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My travels this past month have brought me to many lands, some new, most old, but all with the same question… “Is it going to get worse?”
“Well of course it is”, I reply, “But as it is now, so has it been for all of human history.”
Trying to deny the true state of our World, especially when confronted by the evidence that we are a warlike species, and wishing for some type of ‘utopian’ outcome, I frequently reply, is like a farmer trying to water his fields with a spoon.
In the recognition of who we are, what our past has taught us, and by looking at the future (both immediate and long term) with eyes opened to truth one cannot help but see that the end is always coming faster, and more brutally, then one fully appreciates.
What has changed in this World we live in today, and as opposed to all of our common human past, is that what is known can, and most likely will, happen is not being prepared for.
This is a new phenomenon that is spreading across the Western World, and one which though readily understood has, however, many different explanations, but with all having a firm grounding in just one word…FEAR.
This rise in fear has its roots, and growth, in the decline of religion in West, and where once people felt protected in their lives by their beliefs, the peoples of today have no real grounding in anything other than this present life they inhabit, and the associated ills that are the outgrowth of living lives devoid of spirituality.
The old religious maxim of “man does not live by bread alone” has virtually no meaning in the West today, and as much as these people want to believe that these words no longer have value, or meaning, the astronomical rates they are ingesting legal and illegal drugs shows clearly the void in their lives.
It is important to note that the lowest rates of legal and illegal drug rates, by far, are among the adherents to a faith or belief, none more evident than among the Muslim and Buddhist peoples of the World.
The importance to us all in the spreading of fear throughout the Western World, and its leading to whole Nations addicted to drugs and alcohol, lies in its truest meaning of human beings lost to the knowing of those spiritual resources contained, but lost, within each and every one of them.
It goes without saying, of course, that any individual, or group of individuals, attempting to point out to these Westerners the oldest remedies for their fear, and hence their addictions, will face the most ardent, and sustained, attacks against them.
And, for no other reason than for those who control by fear to keep their power over those they make fearful. How much times have changed, but how much they remain the same as they ever were.
I would very much like to hear your thoughts on this issue.
With God,
Sorcha Faal
7 July 2008
Dublin, Ireland
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I have been watching the events taking place in the United States due to the rapid rise in food and petrol prices, and find it odd that more substantial changes in consumer habits haven’t been occurring among the American people to offset the rise in these basic commodities.
The confusion about what to do in these types of circumstances I have been seeing among these people lead me to believe that they aren’t able to define the difference between what they NEED and what they WANT.
This is a problem most common in capitalist consumer societies which have over the past 100 years led the vast majority of these people to quit believing in how simple it is, and always safer, to really live without what are called ‘conveniences’.
And, there is no place this is more evident than in how Americans take care of their personal appearance, and which according to the New York Times these consumers in the US pay over $2.3 billion a year for.
This staggering amount of money is spent for deodorants, shaving supplies, toothpaste and shampoo, and which the Mediamark Research Inc. says costs the average American person (not the whole family mind you) nearly $700.00 a year.
At the current cost of fuel in the United States, today, that equals out to 4 gallons a week of petrol.
Now, what these Americans have seemingly forgotten are the nearly 3 billion of Earths people not only do not use these products, they live healthier lives because they are not damaging their bodies on a daily basis by the constant application and ingestion of some of the most harmful chemicals known to man.
Deodorants alone have so much aluminum in them as their ‘base’ material that the links between their use and Alzheimer’s disease has been known for over a decade.
Toothpaste, and associated tooth products, contain so much of the dangerous substance known as fluoride that in every country in many EU Nations one would need a toxic waste permit to throw away the tubes that are empty.
Perhaps not know to these people is how utterly simple it is to replace these consumer products to save both their money and their health, for example:
Natural deodorant stone’s cost as low as $2.75(US) and last over 3 years providing protection against both body odor and sweating that is far superior to any consumer product.
