Explanation Of The Ether

Is anything faster than the speed of light?

Yes, the speed of Thought.

Light is an electromagnetic radiation that travels in a wave form, exciting atom after atom in turn to pass the information on as to the frequency of each particular wavelength, red, blue, yellow, or light may travel in a stream of particles, whatever.

All of this happens fast, in fact, in one year light will travel six million million miles, that is VERY fast but nowhere near as fast as the speed of thought. If you and I were telepathic, and one of us were six million million miles away and I sent you a thought, you would receive it immediately . Now, THAT is fast. The same conversation with flashlight, even a very powerful one picking out Morse code, would take a very long time.

As mentioned earlier, light travels in a coarse zig-zag time-consuming manner as any scientist will tell you but how does thought travel and through what medium? I'll try to explain. Do you remember the chrome ball bearings, each suspended in a line of 5 or 6 - it makes no difference how many - and when you pull one out from either end and let it go, the one on the other end instantly pops out? That is how thought travels.

The use of the ball bearings is only a simile, but what is it that these ball bearings represent? the answer to this is: ether.

Not the substance used by doctors for cleansing, but the stuff that is known to modern science as the space between particles. Space between particles?

At this point a few well known scientific facts must be stated.

Fact 1. A block of iron is about as solid as you can get but iron, the same as everything else, is composed of atoms. An atom has a nucleus surrounded by protons and electrons that spin around it. The size of the nucleus in proportion to the electrons and protons is about the same as between the Sun and the planets. Scientists know this to be fact.

As you can appreciate, there is a lot of space between these particles. This space is called the ether. Sound waves, radio and TV transmissions all pass quite happily through solid objects because they are at a different frequency - or level of vibration. If we could project ourselves to the frequency of TV, Radio or mobile phones, the air would be full of these signals and we would know what they look like.

Fact 2. Humans - and everything that has 'life' - has an etheric body which looks identical to the physical body but functions at a higher frequency. In fact, it is at the same frequency as the ether. Could this be where it derives it's name? Scientists know that we are electromagnetic in origin. Most advanced medical tests assess electrical impulses in the brain and elsewhere in the body to find areas of activity or lack of it that may be causing a problem. Our thoughts register activity in the brain. This activity can be seen with modern medical equipment but not the 'thought' itself. The thought operates at an even higher frequency but it is quite real. The thought registers in the ether.

Because Mankind has been denied Spiritual knowledge for so long, this sixth sense has become under developed and under used by most people. However, don't worry, there is no chance of it 'falling of.' I say most people because some do develop this awareness. Most Governments have as part of their security department, remote viewers.

These are people who learn and then train how to tune in to this higher vibration by the use of meditation, or other mental protocols, and travel through the ether to spy on each other and on selected targets.

There are many books on this subject written by well-respected people. Many well0known mediums, Doris Stokes, Stephen O'Brian, etc, as well as healers like Harry Edwards, Sia Baba and of course Jesus, all used this facility.

So, where is it? It is here, all around us but we cannot see it because it is at a different vibration or frequency...just like radio or TV signals. So what? you may say.

Back to the speed of thought. In the ether, thought is reality. It is transferred instantly through the ether because everything is ether at that level, including you and your surroundings. Remember the chrome ball bearings? Because the balls are touching, energy is transferred from number 1 to number 7 instantly,there is no loss of time...just as in the ether. The balls don't go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 - they go 1-7 in-out...step in #1 and step out #7.

In this environment our selves are ether. If we want to go to the planet Mars, we simply think it and it happens. Think Mars 1 and arrive on Mars 2. The distance doesn't matter. All this happens because we are in the ether and are part of it... all the same substance.

Moving on to sound...which is found in a much lower vibrational level than light - and therefore travels much slower because it uses a physical medium to travel through: air or solids.

If one could increase the frequency of the sound to closer to that of light, then it could travel at closer to the speed of light...the perfect example is radio.

It has happened already, if man can do this with sound then the possibilities for other things are there. The British lad who hacked into U.S. military computers said they were developing a craft that had an engine that worked on VIBRATION. He did not know how, or if, it worked only that it was being developed.

