After high school I signed up for the US Navy, and by the time I was discharged in 1967 I had decided that I needed college to fulfill My Calling, not understanding that I had already started my journey to wisdom. True wisdom comes from experience, and I had already started looking at life systematically. I was naturally a philosopher.
But there was a problem with college! I could hardly read or spell even though I had worked quite hard at learning to do so, I would soon learn why. Life then led me into marriage, which at the time I didn’t know was the key for me making it through college, and the Navy was the key for me paying for it. My wife agreed to help me and I found a little college in Enid Oklahoma, that was accepting all veterans with a GI bill, no questions asked. So, in 1969 I quit my Job and moved my wife Joyce and two little girls to Enid. Right off, of course, I was failing all my classes; you can’t make it through college without being able to read and spell. But I had to find a way! So I went to my psychology professor for help, and ended at the school’s speech pathologist. He gave me some tests and said I had dyslexia and was reading at a third grade level. My brain was not wired to learn reading and spelling, he said, and He doubted I could make it through college. He then used a system of phonics with “over learning” to help me learn to read better. I then talked to all my professor’s and told them that I was dyslexic, and could they overlook my spelling problems on tests, and Joyce agreed to type my essays outside of class (this is before computers). By the end of the first semester I was tested at the seventh grade reading level, and I had made it through all my classes, except one. I started the next semester on academic probation but was doing much better. By 1977 after quite a lot of painful work, days of despair, and help from Joyce, I had a masters degree in psychology. I also had gone through a paradigm shift away from my religious upbringing.
Paradigm Shift
Western religion’s paradigm is called “Dualism” by philosophers. Dualism is the belief that reality is made up of two separate realities, one hard and real, and a second that is spiritual and unseen. My new paradigm had become “Materialism,” the belief that there is only one reality where nothing exists except matter. This is the dominant belief in the Western world, and is commonly called atheism. However if you sit down and really think about this atheist idea, it really makes poor sense. It is full of conflicts and paradoxes, which have to be ignored to believe it. More Here
In the late 1980s My Dad sent me a lay book on a new science called Quantum Science; I was shocked, and in disbelief. It clearly showed scientifically that my material paradigm was wrong, there was more to reality than matter. In fact everything we see around us is some form of illusion made of energy, and we don’t have a clue what energy really is. The atoms that make up our bodies, and everything around us, are just some form of energy creating an illusion of hardness.
At the end of the Nineteenth Century scientists were at an impasse after the discovery of radiation. None of the nineteenth century science could explain how it worked. Then a breakthrough came in 1901, this discovery was so shocking to scientists that half still refuse to accept it is real even after over one hundred years of experiments.
This discovery meant that both Dualism and Materialism were wrong, and the true paradigm is called “Idealism.” Idealism is the idea that all that we experience is just an ideal in our mind or consciousness. Therefore, nothing really exists accept Mind or Consciousness. This old idea that consciousness is somehow created by the working of the brain is wrong. It is Consciousness that creates the brain, and this is the theme of this site, and this is what we will explore, and try to wrap our heads around.
After high school I signed up for the US Navy, and by the time I was discharged in 1967 I had decided that I needed college to fulfill My Calling, not understanding that I had already started my journey to wisdom. True wisdom comes from experience, and I had already started looking at life systematically. I was naturally a philosopher.
But there was a problem with college! I could hardly read or spell even though I had worked quite hard at learning to do so, I would soon learn why. Life then led me into marriage, which at the time I didn’t know was the key for me making it through college, and the Navy was the key for me paying for it. My wife agreed to help me and I found a little college in Enid Oklahoma, that was accepting all veterans with a GI bill, no questions asked. So, in 1969 I quit my Job and moved my wife Joyce and two little girls to Enid. Right off, of course, I was failing all my classes; you can’t make it through college without being able to read and spell. But I had to find a way! So I went to my psychology professor for help, and ended at the school’s speech pathologist. He gave me some tests and said I had dyslexia and was reading at a third grade level. My brain was not wired to learn reading and spelling, he said, and doubted I could make it through college. He then used a system of phonics with “over learning” to help me learn to read better. I then talked to all my professor’s and told them that I was dyslexic, and could they overlook my spelling problems on tests, and Joyce agreed to type my essays outside of class (this is before computers). By the end of the first semester I was tested at the seventh grade reading level, and I had made it through all my classes, except one. I started the next semester on academic probation but was doing much better. By 1977 after quite a lot of painful work, days of despair, and help from Joyce, I had a masters degree in psychology. I also had gone through a paradigm shift away from my religious upbringing.