A shaving mug with soap costs as low as $6.99(US) and will last over 2 years with daily use. (Note: Though the makers of razor blades won’t ever tell you this, always use at least two sets of blades never using the same blade twice in a row. One blade used daily has a lifespan of about two-three weeks. One blade used on alternate days, best practice is 3 days rest, will have a lifespan of about 4 months.)
Tooth paste and tooth powder can be made for just pennies a week using every day use products around anyone’s home and provide superior tooth and gum protection against decay and disease than any known manmade chemical. (http://mizar5.com/homemade.html)
Pureed fruit, honey, apple cider vinegar and many more items are great additions to homemade hair recipes that can be made for next to nothing.
Using just these simple homemade care products any child can make, and use, I’ve estimated that an average American can reduce their costs from $700.00 a year to less than $30.00, and spend less time making these things than it costs in time for them to shop for them.
What is most important to remember about this discussion though is that none of these Americans will ever do these things, no matter how much better for their budgets or for their health.
Why do you believe this is so? I would like to hear your thoughts on this issue.
With God,
Sorcha Faal
Dublin, Ireland
26 May 2008
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I have lately become aware of a number of news articles which detail a
surprising phenomenon, at least to Western scientists, where the recipient of
human organs begins to take on the personality of the donor. Here are some
examples:
Reported from the United States:
“A man who received a heart transplant 12 years ago and later married the
donor’s widow died the same way the donor did, authorities said: of a self-
inflicted gunshot wound.”
Link: {http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23984857/” }http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23984857/
Reported from the United Kingdom:
“A woman claims to have undergone a complete “personality transplant” after
receiving a new kidney.
Cheryl Johnson, 37, says she has changed completely since receiving the
organ in May. She believes that she must have picked up her new
characteristics from the donor, a 59-year-old man who died from an
aneurysm.
Now, not only has her personality changed, the single mother also claims that
her tastes in literature have taken a dramatic turn. Whereas she only used to
read low-brow novels, Dostoevsky has become her author of choice since the
transplant.”
Link:
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/03/15/nkidney115.xml” }http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/
news/2008/03/15/nkidney115.xml
Reported from the United Kingdom:
“…can elements of a person’s character – or even their soul – be transplanted
along with a heart?
One woman who believes this to be the case is CLAIRE SYLVIA, a divorced
mother of one.
She was 47 and dying from a disease called primary pulmonary hypertension
when, in 1988, she had a pioneering heartlung transplant in America.
She was given the organs of an 18-year-old boy who had been killed in a
motorcycle accident near his home in Maine.
Claire, a former professional dancer, then made an astonishing discovery:
she seemed to be acquiring the characteristics, and cravings, of the donor.”
Link:
{http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=558256&in_page_id=1774″ }http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_arti
cle_id=558256&in_page_id=1774
My main interest in these reports are how they correlate with my 2006 book,
“The True Knowledge Of The Three Minds: When The Three Become One”
[Link: {http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/threemindsbook.htm" }http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/threemindsbook.htm ], wherein I
detailed the historic-biological link showing that all human beings have
residing within themselves three distinct brains, one in the head, one in the
heart, one in the stomach.
Though the knowledge of the ‘three brains’ within every person is well
known by Western scientists, their remains an almost complete lacking of
studies to explain how they work in concert with one another.
With this being so, those of us today are left with discovering, for ourselves,
through some of our most ancient texts, how our three minds are meant to
work in concert, and harmony, within ourselves, in our relationships with
other people, and, most importantly, with every other living thing.
Most people don’t even realize this most basic of facts about themselves and
continue to lead their lives separated from themselves, and which, perhaps,
explains the descent into mental illness many who live in the West are
experiencing in our troubled times.
But, it is one of the most important facts about human beings that needs to be
realized in order to achieve all that is possible in the few short decades
allotted to each of us.
In all of the World’s ancient religious texts, including the Christian Bible, the
‘three-part’ nature of our human existence, to include the Christian Trinity
(God-Jesus-Holy Spirit) explain in great detail that the truest majesty of our
existence lies in our combining the power of our Three Minds.
