Christopher Langan's Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe

"For the greater glory of God", someone can post this short piece from Langan, or leave a link.
Thank you.

AI wrote to the Langans for permission to post the article. They do not want it to be publicly available, but gave permission to put it in a private area of the forum. I am going to post it in the FOTCM members forum and those of you who are members can read it there. If you are not a FOTCM member, consider joining.
 
Additionally what we call "laws of nature" is our, human, concept. We select a class of phenomena, we focus on them, while we neglect infinitely more phenomena that we are not able not only to understand, but we do not even call them "phenomena". This view depends on our particular type of minds. Elsewhere in the universe, in other environments, but even here, on Earth, under different than usual conditions, we could tend to focus on different class of phenomena. Those that we think we understand now, we may stop to understand, while other phenomena that usually we perceive as uncorrelated chaos may start to be of significant order and beauty. Our consciousness (to large extent dependent on the actually active DNA functions) plays an important role in our "understanding" the Nature.

As to black holes - we do not really understand them. Next year, or next century, we may as well admit that what we thought were "black holes", were something entirely different. The fact that the current main stream science takes them for granted should not mislead us. It is good to study the history of science.
 
Fascinating stuff, thank you very much!
I'll have to admit for just a second there i thought 'Metrology' was a typo, then found out about this whole discipline of science that logically exists at this point but i had never heard of, or even considered to be a thing for more than a brief moment before.
 
Langan's CTMU is certainly interesting, but something about it strikes me as a little 'off'. His creating of an equivalence between language and the subject being described seems simplistic. Sure, we can say that the semantic content of language is entirely informational (non-physical), and that ultimately all physical reality is based in information, but Langan seems to draw an association between informational realities and "unobservables", without explaining what he means by "unobservable". We have evidence, especially from the C's, that informational and spiritual realities are indeed observable, and that observations taking place at such levels may even effect physical reality.

I'm reminded of this MindMatters interview with Ken Pedersen. There seems to be a curiously 'material' interpretation of information at work that treats the spiritual as 'reducible' to 'information elements' that are essentially mathematical. It's like the opposite of the view that the physical world is a reflection of metaphysics, yet does include the basic axiom that the informational world exists. I think this is only part of the story: Consciousness seems to be 'meta-metaphysics' in some specific sense, and thus I see language and mathematics as a second-order phenomena.

Langan's complex and convoluted use of language is also difficult to parse, and that's a bit of a warning sign to me as well, especially when you consider Laura's elegant and easily-understandable explanation in the referenced portion of Secret History, although to give Langan his due, his model does seem to be to a large degree internally consistent.

Trying to untangle such nebulous and philosophical concepts always carries a risk of projection, too, so I would be interested to hear the thoughts of others on the subject.

From 2023 back to 1929 is 94 years. The average of the two time spans is 98 years (and I'm just generalizing here off the top of my head about this), so one wonders if there is a cycle of fluctuations in the gravitational and speed-of-light constants?
Fascinating theory, Laura. That fits approximately with the "Fourth Turning" and Cliodynamic models, if I remember correctly, and would put the previous cycle between 1831-1835. During this time, there was a worldwide cholera pandemic, and was just prior to the first Opium War between Britain and China in 1839. In the US, the Black Hawk War between the US govt and Native Americans occurred during 1832-1833, and the Texas Revolution also ran from 1835-1836.

There were also three major volcanic eruptions during this time: Mount Galunggung Indonesia (1832), Mount Etna in Italy (1832), and the Coseguina volcano in Nicaragua (1835). There was also a massive earthquake near Sumatra, Indonesia (1833), with an estimated magnitude of 8.8-9.2 that generated a tsunami which killed over 5,000 people.

Biela's comet was seen in 1832, and both Comet Encke and Halley's comet were seen in 1835, too.
 
From 2023 back to 1929 is 94 years. The average of the two time spans is 98 years (and I'm just generalizing here off the top of my head about this), so one wonders if there is a cycle of fluctuations in the gravitational and speed-of-light constants?
Could it be more like 104 (2x52) years? This gives us two Mayan Calendar Rounds. From Wikipedia:

The tzolkʼin calendar combines twenty day names with the thirteen day numbers to produce 260 unique days. It is used to determine the time of religious and ceremonial events and for divination. Each successive day is numbered from 1 up to 13 and then starting again at 1.
The Haabʼ was made up of eighteen months of twenty days each plus a period of five days ("nameless days") at the end of the year known as Wayeb' (or Uayeb in 16th-century orthography). The five days of Wayebʼ were thought to be a dangerous time. Foster (2002) writes, "During Wayeb, portals between the mortal realm and the Underworld dissolved. No boundaries prevented the ill-intending deities from causing disasters." To ward off these evil spirits, the Maya had customs and rituals they practiced during Wayebʼ.

(...) Because the Haabʼ had 365 days and the tropical year is 365.2422 days, the days of the Haabʼ did not coincide with the tropical year.
A Calendar Round date is a date that gives both the Tzolkʼin and Haabʼ. This date will repeat after 52 Haabʼ years or 18,980 days, a Calendar Round. For example, the current creation started on 4 Ahau 8 Kumkʼu. When this date recurs it is known as a Calendar Round completion.

Arithmetically, the duration of the Calendar Round is the least common multiple of 260 and 365; 18,980 is 73 × 260 Tzolkʼin days and 52 × 365 Haabʼ days.
 
Could it be more like 104 (2x52) years? This gives us two Mayan Calendar Rounds. From Wikipedia:
Only thing is that measuring from Depression to Depression, it comes up about 6-10 years too short. That's over half to nearly a full solar cycle. BTW, here's some economic events from the 1830s:

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Panic of 1837: In 1837, the United States experienced a severe financial crisis, known as the Panic of 1837. The crisis was triggered by a series of events, including a speculative bubble in the real estate market, the withdrawal of funds from banks by the federal government, and a decline in the price of cotton. The Panic of 1837 led to a period of economic depression in the US, which lasted for several years.

British financial crisis: In 1832, the United Kingdom experienced a financial crisis, triggered by a downturn in the cotton market and a decline in exports to the United States. The crisis led to a period of economic depression in the UK, which lasted for several years.

European agricultural crisis: Between 1830 and 1836, Europe experienced an agricultural crisis, caused by a series of poor harvests and crop failures. The crisis led to a rise in food prices and a decline in economic activity in many parts of Europe.
 
Fascinating theory, Laura. That fits approximately with the "Fourth Turning" and Cliodynamic models, if I remember correctly, and would put the previous cycle between 1831-1835. During this time, there was a worldwide cholera pandemic, and was just prior to the first Opium War between Britain and China in 1839. In the US, the Black Hawk War between the US govt and Native Americans occurred during 1832-1833, and the Texas Revolution also ran from 1835-1836.

There were also three major volcanic eruptions during this time: Mount Galunggung Indonesia (1832), Mount Etna in Italy (1832), and the Coseguina volcano in Nicaragua (1835). There was also a massive earthquake near Sumatra, Indonesia (1833), with an estimated magnitude of 8.8-9.2 that generated a tsunami which killed over 5,000 people.

Biela's comet was seen in 1832, and both Comet Encke and Halley's comet were seen in 1835, too.
I wouldn't call it a theory, more like a speculative noticing of possible correlates.

You might want to post what you have noted above on Ark's blog discussion on that post for others to read.
 
Langan's CTMU is certainly interesting, but something about it strikes me as a little 'off'. His creating of an equivalence between language and the subject being described seems simplistic.

Maybe. But we can also notice that ibn al-Arabi considered all the objects of creation to be something like "words" of God. That, of course, kind of meshes with "as above, so below", in that everything that happens in material reality is a reflection of a spiritual reality and those events/reflections can be very complex.

But then, what I am saying here does not seem to be what Langan is saying.

Sure, we can say that the semantic content of language is entirely informational (non-physical), and that ultimately all physical reality is based in information, but Langan seems to draw an association between informational realities and "unobservables", without explaining what he means by "unobservable".

Maybe his explanation is in some other portions of his writings?

We have evidence, especially from the C's, that informational and spiritual realities are indeed observable, and that observations taking place at such levels may even effect physical reality.

True. We also understand that "perspicacity" as al-Arabi used it, means to be able to discern the spiritual reality behind, or informing, or reflecting, the physical reality. It's like that comment that Malachi Martin made in HTTD: "A bird doesn't fly because it has wings, it has wings because it flies."

I'm reminded of this MindMatters interview with Ken Pedersen. There seems to be a curiously 'material' interpretation of information at work that treats the spiritual as 'reducible' to 'information elements' that are essentially mathematical. It's like the opposite of the view that the physical world is a reflection of metaphysics, yet does include the basic axiom that the informational world exists. I think this is only part of the story: Consciousness seems to be 'meta-metaphysics' in some specific sense, and thus I see language and mathematics as a second-order phenomena.

