Posts by Rev Illuminatus Maximus
Plato’s Cave
“Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a parapet, along which puppeteers can walk. The puppeteers, who are behind…
Read MoreThe Plato’s Cave Allegory & Hyperspace
…the whole idea really is that space-time, the four-dimensional system of Einstein, is really just a subspace of this much higher dimensional space. And so the three-dimensional space that is the space of our ordinary experience is very much an illusion. It reminds me very much of Plato’s idea of the shadow world inside the…
Read MoreFall of God
…the Creation was in fact an ‘information collapse’ – a ‘colossal increase in entropy’ as Davies puts it; indeed, in Gnostic and subsequent Alchemical versions of the fall it is God Himself who falls, and is thereafter imprisoned unconscious in the chains of matter. Thus it was that the alchemists saw it as their task…
Read MoreDo we live in a 2-D hologram?
Much like characters on a television show would not know that their seemingly 3-D world exists only on a 2-D screen, we could be clueless that our 3-D space is just an illusion. The information about everything in our universe could actually be encoded in tiny packets in two dimensions. ((Fermilab. Press Release, August 26,…
Read MoreThe Cycle of Paranoia
Paranoia creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, a vicious circle in which suspicion breeds suspicion, threat breeds counterthreat… Paranoids begin with imagined enemies and end up with real ones… In paranoia-a-deux hostility becomes synergistic, enemies become hypnotized by each other and become locked in a prison of mirrors. Human consciousness, it seems, is able to create or…
Read MoreDelusions of the Ego
Our ego – in this context, the neurotic mind that grasps onto a solid sense of self-identity for support – is extremely powerful and will fight against any view that threatens its security. It is deeply disturbed by the suggestion that the I, like everything else, is something merely designated by conceptual thought. Therefore we…
Read MoreThe Seeding of the Multiverse
The idea is that the universe evolved in a way which is very analogous to natural selection in a population, say, of bacteria. To do this the universe needs to reproduce itself, and I took over an older idea by John Wheeler and Bryce DeWitt, who were pioneers of quantum gravity. Their idea was that…
Read MoreAquatic Ape Hypothesis
The Aquatic Ape Theory states that approximately 6-7 million years ago, our ape ancestors were trapped in a semi-aquatic environment. This forced them to search for food in the water and become very comfortable in the water; over time altering their bodies to be more effective in the water. The theory says that a founder…
Read MoreDisasters and Amnesia
First, let us assume… that a series of cataclysms… did occur, that mankind was exposed to these terrible events and that some of them lived to deal with the consequences, particularly the emotional consequences. Second, let us assume that after a time memories of the experience, as well as the intense feelings stirred up by…
Read MoreQuantum fluctuations
Quantum fluctuations are, at their root, completely a-causal, in the sense that cause and effect… is not a part of how these fluctuations work… So in the big bang, the establishment of ‘law’ came after the event itself, but of course even the concept of time and causality may not have been quite the same…
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