Mental Metamorphism

© 2020 Dr. Feridoun Shawn Shahmoradian. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 03/20/2020

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Contents

About the Author

Dedication

Mental Metamorphism

The Devil Inside

Tribalism Versus Super Group

The Vital Cosmic Force

Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness

Have Faith

The Wonders of our Universe

Amazing DNA

The Existence of God: The Cosmological Argument

Where the Unseen Rules

The Observer Effect/Abstract Concepts

Not so much of a Fiction

The Price of Freedom

God Particle?

The Quest for God

Good to Know

The God Within

Belittling the God Within

About the Author

Dr. Feridoun Shawn Shahmoradian showed an avid interest in learning about other cultures from a very young age. Shawn’s love for people, as well as his need to quench a thirst for learning about others’ way of life, inspired him to travel extensively to many parts of the world, including the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, (Istanbul, Ankara), Europe, West Africa, and North America. His travels have rewarded him with an invaluable wealth of knowledge and experience, allowing him to acquire realistic views in the context of diversified culture, philosophical, social, political, economic, and psychological endeavors.

Dr. Shawn attended many spiritual and callisthenic seminars in different parts of the world, including Morocco (Rabat, Marrakesh city, Fes, and Casablanca), Oslo, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin (Ireland), Toronto (Canada), and Monroe (California), Santiago (California), New jersey, Orlando (Florida), Dallas, Houston, and Galveston (Texas) In the United States of America. He then visited New York, Washington, Las Vegas, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, Corpus Christi, Texas, New Orleans, Miami Beach, Mexico (Mexico City, Cancun, Cozumel), and Bahamas.

At the age of Seventeen, Shawn attended Crawley College in Crawley England, for three consecutive years, and also attended boarding school at Birchington-On-Sea a village in northeast Kent, England. He visited London several times, resided at Brighton England for a while, and visited Hasting, Canterbury, and Sheffield England. Dr. Shawn then traveled to Fresno and San Francisco, California, and went to Lake Tahoe, Nevada, to teach. Dr. Shawn then left to study at Stockton College in Stockton, California, for two full years, taking philosophy and other social science courses. He then transferred to Galveston Texas College for one more year. A couple of years later he received his electronic engineering degree from Texas Southern University in Houston Texas. He furthered his studies at Texas A & M and received his master’s degree in economics, a minor in finance. His love for social science motivated him to attend the University of Texas at Dallas in Dallas Texas, and there he obtained a master degree in public affairs, with a minor in psychology.

Dr. Shawn obsession with sports and a relentless pursuit for excellence in the art of self-defense that he pursued while facing insurmountable challenges over many years makes him a true embodiment of wisdom and strength. After extensive and thorough research in a variety of arts, Dr. Shawn finally created the Pang- Fang system a very unique and extremely practical system approved by well-known authorities in the field of self-defense. Dr. Shawn’s system is highly recommended since it conveys decisive tactics with utterly significant strategy in a life and death situation. Dr. Shawn holds a nine- degree black belt in Hapkido, a Korean martial art, and holds a tenth-degree black belt in the Pang-Fang system of self-defense, second-degree black belt in Judo, first-degree black belt in Tae Kwan do, and third-degree black belt in Wu Shu Kung-Fu. He is acknowledged a prominent figure and as a holder of a non-conventional doctorate in the sport and the art of self-defense. Dr. Shawn is the author of the book Mind fighter, the book of The Anatomy of wake-up calls volume one & volume two, The book of God and the system, Minds of Reason, The Incorporeal God: An Insight into the higher realms and God, Man, and the Universe.

In the name of the omnipotent, omnipresent, omnipotent, omni temporal, omnibenevolent, and the omniscient God. The most merciful, the most gracious, and the most compassionate. The proprietor of patience, time, space, and beyond. The Fiduciary, Custodian, the Adjudicator to all there is and the nonexistence. In the name of the almighty God.

Dedication

I like to dedicate my book titled God, Man and the Universe, and sub-titled Mental Metamorphism to my twins Sofia Shahmoradian and Rayan Shahmoradian born September 24, 2019

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

Rumi

A no-nonsense approach in fathoming God, man, and the universe, a genesis relates to the existence, just a drop in an ocean in true wisdom for grasping the awesome power of the Creator. It is a jaw-dropping experience that ought to attract one to permeate the gist of the philosophical why and the scientific realization of how and what is sought beyond ordinary. Probing into consciousness, to prominent existence, mind, soul, and matter, faith, virtue, morality, spirituality, inspiring self-belief and igniting human excellence; rebuffing ideologically dogmatic notions where lack of inference is challenged and no wit-oriented remarks are questioned. To incite the sagacity of thoughts in search of truth, cultivating a deity where mendacity and hubris fail. A colossal shift from the traditionally ambiguous views as superfluous (nonessential) references is often the norm as minds of reason insightfully question all bogus claims; live the essence, awaken the God within you, let the demons lay eternally at rest, and question yourself. Should it not be the human’s will to conquer the ill notions? If not so, call man a beast that should solely live by instinct. My humanity is a constant self-overcoming. Frederick Nietzsche