To live a life with only the use of one mind truly denies anyone seeking the
greatest truths of our life the most valuable asset they possess, themselves.
As our Three Minds book remains to this day the only one of our works that
has never had refund requested for it, or a return, I remain convinced that it
provides the most complete understanding of these ancient facts available
today.
And, as our World continues its rapid plunge towards the abyss, it is my
greatest hope for you that you acquire this knowledge as without it one is
truly blind and sightless to the many dangers seeking to destroy us all.
Sorcha Faal
Dublin, Ireland
11April 2008
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As any serious student of history knows, in order to carry out massive changes within a society one must first start with children; and the younger the better.
Also, when one begins to see a government, and its associated public and private institutions, begin to institute dramatic changes to the education of their children it is like a beacon that shines from the present into the future allowing us to see what this society will become.
So, it was with great sorrow when I read that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has begun encouraging its member doctors to begin interrogating their child patients about the lifestyles of their parents, to include their faiths, if there are guns in their homes, what do they know about their parents sex lives, etc. (link: http://www.naturalnews.com/022764.html)
The American people, and who know virtually nothing about techniques such as these, this is but the latest atrocity being perpetrated upon their children which has seen them fall from the top of virtually every International list dealing with knowledge and education, to now their scoring last among all industrialized Nations.
For American girls we have seen them indoctrinated with the false belief that to be successful they must become sex objects. For American boys we have seen them indoctrinated into a vast killing machine to further the war aims of their leaders.
What is most surprising about these new American children is that what they are experiencing is actually not new, but is, instead, nothing more than a continuation of the mass modification techniques employed by both Nazi and Soviet scientists against their own Nations children during last centuries run- up to World War II.
I doubt whether there is any American citizen over the age of 50 who doesn’t remember their school lessons about how totalitarian and fascist countries deprived their children of truth, honesty, morals and independence. Unfortunately, though, those Americans who are over 50 years-of-age represent just fewer than 15 percent of their population of over 300 million.
What the American ruling elite, and like their counterparts in the United Kingdom and Australia are doing too, has planned for their youngest citizens is the creation of a new vanguard of human beings that are only able to take guidance, and direction, from their leaders, and whose ultimate intention is not for the welfare of these children, but is, instead, designed to create robotic human beings living in constant fear of each other.
In order to achieve the complete mastery of their citizens lives, indeed their very thoughts, the United States has successfully destroyed the most fundamental building block of any human society, the family.
The second building block of all human societies to be sacrificed by the Americans has been religion, and which throughout all of our history has provided a counterweight to raw government power.
The third building block of all human societies, knowledge, has, likewise, been sacrificed in order to create these new robotic human beings, who know nothing, care not to know anything, have no religious beliefs, do not know their past, care nothing for family, and are, basically, nothing more than a new slave class never before seen on Earth.
But, the last chapter in this latest ‘experiment’ in engineering the perfect slave class is by no means written, as with each new ‘event’ introduced into these plans by the World’s elite is provoking more and more resistance among the young.
It should be remembered, too, that this final chapter will take decades to complete, and the plans of the elite can only be achieved if those who remember the past pass fail to pass on their knowledge to the young.
I would very much like to hear your opinions on how this could be accomplished, especially with the knowledge that the forces of the elite will oppose this with everything they have at their disposal.
Sorcha Faal
Dublin, Ireland
5 March 2008
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I’m moved to write today on the volume of correspondence I’ve been reading on Sister Theresa Marlene’s Appalachia Mountain Project in the United States, especially regarding the outlook of the American people to being a Nation that harbors millions of refugees.
And that one word, refugee, is a word that though millions of them exist in the US is still foreign to the mind and sensibilities of the American people.
Understand, too, that the American refugees I’m referring to are not those who have crossed the borders of the United States from foreign countries seeking refuge from their own Nations troubles, the ones I’m referring to are purely those who were born, raised and now live as refugees within their own country.
