Transcript for 9/24/24: GOD IN THE GAPS W/ DAVID MASTERS

There is a problem with a finite orthodoxy of any kind. It’s a major flaw in conservative thinking in general. By “conservative,” I don’t mean the right-wing political ideology but the unwillingness to embrace new ideas in favor of old ones for no other reason than they are already established.

We live in times of “trust the science” but that only applies when science has no idea what they are dealing with—so they make it sort of a dogmatic exercise that for some reason must go unquestioned like a religious doctrine or a law. 

Whereas the high priest class once dominated the social hierarchy, Scientism is the trendy new religion of the intellectual elite – equally dogmatic in its epistemological approach to studying the natural world.

But there is more to leaps in science other than vaccines and made-up climate statistics.

No matter how well-credentialed, man doesn’t know very much more now than he did 200 years ago relative to the vast undocumented Great Beyond, which is still largely a mystery.

Given that 95% of the universe is locked in a black hole, untouched by human consciousness, you would expect some humility from the so-called “experts.”

For all the impressive achievements over the past several hundred years, they understand literally nothing about 95% of the matter in the universe. Their knowledge, in the best-case scenario, represents an infinitesimally small fraction of all the knowable knowledge out there in the ether.

Instead of humility, we’re treated to the weasel  Anthony Fauci, seated on the throne at the apex of the institutional hierarchy, declaring himself The Science with a straight face on national television, to a cacophony of uncritical applause by the neoliberal ruling class.

We rely on geeks with billions of dollars to buy the media for the purpose of opportunistic endeavors to depopulate the planet.

Bill Gates is not a scientist – and he has more plans for how to kill humanity than he does to preserve it –and many other scientists make bolder hypotheses about how the Universe has a bias towards living and life – on and beyond our planet. 

The universe is never finished with us –even after we die. 

One of the biggest puzzles that has been placed before us is the probability that we live in a simulation and that if you allow yourself to slice up the wavefunction of the universe any which way you like, there are no limits to what you can find in it. 

Any horror you can imagine. Dimensions are being created while others have changed or passed away. We are to believe that if we are in an infinite simulation --everything and anything that could be happening is happening right now in the universe simply because the overlap of your imagined state with the state of the universe will be nonzero generically. This, of course, should be understood as a reductio ad absurdum of the idea that just any "branch" of a wave function should be a possibility. 

If we are to believe what we have been taught in our various religious affiliations -- the universe itself is biased heavily towards rebirth, regeneration, and continuing through any obstacles that happen frequently through this limited liability we call time.

Would it be a wild assumption that you have lived several times before your life now --and that you have died many times as well -- only to find yourself in another quantum experience that is what the prophets have called immortality?

We tend to explain this phenomenon in terms like resurrection or reincarnation-- but are we willing to accept the idea that finality only happens when the station that broadcasts this reality loses power and there is always one to back it up?

When we gaze into the stars -- we are told that its light has taken millions of years to get here --which could mean that the star is still there -- or that all that we see in the stars are remnants of past existences -- that are literally tombstones and that maybe another part of you -- is out there either existing or ready to transcend?

It is hard to contemplate a quantum immortality but it is also a terrifying and edifying explanation as we are told that we transfigure eventually -- much like what Jesus did when we went to his Father's kingdom. 

Keep in mind that he ascended to the sky --and so we are to understand that the kingdom of infinite dimensions can be found in the worlds without numbers that are above us.

The phrase "worlds without number" appears in the Bible in Moses 1:33, where God tells Moses, "And worlds without number have I created; and by the Son, I created them, which is mine Only Begotten". 

Jesus later declared that in his Father's house -- there are many mansions -- were those mansions --really "dimensions" -- or dimensions within this house called the Universe?

Some have memories of past lives.. they have buried in their unconscious mind -- those lives or programs that sometimes appear in dreams.

Quantum immortality states that, if the many worlds' interpretation of quantum physics is correct, someone attempting ‘quantum suicide’ would fail, as there would be at least one timeline in which they survive.

Imagine always existing and your consciousness migrating from body to body for the signals to continue broadcasting.

Schrödinger’s Cat is the hypothetical feline inside a cardboard box that’s either been killed, or not, by a bullet fired by a gun controlled by a ‘qubit’, a particle that can be in two states at once.

