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| Quantum Physics: Interface
With Islam Navid Masud RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN QUANTUM PHYSICS HAVE PROFOUND IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR UNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION: In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At
the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect
performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of
the 20th century. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain
circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to
instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance
separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion
miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is
doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held
tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light.
Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking
the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try
to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even
more radical explanations. University of London physicist David Bohm, for
example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not
exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a
phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. To understand why
Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little
about holograms. A hologram is a three-dimensional photograph made with
the aid of a laser. To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is
first bathed in the light of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is
bounced off the reflected light of the first and the resulting
interference pattern (the area where the two laser beams commingle) is
captured on film. When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless
swirl of light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is
illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the
original object appears. The three-dimensionality of such images is
not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a
rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still
be found to contain the entire image of the rose. Indeed, even if the
halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to
contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal
photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information
possessed by the whole. The "whole in every part" nature of a
hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding
organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has
labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical
phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its
respective parts. A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe
may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart
something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which
it is made; we will only get smaller wholes. This insight suggested to Bohm another way
of understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic
particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the
distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of
mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an
illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles
are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same
fundamental something. To enable people to better visualize what he means,
Bohm offers the following illustration. Imagine an aquarium containing a
fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and
your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television
cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at
its side. As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume
that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all,
because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will
be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will
eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them.
When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but
corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces
toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation,
you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously
communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case. This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going
on between the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment. According to
Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic
particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we
are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is
analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic
particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a
portion of their reality. Such particles are not separate
"parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that
is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned
rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these
"eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram. In
addition to its phantom-like nature, such a universe would possess other
rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic
particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all
things in the universe are infinitely interconnected. The electrons in a
carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles
that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every
star that shimmers in the sky. Everything interpenetrates everything, and
although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide,
the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity
artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web. In a
holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as
fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a universe
in which nothing is truly separate from anything else, time and
three-dimensional space, like the images of the fish on the TV monitors,
would also have to be viewed as projections of this deeper order. At its deeper level reality is a sort of
super-hologram in which the past, present, and future all exist
simultaneously. This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be
possible to someday reach into the super-holographic level of reality and
pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past. What else the
super-hologram contains is an open-ended question. Allowing, for the sake
of argument, that the super-hologram is - at the very least it contains
every subatomic particle that has been or will be - every configuration of
matter and energy that is possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue
whales to gamma rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse of
"All That Is." Although Bohm concedes that we have no way
of knowing what else might lie hidden in the super-hologram, he does
venture to say that we have no reason to assume it does not contain more.
Or as he puts it, perhaps the super-holographic level of reality is a
"mere stage" beyond which lies "an infinity of further
development". Bohm is not the only researcher who has found evidence
that the universe is a hologram. Working independently in the field of brain
research, Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become
persuaded of the holographic nature of reality. Pribram was drawn to the
holographic model by the puzzle of how and where memories are stored in
the brain. For decades numerous studies have shown that rather than being
confined to a specific location, memories are dispersed throughout the
brain. In a series of landmark experiments in the 1920s, brain scientist
Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat's brain he removed
he was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it
had learned prior to surgery. The only problem was that no one was able to
come up with a mechanism that might explain this curious "whole in
every part" nature of memory storage. Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the
concept of holography and realized he had found the explanation brain
scientists had been looking for. Pribram believes memories are encoded not
in neurons, or small groupings of neurons, but in patterns of nerve
impulses that criss-cross the entire brain in the same way that patterns
of laser light interference criss-cross the entire area of a piece of film
containing a holographic image. In other words, Pribram believes the brain
is itself a hologram. Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain
can store so many memories in so little space. It has been estimated that
the human brain has the capacity to memorize something on the order of 10
billion bits of information during the average human lifetime (or roughly
the same amount of information contained in five sets of the Encyclopedia
Britannica). Similarly, it has been discovered that in
addition to their other capabilities, holograms possess an astounding
capacity for information storage: simply by changing the angle at which
the two lasers strike a piece of photographic film, it is possible to
record many different images on the same surface. It has been demonstrated
that one cubic centimetre of film can hold as many as 10 billion bits of
information. Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve whatever information
we need from the enormous store of our memories becomes more
understandable if the brain functions according to holographic principles.
If a friend asks you to tell him what comes to mind when he says the word
"zebra", you do not have to clumsily sort back through some
gigantic and cerebral alphabetic file to arrive at an answer. Instead,
associations like "striped", "horse-like", and
"animal native to Africa" all pop into your head instantly.
Indeed, one of the most amazing things about the human thinking process is
that every piece of information seems instantly cross-correlated with
every other piece of information; another feature intrinsic to the
hologram. Because every portion of a hologram is infinitely interconnected
with every other portion, it is perhaps nature's supreme example of a
cross-correlated system. The storage of memory is not the only
neurophysiological puzzle that becomes more tractable in light of
Pribram's holographic model of the brain. Another is how the brain is able
to translate the avalanche of frequencies it receives via the senses
(light frequencies, sound frequencies, and so on) into the concrete world
of our perceptions. Encoding and decoding frequencies is precisely what a
hologram does best. Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a
translating device able to convert an apparently meaningless blur of
frequencies into a coherent image, Pribram believes the brain also
comprises a lens and uses holographic principles to mathematically convert
the frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our
perceptions. An impressive body of evidence suggests
that the brain uses holographic principles to perform its operations.
Pribram's theory, in fact, has gained increasing support among
neurophysiologists. Argentinean-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli recently
extended the holographic model into the world of acoustic phenomena.
Puzzled by the fact that humans can locate the source of sounds without
moving their heads, even if they only possess hearing in one ear,
Zucarelli discovered that holographic principles can explain this ability. It has been found that each of our senses
is sensitive to a much broader range of frequencies than was previously
suspected. Researchers have discovered, for instance, that our visual
systems are sensitive to sound frequencies, that our sense of smell is in
part dependent on what are now called "osmic frequencies", and
that even the cells in our bodies are sensitive to a broad range of
frequencies. Such findings suggest that it is only in the holographic
domain of consciousness that such frequencies are sorted out and divided
up into conventional perceptions. But the most mind-boggling aspect of
Pribram's holographic model of the brain is what happens when it is put
together with Bohm's theory. For if the concreteness of the world is but a
secondary reality and what is "there" is actually a holographic
blur of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects
some of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically transforms
them into sensory perceptions, what becomes of objective reality? Put
quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of the East have long
upheld, the material world is an illusion, and although we may think we
are physical beings moving through a physical world, this too is an
illusion. We are really "receivers" floating through a
kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and
transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted
out of the super-hologram. This striking new picture of reality, the
synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's views, has come to be called the
holographic paradigm, and although many scientists have greeted it with
skepticism, it has galvanized others. A small but growing group of
researchers believe it may be the most accurate model of reality science
has arrived at thus far. In a universe in which individual brains
are actually indivisible portions of the greater hologram and everything
is infinitely interconnected, Revelation may merely be the accessing of
the holographic level. If the mind is actually part of a continuum, a
labyrinth that is connected not only to every other mind that exists or
has existed, but to every atom, organism, and region in the vastness of
space and time itself, the fact that it is able to occasionally make
forays into the labyrinth and have transpersonal experiences no longer
seems so strange. The holographic paradigm also has
implications for so-called hard sciences like biology. Keith Floyd, a
psychologist at Virginia Intermont College, has pointed out that if the
concreteness of reality is but a holographic illusion, it would no longer
be true to say the brain produces consciousness. Rather, it is
consciousness that creates the appearance of the brain as well as the body
and everything else around us we interpret as physical. Such a turnabout
in the way we view biological structures has caused researchers to point
out that medicine and our understanding of the healing process could also
be transformed by the holographic paradigm. If the apparent physical
structure of the body is but a holographic projection of consciousness, it
becomes clear that each of us is much more responsible for our health than
current medical wisdom allows. What we now view as miraculous remissions
of disease may actually be due to changes in consciousness which in turn
effect changes in the hologram of the body. Similarly, controversial new
healing techniques such as visualization may work so well because in the
holographic domain of thought images are ultimately as real as
"reality". Even visions and experiences involving
"non-ordinary" reality become explainable under the holographic
paradigm. In his book "Gifts of Unknown Things", biologist Lyall
Watson describes his encounter with an Indonesian shaman woman who, by
performing a ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees
instantly vanish into thin air. Watson relates that as he and another
astonished onlooker continued to watch the woman, she caused the trees to
reappear, then "click" off again and on again several times in
succession. Although current scientific understanding
is incapable of explaining such events, experiences like this become more
tenable if "hard" reality is only a holographic projection.
Perhaps we agree on what is "there" or "not there"
because what we call consensus reality is formulated and ratified at the
level of the human unconscious at which all minds are infinitely
interconnected. If this is true, it is the most profound implication of
the holographic paradigm of all, for it means that experiences such as
Watson's are not commonplace only because we have not programmed our minds
with the beliefs that would make them so. In a holographic universe there
are no limits to the extent to which we can alter the fabric of reality.
What we perceive as reality is only a canvas waiting for us to draw upon
it any picture we want. Anything is possible, from bending spoons with the
power of the mind to the phantasmagoric events experienced by Castaneda
during his encounters with the Yaqui brujo don Juan, no more or less
miraculous than our ability to compute the reality we want when we are in
our dreams. Indeed, even our most fundamental notions about reality become
suspect, for in a holographic universe, as Pribram has pointed out, even
random events would have to be seen as based on holographic principles and
therefore determined. INTERFACE WITH ISLAM “Oh Mankind! We created you from a Single
Soul, male and female, and made you into nations and tribes, so that you
may come to know one and another. Truly, the most honored in God's sight
is the greatest of you in piety. God is all knowing All Aware.” (Quran
49:13). This statement implies that the entire mankind is created from a
Single Soul and surely as discussed above indicates that it must be
holographic in nature. Each soul being a "whole within a whole"
and thus being connected to every soul that has ever existed or exists.
Furthermore we are informed about the meaning of paradise as follows:
"The paradise is as wide as the heavens and the earth" (Quran
3.133, 57.21) The Soul is actually a part of a continuum
and is connected to every soul that exists or has existed, but also to
every atom and organism, in the region of the vastness of space and time
itself. Indeed the next stage of "reality" is like a live
internet connected to every atom on the earth to that of every atom to the
edges of this universe. This could only be the case if this universe is
constructed on holographic principles. Now considering that this message
was first given to sixth century Arabs and without confusing them with
concepts like "hologram" this is as best as it could have been
described. In a universe where every thing is interconnected
"time" has no meaning and is stated at various places in Quran
as follows: "in thy Sustainer's sight a day is like a thousand years
of your reckoning” (Quran 22:47) "in a day the length whereof is
{like} fifty thousand years" (Quran 70:4). The very concept of
"time" is meaningless in relation to God, who is timeless and
infinite, and in the hereafter time will cease to have a meaning for man
as well as the above verses clearly indicate. PHYSICAL OR MATERIAL EXISTENCE IS AN ILLUSION Our physical or material existence is an
illusion in spite of our solidity and the fact that we can see, feel and
touch. We see the way we do as to what is "there" or "not
there" because what we call consensus reality is formulated and
ratified at the level of the human unconscious to which all minds are
infinitely interconnected. Furthermore our mind converts from the blur of
frequencies into our world of perception and gives these a coherent image
when lit up in the light (Nur) of Creator. However this veil of physical
or material illusion will be removed from our eyes at the next stage when
we discover our true form of existence. "thou wast indeed heedless of
this, but now We have removed from thee thy (material) veil, and so thy
sight is sharp this day" (Quran 50:22). Sharp vision implies that one
discovers one’s life preserved within it to its minutest detail. CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT A PRODUCT OF PHYSICAL BRAIN BUT OF SOUL Since it is the human physical organism,
which is bestowed with Self or Soul, it implies that the human organism
was the only species, which first of all accomplished universality of the
perceptions. Accordingly the next higher creative stage took its start in
the Self or Soul of Man (a non-material entity) simultaneously on
completion of sense organs during the development of human foetus. The
creation of the new stage of life simultaneously the sense organs of the
human foetus are fashioned is thus revealed in the Holy Quran:
"Verily We created man from a product of wet earth. Then placed him
as a drop (of seed) in a safe lodging. Then fashioned We the drop a clot,
then fashioned We the clot a little lump, then clothed the bones with
flesh and then produced it as another creation. So blessed be Allah, the
best of the Creators." (Quran 23. 12-14). The revelation that after a drop is safely
lodged in the womb and then after going through the creative process of
lump and bones, the bones are clothed with flesh establishes that at this
phase of development, the foetus is almost complete, that is, its sense
organs are fully fashioned. It is only on completion of sense organs that
the Creator bestows on it His Soul and thus a new Creative Order emerges.
It also reveals that Souls are distinct from human body. In other words,
death comes to the physical body which is raised under physical laws and
not to the Soul which lives in its mental state - the state of an
illumination - and already exists as a non-material entity or personality
outside the physical body. Soul is thus an illumination - the highest form
of life - which appears as a distinct entity apart from all the rest of
the universe. By virtue of its enlightenment as being, every Soul comes
with intellectual enlightenment and moral exaltation and hence
consciousness is not a product of our physical brain but of Soul. If our physical existence is but an
illusion and consciousness creates an appearance of physical body and
every thing around us that we interpret as physical and we are merely
"receivers" passing through a "sea of frequency" -
than this blur of frequency when lit up in the Light (Nűr) of the Creator
gives it a physical shape as we know it. "Allah is the light of the
heavens and the earth. A likeness of His light is as a pillar on which is
a lamp - the lamp is in a glass. the glass is as it were a brightly
shining star - lit from blessed olive tree, neither eastern or western,
the oil whereof gives light, though fire touch it not - light upon light.
Allah guides to His light whom He pleases. And Allah sets forth parables
for men, and Allah is Knower of all things.” (Quran 24.35). Nűr is the
Arabic word for light but it also means conscious light or spiritual light
or guiding light. And so Allah is the Nűr (light) of the heavens and the
earth because of HIS light all comes into existence. GIVEN THE RIGHT TOOLS EVENTS CAN BE PLUCKED OUT FOR LONG LOST PAST: Human Self has the capability for true
mental representation of images, of objects and their properties, without
sense stimulus; establishes memory, thoughts, reason and concepts which
are non-material, stand outside the domain of perceptual brain, which
simply serves as the Analytic Faculty (Conscious mind or what Freud called
the Ego) of the Human Self, as an instrument or yardstick for analysing
the values and properties of the material universe as well as the physical
body under its higher conscious enlightenment. It shows that the physical
body and its sense perceptions are duly represented in the Self, as the
Human Self is capable of keeping in it a sense of objects and their
properties even if they do not provide a sensory stimulus. If a germ cell
when delivered out of the physical body and planted in the womb could act
in the form of a "physical brain" to construct it to the system
of DNA chemicals, we can be sure that the Human Self which remains
attached through its mental processes (Conscious mind) with the physical
body and its perceptual brain would also construct its whole physical life
which already lives fully preserved in it. Memory is not a physical phenomenon; it is
directly related with understanding. It can operate only if it exists out
of the spatial time-matter and motion. As against it, the perceptual mind
being material in nature cannot hold nonmaterial characters in it. Hence
it can neither retrace the events nor can it jump into the future. Even
DNA system - a sort of "physical memory" laid in chemicals
strictly follows the process through physical motion in spatial time.
These scientific facts establish that it is not the perceptual mind which
perceives psychic life lived by the Human Self as an independent entity
outside it; these are the mental processes of the Self or Soul which keep
in it the whole psychic life and are capable of reproducing the same sense
without stimulus of the physical body or brain. "Allah takes (mans)
souls at the time of their death, and those that die not during their
sleep. Than He withholds those on whom He has passed the decree of death,
and sends the other back till an appointed term. Surely there are signs in
this for a people who reflect." (Quran 39:42). If our Soul joins the
"Super-Hologram" during our sleep and is able to construct
"reality" in our dreams and we experience all the sensations -
be they fear or joy or pain or whatever and yet we have not physically
experienced them. It’s a reminder that our Soul is capable of
reproducing all our emotions without the physical body or brain. SOULS BETWEEN DEATH AND START OF NEXT STAGE Human Souls live out of the spatial times
of the material universe as non -material entities in the state of
Self-enlightenment. The great gulf exists between the material universe
and the universe laid on the mental states of the Human Souls, is bridged
by the analytic faculty of the Human Soul, we call it the faculty of
Reason or simply "Ego" as named by Freud. On death of the
physical body, the link bridged by the "Ego" between the
material universe and the Human Self is cut off. Since Human Soul as a non
material entity living in its mental states cannot live or revert to the
spatial times and physical forms wrought by the material universe, it is
apt to remain suspended until the whole present Self-conscious Stage is
wound up. As to the time gap between the suspension of the Souls and their
Resurrection, the following verse of the Holy Quran sheds light on it:
"And they say: When we are bones and fragments, shall we, forsooth,
be raised up as a new creation? Say: Be ye stones or Iron or some created
thing that is yet greater in your thought! Then they will say: Who shall
bring us back (to life)? Say: He Who created you at first. Then will they
shake their heads at thee, and say; When will it be. Say: it will be
perhaps be soon." (Quran17.49-51). The words "it will perhaps be
soon" reveal that the time interval between the departure of the
Souls on death of the bodies and their resurrection has no significance
for the souls held in suspension as they already live beyond the material
times. The revelation also establishes that Souls live as independent
entities and do not die with the death of the physical bodies. What is
really significant and differentiates the individual Souls is the level
and the grade of psychic development attained by them while living
attached with the material universe through the perceptual system of their
physical bodies. WHAT MAKES THE HUMAN SELF (SOUL) GROW There is a significant difference between
the way the physical body develops and the manner the Human Self develops.
The body grows by receiving substances from outside and incorporating
them, that is, by taking in. The Self grows stronger by sharing its
knowledge, wisdom and possessions with others. Its happiness lies in
helping others. It is cramped when it keeps its riches to itself.
Generosity of any kind enriches it and niggardliness impoverishes it.
