12-Other ways to think
It was only in the last 200 years that we invented radio, TV, vaccines, cars, computers, planes, MRI, the internet, and AI. All that should have been done 200 000 years ago. What prevented our grandparents from landing on the moon?
Our ancestors could have done better. They started with molecules and kept cutting them in smaller and smaller pieces. Some went the other way. They explored the solar system, the Milky Way and distant planets. Some kept looking at the world through a microscope and others through a telescope. They both had something in common. They moved along ‘size’.
Let’s go back to a general view. When we made tools for hunting, our lives were limited to the material world. The next step was to become conscious that thinking could help. Survival, consciousness and thinking reinforced one another. In the last two centuries, the need for food and shelter faded away. The material world is not predominant. Some thinking is available to explore new domains. Science can serve as a springboard to push the envelope of human thinking.
So far, the human reaction to nature has been to start with whatever is at our level and look for what is smaller and what is bigger. We went to the moon and investigated the atoms. Both are moving along the same dimension. Our thinking follows the “Size”. It is prisoner of the material world.
Today, our increase in consciousness comes with a message: “We should move from the material realm to the immaterial.”
The result is evident in our latest development. After working on increasingly powerful machines, we moved on to computers, then the internet, and AI. We are cutting the umbilical cord with the material world.
How can we help?
When witnessing a process in Nature, we can look for a different implementation of the same process elsewhere. The leader in the domain was Fibonacci. In the 13th century, he discovered the Fibonacci sequence.
0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 ?
Can you tell what the next number is? Fibonacci (1170 – 1250) was an Italian mathematician who lived in the Republic of Pisa, Italy. You will notice that 8+5=13 and 13+8=21 and 21+13=34, then 34+21=55. You get each number by adding the previous two numbers.
What is interesting is that you can find this sequence in sunflowers, in plants, fruits, seashells, broccoli, and the human body. Search “Fibonacci” in Google Images, and you will not understand how Homo sapiens could have lived on Earth for more than 300,000 years without seeing the Fibonacci numbers all around them.
How could the cauliflower know what the fern is going to do? What is the connection between them? Could it be something similar to gravity? Keep in mind that our material world makes up only 5% of reality. The rest consists of dark matter and dark energy, about which we know very little. Cauliflowers, ferns, the Fibonacci sequence, and our circulatory system might be expressions, on Earth, of decisions made in the other 95% of the universe.
What is the origin of human motivation? Could our freedom be limited to the way we implement decisions made in the other 95%? Should we claim to be under the influence and plead ‘Not guilty’? This doesn’t mean we are not responsible for our actions. There must be a connection between our 5% and the other 95%. What will happen to our freedom? We can’t be guilty unless we are truly free, and we can't blame Fibonacci for everything.
We are told that everything originates from the Big Bang. This includes our material world, dark matter, dark energy, the laws of nature, the human brain, and everything else. A human could have a physical body in the material world, a soul in dark matter, and something else in dark energy. This would make simple things like “I love you” much more difficult to explain!
The fractals.
This is another way to explore Nature.
Fractals were discovered in 1970 by Benoit Mandelbrot. He was using computers to connect mathematical formulas to shapes. That may not be your idea of having a good time, but we need people capable of doing such things. You start with one point, and the mathematical formula gives you the next point and the next, and the next, etc.
QUESTION6.com
We,The People, are not happy
The result is beautiful shapes that keep moving. They have color, movement and shapes like the wood burning in the fireplace. You could keep watching them for hours.
Fractals can be found everywhere
-
In biology (ramifications of branches, similarity of patterns, animal morphology, etc.)
-
In anatomy (blood vessels, lungs, etc.)
-
In geology (country coasts, mineralogy, dendrites, etc.)
-
In meteorology (lightning, cyclones)
-
In astronomy and cosmology.
Look at the images on Google, and you will see hundreds of examples of fractals in the snowflakes alone. You will see them in pinecones, broccoli, trees, seashells, ferns, peacock feathers, pineapples, clouds, snowflakes, rivers, trees, and fingerprints.
Fractals surround us. For thousands of years, we were surrounded by fractals and nobody noticed them. That does not make us look very bright.
The association of opposites:
Let’s assume that, after the Big Bang, Mother Nature was careful to keep the universe well-balanced. Everything was dissociated into two parts having opposite characteristics and balancing each other.
Our hands are the mirror image of each other. This is an association of opposites designed to work together.
-
In mathematics, we have the circle and the straight line. The circle has a limited circumference. The straight line is infinite.
-
Brain and nerves: One brain, inside a bone (the skull), round shape. The nerves have an elongated shape, outside the bones.
-
Our DNA is a combination of a circle and a straight line.
-
Ovule and spermatozoa. One ovule with a round shape, moving very slowly, is associated with thousands of small and elongated spermatozoa moving very fast. You wonder how those two could cooperate!
-
The light from our sun associates particles and radiation.
-
It is by exploring distant stars that we discovered the dark matter and dark energy around us.
