The journal of Kelley May
1 May 2007
Have succeeded in losing about 15 pounds so far. I'll be where I want to be in another month or so.
I already feel my brain responding in a positive manner to the reduction of caloric intake. I sleep less, sleep deeper and can think more clearly than when I was overeating.
2 May 2007
Brahm Stoker's Dracula, Goethe's Faust Anne Rice's Taltos, Shelley's Frankenstein's Monster, Sir Arthur C. Clarke's 2010 & 3001 and Sagan's Contact. These are the only books I can recall having read through in a single sitting.
I just read Contact and was blown away. Why do we lose such towering luminaries to cancer? How much more could Sagan have contributed to our betterment as a species?
You are dearly missed, Carl.
3 May 2007
Max Tegmark makes the argument that at an almost infinite distance away there is an exact duplicate of ourselves and everything we know. If I understand him correctly, this is a result of the math required in the so-called "Many Worlds" approach to quantum decoherence or collapse.
If this is the case, then why just one? What about the next one at yet another almost infinite remove from that one? And why stop there? If there are infinite reproductions of ourselves and everything else, isn't this just another conformation of what the eastern seers have been telling us about the endless reflection in the "diamond" facets of the universe?
Or, for that matter, if space-time is curved as Einstein and the other mental giants among us seem to make such a convincing case for, isn't this "doppelganger" of mine at an almost infinite remove just another roundabout way of saying it is me? If space-time is curved, then everything is in a sense self-referential. We are merely looking at the kaleidoscope image from the other end.
Is this in a way like saying that the universe (multiverse, whatever) is actually a kind of hologram in time and space? Constructed of ever decreasing replicas of itself, each "part" having all the information necessary for the whole?
4 May 2007
Began Broca's Brain (by Sagan) last night. I am convinced I'll need to obtain all of his books eventually.
When did reading National Geographic become such a drag? I can't get through a single issue these days without heartbreak.
5 May 2007
Celebrating the Mexican victory over France with the Battle of Puebla today. This Cinco de Mayo holiday seems to be a bigger event in Texas than it is in Mexico itself. That's strange...
It appearing that Einstein being correct about gravity bending space-time, I have to wonder whether we ourselves, being at least somewhat "massive" also have an effect on space and time by our mere existence? What might this mean? Even though we cannot at present measure such an effect, that doesn't mean there is none. Imagine for a moment that our physical existrence is de facto the access portal to that beyond space-time! Baba Muktananda has said again and again, "Why seek far away what is right inside of you?" Christ and the other seers also attest to the "many mansions" of the kingdom of heaven, and affirms that "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you."
If our sense of space and time is confined to this continuum, then isn't it a reasonable hypothesis that the opposite of space-time (outside of living experience) is the lack thereof? Ergo, there is no more time: eternity.
That is the puzzle, isn't it? Why do we live our entire lives believing that our experience of eternity will be through the limited sensory means of our human bodies? Is being born again really no more than awakening a new portion of our minds beyond space-timeā"what some call the super consciousness? (And Jesus and Mahavira lacked scientific means of explaining what is still almost inexplicable by means of the most sophisticated mathematical terms?) "spirit is spirit and flesh is flesh." The flesh is confined to this word and no one gets out alive. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven...and "rich" might not mean only financial excess. It could mean rich in sensory stock, thoughts, fears, etc.