Chapter One

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THE BIG MYSTERY

My work is simple.

I open Pandora’s Box.

In this book, powerful secrets fly out of a particular Pandora’s Box I found a long time ago. While I am a Mason and Knight Templar, my work offers secrets that these societies do not possess. Yet, had I not worked and traveled in Masonic lands, I would not have seen parts of the larger pattern unfold. For example, after working in Masonry, I was able to morph the mysterious symbol of the Masonic Pyramid into the new pyramid shown above. My pyramid is called the Day Dream Pyramid. This Day Dream pyramid is the Pandora’s Box I will open. From out of this box will fly secrets about the origins of the Universe and why religions contain only fragmentary information about Infinity.     

We begin by asking a perennial question: Who or What caused our Universe to appear? The attempts to solve the Big Mystery include the 3,500-year-old Book of Genesis and the sophisticated physics that inform Big Bang cosmology. The debate over our origins has divided Humanity for millennia. At present, there are two main models of how our Universe began. These models are Divine Creation and the Big Bang.

Michelangelo. The Creation of Adam. 1510. The Sistine Chapel.

Divine Creation is a supernatural explanation for the origin of the Universe. There are several different versions of Divine Creation. The most commonly held view of Creation is that a single Creator-God spoke our Universe into existence. Within the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, God is said to have the ability to speak things into existence from nothing. While these three religions share the basic view of Divine Creation as described in the Book of Genesis, each one, in absolute doctrinal terms, worships a different God. The Gods of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are not the same God. Ask a Jew, a Christian, or a Muslim if they share the same God and they will say no. Compare the Pentateuch, the New Testament, and the Qur'an and you will see that they each present a different God and salvationary program.    

Because each of these religions has a different God, each of these religions has its own unique set of scriptures that contain “God’s law” as revealed to humanity through prophets. That each of these three religion claims to be the sole representative of the “One True God” has been, and continues to be, the basis of endless bloodshed, political struggle, and a ferocious fight with Atheism. The implications of how our Universe began are enormous, particularly with respect to the power, wealth, aggression, and influence that are embodied within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Unlike Divine Creation, the Big Bang is a purely physical explanation for the origin of the Universe that does not require a God to explain anything. As such, the Big Bang is an Atheistic account of the origins of the Universe. There are differing schools of thought concerning the Big Bang. This book refers to what is called the “standard model” of the Big Bang. In simple terms, the standard model describes a mysterious singularity that contained within it all of the time, space, matter and energy that now fills our Universe. The appearance of the singularity is left unexplained because it cannot be explained at present by Science. The term “Big Bang” describes a high-energy event during which the singularity “exploded” and hyper-expanded into the super-dense, super-hot early Universe. After some period, the super-dense early Universe cooled down and expanded sufficiently to allow matter to aggregate into the first generation galaxies. These galaxies and their stars died off. In doing so, they formed the metals and gases that were hurled off into space when stars exploded. The fundamental forces in the cosmos aggregated this matter and formed it into new galaxies, stars, nebulae, and planets. The simplistic diagram below represents our Universe expanding and evolving from the Big Bang forward. In the illustration below, we represent the primeval quark plasma converting into early matter, light, stars, and galaxies via E=MC². The three black disks represent the generations of stars and galaxies since the beginning of time.

The Big Bang model conceives of Earth as being a product of stellar evolution. Over time, gasses, metals, water, and minerals aggregated into a disc that was early our solar system. The forces at work formed our Sun and its planets. Once Earth cooled down and an atmosphere formed, the processes of stellar evolution spontaneously began. Matter was transformed into simple forms of life by the processes of biological evolution. Over geological time scales, natural selection is said to have taken simple life forms and increasingly evolved then into highly intelligent and highly ordered structures such as DNA. In turn, DNA became the basis of ever more increasingly complex life forms. Hominids appeared and from our early genetic ancestors, human eventually evolved.    Natural selection is driven by the environment: Whatever can adapt to its environment will survive and reproduce itself. Whatever cannot adapt will die off. Early organisms transmitted cellular information with each generation. Adaptations in structures happened over long periods. The Earth in its present form is rich in biological life that emerged from a long evolutionary series of events that Science broadly traces back to the Big Bang.

Left unexplained in the various Big Bang models is what caused the Big Bang. To speculate about the cause of the Big Bang presently calls for metaphysical speculation, an activity disallowed in Science. However, this is the exact thing we do in this book: We present a model of what caused the Big Bang. We do so by distinguishing between our sub-Infinite Universe and Infinity itself, which we present as being a Multiverse shot through with universe such as ours. We position ourselves in Infinity prior to the appearance of Universe, assemble the raw materials and codes of our Universe, and compact it down to a singularity, and then localize it for delivery into the incalculably small point in space from which the Big Bang erupted. We will describe the process whereby Infinity spawned our Universe. This process is both technical and mystical.

When Science wishes to indulge in such metaphysics, it usually does so by using Science Fiction or by resorting to very large numbers. Science Fiction allows people to safely play “what if” games and not call it Science. Furthermore, if one inserts enough zeroes into a given hypothesis, then the odds in favor the hypothesis improve dramatically; a billion billion zeroes give any hypothesis much better odds than one billion zeroes.

We are not doing Science Fiction or Space Opera in this book. Rather, we will use the ancient Mystery School methods of Zen, very potent symbols, storytelling, and initiation in order to hopefully create a definite perceptual shift in your Consciousness and Reality System. This shift is intended to liberate your Consciousness from fixed ideas and stubborn identity structures that keep you locked to a restricted sense of self. We want you to become a more powerful person who is alive, engaged, and not afraid to go beyond your internal barriers. 

We want this book to be like a dramatic, thrilling big box of fireworks going off in your head. Once you understand the logic of my argument, you may be extremely surprised at how easy it was to bypass Divine Creation and the Big Bang. Once you bypass these models, you will have discovered the basis for an entirely new and expansive definition of yourself. We do not believe that you were  "made" by a judgmental Creator-God or that you are some random, meaningless Big Bang protoplasm. The Vision we offer is so much higher and better, for it adds a deep and profound meaning and purpose to your life. We say that it is good to be an intelligent spiritual person. We support you in being deeply connected to family, friends, the Earth, Angels, the Universe, and Divine Power and Grace.

In this book, you will see why Divine Creation and the Big Bang are correct as points of view. If you were in this Universe when the event we will describe happened, you might see it as either Divine Creation or the Big Bang. Science can measure the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) energy remnant from what it calls the Big Bang. The five billion religious people on Earth feel the energies of the various Divinities. We can be damn sure of this: Something happened and this book chases it back to where it started in Infinity. What I want to show you is the event from both sides, from Infinity and from our Universe. How can I possibly do such a thing you may ask? Well, I tell a story. I do this because people love stories.   

Influenced by scienticism, Evolution has become the main approach used by those who attempt to negate God and Religion. The God Delusion, written by the esteemed Dr. Richard Dawkins of Oxford, is currently the preeminent popular book devoted to debunking God and Divine Creation. Intelligent, often aggravating, and sometimes downright hilarious, Saint Richard the Darwin-Hearted charges forth and slays many of the improbable events in the Bible and Creation Science. 

My book makes landfall somewhere between Religion and Science, for in opening Pandora’s Box, I present an alternative to both Divine Creation and the Big Bang. I use three different terms to describe my alternative:

v TechnoMysticism: This term refers to my work as a fusion of Technology and Mysticism. Having worked professionally in technical writing and technical sales for thirty years for companies including Hughes Aircraft, Philips, and Siemens, I have gained a deep appreciation for Science and Technology. I have a Bachelor’s degree in English. I began my career as a technical writer at Hughes Aircraft. However, most of my career has been spent in general, technical, and medical lighting. I have worked with lasers, endoscopes, UV-C air and water disinfection, and spectrophotometers and many other specialized lighting and photonics devices. In contrast to my technical work, I have been drawn to Mysticism since the beginning of my life. The first thing I remember in this life was awakening from a past life. I had other intense psychic experiences as a child. These experiences have continued throughout my life. It took a long time to understand the experiences and my destiny: I am a natural born Mystic. That is why I am writing this book. As a young man, I became a devoted Christian. I was part of the original Jesus People in Orange County, California in the early 1970’s. I saw Calvary Chapel in the tent, had long hair, did street preaching, and received my education at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, a scant few blocks from Calvary Chapel. I lost my faith and will discuss how it happened in the next chapter.  

v Third Option Cosmology: To hear some people argue origins, one must choose between either Divine Creation or the Big Bang. This approach demands that people choose between Religion and Science. This is an absurd demand. I present a unique Third Option for those who like to have options.

v DX Teaching: My book presents a new cosmology. In doing so, it opens a box full of new ideas that challenge the basis of conventional religious thinking and beliefs. You will see me use the term “DX” many times in this book. The term is pronounced “day” and refers to the event that preceded the Big Bang. One of the questions I answer in this book is the one that asks, “What caused the Big Bang?”

LIVING FORWARD, LOOKING BACKWARDS

One of the wisest things I have ever learned was spoken of by Søren Kierkegaard:

“Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.”

Left: The Ancient of Days, William Blake   Only because I am fifty-two years old as I write this on my son Erik’s 18th birthday in December 2009 can I understand what Kierkegaard meant. I had no idea what Kierkegaard was saying when I first read his words when I was eighteen. Only by having lived forward, only by losing my faith and having unreservedly entered the Void for a long time, was I able to look backwards and see Infinity. Many people have seen Infinity from innumerable points of view. I am not alone. William Blake (1757 – 1827) said:   “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."   What I present in this book is Infinity from my point of view. To do this requires two simple techniques. The first is deconstruction. Deconstruction simply means that we take things apart to see what they are made of. The other key tool is to look backwards at history and our own lives to see how things unfolded into our present situation