Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 99
One of the world's most powerful cults is the Unification Church, otherwise known as The Moonies. It was founded by Korean business tycoon, prophet, and convicted felon, Sun Myung Moon.
Here's an eye-opening documentary about it:
*Remember to take Wikipedia pages about major cults with a grain of salt. Cults have no qualms about falsifying their own Wikipedia pages to make themselves look better.
Sometimes you become so conscious of the truth of a matter that you just go silent.
Truth and silence work both ways: deep truth results in long silence, long silence results in deep truth.
Train yourself to bask in silence, like a cat basking in the rays of the sun.
I love this example of a strange loop by Belgian surrealist artist, Rene Magritte.
Here's how Wikipedia describes Magritte's style: "He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. Magritte's constant play with reality and illusion has been attributed to the early death of his mother."
René Magritte described his paintings as "visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."
Just like nonduality. God is a strange loop. You try to know yourself, but you cannot.
Just saw this amazing example of recontextualization, as discussed in my Understanding Recontextualization video.
People sometimes think, "But Leo, how am I going to make a career out of my passion? What if my passion is something weird that cannot earn money?"
What people don't understand is, virtually any passion can be turned into a profitable life purpose and a career. Especially now in a globalized internet economy. Look at how this guy is following his passion:
That could be you — metaphorically ;)
Don't be afraid to be weird. Own your passion, whatever it is. You can be weird as long as you are also strategic and following the principles laid out in my Life Purpose Course.
Life doesn't get much Greener than this:
Pay close attention if watching this video triggers judgment in you. That's the Green value system rubbing up against your Orange & Blue ego.
How deeply have you integrated Green? How comfortable are you with Green? If this kind of value system disturbs you, you're not as developed as you like to think.
Conscious Capitalism, Inc is a non-profit organization started by the founder of Whole Foods, John Mackey, whose mission is to integrate consciousness with business. They take a Spiral Dynamics stage Green/Yellow approach to business.
Pretty cool!
If you are running a stage Orange business and you do not evolve your business into Green or above in the next 50 years, your business will be crushed by Green/Yellow corporations. So stop chasing max profits and start thinking strategically about how your business fits within human society at large. Your business must serve a super-ordinate purpose beyond lining your wallet.
Monism is simply the idea that "strictly speaking, there exists only a single thing, the Universe, which can only be artificially and arbitrarily divided into many things" and that "only one kind of stuff exists, although many things may be made up of this stuff."
This "stuff" is consciousness, or "mind", out of which EVERYTHING is made. So... An atom is consciousness; a tree is consciousness; a car is consciousness; a rock is consciousness; the sun is consciousness; a mathematics equation is consciousness; a political party is consciousness; the Big Bang is consciousness; your skull is consciousness; the pixels on this screen are consciousness; and so on until every last object in the universe is accounted for. Reality is one unified field of consciousness which subdivides itself in infinite variations.
This is a very elegant and powerful explanation of reality. It also happens to be Absolutely True. It is so true that its truth is prior to any religion, philosophical system, scientific theory, or physical law. It is more true than 1 = 1.
I recommend you thoroughly read this Wikipedia entry on Monism. It's a great encapsulation of metaphysics, religion, and God across history. Monism is just another word for nonduality, and every culture around the world has a storied history of it because it turns out to be the ultimate truth. The only problem is that ultimate truth turns out to be a tricky thing for the mind to grasp, leading to much confusion and controversy.
You can only appreciate this game after you understand what strange loops are, and that YOU are a strange loop.
These are the kind of games I was interested in making when I was a game designer. It took me several decades to realize that my love of game design was really just my interest in showing off the beauty of God. That's really what all art is about.
Sometimes we don't realize how deep our motivations run until we're years into our spiritual journey. Most artists do not understand why they are artists. It's a form of pseudo-spirituality.
This game goes well with my other video: Life Is A Maze
Here's a great article by Dr. Don Beck (developer of Spiral Dynamics) on the nuances of terrorism. Terrorism is a lot more complex than you've been led to believe in the mainstream media: