Fresh Digest
Second Collection
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Hierarchy inevitably perpetuates Conspiracy. This can be called the Disgruntled Middle Management Theory.
Ideas are often far more powerful ( and dangerous) than the Minds from which they arise.
Effects are seen, intentions are not. Thus it is written, by the fruits of our labors shall we be judged. Yet, by this do we become our brother’s keeper? Is Jesus responsible for the Crusades? Is God responsible for the Devil? Therefore, judge not lest ye be judged.
"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone" is not an enticement to violence. It is a moment in which to stop and reflect upon our own imperfections. It is an enticement to peace.
Being is existential, it is not a mental construct.
People never seem to realize they are slaves until they can’t pay their bills and they are, subsequently, freed of their enslavements.
The Three Basic Rights:
- Freedom of Thought: Thoughts are ideas, assembled genetically into language, suitable for the communication or transmission of information either to one’s self or others. As such they cannot be owned or restricted, insofar as they do not harm one’s self or others. All ideas therefore are the public domain of thought-space, the space of all thought.
- Freedom to connect/interface or assemble: There shall be no law restricting the rights of any individual to make connections or to interface in the exchange of information, or to assemble or form communities, insofar as those connections do not interfere or restrict the ability of others to make connections and insofar as those connections do not harm others.
- Freedom of Privacy: Every individual has the inalienable right to privacy and no right to infringe on the privacy of others. As such, all forms of income tax are unconstitutional and a clear violation of an individual’s inalienable right to privacy.
If God is omniscient (all-knowing), anything other than silent prayer (eg. meditation) seems both redundant and absurd. Of course, if God really is omniscient then he already knows that you cannot help yourself, and if he is omnibenevolent, has already forgiven you.
Reductionism is often necessary to refute reductionism.
Desire interferes with Being.
Channeled writings are not credible if you do not take the credit. Jane Roberts, for example, is not responsible for what Seth speaks. Credibility can only be maintained through the integrity of objective verification and reproducible results.
Beliefs about beliefs are still beliefs.
On Stress and Values:
It can be argued, the primary cause of Obsessive-Compulsive behavior is the result of grasping due to Survival Anxieties. These anxieties are both enforced and conditioned through the socio-political structures of capitalism and hopelessly out-moded industrial values. By creating a set of criteria by which quality of life is gauged and then restricting access to that criteria (through wage control, big government, corporate welfare, and huge unpayable National debts, Trade deficits and taxes), the perfect conditions are met by which operant conditioning is made most effective. But the logical result is not a perfectly controlled herd, a well trained and obedient workforce. Indeed, the consequence is a total deterioration of values in favor of an out of control, often violent, obsessive-compulsive modality completely lacking in any redeeming qualities whatsoever. All attempts at control invariably lead to de-evolution. The word of sin is restriction.
Contemporary Physics teaches that light is ‘real’ because it is invariable to the velocity of an observer. It is constant, not relative. It is everything else, made observable by light, that is relative to the velocity of the observer. Thus does physics support the thousand year old contention of the Vedas that matter is an illusion.
We observe everything simultaneously, but never as it occurs.
The paradox of the photon is that it exists everywhere in Timespace simultaneously. It only appears to move, to us, because the entire holography of Timespace is imbedded within it.
Just as every snowflake is different, the things we might learn for ourselves need not apply to others. We are each unique and it does not stand to follow that what is true for me is true for you.
The Meaning of Life: do the best you can and try and leave the world a better place than you found it.
It may be more accurate to say Timespace exists in Light than to say Light exists in Timespace.
There ‘is’ nowhere else. Here ‘is’ all there ‘is’. Timespace and Hyperspace are each intimately imbedded one within the other, infinitely entwined like a Rosy Cross.
You never know you’re not until you are, and then you know you are! You never know you don’t know until you know and then you know.
Annoying Cliches:
- “Shit rolls down hill/rank has it’s privileges.”
- “You’ve got to be smarter than what you’re dealing with.”
- “There’s no free lunch.”
- “You get what you give.”
- “The world is what you make it.”
- “Everything happens for a reason/ there are no accidents.”
- “Whatever happens, happens because you want it to happen.”
- “Good things come to those who wait.”
Ice ages are Nature’s way of rebooting the life program of the planet.
’Free will’ is more than just freedom of choice, its about creating new choices. Its about Novelty. You are free not when you can choose but when you can create new choices.
’Free will’ is the product of the of the creation of choices and not the choices themselves. However, you must choose to create those choices.
On the Problems of finding Happiness: The problem with some people is that they have deluded themselves into believing that all it takes to be happy is simply to be oblivious to all around them that is unhappy. Yet, without contrast, dualities have no meaning. To remove unhappiness inevitably creates unhappiness. But this does not mean we should encourage or create unhappiness simply so that happiness should have meaning. Rather we should never seek complacency in happiness but ever seek to go beyond that which we have heretofore considered happiness. Happiness must evolve as we evolve.
Simply to say there are no accidents does not mean it is so. But even if true, this does not mean you can control your fate. Even if the universe is strictly deterministic, this does not mean it is predictable.
”If bubble gum were outlawed only outlaws would chew bubble gum.” D. Nutter
Life is a vibration, consciousness, a frequency of vibration.
No matter what somebody might say you are, you are more.
You can never know you know before you know you don’t know, you can only believe you know until you find out otherwise. Then, you know.
Quantum Mechanics teaches us there are limits to what we can know without looking (indeterminism) and there are limits to what we can know with looking (uncertainty).
Dropping the Bohm: Just as we can have deterministic chaos and unpredictability, so too can we have quantum objects which behave classically but which cannot be known or predicted in the classical sense. This shows us the limits of our tools not the limits of the universe.
You can never exhaust a topic if you never get to the point. Although somewhere along the way you’re bound to exhaust the listener.
People who are too tired to think are most often angered by those asking questions.
You cannot do. You can only be there when things happen.
Innovation exceeds development.
There is often less inertia in Thoughtspace than in Timespace thus are we often left waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.
What is Timespace that it can be folded and stretched? Commonsense would suggest only objects can be folded and stretched. If Timespace is a measure of the distance between objects, it should have no value of itself, it should be characterized as an absence of things, a nothingness. But how can a nothingness be folded? Instead it would seem that Timespace is a product of objects, a product of matter. As Einstein’s equation’s show, the greater the mass, the greater the Timespace curvature. But this still does not tell us what Timespace ‘is’.
To the Psychologist or student: If you believe you are possessed of a will, the power to be more than an automation, why do you spend so much time with Behaviorism? How do you reconcile materialistic determinism with creativity and innovation, Behaviorist functionalism with the potential to be more than the sum of your parts? How do you reconcile Pavlovian conditioning with the ability to think for yourself? Or do you?
To the Addict: If you believe you are possessed of a will, how can you claim to be an addict? How can you reconcile your apparent inability to control your addiction with the idea that you are not a robot?
The Addict is very similar to the person suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder. There is the one personality which wishes to be free of the addiction and there is another which is in conflict with this desire. When the conflict becomes too intense, the mind creates a buffer between the two personalities, shields them from each other. Is this then the origin of Schizophrenia?
Armageddon is just peace of mind to the weary.
In a perfect world no one would ever need an abortion. Unfortunately, this is not a perfect world.
A true friend cannot be lost, only found.
It is easy to judge others, especially if you’ve already imagined the worst.
We have as data only the outward appearances of objects, our deductions and our inferences of those objects, but not their inner states. For example, just as we cannot observe a recording and hear the music, we cannot ‘play’ a mind and hear it’s thoughts, unless it is our own.
The secret of Magick is to ‘act as if until it is’. But your willingness to think the worst of someone literally creates the conditions which can cause this person to act as you have imagined. And if they act as you imagined they would, this serves to strengthen and justify what you have imagined. Yet, had you not imagined the worst, the worst might not have come true. Thus, it is good to only think good thoughts.
If People are like movies then our impressions of people are like photographs.
Fantasy does not hasten the future, Science Fiction does.
Without Emptiness there would be nothing. Everything depends on Emptiness.
Only Emptiness reincarnates, everything else is just copied.
All Negative Emotions are robotic responses. Yet, there is that which is not a reaction, there is that which is not a robot. All things come and go, yet there is that which remains. Om Mani Padme hum, the jewel in the lotus.
Beware the sponsors.
A machine cannot be responsible for its actions but a conscious being can.
Science cannot be based on fact or it would not be falsifiable.
Science cannot escape its own fundamental incompleteness or it could not be refutable.
Regurdjieff: “We must remember that we are all asleep, that all this is dreaming. Then, we must devise ways to help remind us, for we are all easily distracted. Only then can there be the potential for moments when we won’t simply regurgitate the ideas of others.”
Sufi Slapstick: “But we are all lazy, conditioned. Part of us wishes to remain asleep, part of us prefers sleep to the drudgery of a rut, to the despair of a future with no end in sight. But that is the trap, that is the cage, which prevents us from rejoicing in a future with no end in sight. Thus it is imperative that we all transform life from an endless battle to an endless joy. To do that we must first wake up!”
The Degenerates cannot be held responsible for their behaviors as those behaviors have been conditioned on an automatic level. However, if we are to be more than a Race of Degenerates, we must accept responsibility anyway. By becoming conscious of our unconscious through an awareness of our behaviors we might change those behaviors.
The trick is not in having an epiphany, for it is the inevitably result of most forms of inquiry if pursued with vigor, but in maintaining it; the difficulty is not in attaining and experiencing enlightenment but in preserving and sustaining enlightenment.
It is not the winning of the race, but the participation in the race that counts.
Science cannot be based on fact or it would not be falsifiable. In fact, science cannot escape its own inherent incompleteness or it would not be refutable. Thus, science answers nothing. Yet, science is the best method we possess for arriving at the truth. It tells us, nothing is true and everything is permitted. Science tells us all is relation, there are no absolutes IN the universe and there is nothing outside.
Just as important, if not more so, as what occurs is the context in which it occurs.
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