The author ultimately disappears into the ether, but there is much to
learn and comment on before we get there.
His proposed model is generally unnecessary as I have demonstrated with
my own work regarding the likelihood of a crustal slip plane to handle all
known geological evidence of movement.
Yet he does awake curiosity regarding the deep core and the possibility
of a gravitational paradigm that we have not successfully contemplated as yet.
Once we are below 6000 degrees C then I think that we have entered Terra
Incognito. All we have is simple
extensions of our knowledge and that is always a recipe for error.
The Problem with Paradigms: In Search of Earth’s
Hidden History-
April
17, 2013
J.S.
Gordon
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/04/17/the-problem-with-paradigms-in-search-of-earths-hidden-history/
Mainstream
orthodox (or ‘physical’) science contains as many paradigms as it does supposed
facts, if not more; but it still tends to treat the former as largely
substantiated facts. However, a paradigm – as the dictionary confirms – is
merely a model, involving one or more assumptions. In fact, it is
representative of the seemingly best functional theory or hypothesis available
with accessible data in the face of ignorance of the true facts, which may in
fact be quite different. That then, along with all the rest, is then presented
to the world as ‘scientific knowledge’.
[it is actually worse than that. If an interesting paradigm outlives the
immediate peer understanding, transmission often fails to maintain knowledge of
the caveats and the receiving generation is then actually encumbered with false
premises. I have actually lived long enough to see this happen – arclein ]
This, however,
presents us with a problem because physical science sees itself as technology
based, due to the need for reliably consistent reproduction of accurate data in
the face of man’s own psychological and sensory inconsistency. Problematically,
physical technology is itself based on paradigmatic assumptions and the
associated limitations of then available sub-technology. So where does that put
us in relation to the wider human experience which takes into consideration states of
existence beyond the physical and even treats these as more real than the physical?
Alternative (or
more accurately, sequentially parallel) states of existence have been discussed
in openly allegorical or hermeneutic (structured) terms for thousands of years
by both mystics and more metaphysically orientated philosophers, by virtue of
their own actual experiences through self-experimentation. Those experiences
were of course subjective in nature (because other states can only be accessed
in such a manner) and it is therefore assumed by critics that they lacked the
objectivity necessary to achieve any real degree of reliable accuracy. But this
assumption is itself based on the highly questionable hypothesis that
laboratory methods and/or modern academic forms of presentation and
substantiation are the only reliable ones when these are themselves largely
un-natural. So where do we go from here?
Over the last
three centuries there has developed a growing belief that the objective
physical world and the ‘subjective’ states of existence are or can be
inter-connected and can thus directly affect each other. [ the more proper word is suspicion – arclein ]This started with the phenomenon of
mesmerism in the eighteenth century and continued with human ectoplasmic manifestations in spiritualistic séances in the nineteenth
(although spiders have been producing ectoplasm to form their webs since time
immemorial). Subsequent to this, the new science of psychology began to show
the subjective worlds of human thought and feeling as having a real consistency
of internal dynamics if and when viewed on their own terms. Furthermore,
quantum physics in the twentieth century seemed to confirm that physical
experiments could be phenomenally affected by the psychological attitude of the
observer. Yet we now appear to stand at something of an impasse.
Physical science
has accepted that consciousness has to be considered a fundamental part of the
equation of existence but it still sees consciousness as a merely electrical
phenomenon [ no longer correct even
in the physical sense ]generated (by
extension at the physical level) by aggregations of base atomic and then
molecular matter forming itself into organisms. Yet it is unable to answer the
question of how it is that organic life can somehow emerge from apparently
‘dead’ matter – or why it should do so. Esoteric philosophy, on the other hand,
has always taken the view that there is no such thing as ‘dead matter’; that
there is in fact only one principle in the omniverse and that this is Life
itself, manifesting as a homogeneous substance called, for want of a better
term, ‘spirit-matter’ and appearing in a vast spectrum of qualitatively based states, each
with its own potential polarity and apparent fields of progression or
limitation, thus giving rise to a sympathetic sense of
inter-connectedness, which we call consciousness. Furthermore, esoteric philosophy has always seen
the universal spectrum of Life as the manifestation of a single, Universal
Consciousness possessing an infinite range of memory and intelligence. Deists
call more remote aspects of this by the name ‘God’ and try to give it a sort of
humanly interactive personality. However, philosophers say that it is not only
inconceivable in all respects, but that it is also approachable only by a progressively
expansive understanding of what it is not.[ this is philosophically a very bad idea – arclein ]
This, of course,
is not acceptable to a science which states that everything must have a
testable rationale. However, in adopting that stance, science again makes an
erroneous assumption. Esoteric
philosophy (if properly
followed) is itself based on the understanding of a rational approach to the
existence of progressive fields of consciousness; but its technique is
necessarily both subjective and objective.
