Posted by Roberta Grimes • July 12, 2025 • 1 Comment
Afterlife Research, Death, Human Nature, The Source, Understanding Reality
Hello, darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams, I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
– Paul Simon, from “The Sound of Silence” (1964)
Oh, my goodness, I just have watched seven of what are supposed to be absolutely cutting-edge videos on dark matter and dark energy, six of them brief, and the seventh of them a genuine Ted talk that is only three years old. (To see and hear what I just saw and heard, after clicking the word “video” above, go to the far right and click the pink video link.) That final video of the seven is a genuine Ted talk, mind you. There is no small-x after it! Which means it is a talk that was delivered on the primary Ted stage, so it was given by someone who is prominent in her field, and almost certainly therefore this presenter is an internationally acclaimed theoretical physicist. Tedx stages exist worldwide. Their quality is always respected, but their real value is guaranteed just by the worthies who invite the presenters to speak, and then they stand behind whatever their speakers have said. But the central Ted stage is another matter! In general, only very well-respected speakers are featured there, and what they say must be approved beforehand. So, fasten your seatbelts, folks! With a Ted talk beginning, you know that you are about to hear what amounts to up-to-the-year-2022 Scientific Holy Writ on this speaker’s topic of interest. And the title of her big Ted talk is, OMG, “How to Solve the Dark Matter Mystery.” Wow, she claims to be able to solve this whole mystery, which has been eluding even the very greatest minds for decades? And her claim must be pretty solid, if the main Ted stage allowed her to use such a sharply definitive title! Our big Ted speaker here surely has the twenty-minute answer to the whole dark-matter problem, solved and ready to be delivered!
And yet, what she says in that Ted talk is a complete embarrassment, not only to herself, but also to all of mainstream science. What is astonishing is not only that any prominent and up-to-the-minute-in-2022 theoretical physicist might have given such a stupid and embarrassing talk on the very prominent Ted stage only three years ago, but also that the Ted people would have allowed her to give it there, and especially under such a presumptuous title. I gather from having watched her talk twice that theoretical physicists have whittled down their study of dark matter to the point where they are trying to figure out what kind of weird, tiny, and utterly useless particle actually floats around in and makes up twenty-seven percent of the reality of which we know that non-dark matter and energy combined makes up only five percent. Our speaker here goes on record as voting for “axions”, whatever that might be. Not that it much matters.
As we know, very early in the twentieth century, the advent of quantum mechanics so much alarmed the mainstream science gatekeepers, the university departments and the peer-reviewed scientific journals, that they mandated a new dogma for all of mainstream science. And they called their new dogma “the fundamental scientific dogma of materialism”. Yes, in fact they came right out and said it! They don’t presume to use this term now, but back a hundred and ten or more years ago, you actually could find those words in print. This whole situation is frankly astonishing. It is little short of incredible! When ordinary matter makes up barely five percent of what even mainstream scientists themselves know exists, these gatekeepers were literally and at the stroke of a pen insisting that scientists could not study, and humankind would not be allowed to know anything about, fully ninety-five percent of what even the scientists themselves knew at the time, and still know now, actually exists! Of course, the result of this nonsensical scientific dogma over the past nearly century and a quarter has been unbounded chaos and confusion.
To govern all the scientific research being done in the many decades since the fundamental dogma of atheism was adopted close to 125 years ago now, certain core assumptions have been made and consistently enforced by the whole scientific community. These assumptions are silly and arbitrary, are generally by now demonstrably wrong, and have held back scientific research severely! To be frank, there are probably many more of such nonsensical assumptions that I cannot recall at the moment off the top of my head, or that I don’t even know about; but dealing just with the ones of which I am aware is a hoot and a half. I can tell you that. How ridiculous! And in the twenty-first century, for heaven’s sake! Mainstream scientists are even today still required to assume without question that:
Dark Matter/Energy, Death, Life, and Consciousness. There you have it, my dear ones! Perhaps there are other big scientific topics that we might talk about as well, but for today, let’s settle on just these four huge ones. These are four fundamental areas of basic research that materialist scientific gatekeepers have so severely burdened the study of during the past century and a quarter with their completely arbitrary and absurd materialist dogma that, even to this day, none of these areas can be freely scientifically investigated. Not, at least, by any credentialed scientist who has any hope of pursuing a mainstream career! Even much worse, there are whole related areas to each of these primary fields that also cannot be investigated. And only because scientists cannot first figure these primary areas out at all.
So they are still nowhere, whatsoever. And yet, there were at least three twentieth-century mainstreams scientists who did in fact figure a lot of this out! They did it by ignoring those foolish and clueless scientific gatekeepers, and just by freely sharing information, and then by following it where it led them. Those who have been following these weekly missives are going to know what I am about to say, but let’s summarize it again here:
The foolish ongoing search for a source of consciousness inside the human brain would be ridiculous, if it were not so tragic! Next week, we will look at these four key areas of forever hopeless twenty-first-century research, show how all of them relate directly to consciousness, and therefore why they will never be solved until we first accept and apply the great Dr. Planck’s seminal consciousness insight, and then apply Dr. Planck’s insight to solving them. Once we stop treating mainstream science as a religion, suddenly everything becomes so easy!
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence”
– Paul Simon, from “The Sound of Silence” (1964)
(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)
Roberta,
I came across this today and immediately wondered if your post would be about science today…and it is.
“The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
Freeman Dyson
2000 Templeton Prize Laureate
The words “firmly established truths”,
Reminded me of what you’ve been talking about-that material scientists are determined to have us all believe what they say is the truth, IS the truth; when recent discoveries and works have thrown a wrench into that.
There seems to be an influx of stories of archeological discoveries that are putting a damper on old “truths”.
You can catch a few of the scientists who keep learning and expanding but the mainstream sure still seems to have a tight hold on what we generally hear about science.