Discover lost Solomon’s Key of our Origins

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Ron Howard, potential film maker for The Lost Symbol, recently said that the new landscape for The Lost Symbol will be set in Washington and that Dan Brown was delayed in launching his new book due to him rewriting important segments of the book’s content. Coincidently, Wayne had sent Dan Brown’s literary agent the Solomon Key parchment discovery and its Washington DC connection just a year or so ago to show him the important breakthroughs he had made.

See also the Youtube video that follows below how an enigmatic lost symbol unlocks Solomon’s secret of the stars.

New Scientist consultant Michael Brooks writing on a conspiracy theory about life on Mars either had a Freudian slip or has heard the rumour on Dan Brown’s book plot. After discussing a cover up theory on life on Mars, he concluded: “Only Dan Brown’s next novel can tell us.” Interesting that there really is a controversial link between the Solomon Key, Washington DC and Mars!

Dan Brown’s latest movie ‘Angels and Demons’ is causing quite a stir with what appear to be 3 big clues for The Lost Symbol plot. For the clues to ‘The Lost Symbol’ plot seen in the movie ‘Angels and Demons’, click the banner above. The eye opening Israeli sourced pentacle ‘with orbs’ clue is explored lower down on this page.

The founding Freemason secret diagram no doubt known by the astronomer Galileo has been recently released through the Bradford University in the UK. He was supposed to be a member of the Illuminati as presented as a teaser at the end of the movie Angels and Demons. A real ‘Diagramma Verita’ secret star ‘diagram of truth’ is what is real. The full study of the star diagram which matches the Solomon Key puzzle is covered on the second page.

There are a few a Dan Brown Facebook interactive pages and Wayne is often online there and will upload some new images and other new material as the clues unfold. Dan Brown’s publisher is releasing more clues to The Lost Symbol plot on Facebook. By the way, Wayne welcomes any Facebook ‘friend requests’.

Dan Brown’s new book ‘The Lost Symbol’ has been carefully timed to launch on the 15th of September. This is most likely symbolic timing with the forgotten early Christian holy day of the ‘rising’ sacred cross… the forgotten symbol celebrated between the dates 13th – 15th of September. Click the link for references. See also the grande finale – part two for the Washington monument’s magic moment in time – midnight on the 15th of September. This sacred time is also referenced in the ‘demonic’ texts of the Codex Gigas. See the full story and more towards the bottom of this page.

Wayne Herschel, author of The Hidden Records and writer for this website (below) has ‘coincidently’ been working for years with all the material that Dan Brown has hinted will be in his next book.

He has also found a critical forgotten symbol and all the same linking connections that follow from it that Dan spoke about, including a breakthrough twist linking the lost symbol with hidden records on The Christ and Bethlehem star! This website is dedicated to the historical material sources and their uplifting spiritual findings that might not be portrayed in the same light in Dan Brown’s book The Lost Symbol.

Wayne is a ’symbologist’…

… a name coined by Dan Brown.

[THE LOST SYMBOL IS THE CELESTIAL SACRED CROSS - THE KEY OF SOLOMON, HIRAM, ENOCH, AND THE VATICAN - WILL DAN BROWN SEE THE OBVIOUS? - CLICK FOR BOOK DETAIL, IMAGES AND SYNOPSIS]

More accurately speaking, Wayne is an ancient ’symbol and pictogram researcher’ not having the knowledge of any ancient language. This evolved over the last 20 years, long before he became an author challenging human origins with the substantial symbol and pattern breakthroughs he published in his book ‘The Hidden Records’.

His most important ancient lost symbol discoveries are listed here.

Ref – Key of Solomon parchment source: Wayne is seen here holding a copy of the parchment he has been fortunate to decipher, sourced from the Hebrew ‘Mafteah Shelomoh’ records listed as Or/14759/fol/35a – referenced on line from the collection of manuscripts titled Clavicula Salomonis – ‘Key of Solomon’ in the British Library. Here are the most recent press releases since uploading the findings online at this website and publishing it in two periodicals in 2006; one in the UK and one in South Africa for copyright purposes.

Press releases #1 #2 #3 #4

The new material being released on this website will confirm that ‘evil’ grimoires, ‘demons’ and witchcraft are more than likely highly dramatised alterations of ancient myths created by the Elite either to hide or to encode sacred knowledge within secret manuscripts. Encoded hidden records that would create new laws to protect secret knowledge that only they were privy to.

Here is the reasoning: The Elite, thousands of years ago seem to have hidden valuable enlightening records that threatened their war hungry profiteering ways by ‘demonically’ encoded texts so that action could be taken on their general public found delving into such works. Wayne believes this protocol is still active today, although it has taken a whole new direction. ‘Angels’ appear to be real flesh and blood visitors to our world and the texts encode important stars associated with these visitors as ‘demons’. This will be ellaborated on further down the page. Historically speaking, this article identifies a symbol that has lost its meaning until now. The lost symbol is not only Solomon’s ‘Key’. It is also the same ‘Key’ of the Masonic legend of Hiram Abiff and the same ‘Key’ secret of St. Peter, as seen with his statue at the Vatican. The statue of St. Peter points down the causeway in the direction of the secret of the star fortress. Will Dan Brown identify the hidden meaning of these previously forbidden pieces of important history or will his book hide the truth with fiction? One can only wait and see. It has come as quite a surprise for many that his book title will be ‘The Lost Symbol’, but this does not change what he has already said his book would be based on.

There is something previously hidden that is about to launch.

Once the ‘lost’ symbol is deciphered!

Crucial timing is very important according to Dan Brown for the release on the 15th of September. Dan Brown has hinted that his release has symbolic ties. Wayne for his part, has found a cosmic alignment event that ties in with this date: On this day a very important star, perhaps the legendary Bethlehem star, has the two important constellations depicted on the Key of Solomon talisman matching the exact orientation of these stars in the sky where both are above the West and Eastern horizons. But there is more here. The tiny mysterious star in question is positioned precisely on both horizons perfect West and perfect East, in the position that the Sun was revered in ancient times, exactly 12 hours apart within this unique day! (See the star depictions at the bottom of this page).

The lost symbol you are about to see is the Solomon Key parchment’s most prominent clue. This ancient symbol ties in with many ancient civilisations that appear to have obsessed in many religions based on star ‘god’ visitation making contact with their kings. It evolved into a ‘demonic’ encoded secret only for the Elite during the time of King Solomon, and later interpreted as ‘angelic’ visitation, before becoming ridiculed today as a completely new topic: The paranormal – Sightings and contact made with beings in flying discs. Hidden records of contact made with those of the human lineage and the small grey complexion ‘childlike’ beings called Cherubim. This is an absolute shocker no doubt hidden from the public by the Elite since it will prove that all humanity is sacred and equal. Not only that, it seems they have prevented teachings that reveal how our Elite are globaly profiteering from humanity while hiding a new system that would end their destructive profiteering, prevent billions from suffering while ending poverty… a system that is uplifting and universally pure.

The historical Solomon Key parchment is the earliest Hebrew talisman on record, most likely King Solomon’s original encoded parchment. The layout of Washington DC and Vatican City, with their strange Egyptian obelisks, convincingly seem to be linked to the lost symbol on the parchment. The secret layout plan appears to be designed to celebrate the only day in the year on which the Sun rises together with the lost symbol of the Christ. The very same pattern is encoded onto the Hebrew Solomon Key parchment.

The 4th of July is the only day in the year when the centre of the lost symbol of Solomon and Constantine, a Sacred Cross of the sky rises due East, absolutely in sync with the rising (rebirth) of our Sun, when viewed from the Washington DC National Mall Grand ‘Causeway’.

What could this mean? What is the Sacred Cross of Constantine and Solomon? What does this have to do with a star secret? All of this is revealed on this web page. Wayne Herschel is the author of the book ‘The Hidden Records’. Here on this his website, he explores the matching star pattern in the Solomon Key parchment that is duplicated in his book. In the period leading up to the release of the Dan Brown film ‘Angels and Demons’ and the launch of Dan Brown’s next book, ‘The Lost Symbol’, Wayne will be incorporating more ‘lost’ extra information on this website every week. Between April and May, nine extra pieces of information have already been added on to this article.

According to Wayne Herschel, the controversial and very ancient Hebrew Key of Solomon talisman is a well thought out puzzle. The interpretation of its star inscriptions matches the theme of the King Solomon Testament codex identifying ‘demons’ encoded not just as real stars, but measurable constellations as will be explored on this website. It seems to be a star map showing the way to one single very important ‘Blazing’ star of the heavenly deities, the star of David. The hypothesis is supported with a previously unrecognised worldwide ancient collection of the same star pattern obsession, identifying the same proverbial ‘x’ star that marks the spot. A clear spiritual uplifting message also associates with it. The Solomon Key encryptions and the matching global collection of a recurrent ancient star map, statistically speaking, are now indisputable pieces of data. Without a doubt, they will soon be put to the test by historians and astronomers, even it if frustrates them to consider the obvious: That we have never been alone in this universe.

Ever wonder what the word ‘KEY’ has to do with King Solomon? The ancients used this icon in Elite society signifying that they were keepers of a grand secret… literally holding a ‘key’ in unlocking forbidden knowledge. Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons book (now releasing as a movie in May 2009) will justify part of the importance of the Egyptian obelisks and the Star Fortress that the statue of St. Peter with his Key points to, down the Vatican Causeway. A star-shaped fortress with an archive of ancient knowledge? Knowledge perhaps protected by the Elite and not deemed fit for common man. The Vatican uses the key emblem. They depict two keys, one key of gold and one silver… one perhaps unlocking the secret of spirituality and the other on human beginnings. See Wayne’s findings…Vatican Star secret. The other ‘Key’ secret on the human spirit lies on a mosaic floor from an earlier Pope as seen at Oneism.org. There is more… The Freemason foundation secret… The Key of Hiram star map. A star chart with what appear to be three “Suns”… Sun-like stars in the heavens and a ladder with the key leading up to the most important “Sun” (ref – Pre Christian Solar Trinity). All of this will be explored and linked to other cases of the secret discovered in the foundations of all ancient civilisations.

This website provides more sunstantial evidence in support of Wayne’s controversial ancient star map hypothesis based on findings all over the world in the beginnings of almost all ancient civilisations. Wayne Herschel has also recently announced the inspiring source for all his material with a recent news release on his News page at his website for The Hidden Records. This might interest some readers since his ’source’ is a real eye opener, and perhaps partly the reason scholars will not even look at his material. Wayne would also like to point out to his readers that there is currently a disinformation group trying to use his finding of the Solomon Key parchment, as well as his other star map references and they are grossly altering the correlation scales to fit a new age galactic ‘Silver Gate’ 2012 movement News page. Since the author feels that a lot of this valuable material is being targeted for misrepresentation by disinformation groups such as this, he has decided to make a lot more of the ancient star knowledge connections between the Solomon Key secret, the Menorah, the Star of David, the Crescent and the Cross at Oneism.org

Perhaps visit many of these links in the text much later as it will break the flow of the sequence of clues unfolding.

The Key of Solomon parchment source: The Hebrew ‘Mafteah Shelomoh’ records listed as Or/14759/fol/35a – referenced on line from the collection of manuscripts titled Clavicula Salomonis – ‘Key of Solomon’ in the British Library. In this online library archive link, scholars have presented only this primary Hebrew talisman with its counterpart ‘KEY’. The identification of the ‘Key’ is the lost symbol itself and will be revealed next.

At the Clavicula Salomonis webpage, scroll down to the bottom of the page to view a copy of the original Hebrew parchment. (Click the image above and look for the same detail seen in this image). It seems to be intentionally hidden amongst worthless doodles or perhaps even fake inscriptions of absolutely no importance. It is listed as the one and only Hebrew sourced Key of Solomon. As the outer rim puzzle on the Key of Solomon talisman is pieced together, and once the meaning of the sacred cross is deciphered in its carefully placed outer rim position, all will become clear. Here is the Key of Solomon parchment in clear detail. The ‘lost symbol’ of the ‘Key’ is on top… the encoded star talisman of Solomon below…

Coming soon… The “full analysis” video.

In essence… Wayne’s findings are a little more than just theory when a whole string of linked mysteries across the globe all venerate the same star template of the lost symbol, all obsess with a single star near the sacred stars, and all revere “Angelic” heavenly visitors who appear to be our ancestors from this ‘mystery star’. You are about to see that the Key of Solomon is the same Key of St. Peter, and it is the same Key of Hiram and Key of Enoch. Not only that. The secret seems to explain conclusively the Bethlehem star of Christ … the star of Hiram Abif… the Blazing star of the Freemasons… the star of David… and more importantly also the star of “Wain”… the name King Solomon’s people called this star.

In the Testament of Solomon line 24:

Ref: See highlighted words here in the ancient codex,

An angelic character speaks to King Solomon (encoded as the ‘demon’ Asmodeus)…

“I was born of an Angel’s seed by a daughter of man,
so that no word of our heavenly kind addressed
to the Earth-born can be questioned.
My star is bright in heaven,
and men call it… the Wain”

“…soon we shall again have free range over mankind,
so as that they shall revere us as if we were gods”

Scholars who read of Wayne’s research claims in their emails express anger and frustration. They respond asking how is it possible for someone who is not an archaeologist to come out of the blue and present: Firstly, so much new material, and secondly, material that includes ruins of a lost civilisation on Mars? They refuse point blank to look at the research or comment on it. They say it defies all probability of it being possible and therefore not worth their valuable time.

“BIND THE DEMONS”… UNLOCKS THE SOLOMON KEY SECRET

The Testament of Solomon manuscript speaks of the hidden knowledge in unlocking King Solomon’s secret, and is without doubt of the very same theme with the talisman parchment with the lost symbol. Wayne had realised that the ancient Hebrews encoded this manuscript with the complete layout of the star constellations using fictitious demonic characters. In much the same way as Wayne had discovered in his book that…

50 pyramids of Lower Egypt are a group of joining constellations

… so too are the ‘demons’ encoded in the Testament of Solomon manuscript. “Demons” in this context are not evil spirit demons as one would imagine. The ancient scribes were telling the secret with a ’story’ but for their Elite society encoding the stars and their names and positions. The secretly adjusted codex allowed the Elite the right to take action against any person found researching forbidden ‘demonic’ material (reasoning follows). This discovery is discussed with full online references lower down on this page. The clue is precise and it works for the talisman. Simply bind the stars…. Join the stars with lines to complete the missing star constellation reference in the outer ring. It is part of the star map, to find the place in the heavens of the Star of David… King David… Solomon’s father.

The online Clavicula Salomonis manuscript depicts many talisman examples BUT… to crack the original secret, one needs to search for the Hebrew sourced talisman… the original Hebrew Key of King Solomon. It would have to be Hebrew, not Greek, not Latin or French or any other source. It would also need to fit the manuscript theme of the Solomon Testament which it does (detail follows). Quite a surprise too that its shocking secret appears to be the same as that of The Vatican, The Freemasons and the Washington DC layout plan and the fundamental secret of the beginning of all the great pyramid civilisations! For those only interested in deciphering the talisman here without finding out more on what the star map means…

… it is decoded in an animated graphic, at the bottom of this page.

The story unfolds here piece by piece so you the reader can reference and reason each clue as it is put together, so perhaps it is not worth jumping straight to the deciphered meaning just yet. The Key of Solomon talisman and lost symbol appears to be the earliest Hebrew encoded talisman on record – the original ‘Key’ secret of King Solomon that most likely started the legend of the Key of Solomon.

Encoded portrait of George Washington

His research on the Key of Solomon led Wayne to the George Washington family portrait. He could see at first glance that it holds a Masonic code. A code encrypted within it, revealing the meaning of the city he was about to build that mirrors the heavens. Click the image to see the secret. It is also a completely parallel story on its own. (Perhaps come back and click this image below a little later). George Washington is pointing to the place where the great Pentagon was to be built. It would match what Wayne believes can only be explained as a hidden secret ancient manuscript explaining human origins from the stars and a once colonised Mars! Why? Because Washington DC mirrors the Mars anomalies! The secret also includes how both the ‘National Treasure’ films revealed many Masonic clues. It is as if it was designed to prepare the world for what Dan Brown, due to his fame, is about to make known… on the 4th of July.

The secret behind the Key of Solomon collection of talismans will hold their own ground and lead to identifying the same star secret also held by both the Templars and the Freemasons.

For now let’s not speculate any further on Dan Brown’s fictional account of The Lost Symbol and rather feast on the exciting material that has previously not been open to researchers since it was deemed ‘forbidden history’. What you are about to read about has important references and is based on reasoning logic and with crucial comparison to something monumental that the ancients obsessed about from the earliest moments when humanity built its first great empires.

The ‘Chi-Rho’ lost symbol: The Key of Solomon

Introduction: A divine secret, perhaps once included in the genesis records of many great civilizations, has been hidden for millennia. The origin of the Solomon Seal and the hidden secret within the Solomon Key – two invaluable pieces of history’s enigmatic records, have been kept secret for far too long. The same secret you will soon bear witness to, appears to have been encrypted into the legacy of many ancient civilizations. Their most sacred artefacts and monuments invariably show evidence of it.

However, more often than not, collections of historical texts fail to make clear mention of the Solomon Key secret and the meaning of its lost symbol. Why? It included records of something that did not fit into the dogma of war mongering and of the manipulation of societies. It would firstly prove that we are all the children of those that came from above and secondly it condemned war and slavery.

Humanity has proven it has never ever thought along these lines.

For as long as civilization has existed, tradition has dictated what its people should believe without free will. In many instances, from century to century, leaders have taken it upon themselves to influence the interpretation of the sacred records brought to civilization by those that once came from above. Leaders throughout history have commanded allegiance to their dictatorships by creating a God-fearing society. This was the only way these systems of governance could work.

One must wonder how many of the original texts were altered to make them more palatable for their kingdoms. A difficult question to answer! However, if this really happened why should we be forced to follow tradition and pay the price of our ancestors’ misguided intentions and be deprived of this knowledge? More importantly, whatever happened to all the texts upholding the sacredness and sanctity of human life and happiness? With the disappearance, removal and omission of what appear to be many crucial, original and sacred teachings, civilization has been slowly slipping back into destructive chaos.

The Solomon Key and lost symbol secret was probably discovered during an epoch where religion had changed considerably. So much so that the revived knowledge would not fit the tradition of the day and would need to be hidden. Since the time when the Solomon Key was supposedly discovered, the secret of King Solomon has remained surrounded by mysticism. Throughout history, religious figureheads have tried to keep its contents a tightly guarded secret. They needed to devise a means to take firm action against those that were found delving into its meaning. In all likelihood the lost symbol secret was intentionally embedded into destructive manuscripts on witchcraft.

A society governed by religious convictions would no doubt allow extreme action to be taken against any individuals found in possession of forbidden manuscripts.

They would be burned at the stake.

More recently, some exciting new discoveries have been made that will facilitate the deciphering of its meaning. For the first time ever all the mechanisms are in place for the Solomon Key and its lost symbol to stand a chance of being considered as valuable knowledge. Thanks to a much-awaited event, its large-scale exposure will be ensured. Why? Because it will be this event that will be remembered for bringing it to the table! However, there is no telling whether he who is bringing the lost symbol to the table, will be able to do justice to its crucial meaning.

What is more, given the sensitivity of the subject, and its implications to humanity, right now the famous author working on its imminent exposure may be experiencing unforeseen holdbacks, even interference. No doubt there are powerful and influential elements out there in whose interest it would be for this secret to remain hidden.

However, if all goes uninterrupted, the release of ‘The Lost Symbol’ secret even with some fiction added to it will mean the exposure of a legend that will no doubt turn out to be one of the most popular chronicles of its time.

King Solomon’s Temple of the Human Form

The source of the Solomon Key parchment with its forgotten symbol is Middle Eastern. It is both sacred and pure. Its encrypted message will challenge everything we thought we knew about our origins.

The message that is revealed from the lost symbol in the parchment will provide theological doctrine with unremitting evidence that every civilization is descendant from those that came from down the heavens, opposing that we are linked to an Earth evolved hominid of any sort. Moreover, it will present a bold new challenge to the ‘Out of Africa Eve’ theory from an entirely new angle. One has to question if it is such an awful thought that we could be descendants of those that evolved in another star system… Angels if you like?

Although there is no historical certainty on the exact identity of Solomon in reference to the legend of The Key of Solomon, it seems highly likely he is the biblical King Solomon, son of King David and hence carries the seal referred to as of the Star of David. Once a king of Jerusalem, he became historically famous for the building in Jerusalem of the original sacred Temple Mount called Solomon’s Temple. A temple that once stood where the more recent Temple Mount stands today.

The grand secret relating to King Solomon has been preserved in hidden manuscripts that have survived the test of time. But nobody to date has managed to decipher the mysticism and secret codes that surround it. Some breaking new discoveries in archaeo-astronomy and the Judas Codex have recently led to deciphering a key aspect of its fundamental star encrypted meaning, and this now freely available to all on this website.

The biblical King Solomon is well-known from the Old Testament account in Genesis. Solomon’s testimony originated from Hebrew texts, and has been carried through legend appearing in many questionable and mysterious manuscripts. Be that as it may, everything speaks for him having been a holy man and a good man who had a connection with those that came from above.

From all accounts, Solomon held the ‘key’ to unlocking a heavenly secret.

King Solomon’s Temple referred to by theologians, as the biblical Solomon’s Temple was once a grand palatial work of masonry. Wayne Herschel believes it once replicated a design exactly the same as that seen in Baalbek (below)… so much so that it has got him wondering if this grand ruin is completely missunderstood, and that this is the actual ruin of his Temple itself. The biblical account and the Testament of Solomon both speak of blocks quarried in Lebanon… right here! The Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek is well known as one of the largest temple complexes ever constructed on this planet from the largest blocks of masonry ever produced by humankind. Is this Temple ruin representing the Key of Solomon secret? Why is it facing its message skyward… a message so large that our astronauts can see it! Ponder on that thought because it is the very same thinking… a design plan… as in the layout of all the pyramids and that of Stonehenge and the claim of pyramids on Mars. There has been much speculation among researchers whether the Baalbek ruin represents a man holding a key like the statue of St Peter at the Vatican.

IS BAALBEK DEPICTING KING SOLOMON HOLDING HIS ‘KEY’ ?

IF SO… PONDER WHY ITS ‘MESSAGE’ IS FACING SKYWARD

The Seal of Solomon

The seal of Solomon is the legendary scroll seal King Solomon apparently wore on his ring. It has been reconstructed here. The symbol it displays became The Star of David, a very sacred Hebrew symbol.

It is made up of two independent triangles superimposed over one another. It appears to encapsulate a symbolic meaning: As above in the heavens, so below on the ground. The triangle pointing downwards seems to represent what is sacred in the heavens. The triangle on the ground with its apex facing the heavens possibly symbolises sacred places on Earth. Or as some new theorists believe, the triangle could be symbolising the secret meaning for the shape of the pyramid itself. One has to ask if this is perhaps another way of suggesting pyramids represent something sacred in the heavens: Stars?

1The idea that what is sacred on the ground is also representative of the heavens can be traced back to some famous religious paintings. Here in one of the most famous works by Bonaventura Salimbeni. The secret equilateral triangle shape represents the aura of the Father of The Christ. This painting is also thought to contain hidden geometry encrypted into it like his other famous painting.

The Key of Solomon

The most famous collection of forbidden manuscripts today is without doubt the texts and secret talisman images found in Clavicula Salomonis.

Two original Hebrew icons stand out by far as being the most important talismans originally sourced from this extremely important compilation. They are seals once depicted on parchments as shown below. They have been passed down in what are referred to as the Grimoires. These are collections of forbidden texts of ancient secrets embedded in destructive witchcraft originally recorded on parchment.

Here the secret seals on the parchment shown below are referred to as the ‘Key’ of Solomon as mentioned in the introduction… a lost symbol is the key in unlocking a grand secret. This secret will be explored here clue by clue as it works its way in unlocking who are we and where do we come from. The very same secret contained in other famous legendary ‘keys’:

The key of St Peter as seen in the statue in front Vatican City’s basilica and in other famous statues.

The key depicted in Freemasonry’s first tracing board, the Hiram key shown on a symbolic ladder, or beam of light, that comes down from a star in the heavens.

2 A sacred icon at a synagogue at Capernaum believed to be where The Christ preached. A pentacle and its orbs. It is important in decoding the encryption of the Solomon Key presented in an animation halfway down this web page. What do the orbs mean?

Angels & Demons movie – 3 clues on The Lost Symbol

Look closely at the image here. Dan Brown and Ron Howard have given fans 3 fantastic clues in the Movie Angels and Demons as to the plot of Dan Brown’s next book – The Lost symbol. Wayne Herschel has allocated a special page to cover all 3 convincing clues since they are not in the published version of Dan Brown’s book and are literally ‘out of place’. The film producers used this ancient image of a pentagram found in a Hebrew synagogue in Israel… a site far from Rome and of another religion. The producers incorporated 3 special clues into 3 scenes that were not included in the published manuscript. Strangely enough, this special Hebrew pentagram was depicted on the floor of what can only be interpreted as an intentionally selected historically linked monument! In the film, this symbol has been placed on the basement floor of the Star Fortress – The Castel Sant Angelo. (See image at the top of the page). Put the two together: According to Wayne’s findings: The star fortress is the ‘x’ that marks the spot in his Vatican City star map finding and the star with orbs around it is also the ‘x’ that marks the spot in the identical star secret as depicted in the Key of Solomon parchment!

This ancient pentacle artefact found in Israel (click image) depicts a five pointed star surrounded by orbs. It is the prime icon at the centre of the parchment seen below and a beam of light comes down from it. The beam of light coming down from the star is of paramount importance as the very same star with a beam of light is found in an ancient Egyptian tomb and on a Freemason document. The full detail is covered in part 2.

For all 3 of the clues presented by Ron Howard and Dan Brown in their film ‘Angel and Demons’ and the full historical Vatican obelisk story, click the ‘Angels and Demons’ banner at the top of the page.

Once again for comparison, seen below are the copies of the linked pair of the earliest Hebrew Key of Solomon talismans for further referencing, sourced from the Clavicula Salomonis manuscript. As suggested earlier the icon on the left is the lost symbol that appears to be the key in unlocking the grand secret of its counterpart icon on the right.

The sacred cross origins are as follows:

THE SMALL PARCHMENT ABOVE REPRESENTS THE LOST SYMBOL, THE EARLIEST RENDITION OF THE SACRED CROSS OF CONSTANTINE – A CROSS THAT HE AND HIS ARMY SAW IN THE SKY – SOLVE THE TRUE MEANING OF THE SACRED CROSS OF THE SKY.

Here are more clues:

Three important talisman seals are shown here from the British manuscript with more: A sacred constellation of Orion actually mentioned, Constantine’s sacred cross the Chi-Rho XP with a pointer showing the way in the heavens, 3 crosses as stars in a row, with four others in perspective with these 3 in a row, sacred geometry found in DaVinci’s paintings and the detail found on the parchment of Clavicules du Roi Salomon.

The Clavicle of Solomon manuscript

The lost symbol secret revealed by Ptolomy the Grecian, as seen in the Sloane manuscript – British Library, 3847 – has one predominant depiction and encoded within it, appears to be the sacred cross that Emperor Constantine saw in the sky. But here, the entire secret is presented with all its detail. Let it be said that the Key of Solomon talisman (the parchment with the orange glow) holds the identical detail but with a different code. The balance of the ‘Ptolomy’ manuscript is also completely immersed in what seems to be false destructive magic and alchemy used to take acion against those found with this manuscript.

The image suggests that the Solomon lost symbol secret involves the sacred cross and Jesus the Saviour. Here is important speculation:

The cross that Heretics were crucified on seems to have been carefully chosen symbolic punishment specifically aimed at silencing those who dared preach knowledge about forbidden records of the sacred cross in the sky… the lost and forgotten symbol.

The small talisman next to the prime “Key” of Solomon talisman is one of the first simplified examples of the Sacred Cross insignia, the pattern of the lost symbol as seen at the top of this website. This Sacred cross is the “Key” of Solomon… the “key” showing the way to the secret.

Its secret can be deciphered only from the way it actually appears in the sky – exactly like the lost symbol icon shown in the 10 o’clock position of the larger Solomon talisman.

It is one that is also easily visible in the night sky today and has been revered by ancient civilizations from the beginning of time as explored in Wayne’s book. In simplicity the ancient secret seems to use the three Belt stars of Orion to show the way in the sky to locate the postion of the Pleiades, then using the ‘leg’ shape of the Pleiades as a secondary pointer to find a special star. Ocasionally just the three belt stars are used without reference to the Pleiades using a set distance in the sky… 33 degrees of arc measurement. The codex of the Testament of King Solomon speaks of this measurement, just as masonic texts hint of it. (More on this celestial measurement follows in part 2). Wayne found it interesting that virtually all ancient civilizations across the globe worshiped angelic beings that associate themselves with one special star in this area of the sacred bull of the heavens, as seen in many examples of ancient star maps he appears to have deciphered.

Here is the evolution of our religions: Our earliest ancestors worshiped them as ‘gods’ from the stars – The ancient churches revered them as Angels and stars were encoded as ‘demons’. In modern times they are ridiculed as the subject of celestial visitors in flying discs.

In the collection of records revealed by Ptolomy the Grecian, as seen in the Sloane manuscript – (British Library, 3847) there is one very important secret sketch seen below – it has a small note next to the sketch beckoning the reader to “remember proportion” within the image.

It is still nicknamed today as it was in ancient times:

“The cosmic signpost”.

The lost symbol of the “Key” of Solomon… is Orion… Orion as a “key” shows the way to the secret!

The Key is also the Key of St Peter and the Key of Hiram Abiff!

It shows the way to Tetragrammaton… in the heavens.

Geo-Engineering: Solution or Nightmare?

Chemtrails… Obama’s ‘Geo-Engineering’ Plan For the Planet Mirrors Council on Foreign Relation’s Documents!
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Wed, 04/15/2009 – 12:41pm.

The Obama administration’s announcement that it is to consider radical planetary “geo-engineering”, such as “shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays”, exactly mirrors recent publications penned by the elite Council On Foreign Relations.

Yesterday the Associated Press reported that the Obama administration has held discussions regarding the possibility of “geo-engineering” the earth’s climate to counter global warming.

The AP report states that Obama’s science advisor John Holdren is pushing for radical terra forming programs to be explored such as creating an “artificial volcano”. Despite Holdren’s admission that such measures could have “grave side effects,” he added that, “we might get desperate enough to want to use it.”

Such ideas exactly mirror those put forth by the CFR in previous years.

In briefing notes (PDF) published in May 2008 from the CFR’s Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering, the elite internationalist group lays out the exact same radical ideas now being touted by the Obama administration.

The following excerpts are taken from the document:

Geoengineering Strategies

Among all geoengineering schemes, those currently considered most feasible involve increasing the planetary albedo, that is, reflecting more sunlight back into space before it can be absorbed. There are a number of different methods that could be used to increase the planet’s reflectivity:

1. Add more small reflecting particles in the upper part of the atmosphere (the stratosphere which is located between 15 and 50 kilometers above the Earth’s surface).

2. Add more clouds in the lower part of the atmosphere (the troposphere)

3. Place various kinds of reflecting objects in space either near the earth or at a stable location between the earth and the sun.

4. Change large portions of the planet’s land cover from things that are dark (absorbing) such as trees to things that are light (reflecting) such as open snowcover or grasses.

[…]

Stratospheric Aerosols that might be engineered to migrate to particular regions (e.g. over the arctic) or to rise above the stratospher (so as not to interfere in stratospheric chemistry).

Adding more of the right kind of fine particles to the stratosphere can increase the amount of sunlight that is reflected back into space.

Applied to geoengineering, various technologies could be used to loft particles into the stratosphere, such as naval guns, rockets, hot air balloons or blimps, or a fleet of highflying aircraft. Potential types of particles for injection include sulfur dioxide, aluminum oxide dust or even designer self-levitating aerosols.

The CFR’s geo-engineering research program is directed by David G. Victor a Professor at Stanford Law School and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Also involved are M. Granger Morgan, head of Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Engineering, Jay Apt, Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and John Steinbruner, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland.

In an article entitled The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming? published in this month’s Foreign Affairs, the CFR’s monthly magazine, the directors once again lay out their ideas for planetary terraforming, calling for a worldwide 60-80 percent cut in carbon emissions.

Obama’s push toward a so called “cap and trade” carbon taxation program is also a direct descendant of Victor et al’s CFR policy formation.

A CFR geo-engineering meeting summary document from 1999 (PDF pages 12,13,14) also categorically states that the ultimate goal under “A technology strategy for global warming” is the implementation of a global Carbon Tax.

The memo also pedantically explains how the perceived fear of global warming can be used to sell to Americans what is essentially a tax on air:

“While taxing tea pales in comparison to taxing air as a perceived government affront, the clear benefits of a taxation policy to combat global warming might convince even the descendents of our tax-resistant Founding Fathers.”

The tentative announcement by the Obama administration of the existence of geoengineering research programs is a first step toward introducing the idea to the wider public.

However, as we highlighted in our master article yesterday, geo-engineering is undoubtedly already being conducted by government-affiliated universities, government agencies, and on a mass scale through chemtrail spraying.

Such programs merely scratch the surface of what is likely to be a gargantuan and overarching black-budget funded project to terraform the planet, with little or no care for the unknown environmental consequences this could engender.

Brain Changes in Hypnosis

Researchers Observe Changes in Brain Activity During Hypnosis
By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD
June 26, 2009 — University of Geneva researchers say they found in a series of experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that brain activity is different under hypnosis.
Their study is published in journal Neuron.
The study concludes that hypnosis induces a disconnection of motor commands from normal voluntary processes under the influence of brain circuits involved in executive control and self-imagery, Yann Cojan, PhD, of the Neuroscience Center and Medical School at the University of Geneva, tells WebMD in an email.
The researchers used fMRI to scan brains of 12 people who were tested on hand movement before and after hypnosis for left hand paralysis.
Despite the paralysis, neurons in the motor cortex region were still firing away in preparation for the task, Cojan tells WebMD.
He says his team confirmed “subjective reports of hypnotic phenomenon” and also that “functional connectivity is a very important process in the brain” that hypnosis is capable of modifying.
What was surprising was that the cortex appeared to be ignoring parts of the brain with which it normally communicates in controlling movement, the researchers say.
Hypnosis produced changes in areas involved in attention, and also modified connections between the brain’s motor cortex and other regions, Cojan tells WebMD.
Besides the 12 who were hypnotized, the researchers also scanned the brains of six people who had not been hypnotized but who had been told to feign hand paralysis for testing. They comprised the comparison group.
“These results suggest that hypnosis may enhance self-monitoring processes to allow internal representations generated by the suggestion to guide behavior but does not act through direct motor inhibition,” Cojan says in a news release. “These findings make an important new step toward establishing neurobiological foundations for the striking impact of hypnosis on the brain and behavior.”
In the study participants, messages weren’t sent through normal brain channels, so when hypnotized subjects were told to move their left hands, they couldn’t, Cojan says.
Hypnosis, the researchers found, induces a disconnect in normal voluntary processes involved in planning to move a body part. “Hypnosis is a very old tool in many medical domains but it is still unclear how it works,” Cojan says.
SOURCES: News release, University of Geneva. Cojan, Y. Neuron, 2009; vol 62: pp 862-875. Yann Cojan, University of Geneva, email interview.
©2009 WebMD, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Paramedia

“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.” ~Marshall McLuhan

THE GUERRILLA INFORMATION WAR

“Paramedia” describes what happens when peers come together in networks of influence, using media innovation. In the era of USER AS CONTENT, self-organizing people with the status skillsets of traditional media and access to media publishing tools converge in mutually-reinforcing, democratic and purposeful new ways beyond journalism and the shameless self-promotion of “Web 2.0″ and other non-compliant media and distribution channels.

DIY Media: Paramedia, including desktop cinema, is the medium of the “Naughties.” Arguably, it is the single most important factor in current social evolution, light years beyond the offerings of dry pedagogy and endless Power Point presentations. It penetrates deeply into the gaps of conventional culture, rigidity and atrophy, bursting it apart at the seams, like overripe fruit. It is a chaotic factor mirroring the criticality of our times, and magnifying its influence through the butterfly effect of info-memes.

Infowars: Taking its message directly to the people who either actively seek it or come upon it synchronistically, it is a new way of teaching and learning that suits our busy lifestyles and our infolust for concise, up to the minute reportage, analysis and applcation. As with all media, once you digest the content, you are invited to make up your mind for yourself.

Paramedia Ecology describes the peer-to-peer world of subtle interactions of the sum of all such evolutionary media interactions, networks of influence, and peer relationships. It includes social and political potential, agitprop, blogging, podcasting, videocasting, network nodes, tiny TV, YouTube, and the next thing we haven’t heard about yet but will soon all be doing.

• Paramedia is a form of media that applies the training that has been largely restricted to journalists, artists and storytellers by limited access to the tools and channels for making and distributing messages;
• Paramedia operate beside, between, above and below the traditional practitioners of media and the paramedia channels enjoy an increasingly similar access to audiences through distribution channels.
• Paramedia can be dysfunctional; the assumption by established media is that paramedia is essentially flawed by a lack of professionalism. Paramedia people, likewise, believe the conventional media they supersede is dysfunctional. (Ratcliffe).

