Anderz

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  1. If, as it seems to me, that the true information is compartmentalized and spread out all over the place, how to know what information is true? My strategy is to include information that is consistent with the whole picture. Of course, one's own concept of the whole picture may be false so one must be open to new information that leads to one's own overall picture to be modified. Another even deeper strategy I recently discovered is to go beyond information altogether! Because information learned is always old and cannot cope with the totality of reality in a complete manner. To use past knowledge to predict the future is fine, BUT it may be a redundant strategy. So instead of ONLY relying on past knowledge, the new strategy is to be grounded in awareness and to use information as a layer on top of that foundation. With the new strategy I can still learn new knowledge and try to predict the future and so on, but without needing it for managing my life! This is consistent with the idea that reality is already predetermined and automatic. And actually all individual doership and control is an illusion. So the new strategy which can function without information is rational and the old habit of always relying on knowledge is actually irrational.
  2. I myself may have a conspiracy theory bias but I do believe that experts often underestimate the level and layers of manipulation in the world. For example Ken Wilber has lots of advanced and excellent explanations about how reality works yet he totally misses the conspiracy theory perspective in my opinion. It's like the true information in the global ego is compartmentalized, so that experts not only often of necessity are focused on a limited perspective, they are also compartmentalized in a way that prevents the bigger picture from being presented by any individual expert alone. What is needed therefore is I think to collect information from a broad spectrum of sources. Instead of dismissing for example Alex Jones as a conspiracy theory nut, or to believe all he says, or to believe he is only a form of controlled opposition, it's worthwhile to include even such information.
  3. What Ray Kurzweil means by accelerating progress is summed up in his article about the Law of Accelerating Returns: Notice that the accelerating progress includes biological evolution, which even though much slower than technological progress also is exponential. This chart shows this accelerating trend for major shifts throughout history and geological time:
  4. Leo's teaching is advanced but it's still less advanced than ACIM and the Bible. Why? Because Leo has what can be called legacy bias by which I mean he clings to the past too much and still believes (unless he has changed his mind recently) that physical death is inevitable. He also thinks very much linearly when it comes to the future. As Ray Kurzweil has pointed out most people think linearly, even experts, and they fail to recognize the exponential (accelerating) progress of evolution.
  5. Another version of the nondual logic is to say that the map and the territory are the same difference. Reality is difference. And reality is one. There is fundamentally only one difference and reality is it. What's the use of a seemingly nonsensical logic like that? One use I found is that it's a powerful meta perspective. It makes it easy to take a leap up and above conceptual thinking. The ego habit is to be identified with the intellect and forget that it's an identification. And even when we take a meta perspective that can easily still be to be stuck on the level of concepts. The nondual logic shows the whole picture of everything at once and as one.
  6. I discovered something almost funny, maybe I have already mentioned something similar. Is the map the territory? From a nondual perspective the answer is yes! Is the menu the dinner? The answer to that too is yes. Haha. Seemingly crazy. The trick here is that nonduality means one single wholeness. Yes, there are dualities within the wholeness but dualities are actually also joined into a wholeness. So everything is the same "stuff" from a nondual perspective. The same with concepts. Is the word "tree" the same as an actual living tree? Yes, they are nondually (if that's a word) the same. And the past is the same as the future. Cause is the same as effect. Up and down are one. And so on. This kind of logic is of course not the classical logic used in philosophy and science. It's more like the kind of logic Shunyamurti mentioned in a video. I didn't find that Leo has a video particurlarly about logic, but this video about rationality may have some of that:
  7. I read in news articles from 2019 that Italy already has introduced a limited form of basic income. This has allowed the Italian government to collect statistics to see how a basic income works in practice, and that makes them prepared to introduce a full universal basic income. Italy has problems with unemployment, such as: Even without a tsunami of automation, the production of goods and services today is probably already efficient enough in many countries so that less people need to work. And then a universal basic income is one possible solution, especially for young people who's future is even higher rates of unemployment when the tsunami of automation really hits the fan.
  8. I'm super skeptic about events such as the coronavirus crisis, but I looked up how they test for the virus and they match strands in the RNA, something like that. So COVID-19 might actually be real, at least as one form of flu virus, and if it's the same as ordinary flu just one particular strain the timing of the outbreak could have been staged. Even with a real COVID-19 virus, the outbreak could have been timed to match any recent date if the virus already existed as one of the flu strands. And I don't see how Italy could have been hit much worse than other countries. So there is something particularly suspicious about the situation in Italy with many more deaths than in other countries. Other European countries such as France and the UK have ordered massive lock downs too and now even U.S. states are starting to follow, yet Italy is the worst and the first to be extreme like that. As a guess, one possible outcome is that a universal basic income will implemented early in Italy.
