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Science & Reason: The Great Escape
By Rezib Tutsanai'i
Science presents itself as the tool all humans should use for
understanding and navigating reality. It supposedly is the
pinnacle of human endeavor that will finally answer the great
questions that every human being must ask. Science attempts
to escape from the dogma of faith and belief presented by
religion through process and observation. Science is faced
with the same problem that religion is faced with, however.
Science cannot escape from the reality that it is a newcomer
to questions that have already been asked by human beings for
hundreds of millennia.
Science attempts to present itself as a paragon of reason. It
is very tempting to accept this view, especially for those
who have enough intelligence to recognize that religion is
both illogical and irrational in its approach to the great
questions. In order to present itself as legitimate, science
must separate itself as unique by emphasizing the newness of
the information and technologies that it can provide and the
solutions that it gives to life’s problems.
What happens to science when reason itself shows that science
is nothing more than an amateur attempt at explaining what
other methods have already explained? When science finds
itself in this dilemma, it presents the questions and the
answers that it wishes to solve as complex mysteries that
require years of hard work to understand. It wraps its
concepts in its own veil of dogma that is guided by its own
priesthood which is enshrined in great institutions that
rival the great religions that have risen over the past 2000
years.
One of the most intriguing problems that science attempts to
solve is the nature of matter and how it may be manipulated
by the will of the human being. The most powerful theories
that science presents at this time for this purpose are the
theories of quantum mechanics. One of the foundations of
quantum mechanics is a concept called the quantum theory of
measurement.
Scientists decided that the only way to validate their
theories was by performing experiments that were carefully
designed to test the ideas that they believed they had
invented. There is a whole branch of scientific study that is
dedicated to the techniques of measuring every aspect of what
we observe. All of these measurement techniques are agreed
upon by groups of scientists so that when one scientist cooks
up a hair-brained scheme about the way the world works,
another scientist can build a machine based on these
measurement techniques to see if the machine works the way
everyone in the groups thinks that it should. If the machine
breaks, then the hair-brained scheme is proven wrong, and
everyone goes to the coffee shop or the local bar and has a
good laugh and counts the money in his or her bank account.
If the machine works, everyone goes to the coffee shop or the
local bar, and they pat each other on the back and dream
about the next hair-brained scheme that they can get funded
because of the resounding success.
After a time, the scientists began to make bigger and more
powerful machines to look deeper and deeper into the secrets
of matter and energy, but what they found was that they could
not tell if the machines worked or not. It's one thing for
the machine to break every time you turn it on. In a way
that’s OK. But if the machine works half of the time
and breaks the other half of the time, there is nothing that
the scientist can report except that they did a terrible job
of building their machines.
This is obviously not an acceptable situation. Who will pay
for the next round at the pub if no one is getting paid?
The scientists had decided that in order to make themselves
special and different from the religious fanatics and the
dirty savages that they pretended the elder cultures must be,
they must have something called objectivity. This was the
idea that the scientists could separate themselves from the
world of matter and energy, even life itself. By doing this,
they could claim that the machines that they built were not
being influenced by any hocus pocus and magical thinking on
their part as the observer and creator of the experiment.
Unfortunately for the scientists (and fortunately for the
rest of us) there is no separation of a human being from the
universe that he apparently finds himself in. The scientists
looked deep into their machines and utilized their
considerable troubleshooting skills and found that there was
nothing wrong with the machines; there was something wrong
with the scientific concept of reality.
Scientists love to measure the position of things and how
fast those things are moving, among their other behaviors.
What they found out was that for things that are very, very,
very small, so small that you don’t even want to think
about it small, you can’t measure the position of that
thing without causing it to move. You also can’t
measure how fast it is moving without causing it to change
direction. Things work differently in the "normal" world. It
is easy to measure a baseball flying through the air and know
where it is at any time and how fast it is moving. We see
this on the instant replay in every ball game on TV. It
doesn't work that way when things get real small. Large
amounts of energy have to be used. Machines must be built
that are miles in diameter and buried deep underground. Every
experiment has the same result. Some things can't be measured
at the same time. It turns out that you have to interact with
a thing in order to measure it. On a large scale, you don't
see the effects; on a very small scale, the effects become
massive. So position and momentum just can’t be
measured precisely AT THE SAME TIME. This is the quantum
theory of measurement. There are well-established formulas
that relate different measurements and what can and cannot be
measured under certain circumstances.
What the scientists are dealing with is the exchange of
energy between what they are observing and themselves. Though
they may create complex machines that become a part of the
exchange, they must account for this in their formula very
precisely. They must create a collection of mathematical
formulas that describe a model of the world that includes the
experiment, the subject of the experiment and even the
observer. It is a self-contained world in which the evolution
of all the parts proceeds as a whole and the destiny of each
part is inextricably linked to every other part.
What is described in the previous paragraph is what the
M’TAM schools call the dialog of energies and the
Zouhet. M’TAM is in fact the oldest school for the
study of such things. This school is tens of thousands of
years old. One would think that after all this time they have
come to understand these principles that science is only now
beginning to recognize as mysteries.
Human beings have been in existence in our present form for
over one hundred and fifty thousand years. If science can
come to the point where they are capable of recognizing some
of the interesting characteristics of matter in less than one
thousand years, why have we not already figured these things
out? Perhaps some of the solutions to life’s more
interesting problems have already been found. Perhaps in its
rush to create a space for its own legitimacy, science has
only created an opportunity to make itself look foolish in
front of those who have the answers to questions that science
is not even intelligent enough to ask--or honest enough to
ask.
Science is today finally exposed as a game to entertain and
distract the minds of the innocent seekers of the world while
the rest of humanity is led down the path to certain
destruction. This misdirection is not the result of some
human conspiracy. The path to destruction that the average
colonial person follows is as much a result of ignorance as
it is of malice on the part of some mysterious group bent on
controlling the world. Humanity has turned away from the
source of the answers to its questions because we just don't
know whom to ask or where to look. Any thinking person
recognizes that there are answers to be found, but if
humanity continues to grope in the darkness we may never find
these answers.
The cynical among us simply take advantage of the desire to
learn that lies within the hearts of seekers. They try to
achieve a separate agenda that has little to do with answers
to the important questions. It does not matter if it is an
agenda inspired by religion or an agenda inspired by greed.
The colonial world is full of people and organizations that
are ready and willing to steal the strength and courage of
the honest seeker and redirect it toward enslavement of the
masses. Science cannot escape from the consequences of the
reasoning upon which it is based. The thinking person must
make the great escape to a place where his or her mind is
free to search for answers to the questions that living
compels all human beings to ask.
It is reasonable to look to the oldest of cultures for the
answers that we seek, especially when the questions are old
ones. Our great escape from ignorance must inevitably lead us
to those older cultures. We should be humble and consider
ourselves lucky if the elder cultures give us the opportunity
to walk along the pathways of knowledge that they have forged
for themselves over tens of thousands of years.
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