Subjectivity is necessary for direct experience by self-experimentation and
selection; objectivity (which, problematically, is also subjective) is necessary
to rationalise and understand the effects in due context. However, these have
to be used in tandem by an intelligence specifically trained in their
simultaneous use – one that has itself developed the capacity not to merely
react to experience. In other words, one that is self-consciously aware but
which has also passed beyond the stage of a reactive self-association which is
usually based on a mere mixture of like and dislike.
The science and
art of true esoteric faculty involves a fundamental detachment of consciousness
from that which is being observed. That is to say, one must learn to use a
higher quality of consciousness to observe a lesser quality of consciousness in
action and thereby understand its qualitative status and its modus operandi. We
have to develop an adult perspective based on our own prior experience before
we can really understand the motivation and actions of a child. There is no
short cut. A child cannot understand the motivations of an adult because he/she
does not have the experience and has thus not yet learned of the associated
limitations by virtue of which we progress through such experience to a wider
perspective of understanding.
Plato made the
point that “All is recollection.” In other words, there is nothing new in
Universal Nature; but it is up to us to access it. Yet the first thing we have
to understand is that memory is organised and works in progressive sequences,
each involving its own essential field of limitation. But the progression is
not linear. The Ancients tell us that the universe is concentrically
organised and so each memory is part of a greater one. So, we have to first
explore the plenum of one idea (or field of ideas) before we can break through
its field of limitation into a yet greater one. This is the way in which the
intelligent development of consciousness works. Thus it is that we first
need to establish where a limitation exists (or potentially exists) before we
can set out to go beyond it and thus achieve a greater perspective. Otherwise
we shall merely go around in chaotically confused circles, merely re-exploring
the past over and over again, thereby wallowing in a sea of superficiality.
This, sadly, is what many people tend to do throughout their adult lives and it
is the cause of needless frustration. Instead, we need constantly to move
forward. That is why we have ideals to pursue.
Curiously,
science – despite its incessant materialism – is moving in the right direction,
albeit grudgingly. It accepts the fundamental principle that a theory has to be
fully and carefully examined before it can be accepted for further and wider
usage. It also accepts that theories (paradigms) are all ultimately disposable,
even though it currently chases the ultimate march hare of a supposed Grand
Unified Theory which fails to take consciousness into account. However,
many ‘New Age’ theorists are as much at fault in that they comprehensively tend
to avoid the rigorous approach to consideration of both esoteric and scientific
principles, substituting instead their own off-the-cuff theories, which cannot
even be called paradigms because most of them are based on either partial
perceptions or even pure wishful thinking. That is why physical science, with
all its questionable paradigms, is so suspicious of ‘New Age’ thought. But as
they say, “It takes one to recognise one.”
[ the astonishing reality of my ‘Cloud Cosmology’ which
is a GUT is that the creation of the physical universe is driven by a conscious
act of the will to exist and that places consciousness both external to the
physical universe while utterly informed by its content – arclein ]
[ now we are past all that, it is time for alternative
history ]
That, however,
brings me to one or two examples of mis-orientated scientific thinking (which I
have highlighted in my recently published book The Rise & Fall of Atlantis) which may perhaps
be of interest to readers of this magazine. The first of these involves the
relationship between the core of the Earth and the planet’s surrounding
ionosphere. The modern geological orthodoxy is that the core is composed of
solid or liquid iron, or a combination of both, this providing the basis of the
planet’s gravitational magnetism. However, this idea is based on the
supposition that the Earth, originally part of the Sun and thus composed of
plasma, was to begin with a superheated mass which cooled down, thereby
allowing the heavy element of iron to sink towards the centre. But the
supposition that the Sun’s plasmic mass is actually superheated (rather than
electrically superactive) in the first place is also pure assumption. My
suggestion is that it is not – and also that the core of the planet is still a
plasmic mass, which responds to the fluctuations of solar energy coming our
way as a result of voltage changes in our ionosphere. Interestingly, the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institute in the USA has already noted that the Earth’s
core appears to rotate at a different speed to the crust. Present concepts
of the Earth’s core fail to provide any suggestion as to how this could
possibly occur.
[amazingly this actually works well for me at least in
part. I have already have a viable
conjecture on the nature of the frictionless slip plane. - arclein ]
Now the
ionosphere surrounding our planet at a distance of some 60 kilometres from the
crust is itself an electrified field of matter whose voltage necessarily
fluctuates because of the incessant variations in energy received from the Sun.
