Key Points by Gary according to his interpretation from the book, 'A New Science of Heaven' by Robert Temple
Self reflection:
Is there a distinction in the consciousness between different types of crystalline plasma?
Yes, to me the higher conversation is with the Solar Logos (named by Gnosticism), rather than the dusty complex cloud (named by plasma physics).
The Solar Logos according to Gnosticism refers to 'the substance and consciousness of Christ, the powerful life whereby everything advances'. The dusty complex cloud is well-explained in the book, 'A New Science of Heaven.'
The Solar Logos feels to me an integral aspect of the intelligent ‘implicate order’ that underlies everything, whereas a dusty complex plasma such as the Kordylewski clouds between earth and moon may be a separated aspect -- and its intelligence similar to A.I.
The test and proof of any abstract concept is its practical outworking in daily life. How am I affected by my contemplations on a subject? Am I less reactive and more responsive? Less anxious and more calm? Less tense and more relaxed? Less stressed and more secure? Less confused and more grounded? Less agitated and more peaceful? Less judgmental and more compassionate?
Years ago, the inner voice spoke to me through a Cretan labyrinth found in a sheep 🐑 pasture near the German Baltic. The voice said, 'to find God, look into the subatomic' — which I did while walking the circuits to the center. I learned to draw the labyrinth but eventually forgot, and recently rekindled the interest and realized the key to drawing the labyrinth is in the seed pattern. The seed pattern of my 'practical practice' gleaned from the book, 'A New Science of Heaven' is in this prayer and decree:
'O Solar Logos, nurture and grow in me the crystalline plasma body. Knit it together with my atomic body and make of me a new human. Activate me as a node of the cosmic web, serving divine intelligence. This I pray and decree, amen, so be it.'
It seems essential to know with whom or what I am making connection. The Gnostics have elaborate prayers or incantations for their rituals. I like to reduce the wording to the most succinct and powerful, and sometimes shorten the above to: 'Solar Logos, make me like you, in human form.'
Notes from 'A New Science of Heaven':
• AllThatIs is mostly subatomic, non physical, electro-plasma.
• There are many kinds of electro-plasma.
• The sun and stars are composed of plasma.
• Non-light emitting electro-plasma is basically invisible.
• 'Empty space' is filled with invisible electro-plasma.
• Electro-plasma can generate particles and be self-organizing and self-sustaining.
• Spheres of dusty complex plasma have highly structured electromagnetic lattices (crystalline).
• Voids in dusty complex spheres are separated by sheaths for information storage and exchange.
• The ordered structure is nourished by and interacts with solar and other cosmic particle filaments.
• Clouds of subatomic crystalline plasma may be non-organic life forms — and intelligent.
• The dusty complex clouds between earth and the moon may be participating in earth life.
• Those clouds have possibly evolved computational powers many times greater than all human computers combined.
• Earth and inhabitants are rare atomic physical matter.
• Telepathic communication between humans and the subatomic crystalline clouds may be possible.
• The known characteristics of plasma can explain 'spiritual (e.g. burning bush), supernatural (ufos etc.), and paranormal (ghosts)' occurrences.
• In the dynamics of currents, there is an interface between the plasma inside us and our physical bodies.
• This interface could work in the human brain and account for features of our own consciousness and behaviour.
• Also suggested is an interface between our plasma selves and universal electromagnetic fields.
• The entire universe is a hologram, an unfolding of an intelligent ‘implicate order’ that underlies everything.
• This driving, ordering process is equally present everywhere in the Universe, underlying our intelligence, the intelligence we see in animals and plants, and the intelligence in the movements of plasma.
More of my questions:
Are humans and the earth an advanced evolutionary stage, or in a 'fallen' state unintended by original design?
Are the self-awareness and 'programming' of non light-emitting plasma the same as that of light-emitting?
Do some intelligent inorganic life forms as dusty complex clouds support whole human evolution, and some hinder it?
Either way, what's next for earth?
The questions seem relevant, since indicators point towards there being a 'great reset' in the timeline.
It is not only an economic and geopolitical reset, but also a cosmological one.
My version of what's next on earth could be called 'transatomic,' in which some humans have the ability to consciously shift between atomic matter and subatomic crystalline plasma, guided by the higher intelligence of more evolved complex plasma entities.
No technology, however advanced, will save humanity without the corresponding psychospiritual (whole human) evolution of individuals.
Understanding the electro-plasma universe and our place in it is a step towards the needed evolution of our species. Another step is integrating the new understanding. For that, mantras, breathwork, bodywork and ever-expanding awareness can be a start.
Our crystalline electro-plasma selves existing in an intelligent inorganic life form universe is not necessarily the end of the line, either. There may be something as much beyond that realm as quantum realities currently are beyond our matter-bound minds. The question I care most about remains, is it (whatever) useful and beneficial for whole human evolution or not. Does it open or close my heart in the way I relate?
In his book, 'Tantra of the Beloved', Virochana Khalsa wrote,
Love is experienced in a free abundance flowing within the heart.
Love is the natural, unrestricted, free flow of energy.
Love is the root emotion which literally holds our universe together....
A definition of e-motion is 'energy in motion'. When we master our emotions, we may be harnessing more power than we know.
Pondering such matters for a lifetime has been brought into focus by 'A New Science of Heaven', from which excerpts follow.
https://www.wholehuman.emanatepresence.com/plasma-heaven.html
Self reflection:
Is there a distinction in the consciousness between different types of crystalline plasma?
Yes, to me the higher conversation is with the Solar Logos (named by Gnosticism), rather than the dusty complex cloud (named by plasma physics).
The Solar Logos according to Gnosticism refers to 'the substance and consciousness of Christ, the powerful life whereby everything advances'. The dusty complex cloud is well-explained in the book, 'A New Science of Heaven.'
The Solar Logos feels to me an integral aspect of the intelligent ‘implicate order’ that underlies everything, whereas a dusty complex plasma such as the Kordylewski clouds between earth and moon may be a separated aspect -- and its intelligence similar to A.I.
The test and proof of any abstract concept is its practical outworking in daily life. How am I affected by my contemplations on a subject? Am I less reactive and more responsive? Less anxious and more calm? Less tense and more relaxed? Less stressed and more secure? Less confused and more grounded? Less agitated and more peaceful? Less judgmental and more compassionate?
Years ago, the inner voice spoke to me through a Cretan labyrinth found in a sheep 🐑 pasture near the German Baltic. The voice said, 'to find God, look into the subatomic' — which I did while walking the circuits to the center. I learned to draw the labyrinth but eventually forgot, and recently rekindled the interest and realized the key to drawing the labyrinth is in the seed pattern. The seed pattern of my 'practical practice' gleaned from the book, 'A New Science of Heaven' is in this prayer and decree:
'O Solar Logos, nurture and grow in me the crystalline plasma body. Knit it together with my atomic body and make of me a new human. Activate me as a node of the cosmic web, serving divine intelligence. This I pray and decree, amen, so be it.'
It seems essential to know with whom or what I am making connection. The Gnostics have elaborate prayers or incantations for their rituals. I like to reduce the wording to the most succinct and powerful, and sometimes shorten the above to: 'Solar Logos, make me like you, in human form.'
Notes from 'A New Science of Heaven':
• AllThatIs is mostly subatomic, non physical, electro-plasma.
• There are many kinds of electro-plasma.
• The sun and stars are composed of plasma.
• Non-light emitting electro-plasma is basically invisible.
• 'Empty space' is filled with invisible electro-plasma.
• Electro-plasma can generate particles and be self-organizing and self-sustaining.
• Spheres of dusty complex plasma have highly structured electromagnetic lattices (crystalline).
• Voids in dusty complex spheres are separated by sheaths for information storage and exchange.
• The ordered structure is nourished by and interacts with solar and other cosmic particle filaments.
• Clouds of subatomic crystalline plasma may be non-organic life forms — and intelligent.
• The dusty complex clouds between earth and the moon may be participating in earth life.
• Those clouds have possibly evolved computational powers many times greater than all human computers combined.
• Earth and inhabitants are rare atomic physical matter.
• Telepathic communication between humans and the subatomic crystalline clouds may be possible.
• The known characteristics of plasma can explain 'spiritual (e.g. burning bush), supernatural (ufos etc.), and paranormal (ghosts)' occurrences.
• In the dynamics of currents, there is an interface between the plasma inside us and our physical bodies.
• This interface could work in the human brain and account for features of our own consciousness and behaviour.
• Also suggested is an interface between our plasma selves and universal electromagnetic fields.
• The entire universe is a hologram, an unfolding of an intelligent ‘implicate order’ that underlies everything.
• This driving, ordering process is equally present everywhere in the Universe, underlying our intelligence, the intelligence we see in animals and plants, and the intelligence in the movements of plasma.
More of my questions:
Are humans and the earth an advanced evolutionary stage, or in a 'fallen' state unintended by original design?
Are the self-awareness and 'programming' of non light-emitting plasma the same as that of light-emitting?
Do some intelligent inorganic life forms as dusty complex clouds support whole human evolution, and some hinder it?
Either way, what's next for earth?
The questions seem relevant, since indicators point towards there being a 'great reset' in the timeline.
It is not only an economic and geopolitical reset, but also a cosmological one.
My version of what's next on earth could be called 'transatomic,' in which some humans have the ability to consciously shift between atomic matter and subatomic crystalline plasma, guided by the higher intelligence of more evolved complex plasma entities.
No technology, however advanced, will save humanity without the corresponding psychospiritual (whole human) evolution of individuals.
Understanding the electro-plasma universe and our place in it is a step towards the needed evolution of our species. Another step is integrating the new understanding. For that, mantras, breathwork, bodywork and ever-expanding awareness can be a start.
Our crystalline electro-plasma selves existing in an intelligent inorganic life form universe is not necessarily the end of the line, either. There may be something as much beyond that realm as quantum realities currently are beyond our matter-bound minds. The question I care most about remains, is it (whatever) useful and beneficial for whole human evolution or not. Does it open or close my heart in the way I relate?
In his book, 'Tantra of the Beloved', Virochana Khalsa wrote,
Love is experienced in a free abundance flowing within the heart.
Love is the natural, unrestricted, free flow of energy.
Love is the root emotion which literally holds our universe together....
A definition of e-motion is 'energy in motion'. When we master our emotions, we may be harnessing more power than we know.
Pondering such matters for a lifetime has been brought into focus by 'A New Science of Heaven', from which excerpts follow.
https://www.wholehuman.emanatepresence.com/plasma-heaven.html
ALL EXCERPTS
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 1: The Discovery of the Clouds
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Plasma is what this book is about. To put it very simply, plasma is matter that is made of ‘incomplete or partial atoms’, known as ions, and the much smaller particles known as protons and electrons. Plasma has sometimes been called the fourth state of matter, after solid, liquid and gas, but finer even than gas. We call the physical matter that is familiar to us ‘atomic matter’ because it is made of whole atoms, whereas plasma can also be described as non-atomic or subatomic matter.”
“This matters because, as I will show, there are good reasons to believe that plasma, with its ordering properties, can in certain circumstances be in some sense alive and can evolve intelligence. Because plasma is made up of charged subatomic particles, it is volatile and displays a tendency to form complex, constantly evolving patterns.”
“Clearly these ideas taken together open up vast new and very fruitful areas for speculation on the origins of the cosmos and the role of intelligence within it.
In fact, I will be arguing that life in its basic state is inorganic, and is not made out of atomic matter. I suggest that it is made out of pre-atomic matter, namely the atomic particles, electrons and protons, and ions – plasma.
Thus, I am suggesting that we and all living things in the Universe, whether organic or inorganic, arise from this plasma, and that the organic state is secondary to our fundamental nature as plasma beings. I believe that we can now start to articulate ‘a new science of heaven’. That is what this book is about, and that is what I propose to do.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter Two: Exploring the Nature of Plasma Clouds and their Energy
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Because the Kordylewski Clouds and others like them are bombarded from without by charged particles, the particles inside them and the dust interact with great intensity and complexity, evolving, as we shall see later, highly complex patterns. Such a large charged dust cloud in space is known as a ‘dusty complex plasma’.
One of the things which distinguishes such an entity is that all the processes inside it cannot be described by physicists using simple linear equations. Everything taking place inside this kind of plasma operates in a manner described by non-linear equations.
“When something is linear, it means there is a direct and identifiable connection between cause and effect, so that one can predict behaviour. But when linearity breaks down, everything becomes unpredictable and immensely complex.
It is important to bear non-linearity in mind, because it is a feature of quantum mechanical super computers now in development, and analogy with these will play a part in arguments later in the book to show that these clouds may be highly intelligent.
“Quantum computers break their information down into a different kind of bit, now called ‘qubits’. (The ‘qu’ stands for ‘quantum’.) Because quantum theory is a bit weird, a qubit can have the values of 0 and 1 at the same time. Very much like ‘having our cake and eating it’. Some say that qubits can even have any value between 0 and 1.”
“One might say that the work being done today on quantum computers is an attempt to construct computing devices that can do ‘non-linear reasoning’. Direct causation is linear. But some circumstances allow all sorts of unpredictable outcomes and unexpected influences. Direct causes that might take place in an ideal world get interrupted and blocked, and things come at you from the left and the right and they change things. This, as we will see later, is the inescapable and fundamental non-linearity of dusty complex plasmas.”
[Note: "subatomic crystalline plasma" is my preferred term for "dusty complex plasma". - Gary]
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 3: A Brief History of Plasma Research
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
"If plasma research is little known even in many academic and scientific circles, it is pretty much unknown to general readers. In fact, many of the greatest and most brilliant scientists of the age have been involved in researching the area, including several Nobel Prize winners. I am proud to have counted some of them as my good friends, to have corresponded with them and discussed their ideas.
This book includes a historical view of plasma research. I have written it partly because its implications for our “understanding of extraterrestrial intelligence and indeed our own intelligence are astonishing.
I will start with a brief account of how the terminology of plasma evolved, and this chapter will also introduce some of the eccentric personalities, mind-blowing ideas and amazing discoveries that feature later in the book.”
“Also in 1958, the United States exploded a ten megaton atomic bomb in the high atmosphere (at 75 kilometres, or 46.6 miles) in order to produce an artificial aurora and study the plasma regions above the planet. (The follow-up studies were still going on a year later, so lasting was the damage to the high atmosphere.) Many more such atomic blasts followed. It is now believed that all of these atomic explosions, apparently about one hundred of them, and other crazily ill-advised military ‘tinkering’ with the high atmosphere by both sides in the Cold War, contributed to the instabilities of worldwide climate that we see today."
“We need to keep uppermost in our minds that the question ‘What is life?’ is not going to go away, and we will need to bring it to bear when we consider the question of whether or not plasmas can be said to be living, intelligent and conscious.”
“What Prigogine discovered and proved was that energy brought into a chemical system, instead of always contributing by a process known as the increase of entropy (‘the progressive increase of disorder’), could be dissipated away into other directions and purposes that were productive and could form open, interactive structures such as life forms, known technically as ‘dissipative structures’.
These structures, being like isolated islands of positivity in a sea of increasing entropy and hopelessness, could instead become increasingly complex and self-organizing systems.
“Prigogine built upon these discoveries his concepts of self-organization, which are now at the heart of what we are finding in dusty complex plasmas. So what Prigogine did was no less than explain the central role of life in the Universe.
Although this was by no means heard by everyone, it was the philosophical death knell for the mechanical Universe.
And so we return to Tsytovich and his colleagues, and to plasma. Here are further comments made by Tsytovich and three colleagues in 2000:
Self-organization processes in dusty plasma are expected to be very important since the latter is an open system with a high rate of dissipation … a high rate of dissipation provides rapid development of self-organization processes and formation of long-lived dissipative structures … Dusty plasma is an open system where the rate of dissipation ...
“The importance of dusty plasmas being ‘open systems’ is that they can absorb energy from outside, which then fires the growth of complexity. The Kordylewski Clouds undoubtedly ‘feed’ on energy from the Sun in this way.
The next year, in 2001, Tsytovich published a paper ‘Evolution of Voids in Dusty Plasmas’ on the important subject of voids, or empty spaces, inside dusty complex plasmas. ‘It is shown that formation of dust voids is a general phenomenon in dusty plasmas.’17
Voids are of immense importance in general, though rarely recognized. “He went on to explain that whereas both dust structures and dust voids are formed in some plasmas, this cannot happen in a purely homogenous dusty plasma. There can be no internal architecture if the dust structures are not separated from one another by voids. A structure must be separated from the rest of the mass by a space, for otherwise it is no longer a distinct structure.”
“Complex plasmas may naturally self-organize themselves into stable interacting helical structures that exhibit features normally attributed to organic living matter. The self-organization is based on … physical mechanisms of plasma interactions … As a result, each helical string composed of solid microparticles [dust] is topologically and dynamically controlled by plasma fluxes leading to particle charging … These interacting complex structures exhibit thermodynamic and evolutionary features thought to be peculiar only to living matter … We examine the salient features of this new complex ‘state of soft matter’ in light of the autonomy, evolution, progenity and autopoiesis [autopoiesis refers to a system capable of reproducing and maintaining itself] principles used to define life. It is concluded that complex organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter that may exist in space provided certain conditions allow them to evolve naturally.21
This outspoken declaration could almost constitute a manifesto for the Kordylewski Clouds (though it was published twelve years before their existence was confirmed). Of course helical structures in humans have functions of storing and communicating information, so the crucial question raised here is: could helical structures in plasma have the same function? And could these be the seeds of an alternative, evolving form of life?”
“The passage specifically says that helical dust structures can replicate, in other words, like helical DNA molecules, inside dust clouds. Inorganic living entities are then formed that ‘compete for food’ in the form of sources of incoming plasma, which they eat. (As we have seen, in the case of the Kordylewski Clouds, most of their ‘food’ consists of the solar wind coming from the Sun.) All of this happens at a far faster rate of evolution than is the case with organic life, and in its development would outpace organic evolution by billions of years, hence clearly gaining dominance.
From this point of view, we as organic humans are rather primitive latecomers to a fantastically ancient tradition of inorganic life forms. ”
“With ‘dust’ made by the plasma itself replacing ‘atoms’ as the building blocks, living bodies can be formed. We might consider the charged dust to be ‘dust atoms’, or perhaps more accurately, ‘dust molecules’. And from them, charged plasma entities can emerge by the process called self-organization. That means that no outside source needs to create them, as they can create themselves.
By this means, plasma people can exist, who are imperceptible to the optical nerves of the ‘physical people’ who are made not of plasma but of flesh and blood. Because we are incapable of directly perceiving the plasma people, we do not know they are there. And furthermore, they may be of such diffuse matter that they can pass through our dense physical matter and emerge intact. Scientists know that ball lightning does this, as we will discuss in Chapter 4. Spiritual beings such as angels are also said to have this capability, which we will come to in Chapter 6.
If what these scientists are showing – and I for one think they are – is that the internal structures of the two clouds could be so complex, and at such a vast scale, then they surpass any possible human knowledge at this time…
“The presiding consciousnesses, or what psychologists call ‘the executive ego states’, of the two clouds will have personalities so alien from our own that we cannot conceive of them...."
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 4: The 99 Per Cent
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
One accepts those incompatible things which, only because they coexist, are called the world. – Jorge Luis Borges
In this chapter, I want to discuss a very surprising assertion that is not at all well known to the general public and perhaps not well known even by scientists who work in other fields, but is universally accepted by scientists who do work in the field of plasma research. Alongside our atomic, visible world is the subtler universe of plasma.”
“All but an infinitesimal part of the universe appears to be made up of plasma, probably all of it magneto-plasma. Thus in most problems in cosmic electrodynamics we are dealing with a non-rigid and electrically conducting medium extending to infinity … the remainder of the universe is made up of various plasmas … The plasmas with the lowest degrees of ionization are the lower parts of the ionospheres of the Earth and other planets. These regions are really boundary regions between the universal plasma and the small insulating, atmospheric shells. (John Hobart Piddington, Cosmic Electrodynamic…)
“Under ordinary terrestrial conditions the plasma state of matter is quite rare and unusual. But in the universe, cold solid bodies such as our Earth appear to be a rare exception. Most of the matter in the universe is ionized, i.e., it exists in the plasma state … In our own solar system the Sun consists entirely of plasma, its mass being three hundred and thirty thousand times larger than the mass of the Earth. The upper layers of the Earth’s atmosphere are ionized by the Sun, i.e., they consist of plasma …
“ Many plasma phenomena are evident on a colossal scale in deep space … In our opinion mankind is entering into the space age which, to a considerable degree, is also a plasma age. This new stage in the growth of science and technology imposes increasing requirements on the youngest branch of physics, plasma physics.”
(David Albertovich Frank-Kamenetskii, Plasma: The Fourth State of Matter, 1972, pp. 2–8.)
… space is not empty. A percentage of atoms in space are positively charged due to the loss of one or more electrons. The resulting exceedingly thin medium, containing positive ‘ions’ and negative electrons, is plasma, sometimes called ‘the fundamental state of matter’ since it constitutes more than 99 per cent of the visible universe. The electromagnetic behaviour of plasma clearly distinguishes it from solids, liquids, and gases.
“We cannot therefore draw conclusions about universal truths based upon a highly divergent, atypical, and almost infinitesimally small percentage of what exists. We cannot be certain that any of our physics is universally applicable and hence ‘true’ in the sense that we have complacently assumed.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 5: Great Balls of Fire
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“We have to stop thinking in terms of physically dense matter. As we will see shortly, semiconduction does not require physically dense substances like silicon and germanium microchips, and the transmission of current does not require wires of any kind!
Plasma equivalents of both semiconduction and wires are fundamental to complex plasmas, especially to plasma crystals. And it appears that some fireballs, or lightning balls, are indeed complex plasmas, and as we will see later, the ones that are of that kind can be full of internal ‘cells’, semiconductor regions, and filamentary current carriers galore. We have begun building the argument to show that internal structure self-organizes and ‘emerges’ from dusty complex plasmas, and some of the lightning balls are probably of that category of plasma.”
“Readers may wonder about what it means to call a plasma crystal a crystal. After all, we are used to holding gems and quartz and such things in our hands, turning them around, looking at them gleam, or wearing them in rings and bracelets, etc. What possible justification can there be for calling a cloud of plasma in space or a ball of plasma ‘crystalline’? Well, it is really a scientific convention, perhaps illuminated by words on ‘what is a crystal’ from an essay by Eugene Wigner, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963:”
“...the constituents of a crystal (which for a plasma crystal means positively and negatively charged ions and particles) form a lattice. This means that the crystal has an ordered inner structure. As we will see later, this inner structure can be very useful in the storage of memory, computation and other faculties of intelligence.
And in space, plasma clouds that are crystalline are undoubtedly polycrystalline and consist of myriads of smaller crystals. If you or I were able to stand in space next to a plasma crystal we could only ‘see’ it if we had magic powers. Its constituent particles are far too small for the human eye to see, even with our microscopes. So there might appear to be nothing there.
“The gist of it is that free energy in the form of electrons that are bouncing around in a crystal will form complete spheres.”
“We have just seen Eugene Wigner’s helpful explanation of crystals that are not the solid objects with which we are all familiar. Plasma crystals are not solid and they are made of charged particles and ions, containing a crucial admixture of microscopic dust particles that make the crystalline structure possible. Most of them are invisible to our eyes and weigh essentially nothing.
As I explained early in this book, when I stressed that the Universe is made of 99.9 per cent plasma, so that solid dense matter is very rare and atypical, so I must now stress that it follows that plasma crystals are very common and pieces of quartz and gems are very rare. We must not take what is familiar to us in daily life as the basis for trying to understand the Universe, as that gives us a wholly distorted picture of reality.....”
“This has all kinds of implications. Plasma crystals are capable of being fantastically complex, and complex in an ordered and dynamic way needed for intelligence.”
“In Chapter 14 we bring all this together to summarize the arguments that complex plasma can be intelligent. We will see that intelligence of complex plasmas such as the Kordylewski Clouds may not be exactly like ours, and speculate that it may be more like the artificial intelligence and quantum computers now in development.
Then in the last section of the book, Chapters 15–17, we will look at the plasma inside our bodies and ask what the implications are. Is our own intelligence in some way dependent on this plasma?”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 6: When Heaven Was Young
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“The Gnostics believed that an elect group of people of spiritual inclinations who pursued sacred knowledge would constitute the section of the human population, who would survive the vicissitudes of the corrupt world of physical matter, and after their physical deaths would enter a Kingdom of Light, in which resided a variety of plasmic deities culminating in ‘the Father’.
This was a name they used for the highest god of all. Jesus used this very term himself and instead of speaking of the Kingdom of Light, he spoke of the Kingdom of the Father. The light emitted by ‘the Father’ is described in Gnostic texts as being stronger than 10,000 times 10,000 suns. ‘The Father’ had no physical body, but was essentially what might perhaps be called a light-ball, or plasma-ball. Those who were ‘saved’ would themselves put on “‘vestures of light’ and become mini plasma-balls and would live forever in a heavenly plasma world.”
“The Platonic philosopher Damascius (458–550 AD) believed that the human spirit was ‘a radiant body filled with heavenly radiance, a glory that streams through its depths, and lends it a divine strength; but in lower states, losing its radiance, it is dirtied, as it were, and becomes darker and darker and more material.’6
The philosopher Philoponus of Alexandria (490–570 AD) believed that this spirit was a higher soul attached to the basic soul. In other words, he believed, as did the ancient Egyptians, in more than one level of soul for each person. He wrote: ‘There is, moreover, beyond the soul another kind of body, that is forever attached to the soul, which they call radiant or starlike … (and) it forever keeps its radiant body, which is of an everlasting nature.’7”
“Are plasma entities to be regarded as helpful or harmful to us? The traditions are explicit that they can be both. But the helpful ones are radiant with light, whereas the harmful ones are dark and perverse, as their light has been contaminated and made obscure with the dirt of corruption. It is time that humans were given a proper briefing on this ‘material world of the spirit’.
This is a short survey of some of the myriad descriptions of light phenomena in ancient religions...."
“Aristotle went much further than only proposing that there was a higher form of matter. He actually proposed that each living physical body had a corresponding aetheric body, or what is now called by some modern scientists a ‘bioplasma body’. (We will hear much more about bioplasma bodies later on.)”
“This new element is according to Aristotle a soma [physicality] and can therefore be counted among the ‘natural somata’ [plural of soma]. But it does not share the hylē [substance] of the four earthly corpora [elements]. For this reason it is described as ahylon [possessing no hylē, or physical body], as a kind of ‘immaterial matter’ … While maintaining his belief in the divinity of the celestials [divine beings] and their eternal existence, Aristotle bases this stance on his own new theory of the fifth element … the celestial spheres [consist] of the divine fifth element."
“Sacred speech is essentially something that emerges from something else, just as our breath is emitted from us into the air around us. It seems that the ancient peoples when referring to the creative speech of the primal god were trying to convey the concept of expelled, structured breath entering into a surrounding medium but retaining its own form, and thus constituting matter.”
“Since we now know that the Universe is a seething ocean of plasma, and as it has now been proven that plasma makes dust, and that dust is matter, it is legitimate to consider that the ‘material Universe’ has been extruded from and created by the universal plasma. In other words, the 1 per cent is the creation of the 99 per cent. And looked at from that perspective, the traditional religious views of the creation of matter are justified. For the spontaneously formed dust and the baryons are the building blocks of the familiar world around us.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 7: Kristian Birkeland’s Miraculous Discovery
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Kristian Birkeland (1867–1917) is famous in Norway, and his picture was until recently on their 200 kroner banknote, so between its appearance in 1994 and its withdrawal in 2018, the Norwegians were reminded of him every day when they went shopping. He was a very brave man, who spent years freezing in the Arctic wastes in the north of Norway making detailed observations of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights as they are often called. He concluded that the Northern Lights (and there are southern ones too at the South Pole, known as the Aurora Australis) must be caused by streams of charged particles pouring in from the Sun towards the Earth’s poles. These particles then glow and cause all the beautiful lights.
This theory caused the utmost outrage, and astronomers all over the world called Birkeland a madman. Did he not realize that space was empty? Charged particles could not pass through empty space! And so instead of facing Birkeland’s carefully presented evidence, the world’s ‘astrophysical community’ stuck with their insistence upon empty space and decided that Birkeland was a crank. He died unrecognized in 1917. His theories about the Aurora were not proven.
“In 1913, Birkeland also may have been the first to predict that plasma is ubiquitous in space. He wrote:
It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds. We have assumed that each stellar system in evolutions throws off electric corpuscles into space. It does not seem unreasonable therefore to think that the greater part of the material masses in the Universe is found, not in the solar systems or nebulae, but in ‘empty’ space. (Quoted on Wikipedia with no reference.)27”
“Since Isaac Newton (1643–1727), science and the world had moved towards a material mechanical view of the Universe, picturing solid objects in dead and empty space, held in orbit by gravity. It was a picture to inspire a certain cold wonder, perhaps; gravity was king here. Then Birkeland discovered that electric currents travelling from the Sun were entering Earth’s atmosphere. This was a profound and important mystery because electricity can’t cross empty space.
It would be another forty years before two scientific geniuses solved this mystery and began to build up a picture of the Universe filled with a web of electrical impulses like a macrocosmic brain.”
''A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 8: The Cosmic Web
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“And as regards ‘dark matter’, which would eventually become widely accepted in the scientific community, my position is that one does not need to invent strange new kinds of matter, since it is plasma in different states (gaseous, liquid, solid, etc.) that is in ‘the dark mode’ and hence invisible to us. This fits perfectly with what we now know about the Universe consisting of 99.9 per cent plasma, bearing in mind too how hard it has been to photograph or even find the Kordylewski Clouds.”
“But what is important for this book and this chapter is that Zwicky produced evidence to show that space is not empty. Until then ‘outer space’ had been assumed to be totally empty, consisting of a perfect vacuum, with the exception of the solid orbiting bodies such as planets, moons, asteroids, etc. within the solar system and stars outside it. In other words, no medium was recognized. What happened to Zwicky after his discovery is an example of how blind and stubborn ignorance can hold back our understanding, because of the ‘tactics of ignoring’ new findings by the self-styled ‘Establishment'.
“... After d’Azambuja’s discovery of the solar wind, astronomers simply ignored it, as they had ignored Zwicky. Many famous astronomers continued to insist in the most vehement fashion that space was ‘empty’, and this remained very much the Astronomical Establishment’s position. There is nothing like ‘establishments’ of all kinds to ignore advances and new findings, and try to retain the status quo! And we must never forget that there is a status quo of ignorance, which is precious to the mediocre minds incapable of original thought who make up ‘the Establishment’.”
“.... However, the situation has become even worse today, for now it is not only observatory committees that prevent things from being published, but also the organized and combined forces of military, security and corporate power. Most scientists working in astrophysics in America today have signed confidentiality agreements with military agencies, and a large proportion of their work is kept secret under various security classifications, many of which are wholly unnecessary. If the scientists try to release their findings, they can go to jail.”
“Alfvén’s breakthrough was to follow up Birkeland’s speculations by identifying plasma as the medium by which electric currents could travel through space, as he extrapolated what he discovered about the currents running between the Sun and the Earth first to the galaxy and then to whole of the Universe.
This breakthrough would lead to both a radical new understanding of the contents of the cosmos and also – by coming to an understanding of the mechanisms by which plasma carried the currents and in turn the effects of currents of plasma – a greater understanding of plasma and its extraordinary properties....
Because Alfvén showed that the Universe has this vast network of plasma filaments carrying electric currents, he also showed that the Universe is full of electromagnetic fields. In fact, Alfvén’s electric currents in space produce a complex and dynamic interaction of magnetic fields, magnetic currents and electric fields throughout space. The charging of particles in plasmas and space by electromagnetic fields in turn modifies the electromagnetic fields. Whereas once space was thought of as empty, we now know that at a subatomic and quantum level, space is a jungle of plasma, a highly charged, creative ecosystem – with matter in the form of particles being one of the things it creates.
“Alfvén showed that a Birkeland Current is a stream of either negatively charged particles (electrons) or positively charged particles (protons and positive ions) that can travel for immense distances through space (many millions of miles or even billions of miles at speeds not far below the speed of light) along a ‘twisted rope’ not made of dense matter at all. The ‘rope’ is made entirely of the charged particles themselves and the magnetic fields generated by those streams of current. Scientists call these ropes ‘filaments’. When there are several of them seen at once, they are referred to as a filamentary structure. Sometimes they consist of substantial bundles of filaments, and sometimes of only two, which are literally a ‘double helix’.1
Superconductivity is an extraordinary phenomenon, first observed in 1911, by which a current can pass through certain materials and experience zero resistance. Classical physics cannot explain how this works and the quantum mechanical explanation is still not complete. But in 1970, Laszlo Solymar and Donald Walsh, two particularly brilliant scientists, clarified the nature of superconductivity to a large degree by pointing “out that superconductive filamentary currents consist of a central magnetic field surrounded by whirling layers of current vortices...."
“The charged particles that reach the Earth from the Sun are mostly positively charged, made of protons and ions emitted by the Sun, and they stream along Birkeland Currents towards the north and south poles of our planet. They are literally space rivers of positive current streaming into our planet, and into all other planets in our solar system as well. What this means is that there are ‘threads’ connecting the Sun with all of the planets, which is thus in continuous direct communication with all the ‘small fry’ by means of these rivulets. Of course, the rivulets get all twisted up because of the revolutions of the planets, and sometimes the rivulets are shut off and then new ones start up again.”
“Birkeland Currents beneath the surface of our own Sun are known to be 40,000 miles wide, as mentioned earlier. The ones linking stars are far larger, and ones linking galaxies in filaments to form ‘the cosmic web’ of the Universe are so gigantic that they are much wider than the diameter of any sun or star. Many have been observed and recorded by astronomers, including the Sloan Great Wall – a filament that is an amazing 1.37 billion light years long.
Birkeland Currents can also be microscopic. Our bodies are full of them. It is because of the nature of such infinitesimally small currents that we are alive …"
“The way in which the ‘ropes twist’ to form Birkeland Currents in a double-helix shape is really rather astounding. Does this remind you of anything? Yes, there is a distinct similarity between the structure of the DNA molecule and a Birkeland Current. Not only is this, in my opinion, no coincidence, but we shall see that since the 1970s there have been cell biologists insisting that charged currents flow along the DNA molecules inside our bodies, and that they are superconducting. Double helixes not only carry currents, they transmit information. All of this is getting us closer and closer to what I believe to be the nature and structure of a plasma body, and to the reasons for believing that intelligence can evolve in plasma.”
“Time and again in history, science seems only to progress via vicious ridicule, followed by vindication and reluctant, hypocritical acceptance by most of the people who have spent years insulting the innovative thinkers. Kristian Birkeland and those who have followed in promoting his idea of electric currents streaming through space, have defied orthodoxy and ridicule and have put forward a far more convincing explanation of how the Universe works. I certainly believe them to be correct.
“Filaments are fundamental to the Universe, and to all entities. They carry current. And they can carry information in the form of signals, they can transport energy, and so forth. In the Universe as a whole, they are everywhere. They constitute the major portion of the Universe’s structure, which today is known as the Cosmic Web. Here we see two similar adjoining images. The top one shows the Cosmic Web of the Universe. The bottom one shows the neural network of the human brain. Both are constituted of masses of filaments separated by voids and joined at intersection points called nodes. The Cosmic Web is called that because of the web-like nature of the filaments, which many believe to be filamentary channels for the conduction of energy and currents across astronomical distances. Some scientists call them Birkeland Currents (named after the Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland), which contain current-carrying double-helixes spiralling forward and surrounded by protective sheaths.”
The 99.9 per cent of the Universe that is plasma is not sitting there inert. It is fantastically active and dynamic.
And we shall shortly see that as plasma beings, we are part of that universal process.”
“... As with the Universe and its Cosmic Web, the Brain Web of a human being displays filamentary networks separated by voids and joined at nodes. Is the Universe a giant brain? Is the human brain a mini-Universe? In any case, these phenomena are examples of ‘fractality’ (a term arising from the study of fractal geometry), which means similar patterns and structures occurring at different scales, from the microscopic to the cosmic. Such reoccurrences of shapes are often referred to as the ‘self-similarity’ of forms which remain the same across different scales. These concepts arise from the pioneering genius Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), discoverer of fractals. ”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 9: The Cold Sun
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“We have all been told for our entire lives that the Sun is a raging furnace blasting out heat and light, which keep us alive here on Earth. The Sun is supposedly so hot that nothing one can imagine could survive for even a fraction of an instant without being melted and consumed and annihilated within its inferno. The Sun is inconceivably hot, inconceivably violent, inconceivably turbulent. It is like a great bully in the sky, roaring with rage and spewing out fire and rays.
But this is not true. And nobody could be more shocked than I was when I discovered this. It had made sense to me, having no specialist knowledge of all the other aspects of the matter, that the Sun must be the roaring inferno that was so widely claimed. And when I was told that it was powered at its core by the equivalent of an internal hydrogen bomb of fantastic and gigantic size, which generated all of its immense energy by the power of thermonuclear fusion and kept us all alive, I saw nothing to question in that. After all, where else could all that energy possibly be coming from? It must be true.
But then the conventional idea of the Sun began to fall apart for me, as I discovered some very strange facts in recent years. The ultimate discovery I made, which convinced me that ‘nearly everybody is wrong about the Sun’, was the revelation that the Sun is cold.
How can that be? Surely the Sun cannot be cold. You can see through telescopes that it is a turbulent mass of fire, spewing out blobs of fire into space, and it looks like a vast fiery creature gone mad.
But no. That is not accurate...."
“As we saw in Chapter 8, huge streams of electrons pour into the polar regions of the Sun continuously from immensely long galactic Birkeland currents. This continual inflow of negatively charged electrons provides the pressure to expel the oppositely charged positive ions into space, which form the solar wind. This system of solar activity is described in ‘the electric sun’ theory. It provides a way for the Sun to operate for billions of years without the need for any central explosion at all.
Although some atoms are known to be created by the Sun, they are created under the intense temperatures of the corona, far above the main body. In other words, the temperatures needed to create the higher chemical elements are outside of the Sun’s core body and take place in what is effectively its outer skin. This is like trees, the centres of whose trunks are essentially unproductive and simply inert wood, whereas the true life processes of the tree trunk take place in its bark.
Another major problem for the ‘thermonuclear folks’ who refuse to give up their hydrogen bomb in the centre of the Sun is what is known as ‘the neutrino question’. It is admitted by everyone that there should be a very large number of the tiny nuclear particles known as neutrinos pouring out of the Sun as a result of any thermonuclear explosion. But the requisite number of neutrinos has never been detected. This embarrassing lack of neutrinos is often a source of public anguish to many in the ‘astrophysical community’.
In the next chapter we shall look at more scientific discoveries, which show the Earth’s relationship with the Sun to be very different from what we generally assume it to be.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 10: Invisible Earth
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“...On the basis of the evidence presented above, we regard it as established that the great radiation belt around the earth consists of charged particles, temporarily trapped in the earth’s magnetic field … The radiation belt may well be the seat of a distributed ‘ring’ current encircling the earth, and the perturbations of the belt due to arrival of solar plasma may be directly responsible for solar storms. No detailed study of this possibility has yet been made.
What Van Allen had discovered was confirmation of the hypothesis put forward by Kristian Birkeland.
“Furthermore, without apparently fully realizing the significance of what he was saying, Van Allen said that maybe there was a ‘ring current’ around the Earth. This article therefore can be considered as the first appearance in print of physical confirmation of Birkeland Currents in space.
But Van Allen and his colleagues were still struggling with the concept of plasma in space. They persisted in referring to what came from the Sun as a ‘gas’, albeit an ionized gas, “which they hesitantly called a ‘solar plasma’. But at this stage, no one yet understood the true nature of what we today refer to in common parlance as ‘the solar wind’, the massive streaming of plasma from the Sun outwards into the entire solar system, and bathing the Earth.”
“In 2013, a temporary third Van Allen Belt was discovered by NASA, but it was subsequently destroyed by a shock wave from the Sun. Or so the story goes, though it may simply be a cover story to explain its destruction by human interference.
The second and outer Van Allen Belt is now known to consist largely of electrons, whereas the inner and smaller one consists of a mixture of protons and electrons. It was only in 2014 that it was discovered that the inner edge of the outer Van Allen Belt is very sharp and highly defined, and resembles a protective barrier. Scientists are still trying to understand that discovery.
This finding is, however, precisely what one would expect, because plasma regions whether large or small are routinely surrounded by closely fitting plasma sheaths, which are rather thin, and their edges do tend to be very sharp and highly defined, as we now know is the outer Van Allen Belt.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 11: Radiant Matter, Plasma and Plasmoids
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“A plasma is a distinct entity that has emerged from the great plasma soup, and a plasmoid is a type of plasma, which as we are about to see is often spherical or blob shaped, or sometimes shaped like a doughnut – and it also has strange properties.”
“… the plasma is emitted not as an amorphous blob, but in the form of a torus [the geometrical term for a doughnut shape] … We shall take the liberty of calling this toroidal structure a plasmoid, a word which means plasma-magnetic entity.”
“When four plasmoids were fired at each other, they spun into dramatic spiral shapes, of which Bostick published photographs. They seemed to him to be behaving as living entities. ‘In other words,’ he wrote, ‘we appear to be dealing with bodies which have strong powers of self-organization and preservation.’ He also described the plasmoids as being made of a ‘self-organizing putty’.
“Bostick became so excited by this that he also reverted to an earlier concern with galaxy formation, and wrote: ‘It is possible to apply the knowledge gained concerning the nature of plasmoids to a hypothesized process of galaxy formation …’
What Bostick is getting at here is that the behaviour of charged plasma and plasmoids may be similar at all scales of size, from these tiny plasmoids in his laboratory to the scale of entire galaxies in space.
Figure 21. Bostick’s photo, taken as a two-microsecond ‘snapshot’, showing what happened when he fired two plasmoids at each other. To his astonishment, they combined to form a ‘barred spiral’ shape resembling the well-known barred-spiral galaxies in space. As he wrote: ‘Occasionally two plasmoids crashing head on break into fragments, but even these fragments seem to behave as entities. In other words, we appear to be dealing with bodies which have strong powers of self-organization and preservation.’”
“So then they thought, as plasmoids bounce off one another, perhaps we can bounce one off a copper plate with no hole. What happened next was really disturbing. The plasmoid passed through the copper plate as if it were not there, a phenomenon we have already noted in relation to lightning balls – and ‘fermions’ on the quantum scale – and which is also similar to the behaviour of angels and other spiritual beings as reported in religious traditions....
“What is important for our argument here is that giant plasmoids from the Sun, given the complex behaviour that led Bostick to think of them as living entities, could easily be so intricate and complex in their structure that, in line with the discovery of the Kordylewski Clouds, they could even be intelligent or conscious entities. The implications of that would truly be limitless. Just imagine, for instance, that every plasmoid belched forth by the Sun and reaching the Earth or one of the Kordylewski Clouds could be in effect a program (in the sense of a computer program) and in that sense a communication of intelligence....
“In that scenario, the Sun could be controlling the Earth’s atmospheric phenomena directly when it wishes. Such plasmoids could also in principle contain information that receptive people could perceive indirectly as ‘inspiration’. The Sun could ‘talk to’ the Kordylewski Clouds, the planets, our higher atmosphere, and anyone else who is listening. SETI people should really look for coded information concealed in plasma bursts coming from the Sun. But before we can explain that, we need to know some more about the fundamentals of plasmoids, and their habit of emitting signals.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 12: Plasma Comes Alive
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“By 1954, Alfvén had elaborated his ideas further and insisted that the planets and comets of our solar system (and by implication those of all other solar systems) were all formed as a result of the coagulation of dust particles in the solar nebula (the ‘dust cloud’ surrounding the early Sun) as a result of being electrically charged by plasma. (The dust was more important for the solid planets, of course, since the giant planets largely consist of plasma that is not solid.)
Many plasma scientists now suggest that stars form initially from dust. What happens is that the “charged dust in a large plasma cloud in space coagulates to form a dust ball, which constitutes what is called a proto-stellar core, around which more of the cloud slowly collapses until a star is formed.4 ”
“Since we know that more than 99 per cent of the Universe consists of plasma, what little solid matter there is seems to exist primarily in the form of solid dust particles and grains, most or all of which floats in the vast plasma clouds. That reduces even further the amount of ‘solid matter’ of the sort that we see around us every day here on Earth, and it makes planets and moons even scarcer than we had thought, in terms of proportion of what exists, compared to everything else. That does not mean that there are very few planets and moons, quite the contrary, for we now know that there are untold billions of them. But what it means is that no matter how many there are, they still form a negligible proportion of what exists.
I do not believe anyone has calculated how much solid matter is left, after you subtract the plasma-bound dust. But as we face these facts, our familiar world is shrinking in significance all around us in the most drastic fashion. And, as I have already pointed out, if we have a science that is entirely based upon living in an atypical world, our science is going to be atypical. So we must reform it at once!
Are some plasmas alive?....
“We have seen in the work of Peter Kapitsa that the crystalline structure of complex dusty plasmas makes them potentially far more complex than human bodies. There are soft, broadly crystal-like structures that grow into beautiful and intricate entities with the ability to transmit information over vast distances. Particles within a plasma can interact in concert with other particles.”
“We might thus be tempted to view Dust Balls as highly structured ‘intelligent’ systems capable of storing and processing ‘information’ and realize that they may have many more surprising and unexpected features. Indeed, such huge stable entities that have presumably endured for astronomical timescales and have steadily grown in complexity over billions of years may display spontaneously evolved phenomena resembling those of the most highly complex living entities.
This situation is not dissimilar to the brain-like like complexity of the ‘cosmic web’ discussed by Ginsburg et al. (2019), “although it is potentially even more impressive in its computational potential: the Dust Balls would contain an intricate combination of charged dusty plasma in gaseous, liquid, and crystal states, with regions of positive charge and regions of negative charge separated from each other by sheaths and double layers, and containing superconducting filaments, so that it would be difficult for us to speak of a Kordylewski Cloud as a whole being singly charged or having a total net charge (or zero net charge), since there would be so many multiple regions of varying charges that a total net charge for each cloud would only be relevant when speaking of the cloud externally, such as in relation to the solar wind which is known to be predominantly positively charged.”
“So we see that it is the spinning grains that generate the energy to form structured clouds, as if they were a vast army of microscopic power generators, which ‘create’ the organization of the whole cloud. The number of spinning grains inside each Kordylewski Cloud could be as many as 10 followed by 26 zeroes. As we point out (see Appendix 1), the electrical connections and current exchanges between adjacent charged grains, even if they are as much as a centimetre apart in a Kordylewski Cloud, would create a structure that might well be able to function as a gigantic computer/brain capable of storing and processing digital information.”
“This is what a dusty complex plasma is like. Every single particle is ‘one in a million’ and can be individually detected in principle, and yet this vast and seemingly tenuous grouping constitutes a powerful structure, unified, coherent and immensely complex, bound together with overwhelming invisible strength and powerful forces. For us feeble humans, who are not used to thinking of such things, we are like the public at the time of Copernicus (1473–1543), who simply
could not imagine an Earth going round a Sun. This is how fantastically different thinking about dusty complex plasmas is from anything with which we are familiar in our lives.
An analogy here on Earth would be if we were to claim that the ocean is a giant brain. Well, it is not. That is because it is here on Earth, is made of atoms, and is physical matter. This is how different plasma really is. With dusty complex plasmas, a tenuous and essentially invisible cloud in space can hold together and become a brain even bigger than an ocean, a brain so gigantic that it is many times larger than our entire planet. We have to get used to thinking like this, and to realize that these clouds in space are so different from anything we know in our lives, or anything we could have imagined, that all of our conventional notions are completely useless.
Another crucial thing to realize about plasma structures is that they maintain their integrity by means of something called the double layer, also sometimes called a bilayer, which has helpful electromagnetic properties.
Two different plasma regions of entirely different kinds can be rigorously separated from one another by these “rigorously separated from one another by these double layers. The double layers are like a double skin, being a sheet of positive charge on one side and a sheet of negative charge on the other side. For those familiar with microbiology, they are similar to the double layers that occur within our own physical bodies as walls of cells, called membranes, with a hydrophilic (water-loving) surface facing one way and a hydrophobic (water-hating) surface back to back with it and facing the other way.”
“It is such double layers that surround the Birkeland Currents in space, which were discussed earlier, and which transport electricity across interstellar and even intergalactic distances. Within those filamentary structures, the current spirals can be superconductive, which means that the current can pass without loss over vast distances, and there is no resistance to cause it to diminish at all.”
“A stable dusty complex plasma ball of immense size, which has possibly endured for aeons and experienced continual growth and expansion over countless millennia, is in principle capable of developing something resembling a much more complex nervous system than a human brain with its average lifetime of around a hundred years. A complex dusty Kordylewski Cloud that has existed for many millions of years might even have become self-aware, with all that this implies. ”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 13: The Mysterious Case of the Dirty Gas
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Microbial clouds and dusty plasma are analogous in many ways as both are made of invisible and microscopic particles. And later in this chapter and the next I will be examining the work done on what are called our ‘bioplasma bodies’, which are invisible and which surround us, just as the microbial clouds do. The concept of bioplasma bodies suggests that we are jointly constructed of physical bodies and bioplasma bodies, which operate in synch.
The further suggestion is that when we ‘die’, because our physical body has worn out or been damaged beyond repair, our bioplasma body may detach from “our physical body and abandon it to ‘death’. We might be said to continue to exist as bioplasmic beings made of non-atomic matter – of plasma. On this way of looking at it, the ‘soul’ is thus material, but in a different and more rarefied sense than was the physical body. This leads to the concept of bioplasma beings existing without ‘physical bodies’, and I suggest that this is what is often referred to as ‘the Other World’.
Traditionally it has been called ‘the spiritual world’, upon the assumption that it must be wholly immaterial. It was assumed that body and spirit were entirely separate, one being ‘material’ and one being entirely non-material. I touched on this earlier, and it is what I regard as the prime fallacy of our Western civilization (as previously explained, it is not a fallacy that was ever traditionally adopted by the Chinese.)”
“It is possible that most microbiologists of today do not know enough about plasma to realize that it acts as an excellent conductor of charged currents when there are imbalances of charge in the plasma, or when the plasma has a cellular structure, such as we find in the Earth’s atmosphere or in dusty plasmas such as the Kordylewski Clouds. (As we have seen, cellular structure implies the existence of boundary layers, known as ‘double-layers’, surrounding the cells, and these layers themselves carry currents, often very powerful ones.)
If the microbial clouds around us are charged by plasma “or become part of a plasma cloud, or even generate a plasma cloud through their own charges, then they can potentially carry electric currents, whether electricity (negatively charged currents) or proticity (positively charged currents). And of course, once you have electric currents, you get magnetic fields. We may thus be surrounded by highly complex ultra-weak currents and fields, the existence of which no one has ever suspected until now, at least not ones involving microbes and dust.”
“The relevance of electricity and magnetism to the human body was revealed very dramatically in 1963, when Gerhard M. Baule and Richard McFee made the first scientific detection of a naturally occurring ‘biomagnetic field’ in the human body, and they proved the existence of a magnetic field associated with the action of the human heart.4 The electrical and magnetic aspects of the human heart are now universally accepted, but it was very painful and difficult for scientific and medical experts to accept this discovery at the time, because it went against the ‘body as a machine’ “theory, by which everything was supposed to be chemical and mechanical. (Modern machines use electricity, but ‘the body as a machine’ theory did not allow for that, and was essentially based on models of clocks and nineteenth-century factory machines.)
Pre-existing fixations, theories rigidly adhered to, ossified notions, and fixed opinions are the great enemies of progress in science; but scientists are human beings, with all the limitations that that implies.”
“But in America Reich caused even more alarm because he was speaking openly of orgasms, and as everyone knows Americans in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s didn’t have any. Reich’s main interest in them was their release of a special kind of energy. He called this ‘orgone’ energy, and he regarded its release in orgasms as being only one of its many manifestations.
It was, in his opinion, a genuine universal life energy. Reich carried out many elaborate researches, attempting to find out what this strange undefined energy really was. He came to believe that most of it appeared to come streaming in
from the Sun, so he viewed it as part of what came to be known as the solar wind, but he believed it was not light, or electrons or protons or ions. It was something else, he did not know what.
Reich’s theory of ‘orgone energy’ was that it was the essential life energy of all living beings, and that the sexual orgasm was a specific form of a general biological phenomenon (occurring in all creatures in different forms and for varying purposes, but found in specialized form in humans sexually) to do with ‘an involuntary contraction and expansion of the total plasma system’ resulting in an ‘energy discharge’, in which a bit of the orgone energy was released.
He believed that orgone energy could occur in the form of tiny particles, which he called bions. Reich had concluded:
that every living organism is a membranous structure that contains an amount of orgone in its body fluids; it is an ‘orgonotic’ system. Thus, the term orgone comes from ‘organism’ and ‘orgasm’, and means an energy found within all organisms and basic to the orgasm reflex.8
“But there were some people who knew that Reich had stumbled onto something. It is necessary to give some of the political background to this, as one of the side effects of what happened was to suppress for many decades any public discussions of plasma, especially of cosmic plasma and any plasma or electronic functionalities within living systems. ”
“Cope came to the conclusion that each of us is surrounded by yet another invisible cloud. He describes it as ‘a gas of electromagnetic (EH) dipoles.’ (A dipole is so called because it has two electromagnetic poles, a north pole and a south pole. A dipole may be a molecule or some other object that has both poles.) He believes this cloud can be detected on rare occasions by sensitive persons, who tend to call it an ‘aura’. Cope stresses that he wished to investigate this by sweeping away mystical theories and tackling the matter purely scientifically.”
“In order to complete the symmetry and for there to be magnetic currents, there would need to be magnetic particles which, like electrons, the particles of electricity, have a charge operating in a single direction. But all magnetized particles known about operate in equal and opposite directions, which is to say they have two poles, one negative and one positive. Therefore, in standard physics there is no such thing as a magnetic monopole.
The quest to discover them has been called the Holy Grail of physics, because not only would this give symmetry to the theory of electromagnetism – with gravity the most important formative factor in the Universe – it would open up a vast new dimension of theoretical physics when it comes to exploring the fields that give our Universe the form it has.”
“Cope is saying here that if tachyons do exist, their rhythmic interactions would naturally make them resonate with crystalline structures in intimate and interesting ways. This is a wonderful vision and a joy to conceptualize. Critics may say it is highly speculative, but Cope found a way to describe the relationship between crystals and mysterious energies in scientific terms. He found a scientific language for it.
Cope goes further. He comes up with mechanisms in the form of ‘superconductive regions’ to explain how these particles might be the trapped within the body. (Again, superconductivity is when electricity travels without resistance.) He also suggests that on the planetary scale, these phenomena could create a standing energy grid, a vast grid system of resonant standing waves of ‘earth energy’.”
“We may thus look upon bees and flowers as engaged in a continuous orgy of charged intercourse with one another, generating and displaying their auras and creating plenty of charged dust in miniature clouds as they do so.
It really is true to say we live in an electromagnetic world, and are only beginning to understand how it works. All of us are electric people, full of multiple currents of both negative charge, called electricity, and positive charge, called proticity. Since charged currents always generate magnetic fields, we are also all full of multiple magnetic fields....
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 14: Electric People
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“What is most interesting of all in this for our purposes is that Szent-Györgyi grasped the importance of ‘structured-ordered layers around surfaces’ within a watery mass (in other words the concept of a mass of water containing protected, or walled, cells within itself, which themselves are made entirely of water). These boundary layers within water are analogous to the boundary layers known as sheaths found within plasmas. All plasmoids are enclosed by sheaths. That is how they maintain their identities.
Szent-Györgyi had a deep intuition of the extraordinarily complex, dynamic structures that inform naturally occurring materials, including ice, water and plasma, but of which science had been ignorant before his discoveries. We have been building complex plasma entities having countless plasmoid regions within them, all protected within their sheaths.
Researchers such as Kapitsa, Bostick and Tsytovich have shown that some of the plasmoids contain hot plasmas, some cold plasmas, some dusty plasmas, some non-dusty voids, some containing specific impurities that hinder or accentuate the flows of charged currents precisely in the manner of electronic semi-conductors and transistors.
Furthermore, there is the mysterious phenomenon called ‘tunnelling’ (to be explained in a moment) that takes place between them, and there are also superconducting and superfluid portions and sections. That water and plasma – which Szent-Györgyi showed to be present throughout human bodies – spontaneously generate structures adds a whole new dimension to the argument.”
“In a dusty complex plasma that has developed emergent properties of self-organization, where superfluidity is made possible by countless layers of sheaths, cells and crystals, we can expect superconduction and Josephson Junctions to form the basis of the energy flows within the plasmas. A dusty complex plasma such as a Kordylewski Cloud would thus be expected to have more than a trillion trillion trillion Josephson Junctions within it. (Or just keep adding the zeroes, as they would in effect become incalculable in number.)
Intelligent calculations by such conscious plasmas would be so rapid and so massive that a Kordylewski Cloud would easily have the capacity to monitor every living creature on Earth in real time and model future events for all of them. Such a cloud could thus foresee with a high degree of probability what would happen in almost any Earth situation, and have models of every conceivable variable’s effect on events. From the point of view of the limited human brain, a Kordylewski Cloud therefore has the capacity of what to us would be indistinguishable from omniscience.
If this complexity is possible in plasmas in space, what about in the human body? We know from Szent-Györgyi’s work that the human body contains organic semiconductors. For the achievement of the Josephson Effect within our bodies, these can suffice for the necessary ‘barriers’ to create the ‘jump’. The impetus for the ‘jump’ can come from something called ‘the Proximity Effect’. When two superconducting currents are near enough to each other, they can influence other because of their proximity, and this can result in a Josephson Effect if there is an organic semiconductor available.”
“What does all of this mean for our discussion in this book? It is fundamental. We are looking at the dynamics of currents of electricity and proticity within our bodies, an interface between the plasma inside us and our physical bodies – and also, as Cope’s work suggests, between our plasma selves and universal electromagnetic fields and perhaps microwaves. In other words, Cope discovered a plasma-based mechanism by which our physical bodies are affected by fields.
“As we will see later, quantum biologists have shown that some birds navigate their migrations by means of interaction with the Earth’s electromagnetic fields, which have now been shown to cause chemical changes in their brains. Could this interface identified by Cope also work in much more subtle and complex ways in the human brain and account for important features of own consciousness and behaviour?”
“In addition to this, superconductivity is, as we saw in Chapter 8, bound to occur within the Birkeland Currents that stream through the whole of the Universe. There is no reason why such superconductivity within those galactic and inter-galactic filament streams cannot travel at speeds known as ‘relativistic’, meaning near to the speed of light.
As we have also seen, we know the streams of electrons within the Birkeland Currents move forward in a double-spiralling fashion in counter-rotating layers. Similar filaments, operating in the same or a similar fashion, must exist within the Kordylewski Clouds, and at a micro level within ourselves. These are areas of research that need urgently to be pursued, as we need to know so much more.
I shall add just one clue as to why this subject may have been suppressed. Everything that I have described above could be exploited in the creation of robots that combine inorganic with organic components. There are people who write about ‘transhumanism’, which deals with this subject. The work of Cope and the others, in fact, has direct relevance to efforts to build robotic ‘super-soldiers’, who can enter a battlefield and kill, kill, kill…
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 15: How Our Bodies Emit Light
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Gurwitsch’s theory was that organisms grew in connection with fields of some kind, which he named ‘morphogenetic fields’. He was the first person in history to use the term ‘field’ in connection with biology....”
“The first was a ‘possibility factor’, meaning that the circumstances must become such that cell division was rendered possible. The second was a ‘realization factor’, meaning that the cell division, having become possible, was then somehow triggered. Without this trigger, it simply would not take place. He did not believe that this trigger was chemical. Instead, Gurwitsch decided that the way the organism as a whole triggered cell division for its embryonic cells to divide and grow must take the form of external non-chemical signals of some kind. But what could they be, and how could the signals be detected by the cells?
