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21st March 2014 12:14
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The Unenlightened Thread - Demystifying the Apple
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Hi All,
This is going the to be a thread where I will offer you an apple.
You might decide it is too early to take a bite. Than what can I say, it is all in your hands.
(Does this remind you of the way Bill starts his threads? Yes, I am a copy-Cat, what can I say)
I would also like to invite Carmody and Agape (and anyone who feels like it) to participate here, for I am not all that well versed in chemistry, biology, physics, and the rest of those 'oh, so serious' sciences.
I hope we can share here facts, videos, articles about
- the universe;
- our human bodies;
- the apples, and the vegetables, and also for all of you carnivores - the lovely animals;
- about yoga, qi gong, prana and orgone;
- about bio-electricity;
- physical space;
- architecture;
- and technology based on spirituality;
- and everything related to all of the above in a more obvious, or (may be) in a very obscure way.
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I am far from the idea that I can meet here science with spirituality, but if I don't try I will never know.
I hope this will be inspiring.
But it can be also just space wasting.
(You decide)
And BTW, everyone's input here is welcome.
Like it, dislike it, shred it to pieces.
I have done it for you, but mostly for my own amusement.
(You know, I sometimes have trouble locating some interesting videos and articles I have come across on my high-speed journey, especially in the past. Which just so happens to be every single day before to-day...so I am just being practical here. As you will see, it is all about me here. And you, partially.)
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Let me start with some basics:
I am going to be creating some bridges here:
with some basic truths carried inside of them or onto them:
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I only would like to ask you to keep out, if you were not sure about the authenticity of your information.
I don't want to talk here about:
- the arrival of the super consciousness;
- or the concept of all-in-one-consciousness;
- possessions (while in meditation or otherwise);
- about mind/body-implants;
- about going, or not, into the light after we die;
- about the 'prison concept'
- or who is in control over whom;
- about Reiki being a quackery;
- about mean aliens and well-intended saviors,
- and so forth uninspiring, or uninspired, occurrences and phenomena.
Thank you for stopping by,
and "I'll be back!"
<off she went collecting materials>
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21st March 2014 12:21
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Re: The Unenlightened Thread - Demystifying the Apple
Post #1:
Gravitational Waves explained with a Towel and an Apple
On 17 March, physicists working on the BICEP2 experiment, based at the South Pole, announced that they had glimpsed gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of spacetime – dating back to the universe's birth.
The observation, via tell-tale swirls in maps of relic light from the big bang, represent the first clear detection of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Albert Einstein.
The discovery also allows us to peer back in time further than anyone thought possible. That could have all kinds of knock-on effects for our understanding of the universe, perhaps even helping to shore up one of the most exciting, and baffling, ideas in cosmology: the multiverse.
The idea that our universe is just one of many is a whole other story, but to get handle on how we got to this point, watch the video.
Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/...4#.Uywu1YR_iPo
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21st March 2014 12:33
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Re: The Unenlightened Thread - Demystifying the Apple
Post #2:
Rotation-driven ‘zebra stripes’ in Earth’s inner radiation belt
Data from NASA’s twin Van Allen Probes has led to the discovery of a new, potentially dangerous zebra-striped structure located in Earth’s inner radiation belt, according to new research appearing in Wednesday’s edition of the journal Nature.
In the paper, lead author Aleksandr Ukhorskiy of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and his colleagues explain that the Van Allen Probes Ion Composition Experiment (RBSPICE) located the persistent structure, which was comprised of highly energized electrons that could endanger humans in space.
In addition, the zebra-striped formation could also disrupt low-earth navigation and communication satellites, officials from the US space agency explained. The structure was produced by the planet’s slow rotation, which experts had previously believed was unable to impact the motion of high-speed radiation belt particles.
“It is because of the unprecedented resolution of our energetic particle experiment, RBSPICE, that we now understand that the inner belt electrons are, in fact, always organized in zebra patterns,” said Ukhorskiy. “Furthermore, our modeling clearly identifies Earth’s rotation as the mechanism creating these patterns. It is truly humbling, as a theoretician, to see how quickly new data can change our understanding of physical properties.”
