By Michael Roll  

Bearing in mind the track record of countries called republics and  the antics of their political heads of state in recent times, I am not sure  that Thomas Paine would be against the idea of a constitutional  monarchy in Great Britain as we enter the so-called 21st century. That  is, a monarch freed from the burden of being head of the Catholic Church in England. However, there is no doubt that Thomas would be  fighting just as hard against the fact that men (not women) can actually  be born to legislate in the British Parliament. Inherited lords have more  power than the Royal Family! This is a paradox as bad as anything  invented by priests in the Dark Ages in order to keep the masses in  servitude. Surely the days are numbered for this crazy set-up called the  House of Lords.  

Perhaps today Thomas Paine would be more in line with the majority  of the members of the society that bears his name – secularists and  atheists. Thomas has been described as the most valuable Englishman  ever. The writings of Arthur Findlay, who must be a candidate for the  title of the most valuable Scotsman ever, would really appeal to arguably  the greatest enemy of tyranny who has ever lived – Thomas Paine.  Findlay says, if you must have this god dummy to suck, why not have a  whole stack of gods? Intelligent Greeks and Romans looked upon  religious mythology as a bit of fun, and could always fit in another god  here and there. As Gore Vidal says, it is monotheism that is easily the  greatest disaster ever to be inflicted on the human race. Findlay pleads  with the big daddy god merchants to put an extra “o” in this dreadful  priestly word that has caused the death of untold millions; start to move  in the paths of goodness. 

Recent revolutionary discoveries in subatomic physics, showing that  reality also exists in the invisible, vindicates Thomas Paine’s idea of a  separate mind and brain, alongside the possibility of us all surviving the  death of our physical bodies. Thomas may have more in common with  his contemporary supporters who call themselves survivalists. They part  company with their fellow secularists and atheists regarding the  immortality of the mind. An atheist is only a person who refuses to  grovel to a supreme, supernatural being invented by priests at a time  when it was thought the sun was a ball of fire going round a flat earth.  

Quantum mechanics – the study of the very small within the atom – proves that our building blocks are made of invisible stuff, therefore, it  is not so fantastic to imagine something we cannot see or sense,  containing the mind, separating from our physical bodies when they  eventually pack in.  

We have had the experimental scientific proof of survival after death  for over one hundred years. International teams of scientists carried out  repeatable experiments under laboratory conditions where people who  once lived on earth came back and showed they were still alive. In the  vanguard of these experiments were the great pioneers of radio and  television, Sir William Crookes, OM., FRS., Sir Oliver Lodge, FRS and  John Logie Baird. They argued that the so-called next world was  another wavelength like invisible radio and television signals, but at a  much higher frequency: “An possible utilisation of the ether by  discarnate intelligences must be left as a problem for the future.” (Sir  Oliver Lodge).  

Well the future is here. Bath based British scientist, Ronald Pearson,  has returned in triumph from the Sir Isaac Newton Conference in  St.Petersburg, Russia. Physicists in Russia have discarded Einstein’s  outdated Theory of Relativity and taken on Pearson’s extensions to  Newton’s laws bringing the ether theory right back into play. Now we  have the mathematical data to back up the seemingly supernatural  experiments that took place at the turn of the century. We now have a  rational explanation to account for why our ancestors invented all the  divisive religions. They thought the etheric people appearing to their  pals on earth after they had died were angels, devils, gods or big daddy  god himself. With the benefit of hindsight, we now know the people in  the “next world” are for the most part just as thick and stupid as when  they were on earth. Most definitely not to be worshipped or kowtowed to.