Noetic Sciences – Noetic Science

Dan Brown talks about his ideas about conspiracy theories, secret societies and why he has explored the Freemasons. He speaks about the noetic sciences and why it has taken so long for him to write “The Lost Symbol”.

Personally, I love the Wisdom Of Crowds theories and all things releated to global consciousness theories, in particular the Random Event Generator.But I keep hearing more about the Web Bot project and it starts to get interesting the closer we are getting to 2012.

The Web Bot bases its prediction on internet searches, it taps digitally into the cosmic mind or our collective mind if you prefer the expression. The Web Bot has predicted the Coastal Phenomena, and event thats largely seen as the kick of for the soon to follow 2012 world changing event. Their method captures changes in language patterns within Internet forums. This aggregated data is then processed with software to determine various keywords, which they interpret in a predictive fashion.

Remember the converstation Dan Brown described in “The Lost Symbol”: …”Your house is amazing,” Katherine said.

“Thanks, I got lucky in college and licensed some software I’d written.”

“Metasystems stuff?”

“A precursor to metasystems. Following 9/11, the government was intercepting and crunching enormous data fields-civilian email, cell phone, fax, text, web sites – sniffing for keywords associated associated with terrorist communications. So I wrote a piece of software…

“Essentially, my software let them take America’s temperature.”

…”It offered a kind of cosmic consciousness barometer, if you will…”

(From The Lost Symbol, a conversation of Katherine Solomon and Trish Dunne)

And now the Web Bot project has measured the global temperature and predicts unusual movements of the moon brought on by Anomalies in the magnetosphere could cause sever coastal disruptions. Sea level countries may experience the worst catastrophies.

The Web Bot also forecasted problems in 2009, The Web Bot foresee that the winter in the Northeast will be very cold, causing some schools to close, and then later to reopen as shelters for people who can’t heat their homes. Language suggests that the shortages will be caused by a lack of supplies, cost of fuel, or both.

There is an interesting website if this is interesting to you, click here!

In The Lost Secret, Dan Brown has Katherine Salomon lecturing Robert Langdon about the Pineal Gland and its magic capabilities, this is what she says;

“Perhaps you’ve heard… about the brain scans taken of yogis while they meditate? The human brain, in advanced states of focus, will physically create a waxlike substance from the pineal gland. This brain secretion is unlike anything else in the body. It has an incredible healing effect, can literally regenerate cells, and may be one of the reasons yogis live so long. This is real science, Robert. This substance has inconceivable properties and can be created only by a mind that has been highly tuned to a deeply focused state.”

Indeed throughout history, the Pineal Gland has been getting a lot of attention. Most famously it has been described as the “third eye”, or at least the source of the third eye.

Most interestingly, the philospher Descartes has written about the Pineal Gland in the last book published during his lifetime, The Passions Of The Soul, in 1649.

Just before he mentioned the pineal gland for the first time, Descartes emphasized that the soul is joined to the whole body: “We need to recognize that the soul is really joined to the whole body, and that we cannot properly say that it exists in any one part of the body to the exclusion of the others. For the body is a unity which is in a sense indivisible because of the arrangement of its organs, these being so related to one another that the removal of any one of them renders the whole body defective. And the soul is of such a nature that it has no relation to extension, or to the dimensions or other properties of the matter of which the body is composed: it is related solely to the whole assemblage of the body’s organs. This is obvious from our inability to conceive of a half or a third of a soul, or of the extension which a soul occupies. Nor does the soul become any smaller if we cut off some part of the body, but it becomes completely separate from the body when we break up the assemblage of the body’s organs” (AT XI:351, CSM I:339). But even though the soul is joined to the whole body, “nevertheless there is a certain part of the body where it exercises its functions more particularly than in all the others. […] The part of the body in which the soul directly exercises its functions is not the heart at all, or the whole of the brain.

It is rather the innermost part of the brain, which is a certain very small gland situated in the middle of the brain’s substance and suspended above the passage through which the spirits in the brain’s anterior cavities communicate with those in its posterior cavities. The slightest movements on the part of this gland may alter very greatly the course of these spirits, and conversely any change, however slight, taking place in the course of the spirits may do much to change the movements of the gland” (AT XI:351, CSM I:340).

The view that the soul is attached to the whole body is already found in St Augustine’s works: “in each body the whole soul is in the whole body, and whole in each part of it” (On the Trinity, book 6, ch. 6). St Thomas Aquinas accepted this view and explained it by saying that the soul is completely present in each part of the body just as whiteness is, in a certain sense, completely present in each part of the surface of a blank sheet of paper. In deference to Aristotle, he added that this does not exclude that some organs (the heart, for example) are more important with respect to some of the faculties of the soul than others are (Summa theologica, part 1, question 76, art. 8; Quaestiones disputatae de anima, art. 10; Summa contra gentiles, book 2, ch. 72).

Augustine’s and Aquinas’ thesis sounds reasonable as long as the soul is regarded as the principle of life. The principle of life may well held to be completely present in each living part of the body (just as biologists nowadays say that the complete genome is present in each living cell). However, Descartes did not regard the soul as the principle of life. He regarded it as the principle of thought. This makes one wonder what he may have meant by his remark. What would a principle of thought be doing in the bones and toes? One might think that Descartes meant that, although the pineal gland is the only organ to which the soul is immediately joined, the soul is nevertheless indirectly joined to the rest of the body by means of the threads and spirits in the nerves. But Descartes did not view this as immediate attachment: “I do not think that the soul is so imprisoned in the gland that it cannot act elsewhere. But utilizing a thing is not the same as being immediately joined or united to it” (30 July 1640). Moreover, it is clear that not all parts of the body are innervated.

The solution of this puzzle is to be found in a passage which Descartes wrote a few years before the Passions, in which he compared the mind with the heaviness or gravity of a body: “I saw that the gravity, while remaining coextensive with the heavy body, could exercise all its force in any one part of the body; for if the body were hung from a rope attached to any part of it, it would still pull the rope down with all its force, just as if all the gravity existed in the part actually touching the rope instead of being scattered through the remaining parts. This is exactly the way in which I now understand the mind to be coextensive with the body—the whole mind in the whole body and the whole mind in any one of its parts” (Replies to the sixth set of objections to the Meditations, 1641, AT VII:441, CSM II:297). He added that he thought that our ideas about gravity are derived from our conception of the soul.

From a Noetic Science experiment in 1988:

The human soul weighs 1/3,000th of an ounce!

That’s the astonishing claim of East German researchers who recently weighed more than 200 terminally ill patients just before, and immediately after, their deaths.

In each case the weight loss was exactly the same–1/3,000th of an ounce.

“The inescapable conclusion is that we have now confirmed the existence of the human soul and determined its weight,” Dr. Becker Mertens of Dresden said in a letter printed in the German science journal Horizon.

“The challenge before us now is to figure out exactly what the soul is composed of”, he continued. “We are inclined to believe that it is a form of energy. “But our attempts to identify this energy have been unsuccessful to date.”

The expert’s report, co-authored by physicist Elke Fisher, got mixed review from top scientists around the world. Gerard Voisart, the leading French pathologist, was especially critical, saying that the weight difference between the living and the dead could be accounted for by air leaving the lungs. But Drs. Fisher and Mertens said they took that into account in making their calculations. They further stated that the device they used to weigh the soul has a margin of error of less than 1/100,000th of an ounce.

“It occurred to us that the weight loss could be the result of an instantaneous physical deterioration,” said Dr. Fisher. “But after exhaustive study we agreed that was not the case. The only possible explanation is that we were measuring the loss of the human soul or some kind of life force.”

The communist scientists were careful not to link their study of the soul with a superior being or with afterlife. But church leaders contacted by the European press said the experts’ report confirmed the existence of God and heaven–and praised their breakthrough research.

“It’s ironic that communist scientists would conduct a search for the soul, much less declare that they found it,” said one clergyman.

Repeated attempts to get an official statement from the Vatican were unsuccessful. But one highly placed source said Pope John Paul II was aware of the German study. And he reportedly was most impressed. “The Roman Catholic Church has never concerned itself with the weight of the soul, but we are pleased with scientific confirmation of its existence,” the source said.

From the tabloid, Weekly World News, Nov. 8, 1988. By Ragan Dunn. This story appeared in the same issue as a story headlined, “Painting of Elvis weeps real tears”, and “Psychic makes river run backwards”.

In the earliest 20th century, Dr Duncan McDougall measured the human soul at 21 grams.(The movie 21 Grams is based on the same findings).

In 1907, MacDougall weighed six patients while they were in the process of dying from tuberculosis in an old age home. It was relatively easy to determine when death was only a few hours away, and at this point the entire bed was placed on an industrial sized scale which was apparently sensitive to the gram. He took his results (a varying amount of perceived mass loss in most of the six cases) to support his hypothesis that the soul had mass, and when the soul departed the body, so did this mass. The determination of the soul weighing 21 grams was based on the average loss of mass in the six patients. Other studies were soon put forward to confirm the results. Experiments on mice and other animals took place. Most notably the weighing upon death of sheep seemed to create mass for a few minutes which later disappeared. The hypothesis was made that a soul portal formed upon death which then whisked the soul away.

In the Roman Catholic Church, Saint Michael has four main roles or offices. He is the Christian angel of death, carrying the souls of all the deceased to heaven, where they are weighed in his perfectly balanced scales (hence Michael is often depicted holding scales). At the hour of death, Michael descends and gives each soul the chance to redeem itself before passing, thus consternating the devil and his minions. St Michael is the special patron of the Chosen People in the Old Testament and is guardian of the Church; it was thus not unusual for the angel to be revered by the military orders of knights during the Middle Ages. Last, he is the supreme enemy of Satan and the fallen angels.

The Secret behind The Secret

Every writer draws inspiration from somewhere, in the case of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, much of the spiritual aspects Dan Brown recounts in the book can be found in Maya writings. I have selected a few fascinating paragraphs from “The Mayan Prophecies for 2012 by Gerald Benedict.

…The Prophets predicted a time when their ancient hidden knowledge would be recovered and given to the world by a future generation of elders and time keepers…

…The [Mayan] Prophecy speaks of a collective spiritual amnesia from which our civilization suffers, and it refers, in modern terminology, to what is called “recovered memory”. Once our memory of cosmic wisdom has been retrieved, we will have a deeper understanding of who we are, and of our relationship with Nature and the universe…

…Every human being can, by birthright, achieve cosmic consciousness, but the teaching tells us that some form of initiation or guidance is helpful…

…Western culture’s sensitivity to “place” has been numbed by fundamentalism and the politics of institutional religion and sectarianism. We no longer sense the numinous power and holiness of the sacred sites…

…Once we have recovered the memory of our right rightfulplace in the universe, together with our sense of unity with it, humanity will, once again, have the means of realizing its spiritual potential and of solving the problems with which it is faced…

…Despite the persistent execution of their prophets and teachers by the spanish colonizers, and the destruction of all but a few of their sacred codieces, the Maya were able to preserve their traditional wisdom literature. The Prophecy speaks of our urgent need of teachers who, by sharing this recovered wisdom, will lead us back to the basic, but ominously neglected sources of self-fulfilment, and of life itself…

…We have given our minds over to the technology it has invented. It is generally accepted that we have never developed the genetic potentialwith which we are born…

…”A simple theory of consciousness can be advanced by accepting that the mental is a property of matter”…Piero Scaruffi

…I am Another Yourself… Lak’ech, the Yucatec Mayan Code of Honour

“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly we shall all hang seperately…Benjamin Franklin

Read more about the Mayan calendar and the Procession Of The Equinoxes