The story of his life and work Kitty Ferguson 1991
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ism. They get no encouragement from Hawking, who says "The universe of Eastern mysticism is an illusion."  
 
Every one thought that quite a turn up for the book.
 
When they parted from Brother Reanney they did so with great sadness, knowing his work was coming to an  end. They had talked well into the night, and, unless you had actually been there you would never have known the joy of it all. Remember how they had laughed, oh my goodness me, how they had laughed, cried their eyes out.
Then he was gone.
Hence the sadness.
 
The scribe writ dog spells god backwards
 
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" The father of the so-called 'Copenhagen interpretation'of quant-um mechanics , Niels Bohr speculated as far back as 1958 that key points in the regulatory mechanisms of the brain might be so delicately balanced that they could be affected by quantum me-chanical events. Significantly, eminent brain biologist John.C.Eccles seems to agree. As Eccles has observed :
    
     If one uses the expressive terminology… the 'ghost' (the quantum mechanical event ) operates a 'machine'
     (the brain), not of ropes and pulleys, valves and pipes, but of microscopic spatio-temporal patterns of activity in
     the neuronal net woven by synaptic connexions of ten thousand million neurones, and even then only by operating
     on neurones that are momentarily poised close to a just-threshold level of excitability.    
This means  that the Y node choices that are almost evenly

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balanced between two outcomes are most likely to be susceptible to quantum influences because it is only in these near-equipoise situations that the quantum flunctuations are the 'feather on the scale' that tips the balance one way or the other."  
"…Quantum fluctuations could also express those thoughts that come to us 'in a flash'or 'out of no where'. I wonder what role, if any, they play in intuition. It is possible that the neural centre that 'sees' unity, no matter how much it is 'perfected' by unselfishness, is incapable of determining when it will have its deeper insights. That may well still be a matter of complete chance, or, on the above hypothesis, of quasi-chance and non-causal cross-linkaging. If some Y node choices were quantum in nature, a profound and enduring link would be established between the dynamics  of con-sciousness and the structure of the cosmos itself. It is not in the sense of a presently available scientific theory that I intuitively sense a 'rightness' in Hoyles idea but in the sense of a song of truth, an insight. It may take science years to formulate such a concept in a mathematical way that will win acceptance.
However one prediction does seem possible now. The con-straints placed on quantum events by the need to maintain
consistency in the loop must constitute one of the great ordering principles of nature. Such an ordering principle could require a profound modi-fication of the laws of quantum mechanics which are rooted in and dependent on the statistical principals of probability and randomness. (It was this indeterminate character of quantum mechanics that caused Einstein to complain that God 'did not play dice with the world'.) To maintain consistency in the loop, many quantum events could not be random: they would have to be linked, in the non-local way so characteristic of quantum mechanics. Could this linkage correspond to (and explain) the principle of synchronicity formulated by psychologist Carl Jung and quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and others ? "  
 
The scribe felt like writing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

 
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" Synchronicity refers to the apparently inexplicable coincidences that crop up from time to time. We all have experiences of this type.

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For no apparent reason you may suddenly think of a friend you have not seen for years at the very moment
When the phone rings and you discover he/she has just landed in town and wants to visit  The quantum event that caused you to think of the person at the very instant he/she was thinking of you may result from the need to preserve the internal consistency of a quantum world closed back upon itself to form a loop of time.
The self-consistency concept may also help to explain what scientists call the anthropic principle. This refers not just to the coincidences of human life, but to cosmic coincidences.  
"…If the fundamental constants of physics were readjusted by just a tiny fraction, the universe would become inhospitable to life…"
"Physicists from Paul Dirac to Paul Davies have also pointed out that the cosmos seems to be sensitively built on a number of quite amazing coincidences. In particular, the large number10/40 crops up in some of the most basic relationships in physics."
"…The letters and numbers on the left refer to qualities or relation-ships that have fundamental importance in physics; their meaning need not concern us - it is the fact that the number 10/40 crops up so regularly in the context of the parameters which determine the structure of the universe that is so remarkable.
The anthropic principle says that all these 'coincidences'create the special kind of cosmic conditions needed to produce us. The puzzle this presents dissolves, however if consciousness inter-

