ACIM Journal

[Anderz]

Should pain be accepted in meditation? ACIM says that the pain will vanish. I think pain needs to be transcended and included and that in ego consciousness there is always pain even when it is numbed out. So the ego has pain all the time, which indicates a low level of consciousness.

Quote

"The miracle makes no distinctions in the names by which sin's witnesses are called. 2 It merely proves that what they represent has no effects. 3 And this it proves because its own effects have come to take their place. 4 It matters not the name by which you called your suffering. 5 It is no longer there. 6 The One Who brings the miracle perceives them all as one, and called by name of fear. 7 As fear is witness unto death, so is the miracle the witness unto life. 8 It is a witness no one can deny, for it is the effects of life it brings. 9 The dying live, the dead arise, and pain has vanished. 10 Yet a miracle speaks not but for itself, but what it represents." - ACIM T-27.VI.5.

My guess at the moment is that pleasure will be transcended and included, just like all other integral approaches. It seems to me that inner peace is a stable calm feeling, and then even pain can be integrally included as a downswing from inner peace and pleasure is an upswing from inner peace. Both the up and down emotionally movements are just temporary fluctuations and the ground state is always peace. So even fear is transcended and included as a temporary downswing instead of as in ego consciousness where fear is the ground state instead of peace.

[Anderz]

There is mental peace, emotional peace and even physical peace. What I think spiritual teachers miss is the physical peace. For example pain is a lack of physical peace. And disease in the body is a lack of physical peace.

And I have a new radical addition, that biological aging is a lack of physical peace! The body deteriorates because it is being tortured to death; the ego basically crucifies the body and the pain is numbed out so that the ego only experiences it as reactions to the numbness in the form of anger and other emotions of suffering and even physical disease.

The ego crucifying the body is the same as the death drive, the shadow cast by the ego. When people accept aging and death they are accepting torturing themselves to death. That's insanity.

[Anderz]

Oh, this is horrible. I realized that reality as a whole is in a perfect state. So then how can the ego torturing itself to death, which is insanity, be perfect? My answer is that we live in what the Law of One calls third density. And to me, living forever in third density would be misery. So from that perspective, the ego torturing the body to death is rational.

The solution is to move into fourth density. This gets into New Age areas and what seems to tbe woo woo. What is woo woo and what is reality? That's a tricky distinction because it gets speculative fast when we move into possibilities outside of ordinary life. Brad Johnson has radical spiritual teachings that sometimes seem like woo woo, but it's this kind of going beyond the consensus reality that I think is needed. I will take a look at Brad's latest video:

 

[Anderz]

Another nasty possibility is that the tensions in body and mind are made of numbed out pain. So if we try to dissolve tensions too much that will increase the pain. Not good.

And actually, Shunyamurti said in his latest video I think it was, that when we experience a vibrational conscious field that is too high for our own level of consciousness, it produces suffering! To the point where people can't stand situations where the vibration is too high for them.

And it could even be, I speculate, that not even very experienced meditators and spiritual practitioners have been able to dissolve their tensions fully since we are still in third density. To fully dissolve the tensions in body and mind requires going into fourth density, which is a much higher level of vibration than third density.

So the question then is, how to move from third to fourth density? That seems like a superhuman task. And in fact, Jesus dying on the cross might symbolize how utterly impossible it is to dissolve the tensions in third density and the only way out is "Thy will be done" where a higher level of consciousness is activated. And the same message where it says in the Bible that the body of flesh (third density) cannot inherit the kingdom of God (fourth and higher densities).

[Anderz]

Brad Johnson said that we shouldn't try to fix the collective. That's like carrying a mountain on your back, he said. Good point. Because as ACIM says, all minds are connected. And ACIM also points out that the Holy Spirit doesn't even notice the ego, something like that.

So if we are trying to fix the world through struggle, that's still ego consciousness! It won't work. And it will only be like carrying a mountain around while we contribute to the growth of the mountain. Not good.

[Anderz]

Actually, Eckhart Tolle, who has quoted from A Course in Miracles, said something similar to what Brad Johnson said. Tolle said that first we should enter a state of what he calls presence and then take action. Tolle has also called it stillness and space consciousness (as opposed to object consciousness).

So how to achieve progress without struggle? How to become present? Tolle has this explanation:

A good strategy for progress is then when in ego consciousness to prioritize mindfulness over struggle.

