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Zero and Nothing:
One subject to which we continually return is the meaning of “nothing” because it is so fundamental to the nature of reality. Scientific materialists assert that something is real only if it exists in space and time and has material existence, even though in the next breath they then assert that the universe appeared from “nothing” – and even though light, as defined by Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, is, within its own terms, outside space and time and has no mass and no conventional material existence. In other words, scientific materialism is riddled with inconsistencies and could even be labelled incoherent.
If immaterial existence outside space and time is real then there can be no such thing as “nothing”, hence nor does the universe come from “nothing”.
The First Law of Thermodynamics – the law of conservation of energy – states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed. This implies that the energy now present in the universe has existed forever. It was not created and nor can it be destroyed. No new energy can come into existence, and none can be removed. The energy of the universe will endure forever, taking on various new guises in that time.
The human soul, if simply defined as immaterial energy that exists outside space and time, is therefore deathless, indestructible and immortal, and this is in complete accord with the First Law of Thermodynamics.
However, scientists have managed to smuggle in, almost unnoticed, an entirely different version of the First Law of Thermodynamics that contradicts the former version. It’s the “Free Lunch” version of the law. According to this, an entire universe can appear out of nothing so long as the total energy equals zero i.e. if a “positive” energy source can be perfectly balanced by a “negative” energy source then you can create as much energy as you like. In other words, energy can be created and destroyed at will if it does so in terms of a cosmic accountant’s trading off of positive and negative energy. The total energy of the universe according to this view is always zero, hence the First Law should really state: the total energy of the universe can never deviate from zero, or the total energy of the universe is always conserved at zero.
The scientific community, being staggeringly inept philosophically, has never appreciated that these two versions of the First Law are not in any way equivalent but actually the complete opposite. In the first version, it is being stated that the total energy of the universe is definitely non-zero and can have any value up to infinity, and whatever the number is, it can never be increased or reduced. The second version states that the total energy of the universe is never anything other than zero. A corollary of the second version is that it is possible to eliminate all forms of energy – positive and negative – from the universe, leaving nothing at all: Absolute Zero!
The first version excludes the possibility of non-existence. The second makes non existence possible, but with the unlikely proviso, in philosophical terms, that non existence (Absolute Zero) contains a bizarre and implausible mechanism for suddenly creating an enormous and even infinite amount of positive energy, counterbalanced by an equal amount of negative energy. But how would this be possible if the universe ceased to exist by attaining Absolute Zero in terms of its total energy content?
Which version do you think is more credible?
If the first version is correct then the Big Bang involved the conversion of pre-existing dimensionless energy into dimensional energy. In the second version, the Big Bang created something literally out of nothing, albeit the “something” is balanced between positive and negative energy and still adds up to “nothing”. In the first version, the Big Bang is a calculated event, worked out by a dimensionless cosmic mind, in which the laws of physics are stored. If the second version is true – and this is the one supported by the scientific community – then the Big Bang was a random and mysterious event and there is no indication of where the laws of physics come from and how the universe can attain a state of nonexistence that is somehow not non-existent since it possesses the capacity to give rise to the Big Bang. If this latter version is correct then how come Big Bangs aren’t happening all the time, everywhere, since none of these events every actually use up any energy because total energy is always conserved at zero?
The scientific community seem to have no understanding or awareness of these difficulties and, moreover, the motivation for their version seems to be simply so that they can avoid considering the existence of a cosmic mind. Without their version, they would have to concede that all of the energy present in the material universe came from pre-existing energy in an immaterial universe i.e. they would have to acknowledge that pure mind existed and that the cosmos was fundamentally based on idealism rather than materialism. Moreover, there would now be scope for God, souls and the afterlife: thoughts by which conventional science is repelled.
By creating a “zero” version of the First Law, scientists can desperately cling to materialism, but only by appealing to a bizarre concept of non-existence that somehow always contains the seeds of existence (even though this is a contradiction in terms).
Philosophically, there is either non-existence or existence, each of which is eternal, neither of which can be transformed into the other (i.e. non-existence can’t suddenly exist nor existence suddenly not exist) and both of which are mutually exclusive. If non-existence were possible there would be nothing at all. Nothing would ever have happened. There would be no processes of any kind. There would be no latent existence lurking within non-existence because that would mean that non-existence was simply a disguised form of existence i.e. existence that did nothing for long stretches but was ready to erupt at any moment. If there is no such condition as non-existence then there is only existence, and it is eternal. It can be neither created nor destroyed.
Scientific materialists, with their weird version of the law of conservation of energy, have created an untenable definition of nonexistence. They argue on the one hand that the energy of the universe is always zero, and on the other that this can go from “genuine” zero (Absolute Zero) to “false” zero – a zero made up of a perfect balance of positive and negative energy, extending all the way to infinite positive energy cancelled out by infinite negative energy. The Big Bang involved the conversion of Absolute Zero energy into an indefinite amount of false zero energy, with the total amount of cosmic energy always staying at zero.
The key question is this: if Absolute Zero involves the complete absence of energy – absolute nothingness, absolute non-existence – then where is the process hiding that will allow Absolute Zero to be transformed into false zero? By definition, it can’t exist since at Absolute Zero, non-existence is all there “is”. So, the Big Bang scientific materialists, although they can mathematically balance the energy books, can offer no rational account of how their version of the Big Bang is possible. Theirs is a form of magic whereby absolute nothing suddenly becomes something but stays as “nothing”, at least in a technical accounting sense. They have pulled the materialist rabbit from the hat, and not a blush of shame has ever crossed their cheeks. They believe that absolute nothingness always contains a hidden mechanism for converting true zero into false zero. They have never been able to explain this extraordinary feat of magic. They attempt to use the laws associated with the false zero universe we observe all around us to account for the true zero universe. But the true zero universe contains none of the laws of the false zero universe. Indeed it contains nothing at all, so how can they apply any of their laws to it?
Much of cosmological science is a philosophical joke, based on supremely incoherent concepts that nevertheless allow scientists to do lots of calculations, write lots of scientific papers to advance their careers, but which are not grounded in any solid foundations of science, mathematics or, especially, philosophy.
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Improbabilities:
Consider this statement by Professor Brian Cox, currently the most prominent spokesman for science in the UK:
“As a fraction of the lifespan of the universe, as measured from its beginning to the evaporation of the last black hole, life as we know it is only possible for one thousandth of a billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth of a percent.”
This unimaginably small window of life contains an even smaller window – that of conscious existence. According to Cox’s figures, life is staggeringly improbable; in fact so close to zero as to make no difference. A rational person might conclude that such a statistic is proof that Cox’s extremist scientific materialism is utterly false. How can life be an inconceivably unlikely by-product of existence? Moreover, how can it be generated by lifeless, mechanistic forces? Isn’t it much more rational to accept that life is the essence of existence, and consciousness has a 100% probability of being generated: that the fundamental forces of life are seeking that precise outcome? Far from being improbable in the extreme, we are INEVITABLE. We are the purpose of the cosmos. Consciousness is what the unconscious cosmos strives for. There are no mechanistic forces in operation – only unconscious mental forces. Mind is dimensionless and matter is its dimensional product through which it attains consciousness. There are no accidents, no wildly improbable statistics concerning the likelihood of life. We are not the creatures of randomness, tossed into existence for no reason for a brief cosmic second or two as mechanistic forces pointlessly wind down until the cosmos attains a condition of eternal heat death in which nothing meaningful ever happens.
It’s bizarre that scientific materialists like Cox and Richard Dawkins treat life so contemptuously. They seriously believe that a universe can emerge from nothing for no reason and then fade away to a ghostly state as it expends all of its energy. Also for no reason, the phenomenon of life flickers briefly into existence before rapidly being extinguished again, and during that infinitesimally short period of consciousness, humanity rubs its eyes, scratches its head and says “WTF!!!”
