R.C. Henry professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University in a 2005 essay is quoted as saying:
A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction.
Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote (born 1877--till 1946, when he wrote the quote below he was castigated. I know this feeling as I was over the same issue, actually Sir James Hopwood Jeans expressed this at a lecture, he was courageous and brave)
“The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather to hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.
– Eugene Wigner, theoretical physicist and mathematician said:
“It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.”
Courtesy Got Questions 3 |
Sitting at the desk and looking at the old professor
with his harries tweed baggy clothes and he peering at us with his pince-nez
glasses precariously perched on almost the tip of his nose, he produced a balloon
and blew it up slightly and drew on it the some planets, the sun and moon and
pronounced with emphasis the Universe is expanding and blew the balloon up to
its full extent.
As a young lad I put up my hand and asked ‘Sir if the Universe is expanding according to the balloon the planets, sun and moon are moving away from one another’ Glickenfried ( that was the name before it was changed, although my Grandfather and Grandmother originally came from Russia and Ukraine they went to Germany before coming to the UK and changed their name from Bilangroski to Glickenfried) you do not understand physics and so be quiet and learn’ The bell rang for a break and just as I went out I said ‘who is causing the Universe to expand?
When I came back from the break, I was told to take
the afternoon off and report to the chancellor the next morning- I was told to
go to something more suitable for my mind and character. The rest is history. I
had touched on another ‘sacred’ cow ---Is there God, the big bang or creative design?
Courtesy Pin Page 4 |
In summary, for a typical human of 70 kg, there are almost 7*1027 atoms (that's a 7 followed by 27 zeros!) Another way of saying this is "seven billion billion billion."
So now I was bamboozled, I was 22 yrs of age and I came across this and wondered how was I here if I am nearly empty, so I toyed around God is thinking through me and I am figment of his mind, God was a He? I then in my prayers prayed to Mother Father God. Later on in my 30's I began to realise or felt through the years of meditation that 'I' was a stream of something on which thoughts floated on, like a carrier wave in Radio broadcasts, a sort of ocean of something invisible and all forms in Nature and the Cosmos were waves that arose, lived their allotted years and dwindled and then reabsorbed into the ocean at their demise it was then I felt the Universe was a great recycling machine as it were and nothing was wasted. Living in Canada for a short while I saw native communities using every part of an animal and no waste they understood by their life style and culture what the Universe was about, compare this to the landfills and the waste that modern life styles put out.
Courtesy L'Appui 5 |
Jñāna Yoga – the yoga of will and intellect and Sensei gave me the name of Shindo(the way of the Way) and Sifu laughed and said Geoff will do and on living in the wilds and cabins I gave myself a nick nickname of SHACK I prefer just Geoff.
During the years of 'attention without intention and not intending to be not intending', natural attention began to develop not as a habit or wanting it, then I realised after the 'who am I' stuff that there was no answer to 'who am I' and the nearest I go was a bible explanation when asked who is God and God said 'I am who I am'. This then led me to witness myself as separate from my thoughts and the more I became an interested non biased witness to these thoughts with emotions the more they died down naturally and I was left in peace and quiet etude. The it came to me I am awareness and awareness is life and I am conscious of myself, I am aware I am aware. The Universe is self aware so I must be aware, I am the conscious expression of the Universe being conscious of Itself.
Courtesy Rectangular mirrors 6 |
I realised that my thoughts were so mundane and practical for living and gave me relative small amounts of peace and well being when the thoughts dwindled away naturally I did not need them and they intruded I could live well and joyfully without them. I was becoming an empty head without senility or madness and I knew who I was, I certainly in the world was Geoff but my real name and identity is awareness which has no human sense tangibility and is the common identity of all and is seamless and not individual and is nonlocal and not personal.
How does the statement the empty atom stand up now, I suggested the empty 'spaces' although there is something that it not solid is consciousness and the informing intelligent awareness is the directive to the atom to form its part in the whole. By the way when I suggested and wrote a paper on it I was recommended to see a psychiatrist and to resign my degree.
It seems from the above scientists and their quotes maybe I was not so far off the mark after all.
BE CONSCIOUS, BE AWARE, BE WELL
GEOFF aka SHACK