Cosmism over
Spiritualism
Philosophy over Science
Cooperation over
Coercion
Love over Hate
Henry H. Lindner, MD
The Cosmos exists. It created life on
this Earth through its own inherent tendency to evolve—to become more
complex, more self-aware, more self-directing.
We are animals that evolved here on Earth.
We differ from other animals only by our acquisition of language.
Language gives us unique powers but is
also a trap—our minds can be controlled by false linguistic formulae (ideas,
myths, and theories).
False ideas about what we are and how
we should live cause us to harm ourselves, our children, each other, and our
environment; in spite of our best intentions.
If we are to progress as a species,
we must question all the ideas that we’ve inherited from our
species’ ignorant past.
We must replace all false ideas with
better theories about what the Cosmos is, how it works, how it produced us,
what we are, what our consciousness is, and how we should live.
To do this we must recover our full
intellectual potential—we must go beyond Science
to philosophy—we must become philosophers.
I
was raised as an evangelical Christian by a devout mother. When I got to
college, I made the decision try to figure everything out for myself. I decided
that I would question the existence of God, the truth of the Bible, and all
other ideas that I had been taught and see if I could find or create better
theories of what reality is and what human beings are. I was fortunate to have
the ability and the time to do so. What I gradually realized, after decades of
struggle, study, and thought, is that our
“enlightened” Western Civilization—and all of its ideas and
institutions—are based upon
an ancient false theory of the human mind: spiritualism. As I had been taught, most
humans believe that the Cosmos was created by a spirit-God and that our
consciousness is a spirit inhabiting our bodies.
Spiritualism is an ancient magical theory of the Cosmos and of human
consciousness. It is the core concept of almost all religions: Judaism,
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, New Age Mysticism, etc. Even when
people reject traditional religion, they usually fall prey to intellectualized
versions of spiritualism: Platonic idealism, mathematical idealism, and modern
Science. Yes, I will prove to you that modern Science is the product of
spiritualism, created to preserve spiritualism and its religions by suppressing
our ability to develop and use our full intellectual potential: philosophical
cognition.
Spiritualism
holds that our linguistic consciousness is not an emergent product of Cosmic
evolution but is magic; that our minds participate in a magical, mystical world that has no relationship to
the Cosmos or Cosmic causality. It holds that our spirit-minds are not
dependent upon our brains, and therefore will survive the death of our brains
(immortality). Humans go on believing
in spiritualism even though it is inconsistent with everything that we
know about the evolution of the Cosmos, of life on Earth, of human beings, and
of our brains and language. It is also inconsistent with how we actually think and live every day of our lives.
Spiritualism is just an ancient
anthropocentric myth;
the projection of our own mental life upon the Cosmos itself. It is nonsense
and can only produce nonsense. If we do not reject spiritualism, we are forced
to choose among various supposedly-God-inspired revelations to know how the
spirit-world works, what God wants, and how we should live. Lacking religious
belief, people put their trust in Science and governments—which
as we are witnessing, does not work and is contributing to the destruction of Western
civilization. While the Cosmos, and therefore truth are
one, falsehoods such as spiritualism and authoritarianism are disconnected from
reality, and therefore can take on innumerable forms.
The Destructiveness of Spiritualism
It
is long-past time for our species to grow out of spiritualism and all its
related falsehoods. We must give up the sentimental desire for life after
death. Spiritualistic belief systems are
not rational, not comprehensible; and not good for us. Spiritualism cuts us off
from Cosmic reality; it prevents us from understanding the true nature of the
Cosmos and of ourselves. It produces what we have today: a false epistemology,
false psychology, false pedagogy, false sociology, false economics, and false
politics. We cling to our false, dying civilization because we know no
alternative. The result is what you see around you—societies that are
increasingly ignorant, coercive, and destructive.
Consider the fatal errors that spiritualism necessarily
produces in our minds and societies:
1. The doctrines of innate evil and free will —Every person is supposedly
born with a magical spirit that has “free will” to make moral
(religion-approved) choices. This spirit is unaffected by maturational
processes, by upbringing or by experience. In essence, causality has no role in
human psychology. Children will be who they are no matter what we do to them.
Since these free spirits are selfish and make the “wrong” choices
(like disobeying tyrannical parents) it proves that our spirits are inherently
flawed—lazy, stupid and evil—just as the Bible teaches.
