HALLOWED SPACE
Most physicists agree that a mere cubic centimeter of space brims with more energy than the sum of all the energy held in the entire material universe. One school of physics finds this calculation so incredible that it assumes it must be a mistake. But to those such as Bohm, the principle makes perfect sense. Matter, according to the avant-garde of subatomic physics, cannot ultimately be separated from what appears as empty space. It is, rather, a part of space, and part of a deeper, invisible order from which reality’s unseen, conscious essence precipitates, as material form, and then returns to the invisible again. Space, then, is not empty, but instead filled with highly concentrated conscious energy, the source of everything in existence.
In The Holographic Universe, an elaboration upon the implication of Bohm’s genius, Michael Talbott describes all of material creation as a “ripple . . . a pattern of excitation in the midst of an unimaginably vast ocean.” Talbott goes on to say, paraphrasing Bohm, that, “despite its apparent materiality and enormous size, the universe does not exist in and of itself, but is the stepchild of something far vaster and more ineffable.”
Talbott tells Bohm’s story, capsulizing the implications of his revelations and of modern science’s implicit nihilism. “Bohm,” Talbott says, “believes that our almost universal tendency to fragment the world and ignore the dynamic interconnectedness of all things is responsible for many of our problems . . . we believe we can extract the valuable parts of the earth without affecting the whole . . . treat parts of our body and not be concerned with the whole . . . deal with . . . crime, poverty, and drug addiction without addressing . . . society as a whole.” Bohm, Talbott says, believes that such a fragmented approach may even bring about our ultimate destruction.
The problem, then, in reconciling modern science, even modern physics, with the wonder a child feels while staring at a clear night sky, les deux infinis, remains the dogma of absolute materialism, of non-interconnectedness. Although the tide has turned in certain circles within the scientific community, matter, we are still told, is the source of all life. Nothing truly mysterious exists, they say, contrary to Einstein’s belief that appreciation of the mysterious lies at the center of all true science.
In letters to a friend, Darwin himself argued strenuously in favor of gradualism, the theory that all life evolved slowly and inexorably from primitive matter without sudden changes, in order to avoid supporting any possible supernatural or biblical creation theories. That bias, we now find, remains fixed to such a degree that absolute materialism has become the established dogma of the scientific and academic worlds.
According to Allan Bloom, a professor at the University of Chicago, the suggestion of the existence of an Absolute, even of the philosophical variety, is looked on with derision in academic circles. He reveals in Closing of the American Mind that “Absolutism” of any sort has become taboo in university classrooms. No underlying order or intelligence can exist in the universe, the academics say. The avant-garde of theoretical physics, however, arrive with a new take on a very ancient philosophical and metaphysical Absolute.
ANCIENT WISDOM AND MODERN SCIENCE
Genesis of the Cosmos, Paul LaViolette’s book about ancient myth and the “science of continuous creation,” reveals an extraordinarily persistent message encoded throughout the ancient mythologies of the world, a message now echoed by quantum cosmologists such as Stanford’s Andre Linde and even Cambridge’s Steven Hawking.
Passed down to modern times from the mists of prehistory, these ancient myths repeatedly describe principles now pointed to in the newest of the new physics, that of a universal potential latent within all reality. “In all cases,” LaViolette says, “the concept [the myths] convey effectively portrays how an initially uniform and featureless ether self-divides to produce a bi-polar . . . wave pattern.”
LaViolette elaborates, telling us that an “ancient creation science” comes down to us through myth, which “conceives all physical form, animate or inanimate, to be sustained by an undercurrent of process, a flux of vital energy that is present in all regions of space . . . Thus the ancient creation science . . . infers the presence of lifelike consciences or spirits in all things, even in inanimate objects such as rocks and rivers or the Earth itself.” While supporting his premise with the principles of quantum physics, LaViolette speaks to the materialists who inhabit the world of modern science: “This view of a vast, living beyond contrasts sharply with the sanitized mechanistic paradigm . . . which has denied the existence of an unseen supernatural realm and forged a wedge between science and religion.”
High priests of physics such as the Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg and other notable physicists clearly leave the door open to LaViolette’s Continuous Creation, syncretizing—according to the physicist Michio Kaku, of the City University of New York—Judeo-Christian, Buddhist, and scientific cosmologies. The high priests also express the likelihood of parallel universes, or a Multiverse, in which our reality is one of many that exist in Non-Time/Non-Space, a principle that sounds like the scientific version of transcendental existence.
Addressing the Big Bang theory’s inability to account for what happened before the Big Bang, Kaku, in an article in the London Daily Telegraph, quotes Weinberg as saying, “An important implication is that there wasn’t a beginning . . . the [multiverse] has been here all along.” Grappling with how extremely unlikely it is that our reality, let alone another, ever presented conditions that would support biological life, Princeton’s Freeman Dyson says, ominously for the materialists, “It’s as if the universe knew we were coming.”
BEYOND THE VEIL
The principles that science now begins to embrace, those of an inherently intelligent universe, have, of course, been espoused for thousands of years. Ancient Sanskrit texts describe the nature of Purusha, Supreme Consciousness, and Chittam, or mindstuff, as fundamental to the nature of reality. The mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms exist as grades of Supreme Consciousness, and man, being highly conscious, participates in this vast flow of subtle consciousness.
Here, the mind is a miniature universe, and the universe is the expansion of mind. And while the debate still rages in Western science, throughout history practitioners of the yogic science report, as actual conscious experience, what the high priests of physics relegate to abstract theory. In an exalted state of consciousness, for example, the great yogi Paramahansa Yogananda, who spent much of his life in the United States, experienced his own awareness merged with cosmic consciousness, having devoted himself to that goal for many years.
In his famous autobiography, Yogananda describes his experience: “My sense of identity was no longer confined to a body,” he says, “but embraced the circumambient atoms . . . My ordinary frontal vision was now changed to a vast spherical sight, simultaneously all-perceptive . . . all melted into a luminescent sea. The unifying light alternated with materializations of form.”
After describing a state of ecstatic joy, the renowned yogi goes on to say, “A swelling glory within me began to envelop towns, continents, the earth, solar and stellar systems, tenuous nebulae, and floating universes . . .The entire cosmos . . . glittered within the infinitude of my being.” In the jargon of modern physics, this experience might be described as Non-Locality in the electron sea. In the jargon of Yoga, it is called Oneness with Supreme Consciousness, Ultimate Being, or God.
Like sages before him for thousands of years, Yogananda describes the universe beyond matter as being composed of indescribably subtle Light. He describes the material universe as being composed of the same essence but in a grosser form, a principle echoed throughout the world’s mystical traditions and now in modern physics. Regarding the source of this Light, Yogananda says, “The divine dispersion of rays poured from an eternal source, blazing into galaxies transfigured with ineffable auras. Again and again I saw the creative beams condense into constellations, then resolve into sheets of transparent flame. By rhythmic reversion, sextill
ion worlds passed into diaphanous luster, then fire became firmament.”
Perhaps more significant, the sage tells us that his experience of the center of all light and creation poured from a point of intuitive perception in his heart, not from his intellect, a point that emphasizes the limits of the Western scientific method. And while Western science may balk at such a subjective account, claiming it lacks scientific verification, those mystics who have devoted themselves to absolute perception throughout history report similar experiences. The yogic science, practiced within the laboratory of human consciousness, is, in fact, the science of consciousness, which physicists such as Bohm theorize as being inseparable from, and responsible for, all reality.
In his own way, our wonder-struck child beneath the stars probably draws the same conclusion.
Recommended Reading: Selected Bibliography
Chapter 1 – Darwin’s Demise
Behe, Michael. Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. New York: Touchstone, 1998.
Darwin, Charles. Origin of Species. New York: New American Library, 1958.
Milton, Richard. Facts of Life: Shattering the Myth of Darwinism. Rochester, Vt.: Park Street Press, 1997.
Chapter 2 – Evolution vs. Creation
Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of Physics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1999.
Chalmers, David. “The Puzzle of Conscious Experience.” Scientific American (December 1995).
Darwin, Charles. Origin of Species. New York: New American Library, 1958.
Flem-Ath, Rand, and Rose Flem-Ath. When the Sky Fell: In Search of Atlantis. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Hancock, Graham. Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1995.
NBC TV Special, “The Mysterious Origins of Man,” February 1996.
Santillana, Giorgio de and Hertha von Dechend. Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission through Myth. Jaffrey, N.H.: Godine Press, 1977.
Thompson, Richard, and Michael Cremo. Forbidden Archeology. Badger, Calif.: Torchlight Publishing, 1993. Condensed version: Hidden History of the Human Race. Badger, Calif.: Govardhan Hill Publishers, 1994.
Weinberg, Steven. Dreams of a Final Theory. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Chapter 3 – Exposing a Scientific Cover-Up
Cremo, Michael. Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s Theory. Badger, Calif.: Torchlight Publications, 2003.
NBC-TV Special, “The Mysterious Origins of Man,” February 1996.
Thompson, Richard, and Michael Cremo. Forbidden Archeology. Badger, Calif.: Torchlight Publishing, 1993. Condensed version: Hidden History of the Human Race, Badger, Calif.: Govardhan Hill Publishers, 1994.
Chapter 4 – In Defense of Catastrophes
NBC-TV Special, “The Mystery of the Sphinx,” 1993.
Noone, Richard. 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster. New York: Harmony Books, 1986.
Plato. The Timaeus and Critias of Plato. Translated by Thomas Taylor. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, 2003.