The tilt in Earth’s magnetic field axis causes its rotation to generate a weak, oscillating electric field permeating throughout the entire inner radiation belt, Ukhorskiy explained. He compared the electron populations of the inner belt to a viscous fluid, and said that the global operations would slowly stretch and fold like taffy, resulting in the striped pattern that extends from above the atmosphere to approximately 8,000 miles above the Earth’s surface.
According to NASA officials, the Van Allen radiation belts “are dynamic doughnut-shaped regions” that surround our planet high above the atmosphere. They are comprised of high-energy electrons and ions that are trapped by the Earth’s magnetic field, and solar activity affects the radiation levels throughout the belts.
These solar storms and related activity originating from the sun can ebb and flow, the agency added. Radiation levels can dramatically increase during active conditions, which can generate hazardous space weather conditions that could harm orbiting spacecraft and place astronauts in danger. The goal of the Van Allen Probes is to better understand exactly how and why the radiation levels in these belts change with time.
“These findings could have implications for those who model space weather and those who design and operate navigation and communication satellites as well as spacecraft used for national security,” said study co-author and New Jersey Institute of Technology physics professor Louis Lanzerotti.
“It is amazing how Earth’s space environment, including the radiation belts, continue to surprise us even after we have studied them for over 50 years,” he added. “Our understanding of the complex structures of the belts, and the processes behind the belts’ behaviors, continues to grow, all of which contribute to the eventual goal of providing accurate space weather modeling and helping designers to build communication systems and spacecraft that can withstand the highly energized particles in earth’s radiation belt.”
Source: http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1...n-belt-032014/
or was it just simply:
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21st March 2014 12:39
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21st March 2014 12:48
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Re: The Unenlightened Thread - Demystifying the Apple
Does it Matter?
Since Newton's apple, mass and gravity have been inextricably linked in our conceptual models of the workings of the universe. The foundational equations of classical physics make forces such as gravity dependent on mass. Remove mass from the equation and there can be no gravity because the equation solves to zero. And since the equations appear to accurately predict the dynamics of the visible massive universe around us, they are presumed to be 'true' to a large degree. However, this perspective has thrown up a number of intuitively unsatisfactory anomalies in astrophysics. For instance, it's been necessary to postulate the existence of superdense matter equivalent to the mass of several thousand Suns compressed into an area the size of the solar system to account for the gravitational forces in supermassive black holes. An invisible 'dark matter' has had to be invented to explain the strength of the gravitational forces surrounding and containing galaxies.
This mass-creates-force formulation excludes such things as psychokinesis from the conceptual map and, by extension, from our collective notions of what is 'real'. The bias (polarisation) in our collective scrutiny of psi phenomena emphasises their illusory qualities, while failing to appreciate that there is an equally illusory quality to what we take to be 'real' as well. (Much the same logic applies to the 'placebo' argument used in attempts to dismiss complementary therapies like homeopathy. Those doing so fail to appreciate the extent to which the placebo effect operates in conventional medicine or to realise that their perspective, while in many senses 'true', is mostly a function of polarisation.)
Einstein proved that gravity is a 'fictitious' force. This doesn't mean it has no experiential reality, but that it's an epiphenomenon, the product of a non-inertial reference frame, for instance a revolving planet. Through Newton's second law of motion F = ma (force = mass x acceleration), this is a force which is always proportional to the mass of the accelerating object. This has remained observably verifiable to a high degree of accuracy on the macrocosmic scale, despite the fact that Newton's laws are only strictly true within inertial reference frames and a rotating object is non-inertial. Its movement is equivalent to constant acceleration even if the speed of rotation is constant, since the direction of movement is constantly changing.
Mass we intuitively understand to be intimately related to solidity, density, weight, volume. We can see something's mass. We can feel it. How can it be so difficult to define? But as physicist Max Jammer said, measurements of mass are just ratios of other things. Suddenly mass seems to take on an aura of something less solid. It seems far too contingent and dependent, too much of an epiphenomenon itself to be primary.
Read this entertaining article here:
http://www.smeddum.net/articles/matter.htm
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Some more images:
Heart Toroid Field
Did I ever mention the apple:
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Got to go for now, but will be back.
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21st March 2014 13:26
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Re: The Unenlightened Thread - Demystifying the Apple
I have posted this elsewhere, too, but it deserves (I would think) to be posted again:
The Mystic Spiral : Journey of the Soul
by Jill Purce
Source: http://www.mk-energies.com/tchs_mystic_en.php
Flow, form and symbol
Like all existence on the descending scale of realities, the spiral is a symbol. lt denotes eternity, since it may go on for ever. But because we necessarily conceive infinity in our own, and therefore finite, terms, we are forced to limit the limitless. lt is only by imposing limits that we can make infinity accessible to us. Thus, in practice, the spiral will end; on paper, in two dimensions, we have in this space-time world to stop drawing it.
The universe and man's consciousness (the macrocosm and the microcosm) consist in a continuum and a dynamic whole; this can be expressed by the spiral when, instead of ending, it is drawn either round a sphere or a doughnut ring, so that it joins up with itself by spiraling through its own middle. This symbol, which is perpetually turning in on itself expanding and contracting, has an interchangeable center and circumference, and has neither beginning nor end: it will be referred to here as the spherical vortex. The perpetual in-turning of the spherical vortex has analogies in nature with a stable form of flow created by the movement of air and water. This form, observed by blowing a smoke-ring or letting a drop of milk fall into water that has been allowed to settle, is called by scientists the vortex ring.
Within the totality of the universal continuum, we are limited by space-time to successive and analytic observations of its parts. These parts, the transient formations of nature's perpetual motion - although never perfect - seem to us to approximate to an ideal. In so far as the archetypal flow and growth form assumed by the mushroom, the embryo and the brain embody a forward impulse which turns back on itself, they demonstrate exactly the forming of a vortex ring.
Many formations in nature, although both constituted and caused by dissimilar phenomena, are not only similar to look at, but have identical mathematical descriptions. This would suggest that together they form a higher overall order outside that limited by our concept of linear cause and effect. The spiral movement which creates a center and a 'whole' is also that which - combined with gravitational contraction creates the solar systems, their suns and planets. The galaxies too are probably created by the inward spiraling of interstellar gas. These are the macro-cosmic movements and cycles, mirrored in man the microcosm, which provide him with his model for all things cyclic, from sleep and emotions to time itself. The same vortical laws govern the movements of water, which composes nearly three-quarters of our physical bodies.
Water is the pure, potential and unformed matrix from which all life takes its being. Consequently, the characteristics of its vortical flow, its ephemeral but changeless configurations, remain in all things as a testimony of their origin. lt is from the involution of the unformed waters that the egg crystallizes by the turning in on itself of energy, of matter, or of consciousness; and all these are one and the same.
This order, reverberating down into the microscopic and subatomic levels, both structures and reflects our consciousness. The full significance of organization, which was obviously known to the Greeks since their word kosmos means 'order', is again being demonstrated by the physicists, who say that matter actually consists in its own movement and organization. Similarly, the growth of human consciousness is the continuous refining of its own organization, the ordering of its individual microcosm.
Although this process is built into the structure and is inherent in the natural evolution of man, it is one which can be facilitated and hastened with the aid of maps and guides. These maps are the mythological and religious systems which have been evolved by previous travelers, pioneers of the Way. Such a refining is alchemy, the transmutation of the natural man of the base metals into the spiritual man of pure gold, by repeated breaking down and building up (solve et coagula).
The following pages describe these maps and the ways in which man has understood the spiral of his own awareness. This spiral is not one, but many, which together constitute a spiral of multiple dimensions, in which each winding is also a complete spiral and each spiral just a winding. Furthermore, we are the spiral and all the spirals within. We need, above all, to become familiar with the nature of its movement, and consciously to make its laws our laws, like Edgar Allan Poe's sailor, who, by careful observation as he sank into the maelstrom, understood the nature of the vortex and was carried up by the spiral that had sucked him down.
The simple two-dimensional spiral has a number of remarkable properties. lt both comes from and returns to its source; it is a continuum whose ends are opposite and yet the same; and it demonstrates the cycles of change within the continuum and the alternation of the polarities within each cycle. lt embodies the principles of expansion and contraction, through changes in velocity, and the potential for simultaneous movement in either direction towards its two extremities. On the spherical vortex these extremities, the center and periphery, flow into each other; essentially, they are interchangeable.
