Hi  guys!!…..don’t let the title of this post mislead you……Rarity……is only ONE of the paths.  But let me elaborate on Rarity for you.  What needs to be recognized about rarity is that in the moment of recognition where metaphysical gifts can be found and brought (with much effort) to fruition, in the sense that, you become capable of actually using what you’ve learned in your daily life, they can be used for good or evil intentions.  If you’ve been following my blog then you know that the foundation for ALL things is energy and energy is incorruptible.  It can however, be harnessed and used for selfish purposes. (but that’s another post)  What I wish to focus on today is how the average person ~ learns to tap into their own metaphysical capabilities.  And ONE way is, in that most interesting opportunity, known as “Rarity”.  In it’s common definition there are words like “something unusual” or “uncommon”, something “esteemed, interesting, or curious.”  My favorite however is “occurrences that are infrequent or of noteworthy scarcity.”  My point is this, when people have dreams or “premonitions” that actually come true the next day, they may sometimes be motivated enough to play the lottery based on their dream or “premonition” and often times they win!!  Then, all their friends and family believe them when they say that it came to them in a dream………but…….what they don’t do……….is recognize the Rarity of the occurrence as an opportunity.  They simply accept it as a “once in a lifetime” gift.   But, what their soul is so desperately trying to tell them is that they have a gift,  and it is in that moment of recognizing the rarity of the gift as an opportunity to develop the ability, rather than benefitting off of the lottery,~ the gift itself becomes a doorway to metaphysical strength and growth of an immeasurable nature.   Metaphysics is still today, misquoted and misunderstood as Ontology, Philosophy, or epistemology. and while these may be gateways to understanding, it is not correct in defining Metaphysics.  It is literally defined as “beyond Physics” and THAT is where you MUST begin…..if you truly wish to delve into the metaphysical ~ to go beyond the fear of what is known and familiar to the mind.  Physics are the laws which we, as humans, base our understanding of the world around us upon.  So, to literally go “beyond physics” you must be willing to jump into the abyss, which your mind will tell you is certain death, but you understand somehow, in your heart, that you CAN survive the jump.  Crazy right?  Wrong!!  Not recognizing the rarity in having a dream (or premonition) that accurately predicts the future ~ now that is CRAZY!  It is FAITH that is the jumping off point for Metaphysics which intimately ties it into spirituality, and that is what MOST books or religions leave out when it comes to the inexplicable ~ It is in the consistency of Rarity, the fact that millions of people have moments in their lives that are so far-fetched, yet consistently occur in old wives tales and locker-room stories, that once the mind is trained to recognize, in those RARE moments, that the ability to jump into the abyss of the unknown & SURVIVE….becomes possible and Metaphysics will then evolve into a word of much greater consequence.  A word that actually is proven to mean the understanding of “Beyond Physics” or the manipulation of the energy around you. That which your eyes do not allow you privilege to.  RARITY, my average friend ~ is where the deepest recesses of yourself is trying to help you recognize your own “singular” gifts and talents ……and ultimately…..a quicker path to reaching the Creator!!   I am Dartanion2…..and that’s the way I see it!!…..cheers….tony

