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Then what about Christ being the ONLY begotten son of God? Is that compatible with ACIM? Again, yes since begotten here means the Word of God being manifested, including becoming flesh in the form of the body of Jesus. So Jesus Christ IS the only begotten son of God. There is only one Word of God, and the whole word being manifested is Christ. What ACIM calls Sons of God is us individuals being parts of the Word of God. So we are in the Word of God and the Word of God is within us. Or as the Bible says:

ACIM says that we are all Sons of God. Of course "son" means both men and women here. Is that blasphemy from a Christian perspective? Actually, no. Because Christ is the HIGHEST Son of God. And we as lower sons of God can never reach and become Christ but Christ is the way, so we are always moving towards Christ (nobody comes to the Father but through me, Jesus said). And the good thing is that since we are lower sons of God we can become higher and higher sons of God. And that's I believe what the Law of One describes as different densities.

Why did I use the term epiperspective instead of the term metaperspective? The answer is that metaperspective is still on the level of thinking. For example in psychology metaperspective means: "The perspective that one believes another person to attribute to him or her." An epiperspective transcends thinking altogether. BAM! It's a leap into a higher level of consciousness where thinking is dissolved into what ACIM calls vision.

The idea that ACIM's vision is a higher and different level of consciousness than thinking is useful as an incentive for why to do the mindful relaxation practice. I started practicing it a little bit and found that mindfully relaxing both body and mind at the same time is effective, similar to what Leo said about body relaxation. The difference with the new practice is to add the intent to dissolve the thinking.

I got an idea for a new practice! What ACIM calls vision is different than thinking. So what I came up with is a practice of mindful relaxation. Instead of just nonjudgmentally observing the thoughts a proactive technique is added which is to relax the thoughts. The practice then is to observe one's own stream of thinking and then relax that whole process of thinking so that the thoughts dissolve. I haven't tested the practice yet but it seems like a useful method so I wanted to document here.

But surely, isn't thinking necessary? My view is that everything that exists is necessary. And thinking produces high complexity, high level concepts, which means high intelligence. Still, thinking may be only a temporary development, similar to what Eckhart Tolle has said. Sadhguru also said that much of the time he doesn't need to think at all. So, is it possible to transcend ALL thinking? Maybe! Imagine a state of mind which has an even greater capacity for creating abstraction concepts than thinking. That in such state, thinking is transcended and included. So the intelligence of the thinking is then preserved and also surpassed. A direct kind of knowing without the need for a stream of thoughts in the ordinary sense of thinking. Basic mindfulness practice can be very useful for experimenting with the idea of transcending thinking. In mindfulness practice the thoughts are nonjudgmentally observed. That kind of mindful observation of one's own thoughts and feelings is a meta perspective. Or one might even call it epiperspective since the prefix epi- means above. One idea is that such epiperspective is what ACIM calls vision:

What if thinking is ALWAYS redundant? That the whole of humanity, except for a few enlightened gurus, is in a deluded state. I will experiment with that idea for a while, not have a firm belief but a questioning of whether even what Ramesh Balsekar called the working mind is necessary. Roger Castillo follows Ramesh's teaching and also makes a distinction between working mind and thinking mind. What if even that distinction is an illusion? Roger said in another video that there are several levels of spiritual teaching, so he maybe uses the distinction between thinking and working mind as a concept to help undoing the old concept of only being the thinking mind. I will take a look at one of his latest video:

Here is a new video by Deepak Chopra where he says that he totally endorses A Course in Miracles (ACIM), and that it's a great course, and in this video he will even go beyond that in explaining miracles:

Reality is difference observing itself. But difference gives rise to the whole Indra's net as I illustrated in previous posts. And our reality as I suggested is only one infinite string of information in Indra's net. And with that string being complexity, reality is infinite complexity observing itself. It's the same model, just a bit more specific. In religious terms, the string of infinite complexity is the same as the Word of God:

I think of deadly orgone as low complexity. And if the ego tensions in the body and mind are made of deadly orgone it means they have low intelligence. Fourth density to me means more complexity and therefore more intelligence. And the ego tensions, such as the body armor and the pain body, will dissolve by being integrated into fourth density. Abstract and speculative concepts, but I wanted to document it here while it came to me.

Another idea I came to think of is about art. Is there any difference between what is considered good art and mediocre art? Maybe there is! The idea I got is that a masterpiece is a combination of much more complexity than what is considered simpler art. This painting, L'Étoile (The Star) by Edgar Degas is probably very expensive and there may be a quantifiable (in theory) reason for this.

Just to experiment with the infinite intelligence hypothesis. Objects created by humans require intelligence to invent and manufacture. Is for example a mechanical watch an example of complexity combined into larger complexity? Yes, because first the watch has to be designed with schematics and such and that's complexity. And then the design needs to be converted into a physical product through a manufacturing process and that's complexity. The resulting product, in this case an automatic watch, is a result of combining complexity into larger complexity.

What is infinite intelligence? Here I have a definition: Definition: Infinite intelligence is the ability to endlessly combine complexity into larger complexity. Hmm... Okay, it may not be possible to prove that about our universe but at least it can be used as a hypothesis for how our reality works. In previous posts I have explained how the future is infinite (all finite constructs will fail to produce the movement of time). And I mentioned earlier Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns, how that applies even to biological evolution. That's however not a real scientifically validated law yet as far as I know. So, yeah, infinite intelligence is maybe not provable, but it's a useful hypothesis I think. And actually science is generally not about proving theories in an absolute sense but about verifying hypotheses with empirical experiments.

Is it possible to prove infinite intelligence? I like to investigate that. First a definition of intelligence is needed: Definition: Intelligence is the ability to combine complexity into larger complexity. Does that definition work for an IQ test for example? Yes, because the score a person gets on the IQ test is a result of combining knowledge (complexity) in the mind of that person with the questions (complexity) in the IQ test. But what is complexity? Here is a definition: Definition: Complexity is interconnected information. The IQ test in the example is complexity since the questions in the test are interconnected with meaning. Of course ultimately all information is totally interconnected. Is therefore all of our reality complexity? The answer is yes. Then what about randomness and entropy? The premise here is that there is no real randomness in reality and entropy is just hidden information. When the information becomes known, it's no longer entropy. That's a start. I will ponder over it a bit more to see if I can find a way to use those definitions in a proof of infinite intelligence.

Being truly defenseless means that even the body armor has dissolved. Doesn't that mean risk of being attacked by egos? No, because egos don't have free will. It's the Holy Spirit who is the only "doer" and for it to attack itself would be insanity.

Adyashanti has a new short video about how to start practice with small everyday events. I like that idea and he said that the inside needs to be connected with the outside world.

I posted this comment on Aaron Doughty's new video: From a nonduality perspective no control = total control. That's why ACIM says that only God's will is real and separate control is an illusion. Of course, from a nonduality view God as a separate "lord" is also an ego illusion. Nobody has free will, not even God. Aaron says basically the same thing in the end but I wanted to sum it up and connect it with ACIM.

No, Ron Siegel didn't mention anything as radical as ACIM describes. Still a good presentation I think, although my conspiracy theory radar got activated when he said that mainstream science has started doing a lot of research into mindfulness. Who fund that research? Maybe sponsors outside of the usual pharma industry but I got suspicious when Siegel said that mindfulness shifted brain activity from the left side of the brain to the right side. That's a lopsided situation! So maybe the pharma industry promotes mindfulness research into a certain deliberate direction that will make people's psychological condition worse and so will need more drugs such as psychopharmaca. I'm pretty sure mindfulness practice done right is very beneficial. But another suspicious thing with what Siegel said was that the research was totally focused on brain activity it seemed. What about heart coherence? He didn't mention anything other than brain activity. And what about body armor? Why was Wilhelm Reich so forcefully suppressed by the mainstream establishment? I will continue to focus on dissolving my body armor and on developing heart coherence. That brain crap sounds dubious. Heck some people even have water instead of a brain in the head and can function normally. Seriously!

In this video Dr. Ron Siegel has a great explanation for how we humans have evolved to cling to potential dangers. I haven't listened to the whole video yet. It will be interesting to hear what he has to say about mindfulness and then compare it to how ACIM says that being defenseless is true protection. That's the opposite of the ego survival strategy! So can it really be true? Yes, logically the Holy Spirit is moving the whole universe including ourselves and our egos and other people. So the attack-defense situation is actually a developmental cosmic trick of illusion. We need as a civilization and as a planet evolve, learn and develop through the ego mechanism, even nature. And now Eckhart Tolle says that it's urgent that we evolve out of the ego. That's actually similar to the moving into fourth density and I believe, the emergence of a collective planetary consciousness.

I have found the practice of dissolving the body armor extremely challenging. Sometime it even feels horrible. The good thing is that I have started to experience some feeling of pleasant peace flowing when parts of my body armor dissolve. The reason for why the body armor is so immensely tough is I believe because it is connected to the whole global ego. There is a massive energy tension being trapped in the body and mind.

Service to others as described in the Law of One sounds pretty tedious. And adding choiceless action to that it seems really boring. My take however is that "service to others" means moving from "service to self" which I interpret as ego action, which ACIM shows is a false state of being. And choiceless action is then service to others because it's not serving the ego, and yet it's still self-interest! And choiceless action is a state of flow in everyday life, not just in sports or in creative tasks. The Self is One, and the Holy Spirit is doing the service so it's actually not the self-sacrificing kind of service to others that the ego imagines it to be.

If our higher self is the Holy Spirit, is that compatible with Christianity? Yes, because the Holy Spirit is the topmost higher self for all of our existence, and only Christ - the way and the truth and the life - is that highest self. We as individuals can never reach that level, so that's compatible with Christianity. Our higher self in third density is our future self in fourth density. It's still the Holy Spirit that is the one driving power of our existence and our fourth density self is a result of that oneness power. So it's also compatible with nonduality.

Even if one has no conscious intent of doing mischief there might be hidden nastiness in the ego shadow. I defined the ego shadow earlier as the part of the ego that will be transmuted into higher consciousness. And as some people have said, our higher self is our future self. And the Holy Spirit in ACIM and in the Abrahamic religions is to me the pulling intelligent power into the future. So the higher self ultimately is the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit already has perfect control of how to move into the future. So moving into higher consciousness is then a process of the ego shadow being dissolved and transformed by the Holy Spirit. Jesus said something like: be perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect. The ego actually already is perfect, but it's a lower stage of development, so to the ego the idea of being perfect seems absurd and unattainable. Jesus also said that we first need to seek the kingdom of God. And the kingdom of God is within us, Jesus said. So the process is to let the Holy Spirit become activated in us. My own practice for this at the moment is choiceless action. Of course, in practice I will still make a lot of ego choices, but I can become mindful of that and question it and see if they can be replaced by choiceless action and higher intelligence.

The ego has a lot of "should" and "shouldn't" rules. And the ego needs external moral rules to keep it in check. Look at the insanity of that! It means that subconsciously the ego is a fricken monster! A dangerous and destructive beast. Why else the need for all those rules? A sane subconscious mind operates sanely without the need for that kind of self-imposed rules.

The ego protects itself against the future. In this way a body armor builds up in the body. And this body armor slowly strangles the person to death. When ACIM says that the ego is insane, that's an accurate description. Our whole world, which I call the global ego, is insane. Eckhart Tolle and others have already pointed this out. ACIM says that being defenseless is true protection. That makes logical sense. I will experiment with being defenseless against the future.