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ACIM doesn't mention consciousness much, but the Bible has "let there be light" and "your whole body will be full of light". Light here I think is a metaphor for consciousness. What does it mean by the infinite string observing itself? It means consciousness. My model has something like the mainstream Integrated Information Theory to explain how consciousness awakens when the information is complex and coherent enough. The infinite string is conscious at least through us humans (made in the image and likeness of God). And the infinite string has the potential for consciousness for eternity. To make infinite information coherent enough to constitute eternal capacity for consciousness is a mindbogglingly humongous "task" which requires infinite intelligence.

My model is compatible with ACIM and the Bible. What about mainstream science? Yes, it fits that too (except Einstein's relativity). Here is a quote from a mainstream science source:

One of the rituals in the Law of One involved a Bible opened to John 1. I found that interesting. The Word of God is the infinite string of information. Also consciousness is the relation from the infinite string to the finite manifestation. That's how consciousness is aware of the manifested reality. And in the beginning means the initial condition of the graph of difference. At that moment all of reality (God) and the manifested reality (through the Word of God) were one. And after that the Word became manifested. When did that happen? It happened now. There is only the now moment. All the past is in the now, all the way to the initial condition of the graph. So the past is real in the form of finite indestructible information. The future potential is infinite information.

Woo woo time! Here it is:

Leo asked what is real. What is real and what is not real? I enjoy looking at fantastical claims on the internet. Recently I watched a YouTube video where the presenter claimed that North Korea doesn't exist. Lol. People tend to go to extremes in either direction, either they lock themselves further and further into the mainstream consensus view and if something isn't proved by Wikipedia they say it's woo woo. The other direction is the tendency of people to go further into ever more fantastical claims such as flat earth beliefs and blue bird people from outer space. So what position to take? Few of us can actually travel to North Korea and verify for ourselves that it's a real country. My own take is that North Korea definitely exists as a land mass. On the other hand, could North Korea as a nation be a hoax? Maybe! That's why I enjoy looking at that kind of information on the web, because who knows.

The tiny amount of graph theory I have posted so far might be enough! I found that graph theory is used for all kinds of excellent solutions, yet for my model it may be enough to say that difference gives rise to a complete undirected simple graph. And reality is an infinite binary string as a path in that graph observing itself. As a simple analogy think of the constant Pi observing itself. Pi which is the number 3.14159265... is changeless. And Pi doesn't have any last decimal. So Pi can't observe itself starting from the end because their is no end to Pi! So Pi always observes itself as having a finite number of decimals. Can a knife cut itself? Can a fire burn itself? How can something observe itself? It can't! It's still possible for the binary string to observe itself since it is always only observing a part of itself, not the entirety of itself which is infinite. Manifested reality is always finite.

That is true, but why? People have such an incredible cognitive dissonance. Why do you think fracking is going on? Why the need for incredibly expensive, energy consuming and environmentally polluting extraction of tar sands and now even shale oil?! The answer is of course that global oil production has already peaked many years ago, but those in power can't tell the people that because that would cause havoc in the economy with skyrocketing oil and gas prices. Where do you think all the trillions of missing dollars and euros have gone to? It has gone to the oil industry of course as secret subsidies. Can you spell global d e s p e r a t i o n? Global cooling, eh excuse me, I mean global warming, no, I mean climate change, well, I mean man-made climate change, or to be politically correct human-made climate change, is just a convenient lie to occupy the minds of the masses and make them go along with reducing their carbon consumption.

I think that our human experience of for example money is very consistent. The problem is as I see it that the ego believes it can deal with money as a separate entity. It can't! The belief that an individual is responsible for survival is a complete illusion, and that includes things like paying bills and earning money. No ego has ever paid a bill or failed to pay a bill. The ego doesn't do anything! Personal responsibility is just an illusion of individual doership.

Video games are a part of reality, not something separate from it. The reason for why video games are consistent is because the physics that makes the games possible is consistent. Without some form of hardware to run the games on and to store the software on there would be no video games.

A graph doesn't need to be drawn as a picture. For example a set {{1,2}, {1,3}, {2,3}} represents the second graph. And a more general method of defining a binary string within the graph is to give each point a unique number. By numbering the points 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... the even numbers can represent zeros and the odd numbers represent ones. For example the binary string 011101010 is then defined in the graph as the path 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Physicist Leonard Susskind said that information is indestructible and alternative researcher Nassim Haramein even said that the universe is space-memory so the entire past is preserved. And this is exactly what can be done with the expanding graph. The next moment in time contains the binary string for all the past information plus the change that happens as we move into the future. So manifested reality is an expanding binary string that has all the past in it as indestructible information. This is the same as what ACIM describes as God's changeless plan. I will look at some more graph theory tutorials to see if there is anything else that it can be used for related to this. If not, it's at least useful to have this mainstream notation in my recent posts.

There is no clear left and right side in the third graph I posted. That's just a matter how the dots are positioned. And left can represent 0 and right 1 or vice versa, since '0' and '1' are just symbols to make a distinction when presenting binary digital information. Here is another example of how the third graph can be depicted:

In graph theory a path is a sequence of steps between adjacent points where each point in the path is only taken once (except if it's a cycle and then the first and last point are the same). And by assigning the value zero (0) to the points on the left of the graph and the value one (1) to the points on the right of the graph, a string of binary digital information is represented by a path. The graph expands endlessly with an explosive increase of the number of points, which means that all possible information strings of huge length exist in the graph. Julian Barbour has explained how time can arise from a timeless structure he calls Platonia containing time capsules. And with each time capsule modeled as a string of information it means that all possible time capsules exist within the graph, at least when the time capsules always are finite. One difference is that Platonia is timeless whereas the graph in my model expands endlessly. The fundamental idea however is the same which is that the foundational structure of reality is timeless and changeless.

When it comes to what I experience in consciousness I agree that even the experience of the world cannot be proven to be consistent. That I am conscious on the other hand, that is certain. And from a practical perspective the world is amazingly consistent! Everything, all the past, it all fits together with mindblowing accuracy, so that's real enough for me.

I now heard in your video that you said that paying taxes and worrying about bills, that that is relatively real. Yes, but that kind of worry and concern is ALSO the ego! That's precisely a part of the heavy ego conditioning you mentioned earlier in the video.

Leo asked about how do I know the world is real? I have listened to half of the video now and I wanted to comment before I forget it that one thing that I can be sure of is that I'm conscious. And the world is real because it's consistent in my experience. Compared to a dream during sleep which can be very convincing, yet it's always much less consistent than the waking state. But yeah, the ego is definitely a delusion of separation. And as Leo said the ego is extremely heavily made of our conditioning. So there is a huge difference between understanding intellectually that the ego has a false belief in total separation and to actualize transcending the ego.

Thanks! I have only watched Leo's YouTube videos. I didn't realize that he had additional videos on his blog.

I want to find a theoretical model that can be applied to what ACIM teaches. I found something called graph theory. That seems to be useful for describing reality as an interconnected graph of differences. The start of the graph is one difference represented by an edge (also called link or line) in graph theory and two vertices (also called nodes or points) . And the manifestation of reality is the expansion of this initial graph so that for each iteration all links become points, and new links are generated by all points always being connected to all other points. In graph theory that means that all points are adjacent to each other. The graph of reality is what in graph theory is called an undirected simple graph. I think that's a neat way of using mainstream math to describe the model. Graph theory can quickly become extremely complicated so I hope that by sticking to minimal basic concepts of graph theory it will still be easy to use. The expansion of the graph can be described as a recurrence relation. The initial graph has only one link and two points. In the first iteration the link becomes a point resulting in three links in total. With x representing the number of links and y representing the number of points, the recurrence relation is: xn = xn-1 + yn-1 yn = sum(i), i = 1 to xn - 1 x0 = 1 y0 = 2 x1 = 3 y1 = 3 x2 = 6 y2 = 15 x3 = 21 y3 = 210 x4 = 231 y4 = 26565 x5 = 26795 y5 = 358999410 And so on in an endless expansion. The number of differences quickly explodes into astronomically large numbers. Here are the first three iterations of the graph:

I wrote that reality is pulled by infinite intelligence from the future. I still maintain that hypothesis. It might not satisfy a hardcore philosopher or scientist because it sounds vague and what is the definition of intelligence anyway. Another way of explaining it therefore, which produces the exact same result, is to think of reality as determined by a simple deterministic process. Leo said that reality is difference, and I used that to come up with an extremely simple process out of difference. Instead of thinking of reality as being pulled from the future, another way of looking at it is that the manifestation of reality is difference observing itself. And since the difference gives rise to an ever expanding interconnected web of differences there is always an ever more advanced (intelligent) wholeness to reality that is being observed. Here is an illustration of two extremely simple rules (Rule 30 cellular automation and Conway's Game of Life) producing a miniature "manifested reality":

My automatic mindfulness of the heart practice is working at least a little bit. Sometimes I automatically get reminded to feel my heart. That's good enough for me at the moment so I will stick to that practice for a while. And I noticed that the spine needs to open up as well. Kriya Yoga is probably a powerful method for opening up the spine, but I will use automatic mindfulness even for opening up the spine since it works somewhat for the heart and it's a convenient practice where only the intent is needed on a conscious level to uphold the practice.

ACIM and Law of One teacher Aaron's new video is about the law of attraction: ACIM has sort of a relating explanation:

Here ACIM denies the existence of hell more directly: And here we have the changeless reality again! Precisely as in my model. And I love how ACIM is uncompromising such as: And this follows from a changeless reality. And also: Interestingly, the Law of One almost says the opposite: And that's actually consistent with the Bible which says that the body of flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of God. So how can we enter fourth density while still alive? My answer is that a fourth density body is NOT a body of flesh, it looks the same but is capable of handling more information because of higher informational density. And that agrees with the Bible in this way:

Heaven as I interpret it in the context of the Law of One is simply a higher density. As I mentioned before, fourth density is the first heaven, fifth density is the second heaven and so on. Heaven will happen on earth while we are alive for many of us I think. That's the "new heaven" in Revelation 21. It's a new heaven since when earth transforms into a full fourth density planet, that's a new happening, something that didn't exist on earth earlier. So the Bible and the Law of One are consistent in that way, and the Lord's Prayer goes: And ACIM even removes the idea of a hell as opposed to Heaven:

Leo talked about content and structure. I discovered that the ego problems have both content and structure. Let's say that I get a heavy problem to deal with this week, and then then after the problem is solved another different problems appears next week. Those particular problems are content. What is behind and gives support to those problems is structure. As long as the ego problem structure is there, solving particular problems is only a surface solution. The problem structure remains and just waits for the next particular problem to appear. And the structure is a part of what in ACIM is called the authority problem. The structure causes a problem by consisting of the belief that the ego has to deal with the problem as a separate entity. The whole world, the global ego, is still dominated by this belief. The solution is to recognize that problems need to be dissolved in a perspective of wholeness.

I am Ra. We greet you in the love and in the light of our Infinite Creator. Downtempo song.

That's a really good video by Aaron. He seems to know a lot about ACIM, probably much more than me, anyway I want to explain further what I mean by abandoning special relationships. I mean that we will still continue to interact with the same people we know, but we can abandon our personal investment in all those relationships. Even abandon our investment in our relation to immaterial things such as money. In practice it's difficult to abandon investments in special relationships because when we are in ego consciousness that's all we have! We don't have any Holy Relationship or experience of it. What we can do is to use mindfulness to observe our own relationships to other people, to our own memories, to material possessions and social status and so on. And then recognize that those are all special relationships.