The Physical Anatomy of Heaven

OK I have absolutely no idea what is going to happen today. I'm like Sarah Palin except that I don't even have notes written on my hands. I'd like to give you some "Cliff Notes" about Heaven, and you're lucky to get that because other people won't even give you that. You look at sites on metaphysics and have to rely pretty much on your imaginations to get anything out of them. First of all I would like to comment on this idea of a "Life changing incident" or life changing decision that people make in their lives. Things like that do happen. But you cannot will them to happen. So when Jesus on KFI virtually orders you to "make a decision" he is cheapening the whole process. Because such life changing moments are precious and if they could be manufactured in mass the way Jesus suggests, it would vastly cheapen their value. I would hope not only that perhaps somebody reading this blog would have a "life changing moment" but it's just possible that someone out there reading this may have an experiance that surpasses my own. First of all we have to know what we are talking about when we throw words around like Heaven and "God". I was in a philosophy class in the fall of 1976 and the teacher seemed bent on proving that an after life was not even philosophically possible. He said that in order to have an after-life experiance you had to have "contenuity of memories" and you could not do that if you no longer had your old brain cells. I tried to pitch the idea to him that you could well be conscious after you died, but have absolutely no memory of your past life or who you were or what you did. We must think of all possabilities. The next thing is determining where heaven is and what it is. Some would say that heaven is "outside of Time". They get this passage saying we are "at the end of time" or "the end times" by misreading a passage in the book of revelation where it says "and the angel said that there should be time no more". But I've heard a more likely word there is "delay- - no more". That makes much more sense in context. Does it matter to you whether or not there is time in heaven? Next we come to where heaven is. Here there are a number of possabilities. Billy Graham teaches there is a whole Spiritual realm right here co-existant with our own space only invisable, and that a freight train could be roaring right through the auditorium and we'd never know it. On StarTrek there is this thing they call "sub space". It's supposed to have a lot of mysterious properties based on sub atomic particles where space is not defined clearly, as some see it. Then there is my Excel dimensions model. In my Excel model I say that a one dimensional universe has zero sides to a ninety degree cube. A two dimensional universe has one. (not two but one. That's because this pancake is not three dimensional) In three dimensions cubes have six faces. In four dimensions there would be eighteen faces. In five the number would be forty and with six there would be 75. This formula, like the whole Sudoku puzzle, is based on "the best evidence available". To put this notion in plain English it would mean that all of the dimensions are co equal but that we only see three of them, and not six, or how many others. Another view of Heaven is that it is somewhere off in the "Outer Darkness" outside this spherically shaped Universe. In some versions of this view, time itself, as well as space runs in circles and starts over again. I do not subscribe to this view myself since time is not a "co equal dimension". Let me demonstrate why. As you know I subscribe to the Ether theory, which can be viewed sort of like motor oil. It varies in viscosity or thickness. (resistance to movement) If it is either too thick things don't work, and if it gets too thinned out the whole Universe breaks down. As such My universe has a beginning and a definite End. As such there is no provision for circular time. As you know from numerous postings several months ago, I subscribe to the hyper-space view of Heaven, which means that "if there were space and you could locate it- -matter would register as traveling faster than light". But I also teach that in hyperspace there is no space as we know it, and so distance is irrelivant. Also the I Ching refers to two kinds of subatance. There is the light, or strong or unyielding substance. Then there is the dark, or weak or yielding substance. And I teach that Heaven is made of a whole different class of "substances" from anything we have the ability to examine in this world. As such my view of Heaven is a "Religious" one because part of the definition of a Religion is that you allude to things that are unprovable. In another philosophy class (I'd told this story before) I once wrote in a term paper that Confucionism was a philosophy and not a Religion, but that Communism was a Religion. Religion as such contains dogma that overrides all other observations on mankind. This is what Communism does. It's not merely a set of moral guideposts on ways to live life, but a hard and fast system of "theology" if you will. Like these other blogs you may read I say that Heaven is made up of- - not "energy" but "intelligent forces" and also of information or ideas per se. Some people say this realm of "energy" travels at the speed of light. But we can see things that travel the speed of light. But once you go one MPH over the speed limit or light barrier, you are OUT of this physical Universe and there is no place for you here, either spacially, or mass wise or time wise. Then the question arises whether heaven is a place of Goodness or not. You may not like my answer. Heaven is a place of Power. But have you ever wondered why people fear Space Aliens? Why are we always afraid of an "Invasion"? Because inwardly we know, like the aberiginal Indians of the Americas, we suspect that the alien's morality may differ considerably from our own, and that we will have no means to fight them, either ethically or appealing to "Higher moral principles". You have heard it said "He with the Power makes the Rules". In the writings of myself and Mark Campbell and Bill Gunderson, we speak of aliens constantly warring with each other. The idea that heaven is somehow a peaceful or tranqual place, may be a highly misplaced notion.

