Cars Resurrection

Dear Readers,

I was watching the Cars movies, and afterwords had some interesting thoughts while in the shower. In a way, this Pixar world that was created gives a somewhat interesting and also horrifying insight into our lives here in mortality.

Lightning McQueen being trained by Cruz Ramirez in Cars 3

It is fairly obvious that the Cars are living automobiles or machines, but what I did not realize until watching the third movie is that they cannot see inside themselves. As most of us know, vehicles have speedometers so that as a driver, we can keep track of how fast we are going, usually because of speed limits. However, there is surprising emphasis in Cars 3 of Cruz Ramirez (McQueen's trainer) having to keep up with him in-order to scan his speed. This means that Lightning McQueen was unable to see the speedometer inside of himself, much like how a human needs a pedometer to keep track of the number of steps they take.

With this realization, I began thinking that if a car from our world was moved into this Cars Pixar world, it would be dead. No life in it like the other cars. Yet, if a human were to be there as well and drive the car, it would be a dead car, able to move. Essentially, this would make humans a parasite that reanimates a car's corpse.

This got me thinking of the Chevron with Techron commercials from years ago. In this world, living cars and people get along, in a true symbiotic relationship.

Looking at things from a more spiritual perspective, it is like a human is the spirit of the car, while the car itself is the body. While in mortality, our spirits drive around our bodies, making them seem alive. One day the driver will leave, and the car will be dead. While the Chevron with Techron world could be compared more to those who are transfigured like John the Beloved (Doctrine and Covenants 7). Loosely, they are alive as immortals, but will one day be changed in the twinkling of an eye, a transition equal to death, from this state into true immortality (3 Nephi 28:8). The fully living cars in Cars 1-3 are those who have the spirit and the body inseparably connected like a resurrected car/person.

Lizzie next to a memorial of her husband Stanley from Cars

Though, in this Pixar world, it is not a true comparison, for these cars still pass away. With Lizzie missing her husband Stanley, and others succumbing to rust as a disease, it is clear that though it could be compared with the resurrection it is far from the perfect state it would actually be.

Anyway, these were my interesting thoughts about Cars and the Gospel. I hope that you enjoyed them!

Love,
Jacobugoth

4th dimension

Dear Readers,

Brian Greene's depiction of 4th dimensions from the video Brian Green: The Search for Hidden Dimensions .

I first mentioned the 4th dimension in my post about Gravity, Science and the Spirit World, during which I pointed out that ghosts fit the criteria of 4th dimensional beings that pass through our three dimensional space, like a sphere passing through flatland or 2d space. Also included is my reiteration of Brian Greene's portrayal of the 4th dimension being so small that we do not see it around us, even though I am partial to the idea of it being an actual 4th dimension outward.

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In my second addressing of the 4th dimension I brought it up while talking about Death. While speculating about how our spirits interact with our bodies I stated how I personally believe that there is something in the brain, either some cell or some cluster of cells that is able to interact with our spirits, allowing us to choose what to think about and when.

Thus comes this point, I have been pondering this idea because it speaks to me so strongly. With my view of the 4th dimension being an actual direction, like "up" is compared to 2 dimensions on a piece of paper, I began thinking about how various science fiction theories work.

In two dimensional space, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Yet, if you fold the paper over you greatly shorten that distance. However, this requires the use of the third dimension to warp the 2D space. Similarly, for us to be able to teleport from one place to another by bending space in this manner, we would need to use the fourth dimension to warp that 3D space. 

What really happens when we fold a piece of paper? We can do it because of air. The 3D space is filled with air which moves out of the way when we fold the paper. This is the medium required for the "portal" to be formed. If the medium was a liquid, assuming that it is a water proof sheet of paper like wax paper or magazine sheets, it would be much more difficult to fold the paper, but still possible. What if the medium around the paper was solids? Like trying to fold over one sheet of paper in a stack of papers.

If our 3D plane of existence, our universe, is equivalent to a sheet of paper in a stack of papers, then it would be nearly impossible to fold the paper over and perform teleportation by bending space.

