About a year ago, a Facebook fan of my spiritual teachings introduced me to Nassim Haramein’s far-out physics/metaphysics. But I didn’t have much interest in them, because (despite a year of physics in high school and another in college), I lacked the background to fully understand and judge them (and I wasn’t about to invest the time and energy to do so). But I was intrigued by the fact that Haramein, a non-degreed autodidact, was being touted by some as the new Einstein.Â
When my Facebook fan continued to post Haramein articles at my Facebook group page – Electrical-Hermetic Christianity -- I Googled Haramein and learned that he had little, if any, credibility in the mainstream physics community. And the physics papers that he had published were not in respected peer review journals. At that time there was still a Wikipedia.org page of Haramein, but now it has been removed. Wikipedia, citing criticism of Haramein’s physics, explains why:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nassim_Haramein_(2nd_nomination)
One thing that troubles me about Haramein is the lack of a book that summarizes his teachings. Instead, one must subscribe to his not-inexpensive online courses to glean his physics and metaphysics “wisdom.â€
Given Haramein’s lack of credibility in the professional physics community and his failure to provide a book on his research and teachings, I wasn’t about to invest any more time considering his “wisdom†until he produced something noteworthy.  But when my Facebook fan recently posted a short Haramein video on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and I then encountered Haramein’s hubristic comment (below) on the Tree of Life, I felt moved to challenge him. Here’s Haramein’s comment:        Â
“Nassim Haramein has decoded the geometric figure that is know as "The Tree of Life." 10 "golden globes" connected by 22 channels, they say they come in pairs: 10 + 22 x 2 = 64, the same number as the number of tetrahedrons you need to create the first octivisation of the perfect vector equilibrium geometry of space-time.â€
I’ve devoted a good deal of time to studying and considering the Kabbalistic/Qabalistic Tree of Life – and I say Haramein’s statement is complete balderdash. With this in mind, I posted a challenge at Electrical-Hermetic Christianity and at several other Facebook groups devoted to Hermetic and Kabbalistic studies, inviting anyone in the Haramein camp to elaborate and argue for Haramein’s “decoding†of the Tree of Life. Nobody responded. Here is my challenge:
“Somebody send him [Haramein] this message, and have him respond. I say there are no "golden globes." Where are they, and what are they? After he describes the twenty "golden globes, have him describe the 44 paths.
His 3-D explanation [in his video] is a joke. We depict the planets of our solar system two-dimensionally on paper, yet, if we consider them three-dimensionally, this does not double the number of planets. Why the doubling with the Sephirot and paths (from 32 to 64)?
If it were up to me, I would give 20 "Golden Globes" awards for hucksterism to Haramein for the Kabbalah Krap he has fabricated.
I say he's full of hooey. Let's see him demonstrate otherwise.â€
When I again called for a response to my challenge from the Haramein camp, my Facebook fan attempted to get an answer from Haramein’s Resonance Project. The “right person†to get this response, according to my Facebook fan, was Jamie Janover, but the the only answer forthcoming from Jamie was: "That post [the Haramein quote above] was simply stating what is commonly understood in the description of the tree. I am sure the golden globes are more figurative than literal..."
That response from Jamie is, in a word, unsatisfactory. Until I get a satisfactory response to my challenge, which means Haramein explaining each of the twenty Sephirot (“Golden Globesâ€) and forty-four paths (or channels) , I’ll continue to consider him a “New Age huckster.â€
Nassim Haramein = New Age Huckster
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You make no sense.
Haramein is the one who makes no sense regarding Kabbalah. Perhaps you can explain what Haramein fails to do so.
I think it’s funny that you call Haramein hubristic when your challenge is completely based on the hubris that you are understanding the Kabbalah that you have been studying. If you would watch his more than 8 hour film, Crossing the Event Horizon (which can be found on YouTube), instead of dismissing him right out of the box for lack of a degree and for not having published a book, you would plainly see exactly what he does with the tree of life. He takes the rectangle in the middle, slides it up into the rectangle on the top, which turns the two dimensional figure into 3D geometry of an octahedron with a tetrahedron at its base. This geometry is very significant to his unified field theory, and with it he is able produce the 64 square tetrahedron grid that, according to his theory, is the fundamental geometry of time-space itself. Or in other words, the very geometry of creation. But just because he has decoded the tree in this way, do not make the mistake in thinking that this is the only way the tree can be decoded.
The reason he doubled the paths is because he is seeing them as only one half of a code. He is basically adding its other half, or polarity, to complete it. He thinks that only one half of the code was given to make it more difficult to decipher. Something similar was also done with the flower of life pattern by the ancients. It’s only after one extrapolates out the circles that get cut off by its boundary that the true figure emerges. Interestingly enough the full figure of the flower of life in 3D also gives you the 64 square square tetrahedron grid, as well as reveales Metatron’s Cube, which itself reveals the tetrahedron and the octahedron, just as the tree of life does.
Nassim Haramein is not a serious student of Kabbalah, has not taken the path that you have, and I’m sure he has not read all the texts that you have. He has simply visually decoded the tree of life and in this way it is a confirmation that his theory is accurately describing the true nature of this physical reality. Is that not what you are trying to do by studying Kabbalah? Understand the true nature of reality?
I wonder what you think the end goal of your studies are. I too spent years studying the Kabbalah. It took me a very long time to see it because the language is not the same, but it now seems very clear to me that these teachings are leading the initiate towards this same thing that the Buddhists call Enlightenment, or having the direct awareness of one’s connection to all things. This is what it means to perceive reality as it really is, beyond the limitations of one’s five senses. Answering the things you challenge Haramein to answer, if one is able to, is just one path to get there, but it is not the only path. If you would give his work a chance you might see that he is scientifically proving, in an intellectual way, the exact same thing your teachings are trying to get you to realize the direct awareness of.
It’s time to open your mind, my friend. Because right now your spirituality is stagnant.
Very interesting.
Again, Al, please describe the 20 golden globes (Sephirot) and 44 paths that result from Haramein’s 3-dimensional Kabbalah. Even if Haramein is right about the geometry of creation — and I’m not agreeing that he is — that does not help anyone spiritually, which is what the Sephirot and paths purport to do.
Buddhism is simply about understanding conditional reality as impermanent (samsara) and not the Source of true Happiness (Nirvana), which is realized by abiding in the Unborn Realm, the Alaya, or Dharmakaya.
People search up theoria apophasis on YouTube and look at what magnetism looks like through a ferracal Lense. It looks like the flower of life.