Hey all, I just wanted to update everyone on my progress toward escaping the matrix and manifesting my dream life. The good news is First on Fire and I have finally quit our day jobs and traded in our wage-slave employee lifestyles to commit full-time to our passions! Freeeedoooom! It is so important and under-appreciated that when you wake up each morning, you should be able to create your day however you like. Waking up to an alarm clock five days a week to work for somebody else is absolutely the most soul-constricting way to sell your life short. If schools teach us anything it should be how to develop our personal passions into sustainable careers. In a free, loving world schools would teach students to be self-reliant independent entrepreneurs, but as George Carlin said, "the owners of this country don't want that, they want obedient workers."
And so we're forced into public indoctrination centers from Kindergarten to Post-Doctorate all for a shiny piece of paper to give to our masters certifying that we'll be a good wage-slave. Of course, masters don't need diplomas because they don't go begging someone else for a paycheck. Masters create their own businesses, manufacture their own product, deliver their own service, and the success or failure of their job depends wholly upon them. Wage-slaves, on the other hand, instead of taking responsibility for creating their own wealth, find an already well-established master and hope to impress master with their certificates, résumés, bells and whistles. The problem with this is that you will always be selling your time wholesale to someone who is profiting from you retail. No boss ever pays their employee the amount of money which that employee brings to the company, as that would cause the business to bankrupt. The only way to run a successful business is to pay employees less than they're worth, usually far less. So if you're working hard pursuing someone else's passion, slaving Monday-Friday 9-5 for someone who's buying your time wholesale, really think about what your passion is, save up some of that slave-money, then make a break and follow the entrepreneurial underground railroad to financial freedom and responsibility.
So now even though we could wake up at noon and spend all day relaxing if we wanted, that is no way to manifest a sustainable self-reliable lifestyle. We only have a precious little amount of slave-money saved up to support us during this interim, so we have been diligently working non-stop at cultivating our conscious creations. First is working 10-15 hours a day making her own line of non-toxic organic cosmetics starting with her initial product which will be a water-based, odorless, non-toxic nail polish. I've also been spending 10-15 hours a day every day pursuing my two greatest life-long passions: writing and fighting! Right now I'm concentrating on promoting and advertizing my new book Spiritual Science as well as expanding my martial training kwoon, Bangkok Wing Chun. I currently have half a dozen dedicated students and it really is my dream come true. Ever since being a kid watching Bruce Lee movies, I always wanted to know the secrets of martial arts and effective combat. Now at age 30, I spend most of my days teaching people the very martial art(s) that earned Bruce Lee his international fame, Wing Chun / Jeet Kune Do. I'm still looking for more students however and would like to start group classes as well. If anyone lives in Bangkok and is interested in private self-defense, yoga, pranayama, qigong and/or meditation lessons please contact me at ericdubay@hotmail.com
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John Allegro, Oxford graduate and world’s leading philologist, was commissioned to translate the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls. But after his book “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross” released and he died, the Catholic Church quickly bought the copyright and buried it; one Vatican insider quoted saying it would never again see the light of day. It is currently sparsely available in e-book format but has been out of print for years (Meanwhile Dan Brown is shaking hands with the Pope and pseudo-conspiritainment like “Da Vinci Code” is a best selling book and movie).
“[John] Allegro linguistically linked the SOMA (Greek=Body), the Manna (Sumerian = Mushroom), (of which there are two kinds), the names Jesus, James, and John, the Fruit of the tree of Knowledge, and the symbol of the cross, to the Amanita muscaria, by stating that all of these names and terms (and others) were synonyms and wordplay for the hidden identity of the mushroom. Needless to say, he had the religious scholars doing flips. The biblical apologists instantly jumped on the bandwagon of attempting to disprove anything he said. Although he did stretch the boundaries of some established scholarship, the proof is in the pudding (so to speak) and most of his associations are beyond repute.” -James Arthur, “Mushrooms and Mankind” (16)
“The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in caves near Qumran in 1947, have offered a greater insight into the Essenes' lifestyle and beliefs, despite suppression by the authorities who wish to maintain the official version of history. The scrolls were hidden from the Romans during the ill-fated Judean revolt around 70 AD. Some 500 Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts were found, which included texts from the Old Testament, among them a complete draft of the Book of Isaiah, centuries older than the one in the Bible. There were scores of documents relating to the Essene customs and organization. The scrolls confirm that the Essenes were fanatics who followed to the letter the Levite inventions in the Old Testament texts. Anyone who didn’t do the same was their enemy and they fiercely opposed the Roman occupation … The Essenes had a detailed understanding of drugs, including the hallucinogenic variety, which were used in mystery school initiations and for entering other states of consciousness. The properties of the ‘sacred mushrooms’ or ‘Holy Plant’ were so much part of life in the secret brotherhood that the Jewish high priest wore a mushroom cap to acknowledge their importance. They had special rituals for their preparation and use. The mushroom, too, was given son of God’ connotations (what wasn’t?) and it was connected to the Sun cycle. The mushrooms were picked with great reverence before sunrise and many symbols of this ritual can be found in the Bible and far older texts. Again, the use of the sacred mushroom and other drugs, and the secret knowledge of their properties, can be traced back to the earliest days of Sumer.” –David Icke, “The Biggest Secret” (95-6)
Jewish Priest Mushroom Cap
John Allegro shows how the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the etymology of various Mesopotamian languages all have mushroom and sexual puns/terms interwoven. This is due to the prominence in the pre-Christian world of mushroom and fertility cults. Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic, the languages of the Bible, all ultimately derive from ancient Sumerian, where many original meanings had been long lost. For instance, the gods of the Greeks and Hebrews, Zeus and Yahweh (Jehovah) have names derived from Sumerian words meaning “seed of life” and “juice of fecundity.” The name Herod, as in King Herod, “ardeola” in Latin, serves as a wordplay on the Semitic “ardilia” which means “mushroom.” The name Jesus, in Hebrew “yehoshiia” comes from the Sumerian “JA U ShiJ A” which means “semen which saves, restores, heals.” This is comparable to the fertility god Dionysus, whose cult emblem was an erect phallus, and whose Sumerian name “IA-U-Nu-ShUSh” also means “semen, seed that saves.”
