Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he’s not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll’s to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides — and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he’s a scientist: “Once I do something, I want to do something else.”

Transcript of video

Time in my view is the continuity of memory using the ego as an internal reference point. When we break the barrier of ego, the self-image, we break the barrier of time.

So time is the separation that occurs when there is the differentiation of our consiousness into observer, process of observation and that which is observed. And then how we measure our observations through the creation of an artificial observer gives us the experience of time.

In fact, there is no time—there is only eternity. The measurement of eternity is symbolized as the measurement of time. And, of course, how we metabolize our experience of time, is the way our bodies undergo entropy. So if we are running out of time, we literally run out of time biologically. People who say “I’m running out of time”, they have speeded up biological clocks. Faster heart rates [inaudible]. And they drop dead of premature heart attacks. They run out of time.

If you are in love time stops. The intoxication of love allows you to experience unity consciousness and timelessness. If you are bored, time drags. And entropy is the metabolism of time.

I have a lot more to say about the nature of time, but I’m running out of time. So, see you next time, or let me know what you think.

Source: Time

Consciousness matters™—and that’s all that matters

En dat kan je dus heel letterlijk nemen. Zelfs het woord heel uit de vorige zin krijgt daardoor voor mij meer waarde.

Sheldrake and Chopra have my votes. And I sure hope Dawkins will continue his current quest. The more energy he puts into it, the faster we will evolve our current ways of thinking. We need guys like Dawkins. He fuels the research on the ever so important area if spirituality, religion, and morphogenesis.

While on his search, Gaston found the website of the artist and painter Anton Heyboer. Heyboer already mentions quantum physiscs and Amit Goswami’s points. A summary:

• Consciousness and Awareness—on wavicles and quantum (in Dutch);
• Bloodpressure of 65-90 indicates God’s trinity—on Heyboer’s limbic brain;
• Yggdrasil and the circle—quoting Goswami: “consciousness is God”

Heyboer also talks about God. I tend to use the term Universe latelely. Although I was raised as a Christian (gereformeerd), my scope is widened to include many, if not all, religions around the world. Buddhism as it’s most neutral and integral one (and Buddhism is not a religion, as you may know). The term “Universe”, for me, is more, yes, universal. God is still this almighty bearded person for me.

At home in the Universe, as Stuart Kaufman said.

“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion of the future. It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.”

Wonderful.

Via Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for a Secular Spirituality (Part 4) on intentBlog.

Thank you Richard Dawkins, for writing your “The God Delusion” for it creates enormous attention for this ever important subject. You make people like Chopra and myself dig deeper into consiousness, the universe, quantum physics, God, Allah, Buddha and more. We’re becoming more conscious and knowledgeable about it.

And it’s about time, since we’re rapidly evolving towards the noosphere, catalyzed by the technosphere with the Internet as its most brilliant example at this time.

Spaceship Earth is entering its most risky trajectory when metamorphosing to its next order—extreme emergence. And just like the life-threatening phase during the metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly, albeit on a very large, global, scale.

May we all evolve into a global, and perhaps universal wisdom and happiness. And beware, these massive scale changes or emergence happens relatively abrupt. Buckle on.

Chopra uses the term secular spirituality. A pretty paradoxal pearl.

If Einstein pointed the way to a new form of spirituality through his comment on Buddhism in which he gave the key criteria for a “cosmic religion of the future.” Such a religion, he said, should:

• Transcend a personal God
• Avoid dogma and theology
• Embrace both the natural and the spiritual
• Establish itself on a personal sense of unity among all things

Read Chopra’s complete thread right from the source:

• Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 1)
• Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 2)
• Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 3)
• Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 4)
• Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 5)

Benieuwd hoe Ronald aankijkt tegen de kombinatie van spiritualiteit en (kwantum-)wetenschap. En helemaal in de context van de enigzins hyperige [Intention Experiments, Law of Attraction, Zero Point Field, What The Bleep en The Secret. Heeft Ronald The Self-Aware Universe van Amit Goswami gelezen? En? Wat vind Ronald daarvan?

Ik krijg het gevoel dat Computer Science, Quantum Physics en Spirituality de leegte op gaan vullen van linking scientific paradigms, en daarmee de leegte van veel mensen.

Een paar krenten die mij pakken:

• Tijd:
  • Herinner je je toekomst.
  • Tijd en ruimte zijn slechts projecties.
  • Laat de toekomst het heden scheppen.
  • Omdat tijd in je eigen bewustzijn wordt uitgevonden, bestaat er geen verleden.
  • Onnatuurlijke manier om te voorkomen dat je alles tegelijkertijd beleeft.
  • Dé manier om al je wensen één voor één uit te laten komen.
  • Hier VOOR | Hier NU | Hier NA.
• Jij/iedereen bent het middelpunt van het heelal. Alle punten zijn hetzelfde.
• Jouw (on)geluk(jes) zijn echo’s uit het verleden. Hoe alerter en waakzamer je daarvoor bent hoe beter.
• Gods vermogen om je de wereld te geven wordt alleen beperkt door jouw vermogen om hem te ontvangen.
• Kortste pad naar God: UIT JE ZELF. Dit kan je heel letterlijk nemen. Als dat lukt dan gaat het ook VAN ZELF. Zie ook Minder moeten. Meer FLOW.
• Het leven wil gewoon zich zelf uiten.
• Een gezonde baby leert dat al zijn wensen goed zijn als zijn moeder zijn behoeften graag bevredigt. Zie ook symbiose.
• (Zonder wrijving geen glans.) Zonder verlangens geen groei.
• Geld is geen poort naar het paradijs.
• Kanskijken (lekker quantum):
  • Leer je eigen projectetalent te beheersen.
  • Alles is potentieel.
• Geven:
  • Verbindt twee mensen.
  • Schept hierdoor geluk.
  • Is scheppend.

Dank voor deze gift Manon!

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Source: http://www.csicop.org/si/9701/quantum-quackery.html

By Victor J. Stenger via Skeptical Inquirer