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I guess I will have to use the internet still, at least a little bit, because that's the best we have got for now. Including new spiritual teachings such as the latest video by Shunyamurti. The presentation is about higher order from the current chaos. That sounds like an evolutionary leap into higher complexity! It will be interesting to find out if Shunyamurti has a time prediction for this emergent leap. And if it will be sudden or take many years or even decades.

The internet is becoming more like a cocoon. It represents both the pinnacle and the end of the caterpillar stage of humanity. I will basically abandon the internet too and wait for new solutions.

And harvest into fourth density will on the human individual level I believe be about forming a collective consciousness (called social memory complex in the Law of One). That will improve the health and capacity of the human body. So transhumanism is then the wrong way into the future. Instead technological progress will be on an external level. I will abandon healthcare! Because that's external third density means. And only use healthcare as a last option if my strategy fails. And also, I will abandon personal control of the future, because that's also third density (ego) activity. The harvest is, as everything else, a totally automatic process.

If we are moving into a new earth, then it seems logical to me that it will include technological, social and other material progress along with a shift into a higher consciousness. Because I'm sure that the value of what every civilization, including our own of course, has developed will be preserved. So the new earth will be the same as the earth we live on today, same same but different. Anyway here is a new video about shifting to a new earth:

Focusing on a single object in meditation might be useful after all. I have started experimenting with focusing on the idea that controlling the future is unnecessary. Either my attempts to plan, control or predict the actual future will turn out wrong, in which case it can be seen as wasted effort and even as confusion, or it will turn out as the actual future in which case the attempts are redundant, meaning unnecessary. Then what if I plan something and it turned out close to my plan because of my control of the future? Here the idea is that the future is already determined, as Ramesh Balsekar said, and that even Stephen Wolfram says. This, then, means that even that kind of apparent control is actually an illusion. And the purpose of personal control of the future can be likened to how a child plays with a toy and pretends it to be real. The play is useful for learning, and personal control is similar to that except the ego actually believes that it is in control. So the child playing with a toy is grounded in reality when the child knows it's just a play, while the ego is delusional in its belief that it controls the future in any way. Even a mindfulness practice of focusing on recognizing the mistake is of course also not in our control, but the understanding of the possibility is enough to make the mindfulness practice or meditation happen.

I found a Scientific American article about the project: I agree with the critics BUT my guess is that Wolfram and his team HAVE to match current theories in physics, or few people would take it seriously. So they have to start by fitting their model into the current standard model in physics. And then as a next step they can start to "prune" their model into a much smaller one that not necessarily agrees with the current standard model yet has more and simpler explanation power of how the universe works.

Stephen Wolfram who started as a mainstream scientist today has a successful company which has enabled him to do large science projects without being dependent on traditional academia. Mainstream science today is very much trapped in dogma which makes new paradigm shifts essentially impossible within established academia. Recently he started the Wolfram Physics Project: https://www.wolframphysics.org/

I think the material progress will be great, but as Eckhart Tolle has pointed out we also need to evolve consciousness along with the technological progress.

In the future we will laugh at how ridiculously mechanical and robotic our education is today with students sitting still the whole days like ducks in a row interrupted by a Pavlovian bell like in the factories in the early 20th century. We become indoctrinated and conditioned to follow the Gregorian calendar like machines. It's absurd.

Also, AI will probably render education obsolete. Leo's videos about education are about the industrial age basically. I don't mean that people will become uneducated. Instead the use of AI will boost the way we learn. A decade from today as I wrote in my previous post is likely an exaggeration. Full automation, robotics and artificial general intelligence will probably take longer than that to develop. But say two decades from today things in society will have changed a lot. That's the power of accelerating progress in the age we live in.

As an example of importance of thinking of accelerating progress, take for example the choice of career for a person 100 years ago, and a woman says that she wants to become a telephone switch operator. Then a decade later the manual telephone switches are replaced by automatic switches. So much for that career choice. Similarly today, where the progress is going even faster, someone might choose computer programmer as a career. Then a decade later AI has become so advanced that even children can program computers and create amazing software. So much for that career choice.

Another useful addition to the anger management in my previous post is to recognize that the anger is justified, on the ego level. And that there are no actual mistakes in reality, even when we throw a temper tantrum that we later regret. Even the shame and the regret are justified! It's just that it's a low level of consciousness. From the level of the ego the anger is the best we can do. However, there is according to ACIM at least, the possibility to transcend the ego state into a higher state of consciousness where the serious kind of anger is transcended. My own practice at the moment is to observe my anger without acting on it. That's a mindfulness practice approach because if I were to act on my anger that's a judgment that the anger is justified. Traditional mindfulness practice is about observing nonjudgmentally. The aim of my practice is to raise the level of justification. What is justified on one level is not necessarily justified on another level. And from my ego level I can't raise the level myself. However what I can do is to mindfully observe my anger nonjudgmentally and allow the level of justification rise.

One form of anger management is to examine what the collective cause of the anger is. At face value, the anger is at first perceived as caused by some other person or situation that affects us personally. That's only the top surface level of the cause of the anger. Then we can go a step further and examine what caused the external situation that gave rise to the anger in us. And then we can go more steps even further and examine how the second layer cause is related to other situations and so on in a whole interconnected web of causes. And seen in totality the anger is recognized as having its root in confusion turned into fear collectively. The limited surface cause of the anger the ego sees is a form psychological projection. ACIM has this to say about projection:

Aha! Now I think I understand what ACIM means by anger causing fear. There are (at least) two causes of fear: 1) fear as a result of the ego trying to escape confusion, and 2) fear caused by anger that is taken seriously by the ego. When the anger is taken seriously it produces fear that strengthens and maintains the ego tensions.

I also found this in ACIM about anger: I haven't made my opinion about that yet but I post the quote since I found it. "Guilt is the only need the ego has", that sounds interesting, I will ponder that. And also "All anger is nothing more than an attempt to make someone feel guilty, and this attempt is the only basis the ego accepts for special relationships." And in the previous ACIM quote it states that anger causes fear. I have been thinking that it's the other way around, that fear causes anger.

Anger is a result of ego tensions, and since the tensions are collective, the anger is a collective ego expression manifesting through the person. The need for serious anger will vanish when the ego tensions dissolve.

ACIM says that all minds are connected, even in ego consciousness! It's just that the ego doesn't recognize the connections and experiences reality as separations. That made me think that even the ego tensions are connected between people. And the whole collective ego structure of our society literally exists within us as tensions. Therefore, when we dissolve our personal ego tensions we also transform the collective structure of the world. And thereby we transcend and include both our personal ego and the collective ego structures. To use the caterpillar metaphor, when our ego tensions dissolve they turn into a part of the cocoon within which the butterfly develops. The ego structures become separated out from us and outsourced to the external cocoon. In practice this means that the external world will take care of our survival needs and the burden of personal responsibility is removed from us. Progress of technology, such as artificial intelligence and robotics will be be a part of this long term, but even now we can start to serve God instead of serving money, meaning allowing our survival strategies to dissolve.

@Zigzag Idiot There is also Robert Anton Wilson's concept of Jumping Jesus and Carl Calleman has found that the Mayan calendar has 9 waves of accelerating development. Evolution is not just about biological and material evolution. There is also evolution of consciousness such as described in Spiral Dynamics. And I even believe that evolution is a second order phenomenon, almost like a cosmic trick for the purpose of growth and development. It's a huge topic and unless Leo has done some deep research into this already, it's too much to ask for a video about it, but anyway it's an important topic I believe, and needs to be taken into consideration when estimating what will happen even in the near future.

Money, calendar time and laws are absolutely necessary for the development of a civilization. But they are also a very clunky, mechanical, limited, abstract and separate way of relating to reality. They represent the "caterpillar" stage of our civilization. My idea is that dissolving ego tensions can be done through mindfulness practice where personal management of things like money and calendar time are observed nonjudgmentally without participating in the thoughts and emotions. That's a radical practice. It means letting dealing with the caterpillar issues in life happen automatically.

What is the cause of ego tensions in mind and body? The answer is that those tensions are caused by the ego perspective of separation and abstractions. We might think that when we for example only care about our own money and are unconcerned about other people's money, that it's a selfish perspective. But it's not! When the ego has these kinds of seemingly selfish views it actually serves the collective control system in society. We have unknowingly become slaves to serving the control system, primarily through money, and that serfdom manifests as ego tensions in us. The ego struggles in a mindless and heartless struggle for survival against other egos, and meanwhile the control system thrives and grows from all that tension. That why the love of money is the root of all evil. To "serve God" simply means being aligned with the correct workings of reality, while serving money is what the ego does in how it relates to money.

Wow, I now realized that ordinary mindfulness practice can be very useful in relation to transforming ego consciousness. I have been thinking that the nonjudgmental part of mindfulness practice is inefficient because if we just observe our thoughts and emotions and so on then that only keeps the ego patterns going without much change. What I now realized is, just as what Leo says in the video about the mind's perceptions, that all judgments in ego consciousness are very limited and give a distorted separation and abstraction based view of reality. Mindfulness practice is a way of taking a step back from all judgments and to observe reality more as a wholeness, more holistically. And with the knowledge that the mind's perceptions are all distorted there is an incentive to remain nonjudgmental and allow change of all thinking to happen. In this way mindfulness practice becomes a tool for transforming ego consciousness. I will take a look at some basic mindfulness teachings, such as:

Another thing we do in ego consciousness is to perceive reality from an exclusive perspective of separations based on limited conditioning and fear-based survival strategies. This totally misses the absolute Truth which is an interconnected wholeness with far wider and deeper implications than given by our limited ego perspectives. I got this idea from Leo's video about the mind's perceptions: What ACIM calls special relationships can be extended to include not only people but also everything we experience in ego consciousness. Our relationship to the world in ego consciousness is that of special relationships. ACIM says:

Actually, the coronavirus crisis is a huge indicator of the shift from a job society to an automation society and marks the beginning of a new era for our human civilization. Ray Kurzweil has predicted that a technological singularity will happen already in the year 2045.