Mark Twain famously said...

something like "The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened." Couldn't agree more. Today I am playing with the idea that everything that ever happened is connected to everything else simultaneously and completely. If this is so, then everything that happened or is happening is fully a part of the experience of all. There's that OM thing again.

I have been reading, Proof of Heaven, a Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife. The ideas in this book are by no means new to me or probably you. I am somehow annoyed at times by the author's shock at how a brilliant scientist like himself (his own characterization) could discover spiritual realities. I assume that it is because many scientists are a bit thicker than most people, or rather convinced of the idea that their reality is the only reality.

This is a bit strange when you think of how fast the facts of science change and how stable the fundamental principles of most religions have been. There is more to this game than meets the eye, or one does better now and forever if one adheres to guidelines like not killing and stealing and so on.

From Dr. Alexander's book:

In the 1920s, the physicist Werner Heisenberg (and other founders of quantum mechanics)made a discovery so strange that the world has yet to completely come to terms with it. When observing subatomic phenomena, it is impossible to completely separate the observer (that is, the scientist making the experiment) from what is being observed. In our day-to-day world, it is easy to miss this fact. We see the universe as a place full of separate objects, (tables and chairs, people and planets) that occasionally interact with each other, but nonetheless remain essentially separate. On the subatomic level, however, the universe of separate objects turns out to be a complete illusion. In the realm of the super-super-small, every object in the physical universe is intimately connected with every other object. in fact, there are really no "objects" in the world at all, only vibrations of energy, and relationships.

There is no reality possible without consciousness. OM again. And what I am wondering whether it is all available to all at anytime anywhere. So, maybe remembering things that never happened when we are older is more a symptom of a looser etheric body and an ability to tune into other vibrations with ease than of a crappy memory or a gone wild imagination.

(He wasn't old when he did this, but I used to think Garrison Keeler went into a bit of a trance when he told stories about Lake Woebegone and was just telling what he saw. Cool thought.)