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Friday, August 31, 2018

Exploring Einstein's Brain: The Cosmic Love Factor


Here’s how smart Einstein was — he understood all too well the public’s obsession with him, our obsession with celebrity and special-ness. He knew that if given the chance, scientists would pour over his brain’s neurons and glia, sulci and gyri, and make grand pronouncements about what makes a genius. And he knew it would be bullshit. 
Virginia Hughes

Recently, fate brought writings of M. Scott Peck to my attention on this timeless mission to prevent species extinction.  Thoughts on love in his bestselling book from 1987, The Road Less Traveled; A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth compel notes here.

Doctors embracing spirituality seems to be an increasing cultural event.  Peck is probably not the first psycho-therapist to combine a sense of spirituality in his work with patients. He is probably first to share his thoughts on the subject in a concise entertaining book that lifts humanity up on the evolutionary ladder. That is not to say that his every word is gospel. I have some disagreements on his thoughts of love and will discuss them fully in my future book covering the heterosexual magic taking place in love and sexual love.

Peck echoes sentiments here when writing that many dimensions of love are not covered completely in his book simply because they are difficult to understand. He intimates that the best people for the job of explaining love, “are those among the religious who are students of Mystery.” Well, he is at least close to solving the conundrum of love. Rather like the father of psychiatry, 
Sigmund FreudPeck is not perfect but still pioneering providing a starting point from which others can follow and expand.

Falling in love in itself is not always love. Falling in love only requires actions by one person. Further, often falling in love is actually infatuation or fascination. However, to say that the sensation of falling in love does not last is incorrect.  Even one-sided love can be forever as fans love Elvis and Marylin Monroe.  Falling in love sensations may not last for most people but some lovebirds fall in love and remain in love forever.


Mlieva Maric, Einstein's first wife, 1875-1948

Love embraced the wonderful mind of Albert Einstein in 1897 when first meeting his future wife, Mileva Maric.  Earth goddess and brilliant physicist herself, they met attending Zurich Polytechnic School in Switzerland.  Although the marriage would last some twenty years, they were actually separated in 1904.  Einstein love letters speaks of great passion for Mileva and offers a telltale clue to a discerning spiritual mind regarding the cosmic source of his most brilliant discovery. 


When I’m not with you I feel as if I’m not whole. When I sit, I want to walk; when I walk, I’m looking forward to going home; when I’m amusing myself, I want to study; when I study, I can’t sit still and concentrate; and when I go to sleep, I’m not satisfied with how I spent the day.
…tender kisses from your
Albert

There is a metaphysical phenomena taking place between men and women powered by love.  I call this phenomena, Cosmic Transference; The Heterosexual Nexus and posit it as the spark behind visions and enlightenment events of several notable men, famous and infamous.  This revelation was born from two different enlightenment events of my own.  As a Poet of some note and other factors, I have experienced perhaps more than my share of love from women in a modest lifetime.   Such experience has not been lost upon a philosophical mind.  While my experiences were not all about sexual love, there is often a sexual specter floating between the sexes in all relationships to some degree.  Some might call it "sexual tension."  After comprehending dynamics of spiritual enlightenment and reveling in awareness it brings, I must say sexual tension between the sexes appears to be elemental to species ascension.


Heterosexual love is in sync with cosmic forces.  Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature. 
—Camille Paglia

Clearly, I am not the first to acknowledge cosmic sparks generated by heterosexual love.  I do appear to be the first person to give it a name and expand on the concept.

Cosmic transference,  I believe also takes place between parent and child explaining the divine source of great achievements from Ayn Rand and Nikolai Tesla.  How it affects adult women is still unclear at this point.  There seems to be no ostensible example today perhaps because of the current stagnant paradigm.  More research and contemplation are needed on the matter and at least one book.  As these revelations remain new even to the messenger, our discussion here concerns the cosmic phenomena as it applies only to adults.