“McLuhan believed that electronic environments were molding people on a scale that was greater than any artwork, and that, therefore, artists should embrace the technologies of the future,” says Paramedia Ecologist, Bob Dobbs.”By this, he meant that in mass media environments, people are molded not only by the content but by a sensory bias specific to the medium,” says Dobbs. For digital media, he adopted a different adage, that the “user is the content.”

McLuhan’s “put on” is the mysterious process of continual mutual transformation, resulting from a reciprocal dynamic whereby a reader’s perceptions are altered by putting on a mask or poem, and a writer or maker puts on the reader, having to project his own image as the mask of the user or reader. McLuhan would later note that the “complexity of this process is such that even literary critics have despaired of ever unravelling it. Critics of the press, on the other hand, are accustomed to label the whole thing as degrading…” given that in the commercial sphere, the process can be referred to as “giving the public what it wants.” He continues, “this process is at the very heart of any communication activity…It is certain to remain the central issue so long as readers are human and not merely robots.” -Andrew Crystall

STAY TUNED

Now, it’s time for the TAKE OFF, as we all GET REAL, online or off, once again ~ what is called in media ecology, the ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHYSICAL (AP), the physical body – not just the chip-body.

The audience is US, the users, the DOWNLOADABLE HUMANS.

MYTH IS the pattern of information/culture/community/technology and words/archetype/story/passion. Previously myth was imposed, now it is evoked. Instead of ruling people by controlling their passions, we rule through their passions. Myth is passion and under the electric myth all passions are retrieved and recycled simultaneously as software “form” (to live in on a long-term basis) and as hardware “content” (short-term and temporary lifespan). In terms of communication, which is what a medium is – it’s shared information, it’s community – shared communities and archetypes are talking, living out loud.

“We are polluting Art as fast as we are tidying up Nature. The people of the Earth are encouraged to engage in an experiment of utmost urgency. We must turn off the electric environment for a period of one week to perform a cleansing of mass-man’s mind, body and spirit. We must get back to our bodies, lest we forget they are still there! Imagine the freedom to be experienced as the top-down cultural control of civilization is eradicated for even the briefest period! If everyone did participate in the media Fast, how would we know it happened? Stay tuned…” ~ Bob Dobbs

Who are we?

What we need is a new existential paradigm, a design pattern for putting knowledge into action. Doctors tell us we don’t know the simplest things like how to eat or sleep properly. Psychologists tell us we don’t know how to behave and politics shows us we don’t know how to get along. Pundits and talking heads tell us we don’t know how to think critically. We don’t know what to believe, and fall victim to mind control, the spiritual supermarket, memes, agitprop and propaganda, and our own outworn childhood scripts.

We need a new Participatory Wisdom for how to be and how to get along in our rapidly changing world. We need to change the architecture of our participation with self, others and world for a richer user experience, an attitude not a technology. Science isn’t the panacea. Soon it will make us Borg, transhumans with bioelectronic supplementation. Science still doesn’t know what energy, matter, electricity, life, or the cosmos is, but the secret of the Universe is that IT’s ALIVE! And so are we.

Calm Passion

It is that very nonmechanical liveliness, the joi de vivre of passion that best communicates our holistic Presence to others, to the world. In ancient times, wisdom was thought of as the type of knowledge needed to discern the good and live the good life. It was one of the four virtues, including justice, moderation, and courage which comes from the heart as the root couer shows. The pursuit of wisdom comes from a willingness to expose the pretenses of wisdom wherever we find it, even in ourselves. It gives us the infallible judgment to discern what is worthy of pursuit.

The “courage to be” — what we potentially are, our mission and raison d’ete — is essentially an ethical act of affirming our identity despite any shortcomings or the possibility of dreadful outcomes. It is embodied in two basic life strategies, which can be summed up as, “Say it then play it” or “Play it and then say it.”

In the former we declare our intent. We begin with an inspiration, fantasy or desire, name it then go about the process of making it so. In the later, we place ourselves in the matrix of spontaneous events and find ourselves living larger than life, and then maximize that fortune to parlay it into further opportunities for fantastic experiences. Wisdom is developed through experience, insight and reflection — the common sense of foresight, or “connecting the dots.”

Philosophy as the love of wisdom is a metaphysical pursuit which opens the depth dimension. Sure, each of us can be wise in our craft, but that is merely a steppingstone to the greater accomplishment of a well-lived life, optimizing our talents and opportunities for expression. Knowledge is the basis for making good choices. Without the right information, we are stuck in the “garbage in/garbage out” modality.

Participatory Wisdom

Practical wisdom, then, means the disposition and skill to use knowledge in the right ways — fully actualized power. Skepticism toward rigid dogmas and even our own beliefs helps us stay quietly open to the opportunities which might otherwise be lost. In this mode, faith comes from a solid connection with the nurturing Ground of our Being, the inherent power of self-affirmation, despite the threat of nonbeing.

Faith in oneself pragmatically confronts and transcends both theism and mysticism with a skeptical eye toward their limiting content. In this regard, it affirms radical freedom. This is a freedom to simply be what we are, more fully, without cultural or “imported” conditioning. Insecurities remain, but are no longer paralyzing. When the inner aim is true, we cannot help but be drawn forward toward our own Truth. Aligning ourselves with others who appreciate the fundamental interconnectedness of life helps us thrive. It opens the door to both learning and mentoring others.

Courage in the face of the unknown is a gift of our Spirit. This strength of mind and heart is our Essence, our essential nature, which can neither be taught nor learned, but is a grace. It means power over oneself to muster and self-regulate inspiration, mood and creativity. It gives us the will to surpass ourselves, and joy in doing so. Without courage, we can tolerate neither failure nor success. With it, we can face the prospect of setbacks, guilt, condemnation and even death, for our lives are not empty nor meaningless…but a grand work of art, an artfully lived life with the acceptance that what IS-IS.

Thus, seeking and promoting wisdom means the capacity to realize what is of value in life for oneself and others, including knowledge and technological know-how, but much else besides that is the domain of aesthetics – Art with Heart.

Mission Creep

HUMAN SURVIVAL TECHNOLOGIES

“PUBLIC INTELLIGENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST”

“Control follows awareness.” – Special Ops maxim

“Mission creep” is the expansion of a project or mission beyond its original goals, often after initial successes. It describes an individual, group or system attempting to do more than is allowed by the the current mandate, perhaps at an escalating rate. Mission creeps yield to the temptation to go beyond  the scope of best practice compromising central goals. A term of disapproval, mission creep is usually considered undesirable due to the dangerous path of each success breeding more ambitious attempts, only stopping when a final, often catastrophic, failure occurs. Temporary advances are followed by blowback.

The term was originally applied exclusively to military operations, but is applicable to intelligence and espionage, politics, finance, media, social engineering, draconian legislation, as well as the toxic growth of academia, bureaucracies and corporations. It also relates to the militarization of civilian life, including the merger of intelligence and police, defense and domestic law enforcement. They have penetrated one another.

Misdirected leaders convince themselves they are more productive in their assignments if they deploy unfettered power to implement their agendas. A prime example is the covert operation  COINTEL Factor targeting US citizens. Another is the fusion of federal, state and local intelligence originally against terrorism. Fusion centers increasingly are focused on super-surveillance collecting and analyzing criminal and all-hazards.

Mission creep is ubiquitos wherever oversight is lacking. Losing sight of objectives, it kicks open the door to invasion of privacy and infringements on our civil rights, constitutional and human rights.

Mission creep hit home while the American public was paying attention to other things. This misdirection and distraction is psyops, an information and mind control war for your willing compliance and/or controlled rebellion.

Don’t fall for it; fight back with DIY mind control. Reverse engineer your psychophysical control mechanisms. The Re-Evolution will be internalized. I know what you fear and it’s true, but when you no longer fear, you rediscover your active compassion.

DIY PSY-STRAT for Modern Living: Breaking through Collective Deceptions
Position Yourself in the Battle for Your Mind: Stealth, Health & Wealth

–Io, the Spywhisperer,

http://mindcontrolfordummies.50megs.com

Biowarfare in the news

This new case makes these biowarfare reports topical now -
. I also wrote another story on Shulgin who worked at Edgewater in the early days. http://ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/whats_new_19.html

Long version -
http://ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/whats_new_28.html
http://ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/whats_new_29.html
short version -
http://ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/whats_new_21.html

Claims Come 2Light in New Court Case,
Government Experiments on U.S. Soldiers: Shocking Claims Come to Light
in New Court Case
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By Bruce Falconer, Mother Jones

Posted on May 23, 2009, Printed on May 26, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/140206/
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Their stories are a staple of conspiracy culture: broken men, suffering
hallucinations and near-total amnesia, who say they are victims of
secret government mind-control experiments. Think Liev Schreiber in The
Manchurian Candidate or Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory. Journalists are
a favorite target for the paranoid delusions of this population. So is
Gordon ErspamerâEUR”
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and the San Francisco lawyer’s latest case isn’t helping him to fend off
the tinfoil-hat crowd. He has filed suit against the CIA and the US Army
on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of America and six former American
soldiers who claim they are the real thing:
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survivors of classified government tests conducted at the Army’s
Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland between 1950 and 1975. “I get a lot of
calls,” he says. “There are a lot of crazy people out there who think
that somebody from Mars is controlling their behavior via radio waves.”
But when it comes to Edgewood, “I’m finding that more and more of those
stories are true!”
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That government scientists conducted human experiments at Edgewood is
not in question. “The program involved testing of nerve agents, nerve
agent antidotes, psychochemicals, and irritants,” according to a 1994
General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office)
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report (PDF). At least 7,800 US servicemen served “as laboratory rats or
guinea pigs” at Edgewood, alleges Erspamer’s complaint, filed in January
in a federal district court in California. The Department of Veterans
Affairs has reported that military scientists tested hundreds of
chemical and biological substances on them, including VX, tabun, soman,
sarin, cyanide, LSD, PCP, and World War I-era blister agents like
phosgene and mustard. The full scope of the tests, however, may never be
known. As a CIA official explained to the GAO, referring to the agency’s
infamous MKULTRA mind-control experiments, “The names of those involved
in the tests are not available because names were not recorded or the
records were subsequently destroyed.”
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Besides, said the official, some of the tests involving LSD and other
psychochemical drugs “were administered to an undetermined number of
people without their knowledge.”
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Erspamer’s plaintiffs claim that, although they volunteered for the
Edgewood program, they were never adequately informed of the potential
risks and continue to suffer debilitating health effects as a result of
the experiments. They hope to force the CIA and the Army to admit
wrongdoing, inform them of the specific substances they were exposed to,
and provide access to subsidized health care to treat their
Edgewood-related ailments. Despite what they describe as decades of
suffering resulting from their Edgewood experiences, the former soldiers
are not seeking monetary damages; a 1950 Supreme Court decision, the
Feres case, precludes military personnel from suing the federal
government for personal injuries sustained in the line of duty. The
CIA’s decision to use military personnel as test subjects followed the
court’s decision and is an issue Erspamer plans to raise at trial.
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“Suddenly, they stopped using civilian subjects and said, ‘Oh, we can
get these military guys for free,’” he says. “The government could do
whatever it wanted to them without liability. We want to bring that to
the attention of the public, because I don’t think most people
understand that.”
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(Asked about Erspamer’s suit, CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf would say only
that the agency’s human testing program has “been thoroughly
investigated, and the CIA fully cooperated with each of the
investigations.”)
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Erspamer’s involvement in the case is deeply personal. His father was a
government scientist during Operation Crossroads, a series of nuclear
tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the summer of 1946; he
was present aboard a research vessel for the “Baker” test, during which
a 21-kiloton thermonuclear bomb was detonated 90 feet below water. The
blast resulted in massive radioactive contamination. Erspamer’s father
and the rest of the ship’s crew, he says, all died in middle age from
radiogenic diseases. Erspamer makes his living in the field of energy
litigation, but has twice before argued class action suits for
veteransâEUR”
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one for soldiers who, like his father, were exposed to radiation during
nuclear tests (a case he ultimately lost in a 1992 appellate decision)
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and more recently one on behalf of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans denied
treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The case is on appeal in
California’s 9th Circuit.
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“Nobody out there is doing these types of cases,” he says. “It’s really
sad because the veterans are left holding the bag, and it’s not a very
pretty bag.”
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One of those vets is Frank Rochelle. Unlike those of other test
veterans, portions of his heavily redacted medical records have
survived, providing a rare, if incomplete, account of his experiences.
In 1968, while posted at Virginia’s Fort Lee as a 20-year-old Army
draftee, he saw a notice calling for volunteers for the Edgewood
program. Among the promised incentives were relief from guard duty, the
freedom to wear civilian clothes, three-day weekends, and, upon
completion, a medal of commendationâEUR”
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all for participation in experiments that, according to the notice,
would help the military test a new generation of equipment, clothing,
and gas masks. Upon his arrival at the testing facility in Maryland, he
says he was asked to sign a series of documents, including a release
form and a secrecy agreement. The tests would be risk free, he says he
was told, and any drugs given would not exceed normal dosage. Over the
next two months, however, he was subjected to three rounds of
experiments that, Rochelle says, left him permanently damaged. His
medical records indicate that he was exposed to nonlethal incapacitating
agents like DHMP and glycolate, both of which act as sedatives that
produce hallucinations. In the latter case, Rochelle says he was taken
into a gas chamber and strapped to a chair by two men in white lab
coats, who affixed a mask to his face and told him to breathe normally.
He quickly lost consciousness. According to Erspamer’s complaint,
“Over the next two to three days, Frank was hallucinating and high:
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he thought he was three feet tall, saw animals on the walls, thought he
was being pursued by a 6-foot-tall white rabbit, heard people calling
his name, thought that all his freckles were bugs under his skin, and
used a razor to try to cut these bugs out. No one from the clinical
staff intervened on his behalfâEUR¦”
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Medical records indicate that Rochelle went through a third round of
testing, but he has no memory of it. For years he’s been having
nightmares about the Edgewood tests and now suffers from anxiety, memory
loss, sleep apnea, tinnitus, and loss of vision, all of which he claims
are direct results of the experiments. Still, he didn’t inform his
doctor of the tests until 2006, believing that he was still bound by the
oath of secrecy he swore in 1968.
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(The government finally released human test subjects to speak to their
physicians about the tests in June 2006, under the condition that they
not “discuss anything that relates to operational information that might
reveal chemical or biological warfare vulnerabilities or capabilities.”)
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Rochelle’s story is similar to those of Erspamer’s other plaintiffs, all
of whom claim to be suffering debilitating health effects stemming from
the experiments. Of course, substantiating these claims is a challenge,
given that most of the medical records were destroyed upon completion of
the program. Rochelle’s records remain intact, but for “others we have
less information,” says Erspamer. “We spent a great deal of time on that
topic, and we are confident that the plaintiffs are who they say they
are, were where they said they were, and got what they said they got,”
in terms of exposure to experimental chemicals. “Who bears the burden on
that issue when the defendants destroyed the evidence?” Erspamer asks.
“They’ve put all that stuff through the shredder.”
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Compensation for injuries sustained during human testing of chemical and
biological agents is not unprecedented. Last year, more than 350
servicemen who served as test subjects at Porton Down, a secret military
research facility where the British government conducted its own series
of mind-
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control experiments, were granted nearly $6 million in compensation in
an out-of-court settlement with the UK’s Ministry of Defence.
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Likewise, in 2004, the Canadian government began offering $18,000
payments to eligible veterans of experiments at its testing facilities.
Nevertheless, says Erspamer, “No American soldiers have ever been
compensated.” The CIA and the Army “just hope they’re all gonna die off,
and they will unless somebody does something.”
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FOR MORE INFO ON THE SINISTER FERES DOCTRINE SEE

