'For centuries we sought the philosopher's stone whose touch would transmute
base metals into gold. We failed, but the desire to find that stone led to the
atomic theory and an understanding of chemistry, which allows us to reshape the
material we find in the world to new and better uses. Is that not a much more
desirable result for mankind than transmuting base metals into gold? - Only
Harry Potter would bother to search today for the philosopher's
stone.'[2008:xx]
In the fourth Forbidden Letter to Philip Gardiner and Gary Osborn, the Paris
4 say that the alchemist has to
descend into the
earth. They
conjecture that this is possible for the alchemist because, according to Paris,
the real earth is microcosmic and in man.
Now, an alchemist who has to descend is somehow
pulled of course. And this strongly suggests gravitational
forces might be at work here to enter this mysterious dimension of
traverse. And this makes a lot of sense.
Because physicists discovered that only the force of gravity 'is capable of
exerting an extra-dimensional influence.'[2008:188] The other three forces of
nature, the electromagnetic, the weak nuclear and the strong nuclear are
not capable of exerting such influence. 'Only the
gravitational force can leak into other dimensions.'[Ibid./emphasis
added]
1.
'Heisenberg's
uncertainty principle [ vide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle ]
is of course nonsense. There is no such thing as uncertainty. Just because we
humans can't determine position or momentum doesn't mean position or momentum
are not determined. (...) But then again, that
Heisenberg contraption was the product of mathematics to begin with.
(Heisenberg was
right though when he said that atoms
are not things.)'[Kurt Green]
2.
'Atoms are not things.'[Werner Heisenberg]
3.
'If atoms are not things, what are they? More than 75 years after Heisenberg's
revelation, physicists and philosophers are still struggling with this
question. The answer we found previously, that they are probability waves
until they are observed and things thereafter, is not entirely satisfying, but
at the moment the best we can do.'[2008:57]
4.
'But if everything is thought, what is thought?'[1986:154]
5.
'The possibility that photon B knows what happened to photon A without a
signal passing between them is doubtless the reason that quantum mechanics
seems to open the door to mysticism in the real world. After all, what could
be more mystical than knowledge of what happens to another body without a
measurable transmission of information? Alternatively, one could believe that
there is a deeper reality, manifested in some physical property as yet
unfound, which would account for this phenomenon. Einstein died holding firmly
to his latter view, which is known in the physics community as 'hidden
variables.' - '[2008:61]
6.
'If you are looking at the universe, you are looking at your mind.'[J. Tull]
7.
'The Anthropic Principle [ vide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle ] shows
that the observed structure of the universe is restricted by the fact that we
are observing this structure; by the fact that, so to speak, the universe is
observing itself.'[1986:4]
8.
'Although special relativity forbids either matter, energy, or information
from traveling faster than light, what is happening here is that the
probability wave has collapsed instantly throughout the entire
universe.'[2008:139/emphasis added](Meaning:
throughout the entire mind./Sriram)
9.
'Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And this is because in
the last analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to
solve.'[Max Planck]
10.
'As long as you believe in an external world independent of consciousness,
you're in the dark.'[J. Tull]
11.
'I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an
external world.'[Alan Sokal]
12.
'Physicists are loath to admit any consideration of Mind into their theories.
Even quantum mechanics, which supposedly brought the observer into physics,
makes no use of intellectual properties; a photographic plate would serve
equally as an 'observer.' - '[1986:1]
13.
'The Participatory Anthropic Principle (PAP): observers are necessary to bring
the universe into being.'[1986:22]
14.
'But do we really have to look at outer space to explain alchemical
decapitation and chakra's, and thereby life? Or
could Alchemy indeed be terrestrial? We don't know of course. But I have this
hunch it is. That Mother Earth lives in more ways than is dreamt of in our
philosophies.'[Hugo Dewasme on the Forbidden Letters]
15.
'Aristotle did not believe one could claim a true understanding of any natural
object, unless one knew also its 'final cause'- the end for which
it exists.[1986:28/emphasis added]
16.
'In this Stone (of Alchemy) lies hidden all that God and Eternity, heaven, the
stars and the elements contain and are able to do.'[Jacob Boehme]
17.
'I wonder whether that Stone could have the words Big and Bang written on its
back. It must have consciousness anyhow.'[Forum-post on the Forbidden Letters]
Epilogue
'Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive
equipment? Now, the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for
paper, pencils and waste paper baskets. And the Department of Philosophy is
better still. It doesn't even ask for waste paper baskets.'[Unknown University
President]
Physicists, ladies and gentlemen, are quite convinced that 'the universe will
ultimately become a ball of radiation growing ever larger.'[A. Eddington,
1931:127] Man, according to physics, is the product of causes 'which had no
prevision of the end they were achieving. His origin, his loves and his beliefs
are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms. No fire, no heroism can
preserve an individual life beyond the grave. The whole temple of Man's
achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in
ruins.'[B. Russel, 1957:107]
A good thing some Departments never throw away anything:
'Did ye never
read the scriptures? The Stone which the builders rejected, the same is become
the head of the corner.'[ Matthew 21:42]
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References
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Stein, James D., How Math Explains the World, Harper Collins,
New York, 2008.
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Barrow, John D. & Tipler, Frank J., The Anthropic Cosmological
Principle, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986.
-
Heisenberg, Werner, The Physical Principles of Quantum Theory,
University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1930.
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