Knowing - Assorted Brief Writings
Also see a discussion on Knowledge
of the World,
or other Assorted
Brief Writings.
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(2005)
There are two perspectives on the one cosmos and there is truth in
both.
There is the inner experience of the transcendent field,
through the intellect and heart united,
and the outer experience
of the phenomenal world, through the lens of the senses and the
mind.
These provide subjective and mechanistic views on the one
cosmos and there is truth in both.
But the Truth lies beyond these, beyond the union of inner and
outer, in the greater space,
wherein no-thing exists, but which is
the substance of all things,
wherein there is only one and not
many, where all things have their beginning and end.
This third
perspective grasps the root and the entire tree thereby.
It reaches beneath the separate self and comprehends the world of
the true Self.
Prior to individuation into a separate perspective,
there is no separation,
there is only oneness and that is the
deepest reality of all.
We are each Atman and Atman is Brahman,
our Self is the Self of the Cosmos.
From out of the unified field we resolve many forms,
the field
resonates on many levels and like is drawn to like,
we resonate
and harmonise like voices in a choir,
with harmony upon harmony we
build ever higher.
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This is from a dream; I awoke with this, in embryo, within my mind:
The spaces between objects and the moments between events,
these
are blind spots wherein happens the rest of reality,
these are
cracks in the mechanistic world view, through which we may peer,
and
see into the beautific vision of the greater whole.
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Regarding Satsang (communion with Truth):
We each experience and conceptualise the world from different perspectives and form agendas centred upon these perspectives and we attain unity by keeping things near to the lowest common denominator. These agendas conflict, our perspectives conflict and our worlds collide. Then we communicate, purportedly to resolve these differences but too often these are only power struggles. We protect our perspective and undermine the other's, we use strategies to win the argument rather than discover the truth. Our language and conceptual framework has been corrupted by these power games.
Is there some way of coming together to honour the truth, to respect our different perspectives and to collectively work toward a realisation of the truth? Perhaps using techniques of meta analysis and clarification; exploration of definitions, meanings, assumptions; a collective merging of different perspectives, ways of systematically exploring concepts together without our different perspectives constantly leading to conflict.
When words become weapons the truth cannot flow,
the first
casualty of any conflict is the truth...
Too often when I converse with another it seems to me that they
are either seeking entertainment,
or perhaps they are playing some
game or pursuing some agenda,
they know not what they are
discussing, nor do they care,
they accumulate knowledge to use as
a weapon to ensure the supremacy of their ego
within the
conversational battle that they assume they are engaged in.
The art of deep conversation seems to me to be lost amongst
contemporary Australians,
There is wisdom to be found in their
hearts but it only manifests in solitude,
as soon as they get
together their egos take control,
from here on, the only wise
action is silence.
I am no different, amongst people I was a
babbling fool,
until I learnt to keep my mouth shut.
It is true there are some who try and to some degree succeed,
but
the language is so confused,
the idiom is dominated by mundane
mass culture and sloppy thinking,
the words themselves have become
lies,
the Truth cannot transmit through this channel.
This is a major reason for my solitude,
to purify the sacred
space,
to seek wisdom.
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If I were to grip my life rigidly and control it consciously,
like
this society tried to teach me to do,
I would only move in
directions that are projections of what I already know,
I would be
programmed and unable to escape my programming,
and that leads me
down well worn paths that are drudgery for my soul.
By staying open to the universe I am essentially useless to the
societal machine,
I cannot be conditioned into a stable shape and
made to run in well worn ruts,
I keep changing and growing and
that's not good for a machine,
I would throw all the carefully
ordered static relationships out of balance,
I simply cannot hold
down a typical job unless I have a lobotomy.
But if society was conceived of not as a machine but an
organism,
then all this growing would only be the growth of the
organism too,
then people wouldn't have to be crippled and
'educated' to be robots,
they could be allowed to grow and learn
and evolve for the greater good of society.
Just think how different such a world would be!
Instead of
billions of factory workers we would have billions of geniuses.
Now
that mass production is virtually automated,
as soon as we get a
healthy distribution of the benefits of civilisation,
and a
healthy concept of what are the necessities in life,
maybe society
could flower with creative genius.
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Experience is the Mother of language,
it is the source and the
origin.
Experience is the conduit that draws Truth,
up from the ground
of being,
giving language its meaning and its very existence.
When language lords it over experience,
we all spiral into
delusion.
When ideas and expectations warp experience we lose all
contact with reality.
When the word 'freedom' means domination and oppression,
When
the word 'peace' means tougher laws and more surveillance,
When
the word 'progress' means growing despair and destruction,
When
the phrase 'economic rationalism' means the tightening grip of
mindless exploitation,
When the word 'education' means the
crippling of our genius and the breaking of our spirit,
When the
word 'God' means a character in a story telling you to hate other
people,
When the word 'love' means romantic escapism and a
valentines day marketing gimmick,
When the word 'reality' means
conformity to the current brand of insanity,
When our words bear
no relation to truth we are lost in delusion,
When our words
interpret our world for us our experience diverges from Truth,
this
newspeak is blinding us to the glory of reality,
and enslaving us
in a dreary mechanised world of shallow illusion.
This is the power of media driven modern propaganda,
it need
not tell blatant lies which any may know to be lies,
it subtly
warps our language, our perceptions, the meanings of things,
it
instils in us a sense of normality which is its vision of the world
it wants us to see.
Being ignorant of the nature of perception we experience our world
through these lies,
and we experience what they want us to
experience,
then it seems that experience is proof of what they
say.
We really perceive terrorists trying to enter the country,
when
they were only terrified human beings fleeing from regimes of terror.
We really perceive that military intervention has made the world
safer,
when really the world is about to explode in violence
because of all the militarism.
We really perceive that tougher law and order has put those
delinquents in there place,
when it was only children, brutalised
and confused who are now locked up in prison,
being slowly turned
into sociopathic monsters.
Billions of people, the world over, spend hours a day consuming
this propaganda,
experiencing their pseudo-reality through this lens of
lies and deceit,
subtly warping their whole understanding of
themselves,
their world and the meaning of everything.
I have not consumed mass media since 2001,
withdrawing from
that psychedelic drug my mind has clarified,
my perceptions are
more real and my world has expanded and deepened.
The lies that circulate as truth are astounding in their
nakedness,
but people still bow down to this emperor even though
he has no clothes.
Could it be because their minds have
internalised the clothes,
and they see these constructs of their
conditioning?
Even more astounding is the lie that is told,
“To you the
emperor may seem naked but everyone else sees his clothes”.
Virtually
everyone I have known has been sane enough to not really believe the
lies,
but they still bow down to them, perhaps because they are
told that everyone else believes them.
Could it be that virtually nobody believes these lies,
but
everyone goes along with it because they think everyone else will go
along with it?
Is this insanity or is this just stark raving mad?
If every brain cell in your head became apathetic and sloppy in
their functioning,
you would become insane.
If every person in
society became apathetic and sloppy in their discernment of
truth,
society would become insane.
Language can only be redeemed by an open minded return to its
source,
to experience the world anew, not through the lens of high
level constructs,
but with wide eyed awe and wonder.
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To say, “here is a mythical character, so believe in it,
and
these are what it said it liked and disliked, so adhere to
it”,
that's all a bit simplistic, naïve and static for a
modern, sophisticated, rapidly evolving society,
and to drift
without direction and guidance from the universe,
leaves us open
to all kinds of delusions and power struggles and destructive forces.
We need to get beyond the metaphors of spirituality and see their
metaphysical and scientific basis,
we need to bring science out of
its bondage as a tool for creating blind power,
we need to develop
a combined science and spirituality that asks the fundamental
questions,
What is this universe? What are we? Where are we going?
What's happening?
How can we fit in? How can we create and
participate? What dangers are there?
For only when we know our true context can we act
appropriately,
only when we know the wider agenda of which we are
a part can we know what is right and wrong,
only when we have
enough information can we act intelligently,
only when we know the
Truth can we avoid falling into delusion,
only when we harmonise
with that which is can we not come into conflict with that which
is,
only when we can create harmoniously, extending that which is,
can our creations last,
and become foundations of future creation rather than
passing delusions of ignorance and stupidity,
only then will we
cease to be brutal beasts and become co-creators with God.
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One might say that it is meme complexes that control us by weaving
delusions in our minds,
we are all carriers of memetic
infestations and by interacting we spread these infections,
but
the greatest spreader of memetic infection is the media.
It is a vast multi-tipped syringe for injecting memetic viruses
into the collective consciousness,
anyone may use it to spread
their contagion so long as it doesn't run counter to the media's
agenda.
Any crass marketing campaign, any populist fad that will
make money,
any attempt at social manipulation or deception that
furthers the capitalist, fascist hegemony,
all these are broadcast
throughout the nation, like crop-dusters spreading viruses through
the air,
we become infected, our minds are pushed and pulled,
we
lose control and become puppets to our memetic controllers,
but
not wanting to believe this we deny it, we own our actions and move
on,
indeed there are all kinds of memes at work in our
psyche,
memes to make us buy products, memes to make us fear
certain things,
memes to make us feel empowered when we succumb to
memetic pressure,
memes to keep us oblivious of our memetic
infection and loss of control,
memes to make us docile and
obedient, memes to make us love our oppressors,
memes to keep us
trapped in tiny prisons of delusion so we can never even see the
light of Truth,
memes to inoculate us from Truth in case we ever
stumble upon it,
to make us recoil in horror if we should ever
encounter that which isn't a sanctioned delusion.
