The Richard Dawkins' Viewpoint of God as Delusion as a Phenomena

Some people like to be at the center of controversy. Posit one absurdity and someone will refute it with another absurdity. Take the extreme of an argument and the response against that argument will probably be extreme. Develop an extreme science that posits an extreme view of reality and others will posit alternative extremes.

Going to the Edge

It is a very human pattern of behaviour that we tend to want to see an ultimate manifestation of something or other. If there is a volcano, it is very human to want to see into the heart of the volcano. This is a very human activity and we call it exploration. Take a concept and one wants to go as far as that concept will lead even to the edge of reason.

What may happen is that the science or reality that creates an invitation for exploration may be a trap, a total waste of time, a place that has nothing of real interest. The journey to that place, nevertheless, takes its toll on those that would journey to it and those that observe the exploration taking place and make judgements.

What is the Direction of your Science or Technology

My experience is that few people understand the notion of direction when it comes to something as complex as the abstraction we call science. If science is a field, there are areas of that field that we can explore. What science is not connected to is technology.

Technology has fields like science has, but technology is not the same as science. We can have lots and lots of science, but very little technology, or vice verse. It is a mistake to confuse technology with science.

Creation of Science and Technology have Different Agendas

Some people, like Richard Hawkins may be exploring technologies and confusing such explorations with science. Rather than being judgemental, I would just throw that out as a proposition. Its a lovely abstraction that can distinguish between different stages of a cycle of activity.

For example, Darwin's discovery was new science, but Dawkins' discovery was new technology. The difference arises because of the motivation behind the exploration. Science that is technology invention has a direction which is orchestrated in ways that science as science is not. We think of science as being basic or developmental. Basic science is one thing. Fundamental science is another.

I realize that English limits my selection of words to describe the processes, but I think my message is clear. It is quite one thing to receive a prize for new science that is basic to promoting the interests of all mankind, but quite another to receive a prize to promoting a development or technology that biases the value towards a specific interest group promoting an agenda.

Exploration may, however, bring about a major explosion of activity and interest. Richard Dawkins may discover something that is valuable to those promoting religion, or he may stimulate a response from the religious community quite unlike anything he expects. What his explorations of dangerous ideas do, however, is produce a notion that such exploration is safe for society rather than destructive.

The North West Passage

Being in Canada, I am awed by the explorations that sought the North West passage, but I am also aware of the injunctions by the then managers of the Hudson Bay Company not to invite people to undertake the exploration into the North West. There are risks for society of exploration, especially in the world of competitive ideas. The North West of Canada and the United States, Denmark, France, Russia and the Netherlands, is now being opened up in ways that environmentalists really do find scary.

The rewards of exploring the North West passage today are so enormous that we could end up in a war situation. Man has had a history of secret competitive alliances and agreements that produce absolute destruction in their wake. Is this what we want from science or is it science at all?

Its not hard to see how the technological or informational results of science are potentially more socially divisive in many more ways than religion.

Activities of exploring, such as science and invention, that create new knowledge or technology may be socially destabilizing, and in science as in economics, as any central banker knows, one should maintain 'economic' stability above all else otherwise you are like to get instability, social upheaval, irrationality and war. Change and new science is wonderful stuff if the organism that seeks it and the society that must sustain it are sufficiently mature to cope with the results.

This is of course where uncertainty begins, but again to use the central banker analogy, it is not good economic or scientific management to create instability to quickly otherwise one just gets a big confrontation and destructive change, the Hegelian process of explosive change rather than the more gradual process of evolutionary change.

So, Richard Hawkins' exploration of the frontiers of dangerous ideas promotes rationalization, we must become aware that the results are not so predictable as to lead to gradual improvement in religion or science. They might just result in explosive confrontation and a badly managed exchange of respectable opinions and well worn positions.

At the Edge

One has to wonder what being at the frontier of religion or science actually means. To some there is the idea that creationism is an activity that seeks to provide a mythology for religion, a vehicle for completing with the strengths they see in science.

As an alternative to the notion of religion as being evolutionary, it might better be described that religion is at the edge of risk taking. That seems strange, but possibly religion is a group response to being burned by exploration in technology that goes bad and the change brought about by such exploration.

Hawkins dangerous ideas really do destroy valuable and important aspects of our beautiful world until the science and technology and religious fervour are redirected towards stabilizing solutions. It's as though, the first attempts at coping with new social problems are catastrophic and society as a whole has to learn from its really bad mistakes, its monstrous errors of judgment that destroy people and the beauty in the world.

Much, but not all religion, may arise as a result of the mass trauma produced by war and the individual trauma at the realization of death and destruction. The rational exploration for solutions arises as a method of coping with overwhelming change. What emerges as a social solution in the form often of religious fervour and commitment is not rational in the long term, even though at the time it seems rational.

Religion as a Means for Groups Coping with Massive Irrationality in the Living Environment

Seen in this way, religion is a method of groups coping with trauma and the inevitability of uncontrollable destructive change, such as the slaughter of innocents whether as a consequence of destructive forces of nature or the acts of competing warlike peoples. Judaism arose in a period of extreme trauma. Christianity arose in a period of extreme trauma.

For example, consider the rise of religious fervour during the New Deal period of the 1930's in which the socially destructive forces of bad economics and lack of stability resulted in a search for comfort and solutions in the immediate. For some groups, there was no time for considered solutions. In the USA, while Harvard academics went crazy for the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, they ignored the more relevant but long term science of their own local professor Joseph Schumpeter in favour of short term technology to find an immediate solution.

The Economics of Religion and Science Stimulated in Periods of Trauma

Both Keynes and Schumpeter realized that an ineffective banking system was at the heart of the economic dilemmas that faced all societies at the time. Peace required a new technology. The problem was that the new technology was not put in place soon enough and the world sank into war and the Jews were trapped within a monstrous period of irrational so called 'problem' solving.

In Canada, Major Douglas, a deeply religious engineer in Alberta, came up with a new religious economics and the idea of the A plus B theorem. Douglas's science was flawed but the direction of his technology was correct. Why should there be poverty in the midst of plenty. His society grappled with the destructive forces of starvation in a time when it was obviously unnecessary.

Keynes technology for the short term was better than that of Major Douglas, but both were going in the same direction, and if Alberta had been a country, Douglas's ideas might have worked better and longer. Schumpeter's science explained what the real underlying problem was while Keynes methods provided a means to grapple with the dynamics in a meaningful way.

In the end, Schumpeter provided the real long term science, but Keynes provided the immediate and necessary technology. Economists lost sight of the Schumpeterian vision of the creative destructive forces built into capitalism because of new technology and went for the religion of absolute truth as presented by John Maynard Keynes, the rationalist speculator.

Alternatively, consider the strength of the rise of Nazism after the great inflation in Germany. The religious fervour of Nazism is easily explained as a consequence of trauma as people sought irrational solutions to what seemed an irrational situation. Nazism as a religious response is not so easily digested unless one considers that religion is often a result of traumatic experience. It was not that Jewish people were the source of the trauma, but that people incorrectly thought that they were.

The real problem was the bad economics of the peace settlement of the first World War. Had France, at the end of World War one, not demanded that Germany pay for the war destruction and had the world reconstructed Germany and France into thriving economies, then the second war may not have happened nor would the Jewish people have suffered as much as they did. Isreal would probably never have been created and the mess in the middle east that we see now would probably not have been initiated. What is the Arab-Isreali war but a flawed solution to an old problem that was the result of a flawed solution to an earlier older problem? The science of peace has been terribly exploratory and the technology employed by France to create peace at the end of World War One was seriously flawed, so flawed that it destroyed much of the world as a result. Its both the science, the technology and the religion that are flawed. When and where will this madness end!

What Context for Religion and Science

Placing religion and science within a social context is not easy, but it is necessary for understanding. Religion is not so much an evolutionary process as a reasoned and rational response to trauma. Reason and religion have common social and natural roots and are not all that different in consequence.

