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Reincarnation On Trial
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David Bodanis' excellent book, E=mc2
On the “Einstein” page, biographer David Bodanis comments on just how unique were the insights concerning relativity. Often progress in science is founded upon much knowledge and experience. And, of course, Einstein was not deficient in these. But many other researchers were adept in the historical information of physics. This alone, however, textbook knowledge and technical experience, cannot account for what happened. I’ve reprinted part of the earlier article:
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What’s light got to do with it? But Einstein’s insight was truly astonishing. He saw a link between energy and mass, a mediation by something appearing to be totally unrelated to the process. Einstein was the first to see that the speed of light squared, an utterly enormous number, would serve as the “velocity” in the old-physics equation. What’s light got to do with it? As it turns out, at the speed of light the popcorn really starts to pop. Before then it’s just warming, but, at the speed of light, energy and mass change hands at wholesale levels. Who could have known this? But Einstein's musing upon this mystery, since he was a teenager, allowed him to have a clue suddenly dropped into his head. His mind was prepared to receive the insight, while others were stuck in Newtonianism. Why does it work this way? Why the linkage to light? It’s just the way the universe works, and asking why is like asking why the sky is blue or why water boils at 212. It's just the way the universe is constructed. The speed of light is one of the great constants of science. It's like 32 degrees turns water into a solid. For energy and matter, the speed of light is where the dance really speeds up, where they do-se-do and change partners. The conversion of mass to energy, or the other way, doesn't happen with relish below the speed of light, just as you can't freeze your ice-cubes at normal fridge temperatures. It's just how things are put together. It's a local ordinance for this realm. But what does this all mean? What's light got to do with it? I think physicist Peter Russell gave us the best answer. From light’s point of view, there is no time, no mass, and no speed. From our point of view, as third-party observers, at the speed of light the old familiar guard-rails of this seemingly matter-bound universe begin to break apart, we fall down the rabbit-hole, the heavens roll back, the frail stage-scenery is taken away, a door to a new magical domain opens... at the speed of light, we suddenly view the real world, things as they really are, where the Wizard is revealed to be running the show
... and we enter the “real world” of the photon - because, for the photon, there is no distance, there is no time, and it doesn't go anywhere, it's omnipresent in the universe. At the speed of light, the rules of "common sense" we learned from Grandpa change considerably. **************************** Einstein’s insight that light is related to the process was way out in left field. It had no solid prelude. There was no lead-up. It was just wham, bam, now it’s dropped into Einstein’s head. But we need to understand that all truly unique and shattering discoveries are this way! We discussed this in the “creativity” article. Of course, it has to be this way. How could it be anything else? How can you have a lead-up, a prelude, a forerunner to the utterly unique? to “something never seen before,” as “The Wedding Song” uses the phrase? How can you have "paint by numbers" and cliff's notes to connect the dots for something never seen before? There is no gradualism for the shockingly unique. There is no warm-up, with nice incremental advances of knowledge and experience, to naturally and expectantly produce the astonishingly iconoclastic. This is not possible.
I must assign you some homework: the “500 tape-recorded messages from the other side” writing. Over there, we'll find many millions, to whom I refer as “the insane 500.” They’re very materialistic, arrogant and vain, seek followings for themselves for ego-stroking, are quite confident in the solidity of reincarnation, and would tell you that human perfection will be closely allied with charitable works. But this is wrong. Charitable works are the result of perfection, not its foundation. See much discussion in “the 500” writing.
the perfected mind, a state of creation itself What does the perfected state actually look like? Well, no one can really tell you, because “truth is a living thing” and “a pathless land.” Krishnamuriti is close to a good answer when he says that the perfected mind becomes “a state of creation itself.” And when it happens for us, it will do so, not according to the utterly fraudulent claim of 100,000 lives, but in one moment of cosmic clarity. And this is why “The Wedding Song,” in its channeled admonitions, speaks of true love as “something never seen before”; that, hardly anyone on planet Earth has any concept of what true love looks like. And this why the great mystics say that, when it comes, no one will believe you, because it’s utterly foreign on the street:
eventually, you'll experience exquisite, unimaginable things, know things, see things, as if from nowhere, but no one will believe you "Spiritual practice must be uninterrupted. We may be anxious because we see very little happening on a daily basis, but we must be patient until we can see what the accumulation of our effort yields. Self-cultivation means steady gradual progress… "After long self-cultivation, one’s accumulated energy reaches a threshold and then bursts out, full, breathing, and vibrant… When one’s spiritual energy emerges, it feels like a swan rising from the water...
"If you spend a long period of time in study and self-cultivation, you will enter ... a world of extraordinary perceptions. You experience unimaginable things, receive thoughts and learning as if from nowhere, perceive things that could be classified as prescient. Yet if you try to communicate what you experience, there is no one to understand you, no one who will believe you. The more you walk this road, the farther you are from the ordinary ways of society... To speak to them of the wonders you have seen is often to engage in a futile bout of miscommunication. That is why it is said that those who know do not speak." Deng Ming-Dao, 365 Tao
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