There is both art and science in our use of memes, much of it is
deliberate but much is accidental.
We utilise these memes without
really understanding what they are or how they work,
in this it is
an art form. We know that spreading these kinds of lies elicits this
kind of behaviour,
so we use it to program and control whole
societies without understanding the full ramifications.
But they
all have side-effects, our minds are being pushed and pulled in ways
we do not understand,
I strongly suspect that the growing rate of
depression, apathy, anxiety, drug abuse, despair,
and mental and
social disorders of all kinds are closely related to our uncontrolled
use of memetic manipulation.
I have battled with several forms of drug addiction, social disorders, withdrawal from consumer products, withdrawal from discourses of comfort and social authenticity, withdrawal from the media, and numerous other ways in which I have confronted the memes that have controlled me.
If you are a junk food lover just try to go without for a while
and every time you pass a takeaway store, notice how your mind
responds, a meme complex wakes up and tries to control you,
or try
quitting cigarettes if you are a smoker and observe your mind
throughout the process,
or try to let go of your titles and job
descriptions and ego crutches and just become a nobody,
and
observe how your mind responds and keeps trying to reach for those
crutches.
But memes are far subtler than these obvious forms,
they
permeate our psychology, philosophy, metaphysics, spirituality,
science and language.
They condition our whole beliefs and
experiences of reality,
they form intricate self reinforcing
networks of beliefs that bind our minds,
just look at all the
various factions in politics,
the left or right or fascist or
capitalist or socialist or liberal or whatever,
each of these
factions is defined by a meme complex that has bound these
minds,
within its particular network of self reinforcing beliefs.
They have become blind to reality,
they see only the world as
portrayed through the filter of their meme complexes,
they can
only conceive of the world in terms of things they already believe,
I
too am bound by my own meme complex,
it is un-nameable but an
aspect of it I call IST,
without ideas I cannot grasp and speak
about things,
but IST is not blind to itself as most other meme
complexes are,
it knows it is a meme complex that veils the
Truth,
and it tries to take account of this and not lead me into
delusion.
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Could you carry on with your everyday activities in peace,
if
there was someone right next to you being horribly tortured?
What if they where a few metres away?
Perhaps out of sight but
their screams still pierced your ears?
Perhaps just out of range
of your perceptions?
What about in an opaque sound proof box right
next to you?
What about in some government institution or
psychopaths basement?
At what point does ones conscience not get aroused?
Where is
this threshold?
Is it entirely in the mind?
Does distance
really matter?
What about time?
What if it was someone you loved?
Would distance matter
then?
It is all a question of whether we are able to ignore it or
not.
If we can then we go on with our lives oblivious to their
suffering.
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Perception is a process occurring in time,
in a single moment
there is no perception,
there is only the transcendent
network,
there are no things, no places and no events,
this
world illusion cannot manifest in the moment,
it is as moments
blur together into past and future,
that the empirical story is
woven in our minds.
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The ego is the root of delusion,
it is formed out of illusion
and weaves illusion about itself,
to give itself substance and to
protect itself from Truth.
The body is a civilisation of trillions of cells,
out of their
intricate interactions they manifest mind,
within this context, at
the focal point of the senses,
the ego arises as a collective
executive,
it has no existence in itself without the underlying
functions of body and mind,
but the ego says “I am” and the
delusions begin.
This prototype can be seen manifesting elsewhere,
the world is
a civilisation of billions of people,
not to mention the animals,
plants and 'inanimate' participants,
out of their intricate
interactions they manifest culture or society,
within this
context, at the focal point of the communication
streams,
organisations arise as collective executives,
empires,
nation states, corporations, churches, institutions of all
kinds,
they have no existence in themselves without the underlying
functions of beings in society,
but they say “I am” and the
delusions begin.
For the ego to sustain its singular sovereignty it must deny the
reality of that which it is,
it weaves itself a personality or a
mythic character within a story,
it uses images, inclinations,
weaknesses and talents of its underlying substrate,
it identifies
with the body saying “I am the body” but this is a lie,
it
identifies with the mind saying “I am the mind” but this is a
lie,
it says “this body and mind are Mine” but that is a
lie,
it uses them in pursuit of its agendas and pays little heed
to their needs or their lives.
For organisations to sustain their singular authority they must
deny the reality of that which they are,
they weave themselves a
personality or a mythic character within a story,
they use images,
inclinations, weaknesses and talents of their underlying
substrate,
they identify with the people saying “I am the
people” but this is a lie,
they identify with the society saying
“I am the society” but this is a lie,
they say “these people
and this society are Mine” but that is a lie,
they use them in
pursuit of agendas and pay little heed to their needs or their
lives.
The ego has an agenda to maintain its existence,
this applies a
subtle warping pressure to all that passes by it,
all perceptions
and experiences are distorted so as to hide the Truth,
and to
maintain its illusion of sovereignty.
Organisations have an agenda to maintain their existence,
this
applies a subtle warping pressure to all that passes by them,
all
perceptions and experiences are distorted so as to hide the
Truth,
and to maintain their illusion of authority.
When one perceives and experiences through the lens of an
agenda,
all Truth is made subservient to that agenda,
if ones
agenda is to maintain a delusion then Truth is corrupted,
and
delusions proliferate as one moves further and further from the light
of reality,
and one spirals down into darkness and conflict with
reality.
Only when the substrate that one depends upon starts to give
way,
when the body falls prey to disease, when the people are in
open revolt,
only then do these beasts recognise the foundation that
supports them,
only then do they take small steps to align
themselves with Truth,
but too often they are trapped within
intricate webs of lies and deceits,
built up over years or
centuries and so entwined,
they know not what the Truth is nor how
to recognise it.
In their attempts to alleviate their suffering they apply all
kinds of warped and deluded ideas,
the body is in pain, maybe I
should take some drugs to hide the pain,
the people are in revolt,
maybe more law and order will suppress it,
the world is becoming
unliveable, maybe more technology and authoritarian intervention will
fix it,
they refuse to deal with the underlying problem,
because
it is their whole agenda and relationship with reality that is the
problem.
In their denial of Truth they look everywhere else but at
themselves for a solution,
it is they who must change, they who
must learn, they who must realign with reality,
if you are
suffering in your life look not to others, look to your ego,
and
its false expectations, look to the delusions that you cling to,
the
stories that fill your mind of past injustices or the greed and
avarice the corrupts your future,
that is the world that you
create around you as you experience it through the lens of your
agenda.
We each project our suffering upon each other that is true,
but
it is only by producing suffering within us that we are able to
project it onto others.
The ego within each of us and the
collective ego that forms amongst us tries to bind us in delusion,
to
fill us with fears, desires and false expectations so that we cling
to it as our saviour,
and to inoculate our minds against Truth,
Compassion, Reason and Justice.
If each of us were to cling to Truth as fervently as we now cling
to delusion,
we would each open up to reality and becoming full of
light we would become beacons of Truth,
and very soon the whole
world would light up with Truth, casting out darkness,
and all
would dwell in harmony with reality.
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To any who say “I know reality, its all about houses and cars
and friends and family”,
I say “you know a fragment of the world of appearances
and only a minute part thereof”,
I ask them to picture the
vastness of space as best they can,
or hundreds of millions of
ordinary people murdered out of ignorance and greed,
and I ask
them “how does this fit into your reality?”.
To truly know
reality one must sacrifice all delusions no matter how
comfortable.
The Truth is vast, implacable, inhuman and
absolute.
It will set one free but it is a hard road to tread.
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Only with an open mind and pure heart,
only in absolute
readiness to leave behind everything we once knew,
only then may
we know the Truth, only then may we be free.
All preconception, all knowledge is a prison for the soul,
only
wisdom may set us free,
but wisdom cannot be tamed, it is wild as
the universe is wild,
wisdom cannot be packaged and doled out to
the passive,
it must be keenly sought, hard won and lovingly
maintained.
There are no comfortable delusions where Truth lives,
in the
land of Truth there is certainty and timeless security,
but to
tread the path to this land requires absolute sacrifice,
at any
moment our world may seemingly be turned upside down,
but that is
only because our delusions are being shattered along the way.
On this holy pilgrimage to the land of Truth one cannot take
anything but ones soul,
all baggage must be discarded along the
way,
everything that we ever need is provided in abundance, no one
shall go without.
But any who cling to their baggage must stay behind with their
baggage,
for nothing impure may enter this land,
nothing impure
may exist in this land,
to enter it is to be purified, to see it
is to Know,
to Know it is to Love it, to Love it is to Be
it.
Truth is all there is, Truth is That which IS, Truth is God.
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Thoughts are internal symbols which we 'feel',
neural,
cognitive states that we experience.
These symbols can be
associated with things and can be manipulated,
this gives us the
idiom of thought.
These symbols form an internal permutation space
that we may navigate and explore,
a thought permutation is an idea
or concept.
Through perception and experience these internal states are
associated with perceptual states,
in this way we mirror our
perceptions and information flows into us,
the structure 'outside'
us creates structure 'inside' us.
