The Tenured Buddha’s Mysterium Coniunctionis  

“In the beginning, there was a nothing 

that came from nowhere. 

This nothing exploded into everything  

for no reason at all – for no reason is ever needed. 

To ask for such reasons implies you don't understand 

how to formulate proper questions. 

This primal explosion cooled into a dualism,

equal amounts matter and anti-matter.

Matter and anti-matter annihilate each other. 

Somehow, even though equal amounts 

of matter and anti-matter came out of nowhere,

a minuscule fraction of excess leftover matter 

remains after all annihilation completed.

This asymmetry exists because the laws of nature 

treat matter differently than anti-matter but 

no one knows why since their makeup is precisely mirrored,

thus nothing is in one that would cause different treatment.

The mystery assumes something else must have been present

at a time when nothing else should have been there.

Two photons are created each time one particle of matter 

and one particle of anti-matter destroy each other.

Today, there are 1 billion photons 

for every one atom in the universe.

This means our universe consists of 

leftover stuff that's proportionally

only .000000002 of the total stuff 

that existed after the primal Big Bang,

the rest got annihilated.

This .000000002 of leftover matter shouldn't exist.

The Blessed Standard Model of accepted Physics says so. 

But we do exist.

This anomaly doesn't prove the Blessed Standard Model wrong, 

only mystically incomplete. Remember, 

the Blessed Standard Model is never wrong, 

only mystically incomplete.

And there's more mystical incompleteness in the Blessed Standard Model,

for everything we can see, feel, and interact with,

all the matter and energy in all stars, planets, everything including us,

all of it is only 4% of the total stuff that exists today.

28% of the rest is something else we've named Dark Matter.

68% of the rest is something else we've named Dark Energy.

We don't seem to interact with Dark Matter and Dark Energy

as far as we know, and we don’t really know,

but these Dark forces make up 96% 

of everything leftover after the Big Bang blasted forth,

More mysterious still, none of this Dark Matter and Dark Energy got produced

at the same time matter and anti-matter resulted from the Big Bang.

Dark matter and Dark Energy were produced before the Big Bang.

The great seers of science now know there was a non-time 

before the start of time at the Big Bang,

this was a non-time of inflation when 

a totally empty place-to-be with nothing around it was expanding very rapidly

due to the existence of scalar particles such as the Higgs boson.

How scalar particles existed before time, 

before the Big Bang produced particles,

how these particles existed in a totally empty place-to-be with nothing around it

is not to be questioned, for the Blessed Standard Model is never wrong,

only ever mystically incomplete.

And yet, it is clear now, the primal Big Bang was not so primal,

not so initial, not the earliest event of them all.

One might say it was primal in some ways, not all.

There's more to the mystical

and more to our blessed incompleteness

for all of this leftover stuff from the Big Bang 

is somehow expanding

and its expansion since the Big Bang

has been expanding at an ever increasing rate,

which means everything expands faster all the time,

and so this unexplained acceleration is speeding up,

more so every day, but we know not why or how.

The primal explosion for no reason is not winding down but getting stronger.

If far-off vision-quest projections are correct, 

this expansion will continue until 

all leftover stuff from the not-so primal Big Bang (and before) 

diffuses away to nothingness.

The expansion will someday 

pull all planets and stars apart,

then pull every atom apart,

then pull the quarks in the nucleus apart, 

then pull apart the sub-atomic particle soup 

until the dissipating zero-point energy disappears altogether

taking time-space with it.

Out of nothing.

Back to nothing. 

Once again for no reason.

For none is needed.

If you ask for a reason it only shows 

you don't know how to form valid questions.

And so – you are nothing, here for no reason.

You are part of the .000000002 of leftover stuff that shouldn't exist.

All the stuff you can now know in the universe 

is only 4% of what is here, but most of the total stuff

that ever existed got annihilated long ago,

just like the precursor matter in you should have been

if the laws of symmetry hadn’t been broken without reason.

Since you have no purpose here, no reason to exist,

it shouldn't bother you when all of this leftover stuff

races away from itself in a mad dash ever faster to pull itself apart,

thus returning to the nothingness from whence it came.

It should have no effect on how you see yourself now.

It’s none of your concern anyway

since you are an infinitesimal speck in time

that exists on a scale wholly insignificant 

to the grand or even minor cycles of existence.

You will be long gone 

before everything goes away after you,

just as everything before you

was so much more than you ever were

but that too is no longer what it was,

if indeed it still exists, but most of it doesn’t.

All in the end will be equal in nothingness,

just as everything was before, before nothing became something

spontaneously, without cause, without intent,

with only one direction - back to nothing, for no reason,

for none is needed and if you ask for one it only proves

you aren't asking the right questions.

This is The Great Myth of The Great Void that contains All. 

The is The Way to religion without religion.

This is the Tao of Scientism.”

   – The Tenured Buddha, Ph.D (pretty heavy dude)

"Scientism is the broad-based belief that the assumptions and methods of research of the physical and natural sciences are equally appropriate (or even essential) to all other disciplines, including philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences. It is based on the belief that natural science has authority over all other interpretations of life, and that the methods of natural science form the only proper elements in any philosophical (or other) inquiry."  (philosophybasics.com)

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If the Tao of Scientism progresses another millennium, 

perhaps it will realize truths that ancient beliefs arrived at long ago. 

Scientists seem to be on the path, so let's hope so, 

except at the rate of increasing imbalance civilization is manifesting under Scientism, 

it doesn't look like humanity can wait that long for The Tenured Buddha, Ph.D to catch up. 

More Spectacular and Immediately Satisfying

"The concerns raised by the use of psychedelic mushrooms were well stated by two Christian missionaries, Eunice Pike and Florence Cowan. They said, 'How can one effectively present the message of divine revelation to a people who already have, according to their beliefs, a means whereby anyone who desires may get messages directly from the supernatural world via a more spectacular and immediately satisfying way than Christianity has to offer?'
Quoted by Thomas Redlinger, 'Sacred Mushrooms Pentecost,' in Entheogens and the Future of Religion, ed. Robert Forte (San Francisco: Council on Spiritual Practices, 1997), 106."
                 -- The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide

Bedtime - Two Approaches

1 -- It's time to go asleep and a child calls out from his bed - he's fearful after watching so much wild and violently imaginative TV programming - he's fearful about the monsters he assumes will appear under his bed once the lights go out. The parent tells him all he has to do is say a certain prayer and ask Saint RescueMe for help and this will keep the monsters away. The lights go out and the fear in the child peaks. In terrified desperation he mumbles the prayer exactly as he was taught and pleads for Saint RescueMe to intercede for him. The trauma-based conditioning has its payoff -- the monsters don't come. 

In the morning the parent asks the child about the night before. "You see, it works!" exclaims the parent. "As long as you believe in Saint RescueMe and say the prayer exactly as I told you, no monsters can ever get you." 

The parent has just reinforced in the child how real the monsters are. Having made that fear very real, now the child can be easily controlled by the threat of monsters, even into adulthood. With each stage of life, the same scenario is updated to invoke the same response. Natural urges are attributed to the monsters -- and only by doing penance to Saint RescueMe to make up for one's base and despicable nature can one avoid living forever with the monsters after one dies. This fear must never be interrupted or the control will stop. Even if the grown-up child starts to doubt the existence of monsters, he must be told that such thoughts are the ultimate trick of the monsters! 

2 -- It's time to go asleep and a child calls out from his bed - he's fearful after watching so much wild and violently imaginative TV programming - he's fearful about the monsters he assumes will appear under his bed once the lights go out. The parent tells him there are no monsters under the bed but we all can imagine all sorts of things because we are so creative, which is a good thing, but sometimes after watching wild and violent TV programs we can get our imaginations spinning in ways where we frighten ourselves, like wearing a Halloween mask and looking at ourselves in a mirror.  But always remember our imaginations can create anything -- it can just as easily create fairies and angels and funny dancing candy flowers too. The parent turns out the lights and lays down next to the child and together they explore all the fun and funny things the child's imagination can come up with to be in the room with them. The child has fun with exploring this expanding power of creative manifestation. For a while there's a flurry of zany and amusing ideas before the child eventually drifts off to sleep. 

In the morning the parent asks the child about the night before. "You see, it works!" exclaims the parent. "It's up to you to take into your dreams any playful, funny, silly thing you want! You always have that magic and always will!" 

The parent has just reinforced in the child how real his creative power is, how possible and important it is to take control of his own will and destiny, to seize his ability to direct energies towards what serves him always. The child has experienced an example of his magnificent and wondrous nature. As he repeatedly receives this message to be motivated out of positive possibilities and self-actualized interest instead of fear, the child expands into adulthood confident in his potential - plus he gets a better night's sleep.