The 6 Perennial Questions
Introduction to The Six Perennial Questions
If we accept that Science exists, essentially, to seek answers to the fundamental questions surrounding our Universe (as opposed to finding better ways of killing people) then it seems reasonable that the ultimate question to ask of science has to be. Who am I?
Who are we? What is our story? Where do we come from? Where do we fit in? Are we alone in the Universe?
In 1637 Descartes proclaimed Cogito, ergo sum, I think therefore I am. His opponents, including Neitzsche, questioned whether we really think at all, leading to the counter-supposition, I am, therefore I think.
Since then Science has settled upon 6, Perennial Questions, which it says must be answered before we can even ask the ultimate question, who am I as an individual? and by extension, who are we as a race?
By race I am of course referring to the Human Race, if anyone is in contact with beings from another race, please email me!
These questions are;
What is the origin of life?
What is the origin of human life?
What is our relationship to our body?
What is our relationship to the Universe?
What is our relationship to the past \ time ?
What is the role of nature?
The answers provided by mainstream science (and by provided I mean, if anyone dares to question them they are ridiculed as pseudo scientists, conspiracy theorists and crackpots), form the basis of all education, media, economics, religions and statehood, across the planet.
These answers are underpinned and in turn maintain the basic theory that advanced Human civilisation first appeared around 6000 years ago. Homo-Sapiens evolved from Neanderthals and that we are now the most highly advanced society to have existed on the planet.
Messrs Einstein, Newton and Darwin are effectively responsible for most of the answers provided. The Universe, we are told, is a Newtonian one, in so much that everything is separate and all life emerged from its primordial ooze. Oh, and e=mc2
Before examining the 6 perennial questions in detail, let's look at what these three famous academics said about their own work.
Few people realise that Einstein initially accepted the possibility of the observer effect theory. He accepted the notion that the universe behaved as a connected, participatory system and although the idea of quantum entanglement or, as he called it, ‘weird action at a distance’, bothered him enough to for him to distance himself from the work of physicists such as Heisenburg and Plank, he later expressed his regret at being so dismissive of his peers.
When Darwin released what is now known by its simplified title, The Theory of Evolution, he called it his ‘tenuous theory’ and outlined certain key points which if proved would invalidate his theory. In terms of human evolution, along with the concept of irreducible complexity. These points are now well established. Darwin himself highlighted the fact that in spite of extensive searching, the missing link between Neandethol and Homo Sapiens remained undiscovered. To this day it has still not been found.
It should be pointed out that as the sphere of geneticism has advanced, mainstream scientists no longer refer to modern man as homo sapien. We are ALL Anatomically Modern Humans, AMH.
They have also abandoned the idea that we AMH evolved from Neanderthals or any species of ape.
Evolution is not a human condition. Not entirely.
Although Sir Isaac Newton is most famous for his various laws of motion and is regarded as the founder of modern science, Newton himself expressed regret for the algebraic style of recent mathematical progress, preferring the geometrical method of the Classical Greeks. Geometry is today viewed by Quantum physicists such as Nassim Haramein and Nobel Prize Laureates; Aspect, Clauser and Zellinger as being the true mathematical language of the Universe. Establishing the parameters for everything from DNA to musical scales!
It was Da VInci who said we should Study the Art of Science as well as the Science of Art!
Although today's quantum mechanics, photons and the idea of wave–particle duality bear only a minor resemblance to Newton's understanding of light. In his Hypothesis of Light of 1675, Newton posited the existence of the ether to transmit forces between particles.
When we consider his Laws of Motion we can easily identify how the ancient principles of Hermeticism influenced Newton’s work. Indeed Newton's laws are now viewed as consequences of these fundamental hermetic principles or quantum laws.
Let's look at them individually;
Newton's first law states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force.
The 5th Hermetic principle, The Law of Inspired Action states that we can't just wait for something to happen. We must take action in order to manifest our intentions.
The second law of motion is called a law of momentum. It states that the acceleration produced in an object due to applied net force on it is directly proportional to the magnitude of the force.
There are so many Hermetic principles in play here that I could write an entire book on this concept alone (and may do at some point)
Newton's third law of motion is usually simplified as; for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This oversimplification potentially misses the most important point he was making. What Newton was stressing is that whenever a force acts upon a pair objects there are ALWAYS a pair of forces acting upon both objects. Something Newtonian physics ignored when coming up with the theory of gravity.
We now know that we don't know precisely what gravity is!
If this isn't a nod to the full set of Hermetic principles from the Law of Oneness to the Laws of Polarity and Relativity then I will eat my hat!
Don't worry, hats aren't real. Nothing is.
We'll cover that later too!
Despite all of this, in spite of knowing it is not the case, mainstream education still teaches that, although AMH needs to understand our relationship with everything in order to answer humankind's greatest question, we are in fact, separate from everything.
How do you feel knowing that some of the answers still ‘provided’, have been proven to be incorrect? And When I say proven I mean, peer reviewed and published, often begrudgingly, in the most prestigious, mainstream academic journals.
Wouldn't you expect the mainstream school syllabus to at least be corrected? Wouldn't you expect to be told when the fundamental facts around the 6 questions are updated?
I bloody would!
Instead of this, the inspirational men and women who dare to question the narrative are treated as heretics by the new Inquisition. Mainstream academia. The mainstream. Mainstream.
I'm going to suggest that, as a result of the great advances in technology over the past hundred years or so, we should be asking better questions than those asked by scientists of centuries ago.
If perception really is reality, then by controlling our perception, it surely follows that our reality too, can be controlled, manufactured and manipulated and therefore, falsified.
From time to time I will create a scene for you to examine. Perhaps the scene will seem familiar to you. Perhaps your version of reality, your lived experience, will be different to the one I create. That’s OK!
We all have different experiences. All I ask is that you allow yourself to place your beliefs in a little box called ‘my reality’. Then allow yourself to consider the possibility that there are other versions of reality out there. Quantum mechanics tells us that there must be. Your own reality will be safe in the box in which you have placed it, although there is a good mathematical case to be made for it only existing when you go back to looking at it!
The most fundamentally profound thing I ask you to consider is that perhaps you can control your own perceptions and reality.
We will return to those 6 Perennial Questions from time to time.