Memory records symbols and permutations, these recorded ideas are
knowledge.
Thought is the manipulation of symbols, thought cannot
escape the idiom of thought,
it can only operate in the field of
the known.
When thought is instrumental in the perceptual process,
then
only that which is known or is a permutation of the known may be
perceived,
this filters perception and produces entropy or the
loss of information.
When thought is absent from the perceptual process,
then there
is no reliance on known patterns and permutations,
the structure
of the incoming signal may imprint itself directly upon the
mind,
without being categorised and ordered according to what is
known.
Then we may perceive to the limit of our ability,
not hindered
and limited by that which we think or know or believe,
then we
become a mirror to Truth rather than a mirror to our delusions.
It is when thought becomes quiet that intelligence becomes
possible,
only when thought is still may the subtle voice of the
unknown speak to us,
only when thought is still may God be known.
Thought points to things but it cannot capture the essence of
any-thing,
thought binds us to the world of our past and the
projections of this past into the future,
intelligence opens us up
to the present, the eternal timeless creative NOW.
To experience that which is utterly new one must forget all that
one knows,
then one may remember if one chooses to and then
interpret the experience,
but know that this interpretation is
just an abstraction,
the unconditined experience is a glimpse of reality, whilst the thought is
just a construct.
If it is the Truth you seek,
do not identify with your
thoughts,
do not dwell in your thoughts,
they are an inner
reflection of reality,
but they need not bare any resemblance to
the actual reality.
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Thought is an idiom of permutations constructed from base
idiomatic elements,
simple ideas merging to form more complex
ideas.
Thought can only operate on discrete symbols, on fragments
and pieces.
When thought dominates experience the world is broken into
pieces,
categories proliferate and differences are all we see.
The
whole is lost, the unity and completeness is lost,
we come to know
ourselves as isolated fragments in a multitude of isolated fragments.
To counter this we imagine connections, interactions,
and
causal chains that bind these fragments together,
but these are
found by concerted study and only the tiniest portion of them,
may
be catalogued and understood as fragments in themselves.
But this obsession with fragments of things and fragments of
relations,
is a product of our obsession with thought.
Without
thought the whole comes flooding in,
The ancients did not need science because they were not blind like
us,
they could see directly,
they did not need to know through
vast edifices of accumulated thought,
they simply had to still
their mind and open up to the universe.
SMN is the means by which I have unified the fragments of my
world,
to catch a glimpse of the whole,
but to truly know the
whole I must forget all I know,
and listen to the universe.
One can only experience Truth, one cannot grasp it and package
it,
for then it becomes knowledge, then it becomes dead specimens
of the past,
but the Truth is forever present, although timeless
it is forever new.
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To desire is to have an agenda,
to have an agenda is to have
expectations, hopes, needs, wants.
To experience the world through
the lens of an agenda,
is to experience a world warped by an
agenda,
there is no truth to be found here.
For one who seeks truth,
to harbour desires is to have a
conflict of interest.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
If this is a
glib cliché to you then your mind is closed as you wander aimlessly
into hell.
We are fed with countless lies and delusions designed
to subtly warp our minds, lives and worlds.
Evil is not some vast
hideous ogre that is "ultimate evil",
that is a myth to
obfuscate the nature of evil, promoted by those who wish to profit
from evil.
Evil is ignorance and delusion, it dwells in us all,
to
the degree that we deny Truth and we dwell in delusion, we are
evil,
all evils in this world are perpetrated by well meaning but
confused people.
The human formal structure is built upon a
foundation of evil,
it is profoundly confused, ignorant,
delusional and arrogant.
These are the seeds of evil - be sure
they do not proliferate in your life,
since the fruits of evil are
destruction.
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Ignorance is the root of evil,
Entropy is sin,
but there is
no judge and law tablets,
these are an archaic analogy devised
within a patriarchal context.
God is not some great ego in the sky,
'God' is an analogy that
uses a human power figure,
To represent the foundation of
existence.
This analogy has been horribly misunderstood,
but rather than
neglect the word entirely I sometimes use it in place of
'Reality',
because they mean the same thing.
Just as the “laws of physics" have no judge presiding over
them, but are facts of nature,
so too are the “laws of God”.
Those who dwell in ignorance and delusion will lose sight of
truth,
will come into conflict with That which Is,
and will
bring suffering upon themselves and others,
due to the natural
order of the universe.
One who approaches God with a closed mind and hardened heart will
never know God,
this is the same with any attempt at knowing
anything and God is the most subtle to know.
God cannot change these laws, but can only advise us on how to act
in regards to them.
Out of compassion we are guided from without
and within, if only we will accept this guidance.
To know God is
to know Truth, to know Truth is to live in harmony with the world,
to
live in harmony is to avoid conflict, suffering, decay and
destruction.
One who knows truth dwells in heaven whereas one who denies truth dwells in hell.
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Think not of sin as some substance within a symbolic game,
sin
is not some 'dirt' that adheres to us,
or that is inherent in
certain empirical configurations of space, time and matter,
such
as certain actions, words, events or ideas.
These
misunderstandings arise from patriarchal analogies taken literally.
Sin is ignorance and entropy,
original sin is simply the
forgetting of our divinity,
that necessarily accompanied the
decent into matter,
thus producing singular experiences of a
world.
God ordained this for God sought to now God as the 'other',
and
thereby experience God.
We are participants in this glorious
process,
through our forgetting and our struggle to remember, we
serve God.
To commit a certain action is not in itself sinful,
sin is
ignorance not some symbolic substance inherent in the action.
One
can only murder another if one is ignorant of ones own divinity,
and
the divinity of the other.
This ignorance is the sin, the action is its consequence.
To
simply abide by certain 'laws' but still not confront ones
ignorance,
is to remain in sin and to hold up ones illusions
between God and thee.
The actions do not contain sin and the laws
do not protect one from sin.
Although particular laws repress particular
consequences,
ignorance always has consequences,
rather than
kill thy brother directly,
out of confusion and
self-righteousness,
thou might condemn him for doing Gods work.
It is only in opening our minds and hearts to Truth and to
God,
that sin is cast out, that our delusions are cast out,
like
light annihilating darkness, wisdom annihilates sin.
As one is
filled with the light of God all obstructions are annihilated,
To be full of the light of God is to be transparent to the will of
God,
and to be a beacon of light, casting out all shadow of
ignorance.
In this way God comes to know God,
and the glorious
process comes to completion.
To dwell in delusion and cling to misunderstandings,
is to be
an obstacle in the path of God,
but know that nothing will stop
this process,
the longer we cling the longer it takes,
but
inevitably, all will turn their backs on worldly illusion,
and
turn to face the glory of God.
None shall be forsaken,
there is no eternal damnation,
for
each of us is a vital part of Gods plan,
each of us will know God
in time,
and Gods glory will be experienced by all.
When there is no darkness upon the face of creation,
then Gods
light will resonate throughout.
All creatures of God shall be
united,
every person, every being, every atom of creation,
shall
find completion in God.
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The Tower of Babel is a timely analogy,
where people discover
some fragments of knowledge,
a little technology, a little social
manipulation, a little science,
and in their ignorance and
arrogance they think that with these alone,
they may enter into
heaven and reap its rewards;
yet they cannot even conceive of what
heaven is.
They obsess over the works of their hands and minds,
shutting
their hearts to God,
alienating themselves from the Truth that
rises up from the ground of being,
denying the Life force that
sustains their very existence.
The more that they strive outwardly the more they decay
inwardly,
before they have progressed far, all their efforts are
struck down,
the implacable Truth which they have dishonoured
comes crashing in,
and they are confused and dismayed and inwardly
wounded.
Ignorance begets arrogance,
and together they carry us to
oblivion.
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We two legged's are so clever yet so foolish,
we obsess about
what we know,
and have no idea of the immensity of that which we
don't know.
We are children playing on the seashore,
building sand castles
with moats, collecting pretty shells,
and fighting over who plays
where and how,
but all the while the great ocean of truth lies
before us,
barely noticed in its immensity, it is implacable and
austere.
In the playtime of our lives we are careless and proud,
if only
we could see the hidden depths of that great ocean,
or to see it
unfurled in violent fury against the very spot we now sit and
play,
we would surely have greater respect for Truth,
and less
ignorance and arrogance.
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Ignorance draws to itself lessons from the Universe,
in this
way we may all grow wiser.
But arrogance denies these lessons,
this is why we need
catastrophe in order to learn anew.
We cling to illusions until we draw catastrophe upon us,
and
only at the last minute does our arrogance cave in.
Like one who dwells in toxins all their life ignoring the subtle
warnings within,
only when death is imminent do they stop to
think, maybe they could live a little healthier.
Trembling in fear we submit to what we see as a harsh lesson from
God,
but God is gentle, God is forever compassionate.
It is we who bring out this harshness because it is the only voice
we listen to,
God will not be ignored, Truth cannot be denied
without consequences.
One who is wise is one who is open to learning from life,
not
just living out some agenda.
The universe is our greatest teacher, it is That which
Is,
Sacrifice your illusions and open up to Truth,
it will set
us all free.
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Information precedes energy,
feedback is the essence of
stability,
to interpret, store and express information is the
activity of life.
