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Absolute Truth

Published on December 31, 2005

Absolute Truth
by Myswizard

“Humanity isn’t capable of discerning truth from falsehood. It doesn’t have the capacity.”…DRH

This is a new Topic which I feel compelled to add, due to the nature and timeliness of the subject matter. There isn’t any other matter, other than Love, in fact, more important than Absolute Truth.

In philosophy, The Absolute is the opposite of relative. The term has acquired numerous widely variant connotations in different philosophical systems. It means unlimited, unconditioned, or free of any relation; perfect, complete, or total; permanent, inherent, or ultimate; independent, or valid without reference to a perceiving subject. In epistemology, absolute means certain or indubitable as opposed to probable or hypothetical. As a substantive, the absolute is the ultimate basis of reality, the principle underlying the universe. Theologically, it is synonymous with, or characteristic of, God. Philosophically, it may be considered as the unknowable, the thing-in-itself; as that ultimate nonrelative that is the basis of all relation; as the ultimate, all-comprehensive principle in which all differences and distinctions are merged. The concept of the absolute was present in Greek philosophy. In modern times, both realists and idealists have used the term, but it is, perhaps, most intimately connected with the idealism of G. W. Hegel…Columbia Encyclopedia

Since reading discourses, theories, and opinions on Absolute Truth, I am absolutely amazed at how the discussions, when linked with relativity, get so very charged with emotion. This invariably leads nowhere, because of the qualities of anything Absolute. Absolutism is beyond the scope of relativism*. It cannot be discussed at all in linear (easy to comprehend, logical, not complex, with boundaries) terms. Only the non linear, references The Absolute…(God). The problem lies with the fact that man has been trying with the greatest of wisdom to translate, theorize, or pontificate on a subject for which there is no scientific answer. As DRH* says, “It’s like trying to find Ghosts with a geiger counter.” When faced with the “wall” of “The Spirit”, discussion tends to be circuitious, which comes back to, “The Unknown”. Many intellectuals and pseudo intellectuals don’t care to discuss the non-linear, because of it’s ethereal quality.

In his book, Truth vs. Falsehood, Dr. Hawkins has done thousands of calibrations, which he continues to do as he writes and lectures. The work is groundbreaking, astonishing and of course controversial. One hasn’t been lauded, who also wasn’t criticized. When you put yourself “out there”, it’s a fact that you will be stoned (so to speak, by naysayers). As the Doctor says, “Tell the Truth and then leave town quickly.” Truth, however, cannot be deconstructed through the scientific mind. All the masters that I have under the topics on my site, expounded in their time, on Truths that were not discernable through “abstract reasoning”. Only through Higher levels of consciousness does Absolute Truth rein free.

I will be calibrating (using the latest methods of Advanced Consciousness Research) that which I feel is relative to the world of spirituality (and writing from Higher Consciousness.) Although I’ve always used my own psychic capacity for discerning most things around me, I will be confirming using Consciousness Testing. The levels above 200 calibrate with Truth and levels below 200 do not. That is the only scale I’ll use here. I will not be doing any personal calibrations. (Only subject matter, past or present with integrous intention.) I have no vested interest in how anything calibrates. The only thing I’m seeking is whether or not, the particular subject matter is worth giving time or interest to.
See article (Absolute Truth..definiton)
Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary, Columbia Encyclopedia.

*Everyday truth is based on statements which are assumed to be fact only through beliefs, indoctrinations, biases, opinions, prejudices, or scientific reasoning. These things however, are “relative” to the “believer”. Therefore, truth in the ordinary sense is relativistic (Todays’ philosophers give no credence to truth relativism.) Relativistic truth is not Truth. The quote at the beginning of this article says, “Humanity isn’t capable of discerning truth from falsehood. It doesn’t have the capacity.” That statement is Absolute Truth. What we “think” is truth is not Truth. Absolute Truth is absolute. There can be no discussion as to its’ quality. It is Truth as it comes from The Field, which is what we know as God. Science works through mathematical equations and laboratory testing. It cannot, however, prove Absolute Truth, since it falls within the unseen realm of Higher Consciousness and Divine Presence. (But they’re always trying)
©Myswizard all rights reserved ‘05

