The Heavy Stuff

Hello, thanks for visiting The Heavy Stuff (THS) today. If you are a regular, I had to go to this new format-theme  to be able to maintain a sidebar on my posts that are by individual pages - most likely the manner that you arrived (via a link) today (meaning a link ending with a post number). That said, I like this look - new understated theme for `heavy’ ideas.

Ok, today’s post is literally to look - briefly - at my personal bookshelf - the books - so to say - that made my mind the way it is ( and that you read on THS). The reviews below are ones that I wrote years ago for my squidoo site - I’ve copy and pasted them here for you to get my sense of how `heavy’ these books are. And yes, they are in the order of the heaviest first .

Number One
The systematic analysis of the philosophy of Being - the book which `lays out’ what existentialism IS. Includes such amazing chapter titles as Being-In-Itself; The Ontological Proof, and The Origin of Nothingness. This is the book for you if you want to have even the smallest grasp on `Temporality’ or `Transcendence’. The paperback version is over 800 pages — get ready for the read of a lifetime. Heavy rating of 10+.

Number Two
Quite simply the BIBLE of phenomenology and consciousness thought. If you think you have thought about the `issues’ of mind and matter — think again — unless you have read this very very rare book. Husserl thought out the ideas of Phenomenology in the late 1800’s and to this very day you can find people meeting in groups to discuss these mammoth ideas. Personally, my FAVORITE `heavy’ book of alltime. Heavy Rating 10+

Number Three
Is this the heaviest book written in the last 50 years? I’d say it could be. What else could possibly be heavier than being the first person to actually `figure out’ all the most perplexing astronomy data — and then to — `explain it’ to the rest of the scientists in the world. Yes, this is the man who figured out the `problem’ with the BIG BANG — and thought of the solution. The solution was INFLATION. Those amazing moments next to creation that included the notion that `space’ can expand `quicker’ than the speed of light. Indeed, if Guth is right (and one experiment after another has confirmed inflation) the universe we live in is huge in a manner that you have probably never even considered. For example, you may know that the `edge’ of our VISIBLE universe is about 13.7 billion years away — however, BEYOND that `visible edge’ lies OUR SAME UNIVERSE — we simply can’t see it (and never will) — but it is there with stars and worlds just like `here’ in our visible portion. But, get this, that `unseen portion’ of our universe is TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS times the size of our `visible’ portion. Yes, you need this book — how can you say NO to the heaviest book of the 1900’s? Heavy Rating 10+.

Number Four
In the 1970’s a student at UCLA wrote of his meetings with an Indian medicine man and sorcerer. These meetings involved gaining the actual understanding of the sorcerer’s worldview. This worldview supposedly led Castaneda into a `separate reality’ on occasion. These separate realities of the sorcerer included everyday phenomena and entities which lived in the special reality. Other special realities included controlled lucid dreaming - often described by researchers as a different mind state. This is NOT a book you want to say that you’ve NEVER read - a must read selection. Heavy Rating 10+ (I’ve read at least 7-8 Carlos Books BTW - this was the best.)

Number Five
Like the ideas of Husserl, the ideas of Ouspensky and Gurdjeff also have people STILL TO THIS DAY forming groups to discuss how heavy the thoughts are. Indeed, they are heavy; some would say that this is the BEST consciousness book ever written — the most intense examination of `mind’ ever undertaken. If the book was to be `summed up’ in one sentence it would be `THE ONLY THING IS TO AWAKE’. Heavy Rating 10. (Like Castaneda, I’ve read several of Ouspensky’s books too.)

Number Six
Another very rare book — you’d NEVER run across this out of print in the store so here is your chance. If you have ever wondered about the many various `types of time’ — this is your book. Most interesting are the chapters devoted to the very idea of FREEWILL and DETERMINISM and their relation to time and dimensional time. Can any time be real that isn’t here now? This is the book if you want the speculative answers. Heavy Rating - 10.

Number Seven
Here’s my bow to religion on earth for humans — and, indeed, it’s very heavy. It seems non-attachment is a universal theme in a lot of esoteric thought — you won’t find a better writer on the subject than the late Alan Watts. This is Zen Buddhism at it’s very best. If you lean to the spirtitual side this might be for you. Heavy Rating - 10. (One of several Watts books I’ve devoured.)

Number Eight
Many folks feel that `Bucky’ Buckminster Fuller was the greatest thinker of the 1900’s. If you have never seen his world map without distortion - you haven’t seen the world in true proportion. Bucky was such a great thinker that a type of CARBON is named after him — is there a greater honor than that. You must be familiar with this book and some of his greatest ideas. Heavy Rating - 10.

