06-24-2018, 07:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-24-2018, 08:12 AM by Eric the Green.)
(01-17-2018, 11:33 PM)Deciphered Wrote: The first 5 minutes of the video is dedicated to providing evidence that the universe was designed by an advanced civilization. If it was, we can assume that it was done in the best way possible. Therefore, if we figure out the most efficient way for the universe to have been designed, we have also figured out how the universe is designed. Topics include: virtual reality, cymatics, dimensions, multiverse theory, karma, reincarnation, and purpose.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0z9h5opAqU
Script: https://i.imgur.com/ut5hHws.png
Thanks for sharing your video with us. It looks like you are a very good video creator, and you have a nice voice too. It is great to ask the ultimate questions and think about possible answers. Very admirable IMHO.
I looked into the multiverse or many worlds theory, and it didn't make sense to me, and was based on unnecessary materialist assumptions. We have an infinite range of possible experiences and choices, but that does not mean that all of these choices actually exist. The collapse of the wave function approach, which depends on the observer to create, is the best approach to quantum theory, and the multiverse option seems based upon the assumption that this approach must be wrong.
I like one of your conclusions that the universe has always existed, and always will. An assumption that someone or something created the universe, may not take into account a question of who or what created this creator in turn. Ultimately, the only time is now, and creation is happening now, the creator is now, and time is just the process of movement and change which brings ultimate truths and patterns of truth into life. Everything is recorded and remembered in the cosmic mind, and the future is already existing now as well. That means that the best possible world already exists now, and everything is already done. As strange as this may seem from the viewpoint of observing external reality, we can experience this perfection as the nature of our conscious being.
I like your conclusion that what counts is whether we have made the world a better place, not how much we have gained for ourselves. However, it seems impossible for me to know the extent to which I have made the world a better place, and I wonder how this could ever be accurately determined. From what I have heard, it seems that it's more likely that we ourselves are our own judges about our lives.
In our usual emotional condition, we must assume that the world is not designed in the most efficient way possible; otherwise, why is there evil or the chance of children having cancer, etc. Whether our emotional reaction to how the world is, is relevant to our description of how it is, is questionable, although it is important to consider. Usually it does not seem to us that things are perfect or well-designed, at least from our limited perspective. People do evil things, and experience evil they did not deserve. I suppose the only reason for this, is that having the choice and the chance of evil or misfortune is a condition whereby growth and learning can occur, and that experiencing growth is the most desirable alternative universe that could exist. Things are already perfect, but part of that perfection is the infinite possibility of new things to learn and create, and adventures to experience and mysteries to solve.
If growth and learning occur, it can only happen in a universe where souls exist, survive death, and are part of the one being which we all are, which is the truth of all being. Life and reality are futile if it is just here and then gone; it might as well not have existed, in that case. In any case, however, a better understanding depends on widening our perspective beyond our usual sense of personal individual existence, our own desires, or our social and biological conditioning. A multiverse exists in the sense that each one of us has our own world and our own perceptions; although I suppose that ultimately we are each and all also part of the one being that is.
But, I don't know whether the universe was designed in the most efficient way possible or not. One thing that seems right to me, is that our current understanding of the universe is not the smartest understanding possible. We cannot formulate the nature of the whole universe or its causes and effects etc within the framework of our various languages, without running up against the limits of those language systems.
At a deeper non-verbal, non-symbolic level, however, we know that the answers to our questions are within the consciousness that asks them, and they are there with us always.
I imagine that any panel put together by Neil DeGrasse Tyson would be limited within the materialist framework in which he dwells. I suppose that a closer approach to understanding would depend on realizing that the consciousness asking the question is fundamental to whatever reality that exists, rather than merely what can be observed and tested in a strictly empirical approach-- useful though that is as well to understand particular facts that can be demonstrated to more than one mind. Consciousness is involved in whatever exists, together with whatever it may be conscious of; external and internal beings are interdependent.
Early in the video, the hermetic law as above, so below; as within, so without, was suggested, in the way similar things are reflected on different levels. This fractal, hermetic, holographic picture seems right to me, and we also need not assume that "matter" is anything more than energy, information and patterns of vibration and interdependent with the way we perceive it.