My apologies if you already knew all that stuff. We now move on to the present whacky political landscape. The tea baggers had their first political convention in Nashville over the weekend and Sarah Palin gave that rather trite but vapid speech, devoid of any programs someone could actually adopt. This one term governor drop out wants to be President now. If all she is capable of doing is throwing red meat to the masses in the form of these pre scripted one-liners, she will have a rude awakening. Ten years ago who in their wildest fantasy would have imagined someone like Sarah Palin being the best political mind the right wing has to offer? She certainly wasn't worth the $100,000 fee she charged for showing up. Ten years ago nobody could have even imagined the situation we have today. And if someone wrote a Novel about it, people would be saying it was just too far out to be plausable. I've talked to these people. They have no concept at all that taxes just might be a good thing. They are saying things like "I am so taxed in my business because the government is raising taxes on me all the time and people just aren't going to put up with it". But in reality taxes were cut in 1964 and they were cut again in 1981 and they were cut again- twice- under George Bush. But they are never satisfied and imagine things that aren't so. One of them told me "You know I would like to hire on an employee but the government has so much red tape I just can't do it". When I said to her "Well, Obama wants to give you a five thousand dollar credit for new hires" and she then said "Yeah but some people are so broke they can't afford to hire anyhow so this provision does them no good". You've heard people say "It doesn't matter that Obama cut taxes on 90% of the people- - because everybody knows only rich people pay taxes". Sometimes the right is contradictory. They will say anything to win an argument even if it's inconsistant. Larry Elder says "You know don't you that businesses don't pay any taxes. They just pass it on in higher prices". My response here is, if this if true- - then you won't mind a 30% tax hike because 30% of nothing is nothing. Some of them will say "Well Obama is ignoring the need for jobs". But I calked to a conservative about this whole bullet train thing and she said "I think the idea of a bullet train from LA to San Francisco is stupid. Nobody rides the train. And besides we can't afford it". To this same person I mentioned imposing terrifs to keep American jobs from going overseas. Her response was "Well, a terrif is still a tax by another name". These people want to "Cut taxes to unleash the power of the American economic engine". I'd like to know what that means. Because some people say "Well we have to cut unemployment because as long as they draw unemployment they will never look for a job". But my response is, "How can people who are not making it in this economy have discretionary money to go out and Buy Anything? Broke people can't stimulate an economy. Back to the train thing I said we could bypass a lot of airport security checks. Because you can't hijack a railroad. If there is a terrorist discovered on board, a train can be evacuated. A plane can't be. You can't crash a train into a skyscraper. She was unimpressed. But what about new forms of energy. She said "Well you know that solar pannels don't work and if you bought one now, it will not have paid for itself even if you were to keep it for fifty years. She also said "wind and tide power could never generate the energy we need. Of course Sarah Palin talked about President Obama acting like a "law professor" in dealing with terrorists. It's their side who is uneducated and doesn't read. Tancredo should have been looking in a mirror when he said people voting for Obama could not pass a southern voter litericy text. In terms of these terror suspects tried in criminal court- - President Obama is just following the precedents set by the Bush administration in dealing with trying terrorists. These people on the right just need something to complain about. They need a slogan of the week. And I say for these tea baggers to go ahead and run in Republican primaries. Do it. That way the "real Republicans" will put them in their place. And both of them will be put in their place when the Democratic candidate wins in the fall because the Republicans are all factionalized. But if this is what Sarah Palin wants, I say "Go for it".