Staying in Touch. Mikey is going to give us more information about signs and how they are produced!

9/13 – Donna Smith-Moncrieffe Discusses Healing, OBEs, and Past-Life Regression – Donna is a gifted researcher of a number of important phenomena. This is her second appearance on Seek Reality – her first was wonderful and highly enlightening.

9/20 – R. Craig Hogan and Roberta Grimes Talk About What the Afterlife is Like – Several listeners have asked us to do a detailed discussion about living in the afterlife. We look forward to sharing with you the best news in all of human history!

9/27 – Psychic Medium Mark Anthony Talks About His Book, Love Never Dies – Mark Anthony is the “Psychic Lawyer,” a gifted medium since childhood, and his experiences have been fascinating and amazing.

10/4 – Joannie and Darrell Bolton Talk About Their Book, With Unwashed Hands – Darrell Bolton is a traditional Christian missionary who had a medical emergency in a primitive country that is both Communist-leaning and partly Muslin, and the fact that he is a retired Air Force officer caused some of those who treated him medically to want to kill him. Fortunately, Joannie was there to help, and the power of their minds (what Jesus called “faith”) resulted in some amazing miracles.

10/11 – Terri Jay, the Psychic “Horse Whisperer – I don’t entirely agree with Terri on some things, but her powers are undoubted and she makes a fascinating guest.

10/18 – Robyn Reynolds Talks About Communicating With Her Lost Stepson – This lovely woman’s remarkable spiritual voyage following the death of her stepson at the age of twenty makes for a wonderful and heartwarming story.

10/25 – Hillis Pugh Talks About the Power of Gratitude – I love this wonderful, great-spirited man who has devoted his life to teaching (and living) the power of gratitude!

11/1 – Jamie Turndorf – Dr. Love – Talks About her Book, Love Never Dies – Jamie’s book is the most extraordinary love story that I have ever read, even extending far beyond death. And it is all true!

11/8 – R. Craig Hogan Talks About the 2014 ASCS Conference and the Exciting Things Planned for 2015 – Craig and I co-chaired this year’s conference, and we are planning something even more amazing for 2016 (right side of the banner above).

11/15 – Betty Anne Millar Talks About Amazing Signs from her Husband – These include some extraordinary experiences with electronic communication.

11/22 – Waller Joel Talks About Physical Mediumship – Our own dear friend Waller will be my guest!

11/29 – Donna Smith-Moncrieffe Talks About Physical Mediumship – Like Waller, she was at the David Thompson seances in Sarasota in September.

12/6 – Dianne Collins Talks About Quantum Thinking – This is Dianne’s second visit with us. Her book is extraordinary!

12/13 – W. Dennis Parker Talks About Therapeutic Hypnosis – The capacity of our own minds to heal us is powerful!

12/20 – Roberta Grimes Talks About the Meaning and the Message of Jesus – I am my own guest.

12/27 – Roberta Grimes Talks About the Nature of Reality – Again, I am my own guest.
My final two podcasts of 2014 were from my heart to yours! My big wish is that you can step forth now from the doubts and fears that both science and Christianity have sown in us, and enter with joy the abundant and glorious truth that you are a powerful eternal being, an infinitely precious part of Source, and you are forever perfectly loved! 

ASCSI Conference!

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THE ACADEMY FOR SPIRITUAL AND CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES

AFTERLIFE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION SECTION

“Life In the Afterlife”

Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, September 25-27, 2015

The Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies put on an extraordinary conference in July of 2014 entitled “New Developments in Afterlife Communication.” Its 2015 conference, “Life in the Afterlife,” promises to be even better, with presentations by some of the leading lights in the worldwide field of afterlife studies. I am co-chairing this conference, and I’ll be one of its presenters. I hope to see you there. It will be illuminating, groundbreaking, and a lot of fun!

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