MENTAL METAMORPHISM

Mental metamorphism conveys philosophy, science, ideology, spirituality, biology, history, culturalism, economics, and social and psychological endeavors through which the inquisitive minds can discern facts from fiction. Historically, keywords like what, where, when, why, and how are often the quintessence (extract) of arriving at the principal reason for many imperative subject matters of human concern. One can grasp the core cause and effect of events or phenomena where mental metamorphism can occur via sincere adjudication (umpiring, judging) to embody the true meaning of living for serving one’s objective, since inspiring topics as such require humble attributes and devotion.

Diggar diseeye fekery (Mental Metamorphism) is my school of thought where I have collectively substantiated the vast vicinities of decisive matters so that the essence of vital subjects is sought, gradually disclosing the traces of God to viewers’ attention through make-sense dialogue and explicit communication since man, the universe, the cosmos, are the byproducts of the almighty, awesome design. God willing, it might help me to learn more and perhaps I also could contribute to this sacred task of mutual knowledge and understanding. This sure reminds me of Rumi’s quote: Stop acting so small, you are the universe in ecstatic [euphoric, elated, thrilled, joyful] motion. Despite the advice of many sages, enlightening prophets, insightful advisers and philosophers, where does humanity really stand?

To answer that, imagine the globe without any law enforcement, exhausted of mandatory policing; then, honestly think to decipher if those so-called civil societies can still prevail to conserve the status quo where a relatively peaceful environment can be attained. Hence, to arrive at the sacred stages of moral conduct where decency of mind and manner can prevail, humongous steps should be taken to preserve mental metamorphism (a change in physical form or substance).

Immanuel Kant, the founder of critical philosophy, puts it this way in the categorical imperatives, a moral law that is unconditional or absolute for all agents, the validity or claim of which does not depend on any ulterior (hidden) motive or end. Act as if the maxim [saying, motto] of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature.

It is only through acting in the image of God that no tramping, no dictatorial regimes or fascist entity should exist to straighten anyone by force and through aggression when one has managed to consciously behave awakened where no policing is necessary. We are most definitely potentiated with such power; the power of waking morally and spiritually up. With that said, the key is to cognize the reality of the exceptionally mosaic (complex) universe that we live in. To apprehend (perceive) the authenticity of the world we live in, we ought to grasp the reason for cause and effect, which most definitely ensues for a reason, a reason baffling enough that it has caused some people to behave as if they are hallucinating, since it seems they are so disengaged with the miracle-like universe that should awaken any studious (attentive) mind.

It is a no-brainer that the law of attraction between cause and effect happens because of infinitely empowered original sources in which such uncompromisingly dynamism that is extremely disciplined renders stability to all scientific findings, since no reliable experience could have ever occurred without God’s magnificent planning where no chaotic environment can ever lead to such an awesome, orderly cosmos.

The natural events that force the law of cause and effect are precisely controlled by an Absolute Power. They are not driven innately from any matter, and couldn’t have been experimental if not designed to behave the way they do. This should remind us of the complexity of the universe, indicating, for example, the quantum world is not engaged with the theory of cause and effect as they function in the visible world. Quantum mechanics holds nonlocal causality. Quantum mechanics challenges our commonsense picture of causality by implying that some things happen at random, with no apparent cause, or that an action in one place can seem to have an effect elsewhere, even if the two locations cannot interact. This has become a serious dilemma for the scientific community, showing God works in strange ways, so much so that it seems Professor Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, and other very prominent physicists are saying what the idealist philosopher George Berkeley prophetically argued centuries ago, saying that the physical objects do not exist independently of the mind that perceives them. An item truly exists only as long as it is observed; otherwise, it is not only meaningless, but simply nonexistent. The observer and the observed are one. Do you really believe the moon exists only when you look at it? Albert Einstein famously asked. (Einstein, born in Germany, played an important role in developing quantum theory.)

