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Epic Games sues Apple and Google because they removed their game from their app stores. I posted earlier about how Apple and Google take something like a 30% cut of the revenue. Just like the Steve Wozniak lawsuit against Google I posted about how it shows how corporations are unfit for dealing with surveillance of crime, this new lawsuit by Epic Games shows how corporations are unfit to be in control of digital currencies.

As an absurd example, when a crocodile is chewing on a man, both the crocodile and the man are the action of the same Source. It's total insanity! That's probably what ACIM means by how we tend think things are "natural" when in reality they are effed up as hell. So what is needed is an enormous shift of perspective from conflict to peace. And we need to start recognizing our current world, including the natural world, as being completely insane. There is a purposeful method to the madness though, for the purpose of growth and development.

But the perspective of the Source, isn't that already obvious from a nonduality perspective? No! Because the ego deals with the level of thoughts and remains trapped there. So this is a for me new perspective I experience. And of course, it's not only my own thoughts being created by the Source. It's everybody's thoughts! So when we are running around in ego consciousness believing that we think independently from each other, that's a total illusion! It's Source, like a big projector projecting all our thoughts into existence along with the entire physical world.

Nonduality teacher Francis Lucille said that the mind doesn't create. It's the Source that creates the thoughts, he said. That made me able to recognize that my ego and my thoughts are created from Source! That's a kind of meta perspective, but it's more than that, because an ordinary meta perspective can still be on a conceptual level, meaning still the ego thinking at a meta level. The perspective of Source is to sense as an experience that all of one's thoughts, the sense of a personal self and the entire physical world are created by the Source.

Here I found a short Sufi presentation of nonduality. Very similar to what I have found in other spiritual traditions and very clear.

Here is another interesting perspective presented by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh about how we think together with the whole earth! I will do some searches for a Sufi presentation. It's useful to examine many different perspectives.

I have been focusing very much on Christianity and Hinduism, especially from a nondual perspective. Here I found an excellent presentation of the Kabbalah: Dr. Michael Laitman explains how the Kabbalah is about reversing and extending the ego. That's a new idea to me. I have to ponder it for a while. Maybe it's even the same idea as in A Course in Miracles! Explained from another perspective.

The coronavirus crisis is still going on! This is absolutely incredible. I wrote the same thing earlier but now the summer is almost over! And now they are accusing Putin of having developed a fake vaccine, by himself! Just kidding, and it's possible that Putin at least indirectly can expose the whole vaccine scam industry. It's really frustrating that the crisis is still going on after what is it half a year almost. The potential good is that it's the world "caterpillar" that is coming to an end, as Bruce Lipton talked about, and that a new world butterfly will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of all the unbelievable hoaxery that has been going on throughout human history.

Suffering is a result of individual control, for the reality of the situation is that no separate control is possible so it inevitably leads to conflict, strife, friction and effort spent on an illusion. A Course in Miracles mentions several times that suffering including pain is an ego trait. Many nonduality teachers make a distinction between pain and suffering, and that's valid since suffering can be seen as the psychological reaction while pain is a physical sensation. With integral nonduality it's possible to add development, evolution and progress. Integral nonduality is a more complete model. Ordinary nonduality teachings I have found lack evolution and progress. The danger with that is that it can lead to a false kind of acceptance of pain. With integral nonduality it's possible to treat pain as a warning signal indicating that growth and development is needed.

I find it interesting that in the Wolfram Physics Projects, reality is modeled by a single deterministic graph. The graph is no-thingness, only connections between points which in themselves are empty. And the infinite expansion of the graph is changeless. The Wolfram model is exactly the same as the nondual perspective! Then how to explain randomness and free will? The answer is that in the Wolfram model randomness and free will are appearances. As a simple analogy, the sun appears to rise above the horizon at dawn. In reality it's the earth's rotation that makes it appear as if the sun is rising. A spiritual prediction that can be made from this is that people will more and more realize the nondual perspective, just like how people centuries ago started to realize that earth orbits around the sun instead of the previous belief of the sun orbiting around the earth.

The changeless nondual ground of being is the cause of all changes. The infinite unmanifested, the unmoved mover, turns into the finite manifested world of form and impermanence. So what appears uncertain is in reality certain. What appears impermanent is in reality permanent. For the changeless whole is what turns into change. This means that change is an appearance caused by limitation and not some active principle. There is no separate agents able to cause change through any means, be it through randomness, free will or spontaneous action. Therefore the future is certain. As an example, what will the closing stock price of Apple be today? If we look at the fractional part, how many cents, then that appears completely uncertain to us. From a nondual perspective even that value is certain.

Is uncertainty a correct perspective? It certainly isn't! Because we can examine all our memories and discover that they are filled with moments in our lives when we have been uncertain. And yet the memories themselves are certain! So the uncertainty is something added, a false assumption. At first it may seem that even if we admit that memories are certain, the future appears to still be uncertain. But that's the same kind of mistake only in the opposite direction. We can be uncertain about tomorrow and when tomorrow actually comes it will be certain and our memories of today equally certain. A Course in Miracles says that uncertainty comes from judgment:

A practice I discovered I call conscious certainty. The ego is always uncertain. And so if the ego musters up its own sense of certainty, such as being stoic, tough, self-confident and poised, then that's totally phony! Because since the ego is always uncertain at the deepest levels the ego-made kind of certainty is a facade that in reality adds to the inner conflict and fortifies the ego consciousness of separation. Instead a seemingly counterintuitive method is to be mindful of confusion and uncertainty in oneself. And then recognize that the uncertainty is a false perspective. So instead of trying to combat uncertainty by suppressing it by covering it up with a layer of pretended certainty, the uncertainty is caught directly and identified. The identification of uncertainty as being false is enough to over time undo it.

What Mooji talked about is in A Course in Miracles called attack thoughts. And Mooji mentioned something similar to what I wondered about earlier, about how the mind can change its problem while the worry remains the same. It's the same ego mind, Mooji said. The ego thinks that one problem is different than another problem. They are all the same kind of attack thoughts.

Mooji posted this new video from a satsang from 2017 that I found to be a powerful description of how the mind attacks itself:

An Advaita expert said that Brahman as the changeless Father/God is Saguna Brahman. And he also said that Brahman and Para Brahman are the same. But I read that different interpretations exist. Some say that Prama Brahman is higher than Brahman. I think I will stick to Para Brahman as emptiness/form and Brahman as the changeless Father/God to make fit the other major religions. And also, Para Brahman and Brahman are one, and with Brahman and Saguna Brahman being one, then it becomes essentially the same as the definitions the Advaita expert used. Nitpicking semantics, but I wanted to document the term Saguna Brahman.

Wow, several top news headlines about QAnon! For example: QAnon has been quiet for a while. It will be interesting to see if the Durham report is released in August.

One idea I got from the Wolfram Physics Project is that time and length can get smaller and smaller while the speed of light remains constant. Smaller length means shorter time period and higher frequency. A simple illustration of this is to divide by two and keep on adding: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... = 1. This means that even as the number of parts approaches infinity the sum will remain limited to 1. And in terms of time, the whole sum of parts can be squeezed into the now moment. This results in an ever increasing frequency of vibrations. And the higher the vibration, the more complex manifested reality becomes. Unmanifested reality is already infinite yet the manifested reality increases in frequency all the time and will never reach infinity. This produces increasing complexity and the process of evolution. This video illustrates how infinitely many parts can fit into a finite space:

The idea of reality being only waves can be applied to fear and love in A Course in Miracles. Fear is a result of the vibration being too low to form a larger holon. And then as the vibration increases our whole planet takes a leap into a higher level of complexity. So higher density in the Law of One then means higher vibration. Here I found an old video where Gregg Braden explains the increase of complexity as the vibration increases:

I have been following the Wolfram Physics Project for a while. Very interesting although it gets extremely complicated and the math they use is way over my head. So I'm thinking if it's possible to use my model to come up with something much simpler. Almost like a minimal toy model which may be accurate yet only a very surface top level description of physics at the most fundamental level. My idea is that physical reality is expanding information structured as holons. And even though holons quickly get more complex at each level, the separate bits of information are the fundamental holons. And the next level above that is waves! The waves are simple sine waves made up of the separate bits of information. I got the idea of reality being made of only waves from physicist Stephen Hawking: Larger holons, such as particles, are combinations of waves. This video shows simple combinations of waves:

I made a lousy prediction. The Apple stock price remained very stable. Embarrassing. Haha. But more seriously I do believe that the Tencent ban or even if the Executive Order is reversed, that it will hurt Apple, including its stock price. In this video a possible drop of 25-30% of iPhone sales is mentioned: The video also includes news about Qualcomm, a huge U.S. microchip corporation being hurt by the previous ban of Huawei. It's true that also Huawei is hurt and reports that it can't produce more of its Kirin chips, but it seems to me that Chinese companies hide their strongest cards, meaning that Huawei probably already has superior microchips ready to replace the Kirin chips. U.S. companies on the other hand seem to be more open about their level of development. For example I doubt that Intel has developed some superior chips in secret, and instead has in recent years struggled with keeping up with AMD's microchips manufactured in Asia.

In this or some of his other videos about mindfulness and meditation Leo mentioned that the level of awareness can be increased to an enormous level! Like thousands of times more awareness than ordinary consciousness, or even more. What if Leo is correct? That's superhuman levels of consciousness.

It may seem that A Course in Miracles is in conflict with the ego since it bashes the ego all the time. However, ACIM says that conflict is always between illusions. So ACIM is about removing the ego, which means correcting a mistaken perspective. It's similar to what Shunyamurti talked about how it's about removing the ego. Therefore I will start treating my own ego as being all conflict in myself. And use mindfulness practice to just observe the conflicts in myself. The idea is to bring the deeper layers of inner conflict into conscious awareness so that healing can happen.

Surely many Chinese investors own Apple shares. And so the Apple Inc. (AAPL) stock price should drop quite a bit. But there are U.S. government safety mechanisms probably installed so Apple's stock price could even increase! Logically Apple's value should crash. Today so far nothing much has happened to AAPL which currently is at 449. But we will see what happens. My guess is that AAPL will crash today. Because even western investors are able to figure out that the Apple's Chinese market is toast even if Trump should reverse his EO about Tencent.