  9. Talking about collective consciousness, Aaron Doughty has this new video about a collective consciousness and also an interesting comparison of the world to a Truman Show: I posted this comment: Very interesting metaphor of the world as a Truman Show. I think people who are called Wanderers in the Law of One already have a collective consciousness and that they only pretend to be in ego consciousness, pretty much like in a Truman Show because us in ego consciousness can only interact on the ego level.
  10. My theory is that actually most people are what the Law of One calls Wanderers. I think Aaron Doughty said the same thing about Starseeds which is the same as Wanderers which means people who have fourth to sixth density in them. Wanderers already have the capacity for a collective consciousness. What blocks them is that they too are trapped in third density ego consciousness. What is needed it seems is that we start to dissolve our egos. That allows the collective consciousness to emerge. When we remain in ego consciousness we are separate from each other in a way the blocks a collective consciousness.
  11. One curious practice is to consciously choose to just observe one's actions. I have managed to do that to some extent. With more practice it should become possible to choose to stay an observer for longer periods of time and when performing more advanced daily activities. This at least proves that reality can function without my active ego participation. It still doesn't disprove free will though since I make a conscious choice of staying as the observer of my actions, but it's a new kind of perspective compared to ordinary ego activity. One danger maybe with that kind of practice is the possibility of getting stuck as a passive observer of one's actions. That's the psychological depersonalization disorder I mentioned earlier. Another possibility is that the observer dissolves! Then that's spiritual enlightenment, at least a simple version of it.
  12. Analog sine waves defined using a math function such as sin(x) have infinite resolution. In my model there is only finite resolution. And I haven't figured out yet if information is more fundamental or if waves are more fundamental in my model. The most fundamental level in my model remains Indra's net which means that regardless of waves or information, it's all fully interconnected into one wholeness. Dr. Hal Puthoff is perhaps even beyond mainstream science with black-op knowledge, and in these videos he explains vacuum energy (zero point energy) and he also hinted at that there are waves that span the entire universe (from about 4 minutes in the second video).
  13. Here are two videos showing how simple sine waves when added together can form complex shapes:
  14. To reiterate where my model is consistent with mainstream science, Leonard Susskind said that entropy is hidden information. This means that the hidden information might actually be ordered! And that therefore reality is perfectly ordered all the time. No randomness needed. And Stephen Hawking suggested that quantum mechanics can be described using only waves which removes the uncertainty. Vacuum energy is the enormous energy in the vacuum of space. In my model all physical forces, including gravity, are simply gradients in the vacuum pressure. And physical matter is the vacuum energy taking different shapes, such as physical particles are wave packets and not made of some separate "stuff". The vaccum energy consists of waves that span the entire universe, and that's how entanglement and actions at a distance are achieved. It's just simple waves without locality (such as sine waves) combined into waves that have local differences. No "spooky action" necessary. And recent experiments with fluid dynamics have shown that the effects of quantum mechanics can be achieved using ordinary classical droplets, such as:
  15. Couldn't I replace my model with Leo's teachings? Almost, I have even based a lot of my model on Leo's teachings, but there are differences. For example, Leo said that Love includes accepting impermanence and death. In my model impermanence is a second-order phenomenon as a result of a changeless and indestructible fundamental reality unfolding in time. The past is permanent. Also, in my model the transcendence of even physical death is possible. This is also mentioned in the Bible: I see the glorified body in Christianity as the body of fourth and higher densities in the Law of One. To believe that physical death is inevitable is to be stuck in third density.
  16. How to explain the Bible's clear difference between good and evil when my model says that everything is always Good and perfect in an absolute sense? The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the same as the Law of Confusion in the Law of One. It represents the fall of humankind and the development of the ego and the experience of separation. And it's the ego state of confusion that ACIM talks about. It's sin, meaning missing the mark, meaning delusion. The tree of life on the other hand represents the Truth. The ego actually already is perfect, but an undeveloped state. As Eckhart Tolle has explained, the ego is a necessary development in order for humanity to go from undifferentiated oneness (one with God in the garden of Eden) through the ego development and differentiation and then integrate back into oneness again now with individuality instead of as in the simple state of oneness before the fall. To be perfect is to integrate back into oneness with God. Evil is transcended and recognized as a necessary stage of development, so even evil is Good in the absolute sense as a temporary learning and growth stage.
