Cosmic Coding
By Martin Kimeldorf
Draft #9.8
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Copyright © 1985-2011 by Martin Kimeldorf
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Table of Contents
NOTES ON SOURCES AND SELECTED READINGS
PRELUDE
This essay sums up a lifetime of research and meditation upon the divine comedy we call life. It began over 25 years ago with a series of questions centered on life and death and beyond. I utilize many forms in my summation, including poetic language, mathematics, common experience, physics, humor and art in the pages that follow. It is all about connecting the dots.
Steve Jobs astutely observed that you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. I agree. That is why much of this essay also goes back in time, across the planes of evolution in order to discern where the dots may be pointing to next.
In this prelude to the longer essay, I weave together essential questions in scientific and spiritual thought. Hopefully it will prepare you for delving deeper. This prelude is presented as the appetizer to the main course that follows.
Does Our Genetic Code Offer A Blueprint For More Than Blue Eyes?
Where did you get your eye color? Were they inherited from parents? The directions for your blue-green eyes are probably transmitted by chromosomes and executed by genetic codes.
Where do birds get their migratory skills and routines? Who wrote the directions for migration? Don’t we call these instincts? When we say something is an instinct, it really another way of saying we don’t know where the information really came from originally. The word instinct reveals our ignorance.
Where did I get my aptitude for painting? Was it perhaps my uncle? Did I inherit a visual memory or sensitivity, which directs my emotional response to colors and line? If birds can inherit instructions for a cross-country flight, I’ll bet I can inherit painting skills.
What about twins raised apart, who then select similar jobs, mates, clothes and food? Is that inherited too?
How are children able to speak a language they have never heard? Studies of these events in India are explained with the word reincarnation. They come back fro another time, possessing another language. Do the words instinct and reincarnation describes similar phenomenon?
Clearly we live in a world where information and directions are being encoded and transmitted. These directions go far beyond simple blueprints for blue eyes. The codes can also include preferences for musical notes or an emotional response to use of Cobalt Blue.
What Lies Beneath The Genetic Code?
The human genome has about 3 billion codes and many geneticists think many bits of that code are junk or useless. But doesn’t the word useless reveal yet another form of our ignorance?
I have speculated that this junk belong to another layer of directions which sits just below the surface of the genome, just out of reach from our current electron microscopes. I have concluded that the genetic codes are the house stations for transmitting coded information we do not yet perceive. Once we grasp how this coded structure guides our existence, then we will have a more profound understanding for the words instinct, aptitude, or even reincarnation.
Can We Ever Understand Our Own Brain?
Neuroscientists now think the act of seeing involves far more than the eyeball trans mitting light stimuli to the brain. The images we ultimately assemble in our brain represent a seemingly instantaneous blend of memory, visual stimuli, and emotion. It is ironic that in gathering more information about the brain we seem to know less and less how we actually process images, language, and thoughts themselves.
We may come to a complete understanding of how the brain works when we investigate how psychics seem to retain the ability to read people. Before the modern brain created language a more primitive species would have relied on a non-verbal communication channel. Today it would appear as telepathic communication. Perhaps a psychic is simply someone who experiences deeper connection between the modern and older parts of the brain. I believe science can help us to develop that ability for everyone.
Can We Learn How To Manipulate The Coded Information?
Suppose I can train my dog Franky to shake hands. Franky cannot pass this on to his puppies simply by procreating. But if I can go into my Franky’s brain, find the instruction set for shaking hands, grab it, and implant it in his offspring, then could they shake hands without being trained.
And the puppy hand shaking will be called an instinct.
Where does the word for dog physically exist in my brain? Doesn’t exist in some a physical form, perhaps as a code within a cell? And, perhaps the notion of a code applies not only to genetics and the brain processing, but also to the matter itself.
Is the Physical Universe Also Guided By Coded Information?
For eons spiritual and scientific people have found connections in the larger universe. Sacred texts refer to this phenomenon as God or Higher Power. Physicists demonstrate these connections using formulas. Physicists use mathematical codes to describe the force of gravity, anti-matter deflection, and the process whereby electrons on protons balance each other.
In fact, after cosmologists review the various formulae they stand in mystical awe at the inter- relatedness. For example, various formulae describing gravity, expansion of the universe, or anti-matter all includes exponents. And if any exponent were off by one digit, then many believe life would never have begun and planets would have never been born.
Just as spiritual leaders suggest our lives are governed by rules, laws, and codes for conduct; scientists similarly suggest codes direct the behavior of matter itself. The notion of a coded universe belongs to the mystic and the scientist, the prophet and the priest. And this unity suggested to me the notion of a cosmic code guiding matter, intelligence, and life itself.
Where Does The Code Originate, Where Does It End Up?
If our existence is guided by codes, and if these codes take a physical form where do they originate, and where do they go when we die?
The second law of thermodynamics and suggests a partial answer. The law of entropy states that matter cannot be destroyed nor created.
Therefore I must believe the codes we inherit come from the cosmos and return there as well. I believe all codes originate in an information reservoir or sphere. Individual codes are downloaded to us at birth and return after we die. The coded information cannot be destroyed nor created. But the code does recombine all the time. We see it when we procreate and pass on new combinations. In the largest sense the code always returns, recombines and is reincarnated or reused. This recycling of the cosmic code suggests a cosmic ecology.
Can We Become Creative Participants In The Code?
As we discover how the words Franky and dog are coded and where they are located, we can become participants in the coding process. Eventually we may even master the art of transmitting that code between people, species…perhaps transmitting it across time, across generations.
This will herald our next evolutionary stage if we can outlast our own ignorance. Operating as divine programmers will open us up to possibilities far beyond our current, limited human understanding. Some will call it telepathy, and others will view as a spiritual power, and still others may see it as the triumph of science.
It can happen when we learn how to transmit the word dog from my brain to yours without print, phone, or speech. It will happen in the emptiness of space. And, some clever soul will realize that the word dog is God spelled backwards.
I wonder what aliens would call it. Perhaps they already possess it and this makes their space travel possible.
Onwards…
Next I will share with you the various strands of my research and speculation that led me to believe in a cosmic code, and the recycling of our personal codes.
COSMIC CODING
This is an essay about connecting dots—about inherited knowledge called instinct, about matter that can neither be destroyed nor created, about death as a transformation from one form of energy into another, and about an information-sphere where the coding for matter is orchestrated in another dimension.
This essay-exploration began as a journal entry. After recording my thoughts, I sat back and marveled at the words and images left behind on the page. I wondered, “Where do these ideas come from? Where do they go to after I leave this planet?”
These kinds of questions and speculations began forming in my own mind around 1985, after my father died. You see, my father was a very fascinating person. He was a scientist who also studied art, poetry, rock collecting, photography, foreign cultures, politics, technology, and gourmet cooking. I knew that he was gifted but we never discussed where such gifts ultimately came from.
I could interpret his mortality in an existential light, but this would have made his existence purposeless, and his knowledge and contributions pointless. This did not seem reasonable in a well-reasoned universe.
I wondered, “Did his gifts die with him, or did they return somewhere to be recycled through another dimension? I knew from both my intuitions as well as my studies in science and metaphysics that while the universe may deploy random processes, the ultimate design does not appear random. There is a certain orderliness and beauty. Matter and ideas seem connected in logical or meaningful ways. And as a result, I could not believe that the universe would ignore my father’s gifts, leaving them to decay into dust upon his death. Deep down, I sensed that matter—animate or inanimate--comes into being in pursuit of a larger, perhaps cosmic, purpose; and remains after death or destruction to serve additional purposes in the grand design. To explore this idea I began research into reincarnation, psychic phenomenon, psychology, physics, evolution, brain theory, cosmology, and genetics.