Welcome back, welcome back, you wonderful people who matter so very, very much.
I'm W.S.
Walker and you're doing really great so far.
And so it's time once again for us to empty our cups, to mull over the riddle, what is
the instinctual sound that we make when we love, plug in what I have to say today and
see if my tea has worth.
Now we went over the cacophony, right, and how much we affect each other.
And today we're going to talk about two more ways that we're linked, though I could see
some seconders arguing that it's just the one with two different names.
But we're also going to delve into a problem that has plagued our kind, trying to humanize
God, you know, bring him into our terms and our concepts.
And we're going to jump into something kind of mind blowing there.
Anyways, empty your cups, everybody.
Let's go in.
Chapter three, how God gods.
Now we've spent a fair amount of time talking about, well, time.
And I believe that most people's perception of time gets in the way of them being able
to relate to how God does what God does, or how God gods, if you will.
If God created all of this, then God would not be subject to the laws of all of this.
I think that far too many people without really thinking about it, place God in a position
in which he exists in the same way that we do within time.
Well, it's far more likely that God would exist outside of time.
From what I've seen, God likely makes small adjustments to the past to become help in
the present.
Have you ever had help come from an unexpected place?
Sure, it almost never arrives when we expect it to, which is right now would be good about
90% of the time.
But when we ask for that help, it comes when and where it's needed.
And you'll never see what the first domino tipped by God was that led to the domino you
actually needed landing in your lap exactly when you needed it to.
Now this typically wildly differs from what our idea of the help we needed was.
Well, God knows what opportunities are ahead in every single decision you could make.
He knows which ones are ultimately bad ideas, though they seem like good ideas at the time.
He knows the roads available.
He knows where they lead.
He knows what could guide you, and he knows what will help and when it will help.
And not every time is right this moment.
I think another hurdle that gets in the way of belief is the argument slash paradox of
free will versus God's plan.
The argument essentially boils down to if human beings have free will and can choose
to do whatever they want, how could God possibly have a plan?
If God does have a plan, then aren't we adherent to it?
And do we even have a choice?
Well, I think it's the word plan that people get hung up on.
What if we gave God a little more credit and say it's probable that he doesn't have to
plan like we plan?
That each of the possibilities that we get to decide on with our free will is a path
and an infinitely complex plan that includes all paths available.
We have the ability to choose which route we take as each fork in the road occurs.
And God, who built the paths in the first place, has likely bottlenecked certain paths
to arrive at things that we need to happen as a whole, specific choices that we need
to come to in our own individual lives, and events that we need to happen in the course
of human history.
In this way, there is no paradox.
God designed the possible paths and we choose which ones we take.
And you can ask for directions, literally any time, from the greatest navigator in the
world.
But just don't expect to get them until you need to turn.
Now it's rather humbling to realize and understand that we're typically kind of wrong when it
comes to knowing what it is we want in life.
How many parents have told the tale of how from a very specific moment of interacting
with their child, they realized that they would do anything for this child, that family
is everything and everything else is just noise?
Only God knows which great fulfilling paths are which, which ones are ahead, and how you
can get to them from wherever it is that you are.
He's the only navigator that knows what it is that you desire most, and likely you don't
even know it yet.
They may be your paths, but God put them there for you, literally shaped every single possible
path you can take.
And you, you get to choose how you choose them.
I can tell you for a fact that the absolute most cherished moments and people and accomplishments
that I've experienced, I had no idea that I had always wanted them more than anything
else.
I just didn't know about them until I traveled the paths that led to them, and the funny
thing about that is, the ones that led to the things that I treasured above all others,
were usually the result of acting with some form of love or kindness.
Quite a lot of this centers on the people around you, small interactions to large, we're
linked in so many more ways than we understand.
There seems to be some kind of network that links every person on the planet, and probably
any that are off of it at the moment.
After all, quantum networks care very little about things such as distance.
Let me ask you, have you ever heard of the hundredth monkey?
For anyone that hasn't, in 1953, five well-respected primatologists, meaning they work with primates,
were observing a troop on the Japanese island of Yoshima.
The monkeys were Japanese macaques and pretty bright, and after a while the observers decided
to help the monkeys with provisions and left wheat and sweet potatoes out in the open for
them.
One of the female young discovers that she can wash the dirt and grit off the potatoes
by taking them down to the river, and her playmates and her mother soon learn the trick
from her.
Now, this was unique because when it comes to all matters of how to eat, it's typically
the elders that are the teachers and the young that are the students, and the only adults
that knew how to wash their potatoes were the ones that learned it from their young.
And then, one day, an adult learned the trick from a youngin, as per usual.
And suddenly, it was like a damn brook.
Every single monkey in the troop suddenly knew how to perform this washing.
