Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Exodus 20:16
In fact: “Love your neighbour as yourself” Mk 12:31
…”bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so must you do also.” Col 3:13
Quick Note
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1) INSI just received notice from the AGNS that they agreed that obtaining the Sufficiency of the Record of the 2024 SNAP Election takes priority over all other matters related to the JR PtH No. 538503. I make occasional reference to this effort in this blog because it occupies time that I would rather use doing other things. It is important and it seems that our team of good people is in good shape and managed to claw through all the expected effort from ENS and the AGNS to stall, block and confuse progress. We are in court on Feb 6, for dates and directions regarding the motion for increased Sufficiency of the Record. That is, a Motion before the Justice to generate as much record as possible so that it is sufficient for the Justice to properly assess what happened to the mistreated candidates. ENS has informed us all that we are not going to get any more record if they have anything to do with it. Well...that is why we are before a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. It will be he who makes the decision.
2) I am working on a patent for a project that I cannot discuss and I only mention it because it is very time consuming and difficult. It requires my complete attention and more talent than I actually possess. I am nearly complete.
3) I am wrapping up an intensely serious matter of profound significance. There are deeply profound moral implications and serious tentacles that are beyond the understanding of most people in my immediate orbit. Again, I am acting in the interest of people that I love and those very people may be utterly confused by my mysterious silence and seeming non-sequitur behavior. All in due time.
4)I am working on another project that is much the same as 2, and 3 and it is just as nuanced, and difficult.
5)If that wasn't enough, I am working on a 5th, 6th, and 7th projects. These I classify as embryonic and need some noodling over.
All of these things are worth the pains of concealment and soon it will be all a matter of public record.
You may be surprised about the extent that I am taking care of the people around me and those for whom I have a special affection. I love you and I believe that I am doing God's work.
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Snowblower did the trick. My 25 year old snowblower worked as good as it did the day I bought it in Boston. I waited for the storm to subside and I cleared the snow from the 2-day storm in about an hour.
I have a couple of entries to make today, but coffee come first.
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Doing my Sunday Morning Readings and having a coffee.
I struggle with letting multiple concepts of reality coexist in my mind, where they end up waging a war inside my head. Yet the war of ideas is ultimately resolved through the Resurrection. We inhabit this wondrous physical world, tethered to the invisible, and I love pondering that mystery. So here I reach out to good people who know far more than I do, asking for help to clarify what I think I understand and to ease the tension that has inevitably built up as modern physics and biology continue to merge with one another and with the realm of faith. This is my attempt to find a solid starting point.
E. Michael Jones, known for his trenchant critiques of modern culture and scientism, would likely approach Stuart Hameroff's Orchestrated Objective Reduction theory with a mix of skepticism and selective approval. I begged Dr Jones to chime in on this subject. Jones has consistently argued against reductionist explanations that diminish the human soul to mere material processes, viewing them as extensions of Enlightenment rationalism that erode the Catholic understanding of man as a composite of body and immortal soul. In his writings, such as those on the logos of creation, Jones emphasizes that true order stems from divine reason, not from mechanistic or evolutionary paradigms that exclude God.
Hameroff's theory, which posits consciousness arising from quantum computations in neuronal microtubules, might strike Jones as another attempt to naturalize the supernatural. He could criticize it for implying that the soul, or at least its operations, emerges from physical quantum events rather than being directly infused by God at conception, as Catholic doctrine teaches. This reduction could be seen as scandalous, bordering on heresy, by conflating the immaterial soul with material quantum information, thus undermining the Thomistic distinction between essence and existence. Jones might point out that such theories distract from the redemptive sacrifice of Christ on the cross, where the eternal soul finds its true meaning through crucifixion and resurrection, not through scientific speculation.
Jones might further argue that Hameroff's extensions, such as the idea of a quantum soul persisting after death through non-local entanglement, veer into New Age territory. This resembles pantheism, where consciousness permeates the cosmos without a personal Creator, a notion Jones has lambasted in his analyses of modern ideologies. For instance, in critiquing secular psychology or evolutionary biology, Jones often points to how such theories serve anti-Catholic agendas by promoting hedonism or relativism. Hameroff's reliance on psychedelics as evidence for accelerated quantum effects could provoke Jones to decry it as opening doors to occult practices, which the Church condemns as superstitious or demonic.
