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he 4th Hermetic principle is “every entity or phenomenon has an opposite.” Using the
words potential and actual, the universe we have studied exhaustively is the actual universe
and it has 3 dimensions. What we have not studied is a non-physical or potential universe
and it turns out that this is a part of our universe in a new extended sense. This new potential
space has the strange dimension of -1 as opposed to the actual with dimension 3D.
To grasp this idea, consider a human personality as having a part which is form and a part
which is substance. The form is the potential, and the substance is the actual. The form part
of the person includes the mind and all thoughts and emotions. The substance part that we
know so well includes the brain and the physical body.
The discovery is that all thought “exists” in the new additional space. Further all this
“in_formation” is shared by all living things. Memories are stored in a way that you can
access. As part of a community your thoughts are in a shared space and therefore get
meaning. Every thought every form of everything that has ever existed on planet Earth is
recorded in this potential space.
Not only has nature has arranged for two spaces, but she has also arranged that they compare
each other on a regular basis. In this way everything within nature evolves. As suspected the
universe is alive and it evolves. The first Hermitic principles asserts Nature or “All there is”
is consciousness and thought.
We can say that in the actual space we living things experiment as we live and move and
have our being. Meanwhile nature has arranged that all our movements and our thoughts are
being recorded and if we get into a situation which is unacceptable, Nature prevents further
evolution in that direction. Some choices are not allowed. This implies a multi level reality
consistent with the Hermetic Principle of Correspondence, “As above so below, as below so
above.”
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I am a PhD, and yes humanity is in crisis. What the essay gets wrong, and profoundly wrong is the following
A. Treated this way, Scientific endeavor will form a ruling cadre;. Then we go to the question, WHO GUARDS the Guardians"
B. Yes, the crisis is very real. But it is useless to appeal to SCIENCE and the SCIENTIFIC METHOD as a clarion cry for humanistic treatment.
Sadly to say, humanism , and humane treatment of people is not in the mission statement of science. Science is a statement of evidence based factuality and rigorous testing of hypothesis, via experimental methodology.
To cloak science as an appeal for a new ruling class in order to save ourselves from our inner innate psychosis , we will be going to the supreme MESS created by Constantine the Great. I.e. "Gods representative on Earth" - is. in latin Ponifix Maximus- the head priest. And then the utter lunacy of in Europe of the " Divine right of Kings" which was when we throughly mixed up church and state
We really need to be very careful of mixing up church and state, because if one makes Science partaking of governance we will be making a slippery descent into the madness of the rule of "priest kings" ,
Want a horrific example ?
Ikhnaton was the first individual in history.” Akhenaten came to power as the pharaoh of Egypt in either the year 1353 or 1351 BCE and reigned for roughly 17 years during the 18th dynasty of Egypt's New Kingdom. Akhenaten became best known to modern scholars for the new religion he created that centered on the Aten.
HERE is what the above does NOT say. Ikhnaton was the one whom PRAYED to ATEN, the solar disk, and the solar disk would then present divine knowledge to Ikhnaton.
What was the catch ? The Egyptian people were not allowed to pray to Aten. That was reserved for Ikhnaton. And then the people had solely to rely upon Ikhnaton for "divine guidance" Guess what happened? His new capital saw half of its inhabitants STARVING TO DEATH. Fun, fun fun
We will be in THAT sort of situation if we "deify science"
What science can do, is to laser out the idiot rumbling of quacks who make factually wrong statements as to garner support. I.e. the entire MAGA movement in America is loaded up to the gills with this nonsense
However, using science to laser out the idiot rumblings of quacks is VERY different from deifying science
What we have to do, is to double down on blasting out of existence the entire realm of "alternate facts". Yes Science has a good role to play there. But as far as going further than that ? Read your history. The collapse of Egypt due to Ikhnaton and his madness, when he tried to become the SUPREME authority is a warning> And deifying science is not going to work