The New Alignment of Science, Religion and Philosophy
In this second installment, I
included different insights on time that shape into the world’s theories today.
The entirety of the world’s existence cannot produce an ultimate definition of
time that can be proven through anything but another theory. In the first part,
I explain how the religion of Buddhism interprets time through the present
being. Second, I include information about how metaphysics can distinctly explain
time in a physical sense. Also, I researched the theory of questioning the
actual existence of time. Lastly, I wrote about how psychoactive drugs can skew
a person’s perception of time. After the text, I posted links to a few interesting
documentaries that have altered my view on time and religion. Feel free to take
a look J
The effect of these new discoveries on our culture will
be staggering in its power to lead the people of the world to enlightenment.
The majority of our world population still embraces the material and scientific
as the only real truth of reality.
It’s ironic that for the first time it may be these very
scientific beliefs that will cause many to look beyond the walls of analytical
science and step into a deeply personal, thoughtful and inspiring journey that
will help them find their true place in the universe, and the universe within
themselves.
The impact of science, religion and philosophy now
aligned so closely for the first time cannot be underestimated. This could open
a floodgate ushering the masses of the world’s population into the new age and
lead to a new enrichment of the human experience for more people across the
globe than ever before experienced in the documented history of civilization.
It is very
impressive that this “new” view of the universe, the same views held by
metaphysicists and eastern mystics for thousands of years is now being
rediscovered in the strangest of places, in the scientific laboratories all
around the world.
The Buddhist Conception of Time and Temporality
During the early period of Indian thought,
time baffled the Indian thinkers to such an extent that they came to look upon it
not only as the cause of the universe but also as an all-pervading principle
which governs everything in it. But as speculation advanced, time came to
be considered one of the causes which determines the course of natural phenomena.
With the insight, he gained as he sat contemplating
under the bodhi tree on the bank of the river Nera~njaraa, the Buddha realized
that everything in this world of experience is causally produced, it was
this insight that enabled him to eliminate all the doubts he had
entertained regarding the nature of existence. Thus, in early Buddhism,
there stood recognition of the fact that everything is impermanent, conditioned,
and causally produced, along with the denial of anything with a permanent speculation
regarding time. But it must be emphasized that during this early
period of Buddhist thought, whatever reflections there were on the problem of
time were invariably connected with speculation on the nature of things which
are temporal.
There is a profound connection between
the reality of time and the existence of an incalculable element in the
universe. In the early Buddhist texts, this is referred to as the theory of
self-causation and was based on the belief in a self, considered to
be the essence of everything. Thus, "everything exists".
This leads to the view that the consequence preexists in the cause, the future
in the present. Such a strictly determined causal principle would also mean
that we can, by examining the present, predict with absolute certainty what
will happen in the future, for the future is merely the hidden present. For
this reason, temporality becomes a mere illusion.
None
of the extrasensory perceptions recognized in early Buddhism refer to
the future.
The famous quatrain in the Jaataka runs:
including oneself;
the being who consumes time,
cooks the cooker of beings.
Although time is supposed to overwhelm ordinary human beings, the one
who has attained enlightenment is able to bring time under his control.
Zen master Dogen composed a
fascicle of Shobogenzo called "Uji," which usually is translated as "Being
Time" or "The Time-Being":
"Time is not separate from you, and as you are present,
time does not go away. As time is not marked by coming and going, the moment
you climbed the mountains is the time-being right now. If time keeps coming and
going, you are the time-being right now."
The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche said,
“... our fundamental nature of mind is a luminous expanse of
awareness that is beyond all conceptual fabrication and completely free from
the movement of thoughts. It is the union of emptiness and clarity, of space
and radiant awareness that is endowed with supreme and immeasurable qualities.
From this basic nature of emptiness everything is expressed; from this
everything arises and manifests.”
Is the
Human Mind a Time Machine?
Neurophysiology states that the process of the brain,
including thinking, are achieved through the process of depolarization and
repolarization of the membranes of the neurons that build the nervous system.
The end result is the creation of electrical currents and energy.
We know from Einstein’s famous equation “E = MC2”
that mass and energy are interchangeable. But it is certain that energy will be
far superior than mass if we were trying to accelerate one to near the speed of
light. Any mass no matter how small would require infinite energy to reach the
speed of light.
By continuing to explore the energy-mediated processes of
the human mind we may begin to better understand that it may be just as easy
for our mind to interact and possible control time itself.
Does Time Exist?
Barbour's theory explains, “The only evidence you have of
last week is your memory. But memory comes from a stable structure of neurons
in your brain now. The only evidence we have of the Earth's past is rocks and
fossils. But these are just stable structures in the form of an arrangement of
minerals we examine in the present. The point is, all we have are these records
and you only have them in this Now.”
Altered States of Consciousness Using Psychoactive Drugs
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Comments:
I apologize for the little question mark links by the pictures. They are from previous pictures I tried to post. I don't know how to delete them :(
ReplyDelete"The only evidence you have of last week is your memory" - not so. I also have the evidence of a (virtual) stack of papers to grade.
ReplyDeleteGleick's "Time Travel" argues that presence is overrated. My view is that the present is large enough to contain past and future, hence the possibility of imaginative time travel.
Sure hope Einstein was wrong about light speed. I really want to imagine humans going to warp, one day.