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5. Our brains have been tuned for the left hemispheres to do all the conscious thinking and organising for us. But our right hemisphere (in some) is probably more adept at visualising and making intuitive sense of the whole picture. This has been so since pre-history, even to the authors of Genesis. In most primitive “Creation” stories we have dark, primordial oceans with hidden forms waiting for the spirit of God to sweep away the darkness and bring life. No one knew where this spirit or intelligence came from but it was always visualised as a vast, all-knowing intelligence. The Old Ones may have been on to the truth, intuitionally. Scientific insight is now bringing the “Creation” stories back but with words so new (eg “distant intentionality” and “precognition” or 'quantum mechanics' etc) as to not yet being part of everyday language. We are entering into new methods of gaining knowledge of our universe. Eventually all things will be translated into common terms. But with such information that consciousness (spirit/soul) is not a brain function but may exist outside the body, albeit normally working in full cooperation within the brain during life-time, we are once again moving in the direction of ancient wisdom. The miracle of new theories now emerging from universities and research establishments is such that it fits in with the rough outlines of the old stories. There seems to be a guiding hand at work; a supreme intelligence from which our consciousness is drawn. Len

Len I find everything you post so interesting but off to bed now as have a job interview tommorow so will digest properly in the am, Nite love, Caz xxxxxxxxxxx

4. These mysterious energies that remain unseen and unknown in the 21st century first began to emerge in 50 or 60 years ago. Since the 1940s, astronomers, astrophysicists and mathematicians have bit by bit winkled themselves into a much bigger and more complex universe than was ever imagined, even in the realms of science fiction. Only recently has the concept of “other dimensions” (let’s not call it the paranormal – yet) been explored. The world about us seemed quite adequate and normal with three dimensions but the logical progression of research seems to lead to others. Although the mathematics of space dealt with abstractions, discoveries made by George Riemann’s and others make it irresistible to think that our worldly, physical space may be just as weird, complicated and wonderful as demonstrated by Einstein in his “General Theory”. We cannot have the slightest conception of what space out there in the cosmos is about. Many, therefore, shun it. “ We cannot comprehend, therefore it cannot exist”. There is, though, a deeper mystery to the void first hinted at by Minowski, Albert Einstein’s tutor. Space and time form a continuous mathematical entity which encompasses dimensions at present unknown to humanity but which are gradually being revealed.

3. We have found out there in the void (and here on earth), an energy called electromagnetism which comes in many and varied forms. It acts as an invisible force marshalling and moving matter. Electromagnetism is an energy requiring neither matter, time nor dimensions to support it. Physicists have failed, so far, to find any unity among the disparate fields and particles that skein throughout space-time but it appears to be connected, in a very subtle form, with consciousness and the power of the mind to affect animate or inanimate objects. In this universe of ours, there’s a tantalising prospect of finding unification of all space-time theories. In the meantime, since the 1940s, astronomers, astrophysicists. mathematicians, thousand upon thousands of them, have continued the task of understanding the cosmos, using a variety of techniques. By the 1980s vast skeins and voids have emerged in intricate mathematical patterns but there are still vast regions beyond, full of billions upon billions of galaxies each full of billions of stars where laws of physics may differ from our own. The vastness and intricacies of the void is incomprehensible Nothing in our collective knowledge can prepare us for what may be found in this cosmic abyss. The cosmos is controlled by vast reservoirs of “dark matter” and mysterious energies unknown to science. It is said that “dark matter”, a specialised form of energy that has the attributes of mass and extension in space and time, comprises 96% of what is out there. Eternity of time and infinity of space are concepts that the intellect can’t fully grasp - except, perhaps, that the void is not empty as a vacuum.

2. Every now and then, usually not within a normal lifespan, an idea is formed that turns the world on its head. In more recent times, there were Newton, Darwin, then Einstein, Crick, Hoyle and Hawkins but possibly Darwin and Einstein made the most impact on our senses and beliefs. My feeling is that something more wonderful and mysterious lies ahead. Space-time is not something from science fiction but the here and now. Its governing force is that weakest of force-fields, gravity. In fact, in physics, space-time and gravity mean the same thing and it permeates the whole of the cosmos. Shut down gravity and the universe disappears. Electro-magnetism is also a force-field but, together with time is a part of gravity. There’s no point in trying to figure out the meaning of these terms as even scientists cannot yet do this or substantiate them mathematically. Just one of those things; you know damn well it is there but cannot prove it mathematically - yet. Gravity can, though, provide us with a local sense of dimensional space to which most of us grab onto, denying anything outside our own personal experiences. We hang on grimly to our walls, floors and clocks and except, perhaps, after imbibing too rashly, can tell which way up we are, even with our eyes shut. Some of us admit to sensing “something great” out there whilst others feel safer by shutting their minds to it.

1. Long ago in lecture halls and books I discovered physics; more advanced and mind-blowing than I had done in A levels at grammar school . I learned about relativity and cosmology and wished I had done tensor calculus at school, rather than trigonometry, and been more dedicated to my studies. I read that when Albert Einstein first published his paper on relativity, just about 100 years ago, the number of scientists who understood it could be counted on the fingers. But it was the building blocks of nuclear physics. His equation was E=mc². Not much to look at but mind shattering. E is the energy equivalent of mass (m) and c is the speed of light. Light is the form of electromagnetic radiation that makes things visible to us and travels at 186,281 miles a second. Squared, the size of the figure (11 figures) takes it outside of our grasp. Mass and energy are interchangeable. This equation is the basis of all nuclear energy and has subsequently been verified experimentally. Moreover, although energy may change to another form, or to mass and vice versa, matter cannot be destroyed, only altered into another form. The world about us changed from then on. We had been used to three dimensions, up and down, side to side and backwards and forwards. Now we had to cope with a fourth, time. It doesn’t stop there, as it turns out there may be any number of dimensions. Those not wishing to believe in what the eye cannot see should leave now.

God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and it was void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.