These millions of American refuges have found their life of homelessness due to many causes, from the devastating economic decline of the US which has saw millions evicted from their homes, to the millions displaced by the catastrophic hurricanes of the past few years.
Though there are many names for these American refugees being bantered around in the US media, it doesn’t change the fact for these people that they are, indeed, refugees and encompass the full meaning and definition of the word refugee itself, “a person who flees for refuge or safety”.
Now, as our Order has done for too many years, centuries in fact, to count, never have we experienced such a wholesale denial of a population to the truest facts of what they are facing as being refugees. In fact, in other countries where we have established refugee communities we have always had to turn people away.
This is not so in the United States of today, far from it.
What Sister Theresa, instead, reports to us is a population deeply entrenched in their belief that they can better survive alone than with the help, companionship, guidance, or support of others.
It is as if the very thought of living a life being dependent upon others is the worst imagining any of these Americans could possible have. This is a fact that is borne out by looking at the massive numbers of Americans who are losing their homes while at the same time, and if they banded together, could protect one another and survive.
Even more shocking, to me at least, is a recent statistic I read about the Americans that less than 1% of their women under the age of 30 know how to bake their own bread.
The numbers of Americans who grow, and raise, their own food is, likewise, shocking, especially when we’re talking about one of the largest agricultural based nations in all of human history.
Though the vast majority of these Americans would seek to deny it, the facts of their own history show a nation continually plagued by mass migrations of refugees within their own borders, the latest being less than 100 years ago during their Great Depression which saw tens of millions of them homeless.
Sadly, and even though there are Americans still alive, though elderly, who remember those times, the people living in the United States, today, have seemingly convinced themselves that nothing like that could ever happen to them again….in spite of the examples they’ve witnessed, but ignored, of Katrina and the mass home foreclosures currently ongoing around them.
I would wish for these Americans, all of them, to be visitors, if only for a day, to the vast refugee centers in Egypt, Germany, Australia, Lebanon, and Darfur for them to know what faces them should they not prepare for their future themselves.
For any of them to believe that they will live out their lives without seeking others to band together with for protection and survival is the largest lie that they are living, and no amount of denial will ever change this fact.
To Sister Theresa’s efforts for just a handful of Americans all of our prayers for this new community are with them. For the countless millions of other Americans living their lives as if all will be the same tomorrow as it has been our prayers are also with them.
I would greatly appreciate your thoughts and/or comments on these things.
With God
Sorcha Faal
Dublin, Ireland
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As I write these words today our World is about to stagger into yet another New Year…full of hopes, dreams, ambitions, but, and sadly, nearly all of them to met with disappointment and sorrow for the vast majority of our human race.
It is, admittedly, the time of year when we are ‘supposed’ to give thanks, spread good tidings, and generally become an idealized version of what the mass media states that we are supposed to be.
And, because ‘they’ say this many people believe it must be true…but it isn’t and never has been.
Though we may not want to admit it, our recorded human history for the past 5,000 years points towards us being anything but a peaceful race, with over 14,000 recorded wars among us during this time period.
Now, my words today may seem harsh and against the ‘spirit’ of this holiday season, but they are, nevertheless true…but many people don’t want to hear these words, they don’t even want to acknowledge the truth of how far our human race has descended into barbarity these past 5,000 years.
If our recorded human history has shown us anything it is this; we learn nothing from wars, winners and losers alike, other than how to fight more cruelly in the next one to come.
It is, also, almost comical to note that the very Western societies that are during this Christmas Season speaking of ‘love and peace’, for all mankind, are at this very instant continuing to unleash their vast armory of war weapons against human beings reduced to fighting against them with practically nothing other than homemade bombs.
It goes beyond comical and into the realm of absurd that the American people, and while their economy is, literally, imploding around them, continue to spend their money on trivialities never even pausing to consider the damage that they are doing themselves, but will be soon having to recon with once their ‘bills’ come due.
So, in the truest spirit of this season, and which harkens back to its original ‘pagan’ origins, I do not wish for you ‘love’ or ‘peace’, but, rather I wish for any of you reading these words the courage to awaken to the nightmare you are currently living in and to realize that your freedom from this is but a simple choice of yours away…like it has always been.
With God,
Sorcha Faal
Dublin, Ireland
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An article this past week in the British press stating that Britain’s Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, is now warning his government that the United Kingdoms prisons are nearing the ‘breaking point’ has caused me to reflect on what has gone so terribly wrong in the West’s, so called, democracies.
Britain now joins the United States by having some of the World’s largest numbers of their citizens in jail, or in other ways involved in their criminal justice systems.
Why is this so? Is it true, as some philosopher’s state that the ‘natural tendency’ of a democratic system of government is towards fascism and the subjugation of human beings to their governments?
George Orwell, perhaps one of last century’s most insightful futurists, said:
“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”
This appears to be true in the West today as vast numbers of their citizens are in seeming ignorance of the massive numbers of law they must obey or be put into prison. Though they, wrongfully, believe that these laws will never impact them they are always surprised when the full weight of their governments fall upon them.
This, of course, leads these human beings to live lives of fear, fear of everything having to do with government power and authority.
On one level this is understandable, after all, how can just ‘one person’, or group of people, ever hope to stand, and survive, against the oppressive powers of the state that can be put against them?
On another level, however, there does exist those human beings who rebel against the tyranny they live under, even it means their death.
History is replete with thousands of examples of such individuals who for the ‘greater good’ of their fellow men sacrificed all that they had so that the higher moral values of what made their lives worth living was worth more to them than their own mortal lives.
The common denominator of these individuals was their complete and utter lack of fear of death, and which seems to be the one attribute, among all others, that tyrannical governments fear the most.
With this being so it is no wonder that the Western World’s media, especially their entertainment, revolves almost exclusively around death and violence.
From the games their children are allowed to play, to the movies and television programmes constantly being fed to them, all revolve around the establishment of the fear of death into these people.
The paradox, however, facing these people is that unlike their historical predecessors, who recognized that all human beings die, the focus of these people is now directed towards their achieving an impossible goal, eternal life in these fragile human bodies we temporarily inhabit.
In an even greater absurdity, the peoples of the Western nations in their rush to prolong their lives fail to grasp the significance of the fact that should they reach their most senior years their most likely fate will be one of being warehoused in homes for the aged where the level of care, for most of them, would be criminal if done to pets.
So, my question to you is this…
What is more important to you, a life lived with meaning and purpose, or, a life lived for longevity itself?
I would be most honored to hear your thoughts on this subject.
With God,
Sorcha Faal
Dublin, Ireland
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“Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
How pleasant were my dreams of coming to America, but brutality was what awaited me.
As my Air France flight descended into Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta, Georgia it was wonderful for me to see the dark hued greens of the American South I had enjoyed so many years ago while studying in the United States…my joy was to be short lived.
Upon disembarking from the plane my fellow passengers and I were put into a virtual cattle line of queues by black uniformed, machine gun touting officers of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau. The acronym for this US police agency is ICE, and which is well suited in describing their intimidating manner of treating the guests of the United States and their morality in dealing with women and children.
“Step out of line again and you WILL be arrested!” came the sharp retort of an ICE officer towards a young English mother attempting to keep her young child from running out of the queue, a statement that shocked all who heard, but none dared protest against. For as Europeans we have long learned the lessons of police brutality from travels in the former communist nations of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
But, in America? In today’s world? …and against Europeans who have overcome centuries of warfare and bloodshed so that our continent can now be traveled in relative peace? Sadly yes, but in retrospect to be expected under the present circumstances of an America more resembling those Eastern European nations of old instead of the land of ‘freedom and liberty’ it once aspired to.