I didn't listen to the mentioned interview yet, but I agree that language and mathematics are second order phenomena. I think I would put math slightly ahead of language because it is geometric relationships between bits of information that would be the building blocks of language.

Langan's complex and convoluted use of language is also difficult to parse, and that's a bit of a warning sign to me as well, especially when you consider Laura's elegant and easily-understandable explanation in the referenced portion of Secret History, although to give Langan his due, his model does seem to be to a large degree internally consistent.

Yes, I find his language off-putting, but then so is the jargon used by about every professional scholar in the world. Some of them, thankfully, try to make themselves understood by everybody else, but I had to learn this jargon when reading technical papers on various topics as background for what I write myself. And then, I try to translate it into everyday language so anyone can understand it. That is exactly what I was trying to do in the passage referenced from Secret History. And that was a darned difficult thing to write because our normal language really doesn't have words adequate to the task. And that is probably what Langan is dealing with as well. He also appears to be trying to make his work as technically exact as possible as a way to protect AND convey his ideas. Unfortunately, in the end, it does come off sounding a little bit word-salady.

He refers to the "bound" and "unbound" which, I believe, is a direct correlate to our use of STS vs STO.
 
Could it be more like 104 (2x52) years? This gives us two Mayan Calendar Rounds. From Wikipedia:
I'm not sure if the Mayan calendar was trying to relate concepts of social history as much as cosmic cycles. Yes, the two may be correlated, but better to make observations and try to find any connections.

The "Fourth Turning" was mentioned above. Here is what that referred to which will help to explain why social history can be quite variable in its cycles:

A Fourth Turning

"When society passes through a great and perilous gate in history"


Robert W Malone MD, MS

Apr 5


First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history (The Fourth Turning)

The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.

The Fourth Turning Tipping Point

By Jeff Thomas

A Fourth Turning is a period in history when all the negative developments over a four-generation period reach a crescendo – a time when the sociopaths are the rulers and are putting the squeeze on the populace.

In addition to an effort to institute totalitarian rule, symptoms include the breakdown of both morality and logic. Black is white; up is down. Confusion and chaos increase in both frequency and magnitude as the Fourth Turning advances.

Those of a libertarian mindset tend to be especially sensitive to and cognizant of these symptoms as they unfold. Since a classic Fourth Turning takes place over roughly twenty years, by the time the halfway mark is reached and the symptoms are peaking, it may appear that “It just keeps getting worse. Won’t people ever wake up and understand that this is crazy?”

Well, historically, the answer has always been “Yes.”

There’s always a turning point, even if it seems that it’s not only a long time coming but that there’s no level of oppression that won’t be tolerated by the masses.

The reason for this is that a Fourth Turning is made possible by complacency. Although there has been a deterioration in self-reliance and reasoning for three generations, a population does not become truly complacent until the latter stages. The deeper the complacency, the greater the oppression by leaders.

Interestingly, complacency is at its greatest in populations where there previously was the greatest prosperity. Therefore, in the present Fourth Turning, the countries that have been most dramatically impacted have been those that had previously been the most prosperous.

Not surprising, then, that the level of governmental controls and, indeed, the oppression of social wokeness is now most extreme in the US, UK, Canada, EU, etc., as, since the last Fourth Turning in the 1940s, they have been the world’s leaders in prosperity. In Second and Third World countries, the level of oppression – and the chaos and confusion that go with it – has been significantly less.

So, if we are to see a turning point, when will it be, and what will cause it?

Historically, there is generally both a political turning point and a social one. They’re not always concurrent, and that’s the case this time around.

In February of 2022, the US placed sanctions on Russia as a result of the Ukraine war. This was predictable. However, the US concurrently confiscated the private property of Russian citizens.

At the time, this didn’t get a lot of publicity in the West, but I believe that, in retrospect, it will be seen as the political turning point. The reason is that most of the countries in the world do not see themselves as world powers. They see themselves as countries that are continually impacted by world powers.

As such, they try to cooperate with the big boys and suffer as little as possible from what the big boys do.

For them, the announcement by the US was a direct threat: “Omigod, if they confiscated assets of the Russian people, they could do the same to us.”

This generated a quiet move away from US influence. Representatives of many countries started to travel to Moscow and Beijing to form new alliances, new trade agreements, and new loyalties to replace the ever-riskier relationship with the US.

Such changes don’t happen overnight, but in the last year, we’ve seen moves away from the petrodollar, the US reserve currency, and increased applications to join the BRICS. Recently, Malaysia became the first country to announce that its preparation to step away from the US is now complete, and they are formally distancing itself from the US.

This trend will expand over the coming year as more countries “come out” in their intention – a trend that will serve both to isolate the US and to increase the collective strength of the BRICS.

But what of that other concern – the social tipping point?

Again, complacency is the overriding stumbling block. In recent years, conservative thinkers have become more and more irate over socialistic notions and, particularly, wokeism. The overreach of Black Lives Matter, climate change, LGBTQ rights, presumed white privilege, and vaccine mandates have become increasingly dominant and seemingly unending.

But recently, there have been cracks in what seemed to be a developing permanence of wokeism. To wit:

  • Stanford Law School students drove out a conservative speaker, with angry insults, with students even calling for his daughters to be raped. The moderating Administrator added to the fire, denouncing the speaker as he left. But, in a surprise move, the otherwise liberal Dean suspended the Administrator and announced that all students would be required to attend training on “freedom of speech and the norms of the legal profession.”
  • Ana Kasparian of the left-wing “Young Turks” broke with her peers to state, in no uncertain terms, that “I’m a woman. Please don’t ever refer to me as a person with a uterus, a birthing person, or a person who menstruates.How do people not realize how degrading this is?”
  • Andrew Tate, a former kickboxer, has become extremely popular with young men and boys due to his presentation as ultra-masculine. His followers comment that Tate represents “everything about their nature that they’ve been forced to suppress.”
This is just a sampling of an increasing surprise reversal of the woke trend. And the key to it is that it has not emanated from the conservative side; it’s coming from liberals themselves.

Essentially, what we’re seeing is the effects of overload – those who previously supported wokeism… until it had taken over their lives. A breaking point is being reached in increasing numbers of liberals as wokeism is simply becoming intolerable.

So, what does this mean for the future? Is the globalist push nearing an end? No, unfortunately, even if it is to be defeated, it still has years to go. And the worst is yet to come. But the pushback is now quietly underway for the first time.

Is wokeism a dead duck? Hardly. But we may be witnessing the turning point – the point at which the narrative becomes intolerable to increasing numbers of people, and the tide turns.

To be sure, leaders never tire of the rhetoric that they create. But sooner or later, their minions – those who are pushing their propaganda – get a bellyful and move on.

This doesn’t happen overnight, but we may be reaching a turning point when it begins to lose its appeal to the very people who are spouting it.
 
There seems to be a curiously 'material' interpretation of information at work that treats the spiritual as 'reducible' to 'information elements' that are essentially mathematical.

I didn't listen to the mentioned interview yet, but I agree that language and mathematics are second order phenomena. I think I would put math slightly ahead of language because it is geometric relationships between bits of information that would be the building blocks of language.

This is an issue that Peter Janich discusses at length in his book "What is Information?" - the attempt to turn information into a commodity, some "stuff" (or "elements") because this supposedly can make it accessible to science. However, this can easily lead one astray. I'm not sure Langan falls into this trap, but from what I read so far, I noticed that he never tried to define what he means by information - which (if true) can be interpreted both ways, I suppose.

Maybe his explanation is in some other portions of his writings?

For those who are interested, there are two books worth checking out: "The Art of Knowing: Expositions on Free Will and Select Essays", which contains many non-technical essays that are very interesting, and "Chris Langan's Major Papers 1989 - 2020", with his (semi-)technical papers, where he defines the CTMU etc.

I have read the first book and parts of his papers, but it's been a while.

One thing is for sure: he is a mind of the first order, and many aspects of his cosmology jive very well with the Cs. I remember though being somewhat frustrated by his self-referential system that seems to always point to some aspect of itself and makes you go in circles, looking for a clear explanation/definition, which never seems to come. To be fair though, he does come out and say his system is based on a super-tautology, so... :)

It is clear that he has read a lot of philosophy and esoteric ideas, so I was also wondering whether he constructed the system "after the fact" so to speak, to reframe these ideas in the particular way his mind works best, i.e. "just" another attempt to formulate the same thing differently. He does claim, however, that his theory can be applied in useful ways, such as "testing" interpretations of QM and such.

I also noticed he believes (and isn't shy pointing out) that his theory is the one and only, greatest of the greatest of them all, the final word on everything, which I found a bit off-putting. Then again, he's a fighter and no-nonsense guy, and he got attacked... But still.

I would have to go back to the books I mentioned to comment more and summarize some of his ideas - can't say that I understood his system from the reading I have done so far, only aspects of it (I think), and I find it hard to remember even that now.
 
Langan's CTMU is certainly interesting, but something about it strikes me as a little 'off'. His creating of an equivalence between language and the subject being described seems simplistic.
Maybe. But we can also notice that ibn al-Arabi considered all the objects of creation to be something like "words" of God. That, of course, kind of meshes with "as above, so below", in that everything that happens in material reality is a reflection of a spiritual reality and those events/reflections can be very complex.

But then, what I am saying here does not seem to be what Langan is saying.
I won't pretend to understand Langan completely, but based on what I've read from him, I think he would agree with al-Arabi. The objects of creation are the "words" generated by God. Every "word" is an expression of a metaphysical thought of God. "Speaking the word" is like forming something specific and actual out of pure potential.
Sure, we can say that the semantic content of language is entirely informational (non-physical), and that ultimately all physical reality is based in information, but Langan seems to draw an association between informational realities and "unobservables", without explaining what he means by "unobservable". We have evidence, especially from the C's, that informational and spiritual realities are indeed observable, and that observations taking place at such levels may even effect physical reality.
Maybe his explanation is in some other portions of his writings?
He is using the words (un)observable in the sense that the materialists/hardcore empiricists/behaviorists use them - i.e. that "only material things which can be directly observed and verified by multiple people are worthy of scientific investigation." He's pointing out that even things like gravity and probability waves fall into the "unobservable" category, and thus science must admit the nonphysical. But there are many more things that can't be observed in this way, which are just as much a part of reality as the so-called scientific "observables". I think he would include paranormal phenomena there and everything he considers "metaphysical," along with things as ordinary as the love someone feels for their family. They're not "observable" in the materialist sense, but they're knowable and able to be experienced.
I'm reminded of this MindMatters interview with Ken Pedersen. There seems to be a curiously 'material' interpretation of information at work that treats the spiritual as 'reducible' to 'information elements' that are essentially mathematical. It's like the opposite of the view that the physical world is a reflection of metaphysics, yet does include the basic axiom that the informational world exists. I think this is only part of the story: Consciousness seems to be 'meta-metaphysics' in some specific sense, and thus I see language and mathematics as a second-order phenomena.
In his CTMU paper, he argues against what he calls "informational reductionism": "What is now required is thus what has been required all along: a conceptual framework in which the relationship between mind and matter, cognition and information, is made explicit." So he'd agree that information is somehow fundamental, but not without consciousness. That's why he calls the basic nature of reality "info-cognitive". It needs both information and mind/consciousness in order to give that information structure. You can't have one without the other.
I didn't listen to the mentioned interview yet, but I agree that language and mathematics are second order phenomena. I think I would put math slightly ahead of language because it is geometric relationships between bits of information that would be the building blocks of language.
I think Langan might place them in an order something like this: "metalanguage" > mathematical languages > natural languages. Natural languages like those we speak and write, exist and 'work' because they are relatively limited expressions of a very basic fact of reality: that it is ultimately "linguistic" in nature (in the sense of God speaking the Words). This is another expression of "as above, so below", or man being created "in the image of God". In other words, reality is holographic in nature, or "hological" in Langan's terms. We use linguistic expressions to communicate, and we ourselves and the world around us are the expressions of a higher language.
Langan's complex and convoluted use of language is also difficult to parse, and that's a bit of a warning sign to me as well, especially when you consider Laura's elegant and easily-understandable explanation in the referenced portion of Secret History, although to give Langan his due, his model does seem to be to a large degree internally consistent.
For some context, this post wasn't written for the general public. (His Quora answers, for instance, are much better when it comes to defining terms.) He uses those words because they're tied in with his philosophical system, and he assumes most of his audience is already familiar with them. Aquinas had a certain vocabulary, for instance, including words like "substance" and "formal cause". For Langan, a telon is his word for what might be called a formal cause or a morphogenetic field, or an informational attractor. And a telor is a "substance" (Aquinas), "mind-body complex" (Ra), "consciousness unit" (Cs), or "actual occasion of experience" (Whitehead). Telesis is his name for pure unbound potential. (The tel- prefix comes from teleology.)
Yes, I find his language off-putting, but then so is the jargon used by about every professional scholar in the world. Some of them, thankfully, try to make themselves understood by everybody else, but I had to learn this jargon when reading technical papers on various topics as background for what I write myself. And then, I try to translate it into everyday language so anyone can understand it. That is exactly what I was trying to do in the passage referenced from Secret History. And that was a darned difficult thing to write because our normal language really doesn't have words adequate to the task. And that is probably what Langan is dealing with as well. He also appears to be trying to make his work as technically exact as possible as a way to protect AND convey his ideas. Unfortunately, in the end, it does come off sounding a little bit word-salady.
I've noticed that Langan has a few levels of complexity in his writing. The essays in "Art of Knowing" and the answers he gave on "Quora" are very accessible, with very little jargon. There are other times where it is much too complex for me. For example, he wrote a paper in 1989 on the resolution to Newcomb's paradox that went completely over my head, but he "dumbed it down" in the first chapters of "Art of Knowing" in a form that most people could probably understand. Then he's got a level in between the two that might oscillate between the two modes.
He refers to the "bound" and "unbound" which, I believe, is a direct correlate to our use of STS vs STO.
[Just a note I originally misread the above. But below are some thoughts based on how I understand Langan's use of these terms.]

Could be. Some background quotes:

From Secret History: "And so, Infinite Potential “splits” into Thought Centers of Creation and Thought Centers of non-being." Infinite Potential is unbound telesis.

Searching around in the Portable Langan: "In CTMU cosmogony, “nothingness” is informationally defined as zero constraint or pure freedom (unbound telesis or UBT)." In other words, it's only relative nothingness or non-Being, because absolute non-Being is impossible. (SH again: "There is only “relative” non-existence.") Nothingness isn't actual nothingness, but only a loss of form, a reversion to pure undifferentiated potential - or, the "binding" in a form of relatively unconscious matter. SH:
Since absolute non-being is an impossible paradox in terms of the source of Infinite Potential to BE, the half of the consciousness of Infinite Potential that constitute the IDEAS of non-being - for every idea of manifestation, there is a corresponding idea for that item of creation to NOT manifest [Langan would call this a logical complement or negation] - “falls asleep” for lack of a better term.
[Added: so UBT can be described both as "nothingness" and as "pure creativity". When he describes telesis as being "bound" he refers to anything that is actualized out of that potential.]

I'm not sure if Langan would consider the binary "split" into Being and non-Being a form of binding or not. If so, STS would be a more or less "bound" form of potential whose *ultimate end* is reversion to "nothingness". The pure potential gets "bound" into a specific form, e.g. the STS thought center. (And the most basic actualization of potential is matter.)

Or if not, then binary potentials (STS and STO) are both unbound, and become bound only when they are actualized in some specific form, like in individual STS beings.

Also, in reference to a couple of the things above, Langan also defines telesis as "a primordial realm of infocognitive potential free of informational constraint". "Binding" of this potential then takes some informational/cognitive form, e.g. a material particle or a human. These beings (or telors) then get acquired by various metaphysical attractors (or telons). I think these telons are basically the same as "hyperdimensional thought centers".
 
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From 2023 back to 1929 is 94 years. The average of the two time spans is 98 years (and I'm just generalizing here off the top of my head about this), so one wonders if there is a cycle of fluctuations in the gravitational and speed-of-light constants?

Can't make much out of just two data points, but it does make one curious.

I had mentioned something like that in the session of July 17, 2022, regarding those cycles.

Just out of curiosity I started looking for what happened between those dates. Why is that? Because since last year I have been reading about the return of pluto:


The United States will have its first "Pluto return" on February 22, an event that has been 248 years in the making. It is no coincidence that the country has a spiritual awakening on a sequential day like 2/22/22. In fact, it was written in the stars.

The planet Pluto represents death and rebirth. Pluto takes over 240 years to return to the same position where it originated when a natal chart began. For those unfamiliar with the inner workings of astrology, a natal chart is like a snapshot of the sky taken at the time of a person's, or a nation's, birth. On February 22, Pluto will return to the position it was in at the time the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. As humans, we will never experience a Pluto return, unless, of course, we live to be 248 years old. But for ancient countries, a Pluto return has often resulted in a rise to power and the fall of an empire.


Chronology of U.S. History (1820-1859)

1820's

1820 - The Missouri Compromise.
1820 - Land Act.
1820 - Maine becomes a state.
1821 - Missouri becomes a state.
1821 - Blacks who wanted to be free are taken to North West Africa to have their own land LIBERIA.
1822 - Denmark Vesey is executed.
1822 - Cumberland Road Bill.
1823 - The Monroe Doctrine is declared.
1823 - Treaty with Russia.
1824 - First political convention to choose a president.
1824 - John Quincy Adams defeats Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay in the 1824 presidential election; Adams immediately chooses Clay as his new Secretary of State, which Jackson names Corrupt Bargain.
1824 - Gibbons v. Ogden cements congressional control over interstate commerce.
1825 - John Quincy Adams is inaugurated president.
1825 - The Erie Canal is opened.
1826 - John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on July 4.
1828 - The Tariff of Abominations is passed.
1828 - John C. Calhoun (Jackson's vice president) anonymously publishes South Carolina Exposition and Protest in which he asserts that states may nullify certain federal laws.
1829 - Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as president, chooses his Kitchen Cabinet.

1830´s

1830s - The Second Great Awakening (Second Great Awakening).
Beginning of the 1830s - Oregon Trail begins to be used.
1830 - Indian Removal Act.
1831 - Nat Turner Revolt.
1831 - The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, is born.
1831 - Cyrus McCormick invents the reaper.
1832 - Worcester v. State of Georgia - U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of the Cherokee. President Jackson ignores the court ruling.
1832 - Black Hawk War.
1832 - The Tariffs of 1832.
1832 - The South Carolina Ordinance of Nullity is passed.
1832 - Seminole War begins.
1832 - The Department of Indian Affairs is created.
1832 - Jackson is re-elected amid struggles with Nicholas Biddle over the fate of the Second Bank of the United States; this struggle led to the Panic of 1837.
1833 - The Force Bill is passed.
1835 - The Texas War for Independence begins.
1835 - Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville is published.
1836 - Battle of the Alamo, Battle of San Jacinto.
1836 - Samuel Colt invents the revolver.
1836 - The Gag Rule is imposed.
1836 - The Specie Circular is enacted.
1836 - Arkansas becomes a state.
1837 - Martin van Buren is inaugurated President.
1837 - The United States recognizes the Republic of Texas.
1837 - Caroline Affair.
1837 - Michigan becomes a state.
1837 - Oberlin College accepts first female student, first experience of coeducation in the United States.
1837 - Panic of 1837. (financial crisis)
1837 - Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge overturns Dartmouth College v. Woodward; Property right may be abrogated for public necessity.

Will there be a repetition of events?

Something I hadn't noticed on the list and now I see....

1830´s

1830s - The Second Great Awakening (Second Great Awakening).

Here is something we can see as potentially coincidental. So far the discourse has been from the 2030 agenda the Great Reset, promoted by the WEF. Now there is also talk of its antithesis the Great Awakening.

An example of this is Alexander Dugin's book: The Great Awakening vs the Great Reset, as well as in general terms with current events.

Is it possible that the cycle is repeated here as well?

However, it must be warned that such a movement can be co-opted (if not part of the plan) and become a false dichotomy option where such an awakening is another trap where new-age elements with technological additions may predominate.

There are indications of this, when we read Jordan Peterson's intentions to create a counter alternative to the WEF. But that the latter is associated with less than transparent individuals, and Peterson himself does not have the necessary knowledge to navigate the web of geopolitical events and understand them.-
 
What if the speed of light constant was replaced with the limit of speed itself?

In the fictional world of this scenario, say the fastest speed that anything could go was 500 kilometers per hour, as agreed upon by the scientific community. This was deemed a fixed constant.

In this fictional world say, scientists and engineers worked tirelessly to design and build cars that could reach this speed, and eventually, they succeeded. The world was amazed as the first car broke the 500 kilometers per hour barrier, setting a new land speed record.

But then, a group of physicists began to worry. What if something could go faster than 500 kilometers per hour? They realized there was always the possibility that their fastest speed constant might one day be proven wrong.

So they decided to do something radical. They adjusted the length of a kilometer so that it was impossible for anything to travel faster than 500 kilometers per hour.
At first, people were confused. How could you change the length of a kilometer?

But the scientists explained that just like in our world, the kilometer was originally defined as a certain distance, but that definition could be changed if necessary.
And so it was. The length of a kilometer was adjusted so that it was impossible for anything to travel faster than 500 kilometers per hour.

Any car that exceeded that speed would be breaking the laws of physics as they knew it. The world marveled at this achievement. No longer did they have to worry about the possibility of something going faster than their agreed-upon constant. They had found a way to make their fastest speed constant absolute and people could go on using it as a standard to measure everything else against.
 
Thanks for inviting us into this "kitchen exercise" Laura. :-)

He is using the words (un)observable in the sense that the materialists/hardcore empiricists/behaviorists use them - i.e. that "only material things which can be directly observed and verified by multiple people are worthy of scientific investigation." He's pointing out that even things like gravity and probability waves fall into the "unobservable" category, and thus science must admit the nonphysical. But there are many more things that can't be observed in this way, which are just as much a part of reality as the so-called scientific "observables". I think he would include paranormal phenomena there and everything he considers "metaphysical," along with things as ordinary as the love someone feels for their family. They're not "observable" in the materialist sense, but they're knowable and able to be experienced.
In his article he mentioned things like electrons and gluons as examples of "theoretical entities" which cannot be observed directly, but which have effects which are observable. Of course, electrons are quite inert compared to something like a hyperdimensional intelligence, the effects of which are much less predictable due to its own free (or freer) agency.

From Paul's Necessary Sin I am also reminded of the Pauline doctrine of how Mankind's eyes were darkened after losing the connection with the divine, and how this invited sin and death.

In Paul’s account of the fall, the loss of the appropriate response to God, which Paul says is to honour and give thanks to God, worship and serve God, is tied together with a coarsening of human consciousness – ‘they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened’ – and a descent into idolatry. The implication of this is important for understanding Paul. The assertion of futile human thinking is tightly linked with the loss of the ability to perceive the invisible things of God. The ‘futile thinking’ and ‘darkened mind’ is bound up with a situation in which God is not glorified and thanked and, as a further consequence, is no longer ‘known’. Once, according to Paul, the perception of the invisible things of God is lost all that can be perceived is that which is created. The fall, according to Paul, is a change in perception, a loss of the perception of the divine connected with the assertion of futile human thought and a darkening of the heart. The consequence of this is that humankind can only see clearly the physical and comes to be identified with the physical stuff of human existence. This is ‘the lie ‘. Having been created to be the image of the Creator in the world of what is created, doing the creative work of the Creator, humankind ends up blind to the invisible things of God and identifying existence with what is created – physical, visible and mortal. And, very importantly, ‘the invisible things of God’ includes that ‘image of God’ in humankind itself….

As the visible, mortal creation and the invisible, eternal things of the Creator co-exist in each human being, the experience of the fall – exchanging the truth of God for the lie and identifying life with the physical body – is part of the consciousness of each person.

There is a solid consistency in Paul’s framework of thought. There is a clear line between, on the one side, Spirit, freedom, right action and eternal life, and on the other, flesh, law, sin and death. What Paul says in Romans 8:20f is that, in the revealing of the children of God, there is a reconciliation of all that is created with the Creator. The further implication is the momentous one indicated in this sentence that this transformation could only be accomplished through the real experience of ‘subjection to futility’ – the real identification in humanity, the image of God, of ‘that which creates’ with ‘that which is created’….

This relates to Ibn Arabi's statements about the difference between the engendring command and the prescriptive command. The prescriptive command would by the holistic, full integration of all ultimate reality's / DCM's constitutive agencies and parts. The engendering command is creating all that is possible, including the realized possibilities of the parts not participating in the whole. Where there is friction between the engendering command and the prescriptive command is where there is lack of knowledge/awareness, and consequently suffering, mechanicalness, and The Flesh. And this conflict can exist at all scales I think, if societies lose their way, or individuals, or even lines of thinking or feeling about a topic. But it's that suffering which can serve as an impetus to connect fully to the Good again also, as everyone familiar with The Work knows.

If there's something that I personally dislike about what Langan wrote, it would be how he uses language like "reprehensible" and the like in a very combative way. I suppose that's a writing style picked up to challenge and engage the faculties of agnostics more than anything. I'm not as sure that's embodying the idea of the unity of everything. I think it's a bit "extra" because the wholeness of everything does not need to struggle or war against the disintegrating -- it only needs to be there for itself. To paraphrase the C's in a section about the Quorum, the Good does not work against evil; Good works independently of evil. Evil works against good, but also against itself from a higher and more holistic perspective.

To me Ian McGilchrist's work on brain hemisphere lateralization is a shoe-in to this topic also, especially when you consider the left brain the portion to be associated with language, as well as geometry. These all have their own innate presuppositions, which exist primarily as a means of manipulating cognitive objects. To those who haven't read McGilchrist or listened to interviews of his, the left brain doesn't conceive of what exists outside of its domain or field of operations.

The right hemisphere can be aware it doesn't know certain things, but the left doesn't. Geometry and linguistics have their own presuppositions, which are limitations on information such that they form an internal intelligbility, but this can be disconnected from the right hemisphere's ability to assimilate new information about ultimate reality, because it threatens that localized intelligibility. But in not being open to other information from the cosmos via the right hemisphere, the thinking agent can wander away from the globally integrated intelligibility it could assimilate if only it were open to the possibility of things existing "off the plantation" as it were. And I use an agricultural metaphor because even in geometry there is a presupposition of a cartesian "field," or plot of land you could draw on. The term "information field" itself presupposes a similarly delimited space. The concept "the field of information is a subset within the field of consciousness" is a term using similar left-brain language. These can only be metaphors I think. Metaphors themselves are of interest to McGilchrist in that they are saying two things are similar, yet at the same time dissimilar.

There is a necessary incompleteness to creation at all times I think, which is a space where the dance between the engendering and the prescriptive plays out. And that space is what allows it to be "complete" from the holistic perspective. Of course that is all theory at this level.
 
I pulled the mentioned section out of Secret History and cleaned it up for posting here. Thought it would be easier to have it available. As I was rereading it, I realized that I did, indeed, mention the "soul smashing" idea, though in a different way. It's definitely worth re-reading. I'm pretty sure I channeled a LOT of that book and it was useful to ME to re-read it! Over the next few days, there are a few things I will add that I've been thinking about.

In spite of the fact that we hold an “open opinion” regarding the source of this material, the answers we received from the Cassiopaeans - us in the future - were intriguing, to say the least. The closest analogy to the view of reality presented by the Cassiopaeans is graphically explicated in the movie, The Matrix, wherein our reality is presented as a computer program/dream that “stores” human beings in “pods” so that they are batteries producing energy for some vast machine dominating the world. Certain programmed life-scenarios of great emotional content were designed in order to produce the most “energy” for this machine. And it seems that pain and suffering are the “richest” in terms of “juice.”

Another major concept presented in The Matrix was that the “real now” was the reality of the control system that produced the “programmed dream of reality” that was being experienced by those “trapped in the Matrix.” The Matrix Dream Reality was based on the way things were in the past, before a terrible thing had occurred to destroy the world-that-was, after which it came under the control of computers which had become sentient and needed to utilize human beings as “power sources,” or “food.”

The difference between the metaphor of The Matrix and the view of the Cassiopaeans is that they propose a para-physical realm as another layer in the structure of space-time from which our own reality is projected, looping over and over again in endless variations. You could say that the hyperdimensional realms are the “future” in a very real sense.

This para-physical reality of hyperdimensional space - the realm of the Matrix programmers - is inhabited, according to the Cassiopaeans, by beings of both positive and negative polarity who have “graduated” from our reality, but not necessarily in the sense of “dying” and going to a strictly ethereal realm. It is, effectively, a world of the future that creates our present by projecting itself into the past. What is important to realize is that if we think about the future in terms of probable futures, or branching universes, then what we do now, whether we wake up from the Matrix or not, determines what kind of future we experience, individually and collectively.

While these ideas might seem more suited to science fiction than science proper, in fact, some of the most well-known physicists have proposed models and research programs that in no way contradict this hypothesis. They may one day demonstrate the mathematical proof of such a perspective.

For example, Paul Dirac wrote:

“There are, at present, fundamental problems in theoretical physics the solution of which will presumably require a more drastic revision of our fundamental concepts than any that have gone before. Quite likely, these changes will be so great that it will be beyond the power of human intelligence to get the necessary new ideas by direct attempts to formulate the experimental data in mathematical terms. The theoretical worker in the future will, therefore, have to proceed in a more direct way. The more powerful method of advance that can be suggested at present is to employ all resources of pure mathematics in attempts to perfect and generalize the mathematical formalism that forms the existing basis of theoretical physics, and after each success in this direction, to try to interpret the new mathematical features in terms of physical entities.”

Certain ontological problems related particularly to quantum theory suggest that an “observer” (J. A. Wheeler’s “Eye”), watching the universe so as to “create it”, may need to be included in our consideration. That suggests the necessity for expanding the scope of what is nowadays considered as “physical entities.” The answer to “observability of parallel universes” may involve taking into account such an extension.

Now, consider the idea that there are several - maybe even infinite - “probable future yous” as observers. In the picture above, this would be represented as many “eyes” but all of them converging on a single point on the tail - the “now” moment that we perceive, which is the moment of “choice.” It is from these probable futures of infinite potential - of “thought centers” - that reality is projected. It is through human beings that these energies are transduced and become “real.”

You in the here and now - at the conjunction of all of these probabilities all vying with one another to become “real” - have no possibility of “creating” anything in this reality from “down here,” so to say. The realities - the creative potentials - are a projection from higher levels of density. You are a receiver, a transducer, a reflector of the view of which eye is viewing YOU, nothing more.

The phenomenon that these ideas speak to more directly is that of hyperdimensional realities wherein mental energies or consciousness energies are amplified and can be interactive with the environment: technology that suggests not only power for transport that is partly physical, partly “ethereal;” communication that is also partly physical and partly ethereal, as well as powers of “manifestation” that might seem impossible to us in our present state of technology. All of these properties do belong to hyperdimensional existence, and such a state of being has been reported for millennia as being the “realm of the gods,” including Dragons and Serpents, and critters of all sorts.

If we can describe such realms mathematically and give them a physical reality, as Dirac suggests, then we might also consider the hypothesis that they may be inhabited. Could our “Gods” be inhabitants of this realm?

As many physicists will tell you, all that really exists are “waveforms” and we are waveforms of reality, and our consciousness is something that “reads waves.” We give form and structure to the waves we “read” according to some agreed upon convention.

And so, certain denizens of hyperdimensional space are “read” as more or less “reptilian“ because that is the “essence” of their being, the frequency of their “wave form.” We call them the Overlords of Entropy. They are not necessarily physical as we understand the term, nor are they necessarily “alien” as we understand that term either. We suspect that the perceptions of these levels of reality and their “consciousness units” are what is behind many religious conceptions and mythological representations of “gods and goddesses” and creatures of all sorts.

It is in this context of the Matrix, and realizing that the inner knowledge of many great mystery teachings down through the ages have presented the same, or a similar concept, that I have come to view the phenomena and interactions of our world. Such a view certainly produces results of becoming “free” from the controls of this Matrix, so I can say that in terms of experiment, it produces replicable results. However, as Morpheus explained to Neo in the movie:

The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around; what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand; most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it. Were you listening to me Neo, or were you looking at the woman in the red dress? They will fight to protect it...

We could just as well re-write this to say: When you are inside the Matrix, you look around and see Christians, Jews, Mohammedans, Zoroastrians, Wiccans, Magicians... most of these people are not ready to be unplugged... they are so hopelessly inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it. Were you listening to me, or were you listening to that ZionistBaptist Evangelist, or purveyor of Magick and mumbo jumbo?

It was also pointed out by Morpheus that any human being who was plugged into the system could be used as an “agent” by something similar to a downloaded program that was designed to activate them in a certain way. A similar state of affairs seems to be the actual case in our reality, with the Controllers acting from some hyperdimensional space of which we have but limited awareness, and even less access.

The option that does seem, realistically, to be open to us is to choose our alignment and prepare ourselves for the emanations that are traveling “downward” to be better received. This is the essential point of Castaneda’s Don Juan when he said:

One of the greatest accomplishments of the seers of the Conquest was a construct he called the three-phase progression. By understanding the nature of man, they were able to reach the incontestable conclusion that if seers can hold their own in facing [human] petty tyrants, they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand the presence of the unknowable.

“The average man’s reaction is to think that the order of that statement should be reversed,” he went on. “A seer who can hold his own in the face of the unknown can certainly face petty tyrants. But that’s not so. What destroyed the superb seers of ancient times was that assumption. We know better now. We know that nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable.”

All around us we see the result of this error: the idea that we can exert our will and voice upward to change what is “above” us in order to change our reality. This idea is at the root of rites and rituals, demanding, pleading, visualizations, tapping, “workings,” and so forth. People who think that “meditating on compassion,” or “feeling the feelings of all beings,” is going to result in the “sonic entrainment of the heart’s rhythm [being] braided into more complex and coherent patterns,” which will then enable the person to “create a diamond imperishable body for use as a teaching vehicle down here on earth,” have missed the entire point. To compare such ideas to the true work of Seeker of Ascension is simply ignorant.

What seems to be true is that before the seeker of Ascension can ever achieve the point of being able to think even momentarily about “the oneness of all beings,” or the “feelings of all beings,” or be in possession of “super-awareness,” he or she has spent many, many years in the struggle to “face petty tyrants,” or to fully realize objective reality in a step by step process that includes action in concert with understanding.

They have repeatedly exposed themselves to as many “unpleasant experiences” as they can find, all the while struggling to master their emotions, desires, and physicality. It is the work of making the physical vehicle “down here” receptive to what one chooses to align with “up there,” as opposed to trying to forcibly change something “up there” in order to have it “down here.” This process is very much involved with what is called “discernment.”

The great Sufi Shaykh Ibn al-’Arabi explains that “imperfection” exists in Creation because “were there no imperfection, the perfection of existence would be imperfect.” From the point of view of Sheer Being, there is nothing but good. But Infinite Potential to BE includes - by definition of the word “infinite” - the potential to not be. And so, Infinite Potential “splits” into Thought Centers of Creation and Thought Centers of non-being. It can be said that Infinite Potential is fundamentally Binary - on or off - to be or not to be. That is the first “division.”

Since absolute non-being is an impossible paradox in terms of the source of Infinite Potential to BE, the half of the consciousness of Infinite Potential that constitute the IDEAS of non-being - for every idea of manifestation, there is a corresponding idea for that item of creation to NOT manifest - “falls asleep” for lack of a better term. Its “self observation” is predicated upon consciousness that can only mimic death. Consciousness that mimics death then “falls” and becomes Primal Matter. What this means is that the self observing self at the level of the Master of the Universe is constituted of this initial division between Being and Non-being which is, again, only the initial division - the on/off, the yes/no - of creation. You could picture this as an open eye observing a closed eye. It has been represented for millennia in the yin-yang symbol, which, even on the black half that represents “sleeping consciousness that is matter,” you can see the small white dot of “being” that represents to us that absolute non-existence is not possible. There is only relative non-existence.

These thoughts of being and non-being interact with one another - the observer and the observed - like a viewer looking into a mirror. Creation manifests between the viewer and the mirror. It is at once real - because it consists of matter informed by consciousness - and unreal because it is ultimately composed of only consciousness acting on consciousness.

At our level of reality, the understanding that “nothing is real,” as has been promulgated by gurus and teachers down through history, is as useless as saying “gravity isn’t real.” Such considerations are useful only for expansion of perception. They are not useful for practical application since the energies of creation apparently transduce through several levels before they meet in the middle, so to say, in our third density, three-dimensional reality. Organic life exists at the crossroads of the myriad ideas or thought centers of being and non-being. As such, they have the capacity to transduce energies “up” or “down” depending on the “consciousness energy directors“ of that unit. And again, there are apparently two broad divisions: directed toward being/ observing, or directed toward non-being/ mirroring. This division manifests across all levels of organic life, including human beings. Human beings exist to transduce cosmic energies of creation via organic life. Our “higher selves” are the directors of this transducing of cosmic energies, and the direction in which the energy flows is determined by the activities of these higher selves. Against the opposition of those forces seeking to “capture” energy of consciousness and induce it to the “sleep of non-being,” which is gravitational in a certain sense, the energies of consciousness seek to “inform” matter via awakening the self-awareness of those organic units on earth that are capable of resistance to the gravity of non-being.

As self-aware transducing units, the human being has the potential for going either way - toward intensified being, or toward intensified non-being. In this sense, humans also function very much like a lens that can be adjusted like a telescope. It can be dialed to select the viewing range, which can be distant and inclusive of more “space/time,” or it can be shortened to only see what is up close and evident in the material world. In other words, our first and most fundamental choice is to choose what we SEE.

When we choose what we SEE - and here we do NOT mean with the physical eyes or even psychically, but rather a more inclusive term that suggests whether or not we are capable of objectivity or subjectivity - we are receiving impressions. Impressions can become knowledge if assimilated. Knowledge leads to awareness. Knowledge and awareness then direct emotions, which then energize actions in the organic world. This is the transducing of energies of Cosmic Thought Centers.

Ibn al-’Arabi tells us that Goodness is Being; to which all positive and beautiful attributes or “names” of God belong. Evil is the lack of good, so it is “nonexistence.” In other words, at the root, Being dwells in “non-existence” which is evil. Here is the sticking point, the item that is generally omitted from most “systems of ascension.” Human beings at our level of reality exist at the crossroads of the Thoughts of Being and Non-being - Good and Evil. Mankind is made in the form of all the names of God - those of Being and Non-being. Assuming the traits of the Names is synonymous with manifesting their properties. The Science of Ascension is to obtain deep knowledge of all the Names and their true properties, the high and the low, the pleasant and the loathsome, the light and the darkness, in differentiated detail, so as to be able to CHOOSE which traits will be assumed. It is only with a full field of vision that a man can discover if what he subjectively thinks is good actually is good and leads to Being, or if it is a deception that induces to Non-being by pretense.

God is the root of ALL Names, noble and base. The task of the seeker of ascension is to bring the Noble traits from latency into actuality and to discover the positive applications of the base traits - even if that application is to “overcome” or transmute. The Shaykh tells us “noble character traits are only those connected to interaction with others.” In other words: DOing. If you SEE the illusion of separation, that is certainly the first thing. The lie is smuggled in by suggesting that this is all that is necessary, that if you just “see it” everything will “change” for you.

God creates the good and the evil, the ugly and the beautiful, the straight and the crooked, the moral and the immoral. Between these traits lie the manifold dangers of the path of the seeker of Truth. Many modern day “teachers” and “gurus” tell us “Since there is only One Being which permeates all things, all we have to do is see everything as only light”, and that will transmute the darkness, and we will “create our own reality of light.” Such a statement ignores the fact that the statement “God is One” describes a reality that is a higher level from which our own “mixed being” manifests. The man who assumes that he can become like God at this level just by thinking it, ignores the facts of Being vs. Non-being which outrays from “God is One” at a level of existence that is clearly several levels above our own.

Evil is REAL on its own level, and the task of man is to navigate the Cosmic Maze without being defiled by the Evil therein. This is the root of Free Will. Man faces a predicament as REAL as himself: he is forced to choose - to utilize his knowledge by applying it - between the straight path which leads to Being, and the crooked paths which lead to Non-Being. Human beings are required to discern between good and evil - consciousness energy directors - at every stage of their existence in this reality. Because, in fact, they must understand that God is consciousness and God is matter. God is good, and God is evil. The Creation assumes all the different properties of the many “Names of God.” The Cosmos is full of Life-giving and Slaying, Forgiveness and Vengeance, Exaltation and Abasement, Guidance and Deception. To attempt to assume God’s point of view and “mix everything” at this level, results only in STAYING at this level. Therefore, human beings must always separate God’s point of view from their own point of view and the fact that all creation assumes the divine Names and Traits.

Thus, the first Divine Command is BE! And that includes Being and Non-being instantaneously. Therefore, the second law is “follow Being or Non-being according to your choice and your inherent nature.” All creation is a result of the engendering command. So, in this respect, there is no Evil. But the second, prescriptive law determines to which “Face of God” one will return: Life or Death.

If the engendering command alone is considered, there is no imperfection in the cosmos, since all creatures follow what God desires for them. In this respect, what is normally called “imperfection“ is in fact perfection, since it allows for the actualization of the various levels of existence and knowledge. In other words, were there no imperfections - in the sense of diminishment, decrease, and lack - there would be no creation. Were there no creation, the Hidden Treasure would remain hidden. Hence Being would be unseen in every respect. There would be no self-disclosure of the Divine Reality, Light would not shine, and God would be the Nonmanifest but not the Manifest. But all this is absurd, since it demands the imperfection of Being Itself, which by definition is nondelimited perfection. Being’s perfection requires the manifestation of Its properties. The effects of the Names and Attributes must be displayed for God to be God. […] In other words, Imperfection is demanded by existence itself. To be “other than God” is to be imperfect. …But it is precisely the “otherness” which allows the cosmos and all the creatures within it to exist. If things were perfect in every respect, they would be identical with God Himself, and there would be nothing other than God. But then we could not even speak about the cosmos, since there would be no cosmos and no speakers. …So, imperfection is a kind of perfection. [Chittick]

At the particular stage of existence in which man finds himself, he is equally “receptive” toward the Two primary Faces of God: Being and Non-being. The Shaykh tells us that whatever property, or trait, any human being ultimately chooses is what it originally possessed in its state of immutability. The task of the Seeker is to discover what is immutable within, and to purify and amplify it. This is the development of Will. Will is a relationship, which follows knowledge while knowledge follows the object of knowledge. In the process of “ascension,” the object of knowledge is YOU. Knowledge, in and of itself, has no effects. YOU, however, the seeker, can give to knowledge what you actually are, in yourself, thereby displaying YOURSELF in knowledge by your actions in concert with your knowledge.

As noted, there are many Names of God that call to us in our present state of existence. But you are not required to answer every one that calls. The fact that human beings are, in general, ignorant of their own true “essence” gives them the illusion of freedom. And the fact is, all paths come from God, and all paths Lead back to God, but again, it can be via different faces. As the Shaykh says: “Unto Allah all things come home, and he is the end of every path. However, the important thing is which divine name you will reach and to which you will come home?”

And this brings us to what the Shaykh calls “perspicacity.” This is the special development of the “eye of insight,” or “seeing the unseen” that is crucial to the Seeker. Just as the physical eye, with the refraction of light from the Sun, can discern between the large and the small, the beautiful and the ugly, colors, the moving from the still, high and low, the ability to see the unseen is a property of an “inner light.” This light reveals to the seeker things about external objects that are NOT apparent to the five senses. It reveals to its possessor when a choice that may appear to be benevolent, is a step on the path of Evil. It reveals when a choice that may appear to human estimation as negative is actually a difficult step to felicity for all involved. The Sufis tell us that some individuals have achieved such a level of “seeing” that - upon seeing a person’s footprint on the ground, even if the person is not present - they are able to say whether he is following a life of felicity or wretchedness.

The light of perspicacity seems to be a gift that not everyone has, and those who do have it, may not have developed it to the same degree. What is evident is that those who have it possess an immutable nature of Being which is able to “see” good and evil - they do not see “only good.” Thus, they are able to discern between the “calls” of Nonbeing and Being, and therefore, are able to strengthen their Will along the path of intrinsic Being. It then follows that individuals who are not able to see - or who choose not to see - both Good and Evil, are formed in the mold of subjectivity, which is the human expression of the Call of Non-being.

A human being whose immutable nature is that of Being can strengthen the light of perspicacity by “assuming the traits” of the Names of Being. This does not mean that a person comes to possess traits that do not already belong to him. It means that these traits are amplified and cultivated. The Ruling property of an individual is determined by what Face of God is disclosed to him, and this is determined by his preparedness. Felicity can only be disclosed when Evil has been turned away from, rejected, which can only be achieved by a long period of “testing” or being challenged to SEE and then to choose Being over Non-being in order to grow the Will or alignment to Being in a feedback loop. As the Seeker travels this path, he must not see these traits as his own, but rather that he is a locus of God’s manifestation of an ontological attribute.

People imagine that they believe in God when, in fact, what they believe always takes the shape of the receptacle. The old saying is that the water takes on the color of its cup. The deeper implication of this is that a person will only be in disequilibrium if his conscious beliefs are not in conformity with his own immutable nature. In other words, a person whose intrinsic nature is aligned toward Being, will experience disequilibrium, struggle, and even illness by attempting to assume those traits that do not exist in him. In this sense, careful observation of the physical state - even the physical environment - can act as a guide as to whether or not the whole being is coming into alignment.

So it is that different paths can produce different effects for different individuals according to their immutable nature within. Those whose intrinsic nature is toward Being, follow the path of developing the ability to SEE and to choose alignment with infinite potential of creation, thereby being conduits of Being as GOD chooses to manifest through them. They not only see that limitation is illusion, they consciously ACT - they utilize that knowledge to generate energy and light.

Those whose intrinsic nature is toward Non-being, follow the path of limitation of Infinite Being by assuming that they, in their state of ignorance and subjectivity, know better than God how Creation ought to be fixed. They pray for change, they perform rituals, they chant mantras and repeat endless visualizations of “magickal forms” that are supposed to “change” reality. They bomb others with “Love and Light,” (their subjective version of it, of course), and they seek to fix the world “out there” by projecting their subjective view of reality onto the infinite wisdom of Creation. This consciousness energy direction even includes the assumption that just knowing that all division is illusion will accomplish the goal of Ascension, and that is the most cunning lie of all.

Each approach ties a knot in the heart of the believer and fixes him on a path, the object of his belief being the end of the path. All beliefs are equivalent in that God - of one sort or another - is their ultimate objective. But each belief is different in that it leads to a different name of God, or Thought Center. Even materialistic skepticism is a belief and leads to “matterizing” of the consciousness that follows this belief. What is more difficult to discern are the many mixed up “spiritual” paths that twist and distort the concepts of Being to engage the seeker on a path to Non-Being.

Going back to the idea of the human being as a transducing unit with a “lens capacity,” what seems to be so is that the process of Ascension begins with the choice of tuning the lens. If the individual chooses to adjust the dial to see the entire field of Thought Centers influencing creation, he can then begin to select those that enhance and enliven Creation and Being - the Thought Centers of Awakened Consciousness - then a feedback loop that selects that probable future will be established.

A human being can, by great effort, expand his or her field of view toward greater and greater objectivity. With a wider and farther field of view, the awareness of those things, which emanate from the Thought Centers come into focus. When thought centers are more in focus, the individual then has greater ability to discern whether impressions emanate from the Thought Centers of being, or from the Thought Centers of non-being. At this stage, the individual is then able to further shape his emotions and direct his actions so as to become an efficient transducing unit of the cosmic energies of Being into this reality. This is knowledge utilization, which generates energy, which generates light.

As this process continues, as the feedback loop is activated between the Cosmic observer and the transducing/actions of the creature - the organic unit, the transducing organ, so to say - strengthens and the exchange between it and the Cosmic Observer accelerates and intensifies. The transducing organ then begins to act as a homing beacon for greater levels of that chosen Thought Center energy - that observer from the future - the eye that is the creator.

In the development of such a feedback loop, the human being - as a conduit of creation, a vessel - becomes an active participant of the creation of his own FUTURE in the act of choosing which observation platform and scope he accepts as real - objective or subjective. Furthermore, as the energy of such a being is changed and enhanced by the flow of cosmic energy passing through him, as he perceives more and more of the creative expressions of Infinite potential, and chooses those he wishes to align with, he becomes colinear with those other expressions of Being - other organic units that may be quite different in make-up, but similarly aware of Infinite Potential - and is thus able to interact with them in a manner that further expands and commutates the energy of transducing.

This can then lead to exponential amplification of the transducing of the energies of Being which can then completely alter the physical nature of the organic unit. Just as a pipe that is used to channel water gets wet from the water flowing through it, so does the human being who has begun the process of aligning with Being become saturated with the higher energies being manifested through him or her. This process leads to permeation of the organic nature of the vessel which leads to transformation in that it “awakens” the sleeping matter of the organic unit and makes it a full participant in Being, rather than a weight for the soul to carry or struggle against. The energy of the organic vehicle is then available in the terms described in Einstein’s famous formula, which might give some indication of the potential of such a being.

As the reader can easily see by now, the teachings of the current spate of New Age Gurus constitute the idea that we can exert our will and voice that exists “down here” upward to change what is “above” us in order to change our reality down here. They tell us that we can change our lives, our thinking, move our brains into harmony, or aid the “heart in opening,” obtaining “harmony and balance” which is then going to “open windows in our mind, our heart, and our spirit,” etc. It is claimed that we can do this basically by assuming God’s point of view that “all is one, all is love.” It is stated, (with some truth I should add, since good disinformation is always wrapped in a warm and fuzzy truth), that, “without Divine Unity inside of us, these windows of inspiration are rarely available.” What they do NOT tell you is that the staircase to Divine Unity of Being requires a full field of awareness of Being and Non-being, and this can only be achieved by divesting oneself of the controls of Nonbeing which are, indeed, part of Being, but which seek to obviate Being in a paradoxical sleep of “Unification” which often begins by believing the lie that knowledge protects simply by having it.

Indeed, many of the techniques sold in the slick packages of ascension tools will temporarily produce chemical changes that will feel VERY good, the same way a good meal satisfies hunger temporarily. It really feels good! But just as the steak and salad are digested and most of the matter excreted in a few hours, and another steak and salad is needed to fill the stomach again, so do such practices fail to do anything more than perpetuate the food chain. And, staying with the analogy, very little of the substance of such practices actually stays with the individual.

A considerable period of time is required for the seeker to finally come to the realization that techniques that relieve stress or produce good feelings, have done nothing to actually change their lives or their vibrations. They are still recognized by their neighbor’s dog, they still find new gray hairs on their heads, and they still get sick and have aches and pains like everyone else. The problem is, again, the “bottom up” ideas have been employed, which only result in remaining in the “mixed” state, or worse, being drawn deeper into the path of non-being.

Well, I should qualify that: to those for whom Non-being is their immutable nature, this is only natural and right and they will thrive following the path of non-being. But for those many, many seekers whose immutable nature is toward Being, this is a terrible trap - the gravitational effect of the Thought Center of Non-Being - to draw all of Creation into Non-Being will act on them in ways that are crippling to their relationships and health. Human beings who go through life feeling as though they have a hole in their hearts are those who are not synchronized with their immutable nature.

The natural field of view for the organic unit alone - with no connection to the higher self - is that of the material and/or mechanical interpretation of all phenomena. The influences of the Thought Center of non-being - the source of matter - have been increasing through the manifestation of billions of such units at a single point in time: the present.

The Thought Center of non-being is of a certain nature - contractile subjectivity - that exerts a more or less gravitational pull - a desire to absorb and assimilate the soul energies of Being - so as to feed its own contracting nature. Even if it promotes a full field of awareness in principle, it can only view Being as a traitor to its own need to not exist. This results in an individual who may proclaim that all is illusion, but whose actions - or rather lack thereof - betray the deeper immutable state of being. Due to its intrinsic nature, there is a powerful exertion of non-being to destroy and obviate Being and Creation - all the while it is unable to achieve the awareness that it only exists by virtue of Being and Creation IN ACTION!

The powerful exertion of the Thought Center of non-being to absorb and assimilate all of creation, powered by its own contractile subjectivity, poses certain problems both for itself and for Being. Since the fundament of non-being is a LIE - that is to say, the state of absolute non-being that it promotes is a paradoxical impossibility - and the fundament of Being is the objective fact that Existence simply IS via ACTION - or utilization of knowledge which generates light, the essential conflict is between lies and truth. The Thought Center of non-being tells itself the biggest lie of all - that it does not exist - and goes to sleep in pretense. And from this essential point, we see that the nature of subjectivity is that of lies. Lies and belief in lies - whether or not the believer is aware that they are believing a lie - all partake of the same essence - subjectivity and non-being.

The Thought Center of non-being - in its expression as matter - being impressed by Creative consciousness in ACTION which partially awakens it and draws it into the creation of the organic world - wraps itself around this awakened consciousness. Its intrinsic nature of pretense to non-being acts gravitationally on consciousness, and twists and distorts it into varying degrees of subjectivity. It is this interaction of the energy of all possibility, lensed through subjectivity of matter, that produces the myriad manifestations of the material universe.

In the realm of the Thought Center of non-being, there are many manifestations - or ways - of seeking annihilation - the Base Names of God. These modes act in a gravitational way to engage, enfold, and distort consciousness to their ends. This results in the formation of consciousness units of great power and depth of cunning - far beyond anything imaginable in our own reality.

These consciousness units use their wiles to assimilate weaker consciousness units so as to accrue more contractile power. Obviously, the more dense the consciousness units consumed, the more “nutritious” they are. And so they seek, by great cunning, to carefully, and with great patience, manipulate the consciousness units selected for assimilation. It is, effectively, trans-millennial stalking.

These Overlords of Entropy- or so we may call them, - by virtue of the overlay of intensified subjectivity - the hallmark of the influence of the Thought Center of non-being - interface with the organic world on a “geographic” scale. Since they have, so to say, an intimate relationship with matter, the contractile consciousness of such a being can affect its area of chosen dominion very much like an overshadowing “cloud” with millions of tendrils of connections between it and its range of influence. This includes even the very matter of the bodies of human beings. It is through these etheric fibers that the Overlords of Entropy assimilate energy.

These overlords have “organs” so to speak. Just as a group of people were described by the Apostle Paul as “the body of Christ,” so are the organs of entropic overlords manifested as individual beings, though their direct connection to a single massive consciousness unit makes them more like projections than individually souled beings.

Because of their great drive to conserve and assimilate energy, the overlords are stingy with allowances to their organ-beings. It seems that they do not waste energy in manifesting and maintaining organic structures for their organs, and thus the organic physicality takes on the configuration of less complex creatures in the organic world. Rather than interacting with an organic structure in a cooperative, awakened state, they exercise control over theirs. Utilizing organic structures that require the least energy to maintain conserves energy. To this end, they draw the energy for their organic units from the pools of archetypal form of the animal kingdom. This energy is more easily accessed, is lower in frequency, and thus more amenable to control.

This seems to be the reason why, when perceived by individuals of the third dimensional self-consciousness - third density - realm, their appearance is generally startling. The reptilian type comes to mind as being the most energy efficient. Again, remember that consciousness is merely reading waves.

For the same reason - the contractile nature of the hierarchy and its energy consumption - it is extremely difficult for these organ-beings of the Overlords of Entropy to actively function in our realm for any period of time. When they enter our realm, assuming a third density organic form, they are at a disadvantage. They are temporarily disconnected from the energy pool, which weakens, but they are at another great disadvantage as well. Since they are not internally connected to an expanding, creative feedback loop of Creative Being, their own entropic overlord is a constant drain on them, pulling them gravitationally as it were, making them even weaker than the natural denizens of this realm. Such are those called aliens and “Men in Black.” It is this great strain on their energy resources that makes such appearances so rife with anomalous glitches. There is no creativity, and thus no ability to pull off such an intrusion into our reality with any convincing effectiveness.

For this reason they generally avoid direct interaction in the organic world, preferring to utilize other methods to stalk and conquer weaker units to feed the Thought Center of non-being. To this end, these entropic overlords seek to establish and maintain the entrainment of creative energy within the third density reality by deceptively enhancing third density, material interpretations of the phenomenal world.

In short, such beings of enormous geographic domination actively operate within their geographic field of influence to divert and discourage those organic units who have tenuous connections to creative energy - higher self - from interpretations which will lead to the establishing of a feedback loop with those Thought Centers of Being/Creation.

As noted, the nature of such beings, and the dynamic of their existence, requires massive energy input in order to control and direct their own organic physicality. This is possible at the level of overlord/sub-units of the Thought Center of non-being by virtue of the extensive assimilation of other consciousness units, and most especially by virtue of their geographic character, which enables them to connect to thousands, if not millions, of organic beings in the organic realm. This is, effectively, the Program of the Matrix.

This connection is naturally enabled by the aforementioned intrinsic nature of organic units to only perceive the field of view of the organic realm. That is to say that mechanical and material feedback loops are far more easily created between organic units and the sub-units of Non-being by a sort of gravitational pull of these sub-units upon the natural inclinations of the organic being.

This establishes feedback loops as previously described. The organic unit, infected with the material/mechanical view, begins to act according to that Thought Center’s dictates, and this generates activities of that nature in the organic unit. Due to the fact that any given sub-unit of the Thought Center of non-being may be connected to millions of organic units in third density, any of them may be activated singly, or in concert, to fulfill the wishes of the Overlords of Entropy, a larger sub-unit of the Thought Center of Non-being.

Machiavelli observed that religion and its teachings of faith, hope, charity, love, humility and patience under suffering were factors that render men weak and cause them to care less about worldly and political things, and thus they will turn political power over to wicked men who are not influenced by such ideals. Of course, the real trick is to convince people that the afterlife is the only thing worth thinking about, and it is to this end that Christianity has been formulated. It is also to this end that many of the New Age beliefs and formulations of the truth about Ascension have been engineered. All you have to do is have faith or meditate or acquire knowledge and awareness that will help you love everything and everybody. Nothing is said about the day-by-day struggle and the necessity for action.

Again let me say this: if the Truth about the REAL process of Ascension were not so detrimental to the agenda of the Controllers of our world, the Matrix, they would not have gone to so much trouble to cover it up. When we finally make the connection between that fact, and the fact that our governing elite is operating on the instructions of the Controllers, we then begin to realize that the drama on the political stage is a shadow of the higher-level agenda. And that leads us to realize that the COINTELPRO operation in the New Age and Human Potential movement has truly been the opening act.

Based on observation and research, it is apparent that humanity has now reached a great historical crossroads. We have come to the end of a two thousand year history of intolerance, cruelty and stupidity, which has created our present state of global, collective madness. Humanity, as a collective whole, is arriving at a state of collective Spiritual Bankruptcy, or death. And yet, we cannot assume that this is meaningless. Those who understand the principles of electricity will comprehend when I say that this present global estate is the way nature works and is the establishing of sufficient Contact Potential Difference for the inflow of energy of Cosmic Light. But just as it is in the case of the individual, when that point is reached - that Dark Night of the Soul - there is a choice that becomes apparent: the soul is offered the way up or the way down. In order for this coming inflow of energy to act in positive ways, to create a new reality of Free Will and Balance, there must be a point of contact that can conduct the energy. There must be human “micro-chips” or “circuits” sufficient to sustain this energy or all of humanity will perish. This means that only the development of human beings of a certain sort - with a certain wiring, so to say - will result in the global capacity to confront the energies of the Crossroads.

The only other Turning Point in history that can be compared with the present one is that of the Great Flood. And so, we come to the idea that the search for the Holy Grail and the alchemical work of distillation of the Philosopher’s Stone is ALSO the building of an Ark in order to pass over into the New World.
 

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