Cause, Effect & Quantum Observers

The problem with the "everything must have a cause" argument is that it is nonsensical; if so, then we have infinite regress. There is no haven in having "random" quantum fluctuations generating a universe as first cause, because it begs the question of what existed that could produce such random fluctuations, and where it came from. The only logical relief from infinite regress is a cause that was not itself caused, a creator that was not created. Since the physical world exists as a continuance of cause and effect, and evidence supports that it had an origination point, we can conclude that the physical universe was caused by something outside of it. It didn't cause itself; it didn't come from nothing; those are logical absurdities. The only conclusion that is not a logical absurdity is that something outside of or beyond the physical realm caused it - set it in motion.

There is nothing in logic that prevents this scenario, and logic demands this very conclusion from the evidence at hand. Also, logic demands that this creative force not be subject to causation, or else we ultimately face the same problem of infinite regress. Fortunately, since we only know the physical realm to be a habitat of cause and effect, we don't have to assume that anything beyond it is bound by that principle.

Further, what is the experiential and evidenced nature of cause and effect in our realm? It seems that nature is mechanistic and predictable; even animals are largely mechanistic and predictable; many, if not humans are mechanistic and predictable - but many other humans are innovative, surprising, inventive, creative. Their capacity to generate that which nature otherwise cannot is easily noticed by how easy it is to differentiate product of human invention from that of any other natural force or creature on the planet.

Also, our own experimentation with subatomic phenomena indicates that until a conscious observer is attending a measurement, the states of those phenomena remain indeterminant. This is known as the "observer collapse" effect. It has also been shown in delayed choice experiments that the observer can change history by delaying, then changing the method of their measurement. If cause and effect are true, how is it that the observer is determining what it observes in the first place? If our free will intentions are caused by what we experience, how is it that our conscious presence, our intentional structure of the experiment, is determining the structure of what we are experiencing? Second, if we are the result of a time-linear cause and effect, how is it that we can change history via delayed-choice experiments?

The problem with the cause and effect argument is not understanding the cause of cause and effect; the system of apparent time-linear cause and effect must itself be caused by something more fundamental than cause and effect itself; cause and effect is generated by the presence of a conscioius observer; until then, quantum states are in a state of potential, not actuality. We're not talking about subatomic billiard balls that were initially struck at the big bang and all we are witnessing now is how they bounce around; that's atomism. Subatomic phenomena do not behave that way; the evidence shows they are indeterminant until observed; this makes deliberate, conscious observation the only true cause at the existential substrate level.

What appears to us to be cause and effect is simply an arranged cause and effect orchestrated by the method, nature, or perspective of the observing consciousness. If the location and properties of the substrate of our physical existence are not set until observed, then how can we argue that it is those locations and states that cause us to observe them in the first place? This is a logical absurdity. So, not only is materialist (non-free-will) cause and effect logically absurd due to infinite regress, the evidence contradicts it; we have an apparent origin point for the cause and effect properties of our universe in the big bang, and observation of the substrate of our existence - subatomic phenomena - shows that it doesn't have set locations or properties until observed; if we are essentially caused entities, what is causing us if the basic, fundamental elements of our existence don't even have set properties or locations until we observe them?

The evidence and necessary logic clearly indicates that, instead of a bottom-up, linear causation sequence, we must live in a top down, non-linear causation system, where "cause and effect" sequences that we observe are generated by the presence of conscious observers. In other words, if there was no conscious observer around to collapse any quantum potential locations into actualized states, then there could never be a big bang, because no particular state of the original quantum phenomena cold have been actualized from the potential. From a June 1, 2002 article in Discover Magazine about this:

Eminent physicist John Wheeler says he has only enough time left to work on one idea: that human consciousness shapes not only the present but the past as well.