Upon the presentation of my passport to the ICE agents, and their comparing the information on it against whatever their computer monitor was saying, I was abruptly whisked out of the queue and brought by two ICE agents to a small room with two chairs, one small desk and no windows.
The efficiency of the ICE agents was matched only by their seemingly total lack of empathy and understanding for any ‘foreigner’ daring to come into their fearful presence, of which by the computer information they had received about me made such a person.
It was quickly told to me by the ICE agent in charge that my admittance to the United States was being denied because I had violated the provisions of the United States Visa Waiver Program ( a programme where citizens of many countries, including Ireland, are allowed visa free travel to the US for up to 90 days) as members of the foreign press were required to apply for a visa prior to entry into the US, and of which they considered me to be.
[It is interesting to note that after traveling to, and through, the United States for over 20 years no such requirement was ever placed upon me.]
I have long learned in my life that protests against state police authorities, from any totalitarian government, is futile at its best, downright dangerous at its worst, so my only questions were related to the procedures involved in repatriating myself to Ireland.
My first request to be able to talk by phone to an Irish counselor official were denied as I was not being ‘detained’, I was merely being denied entrance into the United States and therefore had no rights. (As I was clearly on American soil this answer seemed patently absurd, but when confronted by ICE agents with weapons the wisest course of action is inaction.
I was fortunate enough to be able to obtain a return flight to Heathrow via Lufthansa, and who accepted my Air France return ticket. The unfortunate part was the six hours it took to finally leave America and having to be ‘escorted’ by two armed ICE agents, the female one even having to accompany me into the loo.
It is one thing learning about the United States, and Americans, from afar, in seeing how far they have descended into a virtual police state is almost beyond description, other than the obvious comparisons with other brutish states around the world, both past, and present.
Most frightening about all of this to me, however, has nothing to do with myself, but rather what this is doing to the American people behind the black-uniformed ranks currently surrounding Americas borders. When a person, such as myself, is deemed such a ‘threat’ to the United States that the mere presence of my being in that country calls for my immediate expulsion, one must truly wonder how grave the situation is for those people imprisoned in the gulag called America.
As I look out the window to my left at the great expanse of the Arctic wastelands, with their ever white peaks grandly reaching towards the stark blue sky, I am at peace with this adventure, though saddened by it too.
For in a world ruled by madmen, when one of the greatest nations ever known has been reduced to a police state, one truly understands the great perils facing our world today.
With God,
Sorcha Faal
Somewhere over the North Atlantic
[Note: This communication from Sorcha Faal was just received by us with instructions to prepare for her expected lecture in Georgia, USA, to take place, instead, in Ireland on Sunday. For those of you who had planned on attending Sorcha Faal’s lecture in Georgia you will receive the DVD of this lecture at no further cost.]
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During the mid to late 15th Century a new word emerged from what is now called the Middle English period called newes, or newis. In today’s world we know this word as news. But what does it mean?
In its original 15th Century meaning the word newes was simply the tidings of new things; today the word news means the reporting of recent events, intelligence or information.
It is interesting to note, too, that the letters of the word news is also an acronym for the Cardinal Points of geography: North…East…West….South.
There is no discussion of news that can be made complete without also discussing the word propaganda, and which is short for the New Latin Sacra Congregātiō dē Prōpagandā Fidē (Sacred Congregation for Propagating the Faith) established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV for the training of Catholic priests for oversees missions.
The meaning of the word propaganda is: “information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.”
What is important to realize about the word propaganda is that it is in and of itself a neutral word, not one of a strictly negative connotation with which it is viewed in today’s world.
This is so because it carries both positive and negative connotations and can be used for either good or evil, which one depending upon whom is using it and for what reason.
With the above being understood, about both news and propaganda, you should be able to see clearly that all news is propaganda, but not all propaganda is news. And, the only way for anyone to be able to understand the difference is through their own personal experience and education.
