The World as I See It

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...

"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavours, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveller' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..."
Albert Einstein

PARALLEL UNIVERSES AND COMMUNICATION WITH THE FUTURE

Hi
Decades of weird experiences coupled with familial "so called" mental health issues has led to an immeasurable personal quest to search for answers
During the past 20 years or more I have found myself frantically reading any subject matter concerned with psychic phenomena, the paranormal, physics and of course psychology and psychiatry
What have achieved? absolutely nothing! Everybody appears to have their own theory and opinions, even if they are considered to belong to the "canon" of science!
Purely by chance or maybe guided by an unseen force I stumbled on the following article which coincidentally occurred at the moment that I decided to give up on my quest and believe that my experiences are all based on the fact that what I see and hear is actually happening at that moment within a parallel universe.
Fred Alan Wolf writes:
The fact that the future may play a role in the present is a new prediction of the mathematical laws of quantum physics. If interpreted literally, the mathematical formulas not only indicate how the future enters our present, but also how our minds may be able to "sense" the presence of parallel universes.
Are we pressing the mathematical laws of physics too far?

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality,"
wrote Albert Einstein. Einstein was undoubtedly referring to the mathematical laws of quantum physics in that these laws only describe possibilities of reality but never reality itself. Can mathematics describe reality? I believe that the answer is yes, provided we take the new view given us by parallel universes theory. The laboratory of parallel universe experimentation may not lie in a mechanical time machine--ala Jules Verne-- but could exist between our ears.
If the parallel universes of relativity are the same as those of quantum theory the possibility exists that parallel universes may be extremely close to us, perhaps only atomic dimensions away but perhaps in a higher dimension of space-- an extension into what physicists call superspace. Modern neuroscience through the study of altered states of awareness, schizophrenia, and lucid dreaming could be indications of the closeness of parallel worlds to our own.

Have I made the right decision? What do you think?

Society for psychical research

Hi
Although this blog contains various popular articles that I personally find interesting you may be surprised to know that I also keep as up to date as possible with all scientific views on what we psychics get up to!
To quote C.G.Jung "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud."
I also have a great interest in philosphy and thought i'd post some intersting reading
For those that are interested please refer to the following list that are available from the SPR library:
History of psychical research
Collections and Analyses of Spontaneous Experiences
Dowsing
Experimental Psi
Healing
Mediums and Psychics
Near Death Experiences

Out of Body Experiences

Poltergeists

Precognition

Psi in Animals

Psi and Coincidences

Psi Photography

Psychokinesis

Reincarnation

Survival
SPR website
Any comments or issues for discussion about the above subjects please post

Spiritual Phrases

"Freedom from desire leads to inward peace"
Lao-Tzu

When the wise man Laotze was halted on his travels by a customs official who demanded he declare his items of value, Laotze replied that he had only one thing of value- his wisdom.