Before beginning this write on Astral projection I needed a  place to begin this so diluted topic that I decided to ask my room mate to define for me what he thought Astral Projection was, in as simple a sentence or two as he could.  Here’s what he said…..”It’s when your spirit leaves your body, but then you can come back to it again.  But when you die, your spirit leaves your body and never comes back!”  His exact words.  Then I asked him if science had proof that was promising, but not definitive, if he thought it was worth further study, he responded, (exact words mind you)…..” If you think you can prove it, then you should pursue it!”  My room mate is a Professional Magician (Lord Isaac) so his opinion about things may be a little more open-minded about things, but I still found it motivating, in that, it could help me convey my beliefs about Astral Projection being a dormant ability within all people.  A dormancy that has been our dreams for so long that it seems quite familiar to us when we alter our state of consciousness with substances like wine, marijuana, hallucinogens, prescribed narcotics, or violent trauma……..they ALL lead to the same thing……..a moment……….a surreal moment…….where you find yourself “outside” of yourself………looking down at your surroundings…….floating above yourself………in a place that feels so familiar……..that there is no fear involved in the experience……….you’re at ease just being an observer………THAT!…..is most people’s introduction to Astral Projection……which is agreed upon by most known chronicler’s of this ability (like Edgar Cayce, another post) which we know to be the roots and inspiration behind those who choose to take this latent ability a step further.
Astral projection has it’s documented roots in common, world-wide beliefs of an after-life in which the consciousness (or souls) journey (ascent) is defined as “out-of-body experiences” where the energy inside a person separates itself from it’s physical body and travels to a higher (or quicker vibration) where it finds a new dimension or separate reality, when the truth (in my opinion) is more basic and seems to me to have it’s roots in what may seem much more complicated but in actuality is much simpler.  Quantum studies.  The place where answers are definitive.  Energy in this reality of ours is moving so rapidly that most of it is invisible to the human eye and we have no reason to even consider it, as everyday functioning members of society.  We don’t see that ALL of our universe, from the quantum to the ever-expanding universe is completely hidden from our eyes and that if we bothered to study physics or nature itself we’d come to know that separating your energy (spirit, soul etc.) from your physicality (body) is as natural as the splashing of waves upon the shore.

Please allow me to relate one of my personal experiences with Astral Projection; I was in the desert experimenting with peyote on a spiritual journey that had been inspired by Carlos Castaneda and the teachings of the Shaman of the Yaqui Indian spiritual leaders. (more details in earlier posts on Castaneda)  But I had been through a few years training in T.M. (transcendental meditation) where I had undergone several experiences with Astral Projection in completely controlled conditions so I was familiar with what I was attempting when I was suddenly reminded of the hours of repetition involved in the inner chanting one does in advanced meditation practices.  The world around me literally stopped, and my heartbeat along with it.  I recognized my heart stopping because a comfortable numbness gripped me in a soft cradle that I still find difficult to relate properly.  I found myself, floating so FAR above myself that I felt an irresistible compulsion to soar, like a feather or a bird might glide, in an unaware lightness and freedom.  I remember looking to the horizon and then suddenly being there (on the horizon) near the sun and it’s warmth, and simultaneously overlooking a gleaming herd of animals moving in such perfect harmony of direction and timing that I was mesmerized to a point of utter happiness.  A feeling so inexplicable that this is the first time I’ve ever attempted to write it down because the overwhelming awe of it made me feel blessed and insane at the same time.  I still don’t think I can explain the feeling truly ~ perhaps I never will but when I, almost instantaneously, returned to my body in the desert I wept, and not just for a moment, but for (what seemed to me) a long, sustained, sobbing of absolute joy.  I have not been the same man since that day nor have I ..doubted the rewards attainable at the end of focused effort in the arena of meditation. there is much more technique involved here.  I have many classes, aquaintances, and experiences to convey to you in upcoming posts but wanted you to know s an aspect of Metaphysics it is most profound and quite capable as a tool for exploring the universe while sitting in the comfort of your home. I am Dartanion2

Hi guys, sorry it’s been a while, still fighting the good fight.  But, I am so filled with complete confidence that Metaphysics is well on it’s way to becoming a respected part of Science that would like to add to earlier conveyances of the inevitability by using some facts about Myths and Legends that support my hypothesis.  Assuming, that we all agree that most myths and legends have their roots in Ancient history and the passing of those truths down through time.  Today we are learning in leaps and bounds, through modern archaeology, that many of the myths and legends that we consider to be figments of the imagination’s of men, are in fact, based in reality.  The stories of great floods wiping out entire civilizations, like the story of Noah in the Bible, (as well as many other cultures) are actually being proven truths today.  We are discovering civilizations so old right now, they are changing our understanding of the development of the world itself, and are forcing us to re-write our history books.  We now have proof of ancient civilizations dating back to 5000-9000 BC.  Discoveries like “Gobekli Tepe” in Turkey or “Puma Punku” in Bolivia (which we can’t easily explain), or “Tel Hamoukar” in Syria or even “Tel Qaramel (changing the history of the Persian wars), are ALL revealing humans extraordinary capabilities some 5000 years before we previously had recorded places like Mesopotamia which, until modern technology’s implementation was thought to be “The  Cradle Of Civilization”.  So we were not only thousands of years off in our interpretation of the development of humanity but, we are also discovering proof that many of our myths and legends are based in scientific fact.  Well, if scientists and archaeologists are making such leaps and bounds in re-defining the history of the world, how long before we prove Metaphysics a fact?
GOBECKLI TEPE (thousands of years before men were supposed to have been civilized)