In the relative world - that of time, space and their corollary, motion - the potential of movement in either direction manifests as choice; hence, in three dimensions, the spiral may be imagined either as the aspiring upward spiral or as the downward vortex. The spiral is inherently asymmetrical, and any choice of direction along the vertical axis also determines a right- or left-handed path: the choice of travelling with or against the sun. That the latter, widdershins or, sinister' direction has the associations it does is an indication of man's dose relationship with the movement of the heavens: it is said to be the entropic, unwinding movement from order into chaos, or, according to C. G. Jung, away from the conscious and towards the unconscious. By virtue of this important asymmetry the spiral can be superimposed on its mate of opposite-handedness only by turning it through another spatial dimension: a flat spiral must be lifted out of the page through three dimensions, or a spiral of three dimensions moved through four, and so on.
Direction is thus an indication of the dimension, and in traditional thought the 'world', through which the spiral turns. Since our world is predominantly right-handed, the world above is thought to be ,left-handed', a passage through another dimension being implied. According to the Jewish mystical tradition, the Cabbala, there are four worlds, all of which exist negatively beyond their positive existence. Not until one is outside the relative world of space and time is there an end to the possibility of rotating an asymmetric figure through the next dimension in space to coincide with its reflection.
The universal spherical vortex is perhaps the most complete symbol by which we can map our cosmic journey. As William Blake wrote in his poem 'Milton':
The nature of infinity is this: That everything has its
Own vortex, and when once a traveller thro' Eternity
Has pass'd that Vortex, he perceives it roll backward behind
His path, into a globe itself unfolding like a sun.
Thus is the heaven a vortex pass'd already, and the earth
A vortex not yet pass'd by the traveller thro' Eternity.
The evolutionary spiral
There are within every one of us three stages of knowledge. This is the spiral process by which not only individual man but the cosmos itself becomes realized; for it represents the course of evolution. Thus in the early days of humanity, as in childhood, there was no separation between ourselves and the outside world, until we, individually or as a race, became self-conscious. As a result of successive wind-ings, our individual and collective ego crystallized, and we could see ourselves as subject, and as distinct from the world, which became the object of our scrutiny. As we looked, the continuum differentiated into 'things'. Each branched into more things, which in turn branched into even more, until the continuum had developed into a hierarchy; language, which once flowed in verbs and processes, broke up into nouns and connectives.
The third stage for the individual is that of intuitive knowledge or enlightenment, in which subject and object again become one. In collective terms, this return to a continuum implies not only the need for a new language, like that which physicists are trying to develop, but that the analytic and quantitative world is winding itself into a new simplicity. At the widest extent of the spherical vortex, the turn is long and slow before we are gathered up into the momentum of the contracting vortex of collective enlightenment. Each person who is integrated, realized and truly individualized becomes universal; and the extremity of differentiation of individual consciousness leads back into the Totality. In this spiral, every one of us all over the globe is like a light becoming gradually brighter, until there are so many and so intense, that there is one light, the light of cosmic consciousness, or what Teilhard de Chardin has called the 'psychical convergence of the universe upon itself': the Omega Point
The breathing cosmos
Because any description of the Absolute must be limited, we are able to reveal it only by using symbols, which cut directly through all the layers and wind-ings of our consciousness.
There is no space here to do more than touch on the profundity of these symbols; but they will be referred to throughout. Each is unity, either as the point or circle. Since a symbol cuts through all levels and therefore dimensions, they must also be visualized in three dimensions: each circle as a sphere.
The function of symbolism is to go beyond the 'limitation of the fragment' and link the different 'parts' of the whole, or alternatively the worlds in which these parts manifest: these worlds are successive wind-ings of the spiral. Each symbol is a link on the same frequency with the world above, a vertical bridge between objects within the same 'cosmic rhythm' on different planes of reality. In other words, each symbol links up with its 'correspondence' on the next spire. On a flat spiral, each point of intersection between a radius and the successive wind-ings would be the successive manifestation of a symbol, traced through the respective worlds from the densest to the subtlest level of cosmic manifestation. We, like Plato's prisoners in the cave, can see merely the shadows of the images of the real objects, which themselves arc only the manifestation of the Ideas and Archetypes (or Immutable Essences). In other words, even the ,originals', let alone the physical manifestations of nature, are but symbols of the metaphysical realities; and even these last, by virtue of their multiplicity, arc but 'parts' of the One Essence.
lt follows, therefore, that all manifestation, or all that we experience, is symbolic, and that 'the whole of existence is a continuum which is ordered in itself. lt has no manifest appearance and thus cannot be observed immediately by sense perceptions, but its inherent dynamism manifests in images whose structure participates in that of the continuum' (Wang-Fu Chih).
lt is significant that, while the simple two-dimensional spiral is one of the most ancient symbols for eternity, it does not ever seem to have been a symbol for the Absolute. This is because it is not a whole; it can, by its very nature, never be complete.
