Found previous life...
As soon as I could talk, I insisted that my name was George Chain. I can still remember being aggravated by my parents attempts to change my name to John Richard Samsen. During the mind research I experimented in, and several other times, I did have what seemed to be memories of past lives. Once I saw myself as a big, red-haired youth living in a large thatched roof farmhouse in what I felt was the British Isles, several hundred years ago. Was this George Chain? Who knows. Many times in my life, I puzzled over the “George Chain” mystery. Why would a little child think it had a different name, and why such an odd one. Several years ago, I searched the Internet for that name. There were no George Chain's. I tried George Chane. Nothing. Then I tried “Chayne”. The computer suggested I try “Cheyne”. That was a Scottish term that has the same meaning as “chain” in modern English. On this page were many website links to information on George Cheyne. About three hundred years ago, George was born and raised on a farm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and eventually became rather famous around London. A medical doctor who, in conquering his obesity problem, created a system of dieting. He wrote books on that subject that made him the “Adkins” of his his day, and his day was the early eighteenth century. I discovered another book he had written, and downloaded it into my computer. “The Philosophical Principles of Religion”. George was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a contemporary and associate of many of the founders of our sciences and philosophies, like Newton, Descartes, Locke, Liebniz, Spinoza, Voltaire, Hooke, and Halley. He was obviously familiar with Newton's great Physics. Cheyne was a spiritual man, as Newton was, and was concerned by the new atheism that was developing as people of science and technology now saw many of the mysteries of life explained by a mechanical cause-and-effect rather than by the guidance of an unseen intelligence. Cheyne undertook a project to support the Christian ideology with proofs based on mathematics and Newtonian Physics. His 200-page opus dealt with the mysteries of our universe; gravity, light, and and other phenomena, which he defined as properties of the creative mind of the “Supreme Being”. His concept of “God” had expanded to a multi-dimensional intelligence, that was “present in every atom of matter”. This created a “deja vu” experience for me, as I have been working on a similar project most of my life, with the same basic philosophy. The idea that the creating divinity is present in all matter, is an ancient one. The Hindu philosophy calls the divine essence “Brahman” and in its material forms, “Atman”. The western religions based on the old Hebrew Torah and Roman Catholic dogmas consider this philosophy to be “pantheistic”- a heresy, that divides their “One God” into a multiplicity of forms. I prefer to call this concept “Omnitheistic, as it really considers the “Godhead” as one- not one singular, as in the western religions, but one totality.
Cheyne tackled the tough problems of eternity and infinity with long mathematical excursions in algebra and geometry, which were beyond my understanding, and discourses of analogies and metaphors based on his knowledge of the intricacies of the human body. I think a lot of his effort was not effective in his time. Then, scientists thought that there was an undetectable fluid that circulated in space, moving the stars and planets. They called this Aether. Newton and Cheyne disproved this theory, showing calculations of the elliptical orbits of planets, moons, and comets which had recently been revealed by early telescopes. Cheyne, like Newton, advanced the theory that there was a universal gravitational force in all matter which was trying to unify all the forms, and they thought this force acted in humans as an attraction toward each other, and to the Source. I was surprised when he advanced the idea that comets were largely water, and that the impacts of many of them in the past were probably responsible for much of the water on earth. I thought this was a recent finding! Darwin, and evolution theory, came after Cheyne; I wonder how he would have responded to that.
I see that the “philosophy” I had been working on so many decades seems to be an extension of the work of George Cheyne. I have been trying to incorporate into my intellectual understanding the strange descriptions of our world coming from relativistic and quantum physics, and research into the mind and consciousness. I think that the great advances science has made in the centuries since George Cheyne has brought us closer to an understanding of who and what we really are, and what our place is in the great scheme of things.
"George Cheyne"
), I see a subjective physical similarity with my own features. But then, that's all subjective. I just wish there were more objective people who I could trust to give me their honest opinion. It could be I'm just psychically "tuning in" to a relatively famous person whose life was very similar to my own ...
