D: Introducing The Science
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John L. Waters
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D: Introducing The Science of Everything
John L. Waters
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D: Introducing The Science of Everything
John L. Waters
March 26, 2003
Revised March 28, 2003
Note. This article "D" introduces the three papers:
A. The Equilibration Principle Version One
B. The Equilibration Principle Version Two
C. Notes On a Cosmological Constant New to Science
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1. The natural unity is the whole of everything.
Rather than define the natural unity in terms of
physical objects large or small, we use language
itself to define the whole. That is, using the
example of an orange, we clarify what we do to
determine whether the orange is indeed a whole orange.
That is, is the orange intact? Is the orange missing
any part? Before we can answer these questions we
need to already have inspected at least one real
orange that is known to be whole, an orange that is
known to be 100% all there.
2. But how do we ever know what an orange is in
totality? The answer is we have to examine many real
oranges, and we have to examine them very carefully.
After a number of these examinations, we have an
extensive list of properties an object must have in
order to be called an orange. For example, an unripe
orange isn't really an orange because (1) it is green
in color, (2) a person can't eat it, (3) a person
won't find such an object for sale at the grocery
store, where there are ripe oranges for sale. Even
so, the DNA in the unripe orange is truly DNA from an
orange tree. Yet some people would say that the
immature fruit is still an orange. The language we
use can be confusing.
3. When it comes to everything: the whole of nature,
the natural unity, the whole universe, that is the
whole of creation, we can't get an easy look at every
single part of it, nor can we just jump into a rocket
ship or into a worm hole and visit other universes to
check them out. By definition, the totality of
everything includes all these other universes as well
as our own universe. But we do have the precision
language by which various parts of the universe are
accurately described in terms of other parts. So this
mathematical language is available to us. We can use
mathematics to consider the many ways of expressing
the unity of nature.
4. Considering the many mathematical definitions of
unity is like examining an orange. We examine every
aspect of the orange, including it's appearance, it's
weight, the texture of it's rind, the taste of it's
rind, it's flesh, and it's seeds. We consider the
findings of other investigators, and compare notes.
We apply to our examination of unity the same
diligence that other investigators have applied to
their investigations of some other aspect of reality.
Then, after we're done our investigation of everything
and come up with a testable result, other
investigators can test this result again and again.
5. It's as if I give you a bag full of objects and
say they are oranges. You can open up the bag and
check out each object. One alleged orange might be
made of wood. Another alleged orange might be made of
neoprene rubber. Yet another might be made of
plastic. The neoprene orange would feel very smooth
in your hand. It wouldn't smell like an orange or
taste like an orange. But to find the fake orange
you'd have to open the bag up and carefully inspect
each object that it contains. You wouldn't just take
it on faith that the bag is filled with real oranges.
If you did you'd be like the overly confident lion
that falls into a pit trap onto a hundred upright
razor-sharp spears.
6. Without a doubt and without any tricks, unity is
out in nature and in yourself at the same time.
Language can be used to define nature's unity so that
you can more readily sense this unity of yourself with
nature, your own nature integrated with the whole rest
of the universe. By means of this integration you
lose your sense of distinctness from other objects
including stones, trees, persons, and even the stars.
You lose your old socially-conditioned "mind" and
"personal identity."
7. This sense of everything is like the taste of an
orange. The taste is not the whole orange. But at
least when you arrive at this sense of union, and you
sense as other mystics report to have sensed, you know
that you've got ahold of yourself--your whole
self--at long last. The orange is in your hands, so
to speak, and you've broken through the tough rind and
you're sucking delightedly now, upon the tits of
Mother Nature. It's rather like a basketball you've
just received from another player on the court. From
that moment you sense more, and the universe and
existence become more real to you than ever before,
like the very first time you ever peeled and ate a
whole orange. Finally, you are experiencing the Big
One, the first counting number.
8. It's a great discovery when rather suddenly you
feel this great round ball in your hands, and you're
moving out there on the basketball court under the
lights and so many excited people are cheering you on.
