{"id":148,"date":"2018-12-12T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2018-12-12T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T16:05:42","slug":"no-tresspassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"No Tresspassing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you are on a farm. You don\u2019t want any of the hippies from the fairground to cross the road and come onto your property. So you get a couple of pieces of wood from the barn, some paint from the shed, and you create a \u201cNo Trespassing\u201d sign. Black letters on white background. Or, more abstractly, a red circle with a line through the middle.<br \/>\nYou walk on down the dirt road to the gate, and hammer the sign into the dirt by the highway. Several days later, someone hurries across the highway and stops before your sign.<br \/>\nMaterialist neuroscientists claim that the flow of chemicals in the brain, combined with the electronic activity of the neurons is what thought is. Nothing else. Purely physical.<br \/>\nSo, how does that electro-chemical activity that they can associate with the idea, \u201cNo Trespassing\u201d, exist for days as mere paint and wood, and then suddenly become the electro-chemical activity in the receiver\u2019s brain? <strong>Where was the idea in the interim?<\/strong><br \/>\nTake this concept and apply it to modern day physics. Think of the \u201cNo Trespassing\u201d sign as a marker on the boundary of the known physical universe that you are not supposed to cross. We call that \u201cc,\u201d the speed of light. Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. \u201cThou shalt not go supraluminal.\u201d<br \/>\nScience claims, and has experiments to prove, that as a traveler approaches the speed of light his mass increases and time slows down.<br \/>\nSo what would happen if you could travel faster than the speed of light? If you dared to trespass. Would time stop entirely? Would it cease to exist? Isn\u2019t that eternity?<br \/>\nWhat if the place where ideas exist, is the place beyond the speed of light? Then ideas would be eternal. Platonic shadows?<br \/>\nMankind has been thinking for a very long time. If all those thoughts actually exist forever in some \u201cspiritual universe,\u201d what form do they take? Are all our thoughts collected into a package called the soul? We haven\u2019t really forgotten what we had for dinner last night. The entire experience is out there waiting for us.<br \/>\nBut ideas are not always personal, nor unique. Everyone has similar thoughts: love, hate, curiosity, jealousy, pride. Everyone has dreams and nightmares. So maybe the personal thoughts associated with individual souls permeate the \u201cspiritual universe,\u201d combining and disintegrating like weather in some collective unconscious.<br \/>\nWhat we need is a map of this \u201cspiritual universe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you are on a farm. You don\u2019t want any of the hippies from the fairground to cross the road and come onto your property. So you get a couple of pieces of wood from the barn, some paint from the shed, and you create a \u201cNo Trespassing\u201d sign. Black letters on white background. Or, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}