Zeitgeist
Zeit in German is Time.
Geist in German is Spirit
Philosophically, Zeitgeist was a dominant ideology of a particular era in history, reflecting the main trend in social, philosophical and scientific thought of that time period.
How zeitgeist applied today.
1. Is it to Revive Bandera and Nazi ideology of domination?
Germans vs Jews
Black vs Whites
East vs West
Cosmopolitan
Neocolonial
Egalitarian
Elitism
2. Is it to develop, all sort of killer drones and armament to kill those who oppose the dominant Media Views?
Capitalism vs Communism vs Hybrid Socialism
3. Is it to discard simple moral obligations and create guys without gender identification?
I am one who opposes AI controlling my day to day life.
I do not want an alarm to wake me up.
I do not want emails to control my workflow.
I do not want my cellphone to become my memory bank.
If my memory fails and dementia sets in, I do not want to prolong my mental agony in a frozen state, confined to a wheel chair.
TIME
TIME is an Illusion
Time is an illusion created by human imagination and is enforced by Christian faith.
The biggest of this illusion is the "Big Bang Theory".
Let me dissect.
Our imagination is limited by our vision.
Even if we send a satellite to space with a camera and record any visual data (event) and send it back to us, what we are seeing is an event in the past limited by the speed at which light can travel in space.
We can never see any event that is called present in our Cosmos.
We can see only the past.
So to create that illusion we momentarily freeze or stop an event supposed to have happened in the past (Big Bang) and from that of point of Imaginary Time, we extrapolate some more events to correspond to our present time.
Present belongs only to our planet and our sun not to the Cosmos.
There is no beginning to the Cosmos but end to the Cosmos is a real possibilty.
This is why I am at logger head with Astrologers who predict the future.
Just as we cannot see the Present in our Cosmos we cannot see the Future of our Cosmos.
It is an illusionary but full of imagination.
The Time of our Imagination cannot be projected to any point in the Cosmos.
To compound this fact the Universe is expanding at an accelerated (not a fixed rate) rate.
That is, we are loosing a bit of our Cosmos (the limit of visual sight ) every moment of our life.
This is where I love the expresion in Dhamma, live in this moment of present, never waver in to the past or try to see the unseen future.
We are left with this present moment of Reality.
Very difficult concept to digest since even this moment is governed by the uncertainty of our own existence.
REBIRTH is created to fill this Void of the past and future.
That is the subtle Reality of Dhamma!
FEARS
There is no limit to fear but in Buddhism it is classified under 4 heading.
1. Fear of Death
2. Fear of Illness
3. Fear of Old Age or Dementia
4. Fear of Loss of Livelihood (Poverty)
Several more are added in Sigalovada Sutta.
5. Fear of criticism.
6. Fear of loss of loved ones.
I look at death in a different way.
I look at the history of mankind and see how long great people lived in their life without dementia.
Buddha comes to my mind.
He could have lived up to 100 years with perfect mind.
But he decided to quit at 80 having seen that the physical body was failing with disease and old age.
After all, he left his princely life having seen death, sickness and old age.
However he did not have any fears (death, illness and losing his livelihood etc;) at the time of his passing away.
Death Moment in Dhamma
1. Kamma Nimitta
2. Gati Nimitta
3. Jati and Bhava (Rebirth)
My scientific way of looking at death is simple Cell Cycle events.
Our life cycle is determined at the first cell division.
It is only 50 Cell Cycles, nothing more and nothing less (there are few factors that accelerate this cycle and for the sake of brevity I would not expand).
In the foetus cell division is fast 42 cell cycles are spent by the age of one year.
Another 3 cycles are finished by puberty.
We have only 5 cell cycles left for our adult life.
Each cell cycle is prolonged between each division and humans can go upto 100 but after 80 disability, disease and old age symptoms aggregate, including dementia.
Elephants also have a similar cell cycle events but after 60 they have more disability.
When one is in death bed it is the last Thought Moment that determines the Rebirth Consciousness.
One has no control over this thought moment and it is spontaneous and depends on the Total Kamma Character of the Person.
When there are relatives around at the death bed (if the person desires the gathering, so be it) it is difficult for the person to "Let Go".
This is especially so for Non-Buddhists!
Lucid Interval
There is a momentary stage of Lucidity even in a case of " Brain Dead" person.
What happens at this stage is determined by Gati Nimitta and it is inherently fluid.
Cell Cycle
Cell cycle is unique to all animals and I have a theory that something in the placenta (depending on the adult size of the animal) trigger advanced cell division (example rats) and shorten the life span without shortening the reproductive potential (have a larger brood and more reproductive cycles).
It is related to evolution and survival of the species.
This piece here has more questions than answers.
Take a cup of tea or coffee, better stil a glass of wine and enjoy it at easy pace.
Only prerequisite is to have an open mind and be ready to drop any ambiguous dogma sticking in your mind.
I come from a scientific background.
My belief was that science could provide definite answers to definite questions.
In my twilight years, I remain baffled and have not found answers to many of my original scientific questions.
I was somewhat pragmatic and did not want to dig into esoteric questions in my working life.
Now I am in full retirement, a healthy dose of questions even a daredevil philosopher would fear to ask, is dished out here, with an optimistic mind.
Be happy or Somanassa Citta is my base.
Do not get bogged down by the uncertainty.
Around 55 years of age, I did some research work and I found something substantial, which remaines in my mind to this day.
It is within a mathematical constraint.
I did not find anything new.
Would expand on that later.
Then in my retirement I dig into religion and that investigation is over.
My main concern was mind and its behaviour.
I did not find much on mind but I came to the conclusion that human beings have been experimenting on Mind Altering Drugs for over 13,000 years.
Except a bit of wine, I never tried psychedelics.
I fear them as addictive drugs.
These mind altering drugs cause altered state of mind and most of the religions in practice today are byproducts of either hallucinatory states or delusions of grandeur provoked by these dangerous drugs which at the moment of ingestion expands the time out of proportion to Reality.
These guys even projects these illusions to alien visitations.
There is a guy who project this delusions as Al Bashar.
I have no data to confirm or deny that this guy uses psychedelic drugs.
What I know is, in America there are guys who use Ayahuasca to induce guys to their Forum of Indulgence and scrounge upon innocent guys (both money and time).
They have brought these plants to America and they grow these mushroom in their gardens.
There is a hilarious story of an American White House woman who went to China for formal talks with Xi Jing Ping was given a dish of Magic Mushroom.
She was so elated and said, Yes to everything the Chinese envoy had said and she was taken round, in a city tour.
Nothing substantial came out of the negotiations.
Beware of these guys and stay miles away from them.
My Advice.
If you go to any of these classes to not even take a glass of water during the session.
Go there well hydrated.
Do not take even the herbal tea (that is the Ayahuasca).
If you do not get any benefit from the master within 60 minutes, just walk away as a free man or woman.
Meditation practice is an industry in America and in the West.
No different to Dr. Stevon Greer's, alien visitation forums and DVD industry.
Religions by nature are all created as abstracts.
I do not need to say, it is an opium (makes you euphoric) of mind but a form of mental indulgence (certainly worse than opium but created the Biblical Wars and perhaps current war in Israel with Hamas).
I have two books on mind at Amazon bookstore, one is free to explore.
From science and religion I went into mother nature and I have no intention of delving into mass extinction and global warming.
Simply because mass extinction is inevitable and global warming (swings to low or high temperatures were far too, many on this planet) is unpredictable.
What causes it remains illusive.
Carbon dioxide scenario is only the tip of the iceberg.
Ultimately I ended up in philosophy.
I am not going to create my own philosophy, even though I wished to be called, a budding philosopher.
The Reason is most of the philosophies of old have gone into extinct including Cynics of Diogenes.
If I postulate my own philosophy, it is not immune to disintegration.
But I would keep raising a limited number of questions.
Not here but probably in a book form.
1. Science
Let me digest my own dissatisfaction to emerging science.
I had a list of questions on science.
It started with 10 and it went up to 20.
I won't list them here, simply a waste of time but I would explore only a few.
Out side of those questions, I had a another question.
Did aliens visit this planet?
Did we discover new technologies from them?
End result was my book on "Alien Saga".
Let me be practical to start with.
1. Biology
In biological systems, 28% is genetics, 32% is environmental and 40% is unknown.
My own research confirm this scenario.
Only happy state is my professor warned me and said 40% is unknown and please do not bother to investigating them.
That is in biology.
What about other arenas.
2. Physics
We have formulated concepts for 5% of the matter but 95% of the dark matter we do not have any logical formulas.
Dark matter physics is unknown to us.
Dark Holes
What happens within a dark hole and beyond are beyond our grasp.
To make it simple we can say there is an event horizon and leave it at that.
Dark Matter
Is it really matter or a different dimension.
Dark Energy
Dark energy is probably receding from us and creates the illusion of darkness. It is probably receding at a rate faster than speed of light.
Using speed of light as a parameter of measurement is not feasible if the dark energy is moving faster than the speed of light.
There is a limit to our imagination.
What is the limit of dimensions?
Is it within the mathematical 13 or more?
3. Unanswered Questions
What is the beginning of life on our planet?
We can go back and postulate a probable time of origin of life, from the available data but can we answer the question why life did begin at all.
Is it a random event?
I hate the theory (simply on physics' point of view) that life came from outer space.
Planet earth had all the resources but how it began is a mystery.
All what we know is that the Mar's atmosphere is inhospitable for biological life.
I have many unanswered questions but I would leave it at that.
4. Mind
What is mind?
Can it exist without the brain?
What is it's form?
I do not like the word consciousness and the word mind is preferable.
Please note I have a piece on Mind and Matter on this blog site.
5. Rebirth
Can one prove or disprove Rebirth?
I have two books on Rebirth at Amazon bookstore.
My own perspectives are given there.
6. My Philosophical Questions?
I am afraid they are in a book form, not here.
Book will come out soon.
I have a piece here on origin of philosophy.
That is an outline of how philosophy evolved over the past 2500 years.
