Modern nirvanaism

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Preface

Ill the eventful year of 1883 two experiences coincided which caused me to object to the philosophies of the past and start the elaboration of a new philosophy. The one experience was "spiritism" and all it involved under the most favorable conditions ; the other was the discovery of inverse proportionality as the law of the world's forces.

When experiencing the "spiritistic facts" which I had to admit as being true if I had confidence in my own senses, abilities and judgment, I confronted the other fact that all philosophical teachings of the past and present, and also the teachings of "spiritualism" as represented by the churches were against these facts. Especially was it the great mediumistic phase of u materialisation" which was condemned from all sides while it was just this phase which interested me most.

It soon became a question with me whether philosophy in all its systems was wrong or whether my experiences in the seance rooms were delusions and my senses unreliable. I was young and unhampered by prejudical training and simply took the position that, since the various speculative and other theories and philosophies as they stood did not in any way agree with the facts that I had tested and found true, all the philosophies of the past were untrue and it was time to start a new, really scientific philosophy, not based on hypotheses, but on facts and laws, which will not deny the facts of which I had convinced myself, but explain them scientifically.

At about the same time, through some operations in drawing, I found the figure of the law of the constant product of inverse proportionality and proclaimed this as the fundamental principle of scientific philosophy which in my case was mainly to be used for the explanation of the so-called spiritistic facts, though it was evident that, if true, it would be fundamental for a general explanation of the world.

I commenced new experiments with mediums and ghosts which soon disproved the theory of "spiritualism," when applied to such stuffy ghosts as I could lock up with glassplates. •'

From my figures, representing the new principle, I concluded that materialism and spiritualism, the opposite extremes, are equally wrong and that the truth is somewhere in the middle between them, but not as an addition of the two, making dualism, without neutralizing the individuality of each of them, but as an equalization of their tendencies to a new independent philosophy which excludes the extremes and does not require the ghosts to consist of "spirit" and change to "matter" in order to be perceptible. I simply denied the existence of "matter and spirit" as impossible forcestuffs.

In 1886 I finished a little work which was published early 1887 and was mailed gratis to many people. The title of it was "The Tail of the Earth ; — or The Location and Condition of the Spirit- World." It contained most of the principal ideas in a rough shape that are developed in this present work.

A part of the new philosophy, referring to gravity I published in a German work, called "Die Schwere; oder Isaac Newton's Irrthum". It was printed in Zurich in 1897.

In the following years a number of articles by me on the new ghost theory were published in American, English and German spiritistic periodicals.

In 1903, a pamphlet written by me in 1902 in the shape of articles that appeared in a periodical in Leipzig, was published, the German title of which means : "Life and Death ; or The New Theory of Ghosts". Of course, scientists and so-called philosophers who received copies, did not respond, because anything that smells of ghosts is below their "dignified" consideration and respectability.

' All these years I experienced and observed that the official scientists, with few exceptions, cannot be induced to touch the ghosts. In Galileo's time they refused to look through his telescope ; in our time they refuse to investigate mediumism for fear to find facts which contradict the teachings they get paid for.

Again I publish a work on the ghosts. But this time I challenge the sneering scientists by offering a reward for disproof of the basis of a ghosttheory, in order to place them where they belong with their cowardly hesitation. Opposition to all so-called laws of nature, theories and philosophies which do not agree with the existence of natural ghosts, and the development of a new philosophy, the first that is scientific and agreeable to all facts, is the object of this present work.

I invite scientific criticism, opposition and help. I ask those who will say something about this matter to send me their writings.

INVITATION

To invite attempts at disproof of the foundation of the new philosophy of galomalism, including nirvanaism, by offering a reward for a disproof may be new, but it seems to be a good way to overcome indifference or avoidance and compel opponents to take issue.

I hereby offer one thousand dollars as a reward to be paid to the person who disproves the law of the inverse proportionality of the world's forces and the constancy in time and space of the forceproduct called galom, as the fundamental worldlaw, thereby disproving galom as the absolute essence of the world.

In order to earn the thousand dollars and at the same time wipe out another mistaken attempt at philosophy it will be required to disprove Article IX and the appendix thereto. The guaranteed price is to be awarded by three judges in the usual manner. I feel perfectly sure that no one will earn this money, but I want a certain class of truth-avoiders to understand that here is something which they need not try to kill with avoidance, phraseology or intimations, such as used against the spiritists. They must disprove it or admit it or be silent. They will be silent, but others will speak this time. If galom is the world's essence then galomalism and nirvanaism are true.

The Author.

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Preface 3

Invitation 6