Consciousness, Transcendence & Integration

[leskey]

The link don't work ....... however

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As an aural architect, Ghreg constructs sonic structures of mysterious, melodious worlds evoking the dark alcove of the mind; haunting soundtracks to engage the shadowy and mystical side of both the body and the soul. His timeless sound realizes the magickal properties of music to guide people into cinematic passages of expanded personal experience, offering spaces otherwise concealed in the deep abyss of the subconscious.

I gotta get my feet back on the ground !!


cool .... bananas ... greg

You might be on a mountain...but, that doesn't mean you're not grounded?

I fixed the link...you could also look into biophotons/biophotonics and ultrachrome lasers in your spare time...

BTW, what's with your link?

[Mikal]

Another interesting correlation here is with Platonic Solids (of which there are 5):



I think the tetrahedron is unique in that it's the building block of 4 dimensional objects (or 3 dimensions + time). We can construct any form in 3-D space, with discrete vertices from tetrahedron (just as we can see triangles as the smallest unit of surface area or lines as the smallest unit of distance).

There is also the equivalent of a unique "spectrum" to each of these solids, if we were moving around the perimeter from vertex to vertex. At each vertex there are "decisions"/edges that lead to some number of neighboring vertices (for example, with the tetrahedron there are always 3 adjacent vertices of a single (quantum) unit distance) and for the icosohedron there are always 5 "choices".

In order to make a decision of where to move, you need information present as 1 of 3, 4 or 5 possible choices and these are all relatively prime to each other. For example, knowing something to be in 1 of 3 states doesn't let you make a decision, based upon that information, to select a 4th path or similarly, if we have information that is uniformly presented as 1 of 5 possible states, if we had 1 of 3 choices to make, we have a bias in the decisions and would have to compress 2 of these 5 states into one of more of the 3 choices.

This can be seen similar to routing of information from one source to an action in the other and the manner in which these decisions are made determines the form in which that source is seen. This can also be analogized very closely to spectral lines of atoms. If an orbital between two atoms can be synchronized and coherently communicate information between them, then they appear "close" in space, because they are informationally very similar and one transfers information to the other, whereas two objects separate in space appear to be independent because the correlations between them are not observed.

Anyway, that's just some more speculation ... though I think it's probably not far off (now wouldn't that be funny, to find that the old Earth, Air, Fire and Water views weren't far off? )

Hi Steve….I’m playing a waiting game with the condition of my niece and the outcome of her surgery as she is still in ICU, so decided to apply my focus to your post as the progress of this, is rather a situation out of my control and I supported as many people as I could yesterday…

If you look at five on the face of a dice, it is a center point with four points around it.

Jung stated that the center point represented the Psychological Self (The quintessence or God-image or whole personality) which unfolds into 4 parts to acquire distinct characteristics and can therefore be known. The 4 parts can be looked at as a frame for the Psychological Self at the center.

Jacobi (1974) stated the five or the quaternity united with the quintessence is an independent whole that is more than a sum of its parts; this connection, this union Jung seen as “an essential driving force for unity in consciousness of the total psychic system.”

Jung stated “the process of uniting the four parts of the system into one involves differentiation of the parts into one.

Differentiation—a cognitive process—self-analysis of a problem, of which the problem consists of aspects holding inter-relationships needing deliberation upon until integration of the aspects results in a form of critical understanding of those inter-relationships into an integrated whole.

If you study ancient alchemical theories they use words like “derive the quintessence from the four” and “separate the pure from the impure, gently and with judgement” to obtain the quintessence. So the fifth (the Psychological Self) is present in and abstracted from the four elements of sensation (cube) thinking (octahedron) feeling (icosahedron) and intuition (tetrahedron). The fifth derived from differentiation of the four is quintessence or the Psychological Self (dodecahedron)

The quintessence or fifth unifies the differentiated but dispersed and isolated parts of the fourfold system by way of its centering capacity, yielding a more refined and ‘distilled’ version of a previously tainted and ill-defined fusion of parts—Lance Storm, The Enigma of Numbers.

What I previously posted is an example of ‘a previously tainted and ill-defined fusion’ and the ancient notation ‘separate the pure from the impure gently and with judgement.’…..Reread in that light….

Quote by Aeolus Kephas:

“My ego-mind wrestled with this over-whelming new consciousness. I was dimly aware of being ‘on trial,’ of being processed—of passing through some ordeal in which I wrestled with my ‘conscience’ while unknown Forces and Intelligences negotiated my passage. The thoughts and deeds of my life were being weighed, one by one, while I was forced to look upon them. All the baggage of my past, my personal self was being mercilessly scrutinized by unknown intelligences. I felt a terrible burden holding me back, keeping me trapped in despair. By the ‘intercession’ of these ‘beings’ I was being compelled to cast it all away. The ‘trial’ was less a matter of my being judged, however much less punished, than of being slowly and painfully purged—unburdened—of personal history.”—Homo Serpiens

The fifth element is Ether—Diodorus

Symbolically the word Ether means the ‘unconscious’ or the mental processes of a person; mental processes are not mere physiological nerve activities, they are thoughts and impressions, which are emotionally painful or disagreeable, and which we have repressed either in adult or childhood life and tend to remain in the unconscious.

Unification, connection (introversion) into interior space is the union of the four aspects with the fifth—unconsciousness births consciousness and expands the consciousness/mind/psyche/perceptual/observational awareness structures of which consciousness is an evolving fractal eco-system.
The barriers of dimensions—consciousness fault lines or collisions of belief plates or fixed thought pockets can be transcended through subjective reality. Breaking down these barriers is caused by ‘conscious effort in a process that constructs higher inner character building.’

I would agree the tetrahedron is unique where it represents ‘the building blocks’ and that may be because it represents fire (plasma.)

Also did you notice the similarity between the icosahedron and the dodecahedron?? In a science/math paper I read the icosahedron is the dual of the dodecahedron. The dodecahedron is the symbol for the universe. The icosahedron is our emotional dimension. I feel fusion of these two planes is the explanation of us as the ‘universe within the universe.’

Regards Mikal

[Graybeard]

BTW, what's with your link?

When your link didn't work ... I typed in Phosphene ... and thats what I got ?

If you look at five on the face of a dice, it is a center point with four points around it.

Jung stated that the center point represented the Psychological Self (The quintessence or God-image or whole personality) which unfolds into 4 parts to acquire distinct characteristics and can therefore be known. The 4 parts can be looked at as a frame for the Psychological Self at the center.

Jung does not play dice with the Universe ...... your making it up ..... lol

cool bananas ... greg

[SteveA]

I hope things go fine for your niece and you as well, Mikal. I'm certain there are at least a few people wishing the best for her.

I similarly have had a couple busy days and hadn't been on the site and hopefully you'll forgive me for not replying more directly to your post, but I've been looking more and more at factorial structures because it seems they should be very foundational as, for example, even possessing the ability to see a set of objects allows a factorial number of ways that we can see the set arranged and I think the fundamental physical dimension is basically time or space ... it's just a serial ordering of things similar to a number line and the ways this can be reconfigured as bends/folds/motions etc. in space is limited by factorial rearrangements.

I'll go back and reply to your comments more directly, but I wanted to point out this very interesting sequence:

1! = 1
2! = 1*2=2
3! = 1*2*3=6
4! = 1*2*3*4=24
5! = 1*2*3*4*5=120

Now let's list what each new object in this growth might be. I'm going to create a growing set and show some correlations to physical properties in growing numbers of dimensions and some correlations with systems of physics.

There are probably better descriptive terms here, but this is just to communicate the idea:

{observer}
{observer,time}
{observer,time,space}
{observer,time,space,motion}
{observer,time,space,motion,matter}

Now look at this list:

1!=1=observer
2!=2=observer, time
3!=6=observer, time, + 4 fundamental forces (Earth, Air, Fire, Water? )
4!=24=observer, time, + 22 subatomic particles (There are 20 known, + the assumed Higgs, which may be equivalent to 2 particles)
5!=120=observer, time, + 118 stable atomic elements
6!=718=observer, time + 718 ? (isotopes?)
7!=5040=observer, time + 5038? (nuclides? - there are over 3100 known so far http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_o...%28combined%29)
...
13! ~= 6.2 billion = observer, time, +~6.2 billion DNA bases

We could rewrite this structure similar to wheels within wheels, where there's an inner single unit (360 deg rotations), a (360/2=180) deg rotation (binary/duality) outside that and a 360/3=120 deg rotations (3 way symmetric) outside that, then 360/4=90 deg and 360/5=72 degs outside that etc. Many of these angles are common atomic bond angles as well.

It would be similar to a manner of counting in all bases simultaineously, and it would rotate faster in the center than at the outsides, though the velocity of each ring would be identical and it would appear like a vortex and similar to galactic rotations.

Normally gravity is assumed to give a 1/d^2 force, but the observations of orbital velocities in the solar system disagree with observations of galaxies. In galaxies, the stars tend to all move at a constant velocity, as if sharing a common medium flowing through space.

http://www.universeadventure.org/fin...velocities.htm





This mismatch has been considered due to dark matter, but it would agree with ideas of an aether to space in that objects are carried with this flow and such an aether could also allow for faster than light synchronize in time between distant areas of the universe.

As we move up this factorial structure we should be able to find new properties that space appears to "morph" into. Notice that if space was unbounded, even if it was constructed from discrete units, selecting a distance between two point could require an infinite amount of information, because this distance could be an unlimited quantity.

We couldn't describe all such unlimited quantities with any finite set of objects and so this factorial growth should show unique properties arising from, though in a sense inherited/dependent upon smaller structures and these are nested orbital structures (quarks spinning inside a proton, orbiting within a nucleus, rotating around a molecule, spiralling around DNA strand, threaded throughout a body, spinning on the surface of Earth, orbiting the Sun, spiraling around the Milky Way, similarly spinning around the next galactic cluster etc. etc. etc. I'm certain I missed many "rings" in this list, but that's the general idea)

These can be seen as counts in base 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ... and then we have common factors of these appear to make these srtuctures interlinked because they have fixed ratios of rotations between them, like many of the planets in the Solar System, whereas prime numbers construct new rings with new properties.

It also makes sense that these structures exist if you consider that a position in space could be denoted by determining an ordered set of objects from nearest to furthest in space. Then when you move, this is like swapping elements in this order (and that's like the fundamental unit of rotation on the inside of a vortex). Quantum mechanics sees quantized units of angular momentum as well, so that's a similar match (though it's a secondary version of time - the real units should be quantized units of energy determining the angles and not the momentum).

I saw some good comments you made and I will reply later, but I wanted to post these thoughts as I've spent a couple days on these ideas and wanted to post them while they were still "fresh"

[Graybeard]

I wanted to point out this very interesting sequence:

1! = 1
2! = 1*2=2
3! = 1*2*3=6
4! = 1*2*3*4=24
5! = 1*2*3*4*5=120

I don't understand Steve.

Question: does the symbol != stand for 'not equal to' as it would in C++ ?

If this is the case then the first two lines are incorrect. One IS equal to One ... and Two is equal to 1*2


cool bananas ... greg

[SteveA]

I don't understand Steve.

Question: does the symbol != stand for 'not equal to' as it would in C++ ?

If this is the case then the first two lines are incorrect. One IS equal to One ... and Two is equal to 1*2


cool bananas ... greg

No, the ! sign represent computing the factorial of a number:

n! = 1*2*3*...*n

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial

Physically, it's the number of ways you can reorder n objects - Permutations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation

So, for example, if you "bent" space time, it would be the number of ways n objects could be reorganized in time.

Or as another example, if we saw an airplane and it had three lights on it, white, red and green, we could specify it's relative orientation to us by listing them from closest to furthest and there are 6 possible orientations relative to it that would be distinguishable in this manner:

3 symbols equals 3 factorial reorders = 3! = 1*2*3 = 6

i.e.
{red, green,white}
{red, white, green}
{green,red,white}
{green, white, red}
{white, green,red}
{white, red, green}

[SteveA]

There's an interesting analogy between such a system and how time could operate:

Imagine a solid with completely rigid bonds between all elements - there would be no way to alter these and the relationships should remain fixed.

Ok, now imagine that some volume (a sphere is a good analogy) is isolated, except along a single axis for rotation, like a gyro-scope or like the axis of rotation of the Earth.

The segment within this structure can now rotate relative to the rest and reconnected or realigned in some different manner. Time would not inherently appear to exist within either the exterior or interior (or the two halves) of this, though measuring changes between these two segments - such as watching the sky rotate around the Earth or seeing the Earth spin from space would allow time to appear to pass.

(There are some more analogies here with DNA folding as well)

In terms of consciousness, we could see the perception of physical time arises similar to a relative reordering between mental and physical states. The most likely components of this cross association would appear to be the wavelengths/cycle periods that share a common factor.

For example, if we had a ring to align in some orientation that had 5 positions, then any rings "outside" this with 10, 15, 20 etc. positions could have precise 2:1, 3:1, 4:1 etc. ratios (here's a great spot for wavelengths to arise from physical measurements on larger scales to arise from atomic properties).

Here's an interesting image that appears to be based on a similar idea:



Notice that the ring is factorially growing (though it appears the imaginary components of rotation aren't shown), but the interior is a two phase duality 1*2 (there should be a solid circle in the center) and then it progresses 1*2*3=6, and then from there it's fundamentally 1*2*3*4=24, but 4 and 2 share common divisors and can appear phase locked in a 2:1 ratio, in which case only 12 phases are needed informationally to distinguish between the states, though that's also similar to a visible obstruction of something (as an analogy, during the day, the Sun can be seen, but during the night the Sun is still present, but not seen and the night isn't denoted by the presence of the absence of the Sun, it's implied by the previous observation of a cycle) - it's redundant and unnecessary to show the entirety and this form of informational compression generates chaotic appearances on large scales.

Notice that outside this 4 factorial structure are 5 things holding it in place and then 6 would be factored into 2*3, so once again, the imaginary components aren't shown and then 7 would appear to represent the outskirts.

These properties should be mirrored in most any system because they're just the boundaries of information regarding a quantity of objects and for example, we have a factorial scaling associated with the volume of spheres of various numbers of dimensions as well.

(Actually, it's also interesting that the angles between the 6 interior segments aren't uniform. I was messing around with an idea along those lines as well this weekend. If things can be communicated as quantities and a collection of things can be described as a sum, then a space with motion in m dimensions should be constructable from a set of numbers that allows them to be uniquely summed in m "directions" and this generates a complex structure of spaces between objects - with points within that space representing collections of those objects. Binary numbers would work, but they aren't optimal for a finite context and there are denser numbering systems that could describe space with fewer dimensions).

For example, if we were to describe positions on a number line by stating either number for the object itself, or the nearest 2 numbers, we could have a collection of objects/numbers that followed this progression:

1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, ...

Notice that if we sum all adjacent elements (i.e. 1+2=3, 2+4=6, 4+5=9 ...), we never create a number already on the line and every number on the line either represents an object or a pair of adjacent objects. We can compute whether or not the number is an object or pair by dividing it by 3 and determining the remainder. If there is no remainder, then it represents a pair of adjacent objects.

Imagine extending this to a 3 dimensional space and including spacial positions as "objects" as well.

Well, I know this stuff isn't too easy to get a handle on and I'm still trying to tie together a lot of ideas but I've finally begun finding enough solid links to know that the ideas apply.

I'm not certain if I have this correct, but it appears the "density" of these spacial objects is related to the ratio:

f(n)=n!/(n!/1!+n!/2!+n!/3!+...+n!/n!)

This progresses like this:

f(1)=1/1 (100% density of "spacial quanta")
f(2)=2/(2+1)=2/3 (1/3 of particles are pairs and 2/3rds are "spacial quanta", which is the example I showed above)
f(3)=6/(6+3+1)=6/10 (4/10 of particles are pairs or triplets and 6/10ths are "spacial quanta")
...
f(n) ~= 1/(e-1) for large n

There's another interesting association here with physics and that's that the decay of physical particles is measured in terms of a quantity 1/e, which could arise from the chaotic distributions of these quanta in space. An altering of perceived space could then appear to have objects acquire or lose quanta and we have a ratio of 1:e involved in the above distribution.

There's something else I believe is related. Powers of phi can be seen to reflect self-similar/reproductive attributes and the powers of phi, -1, 1 and 2 are equal to:

phi^-1~=0.618033
phi^1~=1.618033
phi^2~=2.618033

Notice these all have a difference of 1.

There's a similar way, but leaving out some of the first few layers of this vortex structure, we can get:

e-2 ~=0.71828
e-1 ~=1.71828
e ~=2.71828

There are all offset by ~ 1/10th from the values of phi.

In one case though we're describing an exponential progression that's self-similar, and often times it's shown as an exponential spiral.

In the second version we're describing a very chaotic progression more closely related to the semi-logarithmic decrease in density of primes on a number line.

Now much of this post follows along very abstract, hypothetical and exploratory lines, but I believe there are two similar views of exponential growth - one from an "interior" view that, similar to logic, is restricted by itself and what it can model. It's "projections" into the past or future or in terms of complexities beyond those known and visible appear to be more of the typical exponential/phi form, whereas I believe the actual structure in which the more visible present/now/knowable components are embedded is much more chaotic and diverging. It's often assumed that there's a lot of continuity across time and space and things here and now are not much different than other places and times, but I think that's rather unlikely, though it likely is quite fractal, but mirrored in many different qualities and that the extent of these divergences is probably not often recognized.

Then again, I could be seeing things the wrong way, but I tend to doubt that. In either case, I'm still going to do some more exploring.

[Mikal]

A study of map projections and world-wide geological patterns conducted in 1976 by Athelstan Spilhaus, consultant for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), revealed that when the super-continent Pangaea first broke apart approximately 220 million years ago forming the rudiments of our modern-day continental masses, the breakup occurred along equidistant lines forming the edges and points of a Tetrahedron. This is a geometric shape composed of four equilateral triangles, the First and simplest of the Sacred Solids of Plato.

Based on the research of Hanshou Liu of the Goddard Space Flight Center who analyzed stress lines in the Earth caused by polar land movements over the last 200 million years, Spilhaus found that what was next outlined in the planetary structure was a combination of a Cube and Octahedron. A Cube is composed of six squares and the Octahedron has eight triangles arranged like two Egyptian pyramids end-to-end, as in the configuration of a fluorite crystal. They constitute the Second and Third higher Platonic Solids beyond the Tetrahedron.

The Earth's crystalline evolution did not stop here, however, moving next into two even more complex Platonic forms.

In 1973 three Russians—historian Nikolai Goncherov, construction engineer Vyacheslav Morozov and electronics specialist Valery Makarov—announced in the science journal for the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Chemistry and Life, their discovery of a geometric grid pattern which interlinks a wide number of natural phenomena into a single planetary system.

Their work paralleled the findings of American researcher-author Ivan T. Sanderson who identified what he called twelve "vile vortexes" or electromagnetic energy disturbances located equidistant over the surface of the globe, the so-called Bermuda Triangle near the Caribbean and the Devil's Sea off Japan being two of these.


What the three Russians found was an underlying framework linking these centers into a dual crystal structure, a combination between an Icosahedron and a Dodecahedron. Not surprisingly, these happen to be the Fourth and Fifth Solids in the Platonic series which have been projected outward by the Earth for over the last million years or so.

The Icosahedron is composed of twenty triangles forming a ball and the Dodecahedron is made up of twelve pentagons as its sides. When these two are distributed over the surface of the globe, their lines and node points closely delineate the following planetary elements:

1. High and low barometric pressure areas in the Earth's atmosphere where storms originate and move along the crystal lattices

2. The center-points for major ocean currents and whirlpools

3. Areas of highest and lowest solar and electric influx, along with regions of highest and lowest geomagnetic gauss strength

4. Points of magnetic/ electric anomaly which serve as gateways into other dimensions.

5. Major planetary fracture zones where the tectonic plates come together and create seismic and volcanic activities

6. Major concentrations of ores and petroleum

7. Planetary hotspots where the internal magma surges closest to the surface

8. Migration routes of land, air and sea creatures.

9. Locations of major life breeding grounds and genetic pool regions where new species have originated

10. Concentrations of human population centers both past and present, as well as cultural, religious and scientific centers.


This last point is most significant for it also includes the location of most of the major ancient monuments either directly at or clustered around each of the node points of the Earth's Crystal grid.

This last point is most significant for it also includes the location of most of the major ancient monuments either directly at or clustered around each of the node points of the Earth's Crystal grid, including the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt, the ruins of Great Zimbabwe in central Africa, the cultural center of Mohenjo-Daro on the Indus River in Pakistan, the Shensi Pyramids in China, the Koonunda stone circle complex in Australia, the ruins of Nan Madol on the Caroline Island of Pohnpei, the stone heads of Easter Island, Machu Picchu in Peru, the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon at Teotihuacan in Mexico, the Hopi Four Corners area in the American Southwest, to name only a few.

Fully 3,300 separate major ancient monuments or sacred complexes have been found directly associated with the Icosa-Dodeca grid configuration.

Plato, in describing how the planet appears from space, stated that it looks like a ball sewn together with twelve pieces of cloth.

These would be the twelve pentagons of the Dodeca, which also form the framework for the Icosa grid as well.

CONTINUED

[Mikal]

Stone balls unearthed from the Neolithic period in Scotland, were all shaped to show the geometric progression of the crystal grid from Tetrahedron to Dodecahedron.


Within the last few years researchers around the world have been seeing that a dramatic shift is now taking place in the natural phenomena of the planet. Earthquakes are occurring where there have not been quakes before. Volcanic activity is increasing globally. Weather patterns such as El Nino and La Nina as well as regional climates are in major flux, with a rise in flooding in some areas and drought in others. Migration routes are changing, birds are nesting in new places, while dolphins and whales are increasingly beaching themselves as if lost or looking for new routes.

Most significantly, the geomagnetic field of the planet has been steadily dropping while the Schumann Resonance or overall global frequency is increasing.

Beyond the Platonic series of Solids is another form being geometrically generated out of the old Icosa-Dodeca crystal. If you take an icosahedron and join together with lines every other point inside the form, you create twelve pentacles or five-pointed stars.

If you also extend the outer edges of the icosahedron and join these node points together, you create a second group of twelve pentacles or stars. This becomes the seed crystal that gives birth to a new crystalline form called a Double Penta-Dodecahedron composed of twelve double-pentacles equally spaced across the surface of the globe.

Because the bioelectrical field of the human brain is intricately related to the geomagnetic field of the Earth, any energy shifts in the planet would cause corresponding transformations in the consciousness of humanity as a whole. The present awakenings/alterations/changes in consciousness occurring among humankind around the world is thus tied into the present ongoing earth transition from one planetary crystal-grid energy form to another.

This is very thought provoking research…..

Regards Mikal

[Mikal]

The Hebrew Book of Genesis in its opening chapters describes to us a most unusual atmospheric past that was alien compared to ours today. In the beginning, an enigmatic group of individuals called the Elohim—translated as “God” in the texts—is portrayed as establishing the foundation of an Edenic weather mechanism:

“And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and separated the waters which are under the firmament from the waters that are above the firmament. And it was so. And God called the firmament heaven.” Genesis 1:6-8.

The “firmament” or “heaven” here is the sky, the atmosphere of the Earth. The texts say that in the earlier world depicted here there was water below the atmosphere (in the form of oceans and rivers, and the “fountains of the deep” or subterranean water-energy currents), plus what appears to have been an equal amount of water above the atmosphere. It is clear that clouds and other moisture in the air are not what is being referred to, for these exist in the atmosphere, not above it.

This distinction is emphasized in Psalms 148, where in verse 6 God is praised by the “waters above the heavens” which are set apart from, in verse 8, “hail, snow and frost” or the atmospheric forms of water. Psalms 104:6 also alludes to this primordial heavenly water as once surrounding the Earth and existing at a high altitude:

“You covered it (the world) with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.”

Just how this water canopy existed is indicated in Job 38:9 where it is described as being surrounded by the “thick darkness” of space. In other words, it existed between the atmosphere and the vacuum of the spatial heavens above the planet.

Just how plausible is the idea of a water canopy once existing at such a high level? There are several likely altitudinal candidates, which even today exist as possible remnants of the prehistoric canopy.

At the 22-mile and 50-mile levels pearly clouds of ice crystals are sometimes seen, called nacreous and noctilucent clouds, respectively. Atmospheric conditions are right at these altitudes for the creation of much larger suspended ice crystal formations if water vapor could be “pumped up” and “held” in those regions.

Still higher, above the stratosphere, is an area called the troposphere which borders on the edge of space, and here—between 80 and 85 miles above the Earth—is a specific layer called the thermosphere. Here, the temperatures reach well above the boiling point of water and remain constant day and night. This layer has the potential for holding indefinitely a vast quantity of water vapor, and there is evidence that it may have done just that, for traces of water-cluster ions and an overabundance of He3—which can only be produced in the presence of water molecules—have been discovered at that altitude.

In 1997, German scientists announced that their research satellite Christa-Spas, launched earlier by the European Space Agency, had successfully detected traces of water vapor at a very high altitude in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Some of the scientists were of the opinion that passing comets could have seeded the Earth with water molecules brought from deep space. But other evidence suggested that the vapor was a natural product of the Earth itself, and had once constituted part of a very different planetary ecosphere.

As to what happened to the ancient water canopy can be found in the Genesis story of Noah’s Flood. Genesis 7:11-12, 19 reads:

“On that day the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”

Clearly, no normal rainstorm in the atmosphere could have created so vast a quantity of water. The only answer is that the “windows of heaven were opened” refers to a collapse of the old water vapor canopy, and the sudden and tragic precipitation of what would have been perhaps billions of tons of water from on high in the sky onto the surface of the Earth.

In the Earth’s atmosphere today there is the equivalent of only 2 inches of water, and at its maximum saturation can hold only as much as 4.14 inches (with a sea level temperature of 28 degrees Centigrade). Over a forty day period this would amount to just 0.00431 inches of rain falling per hour--certainly not the torrential downpour described in Genesis. To have unleashed a continuous rain, say between 0.5 and 2 inches per hour, there must have been somewhere in the atmosphere or above it a reservoir of between 40 to 160 feet of water that fell.

Of particular interest, the word “window” in the text above is the Hebrew ’aruba, from the Ugaritic ’urbt, which means “lattice” or “network of openings.” Modern observations made by astronauts and cosmonauts have shown that the linear energy patterns of the Crystalline lattice of the Earth are reflected upwards into the atmosphere, seen as criss-crossings of high altitude clouds. Also, storm centers originate above Earth node points and have been tracked moving along the terrestrial webs.

To be continued-Research by [Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]