Science wishes to quantify love.  Shallow skeptics break love down to brain chemicals and electrical impulses firing across synapses in a way that meets their limited ability to test the untestable.  Science wishes to master the universe not through a sense of love but senses fueled by competition, careless exploitation, greed, and egomania.  Most scientists do not seek to explore but to justify ___________ (fill in the blank).

As a scientist, Einstein knew all too well the growing menace within his profession of what some call "scientism" and referred to lovingly here as, Dr. Frankenstein.  Normal doctors and scientists suffering from delusions of godhood are becoming indistinguishable.  Einstein was quite aware of problems plaguing science and his stardom.  To that end, he left written instructions on what he wished to be done with his remains after death.  Einstein wanted to be cremated and have ashes scattered in different places.  Such wishes were in place for good reasons.  Our father of relativity knew unscrupulously low levels that some men would stoop to on either side of society to own a piece of his DNA or brain.

I define evil, then, as the exercise of optical power—that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion—in order to avoid extending one’s self for the purpose of nurturing spiritual growth. Ordinary laziness is nonlove; evil is antilove. 
M. Scott Peck, Ph.D.

Albert Einstein's brain was removed and stolen by the pathologist on duty at the time of his death in 1955, Thomas Harvey.  Concerned associates believe Harvey was allowed to keep his prize through strong-arm blackmail of Einstein's son.  Harvey promised to use the famous disembodied brain for scientific research only.

Let us rephrase reasons why some scientists wanted Einstein's brain.  They wanted to find a shortcut to genius and capitalize on the discovery.  They wanted to synthesize their hoped for discovery and mass produce it achieving fame and fortune.  Science did indeed discover differences in the great Einstein brain from the rest of us.  However, a simple review of their study finds that controls were few.  In some cases data was actually faked simply to suggest that Einstein possessed an extraordinary brain on a biological level.  Were the discoveries true, someone would have been forever enriched with research grants and notoriety.

There was a personal cost, in that Einstein’s family was essentially strong-armed into agreeing to participate in research that Einstein explicitly did not want to participate in. And there was a public cost, too. In popular-press accounts of these studies over the years, the public was misled about the findings and their supposed scientific value. 
Virginia Hughes

Understanding love and sexual love should be sought in wisdom of philosophers, poets, and prostitutes.  Think on such revelation for a while and it may lead one to understand why our world is today so loveless moving towards perversion.  The propagation of love has thus far been in the wrong hands.  Science marginalizes the metaphysical nature of love like they have done to women in general.  You cannot dissect love in a laboratory forcing it to yield to exploitation and a biased narrative.  That is why love is never opined as the source of inspiration for the greatest achievement of Einstein and other great men.  Spiritual impotence could never validate such a theorem lacking aptitude for the Herculean labor. Collecting and faking data is easy.  Accepting and searching through your soul is not for pretentious minds nor the faint of heart.

Recently, on the popular cable TV series, Ancient Aliens, the theory was put forth that both Einstein and Tesla may have been helped by extraterrestrials.  While wild rhetorical questions are good for TV ratings, it marginalizes the spirit of humanity as well as being short-sighted.  Love is paradoxical.  Like spirituality, love is mystical, invigorating, difficult, seemingly never-ending in variance and humbling. It seems certain that humanity gets help from extraterrestrials from time to time in the history of the planet.  However, aliens cannot think for us.  

We are tasked here with thinking, loving, always ascending becoming as incomprehensible gods and goddesses.  Our mission encompasses lifetimes to complete and metaphysical phenomena embedded in love and sexual love are absolute keys.  Science at some point must forge a friendlier relationship with disciplines far better equipped to explore key components of human existence.





LINKS

The Tragic Story of How Einstein's Brain was Stolen

Mileva Einstein-Maric

Albert Einstein's Love Letters

Mileva Maric- Wikimedia

Happy Valentines Day

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Synchronicity and Zodiac Sign 13

Ophiuchus, the so-called 13th Zodiac Sign
Our good friend Science decided it was past time to update the High Art of Astrology and threw a monkey wrench into the world of Spirit, Magick, and Horoscopes by doing the math required to delineate the 13th Zodiac sign known as Ophiuchus.  It appears the 13th sign has been there all along and the ancients for some reason decided to ignore it.