The argument that "free will" doesn't exist is incoherent in a third way; if one doesn't have true free will as a capacity to deliberately discern true statments, then one has no basis from which to argue. Meaningful arguments require the capacity to make deliberate, independent judgements of truth values. If one is simply "programmed" by accumultaions of prior causation, then they must do, and must say, and must believe whatever they do, say and believe whether it is true or not, and will say it is true and believe it is true whether or not it is true, including believing that utter nonsense is true.

Evidence and logic requires that idealistic free will exists. If not, how are scientists involved in quantum observations "deciding" how to arrange their experiments, if the substrate underneath the state of our own brains and bodies is of indeterminant properties until observed and measured? What is "causing" anything to happen when nothing is in any actual state until an observer is present?

However, if an entity is nothing more than a programmed biological automoton - i.e., a non-free will system that is being "collapsed" into a state by some other entity with free will - then they are capable of believing and saying all sorts of irrational nonsense, which is why I don't think that all human beings have free will; I think a substantial portion of humans are simply non-free-will phenomena collapsed into their rather nonsensical state by actual observer, still arguing atomist principles that the big bang was the striking of a cosmic cue-ball and that everything else is just the effect of molecules and particles bumping around afterward, when that view has long since been discredited by the evidence and quantum theory.

3rd Step: 10-15 Minutes 3-4 Days A Week

Intelligently designing one's reality requires that one spends some time actually designing their reality, instead of just reacting to what occurs. It doesn't take much time to get on your way, just 15 minutes or so a day, 3-4 days a week.

You don't have to make any drastic changes, like quitting your job as an act of faith, nor do you even have to tell anyone what you're doing. All that designing one's reality differently requires to begin with is imagining one's reality differently. Using free will, we can say, imagine, think things as they will be in our new existence; we can see ourselves in love, healthy, financially secure, with a new job, with new friends or old; respected, admired, in a new house, driving a new car.

When you're alone, talk to yourself; tell yourself that you're loved, healthy, successful, wealthy. Imagine people talking to you with respect and admiration; feel it. Evoke emotion, imagine your happiness in such a situation, imagine your joy. All it takes is about 15 minutes, 3-4 times a week. When one exercises physically, all such excercising requires is that same amount of time and you'll notice changes very quickly.

The same is true of altering any aspect of our reality; all it takes is focus for a few minutes on those things that make you happy, make you feel loved and appreciated and make you feel joy in your heart, and you'll quickly notice things happening all around you, and you'll feel yourself changing as well.

Real Cause and Effect

We often feel like we need to "do" something in order to gain a goal; many of us have been taught by well-meaning people that we can't achieve anything just by lying around and dreaming. How ironic that this is exactly how things actually "get done" in the intentional universe.

Well, we don't want to just "lie around"; enjoying life does take some "doing". What I'm talking about, though, is the compulsion, or the fear, that if you don't do something further, if you aren't always doing something to gain ground on a goal or wish, then nothing is happening. Often, when our intentionalization manifests something, we rightfully focus on that success but then hurry to try and get more success from that source. Sometimes this is generated by a fear that if we don't do something to warrant further success from that source, it will stop, or it will not grow.

Don't forget the true cause of the success by mechanically trying to milk the physical source for more success; the true cause was the intention, not where we see the success coming from physically. That the apparent source worked is not the cause for the success, it too is just an effect; the true cause is your intention efforts.

Bored? Try Something Really Silly

Shut your eyes, flex your muscles, feel the power. Imagine infinite energy running through you. Then, as if you're some kind of super-hero shooting power beam out of your hands, send that energy into the world to re-create and re-manifest it into that which excites and empowers you. Invent a slogan; It's Creatin' Time, or Manifest This! Gesture, spin, hulk out, pose in true super-hero or wizard style! Ham it up!

Instead of being bored, and doing some repetitive task or game to pass the time, use that time - not all of it, just some of it - to create, and to create in a really silly, fun, enjoyable way! It'll put a smile on your face and add emotional power to your creative impulses. Play some theme music, or imagine it. If super-heroes aren't your thing, imagine yourself a master of magic or spiritual energy, with celestial power arching from your extend fingertips into the world, or a faerie or a dragon - the possibilities are endless. Have fun with it!