-
Animals and the human population were divided into males and females.
-
Our body is in the material domain where everything has shape and weight, and we have sense organs to keep us aware. Our soul is in the immaterial domain. This is where we find our most profound feelings that cannot be seen or measured, and we don’t have the sense organs to keep us aware.
-
The rule “Use but don’t abuse” is an association of opposites.
If you look for associations of opposites, you may not find any. If you don’t look for them but remain open-minded, you will see associations of opposites all around you. Attraction and Repulsion of magnets - Past and Future - Thinking and intuition - aso.
Fractals and the association of opposites can be used together.
To make fractals, you use a mathematical formula where one input gives you one output. You reintroduce the output and use it as the next input, and repeat millions of times. This is how you get from one point to the next. You use a little loop (the mathematical formula) to get an infinite line (the fractal). This is similar to associating a circle and a straight line.
Can we extrapolate?
A point of a fractal, alone, is worthless. It is its connection with the other points that makes the fractal. What is important in a human being is not his body but the connections between his soul and other souls.
Fibonacci, fractals and the association of opposites give us a feeling of freedom. We start looking at Nature the way it is, instead of using the universe as a screen on which we project our own film.
Near Death Experience NDE
We could dismiss NDE (Near Death Experience) as Voodoo, but we need all the help we can get. Let’s keep an open mind and have a look at NDE. We can always decide later whether it is voodoo or not.
About 50 people of all ages, men and women, dressed like everyday folks, with nothing religious or political about them got together at the city’s civic center. A speaker recounted what happened after he fell from a tree while trying to cut a dead branch. He was severely hurt and taken to the hospital for emergency surgery. That was completely unexpected in his life. He was a dentist. He thought his life was well organized and perfectly predictable.
During the operation, his heart stopped beating. He had no blood pressure and was not breathing for more than 30 minutes. He was clinically dead. A doctor could have signed his death certificate and sent him to the morgue. Since the 1980s, surgeons have discovered ways to reanimate dead bodies and bring them back to life. We always believed that death was a one-way street. Apparently, the body and soul can be separated and rejoined. The man was not promoting a book or introducing a new faith. There was no hidden commercial motivation.
When the surgeon visited him at the hospital a couple of days later, his patient told him what happened while he was under anesthesia.
“At one point during the operation, you told those around you in the operating room, ‘We are losing him!’ I was fully aware the whole time. I was above the operating table, hanging from the ceiling. At first, I didn’t realize that it was my body you were working on. I felt great — no more pain.
I could hear and understand everything people were saying in the operating room. You got impatient with your assistant, didn’t you? and used some strong words. Not only could I listen to what everyone was saying, but I knew what they wanted to say even before I heard their voices. I could guess what they were thinking. I could also move around the room. I only had to think of a specific place, and I was instantly transported there. That might sound ungrateful, but after a while, I got tired of watching you. I decided to explore other rooms in the hospital. It was easy. Without a body, there is nothing to stop you from passing through a wall and looking at what’s on the other side…”
As you can imagine, in the 1980s, patients returning after surgery with such stories were referred to a psychiatrist. An assessment was made of the differences between the patient and a “normal” person. Medications were prescribed to help the patient behave in a more ‘normal’ way. Most of the time, it worked! The patient understood that medications could become the central part of his diet. The only way to avoid this issue was to say, “I got confused because of the stress of the operation. I am feeling better now. Forget what I said.”
For many years, the speaker kept his secret to himself. Today, about 2% or 3% of the population have experienced an NDE—maybe more. There are millions of people with similar stories. They are no longer sent to psychiatrists. Instead, they have international organizations such as IANDS, NDERF, ADCRF, and OBERF, each with its own website.
There was a break. Audience members were discussing their lives after their NDE. Some of the abilities they had during their NDE trip remained. Some people could guess what others were thinking. If you ever go to one of their meetings and see a big nose, try very hard to think,” What beautiful hair!” Keep in mind that people around you can ‘view’ your thoughts like you see their nose.
Some people in the audience were discussing the experience of meeting someone for the first time and forming a powerful impression. They thought that they already knew that person. A woman saw a girl singing on TV in a foreign language and felt like it was her sister singing. Nobody could explain it. Could this be related to what we call ‘love at first sight’?
This meeting may give you the impression that we are going through life like walking in the fog. We are only conscious of what is close to us. The speaker said that his life changed overnight. He bought a piano and started learning music. He attended concerts and visited museums. He distanced himself from some of his acquaintances and made new friends. His NDE transformed his life. It opened a door for him.
For most of us, that door remains closed. We need a good scientific proof that could be accepted in a court of law. Search for NDE on YouTube and see if you can find testimonies similar to the one at the Civic Center.
Let’s keep in mind that we are looking for a way out of Plato’s cave. We must think out of the box. Our logic may not apply. NDE is opening a door. Are we going to explore what is behind that door or remain outside?
In 1970, Raymond Moody published “Life after Life”.
Raymond Moody is the father of the modern NDE movement.