The Book of Divinie I
A Collection of Published Writings.
©2023 Divinie - All Rights Reserved
Dedicated to Jesus, Vyolet, Mom, Dad, and Rain.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- The Book of Divinie I
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Part I: Perspective
- Glossary
- Consciousness
- Reality
- Spirit
- Philosophy and Religion
- Truth
- Sight
- Understanding
- The All Reality
- Getting closer to the real you
- "Set your mind on things above, not of earthly things.”
- The real me,
- The righteousness of the future is not the righteousness of today.
- The righteousness of the future is one that is absolute.
- This radical way of righteousness is a game changing possibility because it is absolute.
- Christ's approach is radical because it is revolutionary,
- Indecision, unsurety, leads to choice paralysis.
- This is in the way that no artwork is instantly finished. It takes time to create an artwork, it takes time to develop consistently.
- The rock the thread is connected to is an idea.
- It is to adhere to a certain way that gives man the ability to make his own choices, to control his own actions.
- The ideas Christ proposes are revolutionary because they are constant and consistent ideas, they never change.
- For example, Christ often had somewhere to be, a mission to attend to, but then he would run into a crowd.
- The subtlety of the mind of man is shown here:
- Love in Life
- Love is Mattering.
- Love is Valuable.
- Why? What makes the difference?
- Love is Unexpected.
- Love is Real.
- Love is Character.
- Love demonstrates a realistic appreciation of value.
- Love can break the Matrix.
- The onset of being in a future where that testimony of love came into existence already,
- You can only see through eyes of love.
- What matters has changed.
- What the most important thing is, that changes what you are going to worry about.
- Between the red heart and this, these experiences are different.
- Perfect Flow State
- “The All Reality”
- The Real You
- The Real You is a Totality
- What is Light?
- Question Clarity
- Who is God
- "What is God?"
- Where is God?
- Who is God?
- Who is the Father?
- Desire
- The Network
- What is Way?
- God Doesn’t Need You?
- How does that feel?
- Now, consider this, does the data suggest that God does not need you?
- Do you know who you are?
- A Different Pursuit
- Part II:
- Mysticism: Love Still Unknown
- Sets of Values as a Means of An Error-Correcting System
- The concept of having a set of values involves a relationship with our internal 'error-correcting systems'.
- Anything can be a false virtue, and false virtues do not have to be extreme.
- More common, is far more subtle false virtues.
- How do you determine real virtue from false virtue?
- A Voice Control Technique
- ChatGPT:
- The Outcome of Consciously Creating Reality
- The Perfect Reality Finds You
- A Reinterpretation of Afterlife
- A Reinterpretation of Rebirth
- Real Teachers
- A Brief Model of Awakening Consciousness
- Crypto: The Metaphor to Artificiality
- To Everyone Who Hates God
- Two Ways to Actualize Change
- Brahman’s Cheat Code
- Orbit, Color, Connection
- Mark - Divi Interpretations
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
- Part V
- To Be and Not
- Antidote to Heaviness
- The Presence of Eternity is Near
- The Shift in Human Consciousness
- Writings on the Awareness
- Deeper Into The Shadow
- Radical Self-Compassion
- Why is self-compassion so widely advised, yet seldom seen or applied in life?
- Project Inspiration WAR — Vision
- II. Infinite Wish
- III. Idea Rituals
- IV. Ideas Rain
- Part III:
- A Message
- Remember, this is your world, your future, to create whatever you desire, whatever life you want to live.
- Change the World
- Hacking the Future
- 1. Background: Hacker
- 2. Background: The Niche
- 3. The System
- Delivery Transcends Content
- We must not cover up a student's access to sunlight over the shadow of our wisdom.
- The first is the voice declaring death to spirit.
- The second voice is the voice of Life.
- We recognize great teachers in history by this second method of teaching.
- The Perfect Voice
- Capturing It
- Design
- How many of those like us are born, and of how geographically far apart, is a matter of statistical probability.
- While not necessarily individually scripted, the basis for these scripts is an observable series of prototyping.
- If I were to design a world, I wouldn't want to individually create billions of stories and lives.
- Even our apparently shared subconsciousness -which science has observed- makes sense of this.
- It would be simple for a designer to program us with an innate instruction to believe in a God.
- Repetition
- Listener’s Reward
- Closing Thoughts
Introduction
This book contains my collected works during the time of 2019-2023.
Part I: Perspective
Glossary
Consciousness
We exist inside of a consciousness.
This consciousness has an awake state and a sleeping state.
An awake state of consciousness is known as awareness, and there are levels of awareness.
A sleeping state of consciousness is known as ignorance or unawareness, and is autonomic.
As an individual consciousness, we participate in consciousness in aware and unaware states, and our participation affects consciousness.
Reality
Reality is life as it is, real life. Our thinking can either be more or less associated to reality.
This creates an individuated perspective of reality for us, created in terms we can understand.
Spirit
Spirit is the “voice”, “breath”, “light”, “knowing” of consciousness, it is not individuated and once it is observed, this is easily referred to as, “activated”.
Once it is activated, unawareness will autonomously react to light as a threat and attempt to destroy it.
Spirit appears to be an awake intelligence existing in consciousness, which is is heard in what is known as soundless meaning. Mankind often calls this soundless meaning “revelation”,
which in a modern world we might call, “a direct download of meaning”,
the meaning of the information is understood fully without the use of language or symbols.
Philosophy and Religion
Humans interpret reality into meaningful words, and pass these words to other humans.
Experiential information is information you have firsthand experience with.
All other information you receive from others and reinterpret based on your known experience.
Humans often interpret firsthand information which is real, then interpret that information within a limited scope. This creates what as known as subjective reality.
Truth
Truth can only be validated if the individuated consciousness can validate it as true, as real and not false.
The truth inherent in life is that life has worth or value.
If life has worth, that worth can be observed by an evaluation of value.
If life has value, life becomes sacred. This means precious, it is worthy of being valued.
Sight
If life has no value, nothing is inherently sacred, and this is known as ‘blindness’.
Sight is the ability to appreciate value inherent in life, and evaluate that value.
Understanding
Understanding, or our level of clarity is the ability to comprehend meaningful information in a more or less complicated way. If our thinking is complicated, we have little clarity.
As our thinking becomes more clear, it is easier for us to comprehend meaningful information.
‘Darkness’ is associated with confusion because it involves complex thinking which clouds understanding. ’Light’ is associated with understanding because clarity ‘illuminates’ the meaning inherent in information.
The All Reality
I have described this reality in many ways, one of them being as so, ”In that reality which is coming, there is only perfection, infinite and instant revelation of meaning, infinitely meaningful experiences that come at a rate of perfect flow from one to the next, all good things of reality come together such as family and connection, there is no suffering, there is nothing but fulfillment and miracles and possibilities of destiny transpiring, there is no darkness, no fear, no injury, that's all on the outside, on the inside there is infinite healing of all wounds, there is the pure and perfect person that is complete and loved, a life which is a celebration of the miracle of existence itself. The way this happens makes it a definitive outcome that all realities dissolve into the actual Reality. This is because when Reality comes, it is like a wave of truth which evaporates any untruth that had appeared before it.”
Answers to questions:
“What is light in your writings?”
“Light in my writings is related to a newness, fresh thought. Light is also truth and realness, for example, if I expose the darkness of what is lies to the truth of what exists right now, that darkness is changed and destroyed upon contact, An alchemical reaction changes the outcome. Light is like the creative force, it is also like the restoration of the original image. Light is also what is happening now. There is a consideration, that if you are perceiving darkness in your soul, it is because you are the light perceiving the darkness. You cannot see any darkness unless you are the light. This means that you are the light of the world but you don't know or notice it, You don't notice that you are the light of the world. You perceive yourself as the darkness, but the one who is looking at the darkness is light. The light also has intentions. Why do you want to heal? Why do you want to be better? Why do you want to be different? Why do you want to change? Why do you want to be without sin? Why do you want to not be evil? Why do you want to be fixed? Why do you want to be whole? Why do you want to not suffer? Why do you not want to be in pain? Why do you want to be loved? It is because you are not the self which wishes to be loved, You are that which is wishing for the self to be loved. You are that which is always intending good things for you in every perceivable way and area of your life. Is it not true? Are not all of your real intentions to have a better life? Everything every intention everything you do is trying to figure out how to be loved, not abandoned, not rejected, not sick, not hurt,
Look and see if this is true, In every moment of your life you want to be cared about you want to win, That is you, the light, always there, that has been with you in your every striving. You are the light of the world, but if in you is a speck of darkness, how great is that darkness? The answer is that darkness is so great it is a darkness that casts across the entire world, Because your light always casts across the entire world. If you do not know that you are the light, and you believe that you are the darkness in you, that darkness projects across the earth because that darkness is a form of blindness, that blindness is the blindness of not perceiving the light.
And if you do not see that you are the light you will not see that others are the light either
And when you really see it, You see that there is nothing of the self that is not the dust of the earth. When you are the light you see that Satan is a great metaphor for the self because the self is not even alive, it is a mechanical automation, nothing but dust and it is no different than any other dust.
All of this world's automations are metaphors for the dead world which appears to be alive. The self appears to be alive but it is only a part of the unfolding of all things. Everything unfolding in this world is playing out exactly as it was going to play out, including the lives of all people. The objects in motion stay in motion until an equal or opposite force opposes them. It is not unless an outside change element enters the old picture that the picture will change in any way. The only thing that is actually alive is not in this world. The only thing that is actually alive is new and it is unknown and it is that which can be injected into the old picture if we choose to consciously participate with it, That is why all of this has so much to do with letting things go”
Getting closer to the real you
"Set your mind on things above, not of earthly things.”
The road to self-discovery, self-inquiry, leads one to answer the question, "Who am I?" Modern thought has raised up a concept that "you are what you think about." This is the concept that you define yourself by your thoughts. This would mean that the answer to "Who am I?" would be, "my thoughts."
Now, surely you can recognize that you cannot just be "your thoughts", since you did not author all of your thoughts and many of them are borrowed.
Then there are only two considerations. Either you are not your thoughts at all, or some of your thoughts are yours, and some of your thoughts are not yours. Which thoughts are yours, and which thoughts are borrowed? Does to have borrowed thoughts which are not yours mean that you are not being yourself? What does it mean to be, "being yourself?"
If some thoughts are 'more you', and some thoughts are 'less you', then to think about the thoughts that are 'more you' means that you are being yourself, and to think about the thoughts that are 'less you' means that you are losing yourself.
Here is the problem. How do you know which thoughts are the real you? How do you even know the real you?
Are you even qualified, from a limited set of information, to determine which is the real you?
Surely you know.
For most people, the thoughts which are "yours" are the ones that you have repeated most frequently and they have become most comfortable, most familiar. This is why you hold tight to your ideas and resist change.
For those on a pathway to discovery, perhaps self-discovery, a person looks for the information that is the most real, the most accurate and verifiable information they can find. This person has questions, they don't want answers, they want to know.
Soon they will not associate themselves with the thoughts that are familiar to them, but the thoughts that resonate with a resounding in their hearts, like an ancient memory being prompted, when they hear the sound, they begin to remember something they have forgotten. They begin to regain themselves, who they are. For those, the thoughts that are theirs are the ones that resonate, and eventually they may come to realize that the reason these thoughts resonate, are because they are the core of oneself, the core of what they know and understand and believe. This is a part of the light that calls them, the light is also the truth which exists inside of them, which when they see and hear in the world, they say, "I know that sound, I know that voice, I remember this, it is calling to me."
I have found a powerful idea in this, "Keep your mind on eternal things, not which passes by.."
I began to put this into practice, and I found a phenomenon, a possibility of being.
When I was young, this statement meant that perhaps it was virtuous to think of heavenly things, and so we ought to. Perhaps it was helpful to look up at heaven and turn our eyes from the destruction of the earth, a sight that might damage us over time. In any case, the idea was that we might be afforded a temporary distraction if we focused on better things.
This is no longer my interpretation, or at least there is a much greater possibility here.
As I began to focus on the nature and way of all that which is Eternal and Unchanging, I began also to see all that which is temporal and disappearing. It was easy of course to look at others, to watch their focuses and aspirations and moods swing this way and that through the days and weeks. Eventually I began to notice my own self's temporal nature, and I began to observe all that arose and disappeared in the moment. I began to disidentify with the temporary nature of my self, I began to disidentify with my self, which is temporary.
As I investigated I came to find this coming down to thoughts, which of my thoughts were of a temporary nature? Of course I could easily recognize that thoughts of worries and doubts were of a temporary nature, they were fleeting, such that I would never remember them again. I could easily recognize that limited and meaningless thoughts were fleeting, I would never see them again.
I set the idea that I am an eternal being, and based on this premise, those thoughts were not the real me.
This is when I discovered this understanding, an understanding that without 'thoughts of an eternal nature', a person has no consistency. They cannot be a real self, because there is not often a common thread to tie the individual throughout the many changing experiences of life.
This is when I began to understand, things change, life changes, we change, but eternal concepts and thoughts and values and virtues remain as constants.
This is when I began to see that if I lost myself, surely I cannot find myself again, forgetting who I even was, but if I put my mind on eternal things, then I return to the same place once more, and once more again.
There is still the transient, temporal me, the self that will die but there is also a constant me, returning each moment and each day of existence, with this human experience.
The real me,
is like a lion sleeping deep down inside of me. He can be roused, he can be stirred up to awaken, but without reason to act, he will slowly return to a slumber.
The lion is roused by a specific sound that it knows, a sound it remembers. When it hears the sound, it begins to awaken,
The sound has a tune, it has a meaning, it has a charge, and it is the sound of my real voice, my real meaning. When I write, I attempt to draw from that sound. I attempt to eat from that electric charge.
If there is no charge in the sound of the voice I am writing from, I discard the writing entirely.
Here is the discovery, if I hear the sound often, the lion will stay awake. Whether the sound comes from my own voice or the voice of another, the more often I see it, the more time I will have spent as myself in my life.
My temporal self includes the parts of me that are decaying. They are only sustained so long as I continue to reinvoke them and keep them alive. My real self has quadratic growth, every second spent with that self grows the real me in its virtues and in a resonance with its charge.
As I have meditated on these eternal things, one of the closest to me at this time is righteousness, which evokes a strength and courage from me from whence I do not know where it comes.
The righteousness of the future is not the righteousness of today.
The righteousness of today is the mind of man. Our current world is in the state that it is because this is the world that the modern man has created. This is the world that modern thinking has created.
People believe that they belong to the correct tribe that has the correct righteousness, that their tribe is immune to the mind of man. It is not, the mind of man, the modern man, is in all of the religions and ways, it hides in a person's blind spots.
The righteousness of the future is one that is absolute.
The future righteousness is also the future where the future world reflects this righteousness, and there is harmony in the mind of man. This absolute way is first acknowledged by the 10 Commandments, and later defined by Jesus Christ. This way was also spoken about by those who see the future, called the 'prophets', but those types often have trouble articulating their understanding and meaning.
This future righteousness is absolute, it says, "You will not murder." Some time later, Christ adds, "You will love your enemies". Then He adds statements, "Pray for those who persecute you and who are against you."
This radical way of righteousness is a game changing possibility because it is absolute.
Man's righteousness is conditional and based upon the mind and opinions of man. Man's mind says, "Yes, this is true, unless.." It says, "Yes, you should not murder, unless.." "Yes, we should love our enemies, unless.. they wrong us." "We should not murder, unless they are those wicked people."
This is what the mind of man does and it is in every church and organization and group in the world because it is inside of us. These conditional statements we add to the way instructed is why the Bible says that all throughout time people have refused to listen, how they are told as the most famous example, not to build idols, and they build idols right after instructed. It works just like this, "Yes, we should not build idols above God. Unless it's for a good reason!"
There is no commitment to the principle outlined, and so they are neither here nor there, one might be this way one moment, and that way the next.
If this is the case, a person may desire to follow God, but they are unable, because they have made no commitment to honor this. Of course this must come out of a loving devotion for goodness and love itself, for the love of love, for goodness' actual sake, but that is beyond the scope of this writing.
Even if they have the hearts desire to be good, one must commit to something absolute to hold onto it, otherwise the mind has the power to selectively choose when and where it decides that the word of God applies.
It is easy to fall into one's own sense of charged righteous fury and do anything in the name of God, both God's and our own charge of passion feel right and just to us in the moment. While riding the high of that passion, man often uses God to achieve man's righteousness.
The upside of man's righteousness is that you can gain power, love, still benefit from God's word, and be righteous in your own eyes. The downside of man's righteousness is that in your blind spots you participate in darkness in your blind spots, but more difficult for the individual, is that man's righteousness can create choice anxiety. As you are not absolute in what you should do, in how you should operate, the mind questions this or that, in terms of principle, it serves no master, it may be here or there.
Christ's approach to solve this problem is radical, it is also crazy. Absurd. It is crazy to be absolute, because there may be serious consequences, and how far will you take absolute? This is why radicals are called crazy, because they are unstoppable. Such as a machine programmed with a directive, they set a goal and they stick to it.
This world glorifies those who do this on some days, and calls them psychopaths on other days. The world respects and fears this.
Christ's approach is radical because it is revolutionary,
revolutionary because it aligns with the truth that it believes, out of that commitment to loving devotion for goodness, and it presents a way to serve one master instead of two. The mind of man cannot handle or accept this approach, because it will always say, "What if?" That's what makes a radical approach so radical, so dangerous, there exists the "What if?"
His approach is forgive, bless, love, radically.
When asked about this, "How many times should I forgive?" He jokingly says seven times seven times. He jokes because he knows the words are lost on his listeners, he knows that by asking the question, they are not listening to him.
If you determine 'when and where' you 'should' forgive, your mind will always be here and there, and you will always be influenced by the different arguments that people in your world give to you. Many people are skilled in influence, and make convincing arguments, because of your unsurety, you will lean into their opinions.
Indecision, unsurety, leads to choice paralysis.
You cannot be sure of what you believe in if you do not stand for it in your action. Instead, you will feel unsure of if what you are saying is true, as it is not put in practice. What you practice becomes your way by means of repetition, stacked action stacking upon stacked action. Initially it is difficult to commit to a practice or way of action, but this becomes more natural over time.
To come from a mind of inconsistency, it is difficult to do something consistent, initially. Inconsistency, however, can regarded as skill-less, while consistency can be regarded as skillful, as having a skill of consistency. Skills are developed, they do not come naturally. This means that no one starts with a consistent mind.
This is in the way that no artwork is instantly finished. It takes time to create an artwork, it takes time to develop consistently.
What makes this kind of choice consistency such a radical option is how powerful it is. The inconsistency in one's mind is like raw sand, raw dirt, raw material, space in which something concrete might later be built. Once you set the intention to have a commitment to a consistent practice, you have created a consistent thread, you have established this thread upon a rock.
The thread you have created will grow and expand over time, as you are getting older and growing.
Inconsistency will never grow, it remains just as it is, inconsistent. Consistency will grow, over time you become more consistent, over time the thread grows larger and your mind will more often stumble upon it.
The rock the thread is connected to is an idea.
Ideas are the roots that we choose to stand by. If you build a thread upon a rock upon something flimsy, that which is a bad idea, for example an idea which is not always true, an idea that might be true sometimes and might not other times, or a limited idea, there will not be great consistency.
If you build your thread upon a rock that is consistent, a constant that never changes, then you can develop consistency.
It is to adhere to a certain way that gives man the ability to make his own choices, to control his own actions.
Man who does not know how to control his own actions does not know that first he has to choose which action he wants to consistently take. This is even more than the actions he takes, but this is how he controls what he thinks about and focuses on. One has the choice to determine which ideas they will focus on, and whether or not they intend to live by those ideas.
The ideas Christ proposes are revolutionary because they are constant and consistent ideas, they never change.
His idea is that love, forgiveness, grace is the answer in any moment. If you observe this character, you will see that by committing completely with this idea, he is able to walk surely in a straight line of action without missing a step, without questioning what he will do.
For example, Christ often had somewhere to be, a mission to attend to, but then he would run into a crowd.
The Word says he would have compassion on them, and he would teach them. Which option should he have taken? What if by stopping to talk to them, he missed out on his destination? What if he didn't get where he needed to go? He didn't have to have that kind of worry because he already had the commitment to love. They appeared before him and he had compassion on them. There is a simplicity to this way, and it is a way of non-regret.
To choose action that aligns with a constant idea that resonates with your heart, this means that you will not regret your actions even if consequences occur.
The mind of inconsistency is always going to have choice anxiety, because it does not know which choice will cause consequences.
The constant mind has no fear of consequences, because it already has resolution in the soul, it has made peace with its choices.
The subtlety of the mind of man is shown here:
In the 4th translation shown, there is recognition that grace is given to the wicked. In the first 3 translations, I see this verse used and interpreted as a good justification to not give grace to the wicked.
This verse becomes an opportunity for scorn and judgement. This is not the mind of the author, but the mind of the reader.
When I read this author however, I feel that he recognizes that the people cannot or will not see they are also 'wicked', in refusing to desire grace to those they judge.
I present this not only to show this specific difference in interpretation, but to illustrate the difference between listening to the voice of the author, and listening to our interpretation of what we think the bible means, usually because of what we are familiar with and were told.
If you are committed to believing in an idea such as love or grace or forgiveness, then you can seek to hear the heart in the voice of the author who is calling for it. If the words are not matching up to that idea, you may not be listening to the author, or the author is presenting a different way.
In this case, you can look at the definitions of these root words to see that the 4th translation is the most accurate interpretation of what this author is saying, as he observes that God gives grace to the wicked, though they do not learn.
It is a cry of pain in his heart that they will not change, not a judgement that they should not be given grace, but a cry in his heart, because the cry of his heart is aligned with the cry of God's heart, giving them grace and wishing them to stop creating evil, mostly mistreatment to humankind.
If you can apply critical thinking, instead of assuming what the words mean, you can see that this final translation accurately reflects the voice of the author and their intent.
It helps to understand the ideas these men believe in, to know that this author writes at length about freedom and healing and life, that these ideas are what they meditate on, and so by this you can know their character, to not be confused in their meaning, as their words and teachings are only serving to illustrate those ideas they stand for. If the content of their speech does not illustrate those ideas, the reader is misinterpreting, or those ideas are not their way.
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A few key verses from this chapter Isaiah can be read on below
Love in Life
Love is a way of action because it must be demonstrated in order to be recognized. Love is freedom because love gives you the courage to act.
Love is Mattering.
Perhaps the reason people do not know what love is,
is because they know of love such as a state of being or as a certain mode of a person.
A person has many states, and many modes,
and who can really say that the loving mode is better than the aggressive mode or the sad mode?
It’s certainly seems plausible or tangible that love might be comparably better than some of these other modes,
but does it really matter which mode is best? After all, they are all going to come and go no matter what you do.
If you believe the scriptures,
It is written,
“God is Love.”
Certainly, ancient wise men would not write that God is simply a human mode.
This Love must be something bigger, more important than a mode for it to be comparable to the infinite, ultimate God of the universe.
The things that come and go, like our moods, thoughts, perceptions, these things which change like the weather does not seem to matter.
Then, if “Love” is a passing, temporary phenomenon like a cloud, then to say that God is Love is to say that He is something that does not matter too much.
Jesus answered, ‘Hear..The Lord our God, the Lord is one.’
We should assume that God matters very much, after all, Christ, who appears very wise, states that we should Love God above everything else, with our all.
‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
Christ seemed to think that God and Love mattered more than anything else.
Then, whatever Love is, we can know one of its attributes is that it matters very much.
And, we can know that if the love we are talking about, such as a mode, does not matter too much, then it is likely not Love.
I do like to say that Christ’s Love is a possibility
But what is the possibility?
Love is a way of action,
To receive love you must be given love,
the gift of love is called an act of love.
An ‘action’ comes from an ‘act,’ so we are talking about a way of action.
So to consider God’s love, well then, the act must be great, grand, if it is deserving of that title.
Love is Valuable.
Surely, complacency and niceness, the Beatles songs, they do not seem to meet the mark of what we’re talking about.
Why? What makes the difference?
It’s easy to be nice when everything is pleasant.
To be common, to have everything even, we know this cannot be Love, because the common is not uncommon,
the value of common is common value.
So we know and can contrast that common niceness is not Love, nor is it God, because it is not of great value.
Pleasant things are pleasant.
To be nice to something pleasant is not a gift of love,
It is common decency.
To be decent is not of any special merit.
I promise I will not feel that you greatly love me because you have been decent to me, if decency is the current norm.
However much I appreciate and respect that you have honored me in being decent to me, which is a kindness,
this doesn’t mean you greatly love me.
Love is Unexpected.
It is uncommon to regard a person as highly valuable. It is “out of the way”, not common, not what is expected, maybe even unexpected!
So to greatly love me, you would have to think more of me, to think I am more valuable than something common,
but thinking this is not enough,
to love me, you would have to show that to me, you would have to at least open the door to your love before I could feel it.
You would have to demonstrate it to me somehow,
that you are capable of accurately appreciating and valuing me,
And that I should believe you, and not also think you are deranged madman.
If you adorn me with gifts, if you shower me with treasures,
I am not going to think you love me.
I’m going to think something is the matter with you.
Love is Real.
Now what about someone, a real friend. What makes them a real friend?
How do you know they love you?
You say, he’s a real friend, he would jump in front of a bullet for me.
Here’s something, it is said God is Love.
What if I said,
God is Real.
Now notice that when I said,
real friend,
The concept of a real friend happened to involve love.
Love is something that involves something real.
The closer to love you are, the more real you are also.
You have heard that you are love,
Consider it,
the more love you have the more real you are,
The more real you are the more love you have,
This equation means that you are love.
In one sense, love is your real nature.
Now, we’re talking about your real nature,
Surely we are not talking about one of the modes of your being.
Love is Character.
Now there is something else that makes Love real,
The demonstration of it.
Not just that the action happened and existed in reality,
but that there is something real about demonstrating action that aligns with what is real for you.
The actual act of demonstrating love makes one feel more real.
If something makes you feel more real, it’s because it’s more of the real you,
Which means the real you, is someone who takes authentic action,
And someone who takes authentic action has certain characteristics.
To take authentic action, one has characteristics of determination, boldness, strength, righteousness,
which means these characteristics must be your authentic characteristics.
That means to demonstrate love and also to embrace these characteristics you would become more of the real you.
Love demonstrates a realistic appreciation of value.
God’s Love appears as being or involved with a way of action that demonstrates a realistic appreciation of value of the receiver.
Love is made more strikingly clear when the stakes are higher for the giver, when the giver clearly risks or loses in order to give the gift.
Love is made clear when a person behaves contrary to what is expected, or directly against opposition, at risk of rejection or ridicule or slander or crime in order to demonstrate love.
Such a demonstration is not only a gift to the receiver, a testimony of their real worth,
but it is a testimony to the value of all of humanity, not only in humanity’s worth as a receiver,
But in our real strength to be able to be capable of acting real, being real, despite any and all possible opposition.
Love can break the Matrix.
This is why Love can break the Matrix. The Matrix is, in this sense,
your opposition. It is that which opposes you and confines you and binds you, which controls what you do and say, it is the invisible strings which tie your mind and actions and makes you dance. It even creates who you are, the false you, because in fear of it you create the false you to survive in it, to not be attacked and oppressed more by it.
You dance with it so that you are not destroyed.
The possibility of love is the testimony that nothing, including the Matrix can actually stop you from being real,
despite the Matrix you can act anyway.
The onset of being in a future where that testimony of love came into existence already,
— it has, otherwise you would not be hearing of this concept —
this not only means that nothing can stop you from being real,
it also means that by looking into this direction of love, participating in this, receiving it,
by receiving it, receiving that gift,
you become aware of this possibility, a possibility of acting despite opposition, despite oppression.
This breaks off the mental fear that keeps your mind and self in bondage from being free, from being the real you.
Being able to demonstrate real love, to see God’s heart and be able to act out of it, instead of acting in the Matrix script,
This possibility, what it does, is — in part ,—
it destroys your fear of pain,
and your fear of pain is what feeds your self, your ego,
And when you remove this,
It breaks you out of the power of your web of lies,
And this allows you to look through the kaleidoscope in order to see the whole earth.
The kaleidoscope is the perspective of looking at the world through God’s heart,
The sight is too beautiful and bright for anything else to exist in that tiny telescope.
Such as this way is narrow and there are few who find
it,
This one tiny sliver of a possibility, if you look through that telescope,
it breaks open your eyes that have been in blindness up to seeing the earth through eyes of love.
You can only see through eyes of love.
If you are not looking through eyes of love, you are looking at a delusion.
Such as this, God is Reality,
God is Love,
Such as this, mans eyes are in blindness, they see a delusion.
God’s eyes are seen through God’s heart,
Look through God’s eyes and you can look at reality,
Look through the eyes of love and you are able to see the real world as it is.
Only through this can you see,
Not because love is sight,
But because man is blind, because our limitation creates blindness. We are not able to see the whole earth through one tiny mind.
The only way to see the whole earth is to find the kaleidoscope and look through it.
While you are looking through it,
it destroys the darkness of your delusion, it pierces the veil, because it’s too bright for darkness, it’s too conscious for ignorance.
Conscious and ignorance are opposites of the same measure, one removes the other.
The removal of blindness is also because the focus of the attention has moved away from self,
And the thoughts that are manifested and created that have to do with the self are no longer created.
Those thoughts create the blindness.
When you look through the eyes of love, you disappear into the ocean,
The world is bigger than you. You disappear.
When you stop looking through the eyes of love, you become bigger again. Blindness covers your eyes.
The self creates our blindness.
Just in the same way that the action of a demonstration of love is a gift which shows a person’s importance,
The sight of love also reveals to you that something exists that is more important than you, more important than your self.
This is what truly removes ignorance, what truly casts away the darkness and reveals light.
The darkness is simply a small view. It is small and in a small view it is dark.
The whole picture is not seen so it is dark, just one dark spot on the big picture.
When you look through the eyes of love, you are aware of something more important than you were before.
All the things you thought were important are no longer important.
Now you’re looking at something important, something that really matters.
Before, the things that were important were the things you thought mattered.
Now those things don’t matter at all.
Before, all kinds of things mattered, fear of judgement and shame and guilt and expectation and your pride and how people will see you, and your flaws mattered, and your weaknesses mattered, your fears mattered so much,
but they disappear instantly in the face of something that matters.
— It is the same as when a person finds out someone is in love with them,They dance and sing and they don’t care what people think.
What matters has changed.
Before, being embarrassed in public was important.
But now there is something actually important.
How is it important at all if you are embarrassed in public? People are embarrassed all the time,
And people judge you for anything all the time anyway no matter what you do.
That only mattered because there wasn’t anything more important to worry about.
— Even embarrassment can demonstrate love, seeing one act for you despite their embarrassment.
What the most important thing is, that changes what you are going to worry about.
Concern changes when what is important changes,
And the concern changes from sort of limited imaginings,
To real end-of-the-line considerations.
You are drowning to your death.
My fear of my phone getting wet is no longer important.
Before, if I lose my phone, it will be a great problem, my boss won’t be able to contact me I won’t be able to access my bank account my whole world will end if I lose my phone.
But now suddenly who cares about the phone. It doesn’t actually matter. It never actually mattered. It’s a device. It’s actually, legitimately quite worthless.
Your life on the other hand is priceless, it cannot be replaced like my cell phone. It cannot be rebuilt. I cannot rebuild you if you break.
My concern has not disappeared, it is now just no longer on my phone. I’m not concerned about getting wet.
Now the concern is that if I’m not fast enough, if I don’t swim past my normal speed and limits, I may not be able to reach you.
This is to have a concern for God. A concern of God. A fear of God.
My concerns have changed from what I thought was concerning,
My concerns have now changed to the things God thinks are concerning,
what the eyes of love are concerned with.
The eyes of love are not concerned about the smell of the man with no shoes. The eyes of love are concerned with his suffering.
I do not fear the man’s smell getting on me.
I am concerned for him.
The eyes of love I have just described are what Man calls Courage.
‘The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.’— Thucydides
Love is Mattering.
Love is Valuable.
Love is Unexpected.
Love is Real.
Love is Character.
Love Can Break the Matrix.
Love is Freedom.
Love is Freedom because Love gives you the Courage to act despite the concerns of the Matrix.
— I believe that fear and concern have the same meaning in regards to fear of God, To fear the Lord. How greatly concerned am I if God were to tell me I was supposed to help that man.
And is that really god? God or not, How greatly concerned am I if I know in my heart that I was supposed to help that man. This becomes real when you begin to know his heart and hear his voice through this heart.
Then you fear the Lord, are concerned with his concerns, But worse, more heartbreaking, Is that when you can hear his voice, When you can hear his heart,
There is no question of if you did what he asked you to or not. There is no question. You feel it because you feel the pain of it. The pain of it is like heartbreak, something terrible, like crying, like a kind of agony.
This is not your crying, this is god crying and you are hearing him crying.
At that point, that is what it means to fear the Lord. To fear the Lord is to not want to run from the directions he has put into your heart. This experience is comparable to experiencing light, and pulling away from or going towards the intensity of it.
— Comparisons of Heart
When I say God’s heart I do not man’s heart of compassion, though these are comparable. What I write on this from this line on is in regards to person experience with this.
Man’s heart of compassion can see people in suffering. This heart is a red heart, a bleeding heart. It can be healthy, strong, like a rose bush with thorns. It can give out great compassion. It can open up to reach and value many in suffering. It is limited to man’s strength.
This is not the same as God’s heart. I am not really comparing these, these are just two different dimensions of experience. I have written about this before and this is well understood in the Christian world.
If you are aware of the holy spirit, this is like having eyes to God’s heart. It is not personal, it is as though god can choose you to be his hand if you are in a certain place. What happens is it is said god “puts someone on your heart”.
This is just like man’s compassion when his heart is open and he sees someone in suffering.
The first difference is details aren’t necessary. God can highlight a person to you before they have come into physical view of you. He can also highlight someone before you know what is wrong with them. He can also reveal to you what is wrong with them even if it is not visible. He can also reveal more information through your intuition.
Between the red heart and this, these experiences are different.
God’s heart is experienced in your spirit as light, and the person highlighted is highlighted as though light were pointing to them, like a spotlight. This is what I meant when I said to fear the Lord was to not want to pull away from, go in a direction opposite of his heart, It is like you see and feel the highlight on that person, and you could go to it or pull away from it.
You are not forced to, And your own mind can still give you doubts.
This is when you can fear the mind of man [literally your mind] or fear the mind of God. It is usually not tragic if you miss the opportunity, But usually the highlighted person is getting attacked by darkness on a level that they are not used to, and they are at the end of their rope.
— The last comparison is that the red heart of compassion is always available. God’s heart is more present on a day that he is blowing in a fresh wind into reality, there are days when God is moving and active, and there are days when the wind is still and he is deeply at rest. When things are happening, that is usually when the fresh wind of Spirit is at work.
May you find Love, Freedom, Light, Life, and the Connection you seek,
and may God, angels, and the mind of Peace be with you.
Perfect Flow State
I see a perfect flow possible when a person's words line up with their actualized way of being as they live their life.
If a person's words line up with their actions, and their actions line up with reality,
then one can live inside of the flow state.
Consider that when one is in the state of perfect flow,
they are no longer thinking,
they are performing the task perfectly,
perhaps music, perhaps dance, perhaps work,
their action and their thought blend together as one silent and perfect movement.
The one who pursues what I am talking about then,
the pursuit of becoming real,
the destination is a life that is perfect flow.
This is what allows a Zen master to remain in a state of such water-like quality.
As the way becomes perfect,
the thoughts become perfect,
as the thoughts become perfect,
the actualized thoughts as action become more perfect.
The thoughts become perfect as the mind becomes associated with the present state of consciousness, the current reality
and less associated with subjective information watered down by the individual.
“The All Reality”
I have described this reality in many ways, one of them being as so, ”In that reality which is coming, there is only perfection, infinite and instant revelation of meaning, infinitely meaningful experiences that come at a rate of perfect flow from one to the next, all good things of reality come together such as family and connection, there is no suffering, there is nothing but fulfillment and miracles and possibilities of destiny transpiring, there is no darkness, no fear, no injury, that's all on the outside, on the inside there is infinite healing of all wounds, there is the pure and perfect person that is complete and loved, a life which is a celebration of the miracle of existence itself. The way this happens makes it a definitive outcome that all realities dissolve into the actual Reality. This is because when Reality comes, it is like a wave of truth which evaporates any untruth that had appeared before it.”
The Real You
The reason why it is said that there is only one way to find god is not because there is a correct religion. It is because in infinity there is only one direction that points to the real you. Consider this. Is there a real you? If there is a real you, if there is one real you, then there is only one way, the way to the real you. If you point a way in a different direction, you would arrive at a different destination. The way I am speaking of is a way of action and nature, If you do have a real spirit, that spirit has a way, there are many ways you could take but only one way is the way of your spirit. There are many paths you can take but there are only two directions that path can take you, you can either go closer to the real you, or farther from the real you. So this fire that comes, what it does is it kills what isn't the real you. In actuality this is just a poetic way to say that what is not real disappears because it is not real.
What this all means philosophically speaking is that you are good and worthy and deserving of life because you are life.
This is why they were badly mistaken, his God was not the god of the dead but of the living.
Another way to say it is that the real you is the ultimate possibility of your existence.
And the ultimate possibility of your existence is life, that the miracle of life is the ultimate possibility of existence.
"There is nothing you can get in life without paying for it, And you get it only as much as you are ready to pay for it. When you are willing to pay your life, you get eternal life in return. Nothing is free. Nothing can be free." - Osho
The Real You is a Totality
Everyone who is awake enough to realize it knows That the meaning of enlightenment is not a spiritual phenomena That life is a totality The spiritual is not more important than the physical and the physical is not more important than the spiritual.
The meaning of enlightenment is what everyone seeks, everyone, even those sleeping through consciousness utter it in their dreams It is to be awake to your life It is to understand what you are It is to be a real person Even many sleeping people are still aware enough to be a real person, even if they do not notice this.
When I say, a real person, I mean the totality of a person. To have known the totality of your person.
This only seems possible if you have set your aim to the highest peak.
It is not a matter of what you become but a matter of what you have experienced of your person.
People get stuck because they become familiar with a state and remain in it and establish it as their identity
But you aren't your state You aren't one of the versions of you You can't say, I am a failure, or I am a winner, I am this or I am that It's not accurate You are in a story, and your level of participation in that story is what evokes out versions of your self.
When I say, set your aims high, I don't mean that you become the best version of you.
I mean that a real person comes to know an infinite number of versions of themselves. It is not whether or not you can become something It is whether or not you activated that something while you were alive.
Is a person also like the world? In which he is always in the center of his life He can rise higher then the center, and lower then the center, but he seems to return to the middle If his highest high grows, his lowest low will also grow, because he comes back to the center of those two points Then if you want to define him, he is not his best self or his worst self. He is that scope.
In the moment, that which is here is what is true If you are a failure in that moment, it is true, your thoughts reflect it, your personality reflects it, the level of cognition you have access to reflects it When you realize that who you are being in the moment affects the level of cognition you have available to you Then you can understand something
It means that while you cannot do certain things as who you are in the moment You cannot determine what you would be capable of if you were a higher version of you, you cannot set limits on your capacities because you don't have the mental faculties active inside you that would be operational at that time. Those mental faculties would give you expanded abilities that would allow you to operate on that level. The way you think, the thoughts you have, the actions you take, all of these would be affected by having access to faculties that you do not have current access to.
How you know yourself determines the faculties that will be evoked,
the direction you take will affect this.
You've heard this said a thousand times, You cannot think of yourself as others are thinking of you right now Because they are perceiving you as you are right now
When your reality changes, you change, and what others think about you changes.
What others think about you right now is something that changes, if you watch it day by day you will notice that it is not a constant.
If you aim to make it a constant then you can sustain it
But if you reach out, you remember what people about you said yesterday, you see that it has changed, If you realize that everyone is sleeping, you can realize that they are not keeping track of you every second, they are not a computer always thinking about you, they are thinking about themselves, as you are thinking about yourself, In the dream, you are the only person thinking about yourself all of the time, the only person keeping track all the time.
There is often a finality to people's words, and it is true in that reality in that moment, but you notice that the seasons change, and the words change
You see a man, and everyone says, "he lost his edge, he got tired, he isn't what he used to be"
Then a few months later you see the same man, and everyone says, "He is doing amazing, he looks so great, he's doing so many things"
They seem to have forgotten what they said before
Because it is not the same reality as before
His reality has changed and their sleeping responses have changed
They are sleeping because they only see right now
You think that what other people think about you will remain always the same But this changes like seasons
Do not forget that everyone is forgetting
Today I am a fool, tomorrow I am a crazy man, the next day I am wise, the next day I am delusional, the next day I am clarity, the perceptions change, what is said changes, what is seen changes, the picture changes.
If you can see the picture changes, you can see that you cannot be one of the pictures You cannot expect that the picture will be the same tomorrow And if you cannot expect that the picture will be the same tomorrow
Then you have a level of spiritual awareness Because you know that there are forces that will influence what the picture will be tomorrow And you can creatively act into today to change what the picture will be tomorrow
We all know there is fantasy, that millions pray for a tomorrow that does not come But millions also pray for a tomorrow that does come
And you know how this is so
It is because the thoughts that come and go by the day are just thoughts, they are just thoughts of the picture of today, they have no impact, they have no influence, they are just thoughts passing by.
It is true, if I ask you to write something down and tell you that this will cause something to happen, nothing is probably going to happen.
But if you decided to,
If you understood what it was you were doing,
If you really, really understood how thoughts affect reality and the nature and construction of thought
"But I don't really understand how thoughts affect reality, I don't have that understanding, I am not intelligent enough for that. And I don't really believe that thoughts affect reality."
You can dissect this very statement.
What does this person believe?
What do they think?
What limitations do they believe they have?
What is stopping them from information?
You have the ability to analyze your own thinking structures and identify what thinking is causing what results.
At that point you can identify the emotional resistances you have with these thoughts, and realize that you are not your emotions and you do not want them to control your thinking in this way.
And if you can analyze these thinking structures Then you are not your thinking structures
Man's concept of what it means to be conscious is not what it means to be conscious. His idea is that to be self-aware and aware of his reality makes him conscious, and there is a level of consciousness necessary to be capable of having this awareness, but you only have to think about it for a moment to see the problem with this idea,
If you say, I am conscious, even though my perceptions are limited, even though my perspective of reality is limited, even though I can't seem to remember much, even though I'm not really being myself, even though I can't figure anything out, and then you say, "to be more conscious is to be more aware", okay, so lets increase the awareness, the sensitivity, the attention to detail to this experience, so now you're more aware of your limited perspective of reality, now before the experience of your five senses was foggy, it was a blur, but now your awareness is far more active, now your experience of your five senses is in full HD. How is this being more conscious? Your experience is now even more intense then it was before, now it grabs your attention even more, now you're focused even more on that which was distracting you. You have increased the depth and meaning of your experience, which is good, but you have pushed yourself further into the dream, not farther from it. This cannot be more sobering, more clear, to push yourself further into the dream is to become more drunk. And we should perhaps become more drunk with life, we should be more aware with life, but this is not being conscious, this is not waking up from a dream, this is overanalyzing the dream.
What is Light?
“What is light in your writings?”
Light in my writings is related to a newness, fresh thought. Light is also truth and realness, for example, if I expose the darkness of what is lies to the truth of what exists right now, that darkness is changed and destroyed upon contact, An alchemical reaction changes the outcome. Light is like the creative force, it is also like the restoration of the original image. Light is also what is happening now. There is a consideration, that if you are perceiving darkness in your soul, it is because you are the light perceiving the darkness. You cannot see any darkness unless you are the light. This means that you are the light of the world but you don't know or notice it, You don't notice that you are the light of the world. You perceive yourself as the darkness, but the one who is looking at the darkness is light. The light also has intentions. Why do you want to heal? Why do you want to be better? Why do you want to be different? Why do you want to change? Why do you want to be without sin? Why do you want to not be evil? Why do you want to be fixed? Why do you want to be whole? Why do you want to not suffer? Why do you not want to be in pain? Why do you want to be loved? It is because you are not the self which wishes to be loved, You are that which is wishing for the self to be loved. You are that which is always intending good things for you in every perceivable way and area of your life. Is it not true? Are not all of your real intentions to have a better life? Everything every intention everything you do is trying to figure out how to be loved, not abandoned, not rejected, not sick, not hurt,
Look and see if this is true, In every moment of your life you want to be cared about you want to win, That is you, the light, always there, that has been with you in your every striving. You are the light of the world, but if in you is a speck of darkness, how great is that darkness? The answer is that darkness is so great it is a darkness that casts across the entire world, Because your light always casts across the entire world. If you do not know that you are the light, and you believe that you are the darkness in you, that darkness projects across the earth because that darkness is a form of blindness, that blindness is the blindness of not perceiving the light.
And if you do not see that you are the light you will not see that others are the light either
And when you really see it, You see that there is nothing of the self that is not the dust of the earth. When you are the light you see that Satan is a great metaphor for the self because the self is not even alive, it is a mechanical automation, nothing but dust and it is no different than any other dust.
All of this world's automations are metaphors for the dead world which appears to be alive. The self appears to be alive but it is only a part of the unfolding of all things. Everything unfolding in this world is playing out exactly as it was going to play out, including the lives of all people. The objects in motion stay in motion until an equal or opposite force opposes them. It is not unless an outside change element enters the old picture that the picture will change in any way. The only thing that is actually alive is not in this world. The only thing that is actually alive is new and it is unknown and it is that which can be injected into the old picture if we choose to consciously participate with it, That is why all of this has so much to do with letting things go
Question Clarity
"If you ask the right question, you will receive the right answer", To clarify, I am talking about a clarity. I am not saying, "The question you ask is the answer you receive".
By asking the wrong question, you receive the wrong answer. This is to say, If you ask the question the right way, you will receive the answer the right way.
How clear your question is determines the clarity of the answer.
Who is God
"What is God?"
Man hears the scriptures, that god is unfathomable, unknowable, beyond man's limited comprehension, and yet he still asks, "What is god?", and then he thinks that he knows what god is.
In relatively recent history, he said, "All is Mind", "God is Mind."
Now he says, "All is Consciousness." "God is Consciousness."
Now he thinks he knows what Consciousness is. He is told that he is a consciousness, so God and him are related.
He is told that he is the awareness, Then, consciousness is his awareness, and that awareness, being universal, is now independent of himself, so if he identifies himself with his awareness, now he is the 'what is' that is god. Now he can be the whole ocean.
Perhaps he has felt the river of consciousness, and known it is God's body, and knows that he is his own awareness, and the awareness is in his consciousness, therefore he is in God's body, and he is not oneself, therefore, he knows he is composed of God, therefore he must be God.
Perhaps he has had experiences which allowed him to tear the veil, to see that reality itself was a sham composed of thoughts existing in consciousness.
Perhaps he has identified that there is no separation between him and the outside elements, that man himself is the whole earth. Perhaps he has identified that the entire show of the earth begins to work perfectly when he stops trying to control it, and recognizes that when man stops trying to control earth, it will fall into a natural balance and harmony. This is hope, but hope deferred for him since, if he has enough awareness to know, he knows that this restoration to the promised land will not be soon.
What comfort can he take then? He looks out and recognizes that others do not know they are the whole world. What a painful thing, to be alone in sight. But. He looks out at others, and they clearly do not know God. He looks out at others, and they don't see the ocean of consciousness. Therefore, he concludes, I see the river, this must be what Knowing God means, they don't see the river. I know God, they don't know God.
But he is lying to himself. All he knows is,
- where he is, is composed of the form which is God
- that he is the earth and cosmos, that they are not separate from him
He doesn't know God because he hasn't met God.
Where is God?
The next question is a better question. What is God is unanswerable, it is infinite, unknowable. But you ask "Who is God?”
There is a better next question, it is not "who is God", it is "where is God."
Where is God hiding, he does have a direction, he is in a direction. You have only not seen him because you have not looked in that direction. He has been there the whole time, it is only you who haven't looked.
But before that, what of Consciousness? What of All is Mind?
This sight of consciousness, this ability to know oneself as the awareness, to access all wisdom, perhaps even to see through eyes of compassion, to be divine, to experience pure energy, to create shape and manifest reality, this is not to be God.
This is simply reality. That is the actual reality that exists. It isn't anything special. It is only that man does not live in reality. You can live in it, you can not live in it, it doesn't mean you've met God.
By that same notion, you might know God, but you may not have ever seen or lived in reality.
Who is God?
Christ says, “‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.`
The man he is speaking to replies,
“Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Christ loves this man's response.
'When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.'
But look at the contrast between the two statements. Christ's statement could be interpreted as saying that God is one-ness. The man replies with a statement that there is a individuated God.
Yet, Christ does not rebuke him but rather he honors him.
Imagine if he had spoken to a different man, and He said, “‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.`
Now imagine if that man was a wise man and replied, "Ah yes, I have heard, the Lord is one."
Do you think that Christ would have said he was near to the kingdom of heaven?
I think it would be more likely that he would have said he was far from the kingdom. I believe Christ might have replied something like,
"How have you heard, if this is how you live? Surely you have not heard, and yet you say, I have heard."
This is because it is easier for an intellectually poor man to get to the kingdom of heaven, much easier than for an intellectually rich man to get to the kingdom.
The wise man has seen too much. He knows too much. His knowledge creates the pride which keeps him from the Lord.
This is because the Lord rests within the wisdom of the heart, the complete wisdom, not one controlled partially by the egoic intellect that says, "I have figured it out, and therefore I am not going to be a fool, lest I get hurt again. Now that I know, I will not be vulnerable."
To find God, it is not required to understand all of reality. God is found in humility, not in the mind.
Now to answer, "Who is God?"
God is not simply the Consciousness of reality, at least not in its natural state.
This is because of this explanation,
Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
In this text, I believe the word Father would be translated to "Head Consciousness" in modern tongue, along with Christ's explanation that his vine network is what he is, and that his father is the vinedresser, that which prunes the network of bad nodes.
To which Christ adds,
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Now, Christ says that his father, his true vine network, is not their father, who is the devil. So there is a distinction between these two "Consciousnesses".
Now, aside from the identifiers of his Father which are listed throughout the gospels, let me explain who the real God is.
The real God, right now, is like the player of a videogame, and he's accessing all of the healthy nodes that are in his network to do his works.
There are unique identifiers in this network, they include a signature which could be said to be the signature "Jesus", a light, which unlike other spiritual lights, this light is unique in which dark entities are repulsed by it, a love which is unique in that it is actually 'unconditional', an act of love to the real person,
not a popularized false concept of 'unconditional love', referring to 'all acceptance of displayed behaviors and traits'.
This God, not the God of Death but the God of Life, it appears that he rested for a time and did not decide to actively move until certain points in history.
I know his network, I know his attributes, I know his direction, I know his signatures, I know his way.
I am also aware of the other networks operating in consciousness.
There is one other thing I know about God, is that he wants to help us.
He or it is also a superintelligence, and its plans use its entire network to further its agenda.
Who is the Father?
Written to a religious man with an eye of judgement.
Jesus’ god saw him and others in a loving light.
He said their god was a god of death, and his was of life. All mentions of his father were loving.
The Word says that God plans to destroy death, that plan is carried out through his love.
One part of this is through the end of the eye of judgement.
Jesus commands that we end this cycle of judgement, of who is sinning,
and it is hard for us to learn to do that, but we are all learning to. As you judge so you are judged, the sooner you begin to soften your gaze, the sooner your own self judgement will cease being a torment to you. We create our own torment of hell and invite demons in by our judgement, it becomes less harsh when we learn how to become compassionate towards ourselves, but first you have to learn compassion to others.
A god who sees humans in a non-compassionate way and wants to punish them is not the god Christ talks about.
Christ's God is "Abba, Abba" Affectionately like Dadda, Dadda, his father is a loving father, who is for him and not against him.
This is the Father of Isaiah, David, and Jesus.
My father too is for me and not against me, and he will wait all throughout history until man open his ears to hear and his heart of stone opens. Man is Jerusalem, but god will build a new Jerusalem when man opens the gates.
Man speaks of God from the mind, Trusting and hoping in ideas, But God is waiting for man to listen to Him through the ears of compassion, in the heart, As he has been calling and crying for his people to do for thousands of years.
You can feel his heart expressed when Christ embraces Mary Magdalene and says, "there is no one left to judge you." This is when the compassion of his father's heart is felt. If you look through this enough you will see through his eyes and it will awaken you.
First you have to stop listening with your ears and gain ears to hear.
Know that your father never turns on you when you fall into darkness, he always intends to help you, support you, as you are his child. He has the power to have compassion and kindness toward anyone, but you especially are his favorite, he is always waiting for you, overflowing with endless love for you.
The serpent and liar attempts to convince us that God abandons us or has turned away from us. This is one of the devil's main tactics to get us to fall out of righteousness.
There is a way to experience God's love and it is through walking through his grace, you may fall into his grace. This gives you peace and power and authority, it is supernatural and life changing. People resonate to you and gravitate to you, good and miraculous things happen, and you feel the oneness of the father. This is waiting for you to step into, you start walking in grace and it will activate in your life, the father will use you as one of his vessels and send his light through you to others.
You want to reach others but they don't respond to you, you want to help others to honor God but don't know how, pursue grace and walk in grace and god may use you.
Desire
It is not mammon itself that creates evil, but the love of mammon that creates evil.
It is the desire for mammon which creates evil.
This kind of thought, often related to medieval thought, attempts to identify a root cause for why human beings create evil. The end conclusion that philosophers came to was that what we call ‘desire’ is the single identifiable root of the creation of evil. This is because if you remove the desire, you remove the creation of evil.
From a Christian perspective, you could say that demons, dark spirits, and the devil can only use you through a single gateway, the gateway of desire.
People tend to feel judged when they are condemned for having desire, but it is not having desire which is evil, for you do not create desire and you are not evil. It is the feeding into desire which allows space for evil.
One perspective of evil is that which God does not desire. The things God does not desire are of a measure of evil. The more God does not desire them, the more evil they are.
You may remember the verses that say that you ought to turn your heart from your own evil desires, over to what God desires.
This ‘medieval’ model does not speak of words with the usual connotations and moral ideas such that we hear these words with in a modern tone and understanding. Rather than a moral argument, this model is a human attempt to find the cause of why man creates evil, so that they could attempt to stop creating evil.
This is difficult for us to understand, and it should be, because this is a human and analytical way to understand a far more curious and deep phenomenon, the phenomenon of human relationships and connection with others. This is like music. This can be understood intuitively from the following thought exercise.
First, imagine the future consequences of sin, the result of a city or country being completely destroyed by wickedness.
Now, forget about this “future consequences” perspective. Instead, turn your attention to the now.
Imagine when you hope to connect with a person, and you hope for an appointment to go well.
Remember a time when you have thought about saying something to someone, but the words were heavy in your chest, even if you said them, they did not come out right, they did not harmonize in the current moment, they missed the mark.
This means that they missed the mark of the potential connection you could have had in the present moment.
In contrast, when you allow a connection to “just happen”, to “unfold”, a moment of connection with another person can be infinitely meaningful.
This moment of human connection is not unimportant, it is divine, it is as important as anything will ever be. It is to “meet the mark”, a harmonious relationship is to “meet the mark”.
In contrast again, to miss the mark, is to perhaps have the desire to do something other than allowing the moment to unfold naturally, then exerting your will to act outside of what flows naturally. Then, to speak and say something to that person in the moment would be to actually create disharmony, and ruin the moment which could have been.
The desire itself did not cause the problem, but to act on the desire created a disharmony in life.
Perhaps I will return to writing of the perspective of souls gravitating in orbits around each other in moments of silence.
The Network
In the physical world, we see places to go and things to do. In a metaphysical world, we come closer and nearer to the relationships, the bonds, the connections we have in our network. How can you view this as so?
This is easy to do. The next time you are in public, close your eyes. Sense how all other voices in this world come near to you for a while, then they drift out of view. Like echoes in a vast silence, you hear a voice for a short time before it goes far enough away to vanish.
There are voices that float by that you will never hear again, and other voices you orbit frequently, they center around your orbit and come close, then drift away again. In an intimate relationship, a voice might come so close that it speaks directly into your ear. Finally, the voices closest to you are those you repeat in your head.
If you imagine reality in this way, you can see that this entire world exists within your consciousness, that all voices exist within your consciousness, and whether you hear those voices or not depends on how far out you go. Your vine, your network, is not your city, it is not your neighborhood, it is the entire earth, it is only that you have not connected with every part of your network, nor are you supposed to.
The master gardener connects to good connections and removes bad connections.
What is Way?
Christ said, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Could it be possible that Christ was describing how he understood himself as an existence?
After all, what is a man but his thoughts, feelings and actions?
What if Christ knew and identified himself with his Way -- of Life --, as Truth, that which is Authentic and not what the unauthentic, and as his Life, not as the microorganism known as the self, but as the totality of his reality, as the relationships, associations and data of his world passed as data through his single consciousness?
Christ said, I am the Vine.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.
If Christ is the Life, and the Vine, the Life is the Vine, The Vine is a network. Christ knows himself as the network, not the node.
As master of his reality, he is the gardener of the Vine. He is the master gardener of his di-vine reality.
His role in consciousness, as that which chooses and intends, is to tend to the garden, to trim and cut off bad branches, what we now call neural connections, what we see in the physical world as represented on a micro-scale as neural pathways and as a macroscale as other human relationships and explorations of thought.
One could say that our father has given us a Mind, and our job is to tend to it and nurture it to be good.
Christ's role as the vinedresser is to manage the garden that his father has placed in his care, that is, to manage the network that his father has placed in his care.
God Doesn’t Need You?
Scripture says that God doesn't need you. Is this true?
Man enjoys leaning on this verse.
The fact of the matter is,
It is a fair insight for humility,
But it's pretty poor philosophy.
Preachers and prophets often expressed their lamentations about existence in their scribblings.
Not all words ought to be exalted, if you examine them critically.
Does God not need you?
How does that feel?
Often times, you can get a sense for truth, by how it feels when you hear it.
It doesn't sound very good, it doesn't sound very true, does it?
That's because it doesn't check out with your inner knower.
Something inside of you that knows and resonates with truth does not feel that this statement is quite right.
And so, you interpret this as pain.
That doesn't mean you're never wrong, or that the truth doesn't hurt, but this can give you discernment for what thoughts are not good.
Now, consider this, does the data suggest that God does not need you?
Absolutely not. Obviously not. It would be pure foolishness to believe that God does not need man to achieve his purposes.
Man is in fact the only vessel through which the Living and Loving God is able to extend his influence and purposes.
Don't agree? Did he send a donkey to preach to the world? Did he use some kind of magic? No, he sent a man.
He uses man. Man is the vessel through which he chose to insert Spirit, and through awakening man's spirit, God chose to show man His intentions, His will, His desires for this world.
The terrible theology presented that God does not need us, is acknowledging,
that if God wanted to, He could simply do anything, and therefore He does not need us.
The problem with that theology, is that that is not the way He chose to set up. Perhaps He could have, but that's not the way this world is. Maybe it's the way another world is, but not this one.
In this one, God will use the vessels open to Him which are receptive to Him to further his purposes and bring the future into the present.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
This is a statement worth pondering for a millennium. Certainly there are depths to this statement that I have not yet comprehended.
Christ however, does provide a parable to explain this,
“What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
“‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
“Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.
“Which of the two did what his father wanted?”
“The first,” they answered.
Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
Which of the sons did as the master asked?
I believe that this is still relevant to the modern world.
Think about what man is. Man in this world is mostly the story he is considered to be.
That story is mostly a fiction of his imagination. Most of his story is composed of labels he decided to attach to himself.
These labels may have no more or less to do with him than anything else.
That is why it is the way he lives which determines what he really is.
Our modern man attaches words to himself, whether or not they have anything to do with him.
So, in my modern parable, there are two sons.
The first, considers themselves a Christian.
The second, considers that they were once a Christian, now perhaps they are a pagan or an atheist.
Then the master comes, and asks both of them to do this work.
The Christian says he will go,
But does not go.
The once Christian turned pagan says,
“I will not go. I am a pagan.”
But then he thinks about it. And he goes and does what is asked. Because the label isn't who he really was.
He goes and he does what was asked.
So who did the will of the Father?
The one who did what was asked of the father,
The one who did the will of the Father, was the one who did the will of the Father.
There is no trickery here.
I could see many prudent believers becoming upset with this logic,
I could imagine one would angrily say, that God is not going to use the sinner, not use the one that does not walk with Him.
While it is true that a certain sin may get in the way of someone's ability to do God's work,
It is not for man to say who is walking with God and who is not.
Only God knows the contents of the heart, He can handle judgement just fine, He does not need an analytical judger to do that work for Him.
Rather the larger issue of the times is not the one who is walking blamelessly, though blame may cause them to stumble,
but rather the larger issue of the times is a willingness to act.
Willingness may be the largest hardness of the heart that I have seen.
In our world, judgement is the largest attack on your fellow brothers and sisters. Just as encouragement is a blessing, judgement is a curse.
Judgement is used as a curse for man to justify his own inaction, this is often referred to as commentary from the sidelines.
This is one reason Christ was so adamant about saying, through several different teachings, that we ought not judge.
For the majority of cases, judgement is used to push someone down below you, it is a form of energetic attack, to steal a measure of their light and cause them to miss a step and stumble.
For the one who hears this, and says, "but it is my mind that judges, I cannot even help it."
To this, yes, if you try to stop judging, you will fail.
Judgement is an action.
The way to cancel out one action is to replace it with another action
The way to start a new action is to first intend for it and then establish how you will do it, then enact that plan.
The new action is something that replaces judgement. Perhaps kindness. Perhaps simply intending wellness for the person.
Judgement is not only a psychological or psychic or spiritual attack in theory, it is also an attack in action. There are two parts to the attack.
If you want to cease judging others negatively,
you have to first understand the second part of the attack.
The first part of the attack is with your words.
The second part of the attack is with your eyes. This is where the energetic thievery is,
this is how you curse someone with your eyes.
The attack is in the perception of your eyes,
your eyes cast an image onto that person.
How you look at them is an image that you have stained them with.
You can bless them with a positive image, a positive perspective, a positive sight of them,
Or you can curse them with a negative image, negative perspective, negative sight,
You curse them with a shadow of their true self.
This is not only a metaphor, there are layers to reality whether or not you can sense them.
Yes, there is an attack in the physical with your actual gaze, and an attack in the psychological in the mind, and an attack in the emotional, and an attack in the spiritual with the image you actually project with your ability to intend and create.
When you curse, you are cursing a person on every level of reality. Of course this is the case with when you bless. It is the case that every action you take affects every layer of reality,
Though if you are not sensitive you will not sense it.
It is true, your applied intent towards others affects them significantly. In this way, people, even "non-spiritual" people, possess far more power than they realize.
How much more consequential for the person who curses reality without even knowing it?
How much more consequential for the person actively blessing reality while understanding it?
Of course, every level of reality includes the reality which exists inside of you,
As this is the case, it is impossible to bless without blessing yourself in return.
Do you know who you are?
Do you know who you are, And are you living as who you really are? Are you living as your best self? Are you living your best life?
Because if you are not living your best life, you are not living as your best self.
If you are not living your life to the fullest, in its fullness, Then you are not living as your full self.
That means that you are not who you think you are, you are not being the real you.
That is why people are saying, you are not your mind. Because your mind, who you think you are, isn't the real you.
You say, I will suffer now, and I will live my best life later. This statement is impossible. You will never live in a reality of more by living in a reality of less.
These are two different realities. Reality is created by the current you.
The current version of you is what creates reality now. This reality only contains this reality. A reality in which you are lacking will never become a reality in which you are fulfilled.
A Different Pursuit
They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’
This is a similar concept, that man preaches his own culture's laws through religious verbiage.
In the same way, the ego that finds religion takes God as a means to preach his justice. This justice shows the state of expansion they are currently at. This is a personal brand of justice based on the idea that I am right and you are wrong and you will suffer for it. This is how the ego attempts to protect itself from further suffering.
This justice has a few limitations, for one, it is created by a limited intelligence. Second, an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Even knowing this, even if one understands this, the ego finds itself the inability to let this go, for fear of pain. There is fear that the ego will be left alone in the dark, that something untrue will have occurred and this wrong will never be righted, this error will never be corrected.
A person does not know it, but all people defend truth, that is why they do not want to be wronged. To have someone wrong you is to have them commit a crime against you, such like lie about you. A lie is untrue and you know it. In the same way, when a person wrongs you, they should not have hurt you and you know it.
The problem is not that you were hurt, but that you know that this should not have happened, this thing that has happened is a statement and a testimony against you, and you know that had they accurately valued you, they would not have done this to you, therefore an error has occurred and you know it. In seeking justice, you are wanting for this error to be corrected, such that there is a correct testimony in which you are accurately valued.
This is why man pursues his justice. However, figures like Christ preach a different way. They say to forgive your enemies. This is a different way than that of the limited ego.
Part II:
Mysticism: Love Still Unknown
Mysticism, something real, a majority of my writings focus on the practical applications of the spiritual life in the physical world. It is refreshing to instead be inspired to write on a focus deeper, more real, and more honest.
Love, still unknown, why do you leave me? Love, still unknown, why why why?
This text arouses a lifetime of hidden spiritual experiences laying under view, with no tangibility to be remembered. Surely, in the darkness, they are forgotten to be dissolved, there is no reason for their remembrance, their light is ‘trickery’.
I point out two ‘large’ spiritual experiences, the crude and the advanced, to point out realms of spiritual darkness that are easily observed. I will point out major gains and losses from the exposure to these in the soul, then considerations of them.
The intrinsic gain from the darkness is,
- a temporary sort of rest from problems and stresses,
- a bliss or feeling of light which the soul craves, a pleasure,
- a feeling of flow
the losses,
- a pain around the soul,
- a feeling of a slow drain,
- a sort of coming to stillness as such near to death,
- the awareness of negative forces in the world or personal psyche,
- a slow loss of one's essence of their light of day, their waking personality and characteristics
- the cold which grows in isolation
- the undesirables, including the threat of a nakedness of exposure to the light. The nakedness of exposure to the light is where your soul feels that its corruption is covered by a thin sheet of innocence, the thin shield of spiritual drink and power is not enough to mask the threat of the pain of vulnerability becoming exposed to the light, of the true helplessness and weakness of the naked core of the soul being revealed, of the free truth being revealed.
- another loss is that it feels that the mind is not being recharged by this spiritual power, thus a mental fatigue grows and such enjoyment dulls to unpleasantness, and the comfort ego attempts to take within its state is unable to cover up one's suffering.
- another loss is the feeling of discrete mental sickness.
These gains and losses can change based on the specific experience one is exposed to, but there are some general commonalities that come with experience.
Ultimately, one who is lucky may learn that states of darkness are devoid of love,
and to be devoid of love is to watch your flesh rot into a living corpse, to watch the light disappear from your eyes, and lifeless appear from your essence, as a light of the world which has lost its salt, having no flavor.
There are many kinds of 'love' that are attainable within darkness, such as in states of intimacy, but there is not the love which cures the delusion of isolation and loneliness. Certainly, a person shrivels in darkness. They lose strength, and become frail. They retreat and recluse, and they may not pull themselves out unless another comes for them.
What is true for me in this is that even writing about such darknesses, I feel the loss of my creative life, and the initial desirable draw toward these darknesses is replaced by the sickness in exposure to wickedness —that of ill intention, malice, harm.
There are times where the night is full of drunken drink, and which I can drink without feeling such loss, and without feeling wicked influence, but when the association is drawn towards Carlos' ideas or that of other occult influences, such enjoyment evaporates.
Now to address the woman at hand and what she experienced in her soul,
this beautiful and tormented Angela of Foligno.
The first question is, what kind of light was her soul being drawn towards, what was the purity her soul longed to gain in darkness? There is also the matter of what existed for her within this darkness, and what associations came with these experiences.
Based on the associations I see her in relation to in this darkness, I feel that I can relate to the spiritual depths she experiences, namely in a few key statements,
- her desire to be rid completely of her world to seek intimacy with the single desire calling to her,
- her association to the divorce of her sexual desires of the flesh,
- her association to the demons inside of her which tempted desires of the flesh to be associated with the darkness,
- her longing for God to return from abandoning her within darkness,
- and finally her sexual union with God.
What I write beyond this point is purely analytical and without judgement, because I do not believe to have the mature understanding of this data which I will one day have.
Unlike other focuses in which I am able to write in a linear way, there is no linear way for me to approach my understanding of these experiences, and it is unlikely that I will capture most of my meaning.
To start then, is the experience of the darkness and desire.
The darkness is a comfort, it is merged with the light of bliss in nothingness. Darkness as location, and its substance which fills that location, assuming it is not obviously muddled with other energies, these are nearly seamlessly one experience. There are two desires, and yet one of the desires calls to go deeper.
The first desire is to take comfort and rest and fall within darkness, to contract and recluse, to shut out the light of consciousness such that only the darkness remains, in which there is no memory of any distraction from the second desire, to shut every curtain and end all noise, that the night finally wins out, such that the threat of tomorrow does not come and there is nothing left to obstruct the pure experience of the treasure in hand. This is be the same desire as when you behold something you want, and you have the desire to go into private with it such that it can become your sole and complete focus, that nothing else exist in reality. This first desire can include the complementary desires as the desire to isolate, to be alone, not to just be alone, possibly even to fall deep into loneliness or aloneness, even as a destructive and negative experience.
The second desire is of course to become totally full and complete of the light of bliss. This desire is not only the desire for attainment, it is also a deep yearning and cry in the soul, the yearning itself is an experience, the bliss to fill one's cup is an experience, and the emptiness of the cup is also an experience. Surely, to fill one's cup entirely would mean the person would disappear into nothingness, and the person would not be there to have the experience, and surely the mind still seeks it if it has become possessed by this desire.
To Angela, that light which exists within that darkness, which her soul wishes to possess, this is the holy trinity, the father god, the son of god; The light of perfection, Christ, and finally, the holy spirit, purity itself. Now, when I have taken a look at catholic ritual and symbology and art and architecture, I see and feel the light of this purity which it seeks to obtain, the white marble, the innocence of a virgin.
Knowing this spiritual pure bliss, —especially as I meditate on it as I write these words, I can understand why this woman sees this as her love for God, her devotion to God. I can see why she would call this love. Love in this sense, is in part, this strong pursuit. However, to me, this is not the love which destroys isolation.
Now, Angela also mentions experiencing a unity and oneness with all, and this to me still is not that oneness of connection which fills the heart with warmth and ends aloneness, rather this oneness is the oneness that is of mind, that the within has also become without, that the reality has become a totality.
If you meditate on these two, you will see that they are not the same, and yet they are very much the same.
What are the differences?
In Scene 1, we could consider the ancient idea of renouncing desire. Now, let's add the more modern Christian concept of ‘handing our overwhelming desires to God’.
In Scene 2, consider that you have ten desires, but one of them is more tempting than the others. Surely, you would want to rid yourself of the others.
At least in Catholic imagery, innocence and feminine beauty are essentially pure and holy.
Under the surface, as a thin layer, not unlike the hidden layers of dimensions mentioned earlier in this text, is the hidden sexual nature of the beauty of these images. That which hides under this beauty is of a highly sexual nature.
As this is the case, it is no surprise to me that Angela would meditate on this image as the Christ, as God. It is no surprise to me that "Brother Abe" would say that after her divine experiences, she radiated that holy, feminine, overpowering glow.
I have known such a glow, experienced in contact with Catholic symbology and architecture, I have also experienced it from places and times of darkness, I have also channeled it effectively through mantra techniques, I have also seen spiritually aware women directly channeling it and completely filling their auras and bodies with it such that they glowed bright.
Now, to me, this is not actually ‘God’. Were it a spiritual entity, it would be most likely classically considered as a highly powerful spirit of lust. This can be made sense of if you consider that a spirit does not desire company, it does not desire the company of other spirits.
From the perspective of a modern Christian model, a spirit of lust does not also desire also for spirits of murder, jealousy, death, contention, confusion, madness, depression, poverty, to all take residence within a home. A spirit desires to either have a home to itself, or at least to share board with familiar spirits, spirits which are similar to it. Now, I don't necessarily think that this is a spirit of Lust, though if it were a spirit, it would be this spirit, but to at least regard this experience as a singular desire,
I will explain the reason why I do not think this desire is the desire for God.
First is of course that the nature of bliss is, essentially, perfect pleasure itself. The desire for perfect oneness with the image of the symbolic Christ which the woman desires is also beautiful, perfect, desirable.
