Unseen Worlds
Quantum Weirdness
Quantum Quotes
The Mode of Future Existence
The Existence of a Normally Unseen World
Dwellers of Other Realms
Summary
From Quantum Quotes that convey the weird nature of Quantum theory and its inability to make sense of its findings, to an old lecture by Sir Oliver Lodge, Whose principal scientific contributions were concerned with the transmission of electromagnetic waves, which led to developments in radio broadcasting. He was also a researcher into psychic phenomena, a believer in Spiritualism, with major contributions to the scientific understanding of the unseen world.
Sir Oliver Lodge is also remembered for his work on the ether, which had been postulated as the wave-bearing medium filling all space.
“The universe seems to me to be a great reservoir of life and mind. The unseen universe is a great reality. This is the region to which we really belong and to which we shall one day return.”
In His lecture, Sir Oliver Lodge raised the curtain to reveal reality in a scene of the interactions between humans and other entities. And the Holy Quran offers details about the nature of interaction between the dwellers of those other realms, where men, jinn, devils, the dead and the angels reside not at all far from each other.
Quantum Weirdness
Unseen Worlds emerged through Quantum quotes and a lecture that talks about close by invisible worlds detected by theories and experiments, and the Holy Quran draws the line between conclusions and predictions regarding the identity of these creatures – spirits of the dead, human and jinn devils and angels – and also thoughts, and provides visions into the reality of existence.
In Quantum mechanics nothing can be predicted, you cannot measure a particle and know its whereabouts at the same time. You can only calculate odds.
Nothing can be certain or known, unless a mind is there to observe and measure what has occurred. That is because probability turns into certainty only when an observer takes a look. Weirder still, experiments even revealed that a single photon of light is able to be in two very distant places at the same time.
Quantum theory requires a step beyond the material to the metaphysical. It requires us to turn to the secrets of consciousness; it demands the existence of a creator and sustainer for the universe
It tells us that the universe is continually observed by a creator who never sleeps.
Quantum Quotes
Albert Einstein
"I still cannot believe God plays dice." Then he added, "But maybe I have earned the right to make my mistakes."
“Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced He does not play dice."
Sir Arthur Eddington
“Modern physics leaves so many theoretical holes in the universe, that you may (or may not) fill them with religious substance. Physics cannot help you in the least, but it no longer objects to your efforts”.
Roy H. Williams
“Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.”
“Einstein was searching for string theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the bible as well”.
Eugene Wigner
“Quantum theory is incompatible with the idea that everything, including the mind, is made up solely of matter: While a number of philosophical ideas] may be logically consistent with present quantum mechanics, materialism is not."
Neils Bohr
“What nature demands from us is not a quantum theory or a wave theory; rather, nature demands from us a synthesis of these two views which thus far has exceeded the mental powers of physicists.”
Richard Feynmann
“If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.”
David Bohm
“I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.”
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.”
“In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined; while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.”
Erwin Schrodinger
“Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.”
“The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.”
“The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.”
John Polkinghorne
“Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.”
Barbara Sher
“Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.”
The Mode of Future Existence
When we consider the question of Survival from the physical point of view we are up against the ancient problem of the connection between mind and body.
The body is certainly made of matter, but matter is inert, it never does anything, it is completely controlled by the forces acting upon it, which forces exist in the empty space surrounding the atoms. All matter is inert.
The physical Universe does not consist of matter alone. If it did, it would be absolutely inert, no change would ever occur; …….. and we can gradually realize that it is through interaction between the void and the material particles that every change or activity is accomplished.
So when we say that life only exists in a material organism, we ought to say that …… when it is dissociated from matter we know nothing of its existence.
Life and mind never were functions of the material body; they only displayed themselves by means of the material organism. The organism was not essential to their existence, but only to their display - that is, to our apprehension of them.
Telepathy shows that mind can act on mind without the use of any bodily organs, hence certain people may have a faculty of apprehending a spiritual world direct; and this may account for genius and inspiration.
Such a world may exist all round us, and yet can only be spiritually discerned. The faculty of discernment does exist in some people, and their positive evidence overweighs a wilderness of negation from people whose perceptions are limited to the bodily senses.
We shall never understand the Universe by attending to matter alone and ignoring everything which makes it active and interesting. We cannot even understand the bending of a steel spring or the fall of a raised weight without implicitly taking the Ether into account.
.......... And recently an etheric version of such a body has been approved - and if not inculcated, at any rate, regarded as a step in the right direction - by some of the more thoughtful and philosophically minded communicators 'on the other side'.
What they know by experience is that, though discarnate, they are certainly not disembodied; they feel no more disembodied than we do. They tell us that they still have substantial instruments of manifestation which serve for intercourse among each other, and that it is through this permanent instrument that they are able, occasionally and under certain conditions, to operate indirectly, through our organisms, on the matter of this planet. They operate with more difficulty than in the old days, partly because they have to make use of other people's mechanism; but still, subject to many restrictions, they exert influence in a somewhat similar way, and thereby are able occasionally to know what we are doing; and they claim sometimes to succeed in helping and stimulating us, not only mentally but physically.
Now, although the departed may not understand fully and completely of what their present body is composed, or how they operate on it so as to produce the results they desire and aim at, they are still only in the same predicament as they were when here, and as we are now. For we do not know how we control our bodies of matter, nor what the nature of the connection between mind and matter is. We know that we have muscles and nerves and brain centres. We can dissect and describe this part of the mechanism. But how a physiological instrument - how any kind of mechanism - can think and feel and plan and will and remember and hope and love, we certainly cannot explain. And probably we shall never be able to explain how such a thing can happen; for the thing to be explained does not happen, it is only imagined to happen through a misapprehension. The truth is that it is we ourselves who really do all the psychical things; we employ our bodies only as instruments for recording and transmitting our thoughts and for exercising muscular action on matter. The body itself neither thinks nor wills nor sees nor feels. It is an instrument, a channel, a medium.
Although full explanations about our method of controlling of a body are not yet forthcoming - either on this side or on that - yet those 'on the other side' are quite willing to accept the suggestion that their bodies, which to them feel so substantial, and all the surroundings in which they exist, are related to the thing which we here call the Ether, very much in the same way as they used to be related to the familiar thing known as Matter.
That Ether is a very substantial entity, far denser than any form of matter, has been gradually becoming clear to physicists............ All its properties are of supernormal magnitude. Its rate of vibration which enables us to see any ordinary object is five hundred million million per second: a number so great that to try to conceive such a number of vibrations per second simply dizzies us. The number of seconds which have passed since ancient geological periods of twenty million years ago is about this number. Yet we familiarly make use of these vibrations. Our wonderful organ, the eye, is constructed so as to cope with them, in the easiest possible manner. And most people are ignorant - as ignorant as are the animals - of the strange ethereal environment amid which we all live, and of which the vibrations convey to us so much information, and awaken so keenly our sense of beauty.
Until instructed, we can hardly help thinking of matter as dense, and of Ether as tenuous, but that is a poetic illusion associated with the term 'ethereal'. It is an illusion based on the testimony of our senses, which, as so often happens, have to be corrected by deeper insight into the real nature of things. Matter appeals to us so strongly, not because it is anything but a gossamer-like or milky-way existence in the vast continuity of Ether, but because our obvious bodies are made of matter, and because our animal sense organs are specially adapted to existence in association with matter, and give us information about nothing else.
Even light, which we know is an Ether vibration, tells us nothing about itself without study; ……We interpret the luminous indications without difficulty, and we forget the strangely complex nature of the processes which underlie all our channels of information…….. When we have pursued this line of investigation for many years, we find that the important thing in the physical Universe is Ether, and that matter is trivial in comparison. Yet we can freely admit that matter takes such splendid and beautiful forms that it is worthy of the continued study of generations of scientific men; and we need not wonder that they become so enthusiastic over its properties that they are able to imagine it the sole reality in existence. That, however, is a mistake; it constitutes a mechanism actuated and wielded by mental and spiritual power, which is dominant and supreme.
Sections of 1933 Lecture by Sir Oliver Lodge FRS
The existence of a normally unseen world
Astrophysicist Michael Scott from Edinburgh University, in relating to the reality of paranormal phenomena and the existence of a normally unseen world: “Quantum Physics: the presence of a wave nature in subatomic particles. The vital difference between a wave and a solid particle is the wave properties of superposition and modulation. Put simply, these properties allow waves of different frequencies to occupy the same space without direct interaction. Therefore it is quite possible for parallel universes to exist separated by a difference in some fundamental wave characteristic. This theory springs directly from wave mechanics”.
Dwellers of other realms
016.049 And unto Allah prostrates whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth of creature, and the angels and they are not proud.
Prophets and witnesses (or martyrs)
055.029 All those who are in the heavens and the earth ask of Him; every day He is in an affair.
017.055 And your Lord best knows those who are in the heavens and the earth; and We have favored some of the prophets over others, and to David We gave the Psalms.
077.011 And when the messengers are appointed a time.
077.012 For what day are they deferred?
077.013 For the Day of Decision.
002.154 And do not say of those who die for the cause of Allah they are dead, no but are alive but you do not feel.
Angels
043.080 Or do they think that We do not hear what they conceal and their private counsels? Indeed, and Our messengers by them, do record.
013.010 Alike among you is he who conceals speech and he who speaks openly, and he who hides himself by night and he who goes freely in the daytime.
013.011 For him are angels ranged before him and behind him, who guard him by Allah's command. Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change their own condition and when Allah intends punishment to a people, there is no averting it, and besides Him they have no protector.
041.030 As for those who say, Our Lord is Allah, then continue in the right way, the angels descend upon them, that fear not, nor be grieved, and receive good news of the garden which you were promised.
041.031 We are your guardians in this life and in the Hereafter, therein shall you have all that your souls desire; and you shall have therein all that you ask for.
041.032 A gift of welcome from One Forgiving, Merciful.
008.009 When you prayed for aid from your Lord, so He answered you: I will assist you with a thousand of the angels, in ranks.
The human and jinn devils
007.027 O Children of Adam, let not Satan seduce you, as he got your parents out of the Garden, stripping them of their raiment, to expose their shame, for he and his tribe watch you from where you cannot see them. We made the evil ones guardians to those who do not believe.
017.062 He said: Do You see this, whom You have honored above me, if You would respite me to the day of Judgment, I shall seize his seed, save but a few.
017.063 He said: then go, and whosoever of them follows you, then surely hell is your recompense, a full recompense.
017.064 And excite whomsoever of them you can with your voice, assault them with your cavalry and your infantry; and share with them in the wealth and children; and make promises to them. But Satan promises them nothing but deceit.
017.065 As for My servants, no authority shall you have over them, enough is Your Lord for a Guardian.
019.083 Didn’t you see that We sent the devils unto the unbelievers buzzing them, buzzing (To incite them).
A driver and a witness
050.020 And the Trumpet shall be blown, that is the threatened Day.
050.021 And every soul shall come, with it a driver and a witness.
050.022 Certainly you were heedless of this, but now We have removed from you your veil, so your sight today is iron.
006.128 And on the day when He shall gather them all together: O you assembly of Jinns, much did you take of men. And their allies from among the humankind shall say: Our Lord, we enjoyed one another, but now we have arrived at the appointed term which You had appointed for us. He shall say: The fire is your dwelling place, to abide in it, except as Allah is pleased, surely your Lord is Wise, Knowing.
006.129 And thus do We make some of the transgressors to have power over others, because of what they used to earn.
028.040 So We seized him and his soldiers, then We cast them into the sea, then see how was the end of the unjust.
028.041 And we made them leaders inviting to the Fire; and on the Day of Judgment no help shall they find.
040.046 The fire; they are brought before it morning and evening and on the day when the hour shall come to pass: admit Pharaoh's folk to the severest chastisement.
Their lives and death not alike
045.021 Or do those who committed ill-deeds think that We shall make them like those who believed and did good, alike their life and their death, bad is their judgment.
045.022 And Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth and that every soul may be rewarded for what it has earned and they shall not be wronged.
006.132 To all are degrees of what they did, and Your Lord is not unmindful of what they do.
002.001 A.L.M.
002.002 That Book; there is no doubt in it, guidance to those who fear.
002.003 Those who believe in the unseen and establish prayer and spend out of what We have provided for them.
002.004 And who believe in that which has been sent down to you and that which was sent down before you and they are certain of the hereafter.
April, 8, 2008
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