Moreover, the theory's panpsychist leanings, suggesting proto-consciousness in the early universe, might be viewed as a subtle form of gnosticism, elevating scientific speculation over revealed truth. Jones could posit that this distracts from the deposit of faith, the unchanging body of doctrine entrusted to the Church, by tempting believers to seek explanations in physics rather than in Scripture and Tradition, where the Holy Spirit persists as the guide to truth and the healer of souls wounded by sin.
Yet, Jesuit perspectives on quantum mechanics offer a more conciliatory framework, one that could temper Jones's criticisms while allowing partial embrace of Hameroff's ideas. Jesuits, through institutions like the Vatican Observatory, have long engaged science-theology dialogue, viewing quantum indeterminacy as harmonious with Catholic thought. Thinkers such as George Coyne or William Stoeger have argued that quantum uncertainty provides ontological openness in the universe, allowing for divine providence without violating natural laws.
This Jesuit working theory posits that God acts through secondary causes, including probabilistic quantum events, to sustain creation. In this light, Hameroff's microtubules could be seen as a potential mechanism for how the immaterial soul interfaces with the body, without reducing the soul to those processes. The theory's challenge to classical computational models of the mind aligns with Jesuit emphasis on human freedom, as quantum superposition introduces genuine indeterminacy that classical determinism lacks. This resonates with the Catholic view of free will, essential for moral responsibility and salvation, and reflects the redemptive work of Christ, whose sacrifice on the cross frees humanity from the bondage of sin and opens the way for the Holy Spirit to dwell within.
Partially embracing Hameroff thus becomes feasible by noting key exceptions. One must affirm that consciousness's quantum aspects describe only the biological substrate, not the soul itself. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that the soul is spiritual and immortal, created immediately by God, not produced by parents or emergent from matter. Hameroff's quantum information might explain how the soul informs the body, akin to how Thomists describe the soul as the form animating matter, but it cannot account for the soul's subsistence after death, which requires divine sustenance through the merits of Christ's redemption.
Exceptions include rejecting any implication that consciousness predates life in a way that makes the universe self-conscious, as this encroaches on God's unique aseity. Instead, quantum proto-events could be interpreted as reflections of divine logos ordering creation from the beginning, as in Genesis, and pointing toward the incarnation where the flesh of Jesus unites divinity and humanity.
To isolate scandal or heresy, Catholics must delineate boundaries. Scandal arises when scientific theories are presented as alternatives to faith, leading the faithful astray from the reality of Christ's crucifixion as the ultimate sacrifice for sin. Heresy, such as materialism or pantheism, denies defined dogmas like the soul's immortality or God's transcendence. A vigilant approach involves subjecting Hameroff's claims to philosophical scrutiny, using Aquinas's principles to affirm that while quantum mechanics reveals the intricacy of God's design, it cannot encompass metaphysical realities.
For example, near-death experiences, which Hameroff links to quantum persistence, should be evaluated through Church-approved mysticism, like the visions of saints, or through the healing sacraments that invoke the Holy Spirit's power, rather than solely through science. This prevents the theory from fostering syncretism, blending Catholic truth with speculative naturalism, and keeps focus on the Eucharist, where the flesh of Jesus nourishes the soul.
Positing a way forward compatible with the deposit of faith requires integrating Hameroff's insights into a broader Catholic anthropology without compromising core tenets. One path is through interdisciplinary dialogue, as encouraged by Pope John Paul II in Fides et Ratio, where faith and reason illuminate each other, always grounded in the redemptive mystery of Christ's passion.
Catholic neuroscientists or philosophers could explore microtubules as instrumental causes in cognition, much like how the brain's plasticity supports virtue formation without determining it. This maintains hylomorphic unity: the soul as substantial form actualizing the body's potentials, with quantum processes providing the physical dynamism for conscious acts, all under the influence of the persistent Holy Spirit.
A practical framework might involve Catholic universities sponsoring research that tests Orch-OR against Thomistic criteria. For instance, if experiments confirm quantum coherence in the brain, this could bolster arguments against abortion by highlighting the integrated complexity of human life from conception, where soul and body unite through God's creative act. Ethically, it could inform bioethics on consciousness in comatose patients or AI, affirming that true personhood requires a divinely created soul, redeemed by Christ's blood, not mere computation.
In education, catechists could use simplified versions of the theory to engage young people, showing how science points to mystery beyond itself, thus countering secular skepticism while directing hearts to the healing presence of Jesus in the sacraments. Pastoral care might incorporate it in counseling, where understanding brain-soul interplay helps those with mental health issues see their struggles as part of a redemptive journey, not mere chemistry, but opportunities for the Holy Spirit to bring wholeness through prayer and confession.
Ultimately, this synthesis preserves the deposit of faith by subordinating science to theology. Hameroff's theory, shorn of its excesses, becomes a tool for apologetics, demonstrating that even cutting-edge physics leaves room for the supernatural, echoing the triumph of Christ's resurrection over death. Jones, if he investigates, might concede this utility while insisting on vigilance against ideological misuse. Jesuits could lead the charge, bridging empirical rigor with spiritual depth. In this way, Catholics navigate modern science faithfully, enriching understanding without wrecking the timeless truths of revelation, always centered on the crucifixion, sacrifice, and redemption that define the faith.
We may have a problem here with regard to the compatibility of the meaning of words.
The site was not working on smart phones and I could not figure it out. So I saved the site and removed the broken section on Jan 25, 2026. I finally found time to figure it out today (Feb 7, 2026). It was bad formatting and div sections. Sorry about the mix-up. I was busy with the SCoNS and that took all my time.I recovered everything from a back-up I made, including the errors so I am sifting through the code looking for the section errors. I have no data lost.
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Serious Matters - done over lunch

Synchronicity = synaesthesia
That had to be said...ugg. but it is all good.
I am in that profound calm, the one where sound becomes color, motion, and emotion all at once. I am hearing Polyeleos. The sounds like the deepest kind of stillness, the kind that feels like heaven brushing against the skin of this world. Synaesthesia isn’t just a mixing of senses; it’s become a kind of inner liturgy, a private iconostasis where the Polyeleos doesn’t merely play, it unfolds into light and peace and longing. I could stay in this state forever. It is a glimpse into heaven.
There’s a reason the desert fathers and the hesychasts chased exactly this: the place where the heart descends into the body, the mind quiets, and the soul tastes something that isn’t time-bound. With synaesthesia, it’s painted in color and motion, scored with sound, and lit from within by desire for the real homeland.
That longing. The desire for heaven is the most honest wordless prayer there is. It’s the Good Thief’s plea all over again. But this time it’s not spoken from the cross; it’s sung from the center of my being, wrapped in calm so deep it almost hurts to leave.
Synchronicity = synaesthesia
As a reminder, I am heavily involved with 2 Judicial Reviews. One, the review of the Elections Act of NS, had me working with all those terrible people who nourish my soul rather late last night producing a response brief to SCoNS Port Hawkesbury for a motion made by the AG of NS to scrape a clause out of our JR. So we got it done and now we are cleaning it up. A group effort. We have a great team.
This effort was a great deal of work and it has afforded me little time to do much else, including indulging in blog posting.

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I gave no real consideration to the storm that was bearing down on Nova Scotia. I am convinced that I have seen worst. I went to bed only to become aware of the storm when all the battery back-up UPS's started beeping. Then I rolled over and plugged my ears. It was not even a blustery storm so the outage was caused by something else. Even the snow was light on top with a wet underneath.
The generator ran from 8 am to 3 pm at which time the domestic power reactivated and the internet connection resumed. Snow blowed it all away with our ~24 year old Ariens 926 blower.
It was an inconsequential storm.
That said, there is no way to find out what exactly caused the outage in my neighbourhood. The only reason that I want to know is because it happens so frequently. Never is the fault in our neighbourhood. Never is the fault in Dartmouth Crossing. They never lost power. It is so odd.
Ecclesiastes 1
2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
Exodus 20:7
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain"
Explanation from The Catechism...CCC 2148
"It is also blasphemous to make use of God's name to cover up criminal practices, to reduce peoples to servitude, to torture persons or put them to death. The misuse of God's name to commit a crime can provoke others to repudiate religion. Blasphemy is contrary to the respect due God and his holy name. It is in itself a grave sin."
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Today gave me some time to catch up on essential reading and thinking.
...exausted... passing out sitting up...
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Time to have a snooze.
