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@Raptorsin7 Interesting that you reacted to the claim about NPCs. Sure, one cannot rule out even such wild ideas, and it sounds like they are describing a form of zombies without consciousness but who look and act as ordinary people. So definitely scary stuff.

There is a YouTube channel where they talk about DMT, especially Ayahuasca which they use regularly themselves and report on. I don't remember the name of the channel but I found it interesting, although they also include far out ideas such as the claim that there are real NPCs (non-playing characters) in the world.

I posted about psychedelics recently. I'm too scared of trying them myself, ego fear haha, and I stick to legal activities, but I think Leo is correct about how psychedelics can accelerate personal realization. I believe psychedelics give brief glimpses of what I call first order reality power.

As I look at it now, I rate my life situation as equal before and after using ACIM. I'm still stuck in ego consciousness. From a oneness perspective a scale 1-10 doesn't even apply. Because I have zero of what ACIM calls the Holy Relationship, and if I attempted to rate my quality of life it would only be based on special relationships, which is something to transcend rather than to cling to.

If everything is progress then how can aging, disease followed by death be progress? That's NOT progress. That's what ACIM calls an ego delusion. And what the Law of One calls the Law of Confusion. So it gets a bit tricky. The progress is in recognizing that aging, disease and death are illusions. And it gets even trickier in relation to the mainstream perspective of the world. So ACIM is very radical in that way, yet in a way that fits my model. Isn't that only self-bias on my part? That I have some amateurish model of reality and cling to New Age woo woo teachings such as ACIM and the Law of One? My answer is that my hypothesis predicts things so it can be falsified.

I don't always agree with Leo. For example my model says the opposite of what Leo said about progression. My model says that there is only progress. So the idea that there can be both progression and regression is a dualistic delusion. Leo said the exact opposite! He said it early (around 13 minutes) in the first of a three part video about understanding duality. So how can that be? I don't know. Leo has at least those three long videos, so maybe he clarifies the idea of progression later. Or Leo is still too much stuck in third density dualistic thinking. For example my model says that entropy is an illusion. That may be a too radical proposal even for Leo. Imagine pressing your hands together hard. Then a lot of energy is spent without the hands moving. That's how the ego works. That's how dualistic thinking works. Reality is always progressing as a wholeness, never regressing. ACIM says that defenselessness is true protection. That's the opposite of what the ego believes, so it continues to metaphorically speaking keep pressing together its hands hard.

Aaron has a new video. He is talking about subject-object similar to how I recently described unmanifested vs manifested reality:

Hmm... The Wanderers ARE already changing the world. I see that very clearly now. The reason for why it's not obvious is because the global ego has immense value in the form of uniqueness that will be preserved. So instead of changing society on a surface public level, the change is happening under the public awareness. The boring thing with this is that society will continue as before for many years to come. It will take a long time before the change starts to affect our everyday lives in obvious ways. If the change had started on a public level it would have destroyed society and destroyed the value we have built as a civilization. So the tedious charade of conspiracy theories and New Age woo woo will continue with very little effect in terms of changing the world. What I found interesting is that DeSouza mentioned something about how mainstream media is basically just fake stories. And he is a former very experienced FBI agent, so he is unlikely just making up information. I think messages like that are a part of a plan to replace the public charade with real understanding gradually over time. The manipulation and deception going on in the global ego needs to be removed for our world to become sane. ACIM is correct, the ego IS insane, haha.

I believe that many of the conspiracy theories are true, but that's global ego activity. The global ego is built on deception and manipulation. So how to deal with the global ego? The most efficient approach is to have a peaceful relation to the global ego! Because to fight the global ego is to continue the ego insanity ACIM talks about. I will focus on spiritual awakening instead of struggling with the mess of the global ego.

Aha! Sure enough, DeSouza talked about woo woo stuff in the video. I now got the idea that he may be delivering messages on (at least) two levels. He talked about secret technology and conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, I believe we ordinary people will not get access to any kind of advanced tech anytime soon. However, it might be that for example the oil industry and other sectors like that will be get help from previously secret technologies. The other level is the spiritual ascension and indigo kids DeSouza talked about. That's the same as what what the Law of One describes as fourth density and Wanderers.

If the truth is spread out into different parts, which I believe it is, and as Ken Wilber said, everybody has some parts of the truth, I think it's worthwhile to look into even the woo woo stuff. Here is a recent far-out video where DeSouza is interviewed. John DeSouza is a former FBI agent which means that he can bring in some classified truth, not directly of course because of secrecy and national security, but indirectly in a safe way. Similar to QAnon which I believe delivers actual intel by being connected to, or even a part of, the NSA. That's why I jump around all over the place into different sources instead of just focusing on ACIM in this journal.

Ken Wilber has the sayings "Everybody is right" and "Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time". I even think there is some deliberate division like that of the truth to allow for maximal creativity in the development of our civilization. And now it's time to start bringing all the true pieces together to get a more whole truthful picture of reality. Because we are at a point in history I believe where we have progressed as far as possible into the divided state of the world.

Interesting. Terence McKenna said that the ego is necessary but in some sense the ego is also like a cancer growth. That sounds similar to an integral approach where yes, the ego needs to be transcended but also included. I will check out some Ken Wilber videos about transcend and include.

I think I will take a look at some Terence McKenna videos. That's a kind of armchair approach to psychedelics. Psychedelics I think can give us brief glimpses into first order reality power. Personally I only use mindfulness practice but I can see how it can be used for accelerating awakening into higher levels of consciousness. That's why the global ego is so against psychedelics! Because the world power system is based on second order reality and clings to it fervently, and anything that threatens that second-order order is vehemently attacked. Leo described that in his latest blog video.

The Law of One says that free will is the first principle of the Law of Confusion. And ACIM says that the ego is insane. We can say that the ego is insane because of the Law of Confusion. It's a necessary trick, of sin, that we need and will grow out of and become free of. As ACIM says; So free will needs to become understood and from an integral perspective transcended and included. I will practice removing the tedious parts of my free will such as personal responsibility and keep my personal wants and choices.

Fundamentally there are only two orders of reality: the 1) unmanifested and 2) the manifested. And within the manifested there are different levels of reality. Instead of saying that for example a tool made by humans is second order of second order reality it's more convenient to as a convention say that the tool is third order reality. The human physical body is second order reality and artifacts made by humans are third order reality. A computer then is third order reality and so is a program written by humans that is running on the computer. This includes artificial intelligence (AI) software. Then later in the future let's say that general AI is developed that is clever enough to do the things we humans can do. That general AI is still third order reality. However when the general AI starts to write its own programs or starts to design and manufacture its own hardware and other products, those products are fourth order reality. Orders of reality in this way expand as time progresses. Is it possible that the universe some day will start reversing and reduce the orders? No, not according to my model. The infinite string of reality is non-repeating, because for every repeating string, even if it is infinite, there will not be any time since the cycle of repetition is finite. And since the past information is always preserved the progress will always go forward, such as described by Ray Kurzweil as the Law of Accelerating Returns. And since reality is non-repeating Stephen Wolfram's computational irreducibility is true, which means it's impossible to fully predict the future. This is also as Wolfram has suggested the solution to the question of free will. Reality is deterministic but not in the mechanical way described by Laplace where the future can theoretically be fully predicted. The future is deterministic in an unpredictable way. So our free will and our personal will and choices are necessary as a part of the functioning of the universe.

Leo said in his latest video that consciousness is the impossible thing which actually is: existence. I have looked into this extensively lately and according to my intellectual (not experiential) understanding that's actually correct. Consciousness is connected to infinity, which is impossible! Don't think so? Then tell me what the last decimal of Pi = 3,14159265... is.

Slightly off topic, but I didn't think it was necessary to start a new thread for this. Regarding mixing races in Leo's blog, I think there will always be some "pure" black people having children with each other and the same for white people and all races. So even though the vast majority will be a blend of all kinds of races the original races will remain. It's like colored pixels on a computer screen. To be able to make nice pictures there needs to be the potential for all the spectrum of colors both pure and blended. So we humans can continue to procreate in every way we want and it will satisfy both the wish to preserve races and the blend of a lot of races. And of course this is only for third density (see the Law of One). In later stages of fourth density we will be able to shapeshift into any human form we want to. Sounds like woo woo, I know, but I actually believe that!

I get the feeling that ACIM says that the world is unreal. And what about spiritual people who say "I am pure awareness", are they right? This is actually true according to my model, depending on from which perspective we look at it. It's because of the distinction between first and second order reality. To use a (very) crude analogy, when playing a video game the computer can symbolize the first order reality and the video game represents second order reality. That is just an illustration. In reality both the computer and the video game are second order reality, but for the sake of illustration the computer in this example represents first order reality. The world is unreal similar to how the video game is unreal and the computer is real in the example. And "I am pure awareness" is the recognition that the game is actually produced by the computer and without it there wouldn't be any game. It's also true to say that both the computer and the video game are real. It's a matter of perspective so what I think ACIM is doing is to point out the mistake to believe second order reality is the foundation.

The previous video is like a lecture in academia. Here is a more popular science presentation:

In my model consciousness is a state of being aware as a self. Are there different levels of consciousness? Yes, in relation to second order reality. It's like in the Integrated Information Theory which even has a value Phi to measure the level of consciousness. The main difference compared to the mainstream model is that they describe consciousness from a second order reality perspective and I describe consciousness as first order reality. So for example the conditions of the brain states are correlated with stages of consciousness but not the cause of consciousness. Also, things like actual outer-body-experiences (OBEs) are possible with my model. Here is a short presentation of the Integrated Information Theory:

Now I have a good enough theoretical model to test it with things like mindfulness practice and compare it to spiritual and religious traditions. For example, my model is directly consistent with the Advaita Vedanta scripture Ashtavakra Gita:

In the video I posted Leo makes an excellent explanation of consciousness. For example he says that evolution didn't produce consciousness. It's consciousness that produces evolution. Exactly. Consciousness is first order reality and evolution is second order reality. And obviously it's the first order reality that produces the second order reality rather than the other way around.

My interpretation is that when ACIM says Holy Spirit it means first order reality and ego means second order reality. When we identify ourselves with being the ego we live in sin which means to miss the mark, missing the first order reality. That's a mistake. Because we are first order reality and second order reality is a result of first order reality.

Leo said in this video (from about 32 minutes) that first order reality is consciousness and second order reality is the manifested world: Is Leo's explanation consistent with my model? Yes, because the infinite string observing itself giving rise to consciousness is the first order reality, which also is infinite, and the manifested reality which is always finite in my model is the second order reality.