BBC's Invasion Earth 1998 4th Dimension

That being said, there is the possibility for these other layers of 3D space in the 4th dimension to be simply other universes. Not alternate just simply different. In the 1998 BBC's television show Invasion Earth there were creatures living in the 4th dimensin that used biological machines and would "harvest" biological life from planets in our 3D space to fuel these machines.

Invasion Earth nD structure

 In "harvest" process, a large biological force would form and devour all biological life from an area, slowly growing. The protagonists found a way to blow up the "nD" structure from the inside. However, to their horror, a new one sort of fell down from the 3rd dimension above it and they realized that there could be infinite layers of these structures. 

On another note, what would multiple paper layers mean? It would mean that there are multiple universes essentially stacked one upon another, creating a multiverse. However, the general idea of a multiverse is more like bubbles of universe matter floating around 3 dimensionally, occasionally colliding and "popping" each other.

Walter watching Walternate find the cure for his son Peter through an alternate universe window in Fringe.

To me, this general idea of a multiverse of universes is still within the confines of 3D space. So what would be another layer up in 4D space? It seems more like an alternate universe. A universe with all of the same dimensions and matter as our universe, but slightly off set outside the universe we currently occupy. In the television show Fringe, this idea of alternate universes play an essential key in the excellent series. Though Dr. Walter Bishop, the main scientist in Fringe, states that there are likely infinite alternate universes out there, they only seem to have interaction with one other.

Rick and Morty season 1 episode 10 Evil Rick displaying his rankings of the different Ricks

This is quite contrary to Rick and Morty where Rick encounters several other Ricks from alternate universes. However, even Rick admits to a "Central Finite Curve" of alternate universes.

So, if there are the possibility of infinite alternate universes, why do these shows have such limitations? It is merely because of our finite minds can only comprehend so much? or is it because there are indeed "air layers" separating the sheets of paper?

For the Fringe world, imagine you have two sheets of paper, each is able to bend out in opposite directions  or they can be bent together. However, if someone from the bottom sheet moves "up" into the dimension above, they enter a world much like their own, but different. Likewise if someone from the top sheet moves "down". Nonetheless, Fringe addresses the possible side effects of such travel. Like a staple holding two pieces of paper together, the connection damages both sheets, leaving a hole or tear, especially if that staple is then removed improperly.

Also, because of the pulling of the universes closer together, they begin to interact with each other more, like writing on a top sheet and leaving an imprint in the bottom one and done one purpose with carbon paper.

Even though there are potential risks, there is also the possibility of melding the two properly, using the natural laws. If our spirits are 4th dimensional and only interact with our 3 dimensional bodies through our brains, then there is the possibility of our spirits interacting through more than one dimension.

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Like a nail holding a bunch of papers together, a single spirit could interact with countless versions of itself on different worlds. This would mean that a character like Olivia Dunham from Fringe and Altlivia could have the same spirit, just different life experiences to draw from. Which would explain why good people are generally still good people and vice versa, just having made extremely different choices. What is more messed up about this idea would be that every Rick and every Morty all share the same spirit.

However, this concept is not entirely new. In the movie, The One starring Jet Lee, Gabriel Yulaw (Jet lee) is being hunted by a version of himself from an alternate universe. This alternate Gabriel is seeking to kill off all of the other versions of himself, so that the unnamed energy that was spread out between the several versions of himself in a sort of "Central Finite Curve" could all be concentrated in one host or The One. Now this unnamed energy could be that energy or power of the spirit. 

Though this idea of our spirits inhabiting more than one body at a time is intriguing, it is not one that I subscribe to. Yet, I can also comprehend the idea of a 4th dimensional being wanting several 3 dimensional lives. For, why do we create so many characters in a 2D plane? Either Anime or screens of movies, video games, or even the written word?

Brian Greene explaining gravitational waves as produced by two stars revolving around a black hole. video

Alas, though these things are fun to speculate on, there is some science we need to look at. Because of gravitational waves and how they warp and bend space, we know that our 3D space can indeed expand, contract and bend, which leans towards the likelihood of "air layers" in at least one direction 4th dimensionally.
 

Galaxies hurdled through space, the dark matter represented by why clouds. From the TED talk video.

Indeed, as I learned while watching Brian Greene's TED talk about Why is our universe fine-tuned for life? that it has been documented that our universe is not only expanding, but speeding up. The pull of gravity from other galaxies should be slowing everything down, but this is not the case. Likely due to the repellent force or "gravity" of dark energy, which makes up a tiny portion of space, these galaxies hurtling away are now being pushed ever faster.

the percentage of dark energy.

Now, though the percentage or portion of dark energy found in space is so low, it allows for the formation of the galaxies and for the speeding up of the universe's expansion.

dark energy nebula universe

However, as Greene continues he explains how multiple universes might have different fundamental structures rooted in string theory. For those structures that incorporate more dark energy, the repulsive nature keeps matter from clumping up together, which prevents molecules, planets and galaxies from ever forming. Essentially those universes would be expanding clouds of matter like nebulae.

On the other side, universes with too little portions of dark energy collapse back on themselves, again keeping galaxies from forming. Though this allows for the idea that maybe there is range, or variability, like there could be enough dark energy to allow the galaxy to expand, but in small enough portions that the gravity of different galaxies will still slow it down and then collapse again.

In the extremely hard to follow, yet mentally stimulating movie Mr. Nobody, in Craft's longest timeline he passed away right as the universe began retracting and condensing again, and they depicted this as time reversing. Interesting thought about how time and space coincide.

Thus, these universes would forever be expanding and then contracting, each time creating a new "big bang" and having a different result.

I will compare these different types of universe to our basic forms of matter. The nebula universes could be considered "air" or "gas" layers from the 4th dimension perspective. Then we would have the ones constantly shifting from bigger to smaller much like how water molecules shift as they interact. Thus they are comparable to "liquid layers". Now, our universe which continually expands means that there is continual force and resistance, like a "solid" layer.

For example, a piece of paper sitting on water. The "air" above allows your to remove the paper, pulling it up with relative ease because everything contained in it moves out of the way. However, pushing the paper down there is more resistance, sometimes pushing against an expanding universe or giving way to a collapsing one. Yet the constant change still allows the paper to sink into the water.

This would allow for my theory of how the Holy Ghost can dwell in us, and so many people at the same time, allowing space to bend through the 4th dimension all to the point of where He is. I talk a little more about this in my post about the Holy Ghost.

As with Brian Greene's comparison to this theory of why dark energy is only so much of space, he used why the earth is only so far away from the sun. If it is farther away it would be too cool, closer and it would be too hot. Thus our earth is in the golden zone for life. However, that does not mean that other planets or other slightly varying increments closer or father cannot also exist and support life. Therefore, why could that not be the same with universes and their dark energy? Even though most universes out there might be "air" or "water" layers in the 4D scale, that does not mean that there are not other "solid" universes like our own. Whether alternate or multiverses, they could exist.

Which ever the case, and whatever the reality, this is the most important thing to remember, that there is more to science and more to God and His universe than we now know. Yet, we must not forget what we do know. I testify that there is a God and He is our Father. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to pay for our sins so that we can return back to Him. Where ever He is, is called heaven, if that be another universe, or another expansive dimension that string theory allows, so be it. However, He does have a physical body like us, members of the human race. These things I know to be true, in Christ's name, Amen.

I hope that you have enjoyed this post and that it has got you thinking about the majesty of not only the universe we know, but the potential expanse of all of God's creations and domain.

Love,
Jacobugoth

Gravity, Science, and the Spirit World

Dear Readers,

To further my own personal education, in this case mostly informal, I have been watching several science videos on Youtube. Some of my favorites are by Brian Greene. I know he got some criticism on Big Bang Theory, but I am a firm believer in John Taylor's saying, "It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it." By this definition of intelligence, I do believe that Greene is trying to be intelligent, and we can benefit from it. In return, I am trying to explain my ideas as "intelligently" as I can.

Anyway, this brings me possible ways to prove the scriptures and that spirits do exist. Now, I am going to try to explain it as best I can in roughly the same manner it was explained to me.

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First up is time. Now, we are all generally familiar with the concept of space, up-down (Y), left-right (X), forward-back (Z). However, most of us do not think about the fourth "dimension" or coordinate of time.

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The application of this coordinate was quite exemplified by the character Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory. He determined that the first moment he sat down on his "spot" on the couch it became the 0 coordinate on his time spectrum. From then on, his life was separated in what I call, BS (before spot) and AS (after spot). I know my acronyms might seem funny, but we have something similar today with a meridian of time. BC vs AD. Now, I am familiar with the way most of us remember BC and AD, (Before Christ, and After Death), however AD actually stands for "anno domini" which is Latin that is generally translated as "in the year of our Lord". I think it is important to point out that 1 AD is from Christ's birth to His first year of age, or usually considered that year in which He was born. There is no "year 0". There would be a zero coordinate on a graph, but there is no Year 0. For example right now as I am writing this, it is August of 2016 AD. August, being the 8th month then becomes 8/12 or 2/3 in the year of our Lord 2016. It is a decision of an entire year number 2016. Like August itself, it begins August first and ends August thirty-first. Thus, going back to our meridian of time, seconds before Christ's birth was part of 1 BC and seconds after Christ's birth was part of 1 AD. What does this have to do with anything? It was just semantics I wanted to get off of my chest.

How do we measure time, it all depends on how precise we want to be. It could be a Planck time, which is the smallest unit of time we have because it is the time it takes light to travel a Planck length which is the smallest unit of length we have. It is interesting how time is always measured from one "book end" to another. The beginning when the stop watch was first clicked to when it was clicked again at the end. I believe this is an important key element in what time is to us. Time is simply the measurement between to events. Christ's birth and now has been 2015 2/3 years, give or take a few months or days and hours due to the adjustment with the beginning of a year moved to January 1st at 12 o'clock AM.

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Thus, though a Planck time is the smallest measurement of time, time itself is made of instants. Easily understood as photographs. Each of these is an instant in time, though, ironically, a photo is countless Planck times after the instant occurred because of the distance the light traveled whether it is a couple feet for a selfie, or miles away for a panorama.

Time Line from Brian Greene on The B-Theory of Time

So, let us pretend that we could actually capture a photo for every single one of these instants, then we lay them all out in a line. Of course, these instants are separated into "folders" or units of time: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years. Yet, ultimately, these are all made up of instants. These are set under very specific requirements.

Because science has proved that time is relative usually in correlation to the speed of light. It is interesting how the speed of light is a constant speed throughout all space. The closer one approaches the speed of light, the slower time is experience and is. The slower one moves relative to the speed of light is the faster time passes. This has been proven with satellites moving quicker or slower relative to earth's rotation.

We can also see that light is affected by gravity, especially with black holes drawing in all light creating an absence of light. I will leave this here for now to address a comment from Brian Greene in The B-Theory of Time.

He mentioned that Issac Newton came up with the universal time theory, in essence that there is one time, it is not relative, and it continues to flow unceasingly. Then he mentioned that Albert Einstein with his B-Theory of Time was the first one who had ideas of time being relative. This is not the case.

Though I honorably testify that Joseph Smith Jr. was a true prophet of God, let us pretend for a second that he was not. Under this assumption that Joseph Smith wrote the books of Abraham and Doctrine and Covenants himself, it is interesting how he talks about "...Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord's time, according to the reckoning of Kolob." (Abraham 3:4). "In answer to the question -- Is not the reckoning of God's time, angel's time, prophet's time, and man's time, according to the planet on which they reside? I answer, Yes. But there are no angels who minister to this earth but those who do belong or have belonged to it. The angels do not reside on a planet like this earth; But they reside in the presence of God, on a globe like a sea of glass and fire, where all things for their glory are manifest, past, present, and future, and are continually before the Lord." (Doctrine and Covenants 130:4-7).

This is almost directly correlated with how we understand time today, and with this B-Theory. According to this theory, time is set. Because someone's now could be someone else's future, those events that take place in between have to be set in time. Thus, if all time is set, all time could be continually "before the Lord". This would also explain how God, knows the end from the beginning (Abraham 2:8). Also, that time is relative to every "planet" which correlates because every planet spins and travels through space as different speeds relative to the speed of light. Here on earth, we are all very close to the same time, though technically none of us are precisely experiencing the same time. We are close enough to interact. This is congruent with both the notion of time being relative to the speeds, mass, and whatever of different planets and this B-Theory.

My point is that Joseph Smith Jr. if he was a fraud, must have been as much of a genius as Albert Einstein to have written these same ideas. One could argue that Joseph Smith stole these ideas, if it were not for the fact that Joseph Smith Jr. was murdered in 1844 while Einstein was not born until 1879. Thus, literally, either one must accept that Joseph Smith was a genius of Einstein's level, or that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God and he did receive this truth from the only Being who has all knowledge and that this truth is a constant which Einstein was also inspired with.

Alien's perspective relative to speed and direction. B-Theory Video Link

Now, another aspect of this video I care to comment on is that time is relative not only to speed but direction. Greene uses the idea of an alien, perfectly still in space on the other side of the universe and a human perfectly still in space. In an instant, they are along the same instant photograph. However, if the alien gets up and move away from the human, that alien's time instant changes to a slightly diagonal slice into the past. While if the alien moves towards the human, that instant changes to the future for that human. This seems crazy in theory, but how can we see that today?

Imagine that someone is in a room with you. Right now they are in your present instant and for the foreseeable future they will still be there with you. However, if they begin to leave, moving away, soon they will be in another room. They are no long with you, thus not in you present, and you only have memories of them, thus they only exist in your past. However, if they move towards you and re-enter the room, suddenly they are are going to join you in the future. Like a friend saying they are going to come over to your house, you know they are coming, so they exist in your future, but they are not currently in your present.

Thus, and this is why I like this concept, when two people move towards each other, they are in each other's future, until they meet in the middle. Then, at least for an instant, they share that same time. They are one in an instant frozen in time forever. Yes, this is the romantic in me...

Anyway, mathematically we find that gravity not only effects space, but time as well. This is under a similar principle as that speed vs rotation. Though we do not know for absolute surety what causes gravity, there are the theories of gravitons which most scientist believe exist. These are particles that somehow affect space and time. I do not know if they exist or not, but it is an interesting concept. However, because of the correlation between speed and time, I am leaning toward the rotation and motion creating gravity, though I do not exclude graviton particles having some correlation to it.

Gravitational waves from planets around black hole. Gravity Waves Video Link

This was proven when scientists noticed two planets spinning around a black hole. The black holes' interaction causes gravitational waves.

Green explaining the earth's stretching in an over exaggerated visual. Gravity Waves Video Link

Now, in theory, when these gravity waves hit the earth, they would stretch and compress the earth.

laser experiment test. Gravity Waves Video Link

So, it came to how would we prove it? They set up lasers several miles apart. On this scale, minor shifts in distance change the light frequencies. Instead of matching up, they become inconsistent. This was proved to be the case, and we learned that gravitational waves do compress and expand space itself.

Space in cubes. Brian Greene Gravity Video Link

So, let us imagine the cubes of space. We have these four dimensions, XYZ with T for time just existing un-represented.

Fabric of space. Gravity Video Link

Now let us imagine this from a different perspective, from a two dimensional flat surface called the fabric of space.

Sun and Earth. Gravity Video Link

Around each planet or sphere in space, there is a welt or under cone. The earth spins around the sun's cone. This reflects the earth's actual orbit mathematically.

Earth and Moon. Gravity Video Link

Then the earth has its own cone or sag that the moon spins around.

Gravity effecting space. Gravity Video Link

This sag is actually bending those cube edges of space, compressing it around the earth. This space also transfers the waves of the gravity, again with the gravity experiment above.

Higgs Boson Discovered Video Link

Thus, I will now switch directions to the Higgs Boson. The Higgs Boson is a particle I will compare to a water droplet. It is a portion of the Higgs Field which was, for quite some time, theoretical. Higgs Field was theorized first mathematically by trying to figure out why particles have mass. The only way mass could be calculated would be if the particles are constantly passing through a substance. This substance would have to quite unique in that it does not cause any friction.

With this theory, came the problem of how to prove it. As another function of the Hadron Collider, they documented that, extremely rarely, when particles collided and their components were flung out that there was a particle that lasts barely any fraction of a second before completely disappearing. Though I may not agree that this is the best science going on here for there could be several other reasons or properties not taken into consideration, simply because we do not know to think of them, that could explain it, I do like the idea of this Higgs Field being all around us.