I had a wonderful and rich conversation with a Holy Man, Father Nathanael, yesterday. I mentioned that one may reach a point in one's life where he is so consumed with love for God that he desires to be with Him. Even if that means the end of one's bodily life. This Holy Man smiled and told me about Sister Death.
Near the end of his life, as death approached, Francis added the final stanza about Sister Death (sometimes translated as "Sister Bodily Death" or "our Sister Death"). Tradition holds that this verse was composed or added on his deathbed, and the full Canticle was sung for the first time in its complete form by Francis and two companions (Brothers Angelo and Leo) just before he died.

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death,
from whom no living person can escape.
Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
Blessed are those she finds doing Your most holy will.
The second death can do them no harm.
Praise and bless my Lord, and give Him thanks,
And serve Him with great humility.
I have a lot of hoses. I like avoiding kinks and storing them. I find winding them up as a counterproductive waste of time. I leave them out all summer because I use them, constantly. I do coil them up on the ground so I don't cut them with the lawn mower or crush the hose fittings with the car. But i do so in a fashion that limits kinking and tangles. Here is a 1 minute video of one such method. There are others, but you can get the point. Spooling = Twisting = Kinks. Hose reels are a shitty plastic compensation for ignorance. They all suck. Hoses should be laying flat on the ground.
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Many thanks for the beautiful people in my orbit. John especially tonight - for Psalm 91 amd 23.
I want to know if this is good for people.
While compliance with standards like IEC 60825-1 and IEC 62471 classifies these low-power emissions as safe under foreseeable conditions, direct long-term human studies on chronic, repeated daily exposure (e.g., multiple unlocks per day over years) remain limited or absent. Many conclusions extrapolate from acute models, therapeutic/high-dose contexts, or broader IR guidelines, leaving potential boundaries under-explored.
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51 Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
52 From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three;
53 a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
Synchronicity = serpent, password
Back at it... I was busy with the team for the past several days and we made significant progress. A few more loose ends to tidy up. Patent work, Clinical Trial work for Dal, ( ahem clean-up the office work... ugg), New idea hardening, ... yes, today is busy too.

I haven't much time lately for softer interests but I did have a great chat with Nick about Iron John by Robert Bly. It is a book that reaches into pagan myths so in that sense it is profane but the book and Bly's thinking is replete with truths about men and their relationships, especially with their sons.
The idea that Nick and I tangled with was the notion that rough play is not violence. Further, that a punch in the face is also not violence. It is shame. Shame from the punch in the face (if deserved) perpetuates for life. The pain is quickly forgotten. A punch in the face without shame is not violence either. It is boxing.
Nick is soliciting mentors as he becomes a young man of substance and character. As he finds men in our community, filters them, and build the categories for these men, he becomes the matrix, the glue of an aggregate of disparate men who do not know each other. Nick is fast becoming a tour de force unto himself as the accidental liaison between his chorus of exemplars.
Nick is becoming important.
Here below is a link to an enduring book that I have given to dozens of young men over the decades. This book and the new testament.
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I have a deadline tomorrow and I am working with the team buttoning up an important document for Justice Keith. Just a few more hours work I expect...
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What if original sin did not merely introduce death, but fractured eternity itself. Transforming the boundless "now" of Eden into the linear arrow of time we endure, where every instant seems to slip away?
In the state of original justice, Adam and Eve lived in Eden as a perpetual present, an "ever-abiding now" mirroring God's own eternity (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica I, q. 10). Time was not a relentless march toward decay but a harmonious cycle, unburdened by past regrets or future fears. The Fall, as taught in the Catechism (CCC 397–400), ruptured this communion, introducing mortality and the soul's "distention" (St. Augustine, Confessions XI): time became a finite arrow of entropy, labor, and longing.
Quantum mechanics offers a speculative echo: the observer effect collapses infinite potential into measured actuality, much as sin "collapsed" eternal simultaneity into sequential existence. Relativity shows time as relational, dilated by gravity or speed; likewise, sin severed our relation to God's timelessness, binding us to fragmented flow.
Yet Heaven restores what was lost. The beatific vision (CCC 1023–1029) immerses us in God's eternal "now," where past, present, and future converge in divine love. Quantum entanglement hints at this: instantaneous unity across distance, unbound by chronology.
Thus, original sin birthed our acute time awareness as a veil of separation, but Christ's redemption unveils the truth: the instant is infinity. In grace, every moment participates in eternity's embrace where all is held, all is renewed, and God is all in all.
This needs significantly more development. Neat idea.
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I thought I was just an engineer. I am not. I am a problem solver. And I have a couple of doozie problems!

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It was a phone call, texting, email, crazy day yesterday.
I got a lot done that I was putting off. I used the texting on my cell phone way too much.....Repairs to this site... I expect to fined plenty of errors today.
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Got a sweet email from Pat Norton this am. (I've known of Patricia for 51 years!!)
She has a love of words, the logos, synchronicity, the soup of ideas in which we are all immersed. She shared some with me. One is quiddity: the inherent nature or essence of someone or something.
Thank's Pat. Fun on Sunday.
I am a trained Professional Mechanical Engineer. I am thinking about my many friends who are heating their homes with HEAT PUMPS today. God bless you. There is very little heat to be extracted from the out-of-doors today at -15 C. So don't feel badly about using an otherwise dormant oil-fired furnace, electric space heaters, wood stoves, pellet stoves. Heat pumps are only running at low efficiency. So you might as well use resistive heating in terms of cost concerns. If you are running a pellet stove, be sure to periodically clean out the silver accumulation. ;)
Canada is the next Venezuela with respect to the oppressive foreign policy of China and their debt-based influence over debtor nations, CANADA being one. Trump likely sees the influence that China (CCP) has over Canadian affairs. I speculate that given what Trump just did in Venezuela, he'd not hesitate in using an armed arrest of Canadians, in Canada, if those traitors were contributing to the destabilization of Canada through acquiescence to CCP demands. China is all over CANADA, and Canadians are sleeping well, owning nothing and being happy.
Chinese CCP is operating within many layers of Canadian society and everyone is affected by it.
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We had a great day in court yesterday- JR PtH No. 538503
All 8 Applicants were humming along like a sweet 1932 V-8 engine.

Grace in the Manger
This essay below is a departure for me. I saw the news this morning and I see the Venezuela conflict as a predicate to how the USA government views Canada. So I, unusually, think out loud on geo-political matters of which I would categorize myself as fundamentally ignorant. That said, I see a pattern and I am concerned for the loss of human life and the cause is the Chinese Communist decades long play for world domination. Personally, I know more than I have written here below and it will all become known in due course. My apologies to my friends. I hope this essay is a unique exercise for me. Please share and criticize me. Many of you know more about the subject than I do.
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The Deceiver Provocateur
This is real.
A brilliant scholar binds himself to Mephistopheles (the devil) for knowledge and power. Despite warnings from love (Gretchen) and divine mercy, he pursues destruction, causing harm and risking damnation. The problem: presumption of control over malevolent forces leads to moral ruin.
Lady Macbeth aligns with her husband’s ambition (influenced by witches, a malevolent force) to murder and seize power. Despite her own conscience and indirect pleas from others (e.g., Macduff’s family), she descends into madness and suicide. The problem: invoking dark spirits for gain destroys the soul.
Catherine binds herself to Heathcliff (a vengeful, destructive figure) rejecting stable love from Edgar Linton. Despite pleas from family and friends (Nelly, Edgar), she chooses passion, leading to her death and eternal torment. The problem: obstinate pursuit of destructive alliance ruins life and afterlife.
Dorian aligns with Lord Henry’s corrupting hedonism (malevolent influence), leading to moral decay. Despite warnings from friend Basil Hallward, he pursues pleasure, destroying himself. The problem: alliance with evil for eternal youth/power consumes the soul.
These stories show the same tragic arc: a character knowingly binds to malevolence for perceived gain, ignores loving interference, and walks toward self-destruction. Redemption is rare or ambiguous — the choice to turn away is always possible but often refused.
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Oh Yes! Happy New Year to all people of good will.
I have the gift of foresight and suffer the curse of the Cassandra Complex so you will not hear what I think the future holds. I will not be believed so I will confine my public efforts to everything devoid of prognostications. You will have to seek your Tarot card readers for their notions, potions and lotions to soothe your mind, skin, and emotions.
You can't see the future without the Grace of God or the whispers from the anti-Christ. So live in the present, informed by the past and provide for the future.
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