The following article, written in 1998, was a look at how the human race longs for eternal life and how we have pursued this through science and scientific breakthroughs, whilst presenting a scientific counterargument that would suggest we are already eternal, albeit not in the manifestation of the physical form of matter. It takes this counterargument a step further by suggesting that the time we are seeking to extend for ourselves is also merely a stubbornly persistent illusion. Again, I would like to re-iterate that I am not seeking to present undeniable facts but at the time I wrote this I was presenting to myself how I perceived things to be, in order to understand things. I have no doubt others may disagree or present facts to contradict my thoughts; something which I will always welcome.
Also, since writing this I have become aware of other discoveries have been made that need incorporating. The most notable that I can think of is in the fluctuation of the universe both shrinking and then growing in a mere portion of the universe, as opposed to a holistic wholeness fluctuation. This also applies to time not being constant everywhere within the universe but being locally dependent. Then there is the current trend that suggests we now live in a matrix, which I am still trying to wrap my tired and old brain around.
AN ERA OF TRUTH
“The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Albert Einstein
Regardless of which creation myth we believe in, which religion or cult that we hold faith to, and even regardless of which culture, country or society we belong to, all our lives evolve in a cyclic or circular manner.
Just as night follows day and day follows night, a son becomes a father and the father has a son. These endless cycles are distinguishable only by moments. We categorize these moments as relative time and yet, in our ignorance and naiveté, we distinguish these moments that make the circle of life as a straight line: “Linear Time.”
We do not have the knowledge to pinpoint the beginning of time and we cannot say when time will end; therefore, we can only measure it to what we perceive it to be—the past, the present and the future.
Time, as a continuum, cannot be joined in a circle until we can conceive that the past follows the future, or to some extent must reoccur. This, of course, we cannot do until we can separate the moments between the past, present and future.
Unfortunately, we cannot say that the past is finished any more than we can say that the future hasn’t already begun. And where does that leave the present? It is nothing more than a line that separates the two, except that we cannot say that, either, until we can prove when the past in fact ended and the future in fact began.
Without proof of this, we cannot say that there is in fact a separation between the two; consequently, we could not admit that the present is indeed valid, or even real. It is but the space between moments, if there is one.
Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s development of the central feature in the “Quantum Theory” raises certain paradoxes and would suggest that time must exist in all of these possible states, simultaneously, thus questioning the reality of existence and the existence of reality, as we believe it.
All we care to know is that a second is part of a minute, a minute part of an hour, and an hour part of a day, until we reach measurements of time that outreach our own existence, to the extent that it no longer interests us. This we have learnt, and known for centuries, by observing and studying the heavens.
But the present must exist as we know that we live in it; so this can be nothing more than the scientific view that we have allowed to lead us to our current, diminished, spiritual state.
Since we first began to evolve and populate on this planet, we have searched for answers to aid us in our survival and evolution—not for us the fate of the dinosaurs! On a personal basis, we continually crave knowledge that will allow us, or help us, to live forever—eternally. And, on a collective level, it dictates and fuels our quest to search for the answers.
Current medical research is all directed to that end. Downloading the mind onto computer, cryogenics, and organ replacements, etc., are all intended to fulfill our desire to achieve an eventual, eternal life. We are now also going beyond the threads of our make-up, the DNA, to a deeper level—mapping the genome—as the scientific microscope sees deeper and deeper to find the answer of eternal being.
The body, which is only a vessel for our soul or spirit, is what we see as dying: the naïve belief of science over spirit. If it wears out or dies, we assume it can be replaced—the “science alternative.”
Since the 1980s, governments have spent millions on the research of multiple births, nature’s way of cloning. Why? Because if we can understand how the separation of one egg can duplicate into multiple lives, we consider that it will afford us another answer to how life can begin. From these ends, we can create, extend, and ultimately play God by controlling our own eternal existence.
Slowly but surely, though, science is being seen as only a partial view; every day brings new advances and we find views changing. Boundaries are being extended and the unaccepted or unbelievable is becoming the norm.
This attitude will, as it is already doing, force us to open our minds, to become more conscious and to look in all directions—directions that we once explored. A point where the past, in fact, does reoccur because we relive it. It is what T.S. Eliot really meant when he said that we will arrive at the same place and know it for the very first time.
We will return, but in a more conscious, aware state. A state that is not scientific, but spiritual. For it is in this state that we are truly eternal. In this state there is no confusion, only truth. Confusion is man-made, born out of ignorance and fear. The fear that forces us to chase the answers to life and death. The selfish secrets of children using science to live for eternity. Science can turn us away from our spirit, from truth and ultimately from our destined adulthood as a race of humans, keeping us in an individual, cheating, selfish state.
We have detached from the very spirit that is, in essence, our life, our eternity and our adulthood. We have turned from the very thing that we seek!
Scientific discoveries are presently revealing far too many conclusions of design to prolong such a misconception. It is now proving itself towards the realizations of a Creator and a created, Creative Spirit. No longer is life seen as coincidental and, therefore, cannot be seen to end in nothing, as it is not now viewed as beginning from nothing.