“Under that again there lie the basic conceptions of the mushroom cult. Here is the real stuff of the mystery-fertility philosophy. For example, to find their parables of the Kingdom, the writers make comparisons with objects and activities which, at the surface level of understanding, are often really absurd, besides being self-contradictory about the manner and form of the Kingdom’s coming. The passage that likens the Kingdom to a mustard seed, for example, and then speaks of birds nesting in the branches of the grown plant (Matt 13:31f., etc.), has driven the biblical naturalists to distraction looking for a mustard ‘tree’ suitable as roosting places for the fowls of the air. They could have saved themselves the trouble since the reference, at the ‘lower’ level, is simply a play on the Semitic khardelä’, ‘mustard’ and ‘ardilã’, ‘mushroom’ … If it seems strange to us that the writers of these stories should have used such a trivial literary device as punning so extensively, it should be remembered that they were heirs to a very long tradition of this kind of word-spinning. The Old Testament is full of it, particularly where proper names are concerned, and very many more instances almost certainly lie beneath the surface, where writers are playing with dialectal forms of the words which have become lost over the centuries. Furthermore, it is now becoming clear that many of the Old Testament traditions have reached us in a Semitic dialect which was not the one in which they were composed, so that the original word-play which they expressed has been lost.” -John Allegro, “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross” (32)
Today in Iran (Persia) the mushroom is called “SamJrukh,” which traces back to the Sumerian “ShU Mar Ugu/Aga,” or “Crown of the Womb-Favorer,” the glans/top of the fungus. The Sumerian “Bar Ia U Na,” meaning “capsule of fecundity; womb” connects to multiple names that relate the mushroom with the tiny “womb” from which the stem emerges. Another Aramaic example is “Pleasing the Jews” which comes from the Sumerian mushroom name “MashTabBaRi” or “that which is pleasing to the Hebrews/Jews.” The Hebrew “kotereih” from the Sumerian “GU-TAR” means “top of the head: penis” and is the most common Semitic word for mushroom; In Arabic it is “phutr,” in Aramaic it is “pitra,” and in the English New Testament is “Peter.” Allegro’s examples continue on like this for over a hundred pages.
“We must be in no doubt of the effect that importing a new, mushroom element into the New Testament picture must have on our understanding of the origin and nature of Christianity … For the pseudo-translation demonstrates an intention of deceit, and since mushrooms appear nowhere in the ‘surface’ tale of Jesus, it follows that the secret reference to the cult must be the true relevance of the whole. If the writers have gone to the trouble of concealing by ingenious literary devices, here, and as we have seen, in many cases elsewhere, secret names of the mushroom, not only must its worship have been central to the religion, but the exigencies of the time must have demanded they should be transmitted among the initiates and their successors in a way that would not bring their enemies down upon them. It therefore follows that the “surface” details of the story, names, places, and possibly doctrinal teachings must be equally as false as the pseudo-renderings of the secret names.” -John Allegro, “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross” (106-7)
“For centuries, the impression given by religionists is that to be a moral person, one must not only forgo but disdain sexuality, viewing it as if it were a curse from the devil rather than a ‘gift from God.’ The same can be said of drugs, at least of the variety that has anything to do with altering consciousness, even if such drugs are in the form of ‘God-given’ plants. Hence, the picture of a religious or righteous individual is basically someone who must have (heterosexual) sex only with one person within a sanctioned marriage, if at all; to be in a constant state of procreation; and to remain as sober as ‘a judge.’ To those who think life is to be enjoyed, rather than endured, this picture represents a dull, robotic state, to say the least. The reality is that there have been times on this planet when cultures have recognized sacred sexual practices and sacramental plants not only as gifts from ‘God’ but also paths to ‘God,’ or ‘Cosmic Consciousness,’ as it were. Indeed, sex and drugs have been considered from time immemorial as devices to create union with the divine, which is a major reason behind the negative spin put on them by religionists, who insist that only they, ‘Jesus’ or some other entity can be avenues to the divine. In actuality, it is the priest’s task to create an artificial separation between human beings and the omnipresent ‘God’” -Acharya S., “The Christ Conspiracy” (193)
Through a long process of incremental changes the Christian churches (and other Brotherhood religions) have completely changed what it means to be religious. The ancient world consisted of mushroom and fertility cults, nature worship, and an astrological/astronomical based theology (Astrotheology). Nowadays the three things of ancient reverence which modern religions were actually based on - sex, drugs, and astrology - are condemned and considered sinful.
