The Deep Roots of This Ancient Paradigm of The Monks

In modern times, we like to imagine that we have invented a new way to explore reality. We call this: The Scientific Method.

This process is where we do repeatable experiments and get results from careful observations and measurements, and then try to “imagine” what they mean.

This is a fancy way of saying that we look around us and collect information and then form a theory about what is causing these effects.

We actually know when people started doing this process seriously and it was roughly 2,400 years ago.

Aristotle and some others wrote a little bit about Leucippus (500BCE? - 428BCE?), but only one sentence remains of his work. It probably has survived because this man and his ideas were so extraordinary that they really are well expressed in this one sentence: "Nothing happens capriciously; there is a necessary reason for everything" .

Leucippus taught that the previous idea that matter was continuous were false. There must be particles that are acting on each other across a void. Only these ideas allow motion so everything must also be in motion.

He called these particles "atoms" and said that when you have thoughts that atoms are moving around in your head to register these changes, and that's why you can call back up memories. He said the memories are not real, the atoms are!

He thought that water was made of atoms and that’s why you can hang out clothing and the water can evaporate. It is the atoms of water that are leaving the cloth and are invisible to us in the air like the other atoms in the air are. He argued this must be true because it rains... There has to be a cause for it to rain.

He believed that atoms had different properties so they could interact and combine in various ways. But he also said that there was a conservation of matter and energy. Things could not be created or destroyed. They would just transform, as we see with water in the air. Transformed but still atoms of water.

Does this Ancient Paradigm sound familiar? We have only recently revisited Leucippus and his ideas with renewed vigor, but they are far from new.

Would you like to know more about the complicated and fascinating journey that these ideas have taken?

Our ancient ancestors have been making fires for at least a million years. It was difficult for us to hide in the trees every night and yet there were still predators like leopards that would hunt us in those hiding places. When we discovered fire a dramatic change was on the horizon.

The fire would be maintained through the night. If a predator like a pride of lions were to try to enter the camp and attack someone, they would have bundles of dried grass waiting and they would throw it on the fire and create an incredibly bright light so that they could throw sticks and stones at the predators.

After inventing spears for added protection, they started attaching these bundles of dried grass on the ends of long sticks and they would actually chase the predators away. It just felt good to turn the tables on a predator and attack!

Somebody eventually discovered cooking of food. Someone else wrapped fish in clay and threw it on the fire to make steamed succulent fish, and when they broke it open with a rock to eat it, they accidentally discovered dishware! This of course led to crockery and pottery. Fire was really enriching our lives in so many unexpected ways.

But that wasn't the important thing. Even keeping warm and being near the fire to drive mosquitoes away was not the dramatic impact that you might think.

It was sitting there throughout the long boring night, which was too long to be entirely consumed by sleep. Here is where we became storytellers and fascinated with wanting to understand reality. This was the spectacular contribution of fire! Freedom to think...

Have you ever looked into the hypnotic light of a campfire? It almost invites storytelling. We started filling the night sky with dancing and singing and storytelling, lots and lots of storytelling. The fire invigorated culture. And it was culture that we decided to evolve and not our DNA!

Why did the sky go dark each day? Why did only the night sky twinkle with lights from above? Why did tree branches burn all night in a campfire? Why would the bundles of grass light up the sky so vigorously? So many questions and all night to do nothing but obsess about reality. Why are we here and what is going on?

A million years is a long time to obsess about these ideas and get very little progress. Civilization didn't start to happen until relatively recently in our long history.

We want to zoom in on the dramatic moment that experts claim is roughly 1177 BC. At that time the world had reached a surprising level of trade, that we might call world trade, at the time.

All throughout the Mediterranean eight or nine civilizations with dramatically different ideas about everything were interacting and trading. But a combination of events around 1177 BC catapulted the world into a great depression where international trade collapsed.

This early amazing global trade needed to take inventories and to send messages back and forth. For the first time in history, this stimulated the necessity for a literate class.

This is important because when we get down to Leucippus, people are starting to record their ideas, and pass them down through history.

He becomes a teacher and needed to give lectures. We have a little bit of his work but in the future the Ancient Greeks are going to start giving us a treasure trove of spectacular ideas, some of which may have been extremely ancient.

We mostly know about Leucippus because he had an astonishing student named Democritus. Some say he lived to be 109 years old!

Travel can be very stressful especially when they didn't understand things like scurvy! His extraordinary age is all the more amazing because he was traveling all over the world, probably exposing himself to all kinds of diseases, trying to find out what other civilizations believed. For example he went to India and asked them what they thought of the idea of atoms and the void and all the rest?

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At some point Democritus was accused of misappropriating funds and squandering community resources on lustful adventuring and travel with total disregard for commerce. In other words he was being an intellectual who was more interested in the culture and wisdom of the people he met then exploiting them! This offended the rich in his community.

He did an extraordinary thing to rehabilitate his reputation. He developed social media! He decided to do a series of lectures and entertain the community with how exciting the ideas of the world were.

He developed Leucippus' ideas and produced a very large collection of writings and influenced people such as Aristotle who eventually studied these ideas himself and wrote about them and then develop them even more.

In 1974 I wandered off into the wilderness of Tibet and ended up being rescued by a very secretive group of monks. They proceeded to tell me more about this amazing journey of ideas.

They said that God asked Aristotle to go to the mountains and establish a university there and wait for God to deliver The Gift of Full Knowledge (now the title of my ebook on Amazon ; a companion book to the two others that are there).

We don't know whether Aristotle was too comfortable to do this, or too afraid to do this, or just simply didn't understand. Instead he sent his prize student Alexander the Great to go out and conquer the world and bring back all knowledge to him. He even came to believe that this was a Divine Command.

He sent his beloved nephew along with Alexander the Great to package up, and handle the process of sending back, all the great knowledge of the various cultures that were being conquered. Alexander conquered the known world all the way to the Himalayan mountains!

Some say that the nephew was a lover of Alexander the Great. Others say the story that I believe that Alexander the Great accused this nephew of being cowardly and not fighting alongside of him when they were out conquering. The nephew insisted he was only there to fulfill God's command to collect all knowledge.

Whichever story you believe, Alexander the Great definitely killed the nephew in a drunken rage. The reason that I believe the second part of the story is because Aristotle knew of a well whose water, when mixed with wine, would not purify it.

This is important because he snuck this water to Alexander the Great who liked to purify his water and stretch his wine by mixing them.

Alexander the Great was the most recognized and famous man of his day. His face was highly recognizable because it was on the coins of the realm. And he had a massive "Roman" nose!

You can't kill the most famous person of your day and just go on with your life. Aristotle faked his own death and packed his belongings and headed for the highest mountains in the world. He finally was following God's request.

The monks are descendants from this organization who were eventually to receive The Gift of Full Knowledge, but this time from Jesus.

Jesus, as an adult, was baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. At that moment he had an out-of-body experience in which God gave him instructions, and The Gift of Full Knowledge to be delivered to the waiting University in the highest places on Earth.

We know that Jesus wanted to have more of this experience because he tortured himself for 40 days and 40 nights in the desert and did not get more communications with God. But it must have been so intoxicating that he dedicated his life to this cause. Even when he was on The Cross and dying he is known to have cried out the famous words: "God why have you forsaken me?".

We also know from the Bible that Jesus says he wishes that he could explain more to St John but that he had to follow God's plan, which was going to The Cross.

Jesus then says not to worry, he would not forsake the world. This is why we get in the gospel of St John this extraordinary promise: "I will send the comforter to explain all things in clear language anyone can understand".

Students of Aristotle were waiting for this message which they could understand, but most of the world could not, because these ideas of Leucippus were so close to the truth that these eager minds in the mountains could understand the message being delivered by Jesus!

We have waited this long until we finally could understand science enough to relate to Leucippus. Finally the campfire is delivering a message so powerful that it is going to banish suffering on earth and usher in a golden age of understanding.

It's a wonderful journey, it's easy to understand, and you no longer need a campfire to enjoy it. The campfire now is your home computer or smart device! Gather around to hear the greatest story of all time! Welcome to the great reveal of this Ancient Paradigm: Spectrum Particle Theory.

About half the time when I was receiving instructions from the monks, we talked about Spectrum particles so that I would thoroughly understand it. The other half I asked many questions like you are probably wondering about, but after that I was free to talk about anything. Many of those answers have been Incorporated into my Medium articles.

There was a lot of talk about the origin of these ideas and Aristotle because that's critical to why they could receive this message so long ago.

You have to recognize that even until the 1800s we were almost entirely a planet full of farmers. There wasn’t a great need to be literate. These people were incredibly literate for a very long time. And that’s why I find that recently discovered library of 84,000 books hidden away in the mountains of Tibet so intriguing!

I don’t recall them specifically talking about Newton and Occam though? And I don’t remember exactly what I might have said about them in my Amazon books? I mean it’s just obvious that Newton was trying to be adjusted by Einstein and the universe is really Newtonian.

You’d have to refresh my memory before I could remember what the monks had to say? And of course these ancient Greeks and weird names that I find hard to remember. I thought it was Luciferous until I looked it up to find out how to spell his name correctly, as a simple example. I always thought I was misremembering Democritus but apparently not.

All this was critical to Aristotle and his students to be able to understand that the world was made of atoms. I do remember having lively conversations with the monks debating whether the ancient Greeks might have meant Spectrum particles? I guess this is what you would call philosophy where you decide what you mean by every word?

Spectrum particles aren’t truly particles per se, but they are indestructible as the ancient Greeks were trying to describe something as the beginning of being. I remember them talking about the Ancient Greeks believing that atoms had characteristics like prickliness and bitterness, which is very suggestive of elements.

Clearly this was a well laid out plan that needed a literate and advanced culture in order to receive The Gift of Full Knowledge. These are truly ancient roots deeply anchored in divine truths. And what a way to receive them!