ACIM Journal

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The idea of reality being only waves can be applied to fear and love in A Course in Miracles. Fear is a result of the vibration being too low to form a larger holon. And then as the vibration increases our whole planet takes a leap into a higher level of complexity. So higher density in the Law of One then means higher vibration.

Here I found an old video where Gregg Braden explains the increase of complexity as the vibration increases:

 

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One idea I got from the Wolfram Physics Project is that time and length can get smaller and smaller while the speed of light remains constant. Smaller length means shorter time period and higher frequency.

A simple illustration of this is to divide by two and keep on adding: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... = 1. This means that even as the number of parts approaches infinity the sum will remain limited to 1.

And in terms of time, the whole sum of parts can be squeezed into the now moment. This results in an ever increasing frequency of vibrations. And the higher the vibration, the more complex manifested reality becomes. Unmanifested reality is already infinite yet the manifested reality increases in frequency all the time and will never reach infinity. This produces increasing complexity and the process of evolution.

This video illustrates how infinitely many parts can fit into a finite space:

 

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Wow, several top news headlines about QAnon! For example:

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"Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon Supporter, Wins House Primary in Georgia" - The New York Times, Aug 12, 2020

QAnon has been quiet for a while. It will be interesting to see if the Durham report is released in August.

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"Do not mistake silence for inaction.
Q" - Q post 4618

 

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An Advaita expert said that Brahman as the changeless Father/God is Saguna Brahman.

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"Saguna Brahman (lit. "The Absolute with qualities"[1]) came from the Sanskrit saguṇa (सगुण) "with qualities, gunas" and Brahman (ब्रह्मन्) "the Absolute", close to the concept of immanence, the manifested divine presence." - Wikipedia

And he also said that Brahman and Para Brahman are the same. But I read that different interpretations exist. Some say that Prama Brahman is higher than Brahman.

I think I will stick to Para Brahman as emptiness/form and Brahman as the changeless Father/God to make fit the other major religions. And also, Para Brahman and Brahman are one, and with Brahman and Saguna Brahman being one, then it becomes essentially the same as the definitions the Advaita expert used. Nitpicking semantics, but I wanted to document the term Saguna Brahman.

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Mooji posted this new video from a satsang from 2017 that I found to be a powerful description of how the mind attacks itself:

 

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What Mooji talked about is in A Course in Miracles called attack thoughts.

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"If the cause of the world you see is attack thoughts, you must learn that it is these thoughts which you do not want. 2 There is no point in lamenting the world. 3 There is no point in trying to change the world. 4 It is incapable of change because it is merely an effect. 5 But there is indeed a point in changing your thoughts about the world. 6 Here you are changing the cause. 7 The effect will change automatically." - ACIM W-pI.23.2.

And Mooji mentioned something similar to what I wondered about earlier, about how the mind can change its problem while the worry remains the same. It's the same ego mind, Mooji said. The ego thinks that one problem is different than another problem. They are all the same kind of attack thoughts. 

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A practice I discovered I call conscious certainty. The ego is always uncertain. And so if the ego musters up its own sense of certainty, such as being stoic, tough, self-confident and poised, then that's totally phony! Because since the ego is always uncertain at the deepest levels the ego-made kind of certainty is a facade that in reality adds to the inner conflict and fortifies the ego consciousness of separation.

Instead a seemingly counterintuitive method is to be mindful of confusion and uncertainty in oneself. And then recognize that the uncertainty is a false perspective. So instead of trying to combat uncertainty by suppressing it by covering it up with a layer of pretended certainty, the uncertainty is caught directly and identified. The identification of uncertainty as being false is enough to over time undo it.

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Is uncertainty a correct perspective? It certainly isn't! Because we can examine all our memories and discover that they are filled with moments in our lives when we have been uncertain. And yet the memories themselves are certain! So the uncertainty is something added, a false assumption.

At first it may seem that even if we admit that memories are certain, the future appears to still be uncertain. But that's the same kind of mistake only in the opposite direction. We can be uncertain about tomorrow and when tomorrow actually comes it will be certain and our memories of today equally certain.

A Course in Miracles says that uncertainty comes from judgment:

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"You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and your brothers totally without judgment. 2 When you recognize what you are and what your brothers are, you will realize that judging them in any way is without meaning. 3 In fact, their meaning is lost to you precisely because you are judging them. 4 All uncertainty comes from the belief that you are under the coercion of judgment. 5 You do not need judgment to organize your life, and you certainly do not need it to organize yourself. 6 In the presence of knowledge all judgment is automatically suspended, and this is the process that enables recognition to replace perception." - ACIM T-3.VI.3. 

 

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The changeless nondual ground of being is the cause of all changes. The infinite unmanifested, the unmoved mover, turns into the finite manifested world of form and impermanence.

So what appears uncertain is in reality certain. What appears impermanent is in reality permanent. For the changeless whole is what turns into change. This means that change is an appearance caused by limitation and not some active principle. There is no separate agents able to cause change through any means, be it through randomness, free will or spontaneous action.

Therefore the future is certain. As an example, what will the closing stock price of Apple be today? If we look at the fractional part, how many cents, then that appears completely uncertain to us. From a nondual perspective even that value is certain.

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"Appearances deceive, but can be changed. 2 Reality is changeless. 3 It does not deceive at all, and if you fail to see beyond appearances you are deceived. 4 For everything you see will change, and yet you thought it real before, and now you think it real again. 5 Reality is thus reduced to form, and capable of change. 6 Reality is changeless. 7 It is this that makes it real, and keeps it separate from all appearances. 8 It must transcend all form to be itself. 9 It cannot change.

The miracle is means to demonstrate that all appearances can change because they are appearances, and cannot have the changelessness reality entails. 2 The miracle attests salvation from appearances by showing they can change. 3 Your brother has a changelessness in him beyond appearance and deception, both. 4 It is obscured by changing views of him that you perceive as his reality. 5 The happy dream about him takes the form of the appearance of his perfect health, his perfect freedom from all forms of lack, and safety from disaster of all kinds. 6 The miracle is proof he is not bound by loss or suffering in any form, because it can so easily be changed. 7 This demonstrates that it was never real, and could not stem from his reality. 8 For that is changeless, and has no effects that anything in Heaven or on earth could ever alter. 9 But appearances are shown to be unreal because they change." - ACIM T-30.VIII.1-2

 

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I find it interesting that in the Wolfram Physics Projects, reality is modeled by a single deterministic graph. The graph is no-thingness, only connections between points which in themselves are empty. And the infinite expansion of the graph is changeless.

The Wolfram model is exactly the same as the nondual perspective! Then how to explain randomness and free will? The answer is that in the Wolfram model randomness and free will are appearances. As a simple analogy, the sun appears to rise above the horizon at dawn. In reality it's the earth's rotation that makes it appear as if the sun is rising.

A spiritual prediction that can be made from this is that people will more and more realize the nondual perspective, just like how people centuries ago started to realize that earth orbits around the sun instead of the previous belief of the sun orbiting around the earth.

 

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Suffering is a result of individual control, for the reality of the situation is that no separate control is possible so it inevitably leads to conflict, strife, friction and effort spent on an illusion. A Course in Miracles mentions several times that suffering including pain is an ego trait.

Many nonduality teachers make a distinction between pain and suffering, and that's valid since suffering can be seen as the psychological reaction while pain is a physical sensation. With integral nonduality it's possible to add development, evolution and progress.

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"It has been hopeless to attempt to find the hope of peace upon a battleground. 2 It has been futile to demand escape from sin and pain of what was made to serve the function of retaining sin and pain. 3 For pain and sin are one illusion, as are hate and fear, attack and guilt but one. 4 Where they are causeless their effects are gone, and love must come wherever they are not. 5 Why are you not rejoicing? 6 You are free of pain and sickness, misery and loss, and all effects of hatred and attack. 7 No more is pain your friend and guilt your god, and you should welcome the effects of love." - ACIM T-29.II.3.

Integral nonduality is a more complete model. Ordinary nonduality teachings I have found lack evolution and progress. The danger with that is that it can lead to a false kind of acceptance of pain. With integral nonduality it's possible to treat pain as a warning signal indicating that growth and development is needed.

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The coronavirus crisis is still going on! This is absolutely incredible. I wrote the same thing earlier but now the summer is almost over! And now they are accusing Putin of having developed a fake vaccine, by himself! Just kidding, and it's possible that Putin at least indirectly can expose the whole vaccine scam industry.

It's really frustrating that the crisis is still going on after what is it half a year almost. The potential good is that it's the world "caterpillar" that is coming to an end, as Bruce Lipton talked about, and that a new world butterfly will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of all the unbelievable hoaxery that has been going on throughout human history.

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I have been focusing very much on Christianity and Hinduism, especially from a nondual perspective. Here I found an excellent presentation of the Kabbalah:

Dr. Michael Laitman explains how the Kabbalah is about reversing and extending the ego. That's a new idea to me. I have to ponder it for a while. Maybe it's even the same idea as in A Course in Miracles! Explained from another perspective.

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Here is another interesting perspective presented by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh about how we think together with the whole earth!

I will do some searches for a Sufi presentation. It's useful to examine many different perspectives.

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Here I found a short Sufi presentation of nonduality. Very similar to what I have found in other spiritual traditions and very clear.

 

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Nonduality teacher Francis Lucille said that the mind doesn't create. It's the Source that creates the thoughts, he said. That made me able to recognize that my ego and my thoughts are created from Source!

That's a kind of meta perspective, but it's more than that, because an ordinary meta perspective can still be on a conceptual level, meaning still the ego thinking at a meta level. The perspective of Source is to sense as an experience that all of one's thoughts, the sense of a personal self and the entire physical world are created by the Source.

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"Creation is the sum of all God's Thoughts, in number infinite, and everywhere without all limit. 2 Only love creates, and only like itself. 3 There was no time when all that it created was not there. 4 Nor will there be a time when anything that it created suffers any loss. 5 Forever and forever are God's Thoughts exactly as they were and as they are, unchanged through time and after time is done." - ACIM W-pII.11.1.

 

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But the perspective of the Source, isn't that already obvious from a nonduality perspective? No! Because the ego deals with the level of thoughts and remains trapped there. So this is a for me new perspective I experience.

And of course, it's not only my own thoughts being created by the Source. It's everybody's thoughts! So when we are running around in ego consciousness believing that we think independently from each other, that's a total illusion! It's Source, like a big projector projecting all our thoughts into existence along with the entire physical world.

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As an absurd example, when a crocodile is chewing on a man, both the crocodile and the man are the action of the same Source. It's total insanity! That's probably what ACIM means by how we tend think things are "natural" when in reality they are effed up as hell.

So what is needed is an enormous shift of perspective from conflict to peace. And we need to start recognizing our current world, including the natural world, as being completely insane. There is a purposeful method to the madness though, for the purpose of growth and development.

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Epic Games sues Apple and Google because they removed their game from their app stores. I posted earlier about how Apple and Google take something like a 30% cut of the revenue. Just like the Steve Wozniak lawsuit against Google I posted about how it shows how corporations are unfit for dealing with surveillance of crime, this new lawsuit by Epic Games shows how corporations are unfit to be in control of digital currencies.

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"Epic Games Sues Apple And Google Over Fortnite Ban As Internet Pioneer Tim O’Reilly And Pundits Call For AI Oversight" - Forbes.com, Aug 14, 2020

 

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In this new video Brad Johnson said something amazing that really resonated with me. It sounds outrageous from a mainstream perspective because that's not at all what we have been taught by parents, learned in schools or heard on the news. His channeling can feel New Agie but there is I believe a kernel of truth to what he said.

Brad (and Athena) said (from about 52 minutes): "... humanity needs to grow up ... a lot of races are afraid of us ... because you are so powerful ... when you have these hostile emotions and you're projecting that towards another one of these beings, to them it's almost like they're being raped, by your emotions, because that's how powerful you are. You are again not disciplined enough ... you don't realize what you're doing."

That seems correct to me, except I doubt that higher beings are "afraid" of us. It's more like how our energy field is filled with conflict. It's a powerful energy field even in ego consciousness but it's dragon energy in the sense of the great dragon being the devil without us knowing that we have this devilish effect on higher beings.