A Vision of Continuously Improving Science and Religion

In the Wuh Lax world that I envisage, the control of errors is accomplished by continuously improving on the methods of solving and coping with challenges. We sometimes forget that our world is constantly changing, that all existence whether physical, ethereal, spiritual or formal, is subject to change because everything is as an aspect of process.

Continuous process as a descriptor of everything

In such a world, there are no laws, no constants, no ultimate barriers. The goals of science, the God or gods of religion, the forms of religious or spiritual experience are processes. Nothing really is but is by process. If there is no process there is nothing.

A Vacuum has No Process

A vacuum is a vacuum by virtue of its having no process to characterize it. Introduce a process and the vacuum is no longer a vaccum.

Process as the Only Law

Everything is being processed and everything processes. Even what seems not to process is processing. This is the only law of the universe. All other laws are subject to process and change. We may not measure the change but there is change and process, nevertheless. We may not measure the evolution in the process, but processes evolve and we may never know the direction by which they evolve or devolve.

As humans, we may share processes and compare experiences. Our respective realities are to others, however, virtual and unreal, like people playing in a computer simulation.

In Science and Religion There are Errors

Yes! Indeed, we do not have the perfect science nor the perfect religion. Man is not even rational, and rationalism is a pipe dream invented by people being irrational about reason. In any event, we need to improve on our science and our religion. It is only by continuously improving these that we will overcome the many errors that both embody.

On the One Hand, but On the Other Hand

At this moment, I feel very much like Larry David, when he holds out two hands. He is weighing what appear to be two alternatives, either the prescription from his doctor or the advice of his pharmacist which proposes an alternative prescription. The world is so made that we have alternatives, and it was my luck that I chose at a university age the science of alternatives, economics.

In this hand I have this alternative, but in this hand I have this other alternative

If you are not trained as an economist you perhaps will not appreciate what science there is in economics while at the same time appreciating what science is missing from economics. My bad luck was that I tried, in my own small way, to make economics less of a linear exercise and more scientific. The problem is that the whole field fails when one introduces science and technology. Most economists won't admit that there is a very serious problem, but there is a very serious problem with the notion that economics is a science. I found the science of economics to be more like a religion than a science despite its mathematical 'certainties.'

If you ever become an economist, you will appreciate what I mean when I say that the field is now esoteric and probably as esoteric as any religion. This is not to say that there are not practicalities in the economic field, its just that there are very few certainties. Where economics as a practical science succeeds it does so because it is able to incorporate the economic lessons of the past, make use of economic history, measure economic trends and economic potentials using statistics and econometrics.

Verification is all important in any scientific field, and in a field where there seems to be too much theory, too many assumptions, and too many conditions of an if then nature, more verification is like an act of God. Very few economists can verify all the ifs of their problem set. They can conjecture with maybe this or maybe that, but don't really know how to handle all the ifs.

Certainties and Uncertainties

What started me down this train of thought is the juxtaposition of two very important selected clubs of experts in modern society. One is the Group of Elders , the men of world peace, which includes such wonderful people as Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela, and the other is the Reality Group, the men of inventive science, which includes such speculative science people as Richard Dawkins and Paul Davies. So in my hands, I am weighing these two groups, one seems religious and one seems speculatively scientific. There are other groups that appear to be just brilliant.

As an economist, I could do the Larry David thing and think that on the one hand, we have The Elders and in the other hand, we have the Reality Group. Related to or embodying the Reality Group are the third culture people or The Edge people, which seems to include people like Lee Smolin, and then there are The Digerati that includes people like Bill Gates and Esther Dyson.

Fortunately, I realize that most people interact with many types of people, those with great heart, those with verifying minds, those that are doers and those that are thinkers. What an amazing mix the world of people is!

In My Non-Linear World, the Light World that I Occupy

On the one hand I am in control, but on the other I am not. It's a strange world.

On the one hand I must be like God, but on the other I must be nothing like God. I am amazing and yet I am insignificant. I am large and yet I am small. Who and what am I?

I did not choose to be born the person I am. I am fortunate to be born into the body that I possess, but don't really control, or if I do I must be a creature of light. I am grateful that I have so many fiends in the same boat as I am in, who did not choose to be born, but who are grateful that they were.

I am not sure that it matters whether I think this or that because I am what I am and I do not think that I have much choice in my reality, nor do I think many people have much choice. I do not think that my actions change my reality even though I am deluded into thinking that I experience a world which I can't possibly experience unless I am as fast as light. Maybe I am light. Wow! Me, a photon? Are you one too?

Being Mindful About What and When You Are Thinking

I have stressed the importance of thinking. What I have left out is the need to be mindful of our thinking. Being mindful of our thinking helps us to achieve a balance between thought, our physiology, and emotion.

Can it be that we need to be shown how to think in very specific ways?

In thinking, I seek to create as a form of journey. Without the act of creation, I can not say that I have made the journey. Nevertheless, there are pitfalls to making journeys, just as there are to climbing mountains because they are there.

The Now as a Work Concept

World famous guru speaks and writes about being in 'the now'. Philosopher listens intently being an expert in 'the now'. Guru says that people need to disassociate themselves from matters that coddle ego and distance them from being in 'the now'. Philosopher ponders idea of 'the now'. In 'the now', what is, is.

The problem with you, philosopher or scientist, is that you are not in 'the now'.

People who are not in 'the now' cause the wars and problems that the world has seen throughout its history. Guru claims that in the new world when people are all in 'the now' a wondrous new age begins. Is this Zen and has America moved towards 'the Now'?

I am reminded how similar the now is to remembering oneself. There is an art to the enlightened master of meditations. It is helpful to realize that the journey of meditation occurs over several of one's lives.

As you mature and have a partner, use the methods that have been successful in love and intimate relationships.

Form Madness - Please Enter Zip Code

Wishing to purchase Apple iTunes software expert is asked to complete form. He is told country is United States, but has entered information for UK. He tries to change country but finds that it is the only element in form that cannot be changed.

He goes back to beginning and enters information starting with United KIngdom as his country. He is able to save Zip Code, but when he tries to save data an error message pops up. Email address is already in use. No way to begin to purchase iTunes because UK address and US email address and UK Zip and US form!?

When is world international, software expert wonders?

Install New Software No Problem

Computer guy has paid for and downloaded software from internet. He clicks on execute icon to install program and enters name, company and product ID when asked. Installation program wizzes into action and blue lines cross over computer screen as files are copied across. Suddenly, there is a beep. The installation has paused and query pops up.

There is a problem installing c++ files, do you want to continue? "OK! Please continue!" More blue lines across screen and a second beep. "Error! B-1618. Cannot install program until another program has completed its installation!"

Money paid, but neither program is installed!

Little Boy Big Dog

Little boy is three years old. Big dog is three years old, a loving golden lab. No one around! Little boy wants to get from garage to living room, but big dog is in the kitchen and the kitchen is in front of the living room. Little boy has to pass big dog if little boy wishes to arrive in living room!

First time little boy attempts to get by big dog, tongue comes out and big dog aims tongue at little boy's face. Little boy is terrified and runs away back outside. "Help! Someone help! A montrous big dog is chasing me," yells little boy. Man outside hears yelling. "What's the matter, little kid," he asks? "A huge giant dog is trying to get me," shouts little boy. Man thinks about this and realizes the problem.

"I'll help you," he says, thinking that he can get little boy past big dog, easy as pie! Dog sees man. Tongue comes out. Dog runs at man and knocks him over. Dog sits on man licking his face. Little boy runs by big dog and man shouting, "Thanks!"

Dealing With Pollution in Your Own Neighbourhood

It would seem to me that in a global environment in which the issues of pollution and recycling come ever more into the open, we will see the emergence of environment watch groups. Instead of the usual types of criminals, we will increasing focus on crimes that affect our environmental balance.

It seems logical that we will establish neighbourhood watch groups to catch out people who do not observe the emerging rules of being environmentally conscious.

One aspect of the power of these localized groups will be the enormous power they will possess for examining their local environment by satellite. It will be possible to look into the back garden of one's neighbour and search for a sticky polluting mess. So powerful will be these new technologies, that we will be able to catch out the source of light pollution that obstructs our view in the evening of the stars. It won't be necessary to have a camera watching over your local parking lot. You will be able to use your own iPhone and keep an eye on things back at the car while you are shopping. If some one steals from your vehicle you will have a recording of the thief from the air.

Once a neighbour has been reported the local 'green' watchdogs, very much like pollution policemen can raid the house in question and enforce the local ordinances with regard to CO2 emission.

Satellite technologies will be the great enabler for the environmentally conscious. It will be possible to look directly into the private spaces of people. The use of fences to keep messes from view will no longer work. The person on the computer will also see how much heat your dwelling is losing per hour. In fact, there won't be much information about you that the satellite traveller from China or anywhere in the world won't have to observe you at home. We are moving into the global fish tank age in which all will be revealed.

This is how I was able to observe the pollution going on along the borders of counties in England. As long as you do your polluting on the borders it seems that you can get away with it. Not any more because now we can all see what is going on!

Can you imagine how easy it will be to follow spies!

Remembering Christ at Christmas

Jesus said that whenever two people met in his name, there he would be also. Another thought to remember is that when you love someone, Jesus loves you both.

Remember Its NOT How Much You Eat But How Well

One of the biggest mistakes that people make these days is to confuse quantity with quality when it comes to what they eat. The only way to get over this misconception is to actually experience the difference. My observation is that by eating quality food you will actually eat less food, and you will be better off for it. But, how do you begin?

Given the nature of the profitable food industry these days, you are probably being conned left and right to eat more of the same boring stuff because there is the fact that eating is seen as a means to get over hunger. If your eating habits are determined by a poor provider, whether mother, restaurant or grocer, they will normally follow the easy route of bulking you up, giving you more, rather than satisfying your need, by giving you what you really need.

The chef nearest you probably has a lumberjack chef mentality, which is to potato up the client. Almost everyone in the food preparation business is into the same game. If you doubt me, ask yourself the question whether you have eaten a really good meal lately that was half the size of your regular feed. I would claim that you are probably being fed tasteless rubbish. Its time you had a really good meal. You will know it because you will be satisfied and you will eat less than half of what everyone else is eating.

A Snake and Ladder World, Apples and Gardens of Eden

We live in a snake and ladder world. By analogy, we experience life as a series of experiences in which we ascend and descend along the pathways that we have chosen as our preferential pathways.

We prefer certain things,certain experiences, certain combinations, certain activities. The more we make these preferences specific the greater the combination of aspects that we rely on to make them possible. To become ever more specific we built supports that give us the specificity we desire.

The problem is that we experience life as a series of periods when we can rise up towards goals, and periods when we slide down away from them. We try to predict the snakes ahead that take us away from our goals, but this is exceedingly difficult as we follow pathways that are increasingly dangerous. Some times we are not even aware of the dangers that some pathways portend.

The problems of our snake and ladder world is a very old one. Every day, you will have experiences that show you how brutal a world the snake and ladder world can be.

This is not to say that there is sin in pursuing goals, which represent our ladders, but rather there is a risk attached to all goals. The world game is a game of snakes and ladders. The more you try to achieve goals, the more you have to research the potential downside risks, the snakes than will take you down. The higher the goals the greater the downside possibilities. The more we achieve goals, the more we may suffer as a result when we leave off our effort, or relax, thinking mistakenly that we are above the downside risks. Why is this? It is because the world is a snake and ladder world.

The Wuh Lax Physical Law of Light and Energy

The Wuh Lax physical law of light and energy is that there is a tendency of all lines from light to be equidistant between the source of light and the ultimate goal of light. Since the path of light is an enormous circle, we will always, for ever, be subject to the laws governing it.

This means that there is a tendency within our Wuh Lax universe for all lines of existence or being to even out over the longer term. In other words, no matter how high you or mountains rise, there is an active opposite tendency for you to fail or mountains to fall or wear down. This is a physical law of the Wuh Lax universe.

Wanting something is not the only thing involved in getting the something you want. While you may temporarily follow the light and rise to achieve your preferences and desires, you will eventually fail and fall to your ultimate level. How far down, you fall depends very much on how high up you rise. There is a tendency in the universe for these to balance out over the long run.

Ladders

We tend to focus on the ladders because it is they that take us to our highs and safe areas far away as possible from our low points and regions of danger. We try to distance ourselves more and more from the lows and in so doing we create higher and steeper ladders to climb.

We construct our fortresses and malls for our communities and we build our castles and homes for our families, our towers and vantage positions in the landscape for our colleagues to oversee the realms that we have created and the domestic and commercial domains over which we rule.

Today our efforts are increasingly digital in a digital age as we move from operations carried out in the very large and local to operations in the extremely large and diffuse and extremely local and intense.

Rules Govern our Ladder Building and the Use of Ladders for Elevation

Increasingly, we see that the use of ladders can actually be a dangerous means of protecting ourselves from what lies below or for attaining the high up spots for repairs and viewing advantages commensurate with high faulting observation.

When we distance ourselves from the lower regions and peoples of the low lands, we bring about separations that increase risk. As we go higher, we tend to lose sight of what it takes to support the edifices we construct, and in so doing we create an additional risk of crashing ladders as well as sliding down the 'snakes' or pitfalls of our neglect of our real environment.

The ladders of our landscape give us the tree tops, the mountainsides, the points of high vantage, while the snakes like rivers in the landscape flow downward into the valleys and the crowded nether regions of our societies existence. With the lower regions we construct ladders to give us relative vantage points.

One rule of using a ladder is that it is dangerous to walk under the ladder. This is because ladders are biased towards falling down should there be any errors in their placement. Like a house it is often best to place a ladder on stone rather than soft sand.

In placing ladders it is wise to select a ladder length that will give stability. We are advised to move from lower to higher levels gradually, which greatly reduces the risk of a ladder falling.

In the modern age, we are guided to use platforms rather than ladders because platforms are more stable. Within platforms there are ladders, but it is assumed that we achieve higher levels more gradually and do not expose ourselves to great risk. The platforms themselves become ladders and we find that the incidence of toppling over is greatly reduced.

The Relevance of the Snakes

We see it in the early books that guide us how to live. The old story of the garden is the story of our passage towards our preferences, the high up apples of our existence. The danger of such gardens lies in the snakes, those slides that we experience when we take risks like going after the apples in the tree. Snakes represent failing while apples represent goals and the temptations that bring us to those goals.

The story of the garden is a not story that we should not seek apples

The story of the garden is a not story that we should not seek apples, but quite the opposite. We should always seek apples. The essence of the apple story has been misconstrued by those wishing to crush enthusiasm for life and living life to its fullest. It is horrible to suggest that we have or embody original sin. We may have to endure the consequences of our parents pursuing goals for which they did not understand the risks. An example is smoking. In the Wuh Lax world, the notion of original sin as portrayed by some is blatantly illogical and irrelevant to our respective realities.

What the story of the garden seeks to tell us is that we need to take account of our mortal risks. The apple story that is given as a warning about seeking rewards in a world in which there are risks. We all live in a garden of apples, and we all live in a world of snakes and ladders.

We need to research how to eat those apples in full recognition of the risks that eating entails, the snakes of our world, or the failings that pursuing goals without knowledge of risks.

What we may not comprehend is the relevance of the snakes in our landscape and the garden story was not to tell us about our sins of eating apples, but our sins, the failings of not learning and gathering knowledge about the garden and the risks that the garden, our wonderful world, entails.

We need to be aware of the snakes in the garden and the ladders that fall when we use ladders to gather apples from the tree. So it is that the ignorance of the parents can be handed down to the children, but it is not inevitable.

Entropy in an Inside Out Wuh Lax World

A number of things trouble me about the standard or received model of cosmology. I do not claim to be a physicist, but merely an artist trying to figure out my universe. My problem is with the notion of entropy which according to the second law of thermodynamics says that chaos is always on the increase. The law of energy associated with entropy also says that energy is unidirectional with respect to time in that the arrow of time always goes in one direction. It means that information is lost as we experience entropy

Well, if we are exploding at every point of our being then I suppose that this motion is going in one direction, which is a form of outwards expansion. We see it in the very large by observing the the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Most of us don't see it in the very small where we ourselves are being blown apart. One has to ask why one rule should apply to very large entities and another to very small ones. Of course, my Wuh Lax answer is that what applies to very large entities also applies to very small ones. What does this have to do with entropy?

The entropy and temperature measured by me are a consequence of my accelerating motion. What am I accelerating relative to? I am accelerating relative to the speed of light, which in the Wuh Lax world is zero. I have no problem going faster than the speed of light because I twist as I accelerate. The twisting gives me forward motion as well as sideways motion. The two add up to a speed greater than the speed of light except to say that I cannot travel sideways as fast as I am exploding. As I twist, can I create information?

Obviously yes! While I am twisting, I can create information that is not random. I somehow twist out of the law of entropy by creating order out of chaos using my kinetic exploding energy. What I cannot do is explode any slower or slow down the acceleration in my rate of exploding.

I don't know if this makes any sense, but it seems to suggest that in a Wuh Lax universe, there is a different physics going on, a very different cosmological explanation for almost everything. This is the world inside out that one finds in the world of Wim and Wuh. My next task is to figure out what black holes are all about!

What is Seven Thousand Years Historically?

What sorts of threads can link peoples over a period of seven thousand years. People raising children leave genetic markings for future generations. People raise other animals besides children and the genes of these other animals can be studied. The means by which people communicate may also survive over long periods, so that language and the origins of words can be studied. If the communities remained fairly close to where they started out and if they settled then one can study the effects of settlement, which can include all aspects of the life cycle from birth to death.

Over very long periods, peoples may define territories and they may leave markings on the ground of their territories. These territories may have a mathematical relationship to each other, such that in an early period the number is lower than in a later period. If numbers of communities is reflected in numbers of other entities this helps to establish linkages between communities and the periods they were active. Again the mathematics of their impact and the mathematics of their social and survival tools will be reflected in the remnants found in the landscape.

My early training was in mathematical statistics, and my approach to the evidence would tend to be Bayesian in orientation. I was taught by different schools of thought as to how one applied statistics and formed my own views, but essentially the Bayesian methodology has stood the test of time in the social, biological and physical sciences.

What I would look for is anomalies. Things that should not happen or seem out of place given what other things are in place. The outliers strewn around a location or between locations would be interesting.

History over seven thousand years is thus for me, at least, an issue of distributions of remnants that have verifiable statistical significance in some way.

My second bias comes from communications theory a la Norbert Wiener, which seems to have had an impact on data dissemination and diffusion. At Cambridge, I did studies of the communication and diffusion of new technologies within the British landscape over time. These were studies of modern technologies and the highly developed social setting of the post war period. I wonder what parallels there could be to similar processes occurring across the historical landscape of seven thousand years.

Seven thousand years is a very long period of history. The mind boggles at a period of history that is only several years long. Lots can happen in a millennium.

When I consider the serious concern of MJ Harper, and the serious research of Colin Burgess, I have to conclude that there exists a gap between the two, but it is not that big. Both Harper and Burgess are dealing with enormous uncertainties resulting from a decaying landscape. In the case of Harper, we find someone who is looking at the evidence of words, language and the community of words, and we are questioning easy answers for some very difficult questions.

My bias is with Harper on the issue of language. I have always questioned the ease with which the origin as of words have been spelt out in reference books on English and Old English. In my own case, I had to work out for myself that the word lake, which is supposed to refer to a stream, is more likely to be associated with the word lax, a type of salmon. No book gave me this understanding. I had to figure it out for myself. With this figuring came my research into the early world of Wuh Lax and the meaning of the salmon to the early community, as part of the life and death cycle, and as an instrument of teaching and dissemination of knowledge from generation to generation. Thus it is with English, a very old and widespread language, indeed.

The Mysterious Lines Running Across South West Britain

One of the great things about Google maps is that it is possible for one to verify hunches that one has had for a long time, but thought were too crazy to be true. Well, for me it appears that at least one hunch is true, and, indeed, it is very strange. This is one everyone can test out for themselves since it requires only Google and a few tools of the digital age.

Up until last night I had thought the the early British, who I refer to as the Ing people, or the hero worshippers, were very curvilinear in orientation. Now, I have to revise my view for the following reason. They appear to have done the impossible using surveying technologies to place centers in straight lines extensively across their landscape. At this point you should be saying wow, but you are probably saying, huh, or not another silly idea from Wooooohs Stream of research into the unknown.

My conclusion on looking at the evidence in the landscape relatively carefully, is that there is much more to nine stones circle near Maiden castle in Dorset than just nine stones in a small circle. What I now have to conclude is that there are nine ancient communities associated with the nine stones and these communities knew how to survey, or at least, some members knew how to survey across vast distances.

This puzzles me greatly, because when I reviewed the archaeological evidence in my copy of Colin Burgess's book The Age of Stonehenge, I was forced to conclude that these ancient people, the Ing people, had as Burgess suggests, formed stratified societies by the third millennium BC, over five thousand years ago. Now here is the mystery. In a world in which people are oriented towards curves and circles, why would they structure their society in a straight line running directly to the sea. That is what they appear to have done.

This is not a straight line running north south along the earth's north south magnetic field, but a straight line that links communities from Woodhenge, not far from Stonehenge, directly to peoples living by the sea. How weird!? What's more there appear to have been nine such early communities and they placed their community centers along the straight line, ending with the community not far from Maiden Castle in Dorset.

I am forced to conclude that not all the early peoples were curvilinear, but there seem to have been a strong deposits of early Ing people that thought along straight lines. I would agree with Burgess in saying that it would seem likely that these people were fairly well established and organized. They, after all, appear to have had some very superior surveying technology. And, this leads me to another bone to pick with the notion that the Romans were the ones who designed the straight roads of early Britain.

I have to conclude that the Romans must have organized the early tribes of Britain to live along a straight line and have their main centers located along a straight line, but we know that this was not the case. Romans of early Britain received information from the locals about straight surveyed lines that already crisscrossed the landscape, but why were these lines there, and for how long? It seems amazing that the straight lines may have already been tracks across the landscape from community to community.

My second conclusion is that the straight lines were lines of communication between early social groups and had something to do with continental peoples, possibly to coordinate celebrations of some form. Burgess suggests that the people in the South of Britain were communicating with continental peoples by way of travelling across the English Channel. Perhaps, what we don't realize is how strong such communications were at a fairly early age in the history of this area of the world. Communications may have been by the lighting of fires along a straight line to the sea. If people settled near the points at which the fires were created, then you would have a logic for people settling along an extensive straight line across the landscape.

Because of my interest in Wuh Lax and the people of the salmon, I was curious to see whether one of the communities along my nine stones line was a lax community bearing in mind that the lax community I am thinking of was a linear community predating the period of curvilinear peoples. In other words, there appears to me to have been waves of social logic and structure with a period in which linear and rectangular in terms of dwellings, and possibly settlements, dominating over curvilinear and circular. Possibly the linear period, as Burgess suggests, predated the curvilinear. I have to say, however, that this may have something to do with the development of surveying and construction technology.

In my mind, linear peoples, such as the Romans are invasive, wide spreading and expansive, while curvilinear people are oriented toward enclosure, community, and locality. It is interesting that over seven thousand years of history, both forms of community had their periods of dominance. I can only guess that there may have been cycles or waves of dominance since we are considering a very long period historically.

Unruh's Law in a Wuh Lax Universe or Something Deeper

Unruh's Law states that if you are an observer and you are accelerating, then you will see yourself embedded in a gas of hot photons for which the temperature is proportional to the rate at which you are accelerating.

I might be forgiven, since I am not a cosmologist or physicist in wondering whether or not I am in such a universe. When I look around, I see myself surrounded by a 'gas' or relatively 'hot photons'. In fact, I do think that it is the photons from the region of the sun that are keeping me warm.

According to Bill Unruh's law, I could thus be forgiven for thinking that I am an observer and I could be accelerating. I also notice that if I accelerate even faster than the rate at which I am exploding, reminded that the two speeds are potentially, at least, cummulative, I get even warmer. Well, this seems to be the case.

This logic of being warmed by photons arises from the definition that in the Wuh Lax world, we are all exploding while light is standing still. Or, have I missed something? Is light moving relative to us, or are we moving relative to light? How can one tell the difference?

Finding a Merry Christ at Christmas

Our image of Christmas is that it is a time of celebration and birth. We worship at Christmas time to celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, who through his teachings and personal example gave us a shining beacon by which we can live our own lives. It is Jesus birthday that is at the center of Christmas. Many of the Christmas traditions such as the tree, the date of Jesus birth, the gift giving, the feasting, the music and the biblical verses have nothing really to do with Jesus, himself as a person, these are part of Christmas because they are the contributions of many who wish to celebrate.

Having said that, it is important to remember that Jesus wanted us to share our joy and happiness about the knowledge and participation that he gave us no matter what our origins might be. Christmas is an inclusive celebration that invites all comers to join in. It is a time when we forgive and renew our vows of sharing in the way of life that Jesus wanted all of us to engage ourselves in. Forget the material things of your world and focus on what is within your heart and soul. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is the message of Christmas. It is a time when we engage in sharing and loving, when we forget our petty differences and realize the wonderful world that can be gotten by following Jesus teaching, a world of peace and understanding, an inclusive world in which we cooperate together to solve the immense problems of all our worlds.

Jesus message is that of love and joy, giving and sharing, and the deeds that he would have us perform are the best deeds that people can offer to others. In the world of Jesus vision, we solve the many disagreements we have, we work together to share a vision in which we can all be partakers in a better world, in the best that our earthly existence has to offer.

Celebrate with me in rereading Jesus message about how to live your life as contained in the verses of the new testament. Explore what you feel are the best verses that the gospels and books of his period have to offer about his message. Love your enemies and pray for those that persecute you.

Lost Knowledge and the Very Real Significance of Wuh Lax

Stonehenge and my stories of Wuh Lax are very closely intertwined hystorically. I use the term hystory to distinguish it from history, which I am claiming is further from the truth when it comes to the early period of Britain. History needs to be rewritten after it is thoroughly researched.

It saddens me to think that the successes of the early peoples of Briton go unnoticed relative to the worship historians seem to have for Roman history. To my mind the Roman history of South West Britain is more like fiction than it is history. By focusing on the Romans the British historians have missed the significance of the lax in the history of early Britain, hence the name of my main character Wuh Lax, which almost seems to have mystical or religious properties when placed in its correct context.

There are a number of facts to consider. The first is that the lax like the drax were of religious significance to the early Britons, and in particular those people who lived in Dumnonia and Durotriga, i.e. the South West of Britain. Drax becomes drake and lax becomes lake. Drax is a foul and it is a drake, and the drake was worshiped by the early peoples. Lax is the word for salmon and the salmon and the lake they swim in are worshiped by the ancient people. The fact that the hero of Britain was a man called Sir Francis Drake, who had cousins in the West Country should start you thinking that perhaps the surname name of this fellow goes back into ancient times. Why should one think anything otherwise, I have to ask?

As it happens the names Lax and Drax and very ancient and are very closely related in actual, but unwritten history of the early peoples of South West Britain, those people whose capital was closer to Athelney than London. Those people who spoke english before it was supposed to have been invented. The 'ing' people as I like to think of them, the people of the hero whose image sits on so many hills across southern Britain, or the 'bri' people, the people of the hills and the people of the tin found in the hills. Britons, and these people of the hills of the South West, my ancestors, most probably did not come from Anglia or Saxony, as the conventional history books would incorrectly have us believe.

How ancient? Well if you think that these people chose their words and named their special places well before the time of Stonehenge, and possibly several thousand years before Stonehenge, then that's pretty ancient.

You can, for example, forget that the notion of ley lines is fiction. No, ley lines are very very real and they can be seen by the naked eye from aerial photographs. Hows that for linking the past to the present. Ley lines and the ancient surveying of South West Britain go well into the period of more than a thousand years before Stonehenge. In fact, Woodhenge lies on a visible ley line that stretches right across South West Britain to the fort at Hod Hill, the ancient home of the Durotriges people. Hows that for ley lines not having historical significance. No! Ley lines really do exist, did exist and were very important to the ancient peoples, who ever they were. It is significant that the ley lines connect the henges with settlement rings at Maiden Castle, Badbury, Sarum and Woodhenge.

My evidence will be strewn, within my Wuh Lax novels and will explain among many things, who the real 'historical' King Arthur really was, where the capital of Briton, really was, and some of what the ideas of the ancient peoples really contained. My books, novels, about Wuh Lax will show the path of knowledge that these ancient peoples possessed and why they located at Stonehenge the stones they did. The Wuh Lax adventure, "The Lost King" tells the King Arthur story the way it was before his legend took over and Glastonbury and Cadbury rose to archaeological significance. For the real King Arthur story you will need to read my book when it comes out.

You might say that I figured it out. And, why did I have to figure it out for myself. It was/is because historians have thought linearly and used Roman ideas to sort out history that the Romans sought to hide. As I might say, you ain't read anything yet until you have read Wuh Lax for within Wuh Lax many of the mysteries of Stonehenge and the Pyramids are revealed. Many bits of ancient knowledge are unearthed once more and can be examined and verified or disproved by the archaeologists.

We are Flying Apart in a Wuh Lax World

In my Wuh Lax vision of the universe, we are flying past each other all the time. Our world is like a giant space ship that is carrying us along. My mind then leaps to the notion that the spaceship is getting larger and larger and we inside the spaceship are getting larger and larger. This view, the Wuh Lax view of the world, is but one of many.

We have the illusion that we are a constant size, but we are only constant in size in a relative sense. All the freedom that we have to move sideways and around our world results not from the existence of space but from the fact that we are expanding at an alarming rate into nothingness.

As we expand what happens to the networks that make us up. Surely they disintegrate gradually for how can such complexity hold together. If you want to shield yourself from the elements as you explode through them, you build a large circle or sphere around you that shields you from anything that you many collide with.

What saves you is that most everything else is also blowing apart at an alarming rate and the logic of networks of force fields between you and these other networks ensure your temporary safety.

The obvious question to ask is whether we are expanding at a rate that has always been constant. The answer is a guess, but I would guess that our rate of expansion has been variable in the past and may be variable in the future and is possibly variable at present. What we would need to measure is our rate of expansion relative to the speed of light, which in the Wuh Lax universe is zero.

What we might think is thus that the speed of light is a variable when it is our speed that is variable. We do have a serious practical problem, however, for the descendents of Wuh lax!

The problem is that while the causal networks and fields that make us up are exploding, the much larger star and galaxy bodies that are everywhere around us are being blown away from us at an accelerating rate and will disappear from our cognizance unless we accelerate towards them. The very real issue is that we cannot accelerate in all directions at once and really need to decide now which portion of the super galaxy structure we wish to be networked with. If we choose incorrectly we may network with a dangerous part of the universe rather than one that is relatively more benign. Like spores of pollen we can go off in all directions if we also so wish. But, then the networks linkling us together are spread so thin that we cannot recover information about our past.

The beauty of light not moving in the Wuh Lax world is that it forms the basis of information exchange between different points in our line of expansion. Wherever, we have been, and everything we do is recorded in light. All our past is retained by light. Light has another amazing property.

Light seems to be apart from our network and is not causally impacted by it other than it is revealed to us as we expand because of leakages in our underlying causal space ships, both large, such as earth, and small, as our bodies, and even smaller as the tiny networks of electrons and up or down quarks that make us up. Some leakages we create ourselves as in production of the atom bomb, but most leakages occur because of holes in our causal networks that release light into our moving world. An even tinier world of quantum matter envelopes our expansion!

The Wuh Lax explanation of this quantum world is that it has recorded our expansion through it many times. Remaining as a background to our motion, it has recorded everything before and has the imprint within it of an infinitude of trips we have made through it time and time again.

What is interesting about light is that it seems to us to be both a particle and a wave at the same time. An infinity of light seems to occupy our inner places, the places where there are leakages.

The Problem Within a Speed-of-Light World

My mind just wonders why we have to see the speed of light as something. I am reading Lee Smolin's book "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" and not really focusing on a view of the world as he sees it. Instead in my mind, I am blowing apart and light is standing still.

Ideas are the fodder of understanding or chaos. Ideas don't seem to have mass, but they are forceful because of their motion. Crazy ideas can cause real human suffering. Our world is dominated by explosions and we need to understand why. Ideas explode within our mind. The world explodes all around us. Why is an explosion caused ultimately by an idea? Why is a butterfly flapping its wings able to cause a hurricane?

For example, we can see how in Berlin a lecture intended for founding a university of thought can turn into an explosion of negative energy. The story begins with the ideas of David Lynch, who appeared on the Jay Leno show. We know that the galaxies and the universe are blowing apart because scientists have measurements that show us that. They don't have measurements that show me blowing apart. We know that ideas can have the force of monstrous explosions, as for example some ideas such as German invincibility you may wish were blown apart, if they were not so ridiculous. What we are dealing with as human beings is the world not of objects but of processes. Ideas have force, and are at a critical stage in the production of a process of energy release. When ideas are lined up, linked to pent-up kinetic energy, they can form the trigger for motion that can release unbelievable energy and destruction. The secret activities of the Nazis who orchestrated the Second World War is a case in point.

Madame Blatavsky, the theosophist from the 1800's, had ideas that were absorbed by leaders of the Nazi movement, which adopted very old spiritual symbols such as the Swastika. It is my understanding that it was her theosophist publication systems that were to become the basis of the Nazi propaganda machine. The Swastika has become the most hated symbol of all time because of the way it was used to unite German Nazis and the population at large into a misdirected attempt to reshape the world. Germany of the past in the name of the nationasl hero Hermann had been able to withstand the encursions of the Roman empire. Many Germans drew up this past to derive a sense of nationalistic pride. The Nazis used the same information and similar logic to justify a purity of race. These two notions when combined released enormous negative energy upon the European landscape the likes of which had never been seen before. In a very real sense very specific ideas marxshalled kinetic energy to bring about this explosion of violence upon the world.

The universe as process

As Lee demonstrates very aptly our universe is entirely process. The relativistic world of Einstein is a world of process in which events are caused by other events. There are no things in our world, our universe, but there are processes.

What is, is not 'ising' very long. Things don't last, and even rocks are being processed. In this sense, Lee is right to say our universe is like a giant computer. Nothing is, but all is in motion. This whole understanding of events and motion, and we as moving observers of that motion makes sense to me, and reinforces my view that we are being blown apart and that is what gives us our energy. What we see as energy is the energy of our motion being blow apart and the relative motion of events happening at relatively different speeds.

We are exploding networks, but we are not as fast as what we are standing on

We know that when processes of explosion occur the heavier processing goes faster and what is closest to it gets carried along. That is what gives us a sense of gravity. Gravity is the feeling we have of being blow apart, but not so fast as the huge process underneath our feet, the ground we stand on.

Gravity is our feeling of acceleration as the heavier stuff tries to blow past us, but cannot because we are sitting on a boat which we call the earth's crust. The boat is like Noah's ark and is keeping us moving along. It stops us from falling behind and the network that we call ourselves from disintegrating.

Our view of things as objects is replaced, in my universe, by things being processes formed by complex networks of cause and effect and motion. Like streams flowing towards the sea, the simpler networks are carried along at a faster rate while the more complex networks form dams and trap the force within that is blowing the networks apart.

Nuts in a jar

If you shake a jar of nuts, i.e. ' a bunch of processes that have the quality of being nutty', you will find that the larger nuts rise to the top and the smaller nuts sink to the bottom. This seems illogical in the sense that bigger objects would probably have greater weight, if you guessed, and it seems strange that size matters in the process of sinking towards the pull of gravity. The chunkiness of our networks of motion help in keeping up our motion relative to the networks of motion around us. Nuts down deep are not like fish although some nuts contain the same oils as fish.

Within our simple world of motion there are leakages or excessive motion as when we see a volcano spewing forth molten rock, or when we see price inflation spreading from an urban area into provinces around.

The movement of prices and supply and demand reflect the motion of released energy that drives not only our economy but everything that we observe around us. The networks or logic nets that we observe around us are cause and effect networks, but we are correct to be puzzled that gravity is impacted by the complexity of the networks which move along with us.

We survive by sitting on top of complex networks forming ships below us

If the earth is a heavier network than we ourselves, why is it that we are above the network, i.e. sitting on stone and not sinking towards the center of our earth. The reason is because we are sitting on a network that is exploding beneath our feet faster than we can say boo to a goose. We are however exploding at all points and not just from the portion of us that lies beneath our feet.

Thus, it is that we can look sideways at something that is exploding towards us, and yet in relative terms normally does not hit us unless it is of a greater mass.

The interesting thing is observing light which has no apparent mass, and this cause all sorts of confusion in the mind, when you think of light as moving. However, what happens if I am right, and it is us, as a causal network that is in motion. We are not only moving by virtue of our exploding, but we are moving by virtue of our being part of a network organized in some causal manner, such as a tornado, or human beings that have little streams flowing through them and lots of holes and leaks and mini tornadoes.

What is our true speed and energy?

The speed that we are moving is the sum of the speed of our expansion, plus our network speed. These two add up to a speed that is faster or slower than 186,000 miles per second, the speed we gave to light, but since light is not moving, the speed that we possess. Perhaps, someone can then show why we exhibit red and blue shift, as well as all the other colours in between.

Our true speed means that we can alter our position within the universe only by speeding up relative to the positions of other networks within the universe. Speeding up is accomplished by taking the kinetic energy of our exploding and combining it is a way that is additive, such as when we put water in a kettle and heat it up. The speed of one network is channelled into a smaller more direct stream and as a consequence speeds up. Eventually, we see are very fast speed caused by the fact that in our universe no two processes can occupy the same place. One process forces the other ahead of itself repelling it forward and away. If this is translated into the kinetic energy of the moving field, where we have energy in a stream pushing anything ahead of it that would occupy the same place. Such magnetic energy is additive to the energy of our exploding.

Being on the Same Page

The expression 'being on the same page' connects at least three notions. First there is the idea that people can be together sharing what they observe, with the idea that people can comprehend what is 'on the page' in the same way, with the further idea that they can communicate meaningfully to each other that they comprehend what is on the page in a like manner. What is troubling is that with each step in the above ideas from location, to comprehension, to communication, there is an immense probability of failure.

The complexity of it all

'Being on the same page' with someone takes loads of practice learning with that individual personally, plus an immense amount of skill specifically targeted to that person's very individual ways of viewing, understanding and communicating. We are all very different from each other so it is very unlikely that we will be on the same page when we first observe the same thing.

The point that I wish to communicate is that we each individually develop complete operational systems for being on the same page, but we can operate these systems very differently from moment to moment. The processes of observation, of comprehension, and of communication may each individually be conducted in very different ways and as a system be integrated for the individual in many ways from beginning to end.

In other words, the individual has redundant systems for doing the same thing and will use these systems alternately. One system may be used if ultimately a particular form of communication is planned. Another system may address the tenor of that communication even though it is being done through similar means.

What may be involved

Indeed, there are so many personal systems for the individual to use that anyone observing the individual in full operation will probably be confused as to which system is operational, or when different systems are substituted. A person may not even know from moment to moment which system their own body will select.

As it happens, the system that one's body uses is decided by one's body even before the mind of the person is aware. How is this?

Possibly, it is due to conditioning. Within the conditioning process, a person may respond to stimuli from within or outside the body. In any event, even conditioning may occur without the person even being aware. One may, for example, because of one's original genetic structure, condition oneself to a specific form of 'being on the same page' in very specific situations.

Observing such behaviour, an observer might then sense that the person is talented at 'being on the same page' beyond any training actually received. The person's systems for conducting observation, comprehension, and communication were pre-programmed into the person's repertoire of operational systems.

How difficult it is

What we may fail to realize, when we are trying to be on the same page with someone else, is how immensely difficult the whole process can be for all involved.

I paint, write and illustrate. For each of these forms of communication there is an infinity of possible process packages that can be employed. Yes, an infinity! No, double infinity!

Let me give an example.

Want to see how difficult it is! I frequently make use of the notion of exploding. Try to conjure up in your mind a picture in which there is a central point from which there are many many straight lines flying apart in all directions. You may have a linear vision of exploding, but if I ask you to curve the outward bound lines in some way so that they are not straight, your vision of the explosion should change immensely.

Now, assume in your mind that the angle of curvature of the explosion is such that the lines go out in a complete circle and then curve back to the point from which they originate. Vary this next, so that the lines curve around in an imperfect circle with a long curve and then a small squiggle at the end like a pigs tail.

Next assume that the lines curve from the central point but define circles as they get further and further away from the center, and larger and larger.

Using words, I have created images in your brain. The question is whether your brain has translated, or can translated such verbal images into picture images. You will be surprised how many people cannot carry out the translation from verbal to visual, or have great difficulty doing so.

The next challenge is recognizing the implications of the verbal images that I have suggested when they are translated into visual images. I suspect that some people will be able to imagine one or more lines following the suggestions I have made, while others will conjure up the complete result. Thus, some people will respond for the first image that they can see a sphere made up of lines originating from a central point.

If they were to cut all the lines to the same distance they would see loads of points. The question is how far away from the central point would one imagine loads of points of the emerging lines. What if someone said that they do not see any points at all? What if there were no points arising from the straight lines, but instead a very smooth surface which looked much like a solid sphere. What if that sphere were opaque for some people, but shiny for others and reflective such that the sphere was like a mirror?

And so on!

Try the experiment and see what you will get when you add curly tails to your lines; when you return the lines to the central point; when you have the lines swizzle outwards in a spiral fashion.

Now the Wuh Lax Experimental Cosmic World

In the Wuh Lax experimental cosmic world, all outward bound lines originate from central points. The points grow very large very quickly, at the speed of light, so that the separation between lines increases by an enormous amount. Each line is capable of being straight, but being straight is a special case. All lines relate to each other such that they appear to be on a single page. That single page is our visible universe. The end points on the lines that emerge from a central point are a single observation, and the observer has only the ability to focus in on one set of points at a single observation. The act of observing, or sampling of the end points of the emerging lines is relatively slow, such that by the time the observer recognizes what has been observed, the event has moved away from the observer by a conceptual infinity.

In the Wuh Lax universe, our universe, the lines are never distinguishable as lines, but we do see points and aspects that seem to be waves. Our observations of the waves notes that these are of different frequencies. What we cannot do is locate the end point of our lines and the description of the waves simultaneously. The expansion from our central points is much too fast for us to do this. We do not have the instruments to observe both position of the end of the lines and wave frequency at the same time. We do, however, know that both exist.

Where we get really confused is when the lines curve back and the end points are scattered across the universe. We have to assume that this does not happen, because if it were to happen, we could not comprehend what was happening. It is far too complex to understand visually, verbally or symbolically in mathematical terms. It is sufficient to recognize that the end points are permanently related to each other except when they are not. When they are not, most of us we get confused and cannot comprehend what is going on.

The interesting result of our emerging world is that it follows chaotic patterns that we can assume apply both in the small and large clusters of points that are formed when the lines follow non-linear paths outwards from our conceptual central point.

Another result is that the lines do not break, nor do the relationships between elements within the lines that represent moments in our world of observation.

A further result is that the end of the lines are attracted towards very specific points of light, while being repelled by the very same very specific points of light. The points of light are not really points at all, but infinitely packed worlds of photons that have very specific relationships to the points of the lines that make up the relationships of our universe.

In our Wuh Lax universe, no two lines can occupy the same place at the same time, but each line is assoicated with a stream of light and each stream of light directs the path of the lines through immense curvilinear paths that returns it to its origin. The light path is an unbreakable field over which the matter of our 'point and wave world' normally has no influence. The light path can be influenced by other light fields.

Daily Yoga, Exercising, Meditation, Prayer and Stretching

In our world of today, it is normal for people to live beyond sixty-five years of age. What we sometimes forget is that our most flexible years probably occur within the first fifteen years before we start the process of ossification.

Puberty and the Teenage Conundrum and Doldrums

Apparently, as teenagers, we lose some critical intelligence, hopefully temporarily, as our bodies go through puberty and we emerge as the full article, for better or for worse.

What I mean to say is that I love teenagers and I do not wish to criticize teenagers. I was once a teenager myself and I know what it entails. There is nothing wrong with being a teenager. It is something we all have to experience. But, but, but, but, if one loses flexibility during one's teenage years and this means a loss of the ability to think clearly then everyone suffers in the long run. The teenager can grow up to be an unreasonable adult demanding quite insane things from his or her teenage off spring later in life. The problem of inflexibility gets passed from generation to generation.

If one does daily forms of yoga, exercise, meditation, prayer or stretching one is reminded how much easier these activities would be if one were a child before ossification, rather than a more mature individual.

Take yoga, for example, in which we sit, move, bend, reach, and stretch. Compare yourself to a child. It is quite noticeable how quickly we lose our flexibility as we age. The corollary of that is the notion that if we maintain our flexibility or bring it closer to that which we felt as a child, we gain something valuable.

Our years of ossification are a necessary step, but they appear to have consequences that reach well into the future. Indeed, the years of losing flexibility are damaging both to us as individuals and to society as a whole. Why do I say that? Well it occurs to me that ossification is like rigidity, and as you know I have a thing about linearity.

Linearity and linear thinking is pretty close in my mind to rigidity, and linearity is a special case of curvature, then linearity is a loss of flexibility. What I am saying is that our brains may ossify as much as our bodies as we lose intelligence during the period of puberty. This means that we fixate while we are going through a period of reduced intelligence. This has an impact on our potential. Would that we could maintain our intelligence more constantly without the negative impact of raging hormones that are the fodder for wars as well as love.

At the worst, it means that our teenagers become automatons behaving as though they are stupid and unthinking. The negative results can be so extreme that they go off to fight a war that has nothing ultimate to merit it other than death and destruction. The teenagers that lose their intelligence temporarily and are vulnerable to manipulation by terrorists, or destructive thinking end up in a world that is governed by fear.

We also see that many tennagers can be convinced to take drugs that are poisonous, that they are scratchy and snarly in their behavior, fight authority, exhibit cruelty. Yes, and if these characteristics ossify into the individual think what we get as a result. We get a population of people operating below their potential doing things that as children or more flexible adults, they would never do.

Ossification of the Mind, Raging Hormones and Insane Acts

The most insane or least intelligent act people of this period might do is commit suicide to terminate their own life through a form of addiction or become a suicide bomber and blow up a section of the community, or worse still organize a unit of insane killers.

We notice these people in our midst, the ones that seem to have lost their intelligence as they go through puberty, and we say and do little about it. They scare us and with their less intelligent ideas and arrogance, they bring the community into a world that is more ossified and less flexible. They bring about war and destruction. What we need is for young adults going through this period to be trained in the arts of flexibility.

The arts of flexibility are daily yoga, exercise, meditation, prayer, and stretching. We may not be able to control the effects of growth hormones ossifying their brains, but we can show these kids how to maintain a bit more of what their brains have to offer in the way of being more flexible and less rigid.

Now I am just skimming the surface on this, and there may be much more that schools can do to prepare their young maturing adults for a world in which flexibility is needed more than ever before. This is perhaps why such things as computer games, art, body building, and music classes may help our kids to be more flexible. But, we must not forget how inflexible we get as we mature beyond puberty.

Proposal for Maintaining Our Flexibility

It is important that we review our child skills, the ones we lose as we go through puberty. We need to get out doors, run around, play games, have fun, meet people of all ages, and backgrounds, of all nationalities and creeds and compete in sports. This is much better than protesting in the street, carrying rifles, and hitting head with sticks or blowing each other up!
What we need to do is maintain our flexibility as a continuing practice throughout our lives.

Possibly, Plausibly, Probably, Predictably and Practically

You know what it is like to be challenged by an idea. Well, this morning, I had to deal with the uncertainty of many ideas. It is more than obvious that facts come in different shadings. I had a list of observations in front of me. The question was what I could make of them. Fortunately, my mind is one that can enjoy many colours. Things are not black and white, nor are they various shades of grey. Happily they are usually in a wonderful array of colour. Nor am I colour blind, which means that I enjoy the fullest range of colours.

What we see is information

However, I am not like a bat, and so I cannot see radar. I cannot even see infra-red or ultra violet even though I may assume that it is there. My eyes, like those of most humans, are tuned to see the colour spectrum, which is very lucky, indeed. They say that if you have something wrong with you, your brain will process colours less effectively. Probably, the first thing that you will notice is that you like certain colours more than you used to and others less. There is a range of colours that healthy people enjoy most of the time. Moreover, if you enjoy some colours more than others, it makes sense to find out why.

Colours are like facts that our brain processes. We can see things in the various combinations of black versus white, shades of grey, in most but not all colours available. Some of us are lucky enough to see all the shades of truth about something, and see it extraordinarily clearly. To do that one has both a brain that can process information about the truthfulness of some fact or another in numerous ways to bring out the various colours of confidence that one could, would, or should have about any given fact presented to one.

Information about Wuh Lax

This morning, I reviewed the facts of a story that I have in my head about the topography of the ancient world of Wuh Lax. The first thing to note is that Wuh Lax is supposed to have lived almost two thousand years ago, and his name may not have been Wuh Lax. I had to start somewhere so I came up with the name Wuh as it reflected a very ancient expression. We often say 'wooh' when we see something extraordinary, in awe, or when we need to take a breath after exertion. So in my mind, its possible that in 50 AD someone was called Wuh. Not only that, it is plausible because the name is not so extraordinary. We don't hear of many people called Wuh today, but then we don't hear of many people called God today. I could have chosen the name God, but that might have been taken in the wrong way. Godney would have been better, I suppose, but Wuh is even better still!

The name Lax is not only possible, but it is probable. It is a name surname available today in the place where we find Wookey Marsh. I saw it in a local church grave yard in near Wells cathedral not far from Wookey, the modern day place, and it started me thinking.

Salmon and Sacred or Ancient Knowledge or Teaching

Where did the name Lax come from? I have the idea that it is pre-Roman, but it would certainly have been available to the Romans. My idea, which I think is plausible, is that the name refers to a type of fish, namely salmon. I have seen plausible derivatives of the name Lax in places that one would expect to catch salmon, namely streams. Since in my mind the name Lax is very ancient, it seems to me that there is a significant between the location of the name today and ancient beliefs about salmon. Salmon was a pseudonym for knowledge, but why?

I think that it is plausible that the life of the salmon was the knowledge that was being considered by the ancients. Mature salmon swim upstream to die. In death they lay eggs which then turn into fish and swim downstream into the sea. The life cycle of the salmon was the knowledge that the ancients were thinking of when they thought of knowledge, or possibly the teaching of life.

The teaching of the life process is that as we mature we swim against the stream and eventually are so worn out we die. In the process of going against the stream, we give birth to new offspring, which then produce the cycle of life anew.

Teaching built into Lake Barrows and Stonehenge in Wiltshire

In my mind, it is plausible that Stonehenge and the Long Barrows at Lake 'Lax' in Wiltshire, England were seat of the teaching or the knowledge about the salmon, the lax, which swam the Avon and died at the upper reaches of the Avon stream. It is fitting that the Avon was the vehicle of transporting new life into the sea in the form of baby salmon.

Plausibly, the significance of Stonehenge and the Lake 'Lax' Barrows of more than 4,400 years ago, is that they were places of the seat of knowledge of the life cycle.

Cosmic Relationships?

The symbol of the salmon is also to be found in the stars and there may be a connection there to a search for the birthplace and place of retreat of earth as being one of the many stars in the sky. We see the symbol of the salmon in the earliest drawings of the peoples of the Middle East and Africa.

Thus, to my mind because I carry forward the idea of Wuh Lax, I am very lucky.

Golf, Art and the Role of Exploration

You might not think first hand that artists and explorers have much in common. That would be grossly wrong. The creative side of art is all about exploration. When an artist loses an interest in exploring, the creative side of his or her art suffers. I have found that many artists explore several realms at once, not only the product of their immediate medium, but other worlds.

Art and the golf ball analogy

Jokingly, I refer to my built in 'inclination' on a golf course to search for lost balls rather than try to follow the normal order of play. Sure, I will play a game of golf, but at the end I will have not only an improving score, but a collection of things that I have found, discoveries that I have made.

Some players will go through a game and come out of the end with a score and a pat on the back, if they did well, or a sense of gloom if they performed miserably. Not me, I win every time. I, for example, notice the crow that watches play from a high-off branch in a tall tree, laughing and highly amused that creatures of such capability, the humans playing golf below, would hit a ball, seemingly, aimlessly from hole to hole.

Art involves searching

So it is with a person who loves art. It is the searching alongside a regular mundane and often meaningless activity that pulls the spirit forward, gives it an edge and helps in the long term winning of the life process. Art involves extending mundane activity into something more meaningful.

Art can occur at any time and does not need much. Much of mine is done in my mind, but not all. I can easily tell whether I am being creative in a specific area. The product is poor and my effort sluggish. More fun is when I am on a roll, and when discoveries come with greater frequency.

Going off the fairway

Discovery is not made within the golf courses of life, but in the rough where others have failed and where one sees the wasted product of their efforts. Your searches won't be successful all the time. You may go for long periods without finding something new, but the effort will not be wasted and is as meaningful as improving your golf score and handicap.

Sure, ultimately, you want to hit the ball perfectly along the main stretches of life, but it is not wasteful to explore the roughs and wastelands. It is in such places that one sees the flotsome of previous mistakes, errors, disasters, and crashes. Failure to explore such off the beaten track places is not only to neglect a wonderful inspiration of art, wealth and creativity, but an acknowledgement that one has lost some valuable human characteristic, possibly one that made survival possible in a world of great uncertainty and risk.

Hidden treasures of our world

My analogy between golf and art does not stop with the above ideas, rather when you try to explore outside of your normal error, you will find treasures that you did not expect. Throughout our landscape there is hidden treasure. The richest areas are the oldest areas where one finds the debre of ancient civilizations and war torn communities. Such searches reveal much about human nature.

Shaping one's view of what is searcheable

It is much easier in life to think that one's world is the current now, but in reality the current now extends backwards and forwards. When you don't work like the artist, you lose an advantage of veiwpoint that comes with recognizing the many values that contribute to your overall game. There will always be those that play golf on the fairways better than you. You may put in high regard efforts to beat the croud of ordinary golfers and establish a feeling of being above average in getting a ball in a hole from a dsitance. The difference between art and competition is that most often you are creative when you avoid competition.

In a competitive atmosphere, the rules of golf define certain norms of behaviour. These prescribe almost everything about playing the game, which you are told is what you are here for. You must play by the rules. Learn the rules and work within them. Improve your skills within the scope of the rules. This is what you are instructed. But, is that enough? Can one play by the rules and still be creative.

The art of golf ball finding

What if you could have your cake and eat it too! Finding the golf balls our your course of life keeps you within the rules but you also learn from mistakes of others. Searching in the rough means that you see what everyone else tries to forget. You see the silly mistakes people make. You learn that most casualties occur very early on in the games of life, not just golf. You see how players start to play when they are not really ready. You learning the improtance of practice. You see the relevance of strategy. You study a course before you start your game and you figure it out.

Figuring it out

The artist take time to see things for what they are, have been and can be. We all have some of the artist within us. Our creativity comes from our motivation, what moves us, what excites us, what helps the imagination work within our subconscious, what connects us to the powerful hidden forces of the universe. This is our process of 'figuring it out' and making sense of what our world has to offer.