[Anderz]

Here I found a video posted recently with collective consciousness in the title! Excellent. Before I watch the video I want to post my idea of a global collective consciousness (Gaia) and also there is a galactic collective consciousness and so on to universal and maybe even multiversal and omniversal consciousness. It will be interesting to compare that to what is presented in the video. My take is that there are different levels of holons each with its own consciousness that transcends and includes the levels below in the holarchy.

 

[Anderz]

I disagree with the idea of free will in the video about collective consciousness, but something that rang true for me was the claim that consciousness is the foundation and between consciousness and the material world is the zero point field. I have heard several people talking about that.

In my model consciousness is fundamental because it connects to the infinite unmanifested as a wholeness. And the material world is a result of the zero point field, also called the vacuum energy in physics. If I remember correctly even Stephen Wolfram said something similar.

So the material world of atoms is made of the zero point field, which means that theoretically physical matter can become more capable by the zero point field being controlled with more precision, intelligence and definition. That's the same as higher density in the Law of One!

[Anderz]

Stephen Wolfram said recently that the graph in their model represents the entire history of the universe. I'm curious about if their model can be plugged into my much simpler yet more general model.

There is a huge leap from my model to a model of physics. And it only contains a string of information so it's tricky to map that to a graph even though the string is a result of a larger graph in my model (Indra's net).

But I came to think of one way of testing it! Because the string of information in my model expands explosively, meaning in larger and larger chunks instead of step by step. And this is something that can be compared to Wolfram's model, but I have to wait until they have developed it.

[Anderz]

I think Donald Trump is honest but we need to interpret him correctly. Trump in my opinion is destroying the U.S. semiconductor industry and is helping China boosting their microchip manufacturing. Intel will sell much less since Huawei was a huge customer of theirs. And most of the other U.S. microchip developers are fabless, meaning they let mostly Asian companies manufacture the actual microchips and entire Asia is dominated by China probably.

Why would Trump do something like that? Well, it's not only Trump himself of course. The Trump administration is huge, and it's the Congress and the Commerce Department who insisted on the U.S. move despite the Pentagon initially complaining that it will hurt the U.S. semiconductor industry. The reason is that the Trump administration I believe is working at boosting itself and weaken the private sector which has become too dominant.

And it's global corporation where Huawei will come to dominate, and Huawei is under government control probably. The Trump administration is allowing China to become dominant and actually even a seeming threat to the west, which further on will lead to global solutions. So Trump is a globalist! As I said, Trump is Spiral Dynamics vMeme stage Turquoise. Trump is helping U.S. becoming a part of a global New World Order.

[Anderz]

Whoa, wait a minute, the COVID-1984 plan-demic is ALSO a part of the New World Order agenda! So there are vast moves now towards globalization going on at the moment. And a big part of that is e-money which will reduce the power of the private sector and make governments take control over money and of international taxation of multinational corporations.

By their fruits you shall know them, and the fruits of COVID-19 are bitter for the private corporate world. And at the same time the scam-demic gives governments a lot of Orwellian power. It's rather nasty but in the long and even medium-term run it will lead to a leap of improvement globally. The insane income and wealth inequality among people in the world not only sucks, it's also something that's bound to change as exponential technological progress leads lower and lower costs for products and services as Ray Kurzweil has shown.

The G20 meetings in 2020 will likely include talks about international taxation and even e-money. Here is a report from OECD to the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors:

Quote

"In order for a jurisdiction to be considered to comply with respect to international tax transparency, it would need to meet the benchmarks of at least two of the three below-mentioned criteria. 1. The exchange of information on request (the EOIR standard): ... 2. The automatic exchange of information (the AEOI standard): ...

The BEPS Action Plan recognised that the international tax rules should be improved in order to put more emphasis on value creation in highly integrated groups, tackling the use of intangibles, risks, capital and other high-risk transactions to shift profits." - OECD Secretary-General Tax Report to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, July 2020

Automatic exchange of information, in relation to international taxation! The BEPS Action Plan I found described in another older OECD document:

Quote

"As the economy became more globally integrated, so did corporations. Multi-national enterprises (MNE) now represent a large proportion of global GDP. ... 

