Where has our future
gone?
© Allan Webber (B.Sc, Grad Dip Ed Admin) - 2017
For the
incomprehensible secrets of God and their efficient virtue depends on the
long expansion of natural knowledge,
deriving their origin from free will. They bring about the appearance of causes which of themselves
could not attract enough attention to be known,
neither by human augury, nor by any other hidden knowledge or virtue
comprised under the concavity of heaven, even from the present fact of all eternity, which comes
in itself to embrace all time.
But through some
indivisible eternity and by means of Hiraclienne agitation the causes are
made known alongside the celestial movement. Nostradamus' Cesar
Preface 1555 (PCE4)
My aims for this
Paper.
As time
passes I am increasingly aware of deeper aspects regarding Nostradamus'
Prophecies than any direct reading can deliver. It is my desire to cover some
of these properties since I am, due to my years of long research, in the
privileged position of being the best person able to do so.
My
findings challenge our current understanding of time but are explainable
within the bounds of evolution of the physical and biological universe. As a
result I am convinced that the contents of the Prophecies are not a legacy of
Nostradamus or unusual spirits. They are the works of future beings whose
evolution has bridged the concept of time in a way seemingly impossible to
humans.
The
beings Nostradamus refers to as his source are not our ancestors, nor ancient
spirits based in the past, they are what some of the current genetic strains
of life will become. They bridge time, both past and future, and to them
there is no such distinction.
If you re-read the quote from Nostradamus given above you will see he makes a
similar claim.
The above
interpretation arises from considering evolution's momentum which suggests
beings will emerge that interact with a broader range of time than we do.
As a
logical consequence we can know such beings have the ability to be present in
our time. And Nostradamus' writings indicate that he not only understood this
fact but was able to utilize their presence. (See author's paper called An essay on
the aliens already shaping man's destiny for more on this
theme).
In order
to establish the rationality of this proposition I need to embrace the
difficulties others will justifiably have due to the normal human
conditioning about reality and time. These difficulties are based in our
experience of time as covering a little of the past and a minute part of the future when in reality all we
experience is one moment in time followed by another.
The
conclusions I will progress towards through this chapter indicates the
presence of future beings stretch back way before our time and that of Nostradamus
to the times of primitive humans, ancient civilizations. And if this is
the case then we may be in a better position to understand some of the
wonders of our ancestor’s most remarkable achievements.
And the
conclusions I will present gain reinforcement from bizarre aspects we of the
modern age have observed in birds, animals and other life forms. My paper on
aliens mentioned above gives much of the external evidence that supports
the proposition since my main source for this paper lies within Nostradamus'
Prophecies.
Nostradamus' Virtual World.
The world inhabited by Nostradamus had no way of
understanding a large part of ours since the common language of our time had
no reason to exist in the sixteenth century. Yet without the language base a
person seeing the future would quickly miss the point and the significance of
much of what they were experiencing.
Of the barriers that isolated the 16th century from ours the
strongest dealt with the issues of time and the place of humans in the order
of the world.
Throughout past time since the beginning of the universe
there was no better mechanism than imaginative stories to describe the nature
of our world and so, in the sixteenth century, people had no reason to
question the accounts given by ancient people who had faced the same problems
of origin as they. The world had a definable and very limited time space,
creatures were either born or created by spontaneous generation and the
explanation lay in an active creator who ensured the perfection of all.
To realize the reality of this particular world is
essential to evaluating Nostradamus' Prophecies since it shapes the conflict
Nostradamus would have faced if he could see into the future.
What is known today means no rational human can hold to
views, myths and legends that were shaped in the absence of knowledge
especially where these beliefs contradict what can now be easily seen. There
are many examples I could use but one is enough. It is irrational to believe
as many ancient people did that the earth is stationary and the sun and stars
all go around it. Yet to see the future from the modern perspective a
sixteenth century viewer such as Nostradamus must either turn to denial of
what he sees or grapple with what seems incomprehensible.
Even today we have many of the same barriers to
understanding. When you walk into a room the marvelous powers of sight and
memory create a world that seems real but it can be flawed because of how our
personal past shapes what is useful to us. For instance we know we can look
at things but not notice all that's there. You may see all things but
your mind shapes all that enters and stores what its past suggests will be
necessary or useful.
And in judging what we see there is a mechanical bias. A
lifetime of mind-training experiences provides us with a virtual world by
which to judge reality and if there is something out of place it can easily
be missed. And shadows that have been removed from pictures are seen by us
because our mind expects them to be there.
These difficulties of perception and understanding are all
issues that would have affected Nostradamus' view of our world unless you
believe he was unlike any human that has ever lived. Yet this was not his
view of himself.
Not that I wish
to attribute to myself either the name or the role of a prophet, but (rather
rely on) inspired revelation, like any man whose senses are no less distant
from heaven than his feet are from the ground..Nostradamus' Cesar
Preface 1555 (PCE5)
It is common for people to read into Nostradamus every
possible event that is occurring in their lives but it is impossible for the
Prophecies to carry the vast amount of information for every minute event
that has occurred since Nostradamus put pen to paper.
This however is not an issue since Nostradamus didn't write
for trivial titillation or to prove a point, he wrote the work because he was
a single human shaped into a world view that was uniquely his own. His
interests, his biases shape the verses but they are transformed by his
encounters with his source. The dilemma of future seeing that he likely faced
was that he saw things that were not credible to a normal person in the
period that he lived. Such seeing then and now must depend on the other part
of the process, a being that has presence in the future.
C1 Q2
The wand in the hand is placed in
the middle of the branches
With water he sprinkles the hem of his garments
A voice, fear he trembles in his robes.
Divine splendor; the God sits nearby.
The interchange between future being and a sixteenth century
man would have faced many hurdles. Physical images of war and nuclear bombs
would translate quite well into pictures seen as though through a hazy mirror
but evolution and genetic concepts would not be so easily conveyed. The
latter rely on complex layers of knowledge even though for the most part the
most important results are much the same, living things are created, grow old
and die.
Yet the lack of the conceptual genetic ideas of modern times
is what really distinguished the sixteenth century from our own age.
Modern scientific discussions would have presented great
difficulty for Nostradamus since the technological language we use throughout
the world didn't exist and had no reason to exist in the 16th century. His
written ideas of what he had seen would be distorted into that which made
some sense but his writings were no longer his alone because the presence of
the future being didn't end with the dream.
It would be foolish to assume that Nostradamus could evoke
an inert servant from the future prepared to show him that for which his
sixteenth century' soul craved and yet deliver him unmarked, unbent by the
mission of his visitor.
An early verse shows this influence though a mix of words
that hint at a half-seen, little understood future while underneath its
lettering lies a meaning well beyond sixteenth century understanding. Within
the anagrams there are terms such as prescient seeing, interspecies, eugenist and Lucashenca all
able to be linked into the future when genetic experimentation begins and
tests go awry.
C1
14
From the enslaved populace, songs, chants and demands
while Princes and Lords are held captive in prison
These in the future by headless idiots
will be received as divine prayers.
De gent eſclaue chanſons chants et requeftes
Captifs par Princes et Seigneur aux prisons
A l'aduenir par idiotz
ſans teſtes
Seront receus par diuines oraiſons.
The anagrams from
which the understanding of this verse will emerge include:
gene set Lucashenca son
(e
gen - t eſ - claue chanſ - ons), sons chant request (ſons - chant -s et requ),
prescient seeing war
prisons pacts (Princes
et - Seigne -ur au -x prison -s Capt), interspecies Wagner prix (Princes et Sei - gneur au -
x pri),
stateless a ruined pair
(s
teſtes A l' - a - duenir - par i),
aversion is
cornerstones upraised (uines ora- iſ - ones Sarong rec - emus
par di), encaptures diviner (nt receus pa - r diuine),
Noahs, cleanest,
castle, neglects, Athens, atlases, threatens, chastens, entices, eugenist,
ascriptions, narcosis, persistence, adulates, unsalaried, tests, rapid,
assents, unripe, session, radii, centre.
Elemental Patterning in the universe.
In moving to an understanding of how future-seeing might be
possible there is a recent understanding of science patterning that is
crucial.
The pattern in the anagrams within Nostradamus' Prophecies
can of course be by chance alone but to dismiss them for that factor is to
miss one of the most significant recognitions our time has made.
This involves recognition of patterning that places our
understanding of the universe upon a different plane to that of our own
parent's time. It is the concept of fractals and this takes us away from the
idea that was dominant up until the end of the 20th century. It was firmly
believed by scientists that mechanical solutions described all events that
occurred in the universe and accordingly a formula or equation for all
happenings would eventually be found.
Yet such a rigid view is no longer accepted; there is
another aspect of the universe that can bring about change. The need for this
mechanism can commonly be seen in nature especially where there is
evolutionary change. For instance it is readily apparent to all that nature
has built its products in a way that enable many to camouflage themselves by
taking on the coloring and patterns in their environment.
Although evolution since Darwin's time has implied it is
survival of the fittest such a concept glosses over the complexities of
changing DNA over what must be a huge time to achieve such a match. Yet there
are common patterns and not only do they appear in evolutionary creatures but
in both non-living things and more conceptual creations such as mathematics.
It is not by chance that mathematics and nature create such
similarities for they both rely on boundary properties and all the external
and internal forces that interplay within it. Space is not a blank canvas but
a unique diaphragm imprinted for the possible. And it is through such subtle
effects as shadow patterns that memory has something on which to build and
evolution the means to incorporate what seems the work of craftsmen.
This mechanism having been formulated in the mathematical
context has not yet been presented to the man in the street in a form that
reveals its significance to our future understanding of the building blocks
of the universe in which we temporarily exist. However it is essential to
realize such a change in thinking is current in science in order to
appreciate how future-seeing might take place within the minds of living
things.
The eternal ignorance of modern times.
A further issue of importance is to realize how our views of
science aren't free of other constraints.
As already stated the sixteenth century was so different
from our own time that it inevitably places huge questions on how much anyone
of that era could have foreseen about evolution and the nature of time. To
people today it might seem that we are not held back by the same barriers but
nonetheless there are attitudinal, traditional and new-think attitudes that
shape our thinking.
Science, enlightened as it has the capacity to be, is not
immune from this same restriction for its members are human. Accordingly, the
greatest ignorance of our time is still based around our perception of our
place in the universe.
This bias isn't an overt thing but a hidden set of values
that make us smug about those gifts nature has bestowed on us. So we are
seduced into believing our cleverness can never be surpassed. If not seduced
then perhaps engulfed by the bliss of sleep within which the future is
wrongly perceived as being full of us. The reality is the future will
inevitably sideline mankind. Evolution doesn't stop with humans and our
species has no guaranteed place as chief ruler of anything that matters.
It isn't that man has to disappear quickly but we can be
assured that in a million years from now evolution will still exist but
mankind will not.
However evolution will not waste our existence since its
future patterns will embrace the things that set us apart; we are after all
but a practicing blip in a much longer running process.
This belief in our supremacy is a sad ignorance, a human
arrogance and because of it many assume we know what form the definitive
evolutionary path will take. But there other arrogances one of which is that
we might be alone in appreciating what unthinking, amoral, evolution has
achieved.
When we remove such constraints then Nostradamus'
contribution to these issues is surprising since he seems to reflect on the
achievements of life itself and sees the past as our guide to the surprises
held in the future of the universe.
The thread of Evolution based around Time.
Modern mankind is most at ease in the development of the
mechanics of things rather than the origin of concepts. Yet it is concepts
that most differentiate mankind from all other living things. Over many
millennia we have built trees of knowledge that places every living thing in
a line representing time. Such trees are common and these charts allow modern
humans to represent the many stories of the evolving universe.
But where in your current experience do you see the tree of
concepts, a recognition that concepts evolve? Where on the line of universal
time did awareness first occur? Was it with the start of matter, life or even
later? In our understanding of the world we are the first beings to be aware
of the universe and its creation, yet awareness may well have been inherent
in all living things and it seems remiss of us to ignore such a fundamental
sequence of change. See my paper on The
Evolution of Concepts for more.
And critical to awareness is memory which is a subsequent
concept that also evolved. It began in our distant past after time itself was
formed.
The only evidence we have suggests time as we know it began
as one of the building blocks enabling our universe to exist. Yet it is
treated like an eternal thing that can be taken for granted. As a result time
marks the watershed of modernity since up to this time it has remained the
most mysterious element associated with the creation of the universe.
Yet to me time is more than a watermark, it is true it is a
reflection of that which makes the universe exist but it is a concept that
evolves whenever continuity occurs. And it lasts only as long as continuity
thrives.
This origin of time then means memory wouldn't have occurred
in that first instant for it involves a period where two points can be
related not just an instant. And this indicates memory began as a later
spur on the trunk of the tree tracing the history of time itself.
And the branch containing the history of memory begins with
residual impacts accompanying physio-chemical events. And like all
evolutionary things its attributes grew ever larger as the universe evolved.
We humans hold a
well-advanced form of memory but it isn't likely to be where this process
ends. Memory will do as it has always done progress towards a fuller
incorporation of the time-potentials of our universe.
So I am claiming there is a tree of concepts that has not
yet been explored and the concept of evolution, like time, is one of those
relevant to our understanding of all the others.
The next phase of the evolution of life.
I have long believed that evolution evolves and that it is
as natural as the concept itself that this should happen. Yet the stages even in a static
concept of evolution will embrace continuity. And its movement will always be
towards abilities that release the full potential of the universe.
And it cannot do everything at once. There has to be a progression from
simplicity to what is an ever increasing simplified-complexity. Our senses
are the product of such a process, beginning with residuals induced within
physio-chemical boundaries that from then on progress to the miraculous
sensory array displayed throughout all of nature.
And the perspective of each sensory being in this evolution
carries an important check that humankind would be wise to note.
From the first worm's eye view man was never a likely
outcome of future evolution. There has never been a worm or any other creature that
had a sensory means of knowing humans would follow its first appearance on
the planet. When worms first came into being they had newly acquired
abilities that set them above all species that had come before yet those
senses it had could provide no framework for perceiving the sensory powers
that would evolve. A worm could not perceive there ever being a way of as
seeing, hearing, walking, talking or conceptually thinking.
The above reference to worms is not a trivial diversion for
it sets our own dilemma since we cannot know what potentials of the universe
exist outside the senses that evolution has delivered us.
It would be arrogant to believe that electromagnetic forces,
gravitation or even thought patterns tell us all there is to know about the
universe's potential. We are not gods and can never approach full awareness
of this universe of ours.
But we are currently amongst the most fortunate of beings
for we are capable of being aware of more of the universe than any creatures
that have existed previously on this planet. Life is a gift, generated by
evolution and although gifted by continuity it is still marred by the
constraints of momentary time that led to us being here at all.
However we can know that time is one of the potentials that
evolution has exploited. It did destroy the full limitations of unitary time,
that instance which is the total that time itself can offer. And it did so
through exploiting continuity in the set of concepts that came with the
package we call our home. Mass, energy, space and time are the potentials
that came with the birth of our universe and each of them is part of the
continuous expansion phenomenon that is the fabric of the universe's being.
I have little doubt that Nostradamus grappled with these
ideas as indicated by his thoughts in his 1555 Cesar Preface
(PCE10):
How then do these ambiguous
opinions exceeding all Mahommedan dreams arise by natural reasons, when God
the Creator is timeless; it is by the minister of his messengers of fire. The
missive is in their burning flame which comes to offer us external reference.
Similarly our eyes then become causes of future prediction, signifying future
cases that must occur to him that presages.
Because the exterior light which
brings the presage infallibly judges its parts, so truly [is it judged] that
the parts seem to use the eye for understanding, which is the purpose of this
imaginative lesion. The reason for this is too obvious, since all is
predicted by god's outflow, and it is by means of Angelic spirit that the man
prophesying is inspired. This means that the prophecies are illuminated in
layers starting with the emotions at the front of his fantasies. By various
nocturnal visions it is prophesied and made certain by conjoint astronomical
calculations administered in the day. Thereby this is a sanctified prediction
of the future with no consideration from elsewhere that is based on free
will.
It is apparent Nostradamus was grappling with mechanisms
that bridge time eternal and temporal and this implies he saw time as being
different to how modern man views it. But although we have found no hard
evidence it is not outside the bounds of what we know about the way evolution
works. Already we know that evolution has found a way to recover the past
even though it no longer exists. Our brains show that we can recall the past
and have learnt to exploit that ability to be versatile, active and able to
survive.
Learning is another concept amongst the higher order of
evolutionary life mechanisms but it too has ancient primitive roots. But
humans go much further with their association with the past. Through our
observations of stars we see things that happened trillions of years ago as
though they were happening now. Other animals may see the same spots of light
held in the sky but to them stars are temporal objects, part of their
immediate world and nothing more.
We do have abilities that set us apart. We understand the
origins of things. Ancient bones, tree rings, layers of ash, silt and clay
and shells found in rocks high up in mountains. All these are things that
were seeable but meaningless mysteries in Nostradamus' day. But people of the
16th century had the same set of abilities. However it is apparent that as
time passes humankind has unlocked more and more of the potential this
universe has to offer. Evolution has taken us on this journey of bridging
present time with the past. Yet even now it has gone further than bridging
past and present.
All
living things have the ability to trespass in the future.
Reaction time is one such mechanism that transforms the present into
anticipation of what is about to happen. But memory helps achieve the same
end so we can take the past to tell us how the future will unfold. Natural
rhythms such as the motions of the sun and planets allow us to have high
expectation of how their location will change and we use this knowledge with
great belief the sun will rise tomorrow, the spring will come and the seasons
will follow.
Our calendars are based on knowledge of how the continuities
of time and movement can be exploited but similar and even better mechanisms
of tracking time are common amongst the living of this world.
Moths emerge in their season; each butterfly knows the
sequence of its role when it emerges from its cocoon. And your body changed
as you grew up. With remarkable precision your fingers grew, your eyes began
to process light, your brain began to let you take back some control. Each step
in time for every living thing represents a movement along a programmed
sequence between conception and death. Your beginning holds your future.
And even the most primitive of life contains sophisticated
ways by which it anticipates what it must do to prolong the time between
creation and demise.
However in
regard to future seeing once again modern man has moved further than most
along the evolutionary scale. We can know the amount of un-decayed
atoms there will be in radioactive materials for periods millions of years
ahead of our time. We can know the fate of our sun and other components of
the universe. No other animal on this planet has or can equal these
achievements. And it is these superior exploitations of time and continuity
that breed man's arrogance as to what can and cannot be.
So once again we should note we are not gods but mortal men with debts owed to
evolution and the remarkable powers of life that allow it to bridge seemingly
impassable discontinuities. Evolution, continuity and time
are some of the means which ensure there will appear higher forms than us and
beyond them higher forms again. By this we do know that at the time the universe
dies the evolutionary forms will have transcended way beyond the dimensions
man now knows.
So we
are not the ultimate object of creation but a product of an eternal process
that stamps us with a use-by date. This is not a fate that we
can avoid for it is a chain and our place in that chain came about by the
same forces that will make us obsolete. However we are here and we are now, we are the keepers of a process
that is indestructible.
It is as though the universe is an egg and we but a self defining
patterned thread immersed deep within that which it will become. We are part
of the future no matter what our short-term fate but what a gift we have been
given since in the meantime we are able to enjoy the here and now that we
love so well and speculate on things yet to pass. But this is not a gift
demanding gratitude, servitude or purpose, it is what it is and no more, a
fortunate place along an impassionate, natural chain.
And it is in this latter understanding that Nostradamus'
work seems to have much to offer. Not only did he grapple with these ideas
but he talked as though there was an interchange occurring, one that drew a
divine presence into the temporal plane. This could make sense if evolution
does proceed along the path of expanding the capacity of future beings to
traverse time. If this were so it need not breach any laws since we go back
in time when we dig up fossils without altering what happens to history
beyond that point.
If time is eternal and there is a path for time
participation beyond that of modern man then it is likely there will be beings in our future that
can leave impressions in our minds. The time gap until it
occurs may be immense but it would make no difference for all of eternity
would be accessible by that being. This would certainly fit Nostradamus'
proposed model of a divine influence on the layers of his mind.
But if this is a possible path then there is inevitably
evidence existent of that capability in the present and past histories of
humankind. This would certainly explain the patterning I find in Nostradamus'
work and it could also explain the seemingly prescient frame that evolution
has offered from the very onset of time, the ability to tap natural designs
that enable its progress.
Add to this the realm of inspiration and genius and it is
possible that we draw strength from other sources that are outside but
accessible to humans. Evolution has delivered what seems like miracles before
and we know it works. So if there is ever a future in which beings evolve with
the potential to make the time dimension eternal then patterning from that
future presence can exist in our current day.
I like this thought that we look to the future for our
inspiration and for learning of those potentials of the universe that are available
to us here and now. It transforms the basis of religion with the future not
the past becoming our source of all that can be good.
How is it that the eternal God is the only one that
knows the eternity of its light, proceeding from himself? And [in response] I
say frankly that is to those whom he wants to reveal his long inspired
melancholy in all its immeasurable, incomprehensible magnitude, that are
subject thereof to hidden causes manifested divinely.
They
are mainly of two major causes, which are confined to the mind of the
inspired one who prophesies. One of these allows the clarity of the
supernatural light to infuse the character who predicts by the doctrine of
the stars and the other enables the prophesies to become inspired revelation.
All of which is certainly the participation of the divine eternity, by means
of which the Prophet comes to judge that his divine spirit has been given to
him by means of God the creator, and a natural incitement.
This is [the way] to know that what is predicted is true and has
its origin ethereally placed. And such light and emergent flame is very
effective. And its altitude is no less than the natural clarity and natural
light that makes the philosophers assured that only with the principles of
the first cause can they enter into the deeper chasms of the highest
doctrines...Nostradamus'
Cesar Preface 1555 (PCE7)
An important dimension to acknowledge in respect to this
relation is the inequality between the parties. The future being is the one
that is all knowing not the human recipient and the imprint of their
interaction on the future is predetermined as being what is true.
Nostradamus acknowledged the bridge for understanding time
that he and the divine one used in their communications. He restates many
times they employed a date system based on the eternal stars since their
unique locations was the key understandable from both standpoints of eternal
and temporal time.
The position of the stars is then the eternal clock, the
bridge to understanding for beings that experience the passage of time as
well as those where time has one size which is the duration of the
universe.
So Nostradamus' visions were accompanied by images of the
stars and by their locations he calculated the date they represented.
For the
incomprehensible secrets of God and their efficient virtue depends on the
long expansion of natural knowledge, deriving their origin from free will.
They bring about the appearance of causes which of themselves could not
attract enough attention to be known, neither by human augury, nor by any
other hidden knowledge or virtue comprised under the concavity of heaven,
even from the present fact of all eternity, which comes in itself to embrace
all time. But through some indivisible eternity and by means of Hiraclienne
agitation the causes are made known alongside the celestial movement...Nostradamus' Cesar
Preface 1555 (PCE7)
This means that the
prophecies are illuminated in layers starting with the emotions at the front
of his fantasies. By various nocturnal visions it is prophesied and made
certain by conjoint astronomical calculations administered in the day...Nostradamus' Cesar
Preface 1555 (PCE10)
The ideas
in this chapter are developed by me in different ways in the following web
pages:
·
The Mechanisms enabling
Future Seeing
·
Nostradamus
entries on Future Seeing in Cesar Preface 1555
·
An essay on
the aliens already shaping man's destiny
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