Ultimate Reality (eBook)

Bela Balogh (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
300 Seiten
Distributed via Draft2Digital (Verlag)
978-615-01-0509-3 (ISBN)

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This may be the first book that presents the laws of life before birth and after death, not based on faith or religion, but based on certain knowledge, and gives the reader a detailed insight into the expected circumstances of life after death.

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PREFACE

“It is a great mystery that although people’s hearts long for the Truth in which they can find pure freedom and happiness, still their first reaction to this Truth is hatred and fear.” Anthony De Mello

When I look up to the sky on a warm summer night and take in the expanse of black space filled with stars, I am often struck by a feeling of awe at the seemingly perfect order of the universe. The sheer immensity of that spectacle has always given me the impression that one might never explore it to its furthest reaches or come to grasp its deepest secrets. At such times, I am often visited by a memory from my childhood, a span of minutes from the time when I was eight years old, standing on the street in my hometown (Cluj, Transylvania, Romania), surveying the surrounding buildings with unusual intensity. Then, having made one final study of the night sky and the stars, like a naive child with an inexplicable, uneasy feeling that something is missing, I asked myself the question: “Could this really be it, everything. Is this all there is?” The answer came from my gut: a resounding “No!”

Later, as my mind one by one assimilated the various components of a strictly materialistic worldview, I came to feel I had found satisfying explanations for such phenomena as the births of stars, the motions of the planets, and constant change in the universe. These arguments, espoused by my environment, claimed everything could be reduced to the interplay between physical forces and chemical reactions. I was persuaded that in the end everything would eventually be explained through the laws of physics, chemistry and biology, and that full understanding of the workings of the universe was merely a question of time and of sufficient research.

As time went one, I became aware of several deficiencies inherent in this approach. In particular, the laws of physics and chemistry could not provide an explanation for even the most basic phenomena of life. Though forces such as thoughts and feelings direct and shape our lives, neither could be measured in any meaningful way: no instrument had ever been invented that could reveal whether at a given moment an individual was thinking of an elephant or a sunset, nor that was capable of quantifying emotions such as fear or love. At first, I believed this must be due to the imperfect nature of the instruments and methods of the day, but later, having learned of the limited precision attainable using man-made devices, I found my materialistic worldview obscured by thick clouds of doubt.

As I grew up, I also discovered the existence of certain moral laws, codes which guide how we behave within human communities. In ethical matters the laws and customs of the community, the “voice of one’s conscience,” greatly influence our decisions and determine our behavior, as do the guidelines set down by various religious teachings. People living in different areas of the world perceive right and wrong in different ways, and as I considered each system of values in turn, I witnessed a philosophical and ethical structure unfold slowly before me. I found it especially fascinating that various world religions all seem to have been founded on nearly identical sets of principles or “commandments.”

Thus, I approached each available concept regarding the composition of the Universe and the laws that govern our personal worlds from two different angles. One thing, however, confused me in particular. It seemed clear that through the ages humanity had attempted to probe the Universe from any number of different perspectives. How could it be, then, that in spite of this amassed heritage of scientific research, philosophical knowledge, and divine guidance, no one has yet managed to create a model of the Universe that actually works. Why has no one been able to assemble a worldview in which all the pieces fit together in harmonious and complementary fashion? Somewhere deep inside I felt, or perhaps suspected, that there must be some way to tie it all together, a theory that would place all worldviews squarely into a common framework....

Unfortunately, I still had only fragments at my disposal, and my impression was that while on the one hand I simply knew too little to begin putting them together, on the other, the mass of information was already too weighty to handle. In the meantime, I was still working as an engineer and bridge builder, an occupation that tied down a great deal of my energy, and so I found myself with little time for pondering the mysteries of the Universe. Fortunately, as it turns out, the fires that had fuelled my interest for so many years never did die entirely.

At the age of thirty-three, I succeeded in emigrating to Sweden, where I came into contact with people interested in spiritual matters, people often labelled as “mystics,” who spoke of universally valid and inviolable “spiritual laws.” Such laws, they said, could not be broken regardless of whether one believed in them or not. My interest was piqued, especially when I was told that these spiritual laws in no way contravened what we have learned of the universe through modern scientific research. Although struck by the feeling that these people might know something ordinary people either do not know or cannot understand, still, I approached each premise with caution, questioning everything I was told. To be honest, I found myself greatly surprised by the simplicity with which these “mystics” sketched out the essential nature and working order of the Universe. In fact, their teachings contained little that could be termed “mystical” at all, but merely claimed that the Universe and all its ways can, in fact, be comprehended. While they did employ a peculiar language and system of symbols to convey their message, these expressions and symbols could all be discovered in altered form in physics and mathematics on the one hand, and in the teachings of various religions on the other. After several years of study, I came to recognise that some “mystics” actually possess an extraordinary body of knowledge regarding the structure of the Universe and the way in which it functions.

While scientific research tends to examine its environment in terms of material factors, religion, on the other hand, interprets the world through teachings on human values and morality. As a third alternative, in the worldview of the mystic, phenomena most people regard as inexplicable, paranormal, coincidental, or simply miraculous are also granted logical explanations. The catch is that virtually no line of communication exists between the three major schools of thought. Only a very few individuals, such as physicist Fritjof Capra, who has explored the parallels between physics and Eastern philosophy, or Paul Davies, who has said that “...the Universe appears to unfold according to some plan or blueprint,” have ventured into this largely untouched territory. Fortunately, it appears that an increasing number of daring thinkers today are ready to follow in their footsteps and depart from a line of thinking that has so far proved nothing but a dead end. Less fortunately, these individuals have had scant effect on those of their peers who (and I’ve met a few myself) are so firmly rooted in the idea of a material and randomly developing universe that their unswerving faith would rival that of the most radical of religious fanatics. I was thus faced with three separate angles on the issue of how the universe functions and three separate ways to interpret the phenomenon of myself within it. Each offered apparently valuable information, but none was enough in and of itself to address every aspect of the question. It was at this point, then, that I made an extraordinary breakthrough...

In those days, my exercise came in the form of a daily half-hour run through the pleasant setting of the small woods near my Swedish home. On a day when the weather was particularly sunny and beautiful, as I jogged diligently down the sawdust running path, pondering the mysteries of the structure and workings of the Universe, I had the sudden feeling that I had stumbled onto something. If I were correct, I might just have hit upon the clear and unambiguous answer to one of my longstanding questions. It was a truly uplifting experience, but one that I was not to enjoy for long, as it was followed in quick succession by another striking realization, and then another, and another.... Soon, I found myself overpowered by the urge to stop somewhere and write it all down, before I forgot anything, or the thoughts became tangled and murky again. I quickly ran home and grabbed a sheet of paper, scribbling down everything that had come to my mind in a feverish haste, as the thoughts continued to pour out with a steadily increasing intensity. I wrote as fast as I could, the muscles of my hand beginning to clench in protest; even so, it proved difficult to keep up with the flood of ideas. I put the ideas to paper without any regard for order, coherence, or the bearing of one thought upon another, filling sheet after sheet, and though the pain in my hand was now excruciating, my mind was swimming in an indescribable state of ecstasy. I knew I had finally found what I had been looking for for so many years. The scene ended about an hour and a half later, when the fount of ideas at last ran dry. Dropping my pen in relief, I slowly began to gather up the papers that now covered my desk, blearily taking in what I had written just moments before. What lay before me was a “working principle” of the Universe. Though it still wanted for lack of order and gave the impression of having been slapped down thought by thought in random fashion, still, the essence was there, and it was shockingly simple. On the...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.2.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Afterlife • astral world • Aura • Chakra • Creation • Einstein • God • Illusion • Jesus • Karma • Knowledge • Law of Attraction • Life after Death • life before birth • Love • Manifestation • Out of Body • Physics • quantum • Relativity • scientific proof • Secret • Soul • spiritual master angels meditation healing • Spiritual science • Understanding • Universal laws
• ISBN-10: 615-01-0509-1 / 6150105091
• ISBN-13: 978-615-01-0509-3 / 9786150105093