ACIM Journal

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To some people my previous post may seem like some science fiction scenario. In my view it's just a developmental perspective of what ACIM is talking about. I have posted this short video before, but what Bruce Lipton is explaining is actually holon development. This makes my previous post at least a bit more grounded in other ideas about how reality works:

 

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The fourth density body is an indestructible physical avatar with much denser information than the body of flesh. That's why it says in the Bible that the body of flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of God. And the Bible also says that the kingdom of God is within us. So the potential for transforming the human body of flesh into a fourth density avatar already exists in us.

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The global ego has tricked us in ego consciousness to believe that we have free will and that personal control is possible. In reality both free will and personal control are illusions. Even the global ego itself is just an automatic delusion for the purpose of growth and development of humanity.

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If my idea about automatic control of all reality is true, then we can see evidence of this in for example how spiritual teachers and gurus are talking about the ego having no free will. And the hypothesis predicts that we will see more and more of this when it includes that there is also inevitable progress of evolution going on. More and more information like this new video by Aaron Abke will start to flow into the mainstream zeitgeist of today:

 

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If God is the same as Brahman, then what the heck is Para Brahman?

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"Para Brahman (Sanskrit:परब्रह्मन्) (IAST: Para Brahman) is the "Highest Brahman" that which is beyond all descriptions and conceptualisations. It is described in Hindu texts as the formless (in the sense that it is devoid of Maya) spirit (soul) that eternally pervades everything, everywhere in the universe and whatever is beyond.[1]"

In my model, Para Brahman is Indra's net. But how can I define Para Brahman when it says it is beyond all descriptions and conceptualizations? The answer is that my model is just a concept, so Para Brahman is beyond my model, and beyond that description and beyond all other descriptions. The map is not the territory, the menu is not the dinner.

God/Brahman is the changeless infinite intelligence within Para Brahman. And the Word of God is the infinite eternal part of Para Brahman that represents the infinite intelligence of God and which in its manifested form becomes physical reality.

The infinite intelligence is an inherent property of the Word of God. That's why it says in the Bible (John 1) that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. It's only in the manifested form that the Word becomes different yet still one with God. The manifested Word is Christ, God's only begotten son. Why son and not a daughter? Because Christ cannot make children. There is only one eternal Christ. Before Abraham was, I am, Jesus said.

The male aspect of Christ just means that the Word of God can only be manifested as itself and as one with God. Christ is the supreme Self, the primordial Self. Christ is himself selfless and only does the will of God. Jesus represents Christ in human form, while Christ is the whole manifested reality and not a separate individual. My current guess is that Christ is the same as Paramatman:

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"Paramatman (Sanskrit: परमात्मन्, IAST: Paramātmāṇ) or Paramātmā is the Absolute Atman, or supreme Self, in various philosophies such as the Vedanta and Yoga schools in Hindu theology, as well as other Indian religions like Sikhism. The Paramatman is the "Primordial Self" or the "Self Beyond" who is spiritually practically identical with the Absolute, identical with the Brahman. Selflessness is the attribute of Paramatman, where all personality/individuality vanishes.[1]" - Wikipedia

 

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Aaron Doughty has a new video about sexual energy. Sadhguru said that he had heard that 70% of the content on the internet is porn, something like that. That's incredible! What is the explanation for that? My theory is that our sexuality has been and continues to be extremely suppressed by the global ego. Imagine a civilization (Atlantis?) with a collective consciousness. For them other people are one with themselves, so for them for example group sex is more natural than monogamous sex. Talk about turning moral rules upside down!

 

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What is the main problem for humanity today? The answer is aging and death of course! Aging and death are caused by the ego and people in ego consciousness defend aging and death and call it natural. There is nothing natural about death! It's a sheer illusion. ACIM is one of the exceptions and talks about death and aging as being an illusion. Some spiritual teachers may say that death is an illusion but they still say that aging is real! That's insanity.

