Addendum: Scientists first theorized the atom and attendant molecules. Then they set out to prove it and did indeed appear to find them. Then they went on to sub-atomic particles ... with names that sound like they were created whilst on a stoner in Vegas... maybe they where.
And, it goes on, and on and on. But what I think very few have realize (beside that brilliant scientist, Dr. Mckenna... oohh.. could it be me or Terrance
) that all these where not created during the Big Bang, which is another fairy tale for the masses, these have all been created by the scientists themselves. They theorize, they created and then they discover... oh yeh,
and then they seek more money with which they can create more particles. Your labor and taxes contribute to this, of course.
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Let me give you a more ''at home'' example. If you believe that everyone is evil, you can be sure that you will find that at every turn. It follows that bad things will happen as well. If you believe that all people are walking saints, you will find that. I'm talking really believe, not pretend. Let's suppose thousands of scientist set out to prove that people are evil... what will the result be? With the support of huge universities, governments, taxpayers, etc. they will be able to prove their theory. But what is really happening is they are creating that evil in order to validate their theories and expenditures.
You current human experience is a much like a dream, an apparancy, and in order for it to continue it must be continually in motion... things born, die, change, morph, are created, are discreated... and all of that is done by ''you'' for the purposes of novelty and entertainment (if a purpose is required for anything).
O.K. Jed, that's all very well in theory, but why did I create the crap in my world?
Good question, wrong identification. The you that you think you are is just a fig newton of your True Self's imagination. The True Creator (that's not a good description because it is so far beyond words) has been call many things, and all names are totally inadequate descriptors.
If you want to change something in your present experience (fess up... most of you do) you need to change what you identify with. The one reading this is deeply identified with his/her mind, thinking, memories, thoughts and body... all very, very insubstantial and only an effect, never a cause. The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu is good on this, but funny in that he said no words can describe the void/mystery and then goes on to give us 5,000 words in an effort to describe it... still good reading.
So back to my tortious metaphor.... scientist are creating their sub-atomic world, then finding it and telling the world about it. But they have very little grasp of the mechanism... they are creating these things in mind and mind only. You are creating this dream at the level of Truth/mystery/The Void and have equally little knowledge of the mechanism.
The you that you currently identify with wants to change the dream but meets with little success, mostly frustration. Any success you experience could better be described as chance, or co-incidence. Remember, the broken clock is right on time twice a day. Is there an answer, a cure so to speak?
I suggest you start with a little b.s. Start by mimicking what the void is doing. Do your best to accept responsibility for everything you hear, see, feel, etc. You created it so might as well accept that and then go on even more high weirdness, want everything you have created. This is very big bite, a huge mouthful, because some things are just not that pleasant, however, to Truth/Void/The Mystery, there is no such thing as pleasant or not pleasant, just the ongoing dreaming.
You, at the level of Truth creates the dream but as there is no personality and no desire within the void, it cares not what it creates, it doesn't even care if it creates anything but it's been wound up to create for this stage of the story. Things will be quite different in the next yuga, assuming for purposes of explanation that ''time'' actually exists.
Do you really want to change anything... not in my experience because very few people are willing to do what is required... to relinquish their grip on the dream. They cling for dear life to a sinking ship. Were does it all end... this illusory you eventually becomes worm food, or worm-hole food. If you can thoroughly give up wanting to change anything you will have the power to change everything but will have lost all desire to change anything.
This is the beginning of sanity... but that's just another story.
Love ya, Jed