My Sunday Thought for 091017: This Is Physics?

"Everything is here and now, but in various states of visibility and invisibility depending upon the frequency that you are operating on, and that means the belief system, the definitions that you buy into most strongly.

Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is physics."

-- Bashar, a channeled extraterrestrial entity

Channeling an extraterrestrial entity ranks right out there with séances, remote viewing, life after death, out of body experience, anti-gravity, God, channeling spirits, and transporter technology - beam me up, Scotty!  Faith be damned, such things are still flying high out in left field waiting to be caught, or dropped, proved or disproved.  As much as my faith says I believe in a lot of it, I have to admit we can't make a scientific determination because we simply don't have a scientific method to prove or disprove that which defies common logic.  And even if we could, we would still view it with the critical eye of disbelief.  Scientific academia refuses to even acknowledge what they consider junk science, much less work to prove it.  Such work is relegated to agencies like the CIA.  

Some obvious observations simply confuse me, however.  For instance, take the quote from a "channeled" extraterrestrial, Bashar:  "Everything is here and now, but in various states of visibility and invisibility depending upon the frequency that you are operating on, and that means the belief system, the definitions that you buy into most strongly...  Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is physics."  This is pretty typical of the fluff most noted channelers might spew forth.   I take exception, however, to making a concrete determination that, "It can be no other way."  We always find another way, and then we look foolish for not leaving ourselves an out.

This all seems like fairly heady stuff if you need something to contemplate while you're relaxing on the porcelain throne after ingesting five or six fast food burritos.  My point of all this is, and I know you'd like me to find a point, if this rhetoric is what garners these people, these channelers, such a rich following, why attribute these philosophical tidbits to a channeled... whatever?  Why not simply own it?  Why risk credibility and ridicule by attributing things to the twilight zone?  Well, several reasons come to mind.  You're a con artist, you're insane, or you are really channeling.  It makes me consider how much we attribute to God, yet we have never heard a word, except from those we look to as "channelers" of the Word.

Lao Tsu wrote, "Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the center hole that makes it useful.  Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful.  Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful.  Therefore profit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there."  Lao Tsu wrote the Tao Te Ching, 81 chapters, or 5,000 words, trying to explain the essence of Taoism.  Yet he also wrote, "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao."  Such is the "essence" of truth.  One might say that it isn't what he's written which is useful, it's what he hasn't.  But he found no need to attribute this to anyone except himself, and no true master would, unless it was appropriate to do so.

Is Bashar an extraterrestrial entity channeling across dimensions from sometime in our future?  Hell, I don't know, nor do I really think it's important to the truth he may or may not be telling.  What we really need to be asking is whether what Bashar says can truly be no other way and, if so, is it, in fact, physics?  Well, I think I'll try to match the frequency of the reality I want and see if I can't help but get that reality.  I

I'll be really pissed if it works; I spend much of my early life memorizing pickup lines which netted my squat.  No one ever mentioned anything about matching frequencies.  Who woulda thunk?

This is all just something for ya'll to thunk... er... think about, as this is My Sunday Thought for September 10, 2017.

"You have to spin a good yarn 

before you can weave a great dream."

-- Paul the alien, "Paul" (2011)

Editor's Note 

(re: disclaimer cum "get out of jail free" card) 

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It is my fervent hope that we keep open and active minds when reading opinions and while engaging in peaceful, constructive, discussion in an arena of mutual respect concerning the opinions put forth. After over twenty years with military intelligence, I have come to believe engaging each other in this manner and in this arena is the way we will learn tolerance and respect for differing beliefs, cultures, and viewpoints.

We all fall from grace, some more often than others; it is part of being human. God's test for us is what we learn from the experience, and what we do afterward.

Pastor Tony spent 23 years with United States Air Force Intelligence as a planner, analyst, briefer, instructor, and senior manager. He spent 17 years, following his service career, working with an Institutional Review Board helping to protect the rights of human subjects in pharmaceutical research. Ordained 1n 2013 as an "interfaith" minister, he founded the Congregation for Religious Tolerance in response to intolerance shown by Christians toward peaceful Islam. As the weapon for his war on intolerance he chose the pen, to wage his "battle" in the guise of the Congregation's official online blog, The Path, of which he is both author and editor. "The Path" offers a vehicle for commentary and guidance concerning one's own personal, spiritual, path toward peace and the final destination for us all. He currently resides in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where he volunteers as Chaplain Program Liaison, at a regional medical center.