Introduction

I‘m sure that the ideas and concepts presented on this website would attract the criticism of many sceptics and pseudosceptics of the paranormal and mystical – especially many mainstream scientists, physicists and psychologists who from their believed ‘lofty positions’ would vehemently reject the cosmological view I personally have of reality and quickly label it “pseudo-science”.

  Some may find it amusing while others will merely ignore it. However, it is the right of every individual born into this world to make his or her own assessment of all the information and knowledge at his or her disposal – and especially when one has had an experience that is quite rare but not unknown – even among the scientifically minded; an experience that has forced the individual to consider an alternative view of reality that might be closer to the truth.

  The ‘schema’ of established science to regard everything that does not follow the rules of its own methods as “pseudo-science” is more or less a kind of mental-fascism: the modus operandi of an institutionalised ‘thought-police.’ I would say that the ideas and concepts gathered together here, along with the vital addition of the ‘human element’ – which should never be left out of any analysis – actually brings together the knowledge that has been established by science and gives a more holistic picture about the nature of reality.

  Recently we have seen an unprecedented surge of discovery and knowledge from all quarters, which seem to be shedding more light – not only on our ancient past – but also on our metaphysical and spiritual nature. Running parallel with these new discoveries and accompanying them are the new strains of paranormal phenomena that a few decades ago – if they were not first rejected – would have ‘totally’ defied our understanding. Today we are not so ignorant.

  In general, our increasing fascination with the mystifying subject of consciousness has taken us into the vast, uncharted realms of all-probability – and so as a result the existence of paranormal phenomena is less questionable today and has become more acceptable in society than ever before.

  What we have termed the “supernatural,” or the “paranormal” is now becoming more ‘natural’ and ‘normal’ everyday, because in general, we are now beginning to understand that our reality is ‘relative’ and ‘malleable’ as regards our individual perception of it – a view that would ultimately synthesise Einstein’s relativity theory with quantum theory. And so with the ‘multidimensional’ nature of consciousness on our mind, our ever-evolving knowledge of computer technology and computer programming is slowly bringing us to the realisation that maybe our consensus reality is just one of many . . . a holographic – panoramic, virtual construct. [1]

  The thought that our present existence could be compared to a computer-generated reality simulation, and that we could all be interacting in some kind of “virtual pastime” when there really is no such things as time, would not be easily accepted and some of us would react with anger at such a suggestion.

  Surely life on earth seems too real to be an illusion? No one wants someone coming along and telling him/her that everything that he/she has ever known, seen, heard, touched and believed in all his/her life, has all been a convincing chimera . . . a “game” – yet, scientists have been speculating for years about the possibility that there may be an untold number of parallel universes or “other realities.” If so, then our reality – potent as it is – can only be a ‘virtual’ one and with all measures of goodness and evil that we could imagine being programmed into it.

At first glance and for many people, the central theme of this work may be just another “concept,” “theory,” or “hypothesis” – and if people choose to see it that way then that’s fine. But for me it is something very real that seems to have been completely overlooked. The reason why it is overlooked is because it is our blind spot as regards our perception of the world; our reality; our own truths; our concepts and our philosophical and religious beliefs. Conveniently for some, this ‘blind spot’ of ours serves what I now call the 'Economic Paradigm'.

  While the scientists have been hypothesising and playing with theories concerning “other realities,” some of us – as for example, the shaman of various indigenous tribes around the world and the few ‘urban shaman’ that I have got to know personally – have been able to access these “other realities” (See also Graham Hancock's book Supernatural 2005) and have actually experienced them:

  A,) either through accident, which seems to be triggered spontaneously;

  B,) through their developing psychic abilities or controlled psychic techniques, or

  C,) “psychedelic tripping” – i.e., experimentation with drugs or other so-called “hallucinogenic” substances.

  Of course many scientists do not want to talk to these people or associate themselves – mostly because as an institution science is still prejudiced against such human abilities, techniques and methods. One of the main reasons why is simple:

  Many, if not most of us – especially many of our scientists – are unable to measure and determine what is actually going on – mainly because we are unable to share (naturally) the experiences of those who claim these abilities – unless we take the short-cut . . .

  During the mid ’50s to mid ’60s came those radical scientists who pioneered new levels of ‘consciousness research’ by experimenting with mind-altering, reality-bending, “acid:” American parapsychologists and psychoanalysts like Humphrey Osmond – for instance, who in 1956 coined the word ‘Psychedelic.’