Between the two most readily available ‘verifiers’ one has in ascertaining the truth of news/propaganda, experience and education, it should always be remembered that education (the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment) is what has prepared a person for accepting news/propaganda as fact. And in almost all circumstances does not allow for the use of experience as a part of finding, and knowing, truth.
Experience (the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things as they occur in the course of time), on the other hand, has always been human beings most reliable resource for survival because when it is trusted allows one to be able to see the greater truth that underlies all news/propaganda.
The events of September 11th (9/11) are a case in point due to the fact that every human beings experience has shown that though aircraft had previously crashed into buildings, and that skyscrapers had previously burned, none had ever collapsed…ever.
Buildings that collapsed like those of the three buildings of the World Trade Center, and as our experience knows, could only be accomplished by their implosion by explosive devices previously planted within them.
However, confronting what your experience was showing you as the truth was the educational reinforced news/propaganda telling you the exact opposite.
Whom you believed, either your own experience or the news/propaganda, is the most accurate guide available to you so as to ascertain who you are, what you are, and what you are.
News, Propaganda, Education, Experience are all to be used in a complimentary dance with one another, never one above the other, never one without the others. To know this, and to use it, will lead anyone to the greater meaning of all things.
I would be greatly interested in hearing your thoughts on this.
Sorcha Faal
Dublin, Ireland
13 August 2007
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I would like to offer up for discussion a book I have recently read titled “The Holographic Universe – Does Objective Reality Exist?” written by Michael Talbot.
I would be interested in hearing your ideas/thoughts/opinions on this excerpt.
“In 1982 a remarkable event took Place. At the University of Paris a Research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th Century.
You did not hear about it on the evening News. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect’s name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science.
Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn’t matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing.
The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein’s long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect’s findings. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations. University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect’s findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.
To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. A hologram is a three- dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the light of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first and the resulting interference pattern (the area where the two laser beams commingle) is captured on film. When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object appears.
The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the Rose. Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole.
The “whole in every part” nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts. A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.
This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect’s discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.
To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm offers the following illustration. Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium’s front and the other directed at its side. As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them. When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case.
This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles in Aspect’s experiment. According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality. Such particles are not separate “parts”, but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose.
And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these “eidolons”, the universe is itself a projection, a hologram. In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected. The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky.
Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web. In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a universe in which nothing is truly separate from anything else, time and three-dimensional space, like the images of the fish on the TV monitors, would also have to be viewed as projections of this deeper order. At its deeper level reality is a sort of superhologram in which the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously.
This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into the superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the long- forgotten past. What else the superhologram contains is an open-ended question. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the superhologram is the matrix that has given birth to everything in our universe, at the very least it contains every subatomic particle that has been or will be — every configuration of matter and energy that is possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse of “All That Is.”
Although Bohm concedes that we have no way of knowing what else might lie hidden in the superhologram, he does venture to say that we have no reason to assume it does not contain more. Or as he puts it, perhaps the superholographic level of reality is a “mere stage” beyond which lies “an infinity of further development”. Bohm is not the only researcher who has found evidence that the universe is a hologram.
Working independently in the field of brain research, Standford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become persuaded of the holographic nature of reality. Pribram was drawn to the holographic model by the puzzle of how and where memories are stored in the brain. For decades numerous studies have shown that rather than being confined to a specific location, memories are dispersed throughout the brain.
In a series of landmark experiments in the 1920s, brain scientist Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat’s brain he removed he was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it had learned prior to surgery. The only problem was that no one was able to come up with a mechanism that might explain this curious “whole in every part” nature of memory storage.
Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the concept of holography and realized he had found the explanation brain scientists had been looking for. Pribram believes memories are encoded not in neurons, or small groupings of neurons, but in patterns of nerve impulses that crisscross the entire brain in the same way that patterns of laser light interference crisscross the entire area of a piece of film containing a holographic image. In other words, Pribram believes the brain is itself a hologram.