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So, to put this another way, pretend we are trying to figure out what water is, when we are all under water. Thus we take two thing, like a submarine and a torpedo. When the two hit, there is an explosion with the particles creating a gap around a portion of the Higgs Field making a Higgs Boson, or a drop of water.

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Another example is like dropping a rock into a pond. Yes, there is the wripple, but sometimes, the force causes a drop of water to rise up and become temporarily severed from the body of water only to then re-combine with the rest of the water.

This would explain why that particle disappeared because it re-constituted back into the Higgs Field.

So, if this Higgs Field exists, which as far as science has been able to determine it does, then this field spans all of space and is likely space itself, rippling and flowing. Yet, again with Joseph Smith: "Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space--" (Doctrine and Covenants 88:12). Though it is not visibly seen as light, it is a substance that fills the immensity of space.

With Einstein's theories, the math words with gravity effecting all three dimensions of space as well as time, but there is something that is not explained by using these known dimensions. That is electromagnetism. For the math to work with electromagnetism, there is required a fourth, or if time is counted, fifth dimension.

Obviously, we cannot see this dimension, but its existence is the only way we can make sense of this electromagnetism. Now, I would like to point out my theories in magnetism, with a positive and negative pull which I talked about in my Gender post. Yet, to sum up, it was my theory that positive and negative polarization is caused by feminine or masculine intelligences on the other side of the veil. This veil could be considered the difference between our 3rd dimension and the 4th dimension.

tiny dimensions. Hidden Dimensions Video Link

Now, Brian Greene and other Theoretical Physisists are looking for this fourth dimension as tiny dimensions curled up microscopically.

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This would be the equivalent of having an XY graph, only the lines themselves, not taking up any distance left or right, were actually straws, hollow on the inside. The dimensional difference would be so tiny that we could not see it.

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However, I disagree with this concept. As with the Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions idea from Edwin Abbott Abbot, a true 4th dimension would not fit this criteria. In a 2D (two dimensional) plane, a being would only see lines, maybe colored lines, but still lines. However, that same world seen from a 3D perspective, the 3D individual would be able to see inside of the 2D beings. Like seeing the inside of a circle, or seeing the unborn chick in this 2D egg from Futurama.

What I really enjoyed about this episode of Futurama was how they explained how a 2D organism would live. They could not have a digestive system like ours, because it would split them in half.

So they would have to eat like a microscopic organism  creating a membrane around the object, break it down, and then transplant the nutrients.

Now, say, if a sphere were to enter Flatland, the inhabitants would only be able to see a line that suddenly grows and then shrinks as the sphere passes through layer by layer until it is gone. To the inhabitants, it would be a very strange phenomenon that none of them could explain.

So, in comparison, what would be a 4th dimension to us? The fourth dimension would be able to see inside of our bodies. What we could see from its interaction would be limited and confusing, like something appearing and disappearing.

This reminds me so much of the spirit world. The spirit world is all around us (Gospel Principles Chapter 41). Spirit can exist within us, around us, pass through us. "...for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7).

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Then we have ghosts, spirits appearing and disappearing and manifesting in any number of peculiar ways.

It seems to me that the spirit world meets quite well the criteria for a proper fourth dimension. If this is the case, then those positive and negative (masculine and feminine) charges would indeed be from intelligences from the spirit world.

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This would explain why strong electromagnetic fields can cause sickness in some people, disrupting their connection with their own spirits. It would explain how and why our brains have their own bio-electrical field.

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This would explain why ghost are known for manifesting in strange electromagnetic fields, as expressed in Ghosthunters.

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This would explain why electronic devices are often correlated with other ghostly manifestations like EVP (electronic voice phenomenon).

Really, the spirit world being the 4th dimension would explain so much about science and in essence, prove scientifically that there is an afterlife. However, most scientists seem to be atheists and thus almost immediately dismiss ideas such as this. So, I am sharing with you my beliefs in the hope that you ponder these things out for yourselves. As always, I am happy to read any comments you might have.

Love,
Jacobugoth

One Piece

Dear Readers,

Today I have decided to talk about One Piece. I am hoping to cover the main aspects all in one post, but I might divi it up. First I am going to talk about haki. Though it was introduced later in the series, its importance cannot be ignored.

