SAM HARRIS IS WRONG

HERE IS WHAT HE SAYS-I WILL TELL YOU WHY HE IS WRONG IN A LATER BLOG!

THE PARABLE OF OZ

In the Parable of Oz we see the full circle path that humanity has taken to discover the inner meaning of life. A small farm family lives with the most basic of necessities of life. Their life is simple, humble, sometimes tough, but also based upon the basic pleasures of love, loyalty, trust and friendship. Youth often fails to understand these simple pleasures and seeks more that is exciting, glamorous, mysterious and exotic.

It often takes a tragedy or disaster to shake up the peaceful life. This does not always mean a physical disaster. A tornado of ideas and promises can tear away the fabric of society just as easy as a flood or earthquake. This is not necessarily good or bad, it just happens to further the cause of evolution. Stagnation occurs when there is no pressure for change. The dark side has its purpose.

So the desire for change can lead a person to strange lands. In those lands, whether they be imaginary or real, there is always choice. The road taken can be positive or negative. After leaving her old life behind, in the case of Oz, the poor girl is convinced by others that she committed a basic sin and must atone for her actions. To do this, a guide appears and promises that if a certain path is followed, all will be well. There is a promise of salvation but that in order to achieve it, sacrifice and hard work is necessary. A demon is often identified as one who will try to prevent you from reaching your goal and, if you are not faithful to the cause, you are doomed. And yet, without the demon, would the trip be taken?

So after finding some like-minded people, the journey is taken. Of note is that you always take your Self with you. We cannot escape our physical, mental and emotional self and depending on the situation, one these selves dominate our response. Of course, what most often forget is that we also have a higher self that walks in every footstep we take-the red slippers?

So the guide says that in order to be saved we must find the Great Wizard. Once in his care, all will be well. After arriving at what seems to be a perfect little world, our seeker finds that all live in fear of the Wizard-hmm, not the impression given by our fairy friend. The community seems relatively mindless and even the simplest of questions must be answered by his Greatness and his dials, knobs, smoke and gadgets. But, instead of answers, the cult leader demands a payment for dream fulfillment. Hmmm, the fairy didn’t mention that either. And, in keeping with all great religious/cult organizations, the payment must be made in blood-kill the witch. Such enlightenment!

Poor demon/witch-merely seeking her own inner guide-those slippers again-now has a contract out on her. Who is the real demon? So now the quest begins again-the land of promise has a high price to enter and the threat of death is the price of disobedience. So off we go, not sure who or what stands for good. We begin to question the new world and yearn for the simplicity of the old. We are certain the answer is outside of us, that is what we have been told-but, our mind and emotions have failed us and they offer no answer. At last we overcome diversity, our fears, come face-to-face with and slay our demon-so we think. We return to the land of promise in triumph only to be told, “Sorry, can’t really help you. It is all for show-no real power here. And, oh-what you’ve been seeking you have never lost.”

With the mantra of, “there’s no place like home,” we awaken from a dream world, reality, and discover it is indeed always greener…That even the brightest mind, the strongest emotion and all of the things of the physical world hold no real answers. And what of the poor people in Wizard world? With the myth shattered and beliefs torn asunder, they have also found that their life has been a lie and that the only real truth must be birthed from experience, trials and errors, darkness, choice, responsibility and inner truth. They, too, traveled the road of simplicity to dogma and false progress and back. A path we all must follow-for through darkness and experience-wisdom is reborn.

IS MODERN SCIENCE PROVING ANCIENT WISDOM?

Is science beginning to verify ancient mystical truths? Here are two events as reported in Scientific American that, to me, show that continued discoveries in quantum physics leave little doubt as to the answer.
“PORTLAND, Ore. — Researchers have demonstrated a device that can pick up single quanta of mechanical vibration similar to those that shake molecules during chemical reactions, and have shown that the device itself, which is the width of a hair, acts as if it exists in two places at once—a "quantum weirdness" feat that so far had only been observed at the scale of molecules.

"This is a milestone," says Wojciech Zurek, a theorist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. "It confirms what many of us believe, but some continue to resist—that our universe is 'quantum to the core'."

Physicists have long known that, following the laws of quantum mechanics, objects at the scale of atoms or smaller can exist in multiple simultaneous states. For example, a single electron can move along multiple different paths or an atom can be placed in two different places, simultaneously. This so-called superposition of states should in principle apply to larger objects, as well… As to how the day-to-day reality of objects that we observe, such as furniture and fruit, emerges from such a different and exotic quantum world, that remains a mystery.”

In another story written by Geoff Brumfiel we see that, “A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.

Andrew Cleland at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his team cooled a tiny metal paddle until it reached its quantum mechanical "ground state"-- the lowest-energy state permitted by quantum mechanics. They then used the weird rules of quantum mechanics to simultaneously set the paddle moving while leaving it standing still. The experiment shows that the principles of quantum mechanics can apply to everyday objects as well as as atomic-scale particles.
The work is simultaneously being published online today in Nature and presented today at the American Physical Society's meeting in Portland, Oregon.
According to quantum theory, particles act as waves rather than point masses on very small scales. This has dozens of bizarre consequences: it is impossible to know a particle's exact position and velocity through space, yet it is possible for the same particle to be doing two contradictory things simultaneously. Through a phenomenon known as "superposition" a particle can be moving and stationary at the same time--at least until an outside force acts on it. Then it instantly chooses one of the two contradictory positions.