Number Nine
A recent book which explores some `oddities’ in Utah in the mid 1990’s. Huge oddities. Of every type. That suggest that the multi-verse may be an answer for the unexplainable anomalies. Co-written by a TV reporter still active in Las Vegas, this is a well documented book. Very enjoyable and a fairly quick read for `heavy ideas’. Heavy Rating - 9+

Number Ten
This is a must book if you think you want to work on your own `consciousness’. Ouspensky’s Guru and the last of the wandering esoteric Masters. Great story. Heavy Rating - 9+ (Yes, this isn’t the only Gurdjieff book I’ve read.)

Number Eleven
Physics taken to the new limits of the 2000’s — this version saying that `time itself’ does not exist. This version says that only `space’ exists. And, that `that’ space — is `chosen’ via a method that compares one moment to another by selecting the `next space’ that is the `most similar’ with the least intrinsic difference from the previous `space’. Wonderfully heavy book by a renegade Physics writer. Heavy Rating - 10

Number Twelve
Further discussions of this `Hyperspace’ which seems to allow for every moment of time to be extended in a way. The way for space to be moved thru without time constraints. The actual answer to many anomalies perhaps. Hyperspace. You need to read more. Heavy Rating - 9+

Lastly, if you desire - you can see the last 7 of my heavy bookshelf at the two links below - and those too are with description.

http://www.squidoo.com/theheavystuff#module4356476

http://www.squidoo.com/theheavystuff#module4433457

Hello brave readers of The Heavy Stuff (THS) and welcome back to your dose of mind medicine - thinking. That’s right, thinking. As only the bravest internet surfer would dare to click on a link promising phenomenology thoughts. You must be a masochist. LOL. That’s okay, you are still welcome.

As you may know, one of this blogs `original’ positionings is that a basis for reality and happenings within reality (including paranormal) is found in the ideas of Phenomenology - an area of thought first pursued by Edmund Husserl in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Many of Husserl’s original ideas about ontology form the basis for what Jean-Paul Sartre would expouse years later in his ideas about what existenialism IS.

And, while Husserl had many writings - one of his obscure books is called The Phenomenology Of Internal Time-Consciousness (1964 - Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 64-10829) - it is edited by Martin Heidegger - another major name in phenomenology thinking. (Since Husserl wrote in German, the text is also a translation by James Churchill.) THS goes into this detail so that perhaps you to can someday hold The Heaviest Book of Alltime in your own hands. Indeed, as you can see from this posts title - this will be the first of an intermintent series that THS will use to provide foundation for the thoughts of the Phillips Phenomenology. THS wants to start this series by exposing you simply to some of the book overview itself - as the words that describe the phenomenology of Husserl’s thought progression  about Phenomenology - are as Heavy as you will ever find in any book.

The Contents

(Lectures on Internal Time-Consciousness from the year 1905)

Husserl’s 45 Aspects of Phenomenology

1. The Exclusion of Objective Time - (pg21) - “The analysis of time-consciousness is an age-old crux of descriptive psychology and theory of knowledge.” >>>> Phillips Phenomenology - `Reality’ is constituted of phases of space - some of which `form’ our space - and - some of which `forms with’ other spaces to `produce’ our objective time. Literally, the continuous `thread’ of Not-able-to-not-be. 

2. The Question of the “Origin of Time” - (pg27) - “From the point of view of theory of knowledge, the question of the possibility of experience … necessitates a return to the phenomenological data of which all that is experienced consists phenomenologically”.  >>> Phillips Phenomenology - All reality is constituted of spaces and their relationship to each other and themselves - this phenomenological constitution `leads’ into the sub-atomic level - and leads - outward, to other `space’ relationships (with other spaces that are not us). All `knowledge’ MUST `come’ from `spaces’ - the basis for phenomenology.

3. The Primordial Associations - (pg30) - “When the new note sounds, the one just preceding it does not disappear without a trace; otherwise, we should be incapable of observing the relations between the notes which follow one another.”  >>> Phillips Phenomenology - `Space’ modifies at least three times before `producing’ the Not-able-to-not-be. Producing the `what HAS to occur’ thread we call real. Spaces `endure’ during these phases of the `same’ space.

4. The Gaining of the Future and Infinite Time - (pg33) - “On the basis of the appearance of momentary recollections, phantasy forms ideas of  the future in a process to that through which, circumstances permitting, we arrive at ideas of certain new variteties of color and sound while keeping to known forms and relations.” >>> Phillips Phenomenology - The qualities of color and sound can only be known with a `local’ structure - of phenomenology - our body - our space.

THS Overview of Part One

Husserl, like many of history’s great thinkers, was obsessed with the concepts of time, consciousness and reality - only he strove to put those `impossible’ thoughts into words. Tackling the very concept of how time could have begun (and what it IS) is the ONLY place a phenomenology about the reality structure can/could begin.

Husserl’s ideas that `time’ could not be objective - fits nicely with the Phillips Phenomenolgy that all `time’ is local only. It also is not surprising that Husserl bring `consciousness’ into the `phenomenology picture’ so quickly - after all - memory and phantasy (let alone awareness) quickly bring our awareness to the forefront of any attempt to understand `things’ - `spaces’ - whether the `spaces’ occur in our dreams, daydreams, or memories of the past. Likewise, the Phillips Phenomenology addresses the reality of consciousness too - consciousness is part of the Able-to-not-be - a significant part. Indeed, the able-to-not-be encompasses EVERYTHING that isn’t a `space’ during that ` planck instant’.

You have finished your mind medicine for today - please bookmark as this will be a continuing series - and, if you want to find a link to BUY the Husserl book — THS has it on our lens at www.squidoo.com/theheavystuff  - indeed, all the book reviews at squidoo’s The Heavy Stuff are straight from our bookshelf - and the Squidoo site is the best place to find a description of every post ever done on this website. THS has also added selective new links to our blogroll - all worthy of your visit. Finally, THS is scheduled to be interviewed next Friday by Ross Hemsworth who has a radio show in England, 11pm, (6pm Eastern, right?) July 18th, - you can listen on the internet at www.glastonburyradio.net .

As with many of the outrageous topics covered in The Heavy Stuff  (THS) - today’s post - `Real-Subjectivity in a Material-Objective World’ - will be the result of  an undetermined exercise of thought. And, as with most of the postings here, is the result of a link THS has on our daily anomalies website (see and visit our short blogroll on the right for great reads) on Squidoo.com.  And, that link - was called - `You Don’t Exist, So Don’t Worry About It’ — here is the link to the 10 minute read which I will summarize too if you don’t read the article. — http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=63575

The basic premise is this - and I will quote the article:

Science and math suggest that we humans don’t exist, (even though there is really no math or science — more illusions!)The advent of quantum mechanics and modern physics increasingly imply that our existence as human beings is a kind of persistent illusion (THS EMPHASIS). We are under the false assumption that we’re people, we only imagine we have bodies and brains, and minds functioning inside those brains

The article goes on to support its viewpoint of the non existence of reality with the standard, well, beyond standard, delve into the Planck(ness) of reality:

To make a long story short, Planck was forced to conclude that matter at its most fundamental level is not continuous, not solid. There are no tiny billiard balls. When you break down an atom, you get an electron, a proton and maybe a neutron. But it turns out these are not the smallest units either. You can break things down further to bosons, quarks, W particles, tachyons and a lot of other shadowy “things” that just sort of wink in and out of existence.Where do things go when they “wink out?” Nowhere! They cease to exist! Then they come back again.So what? you might ask. Well, as you know, the human body is made up from the fundamental elements of nature. We are mostly water, but we also have iron in our blood, calcium in our bones, and such. But each of those substances are made up of individual atoms, which in turn are made up of ghostly bits of nothing that just sort of come and go, in and out of reality.Scientists call this blinking process “quantum fluctuation.”So when the elements of your body fluctuate, so does your body, and so do you! So does you brain and the chemicals in your brain! In fact, you may be in a state of nothingness more often than you are in a state of somethingnessFinally, the real issue - Being and Nothingness. Which, as followers of the deepest esoteric thought know, is the title of one of Sartre’s heaviest books about phenomenology and values — literally the stuff that became Existentialism. Indeed, the writer doesn’t seem to understand that when the physics breaks-down at the literal crux of material presence in the world — IS where phenomenology knowledge prevails.Subjectivity and existence (of an observer) are literally side products of the evolution of the phenomenology of the material world. (YES, there is a phenomenology of the subjective world too.) Indeed, here’s how Sartre describes Being-in-itself:

“Non-conscious Being. It is the Being of the phenomena and overflows the knowledge we have of it. It is a plenitude, and strictly speaking we can say of it only that it is.”

Being and Nothingness, Time-Space and Awareness, Subjectivity and Objectivity, Memory and Fantasy – these are the subject matter of Phenomenology.

One might think that existence equals awareness of existence. But, being intellectually honest, a THING could exist without self-awareness. A space, would not NEED the existence of consciousness. Space would not need time. Indeed, in Planck(ness) level - space doesn’t (evidently) need even existence - to exist.

Space doesn’t need existence - to continue.

To be a `NEW’ space. Without Existence. (Of common reality.)

