The Shattering of Consensus Reality

In my last blog, I wrote about Cleve Backster's amazing discoveries regarding the connectedness of everything to everything. This is an exponential extension of the idea of ecology, a expansion into an area where many will not allow themselves to venture, due to their programming/indoctrination/Belief Systems.

John Donne, (1572 – 1631) was an English poet; an outstanding member of a group of metaphysical poets of the time, as well as a preacher. This places him in the later part of the European Renaissance. One of his poems was called, Meditation XVII. In this poem, is the phrase:

No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

In our recent history, much has been written around the phrase, "No man is an island." In the '70's, when I began my philosophical and metaphysical inclinations, and metamorphosis, I also thought about what this phrase meant. My conclusion was: "While each of us think of ourselves as separate and individual, as an island in a sea of separation, that, like an island, underneath connected to the Earth, we are all connected to each other."

Another philosophical conclusion I came to around that time was that, "Everything is a whole, you cannot separate out any part of the whole. If the part/piece, does not fit into the rest (of the puzzle), there is something wrong with the theory/facts of that part, or with the connecting pieces of the puzzle." Unfortunately, this is the state of affairs of our sciences today; all sciences, and different specialties within them, have all postulated theories, put forth as facts, which cannot be meshed even with related specialties/sciences, let alone what is thought of as the whole of reality. And, these official "realities" deal only with this small backwater part of a smallish galaxy.

Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979), was a linguist, a mathematician, an historian, a student of celestial mechanics, as well as many other things. Today, he is known as a "catastrophist;" "The last in a line of traditional catastrophists going back to mediaeval times and probably earlier," (according to Wikipedia). (Or so the official sciences hope, as what he has written challenges the whole modern accepted "fact" that, "changes on the Earth have only happened slowly and gradually over vast periods of time."

How cavalier of them to think, as they do, that modern man is so superior to the thinkers of the past, and dismiss the ideas of those who actually lived and experienced that history and nature first hand, and who are the "dead men's shoulders" upon which they stand.

Velikovsky's story is a lesson in what happens to you, if you dare to openly question authority--he dared to question a large percentage of them. He was influential in my forming my philosophical conclusion that, if one field of study, i.e., archaeology, does not mesh with, say, official history, then one or both of them are in error. "Authority" settled down, contented with current consensus "facts," after he died. When he was writing, primarily from the '50's into the '70's, he had a whole army of debunkers, as well as scientists, historians, astronomers, and other authorities of all stripes, buzzing around like a bunch of hornets whose nest had been swatted with a stick.

Back to one's responsibility to and for oneself; it is not necessary to take on the whole of consensus science, or religion, or history, etc., but if one can reach the point where, when you are told, in no uncertain terms, that something is a "FACT," if your mind can go, "fact?" you will have made some progress. None of what are today considered settled facts, are settled; they are the facts that "authority" wants you to believe. Above all, they do not want you thinking or questioning anything you have been programmed and indoctrinated to believe about reality!

If you can begin to question, in the same way, those things which you have been programmed/indoctrinated to believe your whole life, you will have taken another step to free your mind. Up until the early '60's, I was a prideful "intellectual," quite content with verbalizing the "facts" I had learned. The revelations of the findings of those experimenting with Hypnosis, including stage hypnotists, shattered my contentment, and led to a lifetime of discovery and freedom to think and experience the whole world anew. I have been sharing with you some of this "alternative" reality I have found.

I will end today's blog with that self-revelation.

Shirley Gallup