Apparently, 13 sun signs were used long ago in Sidereal Astrology.  As a youngster in the world of astrology, it would take someone more in tune with the Arts to explain exactly what Sidereal Astrology entails.  Thankfully, an explanation of ancient astrology is not necessary for the thesis here.  

Science gave us back the 13th sun sign not in an effort to help but to discredit, embarrass, and bring general chaos to those of us with higher consciousness most probably out of envy.  Astrologers and those of us entering new spirituality are not thrown into chaos with the announcement and rebirth of Ophiuchus.  According to Science, the news affects 86% of us.  That is to say, our natal charts and horoscopes have been cast in error and need recalculating.  I disagree.  The ancients in almost every culture were more spiritually advanced or in touch with spirit than modern society.  So then, we can bet that the ancients had good reasons for ignoring the 13th sign and we should not try to out-smart them.

I believe it was Constantine the Great who became so great because of the casting of his natal chart by Vettius Valens, a novice Astrologer at the time fell to his knees and wept at the feet of the Ruler upon casting and reading Constantine’s chart.  Apparently, he was the second coming of Christ or something and the young Astrologer told him as much.   Constantine went on to be such a great Roman Emperor that he is credited with creating the fall of Rome and emergence of Christianity. Many years later his chart was cast again by a modern astrologer and it was found that the original natal chart of Constantine was cast completely in error. 

Planets and stars affect us but are also there as powerful tools for our use as well.  All advanced mystics know that human will is greater than the power of any planet or star.

Do not pull your hair out over the news of Ophiuchus.  Rejoice!  It is just another sign the status-quo creating an ugly loveless world of machines, monsters and their prey is coming to an unmerciful end.  Imagine greater and get ready to build a new world.  

Here then are my top ten reasons why the 13th Zodiac sign gives those of us on a spiritual journey no cause for concern.  If incorporated, it arrives in perfect harmony with “synchronicity" of the great Carl Jung and approaching matriarch society.

1.   Astrology is not based on constellations as there are other more powerful constellations than Ophiuchus not listed on the Zodiac.  There is a fine argument for this in a video below and not all Astrologers are long-haired Hippies.  Some of them come from the ranks of science.

2.   Constellation Ophiuchus is not very bright meaning it radiates little power on us lowly humans.  Maybe this is why the ancients ignored it.  There is literature to suggest it should be treated like a leap year.  Perhaps it comes into significant aspect every 3 years.

3.   Astrology is different in almost every nation.  Vedic Astrology of India uses 7 planets only as did the ancients.   So then, Astrology behaves to whatever dynamics humans ascribe to it to a degree.  Quantum Theory is about what you believe. The Poet seems to sense more than experts think they know here.

Astrology cannot be explained by any single theoretical framework, but must be viewed against a specific religious, philosophical, social, and political background and, equally importantly, from the perspective of individual practitioners working within a particular milieu in a particular place, in a particular decade of a particular century.  
              -Liz Greene, Astrologer Extraordinaire

4.   Thirteen is a sacred number, a spiritual number, a number with great power for those in tune with spirit and a source of great fear to those who live by pretense.  Pretense has ruled this world for thousands of years driving humanity to the end of the road called extinction.  As pretense dies, spiritual energy awakens and rules the future.  Those with spirit do not fear the number 13 but welcome it like magick it brings.

5.   Science looks silly for not doing the math a long time ago.  Maybe their computers were running slow or something.  This shows that Science must stop being such an insufferable snob and work with the High Arts as they are much older and more powerful than Science.  Science seems jealous for not giving humanity a viable answer to the extinction riddle.  Spirituality delivered that solution and holds all keys to Utopia until science can catch up getting out of the mud of pretense— pretending it is the new God.  

