Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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Another fragment from the book I am writing:
Your mind is constructing the notion of 'substance' in order to construct your sanity and sense of self. When you were born (so to speak), you invented the idea that objects are made out of substances. This is not a scientifically proven idea, but the ego doesn’t care. It is a very deep construction of the ego-mind in order for it to feel like a real human being. You don’t understand this yet, but in order to be human you had to assign a substance to yourself. In your mind, being human is a kind of 'substance' you think you are or have. You invented the idea that you are a physical object made of smaller physical objects. For that to work you had to invent the idea of physical objects. “But Leo! Look at this chair, that is a physical object!” No, a chair is not a physical object. You invented that. A chair is a non-physical figment of Consciousness. This is very different from a physical object. Or, if you are more religiously-inclined then you invented the substance called a 'soul' and you gave yourself a soul. This soul is as invented as a physical object. What is a soul made of anyway? The ego-mind doesn't know and doesn't care. All it needs is to use that empty concept as an anchor point to ground itself.
These are not just word games, you actually believe you are a physical object! As long as you believe that, you cannot Awaken nor realize God. In order to realize God you must undo all of the ego-mind's finite anchor points. "I am a biological creature made out of atoms" is one of many such anchor points. "I am a soul inside of a physical body" is another common one. All of these anchor points must be deconstructed. The more of them you deconstruct the deeper you will realize God. These anchor points keep your identity/mind/intellect finite.
The very notion that objects have finite discrete substances is a hallucination. Discreteness itself is imaginary. Being discrete is not absolute, yet all of science assumes it is. Your true identity is indiscrete.
Turn your skepticism towards questioning the notion of substance. What is substance? Where did this idea come from? Why do you take it so seriously? What if Reality is not made out of substances at all? What if you have no substance? This is the proper use of skepticism.
This probably won't make sense right now, but one day it will: If you have no substance, that means you are God.
Another way to put it: God's substance is everything/nothing simultaneously. God is a superposition of all imaginable substances, qualities, identities.
Osho, still wrong on God:
Simply put, relativity means that you can draw an equally valid map of the Earth from any angle, not just with North as up or Britain at the center. A map of Earth is just as valid if it centers New Zealand with North at 49 degrees. But now extend this relativity to ontology/being itself. When scientists say that Reality is made of atoms, quarks, strings, or equations, this is as foolish as saying that the center of the Earth is Britain and North is up. Science does not yet understand that ontology is entirely relative.
"But Leo, if ontology is relative, doesn't that mean that when you say that reality is Consciousness/God then that's also relative?" No. Consciousness/God is not relative, it is absolute. The difference is that Consciousness/God is not like an atom, quark, string, equation. Those are all finite, relative things. Consciousness in not like that. Consciousness is not a thing at all! Consciousness is made out of every finite possibility. Consciousness is what makes ontology relative. So there is no performative contradiction here. It is absolutely the case that Consciousness is the only Reality, and this Consciousness is made out of literally Everything/Nothing. The Reality of Consciousness is not relative, it is absolute. But all finite substances are relative.
When I say that Reality is made of Consciousness this is different in kind from anything scientists say when they propose their finite physical theories. These are not alike claims because all their claims are finite and my claim is Infinite. Infinity is the only correct ontology. Infinity as the one true ontology is what creates endless relativity. Infinity is the absolute container for all things relative, like science.
Infinity as an ontology exists in a category of its own, in a category that contains only one member, Itself. That is why Reality is precisely how it is and not otherwise, because there is only one way it could be. All other ways are self-deception. Another way to think about this is: Infinity is all possible ways. There is only one way to be all possible ways. If you drew a map of the Earth in every possible way, that would be what Reality is truly like. Reality/Consciousness/God is all-inclusive. That's why your way of viewing it feels so real and true, because your one way is an infinitesimal part of Absolute Truth.
"Consciousness is made of atoms" is just one infinitesimal way of viewing Reality. Scientists don't understand this yet. They keep assuming Reality can be explained with some collection of finite views. What is quantum mechanics? What is string theory? What is physics? What is evolution? What is science? What is math? These are all just finite, narrow views of Infinity.
No collection of finite views can ever explain Infinity/God/Consciousness/Reality/Truth, unless the collection is infinite. It is as if scientists are trying to explain the entire number line by picking individual favorite numbers. One physicist says the number line is made out of 3s. Another says its made out of 5s. And then they argue endlessly with each other about it, thinking that one of them must be right. No. They are all wrong. They are all playing finite games when the real game is Infinite.
The fundamental question is, Why would anything be limited at all? Why wouldn’t everything just be unlimited? And the answer, of course, is that everything IS unlimited. The only limits that exist are those Everything imagines to entertain Itself. The core mistake of science is that science assumes Reality must start out limited. Why does science assume this? Because humans only know the limited world. They don’t see that the limited is a construct of the Unlimited. Humans are so mired in the limited that they cannot even believe that something Unlimited can be real. Science is so mired in dealing with the limited that when it encounters the Unlimited it tells itself that it can’t be real, it is unscientific, there must be a mistake. No, the only mistake is treating limits as inherent to Reality. Limits are not fundamental, the Unlimited is fundamental. All limits are imaginary. All of Reality’s limits are consciously self-imposed in the same way that all limits in a video game are self-imposed. There is nothing stopping a video game designer from giving the player unlimited resources and abilities — but doing so ruins the game.
Mathematicians think Reality is made of math. Physicists think reality is made of physics. Programmers think Reality is a computer. Scientists think Reality is made of science. And rats think Reality is made of cheese. How cute.
Reality cannot be made out of any exclusive thing. Reality can only be made out of the One all-inclusive thing, which is Nothing/Infinity. Reality is not made out of math, physics, computers, or science for the same reason it is not made out of cheese: because being made out of anything particular is too biased and too narrow. What is the broadest, most unbiased way Reality could be? To be made out of Nothing/Everything. So that’s exactly how it is.
Just ask yourself, Why would Reality be made out of one thing over another? Notice that there cannot be a reason since no finite thing can be any more fundamental than another. It is no easier to create any finite thing over any other finite thing. It is no easier to create an electron than a kangaroo.
This is AI, but I share it because it is insightful. This is a great explanation of how God works.
Understanding itself is Divine.
Science is one of the most egregious and devious forms of gaslighting. Scientists make mystical people feel like idiots when in fact they are smarter than scientists. One of the things my work does is beat back that gaslighting, to create space for people to be both mystical and rational. Science is so busy gaslighting people that they have no room to entertain mystical intelligence. Science’s gaslighting and strawmanning of mysticism has made it seem like something for morons, when it is in fact vastly more intelligent than science.
Watch out for scientific gaslighting. Actualized.org gives you the conceptual tools you need to dismantle the gaslighting you will surely get from scientists.
Is the gaslighting intentional and malicious? No. It is just the natural consequence of ignorance, closedmindedness, and conformity. A scientific person honestly believes he is defending truth and reason. That's the tragedy of it. "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do."
