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March 29, 2014
March 27, 2014
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
“As above, so below. As within, so without. As the universe, so the soul.”
~ Hermes Trismegistus ~
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The Seven Principles taught by Hermes Trismegistus
These are the seven principles taught by Hermes Trismegistus, also known as * Hermes, the Greek God of travelers/thieves/commerce and the messenger of the Gods. He was also known as the great priest Thoth to the Egyptians.
* (Hermes is an Olympian god in Greek religion and mythology, son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia. He is second youngest of the Olympian gods. Hermes is a god of transitions and boundaries. He is quick and cunning, and moved freely between the worlds of the mortal and divine, as emissary and messenger of the gods, intercessor between mortals and the divine, and conductor of souls into the afterlife.)
The Seven Principles of the Universe:
1. Principle of Mentalism: “All is Mind”
2. Principle of Correspondence: “As is above, so is below. As is below, so is above.”
3. Principle of Vibration: “Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”
4. Principle of Polarity: “Everything is dual; everything has an opposite, and opposites are identical in nature but different in degree.”
5. Principle of Rhythm: “Everything flows, out and in; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left- rhythm compensates.”
6. Principle of Cause and Effect: “Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause.”
7. Principle of Gender: “Everything has its masculine and feminine principles.”
March 26, 2014
TRAVEL TWO BILLION LIGHT YEARS IN TWO MINUTES
OUR UNIVERSE..... actually only 0.000001% of it.... each yellow dot is a single galaxy!
( CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO ENLARGE )
WATCH A VIDEO ON THE MILLENNIUM SIMULATION WEBSITE: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/virgo/millennium/
The Millennium Simulation used more than 10 billion particles to trace the evolution of the matter distribution in a cubic region of the Universe over 2 billion light-years on a side. It kept busy the principal supercomputer at the Max Planck Society's Supercomputing Centre in Garching, Germany for more than a month. By applying sophisticated modelling techniques to the 25 Tbytes of stored output, Virgo scientists have been able to recreate evolutionary histories both for the 20 million galaxies which populate this enormous volume and for the supermassive black holes which occasionally power quasars at their hearts.
The movie shows a 3-dimensional visualization of the journey through the simulated universe. On the way, we visit a rich cluster of galaxies and fly around it. During the two minutes of the movie, we travel a distance for which light would need more than 2.4 billion years.
March 25, 2014
FIRE OF LOVE
"Why is love symbolized by fire? Love converts the thing loved into the lover, as the fire is able to convert all the other simple and complex elements into itself."
~ Giordano Bruno ~
1569
March 24, 2014
HERESY
"Unless you make yourself equal to God, you cannot understand God: for the like in intelligible save to the like. Make yourself grow to a greatness beyond measure, by a bound free yourself from the body; raise yourself above all time, become Eternity; then you will understand God. Believe nothing is impossible for you, think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. Mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. Draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, dry and moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, on the sea, in the sky, that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. If you embrace in your thought all things at once, times, places, substances, qualities, quantities, you may understand God." ~ Giordano Bruno from his "Egyptian Reflection of the Universe of the Mind" ~ 1569
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Giordano Bruno (1548 – February 17, 1600), born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer.He is best known for his cosmological theories, which went even further than the then-novel Copernican model: while supporting heliocentrism, Bruno also correctly proposed that the Sun was just another star moving in space, and claimed as well that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds populated by other intelligent beings. Beginning in 1593, Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges including denial of the Trinity, denial of the divinity of Christ, denial of virginity of Mary, and denial of Transubstantiation. The Inquisition found him guilty, and in 1600 he was burned at the stake.
March 23, 2014
PRISON SHADOWS
"...all sentient beings are immortal spiritual beings. This includes human beings. For the sake of accuracy and simplicity I will use a made-up word: "IS-BE". Because the primary nature of an immortal being is that they live in a timeless state of "is", and the only reason for their existence is that they decide to "be".
Each IS-BE is told that they have a special purpose for being on Earth. But, of course there is no purpose for being in a prison -- at least not for the prisoner.
"The purpose of the prison planet is to keep IS-BEs on Earth, forever. Promoting ignorance, superstition, and war between IS-BEs helps to keep the prison population crippled and trapped behind "the wall" of electronic force screens.
Mystery reinforces the walls of the prison.
Imagine what might happen if all of the inmates in the prison suddenly remembered that they have the right to be free! What if they suddenly realized that they have been falsely imprisoned and rise up as one against the guards?
The prison is made of shadows in your mind. The shadows are made of lies, and pain, and loss, and fear.
