I wasn't going to say anything about the weather. Complaining is not good for my consciousness. I can be in wonder, though. I am. We have been right at or below the record low for cold since Friday and the forecast for this week doesn't show much improvement until the end of the week. We are missing out on all that wonderful global warming.
The meteorological explanation for the cold is rather simple. A hurricane in the Pacific cycled far North and pulled down the cold. It has happened before and will again. I am not a scientist. I am well grounded in the scientific method and observation. All knowledge must start with observation. We can't create viable hypotheses without sound observation.
We need to question what we think we know. We find ourselves accepting science in the same way we accepted religion. Which is paradoxical, don't you think? The idea of science is that is is grounded in fact and does not accept any ideas that are not grounded in fact. Yet most of us accept popular scientific conclusions as fact without the foggiest notions of whether they are true or not. Very much like religion. I am not saying there is anything wrong with it. We need to trust, that people who study these things, know what they are saying.
However, we must nor deny our own observations. I have a background as an electronic technician [air force]. I repaired radar sets. There are many aspects of electricity I don't understand but I can observe how it works. I am a gardener. I don't understand everything about the manufacture of chlorophyll but I can see it working.
Everything about our natural world is amazing and fills us with awe. We can capture understanding through science but we never know everything there is to know. Science is very controlled, and often accurate guessing, but it is still guessing. The proof is always in the observation. Is the guess working out? An hypothesis is a guess. A theory is a collection of hypotheses that were proven. It remains theoretical. There is no final proof. It is always evolving as we understand more. Treating science as religion means we don't understand either one.
We have always had the contamination of ego. That is one reason why skepticism and peer reviews are so important. When the ego belongs to a great scientist, in a powerful academic position, skepticism can be squelched and peer reviews superficial. In the fields of anthropology, archaeology, psychology and to a lesser extent geology, ego has played a large part in what we have considered truth. There are still many, false assumptions we have, that date back a hundred years or so. We are learning. The further away science gets from mathematics, the more likely contamination can occur.
In our present day we have the contamination of money plus ego. If somebody can make money off of it. It doesn't matter what it is; medicine, agriculture, health, manufacture, climate, etc, we can't trust the research. Our god has become money and all science has become contaminated.
This is not something new. We have been manipulated for thousands of years. Our beliefs have been imbedded in our consciousness. We are at a time when everything must be questioned. Awareness is awareness. It means seeing truth. Many of our cherished beliefs are going to be turned upside down.
Do our beliefs fit our observations? If not, do we need to change our beliefs or observe more deeply and fully? We must not abandon our observations and accept others conclusions without having our own understanding. There is nothing wrong with trusting folks who know more about a subject than we know, but we must be very wary if it goes counter to our own observation.
We all have inside us an ability to sense truth. This is not well developed in most of us because we have accepted what has been spoon fed by society and culture. We do need to start looking inside to discover who we are. We have a much greater recognition of truth and understanding than we are aware of.
We will discover that truth is always love. They are inseparable. All is one. Truth is never divisive. If we focus on love and continue to appreciate our oneness the coming upheavals will not be so traumatic. Be prepared to shepherd folks who are temporarily shattered by the challenge to their belief systems. We need to go back to the root, immerse ourselves in Nature and just observe. We don't need to make conclusions.
Love and Peace, Gregg
No comments:
Post a Comment