This false psychology prevents us from understanding human nature,
children’s maturational processes, and the actual determinants of human
behavior. We misidentify the
child’s immaturity and healthy willfulness as disobedience. All the
stupidity and destruction caused by this false belief system and the authoritarian
society built upon it is taken as just more proof that humans are born
evil—a self-fulfilling delusional system.
2. Universal coercion-authoritarianism—Since children and adults are innately evil,
they need to be controlled by force or
threat of force in order to be made into
“good” persons. Parents attempt to train the child’s
unruly spirit by coercion—by verbal and physical abuse. Adults too must
be controlled by authorities. We fail to realize that all coercion, no matter
how well-intentioned, rationalized or legalized, is violence or the threat
of violence. It is a crime against the child’s or adult’s body,
mind and will. Coercion, legal or not,
displaces and prevents love, respect, cooperation and
dialogue among persons. It is pathological and created psychological and social
pathology.
Coercion negates the use of the
intellect, both of the controller and the one being
controlled. The resort to force is stupidity and
it produces stupidity.
All laws that force people to do what they otherwise would not do, or that
prevent them from doing what they want to do are forms of coercion—institutionalized
violence. Violence can never aid any person’s psychosocial or
intellectual maturation; it can only produce mental disturbance and more
violence. Our “enlightened democracies” are actually
stupid, criminal systems based upon violence—of parents against
children, the state against children (schooling), lawyers-politicians against
citizens, and government-privileged bankers, corporations and professions
against everyone.
3. Resignation to fate—Since one’s spirit lives forever, this temporary life on
Earth has far less importance. We are willing
to submit to coercion, slavery and suffering in this life because we believe
that we’ll find happiness in the afterlife. Thus Christianity, chosen
by the Emperor Constantine for his New Rome, has always been a great religion
for slaves. Spiritualism causes us to take this life for granted, even to take
our friends and family for granted—thinking that we will all exist for
all eternity. If we were instead aware this is the only existence that we will
ever have, we would make damned sure that this is the
best world possible for ourselves, our children, other human beings, and
our posterity.
4. Disregard for Nature—Since the true reality is spiritual, the Cosmos, Earth, and all
non-human life is of little importance, just a passing phase or even an
illusion. We, God’s chosen species, can do whatever we want to the planet
and all other species without regard for any long-term consequences. We can exploit, destroy, and pollute at
will. God made the world for us and the Messiah is
coming soon to clean up the mess. This has been the anti-environmental impact
of all religions, including the political religions: communism and capitalism.
5. Theism—The
Cosmos is just the creation of some all-powerful super-spirit (God). To know
what this God-Spirit is and what it wants we must choose some version of holy
nonsense, some religion. We must follow a set of ideas and commandments
supposedly dictated to some humans in the past (holy scriptures). Since this is
all nonsense, it requires us to deactivate our intellects and surrender our
wills. We must believe in our own mental
inferiority and stupidity and turn our minds and wills over to religious,
scholastic, and political authorities. Theism supports authoritarianism. Theism prevents us from creating a true
understanding this world and ourselves, and from creating a better life on this
planet.
6. Religionism-Racism-Nationalism-Classism— Because spiritualist ideologies make no sense
of the world, we can never agree on which one is the right one. We all inherit
or choose our own version of the contradictory nonsense. The result is chaos:
contradiction, confusion, controversy, and conflict. Religious/superstitious
thinking leaves mankind divided into groups, each infected by some irrational
ideology. Each group sees their “spirit” as superior to the others
(e.g. God’s chosen people, the natural rulers,
the best society, true democracy, etc.), and sees others as inferior, less
human. Each group believes that they can
exploit other groups and/or ignore their suffering. Since there is no
possible rational agreement about religious, racial or
nationalistic myths, the inevitable
result is conflict and war. It
is perfectly OK to kill the “other” because they are bad—whether they be men, women or children.
Spiritualism and the
religions and the authoritarian political systems that it has spawned keep us
trapped in a delusional
Matrix of false concepts and interpretations. We try to fix the problems
that our errors are producing, but since we don’t understand the causes,
our solutions just make things worse. We pass more laws
and we throw more money at problems, just to watch them grow worse. We
routinely resort to violence, overtly or covertly in the form of regulations
and controls, both at home and abroad, and everything is getting worse.
I
have written several essays for the website on how spiritualism-religion and
authoritarianism keep us trapped in various destructive behaviors and
institutions:
1. Routine neglect of
infants and children’s needs; abuse of children (coercive childrearing)
2. Compulsory schooling (the
universal enslavement of children—to destroy their minds and wills)
3. Capitalism: Fractional-reserve banking
(loan slavery) and Government taxation (tax-slavery), Government-created
monopolies (patents, copyrights, professions, etc.), Government-created
amoral profit machines--Corporations
4. Stupid
Science (incapable of philosophical cognition—see below)
5. Pharmaceutical
Corporation Medicine (instead of natural scientific medicine)
7. Statism—the
world divided into competing, antagonistic slave-states
8. Welfare
Statism—Coercive government charity displaces voluntary personal and
community charity
In Western civilization, Judeo-Christianity’s
false and destructive ideas have produced and sustained our authoritarian
political-economic system. However, if you, like most people, do not take ideas
seriously, you will dismiss the role of religion in Western Civilization
because most people don’t actually believe in
traditional religions anymore. I agree that they do not, and
add that most persons who claim to be Jews or Christians are not. However, the
product of non-belief or selective belief in religion is a state of
inconsistency and confusion. How many
Christians have sold everything they had and given the money to the poor? How
many Christians live only to worship God and preach the gospel? Instead, all people
who call themselves Jews, Christians and Muslims hold some inconsistent,
personal version of the holy nonsense that they are comfortable with—that
allows them to enjoy their fancy houses and cars and generally keep up with the
Joneses. They combine a few ideas from their religion with their own commonsense
ideas about what is real and how they should live. They therefore live in a
state of contradiction, confusion and hypocrisy.
This is our
society’s dilemma: Our ideology
and institutions are based upon Judeo-Christian spiritualism, yet most people
no longer believe in Judeo-Christianity. Even those who consider themselves
believers do not actually know the contents of their holy scriptures and
certainly do not attempt to abide by every word found there. People have lost their belief in traditional religion, but have found nothing to replace it—no coherent
set of ideas about what the Cosmos is, what human beings are, and how we should
live. Science and Socialism do
not fill the void. Even
agnostics and atheists are infected with spiritualistic ideas—because
their society is based upon spiritualism. Most non-believers in religion are
still spiritualists. Every person remains a spiritualist until he/she truly
understands, and therefore believes, that human linguistic consciousness is just
the latest product of Cosmic evolution.
We humans, as a species, will remain
trapped in spiritualism/religion/authoritarianism until we replace this ancient
false ideational complex with Cosmism—a rational, working theory
of what the Cosmos is, how it produced us, what we are, and how we should live.
That is the next
challenge for humanity. In order to solve our problems
and create the intelligent, creative, and peaceful global society that we all
want, we must produce and share a
working theory of the Cosmos. All
our ideas and practices must be consistent with Cosmic reality. This
process is already underway—as evidenced by the increased interest in
Cosmology, the environment, natural medicine, etc. However it cannot succeed without a fundamental revolution in thought.
The Problem with Science
What is holding us back? What is preventing us from producing
a shared, rational theory of the Cosmos and ourselves? Isn’t Science leading us to the truth, to all the answers that we
need? Isn’t Science going to figure out everything and solve all our
problems? The truth will surprise you. Science is, in fact, at the
root of our intellectual pathology. It us part of the problem, not of the
solution. This becomes clear when one actually defines
“Science” as opposed to philosophy, as I will do.
When I tried to understand what the
Cosmos is, I started at the foundation. I studied theoretical physics—our
science that deals with the fundamental building blocks of reality. What I
found was shocking. Our revered moder
physics—Relativity and Quantum Mechanics—are not theories about
what exists and causes physical phenomena. Relativity
and Quantum Mechanics are just observer-based accounting models. They
attempt only to model and predict the human observers’ conscious
experiences. They analogous to the observer-based Ptolemaic system that
modeled the motion of the planets and stars in the Earth-observer’s
frame.
Albert Einstein created both
Relativity and Quantum Mechanics based upon his reading of the then-popular
ideas in philosophy. He was following an ideological tradition that was begun
by Bishop Berkeley. In the
mid-1600s, Berkeley saw the threat posed to the Christian religion by the
Copernican Revolution and Newton’s theory of matter, space
and time. Berkeley attacked Newton’s Mechanics as atheism because
it referred to Cosmic entities and processes that did not rely upon God—a
“clockwork universe”. Berkeley realized that if humans kept
figuring out how the Cosmos works, there will be no “gaps” left for
God and spiritualism—and this was before Darwin’s revolution.
Berkeley came up with a plan to stop
all such theorizing about the Cosmos and Cosmic causes. He abandoned dualism—the default
belief of most persons—that there is both a God/spirit world and a
physical Cosmos. He claimed that since we are spirits, all that we can know is
our spiritual reality. All that exists is spiritual. He asserted that the
Cosmos that we experience is part of a spiritual Matrix, just like in
the popular movie. The Cosmos is an illusion created by God and fed to our
spirits. In this case it is God, not the machines, that create and sustain the
Matrix. Berkeley therefore asserted that we should only describe the contents
of the spiritual Matrix and find the rules by which God operates it. Bishop
Berkeley’s ideology is called “subjective idealism” and is similar to Plato’s idealism.
Einstein inherited a version of
Berkeley’s subjective idealism, as interpreted by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Ernst Mach. He created his own version of this subjectivistic
mathematical idealism. Einstein abandoned Cosmic-physical theory. He
asserted that we should simply find the simplest rules that model and predict
our experiences and measurements—the rules of the Matrix. That is why Relativity and Quantum Mechanics do not
allow us to think about what exists and causes the “laws of
Nature”. Without any physical/causal
explanation, the laws of Nature are just God-magic.
Relativity
and Quantum Mechanics are Bishop Berkeley’s answer to the threat of
natural philosophy. They are sustaining spiritualism, and
thereby protecting religion and authority from the threat of philosophy.
You are certainly protesting louder
than ever at this point: “Relativity and Quantum Mechanics have been
proven to be true, over and over again! Theoretical
physics is just good Science!” What has been proven is only that their
mathematical models can be used to describe and predict our measurements. However,
when they are used to try to explain physical phenomena, they produce paradoxes,
contradictions and absurdities. Scientists don’t
understand that these models were not invented to explain the Cosmos. So when they try to use them for that purpose the result is
nonsense (observer-created reality, time travel, parallel universes,
wave-particle duality, holographic reality, wormholes, singularities, etc.).
Without a theory of what the Cosmos
is made of and what causes all physical phenomena, we cannot understand the
Cosmos—its nature or its hierarchical evolution of complexity. We cannot replace the God-Spirit-Magic
theory of reality. We are trapped, stuck with spiritualistic physics, as
Bishop Berkeley intended. It gets worse. Modern
physics is the model by which modern Science operates. Modern Science is
Berkeley’s Science. Science restricts our minds to counting and measuring
things and finding statistical correlations. Science can only talk of
associations, not of causes. Science prevents us from forming theories about
the nature and causes of things—which required philosophical cognition.
Science is
Stupidity.
Science was created to coexist with religion and authority, and it has
done so for hundreds of years. All academic specialties try to imitate Einstein’s
physics, to become “hard sciences”. This anti-philosophical
ideology is gradually dumbing-down academia and therefore our society. Berkeley’s
subjectivistic, descriptionistic Science
denigrates and suppresses philosophical cognition; it makes humans afraid to
use their theoretic intelligence. Compulsory public schooling prevents children
from developing their philosophical abilities. Therefore, in all fields, the “experts” are incompetent because their minds
deformed by schooling and inhibited by Science. They
do not know how to understand the Cosmos. They do not have philosophical
competence. They have accepted the old ideas that they inherited in their
academic training and are incompetent to question or replace them.
The Requirement for Philosophy
So what is the solution? How do we claim our philosophical
birthright? It is
simple—we must choose to THINK. We reject all old, false beliefs and create
a working theory of the Cosmos and ourselves. We must produce a shared
understanding of the Cosmos--something that is like a religion but without the
dogmatism and error. This working theory must not only fit but explain the
facts of our experience. It must be flexible; it must grow and change with the
advance of knowledge.
We already have a name for this intelligent,
non-dogmatic, rational “religion”. Since its invention by Ionian Greeks in the 6th century BC
it has been called "philosophy".
Philosophy is the most
powerful use of our linguistic cognition. It is the full, uninhibited use of our intuition combined
with the disciplined use of our language-based intelligence.
Philosophy, not Science, is our effort to criticize and create theories of the
nature and causes of all Cosmic phenomena. Philosophy
is how we use our linguistic intelligence to reach beyond our consciousnesses,
beyond our sensations and measurements, and explain what exists and causes our
experiences. Philosophy is our only path to
the truth; our only tool for integrating the facts of experience
and for understanding the Cosmos and ourselves.
Consider that the first rule of philosophy is non-contradiction because the Cosmos is a coherent, interacting whole. There is nothing incoherent in it; nothing like a contradiction. Our linguistic representations must mirror the Cosmos. Our linguistic representation of the Cosmos must be evolutionary, hierarchically organized, etc. Logic and mathematics are tools of philosophy. All sciences are, and must remain, branches of philosophy. Philosophy is what most people think/hope that Science is.
You
would think that mankind would revel in an open-ended, rational,
ever-improving, non-sectarian search for understanding. However, such has not
been the case. In fact, philosophy has always been suppressed, reviled, belittled, and ignored; from the Byzantine emperor
Justinian’s closure of Plato’s and Aristotle’s schools in
Athens to the Catholic church’s condemnations of Aristotle’s ideas,
to Bishop Berkeley’s attack on Newton, and Berkeley’s triumph via
Albert Einstein’s Science. Also, our entire governmental-banking-corporate-media-academic
authoritarian establishment is aggressively
anti-philosophical, because philosophy is the only
real threat to its existence, to business as usual.
The current system cannot withstand
intelligent criticism and so must suppress our ability to think. It does so through the government-mandated
schooling of children and by suppressing philosophy
and endorsing merely-descriptive Science. Science is not threat, either to
religion or to governments. The current compromise is: Science gives us the “what”; religion gives us the
“why”. Both belief systems are false: Both must be replaced by
philosophy.
The price we have paid for exchanging philosophy for stupid Science is
enormous. The
Renaissance of Greek philosophical brilliance has once again faded. The
cultural revolution of the 1960s and 70s was aborted. Religion, government, banks and corporations are again firmly in power. Our minds
are constricted, our lives distorted, our art degraded, and our
work unsatisfying. We are trapped in a High-Tech Dark Age.
Western civilization is in a rapid decline and
everyone knows it. Having no alternative, people are forced to accept this
lousy life, and pass on their slavish ideas and slave-lives to their children,
ruining them too. It is time for the long-overdue awakening of human
consciousness. It is time for us to
fulfill our Cosmic destiny, to become fully human.
Philosophy is our Future
The outlines of a new philosophical
physics and Cosmology are clear. As soon as one gets beyond observer-based Relativity
and Quantum Mechanics, as soon as one begins to think about the most fundamental
aspects of this Cosmos, one is immediately struck by the fact that space is not mere emptiness. To explain
gravity, inertia, electromagnetism, etc. requires the hypothesis that space is
something real, a substance. Space is the ground of all being. Space spontaneously
self-organizes itself into subatomic particles, which can combine to form
atoms, then molecules, life, consciousness, and linguistic consciousness.
Space is what resists matter’s
acceleration. Space is also the electromagnetic medium in which light is a wave
that propagates at c. Space theory
also allows us to understand Einstein’s singular achievement: his
realization that inertial acceleration and gravitational acceleration are the
same thing (the principle of equivalence of gravitational and inertial
acceleration). This insight directly implies that inertial-electromagnetic space is flowing
into the Earth. It is no coincidence that modern physics was based upon the
space (ether) taboo. It originated in Bishop Berkeley’s attack on Newton’s
“absolute space”. The taboo has so far prevented academics from
theorizing about Cosmic space. Space theory chases
the God-of-the-gaps out of his last hiding place.
Space, not an imaginary spirit-God, is the source of all being. Space is
everywhere. Space creates and sustains all things. Clearly space,
this Cosmos, somehow “strives” to
produce greater complexity and to become self-aware and self-directing. We are space become self-conscious
here on Earth. We are Cosmos. When we laugh, the Cosmos is laughing through us.
When we think, we are the Cosmos thinking. If any beings are to be called “gods”
it is us. We are the most advanced, most powerful beings in our small corner of
the Milky Way. Given the immense number of stars in our galaxy, and galaxies
in the Cosmos, there are no doubt millions of other linguistic or otherwise
self-conscious species.
Space theory provides a rational
foundation our actions and societies. It provides the missing foundation for a
naturalistic human ethics. We have a goal—to live up to our evolutionary
potential. We must seek to aid the evolution and perfection of the Cosmos by
improving ourselves. We must add to the intelligence, self-knowledge
and self-direction of the Cosmos. We must stop being stupid—believing
in old myths and failing to live up to our potential as a species. We must
dedicate ourselves to improving life on Earth.
All of this depends upon producing
humans that can think and that have healthy self-love and love of others. We
must stop coercing
children. Our job as parents is to support the child’s natural
development, not distort it with our false beliefs. We must stop schooling children. We must stop destroying their natural intellectual and psychological
development. Only
then can we create healthier-minded generations who are self-regulating and
self-learning. They will understand this world much better than us brain-washed
adults. We must allow children to become what they are best suited to become.
We must allow of them to become philosophers to one extent or another—masters
of ideas. We must let them seek to
understand the Cosmos and live in harmony with it, and with each other.
We must abolish violence in all its forms, including all authoritarian
systems, regulations, and institutions. We must carefully
deconstruct our authoritarian systems and build a new world-wide society
based upon mutual respect, concern and cooperation.
Only then will we begin to obtain peace and prosperity.
We must stop wasting resources and
stop polluting and destroying Earth—the source of our life. We
can and must turn life on this planet into a celebration of existence and true
diversity. With a working theoretical physics we
will be able to develop clean and powerful technologies that will allow us to
preserve our Earth and to travel among the stars. We can hope one day to
contact other species in the Cosmos that have attained this or higher levels of
intellectual and technological evolution. What comes after that? Who
knows!
Philosophy is what we think Science should be;
it is what we are taught that Science is.
Science and mathematics can only improve
technologies and precision; they are worthless when it comes to ideas.
Philosophy is the
natural religion of all mankind—our only hope for a peaceful and
prosperous future together on Earth and among the stars.
On Philosophy, Science, and the Cosmos
1.
On the
Philosophical Inadequacy of Modern Physics and the Need for a Theory of Space – My most recent publication
in Cosmos
and History. It is a the most complete presentation of the
philosophical problem with Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and Science in
general, and an outline of a new Cosmology based upon space theory.
2.
Hierarchical
Cosmism – My first writing project that started me on my
philosophical journey. I simply started to describe how Cosmic processes
have been and continue to be organized in new ways, creating new levels of
complexity. The result is a powerful tool for organizing our
understanding. It is an unfinished outline of all current and potential
knowledge! I fistt thought that everything must be
based upon Relativity's mass-energy and space-time (MEST). However
reading Einstein's works made me realize that MEST was just composed of
measurements, made by the observer, with his rods, clocks and other
instruments. I realized then that I needed a physical theory of space. The
major levels of Cosmic evolution are: Spatial, Astrophysicochemical,
Biological, Neuropsychological (animals), Linguomythic
(ancient, pre-philosophical human), and Consciophilosophical
(our potential).
3.
Philosophy
over Science – An exposé of the origins and intellectual
inadequacy of our "Science" which accepts contradictions in its ideas
and doesn't form coherent theories of the causes of things. Science is
anti-philosophy.
4.
From It to Bit:
From the Observer’s Information to Space Theory – Brief essay summarizing the
problem with physics and how to fix it
5.
Beyond
Consciousness to Cosmos: Beyond Relativity and Quantum Theory to Cosmic Theory
(printed)
– Text version – The first paper that I
published. An exposé of the philosophical errors made by
Einstein, and an argument for going beyond Relativity to a physical theory of
the Cosmos. (Copyright Physics Essays
Publication (PEP). Reproduced with permission of PEP) (Phys. Ess. 2002, 15, pp. 113-128)
6.
Beyond Newton and Einstein to Flowing Space – The facts of
physics require that space be a substance. It is the ground of all being. A detailed presentation of a new
theory of space and motion that fits the facts. This simple model explains
why Relativity’s equations work. (Copyright Physics Essays Publication
(PEP). Reproduced with permission of PEP) (Phys. Ess.
2012, 25, pp. 500-509)
7.
A QED-Based
Wave Theory of Light, Electrons, and their Quantized Interactions – Edited version of “A
QED-compatible Wave Theory of Light, Electrons, and their Interactions”,
published in The Nature
of Light: What are Photons IV,
Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 8121, 2011,
p. 81210X-1. Feynman’s approach to QED is discussed. I show how it
requires a wave-theory of light. The evidence contradicts the idea that light
is composed of particles. It is the false photon theory of light that leads to
the quantum paradoxes and all the other quantum “spookiness”.
8.
Implications of
Flowing Space
– Unpublished. An exploration of the new physics implied by the Flowing
Space theory of gravity
9.
Etherism, Atomism,
and the God Myth – Deals with the philosophical question of
the nature of reality: whether the Cosmos is the product of four forces and
four particles acting in a void as is currently taught in universities, or the
product of motions in and of the substance that fills all "empty space" and which produces all fundamental physical
phenomena. Etherism has a much greater explanatory power than the God theory
and the atomistic theory.
Powerpoint
Presentations
10.
Cosmism
over Spiritualism, Philosophy over Science, Consensualism
over Coercion – PowerPoint presentation at BioCosmology
Conference, Monmouth Univ., NJ, June 2014
11.
Relativity and the
Corruption of Natural Philosophy – PowerPoint presentation given at the Natural
Philosophy Alliance in Storrs, Connecticut on 5/25/2009
12.
Beyond Relativity and Quantum
Mechanics: Space Physics – PowerPoint presentation given at the SPIE conference
“The Nature of Light: What are Photons”, August 2011
13.
A QED-Compatible Wave-Theory
of Light, Electrons, and their Interactions – PowerPoint presentation
given at the SPIE conference, August 2011
On Human Life and Society
1.
On the Movie, The
Matrix
– and its relevance to these pages. We too live in a Matrix of false
ideas and delusions that distort our thinking, our lives, and our societies and
which effectively enslaves us all.
2.
Our High-Tech Dark
Age – We
are not an enlightened society, far from it. Western society is run by a
banking-corporate elite who view the rest of us as beasts who must be
controlled. Governments are their servants; schools their training camps; loans
their slave-contracts.
3.
The Old Testament
(Jewish Torah) is the Root of All Evil – Have you ever actually
read the Old Testament or thought seriously about its ideas? You should. You
will see that the foundation of Judaism, Christianity and Islam is evil; the
negation of every value that we profess to hold. We thus live with contradiction
and remain confused.
4.
The Ninth
Crusade –
An historical and moral analysis of the ongoing Zionist Ninth Crusade mounted
by European/American Jews and Christians to control Palestine, the Middle East,
and the World. Their delusional religion drives them to do it.
5.
Children and
Childrearing -- We must grant children all the
rights of any adult, in addition to meeting their need for protection, aid, and
love. We must stop institutionalizing and infantilizing them.
6.
On Schooling (coerced
learning) vs. Unschooling (self-motivated learning) -- we
must separate school and state and integrate children into our society. The
Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution outlaws
involuntary servitude, except for crimes committed. Truancy law forces every
child into school where he is punished if he does not follow orders. What
crimes have children committed?
7.
The Modern
Parenting Dilemma -- We are pouring new wine into
old bottles.
8.
Consensualism
over Coercionism – Two incompatible
moralities—only one is fit for human beings.
9.
The Problem with Capitalism
– It is not freedom, but just another form of enslavement of
the masses based upon fractional reserve banking and many other
governmental distortions of natural human cooperation and fairness.
10.
On the Illegitimacy
of Corporations
– They are not free market phenomena; they are not private. They are
profit-making machines created by the government—by specific abrogations of personal rights and responsibilities.
11.
The Debt/Tax Slave
System and its Alternative – Yes, we are slaves
12.
On Ted Kaczynski
and the delusions of modern psychiatry – our psychiatry
merely diagnoses and drugs people, per the pharmaceutical corporation model. A
valid psychiatry would find the causes of our mental ills in childhood trauma,
neglect, abuse, and infections.
13.
Against Spiritualism, Genetic
Determinism, and Racism – a simple theory of the mind and its
disorders
14.
So
You Want to be a Philosopher? – A how-to essay. Hint: It has
nothing to do with any degrees or courses offered in any school. The
purpose of schooling is to prevent you from being a philosopher or creator.
Consider That:
We are all one species living on one
planet. If we allow anyone person or group to commit violence against any other
person or group, we are destroying the moral basis of our peaceful coexistence
and we put everyone at risk. We must condemn the initiation
and maintenance of violence everywhere at all times, including the
covert forms of violence like schooling, debt slavery, and taxation. We must
employ every means available to stop perpetrators of violence and coercion.