Bells Theorem

Most people have never heard of "Bells theorem", but there is scarcely a more dramatic and farreaching postulate. Physicist Henry Stapp described it as the most profound theorem in science and said, !he important thing about Bells theorem is that it puts the dilemma posed by "uantum phenomena clearly into the realm of macroscopic phenomena#$it% sho&s that our ordinary ideas about the &orld are someho& profoundly deficient, even on the macroscopic level.'

Bell(s theorem &as prompted by a famous parado) put for&ard by *instein, Podols+y and ,osen to challenge the prevailing interpretation of "uantum mechanical "reality". !he *P, parado) concerns a phenomenon +no&n as "uantum entanglement involving pairs of correlated particles. -f the first particle in a pair has a certain property - spin, for e)ample - that can be described as "up" then the other paired particle must have the opposite spin property - "do&n" - so that the t&o spins cancel to .ero. /-f they didn(t then spin asymmetry &ould emerge, leading to an unbalanced universe.0 1ccording to classical physics, the t&o particles have opposite spin states from the outset. Ho&ever, "uantum theory says that each particle e)ists in a superposition of the up and do&n spin states /i.e. neither has a clear-cut spin state0, and it is not until a measurement is carried out and the spin &avefunction "collapses" that a particle can be said to have a definite spin state. !his instantaneously causes the spin &avefunction of the other particle to collapse into the opposite state. !he *P, parado) relates to &hat happens if the t&o particles are separated by an enormous distance &here no instantaneous communication bet&een the t&o particles is possible &ithin the frame&or+ of conventional physics. -f one particle is measured to be "up", ho&, in "uantum theory, can the other particle then "+no&" that its spin &avefunction should collapse into the "do&n" state2 3lassically, each particle al&ays had a definite spin, so there(s no dilemma in this vie&. 4uantum mechanically, neither particle +ne& &hat its spin state &as until a measurement too+ place. But the "uestion is ho& can the other particle +no& the outcome of the measurement instantaneously if it is, say, a light year a&ay2 5hat mechanism &ould be used to communicate the information2 !he *P, parado) seemed to stri+e a deadly blo& at "uantum mechanical orthodo)y. -t re"uired either "action at a distance" /this is the interaction of t&o ob6ects &hich are separated in space &ith no +no&n mediator of the interaction0, or faster than light communication. *instein completely re6ected the latter and said of the former, "Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spoo+y actions at a distance." He introduced a locality principle &hich stated, "-f t&o systems are in isolation from each other for some time, then a measurement of the first can produce no real change on the second." *instein and his colleagues believed that they had sho&n that "uantum theory &as incomplete and that hidden variables /&ell-defined classical elements of reality not yet revealed0 must e)ist. !he defenders of orthodo) "uantum mechanics maintained that the entangled particles are part of a single system, and it doesn(t matter by ho& far the particles are separated7 once connected they can never be truly separated. -t &as to this fundamental issue that Bell turned his attention. 1n introduction to Bell(s theorem can be found in this article7

http788&&&."uanti+i.org8&i+i8inde).php8Bell(s9theorem:Statement9of9Bell.;<s9theorem !he article says7 "-n its simplest form, Bell(s theorem states7 No physical theory of local hidden variables can ever reproduce all of the predictions of quantum mechanics. $Bell% sho&ed that the assumption of local realism - that particle attributes have definite values independent of the act of observation and that physical effects have a finite propagation speed leads to a re"uirement for certain types of phenomena &hich is not present in "uantum mechanics. !his re"uirement is called (Bell(s ine"uality(. Similar ine"ualities have subse"uently been derived by different authors &hich are collectively termed (Bell ine"ualities(. !hey all ma+e the same assumptions about local realism - that a "uantum-level ob6ect has a &ell-defined state &hich accounts for all its measurable properties and that distant ob6ects do not e)change information faster than the speed of light. !hese &ell defined properties are often called hidden variables." Bell(s theorem &as tested and confirmed by 1lain 1spect(s team in Paris in =>?;. Bell(s theorem decisively re6ects *instein(s vie& of reality. Nature has non-local aspects. !he ramifications are astounding. *ven though the &orld appears to be based on locality, it is in fact based on an unmediated, unseen reality that permits faster than light /and probably instantaneous0 communication. 1ny credible theory of reality must be able to satisfy Bell(s theorem. @avid Bohm, a supporter of *instein(s vie&s, proposed that the universe is actually something a+in to a giant hologram. 1 true hologram /rather than the type that gets placed on credit cards0 has the property of non-locality7 every part of a piece of holographic film contains all of the information possessed by the &hole film. Aarl Pribram has suggested that human memory is based on holographic principles. -n fact, his theory involves the &hole human brain operating according to holographic rules. !his theory could potentially e)plain &hy people can recover a huge amount of normal brain function even after suffering ma6or brain damage or even the surgical removal of large portions of the brain. !he hologram theory is e)tremely controversial and has been dismissed by most scientists. *ven more controversial is ,upert Sheldra+e(s theory of Morphic ,esonance. 1ccording to Sheldra+e, information can be transmitted instantaneously &ithout loss of energy through any amount of time and space via "morphogenetic fields." Some people have speculated that particles called tachyons e)ist. !hese are superluminal particles7 they travel faster than light. Such particles are consistent &ith *instein(s theory of relativity /no particle can be accelerated from belo& the speed of light to faster than the speed of light but since tachyons can never travel more slo&ly than the speed of light, this rule does not apply to them0. -f tachyons e)ist, then they travel bac+&ards in time. 1lthough tachyons are theoretically interesting, no evidence for their e)istence has ever been found. -llumination has no difficulty in conforming to the re"uirements of Bell(s theorem. -llumination teaches that mind and matter are t&o aspects of the same substance. !his single substance e)ists in both a dimensional and non-dimensional space. !he matter aspect is confined to the dimensional space &hile the mind aspect is confined to the non-dimensional space. !he nondimensional space can be considered along the lines of the "singularity" that is said to e)ist at the centre of a blac+ hole, or the singularity associated &ith the Big Bang.

-n blac+ hole theory, the singularity of a non-spinning blac+ hole is a dimensionless point of infinite density /&hich distorts time and space so much that nothing, including light, can escape from its gravitational field0. -t has .ero radius, .ero volume, and the la&s of physics brea+ do&n completely at this point. !he dimensionless singularity of -llumination also has .ero radius and .ero volume, but rather than being associated &ith infinite density, it is associated &ith infinite mental events. -t has no connection &ith space and time /&hich are part of the dimensional universe0. *verything in the universe can be e)plained by the co-e)istence of the mental and material aspects in an all-pervasive single substance, and by the co-e)istence of a dimensional universe and a non-dimensional universe. -llumination provides a straightfor&ard ans&er to the *P, parado). !he pair of entangled particles start off together in the dimensional material universe, and also in the .ero-dimensional mental universe. 5hile they can be separated in the physical universe, they cannot be separated in the dimensionless mental universe. Bo matter ho& far apart they travel in physical space, they are permanently connected via the mental universe. So, as soon as a measurement is carried out on one, the outcome is immediately reflected in the mental universe, and that result is in turn immediately reflected in the paired particle, again in the mental universe. But as soon as the results of the measurement are "+no&n" in the mental universe they are instantaneously reflected in the physical universe. Hence, the behaviour re"uired by Bell(s theorem is comprehensively e)plained. !he fundamental point is that by uniting the material and the mental, by uniting a universe &ith dimensions &ith one &ithout dimensions, all of the problems of @escartes( dualistic universe are solved, all the parado)es of "uantum mechanics are solved, the appearance of mind from nonmind and of life from non-life no longer have to be e)plained since every material ob6ect is "minded" and to that e)tent alive. -nstantaneous communications are no longer baffling. 