Existance
By:exu156
Physics works in the shadow world of symbols. The quantum physicist uses symbols to wield mighty universal forces and is in fact on a path of continual discovery by using these very symbols. But so does the Shaman, so does the Priest, so does the Yogi, so does the Buddhist monk and so does the Witchdoctor. Each has their own symbology, their own self-discovered doorway into the 'shadow realm'.
And what is this 'shadow realm'? Well we can take a Biblical interpretation which fits perfectly;
"But your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise; awake and sing, you who lie in the dust. For your dew is a dew of light, and the land of shades gives birth." (Isiah 26:19)
or we can take it from a scientific perspective;
"Many would hold that, from the broad philosophical standpoint, the outstanding achievement of twentieth century physics is not the theory of relativity...or the theory of quanta...or the dissection of the atom...it is instead the general recognition among physicists that things are not what they seem; it is the general recognition that we are not yet in contact with the ultimate reality." (Sir James Jeans).
or we can take it from a tribal/shamanic perspective;
"If the earth is a sphere, then the abyss below the earth is also its heavens; and the difference between them is no more than time, the time of the earth's turning. If the earth is a vast horizontal surface reflecting invisibly, even for each man his own proper soul, then again, the abyss below the earth is also its heavens, and the difference between them is time. The time of an eye lifting and dropping. The sun-door and the tree-root are the same thing in the same place, seen now from below and now from above and named, by the seer, for the moment of seeing." (Vodou Mambo Maya Deren)
1929 French Nobel Prize winner, Louis de Broglie concludes it beautifully in his book 'Physics and Microphysics';
"Hence, this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is, in a sense, the whole. Only that this whole cannot be surveyed in one single glance. This as we know is what the Brahmins expressed in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet so simple and so clear: 'tat tvam asi', this is you."
Modern psychology too has entered the 'shadow realms' by discovering that our senses don't perceive everything in the universe around us. Our five senses have their limitations, their boundary conditions, even after they have reached their full development.
The visual perception of an object is preceded by visual sensation, a reflection of the object on our retina. That contact produces energy or waves that reaches the cerebral cortex as information which is then recreated into the image of the object in front of us. Many disturbances can take place between those two space-time events, the sensation and the perception. People affected by Daltonism for example cannot see red and green. The red appears black and the green is gray.
So reality is partly real and partly constructed by our conscious minds in order to make sense of the world. So this reality is partly true and partly false.
In children, because of the immaturity of the neurons, the distinction between self and an external object or person is not evident. There is a syncretism between the subject and the object. According to Jean Piaget, there is an absorption of the 'I' into the 'other' because of indifferentiation between subjective and objective. For the very young child, dreams are as real as the events of daily life and he/she accords them the same validity. From ages two to seven, he recognizes the coexistence of two disparate realities - that of games and play and that of the real world. From the age of seven up he/she begins to loose this ability to naturally tap into the 'shadow realm'.
Is it any wonder then that Jesus says, 'except ye be as children you shall never see the Kingdom of Heaven' ?
In vodou the matter of the 'shadow realm' is fully understood because it is experienced. Via trance induction, the vodouist is able to create a door into this 'shadow realm' and actually, for a moment, creates a bridge between our 'normal' world and the quantum world.
What he encounters in that 'shadow realm' is incredibly fascinating and even a quick study of vodou shows that it is a 'shadow realm' populated by beings. Whats particularly interesting is that these beings are us, they are the dead, no longer in the physical realm but now dwelling in a quantum reality.
"Yet with you I shall always be...whom else have I in heaven?" (Psalms 73:23-25)
The beings that dweal in this 'shadow realm' are , for the lack of a better term, spiritual beings. A more correct observation would probably call them shadow-matter entities. Beings from a parallel-type universe that is only accessed via death, ecstasy or via trance.
When the vodou drummer beats his drum, he ceases to be just a drummer beating a rhythm, he is actually the energy necessary to propel the dancer into the 'shadow realm'. He knows (via old secret traditions passed from drummer to drummer) the key rhythms by which he can rip time. He is, in a very true sense, the highest physicist.
Where is the proof that this quantum world of the dead actually exists? Well, it just so happens that there is proof. Please be patient with me though as it takes a bit of explanation to get there.
We are all familiar with Newton's concept of gravity wherein the earth is a kind of attractor that makes us fall down when we trip. But Newton was wrong, gravity is not the result of a magnetic pull at all. Einstein and later Oskar Klein both demonstrated successfully that gravity is actually just curves in space that make us stumble and makes things fall, it is this same force that takes the planets into orbits around the sun. What's incredible is that later experimental physicists proved Einstein and Klein to be totally correct.
What physicists such as Theodore Kaluza discovered was that matter in fact distorts space-time by creating smooth curves in it. Kaluza went as far as to call gravity the 'fifth dimension'. But there was more to be discovered. In 1950 scientists discovered that at the subatomic level gravity was composed of either strong or weak forces. By 1975 they had discovered what these forces did. The strong force maintains the attraction that binds together quarks in sets of three to form protons and neutrons in the atomic nuclei. The weak force is the power at work in certain kinds of radioactive decay, such as the transformation of a neutron into a proton. Those forces when combined transform into light.
This energy is carried across the space between two particles via quanta or bundles of energy. These point-like bundles were also nicknamed messenger particles. In 1977 it was discovered that the 'photon' was the messenger particle for the electromagnetic force which glued the particles, the 'gluton' was the strong force messenger and the 'weakon' was that of the weak force messenger. On a massive scale scientists termed this force graviton to explain the gravity between massive objects.
Soon after, scientists began coming up with supergravity theories that quite simply state that there are more dimensions in reality than the five already known. This was followed by the Superstring Theory in 1982 which argued that instead of points these messenger particles are actually strings connected to each other. Using this model, physicists quickly uncovered up to 10 additional dimensions, all hidden in a quantum reality.
From here it was almost a simple jump into the next discovery, that of the 'shadow realm'. This 'shadow realm' may be new to science as it grasps to understand it, but for the Shaman there is no difficulty in comprehending it. he has been working with these realms for thousands of years.
Just think of the 'Dream Time' of the Aboriginies, same thing.
But it gets stranger, because the concept of hidden dimensions is completely connected with that of shadow matter. According to subatomic physicists we may be sharing our reality with another world made up of 'invisible shadow' or 'dark matter'.
Swiss physicist Fritz Zwicky, calculated that gelaxies in large clusters were moving so fast that the gravity provided by their visible stars was insuficient to hold the galaxies together. A new 'glue' was discovered; Dark Matter. Today, it is a shared belief among scientists that about 90% to 99% of the Universe is composed of Dark Matter.
This dark matter is a singularity in the reality of the Universe. We know now that our Universe is full of that shadow matter. Our own Milky Way is full of it but we remain unaware of it. We cannot see it because we see mainly by means of electromagnetism, and the shadow matter does not emit light. It's also been discovered that this shadow realm passes through matter so that it is for us impossible to feel it. The way we know this stuff even exists is because we have been able to detect it by the gravitational fields it exerts in the galaxies. Dark Matter is not theory, it is now proven fact!
Black Holes, although fascinating in themselves, are not technically part of dark matter, although they may certainly lead there. Black Holes still emit some light or as Stephen Hawking put it, "Black Holes aint that black." Scientists believe that dark matter is something far stranger, some unknown form of matter left over from the earliest moment of creation. They suspect that this matter is not made of atoms at all but is in fact made of quantum particles that dwell in other dimensions.
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