ACIM Journal

[Anderz]

What happens when using text that describes something that is not a category? Then axiom 1 doesn't apply since it's only valid for categories.

An example of a text description that is NOT a category is three numbers X, Y and Z with "divided by" arrows between them. It fails to define a category because X divided by Y divided by Z is not associative. For example (3 / 6) / 2 = 0,25 which is different than 3 / (6 / 2) = 1.

If instead of division we use multiplication, then the text defines a category. (3 * 6) * 2 = 36 which is the same as 3 * (6 * 2) = 36.

[Anderz]

It's efficient to have a description as abstract as possible, but not too abstract because then it becomes meaningless. I think the text categories will work since even mathematical notion can be considered text. So the text categories include the other categories. For example an object can be a set and with all the complicated notions they have around that, or the elements in the set can be objects in the category, so it's very flexible.

Also, Stephen Wolfram has found what he calls computational irreducibility which means that many processes, even simple ones, can't be calculated beforehand and must be run step by step in order to find out what the result will be. Wolfram told a story about how he discovered a simple rule which he calls Rule 30 and in the 80s I think it was he had printed out a large sequence of Rule 30 showing very complicated patterns. Richard Feynman saw the printout and asked Stephen how he found that rule. Stephen told Feynman that he just listed all possible simple rules and found Rule 30 and Feynman was relieved because he first thought Stephen had some special math skill Feynman (who was a master at calculating things) was unaware of, haha.

And with the text categories it's possible to build all kinds of complicated categories and then use computers to see what happens instead of predicting the result analytically. Although traditional analytical and logical approaches can be used too. But are the text categories any different than the already existing definition of category theory? I don't know yet, but it makes it easier for me to work with. I'm exploring possibilities and logging some of that in this journal.

[Anderz]

One way of thinking of service to others in the Law of One is to align oneself with what all people in Christ consciousness want. The ego consciousness is sadistic so serving people in ego consciousness is dangerous and counterproductive. We should only serve people who have entered Christ consciousness. And it's service to others because when we ourselves are in ego consciousness it's not about serving oneself.

When we ourselves have entered Christ consciousness service is no longer needed because the term service is duality and in oneness service loses its meaning. Here is a video from Aaron Abke where they talk about Christ consciousness:

 

[Anderz]

Jesus talked about separating the goats from the sheep. The goats are people in ego consciousness and the sheep are people in Christ consciousness. We must "deny" our own ego consciousness in order to become sheep and be led by Christ in the role of the shepherd. When we have entered Christ consciousness we no longer are sheep for we become one with the shepherd.

Christ has a double-edged sword, with one edge cutting us loose from our own ego and another edge that cuts our ties to other people in ego consciousness. The sword is coming out of Christ's mouth, symbolizing that it's about information, not a physical sword. Jesus didn't come to bring peace on earth, he came with a sword to slay what ACIM calls special relationships, ego relationships.

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"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn

“‘a man against his father,
    a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
    a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’" - Matthew 10:34-36

"I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance." - Revelation 1:12-16

 

[Anderz]

Could category theory be a Trojan horse? As it is now, everybody is parroting the technique of putting a horse (set) into a car (category) and then they try to make the car look like a horse.

The Trojan horse idea is that category theory was introduced to radically simplify and clean up mathematics but they couldn't do it directly because that would challenge the current paradigm and would be rejected by the academic community. Or at least it would make the current paradigm obsolete too fast, destroying many professional careers, textbooks, courses, and even institutions. 

So instead they made the car (new math) look like a horse (old math) by using the car as a horse. I hope Stephen Wolfram will use category theory in their Wolfram Physics Project and use it in a simple way, for example replacing their graph with a category in their model.

[Anderz]

I'm trying a general mindfulness practice. In traditional mindfulness, except for monks and more hardcore practitioners, the mindfulness practice is done as a separate activity and after the practice the ego mind is back into its usual mischief.

The idea of general mindfulness is to be aware of one's thoughts in everyday life without acting on them. The reason for why I'm trying this method is that the ego mind goes so deep down into the core of one's being that I doubt that separate mindfulness practice has much effect.

As an example, let's say that I have a task to do. Instead of following what my thoughts tell me how to perform the task, I just observe my thoughts nonjudmentally without acting on them! That's radically different than the usual habit of following one's thoughts for practical purposes.

[Anderz]

I found this recent mainstream news about QAnon:

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"In a now deleted online video, Oregon Republican Senate candidate Jo Rae Perkins touted QAnon, an online conspiracy theory group, on the night she won the primary. Other candidates also have ties to the group and new director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, also shares a link. CNET senior producer Dan Patterson joined CBSN to discuss." - CBS News, May 27, 2020

And Q recently posted (post 4334) a link to this article:

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"Italian health authorities announced in a recent report that only 4.1 percent of fatalities testing positive for Wuhan coronavirus happened in the absence of serious comorbidities, while the average age of the deceased was over 80 years." - Breitbart News, May 27, 2020

I think very much is staged in politics, and top politicians mentioning Q is likely not a coincidence. The Q movement has been slow lately it seems to me, probably because it has taken so long time without big results. Bordering on hope porn.

[Anderz]

Ridiculous! What a hoax the COVID-19 scam is. Q's latest post has a link to: "Japan Ends Coronavirus Emergency With 850 Deaths and No Lockdown" - Newsweek, May 25, 2020.

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"USA v Japan
Reconcile.
Critical thinking.
Q" - Q post 4336

 

[Anderz]

Here is an excellent new video from Aaron Abke:

I am now focusing more on spirituality. The material world is important too, but I noticed that was moving too much into material things. Ultimately the spiritual world and the material world are one. That's what fourth density is about, a new earth which is the same as our current planet. It's the whole planet that shifts into fourth density including humanity.

