Newton's Zeitgeist

(Conspiracy Nation, 06/09/05) -- Isaac Newton (image, left), the "400-year-old enemy" (see "Matter Agitates," http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Matter.html), had his zeitgeist (world view) seized by materialists, modified, and then imposed upon mankind. Newton himself was not mechanistic (see "Icke's Fig Newton," http://www.shout.net/~bigred/FigNewton.html), but positivists took his mathematics, exiled spirit from it, deified their bastard, browbeat it into petty calculations, and we now swim in the mendacity. Like fish unable to describe water, we have no notion of the substance which permeates our lives. This is their "reality." Suggested by Conspiracy Nation is to create our own realities, in defiance of the cunningly aggressive "reality" constantly pushed upon us. (See "Going Off The Grid," http://www.shout.net/~bigred/OffGrid.html) Conspiracy Nation itself is only a "reality"; it is not "the" "reality." Isaac Newton relates to the neo-classicism. About 400 years ago, certain persons had been studying ancient authors such as Aristotle. Those "classic" writings inspired a new classicism, a new "reality" defiant of Augustinian "reality." St. Augustine had argued we can never truly know and ultimately must rely upon faith. The upstarts of circa 1600 overthrew the old "reality."

In the Newtonian "Natural Philosophy," which came to be known as "physics," there was a preoccupation with things like "mass," "motion," "force," and "time." "Mass" is a measure of "motion" influenced by "force" and occuring in "time." But what is "time?" Going back to Aristotle, the natural philosophers would have pondered such as, "We measure the movement by the time, but also the time by the movement, because they define each other."

The above chart is derived from Aristotle's Physics and from a film dealing with quantum physics, "What the Bleep Do We Know?" Recently released to DVD and VHS formats, "What the Bleep" is comprehensible to the layman, entertaining, but a trifle "New Agey." It goes into implications of quantum physics, suggesting "reality is what you make it." But the film neglects how other created "realities," especially the "massively" dominant "reality," might greatly impede the potential creation of alternate realities.

"What the Bleep Do We Know?" also ponders "What is memory?" Typically, the search is limited to inside the brain. Not allowed into consideration is that thought and memory might originate elsewhere than the brain. In the case of thought, in "Rome vs. the Grail" (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/RomeGrail.html), Conspiracy Nation discussed how sometimes our thoughts may be abrupt transmissions from "someplace else." The brain works as a sort of two-way radio transmitter. (Scoffers may wish to consider proven cases of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).) Original ideas are received consequent to "thought": transmitted requests to "someplace else." In the cases of persons who rarely think, their so-called "thoughts" are indeed merely habitual neuronal pathways. But original, creative thoughts may, at least in some cases, come from "elsewhere."

So too with memory. For thousands of years, a question concerning the ultimate composition of matter had been debated: Can matter be infinitely divided? Or can matter not be subdivided forever? Democritas of Abdera (fifth century B.C.) held that a limit would be reached, which he called atomos, meaning "uncuttable." But Aristotle disagreed, maintaining that the idea of atoms was illogical. Aristotle's opinion (his "reality") was dominant until a study of gases in the 17th and 18th centuries gradually overcame the old "reality." Solids and liquids are "dense"; i.e., not easily compressible. Since they basically cannot be squeezed into a smaller volume, hence there must not be any empty spaces ("void") between supposed atoms, so the thinking went. But gases, it was found, could be compressed -- hence empty spaces ("void") and supposed atoms. "If matter is nonatomic, then variations in density must be caused by the intrinsic differences in the density of matter itself... If matter consisted of atoms, there might be space between the atoms, a space containing only vacuum." Gases, less dense, were easily compressed, suggesting atoms. (Understanding Physics, by Isaac Asimov)

According to Annie Besant, "We do not find in the atom, at the beginning of a solar system, an illimitable variety of vibrations; but we learn that it possesses a capacity to acquire an illimitable variety of vibrations." Colliding with other atoms causes an alteration in vibrations: a primitive sort of learning. Later, the atoms group until some, for example, form sense organs. "A vibration from outside strikes on an organ of sense, and is transmitted to the appropriate centre in the brain. A group of cells in the brain vibrates [they "learn"]... The trace of that response is a possibility for the group of cells." Once they have "learned" to vibrate at a certain frequency by having been acted upon from without, the cells maintain an ability to initiate, without outside stimulus, that same vibration. That is memory. (A Study In Consciousness, by Annie Besant)

Offered for your consideration: that "God," the eternal, illimitable, has a record of all vibrations, past, present, and future. "Our memory is merely putting ourselves into touch with such parts of His consciousness as we have previously shared. Hence, according to Pythagoras, all learning is remembrance." (Besant, op. cit.) The word "educate," properly means "to lead out" (ex, out of, from within + duco, to lead.) True education is a gentle birthing of what we already knew, not a brutal indoctrination into surrendering to the dominant "reality."

Since the omnicient consciousness, an aspect of "God," knows the future as well as the past, it is conceivable we could vibrate in tune with that as well as with the past. But generally we have not "learned" those vibrations through experience and so mostly cannot know what is to come.

The preceding, especially the previous two paragraphs, is a "reality," not the "reality." Yet were it to be embraced by the overseers of "thought," in a short while the habitual neuronal pathways of the herd would have been reshaped. From there, this new "reality" would be enforced and you, in your turn, might find yourself struggling against it.

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