Almost every civilization has some version of it’s origins being a light or a God descending from the heavens to which it eventually returns with a promise to return one day.  We have cave drawings on walls that are  so archaic that even with our current technology we cannot date their creation.  We have proof of men surviving the Ice-Age on cave walls.  Evolution has a way of maintaining the truth.  The fact that some of these ancient sites have blocks of stone atop one another, weighing tons, not only suggests that they were capable of building the pyramids but, capable of doing so before men had any known tools for carving stone.  Evolution has a way of maintaining the truth and men have been surviving global disasters for 10,000 years before the Bible was even written.  So, you tell me, are myths and legends just fabrications of the minds of men?  Or men fighting the good fight for much longer than any book we have in existence today?  Seems to me Myths & Legends have roots in far greater truth than we are currently aware of.  And, there are thousands of ancient cave drawings and monuments that speak directly to the existence of humans with Metaphysical capabilities.  Telepathy, premonitions, The Third Eye?  These are practices that we are just now remembering we have had forever.  Capabilities that time and earth changes have helped us forget.  I believe we are just now awakening to our innate abilities, and not because we’re fortunate, but because we will need them in ways that we cannot even comprehend…..as of yet!!…….I am Dartanion2…..and that’s the way I see it!!……cheers……tony

I`ve considered various arguments and speculations concerning the features of the World. But why is there a World at all? Why is anything there to have the features we argue and speculate about ….. or any other features, any features at all? Why is there something rather than nothing? We cannot plausibly argue that this is an illegitimate question owing to the fact that if there were nothing we should not be here to ask it. After all, essentially the same arguement could be addressed to the astronomer who asked why the sun had planets or to the biologist who inquired into the origin of life, and we all agree that questions about the origin of the planets or of life are legitimate questions. It does not follow, however, that the question, why is there something rather than nothing? is a legitimate question, and it is undeniable that in some respects it is strikingly unlike questions about the origin of the planets or of life.

The philosopher who asks why there is anything at all faces a difficulty to which nothing in the enquiries of our astronomer and our biologist corresponds. Before there was life, before there were planets, there were already lots of things, and the problem of explaining the origin of planets or the origin of life is just the problem of explaining how those already existing things interacted to produce the planets or to produce life. But before there was anything ….. if indeed the world `before` makes any sense in this context ….. there was, ofcourse, nothing. And how can `nothing`serve as the basis of an explanation? If nothing exists then nothing is going on. If nothing exists, then there is nothing that has any properties that can be used in giving an explanation as can the properties of a `pre-planetary` nebula surrounding the sun or the properties of the `pre-biotic soup` that some have said was the arena within which life developed. `Nothing` has no parts that could interact with another or display contrasting properties. For that matter, `nothing` has no parts that could fail to interact with one another or fail to display contrasting properties.

In fact the word `nothing` is not a name at all, although our use of the word in quotes in the last few sentenses might suggest that it is something like a name. Surrounding the word `nothing` with quotes makes the word look as if it were supposed to function as a sort of nickname for a vast emptiness or an enormous vacuum. But to regard the word `nothing` as functioning in that way would be to misunderstand it. To say that there is nothing is to say that there isn`t anything, not even a vast emptiness. If there were a vast emptiness, there would be no material objects ….. no atoms or elementary particles or anything made of them …. but there nevertheless would be something: the vast emptiness.

If it seems implausible to suppose that an emptiness is something, a thing, consider the fact that we have qualified this emptiness with an adjective `vast`. To say of something that it is vast is to say that it has a size, and only a thing can have a size ….. or any other property or feature or characteristic. One can of course see why someone would say that if there were only a vast emptiness there would be nothing. For that matter, one can see why someone would say that if there were no furniture or other large, solid objects in a room the room contained `nothing` or there was `nothing in` the room. It`s completely empty, you would probably regard it as a tedious joke if someone replied that you were mistaken because the room contained lots of air and water vapour and millions of dust motes. Nevertheless, what the tedious humorist said would be true. And the same applies to the vast emptiness. Nevertheless, it would be true that there was still a vast emptiness, for spatial extent would still exist, and there couldn`t even be spatial extent if there were really nothing.

The question `why is there life on Earth?`may be difficult, but it is easy enough to see in a very general way what sort of thing would be an answer to it. The question would be answered by someone`s showing how a state of affairs in which there were no living things but lots of non-living things developed into a state of affairs in which there were both non-living things and living things. The person who answered the question would show how non-living things interacted and came together and arranged themselves to produce living things. No one is going to show how non-existant things interacted and came together and rearranged themselves to produce existent things.

The strangeness of the question, if not it`s difficulty, doubtless explains why it has occured only to philosophers. One might expect that the religions of the World would have offered various explanations of why there was something rather than nothing. But it is in fact only under the impetus provided by philosophical speculation that any religion has provided an explanation, be it profound or silly, plausible or implausible, of the fact that there is something rather than nothing. It is true that the adherants of many religions tell stories that our culture describes as `creation myths`. It is often said that these stories are primitive attempts to explain the beginnings of things. I am doubtful about whether these stories really were attempts to explain the beginnings, but I do not propose to go into that question. The point I want to make is that none of these stories even pretends to answer the question, Why should there be anything at all? In the Hebrew story, God, at least, is on stage when the play begins. If an alternative translation is correct, a `heaven` and a formless, empty, watery `earth`are also present. It is clear, therefore, that if all the creation stories that any religion tells are like these, none of the stories addresses the question why there should be anything at all. This does not mean that no religion has ever had anything to say about why there is something rather than nothing, for it may be that some religion has had something to say about this question that is unrelated to or goes beyond the creation story it tells. And in a sense–but only in a sense–this is the case. It is the case because many religions have co-existed with philosophical speculation and have absorbed some of the ways of thinking generated by philosophical speculation.

In Christian Europe, for example, there was an intimate relation between philosophy and the Christian religion, a relation that lasted in one form or another from almost the begginings of Christianity till the eighteenth century. And many of the Christian philosophers belonging to one strand or another of this tradition were aware of this question `Why should there be anything at all? and attempted to answer this question from a Christian perspective. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that these philosophers gave answers to this question that incorporated many Christian elements, even if they were never simply dictated by Christianity. Nevertheless, the investigations of these philosophers were philosophical investigations and stemmed at least in large part from philosophical motives: the discussion of the question may have belonged to Christian philosophy, but it certainly belonged to Christian philosophy and not to any other aspect of the Christian religion.

The same point could be made in relation to Jewish and Muslim philosophy. The philosophical traditions on which Christian, Jewish, and Muslim have drawn are Greek in origin and antedate Christianity and Islam. And if these roots do not antedate Judaism, they certainly antedate any Jewish concern with speculative philosophical questions. Why is there a World? Why are we here? How did we get here? A fascinating topic of discussion that will probably take eons of time for us to find the answer.

G xx

Philosophy literally is the love of wisdom, but that definition probably isn`t very informative. In my view philosophy is best thought of as an activity, an enterprise that largely consists in seeking wisdom through exploration. So the philosophic Enterprise has a mission not unlike that of the Starship Enterprise. Metaphysics – literally, “after physics” – is the branch of philosophy that explores the nature of existance.