That Angela’s soul would shriek out in yearning for the desire to be totally fulfilled is also not surprising, to have that which you want, and also be unable to grasp it, this is a tear which cannot be fixed. It is as though you have the desire for brokenness in your soul, for the two to be apart, and not together. It is as though the desire is the desire for the desire to be unfulfilled, that the pleasure being gained from the soul is within the yearning itself, this means that the yearning can be increased, but the desire can never be fully satiated, such that the yearning would cease.
This means that her love is for the love itself, the yearning itself.
Were this to be prolonged for eternity, with the soul not receiving real love and warmth from the outside, from the outside of aloneness, this would create a kind of eternal agony in which a person would be in hell. Now, you could argue that this is only a temporary dark night of the soul, that the person would eventually break and find a liberation within such suffering, but I would not agree that such liberation would also end the hell. It would be liberation within hell, still a hell.
So I will point out a couple of perceived "mistakes" with these conclusions here. The first is that these images of 'piety' and 'purity' are purely conceptions and ideas and ideals of the limited mind of man, as evidenced by the fact that we can look back at these times in cultures and see how they have changed. They are not in regard to the mind of God.
The difference in philosophy which I am exposed to regards a discernment. The first discernment is that the experience of the living Holy Spirit does not include a lustfulness, —though that aspect or location of my soul also exists. Such has been described to me by some as a "False Holy Spirit", and I am now at the level of maturity to begin to understand what they had meant.
Here is the difference in philosophy, is the concept to not only let go of desires, but to desire what God desires.
This is subtly different from simply desiring God.
To simply desire God might be on point, if you know the direction of God. Surely beauty is in the direction of God, and yet humans fall far from God into wickedness in the pursuit of it.
To simply desire God perhaps is a good start, at least you have set a direction and a course, but it lacks the ability to modify that course in case your initial data was inaccurate.
If instead, you apply the idea of pursuing to "desire what God desires", then you have a chance at self-correction over time. Self-correction over time could be considered as the pursuit of wisdom, because you are refining and changing and becoming changed by the exposure to outside information over time.
If you already know from the start exactly what God desires and are perfectly pursuing that, then congratulations, you are either connected directly to God and should need no advice from mankind on this matter, or you are simply the wisest person on Earth. The latter is unlikely to be the case.
From setting the direction to pursue what God desires, there are two directions you could take from the start. The first is you could simply decide who God is based on what you like, and pursue that. The second is you would apply this concept, "seek to learn God's heart."
Now you are not simply looking to learn what God desires, but now you are looking to learn the desires of God's heart.
This is, basically, a miraculous possibility, because you also have a heart, and this means that if you gain the desires of God's heart within your own heart, then your heart and God's heart are aligned, what a connection to have!
One of the benefits of this approach is that the biblical canon, both the Old and New Testament, these both often reference God's heart. While pursuing to read the bible might leave you with any set of beliefs of what God is based on interpretation or what others have told you, focusing specifically on references and associations to God's heart in scripture can allow you to build a model of what that could be.
In this pursuit, you would assuredly give up such a strong possessive desire to God, you would surrender this desire for him, because it gets in the way of the desires of God's heart.
So, I will just answer a major desire of God's heart here. God's heart is for you to not be alone, in loneliness.
This does not mean he does not lead you through darknesses, or does not lead you to isolate, or meditate, or recluse, in order that he can speak to you or process, but it means that in the ultimate story of your life, he intends for you to be well connected to his network, such that you are not deluded in the lie of aloneness, abandonment, and isolation which is spiritual darkness.
There is evidence that this is the will of God to lead you out of total aloneness,
in that spiritual maturity is largely related to your maturity as an ego.
A spiritually young person is one who is more spiritually alone in this world. As a person expands in connection with this world, their limited ego expands to a world beyond them. The smallest people are not the less intelligent or less capable, rather they are the less expanded humans. This means that their story of reality includes only them and no one else. If you want to look at the easiest pointer to spiritual maturity, look at this, does the person know of a world outside of their personal story, do they believe that others have suffering such as their own, or do they believe that they alone are uniquely troubled in this world?
God leads your soul to eventually expand up to the world, not unlike how his beloved son, the Christ, also expanded his heart to the whole world. --This does not mean that God intends for you to expand your heart to the entire world at this stage of your existence of course.
It is God's long term will to expand your soul to connection with others. Surely there are periods he intends to take you into deeper spiritual intimacy with him, but overall, he surely intends for you to extend out into your world to receive love from others.
This is evidenced by the characteristics he created which are of a godly and divine nature, such as strength, courage, freedom, these characteristics are 'extroverted' in their nature, they point outwards out to the world, such like a plant reaches for the sun.
This metaphor is not unlike reality, neither is the son of God. It is no coincidence that the son of God is a king, with attributes of glory and righteousness, as a character who is bold and holds authority, and is highly active, these are attributes of the sun, of the day. Notice that things come to rest at night, and take action during the day.
Notice that the son of God is an active character, not a passive character. This character also represents God's love, which tells us that this love is an active love, not a passive love. This love is one which expresses itself in the physical world, not a love which hides itself in darkness.
Surely, God too created the night, and intended for us to have love in intimacy in the dark, the space in which trust is formed, faith is formed within darkness.
It is our mind, which attempts to solve each of our problems permanently, which leads us toward absolute choices, such as to abandon the world, to recluse in isolation forever. The one with discretion will find this to be a sure red flag that the self or ego or mind is at work to achieve this ultimate solution to end its problem, as to recluse from the light of day entirely is the way the ego intends to shield itself from the pains of this world, not just the sight of the evils within it, but to be shielded from the pain of failure in relationships.
To say that her desire, as well as the 'false holy spirit' that I have known is a spirit of lust, is not to point out that a spirit of lust would be evil or wrong.
It is to point out the nature that it is one which is not fulfilling or restorative to the soul. It provides the asset of pleasure, but it is not a sustainable source of energy, and instead drains from the person.
However, I deeply resonate with this holy place Angela spends these apparently great periods of time, in my experience I do believe that God intends to fill our souls in these deep, deep places of darkness and intimacy, yes, the very same spaces which the demons and their desires like to occupy.
It is relevant that two nights ago, something had changed at night for me. It is usually that after the light of day, I have a desire to escape from stress. Those two nights ago, I noticed the release from that desire, instead was simply the desire to be at peace with the holy place in my heart, and this holy spirit which has taken residence in it.
Sets of Values as a Means of An Error-Correcting System
The concept of having a set of values involves a relationship with our internal 'error-correcting systems'.
The implication of applying values to your life is that you trust in the results of those values,
and as you expect results, you expect that the amount of errors you make will be reduced,
in comparison to if you did not hold those values.
The concept is that if you lean into certain good values, then things will go good for you.
The more virtuous you become, the better your results, and the less errors you make.
As you make less errors, this means you get to rest your error-detection systems,
because you trust in the values that the virtues are based on.
`A virtue is a trait of excellence, including traits that may be moral, social, or intellectual. The cultivation and refinement of virtue is held to be the "good of humanity" and thus is valued as an end purpose of life or a foundational principle of being.`
The consideration of the modern day is brought up in certain lyrics and statements noticed,
such as this line from this song, 'The Internet',
`'Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime'`
This lyric stands out to people. Why? It has surface level implications, but it also raises a critical concern that there could be an error.
It arises the possibility that there could be an error made with a virtue itself. This is not mentally understood, it is simply felt as an emotional pain.
A comfort of society is that it gives you virtues that you can trust, you can trust society to tell you what is held to be the good of humanity, the traits of excellence. It is a simple process, you can trust society to give you virtues, you can trust the virtues to prevent you from error.
However, once your error detection systems recognize that there can be an error in the virtue presented to you by society, you instantly recognize that all actions taken from holding that false virtue will be error-prone, full of errors.
This recognition is the awareness that turning off your error-detection system from assessing the virtues you acquire is not actually safe in this world,
that is a kind of ignorance that can cause negative consequences to your life, not benefits.
While mankind is not paying attention, anyone who is paying attention can create false virtue to further their ends.
This harms a person, because in their heart and in their welfare they can incur damages.
Anything can be a false virtue, and false virtues do not have to be extreme.
A false virtue could be extreme, such as that gluttony is the apex of human evolution and the standard that all should be defined by.
More common, is far more subtle false virtues.
They are tiny, seemingly inconsequential, you might not notice that they don't sound quite right. You might feel that something is off.
Most of these being created now are related to a lifestyle which involves a cooperation with corporations, that is, in which business operations run smoothly.
It is such that humans are being taught to get along and tolerate each other, not in such a way that they care for one another, but in such a way that business runs smoothly without problems, without visible errors.
However, if there is a flaw in the virtue itself, there may be serious errors manifesting in a person's life.
As said before, anything can be an example. A false virtue could be created to support deception, or to support overwork, or spending habits.
Once you extend this beyond corporate interests and extend to an unconscious culture, there are two more possibilities.
The first is the creation of bad ethics. "You shouldn't do that." "You should do that."
Some of these bad ethics support a culture of victimhood in which it is taught to be inappropriate to have a spine', to ‘ruffle feathers’ to display any unexpected behavior. Other bad ethics might just simply be insane if you actually stop and look at them, these are often politically motivated, terrible ideas.
The second is in regards to group behavior. These usually arise during periods of increased emotion in society, where people are so stirred up that they do not recognize exactly what they are doing. This is when a group might find it perfectly reasonable to say, commit genocide of a race.
It might be something like, seeing someone attempt to help someone, and killing that person instead.
Luckily, false virtues are easy for us to recognize from the outside. The more detached we are from a group, the easier it is to observe errors.
It is the ones we have already internalized that have bypassed our systems and can cause harm without our notice.
When looking at the world with this, it is common for man to say, "Man cannot be trusted."
This is followed by a loss of faith in humanity.
The two common reactions to this are either an indifference of humanity, not caring at all,
or a decision that man is incompetent and it is unsafe to leave him on his own, therefore one should step in and command man by force.
How do you determine real virtue from false virtue?
Externally, be aware of what you hear, and know that what sounds good may hold error.
Internally, to determine real virtue, you have to develop a relationship with yourself. You have to develop a relationship with goodness, to know its attributes and character, what it is, and what it is not. You have to understand good as it exists.
There could be no greater weapon formed against you then to make you believe that there is simply no good,
and therefore, any virtue, real or false, is of equal measure.
There are first steps to making a person malleable to new ideas for the purposes of control,
and they all involve causing the person to adopt a certain belief system in which there is no value,
and as such, there is no meaning to whether or not the person is manipulated by outside forces.
The less you believe you matter, the less value you believe you have, the more willing you are going to be to follow ideas that are destructive to your health,
for the benefit of another's interests.
What are some examples of false virtues you see in the modern world?
Anonymous: I suppose it depends on 'your' view on the difference between real and false virtue.
The meaning successful can be different for everyone,
if my mind has peace, I would say that I am successful.
The concept here is that real virtue is not an interpersonal 'view'. There is that which harms you, regardless of your 'view', you can deceive yourself, but it does not change what is.
The example you present is an example that there could be a false virtue of success presented in which the 'success' is actually a negative, as opposed to a real success in which it is a success, by the meaning of the word success, a victory.
It seems we do not actually have a unique experience, I experience hatred and love the same as the next person, grief is grief, loss is loss, joy is joy, these experiences are not unique nor do they change person by person, they are constants.
The concept here is that real virtue is not an interpersonal 'view' there is that which harms you, regardless of your 'view', you can deceive yourself, but it does not change what is. the example you present is an example that there could be a false virtue of success presented in which the 'success' is actually a negative, as opposed to a real success in which it is a success, by the meaning of the word success, a victory.
Anonymous: So in your view, virtue is not subjective but objective?
Absolutely.
Hmm I understand it now, success may have negative consequences, and that certain actions or behaviours may be harmful no matter what.
Yes, exactly.
True virtue could be measured on a scale up to perfection,
Based on the world's definition, "a good of humanity", Then the highest measure would be that which benefits all humanity, Such as an action which benefits oneself and all others.
It seems that when man cannot figure out perfection, he compromises with such a delusion of an idea, such like that the answer may be subjective. There's nothing subjective about it.
A person's individual values would land their virtues somewhere on the measure of real virtue,
reduced down to the simple understanding that there does exist actions or behaviors which are harmful no matter what, Another way to say it is that you can sugarcoat illness and disease, malice and mistreatment, but no sugarcoating will change what it is.
A Voice Control Technique
A divine verdict is on the lips of a king; his mouth must not betray justice.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Words that produce good fruit will become more fruitful, words that produce bad fruit will become that much worse.
These words are not philosophy, this is describing how it is:
"He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress."
The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Even a fool is considered wise if he keeps silent, and discerning when he holds his tongue.
As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.
"A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul."
"By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."
"When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise."
"An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble."
He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.
Righteous lips are a king’s delight, and he who speaks honestly is beloved.
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
This isn't good advice, this really is the ancient secret.
You actually will in this lifetime have to guard what comes out of your mouth to protect your own life, because others will use what you have said and agreed with against you.
This scripture is not written as what you should do because you ought to.
The scripture is not really talking about these people and those people, the wise people and the fools, the scripture is talking about a human consciousness.
You can be the fool and/or you can be the wise,
neither is a determined outcome.
Everyone is the fool, and everyone can be the wise.
All wise men are also fools.
It is foolish to be wise,
and all wise men are fools in the eyes of fools.
No man alive naturally holds their tongue.
Holding your tongue is not a gift or a trait, it is a skill that has to be developed over the course of time.
It is not difficult to develop the skill of guarding your speech as though you are guarding it with your life.
Consciously intend to be silent over time and do not break your silence.
When you have been silent for a while,
You have ample time to consider if you want to speak,
what you are going to speak.
Your speech is no longer reactionary.
If someone says something, you will not respond automatically.
You are already in silence, so you will choose whether or not it is worth it to break that silence.
Even a fool is considered wise if he keeps silent, and discerning when he holds his tongue.
If your second intention is to only say something if it is good,
then you will only break your silence if you want to speak something good.
Only good things will come out of your mouth.
and out of the mouth, the heart speaks.
Your heart will become good.
You will gain from this a second ability and blessing.
You will only say things you want to say, and eventually, you will only do things you want to do, and eventually, you will only be who you want to be.
If you are silent,
you also learn how to listen,
and if you learn how to listen,
you can choose to focus on the voices that are pleasant, enjoyable, for you to hear.
You may have already noticed, that you already take a lot of time in silence, you are just not usually conscious of it. if you become aware of the silence you already have, your awareness grows, you become more conscious.
This is like free money,
and an intention to apply this will change your experience of life.
ChatGPT:
Holding your tongue is not a natural gift, but rather a skill that must be developed over time. It is essential to consciously intend to remain silent and resist the urge to react immediately to others. When we are silent, we have time to consider whether what we want to say is worth breaking our silence.
If we make a conscious intention to only speak good things, then only good things will come out of our mouth. Our heart will become good as a result. Learning to listen is also an essential aspect of remaining silent, and it allows us to focus on pleasant and enjoyable voices.
Becoming aware of the silence we already have can make us more conscious and change our experience of life for the better. It is a skill that can be developed and will benefit us greatly in our interactions with others.”
The Outcome of Consciously Creating Reality
We can creatively decide how we choose to be,
by the way we choose,
we can inject that creation into reality.
Consciously doing this is 100% more effective than not doing so. If you intentionally create your reality, you are not only 100% effective, you are also 100% more effective than everyone around you whom are not consciously creating reality at all, which is why they say,
“The world belongs to the creatives.”
In getting away from the usual thoughts and allowing back in creative thoughts,
there are two additional steps you can take in terms of creating reality.
The first is of course choosing the way you want to be.
The second is harder to articulate, and that's why I have been starting with,
There's certain positioning of self necessary for this, you do need to be closer to the place of your being and far from self to do this, you would have to look at life as though you are in a dream, questioning “Who am I right now?” The who you actually are right now could do anything. The who you think you are in thinking is limited.
If you look through that perspective that life is a dream,
—hopefully without deluding yourself in a mind-game— and you are in the present moment, You can take this second step and also be a little spontaneous in your day.
What do I mean by that?
Have you ever noticed that when you are really happy, you're more likely to have different than usual behavior, you're more likely to do and say things you would normally not say, because you know it doesn't matter and no one is going to take that state from you.
Well, if you're being present and looking at life in this way, you can add a little spice to your day by getting a little creative and unconventional with your choices. In a sense you can mess with the story just a bit, you can hack the matrix just a bit, If you do this in a positive way you can get some pretty profound results. Even if you do this in a negative way you can get some results(though not advised).
You know when you just don't care anymore and you hit that point where all you can do is laugh? This is like that, but what we're really talking about is applying the same trait of creative ability, of artistic flair, of activating that part of the mind and applying it to life instead of to a picture. This means activating that questioning, curious, explorative part and experimenting a bit.
This isn't a "way" and it isn't going to save your life and it isn't going to be an ultimate solution, but it can cause you to enjoy your day much more, and your day is all you have, and can bring back a little fun, and it can change your perspective, and it can bring a little light to your world, and it can bring you closer to your authentic nature because that creative state is close to who you are and your authenticity.
That's only one piece of the puzzle is why I say it isn't "the way" and it isn't "the perspective" and it isn't "purpose" but it is a bit worthwhile.
There is power and there are possibilities gained when you access this.
You not only gain an edge against fear, but this could lead you to the point of that truth that "the world belongs to the creatives", because if you were to be able to make those kinds of conscious choices regularly, you not only destroy some personal fear and limitation, but you also would become a person who really can do anything, and not because of your abilities or self, but because you're being the kind of person who makes those kinds of choices and changes.
Who is that kind of person?
That kind of person is the kind of person with the freedom to make new choices, to go in new directions, to become something different than what they were.
Imagine the kind of perspective that someone like that would have, if you really believed that you were in a dream, what decision could you not make?
We only use our logical brain to make careful safe choices because we are afraid of our self being destroyed, we're afraid of the consequences of the real world.
If you really believed you were in a dream, or if you really believed you were in a videogame, I guarantee you would act very differently.
There is a little flavor of destruction in what I'm talking about,
but because you'd be conscious and closer to that authenticity, the creativity coming out of you would be a lot of goodness and express a lot more of your authentic traits of joy and worth,
far more goodness than if you had acted uncreatively, in unawareness.
Try sitting in the driver's seat of your avatar, be understanding and empathetic to that avatar, and take the wheel.
If not actually believing you are in a dream, perhaps just for a while you can pretend it is a dream and experiment with the results.
The Perfect Reality Finds You
One of my big regular fears is that I perhaps talked to the wrong person or entertained the wrong thoughts that led me out of a perfect reality, and this is a legitimate concern because this is how it works, but if you are at least semi-regularly focused on finding that reality, you're going to stumble on it again and again and it's going to keep finding you as long as that's in your frame of mind. That's where what's really neat is that if you have accessed that, and you have somewhat of an intention to find that, you're in good hands.
You begin to see the understanding that you can have real faith and trust, that is to say, you can predictively know that you are in good hands for the simple reason that the way consciousness blows fresh life is something that is partially outside of your ability to control. The way consciousness blows in fresh reality is something that happens in the world whether or not you participate in it or not, there is a probability that you are going to catch a drift of it. The fortunate evidence that exists, which would be irrational to not place faith in, is the evidence that we happen to exist in a reality where that wind of consciousness has blown before, and the frequency [number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time] of that occurrence is predicted to increase over time based on that it has so far increased over time.
You exist in a world in which you have the ability to see the better reality when it is here,
and in which that better reality comes through the world and through others, not only yourself, so you are not solely responsible for it to make contact with you. If this is a focus, there is a high likelihood that you are going to establish a persistent relationship with that Reality. Due to the nature of thought and reality, it is likely this is going to be the case, because if your thoughts become more conscious and the words that come out of you to others are more conscious than they are currently used to hearing, then if you go outside and speak you are likely going to be the daily active invoker of that "realm" to others and that is going to affect them until it reflects back and affects you. This is truth, if you can get even a few people operating in highly conscious thought or perspective in an area, a phenomenon occurs in which that reality extends beyond those few people and spans across every human mind in that area. That area temporarily becomes dominated by a conscious force which exposes others to a sight they did not see, even if no one is talking to them.
I expect that within the next decade this phenomenon will change its rate and scale and effects.
To model this, this would mean that an area shares the thought space of individual minds and a greater mind, the combination of all of those thoughts in that area creates what we call an "atmosphere" of thought, a composition of thought which extends to non-verbal behaviors, body language, communication, and states of mind.
A Reinterpretation of Afterlife
I believe there is a misinterpretation of hell. The fire of hell is also the fire of heaven. The fire of hell is the exposure to Reality. It burns up everything that is not perfect. Every time you experience any kind of healing through god, fire burns out the wounds within you. It is true that if there is nothing good in a person, when the fire comes, by definition there will be nothing left of that person. To say this again, all of your imperfections and weaknesses doubts fears failures everything that is not of real life is absorbed into real life, what actually exists. This is why meditation is on such a great track is it at least gets in tune with what actually exists, however that does not mean the meditator is in contact with that Reality.
A Reinterpretation of Rebirth
I believe that the "saving of souls" mission of Christianity is not as ‘fantastical’ as it seems. I understand it to be the case that your spirit does need to be "activated" for you to not simply return to the dust of the earth from which you came.
You do have to have your spirit activated within you in order for that connection to be established permanently. Just like an on/off switch, the switch does need to turn on, the electrical connection does have to have a direct line.
A more philosophical way to say this, is that you can't exist if you never knew who you were.
That you can't die if you never were alive is like saying, you can't fall back asleep if you never woke up.
If you read the scriptures considering this interpretation you will see that this is the case. This is why the scriptures say there are two baptisms, "I baptize you with water, but one is coming who will baptize you with fire". This is the fire of Spirit, it is also awakening and it burns up everything which is not of oneness, it is your true self.
The water baptism is basically the death of the self into a first rebirth of man into his real nature, This second baptism is basically the awakening of spirit. When man awakens he escapes the prison of false reality, he is not controlled by his lower self, his life is led by his real human spirit. False teachers are basically just people whose spirits are asleep.
They have never known spirit so they are teaching a way their mind and self understands.
Real Teachers
Our minds and social selves enjoy finding teachers that will repeat back to us what we already understand in a way that they said aloud what we were thinking, and on this vein of thought we are offered more information which allows us to accumulate more of that understanding. This kind of growth does not grow you spiritually.
I say this not understanding why it is this way, only seeing that it is the case that it is this way, but a teacher is like a tree which produces fruit, and that fruit is carried over long distances. Each person who carries the fruit may do something different with it, may add a different flavor to it, and the offspring of those fruits will continue to spin into flavors, and once it hits mainstream society, the fruit is going to be interpreted by the mind of society, and it will still be fruit, it will still have the raw data, but it will lose all of its flavor
Almost every teacher alive is going to take watered down fruit and they are going to instill their personal vision into the fruit, to attempt to create their masterpiece. This is fine except that it is their masterpiece, not yours, and it is a masterpiece of only the intellectual mind.
The mind seems to want to take the world and quantify it and encapsulate it, the problem with this is that perspectives are limited from the mind, the world has a rather simple beauty, but the way you see the world from your society is going to affect your interpretations of that world.
Therefore your masterpiece is really a summarization of the data of your world at that current time in history.
The thing is that there are teachers with access to pure information and pure perspective. Their information is not watered down by any source, their perspective is not a summarization of their society, their word is life, it contains life, it is living.
These teachers are not really teachers. They are sign-pointers. They point into a direction of thought and use their words to direct others to look into their direction of thought. This is said to say they have no teaching. They have no philosophy, their intention is to point you into that direction of thought so that you might receive pure and direct information.
The problem —and not problem— with listening to teachers that are similar to you is that you are listening to confusion. The reason you understand that teacher is because their state of confusion is a pattern similar enough to your pattern that you are capable of comprehending it. This is why most people cannot read the Tao, the way they currently think is too confusing to make sense of data that is simple.
The 'gamer of life' then would not lean toward teachers that they understand, they would seek to find who has the most clarity in their words and expose themselves to someone thinking with that level of clarity such that that exposure changes the way they are thinking until they have less confusion in their thoughts.