6.   Bringing back Ophiuchus may unite all the different varieties of Astrology.  I have said that one day Astrology will join the ranks of academics and you will be able to get a Ph.D in Astrology.  Maybe Ophiuchus is the nexus to our astrological future of love and prosperity free from government parasites and their zombies.  Rally ‘round thirteen!



7.   These enlightened eyes were looking for an astronomical sign among our starry night sky signaling the dawning of the matriarch society and end to a cruel circus of status-quo politics of fools.  Pluto is no longer a planet having been unceremoniously down-graded by Science and that event could not be a sign for positive change.  NASA’s Kepler  Space Telescope recently discovered a new planet and that more than makes up for old Pluto.  (Pluto may rise from the dead again)  Planet Proxima Centauri-B needed a better name and Astrologers should write letters of protest around the fact that astronomers and scientists are artistically and poetically inept.  They should appoint a group of Poets and Astrologers to name planets. 


Snake Charmer has flare and bravado.  Think of government and the status-quo as a snake (shouldn’t be hard to do).  We must charm the dangerous reptile with magick as we retake our planet just in time to destroy human monsters and save a dying world.

8.   Zodiac Signs are the least powerful element of tools and forces at our disposal to learn lessons while multiplying and prospering on this planet.  Meandering through incarnations we go through all sun signs until getting it right. Planets and aspects hold the power and they shall not change much in your natal chart.  

9.   Firestorm Omega arrived here under a Trigon of planets holding great mythological and real power including Ares the God of War, the Father of Time Saturn, and Uranus the World Maker holding domain over earthquakes and tsunamis.  Nerds and Geeks say coincidence while the great Jung would say, “synchronicity, Baby!”

10.  The Warrior is given mythic ruthless planets as tools and great magick to battle epic evil of this world.  Apparently, humanity is that important. The Dalai Lama told you folks how it would end and so did Nostradamus.  The last revolution begins with the rise of Matriarchs. 


The "Secret Cross" well known for great power found on few as are two.

Natal Chart of Firestorm Omega aka Alan Paine

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Sunday, April 12, 2015

The Spiritual Loophole 2.0

Cosmic Connections
Pagan religions have always been an alternate choice in the quest for spirituality, although Paganism is really not a religion in my opinion.  Nevertheless, if one did seek out a major religion to answer an interest or need in spirituality it was more than likely that the search would end with the particular religion chosen. That is to say, the quest for truth and growth would end. All religions claim to be the correct religion and one need go no further according to the dogma of each. In effect, one would fine spirituality at the price of intellectual integrity and growth. 

Religion necessitates giving up intellectual integrity at some point in favor of faith. Your intellect becomes overwhelmed by spirituality depending on how much of your intellect or ability to reason is given over to religious faith. Such is what all religions ask of their followers at some point.

 
Just because one does not acknowledge spirituality within does not mean it is not there. Spirituality can be as little as looking up at a dark star-filled sky with awe and wonder to fanaticism willing to die or kill for religion. Spirituality is the path to a higher consciousness and enlightenment. Enlightenment is what humanity needs individually to evolve and humanity for the most part has been devolving. A higher consciousness is the calling of humanity and some of you have not been listening. Humans hear and experience this calling differently. We all have a place in this world and it is found easily through spirituality.

 photo Carl Sagan Cosmos Beings_zpshabysg3a.jpg
Carl Sagan
Spirituality I speak of here includes religion as religion comes under a form of spirituality. Spirituality may be a general awareness and consciousness of oneself in perspective to the universe whereas religion spells out your connection to the universe in dogma influenced quite usually by guilt, fear, and eternal happiness after death. Spirituality may recognize or seek the divine in oneself, the opposite sex, nature, or the universe. Religion is an end to a means whereas spirituality is a means to an end. Furthermore, that which is the end of spirituality may be never-ending.

I am inclined to liken humans to special musical instruments when it comes to spirituality. Spirituality is not easily understood and if someone comes along and hits the right notes in a person experiencing a need for spirituality yet lacks reason as an ideal, such a person will follow a Pied Piper of Metaphysical Music like a junkie follows a drug pusher.

Something like music might hit the right notes making a person tap their feet, dance, sing, or cry. Such is spirituality on a low level and specific to each individual. We know this as inspiration. Inspiration is a type of spirituality and depending on who is inspired and how spiritual that person is and aware of such spirituality will determine the product of such inspiration. Some people may experience spirituality only as a warm uplifting feeling and nothing more.

The world is magic.  Science is but an insipid style of sorcery. 
-Rudy Rucker

If one vehemently denies spirituality then that person is cut off from oneself and evolving. Your achievements and happiness are limited. What happened at the end of Sir Isaac Newton’s life? He reached his limit intellectually it would appear. Perhaps intrinsically he knew that the next step was through spirituality. Unfortunately for him, he was undone by the religion of his time and that would have been The Catholic Church. One now has to wonder what such a great mind would have achieved given the right path to his inherent need for spirituality? Great thinkers and scientists of today continue to deny their spirituality by erroneously thinking that it has something to do with religion. Those scientists who choose religion as a means of satiating the need for spirituality are necessarily limited in any intellectual growth and achievements in direct ratio to how much reason they shelve in favor of faith. Religion falls under spirituality and not the other way around. Since religion dominates culture and politics and has been the greatest enemy to science, scientists and great thinkers of today are quite logical in dismissing their natural need for spirituality.  Logical conclusions are not always rational (see Feminism).  Scientists will now discover that dismissing spirituality was not a rational decision. Like Newton, the science community, and all non-believers will only go so far intellectually without acknowledging and feeding their inherent need for spirituality.
Scientism is belief in the universal applicability of the scientific method and approach, and the view that empirical science constitutes the most authoritative worldview or most valuable part of human learning to the exclusion of other viewpoints.
                                                                                   --Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Awareness and seeking a higher awareness is key to human evolution. Such explains the gap in the world between ethics and science. It also explains why human evolution has virtually ceased. Science can study ethics, awareness, and sexual love. That is about all science can do in such areas and any type of applied science in such fields will fail or make matters worse. Science alone cannot move humanity up the evolutionary scale any further. Science is of little use in dealing with the dark abyss threatening to engulf all of humanity today called infertility. Spirituality and awareness hold part of the answer to extinction and must be experienced and shared. Awareness cannot be exploited for greed and power and that is why the patriarch matrix is not interested in attaining a higher consciousness. It at once explains why leaders of humanity continue to be a primitive species racing toward extinction and the continuation of religion.

As stated previously, spirituality is not easily understood. Science would say that the field is completely subjective if not mystical. Science turns a blind eye to anything it cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Such is science in the patriarch matrix. Life is an event of reasonable doubts and science must grow up and leave the snobbery at home if it is to continue with a measure of respect. Because spirituality is not easily understood and humans need spirituality even if they do not know why, they can be taken advantage of by men who know that the vagaries of religion offer riches and power to the man who knows how to manipulate emotions and/or spirituality in the right people. They exploit what I have come to call the 'Spiritual Loophole' of humanity. 


Any sufficiently advance technology is indistinguishable from magic. 
 -Arthur C. Clarke

Humans want and need spirituality as a matter of survival and evolution. However, because they do not understand spirituality it leaves them vulnerable to fakes, frauds, and criminals, and even their own existential inconsistencies. Also, since there are many paths to spirituality and a higher consciousness, some humans find spirituality and a higher consciousness but never gain enlightenment because the path chosen is limited. If spirituality was well understood then there would not be several opposing religions and science would not be a snob to an integral part of humanity. Furthermore, this integral part of humanity would not be under the control of charlatans, fools, and criminals that make up a majority of religious clergy. An integral element of human survival and evolution is misunderstood to the point of exploitation by good intentions or bad and the cycle is repeated ad infinitum. Such defines the spiritual loophole of humanity.

 LINKS
POSTS
The Riddle; Why Can We No Longer Reproduce?
Abortion as Evolution; the last argument
Prophets and Visions; explained by reason