Well, that’s scientific materialism for you. Absolute nihilism.
Imagine that a religious believer said to Professor Cox that it was rational to believe in the existence of God even if the likelihood of God’s existence was only in the region of one thousandth of a billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth of a percent. Most people would think it was insane to accept those odds. You might as well be an atheist. But Professor Cox is in no position to mock the believer. After all, he thinks the window of life is open only for that infinitesimally small percentage of the lifespan of the universe, and the window for conscious life is smaller still. If these are the odds scientists accept as credible and rational it’s amazing that they don’t all believe in God…and in moons made of cheese for that matter.
The truth is that the cosmos always exhibits life – it is nothing but life – and the apex of life on earth thus far is self-organizing cellular life, culminating in conscious beings (humans). The probability of life appearing in the universe is 100%. The probability of consciousness appearing in the universe is 100%. The probability of mind attaining complete knowledge of the universe (the Mind of God) is 100%.
Physicists say with considerable justification that anything not forbidden is compulsory. We know for a fact that life and consciousness are not forbidden – because we ourselves exhibit these qualities. Anyone who does not accept the existence of God is asserting that his existence is forbidden. Any probability, even one infinitesimally small, that is not actually zero (i.e. not forbidden) will definitely occur in an infinite system.
So, from a scientific standpoint, the argument concerning God’s existence should be reduced to the grounds on which scientists assert that it is forbidden. What principles do they adduce to prove the impossibility of God’s existence? By their own logic, if they can’t show that God’s existence is forbidden then they must accept that his existence is compulsory. We are not of course referring to the Abrahamist God, whose existence can easily be disproved on simple logical grounds, but the evolutionary, dialectical God of Illuminism, the unconscious cosmic mind of the r = 0 domain that becomes conscious through the individuation provided by the r > 0 domain.
On the one hand, scientific materialists deny that non-material existence is possible and then they say that material existence came from “nothing” i.e. from some form of non-material existence. If the material world can emerge from immaterial existence then isn’t that proof that immaterial existence is a real, substantive thing, capable of generating matter? And what is immaterial existence? It is mind – the existence of which is the one thing materialists refuse to acknowledge.
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The expanding universe can have two fates according to conventional cosmological thinking. Either it is expanding forever because gravity cannot overcome the force of expansion, in which it will case it will inevitably suffer the heat death predicted by the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Or its expansion will reach a maximum limit dictated by gravity and then become contraction: the “Big Crunch” will reverse the Big Bang.
The reason we mention this is that Professor Cox makes authoritative statements as if he knows for sure what the condition of the universe is and will be, when in fact he’s merely telling a story, unsubstantiated by any evidence. It is not clear according to the available evidence whether expansion will keep going or contraction will kick in.
Secondly, Cox refers to the evaporation of black holes. There is as yet no evidence for such a phenomenon, and it is a controversial topic. On the one hand, physicists say that the laws of physics fall apart at the black hole singularity, and then they claim that all black holes will evaporate according to known laws. So which is it? Do the laws fall apart or not? Moreover, the hypothetical total evaporation would of course depend on whether more material is leaving the black hole than entering it. In a Big Crunch style universe, black holes would eat everything and eventually coalesce into a cosmic singularity.
Why doesn’t Cox make any of that clear? Scientists talk with incredible certainty, giving precise probabilities about this, that or the other when in fact these figures are built on multiple dubious assumptions. They are dealing in hypotheses not facts, yet they are presented as facts, giving the impression that science has all the answers.
In terms of black hole radiation for example, materialistic considerations are applied to a situation where it’s by no means evident that any kind of materialism is valid. A black hole singularity does not exist in the material domain. All distances have been compressed to zero and time has stopped. All of the mass has been converted into dimensionless energy, so unless scientists have a theory that accounts for how dimensionless and dimensional energy interconvert (and they definitely don’t have such a theory!) then how can they justify treating black holes as dimensional entities subject to conventional quantum processes? It’s not science; it’s pure speculation.