Therefore, if we want real happiness and spiritual bliss in this world and
get out of all kinds of depression, we must give out and refrain from
taking in. "And the soul and its perfection! - So He reveals to its
way of evil and its way of good; He is indeed successful who causes it to
grow, And he indeed fails who buries it." (Quran 91:7-10) Within Islam ‘Halal’ and ‘Haram’
(lawful and unlawful) play a great part in making man conscious of his
physical life on this earth, for these two have some connection with his
every action and thought, and it is for man to decide which of them to
choose in his everyday activities. Even though we may think that at times
of doing wrong, no one is any wiser or hurt by our actions, misdeeds, or
even bad thoughts - however in an holographic universe even thoughts have
a meaning and a significance and are as real as an action. START OF NEXT STAGE WITH THE CONTRACTION OF THIS UNIVERSE “The heavens we have built with power and
We are expanding it.” (Quran 51.47). We are first informed that this
universe is expanding and will continue to do so till such time that
Self-Conscious stage is wound up and the next stage or "reality"
will take its start simultaneously with the contraction of this physical
universe: “The day when We shall roll up the heavens as a recorder rolls
up a written scroll. As We began the first creation, We shall bring it
forth anew.” (Quran 21:104). Folding up of the universe does not mean
reversal of time, as stated before, time is no longer a fundamental in
"holographic universe" in which every thing is interconnected
and hence time has no meaning. As to the words "As We began the first
creation, We shall repeat it" - the first creation being the moment
of big bang and the nucleus mass of the universe being the first living
substance - and this could only mean in my opinion that the entire
struggle of the life from that moment onwards lies preserved from within
in a non material form and under the new "reality" we have a
potential to access and witness any information that we may seek from
within that "super-hologram". In the commentary to the above
verse Mohammed Asad in his translation of Quran links the above verse to
the following: "On the Day when the earth shall be changed into
another earth, as be the heavens." (Quran 21:48). We have known earth and heavens only in its
material form and under new "reality" once the material veil is
removed from our eyes that we discover their new form - ie: preserved from
within as stated before. The creation of this Universe is not only for the
Hawking or Dawkin's of this world or for the few professors to crow about
but for the entire creation to witness. "And We have not created the
heavens and the earth and all that is in between them in mere idle
play." SCOPE FOR INFINITE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT According to the Holy Quran, life has
manifested itself in the form of Human Self or Soul after passing through
various stages of creation. This is the final link in the development of
life in this world. But life is not limited to this world; it continues
beyond death. The higher life that the individual with a developed
personality is capable of leading after life in this material world is
called a heavenly life, or the life of paradise (Jannah). On the other
hand, the onward march of the personalities who could not fully develop in
the present world is bound to be thwarted: this kind of life is called an
infernal life or the life of hell (Jahannam). Hell and paradise do not
stand for places or localities; they denote different conditions of Human
Self, which have been described metaphorically in the Holy Quran. The Holy Quran envisages the Human Self as
a developing entity. When the Self has successfully completed the present
journey of life, death opens the door to the fresh and more glorious
possibilities. Joy at the accomplishments made is blended with prospectus
of fresh opportunities. Having realised a certain quantum of
potentialities during its earthly career, the Self becomes aware of what
is still left to be actualised. This state of mind, blend of joy and zest
at higher plane of existence cannot be described, but it can be symbolised.
That is why the Holy Quran has resource to metaphorical language in regard
to paradise: As described before "heavens" is different form of
reality like a live internet connected to every corner of this universe
and to every atom on the face of this earth. Higher Creative processes
must build on Human Selfs in the form of greater and greater
self-illumination. In other words, the universe beyond is the highest form
of mental experience which already lives potentially in each Human Self
waiting to be realised in steps or as the distinguished Physicists
described it as beyond this holographic stage lies a possibility of
"infinite further development." "That ye shall journey on from stage
to stage. What aileth them, then, that they believe not" (Quran
84:19-20). Hell on the other hand is seeing the ripple effect of your own
actions and feeling and tasting the actual pain (being a part of the live
internet) that those actions brought on those who had to face the after
effect of those actions. So long the victim lasts, as many generations the
effect lasts, to as many people the evil spreads, the perpetrator is in
his own hell: "So he who does an atom's weight of good will see it.
And he who does an atom’s weight of evil will see it." (Quran
99:7;8) or "Man will that day be informed of what he sent before and
what he put off. Nay, man is witness against himself, though he put up
excuses." (Quran 75:13-15). We are informed in one of the authentic
traditions of the prophet that a mark on our forehead will determine
whether we are in heaven or hell - in my opinion it is referral to the
holographic nature of our mind which under new "reality" is
accessible by the entire creation with all the minutest details of our
life on earth and would instantly know whether the persons actions in life
conformed to the commandments of the Creator or not, and if not, will be
relegated to lowest echelons of that "order". The popular belief
that saints or saviour or someone else to that matter can
"intercede" with God is no more than a myth. PERFECT IDEAL CAN ONLY BE GOD AND WE ARE BORN TO SEEK IT: Man lives with his ideals. Even those who
deny this inner psychic urge to their Self's, already live with the ideal;
although their ideal may be low or based on negative values because of
sheer ignorance of their own Self's. The Self can, however, attain
permanent satisfaction only if its ideal is based on the attributes of the
very Self. It is because real satisfaction cannot be achieved if the ideal
lacks in the qualities and attributes as are embedded in the Self or Soul.
