Mad Science of the Multiverse
Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?" - Samuel Johnson
“Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity." - Jean Cocteau
THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE IN A NUTSHELL
The"anthropic principle" is a hybrid idea – part scientific hypothesis and part philosophical argument - which seeks to account for our presence in a life-sustaining universe using inference and probability.
It asks the questions: why does our universe seem fine-tuned for human life? Did an Intelligent Designer plan this universe just for us, or is it simply one of many universes in a larger multiverse, the random byproduct of an endless process of creation with no beginning and no end?
Robots, Goblins and Alien Amoeba: Fermis Paradox
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #100, expanded and revised with original illustrations. Was the Earth colonized by extraterrestrial scientists?
Key Concepts
Cognitive frames of reference informing the content and design of this website:
- Antinomianism - taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the "transgression" of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the "left hand" or "short path" of Tantra and Vamamarga.
- Animism - the…
Update
It seems like a lot of other gnostic bloggers have been announcing that they intend to take a break from blogging lately, so I guess that’s the hip thing to do.
SO: I would announce that intend to take a break…
The Gospel of Judas isn’t what it used to be
This isn’t the future I expected. I thought by now I’d either have robot maids and a personal jetpack, or else civilization would have collapsed and I’d be a post-technological strong man living in a marble palace somewhere, ruling over…
Sophia Revealed
When he had finished creating the physical universe, Yaldabaoth boasted to the angels beneath him, demanding that they worship him as the supreme being:
"[Yaldaboth] said… 'I am a jealous God, and there is no other God besides me.' But by…
