I just think something may be being missed here, as to our true nature. David Bohm made this comment once about a guy who works in a bank and that is all he thinks that he is. And then you’ve got this idea about his actual structure deriving from this almost infinitely subtle ground of existence and with hidden properties. In this way maybe the self could actually be revealed through possible exploration, if possible, of this subtle structure, rather than being something fixed. Unlike this poor fellow’s fixed idea of himself as just a bank clerk.

Maybe, though, in his quiet moments he suspects something else? Anyway, some ideas.

If something taboo challenges Man’s position of authority, what does he do? Below is a study on a similarly difficult subject.

“Modern sovereignty is anthropocentric, constituted and organized by reference to
human beings alone. Although a metaphysical assumption, anthropocentrism is
of immense practical import, enabling modern states to command loyalty and
resources from their subjects in pursuit of political projects…”

http://ptx.sagepub.com/content/36/4/607.full.pdf+html

And with stuff like this from senior scientists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_the_Universe

http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0646

I wonder whether the kinds of phenomena I mention above are actually less strange ! ; – )

…the soul… – but if true?

“…to man’s experience a body has been given, a body which is his body – a fragment of ambiguous space…

…whose peculiar and irreducible spatiality is never­theless articulated upon the space of things…”

Michel Foucault, The Order of Things

Now I do not think Foucault explicitly knew about the quantum vacuum or whatever – but a tantalising comment, no?

http://science.discovery.com/videos/through-the-wormhole-2-near-death-experience.html

I once had a vivid dream of Richard Feynman giving me a kind of disembodied tour around space and various galaxies, saying “Hey, isn’t this all wonderful!”, in his inimitable style. Not sure if that counts though.

This link here is also really powerful stuff, which I’ll bet nobody here knows about – and a British investigation! (by the well known UK investigative journalist, Donal MacIntyre) – strong data on actual PHYSICAL evidence for life after death.
Moving spectacular lights, detailed messages on unopened films in plastic tubs, levitating crystals and much more – all multiply witnessed by many observers, including scientists from the UK and US.

I think Morgan Freeman should definitely include this on his hit list!

http://www.theafterlifeinvestigations.com/

At one point it was reported that he’d had to pull out, due to a dodgy ticker; but quoting from that IMDB page “Morgan Freeman says, “We’re still pushing for ‘Rendezvous With Rama.’ That’s a got-to-be-done movie. Just have to figure out how to do it. I’ve been trying for — I don’t know — 15 years now to get a script.”

For flip’s sake, surely _someone_ in Hollywood can come up with a decent script!

I agree his “Through the Wormhole” is far better than some recent cosmology documentaries, not least because it isn’t intolerably flashy (literally). The other month I started watching some documentary on the Solar System, and after incessantly repeated images of planets and spacecraft zipping past one after the other I started feeling queezy and getting a migraine. Had to change channels and watch a program on leaf cutter ants to recover!

I was disappointed.

I don’t want to blame Morgan Freeman for the writing, but I do want to blame him for parroting such obvious malarkey.

In the style of so many disappointing “documentaries” today, the narrator asks deep, probing, philosophical questions that the show doesn’t even attempt to answer.

This style of “ask a deep question” but don’t answer it is the same kind of hogwash passed off as “facts” in the documentary called Pyramid Code.

A lot of effort is put into CGI that then doesn’t yield an understandable answer to the question.

This show proves my premise that most TV shows should be 15 minutes long. Fewer commercials, less wasted time.