1ll instantaneous lin+s are mediated by the mental singularity that lies at the core of physical e)istence. !he la&s of science relate, over&helmingly, to the physical universe. !he *P, parado) and Bell(s theorem give the first scientific glimpse of the interface bet&een mind and matter. -n the future, a ne& science of this e)traordinary interface &ill emerge. -n the far future, physics /the science of the dimensional universe0 and metaphysics /the science of the dimensionless universe0 &ill come to be seen as one. /-llumination prefers the term "transcendental physics" rather than "metaphysics".0 -n one mind - that of Cod - physics and transcendental physics are already one. !he implications of the mind-matter, dimensional-dimensionless universe are e)traordinary. !he door is opened to psychic po&ers and &hat is commonly referred to as the "paranormal." Such po&ers are mediated by the dimensionless mental singularity &here time and space do not e)ist and everything is, in a sense, connected and one. !he -lluminati refer to the dimensional universe of matter as the Hylocosmos /hyle D matter0 and the dimensionless universe of mind - the mental singularity - as the Psychocosmos /psyche D mind0. Enly a reality &ith these t&o aspects can account for the nature of our +no&ledge and e)periences. ,eality is a superposition of the mental and physical, of the dimensional and dimensionless. !ime, space and causation arise in the Hylocosmos, and from there are reflected in the Psychocosmos, but time, space and causation are not inherent in the Psychocosmos. !ime and space support the principium individuationis - the principle of individuation. 5hat distinguishes

one individual thing from another is that they are differently located in time and space. 1nything that e)isted in e)actly the same time and space, and &ith the same properties, as another thing &ould not be different from that thing. Because things e)ist individually in the Hylocosmos, this is reflected in the Psychocosmos, but individual things are not inherent in the Psychocosmos. /4uantum physicists &ill rightly point out that, as a conse"uence of Heisenberg(s uncertainty principle, it is impossible to tell &hether t&o "uantum particles of the same type are located in the same space. !his could be interpreted as evidence that the Psychocosmos shapes the Hylocosmos at the elementary level, blurring the principle of individuation. 5e &ill turn in a later article to one of the most significant aspects of the "uantum &orld7 the difference bet&een "bosons" and "fermions". !his difference is critical to the nature of reality.0 !he lac+ of intrinsic "ualities of time, space and individuation in the Psychocosmos is &hat underlies, in religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, notions of an underlying universal oneness, &holeness and togetherness. !hese religions treat the Hylocosmos as a +ind of illusion or place &here &e misapprehend the real nature of things /the veil of Maya in Hinduism0 and see the Psychocosmos as the true reality. !hese religions regard ego, separation, difference, individuation as entities that need to be overcome on the 6ourney to&ards universal union. Human suffering arises, they claim, from our inability to perceive the true interconnectedness of all things. "*nlightenment" in these religions amounts to escaping the Hylocosmos and fully entering the Psychocosmos. -llumination, &hile it has certain elements in common &ith Hinduism and Buddhism, is ultimately fundamentally different and teaches radically different truths. For one thing, the Hylocosmos and Psychocosmos are ine)tricably lin+ed and neither is more "true" than the other. !hey e)ist only in relation to each other. !he Psychocosmos - as the arena of thought and moral action - is rightly the focus of all religions, but it cannot do &ithout the Hylocosmos. 5hereas Hinduism and Buddhism both see+, ultimately, the abolition of the self, -llumination centres on the transition of the self from its most primitive form to the ma)imum e)pression of itself, the fullest realisation of its potential - the Self &ith a capital "S". -t see+s, in short, not to absorb the individual into some universal oneness, but to ma+e the individual as perfect as possible7 Codli+e. !he Psychocosmos is the arena &here individuals can become everything they have it &ithin themselves to be. -t is not the place &here individuality is e)tinguished. !here is a higher truth that Hindus and Buddhists completely miss. -t derives from the &ell-+no&n concept that the &hole is greater than the sum of its parts /a concept +no&n as holism0. Human bodies are made up of many individual cells, but the &hole - humans themselves - are vastly more than mere collections of cells. 1 &hole that contains no parts is intrinsically inferior to a &hole that is greater than the sum of its parts. !he latter contains an entire e)tra element missing in the former. -ndividuation is critical to the creation of the greatest conceivable &hole. Far from being e)tinguished in "nirvana", individuation has to be ma)imised so that the &hole, comprised of all the optimised individual things, &ill itself be optimised. !he destruction of the individual in Hinduism and Buddhism is anathema to -llumination. 1rthur Aoestler introduced the term "holon" /from the Cree+ &ord "holos" meaning &hole0 to describe an entity functioning as both a &hole and as a part of a &hole, to be independent in one function, and dependent in the other. Aoestler referred to the "Ganus principle" to describe the dual nature of holons. Holons strive to be both &hole and to belong to a &hole. !his is very close to the ancient teaching of -llumination. Enly individuals &ho are &hole can be part of a divine &hole. !he 6ourney of each individual, over a number of incarnations, is to allo& him to learn the lessons that &ill permit him to become &hole, and thence be part of a greater &hole. !he -lluminati teach the message of the @ouble Holos - a perfect, &hole individual &ithin a perfect, &hole community. !hose &ho cannot learn that lesson are re6ected from the divine &hole. !hey are the damned. Hell is that place &here the &hole is less than the sum of its parts, &here the damned are loc+ed in selfishness, egotism, refusal to cooperate, cruelty, vanity, greed

and division. -t does not ta+e much to see that hell closely resembles this earth of ours, ruled by the Eld 5orld Erder. !his hell can be transformed into the first step to heaven, but the Eld 5orld Erder must be destroyed before &e can begin to climb the ladder. Philosophically, the concepts of sub6ect and ob6ect are of fundamental importance. !he sub6ect is that &hich +no&s or e)periences &hile the ob6ect is that &hich is +no&n or e)perienced. 1ll things are ob6ects in the Hylocosmos and sub6ects in the Psychocosmos. !here is no such thing as a sub6ect &ithout an ob6ect or an ob6ect &ithout a sub6ect. -t is one of the most remar+able features of e)istence that everything is both ob6ect and sub6ect. Most things do not have sufficiently developed minds to ta+e advantage of that, but humans do. 5e can see our bodies as physical ob6ects in the Hylocosmos, yet our primary &ay of relating to reality is as sub6ects. Het even &ith humans, there is a vast grey area and it relates to &hat is commonly +no&n as the "unconscious". -llumination uses a different terminology for this concept. -llumination asserts that all animals are sentient beings and to that e)tent are conscious. Humans are the only animals on earth that have the higher level of consciousness labelled "self-consciousness", the ability to reflect upon their o&n e)istence. -f a human could remove his self-consciousness, he &ould e)ist at the same level of consciousness as animals. 5hat Freud refers to as unconsciousness is &hat is, really, the consciousness of non-human animals. 1 sleep&al+ing human is not self-conscious, but can nevertheless carry out complicated tas+s. He is not unconsciousI he is using animal consciousness rather than human self-consciousness. 1t this level of consciousness, humans are more li+e ob6ects than sub6ects. @espite &hat humans thin+, much of their activity actually ta+es place at this level, hence the success of Freud(s theory of the unconscious. Freud revealed that a huge amount of &hat &e do derives from our ob6ective rather than our sub6ective nature. Eur sub6ective nature then has to rationalise &hy &e behaved in that &ay. Some people are far better at that tas+ than others. Many humans e)ist as little more than higher-functioning animals, &hile a fe& have the capacity to successfully operate as lo&erfunctioning gods. 5hich &ould you prefer to be2 !he &ord "theatre" derives from the Cree+ &ord theatron meaning "seeing place". !he Hylocosmos is the theatre for the mind, &here sub6ects sit and &atch both themselves and other sub6ects as ob6ects. Het the sub6ects can also step onto the stage and change the performance. !here is no pre-&ritten script. *veryone has the chance to shape their destiny. !he Paranormal Ene e)periment that has been used to probe the paranormal is ,upert Sheldra+e(s "telephone telepathy" &hich involves a receiver guessing &hich of four close friends is phoning them. !he e)periment is carried out roughly forty times, &ith the roll of a dice being used to select &hich friend should ma+e each call. Sheldra+e claims that the receiver typically achieves a J;K success rate &here a ;LK success rate &ould be e)pected by chance. Mnfortunately, the sample si.e is far too small to be meaningful, and the e)periment could be vastly improved by including four automated voices, and four people &ho only vaguely +no& the receiver. !he number of trials could be e)tended from forty to one hundred. -t is li+ely that if these conditions &ere applied, Sheldra+e(s results &ould revert to the e)pected average. -llumination ma+es the follo&ing prediction regarding the strength of psychic connections /bet&een those &ho do not claim to have psychic po&ers07 =0 ;0 N0 J0 L0 -dentical t&ins /Mono.ygotic t&insI t&o separate embryos come from a single fertilised egg0 Fraternal t&ins /@i.ygotic t&insI separate embryos from separate fertilised eggs0 Parents and their children Siblings Oovers

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Since identical t&ins come from the same fertilised egg and therefore once shared the same origin in the Psychocosmos, they are permanently lin+ed /li+e particles involved in "uantum entanglement0. 5hether they ma+e any use of that connectedness in practice depends on the e)tent to &hich they see+ to e)plore their psychic selves. -n fact, most people &ould prefer to bloc+ their po&ers for fear of having their innermost thoughts read. Eften, it(s only &hen a ma6or trauma, or death, occurs, that the connectedness becomes fully apparent. Ether aspects of the paranormal &ill be dealt &ith in a subse"uent article. @reams and physical reality People &ho have lost their sight don(t have blind dreams - they dream as though they still had their vision. But someone &ho has never had sight could never e)perience a sighted dream. 5hat does that prove2 !he mental needs the physical to provide e)periences, but once it has had sufficient e)perience of the physical &orld, it no longer needs it. -n the Psychocosmos, the man &ho has lost his sight in the Hylocosmos regains it. 1lready, &e see the glimmer of ho& it can be that the mental can reach a certain stage &hen it is no longer so dependent upon the physical. !hose &ho have lost limbs or become paralysed dream as though they still had their limbs or &ere free of paralysis. !he old can dream of being young again. !he living can dream of the dead, and those dead relatives, friends and lovers can come bac+ as vividly as they &ere &hen they &ere alive. 1 s+eptic might begin to see ho& souls are possible. @reams, so mysterious and difficult to study, are underestimated in our culture. !hey are so po&erful that humans have to be paralysed during the dream phase of sleep to stop them acting out their dreams, to stop the dreams spilling into physical reality. !he implication is that the margin bet&een reality and dreaming is so slender that if the dream paralysis &ere removed, &e could barely distinguish bet&een the t&o states. 5ithout dream paralysis, our dreams &ould have a direct impact on the physical &orld. !hey &ould no longer be dreams but reality. -n lucid dreaming, the dreamer can be fully a&are that he is dreaming and direct the &ay the dream develops. !he boundary bet&een reality and the dream is blurred. 1s the 3hinese philosopher 3huang-!.u said after dreaming that he &as a butterfly, "5ho am - in reality, a butterfly dreaming that - am 3huang-!.u, or 3huang-!.u dreaming that he is a butterfly2" -f the &hole human race could have a sufficiently po&erful dream - a collective dream in &hich everyone &as participating in the same dream - could it be distinguished from reality2 !he simulated &orld sho&n in the film "!he Matri)" &as a common dream supplied to the entire human race, and it successfully replaced "reality". -f humanity could at some point evolve a "Mass Mind", could it also evolve a collective dream and create its o&n Matri)2 3ould it design heaven for humanity2 Pierre !eilhard de 3hardin(s concept of the noosphere amounts to a human collective consciousness. He sa& the noosphere as evolving to&ards the "Emega Point", the ultimate goal of history, the culmination of consciousness. Eut-of-body *)periences Eut-of-body e)periences, near-death e)periences and astral pro6ection are all supported by anecdotal evidence but have no scientific support. Ho& could a consciousness separate itself from the body in order to have such e)periences2 -f there are no physical eyes, ho& is it possible to see2 Het a blind man can "see" in his dreams. But ultimately his vision comes from memory.

!here is no recorded case of a people blind from birth having an out-of-body e)perience or neardeath e)perience in &hich they e)perienced vision. -n fact, even if they could see, they &ouldn(t +no& &hat they &ere seeing. Seeing is something that is learned. People &ho recover sight after losing it for decades have to relearn ho& to see. Het if a single case of an out-of-body e)perience or near-death-e)perience could be cited that demonstrated that someone had seen &ithout the use of physical eyes it &ould instantly be the strongest possible evidence for the e)istence of souls. !here are no& operating theatres in the &orld &here coded messages have been placed on top of theatre e"uipment so that they are visible to anyone "hovering" above an operating table as part of a near-death-e)perience. Bo coded message has ever been reported by anyone claiming to have a near-death-e)perience. Het &hat if that proof e)isted, but hadn(t been placed in the public arena2 5hat if a secret society had already performed out-of-body e)periments &here coded information &as successfully retrieved2 Oast Mpdated /Sunday, =N February ;Q== =J7NQ0