He decided that each cell membrane must be ‘an organ perceiving signals for cell divisions’. Gurwitsch became the first person in the history of biology to use the term ‘receptor’. He suspected that the cell membranes must contain ‘receptors’ of some kind to detect signals of some kind, to cause cell division, which he called ‘mitotic signals’.”
“Gurwitsch also discovered that the emission of the ultra-violet photons must be coordinated by the whole organism, which he attributed to its morphogenetic field, in line with his pre-existing theories. He was extraordinarily prescient in this, because the work in physics had not yet been done to explain the mechanics of how such a field might work. It was only after his death that the concept of ‘coherence’ (in the specialist sense of waves having the same characteristics, such as phase and frequency, within a spatial area, as distinct from its better-known usage to describe ‘superposition’ in quantum mechanics) emerged in physics, as a result of a paper published by Robert Dicke in America in 1954.
This coherence only became a concept in biology many years later, which then made it possible to put some flesh on the bones of Gurwitsch’s field theory. It is not granted to us all to live long enough to see our theories justified, and Gurwitsch did not have this good fortune. But in trying to figure out the mechanics of the process, Gurwitsch was ahead of his time, and became the first person to suggest the existence within organisms of what we now call ‘collective states’ and ‘cooperative phenomena’, but which he called ‘states of mutual alignment and orientation of molecules’.
“The biophotons themselves are only part of a much larger picture, which took shape largely as a result of studying the biophotons. It was the brilliant Russian scientist Viktor Mikhailovich Inyushin, who pushed the boundary much further in his writings about ‘bioplasma’. This term ‘bioplasma’ was coined in 1944 by the Russian scientist V.S. Grischenko (aka Grishenko). By 1967, Grischenko and Inyushin were working together on bioplasma, and they announced then that they envisaged a plasmatic state within living organisms which, in contrast to inorganic plasma, would be a cold plasma possessing a high degree of order.
This was an interesting idea, for the cold plasmas in space, such as the Kordylewski Clouds for instance, are more likely to be intensively ordered and to show ‘emergence’ and self-organization, and indeed inorganic life. One would not normally think that the human body could contain a cold plasma, which seems counterintuitive, considering how warm the body is.
But Grischenko and Inyushin worked out that this is possible. And what is more extraordinary, as we will see in a moment, they believed that this cold plasma would chiefly be found in the brain. So, to make it clear, bioplasma is the name they gave to that plasma which, they were convinced, joined with the physical body and helped it to operate, or even coordinated and guided its growth and development.”
“This idea was essentially the same as Aristotle’s pneuma (here). Just to remind the reader, Aristotle believed that aether existed beyond the Earth’s atmosphere and was a ‘fifth element’, and that pneuma was a somewhat inferior form of aether that actually was found inside physical bodies and helped to animate them. Grischenko and Inyushin, doubtless without realizing it, have duplicated Aristotle’s reasoning and consider plasma to exist in space, and bioplasma to exist inside our bodies (hence the ‘bio-’ prefix). And one of the manifestations of the bioplasma is the emission of the biophotons.
“A living organism can be described as a ‘biological field’ or ‘biofield’ … we have obtained evidence that a fifth state of matter, bioplasma, exists as a part of each organism’s biofield. Bioplasma consists of ions, free electrons, and free protons. It is highly conductive and provides opportunities for the accumulation and transfer of energy within the organism as well as among different organisms. Bioplasma appears to be concentrated in the brain and the spinal cord. At times, it may extend considerable distances from the organism, raising the possibility of telepathic and psychokinetic phenomena."
“Inyushin’s concept of a bioplasma body accompanying the physical body (which we might also call a ‘dense matter body’) will come back into the discussion in the next chapter. His bioplasma theory follows Gurwitsch’s suggestion that biomolecules in the organism are predominantly present in the ‘excited state’. I am again using the term ‘excited state’ in a quantum physics sense to mean that a system, or an electron, has absorbed energy and entered a state of having higher energy than normal. In Inyushin’s account the energetics of living systems are based on excitation–deexcitation dynamics.
“Inyushin describes bioplasma as a ‘cold’ plasma of highly structured collective excitations produced by the polarization of biological semiconductors. In other words, the energies in bioplasma bodies are dynamic grids of excitations – which interact with fields outside the body.”
“According to the bioplasma studies of Inyushin and Sedlak, the plasma particles constituting the bioplasma in the body set up highly structured waves of excitation, that, as we have just seen, serve as an energy network. The energies stored in the network form an internal ‘biological field’. Remarkable as it may seem, this ‘biological field’ has a complex broadband wave structure of great stability that stores holograms.
In exploring the complexities of plasma in the body and its connections with consciousness and images in the brain Inyushin and Sedlak are here leaning on the work of Professor Karl H. Pribram (1919–2015) who originated the ‘holonomic brain theory’ to explain consciousness, using the idea of holographic memory.12”
“Bioplasma is understood as a dynamic system in an organic semiconductor … The total energy of the bioplasma consists of thermal motion, kinetic energy of particles, floating particles, the electric field, the magnetic field, and solitons.14
We can see how like so much else these studies draw heavily upon the early pioneering work by Albert Szent-Györgyi, who was the first person to insist that the body contained organic semiconductors, as I have already described. Just as the work of Alfvén and his followers has revealed the complex, living reality of outer space, and the interactions there of plasma and electromagnetism, so his fellow Nobel laureate Szent-Györgyi and his followers have revealed the immensely and astonishingly complex operations of electromagnetism and plasma within the human body, and outside it too.
Returning briefly to the subject of biophotons, when they are seen being emitted from acupuncture points and meridian lines, they are not a sign of cancer at all, but rather an indication of the normal heightened activity in those key regions of the body. Biophoton scans actually give clear visual images of the mysterious flowing body energy (doubtless a flowing plasma) known as qi (pronounced ‘chee’) in Chinese acupuncture.
These streams inside the body, which have been detected frequently, are known as ‘light-piping’, more technically described as ‘channels of light emission’. Such channels form a meridian network. This is one of the most important areas for research, since its findings clearly validate the Chinese system of acupuncture points and meridians in the body. The light pipes and the traditional acupuncture meridians are the same.”
“As we build up a picture of the role of plasma within human bodies and consider the idea that plasma may provide a medium for interaction with universal fields, we see again that ancient wisdom anticipated cutting edge discoveries in modern science.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 16: The ‘Death Flash’ and the ‘Life Flash’
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“It has been said that at the moment of death, a flash of light is emitted by the body. There are many reports of this. It applies to all living organisms, not only to people. The evidence concerning this flash of light is extensive, and the speculations concerning it have entered into works of fiction and film.
This is one of the most important details about the relationship between the physical body and any animating plasma body that may co-exist with it. It is what has come to be known as the death flash.”
“All living organisms emit low-intensity light; at the time of death, that radiation is ten to 10,000 times stronger than that emitted under normal conditions. This ‘death flash’ is independent of the cause of death, and reflects in intensity and duration the rate of dying. The vision of intense light reported in near-death experiences may be related to this death flash, which may hold an immense amount of information. The electromagnetic field produced by necrotic radiation, containing energy, internal structure, and information, may permit the continuation of consciousness beyond the death of the body.
This is clearly very important information. Considering how terrified most people are of dying, you would think that this information would be more widely circulated, if only to assuage people’s anxieties. But strangely, few people have heard about it. This is puzzling to me. I think it must be because we live in a world today where intellectuals, mainstream social opinion-formers and mass media all subscribe to a rigidly materialistic view of life, and are intolerant of anyone who challenges this arid position in even the slightest way.”
“Obviously it is impossible to carry out laboratory experiments on dying people in order to look for mists, so it is difficult to imagine how this phenomenon can ever be ‘scientifically proved’, no matter how many accounts exist. It is easy to debunk such accounts if one has fixed ideas that no such thing can happen. It is equally easy to believe everything if one has fixed ideas that anything of that kind is possible.
I have no personal experience of this. I only sat beside a dying person once, the author Rosamond Lehmann, but I summoned a doctor and left before she actually departed a short while later. (Ironically, she had a passionate belief in the survival of death and was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.) It is because people essentially believe what they like when evidence is subjective that I have excluded my own subjective information from this book.”
“Does the life of the soul end with death? What should we expect beyond the threshold of this world? These problems, which have always beset mankind, are again making their appearance on the European intellectual horizon. Religions and esoteric knowledge have always taught that death is much more than merely a transformation of living material into dead material. Now that recollections of people who have experienced clinical death [NDEs, or near-death experiences are here referred to] are becoming accepted as real, the question of survival of some vital elements is entering the realms of science.
Many of the physicochemical processes occurring at the time of death are known. These changes proceed in linear fashion with the gradual process of destruction and decomposition. The Gas Discharge Visualisation technique, however, goes beyond the classical biochemical approach, to reveal some aspects of energy and information in the living body. This being so, it became of great interest to find out how this changes after death. In this way we might gain information of how the transition from the dying state to death takes place.”
“Light has been always intrinsically related to the creative power that gives birth to life. Indeed, the cell division, fertilization of an egg and the death of the cell are accompanied by PE [photon emission]. Light is considered as the unitary purposive principle which engenders the Universe [he does not say by whom, but he is presumably referring to some religious traditions and possibly the views of some scientists, especially in light of what he says next about photosynthesis] and that has the nature of first cause. It is an ultimate source of energy on Earth and a driving force of photosynthesis and other photobiological processes …
Recent findings suggest that biophotons convey hidden information coded in the spatiotemporal parameters of the electromagnetic field, such as a degree of coherence … Therefore biophoton emission might deliver important information about the onset and the end of life processes … If necrotic PE [photon emission] appears to be a universal phenomenon … announcing the end of biological life, then its measurements could be a new criterion of biological death.”
“When considering a burst of light as weak as that of the ‘death flash’, we need to keep in mind that light can be stored, inside one of these photonic crystals, also called a ‘light crystal’. These crystals exist at the upper end of the nano-scale, meaning they are about the size of viruses. In laboratories, light crystals have been fabricated in one, two, and three dimensions. One of the reasons why so much work has been done on this is because people wish to use them to construct ‘optical computers’, by which is meant computers that employ photons for the purposes of computation.”
“The neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick and his wife Elizabeth Fenwick in their 2008 book The Art of Dying speak of the ‘smoke’, ‘grey mist’, or ‘white mist’ that leaves the body at death. An informant named Penny Bicliffe told them about what she witnessed when her sister died:
I saw a fast-moving ‘Will o’ the Wisp’ appear to leave her body by the side of her mouth on the right. The shock and beauty of it made me gasp. It appeared like a fluid or a gaseous diamond, pristine, sparkly, and pure, akin to the view from above of an eddy in the clearest pool you can imagine … It moved rapidly upwards and was gone."
“A physician named Dr R.B. Hout was present at the death of his aunt and witnessed the following:
My attention was called to something immediately above the physical body, suspended in the atmosphere about two feet above the bed. At first I could distinguish nothing more than a vague outline of a hazy, fog-like substance. There seemed to be only a mist suspended, motionless. But, as I looked, very gradually there grew into my sight a denser, more solid, condensation of this inexplicable vapour.
Then I was astonished to see definite outlines presenting themselves, and soon I saw this fog-like substance was assuming a human form. The features of the face were very similar to the physical face, except that a glow of peace and vigor was expressed instead of age and pain.
The eyes were closed as though in tranquil sleep, and a luminosity appeared to radiate from the spirit body. There was a silver-like substance streaming from the head of the physical body to the head of the spirit body, The colour was a translucent luminous silver radiance. The cord seemed alive with vibrant energy. I could see the pulsations of light stream along the course of it, from the direction of the physical body to the spirit ‘double’. With each pulsation the spirit body became more alive and denser, whereas the physical body became quieter and more nearly lifeless.
Hout said that when the pulsations stopped, various strands of the cord snapped. When the last connecting strand snapped, ‘the body rose to a vertical position, the eyes opened, and a smile broke from the face before it vanished from my sight.’19”
“What does all of this mean? We have flashes and signals to do with when physical life begins and when physical life ends. It appears that these are points when our plasma selves activate and deactivate our physical bodies. But what remains constant must be our bioplasma selves. Bioplasma bodies do not ‘wear out’ through physical wear and tear, it is the physical bodies that do that...."
“Crucial to the development of how these quantum computers work is the way they use plasma – another instance of plasma acting as a gateway for effects to emerge into the macro world.
Are we now able, from the vantage point created by the development of machine intelligence and quantum computers to look at our own evolution and particularly the evolution of our intelligence, in the light of plasma?
In the next chapter, we will expand our understanding of how universal fields not only influence our consciousness, but also help create it. We will also address the issue of consciousness in the Universe as a whole.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 17: Our Plasma Selves
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Fields contribute not only energy but information too, information that may play a vital role in triggering intelligence both in humans and in plasmas in space.
We now come to what interests everybody the most, ourselves. Is it possible that we are really much more than we think we are? So much more, in fact, that we transcend our physical bodies even while we are ‘alive’, and after we ‘die’, we are still very much around, just invisible and somewhat out of touch? There is every reason to think so. I have already made plain how rare physical, or atomic, matter is in our plasma universe.
“So if we have plasma bodies, it is only to be expected. After all, why should we not have plasma bodies? Most things are made of plasma, so why not us? And in this chapter I will advance this argument by describing some more details of what our plasma bodies may be like.”
“In the course of the book we have looked at hints that fields such as the electromagnetic that pervade the Universe might interact with plasma to create the conditions necessary for intelligence to evolve. There interactions are not simply a matter of energy, but the communication of information, too. ”
“At this point, we should stop and think again about what is meant here by ‘information’. The word is not being used in the traditional sense of ‘a collection of facts’. Its use is the more modern and specialized one, prompted by information theory and relevant to what we now call IT (information technology). And that means that ‘information’ is being used not solely in the sense of passive information, which is only of use to conscious beings who receive it and make of it what they will, but in the sense of active information, which, when received, triggers an action of some kind, as in the example we saw earlier of the thermostat.
When conceived of in this way, ‘information’ is another word for ‘a signal’, or taking it further, as ‘an activator’, like pulling a switch. All hormones in the bloodstream convey information of this kind, as do our nerves when they sense that the fire is hot and trigger a response of our withdrawing our hands from the hot stove.”
“Presman’s investigations led him to conclude that DNA molecules are generators of radio-frequency signals and that RNA molecules (one of the four believed to be essential for all forms of life, with a role in coding and decoding genes) are amplifiers of those signals, whereas enzymes and amino acids are effectors of those coded signals. The cell wall he regarded as a noise filter. He believed that at a fundamental level protein synthesis resulted from ‘interactions within the organism and its interactions with environmental EmFs’. In other words, electromagnetic fields carry information that activates molecules containing information, which in turn generate signals carrying information, which then trigger life processes within the body.
I cannot emphasize enough that Presman’s reconceptualization of biology as orchestrated information flows could not be further from the purely chemical viewpoint. I am aware of how passionately and virulently many biologists hold to their exclusively chemical preconceptions. ”
“For both Peter and Presman, transactions are essentially information exchange. They viewed bodily signals as the transmission of information. And what Presman concluded was going on was information transmission and reception both within and without every organism by electro-magnetic means.
This brings us closer and closer to the true nature of our plasma selves.”
“During the war, David Bohm conducted research into plasma. When he saw the movement of particles in plasma, it struck him that they were behaving in concert in the way living creatures do. It seemed to him that there must be some underlying field or dimension that was interacting with these particles, resulting in life and a form of intelligence.
This vision of intelligence in plasma became a paradigm for David Bohm as he developed a scientific and philosophical account of the Universe that made him a senior figure in the second wave of theoretical physicists in the quantum revolution.”
“Let us start with this startling remark by David’s protégé in this particular field, the Finnish philosopher of science, Paavo Pylkkänen. He says that, according to David Bohm ‘… not only the behaviour but also the very being of particles [are] based on the activity of information.’9
That is a very big claim. It puts active information at the heart of everything.
David’s alternative interpretation of quantum theory is often famously known as the causal interpretation. In the classic formulation of quantum mechanics, the interactions of waves and particles have uncertain outcomes. The “position and other qualities of particles can therefore only be expressed in terms of probability rather than of certainty. It was thought in the standard view that this will always and inevitably be the case, because it reflects the way the Universe is made.
Albert Einstein was sceptical of this and so was David Bohm. In his formulation, cause and effect holds true in the quantum world as it does in the macro or everyday world, but we cannot calculate results with certainty because we don’t have all the information. There are ‘hidden variables’, and he saw these as being hidden in the information contained in the waves, as the form of a signal. He stressed that form, having very little energy, enters into and directs a much greater energy. It puts form into it, i.e., it informs it; hence, inform-ation. In other words, uncertainty is not a quality of the physical universe. It only arises because we don’t have enough information.”
“So David’s focus on information as the driving force at the heart of the Universe helped throw a startling new light on the central problem of quantum mechanics, which has been a matter of debate and generated a spectrum of views over the last hundred years. To explore further the mind-bending ideas of David Bohm, it is helpful to start by contemplating how a small energy charge can, by the transmission of information, trigger wholesale changes in an entity with much larger energies. ”
“[Note: Ontology is a branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being. In Bohm’s interpretation, uncertainty arises as a problem of perception, not a problem with the nature of reality or being.] The second aim is to consider the relevance of this theory to the philosophy of cognitive science.
This interpretation postulates that elementary particles are guided by a field containing active information. Bohm suggests that in certain key ways the activity of information at the quantum level is similar to the activity of information in ordinary human subjective experience, and he uses this similarity as a basis for his mind-matter theory."
“What Pylkkänen is pointing to here is that Bohm sees some of the bizarre behaviour described in quantum mechanics in the common human experience of consciousness. This is important for the main theme of this book because, as we have already noted, human brains (like quantum computers) contain complex plasma, and plasma may be a medium by which uncertain and bizarre quantum phenomena enter the human experience.
In 2006, Pylkkänen published an ambitious book entitled Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order.16 The ‘implicate order’ is the phrase that had been used by Bohm for decades to describe aspects of his evolving theories to do with the self-ordering qualities of the Universe, analogous in some ways to Prigogine’s ideas of dissipation, which we looked at in Chapter 3. This book carries forward all his thoughts on David’s ideas, and his Preface commences like this:”
“In other words, David Bohm is arguing that there is crucial information hidden not only in individual particles but also in fields – and that the entire Universe is triggered by the interaction between them.
To put it another way, a particle such as an electron contains a lot of information, some of which is triggered into action when the particle interacts with an underlying field. Of course, scientists already knew that the behaviour of particles is changed by interactions with underlying fields, but Bohm’s supreme mathematical imagination enabled him to suppose that large amounts of information in a simple seeming particle might interact not only with the fields we already know about, but also with another as yet unknown field, another dimension, something that might even be a cosmic intelligence beneath the fields we know about and ordering them. He called this the Implicate Order and he believed and described in the language of science how the Explicate Order, the Universe we see and experience with our senses, could unfold out of the Implicate one.
He understood this unfolding process to work like a hologram,... ”
“An important part of this analogy for our purposes is that if you break a hologram into bits, each bit will contain an image of the entire object. What David Bohm is saying is not only that the entire universe is a hologram, in the sense of being an unfolding of an intelligent ‘implicate order’ that underlies everything, but that this driving, ordering process is equally present everywhere in the Universe. It underlies our intelligence, the intelligence we see in animals and plants, and the intelligence we saw in the movements of plasma near the start of his scientific journey, which we are now beginning to understand.
David’s focus on the information – rather than the energy – that fields transmit by means of their form brings us to the subject of the work of Rupert Sheldrake.”
“Rupert’s book The Science Delusion (known in America as Science Set Free, 2012) is a brilliant analysis of what is wrong with ‘mainstream’ science, as the ultra-conservatives of science like to call themselves.18
An interesting description of the invisible soul was given by the French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650), who called it une chose qui pense, which the English philosopher of science Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680) translated as ‘a thinking substance’.19 This excellent turn of phrase from the seventeenth century is well worth hanging on to. For if I were to find one phrase that I believe sums up the nature of our plasma bodies, as well as the Kordylewski Clouds themselves, it would be to say that those information-laden entities must truly be a thinking substance.
If all entities are essentially plasma entities that from time to time ‘become physical’, or ‘become embodied in atomic matter’, then the thinking substance of each entity will have certain information requirements for survival, and these will vary considerably....”
