The nature of nothing: If you take away everything that is physical (matter/energy), you are left with nothing (no thing). Nothing is completely empty space, absolute cold, silence and darkness. “Nothing” is infinite, eternal and indestructible. It does not move; it does not have to. It is already everywhere. The universe is more than 99.9999999% empty space. Even our own bodies are mostly empty space. All physical things are, because atoms are mostly empty space.
True perspective: The way our solar system is shown in books does not give you a true perspective of it. It shows the sun and the other planets orbiting it in rings that are not to scale. They could not get it in a book if it was to scale. The actual scale is more like this; if the sun was the size of a basketball, the earth would be about the size of a grain of sand, and it would be 87 feet away from it. Pluto, the outer most planet in our system, would be a grain of sand over a half mile away. The next star outside our solar system would be thousands of miles away. It takes light that travels about one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles a second about 8 and a half minutes to go from the sun to our planet. It will go around the earth seven times in one second, but it takes four years to get to the next star outside our solar system, and 2.5 million years to get to the next galaxy.
This gives you a more true idea of how much empty space there is in our universe. Most of everything is nothing.
What is faster, the speed of light or the speed of dark? Turn off the light and try to get into bed before it gets dark. I am just kidding, but I am trying to make a point. You cannot turn off “nothing” or do anything to it. It always stays the same, is always everywhere all the time.
Nothing is really something.
Einstein's general relativity equations show that space bends and proves that nothing is really something with substance. Supposedly, empty space is shaped, and it is the shape of space that creates the gravity that controls and creates the whole universe. It holds the planets in orbit, makes the sun and other stars burn, and it is empty space, nothing.
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Value of general relativity: I always wondered what the practical benefit of general relativity was, and now I know. It proves that nothing is something, and in fact controls and creates the whole universe.
Nothing causes everything to happen.
Our spirit is also like nothing. It is the so-called empty space between everything. The majority of everything is nothing, and it connects everything, everywhere.
Our essential, immortal self or soul is like the blank sheet that physical life is written on, the darkness that gives light a place to shine, the silence that gives sound a place to be heard. An infinite stadium that the game of life is played in. Nothing is more than something. It is the complete opposite of what people think. It is impossible to get your mind around; all you can do is know it is true and be it.
There are some things that are beyond the mind, literally. You can only know them or in this case be them, when the mind is turned off.
You cannot experience nothing: You do not look inside yourself to find yourself as some eastern religions have been saying; there is nothing there. You cannot see or experience nothing; it is impossible. You can be like nothing, but not experience it. There is nothing to experience.
What does the experiencing cannot be experienced.
Spiritual perspective: You do not look in; you do the opposite, and you look out through your senses. When you experience everything, you experience nothing at the same time. You have to be nothing to experience everything. If you are something, there is no room for everything. It is the spiritual perspective. You are looking out from nothing to everything, from nowhere to everywhere, from stillness to movement, from darkness to light.
It is interesting that the word “nowhere” is also “now here.”
The watcher/witness: The perspective of a spiritual being is as if you are sitting in a dark movie theater watching life. If the theater was not dark, you could not see the movie. Your soul or spirit is in a dark, silent void that is open to life. You are the void and everything in it, nothing and everything at the same time.
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People, mankind are living as their false, mortal mind-self, and they should be living as their immortal spiritual self, the exact opposite of the way they are now. If you are completely open, life fills the void completely. All life comes to you; it is given to you by life. You are just a receiver.
You do not create life; all you can do is live it and reflect what you receive. Life moves around and through you. When you are completely open, nothing is completely displaced with everything.
Unified field equation: The holy grail of physics, the science that is trying to explain everything mathematically is something called a unified field equation. It would explain in a mathematical equation why everything does what it does. They have not been able to do it, but they have not been considering the field or tried to add it to the equation. The field is what we call nothing.
I would give it a new mathematical symbol. A good symbol and model for life in the universe would be an empty circle. The circle represents energy/positive, the space inside the circle world represent nothing/negative.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein
2 = 0 says it all: Two being the balancing opposites, one positive one negative; they cancel each other out, equal nothing and everything, represented by the new symbol. That is the unified field equation. It explains everything.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
Albert Einstein
You can only understand the universe if you look at it from the perspective of life. It will never really be understood from the mind’s perspective, because it cannot perceive “nothing” for what it really is or understand anything infinite, which is the true nature of everything.
The spirit is more like darkness than light.
People think that the spirit is like light. This is because light reveals what was hidden in the dark; it represents life, and dark represents death. The good guys wear white, and evil likes the dark. Darkness represents evil, and light represents good. It is a misunderstanding, a deception. The opposite is true; light is more like evil and dark is more like God or good. This is because the spirit is like darkness. Darkness is nothing, and so is the spirit. Light is something, a form of energy; the spirit has no energy.
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I am not saying that light is evil; I am just saying as a metaphor for God, it is missing the mark. The spirit has more in common with darkness or nothing. The mind, like light, is a form of energy, and the mind creates the evil in our lives, so light should not be associated with the spirit, except in the context of enlightenment.
Displace the spirit: The mind is a form of energy, and because it is, it will always displace the spirit, just as light will always displace darkness.
Mind power: This is why you cannot live completely without the mind when there are any other active minds trying to communicate with you. The mind can always intrude on the spirit, but the spirit can never intrude on the mind. The spirit is a void, and the mind will always try to fill it.
You could say the mind is more powerful than the spirit, and you would be right, except that the spirit does not need power to do something; it is already everywhere and the biggest part of everything. So the spirit could be seen as the ultimate power; it is simply what is. It is wherever energy is not automatically. The spirit is the only thing in the universe that requires no energy to exist. The mind is aggressive; the spirit is passive. This is why you have to be by yourself or be around other people that know the truth to really be fulfilled. You will be much more aware than people that do not know the truth, but you will not be able to be completely open, completely fulfilled around active minds.
It is a drag, but the way it is and will be until everyone knows the truth. This is why you have to learn to experience true life alone at first. You just have to start getting away from the mind, as much as you can, whenever you can. Eventually, you receive the input of other minds as you take in all other energy, and it is not so bad, but it is not as good as the energy you get directly from life.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Albert Einstein
The new mind: A new and improved mind will be with you forever. It will start over with every death and birth, but it will grow in the collective unconscious forever. The big difference is, it will be your servant, not your master. Your mind will become your trusted friend. It is a valued and necessary part of a divine life form. You will not like it as much as life, but you will use it from time to time whenever it is needed or for work or research. You will think a lot less, but know a lot more. Your new divine mind will be more intelligent and sharper than it was in the past. In heaven, you will use your mind only about ten percent of the time, but when you use it, you will use a hundred percent of it. People are doing the opposite now.
Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.
John Lennon
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Planning for the future: When most people are young adults, they put a lot of their effort into preparing for their future. The problem is, the future never really comes. After middle age, they may or may not have money, but they no longer have youth and the illusion of a dream future. People start to realize that their dreams are not going to come true, at least not like they dreamed them, or people did what they set out to do, and it was not what they thought and hoped it would be; it did not satisfy them for very long. They start reminiscing about the good old days that really were not that good. People go from fantasizing about the future to fantasizing about the past. They miss the present all together. People live their whole life without really living at all. Their friends start to die and their health starts to go. They start to see that they are heading for sickness, old age and death.
It starts to dawn on them that their life has passed them by, and they are heading for the abyss without a clue. Then they tell their kids to do the same thing they were taught, because they do not know what else to tell them. So it goes, passed down from one generation to the next, the sins of the father passed down, the blind leading the blind as the Bible says. It is tragic and no longer necessary.
Prime of life: We may live an average of about eighty years, but our prime of life is considerably shorter. For most men it is about ten years, for most women it is only about five years, because youth and physical beauty matter so much. All this effort is to prepare for a future that is sandwiched between youth and old age.
Those few years are not that great, even for the people that are lucky enough to succeed in their plans; even the one in a million that realizes their childhood dreams are disappointed. What is the point? Even for those few that their big dream comes true, that become famous in sports or show business, it only lasts a few years. People need to see the big picture, their immortal life.
A spiritual being is in the prime of life all the time.
I am not saying that people should not prepare for the future. You have to do something with your life, and getting an education that will help others and help yourself is the thing to do. Working to help others and yourself is also the right way to spend your time. I am saying you can do those things and take care of yourself spiritually at the same time. Success and money will come and go, no matter what you do, but life is always with you, so it is what matters the most.
If you take care of the present (live in the present), the future will take care of itself, as the saying goes. Always give the present priority over the future or the past, and you will be on the right path. Living in the present does not mean you do not know the past and the future. You have to know the true past and true future in order to know the truth and live in the present.
Live every moment, like it is your last dance on earth.
Carlos Castaneda
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Even though people are always thinking about the past and the future, they do not see it truly. The mind is preventing people from seeing the present, and it is also preventing people from seeing the true past and future.
No one really looks past fifty years. What happens then?
Many people do not think past the next fifty or sixty years or past death, because they think it is a long way off or that there is no hope; dead means dead, or they believe in a myth. They could not be more wrong.
When you know you are going to die and life is short, shouldn’t you prepare for it? You need a long-term plan that goes past this life and death.
Someone once said that “people live in quiet desperation.” The truth is, they live in ignorance. People are so busy playing mind games that they never see or even imagine that there is really another way, a way to a place that is better than any dream you ever had.
Ignorance is not bliss. It is the cause of all misery.
We have to know the truth in order to walk the path. The truth is the path. You have to be able to see the path, all of it, before you can go where you really want to go. Almost everyone is lost. Most people just do not know it, which makes them even more lost.
The definition of being lost is not knowing where you are and not knowing where you are going. That makes just about everyone lost. Only the truth and the life can show you the way, because it is the way.
The saddest thing is someone dying without ever living.
Lie and die: People live their lives living a lie, and they then die in a lie.
It is interesting that “lie” and “die” are so close to the same thing.
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Anyone that says they are ok with death is lying. No one can be ok with it, but that does not make people feel good, so no one can be honest about it.
The problem is, it tells people it is ok to be dishonest even when you are about to die, which it is not. Just before you die is the time to be most honest. Otherwise, you send the wrong message to people you care about.
The reason it is the saddest thing to see someone dying without learning the truth is because it is now unnecessary. The truth can be known, and people know it subconsciously. It is right there, but they just cannot connect with it.
If you do not know the truth, the worst thing to do is deceive yourself and others, because it removes any chance of you learning the truth.
Even when you know the truth, there is not much to feel good about. You can feel good that you are one of the first people on earth to die knowing the truth, and you can look forward to being reborn in a better place, but that is about it.
If you are in great pain and have a hopeless, degenerative terminal disease, you may welcome death, but that only means that your disease is worse than death. It does not make death ok; death still sucks on many levels.
Death sucks: Your death forces you to have to leave everything you have ever known. You are leaving everyone you love, and that is never ok.
Even if you think it is good, it makes your loved ones sad when you die; there is nothing ok about that. No matter how you look at it, it is bad. Therefore, anyone that says they are ok with it has not really thought about it, are stupid, or are lying to themselves and everyone else. Death sucks, and that is the bottom line.
If you learn the truth and the life, you can die knowing you did the best that was possible for a human being. Having learned the truth and the life, you will be reborn in a new world where death will never be as bad as it is in this realm. It is a lot better than dying in ignorance or a living lie. You will know that death is necessary and what is going to happen next, but death will always be tragic in many ways, and it is never ok.
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Physical life is short: If people realized just how fast their physical life is going to pass, they would be much more concerned with learning the ultimate truth while they have the chance. The truth is, we are all dying.
Just ask any old person if life is short or long, ask if their life went by too fast.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call, no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. Tennessee Williams
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca
End of the world: People are always talking and worrying about the world ending. We are destroying the environment, going to use weapons of mass destruction, plagues and pandemics, asteroids from space and religious prophecy etc. We are so busy worrying about the world, we are missing the fact that the world is going to end soon for us no matter what happens or what we do.
The certain prospect of death should sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity. Friedrich Nietzsche
Just remember, death cannot be avoided for very long, even if you are careful. You have to be as ready as you can be to die, because it can happen anytime. Realize how unprepared you are; realize the reality of dying and what you will have to face, and it will be the start of a glorious quest for the truth and life.
Death is not a pleasant subject. It is the worst thing that there is, and no one wants to talk about it or think about it, but it is going to happen to you and everyone else. It is true, and facing the truth of it is the only way to overcome it.
Actually, you never die from your own perspective. The opposite happens. Everyone else dies/disappears.
I hope I scared you. Be afraid; be very afraid. I hope you are as scared as much as you should be. You need to be scared enough to do something about it.
Do not take this world for granted; it could disappear anytime, you can disappear anytime.
Heart failure, strokes, blood clots, and accidents happen to young people, so do not think it cannot happen to you. Every time you eat, you could choke. Every time you get in a car, another driver can kill you, so do not be surprised when death comes to you. You could die today; thousands of people will.
Death is the most certain thing in life, and most people are not ready for it.
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