Per quantum theory, the cat is both alive AND dead until an outside observer looks inside the box to check. But there are two interpretations of what’s happening here.

According to the standard ‘Copenhagen interpretation’ (CI) of quantum theory, whichever of the two states is NOT observed immediately collapses.

That is, if you see a dead cat, there is no alternate timeline where the cat is alive.

Other theoreticians later suggested that an easy way to check this would be to put yourself in the same position as Schrödinger’s cat – inside a box with a qubit-controlled gun firing at you.

That’s what we mean by attempting ‘quantum suicide’.

If you find yourself alive once the box has been opened, then you clearly now exist on a timeline in which you/the cat survived

According to the ‘many worlds interpretation’ proposed by Hugh Everett in 1957, though, there are now two extant timelines: one in which the cat lived, and one in which it died.

Let's say that you are walking across the street and you fail to see a Bus coming at you -- at the last minute you jump back. You live another day -- in a quantum flash that Bus could have killed you -- you die in one timeline-- but your consciousness survives in this one.

Other physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers have suggested there are major problems with this idea.

They point to the non-binary nature of death (it’s usually a long, slow, multi-faceted process) and the mathematical difficulties of talking about probability in any meaningful way in a quantum universe.

Michael Pravica, a professor of physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has proposed his ideas on hyperdimensionality, the idea that the universe is made up of more dimensions than just the four we perceive: height, length width, and time. 

He proposes that human consciousness comes from hidden dimensions and is not just brain activity.

But his theory is highly controversial, with one scientist saying that the cornerstone of Pravica's theory 'borders on science fiction.' 

'The sheer fact that we can conceive of higher dimensions than four within our mind, within our mathematics, is a gift... it's something that transcends biology,' Pravica told Popular Mechanics.

Scientists have been attempting to explain human consciousness and its origins for hundreds of years - and the theories run the gamut. 

The sheer fact that we can conceive of higher dimensions than four within our mind, within our mathematics, is a gift... it's something that transcends biology,' Pravica told Popular Mechanics.

Scientists have been attempting to explain human consciousness and its origins for hundreds of years - and the theories run the gamut. 

One leading theory suggests that consciousness is related to how much information is integrated between the different parts of the brain. The more information is connected and integrated, the more conscious a being is thought to be.

Another posits that conscious mental states are driven by top-down signaling in the brain. Top-down signaling refers to the process by which higher-level brain regions send information, expectations or context to lower-level brain regions. 

But Pravica's theory ventures outside the realm of neuroscience and into theoretical physics.

He suggested that in moments of heightened awareness, like when we enter a dream state or use our brains for deeply creative or intellectual tasks, our consciousness could transcend our physical dimension and enter a higher plane.

I sometimes try to contemplate how every morning I can tap into a creative side in my brain and receive the messages that I put into words in preparation for a show.

Sometimes musical artists have said that they receive their information from different sources that they cannot explain.

Dr. Jack Sarfatti a leader in the physics movement claimed that as a young boy in 1953, he received a series of phone calls from the future. The voice according to Sarfatti was metallic and declared that he would be one of 400 geniuses chosen to carry out a mission in the future. 

The voice was said to be coming from a master computer on a spaceship. The computer wanted to urge Sarfatti to meet in a place where he could receive contact from Extraterrestrials and be taught. 

Being a teenager he said he would. He gathered his friends together to await contact but nothing happened and Sarfatti realized that he was a victim of a practical joke. 

His mother however painted a different story saying that the phone calls were very troubling and every time the phone would ring and Jack answered she started to see a change come over her son. She claims that the calls had made her son act peculiarly. One day she intercepted the call and told the voice to no longer bother her son.

There were no more calls after that, but of course, Sarfatti now is a well-known Quantum physicist. 

Back in 1973 Uri Geller a super psychic who was part of the first earth battalion team was receiving strange messages from a celestial body in space. Gellar said that what he was experiencing was contact with a space probe that he called SPECTRA. SPECTRA, he claimed, was a supercomputer that was orbiting around the earth. While Gellar was known as the mystic guide for Michael Jackson, he also was the subject of an investigation by the CIA about this alleged Extra-terrestrial probe that was speaking directly to him. 

While it is unknown if anyone else was experiencing these futuristic messages an article in Spaceflight, the magazine of the British Interplanetary Society had Astronomy and Science writer Duncan Lunan claiming to have identified and deciphered a hidden radio message sent by an alien space probe that had been caught but overlooked in the late 1920s by a collaboration of Norwegian and Dutch researchers who were studying the long-delayed echo effect. 

Published along with an accompanying editorial disclaimer, Lunan maintained that the putative message came from an object at the L5 point in the same orbit as the Moon, sent by the inhabitants of a planet orbiting Epsilon Boötes.

In February of 1974, Science fiction author Phillip K. Dick claimed that he was being contacted by a computer probe that he claimed it was from the future. Once again he heard an electronic voice that called itself Valis. 

Dick claimed that he was hit by a pink beam of light. It happened while opening the door to the delivery girl from the pharmacy. When asked what Valis meant Dick had mentioned that a metallic voice claiming to be a probe from the future called itself a Vast Artificial Living Intelligence System.

VALIS helped the author turn his life around with highly accurate advice, provided a range of deep mystical insights, and even found him a new literary agent to help give his career a boost. However, in the wake of his contact with VALIS, Dick found his mail opened, his phone tapped, his house broken into and himself under surveillance from shadowy government agents and individuals connected to companies conducting scientific research for the US Department of Defense. 

Until he died in 1982, Dick struggled to understand what had happened to him, writing more than two million words of a document called Exegesis that tried to analyze much of what VALIS had revealed. While he had many theories about the nature of his experience, one of the strongest was the one portrayed in his 1980 novel, VALIS. In the book, VALIS is suggested to be a sentient computer from the future in orbit around Earth, beaming messages to selected individuals. 

He theorized that there have been throughout history probes, and spaceships that would beam down intelligence to certain people. Many of the most learned minds of the world would hear that small metallic voice from a celestial body that came close to Earth.

While these stories are a matter of record -- countless others have had downloads and broadcasts given to them as well. Many say that they are dreams, others have visions and get a glimpse of what is coming.

If we are to believe the latest theory form Professor Prvica our consciousness synchronizes with hidden dimensions and receives a flood of inspiration.

To better understand the controversial theory, consider the following scenario.

Imagine you're a two-dimensional being living in a two-dimensional world, like a character in a comic book. Now, imagine that a sphere passes through your plane of view. 

The sphere would look like a dot that grows into a larger and larger circle as it comes closer, then gradually shrinks until it's out of view. You would have no way of knowing that it's actually a three-dimensional shape. 

Pravica sees us as a version of these 2D characters. Although we exist in a four-dimensional world, we can only perceive matter and energy that is of those four dimensions, just like how beings in a 2D world cannot perceive a 3D object. 

Thus, the limitations of our world prevent us from detecting higher dimensions that could, in theory, exist all around us.

This is the foundation of hyperdimensionality - the idea that the universe has many dimensions, some of which are hidden because they are beyond the reach of our physical realm. 

Hyperdimensionality ties into string theory, which states that reality is made up of infinitely small vibrating strings that are smaller than atoms, electrons, or quarks.

As the strings vibrate, twist, and fold, they produce effects in multiple unseen dimensions that give rise to all the particles and forces that we can observe, from particle physics to gravity.

String theory is essentially a theory of hyper dimensionality,' It's looking at how the universe is put together on a sub-quantum scale.

Although we can observe the effects that these vibrating strings have on the physics of our dimension, we can't observe the hidden dimensions that they're vibrating in. 

Could this discovery help us understand the infinite mind of God -- does consciousness continue? Is it more than just heaven or hell -- but an adventure through dimensional time?

This means that the Bible and other religious writings describe prophets or even messiahs as hyperdimensional beings.

But being hyperdimensional could, theoretically, have allowed Jesus to move between our world and heaven - which may be a world of higher or infinite dimensions.

Can this be science's way of explaining miracles that were indistinguishable from magic?

This is known as the "God of the gaps" hypothesis wherein gaps in scientific knowledge are explained by divine intervention.

Miracles to be exact.