  Other “insurgents” who tested the drug – and mostly on themselves – were Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, Stanislav Grof and John C. Lilly. [2]

  LSD was a new drug, which was being tested at that time. It was supplied to these scientists and others around the world – and solely for their experimental research into the unknown depths of the human mind – by the Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland. This scientific research into drugs was first implemented by the Central Intelligence Agency – who having discovered that the Nazis were experimenting with ‘mind-control,’ had already initiated a program to develop their own sinister and abhorrent ‘mind control’ methods. During the course of their programme the CIA tested LSD on its own agents as well as unsuspecting army recruits. [3]

  By the mid-sixties this scientific research was terminated and the drug made illegal – mainly because the research done by scientists like Leary, Grof and Lilly and the discoveries they made into Man’s multidimensional nature, was not under the control of the State and was getting out of hand. These persecutions resulted in Leary’s imprisonment. [4] 

John Lennon once remarked, “We must remember to thank the CIA and the army for LSD . . . they invented LSD to control people and all it did was give us freedom.” [5]

  One could say that the great evolutionary leap forward as regards the pop culture and rock music of the ’60s – as well as the Western interest in Mysticism, the Occult, Shamanism and the Eastern philosophical traditions at that time – was largely due to the mind-altering drug, LSD and the natural hallucinogenic substances favoured by shamans.

  Like Wilhelm Reich before him, who was jailed for his work on Orgone energy, (See An “Unknown Energy”) it’s not surprising that Leary was also imprisoned for detailing his own experiences and research with LSD which led him to his theory of the ‘eight-circuit’ model of the nervous system – his own concept based on the ancient Kundalini-Chakra system; the seven or eight power centres that demarcate the same number of ascending energy levels that align the human spinal column. This is interesting, as the ancient knowledge pertaining to the Chakra system was certainly gathered by ancient shaman who had experienced the raising of the Kundalini (prana) energy up through the spinal column.

  You see anything that comes close to revealing our multidimensional nature; our hidden potential – especially our creation of reality and the processes involved in this creativity – have always been suppressed – and I am not talking about the information given in so-called ‘new-age’ literature. Its true that many of these ‘new-age,’ ‘mind and body’ publications are tolerated by the “powers that be” – but only because the information being put forward is mostly a “watered-down,” “flowery” or florid version of the truth. Add to the above, that there are also ‘economical’ reasons why scientists should ignore paranormal and mystical phenomena, and you are closer to the truth why such things are being suppressed on a professional and even a social level.

  Most scientists feel that they have a good ruse going. The modus operandi of their game is simple: they can walk around in white coats using most of their funds to repeat the same experiments and pretend that they know most things about the processes of life and the nature of reality . . . all for regular income! It is chiefly all down to job security.

  The establishment of science – like any religious establishment in the past – does not want another paradigm coming along to replace it – especially if this new paradigm lays emphasis on people’s psychic abilities and asks questions about the ‘reality’ of reality. There are many reasons why the scientist would fear this new paradigm; it may finally expose the illusion behind reality, and through it people will be able to see right through the shams that certain ‘establishments of belief’ have been built upon to preserve Man’s economical interests.

  Economics is one of the primary reasons behind every seemingly absurd and illogical action, because our interests in preserving our economical welfare stems from our morbid sense of insecurity which is mostly based on our limited information about the true nature of ourselves and the world around us.

  Science is like an organism that protects the main body of society and its superficial view of the world called ‘consensus reality.’ This consensus reality is one that is based around economical values.

  The organism of science will swarm around an invading body and will attack it – just like the antibodies that kill off a virus. It is understandable that hardly any funds are given to those who want to use this money to undertake “questionable research” into paranormal phenomena. Why would the establishment fund research into something that may eventually destroy it?

  Research is being made into questionable theories and paranormal phenomena . . . but mainly by people who have raised the money themselves to fund it. Many new discoveries have come out of this research – even though the establishments have tried many ways to suppress, ridicule and debunk these findings – often using clever but also cunning individuals whose sceptical beliefs keep them dedicated to this task.

Scientific Discoveries via Intuition and Insight

If the ideas and concepts in this work are not seen to match the “facts” of so-called rational, objective science – as yet . . . they do ring true at an intuitional level. I might add that it was through intuition and then insight, that all the great scientists and thinkers began their particular discoveries. And it is intuition itself, which many scientists who keep to the old traditional school of thought deny themselves access to. They deny themselves access because it is more-or-less taken for granted that intuitional guidance has no rational place in what’s known as the “scientific method.” However, this assumptive rule of science is not a natural way for man to attain new and fresh discoveries.