Can You Enjoy What You Have, But Still Get More?

I think that one of the issues some people have with simply focusing on and enjoying what they already have is that they fear it sends the message that they are satisfied with what they have and where they are, and so their creative power will just keep them their, reinforcing a static feedback loop.

It's interesting how many ways we think that our connection to our divine, creative power is faulty in some way; that it will misunderstand us or trick us, as if it is an evil genie just waiting for us to think the wrong thing so it can pounce on us. This just shows how fearful and mistrusting we can become, how shallow our faith can be. The universe is life and change; no matter how satisfied and joyful you have become with your current state, that joy and satisfaction and happiness will always be ringing the creative bell to bring in new things that resonate with that creative intent.

You don't have to "remember" to manifest new things; new things will manifest on their own; every focus, experience and attention is a direction your creative power uses to generate whatever is coming next.

Afterlife Proven - What Do You Believe?

By any reasonable assessment of the evidence gathered at Victor Zammit's afterlife and paranormal site, the existence of an afterlife has been proven. The evidence indicates that when people die - regardless of beliefs - they simply transition to a different experience, and can interact with those still living.

What do you believe? Why do you believe it? Do you choose to believe that you are an immortal entity that is creating experience scenarios? Or do you believe you are a physical entity that will cease to exist when you die? If we cannot choose what we believe, we cannot create anything other than what our system of how we arrive at beliefs dictates. If we cannot choose what we believe, then our lives become nothing more than the programmed output of a system of belief we did not even purposefully create.

Believe what you wish to believe; not what you must. You are a free will entity, and are not consigned to mechanically thinking and believing as some program code dictates - even if that code is logic, science, reason, or some monolithic cultural norm.

2nd Step: Forgiveness & Release

After assuming your responsibility for your entire existence, the next step is forgiveness and release. Nobody around you, nobody in your life is responsible for anything that you have experienced because you are the one that created it. How you experience everyone and everything has been generated precisely that way in accordance with your design wishes.

It might appear to you that if you really had any design control over your life, it wouldn't be what you see today, but often what we want and what we are actually creating are two entirely different things. Also, we don't "control" our creation like one might control the engineering of a precision piece of equipment for a very good reason: in order to have an experience, we must become "less than" that which we are creating so we can reside within it. We are creating ourselves, what I call our "actor" self, and the stage the actor is on.

An engineer is creating something contained, where he can control all the specifics according to physical laws, material tolerances, and the capacity of his tools. All those are things the engineer "knows", and are set commodities. Creating one's existence, however, is a bit different, because one is not only creating things outside of themselves; they are creating themselves, the interaction of self and other, and the very rules and methods by which things can be accomplished. Time and physical laws are no barriers, so the means by which one can precisely "control" what one creates are not present.

Furthermore, as long as we experience, we cannot ever be omnipresent or omni-powerful in a conscious sense, because experience requires subject and context, self and other. Experience requires the separation of the God-self into aspects that are experiencer, and the experienced. There's no room for engineer-like control because the only state where that kind of control would be available would eliminate consciousness, as self and other would be blended together.

The engineer experience is available to us here, as separate entities, as we operate on physical phenomena from our actor-self. However, since our ability to create our existence isn't an engineering-like phenomena, we must find a different way to relate to it; it is more like an intuitive, intentional push, or free will assertion, of symbols - imagery, or words, or inflections, gestures, etc. In short, what we imagine, focus on, assert, believe or know, translates in a kind of creative, symbolic language that passes from us consciously to our higher god self, which then generates reality accordingly, in wondrous ways we could never have imagined had we been trying to control it.

Part of the reality our God-self creates is who and what we think we are in the here an now, as well as the past, the present, the future, and everything we experience. How we react, how we experience others acting towards us - all that is the translation of our symbolic, creative focus and intent as our God-self creates our experience.

