ACIM Journal

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Oh, this is interesting, Leo has a new blog video about requisite variety.

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"W. Ross Ashby was a British cyberneticist and psychologist who, during the 1960s, proposed a law with regards to levels of variety and regulation within biological systems. In his words:

When the variety or complexity of the environment exceeds the capacity of a system (natural or artificial) the environment will dominate and ultimately destroy that system.

This law, now well-known as the First Law of Cybernetics, can also be described as:

In order to deal properly with the diversity of problems the world throws at you, you need to have a repertoire of responses which are (at least) as nuanced as the problems you face.

Or, even more simply:

Variety absorbs variety." - https://www.businessballs.com/strategy-innovation/ashbys-law-of-requisite-variety/

I will check out Leo's video but first I want to post an idea that came to me about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is maximum variety! It's control in the form of wholeness. The Holy Spirit deals with the whole of existence.

[Anderz]

What is the Holy Spirit? I define the Holy Spirit as the control of all of reality. The ego is the belief in separation, so it's "sin", it's a mistaken view which makes it struggle throughout life.

No matter how much requisite variety the ego manages to hold, it's always too little for managing reality harmoniously. So I think Leo is mistaken about the idea that we need to try to gain more requisite variety as individuals in order to be able to deal with an ever increasing complexity in society. Future thinking is for artificial intelligence and robots, similar to how pocket calculators and computers have removed most of the need for doing manual calculations.

Instead my approach will be to go in the opposite direction and let the Holy Spirit deal with my life. No matter how complex society gets, the Holy Spirit manages all that. I will still use my mind for learning new things but I will aim at a high abstraction level, meaning fewer and more powerful thoughts.

[Anderz]

I like Leo's recommendation of attracting creativity. That will be useful in my mindfulness practice, where my mind is like stuck in an inflexible struggle with tensions in body and mind.

I do often feel creativity when it comes to new ideas but when it comes to the actual practice and concrete results my mind feels like a block of concrete. I will test it on feelings instead of thoughts though, since my plan is to move towards more trans-conceptual awareness.

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Now I got a creative idea! I have been very passive in my my mindfulness practice. My new approach is to use more willpower. I have been thinking that willpower that's ego consciousness, but actually the Holy Spirit is the whole control, so it includes willpower.

Instead of just passively observe and wait for tensions in my body and mind to dissolve, I will now consciously enter into tensions with commitment, focus and determination. Well, not too stridently, but at least less passively than how I have been doing the practice.

[Anderz]

Now I got a new idea. Control is nondual. That's something I have already mentioned. The new part is that the ego and the Holy Spirit are one! Yes, A Course in Miracles correctly points out that the ego is a delusional belief, but it's actually the Holy Spirit that moves the whole universe, including the ego.

In practice, a radical possibility opens up which is that personal willpower and choiceless awareness are merely aspects of the same reality. And which mode is activated is something that is determined automatically. So a possible way towards relaxing tensions is a realization of this principle, and then the ego can no longer fool itself into believing that it has the power to control anything. Tensions and belief in separate control go together!

[Anderz]

Wow, now yet another idea came to me. Requisite variety will never be adequate to fully deal with managing life harmoniously. Why? Because of what Stephen Wolfram calls computational irreducibility. It means that many even very simple systems are impossible to predict beforehand how they will behave. The only way to find out what the result will be is to actually run the system.

And life as a whole is irreducible, so when we attempt to use requisite variety to control reality it will always lead to conflict and friction. The solution instead is to do the completely opposite which is to not use any requisite variety at all and allow reality to control itself (which it is already doing anyway).

[Anderz]

Compare the requisite variety of a single peson to the combined 7 billion people in the world. And not just many people but connected in a way as to form a higher holon, similar to how the functioning of a single neuron compares to the functioning of the whole human brain.

From that perspective the ego consciousness becomes incredibly childish and limited. And the past memories of a person becomes utterly insignificant compared to the entire history of humanity with access to the Akashic records and the noosphere of the whole planet.

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From a fractal perspective we can think of money in society as the blood flow in the human body. In a collective consciousness money comes AUTOMATICALLY to each member, just like how the blood flow comes automatically to all the cells in the body. It would be insanity if all the individual cells in the human body were responsible for bringing blood to themselves. And even more insane if all the cells were competing with each other in a game of struggle for survival and domination of resources.