Not only that, but the same behavior suddenly began to be recorded by other researchers
on other islands watching other colonies, and it was even seen on the mainland performed
by a troop in Takasaki-ama.
Now, sadly, the resulting paper written on the phenomenon was immediately discredited
by peers that mainly attacked the author for his gung-ho-ness towards the idea that this
incident showed some kind of quantum interconnection.
There's an intangible network that links all things.
This network defies non-theoretical traditional physics.
It exists on a level that we can't see.
It can only detect, and really only by way of its footprints, so to speak.
This network doesn't seem to be affected by distance or time because it operates free
of our limitations of space and time.
And we've seen countless amounts of evidence of this.
And recently, two brilliant men have stumbled across quantum networking happening in our
brains.
Sir Roger Penrose, a highly esteemed mathematical physicist, and Stuart Hameroff, a groundbreaking
neuroscientist.
These two gentlemen have noticed that when the human brain enters the thought process,
neural pathways line up, racing up and down one line over here, and then suddenly firing
a continuation over there, jumping from hemisphere to hemisphere instantaneously, with no indication
of having any kind of signal physically traveling from here to there to link them.
One moment it's over here, the next boom, over there, instantly.
There's no physical connection between the two pathways, and yet they fire in perfect
succession.
Sure, it's less than a foot's distance, but literally nothing travels the distance.
They believe that there's this quantum mind that relays the signals.
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, take a look at the fluctuations of the magnetometers
that have been placed all over the world to measure any changes in the Earth's magnetic
field.
Around 8 to 10 a.m. New York time, you see this dip happen in the readouts, and then
you see this huge jump off.
An absolutely insane spike happened.
And what's even crazier is it happens on all of the machines.
They all register it, and then you see it reverberate downwards, and in almost all of
them, they have the exact same structure of the little dip, and even like the same kind
of bumpy landscape.
For reference, the first tower collapsed at 9.59 a.m. EDT, and the north tower collapsed
at 10.28 a.m. EDT.
Nearly everyone was watching at this point.
So when the first tower fell, a great swell of empathy twisted inside a huge portion of
the Earth's population.
The feeling of stepping in the dark through a stair that you thought was there was felt
by so many people at the same time, thanks to a near-instant global communications network,
and at least nine machines spread out all over the world felt it too.
With so many people's attention being so focused on one event, it reverberated through the
very fabric of reality.
It rippled outward through something that was attached to everything without regard
for space or time.
We are all connected in ways that are not evident by way of the visible light spectrum.
This existence spreads out a lot deeper than we can imagine or detect, but you can get
a sense of it by the way our world interacts with it, much like you can't see the wind
with the naked eye, but you can get a sense of it by way of the debris caught up in it
and the movement of cloth, hair, and trees.
Physicists have seen countless examples of quantum entanglement in particles, atoms,
and electrons.
To simplify, if two particles are created at the same point in space-time, those particles
are really bizarrely linked.
So if you take one entangled quark to one end of the solar system and you flip its polarity,
instantaneously the other entangled quark's polarity will suddenly flip, regardless of
its distance from its twin.
And there are countless accounts of people having connections to those that they deeply
care for.
I have definitely read all that I am ever going to want to read about the eerie connection
between twins.
Seriously, do not google spooky twins connection after sundown.
That is not a good time.
But it makes sense though, doesn't it?
Every atom in these bodies shared the same point in space-time a long, long time ago.
What am I talking about?
Well, the Big Bang Theory is currently the widely held belief in the scientific community
as to how all of this got into motion in the first place.
There was this singular object in the middle of nothing.
And then quite suddenly, the universe blew outward in every direction from that one object,
that one thing.
And within that singularity, an explosion was every single bit of energy that will ever
use and every atom that will ever exist.
So in a different way of saying it, we are all pieces of the same whole.
Everything that we are made up of, every single molecule, element and subatomic particle is
from one single source.
That makes sense that we would be otherwise linked on levels outside our ability to physically
detect our measure.
Several religions follow the belief that God created everything that we have a frame of
reference for.
So let's overlap those a bit.
What if we substitute God for singularity?
In the beginning, there was God and nothing.
So we give the singularity a name, just for the moment, and in this view, what is it that
we would all be made of?
What is everything that has ever existed made of?
Is it made of nothing?
Or, as we're calling the singularity, God?
The core law of our universe is that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, and I would
mark it pretty unlikely that we are made of nothing.
And that is chapter three, so try to understand that you can't understand and go out and say
hello to the rest of God.
And maybe, just maybe, treat them as such.
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So that is a wrap on this episode.
I will see you next time and until then, go introduce yourself to someone for no other
reason, but because they matter to you.
Be sweet.
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