“If an all-powerful, dictatorial state religion was to succeed, it would need to destroy this concept of sacred sex and sacramental drugs from the human psyche and replace it with fear and guilt, such that those who had sex, for example, would be driven to cleanse themselves of their perceived sins by confession or other priest craft. The exploitation of humanity’s weakness regarding sex in particular worked nicely for priestly conspirators, since they could rail against it, knowing very well that people would continue to have it, such that the guilty would then be forced to return repeatedly to the Church for absolution from ‘sins.’ Despite their best efforts, however, the various religionists could not eradicate the widespread spiritual practices utilizing sex and drugs, even under penalty of death. In reality, they held these practices for themselves while hypocritically preaching their evils to the masses and exhorting abstinence from them. As noted, along with the knowledge of astrology, the use of sex and drugs actually has formed part of the esoteric religion or ‘mysteries’ hidden from the masses by the brotherhoods and secret societies that create exoteric and vulgar religions for the masses. Indeed, these ‘sacraments’ constituted a significant part of the mysteries, as many schools and cults have used sex and drugs in their initiation rites.” -Acharya S., “The Christ Conspiracy” (193)
“I have spoken personally with High Priests and Bishops (Secret Society Initiates), who simply told me that they could not discuss anything with me because of their oaths of secrecy. In fact they were so blown away that I knew the information, that it scared the hell out of them. Entheogens, and particularly the Amanita muscaria, are a huge secret. The initiatory rites, into this particular field, are so far up the totem pole of secret societies and religions that when you find those who know, they really freak out, that anyone else knows, because it cuts to the deepest recesses of their self perceived spirituality, and cuts to the center of their most secret God/Society given indoctrination experiences. They have this certain look in their eyes, and unless you somehow are perceived as a threat to them, they invariably have the need to tell you that they do know what you are talking about (which is likely a violation of oath in itself), but they cannot discuss it further.” -James Arthur, “Mushrooms and Mankind (23)
The Bible talks about sacred “Manna” that the Israelites ate in the desert. Many clues are given as to just what Manna is. The Bible says Manna was a small round edible object that appeared on the ground after dew had fallen. If the Manna was left out in the Sun too long it would breed worms and stink. Exodus 16:14 reads, “And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.” Exodus 16:20 continues, “…some of them left of it till the morning, and it bred worms, and stank.” The small, round, edible objects which when left in the Sun rot, breed worms, and stink are none other than mushrooms.
“Manna was thought of as being produced miraculously (IE: birth without seed). This is a perfect botanical description of a mushroom. Birth without seed (miraculous) is due to spores being microscopic and not visible to the naked eye.Jesus describes the Mannas in detail in the book of John. In this story Jesus attempts to make clear; of manna, there are two different ones/kinds. He describes the manna that he is giving the disciples (last supper) as the Manna that bestows immortality. His statement, unless you have eaten his flesh/body (Soma/Manna), and drink of his blood (Soma Juice), you have no life in you, takes on a whole new meaning in light of this discovery. The Manna is directly associated with the fruit of the Tree of Life in the 2nd chapter of the book of Revelation. It is the reward for those who overcome (the lies of the world). The ‘Fruit of the Tree’, the ‘Hidden Manna’ and the ‘Small White Stone’ are spoken of separately, but in the same context. All of these are symbols for the Amanita muscaria.” -James Arthur, “Mushrooms and Mankind” (16-17)
John 6:31-41 reads, “Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said unto them, verily verily I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven … Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life … The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
Priests and pastors vehemently deny that “the true bread, the bread from heaven” is a mushroom, but have a difficult time explaining it as literal bread. Bread is not a small, round thing found dew-covered in the wilderness. Nor does it contain any of the mystical properties bestowed upon it. This is undeniably a reference to the magic mushroom.
