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The Ghost Dimension
In the seventeenth century, an English philosopher proposed the existence of a fourth dimension, inhabited by spirits. This same philosopher was an immense influence on Isaac Newton, often regarded as the greatest scientist of all time.
Leibniz accused Newton of believing in the occult, citing gravity as a theory of which any magician would be proud. Believe it or not, but God is the essential ingredient in Newton's famous theory of gravity. They don't teach you that in science class!
John Maynard Keynes said of Newton, "He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. Isaac Newton, a posthumous child born with no father on Christmas Day, 1642, was the last wonderchild to whom the Magi could do sincere and appropriate homage."
Has science since Newton buried the spiritual dimension that Newton believed essential to any rational explanation of reality?! Can it be resurrected? Is Newton's theory actually superior to Einstein's? If science added a spiritual dimension to relativity theory and quantum mechanics, could it at last reconcile the two theories?
Ghosts are not "spooky" things. They are pure math. They inhabit a mathematical world of "hidden variables".
Leibniz accused Newton of believing in the occult, citing gravity as a theory of which any magician would be proud. Believe it or not, but God is the essential ingredient in Newton's famous theory of gravity. They don't teach you that in science class!
John Maynard Keynes said of Newton, "He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. Isaac Newton, a posthumous child born with no father on Christmas Day, 1642, was the last wonderchild to whom the Magi could do sincere and appropriate homage."
Has science since Newton buried the spiritual dimension that Newton believed essential to any rational explanation of reality?! Can it be resurrected? Is Newton's theory actually superior to Einstein's? If science added a spiritual dimension to relativity theory and quantum mechanics, could it at last reconcile the two theories?
Ghosts are not "spooky" things. They are pure math. They inhabit a mathematical world of "hidden variables".
136 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2016
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February 21, 2025
Mathematical Ghosts
This book provides a rational account for the "Ghost" dimension, or rather the dimensionless domain of mind where such things are possible. The book has discussed the views of Henry More and Anne Conway on ghosts and dimensionality which was a fine addition albeit a confusing one due to the author's emphasis on their erroneous views.
It would have been best if the author could have provided more details about the nature of ghosts, what they are, and how we, as living beings, can tune into them. Whether we even should or best leave the dead as nature clearly sets a natural distinction between the living and the dead. Are we even seeing spirits or simply some spiritual residue of what is being discarded by the soul once the body dies and the soul moves to the next life? After all, the soul will always continue either to the next incarnation or reach realization and choose not to incarnate. In that case, who are those ghosts exactly and why do they not choose their next incarnation? What can they achieve in their current disembodied state other than ruminating over their past life?
Many questions have remained unanswered. According to Theosophy, what is left behind is the lower nature of humans - the residue of our desires, the prana that animates the body and other aspects. The Monad itself is pure, immortal, and eternal, and continues to move forward to the next incarnation toward Omega Point.
This book provides a rational account for the "Ghost" dimension, or rather the dimensionless domain of mind where such things are possible. The book has discussed the views of Henry More and Anne Conway on ghosts and dimensionality which was a fine addition albeit a confusing one due to the author's emphasis on their erroneous views.
It would have been best if the author could have provided more details about the nature of ghosts, what they are, and how we, as living beings, can tune into them. Whether we even should or best leave the dead as nature clearly sets a natural distinction between the living and the dead. Are we even seeing spirits or simply some spiritual residue of what is being discarded by the soul once the body dies and the soul moves to the next life? After all, the soul will always continue either to the next incarnation or reach realization and choose not to incarnate. In that case, who are those ghosts exactly and why do they not choose their next incarnation? What can they achieve in their current disembodied state other than ruminating over their past life?
Many questions have remained unanswered. According to Theosophy, what is left behind is the lower nature of humans - the residue of our desires, the prana that animates the body and other aspects. The Monad itself is pure, immortal, and eternal, and continues to move forward to the next incarnation toward Omega Point.
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