These developments have opened up opportunities for MNEs to greatly minimise their tax burden. This has led to a tense situation in which citizens have become more sensitive to tax fairness issues. It has become a critical issue for all parties:

• Governments are harmed. Many governments have to cope with less revenue and a higher cost to ensure compliance. Moreover, Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) undermines the integrity of the tax system, as the public, the media and some taxpayers deem reported low corporate taxes to be unfair. In developing countries, the lack of tax revenue leads to critical under-funding of public investment that could help promote economic growth. Overall resource allocation, affected by tax-motivated behaviour, is not optimal.
   
• Individual taxpayers are harmed. When tax rules permit businesses to reduce their tax burden by shifting their income away from jurisdictions where income producing activities are conducted, other taxpayers in that jurisdiction bear a greater share of the burden.
   
• Businesses are harmed. MNEs may face significant reputational risk if their effective tax rate is viewed as being too low. At the same time, different businesses may assess such risk differently, and failing to take advantage of legal opportunities to reduce an enterprise’s tax burden can put it at a competitive disadvantage. Similarly, corporations that operate only in domestic markets, including family-owned businesses or new innovative companies, have difficulty competing with MNEs that have the ability to shift their profits across borders to avoid or reduce tax. Fair competition is harmed by the distortions induced by BEPS." - OECD, Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting

 

[Anderz]

Here I found an interesting explanation by Shunyamurti how all the psychology of the person can be transcended. Very interesting possibility. In ego consciousness we deal with all kinds of psychological issues, and all of them can be transcended by transcending the ego, and that is what A Course in Miracles is about too I recognize now.

 

[Anderz]

Rick Archer has interviewed a huge number of spiritual teachers. And in this recent video he interviews Aaron Abke who has talked a lot about A Course in Miracles and also about the Law of One.

 

[Anderz]

Really great interview with Aaron Abke. One of my favorite spiritual teachers. I like to combine several teachings, even when they are about the same topic. For example Aaron Abke says that fourth density in the Law of One will happen after 100,000 years and another Aaron, Aaron Doughty says that the transition into fourth density is happening now!!! I'm exaggerating a little bit but I combine teachings like that and think that, yes transition into fourth density is happening now and it will also take 100,000 years for us to master that level of density.

So I don't expect to be able to levitate or shapeshift my body within the next few years, haha, but at the same time I'm open to a shift into fourth density happening now and that there will be some significant changes happening I see it as a gradual process where we start as "unless you become like little children you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven" and then later "even greater things than I [Jesus] have done you will do also, and more".

[Anderz]

The ego has a misunderstanding of cause and effect. The result of that misunderstanding is fear.

Quote

"Without a cause there can be no effects, and yet without effects there is no cause. 2 The cause a cause is made by its effects; the Father is a Father by His Son. 3 Effects do not create their cause, but they establish its causation. 4 Thus, the Son gives Fatherhood to his Creator, and receives the gift that he has given Him. 5 It is because he is God's Son that he must also be a father, who creates as God created him. 6 The circle of creation has no end. 7 Its starting and its ending are the same. 8 But in itself it holds the universe of all creation, without beginning and without an end." - ACIM T-28.II.1.

In my model creation has a beginning. But okay, the unmanifested in my model is changeless, so that's compatible with ACIM.

Here is a tricky part from the quote: "Effects do not create their cause, but they establish its causation." This is nondual causality! Because it's not cause and effect from past to future since it says that the effect establishes the cause, not the other way around. Nor is it cause and effect from the future to the past, because it says that the effect doesn't create the cause. 

Quote

"Actually, "Cause" is a term properly belonging to God, and His "Effect" is His Son. 12 This entails a set of Cause and Effect relationships totally different from those you introduce into miscreation. 13 The fundamental conflict in this world, then, is between creation and miscreation. 14 All fear is implicit in the second, and all love in the first. 15 The conflict is therefore one between love and fear." - T-2.VII.3.:11-15

My interpretation of that quote is that Cause means the cause from the unmanifested (the Father) and the Effect is the manifested reality (the Son). So causality is a result of the changeless unmanifested. That's nondual causality.

Misunderstanding causality is a part of the ego delusion. One of the first lessons in ACIM is: "I see only the past." The ego sees only the past because it uses memories even when predicting the future. But there is also another way that the ego sees the past: the ego sees cause and effect as going from past to future.

Fear is a result of the belief that something can go wrong in the future. And ACIM says that fear is implicit in miscreation. And the ego miscreates through the belief that causality goes from past to future. With nondual causality nothing can go wrong in the future! Because all future events are caused by the changeless unmanifested.

