Where has our future gone?
© Allan Webber (B.Sc, Grad DiEd 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 nor
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 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 ancestors 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 - ons Seront rec - eus par di), encaptures diviner
(nt receus pa - r
diuine),
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 a 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 uuntil 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 sub
tle 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 sleewithin 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 bliin 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 sub
sequent 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
uto 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 doub
t 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 uin 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 pass 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 emerge 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
take back some control. Each stein 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 undecayed 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 deewithin 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 ufossils 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
gauntil 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 tanatural 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 sub
ject
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 who 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:
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