Secret_History

128 The Secret History of the World
My theory is that people can’t notice something until they have the reference point
to understand what it is they are observing. Specifically, scientists can’t notice,
“hey, these new patterns fit together” until they have a mathematics that describes
this kind of relationship as being a pattern, rather than random marks on a graph.
Think about what it would be like to discover that all of your data fit into a
parabolic shape, but you don’t know what a parabola is. How disappointed you
would be to realize it doesn’t make a straight line, when straight lines are all you
know. “I guess there was nothing to that hypothesis after all”, you say as you
discard the data. Tomorrow some brilliant mathematician will create a method of
graphing quadratic equations thinking he has invented the perfect pure math, which
couldn’t possibly have any practical application. Fifty years from now, your
grandson will review your data, or recreate your experiments. He will get the same
data points that you did, but now he recognizes the pattern as a parabola. It was a
parabola all along, but you didn’t know it, because parabolae hadn’t been invented
yet when you plotted the data.
If you don’t recognize the pattern, then your brain interprets it as random - no
pattern at all. This means you pay it no attention. In this way, mathematicians
create the world we live in. What an outrageous statement! No Physicist would
admit the validity of that, after all, they are trained to observe the real world, not
confirm some dreamer’s fantasy! Yeah, right. Only problem with that is, history
tells us that over and over, Physicists were unable to see the patterns in front of
their eyes until someone had invented a mathematics that made this kind of pattern
recognizable and distinguishable from random noise.
Therefore there is a very real sense in which the only reality we can recognize is
that of the patterns for which we have a mathematical template. Therefore we can
only observe that part of infinite reality for which some enterprising mathematician
has invented the pattern. The mathematician does NOT describe an objective
reality, which he observes; he instead creates relationships, which he considers
“beautiful”, or “elegant”, or perhaps “entertaining”. He doesn’t think his creation
has any practical application, but it always does. Because any time somebody
describes the template for a new pattern, now (in about 50 years) people will begin
noticing those parts of the infinite universe, which fit into to this new pattern.
Before they just seemed random, but now that we recognize the pattern, it’s so
obvious we don’t understand how Aristotle overlooked it. And a new generation of
historians will write books about how Archimedes was actually on the verge of
inventing this himself just before the Romans killed him. 48
In exactly the same way, it is by gathering information and making unprejudiced
observations while at the same time stretching the mind into the field of
consciousness, that we develop the vehicle for the Soul, which can then “know”
things by virtue of the gift of God.
48 Gordon Clason, private correspondence with the authors.