“The concept of the literal ingestion of the body of God is highly downplayed by religious scholars of today. The body (soma) being a fleshy Mushroom is much more palatable thantrying to stomach cannibalism or the transformation of ordinary substances. Many questions should be asked about this cosmopolitan idea of the ‘Sacramental Substance’. Unfortunately, the religious experts shun the notion, insisting that the entire idea is nothing more than symbolic. A symbol points at something else, not usually at another symbology. The Catholic church, in the early 1100's, decided to have the final word on this subject by establishing (under Emperor/Pope Innocent III) the ‘Doctrine of Trans-Substantiation’. This is whereby, the Priests, by their assumed holy power, claim to be able to say some magical words, and turn ordinary bread into the literal ‘Body of God’. This event is one of the biggest evil deceptions of all time, is an undermining of the basic esoteric aspects of the religion, and is, arguably, the most horrible and damning event to ever happen to Christendom, and as such the entire human race. Jesus clearly describes the Manna that he calls his body in the book of John. Repeatedly describing the ‘Thing/Manna’ as a substance hidden from the world, but revealed to his disciples. Understanding the last supper story becomes as simplistic as it gets, if you know how to decipher the event. Adamantly; Jesus says, ‘Take and eat, This is my Body.’” -James Arthur, “Mushrooms and Mankind” (18)
John 6:53-6 reads, “Then Jesus said unto them, Verily verily I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.”
Jesus says this is my body, this is my blood, and lest ye drink/eat of this you have no life in you! These are strong words, thus it is important to realize that the substances Jesus referred to are not communion wafers and grape wine. The amanita had long before Christianity been known as “the flesh of the gods” and “the blood of the gods” and this is what is meant.
“This is saying pretty clearly that the eating and drinking is physical. My body is flesh indeed, and my blood is drink indeed, and the added statement that when you eat, it is inside of you leaves little room for debate that this is a substance, not a phantom symbol alone. For those who choose to debate this I ask that they show me their substance because according to Jesus' words unless you eat and drink of ‘It’ you have no life in you. By the way, do I really need to mention that this is not some strange reference to Cannibalism? I sure hope not, if you still think this, read on. Somewhere, some of this must convince you that he is not saying to take a bite out of his arm, or any other piece of his actual anatomy … In my opinion, the magical act of ‘Trans-Substantiation’ has no merit. The statement that Jesus makes ‘Unless you eat and drink you have no life in you’ would seem to condemn the replacement of whatever the real thing is with a placebo (substitute).” -James Arthur, “Mushrooms and Mankind” (29-30)
Shiva the Hindu god is a hermaphrodite with one testicle, a penis, vagina, and one breast. This is another personification of the mushroom just like Mithra. The first stage of the mushroom is considered male as it looks like a penis. Then the stem pushes the ball/uterus/breast up out of the egg. As the arms of the mushroom cap open to the sides, it’s as though the female aspect opens from the male “rib.”
Jesus, like Krishna, Dionysus, and the other mushroom gods, stands with legs together, wears a crown of thorns, and a sash on his waist while being crucified. His legs together with arms outstretched on the cross make the same “T” shape as the mushroom during its optimum Round Table stage. The sash worn by Jesus is the ruffle found halfway up the stem of all amanitas, and Jesus’ thorny crown is the thorny mushroom top. The reason Jesus is crucified and tells us to eat his body is that the mushroom must die for us to eat it.
“The fact that the mushrooms must be dried before consumption is another euphemism of the god needing to die, or sacrifice himself, to save mankind through atonement (at-one-ment) …It can be argued that if you trace all of the gods back through time it may be possible to find the original. This original resides in the myths of the gods themselves, as those aspects that remain the same. ‘Take and eat, this is my body’ is the central theme. All of the ancient god myths contain some sort of a sacramental food, and anthropomorphically this food becomes, at some point, a personification of the god itself.” -James Arthur, “Mushrooms and Mankind” (53)
Jesus dies for your sins. Sin was originally an archery term meaning “to miss the mark.” The mushroom dies so you may eat it, and the introspective experiences it brings washes away your sins. You understand how you’ve “missed the mark” in life. This is the original meaning, but the Church has perverted this idea into a guilt mechanism, scaring people with hell and trapping them to “repent” in confession booths.
While on the cross, Jesus is stabbed in the rib and his blood comes out and is collected in the Holy Grail. This idea of a “side wounded savior” was a common theme among pre-Christian gods. The Vatican and Templars have promoted the idea that the Shroud of Turin, the Spear of Longinus/Destiny, and the Holy Grail are actual artifacts, but in fact they are all occult symbolism from ancient mushroom mythologies.
Proverbs 5:15 reads “drink water from your own cistern, drink water from your own well.” John 7:37-8 says, “Jesus stood and cried saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He shall believeth on me as the scripture hath said, out of his body shall flow rivers of living water.” Jesus is said to have turned water into wine and speaks of drinking water from him and from your own well/cistern. What does all this mean?
“The active ingredients of the amanita mushrooms are not metabolized by the body, and so they remain active in the urine. In fact, it is safer to drink the urine of one who has consumed the mushrooms than to eat the mushrooms directly, as many of the toxic compounds are processed and eliminated on the first pass through the body. It was common practice among ancient people to recycle the potent effects of the mushroom by drinking each other's urine. The amanita's ingredients can remain potent even after six passes through the human body. Some scholars argue that this is the origin of the phrase ‘to get pissed,’ as this urine-drinking activity preceded alcohol by thousands of years. Often the urine of tripped-out reindeer would be consumed for its psychedelic effects. This effect goes the other way too, as reindeer also enjoy the urine of a human, especially one who has consumed the mushrooms. In fact, reindeer will seek out human urine to drink, and some [Siberian] tribesmen carry sealskin containers of their own collected piss, which they use to attract stray reindeer back into the herd.” -Dana Larsen, “The Psychedelic Secrets of Santa Claus” Cannabis Culture, Marijuana Magazine, Dec 18th, 2003
Is this why you often see stone water fountains with little boys urinating into upturned levels looking like mushrooms? Jesus is often depicted holding up a white flag with a red cross on it, the symbol of the Knights Templar/Masons. Do the red and white flag of Jesus and clothing of the Knights Templar refer to the amanita muscaria?
