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- From: ian@intr.net (Ian Goddard)
- Newsgroups: alt.psychoactives
- Subject: Mystical Experience, Verification of
- Date: 29 Mar 1995 07:56:28 GMT
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- GICAL VERIFICATION OF THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE
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- Copyright 1994 Ian Goddard
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- igoddard@cap.gwu.edu
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- "The distinction between past, present, and future
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- is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
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- Albert Einstein
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- I. WHAT DOES THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE "TEACH"?
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- The mystical experience primarily "teaches" that
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- consciousness is infinite in space and eternal in time. This
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- infinite consciousness has been called God, Brahman, Buddha
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- mind, nirvana, cosmic consciousness, etc.
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- During the mystical experience consciousness appears to
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- instantaneously span the entirety of space and time,
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- consequently it appears that all distances across space and
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- time equal zero. This "zero" space-time is the formless
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- "void" spoken of by Eastern mystics. So the primary lesson
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- of the mystical experience is that distances across space
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- and time equal zero. From this lesson arises the theory that
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- space and time are "illusions."
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- II. HOW DO WE PROVE THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE?
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- To prove that the mystical experience is valid we must prove
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- that all distances across space and time equal zero. Sound
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- impossible? Not quite: to prove that all distances equal
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- zero we must simply establish that the process of the
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- measurement of space and time is * symmetrical.* If the
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- process of the measurement of space and time is symmetrical,
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- the equal but opposite components of this measurement,
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- expressed as equal but opposite numbers, will neutralize one
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- another so that the sum equals zero.
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- III. SYMMETRY OF MEASUREMENT
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- Distance across space and time is measured by * motion *
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- from point (a) to point (b) in either space or time. The
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- motion of this measurement is described mathematically by a
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- sequential progression from zero: 0 1 2 3 4 -->. Each number
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- marks a unit of space or time across which motion has
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- occurred.
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- The nature of the motion of measurement is * relative.* As
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- Albert Einstein said, "Every motion must be considered only
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- as a relative motion."
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- Relative motion is * symmetrical.* Describing the symmetry
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- of motion, Einstein observed that as you fall down to the
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- Earth (-), it is equally true that the Earth rises up to you
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- (+). Thus, the event of your falling = {(+) + (-)} =
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- symmetry.
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- Motion through space is mechanically equivalent to motion
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- through time: as you move from second (1) toward second (2)
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- --> (+), it is simultaneously true that second (2) moves
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- symmetrically toward you <-- (-). The flow of time is
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- symmetrical: this moment is passing by into the past. Your
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- forward motion into the future (-->) *is* the backward
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- motion (<--) of this moment into the past. Thus time flow =
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- {(<--) + (-->)}.
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- As measurement is motion, and as motion is symmetrical, all
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- measurements are symmetrical. (For graphics, animations, and
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- info about the symmetry of nonuniform motion, e-mail:
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- igoddard@cap.gwu.edu.)
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- All measurement is motion
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- Motion is symmetrical
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- Thus: all measurement is symmetrical
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- As the motion of all measurements of space and time is
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- symmetrical, the mathematical description of all
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- measurements is symmetrical progressions from zero:
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- <-- 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 -->
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- the structure of all measurements
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- Every measurement of one unit of space or time is composed
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- of *two symmetrical states of motion.* These symmetrical
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- states of motion, being equal but opposite, are described
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- mathematically by the equal but opposite numbers 1 and -1.
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- As two equal but opposite numbers are derived from every
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- measurement of one unit of space or time, the complete
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- calculation of every measurement of one unit of space or
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- time = {(1) + (-1)} = 0.
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- All measurements are symmetrical
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- Symmetry = 0
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- Thus: all measurements = 0
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- Traditional measurement theory describes only * half * of
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- the symmetry of measurement and then erroneously assumes the
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- complete calculation of a measurement to be nonzero. If the
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- nature of X is (+) & (-), then X = {(+) + (-)}. As the
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- nature of motion is (+) & (-), and as measurement = motion,
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- measurement = {(+) + (-)}.
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- IV. CONCLUSION
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- What was required to be proven -- that the measurement of
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- space and time is symmetrical and thus equals zero -- has
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- been proven. By proving that all measurements of space and
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- time equal zero, all measurements of all physical phenomena
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- must also equal zero, for space and time are the basis of
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- all physical measurements. That the experience of space and
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- time *seems* to contradict an absolute zero sum is a
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- consequence of misunderstanding what "zero" means and does
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- not alter the logical proof which dictates that space and
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- time equal zero.
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- As all measurements of space and time must equal zero due to
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- the symmetry of relative motion, logic clearly dictates that
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- the claim arising from the mystical experience -- that all
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- distances across space and time equal zero -- is true.
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- Unless it can be shown that relative motion is not
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- symmetrical, logic dictates that the mystical experience
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- must be the experience of the truth.
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- * APPENDIX *
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- I. EXACTLY WHAT IS BEING DONE HERE?
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- It is already an established fact that relative motion is
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- symmetrical. What I am doing here that is new -- to the best
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- of my knowledge -- is: (1) observe that all measurements =
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- symmetrical motion, then (2) add the symmetrical components
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- of this motion, expressed as equal but opposite integers, to
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- reach a sum, and (3) apply this sum to all measurements.
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- That's all -- it's very simple and logical. This logical
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- process is know as * symmetrics,* which is a function of *
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- neutral mechanics.* To disprove symmetrics one must simply
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- show that one of its three simple functions is flawed.
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- II. THE COUNTER-ARGUMENTS
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- 1. The absolute value of 1 and -1 is 2.
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- Indeed, there are two numeric components, 1 and -1, the
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- absolute value of each being 1, hence we can say 1+1=2. But
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- this does not alter the fact that these two numerical
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- components are equal but opposite, and thus that (1+(-1))=0.
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- 2. Nonuniform motion is asymmetrical and thus non-zero.
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- Rotational motion is nonuniform and symmetrical.* The
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- differences between two objects one in uniform and the other
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- in nonuniform motion are differences of force and time. In
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- and of themselves, each of these factors is symmetrical. If
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- the force I feel is symmetrical, i.e., equal but opposite in
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- nature, its sum is zero. If I feel a force and you feel no
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- force, the net sum is still zero, and thus symmetrical.
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- 3. You cannot add the symmetrical components of relative motion.
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- If this were so we could not call relative motion
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- "symmetrical." Yet we can and we do. By doing so we are
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- inherently adding the equal but opposite components of
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- relative to motion to reach a sum, that sum is "symmetry"
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- and symmetry is zero.
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- These points and counter points are greatly condensed. For
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- complete version, or to post a new argument against the
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- logical verification, e-mail: igoddard@cap.gwu.edu.
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- Those who have raised these counterarguments have conceded
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- that they are not effective arguments against symmetrics
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- (the process of adding the symmetrical components of
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- motion). Currently there is no effective argument against
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- symmetrics and the logical verification.
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- * For free graphics and computer animations that teach
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- neutral mechanics, e-mail: igoddard@cap.gwu.edu.
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- "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its
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- opponents and making them see the light, but rather because
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- its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up
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- that is familiar with the idea from the beginning."
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- Max Plank
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- Nobel physicist
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- Copyright 1994 Ian Goddard. You are * free to copy * and
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- distributed this material without permission so long as full
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- credit is given to the author: Ian Williams Goddard.
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- Neutral Mechanics Research Center, 11913 Renwood Lane,
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- Rockville, MD 20852. (301) 881-7328. igoddrad@cap.gwu.edu.
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