For instance, Human Self enjoys freedom, it exists as a unit entity, it
gives decisions, it is conscious of itself, it has the attributes of love
and attraction, it is aware of eternity, etc. Accordingly the Right Ideal
must have similar attributes as manifested by the Soul. It follows
therefore, that only such Ideal or Ideology, which is based on the
attributes of Human Self, can satisfy the Self to identify with. The ideal
is half of the Human Self and it lives in Soul just like the two
complementary parts, which live in the unit-seed. If we take away the
ideal, the Human Self cannot exist, that is, it can never know of itself
as a Self-conscious Entity. Although the human urge is to love and seek
its Creator whose reflection he finds in his Self, yet as he is in the
making, he may misuse the gift of freedom and adopt some wrong ideal.
Mankind has been provided guidance by the Creator through the Prophets and
Messengers created by Him through the law of Emergent Creation. Those
people who follow different ideologies in fact live as different species
of Human Self. According to the creative process, there is only one Right
Ideology as the truth is only one but the forms of wrong are many.
Therefore, the next stage of conscious light must build or start on the
spiritual values attained by the followers of the Right Ideology. In other
words, those who remained blind in the present stage of creation cannot
see the light that will appear at the next higher stage. Such people will
have to pass through great mental and spiritual agony to make them fit for
reaching that conscious light. This is similar to the various species of
animals in this world, which are consciously blind compared to the
conscious light bestowed on man. The wrong ideologies, which negate the
spiritual values of the Human Self, keep the Human Self-blind. The
followers of such ideologies believe in the reverse order of creation.
That is, they think themselves as the product of material forces. These
people are prone to annihilate their Self's or Souls for ever and thus
they may never attain the spiritual light in the next stage which has to
build on the Human Self's only. This is the fundamental law of the
creative process that life must start and advance on right conscious
values. The conscious light at the next higher stage is spiritual light of
glory of the Creator and as such, only that part of humanity that had
faith in the Creator and developed their Self's in the right direction can
see the glory of the Creator at the next higher stage. It is high time,
therefore, for those who have the gifts of worldly life to choose the
Right Ideology for their smooth journey in the next tier of their life -
the universe beyond. Let us remember that no man other than the men
created under the natural process of Emergent Creation can give laws and
determine ideologies for the mankind. CONCLUSION: "O Soul thou art at rest, Return to
thy Lord, well pleased, well pleasing, So enter among My servants, and
enter My Garden!" (The Quran 89: 27-30). Man must achieve and attain
the state of spiritual perfection before he can hope to gain the company
and the pleasure of God, and this can only come about by the remembrance
of Allah and abiding by his commandments, thereby avoiding the path of
evil which only serves to divert him from the right path and thereby
causing him a mental or spiritual agony in "universe beyond",
until such time that he finally cleanses his spiritual Self in order to be
fit for his final goal, by that time justice has already been done without
God lifting the finger. It does not say enter a Muslim, Jewish, Christian
or Hindu Soul - and so in the final analysis our destination is the same.
God has no chosen people (not even Muslims) just a chosen message. This is
so because in Islam all other true non-idolatrous religions are combined
thus making it a unique religion. Lastly the holographic universe can only be a creation but with a sting in its tail that having created man on the principle of "whole within a whole" - God has created nothing less than a potential God - and in spite of that man is not independent of God and when ever he tries to do so he only ends up by self destroying. Source: http://www.reasoned.org/artic_2.htm Fair Use in the Electronic Age: Serving the Public Interest About the Author Note: I was unable to contact the author at this e-mail address... if anyone has his contact info please let me know. Thanks. Uzma |