Graham Hancock was interviewed this month for New Dawn magazine. Above is the entire two and a half hour audio from this absolutely fascinating and important discussion covering a diverse array of topics from Atlantis to Magic Mushrooms.
The peculiar
discovery known as “The Quantum Measurement Problem” ultimately shows the
inseparability of the observer from the observed.All
quantum experiments have confirmed that there is no measurable, solid reality
“out there” independent of the measurer.What is “out there” when we’re not looking is an infinite wavy cloud of
criss-crossing possibilities.Then when we focus our attention on something, the wave function
collapses into a defined particle in a definite location for us to observe.
“If you want to see fear in a quantum physicist’s eyes, just mention
the words, ‘the measurement problem.’The measurement problem is this: an atom only appears in a particular
place if you measure it.In other words,
an atom is spread out all over the place until a conscious observer decides to
look at it.So the act of measurement or
observation creates the entire universe.”-Jim Al-Khalili, Nuclear Physicist
“An electron is not a precise entity, but exists as a potential, a
superposition, or sum, of all probabilities until we observe or measure it, at
which point the electron freezes into a particular state.Once we are through looking or measuring, the
electron dissolves back into the ether of all possibilities.”-Lynne McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for
the Secret Force of the Universe,” (102)
Physicist
Fred Alan Wolf uses the term “popping the quiff” (QWF for Quantum Wave
Function) to describe the role of the observer in creating reality.Before being consciously observed, quanta
(the “building blocks” of all matter) exist only as a boundary-less wave of
undifferentiated quantum energy.In this
state there is no matter as such, no particles or “things” with attributes and
definite locations - just an infinite expanse of energy, Zero-Point, The Field.However, when a conscious observer focuses
attention, they “pop the quiff,” collapse the quantum wave function into a
solid particle of experience with definable attributes and location.
“One of the fundamental laws of quantum physics says that an event
in the subatomic world exists in all possible states until the act of observing
or measuring it ‘freezes’ it, or pins it down, to a single state.This process is technically known as the
collapse of the wave function, where ‘wave function’ means the state of all
possibilities … Although nothing exists in a single state independently of an
observer, you can describe what the observer sees, but not the observer
himself.You include the moment of
observation in the mathematics, but not the consciousness doing the
observing.There is no equation for an
observer … According to the mathematics, the quantum world is a perfect
hermetic world of pure potential, only made real …when interrupted by an
intruder.”-Lynne McTaggart, “The
Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe,” (103)
These
findings are so significant because they prove that the classical Newtonian
model of physics (now being termed “the old physics”) is fundamentally
flawed.The old physics described a
mechanistic material universe “out there” existing regardless of whether or not
there was a conscious being alive to perceive it.The new physics shows that matter doesn’t
even exist without consciousness.Without
a conscious observer to “pop the quiff,” there is no substance, no “materiality”
to that which is – just an unlimited, undifferentiated field of energy.As stated in the excellent quantum physics
documentary, What the Bleep Do We Know, “When you are not looking, there are waves of possibility.When you are looking, there are particles of
experience.”
“What is real depends on whether I look and the way I look.This is not just a philosophical
question.We can see this in
experiments.”-Anton Zeilinger,
Quantum Physicist
“Cause-and-effect
relationships no longer hold at the subatomic level.Stable-looking atoms might suddenly, without
apparent cause, experience some internal disruption; electrons, for no reason,
elect to transit from one energy state to another.Once you peer closer and closer at matter, it
isn’t even matter, not a single solid thing you can touch or describe, but a
host of tentative selves, all being paraded around at the same time.Rather than a universe of static certainty,
at the most fundamental level of matter, the world and its relationships are
uncertain and unpredictable, a state of pure potential, of infinite possibility.”
-Lynne McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe,”
(10-11)
Another
interesting anomaly of the quantum world is known as “The Uncertainty Principle”
discovered by German physicist Werner Heisenberg.Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states
that a particle’s position and its momentum can never be precisely measured
simultaneously.We can obtain precise
information about a particle’s position as long as we ignore its momentum, or
we can obtain precise information about its momentum as long as we ignore its exact
position, but in no way can we obtain precise knowledge about both quantities,
and this limitation has nothing to do with our measuring techniques; it is a
fundamental limitation inherent in atomic reality.