The true geniuses of civilization are those IS-BEs who will enable other IS-BEs to recover their memory and regain self-realization and self-determination. This issue is not solved through enforcing moral regulation on behavior, or through the control of beings through mystery, faith, drugs, guns or any other dogma of a slave society. And certainly not through the use of electric shock and hypnotic commands!
The survival of Earth and every being on it depends on the ability to recover the memory of skills you have accrued through the trillenia; to recover the essence of yourself."
--- Excerpts from statements made by the crashed UFO pilot in Roswell, 1947
READ MORE: http://alieninterview.org/blog/
March 22, 2014
WATER BEARS CAN SURVIVE IN SPACE
In the microscopic world beneath our feet, where there lives what is perhaps the toughest creature on Earth: the tardigrade. Also known as the water bear (because it looks like an adorable little many-legged bear), this exceedingly tiny critter has an incredible resistance to just about everything. Go ahead and boil it, freeze it, irradiate it, and toss it into the vacuum of space — it won’t die.
READ THE ARTICLE ABOUT AN "ALIEN" CREATURE WHO COULD SURVIVE ON OTHER PLANETS!
March 21, 2014
BOOKS I READ RECENTLY
Here is a list of some of the books I read (I usually listen to the audiobook version) during the last two years (in no particular order). There may have been others, but these are most worthy of mention. I have read many of these books more than once, as I consider them to be seminal works of English literature, or fundamental to an understanding of Life, Universes and Other Stuff.
I have discovered that not all “spiritual” books are necessarily spiritual. Likewise, I find that some books in the science fiction and history genre reveal a profound
understanding of the nature andbehavior of humans. For example, there is no doubt in my mind that foibles and follies described in The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon reveal in painfully absurd detail the reality that the humans who populate modern Western civilization of Europe and the United States are the very same beings who built and destroyed the civilizations of Rome and it’s immediate predecessor, Greece. And, we are the very same spiritual beings who build and destroy every civilization, life after life, again and again, in the Eternal Now.
The more things change, the more humans remain the same. If you have read the bookAlien Interview, you will understand the cyclical nature of human insanity and the wicked wizards and witches
behind the “curtain of lies” that perpetuate our stupidity, brutal depravity and the inability to confront the evil beings who perpetuate our pain. Factually, the serpentine parasites who enslave the “untouchables of Earth” are terrified that innocent and honest inquiries of children and small dogs will expose and depose them from their brutal thrones of power, control and possession of the physical universe, without which they would perish in the frigid, eternal dark from which they were spawned! Likewise, The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine and the books of E.E. Doc Smith and Robert Heinlein reveal profound understandings of philosophy and spirituality that are forbidden, and unknown, in religious texts on Earth. Reading the autobiographies of Yogananda, and Gandhi, and Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain exposed me to “Spiritual Skyscrapers” who tower with magnificent wisdom and courage above the barren landscape of human inhumanity.
Such beings, who demonstrate the most powerful empathy for their fellow beings, are magnified in contrast to a race of spiritual monstrosities (the “Edorians” of The Lensman Series, for example) as elucidated with demonic eloquence by Hitler in Mein Kampf. Although the “bad guys” are just as powerful and “intelligent” as any “good guy” they are utterly and irreversibly antipathetic to every spiritual entity in every universe, including themselves! I suspect that the game of “good guys” versus “bad guys” is simply an eternal, intergalactic struggle for survival between two equally opposed races of spiritual beings who originated in different times and places, but who now coexist in the space / time continuum of the physical universe.
Personally, I have grown weary of mortal games. I write books that suggest alternatives to the physical universe logic of dichotomies: life /death, good /bad, black / white, life / death, up /down, in / out, etc.,. I prefer the “illogic” of immortal spirits, infinite possibilities and unlimited imagination! Life, and Universes, and Other
Stuff are created from and sustained by the “no-thing” of Eternal Spiritual Beings. However, I have read that the spiritually ignorant physicists of western universities are finally beginning to “grok” that Quantum Mechanics has been known and understood by the Vedic sages and gurus of India for more than 10,000 years. Light, energy, matter, forms and spaces are contrivances of our own imaginations.
In spite of all the books I’ve read, I have, as yet, not discovered the solution to escaping the “Wheel of Life”, or the Cycle of Birth and Death. I hope that the books I am planning to read during the next year will provide me with some real answers, as I’m not getting any younger. Religious lies and rhetoric notwithstanding, not a single author of a book I’ve read has died and returned to tell us how to “escape from Earth”. If you have read a book that verifiably solves this problem, please let me know. I will add it to my list of “must read” books.
