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Thoughtspeed: The Speed of Thought in Free Space
by Owen Waters
Old ideas give
way to new ones. Old barriers, sooner or later, crumble and fade away.
One idea that is crumbling today is the
idea that nothing in the universe can go faster than lightspeed. This will be replaced by a recognition that thought travels
millions of times faster than lightspeed – at the the speed of thought in free space, or thoughtspeed.
In
the early Star Trek series on television, the mission of the Starship Enterprise was to explore the universe and boldly go
where no one has gone before. The Enterprise was able to exceed light speed; quite considerably, it would seem, as it was
supposed to have traveled to the edge of the Milky Way galaxy in just a few hours. The cruising speed actually required for
such a feat is millions of times lightspeed.
Science fiction is often a medium for possibility thinking. The possibility
of humans touring the galaxy and beyond seems eminently reasonable. After all, human potential is, by design, unlimited. There
is no way in creation that the universe can be just a set of pretty lights that we never get to explore!
Today,
the shift towards recognizing thoughtspeed is just beginning. Faster-than-light phenomena are being observed by today's
physicists when they see the effects of subatomic
particles communicating with each other. When a subatomic particle
bumps into another one, they become 'friends' and carry on communicating with each other. The fact that they then
become separated by millions of miles does not reduce their willingness to communicate. When something happens to one
particle, it lets the other particle know about it and, in pure empathy, it reacts in a like manner.
We know from
the work of insightful pioneers like biologist Rupert Sheldrake that telepathy works, but how fast does it work? As thoughts
are non-physical, they certainly are not
limited by lightspeed. The question is, how much faster than light is the speed
of thought in free space? It is likely millions of times faster, and possibly billions of times faster.
In the
1940s, aircraft were limited to the speed of sound until they found a way through the sound barrier and were then able to
travel at supersonic speeds. One day, when our
spaceship propulsion drives are capable of accelerating ships to lightspeed,
we will find a way for them to break the light barrier.
Then, we won't be just looking up at the night sky
any more. We'll be flying through it, going where no one has gone before.
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This article was written
by Owen Waters, author of "The Shift: The Revolution in Human Consciousness"
Available in hardcover
or via immediate download at:
http://www.infinitebeing.com/theshift
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