[Anderz]

In this video Swami Sarvapriyananda discusses different arguments for and against free will. One interesting argument is that there is a difference between the feeling of doing something out of free will and doing something mechanically. Another argument he mentioned that I found very interesting is the logical semantic argument.

An example of logical semantic argument he gave is the the statement "Humans will have gone to Mars in 2050." It's unknown whether that statement is true or false, but the fact that it will be precisely true or false in the future shows that there is no free will. Philosophers probably argue for or against this claim, but I think it's true! Given that time continues to 2050, the statement will definitely be either true or false. It cannot be something in between.

There is also the argument that there is no free will because there isn't any separate individual in the first place. I think Leo used that argument. Personally I think that there is no free will. But then what about the feeling of free will is that a redundant fluke of nature?

The feeling of free will is very important. This is obvious in ego consciousness, and it will remain important even when transcending the ego from an integral transcend and include perspective.

My new take on free will is that it's an expression of nondual causality! Because with causality only going from past to future, then without free will it would result in the experience of being a mechanical robot just performing all actions automatically in a deterministic way. Within nodual causality the cause of our actions are from the infinite unmanifested and cannot be predicted with some mechanical causality. And the feeling of free will is an actual result of the nondual causality.

[Anderz]

Ha! Confusion in the mind is caused by misperception of causality! I still have the view that confusion is caused by ego tensions, but more simply the confusion is a result of the belief in cause and effect from past to future.

This could be a powerful insight for mindfulness practice. Confusion feels awful, and confusion is worse than fear since at least fear can be used for protection. I now invented a practice called conscious confusion, which is to be mindful of confusion and rest with one's awareness in the confusion. It will feel nasty but with the knowledge about what the confusion actually is, it should result in the confusion together with the unpleasant feeling melting away.

Conscious confusion is a form of subjective scientific empirical study. The mind cannot fool itself and believe that the confusion has dissolved because that means peace and clarity. A phony mental construct of believing that the confusion has dissolved will reveal its falseness by agitating thoughts and emotions instead of peace and clarity. In fact, building that kind of false certainty is how the ego operates. That creates a buildup of fear leading to tensions, insecurity, anger and other derivatives of fear.

Conscious confusion starts with the idea that causality is nondual, meaning the cause of things, situations and events is the whole of reality itself. This means that it's impossible to point at some separate thing, person or event and take it as being the cause. The true cause is knowable as totality and unknowable in detail. The second step of conscious confusion is to do the mindfulness practice which simply is to observe the confusion in oneself dissolve.

[Anderz]

The belief in causality being from past to future also affects everything in society. Especially how we interpret reality as being machine-like, mechanical. Even essentially all of science today is based on this misperception. Rupert Sheldrake has a new edition of his book about questioning many beliefs in science today. He talks about that in this new video and it will be interesting to hear if he mentions something about causality:

 

[Anderz]

Rupert Sheldrake presented some interesting new results, such as epigenetic inheritance. It's still duality causality though.

Nondual causality gives the largest possible perspective. I discovered that it's also useful to add three aspects to the nondual causality: 1) it's deterministic, 2) it produces larger and larger holons, and 3) it's always constructive. It's difficult to prove those aspects but they can be added to improve the conscious confusion practice I mentioned earlier.

If the belief is that the causality can cause accidents or always will lead to deterioration, then that's a false belief in my opinion. And as A Course in Miracles says, nothing real can be threatened. And to dissolve habits of confusion the belief about causation needs to be changed into a constructive one.

[Anderz]

In this video Eckhart Tolle talks about how concepts are lifeless. He also quoted Ken Wilber and mentioned the term flatland to describe the perception of reality without depth.

Tolle also said that we need concepts. That made me think about how concepts are related to nondual causality. An example of a concept is the word "tree". The word tree is different than an actual tree. The word tree is a label, a concept.

From a nondual perspective it's misleading to say that a concept is lifeless, because from a nondual perspective everything is life. And it's even false to say that the word "tree" is caused by real trees when using nondual causality. So that's a new perspective for me that I found interesting.

So do we need concepts? From a nondual perspective and causality that's an invalid question, because everything has to be taken as a whole interconnected web. Very puzzling! I will do mindfulness practice using conscious confusion and examine what happens to my conceptual knowing.