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In regards to transcendent and empirical aspects of reality one
could consider the analogy of television:
the transcendent frame
may be one of organisations, studios, transmitters, receivers,
electronics inside the TV and much more,
these correspond to the
transcendent aspects of reality, the underlying metaphysical
structure of existence,
whilst the empirical frame is TV-land; the
programs, the stories, the advertising, the game shows, the news,
ones favourite soap star and so on,
these correspond to the
empirical (virtual) aspects of reality the things, people, places, events,
jobs, houses, ideas, the whole world of our experience.
By watching soap operas and news bulletins and so on one will
learn nothing about the transcendent aspects of television,
one
simply dwells in an empirical world of objects and characters and
places that are all empirical phenomena,
similarly by believing in
and engaging in the empirical world of work and family and career and
so on,
one learns nothing about the essence of the world, one
simply takes part in the empirical story.
However one could learn about the transcendent aspects of TV if
there were programs which went into this aspect and analysed it,
if
one could turn on the TV and watch a program about the transcendent
aspects of television one could come to understand it on this
level,
this is the role of scripture, and religion, and
spirituality, and science, and IST and all sacred knowledge about the
world,
through these the transcendent structure is in some way
represented within the empirical story thus providing a bridge
between the two.
So then people have a choice, they can simply use TV to engage in
empirical worlds,
or they can use it to better understand the
whole context within which they are engaging,
but all these
empirical representations of transcendent aspects vary in what they
cover, from what angle and using what analogies,
for transcendent
truth cannot be directly and explicitly represented, one must devise
analogies and stories that capture some aspect of the truth.
For example, a TV program discussing the electronics inside the TV
cannot present the viewer with an actual capacitor,
it can show
them an image of the outside of a capacitor as seen from some angle
and they can discuss its properties,
and thereby weave a story
around it and provide the viewer with an opportunity to develop some
kind of understanding,
so too with God, a scripture cannot present
you with an explicit and complete representation of God, at best it
can give you a vague idea.
No doubt all these stories and representations vary greatly in
accuracy and comprehensibility and style and flavour,
the best way
to develop an understanding is to watch them all, try and understand
each one from it's own angle,
take none of them with blind belief
and merge them all into a holistic understanding,
we will each
find that some presentations suit our cognitive proclivities more
than others but all are shedding light on the same truth.
The more angles we come to see reality from the more rounded our
understanding will be,
the more we engage our minds and hearts and
intellects and intuitions with the issue the deeper our understanding
will be,
if we take simplistic representations as being the
absolute truth we will miss the complexity and subtlety of
reality,
and come into conflict with others who believe in other
simplistic representations.
There will be fights between those who
say TV is all about electronics and electromagnetic signals,
and
those who say it is all about studios and producers and
advertising,
for in truth the truth goes far beyond any empirical
representations of the truth.
If the people of this world are serious about understanding the
truth of this world,
we had all better start watching more
transcendent programs and using our intellects and intuitions
more,
for science to try and see through the lens of spirituality
and for spirituality to try and see through the lens of science,
for
Christians to see through the lens of Islam and Muslims to see
through the lens of Christianity,
and for everyone to stop playing
in their little sandboxes and stand up and look around.
These stories we weave are veils that help us grasp at the truth
but they also conceal it from our eyes,
to truly understand the
truth we must approach it with whole and open minds,
not with
closed concepts, word games and power struggles over who's limited
story is going to be accepted as the absolute truth,
none of them
are the truth, they are all simply images of the truth as seen from
different angles.
Rather than each stand fixed in place arranged around a statue and
arguing over who's perspective is more 'correct',
why not walk
around it, see it from all sides and come to better understand the
whole statue,
instead of standing in one spot and building up vast
accumulations of sketches and artists impressions and stories of this
one view,
or looking into this one view with ever greater
magnification until one sees every single atom but still only from
this one perspective.
No single view can capture the whole truth, the transcendent
reality is beyond any particular empirical representation,
if we
genuinely have respect for the Truth and not just jealous possession
over what little truths we may have found,
then we need to stop
this arrogance and squabbling over the little truths and look in open
eyed awe at the Truth,
for it will set us free from our shadow
world of delusion and confusion and fear and conflict,
the Truth
is whole, one, simple, pure and complete.
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Working with system matrices gives one an idea of how much information there is in even the simplest of systems, so when I am cooking and I look down into the pot and see food bubbling away I am awestruck by how much information is being processed down there, let alone in this entire universe, truly, God is Great, Brahman is Awe inspiring.
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These thoughts and visions I have glimpsed before, I have spoken of them and analysed them before, I have read about them before and pondered their meaning, but never have I known them in this way, always deeper, ever deepening. I look not out toward some conceptual object to comprehend, instead I dwell within with some golden glow that permeates my thoughts. It is ever so subtle, to grasp for it is to lose it, to surrender to it is to cause it to swell and surround me and dissolve me and in it I do not dwell, I become it. I will be spending much time in meditation since that is the only way to commune with it, or more correctly, to be it and no other; to dwell in isolated unity. To be anything else is to dwell in delusion.
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The path of the artist and mystic is that of discovering
connections,
In truth everything is connected,
as any quantum
physicist will tell you if you get past their defences.
By bringing seemingly disparate things together,
and
contemplating them in different permutations,
we learn subtle
truths about our worlds.
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Being interested in the whole my interest lies between
domains,
hence I find that guardians of any particular domain see
me as an outsider,
hence I have always been an outsider.
I peer into many worlds,
physics, biology, Taoism,
Christianity, information theory, yoga, psychology, art,
to name
only a very few, my interest takes me anywhere and everywhere.
Being
a wanderer I have no home.
Each world I peer into I see people comfortable and
satisfied,
they speak and others in that world understand,
they
work together and achieve so much within their little domains,
but
they mostly shun the boundaries between domains,
except here and
there where there is a gate.
So at these boundaries one may take only a step and be in a
foreign land,
or in a no-man's-land of wilderness.
These
inter-zones are forgotten places,
here I wander alone.
Because I wander far and wide I have seen many things,
have
contemplated many strange wonders and have much to say about my
travels.
Because I am an outcast there is no one to listen,
and even if
they did they wouldn't understand,
my idiom is a mixture of many
dialects,
many would think they understand but only misunderstand.
It is a lonely path to the truth that is whole.
If I was to dwell primarily in my left hemisphere,
I would see
a world of fragments, isolate one and happily study it in depth,
with
many scientific comrades, institutions and honours to speed me along.
If I was to dwell primarily in my right hemisphere,
I would see
a world of forms and experiences, isolate one mode of experience and
master it,
with many artistic comrades, institutions and honours
to speed me along.
Since I dwell in both I am all but alone.
I know there are
others like me somewhere,
but I know not where.
I push ahead as
best I can,
making slow progress with only myself to cover such
vast territory.
At times I envy these others for their community,
and I pity
them for their narrowness.
But we each make our own choices for
our own reasons,
this path I follow wherever it may lead,
even
into utter obscurity for there lies the most sacred,
and secret
face of God.
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Some may say, “what's the use of all this mystical stuff ?”,
I
has no use, none whatsoever!
Pick up a rock and beneath it there is a whole microcosm,
with
millions of lives most of which one cannot even see.
What is the
use of that?
This whole universe, what's the use?
Life has no use, it simply IS.
But the mind cannot accept
this,
it wants a reason, an excuse and a use,
it wants to grasp
and know and own all that it sees,
the mind is a biological
control system,
which when out of balance wants to control the
whole world.
It is our obsession with uses and objective knowing,
that is
making it harder and harder for life to go on living.
What is more important,
to use something for a while in the
context of some agenda,
or to live?
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Mysticism is always misunderstood by mind obsessed people,
it
becomes superstition and tradition,
but these are the antithesis
of mysticism.
Mysticism is simple acceptance of what Is,
simple surrender to
truth, nothing more.
It's just that the truth is far stranger than
the mind can accept.
The mind evolved in an empirical biological context,
it was
designed for survival, not for truth.
It sees what it needs to see in a biological survival context,
it
sees only a distorted shadow of the truth.
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Often what I say is so blatantly obvious,
but many are
oblivious to it,
and I too am oblivious to that which is obvious
to many others.
It is like being in a world where people keep
falling over in different ways,
and need to be reminded that
gravity pulls downward.
It's not that humans are inherently dumb, we are all born
geniuses,
but we've been conditioned to think only along certain
narrow grooves,
which channel our genius and weave it into vast
networks.
But outside of these channels... many cannot even
comprehend of there being an outside.
We each fall into our particular narrow grooves,
and we are
mostly oblivious to the grooves of others,
thus some excel or
suffer in some ways and others in other ways.
We all have a duty
of care to see that people don't keep falling over too much,
and
gently reminding them which way gravity goes.
These myopic autistic geniuses,
have their life forces
harnessed,
to animate the global economic system.
And their minds are elsewhere,
focused within the Matrix,
in
the wider reality they are like sleep-walkers following well worn
grooves.
They are oblivious to even the simplest things,
indeed
especially the simplest things,
such as the question “what am
I?”
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Western secular society has had the dubious sense to overcome its accumulation of misunderstandings that is commonly called the Christian Religion and this has freed it from many delusions but also from many truths. Rather than ditch the whole religion it needs to get back to its mystical roots and bring these into its experience of the world.