As that occurs, so it must expand and contract. But this will itself produce a
sympathetic response in the Earth’s plasmic core, which must also expand and
contract in fluctuation, thereby causing huge changes in the magma sea under
the crust. As the magma expands, it must necessarily generate internal pressure
in the geological fields which contain it, thereby inducing volcanic activity
and localised crustal expansion. Correspondingly, as it contracts, so the magma
will cool and recede, thus causing the Earth’s crust to shrink back again,
which will in turn lead to earthquake activity. Now the first effect of this
different perspective is that it calls into question the paradigm theory of plate
tectonics.
[ I do not buy this at the moment, but I still leave the
door open because I am uncomfortable with our understanding of gravity itself. Obviously there is a mass ratio problem here
that would need to disappear and that seems hardly likely. – arclein ]
The basis of
plate tectonics (which was first suggested in 1915 and cast out through general
scientific disapproval for some fifty years after that) is that all the visible
landmasses were once gathered together as one gigantic continent called
Gondwanaland, or Pangaea. For some inexplicable reason this then supposedly
split up like a jigsaw puzzle into various continental landmasses, which began
cruising around the globe on top of the supporting magma sea, and then started
bumping into each other like ‘dodgem cars’ at the fairground. The next part of
the theory then has some of the landmasses literally crawling over others and
down the other side, this experience however, amazingly leaving both masses
looking geographically pretty well just the same. The ‘proof’ behind this idea
is that the eastward Brazilian projection of South America supposedly fits
geographically very neatly under the westward projection of the African
continent, thereby confirming the original, broken jigsaw puzzle theory.
Proponents of the plate tectonic theory also draw attention to what is called the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the fragmented central area of the Atlantic seabed which we
can see on bathyspheric maps. All along this ridge are to be found hydrothermal
vents (sometimes known as ‘black smokers’) which are chemically based
extrusions, often several metres in length, pumping out volcanic gases from within
the crust. These, we are told, are clear evidence that the Atlantic seabed is
splitting, so pushing South America and Africa gently even further apart.
However, there is no actual proof of such a split.
[ actually the proof is pretty explicit and arises
through the mapping of frozen magnetic variation. – arclein ]
Now, as is
pointed out in my book – citing evidence provided by others far more
knowledgeable in the field than I – the idea that continental landmasses can
just cruise around in the manner suggested is absurd. It takes inconceivably
huge expenditure of energy to shift large geological landmasses – energy levels
which scientific measurement itself has proven the planet just does not begin
to possess in sufficient capacity to motivate the landmasses in such a manner.
Furthermore, the idea that landmasses could somehow slide over each other
without damaging their geographic identity is altogether ludicrous. Even more
unanswerably, new landmasses are constantly being created by the acre every
year (as for example in Hawaii) by the spread of volcanic lava, or destroyed by
gradual erosion or cataclysm. So how can plate tectonics work in the face of
all these various facts?
[ it works wonderfully – however plastic deformation is
unconvincing but thev existence of a cslip plane eliminates that problem –
arclein - see my essay on Pleistocene Nonconformity in
2007 ]
Geologists have
used their theories to ‘prove’ that the profile of the Atlantic seabed confirms
why the ancient idea of a mid-Atlantic continent (aka Atlantis) could not
possibly have existed. However, my suggestion (my own paradigm, if you will) as
previously explained, provides a very clear indication as to how and why huge
masses of the Earth’s crust could indeed be deformed by expansion and
contraction generated by electromagnetic pressure from the planet’s core. However, that is
not the whole story behind the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Its peculiarly twisted shape
tells us of another influence – this time an astrophysical one.
The Ancients
described our planet as being suspended in Space between two great magnets. But
this does not sound so absurd when one takes into consideration that the
indentation of the ionosphere at both poles effectively means that the true
poles are in fact to be found far above the
Earth’s surface, not on it as is commonly imagined. However, the ionosphere
itself is like a giant squeezable crystal – indeed the ancient Egyptian god Ptah
was described as containing the planet within a crystal globe which he
fashioned. When I suggest that it is ‘squeezable’ I mean to draw attention to
the idea that it behaves piezo-electrically. I am suggesting, in other words,
that during certain stages of the solar cycles which our planet goes through,
it is necessarily forced through much more powerful electrical fields in Space,
which cause its biosphere to contract because of the corresponding electrical
hypertension generated in the ionosphere.