Isn’t it time prominent scientists started expressing rather more qualified statements? They pontificate like the high priests and popes of some ancient religion. If Cox were being a proper scientist, he should have declared as more than just a mumbled preamble that everything he said was related to certain hypothetical models and calculations, none of which have been evidentially corroborated. But scientists don’t like to reveal the reality that much cosmological thinking is more influenced by Mythos than Logos.
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Professor Martin Rees said, “The best guess is that the universe will go on expanding for ever and that it will become ever colder and ever emptier.”
Can there be a bleaker, more sterile vision of the future? The cosmos is like an enormous clock winding down. It is gradually depleted of all of its energy and finally it can do nothing at all. As WWI poet Wilfred Owen said in his poem Futility, “Was it for this the clay grew tall?”
According to the good professor, the cosmos goes to all the trouble of plucking itself out of nothing just to freeze itself in an eternal emptiness. Perhaps it should have stayed in bed!
In the Big Crunch scenario, the cosmos can return to the Absolute Zero of dimensionless existence whence it came. In the permanently expanding universe model, it never gets back there. One must wonder what the cosmos has been doing for infinity if it only decided to rouse itself from nothingness 14 billion years ago. Why didn’t it do so a trillion years ago, or a trillion trillion? Why that one moment 14 billion years ago when it has had eternity to get round to it? It is practically insane to contend that “nothing” erupts, in a strictly one-off process, in the most gargantuan unleashing of energy conceivable only to use it all up and then remain frozen and useless until Doomsday, which of course never comes! If nothing could become something 14 billion years ago then it could have done so any number of times previously. In fact an infinite number of times: anything not forbidden is compulsory.
What possible reason could the cosmos have had for forbidding the Big Bang until a specific instant 14 billion years ago? If it could happen then, it could have happened at any moment prior, and moreover, it unquestionably did. Existence is an infinite series. It never terminates. There have been infinite Big Bangs, and they have all concluded with the cosmos returning to dimensionless existence, which then gives rise to a new Big Bang. Nothing else is possible. There is no definitive cosmic endpoint. If there were any such point, we would already have reached it since we’ve had eternity to do so. Therefore it does not exist.
We are manifestations of a cosmic Will that strives eternally. It never grows tired. It never gives up. It never calls an end. It is incapable of doing so. The cosmos is eternal becoming. There is no such thing as a state of permanent being. It is as impossible as a state of absolute nothingness. There is always something, and it is always becoming. It is always transforming itself. It is always converting its potential into actuality, becoming more powerful, more realised, more perfect. And when it has attained any (temporary) state of perfection it has no choice but to start all over again because not to do so would be to contradict its own nature which compels it to always be transforming itself into something new. The universe craves novelty, exactly as we humans do – as above, so below. If you want to understand how the cosmos works, just look to yourself because you are a living manifestation of the cosmic Will. Just as you can’t rest on your laurels, no matter what wonders you accomplish, nor can the cosmos.
When you truly grasp that fact, you grasp the nature of reality. The German philosopher Schopenhauer understood it, but regarded it as horrific and even evil. Nietzsche took up where Schopenhauer left off and diagnosed Schopenhauer as a nihilist. For Nietzsche, the supreme challenge was to overcome nihilism and affirm life no matter what. He considered that only Supermen could understand the nature of reality and not be crushed by it. Only they had an infinite love of life. Only they said “Yes” to life no matter what. He declared, “What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
Is there a more powerful statement? It means that you can place value on everything that happens to you and, while a single breath is left in your body, you can celebrate being alive. Nietzsche’s highest God was Dionysus, the divinity of passion and intoxication. And has anyone ever been more intoxicated by life than Nietzsche himself? To many people, Nietzsche’s lonely, sickly, isolated life where he existed modestly and enjoyed none of the worldly success to which his brilliance entitled him, is something from which to look away in horror. Yet if you could see through the eyes of someone like Nietzsche as he gazed down from the mountaintop and comprehended all of existence, you would know what it was like to be God and it would make all other pleasures seem as nought. You would not trade that priceless instant for ANYTHING.