Why explore at all? Because travel broardens the mind. When we visit other places and other people, we often encounter different ways of living, and this provokes us to examine our own lives anew. If we are objective and reasonable in this examination, sometimes we will conclude that there is more than one way to live, sometimes we will conclude that the way other people do things is not the way for us, and sometimes we will conclude that we ought to adopt that other way of living. So travel isn`t just about exploring other people and places, it`s about exploring ourselves and testing our limits. Ofcourse, not everyone who travels is objective and reasonable – sometimes travelers think they already know how to live and that the only possible interaction with those who think differently is to convert them. But in general, travelers are more likely to examine their lives than those stay – at – homes who presume that home and home ways are best. Nor are stay – at – homes usually enlightened merely by being told about other places. Travel enriches the mind because it makes other places real – it enables the traveler (temporarily at least) to detach themselves from the comfortable familiarity of home, to try something different on for size. And as any traveler knows, living away from home works even better, allowing genuine immersion in a different place. It is human nature to want what is familiar and to complain about what is not, and one needs time to get over those prejudices and see the new surroundings as they really are.

Star Trek asks us to imagine with hope, a future in which we have thoroughly explored the Earth and learned its lessons. By the twenty-third century, Earth has achieved peaceful, enlightened, worldwide government, with an end to all forms of discrimination based on sex, race, and species membership. Naturally enough, the boundaries of exploration have been extended into outer space. And just as early explorers on Earth discovered other human life and human civilizations, the explorers of outer space discover extraterrestrial civilizations. Exploring this world has broadened the human mind, and we should expect that the exploration of other planets, other worlds, will broaden it further.

There is one significant limitation on the mission of the starship Enterprise – it cannot discover what is not actually there. Hence it may be that important alternatives to accepted ways of living and thinking are overlooked, simply because no one has ever tried to live or think that way. This is where philosophy enters the picture: philosophers try to examine all the possibilities. Whereas the starship Enterprise traverses outer space, the philosophic Enterprise traverses logical space, visiting various possible worlds – that is, sets of internally consistant conceivable ways that things might be. It stays as long on each possible world as is appropriate, long enough to get a feel for the place. Its continuing mission: to boldly go where few human minds have gone before. And occasionally to return home, richer for the experience, since the major goal of such travel, remains the exploration of ourselves, the exploration of inner space! I feel that this is the reason why I find the human mind so fascinating and have studied human phsychology for most of my adulthood.

This activity is not easy. Not only is it difficult to discover different possibilities, it is even harder to suspend your home beliefs and customs long enough to engage strange new worlds seriously. Yet that is what philosophers must do, and proper philosophical training is a slow process of release from one`s former prejudices. One method that philosophers use for this purpose is that of thought experiments – experiments we conduct solely in our imagination. Devising such experiments is something of an aquired skill, as is imagining the experimental situations with sufficient vividness, and that`s where the appropriate fiction – engages our imaginative faculties. This is the role of Star Trek in “doing philosophy.” Many of the situations in Star Trek resemble those in the thought experiments of philosophers, and watching a Star Trek scenario unfold forces us to entertain notions that our home prejudices would otherwise blind us to. For fifty minutes or so, we get to live in a different world, to try it on for size.

Looking at philosophy through the lens of Star Trek is a strategy I have adopted with some success, but here I am going to turn the tables and look at Star Trek through the lens of philosophy. I neither praise Star Trek nor bury it. There is much to ponder in the Star Trek series: The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, and Voyager, and the motion picture series. My interest is in showing how an introductory grasp of philosophy can lead you deeper into Star Trek, since Star Trek is by its nature so deeply philosophical.

Two brief remarks about the diverse discipline of philosophy. First I am part of the Analytic or “Anglo-American” school of philosophy, and moreover accept naturalism – roughly, the view that philosophy is and ought to be continuous with the natural sciences, since both enterprises employ the combination of reason and empirical investigation. Hence the philosophical lens with which I look at Star Trek, with particular emphasis on the scientific and technological devices and processes it depicts, is not representative of the whole of philosophy. For example, some philosophers think it`s hopeless to take an objective, scientific approach to studying the nature of the mind, that one must start instead from the inside – that is, from the subjective, phenomenological nature of mental experience. Other philosophers would be interested in the mysticism of Vulcans, Bajorans, and the Native American Commander Chakotay. Still other philosophers would be interested in the examination of Star Trek as mythology, as “text,” or as “cultural icon.” I am none of those philosophers. Second, even within the analytic, naturalist approach there is substantive disagreement over many philosophical issues, and I am sometimes in a minority. I shall often present and argue for what I take to be the most defensible position on an issue, but this should not be taken as representative of what all philosophers think. That said, I will consider the important views on an issue even if I must ultimately reject them.

As for metaphysics, it can be relatively pure or relatively applied. Star Trek raises some pure metaphysical issues, as in The Next Generation: “Where No One Has Gone Before,”  when young Wesley Crusher wonders whether thought is the basis for all existance. The Next Generation is in fact my favourite series.

G xx

Hi guys!!…so much going on with me I am loathe to start for fear I may ramble, I have so much to say……..so much has happened in my microcosm of Faith& Metaphysics……..my soul is on fire……I think, partially because my mind is gaining momentum for having been confined to my room for most of the past three years…..but….more importantly…..because I have made some extraordinary conclusions concerning my Metaphysical journey…..but, again……..add to that……I have a “spinal cord stimulator” implanted  on my spine which is changing my physiology….daily…..and keeps my mind alert…..for fear of medical ramifications……but let us get on “topic’ here……..I would like to begin with FAITH….

FAITH, comes in moments…….in time….VICES come as habitual reactions to environment!  But those moments of wonder that each of us encounters in our lifetimes………those moments where time seems to slow down and you experience the inexplicable……….just for a moment………..THOSE are the moments where the deepest, most profound, most realistic, life-altering moments of our existence are born.  They help us to form our own personal belief systems………those moments help us lay the foundation of our ever-evolving rationale………where, through the years we somehow learn to disregard thousands of years of philosophy……we learn to call it “old”……just out dated stuff!!……….such bullshit that we’re able to just go along with the indoctrinated belief system……..just forget the lessons of our ancestral heritage……..where that heritage is kept in chambers and vanished libraries of Metaphysical redundancy!!……How can we know our soul without understanding EVERYTHING!!?…..Every culture’s Bible?……..Every writing on ancient walls?……..every misunderstood monument that modern architects cannot even reproduce to this day?………are we doomed to this cyclical repetition of the death of ALL that IS man’s wisdom?……….Do we just place REINCARNATION into a newly packaged trash bag?  …….OR………do we make a metaphysical soup, and learn to ingest and benefit from, EVERYTHING that is another man’s life’s-work, and/or Contribution to the relentless pursuit of the understanding of the Metaphysical….or…..in this case…..The Metaphysical truth where the “Soul” is concerned………….I am often drawn back to the early days of my understanding of MEDITATION……the place where you discover that there is ONLY one truth!!…….the place where “White Light” can change your soul………in advanced meditation practices it is easily recognizable that ALL things are inter-connected……..that there is a great ballet playing itself out each and every day right before our eyes…..ENERGY!!……the connective tissue………the only immortal entity on the planet or Universe for that matter………ENERGY…..the reason for this blog…………we are all blessed with awareness and comprehension……….it is a gift that should not be squandered…..for once you’re aware of the fact that we are all apart of something so MAGNIFICENT,…..and that we are SO small in comparison to it’s awesomeness…..we begin to understand that…..it’s ALL a part of the same thing…….the fact that your personal aura is brighter than any light seen here on this planet……and we know this to be true because of “Kirlian Photography”………..speaks volumes to the nature of all things……….we’re all constantly gaining experience through evolutions power…..that thing we all call “DEATH”………is merely a springboard to the next part of the evolution of your own “personal energy”!!………and the experiences you gain here in this lifetime…..are…..friggin’….PRICELESS!!!!…….everything we are is constantly crying out to know our creator…..that thing we all refer to as GOD!!….and Metaphysics…..to my mind…..is the quickest way to understanding the truth of the matter!!….so remember the words of two of the greatest prophets of all time…..JESUS & SIDDARTHA (Buhdda)……seek and ye shall find that the Universe and the path to understanding the ALL…..is inside you……….you!!……your ever-evolving essence of energy and light!!…….or that which we do not quite yet grasp……I am Dartanion2……..and that’s the way I see it!!…….cheers……..tony