Pribram’s theory also explains how the human brain can store so many memories in so little space. It has been estimated that the human brain has the capacity to memorize something on the order of 10 billion bits of information during the average human lifetime (or roughly the same amount of information contained in five sets of the Encyclopaedia Britannica). Similarly, it has been discovered that in addition to their other capabilities, holograms possess an astounding capacity for information storage–simply by changing the angle at which the two lasers strike a piece of photographic film, it is possible to record many different images on the same surface. It has been demonstrated that one cubic centimeter of film can hold as many as 10 billion bits of information.
Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve whatever information we need from the enormous store of our memories becomes more understandable if the brain functions according to holographic principles. If a friend asks you to tell him what comes to mind when he says the word “zebra”, you do not have to clumsily sort back through some gigantic and cerebral alphabetic file to arrive at an answer. Instead, associations like “striped”, “horselike”, and “animal native to Africa” all pop into your head instantly. Indeed, one of the most amazing things about the human thinking process is that every piece of information seems instantly cross- correlated with every other piece of information–another feature intrinsic to the hologram. Because every portion of a hologram is infinitely interconnected with ever other portion, it is perhaps nature’s supreme example of a cross-correlated system.
The storage of memory is not the only neurophysiological puzzle that becomes more tractable in light of Pribram’s holographic model of the brain. Another is how the brain is able to translate the avalanche of frequencies it receives via the senses (light frequencies, sound frequencies, and so on) into the concrete world of our perceptions. Encoding and decoding frequencies is precisely what a hologram does best. Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a translating device able to convert an apparently meaningless blur of frequencies into a coherent image, Pribram believes the brain also comprises a lens and uses holographic principles to mathematically convert the frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our perceptions. An impressive body of evidence suggests that the brain uses holographic principles to perform its operations.
Pribram’s theory, in fact, has gained increasing support among neurophysiologists. Argentinian-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli recently extended the holographic model into the world of acoustic phenomena. Puzzled by the fact that humans can locate the source of sounds without moving their heads, even if they only possess hearing in one ear, Zucarelli discovered that holographic principles can explain this ability. Zucarelli has also developed the technology of holophonic sound, a recording technique able to reproduce acoustic situations with an almost uncanny realism.
Pribram’s belief that our brains mathematically construct “hard” reality by relying on input from a frequency domain has also received a good deal of experimental support. It has been found that each of our senses is sensitive to a much broader range of frequencies than was previously suspected. Researchers have discovered, for instance, that our visual systems are sensitive to sound frequencies, that our sense of smell is in part dependent on what are now called “cosmic frequencies”, and that even the cells in our bodies are sensitive to a broad range of frequencies.
Such findings suggest that it is only in the holographic domain of consciousness that such frequencies are sorted out and divided up into conventional perceptions. But the most mind-boggling aspect of Pribram’s holographic model of the brain is what happens when it is put together with Bohm’s theory. For if the concreteness of the world is but a secondary reality and what is “there” is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically transforms them into sensory perceptions, what becomes of objective reality? Put quite simply, it ceases to exist.
As the religions of the East have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think we are physical beings moving through a physical world, this too is an illusion. We are really “receivers” floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the superhologram.
This striking new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram’s views, has come to be called the holographic paradigm, and although many scientists have greeted it with skepticism, it has galvanized others. A small but growing group of researchers believe it may be the most accurate model of reality science has arrived at thus far. More than that, some believe it may solve some mysteries that have never before been explainable by science and even establish the paranormal as a part of nature. Numerous researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, have noted that many para-psychological phenomena become much more understandable in terms of the holographic paradigm.
In a universe in which individual brains are actually indivisible portions of the greater hologram and everything is infinitely interconnected, telepathy may merely be the accessing of the holographic level. It is obviously much easier to understand how information can travel from the mind of individual ‘A’ to that of individual ‘B’ at a far distance point and helps to understand a number of unsolved puzzles in psychology. In particular, Grof feels the holographic paradigm offers a model for understanding many of the baffling phenomena experienced by individuals during altered states of consciousness.”