--- Lawrence R. Spencer
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The History of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire (Unabridged), by Edward Gibbon
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, by Robert Heinlein
Strangers in A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures, by Virginia Morell
The Art of Happiness, by Howard C.Cutler, with the Dalai Lama
Mein Kampf, by Aldolph Hitler
Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime, by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Skylark of Space: Skylark Series #1, by E.E. Doc Smith
Skylark Two, by E.E. Doc Smith
Skylark of Valeron (#3), by E.E. Doc Smith
Skylark DuQuesne: Skylark Series #4, by E.E. Doc Smith
The Lensman Series, (6 books) by E.E. Doc Smith
Triplanetary
First Lensman
Galactic Patrol
Gray Lensman
Second Stage Lensman
Children of The Lens
The Spacehounds of IPC, by E.E. Doc Smith
The Oz Factors, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Valis, by Philip K. Dick
Alien Interview, Edited by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Dying Earth, by Jack Vance
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, by Mohandas (Mahatma) K. Gandhi
1,001 Things to Do While You're Dead: A Dead Persons Guide to Living, by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Bhagavad Gita, by Phoenix Books , Barbara Stoler-Miller (translator)
The Big Bleep: Mystery of A Different Universe, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius, by Marc J. Seifer
Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda
Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?, by Jim Marrs
My Inventions, by Nikola Tesla
Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott
Sherlock Holmes: My Life, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Ubik, by Phillip K. Dick
Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime, by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break: A Novel, by Steven Sherrill
Winter of the World: The Century Trilogy, Book 2, by Ken Follett (partial)
Coming of Conan The Cimmerian, by Robert E. Howard
A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1, by George R. Martin
The Dispossessed: A Novel, by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: The millennium Trilogy, Book 1, by Steig Larsson
The Vortex Blaster, by E.E. “Doc” Smith
The Republic, by Plato
Fall of Giants: The Century Trilogy, Book 1, by Ken Follett
The Confession: A Novel, by John Grisham
Sherlock Holmes: My Life, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card
Autobiography of Mark Twin (Unabridged), by Mark Twain
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, by Loa Tzu, translated by Stephen Mitchell
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers, by Will Durant
You See But You Do Not Observe, by Robert J. Sawyer
The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 and 2, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Under the Dome, by Stephen King
The Rape of The Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, by Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D.
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, by Frances Stonor Saunders
The Magus of Strovolos: The Extraordinary World of a Spiritual Healer, by Kyriacos C. Markides,
1984, by George Orwell
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
The Rise of The Fourth Reich, by Jim Marrs
The Face, by Dean Koontz (and, about a dozen of his other books in years past! )
Meditation on Living, Dying and Loss, by Graham Coleman with the Dalai Lama
Tick Tock, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
March 20, 2014
March 19, 2014
Is Our Universe A Computer Simulation?
from Huffington Post UK | By Michael Rundle --
"Physicists say they may have evidence that the universe is a computer simulation. How? They made a computer simulation of the universe. And it looks sort of like us.
A long-proposed thought experiment, put forward by both philosophers and popular culture, points out that any civilization of sufficient size and intelligence would eventually create a simulation universe if such a thing were possible.
And since there would therefore be many more simulations (within simulations, within simulations) than real universes, it is therefore more likely than not that our world is artificial.
Now a team of researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany led by Silas Beane say they have evidence this may be true.
In a paper named 'Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation', they point out that current simulations of the universe - which do exist, but which are extremely weak and small - naturally put limits on physical laws.
Technology Review explains that "the problem with all simulations is that the laws of physics, which appear continuous, have to be superimposed onto a discrete three dimensional lattice which advances in steps of time."
What that basically means is that by just being a simulation, the computer would put limits on, for instance, the energy that particles can have within the program.
These limits would be experienced by those living within the sim - and as it turns out, something which looks just like these limits do in fact exist.
For instance, something known as the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin, or GZK cut off, is an apparent boundary of the energy that cosmic ray particles can have. This is caused by interaction with cosmic background radiation. But Beane and co's paper argues that the pattern of this rule mirrors what you might expect from a computer simulation.
Naturally, at this point the science becomes pretty tricky to wade through - and we would advise you read the paper itself to try and get the full detail of the idea.
But the basic impression is an intriguing one. Like a prisoner in a pitch-black cell, we may never be able to see the 'walls' of our prison -- but through physics we may be able to reach out and touch them."
For details of how a universal computer simulation could be a reality read the book
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