By Theoretical Physicist Arkadiusz Jadczyk:
"There are, at present, fundamental problems in theoretical
physics the solution of which will presumably require a more
drastic revision of our fundamental concepts than any that
have gone before. Quite likely, these changes will be so
great that it will be beyond the power of human intelligence
to get the necessary new ideas by direct attempts to
formulate the experimental data in mathematical terms. The
theoretical worker in the future will, therefore, have to
proceed in a more direct way.
"The more powerful method of advance that can be suggested at
present is to employ all resources of pure mathematics in
attempts to perfect and generalize the mathematical formalism
that forms the existing basis of theoretical physics, and
after each success in this direction, to try to interpret the
new mathematical features in terms of physical entities." -
Paul Dirac
Why
we are here?
Why are some people great while others are not?
Why is it so that some people lead while others follow?
Why is it that so many people just follow the herd?
Why is it so that some people achieve...while others only
dream?
Why is it so that some people succeed with little effort,
while others are doomed to fail no matter how hard they work?
Why do some start with good intentions,
but meet insurmountable obstacles on their way?
While others make easy progress?
Is the truth really "Out There"? If so, is it possible to
discover some part of it?
Human
beings are generally so overwhelmed by their everyday lives
that they forget the most important thing about life itself:
death.
None of us are going to get out of here alive.
But nobody really likes to talk - or even think - about that
single fact that all life holds in common: We are all going
to die.
And then, what?
There are many answers to that question depending on who you
ask. But are they the "truth?"
There are many who suggest that such questions are not even
important.
Certain "Scientific philosophies" refer to the "accidental
mechanicalness" of the universe and teach us that the only
meaning to life is no meaning at all. "Eat, drink, and be
merry for tomorrow you may die" and then -- oblivion.
When you ask the question: what happens when we die? you also
may find yourself confronting the issue of why are we here?
Why does anything exist at all?
In asking this question, we confront a strange condition of
our reality - the vast chasm between the methods and
conclusions of science and religion.
A scientist and a priest will both agree on the definition of
a crystal of sodium chloride, but they may not agree at all
on theological definitions.
When we consider religion, our approach may be naïve or
critical. The word "naïve" comes from the Latin nativus,
meaning that to be naïve is to be in a more or less "natural"
state in our attitudes toward the questions of life.
Naïve religious experience could be likened to the natural
awe and wonder at the vastness of the heavens or the
marvelous frail delicacy of a flower; the overpowering
mystery felt in the presence of thunder and lightening and
tempestuous winds. Those who observe the seasons of growth
and decay, birth and death, may intuit the idea of a
controlling order to all life. The glory of a sunset or the
majesty of mountains or the intensely personal hush of a
sun-dappled forest may impress human beings with the powerful
sensation that they are NOT alone in a sense that goes beyond
physical organs.
All of these things - and more besides - can awaken the sense
of mystery within us. And careful observation will leave one
with the overwhelming sense that there in an "invisible
reality" that is behind or over all the visible life in our
world.
It is in this state of innocence that we are conditioned -
programmed, even - by the "traditions" of our religions.
As a consequence of this "programming," most ordinary human
beings simply follow the conventional observances: their
religions are made for them by others, communicated to them
by their traditions, conformed to by imitation, and retained
by habit. You could say that they have a "second-hand
religious life."
Everywhere, and in all ages, human beings have had their
experiences named and clothed by traditions and concepts,
that "explain" the mysteries that confront them.
The question is: are those traditions and teachings "true?"
When we search for the original sources which were the
pattern makers for all this mass of suggested feeling and
imitated conduct, we find - at the root - individuals for
whom religion exists as an "acute fever," rather than a "dull
habit" to be endured once a week to ensure "salvation."
The problem is, religious "geniuses" - prophets - are very
often people of what we might define as a sort of "exalted
emotional sensibility."
Generally, they live unhappy lives, are plagued by
melancholy, are liable to obsessions and fixed ideas, and
frequently they are individuals who spontaneously fall into
trances, hear voices, see visions and essentially, behaved in
ways that modern psychiatry would consider pathological.
Nowadays, of course, there are many individuals who approach
very close to the border of pathology, promote ideas,
beliefs, and a great deal of nonsense, and quite rightly are
labeled as "cultic." What a lot of people never stop to think
about is that our "standard religions" are most assuredly as
"cultic" as any modern group that makes claims to inside
information delivered from aliens or other communicants from
assorted different realities.
"Prophecy," in its orginal sense, meant "inspired utterance."
That is to say, a human being claims to speak with more than
mortal knowledge or insight about "other worlds," or the
"unseen realities." This, of course, raises the question as
to WHO is inspiring the "utterances."
And that question is NOT an unimportant one. It is, in fact,
CRUCIAL.
As we have noted, all "primitive" or preliterate cultures had
some form of codified communication between spirits and the
living and only came under condemnation with the inception of
monotheism around 1000 BC.
Machiavelli observed that religion and its teachings of
uncritical faith, hope, charity, love, humility and patience
under suffering were factors that render men weak and cause
them to care less about worldly and political things, and
thus they will turn political power over to wicked men who
are not influenced by such ideals (though they may easily
pretend to be). Of course, the real trick is to convince
people that the "afterlife" is the only thing worth thinking
about, and it is to this end that the monotheistic religions
have been formulated. It is also to this end that many of the
New Age beliefs and "formulations" of the "subjective truths"
seem to have been engineered. All you have to do is have
faith or meditate so as to feel "love" for everything and
everybody. Nothing is said about the day by day struggle, and
the necessity for action that could contribute to different,
positive outcome in the present, objective reality in which
we live and move and have our being. The future is forged in
the present by what we DO. The Butterfly Effect.
This brings us back to the problem we face in our reality:
that "the science of living beings" has not proceeded apace
with the sciences dealing with the physical objects in our
reality.
The "hard sciences" are generally based on concepts which can
be expressed concisely and elegantly in mathematics. They
have exerted all their efforts to construct a physical
universe of magnificent calculations and hypotheses. This
mathematical universe is often unspeakably abstract, composed
of symbols that express a physical reality beyond the realm
of common thought.
And yet, if you ask any of them "why?" you probably won't get
an answer. Science is supposed to tell us what and how and
where and, sometimes, even when - but they don't have much to
say about who and how.
From such things as rocks, metals, liquids, stars and atoms,
certain qualities can be extracted. The observation,
description and classification of objects, the relations
between variable quantities, can give us the power to predict
future events and often to determine at will their
occurrence. In studying the constitution and properties of
matter, humanity has gained mastery of almost everything
which exists in our reality - except ourselves.
If we are all going to die, and that is a given fact of our
existence - something that is common to all - why hasn't
science exerted every effort within its purview to discover
the reasons for - and the END of - our existence?
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