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acts with matter by means of quantum events in the brain because the spacetime loop can then only maintain its self- consistency by creating and preserving just those conditions which permit consciousness to flourish.
Consciousness, in this context, does not mean the average mode of human consciousness at this moment in evolution, it means whatever completed limit consciousness may reach in future time. The cosmos then emerges as the ultimate feedback loop and consciousness is a created product of its own antecedent activity.
This idea has many similarities to the bootstrap principle formu-lated by physicist Geoffrey Chew (which defines all basic constituents of the real world in terms of their mutually self-consistent relation-ships) It is also a cousin of John Wheeler's concept of the universe as a 'self-exited circuit' in which the cosmos comes into being by retroactive causation, that is by events in the future propagating backwards in time to cause events in the past.
This is a very bold, almost rash speculation and it invites the obvious criticism from a scientific cynic, 'if these synchronicities which underpin consistency are real, if they exist they must show up somewhere as mathematical regularities. OK where are they ?'.
To explore this issue, we must look at the mathematics of randomness. And up front, we encounter a suprising fact.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to say with confidence that a given number sequence that appears random in any one context is in fact random in an absolute sense Most seemingly random numbers when compared, for example by adding or subtracting, would give further numbers which themselves would seem to be random.
However, consider the sequence  31415926535897 (1)
This passes all currently-available tests for randomness.
     Now com-pare it with the sequence 20304815424786 (2)
Which also qualifies as a wholly random number. On the face of it, we simply  have two random numbers. However, if we subtract the lower sequence (2) from the higher (1), with the 'wrinkle' that if we get a negative number we add 10 to the result, we obtain the sequence  111111111111111
This is strikingly non-random.These two 'random' numbers thus have a special property. Heinz Pagels,who gives this example in his book The Cosmic Code, draws from this illustration a conclu-

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sion that goes to the heart of my argument about synchronistic cross-linkaging . He says:
                
     This illustrates that two random sequences can be correlated-
     each is individually chaotic but, if properly compared by using
                   some rule, then a non-random pattern appears.
 
As Brother Reanney continued his tale the scribe looked on in some amaze though not as mazed as some
 
If I am right, analgous cross-linkages at the quantum level may be the fine gossamer threads, fragile in themselves, but indestructible in their collective strength, that hold the cosmos in a self-consistent loop of becoming.
Y nodes, choices, thus emerge as the determinants of the pattern of our psychological development. Because of them,
we create our own heaven, our own hell, we create ourselves, we create the very fabric of the world."
With this discussion of synchronicity and self- consistency, we have arrived at the point where we can begin to see the strange relation-ship between consciousness and the universe, between the 'thought' within and the 'thing' without.
We have established that consciousness cannot be treated sepa-rately from the 'reality' it observes. We can assert this confidently. It is now a (virtually) unchallengeable maxim of quantum mechanics that each act of observation
causes the ripple of possibilities of the quantum wave to 'concretise into entities with an observable and measureable existence. In Chapter 9, I postulated that consciousness is that unifying activity in the brain that 'sees' one in many.
However, conscious-ness is not just a passive reciever. By its choices, it creates unities. Indeed, its very essence is that it acts as a nodal integrator between the quantum ripples of possibility that emanate from both past and future. It is if you like, the reality slit into which multiple ripples

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of possibility enter, leaving the temporally symmetric quantum world and 'falling' into the one-way world of matter which decays with time.      
       Wolf has summarised this viewpoint admirably:
      
Our minds [i.e. consciousness] are thus tuned… to multiple realities. The freely associating mind is able to pass across time barriers, sensing the future and reap-raising the past. Our minds are time machines, able to sense the flow of possibility waves from both the past and the future. In my view, there cannot be anything like existence without this higher form of quantum reality.
 
All this sounds highly abstract, remote from the kind of consciousness you and I experience now. So let me
bring the message closer to home. Think back again to a moment when you suddenly felt you really understood something you had not understood before.It may have been a mathematical problem you had been a mathematical problem you had been wrestling with for days. Suddenly, after hours of frustration, the answer was there-complete and perfect.  
This is the essence of insight. Things hitherto separate and unconnected suddenly 'click together'. The pieces of the jigsaw slide into place. As I have stressed, this integrative faculty is the hallmark of consciousness The understanding that follows a 'Eureka' moment is not a surface comprehension; it is a 'deep knowing'  with you for life precisely because it is part of a wider multiform consciousness, of which your mind is but a single unit. In deep knowing you become part of the self unfolding of the cosmos.
Think about this in terms of time.The answer you sought existed prior to your discovery of it. What happened in your flash of understanding was that your individual consciousness suddenly 'caught up'with a truth already 'known'. It tapped into the completed, unitive consciousness that underpins the closed feedback loop of becoming . What you experienced was a faint fore-taste of the final act in the evolution of consciousness, a memory of total togetherness, when the distinction between observer and observed vanishes completely.
One of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Werner Heisenberg, said of his subject 'The common division of the world into subject and object, inner world and outer, body and soul, is no longer adequate'. In saying this he, a scientist found himself using

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the language of mysticism. Compare Heisenberg's words with those of the Dominican monk Meister Eckart, 'the knower and the known are one'. or the words of the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti, 'consciousness is its content'and ' there is neither the outer nor the inner but only the whole. The experiencer is the experienced… the thinker is the thought'. "  
Here then is the longed -for end of the age old road. Here science and religion speak with the same voice, each subtending and validating the other. Here confusion ends and contradictions cease. All things are one.
Even the distinction between the inner and outer, singer and song fades in the full light of completed consciousness.
Even now, today, here, still trapped in time, if we strain our ears to their  limit, we can just hear the strains of that different music'from the far shore the final chorus sounding' as Whitman said Awhisper of tomorrow reaching into today. More than a beacon of hope, more than a promise of things, a commitment from our higher selves to their lowlier foundations, a conviction that the creative evolution which fashioned man from microbe will fashion God from man, no, has fashioned God from man.From round the closed arc of time, the time free God speaks to his time trapped children, who are both his parents and his heirs.      
 

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' The Indians say that thousands of years ago their an-cestors travelled on great golden discs which were kept airborne by means of sound vibrations at a certain pitch, produced by continual hammer-blows. This is not so absurd as it may seem. Vibrations of a set frequency may have had the effect of increasing the atomic energy of gold, thus re-ducing the weight of the disc and enabling it to overcome gravity.'
'… To quote Pauwels and Bergier (op. Cit.,p. 197: ' The U.S. archaeologist Hyatt Verrill spent thirty years investigating the lost civilizations of Central and South America. . . In his fine novel, The Bridge of Light, he described a pre-Incaic city protected by a rocky defile which could only be crossed by a bridge con-structed of ionized matter which could be made to appear and diappear at will. Verrill,who died at the age of eighty, insisted to the last that this was much more than a legend, and his wife who survives him, is of the same opinion.  

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" The laws of physics have no inbuilt time asymmetery.They work just as well in the future-to-past sense as the past-to-future sense. We see this clearly when we look at the quantum wave .The wave is a ripple of possibility, not a real thing It has neither past nor future;it can be described as travelling forwards in time and backward in time with equal validity. This is true not just of the quantum wave. Subatomic particles exhibit the same disregard for time. "
 
When the thats away the  how's will play said Zed Aliz to the scribe .
The scribe writ simply A cat is said to have nine lives.
 

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" The most famous, important and influential of Arab alchem-ists
Jabir ibn Hayyam was also a Sufi "
 
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"It was in Jabir's books that the earliest extant text of the Emerald Tablet appeared, though it is ascribed to much older sources. At the same time ,Jabir and his circle wrote on a multitude of other subjects-on mathematics, on magic ,on  astrology and astronomy, on medicine, on mirrors,…"  
 
 

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note 1

Julius Ruska ,Tabula Smaragdini 1926

"A translation from an  Arab collection of commentaries of the early twelth century  known as "
 

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 " In the account of the emerald tablet given by Roger Bacon in the Secretum Secretorum it is stated that
These precious sentences of Hermes were found by Galienus Alfachim the physican, on a plaque of emerald in a cave,clasped in the hands of the corpse of that mysterious legendary figure
Hermes Trismegistus, The Thrice Great" The reader is exhorted  "to preserve the strictest secrecy from all except men of good will, this treasured text, even as Hermes himself had hidden it within the cave."
 
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"It may be well to quote another and freer translation of this historic text;"
 
I speak not fictious things, but that which is most certain and most
True. What is below is like that which is above , and what is above

is like that which is below to accomplish the miracles of One
Thing. And as all things were produced by the One Word of
One Being , so all things were produced from the One Thing by
adaptation, Its father is the Sun , its mother the Moon , the wind
carries it in its belly, its nurse is the earth. It is the father of all
perfection throughout the world. The power is vigorous if it be
changed into earth. Separate the earth from the the fire , the subtle
from the gross, acting prudently and with judgement.Ascend with
the sagacity from  the earth to heaven , and then again descend to
the earth and unite together the power of things superior and
things inferior. Thus you will obtain the glory of the whole world
and obscurity will fly far from you.This has more fortitude than
fortitude itself,because it conquers every solid thing and can
penetrate every solid . Thus was the world formed . Hence pro-
ceed wonders which are here established .Therefore I am called
Hermes Trismegistus, having three parts of the philosophy of the
whole world.That which I had to say concerning the operation
of the sun is completed.  

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"As above, so below," is an expression which refers to cosmoses.
Thus spake the prophet Gurdjieff.

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"Now you have some idea of the laws governing the life of the macrocosmos and have returned to the earth. Recall to yourself: "as above, so below" I think that already, without any further explanation, you will not dispute the statement that the life of individual man - the microcosmos - is governed by the same laws - "Glimpses of Truth."
Thus spake the prophet Gurdjieff.