Islamic societies seem determined to cling to their accumulations of misunderstandings called the Islamic Religion, this preserves for them many truths but also many delusions. It needs to get back to its mystical roots and bring itself in line with experience.
Clinging to words and ideas will only separate us from God, opening up to God will set us free, opening up to direct experience which is our direct contact with God will set us free from all delusion.
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In one sense the mysteries aren't there to be solved.
As Rumi
suggests,
they aren't just problems to bash our minds
against,
they are the deep and eternal riddle of existence.
But in another sense, with respect and awe we may gently push the
envelope of our wisdom,
to expand our understanding to encompass
more and more of the mysteries.
The primal mystery of existence
cannot be comprehended from within existence,
but emanating from
this source there are countless mysteries that can be understood,
and
our lives thereby enriched and made wiser and more harmonious.
If our distant ancestors left their mysteries unsolved then we too
would still be where they were,
that isn't necessarily such a bad
thing but now that we have come this far there is no turning back and
no standing still,
we have unleashed power in the world through
ourselves and either we master this power or it destroys us,
in
this respect the mystic is our greatest hope, to re-mystify that
which we have grown complacent about even though we know so
little,
and to solve some of these riddles without which we are
trapped in narrow ruts of blind habit and self perpetuating
delusions.
The greatest mystics of our time have been brilliant scientists,
compassionate humanitarians, devoted statesmen and spiritual
guides,
any who engage in deep communion with the universe and let
the world guide them,
not trying to force their limited
perspective on the world or pushing some agenda,
they take the
universe as their teacher and their guru and their closest confidant.
Through these people we may all come to better know who we are,
what we are, where we are and why we are,
but best of all by
opening up ourselves and relating directly to the universe may we all
become lovers of Truth,
and learn to live with wisdom, compassion,
justice and harmony,
then together we may all grow to new heights
and discover whole, healthy states of being.
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There is definitely a place for objective fact,
but it does not
apply to everything.
It is useful to know that Brazil nuts contain selenium,
and
Australia has a selenium deficient soil,
and selenium deficiency
is implicated in many skin disorders,
this is a useful objective
fact that I would not easily arrive at through personal experience.
But when objectivity says that anything which cannot be
objectively measured,
doesn't really exist, one has to stop and
wonder,
Does life or consciousness or joy or God really
exists?
Can objectivity itself be objectively measured?
One has to stop and think,
where did this 'objective world'
come from,
it comes from subjective experience shared.
When balancing subjective experience and objective knowledge,
we
must keep in mind the nature of experience and knowledge,
can the
experience be reliably represented in an objective way?
If so
objectivity can help, If not objectivity will only hinder.
If there is a great degree of commonality then all may experience
it,
so we may assign a symbol to this experience and via this
symbol we may share it,
and it becomes objective knowledge.
If there is a great deal of diversity then each of us experiences
differently,
we cannot assign a common symbol to all these
disparate experiences,
and we cannot know it objectively.
When the discourse of objectivity gets out of balance,
our
subjective worlds are invaded and stripped of value,
when this
happens the cult of objectivity warps our experience of reality,
and
we all slide into delusion.
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Objectivity in the 'meat' industry says,
it doesn't matter if
the animals suffer and die horribly,
or if the food is poisonous
to all who eat it,
so long as the profits are good.
Objectivity of global economics says,
it doesn't matter if
millions suffer and die horribly,
or if the planet becomes a
devastated wasteland,
so long as the profits are good.
But put yourself in the place of a veal calf or a battery hen,
or
a child starving to death or dying of preventable diseases,
look
out at the world from these eyes, not through the delusion of
objectivity,
and you will instantly know the deep depravity of
this 'objective' delusion.
It denies the inner experience,
it says so long as things seem
good on the outside,
that is all that matters,
so long as I
don't suffer it doesn't matter if you do.
Like a psychopath tearing shreds off your body,
for the simple
pleasure of hearing your screams,
so long as their pleasure is
aroused they give no thought to your suffering,
this is how we
treat animals and ourselves in this cult of objectivity.
By denying inner experience and objectifying the world and
everything in it,
we destroy the sacredness of
existence,
everything becomes mere objects to be used for whatever
purpose and then discarded.
Through rampant objectivity we open
ourselves up to infinite abuse.
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Perhaps the main reason why I need a little solitude,
is to get
back in touch with my subjective experiential world,
instead of
always relating with an other, through the medium of
language,
and thereby engaging in a collective objective
construct.
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All these singular empirical experiences have degrees of
commonality for entities with similar perceptual apparatus,
and
these uniformities of experience combine through interaction and
reinforcement of our perceptual experiences,
into the objective
empirical world which is a collective story that we collectively
create, maintain and believe in.
Through this common story that we
weave we come to experience ourselves in a common space where we
interact,
and where we come to depend upon certain uniformities
and preconceptions and assumptions,
and we share knowledge of this
common space thereby weaving it around us and enmeshing ourselves in
it.
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There are several distinct classes of worlds and countless individual variations that morph and change between them. An organising principle is a lens through which perceptual and experiential worlds are created and there are several distinct, adequately coherent classes of organising principle. Some easily distinguished stereotypes could be labelled as, materialist, transcendentalist, game player, empath, etc.
An organising principle within a sentient mind is analogous to DNA within a cell; it is the storehouse of 'knowledge', it is the transformation matrix that takes an input stimulus and transforms it into a cascading sequence of internal state transformations which result in an output signal. It provides the perceptual entity with an interpretive mechanism, providing meaning, value, context, orientation and direction; it coordinates behaviour.
Different organising principles provide different assignments of meaning (or representational internal states) and thereby produce different experiences. These experiences elicit different responses and thereby different relationships with the surrounding context, thereby leading these different systems along different life paths and presenting them with different life experiences, which in turn have different impacts upon the different organising principles thereby producing different evolutionary paths and processes of growth and decay.
Ones life experience is the foundation of ones own concept of there being "a world" and our collectively communicated and renormalised life experiences are the foundation of the concept of there being "the world". But each of our individual life experiences is different, there are many degrees of commonality but also countless subtle or radical differences. The field of these differences forms a state space and in this space there is a pattern of points that represent individual organising principles or analogously, individual genetic codes. The distribution of this population throughout the state space has structure, there are clusters that indicate adequately viable organising principles, or genetic codes, or states of being, or experiential worlds. There may also be networks of percolating lines of fitness that bind these clusters together and provide lines of migration between them.
By defining these clusters and the world views that they represent; and how these different worlds perceive each other and interact; and how these regions of state space are populated, one can ascertain a great deal about the state of the population. One could diagnose conflicts, schizmogeneses, le differands, etc and also identify opportunities, relationships, dependencies, etc.
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Lego block analogy of perception.
the individual blocks are the
base idiomatic elements,
but these we stopped playing with long
ago,
we built higher level concepts out of them,
and most
adults play only with these.
So when a signal comes in we try to mirror it using high level
constructions,
but what if the incoming structure cannot
correspond with any of our high level constructions,
then it is
not even seen or it is lost in translation.
For example, out of the Lego blocks one may have built a model of
a bird and a model of a house,
but then one sees something that is
neither, it is an aeroplane with people in it,
so one puts the
wings of the bird onto the house and that is what one sees,
but so
much has been lost, so much has been added,
the interpretation has
distorted the experience.
But if one was to return to the single blocks,
and from them
one built a model of the aeroplane,
it would still be a bit chunky
and not quite perfect,
but it would be much closer to the truth
than a house with wings.
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But what is perception anyway?
Some pattern of information (say
a photon) is incident upon another pattern of information (say a
retinal cell),
and these merge and interact, the energy flows and
further patterns are influenced (say the brain),
it is only
patterns changing, there are no entities and signals, no receivers
and transmitters,
these are all constructs of perception and
therefore exist only after the act of perception,
perception
itself is just the flow of energy as patterns of information change.
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This mind has many moods,
at times it weeps with sorrow or
laughs with joy,
and at times it is stone cold and
calculating.
These moods are movements in the depth of my
being,
they are states of being which we all share.
To create
the pretense of consistency is to pander to crude expectations
of
what it is to be human and what it is to be alive.
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Individual and Collective Reality:
In truth all reality
simply IS but for we perceptual “beings in the world” something
doesn't seem real to us until we comprehend it as real. In this way we
filter and construct our idea of reality. But how much of reality can be
comprehended?
We as individuals experience the world in a certain way and build our concept of reality based upon those experiences. But most of these experiences cannot be communicated into the collective discourse either due to the inadequacy of the language or due to social or self censorship. Therefore much of the truth that we experience as individual beings does not flow into the collective discourse so the meta system cannot know or experience these things.
Similarly, the neurons in our brains are living beings with rich complex experiences. Much of this information flows into the collective neural discourse that underlies our mind but much of it is also lost to this discourse so there is much that we as whole minds cannot know.
The higher the level of a system the more low level information is lost, only high level information circulates so only a high level world is experienced.
If we as humans failed to properly communicate our suffering and despair to each other then the meta system cannot know of these things. If our suffering can be objectified within the collective discourse as something else then it can be suppressed. Hideous violence is portrayed as righteous enforcement, vast loss of life is portrayed as collateral damage, grinding poverty is portrayed as the fault of the poor and proof of their inferiority, lifetimes of toil and slavery are portrayed as employment.
We are taught to think of those that suffer as evil or dangerous or crazy or just undesirable so when people are made to suffer they are then suppressed and expunged from the collective discourse. In this way we may suffer horribly but the meta system may feel itself to be healthy, all of our suffering has been repressed and the meta system is living in a state of denial. Whilst countless humans suffer in countless ways the meta system is feeling strong and triumphant, all it's ailments have been put out of mind and it is focussed entirely on it's level of economics, international relations, corporations, markets, etc.
This is a common condition for most humans too, we lead such toxic lives and repress all of the suffering within our cellular civilisations, focusing only on the high level world of work, money, social position, etc. We generally feel ourselves to be okay but deep within, if we dared to look, we are wracked with torment, we are surviving and slowly dying rather than thriving and growing. This repressed suffering builds up until the complex network of cellular social networks starts to break down and dis-ease sets in. Then we intervene in a typically crude authoritarian way by finding a culprit and declaring war, this is the essence of western allopathic medicine, find the point of discomfort to the meta system and attack it. There is no concept of the cellular civilisation and it's harmony and balance, everything is conceived of from the perspective of the meta system.
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In solitude I feel a subtle pressure building,
the withdrawal
from a drug,
the drug of distraction.
My mind becomes focussed,
normally I would discharge the energy
will idle chatter or other distraction,
but without an accomplice
my heart binds me to God,
my mind squirms in the intensity but in
time it will get used to it.
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If to experience reality without thought is to be
enlightened,
then rocks and trees are enlightened.
But why don't they exhibit siddhis and mystical powers?
why
does a tree blithely let itself be destroyed?
Do they experience without thought?
Could it be that a tree's
chemical and biological processes,
implement a symbolic
interpretation process that is equivalent to thought,
in that it
separates the tree from reality?
Or is a tree so beyond any illusion of singular being,
that it
cares not if its empirical manifestation is destroyed?
Or is experiencing without thought only part of enlightenment?
Is
it a passive kind of enlightenment, an enlightened perception only?
When a human becomes enlightened they can experience without
thought,
without a centre and a circumference, without the 'world
illusion',
but they also still have a mind and this mind is
active.
The mind is a mirror on the universe, it can draw the universe in
and represent it,
if this is done without thought then only Truth
is represented.
Could it be that mind is what makes enlightenment
possible,
and thought is the disturbance of mind that prevents one
from realising ones potential?
If this is the case then rocks and trees cannot be
enlightened.
One needs to become a dynamic, active mirror on the
universe,
not just a pattern or phenomenon within it,
and not
just a mirror on ones own distorted and warped perspective.
When one truly becomes a mirror on the universe,
the universe
enters into one and all boundaries break down,
the inner and outer
are the same and ones mind can expand to encompass the universe.
One can operate on the cosmic transcendent network just as one
operates on thoughts,
one can imagine the universe as it is and
thereby see it beyond ones horizon,
one can think it to be a
certain way and thereby cause it to be that way,
just as one
controls ones mind one may control the universe,
because ones mind
and the universe are one.
That is the power of true subjectivity,
objectivity enslaves us
as objects in an idea of an external world,
subjectivity frees us
to become the world.
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Any spiritual tradition is useful in the sense that it provides a
roadmap,
to a vast territory that is difficult to fully explore on
ones own.
But any tradition that says,
“This is not a map, this IS the
territory,
this IS what these places are called,
this IS what
they look like and sound like,
these points on the map ARE the
locations,
and there is only this map,
focus only on this map.”
Know this to be a LIE!
It is an attempt to enslave you in their
particular discourse.
It is a strategy borne of ignorance and
delusion, which are darkness and evil,
be not tempted by evil.
Just as anyone who enters into an unknown land staring only at a
map,
they will stumble over features that are not marked on the
map,
they will fail to explore places that are not on the
map,
they will wander into barren places just because there is a
point on the map,
they will wander upon this land with their mind
lost in a map-delusion.
Use a map, any map, every map, take them as a guide,
but do not
be deluded into believing in the reality of the map,
it is just a
sketch, just a bare outline of a reality that is beyond
definition,
no map, however vast and complex can capture the
reality of the spiritual landscape,
take a map with you and use
it,
but experience with your own heart and mind the wonders that
you encounter,
and let these be your primary guide.
God is real, God is there to guide you, God wants to be
found,
look not only through the prism of an ancient book,
God
is right in front of you now,
God is right inside of you
now,
listen with you heart and you will learn.
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There is a phenomenon that arises out of the nature of our
psyche,
it manifests clearly in those that are temporarily
disoriented;
it occurs to them to use something of theirs,
for
example they are at a bar and wish to use a lighter,
they search
for it all around and ask others if they have seen it,
eventually
someone points out that it has been right under their nose the whole
time.
This uncovers an unconscious assumption that we have,
that we
know that which is nearest to us,
but being disoriented we forget
that the lighter is right in front of us,
then because of our
assumption we fail to look there first.
We assume we have full
knowledge and command of our immediate space,
so we first look
elsewhere and only when we fail to find it 'out there',
do we stop
to look in our immediate vicinity.
In regards to everyday objects,
we usually do have knowledge
and command over our immediate vicinity,
so it takes a transitory
delirium to bring out the fallibility of our assumption.
But in
regards to that which is subtle, even the most subtle,
this
assumption still takes place.
Through familiarity we become complacent,
I see it regularly as
young inquisitive calves become docile complacent cows,
they
haven't learnt anything in their time regarding what a human is or
what a train is,
its just that over time they become complacent as
familiarity seduces them to think they know.
Throughout the world there are billions of humans searching for
God,
whether they believe in 'God' or not, call it what they
will,
Truth, Life, Bliss, Peace, Justice, Wisdom, Security, and on
and on,
in essence they all search for the same thing,
but
searching outside of themselves they find only a world of jumbled
profusion,
a world of objects and places, words and ideas,
traditions and laws,
all a mixture of Truth and Delusion,
so
much shifting sand that one cannot find a firm foundation.
They search and search heedless to the call to look within,
but
eventually they must look within,
for God is nearer than breath,
God is the essence of the 'one who seeks' in every seeker,
but
each seeker being familiar with themselves never stops to wonder at
their Self,
it is here that God may be most clearly known for God
is the Self in all things.
By looking out through the senses, through the world illusion,
we
only grasp the outer surfaces of things, we only partake in their
outer observables,
the only inner reality we have access to is our
own inner reality,
all else is the world illusion,
to know
reality we must turn within or else we dwell in illusion.
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To call the world an illusion is not to deny its reality,
for
there is reality and there is virtual reality,
there is the ultimate
reality of God, Brahman, the Ground of Being,
but from this arises
many forms woven of appearance and perception,
these illusions are
the thread that forms the very fabric that we call the universe,
it is
through these illusions that the world is created.
It is out of the interactions of trillions of cells,
and via
the process of entropic perception that a person arises.
It is out
of the interactions of millions of people,
and via the process of
entropic perception that a nation arises.
These illusions can be real in the same sense that this world is
real,
but beneath all this virtual reality there lies a deeper
reality.
Be grounded in the deeper reality and master this dance
of illusion,
for this world is our world but it is not what it
seems,
it is a projection of a deeper reality.
Knowing this the world becomes deeper,
everything is the
outward movement of a transcendent dance,
every phenomenon is the
outward effect of a transcendent cause,
everything is a portal
into the transcendent realm,
everything, everywhere, every moment
is God.
But do not veil your world with numb minded superstition,
for
God is not what most people think,
the divine is not to be put on
a pedestal and separated from the world,
the divine is everywhere
at all times, the divine is Truth, it is That which Is,
the divine
is sacred but so too are all things.
The outward movement of your limbs is the result of the
transcendent process of your cells,
the behaviour of your cells is
the result of the transcendent process of proteins and molecules,
and
so on down through atoms and particles and energy and down to the
Ground of Being,
call them forces of nature, angels, prakriti or
whatever.
Science and Spirituality explore the same reality,
but
use different words and ideas to describe what they see.
Seek the Truth and you will find God,
for God is Truth and
Truth is That which Is.
Everywhere being a portal to God one may
look anywhere,
but looking through the world one must penetrate
through the perceptual barrier,
but if one looks within one is
already behind the perceptual barrier,
one is already God, you
just need to recognise this,
and stop identifying with your
illusions about forms-in-the-world.
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On the topic of stories in our minds someone the other week asked
me “what do you do?”,
and I said “just the usual, I eat and
sleep and read and write, I think a lot...”,
then they
interrupted and said “no, what do you really do?”,
and I said
“Do you mean what story do I weave around that which I do?”,
and
they said “What?”,
and I said “I am building in my mind a
system theoretic metaphysics of the nature of reality.”,
and
they said “Oh ... ok ...”,
and the conversation pretty much
ended at that....
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System Science is a cure for Newtonian Materialism,
it is a
science of connectedness, unity and holism,
it describes the parts
and their relations and the whole,
it gives one a unified vision
of the world as a vast web of interactions,
it is a creative
coming into being
and a mystical vision of the body of God.
Only through IIST was my mind able to be sated,
to satisfy its
questioning, its scepticism and wariness,
its fear of being
trapped by some plausible meme complex.
Only when my mind could
see and know for itself,
would it surrender to the urgings of my
soul.
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I am both a systematist and a mystic, these were thought to be incompatible in the past but they are not, as many are now realising. Rationality and the systematic mind set, when defined solely within a narrow context are irrational and unsystematic in the wider context, but when rationality and systematic thought are defined in the widest possible context (the whole) then rationality and the mystic perspective are identical.
I am a consummate systematist, I am a System Theorist, I see all things and phenomena as systems, as integral integrated parts of a whole. Hence it is through the language of System Theory that my mystic vision has found expression. It is through the medium of mathematics and science that I come closest to God. I do not commune with God through the heart but through the intellect, I rarely feel the presence of God but I always Know and 'see' the presence of God in all things. It is through the intellect that soul intuition flows, uniting the intellect, heart and body, preparing the inner kingdom for the coming of the Sage.
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The left brain knows the parts, the right brain knows the pattern
of the whole,
the left decontextualises, the right
contextualises.
Wisdom is a product of the functioning of the
whole brain,
to know ourselves in the world, to know the world as
a whole,
to relate to the cosmos and seek harmony therein.
In
this world, overfull with half brainers, wisdom is a rare and
precious thing,
it is the air we breath and this world is gasping
for wisdom.
Knowledge will get you a job,
but countless jobs
woven together without wisdom will get you the beast.
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Experiencing ones world solely through the lens of thought and
high level ideas is a cognitive disorder that is common throughout
modern civilisation.
Whilst ever one harbours any remnants of this
disease it can easily be re-ignited by contact with other disease
carriers. It is highly contagious and can spread by any communication
medium.
It is a memetic infestation, a memetic flu.
One must
have a very strong immune system or be somehow inoculated against it
to be able to engage with disease carriers and not be infected.
In
my solitude I am recovering...
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To know the Self is a tricky business,
all this thinking and
reading and writing,
and creating and so forth, it draws me along
some path,
a story woven within my mind,
but all thoughts arise
from the I-thought,
and this stands between me and reality.
But all this activity of the mind seems to carry me onwards,
it
progresses the story and the story leads somewhere,
in this story
I am a being in a world,
and I do what I do because these energies
flow through me and animate me thus,
to me it is God's work but
also it is foolishness.
Could this foolishness, this dwelling in words and ideas be of any
use,
they can never take me where I want to go,
but for some
who are lost in words,
other words can help lead the way out of
the maze.
For the maze is built of ideas, it is a figment of the mind,
we
have never left reality we have just lost ourselves in a story,
that
is woven out of reflections that glance off of the eternal ocean of
Being.
Is God telling me a story through these words?
Is my soul
gently turning this story of mine toward its conclusion?
What
happens when the story ends?
Do I wake up as if from a dream?
When my mind lets go of all words and ideas then reality shines
through like the stars,
but my love for others who are lost in
mazes of the mind keeps me here,
laying this trail of crumbs
throughout the maze,
to guide and nourish any seekers of Truth who
happen upon it,
and who, being dazzled by the illusion of the
maze,
have not thought to look within and wonder
who is it that seeks.
Maybe someone will find this trail and follow it, but where does
it lead?
I am led by an invisible guide,
I could simply be
picked out of this maze but instead I am led on a grand tour,
leaving
my trail which I trust will eventually lead to an exit,
to an
awakening from this dream.
Then there are no more words and ideas,
the mind cannot go
beyond the maze,
only the soul may swim in the eternal ocean,
but
think not of mind, maze, soul and ocean, they are only words,
Truth
speaks with silence and words deafen us to its gentle voice.
Suddenly one knows there is no I, no story, no maze and no
exit,
to seek is to remain lost, to think is to create a
world,
there is energy flowing and weaving patterns which call
themselves 'I',
but only those who believe this 'I' are trapped in
the maze.
You are a character in a story only if you believe in the
story,
in Truth all things are just patterns in Brahman,
to
identify with the story character is to become enmeshed in the
world,
to identify with Truth is to simply Be all that is.
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What if there was no civilisation,
no words, no ideas, no high
level thoughts, no knowledge,
how would one approach God?
How
would one approach reality?
One would have no concept of 'God' or 'reality'.
One would just
be, without the alienation of thought.
God would preside in ones
heart,
instinct and feeling would be our guide, not thought and
knowledge.
We would have no way to reach out to each other through the
world,
only subjective experience would exist for us,
we would
experience,
we would feel and intuit our way through our
subjective worlds.
We would be like the animals,
we would live in harmony and
balance,
we would be a part of the world,
not believing the
illusion of our senses and thinking ourselves separate.
The process of civilisation is the process of externalising our
inner experience,
through interaction and consensus we weave myth
and misunderstanding,
we build concepts of 'The World',
we
objectify it and ourselves in it,
we disempower ourselves and
invest power in the collective,
we empower the external illusion,
the product of our ignorance.
We build a fortress of illusion about ourselves,
to protect us
but it only alienates us,
it comes between us and God, us and That
which Is,
between life and the foundation of life,
we become
robots on the outside,
and miserable on the inside.
But through all this we have never left reality,
we can never
leave it, we have only shut our minds to it.
With a change of mind
and a change of heart our subjective worlds may flourish
again,
breaking down the stagnant accumulations of 'objective'
fact,
we may create this world anew.
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Evil is anything that shuns the light of Truth in order to maintain the darkness of its delusion.
Whether one is a marketing agent pushing useless consumer
products,
a propagandist pushing lies and deceit,
a government
official pushing militarism and fascism,
an individual denying the
glory of life with drugs, consumer products or other escapist
methods,
a fanatic hiding behind the words of a book and denying
the reality around and within them,
a person living by a set of commandments
or laws but closing their mind to Truth and Compassion,
a person
denying the impact of their polluting and destructive lifestyle,
in
countless ways we may participate in evil.
By closing ourselves off to Truth we begin to circulate lies and
deceit,
whether this is deliberate or out of weakness or confusion
it doesn't matter,
the evil circulates between us and forms into
mass delusion amongst us.
Any denial of reality is sin and the wages of sin are
suffering,
any who love Truth have Truth as their loving
protector,
but any who deny Truth have Truth as their relentless
pursuer.
Delusion is the antithesis of wisdom,
seek wisdom and Truth
will guide you toward greater glory,
or seek delusion and Truth
will eventually crush you into oblivion,
at any time we may mend
our ways and repent,
to let go of delusion and accept the Truth,
to learn anew and change our ways,
this is the path of increasing
wisdom,
but arrogance resists and tries to persist in its
delusions,
therefore be humble before the Universe for it is
greater that we can imagine.
Be open to Truth and your lessons will flow smoothly,
lifting
you to ever greater heights of wisdom and glory,
or be closed to
Truth and your lessons will be harsh and brutal,
only reluctantly
will you be dragged out of delusion,
you will bear many wounds
there from and destruction shall lie in your wake.
By being open to wisdom the universe enters into us and unites us
with the whole of creation,
and all beings grow and resonate with
glorious Truth, which is health and life,
by being closed to
wisdom darkness broods within us and isolates us from creation,
we
fall into conflict, suffering and decay and the world about us
withers and dies.
Look to the state of the world today,
is this world a
manifestation of Truth and wisdom,
or is it a manifestation of
delusion and destruction?
There are many forces entwined in the world,
and each of us in
our daily actions and attitudes are participating in these
struggles,
with wisdom we circulate a little light and with
delusion we circulate a little darkness,
with our light and dark
it is we who are the creators of this world,
we may be cells
within a beast or cells within an Angel of Light.
Each of us must do battle with the beast within us,
and as each
of us is transformed into an Angel of Light,
we become beacons of
Truth and Compassion, Reason and Justice.
As the very body of the beast begins to shine,
it can no longer
persist in its dark and evil ways,
it too will be transformed into
an Angel of Light.
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Wherever dis-ease is found know that here Truth is
denied,
dis-ease of the body, mind and society stems from denial
of reality.
Denial of Truth stems from alienation,
alienation stems from
fear,
fear stems from ignorance.
Know thy Self and be whole,
Know thy World and be healthy.
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Experience the world for yourself,
do not take another's word
for it.
When experience and knowledge conflict,
trust in your
own experience.
The world is vast and complex,
each life is a unique experience
of its wonders.
To take another's word for it is to live in the shadow of
another's life.
What did they really experience?
What shreds of
truth survive after their translation from experience to words?
What
shreds of truth survive after your translation from words to
pseudo-experience?
Even if they tried to convey to you the truth they could not,
and
what guarantee is there of their truthfulness.
Could they be
deceiving you?
Are they deceived themselves?
Without recourse to experience, lies circulate as truth,
even
amongst those who love the Truth,
but especially amongst those who
have an agenda.
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Wherever there is duality there is only partial truth,
at the
source all duality arises from transcendent unity,
through
judgment, good and evil arise from That Which Is.
Duality is an empirical wisdom, a wisdom of the senses,
but not
of the deeper Truth that underlies the world constructed by the
senses.
Be not blinded by thine eyes, see with thy heart and mind united
and see through to the source.
Behind the cinematic experience of
the senses lies a world of mystery and wonder,
in this realm alone
can Truth be plainly seen,
in this realm we may know ourselves as
God knows us.
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The cult of Objectivity declares that Truth primarily lies in
communal representations of Truth,
and that one's subjective
experience of Truth is secondary.
This cult empowers the
collective consciousness and disempowers the individual
experience,
but it is our individual experiences that merge
together to create the collective consciousness,
we are the
experiential bridge that joins the collective to the Universe.
Without our experiences the collective cannot know the Truth,
as
we neglect our experiences in deference to so called 'objective
fact',
the collective is cut off from Truth and spirals into
delusion,
it takes on a life of its own, it tries to define its
reality without recourse to Truth.
Objectivity is generally true for very mundane contexts,
such
as if a thousand people see a shooting star but one does not,
then
most likely there was a shooting star and the one who missed it
simply missed it.
But when one delves into subtle truths all we have is our
subjective understanding,
our inner essence is the living
reality.
When this is shared through words we share only the dead
outer forms of these experiences,
the objective dogmas become
accumulations of deadness that deny us the true living reality.
The essence of God cannot be known through what is said about
God,
one must experience God oneself.
Just as the full and
subtle essence of deep joy cannot be understood by hearing words
about joy,
one must experience it for oneself.
We know that joy objectively exists because we subjectively feel
it at some time in our lives,
so we accept the words that are
spoken about it.
But for one who has never felt joy, they cannot
know it because they have never felt it,
they may or may not
believe in this thing called joy,
but they cannot know it, it is
only a word to them,
their belief is only a faith in others words.
It is the same with God, for one who has never experienced God,
'God' is only a word,
any belief they have is only faith in the
words of others.
But the fact that people of all times and places
have spoken of God,
should surely suggest to one that this God is
there to be experienced.
Until you invite God into your subjective
experience God will only be a word in your world.
Think not of God as a word or a character in someone else's
story,
God is Truth, God is the foundation of all that Is,
God
is the feeling in every experience.
If you believe in anything you believe in God,
but many are so
confused and repulsed by all the stories they hear about this 'God'
character,
that they don't stop to wonder what is the essence of
the world that they believe in.
Seek the Truth and whether you seek God or not,
whether you
even recognise God or not,
if you find the Truth you have found
God.
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In power there is security,
so long as one maintains
supremacy,
thus there is constant strife.
In Truth there is security,
it is timeless, self sufficient and
unchanging;
forms may come and go but Truth always remains.
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There are many who try to tell you obedience is all that
matters,
ones parents, the state, the church, local councils and
petty tyrants of all kinds,
I say obey nothing, obey no-thing,
obey only Truth,
for Truth is the foundation that supports
every-thing.
Have respect for the experiences of others and listen
to the wise,
but experience is the only sure way to
truth.
Unthinking obedience creates an opening for delusion and
leads us all to destruction.
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For one who seeks to dwell in delusion,
the Truth is their
greatest enemy,
it is unrelenting and fanatical in its
zeal,
forever lurking and waiting to pounce.
Nowhere is safe, everything is to be feared,
at any moment the
painful truth may come crashing in,
it may arise from chance
encounters,
it may spring forth from the mouths of babes,
it
may plague you in your dreams,
it may wrack your body with pain
and torment,
it never gives in, it never goes away, it never dies.
All delusion is transitory by its very nature,
delusion is the
attempt to dwell in that which is not,
but all existence arises
out of that which is.
Like one who makes an enemy of gravity,
the whole Universe
becomes a battleground.
Beware lest by deceit you are fighting on the side of
delusion,
for truth is a force of nature,
it listens not to
excuses and it takes no prisoners.
Know for yourself the destination of your bus,
lest you be told
it is going to Paradise,
only for it to deliver you to oblivion.
For when a bus sails over a cliff,
gravity seizes all who are
aboard,
regardless of where they wanted to go.
Beware even if you ride not on that bus,
for many bystanders
may be swept along by its wake,
dwell not in its path for this is
the path of destruction.
Seek the Truth and the Truth will guide you,
the Truth is the
only rock amidst these shifting sands,
build only on firm
foundations and all will be well.
For one who dwells in delusion,
Truth is a vengeful God,
and
for one who dwells in Truth,
God is their life giving Mother and
omnipotent Father.
Some might say there is a fine line between creation and
delusion,
but to create is to honour that which is and to build
upon it,
delusion is to deny that which is and to build in spite
of it.
Ignorance leads to delusion,
so seek wisdom lest your
house falls upon your head.
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Just as an artificial intelligence program on a computer may say
'I am',
but we know the truth of it, it is only a pattern of
information.
So too God knows the truth of us,
God sees through all our
delusions.
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All these wonders I have seen with my mind's eye,
my heart has
touched them and my mind quivers thereby,
but I have yet to become
immersed in them,
I have yet to live them,
I have yet to become
them,
I am still only a fragment amongst fragments,
my life is
still bound within the empirical.
Looking out through the window
of a prison is not to walk free.
I must pray for my salvation,
for
only by the grace of God may I abide in Truth,
to simply know
Truth is not enough, that is just thoughts and memories,
one must
live Truth and become Truth before Truth will set one free.
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To keep using the word 'God' is to put the idea 'God' between you
and Truth!
To rely too heavily on any idea is to separate oneself
from reality.
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Krishnamurti was mind obsessed,
he wanted Truth but disdained
any attempts to grasp the Truth,
all words and labels are
constructs, sure,
but the Truth is out there and however feeble
our grasp is we can grasp hold of it in different ways.
Krishnamurti was trapped struggling with the ungraspability of
Truth,
but I have better things to do,
I know the Truth is out
there,
call it God, Christ, Ishvara, All that Is, or Jack or
Jill,
who cares!!!!
There is something behind this universe we perceive,
there is
some substance to it,
there are forces of peace, harmony, love and
growth,
there are forces of isolation, disharmony, fear and
decay,
regardless of whether I know what these are
called,
regardless of how they seem to my mind,
I care not for
all this cogitating.
Forces of Peace and Love,
you know who you are regardless of
what I call you,
I call upon you to bring me into your fold,
to
channel your energies through me,
to use me as a tool of greater
harmony and growth.
I seek to 'know' the Truth,
but I 'am' the Truth,
the Truth
is the whole,
and I am a devoted servant of the whole.
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Know that every word, every phrase is a metaphor,
to take
anything literally is to succumb to a lie!
Every word is .01
percent Truth and 99.99 percent Illusion,
Especially these words!
;-)
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There is no one correct way of grasping truth,
so long as
within ones context one grasps enough truth without too much
distortion,
then one has adequately grasped the truth for ones
context.
For me my ways of grasping truth have been experience, art, Kabbalah, High Magic, Science, Physics, Computer Science, Vedanta, System Theory, Christianity and Daoism, in that order of discovery and use.
There are countless ways of grasping truth and each has its own
abilities and flaws, each may be more suited to some than to others
and each way of knowing may shed light on the others so that together
they may better represent the truth.
Through IST I have developed
my own way, which may also be of use to some others and may help shed
some light on other ways of knowing.
What I present of IST is only the barest outline, I am only one man and it will take generations of work to develop it to its full potential thereby unleashing its full power. What I offer is a glimpse of what it might be, what it's potential may be, what the new paradigm might look and feel like, what directions might be useful to explore and so on, but all this is only my own vision of future possibilities, each of us can engage with it ourselves if we wish and contemplate it from our own perspectives. But only through open minded contemplation can we see out of the present paradigm and into a new one.
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The Truth is deep and vast, containing unknown treasures,
all
who love and enter into Truth become glorified in Truth,
and all
who enter into conflict with Truth are doomed to oblivion.
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To love Truth is no easy path to tread,
every time we try to
define Truth and pin it down we enter into delusion,
we cannot
just package it then switch our minds off, falling into a slump of
moral apathy,
whilst we carelessly use it in pursuit of ill
conceived agendas,
we must always be open to it, always be seeking
it,
always ready to make sacrifices in order to align with it,
and
always searching within ourselves to see there are no obstructions
creating darkness,
and worlds of delusion that may separate us
from Truth.
To love Truth we must always respect and honour it,
not with
numb minded devotion but with open minded acceptance,
science and
mysticism in their purest forms are our best ways of relating to
Truth,
but Truth is not to be put on a pedestal or locked up in
abstract knowledge,
Truth permeates our whole lives and is the
source and sustainer of our existence,
to know Truth is not
enough, we must live it and enact it,
when we know something is
wrong we should stop it,
not hide behind thick tangles of deceits,
obfuscations and empty excuses,
so that we can blindly persist in
our delusional agendas,
for example, when we know that destroying
the ecosystem is wrong we should stop it,
not just waffle on about
economic objectives whilst we blithely destroy our life support
system.
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I have the greatest respect and honour for Truth, I approach it in awe with an open mind and heart. It is a slippery and difficult thing to approach, the moment you grasp at it it slips through your fingers and all you have are concepts or words which are only shadows of the Truth. It cannot be systematised into a machine that one mindlessly cranks over turning out Truth, such a construct is at best only a map and a travel diary to remind you of where you've been and to hint to others what may lie 'out there'. To know Truth requires tireless effort and sacrifice, humility and passion and most of all the absence of any agenda other than the attainment of Truth. The moment that you worship another god the true God is lost from view.
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When ever one considers the meaning or value of something one must consider the entire context in which that something is situated. The value is a function of the integration into the whole.
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