In your newfound heightened sense of the cosmic
immensity, you feel like a champion. It's like you're
just been born, and everybody is happy to see you
moving about in your tiny baby frame. You suddenly
feel rejuvenated. You feel exhilarated, and your
senses are invigorated.
9. Indeed, a new brightness is in your eyes. A new
freshness is in your mouth. Every hint of your
adolescent or middle-age halitosis is gone. Your ears
detect a music you're not noticed before, in the
rustling of branches in the wind, in the aria of a
distant cricket singing or even in the drone of a
distant Piper Cub. Water flowing from a garden hose
makes you gaze into the stream for a long time and you
see as never before, the eddies and swirls in a
microcosm that seems to reflect the macrocosmic
streaming in the galaxies.
10. You notice existence for the first time. You are
taken out of your former life and your old concerns.
Now, finally, you can pick up the whole orange and
peel it by yourself. Or using another metaphor, you
are standing there under the lights, you are holding
the basketball in your hands, an instant before you
throw everything physical right through the hoop of a
black hole. And you realize that what becomes of all
that light and all that matter is still part of
everything. Ah--but to SENSE it!
11. It's a pity, though, that almost no professional
scientist ever gets the idea. For example, the
undergraduate student gets handed an academic bag full
of oranges and he or she is expected to believe that
each one of these objects is a real
orange--English--Math--Chemistry--Physics--Social
Science--Psychology--History--and so on. But the
student can't know for sure because he or she never
really opened the bag and checked out all that's in
it. Now more specifically, you've studied some math
and you've studied some physics, but what about your
own sensory perception? Specifically, what have you
studied about the perception of mystics? What about
unity and the perception of the whole? What have you
studied in psychology about the baffling research of
Gustav Theodor Fechner? Where did his mystical
perception come from? What is being sensed by modern
mystics and being described in a similar way to the
way Fechner described it?
12. We will get to the work of Fechner, so be
patient. But first, consider this. A certain "omega"
perception has proved to be difficult for me to
interest other people in. For years I often observed
this "omega" as an emerald green color as I exposed my
skin and my eyes to intense sunlight. Other people
said that it is crazy to look at the sun, but over the
months I'd trained myself to do this. Moreover, I
considered this important research, to look at
something that most people never can look at for
long--the lighter, brighter side of the universe, much
of which is dark.
13. What led me to this newfound eccentric devotionto
exposing myself to sunshine and monitoring the
resulting different sensations in my body? Well, in
1978 I got the idea that many autistic children and
many mystics have discovered a mysterious source of
healing, of unity, of joy, and inspiration that is
difficult or impossible for most children ever to
discover on their own. The mystics call this "God" or
some other Name considered holy. I tested this idea
of healing and inspiration by exposing my body to
sunshine and by exposing my eyes to sunlight. This
exposure was considered idiotic or insane by many
people. So mainly I did it in private, and mainly
during the years 1978-2000. Since 2000 I've been
going to college I've done this exposure to sunshine
much less. The method affects the mind and the body
both, and it appears to diminish the acumen for
sophisticated thinking, social interaction, and
communication.
14. Hundreds of times I have observed that by letting
the sun shine in from an angle, say in the corner of
my eye, or mainly in my left eye, out of my right eye
I'd see the sky much bluer and even purplish, and the
colors of flowers would be much more vibrant and
intense. The leaves would appear to be much greener,
as if the world had become made of stained glass. I
found also that certain published authors, for example
Alan Watts and Orson Bean had discovered a similar
effect, but that it had been transient and the person
didn't ever understand this visionary sense, or know
how to get it back whenever they wanted to.
15. This experimentation proved important to me
because
(a) In conjunction with this heightened sensitivity to
light and color I experienced an amazing rejuvenation
and healing from arthritis, bursitis, low blood sugar,
addiction to sweets, irregular heartbeat, severe
shyness, tooth decay, nosebleeds, and certain symptoms
of autism. One observation doesn't prove cause but to
be healed of all these problems at once seemed
miraculous to me and a clearly definable cause seemed
likely.
(b) This experimentation appeared to answer the
question posed by mystical experiences and so-called
"divine revelations" that is causing latent
sensitivity and talent to erupt in a person so that
the person believed it was "God" or some "Spirit"
working in him to inspire him and give him ideas-- in
other words, in modern Western doctors call-- a
"psychotic episode." According to my theory, in many
cases the sensitized person as a native doctor or
shaman would treat his or her own chronic disorders,
and then give new vigor to other person who then might
be able to help other persons as well by doctoring
them, counseling them, make art, or music, or songs of
encouragement or enlightenment. In this way the
sensitized person would become their shaman, guru,
leader, or Messiah even. Of course the unusually
sensitized person might not be followed by other
persons. In fact in the Western world, such
sensitized persons are regarded as mentally ill.
But prehistoric times, this sensitivity helped many
persons get well and stay well, in the favored company
of some alleged spirit or god.
16. I did not see the "omega" until I had been
inspired many times. It took me years to cultivate
this particular sense of the "omega." It isn't easy
or safe for a person to cultivate this sensitivity.
This doesn't mean, however, that the sensation isn't
valid. Neither should people expect that every part
of the universe is entirely easy and safe to sense.
After all, science isn't always safe. For example,
consider as unsafe science Benjamin Franklin's
identification of lightning as electricity by flying
his kite in a thunderstorm, and consider experiments
with nitroglycerin, and experiments with deadly
microbes as further examples of unsafe science.
17. It's been difficult for me to introduce this
research because
(a) My physical appearance is odd, my manners are
odd, and my dress is odd. I am an unusual person. In
fact on many days I can't wear long pants and that
makes people wonder why. Unless the weather is really
chilly I become weakened and nauseated when I have to
wear long pants. It's a physiological fact. For
years I was baffled by my sensitivity.
(b) As a talker I don't inflect my voice and I don't
make much eye contact. Furthermore it's hard for me
to answer a question directly. Some people think I'm
dishonest because I don't make eye contact. Sometimes
people think I'm devious because I don't answer their
question directly. These are traits of autism which
is a handicap.
(c) As a writer I don't always make a point. This
"omega" perception affects the ordinary verbal thought
process. But being a good talker or a good writer
isn't the same as being a good observer and a good
researcher. Verbalizing, socializing, reasoning, and
sensing are all different talents.
(d) My behavior isn't considered desirable and
something other people want to imitate. Hence, even
if I promote this research as seminal science, people
will make excuses why it's not science, or that it's
not in their scientific specialty...anything to get me
to go away. I tend to make people feel uncomfortable.
(e) Some people take no interest because this
research isn't easy and safe science.
18. Despite my own personal shortcomings, I've met
three other persons who discovered this "exposure to
sunshine" method by themselves. Their names are
Johanna, Allyson, Carol, and Minou. By exposing
themselves to the brighter side of existence and
nature, each person improved in health and/or
discovered an ability that he or she had never
expressed before. In expressing my own special talent
I've continued to pursue this research because of its
value in helping people understand the process of
inspiration itself, and nature's unity--the universe,
and everything in fact.
19. This mystical unitive perception profoundly
alters a person's brain activity. Today, however,
school children are taught about the old theories of
psychology, and about how it is much better to be an
extrovert than an introvert. The fact is, however,
that geologists, mineralogists, and chemists don't say
it is much better to be made of quartz than to be made
of lead. Real scientists, in fact, simply study an
element or an object for what it is--not what they
think it should be or what they want it to be! And so
I have a quarrel with psychology, with educational
psychology, and with extroverted people who assume
that they are superior to me, and expect me to be the
way they are. That kind of psychology's like a lump
of lead arrogantly assuming it is superior to a cupful
of water from the ocean. It's silly, in fact, and not
scientific. Today's psychology is more
culture-enforcement, social conditioning, and police
work than real science.
