abysskeys1
Temporal Novice
i will post nothing for a day or two.too give you time. until then I HOLD OUR FATE IN YOUR HAND
This is a demonstration of the idea that when one removes the dogma and other ... stuff ... added onto the original "religious" thoughts, the primary principles are similar.This is why I believe it is stressed that for one to find the end, one must find the beginning.It is said that after his Awakening, Buddha told the story of a net of pearls in Indra's heaven that was arranged so that each pearl reflected [mirrored]every other pearl. He didn't explain what the story meant, though.I think that in its fundamental nature consciousness is a "mirror" that reflects all other consciousnesses. In mortal man this mirroring is unconscious, normally.
Reflection. Yes. Mirroring phenomenon of Nature. Yes. I certainly like and encourage where this is going. Well done gentlemen.I think that in its fundamental nature consciousness is a "mirror" that reflects all other consciousnesses. In mortal man this mirroring is unconscious, normally.
It is certainly the organized matrix represented in the form of the human body. And the human body is obviously special since it has risen to the highest form of conscious activity on our particular planet.Consciousness as a reflection of physicality is a very good balance. It "works", or so it would seem.RMTThe Tree of Life would provide an explaination of the pearls. It is a similar representation of the Sephira of the Tree.
Yes, indeed. And these ancient texts are in very good company. Any number of scientific relations of physical mechanics tell us that Time is really a "byproduct" of MATTER in MOTION. Kepler told us this, Newton told us this, and Einstein told us this. If the baryonic matter that we observe as comprising our universe were NOT constantly in motion, there would be no way for us to measure Time. Indeed, if matter were not in motion there would be no "us". Our physical human bodies totally rely upon energy exchanges which are made possible by Matter in Motion.The evidence or thoughts from the texts presented so far in this thread indicate that time itself is NOT in motion.
An important point... and if I may state it in another way, just for the sake of variety: If you wish to return to any specific moment, that moment must have already been created, or "etched" within the total Matrix of Massive SpaceTime. If that moment has not yet been created, then it first must be created in order for someone to return to it. It really is that simple, and this also further reinforces that WE are Creators of our future.In order to return to any point in time in the past...that moment must still exist to return to.
Once again, I think you have hit the nail on the head. And recently PB pointed out that Don Juan the nagual shaman taught Carlos Castenada that one could perform certain amazing feats ("time travel") by shifting their Point Of View. Don Juan called it the human "assemblage point", if I recall correctly.Here is something that I wonder about: If we must have a "saved point of reference" in order to travel to that point, is there some way that I and my POV can "save a moment in Time" in some manner that I could "pass on" that saved moment in Time to one or more of my friends, such that they could experience it?And this all reminds me of the movie "Brainstorm" with Christopher Walken.The Key to traveling in time would be through a shift of awareness, or the perception of ones point of view of where they are relative to their "saved" points of their exsistence.
Using your quote as a starting point for this post...Stanford University has a team researching and has apparently developed technology that infuses artificial synapses into the brain.If we must have a "saved point of reference" in order to travel to that point, is there some way that I and my POV can "save a moment in Time" in some manner that I could "pass on" that saved moment in Time to one or more of my friends, such that they could experience it?
Have an up-date that applies to this post, Darby. I obtained a manuscript that is a translation of another, and within it's text is a sentence that I found to be interesting..." Without doubt, Hermes Trismegistus, that divine Magician and Philosopher, who ( as some say ) lived long before Noah, attained to much Divine knowledge of the Creator through [ his studies ], as his writings testifie. "OvrLrdLegion,Interesting text. I did a bit of online research and the only reference that I can find as to their actual origin is that a "mysterious" Dr. Doreal published them in the 1930's.
I couldn't find a single scholarly reference to them anywhere. I checked Google and even checked about 100 university online references in the USA, UK, India, Egypt, South Africa and France. Not a single reference.
But if this particular "chapter" was written in the 1930's the context doesn't surprise me. It's a fairly decent description of Special and General Relativity with a bit of QM cosmology tossed in - which were the cutting edge of physics in the 1930's (especially QM which had only existed as a theory for less than 10 years and GTR was only five years older).
Rainman, I think you hit on something important way back when this thread was active. As virtual reality technology advances, with the ability to "plug in" and "experience" an event as though it was happening at that moment...may be a clue to time travel.You record an event in your life, and a few generations later, a relative is able to plug the "memory card" of that event into a virtual reality device, and experience the same event as did you...could this be considered traveling in time ?If we must have a "saved point of reference" in order to travel to that point, is there some way that I and my POV can "save a moment in Time" in some manner that I could "pass on" that saved moment in Time to one or more of my friends, such that they could experience it?
Did you ever see the movie "Brainstorm" with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood? It came out in the mid 80s when I was in college. It was a fave of mine. Essentially, it deals with this concept.You record an event in your life, and a few generations later, a relative is able to plug the "memory card" of that event into a virtual reality device, and experience the same event as did you...could this be considered traveling in time ?
IMO, no. And one of the reasons is the one you stated with regards to inability to change the experience or interact with it. It is a passive experience only, and it occurs merely by manipulating your synapses to provide the same inputs as would be delivered from the 5 senses. Your physical body is still in the current timeline. So in the classical(?) "romantic" version of time travel, I do not think this qualifies. But as I always point out, I do not think time travel, per se, is impossible. Only that the "romantic" notion of your body traveling to another time without being changed in its mass...that is impossible. (IMO)IF the 'traveler' can"t change "your" experience, is this really traveling in time ?Does such a experience fit into the "classical" definition of "time travel" ?
