Survival: who needs it?

by Stephen J.M. Bray

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Bill Bernback a man who lived without ostentation, and organized his time with self-discipline,  which is rare among heads of advertising agencies, claimed:

"Human nature hasn't changed for a billion years. It won't even vary for the next billion years. Only the superficial things have changed. It's fashionable to talk about changing man. A communicator must be concerned with unchanging man - what compulsions drive him, what instincts dominate his every action, even though his language too often camouflages what really motivates him. For if you know these things about a man, you can touch him at the core of his being."

The British Electoral System is often called a 'simple majority' system.

To win a constituency a candidate requires more votes than any other candidate in order to win. A 'true majority' system would mean that they would need more votes than all the other candidates put together.

The Book of Revelation 6:12-14  states: "When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale; the sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place . . ."

Science holds that every person is the Observer and within the laws of quantum physics, every person's intent, thought, and desire, affects the quantum field.  This is interpreted by some people to mean that focused intent can affect the quantum field sufficiently to precipitate a world predicated upon that intent.

In the book Illusions, the author Richard Bach gives the example of a man focussing upon the visualization of a blue feather. Within a short time the blue feather turns up as a brand name on a carton of milk.

Fortunately Illusions is a work of fiction for if each of us truly had the power to manifest the world of our desires, then it would be sensible to do more to secure our future and the future of our children.

And it would matter profoundly that according to research 45% of Americans believe that Armageddon is immanent; since such focussed belief would guarantee the precipitation of the destruction of our planet as described in the Book of Revelation.

This assumes, of course, that the laws of quantum physics can be interpreted  as being a simple majority voting system, which uses an individual's focussed intent and belief as a means to cast their vote for or against Armageddon.

The idea of Armageddon is probably engraved in the history of our planet, as much as within the pages of the Book of Revelation.

The eruption of 2,800 cubic km of magma at Toba caldera 75,000 years ago was the largest volcanic eruption in the last 2 million years.

Such an eruption would bring about conditions similar to those described in the Book of Revelation.

Satellite view of Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia

The American Continent has its own caldera at Yellowstone National Park. Red hot magma 8,000 metres below Yellowstone has been building up since the last eruption and is fed from below. It is now 50 Km long, 30 Km wide and 10 Km deep.

The area north of the Yellowstone Lake has bulged upwards by almost a metre since 1955.  The forest is slowly becoming flooded on one side of the lake  as the land rises on the other.

Three footpaths have been closed due to an increase in volcanic activity in the Park.

Eruptions similar to the eruption at Toba have taken place at Yellowstone 2 million years ago; 1.3 million years ago; and 63 thousand years ago.

A similar explosion would plunge much of North America into darkness for and fill the atmosphere with poisonous gasses and chemical debris.

Zircon and quartz data however show Yellowstone caldera to be in a waning cycle, which some find surprising given the regularity of previous eruptions, and the increase in volcanic movement in the area.

"The zircon and quartz tell us that rocks near the surface were altered by heated snow and rainwater. These rocks were then re-melted to become magmas", says published expert on the Yellowstone phenomenon Ilya Bindeman. 

This suggests that the current volcanic cycle in Yellowstone is on the wane, but does not exclude  a possibility of the future eruption on the order of 100thousand years as a result of the new cycle.

If, as some believe, we live by the grace of a god who is separated from our essential Self and who can command nature so as to snuff out life, and liberty at will, then little can be done to change the course of history.

In such a universe humankind cannot survive, but instead must be obliterated in the explosion of Yellowstone, or some other caldera.

In which case what does a little global warming, or the pollution of our rivers and seas matter? Let's make hay whilst the sun shines through a relatively clear sky.

On the other hand if those crazy quantum mechanics are right then the united ability to focus on a better life, for ourselves if not for our fellows, must be the best antidote to even the most regular of calderas, (for sure sane science doesn't know how to prevent such an explosion).

People who believe this world to be Paradise will experience it as such, and seek to preserve it reverently.

Amit Goswami, Professor of Physics at the University of Oregon holds that the paradoxes of quantum physics can be resolved by the assumption that Consciousness is the ground of being.

Philosopher Nathan Gill asks: "If there is only Consciousness then right now you must be That and everything else that appears in and as awareness must also be That, including any sense of separate self. Any appearance of mundane, ordinary existence can be no less of Consciousness than any appearance of unconditional love, wholeness, bliss, stillness, silence or anything else."

Survival, who needs it? 

Stephen Bray was born in Dorset and educated at Blandford Grammar School, and Universities in Plymouth, Manchester, Santa Cruz and London. He currently lives in Turkey. Trained in the arts of dynamic therapy, family therapy, gestalt, process oriented psychology and NLP, he now spends his time supporting those who wish to help others. Details of his work and his contact information may be found at http://www.quietquality.com/
Email: stephenbray@quietquality.com