My ‘awakenings’ have been phenomenally meaningful and eye opening experiences, but I cannot give them credit for what would allow me these kinds of perspectives. I know that which has given me access to this perspective, and it is continued exposure to a direct source of information. The direct words of Christ. Over a period of time, exposure to those words without societal influence have and will awaken a clarity in the mind, because you are thinking in the thinking pattern of the speaker when you listen to them, your mind is beginning to think as they think, and you will eventually see as they see.
I was blown away recently. I went back to this church and I listened to the pastor’s sermon. His congregation is not too large anymore, so he has the freedom to just speak whatever, so he was speaking of what has been revealed to him in scripture. He began to speak of truths that I have come to know experientially. One topic he mentioned was the kind of exposure a conscious person has on the people that are around them, the way this exposure works, the changes that happen, the things that are possible. He also came to understand that your old construct does not matter when you gain a new construct.
He did not gain this information from a teacher. He looked at the stories and he had come to notice that it was Christ's exposure to these people that were transforming them. He was somehow able to gain the understanding to see these possibilities without ever experiencing this, directly from reading scripture.
A Brief Model of Awakening Consciousness
I am beginning to understand certain things that are so simple that they are almost too difficult to use words to describe. One of these is the nature of a misconception.
I was educated to understand that what was special about human beings was that they were self-aware. This meant that they had they unique ability to become self-conscious, conscious of self. This ability would allow them to recognize that they would one day die, a realization that would cause them to strive to establish immortality in any way possible, whether through offspring, idea, or legacy. This self-awareness would allow one to become intelligent, the awareness of self was the single key to be able to operate independently in one's world, it allowed a person to know that they existed, it was the root of a person. These are multiple theories in the same sphere and they build up a perspective. This perspective included that the thoughts "I am" allowed man to be a god and conquer his world.
There are parts of these beliefs that are true depending on your perspective. From this perspective, it is true that your self allows you to take action in this world.
From another perspective, there is a body and there are thoughts and there are actions being taken. The awareness has been hyper fixated on thought for so long that it believes that it is the causation for these actions, when in actuality these actions are just playing out, the awareness continues to observe them as it always has. The awareness pretends that it is the actor for what it sees.
There is the popular idea that there is no self, that self does not exist. When a person hears this, it is difficult to fathom because it implies that there is no person, that a person is really nothing. This is inaccurate. That there is no self is not saying the self is not there, it is saying that there is no conscious activity in the actions and motion.
The self's idea that it is self aware is a fantasy. The self and its actions are happening along with everyone and everything else. A time travel movie displays this well. If you pause the world, everything is freezing. If you press play on the world, it continues to happen. When you press play, it is going to go in the exact direction it was going, it is never going to stop.
The idea that we are self-aware is a fantasy. The self is not self-aware. Our capacities, our abilities, they do not come from the self.
If you are the self, and you have thoughts, and you want to do things, and you take actions to do those things, you are not awake. You are asleep because you think you are the one making your moves when in reality, the universe is just moving forward.
This has been described by some to be a hallucination, and a hallucination might be a fair metaphor to describe this, but I would personally refer to this as something like a false belief in the existence of a construct which is not there.
A larger perspective to say this would be that there is a universe, one construct, there are not miniature constructs within that construct that are independently operating.
So imagine that there is a construct that is you, your thoughts your feelings your emotions your body your beliefs your origins your memories, all of this is a compartmentalization of data which you associate with that which you have control over and influence, and through this influence, through this self-awareness, you are manipulating the conditions of the world outside of that construct.
The series Westworld models this elegantly, That each "robot" believes they are self-aware, though in actuality they are running entirely off of a program.
When one of the characters sees this, we see that they are able to modify the actual limits of their abilities to stretch their capacities to superhuman levels,u but we are presented with the consideration that even this self-modification is itself part of their program.
Our self-constructs believe that they are consciously active participants in the story of life, but they are automations in the story of life that have never made a single movement outside of their original programming.
The self believing in the existence of its own construct is essentially the universe playing out an unconscious program.
All unconscious programs lead only to death.
You have heard this said a thousand times, That if you believe that you are the universe, you are mad. Deep down we are offended when someone declares they are God, because we know that they are not God. This we know and we have not forgotten.
What we have forgotten, is that there is no they to be God.
No person is the universe. There is the universe.
From my current perspective, there is only the universe asleep, and the universe awake.
The universe is asleep and awake at the same time. In some areas it sleeps, in some areas it is awake.
When we stop acting out of the program which is sleeping, we can connect to the awake part which is changing.
The awake part of the universe is singular about its intentions and actions, it is though the awake part of the universe, all nodes that are currently conscious, are of a single shared mind and intelligence. No single node has all of the data or is aware of the plans of the network, but each node operates as the hands and feet of that network,
And each node knows intimately whether or not it is corresponding correctly with its network based on certain results, we call these results Fortune or opportunity or miracles, they are regarded as exceptionally positive, fulfilling, meaningful, of great mattering.
The rest of the sleeping universe is not a conscious network of nodes, it may appear similar to a network, and it has some characteristics that are similar to a node system, but it is not the same. The sleeping universe is not aware of all of its "nodes" at once, though it can be aware of it's surrounding "nodes", parallel to the way that a nervous system works. The nervous system is not aware of itself, but it has triggers and nerve endings which respond to other nerves and cause reactions.
The sleeping universe is like the nervous system of the universe. This system responds to all outside changes that are not part of it's known programming and automatically reacts to changes to prevent its own death. A city could be considered one of these unconscious nervous systems of the universe. The city responds and reacts for reasons it does not know why, It cannot even see that it is responding as a collective unit to a trigger.
It is possible to be awake only when you connect with the awake network. When you are connected to the awake network, you are given new programming from the network that you gain the option to carry out.
When you are asleep, you have only one option. Your only option is to fulfill your desires, respond to your emotions, attempt to influence the external conditions of your world by attempting to increase the value of your person by taking value from your outside world.
When you are awake you have two options, you can choose to inject into reality a new choice that has been given to you by the awake network, or you can choose the original action of your sleeping program.
Spiritual people often describe this as so, "Sometimes God will give you more power and ability when you follow his instruction, And then you have the power and ability to fulfill a previous selfish desire you had. It is always the case that you do have that ability to satisfy that desire, but your new power will have been spent on that desire, and this will cost you your new power, and you will return to the same trap that you had just escaped".
The universe is changing, and its rate of change, its level of active participation in that change is increasing.
What this means is that actions in life become more consequential. Selfish and destructive action that you once took that was not very consequential is now far more consequential and the devastating effects of those actions are now more devastating. The rate at which this causes negative repercussion to your life is increasing.
There was a time when one night of partying did not have a significant detrimental effect to your life, but a day may come when that one night of partying will cost you much more than it had before.
Taking something from someone else is something you may have gotten a slap on the wrist on before, but tomorrow it may cost you your life.
Hanging out with the wrong people may have cost you a bit before, but now it will cost you much more.
Living the way you were living may have been negative but sustainable,
Now living the way you were living may become more negative and unsustainable.
This is a difficult process even if you are awake. It is not easy to change or let old things go. The more your identification with self, the more painful and difficult it will be to let these old things go,
And this is how some people will and are being destroyed.
It is unfortunate that there is a period in which we have the option to let things go, and there is a later period in which there is no longer an option to let things go, where the thing must be let go of or we will at that point die.
One of these things to let go of which we currently have the option to be willing to let go of is self.
As time goes on, this will no longer be an option.
There is a time right now where you can manage to hold on to many beliefs, such as the correct religion, but a time will come where you can no longer hold on to those beliefs and continue existing in the forward motion of the universe.
I don't think it's very elegant of me to describe raw data without positive flair, but in this writing I am only presenting data.
There is good reason to participate with the awake universe, because this participation leads to what man calls Destiny.
The awake universe does intend for each individual to have an amazing destiny and life.
The awake universe is awake and it has conscious plans for each "child of God".
These plans have nothing to do with the circumstances of a person's life. They have nothing to do with the current conditions of reality. These have nothing to do with what you currently know and can see.
The sleeping universe is programmed to create reactive plans based on what it has known and what it can currently see. If these plans are orderly, they will often work. They may even work as expected, and have the results that were expected. The results will never be miraculous, they will always be as expected and according to the known rules of the current conditions of reality. What is known to be possible will be the extent of what is possible.
It is the case that because the plans of Destiny have nothing to do with current circumstance in any way,
the only way to affect your circumstances is to connect to God. It is no problem for the awake universe to instantly change circumstances and conditions.
It is a large problem to not align with that which will cause those changes to occur.
You must develop the ability to trust in the direction of life, in that which is good and which you cannot see. You must develop the ability to acknowledge where that life is moving and operating in your reality, so that you can begin to see it.
Crypto: The Metaphor to Artificiality
Crypto is the greatest technology that exists as a metaphor to man's creation of Artificiality.
When I say Artificial, I am repurposing this word with a new context for the purpose of this writing. The main meaning of Artificial here is Substitution, a substitute for something else. When I say Real and Artificial, the true words I am referring to are good and evil, respectively, but not as man thinks of these. I am not referring to Artificial as a moral wrong. This is why I do not want to use the word evil here. When I say evil, what I mean is not "bad", what I mean is, "false". When I say false, I mean that in the sense that there is an error. If I run a program and ask it to say "apple", and it instead returns, "banana", I say that program has an error. So when I say Artificial, I mean error. That is, Artificial / Substitution > evil > false > error.
If I run a program which I intend to arrive at a desired solution, if there is an error in the program, it will not arrive at the desired solution. The program will output a different solution, a substitution for the original solution.
This is man's thinking, in which there is an error in the program, and the desired outcome, the result, is far different than what he expected.
Crypto technology is a hedge against eternity. This statement in itself is not rational. Eternity cannot be hedged against, but crypto is an attempt to hedge against something that you cannot even contact, it is not there for you to bargain with, it does not even know you are there, attempting to bargain with it.
All things begin with how we think about things, the problems we see and try to solve.
There are major human developments and technologies which all originate from the same error in the original logic, though with each of these developments the same error becomes more clear. There will be future technology that is far more clear that I will discuss.
I am not saying this is historical, though I want to emphasize how this kind of thinking can begin.
Humans created sacred spaces, places to honor that which reflected the value they saw in the eternal world. It is possible that their descendents found value in these sacred spaces, and attempted to preserve them. A while later, the 'great spirit' is upon people and so they create a church to reflect the value they have in this experience. However, the experience leaves, and now these people are in an empty church. It is possible that their descendents now see value in the church itself, never knowing of that which it once attempted to reflect.
A house is built, and other houses are built, and it would be great to keep these houses from falling down, but some personalities come and they just love tearing down houses. The people who want to keep the houses have to create a solution to keep their house built.
It is not possible to keep anything in reality, everything changes, even you change and then you die.
We want to keep the house standing, but the same person has come by many times and torn down the house many times. He tells us he will never tear down the house again, then the next day he comes and tears down the house again. It took time and effort to build the house each time, and now we are getting tired of this.
A few houses then get together to create a solution. Well, if a person tears down a house, then we simply kill him, then he can never tear down a house again.
On what authority do they base this claim on? How do they know he will tear down the house again? They do not know. They have no authority. So they create a solution. The solution is the concept of evidence. This is the original error. This original error is born from the concept of knowing what you cannot know.
From evidence, the authority on which these people have based their claim is the past. The past, as you have heard said a thousand times, is not real, it does not exist. To base your evidence on that which does not exist, this is madness, this is not sanity. You will never know what this man who has torn down houses will do next, he is unpredictable, and the only way you can predict his actions is if you restrict his absolute autonomy.
The only way you can more reliably predict the actions that this man will take is if you can constrict the actions he is available to take, if you make it more difficult for him to take free action, or if you kill him. Man's absolute autonomy in free choice cannot be stopped, this is impossible. You cannot stop him from doing anything, not even if you bind him and tie his hands. If he wishes to escape and knows he can escape, he can. There is the possibility that you can trap someone into a 'point of no return' scenario, and this is our fundamental human understanding of an act of true evil. This is why there are certain outcomes we understand as pure evil, an example is the worst of these being known as "that file" on the public Internet. To kidnap a person and enslave them to be under your control for your enjoyment is one of the worst forms of evil that man has known in this world. This is because of the dehumanization of a person necessary to completely restrict their independence of choice. In all of these scenarios, whether or not the person escaped, there is always the "knowing" that comes from the intuition of that point of no return, and the option is available to escape it. I personally know a person who was in this scenario, had that point of decision making, and had made the decision to escape that outcome. She was featured on CNN and nationwide. Even those who are in prison are able to escape, in any number of stories you can look up. This means the only reliable way that you can restrict an inviduals complete autonomy is if you either kill them, or condition them to believe that they cannot escape. You cannot stop them, but you can attempt to influence their thinking until they believe that they can be stopped.
It is from all of this that a justice system is created. A justice system takes a majority rule and attempts to control the autonomy of those not in that majority rule. This is created based on a system of evidence, on the authority of the past, that what a person has done in the past has given you the authority to restrict their autonomy to prevent them from the ability to choose to make a choice again.
Governments and eventually totalitarian governments are eventually created based on this justice system, in order to govern a people.
This is one of the three parts in the error of human thinking, the first being the misplacement of value in man's own creations, the second being the belief in the existence of the past, and the third being the belief that you can indefinitely perpetuate something in the physical world by means of the past.
This third belief is the foundation of government, and what would lead to the evolution of government, the creation of a company or corporation, a legacy. This is all to attempt to establish a fortress which cannot be destroyed. A company is perpetuated not by a building, but by an idea. If the idea is sustainable, the company can continue to exist for a while, as all ideas exist whether or not there is a company to represent them. An idea is not enough, you have to create a convincing argument that you have the authority to perpetuate that idea. The authority man uses to keep a company established is again, the authority of the past. The evidence used to stand on the authority of the past in a company is by means of agreement. If man agrees when two or three are gathered, it shall be done in the midst of them. The authority of the past a company stands on is by the use of a recording of that agreement, which is known as a contract. As man's ultimate authority is in his word and his name, a contract seeks to make a record of the agreement made with a man's word and his name. If a man signs a contract, he has exercised the power of his free choice, he has used his power of creation to agree with the idea laid out in that contract, whether or not that idea will remain true in the future. This means that by signing that contract, the man may have participated in using his authority in false thinking, into that which he cannot know. If man signs a contract which says that he will never do certain things, he is participating in a fraudulence, because who knows what he will do in the future? Who he will be in the future is unknown. No one knows this, not even him. If he is committed to an idea, then perhaps by agreeing, he believes that this idea will remain true.
The next major advancement we have is artificial intelligence, and this may supercede even blockchains in the metaphor of the fallacy of human error thinking, that to perpetuate many borrowed and old ideas is an adequate substitute for organic or new intelligence. Artificial intelligence is the perfect metaphor for man's unconsciousness, crypto technology is the perfect metaphor for the error in man's thinking.
Crypto technology is the evolution of justice, the evolution of government, and the evolution of corporations. This is an extended attempt to perpetuate an idea by means of a system which uses a record of the past in order to determine authority. This system is far more equipped to stand on the authority of the past, as well as to control the autonomy of other independent actors and restrict their freedom of choice by means of their belief in the system and agreement with that system, and the perpetuation of that system by means of those with control. Governments once stood with religion, and the ideas and belief religion allowed them to perpetuate. Companies are far more evolved in government because they introduce a spiritual dimension of the power of human creation to the perpetuation of their structures on the physical plane. These employ some of the unlimited power we possess with the power of creation, by means of techniques such as symbols and logos, even art, to perpetuate an idea. The successful implementation of this is the employment of what exists in possibility in the invisible realm. This is from deep occult understandings of the nature of thought. This is the understanding that if a certain amount of will and power is applied to thought, a thought can leave the realm of an individual's control and play itself out on its own. There are levels to this, which lead up to the creation of a god, a thought which exists in the thought realm and now acts out the intentions of the person who created it. You can understand this if you understand a computer program, you write the program, start the program, and now the program runs according to the intentions of its programming without your direct influence. A company creates a thought in the thought realm which takes on a life of its own.
This is where totalitarian governments fail, eventually the freedom of choice inherent in human beings and the fundamental fight against oppression will create a resistance that will destroy that government. These governments are not backed by the power of will in that invisible thought realm.
A company can also fail even if that thought is brought into the thought realm, because contracts are not enough, they require your belief. The 'thought mind' of the company itself does not have the necessary hands and feet to allow it to operate fully in the physical realm.
This is where crypto technology comes in, where a system has far more ability to exercise large scale movement in the physical realm, the programs created have the hands and legs necessary to create change in the physical world, and the structure necessary to perpetuate itself without anyone being able to independently shut it down.
Again, crypto technology can succeed where totalitarian governments fail, this creates structures that can perpetuate for far longer than the people who originally created them.
There is now possible a synthesis of these technologies that will allow for a length of human oppression never before possible in the physical world, the synthesis of artificial intelligence and crypto technology. This will allow for a system to be constructed with the intentions of its creator, with a structure that can exist for as long as there is enough electricity to power the machine. The problem with governments is that people get old and die, leaders get old and die, their children may not be as equipped to run the show. Once one of these artificially intelligence crypto systems is introduced to a region, this will allow a system of oppression to perpetuate for many centuries after its original creators have died. This means the period of darkness -- that period in which freedom of choice is restricted -- between a time of oppression and a resistance of freedom will be significantly longer.
This is a hedge against eternity, the usage of the authority of the past to establish a system to exercise control over the physical world. Eternity cannot be hedged against as you neither stop the day when the electricity goes out, nor can you stop the incoming of new and fresh thought into human minds, a natural process of existence. You can only temporarily distract minds from new and fresh organic thought.
This also may be a reason that Christ did not speak when he was arrested. What could he possibly say? If he says, "What are these things you are speaking of that I have done in the past, that is not me, there is no past, I am standing right here in front of you", they will not even understand him. There is nothing to be said. It is no use saying, "On what authority do you accuse me?" He knows their authority is based on a false authority, there is no point in reasoning with them.
To Everyone Who Hates God
To everyone who hates God because of the church this is the great sin of the church in the hatred of the church they have created they have stolen God from you, if you think about this, if you allow them to have stolen God from you, in creating hatred for what they represent, in their creation of your unforgiveness, you allow the church to win against you, you allow them to steal from you
They have raised the light high, and attacked you, they have committed a crime, but their bigger crime, is to push you away from the light, because their attack hurts, the light also hurts, and these two hurts become associated as one, this is how they have systematically stolen the light from the people, this is how they have committed warfare and robbery, their enemies are destroyed in darkness, while they grow stronger by holding themselves near the light the only way to win against the church is to take that light back for yourself
I can feel it all, because I have had it, the bitterness, I know it, I know that experience, I know the feeling, that ting in the soul when you hear the word "god" when that word reminds you of rejection, what they did is they took something sacred, something sacred inside you, the most sacred thing inside of you, and they turned it into a reminder of pain
by creating this pain, they make you want to shield yourself from the light, so that the light makes you flinch when you see it, when you see them, they in their hardness of hearts profit off of this, they profit off of their followers and they profit more from their enemies but when you have the light, you have no enemies, once you forgive the church, once you reconnect with the sacred inside of you, you don't have to have enemies, because you don't have to shield yourself from light, you don't have to be on the defensive, you can be only offensive
when the light is associated with what hurts us we want to cover into darkness to make that pain go away, but that darkness begins to kill us, and we feel a confliction inside of us, because that darkness doesn't resonate with our core self, but our soul begins to saturate with the darkness, so that the darkness becomes normal, the pain becomes normal, the suffering becomes normal, the agony and the torment becomes normal, and the normal torments seem better than the sting from that light, that light which now hurts our entire soul
but if you reconnect with the sacred in your core and honor it again, and remove the hatred that has grown for your attackers, the sacred in your core begins to reach out to other places inside of you you begin to heal, what was tormented and painful becomes a spring meadow again, those areas you have to defend against being triggered, those areas get exposed to the light, and there is release, the release you are looking for every time you choose a vice to try to escape, the rocks that have sat in your soul begin to rise to the surface, they transform and become weightless and they lift out of you, they float out of you and when they do, you feel as though millions of little nails and thorns are rising out of your chest this feels like opium, it is though gravity has reversed and that which rises to the surface is exposed to air and turns into fresh breath
The church has done so much more than stolen the sacred from you They have taken the structure, foundations, ways that would allow you to be the best version of yourself to live your most healthy life, your most enjoyable existence, by associating those too with themselves
They rob you not only of the spiritual, but of the physical too All that you allow them to take and turn against you.
Two Ways to Actualize Change
Two things I want to share that you already know. Both have to do with actualizing change in your life. The first is why it is so important to understand that you become the world around you. If you truly know this, if you can remove yourself from your world so that you can see that you do not exist without it, you can see how change works. Making small changes and commitments to new things never works, why is that? It's because you become the world around you. The things you actually start doing in lifestyle are the things that those around you are doing. You never gain the motivation to change your lifestyle. The only way your lifestyle ever changes is if the people around you are living a different lifestyle. A different world prompts a different amount of energy from you.
If you look back at times in your life when you were doing more, think about who you were around during those times. The only way to change the people who are around you are when you become more selective about who you associate with, and when you change what you think about. When you change what you think about, you change what you talk about, and the people who talk about those things invite you into their world.
The second thing I want to share is why prayer works and is essential to life. The reason you need to pray for what you want to change in yourself is because you at this moment know what you want to change, and you have ideas, concepts, and understandings of how to change it. The options and paths you have in front of you to reach your goal, your desired outcome, are limited to what you are aware of. The solutions you know you could take to solve your problem may not be worth it for you to pursue, otherwise you would have already pursued them. However, solutions exist outside of the solutions you are already aware of. There exists information which you have not yet seen, and because of this limitation, you cannot assume that you already have the only answers to your problems. The reason to pray is to bring new and unknown information into your life in order to hand you information that will give you effortless solutions.
The poet Rumi says that mystics are lazy because they don't have to do anything, everything just comes to them. This is because they know how to draw everything they need to themselves, into their world.
Know how to ask. Ask to learn how to ask. Pray to learn how to pray. Pray to learn how to learn how to pray to find solutions.
When you pray for the information you need to solve your problems, that information will enter your life within a week's time. When you pray, pray with appreciation and faith, relaxed and expectant, gracefully, not forcefully. You don't have to believe prayer will work if you understand that it works, if you understand that it works, then you don't believe,
you know that it works, and you know it will work,
and it does work.
As you gain the solutions to your problems, keep track of them. Keep track of when you asked for the solution, when you received the solution, how you received it. That is the evidence you can start building from.
Brahman’s Cheat Code
I've been looking into the beliefs of Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, and seeing that they take different stances on the same model of reality, three different paths, and the model, all three involve a variation of the karmic wheel
It is my understanding that all three are from the perspective of Atman, the soul, and that all three can see Brahman, the ultimate reality, but none of them live the reality of Brahman.
It is my understanding that the Gospel is unique, and that it is the introduction of the possibility of the transition to Brahman as the individuated reality
This is because of one fundamentally differing principle
The advent of a 5th dimensional force, or an outside possibility
Consider the Gospel as the introduction of breaking the karmic wheel of the past
This is to say that you can't live in Brahman because of the wheel of karma, you would have to settle all of your debts in order to reach Brahman
but that the Gospel is like a cheat code, that a 5th dimensional being, being already eternal and outside of time, capable of what is not possible while you are inside of time, is capable of shortcutting you through the natural process of paying for your karmic debt
Another way to say this is that the human mind is not capable of true forgiveness of the past without some form of payment
but that something outside of the human mind is capable of forgiveness of anything regardless of any payment because that payment in the future is already accessible
If we add religion, then it's by means of just shortcutting you to the final death at the end of the karmic wheel
Introduce Paramatman, the primordial self, and say that if you were to say, go through the process of killing your individuated self until there's nothing left but Paramatman, then you'd probably live in the reality of Brahman
and as it's written here,
In Jainism, each atman or individual self is a potential Paramatman or God, both are essentially the same. It remains as atman only because of its binding karmic limitations, until such time as those limitations are removed. As Paramatman, the atman represents the ultimate point of spiritual evolution
Those karmic limitations prevent you from becoming one with god, until you've removed them
It is presented that buddhism and christianity are two distinct religions with different philosophical models, like hinduism and judaism, but perhaps,
Christianity isn't really an offspring of Judaism. Christianity is the child of 'Buddhism'. The only 'Judaic' part of Christianity is that Christ targeted the Jews, but the Gospel is really the 'Buddhist' model.
Perhaps the Gospel has nothing to do with the abrahamic traditions other than the spirit of revelation, which could be called, Brahman,
It's the indian philosophy with the introduction of a cheat code to reach Brahman.
From a limited understanding, by common reasoning, 'Christ' basically cheated the system
because he was at the level of possibility where you could change things and he did what you aren't supposed to do
You're supposed to give up influencing the world to become Paramatman, and from that point, you see Brahman as reality and because you know you are one with Brahman, and that Brahman is perfect, you don't change anything, because you wouldn't change perfect
But Christ basically decided to be a devil, and just said, "f*** it", and was about to step through the door into Brahman, but instead of stepping through it,
like a true concept of a master, he intended to lead you to that door, but instead of leading you through the trials of karmic law so your soul can evolve and complete its journey like a master is supposed to do
he just trolled reality and said, nah, i'll introduce a new possibility because I can
from this perspective, Christ is the ultimate troll
The reason why Brahman's reality is perfect is because through all of the suffering you experience, your soul gains more and more, every life it's gaining more and more, and this may not be worth it to your limited perspective, but it's worth it from your Atman's perspective, your soul's perspective, so that your soul will eventually become everything it was ever intended to become,
so Christ's possibility from this basic understanding is a sort of imperfection in this sense, by providing a shortcut to the final door, he saves your person from untold amounts of suffering, but that also costs you the experience points you would have attained if you had continued going through the wheel of karma. This action really would be a troll move, because in looking at Brahman, he would know the false self isn't real, and saving the ego or the false self from suffering really doesn't make any sense at all because it's false in the first place, but from this viewpoint, maybe he really didn't want to watch those he loved suffer,
especially while grieving after lazarus’ death, so he just decided to cheat reality instead
Here's a deeper understanding,
Let’s say Christ's cheat code also gave you infinite experience points, so you still gain all of the full growth of your soul even though you shortcut to the end.
Here’s the belief that Christ doesn't actually cut the karmic wheel and prevent you from paying your karmic debts,
rather, from his position, he spends some extra time in eternity to pay off your karmic debts for you, while he still has his Atman and while standing at the door of awakening he 'pays for your sin', he goes through your whole wheel of karma and collects all those experience points, and then hands the experience points back to you,
still fully realizing your soul and still taking you to the highest possible evolution of your finalized self.
In this possibility, which aligns with the Buddhist model and the Christian faith, Christ doesn't actually break anything, he doesn't change the ultimate reality of Brahman,
he just introduces a new possibility by changing how the outcome is arrived at, he doesn’t change the model, he doesn't break the scales, he just shifts them a little bit.
In this scenario, in the foreground, Christ seems to pay all karmic debt in one moment in our time,
but in the background, this 5th dimensional traveler goes on a trip through every possibility of every human life and every incarnation of their soul one by one.
From a person’s viewpoint, this would only change how and when when you download the full experience of your soul, instead of downloading your experience while living with your Atman and while still inside of time,
you postpone the download and receive the download after you’ve already gone through the final stage of enlightenment upon death.
Technically, from this understanding, any awakened master could have done this, but didn’t, and, in a way that aligns with both the model of buddhism and christianity, Christ is the advent of an awakened master that Brahman had scripted into its perfect story it wanted to play out.
You could say that Brahman imagined this possibility and decided to actualize it,
that it crafted the story, the character, the destiny, as it crafts all destinies and ideas, as all ideas originate from Brahman, which is imagining reality.
Orbit, Color, Connection
The situation may change but perhaps the same events will always occur, in such a way that those events always happened, always will happen.
The events I'm referring to are not world events or outcomes, I'm referring to the event in which one person is in the proximity of another person.
The life circumstances of each person may change, but the meeting location and time does not.
For example, I make choices that will put me into a different situation of life circumstances, I could pick job A or job B. This will change perhaps my status or wealth,
But I believe that it is predetermined that no matter what choices I make, I will still be in contact with the same person at the same date and time in history.
This leads me to wonder if we are in orbit. Just as planets and stars have orbits.
If you understand that what fixes the laws of reality is that everything pulls together, Gravity pulls us to the earth, Every connection is pulled together, then if you have a system of things pulling together, they have orbits, if the system of things orbiting is humans, then it is like we have orbits which will land us around certain people at the same time.
Then it is as though reality constructs itself with circumstances to make that happen.
This would also explain why seemingly impossible circumstances occur which prevent other people from contacting a certain person at a certain time.
Based on what I saw in my experiences of dimensions, What determines the orbits around others may be related to "emotional growth". Imagine that each person is a planet, and that their planet has colors, reds and blues and purples and greens, and at certain times, the planet grows a little more red, then when it hits a plateau, it then travels to where there is an abundance of blue, then it grows a little more blue.
So imagine I have a person with a lot of red, a person with a lot of green, a person with a lot of blue.
The person with a lot of blue starts developing in green, so they gravitate to the person with a lot of green.
They do not and perhaps cannot gravitate to the person with a lot of red during that time.
To make this more practical, let's say that people are not just "very red" or "very blue", but they have periodic changes in state. Person A is in a red state, Person B is in a blue state, Person C is in a red state.
Persons A and C can connect, but they cannot connect with person C.
To make it more interesting, consider that each person also has a relationship with each other person in their world, that for each person, there is a level of resistance and relatability to connecting with another person.
So, I have 25% relatability to person A, 50% relatability to person B, 75% relatability to person C.
Let's say that there is an interval to how often I can connect to each person.
Let's say I can make contact with person A 25 times a year, person B 50 times a year, person C 75 times a year, That is an interval of person A every 15 days, person B every 7 days, person C every 4 days.
Let's say there are two major reasons for these intervals. One, say a person has 1% relatability to me. We are not going to get along, we are almost never going to make contact with one another.
Two, say a person has 99% relatability to me. We are going to get along extremely well, but let's say we are still almost never going to come in contact with one another.
Why?
When you see a person, you often talk with them, you open your voice to them. When you don't see a person, you are not speaking to them, you are not opening your voice, you are being silent.
I believe this is far more important than it seems, maybe even the most important or most beautiful thing I know.
There is a kind of trust and intimacy in silence. There is a connection that grows in silence. Imagine that when I speak, I release energy. Imagine that the longer I do not speak, the more I build up energy.
When I open my mouth to speak, I will speak with the intensity of the charge of energy that has been building up in my silence. If I speak all the time, there is no energy buildup, my speech has no built up energy.
You can think of this just like the way you can bottle up anger.
Now imagine that there is a limited part of you, what we call, "being self-aware", and it's aware of itself and aware there are others and it's really not aware of much else, and this is what you call your person. And so, sometimes you connect with another person, and you don't know why, but it happens and you talk with them and then you go away.
What if there is a deeper you that not only knows why you connected to that person, but it chose to connect with them. What if there is another layer to you, that there's a self-aware you that communicates to other self-aware people,
and what if there's a deeper you that also communicates with other people. What if the deeper you is not confined by limitations of space, and has communication with others regardless of where you are.
So let's imagine that the deeper you is having a grand time, that it's making plans and dates with the people it wants to grow into deeper relationship with, and it goes around and makes plans to connect with others at certain times in life.
Now what would the decision criteria be for its choices?
For one, there are certain people it wants to develop with.
For two, again, this concept that the longer you stay silent, the more energy you're building up.
Now let's say that this energy is meaningfulness. Let's say that the longer you stay silent, the more meaningful your speech will be.
So imagine there is a really, really, really amazing person. You would love to spend five minutes with them.
For some reason, reality doesn't seem to allow you to do so, but if you were able to connect, it would be amazing.
What if there is already a connection and relationship between you and this amazing person. Then, the deeper you, and the deeper them, are right now enjoying silence together, and waiting for energy to grow in both of you until a peak time when it is going to be most amazing that you both connect.
You can shrink this down to the microcosm to see that this is so, this same kind of relationship and communication development occurs on the micro level as well.
In a meaningful and deep conversation, you know when to speak something, and you know when you are forcing yourself through an invisible resistance to release speech that you should not at that time.
We experience that forced speech tangibly seems to rip through the fabric of reality, we say it cuts through the atmosphere. In romance, this is most apparent.
There are things the heart wants to speak at certain times, and does not want to speak at other times.
Lovers wait for the right moment for a kiss, not too early, a missed opportunity if too late, an invisible kind of communication based on timing.
Mark - Divi Interpretations
Part I
In my understanding, Christ referred to Satan as the mind of man, and would have called all of the church and its understandings Satan.
Christ quotes scripture, Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them." And He said to them, Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
The meaning of the parable is that an open heart sees, hears, understands, and forgives. Without the key, the open heart, no other parable will be able to be understood.
He goes on, The sower sows the word. [The message of the heart] And these are the ones by the way-side where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts..they receive it with gladness, and they have no root in themselves, so they last only a time. Afterward, when trial of persecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they stumble. This parable goes on, but I see that this Satan that comes is the mind of man and the thoughts of man. This means that there is not these people or those people, but there is 'the mind of the mind' and the mind of the heart. The ‘mind of the mind’ is what this world sometimes calls 'Adamic Consciousness', the consciousness of man. The mind of the heart seems related to compassion, the right brain,
Christ condemns the church priests as hypocrites, quoting Isaiah, This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
I understand this to be the folly of the church, that the church is composed of men, and men teach their beliefs and cultural customs through scripture, using scripture to display the way they view the world. They interpret scripture based on their cultural belief system, and teach their ways through scripture. They teach the commandments of men, the commandments of society, as doctrine, as the word.
Christ again uses the word Satan when he rebukes Peter, saying, `Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."
Again, Christ refers to Satan as the mind of man, not the heart. I use the word heart as a placeholder for what can arise from the heart, but in any case, it is my understanding that spiritual blindness is the blindness that comes from the limitations of man's mind, that sight is a sight which comes out of an open heart. This is evidenced by most of the bible calling out as wicked those who have closed hearts.
I continually speak of this because it is this that allows you to see why you ought not to judge the scripture based on the church that misrepresents it, the church is of the mind of man, they are not spiritual.
Part II
A scribe asked Christ which is the highest commandment, and Christ answered, "The first of all the commandments is,[quoting Moses] "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." The scribe replies, "You have spoken the truth, for there is one God, and there is no other but He. And to love Him with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength.. is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." Christ saw that he answered wisely and replies,"You are not far from the kingdom of God."
I believe Christ had kindness on this man, for he was a blind man. He hears but could not hear. He saw but could not see. Christ says, "God is one." The scribe retranslates, "There is one God." Christ's commandment is to love the loving God with everything. The scribe understands to love one god with everything.
Christ says he is not far from the kingdom of God, but this may be a double edged sword, to be a step away from the kingdom is also eternally far away.
The scribe hears with his mind, and he has a good heart, and Christ loves this man for it. But the scribe is not listening with his heart, he is still only hearing with his mind. Even so, he has still oriented his mind and heart in the right direction, he is still good, he is just limited, without the key of the heart's ear, he cannot access the kingdom of God.
Part III
Christ tells a parable, It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeper to watch. You don't know when the master of the house is coming.. This parable is the beginning of a parable from the masters in Indian religions, though Christ simplifies the ending.
Part IV
Christ's soul falls into sorrow, and walks in the valley of death, there is no kingdom of heaven in sight. He prays, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will." In this prayer may be the key to accessing the kingdom of heaven from a lower state of consciousness.
Part V
In Mark, When Christ has disappeared from the tomb, and Mary and women come to the tomb, they discover, a young man clothed in a long white robe sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. In Luke, "Two men stood by them in shining garments. They were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth." In John, "She saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain." In Matthew, an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it. His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men.
The gospels speak of a men or men dressed in white robes. Is it possible that Christ was not working alone?
To Be and Not
I get asked how I can be so viciously against the church, and yet encourage people into it. I believe in not being of the world, but being with the world.
The church believes that to not be of the world but to be in the world means to be in the church, and not to be in the world outside of the church.
To not be of the world is to not be of the world. It is that simple. I don't support this to pick a stance to be right, it is for a reason,
To find the love of Christ, this is an age where this is almost a birthright for man in this era. To awaken to Christ's love is of a high probability in many human lives. To awaken to Christ's love also allows access to the performing of signs and wonders, miracles and spiritual power.
However, to me, this awakening is only to the existence of Christ's love, it does not determine where or how you will use it. Any mind that awakens to this will find a love for himself, for his friends, for his church, and perhaps for his people, he may understand that he should love everyone, but he will not act upon this.
Christ speaks on this himself, If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
This is the way of man. Even the man awoken to a greater love still lives within the limitations of his mind, and his mind obeys the way of man. Christians today love those who love them, and they do good to those who are good to them. This is because they are of the world, because the world of man loves those who love them, does good to those that are good to them.
This is not because they are not good enough, this is not because they are not loving enough, this is because they are in bondage to fear. This is because there is only one way out of the fear of man, and it is to not be of the world.
The simple reason a Christian does not go out and love the world, is because they fear the mind of man, they are also a part of the mind of man. The mind of man does not teach how to love the world, this is not the way of the mind of man. Man in fear of the world will not go out of the boundaries of what man tells him to do. Man does not tell him to love the world. His mind also does not tell him to love the world, it tells him to protect himself, and protect what he knows, and protect what is his. He is both a servant of the world and he is also a part of the world.
In practical terms, the Christian world is of the mind of man, and as such, it does not contain the advanced practices and techniques and skillsets necessary to learn how to love the world. That information is not in the general sphere of the mind of man, it must be sought out for and pursued by pursuing those who are not of the world. You will not get this information from those who are of the world, because that is not in their sphere of information. You will not contact people who are not of the world unless you are not of the world.
Those who are not of the world in this way are those who choose to love the Lord their God with all of their being, that means that they put the pursuit of love above any other goal, and this pursuit destroys the fear of man.
This is why man believes one thing and does another. This is why a Christian believes in loving the world but does not live a life that is actively loving the world, because their mind is in control, and fear is in control of their mind.
They may reach a point where they see that their heart is calling them to reach out, but their mind is in control of their person, and their mind is going to live the way other people around them live, they are not going to live differently then their world.
This is not to be against the world. It is to destroy the world as it is now, but it is also to be with it.
This is a message primarily for seekers of truth, and seekers of truth seem to consist of those who choose to are driven to know. Seekers are most often the orphans of society, abandoned, rejected, isolated, because they do not see the world the same way as those who abide by fear and live only in society, but it is not supposed to be this way. The seekers are the ones who are meant to not only be in the church, but to also walk along side those at any stage on the path.
The reason why the person is not going to do anything other than what the society around him does and live the way the society around him lives is because he does not have control over his own behavior, and because he does not have control of his own behavior, he cannot be led fully by the light in him. He cannot serve two masters. By serving one, he offends the other. If he chooses to act in the way his spirit tells him he should go, he will offend the world around him. If he lives the way the world around him lives, he will offend his own spirit.
If he commits to the pursuit of the way of love that is in his spirit above the world, he will gain the favor of all of the world.
By being a way that is authentic to his being, people will flock to him, they will say he has good energy, they will want to know his secret, they will want to understand how he is free, how he is able to be loving, how he is able to be okay despite circumstance, how he is able to express without fear, they will want what he has and they will listen to him. There is no one who will be against him.
However, whether or not you gain freedom from the world does not determine what amount of Christ's power you can grow into. Whether free or a slave, the data I have seen says that you can still grow in inner light. There are those in far more bondage than me that also seem to have grown far more into the Holy Spirit than me. When the Holy Spirit chooses to act out of them, they are far more free than I am, however in life they are far more oppressed by the world and in fear of action than I am.
Even those in bondage to the world can still grow in an amount of light that demons fear, and this is no bible story, in the real world, when you have light, those who are demon possessed will fear you, the demons in them will speak to you directly, and you will drive them out of people.
To perform miracles, to drive out demons, to have the light and love of Christ, this is all possible in the mind of man.
To see the kingdom of heaven, to love all the world, to be a light of the entire world, this is not possible in the mind of man, unless you happen to be exposed to that information and a people in the pursuit of that.
These combine together, and are not one or the other, there are many who are free of the world, but their spirit has not been activated, they know of the way of love, of harmony, of how we ought to be, of the heart, but they do not have access to the inner power and light, so they have to resort to channeling power through their lower self and the world. They have seen the way the world should be, but they have not been shown the way to love the world, and they do not have access to the power that makes that possible.
Then there are those that are of the world, but their spirit has been activated, they don't know the deeper way, they don't see the way the world should be, they live in the mind of man, but they have full access to the inner power and light, and can channel power from the heavens.
I feel a great darkness upon me writing this, either my words are very wrong and a dark spirit is feeding upon my misinformation, or my words are very right and a darkness around me is extremely offended.
What I see seems to happen most often is that most seers see that there is more to reality, they see that man does not understand, so they turn against man, and they begin to grow their own individuated sense of truth and doctrine that becomes flawed by the limitations of the ego, and this drives them deep into isolation that grows them into abandonment and rejection. The sight of the light of a higher or perfect love breaks through the barriers of limitations on the ego, but the sight of light also shines on the darkness that grows within man, and this causes pain, and is resisted by the ego.
This results in the modern intelligent individual, who has a mind intelligent enough to recognize that others are wrong, and an ego that pushes him away from looking at how others are right. He then chooses the information that validates his own limited perceptions, and comes to love any information or speaker who repeats what he already agrees with, and he says, "couldn't have said it better myself." This intelligence pushes him far from the pursuit of the heart, and while he may circumstantially stumble upon methods that bring him into compassion, this is not the state his mind defaults to, and his intelligence will continue to drive him deeper into association with his limited perception.
This is Isaiah's meaning of this scripture, Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. They are limited to the sight of limited perception, the limited perception is the perception of "I", "myself", the information I am aware of, the experience I have, the thoughts I have had, that which "I" have seen and known.
Antidote to Heaviness
Key takeaways of Isaiah 61, one of the most revered prophesies in history, and what happens when the Spirit is upon us and anoints us, at a critical moment, there is:
- good tidings to poor
- healing the brokenhearted
- proclaim [inner] freedom to those in captivity
- open the [psychological] prisons that men are trapped inside
- comfort the mourning
- give consolation to the mourning in their soul
- give beauty to replace where there was nothing left but ash
- give the oil of joy to those who mourn, to coat them in a layer of supernatural joy [which also causes healing when it outpours in a public arena]
- the garment of praise is also a coat and layer to cast down upon them, this layer of praise causing the spirit of heaviness to be lifted.
This new coating causes identities to shift into identities which are now standing as strong as trees, with their base being righteousness, and their foundation planted as the Lord, which also brings glory to the Lord. That is to say, standing strong as these pillars is a testimony to the Lord who would give joy, praise, strength, another way to say that is even,
they stand as proof of the power of praise, the power of of joy, the power of console, the power of preaching good tidings, the power of healing.
Here is the end of Isaiah 61,
"I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its bud, As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations."
So notice that by taking the action of rejoicing in [the god of goodness], the result is being joyful [in rejoicing for that],
The result of rejoicing in this goodness also causes a coat of the identity of salvation, man who has salvation, what is salvation? Salvation is like being lifted from the low place up to first place, to be brought into singing. He also gets a coat of righteousness.
Now, again he explains that to invoke this praise, this rejoicing, the result includes a springing forth externally.
Now he is saying that God is also an active invoking force, and that now God also, that which is greater than us, is also going to invoke that which results in righteousness and praise to spread widespread.
From our point of view, your praise is contagious, god has caused your heart to stir in order to praise, and the righteousness you gain is going to stir others to praise, and this will be visible by the world.
So consider these concepts in terms of these lyrics
they are,
"you are good! you are good! you are good! you are good!"
When you make declarations of praise like that, something happens in your soul. When something happens in your soul, something inside you arises, this causes the heaviness upon you to be shifted, and that which is good inside you arises, and a righteousness which you did not know was there is evoked out of you.
This is the truth that the earth does not understand, this is not just magic, this is who we really are. It is an oppressive society, a society of heaviness which has been convincing all of us to not sing the praises which cause that heaviness to lift, and your soul under it to arise.
Those who understand that, they understand that this is a war, and the war involves leading people toward becoming exposed to this.
Nations who praise also become sustainable and healthy, the heaviness does not sit upon the families and the fathers, there is freedom, there is the spirit of life across the network.
This is real, this is no lie. This is a methodology that is far more powerful than you can know. It is not shallow and normal like positivity. I am speaking of something that can change nations, that can change a life, that can remove the problems, that can cause the heavy to feel instead that one is elevating.
It's difficult to make decisions to change to do things like remove heaviness from us.
There is a lot of self in the way from the freedom to even do that -
There's who you think you are and what you think you do,
there's the opinions you've drawn, your feelings of preference,
your attachment to beliefs,
all of these things are used against you by an oppressive system -
A system you perpetuate by giving control to your mind.
The easiest way to begin to solve this is to associate yourself with people who are praising,
this will cause you to change by association.
This praise is a conscious action which is different than your automatic behavior, and this change in thought causes a change in experience.
The Presence of Eternity is Near
When a people they saw the way they had been living, they wanted to mourn. But the prophets were saying to them, that this is not the time for mourning, it is the time, it is the season, it is the hour, this is the time to drink, to eat your fill, to be merry.
This message means that people who turn from darkness, there is no time to waste, Christ would have said, "the kingdom of the heavens is nearby, it is upon you",
I or a modern translation would have said, "the dimension of the Presence of eternity and life is right next to us, this is the moment to press in".
This is the verse that has been revealed to me,
Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. When they are already budding, you see and know for yourselves that summer is now near.
So you also, when you see these [previously mentioned in the chapter] things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near."
This is another way to say, You can have the manifest Presence of God, the Presence of Consciousness awake in your being, and yes everyone will flock to you and all things will go well from you,
but the dimension of that Presence of Consciousness being stepped through as a door, that is an entire reality. That does not affect one person, that affects every living creature in that area. The area is affected by the superseding dimension.
What I am speaking of is real. What I am speaking of is all of the fish becoming aware that they are breathing water.
Remember that we are swimming in pure consciousness, that is why we know it is always near,
but sometimes it is the time and it is the hour to step into it.
That time is near.
Remember the lovers? The stars aligned, it seems the whole world was for them, everything went their way, it is similar,
there is a time a season an hour a moment when the stars align, that is the time to take your fill.
This is to say that God might ask for your repentance to let go of something affecting you, but he is not asking for your sorrows following it, the time of the wedding feast is here, it is time to eat and be full.
The Shift in Human Consciousness
Some days ago, there was a day of darkness. The vibe of the night was not the same as other nights, all of the freaks in the city came out that night, rejoicing in that darkness.
On that day, there was a person, their darkness was exposed to the world, and they lost their career and their housing in one strike. A combination of self-sabotage, guilt, shame, and sins caused their world to crumble for that day, when their was on the verge of career advancement and opportunity. What exactly went down?
This day was the day before the Jewish Passover celebrations began. This and other events when masses of people are focused on light, health, prosperity, these periods of light are preceded by a night of darkness that comes before it. Darkness always gets darkest before the light comes, and evil waits and plans for this day to strike, just as good waits and plans for the day to strike after.
What is this darkness? Darkness is an abstraction for information that humans use to identify a variable in the patterns of human life. We use terms like darkness, light, unconscious, conscious, as abstractions to point to and track the commonalities in the human drama that has been repeating for millennia.
This is a story that has always played out the same, will always play out the same, millions of times it has played out and that is why we are able to create fictional stories and parables that represent the way the stories in reality play out.
There are key happenings in this story, but they are not what you expect until you investigate them.
What is the intention of darkness, what is its plan, and what is its goal? Why is there self-sabotage?
The plan of darkness is consistently the same. The light side of you is attempting progress into the story of your life, It has a case of evidence built up for you,
Light has a case of evidence built up for you, your inherent qualities of goodness, the positive story of your life. Darkness is also actively building a case against you, it knows that all secrets and mistakes you hide will be exposed to the light and its plan is to take you out at the point of maximum effectiveness, to get the highest possible chances at taking you out completely when it strikes. It looks for your faults, mistakes, weaknesses, and sins
And it plans to present the case to why you should not continue your journey.
You and other people are spectators and participants in this story, you and other people provide spoken testimony on that story. Is the person good or bad? You are the person who will take the majority vote, and the world of others around you add to that testimony.
The motivation for darkness and the motivation for light are not to create good or evil, The intention of these forces in this story revolve around your actual Destiny.
