In Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume 1 Seth says:
“Moreover, science's thesis meets with no answering affirmation in the human heart - and in fact arouses the deepest antipathy, for in his heart man well knows his own worth, and realizes that his own consciousness is no accident. The psyche, then, possesses within itself an inner affirmation, an affirmation that keeps man from being completely blinded by his own mental edifices.
“There is furthermore a deep, subjective, immaculately knowledgeable standard within man's consciousness by which he ultimately judges all of the theories and the beliefs of his time, and even if his intellect is momentarily swamped by ignoble doctrines, still that point of integrity within him is never fooled.”
Through my books and this blog I hope to arouse that part of us that is never fooled. So why pick on science? After all, science has brought us all those conveniences that have served to connect us, even though the underlying concept they use to produce those conveniences says that everything is a result of material
forces. The bone I wish to pick with science is not with the idea of science, but with science’s dogmatic view that consciousness is a product of matter, specifically the brain. As long as science sticks to its dogma they will not progress significantly beyond their current road. Specifically, science has for years tried to develop a “Theory of Everything.” They are moving forward with string theory, but continue to be stymied by the instant of creation, that moment just before the big bang. When they try to look beyond that moment, all their formulations break down. Why?
DOGMA! Dogma is to science and religion as blinders are to a race horse. Blinders keep the horse’s attention focused straight ahead so that it cannot be distracted from what impinges on it from the side. Skeptics are those who are blinded by dogma and deny even their own experience that falls outside the boundaries of the dogma. The boldest venture outside those boundaries at their own peril. CG Jung wrote in Mysterium Coniunctionis : “The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Fuhrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.” Jung was a wise man and dared to venture beyond the dogma of the time that said there is only a personal unconscious
created only during a lifetime. It was Jung that coined the term, “The Collective Unconscious.” In 1919 Jung said: “I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I can't explain as a fraud.”
In quantum physics it is said that the experimenter cannot be extracted from his experiment, which is to say in 21st Century Reality language, the experiment and the experimenter are one and the same. Dr. Marilyn Schlitz conducted studies to determine the effect of interested human observers on random number generators. She found a statistically significant effect. She then invited renowned skeptics to conduct the exact same experiment. They found no significant effect. Dr. Schlitz expected a significant result, which is to say that she believed that consciousness is not local to the brain and that action can occur without a material cause. The skeptics believe consciousness is created by the brain and that nothing happens without material cause. Now I can’t say whether Dr. Schlitz believes that we each create are own reality, but I can say that the Skeptics scoff at the idea.
If what this blog puts forward is accurate – that there is no THE REALITY and that we each create our individual realities – then Dr. Schlitz and the skeptics are both right. The results confirm their individual beliefs. Until they both understand this there will be conflicting results when testing the effects of consciousness. You get what you believe, not what you think you believe. We have fables that foretell change, and often it is the child that proclaims the folly of the old. The
Emperor's New Clothes is such an admonition. In this fable no one dares tell the King he is naked, so everyone acknowledges how beautiful his new clothes are. To proclaim the Emperor's folly would be akin to breaking the dogma and removing the blinders from the race horse. Proclaim it, however, and we sail beyond a fixed horizon.
It took a child in the fable to open everyone's eyes, but in our age we don't listen to our children. We think we do, but we don’t. When we think we are listening we tell them the Emperor is not naked, but is wearing a splendid new suit of clothing. We are, like our own parents and parents of all time, entranced. We become unconscious hypnotists ourselves. Like us, our children grow up believing in Newton and Descartes, but not knowing it; believing in cause and effect to the exclusion of all else; believing that our true nature is base and must be held in check; believing that the world we live in is hostile and we are defenceless against predators, large and small. We are taught to believe that reality is defined by what we can hear, see, touch, taste, and smell, and that psyche is a product of
matter. There is much that goes on in our world that does not fit our small snapshot of reality. Bob Dylan knew something when in 1964 he sang, “The times, they are a changin’”
Bill Marshall
Check out my books, The Forgotten Self
(US) and
(UK) and
Gideon McGee’s Dream. For those Elias folks who haven’t purchased the book, a hint to what the story is about can be gained by counting the number of rose petals on the cover.