As the
ionosphere is thus ‘squeezed’ centripetally inwards, at both poles, so the
plasmic core of the Earth is forced to respond by centrifugal expansion. At a
particularly critical point, these two antagonistic forces will literally cause
the magma under the planetary crust to generate a coreolis effect, resulting in
the upper and lower crustal hemispheres twisting in opposite directions. If you
now look closely at a map of the world you will see that the volcanic ridges
along the oceanic beds follow an interestingly parallel pattern which could
only be achieved, I suggest, by such a twisting in different directions of the
upper and lower hemispheres. The net effect of this, of course, is that the
crust in the tropics would be subjected to such terrible force that any
geologically ancient landmass in the area would literally crack up and fall
apart.
This, I further
suggest, is precisely what happened to Atlantis and, as I have described in my
book, it is also very probably what caused the almighty cataclysm in the Gulf
of Mexico mentioned in the Troano Codex to the Mayan sacred book, the Popol Vuh, as having taken
place some 8,060 years before the author’s time, thus killing some sixty
million people in the space of one or two days. Just consider the probable
extent of the central American landmass before this cataclysm, which itself
appears to have coincided historically with the submergence of Plato’s
Atlantean island of Poseidonis in the north-eastern Atlantic, plus a variety of
other events, such as the sudden raising of the Andes to the south.
Furthermore,
this same historical time seems to coincide not only with what my friend Robert Bauval has shown as the Egyptian period of Zep Tepi (the ‘First Time’) but
also with the celestial solstice
generated by the 25,920 year cycle which we moderns call the ‘precession of the
equinoxes’ – which was known to the Ancients as ‘the Great Year of the Pleiades’.
It would take too long to describe the importance of the Pleiades in this paper
(it is described at some greater length in my book); but suffice it to say that
there appears to have been seen a pivotal (cyclic) association between it, our
solar system and the seven stars of the circumpolar constellation, Ursa Major,
leading to the very appearance of an originally spiritual, proto-human-kind on
this planet, literally millions of years ago.
Most astronomers and astrophysicists will of
course just laugh at this as the products of ancient superstitions. But then
many of our modern scientists – not finding themselves able to credit the
possibility of spirit-matter in the first place (notwithstanding their as yet
hypothetical ‘dark matter’ and ‘quantum fluid’) – would hardly be likely to
consider the possibility of the massed spirit-organisms of humankind (i.e.
souls, not human
beings per se) perhaps originating in another but kindred celestial system. I
hasten to add that this can in no way be considered in terms of UFO activity.
Spirits – organised as cellular groups of souls – would not need spacecraft if
an astrologically and astronomically helpful period of relative proximity were
cyclically available to enable a fluid transmission of celestial consciousness
between greater and lesser star systems, which ancient tradition holds to be
repositories of such consciousness. But is this not perhaps the origin of the
very ancient idea of Man having ‘fallen’ from a superior state of ‘Grace’? Is
this not perhaps also why the ancient Egyptians were so focused on spiritual
development leading the highest initiates or Piru (not the pharaoh,
as Egyptologists fondly imagine) back to the circumpolar stars?
In The Rise and Fall of
Atlantis I have quite deliberately addressed the
hitherto cloudy issue of spirits and souls in relation to the hugely ancient
origins of humankind on this planet and its continued evolution of culture
through civilisation. In doing so, I recognise the immediately apparent dangers
of being treated as just another New Age nutcase. However, I have gone to some
considerable lengths to show that Darwinism and Creationism not only do not
work, but are also not the only (or even most viable) alternatives. When
consciousness is itself brought into the equation as inherent in all the kingdoms of Nature, in
concert with the concept that there is no such thing as dead matter, it will
immediately be seen why the universe in toto has to be considered as a
psychologically based organism (with a wide spectrum of intelligence) within
which spirit and matter are qualitatively polarised aspects of one and the same
principle. It will then be understood why astrologically timed and
astro-physically organised insemination (or withdrawal) of different qualities
of intelligence from any celestial body or system (as an organism) must itself be
a quite natural function in universal Nature.
I hope that my book will be seen as providing
a logically reasoned, alternative perspective for public discussion, rather
than as merely another book on Atlantis and its geographic whereabouts. The
sub-title to it – “The Mysterious
Origins of Human Civilisation” – should be enough to suggest that
there is far more inside it to chew on than one would normally find in a book
on the subject. May I therefore wish my readers many happy hours of further
discovery.
About the Author
John Gordon is a senior
fellow of the Theosophical Society of England, where he lectures on ancient
history and metaphysics. He is the author of several books, including
Self-Consistent Kosmos and his latest The Rise and Fall of Atlantis And the Mysterious Origins of Human
Civilisation. He lives in England.
Interested in
forgotten civilisations and secrets of the past? Then be sure to check
out New Dawn Special Issue Vol 7 No 1.
Sources:
Plato, Timaeus
& Critias (London, Penguin Classics, 1965)
Sir W. Scott, Hermetica (England,
Solos Press, 1993)
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