The Big Bang theory is questionable when considered with scientific facts. In 1951, Aller and Chamberlain offered evidence contradicting this convenient scientific theory in a way that many had been suggesting for years. The evolutionary theory only holds true as a segment before it breaks down in its efforts to explain satisfactorily the absolute Creation theory. Darwinism offers little more than evolutionary progression. It does not show how life began and it certainly cannot show how life will end, so it can be nothing more than part of a greater sequence. A sequence that begins and ends in a spiritual viewpoint.
It is, after all, the Spirit, the Soul, or whatever you care to call it, that is our life force, our energy and our being. To understand this is to understand life and life eternal. The answers to this view are in the heavens—the very same heavens that gave us life and have controlled and dictated the answers we have so far found.
From the moment man noticed the movements in the heavens and the coincidences in life that followed, he has sought understanding and, where he has found none through ignorance, has proposed a theory. It has always been the movements of these planets that have shaped each theory. Their effect has shaped, and will continue to shape, our very lives and our thinking.
When the sun rises, so do we. When the seasons change, we adapt. To understand the heavens is to understand the governing principles of life. To do this, we should consider each planet individually and determine its significance among the group of planets that contribute to this overall governing process.
For centuries, Saturn was thought to be the farthest planet and, consequently, according to the effective traits that we have determined so far to describe Saturn, law and order governed life. Kings ruled; the system and the order of the system in life was observed and followed. Sons followed in their father’s footsteps, women were mere slaves, and freedom was dictated by the order of the system. Saturn is a slow-moving planet, so its effects are ones that demand patience. Decisions have to be considered with time in order to receive and reach maturity.
When British astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781, views changed. Considering the planet’s qualities, it comes as no surprise to note the world revolutions that followed. These demanded drastic changes for a more communistic attitude towards the individual—communistic in the true, humanitarian sense, not political. And so came the start of Universal Human Rights.
Uranus effected the change that heralded a new era for us as beings, but the resulting era of the Industrial Revolution became an era that we took for granted as we turned towards the materialistic, cutting off from spirit. It was a chance for mankind to make the most of what could be attained, except we embraced it with the childlike attitude of naiveté, still guided by selfishness, not spirit.
Uranus, though, is the planet of Aquarius—the age which we now enter for a total of 2,160 years. An age of truths and rebellious geniality. The true sign of spirit that stands like no other sign. It is the sign of humanity, leading to maturity through truth. For the next two thousand years, we will be subjected to the truth—i.e., the truth that exists in spirit. Before that can happen though we will see everything that underpins us torn down. Only then can it be rebuilt with sturdier and more accommodating foundations.
Maturity, or adulthood, is once again the threshold that we face, and should we not squander it, it will lead us from our childlike state towards eternity, our true destiny. We are, after all, made from the heavens as part of the unfolding consciousness of the universe. The Earth is the symbolic, biblical, Garden of Eden and our Creator is shaping us to become the caretakers of the universe. It could be ours to fulfill; the time that it takes to realize this is up to us.
Einstein, in his genius, offered us the theory of being—a theory we have yet to fully understand. In 1905, Einstein submitted three papers to the German Annals of Physics. According to his General Theory of Relativity, which followed his Special Theory of Relativity, he stated that the universe was expanding.
And, contrary to the long-held view of scientists, as proven recently by research and study into supernovas, gravity is not having the effect towards slowing this down. Quite the opposite. Instead of the feared collapse of the universe, its expansion is increasing. (see notes above for much need revision in this area)
Physicist David Bohm argues in Wholeness and the Implicate Order that quantum effects suggest a holographic universe; everything reflective in its entirety. There is a universal pool of knowledge, a collective consciousness, as also expressed by Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, accessible on a subconscious level.
If overall consciousness is the creative force that not only provides this universal pool but is accessed by all that live within it, then it would be obvious that the universe should continue to expand, and contract and at varying rates. Surely as new information is added it swells and when old outdated information is discarded, it shrinks.
Matter exists no matter how small science breaks it down, even at the subatomic level when it exists in complementarity as a wave. As Einstein predicted when he rewrote the rules for the conservation of matter, matter and energy may not be destroyed, but converted—interchangeably.
Matter attains life and structured change through energy. It is the life force. Water is nothing more than two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. They can be separated and still survive, and yet it is energy that brings their atoms together and holds them together. Science tells us this, but it is not the answer to water.
It is the energy, the spirit, the consciousness that is the causal factor in the universe, so it is not our bodies, as science would suggest, that we should make eternal. Our bodies are little more than atoms: matter that has organized in a Darwinian expression of evolution. Re-organize that matter and we live in a different state of being. Either way, our energy will still exist. The spirit is separate to the body matter and therefore can exist without it.
Life is eternal, although it may not be as we scientifically believe, or wish, it to be. This is the view that we are slowly evolving towards, the view that began and will end in the heavens. We evolved there and will return there in our study. It will be the spirit that guides us this time, towards truth and maturity. Science will play its part, but only its part.
Science cannot stop time. It cannot even equate time; if it could, it would not present it as a straight line. All it has shown is that time exists. Time is a circle, a continuum that has a past, a present, and a future. All have begun and none have finished. It is every bit as eternal as we are; ever-changing, ever-present—for all eternity. What we do with our time is another matter.