“...these voids and void lattices are so important in general, because they are manifestations of renewal. They are the destruction-lattices that empty themselves of matter so that the new can be made, as the creation-lattices exhaust themselves and come to the ends of their useful lives. In other words, forms grow and die and are replaced anew from formed emptiness that has grown geometrically and sits waiting to be filled. One is the summer and one is the winter, and rebirth takes place from ordered death in an endless process of birth, death, replacement, and renewal. Without the formation of the voids, this cycle cannot happen.
Since voids form in matter, and plasma is made of matter (just not atomic matter), we can expect that plasma clouds will be riddled with voids. This would certainly apply to the Kordylewski Clouds. These voids would serve the function of assisting in the continual regeneration of the clouds, by replacing exhausted lattices in the plasma crystals and renewing the crystals in an endless progression.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 18: Wrapping up the Universe
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“As we wrap up the Universe we will consider how parts of the Universe seem to be self-organizing, how complex structures emerge, and how the way things slow down and fall apart – the Second Law of Thermodynamics – is by no means the whole story. Highly unstable charged entities such as dusty plasmas throw out dissipative structures over vast distances. In other words, leading scientists have been looking at the way that there are fundamental tendencies in the Universe towards greater and greater complexity – towards the high levels of complexity necessary for intelligence.
In trying to understand how human consciousness and intelligence works, classical science has tended to concentrate on chemical reactions in the brain. In the second half of the twentieth century, many leading scientists shifted the focus to an interaction between matter and subatomic matter in the brain and external fields, such as electromagnetic fields.”
“Similarly in recent times the creation of artificial intelligence and quantum computers have helped prompt new perspectives on human intelligence and mind in two main ways.
AI tends to see intelligence in terms of the transmission and processing of information. When it comes to understanding and defining human intelligence, this leads naturally to a focus on the flow of information rather than the flow of chemical and biological processes (information theory).
Unlike traditional digital computers, which work by considering simple either/or options, albeit an immense accumulation of them – the bigger the accumulation, the more powerful the computer – the new quantum computers work much more powerfully, indeed on a whole different level, because they are able to consider many more options than a simple either/or at any one time, and indeed make multiple considerations such as these simultaneously.
(It seems not to have been recognized yet that this operates by means of what I call ‘informational void creation’. When one alternative is chosen over another, this creates an information void in the form of the rejected alternative. However, that void can be filled again by shifting one’s choice to that alternative. With multiple choices taking place, the traditional ‘one’ and ‘zero’ of normal computing can be replaced by ‘empty’ and ‘full’ as concepts, with shifting but parallel geometries of information lattices and information void lattices side by side, continuously changing, the dynamics of these parallel lattices being plotted and manipulated by non-linear equations. This can be studied in reduced form by plotting the mechanisms of memory retrieval. This may sound simplistic, but it is actually the best basis for the construction of a geometry of alternatives in the theory of quantum computing. Someone needs to mathematize it.)
And in this they are, of course. very like the human mind. What makes the development of these new quantum computers work is the way they use plasma – so again we come back to this new way of trying to understand human intelligence and consciousness. Could it be that plasma in the human brain, the human body, has played a vital part in its evolution?...
The first and most important thing is what I have stressed since the very beginning of this book, namely that physical matter is very rare in the Universe and is not the predominant component of what exists. The obvious conclusion is that if the Universe is full of life forms, including intelligent ones, the majority of them will not be made of physical matter.
They will instead be made of plasma. And that may include us. I am suggesting that we are all made of plasma, and that our physical bodies are temporary vehicles for us to operate in the physical world for the short periods of time that our fragile bodies can permit, considering how quickly they wear out, how prone they are to accidents, and how vulnerable they are to disease.”
“We have looked at various theories to explain how the drive to complexity arises in the Universe as whole, and which may be pertinent to the evolution of life in plasma. We looked at Prigogine’s theories of dissipative structures. There are theories of emergence and self-organization, which describe how complex things grow spontaneously and unpredictably so they become greater than the sum of their parts. And we looked at David Bohm’s theory of the Implicate Order, of an ordering faculty that lies beneath the universal fields we know about.”
Conclusion
We have seen in this book that the Universe is over 99 per cent plasma.
We have seen that dusty complex plasma interacting with electromagnetic fields can evolve sufficient complexity to count as ‘alive’.
We have seen too, in certain cases, that complex dusty plasmas contain such high levels of complexity, including quantum phenomena, that it may reasonably be speculated that they are also intelligent. The Kordylewski Clouds hovering over the Earth may well be vastly more intelligent than human beings, or indeed all human beings put together, including all of those who have ever lived, so vast are the potential computing powers of the huge clouds, which together are nine times the size of the Earth, so that in size they dwarf our planet and its moon.
We have seen that plasma may be a medium by which the bizarre behaviour of particles and waves in the quantum realm may erupt into the human or macro realm, for example in the manifestation of lightning balls.
We have explored the role of plasma in the human body, showing that we may have a plasma body that shapes and sustains our physical body. We ourselves are in a sense plasmoids, and our dense matter bodies made of those rare things, atoms, are like ‘smart overcoats’ that we discard when we die.
“The quest has only just begun. This book is intended to inform you of what is possible. Once you grasp this, you can begin to realize what you really are.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 1: The Discovery of the Clouds
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Plasma is what this book is about. To put it very simply, plasma is matter that is made of ‘incomplete or partial atoms’, known as ions, and the much smaller particles known as protons and electrons. Plasma has sometimes been called the fourth state of matter, after solid, liquid and gas, but finer even than gas. We call the physical matter that is familiar to us ‘atomic matter’ because it is made of whole atoms, whereas plasma can also be described as non-atomic or subatomic matter.”
“This matters because, as I will show, there are good reasons to believe that plasma, with its ordering properties, can in certain circumstances be in some sense alive and can evolve intelligence. Because plasma is made up of charged subatomic particles, it is volatile and displays a tendency to form complex, constantly evolving patterns.”
“Clearly these ideas taken together open up vast new and very fruitful areas for speculation on the origins of the cosmos and the role of intelligence within it.
In fact, I will be arguing that life in its basic state is inorganic, and is not made out of atomic matter. I suggest that it is made out of pre-atomic matter, namely the atomic particles, electrons and protons, and ions – plasma.
Thus, I am suggesting that we and all living things in the Universe, whether organic or inorganic, arise from this plasma, and that the organic state is secondary to our fundamental nature as plasma beings. I believe that we can now start to articulate ‘a new science of heaven’. That is what this book is about, and that is what I propose to do.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter Two: Exploring the Nature of Plasma Clouds and their Energy
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Because the Kordylewski Clouds and others like them are bombarded from without by charged particles, the particles inside them and the dust interact with great intensity and complexity, evolving, as we shall see later, highly complex patterns. Such a large charged dust cloud in space is known as a ‘dusty complex plasma’.
One of the things which distinguishes such an entity is that all the processes inside it cannot be described by physicists using simple linear equations. Everything taking place inside this kind of plasma operates in a manner described by non-linear equations.
“When something is linear, it means there is a direct and identifiable connection between cause and effect, so that one can predict behaviour. But when linearity breaks down, everything becomes unpredictable and immensely complex.
It is important to bear non-linearity in mind, because it is a feature of quantum mechanical super computers now in development, and analogy with these will play a part in arguments later in the book to show that these clouds may be highly intelligent.
“Quantum computers break their information down into a different kind of bit, now called ‘qubits’. (The ‘qu’ stands for ‘quantum’.) Because quantum theory is a bit weird, a qubit can have the values of 0 and 1 at the same time. Very much like ‘having our cake and eating it’. Some say that qubits can even have any value between 0 and 1.”
“One might say that the work being done today on quantum computers is an attempt to construct computing devices that can do ‘non-linear reasoning’. Direct causation is linear. But some circumstances allow all sorts of unpredictable outcomes and unexpected influences. Direct causes that might take place in an ideal world get interrupted and blocked, and things come at you from the left and the right and they change things. This, as we will see later, is the inescapable and fundamental non-linearity of dusty complex plasmas.”
[Note: "subatomic crystalline plasma" is my preferred term for "dusty complex plasma". - Gary]
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 3: A Brief History of Plasma Research
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
"If plasma research is little known even in many academic and scientific circles, it is pretty much unknown to general readers. In fact, many of the greatest and most brilliant scientists of the age have been involved in researching the area, including several Nobel Prize winners. I am proud to have counted some of them as my good friends, to have corresponded with them and discussed their ideas.
This book includes a historical view of plasma research. I have written it partly because its implications for our “understanding of extraterrestrial intelligence and indeed our own intelligence are astonishing.
I will start with a brief account of how the terminology of plasma evolved, and this chapter will also introduce some of the eccentric personalities, mind-blowing ideas and amazing discoveries that feature later in the book.”
“Also in 1958, the United States exploded a ten megaton atomic bomb in the high atmosphere (at 75 kilometres, or 46.6 miles) in order to produce an artificial aurora and study the plasma regions above the planet. (The follow-up studies were still going on a year later, so lasting was the damage to the high atmosphere.) Many more such atomic blasts followed. It is now believed that all of these atomic explosions, apparently about one hundred of them, and other crazily ill-advised military ‘tinkering’ with the high atmosphere by both sides in the Cold War, contributed to the instabilities of worldwide climate that we see today."
“We need to keep uppermost in our minds that the question ‘What is life?’ is not going to go away, and we will need to bring it to bear when we consider the question of whether or not plasmas can be said to be living, intelligent and conscious.”
“What Prigogine discovered and proved was that energy brought into a chemical system, instead of always contributing by a process known as the increase of entropy (‘the progressive increase of disorder’), could be dissipated away into other directions and purposes that were productive and could form open, interactive structures such as life forms, known technically as ‘dissipative structures’.
These structures, being like isolated islands of positivity in a sea of increasing entropy and hopelessness, could instead become increasingly complex and self-organizing systems.
“Prigogine built upon these discoveries his concepts of self-organization, which are now at the heart of what we are finding in dusty complex plasmas. So what Prigogine did was no less than explain the central role of life in the Universe.
Although this was by no means heard by everyone, it was the philosophical death knell for the mechanical Universe.
And so we return to Tsytovich and his colleagues, and to plasma. Here are further comments made by Tsytovich and three colleagues in 2000:
Self-organization processes in dusty plasma are expected to be very important since the latter is an open system with a high rate of dissipation … a high rate of dissipation provides rapid development of self-organization processes and formation of long-lived dissipative structures … Dusty plasma is an open system where the rate of dissipation ...
“The importance of dusty plasmas being ‘open systems’ is that they can absorb energy from outside, which then fires the growth of complexity. The Kordylewski Clouds undoubtedly ‘feed’ on energy from the Sun in this way.
The next year, in 2001, Tsytovich published a paper ‘Evolution of Voids in Dusty Plasmas’ on the important subject of voids, or empty spaces, inside dusty complex plasmas. ‘It is shown that formation of dust voids is a general phenomenon in dusty plasmas.’17
Voids are of immense importance in general, though rarely recognized. “He went on to explain that whereas both dust structures and dust voids are formed in some plasmas, this cannot happen in a purely homogenous dusty plasma. There can be no internal architecture if the dust structures are not separated from one another by voids. A structure must be separated from the rest of the mass by a space, for otherwise it is no longer a distinct structure.”
“Complex plasmas may naturally self-organize themselves into stable interacting helical structures that exhibit features normally attributed to organic living matter. The self-organization is based on … physical mechanisms of plasma interactions … As a result, each helical string composed of solid microparticles [dust] is topologically and dynamically controlled by plasma fluxes leading to particle charging … These interacting complex structures exhibit thermodynamic and evolutionary features thought to be peculiar only to living matter … We examine the salient features of this new complex ‘state of soft matter’ in light of the autonomy, evolution, progenity and autopoiesis [autopoiesis refers to a system capable of reproducing and maintaining itself] principles used to define life. It is concluded that complex organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter that may exist in space provided certain conditions allow them to evolve naturally.21
This outspoken declaration could almost constitute a manifesto for the Kordylewski Clouds (though it was published twelve years before their existence was confirmed). Of course helical structures in humans have functions of storing and communicating information, so the crucial question raised here is: could helical structures in plasma have the same function? And could these be the seeds of an alternative, evolving form of life?”
“The passage specifically says that helical dust structures can replicate, in other words, like helical DNA molecules, inside dust clouds. Inorganic living entities are then formed that ‘compete for food’ in the form of sources of incoming plasma, which they eat. (As we have seen, in the case of the Kordylewski Clouds, most of their ‘food’ consists of the solar wind coming from the Sun.) All of this happens at a far faster rate of evolution than is the case with organic life, and in its development would outpace organic evolution by billions of years, hence clearly gaining dominance.
From this point of view, we as organic humans are rather primitive latecomers to a fantastically ancient tradition of inorganic life forms. ”
“With ‘dust’ made by the plasma itself replacing ‘atoms’ as the building blocks, living bodies can be formed. We might consider the charged dust to be ‘dust atoms’, or perhaps more accurately, ‘dust molecules’. And from them, charged plasma entities can emerge by the process called self-organization. That means that no outside source needs to create them, as they can create themselves.
By this means, plasma people can exist, who are imperceptible to the optical nerves of the ‘physical people’ who are made not of plasma but of flesh and blood. Because we are incapable of directly perceiving the plasma people, we do not know they are there. And furthermore, they may be of such diffuse matter that they can pass through our dense physical matter and emerge intact. Scientists know that ball lightning does this, as we will discuss in Chapter 4. Spiritual beings such as angels are also said to have this capability, which we will come to in Chapter 6.
If what these scientists are showing – and I for one think they are – is that the internal structures of the two clouds could be so complex, and at such a vast scale, then they surpass any possible human knowledge at this time…
“The presiding consciousnesses, or what psychologists call ‘the executive ego states’, of the two clouds will have personalities so alien from our own that we cannot conceive of them...."
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 4: The 99 Per Cent
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
One accepts those incompatible things which, only because they coexist, are called the world. – Jorge Luis Borges
In this chapter, I want to discuss a very surprising assertion that is not at all well known to the general public and perhaps not well known even by scientists who work in other fields, but is universally accepted by scientists who do work in the field of plasma research. Alongside our atomic, visible world is the subtler universe of plasma.”
“All but an infinitesimal part of the universe appears to be made up of plasma, probably all of it magneto-plasma. Thus in most problems in cosmic electrodynamics we are dealing with a non-rigid and electrically conducting medium extending to infinity … the remainder of the universe is made up of various plasmas … The plasmas with the lowest degrees of ionization are the lower parts of the ionospheres of the Earth and other planets. These regions are really boundary regions between the universal plasma and the small insulating, atmospheric shells. (John Hobart Piddington, Cosmic Electrodynamic…)
“Under ordinary terrestrial conditions the plasma state of matter is quite rare and unusual. But in the universe, cold solid bodies such as our Earth appear to be a rare exception. Most of the matter in the universe is ionized, i.e., it exists in the plasma state … In our own solar system the Sun consists entirely of plasma, its mass being three hundred and thirty thousand times larger than the mass of the Earth. The upper layers of the Earth’s atmosphere are ionized by the Sun, i.e., they consist of plasma …
“ Many plasma phenomena are evident on a colossal scale in deep space … In our opinion mankind is entering into the space age which, to a considerable degree, is also a plasma age. This new stage in the growth of science and technology imposes increasing requirements on the youngest branch of physics, plasma physics.”
(David Albertovich Frank-Kamenetskii, Plasma: The Fourth State of Matter, 1972, pp. 2–8.)
… space is not empty. A percentage of atoms in space are positively charged due to the loss of one or more electrons. The resulting exceedingly thin medium, containing positive ‘ions’ and negative electrons, is plasma, sometimes called ‘the fundamental state of matter’ since it constitutes more than 99 per cent of the visible universe. The electromagnetic behaviour of plasma clearly distinguishes it from solids, liquids, and gases.
“We cannot therefore draw conclusions about universal truths based upon a highly divergent, atypical, and almost infinitesimally small percentage of what exists. We cannot be certain that any of our physics is universally applicable and hence ‘true’ in the sense that we have complacently assumed.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 5: Great Balls of Fire
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“We have to stop thinking in terms of physically dense matter. As we will see shortly, semiconduction does not require physically dense substances like silicon and germanium microchips, and the transmission of current does not require wires of any kind!
Plasma equivalents of both semiconduction and wires are fundamental to complex plasmas, especially to plasma crystals. And it appears that some fireballs, or lightning balls, are indeed complex plasmas, and as we will see later, the ones that are of that kind can be full of internal ‘cells’, semiconductor regions, and filamentary current carriers galore. We have begun building the argument to show that internal structure self-organizes and ‘emerges’ from dusty complex plasmas, and some of the lightning balls are probably of that category of plasma.”
“Readers may wonder about what it means to call a plasma crystal a crystal. After all, we are used to holding gems and quartz and such things in our hands, turning them around, looking at them gleam, or wearing them in rings and bracelets, etc. What possible justification can there be for calling a cloud of plasma in space or a ball of plasma ‘crystalline’? Well, it is really a scientific convention, perhaps illuminated by words on ‘what is a crystal’ from an essay by Eugene Wigner, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963:”
“...the constituents of a crystal (which for a plasma crystal means positively and negatively charged ions and particles) form a lattice. This means that the crystal has an ordered inner structure. As we will see later, this inner structure can be very useful in the storage of memory, computation and other faculties of intelligence.
And in space, plasma clouds that are crystalline are undoubtedly polycrystalline and consist of myriads of smaller crystals. If you or I were able to stand in space next to a plasma crystal we could only ‘see’ it if we had magic powers. Its constituent particles are far too small for the human eye to see, even with our microscopes. So there might appear to be nothing there.
“The gist of it is that free energy in the form of electrons that are bouncing around in a crystal will form complete spheres.”
“We have just seen Eugene Wigner’s helpful explanation of crystals that are not the solid objects with which we are all familiar. Plasma crystals are not solid and they are made of charged particles and ions, containing a crucial admixture of microscopic dust particles that make the crystalline structure possible. Most of them are invisible to our eyes and weigh essentially nothing.
As I explained early in this book, when I stressed that the Universe is made of 99.9 per cent plasma, so that solid dense matter is very rare and atypical, so I must now stress that it follows that plasma crystals are very common and pieces of quartz and gems are very rare. We must not take what is familiar to us in daily life as the basis for trying to understand the Universe, as that gives us a wholly distorted picture of reality.....”
“This has all kinds of implications. Plasma crystals are capable of being fantastically complex, and complex in an ordered and dynamic way needed for intelligence.”
“In Chapter 14 we bring all this together to summarize the arguments that complex plasma can be intelligent. We will see that intelligence of complex plasmas such as the Kordylewski Clouds may not be exactly like ours, and speculate that it may be more like the artificial intelligence and quantum computers now in development.
Then in the last section of the book, Chapters 15–17, we will look at the plasma inside our bodies and ask what the implications are. Is our own intelligence in some way dependent on this plasma?”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 6: When Heaven Was Young
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“The Gnostics believed that an elect group of people of spiritual inclinations who pursued sacred knowledge would constitute the section of the human population, who would survive the vicissitudes of the corrupt world of physical matter, and after their physical deaths would enter a Kingdom of Light, in which resided a variety of plasmic deities culminating in ‘the Father’.
This was a name they used for the highest god of all. Jesus used this very term himself and instead of speaking of the Kingdom of Light, he spoke of the Kingdom of the Father. The light emitted by ‘the Father’ is described in Gnostic texts as being stronger than 10,000 times 10,000 suns. ‘The Father’ had no physical body, but was essentially what might perhaps be called a light-ball, or plasma-ball. Those who were ‘saved’ would themselves put on “‘vestures of light’ and become mini plasma-balls and would live forever in a heavenly plasma world.”
“The Platonic philosopher Damascius (458–550 AD) believed that the human spirit was ‘a radiant body filled with heavenly radiance, a glory that streams through its depths, and lends it a divine strength; but in lower states, losing its radiance, it is dirtied, as it were, and becomes darker and darker and more material.’6
The philosopher Philoponus of Alexandria (490–570 AD) believed that this spirit was a higher soul attached to the basic soul. In other words, he believed, as did the ancient Egyptians, in more than one level of soul for each person. He wrote: ‘There is, moreover, beyond the soul another kind of body, that is forever attached to the soul, which they call radiant or starlike … (and) it forever keeps its radiant body, which is of an everlasting nature.’7”
“Are plasma entities to be regarded as helpful or harmful to us? The traditions are explicit that they can be both. But the helpful ones are radiant with light, whereas the harmful ones are dark and perverse, as their light has been contaminated and made obscure with the dirt of corruption. It is time that humans were given a proper briefing on this ‘material world of the spirit’.
This is a short survey of some of the myriad descriptions of light phenomena in ancient religions...."
“Aristotle went much further than only proposing that there was a higher form of matter. He actually proposed that each living physical body had a corresponding aetheric body, or what is now called by some modern scientists a ‘bioplasma body’. (We will hear much more about bioplasma bodies later on.)”
“This new element is according to Aristotle a soma [physicality] and can therefore be counted among the ‘natural somata’ [plural of soma]. But it does not share the hylē [substance] of the four earthly corpora [elements]. For this reason it is described as ahylon [possessing no hylē, or physical body], as a kind of ‘immaterial matter’ … While maintaining his belief in the divinity of the celestials [divine beings] and their eternal existence, Aristotle bases this stance on his own new theory of the fifth element … the celestial spheres [consist] of the divine fifth element."
“Sacred speech is essentially something that emerges from something else, just as our breath is emitted from us into the air around us. It seems that the ancient peoples when referring to the creative speech of the primal god were trying to convey the concept of expelled, structured breath entering into a surrounding medium but retaining its own form, and thus constituting matter.”
“Since we now know that the Universe is a seething ocean of plasma, and as it has now been proven that plasma makes dust, and that dust is matter, it is legitimate to consider that the ‘material Universe’ has been extruded from and created by the universal plasma. In other words, the 1 per cent is the creation of the 99 per cent. And looked at from that perspective, the traditional religious views of the creation of matter are justified. For the spontaneously formed dust and the baryons are the building blocks of the familiar world around us.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 7: Kristian Birkeland’s Miraculous Discovery
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“Kristian Birkeland (1867–1917) is famous in Norway, and his picture was until recently on their 200 kroner banknote, so between its appearance in 1994 and its withdrawal in 2018, the Norwegians were reminded of him every day when they went shopping. He was a very brave man, who spent years freezing in the Arctic wastes in the north of Norway making detailed observations of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights as they are often called. He concluded that the Northern Lights (and there are southern ones too at the South Pole, known as the Aurora Australis) must be caused by streams of charged particles pouring in from the Sun towards the Earth’s poles. These particles then glow and cause all the beautiful lights.
This theory caused the utmost outrage, and astronomers all over the world called Birkeland a madman. Did he not realize that space was empty? Charged particles could not pass through empty space! And so instead of facing Birkeland’s carefully presented evidence, the world’s ‘astrophysical community’ stuck with their insistence upon empty space and decided that Birkeland was a crank. He died unrecognized in 1917. His theories about the Aurora were not proven.
“In 1913, Birkeland also may have been the first to predict that plasma is ubiquitous in space. He wrote:
It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds. We have assumed that each stellar system in evolutions throws off electric corpuscles into space. It does not seem unreasonable therefore to think that the greater part of the material masses in the Universe is found, not in the solar systems or nebulae, but in ‘empty’ space. (Quoted on Wikipedia with no reference.)27”
“Since Isaac Newton (1643–1727), science and the world had moved towards a material mechanical view of the Universe, picturing solid objects in dead and empty space, held in orbit by gravity. It was a picture to inspire a certain cold wonder, perhaps; gravity was king here. Then Birkeland discovered that electric currents travelling from the Sun were entering Earth’s atmosphere. This was a profound and important mystery because electricity can’t cross empty space.
It would be another forty years before two scientific geniuses solved this mystery and began to build up a picture of the Universe filled with a web of electrical impulses like a macrocosmic brain.”
''A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 8: The Cosmic Web
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“And as regards ‘dark matter’, which would eventually become widely accepted in the scientific community, my position is that one does not need to invent strange new kinds of matter, since it is plasma in different states (gaseous, liquid, solid, etc.) that is in ‘the dark mode’ and hence invisible to us. This fits perfectly with what we now know about the Universe consisting of 99.9 per cent plasma, bearing in mind too how hard it has been to photograph or even find the Kordylewski Clouds.”
“But what is important for this book and this chapter is that Zwicky produced evidence to show that space is not empty. Until then ‘outer space’ had been assumed to be totally empty, consisting of a perfect vacuum, with the exception of the solid orbiting bodies such as planets, moons, asteroids, etc. within the solar system and stars outside it. In other words, no medium was recognized. What happened to Zwicky after his discovery is an example of how blind and stubborn ignorance can hold back our understanding, because of the ‘tactics of ignoring’ new findings by the self-styled ‘Establishment'.
“... After d’Azambuja’s discovery of the solar wind, astronomers simply ignored it, as they had ignored Zwicky. Many famous astronomers continued to insist in the most vehement fashion that space was ‘empty’, and this remained very much the Astronomical Establishment’s position. There is nothing like ‘establishments’ of all kinds to ignore advances and new findings, and try to retain the status quo! And we must never forget that there is a status quo of ignorance, which is precious to the mediocre minds incapable of original thought who make up ‘the Establishment’.”
“.... However, the situation has become even worse today, for now it is not only observatory committees that prevent things from being published, but also the organized and combined forces of military, security and corporate power. Most scientists working in astrophysics in America today have signed confidentiality agreements with military agencies, and a large proportion of their work is kept secret under various security classifications, many of which are wholly unnecessary. If the scientists try to release their findings, they can go to jail.”
“Alfvén’s breakthrough was to follow up Birkeland’s speculations by identifying plasma as the medium by which electric currents could travel through space, as he extrapolated what he discovered about the currents running between the Sun and the Earth first to the galaxy and then to whole of the Universe.
This breakthrough would lead to both a radical new understanding of the contents of the cosmos and also – by coming to an understanding of the mechanisms by which plasma carried the currents and in turn the effects of currents of plasma – a greater understanding of plasma and its extraordinary properties....
Because Alfvén showed that the Universe has this vast network of plasma filaments carrying electric currents, he also showed that the Universe is full of electromagnetic fields. In fact, Alfvén’s electric currents in space produce a complex and dynamic interaction of magnetic fields, magnetic currents and electric fields throughout space. The charging of particles in plasmas and space by electromagnetic fields in turn modifies the electromagnetic fields. Whereas once space was thought of as empty, we now know that at a subatomic and quantum level, space is a jungle of plasma, a highly charged, creative ecosystem – with matter in the form of particles being one of the things it creates.
“Alfvén showed that a Birkeland Current is a stream of either negatively charged particles (electrons) or positively charged particles (protons and positive ions) that can travel for immense distances through space (many millions of miles or even billions of miles at speeds not far below the speed of light) along a ‘twisted rope’ not made of dense matter at all. The ‘rope’ is made entirely of the charged particles themselves and the magnetic fields generated by those streams of current. Scientists call these ropes ‘filaments’. When there are several of them seen at once, they are referred to as a filamentary structure. Sometimes they consist of substantial bundles of filaments, and sometimes of only two, which are literally a ‘double helix’.1
Superconductivity is an extraordinary phenomenon, first observed in 1911, by which a current can pass through certain materials and experience zero resistance. Classical physics cannot explain how this works and the quantum mechanical explanation is still not complete. But in 1970, Laszlo Solymar and Donald Walsh, two particularly brilliant scientists, clarified the nature of superconductivity to a large degree by pointing “out that superconductive filamentary currents consist of a central magnetic field surrounded by whirling layers of current vortices...."
“The charged particles that reach the Earth from the Sun are mostly positively charged, made of protons and ions emitted by the Sun, and they stream along Birkeland Currents towards the north and south poles of our planet. They are literally space rivers of positive current streaming into our planet, and into all other planets in our solar system as well. What this means is that there are ‘threads’ connecting the Sun with all of the planets, which is thus in continuous direct communication with all the ‘small fry’ by means of these rivulets. Of course, the rivulets get all twisted up because of the revolutions of the planets, and sometimes the rivulets are shut off and then new ones start up again.”
“Birkeland Currents beneath the surface of our own Sun are known to be 40,000 miles wide, as mentioned earlier. The ones linking stars are far larger, and ones linking galaxies in filaments to form ‘the cosmic web’ of the Universe are so gigantic that they are much wider than the diameter of any sun or star. Many have been observed and recorded by astronomers, including the Sloan Great Wall – a filament that is an amazing 1.37 billion light years long.
Birkeland Currents can also be microscopic. Our bodies are full of them. It is because of the nature of such infinitesimally small currents that we are alive …"
“The way in which the ‘ropes twist’ to form Birkeland Currents in a double-helix shape is really rather astounding. Does this remind you of anything? Yes, there is a distinct similarity between the structure of the DNA molecule and a Birkeland Current. Not only is this, in my opinion, no coincidence, but we shall see that since the 1970s there have been cell biologists insisting that charged currents flow along the DNA molecules inside our bodies, and that they are superconducting. Double helixes not only carry currents, they transmit information. All of this is getting us closer and closer to what I believe to be the nature and structure of a plasma body, and to the reasons for believing that intelligence can evolve in plasma.”
“Time and again in history, science seems only to progress via vicious ridicule, followed by vindication and reluctant, hypocritical acceptance by most of the people who have spent years insulting the innovative thinkers. Kristian Birkeland and those who have followed in promoting his idea of electric currents streaming through space, have defied orthodoxy and ridicule and have put forward a far more convincing explanation of how the Universe works. I certainly believe them to be correct.
“Filaments are fundamental to the Universe, and to all entities. They carry current. And they can carry information in the form of signals, they can transport energy, and so forth. In the Universe as a whole, they are everywhere. They constitute the major portion of the Universe’s structure, which today is known as the Cosmic Web. Here we see two similar adjoining images. The top one shows the Cosmic Web of the Universe. The bottom one shows the neural network of the human brain. Both are constituted of masses of filaments separated by voids and joined at intersection points called nodes. The Cosmic Web is called that because of the web-like nature of the filaments, which many believe to be filamentary channels for the conduction of energy and currents across astronomical distances. Some scientists call them Birkeland Currents (named after the Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland), which contain current-carrying double-helixes spiralling forward and surrounded by protective sheaths.”
The 99.9 per cent of the Universe that is plasma is not sitting there inert. It is fantastically active and dynamic.
And we shall shortly see that as plasma beings, we are part of that universal process.”
“... As with the Universe and its Cosmic Web, the Brain Web of a human being displays filamentary networks separated by voids and joined at nodes. Is the Universe a giant brain? Is the human brain a mini-Universe? In any case, these phenomena are examples of ‘fractality’ (a term arising from the study of fractal geometry), which means similar patterns and structures occurring at different scales, from the microscopic to the cosmic. Such reoccurrences of shapes are often referred to as the ‘self-similarity’ of forms which remain the same across different scales. These concepts arise from the pioneering genius Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), discoverer of fractals. ”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 9: The Cold Sun
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“We have all been told for our entire lives that the Sun is a raging furnace blasting out heat and light, which keep us alive here on Earth. The Sun is supposedly so hot that nothing one can imagine could survive for even a fraction of an instant without being melted and consumed and annihilated within its inferno. The Sun is inconceivably hot, inconceivably violent, inconceivably turbulent. It is like a great bully in the sky, roaring with rage and spewing out fire and rays.
But this is not true. And nobody could be more shocked than I was when I discovered this. It had made sense to me, having no specialist knowledge of all the other aspects of the matter, that the Sun must be the roaring inferno that was so widely claimed. And when I was told that it was powered at its core by the equivalent of an internal hydrogen bomb of fantastic and gigantic size, which generated all of its immense energy by the power of thermonuclear fusion and kept us all alive, I saw nothing to question in that. After all, where else could all that energy possibly be coming from? It must be true.
But then the conventional idea of the Sun began to fall apart for me, as I discovered some very strange facts in recent years. The ultimate discovery I made, which convinced me that ‘nearly everybody is wrong about the Sun’, was the revelation that the Sun is cold.
How can that be? Surely the Sun cannot be cold. You can see through telescopes that it is a turbulent mass of fire, spewing out blobs of fire into space, and it looks like a vast fiery creature gone mad.
But no. That is not accurate...."
“As we saw in Chapter 8, huge streams of electrons pour into the polar regions of the Sun continuously from immensely long galactic Birkeland currents. This continual inflow of negatively charged electrons provides the pressure to expel the oppositely charged positive ions into space, which form the solar wind. This system of solar activity is described in ‘the electric sun’ theory. It provides a way for the Sun to operate for billions of years without the need for any central explosion at all.
Although some atoms are known to be created by the Sun, they are created under the intense temperatures of the corona, far above the main body. In other words, the temperatures needed to create the higher chemical elements are outside of the Sun’s core body and take place in what is effectively its outer skin. This is like trees, the centres of whose trunks are essentially unproductive and simply inert wood, whereas the true life processes of the tree trunk take place in its bark.
Another major problem for the ‘thermonuclear folks’ who refuse to give up their hydrogen bomb in the centre of the Sun is what is known as ‘the neutrino question’. It is admitted by everyone that there should be a very large number of the tiny nuclear particles known as neutrinos pouring out of the Sun as a result of any thermonuclear explosion. But the requisite number of neutrinos has never been detected. This embarrassing lack of neutrinos is often a source of public anguish to many in the ‘astrophysical community’.
In the next chapter we shall look at more scientific discoveries, which show the Earth’s relationship with the Sun to be very different from what we generally assume it to be.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 10: Invisible Earth
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“...On the basis of the evidence presented above, we regard it as established that the great radiation belt around the earth consists of charged particles, temporarily trapped in the earth’s magnetic field … The radiation belt may well be the seat of a distributed ‘ring’ current encircling the earth, and the perturbations of the belt due to arrival of solar plasma may be directly responsible for solar storms. No detailed study of this possibility has yet been made.
What Van Allen had discovered was confirmation of the hypothesis put forward by Kristian Birkeland.
“Furthermore, without apparently fully realizing the significance of what he was saying, Van Allen said that maybe there was a ‘ring current’ around the Earth. This article therefore can be considered as the first appearance in print of physical confirmation of Birkeland Currents in space.
But Van Allen and his colleagues were still struggling with the concept of plasma in space. They persisted in referring to what came from the Sun as a ‘gas’, albeit an ionized gas, “which they hesitantly called a ‘solar plasma’. But at this stage, no one yet understood the true nature of what we today refer to in common parlance as ‘the solar wind’, the massive streaming of plasma from the Sun outwards into the entire solar system, and bathing the Earth.”
“In 2013, a temporary third Van Allen Belt was discovered by NASA, but it was subsequently destroyed by a shock wave from the Sun. Or so the story goes, though it may simply be a cover story to explain its destruction by human interference.
The second and outer Van Allen Belt is now known to consist largely of electrons, whereas the inner and smaller one consists of a mixture of protons and electrons. It was only in 2014 that it was discovered that the inner edge of the outer Van Allen Belt is very sharp and highly defined, and resembles a protective barrier. Scientists are still trying to understand that discovery.
This finding is, however, precisely what one would expect, because plasma regions whether large or small are routinely surrounded by closely fitting plasma sheaths, which are rather thin, and their edges do tend to be very sharp and highly defined, as we now know is the outer Van Allen Belt.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 11: Radiant Matter, Plasma and Plasmoids
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“A plasma is a distinct entity that has emerged from the great plasma soup, and a plasmoid is a type of plasma, which as we are about to see is often spherical or blob shaped, or sometimes shaped like a doughnut – and it also has strange properties.”
“… the plasma is emitted not as an amorphous blob, but in the form of a torus [the geometrical term for a doughnut shape] … We shall take the liberty of calling this toroidal structure a plasmoid, a word which means plasma-magnetic entity.”
“When four plasmoids were fired at each other, they spun into dramatic spiral shapes, of which Bostick published photographs. They seemed to him to be behaving as living entities. ‘In other words,’ he wrote, ‘we appear to be dealing with bodies which have strong powers of self-organization and preservation.’ He also described the plasmoids as being made of a ‘self-organizing putty’.
“Bostick became so excited by this that he also reverted to an earlier concern with galaxy formation, and wrote: ‘It is possible to apply the knowledge gained concerning the nature of plasmoids to a hypothesized process of galaxy formation …’
What Bostick is getting at here is that the behaviour of charged plasma and plasmoids may be similar at all scales of size, from these tiny plasmoids in his laboratory to the scale of entire galaxies in space.
Figure 21. Bostick’s photo, taken as a two-microsecond ‘snapshot’, showing what happened when he fired two plasmoids at each other. To his astonishment, they combined to form a ‘barred spiral’ shape resembling the well-known barred-spiral galaxies in space. As he wrote: ‘Occasionally two plasmoids crashing head on break into fragments, but even these fragments seem to behave as entities. In other words, we appear to be dealing with bodies which have strong powers of self-organization and preservation.’”
“So then they thought, as plasmoids bounce off one another, perhaps we can bounce one off a copper plate with no hole. What happened next was really disturbing. The plasmoid passed through the copper plate as if it were not there, a phenomenon we have already noted in relation to lightning balls – and ‘fermions’ on the quantum scale – and which is also similar to the behaviour of angels and other spiritual beings as reported in religious traditions....
“What is important for our argument here is that giant plasmoids from the Sun, given the complex behaviour that led Bostick to think of them as living entities, could easily be so intricate and complex in their structure that, in line with the discovery of the Kordylewski Clouds, they could even be intelligent or conscious entities. The implications of that would truly be limitless. Just imagine, for instance, that every plasmoid belched forth by the Sun and reaching the Earth or one of the Kordylewski Clouds could be in effect a program (in the sense of a computer program) and in that sense a communication of intelligence....
“In that scenario, the Sun could be controlling the Earth’s atmospheric phenomena directly when it wishes. Such plasmoids could also in principle contain information that receptive people could perceive indirectly as ‘inspiration’. The Sun could ‘talk to’ the Kordylewski Clouds, the planets, our higher atmosphere, and anyone else who is listening. SETI people should really look for coded information concealed in plasma bursts coming from the Sun. But before we can explain that, we need to know some more about the fundamentals of plasmoids, and their habit of emitting signals.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 12: Plasma Comes Alive
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“By 1954, Alfvén had elaborated his ideas further and insisted that the planets and comets of our solar system (and by implication those of all other solar systems) were all formed as a result of the coagulation of dust particles in the solar nebula (the ‘dust cloud’ surrounding the early Sun) as a result of being electrically charged by plasma. (The dust was more important for the solid planets, of course, since the giant planets largely consist of plasma that is not solid.)
Many plasma scientists now suggest that stars form initially from dust. What happens is that the “charged dust in a large plasma cloud in space coagulates to form a dust ball, which constitutes what is called a proto-stellar core, around which more of the cloud slowly collapses until a star is formed.4 ”
“Since we know that more than 99 per cent of the Universe consists of plasma, what little solid matter there is seems to exist primarily in the form of solid dust particles and grains, most or all of which floats in the vast plasma clouds. That reduces even further the amount of ‘solid matter’ of the sort that we see around us every day here on Earth, and it makes planets and moons even scarcer than we had thought, in terms of proportion of what exists, compared to everything else. That does not mean that there are very few planets and moons, quite the contrary, for we now know that there are untold billions of them. But what it means is that no matter how many there are, they still form a negligible proportion of what exists.
I do not believe anyone has calculated how much solid matter is left, after you subtract the plasma-bound dust. But as we face these facts, our familiar world is shrinking in significance all around us in the most drastic fashion. And, as I have already pointed out, if we have a science that is entirely based upon living in an atypical world, our science is going to be atypical. So we must reform it at once!
Are some plasmas alive?....
“We have seen in the work of Peter Kapitsa that the crystalline structure of complex dusty plasmas makes them potentially far more complex than human bodies. There are soft, broadly crystal-like structures that grow into beautiful and intricate entities with the ability to transmit information over vast distances. Particles within a plasma can interact in concert with other particles.”
“We might thus be tempted to view Dust Balls as highly structured ‘intelligent’ systems capable of storing and processing ‘information’ and realize that they may have many more surprising and unexpected features. Indeed, such huge stable entities that have presumably endured for astronomical timescales and have steadily grown in complexity over billions of years may display spontaneously evolved phenomena resembling those of the most highly complex living entities.
This situation is not dissimilar to the brain-like like complexity of the ‘cosmic web’ discussed by Ginsburg et al. (2019), “although it is potentially even more impressive in its computational potential: the Dust Balls would contain an intricate combination of charged dusty plasma in gaseous, liquid, and crystal states, with regions of positive charge and regions of negative charge separated from each other by sheaths and double layers, and containing superconducting filaments, so that it would be difficult for us to speak of a Kordylewski Cloud as a whole being singly charged or having a total net charge (or zero net charge), since there would be so many multiple regions of varying charges that a total net charge for each cloud would only be relevant when speaking of the cloud externally, such as in relation to the solar wind which is known to be predominantly positively charged.”
“So we see that it is the spinning grains that generate the energy to form structured clouds, as if they were a vast army of microscopic power generators, which ‘create’ the organization of the whole cloud. The number of spinning grains inside each Kordylewski Cloud could be as many as 10 followed by 26 zeroes. As we point out (see Appendix 1), the electrical connections and current exchanges between adjacent charged grains, even if they are as much as a centimetre apart in a Kordylewski Cloud, would create a structure that might well be able to function as a gigantic computer/brain capable of storing and processing digital information.”
“This is what a dusty complex plasma is like. Every single particle is ‘one in a million’ and can be individually detected in principle, and yet this vast and seemingly tenuous grouping constitutes a powerful structure, unified, coherent and immensely complex, bound together with overwhelming invisible strength and powerful forces. For us feeble humans, who are not used to thinking of such things, we are like the public at the time of Copernicus (1473–1543), who simply
could not imagine an Earth going round a Sun. This is how fantastically different thinking about dusty complex plasmas is from anything with which we are familiar in our lives.
An analogy here on Earth would be if we were to claim that the ocean is a giant brain. Well, it is not. That is because it is here on Earth, is made of atoms, and is physical matter. This is how different plasma really is. With dusty complex plasmas, a tenuous and essentially invisible cloud in space can hold together and become a brain even bigger than an ocean, a brain so gigantic that it is many times larger than our entire planet. We have to get used to thinking like this, and to realize that these clouds in space are so different from anything we know in our lives, or anything we could have imagined, that all of our conventional notions are completely useless.
Another crucial thing to realize about plasma structures is that they maintain their integrity by means of something called the double layer, also sometimes called a bilayer, which has helpful electromagnetic properties.
Two different plasma regions of entirely different kinds can be rigorously separated from one another by these “rigorously separated from one another by these double layers. The double layers are like a double skin, being a sheet of positive charge on one side and a sheet of negative charge on the other side. For those familiar with microbiology, they are similar to the double layers that occur within our own physical bodies as walls of cells, called membranes, with a hydrophilic (water-loving) surface facing one way and a hydrophobic (water-hating) surface back to back with it and facing the other way.”
“It is such double layers that surround the Birkeland Currents in space, which were discussed earlier, and which transport electricity across interstellar and even intergalactic distances. Within those filamentary structures, the current spirals can be superconductive, which means that the current can pass without loss over vast distances, and there is no resistance to cause it to diminish at all.”
“A stable dusty complex plasma ball of immense size, which has possibly endured for aeons and experienced continual growth and expansion over countless millennia, is in principle capable of developing something resembling a much more complex nervous system than a human brain with its average lifetime of around a hundred years. A complex dusty Kordylewski Cloud that has existed for many millions of years might even have become self-aware, with all that this implies. ”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 13: The Mysterious Case of the Dirty Gas
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“Microbial clouds and dusty plasma are analogous in many ways as both are made of invisible and microscopic particles. And later in this chapter and the next I will be examining the work done on what are called our ‘bioplasma bodies’, which are invisible and which surround us, just as the microbial clouds do. The concept of bioplasma bodies suggests that we are jointly constructed of physical bodies and bioplasma bodies, which operate in synch.
The further suggestion is that when we ‘die’, because our physical body has worn out or been damaged beyond repair, our bioplasma body may detach from “our physical body and abandon it to ‘death’. We might be said to continue to exist as bioplasmic beings made of non-atomic matter – of plasma. On this way of looking at it, the ‘soul’ is thus material, but in a different and more rarefied sense than was the physical body. This leads to the concept of bioplasma beings existing without ‘physical bodies’, and I suggest that this is what is often referred to as ‘the Other World’.
Traditionally it has been called ‘the spiritual world’, upon the assumption that it must be wholly immaterial. It was assumed that body and spirit were entirely separate, one being ‘material’ and one being entirely non-material. I touched on this earlier, and it is what I regard as the prime fallacy of our Western civilization (as previously explained, it is not a fallacy that was ever traditionally adopted by the Chinese.)”
“It is possible that most microbiologists of today do not know enough about plasma to realize that it acts as an excellent conductor of charged currents when there are imbalances of charge in the plasma, or when the plasma has a cellular structure, such as we find in the Earth’s atmosphere or in dusty plasmas such as the Kordylewski Clouds. (As we have seen, cellular structure implies the existence of boundary layers, known as ‘double-layers’, surrounding the cells, and these layers themselves carry currents, often very powerful ones.)
If the microbial clouds around us are charged by plasma “or become part of a plasma cloud, or even generate a plasma cloud through their own charges, then they can potentially carry electric currents, whether electricity (negatively charged currents) or proticity (positively charged currents). And of course, once you have electric currents, you get magnetic fields. We may thus be surrounded by highly complex ultra-weak currents and fields, the existence of which no one has ever suspected until now, at least not ones involving microbes and dust.”
“The relevance of electricity and magnetism to the human body was revealed very dramatically in 1963, when Gerhard M. Baule and Richard McFee made the first scientific detection of a naturally occurring ‘biomagnetic field’ in the human body, and they proved the existence of a magnetic field associated with the action of the human heart.4 The electrical and magnetic aspects of the human heart are now universally accepted, but it was very painful and difficult for scientific and medical experts to accept this discovery at the time, because it went against the ‘body as a machine’ “theory, by which everything was supposed to be chemical and mechanical. (Modern machines use electricity, but ‘the body as a machine’ theory did not allow for that, and was essentially based on models of clocks and nineteenth-century factory machines.)
Pre-existing fixations, theories rigidly adhered to, ossified notions, and fixed opinions are the great enemies of progress in science; but scientists are human beings, with all the limitations that that implies.”
“But in America Reich caused even more alarm because he was speaking openly of orgasms, and as everyone knows Americans in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s didn’t have any. Reich’s main interest in them was their release of a special kind of energy. He called this ‘orgone’ energy, and he regarded its release in orgasms as being only one of its many manifestations.
It was, in his opinion, a genuine universal life energy. Reich carried out many elaborate researches, attempting to find out what this strange undefined energy really was. He came to believe that most of it appeared to come streaming in
from the Sun, so he viewed it as part of what came to be known as the solar wind, but he believed it was not light, or electrons or protons or ions. It was something else, he did not know what.
Reich’s theory of ‘orgone energy’ was that it was the essential life energy of all living beings, and that the sexual orgasm was a specific form of a general biological phenomenon (occurring in all creatures in different forms and for varying purposes, but found in specialized form in humans sexually) to do with ‘an involuntary contraction and expansion of the total plasma system’ resulting in an ‘energy discharge’, in which a bit of the orgone energy was released.
He believed that orgone energy could occur in the form of tiny particles, which he called bions. Reich had concluded:
that every living organism is a membranous structure that contains an amount of orgone in its body fluids; it is an ‘orgonotic’ system. Thus, the term orgone comes from ‘organism’ and ‘orgasm’, and means an energy found within all organisms and basic to the orgasm reflex.8
“But there were some people who knew that Reich had stumbled onto something. It is necessary to give some of the political background to this, as one of the side effects of what happened was to suppress for many decades any public discussions of plasma, especially of cosmic plasma and any plasma or electronic functionalities within living systems. ”
“Cope came to the conclusion that each of us is surrounded by yet another invisible cloud. He describes it as ‘a gas of electromagnetic (EH) dipoles.’ (A dipole is so called because it has two electromagnetic poles, a north pole and a south pole. A dipole may be a molecule or some other object that has both poles.) He believes this cloud can be detected on rare occasions by sensitive persons, who tend to call it an ‘aura’. Cope stresses that he wished to investigate this by sweeping away mystical theories and tackling the matter purely scientifically.”
“In order to complete the symmetry and for there to be magnetic currents, there would need to be magnetic particles which, like electrons, the particles of electricity, have a charge operating in a single direction. But all magnetized particles known about operate in equal and opposite directions, which is to say they have two poles, one negative and one positive. Therefore, in standard physics there is no such thing as a magnetic monopole.
The quest to discover them has been called the Holy Grail of physics, because not only would this give symmetry to the theory of electromagnetism – with gravity the most important formative factor in the Universe – it would open up a vast new dimension of theoretical physics when it comes to exploring the fields that give our Universe the form it has.”
“Cope is saying here that if tachyons do exist, their rhythmic interactions would naturally make them resonate with crystalline structures in intimate and interesting ways. This is a wonderful vision and a joy to conceptualize. Critics may say it is highly speculative, but Cope found a way to describe the relationship between crystals and mysterious energies in scientific terms. He found a scientific language for it.
Cope goes further. He comes up with mechanisms in the form of ‘superconductive regions’ to explain how these particles might be the trapped within the body. (Again, superconductivity is when electricity travels without resistance.) He also suggests that on the planetary scale, these phenomena could create a standing energy grid, a vast grid system of resonant standing waves of ‘earth energy’.”
“We may thus look upon bees and flowers as engaged in a continuous orgy of charged intercourse with one another, generating and displaying their auras and creating plenty of charged dust in miniature clouds as they do so.
It really is true to say we live in an electromagnetic world, and are only beginning to understand how it works. All of us are electric people, full of multiple currents of both negative charge, called electricity, and positive charge, called proticity. Since charged currents always generate magnetic fields, we are also all full of multiple magnetic fields....
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 14: Electric People
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“What is most interesting of all in this for our purposes is that Szent-Györgyi grasped the importance of ‘structured-ordered layers around surfaces’ within a watery mass (in other words the concept of a mass of water containing protected, or walled, cells within itself, which themselves are made entirely of water). These boundary layers within water are analogous to the boundary layers known as sheaths found within plasmas. All plasmoids are enclosed by sheaths. That is how they maintain their identities.
Szent-Györgyi had a deep intuition of the extraordinarily complex, dynamic structures that inform naturally occurring materials, including ice, water and plasma, but of which science had been ignorant before his discoveries. We have been building complex plasma entities having countless plasmoid regions within them, all protected within their sheaths.
Researchers such as Kapitsa, Bostick and Tsytovich have shown that some of the plasmoids contain hot plasmas, some cold plasmas, some dusty plasmas, some non-dusty voids, some containing specific impurities that hinder or accentuate the flows of charged currents precisely in the manner of electronic semi-conductors and transistors.
Furthermore, there is the mysterious phenomenon called ‘tunnelling’ (to be explained in a moment) that takes place between them, and there are also superconducting and superfluid portions and sections. That water and plasma – which Szent-Györgyi showed to be present throughout human bodies – spontaneously generate structures adds a whole new dimension to the argument.”
“In a dusty complex plasma that has developed emergent properties of self-organization, where superfluidity is made possible by countless layers of sheaths, cells and crystals, we can expect superconduction and Josephson Junctions to form the basis of the energy flows within the plasmas. A dusty complex plasma such as a Kordylewski Cloud would thus be expected to have more than a trillion trillion trillion Josephson Junctions within it. (Or just keep adding the zeroes, as they would in effect become incalculable in number.)
Intelligent calculations by such conscious plasmas would be so rapid and so massive that a Kordylewski Cloud would easily have the capacity to monitor every living creature on Earth in real time and model future events for all of them. Such a cloud could thus foresee with a high degree of probability what would happen in almost any Earth situation, and have models of every conceivable variable’s effect on events. From the point of view of the limited human brain, a Kordylewski Cloud therefore has the capacity of what to us would be indistinguishable from omniscience.
If this complexity is possible in plasmas in space, what about in the human body? We know from Szent-Györgyi’s work that the human body contains organic semiconductors. For the achievement of the Josephson Effect within our bodies, these can suffice for the necessary ‘barriers’ to create the ‘jump’. The impetus for the ‘jump’ can come from something called ‘the Proximity Effect’. When two superconducting currents are near enough to each other, they can influence other because of their proximity, and this can result in a Josephson Effect if there is an organic semiconductor available.”
“What does all of this mean for our discussion in this book? It is fundamental. We are looking at the dynamics of currents of electricity and proticity within our bodies, an interface between the plasma inside us and our physical bodies – and also, as Cope’s work suggests, between our plasma selves and universal electromagnetic fields and perhaps microwaves. In other words, Cope discovered a plasma-based mechanism by which our physical bodies are affected by fields.
“As we will see later, quantum biologists have shown that some birds navigate their migrations by means of interaction with the Earth’s electromagnetic fields, which have now been shown to cause chemical changes in their brains. Could this interface identified by Cope also work in much more subtle and complex ways in the human brain and account for important features of own consciousness and behaviour?”
“In addition to this, superconductivity is, as we saw in Chapter 8, bound to occur within the Birkeland Currents that stream through the whole of the Universe. There is no reason why such superconductivity within those galactic and inter-galactic filament streams cannot travel at speeds known as ‘relativistic’, meaning near to the speed of light.
As we have also seen, we know the streams of electrons within the Birkeland Currents move forward in a double-spiralling fashion in counter-rotating layers. Similar filaments, operating in the same or a similar fashion, must exist within the Kordylewski Clouds, and at a micro level within ourselves. These are areas of research that need urgently to be pursued, as we need to know so much more.
I shall add just one clue as to why this subject may have been suppressed. Everything that I have described above could be exploited in the creation of robots that combine inorganic with organic components. There are people who write about ‘transhumanism’, which deals with this subject. The work of Cope and the others, in fact, has direct relevance to efforts to build robotic ‘super-soldiers’, who can enter a battlefield and kill, kill, kill…
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 15: How Our Bodies Emit Light
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“Gurwitsch’s theory was that organisms grew in connection with fields of some kind, which he named ‘morphogenetic fields’. He was the first person in history to use the term ‘field’ in connection with biology....”
“The first was a ‘possibility factor’, meaning that the circumstances must become such that cell division was rendered possible. The second was a ‘realization factor’, meaning that the cell division, having become possible, was then somehow triggered. Without this trigger, it simply would not take place. He did not believe that this trigger was chemical. Instead, Gurwitsch decided that the way the organism as a whole triggered cell division for its embryonic cells to divide and grow must take the form of external non-chemical signals of some kind. But what could they be, and how could the signals be detected by the cells?
He decided that each cell membrane must be ‘an organ perceiving signals for cell divisions’. Gurwitsch became the first person in the history of biology to use the term ‘receptor’. He suspected that the cell membranes must contain ‘receptors’ of some kind to detect signals of some kind, to cause cell division, which he called ‘mitotic signals’.”
“Gurwitsch also discovered that the emission of the ultra-violet photons must be coordinated by the whole organism, which he attributed to its morphogenetic field, in line with his pre-existing theories. He was extraordinarily prescient in this, because the work in physics had not yet been done to explain the mechanics of how such a field might work. It was only after his death that the concept of ‘coherence’ (in the specialist sense of waves having the same characteristics, such as phase and frequency, within a spatial area, as distinct from its better-known usage to describe ‘superposition’ in quantum mechanics) emerged in physics, as a result of a paper published by Robert Dicke in America in 1954.
This coherence only became a concept in biology many years later, which then made it possible to put some flesh on the bones of Gurwitsch’s field theory. It is not granted to us all to live long enough to see our theories justified, and Gurwitsch did not have this good fortune. But in trying to figure out the mechanics of the process, Gurwitsch was ahead of his time, and became the first person to suggest the existence within organisms of what we now call ‘collective states’ and ‘cooperative phenomena’, but which he called ‘states of mutual alignment and orientation of molecules’.
“The biophotons themselves are only part of a much larger picture, which took shape largely as a result of studying the biophotons. It was the brilliant Russian scientist Viktor Mikhailovich Inyushin, who pushed the boundary much further in his writings about ‘bioplasma’. This term ‘bioplasma’ was coined in 1944 by the Russian scientist V.S. Grischenko (aka Grishenko). By 1967, Grischenko and Inyushin were working together on bioplasma, and they announced then that they envisaged a plasmatic state within living organisms which, in contrast to inorganic plasma, would be a cold plasma possessing a high degree of order.
This was an interesting idea, for the cold plasmas in space, such as the Kordylewski Clouds for instance, are more likely to be intensively ordered and to show ‘emergence’ and self-organization, and indeed inorganic life. One would not normally think that the human body could contain a cold plasma, which seems counterintuitive, considering how warm the body is.
But Grischenko and Inyushin worked out that this is possible. And what is more extraordinary, as we will see in a moment, they believed that this cold plasma would chiefly be found in the brain. So, to make it clear, bioplasma is the name they gave to that plasma which, they were convinced, joined with the physical body and helped it to operate, or even coordinated and guided its growth and development.”
“This idea was essentially the same as Aristotle’s pneuma (here). Just to remind the reader, Aristotle believed that aether existed beyond the Earth’s atmosphere and was a ‘fifth element’, and that pneuma was a somewhat inferior form of aether that actually was found inside physical bodies and helped to animate them. Grischenko and Inyushin, doubtless without realizing it, have duplicated Aristotle’s reasoning and consider plasma to exist in space, and bioplasma to exist inside our bodies (hence the ‘bio-’ prefix). And one of the manifestations of the bioplasma is the emission of the biophotons.
“A living organism can be described as a ‘biological field’ or ‘biofield’ … we have obtained evidence that a fifth state of matter, bioplasma, exists as a part of each organism’s biofield. Bioplasma consists of ions, free electrons, and free protons. It is highly conductive and provides opportunities for the accumulation and transfer of energy within the organism as well as among different organisms. Bioplasma appears to be concentrated in the brain and the spinal cord. At times, it may extend considerable distances from the organism, raising the possibility of telepathic and psychokinetic phenomena."
“Inyushin’s concept of a bioplasma body accompanying the physical body (which we might also call a ‘dense matter body’) will come back into the discussion in the next chapter. His bioplasma theory follows Gurwitsch’s suggestion that biomolecules in the organism are predominantly present in the ‘excited state’. I am again using the term ‘excited state’ in a quantum physics sense to mean that a system, or an electron, has absorbed energy and entered a state of having higher energy than normal. In Inyushin’s account the energetics of living systems are based on excitation–deexcitation dynamics.
“Inyushin describes bioplasma as a ‘cold’ plasma of highly structured collective excitations produced by the polarization of biological semiconductors. In other words, the energies in bioplasma bodies are dynamic grids of excitations – which interact with fields outside the body.”
“According to the bioplasma studies of Inyushin and Sedlak, the plasma particles constituting the bioplasma in the body set up highly structured waves of excitation, that, as we have just seen, serve as an energy network. The energies stored in the network form an internal ‘biological field’. Remarkable as it may seem, this ‘biological field’ has a complex broadband wave structure of great stability that stores holograms.
In exploring the complexities of plasma in the body and its connections with consciousness and images in the brain Inyushin and Sedlak are here leaning on the work of Professor Karl H. Pribram (1919–2015) who originated the ‘holonomic brain theory’ to explain consciousness, using the idea of holographic memory.12”
“Bioplasma is understood as a dynamic system in an organic semiconductor … The total energy of the bioplasma consists of thermal motion, kinetic energy of particles, floating particles, the electric field, the magnetic field, and solitons.14
We can see how like so much else these studies draw heavily upon the early pioneering work by Albert Szent-Györgyi, who was the first person to insist that the body contained organic semiconductors, as I have already described. Just as the work of Alfvén and his followers has revealed the complex, living reality of outer space, and the interactions there of plasma and electromagnetism, so his fellow Nobel laureate Szent-Györgyi and his followers have revealed the immensely and astonishingly complex operations of electromagnetism and plasma within the human body, and outside it too.
Returning briefly to the subject of biophotons, when they are seen being emitted from acupuncture points and meridian lines, they are not a sign of cancer at all, but rather an indication of the normal heightened activity in those key regions of the body. Biophoton scans actually give clear visual images of the mysterious flowing body energy (doubtless a flowing plasma) known as qi (pronounced ‘chee’) in Chinese acupuncture.
These streams inside the body, which have been detected frequently, are known as ‘light-piping’, more technically described as ‘channels of light emission’. Such channels form a meridian network. This is one of the most important areas for research, since its findings clearly validate the Chinese system of acupuncture points and meridians in the body. The light pipes and the traditional acupuncture meridians are the same.”
“As we build up a picture of the role of plasma within human bodies and consider the idea that plasma may provide a medium for interaction with universal fields, we see again that ancient wisdom anticipated cutting edge discoveries in modern science.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 16: The ‘Death Flash’ and the ‘Life Flash’
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“It has been said that at the moment of death, a flash of light is emitted by the body. There are many reports of this. It applies to all living organisms, not only to people. The evidence concerning this flash of light is extensive, and the speculations concerning it have entered into works of fiction and film.
This is one of the most important details about the relationship between the physical body and any animating plasma body that may co-exist with it. It is what has come to be known as the death flash.”
“All living organisms emit low-intensity light; at the time of death, that radiation is ten to 10,000 times stronger than that emitted under normal conditions. This ‘death flash’ is independent of the cause of death, and reflects in intensity and duration the rate of dying. The vision of intense light reported in near-death experiences may be related to this death flash, which may hold an immense amount of information. The electromagnetic field produced by necrotic radiation, containing energy, internal structure, and information, may permit the continuation of consciousness beyond the death of the body.
This is clearly very important information. Considering how terrified most people are of dying, you would think that this information would be more widely circulated, if only to assuage people’s anxieties. But strangely, few people have heard about it. This is puzzling to me. I think it must be because we live in a world today where intellectuals, mainstream social opinion-formers and mass media all subscribe to a rigidly materialistic view of life, and are intolerant of anyone who challenges this arid position in even the slightest way.”
“Obviously it is impossible to carry out laboratory experiments on dying people in order to look for mists, so it is difficult to imagine how this phenomenon can ever be ‘scientifically proved’, no matter how many accounts exist. It is easy to debunk such accounts if one has fixed ideas that no such thing can happen. It is equally easy to believe everything if one has fixed ideas that anything of that kind is possible.
I have no personal experience of this. I only sat beside a dying person once, the author Rosamond Lehmann, but I summoned a doctor and left before she actually departed a short while later. (Ironically, she had a passionate belief in the survival of death and was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.) It is because people essentially believe what they like when evidence is subjective that I have excluded my own subjective information from this book.”
“Does the life of the soul end with death? What should we expect beyond the threshold of this world? These problems, which have always beset mankind, are again making their appearance on the European intellectual horizon. Religions and esoteric knowledge have always taught that death is much more than merely a transformation of living material into dead material. Now that recollections of people who have experienced clinical death [NDEs, or near-death experiences are here referred to] are becoming accepted as real, the question of survival of some vital elements is entering the realms of science.
Many of the physicochemical processes occurring at the time of death are known. These changes proceed in linear fashion with the gradual process of destruction and decomposition. The Gas Discharge Visualisation technique, however, goes beyond the classical biochemical approach, to reveal some aspects of energy and information in the living body. This being so, it became of great interest to find out how this changes after death. In this way we might gain information of how the transition from the dying state to death takes place.”
“Light has been always intrinsically related to the creative power that gives birth to life. Indeed, the cell division, fertilization of an egg and the death of the cell are accompanied by PE [photon emission]. Light is considered as the unitary purposive principle which engenders the Universe [he does not say by whom, but he is presumably referring to some religious traditions and possibly the views of some scientists, especially in light of what he says next about photosynthesis] and that has the nature of first cause. It is an ultimate source of energy on Earth and a driving force of photosynthesis and other photobiological processes …
Recent findings suggest that biophotons convey hidden information coded in the spatiotemporal parameters of the electromagnetic field, such as a degree of coherence … Therefore biophoton emission might deliver important information about the onset and the end of life processes … If necrotic PE [photon emission] appears to be a universal phenomenon … announcing the end of biological life, then its measurements could be a new criterion of biological death.”
“When considering a burst of light as weak as that of the ‘death flash’, we need to keep in mind that light can be stored, inside one of these photonic crystals, also called a ‘light crystal’. These crystals exist at the upper end of the nano-scale, meaning they are about the size of viruses. In laboratories, light crystals have been fabricated in one, two, and three dimensions. One of the reasons why so much work has been done on this is because people wish to use them to construct ‘optical computers’, by which is meant computers that employ photons for the purposes of computation.”
“The neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick and his wife Elizabeth Fenwick in their 2008 book The Art of Dying speak of the ‘smoke’, ‘grey mist’, or ‘white mist’ that leaves the body at death. An informant named Penny Bicliffe told them about what she witnessed when her sister died:
I saw a fast-moving ‘Will o’ the Wisp’ appear to leave her body by the side of her mouth on the right. The shock and beauty of it made me gasp. It appeared like a fluid or a gaseous diamond, pristine, sparkly, and pure, akin to the view from above of an eddy in the clearest pool you can imagine … It moved rapidly upwards and was gone."
“A physician named Dr R.B. Hout was present at the death of his aunt and witnessed the following:
My attention was called to something immediately above the physical body, suspended in the atmosphere about two feet above the bed. At first I could distinguish nothing more than a vague outline of a hazy, fog-like substance. There seemed to be only a mist suspended, motionless. But, as I looked, very gradually there grew into my sight a denser, more solid, condensation of this inexplicable vapour.
Then I was astonished to see definite outlines presenting themselves, and soon I saw this fog-like substance was assuming a human form. The features of the face were very similar to the physical face, except that a glow of peace and vigor was expressed instead of age and pain.
The eyes were closed as though in tranquil sleep, and a luminosity appeared to radiate from the spirit body. There was a silver-like substance streaming from the head of the physical body to the head of the spirit body, The colour was a translucent luminous silver radiance. The cord seemed alive with vibrant energy. I could see the pulsations of light stream along the course of it, from the direction of the physical body to the spirit ‘double’. With each pulsation the spirit body became more alive and denser, whereas the physical body became quieter and more nearly lifeless.
Hout said that when the pulsations stopped, various strands of the cord snapped. When the last connecting strand snapped, ‘the body rose to a vertical position, the eyes opened, and a smile broke from the face before it vanished from my sight.’19”
“What does all of this mean? We have flashes and signals to do with when physical life begins and when physical life ends. It appears that these are points when our plasma selves activate and deactivate our physical bodies. But what remains constant must be our bioplasma selves. Bioplasma bodies do not ‘wear out’ through physical wear and tear, it is the physical bodies that do that...."
“Crucial to the development of how these quantum computers work is the way they use plasma – another instance of plasma acting as a gateway for effects to emerge into the macro world.
Are we now able, from the vantage point created by the development of machine intelligence and quantum computers to look at our own evolution and particularly the evolution of our intelligence, in the light of plasma?
In the next chapter, we will expand our understanding of how universal fields not only influence our consciousness, but also help create it. We will also address the issue of consciousness in the Universe as a whole.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 17: Our Plasma Selves
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Fields contribute not only energy but information too, information that may play a vital role in triggering intelligence both in humans and in plasmas in space.
We now come to what interests everybody the most, ourselves. Is it possible that we are really much more than we think we are? So much more, in fact, that we transcend our physical bodies even while we are ‘alive’, and after we ‘die’, we are still very much around, just invisible and somewhat out of touch? There is every reason to think so. I have already made plain how rare physical, or atomic, matter is in our plasma universe.
“So if we have plasma bodies, it is only to be expected. After all, why should we not have plasma bodies? Most things are made of plasma, so why not us? And in this chapter I will advance this argument by describing some more details of what our plasma bodies may be like.”
“In the course of the book we have looked at hints that fields such as the electromagnetic that pervade the Universe might interact with plasma to create the conditions necessary for intelligence to evolve. There interactions are not simply a matter of energy, but the communication of information, too. ”
“At this point, we should stop and think again about what is meant here by ‘information’. The word is not being used in the traditional sense of ‘a collection of facts’. Its use is the more modern and specialized one, prompted by information theory and relevant to what we now call IT (information technology). And that means that ‘information’ is being used not solely in the sense of passive information, which is only of use to conscious beings who receive it and make of it what they will, but in the sense of active information, which, when received, triggers an action of some kind, as in the example we saw earlier of the thermostat.
When conceived of in this way, ‘information’ is another word for ‘a signal’, or taking it further, as ‘an activator’, like pulling a switch. All hormones in the bloodstream convey information of this kind, as do our nerves when they sense that the fire is hot and trigger a response of our withdrawing our hands from the hot stove.”
“Presman’s investigations led him to conclude that DNA molecules are generators of radio-frequency signals and that RNA molecules (one of the four believed to be essential for all forms of life, with a role in coding and decoding genes) are amplifiers of those signals, whereas enzymes and amino acids are effectors of those coded signals. The cell wall he regarded as a noise filter. He believed that at a fundamental level protein synthesis resulted from ‘interactions within the organism and its interactions with environmental EmFs’. In other words, electromagnetic fields carry information that activates molecules containing information, which in turn generate signals carrying information, which then trigger life processes within the body.
I cannot emphasize enough that Presman’s reconceptualization of biology as orchestrated information flows could not be further from the purely chemical viewpoint. I am aware of how passionately and virulently many biologists hold to their exclusively chemical preconceptions. ”
“For both Peter and Presman, transactions are essentially information exchange. They viewed bodily signals as the transmission of information. And what Presman concluded was going on was information transmission and reception both within and without every organism by electro-magnetic means.
This brings us closer and closer to the true nature of our plasma selves.”
“During the war, David Bohm conducted research into plasma. When he saw the movement of particles in plasma, it struck him that they were behaving in concert in the way living creatures do. It seemed to him that there must be some underlying field or dimension that was interacting with these particles, resulting in life and a form of intelligence.
This vision of intelligence in plasma became a paradigm for David Bohm as he developed a scientific and philosophical account of the Universe that made him a senior figure in the second wave of theoretical physicists in the quantum revolution.”
“Let us start with this startling remark by David’s protégé in this particular field, the Finnish philosopher of science, Paavo Pylkkänen. He says that, according to David Bohm ‘… not only the behaviour but also the very being of particles [are] based on the activity of information.’9
That is a very big claim. It puts active information at the heart of everything.
David’s alternative interpretation of quantum theory is often famously known as the causal interpretation. In the classic formulation of quantum mechanics, the interactions of waves and particles have uncertain outcomes. The “position and other qualities of particles can therefore only be expressed in terms of probability rather than of certainty. It was thought in the standard view that this will always and inevitably be the case, because it reflects the way the Universe is made.
Albert Einstein was sceptical of this and so was David Bohm. In his formulation, cause and effect holds true in the quantum world as it does in the macro or everyday world, but we cannot calculate results with certainty because we don’t have all the information. There are ‘hidden variables’, and he saw these as being hidden in the information contained in the waves, as the form of a signal. He stressed that form, having very little energy, enters into and directs a much greater energy. It puts form into it, i.e., it informs it; hence, inform-ation. In other words, uncertainty is not a quality of the physical universe. It only arises because we don’t have enough information.”
“So David’s focus on information as the driving force at the heart of the Universe helped throw a startling new light on the central problem of quantum mechanics, which has been a matter of debate and generated a spectrum of views over the last hundred years. To explore further the mind-bending ideas of David Bohm, it is helpful to start by contemplating how a small energy charge can, by the transmission of information, trigger wholesale changes in an entity with much larger energies. ”
“[Note: Ontology is a branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being. In Bohm’s interpretation, uncertainty arises as a problem of perception, not a problem with the nature of reality or being.] The second aim is to consider the relevance of this theory to the philosophy of cognitive science.
This interpretation postulates that elementary particles are guided by a field containing active information. Bohm suggests that in certain key ways the activity of information at the quantum level is similar to the activity of information in ordinary human subjective experience, and he uses this similarity as a basis for his mind-matter theory."
“What Pylkkänen is pointing to here is that Bohm sees some of the bizarre behaviour described in quantum mechanics in the common human experience of consciousness. This is important for the main theme of this book because, as we have already noted, human brains (like quantum computers) contain complex plasma, and plasma may be a medium by which uncertain and bizarre quantum phenomena enter the human experience.
In 2006, Pylkkänen published an ambitious book entitled Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order.16 The ‘implicate order’ is the phrase that had been used by Bohm for decades to describe aspects of his evolving theories to do with the self-ordering qualities of the Universe, analogous in some ways to Prigogine’s ideas of dissipation, which we looked at in Chapter 3. This book carries forward all his thoughts on David’s ideas, and his Preface commences like this:”
“In other words, David Bohm is arguing that there is crucial information hidden not only in individual particles but also in fields – and that the entire Universe is triggered by the interaction between them.
To put it another way, a particle such as an electron contains a lot of information, some of which is triggered into action when the particle interacts with an underlying field. Of course, scientists already knew that the behaviour of particles is changed by interactions with underlying fields, but Bohm’s supreme mathematical imagination enabled him to suppose that large amounts of information in a simple seeming particle might interact not only with the fields we already know about, but also with another as yet unknown field, another dimension, something that might even be a cosmic intelligence beneath the fields we know about and ordering them. He called this the Implicate Order and he believed and described in the language of science how the Explicate Order, the Universe we see and experience with our senses, could unfold out of the Implicate one.
He understood this unfolding process to work like a hologram,... ”
“An important part of this analogy for our purposes is that if you break a hologram into bits, each bit will contain an image of the entire object. What David Bohm is saying is not only that the entire universe is a hologram, in the sense of being an unfolding of an intelligent ‘implicate order’ that underlies everything, but that this driving, ordering process is equally present everywhere in the Universe. It underlies our intelligence, the intelligence we see in animals and plants, and the intelligence we saw in the movements of plasma near the start of his scientific journey, which we are now beginning to understand.
David’s focus on the information – rather than the energy – that fields transmit by means of their form brings us to the subject of the work of Rupert Sheldrake.”
“Rupert’s book The Science Delusion (known in America as Science Set Free, 2012) is a brilliant analysis of what is wrong with ‘mainstream’ science, as the ultra-conservatives of science like to call themselves.18
An interesting description of the invisible soul was given by the French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650), who called it une chose qui pense, which the English philosopher of science Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680) translated as ‘a thinking substance’.19 This excellent turn of phrase from the seventeenth century is well worth hanging on to. For if I were to find one phrase that I believe sums up the nature of our plasma bodies, as well as the Kordylewski Clouds themselves, it would be to say that those information-laden entities must truly be a thinking substance.
If all entities are essentially plasma entities that from time to time ‘become physical’, or ‘become embodied in atomic matter’, then the thinking substance of each entity will have certain information requirements for survival, and these will vary considerably....”
“...these voids and void lattices are so important in general, because they are manifestations of renewal. They are the destruction-lattices that empty themselves of matter so that the new can be made, as the creation-lattices exhaust themselves and come to the ends of their useful lives. In other words, forms grow and die and are replaced anew from formed emptiness that has grown geometrically and sits waiting to be filled. One is the summer and one is the winter, and rebirth takes place from ordered death in an endless process of birth, death, replacement, and renewal. Without the formation of the voids, this cycle cannot happen.
Since voids form in matter, and plasma is made of matter (just not atomic matter), we can expect that plasma clouds will be riddled with voids. This would certainly apply to the Kordylewski Clouds. These voids would serve the function of assisting in the continual regeneration of the clouds, by replacing exhausted lattices in the plasma crystals and renewing the crystals in an endless progression.”
'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 18: Wrapping up the Universe
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“As we wrap up the Universe we will consider how parts of the Universe seem to be self-organizing, how complex structures emerge, and how the way things slow down and fall apart – the Second Law of Thermodynamics – is by no means the whole story. Highly unstable charged entities such as dusty plasmas throw out dissipative structures over vast distances. In other words, leading scientists have been looking at the way that there are fundamental tendencies in the Universe towards greater and greater complexity – towards the high levels of complexity necessary for intelligence.
In trying to understand how human consciousness and intelligence works, classical science has tended to concentrate on chemical reactions in the brain. In the second half of the twentieth century, many leading scientists shifted the focus to an interaction between matter and subatomic matter in the brain and external fields, such as electromagnetic fields.”
“Similarly in recent times the creation of artificial intelligence and quantum computers have helped prompt new perspectives on human intelligence and mind in two main ways.
AI tends to see intelligence in terms of the transmission and processing of information. When it comes to understanding and defining human intelligence, this leads naturally to a focus on the flow of information rather than the flow of chemical and biological processes (information theory).
Unlike traditional digital computers, which work by considering simple either/or options, albeit an immense accumulation of them – the bigger the accumulation, the more powerful the computer – the new quantum computers work much more powerfully, indeed on a whole different level, because they are able to consider many more options than a simple either/or at any one time, and indeed make multiple considerations such as these simultaneously.
(It seems not to have been recognized yet that this operates by means of what I call ‘informational void creation’. When one alternative is chosen over another, this creates an information void in the form of the rejected alternative. However, that void can be filled again by shifting one’s choice to that alternative. With multiple choices taking place, the traditional ‘one’ and ‘zero’ of normal computing can be replaced by ‘empty’ and ‘full’ as concepts, with shifting but parallel geometries of information lattices and information void lattices side by side, continuously changing, the dynamics of these parallel lattices being plotted and manipulated by non-linear equations. This can be studied in reduced form by plotting the mechanisms of memory retrieval. This may sound simplistic, but it is actually the best basis for the construction of a geometry of alternatives in the theory of quantum computing. Someone needs to mathematize it.)
And in this they are, of course. very like the human mind. What makes the development of these new quantum computers work is the way they use plasma – so again we come back to this new way of trying to understand human intelligence and consciousness. Could it be that plasma in the human brain, the human body, has played a vital part in its evolution?...
The first and most important thing is what I have stressed since the very beginning of this book, namely that physical matter is very rare in the Universe and is not the predominant component of what exists. The obvious conclusion is that if the Universe is full of life forms, including intelligent ones, the majority of them will not be made of physical matter.
They will instead be made of plasma. And that may include us. I am suggesting that we are all made of plasma, and that our physical bodies are temporary vehicles for us to operate in the physical world for the short periods of time that our fragile bodies can permit, considering how quickly they wear out, how prone they are to accidents, and how vulnerable they are to disease.”
“We have looked at various theories to explain how the drive to complexity arises in the Universe as whole, and which may be pertinent to the evolution of life in plasma. We looked at Prigogine’s theories of dissipative structures. There are theories of emergence and self-organization, which describe how complex things grow spontaneously and unpredictably so they become greater than the sum of their parts. And we looked at David Bohm’s theory of the Implicate Order, of an ordering faculty that lies beneath the universal fields we know about.”
Conclusion
We have seen in this book that the Universe is over 99 per cent plasma.
We have seen that dusty complex plasma interacting with electromagnetic fields can evolve sufficient complexity to count as ‘alive’.
We have seen too, in certain cases, that complex dusty plasmas contain such high levels of complexity, including quantum phenomena, that it may reasonably be speculated that they are also intelligent. The Kordylewski Clouds hovering over the Earth may well be vastly more intelligent than human beings, or indeed all human beings put together, including all of those who have ever lived, so vast are the potential computing powers of the huge clouds, which together are nine times the size of the Earth, so that in size they dwarf our planet and its moon.
We have seen that plasma may be a medium by which the bizarre behaviour of particles and waves in the quantum realm may erupt into the human or macro realm, for example in the manifestation of lightning balls.
We have explored the role of plasma in the human body, showing that we may have a plasma body that shapes and sustains our physical body. We ourselves are in a sense plasmoids, and our dense matter bodies made of those rare things, atoms, are like ‘smart overcoats’ that we discard when we die.
“The quest has only just begun. This book is intended to inform you of what is possible. Once you grasp this, you can begin to realize what you really are.”