  In his informative book, Please Explain science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov gives us his explanation of the various ‘modes of practice’ in his chapter, What is the Scientific Method? He writes:

‘No theory or natural law is final, of course. The process repeats and repeats. New data, new observations, new experiments are continually being made. Old natural laws are constantly being superseded by more general ones that will explain everything the old one explained and more. All this as I say, is an ideal version of the scientific method. In actual practice, scientists need not go through it like a set of callisthenic exercises, and usually don’t. More than anything else, such factors as intuition, insight, and just plain luck play a part.

  The history of science is full of cases of scientists who make a sudden inspired guess based on inadequate data and on little or no experimentation and come upon a helpful truth that might have taken years to attain by straightforward slogging through the ideal scientific method.

  ‘F. A. Kekule caught the structure of Benzene while dozing on a bus. Otto Loewi awoke in the middle of the night with the answer to the problem of synapse conduction. Donald Glaser was glancing idly at his glass of beer and got the idea for the bubble chamber. Does that mean that it’s all luck, after all, and no brains? No, no a thousand times no. This kind of ‘luck’ happens only to the best brains: only to those whose ‘intuition’ is the reward of great experience, deep understanding, and hard thought.’ [6]

This is all quite relevant, as Asimov is bringing to our attention the essential ingredient that is needed when the answers to our questions are not practically forthcoming or obtained by what he says is only an “ideal version of the scientific method.”

  The answers seem to override our five senses and come to us through our intuition, or from some kind of divine intervention – call it what you will – even the meaningful nature of synchronicity plays its part in these discoveries.

  We really do know and understand everything deep down at the centre of our consciousness and some of us are able to access this inner knowledge, without any prior instruction or experience of the world around us. As we will see, my theory is that the reality that surrounds us like a sphere of energy/information is actually being created every instant from this ‘Centre’ within us.

  As regards the notion that each of us is "carrying" the knowledge of the whole universe within us, many orthodox scientists do not like to recognise this – but to me this is now an undeniable fact. You see we are very concerned with seeing the evidence of ‘intuitional truth’ in ‘solid,’ ‘measurable,’ ‘physical’ and ‘material’ terms and throughout this work we will see why this is so – suffice to say that this is another example of the inherent ‘duality’ that exists in Man’s perception and experience. We can see that science represents that opposite which is externally orientated – a view, which is predominant in the West and known as 'Materialism'. While Mysticism represents that opposite which is internally orientated – a view, which is predominant in the East.

  Mysticism lays emphasis on knowledge (gnosis) which has been gathered through the intuitive faculties – without which, many of our great scientists would not have made the discoveries which have then been reduced and moulded to fit the Materialist paradigm. The reason why many scientists tend to ignore the knowledge gathered by mystics is that this knowledge has also been gathered by the more intense experiences related to intuition and insight – being ESP, paranormal experiences – right on up to enlightenment itself.

  These experiences are beyond anything we normally experience in our space and time reality and so they violate the laws of physics and would ultimately violate the “citadels” of ‘Materialism,’ under which the Capitalist ideology is preserved and which keeps the collective ego safe, certain and secure within the illusions it has created for itself . . .

‘How is it possible to speak of science and mysticism in the same terms? The first appears to be directed entirely outward, toward the study of nature; it seeks to find reality within the self. These two approaches therefore seem to present two opposed and opposing methods which can be united only if they both yield to some greater reality. Yet, from another point of view they can be seen as complimentary rather than opposed, for both are valid modes of knowing which meet in the experiencing individual, in consciousness itself – which is universal.

  The philosopher F.S.C. Northrop has called them the theoretic and the aesthetic components. While the first (which is conceptual, systematical, logical) has become the accepted method of science, and the second (which is immediate, intuitive, nonlogical) is primarily associated with artistic expression and religious feeling, it is becoming evident that both are essential ingredients of all human knowing. [7] 

“Both are essential ingredients” – as are the gender opposites of Man’s nature, which I say, are first to be united and fused as ‘One’ within the individual before he or she can access the Source and Centre of all Intelligence itself.

  Now keeping with this theme, the following is my own take on the same old dualistic problems we face when confronted with the paranormal – most of us not knowing that this sad situation is based on our own dual perception. To understand this properly we will have to go back and look at the basic definitions of these things that set one thing apart from another: