Michael Featherstone
REALITY.
‘Humanity’s deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in’
Stephen Hawking.
Put simply how can we possibly survive the death of the body and if we can where do we go?
Everyone at some time in their life wonders what it’s all about and how this amazing world in this endless universe came into being. Ancient legends and religions appear to offer no sensible explanation therefore I am looking at our reality in the light of present day evidence. In my previous incarnation, that is before I retired, I was a Television Engineer; I had to know how the equipment worked before I could find the fault therefore I look at the world around me and want to know how and why. Firstly I am not a writer I am a thinker, a practical person; I have drawn on fifty years of personal experience and 140 years of scientific research into life after death. This book is not highly technical but hopefully will make the reader think. I am using simple logic with lots of fascinating quotes, ideas and eye opening evidence; I hope therefore that it’s an easy and enjoyable read.
When you look at the world in a purely scientific way it is stranger than Alice’s Wonderland and no less weird than anything we might imagine a heavenly world to be. The universe isn’t built with bricks and mortar it is made of light energy, a sort of digital cloud out of which this highly complex existence came. Here we are, animated star dust clinging to the side of a huge rock whirling through endless space; the human body sprouted from the dead earth fully conscious with a television picture inside the head, camera-like eyes and an almost God-like brain.
In 1930 Sir James Jeans’ FRS wrote
‘The Universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of matter we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.’
The initial response to this subject is often met with anger caused by an assumption that this is more religious nonsense rather than a simple exchange of ideas. Science has taught us that everything functions by pure logic therefore there can be no contradiction between Science & Psychic Science however surprisingly enough there is evidence and there are feasible answers to these questions.
It’s so sad when people think that life is pointless, a mere few years in eternity and then we are gone. Despite the scepticism of main stream science it is the Physicists who are bringing us nearer to the truth. To claim that I am the only sane person in the mad house is futile however any thinking person should at least consider the following remarkable events that stand out from the everyday and will certainly make your head spin. This is a book written for people who will probably never read it but for those who do, hopefully, I can shed light on the origins and reasons for our existence; this is thinking outside the box.
Mike Featherstone BA (Hons) Fine Art.
About me.
I was born in 1944 in Billingham Teesside in the shadow of Imperial Chemical Industries, then the biggest factory site in the world and surrounded by practical sensible people who could fix almost anything. At the age of 18 months I contracted polio and was taken to the RVI Newcastle totally paralysed. My parents saw a film about Nurse Kenny who treated four children in the Australian bush. They had a disease that she didn’t know anything about so she used massage to treat the contorted limbs: This was Polio: Straps and splints were the recognised treatment and it took many years for medical science to admit that exercise was the answer. Dad took me home stiff as a board and with the help of a neighbour who was masseur, got me walking albeit. on tip toe until I was nine. Otherwise I have been physically OK though I have tripped up more times than I have had hot dinners. As an apprentice TV engineer I had a spell as a planning officer for ‘Piped TV’ as they called it, then I continued as a TV service engineer mostly for Radio Rentals. My interest in life after death began in 1972. After flatly declaring to a customer that there is no such thing I was amazed to discover that in the eighteen hundreds famous inventors, thinkers and top scientists, who were the foundation of modern science, investigated the craze for séances that came from America. So vast was the fraud they no doubt thought that they would soon put the whole matter to bed. After much testing of mediums who were strip searched, bound, tied up, gagged and often rejected for the most ludicrous of reasons, they declared that life after death was the only answer that fitted the facts. The Church of England too investigated and declared that this was true to early Christianity but they suppressed the report: Later it was leaked by the Psychic News. I don’t want the reader to think this volume is about religion i.e. unsubstantiated faith however it is bound to give the religious and the non religious something good to think about.
Married with two children I spent nearly 50 years researching for my never-ending book ‘The Living Dream’ and also painting. In 1995 The rental TV industry went into free fall when the Japanese arrived with TVs that actually worked. At the age of fifty one I embarked on an Art degree and continued refining ‘The Living Dream’ from which I drew most of my material for a more simplified book; ‘Reality.’ something practical and real that sensible people can get their head around.