If we focus on pain, anger, lack, want, injustice, ignorance ... those intentions, those focused-upon things, symbolically instruct our God-self what to create. Often, we want things because we are focused on what we do not have; we are distraught with the bad things in our lives. We focus on them to try and figure them out, figure out how to stop them. As we are focused on them, our God-self simply creates it out of the symbolic instruction. This one of the reasons it is so hard to change for some people.

Forgive all that and release it. Forgive others because they are not to blame; forgive yourself because you didn't know. Remember this: the past can be changed. Nothing is beyond the power of God to create or recreate. Today, right now, from now on, for at least 15 minutes a day 3-4 days a week, focus only on those things which give you joy. Imagine you have them, that you are what you want to be, that others treat you the way you wish to be treated. No matter how foolish or unlikely you think it might be, don't let your mind dissuade you from letting go and imagining.

You don't have to figure out how to solve your problems; their solution will come to you. Sometimes, the hardest belief to overcome is the belief that we must think about our problems and find solutions to them, even when thinking about them just makes us sad or frustrated. Don't let stage props and actors in you play tell you who and what you are and how you should behave and feel; you have the free will to be, do, feel, and think as you wish.

There is no one to blame, not even yourself, for anything that has occurred, because you have been experiencing exactly what you focused on; there is no hurry, there is no "wasted time"; there is no regret; you have an infinite amount of time to experience an infinite number of things, and so there is no worry and no blame and no regret. All that you have already experienced can be re-thought, and re-imagined, in a way that can give you a very enjoyable experience now.

To move forward and out of the cycle of recreating the same patterns over and over, release and forgive your old identity, your old life, and your old world, and focuse on what you enjoy.

First Step: Assume Responsibility

There's really only two ways of looking at life; either you're responsible for your experience, or you're ultimately a victim of circumstances mostly outside of your control. If you do not take responsibility for where and when you exist and all of the circumstances that have led to who and where and what you are right now, then you cannot assume your free will, creative role as intelligent designer of your reality.

At first, your mind might scream at you that you're lying to yourself; that is because your mind doesn't want the responsibility. It doesn't want the power. It doesn't want to be disappointed. It doesn't want to be hurt. It doesn't want to fail - and there's no way to fail, if one assumes the belief that they are, ultimately, the victim of forces beyond their control.

See how it works? Become a victim, no more "failing", no disappointment. Darwinism and materialism, the views that we are all, ultimately, nothing more than robotic, biological machines programmed by physics and biology without any true free will, removes us from any sense of responsibility and - ultimately - anything to meaningfully motivate us.

When you go about the day, assume responsibility for what you find there. Nobody else is ultimately to "blame" for anything that ever occurs to you, you have created every. single. thing. you. observe. or. experience. Own it. Refuse to see yourself as a victim of anything. Not even aging or the limitations of your body or of gravity or anything else. You created all that - all of it - as a mechanism for developing an experience; the experience you are now having.

If you want to change your experience, you first have to accept that you are creating your experience, all of it. Nobody can change it for you, and nobody can keep you from changing it - except yourself.

The Intelligent Designer

This blog isn't intended to debate whether or not our universe and lives operate under the auspices of free will and intelligent design; it is premised on that as a fact. You'll find no debate here about whether or not intelligent design is a valid theory, a scientific fact or if it is a religious movement because, in my view, it is all three, and much more.

In this blogger's opinion, intelligent design as it has developed over the past 20 years is an entirely new cultural paradigm, one that promises to relieve us from the rampant materialistic nihilism and motivation-robbing equivalencies that mechanistic, deterministic views, based largely on Darwinism, have infected our culture with. When someone asks me "Who is the intelligent designer?" ... my answer is, I am!

Every one of us with free will is intelligently designing our experiential existence, each of us drops of the ocean, children of God, made in the image of God just as every part of a hologram contains the all the information as the whole hologram. All of time and space and unseen dimensions are one indivisible entity, and that entity is God.

There is nothing beyond our reach as free will entities to create! This blog will explore and support this concept in future posts.