What Is The Ether And How Does It Work?

The article by Sir Oliver Lodge describes the ether as being one million million times more dense than water, and that one cubic inch would weigh a million tons if it were material in atom form that we are familiar with. That brings us to a conclusion that I will expand upon after these following pieces of information.

An article in the Psychic News by an eminent doctor tells us that any - and every - cell in the body has the ability to manufacture any enzyme or hormone that is needed for the well-being of its host. Every body carries the cancer potential but the process is just waiting to be turned on or of. The mechanism that controls these functions is the DNA.

The DNA, acting on instruction from a source of intelligence, instructs the cell to manufacture or activate. It isn't known weather the cell has the blueprint or is just following the recipe given to it by the D.N.A., the important thing to note is that the cell has access to supreme intelligence and the ability to arrange, at the atomic level, the protons and electrons, etc. in the right order to have the desired effect. In short, creation is taking place courtesy of the intelligence that it has access to. Silver Birch once said "a cell does two trillion things a second, you could not hope to understand."

One more thing. It is always said "as above, so below." On a modern computer you can save lots of pictures but comparatively little sound. The reason for this is that pictures contain one dimensional images with little information: this dot is blue that dot is yellow. Sound, on the other hand, is three dimensional at least, with instrument, definition, volume, and tone depth etc. ...and takes up vastly more computer memory.

This is how I believe it works in the ether.

If you were one side of the room and I on the other, the space between us would be filled with air atoms. These atoms are one million million times LESS dense than the ether. The ether is a solid block of intelligence but still a solid block that material bodies do not penetrate. What happens is this...

Just as on a TV when images move across the screen, the dots or pixels are told what color to be at any given time. And so it is with our bodies...but in three dimensions.

Each 'molecule' of ether receives the information from the individual bodily intelligence as to what it will be at any given time. Cells, as we know, can create and change substance at will, and it is this will...this intelligence...that travels through the ether giving the illusion of movement.

Physical mass does not move, only the information of the swirling mass of atoms that make it what it is.

As the metal in the electric cable waits for the electricity to pass along it, so, too does the ether wait for energy and intelligence to pass though it.

All that exists has life...and a level of intelligence of mind that defines its identity and integrity at an atomic level - be it a stone, a book or a human body. A chair, even though it is 'inanimate', is still a swirling mass of atomic mind. All that has form has intelligence that is life itself.

In the article by Sir Oliver Lodge, he describes how light, if it were not to reflect on anything would be invisible at least to the naked eye. All we see is the reaction of light. So it is with matter: we register only the reaction of individual intelligence with our five senses.

Thought and life itself in the spiritual realms transcend these limitations for we then become part of the ether, part of this supreme intelligence that knows all. And if we want to go to the planet Mars, we just think the intention and step out the reaction, however many million miles away.

     

Artificial Intelligence - End of jobs or a new beginning?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing so rapidly that even its developers are being caught off guard. Google co-founder Sergey Brin said in Davos, Switzerland, in January that it “touches every single one of our main projects, ranging from search to photos to ads … everything we do … it definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.”

Intelligent machines are taking over thousands of jobs, and being qualified is no longer enough to keep your job. Earlier this year, consulting firm McKinsey and Co. released a study that said 51% of all jobs could be automated in the next 20 years. Even specialized professions like medicine, law and banking are feeling the heat of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A few months ago, investment bank JP Morgan made the news by introducing intelligent machines to review financial deals that once kept employees busy for thousands of hours. Diagnostics and other decision-making skills previously thought of as the exclusive preserve of human beings, will soon be better handled by machines

The long-promised AI, the stuff we’ve seen in science fiction, is coming and we need to be prepared. Today, AI is powering voice assistants such as Google Home, Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri, allowing them to have increasingly natural conversations with us and manage our lights, order food and schedule meetings. Businesses are infusing AI into their products to analyse the vast amounts of data and improve decision-making. In a decade or two, we will have robotic assistants that remind us of Rosie from “The Jetsons” and R2-D2 of “Star Wars.”

This has profound implications for how we live and work, for better and worse. AI is going to become our guide and companion — and take millions of jobs away from people. We can deny this is happening, be angry or simply ignore it. But if we do, we will be the losers. As I discussed in my new book, “Driver in the Driverless Car,” technology is now advancing on an exponential curve and making science fiction a reality. We can’t stop it. All we can do is to understand it and use it to better ourselves — and humanity.

Rosie and R2-D2 may be on their way but AI is still very limited in its capability, and will be for a long time. The voice assistants are examples of what technologists call narrow AI: systems that are useful, can interact with humans and bear some of the hallmarks of intelligence — but would never be mistaken for a human.  They can, however, do a better job on a very specific range of tasks than humans can. I couldn’t, for example, recall the winning and losing pitcher in every baseball game of the major leagues from the previous night.

Narrow-AI systems are much better than humans at accessing information stored in complex databases, but their capabilities exclude creative thought.  If you asked Siri to find the perfect gift for your mother for Valentine’s Day, she might make a snarky comment but couldn’t venture an educated guess. If you asked her to write your term paper on the Napoleonic Wars, she couldn’t help. That is where the human element comes in and where the opportunities are for us to benefit from AI — and stay employed.

Nearly 20 years ago, in 1997 former world chess champion Garry Kasparov had played chess against IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue. The match was a watershed for AI and an extraordinary technical feat. Strangely, although Kasparov lost, it left me more in awe of the incredible capabilities of the human brain than of the machine. His account of the Deep Blue match itself is fascinating. Famously, Kasparov stormed out of one game and gave antagonistic press conferences in which he protested against IBM’s secrecy around the Deep Blue team and its methods, and insinuated that the company might have cheated.

 In Deep Thinking, Kasparov offers an engaging insight into his psychological state during the match. To a degree, he walks back on his earlier claims, concluding that although IBM probably did not cheat, it violated the spirit of fair competition by obscuring useful information.

Then, he sets out the details of that titanic event in his book Deep Thinking.

In his book, he acknowledges that he is a sore loser but was clearly traumatised by having a machine outsmart him. He was aware of the evolution of the technology but never believed it would beat him at his own game. After coming to grips with his defeat, 20 years later, he says fail-safes are required … but so is courage.

Kasparov wrote: “When I sat across from Deep Blue twenty years ago I sensed something new, something unsettling. Perhaps you will experience a similar feeling the first time you ride in a driverless car, or the first time your new computer boss issues an order at work. We must face these fears in order to get the most out of our technology and to get the most out of ourselves. Intelligent machines will continue that process, taking over the more menial aspects of cognition and elevating our mental lives toward creativity, curiosity, beauty, and joy. These are what truly make us human, not any particular activity or skill like swinging a hammer — or even playing chess.”

In other words, we better get used to it and ride the wave.

In Deep Thinking, Kasparov also delves into the renaissance of machine learning. He highlights the radical differences between Deep Blue and AlphaGo, a learning algorithm created by my company DeepMind to play the massively complex game of Go. In March 2016, AlphaGo defeated 18-time world champion Lee Sedol, widely hailed as the greatest player of the past decade.

Whereas Deep Blue followed instructions carefully honed by a crack team of engineers and chess professionals, AlphaGo played against itself repeatedly, learning from its mistakes and developing novel strategies. Several of its moves against Lee had never been seen in human games, which upended centuries of traditional Go wisdom by playing on the fifth line early in the game.

Most excitingly, because its learning algorithms can be generalized, AlphaGo holds promise far beyond the game for which it was created. Kasparov relishes this potential, discussing applications from machine translation to automated medical diagnoses. AI will not replace humans, he argues, but will enlighten and enrich us. His position is especially notable coming from someone who would have every reason to be bitter about AI’s advances.

Human superiority over animals is based on our ability to create and use tools. The mental capacity to make things that improved our chances of survival led to a natural selection of better toolmakers and tool users. Nearly everything a human does involve technology. For adding numbers, we used abacuses and mechanical calculators and now spreadsheets. To improve our memory, we wrote on stones, parchment and paper, and now have disk drives and cloud storage.

AI is the next step in improving our cognitive functions and decision-making.

Think about it: When was the last time you tried memorizing your calendar or Rolodex or used a printed map? Just as we instinctively do everything on our smartphones, we will rely on AI. We may have forfeited skills such as the ability to add up the price of our groceries but we are smarter and more productive. With the help of Google and Wikipedia, we can be experts on any topic, and these don’t make us any dumber than encyclopedias, phone books and librarians did.

A valid concern is that dependence on AI may cause us to forfeit human creativity. As Kasparov observes, the chess games on our smartphones are many times more powerful than the supercomputers that defeated him, yet this didn’t cause human chess players to become less capable — the opposite happened. There are now stronger chess players all over the world, and the game is played in a better way.

Adaptation, Resiliency & Risk-Taking

 “No matter how many people are worried about jobs, or the social structure, or killer machines, we can never go back,” he concludes.

Kasparov’s intelligent advice in his book is worth quoting at length:

“The willingness to keep trying new things — different methods, uncomfortable tasks — when you are already an expert at something is what separates good from great. Focusing on your strengths is required for peak performance, but improving your weaknesses has the potential for the greatest gains. This is true for athletes, executives, and entire companies. Leaving your comfort zone involves risk, however, and when you are already doing well the temptation to stick with the status quo can be overwhelming, leading to stagnation.”

Disrupting Education

Kasparov is particularly concerned about how a deep underlying conservatism and resistance to experimentation has become a chronic problem within the traditional educational system. “The prevailing attitude is that education is too important to take risks. My response is that education is too important not to take risks,” he says.

Kasparov says, even though they often receive little encouragement from the older guard, who often still resist the new methods of learning. “We need to find out what works and the only way to do that is to experiment,” he argues. “The kids can handle it. They are already doing it on their own. It’s the adults who are afraid.”

Learning by Doing

 “There will be redistribution of jobs. Many jobs today — like drone operators or 3D printer managers or social media managers — they didn’t exist 10 years ago, 15 years ago. No doubt in 10, 15 years, there will be many jobs, maybe the best-paid jobs, that don’t exist today, and we don’t even know how these jobs will look. I think that’s natural. All we have to do is realize that this process is inevitable, and we have to prepare us mentally, but also to have some sort of safety cushions to help people that will have great difficulty in adjusting.”

Much like looking out over the chessboard and pondering the wisdom of our next move, we cannot be frozen into inaction because of fear. We must be willing to make that next move. And then another, and another. And then we must learn from our experiences, and especially our mistakes, if we hope to prosper. “To keep ahead of the machines, we must not try to slow them down because that slows us down as well,”

Kasparov concludes in his closing chapter. “We must speed them up. We must give them, and ourselves, plenty of room to grow. We must go forward, outward, and upward.” -Wise advice from the greatest of all grandmasters.

Yuga Theory from book -The Holy Science

Sri Yukteswar's Insight on Yugas

In the introduction of his book 'The Holy Science' in 1894, Sri Yukteswar explains the basis of Yugas and corrects the general perception that the present age is Kali Yuga. He explains with examples that we have entered Dwapara Yuga and human consciousness is gradually ascending.

Basis of Yugas 

The basis of Yugas is the celestial movement of the planets. Because of the inherent magnetism involved in planet movement, the effect of this magnetic attraction changes along with the movement. The change in magnetic field influences the human consciousness. As the planets move in cycles, consciousness also moves in cycles, from a low to high and then again from a high to low. Yugas are divided into four - based on the evolution of this consciousness.

Sri Yukteswar mentions that according to oriental astronomy:

• Our earth and other planets move around the sun and the sun moves around a dual (Aakash Ganga) along with its planets. Present science has not discovered this dual yet though there were some observations about a second sun in the universe.
• The sun also has another movement, it moves around a grand center called Vishnu Nabhi, the divine source of magnetism.
• One revolution of sun around it's dual as well as grand center takes 24000 years.
• During this movement, when the sun is nearer to the grand center the intellect of the Universe is fully developed and when it is far most, the intellect is least. This happens in a cycle depending on the revolving motion of the sun and each half cycle of ascending or descending takes 12000 years.
• This half cycle of 12000 years is divided into 4 yugas with varying periods as below:

The 4 Yugas

The four yugas are as follows:

1. Kali Yuga: The first in the cycle with least consciousness. The duration is 1200 years. As mentioned above, here the sun is far away from the grand center or Vishnu Nabhi.

2. Dwapara yuga: Consciousness evolves to first level and the human consciousness can understand electric and magnetic properties of nature. We are presently at this stage. Proper Dwapara Yuga started in 1899 and we can find that after that, there have been many developments in the areas of electricity, electromagnetic waves, computers, internet and telecommunications. The duration of Dwapara Yuga is 2400 years.

3. Treta Yuga: Consciousness evolves further and human beings can understand the magnetism of celestial forces and how they influence the universe, our relationship with higher consciousness etc. The duration of Treta Yuga is 3600 years.

4. Satya Yuga: The sun is nearest to the grand center in its cycle and so magnetism is highest. In this age, the consciousness gradually develops to the full and human being can comprehend every subtle energy at the peak of Satya Yuga. The duration of Satya Yuga is 4800 years.

The above four yugas form one half cycle consisting of 12000 years (1200+2400+3600+4800). As the cycle continues, again Yugas retreat in the reverse order and consciousness also drops. This cycle continues. Minsobooks made an effort to represent this movement in the following diagram: 

Some examples for the Yuga or consciousness cycle

We have heard about pyramids in Egypt and wonder how they were built when there was no technology developed. Or in India how yoga and chakra system was developed and how saints got deep insights about the nature of the creation. In China, acupressure was developed long ago, based on the internal energy of the body and how to treat diseases based on the energy circulation. Many more such developments across the world surprise us as we generally think that human beings must have a lower intellect in the 'past'.

The truth related to the examples above, is, they happened in a different yuga when the consciousness was higher in the cycle. Approximately AD 500 was least in the cycle and this explains crucifixion of Christ due to ignorance when the level of consciousness was very low.

Does this mean that we are puppets of time?

Absolutely not. Time has an inherent influence on us but we also have a free will to put effort and develop our understanding and consciousness. We can't take the excuse of time or yugas for our bad or unreasonable deeds.

Infact, astrology also developed based on the same celestial movements. However human beings got the power to use the mind and will power to get better and we need not resign to our fate dictated by astrology. Sri Yukteswar who himself, was a great astrologist said 'Superstitious awe of astrology makes one an automation, slavishly dependent on mechanical guidance. The wise man defeats his planets - which is to say his past'. Read more about Sri Yukteswar's views on astrology.

The message is very clear. It is helpful to know the understanding of external influences like Yuga cycle. However we need to put our own effort to develop our consciousness instead of depending upon the time.

Kali yuga

Many believe that this is Kali Yuga. Being the end of four Yugas, it is also believed that Kali Yuga is end of the world. Does this mean there is a truth in end of the world ?

• This is not Kali Yuga but we are in the ascending Dwapara Yuga as Sri Yukteswar explained. That means our consciousness is gradually increasing.
• The four yugas are in a cycle. Even when it is end of the cycle in Kaliyuga, another cycle starts  again with ascending Kali Yuga, Dwapara Yuga etc.
• Any division of Yugas or any calendar does not indicate a strict cut-off by date - just as we say winter comes in December does not mean it actually starts on December 1st. Because of this Sri Yukteswar explains that the change from one Yuga to another, or a shift in consciousness, is a gradual transition and the transition period is called Sandhi (Sandhi literally means conjunction or connection in Sanskrit, in this case represents the transition period. Every Yuga has 10% transition period on both sides).
• Because the present Yuga is in ascending cycle of consciousness, the end of the world is not near by. However it seems that the references to end of a cycle in the Mayan calendar do indicate a major shift in the consciousness which already started happening.