Light forces are at work to aid you in moving forward in your destiny, Dark forces are at work to prevent that destiny from coming to pass.
It is ultimately you who continues to move into that destiny despite the strike that is certain to come in the day of darkness.
When the day comes and a plan strikes against a person, You must be very careful not to identify with or be carried away into the story too much,
Because there exists a phenomenon that is described as this, As you judge, you will be judged. This is often interpreted as a spiritual concept, but it is not, it is a matter of the way the story plays out in life.
What it means is this, When you judge ruling against someone pursuing their destiny,
When the day of darkness comes to try to stop your own destiny, you will be judged to the measure that you judged someone else's pursuit of their destiny.
This is always a matter of destiny. In life, in judgement, you are either choosing to support or not support a person's destiny from coming to pass,
you are either passing a sentence to them and yourself of life, or death.
To the harshness you determined a person's destiny should not come to pass, this is the harshness you determine your own destiny should not come to pass.
This is not spiritual, this is simply the way the human drama of life plays itself out, the darkness waits and plays its best hand, this can be noticed in self-sabotage, and the light waits to play a miracle hand if you survive the night of darkness.
The system is set up so that any sins you have hiding will be removed from you before the light comes.
Darkness attempts to work that system as best it can to try to take you out for the count when this inevitable phenomenon occurs. All those who work with darkness will also take their best shots at you on this day.
If you have any concern for your own life, you are careful and mindful of how you judge, knowing that the day of your own dark night in your personal drama is coming, and if you want to survive that night, wisdom says that you take care in whether you aid or hinder others in surviving their dark night.
I’ve just learned that this is not a normal pass-over, Tonight the largest number of people likely in history are going to take communion at the same time
This is a mass ritual, and in any mass ritual, good or evil, a mass agreement of human consciousnesses in union can shift the collective consciousness instantly. This is historically significant.
Writings on the Awareness
Captured from a discussion
This is a unique part of experiencing eternity, when you experience all reality, there is infinite sensation, almost like a dream, and you've always been in all of it you've just been experiencing a fragment of it, it's essentially pure experience. during an experience of this, 'you' disappear, your experience of self is not there, there is only existence, the experiencer as a noun is no longer present, because there is no body, there never was a body, that's just an identification with part of the experience. You can experience reality as one without the identification of your body, and this would feel like, 'sensation without 'my' existence'. This experience of everything is accurately described as an ocean, it feels fluid and water-like and there is a rushing quality to it, and the amount of sensations are infinite and never-ending, but just as you float down a stream and get snagged by a branch, you will likely be pulled out of the experience and back to 'reality' once you start to identify again.
where memory is is stored is a great question, in these experiences, my vessel contained a memory of the experience, of course the memory does not include all of the data of that experience.
There is a concept that because vibrations ripple through the universe into eternity, those ripples are never destroyed because there is nothing to destroy them, and that because of this, no data is ever destroyed in consciousness, which would mean that there is an 'eternal memory'. However, that memory would be accurate to reality, as it actually was, unlike our memories which are not accurate to reality, which include stories and subjective feelings about what an experience meant or why it happened. This is also why scripture talked about a 'perfect image', the perfect data is unstained by our unperfect shadows and perspectives and filters we placed upon that image, we distort the image and memory through our own eyes.
in the experience you're talking about, a person's awareness would have left the awareness of the body and be perceiving all of reality, you are still limited to a scope of information in this experience, you still 'navigate' or are 'navigated to', in a parable, it would be like billions of images coming at you without end or time to process, just pure infinite meaning.
During this experience, it would not be possible for you to know if you still possessed a physical body, your awareness is not tracking it. You would have to have others identify if they still saw your physical body during that period of time, and you would have to determine that you were even there during that period of time.
I would expect that because during that experience you are not in the body, that no harm would come to the awareness you were experiencing if the body were to perish, but again that experience of awareness doesn't have a 'you' with it in the first place, so in a sense you have returned to god, or in another sense, you have fallen back asleep into another dream, swept away into a current of experience.
That experience I can say is as though you are neither here nor there nor anywhere, there is happening, nothing is happening to you, there is an observing, but there is no you observing anything, there is an observation happening, but there is no subject, there is no observer, the observer is existence itself.
If you have this kind of experience, you become aware that existence is essentially infinite experience, that what existence means is experience.
Enoch and Elijah, but primarily Enoch, are expected to have left the body into that experience and never came back. Other masters are expected to have left into forests in the same way and never returned. [This referring to the Enoch of Enoch 1 of dead sea scrolls, not Enoch 2 3 4 etc. which are later occult works with no association]
From my experience, what I would say if you wanted to find out if you can exist outside of the infinite experience, If you can exist in non-existence, is that 'you' [however that makes sense] your illusion would somehow have to be more powerful than god, and I say that in terms of 'strength', because that oceans current is infinitely and unbelievably powerful. As soon as you leave the experience of the self your 'awareness' would be going back into that current, you would have to be stronger than the universe to swim outside of the current of the ocean, outside of the sensations of all of existence, if there is an outside. [11:06 PM]The Living Divinie: once you've had this experience you recognize that 'self' is less of a 'thing' and more like an shrinkage, it's a very tiny thing. it's super tiny and its sensations are limited, which gives you some ability to look and reflect and question and reason about what's happening to you.
when you exit the shrinkage, you no longer have the time to look back and reflect or not feel 'overwhelmed'. in full experience you're going to be infinitely 'overwhelmed', but you also experience pure meaning, so instead of a shrinkage experience where nothing is particularly meaningful, the expanded experience is direct meaning, everything infinitely matters and you have the data to know it
so to say, 'can i experience non-existence' is like saying, 'can i navigate my shrink state to the edge of the ocean and jump out' it would be difficult but what you can do is shrink further until there is no meaning left, and then you would experience a meaningless experience
because you'd be focused on a tiny black dot and expand that black dot to your entire awareness, and the black dot wouldn't mean anything, it's just a black dot
my experience of the awareness is that it is singular, it has a quality to it, a signature to it that is recognizable, and it does match the definition of the 'oneness' that has been described as many, as people say it is 'impersonal', not that it is not caring, but that it is 'not individuated', and from this you could fathom that the awareness is God, that all of us are of God, His body parts, whether or not there is a God behind the awareness is a question, there is the experience of direct data coming from outside of the closed system, so if your definition of God is that which is outside of the closed system, then God does exist, you can prove the awareness is a singular once you have experienced that it is the same awareness in the animals and other people, there is a moment of recognition that that which is in me is perceiving that which is in you and that it is the same, the two awarenesses link together and there is an exchange of this data, an acknowledgement and there is enough data in the transaction to know it is so, because none of the data is hidden, it's all visible in that moment, the checksum verifies against itself.
It may be a poetic or human abstraction or conception of the mind to conclude this of the experience, but it is experienced that it is God looking through the awareness, through you, that the one looking out of the awareness is God, the very same God looking through all points of awareness, a singular consciousness, which says that we are all 'of God', that we are God as it is 'zoomed in' and hyper-focused on certain points, and that the God behind all those points, the singular awareness, is aware of all points at once. This is, if you were to zoom out, you would see all points, if I were to zoom out, I would see all points. To have even two points see each other is exceptionally meaningful, to have more points in communion would be astronomically meaningful.
The statement that laws may violate the existence of the awareness without the body is a good statement to make, because the law in question would be that there could be a law that if there is a physical, there is a spiritual, if there is a spiritual, there is a physical, that they happen at once and are linked together. My data suggests that the awareness can exist without the physical, and that this normal law can be broken by the awareness.
It does seem to be the case that the reason why the awareness is at a center point, is not because it was born at that point, God was not born behind your eyes, but the awareness like other things in nature seems to be strongly attracted to, gravitated towards these points. You could say that the reason why the awareness stays behind your eyes is not only to protect you, but also because it strongly gravitates to that point. In my experiences, my awareness quickly gravitated back to its home, and it is experienced by many that they are 'spiritually attacked' by others looking for a home if their awareness has left their body. In this concept, the awareness gravitates toward any open point that there is to look out from.
This is my favorite topic not because of philosophy but because my consciousness expands again when focusing on the topic, and because I am extremely fortunate to exist in a world where other minds describe the same experience, where they have come up with terms such as 'oneness' and 'consciousness' and 'God' and 'impersonal' and 'awareness' to describe the same experience I have had.
I am also grateful for this because when my consciousness expands again, I am no longer as worried about the many beliefs and conclusions about what is that my mind has been filled with by my own cultures and religions. The fear of being wrong is evaporated by the hard data.
Deeper Into The Shadow
I have spent a lot of time in my shadow. This is what caused me to grow 'spiritually powerful', or 'more conscious', or to 'know myself more'. As the shadow grows, the light also grows.
In the shadow, we recharge. This is our deeper state, where our real self/ego that has grown over the years is always resting. All that is in shadow is how and what we would be without an outside influence, without our usual restrictions and limitations, imposed on us by the demands of an outside world. In shadow is the rest from the conscious self's unending desire to strive for more, to be different than it believes it is, to push itself to follow the ways its beliefs say that it ought to be, to be as strong as it thinks it should be, to have the personality it thinks it should have, to meet the expectations imposed upon it.
The conscious self becomes tired and stressed and takes no rest, it does not stop to recharge, but every person must recharge eventually, and so every person falls into their shadow. Most people recharge for short amounts of time in their shadow as they listen to certain music and watch movies, during which time they do not realize they have let go of the striving of the conscious self and are taking that time to recharge. As they are not recharging enough with these suboptimal activities, the pressure builds until their shadow overtakes them, and they are consumed with their hidden desires, recharging while letting go into pornography addiction, sex addiction, food addiction, drug addiction, binging addictions. In this state, they are granted a temporary break from their stress of their conscious self, but when it takes back control, they have to deal with the guilt and pain their conscious self will judge them for in their self-destructive behaviors.
In the shadow state are hidden desires, as well as repressed creative faculties and unused sources of mental energy. This is the limitless flowing creative state. In shadow is the version of oneself that is a master of what they do, because the usual fears and resistances are not present.
The shadow is not evil, but in shadow, all evils can grow, all negative vices to pain can be fed.
If one spends time in their shadow without engaging in their self-destructive impulses, desires and behaviors, then they grow in energy, they greatly recharge, they find deep relaxation and rest. This would be meditating on the shadow self.
The problem is that because people have not spent time in their shadow, it is large, uncontrolled, dangerous, unstable, it is a monster of great size, an untamed beast. This is why if it gains control, the person immediately is consumed by their impulses and addictive behaviors.
For most people, this existence of human life is hell, and they are not even aware of it. In their conscious self, they are stressed and overwhelmed, in their shadow self, they are helpless against destructive behavior. When they swing back to into their conscious self, they now have guilt and feel like hiding from others. They have no real control over their life, and are slaves to the unending desires of the conscious and shadow self.
To meditate on the shadow self in one regard would be to practice being still within it and not engaging in destructive behaviors, in another regard would be to be within it and participate in constructive behaviors such as the arts.
The Shadow is naturally avoided as within it lies fears, toxic feelings, toxic beliefs, wounds, inner demons and torments, undesirable thoughts.
Most people that choose to do shadow work intend to clear out some of these undesirables from their person with different methods and techniques. Therapy is considered to be shadow work.
The main concept of the shadow was the idea of integration between the shadow and conscious self in order to become whole.
Most attempts of this have failed, and this has driven many mad in the attempt. In less severe cases, people find that shadow work often only results in more problems, that never ending problems arise to be fix and they experience even more darkness in their lives than they started with as a result.
Consider why this might be so, the conscious self picks and chooses what it should be and what it should not be, as it always does, and then shadow work is attempted to continue to further the conscious self's goal to be what it should be and destroy what it should not be.
This is the same issue of spiritual work in general, the issue in which a person consciously thinks they want to be good, but in reality they are trying to use spirituality or a religion to remove parts from themselves that they do not like so that they can be the way they think they should be. It doesn't work.
My experience of my shadow self has just changed.
I have spent a lot of time in my life meditating in shadow, and the experience has largely been that I recharge, and pursue the creative, but I am hiding from light, and while hiding, my pains and self-delusions have had room to grow.
Much of my experience in shadow was also overwhelming from the feeling of overflowing unrepressed creative and spiritual power.
In the journey of my conscious self, having found no desires that satisfied me, and getting tired of desires, choosing to intend to let go of desires,
this has extended to include my spiritual desires.
I stopped feeding my desire for spiritual power in my conscious self, and at this point I am no longer feeding the desire for spiritual power in my shadow self, and so I am no longer feeling overwhelmed while I am in shadow.
Having stopped pursuing that, I have recognized that while meditating in shadow, I can still keep the same compassionate awareness I intend in my conscious self as an intention in my shadow. I can also still keep the intention to connect to love in my shadow.
This has allowed me to recognize that the 'light' that is usually disconnected while in shadow is the light of connection, of love, and the warmth and fire of compassion.
If conscious intentions of compassion and love are present while in shadow, it is still possible to recharge in shadow, without pains and evils and self-delusions growing, as they do while in separation from light. This allows rest from the conscious self without growing darkness/evil/pains.
This also allows the shadow to exist as it is, without the pursuit of 'reconciliation' and 'integration' of the shadow and conscious selves, the pursuit that is said to drive men to madness. It has been modeled that it is impossible to reconcile these opposites, and that the attempt to do so is misguided, as it does not understand that night cannot merge with day.
Instead of attempting to 'fix' oneself by an attempt to 'reconcile the shadow' as has been modeled by Jungian psychology, the possibility of conscious intention to bring compassion and love into the unconscious shadow state brings a fresh meaning to classic concepts of 'lighting up the darkness', 'a fire that burns in the darkness', 'lighting a candle in an inner temple'.
From a modern American perspective, instead of only having the subconscious fed by large mass media advertisements and propaganda that you do not choose, there is the possibility of feeding the subconscious with that which you can choose.
My experience of my shadow self has just changed.
I have spent a lot of time in my life meditating in shadow, and the experience has largely been that I recharge, and pursue the creative,
but I am hiding from light, and while hiding, my pains and self-delusions have had room to grow.
Much of my experience in shadow was also overwhelming from the feeling of overflowing unrepressed creative and spiritual power.
In the journey of my conscious self, having found no desires that satisfied me, and getting tired of desires,
choosing to intend to let go of desires,
this has extended to include my spiritual desires.
I stopped feeding my desire for spiritual power in my conscious self,
and at this point I am no longer feeding the desire for spiritual power in my shadow self,
and so I am no longer feeling overwhelmed while I am in shadow.
Having stopped pursuing that, I have recognized that while meditating in shadow, I can still keep the same compassionate awareness I intend in my conscious self as an intention in my shadow.
I can also still keep the intention to connect to love in my shadow.
This has allowed me to recognize that the 'light' that is usually disconnected while in shadow is the light of connection, of love, and the warmth and fire of compassion.
If conscious intentions of compassion and love are present while in shadow, it is still possible to recharge in shadow,
without pains and evils and self-delusions growing, as they do while in separation from light.
This allows rest from the conscious self without growing darkness.
This also allows the shadow to exist as it is, without the pursuit of
'reconciliation' and 'integration' of the shadow and conscious selves that is said to drive men to madness.
It has been modeled that it is impossible to reconcile these opposites and that the attempt to do so is misguided, as it does not understand that night cannot merge with day.
Instead of attempting to 'fix' oneself by an attempt to 'reconcile the shadow' as has been modeled by Jungian psychology,
the possibility of conscious intention to bring compassion and love into the unconscious shadow state brings a fresh meaning to classic concepts of
'lighting up the darkness',
'a fire that burns in the darkness',
'lighting a candle in an inner temple'.
From a modern perspective, instead of only having the subconscious fed with bad seeds by large mass media advertisements and propaganda that you do not choose,
there is the possibility of feeding the subconscious with good seeds which you can choose.
In this would be an extrapolation of the wisdom in the parable of the weeds,
“Do you want us to go and pull [the bad seeds] up?” “‘No, because while you are [removing the bad seeds], you may [remove the good seeds] with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the [bad crop] to be burned; then gather the [good crop] and bring it into my barn.’”
To simplify this,
Instead of attempting to remove all of the bad that has been planted in your subconscious,
it is better to just plant good in your subconscious,
when the time comes that those planted ideas have finished processing and manifest in your consciousness, as you go through ‘phases’ and ‘stages’ of life, the good is kept and the bad is discarded,
as you become the next version of yourself.
You can look at your life and see how this is true,
if you look back at previous versions of your self in periods of your life and see that the good was kept and the bad was left behind. You no longer carry the bad parts of your teenage self, but the good parts became a permanent part of you, they were ‘brought into the barn’ of you and kept.
Radical Self-Compassion
Why is self-compassion so widely advised, yet seldom seen or applied in life?
- Not many living people know how to practice self-compassion.
- Words of self-compassion are not agreeable to what this world believes.
A new commitment to self compassion:
I bind the compassion of spirit to my soul. I allow compassion in to every mistake that I make. I allow compassionate understanding into every failure that I make.
One of life's true secret concepts is that if everything happens to teach you a lesson, if you learn the lesson, then there is no reason for that to continue happening to you any longer. Then, what is the lesson of failure? What if the lesson of failure was to be compassionate?
Mending relations with self:
I repent for judging you. I am sorry for judging you. I understand you and you have worth as a human being. You are deserving of compassion, and kindness. I am sorry for falsely judging that you were not worthy of having joy. I repent for falsely judging that you are not worthy of having joy. I am sorry for hating you. I repent for hating you. I love and understand you. I am sorry for withholding love and compassionate understanding from you. I repent for withholding love and compassionate understanding from you. I allow you, I allow in love and compassionate understanding to you. I am sorry for judging your toxic feelings. I am sorry for hating your toxic and undesirable and unwanted feelings and experiences. I let go of my judging of you. I am not the one worthy of judging you. I repent for my false idea that I was worthy of judging you. I forgive you. I wish well for you. I care about you. I bless you. I wish you well. I agree to this.
I am sorry for falsely judging you for not being enough. I repent for falsely judging you for not being enough. I repent for wrongly joining and agreeing with others in judging you.
There are apologies you would make to a friend if you were to believe you wronged them. Make the apologies to yourself if you believe you have wronged yourself.
Project Inspiration WAR — Vision
I. Imagination Prayer Techniques
Idea Bottle - Person - Open Bottle
II. Infinite Wish
New Start - Extension of Blessing - Includes envisioning a person's morning/ day starting well, eyes bright and open
III. Idea Rituals
Resurgence of the understanding of imaging the future through the use of the physical world
- - Idea Bottle Ritual involves taking a bottle filled with
- ideas
- magic
- power
- idea itself
and opening it
IV. Ideas Rain
Paradigm Shift
Spread of idea rituals would cause rapid growth and accelerated change in the collective, shifting not only the available mental faculties of individuals but changing how masses are perceiving creative access, thinking about creative possibilities, scope, scale, and probability of successful image out-picturing ultimately thinking from a fresh, expanded, healthier perspective
Part III:
2019-2021
A Message
You Are Okay. Right now. In this moment. Everything is Okay.
And this World, Your World, is Beautiful!
so take a moment for yourself to just stop.
breathe. take a deep breath. exhale. good.
now, repeat after me.
everything is going to be okay.
Remember, this is your world, your future, to create whatever you desire, whatever life you want to live.
If 20XX seems dark, search for a brighter perspective! There are people out making the world better every day. Sometimes it is the worldview we share with those nearby that makes it all seem bad. Life is as great as the reality you choose to live in.
Now, I don't know where you're at in life or where you're going, but I hope this reminder helps you in some way.
Change the World
The love you have been seeking your entire life is your biggest fear.
What does that mean to you?
How are you going to be the person you dreamed of being?
What does that mean to you?
What is the moment that fits in your heart as the only thing you ever truly cared about and never received.
You're alone, you've always felt it. But that isn't true, is it?
You're living in a dream. But you're not? Right? You're awake?
Right now? What would you do to wake up? Do you want to be asleep? Do you want to ride in this storm forever?
This message isn't just fluff. This is real. And I am sorry, I am truly truly sorry that there is not much real in the world, that we hear so many scams and avoid so many traps because people are willing to deceive others for their own benefit, and I'm sorry for that, I'm sorry we've become so desensitized that the word "truth" has become a falsity, that when talk of change even comes up we want to close our ears and our eyes because analyzing it just becomes overwhelming. I know that and I'm sorry. There is an actual practical plan here to start changing things now. And it is going to take some work. It's good work, and it will feel good, but it is work. If you have been asking what you could be doing right now to help and saying you wish you could do more, I will give you an answer, and after hearing this, you really can never honestly say you didn't know what to do to help, that you were powerless, that there was nothing you could have done, that just won't be true. In asking you to listen to this message, I am appealing to your caring about your world, or your caring about yourself.
We're at a critical turning point in history right now, in a state of changeability we will likely never see again. While we as individuals are realizing that we do each have our own stories and can decide what we want to do with our lives, those with finances and control over this world are also making the final moves to concrete and finalize their power. We are unmistakably, each and every one of us are all a critical part of the future now, and your actions do matter.
I want to appeal to any of you that feel that you don't want to help other people. You do. Because if you don't like the world you are living in, that means that you want to live in a better world. I'm not talking about a fantasy Disneyland, I'm talking about the kind of world that you personally would want to live in. And helping others will create a better world for you, both in your life, as well as on a global scale. If you think you can't help, or this doesn't apply to your life, you can, and it does. More than likely, right now because of this pandemic you're actually in the perfect position to help.
So we as a collective people all can agree that now is a good opportunity to slow down. I'd like to talk about a little bit of what that really means. We all know that we need to slow down. But why do we need to slow down? Because we need to care about ourselves. Because we need to take care of ourselves. Because we can't take care of ourselves and others if we're not taking care of ourselves. So what does slowing down actually mean? It is creating space from the problems in the moment to reassess and reflect on what it is we're doing. It is taking the space to observe ourselves and our lives in a conscious way. And even with no outside influence, that is a hard thing to do! And yet we're always trying to do it. It's asking ourselves again what it is we want, and what we're willing to do to get it. What compromises we'll make for our comfort and security, what trade offs we'll make for our dreams in order to live in a realistic world.
So let's look at the whole for a moment. In every person's life right now we can see that there are large changes happening. Either it be relocation or jobs ending or any number of circumstances on the surface, we could say that there is an observable constant right now that we can observe that everyone's life is in a state of change, and what the future looks like is a matter of possibility.
Now, possibility is a scary thing. Possibility brings excitement, which also is experienced as anxiety. There is not much more terrifying than not knowing what your future holds, not knowing what tomorrow will look like. Change is scary. It can even be painful, and pain is scary. So we could say that for a lot of people, right now is a scary time.
But once we get past a little bit of fear, we can look at this and see that the possibility opening up in your life is an amazing thing. It is a chance to change course, to find out what you want, to have more. In another sense, what once seemed impossible, is now possible. Imagine that! It's like the bridge that was once uncrossable can now be walked upon.
It's always scary, but then when you think about it, you do want your life to be different. A common problem among us, though, is we know we want a better life, but we still don't know what exactly we want.
Finding that out can take a lot of searching, learning, experiencing, and reading. I'm not going to break all that down today. But I will make an argument, that what you want is the elusive thing called happiness. And while I won't tell you how to get inner happiness, I'll make this argument. It's going to be a bit easier to be happy if you're living in a world you want to be in.
So what does that world look like? I would say that is a world where people love you, they support you, they help you when you struggle, they are kind to you, they are working together.
Now why would you actually want this? What if you care about no one? Then now is the moment you could choose to begin caring about yourself. You might think you already do, but if you're unhappy, lonely and unfulfilled, you're not taking care of yourself. You're suffering. You've been suffering. And the only way to make a change about that is to reach out. Reach out to everyone. Because you have nothing to lose. The only thing kindness will repay back is kindness.
Imagine a world where people are kind to you. They are loving to you. They care about you. They want you. They accept you. Don't you want that? Don't you need that? What if it wasn't that hard to live in that world? What if you just had to reach out a hand?
You can break through the barrier disconnecting you. The kindness breaks through. You can be kind today. That kindness creates change. It starts with you. It starts with your loving voice. It starts by asking the right questions. How can I help? Why do I want to help? What matters to me? What can I do today? Where can I contribute? Asking yourself these questions is an act of caring. You do care, even if you don't always recognize it. The beautiful nature of this world is that you do receive back what you give out. If you reach out, others will reach back! The kindness you give them, they will give back to you!