So, back to the Phillips Phenomenology - where `Space’ (any matter) is Not-Able-To-Be. Where the overriding characteristic of defining a `space’ is the attribute that IT DOESN’T EXIST. Or more appropriately, exists as a NOT ABLE TO BE. This is the characteristic that humans `see’ all around them; the very characteristic of our very physical bodies. Indeed, at the Planck level our bodies are NOT ABLE TO BE. That defines our space-beingness.

But, NOT our total beingness. As humans. As singular observers of other Not-able-to-be’s; such as the computer, our chair, or our spouse. NO, our total beingness has other chacteristics that are needed within a real phenomenology that explains human consciousness.

The one thing the author had right is that `subjectivity ISN”T found in the objective’ And, as the author says, the FACT IS that the `objective disappears from real(ity)’. For a duration of ones space - ones objectiveness vanishes.

The Phillips Phenomenology suggests that it vanishes into the `other’ part of the same space planck. That while this space vanishes - it becomes - (in the same space) - ABLE-TO-NOT-BE. It is being in this `suspended space-state’ that provides the bridge to the next `real existence of this space’. The able-to-not-be portion of space - being the subjective real counterpart - to the actual Not able to be.

Able-to-not-be

At this point, it might be easy to think of the able-to-not-be as Time, or perhaps where consciousness might BE. Afterall, something that wasn’t a space, was able to not be a space - would naturally be time. And, consciousness, the mind, wants to be viewed as this separate entity from the body - our space. So, again, at some level of understanding - these `things’ are able-to-not-be. BUT, what THS wants this post to be about is REAL SUBJECTIVITY - and - in two previous posts THS has touched upon this subject.

REAL SUBJECTIVITY

The two examples THS has provided of REAL Subjectivity are The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 http://theheavystuff.com/?p=17 and the mutual hypnosis experiments carried out by Dr. Tart.  http://theheavystuff.com/?p=32. To briefly review, the Ghosts of Flight 401 were the doppelgangers of  the pilots that appeared on flights that re-used materials from the crashed flight. And, in Dr. Tart’ research, the mutual hypnosis participants entered into a fully viable mutual reality with `things’ structure and (time for) intentionallies and `new revealed landscape’.

What THS is proposing is that Doppelgangers represent that ultimate expression of a spaces Able-to-not-be(ness) ——– the doppelgangers are real spaces - actualizing the able-to-not-be virtual reality. Those representations seen on the planes WERE the pilots and their best attempt to be `real’ within our common NOT able to be consensus. They represented real subjectivity (and indeed seemed not to fit totally in with others who observed them) - an incredible rip in the ontological structure for a few precious moments of experience.

Likewise, the `real reality’ that those shared while under hypnosis had all the characteristics needed to be understood as a real place — a place with real subjectivity and seeming objectivity. A progression from the able-to-not-be level of consciousness, via hypnosis, and jumping to an internal NOT able to be space. At that moment, lending objectivity to a subjective world - with real subjectivity of a conscious being like a human.

Now, doesn’t this `real-subjectivity’ realm sound familiar? Could this be where `duplicate’ bodies `go’ to be abducted - and why the experience is so real? Since it (the able to not be) is simply a counterpart of our same space (Not able to be) - things would `have existence’ there too.

Suddenly, looking at the world’s paranormal thru the prism of phenomenology, rather than trying to `understand’ it with physics - makes sense. `Existence’ is tied with more than one kind of space and so is `Real’ and `Consciousness’.

So, guess what — You do exist and there is reason to be concerned. The exact opposite of the title of the article that got this article written.

 

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The Empty Space of Bootes Void

Hello fans of The Heavy Stuff (THS) thanks for returning for a dose of speculations about the reality structure - speculations on realities greatest mysteries. Even mysteries such as freewill and determinism — time travel — consciousness — and the possibilitiy of an `afterlife’ for entities with consciousness. Entities like you, yourself. Possibilities that may depend on the actual workings of the reality structure itself - the phenomenology of the structure of actualization.

Anyhow, as you know, this blog often talks about links  posted daily on our anomalies blog on Squidoo.com. Recently, we moved a science link from the anomalies lens on www.Squidoo.com/anomalyman  to our `best of 2006 & 2007′ anomalies website at www.squidoo.com/anomalyman2006 about an area of the observable universe that is the `emptiest’ void that we can observe from Earth.

The `empty space’ is called Bootes Void and represents about 2% of the observable universe from our viewpoint. The article goes on at great length (and we once again encourage you to hit the link to find the original article - you will like the Anomalies of 2006/2007) to indicate just `how empty’ this `empty space’ is — giving  great `facts’ —  for example; that if the Earth was in the area of the Bootes Void that earthling scientists “wouldn’t have known of another galaxy” -  other than ours - until the 1960’s. Amazing.

The article also gives other `facts’ about the `amount’ of `material’ in the actual universe — which it turns out is about an average of one atom per cubic meter of `space’. THS has read this figure before in other articles and it gives one pause as to just how rare REAL SPACE with atoms actually is. You know, THINGS, LIKE YOU AND ME. It turns out that WE are Rare spaces. Rare Real Space.  Amazing, even, `Living Space’.

All this talk in the article  set me thinking upon my favorite subject - phenomenology. Phenomenology deals with fundamentals like `spaces’ and `times’. Phenomenology deals with fundamentals like `present’ `past’ and `future’ — all of which it turns out - apply to things like us - rare spaces in the universe. Spaces that actually have space . At least space as humans usually consider it. And, that perhaps these rare spaces even have `time’. (Or, something liketime.)

Indeed, perhaps it’s best to begin with at least one definition of `the past’ by one of the world’s best thinkers about such subject matter - Sartre. To quote Sartre from page 280 of Being And Nothingness
 
      “The `this’ does not appear as a present which later will have to become past and which before that was future…. The moment I perceive it already exists in the three temporal dimensions” 

And, that is what The Heavy Stuff would like to speculate about some more - our perception - and its relation to space and to time -  and  even our relationship to reality. But, The Heavy Stuff would like to say a few more words about that one atom per cubic yard of `space’ — remember how `empty’ that atom is?

Remember, science tells us that the `space’ (distance) between sub-atomic particles is immense. Literally. So, that `occupied space’ of one atom per cubic yard is actually even more `empty’ of `real mass’ - real space. As the reader of The Heavy Stuff probably knows, sciences  current assumption is that there is some sort of  `kernel’ of real space at the core of the subatomic divisions.

Perhaps yes, perhaps no.

And, what does science say `fills’ the rest of this `empty space’ – THE ANSWER IS (we are told) is that virtual particles fill that space - `virtual spaces; form the broth of reality.

And, what do we know about OUR perceiving space that we `call’ our own consciousness — well, we know from the study of physics that everything we see represented in the now actually has already occurred and IS in the determined past -  that is - to our own perceiving `now’ eyes. The fact is - light simply `takes time’ (obviously, this duration is a representation of the `running off’ space) to reach us - from everything - even the light reflecting from our own body parts. Indeed, the only `thing’ that we can truly refer to as present is our own `now’ of perception.

(Now, this is not a regress into infinity. The `other spaces’ we see and are in close `space association with’ :ie: the clock on the wall, one’s spouse, the computer, your rock collection – are not only REAL in every sense of the word – just like we are real – THEY ARE THE ONLY SPACES THAT GIVE US LOCAL location and DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT – which is key to the feeling of realness at the human level. The other spaces provide our freewill TO US.)

Think about it.

The things we see - other people and objects - have predetermined spaces to offer for our perception - in exactly pre-determined points of space — and all these spaces have reference to each other - in addition to a relation with our perception of their space. Those spaces, to THS, have the overriding characteristic of being NOT ABLE TO BE -  they are unchangeable as they arrive at our perception. They are the `run-off’ of their actual `now’ spaces that they experience and are experiencing.

Yes,  IT IS TRUE, `future’ `now’s’ to us — determined future now’s — are also part of our `real present’  — we just can’t see them the `split moment’ into the future that they occupy already. Just before they `run off’ the phenomena source. The space.

Remember the Sartre quote above - `spaces’ ARRIVE with a past, a present, and a future, — only by thinking of spaces as a phase transition – gets one on-track to right thinking about this phenomenology. Specifically, The Heavy Stuff’s phenomenology positions that the Not-able-to-be transcends into an Able-to-not-be ——- literally, the space transforming into a timelike space that represents the spaces location `in reality’ (our own light reflection) — in an `area of common able-to-not-be spaces’ — that `when they combine by the FACT that real spaces are having real proximity’ CREATES A `TIMELINE’ OF NOT-ABLE-TO-NOT-BE’S. (Really, it’s a `space-line’.) What we all commonly think of as reality.

So, `Spaces’ first characteristic is having no beingness (ie; space’s defining attribute being Not able to be. Then, Space’s second characteristic is it’s runoff representation – the able to not be (part) of space. This is a (the) part of space that is `seen’ by consciousness’s within reality (as we have NO access to the real space of an object, seeing only the runoff light).

The last characteristic of space is that the able-to-not-be `runs off’ on `other spaces run off’ forming our real itself. (In a sense, reality is two steps from `the real now’ we as a space possess).

At this point, I’d like to draw the attention of readers of The Heavy Stuff to the nebulousness of `real’. IF the only reality that has freewill , the real real that is `with us’ only so to speak – that certainly elevates our thoughts as something directly connected to REAL. To real freewill space. Even if `thoughts’ are a `different’ type of space – they have that as an undeniable unique attribute.

