Co-founder of string field theory and physicist Michio Kaku made waves last year — or at least seemed to — when it was reported that he’d proven the existence of God. The Geophilosophical Association of Anthropological and Cultural Studies quoted Kaku as saying, “I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence. To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.”
Reacting to that public comment, Kaku said: “That’s one of the drawbacks of being in a public sphere: Sometimes you get quoted incorrectly. My own point of view is that you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God.”
“Science is based on what is testable, reproducible, and falsifiable,” Kaku says. “That’s called ‘science.’ However, there are certain things that are not testable, not reproducible, and not falsifiable. And that would include the existence of God.” He’s noted that discerning whether you live in a Matrix-style construct or not would be another such ‘non-falsifiable’ problem.
(Part of the problem, of course, is that “God” has different meanings to different people, and in discussing It/Him/Her, there’s apt to be confusion. And yet believers continue to ask scientists this question, perhaps seeking scientific confirmation for their faith. They want to know if Kaku’s an atheist, but when we can’t agree on what God is, “atheist” has even less meaning.
In any event, when asked about God, Kaku is likely to quote Einstein’s suggestion that there are two types of god: “One god is a personal god, the god that you pray to, the god that smites the Philistines, the god that walks on water. That’s the first god. But there’s another god, and that’s the god of Spinoza. That’s the god of beauty, harmony, simplicity.”
It’s that second “God” to which Kaku is drawn. He tells innovation tech todaythat the universe could have been random, but that instead “Our universe is rich; it is beautiful, elegant.”
He’s stuck by what he sees as its exquisite simplicity, pointing out that all of the laws of physics could fit on a single sheet of paper, and, “In fact, what I do for a living is to try to get that sheet of paper and summarize it into an equation one inch long.” He asserts that with his string field theory, he had that one-inch explanation of everything, but that with new developments in membrane theory, he needs a little more room. For now.
Still, Kaku says, this will happen. Physics is the opposite of most other fields of study, he says: With every new advance it gets simpler, and in that lies his sense of wonder. “So, that’s the God of Einstein. The God of beauty, [the idea] that says that the universe is simpler the more we study it.”
Kaku recounts:
“When scientists use the word God, they usually mean the God of Order. For example, one of the most important revelations in Einstein’s early childhood took place when he read his first books on science. He immediately realized that most of what he had been taught about religion could not possibly be true. Throughout his career, however, he clung to the belief that a mysterious, divine Order existed in the universe.”
That other kind of God clearly has less appeal for Kaku, as it generally does for physicists and other scientists, including Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who saysthat believers he talks to tell him that God is all-powerful and good, but when he looks at ”all the ways Earth wants to kill us,” he just doesn’t see how both could be true.
So when Kaku asserts that the goal of string field theory is to “read the mind of God,” it’s important to remember he’s talking about Einstein’s God of Order. To “read the mind of God” would be to find that (one-inch) equation that explains everything in the cosmos. Bearing in mind the continual game of leapfrog going on between math and physics, and that the latest leap is physics’ string theory, which requires a new type of math, Kaku mischievously suggests that the ultimate solution to the schism between physicists and mathematicians could be that God is a mathematician. And, he says, the mind of God — the explanation of Order — may turn out to be string field theory’s “cosmic music,” the resonating of strings through 11-dimensional hyperspace.
Book: “The Source” by James A. Michener
Song of Ruth (Wherever you go)
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Published on May 28, 2015
During the time of the Judges when there was a famine, an Israelite family from Bethlehem – Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their sons Mahlon and Chilion – emigrated to the nearby country of Moab. Elimelech died, and the sons married two Moabite women: Mahlon married Ruth and Chilion married Orpah.
After about ten years, the two sons of Naomi also died in Moab. Naomi decided to return to Bethlehem. She told her daughters-in-law to return to their own mothers, and remarry. Orpah reluctantly left, however Ruth decided to stay with Naomi.
What Ruth said to Naomi (Ruth 1:16-17) comprise the lyrics of this song. The melody was composed by Brother Gregory Norbet, from the Benedictine Weston Priory in Vermont.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
February 14, 2018 (theonion.com)
PARKLAND, FL—In the hours following a violent rampage in Florida in which a lone attacker killed 17 individuals and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Indiana resident Harold Turner, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”
Rabbi Akiva on knowledge
“He who esteems himself highly on account of his knowledge,” he teaches, “is like a corpse lying on the wayside: the traveler turns his head away in disgust, and walks quickly by.”
–Akiba ben Yosef widely known as Rabbi Akiva (50 CE – 137 CE), was a tanna of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second century. Rabbi Akiva was a leading contributor to the Mishnah and to Midrash halakha. Wikipedia
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“Why Girls Don’t Speak Out” by Suzanne Deakins, H.W., M.
Why didn’t you say something? A reasonable question if you have never been in the position of being sexually harassed, abused, or raped.
Recently a male associate complained about the discriminating atmosphere men find themselves. His rhetoric went on calling the current movement of Me Too prudish and out of step with sexual freedom. The complaint continued saying men could no longer talk sexually around delicate, fragile women.
My reply is that it is indeed a prudish and puritanical atmosphere. But not one who limits men from doing and saying what they please. It is one where women of all ages are not believed, and cannot speak up without being called a liars. To this, I refer to recently ousted White House staffer Rob Porter saying his two ex-wives are lying even with photo evidence of abuse.
My first personal encounter with sexual harassment was at the age of fifteen. I sat in a history class where the professor told all the girls to move to the front of the classroom and cross our legs. He then proceeded to tell us “now that the gates of hell are closed.” I felt my face turning red and a sense of violation as my person was objectified and budding womanhood assaulted as sinful. It took me many years before I would come to understand my lack of voice and outrage.
It was at that moment I learned that attractiveness and brains were considered opposites in women. I became prim and very proper in my dress and behavior. My life became a journey for respect and safety in an environment of sexual terrorism.
Culture, mothers, teachers, and fathers all prime young girls from an early age to act and think in terms of being acceptable. Most of the signals that are received by young women are implicit and subtle. As a young woman, you are trained to fit in and become aware that you are imperiled by an atmosphere of violence that inhibits your ambitions and behaviors.
At this point of awakening in young women, be it conscious or unconscious in nature, a decision is made. Young women choose safety and acceptability over their desires. We dress to please others, act to please others and many of our personal desires and wants are put aside. The ability to protest is silenced in our throats. We push anger and fear deep inside of us refusing to acknowledge it openly. As a young woman, I quickly learned that every encounter with abuse be it sexual or physical would be met with … there must be something you are doing.
The world I want to see for girls and women is one where they can wear what they want to wear, say what they need to say, express their own feelings and desires without fear of physical safety or character assassination. As females, our desires and sexuality would have the greatest freedom of expression and fulfillment, the very opposite of puritanical and prudish.
It is no wonder it has taken so long for so many to speak up. After all, we have been taught it is sometimes easier to kiss the guy rather than to speak up and put yourself in social jeopardy. Our culture demands we spend our time making ourselves look attractive to boys. We are taught to socialize around our makeup, hair, and clothes, finding ways to please males with everything from our body styles to the angles we stand showing our best sides. As young women, we were quick to forget what we wanted, as we allowed others to dictate our behavior for what they want.
Girls are taught very early to be empathic, for seeing what others need and want. Many times we saw our mothers get what our fathers wanted without being asked. Empathy is a kind of compassion and is a good trait. We deserve the same. We need compassion from our male counterparts on this plight of wanting to speak up yet fearing the rejection, and taunts of liar by the very perpetrators of abuse and terrorism.
We are a people of many genders, each one deserving to be honored.
We all have the right to stand, and say; this is what I want, this is what I desire, consensually, looking out for each other’s pleasures and the limitless range of creative expression.
From Sexual Fluidity by Suzanne Deakins release date Fall 2018. This was first published by PQ Monthly in Portland, Oregon.
Suzanne Deakins, HWM. is a publisher (One Spirit Press and The Q Press) and author. Her books may be found on amazon.com. She teaches seminars on straight thinking and ontology, as well as Radical Forgiveness. She maybe reached at theqpress@gmail.com. Watch for her new blog site www.a.small.revolution2017.com will be available soon.
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Aquarius New Moon, Solar Eclipse, February, 15, 2018 (27 degrees) 1:05 pm PST
This Aquarius New Moon, partial solar eclipse, is energizing all of us to change our thinking and to concentrate our imagination on what we want the world to be. Aquarius is inspired visionary thinking, with the ability to create a new future, first in our minds and then in our actions. These moment-by-moment choices of how we want to direct our focus, are choices we can make as we pay attention to our thoughts and become aware of our energetic frequency. We are all aware of what it takes to keep our frequency high. Keep distractions, from this topsy-turvy world we live in, to a minimum. The Aquarius eclipse pulls us into greater awareness of how we’re using our minds so we can be more effective.
A solar eclipse, especially when connected with the South Node, speaks to letting go of what no longer serves to make room for the new ways that serve you better. And this New Moon’s square to Jupiter in Scorpio, helps create openings to let go so you can grow. This is a very transformational time where we have support for digging deep to get to the root of our blocks and entrenched patterns. Whatever we resist is where flashes of awareness and enlightenment can break us free.
Aquarius is the the last of the air signs which is about thinking and our thought processes. Aquarius has the rational ability to rise above present circumstances, see the bigger picture, and from that higher perspective envision futuristic and radically creative new possibilities. Aquarius represents the mental blueprint or template for physical manifestation, and the power of our higher minds to change the nature of reality.
On a personal level this is the perfect time to go within and become aware of where you are stuck or blocked, and envision what your new direction looks like. On a global level, it is well to remember that our combined and steadfast vision of a compassionate and caring world is planting the seeds of our future reality.
Written by Wendy Cicchetti
PLAN YOUR OWN NEW MOON CEREMONY. Give yourself some quiet time in meditation to see where you need to seed new ways of becoming. List these areas within your life you want to change. What areas do you want to break free from the norm and become more productive and discerning? The NEW MOON is the time to manifest the personal attributes you want to cultivate as well as the tangible things you want to bring to you. Possible phrasing: I now manifest ____ into my life. I am now _______ . Remember, think, envision and feel with as much emotion as possible, as though you already have what you want. Thoughts are things and the brain manifests exactly what you show it in the form of thoughts, visuals and emotions. The Buddha said, and I am paraphrasing, “We are the sum total of our thoughts up to today. ” If we want to be different then we must change our thoughts. “If you always do what you’ve always done then you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” CONSCIOUS CHANGE is the key.
What’s the worst kind of praise you can give?
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One hint: it often ends with the letters “est.” And it can lead to competition and disappointment, says psychologist and workplace researcher Shawn Achor.
Some people treat praise like a limited commodity. They believe that the key to advancement and success must be to absorb and rack up as much recognition and admiration as possible. This is the philosophy we learn in school, then hone to brutal efficiency in the working world.
Yet what these people fail to recognize is that praise is actually a renewable resource. Praise creates what I call a virtuous cycle — the more you give, the more you enhance your own supply. When done right, praise primes the brain for higher performance, which means that the more we praise, the more success we create. And the more successes there are, the more there is to praise. The research I’ve been doing over the past five years shows that the more you can authentically shine praise on everyone in your ecosystem, the more your potential, individually and collectively, rises.
I know I’m not the first to tout praise’s benefits. And I’m willing to guess that most people recognize that praise is invaluable. The problem in most of our businesses, schools and relationships isn’t just that we fail to praise enough; it’s that we have been praising the wrong way. I would go so far as to say that our current model of praise demotivates our teams, exacerbates internal strife in our families, and places a cap on our potential.
By telling someone they are “better” or “the best,” you are placing a limit on your expectation for what they can achieve.
The worst piece of praise I’ve sometimes received after a talk is “You were the best speaker today.” What’s so bad about that? First of all, it undercuts all the other speakers. Moreover, it reminds me of the fact that in many other cases I won’t be the best speaker, so now I feel nervous and self-conscious. Instead of enhancing me, this comment unbalances me in the future.
What you’re actually doing here is comparing, not praising. You are attempting to prop people up by kicking others down. Real praise is telling someone “Your report was amazing,” or “The comedic timing of your speech was perfect,” not telling them that their report or their speech was better than another person’s. Moreover, by telling someone they are “better” or “the best,” you are placing an unconscious, implicit limit on your expectation for what they can achieve. If we’re striving only to be better than someone else, doesn’t that set our expectations for ourselves too low? It tells us that as soon as we are just a little bit better than another person, we can stop trying, even if it means stopping short of our potential.
If you want to enhance others, do not compare them. This has been one of the hardest lessons for me to write about, because I thought I was intuitively praising others, including my wife and son. But no matter how good your intentions, if you excitedly say to a child “You were the best one out there!” you just taught them that your love and excitement were predicated on their position compared to others. Nothing undercuts Big Potential — the success you can only achieve in a virtuous cycle with others — more than comparison praise.
The easiest way to stop comparison praise is to eliminate superlatives, like “the best,” “the fastest,” “the smartest,” “the prettiest.”
Think how often we fall for the comparison trap. “You are the hottest/smartest/funniest person in this room.” Why do we have to diminish everyone else in the room in an attempt to praise one individual? Comparison praise feeds into the Small Potential — the limited success that you achieve alone — mentality that success, leadership, creativity, beauty, love, or anything else that we care about are limited resources. When you tell a group of people that only a certain percentage of them can be successful, you are dampening everyone’s drive and ambition.
The easiest way to stop comparison praise is to eliminate superlatives from our vocabulary — “the best,” “the fastest,” “the smartest,” “the prettiest.”Instead, follow what I consider an inviolable law of praise for leaders and parents: Do not compliment someone at the expense of others. So, what’s the best compliment I could get after my talk? It’s when someone tells me they are going to start doing one of the positive habits I spoke about, or they’re going to buy my book for a friend who is struggling. The most authentic way to acknowledge someone is to change your behavior.
In the working world, the pox of comparison praise appears in the form of performance reviews, particularly those that “grade” employees on a numerical scale. They may sound harmless enough in theory. However, when managers mistakenly believe that only a finite number of their employees can be “A” performers, they end up demotivating and stirring up resentment among all those who end up with lower grades.
There’s a wise old saying: “Comparison is the thief of joy.” If we really want to enhance others, we must stop comparing.
In a fascinating article, David Rock from the NeuroLeadership Institute posits a few more reasons why performance reviews should be obsolete. He argues that the numerical rating systems used by many companies don’t take into account how work gets done today. Work is happening in teams more than ever, he says, with many people working on multiple teams that are often spread throughout the world.
But would people get less praise and less constructive feedback if we were to eliminate performance reviews? Actually, the opposite is true. Of the thirty top companies studied by the NeuroLeadership Institute, managers were actually giving constructive feedback and praise three to four times more often in the absence of performance reviews.
Luckily, some companies are embracing this idea. Back in 2011, the management at Adobe called a town hall meeting to discuss what they had found to be the biggest stumbling block to engagement scores and happiness: the 1-to-5 performance rating system for the employees. They did away with the system completely once they recognized the negative impact it was having on attracting and keeping good talent. Even GE, which famously pioneered the idea of ranking employees and then eliminating the bottom 10 percent, has largely done away with this outdated system. There’s an old saying: “Comparison is the thief of joy.” If we really want to enhance others, we must stop comparing.
Excerpted with permission from the new book Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness and Well-Being by Shawn Achor, published by Currency Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Copyright © 2018 Shawn Achor.