Now, One Piece Wikia has described haki as follows, "Haki is a mysterious power that is found in every living being in the world. It is not that different from the normal senses. However, most people do not notice it or fail to awaken it. Broadly, there are two types of Haki common to everyone, given the proper training; however, there is a third type that only a certain group of 'chosen ones' are said to possess. In simple terms, Haki is an ability to sense spiritual energy (Kenbunshoku), use life force (Busoshoku) and overpower enemies (Haoshoku)."

Silvers Rayleigh explained it quite similarly to Luffy, "'Haki' is a power that lies dormant in all the world's creatures... 'Presence', 'fighting spirit' and 'intimidation'... It is not different form the things that humans can naturally sense such as these... 'The act of not doubting'. That is strength!"

Lastly, "The term 'Haki' is a word that has multiple meanings when translated into English. It can mean 'ambition', 'will power', 'drive', 'spirit', 'vigor' and 'aspiration' to name a few."

From all of these definitions, I found it interesting to try to figure out what haki is. First, let us focus on the different types,
"Kenbunshoku Haki, which grants users a sixth sense of the world around them and limited precognitive abilities;
Busoshoku Haki, which allows the user to use their spirit as armor to defend against attacks or to make their own attacks more potent; and
Haoshoku Haki,... which grants the user the ability to overpower the will of others."

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Kenbunshoku haki reminds me of reiryoku from Bleach, being spiritual sensitivity. In Bleach this includes seeing spirits and being able to track and recognize people by their spirits. It seems that kenbunshoku haki is taking reiryoku one step further to being able to sense other's actions before they happen, like a "spidey sense". Though Kenbunshoku seems to require the intent from the other person to be sensed to predict the attack. Like when Luffy punched a wall to deflect his fists randomly because Enel had incredible kenbunshoku haki.

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Haoshoku haki reminds me of reiatsu or spirit pressure. This pressure has the ability to knock people down and incapacitate them, even crush nearby objects. Like when Luffy first uses it by accident and causes everyone around him to pass out. It seems that haoshoku haki is reiatsu used in the physical world.

Luffy's haki armor Image Link

Lastly, busoshoku haki does not remind me of anything really, except for maybe an arrancar's hierro from Bleach. It is spiritually created hard skin. Thus hierro is reishi, or spirit matter, organized like armor. This is what I think busoshoku haki is, only it is so compressed that it is visually manifest in the physical world.

Because the three types of haki all seem to correlate quite easily with spiritual powers from Bleach, it is easy to say that "haki" is spiritual powers of a human being. This is in agreement with this next statement from One Piece Wikia, "Due to the fact that Haki originates from an individual's spirit and not their body, even if the user's spirit is transferred into another body, they are still capable of using Haki as if they were in their original body. However, Busoshoku Haki is finite, and overusing it will render the user unable to use it for a set period while it regenerates."

Thus, it is likely that these are the powers of the spirit and that busoshoku haki is generated from the spirit through some kind of process. I would endeavor to compare this process to ingestion. 2 Nephi 32:3 says, "...feast upon the words of Christ..." This knowledge that comes from the scriptures can be considered intelligence, and thus you are feeding your spirit intelligence when you study the scriptures. As one needs to keep their body fed, it is the same with the spirit, and through whatever process of "digestion" or "molding" or "conversion" this new intelligence become part of that individual's spirit and can then be used and harnessed. This would explain who busoshoku haki needs to be recharged.

Luffy fourth gear Image Link

Now, I would like to briefly talk about the unique way Luffy uses his busoshoku haki in his "fourth gear". Now, because reishi is spirit matter, it behaves on a spiritual plane. Thus it can be solid in place, like how shinigami can stand on air in the physical world.

Luffy's chasing punch hitting Doflamingo Image Link

 Luffy uses the haki covering his arms to solidify a portion in a position allowing his punch to change direction in mid-air. Like a rubber ball hitting a wall.

Well, I think this is good enough for post one. I will talk about Devil Fruit later on. I hope you enjoyed this post. Feel free to leave comments.

Love,
Jacobugoth

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