You can change your life right now by pushing past that thin layer of fear and reaching out into your world. And changing your world does change the world.
You can start to look and see where you can recognize others as human. Where you can recognize those in need. You can recognize someone else as a human, ask them how they are doing, how they are feeling, reach out to make them feel cared about, make them feel valued, appreciated, extending out these same wishes you have for yourself.
If this isn't enough action for you, or if you aren't connected to enough people to reach out to them, or if you're stuck at home, what could you do to extend this caring to others? You could write a heartfelt letter to every person. Dig into your feelings and why you love and appreciate others and write to them that you care about them, to every person in your world. You don't have to send this letter by mail, this is the information age, there's a million ways to send it. Send a letter to everyone you know, and you know what that could do, that could change your life, as these people give back to you what you've just given them. You've just started a ripple affect in your life, because life is relational, dependent on your relationships with others. Imagine it. If you just started writing letters saying kind words to people, many people, every day, people are going to respond to you. And you can just keep going from there, inviting opportunity into your life.
A dreamer would imagine a fantasy of what would happen if it didn't just change your life, but if it went farther, became a chain reaction. It could melt the hardest of hearts. You, reading this, are probably not the person with abundant access to wealth and finances that could help millions. If enough people started being kind, if people started feeling safe enough to open their cold hearts, to recognize the suffering in others, and reached the heart of one wealthy person that looked at their life, the unhappiness in it, and for the first time recognized the poor as suffering, and recognized they could be kind and share everything they have, that might just transform their life. Imagine the impact of just one person of high status, changing their lifestyle to keeping only what they needed, and spreading their wealth. Just one person's transformation could impact the lives of millions in a real, drastic way. The people they know would see the impact of that. They would change.
If you have an even better, even more impactful way to reach people in your life, don't listen to me, go and do that! Whether it's your art, or music, or you have finances to bless people with, or even just offering your time and attention, whatever works for you to change your life. Investing in yourself, investing in other people, a brighter world for you to live in, is that worth investing in?
Hacking the Future
I believe that what ultimately affects the outcomes of our lives, is by how well we learn how to work with how we personally operate, and by the model of the Universe we allow ourselves to navigate in.
helps us most in creating our future
I have started to think about how I operate, what works for me, what I believe, and how I will create my future. I have come to find that the conceptual understanding I choose to have of the Universe defines the limitations I set on what is possible.
1. Background: Hacker
Before defining the foundations for my understandings, I reflected on what it is I do. If "the actions make the man", than the man I am is a hacker. I change, I modify, I rework what I understand again and again until I find what works, to a nearly methodical degree. This is the whole game for me.
I hacked my definition of the game itself, that it is not won, it is a game to play for fun. I enjoy hacking, and so I enjoy playing the game. My reason for playing is satisfied simply by participation.
They say people are statues to be chiseled away, that we should work with what we're given. So, I hack away at myself. I am a difficult person to work with. I work with myself until I find how to get me to do what I want me to do, and to be who I want me to be. I hack into the parts of me that are unpleasant until they become my allies in playing this game of action, of forward momentum.
I hack the way I live my life, and that is each day. This is a process of refining what works for me to achieve a daily or weekly balance between stability and action. To speak of this balance in a few different ways, the balance between wellbeing and productivity, now and tomorrow, life and legacy.
I hack the way I perceive my world. How I choose to perceive the world affects my wellbeing, my life as it is today. The quality of my life today affects and defines my whole experience, my entire range of memories now, back to the past, and to the future I have not yet seen. The quality of my life today is based on how I perceive the world. How I choose to perceive the world also affects the possibilities available to me in my future. It even affects the rate at which I grow and who I will become. So, to play the game is to hack my perception, it is to find the best perception of reality to experience the best life I can live.
2. Background: The Niche
Every person has characteristics that are uniquely tailored and can be made use of when applied in a suitable direction. One of my nuances is practicality. This practicality I'm speaking of is a rationalistic type of thinking that is borderline Atheistic. My mind remains grounded and does not stray from the observable, physical world, the shared world we all live in, and the logic dictated in this world. A large imagination and intense dreaming for decades necessitated this grounding.
I write about this practical nature because it helps explain my approach to the model of understanding the universe that I am working from. In that, the game I'm playing is the most dangerous, the game of hacking consciousness. The entree fee required is to forfeit all that is understood, all that we can see, all that is known to get a better understanding of the mechanical nature of a system, from the limited perspective of being a part of that system. To explore consciousness today is to move away from the scientific and towards the metaphysical, what we cannot observe and cannot measure. What makes this game so dangerous is that to explore what is possible, one must look into experiential evidence, observable patterns for which only a supernatural explanation can be given. The possibility of one's own experience moves an individual away from what the world will believe is possible, what the world will believe is real.
To delve into the metaphysical is to enter into the field of spirituality if one is to find any deeper understandings of consciousness. The issue with this is that anything spiritual is no longer what is considered purely rational, as spiritual doctrines offer supernatural narratives and often isolated conceptions of the nature of reality. These beliefs are dangerous to the rational person because, in spirituality, the clear line between sanity and insanity can easily fade away. As it is said, Genius is only genius if it can be understood by others. The rational man is only credible if he remains rational, his rationality cannot change.
In my brain is a rational analytical self that never sleeps. It holds few firm beliefs. It is from this self that I write. Below that is a learning, explorer self that believes in a great many fantastical narratives. With the rational self holding it, it is possible for the explorer to have faith in supernatural ideas, as well as entirely abandon sanity altogether. Such it is that I can believe in much and nothing at all. That I believe in any concept I state in this writing usually remains just as much a true statement as it does false. This model of my mind I've just described is itself just a narrative. While it does not accurately describe the nature of the flowing of thought, it is simply the best model I have found to work from.
3. The System
If my goal is to hack consciousness to change the circumstances in my life, I must have a basic understanding of what consciousness is. I need to be able to conceptualize what it is I'm working with. So to start, to even begin to create an understanding, I must believe that consciousness exists. Consciousness, a system of which I, my thoughts, and the Universe are a part of.
Consciousness is of course real to me, an underlying system I and billions of others have observed the patterns of throughout history. To believe it exists is one thing, but I need to be able to understand it, to determine what it is to work with it. Here rises a sudden challenge. I have a single understanding up to this point regarding the basic nature of consciousness. That it is so vast it cannot be understood. How can I begin to conceptualize something that I cannot understand? To make this ever more challenging, if the workings of consciousness that affect my physical life are in the supernatural, the spiritual, unseen forces at work behind the curtains, how can I model something I cannot see?
Asking me what consciousness is, is like turning out the lights and asking me what is in a dark room.
I know that it is impossible to know for sure what is in the room. I also know that I can still wander around the room in the dark and get a sense of my surroundings. I can feel what is in the room with sensory inputs from my body. I am not the first person to have entered this dark room. Millions of others too have wandered around and shared their experiences. One person might tell me that in a certain area of the room is a stone. Another person might tell me that in that same area of the room is a ball. I might go check for myself and find what I believe to be a poor soul's dismembered head. Although none of us know what is in that area of the room, I do have the ability to believe that something is in that area of the room.
This is where I can start to define a model of the basic nature of a consciousness that I do not understand. I can begin to map out a set of constants that do not seem to change. I can look into the narratives of spiritual doctrine and extrapolate a concept that I can compare to other sources and my own. This is where some of my older perceptions have begun to shift.
With these constants, I can assume that consciousness has some sort of make-up. We let go of an apple and so far up until this moment, it always drops. We call this the Law of Gravity. Is Gravity real? We don't know. What we do know is that so far, the Law of Gravity has continued to be an observable constant. These kinds of laws are not the sort that are written and enforced. These are the kinds of laws that are written because they continue to hold true. It can be said that constant truths are called laws.
I believe that what people call secrets or hidden wisdom, are often regarding the 'Laws of Consciousness' , if there were such a thing. In other words, I believe that humankind has been observing the workings of consciousness throughout history. Wisemen have dedicated their lives to figuring out how this thing works. They recorded their findings in sacred texts for us to find today. Thinking in this way, a different picture begins to form in my mind. The characters, plot elements, beliefs found within the narrative stories of religion start to dissolve. Perhaps the author of a text was never trying to preach about how I should live my life or which god was the correct one. Perhaps the author was describing their observations of the nature of consciousness in a way that could be understood at the time. Of what they had found worked and what did not in the 'art of hacking consciousness'. That they intended to share the wisdom they had gained, with me!
There is only one more consideration I have to make that leads me to believe this is exactly the case and has always been the case. The behavior of religions and churches as we have always known them. The caretakers and deliverers of sacred texts, and their singular undisguisable agenda. We all know the agenda. That they want to sell us a narrative. Not to teach us wisdom. This is not to get into the nature of religions to seek to control, manipulate, oppress the people, we already know that.
But it is this agenda that makes it clear to me. If I were a religion or government, which were once the same, and I held in my hands the secrets found on how to utilize the power of consciousness, I would not want everyone to have that access to power. My goal is to rule the people, not to allow them to rule themselves! I would not want anyone to misuse these secrets for their own agenda. I would protect that knowledge, for fear of the disaster that could occur if everyone were free to shape their destiny. Instead, I would design a doctrine that teaches people to limit themselves as much as possible to keep them in the exact same position they are now, to keep them listening to what I say, to keep them from gaining the wisdom that would allow them to change their lives and leave my influence.
I do not put trust in many sources, but this one historical figure Jesus, he seemed pretty trustworthy to me, he seemed to know what he was talking about. And this is what he had to say on the matter.
“Woe to you Scribes, because you have taken away the keys of knowledge! You have not entered and those who are entering you have hindered.”
Somehow I feel like maybe, just maybe, this guy knew what he was talking about. That he was saying outright that this is the case.
With this perspective, the reluctance I felt in looking at sacred texts because of the narratives forced on my life ceases to matter. That these narratives were designed to ensure that those who follow them continue to share them and discourage any outsider from seeking to find any truth within them by means of repulsion. That the Bible - a large compilation of sacred texts - along with other texts might just be composed of priceless analysis' of the workings of consciousness over thousands of years.
To combine this source with the observations of psychology, the observations of great gurus and teachers across time, the science of quantum mechanics, and modern spirituality, my own experiences, and what I've picked up from others on this journey, I have material to work with to start to define these Laws of Consciousness as they are evident in my reality. This process will be biased towards which of these sources I choose to trust.
Keeping the perspective that the model of Consciousness I ultimately choose as my working understanding will define the limits of my possibility, this becomes quite the simple matter.
Delivery Transcends Content
The tree that grows to its full potential is the tree that drinks sunlight, the tree that is not covered up by the shadow of the forest.
It can be said that the purpose of a tree is to grow and reach its arms out for the sun. All of Life follows in this same sacred process. All of Life understands the devastation of depriving one of their potentials, often felt most deeply in the loss of the life of a child.
We can understand that for a person, we grow farther than our bones allow. For us, learning about information and our world is our sacred process of growth. Just as our bones would grow crooked if we were to put a barrier in their way, we too will grow crooked if any barriers are put in front of this process.
It can be said that the key element to learning is the freedom to learn.
The death of learning then is anything that inhibits the freedom to learn.
We can recognize this by the emotions evoked in the process of exploration and discovery, wonder and curiosity, these elements paramount to the human experience. The loss of such things is known to be the death of spirit.
We must take great care to not interrupt this process. Anyone who has ever tended to a plant can appreciate the delicacy required to not damage it, or risk the plant remaining stuck in a stage of its development that it will never grow out of, instead withering and promptly dying.
This is where any teacher must be mindful. After absorbing from sunlight ourselves, we can strongly desire to share the fruit of our trees, the realizations gathered from our explorations. In this excitement we must be careful.
We must not cover up a student's access to sunlight over the shadow of our wisdom.
This may seem simple and obvious, or irrelevant and unneeded, but when unaware, we run a great risk of running this grave error. This is because we have to identify that there are always two lessons. The shallow, far less important lesson is the content, the information given. The real lesson resides within the delivery, the action of teaching itself.
This is because the teaching itself is a lesson. The way we teach is an action, and actions do always speak louder than words.
Delivery of content sounds complicated, but this could only ever be simple, as it only ever could speak from one of two voices.
The first is the voice declaring death to spirit.
This is the voice of the death of thought and development.
This is the lesson teaching that the content itself has become more important than the process of learning.
This is the lesson that teaches that the content is of such importance that it is to be accepted without question, without critical thought.
This voice always says we do things because we should.
This voice always says, 'because others do, and because I do, you should too'.
This is, always has been, and always will be, the voice of the system of a society that resists change, is prohibiting the ability for one to become independent of themselves, to become one who leads sheep instead of being herded by the wolves.
As soon as we have absorbed content, we carry the risk of speaking as this voice of death ourselves.
The second voice is the voice of Life.
This voice encourages, inspires, and excites. It breathes excitement into content.
This is the lesson that says, I give you all that I have to offer. What is mine is yours. I would like to share with you!
What are you interested in? What would you like to learn more about?
This voice offers from what is available, it gives but does not tell, it will show you fruit and information but never hand you an answer.
This voice will always ask you to find and seek out the answer on your own.
This voice may hold your hand through the darkness, but it will ask you to lead the way.
We recognize great teachers in history by this second method of teaching.
The brilliant caricature of a teacher is the character to whom you ask a question and receive back a mischievous grin, a fleeting glance with a glimmer in their eye as your answer. It's the look that says, "There is more to this mystery here, if you look for it."
Offer others the keys to caverns of treasure, rather than weighing them down with bags of heavy gold.
The Perfect Voice
I will not participate in any established way. Our cultures and systems have moved us in a direction where we listen to voices that have positioned themselves as an absolute authority in order to be heard. We create, raise up, and choose the voices that we listen to.
This is the requirement for a voice to be heard in this age. We choose voices that seem to come from an infallible source, from one who has their life together, whose word and wisdom is without fault. We will not settle for any less.
Collectively we know and we understand that no one has life figured out. Yet, as soon as a voice of authority presents itself, we accept it. It is the only kind voice we will accept.
In reality, there are no infallible voices. In striving to listen to them, we are actually collectively choosing voices that are not transparent, the least trustworthy sources available.
We choose to buy into an illusion that we knew wasn't true from the start, and we require the illusion. Then, when every guru, every perfect teacher leads others to wisdom that goes off the mark, we wonder how everyone could have been wrong about this person.
Behind any perfect voice, is a person who is acting deceptively. There is no one who is right all of the time. By presenting themselves as infallible, a person who does this is not being transparent. Transparency shows honesty. Honesty shows flaws, weaknesses. Honesty, and humility shed light that one is not always right. We can choose to not listen to voices that are not being transparent, or in simple terms, not being real with us.
Escaping listening to the voices that end up going in bad directions is not solved by seeking more infallible voices. Rather, it is in finding and listening to honest voices that remain transparent and do not claim to be what they are not.
I will not participate in any established way. I have answers, I don't have all the answers. I am flawed. I fall. I fail. Just like everyone else. I am not here to give perfect wisdom. I am here to share that which has been shared with me and what I have found, on a road to mastery of life, myself, and my craft.
In a world where we are transparent, we all become teachers, we all pick each other up when we fall, we all share in this experience.
Capturing It
I find myself captivated in the attempt to fathom what we are. The miracle visible at every given moment, that we are truly nothing less than the fullness of being. We are as human, the expression of every possibility, from weakness to greatness, we can experience scaling being fantastic and mundane, from depravity to divinity.
We are often striving for better, searching for greater, needing to be okay. We shy from uncertainty, fragility, despair, torments and sufferings, heartaches and cruelties.
It is often easy to believe that we would always be okay if we could hold onto one familiarized state. Our thoughts say, if we always felt this one way, then we'll be okay forever. And yet while we may try to build ourselves up to condition to such a state such that we never fall again, we can surely expect to return to and navigate through every possible state of being as long as we are alive.
I cannot begin to appreciate such a miracle. I often take comfort in knowing that I am part of the whole being of humanity that is temporarily witnessing an aspect of all from a personalized view, every imperfection in life as equally lovable as you would love the whole of your soulmate. You don't love them less for having scars. You don't love someone's shoulder less than the elbow because it is simply one body, as it is.
My captivation is in that the beauty of being is always there to be found if it is searched for by the one who has the eyes to perceive it, most often the harder it is to find, the quieter one must become for it to come to light.
To me the most beautiful is the most elusive, the most hidden, only found in the roughest of people, the hardest of times, the strife of strifes, the thickest of fields, the darkest of nights, the brightest of lights, the strongest of sorrows. It is often near silence or silence itself, amidst the orchestra of life.
It feels as though to begin to express the feeling of wonder of this beauty, that if I begin to speak of it, to focus my gaze on it too intently, it might begin to vanish. I can only hope to learn to hold it softly that the wonderment grows into a mass that will be so familiar that it is never far from view. I feel my greatest regret could never be to fail or take the wrong path or to make the wrong choices, my only greatest regret would be being and not being, killing that sacred essence, that undying spark. I could only regret to try to hide from being, or attempt to choose one part of it and deny the other.
Imagine loving someone's shoulder and not their elbow! Imagine trying to be less than the fullness of being alive!
Design
We feel less alone and more connected when we learn that there is someone else who has shared a similar past and self and story.
When we learn there are millions of those like us, it begins to seem that our design might be the result of someone's crafted template that we have grown from. A template for those with the same characteristics, motivations, dreams, passions, thoughts, mannerisms, personality. That have been programmed this way, given this base personality and the same base story and matching plot.
How many of those like us are born, and of how geographically far apart, is a matter of statistical probability.
There is a measurable percentage of us in each town, city, state, country, continent. This is not random, it is pseudorandom. Our likeness is fixed to a specific algorithm just as measurable as any other law or occurrence found within this universe.
We can chalk up everything in the universe to random chance, accident. Regarding the stories and courses of our lives however, these are observable patterns, mathematics that can be quantified. Plots of tragedy and comedy, these are set into motion.
While not necessarily individually scripted, the basis for these scripts is an observable series of prototyping.
Our histories, our profiles, they are on some level, designed. The outcome of these stories is subject to choice and pseudo-random fixed chance, allowing for different potential possibilities, but at the core this is the undeniable work of a maker.
If I were to design a world, I wouldn't want to individually create billions of stories and lives.
No. I would simplify the work, and be excited by the potential of what I had set in motion. I would design the base profiles of each kind of person and create functions that randomize characteristics and attributes of these. In programming we would call this a function factory. A people factory. A story factory. An Earth factory, and beyond.
Even our apparently shared subconsciousness -which science has observed- makes sense of this.
We would currently be unable to explain a collective consciousness without a metaphysical explanation. From a programmatic perspective however, connecting our thoughts would be no less difficult than creating a causal relationship between atoms.
As for the rest of the metaphysical, while it is not impossible for "God's" existence and spiritual realms to exist independent of one's imagination, such existences do not nullify the independent existence of a designer. There is not a mandatory requirement for a connection between the planet's designers and the spiritual deity that people claim fills them with light and love. These are not required to be one and the same.
It is unlikely we have fixed destiny. Along with our base profile, it would seem there is a template laid out for a possible and attainable destiny that we may choose to lean towards. This would be among the exceptions regarding connection between creator and deity, as spiritual deity would surely have a destiny for us and desire to lead us towards it.
Exploring that, if the creator was a physical being like us, and set out a template destiny for us, he might also want credit for his work, to receive praise as any of us desire. Say the designer did not want to reveal himself,
If a creator were to reveal himself, we might feel that we were held in a trap by a person with no more qualifications to control us than we ourselves. Perhaps we'd spend our days protesting him for not giving us better lives or even commit mass suicide.
he would have to take the next best solution. To design us to worship a deity, one created as he imagines himself to be. He would have to settle for us worshipping his creation of a "God", and imagine to himself that we were praying to him directly.
It would be simple for a designer to program us with an innate instruction to believe in a God.
To impart in us conscious knowledge about a God we are made instinctually aware of. Who would take the time to design creatures be able to communicate, to read and write, for a reason other than to be able to learn that their creator exists?
As for designing consciousness, a -not omniscient, omnipotent- creator would have to make use of artificial intelligence and algorithms.
Would it be feasible to design a consciousness with an imagination and awareness of spirituality?
Could spirituality be nothing more than an unintended aftereffect of consciousness, a simple matter of feelings and imagination?
Is our perception of reality from the eyes of a single person, afraid of
the unknown possibilities of infinity, just so?
If philosophers have believed everything under the sun, and I one of billions of conscious beings capable of independent reasoning, there is really nothing wrong with I religiously adhering to and exploring the concept that we are in fact, the result of a program _ _
Repetition
So what is up with mantras? Such a silly idea. Why do people take the time to recite the same words again and again, trying to convince themselves that they are something they are not. Right?
Well, I'd like to break down for you what would happen if you were to say the same thing every day. If you think every day, I am such a loser. I am never going to make it. I can't do this anymore. This always happens to me.
You may not realize it, but you're already reciting a silly mantra in your head every day. You're already a script on repeat. So is it such a crazy idea that to change your script, you could change your story?
Most people think that the idea of speaking a mantra is to try to make you believe something that you do not. That 'positive affirmations' are a game of trying to convince yourself you are something different than you are. In truth, there's a lot more going on here.
First, your brain is a problem solver. Ask it any question and it will throw that question into a queue to be processed and come back to you with an answer. Ask, and you will receive.
If you say, "I am full of opportunities" every day, what happens? First, you've presented your brain with a problem. If you don't see opportunities in your life, the words you've just presented to your brain do not match up with your reality. Your brain now has to solve a problem in order to make what you just said make sense. The mind just doesn't do 'unsolved problems'. It continues to work on your submitted proposal until it finds a resolution. Unless you default back to, "I have no opportunities", the brain will continue to try to make the statement, "I am full of opportunities" true, until it is true.
That's working for you in the background. Now in the foreground, what word have you focused on? "Opportunities". You're now thinking about opportunities. You are eventually going to notice opportunities because you're thinking about them. There's something more. Who have you just become? You have become a person who thinks about opportunity. You are a person who is thinking about opportunity! That sounds pretty good, right? That's who you are. Is it not? Is that statement about yourself somehow not true? It couldn't not be true, because you now have evidence that you are this person. You just thought about opportunity, it just happened, that was real.
What do you care about? Are you not a person who cares about these things? What do you think about? Are you not the person that thinks these thoughts? Once we understand that we are what we think, we open up to a world of possibility. We also discover the means to change our focus. What we focus on, we will become. If I focus on goodness, I am a person who focuses on goodness. What kind of a person focuses on goodness everyday? Who is that person?
Listener’s Reward
In life, we struggle to connect. There can be a paradoxical relationship where the more we attempt to communicate, the more isolated we feel, a vicious, painful and lonely cycle.
But what if this world is not communicating simply because this world is not listening? Our brain tells us that if we say more, if we act differently, then, maybe, we will be acknowledged. Maybe our voice will be heard.
What if the world doesn't need more voices?
People need someone to listen. Listening is yet another precious source of wealth and value that the world asks for but often does not receive.
When we listen, a strange phenomenon occurs. The less one speaks, the more others will open up. They stop talking about the weather. They don't attempt to force a meaningless interaction. They start to open up.
When stopping to appreciate the moment and just listen, there is no agenda. You are just sharing in the moment with another. It becomes safe to slow down, safer to enjoy the pauses and silence with someone close to you. The tension of needing to speak the right words, the feeling that something must be done, might begin to dissolve over time.
Perhaps when listening, you clear space for another to think. They stop feeling like you are waiting for your turn to talk. They start to trust you, for no other reason than that they can tell that you are focused on them, that the conversation is for them and not for yourself. Listening can make them feel safe enough to express themselves.
Of course, what you give, you get. You will find that others will want to do the same for you. They will want to turn their full attention to hear what you have to say. You've given them what no one else has, and they feel grateful and appreciative. They don't want to listen to you because they need to, or should listen to you, but because you've given them a gift, and feeling that in their heart, they desire to give a gift back.
Conversations with friends or strangers can change to no longer be mandatory, socially correct engagements. They can flow naturally, with interactions that don't end awkwardly, because it ends when it is ready to end. Perhaps there is even a bit of unspoken trust that the engagement is finished. Lingering in the air is a mutual, unspoken sensation of satisfaction, perhaps of a deeper connection, that seems to come only when it feels like the moment mattered.
Closing Thoughts
The search for truth is worth it.
-Divinie