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Integration of the Mind – Part Thirty-One
Numbers Count, But Only in ‘This Reality’
Count the number of stars this black hole is swallowing...or is it?
Let’s start out with this little gem about black holes, which I just now swiped off the NASA.gov website …and we all know how reliable the information found on government websites can be, isn’t that true?
The largest black holes are called “supermassive.” These black holes have masses that are more than 1 million suns together. Scientists have found proof that every large galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its center. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is called Sagittarius A. It has a mass equal to about 4 million suns and would fit inside a very large ball that could hold a few million Earths.
Since it was written in vocabulary at the eighth grade level, meaning that, so I’ve been told, the vocabulary in which editors of major newspapers insist that news articles be written so that we of the so-called masses will not only purchase, but also read their fare.
I present scientific proof that cats can read.
Even I, a person who does not for a moment pretend to know anything meaningful about black holes, can understand all the words in the above quote …but grasp the meaning? …I don’t think so. Then, why, you may find yourself asking, does Brad Cullen insist upon referring to BLACK HOLES?
The answer to the foregoing question is found in the words, “scientists have found proof” – don’t these words have a reassuring ring to them for you?
Another question may be, what, if anything, does this have to do with the subtitle regarding numbers?
Please, everyone, try to focus on the following: Numbers and the math which is so common to us that we actually believe that 2 + 2 always adds up to 4 is often not applicable in dimensions beyond the so called reality of the physical realm in this third dimension in which our physical senses have us trapped.
Cat's know math too...better than Brad.
Here’s the point, folks: from the simple math, which I can use, to the more complex forms starting with algebra, calculus, dynamics, geometry, and a whole host of other systems which I am grateful I can spell, but with which I have no working ability (although I am apparently smart enough to figure out simple algebraic problems) the stuff of advanced math systems simply does not compute for me. So I tend to lean on scientists to feed me their brand of truth.
Some of these same scientists, particularly in physics and astronomy, tell us they have proof about other dimensions that are parallel to this 3d world which we all know and love and that these numbers and math systems, in which numbers can’t begin to keep up, are the very systems scientists use to make up the theories that they then work their asses off to prove.
Let me tell you a true story about the revelation that came to me, that math is not a useful commodity in the realm of what I still tend to refer as “spiritual” …which in my simple mind still also means the opposite of physical …and, remember, as I am using the term, the five (yet another number) senses that have so much meaning in the physical realm are meaningless in the spiritual realm.
Brad really is crazy, but stick around anyway.
Stick with me here and you’ll be as crazy as Brad Cullen! The story begins with my psychiatrist friend who was a lot smarter than I, although he continually argued that point and which, when he did, I thought he was simply trying to make me feel better about my mental acuity.
Shortly after we first met, in a church no less, of which we later both became officers …that latter bit of information has some importance, I just can’t tell you what it is. Anyway, I challenged him one day about how to supersede his practice of psychiatric therapy(s) in preventing patients who tended to be suicidal from carrying out their tendency to the point of death.
His initial reaction to my challenge was predictable – “yeah, right!” Within a short period of time he confided in me about a patient, a young woman who had just killed herself in rather gruesome fashion, in her parents’ home, they having gone out of town for the weekend and coming back to find a bloody mess which was what they had thought of formerly as their daughter.
Since she had been “his” patient for several months prior to her demise, he was plagued by feelings of responsibility and guilt; primarily because he “knew” she was going to someday commit suicide and therefore he should have been able to help her.
He had an uncanny ability to know the difference between those patients who “attempted” to commit suicide, ostensibly to get attention, and those who were going to actually go through with it. Although he and some of those in his profession believed that most suicide attempts were to get the attention of somebody to help them, but didn’t really intend for it to go all the way …and thus were accidental rather than intentional.
Science hasn't proven this works...so why do you do it?
Now we progress to the reason he had a great deal of trust in me, in some areas, other areas he knew better …not to trust me at all!
He began talking with me about the challenge I had previously offered, which was simply that “since he believed in the ‘power of prayer,’ why didn’t we pray together for those patients he ‘knew’ would ultimately go through with the act of killing themselves.”
Now get this startling fact: during the first two years of his practice of psychiatry, including his residency, he had already had fifty patients whom he “knew,” in advance would commit suicide …and had carried it out.
He would tell people from our joint platform in counseling workshops that never again did he have a patient who committed suicide – in almost forty more years of practice!
He had been a math teacher and a basketball coach in a large city, public school system, when he made the decision to go back to school and get his medical degree, for the express purpose of becoming a psychiatrist. This after his wife had given birth to their fourth child (they would later have one more) and she went back to secretarial work to support the family so that he could complete his educational requirements.
He had already gone through pre-med at the University of Oregon, after a stint in the army, during the Korean conflict, in the early 1950s.
How many realities started in someones imagination?
Now then, for just a second or two, we’re going to bounce back to black holes, math and scientific proof …the knowledge of which is all based upon cognitive, third dimension, reasoning – EXCEPT FOR ONE NOTABLE FACT: The scientific theories upon which later proof is chased after and achieved is often the result of the imagination of individual scientists.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” -Albert Einstein
During an interview in 1922, our friend Al claimed that the theory of relativity came to him from “the ether” …sounds like imagination to me, but I suppose I could be carrying that thesis further than he intended.
Bouncing back to my friend the psychiatrist and me – one day while we were hiking in the countryside, he stopped to tell me that he knew something based on mathematics. I had a revelatory flash – I “saw” in my mind that the stuff of mathematics regarding astronomy and light years, which he was referencing as being within his knowledge base – I hadn’t even heard yet, at that time, about black holes – was all poppycock in what I thought of as the realm of spiritual reality, and that math was not a useful commodity, “spiritually speaking.”
Amazingly, the “good” doctor not only under
To manifest miracles, start with your imagination.
stood what I was so lamely trying to articulate …that which I was “seeing” clearly in my mind, he embraced it completely. Thus began the whacky world of our relationship which was to span over the next forty plus years. A relationship made up of what many might call “miraculous” and “supernatural” and from which we both gleaned rather strange theories about “prayer.”
One of which was what ticked off the college student in that story I told a few segments back …who left the classroom in dramatic fashion slamming the door behind her. Her upset, as I’m sure you recall, was precipitated by the “instructions,” I received to give her, as a result of my silent, but desperate cry for help from “beyond” – my instructions were to tell her something to the effect: “The difference between how you pray and how I pray is that I know that when I pray it will come into physical reality, when you pray you don’t.”
Hey, that kind of a statement is enough to piss off a preacher, so we can hardly blame a college student in her early twenties for becoming a bit hostile, correct?
Okay we are going to end #31 by saying something I have said many times before. You can analyze and think about what I am saying from a variety of different points of view, mine being only one of many. The fact is that none of these points of view, again, including mine, mean diddley squat; THEY ARE ONLY POINTS OF VIEW! Whether the power I know how to access that brings about healing and other rather exciting things is a product of SPIRIT or the human mind doesn’t (I’m informed by SPIRIT) matter.
There are others, whom I freely acknowledge are far smarter than I, who will say that everything I say is a product of the sub or super (conscious) mind. Yawn, that’s okay, because and, again, I am told that it doesn’t matter and not to argue – my publisher, Ryan Bruce, insists that I am arguing …and it is all in my mind. An interesting point of view, one about which I am not going to argue. This part, #31, is over!
Well, Ryan has the authority of the publisher to add an editorial if he so chooses, but any comments I feel necessary to add, will be in #32.