The Forbidden Sciences
The reason they are forbidden, kept out of the universities and major media, is not because they are nonsense, or unscientific. For every question, there is some realm of experience that can provide answers, whether it is mind, free will, immortality, better civilizations, or divinity. No, they are forbidden because we grow up believing such things to be impossible, and that is further drilled into us the farther we go up the academic ladder.
This is a shame, because the existing sciences are incomplete. It is as if we have climbed a cliff and found a small ledge. And there we rest. But not forever. The religion of the scientists offers no hope of life after death, no meaning to life, no immortality. Sooner or later the people will reject this half-way science, and burn the books. It happened in ancient times, though the ancients had made an excellent beginning in the creation of the sciences of engineering and mathematics.
Science is not a religion, but it has a religion, a credo of forbidden topics. Pursue them and you will be thrown out of academia. It happened to Thelma Moss, who was making excellent progress in psionics, despite frequent warnings from her friends. She was thrown out, and never got another academic job.
The forbidden sciences are ufology, psychical research, utopian analysis, Toynbeean history, and empirical metaphysics. Do not confuse with so-called occult sciences.
Is there any evidence for these things? Read The Humanoids, edited by Charles Bowen. Read it carefully, and consider the consequences, and you will know almost everything we will ever know about our star-traveling humanoid visitors, who bring no weapons, and make no wars or invasions. The reality is nothing like science fiction. The hardback version (with extra chapters by Gordon Creighton) was published in 1969. It is a compilation of studies by the ufologists of that time of encounters with landed UFOs, with some of the occupants standing around outside. We can immediately rule out all the usual debunkings of UFOs. These are daylight encounters, not mysterious lights in the sky. Obviously these encounters cannot be explained away as Earth Lights, or inversion effects in the atmosphere, or sprites, or secret military aircraft. There is one and only one hypothesis left: they are star-traveling humanoids. They travel by levitation and apports, powers of the mind. We know of such powers among some humans, but there is no possibility of technology achieving such effects.
There are many kinds of Psi phenomena. I recommend Raymond Moody’s Life After Life, also published about 1969, but probably still in print. This is the study of Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and there are many details that can be checked with our two eyes. A second classic is Apparitions, by G.N.M. Tyrell, first published in 1940, but constantly reprinted. You will learn more about psychology from this book than the total weight of books called “psychology.” A third classic is Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, by Prof. Ian Stevenson of the U. of Virginia. This is a study and analysis of cases of young children who spontaneously talk of a previous lifetime as an adult as soon as they begin to talk, at 2 1/2 or so. Often, by age 5 to 7, they will have forgotten them. This spontaneous talk is testable, and Prof. Stevenson did so. In his conclusion chapter, he shows how one or another feature of the cases rules out all alternatives to reincarnation, even some that are pretty bizarre. This was published in 1967. Though a technical monograph, and tough reading, it lays the foundation for all of Psi research by showing that the mind and the brain are not the same. They are not made of the same substance, since the mind is dark matter, invisible to physical instruments, and capable of passing freely through solid objects. So mind and brain are two totally different things, studied in quite different ways.
The Science of Civilization, the first normative science is based on the work of Locke and Hobbes, 300 years ago. I have developed this science to the point where it can be used, in such books as A Science of Civilization. The equivalent of a theory is a social ideal, such as democracy or socialism. Thus, a social ideal can be true or false, and the political experiments of the USSR and postwar Britain refutes the validity of the ideals of socialism, attractive though they may be. Concrete solutions to social problems come from utopian dreaming, something I have enjoyed since reading Plato’s Republic at age 15. Such solutions are to proven ideals as a building is to engineering.
The grandfathers of empirical metaphysics are Carl Jung and William James, both 20th Century figures. I have spent many years building on their work. Jung showed that symbolic truths of great importance can come from the depths of Self, or ONE. In other words, there can be valid revelations, so long as they are purely symbolic. Jungian symbolism is the language of the deep. I have made it easier to learn by making a small dictionary of the universal (among humans) meanings of symbolic elements, from which symbols are built. Such things as number, color, orientation, species, and many other things. I base my ideas of immortality and the soul on the Revelation of the Nameless One in 1962-63. This has been published as the T Tarot, but is still a work in progress, IMHO.
William James wrote a famous book called The Varieties of Religious Experience. He showed that there is only one kind of religious experience that is the same in all religions and cultures, and that is mystical experience. Mystical experience always has certain characteristics: (1) Ecstasy, (2) Noesis, (3) Illumination, and (4) The union of polar opposites. Noesis means a truth directly seen, as a gestalt, like a recognition of a friend’s face. Illumination is not a metaphor. The mystic feels filled and surrounded by the uncreated light. I know this because I have experienced it.
Last but not least is Toynbeean history. He searched for patterns of challenge-and-response rather than cause-and-effect in history, and found many such patterns. Challenge-and-response is a part of free will, since a creative response cannot be predicted or deduced from the challenge, and yet has a clear and close relation to it.
Add to Toynbeean history the notion of animacy, and we not only have an empirical definition of free will, but much evidence for its existence, not all the time, nor 100 percent potent, but the shaper of history, nonetheless.
We all instinctively recognize the difference between the animate and inanimate. Hollywood knows too. When they want to show us Artificial Intelligence, what they actually show us is a machine being animate. That is, it has initiative, makes choices, and has purpose and strategy. This is just as true of bacteria as it is of “Herbie the Love Bug,” or “Hal 5000″. This distinction is completely ignored by the existing academic scientists. A computer only does what you (and system programmers) tell it to do. If you turn it off, it just becomes an expensive paperweight. Bacteria and all other forms of life (even trees and fungi) have animacy. No one has to push their buttons to make them active. No one makes choices for them. I suspect they enjoy life as much as we do.
UFOs travel by levitation and apports over hundreds of light years. “Apport” is a synonym for “teleportation.” Unfortunately, the physicists have stolen “teleportation” for a completely different phenomen.
What our visiting humanoids have learned to do, we can learn as well, though it will be a long and difficult path. There are no Earthlike planets within a radius of 22 light years, but there might be within 100 light years. So let us assume that the average distance between star-traveling humanoids is 100 light-years. No technology can manage that, since it is fairly easy to prove that the maximum velocity of a space-traveling technology is 0.1 C. So, a thousand years to get there, and a thousand years to get back, even if we knew exactly where to go.
No, the powers of space-travel are powers of the mind, levitation and apports. There is no other alternative. We know that some humans are born with that power. Uri Geller, for instance. I myself have witnessed levitation (table-tipping at Monica’s birthday party in Perry), and inadvertently apported about 10 feet, saving my life as I was falling off the roof of the house. Uri Geller once inadvertently apported 30 miles. See his autobiography, My Story.
~~~DrH