Whereas, the space of our `runoff’ – being `one step beyond’ the `original space’ (even if being identical, simply having all the coordinates the `real one’ lacked) may not have that tangible connection that mind has with the real space we represent. Indeed, our runoff space – can’t move, can’t change, can’t do anything. Yet, it is our human spaces representation to reality itself. Can `things’ be this quirky? Apparently.

Then, finally, we see the moment, the space, and it is not the same as the not able to be representation we already are. The not able to not be vanishes behind a new runoff of not able to be representing real.  For more understanding of THS’s phenomenology go to www.whatisnotabletonotbeis.blogspot.com  - it’s at this blog that you can answer the fantastic question, What can be changed — the future, the past, the now, nothing, or everything. Quite a question, don’t you think?

When one looks at a reality structure that may be this basic in description – the possibility that `other types of spaces’ and `other types of real’s’ may indeed exist  - and may be perceivable – seems more plausible.  After all, we humans seem to be able to distinguish these `space phases’.

As readers of The Heavy Stuff know from previous posts, THS speculates that when a human dies (or any consciousness dies) it’s mind-space continues to occur – continues to have some representation in the able to not be (of spaces) (virtual spaces). On occasion, these not able to be `spaces’ could even `express’ (actualize) as a duration themselves.

Interestingly, these virtual spaces, the able to not be’s, (the times outside of spaces) present as a space when they occur - and this could be the very definition of anomalous phenomena. Able to not be’s expressing as not able to be’s.

These `virtual spaces’ could even be human consciousness spaces called tulpas – created by living humans (see several of my posts on Tulpas on this site, or find all my posts on www.squidoo.com/theheavystuff )———– or —— orbs — very small representations of `spaces’ NOT made by living humans – but, possibly representing a portion of one’s consciousness after death.

Or, the most dramatic of all doppelganger’s (while alive) or the full appearance of a `Ghost’ (when dead)  (the ultimate representation of this being the pilots of eastern flight 401). All of these phenomena represent an aspect of `real space’ — phenomena with origins in the able to not be space of reality.

NOTE however, these are not spaces with a connection of a REAL not able to be space within reality represented by atoms.  Which could be why all these etheral, esoteric, fleeting phenomena — don’t last within reality.

Has all this been heavy enough for you? THS would love to read your comments - nothing is too far out when commenting about phenomena. Or empty space.

To the thinking individual, several `paranormal’ phenomena are beginning to seem to have the same `origin’ or `ontology’ - (ontology is defined as a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being — or — a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of existent). Specifically, I am referring to the `spaces’ or descriptions of Tulpas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtform (best described by the previous wiki link), Orbs, and Zooforms — to which, this link is the best description http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/neil-arnold-the-interview/ . Sorry for taking you thru so much background links for this posting — but, this subject matter is not mainstream media like Bigfoot or Ufo’s — and my assumption is that many need to brush up on their understanding as to how these phenomena are described.

As regular readers know, The Heavy Stuff loves to position phenomenology as critical to understanding `strange phenomena’. Just as Einstein’s love of thought produced the simple equation E=MC(squared) — phenomenology also reduces `appearances’ and `phenomena’ to the most basic look at reality. To The Heavy Stuff, that means taking our reality right `down’ to its basic components of space and time (or what we call time). The Heavy Stuff has been positioning that those `words’ (space/time) — our most basic constitution of being — can be `described’ using some ontological terms.

The Heavy Stuff’s most complete description of the word `space’ can be found at the blog - http://whatisnotabletonotbe.blogspot.com — simply put — just as John Paul Sartre had words for space - time - and being — so does The Heavy Stuff. Whereas Sartre used concepts such as Being In Itself, Being For Itself and Being For Others — The Heavy Stuff has basic words to describe the biggest concepts for consciousness - namely, space - time - and - existence.

Specifically, The Heavy Stuff’s `concept’ for the very idea of `space’ - is that `Space’ IS —> NOT ABLE TO BE . The Heavy Stuff’s `concept’ for `time’ IS —-> ABLE TO NOT BE. And, The Heavy Stuff’s `concept’ for our reality/existence IS ——–> NOT ABLE TO NOT BE … The words (not able to not be) literally meaning  `something that is determined’ — and, obviously, our reality, the one that we experience in common with others,  is determined. That is because, all spaces, but our own, `come’ to us via light waves with their `runoff’ of space. What we see as NOW is NOT NOW as it `arrives’ via a manner which `tells’ us — it has already occurred - and comes to us as pre-determined light waves of information. Having a `space’ ourselves - gives us a particular `positioning/placement’ compared to every other thing in existence with a `space’ (or mass of an object).

I know your head might be spinning if you have never encountered phenomenology before — or if you did — you just wrote it off as a lot of mumbo-jumbo. As I mentioned before, phenomenology attempts to look at the very biggest `issues’ of being. The biggest issues to being human or  to having a consciousness.

And, the equivalent to `who made God’ - for phenomenology - is, `how could time have ever begun?’ — These phenomenological concepts that I will now try to describe - go right to the very very beginning so to speak.  Indeed, The Heavy Stuff begs your indulgence for the next several paragraphs  about the beginning of the phenomenology positioning of The Heavy Stuff.

At the very `beginning’ of experience there had to be the `potential’ for `reality’ or space/time to occur. But, it was just the potential for a reality - not the expression of that reality. There would have been a `oneness’ - a `sameness’ to all - everything. OR one could say, there was an ABLE TO BE in the beginning of the eternity `before’ the reality of space/time. But, eventually, (science would have us believe it was 13.7 billion years ago) the `oneness’ of ABLE TO BE was `forced’ to `accept’ one and perhaps two simultaneous `equal concepts’. BUT, since the ABLE TO BE was/is everything — the evolution of `beingness’ — the very ABLE TO BE itself — was not violated by having a `new’ description of `everything’.

And, that `new description’ literally — was the `explosion’ of the concept of `space-time’. The ABLE TO BE evolved INTO a `thing’ that turned out to be `space’ itself - and all the physical properties that describe the mass of space and elements.  Indeed, as opposed to GOD being ABLE TO BE (everything) — the first space — was able to NOT BE GOD  (to not-be `potential’, by actualizing space) — `it’ was to be able to have the ability to be NOT ABLE TO BE — it wasn’t GOD, it wasn’t `permanent’ -  it was `something else’ a `space’. A space which was NOT ABLE TO BE. It’s very definition and `appearance’  being its representation of `the space’s’ unique identity - it’s unique singularness.

Immediately, with the `invention’ of the `new’ concept — `that original space’ - would realize its `original relation to the original space that GOD or the ABLE TO BE possessed that was `different’ in concept. THAT event would be between `two spaces’ GOD, the able to be, and Space, the NOT able to be. Suddenly, reality had volume and texture - it had a BEFORE (in the able to be) and a `NOW’ in the `space’ of the NOT ABLE TO BE.

We are, indeed, speaking metamorphically about the beginning of consciousness of course. Be it God becoming aware of its parts — or Space becoming aware that it isn’t God. As this concept `expanded’ `space’ would be aware of even more than `the before of God’ — it, space, would be aware that `other spaces than it’ COULD BE. Those `other spaces’ other than God and Space. Space becoming more than one thing (first element changing into more elements?) — a `NEW’ concept beyond the NOT ABLE TO BE.

And, indeed, that concept is ABLE TO NOT BE ———– able to not be the NOT ABLE TO BE. A `new’ space - or beingness idea. Another way for God to `express and appear’ within the ABLE TO BE furnished as the basis for everything. It could be said that the ABLE TO NOT BE is TIME (in a sense) — or — the repeating of the being of space. The whole concept of time (able to not be) GIVES `space’ `somewhere’ to BE (now). OR, the ABLE TO NOT BE is the realization that space has being - expressed as duration.

The Heavy Stuff needs one more paragraph of indulgence from the reader to explain the final combining `concept’ of the Heavy Stuff’s phenomenology. Simply put — we aren’t quite at a real reality yet via the above descriptions of space and time and god. We need the phenomenology descriptions of reality itself. AND, the combining of NOT ABLE TO BE with the ABLE TO NOT BE —— became what is considered the REAL REALITY — THE NOT ABLE TO NOT BE — the determined. The reality we all see before us right now. Basic words to describe the segments which make up the determined reality all consciousness’s experience.

It takes all of those phenomenology words to begin to describe what today’s topic might be about - the topic being the similarity of Tulpas, Zooforms and Orbs.

Wikipedia describes Zooforms (thoughtforms) with words such as these:

These are not animals at all, but entities or apparitions which adopt or seem to have (quasi)animal form. This is where we (at least to some extent) enter science fictionterritory. In many ways, these elusive and contentious entities have plagued cryptozoology since its inception, and tend to be dismissed by mainstream science as thoroughly unworthy of consideration. Zooform phenomena seem to be a strange blend of paranormal manifestation and mythology…However, Jonathan Downeswho first coined the term in 1990, maintains that many zooform phenomena result from complex psychosocial and sociological phenomena, and suggests that to classify all such phenomena as “paranormal” in origin is counterproductive…Thoughtform may be understood as a ‘psychospiritual’ complexof energy or consciousness manifested either consciously or unconsciously, by an individual or a group. Thoughtform are understood differently and take on different forms in different traditions. Stated differently, a thoughtform, is a subtle objectification that may or may not have consciousness and self-determination. Thoughtform may be benevolent, malevolent or of complex alignment and may be understood as a spontaneous or intentional manifestation from a combination of willpower, bioenergy, discipline, chi, prana and/or astral or ætherial substance

Simply put, the Zooform is a `space’ with conscious identity - which does not `appear’ `normally’. Except for the fact that Ghosts have a real person identity - as opposed to a mythical beast (which has an identity that has been imagined) — the similarities are obvious — consciousness’s that are looking for a space to appear in within what we call reality.

Now, consider how similar the words Wikipedia uses for Tulpas:

A tulpa is, in Tibetan mysticism, a being or object which is created through willpower, visualisation, attention and focus, concerted intentionality and ritual. In other words, it is a materialized thought that has taken physical form….

There are… apparitions that make public appearances. Some of these are said to be the perceptible double—the etheric counterpart—of a living person who is undergoing an out-of-body experience. Even more mysterious are the externalized perceptible manifestations of something whose existence originated in the mind of its creator by virtue of that person’s incredible powers of concentration, visualization, and other, more occult, efforts of the mind. In Tibet, where such things are practiced, a ghost of this kind is called a tulpa. A tulpa is usually produced by a skilled magician or yogi, although in some cases it is said to arise from the collective imagination of superstitious villagers, say, or of travelers passing through some sinister tract of country.— Mysteries of the Unexplained, 1990, Reader’s Digest Association Inc. page 176

Note - Zooforms described as `entities..adopting a ..form’ and Tulpas being `a being developed thru attention and focus’. Much more simply — spaces; with definition; that can become real.Indeed, you can see above that the description of Tulpa’s goes to the point of the delivery of `etheric doubles’ of humans having out-of-the-body experiences. Is this really different than doppelgangers or the pilots of the flight of Eastern 401 appearing after `death’? Isn’t a `space’ with consciousness `something’ whether it is `seen’ or even `real’? Don’t our very thoughts fit this description?

Finally, there’s Orb’s (which I have written about before on The Heavy Stuff — BTW - you can catch all of the topic in one easy place with my website www.squidoo.com/theheavystuff ) — again - here’s Wikipedia’s words: The opposing school maintains that orbs are paranormal in nature, i.e. non-naturalistic and ghost like…That orb photos can be gained anywhere has, however, been adopted into the position of conspiracy theorists who maintain that orbs are probes/devices being used by an alien culture to monitor human activities…

The Heavy Stuff knows that readers seek some bottom line - some bottom truth. The truth of these phenomena is that they are part of the `space’ spectrum. The end of the `space spectrum’ these entities exist within does not normally interact with `normal’ space - normal space with real mass. But, DOES seem to interact with the `conscious’ part of humans - the `part’ of humans that is able-to-not-be at a given moment. The `extra’ part of us all - our attention and awareness to space forms that are not our own space. While usually, this is ONLY our own thoughts (and the spaces involved with those thoughts) - our thoughts are not bound to us. Evidently, that space of us is connected to `something more’ than this reality of determined spaces. It is connected to sequences of spaces that could be interpreted as paranormal. And, evidently, when that happens — with intentionality’s from either side of space (the beyond of non-spaces and the here of real spaces) — the events can actually appear and be seen. Such as the rare Ghost appearance, such as the rare Tulpa appearance, such as the very rare appearance with `full space’ such as the pilots of Flight 401.

But, for the same reason that they appear (the ability to project the not-able-to-be space that they are) as an able-to-not-be in our reality - is the reason they `can’t continue’ and simply `pop’ out of existance  when they exhaust their own `energy’ of `showing as a space’ - as a not-able-to-be. More simply put, the able-to-not-be of our thoughts, our time, (in a sense) - `peter out’ - as they fade of `space’ - the very thoughts themselves. We create `spaces’ not-able-to-be’s — as we think. `Spaces’ that often influence how our real space moves - that seem to have a position.

But, they fade - just like human will. So too do Zooforms, Tulpas and Orbs fade - the moment they no longer have a space to influence the not able to not be. The consensus of determination does not allow for the continued existence of entities based on something other than the not-able-to-be. To exist INTO the future one (any space) must have a now AND a past — tulpas, orbs and zooforms - project INTO the present but instead of `running off’ into the future - those entities `run off’ into the past (really, they run off into the other - the able-to-not-be) not connected to the real future.

More Heavy thoughts soon - thanks for reading. Would love for you to visit my anomaly site at www.squidoo.com/anomalyman