On The Border

As to the upcoming opus magnum it’s kind of a “Pop Sampler” (of Metaphysical possibilities) like some of those records my parents used to buy in the ‘fifties filled with “cocktail lounge songs”. You people have read much of this before but there are area that merit emphasis, or in at least one case, new material. You know- - I don’t know it for a fact but someone might want to characterize me as a person as “Someone who plays people off against each other”. You people know about Jim Cooper and Mark Campbell, and some people might make the accusation there. But you don’t need to go back thirty years, but there is a contemporary situation that will do nicely. I have wondered to myself where I am trying to “Play off Dana and Craig against each other”. I tell each side I agree with them. The thing is that Craig has it right as far as “What the Bible basically teaches” and Dana is all wrong. On the other hand Dana has a lot of basic “common sense” which is a rare comedity around here. I admire Dana’s “utter lack of faith”. I’d like to say to Dana “I envy and admireyour utter disbelief in religious stories”. All the while I know this is a Christian run facility, and I owe a lot to these people, which probably includes a deference to the Faith that governs them.

Of course I admire intelligence and intelligent people. For instance I recommend you listen to Thom Hartman’s first hour this morning from nine to ten PDT, because he really hit it out of the park the last hour. He spoke of George Bush ordering people out of Afghanistan to find Bin Laden in 2002 into the Iraq theater because he knew he was planning to go to war there. Also George Bush had the offer to receive custody of Bin Laden and he turned it down, because aerial bombing was too much fun. President Obama had the choice to either “wait and gather further intelligence” or do aerial bombing or do his risky surgical strike, which he went with. Of course in keeping with my “equal time policy” let’s hear from Stewart Sutcliffe. He was the one I got the whole fifth dimensional thing from. While it’s true the germ of an idea may have come from some TV program on the Big Bang, still without Stewart explaining the thing to me I might not have “ever gotten it”. Also Steward was going against Mal Evans and Federation teaching in general. In terms of the Wickipedia article, the thing is badly in need of a rewrite because the facts aren’t presented systematically. As to Stewart’s art - -the pictures I’ve seen of his haven’t been so dark, but also rather more geometric with mathmetical formulas imbedded in them- - but it’s not something apparent to the eye, you have to have it explained to you. I think we’re ready to go into our main feature now. You may note the lack of any reference to "ether" in the piece. I couldn't think of everything at once.

METAPHYSICAL POSSABILITIES

Well Dr. Levy if you remember in class I made passing reference to metaphysical realities. Right away you associated that with the para-normal. That’s a correct but incomplete perception. I define metaphysical is those aspects of nature which man cannot measure or quantify, at least under normal circumstances, Scientists make the metaphysical that there are four and only four “basic forces in the Universe." [I wont name them] I guess we have to accept their word on Faith. OK. There are three basic realms where I postulate that we need to learn a whole lot more than we do. One is of the micro world of sub-atomic particles. Atomic particles I have no problem with. These consist of electrons, protons, neutrons, and photons. But scientists have found scores of “sub atomic” particles, which seem to exist almost in their own imagination. These include leptons, pions, mesons, positrons, and the like. Other scientists look at the world of the microscopic and come up with this “string theory”, which seems really strange to me. There seems to be an ongoing battle between the “string” and the “particle” people.

In realm number two which is mysterious is a byproduct of the Big Bang theory. Picture an infinite number of thin straight lines radiating from a single point. Normally you count “our four dimensional space-time continuoum as the lines point up. Ontologically only in our own realm does effect follow cause. In lines going the opposite way cause follows effect, don’t ask me how. But this is only in our own perception. They would see us as entirely the opposite. You’re into existentialism. Here is an exestensial riddle for you. Suppose you put four “points” on some three-dimensional blackboard. Four points suspended in space. Which one is the one that doesn’t belong? Well the answer lies in the fact that three points “define” a plane. That’s a funny word, “define”. You can “define” things so that any combination of three of the triangle form a plane and each of the four cases there is a fourth point that is the odd man out or “non plainer” as the Sketch people say. I think you can see what is implied by this because many say there is only one way to reach God and the others are improper, but it’s all how you “define” the plane. Returning to our Big Bang example- - we have a number of parrellel universes- - or shall we say “highly oblique”. In my model these universes never cross but are always headed farther apart. I define these other lines as in the “fifth dimension” or Twilight Zone, if you will. This is the “dimension of unreality”. Here is another proposition that will blow your mind: “Everything that CAN happen HAS happened- -in some other dimension or parrellel universe. As such psychic visions may be accurate but useless if they apply to a parrellel universe. As to the statement “God cannot do the intrinsicly impossible” Pilate may ask “and what IS intrinsically impossible” and the answer is anything other than what God has scripted for our own universe. They used to have a TV called “Sliders” that dramatized this dimension. (All the good TV shows are no longer on the air)

The final realm of mystery is objects that travel faster than light. I have another of those metaphysical truths to lay on you so get your notepad out. “No matter how many well executed Possible acts- - all perfectly timed and carried out to an infinite degree of precision and persistence- - they can never add up to what would be Impossible. This alludes to the addition of velocities equation Einstein came up for the special theory of relativity. [A guy named Paul talked about evidence of the psychic in class and to me it was the most intelligent remarks made this day. I respect intelligence even if it's made by whom Stephen King might label as "Not a Nice Guy] To both agree and disagree with Paul (in class) at the same time- - I’m sure one in a million coincidences have occurred many times in my life, and in yours. But contemplate this: What are the odds of your life by chance ending up the way it did. I’ll give you a hint. There are seven billion people in the world and you could have been born as any one of them, and so could I have. How many “events” have occurred in your life. Ten million? If so then there mathematically are ten events with odds of one in a million of happening. I’ve seen all the math odds and they tell me they play out with stunning regularity, so people like Neil Savedra say there IS no such thing as the paranormal. Still others speak of a realm where Ideas and Concepts have some sort of material existence. As some preachers say “With God- - Words are Things”. What if Ideas were physical Things? Here is another notion. Karl Jung speaks of the “collective unconscious”. I have in the past entertained the notion that this collective unconscious exists in some psychic dimension and is in a constant struggle for dominance, and it could be there is some connection between what goes on in this realm and the events that occur in this physical universe. Others speak of “energy forces” such as exist in haunted houses where emotion and traumas get “frozen in time” and go on forever.

On top of all of this, like the painter of a painter of a picture- - you have God. God created all these realms, even the psychic one. Some people try to quantify God but you can’t do that. God also created the number Infinity, so that the concept of Infinity, like Time- - is an artifact of God. I have previously said it can be a quantifyable number such as repeating decimal numbers. [Because at lease you know you're "getting there"] Or “parrellel lines meet at Infinity” in a painting. They don’t meet sooner, and they don’t meet later. Infinity is also a definitely quantifyable line on a camera- - not mine but others, as a focal length. If a prayer is destined not to be answered by God how many times does a person have to pray? Infinity won’t be enough. Some people think they can quantify God, but they may be the same ones who think they can divide by zero. You can “prove zero divided by zero is one because “Any number divided by itself equals one”. But you can't quantify - - Nothing. When it comes to God, “You can’t get there from here”. God himself says so with statements like “Man on his own can never reach God” and “In man dwells no good thing” and the like. I am a man of science and even my theories about God derive from scientific writings rather than from religious writings. I guess things like Yoga and Acupuncture have metaphysical elements to them.

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I want to talk about death a little. I find, contrary to what “normal” is, that as I grow older my fear and uncertainty about death only increases. Obviously the first time I saw “ending it all” as an option was when I threatened to commit suicide on August 2^nd,1967. Of course Dad, like the asshole that he was, saw it as - - “Oh you don’t like that? Then I’ll rephrase it”. Dad fool that he was sitting there with his head up his ass saw the event in a manner I could not have dreamed of then, at least consciously. I thought I was alerting him to a problem that can’t be ignored any more. But he thought, “This is just another indication to add to my long list that [Marcus] is “damaged goods” and not really human like the rest of us, and therefore unworthy of common human decency, like demanding to be treated civilly by his brothers”. Oh, Dad had let certain remarks slip now for months- - but at the time I wasn’t connecting all the dots in Dad’s mind. So I guess from then on and for years and years to come I thoughts “Perhaps it wouldn’t be such a bad thing is the World came to an end like Jeane Dixon and all these Astrologers have been predicting.” But I had my moment of enlightenment, or a “Come to Jesus” moment if you will, perverse as the context which I am using that phrase in. And that was at the Anaheim Convention Center on Thursday September 8^th 1977. Chuck Smith was giving part two of his End Times presentation. I remember thinking, “I’m not going to die in a Holocaust of someone else’s perverted fantasy, or “wet dream” as Randy Rhodes would put it. Here was a man reveling in gore and death and horror, and all the while swelling with pride at how superior he was to the rest of the world.