Schoch, Robert M., Ph.D., and Robert Aquinas McNally. Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations. New York: Harmony Books, 1999.
Settegast, Mary. Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5,000 BC in Myth and Archeology. Cambridge, Mass.: Rotenberg Press, 1987.
Chapter 5 – Cataclysm 9500 B.C.E.
Allan, D. S., and J. B. Delair. Cataclysm! Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 BC. Rochester, Vt.: Bear & Company, 1997.
Bauval, Robert. The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1995.
Hancock, Graham. Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1995.
Hancock, Graham, and Robert Bauval. The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1996.
LaViolette, Paul, Ph.D. Earth Under Fire: Humanity’s Survival of the Apocalypse. Schenectady, N.Y.: Starburst Publications, 1997.
Thompson, Richard and Michael Cremo. Forbidden Archeology. Badger, Calif.: Torchlight Publishing, 1993. Condensed version: Hidden History of the Human Race, Badger, Calif.: Govardhan Hill Publishers, 1994.
Chapter 6 – The Case for the Flood
Hancock, Graham. Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization. New York: Crown, 2002.
Plato. The Timaeus and Critias of Plato. Translated by Thomas Taylor. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, 2003.
Schoch, Robert M., Ph.D. Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America. New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 2003.
Chapter 7 – The Martyrdom of Immanuel Velikovsky
Atlantis Rising #28. “The Fight for Alien Technology: Jack Shulman Remains Undaunted by Mounting Threats,” Whitefish, Mont. July/August 2001.
Freud, Sigmund. Imago. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
———. Moses and Monotheism. New York: Vintage, 1955.
Gardiner, Alan H., The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage from a Hieratic
Papyrus (the Papyrus Ipuwer). Lower Saxony, Germany. G. Olms Verlag, 1990.
Jones. London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Pschoanalysis, 1939.
Rose, Lynn, M.D. “The Censorship of Velikovsky’s Interdisciplinary Synthesis” Pensee Volume 2, Number 2: Velikovsky Reconsidered. Portland, OR. Student Academic Freedom Forum, May 1972.
Velikovsky, Immanuel. Ages in Chaos: From the Exodus to King Akhnaton. Garden City, NY. Doubleday, 1952.
———. Earth in Upheaval. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1955.
———. Oedipus and Akhnaton. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960.
———. Worlds in Collision. New York: Dell, 1965.
Chapter 8 – The Perils of Planetary Amnesia
New Scientist. London: June 1997.
“Remembering the End of the World,” a documentary on Dave Talbott, available at www.kronia.com.
Thornhill, Wallace. CD. The Electric Universe, WholeMind, 8350 S.W. Green-
way, #24, Beaverton, OR 97008, 1-800-230-9347, or www.kronia.com.
Velikovsky, Immanuel. Worlds In Collision. New York: Dell, 1965.
———. Mankind in Amnesia. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1982.
Chapter 9 – Thunderbolts of the Gods
Hesiod, Theogony. New York: Penguin Classics, 1973.
“Remembering the End of the World,” a documentary on Dave Talbott, available at www.kronia.com.
Talbott, Dave. The Saturn Myth. New York: Doubleday, 1980.
Talbott, Dave, and Wallace Thornhill. “Thunderbolts of the Gods.” Monograph/DVD sets. www.thunderbolts.info.
Thornhill, Wallace. CD. The Electric Universe, WholeMind, 8350 S.W. Green-way, #24, Beaverton, OR 97008, 1-800-230-9347, or www.kronia.com.
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www.catastrophism.com.
www.holoscience.com.
Chapter 10 – The Enigma of India’s Origins
Allan, D. S., and J. B. Delair. Cataclysm! Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 BC. Rochester, Vt.: Bear & Company, 1997.
Doniger, Wendy, Wendy O’Flaherty, and Thomas Wyatt. The Rig Veda: An Anthology: One Hundred and Eight Hymns, Selected, Translated and Annotated (Classic). New York: Penguin Classics, 1981.
Hancock, Graham. Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1995.
Milton, Richard. Facts of Life: Shattering the Myth of Darwinism. Rochester, Vt.: Park Street Press, 1997.
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic, by R. K. Narayant Kampar Ramayanam. New York: Penguin Classics, 1972.
Chapter 11 – Pushing Back the Portals of Civilization
Atlantis Rising #1. “Getting Answers from the Sphinx.” Whitefish, Mont.: November 1994.
Atlantis Rising #19. Review of The Temple
of Man. Whitefish, Mont.: May 1999.
Bauval, Robert, and Adrian Gilbert. The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids. New York: Crown, 1994.
Fox-TV/National Geographic Special, “Pyramids Live: Secret Chambers Revealed,” Live broadcast of the Queen’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid, Egypt. September 16, 2002.
Hancock, Graham. Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1995.
Hancock, Graham, and Robert Bauval. The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1996.
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