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My apologies in advance for the length of this post. It is a single thought, but I’m dividing it into sections for easier reading. You have until the web goes down to read it – or not
Posted by araucaria
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@T Smith
I agree that you are well ahead of the curve and there have been signs that many people have not been picking up on; yet these are the people that are needed and the announcement is intended for.
When Erwin Schrodinger, as I recall, says in
What is Life that the human body is the size it is so that statistical probability smoothes over the likelihood of catastrophic failures in cells, this I suppose is a quantum effect on a larger scale. This was scaled up further in Asimov’s hugely popular
Foundation series, but again most have missed the implications. He has a galactic empire in order to have enough humans to make the progress of their society on this massive scale largely predictable and hence avoid further catastrophe with the help of some planning by ‘psychohistorians’.
Ramping-up seems to be the name of the game. So far we have been acting as particles with our non-mainstream views, and we all understand that this knowledge needs to be turned into a wave by ‘going viral’ as they say. If Courtney Brown is going to contribute to reaching critical mass, it will be as a popularizer, not as a discoverer (although it sounds like some new discovery is involved as well) – on the shoulders of giants.
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Erwin Schrodinger in
What is Life? says (as I recall) that we are the size we are so that we are made up of enough cells to avoid too many accidents happening, so as to operate efficiently, and hence somewhat predictably. Asimov's galactic population offers an interesting application of this principle to the human population as a whole. The evolution of civilization (the Foundation) becomes predictable, up to a point, the point where a hidden guiding hand is needed (the Second Foundation) - or not (mind control by the Mule). And of course, the increasing presence of humanoid robots is another Asimov feature that has relevance beyond the realms of fiction.
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Here is my take on the Asimov quote above. On one level I agree with him completely, but there are other layers to the development of democracy.
For a world to go from barbarism to civilization it needs to pass through various stages.
Here is one stage (pre French revolution...gotta start somewhere): public tortures and executions in every village.
Next stage a people's revolution where this time the heads of the elite are being guillotined.
Next stage more monarchs lose their power while the elite start to do their games more and more behind the scenes, away from scrutiny.
Next stage: so-called "democratic" elections leading to dictatorships, first in Europe later in the third world due to people being misled or misinformed.
Next stage: people get more information via the media, now the media itself is being hijacked and becomes the mouthpiece of the elite deceivers. Furthermore, everything is being done to corrupt ordinary people into unhealthy behavior as well as life
styles.
Next stage: along comes the Internet...and for a brief moment this is where truth can still be found.
Next stage: now even the Internet becomes corrupted by the deceivers who place enormous amounts of false info all over the web. People realize that discernment becomes key to survival. Meanwhile life continues to become more and more fragmented, and people of sane mind group together to assist each other in their pursuit of democratic values.
The process reaches its peak when critical mass has been formed and suddenly the consciousness (not the planet) flips over and the suffering masses discover their inner potential and seek the education needed to realize their dreams.
A new generation comes along who is sick of their parents materialism and are determined to clean up the mess.
They return to spiritual values and acknowledge that to be truly democratic they must all participate in the collective process.
This just off the top of my head. Nothing to boast about, and not quite ready for publication, but, hey...this is just a tiny village on the outer edge of civilization. We can see the future far better from this vantage point...
Radioactivity
Pauli saw
radioactivity as synonymous with Jung’s synchronicity. I want to explore that connection now with my own thoughts based on the above. Populations can be seen as radioactive elements; sometimes, the notion of decay is extremely relevant. If you take groups of deportees to German labor camps, you can calculate the half-life of a given group (e.g. nationality) at a given camp. If half of that group would be dead after say 18 months or two years, then it might be described as pretty radioactive. There is a background radiation among the population at large of course as well, with a half-life in the order of 50 years or so – rising, but still, humanity is suffering from not having long enough to evolve properly. This gives an insight into a major issue, for if you take female and juvenile Jews at Auschwitz, you find an ‘element’ that is so radioactive that it has a half-life of barely a few hours. A scientist studying a metal with this property would be faced with a fairly large sample that became vanishingly small before his eyes. The element would be literally too hot to handle. In human terms, this holocaust is understandably met with disbelief, incomprehension, and for some, outright denial. The half-life is a statistical notion which translates into individual terms as the time at which there is a 50% chance that a person will have died (decayed). If we compare this with the nuclear military industrial complex viewed as a continuum extending from the controlled demolition of an operational power plant, through the Chernobyl/Fukushima-type scenario to the willful but uncontrolled destruction of Hiroshima, then we are dealing with a combination of both ends of the spectrum: an act of war on an ongoing industrial level.
Denial
Hence, ‘holocaust denial’ is merely at the end of the spectrum of understandable bona fide reactions of disbelief. However, ‘understandable’ does not mean correct, and the bona fide label does not extend to all deniers. The danger lies in our horror of attitudes denying the horror. Why? Because, just as the spectrum of visible light is only one section of a broader wave spectrum extending to infrared and beyond, and ultraviolet and beyond, this is only the end of one part of the spectrum currently being played out. Beyond genocide, we have the planned murder of almost an entire species: how so much more understandable, then, is the ‘conspiracy denial’ of a huge section of the population. We need to see holocaust denial for what it is, because it is totally inconsistent and self-defeating for some people to be claiming this vast global conspiracy is going on when at the same time they are unable to get their heads round the idea of a ‘mere’ holocaust. In terms of radioactivity, this conspiracy theory/Armageddon scenario is based on the idea of radioactivity itself becoming a runaway phenomenon where half-lives drop to nothing, so as to end in a cataclysmic Big Bang symmetrical with the putative initial creative Big Bang.
Notice how this endtimes warfare follows two alternative routes. The nuclear way involving Israeli dirty bomb attacks with stolen weaponry at the end of its shelf life, and appears to include 911. The viral way involves chemical warfare, chemtrails and the spread of viruses. For the virus aspect, see my thread here:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post874226
This is nihilism of a purity not seen before. The denial of everything. But since we live in a universe of choice, the denial of everything that exists will inevitably lead to nothing existing for the deniers, including themselves. But for the rest of us, who accept everything that exists – and have had enough of everything that doesn’t – our acceptance will inevitably lead to everything existing, i.e. taking away nothing, and the adepts of nothing.
I say ‘the rest of us’ because no nihilism is so pure that there will not always be a few survivors. There will always be pockets of resistance to any virus. And no atom bomb can destroy everyone: since any single atomic decay is unobservable, the entire process is blind, and blind to its blindness.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/200...survivor-japan
Radioactive synchronicity
Pauli describes synchronicity as being radioactive because in both cases something acausal takes place: this or that single atom decays unobserved; this or that single event occurs with no cause-and-effect connection with a particular mental state. However, he experienced synchronicity destructively as the ‘Pauli effect’ because of his inability to process his unconscious energy. I suspect this has to do with the very substance he was studying: why would you want to split atoms or observe them ‘decaying’ – a form of destruction? And why would you break things like experiments and vases and cars instead? It was because like any scientist, he was working exclusively with the rational Logos ego, but unlike others, his Eros ego, his gut brain, was making its presence felt and calling in vain for attention.
I think quantitative history may have a lesson for us here.
As I was saying, the ‘trouble’ with all these destructive behaviors is that they are never 100% effective. Take the labor camps. Some of the inmates will die of dysentery and other diseases, or of exhaustion; others will be shot, and for greater efficiency, quite a few will be gassed – gassing covers the ‘mass’ part of mass murder. But there will always be a few survivors – who live to tell the tale.
There are broad statistical, often self-evident, trends to differentiate between a survivor and a non-survivor. For example, the older you were, the more likely you were to die. But as the survivors themselves confirm, no individual case is explainable in those terms. X had every chance of survival, but died; Y should really have been a goner, yet somehow he scraped through. Ultimately therefore, if there is any difference at all between a survivor and a non-survivor, it has to be ‘magical’: things like the guy who didn’t get shot after a spelling mistake in his name put him out of the normal alphabetical sequence. These are the unquantifiable things that quantum science (including unbridled quantitative history) does not compute.
World War II historians are at the stage when the last of the survivors are dying off, and some of them see this as a good thing: now they can get back to their extensive and more reliable archives. Like Pauli they are more interested in decaying (dead) cases than the rest. Survivors often get things wrong owing to a faulty memory or distorted perspective, but the uncomfortable fact remains that they get some things right that certain historians who think they know better get wrong. Two items of eyewitness testimony are crucial here. One is the existence of gas chambers, including at camps where Jews were not a specific issue: it is all too easy, when presented with a gas chamber disguised as a shower block, simply to see a shower block. Another is the existence of archived evidence of things including such mass slaughter. Eventually documents come to light to prove denialist historians wrong; this is sometimes because a survivor was actually involved in drafting some of those documents. It is most notably because the perpetrators were tried and convicted after confessing to their crimes.
There was quite a controversy in the mainstream press back in 2001 when Edwin Black published
IBM and the Holocaust.
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/ While this book does contain mistakes and is probably overly focused on the Jewish situation, its basic premise of German use of the Hollerith punched card system in conjunction with primitive IBM computers is beyond doubt. It is interesting that the same people who deny or doubt the holocaust should also deny or doubt this system, which amounts to the administrative wing of the mass destruction effort. The fact is that the paper trail exists, and with an Excel spreadsheet you now have the tool to back-engineer the whole system.
Survivors
Why do some historians have a hard time with survivors? And more generally, why did these survivors have such a hard time getting anyone at all to listen? This is not just about the gas chambers, it is about the everyday reality of the concentration camps being in itself too much for most people to handle. The context of this discussion suggests an answer: these historians and others are working exclusively with the Logos ego (the rational skull brain), meaning that there are some things they just don’t see. A camp inmate was subjected to such prolonged hunger, fatigue, pain, sensory deprivation etc., and perhaps most of all deprivation of free will, that the Logos ego would have been entirely bypassed, with the feeling Eros ego (the gut brain) kicking in and taking them virtually into an alternative reality. They have much in common with other categories of survivors, UFO contactees/abductees, victims of pedophile rings, Satanism etc., and whistleblowers too, who have also seen behind the veil. It is important to integrate their experience and bring to it the consciousness that it usually lacks in order to close the two-way circuitry enabling the dual ego to function as a complete whole. This is how I see a healing process reversing the planned destruction of every ounce of humanity in their victims by the perpetrators. That was the aim and it met then with what was only a temporary setback owing to the lack of awareness. The aim is still the same and this is how it will be ultimately defeated once and for all through sufficient awareness.
Interestingly, in the early 20th century, the introduction of concentration camps roughly coincided with the discovery of the heavy radioactive elements. Perhaps what scientists are missing is the effect of consciousness even down at the (sub)atomic level? In other words, perhaps radioactive decay is what happens not just to people but also to elementary particles when subjected to extreme conditions of concentration, lack of freedom and starvation.
The analytical cure
Pauli was on the path of destruction, chasing decaying particles, which was ultimately the cause of his need to undergo psychoanalysis. This healing process works by bringing unconscious things into consciousness, i.e. going beyond denialism as a way of not dealing with uncomfortable truths (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism). This is different from bringing rationality to the magical, it means equally bringing out the magic in rationality – accepting that we are all survivors, and consciously chronicling that experience, as we do in places like this ‘tiny village on the outer edge of civilization’. Pauli was a precursor, but the scientist lost his way. Hence his interest in physicists’ ‘magical’, ‘mysterious’ number, the fine structure constant, 1/137, led him in an ultimate synchronicity to his deathbed in room 137 of his local hospital.
The “Nobel laureate”
The “Nobel laureate” is how Remo Roth frequently refers to Pauli; it gets almost annoying until you remember that Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite, gelignite and other explosives who decided to bequeath the Nobel Prizes only after reading his obituary published by mistake after his brother died.
In French and German, prize and price are the same word, and this prize was the price he paid to save his reputation. No wonder some egregious warmongers win a peace prize funded in this way. But below (along with an excerpt) is a suitable combination of thinking and feeling, this week’s Literature prize winner, a creative writer that no one seems to have heard of. A Belgian mother, simple prose and a bumbling interview style: sometimes that’s all it takes.
http://reneekaplan.carnets.liberatio...k-modiano-was/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...ture-2014.html
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. I wonder if there's English subtitles for this one). 
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