Jim,

I'm starting to experience a greater truth about these truths you are trying to communicate
to a broader audience.
There appears to be some kind of glitch that is preventing these kinds of truths from
expanding outwards like they used to a generation ago.

Even though we have a grand digital presence, I'm experiencing a kind of muffling
of any dialog that probes the boundries of this reality.

Are you too?

Its great that Jim is on C to C AM again, I can hardly wait. I hope that millions of more people will ponder his observations & thesis & check out his & other cool books about the nature of reality.
http://www.theuniversesolved.com/recommendedbooks.htm

Jim,
Even with the exposure you have on the web and radio, I'm seeing from inside this forum, like many other nationally recognized authors, very little interaction or following in these venues. How do you know if you are actually reaching people, beyond the very few that have responded here?
C2C with over 15 million listeners should generate thousands of interested..."followers" that do more than just buy your book.
Or am I expecting too much?
Since nobody can really be "told" what the matrix is, there should be more people asking for proof. Right?
What is your perspective of your audience?

Greetings, RogerV, and welcome to the forum. Thanks for sharing your list of related links. We look forward to your contributions!

RedDog, of course I share your enthusiasm for the programmed reality model, simply because it does explain so much. I don't think however that we can project our interest in "getting to the truth behind the nature of reality" on others. As an aside, I have heard wildly different estimates of the Coast to Coast listener-ship. For example, their own site claims 3 million weekly listeners. But how many of those are unique, vs. the same listeners each night summed up across the week? Let's say there are 500K who actively listened. How many take the next step in trying to learn more and think about it? How many of those actually take the effort to join a forum and contribute? The latter is actually a fairly significant barrier. I am interested in many topics, but I only contribute to one forum and only read 2 or 3 others. My twitter following is about 1000, which isn't bad for a non-mainstream topic. Celebrities have millions (which gives you an idea of where the interests of the masses are), social media junkies (whose objective is mostly only to collect followers) get tens of thousands. How many people out there would rather sit down and veg in front of the tube to their favorite sitcoms or reality shows, or even hang out on a true social network after a long day of work rather than be challenged on the nature of reality?

The point is, there is no easy way to answer these questions, or to use a "Drake Equation"-like formula to estimate likely membership. The web has so many options for people - I am just glad that we have the interested folks like yourself who contribute. That said, I would appreciate any effort that you can think of to spread the message and get more like-minded people to join us. Wikipedia entries, deep links, social media posts, sending links of interesting posts to email lists are all great ways to attract a bigger following.

Thanks!

As I pointed out in another post I made this evening, if we do live in a programmed reality, raising awareness of this fact in the general populace probably runs counter to many programmed objectives. A good programmer could surely to find a way to keep such "errors" in check so that they didn't corrupt the program to the point that it failed to meet objectives?

So of course Jim is going to be silenced if this is indeed a Programmed reality. And if it's not, then he just turns out to be the crackpot so many closed-minded people no-doubt already believe him to be, anyway. Either way, he's still likely to get marginalized, which is still better than being martyred, don't ya think?

Well, I do, at least...

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Calimore Callierionde

Unlike Jim I really do wholeheartedly believe we live in a programmed reality (i.e., that our universe is the result of information processing and does not have innate material existence in and of itself). As far as I am concerned programmed reality entirely meshes with the experiments that have been performed over the decades verifying quantum physics.

One of the weirdest things of quantum physics is the role of the observer, in that the outcome of how a subatomic particle behaves in an experiment hinges on interaction with the consciousness of the experimenter. The fact that the universe is beholden to our consciousness does not accord to materialist conception of reality (materialism posits that consciousness is merely a byproduct of innately existent material reality and therefore should not in any way supercede material reality - yet it does).

Quantum physics experiments indicate that the universe renders itself to observers in a manner rather analogous to how video game designers fashion their games to render sufficient reality to the player participants. Quantum physics experiments demonstrate non-locality and hence that dimensional space is illusory. Quantum physics experiments indicate that not even what is thought of as historical is set in stone (even time is illusory). Our quantum universe adjust itself as it renders the experience of reality that our consciousness registers.

So having intellectually accepted all of that sometime ago, these days I live fully in the paradigm of programmed reality. And this brings about its own set of issues in certain ways.

The fundamental tenet of the paradigm of reality that I live in is that consciousness is more fundamental than matter/energy and that ultimately everything at all levels of reality, parallel reality, meta reality, etc., is probably resultant from information processing. I share the conception of Pim van Lommel that our brain is merely a transceiver channeling the experience of this reality to the seat of our consciousness (which I believe the ages old conception of soul is perfectly adequate as a descriptor of our ultimate essence).

That all being said, this recent movie, The Adjustment Bureau, struck rather close to home in respect to my personal life. And well, those darn Justin Hayward songs where he's written lyrics on the same theme for 45 years in his career with the Moody Blues. If you check out his song December Snow and A Winter's Tale on youtube, recorded in 2003, it's the same theme as underlies Haunted and Foolish Love from the 1999 album Strange Times. As well as the '80s hits Your Wildest Dreams and I Know You're Out There Somewhere. And go all the way back to The Actor, Watching and Waiting, or Question from the early 70s, or Meanwhile off of the 1979 Long Distance Voyager. I could go on and on citing other Hayward songs that relentlessly revisit the same theme - Bless the Wings, Is This Heaven, Never Comes The Day, You Can Never Go Home, New Horizons, The Day We Meet Again, Running Water - even the 1967 hit Nights In White Satin has a certain foreshadowing of this enduring theme that would lurk in all those subsequent songs.

In spring of 2010 I journeyed to my log house (a many hours trip) to check up on it. While there one night by myself, out in a very solitary wilderness, I had a strange experience. Thematically that experience rather relates to The Adjustment Bureau. Then a few months later, after 30 years of going our separate ways in life, we cross paths again. She's glad of it and I'm glad of it. I now know that she's been okay through her life and its most comforting to have been given that. Am not going any further about this particular story - too personal. I bring it up as a backdrop to say, that if you believe that reality is as you've learned in school and what is the consensus of society around you, then you're completely off the mark. It's nothing like what the consensus of our secular society holds whatsoever. You need to go deeper.

As you see things playing out around you now, it really should all dawn on you (and is very sad if it doesn't). The clue is that Israel became a nation again in 1948. It is the key event that defines this episode in human history.

I love this topic and I have a question for all of you? How come we always get excited over a song that comes on the radio/tv/movie that we own and can listen to at any time?

I'm with Jim on "A Day in the Life" and "Won't Get Fooled Again."
I'll add "Baba O'Reily" and "I'm Slowly Turning Into You," by the White Stripes, "Seagull" by Bad Company, "Free Bird" by Skynyrd, and "Ghost of Tom Joad" by Rage(I know Springsteen wrote it but he stinks.) Now I'm done.

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"The only true wisdom exists in knowing that you know nothing."
- The Mighty Socrates (Not the fake Socrates Plato wrote about in "The Republic.")