Cosmism over Spiritualism

Philosophy over Science
Cooperation over Coercion
Love over Hate

Henry H. Lindner, MD

We are creatures who have acquired language; as a result our minds, our lives and our societies are controlled by linguistic formulae—ideas and theories.

Ideas matter; either we control ideas or they control us.

The most important ideas are those about fundamental issues: what exists, what we are, and how we should live. They determine how we interpret reality.

False ideas necessarily cause us to harm ourselves, our children, each other and our environment; no matter how good are our intentions.

If we are to progress as a species, we must question all the ideas that we’ve inherited from our species’ ignorant past.

We must replace all old, false ideas with working theories about what the Cosmos is, how it produced us, and what our consciousness is.

This task requires philosophical cognition; so in order to reach our potential as a species we must become philosophers.

Cosmism: The Route to all Knowledge and Understanding

We who are alive now are members of the oldest and best-informed human society that has ever existed. We know more about the general nature of the Cosmos, its evolution and ourselves than any humans before us. Our current best theoretical reconstruction of our genesis is this:

1. The Cosmos is immense: composed of hundreds of millions of galaxies.

2. The Cosmos is now expanding; it is most likely that it undergoes Bang-Expansion-Contraction-Crunch-Bang cycles.

3. After this last Bang, the Cosmos has evolved from a simplest state of space and various motions in/of space (energy) to produce ever higher levels of hierarchical organization:

a. Astrophysicochemical evolution: subatomic particles, atoms, molecules (gas, dust, stars, planets)

b. Biological evolution: cells, plants, animals (Here on Earth, with this and other forms of life throughout the Cosmos)

c. Neuropsychological evolution: animals with nervous systems that gather and process information (sensation, emotion, consciousness, protoconcepts, etc.)

d. Linguomythic evolution: animals with language who make tools and invent stories to explain their experiences (myths, religions, ideologies, etc.) (This is our current state.)

e. Philosophical evolution: humans learn to use language in a disciplined way to create and criticize theories in order to understand the Cosmos and themselves (first attempted in ancient Greece; mankind’s only hope).

I call this theory of reality “Cosmism” for it accepts that the Cosmos is all that exists. The Cosmos is an evolving being; it inherently seeks to become more complex, more self-aware and even self-directing. We are the Cosmos become linguistically self-aware. Thanks to Charles Darwin’s philosophical efforts, we can understand how we were produced through the evolution of life on this very special planet. Our species originated in Africa and spread from there to the rest of the planet. Our consciousness is similar to that of other intelligent animals; it is the brain’s virtual-reality representation of our external and internal environments. We are more intelligent than other animals, but what makes us wholly unique is that our consciousness is enhanced by language. We are apes who can talk. We use words to represent objects, and this vastly increased our information-processing power. Words allow us to understand and manipulate our environment. However, language can not only empower us but can also become a trap. Inasmuch as our word formulae fail to correspond to reality, language can mislead us.

Spiritualism: The Root of all Ignorance and Evil

I was raised as a Protestant Christian, but had doubts that I suppressed until I left home. I then decided to seek the Truth—to use reason to figure everything out. I began to question all the old ideas I had been taught and to try to find or create better ideas. I was fortunate to have the ability and the time to do so. What I slowly came to realize is that our “enlightened” Western Civilization--all its ideas and institutions—are based upon spiritualism, not on Cosmism. Indeed the vast majority of human beings believe that the Cosmos was created by a spirit-God and that our consciousness is a spirit inhabiting our bodies. Spiritualism is an ancient magical theory of the Cosmos and of human consciousness. Almost all of us are taught with some version of spiritualism as children. Therefore we still cling to religions (the Judaic religions, Hinduism, New Age Mysticism, etc.). If we reject the particular magic-theory we inherited from our parents, we go looking for a better one. Intelligent persons often fall prey to intellectualize versions of spiritualism: Platonic idealism, mathematical idealism, phenomenalism, positivism, etc.)

Think about it. Spiritualism holds that our consciousness is not an emergent product of Cosmic evolution like everything else, including our bodies. It holds that consciousness is magic; that our minds participate in a mystical world that has no relationship to the Cosmos or Cosmic causality. The Cosmos is a mere creation of the magic-world; or possibly just an illusion. Spiritualism holds that our minds are not dependent upon our brains, and therefore can survive the death of our brains. Spiritualism is a belief in magic; and if one believes in magic then one believes that anything is possible. However, if one really analyzes spiritualism, if one takes it seriously, one has to admit that it is inconsistent with everything we know about the evolution of the Cosmos, of life on Earth, neurology and neuropsychology. It is inconsistent with everything we experience every day in our daily lives. It is inconsistent with how we actually think and live every day of our lives. Spiritualism is just an ancient anthropocentric myth; the projection of our own consciousness upon the Cosmos itself. It is also simple wish-fulfillment: it satisfies our desire to live forever and reunite with our lost loved ones. Spiritualism is anti-Cosmic nonsense and therefore can only produce nonsense. Spiritualism is the core idea of all religions. Thinking that our minds are separate from the rest of reality, we invented gods or a God and we made Them/It the creator of the Cosmos. As long as we cling to spiritualism, we are forced to choose among various supposedly-God-inspired revelations to know how the spirit-world works, what God wants, and how we should live. While the Cosmos and Truth are one, spiritualism, like all false beliefs, takes on innumerable forms and produces controversy and conflict.

It is long-past time for us to finally grow out of spiritualism and all its related falsehoods. We must give up the sentimental desire for life after death. Spiritualism is not comprehensible; it is not acceptable; it is not good for us. Spiritualism cuts us off from Cosmic reality; it prevents us from understanding the true nature of the Cosmos and of ourselves. It produces a false epistemology, false psychology, false pedagogy, false sociology, false economics and false politics. We cling to all these false beliefs, and this is why our societies are pathological; marked by coercion, ignorance, suffering, waste and destruction.

You think that I’m being too hard on spiritualism? That it’s a trivial conceit that we should indulge in ourselves and others? That its religions are necessary and good for us? That we shouldn’t hurt others’ feelings by confronting their false beliefs? You think that mankind should tolerate spiritualism forever? Well, consider the fatal errors that spiritualism necessarily produces in our minds and societies:

1. The doctrines of free will and innate evil—Every person is supposedly born with a magical spirit that has “free will” to make moral (religion-approved) choices. This spirit is unaffected by maturational processes, by upbringing or by experience. In essence, spiritualism holds that causality and determinism have no role in human psychology. Children will become who they are no matter what we do to them—so we can neglect and abuse them without altering them. Since these free spirits are born selfish and make the “wrong” choices it proves that they are inherently flawed—lazy, stupid and evil—just as the Bible teaches. This false psychology prevents us from understanding human nature, children’s maturational processes, and the actual determinants of human behavior. We misidentify the child’s immaturity and healthy willfulness as disobedience. Adults too are clearly evil—proven by the fact that they often do not obey God or authorities. All the stupidity and destruction caused by this false belief system is taken as just more proof that humans are born evil.

2. Universal coercion-authoritarianism—Since children and adults are innately evil, they need to be controlled by force or threat of force in order to be made into “good” persons. So we attempt to train the child’s unruly spirit by coercion—by verbal and physical abuse. Adults too must be controlled by authorities by force or the threat of force. We fail to realize that all coercion, no matter how well-intentioned, rationalized or legalized, is violence or the threat of violence. It is a crime against the child’s or adult’s body, mind and will. Coercion, legal or not, displaces and prevents love, respect, cooperation and dialogue among persons. Coercion negates the use of the intellect, both for the controller and the one being controlled. The resort to force is stupidity and it produces stupidity. All laws that force people to do what they otherwise would not do, or prevent them from doing what they want to do are forms of coercion—institutionalized violence. Violence can never aid any person’s psychosocial or intellectual maturation; it can only produce mental disturbance and more violence. Our “enlightened democracies” are therefore stupid, criminal systems based upon violence—parents and schools against children, lawyers-politicians against citizens, and government-privileged bankers, corporations and professions against the masses.

3. Resignation to fate—Since one’s spirit lives forever this life has far less importance. We are willing to submit to coercion, slavery and suffering in this life because we believe that we’ll find happiness in the afterlife. Thus Christianity has always been a great religion for slaves. Spiritualism causes us to take this life for granted, even to take our friends and family for granted—thinking that we will all exist for all eternity in a better world. If we were convinced instead that this is the only existence that we will ever have, we would make damned sure that it was the best world possible for ourselves, our children, all human beings, and our posterity.

4. Disregard for Nature—Since the true reality is spiritual, the Cosmos, Earth, and all non-human life is of little importance, just a passing phase or even an illusion. We, God’s chosen species, can do whatever we want to the planet and its species without regard for any long-term consequences. We can exploit, destroy, and pollute at will. God made the world for us and the Messiah is coming soon to clean up the mess.

5. Theism—The Cosmos is merely the creation of some all-powerful super-spirit (God). To know what this God-Spirit is and what it wants we must chose some version of holy nonsense, some religion. We must follow a set of ideas and commandments supposedly dictated to some humans in the past (holy scriptures). Since this is all nonsense, it requires us to deactivate our intellects and surrender our wills. We must believe in our own inferiority and stupidity and turn our minds and wills over to religious, academic and political authorities. Theism supports authoritarianism. Theism prevents us from understanding this world and creating a better life on this planet.

6. Religionism/Racism/Nationalism/Classism— Because spiritualist ideologies make no sense of the world, we can never agree on which one is the right one. We all inherit or choose our own version of contradictory nonsense. The result is chaos: contradiction, confusion, controversy, and conflict. Religious/superstitious thinking leaves mankind divided into groups, each infected by some irrational ideology. Each group sees their “spirit” as superior to the others (e.g. God’s chosen people, the natural rulers, the best society, true democracy, the best race, etc.), and sees others as inferior, less human. Each group believes that they can exploit other groups and/or ignore their suffering. Since there is no possible rational agreement about religious, racial or nationalistic myths, the inevitable result is conflict and war. It is perfectly OK to kill the “other” because they are bad—whether they be men, women or children.

Spiritualism and the religions and the authoritarian political systems that it has spawned keep us trapped in a delusional Matrix of false concepts and interpretations. We try to fix the problems that our errors are producing, but since we don’t understand the causes, our solutions just make things worse. We pass more laws and we throw more money at problems, just to watch them grow worse. We routinely resort to violence, at home and abroad. We don’t know what else to do.

Spiritualism-religion and its resulting authoritarianism keep us trapped in various kinds of destructive behaviors and institutions:

1. Routine neglect of infants and children’s needs; coercive childrearing

2. Compulsory schooling of children—the destruction of their minds and wills

3. Capitalism: Fractional-reserve banking (loan slavery) and Government taxation (tax-slavery), Government-created monopolies (patents, copyrights, professions, etc.), Corporations (government-created amoral profit machines)

4. Stupid Science (incapable of philosophical cognition—see below)

5. Pharmaceutical Medicine (instead of natural scientific medicine)

6. Government regulation of all aspects of life and behavior (the Nanny State, Therapeutic State, political correctness, War on Drugs, etc.)

7. Statism—the world divided into competing, antagonistic slave-states

8. Welfare Statism—Coercive government charity displaces voluntary community charity and responsibility

In Western civilization, Judeo-Christianity’s false and destructive ideas have produced and sustained an authoritarian political-economic system. However, most people don’t actually believe in these religions anymore—including most of those who claim that they are Jews, Christians or Muslims. Therefore we in the West exist in a state of inconsistency: Our society’s and therefore our individual ideological structures are based upon Judeo-Christian spiritualism, yet we no longer believe in Judeo-Christianity. Most persons who consider themselves believers do not actually know the contents of their holy scriptures and certainly do not attempt to abide by every word found there. People call themselves Jews, Christians and Muslims, but instead hold some inconsistent, personal version of the holy nonsense with which they are comfortable with. They pick and choose from the religion—taking what they agree with and ignoring what they don’t. They live in a state of hypocrisy, contradiction, and confusion. Those who consider themselves to be agnostics or even atheists are also infected with religious ideas—because their society is based upon those ideas.

Philosophy over Religion and Science

We will remain trapped in spiritualism/religion/authoritarianism until we replace this ideational complex with Cosmism. This is the challenge for humanity. To solve our problems and create the intelligent, creative, and peaceful global society that we all want, we must produce and share a working theory of what the Cosmos is, how it evolves, what we human beings are, and how we should live. We require a belief system that is consistent with Cosmic reality. This process is underway—as evidenced by the increased interest in Cosmology, the environment, natural medicine, etc. However, it cannot succeed without a fundamental revolution in thought.

We require something that is like a religion but without the dogmatism and error. We require working theory of reality that fits the facts and that grows and changes with the advance of knowledge. We must begin to become sentient by identifying all contradictions between our word-formulae and reality. We must reject old myths and anthropomorphic analogies. There is a name for such an open-ended, rational “religion”. Since its invention by Ionian Greeks in the 6th century BC it has been called "philosophy". Philosophy is the most powerful use of our linguistic cognition; it is the full, uninhibited use of our intuition combined with our language-based intelligence to criticize and create theories of the nature and causes of all Cosmic phenomena. Philosophy allows our minds to reach beyond our consciousness, beyond our sensations and measurements and to explain what exists and causes our experiences. Philosophy is the intellectual discipline by which we assure that our word-formulas correspond to Cosmic reality. Philosophy rejects ideas that are not consistent with the evidence and/or do not sufficiently explain the evidence. Philosophy is our only path to the truth; our only tool for integrating the facts of experience and for understanding the Cosmos and ourselves. Consider that the first rule of philosophy is non-contradiction because the Cosmos is a coherent, interacting whole. There is nothing incoherent in it; nothing like a contradiction. Our linguistic representations must mirror the Cosmos. Our linguistic representation of the Cosmos must be evolutionary, hierarchical, etc. Logic and mathematics are tools of philosophy. All sciences are, and must remain, branches of philosophy. Philosophy is what most people think/hope that Science is. Here they are mistaken.

You would think that mankind would revel in an open-ended, rational, ever-improving, non-sectarian search for understanding. However, such has not been the case. In fact, philosophy has always been suppressed, reviled, belittled, and ignored; from the Byzantine emperor Justinian’s closure of Plato’s and Aristotle’s schools in Athens to the aggressive anti-philosophy of today’s governmental-banking-corporate-media-academic establishment. Philosophy is slandered as mere unsupported belief, soft-headed mysticism, or a form of art. In our universities, it is reduced either to a canned history of “ideas”, useless speculation about the meaning of words, or a "dialogue" about morality. What our culture calls “philosophy” is a pale shadow of the real thing. Why is this so? Why is our most precious, most important intellectual capacity suppressed and ignored? It is quite simple: philosophy is the only threat to the religions that still dominate our minds, to the governments that dominate our lives by force, and to the banking/corporate plutocracy that dominates our governments. The status quo of belief, power and privilege rests upon old false ideas and is therefore highly vulnerable. The system cannot withstand intelligent criticism and so must suppress our ability to think. It does so through the government-mandated schooling of children and by replacing philosophy with merely-descriptive Science. The current intellectual consensus is that there are only two paths to truth: Religion and Science. Science gives us the “what”; religion gives us the “why”.

The price we have paid for exchanging philosophy for stupid Science is enormous. The Renaissance of Greek philosophical brilliance has once again faded. The cultural revolution of the 1960s and 70s aborted. Religion, government, banks and corporations are again firmly in power. Our minds are constricted, our lives distorted, our art degraded, and our work unsatisfying. We accept all this as normal and we obediently pass on our slave-lives to our children, ruining them too. We are trapped in a High-Tech Dark Age—we are still in the Middle Ages. It is time for the long-overdue awakening of human consciousness. It is time for us to fulfill our Cosmic destiny, to become fully human.

Science: Part of the Problem, Not the Solution

What is holding us back? What is preventing us from producing a shared, rational theory of the Cosmos and ourselves? Isn’t Science the way to solve all our problems? What can possibly be wrong with Science? The truth will surprise you. I found the key to understanding Science when I discovered that our revered theoretical physics—Relativity and Quantum Mechanics—are not theories about what exists and causes physical phenomena. They are merely models of the human observers’ conscious experience. They are models of consciousness, not the Cosmos. Relativity and Quantum Theory are just observer-based accounting models, no different than the Ptolemaic system that modeled the motion of the stars in the Earth-observer’s frame. Albert Einstein, influenced by a string of Christian “Enlightenment” thinkers, sought only to find quantitative laws that could account for the observer’s experiences and measurements. He created Relativity and Quantum Theory. There is no Cosmos in these models. He removed the Cosmos from physics and gave us a spiritualistic physics. They do not provide any theory of what exists and causes us to observe and measure what we do. They consist of non-physical, nonsensical “laws”.

Why did Einstein do this? Why did he succeed? This question led me to study Newton and Enlightenment philosophy. What I found is that the “Enlightenment” thinkers were Christian men or at least spiritualists. They wanted to restrict our knowledge to the mere description of our experience because they did not want to, and did not know how to replace Christianity or spiritualism with Cosmic theory. Bishop Berkeley is the inventor of our modern, merely descriptive Science. He attacked Newton’s theory of matter, space and time as atheism because it posited Cosmic entities and processes that did not rely on God. Berkeley wanted to stop all theorizing about the Cosmos—because he knew that doing so would eventually eliminate Christianity. He claimed that we are spirits, and that all we can know is spiritual reality. He asserted that the Cosmos that we experience is just a spiritual Matrix, created and sustained by God. We should not therefore do anything but describe God’s Matrix and find the rules by which it operates. Bishop Berkeley’s ideology is called “subjective idealism” and is similar to Plato’s idealism. Einstein inherited this ideology via David Hume and Ernst Mach. He created his own version of mathematical idealism. Einstein therefore merely sought the simplest rules that could generate our experiences and measurements—the rules of the Matrix. Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are functioning exactly as Bishop Berkeley intended: They are protecting religion and authority from the threat of philosophy. They are preventing humans from understanding the Cosmos and themselves.

You are certainly protesting louder than ever at this point: “Relativity and Quantum Mechanics have been proven to be true, over and over again. Theoretical physics is just good Science!” What has been proven is only that their mathematical models can be used, when selectively applied, to describe and predict our measurements. They do not begin to touch on the question of what exists and causes us to measure what we do. Therefore we do not have a theoretical physics, and without a theory of the fundamental nature of the Cosmos and its processes we cannot understand what the Cosmos is, how it produced us, what we are, and what our consciousness is. We have no way to replace the God-Spirit theory. We are trapped, stuck with spiritualism, just as Bishop Berkeley intended. Not just modern physics, but Science itself is the problem. Science is intellectually inadequate; it is incompetent to deal with ideas. It is cowardly. Like its archetypes, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, Science restricts our minds to counting and measuring things and finding statistical correlations. Science is Stupid. Science coexists easily with religion and authority, as intended. All academic sciences are imitating physics, trying to become “hard sciences” by just describing and mathematically modeling their subject. This process is dumbing-down academia and therefore our society. Science denigrates and suppresses philosophical cognition; it makes us afraid to use our theoretic intelligence. Our experts are incompetent because their minds were deformed by schooling and are inhibited by Science. They are incapable of questioning their assumptions. They simply accept the ideas that they inherited in their training.

The outlines of a proper philosophical physics and Cosmology are clear. As soon as one begins to think about the phenomena that Relativity and Quantum Mechanics describe, as soon as one tries to relate all phenomena to the Cosmos instead of to ourselves, one is immediately struck by the fact that space cannot be mere emptiness. To explain gravity, inertia, electromagnetism, etc. requires the hypothesis that space is something real, a substance. Space spontaneously self-organizes itself into subatomic particles, which can combine to form atoms, molecules, life, consciousness and linguistic consciousness. Space has the qualities Newton ascribed to it, as the inertial medium, and the qualities that Maxwell and Lorentz ascribed to it, as the electromagnetic medium in which light is a wave that propagates at c. Space theory allows us to understand Einstein’s singular achievement: his realization that inertial acceleration and gravitational acceleration are the same thing (the principle of equivalence of gravitational and inertial acceleration). This insight directly implies that Newtonian-Lorentzian, inertial-electromagnetic space is flowing into the Earth. The velocity of this spatial flow (11.2km/s on Earth’s surface) explains the successes of General Relativity: the slowing of atomic clocks in gravitational fields, bending of light, etc. It is no coincidence that modern physics has one major taboo—one must never speak of space (ether) theory. The taboo goes back to Bishop Berkeley’s attack on Newton. The taboo has so far prevented academics from theorizing about Cosmic space.

Space is the source of all being. Space theory is the rational alternative to mind-God spiritualism. Space theory is required to chase the God-of-the-gaps out of his last hiding place. Space is not sentient, but it has the potential to become sentient via its evolution into creatures like ourselves. Space inherently strives for greater complexity, self-knowledge and self-direction. We are space become self-conscious here on Earth. No doubt there are millions of linguistic or otherwise self-conscious species in this Cosmos. Space theory provides us with an entirely different view of the world and ourselves than ancient spiritualism. Space theory provides a rational foundation for our actions and societies. We have a goal—we must begin to live up to our evolutionary potential. We must seek to improve the Cosmos by improving ourselves. We must add to the intelligence, self-knowledge and self-direction of the Cosmos. We should enjoy our lives and live them to the fullest for we have no existence after brain-death. We must dedicate ourselves to thinking and to learning. To start, we must stop schooling our children. We must stop coercing them and destroying their natural intellectual and psychological development. Only then can we create healthier-minded generations who can understand this world much better than we can. We must all seek to become philosophers—masters of ideas. We must always try to identify old inadequate ideas and replace them with better theories. We must seek to understand the Cosmos and live in harmony with it, with ourselves, and with each other. We must abolish violence in all its forms, including all authoritarian systems and institutions. We must deconstruct our authoritarian societies and build a new world-wide society based upon mutual respect, concern, cooperation and personal responsibility. Only then will we begin to obtain peace and prosperity we all desire. Only then will we nurture our children’s learning and creativity and allow them to realize their potential. Only then we will begin to create human beings who do not need to be controlled. We can turn life on this planet into a celebration of existence. With a working theoretical physics we will be able to develop clean and powerful technologies that will allow us to preserve our Earth and to travel among the stars. We can hope one day to contact other species in the Cosmos that have attained this or a higher level of intellectual and technological evolution. What comes after that? Who knows!

Philosophy is what we think Science should be; it is what we are taught to think that Science is.

Philosophy is the natural religion of all mankind—our only hope for a peaceful and prosperous future together on Earth and among the stars.

On Philosophy, Science, and the Cosmos

On the Philosophical Inadequacy of Modern Physics and the Need for a Theory of Space – My most recent publication in Cosmos and History. It is a the most complete presentation of the philosophical problem with Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and Science in general, and an outline of a new Cosmology based upon space theory.
Hierarchical Cosmism – My first writing project that started me on my philosophical journey. The fact that I needed to do this indicates how fragmented and anti-theoretical Science is. I simply started to describe how Cosmic processes have been and continue to be organized in new ways, creating new levels of complexity. The result is a powerful tool for organizing our understanding. It is an unfinished outline of all current and potential knowledge! The major levels of Cosmic evolution are: Astrophysicochemical, Biological, Neuropsychological (animals) Linguocultural (ancient human), and Consciophilosophical (our potential).
Philosophy over Science – An exposé of the origins and intellectual inadequacy of our "Science" which accepts contradictions in its ideas and doesn't form coherent theories of the causes of things. Science is anti-philosophy.
From It to Bit: From the Observer’s Information to Space Theory – Brief essay summarizing the problem with physics and how to fix it
Beyond Consciousness to Cosmos: Beyond Relativity and Quantum Theory to Cosmic Theory (printed) – Text version – The first paper that I published. An exposé of the philosophical errors made by Einstein, and an argument for going beyond Relativity to a physical theory of the Cosmos. (Copyright Physics Essays Publication (PEP). Reproduced with permission of PEP) (Phys. Ess. 2002, 15, pp. 113-128)
Beyond Newton and Einstein to Flowing Space – The facts of physics require that space be a substance. It is the ground of all being. A detailed presentation of a new theory of space and motion that fits the facts. This simple model explains why Relativity’s equations work. (Copyright Physics Essays Publication (PEP). Reproduced with permission of PEP) (Phys. Ess. 2012, 25, pp. 500-509)
A QED-Based Wave Theory of Light, Electrons, and their Quantized Interactions – Edited version of “A QED-compatible Wave Theory of Light, Electrons, and their Interactions”, published in The Nature of Light: What are Photons IV, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 8121, 2011, p. 81210X-1. Feynman’s approach to QED is discussed. I show how it requires a wave-theory of light. The evidence contradicts the idea that light is composed of particles. It is the false photon theory of light that leads to the quantum paradoxes and all the other quantum “spookiness”.
Implications of Flowing Space – Unpublished. An exploration of the new physics implied by the Flowing Space theory of gravity
Etherism, Atomism, and the God Myth – Deals with the philosophical question of the nature of reality: whether the Cosmos is the product of four forces and four particles acting in a void as is currently taught in universities, or the product of motions in and of the substance that fills all "empty space" and which produces all fundamental physical phenomena. Etherism has a much greater explanatory power than the God theory and the atomistic theory.
Cosmism over Spiritualism, Philosophy over Science, Consensualism over Coercion – PowerPoint presentation at BioCosmology Conference, Monmouth Univ., NJ, June 2014
Relativity and the Corruption of Natural Philosophy – PowerPoint presentation given at the Natural Philosophy Alliance in Storrs, Connecticut on 5/25/2009
Beyond Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: Space Physics – PowerPoint presentation given at the SPIE conference “The Nature of Light: What are Photons”, August 2011
A QED-Compatible Wave-Theory of Light, Electrons, and their Interactions – PowerPoint presentation given at the SPIE conference, August 2011

On Human Life and Society

On the Movie, The Matrix – and its relevance to these pages. We too live in a Matrix of false ideas and delusions that distort our thinking, our lives, and our societies and which effectively enslaves us all.
Our High-Tech Dark Age – We are not an enlightened society, far from it. Western society is run by a banking-corporate elite who view the rest of us as beasts who must be controlled. Governments are their servants; schools their training camps; loans their slave-contracts.
The Old Testament (Jewish Torah) is the Root of All Evil – Have you ever actually read the Old Testament or thought seriously about its ideas? You should. You will see that the foundation of Judaism, Christianity and Islam is evil; the negation of every value that we profess to hold. We thus live with contradiction and remain confused.
The Ninth Crusade – An historical and moral analysis of the ongoing Zionist Ninth Crusade mounted by European/American Jews and Christians to control Palestine, the Middle East, and the World. Their delusional religion drives them to do it.
Children and Childrearing -- We must grant children all the rights of any adult, in addition to meeting their need for protection, aid, and love. We must stop institutionalizing and infantilizing them.
On Schooling (coerced learning) vs. Unschooling (self-motivated learning) -- we must separate school and state and integrate children into our society. The Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution outlaws involuntary servitude, except for crimes committed. Truancy law forces every child into school where he is punished if he does not follow orders. What crimes have children committed?
The Modern Parenting Dilemma -- We are pouring new wine into old bottles.
Consensualism over Coercionism – Two incompatible moralities—only one is fit for human beings.
The Problem with Capitalism – It is not freedom, but just another form of enslavement of the masses based upon fractional reserve banking and many other governmental distortions of natural human cooperation and fairness.
On the Illegitimacy of Corporations – They are not free market phenomena; they are not private. They are profit-making machines created by the government—by specific abrogations of personal rights and responsibilities.
The Debt/Tax Slave System and its Alternative – Yes, we are slaves
On Ted Kaczynski and the delusions of modern psychiatry – our psychiatry merely diagnoses and drugs people, as the pharmaceutical model dictates. A valid psychiatry would find the causes of our mental ills in childhood trauma, abuse, and control.
Against Spiritualism, Genetic Determinism, and Racism – a simple theory of the mind and its disorders
So You Want to be a Philosopher? – A how-to essay. Hint: It has nothing to do with any degrees or courses offered in any school. The purpose of schooling is to prevent you from being a philosopher or creator.

Consider That:

We are all one species living on one planet. If we allow anyone person or group to commit violence against any other person or group, we are destroying the moral basis of our peaceful coexistence and we put everyone at risk. We must condemn the initiation and maintenance of violence everywhere at all times, including the covert forms of violence like schooling, debt slavery, and taxation. We must employ every means available to stop perpetrators of violence and coercion.

Humans are not born evil, they're born immature just like puppies, kittens, and all other animals. We must satisfy their needs and support their self-motivated development. We must not coerce them but give them time to mature naturally. We should not force them into our perverted forms of thought and behavior.

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