Truth
Noun:
Conformity to fact or actuality.
A statement proven to be or accepted as true.
Sincerity; integrity.
Fidelity to an original or standard.
Reality; actuality.
often Truth That which is considered to be the supreme reality and to have the ultimate meaning and value of existence.
Etymology:
Middle English trewthe, loyalty, from Old English trowth; see deru- in Indo-European roots
Synonyms:
truth , veracity , verity , verisimilitude
These nouns refer to the quality of being in accord with fact or reality. Truth is a comprehensive term that in all of its nuances implies accuracy and honesty: “We seek the truth, and will endure the consequences” (Charles Seymour). Veracity is adherence to the truth: “Veracity is the heart of morality” (Thomas H. Huxley). Verity often applies to an enduring or repeatedly demonstrated truth: “beliefs that were accepted as eternal verities” (James Harvey Robinson). Verisimilitude is the quality of having the appearance of truth or reality: “merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative” (W.S. Gilbert).
Thesaurus
Correspondence with fact or truth: accuracy, correctness, exactitude, exactness, fidelity,veraciousness,veracity, eridicality, verity. Freedom from deceit or falseness: truthfulness, veracity. The quality of being actual or factual: actuality, fact, factuality, factualness, reality.

Absolute
Noun:
Something that is absolute.
Absolute Philosophy
Something regarded as the ultimate basis of all thought and being. Used with The.
Something regarded as independent of and unrelated to anything else.
Etymology:
Middle English absolut, from Latin absoltus, unrestricted, past participle of absolvere, to absolve : ab-, away ; see ab- 1 + solvere, to loosen; see leu- in Indo-European roots
Other forms:
abso·luteness (Noun)
Usage Note:
An absolute term denotes a property that a thing either can or cannot have. Such terms include absolute itself, chief, complete, perfect, prime, unique, and mathematical terms such as equal and parallel. By strict logic, absolute terms cannot be compared, as by more and most, or used with an intensive modifier, such as very or so. Something either is complete or it isn’tit cannot be more complete than something else. Consequently, sentences such as He wanted to make his record collection more complete, and you can improve the sketch by making the lines more perpendicular, are often criticized as illogical.·Such criticism confuses pure logic or a mathematical ideal with the rough approximations that are frequently needed in ordinary language. Certainly in some contexts we should use words strictly logically; otherwise teaching mathematics would be impossible. But we often think in terms of a scale or continuum rather than in clearly marked either/or categories. Thus, we may think of a statement as either logically true or false, but we also know that there are degrees of truthfulness and falsehood. Similarly, there may be degrees of completeness to a record collection, and some lines may be more perpendicular that is, they may more nearly approximate mathematical perpendicularity than other lines. Accordingly, the objection to modification of an absolute term like parallel by degree seems absurd when it is used metaphorically, as in The difficulties faced by the Republicans are quite parallel to those that confronted the Democrats four years ago. This statement describes the structural correspondence between two distinct situations, and concerns about the possibility of intersection seem remote indeed. In this sense, parallelism is clearly a matter of degree, so one should not hesistate to modify parallel accordingly.

* DRH=Dr. David Hawkins (I often use just his initials, because of the fact he is mentioned so often on my site.)

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Consciousness…Myswizard

Published on December 28, 2005

What greater moment for raising one’s consciousness, then now…All that we see, hear, and read has the potential to do so. To be on the planet at this time is most phenomenal. We have everything ever written or recorded by The Masters at our disposal, if we care to utilize the wisdom… Myswizard


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Introduction to Mind-Body-Spirit

Published on December 24, 2005

This category covers a wide range of subjects, from 12 step programs to yogic enlightenment. All articles can be found at the top and you can look by month and keywords as well. I’ve devoted this topic to us as a totality. Since we cannot separate out what we are (mind body spirit), there’s a lot of ground to cover.

I’ll be adding informational spiritual topics, health/physical, and articles on psychology and mental health, on a regular basis. If there’s something you wish to know about please feel free to e mail me. I have lots of sources of information, and over the years I’ve become fairly skilled at finding what I’m looking for on the web.

Mind-Body-Spirit links will take you to sites to help yourself and others all over the planet.


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Great Books Past and Present

Published on December 13, 2005

There have been many great books written over thousands of years. I hope to present as many as I can here with references, excerpts and commentaries. Any of these works have the capacity to enlighten. Many calibrate over 900.


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Replies and Your Publications

Published on December 4, 2005

This is where I will be answering questions of a general nature and publishing your articles or ? on my site. Questions may be answered privately. I may not publish the entire question or issue, but the nature of the issue only. Thank you for visiting!


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Quote…From Mom

Published on December 31, 2005

“Instead of waiting for someone to offer their hand to you, trying offering your hand to someone else. It just may relieve your own suffering.”…My Mom


Calibrations

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These calibrations are based on “Calibrations of the Levels of Human Consciousness” and “Map of Consciousness”. For information regarding the scale, read any of Dr. David R. Hawkins Books (calibrations for spiritual teachers, religions and texts can be found in “Truth vs. Falsehood”) For the purposes here (see my article…Absolute Truth), I will only be using the levels above and below Truth, and calibrating spiritual practices and related subjects.

Over 200

Afterlife (nonphysical) Realms
Reincarnation
Karma
Guides/Teachers in the Afterlife realm
God as Infinite Love
Angels/Archangels
Astral Realms
Freemasonry (in it’s original intention/formation)
Walking the Labryrinth (as a meditation)
Feng shui (within the context of the laws and numerical proportions of nature)
The Holy Grail (as a concept)
M Fields
Infinite Field of Consciousness (The Akashic Records/Infinite Field of Knowledge)
Higher Self (tapping into in order to gain wisdom)
Infinite realms of existence in the non physical
Levels of consciousness in the non-physical
Consciousness floats to the level it is in the non-physical

Under 200

Binary Soul Theory
Alien Abduction (actual, physical)
Devil (actual, not conceptual)
God as punisher
Missing Link Theories
“Bad” Angels
The Occult (as a practice)
Modern Neo-Paganism
Fortune telling (as a practice)
The Holy Grail (as a reality)
Channeling entities (As a practice, there are very few who are genuine. Although those of higher consciousness levels have been known to channel, it would require testing each on an individual basis. The need to hear channelers is under 200 as all neediness regarding the spiritual circus) Therefore, I’ve put it under 200)
Physical immortality
Calibrating others’ levels for monetary gain
Guaranteed “How to” methods of raising personal LOCs to extraordinary levels
Any claims by a “teacher,” of being a certain LOC


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Absolute Truth…Another Definition

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This article calibrates very high in regard to the definition of Absolute Truth. Steven Robiner is the author of the quotation, and in all likelihood, of the entire article. If he isn’t already a student of Dr. Hawkins, he echos the doctors’ teachings eloquently… Myswizard

“What is absolutely true is always correct, everywhere, all the time, under any condition. An entity’s ability to discern these things is irrelevant to that state of truth.” - Steven Robiner

Absolute truth can be interpreted in different ways based on its usage, just like truth. One of the arguments for the existence of absolute truth is that relativism is considered to be self refuting. For example, it is argued that if one asserts all truth is relative one is making an absolute truth statement. Thus, relativism is seen as self refuting. Except that a relativist could state “To a relativist, all things are relative, but to an absolutist, they may not be”.

Absolute truth is often defined in two ways: state-truth and action-verity form.

As a state (truth)
Absolutism contends that in a particular domain of thought, all statements in that domain are either absolutely true or absolutely false: none is true for some cultures or eras while false for other cultures or eras. These statements are called absolute truths. A common reaction by those who newly criticize absolutism is the absolute truth statement: Absolute truths do not exist.

The statement, ‘Absolute truths do not exist.’, reveals the characteristic of absolute truth. Absolute truth does not apply to reality, existence, belief, or to human intelligence. In the logic of dichotomy of true-not true, application is without respect to what is absolutely true. Certainly, absolute truth does not define material existence, but supports material existence, position, and state of being. Absolute truth is as applicable to ‘not true’ as it is to ‘true’. The double negative reveals this monistic status of absolute truth. The non-existence of absolute truth would, if true, be as true as the existence of absolute truth in an absolute sense. To postulate the non-existence of truth; however, is to violate the most fundamental capacity of mind. It is as though a snake could swallow itself by starting at the tail. Therein lies the value of absolute truth for thought. Violation of truth value in an absolute sense, validates the truth value of existence versus non-existence. Some say, “If I see it I believe it.” Others say, “I believe it if I know it.” If the sense of knowing is little better than the sense of sight, little can be made of the analogy. The acuity of the sense of absolute truth may not be good enough for most to clearly distinguish the difference between what is true and truth itself.

One could ask, ‘Is it true that truth exists?’ One can also ask, ‘Is it true that truth does not exist?’ The first can be affirmed by mind, while the latter cannot be affirmed without a gross distortion of sense. If truth does not exist, it would certainly be true that truth does not exist. That is the quality of absolute truth. If the negation were true, one could not ask the question and expect a true answer. Absolute truth is the essence of thought and distinguishes the capacity of the sapient being.

As an action (verity)
In action form, absolute truth most closely represents verity. This form can be likened to the action usage of metaphysical truth, but not its state usage (which represent metaphysical truths in state form). Absolute truth in action form is considered by many to be metaphysical only, and therefore the same as the action usage of metaphysical truth. Some believe the outcome of absolute truth (verity) can be metaphysical truths, physical truths or both, but by definition not any form of a lie.

Examples
A particularly confusing absolute truth in state form (but good for example) is:

Absolute truth cannot be a lie.
Some interpret this to mean:

The outcome of absolute truth cannot be a lie.
But that refers specifically to the action form of absolute truth. Others interpret it as:

Absolute truth statements cannot be lies.
But that refers specifically to the state form of absolute truth. The original statement can be interpreted as either the state or action form. In the state form the statement is not true, but in the action form it is true. Either way the statement is an absolute truth in state form.

A potential example of absolute truth in action form is:

The words you are reading exist because of absolute truths in action form supporting their ability to exist.
Attentive readers will recognize the previous statement as an absolute truth in state form describing absolute truth in action form. Whether or not the statement is true is left as an exercise for the reader.

An interesting paradox arises when someone refutes the existence of any absolute truths. Their statement might be something along the lines of:

There are no absolute truths.
If this statement were true, it would imply that it is an absolute truth itself. And if this statement is an absolute truth, it would contradict its original statement and mean that the statement is in fact false. Therefore it is impossible to prove that there are absolutely no absolute truths. However, this doesn’t necessarily imply that they exist.

A more proper way of stating it would be to say that “Relative truth is correct”. Although this seems to be an absolute statement, it is in fact not, because it does not exclude that “Absolute truth is also correct”. To a relativist, whose culture holds this as a tenet; relativism is indeed correct. But a relativist can also allow that to one raised in a culture of absolutism, it would be incorrect.

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Helena Blavatsky

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“That which is part of our souls is eternal. . . Those lives are countless, but the soul or spirit that animates us throughout these myriads of existences is the same; and though “the book and volume” of the physical brain may forget events within the scope of one terrestrial life, the bulk of collective recollections can never desert the divine soul within us. Its whispers may be too soft, the sound of its words too far off the plane perceived by our physical senses; yet the shadow of events that were, just as much as the shadow of the events that are to come, is within its perceptive powers, and is ever present before its mind’s eye.”

Helena Blavatsky, Secret Doctrine, Vol. II, p. 424


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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.” “It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals… and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Sri Aurobindo’s Teaching and Method of Sadhana

Published on December 30, 2005

Sri Aurobindo’s Teaching and Method of Sadhana

The teaching of Sri Aurobindo starts from that of the ancient sages of India that behind the appearances of the universe there is the Reality of a Being and Consciousness, a Self of all things, one and eternal. All beings are united in that One Self and Spirit but divided by a certain separativity of consciousness, an ignorance of their true Self and Reality in the mind, life and body. It is possible by a certain psychological discipline to remove this veil of separative consciousness and become aware of the true Self, the Divinity within us and all.

Sri Aurobindo’s teaching states that this One Being and Consciousness is involved here in Matter. Evolution is the method by which it liberates itself; consciousness appears in what seems to be inconscient, and once having appeared is self-impelled to grow higher and higher and at the same time to enlarge and develop towards a greater and greater perfection. Life is the first step of this release of consciousness; mind is the second; but the evolution does not finish with mind, it awaits a release into something greater, a consciousness which is spiritual and supramental. The next step of the evolution must be towards the development of Supermind and Spirit as the dominant power in the conscious being. For only then will the involved Divinity in things release itself entirely and it become possible for life to manifest perfection.

But while the former steps in evolution were taken by Nature without a conscious will in the plant and animal life, in man Nature becomes able to evolve by a conscious will in the instrument. It is not, however, by the mental will in man that this can be wholly done, for the mind goes only to a certain point and after that can only move in a circle. A conversion has to be made, a turning of the consciousness by which mind has to change into the higher principle. This method is to be found through the ancient psychological discipline and practice of Yoga. In the past, it has been attempted by a drawing away from the world and a disappearance into the height of the Self or Spirit. Sri Aurobindo teaches that a descent of the higher principle is possible which will not merely release the spiritual Self out of the world, but release it in the world, replace the mind’s ignorance or its very limited knowledge by a supramental Truth-Consciousness which will be a sufficient instrument of the inner Self and make it possible for the human being to find himself dynamically as well as inwardly and grow out of his still animal humanity into a diviner race. The psychological discipline of Yoga can be used to that end by opening all the parts of the being to a conversion or transformation through the descent and working of the higher still concealed supramental principle.

This, however, cannot be done at once or in a short time or by any rapid or miraculous transformation. Many steps have to be taken by the seeker before the supramental descent is possible. Man lives mostly in his surface mind, life and body, but there is an inner being within him with greater possibilities to which he has to awake - for it is only a very restricted influence from it that he receives now and that pushes him to a constant pursuit of a greater beauty, harmony, power and knowledge. The first process of Yoga is therefore to open the ranges of this inner being and to live from there outward, governing his outward life by an inner light and force. In doing so he discovers in himself his true soul which is not this outer mixture of mental, vital and physical elements but something of the Reality behind them, a spark from the one Divine Fire. He has to learn to live in his soul and purify and orientate by its drive towards the Truth the rest of the nature. There can follow afterwards an opening upward and descent of a higher principle of the Being. But even then it is not at once the full supramental Light and Force. For there are several ranges of consciousness between the ordinary human mind and the supramental Truth-Consciousness. These intervening ranges have to be opened up and their power brought down into the mind, life and body. Only afterwards can the full power of the Truth-Consciousness work in the nature. The process of this self-discipline or Sadhana is therefore long and difficult, but even a little of it is so much gained because it makes the ultimate release and perfection more possible.

There are many things belonging to older systems that are necessary on the way - an opening of the mind to a greater wideness and to the sense of the Self and the Infinite, an emergence into what has been called the cosmic consciousness, mastery over the desires and passions; an outward asceticism is not essential, but the conquest of desire and attachment and a control over the body and its needs, greeds and instincts are indispensable. There is a combination of the principles of the old systems, the way of knowledge through the mind’s discernment between Reality and the appearance, the heart’s way of devotion, love and surrender and the way of works turning the will away from motives of self-interest to the Truth and the service of a greater Reality than the ego. For the whole being has to be trained so that it can respond and be transformed when it is possible for that greater Light and Force to work in the nature.

In this discipline, the inspiration of the Master, and in the difficult stages his control and his presence are indispensable - for it would be impossible otherwise to go through it without much stumbling and error which would prevent all chance of success. The Master is one who has risen to a higher consciousness and being and he is often regarded as its manifestation or representative. He not only helps by his teaching and still more by his influence and example but by a power to communicate his own experience to others.

This is Sri Aurobindo’s teaching and method of practice. It is not his object to develop any one religion or to amalgamate the older religions or to found any new religion - for any of these things would lead away from his central purpose. The one aim of his Yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinise human nature.

August, 1934

Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Vol. 26, “Sri Aurobindo on Himself”, pp. 95-97.

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Event Horizon

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An event horizon is a boundary in spacetime for a given observer beyond which no electromagnetic energy, including light, can reach the observer.

Light emitted from inside an event horizon will never reach a stationary observer outside the horizon, hence the name black hole. Note the dependency on the observer of the concept of event horizon. For example, a free falling observer toward a black hole does not experience an event horizon (see e.g. catastrophic gravitational collapse).

The event horizon for an outside observer really acts as a horizon. He sees an object falling toward the horizon approaching it, but (in his own proper time) never reaching it. In his observations the object goes slower and slower toward the horizon and at the same time the redshift increases beyond bounds to infinity. Also the intensity of the falling object quickly becomes zero. In a finite time the outside observer will receive the last photon from the falling object. He will never see the falling object passing through the event horizon.

The event horizon is distinct from the particle horizon.

Sticking your hand through an event horizon
One can ask what happens, when a stationary observer is in orbit just outside the event horizon and (against all advice) sticks his hand through the horizon? The answer is: he won’t succeed in doing so. Free orbits are only possible at a certain distance (for a non-rotating black hole, this figure is at least three times the Schwarzschild radius). Near the event horizon, an observer can only remain at a constant radius when he uses a force (e.g. from a rocket) to keep him there. The force needed grows to infinity when the observer wants to maintain a steady constant orbit approaching the event horizon. When he sticks out his hand, the tidal force (the difference in gravity between body and hand along his arm) also becomes infinitely high, so his hand will be chopped off before he manages to do so.

The physical consequences of the previous paragraph are drawn by Stephen Hawking. Everywhere in the vacuum of space virtual particle pairs are created and annihilated quickly. Near an event horizon, they can be separated. Effectively, a particle or photon will be emitted from the horizon, the so-called Hawking radiation.

Recently, however, Stephen Hawking has reversed his position regarding black holes, having claimed that an event horizon never actually forms around a black hole.

The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian. On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state. Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not lost in the formation and evaporation of black holes. The way the information gets out seems to be that a true event horizon never forms, just an apparent horizon.
–GR Conference website summary of Hawking’s talk.

Event horizon in the absence of gravity
Event horizons also exist in the absence of gravity. A simple example is a uniform accelerated particle (whose speed will thus eventually approach the speed of light but will always be smaller). Light emitted at a certain distance in the direction of that particle will never reach the accelerated particle. It is beyond the event horizon for that particle. Such event horizons occur in particle accelerators.

Event horizon in the absence of gravity. World line of an accelerated observer (solid curved line) in a two dimensional spacetime representation (time vertical, space horizontal) will not observe anything to the left of his event horizon (marked as future horizon).A part of spacetime forms an event horizon as observed from a constantly accelerated observer. The world line of the observer is given as the solid curve in a two dimensional spacetime representation with time x0 in the vertical direction and a one dimensional space coordinate x3 to the right. An angle of 45° indicates the speed of light, such as the world line of a photon traveling to the right and starting in a. The world line of the observer is described by a hyperbola. The parameter along his path is τ, his proper time. In 0 his speed is zero and eventually he will reach a speed close to the velocity of light, inclined at an angle of 45 degrees. This asymptotic line is his future event horizon. A photon emitted at any event to the left of it (such as the emission of a photon from event a) will never reach him (as long as the observer maintains a constant acceleration).

If someone at constant zero velocity (a static observer with a vertical line as worldline) would emit photons to the right, then the accelerated observer would see all photons below the event horizon, but in his proper time it would take longer and longer when these photons are emitted closer to the horizon. Also they are more and more redshifted. The accelerated observer would never see the static observer pass the event horizon.

Other examples of an event horizon
Hypothetically, an event horizon can also exist in a universe, for an observer at a given location in space-time, who remains at the same comoving spatial position. When a universe expands quickly enough, for example a de Sitter universe, it can be possible for an event horizon to exist.

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Excerpt from Krishnamurti’s notebook

Published on December 29, 2005

Love’s not attachment. Love does not yield sorrow. Love has no despair or hope. Love cannot be made respectable, part of the social scheme. When it is not there, every form of travail begins.
To possess and to be possessed is considered a form of love. This urge to possess, a person or a piece of property, is not merely the demands of society and circumstances but springs from a far deeper source. It comes from the depths of loneliness. Each one tries to fill this loneliness in different ways, drink, organized religion, belief, some form of activity and so on. All these are escapes but it’s still there.
To commit oneself to some organization, to some belief or action is to be possessed by them, negatively; and positively is to possess. The negative and positive possessiveness is doing good, changing the world and the so-called love. To control another, to shape another in the name of love is the urge to possess; the urge to find security, safety in another and the comfort. Self-forgetfulness through another, through some activity makes for attachment. From this attachment, there’s sorrow and despair and from this there is the reaction, to be detached. And from this contradiction of attachment and detachment arises conflict and frustration.
There’s no escape from loneliness: it is a fact and escape from facts breeds confusion and sorrow.
But not to possess anything is an extraordinary state, not even to possess an idea, let alone a person or a thing. When idea, thought, takes root, it has already become a possession and then the war to be free begins. And this freedom is not freedom at all; it’s only a reaction. Reactions take root and our life is the ground in which roots have grown. To cut all the roots, one by one, is a psychological absurdity. It cannot be done. Only the fact, loneliness, must be seen and then all other things fade away.


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From “Socrates”

Published on December 28, 2005

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates


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Weekly Consciousness Tune-Up…Yehuda Berg 12/25-12/31

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Borrow From Your Tzadiks

As you learned last week, there are moments in life when you want to restrict, but you feel like you can’t. You are aware of what you need to do, yet you just can’t seem to pull the trigger.

It’s in those moments that you need to borrow from your tzadik.

Last week I wrote that through Joseph’s restriction he attained the level of tzadik (righteous person). This is the level where a human has completely dominated the desire to receive for the self alone and exists in this world purely for the sake of helping others.

As my father and teacher Kabbalist Rav Berg learned from his teacher, Rav Brandwein, every single one us will eventually achieve this perfection - whether it takes one incarnation or one hundred incarnations.

And as there is no time, space, or motion in the spiritual world, this perfected self exists right now.

As I explain in The Power of Kabbalah, each of us comes to this world with our tikune/correction. But on some level - in a parallel universe – our correction has been perfected already. The spiritual work is to uncover our klippot (shells of negativity) that conceal it so we can “borrow from it.”

Rav Brandwein explains that “borrow from it” means calling upon your inner-strength and certainty to help you accomplish whatever seems impossible.

Accomplishment relies on knowing you are perfect right now, the way you are. Of course, you must always be open to facing uncomfortable truths about yourself and changing accordingly, but you must simultaneously be in awe of the perfection that is your life.

Have you ever survived a difficult period in your life and realized that the whole journey of struggle had perfect meaning? That’s because the Sages say that perfection is always within you, and the goal of life is to live from that perfect place. That perfect place is the spark of God.

Most religions or philosophies put God out there as some force that is waiting on a throne for you to tap into. But Kabbalah says no, the force that wants to give you all the fulfillment in the world is inside of you. Well, it’s actually locked up inside of you.

Which is the beauty of borrowing from your tzadik – you’re making contact with and unleashing the Godly aspect of yourself.

This week’s Zohar portion contains a section that kabbalists have used for centuries to borrow from their tzadik. Scanning these verses (Mikketz, vol. 6, verses 32-57) acts as a metaphysical bridge to that aspect of yourself that is totally perfected.

Crossing this bridge requires a shift in your consciousness. It requires you to surrender that part of yourself that constantly says ”I can do it, and if I can’t, then no one can.” It’s the part of you that thinks you are actually alone in this fight.

You’re not alone. You’ve got a pretty special person in there with you. It’s the YOU that likes to go the extra mile and think about the other person’s feelings first and share and love without strings attached, and act with willpower…

…it’s the real you. And it’s the perfect week to let him or her out.

I remember this time last year I shared this teaching with a student of mine who used it to experience a tremendous breakthrough at work. This student was, by her own admission, a bit weak in the knees. Every time she was given a project, she got stuck in the safety zone of gathering the information rather than jumping in and taking action. By the time she did get around to taking action, her bosses were so often annoyed with her that they gave the assignment to someone else.

But this time she borrowed from her tzadik and did the unthinkable (as far as her ego was concerned). She went back to her bosses and asked that she be reassigned the project. And guess what? They granted her wish. They were so impressed by her integrity and resolution that they gave her a second chance.

This might not seem like a miracle to some, but then, again, what is a miracle? It’s all about doing what is unthinkable for you. This is certainly the week to ask that question, as we are now in the holiday of miracles – Chanukah. And we know that the original miracle of Chanukah occurred because a small group of people overturned the entire Greek Empire, certainly an instance of accomplishing the unthinkable.

So what was the unthinkable for my student? Well, usually in this situation she would sink into a sea of self-doubt, convincing herself “next time, next time I’ll do it differently.” But through the scanning of Mikketz and meditating on borrowing from her tzadik, she found the strength to go against her nature and to fight for her opportunity to get it right this time.

This week you have an added support to tap into the version of yourself that has gone through every test you will ever face and has passed them all. Use that support to make great improvements in your relationships, your work situation, your physical and mental health, and everywhere your life calls out for transformation.

All the Best,
Yehuda

The meditaions from Yehuda’s Tune Ups are from the 72 Names of God books…Myswizard
The 72 Names of God: Technology for the Soul The 72 Names of God Meditation Book: Technology for the Soul


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The Synthesis of Yoga ( Volumes 20 and 21) By Sri Aurobindo

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Integral Yoga Literature - By Sri Aurobindo
Selections from the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library
From Volumes 20 and 21, The Synthesis of Yoga

Introduction, Chapter 2, “The Three Steps of Nature”

WE RECOGNISE then, in the past developments of Yoga, a specialising and separative tendency which, like all things in Nature, had its justifying and even imperative utility and we seek a synthesis of the specialised aims and methods which have, in consequence, come into being. But in order that we may be wisely guided in our effort, we must know, first, the general principle and purpose underlying this separative impulse and, next, the particular utilities upon which the method of each school of Yoga is founded. For the general principle we must interrogate the universal workings of Nature herself, recognising in her no merely specious and illusive activity of a distorting Maya, but the cosmic energy and working of God Himself in His universal being formulating and inspired by a vast, an infinite and yet a minutely selective Wisdom, prajna prasrta purani of the Gita, Wisdom that went forth from the Eternal since the beginning. For the particular utilities we must cast a penetrative eye on the different methods of Yoga and distinguish among the mass of their details the governing idea which they serve and the radical force which gives birth and energy to their processes of effectuation. Afterwards we may more easily find the one common principle and the one common power from which all derive their being and tendency, towards which all subconsciously move and in which, therefore, it is possible for all consciously to unite.

The progressive self-manifestation of Nature in man, termed in modern language his evolution, must necessarily depend upon three successive elements, that which is already evolved; that which is persistently in the stage of conscious evolution and that which is to be evolved and may perhaps be already displayed, if not constantly, then occasionally or with some regularity of recurrence, in primary formations or in others more developed and, it may well be, even in some, however rare, that are near to the highest possible realisation of our present humanity. For the march of Nature is not drilled to a regular and mechanical forward stepping. She reaches constantly beyond herself even at the cost of subsequent deplorable retreats. She has rushes; she has splendid and mighty outbursts; she has immense realisations. She storms sometimes passionately forward hoping to take the kingdom of heaven by violence. And these self-exceedings are the revelation of that in her which is most divine or else most diabolical, but in either case the most puissant to bring her rapidly forward towards her goal.

That which Nature has evolved for us and has firmly founded is the bodily life. She has effected a certain combination and harmony of the two inferior but most fundamentally necessary elements of our action and progress upon earth, - Matter, which, however the too ethereally spiritual may despise it, is our foundation and the first condition of all our energies and realisations, and the Life-Energy which is our means of existence in a material body and the basis there even of our mental and spiritual activities. She has successfully achieved a certain stability of her constant material movement which is at once sufficiently steady and durable and sufficiently pliable and mutable to provide a fit dwelling-place and instrument for the progressively manifesting god in humanity. This is what is meant by the fable in the Aitareya Upanishad which tells us that the gods rejected the animal forms successively offered to them by the Divine Self and only when man was produced, cried out, “This indeed is perfectly made”, and consented to enter in. She has effected also a working compromise between the inertia of matter and the active Life that lives in and feeds on it, by which not only is vital existence sustained, but the fullest developments of mentality are rendered possible. This equilibrium constitutes the basic status of Eternalin man and is termed in the language of Yoga his gross body composed of the material or food sheath and the nervous system or vital vehicle. (1)

1. annakosa and pranakosa

If, then, this inferior equilibrium is the basis and first means of the higher movements which the universal Power contemplates and if it constitutes the vehicle in which the Divine here seeks to reveal Itself, if the Indian saying is true that the body is the instrument provided for the fulfilment of the right law of our nature, then any final recoil from the physical life must be a turning away from the completeness of the divine Wisdom and a renunciation of its aim in earthly manifestation. Such a refusal may be, owing to some secret law of their development, the right attitude for certain individuals, but never the aim intended for mankind. It can be, therefore, no integral Yoga which ignores the body or makes its annulment or its rejection indispensable to a perfect spirituality. Rather, the perfecting of the body also should be the last triumph of the Spirit and to make the bodily life also divine must be God’s final seal upon His work in the universe. The obstacle which the physical presents to the spiritual is no argument for the rejection of the physical; for in the unseen providence of things our greatest difficulties are our best opportunities. A supreme difficulty is Nature’s indication to us of a supreme conquest to be won and an ultimate problem to be solved; it is not a warning of an inextricable snare to be shunned or of an enemy too strong for us from whom we must flee.

Equally, the vital and nervous energies in us are there for a great utility; they too demand the divine realisation of their possibilities in our ultimate fulfilment. The great part assigned to this element in the universal scheme is powerfully emphasised by the catholic wisdom of the Upanishads. “As the spokes of a wheel in its nave, so in the Life-energy is all established, the triple knowledge and the Sacrifice and the power of the strong and the purity of the wise. Under the control of the Life-Energy is all this that is establi