“The
crucial feature of atomic physics is that the human observer is not only
necessary to observe the properties of an object, but is necessary even to
define these properties. In atomic physics, we cannot talk about the properties
of an object as such. They are only meaningful in the context of the object’s
interaction with the observer. In the words of Heisenberg, ‘What we observe is
not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.’The observer decides how he is going to set
up the measurement and this arrangement will determine, to some extent, the
properties of the observed object. If the experimental arrangement is modified,
the properties of the observed object will change in turn.”-Fritjof Capra, “The Tao of Physics” (140)
Again, the
uncertainty principle, as in the double-slit studies, shows the importance of
the observer in determining the outcome of quantum experiments.Another such example of this is often termed
the “Watched Quantum Pot” experiment.Just as the old proverb states, “a watched pot never boils,” likewise in
the quantum world this strangely proves true as verified by physicists Wayne
Itano, Yakir Aharonov and M. Vardi.They
state that, “If one checks by continuous observations, if a given
quantum system evolves from some initial state to some other final state along
a specific trajectory … the result is always positive, whether or not the
system would have done so on its own accord.”
“If
a quantum system is monitored continuously, we could say vigilantly, it will do
practically anything.For example,
suppose you are watching a quantum system in an attempt to determine just when
it undergoes a transition from one state to another.To make this concrete, think of an imaginary
subatomic ‘quantum pot of water’ being heated on a similarly sized stove.The transition occurs when the water goes
from the calm state to the boiling state.We all know pots of water boil, given a few minutes or so.You would certainly think the watched quantum
pot would also boil.It turns out,
because of the vigilant observations, the transition never occurs; the watched
quantum pot never boils.Another example
is the decay of an unstable system.On
its own the system would decay in a few microseconds.But if it is watched continuously, it will
never decay.All vigilantly watched
‘quantum pots’ never boil, even if they are heated forever.”-Fred
Alan Wolf, Ph.D., “The Spiritual Universe” (217-8)
So a watched quantum “pot” (particle) will “boil”
(transition states) if you intently observe it to do so, and a watched quantum
pot will never boil if you intently observe it not to do so.Even the radioactive decay of subatomic
particles which normally have the lifespan of microseconds can be prolonged
indefinitely as long as we are watching.
“This implies there is a deep connection
between the observer and the observed.So deep, in fact, that we really cannot separate them.All we can do is alter the way we experience
reality.This is where intent comes
in.If the system were unobserved, it
would certainly undergo the physical transition.The pot would boil.The observer effect causes the anomaly to
occur.Let me explain.When the system is first observed, it is seen
to be in its initial state.When it is
observed just a smidgen of time later, well before the time in which it should
change, the system is observed with more than 99.99 percent chance to be in its
initial state.In other words, the
system is found to be exactly where it was initially.Now repeat this measurement again and again,
each time just a tiny bit of time later, and with a very high probability, the
same observation occurs: The system is found in its initial state.But time marches on, and eventually we pass
all reasonable time limits for the transition to occur, yet it still doesn’t
happen.The system ‘freezes’ in its
initial state.The only requirement to
freeze the motion is that the observer must have the intent to see the object
in its initial state when he looks.This
intent is determined by the frequency of his observations.”-Fred
Alan Wolf, Ph.D., “The Spiritual Universe” (218-9)
We,
the observers, cannot be ignored.Our
consciousness and our bodies are integral parts of the universe and thus
exhibit measurable effects on whatever aspects of the universe we turn our
attention to.Scientists try to observe
the world “objectively” but they, subjectively performing the experiment, are
already an integral part of any “objective” measurement being taken.Specifically, it is their consciousness,
their attention and intention which affect the results.
“It’s
important to remember that the equations of quantum physics don’t describe the
actual existence of particles.In other
words, the laws can’t tell us where the particles are and how they act once
they get there.They describe only the
potential for the particles’ existence – that is, where they may be, how
they might behave, and what their properties could be like.And all of these characteristics evolve and
change over time.These things are
significant because we’re made of the same particles that the rules are
describing.If we can gain insight into
the way they function, then maybe we can become aware of greater possibilities
for how we work.Herein lies the key to
understanding what quantum physics is really saying to us about our power in
the universe.Our world, our lives, and
our bodies exist as they do because they were chosen (imagined) from the world
of quantum possibilities … Which of the many possibilities becomes real appears
to be determined by consciousness and the act of observation.In other words, the object of our attention
becomes the reality of our world.”-Gregg
Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (70-71)
"Quantum physics calculates only possibilities, but if we accept this, then the question immediately comes, who/what chooses among these possibilities to bring the actual event of experience? So we directly, immediately see that consciousness must be involved." -Amit Goswami Ph.D., "What the Bleep Do We Know?"
If
the underlying unity of energy in the universe exists as an “infinite anything
of possibilities,” and it is consciousness which chooses and experiences all
manifestations of the infinite anything, then it would seem that consciousness
is much more fundamental and primary than classical physics espouses.If consciousness is what changes waves of
possibility into particles of experience, then how could consciousness be some emergent
property of the material universe?The “material
universe” doesn’t even exist yet without immaterial consciousness existing to
have that experience!
“The
doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of
human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with
facts established by experiment.”-Physicist Bernard d’Espagnat, Scientific American, 1979
“Leading physicist Lee Smolin has estimated that from its inception,
had the primary forces and physical attributes of our universe varied by more
than an unimaginably precise one part in 1027 – that’s one part in a
thousand trillion trillion! – our complex universe of chemistry, galaxies, and
biological life could not have evolved.”-Ervin Laszlo and Jude Currivan, “Cosmos” (20)
The odds of our universe containing these precise forces and physical
attributes are 1 in 1,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 without which matter
and life could not have emerged.If
that’s not a strong case for intelligent design, I don’t know what is.The old physics claims that life,
consciousness, the incredible beauty and diversity of nature is all the result
of chance – even though the odds against chance are a thousand trillion
trillion to one.Personally, for me, the
idea that our universe exists due to non-intelligent, random, mechanical forces
is utterly laughable. Just by sitting in
meditation, smelling a flower, watching an eclipse, hearing children’s
laughter, tasting ice-cream, or feeling an orgasm, it is quite clear to me that
the universe was intelligently and purposefully designed.
In his 2005 Nature Magazine article, The Mental Universe,
Johns Hopkins physics professor Dr. R.C. Henry bluntly recommends we “get
over it” and accept the logical conclusion that “the universe is
immaterial - mental and spiritual.” In the same article, Cambridge physicist Sir James Jeans is quoted
as saying, “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical
reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a
great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the
realm of matter . . . we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of
the realm of matter.”
"Matter is not what we have long thought it to be. To the scientist, matter has always been thought of as sort of the ultimate in that which is static and predictable ... We like to think of space as empty and matter as solid but in fact, there is essentially nothing to matter whatsoever. It's completely insubstantial ... The most solid thing you can say about all this insubstantial matter is that it's more like a thought - it's like a concentrated bit of information." -Physicist/Psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Satinover, "What the Bleep Do We Know?"
British
astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington said that “physics is the study of the
structure of consciousness.The ‘stuff’
of the world is mindstuff.”Even Nobel
Prize winning physicist Max Planck, the “father” of quantum physics, before his
passing in 1947 conceded that, “As a man who has devoted his whole life to
the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as the
result of my research about the atoms, this much: There is no matter as
such!All matter originates and exists
only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration
and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together … We must assume
behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind.This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”
“With
these words, Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, described a universal field
of energy that connects everything in creation: the Divine Matrix.The Divine Matrix is our world.It is also everything in our world.It is us and all that we love, hate, create,
and experience.Living in the Divine
Matrix, we are as artists expressing our innermost passions, fears, dreams, and
desires through the essence of a mysterious quantum canvas.But we are the canvas, as well as the images
upon the canvas.We are the paints, as
well as the brushes.In the Divine
Matrix, we are the container within which all things exist, the bridge between
the creations of our inner and outer worlds, and the mirror that shows us what
we have created.”-Gregg Braden,
“The Divine Matrix” (Introduction)
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There have been many mythological mushroom heroes known throughout history. Perseus was an ancient mushroom hero, founder and King of the city-state of Mycenae (MushroomCity). Perseus flew around on winged sandals making “Perseia” a magical herb, grow wherever he dropped the chape of his scabbard. Wherever Perseus dropped his cap, “myces,” mushrooms would sprout underneath. Libertus is another mushroom hero whose depiction can be found atop the US Capitol building of all places. Libertus wears a Liberty Cap (or Phrygian Cap) which is shaped like and named after the Liberty Cap mushroom. This is where we get the idea of a “thinking cap” because when you ingest the cap you are teleported into an introspective, wondrous experience. The Phrygian/Liberty Cap was worn by Masonic revolutionaries during the French and American revolutions as well as by Perseus, Mithra, Santa, Elves, and the Smurfs. It is also worn as a “night cap,” a double entendre which nowadays means having an alcoholic beverage before bed. The original idea of a night cap, however, was when Mithraic/Mystery school initiates would eat a large mushroom cap then lay in hot tubs and astrally project out of body.
Another mushroom hero was King Arthur of Camelot. Arthur pulled the Sword from the Stone, founded the Knights of the Round Table and made the Quest for the Holy Grail. All three of these legends actually refer to stages of the mushroom. The mushroom begins like an egg or a small white stone which pushes and wiggles upwards like a snake. This is the Sword in the Stone stage (Sword is “S-word,” snakes/serpents, in the stone). Then the mushroom cap opens up and flattens out making a perfect circle like a round table top - the Round Table stage. Lastly the edges of the mushroom upturn collecting the mushroom juices and dew, the drinkable “blood of the gods.” This is called the Holy Grail stage and looks/acts just like a cup.
“In its infant (button) state, the muscaria resembles a small white stone. The pulling of the sword from the stone (a symbol of wielding the power), is another Arthurian legend connecting the mushroom to the myth. The quest for the Grail itself is the quest for the knowledge of the mushroom. The Parcival myth depicts paths (traditions), which are to be explored (but not adhered to), in order to complete the quest. This quest is described in the myths as a journey into the forest (the world) and finding paths (systems) which one may follow, for a time, but ultimately one must blaze his/her own trail in order to truly reach the final goal, the Holy Grail (the discovery and usage of the mushroom). The search for the Holy Grail is a mythology that has become, through adaptation, a part of the story of the Crucifixion. Some of the stories incorporate a cup which was used to catch some of the flowing blood of Jesus as he died on the cross. This cup, like many other relics, was thereby thought to possess magical powers. Historically, the mushroom has been the container for the juice of the ‘elixir of immortality’, or the ‘blood of God’, in many myths. The final shape of the muscaria, with its inverted cap, is the reason that the cup/fountain/grail symbology is used in the stories. King Arthur, as a child, gained his rightful place as King by pulling the sword from the stone. This is symbolic for wielding the power of the mushroom. The stone is a metaphor for the mushroom, and pulling the sword from it is symbolic of being able to crack the code and possess the power of the magical plant. After Arthur took ill (in his later years) he was told that he must seek and find the Holy Grail to renew his strength and re-acquire his power.” -James Arthur, “Mushrooms and Mankind” (14-15)
The Kundalini serpent (explained in detail later) is said to remain coiled three and a half times around the root chakra. Once awakened the serpent energy climbs up from the root/stone and around the spine, the Tree of Life. This process is analogous to the growth of a mushroom which begins looking like a stone then wriggles upward like a snake. The root chakra serpent energy rises to the crown chakra which is usually symbolized by an eagle or other majestic bird. You will often see spiritual symbology involving snakes fighting eagles. This is also why Egyptian Pharaoh’s head-dresses had snakes/birds coming out from the third-eye point.
“Transforming out of the button/egg infantile state, the mushroom's appearance becomes more like that of a snake. Once the mushroom has fully grown, decayed, and dissolved it leaves behind a hole. This is due to it's pushing the Pine needles or earth outward, as it expands. Around the hole is a white powdery substance, actually the many spores it left behind. This hole resembles a snake's hole, or lair, which is another reasoning for the mushroom's being symbolized as a snake. Most certainly, the depiction of the snake, in the garden of Eden, which revealed to humans secret knowledge that the fruit of the tree would make them as god, is a grand myth regarding this association.” -James Arthur, “Mushrooms and Mankind” (55)
“The prime example of the relation between the serpent and the mushroom is, of course, in the Garden of Eden story of the Old Testament. The cunning reptile prevails upon Eve and her husband to eat of the tree, whose fruit ‘made them as gods, knowing good and evil’ (Gen 3:4). The whole Eden story is mushroom-based mythology, not least in the identity of the ‘tree’ as the sacred fungus, as we shall see. Even as late as the thirteenth-century some recollection of the old tradition was known among Christians, to judge from a fresco painted on the wall of a ruined church in Plaincourault in France. There the Amanita muscaria is gloriously portrayed, entwined with a serpent, whilst Eve stands by holding her belly.” -John Allegro, “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross” (48)
This is why Medusa’s serpent hair turns men to stone. This is why Mithra, the ancient mushroom hero is depicted rising from a stone entwined in snakes. Mithra, one of the 15 pre-Christian gods with exactly the same story as Jesus, was undeniably a mushroom god. Just as Christians take communion, Mithraic initiates ate mushroom sacraments as part of their worship. Just as Christians line up in Church to receive the body and blood of Christ, so did initiates in the Mithraeum line up to receive the body and blood of Mithra.
“Mithra initiates would partake of a Sacred Meal in their ceremonies, invoking The Out Of Body experience. A ritually designed sacramental, Shamanistic, and communal Gnosis. The Mithraic temples of worship, known as Mithraeum, are designed like few other temples on earth. Typically inside the place of worship would be rows of bathtubs (tubs) along the two side walls, or lined in two parallel rows from the rear wall to the front of the main room. Providing places where many initiates could lie down during ceremonies. The tubs were tools in the mechanics of producing a communal experience. The purpose being, the joining together of the minds of the participants with the universal mind. The next phase being, to exit the planet (physical realm) in a spiritual flight to the heavens (stars). This is a bold expectation to perceive, let alone one you can convince someone they have had, especially if after the ceremony they have not. Filled with salt water these tubs would become instant sensory-deprivation-tanks. Much like those depicted in the movie ‘Altered States’ … The religion of Mithra centered around the initiate's ability to communally, astral-travel. Of course the out-of-body experience was facilitated through the eating of the sacred meal. After consumption, the initiates could traverse the galaxies, witnessing, as the ancient Egyptians, first hand, the reality that the spirit of the human being is not restricted to the physical universe, or the physical body for that matter. This is the true revelation of the immortality of the soul, or at least the realization of such. This concept is so similar to the Egyptian initiatory rites that it is solid evidence some of the hidden traditions of the ancients did migrate into later incarnations of various religious orders.” -James Arthur, “Mushrooms and Mankind” (56-58)
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