The implication here is that all our conceptions of the Absolute must be more than unlimited extension: they must contain. In all traditions God is seen as containing everything within himself. All manifestation extends from, and yet is contained within, the point, to which it also returns.
So, while the two-dimensional spiral starts in infinity and extends to infinity, passing through all the intermediary coils of manifestation in time and the relative world, it is only symbolic of the spherical vortex. This, one of the most ancient symbols known to man, is most familiar as the Yin Yang sign; and, although this was restricted to the Far East, the spherical vortex existed in the West possibly even earlier. Certainly it is found as the double spirals carved by Megalithic man.
When the flat double spiral is moved up into three dimensions, it has its origin and end in the opposite poles of a central axis: the central infinity, or axis of consciousness.
The spiral has actually returned by winding on to its source. Its 'end' is not a second and therefore relativating infinity, as implied by the single spiral. The duplication of the One is simply the One looking at itself, and in so doing becoming subject and object: this is the duality by which all is known.
Keeping this dual picture in mind, we now have a third element: relation. This distance between subject and object is knowledge; hence, in Japanese, the word meaning 'to understand' (ivakarn) literally means 'to be divided'. On the Cabbalistic Tree of Life this space is actually called Knowledge, or Daat, and is the invisible point on the central axis between the Crown (Kether), I AM, and Truth (Tepheret), I AM. lt is understood as the link: Eheieh asher Ehieh: 'I AM (subject) that I AM (object).' This third principle is the mirror of consciousness by which pure Being looks at itself.
In the Islamic tradition it is said: ,I was a hidden treasure and I loved to be known, so I created the world.' On the spherical vortex, the hidden treasure is the point of origin. In order for the One to be known - for there to be consciousness of the treasure by the treasure - the world was created. The cycles of becoming, the rounds of existence, spiral on and reveal their source by the creation of a vantage point: from its own opposite pole the source may view and hence be conscious of itself. The separation of heaven and earth gave the light of consciousness by which all is seen and which all is seen and known.
This cyclic becoming appears in mythology as the protecting serpent or dragon which coils around the World Tree or Mountain - the central axis, the Axis Mundi.
This dragon is also the world of illusion, the coils of manifestation, which the hero must destroy on his quest for truth, for the treasure, the incorruptible diamond of the Self at the still pomt in the midst of things.
This theme recurs in a more or less explicit form in most traditions: the world materializes and man spiritualizes along the same spiral. lt is the breathing of the cosmos.
With the exhalation the spirit contracts, creates, and involves or winds into matter; this is the creation of the world by the breath of God. With the inhalation, matter expands and evolves or unwinds into spirit. Man is the heart and microcosmic controller of this pulse. By becoming conscious he is inhaling - effecting the return breath.
We breathe in only to breathe out; this is true of the universe no less than of man, who was created in the same image. This is why the life of each person is conceived, in so many mystical, religious, and mythological systems, as the conscious unwinding of the original coils of manifestation.
Looked at on a single spiral, the path to consciousness has to be seen as a return along the same path; on the spherical vortex, the return is a continuation. At the point of maximum contraction, the expansion begins.
The alternating phases are described by the Cabbala. As each individual spirals down the Tree of Life, he involves into matter, being conceived in Daat and born in Malkuth or Kingdom; he thus brings heaven down to earth at the moment of birth, at which point the process is reversed, and through life he spirals back up the Tree, evolving or aspiring into spirit. He takes earth back to heaven, remembering in consciousness his original path. Indeed, all recognition, all knowledge of life, is a conscious remembering of the pre-conscious knowledge of the involving path.
This is a rather long article, and I will split it in two (or three) parts.
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21st March 2014 13:26
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