[Anderz]

Donald Trump is protecting Actualized.org (and others of course) with a new Executive Order:

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"In just weeks, the White House received over 16,000 complaints of online platforms censoring or otherwise taking action against users based on their political viewpoints.  The White House will submit such complaints received to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Sec. 7.  Definition.  For purposes of this order, the term “online platform” means any website or application that allows users to create and share content or engage in social networking, or any general search engine." - https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/

To celebrate this, let's take a look at a recent Q post:

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"USA total pop: 328 million
COVID-19 deaths: 100,000 [lockdown]
Japan total pop: 126 million [condensed (island)]
COVID-19 deaths: 850 [no lockdown]
2 + 2 = 5?
Q" - Q post 4343

 

[Anderz]

I have a new idea about testing reality, to see if it has infinite intelligence. Leo has talked about how he experienced directly first-hand reality having infinite intelligence. That requires advanced levels of consciousness. My new idea is to produce good results from seemingly random actions and information, with ordinary consciousness. Because if reality is predetermined as I predict, and also with infinite intelligence, then actually even seemingly simple and/or random events have vast intelligence in them.

For example let's say that we have decision anxiety about an important choice we have to make, then with my new idea it's possible to literally roll a dice to determine what to choose. Even the Bible hints at this, such as in this verse:

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"The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord." - Proverbs 16:33

 

[Anderz]

Not everything can be just random activities so there needs to be integration with what Leo talked about in his latest video about how experts pay a lot of attention to details and distinctions. I'm experimenting with making music and bought better quality headphones so that I can actually hear more distinctions. The professional music producers put an enormous amount of details in their productions. Here is just one example and top producers probably do even much more than that and with even greater skills, equipment and precision:

 

[Anderz]

Aha! I was listening to Eckhart Tolle being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey and an idea popped into my mind. Several people have talked about how suffering promotes our growth and development. Suffering is a catalyst for moving at least human evolution forward.

The idea that came to me is that suffering is necessary because it's nature's way of preventing too much suffering. That idea is the same as before. My new addition is that it has to be generally in the form of suffering instead of inner peace. Why? Because when we feel inner peace in ego consciousness we become content. And that contentment prevents growth and further evolution!

[Anderz]

I found the new idea to be a key to what Gurdjieff called intentional suffering. A mindfulness practice method for consciously being aware of suffering. I haven't researched much about intentional suffering. My key insight is that with the knowledge of the purpose of suffering makes it possible to use intentional suffering for conscious evolution.

I will take a look at this video and others like that:

 

[Anderz]

Another insight I got is that suffering is to numbness what fear is to confusion. Both are means used by nature to bring about evolution. In ego consciousness fear is better than confusion. With fear there is at least the possibility of constructive action (unless the fear is so intense that it causes a freeze as in the fight-flight-freeze response).

Similarly, with suffering there is to the ego a movement towards growth and development whereas numbness leads to disease and deterioration. The Bible talks about a new state free from pain and suffering. That sounds like transcending ego consciousness. And it's about a greater awakening than merely traditional spiritual awakening where there still is pain.

[Anderz]

I looked up suffering in A Course in Miracles and found:

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"Illusion recognized must disappear. 2 Accept not suffering, and you remove the thought of suffering. 3 Your blessing lies on everyone who suffers, when you choose to see all suffering as what it is. 4 The thought of sacrifice gives rise to all the forms that suffering appears to take. 5 And sacrifice is an idea so mad that sanity dismisses it at once.

Never believe that you can sacrifice. 2 There is no place for sacrifice in what has any value. 3 If the thought occurs, its very presence proves that error has arisen and correction must be made. 4 Your blessing will correct it. 5 Given first to you, it now is yours to give as well. 6 No form of sacrifice and suffering can long endure before the face of one who has forgiven and has blessed himself." - ACIM W-pI.187.7-8

Amazing. Yay! ACIM says do NOT accept sacrifice and do NOT accept suffering. This seems to be a form of  jnana yoga which means the path of the intellect if I have understood it correctly. It's about using the intellect for spiritual transformation.

[Anderz]

What ACIM points out by saying to not accept suffering is that suffering and the ego go together. ACIM has a very absolute and black and white perspective on ego vs Spirit. My integral take on it is that the ego is a necessary development and so is suffering as long as we remain on that level of spiritual development.

So it's a bit tricky. In a sense there is a kind of acceptance that comes with the purpose of suffering. And at the same time, just as ACIM says, we need to transcend suffering since it goes together with ego consciousness. And even trickier, pain and suffering as I see it will be transcended AND included. So there will still be ability to suffer and feel pain, but from a harmless state of being.

[Anderz]

Holy Moses, I haven't listened to this presentation yet, but what hit me is that Christ suffering on the cross, that is exactly the symbolism for the role of suffering in transcending the ego ("death" and then "resurrection") :

 

[Anderz]

Can the ego by pulling its bootstraps lift itself into a higher state of consciousness? No, because the ego is not a sinner, the ego itself is sin. The ego is incapable of lifting itself up to Christ consciousness since that is a sin-free state of being.

Fortunately, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, suffered on the cross and died for our sins. Get it? It's symbolism for how Christ is the way and the truth and the life and that nobody comes to the Father except through Christ and with the help of the Holy Spirit. 

[Anderz]

It seems that ACIM and the Bible are both about transcending the ego, and probably the same for all major religions from different perspectives. It's a massive process! Then what about an atheistic perspective? In science there is the concept of emergent properties.

True emergence requires an increase into higher levels of complexity. In our current state of development here on earth we are at a certain level of complexity, and from that state we are unable to increase the level of complexity required by ourselves. So transcending the ego from an atheistic perspective means recognizing that it is about an evolutionary leap in the form of an emergent property.