Perhaps he was referencing how wave-particle duality can help, since a subatomic particle can exhibit properties of a wave and a particle. But at any one time it will only show attributes of being either a wave or a particle. Wavicle is a term invented in 1928 by the British physicist Arthur Stanley Eddington to convey the duality of light and radiation as being both waves and particles, although they never appear to be both at the same time. It has to do with particles in the quantum world having the weird capacity to exist in all possible states (or positions) at once, called superposition (in quantum physics), the ability of some minute subatomic-scale particle to be in more than one place at the same time. Therefore, referencing matter as the cause for all that exists can only prove one’s utter shortsightedness in this rather extremely complex universe, which hold criterion beyond anyone’s imagination.

In Mulla Sadra’s view, one cannot have access to the reality of being, since only linguistic analysis is available. Comparatively, that is what Werner Heisenberg noted: What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physic consists of asking a question about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from an experiment by the means that are at our disposal. This is perplexing enough to remind one of what Socrates said centuries ago, reaffirmed as well by Plato.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing. Socrates

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless. Plato.

But why such an analogy? Perhaps Anaxagoras has better understood the sap, or the nature, of such a claim by saying, In everything, there is a share of everything. If so, I say it will be of no possibility to exponentially fathom the infinitely driven share of everything in everything else, since consequentially every entity conveys the share of every other entity, escalating to countless events where perhaps only collective understanding can divulge bit by bit and make sense of the world, which no man should single-mindedly claim knowing it all.

Frankly, despite the hassle and bustle of very busy life, billions are consciously and sublimely captivated with questions like, is mind or matter the source of life? Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? What is the purpose of life, if any? What is my goal in life? Do we face punishment or reward after we die? And if yes, how is it done? What are the dynamics of such reprisal (retribution, wrath, revenge) or clemency (leniency, grace)? Is there a God? If yes, one God, or many gods? Is God the rationale (motive) behind the suffering of the world? If God is so omnipotent, so omnipresent, so omniscient, then why did God not make it a just world?

If God created everything, then who created God? Is mankind the cause of repression and pain? Why are some evildoers? Why are others saint-like?

Most intrusive thoughts happen that are not invited by you. They may be sexual, aggressive, religious, or anything that might disturb you; but where do they come from? Most of the thoughts that pass through your mind are not invited by you, they just happen. But why? Is the big bang the inception, the origin of existence? Was there any being (actuality) before the big bang? Or was there trace of any substance before the big bang? Are space and time a reality? Is the universe a reality? Are there other living creatures in trillions of galaxies, billions of universes, and countless planets? Any extraterrestrial anywhere in the cosmos? Does anything exist beyond space and time? Is nothingness impregnated with everything and the source of all there will be? Are our senses telling us the truth? Is the outside world a reality? Can one innately feel or be aware of anything if one is removed from all of one’s senses?

Hence, because of the intricacy of the subject matter, one has to vigorously cultivate the philosophy of metaphysics, explore science, seek knowledge, learn about the origin of existence, investigate dialectics, dialectical materialism, and so on. Strenuously dig into the physical world where the mind and the matter are of concern, delve into the world of the atom, the subatomic particles, subatomic realm, the quantum world, and so on. But before we probe into so many rather enigmatic-oriented concepts, it is essential to know if matter is the cause of it all, and perhaps is the reason for life. Or is mind responsible and the creator of what is in existence?

I believe if humanity was not pressured with so many hurdles to make ends meet, millions would be perceptive to fathom what is at stake, where an incredible number could conveniently arrive at truly believing in God, making so much hypocrisy past tense. Why do I say so much hypocrisy? Well, for one to be convinced, one should seek the daily crime statistics and the global violence rates to realize that humanity, I am afraid, is in a real mess, which should awaken us to spiritually, with religion—preferably not the institutional religions, but those that truly mend broken hearts and are sincerely there to help millions of desperate victims of financial ills and other malignantly horrifying troubles.

Bear in mind that in theology, or the theist’s view, divine light (also called divine radiance or divine refulgence) is an aspect of the divine presence, specifically an unknown and mysterious ability of God, angels, or human beings to express themselves communicatively through spiritual means, rather than through physical capacities. Comparatively for materialists, or the atheist’s opinion,

"The basic Marxist idea is that everything can be explained by one thing: matter. That spontaneous generation of matter is the key and the answer to the human brain that is assessed by the most prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and other magnificent scientific-minded of our time as the most complicated entity in the face of planet Earth. Here is what they say referencing matter. Matter is the total explanation for space, nature, man, psychic consciousness, human intelligence, and every other aspect of existence.

Marxism then assigns the task of knowing all truth to science. But this analogy, I am afraid, is perforated beyond repair since it holds no common sense, where disparaging approaches from Darwinism to Marxism have left the philosophical, ideological, and scientific reasoning mortified. People worldwide should not trust such hallucinating views because nonbelievers have so cunningly divulged manicured ideas often relating to rather very sensitive issues that the common man cannot easily discern.

It seems that the atheists either deliberately or unknowingly do not pay attention to the miraculously oriented quantum world that is mind-bogglingly strange, since they so naively simplify the infinite intricacy of our universe to senseless matter as the cause for existence. We know by now that no matter how hard physicists investigate, they still puzzle over the universe’s deepest secret, the quantum realm. For example, in the quantum world, scientists can predict where the particles might be, but they never know where they are since they could be found anywhere, and definitely locating one of these particles is next to zero. The atheists so simplemindedly attribute the jaw-dropping mysteries and the infinitely goal-oriented phenomena (event) of the omnipotent God to simple matter, giving any novice the impression that they might have lost their mind.

Bear in mind that the quantum world is the world that’s smaller than an atom. Things at this scale don’t behave the same way as objects on the scale that we can see. Bohr argued that a quantum theory can never explain classical physics. Some physicists argue that we just haven’t worked hard enough, and that we do fundamentally live in a quantum world, and that we can reproduce classical physics from purely quantum rules. The subatomic bits of matter don’t function with the same rules as objects that we can see, feel, or hold. They behave ghostly and very strange. Sometimes, they are like lumps of matter. They also exhibit spreading out like waves, as ripples behave on a pond. Although they might be found anywhere, the certainty of finding one of these particles in any particular place is zero. Scientists can predict where they might be, yet they never know where they are.

The bottom line is, the quantum world just doesn’t work in the way the world around us works, says physicist David Lindley. We don’t really have the notion to deal with it. He further says, Here’s a taste of that weirdness: If you hit a baseball over a pond, it sails through the air to land on the other shore. If you drop a baseball in a pond, waves ripple away in growing circles. Those waves eventually reach the other side. In both cases, something travels from one place to another. But the baseball and the waves move differently. A baseball doesn’t ripple or form peaks and valleys as it travels from one place to the next. Waves do.

But in experiments, particles in the subatomic world sometimes travel like waves. And they sometimes travel like particles. Why the tiniest laws of nature work that way isn’t clear to anyone.

Photons are the particles that build up light and radiation. They’re tiny packets of energy. Centuries ago, scientists accepted light traveled as a stream of particles, like a flow of tiny, bright balls. Then, 200 years ago, experiments showed that light could travel as waves. A hundred years after that, newer experiments found that light could sometimes act like waves, and sometimes act like particles, called photons. Those findings caused a lot of confusion, frustration, and arguments. Wave or particle? Neither or both? Some scientists even offered a compromise, using the word wavicle. How scientists answer the question will depend on how they try to measure photons. It’s possible to set up experiments where photons behave like particles, and others where they act like waves. But it’s impossible to simultaneously measure them as waves and particles; it does not work that way. At the quantum scale, things can show up as particles or waves—and exist in more than one place at the same time.

This problem is not limited to photons. It expands to electrons and protons and other particles as small or smaller than atoms. Every rudimentary particle has holdings of both a wave and a particle. That concept is known as wave-particle duality. It’s one of the biggest conundrum (puzzles) in the study of the smallest parts of the universe, known as quantum physics. Quantum physics will play a critical role in future technologies—in computers, for instance. Ordinary computers run calculations using trillions of switches constituted into microchips. Those switches are either on or off. A quantum computer, nevertheless, utilizes atoms or subatomic particles for its computation. Because such a particle can be more than one thing at the same time until it’s sized—it may be on or off or somewhere in between, elucidating that quantum computers are competent to simultaneously run many calculations. They have the capability to maneuver thousands of times faster than today’s fastest contemporary machines.

Experiments based on quantum knowledge have produced astonishing results. For example, in 2001, physicists at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, manifested how to stop light in its tracks. And since the mid-1990s, physicists have based peculiar new states of matter that were anticipated by quantum theory. One of those, called a Bose-Einstein condensate, forms only near absolute zero. (That’s equivalent to –273.15° Celsius, or –459.67° Fahrenheit.) In this state, atoms lose their individuality. Expeditiously, the group conducts as one huge mega-atom.

Quantum physics isn’t just an electrifying (thrilling) and weird disclosure. It’s a body of scientific enlightenment that alters in unforeseen ways how we see the universe and how we interrelate with it. Quantum theory describes the behavior of things, particles, or energy on the smallest scale. In addition to wavicles, it predicts that a particle may be found in many places at the same time. Or it may tunnel through walls. (Imagine if you could do that!)

If you measure a photon’s location, you might find it in one place and you might find it somewhere else. You can never know for certain where it is. Although quantum theory is quirky, it should be extremely valued, since scientists have demonstrated how pairs of particles can be connected even if they’re on different sides of the courtyard or opposite sides of the universe. Particles linked