ACIM Journal

[Anderz]

Wow, I felt a release of energy in my heart area when I did the practice. What I did was following the advice in the Quick Coherence video and combined it with Metta intention and starting from myself and expanding out into larger and larger circles around me. McCarty said that energetically we can breath via the heart and heart-focused breathing shifts the rhythm of the heart which sends a different signal to the brain and enhances cognitive functioning. McCarty also said that heart coherence IS how we shift consciousness.

Okay, I have changed my mind, Instead of starting with global heart coherence directly I will start with a gradual heart-focused metta breathing practice. That little test convinced me that the technique is working. 

[Anderz]

Whoa! Leo cited the Law of One in his second video about Absolute Infinity (from 1:05:28): 

 

[Anderz]

Heart intelligence seems to be about feeling and wholeness. Mind intelligence is about intellect and categories. The ego has mind intelligence but lacks heart intelligence. So what can be added to Lazy Yoga is to focus on feeling instead of thinking and doing. Even the heart-centered metta breathing exercise can be done with Lazy Yoga which means to let go of efforts to do the practice and let it happen automatically.

[DrewNows]

heart center ?

all comes together as one ☝️ 

[Anderz]

@DrewNows I will take a look at the video.

Why so much New Age ideas nowadays? A new idea that hit me is the question: how to hide deeper truth in today's rational and scientific society? With New Age woo woo of course! Because the rational ego will generally not take that seriously. For example how many mainstream news and media channels say that New Age is real? They don't. New Age is instead used as a derogatory term, such as calling presidential candidate Marianne Williamson a New Age self-help guru.

This gave me an idea to take a look at some REAL New Age woo woo, haha. Here is one example:

 

[Anderz]

Why would deeper truths need to be hid behind New Age woo woo? My answer is because of the same reason for why the Bible and other religious texts obscure the deeper truth so to no reveal the information prematurely which would hamper the development of society. So New Age is the modern day version of that strategy. The deeper truth will in this way seep in slowly and subconsciously in society at a safe rate and from beneath the mainstream media and academia and so on.

[Anderz]

Anna talked in the video about staying in the zero point field. That's vacuum energy that Nassim Haramein has said is the foundation of physical reality. And Nassim sometimes calls it prana. And in mainstream science they know about the vacuum energy, but they don't have a full grasp of it yet. They even have something called the vacuum catastrophe:

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"In cosmology, the cosmological constant problem or vacuum catastrophe is the disagreement between the observed values of vacuum energy density (the small value of the cosmological constant) and theoretical large value of zero-point energy suggested by quantum field theory.

Depending on the Planck energy cutoff and other factors, the discrepancy is as high as 120 orders of magnitude,[1] a state of affairs described by physicists as "the largest discrepancy between theory and experiment in all of science"[1] and "the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics."[2]" - Wikipedia

I think the enormous difference in energy is a result of all the vacuum fluctuations cancelling each other out so that space appears empty with very little energy. And when the fluctuations are made more coherent, huge amounts of zero point energy can be extracted out of empty space.

[DrewNows]

@Anderz Hey were you asking me those questions about new age ideas? I can share my thoughts if it was directed toward me.

Also my apology i thought i was sharing a video related to what you were writing about but it turned out not to be the content i thought it was 

Anyways i really like how you reassessed/correlated the information/perspective Anna presented with a scientific view/undestanding. You definitely have a gift for bringing together the various paradigms of knowledge. Did you follow or watch Elitom elamin, breatharian, on youtube? He does a lot of connecting the dots as well with his energy perspective/understanding 

[Anderz]

@DrewNows Yes, I watched some of Elitom's videos when I was looking into breatharianism. I haven't followed breatharianism for a while, I think it's real but I found it too difficult for me to seriously try it.

[Anderz]

1 hour ago, DrewNows said:

I can share my thoughts if it was directed toward me.

It was more of a rhetorical question, but please share your thoughts if you want to. It's useful to get more perspectives than just my own.

[DrewNows]

37 minutes ago, Anderz said:

It was more of a rhetorical question, but please share your thoughts if you want to. It's useful to get more perspectives than just my own.

Oh okay I thought so...I see it as just another result of the collective rise in awareness, they aren’t hidden except from the collective. The pointers are there waiting to be understood for those who are ready to see them. Once people begin the transition away from herd mentality, seeking truth, and questioning their own conditioning and the materialist paradigm, eureka! 

49 minutes ago, Anderz said:

@DrewNows Yes, I watched some of Elitom's videos when I was looking into breatharianism. I haven't followed breatharianism for a while, I think it's real but I found it too difficult for me to seriously try it.

Ahh okay, if I didn’t learn about detoxification, and discovering how the body actually functions, it would have been too much (not desirable), like psychics or the paranormal. Not sure what it is like for you but also not sure what will become of my journey and interest in it later on. 

[Anderz]

@DrewNows Yes, I think the truth is already out there, and also that the truth is divided and spread out into different teachings. For example I mentioned in a recent post how Buddhism and Christianity are both right and wrong at the same time. My previous idea that it's possible to integrate all religions is then somewhat false. Instead it's typical global ego manipulation! (By global ego I mean the world we live in until humanity awakens.)

[Anderz]

Why not ignore ACIM and just use for example Spiral Dynamics? One important reason is that ACIM says that the world is a total deception basically, while Spiral Dynamics takes the world seriously. ACIM is correct in this regard and Spiral Dynamics wrong. The global ego is all about manipulating the masses. Politics is manipulation, mainstream media is manipulation, religions are manipulation, spiritual traditions are manipulation, education is manipulation, science is manipulation, philosophy is manipulation, history is manipulation, entertainment is manipulation, culture is manipulation, art is manipulation, fashion is manipulation and on and on. Then what about ACIM itself, is that manipulation too just on a higher level? Well, some of ACIM is probably manipulation and even though Spiral Dynamics may even be less of manipulation it's a much more naive model, similar to believing that Santa Claus is real.

Edit: A clarification: Spiral Dynamics is very useful for understanding how the world works. It's in relation to the deeper picture that it becomes a deception.

Edited December 25, 2019 by Anderz

[Anderz]

Then if there is so much manipulation, then maybe the conspiracy theories are true? No! The conspiracy theories are also a part of the deception and manipulation. It's what is called controlled opposition. Conspiracy theories, often contradicting each other, are on purpose promoted to the public. Although, just like with all other information, the conspiracy theories sometimes contain some of the truth.

So what to do about such a messy situation regarding knowledge? My strategy is to look at all kinds of information and choose what fits into the bigger picture. One problem with this approach is that I have had to change my mind several times when new layers of deception are discovered. So I find it helpful to cling to beliefs only as long as they still are consistent and then discard them if it turns out to be just another layer of deception. An intelligence agency agent told Richard C. Hoagland that the lie is different at every level. That's a pretty accurate description I think.

Also, I have found it useful to focus on direct experience, such as mindfulness practice, instead of only seeking information. Raw consciousness cannot be manipulated. Subjective experience can be observed from a meta perspective. Leo even said in one video that subjective experience is what is most fundamentally real and objective reality is actually concepts. Very good point!

[Anderz]

It's also important to understand that the deception in the world has a definite useful purpose. Just like the ego, it's a necessary stage of development for catalyzing growth, creativity and uniqueness during the early stages of a civilization. And the global ego has immense value formed by all the struggle, growth and development we have had throughout history.

Also, to transcend the global ego is a humongous task. Because if it's true that we are evolving into a collective consciousness, the global ego is a way too primitive model for that. We can't just make individual egos cooperate and believe that's the same as a collective consciousness. So it's the responsibility of the global ego to defend itself and keep itself intact until a true collective consciousness emerges that has the capacity to transcend and include the global ego.

Edited December 25, 2019 by Anderz

[Anderz]

Eckhart Tolle said that evil is unconsciousness, and by that he means lack of presence awareness. That's similar to my view, that evil is a result of limited consciousness. Leo has a radical explanation of evil which I also mostly agree with, such as in this video that could be worth repeating:

 

[Anderz]

I think a useful metaphor is to think of the ego as a caterpillar and the collective consciousness as a butterfly. In this way it's clear that the ego has a great value and still the ego has to dissolve and be transformed.

 

[Anderz]

Donald Trump represents the global ego and the caterpillar. Marianne Williamson represents the collective consciousness and the butterfly. Probably the world will still be in a caterpillar state for several years to come, and that means that Trump will win in 2020. I don't want to make that my 2020 prediction because it would be interesting if a miracle happens and Williamson suddenly starts climbing in the polls.

[Anderz]

Just an idea I came to think of related to Leo's video about love. ACIM says that perfect love casts out fear. That's from the Bible:

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"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." - 1 John 4:18 (KJV)

What I came to think of is that it means integral love that transcends BOTH conditional love and unconditional love and includes them both into a unity.

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"All aspects of fear are untrue because they do not exist at the creative level, and therefore do not exist at all. To whatever extent you are willing to submit your beliefs to this test, to that extent are your perceptions corrected. In sorting out the false from the true, the miracle proceeds along these lines:

Perfect love casts out fear.
If fear exists,
Then there is not perfect love.

But:

Only perfect love exists.
If there is fear,
It produces a state that does not exist.

Believe this and you will be free. Only God can establish this solution, and this faith is His gift." - ACIM T-1.VI:5-6

 

 

[Anderz]

I can add to Lazy Yoga the practice of letting go of the need for removing fear. Because if ACIM is correct, that's "God's" job. I haven't verified this experimentally yet so it's something I will practice to test it. What can be done is to realize that fear needs to be removed and that it's not the ego that can do it. The ego itself is fear and fear cannot remove fear. And I mean even biological fear such as the instinctual fight-or-flight response which is only necessary in the ego stage.

Edited December 26, 2019 by Anderz