While I am the eternal, scientific skeptic with regard to "romantic" version of time travel, I would never say it is useless to investigate such phenomenon. Quite the opposite. But as you point out, these shows are not fundamentally based in science, but rather their purpose is for entertainment. I think you are correct to say that a truly scientific investigation (with a LOT more instrumentation) would be necessary before anyone could even begin to conjecture how the data may, or may not, relate to time travel.I wish I had the funds to carry out such an investigation (buy the right equipment and sustain myself while doing such work, essentially unfunded). It would be a lot of fun for an engineer like me, and I would hazard to guess for a lot of other people whose living is made in real science.If you did establish that EVP experiments did in fact produce positive results, and you did record conscious responses of deceased individuals...what would this mean in the pursuit of time travel ?
I did, and I love that movie, as well. It would seem that we are not all that far away from actually having the equipment to do what was shown in the movie.I like Christopher Walken, as an actor, and enjoy most of the movies he has been in.Did you ever see the movie "Brainstorm" with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood?
I DO agree that there are "alot" of problems associated with a "physical" body traveling through time ( and space ) for it to be realistic.We covered this before with many "what-if" scenario's in other threads.Only that the "romantic" notion of your body traveling to another time without being changed in its mass...that is impossible. (IMO)
IF any voices ( conscious responses ) did get captured on a little, inexpensive recorder, I am sure either one of us would find a way to take it up a few notches, with many goals in mind, not merely just an answer to the " life after death " question.Self-verification of ghostly interaction(s) would be a major break-through for what kind of role "time" plays in the scheme of existence.I wish I had the funds to carry out such an investigation (buy the right equipment and sustain myself while doing such work, essentially unfunded). It would be a lot of fun for an engineer like me, and I would hazard to guess for a lot of other people whose living is made in real science.
Much more interesting to discuss and ponder this, IMO, rather than some folks who post here thinking they've got time all figured out, and so go on to post gloom and doom stories of what lies in our future. I changed my signature line awhile back to highlight exactly what Joe Strummer means by this line. I think it is pertinent!What I am looking for via the process here in this thread, is building a set of stepping stones to understanding the dynamics of time. Not mankind's definition of time, but what time really may be...
Resurrecting our previous thoughts from threads long past... I like it! And now I see where you are going with this.Has the memory of all time been recorded on some level that could be un-locked ?
You are, of course, absolutely correct...and "my bad" for using that word impossible. Even thermodynamics says as much (i.e expresses the viability of an energetic process in terms of its probabilities). Thanks for that!However, I don't know if I would say "physical" time travel is completely impossible, but more along the lines of highly improbable.Even the with the slightest of probablities, still leaves the door open, and "not" entirely closed.
Well, I tend to believe the amount/quality of equipment you need depends upon your objective. If you are merely trying to satisfy your own curiosity, and "prove" things to yourself, then a recorder might work. If you are actually trying to correlate data to come to conclusions, you would need cross-correlating information which would come from alternate/complementary sensors. As an example: In addition to an audio recorder, we would probably want an instrument that could identify electromagnetic changes in the area, and perhaps also thermal gradients. If you could correlate "spikes" (or even "real voices") on the recorder with similar "spikes" or activities in the e/m and/or thermal spectrums, then you are collecting cross-correlating information. This is why hard science can be so costly.EVP work doesnt require expensive equipment. I have an in-expensive recorder that would suffice for any EVP work.It is a matter of time, and willingness to wander around strange ( spooky ) places in the middle of the night, that has prevented me from a more in-depth pursuit of this type of investigative work.
True, but at the same time this is the same level that I see being done on the "for entertainment" style TV shows. Single media recording can, indeed, be great for convincing oneself. But given we are interested in TIME, then if we only have one form of energy recorded during this anomalous event, then this limits anything further we could correlate it to post-facto. If we REALLY want to bust the hard science wide open, instead of just convince ourselves like the TV shows, then it is my opinion such an effort should commit itself to collection of cross-correlating data from multiple energy spectra.Let me give a more mundane example from my profession to exhibit how science is focused on cross-correlating effects: Many things can affect the performance of an airplane, with the atmosphere that the airplane is flying through as the biggest effect-producer. Aerodynamicists are primarily focused on the PRESSURE field around an air vehicle. That is what leads to Lift and Drag generation. But we also are aware, from a simple and useful physical relation, that things other than pressure come into play. That physical relation is known as the Ideal Gas Law. It looks like this:IF any voices ( conscious responses ) did get captured on a little, inexpensive recorder, I am sure either one of us would find a way to take it up a few notches, with many goals in mind, not merely just an answer to the " life after death " question.Self-verification of ghostly interaction(s) would be a major break-through for what kind of role "time" plays in the scheme of existence.
I have given your question alot of thought, satown, and my answer is this: If "you" ran "your" hand through a pool of water, do "you" think "you" could figure out where "your" hand ran through a few days later ?Obviously, the answer you expect me to provide, will result with a conversation that slips into a definition of terms. By you answering your own question, provides me with an idea of what you have in mind.I have a question for you sir, if you ran your hand through a pool of water do you think you could figure exactly were your hand ran through days later?
KT,Good job. The answer definitely involves defining what a pool of water means. You can arbitrarily define a coordinate system that covers the surface of the pool, put your hand in the water and record the coordinates.Obviously, the answer you expect me to provide, will result with a conversation that slips into a definition of terms.