The Nature of Consciousness : The Structure of Reality: Theory of Everything Equation Revealed : Scientific Verification and Proof of Logic God Is [Hardcover]

Jerry Davidson Wheatley (Author)

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Publication Date: May 2001

This book describes how understanding the structure of reality leads to the Theory of Everything Equation. The equation unifies the forces of nature and enables the merging of relativity with quantum theory. The book explains the big bang theory and everything else.

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We published this book because it delivers on the promise of its title. It is not another book speculating on what scientists are trying to achieve. The book methodically explains the whole structure of reality and its functional levels. This understanding is then used to answer the big questions of science, philosophy and religion.

A more serious scientist than Jerry Wheatley can not be found. That is evident throughout the book. It is an overwhelming achievement of over thirty years of full time work. The book was released without fanfare.

Jerry began his scientific project with one assumption, namely that nature is uniform. Otherwise, he says, there is no sense in trying to understand anything. Other than that one assumption, he assumed nothing. There is an interesting twist to the second assumption. Years later while trying to understand the nature of spatial expansion from the Big Bang, Jerry recognized a problem. If space is defined by nothing, there is a problem in explaining the Big Bang as an expansion of space. Nothingness is everywhere -- it must extend indefinitely, even beyond the edge of universal expansion. Jerry says, "There is 'nothing' here, there is nothing there -- nothing is everywhere!" Space must be expanding into nothingness -- into itself. How can that be? The answer lies with the ultimate nature of space and the correct understanding of the cosmological singularity.

It is said "physics breaks down" as parameters narrow to the singularity. It means the mathematics breaks down, but it shouldn't and it doesn't. Jerry learned that the most basic elements of mathematics are insufficiently understood. He discovered this while trying to reconcile the expansion of space with the concept of nothingness. If space is nothing, how could it expand as though it were something? Specifically: was space static or dynamic (therefore nonstatic). How could it be both without contradiction? If it is not nothing, then it is not space. So, either there are two types of space or the ultimate nature of space was not properly understood.

When the accepted understanding of mathematics could not supply a noncontradictory answer to the space-nothingness problem, Jerry applied physics (particularly, the law of conservation) to math and discovered that the contemporary understanding of the basic elements of math was flawed. He began to understand why there are paradoxes in math and logic. The problem of space was similar to Russell's Paradox -- "The set of all sets which are not members of themselves." He realized that other paradoxes and Goedel's legacy resulted from insufficient understanding of the basic mathematical elements. Everyone assumed they understood how the basic elements such as zero, one, and infinity relate. But if these elements are not properly understood, then the physics to which these elements are applied will be misconstrued. And indeed, that is exactly what has happened. Appearances are deceiving. To obtain a deeper understanding of reality meant getting beyond apparent definitions.

Certainly, Jerry thought, a system can only be complete when it is also consistent. Yet it is acknowledged that a system is complete only if zero equals one (0 = 1). The system Jerry was considering is none other than the complete system denoted reality. After he deciphered the structure of reality and found no inconsistencies in reality's uniformity, he reasoned that perhaps the wrong concept of consistency was applied to a completed system because of insufficient understanding of the basic elements of mathematics. And that is what he found. He reasoned how to prove 0 = 1. Although the journey to truth was mindboggling, once he got to the ultimate truth, it was easy to understand. In fact, every child understands the ultimate equation.

From the Author

If we are doomed to die, why is there life at all? What is the meaning to life? Religion did not supply a satisfactory answer. Holy books are constituted of "words on paper." Ideas do not necessarily represent reality. Words and ideas are different from what they represent!

There should be a way to scientifically determine whether life has meaning beyond mere existence. The only way to do this is to map the structure of reality. This is science. Ideas are verified when evidence "in reality" corroborates statement truth.

Understanding the structure of reality was a step by step process. It is similar to a jigsaw puzzle when one has not seen the finished picture. The puzzle is completed only when every piece finds its place. Each piece informs how it fits with other pieces. Pieces mesh into sections. Sections join to show the whole picture.

The analogy comes full circle by substituting scientific facts for puzzle pieces. Pieces represent evidential facts. Scientific understanding relates one fact to others. Puzzle sections correspond to higher-level concepts and principles of physics.

Principles enabled a systematic arranging of the diagrams into a hierarchy to represent what physics is all about -- the structure of reality. The structure defines how everything interrelates. But, it did not immediately answer all questions.

Big questions of philosophy and science are answerable only when the structure of reality is reexamined through the lens of other disciplines. Multidisciplinary research produced a categorical understanding of everything.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 800 pages
• Publisher: Research Scientific Press (May 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970316100
• ISBN-13: 978-0970316103
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,536,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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In early 1970, my life radically changed. I was a teacher of science. One of my students looked ahead in his book and asked: "What is color?" I answered: "A thing's color is all color but the color that you see."

I immediately recognized this "color paradigm" could help resolve the philosophy problem of idealism and subjectivism. As a question: Is there a "world out there" or is it some kind of illusory projection?

Empirical science rests on the idea the physical world is "out there." Though not seriously contested, that idea has not been properly established: until now. The color paradigm provided a way to explain that the physical world is separate from one's awareness of it. Later, we learn quantum theory suggests there is no outside reality. A deeper understanding of reality must reconcile these contradictory views.

Seven days after the student asked the color question I had a profound experience. I asked a student to find a large sheet of paper. My mind rushed to fill it in. The result was the Where Aspect Diagram. It was a "generalization" of the color paradigm. It was a revelation, which I wrote down as it occurred. There is a photo of it in customer photos.

The Where Aspect Diagram was packed with information. When I tried to explain what happened and what I was learning, most friends and family members believed I experienced a mental breakdown. They didn't suppose that, because of any unusual behavior on my part, but because of what I was saying. I became a patient in a mental clinic for about a month. I quickly learned not to say much about what I was experiencing.

I was compelled to track down the source of this revelation and learn why it occurred. It was no coincident! Extraordinary experiences continued. There was no denying something astonishing was happening. When someone experiences a real revelation, it is quite unsettling. I began delineating the structure of reality.

Within five days after the revelation, I stopped sleeping. I then realized the body rests; the mind sleeps. My mind was functioning 24 hours a day trying to understand what was happening and why. My eyes were so dry during daytime that it took a few weeks to adjust. I did lie down and rest during the night, but my mind just kept reasoning to understand. When a hospital nurse would ask, "Are you sleeping OK?" I smiled, and answered, "As well as I can!"

I quickly understood most people's minds only function with respect to the physical world. When a mind "awakens," it can function independently of the physical world. I realized what real "born again" meant. It is the mind, or spirit, resurrecting: beginning to function on its own, again!

Most scientific revolutions result from breakthrough efforts of lone individuals. This is not something I intended to do. It is something that happened to me, and I responded with scientific honesty. That unexpected experiences lead to new ways of understanding is no surprise. That is how scientific revolutions often begin. And, this was the big one.

Physics principles enabled a systematic arranging of the diagrams into a hierarchy to represent what physics is all about - the structure of reality. The structure defines how everything interrelates. However, it did not immediately answer all questions.

The big questions of philosophy and science are answerable only when the structure of reality is reexamined through the lens of other disciplines. Multidisciplinary research produced a categorical understanding of everything.

A multidisciplinary examination of reality's structure led to an explicit defining of consciousness. It is derived from an equation - the "Theory of Everything" equation.

The book states what I learned. It says little about the amazing experiences that led to the extraordinary knowledge and understanding described in this book.

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56 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Consciousness and Reality. The final word?, March 27, 2002

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clear thinker "clear thinker" (south africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Nature of Consciousness : The Structure of Reality: Theory of Everything Equation Revealed : Scientific Verification and Proof of Logic God Is (Hardcover)

Few people are brave enough to tackle any subject in the title let alone all subjects in one book. Mr. Wheatley tackles the subjects of Consciousness and Reality head on and then cobbles them together with religion and philosophy to come up with a Theory of Everything equation and a meaning for life. A mammoth task. He does all this with much enthusiasm having spent over thirty years of full time work researching his subject. His mantra is " The problem is not what people believe. The problem is that they believe." Information, according to the author, comes from two sources. Knowledge and belief. Knowledge corresponds to Reality. Belief, on the other hand, stems from lack of understanding and ignorance. Belief fills the knowledge void where knowledge is lacking. The author relies heavily on science for verification of his beliefs and acquisition of knowledge. After culling much of the humbug from religion and philosophy, he then puts the jigsaw together and comes up with some very interesting conclusions.

Not everyone will agree with his conclusions. The book is ultimately just one man's (informed) opinion. Early in the book we are suddenly told, without explanation that "consciousness, mind and brain are separate." Knowledge or belief? Dualism is currently unfashionable in scientific circles and many regard consciousness as a neurobiological function of the brain. A biological phenomenon akin to digestion or bile excretion. Dualism is regarded as the outmoded legacy of religion and mythology.

On religion the author exhibits a western and cultural bias by spending a great many pages on a skeptical analysis of Christianity. Buddhism, which shares the same intellectual existentialist leanings as the author and draws very similar conclusions, is dismissed in a page-and-a-half brief synopsis.

Is this the final word on Consciousness and Reality? No! The book leaves one with the feeling that science, religion and philosophy fall way short of the mark. The author takes us a lot closer to understanding key concepts but not far enough. The incomprehensible remains, for the time being, just that.

The book is extremely well written and teases the brain at many levels. For anyone looking for cerebral stimulation and a possible meaning in his/her life, this could be the book you have been looking for.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Innumerate Crackpottery, December 16, 2008

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A. Lawrence (Stayton, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Nature of Consciousness : The Structure of Reality: Theory of Everything Equation Revealed : Scientific Verification and Proof of Logic God Is (Hardcover)

The author attempts to prove his own "Theory of Everything", making many mathematical blunders while trying to discredit history's greatest mathematicians.

According to this book, Cantor was wrong.

From page 476:

"Cantor attempted to understand infinity. He used the method of diagonalization. Diagonalization combines and alters 'selected' numbers from an array of numbers to obtain a number not previously represented. We cannot combine things into something else without those things being yanked from their former position. The Law of Conservation (typically used in physics) does not permit addition without something else changing. This idea applies to numbers. If we yank a number from an array, thus altering it, its original setting (array) is changed. The whole setup becomes other than what it once was. The linear series of numbers or things is changed."

This is one of the more bizarre arguments I've read. Cantor's diagonalization argument does not require the numbers in the array to be changed; it creates a new number based on the numbers in the array without affecting them. It is simply an existence proof, proving the existence of a number not listed on an infinite array (without need of yanking). Furthermore, the laws of conservation are physical laws, applicable to physical systems, not arithmetic. The author does not specify which conservation law this would be in contradiction of, presumably because of how absurd it would sound: "You can't add these numbers because it violates the law of conservation of energy."

Russell's paradox was not a paradox:

"We remember from high school that a null set is, by fiat, also a member of itself. ... We conclude from considering null sets that `there is no set, which is not a member of itself.' Now, we can clearly see Russell's Paradox arose because the `hidden' empty set was not considered. There is no paradox."

But the null set is not a member of itself. The null set by definition has no members. The author is probably thinking of subsets: it is true that the null set is a subset of itself, but this does not resolve Russell's Paradox.

Gödel was also wrong:

"According to Gödel, by using the definition of logical consistency, i.e., the Law of Contradiction, a system cannot be both complete and consistent. ... Many scholars have since accepted that any (well-formed) system could not be both complete and consistent. Yet, it still seems reasonable that a system cannot be complete unless it is also consistent. Here is why: Saying a system is complete, only when it is inconsistent (and hence contradictory) makes no sense at all."

It actually makes perfect sense, since from a contradiction all theorems are derivable in a classical logical system (thus it is complete). To prove any given statement 'q', assuming the contradiction 'p and ~p':

p and ~p

p

p or q

~p

q

If you want to read 800 pages on Gödel, Cantor, consciousness and Zen, read "Gödel, Escher, Bach" rather than or before this.

28 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Important Book, January 26, 2004

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Kelvin (San Francisco, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Nature of Consciousness : The Structure of Reality: Theory of Everything Equation Revealed : Scientific Verification and Proof of Logic God Is (Hardcover)

I must preface my review by stating that I have never been so excited and moved by a book that I have wanted to contact the author. That is what I found myself doing upon reading this book. This book is just what its title says. The author does not "miss a beat" describing in great detail using practically every aspect of scientific knowledge from atomic structure through logic to quantum theory---we are even given a valuable explanation of Love. This text may be challenging to read for those unfamiliar with scientific terminology. And it can also be difficult for those with a science background, such as myself. However, for me it is well worth the work necessary to strive to understand the unfamiliar terminology. (I am continually learning from this book. I am presently on my third reread).

One of the author's main messages is "not" to believe anything without first verifying it with reality, as we know it. He calls it the "Personal Explanation Principle". He indicates that religions are just such belief systems that we as people "fall" victims of; because we do not verify the beliefs with the facts, as we know them, of reality. He gives a very detailed explanation of how the New Testament can be explored using his methodology.

The author methodically and meticulously walks us through his thought processes, which took 30 years to assimilate, of delineating the structure of reality and the nature of consciousness. Included in the "walk" are many of reality's phenomena made revelatory. An example of that, for me, would be the dual nature of light. It's particle/wave duality, which is explained as "functions". Also, when the author took me on the mental journey of "Setness" an exhilaration of the magnificence of life swelled up in me.

To me this is a very important book that should be read by all that are seekers of truth. It is for all those wanting to gain an understanding of the purpose for their existence, wanting to know where life is headed towards, and wanting to know who God is.

This book will enlighten and develop one's mind substantially. You will discover that this is our objective.

And yes, I contacted the author and he responded openly.