Yet, in society today, that kind of insane conflict-ridden and every cell struggling to receive blood situation is exactly what we have with people each having to bring in his or her own money. And not only that, imagine a single cell who needs 10 molecules of nutrition per hour hoarding 1,000,000 molecules of nutrition per hour. Insanity. In a human body, if a cell needs 10 molecules it receives that and another cell may need 1,000 molecules and receives that, automatically.

[Anderz]

A universal basic income (UBI) is a sign of society becoming more like the blood flow in a body. Automation will replace more and more jobs, and from the old structure that might seem bad, but it will free up people from being locked into mechanical 9-to-5 routines struggling as separate individuals for survival to allow us to develop the next level of human evolution into a larger planetary holon.

Ego suffering I believe is nature pushing us into evolving into a collective consciousness. Because the next evolutionary leap for humanity is not through individuals becoming better at struggling by ourselves but through the whole planet turning into a noosphere.

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"As a mystic, he [Pierre Tielhard de Chardin] believed the next step was going to take us from a "mindless" biosphere to a world ruled by intention — by "mind." Evolution, he claimed, was taking us toward what he called the Noosphere ("nous" is greek for mind) — a global unity of consciousness, a " 'thinking' sphere circling the Earth above the biosphere, which [would comprise all] human reflection, conscious souls, and love."" - NPR.org, April 14, 2015

 

[Anderz]

Now a new idea came to me. If it's true that ego suffering is nature's way of evolving us into a collective consciousness, then we can use Gurdjieff's intentional suffering method in relation to that idea.

Suffering is then used as a guiding tool telling us where we still are stuck in ego consciousness. And one method is to allow suffering to guide us away from ego consciousness and into a collective consciousness. Instead of as in the usual ego habit to try to get away from the suffering or even mindfully accept suffering, to instead pause and wait for a new direction.

The difference between the new method and conventional mindfulness is to expect suffering to immediately dissolve. Because if the suffering remains when we mindfully observe it, then we are still moving in ego consciousness direction.

[Anderz]

Something I discovered is that when practicing mindful suffering then confusion comes up in my mind. Confusion is a form of suffering too. So what to do with the confusion is to be open-minded and open-hearted within oneself. That form of letting go of struggle against the situation allows the confusion to dissolve.

And yet another idea came to me about conscious peace. That's the practice I just described. So instead of being mindful of suffering and confusion, to go directly to becoming mindful of inner peace. And when there is an absence of peace to consciously let go of struggle, so that inner peace can start to flow within oneself. 

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The ego seeks pleasure, which is fine, except for the fact that the very seeking of pleasure is fueled by suffering. So the ego is confused about inner peace for it looks for it in the future where it cannot be found. The trick, then, is to steer one's inner guiding system towards inner peace in the present moment which is the real instant pleasure that the ego constantly overlooks.

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"As peace extends from deep inside yourself to embrace all the Sonship and give it rest, it will encounter many obstacles. 2 Some of them you will try to impose. 3 Others will seem to arise from elsewhere; from your brothers, and from various aspects of the world outside. 4 Yet peace will gently cover them, extending past completely unencumbered. 5 The extension of the Holy Spirit's purpose from your relationship to others, to bring them gently in, is the way in which He will bring means and goal in line. 6 The peace He lay, deep within you and your brother, will quietly extend to every aspect of your life, surrounding you and your brother with glowing happiness and the calm awareness of complete protection. 7 And you will carry its message of love and safety and freedom to everyone who draws nigh unto your temple, where healing waits for him. 8 You will not wait to give him this, for you will call to him and he will answer you, recognizing in your call the Call for God. 9 And you will draw him in and give him rest, as it was given you." - ACIM T-19.IV.1. 

 

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Is it possible to have stable inner peace together with the death drive? Maybe not! I see the death drive as the shadow cast by the ego structures. So the death drive is not some function in itself. And that explains why some psychologists deny the existence of a death drive while other psychologists claim that there is a death drive. Both sides are correct! There is a death drive, but it's a shadow caused by the ego so the death drive doesn't exist as some function of its own.

And the death drive is related to time. The ego is completely neurotic about time, and I don't even need to look into that mess, haha. Instead the foundation of chronophobia (means fear of time) can be examined. How does the thought about eternal time feel? And I mean eternity as in infinite future. It's a very scary thought to the ego!

From a nondual perspective, time and timeless are one. This means that time is a duality phenomenon. And the mind thinks in duality in the form of concepts. So time is the flow in the moment plus concepts in the mind. The flow is neutral and fine. It's time as concepts that can be nasty! Eternity and death are concepts. And the key for stable inner peace is to recognize all concepts and discover that they are all just labels, including eternity and death.

And notice that if we have the belief in inevitable physical death we remain in the grip of concepts. When a belief, which is a concept, is taken as a fact, death remains a monster, at least on a subconscious level. The same with eternity. One way out of that trap is to be uncertain about death and eternity and then recognize that the uncertainty itself is based on concepts. And then to let all that mess dissolve.

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I found that Vernon Howard talked about something similar to how ACIM says that true protection is in being defenseless. Vernon also talked about false certainty. That made me think of how I myself consider for example 2+2 = 4 certainty. However, when it comes to the future, then I'm actually always uncertain. So everything about the future that I take as certain is false certainty. And yet reality as a whole is always certain. So I have some delusional perspective of the future. Very interesting.

 

[Anderz]

Wow, it's useful to have faith! I haven't considered faith much before. I will test having faith in that the future is certain and safe. If I claimed that as a certainty it would be the false kind of certainty Vernon Howard talked about.

Faith on the other hand is a strong belief. I have a strong belief in that the future will be certain, just as the present moment is certain and how the past is certain. And my ego projections of the future are either tainted with worry or have false certainty. So the faith in this case replaces my usual ego projection of the future.

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"We said before that when a situation has been dedicated wholly to truth, peace is inevitable. 2 Its attainment is the criterion by which the wholeness of the dedication can be safely assumed. 3 Yet we also said that peace without faith will never be attained, for what is dedicated to truth as its only goal is brought to truth by faith. 4 This faith encompasses everyone involved, for only thus the situation is perceived as meaningful and as a whole. 5 And everyone must be involved in it, or else your faith is limited and your dedication incomplete." - ACIM T-19.I.1. 

 

[Anderz]

I like Brad Johnson's approach of making the body younger:

But I wonder if it's related to the fourth density body in the Law of One. It would be horrible to live forever in only a third density body, yikes.

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I'm sometimes surprised by Shunyamurti. In this video it almost sounds like he is describing a shift from third to fourth density in the Law of One although using a more traditional spiritual perspective:

 

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Trump has banned the Chinese tech giant Huawei even from buying microchips from Taiwanese TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of microchips. TSMC uses U.S. equipment so Trump has been able to ban Huawei that way.

So how can Huawei become so successful as I predict? Because Huawei is a part of the overall Chinese long-term planning strategy I believe, which means that China already has developed superior microchip manufacturing capacity in secret. Huawei being dependent on TSMC has just been a smokescreen in my estimation.

Even official information shows how China has made a lot of progress in producing microchips, and we can expect that the actual situation is that their technology is way ahead of the official figures.

 

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How thick/wide is the physical human body experienced in the present moment in terms of time? The answer is: zero seconds wide.  Because the past physical body is no more and the future physical body is not yet.

And so we run around worrying about something that is zero seconds wide.

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"Nothing can show the contrast better than the experience of both a holy and an unholy relationship. 2 The first is based on love, and rests on it serene and undisturbed. 3 The body does not intrude upon it. 4 Any relationship in which the body enters is based not on love, but on idolatry. 5 Love wishes to be known, completely understood and shared. 6 It has no secrets; nothing that it would keep apart and hide. 7 It walks in sunlight, open-eyed and calm, in smiling welcome and in sincerity so simple and so obvious it cannot be misunderstood." - ACIM T-20.VI.2.

 

[Anderz]

The U.S. leaders seem childishly naive to me. That's why I suspect that Trump is having a different plan than what it appears to be on the surface. No U.S. leader would be foolish enough to believe that Taiwan is independent from China. And of course the Taiwanese giant microchip manufacturer TSMC being dependent on U.S. equipment is surely just a "stage magician" trick, to allow Trump to ban Huawei.

Trump is doing what China wants him to do. How do I know? Well, I don't know yet, but let's see what happens later this year and in the coming years. My prediction is that Huawei will skyrocket ahead of the U.S. tech companies such as Apple, Intel and even Google. Apple's hardware is already starting to look like stone age technology compared to Huawei's products.

Another gullible move by the U.S. (and maybe even later on by the UK and other western countries) is to trust Japan instead of China when it comes to 5G. China and Japan have most likely cooperated throughout centuries and been fooling the western powers. I think that Trump already knows this and that there is something else going on behind the public scene in terms of international cooperation and planning.