20. As I have seen it and as others have seen it, the
"omega" perception is of a green color that is seen in
amongst the white light reflected off the water
surface. A sensitized person can wiggle a long stick
in a bucket filled with water, and in among the
sparkles the person will see flashes of this green
color. This perception will happen, though, only
after the person has become trained, educated, and
conditioned so that the sunlight won't blind him or
cause pain. In other words, the eyes need to
carefully be strengthened over a considerable period
of time.
21. It took me many months to become conditioned in
this way, and it took me many years to formulate a
theory of what this green color actually is, using the
precise language used in physics. Moreover, these
three papers,
A. The Equilibration Principle Version One
B. The Equilibration Principle Version Two
C. Notes On a Cosmological Constant New to Science
are part of modern psycho-physics, a subject that
Gustav Fechner started. These papers are all about
the same subject, the natural unity and that is the
very foundation of human existence and the existence
of everything else. In addition to explaining the
natural unity in a precise way and giving a result
that other people can test, these papers help a person
recognize that each culture socially conditions a
child to pay special attention to certain senses and
to certain sensory inputs, to the exclusion of certain
others. Also, each culture trains a child to be
extroverted, that is pay attention to sensations
coming from outside the person. This "omega",
however, is sensed from inside the sensitive person.
It is like the person's brain is humming a tune. In
the eyes one sees this color. In the mouth one gets a
sweet taste. It is all because of the resonance, the
disrupted brain activity.
22. In order for me to come onto a university campus
and interact with professors, students, and other
persons, I've had to spend less and less time exposing
myself to the sunshine and sensing the green color.
Why? The reason is that intellectuals expect a person
to be a good listener, a good reader, and a persuasive
talker and/or writer. But this "omega" perception
profoundly affects the sensing brain and the thinking
brain. This doesn't mean that "omega" is a delusion.
But it does mean that no professional is going to risk
becoming mentally "deranged" by repeating the
experiments I have worked out. Of course it is
possible to argue that many activities going on in the
world today are totally insane! But these activities
are traditional activities--activities that children
learn about and grow up accepting as "part of
reality." So I come along and focus on the light side
of reality rather than the dark side, and I discover
there is a lot to sense on the light side, even if
none of the physical scientists has yet trained
themselves to sense full sunlight directly on the skin
and in my eyes.
23. Now we are ready to focus our attention on Gustav
Theodor Fechner (1801 - 1887). Doctor Fechner was
experimenting with sunlight and perception, but at
about the age of forty he went crazy and had a
"mysterious illness" that he wrote extensively about
in his book "The Religion of a Scientist." edited by
Walter Lowrie(The call number of this book is B3232 E5
L6). However, Fechner didn't progress far along the
line of inquiry I have followed. Instead, Fechner
exposed his eyes to intense sunlight and blinded
himself and injured himself in other ways which are
described in this book. After two years Fechner
recovered and his perceptions were profoundly changed
as was his brain activity. The man capitalized on his
writing talent and composed best-selling books of a
"spiritual" nature. Fechner didn't actually cultivate
the "omega" perception. He got diverted by
"spiritual" ideas which still preoccupy many people
today.
24. Today there are hundreds of popular "spiritual"
teachers and their books are selling quite well.
Other "spiritual" teachers don't write. They have
ghost writers and supporters who promote them. But at
the same time, a large proportion of relatively
inexperienced but nonetheless quite cynical young
people doubt that there is anything at all legitimate
about such "spirituality," and not one of the famous
teachers or writers really gets down to the real
problem of defining in clear non-mystical language
exactly what in the universe is being sensed by a
spiritual master and by each and every psychotic man
who insists that HE is God. By integrating human
perceptions and human brains, this extension of
Fechner's psycho-physical work advances physics,
psychology, and medicine.
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12:30PM Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Revised 12:15PM Friday, March 28, 2003
Revised 2:00PM Saturday, March 29, 2003
Revised 11:45AM Friday, April 4, 2003
John L. Waters
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