“6,000 feet beyond man and time.” –Nietzsche
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Thought for the Day:
The vast majority of cells physically present in your body don’t belong to you, but to microbes. It has been estimated that 95% of the cells in the human body are bacteria located in the large intestine. Looking at it another way, we are 19 parts microbe to one part human! We have been colonized by countless microbes. Perhaps the God of Microbes made us to serve as the edible host for his minions! (Moreover, the “human” part of us is mostly water, and water is composed of atoms which are little more than empty space. It has been said that if an atomic nucleus were the size of a grain of rice, the size of the atom itself would be that of a football stadium, and the stadium would be nothing but an empty space through which electrons travel in some ghostly fashion since they never actually have a definite position and momentum. In other words, a human being is water, digested food, empty space and microbes! Must we not be divine to marshal such unpromising ingredients into beings that can contemplate eternity?!)
Consider this. None of these innumerable microbes has any conception of being inside an organism that thinks, loves and desires. They see no indication whatsoever of the existence of thoughts. If they themselves could think, they would probably be scientific materialists and deny the existence of mind. But what of us? Are we any better at comprehending that we too are inside an organism that thinks, loves and desires? We live inside God. We are part of God. Through reason, intuition and knowledge, we can attain the same cosmic perspective as God. We are not microbes, we are human beings. And we are more than that – we are potential Gods.
Scientific materialists have reduced us to mindless microbes. They have assaulted and insulted the dignity of humanity. Abrahamists too have insulted our dignity and reduced us to contemptible slaves of a tyrant God who exists in another dimension. We are none of these things. We are astonishing. God is simply a human being further along the dialectical track than we are. We can all attain gnosis, and when we do, the cosmos becomes our body, just as it is for God. The cosmic mind is his mind. And it can be ours too.
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The Dream:
“AG” sent us a chilling account of a dream that reflects the disturbing world of the privileged elite.
I’ve been reading the Armageddon Conspiracy (AC) website for sometime, and while I have read a lot, I’m not done. One composition takes me on paths that I have to follow and when they come to a conclusion, I start on the next composition. My mind has been ignited into much more activity in the last three months than in many years prior.
To the point of my contact; I have been having a recurring dream recently, that while I can decipher most on my own, I’m not entirely sure what it may mean in total. I’m not asking for interpretation, but I do think it may have been influenced by the reading of the AC site. For what it’s worth, I am compelled to share it with you.
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There is a city. It is very large and could be any major U.S. city. I have not traveled to Brooklyn before, but this is the name of the city, though I do not feel that this has any bearing on the dream. This city is laid out in four concentric circles. The outer ring is beautiful, new and modern. It has everything; new schools, large, beautiful homes, shopping centers, entertainment, no crime and includes a waiting list of people trying to move in. The next inner ring is a bit older with a longer wait list, same with the second and finally, the center.
In the center of the city is a ruler who calls himself a king. He is viewed positively by the inhabitants and has a select few advisers that help monitor the outer rings. He is widely hailed as a benevolent ruler and a king for the people. He refuses to take a wife so he may only serve his subjects. His televised orations are all about the people and how he loves them. Not many people get access to the center, and the inhabitants are fine with the excuse that due to its small size, visitations to the inner circle are limited.
People may come and go from this city as they choose. However, those that live there seem not to be compelled to leave. More people clamor to get on the wait list than the number of people leaving. There is a visitor. He is interested in learning about the city. His request to live in the outer ring has been granted. He is very pleased with the city. No one wants for anything. His neighbors are excited about his arrival. He’s invited out to several functions and makes acquaintances with others in his neighborhood.
Everyone is pleasant… a bit like “Stepford” pleasant.
The visitor could not be happier. After the first year there though, there’s something lacking for him. He talks with a few neighbors about his growing restlessness and they ask if he’s applied to enter the third ring. These neighbors will be moving there soon, and suggest he get on the list. The third ring of this great city is supposed to be even better than the ring they currently reside in, but he needs to get on the list. To qualify for the wait list, you must live in the fourth, outer, ring for two years. An adviser will look at your application and may grant your request. This visitor does so and has found that his spirits are renewed because he is looking forward to the next level.
At the end of two years, he is notified by mail that he will be able to move to the next ring if he chooses. He is ecstatic and agrees to do so. The letter cautions though that once you move forward in the city, you cannot move backward. You may, of course, leave the city entirely, but you may not go back to your previous station. He couldn’t imagine why that part of the letter is necessary; this city is amazing!
When he gets to his new lodgings, he takes in the sight with a shadow of doubt though. The house is much smaller, this part of the city a bit older than the fourth ring and there’s something a bit darker about it. He chalks it up to the neighborhood being more established with older housing, shopping centers and people. He can forgive the graffiti he sees every now and then and even the occasional bum sleeping on the sidewalk. It is a city after all, and it’s just part of it. He reunites with the acquaintances he met in the outer ring and is pleased. His job is great, he’s got friends and life is going great.
for the next ring. The thought had not entered his mind since he’s been fairly content with his life, but he asks what’s awesome about the next ring of the city. The friends tell him that it’s even better than what he’s currently living in. The exclusivity of it makes it alluring and the wait list is even longer. To qualify for this next ring, a person would have to live in the third ring for three to five years, and it’s not guaranteed you’ll be accepted if you do apply.
Our visitor is intrigued and he tries to imagine life better than it is right now. He doesn’t want to disappoint his friends, and he starts to think of the status he’d acquire with being accepted into the second ring…. if he is accepted at all. He and his friends wage a bet on who will get accepted first. They have a better chance since they’ve lived a year longer in the third ring than the visitor, but after three years, the visitor gets another acceptance letter in the mail, with the same caution; that once you move forward in the city, you cannot move backward. You may, of course, leave the city entirely, but you may not go back to your previous station. This time though, our visitor is a smidge wary. He likes the life he has, but he is then overcome with what he imagines the next part of the city will be.
His friends have mixed emotions. Some are jealous, others sad and maybe two genuinely happy for him. He leaves with mixed emotions too, because he won’t be able to see them again, unless they too are accepted into the next level.
When he enters the second ring, he realizes he may have made a mistake. This part of the city is much older than the last. The houses are gone and in their place are apartments. It’s still suitable living, but not what he expected. The neighborhoods are more crowded and there’s a darker shadow. He is shocked to find graffiti and bums more frequently. The buildings are run down and some are outfitted with barred windows and doors.
Still though, he overcomes all this mentally by telling himself that to live here means great things and that he was chosen specially for this. The king’s advisers have found his work and person worthy of moving forward. He finds out on his own how long the wait list is for the best part of the city; the center. Few people have access to it and the king is said to be on a personal basis with those who live there. It becomes this visitor’s goal to get there. He resolves to work hard, and put his all into his new community. He organizes clean ups and donations. He goes out of his way to help where he can. It’s a five to seven year wait before he may be accepted, but he’s sure that he will be if he works hard enough. He also can’t help but feel a little smug that he was chosen and not his friends.
He finds though that among the homeless he reaches out to are a people who are shriveled physically and mute. There aren’t a lot of them, but enough to arouse his curiosity. He attempts to communicate with them, but they can’t write as their hands are gnarled and neither can they seem to speak. They seem almost lifeless. One night after several years of living in the second ring, as he walks home, he comes across one of these individuals on the street. It appears to be a man, and he is beckoning to the visitor. This particular person is not quite as shriveled as the others and is intent on meeting with the visitor. When the visitor is close enough he hears what passes for whispers emanating from the shriveled man. While the man’s lips do not move, and it’s just barely audible, he hears, “You will get to the center of the city and when you find the secret, you must warn the others”. As these words are spoken, the visitor watches in horror as the man shrivels farther in on himself and his mouth is nearly twisted shut. A police officer comes from the shadows, further scaring the visitor, for while crime does occur, he hardly ever sees an actual police officer and none has ever spoken to him. This one does however, and tells him, “You know, these poor chaps have quite a sad disease. The cause hasn’t been figured out yet, though we haven’t seen any others affected. Perhaps it resolved itself.” And he walks off.
Our visitor is shaken and heads home. He tries to wrap his mind around what the man who shriveled before him meant. He replays the police officer’s words in his mind and rationalizes that the shriveled man was merely trying to talk, though it was impossible for him to do so and he must have imparted some sort of meaning to the sounds. How silly of him! He’s been working too hard, he thinks, and the police officer is right; a very sad disease this shrivel business is. He resolves to let it go, despite having seen the man’s mouth nearly twist shut and shrink in front of him, it was late, dark and he’s been working too much.
He finds in the future though, that he avoids the shriveled people. Within a month, he gets his next acceptance letter. He is heading for the city center. His hard work has paid off. But what a sorry sight it is! Crowded to almost overflowing! There is a golden castle in the very middle and people are moving everywhere in chaos, noiselessly. He was instructed in his letter to go to the castle at once and he heads there uneasily. He is not able to ask one person where they are going or what they are doing. They are moving too fast, but not in any discernible order.
When he enters the castle, trying to prepare himself for the glory of the king, he finds nothing but four fat slobs sitting around an even more slovenly character with a crown. Under this king’s feet are people, hunched over and working as ottomans. The visitor takes in the horror as he realizes the whole table, chairs and other furniture are living people. There are people bustling about bringing what seems like endless amounts of food and wine, others are taking the empty trays, others still are entertaining in various ways… not all are pleasant to the visitor’s sensibilities. There’s noise everywhere and not in harmony with the motions of what he sees. Another curiosity is the presence of the shriveled, diseased here too.
He is terribly confused and horribly let down. This is not what he expected. The king calls him over, and asks him to sit on one of the human chairs. The visitor is reluctant but then gathers his wits and remembers he is in the presence of the king. For what might be the king’s shortcomings, he is still in charge of this large, successful city, and so he sits. The king lays out to him how he has been chosen specifically to be here. He will assist one of the advisers. He is to report back tomorrow morning, after checking into what the king tells him, surely is adequate lodging. He is dismissed.
Walking back through a noiseless, chaotic throng of people, he finds his lodging. None of this makes sense to him, but he talks it through to himself. It’s busy and chaotic because there are a lot of things to do in a government. The king does not have time to maintain his appearance because he is so busy working for the people. People move without sound so as to not lose time performing their important duties, to which he recalls that he will be working for an adviser! He is a bit elated at this, and for one night, his fears are abated.
It is not long though, before the visitor finds himself over worked. He is depressed because he realizes he stopped seeing people and now just sees furniture, hungry (as there is little time to eat), lonely because every person in the city is too busy for pleasure and not one person to vent to. One night he tries to fall asleep, but can’t. Quite suddenly, he realizes that everyone in the city has become a slave of their own choosing. He is a slave. They can leave, but they choose not to. They have invested so much time into the city, so much effort to be there. Their families are invested in their schools, government and businesses.