But although the rules of quantum mechanics seem to apply at small scales, nobody has seen evidence of them on a large scale, where outside influences can more easily destroy fragile quantum states. "No one has shown to date that if you take a big object, with trillions of atoms in it, that quantum mechanics applies to its motion," Cleland says.”

There is no obvious reason why the rules of quantum mechanics shouldn't apply to large objects. Erwin Schrödinger, one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, was so disturbed by the possibility of quantum weirdness on the large scale…
"It's wonderful," says Hailin Wang, a physicist at the University of Oregon in Eugene who has been working on a rival technique for putting an oscillator into the ground state. The work shows that the laws of quantum mechanics hold up as expected on a large scale. "It's good for physics for sure," Wang says.
So if trillions of atoms can be put into a quantum state, why don't we see double-decker buses simultaneously stopping and going? Cleland says he believes size does matter: the larger an object, the easier it is for outside forces to disrupt its quantum state.

So what’s the big deal? Mystics have long held to several fundamental maxims. The macrocosm, large, and the microcosm, infinitely small, are one: what applies to one, applies to the other. Mystics have said that we create our own reality; form follows thought; what we seek is what we find; like attracts like; our focus is our reality; reality is merely our thoughts made manifest and we can alter that reality with thought; and we are all one.

Until now, many scientists simply shunned much of what was happening on the quantum scale and felt that it just did not matter with regard to the larger world in which we live. The mentioned experiments would seem to point in the direction that they are wrong. What we hold as laws of the physical world are not immutable and only reflect our current state of awareness. Almost every day, some basic scientific law is found to be false. We have seen that if we seek to measure electrons as particles, we get particles. But, if we seek to measure electrons as waves, we get waves. Science is finding that things can be in different places at the same time and can be opposite and alike at the same time. They are have shown that what is done to one atom can affect an atom at an infinite distance at the same time. Words like quantum entanglement and superposition may not be just unusual phenomena at the sub-atomic level but can be observed at the larger scale. What may be happening is that as human awareness expands, granted at the moment through the use of new equipment, we are beginning to observe a closer version of reality–one that can change with a thought. When we are only aware of things at the gross level, then we only perceive what appears to be true at that level. But when we look closer at the detail, a whole new world and sets of laws emerge. These are the same laws that mystics intuited in ancient days when they were not under the mental restrictions of scientific, religious, political or even social dogma.

This is why I cannot accept some of the basic premises of author Sam Harris. While I applaud his fight against religious dogma, he is actually creating a new dogma based upon science and reason. But as we see, science and reason are also suspect as they are ever changing and never creating a true picture of the inner workings of the universe. They find what they seek. But if your search is based upon preconceived notions and false science, you have merely done what all movements do; collapse under their own biased philosophy. They create laws where there are none.
Many seers and prophets tell of two possible futures for humanity: one in which dogma leads to destruction and one where spiritual enlightenment leads to a world of balance and harmony. Nostradamus, the Mayans, the Hopi, biblical seers, Newton, DaVinci and others tried to tell us that we cannot rely upon our physical senses, science or religion to guide our thoughts and actions. They tell us that there is something deeper, something spiritual, that we must remember if we are to control the future of our evolution. Those working on the quantum physics scale are beginning to ‘get it.’ Given enough time, if there is enough time, they will lead us full circle back to ancient truths that were discovered without the microscope or the Bible. If there is to be a “Great Awakening” by 2012, it will be necessary to shed all of the old ways of thinking and embrace a new reality that we consciously create and founded on the ancient universal principles that include: what we due to the least of our brethren, including all species, we do to us and, what we do to others, we do to ourselves.

The articles references can be found at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=supersize-quantum-mechanics&sc=physics_20100319
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=quantum-microphone&sc=DD_20100319

Fatwa and Religion

Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, head of the Minhaj ul-Quran religious and educational organisation said " Islam was a religion of peace that promotes beauty, “betterment”, goodness and “negates all form of mischief and strife”.

“Terrorism is terrorism, violence is violence and it has no place in Islamic teaching and no justification can be provided for it, or any kind of excuses or ifs or buts.”

The above and more appears in : http://www.minhaj.org/english/oid/10276/Ian-G-Anderson-:-The-Anti-Terror-Fatwa-and-Religious-Arguments-for-Non-Violence.html.

Clearly, from "Thou shalt not kill," "Love thy neighbor, and we are all one, spiritual doctrine says NO to violence, hatred, terror, racism, bigotry and intolerance. I use the word spiritual instead of religious because the words of the prophets were never really supposed to be tied to a religious organization-in fact, most opposed such organizations and many prophets were murdered by them.

In WAKING GOD we see the outcome of religion gone insane. We see the dogmatic hold they have over their followers. We see the absurdity of it all. Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri is a modern day prophet who understands intentions, inner meanings and the obvious-religious institutions have not only failed their flock, they lead them down a path of destruction.

As we approach 2012, new voices are calling for a basic transformation of human thinking. They are calling for all to seek the true meaning of the prophets that have gone before us.

Ian says, "Religion is thus the low road precisely because it claims to be the highest road, a ready-made unachievable standard by which to compare (and conflate) all lesser thoughts and actions."

Just nod if you can hear me!