John Surmont
Upstate New York
"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him." Colossians 1:16
This podcast serves as a personal audio repository to provide a first-hand account of my experiences, insights, and reflections that brought me full circle back to the truth that there is but one true God, and he is The Alpha and The Omega.
Approaching many years after the fact, I have chosen to keep these recordings in the public domain as a service to the public. In some ways, I believe that the most responsible and respectful thing I could do was to document the entire process and disclose it to serve as my witness and testimony.
This archive is my personal audio repository. It exists to provide a first-hand account of my experiences in coming to accept the truth that God exists, is real and present, and active, regardless of our protests, doubts, and selfish beliefs.
As an experimental test subject for the elevation of human consciousness through EEG guided, repetitive electromagnetic transcranial treatments, I unwittingly was catapulted on to this astonishing journey. A transcendental and metaphysical journey where science and religion converge. A journey through science, into, through, and beyond transcendence. I am thankful that through this experience I have come to know and trust God with all of my being and accept that it is his will that I am alive and sane enough to share the truth with believers, seekers, and nonbelievers alike.
While parts of my journey have been rife with tyranny, danger, toils, and snares both physical, mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual, I am thankful to be here to serve as a witness through my own testimony that God is absolute and present.
As I continue my journey of recovery, I believe that God has been and continues to work in my life. My journey is one of multiple deaths and continuous renewal, including time in the wilderness, along with much pain and suffering, much of it self-imposed. Today, I am grateful for the renewal of my faith in the Creator, the One True God. Here, my story is humbly submitted, meant to serve as a source of inspiration and encouragement to accept the truth that humanity and creation are not accidents or mistakes and that there is a divine plan and coherence to our internal and external struggles. Our connection to our creator cannot be hidden from us forever because God's love is infinite and all-encompassing.
The "In-Crisis" portion of the recordings are self-documented intimate shares with in-situ effects and interpretations. Later recordings are my unsophisticated attempts to make sense of the process of suddenly awakening to the transcendental nature of my consciousness or "enlightenment", which included the disintegration of self, descent into and through the spiritual abyss and beyond the veil of human perception as well as the process of attempting to describe the indescribable of numerous conversations with God The Father through experiencing elevated consciousness, and the psychological, emotional, spiritual aftermath in the modern world of today.
This story is fundamentally a dense layer of themes nested within a dense layer of stories framed within the context of the transcendental nature of human consciousness.
My journey and the transcendental nature of my experiences resulted from the hidden use of electromagnetic medical and scientific analysis, investigation, experimentation, utilization, validation, and verification, which fundamentally led me to the revelation of God and his presence and stewardship of my life and all life - He is the sovereign of all consciousness, past, present, and future.
While my experiences may have been presented as a disastrous failure and catastrophe of my own mind, the truth is as astonishing as it is unbelievable.
This library of audio files is my testimony to society, meant to serve as an invitation to recognize and accept that the very hard problem of integrating what started as a scientific inquiry and has now become a transcendental (metaphysical) story is because that's the story of humanity.
Additional audio files detail personal descriptions of crude attempts to process my experiences as well as attempt to articulate of my conversations with God about the nature of consciousness itself.
I want to reiterate that while my journey has been difficult and at times painfully deadly, it has also been transformative and enlightening. I hope that by sharing my story, I can offer hope and encouragement to those who may be struggling with their own beliefs or experiences. I also hope to inspire further research and exploration into the nature of consciousness and the potential benefits of Neurotechnology.
Finally, I want to express my gratitude to God for guiding me through this journey and for giving me the strength to persevere through the challenges. I am also grateful to those who have supported me along the way, including my family, friends, and medical professionals. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my story.
Epilogue
Sharing a pertinent quote from Dr. Carl Rogers. a prominent American psychologist.
In this excerpt, Dr. Rogers argues that science can begin at any level of sophistication and that acute observation and creative thinking are the foundations of science. He challenges the idea that science only starts in a laboratory or with the use of advanced instruments, emphasizing that even simple observations and hypotheses can be the beginning of scientific inquiry.
Rogers also asserts that there is a natural history of science, where any new field of scientific endeavor begins with gross observations, speculative hypotheses, and crude measurements. He believes that this is just as much science as more refined methods in a fully developed field of study. The key factor, according to Rogers, is the direction of movement towards more exact measurement, rigorous theory, and findings that have greater validity and generality.
Overall, Rogers highlights the importance of a developing mode of inquiry in science and warns against sterile pseudo-science that relies solely on exact methods but lacks direction and growth. His ideas align with the philosophy of science that emphasizes the importance of observation, hypothesis formation, and empirical testing in scientific inquiry, regardless of the level of sophistication or refinement of the methods used.
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"For example, it seems to me right and natural that in any new field of scientific endeavor the observations are gross, the hypotheses speculative and full of errors, the measurements crude." (Page 188)
“It is my opinion that the type of understanding which we call science can begin anywhere, at any level of sophistication. To observe acutely, to think carefully and creatively—these activities, not the accumulation of laboratory instruments, are the beginnings of science. To observe that a given crop grows better on the rocky hill than in the lush bottom land, and to think about this observation, is the start of science. To notice that most sailors get scurvy but not those who have stopped at islands to pick up fresh fruit is a similar start. To recognize that, when a person's views of himself change, his behavior changes accordingly, and to puzzle over this, is again the beginning of both theory and science. I voice this conviction in protest against the attitude, which seems too common in American psychology, that science starts in the laboratory or at the calculating machine.” (Page 188)
"A closely related belief is that there is a natural history of science — that science, in any given field, goes through a patterned course of growth and development. For example, it seems to me right and natural that in any new field of scientific endeavor the observations are gross, the hypotheses speculative and full of errors, the measurements crude. More important, I hold the opinion that this is just as truly science as the use of the most refined hypotheses and measurements in a more fully developed field of study. The crucial question in either case is not the degree of refinement but the direction of movement. If in either instance the movement is toward more exact measurement, toward more clear- cut and rigorous theory and hypotheses, toward findings which have greater validity and generality, then this is a healthy and growing science. If not, then it is a sterile pseudo science, no matter how exact its methods. Science is a developing mode of inquiry, or it is of no particular importance." (Page 188)
-- Dr. Carl Rogers, 1959
Reference:
Rogers, C. (1959). Psychology: A Study of a Science. Study 1, Volume 3: Formulations of the Person and the Social Context (1240218084 920113051 S. Koch, Ed.). In Psychology: A study of a science (pp. 184-256). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
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