If any of them left, there would be nothing for them and how would they explain themselves to the outside world for staying so long? Remembering the words of the shriveled man, he determines to find what the secret is to the city. He is renewed and goes about his duties with efficiency. He finds ways to finish his responsibilities and still have a few minutes left over to find out what he can from any source he can find. He learns there is a library and bookstore very near to him and wonders why he never saw these before. After work, he has a precious few minutes to get into either before closing time, so he resolves to find more efficient ways to do his job to get more time at the end of the day to learn. It is a struggle. The harder he works, the more is expected of him. Unexpectedly the powers above him reward him with more money, but it goes unnoticed, for he is now single minded and he needs nothing and craves for nothing, save the secret
of the city.
His bosses are finding him uncooperative and unfriendly to the establishment. Co-workers, who never say a word, suddenly complain loudly that he is closed off and rude. He wants to stop his search, but he feels he is so close. He is fired. On his last day at work, the adviser he works for tells him he wants to show him something. He places a piece of paper on his desk walks out of his office and leaves the visitor there. Hesitantly, he picks up the paper. It is a list of the people in power in descending order. The king is on there of course, along with the advisers, but there is a position above the king. It says “Queen”. This is curious, as the king has made it known he will not take a wife, but he asks himself who rules the king?
A creator? He feels faint, but he forces his thoughts further. What are the shriveled people? Why are they here? Why are they shriveled? Who creates a system where people become slaves? And in a single moment of clarity, he realizes the “queen” is the creator, but that every person in the inner city serves it and creates the “queen” by becoming the king’s slaves… by believing the deception fed to them. He is panicked and leaves the office. The adviser calls something after him, but his hearing is muffled. He tries to call out to someone, to tell them the truth of their enslavement, that they have to free themselves, but his throat has gone dry it seems. He gets to the street and starts yelling but his voice is hoarse. His body is in pain and he hunches over to catch his breath and finds he can’t stand straight. He realizes the frightening discovery that he is starting to shrivel, like the men he saw in the third ring. No one stops to help him. They are too busy.
He hears the haunting words the shriveled man imparted to him in the third ring, “You will get to the center of the city and when you find the secret, you must warn the others”. He desperately calls out and tries to grab anyone that is near him to tell them the secret and with each attempt he becomes more gnarled in body. His mind is fighting to get these words out, but the tongue is not moving and he bursts into tears. He recalls that the shriveled people become mute and figures out that he may not have much longer to speak the truth. He is frantic and this is the final blow to his mind; he cannot tell the truth that it took so long to find.
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And I awake.
Over all, I understand it, though some of the details I don’t. I’m more worried that the character in the dream cannot tell anyone what it all means. He knows the truth, but there’s nothing he can do.
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Our Comment.
Thanks, AG. Your dream is a profound one, and ingeniously encapsulates many of the themes we discuss on our site. You have already identified the essence of the dream when you say, “I’m more worried that the character in the dream cannot tell anyone what it all means. He knows the truth, but there’s nothing he can do.”
If a good, decent person worked their way up to highest levels of society, what would they find there? Would they be happy? Or would they be disgusted by what they discovered? The golden castle may look beautiful, but it’s a prison. You must abandon your freedom and mould yourself into the shape expected of you. You become as vile as the people who already inhabit that kingdom. And if, like your hero, you recognise what’s really going on, what can you do to change anything? Above all, who’s listening? And who cares? The system goes on regardless.
The message we take from you dream is that the inner kingdom cannot be saved. It is inherently corrupt. There’s no point in trying to cooperate with it, or in attempting to succeed on its terms. There is no truth in that kingdom – hence everyone is silent. Or the truth is so horrifying that no one wants to hear it, hence no one is listening. Either way, the truth is dead.
It’s time to smash the golden prison.
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The Divine Project:
Atheists say there is no God.
Agnostics say they don’t know if there is a God.
Abrahamists say you are nothing compared with God.
We say you are God!
So, whose side are you on? Whose vision do you embrace? Do you want to be perfect?
Then join the project for perfecting humanity.
The end of slavery. The start of true freedom.
We are the Illuminati.
Help us change the Paradigm.
The End
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