Be Sharp Designs
I had a notion to purchase an old book by Sir
James Jeans which is named as ‘The mysterious Universe’ which in its second
printing way back in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press. It came a few days
later in hard cover and the previous owner had signed his or her name. The book cover a lovely blue and faint white
sort of squares and the pages faded white and browning at the edges and that
musty aroma of old worn pages.
The book traces the early work of Sir Isaac Newton
through to Sir J.J.Thomson and Sir E. Rutherford and of course Heisenberg,
Plank, Einstein and Bohr with many others, as to the nature of atoms.
However it is the quote that Sir James makes that has always resonated
with me.
The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical
reality; the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a
great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the
realm of matter... we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the
realm of matter.
— James Jeans in The Mysterious Universe,
I incline to the idealistic theory that consciousness is
fundamental, and that the material universe is derivative from consciousness,
not consciousness from the material universe... In general the universe seems
to me to be nearer to a great thought than to a great machine. It may well be,
it seems to me, that each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain-cell
in a universal mind.
What remains is in any case very different from the full-blooded
matter and the forbidding materialism of the Victorian scientist.
His objective and material universe is proved to consist of little more than
constructs of our own minds. To this extent, then, modern physics has moved in
the direction of philosophic idealism. Mind and matter, if not proved to be of
similar nature, are at least found to be ingredients of one single system.
There is no longer room for the kind of dualism which has haunted philosophy
since the days of Descartes.
This set me off into a meditation and then on
coming out of meditation which had very little thought content but just a deep
concentration of what is an image flashed into my mind.
These images are very difficult to accurately or
even depict the interpretation in logical presentation and perhaps it should
suffice to let it be just an experience; however it grabbed me and intrigued
me.
Imagine pure light and emanating from the light, came flecks of substance which then formed little patterns and then these patterns
coalesced into what looked like hinges and jigsaw pieces. It gave me the
impression from the light which is consciousness everything is created. Before particles
are the light, energy, intelligence, awareness and all this is Life.
This no way does the experience match the inner
vision and I have searched for an image to reproduce it only to not have found
it yet.
It came to me that all of the research about atoms
and so on is consciousness put into form and from the abstract extrapolations a
mechanical device to try and encapsulate the experience; the scientist has to
see it to believe it and cannot be satisfied until it is real, sort of solid, even
to the point of streaks in the bubble chamber.
However when one wakes up to the shock that it is
really all in the mind and matter seems to be so profound and real in the terms of data and
laboratory evidence it is either all in the mind and a dream or the so called
experiment just mere atoms and particles, waves and quanta in the end 99.99% is
just empty which may well be the light and energy.
SHACK
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