http://www.vfvs.com/MilitaryMalpracticeCaseStudies.html

Psychological Alchemy

PSYCHOLOGICAL ALCHEMY by Iona Miller

“When the light of the Sophia had mixed with te darkness, it caused the darkness to shine.” Sophia’s Prayer of Repentance from The Apocryphon of John

“The precious goals of alchemy are neither phsyical achievements…nor metaphysical truths…We are not in the realm of metaphysics or physics.” –James Hillman, “Concerning the Stone”

The Metaphoric, Rational & Philosophical Alchemy

We cannot accurately assess the actual historical phenomenon of alchemy, since even in the past each alchemist had his own peculiar interpretation of process and results. This problem remains today, embodied in those who claim and insist to have found the Stone of the Wise.

The history of the Stone is concerned as much with failure to find or hold onto the Stone as much or more than realizing its promise as the process/goal. That is what drives and transforms ourselves in the inner quest. We are mortified, depressed and astonished again and again by our hubris and the opacity of our denial. Sometimes we heartily believe we have found the Stone only to lose it in an even deeper realization of vanity.

We can and do presume alchemy sought an objective, universal truth with the prospect of immediate insight into the nature of creation, not as a primordial event in deep time but as the ever-present living truth. Which alchemy one practices depends on whether one is primarily a psychologist, a scientist, artist, metaphysician, spagyrist, or fusions thereof.

The conscious visionary thought of the alchemists produced speculative images and ideas with a persistence of corresponding thematic material. If two viable theories (or more) seem to contradict one another, they must conceal a deeper secret in their apparent contradiction. This is as true among post-Jungians as physicists and alchemists.

The senses inform our phenomenal experience but so does the unconscious through the mind’s speculative and poeitic thought. Much to our surprise we often find we know more than we thought we know because of the vast reservoir behind the mind. Rather than antithetical to image, thought embodies the soul of the image itself. There is light in the darkness and darkness in the light. This is particularly true of the dark luminescence of the image of the Philosophers Stone. Jung called the Stone, “the light of darkness itself,” which illuminates its own darkness…[and] turns blackness into brightness.”

Philosophy, art and science are not opposed, but illuminate one another in a deeply meaningful way by embodying our liveliest thoughts. If this is projection, it is projection of the loftiest sort, as a means of moving toward the as-yet-unknown. It is not clear which is more fundamental when we consider ‘image’ in a radical way. Both are grist for the mill. Our challenge is to extract the imagery from our thoughts and clear thinking from imagery, including that which relates to the nature of matter and ourselves through self-work.

This is the domain of Psychological Alchemy, as outlined by Jung and developed in the alchemical writings of the post-Jungians. Rather than negating meta-theories, it opens their imaginal content which amplifies their meaning, potentially leading to practical new discoveries. We can still take physics philosophically as if it were still natural science. We have to open ourselves to the call of the Stone. New insight, even unexpected or unwanted, can come from any discipline through the marriage of subject and object, spirit and matter, through synchronicity or the unus mundus. Our challenge is to avoid the one-sidedness of abstract language or the narrow point of view of isolated disciplines. Ours is a multi- or transdisciplinary approach.

Symbol can give rise to thought just as thought can give rise to symbol. Which is given priority is a matter of personal and philosophical orientation. Image and metaphor cannot be reduced, and thought, including theories, can be approached imaginally. The battle between spirit and soul, thought and image is an old one, and influences our notions of best practice in alchemy, depending on our psychological type. We may be most interested in experimentation (sensation), clear insight (thinking), felt-sense subtle bodies (feeling), intuitive revelations and creative speculative thought (intuition).

Combinations thereof will color our approach, depending on which we resonante with and which are our forte. Naturally, our best efforts remain full of darkness, often due to the vagaries of language itself and limitations of even mathematical theories. This darkness that shines is more than metaphorical itself — it is primordial awareness.

In science, substance speaks for itself given the chance. We abstract matter from our image of creation. Psyche’s need to substantiate is contained within the entire panoply of scientific endeavor, but substantiating psyche is not its aim, which is to discover the true nature of reality and its immutable laws. But many disciplines have revealed the need of substance to speak, and such is the case in the philosophical/experimental discipline of alchemy.

Primordial awareness combines the direct felt-sense of the natural mindbody, the ground zero of thought, the creative root of intuition, and the biophotonic reality of our sensate embodiment. Throughout all the eras mankind has sought the Stone, our biophotonic nature was locked within us, waiting to be discovered as an objective reality. Nevertheless, the stone that is not a stone remains an enigma, which does not yield to understanding and cannot be held in a few simple meanings, including eidetic moments of shining truth, or the ‘isness’ of things, a created self or purified consciousness.

The Stone is linked to the lumen naturae, the luminous vehicle and central mystery of alchemy. Sometimes Mercurius is an image and sometimes it is a philosophical thought, perhaps embodied as a scientific theory. Just because biophotons are substantive doesn’t make them less of a ‘psychic reality.’ In meditation, lack of light in inner vision during practice is called “licking the dry stone.” Butthe shining is always there in the core or heart of darkness.

This mixed nature of our phenomenal experience doesn’t mean we have to take it only as literal and concrete, even though it appears to be real. Nor does taking it alchemically mean we take it religiously, even as a redemption from redemption, stuffing it full of salvific redemption. It simply IS (isness), the prima and ultima materia — there all along as the goal of our search. The unconscious remains as mysterious as the nature of reality.

The Riddle of Consciousness

by Iona Miller
Metaphysics, Philosophy or Physics?

Alchemy is a specific philosophical style of thinking about psyche and matter and a unique way of perceiving and interpreting the world. Perhaps some phenomena are better grasped from a subjective point of view. Philosophy of science is concerned with our assumptions, foundations and implications of relying on scientific method. It describes metaphysical, epistemological, and semantic aspects of science.

Areas that relate to alchemical thought include at least the philosophies of physics, biology, mathematics, chemistry, medicine and psychology. In alchemy, they are fused in a transdisciplinary approach. Reasoning, analysis, coherence and reductionism define objectivity. Realism compared with theory-dependent observations, instrumentalism, and the nature of scientific concepts and statements are issues.

Philosophy of physics studies matter and energy and how they interact. The main questions concern the nature of space and time, atoms and atomism. Other issues include the predictions of cosmology, the results of the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the foundations of statistical mechanics, causality, determinism, and the nature of physical laws.

Classically, most of these questions were studied as part of metaphysics, including causality, determinism, and space and time. Philosophy of biology deals with epistemological, metaphysical, genetic engineering and ethical issues in the biological and biomedical sciences. Other key ideas such as the reductionof all life processes to biochemical reactions as well as the incorporation of psychology into a broader neuroscience are also addressed.

A common sense question is “How do we know what we know and what is it like?” Psychological answers to this question lead to felt-sense of psychophysical perceptions described as subjective epistemological metaphors: “It’s like a rock on my chest,” “a stab in the back,” “an effervescence,” etc. It can be located in the whole or a part of the body/mind.

Thomas Nagel has emerged as a highly regarded Rationalist philosopher for his “what is it like?” approach to phenomenological experience. His philosophy of mind contends physics cannot describe our consciousness and subjective experience. He is a supporter of the real objectivity of science but values subjectivity when it comes to the human mind. Yes, the world exists independently of us, but the objective viewpoint is fundamentally unable to help us fully understand ourselves. He warns us against falsely-objectifying ourselves.

While it is importantly true the world exists independent of us, the rise of modern science has permanently changed how we think of the world and our place in it. A modern scientific understanding is one way of thinking about the world and our place in it that is more objective than the common sense view it replaces. Still, it reflects our style of thinking, the mathematicised understanding of the world represented by modern physics. Based in rationalthinking, it does not involve the specific nature of our perceptual sensibility.

Using only the scientific method on the mind leaves out something essential: what is it to be a thinker who conceives of the world from a particular perspective? e learn and use mental concepts by being directly acquainted with our own minds. So, being a thinker is to have a subjective perspective on the world. Abstracting away from this perspective leaves out what you sought to explain. Having a concept of a mental state requires being directly, experientially acquainted with it.
Though physical states correlate with mental states, there is always an explanatory gap between an identification of a state in mental and physical terms. Nagel is not a physicalist. Currently, our mental concepts of human physical mechanisms are not as scientific as chemistry, for example. But he envisions scientific breakthroughs in identifying an underlying essence that is neither physical, nor functional, nor mental, but includes all three of these ways the mind “appears” to us.

Lack of consensus is even more prevalent in consciousness studies than in physics and philosophy. It relates to our alchemical quest because in alchemy, consciousness is an inherent quality of matter. Models of consciousness, from Panpsychism, to Orchestrated OR, to neural nets are even more numerous than models of physical reality. [See Journal of Consciousness Studies, JCS] Almost every writer on the subject has their own pet theory. Ultimately, matter and consciousness are categories of mind.

Stuart Hameroff is a major proponent of ORCH OR, based on Penrose’s Objective Reduction. “Orch OR is a proposed form of quantum computation occurring in microtubules within brain neurons. Specifically, quantum computation relevant to consciousness occurs in microtubules in brain neuronal dendrites linked by gap junctions.

“The gap junction connections allow extension of quantum state zones between neurons and glia, as well as synchronization in the gamma synchrony range of the EEG, roughly 40 Hz. Gap junction openings and closings provide mobile spatiotemporal envelopes moving through the brain – the conscious pilot. In the absence of the pilot and gap junction connections (preventing extension of quantum states) the processing in the manifold (the neuronal/glial networks comprising the brain) are non-conscious auto-pilot functions.

“But the question here is the quantum computation itself which is proposed to terminate – halt – by Penrose objective reduction OR. At the moment of OR, non-algorithmic non-computability is introduced. Prior to OR, i.e. during the quantum computation, the process is algorithmic (according to the Schrodinger equation) and has time steps, i.e. is composed of discrete steps allowing algorithmic processing.

We have our self experience, and sometimes nondual egoless experiences such as those spoken of in eastern philosophies. Words may help us understand something. Experience allows us to know. We can probe the nature of existence by going within our own minds, beyond their contents to the root of being. Nevertheless, we have to be alert for self-deception, pseudo-interpretations, misattributions and lack of critical thinking.

The Riddle of Consciousness

We are all primarily interested in human consciousness. We search for a rational framework that is compatible with natural science. The current problem is that conventional neurobiology and experience do not match up. Perhaps, there is only one way to learn what consciousness is — by changing the focus of our own awareness and using our consciousness in as many ways as possible. In other words, by making experiments on ourselves.

In The Logic of Scientific Discovery Karl Popper explains his premise that no amount of positive experimental results can prove a scientific theory to be correct. But a single negative result can prove a theory utterly wrong. Science isn’t just a collection of established laws, but a system experimentally tests hypotheses. If a hypothesis survives numerous rigorous experiments, it gains plausibility — but it can never be definitively proven to be completely correct. Discomforting as that is, it has become the dominant scientific view.

Consciousness exists. Science has had a hard time focusing mind and awareness under its microscope. After decades of sciene, there is still no agreement on on the nature of consciousness or even what the word means. We are even unsure what is relevant. We are often inaccurate when formulating our assertions. Panpsychism, essentially the alchemical view, is a doctrine (belief) that everything material (including the atoms and the galaxies) has an element of individual consciousness. But, is it correct to equate the concept of psyche and the concept of consciousness?

Materialism insists, “How can matter be conscious if the world is made of physical matter?” Behaviorism and functionalism have their own proponents but they are hardly compatible with physics or neurology. If consciousness emerges from neural processes what is emergence and how is it possible?

An alternative is a universe made of matter/consciousness. How does consciousness arise from seemingly inanimate matter? The nondual approach says everything is mind and matter is its manifestation. Wallace concludes consciousness does not emerge from the brain but is conditioned by it. The entire Universe of mind and matter arises from a fundamental non-dual reality.

Explanatory Gap

Unorthodox philosophies and interpretations of anomalous experiences do not play well to current scientific authorities, because the current scientific method is itself programmed to perceive only information that fits its preconceived patterns. Still, several out-of-the-box theories have gained popular attention, whether they are “true” or not.

Any real theory of consciousness must be compatible with ALL relevant disciplines, possibly including phenomenology, neurology and cosmology. Varela suggests a neurophenomenologyapproach, inspired by the style of inquiry of phenomenology, like the postmodern Jungians. It seeks articulations by mutual constraints between phenomena present in experience and the correlative field of phenomena established by the cognitive sciences.

Many disciplines are not compatible with Physics, because the latter uses its own specific (reductionistic) methods of study. Some armchair theoreticians do not realize the actual complexity of the problem of compatibility of the intellectual products of different levels and kinds. None can explain the quantum leap from neurobiology to awareness.

There are simple therapeutic, life-changing models people can use to transform themselves, their attitudes, their pro-active response, confidence and self-esteem, even if they do not operate by the espoused principles of quantum mysticism. Often these techniques are lifted from perennial wisdom and fused with some ‘gee-whiz’ science. Thus, we have fads such as “What the Bleep,” “The Law of Attraction,” “Distance Healing,” and a limitless host of quick-fix psychosocial remedies.

Because our intellects are flexible and spontaneous, we can handle more than one worldview (orthodox and heterodox), based in different asusmptions, imagining how our experience is the same and different in each. We don’t have to ‘believe’ in them to the point of identification or zealotry to consider their merits and shortcomings. Sometimes even primitive techniques have the potential to influence our unconscious mind. Even a scientist’s intellect is able to handle other kinds of information.

We are not limited to being either materialistic or theistic. The intellect can handle more than one approach operating with separate assumptions. But the intellect loves to find order. If two or more simultaneous views compete with one another, they will either be compartmentalized as in a “religious scientist,” or the cognitive dissonance will drive the belief holder in one direction or another, seeking dissonance resolution or to find a transcendent perspective that is a quantum leap from the (mutually exclusive) outgrown views.

Panpsychism appeared as a result of scientification (putting into a scientific form) of ancient (shamanic) animistic beliefs, based on a misunderstanding of the very essence of the animistic belief system, in which a stone,a tree, or a wind were treated animated ONLY when they were addressed in prayers or in other forms of human-nature communication.

In other words, without the prayer (the human) there could be no psyche-possessing stones/trees/ winds/etc. At the same time, panpsychism attributes consciousness to everything material even in the absence of the subject of conscious activity. Perhaps it is better to describe inanimate objects as ‘bathing in sentience’ than potentially conscious, per se. Natural science provides no basis for attributing experience to ‘animate’ rather than ‘inanimate’ things. A panexistential view would be that everything has an element of individual consciousness. And this is what the alchemists called its Mercurial spirit. It has nothing to do with action or intelligence or dynamics — only experience.

The deanimation of nature was a magic trick of the Enlightenment era, but the mechanistic view is fundamentally flawed. Critics will probably say there is no need for panpsychism to be considered as a grounding of consciousness preceding speciesness. To adopt such a position is indicative of a lack in precision in analysis of research, favoring a ‘god factor’ where there is no need for such and no evidence of such. Panpsychism is grounded in religion and as such fantasy and reflective of primitive mindsets of the past being exploited to try and maintain such mindsets in the present.

But, we can approach alchemy in spirit of spiritual alchemy, which like psychological alchemy takes an imaginal, rather that realist or literalistic point of view on the pursuit of this science-art. We understand its mythopoetic nature and its property of being an artistic medium for self-expression, soul making and deepening meaning. A less reductive approach to panpsychism reveals its role in the history of philosophy as counterpoint to the mechanistic view. It remains an influential subcurrent in any examination of the enigma of mind.

Mind is a general phenomenon of nature (Skrbina). Panpsychism is a meta-theory accomodating many theiries of mind. It simply holds that, no matter how one conceives of mind, such mind applies to all things. In addition, panpsychism is one of the most ancient and enduring concepts of philosophy, beginning with its pre-historical forms, animism and polytheism. Its adherents in the West have included important thinkers from the very beginning of Greek philosophy through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present. Many modern researchers find it a credible, generative option.

Paninformationism, as a general approach to dynamics is modern physics and does not need another name. Panpsychism addresses a different set of questions, which everyday physics has not: “Why is this like this to that.” Within panpsychism there are naturally many positions addressing distinctions between the consciousness of rocks and living things. It presentsa radical challenge to the modern worldview, based on a mechanistic cosmos of dead, insensate matter.

First, it is incorrect to compare a theory and a discipline. A discipline may contain many theories (which use the same method of study), while a theory contains no disciplines. Some disciplines are not compatible with physics. We may investigate for compatibility only the intellectual products of the same kind: two theories, or two disciplines, or two hypotheses, etc. There is complexity in the problem of compatibility of the intellectual products of different levels and kinds.

We don’t know the first thing about consciousness, except that we seem to have it. That doesn’t stop many from offering their partial solutions and branded technologies, beyond those of conventional religion and alternative spirituality. But how does it differ from self-awareness? What does it mean to be reflexively self-conscious? Where is the location and what is the pattern of consciousness?

Are there degrees of complexity of consciousness? Is it limited to the brain or the whole psychophysical organism? Some say not. Is consciousness a given with all matter or an epiphenomenon of the brain? Is it electromagnetically imprinted? Does it reside at the center of all our energy fields? Is it a mind, memory energy field? Is it holographic?

Mediation Dynamics

What is the potential of awareness? Are we entangled with all minds? Is there a collective unconscious? What is the focus of consciousness, attentive awareness and role of intention? How does it relate to the information of perception and objects of perception? What is objective and what is subjective? What are the roles of learning, habits, and phenomenology, the distinctions of perception and reality, positive and negative feedback? Is consciousness always unchangeably subjective, while information and the energy fields that carry it are always unchangeably objective?

Some say that panpsychism indicates a lack in precision in analysis of research and favors a ‘god factor’ where there is no need for such and no evidence of such. Panpsychism is grounded in religion and as such fantasy and reflective of primitive mindsets of the past being exploited to try and maintain such mindsets in the present.

Do fields or information play a role in consciousness? Is free-will a perception or reality since research shows we make most of our decisions before conscious awareness is involved? Can we direct the beam of consciousness? How do brainwaves and sensory deprivation modulate our mental states? We simply don’t know much, beyond the flexibilities of stimulus-response, despite centuries of meditation science, psychology and the modern discoveries of neurology and technology.

Usually the realm of neuroscientists, few physicists have attempted any comprehensive theory of consciousness. Nick Herbert boldly does so in Elemental Mind. He suggests a third alternative to emergentist and cybernetic models. Herbert’s third hypothesis suggests that – far from being a rare occurrence in complex biological or computational systems – mind is a fundamental process in its own right, as widespread and deeply embedded in nature as light or electricity.

“Elemental Mind” surveys what we know about the mind’s outer dwelling place and certain tentative maps we have made of our own inner experiences. He develops criteria for a true science of mind and shows how important such a science will be not only for science but for philosophy and religion. He develops descriptions of tentative pioneer proposals concerning possible ways consciousness might manifest as an elementary force in nature.

Two approaches are particularly stressed: those that stem from Einstein’s special relativity theory – such as the notions of Jean Charon and of James Culbertson – and those based on extensions of quantum theory–such as the ideas of John von Neuman, Sir John Eccles and Henry Stapp. An entire chapter is devoted to Culbertson’s little – known spacetime reductive materialism (SRM) hypothesis.

Three features of quantum theory are especially suggestive for understanding how mind might enter matter at the quantum level. Coincidentally, these three features – randomness, thinglessness, and interconnectedness – were precisely the features that Albert Einstein, one of quantum theory’s founding fathers, found so bizarre that he could not accept them.

These three Einstein – abhorred features, however, have continued to play an increasingly important role in quantum thinking; quantum connectedness in particular has been securely confirmed by recent experiments motivated by the famous theorem of Irish physicist John Bell. “Elemental Mind” makes a plausible case from biological, psychological, and parapsychological evidence that these three features of supposedly inert matter are the external signs of three basic features of mind: free will, essential ambiguity, and deep psychic connectedness.

“The passage of a quantum system from the thingless world of vibratory quantum possibilities into the ordinary world of fixed actualities takes place in two stages, which we might call “reality construction of the first and second kinds”. Reality construction of the first kind consists of the choice of a measurement context. This choice, under the control of the observer, cause the formerly seamless quantum wave world to split into a family of definite possibilities.Reality creation of the second kind (also called “collapse of the wave function” or “quantum jump”) occurs when one of these possibilities becomes an actual fact.”

“One of the major mistakes of the medieval philosophers was their underestimation of the size of the physical world. This cozy earth, the seven celestial spheres, plus Dante’s concentric circles of Hell: that was the full extent of the universe in the medieval imagination. No one at that time even dreamed of other solar systems, let alone galaxies like dust clouds in a vast room billions of light-years in diameter.

Herbert believes that modern mind scientists are making this same medieval mistake by vastly underestimating the quantity of consciousness in the universe. If mind is a fundamental force in nature, we might someday realize that the quality and quantity of sentient life inhabiting just this room may exceed the physical splendor of the entire universe of matter.

Consciousness Debate

Alchemy is a panpsychic philosophy. Panpsychism is the doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe. Panpsychism, in philosophy, is either the view that all parts of matter involve mind, or the more holistic view that the universe is an organism that possesses a mind. It is stronger than animism, which holds only that all things are alive.

Panpsychism doesn’t believe that all matter is alive or even conscious but rather that the constituent parts of matter are composed of some form of mind and are sentient. This is alchemy’s spirit hidden in matter — the elusive Mercurius. Alchemy cannot rely on mathematical backing for reliability, but it carries the authority of psychic reality:

“The old way of picturing energy lived on in the alchemistic tradition in the idea of Mercurius as a “hidden fire” or fiery life-breath or a kind of life-spirit inherent in all things…This fire-spirit imagines everything in nature; he is a creation spirit who contains in himself “the image of all creatures.” In the alchemical opus he must be liberated from his imprisonment in matter and then he begins to rotate in himself, vortex-fashion; at the same time he reveals himself as an immortal componenet of the alchemist’s psyche. By way of the different stages of the so-called phlogiston theory this archetypal image gradually developed into the energy concept of modern physics. There is therefore no concept fundamental to modern physics that is not in one degree or another a differentiated form of some primordial archetypal idea.” (M. L. von Franz, Projection and Recollection in Jungian Psychology)

We must realize there is only a probability of our ideas being right, but the quest lies in pursuing them passionately. We can frame our approach from the sense of excitement that we are taking part in mankind’s great experiment, which is ancient in terms of philosophy but recent in terms of deep time.

“Psyche is understood holistically to include both conscious and unconscious experience. Process philosophers make this clear by referring to panexperientialism, which does indeed accept that experience occurs “all the way down” in reality (and presumably “all the way up”, too). However, experience that becomes conscious of itself, i.e., conscious experience, is accepted as an emergence — in the way predicted by dynamical systems theory (without a total category shift) as a “phase-shift” or more explicitly as the reflexive or recursive experience that makes one’s experiential field an “object” of awareness (experience of experience).

experience or awareness just emerged from non-aware, non-experiencing matter-energy stuff, that would be a total category shift and thus a sort of miracle or at least magical thinking, unacceptable to the rational mind. The emergence into conscious experience, however, is not a miracle (so it was probably experienced as such). It is likely the result move into the symbolic condition of human culture, thus allowing for our experienced reality to be divided into the subjective and the objective worlds. Previous to this split, experience can be understood as the result of the relational dynamic and not as something occurring privately within a subjective entity.

Thus experience in itself may precede the experiencing subject. Unconscious experience = experience w/o a subject of experience, and there is no reason why this could not be manifesting itself all the time in all the way down, say, in the dynamic relations amongst subatomic particles, at least momentarily. Of course, this leaves open the possibility that there may be vastly expanded systems of experience much larger, broader, or deeper than our own particular version of symbolically- enabled human conscious experience (or, perhaps, that there is a cosmic background of awareness-without- an-object-of-awareness incomprehensible to us).

Unconscious experience is still experience, sensations felt, intentions meeting intentions based in blind intuition or instinct, learning accumulating glacially, or, rather, evolutionarily, and manifesting itself in the forms reality takes. The unconscious is our ever-present vital source and contains far more than a single human consciousness could ever encompass since it is both within us and all around us. (Greg Nixon)

“Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of. How simple that is to say; how difficult to appreciate! It is like asking a flashlight in a dark room to search around for something that does not have any light shining up on it. The flashlight, since there is light in whatever direction it turns, would have to conclude that there is light everywhere. And so consciousness can seem to pervade all mentality when actually it does not.” (Julian Jaynes)

“Consciousness flickers; and even at its brightest, there is a small focal region of clear illumination, and a large penumbral region of experience which tells of intense experience in dim apprehension. The simplicity of clear consciousness is no measure of the complexity of complete experience. Also this character of our experience suggests that consciousness is the crown of experience, only occasionally attained, not its necessary base.” (Alfred North Whitehead).

“It has become generally accepted that a large, perhaps even a major part of our mental activities can take place without our being consciously aware of them. Though apparently unconscious, they are nevertheless part of significant mental experience since there is evidence that such activities can participate in later mental and behavioral manifestations — cognitive, affective, or conative.” (Benjamin Libet)

“Basically, the idea is that there is something – which it pleases some but not others to call ‘experience’ – related to receiving, processing and responding in certain ways to information about reality that is primordially non-conscious in the sense that the organism does not experience that it is so experiencing.” (Anthony Sebastian)”

Dynamic entities associated with human consciousness can be modelled as energy-bearing dynamic modes with biologically relevant spatial boundaries and time spans. Actualities remain primary, but defining their dynamics is often elusive.

Conventional quantum physics doesn’t deal with consciousness. Heterodox theories often include it. But the great enigmas of our existence remain the riddle of matter, the origin of the universe, the origin of life, and the human mind or consciousness. Yet, the orthodox view remains dominant because it is so useful.

Accepted cosmology is based on the unique case of electrically neutral bodies embedded in neutral interstellar gas and dust. It is derived from the very special physics that applies only in laboratories at the Earth’s surface. It relies on the incredibly weak force of gravity to create, shape and drive stars and galaxies. It needs unseen “dark matter” to shape galaxies. It requires that stars are isolated bodies powered by an internal nuclear engine.

Orthodox cosmology assumes that the observed interstellar magnetic fields are magically divorced from the electric currents that MUST create them. Complex, filamentary structures are seen at every scale and attributed to colliding gas. But colliding gases heat up and disperse. Yet this is given as the model for how stars are formed. Because gravity is infinitely weak, theorists have had to conjure up an infinitely heavy object – the Black Hole – to save appearances. Cosmology has become the realm of the mathematician alone and inevitably lost touch with reality.

Quantum Mysticism

VEDIC PHYSICS: Ancient Vedic physics claims reality is rooted in irreducible non-material primordial consciousness. In this theory, consciousness is the primary reality of the universe. It is all that exists and matter is illusory. There are many alternative theories of superfluidic consciousness and subtle matter. They attempt to explain pre-space, information and experiential anomalies, such as synchronicity, nonlocal mind and paranormal phenomena.

Perhaps the unified field of consciousness is all we ever experience. Imminent consciousness is the sacred quality of matter — pure being, the sacred root. Lazslo compares the vacuum with the Akashic field. The unified field of cosmic consciousness is the philosophical void, actually a plenum. Further, the vacuum has a memory, making transcendent consciousness akin to “immortality.”

If our own memories reside in a system of hologram-like solitons which reside in a medium of loosely coupled subquantum particles we are back to the Vedic theory of Akasha or Jung’s collective unconscious. To access this information we need to tune our consciousness to resonate with the holograms in the vacuum field.

There are contemporary models of consciousness/matter with and without chaos that are rooted in the vacuum. Some energetic descriptions of consciousness are more worthy of our alchemical attention than others, though each contribute another facet, another point of view. The view is that consciousness in its various forms is inherent in the process of the organization of matter and energy.

SELF-AWARE UNIVERSE: Amit Goswami, PhD proposes consciousness as the fundamental reality of the material world, based in the philosophy of monistic idealism. He claims it is a consistent, paradox-free interpretation of quantum mechanics that accounts for nonlocal psychic phenomena, such as self-consciousness, free will, creativity and ESP. There is one webwork of existence, a dance of creation and annihilation, with intentionality. But Goswami does not propose consciousness is mind; they are different concepts.

In monistic idealism, the consciousness of the subject in a subject-object experience is the same consciousness that is the ground of all being. Therefore, consciousness is unitive. The domain of potentia also exists in consciousness. Nothing is outside consciousness.

Buddha tells us that, “There is an Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, Unformed. If there were not this Unborn, this Unoriginated, this Uncreated, this Unformed, escape from the world of the born, the originated, the created, the formed would not be possible.” But there is this essential ground, and it is possible to “escape” spacetime, according to Buddha.

If the brain-mind is itself an object in a nonlocal consciousness that encompasses all reality, then what we call objective empirical reality is within this consciousness. The one becomes many through self-reference, fragmentation into tangled hierarchies of self-iterating information.

The trick is to distinguish between consciousness and awareness. In processes of which we are aware classical models prevail. When we consciously see, consciousness collapses the quantum state of the brain-mind. Unconscious processing does not effect collapse of the quantum wave-function, pinning down quantum entities to one reality. Thus, unconscious processing permits the expression of nonlocal phenomena.

The situation in the brain-mind, with consciousness collapsing the wave function may only happen when awareness is present. There is a tangled hierarchy within the immanent self-reference of a system observing itself. An operation by a self-referential system is where the von Neumann chain stops.

According to the idealist interpretation, coherent superpositions exist in a transcendent domain as formless archetypes of matter. Suppose that the parallel universes of the many-worlds theory are not material but archetypal in content–universes of the mind. Then, each observation makes a causal pathway in the fabric of possibilities in the transcendent domain of reality. Once the choice is made, all except one of the pathways are excluded from the world of manifestation.

Goswami proposes that, “the universe exists as formless potentia in myriad possible branches in the transcendent domain and becomes manifest only when observed by conscious beings.” These self-referential observations plot the universe’s causal history, rejecting the myriad parallel alternatives that never manifest.

The universe bifurcates in every event in the transcendent domain, becoming many branches, until in one of the branches there is a sentient being that can look with awareness and complete a quantum measurement, according to Goswami. The causal pathway leading to that sentient being collapses into space-time reality.

Meaning arises in the universe when sentient beings observe it, choosing causal pathways from among the myriad transcendent possibilities. This anthropocentric view is also reflected in cosmology as the Anthropic Principle, where the cosmos is created for our sake. Amazingly, this is apparently compatible with quantum physics.

The self of our self-reference is due to a tangled hierarchy, but our consciousness is the consciousness of the Being that is beyond the subject-object split. There is no other source of consciousness in the universe. The self of self-reference and the consciousness of the original consciousness, together, make what we call self-consciousness.

Goswami, Amit and Richard E. Reed, Maggie Goswami; THE SELF-AWARE UNIVERSE: HOW CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES THE MATERIAL WORLD; Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam Books, New York, 1993.

IMPLICATE ORDER: One of the most popular theories is David Bohm’s holographic Implicate Order, which annihilates the notion of empty space. Bohm showed space is as real as the matter that moves through it. Space and Matter are interconnected. Calculations of zero-point energy suggest space is full rather than empty.

Plasma & Vortex Theories

“…at the conclusion of the alchemical work, there arises a rotating, eternal structure, the ‘one nature’…the prima materia is in Komarios’ view, a rotating heavenly order come down into matter ‘which God not man, has transferred there.’ ” The Opus follows a cyclic course. It wanders through the four elements until they come together in a pearl, merging in the center between opposites. Then nature conquers nature and is completed and becomes vortex-shaped (Zosimos’ idea). This whirlwind in matter moves analogously to the course of the stars in the firmamant, but it also represents the mystery of the soul and is a substance described as a murderous poison and revivifying pharmakon. It is thus an all-ermeating world-spirit which gathers the cosmos and its contents into unity. When the alchemist’s soul unites with the divine spirit there is a genuine transformation via meditation.” (M.L. von Franz, Number and Time)

Wal Thornhill’s ELECTRIC UNIVERSE is plasma-based. Since plasma comprises almost all the universe it is another candidate for the mysterious IT which comprises the “Mind that is the Universe.” Plasma belongs right in there with photons, gravity, and the vacuum potential.

Plasma is an emergent (i.e., higher-level or statistical-level) orderliness of complex electrical forces: such properties as filamentation, long-range attraction and short-range repulsion, braiding, characteristic velocities, formation and decay of plasmoids, and identity of properties at different scales. The Electric Universe cosmology is based on the behavior of electrically charged bodies embedded in a charged plasma. Plasma is a gas in which electrons have been removed from some of the atoms – in other words, it is ionised. Plasma is an excellent electrical conductor. 99.999% of matter in the universe is composed of plasma. A charged plasma has a small excess of negative or positive charge. Plasma naturally forms filaments in response to electric and magnetic fields. Those filaments may “pinch” magnetically to form stars. Stars are not isolated but receive electrical power from the galaxy – hence the million degree solar corona. Electromagnetic forces are infinitely more powerful than gravity and capable of simply explaining phenomena attributed to Black Holes. Electromagnetic forces can repel or attract. Gravity only attracts – requiring amazing legerdemain to explain colossal outpourings of matter from centres of galaxies. Plasma cosmology is the practical realm of electrical engineers. It is verifiable by experiment because of the enormous scalability of the phenomena. www.holoscience.com/views/vi…lasma.htm

TWISTOR SPACE: Roger Penrose describes a theory of twistor space, which maps the geometric objects of the four dimensional space-time (Minkowski Space) into the geometric objects in the 4-dimensional complex space with the metric signature. The coordinates in such a space are called “twistors,” useful for geometrically modeling emergent theories of quantum gravity. This approach is natural for solving the equations of motion of massless fields of arbitrary spins.

Twistors are vortex-shaped forms. A vortex is the only way in which a fluid may move through itself. Physics regards mathematical forms, (not “things”), as the smallest building blocks of matter. Twistor modelling relates the nature of matter to space. Twistors are 20 orders of magnitude smaller than a nuclear particle. They are mathematical concepts which are massless.

The Torus model of the Universe, proposed by Arthur Young, could provide a macrocosmic paradigm for experiencing higher mystical states. A twistor is the smallest discovered form of a torus. A torus is a donut-shaped form plus its surrounding fields. Each twistor is shaped like a donut or piece of rope. It twists just once as it circles a central axis. The less energy it has, the greater its size. It travels at the speed of light in the direction of its axis.

Twistor theory uses complex numbers for expression. Complex numbers are composed of real and imaginary parts. The behavior of one part is influenced by the other part and vice versa. If the two separate types of numbers are to be properly combined to make complex numbers, they must be interwoven like the warp and woof of finished cloth.

Once this bolt of complex number “cloth” is woven, it can be “crumpled” but the interwoven nature of the real and imaginary parts prevent the possibility of tangled snarls. This loom analogy describes the orderly quality of the cmplex number and the logical manner in which it behaves. The addition of the imaginary part to the real number brings the real number out of the realm of potential and into the real world of manifestation.

Twistor theory goes beyond the use of the orderly, complex numbers to describe the universe. Twistor theory attempts to take into account empty space. A long-term aim of twistor theory is to eliminate the physical theory of a continuum, or “smooth” empty space. It is not empty; it is the Void.

A twistor space universe is described by four complex numbers, giving a total of eight parts to describe this view of reality. These include the 3 dimensions of position in space, two angular directions of motion through space-time, and the energy, spin, and polarization of that motion. In this view, the fundamental building blocks of this universe are twistors. Not particles, twistors lie between the concepts of particle and point. Mathematically, a twistor is closer to being the square root of a particle. Yet, theoretically, it is more analogous to the concept of the undivided point.

Real number behavior is controlled by the hidden complex structure of twistor space. Not only can particles be constructed out of twistors, but even the points in space-time themselves. A point in space-time is generated by the collection of twistors representing all possible light paths through that space-time point. What is intriguing about the 8-dimensional twistor space is that, by the orderly nature of complex numbers, only one kind of space-time is permitted to exist. That is the four-dimensional space-time of our perceived world.

RESONANCE PROJECT: The Haramein-Rauscher metric is a new solution to Einstein’s Field Equations that incorporates torque and Coriolis effects. The bottom line of Haramein’s Resonance Project is that all particles have a mini-black hole at their core. This approach appears to fit well with the spinor approach in the Dirac formalism in the quantum domain, that is, that the Lorentz conditions applied by Einstein in relativity may be the origin of the spinor and, hence, be the fundamental theory that yields the spinor formalism and the role of spin in physical phenomena. theresonanceproject.org/research.html

The dual torus topology occupies a central role in the spinor, twistor and quaternionic formulation. This topology appears to be ubiquitous in astrophysical and cosmological phenomena and is predicted by the U4 bubble of the affine connection in the Haramein-Rauscher solution to Einstein’s field equations. The geometric structure of the complexified Minkowski space is associated with the twistor algebra, spinor calculus, and the SUn groups of the quaternionic formalism. Hence quantum theory and relativity are related mathematically through the dual torus topology.

They examine the gravitic and electromagnetic collective coherent structures of plasma and their interactions with the vacuum. A balance equation between extremely collapsing gravitational systems and their surrounding energetic plasma media is proposed. The dynamics of the plasma media, the structure of the vacuum, and the coupling of electromagnetic and gravitational forces with the inclusion of torque and Coriolis phenomena is described by the Haramein-Rauscher solution to Einstein’s field equations.

The exotic nature of complex black holes involves not only the black hole itself but the surrounding plasma media. The main forces involved are intense gravitational collapsing forces, powerful electromagnetic fields, charge, and spin angular momentum. We find soliton or magneto-acoustic plasma solutions to the relativistic Vlasov equations solved in the vicinity of black hole ergospheres. Collective phonon or plasmon states of plasma fields are given. We utilize the Hamiltonian formalism to describe the collective states of matter and the dynamic processes within plasma allowing us to deduce a possible polarized vacuum structure and a unified physics.

A Peacock’s Tail of Theories

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Whether we discuss theories that are orthodox, heterodox, fashionable or turn out to describe reality, our quest is a journey through the Imaginal Realm. Perhaps the alchemical notion of Anima Mundi needs to become Anima Universalis or Anima Imaginalis.

Infinite Space is the Goddess whose womb gives us our very existence. For medieval alchemists, the Earth was the center of it all, and what little they knew of the heavens revolved around it. In a relatively short time we have discovered our own galaxy, countless others and expanded our understanding of the immensity of space and deep time.

Space is vast and her mysteries are deeper than the Hubble Deep Field photos which allows us to peer back aeons to the birth of proto-galaxies. Everywhere we look there are hundreds of thousands of galaxies in even a portion of seemingly “empty” space. Maybe perception equals reality, but reality in real-time may not equal truth.

Maybe there is a spectrum of truths like there is of prismatic colors. In this sense, the many theories of reality are the Millennial version of the alchemical peacock’s tail that heralds the beginnings of integration, the Unus Mundus, the Grand Unified Theory or Theory of Everything in physics. The irridescent tail represents all the colors of light while the “eyes” symbolize all potential universes.

The challenge for the alchemist is to trust the process, the life force we presume is at work in the universe. There is, in the end, only one Life Force, though it operates on many levels, each with its own set of challenges. Discrimination of some sort, at every level, is therefore essential. Unity exists, but so does duality. Truth exists but so do fantasies.
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A Peacock’s Tail of Theories

Theory must explain what is observed. But almost invariably that description is an interpretation of the abstract mathematics of quantum mechanics. Contending schools of thought include Copenhagen, Transactional, Many Worlds, Bohm, existential, stochastics, many minds, objective collapse, decoherence, quantum logic, etc.

Many terms are possible properties. They are attempts to explain how quantum mechanics informs our understanding of nature since experiments are open to different interpretations (QFT, QED, SED, QCD, etc.). They are sets of rules for operating on experimental data. They help us determine the probability of certain results. A given theory may have two interpretations, one of which is deterministic, and the other not. There are variants within interpretations even though the physical theory stands.

Interpretations help us determine what is considered “real,” but they also appeal imaginatively to our archetypal beliefs. Because of their archetypal nature, theories function like Strange Attractors holding us in thrall. So, we can get zealously hooked on certain theories because of their qualities and implications. It is a philosophical as well as scientific problem. The status of interpretations is a matter of philosophical argument. Casting aside consensus opinion, heterodox theories strike out on their own based on different assumptions. The boudaries of realism and belief may blur. Different observers give different accounts of phenomena. No experimental evidence distinguishes among interpretations.

Energetic Change

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ENERGETIC CHANGE: THE CHAOTIC, THE ORDERLY, THE IMAGINAL & THE REAL:

The Transmodern Alchemist, like his or her medieval or Renaissance counterpart, is rightly concerned with the true nature of reality. The great enigmas of our existence remain the riddle of matter, the origin of the universe, the origin of life, and the human mind or consciousness. We are philosophers; we seek wisdom. We are in a romance with the Cosmos, the dark hunting ground of the Unknown.

The universe informs our awareness and being. Sometimes the universal laws of nature lead us beyond ordinary science. Subjects in isolation don’t provide enough to accurately describe our complex world. More disciplines, more tools, better technologies. In theoretics we build up and tear down relentlessly, questioning our own underpinnings, adhering to no stale theory: “Solve et Coagula.”

Since matter remains a paradox, our Work, comprehending the spirit of matter, means learning more than the Standard Theory of physics. Both orthodox and heterodox theories stimulate our imaginative and spiritual perception. Energy and information fields, not just genetics, drive human psychophysiology. Libido (psychic energy) drives the imagination. When we speak of Mercury, Sulpher and Salt, we mean our spiritual, energetic and physical bodies as well as the elements.

Each theory adds another piece to the puzzle of existence and meaning and might potentially lead to breakthrough on the bench or in consciousness. Such a brief, conceptual survey of alternate theories in physics cannot do them justice, but it can provide leads for further contemplation and research for the esoteric physics of lab work.

We study the nature of being and our own being, the essence of inner reality. Consciousness is a timeless transformative force unfolding in nature. Alchemy, art and physics are modes of inquiry. So are symbolic contemplation and interaction, transformation of the material and immaterial self.

Alchemy was perhaps the first systems theory approach to metaphysics as a science of the transformation of complex systems. Dynamic systems exist, they are ubiquitous. The cosmos, our psychophysical orgamisms and society are complex systems. Alchemy and physics study the basic principles of components, structures and relationships. Systems may be ordered or disordered, or temporarily regress to an earlier stage. System engage in dynamic interaction. Dynamic tension is a basic principle of change.

Naturally, alchemists will vary in desire and capacity to unravel such deep notions. However, putting forth the effort can only enlarge our worldview, deepening our process-oriented understanding of complex psychology and physics, particularly micro- and astrophysics. But whatever is happening contains emergent meaning and can be mined for that realization. Process is an unfolding, a flow. Amplifying our experiences can reveal their depth, purpose and significance.

Awareness of our energetic potential gives new meaning to our photonic being — that we are truly made Light and so is the entire manifestation. Light reconciles the opposites. The photon is its own antiparticle because it is electrically neutral.

The dynamic photonic field includes light in all its forms: radio waves, x-rays, microwaves, and all manifestations of the electric and magnetic fields. Some frequencies resonate with our biology. There seems to be a cosmic superconductor, a space-filling medium that is a primary reality with different properties than the classical ether. Wilczek calls this highly structured empty space the Grid.

Dynamic Form

Each of us is a miniature universe. Our aim, beyond regenerating and illuminative spagyrics, is psychological and spiritual transformation. The least nature can do is fill us with awe at Her majesty. We can change the chemistry of our own thought processes by feeding in facts and imaginative flight about the nature of reality and letting it cook within us. Therein lies the “art of transformation.” Alchemy speeds up the dynamic process activating hidden energies trapped in matter.

This distillation of spirit and thought, alchemical wisdom can be applied to everything we do. Thus, we find our union of soul, spirit and our physical condition — a soulful mind/matter connection. At least in our imaginations, we can take the quantum leap, visit parallel worlds, inhabit our energetic light bodies, ride on beams of photonic light, dive in The Abyss of a black hole, or realize our Zero Point. We walk a razor’s edge so the sourc of life doesn’t become a bringer of destruction to the literal children of the stars.

Through psychological alchemy, Jung probed the secrets of the soul. Through observing the threshold of matter, physicists probe the secrets of matter. The secret is matter does not exist beyond consciousness. Still unknown principles fuse us with the cosmos. The Elixir of Eternal Life is seizing the noble fruit, deep awareness, in each and every moment, extracting the gold of its quintessence.

In the alchemical process, we touch the unseen forces of nature, Universal energies that interpenetrate us, utterly. More than a change in perspective, we begin living in the One World, the Unus Mundus. There are deeper non-personal realms common to humankind. Beyond individuation, the healing of psyche and soma, this is part of the collective transformation of our global culture toward sacred living.

Our challenge is to leave our world better than we found it by tapping our creativity and deepening our spirituality. Dualism is always there, ditto the hazard of literalisms, but the created meaning may be the only glue that holds them and us together in the One World. It DOES “matter,” because, well — here we ARE!

“Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.” –Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

“At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.” –Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

“The concept of the vacuum in quantum field theory is a subtle one. Vacuum states have a rich and complex set of properties that produce distinctive, though usually exceedingly small, physical effects. Quantum vacuum noise is familiar in optical and electronic devices, but in this paper I wish to consider extending the discussion to systems in which gravitation, or large accelerations, are important. This leads to the prediction of vacuum friction: The quantum vacuum can act in a manner reminiscent of a viscous fluid. One result is that rapidly changing gravitational fields can create particles from the vacuum, and in turn the backreaction on the gravitational dynamics operates like a damping force. I consider such effects in early universe cosmology and the theory of quantum black holes, including the possibility that the large-scale structure of the universe might be produced by quantum vacuum noise in an early inflationary phase. I also discuss the curious phenomenon that an observer who accelerates through a quantum vacuum perceives a bath of thermal radiation closely analogous to Hawking radiation from black holes, even though an inertial observer registers no particles. The effects predicted raise very deep and unresolved issues about the nature of quantum particles, the role of the observer, and the relationship between the quantum vacuum and the concepts of information and entropy.” –P. Davies, ©2001 American Institute of Physics.