Focusing only on aging and death is also the wrong way, like a modern Tower of Babel where transhumanists try to cure aging with things like biotech, medicine and nanotech. Because that's still to be stuck in third density. We need to move into fourth density which will make transhumanism unnecessary.

Edited February 29, 2020 by Anderz

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Amazingly, ACIM agrees with my view and with strong words like these:

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"M-27.1. Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem. 2 Is it not madness to think of life as being born, aging, losing vitality, and dying in the end? 3 We have asked this question before, but now we need to consider it more carefully. 4 It is the one fixed, unchangeable belief of the world that all things in it are born only to die. 5 This is regarded as "the way of nature," not to be raised to question, but to be accepted as the "natural" law of life. 6 The cyclical, the changing and unsure; the undependable and the unsteady, waxing and waning in a certain way upon a certain path,--all this is taken as the Will of God. 7 And no one asks if a benign Creator could will this.

M-27.2. In this perception of the universe as God created it, it would be impossible to think of Him as loving. 2 For who has decreed that all things pass away, ending in dust and disappointment and despair, can but be feared. 3 He holds your little life in his hand but by a thread, ready to break it off without regret or care, perhaps today. 4 Or if he waits, yet is the ending certain. 5 Who loves such a god knows not of love, because he has denied that life is real. 6 Death has become life's symbol. 7 His world is now a battleground, where contradiction reigns and opposites make endless war. 8 Where there is death is peace impossible.

M-27.3. Death is the symbol of the fear of God. 2 His Love is blotted out in the idea, which holds it from awareness like a shield held up to obscure the sun. 3 The grimness of the symbol is enough to show it cannot coexist with God. 4 It holds an image of the Son of God in which he is "laid to rest" in devastation's arms, where worms wait to greet him and to last a little while by his destruction. 5 Yet the worms as well are doomed to be destroyed as certainly. 6 And so do all things live because of death. 7 Devouring is nature's "law of life." 8 God is insane, and fear alone is real.

M-27.4. The curious belief that there is part of dying things that may go on apart from what will die, does not proclaim a loving God nor re-establish any grounds for trust. 2 If death is real for anything, there is no life. 3 Death denies life. 4 But if there is reality in life, death is denied. 5 No compromise in this is possible. 6 There is either a god of fear or One of Love. 7 The world attempts a thousand compromises, and will attempt a thousand more. 8 Not one can be acceptable to God's teachers, because not one could be acceptable to God. 9 He did not make death because He did not make fear. 10 Both are equally meaningless to Him.

M-27.5. The "reality" of death is firmly rooted in the belief that God's Son is a body. 2 And if God created bodies, death would indeed be real. 3 But God would not be loving. 4 There is no point at which the contrast between the perception of the real world and that of the world of illusions becomes more sharply evident. 5 Death is indeed the death of God, if He is Love. 6 And now His Own creation must stand in fear of Him. 7 He is not Father, but destroyer. 8 He is not Creator, but avenger. 9 Terrible His Thoughts and fearful His image. 10 To look on His creations is to die.

M-27.6. "And the last to be overcome will be death." 2 Of course! 3 Without the idea of death there is no world. 4 All dreams will end with this one. 5 This is salvation's final goal; the end of all illusions. 6 And in death are all illusions born. 7 What can be born of death and still have life? 8 But what is born of God and still can die? 9 The inconsistencies, the compromises and the rituals the world fosters in its vain attempts to cling to death and yet to think love real are mindless magic, ineffectual and meaningless. 10 God is, and in Him all created things must be eternal. 11 Do you not see that otherwise He has an opposite, and fear would be as real as love?

M-27.7. Teacher of God, your one assignment could be stated thus: Accept no compromise in which death plays a part. 2 Do not believe in cruelty, nor let attack conceal the truth from you. 3 What seems to die has but been misperceived and carried to illusion. 4 Now it becomes your task to let the illusion be carried to the truth. 5 Be steadfast but in this; be not deceived by the "reality" of any changing form. 6 Truth neither moves nor wavers nor sinks down to death and dissolution. 7 And what is the end of death? 8 Nothing but this; the realization that the Son of God is guiltless now and forever. 9 Nothing but this. 10 But do not let yourself forget it is not less than this." - ACIM, Manual for Teachers – 27

 

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It's a bit tricky but it is possible to logically explain what ACIM says about aging and death being an illusion and at the same time, as I do, claim that the past is real. Did for example Napoléon Bonaparte exist and did he die? Yes, absolutely. But my view is that all past is information in the now, so Napoleon only exists now and he died now. It's a mind twister and requires a radical recontextualization of how reality is perceived.

Is it possible that we all will age and die in the future? Yes, that's possible too. However it's also possible that there will be a shift from third to fourth density as described in the Law of One within our lifetimes. And with a fourth density body as an indestructible avatar, what ACIM says becomes possible. And the reason for why aging and death are still our experience is because we are still in third density.

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I discovered something one might call lukewarm New Age, where they talk for example about moving from 3D to a 5D reality, but instead of a big evolutionary leap, the fifth dimensional life is described as merely a spiritual self-sacrificing version of our current world, where we still age and die. I find that too lame and I'm glad for more hardcore teachings such as ACIM. Something similar has been going on in Christianity where a lukewarm view has developed that more and more is falling down a slippery slope towards a mainstream scientific reductionistic view where the miracles in the Bible are being dismissed as fantasies.

That's why I like hardcore Christianity where they talk about glorified bodies and miracles as actually being possible. I was surprised to discover that the New Age movement has started to be weakened in a similar way to Christianity and is in parts moving more and more to the mainstream consensus view. Of course I also have disagreement with some of the fundamental Christian views and many of the more fantastical New Age beliefs, but I prefer that to the lukewarm belief systems that to me seem far too limiting.

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Spiritual development is not separate from the material world. This means that what is going on in mainstream society is a part of the development of earth as a holon that I posted about earlier. I checked some mainstream trends and discovered that the most downloaded app at the moment according to several sources is a Chinese app! So not only is China catapulting ahead of the west technologically, but also in social media China is now a big player. The Chinese app is in the west called TikTok and is an easy to use social media platform for sharing short videos.

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"Instagram “influencers” will often overly edit pictures to demonstrate an unrealistic reality, ... With TikTok, there is not much you can “fake” about posting videos. Either you make great content, funny content or engaging videos." - Forbes, Feb 1 2020

TikTok could be a fad, who knows, but I found it interesting that the app focuses on ordinary people rather than on "influencers" as the Forbes article called them. And China can put a lot of AI power behind the algorithms for the app, and connect people on a more emotional level than with mostly text messages as in Twitter or "polished facade" content as in Instagram.

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The idea that reality is an automatic process can feel awful when in ego consciousness, especially when there is suffering. And to the ego an automatic system means something mechanical and robotic almost. That's probably why spiritual teachers, spiritual traditions and religions seldom talk about reality as being automatic even if it's true. Some of the hardcore nonduality teachers, such as Ramesh Balsekar have said it using different words, like in the beginning of this video:

Ramesh's teaching is similar to my model, except I haven't heard him mentioning that reality is also evolving into higher and higher complexity and harmony. And there are other minor differences, for example the notion of time.

And the way I make the idea less mechanical is to include the higher possibilities in teachings such as ACIM, the Law of One and the Bible. So my practice is to unify the mechanical idea with reality as infinite intelligence and as always progressing towards larger and larger holons.

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Aha, nonduality teacher Roger Castillo had Ramesh Balsekar as his teacher, and the example of causation Roger gave going in two directions, A to B to C to D and also from D to C to B to A (as I mentioned earlier) Ramesh describes from about 29 minutes in the previous video. "Cause and effect is not a one-pointed arrow, it's a two-pointed arrow", Ramesh said.

That's the same as in my models where cause and effect is both from past and future and also from the future to the past. Ramesh also said that it's impossible to know the will of God, and that's as I see it a direct consequence of the two-pointed arrow of causality. We know the past, or at least parts of it, but we actually don't know the actual future.

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One simple way of looking at the automatic reality as being less mechanical is with the premise that the actual future is always more intelligent than the past. And as ACIM says, the ego only sees the past. Therefore it's actually the ego with its belief in personal doership plus the belief in causality only going from past to future who is mechanical.

The Holy Spirit is the ongoing inflow of higher intelligence from the actual future. And that's why the ego needs to dissolve, or as I have said, using one of Ken Wilber's ideas, that the ego needs to be transcended and included in an integral way. And I defined the ego shadow as the part of the ego that needs to dissolve, or healed is another way of putting it.

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Teal Swan has a new video about something called gaslighting. That made me think of the possibility of the whole world being gaslighted (gaslit?) on a global scale. And that the reason for why we age and die is actually because of a monumental gaslighting. If we tell an ordinary person: "Did you know that we are supposed to have eternal life?" And if the person is an atheist he or she will reply: "Are you crazy, the only certain things in the world are death and taxes." But is that true? I have started to doubt it and came to think of the current state of humanity and throughout our history as a colossal form of gaslighting on a cosmic scale for the purpose of growth and development.

 

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I call the whole world the global ego. And even the global ego has a shadow in the way I have defined those terms. Anyone can make up whatever homemade definitions they want, but I think the definitions I have used are compatible with the mainstream ones. And it's only the global ego shadow that will collapse. The rest of society will be preserved in the form of an integral transcend and include.

I find this a constructive perspective, because it allows for being in peace with the global ego and even support its progress. It's also a process of development. And many structures in society will remain needed for decades to come, such as politics, law enforcement, monetary systems, legal systems and even military defense. And actually, when it comes to law enforcement, it will become tremendously empowered due to the accelerating progress of technology.

And this is a trend towards globalization. To keep track of corruption, organized crime and terrorism requires increased international cooperation between governments of different nations, because even criminal networks can take advantage of the technological progress. This will force nations to cooperate more and more on a global scale. One tricky situation that will be delicate to manage is the balance between the need for surveillance and society becoming too Orwellian.

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One might think that fancy material things such as fashion and luxury items are unspiritual. And I do believe such things are a result of suppressed sexuality in society, but that's a deliberate cosmic plan to produce uniqueness and creativity. It's like the suppression of first order organic sexuality has produced a second order form of sexuality in the material world of artifacts, such as:

This video about a luxury watch is just an extreme example. Our whole civilization is to a large extent a result of our sexuality having been suppressed. Without that suppression and the ego conflicts we humans would have remained living as bonobo chimps having sex and eating fruit all days, haha.

Edited March 1, 2020 by Anderz

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ACIM says that being defenseless is true protection. The ego is in a state of defensiveness 24/7 because even on a subconscious level the ego is defensive. One practice I came to think of is to consciously become defenseless and when defense is needed, which probably is the case while we remain in ego consciousness, to allow that defense happen automatically. The idea is that gradually over time the defensiveness will diminish along with actual threats becoming less and less, because the truth then is that reality is one wholeness and conflict an illusion.

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One obvious evidence of how sexuality has been suppressed in our society is that sexuality has been ripped away from love as wholeness and put into a separate box, like a Pandora's box not to be opened. So special is this box that throughout history and even today, sexuality is reserved for only one person in your life, and even though you are allowed to love other people you are demanded, if not by religion, by your own belief system, to keep sexuality out of that love for other people other than your insignificant other.

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Brad Johnson has a new earth intelligence report, and although I found it difficult to understand, it seems to talk about the formation of earth as a holon that I wrote about earlier: