Krishnamurti is correct. Consider the implications of his statement. Those who mystically explore the inner person enter a world of boundless potential and opportunity. This includes a perception of one’s “dark side.” As I’ve stated elsewhere, the unenlightened mind, under sufficient provocation, is potentially able to commit any atrocity of history. And if one journeys to the “center of the soul,” one will feel the potential evil as a palpable living force. The ego is desperately wicked, but only those who engage it mystically will know this in a full-bodied manner. This means that it’s not necessary -- even if experience were efficacious for achieving spiritual maturity -- to live a life of a killer, prostitute, thief, extortionist, fake-news artist, totalitarian – on and on, to gain some sort of imagined advancement by filling oneself up with thousands of incarnations of experience. A mystical trip to the locus of the “heart of darkness” achieves all that and, for a few moments, will do even more as it might completely inhabit the realm of all-evil. For more discussion, begin on the “true self” page.

not enough time in a thousand universes

Editor's last word:

In my forthcoming article discussing how biological evolution is led by quantum mechanics, I will offer testimony from mathematicians/scientists demonstrating that randomness alone, mere chance, cannot account for the development of even a single-celled creature. There’s not enough time. The universe itself isn’t old enough – a mere 15 billion years – to allow sufficient time for randomness to do its work. But it’s worse than that.

As mathematicians inform us, it would take a period of time equal to many universes, a great many, for mere chance to have even a whisper of a chance to be effective. This is nonsense. But the quagmire thickens. Our example featured but a single-celled creature – one complete cell, with all systems functioning. If we consider, however, the complexity of only the component parts, we’re in the same trouble.

For example, there’s a circularity relationship between protein and DNA: DNA is made of protein but protein is made by DNA’s instructions. How did this symbiosis come to be? And now we’re back to a very large number – not of years, but of universes – required to even have the foggiest glimpse of a theoretical chance of randomness producing these things.

Let’s be clear. This is bunk. It’s not possible. It didn’t happen that way. There’s another explanation. And yet, despite this mathematical fairy-tale aspect of biological evolution, materialist biologists blithely speak of “given enough time” randomness might be efficacious in its efforts.

Reincarnationists play the same sleight-of-hand game: “given enough time” we will become whole and complete as we experience everything with “infinite doing.” Really? We’re to have “all experience”? There isn’t enough time in the universe, or in a hundred universes, or a hundred thousand universes, to infinitely explore all possibilities of character. That’s a mathematical absurdity.

Let’s cut to the heart of this sophistry. This demand for more time, more lives, more chances, is just a wild mosh-pit erotic dream of the dysfunctional ego as it ponders its own systemic inadequacy of “I do not have enough” because “I am not enough.”