  17. Then what about science? Can't I just have a scientific hypothesis? No, because as Jijnasu explains in this video about science: "They are trying to answer consciousness using the brain. ... They will not be thinking and inquiring into themselves. ... To study consciousness they need someone else's brain, not themselves. This is not self-enquiry.": And of course Leo has a massive amount of explanations about the limitations of science today.
  18. I came to think that Jnana yoga probably has many interpretations. I did however find one difference in what seems to be a fairly authoritative source: That's different than my model! In Lazy Yoga there is a beginning but no end in the unmanifested. This makes my model in this case consistent with the Bible: Then what is the difference between Lazy Yoga and the Bible? My answer is that if Lazy Yoga is consistent with the Bible my model is smaller and easier for me to grasp even though the Bible describes more such as even it seems including descriptions from earlier stages in Spiral Dynamics. I make it easy by combining all the nasty stories in the Bible into third density reality in the Law of One.
  19. Why do I need to invent my own yoga? Can't I just take for example the teachings from Ramesh Balsekar as they are? Or only use ACIM? No, because there are some differences and I include into Lazy Yoga that which I found consistent with the whole picture according to my own view. Even with self-bias I find it useful to develop a model which I understand myself instead of just adopting existing teachings. One bigger difference between my model and the teachings of Ramesh Balsekar (and many other similar teachings) is that they make a distinction between pain and suffering while in my model pain is a form of suffering. ACIM actually seems to be consistent with my model, such as: Then can't I just take ACIM as my whole model? No, because as I see it ACIM lacks the integral transcend and include that Ken Wilber has talked about. Lazy Yoga is about transcending and including the ego whereas ACIM is about pointing out what is false with the ego. Then what is the difference between Lazy Yoga and Jnana yoga? To answer that I need to do more research about Jnana yoga. I expect to find differences but maybe they are the same!
  20. But what if free will and individual doership are real? In ego consciousness we cannot prove nor disprove that. And even as I intellectually think my model is logically consistent, the model can be false. And what about the depersonalization disorder in psychology where the individual experiences himself or herself as a passive observer? As I understand spiritual enlightenment conceptually, it's about actualizing oneness. Depersonalization disorder is totally different because then the person experiences even more separation from reality. Spiritual enlightenment is about the absence of separation at the fundamental level. Nonduality teacher Roger Castillo (who sometimes uses ACIM quotes) said that his teaching which he learned from Ramesh Balsekar is about replacing the ego concept in the mind with new concepts about nonduality. I like that approach since it can be tested in one's own experience. If there is truth to nonduality then there is a possibility that the nondual concepts become true in the sense of actualizing oneness.
  21. My previous post can be added to Lazy Yoga which is my homemade version of yoga. The addition can be simplified into: In Lazy Yoga cause and effect are one. This makes the term "Lazy" more than appropriate since cause and effect being one means that there are no separate causes or doers. And Aaron Abke has this new video about this:
  22. Can our thoughts change physical reality? My answer is no. Why? Because physical reality and our thoughts are one "thing". It's like how a knife cannot cut itself. ACIM says that miracles are "A miracle is a correction. It does not create, nor really change at all. (W-13:1)" The mistake the ego makes is that it believes its own mind is separate from the absolute Mind. There are chains of causation, from past to future and from future to the past. So for example a prayer has a specific result in the future, yet the prayer itself is not a separate cause, for there are no separate causes.
  23. So far I have identified three major areas where the coronavirus crisis acts as a catalyst: 1. Dealing with the global peak oil crisis. Reduced oil consumption over a period of time allows oil wells around the world to be upgraded and then after the crisis when they come online again there will be plenty of oil production. 2. Initiation of a global control system. The necessity of international cooperation due to the coronavirus crisis allows for establishing a global digital system for surveillance and detection of pandemic risks. 3. Fast introduction of universal basic income (UBI). With automation increasingly replacing jobs there is a need for a UBI and the crisis shortens the time it takes to get a UBI legislatively approved and implemented.
  24. I predict that much of the tsunami of automation will come from China. I'm especially interested in Huawei at the moment who is about to launch a new smartphone and a new smartwatch: I hope that at least the smartwatch will run the new Harmony OS which I think will become huge in the future. Even if the U.S. ban on Huawei continues, Harmony OS is open source which means that other manufacturers such as Samsung can use it in their products.
  25. I even found direct agreement with the idea of a UBI in recent news articles: