Memoirs of a Seeker

By: Jimmy De Bilde

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Chapter one: Life, Society and Culrure

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No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all
societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they
cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced into a mechanical life, to live like
robots. They will assert their individuality. They will have the fragrance of
rebellion around them. They will like to live in freedom. Freedom comes with
wisdom, intrinsically. They are inseparable, and no society wants people to be
free. The communist society, the fascist society, the capitalist society, the Hindu,
the Mohammedan, the Christian - no society - would like people to use their
own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they
become dangerous - dangerous to the Establishment, dangerous to the people
who are in power, dangerous to the ‘haves’, dangerous to all kinds of
oppression, exploitation, suppression; dangerous to the churches, dangerous to
the states, dangerous to the nations. In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame.
But he cannot sell his life, he cannot serve them. He would like rather to die than
to be enslaved. (Osho)

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However great or small your ambitions in life, in the end, it’s always the small
things that make life enjoyable. A tasty meal, a fine conversation, a good book,
the love of kin…

Beati pauperes spiritu. In a sense this is true. Knowledge gives weight to life. On
top of the usual weight that is…

Make no illusions. Life is inherently unfair. Always has been and always will
be. Call it characteristic of life…

Birth and death are commonplace events. It is what happens in between that
makes life worthwhile…

Whatever you do in life, do it with the greatest passion and live every day as if it
were your last…

Be yourself with the greatest passion and (if possible) regret nothing. Semper Te
Ipsum!

Beware of the others. They will always hold it against you who you are…

A glimpse into someone’s library is a glimpse into someone’s soul…

Eternal life… How boring and unstimulating that would be…?

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The visage expresses still deeper things than the hidden activities of
consciousness. In this open book one can read not only the vices, the virtues, the
intelligence, the stupidity, the feelings, the most carefully concealed habits, of
an individual, but also the constitution of his body, and his tendencies to organic
and mental diseases (…) Each man bears on his face the description of his body
and his soul… Alexis Carrel (Man, The Unknown)

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not
accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is
something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the
common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not
partake of society, is either a beast or a god. Aristotle, “Politics”

The eyes are the mirror of the soul, they say. There is definitely a lot of truth in
that. But I prefer judging people by their actions. Also, be careful in judging
people by the face: An angry expression may hide a kind person, and the kind
face may be that of a psychopath…

What, really, is more enticing, more mysterious, more devilish than a forbidden
book? Louis Paul Boon

Do you really want to go to heaven? Remember then that the most interesting
people are in hell…

If I were to choose, I would leave judgement in any matter to wise men. Wisdom
as the supreme ruler…

Be open to people. A single encounter may change your life…

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The competition between the ancient Greek city states in every field (arts,
literature, the sciences, athletics, warfare…) is what made their culture and
physiology the most beautiful thus far. It may take another thousand years from
now for us to be able to surpass it. A similar competition between the European
member states, even between the nations of the world, that would take us
somewhere…

Looking at history Culture usually thrives in times of war, uncertainty,

upheaval, social unrest, illiteracy, slavery and above all, it has no need for
safety. Safety is opposed to change. But troubles lie ahead. Climate change,
wars, pandemics, political instability… A breeding ground for change, if you
ask me…

Life hangs by a thread. Are you sure you don’t have some unfinished business,
no matter how small or seemingly unimportant? And why postpone anything
until retirement? There may not even be a tomorrow…

Competition is the father (driving force) and the mother (producing force) of all
things. Modern-day economic competition is the absolute proof…

Politicians are salesmen too. How are they going to sell something to the public?
Haha

In life we are all experts in our own way. Everybody has something to tell…

Death seldom comes when you expect it. Be prepared. In every way…

Life has to be approached like the warrior approaches the enemy…

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When it comes to the subject of democracy, first of all, modern democracy is
nowhere near Athenian democracy. And secondly, the greatness, beauty and
might of Athens had nothing to do with its democratic institutions, but with its
leadership that was aristocratic in nature. Athenian democracy was pretty faulty
too. Democracy is the decline of the state. That is the truth about democracy. He
who said that liberal democracy is the end goal of history, is unaware of history.
In any case, he lacks essence. On the other hand, in a sense Athenian democracy
was nowhere near ours either. Never and nowhere in history has so much
knowledge been available to all and for free. Unprecedented!

When it comes to the differences between the social classes, I suppose we all
agree on the social differences. Let’s, however, not overlook any biological
aspects too such as strength or weakness of the will, other virtues, vices,
intelligence, behavioral differences, health the way I understand it, certain
pathologies... In brief, physiology! That is why social classes should not
intermarry…

The Romans were conquerors and statesmen in the first place, but there is this
myth the Romans didn’t have art of their own. Roman artistic realism, especially
portraiture, was superb. True character faces, hardened by battle, contempt for
death, contempt for life... Those were times... Those were men...

The pervading evil of today: Nobody takes time to reflect. Instead, society as a
whole wallows in slavery. And ignorance…

If there is one thing I strongly believe in, then it is the power of ideas…

He who is not born every day anew, is dead. Life is suffering...

Don’t desperately cling to life. Instead, live…

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My secret? I accept people as they are. And that allows you to get along with
everyone. No approving. Just acceptance. If someone is an asshole, accept him
as an asshole. And you will perfectly get along with him. It’s as simple as that…

The clergyman said to the mayor “keep ‘em poor”, to the schoolmaster “keep
‘em dumb”, to the businessman “keep ‘em busy” and I myself will scare the hell
out of them. The Holy Trinity. Of exploitation…

Thinking too much isn’t good for you… This is either a concoction by the ruling
class or by the Church. Thinking too much would give common people too
many insights they’d better not have…

Our ability to reflect is what sets us apart from the animals. So first learn to
reflect and then become human...

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live...

Vauvenargues

Turn every disadvantage into an advantage. Just do it. And you will never have a
disadvantage…

You can't change people. Accept them as they are or avoid them...

Seek and you will find. The Bible (and my advice to Truth-Seekers!)

Death is certain, so why not be cheerful? Friedrich Nietzsche

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The 'Last Man' indulges in safety, security, materialism, consumerism,
escapism... The 'Last Man' is basically dead. An object of shame and ridicule.
He has even forgotten what it means to be human. What remains is a pet…

Westerners strive for certainties that do not exist. As far as I know, there is only
one. The need for certainty and security is herd mentality. The happiness of the
herd…

How can you really be if you’re too busy? That is the question. Take time to
breathe. Find balance. Practice the “power of now”…

Self-imposed (voluntary) slavery: the slavery of the West. What fools prefer
slavery? That is the question…

The elections are near. Once again politicians and parties prostitute themselves
for my vote. Whores!

So you want to become wise? Not that hard: Read, think a lot and above all,
make a lot of mistakes...

Don’t be too envious of a wise person. You never know what mistakes he or she
has made…

Think before you speak. Read before you think. Fran Lebowitz

What is worse? Death? Or the thought of death...?

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Are you concerned about your privacy? Then stay disconnected. Everything you
do online or electronically leaves behind a trace: all your posts, messages, likes,
dislikes, internet banking transactions, bank card transactions, internet
purchases, internet searches… are stored and allow big businesses and
ultimately the government to track you down and/or compose your
psychological profile: political ideas, religion, sexual orientation… This is
called “data mining” and “internet profiling”. They may know you better than
you know yourself. And keep in mind that whatever you think you permanently
delete, be it a post, an email or a text, still exists on their servers. The more you
stay disconnected, the less they have on you. Also keep in mind that
smartphones have multiple batteries and speakers so they are hard, if not
impossible, to completely turn off. Moreover, if you believe you are a ‘good
citizen’ who has nothing to fear, then keep in mind that it is not you who
determines that. And last but not least, do you trust big businesses or the
government well enough to be absolutely sure your information is safe from
unwanted scrutiny? People will become hesitant in speaking their minds…

Modern technology always comes with a poison: F.L.O.P. (Fast Loss Of

Privacy). It's extremely toxic. Moreover, it also comes with a myth: the myth
that it is only natural that there is no longer such a thing as privacy. Just one
example of the “dictatorship of technology”. Technology requires that we adapt.
Refuse to adapt and suffer the consequences. And contrary to a human dictator,
technology lacks a face…

And now that we're on the subject of prostitution... Women are prostitutes. They
grant their favors to the best bidding man. And that's not all. You, my dear
reader, you too are a prostitute. You grant your favors (time, energy) to someone
(your employer for example) in exchange for something (money). I can say this,
and don't you doubt it, we are all prostitutes...

So you see no danger in bulk data? Now imagine bulk date and algorithms. And
an algorithm with a any amount of criteria having the capacity to pick you out
from billions…

Philosophy without a system is rather fruitless too. See the wood for the trees!

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“Religion is the opium of the people”, Marx said. But in reality religion is an
indispensable tool to impose mores on the people. The excesses of the
prevailing nihilism in the West (spiritual and moral decline, violence,
intoxication, escapism…) are the absolute proof. On the necessity of religion…

Truth-Seeker beware... A profound knowledge of the workings of the world may

lead to paranoia, disappointment, frustration. And it’s only a small step to hate.
If only you knew what the so-called “average citizen” is capable of at times…

If the system fails people, and it does, you can rest assured those people will
create their own system. And they do. Governments bear huge responsibility.
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime”, somebody once said...

Laws stand mute in the midst of arms, Cicero said. When you say peace, I say
“interbellum”. That is the nature of peace…

Some of the best books have a personal bias. Objectivity is boring and often
opposed to change…

Quite a few interesting writers got arrested for their book(s). Interesting stuff
raises eyebrows...

We are all insane, but the least insane are those who know they are...

Reality is a collective hallucination that we agree upon. Haha

We are all biased. We are biased the way we are…

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So you manage to live by Gracián’s wisdom? Congratulations! In that case
you’re not only a saint but also a Pharisee. Also, living entirely by Gracián is
hard because it already presupposes the presence of certain innate virtues.
Living by Nietzsche’s “Be yourself” is a lot easier, but keep in mind that it is
one of the most dangerous truths in existence if you think it through. Tell that to
a young Adolph Hitler. Living by Gracián can make one (more) successful
whereas living by Nietzsche’s “Be Yourself” often comes with a price…

About social problems I have my own idea: those are problems created by
society itself, either by the ignorance, the incompetence or the impotence of
politicians and institutions…

Give the people a scapegoat and they will eat from your hand. The one that is
held accountable is expendable. The big fish always escape the dance…

Politicians have a lot on their hidden agendas indeed, but fair taxation definitely
not. And while we're on the subject... What's your hidden agenda...?

The modern luxuries are actually immaterial: time, privacy and

disconnectedness…

The eternal struggle: The ruler wants to oppress and the people do not want to
be oppressed…

Beware... Regardless of the era you live in, there is always a war on. For your
mind…

Arrogance goes hand in hand with knowledge, power or solitude…

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Major criminal investigations seemingly leading nowhere in reality often lead to
the top. And behind every great fortune lies a great crime. It is as Solon said:
“The laws are like cobwebs; they entangle the small fry, but the great ones go
through them, and carry all with them”. Nihil sub sole novum. Some things will
never change…

Modern schooling is designed to produce specialized slaves. Youngsters are not

taught to live. People are sacrificed in the name of money…

Politicians are often forced to commit fraud. This puts them in a weak position
so that interest groups can manipulate and blackmail them…

Schools aren’t concerned with true education either. If you seek education, it
will require that you educate yourself…

How does one destroy an ancient culture in one generation without bloodshed?
Quite simple. By schooling...

So you seek education? Then read the Great Educators. Or why not read me…?

First commandment of every leader: “Thou shalt not truly educate the people…”

Your time is limited. Be selective when it comes to books…

“Privacy!” the watch dog cried…

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Society as we know it, even a great deal of the world as we know it, can
basically be traced back to two events: First, the conquest of ancient Greece by
the Romans and secondly, the conquest of the Roman empire by Christianity.
This marked the end of Culture. We are still barbarians compared to antiquity.
And the decadence of modern society is another consequence. Barbarianism and
decadence. Such is the true nature of modern society. Despite its technological
advantage. Society is by no means the pinnacle of human history. Those who
think that ignore history and are ignorant when it comes to Culture…

You read your books, the politician says, and let me do politics. But I suggest
that politicians read more books. Good books preferably. Their lack of time, that
puts them on equal footing with the slaves, is one of the pervading evils of
today. How can you truly change society if you don’t know what is wrong with
it? Modern society is inferior in every possible way. And decadence the rule…

The advent of Christianity dragged with it a great decline in science, Culture and
last but not least, human physiology. It was nothing less than a “Great
Darkening”. The world would have looked entirely different, more beautiful
probably, if the Romans had not given in to the Christian movement.
Christianity is the antithesis of antiquity. We still haven’t recovered from it. The
lack of Culture and the prevailing decadence are the absolute proof. That is the
impact morality can have on society. A major setback…

Politicians must learn to address the root cause of a social problem rather than
fight the symptoms. Mere cowardice. Cowardice and impotence…

Economy is actually a wasteful doctrine: It wastes 'spirit'. And therefore Culture.

All good things are sacrificed in the name of money…

Christian ethics have invaded all Western political, academic and scientific
institutions. The naturalization of Christianity…

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There is no 'moral veil' surrounding things. Nature, the universe... are devoid of
morality. Morality is in your head and nowhere else. Instilled by society and
education. Be beyond morality. In thoughts. And, why not, in actions. The less
your actions are hindered by morality, the further you’ll get. If you want to stay
poor, be a good person. A little machiavellism on the other hand pays off…

The international elites have only one point on their agenda: maximization of
profits, no matter what. Accumulation of capital. Making money with the
intention of making more money. Money-making as the prevailing art. They
may be elites, but their ideas are far from elitist…

From the perspective of the universe, no deed is inherently "good" or "bad",

"good" or "evil". The universe does not judge. Only men. And God. Or so we’re
told. Haha. There is no god. Seek no god outside yourself. That is self-
knowledge. But more on that later…

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and
monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before
tomorrow morning. Henry Ford

A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very dangerous man who
has that under voluntary control. Jordan Peterson

If you ask me, there is only one way out of the massive global debt system: war!
In bello solutio...

Nietzsche, the philosopher who made connection to antiquity…

Transparency, the government cried…

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Contrary to what Plato believed in his ideal state, leaders must be leaders in the
first place. But it is by no means a bad idea that they surround themselves with
wise men. Side wisdom with power. The two edges of a mighty sword.
Knowledge is sometimes said to be power. True. But only when you have
power. Propaganda is one example of such knowledge. I deem it superior
knowledge. It has worked since time immemorial…

There is a huge difference between modern psychology and classical psychology

as you can find it in the writings of Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Gracián, the French
moralists, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Sartre... Modern psychology is crap. The only
field of psychology that appeals to me is evolutionary psychology.
Like classical psychology it deals with human nature...

Nietzsche was a genius, a visionary, a philosopher, a neo-classicist, a

psychologist, a physiologist and last but not least, a eugenicist. Plato already had
those ideas 2,400 years ago. Sadly they were never put into practice. And
Christianity did the rest. The “Great Darkening”. A setback that continues to the
present day. Morality as a danger…

Atlantis has existed. Atlantis were the Cultures that existed prior to the Egyptian
Civilization. After the ice age the ice melted. And a lot got flooded. The Biblical
deluge. Who knows how much is situated under water…?

My ideal modern state, utopia even, would be composed of all the best every
state in the world has to offer. Likewise for my ideal political party, but I'd
introduce some classical elements...

Do you want to find Atlantis? Then paleoclimatology is the answer. What

regions were habitable during and after the Ice Age? That and the sea levels…

Independent thinking without solid basis is rather fruitless. One needs vision…

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Those who want to abolish the state better remember that without the state
society would collapse as a result of human nature. And this is exactly why a
state should have the monopoly on violence. Unfortunately, it also has the
monopoly on murder, torture, assault, arson, rape, theft and plunder. And those
who want to abolish class struggle might very well abolish society in the
process. Class struggle is the essence of society…

When reading Gracián or Carnegie, it comes to my mind that the manipulation

of others is an essential part of human nature. Harsh as it may sound, the
mastery of it inevitably leads to success. Manipulate buyers via advertising is
one example. But the best example is the state. Manipulation of the masses is of
all times. The masses are an instrument. Lead the masses and you lead society…

Politicians and leaders must learn to think beyond their term of office.
Unfortunately, democracy is a political system characterized by short-term
vision. As a result politicians have no other option than to adopt this short-term
vision. Democracy these days is a circus too. The circus stays the same. Only
the clowns change. Haha

The state must be a non plus ultra, but I do not believe in a state for the sake of
itself. A state should be a means to an end. Culture for example. And this is true
even today. The state as a means to profit and self-enrichment. Abuse of the
state. The practice of our times…

The ideal state is said to be the state people do not mention in their
conversations. I can relate. And it seems we're nowhere near. And the worst
state in my eyes is the state people dare not mention...

The most important characteristic of a great leader is long-term vision. But

modern society is characterized by short-term vision. Long-term vision spans a
millennium. That is long-term vision…

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Whether they like it or not, whether they realize it or not, politicians, political
parties, scientists and even independent thinkers are still way too much under
the spell of Christian ethics in order to be called truly independent. The
prevailing ethics are the greatest obstacle to progress. The nature of these ethics
is Christian. Ethics, at least Christian ethics, hinder change. Christianity to me is
like democracy: There is no alternative, so we’ll just have to do with it for the
time being. But the prevailing nihilism is a proof that change is coming.
Nihilism is a period of transition between two value systems. So a new one is to
be expected. The advantage of nihilism lies in its existence…

Due to their Christian obsession with life, many doctors will try to save people
who are actually beyond saving. With ugly results. Their “Life above all!” is
actually opposed to life. And it has something cruel to it too…

When a person is born, he or she is born into an era and a (belief) system and
people are seldom aware of the things that have been or that may come.
Independent thinkers take nothing for granted…

Some things are not to be questioned because they legitimize things that are
otherwise illegitimate. For the good listener. Haha

In case of government abuses, the right place for the responsible citizen may
very well be in prison. Civil disobedience!

Leaders the way I like them: men of taste, virtuous, able-bodied and strong-
willed. Greatness!

Vive discere! And whatever you acquire of knowledge or wisdom, pass it on.
Teach!

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Analogy between the “New World Order” and the Roman Empire: First of all,
nobody has respect for a giant and secondly, giants eventually fall too. Also, the
New World Order has reached its limits. The disruptive ones. But the New
World Order will come to an end when a new stage is reached. That of war. I bet
it is already planned. The New World Order is nothing more than a means to an
end. I believe it is part of a bigger strategy. The ultimate goal being World
Government. Nietzsche was a proponent and prominent New World Orders read
Nietzsche. I know that for fact. They made no secret of it during the second Gulf
War. “Old Europe”! George W. Bush Jr. For good listeners. Like myself. Haha

Whether Islamic State was sponsored by the West I will leave in the middle for
now, but it sure is convenient to the military industrial complex. War is
profitable. And a common enemy helps to keep the people united. Applied
psychology. Always works. Haha

“We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy…”
The famous words of JFK in a new context… And I myself would finish the
phrase by saying: “…and I intend to expose it before I leave this high and noble
office of backroom philosopher...

It strikes me when politicians who say “Yes, we can” or “It’s time for a change”
only seem to maintain the same corrupt system. Haha. Modern man is
exhausted. He has lost the will to fight…

Change can be gradual, change can be radical... But in the end, people always
forget because they want to go on with their lives as soon as possible. The
psychology of forgetting…

A “New World Order” sounds commonplace to me. A new Renaissance, that

would be interesting…

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For all I know, it may take another world war before things take a turn for the
better. Extremis malis extrema remedia. World War I brought us the League of
Nations, World War II the United Nations and, harsh as it may sound, it will
take no less than World War III to bring about a world government. Know
history and you know the future. Do also keep in mind that neither the U.S. or
Russia (or any other country) will give up their sovereignty, so it will take an
immense conflict to bring about a world government. The question is not if, but
when…

In the cabaret of globalization the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips
off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the
repressive force. Subcomandante Marcos

The best way these days to control both individuals and entire states is through
debt. Governance by debt. States in debt can be controlled and individuals in
debts are predictable. Stay out of debt!

Politicians are like women: They rarely say what they mean. In fact, they are
worse: They rarely mean what they say...

World War II was a dangerous precedent indeed: the use of the atomic bomb.
Draw your conclusions…

In case of a World War III scenario, avoid the big cities as they will be
targeted…

Pay your taxes, do your job, you’re doing great, enrich the state!

The war wasn’t meant to be won. It was meant to continue…

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The most evil invention of all times may very well be television. During the
Nazi regime it was Hitler's goal to provide all Germans with radio. For obvious
reasons. These days virtually everyone has television. Draw your conclusions.
And get rid of it. It’s a propaganda tool and nothing else…

No need to read Machiavelli’s "The Prince" or Edward Bernays’ "Propaganda"

or Walter Lippmann's "Public Opinion" yourself. I guarantee you that “they”
read it for you. Better study the weapons of control. Rob them of their weapons!

According to Machiavelli a state has two kinds of enemies: the exterior (other
states) and (this is the interesting part) the interior (the people). Hence the use of
proactive measures (e.g. CCTV etc)…

The best way to keep the people united is by means of a common enemy
(foreign or domestic, real or perceived). If absent, create one… H.W.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.

James Freeman Clarke

Woo the statesman who does not understand the telltale signs of his time. You
reap what you sow…

Life comes with one guarantee only. On the need for security…

The more corrupt the state, the more laws. Tacitus

"Freedom!" he yelled, and turned the screw…

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The ‘decline of the West’ (Oswald Spengler) is obvious, but do not think for a
moment it is the end. Contrary to Nietzsche, Spengler was a pessimist and he
provided us with no alternative. The reality is that the decline is merely an
intermediary stage. It will reach a climax and from then on things will get better.
Also, world history has barely begun. There will be greater cultures and greater
civilizations. Antiquity is something that has to be surpassed. How about that
for a goal…?

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their
victory but new masters. Lord Halifax (Haha)

The quest for Knowledge, Wisdom, Truth... does not per se testify of a noble
spirit, but if you ask me, it is a noble strife…

Am I radical? I may very well be a slipper hero who’s had ‘a bit too much to
think’. Haha

The ‘preachers of freedom’ may very well be in the process of restricting it ‘bit
by bit’…

I am free and my philosophy is radical. Does that make me a free radical? Haha

Free Spirits adhere to nothing or no one. They are rather sovereign individuals…

A man is free when he does not fear or hope. Pétiet

War is the health of the state. Beware...

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Not very long ago a prominent figure in Belgium labeled Free Spirits 'dangerous
to authoritarian regimes' since it is impossible to know what they think and that
it is usually not what we think. First of all, I believe every regime to be
authoritarian in nature. And secondly, has our timid Big Brother society evolved
that far now that we even want to know what people think? O tempora o mores.
Also, the freest spirits, those who do not suffer from morality, can often be
found at the head of authoritarian regimes. That he overlooked…

The warning of 1984 (George Orwell) is still valid and will remain so for
decades, if not centuries, to come. I said ‘warning’, but I could have said
‘prophecy’ too. For all I know, it may very well have been a promise…

The essence of Plato's ‘Allegory Of The Cave’? First of all, nobody likes the
philosopher. And secondly, never wake a sleeping dog. Haha

The ultimate conclusion of our Big Brother society would probably be a camera
inside everybody’s house…

Free Spirits know more than you’d expect if you know their background,
schooling… Nietzsche

Free Spirits are not hindered by morals. Not in their thinking. And, if possible,
neither in their actions…

How does a politician protect himself from the rain? Quite simple: by means of
an umbrella. Haha

If you don’t feel like adding water to the wine of you life, then don’t…

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The all-decisive factors in social success are character, personality, ambition
and will power. And to some extent also I.Q. The measure of social worth.
Haha. Forget intelligence. It was never intended for that purpose. People should
not know how intelligent they are. For if they did, they would do what it is that
makes people intelligent. Question things. How many people at Mensa actually
question the I.Q. test? It is true that all geniuses have a high I.Q., but they were
geniuses in the first place because they questioned the prevailing beliefs of their
time. To question. The number one characteristic of intelligence. That and the
pursuit of the answer. Add my criterium to an existing I.Q. test and that would
be closer to the truth. With my criterium some people would score way better
and others way less. Intelligence is not to be known. That is the truth…

Measuring success or wealth by the standards of others or society is a great

source of unhappiness. Measuring success, wealth, worth by your own standards
is the exact opposite. Now you be the measure of things…

A “Global Panopticon” is in the making. And I foresee that all human beings
will be chipped one day. In the end, I do not exclude both to be nothing more
than a necessary evil. Brave New World!

One of the greatest accomplishments of society is probably the fact that we

don’t have to face the wild wolves anymore. But now we are facing a different
kind of wolves: the human kind…

It is not a bad idea for Seekers to renounce property, except then intellectual
property…

So you want to be a rebel? Think different and act different…

The ultimate act of rebellion? Self-education!

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Free Spirits are not susceptible to propaganda. But it requires self-education to
be a Free Spirit. Self-education frees the mind. Especially if you study the
instruments of control. And Nietzsche. The demoralizing effect of Nietzsche is
unparallelled. Demoralizing not meaning depressing but making one free from
prevailing beliefs. I demoralized myself. And I also lost a lot of illusions. I am
demoralized and disillusioned. I love it. Haha

Many people think of propaganda as a phenomenon occurring only in countries

like Russia, China, North Korea... If only they knew… Western propaganda is
the most subtle and refined in the history of man. And that is why it usually goes
unnoticed…

Educate yourself before you allow yourself to fall prey to 'business'. And if you
are educated, good chance you will avoid business altogether. And seek value…

A state dictated by stateless individuals is no longer a state. Someone ought to

compose a requiem…

A teacher should be a mentor in the first place. A mentor sees and brings out the
best in a student…

There are not only weapons of mass destruction, but also weapons of mass
seduction. Haha

So you talk to the living? Why not talk to the dead...?

Educate yourself. Others won’t do it for you…

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So you like to recycle your electronic devices? I bet you think those things are
taken apart by white folks in protective suits in clean environments. Nothing is
further from the truth. 'Recycling' means as much as shipping it to third world
countries where colored people actually live on top of entire mountains of
electronic waste where they manipulate heavy metals and remove precious
metals with their bare hands. And they call me a racist for using the word ‘race’.
Do you really want to recycle? Then don't buy it in the first place. Or buy
second-hand. Beware: There is always this gap between what is preached and
what is done…

Do you feel like a wreck when you go to work or school in the morning? This is
quite normal. Research by Paul Kelley (Oxford University) concludes that given
our circadian rhythm, (most) people shouldn’t begin their activities before 10
AM…

In the media you hear: "The stock markets plunged and the losses were
considerable”, but I understood: “A small minority of people gained huge
amounts of money at the expense of the common investor…”. Haha

The “Magic Flute” (Mozart) portrays the education of mankind, progressing

from chaos through religious superstition to rationalistic enlightenment. Mozart,
like Goethe, was a freemason. That means he was initiated…

No authority is firm if not protected by the sympathy of its subjects. Nepos

The stock markets have become the casinos of the ultra rich…

Everybody is informed, nobody is wise…

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Does an open society really need propaganda in order to instil ideas in people’s
minds? Contrary to what you may think, the answer is yes. Propaganda is
inherent to society and is even more needed in a democracy than in a
dictatorship. Modern-day democratic-industrial propaganda is the most subtle
form of propaganda in the history of humanity. Television, theatre, movies,
music, books even… Propaganda these days is an instrument in the hands of the
powers that be to subtly convince you to serve their needs, to conform, to
adhere, to prevent you from questioning the (belief) system. The ideas you have
of right and wrong, work, status, money, youth, beauty, happiness, your
individualism even… It’s nothing more than propaganda. So you think you are
an individual? As far as I’m concerned, you are nothing more than a consumer.
Liberty and freedom, in case you didn’t know, are propaganda words. They
actually serve to maintain a small elite. Those have the liberty and freedom to
pursue their goals. But how free are you really? Liberty and freedom may very
well be the biggest illusions…

Do you believe CCTV is a necessity? Or were you made to believe it is? That is
the question. Very often they count on the silent majority. Nobody got to vote
for them. How democratic is that when it comes to an important issue like your
privacy? Ever wondered? But those cameras have their advantages too. Admit it.
We love Big Brother already. Like Winston in the novel 1984…

Is a society really that open when the media are superficial, one-sided and not
independent at all? And if you think I am talking about Russia you are mistaken.
The West is no hair better…

Who says propaganda is a bad thing? As with morality, without it, society would
fall apart…

There is a reason why “mass” and “media” are used together…

The news is what you are allowed to know. And that’s it…

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Do CCTV, eavesdropping by the government and mass storage of data really
prevent crime, even terrorist attacks…? What is it really for? I bet there is a
hidden agenda. Proactively track mass movements. That is what I think.
Moreover, terrorist attacks are used as a pretext for installing a surveillance state
and every measure that is taken in the fight against terrorism will be around for
an awful long time. I do not exclude abuses in the near or distant future, if not
already. We need to find balance between safety and surveillance so as to
preserve the rule of law...

The massive rise in CCTV and police reveals the incapability of the secular
society to impose mores. Religion used to be responsible for that. God was all-
seeing. Now God is dead. What else could they do in order to impose mores but
to replace one eye in the sky with another? A logical choice. It’s as simple as
that…

A police record offers a one-sided view of a person and whatever you do with
the rest of your life, it will always be held against you when it comes down to it.
You know what I think? Ne bis in idem. And tabula rasa. Sentence served, slate
wiped…

The monopoly on the money trade should be in the hands of wise men. Those
would know how to spend it. Accumulation for the sake of accumulation
testifies of a lack of wisdom…

CCTV not only allows for tracking the individual, but also allows for tracking
mass movements...

CCTV has replaced the all-seeing eye of God. It was the only logical choice…

Let us also keep records of the good things a person does in his or her life. That
would be more honest…

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I do not exclude one day the open internet will be a thorn in the side of the
powers that be. Nothing is eternal. And the only constant is change. Knowledge
in the hands of the people. Knowledge out of the hands of the people. The
relentless swing of the pendulum. But you know, when the wisdom is in the
hands of wise leaders, there is less need for the average man to be educated.
Those in power have the power to do something with their wisdom. An educated
citizen on the other hand can’t change society. In the days of Athens the average
man was illiterate. But look at the beauty of Athens. Unparallelled!

I foresee that in some distant future most, if not all, democratic inventions like
smartphones, the internet and even books will only be accessible to the elites,
scientists, military staff... I am confident this will be the case. Avail yourself of
the knowledge on the internet. Use it what it is for. Of what avail the internet if a
majority of people use it to play games or seek pokemon? Sounds like casting
pearls before swine. Haha

We live in an unprecedented age: Virtually all human knowledge is now

available to all. Avail yourself of it! And be a keeper of knowledge too. I do not
exclude a Great Darkening somewhere down the road. At least for commoners.
The right place for wisdom is at the top. In any case, times will not remain like
this forever. Nihil aeternum est…

Banks and big businesses claim that everything they do is perfectly legal. And it
is indeed since they often ‘make’ the laws. The same goes for the government…

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes
its laws… A Rothschild supposedly…

True individualism comes with a price: The currency is the Solitude…

Don't work for your money. Let your money work for you. Invest!

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Is it possible to predict the future? I believe it is. Theoretically at least, provided
that one knows all the variables. But given the immense amount of variables in
practice it will forever remain impossible. And even if it were predictable, if you
now the future, you can also prevent it. What I do believe is that the universe,
and everything in it, is on a fixed course. I know the implications are strange.
That would make us automata. The choices we make are fixed in advance. Free
will and free choice are an illusion. See it like this. The Universe like is a river.
And the only thing we can do is go with the stream. I believe in Fate. The Fate
of the individual. And the Fate of the Universe. All is preordained…

I am an Antichrist. Antichrists are not evil though. Nor are they hateful. They
are intellectually opposed to Christian values. Antichrists are rare. So are true
Christians. There are two types of true Christians. The first true Christian is
Christian by nature. And the other true Christians is the gnostic Christian. The
life and words of Jesus as an example. The divine nature of the individual. Jesus
spoke truth. Anyway, most people who like to think of themselves as Christians
are basically nothing more than Pharisees. The eternal gap between belief and
practice. By the way, I am actually a very kind and helpful person and that
makes me more of a Christian than the Pharisees. And I do believe Jesus spoke
truth. So I am also a gnostic Christian. I am a complex man. I admit it. Haha

It may not be a bad idea to educate yourself before you start travelling. This
allows you to look at things from a different perspective…

Never and nowhere have the academies taken the initiative for spiritual progress.
It is the work of individuals. Marcellin Berthelot

The open internet is the last stronghold of independence. As long as that is the
case, I wouldn’t worry too much…

So you call yourself an individual? Then make sure you have killed the herd
animal in you…

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Nowadays we don’t need to leave our homes anymore to see the world. We have
books, we have the internet… Don’t you worry for a moment if you have no
money to travel abroad. The whole world lies at your feet nowadays. King of the
world! Woohoohoo

Don’t be jealous of all those tourists who spend their time shopping, on the
beach or even in museums. They seldom truly learn from their travels. Tourists
are more often than not idiots...

Shyness is seldom appreciated in individualistic societies, but in collectivist

societies it may be cherished. In collectivist societies shy people are considered
thoughtful…

Forget your state, forget your nationality. Otherwise they own you. That is what
divides the peoples. We are all human beings. That is the truth…

When it comes to being independent and critical, here’s what I think: “It’s a
dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it, so...”

The three golden U’s of the true individual: Uncorruptable, Uncontrollable,

Unpredictable…

The three golden F’s of the true individual: Freethinking, Freespiritism and
Freebooting…

“Academy” and “independent”: Sounds like a contradiction to me…

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I see absolutely no danger in independent books. First of all, they get lost
between a billion other titles and secondly, they have the masses against them.
Unfortunately, they have the powers that be against them too. The most
interesting thinkers often got arrested for their books. Getting arrested for a
book? Quite an accomplishment these days. Haha

Oh illusion of illusions... All is illusion... Illusion is the correct translation of

“vanitas”. All is illusion indeed. Dual reality is a product of consciousness. In
reality all is one. A rather potential state. It is consciousness that gives it shape.
That makes the observer the creator. Regarding reality… It is said to be a
“collective hallucination that we agree upon”. Indeed so!

There is a reason why truly independent thinkers are seldom public figures.
There is hardly a public for them. And they will never appeal to the masses.
Mass is synonymous with bad taste. And average intelligence. Which is bad…

Books too have become commonplace. But good books are rare. And forever
will be. But interesting books there are plenty. Lots of books that can be labelled
interesting…

Thinkers must be willing at all times to reconsider an opinion. Otherwise they

are no thinkers. Keep your insights open to revision always…

We live in a most interesting time: a time of transition between the old and the
new. Let it be known that such times are never without issues…

A few good books can be worth more than a whole library. Be selective!

Independent thinkers need a solid intellectual basis. Nietzsche provides that…

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All around me I see people trying to find some dignity in their servile existence.
But there is no dignity in slavery. This is a problem that can be found on all
levels. If the well-to-do would spend their time thinking rather than working, the
world would be a step closer to change. Slavery is the new normal. But who
does the thinking then? Apart from me, that is. Haha. Thinking is a rare
commodity. People find it abnormal when you have a lot of time. That is the
sadness of these days. Slave morality on all levels. And those who happen to be
educated and well-to-do, lack the ambition to do something about it. Culture
doesn’t fill pockets. That is reality…

A decent education teaches girls how to be a virtuous wife in the first place. As a
result it is hard for men to find a good wife. The modern man is castrated.
Politics robbed him of his weapons. As a result he can not exert his manhood…

Modern society has made a lot of progress. Or so it seems. Maybe we confuse

progress with decline…?

A woman’s love can be stronger than a standing army. And should be…

Life is a tug of war. The one who pulls hardest, wins…

I like cats: They are independent-minded. Haha

It’s a dog-eat-dog world. Be a wolf…

“Independency!” the media yelled…

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The ancients built with an 'aere perennius’. Those days bought forth the greatest
architecture. Buildings that would last many millennia in some cases. Leave an
indelible stamp on the planet and the landscape. Leave a message to countless
generations to come. A testament of their presence. And wisdom. In those days
they carved the truth in stone. Those were the days. And that was taste…

Like Nietzsche I’m opposed to those “stateless individuals”, but in reality I’m a
stateless individual myself: intellectually, morally and ethically. What keeps you
from becoming one. Your adherence to your state is the biggest divider…

Modern architecture is essentially disposable architecture. The same goes for

modern literature.With the exception of enlightening books. Enlightenment is
important. Anyway, the more people write, the lower the level of the writings…

What if liberal internationalism serves an enlightened agenda as well? A lot of

those seemingly absurd events of the past nineteen years may very well have
been nothing more than a necessary evil. For the good listener…

I wasn’t decently educated. At least not in schools. But there it is not to be

found. I did it myself. That is the way to go if you seek education…

An occasional “clash of the titans” is unavoidable. Bellum omnium contra

omnes. War is an instinct…

A good wife adds value, a bad one reduces value. In both ways. Haha

A good wife brings out the best in you, a bad one the worst…

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Those in the West who think of the Islam as a medieval and backward religion
better reflect on Christianity too. Its origin, its age and its growing irrelevance.
And last but not least, the decadent nature of its morality…

I can imagine a future where “survival of the fittest” will be applied in the
embryonic stage. Selection of the best embryos. And dispose of the rest…

The intoxication caused by battle, exercise, love, music, books, writing even…
is far more superior than intoxication by substances…

“Blood” and “soil” have little meaning these days: The belief in the masses
prevails. Chaos!

In the millennia ahead I see the rise of new cultures, new peoples, new religions,
new gods…

War is inherent to human nature. Every once in a while the maps will be
redrawn...

I am by no means an Islamophile, but if you ask me, the Islam is a religion for
men…

Homo sapiens is the end stage of man. But he is better described as a prelude…

Recently someone offered me money for more insights. I refused the money…

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I cannot help seeing in the prevailing international movements of the present
day, and the simultaneous promulgation of universal suffrage, the effects of the
fear of war above everything else, yea I behold behind these movements, those
truly international homeless money-hermits, as the really alarmed, who, with
their natural lack of the state-instinct, have learnt to abuse politics as a means of
the exchange, and state and society as an apparatus for their own enrichment.
Against the deviation of the state tendency into a money tendency, to be feared
from this side, the only remedy is war and once again war. F.W.N.

The greatest disadvantage of globalization may lie in the loss of tradition,

culture. The greatest benefit of globalization may lie in the fact that books
(ideas) go global too. As far as I know, globalization, with all its goods and
evils, may very well also be paving the way for world government. Fact is that
world government has been the dream of enlightened spirits since the dawn of
history…

Globalization gave rise to some sort of global monoculture, characterized by a

lack of Culture since the international elites are opposed to Culture. It will,
however, disappear with the next Great War. Culture is, or should be, a local
thing. The same goes for religion. One people, one culture, one religion. The
concept of "world religion" will come to an end...

The greatest obstacle in the prevailing imperialism: the obstructive ones. Also,
do keep in mind that the U.S. and Russia together hold 93 percent of the world’s
nuclear arsenal. Rocket Man is a shrimp!

War is the ultimate test of men’s strength, both mental and physical. Every man
is, or should be, a warrior in the first place. War breeds strength and moreover,
women prefer the warrior…

War is devastating indeed, but the absence of war is equally devastating: It

makes weak...

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The dream has a variety of functions: emotional processing, memory
consolidation, problem solving... It is not uncommon for ideas to arise during
the dream. But this is the scientific approach. The importance of the dream
differs from culture to culture. Read “The Fabric Of Dreams”. Recurring dreams
usually have meaning. Have them analyzed. I myself used to have this dream: I
am in a room in the dark, looking for the light switch. When I found it, it
wouldn't work. And that was immediately followed by a sense of evil. This
dream is not uncommon. It signifies a 'lack of insight'. For all I know, it may
very well be a typical Truth-Seeker's dream. Trying to find your way out of the
Dark (ignorance) and seeking your way towards the Light (insight). Ignorance is
evil. Sapientia vincere Tenebras...

Beware of news facts. All is circumstance. That is the truth as I see it. There is
biological circumstance (nature), there is social circumstance (nurture) and there
is external circumstance (situation). Judge not. Unless, maybe, if you are a
judge. Wise people do not judge. And if they do, then slowly…

Islamic State has received funds and weapons from all over the world (states,
businesses, institutions, individuals…), very often through obscure bank
accounts... From this perspective the expression “inside job” or “false flag
operation” gets a whole new dimension…

Being asked by a woman from Attica, "Why is it that you Spartan women are
the only women that lord it over your men," she said, "Because we are the only
women that are mothers of men..."

When it comes to life, no one has been able to teach me a lesson. I find out
things out by myself. I want to find thing out by myself…

What concerns me does not concern the masses. What concerns the masses does
not concern me…

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“The true intellectual knows that he can never speak or show himself, that he
will be banned always and everywhere.” Frank Adam (Belgian intellectual). On
public intellectuals…

If it is true that an intellectual is the conscience of his age, then it is equally true
that the true intellectual is the bad conscience of his age. Haha

The true intellectual is always a pain in the neck of the powers that be. He
always knows best...

I have many flaws, but fortunately all the best of previous generations came
together in me too…

Wherever a person calls himself intellectual or independent the doors seem to

close on him…

Truly independent thinkers rarely vote. Their opinion is seldom expressed…

The opinions of the herd always lag behind those of independent thinkers…

You live as you are, you choose as you are, you are as you are…

Some would “privatize” their mother when it comes down to it…

Death is the only faithful lover… H.W.

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'Obscurantism': deliberately keeping the people ignorant. It is practised
everywhere. Ignorant people are easier to control and manipulate. In the West,
for example, they give you the key: You learn to read and write. However, they
“forget” to show you the lock. This book is the lock. It is a possible lock at least.
I did the research, the rest is, well, up to you…

The masses are ignorant and even pride themselves on that and will therefore
always fall prey to propaganda, rhetoric, demagoguery, populism and the
intellectual elite. I shake my Spear!

Many people have no opinion of their own. They depend for it on the media or
politicians. Leaving thinking to others. How much more stupid can one be…?

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote

themselves into slavery. Frank Chodorov

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient
Greek republics: freedom for slave owners. Lenin

We will always have to deal with some kind of democratic deficit. Particracy to
begin with...

Whenever people bring up ethics, the question is what ethics…

Change usually takes place when the people are ready for it…

Politicians tell the truth? Definitely! Their truth…

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Regarding 'sleeping'... I am talking about sleeping in more than one sense here. I
can say this: You have been sleeping for an eternity before you were born and
you will be sleeping for an eternity when you die, so try not to spend this
fleeting moment called 'life' in a sleeping state. Be 'awake' in every sense...

Are you bored with contemporary politics? Many people are. What about a new
political theory? A fourth political theory. Beyond left and right. Not quite
liberal democracy, not quite fascism, not quite Marxism. Then you might want
to read Alexander Dugin. The '-isms' of this world will soon be outdated…

If faith were truly proof of the existence of a god, there must be whole
cemeteries of gods that are long dead and buried. And more will follow. The old
gods must die…

In the current climate of our part of the world how far does it really matter who
you vote for? Illusion of choice in many cases…

I’m not much into politics, but these days in Europe it’s mainly old ladies’
politics. Man up, folks!

Philosophy needs science and science needs philosophy. They’re a couple and
I’m the matchmaker…

Thanks to mass media people can be manipulated into voting for a particular
candidate, party…

Democracy these days sounds more like apparent democracy to me…

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Contrary to what most people in my surroundings believe, I’m a man of
character. But it took me like forty years to realize that. An honest painter once
said I have a character face...

“God is dead” (Nietzsche) means as much as: From now on man is in control of
his own destiny. It is by no means an argument against gods. A phrase few have
understood indeed…

Nihilism is omnipresent, the Christian god is dead... People seek solace in the
dream. Escapism!

Goethe had to deal with the “realism” of others as well. Napoleon’s for
instance…

Realize your dreams or die trying. Find your moment of glory. Audentis Fortuna
iuvat...

Beware… People will try to make you feel sorry for who you are…

A lot of people will never wake up during their entire life…

The 'meaning of life' according to myself? An opportunity!

Science without direction is steerless…

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Given Europe's cultural, linguistic and economic diversity, a European state is
said to be neither possible nor desirable. Instead of adopting governance models
from abroad, Europeans should discover a form of coexistence as unique as the
continent itself. The European Union is a failed model that divides rather than
unites. It could be replaced with a 'confederation of free nations'. Confederalism
rather than federalism. Markus Willinger

For a lot of people the essence of life consists of working, sleeping, eating,
shitting, fucking and breeding. They are in a lower state of consciousness. Lift
yourself above the swine. The increase of awareness as the ultimate goal…

Regarding suicide… Some condemn it and others even go as far as to encourage

it. It’s definitely an easy way out, but since I’m so tough on myself, I prefer the
hard way: staying alive…

The so-called “realism” of others actually motivates me to continue writing

despite everything. And so does the thought of death. Death is like the IRS: If it
wants to find you, it will...

“The European Union doesn’t work”, some say. But it does work. For business!
Europe is impotent...

“E Pluribus Unum” should become the motto of the European Union: Think as
one, and act as one…

Private vices, public benefits! Bernard Mandeville on politicians in “The Fable

Of The Bees”...

People are not equal, so speaketh justice… Desiderius Erasmus (Praise Of Folly)

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Do you feel different than the Others? Don’t you meet the standard? In any
way? In that case you should ask yourself the following question: Is there
something wrong with you or is there something wrong with the others? Could
there be something wrong with the norm? I'm not down with the standard!

If you want to completely understand my book, you need to be rolling in luxury:

the luxury of time…

Does a book really have to be thick? I doubt it. A single phrase may say more
than a whole book…

The European Union would work better if it were based on Culture rather than
on economy...

All company is bad company except the company of one’s equals. Friedrich
Nietzsche

Solitude stimulates creativity. It also allows one to take a step back... and
reflect...

First question every man should ask himself: “Who am I and what do I want?”

"...for it is better to be alone than in bad company..." (George Washington)

Some excel in company, others in solitude...

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There is absolutely nothing wrong with a book that is fragmentary. On the
contrary, it is more challenging. If your memory isn't too good, you might want
to take notes. Keep in mind writing in aphorism was very common until the 19 th
century. Every once in a while one may find a book that is fragmentary. Slow
down your reading. My book isn’t meant to be read fast. Take time to ponder…

If you believe you are a failure you should bear in mind the following: There is
an uninterrupted genetic line leading from the first cell to you. Isn’t that a
success story of its own? If after reading this you still believe you are a failure,
then it may not be a bad idea to interrupt the line…

Every time you come into contact with culture or art, you need to ask yourself
the following question: Is it higher or lower culture, higher, popular or
degenerate art. Modern art is degenerate art indeed…

My entire life thus far has become a source of inspiration for this book. All that
I’ve seen, learnt, read, every obstacle or mistake even… Everything in life
matters and makes you to who you are…

The most common obstacles true intellectuals meet: arrogance, ignorance and
above all, convictions. The latter being the enemy of the truth…

The loves of my life: Gretchen, Helen, Verity, Fate and Destiny. Yes, a man can
love several women…

Free Spirits do not suffer from convictions. The freest spirits, however, do not
suffer from morality…

The fate of Don Quixote awaits all common people who know better…

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Modern haste is vulgar. And its pace is picking up. Turbo-capitalism! Someone
ought to pull the plug, but in reality no one will. First of all, profits have to be
made and secondly, on a social level too I believe there to be a natural course of
events. Things will change at the appropriate time. Everything has its own time
and Fate. There’s a time for everything. Change will come. Make that your
belief. I myself believe in the power of ideas. Call it my belief. Or my knowing.
Joyful knowing even. The Seeker has become a believer. I do not even need to
see the change. The seed has been planted. And it’s waiting for the soil to be
fertile. There are troubles ahead. The ideal times for change to come. Know that.

The butterfly effect: small actions with huge consequences. Watch your steps.
Have you ever taken the time to think about the consequences any of all your
actions hitherto has produced? This need not be a negative impact though. On
the contrary. Flap your wings and change the world!

“Hell is the others”, Sartre wrote. And this is definitely true. But it is equally
true that being yourself is often a hell of its own…

Driving a car requires a constant focus. Hence I prefer to be driven. This allows
me to reflect. Master morality!

My stay in the ghetto gave me a glimpse into the life of commoners, my books
into that of the greats…

Whoever you are, whatever you do, always bear this in mind: Your life matters.
Make the best of it!

The public is a woman: It reacts emotionally and can be played…

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If I had an unlimited budget I would start an international school of Culture
attracting the best architects, artists, scientists and future leaders from around the
world to provide them with an education to Culture. Bring some beauty. Or start
a sociobiological experiment on some remote island with a 'coalition of the
willing' implementing the latest eugenic, nutrigenomic and genetic insights on a
carefully selected population. Create a stronger type. Or a simply a new type. All
on a voluntary basis. 'Utopia' or 'New Atlantis'. Or build a library of the kind the
world hasn't seen since that of Alexandria...

People should be allowed to choose the moment of their death at any time
convenient to them. It is by no means a bad idea for society to assist people in
their choice. This would make the world a happier place…

Nowadays a person is only valuable to society in so far as he or she is able to

perform or produce. That and that alone determines the worth of a person…

What would a society be without creators and creatives? There are specialized
slaves enough. The enslavement of the human being. Modern slavery…

You have the right to a dignified death. Claim it! Read: "Final Exit" (Derek
Humphry). A self-help book…

Society needs both workers and people exempt from work. The former to
produce, the latter to create…

Nowadays virtually everyone is a slave, regardless of their position. The true

luxury is time...

A car is said to be the cash cow of the state. But actually you are…

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There is nothing wrong with a bit of fatalism, Nietzsche wrote. Entirely correct!
Nietzsche’s fatalism means as much as destiny or fate: that people become who
they are meant to be from the moment of conception…

Some books are labeled dubious, even dangerous. I doubt that. In the current
climate of our part of the world no book seems dangerous to me. However,
beware of evil books. I can imagine a few...

A new school year has started and yet another generation of wage and debt
slaves falls prey to the relentless propaganda machine. O tempora o mores…

Would-be teachers and politicians leave school without proper education. That
explains a lot. The uneducated teach our youngsters…

There is an ocean of distance between two individuals. The 'solitude of prime

numbers'. Aren't we all prime numbers basically…?

If you want to scare away corner boys, play classical music. They like music
that is simple and predictable. Like themselves...

Posterity will think of our music as slavish, popular, superficial or nihilistic. So

the times, so the music...

Not all that see have their eyes open, nor do all those see that look. Baltasar
Gracián

In a sense we are all slaves: We are slavishly being ourselves…

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Some have a long-term vision, others a short-term vision. Which one to choose?
In fact, there is no right or wrong choice. Both work and it depends on you
which one fits you best. I myself live day by day…

Contrary to what most people believe, the worst disease is not cancer. It’s a
disease called C.L.O.T.: Chronic Lack Of Time. There is only one cure and it’s
really expensive. It is called Slowing Down…

The judicious capacity of the average Joe equals that of a primate and his psyche
that of a parrot. Haha

Educating people is not my goal. They should educate themselves…

Knowledge without courage is unfruitful. Baltasar Gracián

There is no setback without a ray of hope. Baltasar Gracián

Religious leaders more often than not sell hope...

Choose your friends carefully. Baltasar Gracián

Good friends are scarce. Baltasar Gracián

Never abase yourself to the norm…

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The conditions under which any one understands me, and necessarily
understands me… I know them only too well. Even to endure my seriousness,
my passion, he must carry intellectual integrity to the verge of hardness. He
must be accustomed to living on mountain tops and to looking upon the
wretched gabble of politics and nationalism as beneath him. He must have
become indifferent; he must never ask of the truth whether it brings profit to him
or a fatality to him... He must have an inclination, born of strength, for questions
that no one has the courage for; the courage for the forbidden; predestination for
the labyrinth. The experience of seven solitudes. New ears for new music. New
eyes for what is most distant. A new conscience for truths that have hitherto
remained unheard. And the will to economize in the grand manner, to hold
together his strength, his enthusiasm... Reverence for self; love of self; absolute
freedom of self… Very well, then! Of that sort only are my readers, my true
readers, my readers foreordained. Of what account are the rest? The rest are
merely humanity. One must make oneself superior to humanity, in power, in
loftiness of soul, in contempt. Friedrich Nietzsche, preface of “The Antichrist”

For ‘some’ reason the words terrorism, extremism and radicalism are seldom
defined. Moreover, their meaning seems to expand continuously too. I smell
arbitrariness. In some countries this is the case already. People who protest are
labelled terrorists. The best way to incriminate a person? Label him a terrorist…

September 11, 2001: “A day which will live in infamy”... And how about
September 11, 1683...?

You consider my book deep? On the contrary! It hardly touches the surface…

Keep them busy with terror and they will forget what is really relevant…

Chaos, war, conflict, division, illusion of choice... Divide et impera...

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I see another taboo. It's the taboo against knowing who you are. Also, have you
ever realized that through your eyes the universe beholds itself? That through
you the universe is aware of itself? Take time to wonder. Modern society robs
you of your essence: your life energy, your soul. It dehumanizes you. Realize
that. And make sure you do not suffer the same fate as many others…

The dictatorship of the multitude, political parties (particracy), multinationals,

banks, public opinion and political correctness teaches us that we will always
have to deal with some form of dictatorship…

Death has remained up to this day a major taboo in our part of the world. We
hide it, we push it away… The world will be a happier place when people learn
to come to terms with it…

The most important news is probably the suppressed news. And what you do get
is filtered. The news is what you are allowed to know. You will never get the
truth via the news…

My insights grow as I gain more insight. By the end of this book it will be a
different story. I am confident about that…

Fear-mongering is propaganda. Nothing more, nothing less. Fearful people are

easier to control…

The fear of death: the Western sickness. More on that further in this book…

Promise the people security and they will eat from your hand…

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Faustian frustration (dissatisfaction) keeps all of us going. I myself am the
archetype of Faust. I sold my soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge. Great
deal. You don’t hear me complain. Haha

Faust is both Goethe’s personal story (but by no means an autobiography) and

the story of every man. It depicts the restless striving of human nature. It is truly
a myth for all…

The fact that Free Spirits survive the relentless propaganda machine, is the
absolute proof that people only become who they are…

The hope for the next generation: the mistake of the sheep and the fortune of the
eagle. Haha

Not even the Great Dictator could prevent me from becoming who I am…

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Arab saying

Public opinion is malleable. Edward Bernays: “Propaganda”

Recently a bank warned against cyber criminals. Haha

I’ve had a most turbulent life. But that was meant to be…

Newspapers and television: the education of the masses…

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I am a biological determinist. Even though circumstances matter too. I admit.
But the basis is genetic. Everything has a genetic basis. In any case, better a
genetic fatalist than a religious fatalist. Or any fatalist. Fatalism is the belief that
one cannot change anything. It is not the best of attitudes…

Never be fooled by a first impression. They say it is the most important

impression, but I doubt that. It takes time to get to know people. And an
impression can be deceiving…

Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are a greater enemy of the truth than lies. Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not my goal to convince people. People are free not to know...

The judgement of wise people is slow. If they judge at all...

So you are a Truth-Seeker? But can you handle the truth…?

The truth shall set you free. I want to believe so indeed…

Truth too is in the eye of the beholder…

“Truth!” the media cried…

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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -
including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today.
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of
professional journalism. Hunter S. Thompson

I am always on my mountain top, looking down on the hustle and bustle beneath
me. The labyrinth is my playground. I wouldn't want it otherwise. In some
corridors there is an occasional spiritual or intellectual treat. My eternal
wanderings pay off…

Social media are designed to keep you online as much as possible and urge you
to reveal as much personal information as possible. Just how much personal
information are you willing to give up for the sake of convenience and
connectedness…?

Social media like Facebook are supposed to make up for a lack of social life of
the modern slaves… and fail… Moreover, they are bad for people’s self-esteem.
People always share their happiness. Which is depressing to some…

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their
illusions destroyed. Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth-Seeker beware... Where you see reason and progress, I see human nature.
Sometimes silence is golden…

I am always on my mountain top. Some claim I am on a different planet.

Correct! Its name is 'Sophia'...

"Truth!", Christianity cried, put the gun to its head and pulled the trigger...

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The driving force behind change has always been ideas combined with will
power, be it political, religious, military or individual...

If you ask me, many politicians these days have “the charisma of a damp rag and
the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk”. Haha

Nazism was in a sense a most radical and barbaric attempt to make connection
to antiquity and to create a biological society…

In society, as in politics, nothing happens without a reason. In fact, everything

happens for a reason...

School may teach you a lot, but independent and critical thinking is usually not
on the timetable…

Your so-called free speech is actually bound by political correctness and public
opinion…

When it comes to Culture and the human destiny, political will too is all it
takes…

Political correctness is a dogma that was probably invented to oppose change…

No politics without backrooms…

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Those of you who idolize the Nazis better keep in mind their inhumane
practices and the ruthless and barbaric attempt to exterminate a whole people.
Only the weak, the frustrated and the hateful do...

Like Goethe I’m somewhat a narcissist, a spammer and above all, a restless
spirit. My “Great Song Of Truth” has something of Machiavelli’s instigation. In
fact… Haha

The present-day belief system is opposed to Culture. Moreover, Culture is bad

for commerce. Philistines!

It’s never how much you know, but what you know. Thinking level! The same
goes for reading...

Failed attempts or barbaric practices are not an argument against a new

attempt…

Meanwhile, there have been several attempts to make connection to antiquity...

The term “free speech” was probably invented to placate the average Joe…

The answer to any social problem: political will. Nil volentibus arduum…

The first law of politics has always been: I will! Weber

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There is wisdom so ancient and so sacred that it is normally only intended for
initiates. I think of the writings of Manly P. Hall, Helena Blavatsky... But
democracy made it available to all. Initiate yourself. Chances that others do it for
you are almost nonexistent. I myself am rather opposed to obscurantism. And
that makes me more of a democrat than your so-called democratic politicians...

Within a society there is always this tension between those who want to
preserve and those who want to overthrow the status quo. The status quo is
delicate and by no means eternal...

It cannot be excluded that some day in the distant future the house of Rothschild
will play a similar role for Europe as the Romanovs did for Russia or the
Medicis for Florence…

If you seek initiation into esoteric knowledge, read Manly P. Hall, Helena
Blavatsky, The Kybalion... If you seek initiation into superior knowledge, read
Friedrich Nietzsche…

“Every crisis is an opportunity” (Milton Friedman). And especially so if you are

the cause of the crisis…

Reportedly Napoleon said to Goethe something like: “I do what you can only
dream of…”. Haha

The Nazis were plebeians who took their hate to the top. Noble minds do not
hate…

Without Culture humanity would be a mistake…

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In a globalized world youngsters lose their sense of identity and belonging. The
growing nationalism, populism and polarization are a good indicator of the fact
that many people are growing weary of the excesses of capitalism,
internationalism and globalization. That does not abode well for the next crisis.
Soon, by the way. European immigration may, and probably does, serve a
hidden agenda, if not several. Immigration usually fails because of failing
and/or lax immigration policies. Apart from that, the best way to deal with
migration and immigration is to tackle their cause...

Lying one learns from the best: politicians and mainstream media. Some would
say this is not true, but the question is: How do we define lying? And what is
truth? And whose truth anyway. They lie. And in most cases they are unaware
of if. Lack of education. That is the problem…

Mainstream news can be very enlightening indeed, provided that one knows
how to read it between the lines. Also, television can be useful too. If you use it
right, it will give you a screen on the world...

I can imagine why people were labeled “untouchable” in some caste systems:
Due to their lifestyle or occupation they carried more disease, bacteria, viruses,
parasites...

Throughout history it has always been aristocratic dynasties that gave direction
to society. Friedrich Nietzsche

The aristocracies from the past are not an argument against a new one. Friedrich
Nietzsche

The aristocracy of the future will not be a money aristocracy. It will be

something new…

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The European elites seem to be living in some sort of autistic bubble, shutting
themselves off from reality. The growing nationalism in Europe is actually
detrimental to the EU, but it is perfectly understandable. Rising inequality,
impoverishment, immigration... Nationalism is a reaction against that. The
European elites seem to be, or choose to be, unaware of the concerns of the
people. Nietzsche, who was in favor of a European Union, was opposed to
nationalism on the level of the European states. And, as a European, I am too.
But I fear it will continue to grow. I have time. I use it well. Judging from a few
radical books, I do not exclude civil war, insurrection or even deportation. Quo
vadis, Europa...?

Contrary to what Hitler believed, internationalists are not linked to a particular

state or people. In fact, they are stateless individuals and slippery money-
hermits. Defeat and disown! Vae victis...

Many people, parties, political or other movements labeled radical or extreme

are actually the only ones who dare to radically stand up against (liberal)
internationalism…

The world would be a more beautiful place if people spent more time creating
than producing...

Society has become so sensitive that even independent thinking may be labeled
radical...

Learn to think outside the box. And there are quite a few boxes, if only your
sex...

What is most radical? Independent thinking or the suppression of it…?

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The sciences want to free the world from every illusion and have this
demystifying effect. Aren’t we allowed to have imagination anymore? The world
is too bright. We need a return of mystery...

Although philosophy is a driving force behind progress, it remains greatly

undervalued these days. But one day the times will be ripe…

We live in the age of science. Hence the Wisdom of the Ancients is grossly
underestimated. We have science, but they had wisdom…

The world would be a more beautiful place if scientists were philosophers or

visionaries too. In the past this was sometimes the case…

We should reflect on social goals first and then use science to realize these
goals. Science needs steering…

Classically schooled artists, architects, scientists… are the best. Again, the
scientific worldview is sterile...

Science is overvalued and philosophy undervalued. We need to find balance

between the two…

Science, with its eye for the small, loses sight of the bigger picture…

What if morality were the greatest danger? Friedrich Nietzsche

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Few books are perfect from every perspective. Perfect books will never be
outdated and carry a message across the millennia. I can imagine only a few:
Goethe's “Faust”, Dante's “Divine Comedy”, Gracián's “Art Of Worldly
Wisdom”, Machiavelli's “The Prince”...

I suggest we burn all the books we can do without and only keep those that are
really worthwhile. Most books are redundant. Throwaway literature…

Every man lives in his own separate reality and no man sees reality as it really
is. We are all delusional in our own way. Here's my view on insanity...

Many aspects of life are indeed illusions. Albeit necessary illusions, as Noam
Chomsky would say…

All is ego, vanity and will to power. And life is politics. Be a politician!

The world view of most people is a delusion created by mass media…

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton

The greatest philosophers have always been individuals…

The love of Truth, our love. And Wisdom, our greed...

Those who suffer from themselves, suffer the most...

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Pay attention to what you wear. Whatever clothes you wear will attract certain
people and repel others. Clothes may increase or diminish distance too. Apart
from that, have you ever wondered where your clothes were made? And under
what circumstances…?

In the end, love is nothing more than nature's biochemical trap to ensure
procreation. And it's a lot like politics too: If you're not up to it, stay away from
it...

Never read about a good book. The opinions may be prejudiced, biased or
meant to disprove them. Instead, read it yourself…

When it is true that we must safeguard our cultural heritage, it is equally true
that we must make it our strife to surpass it…

What’s the use of history writing if we find no essence in it? From history the
essence is to be remembered…

The 'will to power' (Nietzsche) is actually inherent to life. To thrive at the

expense of others. Life is tough…

In times of war the rate of invention actually increases. Necessity is the mother
of invention!

Oh promoters of culture! Are you familiar with the necessary conditions for
Culture…?

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Friedrich Nietzsche was probably correct when he wrote that music as we have
known it since the Middle Ages is anti-classical. In fact, Christianity is
essentially an anti-classical movement. It was nothing less than the victory of
slave morality over master morality. Christianity is the antithesis of Culture…

Antiquity has remained up to this day the pinnacle of human culture. But the
greatest book, that of Friedrich Nietzsche, was written after that. A book that
makes connection to antiquity. And Culture. That abodes well for the future…

Artistic movements are not an expression of Culture. They are rather artistic
whims of fashion. Culture requires unity of style. On all levels…

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster
than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov

We idolize the ancient cultures so much because we are incapable of Culture.

Archaeology is modern...

Never mind your vices. You can’t change them anyway. Instead, exploit your
virtues...

A man's 'will to power' find expression in his achievements and/or acquisitions...

Illusions are the perfume that conceals the sewage pit. Sylvia Langbeen

Never judge someone on his or her vices, but on his or her virtues…

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You only become who you are. Being is becoming. Becoming is an entirely
involuntary process. It is the complex interplay between genes (nature) and
environment/circumstance (nurture). There is absolutely no merit or shame in
the process of becoming who you are. And that is exactly why there is
absolutely no reason to admire people, or to look down on them. Looking down
on people, at least in a figurative way, is not a very noble attitude. However,
literally looking down on people testifies of 'loftiness of soul'. Hence Nietzsche's
'Amor Fati'. Love of Fate, love who you become...

Although there is a strong correlation between IQ and school performance, job

performance, income, crime… IQ by itself guarantees nothing. A lot more
factors are at play. Moreover, I wonder whether a single number can accurately
reflect the complexity of the human brain. These insights, however, are not an
argument against the validity of the book “The Bell Curve”…

Following Galton I think it to be a great idea to categorize and breed people

according to their most outstanding virtues or talents such as courage,
intelligence, energy, the ability to perform physical labor… Suum cuique…

The importance of genetic screening of unborn babies, still in an early stage

today, can’t be stressed enough. Biological markers can be a predictor of
disease, or future behavior…

Virtually any human or superhuman quality can be bred or engineered…

Virtue can be bred by careful mating over multiple generations...

Virtue inevitably leads to success…

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As a social thinker I also believe in social classes (or castes): a ruling class
(superior by its constitution and virtue), an intellectual class, a scientific class, a
spiritual class, a worker class, a soldier class... And there is no class system
without also an underclass: the outcasts, the waste, the untouchables… Rights
should be granted accordingly. Most people do not believe in social classes
nowadays due to the absurd idea of equality, even though they are the
foundation of a healthy society. People are not equal. Never have been and
never will be…

The inequality in our democratic society that has been growing since the 1970s
was actually planned. Moreover, it is good for business. Big businesses actually
make a lot of money on the poor by creating debt and trading with it. However,
in an unequal society growing inequality is not a problem, but in an equal
society it will eventually create unrest, violence, revolt… Or a police state...

C’est un excès de confiance dans les parents d’espérer tout de la bonne

éducation de leurs enfants, et une grande erreur de n’en attendre rien et de la
négliger. Jean de La Bruyère

The way a person responds to the external circumstances depends entirely on the
person. And depending on who you are the external circumstances can make or
break you. Becoming!

The external circumstances are no more than an aid, an opportunity to become

who you are. Friedrich Nietzsche

Many people will never become truly mature. But do not doubt it: The eternal
child can be wise too...

Be yourself. Nietzsche. How beautiful. And how dangerous…

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It is true that a person’s handwriting reflects something of his or her character.
Mine, for instance, probably reveals insecurity and maybe even instability. But
do not make the mistake to deduce someone’s whole persona from it. That
would be a reductio ad absurdum…

Don’t pride yourself on your average I.Q. Yes, a lot of people have an average
I.Q. indeed. But an average I.Q. is bad. Only when above average one is deemed
“intelligent”. Draw your conclusion…

Some people read psychology, others apply it. Beware of applied psychology...
Rather an average intelligence…

Many people actually run away from themselves. It takes courage to face
yourself…

The makeable human being is an error of modern psychology and pedagogy…

Machiavellists can be found on the street or in politics. Control over others!

In a sense we are all compulsive. We are compulsively being ourselves…

You can't help your personality, so avail yourself of it...

How many people actually succumb to themselves…?

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Factors that determine the socio-economic or cultural status of a country... First
of all, the spirit (nature) of its race (Read “The Races Of Men”). Secondly, the
vision, determination and durability of its government. Thirdly, its diligence,
entrepreneurship and business acumen. Fourthly, religious factors (not to be
underestimated!). And last but definitely not least: its average IQ...

The impact of living conditions, environment and climate on a race and its spirit,
mores, laws and ultimately its proper mode of government is denied these days
for reasons of being ‘politically incorrect’, but since I’m not a politician with a
good reputation to keep up with his citizens, I feel no hesitation in stating it here
myself…

Few people realize how much of our behavior has a genetic basis. Even fewer
people realize how many of our attitudes, postures, gestures, tastes, preferences,
likes and dislikes or the extent to which you we take care of ourselves have a
genetic basis. Could there be a genetic basis for everything…?

The positive or negative impact of living conditions, environment, stress,

lifestyle, diet… on your DNA and that of your offspring (epigenetics) can’t be
stressed enough. Ignoring this can produce ugly results…

There is a lot more variation in human gender and sexuality than was assumed
until recently. Again this must be ascribed to genetics…

Your future personality is not established. It will evolve along with the
circumstances. Becoming!

Intoxication indeed increases the sense of power, but it is detrimental to the

spirit…

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There is absolute nothing wrong with words like 'race' or 'degeneration'. I could
say 'people' and 'bad genes' instead. What's the difference? It does not take away
the essence. Besides, they are biological terms. They were very common in the
19th century. Just think of Darwin. Let us call a spade a spade...

There is a strong correlation between the amount of stress experienced by an

individual and the social status of the family he or she is born into. Mind the
word born. The biological factor is not to be underestimated either...

People can be predisposed to crime too. This is backed by twin studies. And, do
not be mistaken, those inclinations too are passed on to the next generation(s)…

What is the ultimate conclusion to be drawn from these biological insights?

Indeed so. That brings us to the question of procreation…

Optimism and pessimism have a cultural basis (people’s mentality), but also a
genetic one. One cannot turn a pessimist into an optimist…

Meanwhile, the degeneration of the human species continues relentlessly…

An unhealthy appetite for substances always has degeneration for basis…

Drug and alcohol abuse so often sounds like self-medication to me…

Humans too are genetically programmed. For love for instance…

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“For a lot of people drugs and alcohol work!” is something commonly heard.
And this may very well be true. But for others it’s an accident waiting to happen
and you seldom know in advance. This is my argument against all forms of
intoxication. And remember: As a child we went through life sober. Why on
earth would we want to change that as adults…

The most addictive substance in the history of humanity with the most users and
the most premature deaths, is often overlooked. Moreover, its producers are
rewarded by the state…

“Some people are born for luck, others for misfortune…” This may sound
tedious, even like folk wisdom. But as a biological thinker, I cannot do
otherwise but agree…

However, never make the mistake to think that a man is entirely his genes. Your
life experiences have an equal impact on who you become as a person as your
genes...

It is by no means a bad idea to submit children, youngsters to biometric and

psychometric testing in order to determine their potential…

Long time ago somebody gave me a new definition of stress: the non-expression
of genetic potential…

Bear in mind that permanent genetic damage occurs after the first 15
cigarettes…

Intoxicated people are never themselves. Stay yourself!

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The most lasting way to prevent the vast majority of people from using drugs,
excessive drinking and even smoking and as a result increasing public health is
by education rather than by oppression…

Following Muslims, who consider the body a temple, I myself consider the mind
too a temple. It should not be polluted either. I think of television, newspapers,
games, movies, substances... Filth!

“You know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world. To
not know why you're here... That's... That's just an awful feeling…” Quote from
the movie “Unbreakable” (2000)

One drop of pure nicotine properly ingested is enough to kill a man. Nicotine is
actually a natural insecticide…

For those who still haven’t understood me by now: Don’t drink, don’t do drugs
and don’t smoke. Ever!

Some people are predestined for addiction or abuse. So think twice before you
consume anything…

The best way to kick the habit is not by giving up smoking, but by never getting
started…

Being among people all the time is toxic. Being alone all the time is equally so..

Using any psychoactive substance on a regular basis will create a need…

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Drug-related crime only made its entry the moment drug use became prohibited.
The only way, however inacceptable it may sound to some, to control both drug
use and drug-related crime, is by legalization and state-controlled distribution.
Give a new interpretation to "state-controlled substance". Register users. Provide
care. Introduce stricter laws... Illegal supply will plummet. The war on drugs is a
farce. It is a war that can't be won. Drug use is inherent to this time. Nihilism,
globalization... And as far as I know, there has never been a substance-free
society, and I doubt there will ever be. In ancient societies, though, psychedelics
had a ritual and sacred character. Using them for fun is a rather nihilistic
phenomenon. It will pass. Nihilism is a process we'll just have to go through.
Have a nice trip...

Some people set a goal and go for it. Others, like myself, take life as it comes to
them. Will power plays an extremely important role here. Both attitudes are
normal though. Humanity needs a bit of everything. Such differences lie at the
basis of the social strata. This is true diversity. But let's be careful not to label
degeneration as 'diversity', as is the case nowadays. That, ladies and gentlemen,
is a mistake...

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue
pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to
believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how
deep the rabbit-hole goes..." Quote from "The Matrix" (1999)

People of strong will have a hard time accepting the idea that the freedom of the
will is an illusion. But a strong will is innate too. Nobody chooses their will and
moreover, no man is stronger than himself…

The “pathos of distance” is present in me too. Or some pathos at least that sets
me apart from the others...

Freedom of the will is an illusion. It was debunked in the 19th century by

Friedrich Nietzsche…

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Do you want to affect your future personality in a positive way? You can, dear
reader. There are plenty of ways: you can educate yourself, or seek adventure, or
do martial arts... Sitting back and doing nothing, or chasing money all your life
will affect it too, but it won't be in the way you'd like to. Don't be a fatalist. It's
the worst of all attitudes. It only requires one small step. It reads: "I will!"...

Coincidence or fate? The eternal philosophical question. I tend to believe

coincidence does not exist. But only because I believe that all is preordained.
That is the same as Fate. I am not saying there is more to it. Or that a higher
power wants it like that. I do not believe in that bearded man in the sky. I
believe in my own divine nature. Hence I seek no god outside myself…

One of the greatest successes an individual can achieve in life is the overcoming
of self. Such achievements are also stored into the individuals DNA by means of
DNA methylation (epigenetics). In fact, everything you do or don’t do in your
life has an impact on your DNA. DNA has a memory...

I inherited my intellect from my father’s side and my intelligence from my

mother’s side. A nice genetic combination, if you ask me…

Consciousness needs to be seen as a bottom-up rather than as a top-down

phenomenon…

That what does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe in what you do and you will always be motivated…

I was born with a different kind of will: the will to Truth…

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Improvements in medical science, healthcare and the rise of the welfare state
brought natural selection to an end. Humanity is no longer evolving. It is rather
devolving (devolution). Time has come for artificial selection. And consider the
most genial idea in the history of the human species. One day we will bring forth
our own successor. Unprecedented in the history of the earth. An inferior
species sacrifices itself for the benefit of a superior species. That is morality. Or
maybe the lack of it. We have the idea. And we almost have the knowledge and
technology. All it then takes is courage. And we will do it. We have it in us.
That is the genius of our species. A genius that had its climax in the person of
Friedrich Nietzsche. Now it is merely a matter of time. That too is my belief.
This is not a dangerous idea. Saying no to progress and giving preference to
primitivity because morality keeps us from doing it, that is dangerous. And
cowardly. Allowing morality to prevent the greatest progress ever testifies of
weakness and timidity. We must find the courage for the greatest idea ever…

Most people are opposed to secret societies. But they tend to forget that secret
societies have always been at the basis of (spiritual) progress. For example,
where would we be without freemasonry? Unless, of course, you prefer a
religious dictatorship. The same goes for the (global) think tanks...

My Quest is entirely spiritual. A search for Truth and Wisdom. A lonely walk on
an endless road. In fact, every human being is a spiritual being seeking meaning
and purpose. A lack of purpose is enough to make life unbearable…

A man is a piece of fate. He is biologically and socially determined. And I still

feel this amounts to circumstance. In any case, judge not. Leave that to others…

An unstable health like mine can be a blessing. It gives me time to think. Way
more than the average man. I wallow in luxury. The luxury of time…

The quest for the (Holy) Grail... Did you know that the Grail represents
Initiation? But Initiation into what exactly…?

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Due to malpractices in the past eugenics has received a bad name. It is my
belief, however, that due to due to the increasing influence of the writings of
Nietzsche and future scientists, eugenic measures will be implemented gradually
over the centuries to come without ever being referred to as eugenic. But as
measures for the social good. Something like that. Eugenics is superior science.
And it is actually the lack of eugenic measure that poses a threat. Pollution of
the gene pool with bad genes. Devolution. Dysgenics…

The idea of eugenics through restricted marriage is at least 2,400 years old. Plato
was a eugenicist. Marriage partners are to undress before a council. There
should be no visible defects in both partners. There should be no defects in their
parents and grandparents either. Only then should marriage be allowed. We
could do the same based on medical history records, biometrics and
psychometrics...

There is nothing inherently wrong with eugenics, only with barbaric practices.
Carefully directed eugenics will not only improve the quality of the population,
but is also a good measure against overpopulation...

There is an enormous difference between eugenics as it was conceived by Plato

and later on by Galton and eugenics the way it was intended and practiced by
the Nazis. The difference between humane and barbaric…

In case you didn’t know: Selecting the right mate is a form of eugenics too since
it has an impact on all subsequent generations. Women are eugenicists par
excellence, although their intuition often fails too...

The reinstatement of marriage as a social utility institution is of utmost

importance. And that is what it basically is and always has been. A marriage
based on love alone lacks foundation…

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We face quite a few challenges these days: mass extinction, resource depletion,
climate change, pollution, environmental overexploitation, land degradation,
food crises, mass migration, overpopulation, pandemic disease... This is caused
by our unquestioning belief in money, religion and present-day politics.
Convictions are dangerous. And so is misplaced optimism. Some may say “Wir
schaffen das”, but I am not convinced...

Earth can sustain billions of more people. The solution lies in sustainable
growth. Today's growth, however, is unsustainable and mankind will bring
catastrophe upon itself if we do not act soon. Indeed, awareness is growing and
science is making rapid progress, but it may be too little too late...

Increasing average intelligence sounds nonsensical to me. Increasing average

vigor and health, on the other hand, sounds quite appealing. What has happened
to that noble beast and warrior called man? Modern populations are exhausted.
Absence of war, bad breeding... are the cause...

A eugenic institution on the place of every hospital, that would be progress. And
one can only imagine what will be built on the foundations of today's churches,
mosques and temples...

Genetics, the most promising field of study in the history of humanity. Human
physiology must be made the central question. A Brave New World lies ahead…

Following Sir Francis Galton I believe it to be a great idea to make eugenics a

factor in religion. Eugenics as a factor in morality…

Some may deem me obscure, but very often the most obscure books are also the
most enlightening...

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Does admitting there are differences between the races that go beyond skin color
really make one a racist? And does admitting there are differences between the
sexes that go beyond the sexual apparatus really make one a sexist? No, ladies
and gentlemen, this makes one a biologist. From a biological perspective there is
no equality, neither in race nor gender. But I do, however, believe in
equivalence. And that is the correct approach…

The people opposed to genetically modified organisms are probably the same
fools as those opposed to nuclear energy…

The fruit that has always and everywhere appealed to every man: the forbidden
fruit. And it’s not what it seems…

Every race has one or more outstanding qualities. We need to avail ourselves of
those differences...

Different genes come to expression at different moments in your life. Becoming!

Homo Sapiens is indeed the end stage of mankind. But I call him a prelude…

The ultimate conclusion of genetics would probably be a biological society…

Biological society and Culture are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary!

I have crossed oceans of time and distance to pick these fruits…

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Leaving Las Vegas” (1995): a movie about self-chosen death. The superior way.
Determining how and when you die should be a basic human right…

People of lesser intelligence who lose an intellectual debate often revert to

verbal or physical abuse. The link between IQ and aggression…

Although it is true that a good reputation is important, I do not envy those

people with a flawless reputation. They have so much to lose…

For those of you who have(n't) seen the movie Divergent (2014), I am basically
Deviant, but through Erudite I found my way to Dauntless…

Oh, those good citizens of good reputation… If only you knew what they
contrive that cannot bear the light of day…

Offering a solution is easy for the one who creates the problem. Beware of
Hegelian dialectics. Haha

“The Alasness Of Things” (also known as “The Unfortunates”) (2009): a movie

few have understood…

“My movies: '1984, 'Network', 'V For Vendetta', 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's
Nest', 'Fahrenheit 451'...

Judging people on mistakes from the past: despicable. And so is pigeon-holing...

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Do you think you’re special? In any way? Then keep in mind there are 8 billion
others who probably think the same. Be humble instead. And don't take yourself
too seriously either. Comparing yourself to the greats will teach you some
humility...

Having a bad reputation is as sure not an argument against wisdom or merit as

having a good reputation is a guarantee for it. To hell with the reputability. To
hell with respectability. Mere perfumes. That conceal the stench…

People are usually helpful when they see an abandoned animal, but tend to look
away when they see a person in need. The herd mentality is never far off…

People who are not willing to risk their good reputation when it comes to the
crunch, can hardly call themselves free…

The best defense against the “universal deceit” is a good book. Read
“Propaganda” (Edward Bernays)...

Experiments in group behavior prove time and again that the average man is a
herd animal indeed…

I seek no approval. The opinions of the herd are not of my interest…

Every society has its absurdities. You might want to read Kafka…

Don’t fight the (social) disease only by suppressing its symptoms…

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it
wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as
changeable. And help to change it. Ernst Fischer

I might be deemed a ‘scientific racist’, but I do not see the link with racism
because I do not look down on people, hate people or exclude people. Moreover,
I strongly believe in equivalence…

Somebody once said: “An opinion is like an asshole. Everybody has one.” He
was right. What matters in life is might, decisiveness, will power... Words don't
change the world, only deeds do...

A lot of social evils persist under the guise of democracy, freedom,

multiculturalism and diversity…

Things will take a turn for the better when Wisdom and Culture are valued over
science and commerce…

The most precious gift: life; the most valuable thing: time; the most enriching
thing: a good book…

If you deviate from the public opinion, you will have the herd against you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I have my eyes and ears open. That is as valuable as a good book...

Degenerate art: symptom of a degenerate society? Quaeritur...

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Life is never made unbearable by circumstance, but by lack of meaning and
purpose. Viktor Frankl

Many people surround themselves with expensive stuff in order to conceal their
empty-mindedness…

Happiness is like a pair of glasses: When you’re looking for it, it may be on your
nose. Saying

Most people try to fill in the blanks in their lives with more mind-numbing
activities…

Formula of our happiness: a yes, a no, a straight line, a goal… Friedrich

Nietzsche

The more civilized a society, the more backward its morals. Friedrich Nietzsche

Never avoid boredom, but use it to your advantage. Learn to be idle!

Always keep in mind that a complacent life offers no challenge…

Ignorance: the happiness of the masses. Beati pauperes spiritu...

Let your goal be something higher than yourself…

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In a digital society like ours, wisdom too has become commonplace. And like
any other object in a capitalist society, it too has become a commodity. And last
but not least, the advent of the internet made the wise man obsolete. Seemingly
that is. Our society, more than any other society hitherto, is in need of wisdom.
Modern society is sterile. Apart from that, only wise men should be allowed in
politics. Wise men, wise governance…

By three methods we may learn Wisdom: First, by reflection, which is the

noblest; Second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience,
which is the bitterest. Confucius

Stay aloof from the party-political wrangling... Friedrich Nietzsche (advice for
Free Spirits)

Truth-Seeker beware... Only the wisest of men will say: “I know that I know
nothing”...

Live consciously. Educate yourself. Develop a Cosmic Consciousness...

Beware of the preachers of sin. And beware of preachers in general...

I seldom mix with the masses. I am not at my best there…

Amor fati. Love of Fate. Friedrich Nietzsche

We are all puppets… in the hands of Fate...

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Man is the most bungled of all the animals, the sickliest, and not one has strayed
more dangerously from its instincts. But for all that, of course, he is the most
interesting… Friedrich Nietzsche

Capitalism is accumulating ever more capital. Wouldn’t the world be a more

beautiful place if that money were invested in Culture or the betterment of
humanity? Capitalism is sterile...

In a capitalist society people seek more fulfilment in objects rather than in their
fellow men or family. If you doubt this, I dare you to pay a visit to a collectivist
society…

If some wisdom sounds tedious to you, I challenge you to look at it from a

different angle, to put it in a contemporary context…

Capitalism has little or no intrinsic value. Everything is reduced to a tool of

profit, debt or taxation...

Capitalism creates a lot of jobs indeed, but destroys just as many… At the stroke
of a pen…

Capitalism: when money-making has become the dominant art form…

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. Robert Ascham

The road to Wisdom is long and full of mistakes…

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If you believe there is no alternative to commerce, you are mistaken. The great
classical societies were war societies. And peace was an instrument of war.
Modern man is soft...

The earth is in need of a world government indeed, but it will have to be one
with respect for the planet…

If this planet isn’t governed as a whole within an acceptable timeframe, we may

end up destroying it…

World government also implies that the concept of ‘sovereign state’ will (and
must) cease to exist…

Global sustainability must be dealt with on a global scale. This calls for global
governance…

Reducing the whole world to a marketplace is absurd. This worldview is

sterile...

We attribute value to everything, so why not to the environment....?

We want to colonize other planets, but can’t take care of our own…

The global think tanks of today are also a prelude to a world government…

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Here’s one to racists and superficial thinkers alike: It’s not the presence of
Neanderthal or Denisovan DNA that makes people(s) smart or dumb, fit or
feeble. It’s the recent history of movement (migration). It’s the fact that your
ancestors had to hop from place to place in order to find resources to keep them
from starving in this inhospitable world. That creativity and resourcefulness is
then passed on to their children. That’s why people(s) who hail from historically
backwater regions typically don’t tend to fare much better than their ancestors,
even when brought up in a completely different environment. It is exactly this
(in)ability to adapt to changing circumstances that makes a race “superior” or
“inferior”. Also, it is perfectly understandable that natural people(s) have a hard
time fitting in in our highly advanced societies. Their DNA says: “We are
adapted to nature”. Only fools think otherwise…

And last but not least, even sex and procreation have become commonplace.
Virtually everything has become commonplace these days. This is what I call
the triviality of modern life. Absence of sacrality…

World government should address matters relating to the planet as a whole like
the biosphere, the betterment of humanity or global food production. All the rest
is up to individual states…

People breed, indeed, like rabbits: regardless of the circumstances. The least
intelligent and the poorest most. I believe here lies a task for the politics of the
future...

People are said to consciously choose. Seemingly that is. But what determines
their choice? Every preference has a basis too…

Life comes with no manual. Find your own way. Become an 'artist of life'.
Experiment!

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Regarding Jewish success... First of all, Jews have the highest average IQ of all
peoples. This is explained by their history of migration (and therefore adaptation
to different circumstances). This is the biological factor. The second factor is
social: their good education, mores and work ethic. We can learn something
from the Jews here. Nietzsche had high hopes for the Jews. I myself believe
their success will continue to grow. Down with anti-Semitism! (and racism in
general)...

Some races are more violent than others. This is often explained by cultural
differences. However, this is only part of the truth. The races differ in
temperament and average IQ, two key factors in violence and crime. Those
differences have a biological (genetic) basis. Those who believe culture and
religion to be the sole factors in human behavior are mistaken...

I am not a Bible adept, but I do believe in genetic original sin: unfortunate

genetic tendencies (e.g. exhaustion, predisposition to criminal behavior or
substance abuse…) passed from one generation to the next. And the same goes
for social tendencies...

Only superficial thinkers see contemporary society as the pinnacle of human

history. Compared to antiquity, modern society is decadent, even barbaric. Plato
and Artistotle breathe fresh air. But reading Nietzsche will give you taste…

Assimilation or integration, whichever you prefer, it will be a slow and painful

process. If even possible. It can even be argued whether some races or cultures
are even compatible. Quo vadis, Europa...?

All those seemingly free choices we make in life… Are they really that free…?

Pushing away certain aspects of life is easy, but it won’t change reality…

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“Down with aristocracy”, the people say, and they target the old monarchies.
But they tend to overlook the ruthless money aristocracy that has been in the
making for hundreds of years…

We are moving slowly towards a society of adversaries rather than fellow

citizens. Jef Vermassen

Our greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in getting back on our feet each
time we fall. Confucius

Earth as a living organism is a very nice metaphor. In any case, we need to treat
it as one. Symbiosis!

Accepting the things you can’t change will make you a lot happier. Find peace
with everything...

Does life have a goal, a purpose? I sincerely doubt it. But we can set goals...

There is a potential killer in all of us. That includes you too. Think about it…

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. Lao Tzu

Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray

True Free Spirits are a rare ‘breed’. And so are Seekers...

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So you think you know something about the world? If you are not familiar with
Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, Club of
Rome, Committee of 300, Black Nobility, Tavistock Institute, freemasonry,
secret societies… you know nothing. The list is long. And if you wonder why
you have never hear from these institutions in official media, the answer is
simple: conspiracy. The future of the economy, politics, even humanity... is laid
out in these think tanks without your consent or participation. Or maybe you
believe you consented to it. Creating consensus is not that hard after all. Haha

Banks are among the most obscure institutions in existence. The most obscure
up to this day, however, remains the Vatican. Like any other state, or rather
parody of a state, its history is laced with vice, corruption, greed, war, murder,
torture, persecution... When the opportunity to rule by itself is absent, the
Vatican will side with the victor. In fact, every organized religion sides with the
powers that be…

The “will to power” (Friedrich Nietzsche) is currently being fought on a

corporate level rather than on a political level. The commercialization of the
political instinct. Haha. But this will not always be the case. Nihil aeternum est.
The relentless swing of the pendulum…

We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only
whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest. James
Warburg

A collapse of the U.S. dollar (and as a result its economy) would cause a global
crisis that will dwarf the impact of the 1929 Wall Street crash. Are you
prepared…?

Inflation is hidden taxation. Worse, it's theft. The same goes for zero and
negative interest rates…

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The 19th century was very productive. It brought us Darwin, Nietzsche... Even
America had great writers and artists in those days. The preceding centuries
were productive too, but I believe they culminated in the 19th century. I believe
the seed for a "new order of things" was planted in that century, even though the
change will be gradual if I understand Nietzsche well. In a democratic manner...

Democracy today is the primary cause of decivilization. The modern states,

particularly in the West, have eroded away as a result of internationalism. And
while the leading nations of the world are in the process of establishing world
order, states are increasingly unable to deal with internal problems. What we
need is a stronger democracy, stronger states and stronger institutions. In brief,
decisiveness...

No matter what form of democracy (direct or representative), the individual

thinker always loses out and no matter what form of government, the people
always lose out…

When it comes to political transparency in a democracy, I can say the following:

You will always know what you are allowed to know and nothing more…

Everything you believe in, everything you take for granted, even when it has
been around for centuries, can be gone in a matter of years, if not days…

Lady Justice is said to be blindfolded, but I’m sure she peeps a lot. Beware of
class justice...

Do we really want to shape the whole world according to the Western model…?

The role of capital in major political events is not to be underestimated…

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“Democracy” concerns the demos (Athenian Greek), “the people” collectively,
the common populace. Democracy considers the numbers and favors the
“masses” and so it produces them. To recast a common political metaphor,
democracy raises sheep. Sheep do not want to lead, nor think discriminately.
Sheep feel most at home in the herd, led wherever they go. They want a
shepherd, one will keep them feeling safe, safe and the same, leading them
wherever they go, without droving them so hard that they ever must realize (and
resent) that they might as well be dragged by the nose. Whether said shepherd
(inevitably) fleeces or consumes them, they get a rude surprise - as they were on
a dutiful lookout for a wolf in the fold. Colin Patrick Barth

Democracy, or “majority rules,” is another trick of our society to force us to do

things we don’t want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and
the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on
every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one
man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to –
simply because he could. Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better
servitude than bowing to might? William J. Murray

Democracy today has its shortcomings too it seems: rising unemployment rates,
rising crime rates, moral decline, destruction of the family nucleus, expanding
public debt, insolvent social security systems. The big cities are attraction poles
of lowlifes. Social devolution!

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable

tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the
nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon
numbers and hides behind the name of the people. Proudhon

Democracy doesn’t favour the individual above all else, nor does it promise to.
One of its greatest failings is that single voices of reason are too easily drowned
out by the cacophony of the masses. Stephen Townshend

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Democracy has a different connotation among the populace than among
educated men. Gustave Le Bon

Democracy has nothing to do with the right choices. It has to do with the
popular choices. B. Karam

The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the
average voter. Churchill

Democracy is governed by too many passions in order to be truly decisive.

Decline of the state...

A great deal of your feelings are inherited from your ancestors too. It is called
Emotional Heritage...

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man’s thought.
Mohammad Iqbal

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I’ll show you how to stop the war.
Henry Ford

Meanwhile, the masses have to be kept in check… And happy. Panem et

circenses…

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Thomas

Carlyle

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Regardless of how states in the distant future will be governed, democracy today
provides us with an excellent opportunity to gradually introduce new values. The
anthropological sciences are booming and their implications promising. A new
millennium has begun and the psychological effect of such a transition must
never be underestimated. What a brave new world lies ahead? That is the
ultimate question. And remember: Rome wasn’t built in a day…

Milestones in the anthropological sciences and their implications for human

genetic engineering: the discovery of the gene, the Human Genome Project,
gene patenting, DNA sequencing, various genetic engineering techniques such
as recombinant DNA or CRISPR-CAS9, genetic databases worldwide and
forever increasing computer memory and processors. What we need now is
political will...

When it comes to the biological differences between the male and the female
brain and the resulting role of each sex, it is my belief that millions of years of
evolution cannot be mistaken. Moreover, the financial and legal independence
of women basically castrated men. O tempora o mores…

A few centuries from now we will be able to edit the human genome at will. The
birth of the first Supermen will mark the beginning of a new era in the history of
humanity...

The present drags the past in its wake and is pregnant with the future
(Nietzsche). Becoming!

Human evolution used to be unconscious, but before long it will begin to steer
itself...

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Like the Flying Dutchman I am cursed, doomed to sail the heavy waves of the
ocean of my life until Senta takes the leap. Or not. However, if you ask me, the
“storm” is the most interesting part of life, so don’t settle down too soon…

People in underdeveloped or poor countries seem a lot happier than Western

man, if you ask me. The least you can say is that they have a thing called “time”
and “social life”…

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is
founded on the talent for friendship. Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose as your friend if
she were a man. Joseph Joubert.

Western man has become alienated from life, death and above all, suffering. He
has grown soft on top of that…

It is not the lack of love, but the lack of friendship that makes unhappy
marriages. Nietzsche

Only the populace judges by appearances. See people for what they are and not
what they seem…

Unfortunately, democratic change is slow, so I won’t live to see that brave new
world…

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Virtually every human being is biologically in need of redemption through
love…

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority. Lord Acton

Unrealistic commercial or social ideals are the greatest source of unhappiness…

Neither man nor woman is the paramount of creation, but both combined…

The sadism of human beings knows no limits at times. Fear thy neighbour…

The extent to which you use your brain is at least as important as your IQ...

People in Western societies often struggle with a low opinion of self…

You own absolutely nothing when it comes down to it…

Where is the gold? And above all, who owns it…?

Gold has the capacity to make or break empires…

Media and news always have an effect on you…

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Parliamentarism, meaning the public permission to choose between five public
opinions, is favored by many who like to think of themselves as being
independent thinkers with ideas worth fighting for, but in the end, it makes no
difference if the herd is ordered to believe in one opinion or allowed to choose
between five because if one person dares to refuse the five allowed opinions, he
has the whole herd against him. Friedrich Nietzsche

History is hopelessly biased towards the victors in wars, because they are the
ones who are able to promote their cause, culture, and abilities to whomever
reads about history since they can (and do) suppress their defeated opponent. So
most of the primary sources that historians use to research historic events are
already biased, let alone the personal bias (that historians are not supposed to
have) that each person brings to the table. Andrew Slattery

An unstable health or illness is not a bad thing per se either. It makes you put
things into perspective. It teaches you to appreciate the small things that make
life worthwhile, to enjoy life to the fullest. According to Nietzsche, a period of
lesser health is often followed by a period of vitality. This is definitely true. And
in my case, whenever I go astray, my intellect always seems to come back...
with a vengeance. Down with complacency!

What is nihilism exactly? Nihilism is a period of transition between two value

systems as, for example, we see in the West nowadays. It is also an opportunity
as it allows us to question the value of the old values and, why not, create new
ones in the process. Every religion will at one point or another experience its
own nihilism. Nihilism is a driving force behind spiritual progress. If the value
of the prevailing values is never to be questioned, there can be no such thing as
progress…

On social media people have a tendency to display their happiness rather than
their unhappiness. That explains a lot. Apart from that, they are major
propaganda tools...

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The more you know, the less you believe. And the more you know, the less you
have what they call "an opinion". All becomes perspective. All becomes
relative. Become an intellectual grass-hopper!

The unhappiness of Western man is actually a result of nihilism. Spiritual people

are happier since they find satisfaction in immaterial things. You might want to
read Hesse, Aurelius, Seneca...

Whether you like it or not, the people as a whole and you as an individual are
nothing more than a means to an end in the hands of the powers that be…

Having suffered from a depression or an addiction is not a bad thing per se. On
the contrary: It is a valuable life experience…

Bureaucracy is like an industrious anthill without the purpose of constructing

something. Tim Meyer

I’ve seen hell on many occasions in my life. Compared to that death is like a
warm blanket...

You have the right to be happy! (first chapter of “The Art Of Happiness” by the
Dalai Lama)

Beware: The others will try to divert you from your Path. The true Path is a
lonely Path...

True freedom means contempt for death and moreover, contempt for life...

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Racial purity is an illusion. It always has been and always will be. Moreover,
according to recent scientific findings children of mixed marriages tend to be
healthier, more intelligent and more attractive. These findings are also in
accordance with Nietzsche (Unpublished Fragments): that careful blood mixing
will produce better results. The same goes for race mixing. Hitler was wrong!

Regarding "Crime And Punishment" (Fyodor Dostoevsky)... Regarding

Raskolnikov... I believe a self-respecting criminal, a true criminal, does not
regret his crimes. And regarding regret... I believe modern people regret too
much. Maybe that is because we have grown soft after two millennia of
Christianity...

A few telltale signs indicative of imminent war: rising tensions, pro-war

rhetoric, war propaganda, mobilization, militarization, war preparations, military
and civil readiness and willingness for war… Or maybe it will just come out of
the ‘blue’... As for you: Be prepared, always and in every way…

Not only speech has to be politically correct, but solutions too. Some of the
global problems we are facing today may require rather undemocratic solutions.
But how are politicians going to sell that to the public? In any case, the 21st
century, barely begun, will be a bumpy ride. Brace yourself!

A decent (true) education will prepare you for life. It will teach you how to use
your brain. It will give you freedom of thought. It will teach you to question. It
will make you self-reliant. And self-aware too. It will make you a better person.
It will elevate you. In brief, it will make you human...

The existential emptiness experienced by many people at the end of the working
week called “weekend neurosis” finds its roots in a lack of meaning…

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The "Truth-Seeker's Dream", or whatever it was, has disappeared long time ago.
Most probably because I have found Enlightenment. But a new recurring dream
has taken its place. I am trying to go home, but I never succeed. This dream may
indicate a major transition in one's life. And it probably does in my case. I have
been evolving in my thinking almost on a daily basis for like three years on end
and who knows what lies ahead. Maybe I will keep evolving for the rest of my
life. After all, I'm a Truth-Seeker. A never ending Quest. Are you ready to
embark on a similar Path? Go find your own truths now!

All things are nothing to me. What is not supposed to be my concern? First and
foremost the good cause, then God’s cause, the cause of mankind, of truth, of
freedom, of humanity, of justice; further, the cause of my people, my prince, my
fatherland; finally, even the cause of mind and a thousand other causes. Only my
cause is never to be my concern. ‘Shame on the egoist who thinks only of
himself!’ (Max Stirner, “The Ego And Its Own”)

It cannot be excluded that through my veins runs the blood of a tribal sage,
possibly an ancient Belgian. I will not swear it. I only see possibilities. It's all
about the preservation of a "primordial type". Every tribe has its artist, its sage,
its philosopher... People were fewer in number in those days. Millennia later
there are so many more people displaying the type. What blood runs through
your veins? Nosce te ipsum!

A Gift needs feeding too. And when you happen to be one of those Seekers, or
intellectuals, you will find that the more you know, the more you will become
critical, the more you will find out what is wrong with things, the more things
you will discover that go against your sense of justice. And the more you will
come to realize that they (the Herd) will try to put you down, silence you,
anything. He who knows, does not speak…

Regarding Creation... Male/female, positive/negative, matter/antimatter... They

are said to "give birth" (creation) when they "meet" and "mutually annihilate".
Scientists are looking for antimatter, but they are unable to find it. I also believe
matter and antimatter will only "mutually annihilate" and therefore "give birth"
in a state of "high excitation". Do you see the analogy? The universe is reflected

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in man. I believe only a Big Crunch is able to produce such a state. A new cycle
of "life" and "death" begins. Science meets esotericism. I'm the matchmaker!

Where are the times people had a desire to sacrifice themselves for a greater
good, be it the state or other? In antiquity children were raised to adhere to the
state in the first place. The state depended on them and they depended on the
state with their lives. Maybe it is indeed true that liberal democracy is
incompatible with the true sense of state… (Carl Schmitt)

There is a reason why true education is not on the timetable: Truly educated
people are more difficult to control and manipulate. On the other hand, a nation
of truly educated citizens would be ungovernable. For all I know, it might very
well cease to exist…

Should literally everyone be allowed to procreate? The biological insights from

the 19th century onwards seem to prove the opposite. Harsh as it may sound, in
many cases the best option is compulsory sterilization. Dura lex sed lex…

It is not that hard to reinstate polytheism. I can imagine a few suitable gods
already: “Thaler”, the god of money; “Oculo”, the all-seeing god; “Gogol”, the
all-knowing god. Towards a new mythology!

I used to be a conscientious objector when it comes to politics, but these days I

am a conscientious objector when it comes to society as a whole. Because it
lacks a face. And our ideals differ…

You only become who you are… I myself am the living proof since all my life I
have been surrounded by slaves, fools, ignorants, occupational and other idiots
and in the best case half-knowers…

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Idleness is the parent of vice, they say… In most cases I do not exclude this to
be true, but in my case idleness is the parent of inspiration. Again, learn to be
idle!

Beware not to fall prey to the dreams of others, be it society, institutions,

business men, your parents, a woman or anyone else…

An ‘open society’ (Karl Popper), at least as we know it today, is probably

incompatible with true culture. It’s one or the other…

Don’t count too much on others. Instead, do it yourself. And don’t listen too
much to others either…

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind.
Always. Brad Meltzer

True culture requires unity of style, be it artistic, architectural, literary,

scientific, moral…

I haven’t suffered from existential emptiness ever since I started educating

myself…

Antiquity is often said to have been barbaric. But it would say exactly the same
of modernity…

Marriage should become a privilege rather than a right. Free copulation should
be prohibited…

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There are no such things as inalienable rights. Rights and laws are issued by the
status quo. If the status quo falls, those rights and laws will fall with it…

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent
in a miserable way. Alan Watts

Money should not be a goal (that is pathetic), but a means to an end. Nothing
more, nothing less…

To those opposed to dogmas: “freedom”, “secularism”, “democracy” are

dogmas too…

Globalization, terrorism, immigration... Seek answers yourself. Nullius in

verba...

If money were no object, what would you like to do? And do exactly that. Alan
Watts

Life is complicated, they say. But I say that it is as complicated as you make it…

Society should have a say in the usefulness, benefit of a marriage…

World War III will dwarf all wars hitherto…. and revolutions too…

The foundation of eugenics is probability. Francis Galton

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Be careful what you believe. Pure certainty about anything may actually be
dangerous. It can even get you killed. The same goes for ignorance. And truth...

According to Oswald Spengler a civilization or culture can be compared to an

organism. Definitely true. But my concern is the health of the organism…

The future looks bright for biological thought. And Culture. New ears for new
music. Come on. Play that song. As a herald to the times to come…

The male and female vision are totally opposed, but they find each other in the
creation and upbringing of the next generation…

Fatalism in the non-Nietzschean sense is opposed to personal change and

progress. And also bad for health…

Few people believe in curses nowadays, but I know of one and it hangs over
mankind as a whole. Morality…

You can take the fool out of the country, but seldom the country out of the fool...

The key to success? Find out what you’re good at and become a master of it…

A stock market crash sounds more like a transfer of wealth to me…

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time...

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The answer to the existential question “Who am I and what do I want?” lies
hidden deep within yourself. Nosce te ipsum…

Modern society is "unnatural"; Modern society is "sick"; Modern society is

"spinning out of control"... We often hear that. Everybody actually knows that.
BUT... What is the proof of that? Seekers are, in a sense, scientists too. Or have
a "scientific approach". Or a "scientific attitude". In brief, they need proof of
some sort. Or proper indications at least. Empiricism! "Intuitive knowing" also
counts as evidence. That has to be said too. Those who recognize it will agree.
But that aside here. Anyway, the first time I came across those insights
regarding modern society and modernism in general was via the writings of
Nietzsche. And these insights are generally accepted as well. But so far proper
evidence was lacking. For myself I mean. Or for myself in the first place. But I
managed to compile enough evidence. Here it comes. First of all, we have what
I call "personal experience". Mental (stress, insomnia...) and physical (e.g.
fatigue). I am sure most of us will agree. Or most people. We, Seekers, are no
average men. Then there are statistics: hospital admissions, burn-outs, drop-
outs, pharmaceutical drug use... Plenty of that. And finally there is biology. First
of all our "circadian rhythm" aka "biological clock". Recent findings by Dr. Paul
Kelley advises against beginning our activities before 10 AM. That takes a quick
"reality check", don't you agree? Ignoring or overruling that basically amounts
to self-torture. Yet we "happily" do that. Torture ourselves. Or worse, others. It
is considered "normal" even. And there's more evidence. Biology! The fact that
our senses (especially the eyes) are not or insufficiently adapted to the night and
nightlife. We can observe that ourselves. By experience. And this is basically
the proof that we are no nocturnal creatures. Cats have something called "night
vision". Their eyes reinforce the sometimes very little light that is present in
their environment. So cats are (biologically) adapted to the night. Cats are
(mainly) nocturnal creatures. Logical conclusion. Man, however, lacks this
adaptation to the dark. And he who suddenly finds himself in the dark, or has
done so already, will agree. The eyes have to adapt to the dark. This takes time.
Precious, potentially life-saving time. Thereby making this important sense
useless for that amount of time. Not without danger as you can imagine. So man
is not (biologically) adapted to the night and night life. Man is not a nocturnal
creature. Logical conclusion again. So far for the overwhelming evidence. But
what do I notice? Our society - especially the (great) centres - is active day and
night. Uninterrupted! So it does something that is known and by now sufficiently
proven to be "unnatural" or "counter-natural". There we have it. And for the
sake of money and money alone. Well, how "sick" is that? There we have it
again. Quod erat demonstrandum. I rest my case...

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Culture itself is a plot against the expansion of consciousness. A plot against
awakening. Forbidden Wisdom. Non-linear drugs vs. linear societies. The war
on drugs is no surprise. Awakening is undesirable. Awakening disrupts, whether
it be awakening by means of knowing or by means of psychedelics. Awakening
too goes against the investment of every society. Only the “sleepers” can be
manipulated. The “Awakened Ones” lose their fetters, their social straitjacket...
The “Global Awakening” may be prevented though. War, natural disasters... I
wouldn't bet on it happening. Read my lips: One war, one EMP... is enough to
bring about a “Great Darkening”. I doubt if the interconnectedness of these days
is as lasting as it seems. The open internet may very well be a pain in "their"
neck. If not now, then later. I can imagine the prevention of a “Global
Awakening” to be on the same agenda as the Chinese or Russian problem. War
creates the ideal opportunity ("Every crisis is an opportunity") for rapid
suppression of what we take for granted. "Extremis malis extrema remedia",
"War is the health of the state" and so on... Remember the warning of “1984”.
Or is it a promise? “1984” does seem like a manual for a Big Brother society
and we've seen nothing yet here in the West when it comes to surveillance.
China as a social experiment. Surveillance Chinese style coming our way with a
few of decades of delay. Over here the people are watching, remember? Sadly
insufficiently alert. It takes vision and time to see where we're heading. CCTV
inside everybody's house, remember? The future may not as bright as it seems to
the “dreamers of a better world”. I do believe in a better world, but do not expect
it anytime soon. "They" are proactive. Step by step. Or should I say "bit by bit"?
As for you, will you love Big Brother in the end? Will you still be able to do
without him? Or will you eventually find the courage to give up that “illusion of
safety” for a little less predictability and a little more danger? Keep in mind Big
Brother fears the people just as much as the people fears Big Brother. A
surveillance society is based on fear, the people being "public" (haha) enemy
number one. And let's not forget the people's fears. I can imagine Big Brother
breathing down people's necks 24/7 to be comforting to some extent. All
insecurities gone! But a brave new world? I sincerely doubt it. A ruler who
wants total control over the people is quite the opposite of brave. It stems from
cowardice. Total surveillance in order to uphold a corrupt system? That is not
very brave, is it? It testifies of a lack of courage to create a better system. Lack
of political will. Mere cowardice! A Big Brother with a small testicles. Sad, all
too sad. The problem with “Global Awakening” is this: the law of numbers. The
“Awakened Ones” will always be less in number than the masses. And the
masses allow themselves to be fooled, tricked, lured, seduced... by false
tempters. Those who appeal to their insecurities, anxieties, emotions... Those in
power also own the media. And there are also the human instincts such as that
for war. It cannot be suppressed “ad infinitum”. And let's not forget politics.
This necessary evil that goes hand in hand with society. The truly “Awakened
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concealed for the masses. And when it comes to enlightenment, the core
teachings are for the few and the few alone. I admit these times are an exception.
All can be found on the web. But for how long? One can always perceive the
war drums in the distance. That too is what being “awake” is all about. Knowing
the “Outer World” as well as you “Inner World”. The “Outer World” cannot be
done away with, no matter how hard you try. As for you, just make sure you are
better, know better, think better, act better... than the world around you. There
lies the real challenge. Be the change you want to see...

People don't trust the elites. And believers in conspiracy theory even less. They
attribute to them all the evils of the world. It may not be a bad idea to trust the
elites a little more. This world simply wouldn't be this world without the elites.
That is continually overlooked. And keep in mind you owe your computer and
its operating system to Bill Gates, your cell phone to Steve Jobs, and your
Facebook to Mark Zuckerberg. Haha. Without the elites we'd still be in the 18th
century probably. I've said it before, believers in conspiracy theory more often
than not are fools. Apart maybe from those who concoct them. Those are often
cunning people with a hidden agenda. An agenda at least as hidden as that of the
elites. They push people towards (more) authoritarianism. Pretty dangerous, if
you ask me. Anyway, you might want to read "10% Less Democracy - Why
You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less". That may
(hopefully) change your perspective. Keep in mind too that ancient Greece, even
during its democratic days, was the work of its aristocratic (and therefore
elitarian) leadership. And my being a little elitarian has nothing to do with that.
I am talking about facts here. History itself is my witness. And never forget that
voting itself has aristocratic (and therefore elitarian) origins. Moreover, it is hard
to imagine a society, however democratic or egalitarian it may be, without some
sort of elite. Even egalitarian societies have elders, or people whose vote counts
more because of experience, expertise, or rank. So think twice before wishing
away the elites. Be careful what you wish for. Unless you prefer a return to
horse and carriage. Haha. Dreamers and leaders, those are the two things a
society can't do without. No need to tell me there is a kernel of truth in
sensational conspiracy theory. Of course there is. And there is an awful lot the
people are not supposed to know. More even probably than the content of all
conspiracy books combined. No need to read conspiracy books or theories
though. They tend to be sensational, they contain lots of unfounded or even false
claims, and sometimes even plain nonsense as well. There are plenty of books
and other sources though that deal with a specific topic. Think of "Shadow
World", "Dope Inc.". And those are no-nonsense. Ah yes, if you seek to
continue with conspiracy theory, then I advise you to read "Tragedy & Hope"
(Carroll Quigley). 1,400 pages of facts. A history book. The work of an

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academic and historian. And therefore often perceived as boring. In any case, it
will give you a balanced view on the doings of the elites. Enjoy!

We have the crazy notion that a man who can read a book is educated, while a
man who cannot read is uneducated.” He goes on to say: “It would be, perhaps,
too much to say that education in any real sense is utterly impossible at the
present day. It must be a work of enormous difficulty; for true teaching that can
be given from books or from word of mouth is straightaway contradicted and
annulled by the whole atmosphere and circumstance of modern life. How can
we truly learn beauty if our days are passed for the most part in a horrible orgy
of hideousness and corruption? How can we expect a factory hand to realize the
beauty, the wonder, the mystery of anything whatever when his whole life is
passed in some soul- and mind and body destroying occupation; when his daily
work is hardly more intelligent than that of the cogs and endless bands and
poison vats which he has to supervise — and his only holiday is made up of a
nightmare, washed down with much adulterated beer? A man who lives such a
life can see nothing and understand nothing; he has, not by his own fault, but by
the fault of his master and spiritual teachers, fallen again from Paradise; and, so
far as one can see, his one idea of happiness is to turn out his master and become
a master himself - which is about as foolish and futile as if one proposed to
regenerate America by seeing that every adult citizen became a millionaire. One
discovers but little hope for such men as these; and the so-called education that
is given them is probably but the adding of fuel to the flames of their burning —
it is a giving of a picture gallery to a blind man. It has been shown again and
again that the result of more than fifty (at the time Machen was writing) years’
compulsory ‘education’ has been the creation of a race of ferocious and
degraded hooligans…

Regarding personal transformation... Some people have a natural tendency to

transform themselves in a conscious way. Those people are called master minds.
They are rather rare though. Most people, like myself, go with the flow of life.
And depending on who you are, this may lead to personal transformation as
well. The question is never how you get there. As long as you get there, you may
consider yourself blessed. Find out what you are as soon as possible. That may
save you trouble. I say this because master minds are not very fond of what they
themselves call "misery". They hate making mistakes too. Those can (and must)
be avoided. Both approaches to life are okay, though. They are equivalent. And I
am saying this because some master minds have a tendency to look down on
people who "go with the flow of life". People who go with the flow are inferior

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in their eyes. Losers! But if that were true, then Dostoevsky would have been a
loser too. Or Alan Watts. Many so-called master minds can only dream of their
accomplishments. And I have another argument. Have you ever imagined a
society that consists solely of master minds? Who will work in the factories
then? And who will take orders? I am confident you know the answer to that
question. No one. Such a society is impossible. Apart from that, I understand
master minds all too well. They are right. From their perspective. Master mind
or not, just make sure it does not lead to tunnel vision. Tunnel vision is not very
enriching...

The purpose is self-enlightenment, not self-delusion, so let us set to and pluck

the weeds of ignorance out of our soil. Ignorance is the great stumbling block on
the Path to the Light; the great mountain which is conceit and it is the first
business of a Student of the Mysteries to do away with it, for it is not possible to
learn what we think we already know. The purpose of our studies, after all, is not
to have our prejudices confirmed, but to gain wisdom at any cost to our
preconceived ideas. No one religion, philosophy, cult, coven, doctrine, sect, or
book is going to give you all the answers. We witness today the sad spectacle of
souls leeching on to unorthodox and exotic religions and belief systems. These
folks wear their various religions as they would wear the latest fashions - for the
image it gives to others. I am tempted to call it “Designer Religion”. These
wind-bags who follow this trend stand before you with heads full of imaginary
knowledge and pretence, crystals and pentagrams at the ready, and shamelessly
claim: “I’m a Zen Buddhist”, “I practice Enochian magic”, “I’m into
Shamanism”, and so on and so forth ad nauseam. If you are stupid or
unfortunate enough to lend them an ear for a while, they will prate and babble
deliriously, without drawing life-giving breath, in an infantile and superficial
manner, about things of which they have no more understanding than the pig
has about pearls. Edda Livingston "Serpents Of Wisdom"

!Here’s one to doomsday prophets and misanthropes alike: doom scenarios… I

can imagine a few: a pandemic, an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), a geomagnetic
storm, a true mass extinction, an asteroid impact, a nuclear holocaust, a dollar
collapse… Some scenarios are more likely to happen (soon) than others. None
of them can be excluded. But as an optimist, I say that man is by nature a highly
inventive, flexible and adaptive species. Otherwise we’d have gone extinct a
long time ago. Also, keep in mind that awareness is growing steadily.
Doomsday prophets have been around since the dawn of history. If they had
been right we’d have gone extinct long time ago too. Moreover, if those

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doomsday prophets and misanthropes were truly consistent, they’d put a bullet
in their heads straightaway because they too are parasites, like the rest of us.
Beware of the prophets of doom…

Mind over matter... And then it struck me: I imagine Zen Buddhists setting
themselves on fire and burning alive without giving a shrink. Total mind control.
Mind over matter. I wonder if those are the limits of the human mind? I don't
know. That depends on telekinesis being science or pseudo-science. Or
photokinesis. Or Extrasensory Perception. I do not exclude the latter to be a
reality. Or astral projection. Out-of-body experience. Premonition. Somebody
once noticed my glance with his back turned on me. "Can one feel a glance", I
asked. Yes, he said. One can. Very wise man... Could have been a manifestation
of the Third Eye too. And how about “Conscious Immortality”. All "on hold" for
now. Anyway, the strength of the will plays a decisive factor in mind control.
And it probably takes a lot of ambition to accomplish that. And decisiveness…

The whole world will be in turmoil. There will be rulers upon the earth of
churlish spirit, violent temper, and ever addicted to falsehood and wickedness.
They will inflict death upon women and children, seize the property of their
subjects; they will be of limited power, their lives will be short and their desires
insatiable. People of various countries will mingle with them and follow their
example; the people will perish, wealth and piety will decrease until the world
will be wholly depraved. Property alone will confer rank; wealth will be the
only source of devotion; passion will be the sole bond of union between the
sexes; falsehood will be the only means of success in litigation; and women will
be objects merely of sensual gratification, and external types will be the only
distinction of the several orders of life. A rich man will be considered pure;
dishonesty will be the universal means of subsistence; weakness the cause of
dependence; menace and presumption will be substituted for learning; liberality
will be devotion; mutual assent, marriage; fine clothes, dignity. He who is the
strongest will reign; the people, unable to bear the heavy burdens will flee; thus
decay will constantly proceed, until the human race approaches annihilation.
The Book Of Sa-Heti

There is no inherent problem with religion. Not even with monotheism. Only
with dogma he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim,
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able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the
world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the
central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in
frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank
for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and
controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private
corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its
ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence
the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative
politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world. Carroll
Quigley, “Tragedy And Hope”

Regarding the scientific consensus on manmade climate change: First of all, it

has not been established beyond doubt that mankind is responsible for climate
change. And secondly, consensus can be created. Long before climate change
became such a hot topic, there was a call for a global tax. It would prove to be
carbon dioxide. And once again it seems to be filling the pockets of the same
people. Transfer of wealth. To our politicians I'd like to say: “Thou who art
deceived, do not deceive others...”. Also, the climate is complex and the
underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. And even if climate change is
manmade, this just means that the climate is adapting to human activity. In any
case, we will just have to ride it out. It is absurd to destroy the economy to ward
off something that is unavoidable. Unless, of course, if you prefer economic
suicide. The green agenda is red. And climate is the new religion...

These days popular ideas prevail. 'Popular' as in 'populace'. Liberalism,

socialism, Marxism... They originate from the populace rather than from a
higher class. The only trend nowadays that actually appeals to me is the growing
nationalism, even though on a personal level I am not a true nationalist. I am a
child of liberalism and socialism. Nationalism will allow countries to tackle the
social chaos brought about by liberalism, socialism, cultural Marxism, May
1968, internationalism, globalization, indiscriminate immigration…
Unfortunately, it will also inevitably lead to World War III, the mother of all
wars. World War III and world government will be the ultimate conclusion of
globalization...

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Do you think you would recognize a Master if you did meet one? Are you under
the impression that he would advertise his Mastership by wearing saffron robes?
Flowing locks? Sandals? A halo? A crown of thorns? Or could it possibly be
that he is so well hidden because he looks like any one of us, giving us no
obvious signs to recognize him by, and, in this manner, throwing us back on our
ability to tell Truth from falsehood? How many of us are willing or able to know
and welcome Mastership or Adeptship by listening to words of Truth? The
majority seem to prefer personality, fame, and drivellers of ineptitude who
reconfirms our preconceived opinions. Edda Livingston, “Serpents Of Wisdom”

Let me talk about “blind spots” for a moment. Blind spots in our reasoning. I
believe we all have those. They may make you believe things in error. And they
can be detected and exploited even. Beware of manipulation. It's human nature.
Read a book about manipulation. If only to avoid being manipulated by others.
Maybe you don't manipulate (if only out of principle), but others definitely do.
Never think you are not susceptible of being manipulated. In that case you
haven't met a Master Manipulator yet. Plenty of those. I consider
“manipulation”, “propaganda” and “crowd psychology” to be “Superior
Knowledge”. And I find that obvious too. It has worked for millennia and will
continue to work in the millennia ahead…

Crisis after crisis things are getting worse. Police work these days is like trying
to dry out a flooded room with the tap open. People often cool their frustrations
on the police because it represents and maintains the status quo they despise so
much. When things really get out of hand, and one day they will, they will shoot
to kill. “Befehl ist befehl”. Hitler's police too thought they were doing the right
thing. If police men were truly thinkers, or philosophers, they'd quit...

Is it possible to prevent degeneration? The answer is no. There will always be

people who live well and others who don't. There are spontaneous mutations
(even though I wonder how spontaneous those spontaneous mutations really
are). There are occupational differences. And there are educational differences.
Those are inherent to society. But degeneration can be reduced to a minimum.
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Not very long ago I couldn’t help overhearing a conversation between a
philosopher and a god. The god said: “I often reflect how I could bring man
further forwards and make him stronger, more evil, and more profound than he
is…" - "Stronger, more evil, and more profound?" the philosopher asked. "Yes,"
the god said once more, "stronger, more evil, and more profound… and also
more beautiful…”

Chinese culture would have looked entirely different, perhaps even greater
maybe, if the warring (competing) states had not been united into one huge
empire under Qin. The best book on military strategy, The Art of War (Sun
Tzu), was written in exactly that period. And let’s not forget Confucius long
before that. Quod erat demonstrandum…?

Symptoms of degeneration/decadence: physical or mental illness/weakness,

appetite for substances, criminal behavior, asymmetries, deformities, handicaps,
ugliness, effeminacy in men, masculinity in women, deviations in gender or
sexual orientation, perversions... It is passed on to the next generation(s). These
days few specimen are good (ideal) from every perspective. Two millennia!

Judeo-Christian morality is opposed to true culture. It was, in fact, a reaction

against it. Moreover, it favors degeneration as it allows the sick and the weak to
procreate and proliferate. On top of that, medical science itself is Christian in
nature. More and more defective genes find their way to the gene pool. Disease
and weakness are rampant. The human species is exhausted. Devolution!

When marrying you should ask yourself this question. Do you believe you are
going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a
marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted
to conversation. Friedrich Nietzsche

Keep in mind that a lot of atrocities too are committed in the name of ‘freedom’
and ‘democracy’. Necessary evil or not, we all have blood on our hands, even if

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indirectly. We often label citizens as 'innocent', but ignorance itself makes
guilty...

The "superiority" or "inferiority" of a race finds expression in its achievements

(science, literature, philosophy, the arts, architecture, culture...) and has a
physiological basis. It is my belief that in the long run the lower races will be
replaced by higher ones. This has been the case since the dawn of humanity. The
future won't be any different. In any case, here lies a task for world government.
I use quotation marks because I do not believe in inferior people. I believe
everybody has worth...

We need to set common goals for humanity. I can imagine a few: the
preservation of the biosphere, space travel (because it cannot be excluded that
one day we will indeed be forced to leave this planet), a space shield (to ward
off asteroid impacts), a common defense project (because when “they” do arrive
one day, I know one thing for fact: They won’t hold any Christian beliefs and
their motto may very well be venire videre vincere) and last but definitely not
least: the creation of the Superman…

I loathe book sellers: They value a book by its rarity and not by its contents. If
the contents were really the issue, a lot of books that are cheap nowadays would
become extremely expensive and the other way around. No common people
would then be able to afford a book by Nietzsche, Goethe, Gracián,
Machiavelli… as those books are actually priceless…

If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: People are living longer,
healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the
solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. I do not
necessarily agree with all of its ideals, but I think we’ll have to do with it for the
centuries ahead. We are moving slowly but surely towards a Global
Enlightenment. At the same time we are moving towards a global nihilism: the
death of all the gods. Mankind is becoming mature...

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The idea of an "eternal recurrence of things" (Nietzsche) may make life
unbearably heavy. The thought that your life as it is, misery included, is
repeating itself for an infinite number of times. It has been doing so before your
present life and it will be doing so after it. That gives weight to life. And comes
with huge responsibility. Every step you take, every move you make... I can
imagine that to be a maddening thought to some. However, there is no proof
whatsoever that it does. Even though it is by no means implausible, it will
remain a matter of faith. But there is another vision. The unbearably lightness of
being (Kundera). That comes with way less weight or responsibility. You only
live once. This is it. Make the best of it. Live to the fullest. Up to you…

Why then do many people believe the end is near? That is the key question. And
the answer lies in the human psyche that is the result of millions of years of
evolution. Good news isn't particularly interesting. We want to know the bad
news so we can prepare ourselves. It's in our nature to like sensation too. And all
the media do is respond to that need. Without bad news the media would lose
their 'raison d'être'. There is not even a 'global media conspiracy' as many people
believe. The media just give us what we want: bad news and sensation...

There is the obvious social factor in poverty, but very often there is also a
hereditary (biological) factor. Some people are biologically determined to
become or remain poor. This goes for crime too. Only idiots and the
undereducated believe it all comes down to 'Mind over matter' or that people are
guilty of or responsible for who they are. They are not. Determinism! Omnia
regit ignorantia…

Research by professor Ritch C. Savin-Williams shows that many individuals

who identify themselves as straight show slight arousal to the same sex (genital
arousal, pupil dilation…). I am unsure what to conclude from that. Some go as
far as to claim that no one is 100% straight, but I will leave that in the middle.
Maybe it’s just one of those remarkable facts of human sexuality and its
diversity…

Why should I not use terms as degeneration, physiological decadence,

exhaustion, predisposition…? I am all to familiar with such conditions myself.

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Besides, they are never an argument against merit or wisdom. Mozart was
decadent, so was Nietzsche. Yet they were geniuses. Quod erat demonstrandum?
Punishment is always unfair as people are punished for who they are. People
never make themselves. But that’s just life. Never expect life to be fair. It just
isn’t and never will be. Moreover, the fact that people are not responsible for
who they are, for their drives and affects, is never an argument against
punishment. Society must protect itself from unwanted behavior…

I have laid my hands on all sorts of books: philosophical, spiritual, political,

apolitical, left, right, anarchist... And they all influenced me in one way or
another. They made me an intellectual and spiritual "Jack-of-all-trades". I love
it when a plan comes together! Imagine a cigar and a glass of wine. You know,
when I was young, my world used to be very small. It was limited to the
backwater. These days I am a man of the world, even though I seldom leave the
house. Solitude happens to be good for my inspiration...

It is not the first nor will it be the last time that people say they're "open-
minded". Beware of those who describe themselves as "open-minded". They
have no idea what it means to be "open-minded". You have a right to "free
speech" as long as it is in accordance with their convictions. If not, those so-
called "democrats" turn into dictators. "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor
cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn
and tear you in pieces." Matt. 7:6

People will be enhanced, albeit rather slowly. One gene at a time for now. Only
the rich and famous will be able to have their offspring enhanced. Most likely it
will be done in secret. When it comes to radical enhancement, this may take a
few centuries. But it will happen. Keep in mind the 19th century brought forth a
thinker who declared war on morality. And I don’t think morality will win the
war…

I am used to suffering. I feel miserable every single day, but this does not
prevent me from writing. And I am a bit of an artist too: For the past four years I
have lived for my creation and my creation alone. My heart and soul, my
passion, my blood, sweat and tears are in it. Nil volentibus arduum!

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Men often brag about the 'democratic' decision-making process within their
households, but we all know who wins those debates. Haha. These days women
wear the pants, literally and figuratively. I am not a Bible adept, but this Bible
quote comes to my mind: “Wives, obey your husbands as you obey the Lord.
The husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church
people”. Wise times indeed...

Is democracy the best form of government? Well, that is food for discussion. All
depends on your perspective. If you hold popular beliefs and ideals, or if you
think the welfare of the people is the highest good, then I would say it is indeed.
However, if you adhere noble ideals, If you have higher goals in mind (culture,
the arts, anything classical...), I am sure you will disagree...

Finally! The social mishmash, which is the result of revolution, of the

establishment of equal rights, and of the superstition, the "equality of men".
Thus the possessors of the instincts of decline (of resentment, of discontent, of
the lust of destruction, of anarchy and nihilism), as also the instincts of slavery,
of cowardice, of craftiness, and of rascality, which are inherent among those
classes of society which have long been suppressed, are beginning to get infused
into the blood of all ranks. Two or three generations later, the race can no longer
be recognized. Everything has become mob... Friedrich Nietzsche "Unpublished
Fragments"

All our political theories and state constitutions (...) are the logical
consequences, the necessary consequences, of decline; the unconscious effect of
decadence has begun to dominate even the ideals of the various sciences. My
objection to the whole of English and French sociology still continues to be this,
that it knows only the decadent form of society from experience, and with
childlike innocence takes the instincts of decline as the norm, the standard, of
sociological valuations... Friedrich Nietzsche, "Twilight of the Idols"

I used to call myself 'Free Spirit'. And frankly, I still am. 'Free Spirit' meaning
that I do not suffer from convictions (religious, political or other). But there are
other types you might not want to meet, who see you as a meaningless worm
that can be manipulated, trampled, or liquidated as they please. This can happen

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on a small, or on a large scale. Also, 'Free Spirit' means a lot of things to a lot of
people. These days I call myself a 'Seeker'. It describes me best. And there is no
doubt as to what 'Seeking' implies...

Do you believe in Satan? And does Satan put you off? What if I told you Satan
were the true Messiah? Don't you have this inner demon, this little voice,
whispering, begging, pleading, arguing, telling you to do those things you are
not supposed to do according to society, school, your priest, your parents...?
Should you 'cast it out', as Muslims do? Why not as well cherish it? After all, it
is part of you. It belongs to you. Your demons belong as much to you as your
angels. Dualism. Hence Nietzsche's 'Be yourself'. Or John Milton's 'Paradise
Lost'. Or William Blake's 'Marriage of Heaven and Hell'. Heaven and Hell are
places on earth…

Modernity does not believe in greatness because it believes in equality. This,

however, is an illusion. And if you happen to be an ardent believer in equality,
know then that “some animals are more equal than others”... (George Orwell's
‘Animal Farm’)

As history teaches us, most useful tools in the hands of those who want to usurp
great(er) power, change the constitution or who need public approval, are the
declaration of a state of emergency or a martial law, an inside job, a false flag
operation, a coup or just democracy itself. The powers that be will wipe their
powerful asses with the Constitution when it comes down to it…

Biological society? Eugenics? Restricted marriage? No free copulation?

Compulsory sterilization? Breeding? Are you are still with me by now?
Congratulations! You have strong teeth and a good stomach. You digest well, as
Nietzsche would have said...

On February 17, 2018 an article was published by Bloomberg stating that

America’s “New World Order” is officially dead. The integration of Russia and
China has failed. The disruptive ones. The “New World Order” has reached its

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limits. Meanwhile, a new nuclear arms race has begun. Silently...

Synthetic biology is by far the most interesting field in biology: digitizing life,
synthetic DNA, synthetic cells, synthetic genomes, writing DNA... Imagine ther
the long-term implications. "New ears for new music, new eyes for what is most
distant..." (Nietzsche)

There is this smell no perfume can conceal. It is the smell that is inherent to life,
but I believe it to be worst among human beings. You too have this smell, dear
reader. Don't you deny it. And what's that smell that keeps haunting me
wherever I go? Looks like we're all in the same boat. Haha

"Thou shalt not know": the ultimate conclusion to the Adam and Eve parable.
Beati pauperes spiritu. The abuse of wisdom to control people. A practice
associated with society in general. The Serpent represents the dual expression of
good and evil. Initiation also. Be a Serpent!

Seeker beware: Whatever you think you know, it is just a fragment of reality, a
shadow of reality, if you will, like the shadows dancing on the wall in Plato's
"Allegory Of The Cave". You are nothing more than a prisoner of your senses...

We don’t need to replicate antiquity. Let’s create something higher, more

beautiful even. A classical society combined with modern science and
technology appeals to me. I’m a neo-classicist…

Modern sports competition is all about money and prestige. When will human
physical beauty be the objective again, as was the case in ancient Greece? Their
ideal was the athlete...

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The U.S. is sometimes called the last global empire. Correct! Its reign will be
replaced with something new: world government. The time is near that no single
country will any longer dictate the rest of the world…

In the thousand years ahead I see greater wars even, devastation, ruin,
lawlessness, revolutions, prophets, preachers, law-bringers, great leaders and
last but not least, world government. Chao ab ordo, ordo ab chao…

Although it is true that the basics of human society and behavior (politics,
justice, morality, culture…) can be found among the apes, it is my belief that
those who attempt to study man by studying the apes are fools…

Looking at history democracy is the exception rather than the rule. It is a buffer
against despotism and serves as a transitional government between
aristocracies, even though it may last many centuries. The abolition of the old
aristocracies is ongoing and in the centuries ahead I see the rise of a new one…

As a philosopher of the new millennium I can’t help but seeing in the date (both
the day and the year) of the World Trade Center attack a deeper symbolic and
mystical meaning. And what does it imply? Fact is that it marked the beginning
of a war that hasn’t stopped since. I leave the conclusion to you...

As a philosopher, I am a monoculturalist. Monoculturalism meaning that a

dominant class, superior by virtue and might, imposes its culture on the whole
of a nation. This can be referred to as “true culture”. Today's elites, however,
lack Culture. Philistines! As a person, I could be called a multiculturalist. In any
case, I feel pretty at ease among other cultures. The locals are boring. Or tame...

It is nonsense that all countries of the world should make the transition to
renewable energy at the same time and thus at the expense of their economies.
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the environment, so their living standard needs to increase first...

It requires a few years of reflection and even some sort of genius in order to
grasp and appreciate the brilliance and subtlety of Nietzsche’s book. I call it one
book because that is what is. Therefore it is the most misunderstood book in
existence. It is also the most optimistic book ever written. People who think of
Nietzsche as depressing do not understand the art of reading. Superficial readers
mistake his titles for separate books. They are not, even though they have
separate titles. The true Nietzsche reader is hungry for more. One has to be born
for it. It is also a seed. It will sprout when the soil is fertile and grow out to a
beautiful plant. If you ask me, the most important literary project these days is
the translation of Nietzsche’s entire oeuvre in English. His unpublished writings
(notes and short writings) are as indispensable as his books. It will spread across
the globe. Combined with will power, it will change the face of humanity.
History... has just begun. I lay my hand on the coming millennium… Nietzsche

The flag of my part of the country displays a lion. But this lion has lost its claws
and teeth long time ago. Haha. It's a bit of a circus lion, if you ask me. Haha.
Harmless. A pet. But I believe it is possible to give it back its health and vigor. I
believe in the long run nationalism will be able to do so. I have high hopes for
the growing nationalism, regardless of its ultimate consequence, the Great War
that will end it all. Such is the Fate of today's world. But I believe it to be an
opportunity as well. Out of the ashes will rise something new, something better,
something more beautiful... One cannot create something new without tearing
down the old. History is the ultimate proof. One culture builds on top of the
other, very often without respect. Did Christianity not do the same...?

Why the war on drugs if it can’t be won? Somebody told me it could very well
be a pretext to subtly expand the repressive force. Fact is that the penalization of
drugs created a lot of crime and criminals. That need to be fought. Fact is that
there are troubles ahead. Climate change, political instability, war… There will
be a need for more authoritarianism. And it’s happening already. Step by step.
Militarization of the police, CCTV…. In a dictatorship such things are easy to
accomplish. But in free and democratic societies like Western countries a more
subtle approach is needed. Drugs that need to be here and the war on them as a
pretext. Think about it. You might want to read “Dope Inc.”…

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Something's brewing... You only need to connect the dots. There is the growing
nationalism, both on a political as on a civil level, that seems to counteract the
globalization trend. There is a wish for world government, both among the
powerful as among common people. And then there are the Georgia
Guidestones. A monument that carries a message for future generations and that
seems to have been put there prior to some sort of a cataclysm. I also wonder
how we can dream of such a future knowing that we are opposed by a global
system that is basically based on greed and self-enrichment. Please tell me how.
What on earth will it take? To thrive…

There is a lot of esoteric, astronomical and even physiological wisdom in the

Bible, both in the Old and the New Testament. Read “The Astronomy Of The
Bible” (Edward Walter Maunder). Or read Acharya S (D.M. Murdock). Or
"How To Understand Your Bible" (Manly P. Hall). And let's not forget
“God/Man - The Word Made Flesh” (George W. Carey). Also, a lot of early
Christian writings have been suppressed over the ages. You might want to study
the early Christian (Gnostic) writings. Or gnosticism in general. The 'knowledge
of self' is often taboo. These insights go for all myths. You might want to read
“Ancient Myths, Ancient Wisdom” (D. W. Mathison)...

Modern man seems to be lacking a mythological framework. Modern man is a

myth buster. God was busted. All myths hitherto have been busted. Because of
their “dangerous intuitions”. I agree there are many myths from ancient times,
like classical myths, or those of the Bible. And we have Faust, an all-time fave.
Not to mention the countless myths offered by movies or comic strips. But a
mythological framework seems to be missing. I believe mythology to be like
Culture. It will only sprout when the times are ripe. Again, modern man
indulges in safety, security, materialism, consumerism, escapism... In brief,
nihilism. Those are not the times that will bring forth myths. Times of war,
upheaval, uncertainty... those will...

The Gnostics are right. We are all children of God. You are a child of God. You
are nothing less than a divine spark. Organized religion serves only to control
people. It is perfectly understandable that organized religion has always
attempted to ban Gnosticism. Gnostics are more difficult to control and
manipulate and form a threat to the position of the religious leaders…

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I have a lot in common with the "Underground Man" (See: Dostoevsky's "Notes
From the Underground"): a life in decline; a life that consists merely of thinking;
looking down on doers and envying them at the same time; opposed to Western
reductionism and materialism; avoiding doctors... And even though a child of
liberalism and socialism, intellectually and philosophically, I'm a on the side of
traditionalism. You might want to read Julius Evola…

If decide to sell your Soul to the Devil, and I guarantee you that you will, choose
your Devil carefully. The contract will be signed in blood, remember? The
“blood” symbolizes your life energy. And it symbolizes time too. Two of the
most precious things. Also, a contract can be broken, even though it may cost
you dear. You can always find another Devil. After all, it is your life, not
someone else's...

Our children would be better educated if only pedagogues would read

Rousseau's "Emile", or if "Emile" were required reading in schools. Judging
from classical writings (such as Emile, or Plato, or Nietzsche's oeuvre...) a lot of
specialists time and again seem to think they have invented warm water. Read
books in God's name! Alas, these days I expect no better from occupational
idiots and slaves...

Will humanity survive a global nuclear conflict? Definitely! Even though

countless people will be eradicated. Megadeath! In numerous cities. Not to
mention those who die in battle and from starvation. And what about the
economy? It will recover! If you doubt that, read “On Thermonuclear War”
(Herman Kahn). Consider the unthinkable. For it is by no means unthinkable.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima were just a preview. Needle pricks!

America's mission: to promote liberal values across the globe (Atlanticism).

Russia's mission: to defend traditional values (Eurasianism/nationalism). By all
means! Both countries have made it their mission to “become great again”. The
arch enemies (and their allies) will clash. Some day. If you doubt that, compare
'The Grand Chessboard' (Zbigniew Brzezinski) to 'Foundations Of Geopolitics'
(Alexander Dugin)...

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Do you have dark thoughts? Do you dream of things that would be inappropriate
in real life? That is perfectly normal, in fact. All people experience that. This
'shadow side' has three causes. First of all, human nature itself. Secondly, your
genes. And thirdly, childhood experiences, sometimes traumas. We all have a
shadow side. Man has a dualistic nature. Half god, half beast…

I once read a novel about a society where crimes were sanctioned by means of a
stamp or tattoo on the forehead that, depending on the seriousness of the crime,
would remain visible for a short or long period or, in extreme cases, forever.
Keep in mind that a social stigma is a serious punishment too, but if you ask me,
less barbaric than locking people up in small and crowded spaces…

Police men often think they are doing the right thing since they have the law on
their side, but they tend to forget Adolf Hitler too had police men who thought
exactly the same. Beware of linear thinkers! I myself am a rather non-linear
thinker. I jump through intellectual hoops all the time. But truth is, society needs
both. And someone has to take orders. If everybody were to question things,
society would fall apart...

Some people boast to be a descendant of this or that historical figure. I can say
the following: This historical person was as unique as can be. There are no
identical persons on this planet, not even identical twins (See epigenetics). And
the environmental factors (e.g. education, the times...) cannot be reproduced
either. And what do you think remains of a person's genome after multiple
generations of DNA mixing via reproduction? Something of the original genome
may remain, but it won't be much...

This millennium is truly a major turning point in human history. First of all, we
will pick up the lead where we left off after the conquest of ancient Greece by
the Romans. Or when the Romans made Christianity the official religion.
Secondly, on a scientific level we are way more advanced than the Ancients
were. This will enable us to reach even higher levels of advancement. And
thirdly, there is this “sneaky philosophy” sipping through that does away with
all that has been taken for granted thus far. New ears for new music…

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People think of marginals as people who live on the edge of society. But one
could look at marginalism from a different perspective. I like to think of people
as marginal those who lack what I call a "Higher Awareness". One could label
those people as "intellectually marginalized". And there are an awful lot of such
people and they can be found in every layer of society, even among royals. So
think twice before you label people as marginal. The person you may think of as
marginal could be a great artist, or writer. He may very well be looking down on
you. From his mountain top. Change your perspective!

I am not fond of gaming. I perceive it as boring. When contemplating gaming

today, I all of a sudden imagined a computer game where the goal is to find
knowledge and spiritual enlightenment. Levels, rounds, rewards, scores,
bonuses, are entirely linked to knowledge and spiritual enlightenment. A setting
of libraries, monasteries, and secret societies. Ancient wisdom, religious
wisdom, spiritual wisdom, cosmic wisdom, Esoteric wisdom, literary wisdom,
philosophical wisdom, esoteric wisdom, life wisdom, social wisdom. Imagine
that. I can imagine an audience for that. And that includes me. Count me in!

A thousand people, a thousand views on you as a person. Unless you are in a

high social position, try not to make every person you know to have a high
opinion of you, to be well-disposed towards you. Or you will spend the rest of
your life doing so. If you know people, like myself, you will know that is
pointless anyway. Some people just wait for others to make a mistake so they
can talk. I don't mind people talking, by the way. That allows them to forget
their own misery. Haha

Do you have keen powers of observation? Were you learned very early? Do you
read widely and rapidly? Is your vocabulary well-developed? Do you have great
intellectual curiosity? Do you absorb information rapidly (like a sponge)? Do
you have a very good memory? Can you concentrate for prolonged periods? Are
you a good problem-solver? Do you have intense interests? Are you obsessed
with books? Do you have a lot of imagination? Do you have a great interest in
"big" questions? Do you think “outside the box”? Are you sensitive? Are you
concerned about (in)justices? Are you often "3 Steps Ahead"? Do you perceive
life as "intense"? Then you are a highly gifted person. Avail yourself of it!

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About the “Machiavellianism” of the great investors… I often wonder how
good-hearted a person really is to have made many billions of dollars. The faint-
hearted do not, I repeat do not, make billions. "Behind every great fortune there
lies a great crime" (Honoré de Balzac). The rich get richer and the poor get
poorer. They make money off the stock market decline, they make money off
the rally that follows and finally they make money by taking over companies
that have gone under. A transfer of wealth. Such is the nature of every economic
crisis. They make money sleeping. And it's the same story crisis after crisis. The
formation of a ruthless money-aristocracy. "Cui bono" is the first question you
should ask. Always!

I do not exclude some crises were fabricated in one way or another. I think of
speculative hypes like the 1929 Wall Street crash or the dotcom bubble around
the turn of the millennium. First of all, it is well known that the bubble will
eventually burst and cause a major crisis. Worse, the hype is even encouraged.
And all "they" have to do is to position themselves in the market and wait for the
bubble to burst. Or even cause the bubble to burst. They have that power. Same
story here. Make money off the crash, make money off the rally that follows
and then buy up overturned companies. Business as usual. And the masses
wallow in ignorance. And pride themselves on it…

I may give the impression that I look down on ordinary people. Those that I
refer to as Swine. But I don’t. I'm a thinker. I know they can't help it. They're
just being who they are. And their brains are differently wired. Who am I look
down on people anyway? In a figurative way, I mean. That does not testify of a
very noble attitude. I do, however, look down on people in a literal way. From
my mountain top. From my "timeless altitude" so to say. But don't blame me for
that either. I can't help being on a different thinking level. I can't help being me.
And I won't apologize for that either. Haha

I am always joking, laughing, making fun. I usually dress like a street kid. I am
also very self-aware. And assertive. At least in my writings. People may mistake
that for arrogance. The question remains: How can one know a person without
even talking to them? Only talking to a person will prove your judgment about
this person right or wrong. However, it must be said that it takes wisdom to
recognize wisdom in others. Swine will never think of me as wise...

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I am a highly gifted person, but I have been kept dumb for the first twenty-seven
years of my life. Can you imagine? That means I am twenty years behind. They
didn't deliberately keep me dumb, of course. I just grew up in an inappropriate
environment. But it was deliberate too to some extent. I am referring to the
government and politics here. Keeping people dumb is practised always and
everywhere. That makes them easier to control. Nihil sub sole novum. Some
things will never change...

Let no one divert you from your Path. This, however, does not imply that you
cannot get involved, that you cannot work etc... It means that once you've set a
goal, you should organize your life with that particular goal in mind. Do realize
though that some things (relationship, marriage, kids, work...) are very time-
consuming things. So better think things through in advance. That will save you
trouble... About "walking alone"... I've said it before: It's a spiritual thing. It has
nothing to do with isolating yourself from the world. It's all about thinking level.
It's all about mindset. Beware of misconceptions!

I wish Plato had had more influence. I think of his eugenic insights and his
elitism. Unfortunately, the Roman conquest and eventually Christianity put a
stop to that. Plato did have influence, of course, but it is not the kind of
influence that I would have hoped for had I lived in his days. But do not be
mistaken. So many millennia from now even Christianity will have been nothing
more than a “bump in the road”. We are on the verge of a new beginning…

Some say democracy is in decline, but I doubt that. More and more knowledge is
available to an ever increasing number of people and basically for free.
Everybody can read and the vast majority of the people have internet. Those
who want to educate themselves, can. As long as that is the case, I wouldn't
worry too much. Too much democracy may actually be more of a problem.
Kindergarten politics!

Some people may even think of me as marginal. I admit I've had my issues. But
issues are not an argument in favor of marginalism. Let's think of Dostoevsky
for a moment. Dostoevsky was a compulsive gambler, forever poor. And he
never got over that problem. Am I now supposed to think of Dostoevsky, one of

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the finest authors, as a marginal? I doubt it. And how about Alan Watts? He was
an alcoholic. Same story. Perspective folks, perspective!

What on earth made you believe we live in an age of progress? All I see is
decline: social decline, moral decline, biological decline, artistic decline,
literary decline, architectural decline, educational decline... The only thing that
does indeed do well sometimes is the economy. Let's face it, we are dealing with
decline. You only have to want to see it. All you need is a new pair of glasses...

The essence of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" (movie)... I believe a profound

understanding of society as it is, may eventually lead to a certain degree of
madness. And nothing will ever be the same again. Loss of faith in things.
Disillusionment. A point of no return. And I can imagine that for some people
that is just a little too much to handle. Haha

I love books. I have an exquisite collection, even though not huge. I love music
too, but who doesn't? After all, rhythm is fundamental to the spirit. And, of
course, I love women, even though they are seldom on my agenda. That
probably is because I do not take a relationship lightly. And so far I am still way
too much preoccupied with personal accomplishments. My book collection, my
own book, gathering knowledge... It's one or the other. Maybe when I am a bit
older. After all, I am only 44. Haha. I love a fruitful conversation too. I am
opposed to obscurantism, even though I understand the why of it. I also dislike
fundamentalism, convictions, conformism, narrowmindedness, bureaucracy and
incompetence...

The school program wasn't interesting enough to me. That often made me an
average student. The most interesting things one learns outside school. And
consequently my Highly-Giftedness remained unnoticed. Some personality traits
played a role too. And a lousy upbringing. I am in arrears as a result. Standard
education sucks. Standard upbringing sucks. The importance of education (in all
its forms) can't be stressed enough. But I am catching up. I am slowly but surely
becoming an achiever. Something that I was not in school. Let us see where it
brings me. I do my thing. I try to get the most out of my day. More and more.
Conscious transformation of the Self also. Textbook example!

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There were several causes for the French Revolution. But I remember only one:
the rise of radically new ideas. The new radically new ideas circulate already.
They are seeping through. Influencing one individual at a time. And, given the
climate of globalization, on a global level. Books go global too, remember? All
it takes now is that “proverbial drop”. I don't know what the proverbial drop will
look like. But it will most likely be in a time when politics cannot solve the
prevailing issues. Difficulties. Breeding ground for change…

Western individualism creates a lot of loneliness. In any case, the figures don’t
lie. People in my country are rather reserved too. They stick to themselves. They
don't often talk about personal things either. Life in the West in general is rather
superficial. And people are constantly under pressure, even at a young age.
There is a reason why suicide rates are so high. Madness has become the new
normal...

Do not blame society for your misery. That will only lead you to hate society, to
hate others. If you want to point a finger, point it at Fate. Fate goes beyond
society. One could describe Fate as your relationship with the Universe, your
position within the Universe. Forget Western materialism and reductionism. You
are connected with the Universe. You cannot be seen loose from the Universe.
You exist because of the Universe, and the Universe exists because of you. You
are where you are because Fate put you there. Accept it!

Do you seek to make a journey into yourself? Then ayahuasca may be the
answer. Ayahuasca is nothing less than a portal to the Inner Self and
subconscious. Taking Ayahuasca will confront you with your fears and traumas
rather than that you keep suppressing them in one way or another. Ayahuasca is
a controlled substance, but it cannot be excluded that will change sooner or later.
Ayahuasca has profound healing properties. And that makes it a natural
medicine rather than a drug. Just make sure you do it under proper guidance,
preferably an experienced Shaman. Those can be found in the West too. So
never try this on your own. That might backfire. It is not exactly a pleasure trip.
And regarding orthodoxy... Down with it!

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Intelligence and intellect are not the same. Intellectuals are always intelligent.
That is obvious. But being intelligent not necessarily makes people intellectuals.
I praise myself lucky that I inherited my intellect from my paternal grandfather.
So far I am the only one and it also skipped a generation. I inherited my
intelligence from my mother's side and here too it skipped a generation. The
combination makes me Highly Gifted. What are the odds of that happening?
Mere luck. Genetic luck. Genetic lottery. So I do not blame people for wanting
in intellect. They can't help it, just as I can't help being Highly Gifted. You are
who you are and that is good…

Were people in pre-Christian times that bad? Were they all brutes? Or savages?
The answer is no. People took care of each other too. There was civic sense as
well. Christianity was basically nothing more than a shift of focus from the
ruling class (the strong) to the populace (the weak). 'Popular' ideas now prevail.
Hence the absence of Culture. It will shift again one day. As said before, history
is a pendulum. Mind the swing…

Believing in Fate does not make one a fatalist. By no means! It is just the belief
that all is preordained. There is no scientific proof for that and I doubt there will
ever be. It will forever remain a question of faith. Fate goes beyond the
biological and social determinism of the individual. It goes beyond society even.
Fate is inextricably linked to the Universe. Fate is one of the few things I believe
in. I am not a believer. I rather feel it to be true. I have an instinct for truth...

I left Nietzsche behind me and continue my Journey. My opinion on that book

hasn't changed though. It is one of the most profound books ever written. And I
fully support its system. I.e. its way of looking at society and the world.
Nietzsche's system is carefully hidden throughout his writings. The process of
leaving it behind took years. And that is normal. It requires years to grasp it the
way Nietzsche intended...

I do not believe in equal rights between the sexes. I believe the sexes should be
treated for what they are. Men should be treated as men. And women as women.
And that is the only approach that does justice to each sex. Do you really desire
the unisex man? I do believe in equivalence though. Every sex has value in its

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own right. Most people do not even understand the difference between equality
and equivalence...

Murder, rape, theft... Of all times. In a sense they are 'faits divers'. Random
facts. From a historical perspective that is what they are, even though it is
perfectly understandable that victims will disagree. But it could be Fate as well.
All depends on your perspective. Seemingly random facts. Out of necessity. My
argument against judging people. Again, do not judge. Unless, maybe, if you are
a judge...

I do not fear heaven or hell. I do not fear gods of any kind. The only thing I fear
is people. Especially average people. And rightly so. And this makes me a
realist. I fear their convictions, their opinions, their sneakiness, their back-
stabbing, their gossip, their slander, their envy, their mentality, their narrow-
mindedness, their hate. And above all, their ignorance…

The Adam and Eve parable... The way I understand it. Adam and Eve live in
"Paradise". Meaning: They are "innocent" (read: naive). And along comes a
Master, a Serpent, an Initiate... (never mind words) who teaches them the
"forbidden knowledge". Adam and Eve cease to be "innocent" (naive) and are
expelled from "Paradise" (Ignorance is “bliss”). My ultimate conclusion?
Beware of the Serpent!". Haha

Their" ideal citizen is an uneducated citizen. For that makes people easier to
control and manipulate. The education you get in school is only a small part of
what an education can be. Nay, should be. By withholding a good education
from you, "they" make themselves superior to you. Now you give yourself a
good education and make yourself superior to "them". In loftiness of soul. In
insight. In ideas. The ultimate act of rebellion? Self-education!

If there is one sound advice I want to give you, it would be this. Find out who
you are and what you want as soon as possible. That will save you a lot trouble
as well. And if you have this feeling that you do not really know what you want

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in life, if a goal seems to be lacking, then just go with the (natural) flow of your
life. See where life brings you. Being yourself is another one of my keys to
happiness...

I see an “Unseen Hand” in major historical events over the past centuries. I even
see an unseen hand behind every person in power. That is because the most
influential persons are always the most hidden. In any case, alternative history is
more enlightening than what is taught in schools. Beati pauperes spiritu...

The democratic movement, heir of the Christian movement, has become a

global movement as it facilitates trade. Movements, however, have a beginning
but also an end. At some point in the future this trend will reverse. History is a
pendulum: movement... countermovement...

Any piece of technology has way less value than a good book. It is outdated as
soon as you lay your hands on it. Books last. For decades, centuries, millennia
even. Verba volant scripta manent. I prefer books over technology. I’d give up
any piece of technology, but never one of my books…

Believe it or not, the Bible contains all you need in order to find true
Enlightenment. The “Tree of Knowledge”, the “Garden of Eden”, the “Alpha
and the Omega”, the “Ark of Noah”, the “Trinity”, the “Christ”… are just a few
examples. Christianity may have been a “Great Darkening”, but the ultimate
knowledge, or access to it, no sane person would destroy that…

Random (spontaneous) genetic mutations due to DNA replication errors do

happen and are more often pathogenic than beneficial. They are unavoidable,
but actually they are rather rare. Most mutations are induced by environmental
factors, lifestyle and diet and therefore can be avoided…

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You are born with nothing and you die with nothing. Be a minimalist. Why not
go off the grid? Is minimalist living worse than working your ass off and being
indebted for a great part of your life? Society thrives on slavery. Why not act
differently...?

When I say eugenics, people think of "perfect" people. Flawless. However,

eugenics is rather intended to increase average health and vigor. If there is one
society that strives to create perfect people, it would be Western society.
Everybody should be fit, healthy, attractive, successful... Let every man be
himself and society will do the rest...

Don't blame the Germans for the war. Blame it on human nature instead. And
the times. And mass psychology. Read "The Rape of the Mind" (Joost A. M.
Meerloo). Or watch "Die Welle" (The Wave). Or read about the "Milgram
Experiment". That will open your eyes. In any case, fear thy neighbor. Homo
homini lupus (est)…

Most people don't like thinking too much. It is difficult. It consumes energy.
And, above all, people seek answers. And the faster, the better. They do not
want to end up with more questions. Thinking is not always a grateful job when
it comes to that. And maybe that is the reason why people avoid thinking too
much: laziness. Apart from biology of course. One is born to be a thinker…

The train and the plane are way more important inventions than the automobile.
They’ll be around much longer. The automobile (at least for the masses) is a
rather democratic invention, if you ask me. The same goes for mass travel. Nihil
aeternum est…

I believe in God. In my own way. I prefer saying "Universe" though. I believe

all believers in a way believe in the same thing. The All, the Omnipresent, the
All-Knowing, the Creator... “He” goes by many names. The Universe is a
mystery, forever beyond the comprehension of man. That alone inspires awe...

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Despite a life of erring, rambling and wandering, I have to conclude my genetic
potential did indeed come to expression. I'm a thinker. That is what I'm good at,
that is what I do. So I will probably spend the rest of my life doing so. To hell
with society! To hell with worldly ambitions! Doing what you love to do, a
source of happiness...

The insurmountable distance between two individuals... Nobody feels what you
feel, nobody sees what you see, nobody hears what you hear, nobody knows
what you know... You live for yourself, you die for yourself... Harsh reality.
People may find solace in companionship, but that won't change reality.
Spending time in solitude will give you such insights...

Do not be fooled by the tone of my book. In most cases it is nothing more than a
combination of hyperrealism and assertiveness. It is the tone of somebody who
knows. Do not confuse it with arrogance, radicalism or pessimism. It seems I
have something of a teacher. A Serpent of Wisdom, in any case...

Nowadays everybody should by all means have internet, a smartphone… But to

do what exactly? I see a lot of people chasing pokemon. We have indeed grown
a generation of imbeciles. Idiots!

Do you want to become a visionary? Then read the Great Visionaries. A good
understanding of the past and the present may also give you an idea about the
future. I also believe it requires imagination, but it needs feeding in any case…

The sad thing with people is that it is hard to know what is really on their mind.
Look at the world with an open mind. Do some people-watching. And wonder.
People are seldom what they seem. Learn by observation…

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I have suffered major setbacks in my life. But I got back on my feet every single
time. And they made me stronger indeed. I wish all of you the same. It will open
new perspectives. Face the music... and dance...

Across multiple generations the genetic bloodlines move in a eugenic or

dysgenic (degenerative) direction. This is a constant process. Where is yours
leading…?

Not only humanity and culture are in decay, but our institutions and economies
too. Internationalism is more often than not at the expense of local economies…

Predispositions or vices never stopped Charles Bukowski or Jack Kerouac from

becoming successful and they shouldn’t stop you either. Some things are created
under dire personal circumstances…

If we were to sue all countries or peoples responsible for genocide, war crimes,
crimes against humanity or human dignity we would probably have to sue the
entire world. Man is a beast like all others. In fact, he is worse…

Some say only fools think themselves wise. I sincerely doubt that. It takes self-
knowledge and confidence to be able to do so. I once met a wise man. There can
be no doubt about that. Even Nietzsche called himself wise…

Among Muslims and other cultures the term “family” or “brother” still has
meaning. And they will also stand up for each other, something that is not so
obvious in the West…

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Making people gain insight into their crime is by far the most important goal of
criminal punishment. It may not be a bad idea to release them as soon as they
do. Minor crimes are preferably sanctioned by means of electronic monitoring.
The prison system needs reforming too. People seldom get out better…

Don't talk to me about decency if you haven't understood "Lord of the Flies"
(William Golding). And don't talk to me about good music or good movies if
you are not familiar with classical music and opera. Go watch "Parsifal". Or
"Faust". Or "The Magic Flute". Or "Wozzeck". Very profound...

We are entering the age of personal genomics. Having your genome screened
has enormous benefits for your health and life expectancy. But keep in mind
those data can, and some day probably will, be used by insurance companies,
employers and even your potential partner and often without you knowing it…

The only thing that is constant about the climate is the fact that it changes. There
has been more than one global warming period in the history of mankind and we
managed each time. Sometimes it even proved an opportunity such as one that
followed the last Ice Age. Beware of the prophets of doom...

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak;
be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be
proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. Jim Rohn

Let’s think about the highest good for a moment… What should that be?
Commerce? Money? General welfare? Or rather Culture? Or why not human
beauty…?

The saddest aspect of contemporary society is that the wisest men these days are
to be found among commoners rather than among politicians and leaders...

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Do you want to affect your future personality in a positive way? You can, dear
reader. There are plenty of ways: You can educate yourself, or seek adventure,
or do sports or martial arts. Sitting back and doing nothing, or chasing money
all your life will affect it too, but it won't be in the way you'd like to. Don't be a
fatalist. It's the worst of all attitudes. It only requires one small step. It reads: I
will!

When it comes to literature, Europe from the Renaissance onwards has done
better than antiquity in my eyes. Antiquity on the other hand had Culture. And
that is exactly why they they wrote less. I am confident one day Europe will do
better when it comes to Culture. When Nietzsche has gained influence. In the
end, that is just a matter of time. Do not underestimate the power of philosophy!

I do not exclude the burning or seizure of books (so-called 'forbidden literature')

will return one day. History tends to repeat itself. And I can think of more than
one thinker who would ban the educated citizen from his 'ideal state'. And
remember, remember... War is the health of the state! (R. Bourne)

Keep in mind that one electromagnetic pulse (EMP), be it natural or manmade,

is all it takes to pull the switch off from your technological dream. Maybe it is
then that you will finally come to wake up…

Study what makes up the individual genetically and socially, study the cause
and background of social phenomena, study the history of law enforcement...
and present-day law enforcement will give you a bitter aftertaste…

The concept of a “total state” (Carl Schmitt) actually has something appealing.
But only when its leaders are great and have vision. Unfortunately, modernity
has forgotten the meaning of ‘greatness’ and ‘vision’...

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Not very long ago I was looking for intellectuals who could teach me something
or who continue the individualist tradition. In the end, I just found… myself…
Once again, to hell with the others…

Shake-Speare (a pseudo for Francis Bacon) is not "high-end entertainment", as

some believe. His plays contain a wealth of occult, esoteric, alchemistic and
even scientific wisdom. Bacon was a genius!

Don't always trust your feelings. You often inherited them from your ancestors.
They may have been devout Catholics. Or maybe they have lived under a brutal
dictatorship for generations. Emotional heritage! Sometimes it is better to ignore
those feelings. They may keep you from doing things...

A sell-off in dollar-denominated assets by China, Japan or other players isn’t

likely to happen (soon) because that would also negatively affect their
economies. But if one day they did, it might very well be nothing less than a war
declaration…

Exhaustion is reduced vitality of the organism, mental and/or physical. This

condition is hereditary but may be acquired too. Bad living conditions, diet or
lifestyle (alcohol/drug abuse…) are the cause or make it worse. It is passed on to
the next generation(s)…

Economic exploitation can be described as “too much work for too few people”.
This practice is so widespread that it is regarded as normal. Less work for more
people might actually solve the problem of unemployment. Unfortunately, we
live in a profit-driven system. Maximization of profits, no matter what. But all
systems have a beginning and also an end. This system won’t be an exception…

Are you a Christian? Or a Bible adept? Then do also pay close attention to the
early Christian (and therefore gnostic) writings. I am talking about the Nag

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Hammadi scriptures, the Berlin and other Codices. Those were the teachings
before the Church laid its hand on them and gave them its own, and often
nonsensical, twist. They will give you a new perspective on Christianity.
Original Christianity, that is. Gnosticism, like paganism, is a rather individual
Path, opposed to orthodoxy and institutions of all kinds...

I often wonder why I have a longing for times I have never seen. I do know I
have a higher taste, but I am not sure if this answers the question. It could be
boredom with modern times as well. I am confident more people experience this.
It could also be boredom with my life. Sometimes I am not even sure why I write
and who I write for. Maybe it allows me to do what I really want to do: teach! In
any case, it is a good way to be remembered. "Verba volant scripta manent" is
always on my mind...

When I say authoritarianism, people spontaneously think of Russia, China, etc...

But they overlook the fact that Western society is going the same way. Slowly
but surely. Here's why. The modern world is all about economic competition.
There is no way around it. Such is the "system". That means that Western
countries now have to compete with low-wage countries. As a result, poverty
will increase and logically also dissent. Authoritarianism is the logical result.
Police state. Suppression, oppression... Beware...

Are you a Lightseeker? Good. Remember to avoid brotherhoods. They will

initiate you only to a level that serves their needs. The ultimate knowledge" is
always reserved for the highest in rank. All is in the public domain these days.
And better not procrastinate. I foresee a Great Darkening. Don't ask me when. I
have no crystal ball. But keep in mind one E.M.P. is all it takes to erase the
public domain. And if you happen to seek a Brother, you've just found yourself
one...

Don't talk to me about reality. What you perceive is your perception of reality.
Every second, 11 million sensations crackle along your brain pathways. Your
peanut brain is confronted with an alarming array of images, sounds and smells
which it rigorously filters down until it is left with a manageable list of around
40. Thus 40 sensations per second make up what you perceive as reality. If for

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one second your peanut brain would perceive reality as it is, it might very well
blow up. Haha

Few people realize that we are actually only one step away from World
Government. First of all, there is the globalization process that is bringing
countries closer together in many ways. And secondly, we have the United
Nations and a whole array of global think-tanks. And humanity is in need of
world government. So that leaves me to conclude this: "All we need is the right
major crisis and the nations will accept the idea of World Government”. And
you can rest assured it will happen under the guise of "No more war". Some
things never change…

I once described science as demystifying, and it is, but at the same time it seems
to uncover new mysteries, at least as profound as the old ones. The
"metaphysics of physics". Good. What would life be without mystery? Maybe
we need mystery in the present stage of our evolution. In order to solve it. And
surpass ourselves in the act. Transcend previous stages of being and knowing.
Move to the next level. Step by step. Is there a limit even, I wonder. What are
the limits of man really? And here's another mystery yet again. Time will tell.
Time reveals everything...

Debunking two lies regarding drugs: First of all, the war on drugs is a necessity.
It is not. Legalization (incorporation) is a better approach. Study what
legalization implies. The war on drugs has proven to be a lost war. And it makes
more victims on top of the usual ones. And secondly, drugs are addictive.
They're not. Unless, of course, if you are susceptible to addiction. I am not a
proponent of drug use (especially street drugs), but this needed to be said. You
might want to read "Chasing the Scream" (Johann Hari)…

Who were the Nazis really? Well, you may not like to hear this, but they were
people like you and me. Thát is what they were. Imagining what they were
capable of, is imagining what you are capable of under the right circumstances.
The dark, evil, monstrous... side of you. Your shadow. You have it. There's no
denying it. Unless, of course, you want to close your eyes on reality. And
yourself...

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Social strata are inherent to society. Society needs a bit of everything. Maybe it
needs the criminal too, if only for the good guy to be able to point his fucking
finger and say: "That's the bad guy...". Dualism! Even though it might be better
to call it duality. Good needs evil. Evil needs good. They are complementary
rather than opposed. A good act may have an evil touch, and an evil act may
have a touch of goodness, if only the intention. Yin and Yang...

Everything I know, all the knowledge that I have in my collection (books,

documentaries, debates, talks...), and my own writings, are basically nothing
more than the result of boredom and idleness. But who says boredom and
idleness are bad things per se? Thinkers need boredom and idleness What would
remain of Nietzsche's philosophy if he hadn't been idle because of bad health?
Quaeritur...

Even though the idea of "Trader in Forbidden Wisdom" appeals to me, I am

pretty confident it will disappoint people in the end. People will expect books
that are forbidden by law, and overlook the fact that wisdom itself is forbidden.
Morally forbidden. They will ask me for a refund. For shattering their illusions.
Haha. People kill for less. Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is always on my mind.
Never set a prisoner free against his will. He'll have you for that....

When it comes to the evils and excesses of capitalism, many people dream of
some sort of 'global awakening' or 'global revolution'. Little do they know that
the 'revolution' will come in the form of an all-out war. Keep on dreaming,
folks! People will only revolt when they have nothing to lose. People are pretty
complacent. And why aren't you revolting, by the way...?

I refuse to be labeled a ‘conspiracy theorist’, but even in our democratic society

there is an awful lot the people are not supposed to know. I label conspiracy all
that is done without proper consent of the people, even though I must admit in
certain matters the people are not capable to judge. However, beware not to see
some sort of a ‘master plot’. Conspiracy theorists are more often than not fools...

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My Quest made my homeless. Spiritually homeless, that is. And that is exactly
what you will become yourself. Don't desperately try to be part of something
you do not belong to. In the end, all they want is your soul. Nothing more,
nothing less. In any case, it made me homeless. Once again, actually. A devil
had laid his hands on my soul, but I managed to shake him off. Free at last!

Truthseeker beware... People will sell you anything. For fun, for reasons of
control, for personal gain... Beware of the “forgery of truths” that this place is.
And remember, books are weapons in the war of ideas. The relentless war for
your mind... Allow not your mind to be patented by anyone. He who holds a
patent on your mind, holds a patent on you...

The money-maker has no heart. He lacks empathy. This can be described as a

psychopathic trait. The condition of the working class in the 19th century is the
absolute proof. The same goes for tobacco and fast food multinationals. Those
can be compared to drug dealers. You can rest assured they do not consume
their own filth…

There can be a huge difference between what you know and how you behave.
That is because wisdom and behavior are two different things. They are
unrelated. There are plenty of wise people or philosophers with self-destructive
behaviors. Only in healthy specimen wisdom and behavior are in balance...

Few people in the West realize the impact of religion on society as a whole.
That includes the arts, architecture, the sciences, morals, politics, the laws,
industry and even the economy. This goes for Christianity as well. A true
dechristianization process will probably take a millennium. If not longer...

I aim at the "Pure of Heart". "Pure of Heart" by no means signifies innocent,

naive or harmless. "Pure of Heart" means open-mindedness, receptiveness,
absence of convictions. Convictions will prevent you from growing
intellectually. Be open, be receptive, be "pure of heart". And thus be welcome...

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The aristocrats of the soul... I am one myself. And I am sure there are plenty of
others. People of taste. A taste that is miles apart from that of their
contemporaries. I am sure they dream of better times, times for the soil to be
ripe for their ideals. They wait. Patiently. This world is on a suicide mission…

I myself suffer from degeneration and exhaustion. Hence I have no desire to

have children of my own. Deciding otherwise would be cruel. Towards the
children in the first place. And towards society in the second place. But people
are free to do as they please. Who am I to deny people their happiness...?

Do you wonder what special skills to teach your children? How about survival
skills? And they should teach their children the same. Few people master those
skills and if there is one thing that will be of any use during the Great War, it
will be that. Money won't buy you food if there isn't any...

There is this Spartan story. A couple with a deformed baby went to the sage for
advice. The sage told them to throw it into the ravine. The couple went home,
disappointed. When the sage was asked why he gave such cruel advice, he
replied: “Would it not be more cruel to let it live?”

Don’t set goals that are unattainable. Don't carry the world or you will shrug.
Don't try to change the world either. Only the greats can. The world will change
of its own accord and in due time. If you want to improve the world, start with
yourself. That is enough of a challenge already...

Were people in pre-Christian days that bad? They weren't. They were no more
or no less bad than we are. There was as much citizenship as there is nowadays.
Better beware of those who think of themselves as the 'good ones' or the 'chosen
ones'. Those are often the greatest Pharisees...

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If there is one thing to remember from the Nature/Nurture debate, then it is this:
complex interplay. Nature (genes/biology) is either reinforced or tempered by
nurture (education). So never ask about a particular trait whether it is the result
of nature of nurture. It is always both...

Are you sick and tired of hypocrisy, back-stabbing, abuse, gossip, slander,
deceit, lying, cheating, manipulation, infidelity, jealousy, dissimulation,
boasting, crime and even war…? Then maybe you’re not tough enough for this
place. That’s just human nature…

People don’t have peace with death because they spend their whole lives
chasing money or goods and thereby keep pushing away the thought of it. A bad
diagnosis will then strike them as a blow with a hammer. They are not only
unprepared for life, but also for death…

Degeneration is not always obvious. All it takes is a slight hormonal imbalance:

dopamine (alcoholism), serotonin (depression)... And whereas most people say
"external circumstance", I say genetic constitution, or an accident waiting to
happen...

Social pessimists assert that Europe will be a Muslim state by 2050. In sincerely
doubt that. First of all, despite everything I still believe in political will. And
secondly, the odds are actually more in favor of Europe being a police state by
then…

Every citizen is deemed to know the law. At least that is the creed. If you ask
me, this is pure laxity on behalf of the government. The laws should be taught in
schools. How can you expect people to abide by laws they are barely familiar
with…?

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Like Faust I sold my soul to the devil in exchange for superior knowledge. But
in reality we all sell our souls to the devil in exchange for something: some for
status, others for money, luxury, drugs, women… What did you sell it for…?

Turn the state into an instrument of war and a breeding ground for Culture.
Promote the genius and the genius alone. Science and technology only in so far
as it suits the Culture. Reduce trade to a minimum...

Many great writings are the work of aristocrats: Nietzsche, Montesquieu, the
French moralists, the English poets... I believe that to be the result of a
combination of 'nobility of mind' and a superior education. Class matters!

Woyzeck (Georg Büchner) has enormous depth. It’s about the struggle of the
individual, morality, wealth, poverty, crime, determinism (social and biological),
fate... Woyzeck too is truly a story for all…

In a timid society like ours a problem, any problem, quickly turns into psychosis.
Asbestos, tobacco, drugs, the climate, an outbreak of an unknown virus.... The
list is long. The culture of fear...

Europe is the cradle of Western culture and forever will be. If one day a cultural,
spiritual or even political revolution comes about, it will be there. One day
Europe will shock and awe the world…

Climate change? Rising sea levels? Nothing humanity can’t handle. Keep in
mind that these days it only takes a few decades to build a new mega city.
Beware of the prophets of doom…

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U.S. and Russia... I do fear the coming war with that side. But regardless of the
scenario, there will be rising tensions first. And a proverbial drop. Also pay
close attention to countries like China, India, Pakistan, North Korea... In any
case, they won't stick to the sideline. Bellum omnium contra omnes!

I am by now confident I have Jewish roots. And the Jewish type (Jewish
mentality) is well-preserved in me. I have their optimism, their resilience, their
obsession, their determination... One of "many, all too many" things I was not
supposed to find out. No one is to find out who they are. And all it took was
time, self-education and a whole lot of thinking. Now it's up to you. Nil
volentibus arduum...

Another possible scenario for the coming war is a conflict between the U.S. and
China, as China's economic imperialism poses a threat to that of the U.S..
Imperialism these days is all about economic imperialism and the extension of a
sphere of influence. A clash is unavoidable. You might want to read "The Clash
of Civilizations" (Samuel P. Huntington)...

For some reason I believe in self-fulfilling prophecies. I do believe they exist.

Somebody once predicted I would make it. Become successful, that is. I will
leave it in the middle. But I may say I've accomplished a few things here and
there already. I desire no success though. Either it comes of its own, or it
doesn't. Acceptance...

Education for the masses sucks. Anything intended for the masses sucks. Make
sure you get decent education and do the same for your children. And the best
education may very well be the one that you give to yourself. Standard education
sucks too. Simply because there are no standard people...

Those who want to radically do away with all "unfit" or "undesirable" ones
(certain types of autism, nerds, homosexuals...) better think twice before they
label someone as “unfit”. Those are often the most creative ones. And many so-
called nerds now actually run a multinational. The exceptions are the game

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changers. And when it comes to the rest, here's what I think: "Pay your taxes, do
your job, you're doing great, enrich the state!"

Marriage and monogamy are institutions. They haven't always been around in
human history. And that is exactly why adultery is "common, all too common".
If you doubt that, study history. Or evolutionary psychology. Or why not watch
"Così fan tutte"? (Mozart). When entering a relationship you have to realize that
an "occasional exception" is possible. Better learn to forgive before you get
involved...

I am a highly gifted person. But like a high IQ this does not necessarily lead to
social success or a high social position. Bad physical and/or mental health,
certain personality traits and all kinds of disabilities may limit potential.
Coaching, however, may help people develop their potential...

This book is my spiritual and intellectual contribution to society. Quid pro quo.
Knowledge should be available to all and for free. That makes me more of a
democrat than a lot of people. I write this book for one reason only: because I
can. Show them what I've got…

We live in nihilistic times. The idea of "nothingness" (after death) is

unfathomable. Hence the fear of death. Medical science plays a role too. We
count on the medical sciences to keep us alive as long as possible. Death is no
longer an option, no longer acceptable. Western man is sick in many ways...

Social thinkers support a slowing down of the economy. I can't help but wonder
if that is even possible in practice. How does one slow down a global system
really? The pace is picking up. Profits come first. But that need not be a
problem. Modern society will eventually destroy itself. Or the “great waves of
change” will. Expect those. In any case, its Fate is sealed…

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So you are allowed to be critical in school? I can say this: You are only allowed
to be critical within an accepted framework. If you doubt that, question
democracy. See what happens. So much for critical thinking. Haha. We don't
need no education, we don't need no thought control... (Pink Floyd)

Once science (temporarily) reaches its limits, the focus will shift back to
Culture, the arts, spirituality, mysticism... Will there be science still? Definitely!
It's just the focus that will change. The same goes for today's business mentality.
The only constant is change. Keep that in mind…

Globalization, at least as we know it today, will come to an end after the war.
What we see today is merely a snapshot. Any era is basically a snapshot.
Globalization will be replaced by world government. Countries will regain their
cultural identity. And that is how it should be...

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest... A profound movie. Individual vs. society,
conformism vs. nonconformism... Society is the madhouse and the individual
may very well be sane. But keep in mind the individual has a tendency to lose
out, so watch your steps, McMurphy...

Beware of those who claim to know you. The only person on this planet who
truly understands you, is you. You are the Great Unknown. Uncharted territory!
Cherish that. Besides, the downtrodden paths tend to be boring. Be a mystery…

We live in the age of science. Why not use complex mathematical figures (e.g.
fractals) in the arts and architecture? Express beauty, complexity and infinity.
Typical of our times! That might be an onset to Culture. True culture, that is...

Why wait for a revolution anyway? People will only revolt when they have
nothing to lose. And the new government may be even worse. The revolution
may turn against you too. Why not revolt yourself…?

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For some reason I believe in self-fulfilling prophecies. I believe they exist.
Somebody once predicted I would make it. Become successful, that is. I will
leave it in the middle, but I've accomplished a few things here and there already.
I desire no success. Either it comes of its own, or it doesn't. Acceptance...

The sadness of Western society is that it is organized in such a way that there is
hardly a way around pressure, haste, time... Go with the flow. Or go with the
slaves. The chronometrization of life…

Whatever I do seems to serve a goal, a mission as it were, even though at present

it is still not quite clear what that mission will be. But I am a patient man. It will
reveal itself in due time...

When undergoing medical treatment, do not forget that you also become a
guinea pig in the hands of all too curious doctors and scientists. Not to mention
their statistics…

I’m a realist and a biological thinker in the first place, yet, as a philosopher, I do
not exclude there is more to consciousness than meets the eye. I will leave it in
the middle. Time will tell…

Learn to put up a middle finger. I mean a symbolical middle finger. That means
by means of your attitude. Keep in mind that virtually all other people do
exactly the same. Selfishness (ego-ism) just happens to be the most powerful
agens (Nietzsche). Give yourself an attitude. Learn to put up a middle finger.
But one with style. That is part of your learning process. Otherwise people will
keep walking over you...

Enough about Serpents and Sheep. Few have ears for this. Wake no sleeping
dog. He will have you for it. Attempt not to free your fellow prisoners. They
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Disrupt not their paradise unless they ask for it. And then show them the way.
Whisper words of wisdom. Lure them away from the herd. Make them forget the
safety of the herd. Make them forget even the need for safety. Make them wise
and set them free. Free radicals, free spirits, free individuals. Serpents of
wisdom!

Let's face it. There is a very good chance that Jesus was married and had one or
more children. There may be no absolute proof, but who cares? According to
Nietzsche, any individual represents a specific bloodline. Let's suppose Jesus
had one or more children. Then there sure must be quite a few descendants by
now. And I can imagine that in some cases (specific ends of the bloodline) his
"type" is still preserved. That does make me wonder. Then I am sure they must
be ass-kickers. Haha. In any case, I sure have an affinity with that Jesus figure.
The gnostic Jesus, that is. Also, I once met a man, a theologian, who claims to
be a descendant of the apostle Paul. Similar story. The apostles too were married
with children. Celibacy is a religious institution. That is what it is. Neither Jesus
nor his apostles were celibates. That is a lie. Plain and simple. Now, either this
man was or believed he was a descendant, which is possible, or he claimed
descent because he had a hidden agenda, which is possible as well. We'll never
know for sure. But take time to wonder. What if "they" are some of us? And that
reminds me of that song by Joan Osborne. Haha

Aaaah yes... How could I forget...? Let me talk to you about ponzi schemes. I am
sure you know what ponzi shemes are. Now... There is a ponzi scheme you are
not familiar with. The global ponzi scheme. You see, there is the base and the
middle of the pyramid. Those being the people and first-level politics. On the
top, however, there are the supranational elites. If you wonder why your
country is impoverished and where all the money has gone or still goes... It is
going straight to the top of the pyramid. Filling their pockets. Via the stock
market. Via the banking system. They make money sleeping. And so vast the
ponzi scheme, so much it remains unnoticed. If you wonder why the
supranational elites and Bilderberg are never mentioned on TV and in
newspapers... The mainstream media are in their hands. That’s why. Ah, so you
don't agree with war being profitable? Don't we all pay for the war, you will
say? Yes, of course we do. But it fills the pockets of those who own the military-
industrial complex. Once again the supranational elites. That, my friend, is the
very top of the social pyramid. Never overlook the top. Do you see the light
now? Feel free to put your head in the sand. But it won't change reality. Haha

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"Too much drugs isn't good, but too little is equally so". (Wesley Joos). Sounds
ridiculous, does it not? But I wanted to give it some thought. I wanted to know
the philosophy behind it. And it is quite simple: Western life does have
unbearable aspects. Nihilism for starters. Lack of spirituality. Lack of meaning
and purpose. Materialism. Reductionism. To name a few. "Van God los", the
Dutch say. The connection with “God” (or preferably: the “Divine”) is gone.
Combine this with an ever increasing pace. Depression and existential crises are
the logical result. I bet modern society with all its "softness" is harder to bear
than all past societies, no matter how tough the circumstances in those days.
Those at least had great leaders. If they were lucky, of course. Culture,
greatness, spirituality, meaning, connection with the Divine… Depression must
have been very rare in those days, don't you think? Yes, you may conclude that
people were happier even. Their life had meaning. Purpose! Now, you may ask
if this is not the case days as well? The answer is no. Because the ultimate goal
is money. The whole of modern society is put to the service of money and money
alone. Human existence. In the service of money. Depressing idea indeed…

I label modern society a sickness that demands a cure. And the cure is offered by
those who created the sickness in the first place. The poisoners. Hegelian
dialectics. I love it. The brilliance. The ingenuity. The cunning. And that is why
I don't pity the average man voting himself into war, wage or debt slavery, mass
surveillance... You reap what you sow. Toughen up. Pay the price for your
ignorance. Just as I pay the price for my wisdom. We all pay a price for the
things we (don't) do in life. The common man seeks no wisdom, even if you ring
it to him on a serving plate. It's a biological thing. I do not pride myself on my
accomplishments. You can't pride yourself on things you did not consciously
choose. Becoming is an involuntary process. Complex interaction. No choice
involved. I am aware of "mind over matter". But keep in mind that strength of
the will is inherited too. Nobody chooses their will at birth. It is just one of many
assets (strong will) or flaws (weak will) one is bestowed with when one sees the
light of life. The winning lottery ticket, remember? "Right to one life". Price:
"any liabilities". Busted! And the house always wins. Eventually...

People seek answers. And thinking is difficult. Maybe that is why they need
people who do it for them (politicians/leaders...). Let us imagine a society where
every individual were a thinker. Or even a knower. I believe it might resemble a
collective rather than a pyramid-shaped society. Absence of social strata. It
might be characterized by a “collective consciousness”. It might not have
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one... It cannot be excluded. Just wondering, daydreaming... New societies will
emerge. I am confident about that. Or they may already exist somewhere far, far
away. But let those stay away another while. They might not be as kind as you
want to believe. Man is not evil enough, it seems. The Universe is a cold and
heartless place, and a lot of its inhabitants most likely as well. Just compare man
to most animals and insects. And wonder...

!I have the Third Eye. The "eye of consciousness". The "Eye of Horus". It
signifies a high level of enlightenment and awareness. And intuition. And
certain instincts maybe too. The Buddha had the Third Eye. Jesus had the Third
Eye. All great mystics had it. I "sense" and "see" things most people don't. There
is a good chance that every individual disposes of the Third Eye, at least to some
extent (it may be stronger in some than in others), but that it remains largely
inactive due to a number of reasons such as a lack of education. And that kind of
education is deliberately being withheld from the masses. Mass manipulation
plays an important role too. Hence television. Television kills the mind. Self-
awareness is to be avoided at all cost. It makes people harder to control and
manipulate…

I have by now attained the level whereby I can put up a middle finger (a real
one) to all those who look down on me, those who mock me, those who pity me,
those who feel sad for me, those who kill me with their "love", those who had
"happiness" or "bliss" on their mind when conceiving me. Did they have
anything on their mind at all, I wonder. Yawn. The abyss stares back,
remember? Keep this in mind: It's my life and I determine the rules. And, in a
certain sense and to some extent, I determine the outcome as well. And so
should you. Be above things. I can't stress it enough. And accept things you can't
change. That is the attitude you breed when you learn to live. The only true
attitude. Live... die... thrillseeka… With your head against the speaka…

I have many faces. 100 people, 100 opinions about me. And seldom correct, or
only partially. I am a complex man, even though people take me for simple.
They may even call me an idiot, like they call Prince Myshkin in Dostoevsky's
"Idiot" an idiot. Simply because they know nothing of him. I am intelligent,
even though people take me for stupid. I am an optimist, and happy at that, even
though people take me for depressed. People may take me for a clown, even
though what they observe is my well-preserved inner child. I have accomplished

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a few things definitely worth mentioning, mostly immaterial, even though people
take me for a loser, or lazy, because they do not see my progress. They put
labels on me, even though not one covers my entire person. Who am I, really? A
mystery and a riddle. You can rest assured. Haha

I deserve all the labels I put on myself. Intellectual, philosopher, spiritualist. I

am a "self-declared a-lot-of-things". Let my insights testify of that. I am a
complex person. A first look at me will make people conclude me to be a dull,
average guy. But why would I dress differently? And how? Do I really have to
dress like an ancient Greek or Roman philosopher? Only to impress the average
man? Those of my kind judge not, do not jump to conclusions and are not fooled
by appearances. Especially that. My hoodies say enough. Seeker Serpent...
Addressing the "select few" rather than the masses. What concerns me does not
concern the masses. And what concerns the masses does not concern me.
Enough! Time for the real shit. Another working day has begun. Two insights so
far. And the day has barely begun. That abodes well...

The "forbidden books", even though still in the public domain for the time
being, are by no means those that are forbidden by law. First of all, in the West
no book is forbidden as far as I can tell. Even "Mein Kampf" is now available in
book stores. The "Forbidden Books" are those that are being withheld from you
in formal education. The "forbidden books" were often intended for Initiates, but
democracy made them available to all. They are meaningless in the hands of
Swine. They couldn't tell pearls from rocks. In any case, democracy won't last,
even though it may still be around for centuries. But "forbidden literature" will
always be there in one way or another. Avail yourself of hard copies. The "Great
Darkening" will be a fact one day and Initiation will be the privilege of "chosen
ones" once again. Nihil aeternum est...

Life is tough. This should be taught to children as soon as they are able to
comprehend it. People are so anxious about hurting the child's emotions. Wrong!
The greatest treatise on education ("Emile" by Rousseau) tells me something
different. The must suffer. As much as possible. To prepare them for the pains of
life. Pampering children is the worst thing you can do. It messes them up for the
rest of their lives. It leads to squeamishness. It breeds weakness. It seems
nowadays children are to be turned into sheep rather than men. It looks like
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model. Maybe there is a philosophy behind it? Turn people into obedient sheep.
So they are easier still to manipulate and to be led by the nose. Consumerism!

Find something that you love. And embrace it. "Let it kill you", as Charles
Bukowski said. And if you find nothing that you love, then find something that
you hate. And resist it. Oppose it. By your attitude and actions. Resistance and
opposition as a way of life. Give meaning to your life. Purpose. You can. Even
in a world devoid of meaning. Make the difference. Be the difference. You're a
human being, goddamnit. Your life has value. Being human actually means
something. We are the only species on this planet that beholds the world
surrounding it. That beholds the Universe. And wonders. You are a member of
the human race. And that alone makes you special. Unique. Awareness is
everything...

Your race, your state, your religion, your culture... Illusionary identity. For we
are all human beings. I do not claim this divide is deliberate. But it sure also
serves to control and manipulate people and set them up against their fellow
human beings. Make sure you do not fall prey to division. A society has its own
agenda. That's why. Avoid anything that divides. Let the agenda of society not
become yours also. Instead, connect, reach out, communicate... Embrace all
human beings as your brothers or sisters. Be a world citizen…

Present-day availability of knowledge and Wisdom has its benefits. It allows

citizens to be critical and outspoken, which is, of course, good in a democracy.
But in a sense it is "pearls to the swine". In the days where education was
limited to the better classes, where education served a cultural purpose rather
than functional one, the level of creation was outstanding. Mastery and artistry!
Beauty! What determines superiority really? Is it might? Is it skills? Is it
success? Why not be superior in your own right? By your knowing. By your
individualism. Think what is not to be thought, know what is not to be known,
dream what is not to be dreamt. Claim your superiority, like the first colonists
claimed their land. The Ego and its Own!

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it
is, infinite..." (William Blake). What we perceive as "reality" is nothing but a

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hallucination caused by your senses. Your brain tries to make sense of things
that may not even have sense. And I can guarantee you this, even though I do
not use psychedelic drugs myself, some "hallucinations" experienced by users of
psychedelics actually may come closer to reality than the so-called "reality"
experienced by people who don't use them. In any case, man does seem to have
a natural inclination to transcend his limited consciousness, his perception of
reality. Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas. "Break on through to the other
side". If you know what I mean. But I never said this. Haha

Some day in the future... You lend a book in the public library. Let's say
Machiavelli's "The Prince". That book will be on a list of "obscure" or
"dangerous" books. Lending this book will make you end up on a “watch list”.
Now suppose you lend more "obscure" or "dangerous" books. Let's say
Nietzsche. Or Orwell. Or anarchist writings. From then on you will be followed.
I do not exclude some day in the future public libraries will have to be avoided.
Total and utter control. A dystopian society. Just a thinking exercise…

If someone calls your favorite music noise, then tell him this. My dear friend,
first of all, there is obviously a mathematical relation (harmony) between the
different sounds/frequencies of what you call "noise". That is the prerequisite
for sound to be called music. Noise, and get it through your head, lacks this
relation. Be a man and just admit you don't like my music. And secondly, on top
of that you lack the insight to even realize that. End of discussion. Haha.
Beware, if the person is dumb, expect protest, verbal abuse or, in a bad case,
physical violence. Yes, some mothers do have'em. Haha

Suppose Fate the way I see it is correct, namely that all is preordained, how
does that affect human freedom? In any case, the idea is hard to digest, even for
me. Let’s suppose that that is the way thing are. Then why not content ourselves
with the illusion of freedom? One more illusion on top of all the other illusions.
But what would life be without illusions? Unbearable maybe? Or nonexistent?
All life seems to come with illusions…

I aim at a young audience. That is deliberate. First of all, they are undelified.
And secondly, they are rather "unstuck". They are not yet involved in a

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relationship or marriage. They have no kids. They are not yet stuck in a job or
heavily indebted. Debt is to be avoided at all cost. There is basically nothing that
can hinder them from adopting a different approach to life, from seeing
alternative ways of living and being...

Don't you like to drive? Then don't. Create yourself a life where you don't need a
car. The same goes for computer, smartphone, and, by extension, any piece of
technology. They give you some independence indeed, but keep in mind it
works in both ways. Hooked up to technology! Hooked up to the system! Why
not unhook yourself? Go off the grid. Plenty of relevant literature. If only you
will. Or dare...

Cops seldom know the workings of the world. They see and fight the symptoms
of all that is wrong in the world as a whole. They uphold the law. Sadly, they
also uphold the system, the status quo and all the causes of those “societal
symptoms” in the act. Those who say A.C.A.B. (All Cops Are Bastards), I
understand that all too well. Ignorance is the greatest of evils probably...

Beware of the others. They may willingly or unwillingly, knowingly or

unknowingly, limit your potential. They may prevent you from growing,
blooming, thriving... They may limit you in all possible ways. Avoid people who
limit you in your being and surround yourself with people who help you grow.
Faint-heartedness will get you nowhere...

People, like chicken, often peck the odd one. And yes, sometimes to death. At
least, the dumber specimen do. Among people I mean. The more intelligent ones
don’t. Or less. Because of their intelligence. And that is about the only
difference between the herd morality of people and that of chicken. Haha

I suppose you have digital data that are important to you. Make sure to have
back-ups. here are only two ways. Either have the data in a physical manner.
That means paper. Or create a Faraday cage. One EMP suffices, remember…?

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I call any wisdom forbidden. Or "forbidden". Morally forbidden that is. People
aren't supposed to become wise. That would go against the investment of every
society. People always like the forbidden, but wisdom is often overlooked...

Judging from what I read and see, I can only conclude that this century may very
well prove catastrophic. I am not sure if the optimism of thinkers like Steven
Pinker is justified. They may ignore the human instincts…

The more you think about it, the more you will come to realize that life stinks
and that morality is very often nothing more than a lacquer, a varnish, a perfume
if you will that conceals the stench…

Regarding the war for your mind... Society wants your mind, the teacher wants
your mind, the priest wants your mind, the political party wants your mind, the
media want your mind... But the sole owner of your mind is you. Or ought to be
you. The ego and its own...

The world is a business, Mr. Beale... Your health is a business, your death is a
business, cancer is a business, books are a business, music is a business, bitrate
is a business... I myself would make it my 'business' to provide things for free.
But that makes me a minimalist rather than a socialist. Haha

Thou shalt not cast pearls before swine... Correct! Pigs are often seen as impure.
And I believe one has to be "pure" (innocent, receptive, uninfluenced,
unbiased...) for certain knowledge. And only few people qualify for that. It may
very well be a biological thing...

People are often stuck in thinking patterns. I used to know all about it, by the
way. But those can be broken. By thinking, self-education, talking to others,
certain life experiences, or simply by doing something entirely different. Very
often it is your own beliefs that prevent you from growing...

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The masses wallow in ignorance. That is their choice. I have no intention
whatsoever to educate the masses. Pearls to the swine! Educating the pure ones
on the other hand seems quite appealing. I may very well make this my mission
from now on. Erudition, my new mission!

I don't use expensive words. First of all, that serves no purpose at all and it
makes the message harder to understand. People who use expensive words often
do so in order to show their (perceived) superiority. Stay humble and use plain
language...

"The Mute Girl of Portici" is said to have caused the Belgian Revolution. Or at
least to have been the proverbial drop. A performance one day of Nietzsche's
'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' might produce the same effect. On a European scale...

Machiavelli said that social change is often preceded by an omen (tell-tale sign).
I am not sure what to look for these days, but the Georgia Guidestones are a
good candidate. And why not my book as well? Haha

The audience for books like mine is limited and I desire it so. My true reader is
intelligent, has intellect, is a man of taste, does not suffer from convictions and
disposes of a 'will to truth'. In brief, he is like me...

I have worked hard to earn my “owl totem” as the native Americans say. The
“eagle totem”, however, is for the rarest of men. For my book I also deserve the
“turtle totem”: Slow but steady wins the race…

Genetic factors (the social ones aside) like exhaustion, degeneration, weakness
of the will, high impulsivity, low conscientiousness… play a major role in
criminal or addictive tendencies...

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Regarding your 'shadow side'... Dare you "Let the beast go"? Dare you "Be
yourself"? Only herd animals suppress their dark side. That is, in fact, the whole
idea of Christian morality. 'Be yourself' (Nietzsche) is its antithesis...

Shortcomings (flaws) are never an argument against your worth as a person. In

any case, never allow them to be. Why worry about what people think anyway?
There are 8 billion people. You will worry "ad infinitum"...

Reaching a level of insight/understanding that is unattainable for the multitude

resembles some sort of a mystical or religious experience. That means you have
arrived. It is called "Nirvana". Do you want to reach it as well? You can. The
first step to Enlightenment is to desire it...

Be open to people. You can learn something from everyone. If only you will.
Talk to hackers, talk to life hackers, talk to home growers, talk to ramblers, talk
to preppers, talk to the homeless, talk to street machiavellists... Learn their way
too. Whatever you perceive as "stable" may be turned on its head in the blink of
an eye. War, revolt, revolution, a pandemic, an EMP... Stop dreaming and get
real. And prepare yourself for the unexpected. Forewarned is forearmed,
cautionary tale, reformed man blablabla...

Life is a journey. A journey you have to make all by yourself. People may
accompany you for a short or long while, but in the end it is your journey. You
have an ego. The thing in your brain that says "I". That makes you self-centered.
We are all self-centered from that perspective. If you are young, and I desire it
so, your journey has just begun. If even. Make the best of it. And pay attention
to the crossroads. They lead to other places. Choose the next direction well...

The best way to put up a middle finger to the system, to any system, is by
educating yourself. By becoming that what they have been preventing since time
immemorial: People becoming wise. Now you become wise. By making yourself
wise. Give them some "Return On Investment". From yourself. Is it not that what
they are looking for after all? Especially in a capitalist system. Where money-

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making has become the dominant art form. The "mother of all arts" as it were.
And is being propagated as such. But essentially in any system, however
primitive it may be. The Forbidden Wisdom, the Forbidden Insights, the
"Forbidden Conclusions"... By withholding it from the people. Obscurantism! I
name it the "mother of all conspiracies". And I said "conspiracy". Mind the
absence of "theory". We are talking facts here. And only few seem to be aware.
And, once again, it's the same type of people. And you should know by now,
reader. Those who had an... education... Those who are wise. Even conspiracy
theorists don't label it as such. I call it that. They lack Insight. Wisdom! "Mother
of all conspiracies"... Sounds great doesn't it? I haven't come across the
expression as of yet. At least not in that context. I invented it. I ought to have
that patented. Ha! That makes me the supreme whistleblower. He who brought it
up. Who put his finger on it. Who nailed it! And caused a stir. Hopefully so.
Kick ass! Make them feel you exist!

I saw a novel in the bookstore. "The Secret Life of Writers". Nothing interesting.
But the title did appeal to me. How about the secret life of the guy who created
this book? Haha. Anyway, there's nothing much secret about my life. I am an
open book. Wise or not. That can be argued. "Be Yourself" (Semper Te Ipsum)
is my motto. And I am. I am an open book, regardless of the consequences. Just
make sure to avoid people who tend to exploit any vulnerabilities they detect in
others. Plenty of those. Manipulation! There's no way around it. It's human
nature. I label books about manipulation "superior knowledge". Especially mass
manipulation. Of all times! Hence. Such a book cannot be missing in my
collection. Because books about manipulation make people wise. You should
know that by now. And books that do are per definition "good". There's no
doubt about it. Books that do belong in my collection. And if I find more, they
will be added. I know something about books. And not too many people can say
that. Books that make people wise are usually out of the league of the average
man. He does not like to think. It's a biological thing. It's not in his nature. His
brain is not "wired for thinking". One has to be born for thinking. You can't
blame people the make-up of their brains. And in the end genetics. That is
foolish! Anyway, thinking happens to be my favorite pastime. Needless to say
that goes at the expense of doing things. But that is the price I pay for "being
myself". The price I am willing to pay. And I accept any consequences. The
consequences are the price, you see?

The I.Q. test does not measure intelligence. So far it is not possible to measure
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know the test. For example: It does not say how our brain processes
information. And let that be vital. It is rather an indicator. And probably not
even that. I elaborate: A lot of intelligent people (who score well on IQ tests) are
basically ignorant. Ignorant means dumb. Those words are interchangeable.
Now you tell me why a lot of people deemed "intelligent" simply swallow
things. Without questioning, that is. And that, dear reader, is an indication, nay,
a proof rather, of STUPIDITY. Haha. Right? Everything starts with a question,
remember? Brainless swallowing is a proof of stupidity. Fact! What then does an
IQ test measure? It measures reasoning power, abstract thinking, problem-
solving skills and ability to apply knowledge, information... Therefore I label it
an "indicator of social utility". Now, you may object that all geniuses have a
high IQ. That is true. Irrefutable! But most geniuses were geniuses because they
questioned the prevailing ideas of their time. They questioned. Without their
questioning things they would never have made it to genius status, regardless of
their IQ. IQ as a measure of social utility. Debunked…

About revolutionary books... Not what it seems. I only know two. Two truly
revolutionary books. As in "world-altering". Being the Bible. And Friedrich
Nietzsche. The answer to the Bible. Forget the Communist Manifesto. I do not
underestimate its influence. At all! But the Communist Manifesto is basically a
product of the Bible. Without the Bible there simply would not have been a
Communist Manifesto. More, society as we know it is the product of the Bible.
And its valuations. The Bible is basically a reaction/revolution against classical
antiquity and classical values. And Nietzsche is basically about a "revaluation
of all values hitherto". Especially Christian values. Do not underestimate the
power of morality. If you read Nietzsche, you will understand. What awaits us
when nihilism has run its course? A Brave New World! A reintroduction of
classical values. And higher values even. Unlike anything ever seen before.
Keep in mind the progress of science. A "revaluation of all values hitherto" will
bring about unseen progress. Moving humanity to a higher level even. That is
progress. True progress. Unseen progress. A new level! I am confident about
that. And about the power of philosophy. The power of ideas. The driving force.

I am not sure what democracy in the not too distant future will look like, but I
tend to believe this: First of all, I believe there is a good chance there will be
more democracy. Democracy today is rather appearance of democracy. And all
democracies across the globe suffer from some kind of democratic deficit.
Direct democracy, that would be democracy. And I also believe that at the same
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have to given the prevailing issues. Soft politics simply won't do. And that
brings me back to an old topic, namely the question if democracy is in decline.
My answer these days is simple: "What democracy?"…

"Semper te ipsum"... "Be yourself"... Be yourself to the fullest. Regret nothing.

If necessary pay the price. Know no shame. No need to repent. Now don't you
act surprised. We all pay a price. The price for what we love and what we hate.
The price for what we like and what we dislike. The price for what we go for and
for what we disregard. The price we pay for who we are. A price paid with hard
cash. Let money roll. Capital is dead labor. Think of the "price" as the
effort/pain/sacrifice you are willing to make in order to accomplish something.
That will make it more clear. Now you pay the price. With hard currency…

I seldom believe things. I wish I had more belief. Afterlife, Reincarnation,

Karma, Eternal Recurrence, conscious immortality... So far I believe in none of
them, yet I do not exclude them either. Do I need them to be true? The answer is
rather no. My insights are such that death does not put me off anymore.
Philosophy is learning to die, a female philosopher once said. Agreed. It is at
least a part of it. Or the result of it…

Human beings seek deeper meaning. It is their nature. I am not sure if this
implies that things actually have deeper meaning. It could just be a
presupposition of the human mind (and lacking in other species in the Universe).
We attribute meaning to things. That is definitely human. In our part of the
Universe, man is the measure of things. Other species elsewhere will bhave their
own measure. And that is only normal. Biocentrism. Life and consciousness take
a central place in the perception of things, of the Universe…

About "being above things". Being above the state, above institutions, above the
law, above leaders... That might raise eyebrows. I know! Hence my going back
to that insight. Be above things means “in Spirit”. By your knowing. I can't
stress that enough. It need not lead to actions. And if it does, let common sense
prevail. Justified actions. You can resist a bad law, unfair taxes, malpractices by
the government, criticize leaders... Civic duty. And, if you're tough, 'civil
disobedience. Henry David Thoreau. Praiseworthy!

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A high level of wisdom/insight has unexpected result it seems. You learn to live,
and you learn to die, you learn to relativize, you learn compassion, you learn to
be above things, you learn to deal with things in different ways... You don't hear
me complain. Yes, my life is worth living and repeating, despite all the shit.
Great accomplishment, if you ask me. To hell with the others! Nothing or no one
will ever determine how I feel about myself. I am the measure of things…

Conclusion: That is why you may not become wise. Or enlightened. That is why
they withhold it from you. Do you realize the nature and power of what they
withhold from you? And do you accept such a thing to be withheld from you? If
only people knew. But they don't want to know. They trust others with that. First
and last mistake. That is what they want. That is what they expect. That is what
hey hope. It is their power over you. Manipulation. Mass manipulation. Superior
knowledge. That is what I call it. And that is what it is. It has been a success
formula since time immemorial. Why change a success formula? Quaeritur...

Faith, especially strong faith, without common sense, testifies of mental

retardation. And it is dangerous at that. It is an atavism that should be
eradicated. But I am not confident that it ever will be. Strong faith serves those
who promote it. The one who came up with it was the only reasonable and
successful one. Religion starters are amoral and because of that above the
masses. And all the rest... mere followers. Brainless followers on top of that.
People who know, like myself, do not believe. And if they do, it will be a faith
of their choice. And reasonable. Faith without common sense is not faith at all.
The only thing it proves is a lack of intelligence and reason…

Psychedelics, or some at least, are said by indigenous shamans to also be a

source of knowledge. I repeat, a source of knowledge. That is one. And two.
Psychedelics are not to be confused with all too destructive street drugs. That is
what knowledge is concerned. But there is more indeed. Some psychedelics, like
ayahuasca, have great benefits in trauma processing and addiction treatment.
And here's an old one: Never forget that drugs are not addictive. That is a
misconception. And that any addictive issues reside with the individual and
nowhere else. But that's another story. Source of knowledge is to be remembered
here. And I realize this contradicts western thinking. So be it. Anyway, should I
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professional or experienced guidance, especially when it's your first time.
Opening the doors of perception may produce a bit of a shock, I believe...

Death doesn't really put me off. However, I am not quite fond of the idea of a
material death in a material Universe. I'd like to believe also in an immaterial
realm. The "spirit world" as it is also called. That appeals to me. Lack of
evidence or proper indication is what currently prevents me from believing.
Scientific evidence counts, Intuition counts, and experience counts. At present
all are wanting. But change may lie ahead. I am about to enter a new phase. And
as for now keep my fingers crossed. What "dreams" may come? What realm
may open up? Break on through to the other side. And behold the Great
Unknown. Unexplored territory. Beyond the beaten path. Such is the way of the
individual. To boldly go. And to also boldly go against any fears, insecurities,
comfort zone... He or she who is able to do so will have the world at his/her feet.

Prime number: prime meaning "prime" (adj.): late 14c., "first, original, first in
order of time, from Old French prime and directly from Latin primus "first, the
first, first part," figuratively "chief, principal; excellent, distinguished, noble"
(source also of Italian and Spanish primo), from Proto-Italic *prismos,
superlative of PIE *preis- "before," from root *per- (1) "forward," hence "in
front of, before, first, chief." The meaning "of fine quality, of the first
excellence" is from c. 1400. The meaning "first in rank, degree, or importance"
is from 1610s in English. Arithmetical sense (as in prime number, one
indivisible without a remainder except by 1) is from 1560s; prime meridian "the
meridian of the earth from which longitude is measured, that of Greenwich,
England," is from 1878. Prime time originally (c. 1500) meant "spring time;" the
broadcasting sense of "peak tuning-in period" is attested by 1961." Of particular
quality basically. Hence their solitude. I have many a great gift. And solitude is
my Fate...

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of
humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review
before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature.
These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy
by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare
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Francesco Petrarch

I am the archetype of Faust. Forever frustrated. O so frustrated. Keep in mind

though that I am talking about "Faustian frustration". "Faustian frustration"
refers to some sort of "inner unrest" that keeps you going. Never satisfied.
Always trying to do better. It is the antithesis of complacency. Complacency will
get you nowhere. Or in a monastery perhaps. There is nothing wrong with your
trying to find peace of mind, as long as it does not lead to complacency. Put up a
fist to complacency. Put up a fist to anything or anyone that prevents you from
getting somewhere. “Faust” in German reads "fist"...

If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of
agony and death - the modes of aggression and defence, the raising of armies,
and the acquirement of those arts of tyranny and falsehood without which mixed
multitudes could neither be led nor governed - had been employed to promote
the true welfare and extend the real empire of man, how different would have
been the present situation of human society! P. B. Shelley

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to

generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests:
authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of
conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers
taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on
their knees? P. B. Shelley

O thou beautiful and unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of

increased and still increasing lights! what are ye? what is this blue wilderness of
interminable air, where ye roll along, as I have seen the leaves along the limpid
streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye sweep on in your
unbounded revelry through an aerial universe of endless expansion,--at which
my soul aches to think,--intoxicated with eternity. Lord Byron

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Philosophy is also learning to die. Or so they say. I fully agree. And in some
cases I do not exclude it may also imply learning to believe. Being a
Truthseeker, believing anything is one of the hardest things. But I will go as far
as needed to improve both the learning to die and the finding belief. After all,
that is what Seekers also do. Reap the fruits of their Quest. Self-declared
Seekers are truly a breed apart. A true Seeker will identify himself as such. And
that is what I myself did years ago. It is an evidence. The nature of the beast, if
you will. They follow their nature. Like most of us. Such is the way of things.
Everything follows its course…

The great esoteric systems of the past (Buddhist, Hindu, Egyptian,

Christian…)… How was this knowledge/vision obtained, I wonder. Via use of
psychedelic plants is definitely a possibility. I have a book (The Cosmic
Serpent) that examines exactly that. The link between natural psychedelics and
knowledge. I could hardly believe my eyes when I read that. Mere disbelief. But
it is widely claimed said that there is such a link indeed…

Some newly gained insights give me the idea that things (reality, the
Universe…) have something deeper, something more profound to it. Without
specifying that “deeper” or “more profound”. There is most likely more than
meets the eye when looking at the Universe with our limited senses and/or
instruments. And that is exactly what I do it for. Nothing wrong with a little
belief. It’s just taking the step that is hard. The step towards belief. After all, I
am not a believer. I am a Truthseeker. Truth)seekers seek truth. Not belief.
Intuition, proof or sufficient indication is what I need. Empiricism. I need to be
able to make out if something is truth or not. I won’t accept fantasy or lies. I
need to be able to assess the truthfulness of truth. That is what Truthseekers do.
Or are supposed to do. Separate truth from lies. Forgery of truths. That is what
this place is. I’ve said it before…

Lost wisdom of the Ancients… Or lost wisdom in general… I often wonder if

there is such a thing. I believe it is not lost. But that it is hidden in monasteries.
Or the Vatican archives. “Sacred Geometry” proves that some of it is not lost at
all. But that one has to know where to look for it. The author did apparently. No
idea where he got it. Maybe there is a “Sacred Geometry” study field. I don’t
know. Anyway, I do know for fact that the ways of constructing of a lot of
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think it is lost. It is just being kept somewhere until the times are ripe again.
Ripe for great architecture. and classical ways of constructing.. There are more
people who understand the value of certain knowledge. Those are the
“Keepers”. And they guard this precious knowledge well. All too precious…

In order to get another vision on reality, on the Universe… the use of

psychedelic plants is not required per se. One can find the most interesting
visions in books. Visions originating from the Great Cultures. How about that?
Also, psychedelics are not recommended for all. That is what I know too. I will
refrain from that. I found some great insights in a superior book. The way I
always do. And that is good. I am a happy man. More knowledge/insight
obtained. Quite a bit. Let’s see how far I get with books only…

I may use psychedelics. For a variety of reasons. But not for one reason. That is
in order to get high and nothing else. Source of knowledge I have in the back of
my head. Changed perception/insight. Maybe also trauma processing (should
those be present) and addiction treatment. Four in one. Four good reasons. But
not for the sake of getting high. Not that. Not this time. Yes, it’s true. Seekers
have their issues too. You can rest assured...

Christianity indeed has equalled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the
extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been
killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of
sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the
Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God. P. B. Shelley

I notice a hardening of society. I already knew about it, but I was “lucky”
enough (haha) to experience it. It mainly the result of nihilism. Individualism.
Egoism. The youth do not seem to realize that they are actually victims of social
trends. If only they knew. And it will get worse still. Nihilism isn't over yet. All
we can do is ride it out. Wait for better times. "Friend or foe?" will be the first
thing we ask when we meet a stranger. Homo homini lupus. Forget “deus”. And
all I can do is notice and undergo. “Wisdom without power” observing “power
without wisdom”. The saddest aspect of the knowing ones. Powerlessness…

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As an adult I am looking for the wonder (Aha-Erlebnis) I had as a child. That is
possible. If you look hard enough, you will. Some things I've recently
experienced made me wonder. Truly wonder. And I am sure there is more that
will produce the same effect. Yes, I think it is possible to experience things the
way we did as a child. Because some things do make one wonder indeed. I can
tell you that. The wonders are still there, waiting to be discovered. Now you go
and rediscover your inner child...

Do I recognize this court? No Sir. I wasn't involved in its foundation. Do I

recognize the laws? No Sir. Nobody asked for my approval of any of them. Do I
recognize my nationality? No Sir. Nobody asked me anything when I was born.
And now that I think of it: There are no laws obliging me to do so. Haha.
Sounds like I am what people sometimes call a "Sovereign Citizen". Even
though an illusion. Sovereign Citizen, Individual Anarchist, Free Spirit... Never
mind words...

I once dreamt that there is a mathematical basis for all human behavior (and the
behavior of any life form): trade, exchange, business, bargaining, risk
calculation, partnerships, friendships, romantic relationships... The least you can
say is that it can be expressed in mathematics. Life too seems to obey the laws
of the Universe. I am not very fond of the idea though. I perceive it as
demystifying. Demystifying truths are like a cold shower: sobering...

People in the West believe themselves free because they do not know what it
means to be free. Keep in mind that Western propaganda is the most subtle form
of propaganda in the history of humanity. If you doubt that, read "Propaganda"
(Edward Bernays), "Propaganda" (Jacques Ellul), "Public Opinion" (Walter
Lippmann). The idea of "freedom" is instilled in people’s brains and actually
serves only to maintain a particular class of people. The elites…

What do you need during times of upheaval? Here's a few things... Master
survival skills. Make sure you have food supplies, preferably cans. Make
yourself familiar with alternative ways of communication. Make sure you have
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worthless because of hyperinflation) and don't keep it with the bank. Be a bit of
a prepper at least...

Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields
and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have
enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity
have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget
that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people. Lord Byron

“Be yourself”... A fine motto. Both one of the most beautiful and also most
dangerous truths. Be yourself, no matter what. If necessary pay the price. Know
no shame. Live. Breathe. Kick ass. Document yourself. Otherwise you simple
did not exist. Oblivion. Immortalize yourself if in any way possible. You're a
human being, goddamnit. Your life has value…

Only superficial people believe cops to be a necessity. If you look at the history
of law enforcement, you will see that there are alternatives for this "repressive
force". That is, after all, what they are. Law enforcement can be done by
citizens. Give some responsibility to every citizen. Let people watch over
themselves. Make every citizen a cop so to speak. No alternative? I doubt it…

I am a Buddha. Buddha is Sanskrit. It means "awakened one". He or she is

awakened to the true nature of reality. Which is a short definition of what
English-speaking Buddhists call "enlightenment". Anyone can become a
Buddha. Provided, of course, that they will. Nil volentibus arduum...

Even in the case of public intellectuals I can't help but wonder what planet they
come from. And I also wonder whether they lie or whether it's mere ignorance. I
do not exclude it to be both in some cases. Balancing between the ruler and the
people. Intellectual rope-dancers! Intellectual rats!

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The "individual" is actually a biological exception. Yet, society needs it as much
as the "herd animal". A society of herd animals only is going nowhere and a
society of individuals only would fail. Society needs both. And the best
individuals are those that change the world…

See in order to believe. Most of us will agree. But sometimes it takes the very
opposite. Believe in order to see. Here lies a task for me. Believe. And take the
first step. Open a "door of perception". And break on through to the other side.
See what's behind the curtain...

Choose for job something with surplus value. Surplus value for yourself
(intellectually/spiritually) and surplus value for society. Don't be another "brick
in the wall". Be a bricklayer. Or a brickmaker even...

The majority of people seem to lack a Higher Consciousness. Not to mention

those who are even unaware of society. Not that I am a defender of society.
Society as a whole lacks a face. It preys on ignorance...

"Thou shalt not know": the ultimate conclusion to the Adam and Eve parable.
Beati paupers spiritu. The abuse of wisdom to control people. A practice
associated with society in general. The Serpent represents the dual expression of
good and evil. Initiation also. Be a Serpent!

If you read the Iliad (Homer) you will notice that the ancients had a very
different idea of war. Battles were depicted as great and epic. To die in battle
was an honor. Those were men. And women too…

When entering a relationship, men and women have their own hidden agenda
and won’t hesitate to manipulate the other in order to achieve their personal
goals. Very often this happens unconsciously…

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Establishment of a unprecedented aristocracy. The rulers, the “creators”... And
education should become elitist again. Only the best are good enough. Creation
of an unprecedented intellectual elite. Genius!

Mere thinking gave me the “forbidden” insights, led me to conclude the

“forbidden” conclusions. That is why thinking is to be prevented at all cost.
Keep 'em dumb, keep 'em poor, keep 'em busy. I understand it all too well…

We say that in man reason prevails... If that were true, why do people fall in
love, rape, torture, murder, wage war, mutually annihilate...? Instinct! We could
make the Superman more reasonable though...

So you don't have a goal in mind? No worries. Then go with the (natural) flow
of your life. Panta rhei. Everything flows. And so does your life. See where life
brings you. There is nothing wrong with that...

Don't stare yourself blind on laws. Not even the Constitution. Those are just
snapshots. They tend to change. For better or for worse? I will leave that in the
middle. All depends on your point of view...

Are you a believer? Or a non-believer? That makes no difference to me. In any

case, I can tell you this. The Path to God is an individual Path. Institutionalized
religion serves one purpose and one purpose alone: to control people. When the
Path to God is offered to you by an institution, a priest, an imam, a rabbi... it
always comes with a poison...

Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates,
pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable
and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones.
They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense
intimacy. Francesco Petrarch

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Books can profoundly alter your way of thinking. I, for instance, reason like a
Machiavellist. But no worries. That is mere freehinking. In any case, I am a
pretty good-natured person. But there are others who actively practice
Machiavellism. They can be found in the street or in powerful positions. Hawks,
wolves, sharks… Beware…

The collection of Ferdinand Columbus is said to have sunk. Not quite sure if I
buy that story. He intended to build a world library. Imagine all human
knowledge in the form of books in one specific place. All it would take is a fire.
Or a bomb. Or nosy people with not-too-good intentions. To destroy the whole
collection. If there were a world library, and I believe there is, it would be
unknown to the masses. It would be a secret. I believe that. I have no evidence
for it nor do I desire that. All of this is perfectly understandable. Because it
would also contain the knowledge you do not want just anyone want to have
access too. The truly forbidden knowledge. I do indeed believe there to be a
world library. Somewhere. Intuition requires no proof for the intuitive one.
Intuition itself is the proof of things. But it is perfectly understandable that this
has no scientific value. The evidence, the blessing and the curse. Indeed so…

Is there a deeper spiritual/mystical meaning to things yes or no? I believe the

answer remains worth pursuing. After all, nobody knows what the essence of the
Universe is. And if you don't, how can you assert there is no deeper meaning to
it? Based on what? And remember: let none of your insights be final. Even the
best insights may be flawed beyond imagination. Realize the limits of your
brain. Or imagine our species ten times more intelligent. How about that? Still
convinced of the eternal/universal validity of your insights? And how about any
insight by any life form? Realize the limits of your brain. That is a valuable
lesson already...

I believe Enlightenment to be a rather gradual process. I do not exlude it may

happen overnight, but in my case it is gradual. More enlightened with every
insight. Given my limitations this is a process that will go on forever. I also
believe there to be degrees of Enlightenment. Those with their 7th chakra open
or psychonauts are probably the most enlightened, even though I do not exclude
they may lack in worldy wisdom. One cannot do without the basics. One cannot
do without a solid foundation. I found that in the classics. Nietzsche,
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started from scratch. With TV and comics. Like most children. I did not start on
a higher level like some who often also lack in social wisdon. One cannot do
without a solid basis. Period.

I do not quite buy the official Buddha story. I know he was an initiate in the
mysteries (secret societies) of his age. I have only read this once as of yet. It's
not that this knowledge is all over the internet. Did he indeed attain
Enlightenment via meditation? Maybe. But there is always psychedelics. And it
is known that those have mind-altering capacities. I often wonder how the
Buddha attained his level of Enlightenment. The story could be more complex
than the Bodhi tree legend. I do not know. I therefore leave it in the middle.
Where it belongs in such case. I do know the Bodhi tree (ficus religiosa) has
certain psychoactive, maybe psychedelic properties. Makes me wonder, makes
me wonder. The Buddha too is a bit of a mystery. What level of Enlightenment
did he truly attain? One can only wonder...

Forbidden knowledge... is not what it seems... People think of secret societies,

brotherhoods, mystery schools, initiation, forbidden by law etc... Truth is that
the "forbidden" knowledge, at least these days, can be found everywhere. In
plain sight. I think of Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Gracián, Dostoyevsky, Hesse,
Milton, Blake, Camus, Kafka, Blavatsky, Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Burgoyne…
You name it. Anything that makes wise or gives profound insights. Never forget
we live in an unprecedented age. Practically all wisdom can be found in the
Public Domain. For free, or in the form of books. Reap!

Google gives access to about all the knowledge in the world. Realize though that
Google is a search engine and that it searches about 10 percent of the entire web.
That is called the world wide web. Internet. So it does not search through about
90 percent of the entire web. And those 90 percent constitute the Darkweb. But
it is understandable. The Darkweb is the black and uncontrolled part of the
internet. And its content, even knowledge, is often deemed illegal. And very
often the case too. It is all too understandable. It makes me wonder though. Yet
I am happy with Google. No need for black knowledge. The white knowledge is
impressive enough. It is indeed...

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It is said that people who have had near-death experiences(s) tell the truth. They
experience intense light, intense joy, intense happiness... DMT is said to be
released by the brain at the time of death. DMT is also called the "spirit
molecule". It is a natural hallucinogenic/ Well, I want to believe that. I tend to
believe life indeed to be but a pauze. Billions of years mean nothing when the
conscience is not at play. It could very well feel iike a pauze indeed. And yes,
what dreams may come... It is a fact that not all remember their dreams.
Anyway, I tend to say this belief/conviction does make people (to a certain
degree) enlightened. Fear not, I say...

I've said it before. I'm not down with the standard. What is supposed to be the
standard anyway? Slavery? Voluntary or not is not the issue here. Indebting
yourself and working your ass off all your life? For the sake of whom? For the
sake of what? So you can spend your old day (or whatever remains of your once
youthful and energetic life) in luxury? What good is luxury when you're too old
to even enjoy that? The time to live is now...

You will learn to read between the lines effortlessly. You will start to see
symbols everywhere. You will attract like-minded people and repel those who
aren't ready to see the truth. During this journey you will question yourself. You
will question of you should dig deeper and push further. You will at times
question your sanity and the sanity of humans in general. You will learn to
question everything but not to discount anything. And you will learn to follow
and trust your gut instinct. (Anonymous quote)

Every society seems to have its own idea about good or evil, good or bad, sane
or insane... Take Joan of Arc for instance. She received messages from God. She
led France into several victories. In our society though she'd be labeled
"psychotic" and no one would take her seriously. She’d be in psychiatry these
days. And that is exactly why I have become a bit of a je-m'en-foutist when it
comes to society. Its views are all too transitory...

You only become who you are. Being is becoming. Becoming is an entirely
involuntary process. It is the complex interplay between genes (nature) and
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the process of becoming who you are. And that is exactly why there is
absolutely no reason to admire people, or to look down on them. Looking down
on people, at least in a figurative way, is not a very noble attitude. However,
literally looking down on people testifies of 'loftiness of soul'. Hence Nietzsche's
'Amor Fati'. Love of Fate. Love who you become...

Cell biology… Amazing. A world within a world. Life within life. Lower life
maybe, but life nevertheless. Lower awareness maybe, but awareness
nevertheless. Like a huge factory or a society on an extremely small scale. Ever
looked at it that way? Maybe there are more of such “worlds within worlds”?
On yet another scale. Smaller or greater. Ever thought about that? And this too
makes us “God”. Or gods. Because it makes us responsible for this life (world)
within us. Take care of yourself so as to take care of this world within you. This
small world with its own awareness. I do suppose you will agree it is aware to
some extent. Ever looked at it that way? Thank you, Johnny

The (inherent) goal of life according to Nietzsche? The propagation of the most
beautiful specimen. Evolution of beauty aside from evolution of
consciousness/awareness. To surpass previous (and therefore lower) forms of
existence. I call it “game theory”. My game theory that is. Surpass previous level
every level. When it comes to the individual. When it comes to humanity. When
it comes to Culture. When it comes to physiology. Transcendence/Evolution
ought to the ultimate goal. Ad infinitum. Reach for the stars. Reach for the
divine. Become gods ourselves. Or surpass the gods that we are now. This one
for the initiates. Haha

Hierarchy of wisdom. Will you accept that? I talk to you as an individual. Top
keeping base dumb. Never wait for others to provide you with wisdom. Seek it
yourself. Hierarchies of wisdom are to be avoided at all cost. You give yourself
all the wisdom you need. That is the way to do it. Outshine those on the top. The
ultimate revenge. Get ahold of wisdom. No control of wisdom is to be accepted.
It will keep you small and liable to manipulation. It is simple: If the road to
wisdom is offered to you by others, they will keep you down…

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Knowledge their weapon, ignorance their prey...Go outside and close your eyes.
And open them again. What do you see? Quite simple: What you see is a
snapshot. That is the world you live in. That is the world you perceive as "your
own". A mere snapshot. Societies come and go. What is obvious today won't be
obvious anymore tomorrow. What you perceive as stable is an illusion. And
keep in mind things can change overnight. The COVID crisis is the absolute
proof. Learn to think outside the snapshot. Be proactive. Consider the
unthinkable...

What if the universe were one of millions of bubbles popping in and out of
existence in a pot of boiling water on a grey-bearded man’s stove, or his jacuzzi,
and, when zooming in on the image, this pot of boiling water were nothing but a
loop, a self-repeating something, like an image reflected in two opposing
mirrors or a fractal even? Crack! Never mind. Just "the sound of my brain
cracking". Haha

Yet another key to happiness: Live as if there were no tomorrow. You see, life
hangs by a thread. Praise yourself lucky that you get to live another day. And
keep in mind no one is optimistic 24/7. I have my gloomy moments or periods
too. Keep in mind there is no glory in never falling. Only in getting up
afterwards...

The primary threat to freedom and justice is not greed, or hatred, or any of the
other emotions or human flaws usually blamed for such things. Instead, it is one
ubiquitous superstition which infects the minds of people of all races, religions
and nationalities, which deceives decent, well-intentioned people into supporting
and advocating violence and oppression. The unquestioning belief in authority…

In order to even begin to understand what's going on in the world, you have to
be open to the idea of unlearning almost everything you were taught. Truth
expands farther than you can imagine and deeper than you can fathom. The
sooner you can learn to unlearn, the sooner you can start to research and learn
the truth. You will become a puzzle master, a detective, a journalist, a reporter…

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Freedom of speech... Where to draw the limit? I say: the dangerous opinions.
Posing a danger to other people. Or the peace. Peace, law and order are to be
maintained. To some extent at least. Society is an enabler. Enabler of Culture,
enabler of the genius... In an ideal case, that is. And the preserver of the race. It
must not fall apart unless it be desirable, which is rather rare. And it will be
quickly followed by a new reign. No society has chaos for basis…

The difference between technocrats and aristocrats? First of all, the technocratic
vision is sterile. Cultural philistinism. Also, aristocratic vision may span a
millennium. That of technocrats decades, a century at best. And finally, the
goals. Aristocrats have higher goals in mind. Creation beyond themselves...

Regarding riches or popularity... Sometimes the only thing it takes to get rich or
become popular is for an idiot to invent an idiotic dance move and a whole lot of
other idiots who are eager to pay in order to see it. Haha. If that is the way to get
rich, or popular, I'll pass...

A true education will prepare you for life. It will teach you how to use your
brain. It will give you freedom of thought. It will teach you to question. It will
make you self-reliant. And self-aware. It will make you confident. It will make
you a better person. It will elevate you. In brief, make you human...

All things sound nice on paper. Take Baltasar Graciàn for instance. In his "Art
of Worldly Wisdom" he advises against saying or doing things that go against
what people believe. But isn't that exactly what he did himself when he
published the "Art of Worldly Wisdom"? And that is why we know him!

So you live in the West? Congratulations! Or my condolences. Depending.

Haha. But that is not the issue. Thing is, if you believe colonialism, slavery,
exploitation (economic or other)... are non-existent in the West, you are
dreaming. It is just more subtle. Like anything here. Subtle and in secret...

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The self-made man is an illusion. There is only "becoming”. Which is
involuntary. The complex interplay between genetics and circumstances. And
don't be envious of rich people or people with all too many certificates. Plenty of
rich fools and certificated ignorants. Haha

Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and
are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each
book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name
of others, and one begets the desire of the other. Francesco Petrarch

Contrary to general belief it is actually a majority of people who suffer from

some sort of addiction. Computer, smartphone, TV, gambling, gaming, work,
sex, anything... The dopamine reward system plays a significant role. It is
actually okay to have some addiction. Just make sure you choose it well...

Ignorant as I am, my brain frustratingly limited, I have more questions than

answers. And forever will do. And I keep finding more questions. Something
keeps me going to find answers. Could it be faith? Or is it my obsessive-
compulsive tendencies? Haha. But it's the result that counts, right...?

Consider your life as it is now. Did you choose in advance that it would be like
this? In all its aspects? How much of it did you choose it in advance? And even
if you did, or for the greatest part, what is it that made you choose those these
things? That is my argument against free choice even...

Money… How about money as a “tool to culture”? Money as a means rather

than as a goal. People loathe money as a personal goal but overlook the fact that
money is the goal of society as a whole. Money. And more money. Mindless
accumulation of capital. Capital is dead labor. I agree with Marx on that point.
Dead labor. Labor (capital) that is not put to social use. Labor (capital) that does
not benefit society. Sadly. Nay, capital and labor on the other hand have to be
put to work in the service of culture. Create beauty on a social level. Transcend
the artistic level even. Beauty as the goal of society. Artistic beauty, social

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beauty, and biological (physical) beauty even. Beauty on every level. The
“culture of beauty”. How about that? Mere living in such a social ideal gives
meaning to individual life. The individual as a “tool of beauty”. Who wouldn’t
want to be a tool of beauty? Yes, you may count me in…

Culture of fear… Culture of money… Culture of work, numbers and profits. In

brief, economy. Simply compare those to “culture of beauty”. Cultures of
beauty, the new goal for modern states. Bring beauty. Leave an indelible stamp
of beauty on a culture/society. And on the subsequent one. And the next. And so
on. Beauty as an “eternal goal”. As something evident. Bring beauty always.
Something that goes without saying. Something natural. Make it second nature.
Bring beauty always, regardless of any other goals. Beauty as a prerequisite.
And nothing less. Copy nature. Copy the beauty of nature. Copy the divinity of
nature. Create something beyond ourselves. Leave something to the millennia
ahead. To the generations ahead. Like the good old days. Create for the joy of
the eye always. And make individuals proud of their being part of this “higher
good”. Attribute value to individual life. The beautification of the individual. I
love it. Artistic revaluation? Artistic revolution? I’m in!

If you say consumer, I say taxpayer. Taxpayer covers the load better. Modern
states as (the) most sophisticated tax collecting instruments. The monetization of
man. Where is the greatness in that, I wonder. The dullest of times indeed. The
most sterile too if we take culture and the arts into consideration. Money as the
goal of society. Money as a “higher good”. The highest good even. Money
raised to cultural status. The culture of money. That is, in brief, the essence of
modern “culture”. Money cultures, that is what has become of modern states.
Again, money raised to cultural status. Money-making as the dominant art form.
If culture were to be raised to the same status, that would amount to greatness.
Nothing less. Amen…

The beauty of nature. Chilling beauty often. Tough beauty too. Life is tough, but
nature is cruel. Cruel, chilling beauty. One has to learn to appreciate it this way.
The aspect of cruelty is often overlooked. Or ignored. Society is dog-eat-dog.
Nature is eat or get eaten. The value of an individual life is often insignificant.
Almost nonexistent. That is what awaits without the protection of society. A
mere tasty meal for other animals. That is what you become. Such is the value of
individual life in nature. Keep that in mind before calling nature “beautiful”…

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Knowledge, power and wisdom. If present in one (or a few) this is called
greatness. Like the combination of courage, wisdom and strength of will.
Likewise so. I wonder what is wrong with the concept of “greatness” if we take
these requirements into consideration? Untimely word though. But it breathers
better times, if you ask me. Wiser times too. The expression “Brave New
World” comes to my mind. Exactly that…

Worship of numbers… I actually love that idea. Sounds like a great idea for the
future. Make culture and the arts an expression of that. Venerate the divine
numbers, proportions and ratios via works of art. Art as an expression of
numerical divinity. A new Renaissance. How about that? The publications on
the subject as an abode of something new. Something revolutionary.
Revaluation of all artistic values hitherto. Sounds like Nietzsche in action…

Combine knowledge with power. Propaganda is a good example. Applied

knowledge. And imagine the scale. Society as a whole. There you have the
proof. Knowledge and power, two of a kind. Yet, I’d like to add a third
requirement. Wisdom to be specific. What good is knowledge is not wisely
applied? Or for the right purpose? Knowledge, power, and the wisdom to apply it
properly. My Holy Trinity…

Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no
force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can
take from the world the books that embody man’s eternal fight against tyranny.
In this war, we know, books are weapons. Books are weapons in the war of
ideas! Franklin Roosevelt

There is nothing wrong with having dreams, even (seemingly) absurd ones. We,
and everything around us, wouldn't be here without the dreams of those who
dared to dream. And even unattainable dreams are dreams. Better an
unattainable dream than no dream at all...

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Attain superior knowledge. It will rob them of their weapons against you. And
you will walk free. Knowledge against knowledge. It takes a Serpent to fight a
Serpent. Fight with the same weapons. Battle of the serpents. Over souls.
Propaganda is a fine example of “superior knowledge”. “All too worldly
wisdom” according to some. Well, that is food for debate. All depends on what
you want to attain with (a) society…

Defocalize your gaze. A way to look at certain art forms. See through the boxes
rather staring at them. That is what psychedelics do. Letting go of the senses.
The senses are the problem. One has to relax into the "blur". Reality is not a
straightforward thing. That is what our senses make of it. Tune into the "noise".
That noise is usually filtered away by the senses. Forget patterns. Forget
linearity. Forget predictability. Forget stability. Those are what constitute the
so-called "boxes". Those constitute the limitations of the mind. True reality
knows no boxes...

Trust no one. Set mistrust as the standard. The average man has an
unquestioning belief in authority and the others have an unquestioning belief in
themselves and themselves alone. I expect dog-eat-dog situations somewhere
down the road. Every man for himself. Remember the witch burnings.
Remember the stakes. Remember the book burnings. Fear the others. Fear thy
neighbor. Be prepared. In all possible ways. Expect the worst and hope for the
best. That is preparedness. That is how to deal with your fellow citizens. And
your fellow "Seekers". Beware beware beware...

It wouldn't be the first time I was about to go into "Seeker's Retirement". But
always in order to realize my Quest is nowhere near over. Will it ever be, I
wonder. Doesn't matter. My favorite pastime happens to be my work. So I will
never work. And logically I will never retire. It gives me something to do. It
gives me something to ponder. It gives me hope. It gives me passion. Do what
you love and you will never work. What would you do if money were no issue?
And do exactly that. And as a closer: "Better a short life full of what you love
doing that a long life spent in a miserable way" (Alan Watts). Agreed!

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Drugs are not addictive. That is a misconception. Actualluy a plain lie. The
addictive properties reside within the individual. This, however, makes them no
less dangerous. So beware. Better do things under the guidance of experienced
therapists of shamans. Controlled setting, controlled circumstances, controlled
purpose, outcome and result... Therapeutic use of controlled substances.
Otherwise they may backfire. One way or another. If not today then maybe
tomorrow. There is always the risk of loss of control...

Outside the pyramid. Not quite populace and not quite elitarian. Free from duty,
free from obligations. Time to learn. Time to observe. And sometimes having to
undergo sadly. Regardless. Faithful to my Path. Walk the walk. Talk the talk.
Forever being me. As it was preordained. A certain degree of Enlightenment
will give one an certain "mindset". It will allow you to create your Destiny
carefully. And no one will be able to take it away from you. Ever. For you will
always be there (again) to do just that: put up a well-meant middle finger. But
not a mean one. One with style. "Till We Meet Again", fuckers. Haha

However destructive it will be, World War III will be business as usual. The
"Powers of Darkness" (or "Earthly Powers" as Burgess calls them) will fund
several sides of the war, make a profit, decide the outcome, and in the end they
will get what they want: World Government. And even the U.S. President,
however powerful he may seem, is but a "puppet on a string". Dance monkey!
The most influential men always remain in the dark. Their "Unseen Hand" steers
the Fate of the world and humanity...

I'd be the one questioning authority in the Milgram Experiment. Questioning the
orders. Kindly given to me by authority. No insisting. Kindly asked. And kill
people in the act. Unthinkingly! And you know what? That is between 60 and 70
percent of the population... And there lies the problem. The masses are ignorant.
And it is the masses that vote, that maintain the system, however corrupt it may
be... Alas... Reality is very different indeed, dear reader. Surrounded by a lack of
common sense. Surrounded by a flock of obedient sheep. And such is the life of
people like me. Rope-dancing over a pit of hungry lions. Haha

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From a certain perspective, a philosophical or objective perspective maybe,
human struggle may seem futile, pointless even. Yet, I myself do not perceive it
that way. From the perspective of a man with a mission (I'm a Seeker,
remember), there is nothing futile about life. It is rather an opportunity. I doubt
whether anyone who has a clear goal will experience life as futile. Find yourself
a goal. That will give meaning to life. That will make life bearable…

Higher life forms elsewhere in the Universe may not have a need for God,
superstition, sentiment or spirituality. Maybe we see what we want to see. Mere
prejudice of the mind. We may leave this stadium behind us somewhere down
our evolutionary path. One day the Superman will walk on this earth. Stronger,
evil and more profound. What would be his attitude to things...?

How free can you be if you don't know how free you can be? Imagining yourself
free in western society... That reminds me of the prisoners in Plato's "Allegory
of the Cave", staring themselves blind on the shadows on the wall, ready to kill
the one who attempts to set them free. Unworthy of freedom! Freedom has to be
earned, freedom has to be worked for, freedom has to be fought for. Hard!

Knowledge and Courage are the elements of Greatness. They give immortality,
because they are immortal. Each is as much as he knows, and the wise can do
anything. A man without knowledge, a world without light. Wisdom and
strength, eyes and hands. Knowledge without courage is sterile. Baltasar
Gracián "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

I'm not gonna wake the sleeping dogs. Let them sleep and enjoy their peace of
mind. Blessed are the poor of spirit. That is their happiness. Why would you
take it away from them? And let them pay the price for their ignorance. Playball
of Serpents! We all pay a price. Let them wake up in slavery. Or servitude. They
will probably love it. Haha

Whatever price I pay for my knowledge, be it loneliness or forever

misunderstood... It is worth it. I actually find my position rather funny. The one-

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eyed man among the blind. But not all could handle it. I was born for it. I was
born to know. I wouldn't want it otherwise. This is the life that was intended for
me. Suum cuique!

Arm yourself with superior knowledge. The knowledge they use to lead the
masses by the nose. Manipulation, propaganda, crowd psychology... The
practice that has worked for countless millennia. And will work for countless
millennia to come. The secret of their success. Fact: superior knowledge makes
superior. Accept no superior. Be superior. Serpent of wisdom!

Meaning… Deeper meaning... If you ask me, "meaning" is a prejudice inherent

to life in general. Do things ought to have meaning? Objectively spoken I think
they don't. That is me putting off the glasses of life. That is objectivism. Forget
that you are human. Forget that you are even alive. Merely behold. And judge
not. Behold with an open glance…

I am in a very lofty place. Above the masses. Above the leaders. Above
institutions. Above the law. Above petty things. Great view. I can tell you that.
Everything beneath me. Everything at my feet. People are free to join me on my
mountain top, of course. Again, if they can stand the altitude. Haha

Some secret knowledge concerns the technique of controlling the “natural, yet
unknown functions of our bodies”. Telekinesis, photokinesis, out of body
experience, extrasensory perception… I remember “unknown functions”. Is that
what they are? Unknown gifts/talents/functions/capacities? To be found out.
Thanks to Johnny De Coster

Never focus on pleasure in life. That is the worst thing you can do. Instead,
focus on pain. "Pain" meaning the amount of effort, energy, time... you are
willing to sacrifice in order to accomplish something. That will take you
somewhere. Say not to complacency. It leads nowhere. Dead-end street!

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I do not envy those who have a lot to lose, be it their reputation or their wealth.
They are usually middle-class people. They do not belong to the powerful, who
have nothing to lose because of their power, nor do they belong to the poor, who
have nothing to lose because they have nothing to lose...

Let no one fool you. The Path to Truth is an individual Path, and therefore a
lonely Path. I can't stress that enough. There is no such thing as the Path. There
is no such thing as the Way. There is only your Way. It's your way, or the
highway. It may not be a bad idea to make this your motto from now on...

What is it really that makes a man dangerous? Is it his strength? Is it weapons?

No, nothing of that. It is the beliefs and convictions that he holds. That alone
suffices. And that reminds me again of the definition of a good man: actually a
very dangerous man who chooses not to be. Amen to that...

My newest sweater has "Serpent" printed on it. A "Serpent" is what I am. An

initiate in the "forbidden knowledge". And remember, “forbidden knowledge” is
not what it seems. The "forbidden knowledge" is available to all nowadays.
There is just no mention of it. Develop an eye for it!

Once society no longer has a grip on your thinking, you are indeed what I like to
call a "free radical". Potentially harmful to the system (as a whole). That need
not lead to actions though. At all! It’s the “potential” that matters. One has to
know how society reasons. Thinking exercise…

I've said it before... The self-made man is an illusion. There is only becoming.
The complex interplay between genetics and environment. Never take credit for
something you did not choose. How many of man’s choices are totally free?
Free from genetic and outside influence…

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I don’t blame average people. I don’t blame average IQs. Even though I should.
I hereby think of witch burnings, prosecution, genocide, hatred… But what is
really on my mind is the “Milgram Experiment”. 65 to 70 percent of the people
unquestioningly obey authority, regardless of what is asked from them. There is
a huge (even though potential) danger in that. History is my witness. So if
people cramp your style, work against you, look down on you, want to put you
down, or outcompete you… How would they have behaved in different times…?
The attitude that may (or may not) bother you just a little in these times, would
result in you ending up on the stake in others. It’s usually not the brightest
people. But the so-called “average people”. Those who do not question. It’s not
a bad idea to keep this in mind. Same people, different result. And maybe this is
the meaning of Nietzsche’s “fear thy neighbor”. Never forget what people are
capable of when circumstances permit. And every once in a while they do.
Social unrest, dictatorship, revolution, disasters, war… To be kept in mind…

Some say that “imagination makes possible”…I can relate to that. Why is it that
we have imagination in the first place? Biological adaptations exist for a reason.
They want to be used. It’s the same with intelligence. Above average I.Q. wants
to be used. It’s not that one has the choice. If it exists, it wants to be used. It
wants to be applied. It goes without saying. Nature does no things in vain. If it
does them at all. I bet there is always a reason for it. Obvious or not. Nature
does not waste. Nature is logical. I even tend to say there is intelligence in its
ways. Even though intelligence is applicable only to organisms. Well, it cannot
be excluded that the Universe has characteristics of an organism. In its own
way. It need not be identical. But in its very essence. Imagination makes
possible. Somehow. Agreed! Moving on…

One last thing… Yesterday I wondered who was/is behind the philosophy of “all
knowledge for all and for free”. I added a related article at the very end of my
book. I thought there was a “revolutionary mindset” behind it. Someone must
have given permission for the advent of the internet and all the knowledge
subsequently being shared. It turns out it’s a liberal thing. In any case, I can tell
you this: The “radically renewing ideas” are out there. A situation comparable to
that prior to the French Revolution. I see “revolutionary ideas” (political, social,
scientific…) and also “cultural ideas” (Sacred Geometry). And the previously
forbidden wisdom is out there too. All it takes is “fertile soil”. And a “proverbial
drop”. Haha. Nihil novum sub sole, nihil…

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A book that lasts millennia, like the Bible, must be important. Or contain
important wisdom. Logical conclusion. The “true essence” that is concealed for
the followers. Some things never change. Nihil sub sole novum. But I
understand obscurantism. The alternative is no option. Every individual
enlightened. Every individual wise. No one left to be fooled, no one left to be
lied to, no one left to be manipulated. No one left to be played. No one left to be
led by the nose. Have you ever thought about the consequences? On a social
level? Collapse…

There is still hidden knowledge. To be found in the secret orders. For example,
what is the source of modern numerological insights? What is the source of the
“Life Path”? That information is said to be the result of patterns that have
extended over a long period? Where is it? The source of it? There are also
“forgotten books”. Books published in the previous centuries, but never
reprinted. Those can be found in libraries. Private and public. The latter have
archives. That material (books, manuscripts…) is not accessible to the public.
Such publications get rare over time. And when you find them, they are
unaffordable. The same goes for astrological knowledge. That too the result of
hundreds, if not thousands of years of pattern-recognition…

666 – The Beast – The elites – The Illuminati – Total dominion and control…
First of all, total dominion and control need not be bad per se. And when it
comes to the elites (maybe the “Illuminati”, never forget that they made possible
the modern world. The advent of the world wide web, the release of
sacred/forbidden knowledge, and the global dispersal of all knowledge included.
However bad things may seem, and I stress “seem”, one has to keep in mind
there is a “good behind every evil”. Like there is an “evil behind every good”.
Yin/Yang. Keep that in mind. Ah yes, before I forget, “Illuminati” means
“Enlightened Ones”. How bad can they be…?

Society needs obedient slaves. Aberrant/deviant behavior will be suppressed. By

all means! People are conformed. Standardized! But conformism leads nowhere.
Nothing particularly interesting or exciting that is. They will make you a number
that adds digits in bank accounts. Such is the Fate of most people. Wisdom is
denied to them. All they leave behind is a digit, an entry in a book and offspring
that will suffer the same Fate. A useless life from a more profound perspective.
They may as well not have lived at all. Total oblivion awaits…

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There is some very “fishy” about the whole thing. I am talking about divination
(numerology, astrology, tarot, etc…). Don’t the Buddhists say that “all is
illusion”? And that “true knowledge” comes from within? Numerology,
astrology, tarot… is rather “external” knowledge. Indeed so. About the use and
uselessness of books and knowledge in general. It’s not the first time I realize
this. Sadly (haha) I have collector’s blood (DNA). And I have to do something
with my time here on earth. Am I wasting my time? That is the question. Jimmy.
Not Shakespeare. Hahaha

It may sound a little commonplace, but these are the very “End Times” of the
Bible. The “End Times” need not be all that dramatic. It simply means “end of
the old times and beginning of new ones”. Moreover, they are rather good news.
Something has to change. I suppose we all agree on that. Better be prepared
though. (The) great waves of change are coming. They have begun already.
December 21st, 2012 marked the end of a Yuga and the beginning of a new one.
“Be Prepared” (Scouts Motto) (Powell)…

For what is the perception of madness, but the perceiver’s perception of sanity?
What is that perception, but what collective society has decreed sanity to be?
And what is that collective society, but they who control, influence and police
opinion to manipulate the norms that they then decree? Sanity and insanity are
defined by perception and not necessarily by reality. Human history is awash
with those dubbed mad and dangerous who were to be feted as ahead of their
time often long after they had passed. David Icke

However enlightened someone may be, or think he or she is, it remains

questionable if he/she does not realize the following things. I quote: “Truths are
illusions that we have forgotten to be just that (namely illusions)”. Friedrich
Nietzsche. One could also say “Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas” (The Bible,
Ecclesiastes). If you chase truth, better realize that. It is one of those truths that
cannot be disproved. Not even by saying that “all is illusion”. Because that is
what it means. Haha

The many troubles ahead will be a breeding ground for new mythologies.
Expect mythmakers. The return of myth. A step towards greatness and great

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ideas. The end of nihilism is in sight. At last…You are a primitive, self-serving
and self-centered being. That is what you are. That is what we all are. And the
only reason why we add water to the wine is because we need other people.
Egoism yet again…

The lines that connect the angles of geometric figures, may point to cooperation
between unspecified things. According to the latest scientific insights or
speculations such a cooperation between different systems lies at the basis of
consciousness/awareness/intelligence.. At which point will we be able to say
that A.I. is conscious/aware/intelligent? And do we even want that to happen…?

He who knows his profession, but not his world, is logically an occupational
idiot. "Idiot savant". An alternative use of the term. The usual idiot lacks the
capacity to know better. The other one keeps himself in an idiotic state. Out of
laziness. Or cowardice. Or by placing higher value on material things rather than
on wisdom. I do not judge here. Just giving facts...

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else.
Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a
new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be
realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I do not exclude that I am indeed a prime number. Or maybe even a rarer

number. Intellectual and spiritual loneliness may be my Fate, even though I do
not exclude that thought to be fatalism rather than a genuine conclusion. In any
case, time will tell...

One of my sweaters has "Serpent" printed on it. I had it designed that way. The
Serpent symbolizes initiation. In divine wisdom. I can tell you this: No one will
tell me what divine wisdom is supposed to be. In fact, I believe all wisdom to be
divine. Period.

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I strive for the unattainable. Unattainable to man, in any case, given his limited
brain capacity. And that is the ultimate knowledge. I do not exclude that it is
attainable. Or even exists in some life forms throughout this (and possibly other)
Universe(s)...

No knowledge is forbidden these days, apart maybe from state secrets. And that
is understandable. But I guarantee you that one day the knowledge will be
forbidden again. For initiates and elites only. The relentless swing of the
pendulum…

It is better to remain silent so that people think you are a fool, than that you
speak and thereby prove it to them. A famous French moralist. Makes me laugh
all the time. And I often use it for insulting people in an intelligent/intellectual
way. Haha

Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand
in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the
race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole? Lord
Byron

They say the answer is blowing in the wind... If you ask me, the answer is
philosophy. And every human being is capable of philosophy. Every human
being is a philosopher in his own right. It is a gift that we all dispose of in a
greater or lesser degree. Avail yourself of it…

"Be yourself" (Nietzsche) implies a lot. Firstly, it is (or can be) one of the most
dangerous truths. As dangerous as it is beautiful. Secondly, it also teaches not to
pity people, but to be compassionate (understanding) instead. And thirdly, it also
teaches people to accept resulting punishments with pride and dignity. Avoid
shame. And avoid all doctrines that preach shame…

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We are bound by our senses. We all know that. Now, imagine that we would
perceive more of reality. That our brain would filter less of reality.. Imagine the
possibilities. Or if we were able to perceive reality "as it is"? That our brain
would filter nothing at all. Throw open the “Doors of Perception”. Being one
with all. How awesome would that be…?

The Essence of every religion, the core teachings, are withheld from the masses.
That would make them wise. That would make them free. To be avoided. But I
understand it all too well. One cannot build on wise people. Wise men are
"Builders" of their own. Their agendas differ from that of society. Self-interest
rather than self-sacrifice for the "Higher Good". Unless it be theirs...

So you are an individual? Good. Let me tell you this: What you need to fear
most, is the herd. Think of the herd as a flock of chickens. If you attach a foreign
object to one of them, make it an “individual” so to say, they will keep pecking
that individual until it is dead. Because they do not recognize the individual, the
deviant… as one of them. Herd mentality! Beware…

How many will praise their lives anyway? Society has no mercy for the
individual. Brick in the wall! There is this Moloch that feeds off the many, the
poor, the weak, the uneducated. Society as a whole lacks a face. A mere
colossus that tramples anything below. If you doubt that, read "Les Misérables”.
Still happens, albeit more subtle…

“A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very dangerous man who
has that under voluntary control”, Jordan Peterson. Or someone at least. I doubt
if this is a quote by Jordan. Could be bad for one’s reputation. Haha. Yet I
believe the quote to be very profound and accurate. Approved by myself!

Do you feel that you are unable to abide by society's rules? Let me say this: First
of all, there are plenty of people who can't. And secondly, there is nothing wrong
with you if you can't. It's just your nature. But it may not be a bad idea to seek
isolation. Isolation is often a great way to get in touch with yourself…

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The true conspiracy lies in obscurantism. The “Mother of all Conspiracies”.
The "Conspiracy of the Ages". Past, Present and Future. Enlightenment/
Wisdom for the "Chosen Few". For The "Worthy Ones". The "Righteous Ones".
For the "Great Initiates". For the elites. And no one else…

One of the greatest successes an individual can achieve in life is the overcoming
of self. Such achievements are also stored into the individual's DNA by means of
DNA methylation (epigenetics). In fact, everything you do or don’t do in your
life has an impact on your DNA. DNA has a memory...

What if things were in reality devoid of meaning? A mere unfolding of reality

and nothing else. Mere mathematical beauty. And nothing else. Mere scientific
beauty. Could you handle that? This all-too scientific view of life could actually
be the case. I bet there is no proof against it…

Wise men are to rule again. And will rule again. Wise rule. Question: Who
determines what wise rule is? And who wise men? I believe it to be the outcome.
The result. On all levels. Including public sentiment (satisfaction). And I will
leave it at that...

What is society but a preprogrammed (preconceinved) setting. Every society

can be seen as a "social experiment". To the individual I say: Be no automaton,
be no guinea pig. Walk the opposite direction...

Higher IQ (intelligence) looks down on lower IQ (intelligence). But not the

other way around. Their brain has no clue of the world of those of high(er)
intelligence. It is not equipped to do so…

The “ultimate knowledge” may correspond to a "state of being" rather than to a

"state of knowing". That is possible. I need no proof for everything. Chances are
great it exists already throughout this (and possibly other) Universe(s)...

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Don't you want to be above things? Above the Sheep? Above the Shepherds?
Above the Wolves? Above the Pyramid? What makes you doubt? Yes, you can.
By your Knowing. Reach lofty heights. Attain Nirvana. And smile...

Life does not thrive in chaos. It is dependent on patterns and predictability

(catch prey, gather food, acquiring social position....). Hence the tendency/bias
towards patterns. Self-organizing chaos...

True Enlightenment is a gradual process rather than a specific moment. At least

in my experience. And sometimes bound by hierarchy. Maybe that is the best
way indeed. One has to be ready for and worthy of some truths...

I wonder if demystifying truths ought to be on the timetable. First of all, not all
can stand the harsh truths of life. And secondly, are we to take away people's
illusions? Illusions make the world go around. The beauty of illusions…

The true individual as the measure of things.... One of my most personal and
also most dangerous insights. It is one of those truths one better keeps silent
about. It basically means you are above things. Including the laws. In spirit!

The more you know your world, the more you know your rights as a citizen and
as a human being, the more you will come to realize that this so-called
"freedom" in the West is indeed an illusion…

Consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg. Most of what takes place in your
body and mind does not even reach consciousness. The unconscious precedes
the conscious. Positive thinking my ass…

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A toxic education breeds insecurity, immaturity, emotional and/or affective
disorders. It will leave a "scar" on one's Soul. And remember, every child is
unique and needs a different approach...

These days I chase truth rather than women. Happiness is not my concern. "I do
not chase happiness. And happiness is a woman", one of my teachers once said.
And you know, truth too is a woman...

Keep in mind that individualism comes with duties. A duty to doubt, a duty to
question, a duty to be critical, a duty to oppose... And, last but not least, a duty
to be human. Your life has value…

If some insights offend you, them it's time to grow an intellectual pair, my
friend. Truth, no matter what. That is how I like it. Some truths cost lives. Yes,
there are indeed such truths...

Whatever education you may have received, some poison must have come with
it as well. Read. Sharpen your vision. And sharpen your pen as well. The pen is
mightier than the sword...

Were you given a choice to be born or not? Were you given the opportunity to
decline the conditions required for life in society? Did you give your approval to
become state property? I doubt that. Haha

Exhaustion and degeneration are most common among the lowest classes. Their
occupation, lifestyle, habits, diets... tend to be the worst. The sadness of
society...

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War isn’t always obvious. There are relentless wars going on you may not be
aware of: cyber wars, currency wars, trade wars… and those wars know no
borders, let alone limits...

Never forget three types of people in your life: those who helped you in difficult
times, those who ho left you in difficult times and those who put you in difficult
times. Origin unknown

We, moderns, are no longer used to war. Hence many, all too many return from
duty with permanent mental issues. That is what the absence of war produces:
mental weakness...

After two millennia of man's physiological maltreatment, it is only natural that

the 'instincts of decline' have come to prevail. Friedrich Nietzsche, "Unpublished
Fragments"

The “Great Revolution” might very well be a “Great Return”: a return of

Culture, a return of myth, a return of mysticism, a return of spirituality, a return
of the sacred, a return of beauty, a return of greatness…

The ultimate question of “The Myth of Sisyphus”: Is your life worth living or
not? Suicide as the ultimate existential question. Some label the book
dangerous…

Twin research has revealed that there is a biological basis for political
preferences and even for religious beliefs. There is indeed a biological basis for
everything. Embodiment!

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Life always comes with a price. You were born with a given genetic make-up,
you were born within a social class, you were given a certain education... And
the ultimate price is death...

Racism is a cultural thing. No one is born a racist. But I do believe it to be

inherent to human nature too. So unless we create something (a super-man) that
transcends the different races, there is no escaping it, if you ask me...

Average people are very demanding. They demand that I adjust my thinking
level to theirs. Haha. People are free, however, to join me on my mountain top.
Provided, of course, that the altitude doesn't put them off. Haha

Even though an initiate, I will share my Wisdom with anyone. But only with
those who seek wisdom. It is pointless passing on wisdom to people who prefer
ignorance. And remember, people have a right to be ignorant…

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments
and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and
what we proposed to do, we leave undone. Francesco Petrarch

The thing I fear most from humans? Their convictions. Nothing more, nothing
less. I have no convictions. I am an empiricist. All is well-founded and open to
revision. And that makes me a thinker rather than a believer…

The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported
Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and
incomparable atrocity have made it what it is. P. B. Shelley

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So you are a Nietzsche adept? As long as you haven't realized that Nietzsche
was also a manipulator, an instigator, and even a terrorist, you haven't
understood Nietzsche the way I understand him. Try again!

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,

Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the
human frame A mechanized automaton. P. B. Shelley

Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but
because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them
depends upon our own judgment. Francesco Petrarch

People who blow themselves up in the street in order to make as many victims
as possible may think of themselves as strong. But the truth is different.
Fanaticism is something for weaklings, Nietzsche said...

Herd animals are like cows. They graze (do their thing). When something
interrupts their grazing, they look up. A question mark pops up. And then they
even forget the question mark. And graze on. Haha

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what
is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The
answer to each is the same. Only love. Lord Byron

I perceive normal people as boring. They are good for taxes. People who
accomplish something are more often than not misfits in one way or another. If
'normal' were the standard, we'd still be in the trees...

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Progress is not the linear process many people believe it to be. Because that
would make our society the pinnacle of all social forms hitherto. I can guarantee
you it's not. Modern society is going nowhere fast...

You are as you are. That goes for all aspects of your being. You chose virtually
none of them. No need to feel guilty about anything. But do consider though that
your actions affect others. So watch your steps...

So you are a millionaire? That “don't impress me much”... What does impress
me, though, is what is inside your head. I have always been attracted towards
people who know something. Sapiophile!

I wrote about propaganda earlier in this book. But I could have written
brainwash. Or mind control. Or why not call it mindfuck? We're not better than
North Korea when it comes to propaganda...

Realization often comes late in life. That is not abnormal. Things always come
at the appropriate time. The natural flow of life, remember? The same goes for
books. One has to be ready for them...

Don't worry too much about the opinion of the others. The reason is simple: An
opinion is like an asshole. Everybody has one. Apart from that, thinking is
difficult. That is why most people judge...

Find yourself a decent job. A job that you love. For if you don't, the system will
squeeze you like a lemon and spit you out when you're no longer “economically
viable”. Be no number. Be a free man…

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You can say about Russia what you want, but at least in Russia multinationals
are not above the state as they are in the West. Erosion of the state. Erosion of
institutions. With the known result...

Geometry is co-eternal with the mind of God. Geometry provided God with a
model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God’s own
likeness. Johannes Kepler

Geometry is one and eternal, shining in the mind of God. That share in it
accorded to humans is one of the reasons that humanity is the image of God.
Johnannes Kepler

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the
architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
Bernard Tschumi

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their
fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age. Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe

Homo Sapiens tends to superstition, sentimentality, spirituality... Basically

things that make weak. To be suppressed in our successor? Imagine (higher) life
forms that have left this stadium behind. You might not want to meet those...

Now matter how fortunate you are, things can change in an instant. Bad luck,
illness, loss... Fate can be whimsical, you can rest assured. So don't display your
happiness too much. You don’t display when you lose it, so there’s why…

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We need to abolish haste. Return to the natural cycle. Chase the equinox instead
of money. Or culture. Like the Ancients did. Anything but money. Going
nowhere fast. On a social level. And they blame me for being a fuck-up…

One fool laughs at another. Yet, I do not laugh. Too old and too wise, probably.
I may be called a fool by the way that I gain knowledge. It is said to be the
wrong way. True knowledge is said to come from within. But how…?

Discover your true nature. It can be found below the layers of your sentiments
(often inherited from your ancestors) and all that has been imposed onto you by
society. Or is it something else...?

Deeper meaning… Do things need to have deeper meaning? My question. Food

for discussion. Debatable. And it’s not because our brain seeks deeper meaning,
that there is any…

The snake (serpent) is always bad according to the people. That is what they
were told. I make distinction though between the White and the Black Serpent:
The White Serpent good use of knowledge. For the benefit of others. Making
people wise. And the Black Serpent abuse of knowledge. Manipulation. Dumb-
keeping. Power play…

A.C.A.B. (All Cops Are Bastards). I understand the phrase all too well. Cops
also happen to uphold a corrupt system and a sick society. A lot of people
actually hate the system. And therefore the cops. I am not one of those. I am not
a hateful person. Hate is not good. Unless it would ultimately lead to Revolution.
A Revolution for good. That might justify the attitude. Awareness indeed!

Find an aim in aimlessness... And by the way... About aimlessness... There is no

such thing. Simply move from point A to point B. Then point B becomes the
goal, aim, purpose. No such thing as aimlessness, I tell you. That is only a

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perspective. If you find no clear and well-defined goal, then set micro-goals. It
doesn't have to be complicated at all. Life is as complicated as you make it...

Will there be a golden age or a new dark age? These are very exceptional times
when it comes to knowledge. And maybe that is the whole idea. The world is
ready for change. And it is time to unslave humanity. Or should I say "unplug
the robots". No sensible man accepts a mechanical life. Not like that.
Automatized, chronometrized, over-regulated...

I found the elixir of youth, I think. One possible one that is. Young blood.
Administered to an old(er) body. Rejuvenating effect. Those with power and
money can afford it. Extension of life. Via blood transfusions. Would you do that
when given the opportunity? I wonder what the fountain of youth would be like
then. Hopefully no fountain of blood. Haha

I once had this epiphany/revelation. Annihilation of east and west to be

expected. Spiritual? Or other? Possibly. Anyway, they find balance in the
middle. Holism! The best of both worlds united in one. In Europe. Question: Is a
“return to Europe” part of the “secret destiny of America”? How far did the
vision of the founding fathers reach? Food for contemplation…

Television and media… To put to sleep the “Sleepers” and to awake the
“Awoken ones.. I once had this insight. I do not exclude this is the case. Even
though I think the “Awoken Ones” have better things to do that watch TV. The
initiates maybe. Levels of knowledge. Inherent to organizations. And that is
what happens if you let others decide on it…

When it comes to spiritual things, the lack of proof is what prevents me from
believing. I am not always sure if this is the right approach. Because in this way
I miss out on a lot of amazing stuff. There is so much I wish were true. But it’s
always the evidence (actually the lack of it) that prevents me to be open to this
kind of knowledge…

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Some truths/insights may be disappointing. Yet I desire them. I want insight.
That is my happiness. Sometimes I wish things were different. But as a
truthseeker, I go for truth, not for lies or half-truths. Let alone sentiment. My
sentiment is not in the way of my insights. That is truth-seeking. And that is out-
of-the-box thinking...

Growing economic hardship and political instability, declining energy and

natural resources, climate change and catastrophic weather, loss or arable land
and fresh water, pandemic disease, escalating worldwide conflict… Prepare for
the “Great Waves of Change”. And do something with your knowledge…

All wisdom is forbidden. People are not to become wise. Never. Nowhere. Don’t
be fooled by impressions. Things are never what they seem. Or do you think
wisdom is taught in schools? There you have the proof. Mere preparation for
society. Mere preparation for servitude. Mere preparation for slavery...

In science, I also see “introductions” (of concepts). E.g. “field” (Faraday). I see
“models”, “theories” and “visons” that tend to change over time. The Quantum
Field Theory (QFT) is the most recent one. Science adapts its models with every
new discovery. With this in mind; what is the value of scientific models…?

Being "one with all" amounts to a psychedelic and religious experience, if you
ask me. Providing a level of Enlightenment. The why of the bodhi tree?
Incessant meditation made me ask this question. Incessant thinking that is.
Thinking and questioning are meditation too. That's what I think of it…

How do you recognize the true spiritualist? Quite simple: He is opposed to

matter, apart maybe from books. He renounces property and luxury. He is
minimalistic. His ambitions are immaterial. He is open-minded. He is eager to
learn. He has a Higher Awareness; And he has an instinct for truth…

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Truthseeker... Throw away your prejudices. Never let sentiment or superstition
get in the way of your insights and conclusions. That is not very objective, even
though there may not be something like “pure objectivity". Life presupposes
bias or subjectivity. Subject can never be object. And vice versa...

Conspiracy is as often false as it is true. Keep that in mind. And many a thing is
looked at from a commoner's perspective. The average man has no idea about
higher goals, higher purposes. It is also often written from a conservative
perspective. And last but not least, conspiracy theory is big business…

"We don't need no education... We don't need no thought control... No dark

sarcasm in the classroom... Teacher, leave them kids alone..." Crush their souls.
Trample their dreams. Subject them to slavery. And do it in such a way that they
will love it. Money, matter, luxury, retirement... Dangle that carrot!

Where exactly did the founders of the ancient belief systems get their vision?
Every belief system, religious or not, a mere “aspect of reality”. To some extent.
In its essence. I think I have an idea. Use of psychedelics is as old as humanity.
Or mystic experiences. Never underestimate those either…

I now realize that it is actually a good thing that I have no firm belief in
anything. This allows me to grow. Belief turns things into rigid or fixed ideas.
These exclude the possibility of growth. So I grow. A little bit every day. And,
as with investments, the long term makes the difference…

There is a “shift in consciousness” taking place. Has been for a while. Maybe
it’s the release of the “sacred” or “forbidden” knowledge. But there is more.
Some say it has to do with the Yugas. We reached the end of a cycle not long
ago (see article). It seems to affect even me…

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Knowledge alone isn’t what life is about. I always have the story of King Midas
in mind. Turning into gold whatever he touched. Make sure you don’t turn
everything and everyone into a source of knowledge. Different case, same
result.. Beware of the Knowledge Trap…

Apart from morality (referring to my first book), social status too a perfume.
And yes, again, to conceal the stench. Same story. Never feel less than those
with high(er) status. Status does not implies holiness. And holiness too has this
odor. On more than one level. Haha

To seek is to doubt. Doubt is a sign of intelligence. Certainty often one of

stupidity. Doubt until certainty. And certainty prepares for the next level. Doubt
leads to growth. Game theory. Surpass previous level, every level. “Infinity” as
the ultimate level. Godhood…

Physical violence is a characteristic of less intelligent people. The relationship

between I.Q. and violence is known. Intelligent people don't like violence.
Intelligent people defend themselves with arguments. This is scientific fact. It is
easy to tell smart from dumb...

Wherever there is an intensification of function or a particular beauty and

harmony of form, there the “Golden Mean” (Phi) will be found. It is a reminder
of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its
potential future evolution…

An end, however noble it may be, requires means. Both better be justified
though. That is the first thing. And an end, again, however noble it may be,
comes with a price tag. And that too requires justification. Unless you like to
waste money, of course…

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Fate is said to be determined (behind you) and Destiny a matter of choice
(before you). So "play the cycle". Create (your) Destiny. Infinite repetition.
Provided that there is such a thing. How about that? One of the reasons the
Buddha smiles, I think...

The essence of every religion is always concealed from the masses. True
knowledge comes from within. And with the help of psychedelic/spiritual plants
one can get the most out of it. Fool the followers. And it is understandable. No
man is to become wise...

My book is almost finished. But not my Quest. I have my personal “game

theory” in mind. My insight maybe nowhere yet. There are untapped sources.
And those too need to be tried/explored. After all, I am a Seeker. And one has to
deserve that label…

“Words have no meaning unless you have no ears”. It took me a long time to
solve this riddle. Haha. It is the most difficult riddle I’ve come across so far. But
these days I have ears for the music and eyes for the “Word”. Another riddle.
For you…

It may seem farfetched, and it probably is, that the Public Opinions are intended
to divide the people. So I'll put it another way. The Public Opinions divide the
people. Plain and simple. It need not be intentional. I am merely stating facts…

I am an obscure thinker. But there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The
world is obscure. Wisdom, knowledge… are still hidden, did you know that?
Hidden in plain sight, that is. And people often seek in the wrong place…

In some religions all too worldly wisdom is not part of what they call
“Enlightenment”. Really? Withold them the very basis? What kind of
Enlightenment is that? Sounds like chewed Enlightenment. Haha

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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in
science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from
centralized government. Milton Friedman

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of
culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore
imminent downfall. Frank Lloyd Wright

A decent detox will be needed after finishing school. With the certificate also
comes the propaganda. Better question what you have been taught, what they
made you swallow. You're not a goose, are you...?

No need to keep me dumb. I am erudite. No need to keep me poor. I roll in

luxury. No need to keep me busy. I keep myself busy. No need to scare the hell
out of me. I will scare the hell out of hell. Haha

We don't choose life, we roll into it. And that probably goes for a lot of things in
life. Hence my problem with the "guilty one" or the "responsible one. You can
only act as you can. You act as you are…

The worst mistake people can make is to let others do the thinking for them. Put
their faith in the government, politicians, doctors, the pharmaceutical industry...
You might as well play with your life…

It's about time that manhood is reintroduced to the West. Western society has
become "effeminate, all too effeminate". And by the way, testosterone rules. If
you doubt that, study the hyenas...

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I do not pity the ignorant. I rather feel compassion. They do pay a price for their
ignorance, just as I pay a price for my Knowing: intellectual loneliness. And a
heavy load of Wisdom to carry...

Belief in Fate implies belief in a higher, steering force. But this need not be
conscious, intelligent, self-aware or have human features. At all! All is
Becoming. Divine Unfolding…

When it comes to death, you may think yourself the hare. But the tortoise
(death) has time and patience. Eternal time and patience. And let those be the
most dangerous weapons...

Not having any convictions has its disadvantages too, it seems. It is hard to be
part of something, to fully support something. I am always and everywhere a
misfit, an outsider at best…

My five keys to happiness: do what you love doing, always something to dream
of, make your hobby your "work", finding happiness within oneself, a goal. And
above all: the small things...

Institutionalized religion sucks. From the moment that an institute lays its hands
on religion, it only serves to control people. It benefits the institute and society
rather than the individual...

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel
of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and
despotism. P. B. Shelley

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Beware of the Serpent, says the Adam and Eve parable. A parable written by... a
Serpent... And that Serpent leads them by the nose. That reminds me of the
tragicomedy that life is…

Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!

That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear
and shield. Lord Byron

There is often a difference between what you know and what you feel. That is
because knowledge does not change your nature. It won't turn the faint-hearted
into roughnecks. Haha

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make
it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself
decay. P. B. Shelley

Given its disastrous nature, I believe World War III could be a myth-bringer.
Good vs. evil. Light vs. Dark. It will inspire mythologists, preachers, prophets...
The herald of New Times!

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the
spheres. Lord Byron

Every once in a while Faust is confronted with this feeling of existential

meaninglessness. Faust gets drunk and moves on... He knows all too well that
life doesn't stop...

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If the soul exists, it is natural. If something exists, anything, it is natural. The
“supernatural” does not exist. All that is known to exist, is natural. At least, that
is what all realists and scientifically minded people say. Like myself…

About individual (peaceful) revolt... I can say this: The only language
governments sometimes seem to understand often proves to be that of violence,
mayhem, riot, revolt... Why not speak their language? Haha

Time exists only via the moment. A moment that finds its importance between
the regret of what has been lost and the longing for what is to come. The present
drags the past behind it and is pregnant with the future...

I continue the tradition of passing on wisdom and knowledge, as someone did

before me and for me. And I hope someone will do it after me as well. Forget
secret societies. It is an individualistic tradition...

When it comes to the human body, the Universe or anything else, science
always believes it is only one step away from "knowing it all". I can tell you this:
As long as it believes that, it knows nothing...

I am rather confident the vision/experience that psychedelics will give depends

on the pre-existing “state of consciousness” or “level of awareness” of the user.
The individual mind makes the difference…

Whoever you meet, always make sure you see "eye to eye" with this person,
regardless of his/her diploma, regardless of his/her level of education. If you
educate yourself well enough, you will...

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There is said to be a natural remedy for every ailment. And near every poison,
the antidote. Why is that? Nothing happens without a reason. No such thing as
coincidence…

I understand why knowledge could be forbidden. Society as a whole has to be

ready for it. Some knowledge might cause all too radical revolutions. Or unrest,
or revolt…

"Be Yourself" is nothing less than the most dangerous truth in existence. What
if you told that to a rapist? Or a serial killer? Or a revolutionary? Or why not to
a young Adolf Hitler? That's why...

Ancient buildings and monuments reflect a culture's knowledge, beliefs and

vision. They speak its language for those who listen. Hence the expression that
(the) truth is carved in stone..."

Thinking too much isn't good for you. I kind of doubt that. Haha. But I agree
one can think way too much. For that would imply fading of reality. The
definition of psychosis. Haha

Shamans of indigenous tribes claim that some of their knowledge comes from
the use psychedelic/spiritual plants like ayahuasca. To be found out. Tap new
sources of knowledge…

The way a person responds to the external circumstances depends entirely on the
person. And depending on who you are the external circumstances can make or
break you. Becoming!

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Somebody once said that the masses are always right. I doubt that. "The intellect
of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man’s thought", Mohammad
Iqbal said. Haha

Too much wisdom with the people. Too little with the elites. Such is the present
situation. Let the rulers thus transcend the people. That would make the world a
better place...

I do not believe in the "supernatural". When something exists, then it is natural.

There is only "nature" in its broadest conception. Everything obeys the laws of
the Universe. Some are known, some are unknown. Period!

Communism works! When all have the same mindset, it works. Christiana
works. The proof. No need for harsh dictatorships. Those do not work. Do they
ever do? And if they do, for how long...?

Death is said to be nothing. Yet, I do not believe in nothingness. Whatever it be,

I have a problem with nothingness. So what would the "something" be like?
Good question...

Those who think I am opposed to democracy, freedom or multiculturalism are

mistaken. I am rather opposed to excesses. Excesses always lead to chaos in one
way or another...

Battle of Serpents. White against black. Wisdom against wisdom. Dumb-keeping

is machiavellism. Making them wise too. A bit maybe. Haha. Same wisdom,
different aims...

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The people work hard. Apart from that and because of that they usually seek
complacency. It doesn't like too much change. Hence it needs to be convinced in
subtle ways…

Never ever forget that morality is an invention by the "wolves" in order to keep
the "sheep" under. They themselves live by different standards. Keep 'em under,
tear asunder...

The radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" by Orson Welles is the absolute
proof of how easy it is to keep a society is suspense, in fear even, by means of
mass media…

If you don't like where society is pushing you, and it does push people, then go
the opposite way. Resist. Fulfil your own agenda. One life, one shot, one
opportunity...

What we also owe to Sigmund Freud: the suppression of the “dangerous

instincts”, especially that of war. Turn people into harmless (and predictable)
consumers…

"Obedience to a woman is the beginning of downfall", Alī ibn Abī Tālib said.
This is probably true. But underestimating a woman will probably produce the
same result...

There is probably a reason the term "controlled opposition" is not on Wikipedia.

It is as Lenin said: “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it
yourself…”

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Lonely among the many. Lonely among the few. My name numerology reveals
three prime numbers (7, 5 and 3 - 753). The “three solitudes” is what I call it.
The “solitude of prime numbers”. Indeed so...

Wait for Enlightenment to come? Really? I believe it takes an active approach

to do so. I don't buy that. People are not to become wise. Never. Nowhere. Wait
for Enlightenment? Jesus...

Opposites find balance in the "middle". Harmony. Rest. Perfection. The self
(ego) is an illusion. The material world is an illusion. All is connected. All is
one. And the one is all...

Something obeys natural laws or it doesn't. I do agree some natural laws may
still be a mystery to man, so do not discard too quickly of anything deemed
"supernatural"...

Don't you meet society's standard? Congratulations! That may actually be an

indication of sanity. Common sense! It is the ones who do or are willing to do so
that are to be deplored. Slave morality! Sick mentality! Lack of common sense!

The most revolutionary idea in the history of man? The Superman. Sacrifice the
(inferior) species in favour of a superior species. That is philosophy. That is
morality. Or the lack of it. Haha. Ethics hinder progress, if you ask me. Ha!

What is the philosophy behind secret societies publishing the forbidden or

sacred knowledge? Are the times deemed ripe for change? Or in need of
change? Are they fed up with Western materialism? What is it…?

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I.Q. was never designed to reveal intelligence. And how intelligent are those at
Mensa who do not even question the IQ test itself.? A question and a quest for
the answet. That is intelligence...

People of higher intelligence don't tend to believe things. They want to verify.
They do not swallow things. And rightly so. Biological adaptation has a
purpose. It wants to be used...

Union with the Source is said to be the deepest longing. And that this is the
reason why material needs can never be satisfied. In Buddhism Ignorance is said
to be the greatest suffering…

Some say "Christ consciousness" is the next stage for humanity. I kind of doubt
that. What would a society of enlightened individuals look like? Sounds like a
contradiction to me...

A classical society with a basic amount of modern science and technology.

Whenever and wherever deemed necessary. Not too much science. That would
render society sterile...

I see a homunculus both in the parts of the human brain and in the female
reproductive system. I believe there to be more. The "homunculus" was a logical
conclusion. In those days, that is, in those days. Premicroscopic era. So it is
understandable...

Creators of A.I. beware... Better not equip it "with will to power". Self-learning
and self-reproduction is one thing. Give it "will to power" and we're history.
Skynet in the making...?

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Looking at the design both above and below, below and above, it is not that far-
fetched that people seek for an intelligent creator. Intelligent design at least. All
seems to point to it...

Sadly some of the most profound insights in a lot of people seem to bump into a
wall bearing the inscription "NON PLUS ULTRA - PERSUASIO". Those
unworthy of books…

Philosophy is learning to die. I agree. And it may also be learning to believe.

But that is easier said than done. How far are you willing to take it? That is the
ultimate question...

I'm 45. But I could be hundreds of years old. Or millennia. Many 100-year olds
know the world no better than what TV serves them. The antiquity of the soul is
hard to measure...

There are many views on death: afterlife, paradise, heaven, reincarnation,

rebirth, eternal recurrence...Have you ever wondered what they have in
common…?

Lucifer. Fallen angel. Lightbearer. Statue of liberty. Enlightenment ideals.

Behold the “secret destiny” of America”.. Will there also be a "return to
Europe" one day...?

When it comes to many forms of spirituality, I do know this: Our species (homo
sapiens) tends to superstition. This is probably scientific fact. This has to be kept
in mind…

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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of
cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Stendhal

Why Nietzsche? Quite simple: He gives direction. Whither society? Whither

humanity? All other philosophies have had their time. The world is changing.
Rapidly...

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an

intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems. Walter
Gropius

I'm an individual. I walk alone. Well, I suppose that makes me a “man of

virtuous soul” then. "The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys." P. B.
Shelley

All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World
Order", David Rockefeller said. Why not apply this to world government
instead…?

I understand a lot of things. I master compassion. Compassion means

understanding. It is based on insight and knowing. Do I have compassion
indeed...

Demystifying truths ought to come with a warning. "Warning: May shake your
illusions", Or "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”. A “point of no return” as
it were...

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In nature all has a practical function. A goal. An end. Nature does not create in
vain. Nature does not waste. Nature behaves intelligently and logically. All has
function. All has purpose…

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid
waves, Now dark—now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending
splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute
brings. P. B. Shelley

Your first and last mistake. Put trust in others. In priests, in Imams. in
politicians, in teachers, in your president... Put trust in yourself. Nullius in
verba!

What I know does not make me big-headed. On the contrary. It makes me

humble. Knowledge makes humble. And true thinkers realize how little they
know...

The Milgram Experiment shows that the majority of people will submit to
authority if the circumstances are right, no matter what it is that they are asked
to do…

Do not underestimate those minuscule brains of insects. When it comes to

intelligence, size does not matter. Lots of insects build societies (ants, wasps...)

Lots of meditation... Well, thinking and questioning are meditation too, if you
ask me. All starts with a question. Why? And indeed, that's why...

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Governments seldom care about the individual. They care for their own and the
general interest. You as an individual are expendable when it comes down to
it…

What we owe the internet…Legalization of substances is erroneously seen as

less control. But it is quite the opposite. Legalize, and seize control. Over the
illegal market...

Only humility allows for personal growth. Humility implies doubt. People who
never doubt things, are dumb. All starts with doubt. Doubt lies at the basis of
progress…

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought,
produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Lord Byron

In Jainism, clairvoyance is regarded as one of the five kinds of knowledge. And a

kernel of truth in every belief system. Combine them to find (the) truth…

What then is religion but a garment people put on or off whenever they deem
fit? Hypocrisy rules. Act your religion. Don’t just display it…

Some time in the future your genetic passport will determine what social class
you belong to and who you will be allowed to marry. If even...

Books are my most valuable possessions and I’m referring to the contents, not
the price. And if books were priced as such, I’d be either poor or uneducated…

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First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these
are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. P. B. Shelley

You may find this strange for a Free Spirit to say, but the Bible is actually an
interesting book. Provided, of course, that one knows how to read it...

Man is the measure of things. And that goes for the true individual as well. You
be the measure of things in your life. Individual sovereignty!

There is said to be a natural remedy for all ailments. And that is what I believe.
And there are millions of plant specimen yet to be examined…

Everything is philosophy. There is depth even in the superficial. Lene Den

Dekker.

Beware of hierarchy. Hierarchy implies subordination, conformity,

manipulation, mind control... Individuals walk alone...

If I had been waiting for Enlightenment all these years, I'd still be waiting. Haha.
Hard work is what it takes...

I am an idealist. Unfortunately, the greatest adversary of idealism is reality.

Idealism is the creed of the weak of will…

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to Truth; not going all
the way, and not starting. Buddha

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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes
life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person. W. Inge

Manipulation, propaganda, psychology of the crowd... Superior knowledge,

superior weapon. The target the ignorant masses. Dance, monkeys, dance...

If you want to get a good idea of drug and arms trafficking, read "Dope Inc."
and "Shadow World". And then talk about safety and law enforcement…

If you decide to leave paradise, make sure that you leave behind your paradise
mentality as well. It's a tough place out there, it's a tough place…

What is done is done. One of the laws of life. One of the laws of entropy
happens to be its irreversibility. All is connected. Holism. Just another proof...

When it comes to contemporary politics, I’m a conscientious objector and if you

ask me, most, if not all, truly independent thinkers are conscientious objectors…

I look forward to the days we will yet again build with an "aere perennius".
Lasting longer than bronze. And again carve (the) truth in stone. Amen to that...

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is
impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think. Lord Byron

Working people often label the sick or unemployed as 'parasites', but there is
this parasite so vast, so immense, so omnipresent that it remains unnoticed...

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This person could have acted otherwise, justice says. However, those who
believe in determinism and Fate say no. And did I mention circumstance…?

The most beautiful specimen can be found among the highest classes. Good
intermarriage, good diet, lack of stress... for generations on end…

Books can teach one a lot of wisdom, but there is one type of wisdom that
cannot be found in books: the wisdom that comes from living…

Women may very well be more intelligent than men, but they usually lack the
(male) ambition to kick it far with their intelligence. Friedrich Nietzsche

Infinity in numbers, infinity in formulas, infinity above… Infinity in everything.

Infinity on every level. No limits or boundaries…

Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas (est). Life always comes with illusions. And
life always comes with bias. They are inherent to life…

I'm a Free Spirit, I'm a Seeker, I'm a thinker, I'm an intellectual, I'm a
philosopher... I must be a complex man then. Logical conclusion!

When it comes to free speech, people are democrats as long as it is in

accordance with their convictions. If not, they turn into dictators...

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts,
while the stupid ones are full of confidence. Charles Bukowski

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Beware of those who show you the Path or the Way. There is no such thing.
Your Path belongs to you and you alone. Walk it with pride!

Pay attention to body language. And that includes your own too. It reveals what
people think or feel, their hidden intentions, etc… Revealing!

How to give meaning to an altogether meaningless existence? Does it matter

who/what Godot is? And if you ask me, he is a leitmotiv…

So you control the substance? You may think you do, but there will be plenty of
occasions in your life where it may take control over you...

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are
right, or it would rob them of their weapons. Lord Byron

I am a Nietzschean, even though I must admit I wouldn't fare well in a

Nietzschean society. I wouldn't even be born probably...

You are the Great Unknown. Don't let this be a source of loneliness. Again,
cherish it. And turn it into an advantage. Be a surprise…

The U.S. (or whatever its future name will be) still has to experience its first era
of culture. True culture that is. And it will some day…

A lack of deep sleep, which is so common in our industrialized society, is as bad

for your health as an unhealthy diet or smoking...

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There is this gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots'. Before long it will be a
gap between the enhanced and the unenhanced...

The three masculine virtues: a strong will, courage in battle and wisdom. If
present in one person, this is called greatness…

Great compliments to give and to get: "You're as dangerous as you are wise" and
"You're as crazy as you are brilliant". Haha

If you believe human nature is basically good, I suggest you study medieval
torture techniques. Or simply study history…

Stop looking for the Path. You have been walking on it all along. Occasionally
there will be a bump, a bend, a crossroads…

Morality was invented for the sheep to live by. If the wolves were to live by it,
they would be eaten by the other wolves…

When I use the word "race", people spontaneously think of biology. But that is a
misconception. Culture, religion, manners, customs... matter at least as much...

Those who swallow what they read, or those who (re)cite mindlessly: the
“literate fools”. Haha. I know, I know. One fool laughs at another. Haha

What then lurks beneath all that has been imposed onto you by your parents,
school, society...? What is it really? Seek, and you will find...

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They kept me dumb. I ought to be furious. But I am not. It was my Fate. It was
part of my Journey. Nature always finds a way. Eventually...

Whatever your ambitions may be, they won't bring anything on a platter. Fight
for it! Use your elbows. Otherwise they will walk over you...

The male and female vision are opposed. And that is only natural. And an
occasional "battle of the sexes" seems rather healthy to me. Haha

The white serpent makes them wise. For free. The black serpent keeps them
dumb. For personal gain, for reasons of control. His offers never come free...

The Superman… Stronger, more evil, more profound... And no longer in need of
god(s). Homo Sapiens tends to superstition. Not to mention sentimentality...

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world
all things are weighed by the false scale of custom. Lord Byron

Unless you live in isolation, your actions affect others. Why not use that insight
in a good way? For the benefit of others. Make life win-win...

Looking at the animal world, stealing is not an issue. Some animals steal from
other animals. Stealing is not a problem. Nature is amoral. Getting caught is...

The best way to prevent people from thinking about something is to make sure
the word for it never makes it into the language. Or to remove it from it…

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Evolution is the law of life. Number is the law of the Universe. Unity is the law
of God. Pythagoras said that. Fine truth. And it seems plausible at that…

There are none so enslaved as those who wrongly believe they are free, and
none so crazy as those who wrongly believe they are sane. David Icke

The essence of every religion according to myself? I believe that to be the

‘divinity of the individual”. Every man a god. Within every man a god…

Your place in this world is determined by the "lotery of life". That is a fact.
Countless factors no one has a grip on. Only fools think otherwise...

The books I once deemed “superior knowledge” or “high-level knowledge” now

seem to have been reduced to “low-level knowledge”. Note taken…

The "divine" is a good designation. And it will prevent countless battles in the
name of "the" Creator. Haha. As funny as it is poignant though...

Sudden savant syndrome as the proof that we only use a part of our brain
capacity. I once read that was an urban legend. Disproved!

"Absolete" (adj.): This is the notion that nothing is ever really absolute in the
universe and that things are destined to become obsolete…

The Path to Enlightenment is a rather individual Path. Let no one prescribe you
what it should mean. Let the measure of things be you...

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The “Tree of Knowledge” is psychedelics. Psychedelics is a source of
awareness, vision, prophesy, insight, and knowledge…

Photos steal one's soul, they say in Asia. Maybe so. But you, dear reader, you
steal my thoughts. And that may be even worse. Haha

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls.
All propagated with the best intentions. Lord Byron

These are the End Times. “End Times” meaning the end of the old times and the
beginning of the new times. A time of transition…

All snakes are bad, says the snake. And removes all suspicion from itself. All
snakes are bad, repeat the people. And follow it…

Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that
which is another kind of ignorance. Lord Byron

Owning both parties? It cannot be excluded. Some people even fund both sides
of a war. So why not? Consider all possibilities…

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and
mingle - Why not I with thine? P. B. Shelley

Self-destructiveness... Succumbing to oneself... It exists. Do not judge anyone's

battle in or with life. Wise men do not judge...

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A lot of things are overrated in Western society: love, sex, wealth, money, work,
youth, beauty, happiness... The list goes on...

The most common Western sickness is not cancer as many believe. Not even
depression. No, it is existential emptiness…

Life spares no one. Keep that in mind. People always forget that when seeing
other people's happiness, real or perceived...

The ideal form of government for modern society would, given its complexity,
indeed be a technocracy. Rule by experts!

In the old days men were men (warriors) and women were women (birth-givers)
and they were educated that way. Period.

Shake-Spear is obviously a pseudonym. The ancient Greek goddess Pallas

Athena “shaking her Spear” at Ignorance…

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human
happiness than marriage. P. B. Shelley

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere
motive in scribbling at all. Lord Byron

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those
who dare not, are slaves. Lord Byron

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters
are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran

What has happened to the noble beast and warrior called “man”? Man has
become a pet, an object of ridicule....

Everything springs from Necessity. And Fate determines where you go. They're
a couple. And I’m the matchmaker…

The external circumstances are no more than an aid, an opportunity to become

who you are. Friedrich Nietzsche

People always become who they are. Sooner or later. The complex interplay
between genes and circumstances...

A survival kit for every individual. Better prepared for nothing than unprepared
for everything. How about that…?

What matters an insight if you do not live by it or if you do not incorporate it

into your philosophy or vision...?

I believe we will reach higher states of thinking, knowing and even awareness as
we evolve over many millennia…

When it comes to being a judge, here's what I think: "It's a dirty job, but
someone's gotta do it...". Haha

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People are like roads. They may meet, they may cross, they may separate. Such
is the way of life. Acceptance...

Regarding Don Quixote, regarding 'impractical idealism'... All idealism is

impractical in the powerless...

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was

planned that way. Cui bono...

In the long run human genetic engineering will bring about a genetic
aristocracy. And it will rule...

Accept it...This book is indeed also a very personal account. And why not? My
life matters. And so does yours…

Serpent, rob the good shepherd of a few of his sheep. A few individuals won't be
missed. It's the many that count...

Knowledge is the road to freedom. Knowledge is the way to go. The ultimate
weapon, the ultimate defence...

Are you a Seeker? Or better still, a Knower? Then be critical as well.

Opposition, your new mission!

What is the source of the male and female energy? Wrong question maybe.
Energy itself is the Source...

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A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its
persistence… Jim Watkins

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with
pleasure. Victor E. Frankl

Back to totem animals... I am a Serpent. And another one of my totem animals is

the pig. A real one. Haha

Inauguration: “We solemnly swear to uphold the appearance of law, freedom

and democracy...”. Haha

Medical science books should include conditions like “cyber sickness” and
“connectitis”. Disconnect!

So your data are safe with Facebook? Dream on. All is tapped and stored.
Collect it all, know it all!

You pay a price for everything. So you have time? Then you must be sick. Or
have worked hard for it...

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: it helps one to get through many a
dark night. Nietzsche

I am not fond of the idea of a world religion, but if I were to pick one, it would
be Universal Gnosis...

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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those
below. Lord Byron

If your worst enemy is you, you may as well smash the mirror. There is no
defeating oneself...

Direction is so much more important than speed. Many are going nowhere fast.
Origin unknown

Don’t be afraid of being outnumbered. Eagles fly alone. Pigeons flock together.
Origin unknown

What will become of me? I find the idea of "Trader in Forbidden Knowledge"
quite appealing...

Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind

to kill. Lord Byron

Beware... Any crisis will be exploited by all possible sides. "Never let a good
crisis go to waste"...

If there is one thing you should remember from wildlife documentaries, then it is
this: Life is cruel...

Most people who pride themselves on being non-believers still hold ‘many, all
too many’ beliefs…

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Make sure not to become a slave of modern technology. Use technology and
don’t let it use you…

Bukowski teaches us to do what we like to do and success will come of its own.
Or not. Acceptance…

General education has for disadvantage that every idiot is entitled to an opinion.
And worse, a vote...

Those who laugh all the time, cry on the inside. Those who are silent all the
time, yell on the inside…

I’m a humanist, but only in the sense that man should take a central place. All
the rest is temporary...

Passionate people (like myself) are happy people. They find fulfilment in
everything they do…

Every human being has something with knowledge and philosophy. If only the
question and its answer...

I look at things from different perspectives. There are no contradictions in my

book, only paradoxes…

The police: of the people, by the people, for the people... And, let's not forget,
against the people too...

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We haven’t seen the end of the surveillance state yet. Those devices are actually
becoming intelligent…

Rebellion and non-conformism may backfire. Be a passive rebel instead. Or an

apparent conformist...

Not knowing can be frustrating. So I must be frustrated a lot. If not all the time.
Logical conclusion...

A population pyramid is supposed to look like a pyramid and nothing else. O

tempora o mores…

Being a Christian makes people no hair better. It is never what you call yourself,
but how you act...

"Democracy!" the people yell. And overlook the fact that we are actually dealing
with oligarchy...

There is a reason the U.S. has become so powerful and left Europe in the dust:
its leadership…

My four keys to happiness: acceptance, letting go, happiness with self and living
here and now...

When does one ever truly know someone? Anyone? The answer is plain and
simple: never!

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“The Prospects of Industrial Civilization” (Bertrand Russell) according to
myself? None…

Beware of Hegelian dialectics. It can be used for good, but also for evil. Mass
manipulation!

When is knowledge "forbidden"? Quite simple: When it leads to "forbiddden"

conclusions...

Short-term vision spans decades, a century at most. Long-term vision spans a

millennium…

"Higher Knowledge": any knowledge that will lift your thinking above that of
the masses...

Unless you throw away your ID card and go live in desolation, you remain state
property…

There are no psychological conditions. Brain and nervous system are organs
like all others...

First commandment of the true Free Spirit: “Thou shalt always keep an open
mind…”

Women have a hard time accepting the idea that “a man’s gotta do what a man’s
gotta do”…

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When will politics focus on the happiness of citizens for a change…? Kurt Van
Wiele

Make use of society, or society will make use of you. Use or be used. Harsh
reality...

In the climate of globalization I wonder whether the people actually have a

choice…

In many of the ancient religions the gods didn’t command, but rather acted as an
example…

Whatever you say, write, or do, there will always be someone who says: “Yes,
but…’

Leave your comfort zone. Be free. Think freely. And act freely. Break a few
rules. For if you don’t, do you even exist? To be free means to be alive…

Seekers seek: truth, wisdom, insight, knowledge, enlightenment, themselves...

and, last but not least, the "divine"... A sevenfold Quest…

I tend to exclude God. Yet, I do not exclude the "divine". The "divine" being a
word for that which we do not understand...

The present drags the past in its wake and is pregnant with the future. You only
become who you are. Being is becoming…

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Waiting for God(ot), filling his head with knowledge. Waiting for (God)ot,
emptying his head with insights...

The advent of the internet basically made the wise man redundant. The wise man
in the traditional sense that is…

Snowden's revelations backfired. Now everybody feels watched. Or was that

intended? Dubito ergo sum...

Good friends bring out the best in you, bad friends the worst. Moreover,
friendship has to be earned…

A professor once said about my book: "Is this the work of a genius, or a
madman?" Why not both...?

Although fragmentary in nature, Nietzsche does have a system. And it requires

brilliance to perceive it...

Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if this means standing
alone. Source unknown

All sores remedied. All anxieties tranquilized. All aberrations suppressed. The
pharmatization of man…

There is this invisible Moloch that feeds off the many, the poor, the weak, the
uneducated…Society!

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I bet the issue with safety is a middle-class thing. I can't imagine workers voting
us into boredom...

They mistook me for one of their sheep. But placing yourself outside the herd is
not without risk...

Two things to avoid striving for: money and happiness. Both may lead to
dissatisfaction…

Virtue is positively correlated with social status. Virtue is innate but needs
nurturing too...

The Hulk... Man and beast. Sometimes the beast takes the upper hand. The
dualistic nature of man…

I am perfectly happy in my backroom, away from the noise and hustle and
bustle of modern life...

Become a man of the world. Find alternatives for the "modern way". Hack the
system. Hack life...

If you wonder what death is like, then my question is: What was it like before
you were born…?

Ambition is what separates the small from the great: the scope of their
undertakings…

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There are no psychological conditions. Brain and nervous system are organs like
all others...

My reading, my thinking for years on end... taught me "The Subtle Art of Not
Giving A F*ck". I love it!

These days it is not so hard to conquer Europe and before long the world. Just
conquer the Parliament…

Freespiritism... Individual anarchism... What's the difference? Stirner was a

precursor of Nietzsche...

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the
universe. P. B. Shelley

Don't worry too much about your association at times. A one-sided association
may actually be worse...

Eugenics consequently applied will alter the face of the general population in
only a few generations...

When it comes to insights, always build in a margin for error, an uncertainty

principle. If only 1 percent…

I can say this: Modernity hasn't done much good to Western men. It has grown
generations of weaklings…

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My vision on science? Do away with all science that has no major application.
And introduce mysticism...

The ultimate conclusion to Darwin is probably social darwinism. The fit thrive,
the weak are to perish...

The reality is that men have turned into women and women have turned into
men. The unisex man!

No one is unique. All are treated alike. Through schooling. The standardization
of the human being...

A profound knowledge of things may lead to intellectual isolation. Make sure

you can handle it...

Beware of poisoned gifts. That goes for society as well. I can imagine a few. But
silence is golden...

Society, man, earth… are in need of a holistic approach as their parts are
interconnected…

Hear, hear, hear ye all, hear a Serpent hiss, verily verily verily verily, what will
go amiss? Ha!

If I understand Shake-Speare well, every woman is per definition a shrew that

needs taming…

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Those who think the days of colonialism are over better read a book on neo-
colonialism...

Love makes blind, they say, but convictions even more. They prevent one from
rethinking...

Great Politics will address the question of breeding; Great Science that of
physiology...

I have something of a thief. But I steal with my eyes and ears rather than with
my hands...

My ideal place would be a place where the Western obsession with time does
not exist...

True friendship may perhaps consist in working on the same goals. Being “in it”
together…

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. Edwin
Lutyens

I sought the Grail and I found myself. I sought the ultimate truths and I found
myself…

Acquisition, annexation, conquest... Inherent to nature, inherent to life, inherent

to man...

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Walk over people or people will walk over you. Use people or people will use
you...

I often use the word "fool" for describing others. Well, at least I know I am
one...

Wolves lack a heart simply because they can’t afford to have one. Only sheep
can…

I hope to find peace of mind some day, but this may very well be the day that I
die…

It would be more fair, more beautiful even... if one were to allow to express the
full potential of a person...

Our brain is hardwired for the “spiritual”. Logically the “spiritual” must be part
of or an aspect or reality…

The White Serpent provides them with the same weapons the Black Serpents use
to lead them by the nose...

Why bother what society prescribes anyway? Societies come and go. Only the
individual is a constant...

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon
ourselves. Lord Byron

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own
are the same. Stendhal

A state must be a "non plus ultra". The exploits of those "stateless individuals"
are the absolute proof...

Great works were often the work of initiates. Jesus, the Buddha, Plato, Mozart,
Goethe, Shake-Speare...

The negro to the white man: "You, Sir, have a watch, but I have time..." Adopt
the black way of life!

I do not hold any convictions, but I pride myself on having well-founded

insights. Empiricism!

See everything in life, whether it be good or bad, as an opportunity. An

opportunity to grow...

You might think of me as wise. Well, that is probably because of all the
mistakes I've made...

If the Vatican archives were made accessible to the public, the truth would
finally come to light…

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for
boredom. Stendhal

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There are "things you can see only when you slow down". Stop getting ahead of
yourself. Meditate!

The decline of the arts in the West can be referred to as artistic nihilism. It is
temporary though...

Book burnings are always for the eyes of the people. No sane person would buy
valuable writings…

So you committed a crime and got punished for it? Deal with it and move on.
Life doesn’t stop…

Science for the sake of knowing alone is rather pointless. Science has to be
applied. Always!

The economics of the future: environmental economics. And 'biopolitics' will

get a new definition...

I am out of touch with common people. You know, wife and kids, the two-story
in suburbia. Boring...

“All problems can be reduced to a lack of love” (Belgian priest). Lack of love
for the Self, lack of love from others, lack of love for others. True!

What you can do here, you can do elsewhere. What you can do on a small scale,
you can do on a large scale. To be kept in mind…

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My life may have been, or seemed, "alas". But it was by no means tragic. Not in
my eyes at least. I am an "eternal optimist"...

There are about 8 billion opinions. So what is the value of an opinion? Wise
judgement on the other hand is rather rare...

A life is never in vain, regardless of any material or financial legacy. You leave
a mark on others. Butterfly effect!

True reality is more complex than our eyes lead us to believe. That is the essence
of the hallucinogenic experience...

I chance to think that all nature and the graceful sky are symbolized in the art of
Geometria. Johannes Kepler

The logic of people of lesser intelligence resembles that of apes. Or chicken.

Primitive. Or herdlike...

Education, zen-buddhism, samadhi, praying, meditating, psychedelic plants...

All roads to the same...

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
Santiago Calatrava

When it comes to reality, man is the measure of things. And when it comes to
life, the individual...

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Deal with it. The government's boot is on your throat. Left or right one? Which
one do you prefer...?

If you find no one to talk to, I advise you to "talk to the dead". And those often
have more to say…

Most people follow their lower instincts. I myself follow a higher instinct: an
instinct for truth...

Talking about fools... Does that make my books "fool literature"? Or a “fool's
literature”? Haha

One question always has to remain without an answer. Otherwise I loose my

“raison d’etre”.

Situations are seldom hopeless. I believe as much in "hopelessness" as I do in

"free will". Not!

The goal of nature according to Nietzsche? The most beautiful specimen. Let’s
make it ours too!

Seeing a lot of ambiguity is a sign of intelligence. Life is seldom

straightforward...

Punishment would become extremely cruel if the punishment were to ‘fit the
crime’ indeed…

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First commandment of myself: “Thou shalt not attempt to rid average people of
their illusions”…

Freedom depends more on attitude than on knowledge. Freedom is indeed a

state of mind….

Again to the subject of war... Are you familiar with gene patent wars, ethnic
bioweapons...?

A fruitful conversation in my eyes is a conversation that yields an insight. Or

better, a book...

Are you unhappy about the education you got? Then you know what to do: re-
educate yourself…

Hit rock bottom? Excellent! See it as an opportunity. See it as a crossroads.

Change direction!

A lot of what is preached when it comes to your rights as a citizen sounds nice
indeed. On paper...

An ancient philosopher went to the market and reportedly said: “All those things
I can do without…”

Corruption is like inflation: It is so widespread that it is regarded al normal. The

system is corrupt…

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Let no one tell you how to live. Not your parents, not your priest. No one. Find
your own way...

Worlds within worlds. Doors behind doors. No boundaries, neither in the great
nor the small…

The truly great ones always leave an indelible stamp on things (architecture, the
arts, science…)

When people think of terrorists, they usually have the little ones in mind. States
terrorize too...

The kept me dumb. But that was never a problem. I became what they call a
late-bloomer...

If it lies within your possibilities, make a lot of money and buy your way out of
bureaucracy...

There is no propaganda in the West? How about “liberty”, “freedom” and

“democracy”…?

A look through the "Doors of Perception" may be a life-altering experience. Are

you prepared...?

When undertaking the hero’s journey always beware of tempters and

temptresses…

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Seize, hold, let go. Seize, hold, let go. My thinking looks like conveyer belt
work. Haha

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?
Lord Byron

There are leaders and there are followers. If you are neither, then you must be an
individual...

Relentless manipulation or fraud with knowledge real or perceived. My

conclusion…

Knowledge is power, they say. But I say that knowledge has to be combined
with power…

As a fruit picker I only pick the best fruits and moreover, only those that fit my
philosophy…

Architectus Magnus, Architectum Magnum, Creation implies Creator?

Quaeritur...

Big business. How villanous can one be? Exploitation as the success formula.
Great job!

The danger lies not in eugenics, but in its absence. Make human physiology the
objective...

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You know what? Behind the “doors of perception” more doors. The mind is the
labyrinth…

Be above things, be above people, be above certificates... In spirit! By your

knowing...

In antiquity the focus was on might, and therefore Culture. The difference lies in
the focus...

The end justifies the means? Probably. Just make sure the end is right. That will
last longer...

Unfortunately, psychopathy is a trait that is all too common among the

powerful…

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living. Anthony Douglas
Williams

I have a tendency to refuse doing anything that goes against my nature. And so
should you…

Do people make you feel different? Then you are in the wrong place. Bad
company!

If not as a source of knowledge, then as a view-changer. A new pair of glasses if

you will...

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Enlightenment allows one to "play the cycle". There is Fate. And there is
Destiny...

Everybody feels watched. That may have been intended indeed. Prisoner’s
dilemma!

A wise aristocracy will be characterized by numerous checks and balances. Self-

restraint!

Taking a break works, they say. But how on earth does one take a break from
oneself...?

Forget Brotherhoods. So many fruits to pick. So many pearls to dive. All by

yourself…

There are levels/degrees of Enlightenment. That is what I say. Strive for the
Ultimate…

Humanity has to find balance. Balance between the material and the spiritual.
Harmony!

Forget behavior, forget reputation... You cease to be a good citizen the moment
you know…

Never mind obstacles or adversity. Instead, overcome them and they will help
you grow...

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Divine numbers can be found in all sciences. From psychology over biology to
physics...

Two characteristics of the Serpent: double-speak and double agenda. Apparent...

and real...

I myself am not in search of happiness. Probably because I am happy. Happiness

with self...

Set mistrust as the standard in your dealings with people, especially unknown
people...

I always come in sheep's clothes. The fool, the joker, the child, the ignorant...
Good!

Learn the way of the system. If only to use it against the system when it comes
down it...

Seize the day... Seize the moment... As a thinker, I myself prefer to seize the
thought...

Ignorant people with money are still ignorant. What good is money in the wrong
hands…?

Life is all about intoxication. It's just that some desire more intoxication than
others...

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Contemporary art is tasteless. In fact, modernity is tasteless. Once more I shake
my Spear!

Seize the thought, hold it for a moment, and let go of it. Like one does with a
butterfly...

Beware of the "knowledge trap". Turning everything into wisdom and insight.
Get a life!

The 'ideal world' some talk about sounds like psychosis in my ears. Fading away
of reality...

My restless spirit takes me ever further down the road of wisdom and truth. No
day off!

The black serpent has the masses. The white serpent can save but a few. Such is
reality...

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. Lord
Byron

The absolute masters of psychological warfare are the powers that be. And
women…

Eat, sleep, perform, repeat... The automatization of life, the instrumentalization

of man...

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Once again, it will be “survival of the fittest”. And this time we will be the
prey…

Your country: prison with an open door. Locate the door. And take the first
step...

I do not document my simple, often pathetic life. I document my thoughts. My

Soul…

My battle is mine and mine alone. Do not judge me. In fact, do not judge at all.
Ever!

Beware... There may be a (higher) good behind the apparent evil. Or vice
versa...

Be willing to revise your insights at all times. That is what thinkers do. Believers
don't...

Every civilization contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Carl
Marx

Bureaucratically-systematically-technologically fucked. After losing one’s ID

card…

Sturm und Drang". That is what life is all about. And an argument against “free
will”...

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Children are usually trained to serve the interests of others rather than their
own…

We are all equal in death. This may very well be the only aspect of life that is
fair…

Courage: doing that what your instinct, your feeling or your fear tells you not to
do...

If you want to get an idea of revolution, read “The Spirit of Revolt” (Kropotkin)

Never contradict with your actions what you say with your mouth. Be truthful!

Commoners need to survive. But so do the elites. Dog-eat-dog, wolf-eat-wolf...

Being too intelligent for this world. It exists. They may be mistaken for idiots...

Never ever call yourself open-minded if you don't know what there is to know...

There are no good or bad choices. There are only choices. And consequences…

Our states, they make me sigh. What are they but tombs of greatness gone by...?

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Some people have a master morality, others a slave morality… What is yours...?

Bureaucracy: the art of making the possible impossible. Javier Pascual Salcedo

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! Lord Byron

Live from day to day. Live from moment to moment. Live within the moment...

One can be lonely among the many, but one can also be lonely among the few...

Hegelian dialectics, semantics, reverse psychology, false logic, etc... Beware...

Do not doubt it. A lot of ignorance hides behind the mask of professionalism…

A segregation of the sexes will impose itself sooner or later. It is only natural...

Self-education will help you develop a certain savoir-vivre too. Disce vivere!

Choose the simple life above all else and avoid anything that complicates life...

Not very long ago I came up with the term “genetic plasticity” (epigenetics);

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Never reduce a man to his problem. That would be a “reductio ad absurdum”…

Convictions are a condition that is extremely hard, if not impossible, to cure…

This millennium will witness the reintroduction of ancient ideals. Gradually!

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge. Lord Byron

Secret societies… Breeding places of the gods? That once crossesd my mind…

Open the “doors of perception”. Attain Cosmic Consciousness in the process…

The less intelligent a person, the more of a monkey he is. Or the closer to it…

The best gift we can bestow on someone is our attention. Thich Nhat Hanh

Hope means life... Hope keeps alive... Hope springs eternal... Holy Trinity!

If you're not strong, like myself, be inventive. Find your way around things...

True health also implies mental and physical strength. The ability to endure...

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Three things that set men apart from women: spirit, sentiment and ambition...

Another one of my totem animals is the snail. I easily withdraw in my shell…

Religion as a weapon. Nationalism as a divider. Choice as illusion (Trinity);

People have no opinion about you. They put a label on you. Pieter Peleman

Second commandment of myself: “Thou shalt not cast pearls before swine”…

If you're not strong, like myself, be inventive. Find your way around things...

Animals have no hidden agenda. Their intention/motives are easy to know…

To fuck is one thing. To provide a child with a decent education is another...

Slaves need a vacation from their life every once in a while. Masters don’t…

Time and patience. Those are said to be some of the most deadly weapons…

Degenerate art: when the artistic level becomes that of psychiatric patients...

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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think. Lord Byron

“We all climb the same mountain but from a different side” (Belgian priest)

There is truth in divination. This points to the interconnectedness of things…

My book breathes different times. I was actually educated against my time…

Pampering children leads to squeamishness. Lots of pain do I desire them...

Fascism was defeated, communism was defeated… Two down, one to go…

A good movie in my eyes is a movie that makes people wise. Prerequisite!

Solar energy? Wind energy? At what cost? Beware of eco-radicalism too…

You have to die a few times before you can really live. Charles Bukowski

Human physiology must be made the question of the millennium. I agree!

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman. Lord Byron

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Regarding my life, there is only one opinion that matters to me. My own!

Thinkers are opposed to convictions. They prevent one from questioning...

Beware of social straitjackets of all kinds. They may limit your potential...

All is connected. Nothing exists by itself. My argument against free will…

Women are considered deep, but they are not even superficial. Nietzsche

Everything is expression of “Universal Will”. Expression of Divine Will…

Intelligence: to realize you stupidity. Wisdom: to realize your ignorance…

Two animals often come in sheep's clothing: the "wolf", and the "Snake"...

How does one disprove any truth? Simply by saying that "all is illusion"…

First the food, then the morals... That is how decent you are. By nature…

The times are ripe for the "forbidden knowledge". Ripe for change also…

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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself. P. B. Shelley

Capitalism, nationalism, liberalism, socialism, communism... Nihilism!

Find spiritual faith. Look beyond the material world. My personal goal…

Human enhancement will indeed increase inequality. It is only natural...

Christianity in a few words? A “Great Darkening” and a major setback…

Nihilism can also be described as an existential crisis. On a social level...

Beware of philosophical systems. The philosopher too wants your Soul…

Omnia vanitas est. What we perceive as "material reality" is an illusion...

The most dangerous superstition? An unquestioning belief in authority…

Never demand respect from people. Respect has to be earned. Always!

Dumb people can be recognized by the refusal to learn or gain insight...

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Life is a voyage of discovery. And that includes self-discovery as well...

Few people appreciate me the way I am. They lack the insight to do so...

I realize my potential now. Potential is what you love. And how much...

When the animals could still speak. Or when we still had an ear for it...

Who says being 'disillusioned' and 'demoralized' is a bad thing per se...?

Find your own truths. And swallow nothing from no one. Be a sceptic!

I have something of a stoic. I seldom take part or judge. I rather notice…

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. Carl Gustav Jung

The nature of the (true) man is evil; that of the woman bad. Nietzsche

Fatalism in the non-Nietzschean sense is the creed of the weak of will…

I love what I do and I'm good at it. I'm good at what I do and I love it...

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Reintroduce harsh military training for all males. Turn them into men...

Find the diet that suits you best. The "one diet for all" sucks big time!

We live in a globalized world. Find yourself a state that fits you best...

Beware of the Serpent, says the Bible. Frankly, I feel honored. Haha

The pyramid symbolizes society. The pyramid is inherent to society…

I have an eye for beauty, hence I see a lot of ugliness too these days…

The preoccupation with time and infinity is ‘modern, all too modern’…

‘Nosce te ipsum’ – Know Thyself – Seek the answer within yourself…

Democracy... Decline of the state? Or political defeatism? Quaeritur...

The women of today are free. But in the old days they had influence…

Man? beast? Monster? A good mother loves what she brought forth…

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Beware... With every book that you read comes a bit of poison too…

Seeker: Truthseeker, Lightseeker, Godseeker… Never mind words…

Revolt does not necessarily imply violence. Why not write a book...?

I seldom speak. My truths are not all that innocent or well-received...

Forget that diploma. I believe anything is possible. If only you will...

Science says “zygote”. I say potential. And some more than others…

I may not be specialized, but at least I’m not an occupational idiot…

Life comes with prejudice. Life comes with bias. Plain and simple...

The war that will make an end to capitalism. I call it the “End War”…

Of what avail intelligence without wisdom? Feed that intelligence...

Strive for symmetry in architecture: balance, harmony, perfection...

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There is always something with the silent type. I confess. Hahaha

The best teacher is life itself. Always has been and always will be…

One can acquire everything in solitude except character. Stendhal

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it. Kick philosophical ass!

I must have fruit pickers among my ancestors too. Or pearl divers...

Might, mastery, manipulation... The Holy Trinity of those in power...

The light vomits a puzzle of a thousand pieces. Patterns of infinity…

All observations are subjectivistic-relativistic. In brief: biocentric...

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. P. B. Shelley

Lack of hardship, suffering… breeds weak morals, if you ask me...

IVF... Triple selection. Best of the best of the best. Amen to that!

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There is no escaping oneself. The life of every individual is “alas”…

“Everything starts with (the) connection to God” (Belgian priest)

Prepare men for war, women for labor. Segregation of the sexes...

Beauty, greatness and wisdom. That is what antiquity was about…

If I myself were to name one cardinal sin, it would be ignorance...

Sometimes all it takes to thrive is a change in one’s environment…

Relative”, “subjective”, and “relatively objective”. Holy Trinity…

One of my mottoes is “do ut des”. I give so that you might give…

"One ring to rule them all"... The World Parliament. I'm waiting...

Every social ill is time and again covered with the cloak of love…

Forget Brotherhoods. They conceal rather than reveal the Truth...

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Boko haram! Teach children some wisdom about life, will you...?

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good. Lord Byron

Practice and experience are the most advanced form of theory...

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. Lord Byron

Every system will try to maintain itself by all means necessary…

We hide our wildness and primitiveness behind good manners...

Conformism, apparent conformism, phariseeism... Cowardice…

Do you want to get rich? Not that hard. Appeal to the masses...

Do we want it so safe that it becomes boring? Bart De Wever

Lower-level knowledge? Never Say Anything (NSA). Haha

Why are we the good guys anyway? Dehumanize the enemy...

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Philosophizing is a bit like rope-dancing. Over a pit of lions...

Question people's motives. Always! Everybody has motives...

What is drinking? A mere pause from thinking! Lord Byron

Knowing yourself is one thing. Knowing the others another...

Hegelian dialectics: create a problem and offer the solution…

Reality is a collective hallucination that we agree on. Haha

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. P. B. Shelley

Knowing is nothing but the stripping away of all illusions...

Roman roads had a military purpose. Those were the days...

Silence the noise of modern society. And temper its pace;

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. Lord Byron

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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover. P. B. Shelley

There is no failure. There are only “moments of learning”;

Conspiracy theory makes victims too. Keep that in mind...

Do you seek true friends? Then be a true friend yourself…

These days it is not what you create, but how you sell it...

Life is mainly occupation. Waiting for God(ot) to come...

Your first mistake: mistaking me for one of your sheep…

He hath awakened from the dream of life. P. B. Shelley

Truth = Letting go of your opinions, ideas, convictions...

Preserve the DNA of exceptional people for future use...

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. Lord Byron

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The noise of society is detrimental to the spirit as well…

Be frugal with confidence or suffer the consequences...

Contempt for death, contempt for life... The true man...

Cold, chilling beauty. The Universe must be a woman…

The best prophet of the future is the past. Lord Byron

Don't ponder about time. Ponder about waste of time…

Times ripen, like wine. All times are good when old...

A subjectivist-relativist-biocentrist, that is what I am...

There is no free will. There is only divine lawfulness...

These days I prefer silence to music. Music distracts...

"Nosce te ipsum"... The Answer lies within yourself...

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Knows too much to argue and to judge... Bob Dylan

As crazy as he is brilliant. As brilliant as he is crazy...

Doubt everything at least once in your life (advice);

Everything moves, streams, dances. Cosmic danse!

Freedom is the greatest illusion. Sylvia Langbeen

I deny nothing, but doubt everything. Lord Byron

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come…

Expect the worst, hope for the best. "Be prepared"...

Assume the course of nature. Patience is its secret...

Hendrik Conscience: the “conscience” of Flanders…

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The characteristic of a good book? It makes wise…

Expect the worst, hope for the best. "Be prepared"

Start small. Create order in the Universe. Hahaha

Create order in the Universe. Mine to be precise…

Don’t avoid silence, but use it to your advantage…

In solitude, where we are least alone. Lord Byron

Man has a dualistic nature: half god, half animal...

Men rule, women tyrannize. Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man should undertake the hero’s journey…

Abolish the clock, and therefore abolish... haste...

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(The) truth is carved in (the) rocks... Indeed so!

All is perception. There are infinite perceptions...

I like Beethoven. His music breathes Napoleon…

Knowing, insight, awareness... MY Holy Trinity…

This is the age of oddities let loose. Lord Byron

Women prefer emotions to reasoning. Stendhal

Animals come as they are. Humans seldom do...

Endless compassion yet no endless tolerance…

The first step to Enlightenment is to desire it…

Hollywood speaks truth via fantastic movies…

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Create a life you don’t need a vacation from…

Books without vision are basically worthless…

Study all religions. Extract the essence/truth...

Seek no beginning. Seek no end. There "is"...

Beware of those who keep calm all the time...

Be careful what you invent: weaponization!

The senses: as illusory as they are truthful...

The soul's joy lies in doing. P. B. Shelley

The ignorant masses. O so badly needed…

Might Is Right’ indeed. A law of nature…

All is connected; all is one; all is infinite...

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Take control of your life. Or others will...

Seek no why. All is/has Divine Purpose...

The journey of the true hero never ends…

Organize snail races for balance. Haha

With true philosophy comes vigilance...

What is life? An eternal tragicomedy!

Who plays who? That is the question...

Do what you will; Will what you do;

Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens...

Joy, once lost, is pain. P. B. Shelley

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Speaking volumes with his silence...

Another man's book is hard to read…

As insignificant as it is meaningful...

The “Lion of Flanders” is a leader…

Censor not wisdom, but nonsense...

Haste is the pathology of our days...

So the country, so the institutions...

Apparent contradictions are truths...

“Ruthlessly curious” (Da Vinci);

Karma: You reap what you sow...

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The only constant is change…

So the society, so the citizen...

As simple as it is ingenious...

As simple as it is complex...

True education never ends…

As funny as it is poignant…

As gifted as he is flawed...

As vain as it is true...

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 On Life Path 7

In numerology, people with a 7 life path are truth seekers. Seven is a very
spiritual number, so they delve into life’s mysteries and things yet unknown.
They are philosophical and concerned with the true meaning of things in both
the physical and metaphysical worlds. They’re very intelligent and have an
analytical mind, which makes them hungry to learn new things. Their
intellectual problem-solving can enable them to turn theoretical knowledge into
practical solutions. This incubation and their ability to think both literally and
laterally fosters great creativity. Research and information gathering comes
naturally to them, but this can make them sensitive souls. Their busy minds
don’t benefit from a busy environment, and they can often express themselves
better in less chaotic surroundings. The high spiritual vibration of the number 7
makes this life path highly intuitive according to numerology. This can feel at
odds with an analytical mind. Intuitive insight is yet another data ‘channel’
which 7s receive data from, and this can cause internal conflict. They need to
learn to calibrate these gifts. Introverted 7s are lone wolves, both in life and in
work. Solitude is necessary for them to incubate their ideas. When well-meaning
loved ones interrupt this deep thought, 7s could become irritated. It takes
someone special to understand and honour 7s need for space and privacy. That’s
not to say that 7s aren’t great to be around; they are. Many people with this
number can behave gregariously and confidently in sharing the treasures of their
intellect. They are energetic and generous with their attention. How they differ
from others is that this social time has specific parameters. Once they have
reached their limits, 7s must retreat to the comfort of solitude and privacy away
from the spotlight. They may appear detached and aloof at times, but they are
just preserving themselves. While 7s might be keen to share and explore their
wisdom, they guard their deep inner life with the ferocity of a mother bear. This
makes it difficult to get to know them. This cycle of reaching out and retreating
can be difficult to balance with their numerology. While 7s can tolerate (and
enjoy) long stretches of solitude, they can feel lonely if left alone for too long.
They should try not to let their independent streak lock out the companionship
of friends, family, or even a romantic relationship. Socialising with others saves
7s from themselves. By spending time only with themselves, they might be
fooled into thinking they are the centre of the universe. People can provide that
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 The Biggest Need To Know

From “Everything You Need to Know But Have Never Been Told”

Once upon a no-time, in a ‘land’ called Forever, there was only Awareness in
awareness of itself – all-possibility and all-potential waiting to manifest. There
was no form, only the potential imagination of form of every possible kind. This
was the infinite state of pure awareness from which all that we think we ‘see’
has ultimately come. That opening paragraph captures so many common themes
encoded in the narratives and symbolism of religion and the myths, legends and
accounts of native and ancient peoples the world over. They further include the
story of how a negative or ‘evil’ force emerged to challenge the omnipotence of
the original creative force. From this appeared the universal theme of ‘God’ vs
‘The Devil’ or ‘Satan’ and endless other names awarded to this source of chaos,
upheaval and manipulation. Most people can’t see the commonalities amid the
apparent confusion of different religions, names, cultures and emphasis; but if
you can see past the differing detail the same basic story is in plain sight. This is
only possible, however, if you can expand perception beyond the ‘dots’ and see
themes and connections that then come clearly into view. Followers and
advocates of religions and storytellers among native peoples continue to use the
language of the ancient originators, and this can obscure the fact that what is
being described can today be expressed in the language of science and
computation. They will talk of ‘the Father’ and ‘the Son’, for example, when
these were only the terms used to describe massive (though ultimately simple)
concepts in a way that those of the time could grasp. What is the point of talking
about quantum physics and quantum computers to people still knocking rocks
together? Storytellers and carriers of the knowledge obviously used
contemporary terms and symbols to get their point across and this was true of all
religions and forms of worship. That was fine and essential then but the
narrative needs to move on. Knowledge of the hidden realms of quantum
mechanics and so much else has expanded dramatically while religions and
native peoples (with honourable exceptions) continue to use the language of
another age. Hence this update. Let’s start with a few facts:

1. Themes of religions and native cultures are basically correct, emphasis

often on the basically.

2. Most accounts have become so inverted and distorted from the original
that billions today are following and worshipping the very opposite of
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3. We should not be worshipping anybody or anything when we are the
anybody/everybody and anything/everything.

To show this to be true requires a total re-evaluation of what we call ‘reality’.

The ‘world’ we think we ‘see’ and with which we think we daily interact. I have
called this opening chapter ‘The Biggest Need-To-Know’ because without this
knowledge nothing else can make any sense, and its suppression has ensured
that generation after generation in culture upon culture complete entire lifetimes
while never answering the basic questions of: Who am I? Where am I? What am
I doing here? There is a fundamental secret behind why the answers have been
kept from us and when that veil is lifted human society, ancient and modern,
morphs into crystal clarity ... it is indeed a case of Everything You Need To
Know, But Have Never Been Told. Systematically-imposed ignorance entraps
humanity in perceptual servitude and allows the tiny few to control the very
many (Fig 4). If we are to free ourselves from this tyranny the veil of perceptual
illusion must first be lifted.

The scale of illusion is staggering. Ask all but a relative few if they live in a
solid, ‘physical’ world and they will look at you in blank bewilderment for even
posing the question. ‘Of course we do – don’t be silly.’ But actually – we don’t.
No, we don’t. Consider that for a moment. Every morning we experience our
solid body getting out of a solid bed to eat our solid breakfast and head through
solid streets in solid vehicles to go to solid work or solid wherever. But all the
time, there is no solid. As illusions go, they don’t get any more extreme. I
chuckle when I hear the ake news mainstream media dismissing other versions
of events as ‘conspiracy theories’ and ‘too far-fetched to believe’ while
reporting the world from the perspective that everything is solid when it isn’t.
The self-delusions monumental because so is the scale of perception
programming. I have been labelled mad and insane for nearly 30 years by
mainstream society – especially the media – on the basis of that very self-
delusion. Many of the things I say are happening would not be possible if reality
was physical and solid, but it’s not. Those who dismiss and ridicule what I say
are coming from a perception of solidity and have no idea what the world really
is. Hardly surprising, then, that they say I’m crazy. We are told that our solid,
material reality is made of atoms and that everything is solid and physical
because of them. But, hold on. Atoms have no solidity and so cannot a solid
world make (Fig 5). Atoms are said to have a nucleus orbited by electrons in a
relationship akin to mini-solar systems and everything else is ‘empty space’.
How can this make a solid world? I contend that the nucleus and electrons have
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quantum physics gives them marginal materiality. Here’s a quote to put that
‘marginal’ into context:

If the nucleus were the size of a peanut, the atom would be about the size of a
baseball stadium. If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each
be able to fit into a particle of dust, and the entire human race would fit into the
volume of a sugar cube.

Makes that racism deal look a bit ridiculous, eh? Quantum physics says that
99.9999999% (and more) of what is called ‘ordinary matter’ is empty space. In
fact, space (another illusion) is not actually empty but bursting with energy that
we can’t see. There is ‘space’ (energy) that we can ‘see’ and we call this reality;
and there is ‘space’ (energy) that we cannot see and we call this ‘empty’. Human
sight is verging on the blind when you compare what we can see with what we
can’t see. Almost the entirety of infinite existence is denied to us while we are
perceptually enslaved in a tiny band of frequency that science calls ‘visible
light’ (Fig 6). The electromagnetic spectrum is only 0.005 percent of what exists
in the Universe in terms of energy and what is referred to as ‘matter’ (Fig 7).
Some say it’s a bit more, but not much. Think about that – just 0.005 percent.
Now contemplate this: humans can only see a tiny fraction of that 0.005 percent
in the band of visible light (Fig 8). Most of the rest is called ‘dark energy’ and
‘dark matter’ by mainstream physics. I don’t buy their version of what this
‘dark’ really is and I use the term only in the sense of it being unseen by human
sight senses. People say that this or that is not possible and this or that is crazy
while virtually 100 percent of what exists in infinite forever is not visible to
them. A little humility is urgently required. Given that mainstream ‘science’ –
quantum physics apart – will largely not explore beyond the seen and what is
considered to be the ‘tangible’ it becomes clear why its concrete conclusions
have proved to be so inaccurate and often ridiculous. Yet this same ‘science’ is
perceived and promoted today by its bewildered advocates and believers as the
arbiter of all knowledge. This is extraordinary on the face of it, but then not so
much when you see the whys and wherefores of the global perception deception.
The illusion is so deep that we have never even touched anything in the way that
we think we have. Oh, but you are holding a book, right? No, you are holding an
electromagnetic field of information (the book) with electromagnetic fields of
information (your hands). The experience of ‘touch’ is the connection between
different electromagnetic fields. The experience of apparent solidity is really
electromagnetic resistance between energetic fields of different frequencies or
densities. You who are not solid can’t walk through a wall which is not solid
because of electromagnetic resistance and not physical resistance because there
is no physical. This all sounds so fantastic and unbelievable to the human
conscious mind, but it’s true. We don’t hear anything until the brain has decoded
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unless someone is there to decode vibrational disturbances triggered in the air
into electrical signals that the brain then decodes into the sound we recognise as
a falling tree. Otherwise the tree falls in silence. We hear human speech only
when vibrational information fields generated by the vocal chords are decoded
by the brain. Modern pain-relief techniques involve blocking messages from the
point of pain from reaching the brain because until that communication is made
you can feel no discomfort. It’s the brain that says ‘ouch’, not the point of
impact. The entire world that we think we see, in the form that we think we see
it, only exists in a few cubic centimetres at the back of the brain where visual
reality is decoded. Remember that human society is founded on the ‘physical’
world being ‘real’, tangible and solid, and this delusion is driving the
perceptions and decisions of politics, medicine, media, corporations and science
(quantum physics apart) – the whole shebang in fact. Everything is based on the
most basic misunderstanding of our very reality and in the shadows beyond the
realm of the seen this is all by design. Those at the cutting edge of mainstream
science are proving experimentally that ‘physicality’ is an illusion as genuine
scientists and seekers of truth break free from Stone Age orthodoxy. Here’s a
telling quote from artist and filmmaker, Sergio Toporek:

Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and
hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. 90% of the cells in your body carry
their own microbial DNA and are not ‘you’. The atoms in your body are
99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were
born with ... Human beings have 46 chromosomes, two less than a potato. The
existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to
animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a
rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the
beautiful colours you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic
spectrum.

And this is from science magazine, Wonderpedia:

Every second, 11 million sensations crackle along these [brain] pathways ... The
brain is confronted with an alarming array of images, sounds and smells which
it rigorously filters down until it is left with a manageable list of around 40.
Thus 40 sensations per second make up what we perceive as reality.

We should let that sink in for a moment. Our reality which seems so ‘real’ is
constructed every second from 40 snapshots of information (‘sensations’) from a
potential 11 million. The other 10,900,060 are absorbed by our subconscious
mind while we remain consciously oblivious of their existence. Quantum
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material, solid, clockwork model of reality pedalled for so long by mainstream
science. Cutting edge quantum physicists have more in common in their
explanation of reality with ancient seers and shamans than their conventional
colleagues in closet-minded academia. Quantum physics to the ‘scientific’
mainstream is at best an irritant and at worse a catastrophe to their world-is-solid
mind-set which dominates and infests the institutions of human society. So
much so that even with quantum revelations about illusory physicality the rest of
science largely cracks on as if nothing has changed. Oh, but it has – and
fundamentally. Scientific orthodoxy is either being left behind and becoming an
irrelevance or being forced in an act of survival to think the previously
unthinkable – that they were wrong all along and have caused generations galore
to be equally wrong by falling for the trap that because people have passed
exams and have letters after their names they must, by definition, know what
they are talking about. History constantly tells us otherwise. Terms like
‘professor’ and ‘teacher’ are titles awarded by the state for serving the belief-
system of the state. They are not a confirmation of intelligence and certainly not
of awareness beyond intellectual myopia and the download of academic
convention. That is not to say that you can’t be an intelligent professor or
teacher only that it is clearly not a requirement of the job. As a real scientist,
Nikola Tesla, said long ago: ‘The day science begins to study non-physical
phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous
centuries of our existence.’ This is proving to be the case although ‘progress’ is
not what you discover but what you do with it. Our solid world could not be
more un-solid and here’s the kicker: Governments, science, medicine,
corporations, ‘education’ and media (what I call collectively the Mainstream
Everything) all produce their decisions, laws, explanations of reality, treatments
and reports on the basis that it is solid, material and physical. No wonder that
human society is such a basket case. If your whole perception and decision-
making is founded on a belief in reality that could not possibly be more wrong,
then how could that not produce extremes of madness? Almost the entirety of
human life is skewed wherever you look because of this most basic
misconception about the very reality we are experiencing. This inversion and
perversion of perceived reality has produced the inversion and perversion that
we call human society. Author Michael Ellner put it so well:

Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors

destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge,
governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and
religions destroy spirituality.

What’s more, none of that is by chance and all is by calculated design. The why
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We are Awareness – a state of being aware. Everything else is detail and
illusion. We are not our body; we are that which is aware and experiencing
through the body (Fig 9). Awareness in the purest sense has no form but it can
experience e through form. In its most expanded state it is not even energy. It
just is. Our awareness is an expression of the totality of Awareness; hence some
religions and native peoples speak of being aspects or ‘children’ of ‘God’ or the
‘Great Spirit’. Other religions condemn as blasphemy any claim that we are
‘God’ – what I call Infinite Awareness – in its endless and various forms. This
serves the manufactured and enslaving belief that we are insignificant, detached,
isolated and powerless. None of this is true at the deepest of levels, but it serves
the agenda of human control by pedalling an acceptance of impotence, servitude
and know-your-place. The late great English-born philosopher Alan Watts
(1915-1973) was right when he said: ‘God is what no one admits to being and
everyone is.’ Religious frocks are symbols of this manipulated sense of
detachment and isolation as they stand as sentinels between believers and the
perceived deity. They know ‘God’ better than you do and the Pope/Rabbi/Imam
are His best mates. What breathtaking nonsense it all is. We are points of
attention within Infinite Awareness as Infinite Awareness infinitely experiences
itself (Figs 10 and 11). This doesn’t mean that every ‘point’ is infinitely aware.
If you stand on a mountain you can see a great panorama, but if you stand in a
pitch black room you can see nothing. Both are points of attention – awareness –
and yet their perception of reality is dramatically different. So it is with the
human mind and Infinite Awareness in its totality, or, in current human terms,
even vastly less than its totality. Human consciousness is so asleep, so
imprisoned by illusion, it is hardly ‘conscious’ at all. The droplet is the ocean
and the ocean is the droplet, but not every droplet is as aware as the ocean if
they become perceptually isolated from the whole (Fig 12). Words like ‘infinite’
and ‘totality’ are themselves a misnomer for Awareness beyond time and space
(or our perceptions of them) but they serve a purpose to contrast with human
perceptual myopia. Infinite Awareness just IS. It is an Isness, a state of
awareness that knows all and sees all because it is All. The range of potential
states of awareness, therefore, span All-Possibility from Infinite Awareness in
awareness of itself to someone who thinks she’s just Mary or Margaret working
on the checkout. Humanity is big-time at the lower end collectively of this
perceptual scale, but, equally big-time, we don’t have to be.

I have taken psychoactive potions twice, on two nights in the rainforest of Brazil
in 2003, in the form of a plant called ayahuasca which tastes a bit like liquorice.
On the second night in particular, after I entered an altered state, I spent five
timeless hours lying in the darkness as a strong, loud voice, taking a female
form, spoke to me in detail about the illusory nature of ‘physical’ reality. It was

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an extraordinary experience which I remembered in photographic detail. The
Voice said at the start: ‘All you really need to know is Infinite Love is the only
truth – everything else is illusion.’ These words were repeated several times:
‘Infinite Love [Infinite Awareness in awareness of itself] is the only truth –
everything else is illusion.’ The Voice said that I was being taken to where I
came from and to where I would return so I could better understand my current
reality. In that moment I saw a shimmering, radiant blackness of stillness and
silence that somehow shone with incredible brilliance. What was that again– a
shimmering, radiant blackness that shone with the brilliance of light? Ugh?
Words do not exist to describe what appears to be a bewildering contradiction to
the human conscious mind (Fig 13). ‘This is the Infinite, David’, the Voice said.
Yes, Infinite Awareness in awareness of itself, the stillness and silence of All-
Possibility, All-Potential, waiting to be imagined into existence (Fig 14). Once
again the isolated conscious mind in the thrall of the five-senses believes that
something must move, take form or make noise to be ‘real’. But all these things
are simply possibilities manifesting from the Infinite Imagination of Infinite
Possibility. Speak and you pull one possibility from All-Possibility. Stop
speaking and your spoken possibility disappears back into the silence of All-
Possibility. Realities which move, take form and make noise are figments of
Infinite Imagination which manifest as realms of frequency and vibration that
interpenetrate each other like radio and television stations at different points on
the frequency dial. As the Voice said: ‘If it vibrates, it’s illusion.’ These realities
share the same ‘space’ and don’t interfere with each other unless they are very
close on the ‘dial’. When this happens we call the result ‘ghosts’ and
‘paranormal activity’. Ghosts and apparitions can pass through walls because
they are not operating within the same frequency band just as radio frequencies
can pass through walls. I am far from the only one to have experienced this
Infinite Awareness as a vibrant shining blackness. Many have described the
same experience to me over the years and human ages and sages of illusory
‘time’ have known of this indescribable, not place, but state of awareness or
being. Near-death experiencers are a great source of information about the
unseen as they tell of entering a totally different realm of reality after their
consciousness (point of attention) withdraws from the body at ‘death’ only to
return to this reality when the body is revived (Fig 15). Dr Eben Alexander, an
academic neurosurgeon at Harvard for 15 years, is one such example with his
near-death experience during a week-long coma in 2008. He went into the coma,
caused by meningitis, believing like his scientist father that consciousness exists
only in the brain and cannot continue when the brain has ceased to function. Put
bluntly, dead means dead. This is the very foundation of mainstream ‘scientific’
dogma they call ‘evolution’ that leads deeply bewildered academics like
Professor Richard Dawkins at Oxford University to trash any idea of awareness
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concrete mind of five-sense academia means that not only do they go on their
clueless way, but they insist that everyone else does the same. Dawkins said:

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The
evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in
evolution.

Or, put another way: You cannot be both sane and well educated if you don’t
believe what I do. The arrogance of ignorance defined in a single sentence.
Serbian-American scientist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), who was way ahead of
the science mainstream, hit the button when he said:

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think
clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

This was the world of Eben Alexander until he opened his eyes from his coma
with news of a completely different reality and explanation of life itself. He tells
his story in his book, Proof of Heaven, in which he writes about ‘The Core’ or
‘Dazzling Darkness’ from where ‘the purest love emanated and all is known’.
This is what I experienced in the rainforest of Brazil and ‘Dazzling Darkness’ is
a perfect description of what I saw. ‘The purest love emanated and all was
known’ further describes what I call Infinite Awareness in awareness of itself:
All-Knowing, All-Possibility, All-Potential. Tesla also talked of ‘The Core’
from which everything comes:

In the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and
inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know it
exists.

Ancient and native cultures the world over have their own names for this force
that gives life to everything. Lakota people in the United States speak of Wakan
Tanka or ‘the force which moves all things’. This is a wonderful description of
the All That Is. ‘Great Spirit’ is another. You can liken Infinite Awareness to an
infinite ocean of infinite possibility. We give names to ‘different’ oceans like the
Atlantic, Pacific and Indian, but they are all the same body of water. We give
names to people, countries, cultures, trees, mountains, air, rain, planets, stars and
galaxies, but they are all the same ocean of Infinite Awareness in different
manifestations (Fig 16). Once we become disconnected from the influence of
expanded realms of this Awareness our sense of isolation and apartness from
everything else leads to a self-identity with name, race, culture, religion, job,
lifestyle and life story. These are not who we are, only what we are currently
experiencing. They are an experience, not an ‘I’. This is the self-identity that I
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and control (Fig 17). The late singer and writer Leonard Cohen said: ‘If you
don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick all your life.’ If you don’t become
One with Infinite Awareness you’ll only perceive a little isolated ‘me’ powerless
in the face of forces and events you cannot control. Oh, but you can. Near-death
experiencers galore have described realities outside the perceptual prison of the
body in extremely common terms. One said: ‘It’s like being half asleep when I
was alive, and totally awake after I was pronounced dead.’ Anita Morjani,
author of Dying to be Me, said after her own out-of-body experience: ‘When we
are not expressing in our physical body, you and I and all of us ... we are
expressions of the same consciousness.’ This has been a theme of enlightened
people throughout the ages and quantum physics is now beginning to catch on
and catch up. Anita said that in her out-of-body state of awareness she
experienced ‘a realm of clarity where I understood everything’ and ‘I felt
connected to everybody’. She was experiencing ‘the force that moves all things’
and connects everything as One. Anita makes a very potent in/out of the body
analogy of a torch beam and a warehouse. Imagine you are in a pitch-black
warehouse with a torch in your hand. All you can see is anything within the
beam of the torch. Everything else is invisible or hidden (Fig 18). This is
symbolic of the tiny range of frequency – visible light – that the human body
can decode and we therefore ‘see’. Then, symbolic of awareness withdrawing
from the body, someone turns on the lights right across the warehouse. Now you
can see the enormity of what you were part of all along, but could not see when
your perceptions were limited to the light of the torch (Fig 19). I have just
described what happens at ‘death’ – you know that inevitability that terrifies
most of the human race. Body-Mind decodes visual reality only within the tiny
frequency band of visible light and when our awareness withdraws from the
body it withdraws from that telescope focus and suddenly perception massively
expands. There is no ‘death’ of awareness, only the end of its temporary vehicle
for a particular experience. Fear of death is only the ignorance of life. Or, as
Rumi, a 13th century Sufi mystic, said:

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like
dawn and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

This ‘place’ is only a tiny band of frequency while Forever lies beyond its
perceptual walls. I will be exposing at length the architects of those walls or
firewalls as they really are. I have used the following quote from a near-death
experiencer several times in my books because it is such an encapsulation of
reality outside the body:

... everything from the beginning, my birth, my ancestors, my children, my wife,

everything comes together simultaneously. I saw everything about me, and about
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is no time, there is no sequence of events, no such thing as limitation, of
distance, of period, of place. I could be anywhere I wanted to be simultaneously.

And this comes from academic neurosurgeon Eben Alexander:

To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous

connections that make ordinary thinking (those aspects limited by the physical
brain and the speed of light) seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding
event ...

... Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised
by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has
no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up
through fame or wealth or conquest.

This is the reality of life outside the body and there is a force that has sought –
mostly very successfully – to keep this from us and imprison our perception in a
sense of limitation, I can’t and that’s not possible. There is so much more to
‘humanity’ than we have ever understood and what testament to the scale of
illusion that so many have been killed, tortured and burned-at-the-stake for
revealing this truth or parts of it. the whole foundation of human control can be
described in a single sentence: Disconnecting the ‘incarnate’ human mind (what
I will call Body-Mind) from the influence of our Infinite Self or disconnecting
the ‘incarnate’ droplet from the ocean (Fig 20). Everything comes from this and
without such disconnection the depth and scale of human perceptual control
would be impossible. We will see as we progress how the very fine detail of
human society is structured to take that symbolic mountain panorama and lock it
away in the pitch-black room. Humanity is imprisoned by its sense of reality
which comes from its point of attention (Fig 21). Awake philosopher Alan Watts
said that the ego (Body-Mind) is ‘nothing other than the focus of attention’. This
is exactly what it is and so what more potent form of perceptual control could
there than to focus attention – sense of reality – only in that tiny sliver of
frequency called visible light?

The still and silent All That Is produces what is called ‘Creation’ through the
imagination of its points of attention large and small. This can be anything from
creating entire ‘worlds’ to doodling in a notebook. There can be error, too, in
such creations – witness the creation of the atomic bomb. The All That Is can be
capable of error?? Not in its purest and most expanded expression, but its points
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what is experience except the road to wisdom and remembering our true
identity? How often do our biggest ‘mistakes’ turn out to be our greatest gifts?
According to ancient accounts which concur with my own research and
conclusions our very current reality was the result of ‘error’ and I’ll be
explaining much more about this in due course. We should also not forget that if
we are talking about a state of All-Possibility then ‘error’ is a possibility and
without this there cannot be a state of All-Possibility. In the same way, All-
Possibility means that the All That Is or Infinite Awareness is everything and
nothing, everywhere and nowhere, it is and it isn’t. This has to be the case or it
would not be All-Possibility or Infinite Imagination. So everything is within no-
thing and no-thing is within everything. Nowhere is within everywhere and
everywhere is within nowhere. Once we grasp the nature of All-Possibility and
Infinite Imagination in the fullness of its meaning all paradox disappears.
Infinite Awareness is not energy but produces energy as an imagination of All-
Possibility. Creations of Infinite Imagination and the imaginations of its
imagination can manifest as the realms of what we call energy, frequency and
vibration. The further these imagined creations themselves create and become
detached from a state of Infinite Awareness in awareness of itself the more they
fall into ever lower frequencies and so states of illusion. If they fall far enough
they end up in the energetic densities that we call ‘matter’. Legendary American
comedian Bill Hicks (1961-1994), who had countless experiences in
psychoactive drug-induced altered states, said:

‘... All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration ... we are all one
consciousness experiencing itself subjectively; there is no such thing as death,
life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves’.

This is what the illusion of ‘physical’ matter really is – energy vibrating so

slowly that it gives the appearance of solidity. Scientists don’t come much more
famous than Albert Einstein and yet he said the same as a comedy club
comedian. To know does not require some great formal education
(programming); it means simply to know. Mainstream education is structured to
stop us knowing by enslaving our perceptions of the possible and it is no
coincidence that Einstein also said: ‘The only thing that interferes with my
learning is my education.’ Einstein’s explanation of matter was the same as Bill
Hicks:

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is
really energy, whose vibration has been lowered as to be perceptible to the
senses. There is no matter. There is only light and sound. Albert Einstein

There is only light (energy) and sound (vibration) which together give the
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frequency band of visible light (visible energy). The slower energy vibrates the
more ‘solid’ it appears to be – say a wall – and the faster it vibrates the less-
dense and even ethereal it appears to be. If it vibrates fast enough to breach the
frequency band of visible light then we can’t see it. When people talk of seeing
something ‘appear out of nowhere’ or disappear before my eyes’ they are
describing phenomena that enter the frequency band of visible light and then
change frequency to go beyond it. Now you see it, now you don’t, now you
decode it, now you don’t. Academics dismiss such descriptions with regard to
‘UFOs’ and ‘aliens’ appearing and disappearing because they don’t understand
what reality is. Those more aware of how energy interacts with consciousness
(is consciousness) can perform apparent ‘miracles’ which are not miracles at all.
They are the result of knowing how reality works. Body-Mind perception has to
call this the ‘paranormal’ to compare it with its pea-sized sense of ‘normal’
downloaded from cradle to grave from Mainstream Everything. Academics and
mainstream scientists download this pea-sized version of reality more than
anyone else and then tell us what we should and should not believe. It would
hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic.

No matter how solid something appears to be, it is waveform energy in its

foundation state and at this level it becomes possible to communicate with
animals, plants and even apparently inanimate phenomena like rocks.
Everything is consciousness and alive as an expression of Infinite Awareness
whether it is a mountain, stream or forest. Mainstream scientific studies are
slowly beginning to acknowledge what awakened people have known all along,
that everything is consciousness and connected to everything.

A few scientists over the years have postulated that the ‘physical’ world only
exists when we look at it. They call this the ‘Observer Effect’. Support for this
contention is now gathering in the science community – among those who have
ditched the song sheet that is – but I suggest they are missing the key word here:
decoding. It is not so much the ‘Observer Effect’ as the ‘Decoder Effect’. The
connection between the two is that the act of ‘observation’ or focus activates the
decoding systems of the brain-body. When we are not ‘looking’ (decoding) then
reality is always in a waveform state. Only when we decode waveform
information into what is holographic information does the ‘3D’ world that we
know appear to us – in our own minds (Fig 43). We are seeing more and more
mainstream headlines like this one: ‘Your entire life is an illusion. New test
backs up theory that the world doesn’t exist until we look at it’. The article goes
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particle’s behaviour changes based on what we see had now been proved to be
true on the scale of atoms in a new experiment by scientists at the Australian
National University. ‘At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not
looking at it,’ said Associate Professor Andrew Truscott. There is another aspect
to this as well. Perceptions of the observer influence the way we decode reality
from the information possibilities and probabilities encoded in the Cosmic
Internet. Two different perceptions of reality will not decode exactly the same
outcome in the same way. The process is encompassed in this quote from writer
Joseph Michael Straczynski:

Accidents happen, that’s what everyone says. But in a quantum Universe there
are no such things as accidents, only possibilities and probabilities folded into
existence by perception.

Yes – perception. Endless experiments have shown how people add things to
their visual reality that are not actually there, but they believe should be (an
expression of the 40 from 11 million deal). My biggest book in terms of volume
is called The Perception Deception because the entire control system of human
society is based on the manipulation of perception. Those in the shadows that
know how we interact with reality (but don’t want us to know) are well aware
that if they can program our perceptions we will decode our experienced reality
in a way that reflects those perceptions. This is the whole foundation of how the
few control the many through the manipulation of perception. What we believe
we perceive, and what we perceive we experience. This is not supposition, it is
physics. George Berkeley (1685-1753), after whom Berkeley University is
named, could see that material reality was an illusion and he said: ‘The only
things we perceive are our perceptions.’ This can be confirmed on the most
basic level in that a person who sees the glass as half empty will not experience
(decode from quantum possibility and probability) the same outcome as one
who sees the glass filled to the brim. A more extreme example is fire-walking.
When you walk barefoot on red-hot coals with the belief that you will get
burned then that is what will happen; but if you go into an altered state of
consciousness (altered sense of reality) you can do the same and not get burned,
as firewalkers all over the world have shown (Fig 44). An illusion cannot burn
an illusion unless you believe it can and so decode that reality from a perception
of that reality. Associate Professor Andrew Truscott said that his ‘your entire
life is an illusion’ experiment showed that ‘the atoms did not travel from A to B
... and it was only when they were measured at the end of the journey that their
wave-like or particle-like behaviour was brought into existence’. Or it was
decoded into existence by the impact and influence of focus and perception. The
Voice that I heard in the ayahuasca experience in Brazil said: ‘Why do you fly
from point A to point B when you are point A and point B and everything in
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Waves collapse into particles (or appear to) when observed because they are
being decoded by that act of observation and focus in an interaction between
mind and energetic information. Waves collapse (are decoded into) an illusory
‘physical’ world of particles and atoms, but these are only another expression of
waves. Everything is waves (Fig 45). The Cosmic Internet is a waveform
energetic information construct that provides the information blueprint for what
we call the world, but what we decode as detail and outcome depends on the
perceptions and state of mind of the observer. Waveform reality is a series of
quantum possibilities and probabilities and it is consciousness (perception) that
dictates which of those probabilities and possibilities in the energetic fabric of
the Cosmic Internet are (waveform collapsed) into experienced reality. Control
perception and you control everything. John Wheeler, a Nobel physicist, said:
‘No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. Or
as I would say: a decoded phenomenon. The dream is the dreamer and the
dreamer is the dream because the dream is a decoded extension or projection of
the dreamer. ‘All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream’, as Edgar
Allen Poe said. If you want to control the dream you must control the
perceptions of the dreamer and that’s the global conspiracy to enslave humanity
in a single sentence. How real and ‘physical’ some dreams can be while we are
asleep to the ‘physical’ world. Dreams can be symbolic representations of
mental and emotional states or connections to different wavelengths of reality
measured by the nature of different brainwave states – beta, delta etc. The
deepest of them (the sleep the Greeks called ‘Hypnos’) are way beyond the
perceived world of the ‘physical’. I have incredibly vivid dreams almost every
night while in almost coma-like states and they are as ‘physically’ real on their
wavelength as the world of five-sense mind.

Our reality is not physical, but holographic – illusory ‘physical’. I have been
saying and writing for years and years that the ‘world’ is a digital hologram and
now more scientists are coming to that conclusion – well, open-minded ones,
anyway. Most people will have seen the holograms you can buy in the shops and
those they put on money and credit cards. They are flat images that appear to be
three-dimensional. Holographics has now reached a stage of development in
which 3D moving images of people can be projected from one place to another
(Fig 50). We have seen television programmes presented by holographic people
after they have died and duets between living singers and departed singers such
as Elvis (Fig 51). Holographics is mimicking the very holographic reality that
we experience as life. Holograms are a photographic record of light reflecting
from an object. We can only see objects when light is reflected from them
(although I say there is more to know about that) and so when you are in a pitch-
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Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, said in late 2016 on the Richie Allen radio show on Davidicke.com
that the Universe is a digital hologram and, as such, had to have been created by
some form of intelligence. I have been saying this for so long while being
ridiculed by both the mainstream media and much of the ‘alterative’. We live in
the equivalent of a computer simulation like the one portrayed in the Matrix
movies and I will be revealing at length the nature of both the simulation and the
‘intelligence’ that created it. I use the term ‘computer’, but what controls the
simulation is far beyond anything we would perceive as a computer. Holograms
that we buy or see in the various media are created by using a laser beam and
mirrors (Fig 52 overleaf). One half of the laser is deflected onto the object and
then on to a photographic plate while the other half bypasses the object to
directly strike the same photographic plate. When the two beams collide the
subsequent pattern represents an image of the object in, wait for it ... waveform
(Fig 53 overleaf). The pattern appears to be just a random series of lines that
look a bit like a human fingerprint and this is known as an ‘interference pattern’.
The principle is the same as two stones dropped in a pond. Waves move out and
collide to produce a wave pattern in the water that reflects the size and weight of
the stones, where they dropped, how quickly and how far apart. When a laser or
light of a single wavelength (‘coherent light’) is directed at the holographic
waveform interference pattern something apparently amazing happens as a 3D
image of the object is projected. Illuminating the waveform pattern
‘reconstructs’ the object’s waveform state and our ‘eyes’ perceive this as the
object itself as the brain decodes waveform information into holographic reality
just as it does with ‘real’ reality. Replace the laser or coherent light on the
waveform print with human focus or ‘observation’ and you see the process
through which we decode the ‘2D’ waveform Cosmic Internet into the
holographic ‘3D’ world of experienced reality. The best holograms can look as
solid as you and me, but that’s all illusion and you can wave your hand through
them (Figs 54 and 55). This is the basic foundation of why our reality looks so
physically real when it isn’t. New Scientist, the UK mainstream science
magazine, ran a front page story in 2009 entitled ‘You are a hologram projected
from the edge of the Universe’ and Scientific American magazine gave similar
coverage to a story headed ‘Are you a hologram? (Quantum physics say the
entire Universe might be)’. See Figure 56. Another mainstream media report in
2017 carried the headline: ‘The Universe could be a “vast and complex
hologram”, scientists say.’ The report explained how researchers from the UK’s
University of Southampton, working with colleagues from Canada and Italy, had
found ‘substantial evidence’ that we are part of a massive illusion akin to
watching a 3D movie projected from a 2D screen. The team, which detailed the
findings in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Physical Review Letters, said
the research discovered irregularities in cosmic microwave background
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Kostas Skenderis, a professor of mathematical sciences at Southampton, said it
was similar to watching a 3D film in the cinema. The difference was that we are
able to touch objects and the ‘projection’ is experienced as ‘real’. We don’t
touch objects, but interact waveform to waveform and the 3D cinema screen is
our own decoding process. Where I differ from even holographic reality
orthodoxy is that I say the ‘holographic universe’ is not a construct that exists
externally to us, but only internally when waveform information or the Cosmic
Internet is decoded by Body-Mind into holographic form. The Universe is not a
hologram. The Universe is waveform information. We decode that information
into what we experience – inside our minds not outside – as holographic or
‘physical’ reality. What we see on a computer screen comes from decoding
processes inside the computer, not outside. A research team from universities
across Japan has developed holograms that you can appear to touch and
technology like Microsoft’s HoloLens uses headsets to combine ‘normal’ reality
with holographic inserts that includes real size digital people. They are actually
inserting technological holograms into a biological holographic reality.
Professor Skenderis said that while we perceive the pictures as having height,
width and depth they do in fact come from a flat screen. He said that
holographic reality is a huge leap forward in the way we think about the
structure and creation of the Universe and could finally combine Einstein’s
theory of gravity and quantum theory – something scientists had been working
for decades to do. Researchers at Ibaraki University in Japan say they have
found ‘compelling evidence’ that the Universe is a holographic projection. I
have been making these points in my books and talks for one and a half decades
at the time of writing. You don’t need a scientific mind to understand reality,
you need an open one. I repeat that a scientific mind can be a block on
understanding because of its worship of orthodoxy and obsession with
examining only dots and so not seeing pictures. A unique characteristic of
holograms is that every part of a hologram is a smaller version of the whole and
this explains so many apparent ‘mysteries’. If you cut a holographic print into
pieces each of them will produce a smaller version of the whole picture, not just
a part or fragment (Fig 57).The smaller you go the less clarity you will have, but
it is still the entire image. Alternative healing techniques such as acupuncture
and reflexology can find points and areas all over the body which represent all
the organs and the body as a whole. This has to be the case because the body is a
hologram and in my experience even most practitioners of these methods don’t
realise this. Skilled palm readers can see so much information in the hand for the
same reason. The hand is a smaller version of the whole because the body as we
experience it is a hologram. Mainstream scientists like Professor Richard
Dawkins dismiss and ridicule alternative anything because they don’t know
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Everything is connected and a reflection of everything else. This is the
consistent message of aware people throughout the ages. Leonardo da Vinci
said: ‘Learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.
Roman philosopher Cicero said: ‘Everything is alive. Everything is
interconnected.’ This is certainly true of the wave-form digital-holographic
connection. Decoding waveform reality into holographic ‘physical’ illusion goes
through many instantaneous stages – waveform / particle / atomic / electrical /
digital / holographic. All represent the same information in different forms and
atoms don’t need to be ‘solid’ to create a physical world because there is no
physical world. Atoms are only a phase in the decoding process that turns
waveform information into holographic information in the same way that
computers decode different encoded information states from disks, data sticks or
the Internet into what we see on the screen. Holographic reality is digital
holographic reality. Numbers are digital expressions of waveform
information/frequency states and this is the level of reality that is decoded by the
ancient art of numerology. Some people read waveform reality – mediums,
psychics and so on – while numerology reads digital reality; but they are reading
different versions of the same reality and same information. I have had psychic
and numerological readings with different people that were almost exactly the
same for this reason. Computer-generated digital holograms have now been
developed which are no longer created with analogue photographic media but
produced through computers which calculate the object’s interference pattern
(waveform construct). A digital hologram is described here in a mainstream
media report:

And they look real – so real that when Ford used a [digital] hologram to show
off a car concept model people stopped, afraid to walk into it. They thought
the holographic car was really there.

Digital holograms are basically the reality that we experience as the world. The
brain-body decodes waveform information into electrical and digital-
holographic and so at one level of reality everything appears as numbers and
related codes. Max Tegmark, physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) and author of Our Mathematical Universe, said: ‘The
Universe can be entirely described by numbers and maths.’ I will go into all this
far more when I expose the detailed background to our simulated reality. It’s
enough to say for now that this is why NASA scientist Rich Terrile refers to the
Universe as a digital hologram and why there was so much emphasis in the
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Nothing defines the parameters of our experienced ‘world’ more obviously than
time and space. Our very lives are defined by the passage of time as we go
through the ageing process (computer cycle). Is that the time? The time has
come. I am out of time. Every ‘day’ human life is defined, dictated and limited
by time. What a revelation, therefore, to know that time does not exist except as
a decoded concept in the human mind. The illusion of time is created by the way
the brain constructs its decoded images in a form where one seems to lead to the
other. This can be likened to still frames passing through a projector to give the
illusion of movement. Our brains take 40 sensations or snapshots a second out of
some 11 million to construct our experienced reality and arranging information
into a sequence would be a breeze by comparison. Yet again the prime influence
in this construction of illusory time is perception and we experience ‘time’ in
accordance with our mental and emotional state. ‘Time’ is relative to the
observer, the decoder, and his or her perceptions. Albert Einstein said when
explaining his theory of relativity: ‘When you are courting a nice girl an hour
seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an
hour – that’s relativity.’ Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976), a renowned
German theoretical physicist and pioneer of quantum mechanics, said that ‘a
path comes into existence only when you observe it’ (decode it). Some brain
malfunctions mean that people see only still frames. They won’t see tea pouring
from the pot, but only as a freeze-frame because even movement is a brain
construct from waveform/electrical information. Others see a car in the distance
and then nothing in between until it suddenly appears in front of them. There is
no time only the NOW, one infinite ‘moment’ in which all exists. Concepts of
past and future are just that – concepts. Where are you when you think of the
past? In the NOW. Where are you when you think of the future? In the NOW.
There is only the NOW and we experience both past and future only in the
NOW. We have to because that’s all there is. What we experience as the passage
of past through present to future are all changing perceptions and constructs
within the same NOW. Consequently there is no such thing as time travel only
illusory ‘journeys’ of perception within the same NOW. A DVD is encoded with
the entire movie in the same NOW, but we experience the changing scenes as
the progression of time. What we have watched is the past and what we have yet
to watch is the future. But every scene as they play through is on the same disk
in the same NOW. Someone watching an earlier scene in the movie will be in
your past symbolically, but they’re watching that in the same NOW in which
you watch the later scene (Fig 59). Another DVD analogy is that the information
on the disk requires technology to decode the information to appear as pictures
and sound on the screen. This is what the brain/mind is doing with the quantum
computer waveform Universe. Scientific experiments at the quantum level have
shown that the ‘past’ can be changed and influenced by the present. This seems
extraordinary until you realise that what we perceive as past, present and future
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the past is really the NOW affecting the NOW. Day and night are changes
happening in the NOW when they appear in decoded form to be happening in a
sequence that we call day and night. This is another collective illusion encoded
into the construct of the Cosmic Internet. The calendar of ‘time’ is a
manipulated creation of the Roman Church and clocks are created by humans
and not by non-existent time. This is the clock-time illusion:

Time doesn’t exist, clocks exist. Time is just an agreed upon construct. We have
taken distance (one rotation of the Sun), divided it into segments, then given
those segments labels. While it has its uses, we have been programmed to live
our lives by this construct as if it were real. We have confused our shared
construct with something that is tangible and thus have become its slave.

‘Time’ slows near the speed of light because perceptions of the observer change.
The speed of light is not really a ‘speed’ at all. It is a perception program
encoded in the collective human mind. Light ‘speed’ is not ‘out there’ – it is ‘in
here’. The mystery of how two so-called ‘entangled’ particles ‘billions of miles’
apart can react to each other instantly can also be explained. This is not the
result of the speed of communication across distance, but the fact that the
particles only exist in the observer’s decoding processes. They are not ‘billions
of miles’ apart, but within a few cubic centimetres of the brain where visual
reality is decoded. The particles are also decoded expressions of the same
waveform field which reacts as one unit and not as two distinct particles no
matter what illusory distance is perceived to exist between them. Now, here’s
something that will be very significant as we proceed. If you travelled at the
speed of light you would be everywhere in the Universe in the same moment or
NOW. This is what near-death experiencers describe when their awareness
withdraws from the perception lens of the body. The speed of light is really the
inability of Body-Mind to decode reality faster than the speed of light. There is a
blocking mechanism in the decoding process designed to keep us in a perception
prison for reasons that will soon become clear. In that single sentence is a
colossal revelation about the human plight. There is no space in the same way
that there is no time. Look at the night sky and all those stars and planets across
the vastness of space and apparent distance. Once again all that you see in the
form that you see only exists in those few cubic centimetres at the back of the
brain where visual reality is decoded and constructed (Fig 62). A computer
game appears to have time as scenes change and also space in terms of depth
and perspective, and yet all you are observing are computer codes on a disk or
data stick being decoded into images on the screen. The ‘ayahuasca Voice’ said:
‘Why do you fly from point A to point B when you are point A and point B and
everything in between?’ ‘Space’, as with ‘time’, is part of the illusory construct
that the mind uses to define holographic reality. In the act of manifesting
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defined only by holographic images in our minds. In a room full of objects
(images) we say there is not much space while on the Great Plains of the
American Midwest where ‘objects’ appear far apart we talk of ‘wide open
spaces’. Space as an entity in and of itself is an illusion of the holographic
decoding process and is defined not by itself, but by the perceived distance
between holographic forms. How can space and distance be real when changing
conditions such as speed can change the apparent distance and thus ‘space’?
Alcohol and drugs can change spatial awareness because of their effect on the
perceptual decoding process. As the near-death experiencer said of out-of-body
reality: ‘... There is no time, there is no sequence of events, no such thing as
limitation, of distance, of period, of place. I could be anywhere I wanted to be
simultaneously.’

There is an overall field that encompasses the entirety of our reality and operates
beyond what we perceive as time and space and the speed of light. I will call it
the scalar field. The term ‘scalar’ is highly controversial among scientists and
those who challenge their orthodoxy, and I have read several different
explanations and definitions. I am using the name scalar in the context of this
book to describe a field from which the realms of waveform and holographic
reality ultimately manifest. What I am calling the quantum field of possibility
and probability is an expression ultimately of this scalar field which in my
definition interpenetrates everything. It is similar in theme, though not detail,
with the mainstream scientific concept of ‘dark matter/energy’ or unseen
matter/energy that is claimed to comprise the great majority of the Universe.
You will see references to scalar waves but they are really a scalar field because
of the nature of scalar energy. Whatever you infuse into the scalar field is
immediately everywhere in that field and so affecting everything connected to
the field – which is everything in our reality. The scalar field in my definition is
everywhere at the same ‘time’ because it is beyond time. The instantaneous
mass-absorption of information puts the scalar field way beyond the speed of
light. I have seen scalar energy described as something that is ‘just a quantity
without direction or co-ordinates’. But you do not require direction or
coordinates when you are everywhere. Nikola Tesla who gave us the
fundamentals of modern electrical supply systems was well aware of the scalar
phenomenon and I will come back to this.

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 A Footnote on Reality

From “Science and the Akashic Field”

We end the first part of our explorations of the informed universe with a
question that is meaningful but decidedly not modest: a question about the
nature of reality. We have already seen how our universe and possibly myriad
other universes in the Metaverse came into being, how they evolve and devolve,
and how they periodically give rise to the complex systems we call living. What
do these stupendous processes tell us about the fundamental nature of reality?
What is it about this universe that is primary and what is merely secondary,
arising out of the reality of the primary? The answer to this age-old question is
now relatively straightforward. The primary reality is the quantum vacuum, the
energy- and information-filled plenum that underlies our universe, and all
universes in the Metaverse. This answer corresponds to an ancient insight: that
the universe we observe and inhabit is a secondary product of the energy sea that
was there before there was anything there at all. Hindu and Chinese cosmologies
have always maintained that the things and beings that exist in the world are a
concretization or distillation of the basic energy of the cosmos, descending from
its original source. The physical world is a reflection of energy vibrations from
more subtle worlds that, in turn, are reflections of still more subtle energy fields.
Creation, and all subsequent existence, is a progression downward and outward
from the primordial source. In Indian philosophy the ultimate end of the
physical world is a return to Akasha, its original subtle-energy womb. At the end
of time as we know it, the almost infinitely varied things and forms of the
manifest world dissolve into formlessness, living beings exist in a state of pure
potentiality, and dynamic functions condense into static stillness. In Akasha, all
attributes of the manifest world merge into a state that is beyond attributes: the
state of Brahman. Although it is undifferentiated, Brahman is dynamic and
creative. From its ultimate "being" comes the temporary "becoming" of the
manifest world, with its attributes, functions, and relationships. The cycles of
samsara - of being-to-becoming and again of becoming-to-being - are the Ida of
Brahman: its play of ceaseless creation and dissolution. In Indian philosophy,
absolute reality is the reality of Brahman. The manifest world enjoys but a
derived, secondary reality and mistaking it for the real is the illusion of maya.
The absolute reality of Brahman and the derived reality of the manifest world
constitute a co-created and constantly co-creating whole: this is the advaitavada
(the non-duality) of the universe. The traditional Eastern conception differs from
the view held by most people in the West. In the modern commonsense
conception, reality is material. The things that truly exist are bits or particles of
matter. They can form into atoms, which can further form into molecules, cells,
and organisms - as well as into planets, stars, stellar systems, and galaxies.
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(since it acts on matter), but space does not: space is merely the backdrop or the
container against which, or in which, material things trace their careers. This
typically Western view is a heritage of the Newtonian world-concept. According
to Newton, space is a mere receptacle and it is passive in itself; it conditions
how things actually behave but does not act on them directly. Although it is
empty and passive, space is nonetheless real: it is an objective element in the
universe. Subsequently, a number of philosophers, including Gottfried Leibniz
and Immanuel Kant, contested the reality Newton gave to space. In these views,
space is nothing in itself; it is merely the way we order relationships among real
things. Space itself is not experienced, said Kant; it is only the precondition of
experience. The view that space is empty and passive, and not even real to boot,
is in complete opposition to the view we get from contemporary physics. Even if
physicists typically refuse to speculate on the ultimate nature of reality (many
hold such questions beyond the scope of their discipline), it is clear that what
they describe as the unified vacuum - the seat of all the fields and forces of the
physical world - is in fact the primary reality of the universe. Out of it have
sprung the particles that make up our universe, and when the last of the
supergalactic black holes "evaporates," it is into it that the particles fall back
again. What we think of as matter is but the quantized, semi-stable bundling of
the energies that spring from the vacuum. In the last count matter is but a
waveform disturbance in the nearly infinite energy-sea that is the fundamental
medium - and hence the primary reality - of this universe, and of all universes
that ever existed and will ever exist.

Imagine, if you will, a lightless, soundless, formless plenum. It is filled both

with the primeval consciousness that is the womb of all mind and spirit in the
cosmos and with the fluctuating energies out of which all things come to exist in
space and in time. There is no-thing in this cosmic fullness, yet there is every-
thing, in potential. Everything that can and will ever happen is here, in formless,
soundless, lightless, quiescent turbulence. After an infinity of cosmic eons, a
sudden explosion, untold magnitudes greater than any turbulence ever witnessed
or even imagined by human beings, penetrates the formless turbulence; a shaft
of light rises from its epicenter. The plenum is no longer quiescent; it is rent by a
supercosmic force emerging from its hitherto soundless and lightless depth. It
liberates gigantic forces, transforming the plenum from virtual formlessness into
dynamic formative process. The surface foams with instantly appearing and
disappearing ripples of energy, forming and annihilating in a cosmic dance of
unimaginable speed and momentum. Then the initial demented rhythm becomes
more sedate, the foam more orderly. The ripples radiate outward from the
epicenter, bathed in pure light of infinite intensity. As the foam expands, it
becomes grainier. Swirls and vortexes appear, incipient if as yet evanescent

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wave-patterns modulating the surface of the evolving plenum. With the passing
of further cosmic eons, the ripples of patterned energy consolidate into lasting
forms and structures. They are not separate from each other, for they are micro-
patterns structuring into larger patterns within a common wave-field. They are
part of the underlying and now no longer formless plenum that erupted and
created them. Each ripple is a microworld in itself, pulsating with the liberated
energies of the plenum and reflecting in its micrototality the macrototality from
which it emerged. The micro-patterns trace their careers in the expanding space
of the initial explosion and take on structure and complexity. They modulate the
turbulent plenum. It is more and more structured at the surface, as the ripples
cohere into complex wave-structures; and it is more and more modulated below,
as the evolving structures create minute vortices that integrate into information-
carrying holograms. The informed holofield below and the micro-patterns on the
surface evolve together. Their growing architecture enriches the holofield, and
the enriched holofield in-forms the evolving micro-structures. Surface and depth
co-evolve, taking on complexity and coherence. The more complex the
structures that emerge, the more independent they appear of the depth below.
Yet the ripples and waves at the surface are not separate but part of the medium
from which they arise - they are like "solitons," the curiously object-like waves
that emerge in a turbulent medium. The ripples and waves cohere in elaborate
structures, subtly interconnected with each other. At a crucial stage of their
evolution they become self-sustaining, reproducing themselves and replenishing
spent energies from the embedding energy fields. The evolving wave-patterns
have not just external relations; they also have an inner reflection: a "feel" of
each other and of the depth. At first an unarticulated basic sensation, this inner
reflection gains in articulation as the self-maintaining waves acquire structure
and complexity. They develop higher and higher grades of inner reflection,
articulating their basic feel of the world as a representation of individual things
and processes. They map the world that envelops them, and themselves in that
world. After another cosmic eon, the energies liberated by the initial explosion
dissipate across the surface of the plenum. Some mega-structures use up the free
energies available to them and explode, strewing their micro-ripples into space
where they consolidate into new megastructures. Others implode, and in a final
flash re-enter the plenum from which they emerged. The ripples that evolve on
the surface of smaller mega-structures break down, incapable of maintaining
themselves in an environment of fading energy. As the universe ages, all
complex structures and articulated reflections disappear. But although the
surface loses modulation, the memory of the depth is not affected: the
holograms created by the ripples remain untouched. They conserve the trace of
the surface's evanescent structures together with their feels and reflections. And
now another shaft of light rends the plenum, breaking its quiescent turbulence
and reviving it with another formative burst: a new universe is born. This time
the ripples and structures that form on the surface do not appear randomly, at the

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mercy of chance: they derive from a plenum in-formed with the holo-trace of
prior ripples and waves. The cosmic drama repeats time after time. Further
shafts of light radiate outward from the epicenter, another multitude of ripples
moves outward to dance, to cohere, to feel, and to reflect. The new universe
ends as the ripples and the structures it brought into being vanish at the surface.
But the holograms created by them in the depth inform the next universe, born
as further explosions rend the plenum. Time after time, the cosmic drama
repeats, but it does not repeat in the same way. It builds on its own past, on the
memory of the ripples and waves that appeared and then disappeared in prior
universes. In universe after universe the plenum brings forth micro-ripples and
mega-wave structures. In each universe the ripples and waves vanish, but their
memory lives on. In the next universe new and more elaborate structures appear,
with more articulated reflections of the world around them. In the course of
innumerable universes, the pulsating Metaverse realizes all that the primeval
plenum held in potential. The plenum is no longer formless: its surface is of
unimaginable complexity and coherence; its depth is fully informed. The cosmic
proto-consciousness that endowed the primeval plenum with its universe-
creative potentials becomes a fully articulated cosmic consciousness - it
becomes, and thenceforth eternally is, the self-realized mind of God.

Consciousness

Contrary to a widespread belief, consciousness is not a uniquely human

phenomenon. Although we know only human consciousness (indeed, by direct
and indubitable experience we know only our own consciousness), we have no
reason to believe that consciousness would be limited to me and to you and to
other humans. The kind of evidence that could demonstrate the limitation of
consciousness to humans regards the brain: it would be evidence that the human
brain has specific features by virtue of which it produces consciousness.
Notwithstanding the view advanced by materialist scientists and philosophers
that the physical brain is the source of consciousness, there is no evidence of this
kind. Clinical and experimental evidence speaks only to the fact that brain
function and state of consciousness are correlated, so when brain function
ceases, consciousness (usually) ceases as well. We should specify "usually,"
since there are exceptions to this: in some well-documented cases - among
others, those of patients suffering cardiac arrest in hospitals - individuals have
had detailed and subsequently clearly recalled experiences during the time their
EEG showed a complete absence of brain function. Functional MRI (magnetic
resonance imaging) and other techniques show that when particular thought
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the brain. They do not show, however, how the cells of the brain that produce
proteins and electrical signals could also produce sensations, thoughts, emotions,
images, and other elements of the conscious mind . . . how the brain's network of
neurons would produce the qualitative sensations that make up our
consciousness. The fact that a high level of consciousness, with articulated
images, thoughts, feelings, and rich subconscious elements, is associated with
complex neural structures is not a guarantee that such consciousness is due to
these structures. In other words the observation that brain function is correlated
with consciousness does not ensure that the brain creates consciousness.

The view that consciousness is produced in and by the brain is just one of the
many ways philosophically inclined people have envisaged the relationship
between the physical brain and the conscious mind. It is the materialist way. It
maintains that consciousness is a kind of by-product of the survival functions the
brain performs for the organism. As organisms become more complex, they
require a more complex "computer" to steer them so they can get the food, the
mate, and the related resources they need in order to survive and reproduce. At a
given point in this development, consciousness appears. Synchronized neural
firings and transmissions of energy and chemical substances between synapses
produce the qualitative stream of experience that makes up our consciousness.
Consciousness is not primary in the world; it is an "epi-phenomenon" generated
by a complex material system: the human brain. The materialist way of
envisaging the relationship of brain and mind is not the only way. Philosophers
have also outlined the idealist way. In the idealist perspective, consciousness is
the first and only reality; matter is but an illusion created by our mind. This
assumption, while outlandish on first sight, makes eminent sense as well: after
all, we do not experience the world directly; we experience it only through our
consciousness. We normally assume that there is a qualitatively different
physical world beyond our consciousness, but that may be an illusion.
Everything we experience could be part of our consciousness. The material
world could be merely our creation as we try to make sense of the flow of
sensations in our consciousness. Then there is the dualist way of conceiving of
the relationship between brain and consciousness, matter and mind. According
to dualist thinkers, mind and matter are both fundamental, but they are entirely
different, not reducible one to the other. The manifestations of consciousness
cannot be explained by the organism that manifests them, not even by the
staggeringly complex processes of the human brain - the brain is only the seat of
consciousness and is not identical with it. In the history of philosophy,
materialism, idealism, and dualism were the principal ways of conceiving the
relationship between brain and mind. Materialism is still dominant today.
Adherence to it poses vexing problems. As the consciousness philosopher David

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Chalmers put it, the problem it faces is how "something as immaterial as
consciousness" can arise from "something as unconscious as matter." In other
words, how can matter generate mind} How the brain operates is a
comparatively "soft" problem that neurophysiologists will no doubt solve step
by step. But the question regarding the way in which "immaterial
consciousness" arises out of "unconscious matter" cannot be answered by brain
research, for that deals only with "matter," and matter is not conscious. This is
the "hard" problem. Consciousness researchers of the materialist school admit to
being greatly perplexed by it. The philosopher Jerry Fodor points out that
"nobody has the slightest idea how anything material could be conscious.
Nobody even knows what it would be like to have the slightest idea about how
anything could be conscious." But philosophers who do not take the materialist
stance are not as disturbed. Peter Russell, for example, says that Chalmers's
problem is not just hard; it's impossible. Fortunately, Russell adds (and we can
agree), it does not need to be solved, for it is not a real problem. We do not need
to explain how unconscious matter generates immaterial consciousness, because
matter is not entirely unconscious, nor is consciousness fully divorced from
matter. We know that the "stuff" of the neurons in the brain comprises quanta in
complex configurations. But quanta are not mere unconscious matter! They stem
from the basic constituents of the complex fields that underlie the cosmos, and
they are not devoid of the qualities we associate with consciousness. As leading
physicists such as Freeman Dyson and philosophers of the stature of Alfred
North Whitehead have pointed out, even elementary particles are endowed with
a form and level of (proto) consciousness. To some extent and in some ways, all
matter is conscious, and no consciousness is categorically immaterial. And if so,
there is no categorical divide between matter and mind. David Chalmers's "hard"
problem evaporates. Conscious matter at a lower level of organization (the
neurons in the brain) generates conscious matter at a higher level of organization
(the brain as a whole). This does away with the hard problem of the materialist
view without doing the kind of violence to our everyday apprehension of the
world that idealism does (according to which all is mind, and nothing but mind).
It also does away with the problem of dualism - one that is just a shade less
"hard" than that of materialism - because if matter and mind interact (as they
must interact in the brain), then we must still say how "something as
unconscious as matter" can act on, and be acted on by, "something as immaterial
as consciousness." The "ism" by which we can best identify the emerging
solution to the classical brain/mind problem is evolutionary panpsycbism.
Panpsychism is the philosophical position that claims that all of reality has a
mental aspect: psyche is a universal presence in the world. Qualifying
"panpsychism" with "evolutionary" means that we do not claim that psyche is
present throughout reality in the same way, at the same level of development.
We say that psyche evolves, the same as matter. But we affirm that both matter
and mind - physis and psyche - were present from the beginning: they are both

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fundamental aspects of reality. In affirming that in the course of time physis and
psyche evolved together, we do not reduce all of reality to structures made up of
in themselves inert and insentient material building blocks (as in materialism),
nor do we assimilate all of reality to a qualitative nonmaterial mind (as in
idealism). We take both matter and mind as fundamental elements of reality but
(unlike in dualism) we do not claim that they are radically separate; we say that
they are but different aspects of the same reality. What we call "matter" is the
aspect we apprehend when we look at a person, a plant, or a molecule from the
outside; "mind" is the readout we get when we look at the same thing from the
inside. Of course, for each of us the inside view is available only in regard to our
own brain. It is not the complex network of neurons that we see when we inspect
what we assume to be the felt contents of our brain, but a complex stream of
ideas, feelings, intentions, and sensations. This is the stream of our
consciousness with its manifold conscious and also subconscious elements. But
it is not this stream that we apprehend when we inspect anybody else's brain-
mind. What we get is the neuroscientist's view of a network of neurons firing in
complex loops and sequences. The limitation of the inside view to our own brain
does not mean that we alone are conscious and everyone else is but a
neurophysiological mechanism operating within a biochemical system. Both
views - the outside as well as the inside - must be present in all human beings.
And not only in all humans, but also in all other biological organisms. And not
only in organisms, but also in all the systems that arise and evolve in nature,
from atoms to molecules, to macromolecules, to ecologies. In the great chain of
evolution, there is nowhere we can draw the line, nowhere we could say: below
this there is no consciousness, and above there is. This panpsychist concept has
been espoused by philosophers over the ages, in modern times most eloquently
by Alfred North Whitehead. It was also affirmed by the Apollo astronaut Edgar
Mitchell. According to Mitchell, all things in the universe have a capacity to
"know." Less evolved forms of matter, such as molecules, exhibit more
rudimentary forms of knowing - they "know" to combine into cells. Cells
"know" to reproduce and fight off harmful intruders; plants "know" to turn
toward the sun, birds to fly south in winter. The higher forms of knowing, such
as human awareness and intention, have their roots in the cosmos; they were
there right from the start, at the birth of our universe. The idea that mind and
knowing are universal in nature is shared by Freeman Dyson. "Matter in
quantum mechanics," he said, "is not an inert substance but an active agent,
constantly making choices between alternative possibilities… It appears that
mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent
in every electron." In the final count we must recognize that all the things that
arise and evolve in the universe have both a matter-aspect and a mind-aspect.
All things in the world - quanta and galaxies, molecules, cells, and organisms -
have "materiality" as well as "interiority." Matter and mind are not separate,

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distinct realities; they are aspects of a deeper reality that has both an external
matter-aspect, and an internal mind-aspect.

Is the information reaching our consciousness limited to our bodily senses - do

we see the world through "five slits in the tower"? Or can we "open the roof to
the sky"? The informed universe gives us not only a new view of the world, but
also a new view of life and of mind. It permits our brains and minds to access a
broad band of information, well beyond the information conveyed by our eyes
and ears. We are, or can be, literally "in touch" with almost any part of the
world, whether here on Earth or beyond in the cosmos. When we do not repress
the corresponding intuitions, we can be informed by things as small as a particle
or as large as a galaxy. This, we have seen, is the finding of psychiatrists and
psychotherapists who place their patients in an altered state of consciousness
and record the impressions that surface in their minds. It was also astronaut
Mitchell's outer-space experience. In a higher state of consciousness, he
remarked, we can enter into deep communication with the universe. In these
states the awareness of every cell of the body coherently resonates with what
Mitchell identifies as "the holographically embedded information in the
quantum zero-point energy field." We can reconstruct how this "broad-band"
information reaches our mind. We have seen that, according to the new physics,
the particles and atoms - and the molecules, cells, organisms, and galaxies - that
arise and evolve in space and time emerge from the virtual energy sea that goes
by the name of quantum vacuum. These things not only originate in the
vacuum's energy sea; they continually interact with it. They are dynamic entities
that read their traces into the vacuum's A-field, and through that field enter into
interaction with each other. A-field traces - the holograms they create - are not
evanescent. They persist and inform all things, most immediately the same kind
of things that created them. This holds true for our body and brain as well. All
we experience in our lifetime - all our perceptions, feelings, and thought
processes – have cerebral functions associated with them. These functions have
waveform equivalents, since our brain, like other things in space and time,
creates information-carrying vortices - it "makes waves." The waves propagate
in the vacuum and interfere with the waves created by the bodies and brains of
other people, giving rise to complex holograms. Generations after generations of
humans have left their holographic traces in the A-field. These individual
holograms integrate in a superhologram, which is the encompassing hologram of
a tribe, community, or culture. The collective holograms interface and integrate
in turn with the super-superhologram of all people. This is the collective
information pool of humankind. We can read the information carried by these
holograms. On the principle of "like informs like," we can read first of all the
information carried by the hologram of our own brain and body. Reading out
what we have read into the field is the physical basis of long-term memory. It
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cranium. We can read out anything and everything that we have read into the
field - we can literally "re-call" from it all the things we have ever experienced.
Not only we ourselves, but others also can read out at least some of what we
have read into the A-field. This is because the hologram of our body and brain
can "conjugate" with the holograms of other people, especially people who are
related to us and with whom we have an emotional bond. Aside from cases of
clairvoyance and mystical or prophetic insight, the readout is not in the form of
explicit words or events, but rather in the form of intuitions and sensations. The
most widespread and hence familiar among these are "twin pain" and the sudden
revelatory intuitions of mothers and lovers when their loved ones are hurt or
undergo a traumatic experience. In the everyday context, of course, our readout
is restricted to our own read-in. This restriction is fortunate: it is a precondition
of conserving our sanity. If the experience of many people reached us
simultaneously and frequently, we would be overwhelmed - we could not sort
out the information. Given the holopattern selectivity of our brain's readout - the
limited way our own hologram meshes with the hologram of others - we are not
swamped by the enormity of the information in the A-field. This does not mean
that human experience must be limited to five slits in the tower. By entering an
altered state of consciousness, we can open the roof to the sky, but we must be
prepared to cope with the information that is then reaching us.

Immortality

Prophets, philosophers, and spiritual people have often taken the traces we leave
in the A-field (Akasha) as evidence for an immortal soul. Plato spoke of the
immortality of the Soul, the aspect of the human being that springs from, and
then returns to, the realm of eternal Forms or Ideas. Hegel considered the human
mind the self-actualization of what he called the Absolute Idea through its
temporal embodiments. Bishop Berkeley viewed the human mind as a reflection
of the Divine Mind, the quintessence of the world's reality. Alice Bailey's
intuitions match the latest insights from science remarkably: she located the
source of human immortality in the "ether." "This word 'ether,'" she wrote, "is a
generic term covering the ocean of energies which are all interrelated and which
constitute that one synthetic energy body of our planet… the etheric or energy
body, therefore, of every human being is an integral part of the etheric body of
the planet itself." Gustav Fechner, the pragmatic founder of experimental
methods in psychology, expressed the same idea in surprisingly definite terms.
"When one of us dies," he wrote after recovering from an illness, "it is as if an
eye of the world were closed, for all perceptive contributions from that
particular quarter cease. But the memories and conceptual relations that have
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life as distinct as ever, and form new relations and grow and develop throughout
all the future, in the same way in which our own distinct objects of thought,
once stored in memory, form new relations and develop throughout our whole
finite life." Nothing in this world is evanescent; all things continue to exist
through the traces they leave in the cosmic information field. We humans, too,
create an Akashic record of our lifetime experiences, a record that can be
retrieved by others. Our individual experience is not limited to ourselves and to
our individual lifetime. It can be re-experienced and thus relived at any time and
at any place, today and at all times in the future.

Reincarnation

Understanding that it is the A-field - the information field of the cosmos - that
confers immortality on us and not an individual immortal soul gives us a
different perspective on reincarnation. This perspective is fully consistent with
the evidence we have of reincarnation, which consists of impressions and ideas
recounted by people about sites, people, and events they have not and could not
have encountered in their present lifetime. It is then assumed that they
encountered them in previous lifetimes. These "past-life experiences" have an
element of truth in them, but that does not guarantee that such experiences come
truly from a past life. "Past-life stories" crop up routinely in the experience of
psychotherapists who practice regression analysis. They place their patients in a
slightly altered state - hypnosis is not needed, since breathing exercises, rapid
eye movements, or simple suggestion is usually sufficient - and take them back
from their current experiences to the experiences of their past. They can often
move their patients back to early childhood, infancy, and physical birth.
Experiences that seem to be those of gestation in the womb surface as well.
Interestingly, and at first quite unexpectedly, psychotherapists have found that
they can take their patients back further than the womb and physical birth. After
an interval of apparent darkness and stillness, other experiences appear. They
are of other places and other times. Yet the patients not only recount them as the
experience of a novel they have read or a film they have seen, but actually relive
them as well. As Stanislav Grof's records testify, they become the person they
experience, even to the inflection of voice, the language (which may be one the
patient has never known in his or her present lifetime), and, if the experience is
of infancy, the involuntary muscle reflexes that characterize infants. Ian
Stevenson, of the University of South Carolina, investigated the past-life
experiences recounted by children. During more than three decades Stevenson
interviewed thousands of children, in both the West and the East. He found that
from the age of two or three, when they begin to verbalize their impressions,
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have not seen, heard of, or encountered in their young lives. Often these reports
can be verified as the experience of a person who had lived previously, and
whose death matches impressions reported by the child. Sometimes the child
carries a birthmark that is associated with the death of the person with whom she
or he identifies - such as an indentation or discoloration on the part of the body
where a fatal bullet entered, or malformations on the hand or foot the deceased
had lost or had wounded. The experiences reported by children - and by grown-
ups in altered states of consciousness - actually occur, and they show that we
can access the experiences of other people whether they stand before us or are
far away, and whether they are living today or have lived sometime in the past.
But when we re-experience other people's experiences we do not reincarnate
them, for the images and ideas that surface in our consciousness stem not from
single individuals whose soul has survived their death and is now reincarnated in
us. Rather, the ideas, images, and impressions entering our consciousness have
their source in the vacuum. The information carried in the vacuum's A-field is
active and effective. Its range is vast; it embraces other humans as well as other
forms of life, and all things in the universe. In integrating with it, it is not our
individual body and our individual soul, but our individual experience that
achieves immortality. We do not disappear from the world without a trace; all
that we experience becomes part of the collective memory bank of humankind,
to be read out again and again. We can live on in the brain and consciousness of
people today, and in all future generations.

Psi-Fables: Non-local Consciousness

Psi-fables abound in the world: they are the woof and warp of the popular
esoteric schools. Such fables are now also produced by scientists, if only by a
handful of insightful and courageous ones. A few examples stand out. William
James, known as the father of American psychology, declared: "Out of my
experience . . . one fixed conclusion dogmatically emerges… that we with our
lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and pine
may whisper to each other with their leaves... But the trees also commingle their
roots in the darkness underground, and the islands hang together through the
ocean's bottom. Just so there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness, against
which our individuality builds but accidental fences, and into which our several
minds plunge as into a mother sea or reservoir…" The physicist Erwin
Schrodinger echoed a similar insight. "In all the world," he wrote, "there is no
kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is
simply something we construct because of the spatiotemporal plurality of
individuals, but it is a false construction… the self-consciousness of the
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that Self which they may be said to form at a higher level." David Bohm came to
essentially the same conclusion: "Deep down the consciousness of mankind is
one," he affirmed. "This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter
is one; and if we don't see this it's because we are blinding ourselves to it." In
2001 Henry Stapp placed the psi-fable of non-local consciousness in the current
physics framework. "The new physics," he remarked, "presents prima facie
evidence that our human thoughts are linked to nature by non-local connections:
what a person chooses to do in one region seems immediately to affect what is
true elsewhere in the universe. This non-local aspect can be understood by
conceiving the universe to be not a collection of tiny bits of matter, but rather a
growing compendium of 'bits of information.' "Unless scientists are well
established, psi-fables are dangerous territory for them, making them a target for
criticism and even censure. But the accumulation of evidence regarding non-
local connection between the brains and minds of people is now so significant
that even the mainstream science community is taking notice. In the spring of
2000, a collection of papers published by the ordinarily conservative American
Psychological Association reviewed and assessed the relevant evidence. Edited
by Etzel Cardena, Steven Jay Lynn, and Stanley Krippner, Varieties of
Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence reviewed
hallucinatory experiences, synasthesia, lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences,
psi-related experiences, alien abduction experiences, past-life experiences, near-
death experiences, anomalous healing experiences, and mystical experiences.
The authors agreed that these experiences could not be dismissed either as
illusory or as signs of psychopathology. They are more widespread than has
been generally assumed, and have a real impact on the people who experience
them. Yet, they said, there are no definitive explanations for them. This
conclusion is characteristic of the state of the art in academic consciousness
research. The nonlocal aspects of consciousness are less and less disputed, but
not significantly better understood. As the pioneer altered-state researcher
Russell Targ put it, "[I]t is all phenomena." Since meaningful explanation is
beyond the bounds of legitimate research, the investigation of the phenomena is
shifted into the domain of "para"-psychology. But at least under that heading,
the academic community is taking an interest. Utrecht University, in the
Netherlands, and Edinburgh University, in Scotland, have chairs in
parapsychology and, as of 2004, Sweden's Lund University also has a chair for
"parapsychology, hypnology, and clairvoyance." Recognition that there is a
bona fide scientific explanation for the observed non-locality of consciousness
would give legitimacy to research on psi phenomena and open the way to a
better understanding of the as yet mysterious dimensions of the human mind.
Such explanation is now at hand. The information field that links quanta and
galaxies in the physical universe and cells and organisms in the biosphere also
links the brains and minds of humans in the sociosphere. This A-field creates the
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Teilhard de Chardin the noosphere - and that scientists such as Erwin
Schrodinger, David Bohm, William James, and Henry Stapp have not hesitated
to discuss and to affirm.

Quantum Fables: Entanglement and Non-locality

The physicist David Bohm was among the first to refuse to accept the weird
behavior of the quantum as a full description of reality. His "hidden variables
theory" suggested that the selection of the state of the quantum is not random,
but rather guided by real physical processes. He theorized that a pilot wave
called the quantum potential "Q" emerges from a deeper, unobservable domain
of the universe and guides the observed behavior of particles. Thus, particle
behavior is weird and indeterministic only at the surface; at the deeper level it is
determined by the quantum potential. Later Bohm identified the deeper level of
reality as the "implicate order" - a holofield where all the states of the quantum
are permanently coded. Observed reality emerges from this field by constant
unfolding: it is the "explicate order." Various versions of Bohm's theory are
being developed today by theoretical physicists who are unwilling to take the
mathematical formalisms of quantum physics for an adequate explanation of the
real world. They account for the behavior of the quantum in reference to its
interaction with a deeper dimension of the multidimensional space-filling field
that has now replaced the "luminiferous ether" of the nineteenth century. This is
a relatively recent development. Until the 1980s, quantum weirdness was
generally accepted as an irreducible condition of the ultrasmall domain of the
universe. Physicists contented themselves with the smooth functioning of the
equations by which they computed their observations and made predictions. In
the last two decades the picture has begun to change. With the new fables, a far
less weird view of the quantum world is beginning to take shape. Experiments
that were originally designed to investigate the complementary
corpuscular/wave nature of the quantum have been instrumental in bringing
about the new understanding. The first experiment to demonstrate the wave
nature of light was conducted by Thomas Young in 1801. In his famous
"double-slit experiments," coherent light was allowed to pass through a filtering
screen with two slits. (Young created coherent light by making a ray of sunlight
penetrate a pinhole; today, lasers are used for this purpose.) When Young placed
a second screen behind the filter with the two slits, he found that instead of two
pinpoints of light, a wave-interference pattern appeared on the screen. The same
effect can be observed on the bottom of a pool when two drops or pebbles
disturb the sunny and otherwise smooth surface of the water. The waves
spreading from each disturbance meet and interfere with each other: where the
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appear bright. Where crest meets trough they cancel each other and appear dark.
Are the quanta that pass through Young's slits waves? If so, they could then pass
through both slits and form interference patterns. This assumption makes sense
until such a weak light source is used in the experiments that only one photon is
emitted at a time. Commonsense reasoning tells us that a single photon cannot
be a wave: it must be a corpuscular packet of energy of some sort. But then it
should be able to pass through only one of the slits and not both slits at the same
time. Yet when single photons are emitted, a wave-interference pattern builds up
on the screen, as if each photon passed through both slits. The "split-beam"
experiment, designed by John Wheeler, discloses the same dual effect. Here,
too, photons are emitted one at a time, and they are made to travel from the
emitting gun to a detector that clicks when a photon strikes it. A half-silvered
mirror is inserted along the photon's path, which splits the beam. This means
that on the average, one in every two photons will pass through the mirror and
one in every two will be deflected by it. To verify this, photon counters are
installed both behind the half-silvered mirror and at right angles to it. There is
no problem here: the two counters register an approximately equal number of
photons. But a curious thing occurs when a second half-silvered mirror is
inserted in the path of the photons that are undeflected by the first. One would
still expect that an equal number of photons would reach the two counters:
deflection by the two mirrors would simply have exchanged their individual
destinations. But this is not the case. One of the two counters registers all the
photons - none arrives at the other. It appears that the kind of interference that
was noted in the double-slit experiment occurs in the split-beam experiment as
well, indicating that individual photons are behaving as waves. Above one of the
mirrors the interference is destructive (the phase difference between the photons
is 180 degrees), so that the wave patterns of the photons cancel each other.
Below the other mirror the interference is constructive (since the wave phase of
the photons is the same) and in consequence the photon waves reinforce each
other. The interference of wave patterns of photons emitted moments apart in
the laboratory has also been observed in photons emitted at considerable
distances from us, at considerable intervals of time. The "cosmological" version
of the split-beam experiment bears witness to this. In this experiment the
photons are emitted not by an artificial light source, but by a distant star. In one
case the photons of the light beam emitted by the double quasar known as
0957+516A,B were tested. This distant "quasi-stellar object" appears to be two,
but is in fact one and the same object, its double image being due to the
deflection of its light by an intervening galaxy situated about one fourth of the
distance from Earth. (The presence of mass, according to relativity theory,
curves space and hence also the path of the light beams that propagate in it.) A
light beam taking the curved path takes longer to travel than one coming by the
straight path. In this case the additional distance travelled by the light deflected
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beam have been on the way fifty thousand years longer than those that traveled
by the more direct route. Although originating billions of years ago and arriving
with an interval of fifty thousand years, the photons of the two light beams
interfere with each other just as if they had been emitted seconds apart in the
laboratory. Repeatable and indeed oft repeated experiments show that - whether
they are emitted at intervals of a few seconds in the laboratory or at intervals of
thousands of years elsewhere in the universe - particles that originate from the
same source interfere with ach other. Is a photon or an electron a corpuscle
when emitted (since it can be emitted one by one) and a wave when it
propagates (since it produces wavelike interference patterns when it encounters
other photons or electrons)? And why does the coupling of this particle wave
persist almost infinitely, even over cosmological distances? The search for an
answer to these questions points in a new direction. Recent versions of the
double-slit experiment furnish an indication of the direction in which the answer
is now being sought. Initially the experiments were designed to answer a simple
question: Does the particle really pass through both slits, or only one? And if
only one, which one? The experiment consists of an apparatus that allows each
photon access to only one of the two slits. When a stream of photons is emitted
and confronted with the two slits, the experiment should decide which of the
slits a given photon is passing through. In accordance with Bohr's principle of
complementarity, when the experiment is set up so that the path of the photons
can be observed, the corpuscular face of the photons appears and the wave-face
disappears: the interference fringes diminish and can entirely vanish. The higher
the power of the "which-path detector," the more the interference fringes
diminish. This was shown by an experiment conducted by Mordehai Heiblum,
Eyal Buks, and colleagues at Israel's Weizmann Institute. Their state-of-the-art
technology comprised a device less than one micrometer in size, which creates a
stream of electrons across a barrier on one of two paths. The paths focus the
electron streams and enable the investigators to measure the level of interference
between the streams. The higher the detector is tuned for sensitivity, the less
there is of interference. With the detector turned on for both paths, the
interference fringes disappear. This result conforms to Bohr's theory, according
to which the two complementary faces of particles can never be observed at one
and the same time. However, an ingenious experiment by Shahriar Afshar, a
young Iranian-American physicist, demonstrated that even when the corpuscular
face is observed, the wave-aspect is still there: the interference pattern does not
disappear. In this experiment, reported in July 2004 by the British journal New
Scientist, a series of wires are placed precisely where the dark fringes of the
interference pattern should be. When light hits the wires, they scatter it so that
less light reaches the photon detector. But light does not affect these particular
points: even when photons pass through the slits one at a time, the dark fringes
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particles continue to behave as waves even when they are individually emitted;
only their wave-face is not apparent to conventional observation. Asfhar
suggests - and a number of particle physicists are inclined to agree - that the
wave-aspect of the particle is the fundamental aspect. The corpuscular face is
not the real face: the entire experiment can be described in terms of photon-
waves. Does this mean that the mysteries surrounding the behavior of particles
are resolved? Not by any means. Even as a wave-state, the state of the particle is
decidedly non-commonsensical: it is "non-local." The "which-path detecting
apparatus" appears to be coupled in an instant and non-energetic manner with
the photons passing through the slits. The effect is astonishing. In some
experiments the interference fringes disappear as soon as the detector apparatus
is readied - and even when the apparatus is not turned on! Leonard Mandel's
optical-interference experiment of 1991 bears this out. In the Mandel experiment
two beams of laser light are generated and allowed to interfere. When a detector
is present that enables the path of the light to be determined, the interference
fringes disappear as Bohr predicted. But the fringes disappear regardless of
whether or not the determination is actually carried out. The very possibility of
"which-path-detection" destroys the interference pattern. This finding was
confirmed in the fall of 1998, when University of Konstanz physicists Durr,
Nunn, and Rempe reported on an experiment where interference fringes are
produced by the diffraction of a beam of cold atoms by standing waves of light.
When no attempt is made to detect which path the atoms are taking, the
interferometer displays fringes of high contrast. However, when information is
encoded within the atoms as to the path they take, the fringes vanish. The
labeling of the paths does not need to be read out to produce the disappearance
of the interference pattern; it is enough that the atoms are labeled so that this
information can be read out. Is there an explanation for this strange finding?
There is, but it is not a commonsense one. It appears that whenever one encodes
"directional information" in a beam of atoms, this information correlates the
atom's momentum with its internal electronic state. Consequently when an
electronic label is attached to each of the paths the atoms can take, the wave-
function of one path becomes orthogonal - at right angles – to the other. And
streams of atoms or photons that are orthogonal cannot interfere with each other.
The fact is that atoms, the same as particles, can be non-locally correlated with
each other, and even with the apparatus through which they are measured. In
itself, this is not new: non-locality in the quantum world has been known for
more than half a century. Already in 1935 Erwin Schrodinger suggested that
particles do not have individually defined quantum states but occupy collective
states. The collective superposition of quantum states applies to two or more
properties of a single particle, as well as to a set of particles. In each case it is
not the property of a single particle that carries information, but the state of the
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 The Quantum Vacuum

How could the quantum vacuum convey the "historical experience of matter"?
This is a fundamental question for contemporary physics and possibly the key to
the emerging paradigm of all sciences. The quantum vacuum, Mitchell said, is
the holographic information mechanism that records the historical experience of
matter. In the beginning of the twentieth century, the much neglected - but now
more and more rediscovered - genius Nikola Tesla, the father of modern
communication technologies, spoke of an "original medium" that fills space and
compared it to Akasha, the light-carrying ether. In his unpublished 1907 paper
"Man's greatest achievement," he wrote that this original medium, a kind of
force field, becomes matter when prana, cosmic energy, acts on it, and when the
action ceases, matter vanishes and returns to Akasha. Since this medium fills all
of space, everything that takes place in space can be referred to it; The quantum
vacuum, it appears, transports light, energy, pressure, and sound. Could it have a
further property by means of which it correlates separate and possibly distant
events? Could it create the correlations that make for the amazing coherence of
the quantum, of the organism, of consciousness - and of the whole universe?
The vacuum could indeed have such a property. It could be not just a superdense
sea of energy, but also a sea of information. One consequence of this is that we
are literally, physically, 'in touch' with the rest of the cosmos as we share with
remote parts of the universe fluctuating zero-point fields of even cosmological
dimensions. In the vacuum, however, there are no forces or things that could
cancel or even attenuate waves: the vacuum is considered to be a frictionless
medium. In a frictionless medium waves and objects move without resistance
and - in the absence of contrary forces - could move forever. Thus, if the
vacuum is a truly frictionless medium, the wave memory of the universe may be
eternal. But could any medium be truly frictionless? The answer is yes: super-
cooled helium is entirely frictionless, as the Dutch physicist Kammerlingh
Onnes discovered in 1911. Super-fluid helium is a good analogy for the super-
dense and at the same time frictionless cosmic vacuum. According to John
Wheeler's calculations, the energy density of the vacuum is 1094 erg per cubic
centimeter - a stupendous amount that is far greater than the energy associated
with all the matter particles throughout the universe. The fact is that the vacuum
is both superfluid and super-dense - much like helium near the absolute zero of
temperature. This is a mind-boggling combination, for how can something be
denser than anything else and at the same time more fluid than any1thing else?
The vacuum, just like supercooled helium, may be a mind-boggling medium, but
it is not a supernatural one. All things in the universe are immersed in the super-
dense yet super1fluid cosmic vacuum, and all things produce waves that move
the vacuum out of its "ground state" (i.e., create vortices that "excite" the
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interference patterns they create integrate the information carried by the
individual vortices. As the vortices of individual things merge, the information
they carry is not overwritten, for the waves superpose one on the other. And the
superposed waves are in a sense everywhere throughout the vacuum. This, too,
is a natural phenomenon: it is familiar in the form of holograms. In a
holographic recording - created by the interference pattern of two light beams –
there is no one-to-one correspondence between points on the surface of the
object that is recorded and points in the recording itself. Holograms carry
information in a distributed form, so all the information that makes up a
hologram is present in every part of it. The points that make up the recording of
the object's surface are present throughout the interference patterns recorded on
the photo1graphic plate: in a way, the image of the object is enfolded throughout
the plate. As a result, when any small piece of the plate is illuminated, the full
image of the object appears, though it may be fuzzier than the image resulting
from illuminating the entire plate. Superposed vacuum-interference patterns are
nature's "holograms"; they carry distributed information on all the particles, and
on all the ensembles of particles, throughout the reaches of space and time. The
hypothesis we can now advance may be daring, but it is logical. The quantum
vacuum generates the holographic field that is the memory of the universe.

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 The Nature of the Absolute

By Nityananda

The Absolute, the ultimate reality, the highest of all - this is pure
consciousness. This pure dynamic consciousness is the basis and source of
all manifestation, large and small. Many names have been given to this
“ground of all”: Shiva, Parashakti, Parabrahma, Atman, the Self, God. It is
the divine consciousness in all, the one consciousness. This ocean of pure
potentiality has two inseparable aspects: pure potential (Shiva) and pure
energy (Shakti). Shakti is the supreme creative aspect of the Absolute,
vital and dynamic. It is both completely stable and never still, the eternall y
pulsating sound and power of Om; the creative energy of Life, omkar.

Within the sea of pure consciousness, this resonance causes movement,

waves, and ripples that intersect and mingle, rise and break. All
manifestation arises from the movement and interaction o f forces
precipitated by the resonance that is Omkar. Omkar is the “original word”
(paravac), the “universal sound” (shabda), the “Word” in the Gospel of St.
John (“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the
Word was God.” John 6:I). In the Rig Veda, one of the most ancient of
Indian holy texts, Omkar is vac, creator and substance of all. Omkar is
pulsating everywhere, always at the same time. It is form-less, completely
open, pure potential.

“Om vibrates like a storm in the sky. Having neither beginning nor end, it
is the stage manager of the Divine Drama. The human body is a string of
Om, all that is - inside us, outside us - is born of Om.” (Sutra 95)

Omkar – Shakti - is the very nature of the Absolute, or God. It is a living

energy whose vibration gives rise to the whole universe. Synonymous with
the Om sound and pranava (its resonance), Omkar is the all-pervasive
universal mantra. This one dynamic impulse reverberates within itself,
giving rise to all experience - intellectual, volitional, emotional and
spiritual. Omkar is also called sat-chit-ananda, Being-Consciousness-Bliss.
The Absolute simply is - an eternally stable, self-luminous, conscious force
continuously and joyously manifesting its own awareness. Satchitananda.

“The universe arises from sound. As so all things with form, from sound,
form arises.”(Sutra 92)

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Exactly how this vibrant, self-aware, ever-pulsating ocean of pure
consciousness manifests as our familiar material world is the subject of
much scholarly debate. In general, all schema trace a hierarchical
development beginning with the single Absolute that manifests in
increasingly differentiated levels. Nityananda likewise sees the material
world as the most differentiated and gross level. Because each successive
level is contained within its more subtle predecessor, however, all things
share certain basic elements that are the first and most subtle
differentiations from the Absolute.

“When the life-energy moves in an outward direction, desires are born.

There the mind follows, dividing and subdividing into the two -, four-, and
six-fold properties of unconscious cosmic Nature and what we call “the
world” comes into being.” (Sutra 70)

Nityananda spoke primarily of two sets of such elements. In the first are
the five categories of earth, water, fire, air, and ether. In the second set are
the three primary gunas or constituent elements of cosmic Nature (prakriti:
sattva, rajas and tamas). Sattva is pure light and perfect balance. Tamas, at
the other end of the spectrum, embodies inertia, darkness and total density.
Between the two lies Rajas - passion, fire, dynamic activity.

“All principles have a single root - the One Absolute, Parabrahma.”

(Sutra 5)

Omkar is the essence of them all; the “power of doership” of the Absolute,
the essence of life, of words and objects, of human beings. Omkar is the
heart of Atman, and Atman is central to the mystery of our essential nature
- because Atman is the Self. In the sutras, a distinction is made between the
individual Self (jivatman) and the divine Self (paramatman), a distinction
that is only on the surface. The distinction is Maya. This does not mean
that the world is an illusion. (After all, the power underlying everything is
real power.) Rather, Maya implies that nothing outside and nothing inside
is as it appears. Individual selves are not really separate. Instead they are
like waves on the ocean’s surface, each different but still water - only
water. Likewise, any extension of the supreme Self is not different from
the supreme Self. Jivatman is supreme conscious energy expressed as an
individuated person, Paramatman is the Absolute, and they are both really
the same thing. When Nityananda speaks of merging the Jivatman into the
Paramatman, he is simply referring to the merging of ocean waves into
water. Atman merging into Atman.

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 All Is Vibration and Information

From “The Basic Code of the Universe”

There is a god in information, a god that is the essence of life itself. This god
operates everywhere: in science, linguistics, cybernetics, communications,
computing, genetics, in all moments of our lives where there are signals that
provide elements of knowledge. To inform comes from the Latin in-formare,
meaning “provide a form,” to mold according to a shape. Nothing is created
without information. Every creator informs the creatures after him (as it says in
the Bible, “And He created Man in his image and likeness”). From intellectually
inform” the meaning moves on to “keep informed and give the chance to
operate.” Information affects the behavior or form. An example is a driver at a
set of traffic lights, or the hormones that change the body of an adolescent.
Everything takes place in three phases: the signal must be emitted, then
transmitted and received, and finally understood. The object of the signal must
be able to receive it (the distracted driver may not see the traffic lights) and to
understand it (a wild creature in the forest doesn’t understand traffic lights).
Everything changes according to the information. As Heraclitus of Ephesus put
it, everything flows and nothing is repeated. Even the river is never the same,
though it may appear to be so. Everything is information: the melody that makes
you dream or the molecule that activates a receptor. The universe is a net whose
knots are the bodies and whose threads are the waves and radiations. The knots
may be perceived by the senses, but the threads are not, though they inform,
exchange, and organize life. Everything exchanges information with everything
in the communication network of the world. Every being and entity sends
messages that contain history, conditions, and properties, almost in eagerness to
reassert identity and communicate. Everything gets repeated this way, to
construct the network of information and exchange operating invisibly in the
emptiness, in the apparent void. Everyone knows that our senses are limited, yet
we continue to ignore what we cannot perceive. And we lose the faculty to
know. The largest parts of events are not perceivable. Think about how many
experiments appear not to work just because we are unable to record the
infinitesimal variations produced! In the world of emptiness, things could be
different from the world of solids and thus require other paradigms. The history
of physics is full of precedents, such as Heisenberg’s discovery that space and
time behave differently in the infinitively small. Even the vacuum has
characteristics, laws, and physiology to investigate. Although it seems still,
matter is in constant motion. Vibrating atoms and dashing particles are confined
in narrow spaces. As with a bullet in the barrel of a gun, the narrower the space,
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protons and neutrons ten times faster. The rotations of protons reach speeds of 3
x 1022, thirty thousand billion billion times per second. Since electric charges in
motion produce magnetic fields, such fields constantly permeate everything. If
we travel up in the ladder of dimensions, molecules are not static either, because
they are subjected to multiple movements (called stretching, bending, and so on)
responsible for vibrations. “What kind?” you may ask. Electromagnetic,” you
might reply. Correct, but not solely. Take an object, any object, and start to
move it. Shake it hard, and think about what is happening in the surrounding air.
That moving body is moving small masses of air, and so is adversely affecting
its field with elastic types of waves. Never thought about it? The same thing
happens in the microscopic world: by vibrating at a very high speed, molecules
generate an electromagnetic elastic field because they disturb the nearby
environment. Herein lies the secret: electromagnetic waves, which are also
elastic. If the superstrings theory is true, then it fits well with this
understanding. The bricks of the world would be microscopic strings, each
vibrating in its own way. Every particle of matter and even every mediator of
force would be a string that vibrates, its mode of vibration leaving an imprint in
the universe. Think about a violin string: how many possibilities of oscillation –
the so-called resonances - how many different types of waves, with peaks and
dips equidistant from one another! The string is the same, but different
vibrations give rise to different notes. Similarly, the same microscopic strings
would be vibrating in different ways to give the feeling of different masses. The
properties of an elementary particle would be determined by the vibration mode
of its internal string. Mass is the energy with which the string vibrates, and the
“matter” of which the forces and particles are made is always the same.
Everything corresponds: the universe is an extraordinary immense symphony!
Whether the theory of strings is true or not, at this point it doesn’t matter
anymore. Whether they are strings or particles, what difference does it make if
there is nothing that keeps matter still? Vibrating strings, vibrating particles,
vibrating fields. What appears as a mass is in fact a fluctuating field, rippling
matter: the more time passes, the more physicists talk like philosophers again.
The uncertainty principle suggests that nothing is ever at rest and everything is
subjected to quantum agitations. If this were not the case, we would know with
absolute precision the position and the velocity of particles, violating the laws of
Heisenberg. We can’t stop the process of becoming to catch it in its elementary
constituents, because that which appears fragmented to the senses in reality is
one. Now we need take care and reason this together. The movements of
molecules are autobiographical, individually unique. They are specific. So also
are the perturbations in the field. The field thus forms a portrait of the substance,
the transcription of its molecules. The vibration in the field is called fingerprint
vibration. Different substances have different fields, specific to their molecules.
For example, the field of hydrogen is specific to hydrogen; it contains features
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the two substances are the same; their molecules possess the same chemical and
physical structure. Different substances have different fields and emit different
signals. The uniqueness is related to the information in the field, which operates
according to the given ensemble of molecular signals. The field created by
electromagnetic and elastic fluctuations is informed; it contains information
about the form, dimensions, weight, and color of the physical substance. It has
autonomy, physiology,even potential pathology, qualities, functions, and
properties. This applies to the fields of a body’s cells as well as to those of
objects: all forms of life are governed by codes, whose spatial extent is their
field. The field of a medicine, for example, will contain information on the
molecular structure, its macroscopic chemical-physical qualities, and its
pharmacokinetic medicinal properties. Within the code is written how it works,
what it is for, and the action it induces. The essence of the field is information,
which is not solely electromagnetic in nature. While electromagnetism may be
the most obvious aspect of the field, it would be a mistake to think that the field
is only that. It is one of many properties of a field; to consider it the only one
would be like saying, “Look, a walking coat!” while ignoring the man who is
wearing it. Information is always a messenger of a beginning or an end or at
least a change. It creates, corrects, modifies. It can have a plastic function of
regulation or communication. Every entity is governed by information that
guides its construction, directs it, and regulates communications.

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 The Akashic Field

The Akashic field is a metaphysical library which exists outside of time and
space. It is thought to be a universal record of everything that has ever
happened, a kind of database, that a psychic or a mystic could access for
healing, visioning or understanding. The idea of an Akashic field is popular in
spiritual and New Age thought as an explanation for intuitive information and
spiritual insight. This concept has long been ridiculed by materialistic science,
since there is no conceivable way that such a thing could exist in a strictly
physical world or that humans could access it. At the same time, our evolving
understanding of quantum physics has lead scientists towards hypothesizing a
pervasive, universe-wide field of energy and information. The quantum vacuum
and zero point energy, could be the source out of which everything in the
physical world arises and returns. Many scientists acknowledge the existence of
a quantum field, yet most believe they are not at all accessible to the human
consciousness. Yet, a universal quantum field sound strikingly similar to the
Akashic field. Ervin Laszlo, a philosopher of science and a systems theorist,
convincingly argues that they are one and the same. The existence of an Akashic
field, or A-field, as he calls it, might give us a unifying theory that would finally
bring together objective science and the consciousness that perceives it. In hindu
thought, Akasha refers to the one, eternal and all-pervading substance that is
imperceptible. A fundamental property to the universe, it exists outside of space
and time, a strikingly similar concept to the quantum vacuum. The concept of
Akasha has informed Eastern thinking for thousands of years. According to
Vedic thought, the material universe was created when Akasha was activated by
Prana, the universal energy, in a kind of super awakening or big bang. The idea
of an Akashic Field as a kind of library that stores all the information of the
world seems to have come from the early members of the Theosophical
movement, such as Annie Besant, Charles Leadbeater and Manly Hall. It is
thought that many of their theosophical writings came directly from the Akashic
field. Though the specific term Akashic Record is fairly recent, saints, sages and
visionaries have been able to access universal knowledge directly for as long as
we have records. Maharishi Bhrigu, who’s credited to be the father of Hindu
astrology is thought to have compiled a book of literally millions of horoscopes
of past and future people. In China, Tajao purportedly channeled information on
a variety of subjects and Sujujin reportedly only needed the first name of a
person to be able to accurately describe their life history. The oracles of the
Greek temples and the mystics of the Sufis also were able to access “divine”
guidance. In the west, Edgar Cayce may be the most famous medium who could
“read” uncannily accurate information relating to medical issues of his clients.
He referred to his process of acquiring information in trance as accessing the
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archaeologist George McMullen was able to walk onto a field over an
archeological site and accurately tell the story of who lived there, when what
they looked like and where their constructions would be. McMullen described to
me how at several sites he encountered a native from a historical time waiting at
the edge of the village to meet him and show him all the sights of that place. It
was as if the awareness of that place was waiting to be released to McMullen’s
receptive consciousness, similar to a record waiting to be played. Nostradamus
also “read” his future history from some place outside of time. Modern remote
viewers have shown the ability to accurately describe distant locations in the
present, past, and future with only a randomly assigned target coordinate to cue
them. Another fascinating phenomenon is that of Jane Roberts and her
channeled writings of the entity Seth. Channeling - which may be another
interpretation of accessing the Akashic field - allows an individual to tap into
very specific knowledge, higher intelligence and even know languages that they
don’t have in their day-to-day lives. Seth, speaking through Robert’s when she
was in trance, asserted that the fundamental stuff of the universe is ideas and
consciousness, and that once an idea is conceived it exists forever. He went on
to state that all knowledge could be accessed by “direct cognition”. This is
reminiscent of Robert Monroe’s description of receiving “rotes” of information
from higher beings when he was traveling in his out-of-body states. These dense
“downloads” of information might also be likened to a record being triggered
and played into Monroe’s consciousness. All these examples show us that we
seem to have connection to knowledge that is outside of us, it’s part of our
nature, even down to the day-to-day intuitions that guide ordinary people. Many
philosophers and scientists who have delved into the mysteries of consciousness
have theorized ways to describe this phenomena of interconnection. Since
Akasha is fundamental property of all things, Vedic thought proposes that
everything is interconnected through this fundamental property. One poetic
image from the Avatamsaka sutra states, “... there is said to be a network of
pearls, so arranged that if you look at one, you see all the others reflected in it.
In the same way, each object in the world is not merely itself, but involves every
other object and, in fact, is everything else.” Jung referred to the part whereby
we are all connected as the collective unconscious, as he attempted to describe
his own experiences of archetypal energies and symbols. Looking at the outer
world, the interconnecting qualities that are now being recognized in science are
often referred to as some kind of field. A field is a matrix, or a region of
influence, that has effects in space and time, usually through some force or
energy. This hypothesis suggests that all fields exist in physical reality, though
they can’t be observed directly. They are inferred through observable effects.
For example, a magnet exerts a field of energy that can affect physical iron
filings. We experience gravity when we feel our weight on the ground or drop a
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fields of information are thought to be correlated with any kind of biological
action. They exist outside of time and space, and are thus universally present,
guiding biological growth, and in essence, connecting us. Some biologists even
propose there is a field consciousness that is responsible for the near-
instantaneous movements of a flock of birds or a school of fish. The Quantum
physicist David Bohm postulated an implicate order that underlies all of
physical matter at the quantum level and is expressed through holomovements, a
dynamic wholeness-in-motion whereby everything moves together and is
interconnected. Karl Pribram described it in terms of holography. In a
holographic image, the visual information exists throughout the whole image, so
that any piece of the whole contains part of the whole image. In holographic
theory, the human brain is part of this holographic dimension and has access to
it. A hypothetical, unifying field has also been called by spiritually minded
people the cosmic mind, the universal mind, and the psi-field. Quantum
physicists refer to the quantum vacuum and the zero point energy (ZPE) field as
the plenum from which all energy arises. A convincing case is made by Ervin
Laszlo that science is finally in a place to produce a theory of everything, a
meeting point between the cutting edge of quantum physics and lived experience
of spiritual thinkers. In his books, The Self-Actualizing Cosmos and Science and
the Akashic Field he draws on advances in quantum physics, biology and
consciousness studies to show that the quantum vacuum and the ZPE may be
inherently an information field. ZPE theory suggests that the physical world we
live in arises billions of times each second from the universal field of quantum
potential. Everything we know and experience comes from that source and
sooner or later returns there. Laszlo theorizes that this vacuum generates a kind
of holographic field that is outside of time and space, and is the memory of the
universe. The presence of memory and information reinforces the idea of
consciousness as a primary aspect of the universe. The fundamental primacy of
consciousness is not an unusual perspective to come from those delving into
quantum physics. As Neils Bohr said, “We can admittedly find nothing in
physics or chemistry that has even a remote bearing on consciousness. Yet all of
us know that there is such a thing as consciousness, simply because we have it
ourselves. Hence consciousness must be part of nature, or, more generally, of
reality.” Seeing the similarities of the Akashic Field and the ZPE field, Laszlo
calls them collectively the A-field, purposely using a scientific sounding name.
Laszlo is a strong proponent for science and believes that science produces
reliable and predictable knowledge that is both empirical and experimental. He
also acknowledges that science can only cover the objective world, always
requiring a subject who experiences the data. Consciousness, mind and
experience are all part of interior subjective experience, which has been the
realm of the spiritual traditions and cannot be measured by science. Laszlo
suggests that information - which he describes as mind perceiving differences in
energy - might be the missing link that can unify science and spirituality. He

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proposes that all the varieties of anomalous experience that humans have -- out-
of-body, near-death, past-life, spontaneous healing, precognition and various
psi-related experiences -- show that human consciousness is not only tapped into
this field, but is part of it. Humans being interconnected with everything in the
universe and able to access it first hand is nothing unusual to various lineages of
Eastern thought and to many indigenous peoples. Many cultures believe in a
circle of life, whereby every living and non-living thing is connected. There are
many reports of a kind of sympathetic resonance with the animals that were the
primary sustenance to many native peoples. Josiah Gregg was an explorer,
naturalist, and author who traded on the Santa Fe Trail during the 1830s. On one
occasion he watched a Comanche arc an arrow that killed a prairie dog out of
sight behind a hillock, a trick Gregg could not duplicate with a rifle. Though
Westerners dismiss this belief of connection as “magical thinking,”
“sympathetic magic” and “irrational superstition,” to the people who have these
experiences that reality is the more obvious truth than the materialist myth of
separation and disconnection. A-field theory, and the trend of quantum physics,
is returning Western science to a place in the universe where we are connected
with each other and with nature. Laszlo draws on his experience with non-linear
systems theory, the quantum phenomena of non-local interaction and
entanglement to suggest that in a very real sense, everything we do as humans
has an affect on the rest of the world. He suggests that when the system is
functioning coherently – in sync, harmonious and energetically aligned - the
whole system thrives and evolves together simultaneously. He goes on to say
that when humans act incoherently, behaving as if we are separate from nature
and the universe, we run the risk of going extinct as a species. This sentiment
resonates with Albert Einstein’s words, “A human being is part of the whole,
called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences his
thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal decisions and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our
task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty.” Laszlo’s A-field theory can provide a practical framework for those
wishing to pursue their understanding of how consciousness and matter interact
in our universe through scientific means. In quantum mechanics we recognize
how consciousness and intention have manifest effects; we can also
acknowledge there are similar expressions of connection in our daily lives.
Rupert Sheldrake’s research with telephone telepathy and Dean Radin’s work
with distant intentionality and precognition seem to confirm the A-field’s
interconnectivity outside of time. These are practical, replicated avenues of
scientific study that validate how a connecting field may be influencing our
daily lives. On the personal side, these thoughts give rise to questions. If the
whole world is conscious, and we are part of it, why don’t we all recognize it?

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Why don’t we have access to the Akashic field whenever we want? Polls show
that most people have had some experience of telepathy, precognition or other
psi-phenomena. It’s only a small percentage of people immersed in a
materialistic worldview that claim these connective phenomena are impossible.
Yet, even those who believe don’t seem to have these experiences regularly.
Laszlo echoes what others have suggested, that this information field is more
easily accessible to most Westerners in altered states of consciousness. Edgar
Cayce, George McMullen and Nostradamus all did it in a kind of trance. For
some people it takes a near death experience to wake up to their connection to
the universe. Different schools of philosophical thought have theories for why
we might not know we are all connected. The engineer and philosopher
Bernardo Kastrup argues in Why Materialism is Baloney for idealism, where
consciousness is primary in the universe. He suggests that the human mind and
body that we can objectively study is essentially an image arising out of a
universal field of consciousness. He uses the metaphor of a whirlpool in a river,
having shape and form, yet still being entirely water, suggesting that we are
whirlpools in the river of mind. Kastrup proposes that the reason we don’t know
we are part of the river is that our brains and bodies are essentially filtering out
everything other than what is in the forefront of our consciousness - the personal
whirlpool of our egos and our bodies. The whirlpool metaphor also suggests that
we would have unitary and so-called “paranormal” human experiences when we
quiet the body and brain which couldn’t happen if the brain were producing
consciousness. This has been shown to happen in dramatic ways when
electromagnetic fields or psychoactive substances disrupt our normal brain
functioning or when we have a near-death experience. Innumerable individuals
have accessed the A-field through naturally produced trances and altered states.
You can learn to meditate, do self-hypnosis, or induce a more dramatic altered
state through holotropic breathwork. The multiple paths of yoga originated with
the specific intention of connecting the mind and the body to experience a
unitary state. It might also help to pay attention to the day-to-day intuitive
experiences you already have which might be glimmers from your own Akashic
connection. Imagining you are innately part of the A-field, and thus
interconnected with everything in the universe, might also change how you treat
others and the world around you.

Patrick Marsolek is a writer, dancer, facilitator, clinical hypnotherapist and the

director of Inner Workings Resources. He leads groups & teaches classes in
extended human capacities, consciousness exploration, personal development,
and compassionate communication. He is the author of “Transform Yourself: A
Self-hypnosis Manual” and “A Joyful Intuition”.
See www.PatrickMarsolek.com for more information.

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 Cosmic Consciousness

The true source of knowledge

Through the ages, mystics and seers have affirmed that consciousness is
fundamental in the universe. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a medieval Islamic scholar
and philosopher, wrote, "[T]he nature of reality is none other than
consciousness. . . . " Sri Aurobindo concurred: "[A]ll is consciousness - at
various levels of its own manifestation . . . this universe is a gradation of planes
of consciousness." Scientists have occasionally joined the ranks of the mystics.
Sir Arthur Eddington noted, "[T]he stuff of the universe is mind-stuff . . . the
source and condition of physical reality." And the Nobel laureate biologist
George Wald said that mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the
evolution of life, has existed always. Nearly two-and-a-half thousand years ago
Plato recognized that in regard to ultimate questions there can be no certainty:
the best we can do is to find the most likely story. In the contemporary context,
the likeliest story is that consciousness is universal in nature. Its roots extend to
the heart of physical reality: to the quantum vacuum. We know that this subtle
virtual energy sea is the originating ground of the bound-energy wave-packets
we view as matter, and we now have excellent grounds to assume that it is the
originating ground of mind as well. How could we tell that the vacuum is not
only the seat of a superdense virtual energy field from which spring wave-
packets we call matter, but also a cosmically extended proto- or root-
consciousness? There is no way we could tell by ordinary sensory experience.
First, because we cannot observe vacuum fields, we can only conclude their
existence by reasoning from the things we can observe. Second, because
consciousness is "private," we cannot ordinarily observe it in anyone other than
ourselves. The claim that the vacuum is both a virtual energy field and a field of
proto-consciousness is condemned to remain hypothetical, even if supported by
indirect evidence. There are, however, positive approaches we can take. To
begin with, even if we cannot directly observe consciousness in the vacuum, we
could attempt an experiment. We could enter an altered state of consciousness
and identify ourselves with the vacuum, the deepest and most fundamental level
of reality. Assuming that we succeed (and psychotherapists tell us that in altered
states people can identify with almost any part or aspects of the universe), would
we experience a physical field of fluctuating energies? Or would we experience
something like a cosmic field of consciousness? The latter is much more likely.
We have already noted that when we experience anybody else's brain "from the
outside," we do not experience his or her consciousness - at the most we
experience grey matter consisting of complex sets of neurons firing in complex
sequences. But we know that when we experience our brain "from the inside,"

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we experience not neurons, but the qualitative features that make up our stream
of consciousness: thoughts, images, volitions, colors, shapes, and sounds. Would
not the same hold true when we project ourselves into a mystical union with the
vacuum? This is not just a fanciful supposition: there is indirect yet significant
evidence for it. It comes from the farther reaches of contemporary consciousness
research. Stanislav Grof found that in deeply altered states of consciousness,
many people experience a kind of consciousness that appears to be that of the
universe itself. This most remarkable of altered-state experiences surfaces in
individuals who are committed to the quest of apprehending the ultimate
grounds of existence. When the seekers come close to attaining their goal, their
descriptions of what they regard as the supreme principle of existence are
strikingly similar. They describe what they experience as an immense and
unfathomable field of consciousness endowed with infinite intelligence and
creative power. The field of cosmic consciousness they experience is a cosmic
emptiness - a void. Yet, paradoxically, it is also an essential fullness. Although it
does not feature anything in a concretely manifest form, it contains all of
existence in potential. The vacuum they experience is a plenum: nothing is
missing in it. It is the ultimate source of existence, the cradle of all being. It is
pregnant with the possibility of everything there is. The phenomenal world is its
creation: the realization and concretization of its inherent potential. Basically,
the same kind of experience is recounted by people who practice yoga and other
forms of deep meditation. The Indian Vedic tradition, for example, regards
consciousness not as an emergent property that comes into existence through
material structures such as the brain and the nervous system, but as a vast field
that constitutes the primary reality of the universe. In itself, this field is
unbounded and undivided by objects and individual experiences, but it can be
experienced in meditation when the gross layers of the mind are stripped away.
Underlying the diversified and localized gross layers of ordinary consciousness
there is a unified, non-localized, and subtle layer: "pure consciousness."
According to traditional cosmologies, the universe's undifferentiated, all-
encompassing consciousness separates off from its primordial unity and
becomes localized in particular structures of matter. In the new scientific context
we can specify that the proto-consciousness of the quantum vacuum becomes
localized and articulated as particles emerge from it and evolve into atoms and
molecules. On life-bearing planets they evolve further into cells, organisms, and
ecologies. The human mind, associated with the highly evolved human brain, is
a high-level articulation of the cosmic consciousness that, emerging from the
vacuum, infuses all things in space and time.

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 Altered States of Consciousness

And what they enable

There is now significant body of evidence that the range of information reaching
brain and consciousness transcends the range coming through eyes and ears. A
remarkable kind of evidence comes from the investigations of Kenneth Ring, a
British near-death experience (NDE) researcher. Not content with finding
evidence of veridical out-of-body experiences by ordinary people at the portals
of death (well-documented ever since Elisabeth Kubler-Ross began researching
the NDE phenomenon), Ring investigated such experiences in blind people. In
one series of tests, fifteen out of twenty-one blind people whose physical
condition approached death reported fully sighted visions. (Of the remaining six,
three were not sure whether they saw or not, and three did not appear to see at
all.) Among those who reported sighted visions, Ring found no obvious
differences whether they had been blind from birth, had lost sight later in life, or
suffered from severe visual impairment. Furthermore, the experiences they
reported were much the same as those reported by sighted people. Ring tried to
explain these findings by the usual skeptical arguments, such as: that they are
only apparent and not actual; that they are similar to dreams; that they constitute
retrospective reconstructions of prior experiences; and that they are a form of
"blindsight" due to receptors in the brain or on the skin. However, he found that
no such explanation can account for the clear visual features of the experiences,
or indeed for the finding that many of their features were subsequently
confirmed as veridical perception. NDEs occur in altered states of
consciousness, as do other forms of out-of-body experiences. Meditation,
intense prayer, fasting, rhythmic movements, and controlled breathing also
produce altered states, and all these states prove conducive to the reception of
non-sensory information. When consciousness is in an altered state, the brain
seems to function in a mode in which information that does not fit the
commonsense conception of the world is not repressed. By contrast, ordinary
waking consciousness is a strict censor: most people have been "brainwashed" to
filter out all experiences not clearly and evidently conveyed by eyes and ears.
Parents tell their children not to imagine things, teachers insist that they should
stop dreaming and be sensible, and peer groups, already brainwashed, laugh at
the child who persists. As a result, modern youngsters grow up to be
commonsense individuals for whom everything that does not accord with the
dominant materialist idea of the world is denied and repressed. In altered states
of consciousness, however, strange items enter consciousness. And not
everything that enters turns out to be imaginary . . . The ability of altered states
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peoples who prized and cultivated them for the power they confer. But modern
people think of altered states as pathological - a sign of disease, of dementia, or
of being high on drugs. Only dreaming, daydreaming, alcoholic intoxication,
and sexual orgasm are considered "normal" deviations from waking
consciousness. Natural healers, leading-edge psychiatrists, and consciousness
researchers have a different view of such states. The psychiatrist John Nelson,
for example, considers altered states basic to the human psyche, with one end of
the spectrum shading into madness and the other reaching to the loftiest realms
of creativity, insight, and genius. In over forty years of clinical experience, the
renowned psychiatrist Stanislav Grof investigated the power of altered states.
Gathered in more than four thousand psychedelic sessions with various mind-
altering substances, two thousand sessions conducted by colleagues, and over
thirty thousand sessions using the holotropic breathing method, Grof's
experience indicates that when the censorship of the waking consciousness is
not operative, information can reach the mind from almost any part or aspect of
the universe. For example, in the "experience of dual unity," a person in an
altered state of consciousness can experience a loosening and melting of the
boundaries of the body ego and a sense of merging with another per1son in a
state of unity and oneness. In this experience, despite the feeling of being fused
with another, one retains an awareness of one's own identity. In the experience
of "identification with other persons," an individual, while merging
experientially with someone else, can experience complete identification to the
point of losing the awareness of his or her own identity. Identification is total
and complex, involving body image, physical sensations, emotional reactions
and attitudes, thought processes, memories, facial expressions, typical gestures
and manner1isms, postures, movement, and even the inflection of the voice. The
per1son with whom the given individual identifies can be someone in his or her
presence or it can be a distant person, alive now or long since dead. In "group
identification and group consciousness" there is a further extension of
consciousness and melting of ego boundaries. Rather than identifying with an
individual, a person can have a sense of becoming an entire group of people
with some shared racial, cultural, national, ideological, political, or professional
characteristic. Identification can focus on a social or political group, the people
of an entire country or continent, all members of a race, or all believers of a
religion. The depth, scope, and intensity of this experience can reach
extraordinary proportions: some people experience the totality of suffering of all
the soldiers who have ever died on the battlefield since the beginning of history;
the desire of revolutionaries of all ages to overthrow a tyrant; or the love,
tenderness, and dedication of all mothers in regard to their babies.

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Some Scientists Believe That Death Does
Not Exist. But Why?
Source: scienews.com

16:36 11.02

Each of us sooner or later face death. But what happens at the moment of dying
and after it? Throughout its history, humanity seeks answers to these questions.
Christianity and other Abrahamic religions offer eternal life in heaven or hell,
but Buddhism looks at the process of life and death a little differently, offering
reincarnation. The gods of ancient Egypt, Nordic folklore, the myths of Ancient
Greece – all these stories are somehow connected with death and attempts to
cope with the loss. But what if you look at death differently? What if death is
actually not he end, but your mind is just loaded and appears in another space-
time?

Remember the movie «edge of tomorrow» 2014 and «Groundhog Day» 1993
with bill Murray in the lead roles? These films are similar because the main
characters are stuck in a time loop and living the same day again and again and
again and again. Heroes of the Murray and cruise die multiple times, but you
Wake up again in the same place and at the same time. In fact, the hypothesis of
a time loop is extremely popular among science fiction writers and screenwriters
around the world, so you can easily recall a dozen similar films and stories.

But if you approach history about Groundhog day from the other side, the
question of whether it might be that death actually does not exist, don't sound so
stupid. Moreover, there are more questions in case we just every time we start a
new life in another space-time or return to the point in time where death was
avoided?

Robert Lanza is head of the Institute of regenerative medicine, which have been
developing methods of stem cell treatment, with an emphasis on diseases that
cause blindness. Let me remind you that stem cells are the precursors of all cells
and tissues of the human body. These cells are able to maintain their numbers
through fission and have the capacity «developing» different types of cells. With
age the number of stem cells in the human body decreases.

According to the British , according to Dr. Lanza, the death is not the end but
just the quantum reload, which moves the consciousness to another place in an
alternate space-time. The scientist believes that our consciousness creates what
we perceive as the Universe, but without individual nothing exists.

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The New theory also suggests that time and space cannot be measured, but are
simply concepts created by our minds to help us store information. Moreover,
Lanza convinced that consciousness exists thanks to the energy contained in our
bodies and is released once the physical body ceases the process, which he calls
«the biocentrism».

It is noteworthy that this theory Lanza put forward in 2012. My colleague Ramis
Ganiev wrote on this subject , I recommend to read.

It is Important to understand that when we talk about the theory of biocentrism,

we at the same time talking about Albert Einstein. It was he who first suggested
what was later voiced by lance: when our physical bodies die, the energy of
consciousness is saved and can continue to exist at the quantum level.
Remember the famous words of Albert Einstein:

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed from one

form to another.”

Reflecting on the words of Einstein, Lanza suggested that reincarnation is real,

because consciousness contains in itself the Universe. In his blog for the
Huffington Post Dr. Lanza writes: «in fact, it is the theory of relativity showed
that space and time are indeed relative to the observer.» He adds: «if the world is
created by the observer, we should not be surprised that it is destroyed with the
death of each of us. Space and time disappear, and with them disappear and all
the Newtonian concept of order and prediction.» the Scientist points to the belief
of Einstein that the space and time are related concepts and one cannot exist
without the other.

For example, Lanza rights and the time of the deceased person do restarts and
consciousness appears in another point of space-time. However, there is
something, without which neither one nor the other can exist – is the observer.
This means that consciousness is simply reappears in another point of space-
time after the death.

«We think that the past is the past, and the future is the future. But, as Einstein
realized, this simply is not so. Without consciousness, space and time are
nothing; in reality you can take any time – past or future – as your new frame of
reference. Death is a reboot that leads to new opportunities.»

But there's still something at the moment, no one understands this

consciousness. Scientists fully unknown that is where it is located and how it
operates. Different researchers and different scientific disciplines have different
views on consciousness and its origin, read more about how modern science

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understands the mind . In other words, the questions are still many, but I
personally like the theory of Lanza, it is quite beautiful. What do you think
about this theory? Response

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The Death Illusion
Susan Kahn

INTRODUCTION
Humans tend to regard themselves as supreme by nature, in contrast to what is
generally viewed as a primitive world. Our lives are virtually encased in a sense
of divinity, assumed to distinguish us from everything else. This sense of
division is also connected to the belief in an inherently separate self.

Humans commonly see themselves as at least subtly God-like, marked by what

is called consciousness. A dividing wall is imagined to separate mind from
matter, the animate from the inanimate. Consciousness is our divine self, and
death, a fall into lowly materiality.

The inseparable interrelatedness of people to everything else generally goes

unacknowledged. The world provides us with things, but we are not of it. This
dualism requires that we either accept eternal selfhood or be doomed to
oblivion, death, as a descent into an incoherent abyss.

While the notion of human privilege appears to be an advantage, it is our

affliction, resulting in an outlook of separation, conflict and defensive fear. The
idea of birth as an independent point of origin and death as a final endpoint, is a
misconception. An altogether different understanding of life and death, and of
the relationship of consciousness to the world is necessary.

MIND AND MATTER

The notion that consciousness marks humans as divinely distinct, can first be
challenged by recognizing that consciousness does not independently exist, but
is an interrelational function. What is considered to be conscious, is inseparable
from what is not considered to be conscious.

Here is a brief outline of the relationship. Sensory perception must involve an

image of the perception in order for the perception to be noted as having
occurred. This image, such as that of a tree, is known as consciousness.
Consciousness cannot be separated from sensory perception or from the tree.
They are not distinct entities. Thinking, involves the interplay of these sensory-
perceptual images. Thinking is not an independent affair either, but a dynamic,
interrelated mind-body-world activity.

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Conscious images are not objective impressions of a world out there. They are a
function related to human survival (just as is the notion of subjectivity is such a
function). For instance, there are no colors in the world. However, color is
necessary to help mobile organisms make distinctions between objects. The
perceptual image of color is activated when different wavelengths of light are
converted into images of color within the neural-visual system. Objects are not
the separate entities that they appear to be either. The impression that they are
involve other interrelated processes that allow an immeasurable quantum-like
world to be represented as object images.

A key point here, is that what is considered to be conscious, depends upon

sensory organs such as the eyes, ears, touch, etc., that are not regarded as
conscious, but as material body parts. Objects of sensory perception such as the
tree, are also not considered consciousness, but matter. Furthermore, the neural
brain that is integral to the formation and interaction of perceptual images, is
also not conscious by definition, but regarded as brain matter. Therefore, no
fundamental distinction can be drawn between mind and matter.

For if you look at all that consciousness depends upon and that is not considered
conscious and cleared it away, there would be no consciousness essence or
function left over. Since consciousness depends upon conditions that are not
regarded as conscious, consciousness cannot be established as having its own
independent nature, being or constitution.

The issue is not to regard consciousness (or any phenomenon) as non-existent,

but to recognize that its freestanding appearance is deceptive. In the same way, a
tree appears to be a separate entity and yet what we call a tree cannot be
separated from the sun, clouds, rain, oxygen, minerals, and so forth. The
appearance of its inherent separateness is like a mirage. And as with a tree, it is
important to note that given all of the diverse conditions that conscious function
depends upon such as the various sense organs, there cannot be one singular
consciousness. Consciousness becomes reified into a unified essence under the
lens of a mechanical reductionism.

Consciousness is an abstract name for what is not reducible to a separate entity

that is conscious in and of itself. If consciousness was truly separate from
objects, it would serve no purpose as it would be detached from everything to be
conscious of. Nor can matter be reduced to an essence that is inherently
material. One cannot say what mind or matter truly are because all form, in both
their gross and subtle appearances, are relational and therefore cannot be singled
out. Regarding consciousness, the straightforward recognition that it cannot
manifest apart from a body makes the point that consciousness cannot have its

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own nature, as does the arising of conscious thought upon reading these printed
words.

Now, previous thoughts conventionally appear as proximal conditions for

subsequent thoughts to arise, but not as an individual continuum with an
essence. Continuity is the appearance of the regularity of conditions. Thought is
a dynamic interplay without establishing one iota of independence that endures
as its own entity. Conscious thought is not an independent faculty that stands to
the side making objective observations. Consciousness is a symbolic description
given to an immeasurable complex of diverse activity that changes with every
interaction. There is no substance to be found in its name.

“Consciouness is a name. The name too, has no own being.” Nagarjuna

This understanding advances the refutation of an inherently existent

consciousness and correspondingly, the notion that it is privileged in comparison
to what is regarded as matter. It discredits the idea that consciousness establishes
a dividing wall between what is human and everything else. For as
consciousness can be seen to lack a self-essence, it cannot be the identifier of a
human self either.

There is another reason to question the standard view of conscious as a supreme

identity. Consciousness function is limited. Most mobile organisms are required
to anticipate an unpredictable environment. The formation and manipulation of
abstract images allow for the possibility of successful navigation and planning.
The imaginal sense of a distinct past, present and future is an example of this
necessity. The images of consciousness are functional, limited and relative.
They are not copies of a reality.

The vast majority of what goes on in the mind-body-world, including the

formation of consciousness, is not by definition, consciously perceived or
regulated. Additionally, the coherence of the universe, or the production of a
flower for that matter, does not take place through the use of conscious images.
With this understanding it is not consistent to grant conscious activity supreme
status.

The role of consciousness makes human culture and society possible. However,
on all counts, consciousness is like a cosmic network rather than the activity of
an autonomous entity. These reasonings are not intended to deny or devalue the
role of consciousness, but to appreciate its interdependent magnitude and to
therefore recognize the “equality of all phenomena.” ¹

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1. Nagarjuna, Arya, Master of Wisdom: Writings of the Tibetan Master
Nagarjuna, (Dharma Publishing,1997), Exposition of Bodhicitta, sloka 29

IMPERMANENCE EVERYWHERE

All form, both gross as in a tree, and subtle as in thought, depend upon
innumerable conditions and are not the fixed entities that they appear to be.
Nothing actually remains the same for an instant. What is perceived to be an
unchanging object is on the contrary, an instantaneous, indivisible movement of
disintegration and formation, even though this transience is imperceptible. It is
in this sense that what is called death is also life, as the ongoing transformation
of all phenomena.

Everything arises dependently. The absence of inherent or independent existence

is referred to in Buddhist philosophy as emptiness. In western philosophical
traditions the absence of objects or concepts existing in and of themselves is
often referred to as non-essentialism. It is because nothing exists independently,
as its own substance, nature or process, that everything is impermanent.

For example, fire is believed to exist as a fundamental element. However, fire is

dependent upon and inseparable from countless conditions such as fuel, oxygen,
thermal friction and so forth. Every flame continuously changes because fire
depends upon conditions with no existence of its own. Since fire is not self-
maintained it is impermanent.

When conditions for fire are no longer present, we say the fire died. Yes, this is
understandable, but it is important to see that each instant, the fire is a different
fire, not the same fire. Furthermore, since an appearing fire depends upon
conditions that are not considered to be fire, fire lacks its own self nature. After
all, fire does not burn itself. So fire does not and cannot die as an entity that ever
existed in and of itself.

Let’s try to find fire as an element existing in and of itself. Fuel is not
considered fire. Oxygen is not fire. Heat is not fire. Friction is not fire. If these
conditions are cleared away, or even one of them, such as oxygen, there will be
no fire left over. Therefore, apart from the conditions of fire, there is no fire.
Fire is not an independent element, but an interdependent phenomenon. It has no
essence of its own. It is in this sense that fire is said to be empty. The same can
be said for a self or subject, consciousness, death, and all phenomena.

Ultimately speaking, one cannot say what fire is or where is it begins and ends.
Its conditions too, are empty. This is not to say that fire as it appears, does not
arise, endure or cease, or that it does not burn, but that the appearance and

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function of fire is not the product of its own independent movement, nature or
being. There are relative differences between phenomena and processes to
recognize. These differences however, are of appearance, not essence. All form
and all characteristics are dependent and relational in every regard.

Death is also falsely viewed as an independent process that results in the

annihilation of life. However, if birth and death were independent processes,
there would be no relationship between them. Birth would never stop being born
and death would always be dying, which is nonsensical. Additionally, if birth
had its own nature and process, it would have given birth to itself, which
requires it to have already existed. And how can something that is dead produce
death? Furthermore, it is contradictory to think of death or non-existence as
existing. Where could nonexistence reside if it did not exist?

These contradictions can be avoided by recognizing the interdependence of all

things and consequently, to see that what arises dependently cannot be
inherently created or destroyed. For no phenomenon is ever its own thing to
begin with. Instead, each moment, is an unmarked birth and death in an
interdependent and impermanent flow of continuation.

Therefore, there is not a separate self with its own cemented mind-body
continuity that can be overtaken by a force called death. Thought, feeling,
sensation, perception and a body are all vastly interrelational and impermanent,
never remaining the same for an instant. The notion that there exists a separate,
permanent self above and beyond a vast web of dependent conditions is a
fiction. Death, which is merely impermanence, has been here all along. It is like
the saying that you never step into the same river twice.

Humans are seen to possess a fundamentally different nature from the rest of the
world, but are instead dependent upon it with no human essence left over.
Without the conditions of air, water, earth, minerals, plants, the sun, a moon, ad
infinitum, neither consciousness nor any human characteristic could appear,
including culture, language, human society, and its interrelations. Everything is
interdependent with no individual core or substance to be found, just as with
fire. The belief in concrete thingness, mistakes the conceptual image of a thing
for a real separate thing, mistakes the concept of death for death, the label of
consciousness to be consciousness, the image of a me for a separate self.

Using the notion of impermanence, is not to assume it to be an inherently

existent entity or process either. Impermanence is also empty of its own nature
and does not involve an autonomous operation or autonomous entities that it
moves or operates. It is the inability to posit independent phenomena and
processes that is the meaning of impermanence.

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An understanding of impermanence refutes the idea that separate entities just
show up from out of nowhere concretely formed, and then disappear in a final
act called death. Things appear to have a separate location and to independently
come and go, as well as function. However, when these mechanistic impressions
are carefully examined, such appearances, activities, and functions are
recognized as relative, dependent relationships with no nature or being of their
own. Everything is like a reflection in a mirror, like a movie that appears to
contain substantive entities but do not.

CONCLUSION

The fixed belief in a division between life and death, is a great

misunderstanding. There is no identifiable location from which things are born,
or to which they return and so, there is no place to die. Nor is there a human
species or self who from out of nowhere becomes conscious. We are of the
world.

There are relative, conventional differences between life and death, loss and
gain, mind and matter, the animate and inanimate, that are of consequence. The
issue is to note that these contrasts are dependently arisen, dependently
identified and therefore without their own nature. The understanding of
interdependence avoids the extremes that phenomena must either independently
exist or not exist at all.

The appreciation that everything reflects everything else, is the undoing of the
belief in inherent separateness and along with it, conflict and fear. Under these
conditions, the heart opens. There is the recognition that even the autumn leaf is
not fundamentally different from the spring leaf. The autumn leaf is life, in a
borderless, impermanent flux of causal continuance. It never was itself, and so
the appearance of its ultimate death is an illusion.

References

Nagarjuna, Arya, Master of Wisdom: Writings of the Buddhist Master

Nagarjuna, Dharma Publishing, 1997

Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel – The Science of the Mind and the Myth of
the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.

Nagarjuna, Arya. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way.

Translation and Commentary By Garfield, Jay L.
Oxford University Press, 1995

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Death and Eternity
“The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the human
body, but there is some part of it which remains eternal. Benedict de
Spinoza, Ethics”

How does the biocentric conception of the world change our lives? How can it
affect our emotions of love, fear, and grief? How, above all, does it enable us to
cope with our apparent mortality and the relationship of the body and our
consciousness? The attachment to life and consequent fear of death is a
universal concern, and, in some, an obsession, as the replicants in Blade Runner
made clear in their less-than-gentle way to all who would listen. Yet once we
abandon the random, physical-centered cosmos and start to see things
biocentrically, the verisimilitude of a finite life loosens its grip. Lucretius the
Epicurean taught us two thousand years ago not to fear death. The
contemplation of time and the discoveries of modern science lead to the same
assertion that the mind’s awareness is the ultimate reality, paramount and
limitless. Does it die, then, with the body? This is the point at which we leave
science for a bit and contemplate what biocentrism suggests and allows, rather
than what it can prove. The following is frankly speculative, yet it is more than
mere philosophizing, as it follows logically and sensibly from a consciousness-
based universe. Those who wish to stick strictly with “Just the facts, ma’am.”
are under no compulsion to accept any of these rather provisional conclusions.
As Emerson described it in The Over Soul, The influences of the senses has in
most men overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of space and time
have come to look solid, real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of
these limits in the world is the sign of insanity.”. I remember the day when I first
realized this. From around the corner came the trolley car, scattering sparks
above it. There was a grind of metal wheels, the tinkle of a few coins. With a jolt
and a sailing glide, the gigantic electric machine was on its way to my past,
back, block by block through the decades, through the metropolitan limits of
Boston, until it came to Roxbury. Here, at the foot of the hill where, for me, the
universe began, I hoped I might find a set of initials scratched into the sidewalk
or a tree, or perhaps an old, half1rusted toy, which I might put away in a shoe
box as evidence of my own immortality. But when I reached that place I found
that the tractors had been there and left. The city, it seemed, had reclaimed some
acres of slum; the old house I lived in, the houses next door where my friends
played, and all the yards and trees of the years I grew up in - all those things
were gone. And though they had been swept from the world, in my mind they
still stood, bright and heliographing in the sun, superimposed on the current
setting. I picked my way through the litter and the remains of some
unidentifiable structure. That spring day - which some of my colleagues spent in

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the laboratory carrying out experiments, and others in contemplation of black
holes and equations - I sat in a vacant city lot agonizing over the open-ended and
perverse nature of time. Not that I had never seen the fall of leaf, nor a kind face
grow old, but here, perchance, I might come across some hidden passageway
that would take me beyond the nature that I knew, to some eternal reality behind
the flux of things. The extent of the dilemma was realized both by Albert
Einstein in the Annalen de Physik and by Ray Bradbury in his masterwork,
Dandelion Wine.

“Yes,” said Mrs. Bentley. “Once I was a pretty little girl just like you, Jane, and
you, Alice…” “You’re joking with us,” giggled Jane. “You weren’t really ten
ever, were you, Mrs. Bentley?” “You run on home!” the woman cried suddenly,
for she could not stand their eyes. “I won’t have you laughing.” “And your
name’s not really Helen?” “Of course it’s Helen!“ “Good-by,” said the two
girls, giggling away across the lawn under the seas of shade, Tom following
them slowly. “Thanks for the ice cream!” “Once I played hopscotch!” Mrs.
Bentley cried after them, but they were gone.

Standing in the rubble of my past, it seemed extraordinary that I, like Mrs.

Bentley, was in the present, that my consciousness, like the breeze meandering
across the lot, blowing leaves before it, was moving on the edge of time.

“My dear,” said Mr. Bentley, “you never will understand time, will you? When
you’re nine, you think you’ve always been nine years old, and always will be.
When you’re thirty, it seems you’ve always been balanced there on that bright
rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever
seventy. You’re in the present, you’re trapped in the young now and an old now,
but there is no other now to be seen.”

Mr. Bentley’s observation is not so trivial a point. What sort of time is that
which separates a man from his past which separates one now from the next -
and yet gives continuity to the thread of consciousness? Eighty is the last “now,”
we say, but who knows that time and space - now seen as forms of intuition
rather than immutable standalone entities - are not actually “always.” A cat,
even when mortally ill, keeps those wide calm eyes focused on the
ever1changing kaleidoscope of the here-and-now. There is no thought of death,
and hence no fear of it. What comes, comes. We believe in death because we
have been told we will die. Also, of course, because most of us strictly associate
ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die, end of story. Religions
may go on and on about the afterlife, but how do we know this is true? Physics
may tell us that energy is never ever lost, and that our brains, minds, and hence
the feeling of life operate by electrical energy, and therefore this energy like all

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others sim1ply cannot vanish, period. And while this sounds very intellectually
nice and hopeful, how can we be sure that we will still experience the sense of
life – that mystery neuro-researchers pursue with such futility, like the dream
hallway that stretches ever longer the farther along the corridor we run? The
biocentric view of the timeless, spaceless cosmos of consciousness allows for no
true death in any real sense. When a body dies, it does so not in the random
billiard-ball matrix but in the all is-still-inescapably-life matrix. Scientists think
that they can say where individuality begins and ends, and we generally reject
the multiple universes of Stargate, Star Trek, The Matrix and such as fiction. But
it turns out there is more than a morsel of scientific truth in this popular cultural
genre. This can only accelerate during the coming shift in worldview, from the
belief that time and space are entities in the universe to one in which time and
space belong only to the living. Our current scientific worldview offers no
escape for those afraid of death. But why are you here now, perched seemingly
by chance on the cutting edge of all infinity? The answer is simple - the door is
never closed! The mathematical possibility of your consciousness ending is
zero. Logical, Everyday experience puts us in a milieu where defined objects
come and go, and everything has a natal moment. Whether pencil or kitten, we
see items entering the world and others dissolving or vanishing. Logic is a fabric
woven of such beginnings and endings. Conversely, those entities that are
timeless by nature, such as love, beauty, consciousness, or the universe as a
whole, have always dwelt outside the cold grasp of limitation. So the Great
Everything, which we now know to be synonymous with consciousness, could
hardly fit within the ephemeral category. Instinct joins with what science we can
employ here, to affirm that it is so, even if no argument, alas, can demonstrate
immortality to everyone’s satisfaction. Our inability to remember infinite time is
meaningless because memory is a particularly limited and selective circuit
within the neural network. Nor by definition could we recall a time of
nothingness: no help there either. Eternity is a fascinating concept, one that
doesn’t indicate a perpetual existence in time without end. Eternity doesn’t mean
a limitless temporal sequence. Rather, it resides outside of time altogether. The
Eastern religions have of course argued for millennia that birth and death are
equally illusory. (Or at least, their core teachings have done so. For the masses
in every religion, there are more peripheral notions; in Eastern sects these
include reincarnation.) Because consciousness transcends the body, because
internal and external are fundamentally distinctions of language and practicality
alone, we’re left with Being or consciousness as the bedrock components of
existence. The problem many face when pondering such things is not just that
language is dualistic by nature and therefore poorly suited for such inquiries, but
that there are onion layers of “truth” depending on the level of understanding.
Science, philosophy, religion, and metaphysics all deal with the challenges of
addressing a wide audi1ence with a huge spectrum of comprehension, education,
inclination, and bias. When a skilled science speaker steps up to a lectern, he

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already knows who his particular audience is for that day. A physicist giving a
popular lecture, especially to youngsters; willl avoid all equations, lest the
audience’s eyes start to glaze. Terms such as electron will need to be briefly
defined. If, on the other hand, the audience has a good science background –
let’s say it’s al talk for secondary school science teachers – then statements like
“electrons orbit an atom’s nucleus” and “Jupiter revolves around the sun”
involve already familiar terms, and no one would be left behind. Yet if the
audience is even more sophisticated, composed of physicists and astronomers,
both statements would now be false. An electron doesn’t really orbit; It
shimmers at a likely distance from the center in a state of probability alone, its
position and motion undefined until an observer forces its wave-function to
collapse. And Jupiter orbits not the sun but the barycenter, the vacant point in
space outside the sun’s surface where the two bodies’ gravities balance like a
seesaw. What is correct in one context is wrong in another. The same holds for
science, philosophy, metaphysics, and cos1mology. When a person strictly
identifies his only existence with his body and is certain the universe is a
separate, random, external entity, then saying “Death isn’t real” is not only
ludicrous, it’s untrue. His body’s cells will all indeed die. His false and limited
sense of being an isolated organism - this will end, too. Claims of an afterlife
will be met with an appropriately justifiable skepticism: “What has an afterlife,
my rotting corpse? How?” The next level upward has our individual feeling
himself to be a living entity, a spirit perhaps, ensconced in a body; if he’s had
spiritual experiences or else religious or philosophical beliefs of an immortal
soul being part and parcel of his essence, then now it makes more sense for him
to accept that something goes on even after the body is gone, and he’ll not waver
in this view even as his atheistic friends deride him for wishful thinking. The
concept of death has always meant one thing only: an end that has no reprieve or
ambiguity. It can only happen to something that has been born or created,
something whose nature is bounded and finite. That fine wine glass you
inherited from your grandmother can have a death when it falls and shatters into
a dozen fragments; it’s gone for keeps. Individual bodies also have natal
moments, their cells destined to age and self-destruct after about ninety
generations, even if not acted upon by outside forces. Stars die too, albeit after
enjoying lifespans usually numbered in the billions of years. Now comes the
biggie, the oldest question of all. Who am I? If I am only my body, then I must
die. If I am my consciousness, the sense of experience and sensations, then I
cannot die for the sim1ple reason that consciousness may be expressed in
manifold fashion sequentially, but it is ultimately unconfined. Or if one prefers
to pin things down, the “alive” feeling, the sensation of “me” is, so far as science
can tell, a sprightly neuro-electrical fountain operating with about 100 watts of
energy, the same as a bright light bulb. We even emit the same heat as a bulb,
too, which is why a car rapidly gets warmer, even during a cold night, especially
when a driver is accom1panied by a passenger or two. Now the truly sceptical

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might argue that this internal energy merely “goes away” at death and vanishes.
But one of the surest axi1oms of science is that energy can never die, ever.
Energy is known with scientific certainty to be deathless; it can neither be
created nor destroyed. It merely changes form. Because absolutely everything
has an energy-identity, nothing is exempt from this immortality. Staying with
the car analogy a bit longer, say you drive up a hill. The gasoline’s energy,
stored in its chemical bonds, is released to power the vehicle and let it fight
gravity. As it ascends, it uses fuel but gains potential energy. This means that the
fight with gravity has yielded a stored form of energy, a coupon that never
expires even after a billion years. The car can cash in this coupon of potential
energy at any time, so let’s do it now, by letting the automobile coast down with
the engine off. As it does so, it gains speed, which is kinetic energy, the energy
of motion. It is using up its gravitational potential energy as it loses altitude but
gains kinetic energy. You step on the brakes, which get hot, which is another
way of saying its atoms are speed1ing up – more kinetic energy. Hybrid cars use
this braking energy to charge their batteries. In short, energy keeps changing
forms, but it never diminishes in the least. Similarly, the essence of who you are,
which is energy, can neither diminish nor “go away” – there simply isn’t any
“away” in which to go. We inhabit a closed system. The implications of this
recently hit home with the death of my sister Christine. I was text messaging
with an Associated Press reporter as one of the biggest frauds in scientific
history started to unfold.

Excerpt from “Biocentrism” (Robert Lanza)

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Immortality of the Soul
BY LOUIS BERKHOF
In the preceding it was pointed out that physical death is the separation of body
and soul and marks the end of our present physical existence. It necessarily
involves and results in the decomposition of the body. It marks the end of our
present life and the end of the “natural body.” But now the question arises, What
becomes of the soul: does physical death bring its life to a close, or does it
continue to exist and live on after death? It has always been the firm conviction
of the Church of Jesus Christ that the soul continues to live even after its
separation from the body. This doctrine of the immortality of the soul calls for
brief consideration at this point.

A. DIFFERENT CONNOTATIONS OF THE TERM “IMMORTALITY.”

In a discussion of the doctrine of immortality it should be borne in mind that the
term “immortality” is not always used in the same sense. There are certain
distinctions that are quite essential, in order to prevent confusion.

1. In the most absolute sense of the word immortality is ascribed only to God.
Paul speaks of Him in I Tim. 6:15,16 as “the blessed and only Potentate, the
King of kings, the Lord of lords, who only hath immortality.” This does not
mean that none of His creatures are immortal in any sense of the word.
Understood in that unrestricted sense, this word of Paul would also teach that the
angels are not immortal, and this is certainly not the intention of the apostle. The
evident meaning of his statement is that God is the only being who possesses
immortality “as an original, eternal, and necessary endowment.” Whatever
immortality may be ascribed to some of His creatures, is contingent on the
divine will, is conferred upon them, and therefore had a beginning. God, on the
other hand, is necessarily free from all temporal limitations.

2. Immortality in the sense of continuous or endless existence is also ascribed to

all spirits, including the human soul. It is one of the doctrines of natural religion
or philosophy that, when the body is dissolved, the soul does not share in its
dissolution, but retains its identity as an individual being. This idea of the
immortality of the soul is in perfect harmony with what the Bible teaches about
man, but the Bible, religion, and theology, are not primarily interested in this
purely quantitative and colourless immortality, — the bare continued existence
of the soul.

3. Again, the term “immortality” is used in theological language to designate

that state of man in which he is entirely free from the seeds of decay and death.
In this sense of the word man was immortal before the fall. This state clearly did

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not exclude the possibility of man’s becoming subject to death. Though man in
the state of rectitude was not subject to death, yet he was liable to it. It was
entirely possible that through sin he would become subject to the law of death;
and as a matter of fact he did fall a victim to it.

4. Finally, the word “immortality” designates, especially in eschatological

language, that state of man in which he is impervious to death and cannot
possibly become its prey. Man was not immortal in this highest sense of the
word in virtue of his creation, even though he was created in the image of God.
This immortality would have resulted if Adam had complied with the condition
of the covenant of works, but can now only result from the work of redemption
as it is completed in the consummation.

B. TESTIMONY OF GENERAL REVELATION TO THE IMMORTALITY OF

THE SOUL.
The question of Job, “If a man die, shall he live again?” (Job 14:14) is one of
perennial interest. And with it the question constantly recurs, whether the dead
still live. The answer to this question has practically always been an affirmative
one. Though evolutionists cannot admit that faith in the immortality of the soul
is an original endowment of man, yet it cannot be denied that this faith is all but
universal, and is found even in the lowest forms of religion. Under the influence
of materialism many have been inclined to doubt and even to deny the future life
of man. Yet this negative attitude is not the prevailing one. In a recent
Symposium on “Immortality,” containing the views of about a hundred
representative men, the opinions are practically unanimous in favour of a future
life. The historical and philosophical arguments for the immortality of the soul
are not absolutely conclusive, but certainly are important testimonies to the
continued personal and conscious existence of man. They are the following.

1. THE HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. The consensus gentium is just as strong in

connection with the immortality of the soul, as it is with reference to the
existence of God. There always have been unbelieving scholars who denied the
continued existence of man, but in general it may be said that belief in the
immortality of the soul is found among all races and nations, no matter what
their stage of civilization may be. And it would seem that a notion so common
can only be regarded as a natural instinct or as something involved in the very
constitution of human nature.

2. THE METAPHYSICAL ARGUMENT. This argument is based on the

simplicity of the human soul, and infers from this its indissolubility. In death
matter is dissolved into its parts. But the soul as a spiritual entity is not
composed of various parts, and is therefore incapable of division or dissolution.
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destruction of the soul. Even when the former perishes, the latter remains intact.
This argument is very old and was already used by Plato.

3. THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT. Human beings seem to be endowed

with almost infinite capabilities, which are never fully developed in this life. It
seems as if most men only just begin to accomplish some of the great things to
which they aspire. There are ideals that fall far short of realization, appetites and
desires that are not satisfied in this life, yearnings and aspirations that are
disappointed. Now it is argued that God would not have conferred upon men
such abilities and talents, only to make them fail in their achievements, would
not have filled the heart with such desires and aspirations, only to disappoint
them. He must have provided a future existence, in which human life will come
to fruition.

4. THE MORAL ARGUMENT. The human conscience testifies to the existence

of a moral Ruler of the universe who will exercise justice. Yet the demands of
justice are not met in this present life. There is a very unequal and seemingly
unjust distribution of good and evil. The wicked often prosper, increase in
riches, and have an abundant share of the joys of life, while the pious frequently
live in poverty, meet with painful and humiliating reverses, and suffer many
afflictions. Hence there must be a future state of existence, in which justice will
reign supreme, and the inequalities of the present will be adjusted.

C. TESTIMONY OF SPECIAL REVELATION TO THE IMMORTALITY OF

THE SOUL.
The historical and philosophical proofs for the survival of the soul are not
absolutely demonstrative, and therefore do not compel belief. For greater
assurance in this matter, it is necessary to direct the eye of faith to Scripture.
Here, too, we must rely on the voice of authority. Now the position of Scripture
with respect to this matter may at first seem somewhat dubious. It speaks of God
as the only one who hath immortality (I Tim. 6:15), and never predicates this of
man. There is no explicit mention of the immortality of the soul, and much less
any attempt to prove it in a formal way. Hence the Russellites or Millennial
Dawnists often challenge theologians to point to a single passage in which the
Bible teaches that the soul of man is immortal. But even if the Bible does not
explicitly state that the soul of man is immortal, and does not seek to prove this
in a formal way, any more than it seeks to present formal proof for the existence
of God, this does not mean that Scripture denies or contradicts or even ignores
it. It clearly assumes in many passages that man continues his conscious
existence after death. In fact, it treats the truth of the immortality of man very
much as it does that of the existence of God, that is, it assumes this as an
undisputed postulate.

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1. THE DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. The
assertion has been made repeatedly that the Old Testament, and particularly the
Pentateuch, does not teach in any way the immortality of the soul. Now it is
perfectly true that this great truth is revealed less clearly in the Old than in the
New Testament; but the facts in the case do not warrant the assertion that it is
absent from the Old Testament altogether. It is a well-known and generally
recognized fact that God’s revelation in Scripture is progressive and gradually
increases in clearness; and it stands to reason that the doctrine of immortality in
the sense of a blessed eternal life, could only be revealed in all its bearings after
the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who “brought life and immortality to light,” II
Tim. 1:10. But while all this is true, it cannot be denied that the Old Testament
implies the continued conscious existence of man, either in the sense of a bare
immortality or survival of the soul, or of a blessed future life, in several ways.
This is implied:

a. In its doctrine of God and man. The very root of Israel’s hope of immortality
was found in its belief in God as its Creator and Redeemer, its covenant God,
who would never fail them. He was to them the living, the eternal, the faithful
God, in whose fellowship they found joy, life, peace, and perfect satisfaction.
Would they have panted after Him as they did, have entrusted themselves to
Him completely in life and death, and have sung of Him as their portion forever,
if they felt that all He offered them was but for a brief span of time? How could
they derive real comfort from the promised redemption of God, if they regarded
death as the end of their existence? Moreover, the Old Testament represents man
as created in the image of God, created for life and not for mortality. In
distinction from the brute, he possesses a life that transcends time and already
contains within itself a pledge of immortality. He is made for communion with
God, is but little lower than the angels, and God has set eternity in his heart,
Eccl. 3:11.

b. In its doctrine of sheol. We are taught in the Old Testament that the dead
descend into sheol. The discussion of this doctrine belongs to the following
chapter. But whatever may be the proper interpretation of the Old
Testament sheol, and whatever may be said of the condition of those who have
descended into it, this is certainly represented as a state of more or less
conscious existence, though not one of bliss. Man enters upon the state of
perfect bliss only by a deliverance from sheol. In this deliverance we reach the
real core of the Old Testament hope of a blessed immortality. This is clearly
taught in several passages, such as Ps. 16:10; 49:14,15.

c. In its frequent warnings against consulting the dead or “familiar spirits,” that
is, persons who were able to summon the spirits of the dead and to convey their
messages to the inquirers, Lev. 19:31; 20:27; Deut. 18:11; Isa. 8:19; 29:4.

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Scripture does not say that it is impossible to consult the dead, but rather seems
to presuppose the possibility while it condemns the practice.

d. In its teachings respecting the resurrection of the dead. This doctrine is not
explicitly taught in the earlier books of the Old Testament. Christ points out,
however, that it was taught by implication in the statement, “I am the God of
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,” Matt. 22:32, cf. Ex. 3:6,
and chides the Jews for not understanding the Scriptures on this point.
Moreover, the doctrine of the resurrection is explicitly taught in such passages
as Job 19:23-27; Ps. 16:9-11; 17:15; 49:15; 73:24; Isa. 26:19; Dan. 12:2.

e. In certain striking Old Testament passages which speak of

the believer’s enjoyment in communion with God after death. These are in the
main identical with the passages referred to in the preceding, namely, Job 19:25-
27; Ps. 16:9-11; 17:15; 73:23,24,26. They breathe the confident expectation of
pleasures in the presence of Jehovah.

2. THE DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. In the

New Testament, after Christ has brought life and immortality to light, the proofs
naturally multiply. The passages that contain these may again be divided into
various classes, as referring:

a. To the survival of the soul. A continued existence of both the righteous and
the wicked is clearly taught. That the souls of believers survive, appears from
such passages as Matt. 10:28; Luke 23:43; John 11:25 f.; 14:3; II Cor. 5:1; and
several other passages make it quite evident that the same can be said of the
souls of the wicked, Matt. 11:21-24; 12:41; Rom. 2:5-11; II Cor. 5:10.

b. To the resurrection by which the body is also made to share in the future
existence. For believers the resurrection means the redemption of the body and
entrance into the perfect life in communion with God, the full blessedness of
immortality. This resurrection is taught in Luke 20:35,36; John 5:25-29; I Cor.
15; I Thess. 4:16; Phil. 3:21, and other passages. For the wicked the resurrection
will also mean a renewed and continued existence of the body, but this can
hardly be called life. Scripture calls it eternal death. The resurrection of the
wicked is mentioned in John 5:29; Acts 24:15; Rev. 20:12-15.

c. To the blessed life of believers in communion with God. There are numerous
passages in the New Testament which stress the fact that the immortality of
believers is not a bare endless existence, but a rapturous life of bliss in
communion with God and with Jesus Christ, the full fruition of the life that is
implanted in the soul while still on earth. This is clearly emphasized in such

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passages as Matt. 13:43; 25:34; Rom. 2:7,10; I Cor. 15:49; Phil. 3:21; II Tim.
4:8; Rev. 21:4; 22:3,4.

D. OBJECTIONS TO THE DOCTRINE OF PERSONAL IMMORTALITY

AND MODERN SUBSTITUTES FOR IT.
1. THE MAIN OBJECTION TO IT. Belief in the immortality of the soul for a
time suffered a decline under the influence of a materialistic philosophy. The
main argument against it was forged in the workshop of physiological
psychology, and runs somewhat as follows: The mind or the soul has no
independent substantial existence, but is simply a product or function of brain
activity. The brain of man is the producing cause of mental phenomena, just as
the liver is the producing cause of bile. The function cannot persist when the
organ decays. When the brain ceases to operate, the stream of mental life comes
to a stop.

2. SUBSTITUTES FOR THE DOCTRINE OF PERSONAL IMMORTALITY.

The desire for immortality is so deeply implanted in the human soul that even
those who accept the dicta of a materialistic science, seek some sort of substitute
for the discarded notion of the personal immortality of the soul. Their hope for
the future assumes one of the following forms:

a. Racial immortality. There are those who comfort themselves with the idea that
the individual will continue to live on this earth in his posterity, in his children
and grandchildren, to endless generations. The individual seeks compensation
for his lack of hope in a personal immortality in the notion that he contributes
his share to the life of the race and will continue to live on in that. But the idea
that a man lives on in his progeny, whatever modicum of truth it may contain,
can hardly serve as a substitute for the doctrine of personal immortality. It
certainly does not do justice to the data of Scripture, and does not satisfy the
deepest longings of the human heart.

b. Immortality of commemoration. According to Positivism this is the only

immortality we should desire and look for. Everyone should aim at doing
something to establish a name for himself, which will go down in the annals of
history. If he does this, he will continue to live in the hearts and minds of a
grateful posterity. This also falls far short of the personal immortality which
Scripture leads us to expect. Moreover, it is an immortality in which only a few
will share. The names of most men are not recorded on the pages of history, and
many of those who are so recorded are soon forgotten. And to a great extent it
may be said that the best and the worst share it alike.

c. Immortality of influence. This is very closely related to the preceding. If a

man makes his mark in life, and accomplishes something that is of enduring

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value, his influence will continue long after he is gone. Jesus and Paul,
Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, Luther and Calvin, — they are all very much
alive in the influence which they exercise up to the present time. While this is
perfectly true, this immortality of influence is but a poor substitute for personal
immortality. All the objections that were raised against the immortality of
commemoration, also apply in this case.

3. THE RECOVERY OF FAITH IN IMMORTALITY. At the present time the

materialistic interpretation of the universe is making way for a more spiritual
interpretation; and as a result faith in personal immortality is once more gaining
favor. Dr. William James, while subscribing to the formula, “Thought is a
function of the brain,” denies that this logically compels us to disbelieve the
doctrine of immortality. He maintains that this conclusion of the scientists is
based on the mistaken notion that the function of which the formula speaks is
necessarily a productive function, and points out that it may also be
a permissive or transmissive function. The brain may merely transmit, and in the
transmission colour, thought, just as a coloured glass, a prism, or a refracting
lens, may transmit light and at the same time determine its colour and direction.
The light exists independent of the glass or lens; so thought also exists
independent of the brain. He comes to the conclusion that one can, in strict
logic, believe in immortality. Some evolutionists now base the doctrine of
conditional immortality on the struggle for existence. And such scientists as
William James, Sir Oliver Lodge, and James H. Hyslop, attach great
significance to reputed communications with the dead. On the basis of psychic
phenomena the first was inclined to believe in immortality, while the other two
embraced it as an established fact.

QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY: Is the doctrine of immortality found in

the Pentateuch? What accounts for the comparative scarcity of proofs for it in
the Old Testament? On what did Plato base his belief in the immortality of the
soul? How did Kant judge of the usual natural arguments for the doctrine of
immortality? Is there any place for belief in personal immortality in either
Materialism or Pantheism? Why does the doctrine of so-called “social
immortality” fail to satisfy? Is the immortality of the soul in the philosophical
sense the same as eternal life? How should we judge of the reputed spiritualistic
communications with the dead?
LITERATURE: Bavinck, Geref. Dogm. IV, pp. 645-655; Kuyper, Dict. Dogm., De Consummatione Saeculi, pp.
3-24; Hodge, Syst. Theol. III, pp. 713-730; Dabney, Syst. and Polem. Theol., pp. 817-823; Dick, Lect. on Theol.,
Lectures LXXX, LXXXI; Litton, Introd. to Dogm. Theol., pp. 535-548; Heagle, Do the Dead Still Live;
Dahl, Life After Death, pp. 59-84; Salmond, Christian Doctrine of Immortality, cf. Index;
Mackintosh, Immortality and the Future, pp. 164-179; Brown, The Christian Hope, cf. Index; Randall, The New
Light on Immortality; Macintosh, Theology as an Empirical Science, pp. 72-80; Althaus, Die Letzten Dinge, pp.
1-76; A. G. James, Personal Immortality, pp. 19-52; Rimmer, The Evidences for Immortality; Lawton, The
Drama of Life After Death; Addison, Life Beyond Death, pp. 3-132.

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Mortality and Immortality
In attempting to elucidate the problems of "Mortality and Immortality," death
and life, it must be understood that we are dealing with questions that depend, in
a very great measure, upon the construction which is placed on the terms used. It
is not our province to enter into the scientific minutia of these problems, nor to
present the student with an abstract of learned nonsense concerning the various
derivations from which the words are supposed to have reached us. Equally
unimportant to our purpose is the sense in which our hoary ancestors may have
used them, seeing that such questions must ever remain purely matters of
speculation and opinion, and "when doctors disagree, who shall decide?"

At present we are concerned with the Occult side of the problems, and with laws
which are so far removed from the realms of mere opinion as to constitute
eternal realities; the manifestations of which can be realized and verified by each
individual soul for itself.

Simply and briefly stated, immortality means life, continued life; mortality
means death or the extinction of life, and therefore stands as the antithesis of life
and immortality. At least, such is the generally accepted sense in which the
words are now used. Mortality and immortality in their external relation towards
each other stand as polar opposites, and as such they are the alpha and omega of
cyclic existence. They represent "the evening and the morning" of every phase
of God's infinite creation, upon the outer planes of manifested being. i.e., cosmic
evolution. Life and death, then, form the grand spiral axis of time, and its
resultants to the human mind are seen in the world of phenomena.

For the sake of convenience we will consider each problem by itself, and then,
as a stimulant towards mental reflection, leave their relationship to each other, to
be thought out by each reader, separately. for himself. Mortality, as previously
stated, means death and extinction upon the material plane. But when viewed
from the higher and more interior standpoint, death simply means change of
form and function.

There can be no absolute extinction in the strict sense of the term. Atoms are
immortal, eternal and indestructible; but a universe or an organism which is
composed of an infinite number of atoms, may be dissolved, destroyed and
forever lost, i.e., lost as an organic whole, but not lost as regards its separate
atomic parts. The mental being which bound these atoms together loses its force
during the process of change or death, consequently death is simply change of
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Mortality or death, then, can only exist and be a truth in reference to individual
forms. It has no existence in reality when brought face to face with the spiritual
qualities and mental force, which created these forms. Change of sphere and
change of action are the only realities of death. Ever onward, ever upward,
forever and ever more. Eternal progression is the anthem of evolution, and the
cycles of action are but intervals of time measured out to the life forces by the
pendulum of creation.

The second portion of our subject "Immortality” is the polar opposite of death
and mortality. Individual forms and characteristics are the only things that
change and die. Death, as we have shown, is not extinction of the life atoms in
the literal sense of the term, but simply change of sphere and function. Death is
the grand terminus of one cycle of existence, and the commencement of another.
Mortality is the harbinger of a still higher state of life, and consequently the
forerunner of immortality. There are exceptions to the general rule, though they
are few. The most important of these exceptions we shall notice in our next
chapter.

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The Real Meaning of the Garden of Eden -
It’s Not at All What You Think

There are some very interesting and useful things in the Garden of Eden myth.
Note that just because I use the word “myth” doesn’t mean it’s unimportant
nonsense. This was the perspective of Joseph Campbell, and I completely agree.
There’s much the Garden of Eden can teach us, but not in the traditional way it’s
viewed or taught. In fact, I throw out the church’s traditional interpretation
entirely because I’ve come to see that this myth is part of a much larger picture
than the church has ever conceived, connecting with general mythological
themes, aspects of other spiritual traditions (especially eastern), psychology, and
more.

Let’s start at the beginning. So, God just spent the last seven days creating all of
existence. Sweet. So, when God creates Adam and Eve, we have the One into the
two. This is found all over the place in creation stories (for good reason), but it
holds a very special philosophical and spiritual significance: the idea that the
Unity somehow manifested itself and broke into a duality (male and female, at
least in this case). Notice the Yin-Yang symbol, for example, which ultimately
doesn’t represent a balancing of opposites, but the unity of opposites that
transcends them. “No,” you may say. “God is separate from existence. Sure, God
created man in his own image, but humans are creations, separate from the
creator.” Whatever your position on that, that’s just the traditional theological
argument put forth by the church. Let’s put that to the side for now. Ok, so, the
One becomes the two, which eventually becomes the many. Specifically in the
Garden of Eden story, this would be he desendents of Adam and Eve, but it has
many parallels with other sources. For example, in the very first chapter of the
Tao Te Ching, we find that the Tao is “the mother of the ten thousand things” ;
Tao/God (One/Unity) -> Yin-Yang/Opposites/Male-female -> everything else.
Great.

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Now we find ourselves at the point where God forbids Adam and Eve to eat of
the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. So, many people interpret
this to mean that Adam and Eve were in a state of purity and even innocence.
True. But let’s go a little deeper. Doesn’t this sound like the state of a newborn
baby? In developmental psychology, we find that when a baby is born, it has no
idea that there’s a difference between itself and the rest of the world (let alone
“good” and “evil”). This is a state of pure consciousness that’s unaware. You
play peek-a-boo and, from the baby’s perspective, your face literally disappears
from existence and reappears. No wonder some babies cry at the game! I’d be
terrified. Anyway, over time, you start chewing on your thumb and at other times
your blanket, for example, and you notice you can feel one but not the other. This
runs parallel to the One becoming the two — instead of one big, undifferentiated
“Self” (God/Tao/Brahman/etc…), we now have self and other (which is the start
of all the world’s problems). As we get older still, we begin to figure out that our
inner world of thoughts and emotions are also separate, which further fortifies the
notion of the self, or I (when you’re done with this article, read my other article
about why a separate sense of self is an illusion). This goes on even further as our
sense of self or belonging widens out to increasingly larger groups — family to
peers to city/state to country (nationalism and patriotism fall here) to world to…
Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Of course, this differentiaton of self and
other doesn’t fully take place until after the apple is eaten (knowledge of good
and evil = knowledge of duality/opposites/separateness as opposed to pure,
unaware consciousness where there is no self and other).

As we can see, it turns out so far that the Garden of Eden has some interesting
parallels. And not only with other traditions, but with how the human mind
develops from birth. Very interesting, indeed, but now we start getting into the
really good stuff.

Venturing further, after Adam and Eve are told not to eat the fruit, our good pal
Satan enters the picture in the form of a snake. Man, I love that guy. Always

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causing chaos and misery, misguiding lost souls into eternal damnation. Wait,
what? The snake doesn’t represent Satan? What do you mean it doesn’t represent
Satan? It’s a serpent for God’s sake (what an ironic word choice)! Though I’ll
give a nod to Alan Watts’ “irreducible rascality”, I’ll be taking a slightly
different approach. Serpents are very ancient symbols used throughout the world
to represent life, immortality, and rejuvenation. Ever hear of the Ouroboros, the
serpent that perpetually eats its own tail? For my next point, the literalist
Christian concept of the soul is woefully inadequate. I’ll draw from Hinduism
with it’s concept of Atman.

In Hinduism, there’s the idea of Brahman (the Godhead) and Atman (the
individual “soul”). A big difference (at least on the surface) between Hinduism
and Christianity is that whereas in Christianity there’s the creator and the created,
in Hinduism, the creator is the created. Brahman is Atman and Atman is
Brahman. You may be wondering why I’m using a Hindu concept to explain the
Garden myth. Unfortunately, religions tend to take one or more literal (read:
shallow surface) meanings as the truth. This is one reason why religions seem so
different on the surface, but the deeper you go, the more you find they all point to
the same ineffable “thing” (note: the word “God” is a label that points to the
same ineffable “thing” as “Tao”, “Brahman”, etc…). The Christian idea and
interpretation of the soul gets in the way of seeing the true meaning here, though
I suppose you could possibly (abstractly) look at the literalist Christian concept
in a way that still works with what I’m about to say. (I use “literalist” to oppose
“mystical”, where western religion starts sounding almost exactly like eastern.)

The Atman is a perfect example of what the serpent represents. It’s unborn and
undying (immortal, outside of time and space). The word “Atman” is related to
the word in many Indo-European languages for “breath” (in German, “to
breathe” is “atmen”) and in eastern cultures the breath is often tied to the ideas of
vitality and life-force.

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The Atman is the inner witness, your wisdom and conscience, your gut feeling,
the deepest, truest You that is God. In the Garden myth, the snake isn’t Satan. It’s
Brahman-Atman (which also implies that God is the Devil and vice-versa
because we’re going beyond duality and human concepts of “good” and “bad”).

Further, Eve wasn’t tempted, she was being guided by her own wisdom. She’s
not the villain, but the hero. Though the church and history chose to vilify Eve as
the source of the Fall from grace and original sin (a concept that didn’t enter
Christian canon until Augustine came around), she was simply fulfilling a role of
woman: birth. The difference here is that we’re not talking about literal birth
(unless we leave the metaphor of the story and return to developmental
psychology). We’re talking about the birth of conscious awareness — Adam and
Eve are naked, their bodies are different, they know right from wrong and good
from evil. The One has officially “divided” into the two. That’s why they can’t
stay in the Garden. The Garden is a state of undifferentiated bliss, but right now
it’s the unaware bliss of a baby. Ignorance literally is bliss.

In terms of developmental psychology, we’ve reached the part we normally call

“growing up”: when they’re kicked out of the Garden and they’re forced to toil,
sustain themselves, and reproduce. Welcome to “real life” kid. It’s at this point
we get into the developmental levels I mentioned earlier about peers, country,
world, etc… Let’s see what’s past the “world” level of identification. (By the
way, Ken Wilber did some excellent work on this topic in A Brief History of
Everything. Check it out.) We’ll return to the Garden myth in a moment.

At the world level, this is where we find people who identify as citizens of the
world (such as myself), seeing themselves as members of this crazy little group
called humanity rather than primarily identifying as the member of a particular
country. The chain is inclusive. You can still be part of your family, part of your
peer group, and be American or whatever other nationality, but ultimately you
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toward identifying with all life and then all of existence. Notice that the One
which became the two which became the many seems to be going back to the
One. But there’s a twist, as we’ll soon find out. What does this have to do with
the Garden? A lot.

If you recall, there’s two critical details of the Garden myth that are often glazed
over. First I’ll mention the cherub that’s placed at the Garden gate. So, God
placed a cherub with a fiery sword as a guardian to stop anyone from entering the
Garden. A threshold guardian. Threshold guardians are one of the single most
common features in mythological stories, especially Hero’s Journey stories. (As
a side note, the Hero’s Journey describes every one of us and its arc runs straight
through the “toil” part of the Garden myth.)

But why would God place a guardian? I mean, He’s God, right? Can’t He just get
rid of the Garden. He floods the whole damn planet at a later point. I mean, He
created everything so he can just destroy it! Obviously, He doesn’t live in the
Garden. So God’s just chillin’ up in heaven this whole time, but just in case
someone finds the Garden, they’re locked out? I think you get my point. The
Garden (paradise) represents the blissful ignorance of a new born, as well as the
undifferentiated state of the One before the two. The only reason this myth would
have a threshold guardian is if there’s a way back in. Threshold guardians are, by
their very nature, supposed to be overcome somehow. Sometimes, that means
battle. Other times, it means knowledge (think Oedipus and the Sphinx, for
example). UPDATE: In this case, the Cherub with it’s fiery sword represents
identification with thought (sharp edge of intellect that dissects reality creates the
illusion) and emotion (thought as experienced through the body), something you
can get a better idea about in my series about the analysis of the Tao Te Ching
(chapter two, specifically, but chapter one is necessary to start with).

Hmmm…. If the cherub is a threshold guardian, what is it guarding? The Garden

itself? We know the garden is essentially blissful ignorance, so why would you

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want to get back in? To relive your younger days when life was simpler? Not
quite. This is where the second critical detail comes in: the Tree of Life.
Remember, the reason they’re kicked out isn’t just a supposed punishment. It’s
also so they won’t eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life and become like God.
Become like God? Interesting. Like, God-consciousness? Enlightenment?
Something like that? If you’ll recall our discussion of the Atman, Brahman and
Atman are One and the same. There’s only the illusion of separateness (again,
read my other article about the ego for more info). This is known as the veil of
Maya in Hinduism. Tree of Life, Brahman-Atman, Maya… In order to get back
into the Garden, you must see reality for what it is. Not what you think it is, not
what you want it to be, not colored by your beliefs. When you realize that
separation is ultimately an illusion of the senses and that the only “thing” that
exists is the One, you also realize that you are that, you are the One.

And that’s what eating the fruit of the Tree of Life represents in the metaphor of
the myth: awakening, liberation, fully aware bliss. We’ve come full circle from
the blissful and ignorant darkness of pure, undifferentiated, unaware
consciousness back to the original state (Garden) of pure, undifferentiated
consciousness, but this time in blissful (en)light(ened) and fully aware. God
threw us out because He didn’t want us to become like Him. But He knew all
along that we already are Him.

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 One Consciousness Which Everything Exists From

Everything in the universe is consciousness. Space and time in all planes of

reality are only projections within universal consciousness. There really is no
here or there for everything is atone place where Mind is. Mind does not move
at all. Mind simply Is. Mind is everywhere yet nowhere. Mind is nowhere but
Here, Now. We are all existing together as a singularity in one place and time.
Everything is one, Here and Now.

Several events in different places that are moving in synchronization may

actually be the movements of the same event. Imagine a fighter jet flying in the
sky, with several video cameras recording its movements from different angles.
Each recording is displayed on different screens. When the fighter jet displayed
on one screen turns or moves in a different direction, all other fighter jets in the
other screens simultaneously move in a correlated manner.

Every day experience is a projected reality where things only appear to be

separated in time and space. In a deeper reality, we are all members of the same
body. When one part of the body moves, every other part is instantly affected.
Separation is an illusion. There is a dimension of reality where we are all
inseparably one. When we feel love in any form, it has the effect of beginning to
shatter that illusion.

When two electrons collide, they exchange energy and information with each
other. From then onwards, no matter where one electron is, you will be able to
tell the location and momentum of the other. When a change occurs in one
electron, it will immediately be reflected in the other. You are always able to
know in one, what is going on in the other. When you cause change in one, you
cause change in the other. We exchange portions of our energy fields with each
other when we come into contact, therefore we remain inseparably connected at
all times.

Imagine the universe is an ocean and each of us is a wave in that ocean. The
wave and the ocean are the same. We are the universe localized in a single point
in space-time. The soul has two parts. It is both local and non-local. Part of you
is localized and part of you is non-local, and connected to everything. You are
the universe, located in your body. Not all your thoughts, wishes and desires are
actually your thoughts, wishes and desires. Part of them are the very intentions
of the universe.

The spirit in me is the same as the spirit in you, and the spirit in all beings.
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a particular point of view. Each of us is the universal spirit projecting a
particular point of view. My self is inseparable from all that exists, just as your
self is inseparable from all that exists. You are an aspect of infinite intelligence,
and infinite intelligence is the source of all that exist. Therefore you are the
source of all that exist and you create your own experience. Everything is
possible because everything exists within you. The same unbounded potential of
the infinite spirit also resides in each and every one of us.

Your soul is the reflection of all souls. You are the Other. Without the other, you
would not exist. You are defined by your relationships with others. You would
need to describe the whole universe in order to define a single person. Therefore
every single person is the whole universe. Your soul is both personal and
universal at the same time. Everyone is a reflection of yourself. You are in a hall
of mirrors where every reflection of yourself appears different. Others you
admire reflect the qualities you most cherish in yourself. Others you detest
reflect the qualities you most deny in yourself. Each person you see is a different
version of you.

All the cells in your body start from just one cell. That one cell in the womb is
fertilized, grows and divides into two. The two cells grow and divide into four.
This process happens fifty times until there are one hundred thousand billion
cells in your body. That’s where the replication stops. Just as a single cell in the
womb differentiates into brain cells, nerve cells and retinal cells, and through
them give us experience of the world, so does the single spirit differentiates into
all observers and observations, inner world and outer world.

The outer world is a mirror of yourself at any place and time. If you want to
know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is
happening to you. If you want to know the state of the collective consciousness,
just look around at what is happening in the world. Your personal reality is
synchronistically orchestrated by your sense of self at all times. If a critical mass
of people expressed their higher selves, they would cause a transformation in
collective consciousness and the world reality. Every time a person rises in
personal consciousness, he moves the state of the world towards a higher one
than before.

The whole universe is one reality which is pure consciousness. Pure

consciousness is absolute existence. God makes things through the direct act of
becoming the things which He creates. In the beginning the One differentiated
into the many. The One entered into the many and became the Self of each. The
being within everything is the One. When you merge with this non-local self,
you become one with the Self of all that exist. The One is the Higher Self of all.
You are the One.

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The Intelligent Universe
By Ray Kurzweil [11.5.02]

The universe has been set up in an exquisitely specific way so that evolution could produce
the people that are sitting here today and we could use our intelligence to talk about the
universe. We see a formidable power in the ability to use our minds and the tools we've
created to gather evidence, to use our inferential abilities to develop theories, to test the
theories, and to understand the universe at increasingly precise levels.

RAY KURZWEIL was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical
character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the
first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music
synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral
instruments, and the first commercially marketed large vocabulary speech
recognition. He has successfully founded, developed, and sold four AI
businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, and reading
technology. All of these technologies continue today as market leaders.

Kurzweil received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the world's largest award
in invention and innovation. He also received the 1999 National Medal of
Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in
a White House ceremony. He has also received scores of other national and
international awards, including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon
University's top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News,
Inventor of the Year from MIT, and the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the
Association for Computing Machinery. He has received ten honorary Doctorates
and honors from three U.S. presidents. He has received seven national and
international film awards. He is the author of The Age of Intelligent Machines,
and The Age of Spiritual Machines, When Computers Exceed Human
Intelligence.

THE INTELLIGENT UNIVERSE

[RAY KURZWEIL:] The universe has been set up in an exquisitely specific

way so that evolution could produce the people that are sitting here today and
we could use our intelligence to talk about the universe. We see a formidable
power in the ability to use our minds and the tools we've created to gather
evidence, to use our inferential abilities to develop theories, to test the theories,
and to understand the universe at increasingly precise levels. That's one role of
intelligence. The theories that we heard on cosmology look at the evidence that

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exists in the world today to make inferences about what existed in the past so
that we can develop models of how we got here.

Then, of course, we can run those models and project what might happen in the
future. Even if it's a little more difficult to test the future theories, we can at least
deduce, or induce, that certain phenomena that we see today are evidence of
times past, such as radiation from billions of years ago. We can't really test what
will happen billions or trillions of years from now quite as directly, but this line
of inquiry is legitimate, in terms of understanding the past and the derivation of
the universe. As we heard today, the question of the origin of the universe is
certainly not resolved. There are competing theories, and at several times we've
had theories that have broken down, once we acquired more precise evidence.

At the same time, however, we don't hear discussion about the role of
intelligence in the future. According to common wisdom, intelligence is
irrelevant to cosmological thinking. It is just a bit of froth dancing in and out of
the crevices of the universe, and has no effect on our ultimate cosmological
destiny. That's not my view. The universe has been set up exquisitely enough to
have intelligence. There are intelligent entities like ourselves that can
contemplate the universe and develop models about it, which is interesting.
Intelligence is, in fact, a powerful force and we can see that its power is going to
grow not linearly but exponentially, and will ultimately be powerful enough to
change the destiny of the universe.

I want to propose a case that intelligence - specifically human intelligence, but

not necessarily biological human intelligence - will trump cosmology, or at least
trump the dumb forces of cosmology. The forces that we heard discussed earlier
don't have the qualities that we posit in intelligent decision-making. In the grand
celestial machinery, forces deplete themselves at a certain point and other forces
take over. Essentially you have a universe that's dominated by what I call dumb
matter, because it's controlled by fairly simple mechanical processes.

Human civilization possesses a different type of force with a certain scope and a
certain power. It's changing the shape and destiny of our planet. Consider, for
example, asteroids and meteors. Small ones hit us on a fairly regular basis, but
the big ones hit us every some tens of millions of years and have apparently had
a big impact on the course of biological evolution. That's not going to happen
again. If it happened next year we're not quite ready to deal with it, but it doesn't
look like it's going to happen next year. When it does happen again our
technology will be quite sufficient. We'll see it coming, and we will deal with it.
We'll use our engineering to send up a probe and blast it out of the sky. You can
score one for intelligence in terms of trumping the natural unintelligent forces of
the universe.

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Commanding our local area of the sky is, of course, very small on a
cosmological scale, but intelligence can overrule these physical forces, not by
literally repealing the natural laws, but by manipulating them in such a
supremely sublime and subtle way that it effectively overrules these laws. This
is particularly the case when you get machinery that can operate at nano and
ultimately femto and pico scales. Whereas the laws of physics still apply, they're
being manipulated now to create any outcome the intelligence of this civilization
decides on.

Let me back up and talk about how intelligence came about. Wolfram's book has
prompted a lot of talk recently on the computational substrate of the universe
and on the universe as a computational entity. Earlier today, Seth Lloyd talked
about the universe as a computer and its capacity for computation and memory.
What Wolfram leaves out in talking about cellular automata is how you get
intelligent entities. As you run these cellular automata, they create interesting
pictures, but the interesting thing about cellular automata, which was shown
long before Wolfram pointed it out, is that you can get apparently random
behavior from deterministic processes.

It's more than apparent that you literally can't predict an outcome unless you can
simulate the process. If the process under consideration is the whole universe,
then presumably you can't simulate it unless you step outside the universe. But
when Wolfram says that this explains the complexity we see in nature, it's
leaving out one important step. As you run the cellular automata, you don't see
the growth in complexity - at least, certainly he's never run them long enough to
see any growth in what I would call complexity. You need evolution.

Marvin talked about some of the early stages of evolution. It starts out very
slow, but then something with some power to sustain itself and to overcome
other forces is created and has the power to self-replicate and preserve that
structure. Evolution works by indirection. It creates a capability and then uses
that capability to create the next. It took billions of years until this chaotic swirl
of mass and energy created the information-processing, structural backbone of
DNA, and then used that DNA to create the next stage. With DNA, evolution
had an information-processing machine to record its experiments and conduct
experiments in a more orderly way. So the next stage, such as the Cambrian
explosion, went a lot faster, taking only a few tens of millions of years. The
Cambrian explosion then established body plans that became a mature
technology, meaning that we didn't need to evolve body plans any more.

These designs worked well enough, so evolution could then concentrate on

higher cortical function, establishing another level of mechanism in the
organisms that could do information processing. At this point, animals
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that evolved and continued to accelerate. Homo sapiens evolved in only
hundreds of thousands of years, and then the cutting edge of evolution again
worked by indirection to use this product of evolution, the first technology-
creating species to survive, to create the next stage: technology, a continuation
of biological evolution by other means.

The first stages of technologies, like stone tools, fire, and the wheel took tens of
thousands of years, but then we had more powerful tools to create the next stage.
A thousand years ago, a paradigm shift like the printing press took only a
century or so to be adopted, and this evolution has accelerated ever since. Fifty
years ago, the first computers were designed with pencil on paper, with
screwdrivers and wire. Today we have computers to design computers.
Computer designers will design some high level parameters, and twelve levels
of intermediate design are computed automatically. The process of designing a
computer now goes much more quickly.

Evolutionary processes accelerate, and the returns from an evolutionary process

grow in power. I've called this theory "The Law of Accelerating Returns." The
returns, including economic returns, accelerate. Stemming from my interest in
being an inventor, I've been developing mathematical models of this because I
quickly realized that an invention has to make sense when the technology is
finished, not when it was started, since the world is generally a different place
three or four years later.

One exponential pattern that people are familiar with is Moore's Law, which is
really just one specific paradigm of shrinking transistors on integrated circuits.
It's remarkable how long it's lasted, but it wasn't the first, but the fifth paradigm
to provide exponential growth to computing. Earlier, we had electro-mechanical
calculators, using relays and vacuum tubes. Engineers were shrinking the
vacuum tubes, making them smaller and smaller, until finally that paradigm ran
out of steam because they couldn't keep the vacuum any more. Transistors were
already in use in radios and other small, niche applications, but when the
mainstream technology of computing finally ran out of steam, it switched to this
other technology that was already waiting in the wings to provide ongoing
exponential growth. It was a paradigm shift. Later, there was a shift to integrated
circuits, and at some point, integrated circuits will run out of steam.

Ten or 15 years from now we'll go to the third dimension. Of course, research on
three dimensional computing is well under way, because as the end of one
paradigm becomes clear, this perception increases the pressure for the research
to create the next. We've seen tremendous acceleration of molecular computing
in the last several years. When my book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, came
out about four years ago, the idea that three-dimensional molecular computing
could be feasible was quite controversial, and a lot of computer scientists didn't

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believe it was. Today, there is a universal belief that it's feasible, and that it will
arrive in plenty of time before Moore's Law runs out. We live in a three-
dimensional world, so we might as well use the third dimension. That will be the
sixth paradigm.

Moore's Law is one paradigm among many that have provided exponential
growth in computation, but computation is not the only technology that has
grown exponentially. We see something similar in any technology, particularly
in ones that have any relationship to information. The genome project, for
example, was not a mainstream project when it was announced. People thought
it was ludicrous that you could scan the genome in 15 years, because at the rate
at which you could scan it when the project began, it could take thousands of
years. But the scanning has doubled in speed every year, and actually most of
the work was done in the last year of the project.

Magnetic data storage is not covered under Moore's Law, since it involves
packing information on a magnetic substrate, which is a completely different set
of applied physics, but magnetic data storage has very regularly doubled every
year. In fact there's a second level of acceleration. It took us three years to
double the price performance of computing at the beginning of the century, and
two years in the middle of the century, but we're now doubling it in less than one
year. This is another feedback loop that has to do with past technologies,
because as we improve the price performance, we put more resources into that
technology. If you plot computers, as I've done, on a logarithmic scale, where a
straight line would mean exponential growth, you see another exponential.
There's actually a double rate of exponential growth.

Another very important phenomenon is the rate of paradigm shift. This is harder
to measure, but even though people can argue about some of the details and
assumptions in these charts you still get these same very powerful trends. The
paradigm shift rate itself is accelerating, and roughly doubling every decade.
When people claim that we won't see a particular development for a hundred
years, or that something is going to take centuries to do accomplish, they're
ignoring the inherent acceleration of technical progress.

Bill Joy and I were at Harvard some months ago and one Nobel Prize-winning
biologist said that we won't see self-replicating nanotechnology entities for a
hundred years. That's actually a good intuition, because that's my estimation - at
today's rate of progress - of how long it will take to achieve that technical
milestone. However, since we're doubling the rate of progress every decade, it'll
only take 25 calendar years to get there - this, by the way, is a mainstream
opinion in the nanotechnology field. The last century is not a good guide to the
next, in the sense that it made only about 20 years of progress at today's rate of
progress, because we were speeding up to this point. At today's rate of progress,

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we'll make the same amount of progress as what occurred in the 20th century in
14 years, and then again in 7 years. The 21st century will see, because of the
explosive power of exponential growth, something like 20,000 years of progress
at today's rate of progress - a thousand times greater than the 20th century,
which was no slouch for radical change.

I've been developing these models for a few decades, and made a lot of
predictions about intelligent machines in the 1980s which people can check out.
They weren't perfect, but were a pretty good road map. I've been refining these
models. I don't pretend that anybody can see the future perfectly, but the power
of the exponential aspect of the evolution of these technologies, or of evolution
itself, is undeniable. And that creates a very different perspective about the
future.

Let's take computation. Communication is important and shrinkage is important.

Right now, we're shrinking technology, apparently both mechanical and
electronic, at a rate of 5.6 per linear dimension per decade. That number is also
moving slowly, in a double exponential sense, but we'll get to nanotechnology at
that rate in the 2020s. There are some early-adopter examples of nanotechnology
today, but the real mainstream, where the cutting edge of the operating
principles are in the multi-nanometer range, will be in the 2020s. If you put
these together you get some interesting observations.

Right now we have 10^26 calculations per second in human civilization in our
biological brains. We could argue about this figure, but it's basically, for all
practical purposes, fixed. I don't know how much intelligence it adds if you
include animals, but maybe you then get a little bit higher than 10^26. Non-
biological computation is growing at a double exponential rate, and right now is
millions of times less than the biological computation in human beings.
Biological intelligence is fixed, because it's an old, mature paradigm, but the
new paradigm of non-biological computation and intelligence is growing
exponentially. The crossover will be in the 2020s and after that, at least from a
hardware perspective, non-biological computation will dominate at least
quantitatively.

This brings up the question of software. Lots of people say that even though
things are growing exponentially in terms of hardware, we've made no progress
in software. But we are making progress in software, even if the doubling factor
is much slower. The real scenario that I want to address is the reverse
engineering of the human brain. Our knowledge of the human brain and the
tools we have to observe and understand it are themselves growing
exponentially. Brain scanning and mathematical models of neurons and neural
structures are growing exponentially, and there's very interesting work going on.

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There is Lloyd Watts, for example, who with his colleagues has collected
models of specific types of neurons and wiring information about how the
internal connections are wired in different regions of the brain. He has put
together a detailed model of about 15 regions that deal with auditory processing,
and has applied psychoacoustic tests of the model, comparing it to human
auditory perception. The model is at least reasonably accurate, and this
technology is now being used as a front end for speech recognition software.
Still, we're at the very early stages of understanding the human cognitive system.
It's comparable to the genome project in its early stages in that we also knew
very little about the genome in its early stages. We now have most of the data,
but we still don't have the reverse engineering to understand how it works.

It would be a mistake to say that the brain only has a few simple ideas and that
once we can understand them we can build a very simple machine. But although
there is a lot of complexity to the brain, it's also not vast complexity. It is
described by a genome that doesn't have that much information in it. There are
about 800 million bytes in the uncompressed genome. We need to consider
redundancies in the DNA, as some sequences are repeated hundreds of
thousands of times. By applying routine data compression, you can compress
this information at a ratio of about 30 to 1, giving you about 23 million bytes -
which is smaller than Microsoft Word – to describe the initial conditions of the
brain.

But the brain has a lot more information than that. You can argue about the
exact number, but I come up with thousands of trillions of bytes of information
to characterize what's in a brain, which is millions of times greater than what is
in the genome. How can that be? Marvin talked about how the methods from
computer science are important for understanding how the brain works. We
know from computer science that we can very easily create programs of
considerable complexity from a small starting condition. You can, with a very
small program, create a genetic algorithm that simulates some simple
evolutionary process and create something of far greater complexity than itself.
You can use a random function within the program, which ultimately creates not
just randomness, but is creating some meaningful information after the initial
random conditions are evolved using a self-organizing method, resulting in
information that's far greater than the initial conditions.

That is in large measure how the genome creates the brain. We know that it
specifies certain constraints for how a particular region is wired, but within
those constraints and methods, there's a great deal of stochastic or random
wiring, followed by some kind of process where the brain learns and self-
organizes to make sense of its environment. At this point, what began as random
becomes meaningful, and the program has multiplied the size of its information.

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The point of all of this is that, since it's a level of complexity we can manage, we
will be able to reverse engineer the human brain. We've shown that we can
model neurons, clusters of neurons, and even whole brain regions. We are well
down that path. It's rather conservative to say that within 25 years we'll have all
of the necessary scanning information and neuron models and will be able to put
together a model of the principles of operation of how the human brain works.
Then, of course, we'll have an entity that has some human-like qualities. We'll
have to educate and train it, but of course we can speed up that process, since
we'll have access to everything that's out in the Web, which will contain all
accessible human knowledge.

One of the nice things about computer technology is that once you master a
process it can operate much faster. So we will learn the secrets of human
intelligence, partly from reverse engineering of the human brain. This will be
one source of knowledge for creating the software of intelligence.

We can then combine some advantages of human intelligence with advantages

that we see clearly in non-biological intelligence. We spent years training our
speech recognition system, which gives us a combination of rules. It mixes
expert-system approaches with some self-organizing techniques like neural nets,
Markov models and other self-organizing algorithms. We automate the training
process by recording thousands of hours of speech and annotating it, and it
automatically readjusts all its arkov-model levels and other parameters when it
makes mistakes. Finally, after ears of this process, it does a pretty good job of
recognizing speech. Now, if you want your computer to do the same thing, you
don't have to go through those years of training like we do with every child, you
can actually load the evolved pattern of this one research computer, which is
called loading the software.

Machines can share their knowledge. Machines can do things quickly. Machines
have a type of memory that's more accurate than our frail human memories.
Nobody at this table can remember billions of things perfectly accurately and
look them up quickly. The combination of the software of biological human
intelligence with the benefits of non-biological intelligence will be very
formidable. Ultimately, this growing non-biological intelligence will have the
benefits of human levels of intelligence in terms of its software and our
exponentially growing knowledge base.

In the future, maybe only one part of intelligence in a trillion will be biological,
but it will be infused with human levels of intelligence, which will be able to
amplify itself because of the powers of non-biological intelligence to share its
knowledge. How does it grow? Does it grow in or does it grow out? Growing in
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computation, while growing out means using more of the stuff in the universe.
Presently, we see some of both. We see mostly the "in," since Moore's Law
inherently means that we're shrinking the size of transistors and integrated
circuits, making them finer and finer. To some extent we're also expanding out
in that even though the chips are more and more powerful, we make more chips
every year, and deploy more economic and material resources towards this non
biological intelligence.

Ultimately, we'll get to nanotechnology-based computation, which is at the

molecular level, infused with the software of human intelligence and the
expanding knowledge base of human civilization. It'll continue to expand both
inwards and outwards. It goes in waves as the expansion inwards reaches certain
points of resistance. The paradigm shifts will be pretty smooth as we go from
the second to the third dimension via molecular computing. At that point it'll be
feasible to take the next step into femto engineering - on the scale of trillionths
of a meter - and pico engineering - on the scale of thousands of trillionths of a
meter - going into the finer structures of matter and manipulating some of the
really fine forces, such as strings and quarks. That's going to be a barrier,
however, so the ongoing expansion of our intelligence is going to be propelled
outward. Nonetheless, it will go both in and out. Ultimately, if you do the math,
we will completely saturate our corner of the universe, the earth and solar
system, sometime in the 22nd century. We'll then want ever-greater horizons, as
is the nature of intelligence and evolution, and will then expand to the rest of the
universe.

How quickly will it expand? One premise is that it will expand at the speed of
light, because that's the fastest speed at which information can travel. There are
also tantalizing experiments on quantum disentanglement that show some effect
at rates faster than the speed of light, even much faster, perhaps theoretically
instantaneously. Interestingly enough, though, this is not the transmission of
information, but the transmission of profound quantum randomness, which
doesn't accomplish our purpose of communicating intelligence. You need to
transmit information, not randomness. So far nobody has actually shown true
transmission of information at faster than the speed of light, at least not in a way
that has convinced mainstream scientific opinion.

If, in fact, that is a fundamental barrier, and if things that are far away really are
far away, which is to say there are no shortcuts through wormholes through the
universe, then the spread of our intelligence will be slow, governed by the speed
of light. This process will be initiated within 200 years. If you do the math, we
will be at near saturation of the available matter and energy in and around our
solar system, based on current understandings of the limitations of computation,
within that time period. However, it's my conjecture that by going through these

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other dimensions that Alan and Paul talked about, there may be shortcuts. It may
be very hard to do, but we're talking about supremely intelligent technologies
and beings. If there are ways to get to parts of the universe through shortcuts
such as wormholes, they'll find, deploy, and master them, and get to other parts
of the universe faster. Then perhaps we can reach the whole universe, say 10^80
protons, photons, and other particles that Seth Lloyd estimates represents on the
order of 10^90 bits, without being limited by the apparent speed of light.

If the speed of light is not a limit, and I do have to emphasize that this particular
point is a conjecture at this time, then within 300 years, we would saturate the
whole universe with our intelligence, and the whole universe would become
supremely intelligent and be able to manipulate everything according to its will.
We're currently multiplying computational capacity by a factor of at least 10^3
every decade. This is conservative as this rate of exponential growth is itself
growing exponentially. Thus it is conservative to project that within 30 decades
(300 years), we would multiply current computational capacities by a factor of
10^90, and thus exceed Seth Lloyd's estimate of 10^90 bits in the Universe. We
can speculate about identity - will this be multiple people or beings, or one
being, or will we all be merged? but nonetheless, we'll be very intelligent and
we'll be able to decide whether we want to continue expanding. Information is
very sacred, which is why death is a tragedy. Whenever a person dies, you lose
all that information in a person. The tragedy of losing historical artefacts is that
we're losing information. We could realize that losing information is bad, and
decide not to do that any more. Intelligence will have a profound effect on the
cosmological destiny of the universe at that point.

I'll end with a comment about the SETI project. Regardless of this ultimate
resolution of this issue of the speed of light and it is my speculation (and that of
others as well) that there are ways to circumvent it if there are ways, they'll be
found, because intelligence is intelligent enough to master any mechanism that
is discovered. Regardless of that, I think the SETI project will fail - it's actually
a very important failure, because sometimes a negative finding is just as
profound as a positive finding - for the following reason: we've looked at a lot of
the sky with at least some level of power, and we don't see anybody out there.
The SETI assumption is that even though it's very unlikely that there is another
intelligent civilization like we have here on Earth, there are billions of trillions
of planets. So even if the probability is one in a million, or one in a billion, there
are still going to be millions, or billions, of life-bearing and ultimately
intelligence-bearing planets out there.

If that's true, they're going to be distributed fairly evenly across cosmological

time, so some will be ahead of us, and some will be behind us. Those that are
ahead of us are not going to be ahead of us by only a few years. They're going to

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be ahead of us by billions of years. But because of the exponential nature of
evolution, once we get a civilization that gets to our point, or even to the point of
Babbage, who was messing around with mechanical linkages in a crude 19th
century technology, it's only a matter of a few centuries before they get to a full
realization of nanotechnology, if not femto and pico-engineering, and totally
infuse their area of the cosmos with their intelligence. It only takes a few
hundred years!

So if there are millions of civilizations that are millions or billions of years

ahead of us there would have to be millions that have passed this threshold and
are doing what I've just said, and have really infused their area of the cosmos.
Yet we don't see them, nor do we have the slightest indication of their existence,
a challenge known as the Fermi paradox. Someone could say that this "silence of
the cosmos" is because the speed of light is a limit, therefore we don't see them,
because even though they're fantastically intelligent, they're outside of our light
sphere. Of course, if that's true, SETI won't find them, because they're outside of
our light sphere. But let's say they're inside our light sphere, or that light isn't a
limitation, for the reasons I've mentioned, then perhaps they decided, in their
great wisdom, to remain invisible to us. You can imagine that there's one
civilization out there that made that decision, but are we to believe that this is
the case for every one of the millions, or billions, of civilizations that SETI says
should be out there?

That's unlikely, but even if it's true, SETI still won't find them, because if a
civilization like that has made that decision, it is so intelligent they'll be able to
carry that out, and remain hidden from us. Maybe they're waiting for us to
evolve to that point and then they'll reveal themselves to us. Still, if you analyze
this more carefully, it's very unlikely in fact that they're out there.

You might ask, isn't it incredibly unlikely that this planet, which is in a very
random place in the universe and one of trillions of planets and solar systems, is
ahead of the rest of the universe in the evolution of intelligence? Of course the
whole existence of our universe, with the laws of physics so sublimely precise to
allow this type of evolution to occur is also very unlikely, but by the anthropic
principles, we're here, and by an analogous anthropic principle we are here in
the lead. After all, if this were not the case, we wouldn't be having this
conversation. So by a similar anthropic principle we're able to appreciate this
argument. I'll end on that note.

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The Conscious Universe
The radical idea that everything has elements of consciousness is re-
emerging and breathing new life into a cold and mechanical cosmos.

By: Matthew Craven

London was a crowded city in 1666. The streets were narrow, the air was
polluted, and inhabitants lived on top of each other in small wooden houses.
That’s why the plague spread so easily, as well as the Great Fire. So did gossip,
and the talk of the town was Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle.

Cavendish was a fiery novelist, playwright, philosopher and public figure known
for her dramatic manner and controversial beliefs. She made her own dresses
and decorated them in ribbons and baubles, and once attended the theater in a
topless gown with red paint on her nipples. In his diaries, Samuel Pepys
described her as a “mad, conceited, ridiculous woman,” albeit one he was
obsessed with: He diarized about her six times in one three-month spell. The
duchess drew public attention because she was a woman with ideas, lots of
them, at a time when that was not welcome. Cavendish had grown up during the
murderous hysteria of the English witch trials, and her sometimes contradictory
proto-feminism was fueled by the belief that there was a parallel to be drawn
between the way men treated women and the way men treated animals and
nature. “The truth is,” she wrote, “we [women] Live like Bats or Owls, labour
like Beasts and die like Worms.”

In 1666, she released “The Blazing World,” a romantic and adventurous fantasy
novel (as well as a satire of male intellectualism) in which a woman wanders
through a portal at the North Pole and is transported to another world full of
multicoloured humans and anthropomorphic beasts, where she becomes an
empress and builds a utopian society. It is now recognized as one of the first-
ever works of science fiction.

But this idea of a blazing world was not just fiction for Cavendish. It was a
metaphor for her philosophical theories about the nature of reality. She believed
that at a fundamental level, the entire universe was made of just one thing:
matter. And that matter wasn’t mostly lifeless and inert, like most of her peers
believed, but animate, aware, completely interconnected, at one with the stuff
inside us. In essence, she envisioned that it wasn’t just humans that were
conscious, but that consciousness, in some form, was present throughout nature,
from animals to plants to rocks to atoms. The world, through her eyes, was
blazing.

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Cavendish was not the only one to have thoughts like these at that time, but they
were dangerous thoughts to have. In Amsterdam, the Jewish philosopher Baruch
Spinoza wrote that every physical thing had its own mind, and those minds were
at one with God’s mind; his books were banned by the church, he was attacked
at knifepoint outside a synagogue, and eventually, he was excommunicated.
Twenty-three years before Cavendish was born, the Italian Dominican friar and
philosopher, Giordano Bruno - who believed the entire universe was made of a
single universal substance that contained spirit or consciousness - was labeled a
heretic, gagged, tied to a stake and burned alive in the center of Rome by the
agents of the Inquisition. His ashes were dumped in the Tiber.

If the dominant worldview of Christianity and the rising worldview of science

could agree on anything, it was that matter was dead: Man was superior to
nature. But Cavendish, Spinoza, Bruno and others had latched onto the coattails
of an ancient yet radical idea, one that had been circulating philosophy in the
East and West since theories of mind first began. Traces of it can be found in
Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Christian mysticism and the philosophy of
ancient Greece, as well as many indigenous belief systems around the world.
The idea has many forms and versions, but modern studies of it house them all
inside one grand general theory: panpsychism.

“If the panpsychists are right, it could cast doubt on the foundations of a
worldview that has been deeply embedded in our psyche for hundreds of
years: that humans are superior to everything around them”

Derived from the Greek words pan (“all”) and psyche (“soul” or “mind”),
panpsychism is the idea that consciousness - perhaps the most mysterious
phenomenon we have yet come across - is not unique to the most complex
organisms; it pervades the entire universe and is a fundamental feature of reality.
“At a very basic level,” wrote the Canadian philosopher William Seager, “the
world is awake.”

Plato and Aristotle had panpsychist beliefs, as did the Stoics. At the turn of the
12th century, the Christian mystic Saint Francis of Assisi was so convinced that
everything was conscious that he tried speaking to flowers and preaching to
birds. In fact, the history of thought is dotted with very clever people coming to
this seemingly irrational conclusion. William James, the father of American
psychology, was a panpsychist, as was the celebrated British mathematician
Alfred North Whitehead; the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Planck once
remarked in an interview, “I regard consciousness as fundamental.” Even the
great inventor Thomas Edison had some panpsychist views, telling the poet
George Parsons Lathrop: “It seems that every atom is possessed by a certain
amount of primitive intelligence.”

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But over the course of the 20th century, panpsychism came to be seen as absurd
and incompatible in mainstream Western science and philosophy, just a
reassuring delusion for New Age daydreamers. Karl Popper, one of the most
influential philosophers of recent times, described it as “trivial” and “grossly
misleading.” Another heavyweight, Ludwig Wittgenstein, waved away the
theory: “Such image-mongery is of no interest to us.” As the American
philosopher John Searle put it: “Consciousness cannot be spread across the
universe like a thin veneer of jam.”

Most philosophers and scientists with panpsychist beliefs kept them quiet for
fear of public ridicule. Panpsychism used “to be laughed at insofar as it was
thought of at all,” wrote the philosopher Philip Goff in his latest book,
“Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness.” But now,
we are in the midst of a “full-blown panpsychist renaissance.” Goff is one of a
rising tide of thinkers around the world who have found themselves drawn back
to this ancient theory. Spurred on by scientific breakthroughs, a lost argument
from the 1920s and the encouraging way panpsychism is able to bypass the
“hard problem” of consciousness, they are beginning to rebuild and remodel its
intellectual foundations, transforming it into a strong candidate for the ultimate
theory of reality.

“According to panpsychism,” Goff told me when we met recently in the garden

of a pub near Durham University, where he teaches, “consciousness pervades
the universe and is a fundamental feature of it. So, it doesn’t necessarily mean
everything is ‘conscious.’ The basic idea is that the fundamental building blocks
of the universe, perhaps electrons and quarks, have incredibly simple forms of
experience, and very complex experience - like that of a human brain - is
somehow built up from these very simple and rudimentary forms of experience.
… That doesn’t mean your chair is conscious. It means the tiny particles the
chair is made up of have some kind of rudimentary experience.”

If the panpsychists are right, it could cast doubt on the foundations of a

worldview that has been deeply embedded in our psyche for hundreds of years:
that humans are superior to everything around them, disconnected from the
insensate matter of nature, marooned on a crumbling planet in a cold and
mechanical universe. Panpsychism reenchants the world, embeds us profoundly
within the climate crisis and places us on a continuum of consciousness with all
that we see around us.

The notion of a world awake might seem unintuitive to most of us, but it is
something we adopt naturally in childhood. In 1929, the Swiss psychologist Jean
Piaget found that children between two and four years old are inclined to
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grasshopper and blame the pavement if they trip up, and it isn’t such an alien
thought, at that age, to think a flower might feel the sunlight and perhaps even
enjoy it. Fairy tales and children’s media are infused with animate worlds in
which trees, animals and objects come to the aid or annoyance of a protagonist.

Most of us dismiss these notions as we mature. Gradually, we rein the concept

of consciousness closer and closer in, until, at least in the West, we usually settle
on the traditional view that consciousness is present only in the brains of
humans and higher animals.

Along with this goes the premise that consciousness must have sparked into
existence from completely non-conscious matter quite recently, cosmically
speaking - and only in a tiny corner of the universe. Perhaps a few hundred
million years ago, a light bulb flickered on, and something somewhere felt
reality for the first time. Before that miraculous spark, the great physicist Erwin
Schrodinger wondered, was the universe “a play before empty benches, not
existing for anybody, thus quite properly speaking not existing?” As for which
higher animals have it and which don’t, there is no agreement, but we have a
vague sense. Monkeys and dolphins, definitely conscious; cats and dogs, surely;
worms, butterflies and Antarctic krill, probably not.

But in the last 10 years or so, this understanding has been repeatedly disrupted
by new scientific breakthroughs. We are now well versed in the playfulness and
creativity of cephalopods, the intelligent communication between fungi and the
interspecies sharing economy in forests. Honeybees recognize faces, use tools,
make collective decisions, dance to communicate and appear to understand
higher-order concepts like zero. Plants can feel you touching them. In fact, the
evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano has suggested that pea plants can learn
behavior, identify the sound of running water and grow towards it and
communicate via clicking sounds. When you consider that plants account for
around 80% of the total biomass on Earth (the biomass of humans is roughly
equivalent to that of Antarctic krill), then extending consciousness to them
would mean we are living on a vastly conscious planet.

Recent research into slime mold - a single-celled eukaryotic organism that has
no brain, no nervous system and looks like a yellow puddle - found that it makes
decisions, perceives its surroundings and can choose the most nutritious food
from numerous options. As an experiment, researchers arranged oat flakes in the
geographical pattern of cities around Tokyo, and the slime mold constructed
nutrient channeling tubes that closely mimicked the painstakingly planned
metropolitan railway system. At Columbia University, the biologist Martin
Picard has discovered that mitochondria, the organelles found in the cells of
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cell nucleus, exhibit group formation and interdependence, synchronize their
behaviors and functionally specialize to accomplish specific functions within the
organism.” Nobody is concluding that mitochondria are conscious, but if an
animal the size of a dog acted like this, would we intuitively ascribe to it some
basic level of consciousness?

“I find it striking,” the neuroscientist Christof Koch told me on a video call,

“that after 2,400 years, we are now back to panpsychism. This is like scientists
discussing whether the Earth is actually flat, or if the heart is the seat of the soul.
I mean …”

Panpsychism re-enchants the world, embeds us profoundly within

the climate crisis and places us on a continuum of consciousness
with all that we see around us.

Koch, one of the world’s most renowned neuroscientists, is the chief scientist of
the MindScope Program at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, he worked closely with the late Nobel
Laureate Francis Crick (who, alongside James Watson, Maurice Wilkins and
Rosalind Franklin, discovered the double helix structure of DNA) to build the
foundations for a neuroscience of consciousness.

In recent years, Koch has become a champion and staunch defender of

Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a leading theory in the neuroscience of
consciousness developed by the Italian neuroscientist and psychiatrist Giulio
Tononi. IIT is concerned with developing a method to measure the amount of
integrated information (which, it posits, represents consciousness) in a physical
system. In other words, is something conscious and, if so, how conscious? One
of Tononi and Koch’s many ambitions is to create a practical device, “a
consciousness meter,” which could measure the level of consciousness in
patients in a vegetative state.

Tononi’s scientific research aligned with what some philosophers of

consciousness believe about panpsychism: “It says consciousness is graded and
much more widely distributed,” Koch said. “Giulio tried to downplay that at first
because he felt people would then reject it out of hand, but I kept on pushing.”
In 2015, they published a paper together titled “Consciousness: Here, There and
Everywhere?” in which they stated that while IIT was not developed with
panpsychism in mind, it did seem to share its central intuitions.

“A lot of people say that’s wacky: Any theory that predicts a microbe is
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crazy because it’s so different from my insight into the state of the world,” Koch
told me. When people hear the word consciousness, he explained, they assume
qualities like self-awareness, emotion, pleasure and pain, but here we are talking
about a degree of consciousness that is far more basic: experience. “Clearly, the
paramecium doesn’t have psychology; it doesn’t hear bees, it doesn’t worry
about the weekend. But the claim is: It feels like something to be the
paramecium - and once the cell membrane dissolves and it disintegrates and
dies, it doesn’t feel like anything anymore.”

In 2013, Koch traveled to a Tibetan monastery in southern India for a

symposium on physics, biology and brain science between Buddhist monk-
scholars and Western scientists where he presented the contemporary Western
consensus that only humans and some animals are blessed with consciousness.
While there, Koch helped with teaching at the monastery. “We showed some
movies of little bacteria moving around and asked them what they thought,” he
told me. “They said they were clearly sentient. They had no trouble with that.”

Arthur Stanley Eddington was a pacifist Quaker from a family of farmers in the
north of England. In 1913, at the age of 30, he started working as a professor of
astronomy at Cambridge. Six years later, he and the Royal Astronomer Frank
Watson Dyson became perhaps the first scientists to prove Albert Einstein’s
general theory of relativity, catapulting Einstein, who was then mostly unknown
in the English-speaking world so soon after the end of World War I, to global
notoriety. Eddington and Dyson organized expeditions to Principe and Brazil to
observe a solar eclipse and record what Einstein had predicted: Gravity bends
light. Newton was overthrown, and a new revolution in science began.

Upon his return from Brazil, Eddington dove into the work of the mathematician
Bertrand Russell. One of Russell’s observations, first developed in the 1920s
and furthered in the 1950s, was this: “All that physics gives us is certain
equations giving abstract properties of their changes. But as to what it is that
changes, and what it changes from and to - as to this, physics is silent.” In other
words, while physical science might appear to give us a nearly complete account
of the nature of matter - what everything is made of - it really only provides a
description of mathematical structures: the “causal skeleton” of reality. These
descriptions are incredibly valuable and have led to many of humanity’s greatest
scientific achievements, because they can be used to predict how matter will
behave. But as Goff said to me: “Physical science only tells us what stuff does,
not what stuff is. It’s not telling us the underlying nature of the stuff that is
behaving in this way.”

Consider this crude breakdown of water. What is water? Water is a colorless,

transparent, odorless chemical substance that fills our oceans, lakes, rivers and

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bodies. But what is it composed of? It is composed of sextillions and sextillions
of tiny water molecules. What are they composed of? Well, each molecule
contains three atoms: two hydrogen and one oxygen. And what are hydrogen
and oxygen made of? Subatomic particles like neutrons and electrons. What is
an electron made of? An electron has mass and charge. And what are mass and
charge? They are properties of the electron. But what is the electron?

“When I was a young physics student,” wrote the astrophysicist Adam Frank in
a 2017 essay, “I once asked a professor: ‘What’s an electron?’ His answer
stunned me. ‘An electron,’ he said, ‘is that to which we attribute the properties
of the electron.’ That vague, circular response was a long way from the dream
that drove me into physics, a dream of theories that perfectly described reality.”
In a strange and convoluted way, there is a sense in which we don’t really know
what water is. We don’t really know what anything is. As Stephen Hawking
wrote in “A Brief History of Time”: “Even if there is only one possible unified
theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the
equations and makes a universe for them to describe?”

Eddington, who by the late 1920s was seen as one of the greatest living
scientists in the world, agreed with Russell: “The physicist cannot get behind
structure,” he wrote in a glowing review of Russell’s 1927 book “The Analysis
of Matter.” That same year, Eddington was invited to give the prestigious annual
Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh, which he then turned into his own book, “The
Nature of the Physical World.” Written for a wider audience, it contained echoes
of Russell and became one of the most influential popular science books of the
era, selling 72,000 copies in Britain alone.

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set

of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the
equations and makes a universe for them to describe?”

Stephen Hawking

“The Victorian physicist felt that he knew just what he was talking about when
he used such terms as matter and atoms,” wrote Eddington. “Atoms were tiny
billiard balls, a crisp statement that was supposed to tell you all about their
nature in a way which could never be achieved for transcendental things like
consciousness, beauty or humor. But now we realize that science has nothing to
say about the intrinsic nature of the atom. The physical atom is, like everything
else in physics, a schedule of pointer readings” - measurements on a machine.

Eddington, like Russell before him, felt that the intrinsic nature of matter, the
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consciousness. He wrote that there is one clump of matter that we know and
experience directly, not through perceptions, equations or measuring devices:
the matter that constitutes our brains. We know that the intrinsic matter that
constitutes our brains must involve consciousness because that is our rich and
subjective moment-to-moment experience of reality.

Throughout the history of consciousness studies, the mind-body problem has

caused theory after theory to collapse and falter. How does the matter of the
brain, which we know and understand, give rise to the mystery of
consciousness? Eddington’s panpsychist argument, said Goff, “turned the
problem upside down.” In Eddington’s view, matter is the mystery;
consciousness is the thing we understand better than anything else. The only
matter we experience directly is the matter in our living brains, and we know
that to be conscious. Therefore, we have good reason to believe that all matter is
conscious. And while critics of panpsychism are quick to challenge its
proponents to prove that consciousness is the intrinsic nature of matter, the
panpsychists are equally poised to respond: Prove that it isn’t.

This argument, Goff wrote in “Galileo’s Error,” “is hard to really absorb”
because “it is diametrically opposed to the way our culture thinks about science.
But if we manage to do so, it becomes apparent that the simplest hypothesis
concerning the intrinsic nature of matter outside of brains is that it is continuous
with the intrinsic nature of matter inside of brains.” As Eddington wrote in the
conclusion to his book: “The stuff of the world is mind-stuff.” Consciousness
didn’t emerge or flicker into existence; it has always been there - the intrinsic
nature of us and everything around us. This is what breathes fire into the
equations.

Despite the popularity of Russell and Eddington’s work in the 1920s and 30s,
these ideas were largely lost. Western academia was then being seized by a
group known as the Vienna Circle and their logical positivism movement.
Interwar Europe was being overrun by extremist violence, dogmatic ideologies
and political propaganda, and the logical positivists railed against it all by
calling for “exact thinking in demented times” - strict scientific standards and
rigorous objectivity. Logical positivism swept through Anglo-American
universities and caused a wholesale rejection of abstract metaphysical
discussions. The scientific method relied on what could be observed; what went
on inside the mind was largely ignored in favor of how humans behaved,
ushering in the rise of B.F. Skinner and behavioral psychology. Eddington’s
work in particular remained forgotten until Galen Strawson, one of the elder
statesmen of modern British philosophy, found his book on the shelf of a
holiday home in Scotland and used it to bolster his modern argument for
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Since the 1930s, our scientific understanding of the fundamental building blocks
of reality has become even weirder. Particles have been shown to behave like
waves and waves like particles, depending on the experimental conditions.
Particles no longer seem to be the fixed and knowable objects they once were,
and different particle physicists will give you different answers to the question,
“What is a particle?” Perhaps it is a quantum excitation of a field, vibrating
strings or simply what we measure in detectors. “We say they are
‘fundamental,’” Xiao-Gang Wen, a theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, told Quanta Magazine. “But that’s just a [way to say] to
students, ‘Don’t ask! I don’t know the answer. It’s fundamental; don’t ask
anymore.’”

“Physical science only tells us what stuff does, not what stuff is.
It’s not telling us the underlying nature of the stuff that
is behaving in this way.”

Philip Goff

In a landmark 2003 essay, Strawson wrote that this ambiguity only strengthened
the argument for panpsychism. The idea of our brains as “lumpish, inert matter,
dense or corpuscled, stuff that seems essentially alien to the phenomenon of
consciousness,” he wrote, “has given way to fields of energy, essentially active
diaphanous process-stuff that – intuitively - seems far less unlike the process of
consciousness.” Physics doesn’t show our brain as a spongey blood-filled mass
composed of tiny concrete particles, but as “an astonishingly (to us)
insubstantial-seeming play of energy, an ethereally radiant vibrancy.”

Of course, panpsychism has its flaws. In October, the Journal of Consciousness

Studies dedicated an entire issue to responding to Goff’s book. It featured both
critical and supportive essays from philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists,
the bestselling author Annaka Harris and renowned physicists like Carlo
Rovelli, Sean Carroll and Lee Smolin. “The real problem with panpsychism is
not that it seems crazy,” wrote the British neuroscientist Anil Seth in his essay,
“it is that it explains nothing and does not generate testable predictions.”

Physicists critical of it have said it is trying to add something new into our
scientific picture of reality that wasn’t there before, and that would therefore
require alterations to the proven laws of physics to accommodate it. But in one
of the journal essays that addressed this point, the philosopher Luke Roelofs (of
NYU’s Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness) argued the opposite:
Nothing is being added to our scientific picture of the world - this is just a
different interpretation of that picture. “It rests on recognizing that the physical
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behaves, and how these properties called ‘charge’ affect that behavior, but never
says (never could say) what any of this is in and of itself.” In other words:
Consciousness is exactly what the physicists have been studying the structure
and behavior of all along. “For a panpsychist,” Goff said, “the story of physics is
the story of consciousness. All there is is forms of consciousness, and physics
tracks what they do.”

The most notorious hurdle for panpsychism is known as the combination

problem. It has been framed in various ways, but its essence is this: How can
lots of tiny conscious entities, like fundamental particles, combine to create one
big conscious entity, like the human mind? Goff has explored a possible solution
via quantum entanglement. The Norwegian panpsychist philosopher Hedda
Hassel Mørch has worked with Tononi and IIT to overcome it. And Roelofs has
investigated split-brain cases - a radical procedure used for severe epilepsy in
which a patient’s corpus callosum, which connects the two hemispheres of the
brain, is severed - that seem to result in patients experiencing a split or partial
split of consciousness. If consciousness can be split, then why couldn’t it be
combined?

“Some people dismiss panpsychism simply because the combination problem

has not yet been solved,” Goff wrote in “Galileo’s Error.” “To my mind, this is
like someone in 1859 rejecting Darwinism on the basis that ‘On The Origin of
Species’ did not contain a completely worked-out history of the evolution of the
human eye.” Panpsychism as a research program, he told me, is only just getting
started.

In the freezing winter of Boxing Day, 1966, the medieval historian Lynn
Townsend White Jr. delivered a speech to the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in Washington. Fifty-nine years old at the time, White
was a rigorous and provocative historian, and also a devout Christian. But
through his studies, he had found something that deeply troubled him,
something he felt resonated with the time in which he lived. In 1960s America,
the general American public was becoming aware of the effects of pollution and
global warming. Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” had been out for a couple
years, and the landmark Air Quality Act (1967) and the Clean Air Act (1970)
were not far off. Just four weeks before White gave his speech in Washington, a
toxic copper-colored cloud of acrid smog, so thick it could be wiped off car
windscreens, smothered New York for three days, causing 168 deaths and
adverse health conditions for hundreds of thousands of people.

How we view the world determines how we treat it, and White felt the roots of
the climate crisis went deep into ancient history. They must be analyzed, he
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mindset that caused it, without which our solutions might create even more
serious problems than they solve. “What people do about their ecology,” he said
during his speech, “depends on what they think about themselves in relation to
things around them.” In his eyes, the causes weren’t solely scientific,
technological, political or economic - they were ideological. Christianity in the
West, he thought, was what first separated man from nature and established a
relationship of superiority and exploitation with everything around.

Prior to Christianity, ancient paganism revolved around the idea of an animate

world. “Before one cut a tree, mined a mountain or dammed a brook, it was
important to placate the spirit in charge of that particular situation, and to keep it
placated,” White wrote. But Christianity siphoned these spirits out of the Earth
and placed them in heaven. “By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it
possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural
objects. … The spirits in natural objects, which formerly had protected nature
from man, evaporated … and the old inhibitions to the exploitation of nature
crumbled.” This led White to describe Christianity as the most “anthropocentric
religion the world had seen.”

Christianity didn’t create the ecological crisis, White asserted, but it laid the
foundations for an abusive relationship between man and nature. This religious
ideology was infused with the Scientific Revolution (of which the key drivers
were deeply religious Christians like Galileo, Descartes, Newton and Bacon)
and ushered in an age of technology, capitalism and colonialism that thrived on
exploiting the Earth. The universe came to be viewed not as organic and
animate, but as a mindless machine, like a clock, the gears of which are
governed by scientific laws. The wonder and unpredictability of nature was
transformed into something stable, predictable, knowable and therefore
controllable. Forests were there to be cleared, hills were there to be mined and
animals were there to be slaughtered. This became known as the “mechanistic
worldview.” As the science historian Carolyn Merchant wrote in a 1980 book:
“Because it viewed nature as dead and matter as passive, mechanism could
function as a subtle sanction for the exploitation and manipulation of nature and
its resources.”

While we might think we are now living in a “post-Christian age,” this deeply
entrenched mindset still haunts us. This “relation to nature,” White wrote, is
“almost universally held not only by Christians and Neo-Christians but also by
those who fondly regard themselves as post-Christians. Despite Copernicus, all
the cosmos rotates around our little globe. Despite Darwin, we are not, in our
hearts, part of the natural process.” Echoes of this story, Naomi Klein wrote in
her 2014 book “This Changes Everything,” reverberate through a “cultural
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the other way around. This is the same narrative that assures us that, however
bad things get, we are going to be saved at the last minute - whether by the
market, by philanthropic billionaires or by technological wizards.”

White’s paper caused shockwaves. Biblical scholars and theologians criticized

him heavily, and he received torrents of hate mail accusing him of being the
anti-Christ, a Kremlin agent and more. But he was a religious man, with no
intention of turning his back on his God. In the final third of the paper, he
reminisced on the forgotten panpsychists of Christianity who had implored
people to recognize themselves as within nature, not above it. White called for
his fellow Christians - roughly a quarter of the world’s population at the time -
to look for ways forward in the example of a saint like Francis of Assisi, who
spoke to his flowers and envisioned the Earth itself as something divine.

Throughout the 1970s, environmentalists and political activists pored over

White’s thesis, and it became a seminal text in universities and ecological
studies. But his npanpsychist conclusions went largely under the radar. His
critique became mainstream, but his call to action, at least in the 1960s, largely
failed.

The essence of what White, Marchant and then Klein are getting at is that our
mechanistic worldview is not an objectively true portrayal of reality, but
something that has been constructed. Therefore, it can be reconstructed.
Panpsychism is one possible reconstruction. Our inability to fully comprehend
the widespread decline of the natural world could be a consequence of our
refusal to see ourselves as part of it. And the potential of panpsychism to put
mind back into matter, reconnect us to nature, dispel human exceptionalism and
revolutionize our ethics is, for many, a clear way forward.

While analytic philosophers like Goff and Strawson are keen to emphasize that
their argument for panpsychism is technical, logical and based on strict
theoretical frameworks, the Australian philosopher Freya Mathews has reached
similar conclusions via environmental philosophy, which is more concerned
with questions about how we live in this world. In 1991, Mathews wrote “The
Ecological Self,” a book that essentially described a panpsychist view without
using the word - “I didn’t want to shoot myself in the foot by calling it that,” she
told me.

She went on: “I don’t think just accepting something like this at a theoretical
level would change us. I don’t think that’s how psychology or motivation works.
Reason can’t touch motivation; it doesn’t touch our deeper psyche. But if a
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we might have a chance of discovering it.”

In the 1960s, the physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn analyzed what it takes
to cause a paradigm shift in our scientific perspective. A paradigm shift is when
a dominant theory is suddenly or gradually overturned when significant
anomalies that disprove the theory continue to arise until it goes into a state of
crisis. During this crisis, Kuhn wrote, we witness “the proliferation of competing
articulations, the willingness to try anything, the expression of explicit
discontent, the recourse to philosophy and to debate over fundamentals.” An
example of a Kuhnian paradigm shift is the sudden change from Newton’s
simple physics to Einstein’s far weirder theories, which, among many things,
completely upended the understanding of time.

Mathews thinks we are now on the verge of another paradigm shift, whether that
is to panpsychism or some other worldview that sees nature as more than
unfeeling matter.

“Our current worldview is leading to the ecological collapse of the planet,” she
said. “And it is completely pragmatically self-defeating to continue with it.”

Margaret Cavendish had a fairly robust set of environmental ethics that was rare
in 1600s Europe. At a time when Descartes - who gave his dog the very human
name Monsieur Grat (“Mr. Scratch”) - was arguing that animals were machine-
like senseless automata that felt neither pain nor pleasure, Cavendish was trying
to create a dialogue between man and nature.

In her poems “The Hunting of the Hare” and “The Hunting of the Stag,” she
abandoned the human perspective to adopt that of the animal being killed. In
another, she imagined a conversation between a man and the tree he is about to
cut down. These views and others ostracized her from the 17th-century scientific
community, and much of her work was either ignored or dismissed. When she
became the first woman to visit the all-male scientific institution of the Royal
Society in May 1667, Pepys’ account of her visit focused mostly on the
offensiveness of her dress. She was viewed by many as insane and irrational;
they labeled her “Mad Madge.”

But none of this dissuaded Cavendish, who, in her lifetime, published numerous
books of philosophy, fiction, plays and poetry. “I had rather appear worse in
singularity,” she said, “than better in the mode.” And if anyone was being
irrational, thought Cavendish, it certainly wasn’t her. “Man is more irrational,”
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Freemasonry on sacred geometry: "Sacred geometry may be understood as a
worldview of pattern recognition, a complex system of hallowed attribution and
signification that may subsume religious and cultural values to the fundamental
structures and relationships of such complexes as space, time and form.
According to this discipline, the basic patterns of existence are perceived as
sacred: for by contemplating and communing with them one is thereby
contemplating the Mysterium Magnum, the patterning relationships of the Great
Design. By studying the nature of these patterns, forms and relationships and
their manifold intra- and interconnectivity one may gain insight into the
scientific, philosophical, psychological, aesthetic and mystical continuum. That
is, the laws and lore of the Universe. The term sacred geometry is also used for
geometry which is employed in the design of sacred architecture and sacred art.
The underlying belief is that geometry and mathematical ratios, harmonics and
proportionality discoverable from geometry also gird music, light, cosmology,
and other observable and sensate features of the Universe. This value system
has been held throughout the World from time immemorial to prehistory, a
cultural universal endemic to the Human Condition. Sacred geometry is the
foundation of the design, architecture, fabrication and construction of sacred
structures such as temples, mosques, megaliths, monuments and churches;
sacred space such as altars, temenos and tabernacles; places of congregation
such as sacred groves, village greens and holy wells and the creation of
religious art, iconography and divine proportionality. Sacred geometry, art,
iconography and architecture need not be monolithic and enduring, but may be
temporary and yielding, such as visualization and non-permanent sand-painting
and medicine wheels. The "Flower of Life" can be found in all major religions of
the world. It contains the patterns of creation as they emerged from the "Great
Void". Everything is made from the Creator's thought. After the creation of the
Seed of Life the same vortex's motion was continued, creating the next structure
known as the Egg of Life. This structure forms the basis for music, as the
distances between the spheres is identical to the distances between the tones and
the half tones in music. It is also identical to the cellular structure of the third
embryonic division (The first cell divides into two cells, then to four cells then to
eight). Thus this same structure as it is further developed, creates the human
body and all of the energy systems including the ones used to create the
Merkaba. If we continue creating more and more spheres we will end up with
the structure called the “Flower of Life”.
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On the “Golden Ratio” (Phi)… The “Golden Ratio” (Phi) appears in reality. On
all levels. In nature and in the human body. On the quantum level. And on the
level of galaxies. On the smallest level. On our level. And on the highest level.
It is the arithmetic of growth. It is a fundamental constant of nature. It is a
fundamental building block of the Universe. It is a possible candidate for a
unifying theory. It is also heavily Involved in aesthetics. And it is ingrained in
our psyche even. How about that for a “mere” number? Science and
mathematics as proof of something profound. And keep in mind science is
material these days. The “Golden Ratio” (Phi) alone points to something
profound. A deeper side to reality. A deeper side to the Universe….

On the “Golden Ratio” (Phi)… The “Golden Ratio” (Phi) may be the
fundamental constant of nature. It is a ratio that is fundamental to circumscribed
equilateral triangles and it’s weirdly ubiquitous, appearing everywhere from
quantum to celestial scales. Ever so interestingly, it appears in black holes. And
quantum mechanics even. The “Golden Ratio” (Phi) appears to startling
accuracies in many other ways throughout the universe in scales both large and
small. It is so prevalent that its existence simply cannot be looked at as
coincidental. We can easily say that Phi is part of the underlying structure of the
Universe. Essential!

On the “Golden Ratio” (Phi)… The “Golden Ratio” (Phi) is widely recognized
as being part of the underlying structure of the Universe. Amazing. My eyes fell
on this when scrolling through one of my books. No further information. Some
googling taught me that it is probably true. For all I know, it could be the growth
or expansion model or formula of the very Universe. Reality. How can one even
talk about reality if bound by senses and sense-based instruments. Basically
blind-folded, that is...

On the “Golden Ratio” (Phi)… The “Golden Proportion” (Phi) represents

indisputable proportional evidence of the possibility of a conscious evolution as
well as an evolution of consciousness. It can be seen in action everywhere. On
every level. Often visibly. But in many cases it works on an invisible level. And
requires calculation to reveal its action. And that will reveal the true extent of
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All is number. Everything in the Universe can be reduced to or expressed in a
number (or numbers). And, believe it or not, things like matter too. I believe this
is definitely possible via the frequency of its vibration. Those can definitely be
expressed in numbers. Since all basically comes down to “energy, frequency,
vibration”. And, of course, manifestation. And numbers in their turn can be
converted into matter. With the help of technology. If not now, then most
certainly in the future. Convert numbers into matter. Materialize numbers as it
were. Regardless of the method. After all, mathematics (and therefore numbers)
is the language of the Universe. Pythagoras was right when he said that all is
number. But it is not to be taken literally, of course, as some do. A number is a
symbol. Numbers are a way to describe or express something. This goes for
geometry as well. Anyway, that also proves the value of mysticism. In the old
days men of science were (often) mystics too. Think of Pythagoras. Mysticism
as a source of (superior) wisdom. Therefore science ought to be combined with
mysticism. The one by no means excludes the other. That is a modern
misconception. Quite on the contrary actually. They are complementary. Science
without mysticism is rather sterile. And seriously handicapped at that. Scientific
instruments and methods always have their limitations. It’s time for change.
That is what I believe. And now that I think of it… Those who take the
expression “All is number” literally… Wouldn’t that make the Universe some
sort of mathematical equation? Or a simulation? And that would make the
Creator (“God”) a mathematician indeed. Or a (computer) programmer? Some
theories call the Universe a “hologram”. Some also call our reality an illusion.
There may be some truth in that in the case of matter and energy. The
underlying state of the Universe/reality is energy. So that makes the
Universe/reality some sort of illusion indeed. Even though I this case I rather
call it an aspect of (true) reality rather than a illusion. It is all too real, if you ask
me. And an aspect of something does not make it an illusion. An aspect is rather
an essential characteristic of something. The same goes for those who say that
“life is just a dream”. Same story. Dreams don’t correspond to a reality. But the
reality we perceive does. Reality as we know it is an aspect of an underlying
thing. Being the original state. Being the Source. What can be said though is that
some numbers do seem to have some action or effect in reality. So basically
have a corresponding reality. Think of the “Golden Ratio” (Phi). In this case the
number actually describes something like a (developmental) process. A growth
pattern. The same goes for the (logarithmic) spiral. That too has a
corresponding reality. In nature, in biology and in the Universe. Personally I
only take an interest in numbers when they have a corresponding reality. An
essential reality at that. And I find “sacred geometry” interesting as it tends to be
enlightening. But basically mathematics (numbers and geometry) are ways to
describe something. A description and nothing more. It describes rather than
that it explains. And by no means does it provides me with essence. Not when it
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than symbols. And the same goes for certain shapes also. Geometric or other. A
shape is just a shape. Geometric shapes seldom have a corresponding
counterpart in the Universe/reality. But in some cases, like that of the torus,
being the basic shape of the energy field, there is something essential about it.
What must be said though is that mathematics (numbers, geometry, shapes)
actually amount to information. And information, believe it or not, is an aspect
of reality. In the Universe everything is (also) information. Numbers, geometry
and shapes are aspects of a part of reality. That of information. But still,
information is not always valuable or useful. And it information is not always
essential either. The Universe and all the information it contains has aspects of
infinity and also infinite aspects. Information is infinite. And not all of it is
valuable or useful. That is, in brief, the essence. Apart from that I wonder if
there may be the possibility that all numbers and patterns that we create via
mathematics actually do have a counterpart in the Universe/reality. Or a
corresponding reality. Without us knowing it. Can that be excluded? It may not
be a bad idea to try to attribute meaning to numbers and mathematical patterns.
Like they did in the old days. And like they do in numerology. Maybe there is
something essential about every one of them without us knowing it. Worth
examining, if you ask me. That is, after all, the task of science. To examine. And
not exclude things from examination because it does not fit their world view.
Which is “material, all too material” very often still. Everything deserves
examination. I cannot imagine science deeming things “unfit for examination”.
Even though, it must be said, that it does. Or did at least. As I have the
impression things slowly seem to be improving. Scientific discoveries like
quantum properties made that possible. And I believe a new world is opening up
for science. Slowly but surely. Science moving its focus also to “non-physical
phenomena”. Something unheard of until rather recently. Because those exist
too. Non-physical aspects. Unseen aspects of the Universe. The so-called
“immaterial”. But “unseen” does not imply non-existent. And that realization is
now making its way into the scientific world. New frontiers for science. That
abodes well…

The logarithmic spiral… The logarithmic spiral is so rich in geometric and

algebraic harmonies that traditional geometers named it Spira mirabilis, the
miraculous spiral. While the radius of this spiral increases in a geometric
progression, the radial angle increases in an arithmetic progression. These are
the two numerical progressions which yield all the ratios from which the musical
scales are constructed. So we can find in these spirallings of gnomonic figures a
close association between the temporal laws of sound and the proportional laws
of space. The growth of the human brain seems to have evolved through a
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during the reptilian phase of evolution is still present within us. Above this is the
midbrain, limbic area which was the dominant mental apparatus during
mammalian evolution; and finally came the emergence of the cerebral cortex in
higher man. Gnomonic expansion in nature makes visible patterns of successive
stages of growth. This relates to our notions of time in an interesting way.
Ordinarily we conceive of time either as a fleeting directional movement from a
dissolving past through an imperceptible present towards an imaginary future,
or, mystically, as an all-containing, eternal fullness. The gnomonic principle
adds a third description of time. This is time as an expanding growth upon
growth, an evolution, one might say, belonging to the conscious energies which
transcend their transitory forms and substances. As Chinese wisdom says, 'The
whole body of spiritual consciousness progresses without pause; the whole body
of material substance suffers decay without intermission.' In such a model, past
time remains present as form, and the formation grows through pulsating,
rhythmic gnomonic expansion. To remove the most recently accreted layer or
compartment from a nautilus shell is actually to move backwards in its lifetime.
Logarithmically developed forms always carry this element of the retention of
past time, and thereby symbolize the evolution not of substance but of
consciousness. In gnomonic time, all phases exist in ever-present layers, like the
light-year structure of galactic space which makes every glance into a starry
night sky a view into the past of distant bodies, while the layers of light just
behind the visible light are the future energy waves which will strike and
influence the earth. All aspects of the material world, including our own bodies,
are therefore in the past tense, existing in a residual gnomonic layer already
bypassed by inflowing cosmic energies. In Egyptian iconography the square and
its gnomon appear on the throne of Osiris upon which the king takes his seat.
The enthroned king, as representative of the eternal solar power on earth, is thus
appropriately associated with the fixed element, the square with its gnomon, that
which is constant through growth and change. Yet this throne is also the throne
of Osiris - the divinity representing the cyclic pattern of change in nature – in his
other-worldly kingdom of potentiality. In this sense the throne is the fixed
support upon which the Osirian cycles of flux must rest. The living king is not
only the earthly representative of the eternal solar power, but he is also Horus,
the son of Osiris, who receives and brings his father's essence-force into the
world again. The relation of father to son or of the dead king to the living king
was greatly stressed in traditional society and can be seen as the pulsation of the
gnomonic retention of the past into the present and future. If the power and
influence of the dead king, the father, are related to the original square, and the
energies and activities of the living king to its gnomonic expansion, we have an
image of a social order based upon the relation of the individual to his ancestral
community. The amazing continuity of ancient Egyptian culture over three
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the essential experience of the past was ever lost. The square and its gnomon
then serve as an archetypal image of certain kinds of growth in nature, and as an
image of time and of evolution itself. Such a figure has the value of helping one
see beyond the surface of things to identify an underlying pattern, a function
with its own dynamics and mechanism. In the philosophic approach to geometry
we are attempting the contemplation of characteristics of form as carrying a
meaning in themselves. There is a teleological message contained, for instance,
in the spiral itself; for it moves in successively opposite directions towards the
ultimate expression of both the infinitely expanded and the infinitely contracted.
The spiral is constantly approaching these two incomprehensible aspects of the
ultimate reality, and therefore symbolizes a universe moving toward the perfect
singularity from which it arose. Thus the spiral-like arms of our galaxy
constitute an image of the continuity between fundamental polarities - infinite
and finite, macrocosm and microcosm…

About the superior knowledge of the Ancients including their methods. The
scientists and doctors of old were, apart from men of science, also mystics.
Mysticism and the mystic experience as a way of obtaining knowledge. Superior
knowledge at that. So forget science and the scientific method. That amounts to
retardation. At this point it does, even though it may change. The occult and
esoteric knowledge of the Ancients was superior knowledge. They were
thousands of years ahead of us. And they did not dispose of scientific
instruments. That is the amazing part. This knowledge has been passed on for
millennia. We can still find part of that knowledge in occult and esoteric books.
And I wonder how much of it is still hidden in monasteries or secret societies.
Even Manly P. Hall made an allusion to that. In any case, I reject science and its
methods. For now in any case. And rightly so. Retarded as it is, it deems itself
superior. But nothing could be further from the truth. The scientific method is
actually the worst way to obtain knowledge. In the best case science may
develop the technologies to put such knowledge into practice. The mystic way
of obtaining knowledge has been practised for countless millennia. And again,
without the use of scientific instruments. The problem is this. Materialism and
rationalism threw mysticism overboard together with all other so-called
“superstitions”. However, the only superstition that I see is an unquestioning
belief in science and its methods. The right way to obtain knowledge is via the
mystic experience, meditation and psychedelics. And those are actually the
sources of the ancient wisdom. This is how it works. All knowledge is stored in
the Universe. In the “Cosmic Memory Field”. Also known as the “Akasha”. The
only thing one has to do is tap into it to access the knowledge in it. Those so-
called “primitive” societies surpassed us in wisdom and insight. And modern
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years ago. When it comes to knowledge, we only do better with technology. But
what matters technological advancement without proper wisdom? It is sterile.
We are still somewhat retarded when it comes to wisdom. Just one more aspect
of the decadence of modern society. And it is decadent in many ways. We really
need to overcome modern society. The sterility of modern society. And
preferably even erase it from our collective memory. Why pride yourself on
retarded stages in social evolution? In the best case modern society may serve as
an example of how not to do things. Social evolution is by no means linear.
Setbacks may occur. And those may last millennia. As is the case with us.
Christianity as the ultimate setback. In any case, it’s about time that we
reconnect with the ancient ways. Reintroduce mysticism via schooling and
education. Create versatile men again. A small step for man, but a giant leap for
society. Things are improving though. Science appears to be catching up. And
the ancient wisdom is being released. This has been going on since the 19th
century. Even Blavatsky referred to our age as the “age of Enlightenment”.
Society is ready for change. Now wait until the times are ripe to bring about a
revolution. Not a political revolution, but in this case a spiritual and mystical
one. The knowledge is circulating already. More and more. Now wait for the
right circumstances under which change can occur. Ripe times. Ripe soil. Those
are times of unrest, upheaval, political instability, war, pandemics, anything.
And those are coming. You can rest assured. Are you prepared? Ah yes. Before I
forget. Those so-called “superstitions” often contain more wisdom than all
modern scientific knowledge combined. And that is exactly why it is superior.
Religious truths and astrology to name a few. Ancient and divine wisdom is
what I call it. And that is what it is. Superstition my ass!

The idea of the unknowable Unity at the beginning has been the basis of many
philosophies and mythological systems. While Shankhara, with the Buddhism of
a certain period, posited the void as a fundamental assumption, the main stream
of Hinduism has always rested on the notion of the One, the Divine, who
divided himself within himself to form his own self-created opposite, the
manifested universe. Within the divine self-regard, three qualities of himself
became distinguished: Sat (immobile being), Chit (consciousness-force) and
Ananda (bliss). The original unity, represented by a circle, is then restated in the
concept of the Real-Idea, the thought of God, which the Hindus called the bindu
or seed, what we call the geometrical point. The point, according to the Shiva
Sutra Vimarshini Commentaries, forms the limit between the manifest and non-
manifest, between the spatial and the non-spatial. The Hindu corresponds to the
'seed-sound idea' of the Tantras. The Divine transforms himself into sound
vibration (nada), and proliferates the universe, which is not different from
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summarized the scripture by saying, 'The Universe is nothing but the Divine
uttering his own name to himself.' Thus the universe springs forth from the
Word. This transcendent Word is only a vibration (a materialization) of the
Divine thought which gives rise to the fractioning of unity which is creation.
The Word (saabda in Sanskrit, the logos of the Christians and Gnostics), whose
nature is pure vibration, represents the essential nature of all that exists.
Concentric vibrational waves span outward from innumerable centres and their
overlappings (interference patterns) form nodules of trapped energy which
become the whirling, fiery bodies of the heavens. The Real-Idea, the Purusha,
the inaudible and invisible point of the sound-idea remains fixed and immutable.
Its names, however, can be investigated through geometry and number. This
emitted sound, the naming of God's idea, is what the Pythagoreans would call
the Music of the Spheres. In ancient Egypt the primordial vibrational field
(called nada in India) is called Nun, the primal ocean. It is the One imaged as
undifferentiated cosmic substance, the source of all creation. Submerged within
this primal ocean is Atum, the creator, who must first distinguish himself from
Nun in order for creation to begin. Atum is masculine, and analogous to Chit
(consciousness-force) of the Indian myth. Atum is pictured in a state of total
self-absorbed bliss. Some versions of the myth say that Atum is masturbating.
His blissful self-contemplation provokes his ejaculation and this ejaculation
catches in his throat, causing him to cough his own seed out of his mouth. He
coughed and spit out Shu and Tefnut, who, together with himself, form the first
triad of the nine great Neteru or principles of creation…

Holy Trinity: “(God) the Father” (material or “physical”), “(God) The Holy
Spirit” (immaterial or “spiritual”) & “(God) the son (the individual)”. Triune
nature of “God”. The god within. The divinity of the individual. Here we see the
indispensable role of the Individual in “Creation” (the Universe). And that is
what people are not supposed to know. Compare Yin/Yang/Middle. “Material”
(physical), “Immaterial” (spiritual) & “Middle” (the “Individual” or “Observer”.
Here again the indispensable role of the Individual/Observer. Compare
“Brahma” (Creator), “Vishnu” (preserver) & “Shiva” (transformer/destroyer).
Holy Trinity! And once again the indispensable role of the Individual/Observer.
See also the philosophical question “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is
around to hear it, does it make a sound?". That is the essence of this question.
The role of the Individual/Observer in “Creation” (the Universe). After all, what
is creation if there were no one to observe it? It might as well not exist. See also
“The Kingdom of God is within you” (the individual). Duality of the mind.
Material & Immaterial. The mind belonging to the Individual/Observer. Holy
Trinity! The individual the true god. You are God. You are Christ. And every
individual. One is all. All is One. Realize who you are. Realizing this means

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Enlightenment. And no one will manipulate or control you “in the name of
God”. How many wars? How many persecutions. All in the name of “God”.
People don’t know. They are knowingly and willingly kept in the dark.
Obscurantism. The “mother of all conspiracies” as I sometimes call it. It is
understandable though. A society of enlightened individuals would be hard, if
not impossible, to manage. The masses have to be led. The manipulated masses
play an essential role in society. They are the foundation of every society. The
alternative is no option. If every individual were enlightened, society would fall
apart. And that is no option. Society is an enabler. It makes everything possible.
One has to admit there is little or no benefit in a bunch of savages. As a result of
social collapse. Obscurantism is the logical choice. The other choice is simply
no option. It’s as simple as that. There is a justification for obscurantism.
Society has to persist. At all cost. Managing a society requires sacrifices too. A
true thinker will understand the logic, even necessity of obscurantism. Even
though it is a rather “inconvenient truth”. Truth does not make happy. Ignorance
does. Knowledge gives weight to life. On top of the usual weight, that is. Just
make sure “Atlas” does not “shrug”. Or collapses under the weight. Truth has
that capacity. Succumbing to truth. It is possible. A truthseeker will not ask if
truth makes him happy. He seeks truth, not happiness. He seeks truth above all.
Happiness is simply not an issue. If happiness were the issue, then it is rather
ignorance rather is preferable. Ignorance, the “happiness of the masses”. And
we don’t hear the many complain, do we? It gives them this “lightness of
being”. And the wise man carries the world. The “unbearable heaviness” of his
being. And who helps him carry…

However absurd it may sound to Westerners, there is a “spiritual” side to the

Universe too. The problem lies in the definition of “spirit” or “spiritual”. It
basically means the “non-physical”. The “immaterial”. Well, cosmic energy is
exactly that. Everything is energy, frequency, vibration. And, as a result,
manifestation. That is ancient wisdom by the way. There are like infinite
frequencies at which energy can vibrate. And on top of that, it also contain
infinite information. Information is a basic aspect of the Universe. This
“immaterial” or “spiritual” side of the Universe” is the “Cosmic Memory Field”
or “Akasha”. It is the memory of the Universe. There where all the knowledge is
stored. It is the recollection of all that has ever existed. And that goes for life
forms too. Something of the individual, usually called the “soul”, remains part
of the Universe. Is preserved. The Universe “remembers” the individual as a
result. These insights are based on research, by the way. And the ancients knew
this too. They had vision indeed. And let that be the proof. Just think of the
“alpha and omega” from the Bible to give an example. Originally ancient Greek.
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individual. Via mystic experiences, meditation of psychedelics. And think of
Heraclitus, who called the mind limitless. Actually because of its connection
with the “mind” (consciousness and/or memory) of the Universe. And think of
the motto of Delphi. Nosce te ipsum. Know thyself. That also refers to the same.
As it is all part of self-knowledge. The forbidden wisdom of the ages. And that is
what there is to be known about the individual and his capacities. People have to
be made aware of this interconnection between individual consciousness and
that of the Universe (“Cosmic Memory Field” or “Akasha”). I am rather
confident this wisdom probably even predates the classical societies. The
mystic experience has been practiced since time immemorial. And we like to
think of ourselves as “advanced”. Still sure about that? We are only advanced
when it comes to technology. And that is about it. So nothing to pride ourselves
on. Wisdom is what matters in a society. Wisdom on every level. And the proof
always lies in the result. The greatness and beauty of the classical societies as
the ultimate proof. Mere technological advancement on the other hand is sterile.
And somewhat retarded too. Quite a different vision on our society, is it not?

Adam, in naming the various species, recognizes, or shall we say, remembers,

his own embryonic past (recapitulation). But he also recognizes himself as the
fiery seed, the primal pattern for the total organic process of universal life
(neoteny). Adam, at this moment of creation, might declare, 'I see nothing which
is not me; I see nothing which is altogether like me.' Thus Adam passes the test.
He goes beyond the identification of himself with the successive mineral, plant
and animal phases of evolution, and at the same time identifies himself with the
highest power in the organization of cosmic energy, the unmanifest geometry of
the seed-idea. With his identification with his original universal nature, Adam is
ready for his incarnation as Adam Kadmon, the embodiment of Cosmic or
Divine Man. The Vedic tradition transmits the same anthropocosmic vision from
a more metaphysical position. It tells us that God created the universe from a
desire to see himself and to adore himself. The being of this inconceivable God
may be considered considered as an all-conscious, all-containing, all-powerful,
homogeneous, endless expanse of pure, formless spirit. His desire to see himself
created (or distinguished from himself) an Idea of himself, called in Indian
thought the Real-Idea. This divine self-apperception, the 'Creative Word' in
Judaeo-Christian thought, this event itself is Cosmic Man. And this Cosmic Man
is what we, actual man, call the Universe. The created universe is then seen as a
nourishing placenta through which this Divine self-idea is embodying itself or
incarnating: a genesis, clothing itself in matter so as to become perceptible and
adorable. This position is the inverse of our ordinary thinking. Humanity is not
seen as the child or product of Mother Earth, but rather earth is an essential
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philosophy images evolution as a continual inversing exchange between eternal
Cosmic Man and evolving humanity. The Universal Being performs an
involution into the dense seed-form of itself. In principle this is imaged by the
mineral kingdom, the extreme of inconscient, fixed densification. This involved
seed then provokes an opposite movement of evolution.

A human being is “matter” (material) and “non-matter” (immaterial). “Word”

(scriptures) made “flesh” (body). The immaterial is sometimes referred to as
“spirit”. The ante-pole of matter is “spirit”…. The true nature of the
“immaterial” is not very well known. We consist of “body” and “mind”
(consciousness). “Mind” (consciousness) can also referred to as “spirit”. So why
not apply “Spirit” (mind/consciousness) to the whole Universe? Refer to the
immaterial part of the Universe (“space” or “void” or “vacuum”) as “spirit”
(mind/consciousness). It is worth noting too is that the Dutch word for human
being (“mens”) comes from Latin. “Mens” actually means “mind”. “Mens sana
in corpore sano”. A healthy mind in a healthy body. The counterpart of “matter”
is “spirit” (or “mind” or “consciousness”). That means that “spirit” (mind or
consciousness) is a property of the Universe. The Universe has (or is) “spirit”
(mind, consciousness, awareness). Everything is “matter” and “mind”. Also,
matter is being created or comes into existence from the “void” or “vacuum”.
That “vacuum” is nowhere near empty. It consists of so-called “unexpressed
matter”. “Pure matter” as it is also called. “Vacuum non datur”. Meaning that
the “Vacuum” (or “Void”) is not empty at all. It is a force. Or energy. A “sea of
infinite potential” as it were. On top of that, “matter” and “energy” are
interchangeable. The Universe = energy = force = mind = consciousness =
awareness = “Spirit”. The Universe is a form of consciousness (awareness).
“Infinite awareness”. The Universe is basically what people refer to as “God”.
Hiding in plain sight. There where most people won’t look. In the more religious
or spiritual writings one can read that “everything came forth from God’s
imagination” (or something of the like). Well, it seems that this is the case
indeed. Religion too was thrown overboard by materialism and rationalism. For
being a “superstition”. I am not convinced though. All the religious writings
contain truth. Profound truths at that…

I found Enlightenment. Or otherwise said: I satisfy myself with this level of

Enlightenment. Maybe there is not even a limit to Enlightenment. I don’t know.
A lot of “spiritual ideas” may forever lack evidence, apart maybe from
subjective experiences. (Psychedelic) hallucinations, psychological trickery,
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too. Some of it cannot be otherwise but plain shit. Fables. hallucinations, an
overactive imagination, superstition… And if there is indeed a reality behind all
of it, so much the better. I’ll see it “when I get there” then. I am a bit into the
“spiritual”. Numerology, astrology, Tarot… They appeal to me. To some extent.
I believe there to be a certain reality behind it. Because all is connected. That is
what I believe. I believe there to be something profound about numbers. An
“immaterial aspect”. The nature of which I will leave in the middle. “Immaterial
aspect” will do. I needed to get in touch with that. The “Material” and
“immaterial” side of us need to be in balance. This is normal. And it goes for all
of us. That is simply how our brains are structured. A “rational” (material) half,
and a “spiritual” (immaterial) half. The latter seeks meaning. And it is not only
our brains. It is simply human nature. Duality. When it comes to astrology, I
believe “all is vibration”. This is an old Hermetic principle. And scientific
findings seem to prove it. If all is vibration, then the “planetary vibrations” must
have an influence too. Logical conclusions. To some extent, I mean. One cannot
get around the biological (genetics). Although the “planetary vibrations” may
have a subtle effect on the DNA. Similar to epigenetic influences. And when it
comes to Tarot, here too I believe that “all is connected”. If all is connected,
then there must be a connection between person and card. The interpretation is
the hard part. I believe intuition plays a role. Maybe a bigger role even than the
cards themselves. Or the numbers. Or the stars. One can improve one’s intuition
too. Like the best chess players do…

Regarding spiritual concepts… A lot of new concepts and systems have been
introduced since the end of the 19th century. I think of theosophy and
anthroposophy; I think of Helena Blavatsky and Walter Russell; I think of the
New Age and New Thought movements. I couldn’t tell the forest from the trees
when beginning this book. Today I saw the proverbial Light. When thinking of
Walter Russell and Helena Blavatsky, it started to dawn on me. 19th century.
Century also of Friedrich Nietzsche. The philosopher who pronounced the
Christian god dead… The death of the Christian god… That is the reason behind
all those new visions and introductions. We are talking about “competing
systems” here. To replace Christianity in the end. It won’t come back. It can
only be replaced. When the times are rips. Fertile soil. One system will prevail
over the others. And become the new religion or spirituality. I’ve seen too many
of systems/visions. What is the value of a system when it is just “one many”.
Well, one of many. And that says enough. I dispose of the internet. I’m still
discovering new systems. And that is the reason I changed the initial title of this
book. It was titled “Netherworld”. I intended to seek proof of or proper
indications for a lot of spiritual concepts. You see, as a truthseeker, I have a hard
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misconception, manipulation, fraud… Which is not an easy thing in the case of
spiritual (immaterial) concepts. But this insight made it easy on me. Competing
systems in combination with human nature. Money, influence, followers,
success, status… And others simply want to leave their mark. People would do
anything for that. Honesty gets you nowhere in life. And if you’re honest, you
will agree…

It is in the work of Hans Jenny that we can begin to see the relationship of form
and sound in the physical world. Jenny's experiments have shown that sound
frequencies have the propensity to call into arrangement random, suspended
particles, or to organize emulsions in hydrodynamic dispersion into orderly,
formal, periodic patterns. In other words, sound is an instrument through which
temporal frequency patterns can become formal spatial and geometric patterns.
A number of contemporary sciences are now verifying the ancient cosmogonic
vision of a vibratory creation through the Creative Word or Cosmic Sound.
Alain Danitlou points out that it was the absorption in this mysterious
interchange between vibration and form which was the basis of the great
spiritual cultures of the past: From the atoms up to the universe, each of the
cosmic movements possesses a tempo, a rhythm, a periodicity and can be
compared then to vibration, therefore to a sound which expresses its nature. Not
all vibrations are perceptible to our ears, but the relationships between the
vibrations can be compared to the relations of audible frequencies. All atoms
can thus be considered as the forms of an energy which expresses itself in a
rhythm, and all substances are characterized by a particular relationship of
rhythms which can be represented by a relationship of sounds. It is because of
this similarity between the relationships of the sounds on one hand and the
forms and substances of nature on the other, that language and music are
possible. The pure sounds, the immaterial sounds which constitute the profound
nature of things and which Kabir calls 'their inaudible music', can be perceived
through instruments more subtle than our ears. To arrive at their perception
constitutes one of the goals of the practice of these curious physio-mental
disciplines called Yoga.

The (plant) root represents the principle of transformation. This moment of

transformation is everywhere before us, in the roots of plants transforming
mineral into vegetal, in the leaves transforming sunlight into live supporting
tissue, in rock and stone being weathered and worn down into molecular gases
and liquid, liquid into gas, gas into solid, light into heat, heat into mechanical
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of mental and spiritual experience. Everything is in a state of digestion,
assimilation, transmutation. This transformation goes on in every passing
moment as well as in the long aeons of evolutionary cycles. Transformation is
the ubiquitous condition of the worlds, and their evolution from mineral to plant
to animal, kingdom emerging out of kingdom, volume forming itself out of the
converging vector extensions of a preceding volume. There is periodicity,
rhythm, oscillation, pattern, frequency, all measurable in time and space units.
This is the genesis of sequential appearances, but the moment itself of
transformation, from one state to another, from one quality of being to another,
from one form or level of consciousness to another, is always a leap, a jump, an
incomprehensible velocity, as it were, outside of time, as when one cell divides
into two. If we approach life or evolution with only the sequential intelligence,
only the rational, measuring facility, the reality of genesis will always elude us.
This transformative moment is all that really exists ; the phenomenal worlds-
area transitory reflection. They are the past and future of this one ever-present
eternity, the only possible eternity without duration which is the present
moment…

In the continuous network, time is one. “It is wise to say that all things are one,”
writes Heraclitus, and he continues, “The same things are: the alive and the
dead, the alert and the sleepy, the young and the old; the former change into the
latter and the latter into the former. From all things to the One, and from the One
to all things.” Our mind cannot grasp the concept of the oneness of time,
because space-time belongs in the mind that lives in a fragmentary time where
any chronological category cannot escape from “before” and “after.” The
continuum, the invisible texture of the universe, is the obscure cloak of Isis, the
veil of Maya, of Demeter, and of all the Great Mothers. Black is the color of the
Mother and her cloak, black because it is invisible and because it is the color of
generation. The black sun that many people have worshiped is the feminine sun
from which the world originates. Death is black; the regeneration phase of the
alchemist is that of nigredo, or “blackness”; black plays on the stage of black
opera. The black cloak of Isis is the network of pure matter spread everywhere,
the obscure forge that generates things. For this is “splendescens atro nitore”, the
oxymoron used by Apuleius to characterize an existence outside of space-time
constraint. It is the weft, the origin of everything; the memory of everything is
the Matrix, which supports Nutrix with magical powers, with its nonlocality and
its miracles; Virgo is undifferentiated, in whose purity everything is possible and
nothing acts, peace, the immaculate conception. To lift the veil is not granted to
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“All is connected”, “all is number”, “coincidence does not exist”, “everything
happens for a reason”… If you connect those and keep them in mind, a new
world may reveal itself. And increased awareness will be the result. I am not
quite sure about the extent of those insights. But I agree there is definitely some
truth in them. The only way to find out is to put them into practice. To actively
apply those insights to your personal life and surroundings. It may not be a bad
idea to do so. I don’t have time for that. I have a lot on my mind without those
already. Maybe when my life reaches calm water. There is this persistent unrest
still. A lot has to do with my seeking and bringing about this book. But it nears
completion. I want to make sure my book has as much to offer as it possibly can.
And with the skills that I dispose of. I want my book to have the capacity to
“enlighten” readers. And my own Enlightenment is still in process. I believe
Enlightenment to be a gradual process by the way. No one knows everything in
one single moment. I believe that that to be impossible. I am confident one can
have major insights in a very brief period. Enlightening to some extent. But that
is as far as I want to go. Reality is infinite. Knowledge therefore must be too.
And that also makes me question the story of Buddha’s Enlightenment. The
legend of him finding Enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree. An “Aha-Erlebnis”
maybe (haha); but full realization of all that there is to know, full realization of
the total nature and extent of things at once? I sincerely doubt it. I always have
that quote about wisdom in mind. No man is to become wise”. Why would that
be any different in Buddhism? Please enlighten me…

One of our brain hemispheres seeks meaning in things. In patterns for example.
Or anything else. Well, I am convinced that there is a reason for this fact. First
of all, a biological adaptation has a purpose. The purpose is its use. And
secondly, does nature ever do (develop) things in vain? So I am not quite
convinced that chaos theory is correct when stating that patterns are basically
meaningless. That they have no more meaning than chaos. What if patterns,
mathematical or other, do turn out to have meaning after all. Functionally. That
is logical. But maybe also spiritually. It is definitely worth examining. Fact is
that in numerology numbers have also spiritual meaning. So what if this were
also true of patterns? When it comes to profound wisdom, science in a lot of
cases is still in a state of denial. And it is by no means justified. I can tell you
that. That is the disadvantage of materialism. Materialism is a handicap that
needs to be overcome. And I’m sure we will. I am on top of knowledge. The tide
is turning. Slowly but surely. I believe a lot of progress lies ahead of us.
Progress on all levels. Humanity will attain new high points. There can be no
doubt about that. The cosmic cycles are the proof. The Age of Aquarius.
Characterized by a lot of progress. And that also proves the value of
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phenomena as Nikola Tesla said. And what progress would it make as a result?
The future looks bright for humanity. That is what I think. Attain higher levels
than ever. The kind of progress one can only imagine these days. That is the
conclusion of mine…

The Universe. Intelligent and aware. “Intelligent Awareness”. Or “Aware

Intelligence”. That comes pretty close to what people refer to as “God”. I’m not
being the advocate of “God” or religion here. Just comparing. Can it be denied,
by the way? Seeker, truthseeker, godseeker. Aren’t Seekers godseekers in a
sense? And the same is true of scientists. Those too, consciously or
unconsciously, seek “proof of God”. Via their ever accumulating findings.
Seekers, scientists… Both seek the most profound truths. And “God” is said to
be truth. When trying to uncover essential insights about the Universe, I may
actually be inquiring about the “nature of God”. That is an essential insight too.
About myself. I once formulated what I call my “Ultimate Question”. About the
very “nature of God”. Don’t a lot of religions talk about (a) “God”? Keep in
mind there is truth in the religious writings. More than you may realize. I can
tell you that as a Truthseeker. I could indeed be looking for some form of
“spiritual faith”. Numerological advice actually advised me to do that. To find
“spiritual faith”. As a Seeker. Science, nature, esoteric truths and personal
findings as proof of their being “more”. The “deeper”, the “higher”, the
“profound”… Regardless of its nature. At the end of this book you will find a
mystic’s vision about the nature of the “Absolute”. Revealing indeed. Profound
knowledge obtained the right way…

In this geometric demonstration of the relationship between proportion and

progression we are reminded of the alchemical axiom that everything in creation
is formed from a fixed, immutable component (proportion) as well as a volatile,
mutable component (progression). The relationship between the fixed and the
volatile (between proportion and progression) is a key to Sacred Geometry:
everything which is manifest, be it in the physical world or in the world of
mental images and conceptions, belongs to the ever-flowing progressions of
constant change; it is only the non-manifest realm of Principles which is
immutable. Our science errs in attempting to attach fixed, absolute laws and
definitions to the changing world of appearances. The history of science shows
us perpetually discarding or revising one world model after another. Because of
the disturbingly unstable quality of scientific knowledge, not only our physicists,
but also our philosophers, artists and society as a whole have become relativists.
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in the empirical world instead of in its true abode, the metaphysical…

This work is about gnosis, but people must be able to distinguish lower and
higher forms of knowledge in order for this allowance to occur. A ‘knowing’ is
not the same thing as an ‘understanding’ or a ‘comprehension’. It is a field of
knowledge and awareness itself which rests beyond this earthly plane of
existence where mind and matter dominate the landscape so to speak. One can
tap into this reality, the Intellect of Plotinus, by means of the Soul (which
operates in both directions it turns out) but one must allow for the existence of
the Soul before this gnosis is even a possibility, otherwise the ‘experience’ and
that is what it is, an ‘experience’ of knowledge, of ‘knowing’ will be rejected
after it has occurred. Unless there is a container that is suitable to hold the
experience, its implications and subtle and yet powerful truth, it will not be
properly absorbed and integrated. This book is an attempt, among other things,
to create that container – and also to lead the reader along the path to this gnosis,
if not to light the spark that kindles such gnosis in a reader or two perhaps if we
are lucky. One must open the door to the possibility that things are not what they
seem to be – and if this is allowed we should be able to expand our minds some
to ultimately lead a more full and happy life.” (Juan Valdez on Gnosis in “Homo
Mysticus”)

One of the ways to view the Vesica Piscis is as a representation of the

intermediate realm which partake of both the unchanging and the changing
principles, the eternal and the ephemeral. Human consciousness thus functions
as the mediator, balancing. the two complementary poles of consciousness. The
overlapping circles - an excellent representation of a cell, or any unity in the
midst of becoming dual - form a fish-shaped central area which is one source of
the symbolic reference to Christ as a fish. Christ, as a universal function, is
symbolically this region which joins together heaven and earth, above and
below, creator and creation. The fish is also the symbolic designation of the
Piscean Age, and consequently the Vesica is the dominant geometric figure for
this period of cosmic and human evolution, and is the major thematic source for
the cosmic temples of this age in the west, the Gothic cathedrals. Jesus as the
centre of the Vesica carries the idea of the non-substantial, universal 'Christic'
principle entering into the manifest world of duality and form. The Piscean Age
has been characterized as that of the formal embodiment of spirit, manifesting a
deeper penetration of spirit into form, with a concurrent deepening of the
materialization of spirit: the Word becomes flesh…

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Cymatics. Sound affecting matter. I think Energy, frequency, vibration. And,
let’s not forget, manifestation. The unseen nature of reality. That is what I
conclude. Nikola Tesla was right. Some insights require time. Time for them to
ripen. And I will always see the proverbial light in due time. As I always do
apparently. I may focus on the “occult” from now on. This kind of knowledge
used to be occult knowledge. I believe the ancients knew that already. It was
occult knowledge before the advent of science. Science has a long way to go
still. The ancient wisdom is often many millennia old. And (exact) science has
been around for only a few centuries. That explains a lot. We do need to connect
to antiquity as Nietzsche prescribed. And not only on a cultural and moral level.
Let’s not forget some ancient practices either. Scientist. And mystic. The two
combined in one person. As it should be. All is number. Pythagoras.
Revolutionary insight. And superior wisdom at that. Those were the days
indeed. And that is what Culture is all about in the end. Wisdom. Superior
wisdom. Profound wisdom. It’s about time (modern) society comes to its senses.
Without wisdom humanity would be a mistake. I say that. That is what I believe.
We need to overcome modern sterility. Urgently. It’s an illness we need to
overcome. For if we don’t, the illness will over come us. Eventually. Otherwise
humanity will be going nowhere fast. The expression in my context. Why not go
back to the trees then? Return to a more primitive state. Devolution!

There are many beliefs that we have seen as truth in Western civilization for
hundreds of years. We live according to these "truths" and as a result
manifesting a life using those beliefs, which can be very self-destructive. So
these beliefs will affect decisions in economics and politics and everything else
that we do. One myth-perception is our continued emphasis of a Newtonian
materialistic world, which by definition emphasizes the primacy of matter and
somewhat ignores or minimizes the influence of the immaterial part of the
universe. This nothingness into which the West is sliding is not the natural end,
the dying, the sinking of a flourishing community of peoples. Instead, it is again
a specifically Western nothingness: a nothingness that is rebellious, violent, anti-
God, and antihuman. Breaking away from all that is established, it is the utmost
manifestation of all the forces opposed to God. It is nothingness as God; no one
knows its goal or its measure. Its rule is absolute. It is a creative nothingness that
blows its anti-God breath into all that exists, creates the illusion of waking it to
new life, and at the same time sucks out its true essence until it soon
disintegrates into an empty husk and is discarded. Life, history, family, people,
language, faith - the list could go on forever as nothingness spares nothing - all
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“All is number”, Pythagoras said. I believe that to be true. I do believe there to
be a reality behind numbers. To a certain extent at least. But there may not be a
reality behind the spiritual meaning of a number. There is a difference between
classical numerology (Pythagoras et al.) and modern numerology. Modern
numerology amounts to divination. I don’t think there is a reality behind that.
Unless the practitioners has a gift, like Cheiro did. Clairvoyance and Intuition
may be the true factors underlying correct predictions. And that it has less to do
with the numbers or cards than people think. I believe these gifts exist. Psychics
are said to “tap into the energy field”. Science is at present making the case for
such a field. The “Informed Field” or “Cosmic Memory Field” or “Akashic
Field” or “Quantum Energy Field”. Never mind words. I do believe there to be a
reality behind that. There is more to the Universe than meets the eye (and the
instruments). “There is more to heaven and earth, Horatio, than can be dreamt of
in your philosophy (Shakespeare, Hamlet). I love that Hamlet quote. I believe it
to be true. The potential for belief seems to be present in me after all. It’s just
not that easy for people who seek truth. They want to tell truth from lies, truth
from deceit, truth from misconception. This has benefits and disadvantages.
Like everything. But I am getting there. Getting where I want to get. After all,
all that “seeking” has a purpose, conscious or not. I even believe that everything
has purpose. Divine Purpose. But that is a different story…

Death is not the end. One simply “returns to the Source (of everything)”., the
Universe, the “sea of infinite potential”, the “initial state”, the “infinite
awareness”, the “infinite love”, “God”… And there is more. Scientists have
discovered/concluded that the Universe is even capable of remembering
information (or events). For all I know, maybe even the individual. Even Taoists
say that after death one remains “part of the Tao” (the Universe, God…). Keep
in mind those two small circles. A black one in the white and a white one in the
black. They mean that “nothing is absolute”. Nothing. Not even death. All is
transition. Nothing ever truly disappears. It is merely transformed. Yin/Yang.
Life/Death. Something of death in life. And something of life in death. Infinite
awareness, remember? Isn’t that what a Muslim refers to as “Paradise”? Or a
Christian as “Heaven”? That reminds me of Shakespeare: “Devoutly to be
wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream - For in that sleep of death
what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give
us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life” (Hamlet).
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Why is there something rather than nothing? Forget that question. It is your dual
mind that seeks a beginning and an end. Your mind also has difficulties grasping
a concept like “eternity”. Something without beginning and without end. I
believe there is a logic behind existence. That nothingness is quite the opposite
of logical. There is something rather than nothing because nothingness is not an
option. If nothingness were logical, nothingness would prevail. It implies a state
of rest. But that seems no option. I am confident there is a logic beyond
existence. That existence is a necessity even. But that logic/necessity is beyond
comprehension. I bet no one knows. Eternity/God/the Absolute is all there is,
was, and always has been. And concepts like “beginning” and “end” are mere
constructs of your dual mind. Some things will never find an answer. And that is
one of them. The logic behind existence…The “death” of the Universe is unity.
The expansion of the Universe will become such that the amount of matter will
proportionally decrease. Until it becomes negligible. And then non-existent. Or
rather becomes “potential”. It is like homeopathy. Constant dilution until the
active substance is gone. Seemingly gone, that is. It is rather reduced to a
“memory”, a “mirror image”, a “non-material copy” of it. It becomes “potential”
again so to say. “Pure matter” as it is also called. Such is the nature of the ‘Void’
(“empty” space). Potential…

Another aspect of Creation is the existence of fields. Quantum fields. Morphic

fields. Energy fields. Information fields… There are quite a few unseen aspects
of Creation. Fields as mentioned earlier. The Absolute. Cycles. Geometry.
Numbers. Consciousness. Connectedness. Oneness. Aspects of infinity. Some
claim there is also an unseen aspect to knowledge. That is revealed via
numerology. In any case, I know for fact there is more. More to Heaven and
Earth than I dared to dream in my early philosophy. Numerology, astrology and
divination were an eye-opener too. They opened my eyes and expanded my
consciousness. A new world opened up for me. Shakespeare was right. He gave
me a hint. And I did the rest. Shakespeare is said to have had a Cosmic
Consciousness. Meaning that he was enlightened. I want to believe so
indeed…As above, so below. As below, so above”. Keep that in mind. It is one
of the most profound insights about the nature of the Universe. It is something
essential. And it has to be said that a lot of those profound, ancient truths were
acquired via alternative ways. By no means the so-called “scientific method”.
Yet, they cannot be disproved. In fact, science these days is often proving them
to be correct. The Ancients had profound knowledge about the nature of things.
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Someone else who thinks the Universe has the shape of a spiral: “The Fibonacci
sequence is reportedly making an appearance in nature in all sorts of weird
places. I remember watching a video which was about the way the florets of a
sunflower are arranged. Another video talked about how it's related to the so-
called golden ratio. My personal take on the Fibonacci sequence has to do with
its geometric form - a spiral. A spiral for me is a wannabe circle. It has the
motion required but the radius seems to be behaving oddly, increasing as the
wannabe circle is being traced which effectively precludes the construction of a
circle. All this reminds me of the phrase "spiralling out of control" and the only
thoughts that spring to mind at the moment are cosmic inflation and entropy. I
suppose the Fibonacci spiral is an approximation of the universe. Take time as
the radius, lengthening i.e. passing into, toward the future and the actual line that
constitutes the spiral (it would've been the circumference if the circle could've
been completed) representing matter and energy behaving cyclically. In essence,
matter and energy would Big Bang and Big Crunch, the process repeating
infinitely, but they would occur at distinct points in linear time.” (web forum)

The Absolute needs the incarnation (life form/individual) in order to find

expression. That is the relationship between the potential and its expression. The
potential depends on the observer. Divine relationship. What is the point of
potential only? “God” is the expression of the potential. Then no assumptions of
the Universe are correct. Its age. The Big Bang. That is mere illusion. The
Universe as we know it is no older than humanity. The potential has always
been there, but it needed human beings to become as we perceive it. The
Absolute is eternal. Then all our findings were influenced by our advent. That
makes reality a mere illusion. The Buddhists are right. Maya. The veil of
illusion. That is the illusion that is related to our existence. Then all our findings
about the Universe are illusion too. It is related to dual human mind and our
existence here on earth. Then the same must go for other life forms in the
Universe. Their findings are related to their existence and their level of
consciousness. Entirely different probably. And still illusion/ All is illusion. And
all is relative. Meaning dependent on the observer. Einstein was correct with his
relativity theory. All is relative…

Chaos theory… Patterns are just as meaningful as random sequences. Not, that
is. So they are basically meaningless. That is the truth. True randomness also
consists of patterns. Patterns are inherent to randomness. Chaos prevails. The
patterns are inherent to chaos. True chaos includes patterns. Our brains are
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maybe that they are of better use than chaos. We need certainty and
predictability. That is just how our mind works. So the patterns are meaningless.
But is that so? Why then does one brain hemisphere want to seek meaning in the
patterns? Why would that be if they have no meaning at all? Sounds like waste
of energy. It doesn’t sound very natural. And keep in mind chaos theory is a
theory. “Nullius in verba” was always my motto. And it will stay that way. Now
you go and identify the patterns. And interpret them. Then follow the
indications, hints, clues, “messages”, patterns… Never mind words. Just follow
them. And go with the flow (of life). Divine Flow. Follow your intuition.
Improve your intuition. Some say that following those “clues” is a key to
success…

Some religious and occult/esoteric teachings teach us about reincarnation. And

the stages/levels of being and reincarnations a soul goes through. And here it
comes, based upon the behavior/actions/deeds of a person during life. I have a
serious issue with that. People have something called a building plan. It is called
DNA. Nature. Nobody chooses their DNA. DNA also accounts for things like
virtue, behaviour, intelligence and wisdom. And then there are the
circumstances. The environment. Nurture. And nobody chooses their
circumstances either. Life, living and becoming are nothing more than the result
of a complex interplay between genetics and environment. People can be only
who they can be. People can only be who they are. Why then would I have to
believe that the soul in the afterlife and during various reincarnations should be
“punished” or “rewarded” for things a person during his life had absolutely no
control over. As a (logical) result, I believe it to be a whole lot of nonsense. I
can say this. I am the measure of truth. I distinguish truth from lies. As I am able
to involve a lot of things as I dispose of more knowledge than religious, esoteric
or occult knowledge alone. I am the measure of things. There can be no doubt
about that…

Numbers are sacred. Or used to be. Divine Order. It’s more than just math
probably. More than just numbers. They relate to the divine. The deeper. The
higher. Something inherent to the Universe. When it comes to the higher, I tend
to agree. Most ,people specialized in the matter tend to be of the same opinion.
A sort of “intelligence”, if you will. But that is as far as I will go for now. Is
there intelligence in the ways of the Universe? That is the question. Intelligent
ways. And very maybe Intelligent Design. And is it conscious or unconscious
intelligence? Or maybe we just see what we want to see. Mistaking meaningless
patterns for design. Makes me dream though. That reminds me of the “Supreme

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Intelligence” some are looking for. Or is Taoism right? When it says that the
Tao (Universe) cannot be named or know. Am I to accept that? Basing on what?
Because Taoism says to? When it comes to visions on the Universe, plenty of
those. And what does that say about the value of an individual vision? Nullius in
verba. Exactly that. Anyway, things do seem to point to something. Divine
Order? Something like that. In any case, magic…

All is infinite awareness. But probably not self-awareness. I suppose its self-
awareness is possible only via the observer. WE make the Universe aware of
itself. WE are the eyes of “God”. WE are the “personal experience of God”. For
all I know, this could very well be the reason why there is life in the first place.
It is as if Creation wants to be aware of itself. It wants to be. And it wants to be
aware. And maybe also admire itself. I believe that existence is preferred over
non-existence. Non-existence (nothingness) is an impossibility by the way.
Existence is logical. Anyway, what is the point of Creation if there is no one to
observe it? If there is no one to confirm something’s existence, does it even
exist? Logical question. Logical answer. Life as the ultimate conclusion of
Creation. Creation becomes aware of itself. And if you increase your awareness,
you increase that of “God” in the act. That, if you ask me, is the goal of life. The
goal of life in general. And, if possible, the goal of individual life. The increase
of awareness…

The deeper purpose for this development of the spiralling of numbers around the
supra-rational roots comes from the fact that we have a model for the way an
indefinable cause (root) can express itself in a play of definable numbers and
forms. The spiral is still our most profound image for the movement of Time
and therefore it is central to our vision of evolution. The following passage from
Sri Aurobindo's ‘The Problem of Rebirth’ precisely verbalizes what we have just
experienced of universal law through the language of geometry: What is around
us is a constant process of unfolding in its universal aspect; the past terms are
there, contained in it, fulfilled, overpassed, but in general and in various type
still repeated as a support and background; the present terms are there not as an
unprofitable recurrence, but in active, pregnant gestation of all that is yet to be
unfolded by the spirit: no irrational decimal recurrence, helplessly repeating
forever its figures, but an expanding series of powers of the Infinite. This is
surely the Will in things which moves, great and deliberate, unhasting,
unresting, through whatever cycles, towards a greater and greater informing of
its own figures with its own infinite reality…

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About predicting the future… In my first book, I deemed it rather impossible. I
believed the future was set, but, given the immense amount of variables,
unknowable. But these days I believe in what they call “psychic abilities” (e.g.
clairvoyance). These people are said to tap into the “energy field”. This “energy
field” is also known as the “Cosmic Memory Field”, the “Informed Field”, the
“Akashic Field”, the “Quantum Energy Field” etc… Science is now making the
case for that. And the arguments and experimental research results are quite
convincing. As a result, I no longer exclude that the future can be predicted. To
some extent at least. Afer all, all is connected. This goes for past, present and
future as well. Past, present and future are known as a “trinity”. The present is
said to be “pregnant with the future” (carrying the past in its wake). A quote by
Friedrich Nietzsche by the way. Revolutionary ideas? There’s where to find
them…

To die is to become one with (the) All. To die is to find the Light. The nature of
the Absolute is (divine) energy. The “Divine Light”. The Source. From which
all springs and to which all returns. It is the part that can never be truly known.
Because it is eternal. That alone makes it beyond comprehension. The problem
we have with the (so-called) “nothingness” is the same problem we have with
“eternity” and “eternal things”. Things that have no beginning and no end. Some
things lack an answer or explanation. Regardless of the level of consciousness. It
will always be limited. I understand if people want to refer to this as God.
Maybe the idea of (a) god is not that far-fetched after all. What would you call
it? I have no better word for it either. Maybe this concludes my quest. Or part of
it. As there is no beyond. Non plus ultra. Some things are beyond
comprehension. For consciousness will always be limited and bound by dualism.
In order to grasp eternity, one would have to become eternity…

The Kingdom of God is known by many names: enlightenment, illumination,

salvation, gnosis, nirvana, satori, epiphany, bodhi, theophany, theaphany,
mar’eh, hierophany, tapas, kensho, Abraham Consciousness, Moses
Consciousness, Chrishna Consciousness, Chrishnahood, Buddha Consciousness,
Buddhahood, Christhood, Cosmic Consciousness, self-realization, ananda, sat-
chit-ananda, moksa, hazon, kaivalya, christophany, mukti, yogasema, apavarga,
darshan, sukha, fana, turiya, Samadhi, the Perfect. The state of mind of at-one-
ment with God/the Father/the All. It basically means the realization that our
Higher Self, the omnipresent, indestructible, indwelling Christ is one with God.
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faith is enlightenment, is salvation. It the soul were not essentially godlike, it
could never know God…

Many philosophers speak of reaching a state of consciousness in which one is

constantly aware of this integration and attunement between the apparent
external vibratory field and the inner field of perception. This mode of
perceptual awareness, which we find comparable to a three-term, continuous
proportion, was referred to by Sri Aurobindo as 'knowledge by identity', and
regarded as an important stage in the process of spiritual development : while
acknowledging an external source of experience we recognize that it is in a
continual flow of relationship with our internal faculties of perception and
cognition, and it is this relationship, not the external object itself, that we are
experiencing. The objective world then is interdependent with the entire
physical, mental and psychological condition of the perceiving individual, and
consequently will be altered by changes in his inward condition. It is possible to
become aware of drawing the external object out of the totality of our inner
space, thus fusing together the contemplation of self and world…

All is infinite awareness aware of itself, said David Icke. The latter is true. But
only via the observer. I am confident the Universe has no self-awareness. WE
make the Universe aware of itself. WE are the eyes of Creation/God. WE are the
personal experience of Creation/God. For all I know this could very well be the
reason why there is life in the first place. It is as if Creation wants to be aware of
itself. It wants to be. I believe that. Existence is preferred over non-existence.
And what is the point of Creation if there is no one to observe/admire it? If there
is no one to confirm something’s existence, does it even exist? Logical question.
Logical answer. Life as the ultimate conclusion of Creation. Creation becomes
aware of itself. And if you increase your awareness, you increase that of
Creation/God. Logical conclusion once again. That, if you ask me, is the
purpose of life. The increase of awareness. Ad infinitum!

I recently read that everybody has hidden gifts. Maybe even all hidden gifts are
present in a person. And that it is possible to develop them by means of practice.
I will not swear it is true. But I will not exclude it either. I won’t exclude things
without proper argumentation. I may not be a believer (yet), but the potential for
belief is present. If I were to exclude it, the potential ceases to exist. Or the
chance of if coming to expression is greatly reduced. I always keep an open

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mind. Just not too open. I wouldn’t want to spend a whole life chasing an
illusion. I am confident that happens. I chase truth. Keeping in mind the
realization that “truths are illusions that we have forgotten that that is what they
are” (namely illusions). But I wont satisfy myself, like some, by saying that “all
is illusion”. That ends the game before it has even started. No can do. Haha

“God” (the Universe) is truth. The embodiment of truth. Even on a

universal/cosmological level. Keep in mind laws of nature are in a sense truths
too. Mind also the patterns, proportions, ratios, harmonies… Truth, regardless of
its nature. Divine laws. Divine truths. I believe there is “more”. Without being
specific. And I also believe there are plenty of “truths” we don’t know about.
(yet). The interconnectedness of past, present, and future is widely accepted.
And the interconnectedness of things in general. Look at the sciences. Those too
are interconnected. Those too are related. No limits. No boundaries. Because
nature (reality), and everything in the Universe, is also interconnected. Science
deals with “nature” (reality) and aspects of nature (reality). So the sciences, so
reality. All is connected. The sciences themselves are the proof. ..

According to recent scientific calculations the Universe has the shape of a

dodecahedron. It is a theory. But their calculations seem to work out in the case
of a dodecahedron. And the “Golden Ratio” (Phi) also plays an important role in
the shape of the dodecahedron. I myself like a “golden spiral” to be the shape
(growth pattern) of the Universe. As this spiral always returns in nature (life
forms). The growth pattern of the Universe identical to that of plants, shells…
The “Fibonacci sequence”. As below, so above. As above, so below. Keep that
expression in mind. And in this way evolution out of the singularity prior to the
“Big Bang”. Like a giant whirlpool. The Source. Infinite expansion. And
eventually maybe also a return back to the Source (singularity)…

Trinity. Three are one. Three are one. That makes me conclude that the
“observer” equals the “manifestation”. The “manifestation” being the Universe.
Every observer (person/individual) is a Universe. However incredible that may
sound. When an individual is an entire Universe, then the vision of every
individual is a reality. Within the Universe that the individual represents. The
vision of religious or spiritual people actually comes down to a reality. In their
Universe. In their “parallel realm”. Imagination makes possible. Belief makes
reality. So everything is true. Whatever people believe is true. In their Universe.

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Everything is possible. If not here, then elsewhere in the Universe. Or in another
Universe. Also, it’s not because something is not humanly feasible, that it is
impossible. To be kept in mind…

What if... What if... What if there were only evolution of consciousness?
Evolution of consciousness and only that? Evolution of consciousness as the
goal of life, the goal inherent to life? What if evolution of consciousness were
all that there is, was, and ever will be? What if that were the answer to the
"Ultimate Question" I once had in the past? About the nature of “God”. The very
essence of it. “God” (Universe/Creation) seeks to increase its own awareness.
Through various life forms here or elsewhere. What is the reason for something
to exist if there is no one to behold it? And now I can set it as the goal of life: to
increase awareness. Become aware so as to make “’God” more aware.
Awareness as the “Ultimate Goal”. The “Ultimate Goal” of life in general. And
the “Ultimate Goal” of individual life. How about that?

Yin & Yang. Order & chaos. Male (positive) and female (negative) energy.
Opposed yet complementary. A bit of one pole in the opposite pole. They meet
in the “middle”. balance, harmony, perfection, rest... Chaos being the
creating/producing force. Female energy. No obvious direction or linearity. It
will ultimately get there. The question is how.. Order being Creation. Male
energy. Straight lines. Straight to the goal. Chaos came first. A quantum
fluctuation, if that is what caused this all, is the opposite of rest. Disturbance of
an order/equilibrium that never existed in the first place. Chaos prevails too, I
believe. Without chaos no order. From pure order no chaos can spring. What is
at rest, wants to stay at rest. Chao ab ordo. No such thing as pure order. That
makes evolution impossible. Nothing is eternal. Likewise so nothing truly
disappears. Mere evolution. Mere transition. Mere recycling…

Individual consciousness is connected with the Greater Consciousness. The

“knowledge of God” is therefore accessible by the individual. The individual is
no less than the alpha and the omega. The sum of all knowledge. True
knowledge comes from within. Fact! Accessing it enables “perfection of
wisdom”. Keep in mind the level of insight of the Ancients. That knowledge too
came from within. Acquired by meditation and/or psychedelics. Profound
knowledge they could possibly not attain without instruments. Seemingly that is.
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otherwise require scientific instruments. Supposing that they even exist. The
sum of all knowledge. The individual. That is nothing short of amazing, if you
ask me…

The Golden Mean spiral, in which the geometric increase of the radial arms is
equal to Phi, is found in nature in the beautiful conch shell Nautilus pompilius
which the dancing Shiva of the Hindu myth holds in one of his hands as one of
the instruments through which he initiates creation. To Pythagorean eyes,
however, this form embodies the dynamics of the rhythmic generation of the
cosmos, and through its harmonic principle, represents universal love. The
logarithmic spiral is found to be superimposable on the foetus of man and
animals, and is present in the growth patterns of many plants. The Nautilus
pompilius. distribution of seeds in the sunflower, for example, is governed by
the Golden Mean logarithmic spiral. The sunflower, furthermore, has 55
clockwise spirals overlaid onto either 34 or 89 counterclockwise spirals. We
recognize these numbers as part of the Fibonacci Series…

Named after the thirteenth-century Italian mathematician who drew attention to

it, the Fibonacci Series appears in many places in natural phenomena, and a
number of studies document its ubiquity. It governs, for example, the laws
involved with the multiple reflections of light through mirrors, as well as the
rhythmic laws of gains and losses in the radiation of energy. The Fibonacci
Series perfectly delineates the breeding pattern of rabbits, a symbol for
fecundity, and the ratio of males to females in honey bee hives. Philiotaxis is the
botanical term describing the arrangement of leaves on the stem of a plant. If a
helix is drawn passing through each leaf base until it reaches the first base which
is vertically above the starting point, and P is the number of turns of the helix
and Q is the number of leaf bases passed, then P/Q is a fraction which is
characteristic of the plant's leaf-distribution pattern. Both the numerator and
denominator of this fraction tend to be members of the Fibonacci Series...

I finally figured out the question of Buddhism and Buddhist enlightenment.

Buddhist enlightenment is only partial enlightenment. The enlightenment of the
Buddha is a well-preserved secret. The Buddha was truly enlightened. The
followers of Buddha receive only partial enlightenment. Buddha was an initiate
in esoteric Buddhism. The wisdom reserved for initiates only. The followers
receive no such initiation and they get to study only the official religious

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writings that rather conceal the truth. The truth (true enlightenment) is the divine
nature of every individual. Seek no god outside yourself. And conscious
immortality. And so much more. There are few truths that can be described as
the truth, but I believe that is one. It is the secret doctrine of all religions.
Buddhism is no exception to that rule. But as always there is a reason for this
case of obscurantism. Truly enlightened people do not follow. They may also be
potentially disruptive. Thinkers know the truth is concealed. But good thinkers
also know why…

“Coincidence does not exist”… I agree with that. I am not always sure how
supernaturalists see that, even though I have a pretty good idea, but in my world
too this is true. I a determined world (universe) nothing happens by accident. It
is preordained. Since the very beginning of time. And space. Divine Unfolding.
Becoming. Everything flows (Panta rhei). The end result (outcome) is inherent
to things. The Universe too contains the “seed of its own destruction”. Putting
Marx in different context. Anyway, all we do, all we can do, is “go with the
flow”. Mere prisoners. Mere automata. Mere puppets on a string. Nobody
decides anything. And that, ladies and gentleman, is the greatest illusion of them
all. Things just happen. In a preordained universe things just happen. And all we
do, however much we may be convinced of the contrary, is go with the flow.
Like a steerless ship…

All is divine light. It is true that photons have no mass. People use that as an
argument to disprove that. But the same goes for the pure energy from which all
springs. The Absolute. But the Absolute is beyond duality. Remember particle-
wave duality. A particle is also a wave (energy). Mass springs from
masslessness when observed. And turns back into masslessness when not
observed. Matter is therefore also energy. Matter becomes energy (light) when it
moves at light speed. E=mc2. Let that be the proof. Matter and energy are not
counterpoles but two aspects of the same. The “same” being the Absolute. The
Yin/Yang symbol is a circle. The circle symbolizing oneness. The Yin/Yang
symbol is also in accordance with science. All is light. Divine Light. Divine
Essence. Spirit. Soul. God. Never mind words…

The geometric cosmology we have been surveying is part of a mystic doctrine of

creation known as anthropocosmic, a doctrine which is fundamental to the
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restated in our time by Rudolf Steiner, R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz and others.
The first principle of this theory is that Man is not a mere constituent part of this
universe, but rather he is both the final summarizing product of evolution and
the original seed potential out of which the universe germinated. We may use
the analogy of the seed and the tree : the tree ofthe universe is the actualization
of the seed potential which is Cosmic Man. I am using the word Man here in
relation to its Sanskrit root manas, meaning 'mind', or the consciousness which
can reflect upon itself.

According to the School of Heliopolis, the divine Verb activates the shape, but it
does not produce a sensible reality because God must first see the shapes (just as
in the biblical Genesis: “and He saw that it was good”). Hike, the Verb, is the
intention: it confers the possibility of existence, having power and shape, but it
does not explain things. It is the basic code: a form without substance, invisible
to us, the order of the world background that prepares the shapes of the bodies
and their individuality. Only after the shape is seen to be “good,” that is, useful
in the economy of the universe, can the virtual shape be translated into a
physical body and perceived by the senses. First, there is the code, and then, if
the code is good, the body is produced. There are many possible forms that may
not manifest if they are not in harmony with the overall design. It is in the
“seeing if it is good” that meaning is decided.

The “infinity of Creation” (the process of things coming into existence) makes
rebirth and/or reincarnation theoretically, technically, statistically… possible.
The individual is sometimes called the “incarnation of God”. If that is true, Re-
incarnation becomes plausible. A possibility. Birth. Death. Return to Source.
Followed by rebirth or reincarnation. In some cases at least. In one way or
another. At one time or another. If good or bad deeds during life play a role in
that, I am not convinced about that. It could very well have been invented in
order to keep people well-behaved. Every religion does that. And it’s not that
illogical. The masses have to be led. That is inherent to society. Also, from this
perspective “past lives” become a possibility too. It seems all those things may
not be that far from the truth than we often think. If one knows the workings of
the Universe…

It is however in the human body that we can uncover the metaphysical meaning
of Phi as implied in the dictum of Heraclitus, 'Man is the measure of all things'.

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According to several traditions which provide us with a human canon, that is a
delineation of the average and ideal body proportions, the navel divides the body
according to the Golden Section. The body is divided exactly in half by the sex
organs. This denotes the relationship of sexuality with the dualizing function,
the division into two. At birth, however, it is the navel that divides the child
exactly in half, and in the course of maturation the navel moves to the point of
the phi division. Thus the position of the navel through human growth is related
to the idea of a movement from the dualized, sexualized stance in nature to that
of a proportional relation to Unity through the asymmetrical, dynamic power of
Phi…

Great works of esotericism: “The Secret Doctrine” & “Isis Unveiled” (Helena
Blavatsky); “The Mystery of the Ages Contained in the Secret Doctrine of All
Religions” (Mary of Caithness); “The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians”,
Magus Incognito; “The Light of Egypt” (Thomas Burgoyne); “The Ancient
Wisdom” (Annie Besant); “Man, The Grand Symbol of the Mysteries” (Manly
P. Hall); “The Secret Teachings of All Ages” (Manly P. Hall); “The Kybalion”
(Three Initiates); “Initiation Into Hermetics” (Franz Bardon); “The History of
Power and Mind” (Richard Ingalese); “Gnosis, The Secret of Solomon’s Temple
Revealed” (Philip Gardiner); And also worth reading are “Science and the
Akashic Field” (Ervin Laszlo) and “Basic Code of the Universe” (Massimo
Citro). The last two also deal with unseen aspects of the Universe…

In “non-locality” and “entanglement” distance is no issue. Instant interaction

between one side of the Universe and the other. Instant. Light speed amounts to
a snail race. Natural laws lose their validity. This makes awareness “Universal”.
How about that? Did I mention intelligence by the way? For example: Imagine
the complexity of DNA. DNA can be called a “natural design” or “natural
construction plan”. Correct me if I’m wrong. “Nature” designs, plans, and
constructs. There is indeed “intelligence in its ways”. The intelligence of nature
(the Universe) is undeniable too. I believe that amounts to what people refer to
as “God” or “Allah”. Supreme Creator. Supreme Intelligence. Wherever you
look…

At the origin of things we are faced with an infinite containing a mass of

unexplained finites; an indivisible full of endless divisions, an immutable
teeming with mutations and differentiations, a cosmic paradox is at the

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beginning of all things. This paradox can only be explained as One, but this is an
infinite Oneness which can contain the hundred and the thousand and the million
and the billion and the trillion. . . . This does not mean that the One is plural, or
can be limited or described as the sum of the many. On the contrary, it can
contain the infinite many because it exceeds all limitation or description by
multiplicity, and exceeds at the same time all limitation by finite, conceptual
oneness.” Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine

On mathematical patterns and numbers… The “mathematical patterns” are

sometimes said to be some sort of “secret code” in Creation. But a secret code
indicative of what? And what to conclude from it? The same goes for particular
numbers like prime numbers. Those too have intrigued people for a long time.
Fact: codes can be cracked. Some easier than others. What progress could be
made if science were to focus more on the deeper meaning of the patterns? Their
depth, their profundity. And define the very nature of that “deeper”, “higher”,
“profound”, “divine”… Never mind words. How much more is there to be
known about the true nature of reality and the Universe. How many more unseen
aspects does the Universe have? To be found out…

The growth of the human body describes a relation between two generative
powers, that of the √.2, resulting from halving then doubling, indicated by the
location of the sex organs at the body's midpoint, denoting the quantitatively
replicating procreative principle; and that of Phi, indicated by the navel,
denoting the relational power which integrates the parts with each other and with
the all-containing wholeness, as the umbilical point relates the child to its origin-
mother universe. In this way Phi becomes the geometric symbol for the idea of
Christ, that which binds together the individualized awareness with the ideal
totality from which it originated and toward which it will necessarily return…

The divinity of the individual may very well be THE truth. They say THE truth
does not exist. I now suspect that to be a lie. Proactively deny the existence of
something. So people won’t look. Clever. That is “applied psychology”. All
truths are said to be illusions. But this may very well be the exception to the
rule. If it weren’t the truth, why have all the ages hitherto taken so much trouble
to cover it up? The truth is always covered up. And this is it. The secret (or truth
rather) of the ages. I am no longer confident that there is no such thing as THE

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truth. Anyway, deny the truth in advance. What better way to conceal the truth?
I bought it too. I first had to find that truth to realize that…

The divinity of numbers. The spirituality in or of numbers. The “Golden Ratio”

(Phi) as the best example. One brain hemisphere focuses on the numbers, the
maths. The other tries to give meaning to them. It is inherent to our nature. Even
scientific evidence points to something deeper. The question that remains
concerns its nature. How to specify that “something deeper” or “something
higher”? For it concerns the nature of the Universe. The nature of what people
refer to as “God”. Which once used to be my “Ultimate Question”. Mathematics
and science as “proof of God”. How about that? Unexpected result. One would
expect the opposite. Worth contemplating…

The Universe is intelligent and the Universe is aware. So the Universe must be
alive indeed. Just like Emerson said. Never mind the official criteria. I use my
criteria. And if the Universe is alive, one can say it is an organism. Mere logic.
Somebody once told me that. And he was right. It is all logical. All pieces fall
into place. Increase of awareness. I don’t need psychedelics for that. I use logic
and reason. Reasoning the truth of something. And that makes it more
convincing that psychedelic experiences. Such experiences are subjective. That
makes them unfounded, even though true. But my logic makes things
undisprovable. And that is as good as scientific evidence…

The knowledge of God/the Universe is accessible by the individual. Okay. That

leaves me to conclude that the Universe contains knowledge. Logical
conclusion. Great insight. No idea how that knowledge is stored. The Universe
is also called the Cosmic Memory Field. I recapitulate. The Universe is
conscious. The Universe is intelligent. The Universe has memory. The Universe
is alive. The Universe is an organism. Nothing shore of amazing, if you ask me.
And without psychedelics. Psychedelics are known to give profound insights
about the Universe. But so far I managed just fine without. Moving ever deeper
into the nature of reality…

The Universe contains knowledge. The Universe has memory. After death
unification of individual consciousness with the Greater Cosmic Consciousness.

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This makes reincarnation more than plausible. And there are the cycles. Life
cycles. Natural cycles. And cosmic cycles. That makes the “Eternal Return” a
plausible idea too. And rebirth. Awaiting all of us. The so-called “cyclical
Universe”. And it is possible that the very essence (Soul) of an individual is
preserved in the Cosmic Memory Field. There we have the Soul. Once you have
an idea about the unseen aspects of the Universe, explaining certain concepts or
phenomena is a lot easier…

The universality of Number can be seen in another, more physical context. We

learn from modern physics that from gravity to electromagnetism, light, heat,
and even in what we think of as solid matter itself, the entire perceptible
universe is composed of vibrations, perceived by us as wave phenomena. Waves
are pure temporal patterns, that is dynamic configurations composed of
amplitude, interval and frequency, and they can be defined and understood by us
only through Number. Thus our whole universe is reducible to Number. And
that proves Pythagoras’ “All is number” to be correct and properly understood…

All Seekers are godseekers. And eventually they find God where He is to be
found. Within themselves. And by doing so they eventually also attain godhood.
Seekers should not worry about their limitations and shortcomings. Gods have
their limitations and shortcomings too. And if you happen to believe in the one,
true God, that God too has his limitations and shortcomings. Shortcomings in
His Creation for example. And also realize that it took God billions of years to
bring about the Universe as we know it right now. Even though relative, God is
bound by time. So walk the Path that has been attributed to you with pride…

Truth… The more profound it gets, the more spiritual as well. The deepest, most
profound truths are also the most spiritual. Amounting to or touching on the
spiritual. Fair enough. It seems I am getting closer to that goal. To find “spiritual
faith”. We’ll see how much further I can get. I won’t satisfy myself too easily.
Game theory. My game theory that is. Surpass previous level, every level. It
seems in the end truthseeking amounts to a spiritual quest. And it seems I am on
a spiritual quest indeed. Have been all along probably. And the more profound a
truth, the more spiritual it is. Truthseeker becomes spiritualist in the end...

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William Blake said he could see vistas of infinity In the smallest speck of sand
held in the hollow of his hand. Models for this claim we've got in the work of
Mandelbrot: Fractal diagrams partake of the essence sensed by Blake. Basic
forms will still prevail independent of the scale. Viewed from far or viewed
from near special signatures are clear. When you magnify a spot, what you had
before, you've got smaller, smaller, smaller, yet, still the same details are set.
Finer than the finest hair. Blake's infinity is there, rich in structure all the way.
Just as the mystic poets say.” Mario Livio, “The Golden Ratio…

Akasha (a-ka 'ska) is a Sanskrit word meaning "ether": all-pervasive space.

Originally signifying "radiation" or “brilliance," in Indian philosophy akasha
was considered the first and most fundamental of the five elements – the others
being vata (air), agni (fire), ap (water), and prithivi (earth). Akasha embraces the
properties of all five elements: it is the womb from which everything we
perceive with our senses has emerged and into which everything will ultimately
re-descend. The Akashic Record (also called The Akashic Chronicle,) is the
enduring record of all that happens, and has ever happened, in space and time…

Yesterday, when reading something about entelechy, the idea came to my mind
that the whole universe “follows the path of least resistance”. It is the case for
water electricity and is also applied to the natural world. So I applied it to the
Universe as a whole. When checking articles on the subject, I found only one. A
guy on some forum what had the same idea. It is not a widely accepted scientific
idea as of yet. Let alone accepted idea. That means I came up with a theory. It
seems very plausible, even though I cannot prove it. It may be rather difficult, if
not impossible, to prove. Theoretically maybe. But that is out of my league…

We know now that we exist in groups, determined by various levels of energetic

affinities, repelling, exchanging and absorbing through interconnected, subtle
energetic communications. And our being extends outward through various
energy fields to connect with larger fields. We have had to learn that there is
nowhere that we can dispose of the things we have finished using - that there is
no zero drain in our sink; there is no factory pipe or hole in the ground that does
not lead somewhere. Everything remains here with us; the cycles of growth,
utilization and decay are unbroken. There is no throwaway bottle…

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Throughout the ages people have associated the creation myth with the creative
act as a Verb or simply the Word. According to the ancient Egyptian doctrine of
Heliopolis, it is the sun god Ra who creates the world with his divine Verb,
Hike, which means “magic power of the word.” Hike is the personification of
the commanding creator.12 In spell 261 of the Coffin Texts, Hike declares, “I
am he whom the Lord of all made before duality had yet come into being . . .
you were all created afterward, because I am Hike, the Creator of the order I live
in, the Verb that will never be destroyed, in my name of spirit.”

I recapitulate. The Universe is conscious. The Universe is intelligent. The

Universe has memory. The Universe is alive. The Universe is an organism. The
Universe is information. The Universe is sound. The Universe is rhythm. The
Universe is vibration. The Universe is mathematics. The Universe is geometry.
The Universe is number. And I would also like to add to all of this that “the
Universe” is “Soul”. I believe “soul” is what you get when you put all these
aspects together. And that also amounts to what people refer to as “God”. There,
the mysteries of the Universe revealed…

The Universe is represented in every one of its particles. Everything in nature

consists of all the powers of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The
world globes itself in a drop of dew. The microscope cannot find the animalcule
which is less perfect for being little. Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance,
appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity, all find room to
consist in the small creature. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God
appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb. Thus is the Universe alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, God is manifested as Verb

(Verbum), equal to the Word (Logos) of the Hellenistic philosophy, to which
even John the Evangelist refers. In India, it is the god Krishna who creates
through the sound of the flute. Even in the American and African shamanist
cosmologies, sound is responsible for the genesis of the universe. The secret
appears to be in the interaction between sound and matter; there is correlation
between the sound and an organizing principle of matter and the field of
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We can summarize some of the ideas evoked by this most fundamental
proportional relationship as follows. As the ancients say 'The universe is God
regarding himself'. Creation cannot exist without perception, and perception is
relationship: 'To be is to relate.' The archetypal patterns of relationship can be
contemplated through the laws of proportion contained in pure number and
geometric form. The Golden Proportion is the transcendent 'idea-form' which
must exist a priori and eternally 'before all the progressions which evolve in time
and space…

All is vibration. And vibrations have the shape of a Serpent. The Serpent of
Creation. The “Cosmic Serpent”. Among the Mayas the creator god,
Quetzalcoatl, has the shape of a Serpent. I conclude I still ignored the
importance of the Serpent. The Serpent within the individual. And the Serpent
outside the individual. The psychedelic visions with regard to the Serpent are
correct. All springs from the “Cosmic Serpent”. The Serpent as the creative
force. The Maya were right. Mysticism and psychedelics the source of their
vision…

Quantum physics is a true revelation. Especially “quantum entanglement” (non-

locality). Consciousness and other phenomena over large distances. Reality is
quantum in nature. It explains a whole lot of phenomena that hitherto lacked
explanation. And were deemed “pseudo-science”. Psychic phenomena for
instance. Clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, premonition, telepathy,
intuition… All the things science was, and often still is, so sceptic about. Or in
denial. You know what? Unwillingness to examine rather. How scientific is
that…?

“Supreme Intelligence”. The “Source of all Intelligence”. The “Source of all

Awareness”. The “Source of all Consciousness”. “Supreme Intelligence”. I
understand the expression now. “Supreme Intelligence” being the “mother of all
things”. “What has always been, is, and always will be”. “Supreme Intelligence”
as the “Source of all things”. “Supreme Intelligence” as the “beginning and the
end”. Supreme Intelligence as the “Alpha and the Omega”. Being the “sum of
all knowledge”. “Supreme Intelligence” being the “sum of all”. End of line…

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In conclusion we may ask how the practice of Sacred Geometry helps us
confront the profound questions of existence: What is the nature of Spirit? What
is the nature of Mind? What is the nature of Body? My individual practice of
Geometry gives this reply: The Body is the most dense expression of Mind, and
Mind is all the subtle extensions of Body; and underlying this entire world, from
the most dense to the most subtle, there is one substance. This substance is Spirit
which has become entranced by the beauty of geometrizing...

I have an eye for mathematical and geometric beauty rather than seeking for the
“spiritual meaning” of patterns and numbers. You see, apart from superstition
we (homo sapiens) tend to spirituality. Seeking meaning in things that may
actually not be inherent to them. What if reality were actually devoid of
meaning? I ask you again. Could you handle the idea? The chilling beauty of a
cold Universe. And only that. Look at animals. Look at insects. They focus only
on practicality. And animals don’t tend to superstition…

Nun, the “Cosmic Ocean”, represents pure, undifferentiated spirit-space,

without limit or form. It is prior to any extensive, any specificity, any god. It is
pure potentiality. By the seed or will of the “Creator”, who is implicit within this
Nun, the undifferentiated space is impelled to contract or coagulate into volume.
Thus “Atum”, the “creator”, first creates himself or distinguishes himself from
the undefinable Nun by voluminizing, in order that creation might begin.
Getting closer to the nature of “God”…

The mirror with the two opposing Buddha’s is quite a different story. While my
insight on the quantum nature of reality is probably correct, the two opposing
images of the Buddha symbolize his two non-physical bodies. The third body of
the Buddha, the physical body, is that of the person staring into the mirror. An
enlightened person, or a person who finds enlightenment because of it, will
realize their Triune Self. The Triune God. The Trinity. There you have it.
Enlightening mirror indeed…

The individual, the Magnum Opus, Solomon’s Temple, the Philosopher’s Stone.
The inextricable part of the Trinity. The knowledge and transmutation of the
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always covered up and will continue to cover up for many more millennia to
come. The taboo against knowing yourself. Gnosticism will once more be
banned. The relentless swing of the pendulum. Enlightenment… Darkening…
The only constant is change…

Evolution is “construction on construction”. “Building on building”. Evolution

via trial and error. Always better. Always evolving. The (progress) evolution is
evident. Imagine the evolution from a single cell to life as we know it now.
DNA. The building plan of life. And so many attempts to produce the human
eye. Or very specific eye types. Sometimes superior. That of an eagle for
example. Or that of a snake. In In any case, there is intelligence in the ways of
the Universe. Fact!

The logic for the association of Christ (the redemptive principle) with the
Golden Mean proportion is thus very directly stated here: Christ is 'the Word
made flesh'. 'The Word' is the English translation of the Greek logos, which is
defined as a continuous proportion in which the seemingly irreconcilable
extreme terms are bound or interrelated by a single mean term. Christ as logos
links the extreme terms of spirit and matter, universal and individual, infinite
and finite....

On the mathematical nature of the Universe… “Very recently, IBM

mathematician and author Clifford A. Pickover wrote in his lively book “The
Loom of God”: “I do not know if God is a mathematician, but mathematics is
the loom upon which God weaves the fabric of the universe… The fact that
reality can be described or approximated by simple mathematical expressions
suggests to me that nature has mathematics at its core.” Essential insight!

The triune god from various religions, the Holy Trinity, applies to every
individual. The divinity of the individual. This was always concealed for the
followers. Esoteric wisdom for initiates only. The male creative energy (Father).
The female creative energy (Holy Spirit). And the Incarnation. The “Son”. Three
are one. You are the Trinity. You are the “Son of God”. Divine creative power
within you. Divine knowledge within you. Realize your divine nature…

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The Soul is the essence of an individual. All is energy, frequency, vibration.
And that goes for the individual essence too. That too is energy, frequency,
vibration. Divine energy. Quantum nature of reality and quantum nature of
observer. Something is preserved of the individual in the Cosmic Memory Field.
I want to believe that. Some say that nothing truly disappears. And that all
comes down to a mere shift in existence. Great insight. Moving on…

When the individual dies, his True Self becomes one with the Whole. The
Cosmic Memory Field. That Whole is basically energy, frequency, vibration.
And the same goes for the True Self. Quantum nature of reality and individual.
It can therefore not be excluded that every once in a while the True Self is
reincarnated into another individual. The Universe has memory. Keep that in
mind. It may remember the individual. Sounds pretty plausible...

What if there were no Universe) without someone to behold it? If a tree falls in
the forest, and there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound? Would there even
be a tree? And what is the nature of (individual) conscience? What is the
purpose of something to exist if there is no one to confirm its existence? What if
we were to take life (i.e. consciousness) out of the whole equation? What would
remain of the Universe that we now behold? That is the question…

The individual consists of matter. Particles. His physical body. But as you know
now, every particle is also a wave. The individual also consists of energy. His
quantum nature. The essence of the individual is divine energy. Energy,
frequency, vibration. The so-called “astral body”. Good chance that it merges
with the Great Whole. Which is also energy, frequency, vibration. If part of the
individual continues to exist indeed, this may be how it works…

Divine properties, divine harmony, divine ratios, apparent design here and
there... Those can be found everywhere. I want to believe in “Intelligent
Design”. I really want to. It sure points to intelligence in one way or another.
Also, the “neverending formulas” (fractals) have an origin. Their creator. What
is the nature of the creating force behind all that we perceive on a small and
large scale. Should there be such a thing indeed…

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The Buddha was an initiate. That says enough. The Buddha knew his divine
status. The enlightenment of the Buddha and its origin is kept secret. His
followers receive no initiation and get to study the official texts that conceal the
truth. His followers will never realize their divine nature. For if they did, they’d
stop following him. Truly enlightened people do not follow. True enlightenment
is for initiates only. In every religion…

“In music, an octave (Latin: octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called
the diapason)[2] is the interval between one musical pitch and another with
double its frequency. The octave relationship is a natural phenomenon that has
been referred to as the "basic miracle of music," the use of which is "common in
most musical systems."[3] The interval between the first and second harmonics
of the harmonic series is an octave.”

On the fractal nature of the Universe… “An infinite number of pocket universes
thus were produced, and a fractal pattern was generated - the same sequence of
false vacua and pocket universes is replicated on ever-decreasing scales. If this
model truly represents the evolution of the universe as a whole, then our pocket
universe is but one out of an infinite number of pocket universes that exist”.
Mario Livio, “The Golden Ratio”.

I really do like to believe that the Universe is intelligent in itself. A “Supreme

Intelligence” as it were. The “Source of all intelligence”. Or awareness.
“Supreme Awareness”. Or “Infinite awareness. And aware of itself, as David
Icke claims. If only via us. Beholding itself via our eyes and our instruments.
Aware of itself via our awareness and possibly that of other intelligent life
forms. Worth contemplating…

On the mathematical nature of the Universe… One view on the nature of

mathematics, traditionally dubbed the "Platonic view," is that mathematics is
universal and timeless, and its existence is an objective fact, independent of us
humans. According to this Platonic view, mathematics has always been out
there in some abstract world, for humans to simply discover. Mario Livio, “The
Golden Ratio”

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If we know that the Universe contains knowledge and has memory, I am rather
confident the Universe has memory of the individual. This makes reincarnation
actually plausible. The individual consciousness may continue to exist/is
preserved in the Cosmic Memory Field. It cannot be excluded that it may merge
with that of another individual. Small errors of Creation maybe? In any case,
reincarnation is not that far-fetched…

“Let there be light”. Light is energy, frequency, vibration. Light is a wave of

energy. The primordial energy is also light. Light is a fluctuation of energy.
Light came first. And then the rest followed. The “Light of Creation” as the
Ancients called it. Light is the potential state. The primordial state. The Ancients
were right. Were they ever wrong? Science better incorporate this insight in a
possible theory of everything…

In any case, there even a logic to existence? Maybe some things just are. There
may not even be an answer. Maybe superior intelligences know. I believe we
will just have to wait until we are more evolved and ask the question again. This
question is not settled as the limit of our brain capacity (profundity) is known.
Maybe the Superman will know the answer. Stronger, more evil, and more
profound…

On the mathematical nature of the Universe… “Twentieth-century British

mathematician G. H. Hardy also believed that the human function is to "discover
or observe" mathematics rather than to invent it. In other words, the abstract
landscape of mathematics was there, waiting for mathematical explorers to
reveal it. Mario Livio, “The Golden Ration”

On the divinity of numbers… Numbers have been deified in some cultures. Phi
has on some occasions and in some places been connected with Jesus Christ. I
understand that relationship with numbers. The depth is within the numbers. A
new way of looking at things. Or a return to a greater past. Or a shift towards an
unknown future. A return of divinity…

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The expression "All is one, one is all" - appears to mean monism. Per Miriam
Webster dictionary, definition of monism is: “a view that there is only one kind
of ultimate substance. the view that reality is one unitary organic whole with no
independent parts. a viewpoint or theory that reduces all phenomena to one
principle.” In Hinduism this is called the “Absolute”. See article at the end.

There is more to the numbers than mere maths. They are often earthly and
universal (physical) manifestations. Growth patterns in nature for example.
Even Pythagoras said that “All is number”. The scientists of old were the best.
Pythagoras was a mystic apart from a scientist. I still wonder what he meant
exactly by it. Do not underestimate the possibilities of the mystical experience…

The Bible is right about the “Word of God”. All is energy, frequency, vibration.
This amounts to sound. God spoke. And there was light. Light is energy,
frequency, vibration. The rest of Creation followed. Every particle is also
energy. And vibration the creative force of the Universe. The Cosmic Serpent of
Creation. The Serpent mimics vibration. The Serpent is an ancient symbol…

On the fractal nature of the Universe… Remember fractals. The complexity of

fractals was not created by man. It is built into the math. Keep in mind the
mathematical nature of the Universe. Mathematics is inherent to the Universe.
Mathematics is the language of the Universe. The mathematical laws were
always there. Waiting for intelligent life forms to discover them…

On the “logarithmic spiral” and the “Golden Rectangle”… “The series of

continuously diminishing rectangles converges to that never-reachable point.
Because of the ‘divine’ properties attributed to the Golden Ratio (Phi),
mathematician Clifford A. Pickover suggested that we should refer to that point
as ‘the Eye of God’. Mario Livio, “The Golden Ratio”

Quantum fluctuation? Why not a Divine Formula? A neverending formula? That

has given and is still giving rise to reality as we know it. To the Universe that is.
Is there such a thing? It is possible? We have Phi. That is fact. And eye-opening

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too. And there is the fractal nature of the Universe. Who knows? I have a hard
time believing things. But I seldom exclude things too. Must be said too..

On the other hand, the irrational roots symbolize the constant, creative of acting
and reacting energy. This immeasurable gestating force emanates from the
incomprehensible Unity. That which is comprehensible is no other than a
momentary limitation of this One, indefinable Being into a definable moment.
Necessarily, then, all that is definable arises out of an indefinable All…

Divine ratios, divine science, divine numbers, divine coherence, divine

unfolding... Am I primitive because I have a hard time accepting there being
things without beginning and without end? Or is there no such thing? Creation
implies Creator? Yin and Yang. There we have it again. For now I satisfy myself
with "Mysterium Magnum". Those questions are always on my mind…

Death as a mere shift in consciousness. As a mere shift in being. Becoming one

with the All. The Source. From which all springs. The Divine Light. The “Light
of Creation” as the ancients called it. God is light. Pure, white light. That is the
“original state”. The garden of Eden. Paradise. Expelled from Eden. Return to
Eden. Fear not death. God is infinite awareness. Infinite love (unity)…

The Absolute/God is pure consciousness. Infinite awareness. And thanks to life

(us and other intelligent life forms) it is aware of itself. Life as the personal
experience of “God”. Life is logical. “God” wants to be. “God” wants to admire
himself (Creation). And through life this is possible. Life as the pinnacle of
Creation indeed. Increase awareness and you increase that of “God”…

There is geometry (or “sacred” geometry) on all levels of the Universe.

Microcosmic and Macrocosmic”. “Sacred Geometry” is a fundamental aspect of
the Universe. The same goes for mathematics. Numbers, sequences, ratios,
proportions, growth. And likewise so the “path of least resistance” . Don’t ask
for proof. It’s an insight, not a fact. An insight amounts to an “idea”…

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True knowledge comes from within. We know that now. However, this does not
take away the necessity of books and research. Books are a medium to pass on
knowledge. And they allow to structure information, which is less obvious with
meditation and psychedelics. I am confident the mystic experience, meditation
and psychedelics could ever bring about the philosophy of Nietzsche…

“Jesus as the centre of the Vesica Pisces carries the idea of the non-substantial,
universal 'Christic' principle entering into the manifest world of duality and
form. The Piscean Age has been characterized as that of the formal embodiment
of spirit, manifesting a deeper penetration of spirit into form, with a concurrent
deepening of the materialization of spirit: the Word becomes flesh.

The Bible contains all one needs to find enlightenment. Basic enlightenment.
But this knowledge leads to much much more enlightenment. True knowledge
comes from within. The individual is the “alpha and the omega”. The “sum of all
knowledge”. All he needs to do is access it. Most of my knowledge comes from
within too. As I seldom read. You have no idea how little I read…

Creation is infinite. Its infinity is makes everything possible. That is all that can
be imagined. If not here, then elsewhere. No factual infinity but infinite
possibilities. Think (also) in terms of 'multiverse' (Johnny De Coster). A most
profound quote. It cannot be proven, nor can it be contradicted. It's worth
pondering. And pondering. Infinite pondering. Thanks, Johnny!

The Universe is all about evolution. Evolution of the Universe itself. Evolution
of matter. Evolution of life. Evolution seems like some sort of a constant. Maybe
the whole idea about evolution (progression) of the soul through different stages
of being is not as far-fetched as it seems. Evolution of the soul. Through
“incarnation”. Animate and inanimate. Everything has soul…

Nosce te ipsum. Know yourself. The motto of Delphi. How well do you know
yourself? Do you even realize what there is to know about yourself? Only now
do I myself realize the depth of the motto. Your divine nature is what there is to

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know. That is how well you can know yourself. The motto is a hint. A wink. A
key. The lock has to be found. A job for the true Seeker…

Individual consciousness is not separate from pure consciousness/divine mind.

You are never alone. The Source/The Absolute/God is always with you.
Meditation, psychedelics or mind-altering events may enable one to experience
the oneness of things, to be able to be one with All/God/the Absolute. The
individual as the personal experience of God/Creation…

Compare the “Big Bang” to the moment of conception. When the egg cell is
fertilized by a sperm, it gives off a flash. This can be photographed by the way.
And the fertilization is followed by a rapid proliferation of cells. Rapid
expansion. Like the rapid expansion of the Universe after the “Big Bang”. As
above, so below. As below, so above. Eternal truth!

All is number. All is geometry. All is sequence. All is pattern. All is cycle. Does
chaos even exist? Maybe there is all too much order in the (apparent) chaos.
Chaos is a form of order. Order is not always obvious. Compare it with Phi. Phi
is active on all levels. But not always obvious (at first sight). If you look more
carefully, you will see its workings. Divine Order!

Particle-wave duality. Every particle is also energy. Light. And moving matter at
the speed of light turns it into energy. It becomes light. So every particle is also
a wave of energy. The quantum of energy is the photon. As it is the quantum of
light. Every particle is also light. All is light. Light as the original state. Those
who say that all is light are probably correct…

The true nature of reality is “infinite potential”. What it eventually turns into,
depends on the observer. And his level of consciousness. Which determines the
extent of the Universe. His “awareness” so to say. Life is evolution. And the
evolution of awareness. The increase of awareness as the reason for existence.
Life as the ultimate conclusion of Creation…

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I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology,
in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are alike simply in that they all
animate space. It is this animated space that has its functional effect upon the
world, that determines the way things work, that governs the presence of
harmony and life. Christopher Alexander

All things are one, and most of all the bodies which the mind alone perceives.
Our life is owing to (God’s) Energy and Power and Aeon. His Mind is Good, so
is His Soul as well. And this being so, intelligible things know naught of
separation. So, then, Mind, being Ruler of all things, and being Soul of God, can
do whate’er it wills. Corpus Hermeticum

I pay a lot of attention to the so-called “Trinity”. Whether it be the Christian

one, or Yin-Yang, the Trimurti, the Trikaya, the “Vesica Piscis” in “Sacred
Geometry”. The ‘Trinity’ itself is what matters. The realization of the “Trinity”.
The divinity of the individual. For that is what religion is usually trying to cover
up. The (hidden) essence in all of them…

A “Supreme Intelligence”… I love the idea. More people do. There is

intelligence in the ways of the Universe. But is this intelligence conscious or
not? That is the question. But in a sense it is. Via us. Aware of itself. And maybe
we are to find or meet this Supreme Intelligence; as a friend says. As a goal. If
only when we die. Worth contemplating…

Some numbers (generating patterns) are also cosmic and/or earthly (thus fysical)
manifestations. The growth curves in nature for example. The number then
symbolizes a reality. I want to believe the numbers (and resulting patterns) point
to intelligence. And logic. Intelligence as the deeper meaning of the numbers
and patterns. The Universe is intelligent…

“The importance of referring back to the most ancient religious beliefs that are
still practiced is that the truths stated in the Vedas and the Sutras have come
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in penetrating across the veil into the Field, returned with crystal clear
perceptions of the nature of things.”

If all is preordained, why then do we have the ability of choice? A biological

adaptation serves a purpose. Maybe even a divine purpose. It wants to be used.
Unless the ability of choice is yet another illusion. That the choices we make we
are destined to make. And that alternative choices are made in so-called
“parallel universes”. Maybe so…

The “Ark of Noah” parable is not what it seems. The “Ark” symbolizes
individual consciousness. The male and female specimen of each species
represents the “male” and the “female”. Male and female energy. The “material”
and the “immaterial”. Something I entirely found out by myself. Plenty of
hidden symbolism in the Bible…

The “logarithmic spiral” moves in successively opposite directions towards the

ultimate expression of both the infinitely expanded and the infinitely contracted.
The spiral is constantly approaching these two incomprehensible aspects of the
ultimate reality and therefore symbolizes a Universe moving towards the perfect
singularity from which it arose…

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and
one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the
perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement;
and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist. Marcus
Aurelius (Meditations)

“Open the doors of perception. After that it is said there is no return to the
materialist view of the Universe”. Prof. Stepen Skinner, author of “Sacred
Geometry”. Well, I suppose that implies a shift towards a spiritual view of the
Universe. That is exactly the part I was having trouble with. Worth considering.
Thank you, Mr. Skinner

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Ouroboros. Beginning meets end. And end meets beginning. The end is the
beginning. Death is not absolute. Eternal Return. Cosmic Cycles. Rebirth.
Happy is he who can connect the end of his life to the beginning. Enlightenment
is a source of happiness. And ignorance can indeed cause suffering. Existential
suffering. Depression!

Trinity. Three are one. The “material” (physical/body). And the “immaterial”
(mind/spirit). The latter on a small scale, but “mind/spirit” nevertheless. As
below, so above. We are “individuated mind” (Spirit). Is that the very nature of
the “immaterial”? Mind/Consciousness/Awareness? But on a grand scale…
Seems logical almost…

The truth of every progression or evolution is rhythmic alternation and

oscillation. Everything alternates towards its opposite. As far as natural and
cosmic movement is concerned, the only inevitability is alternation. The
principle of alternation is expressed geometrically in the ancient Taoist symbol
of yin and yang…

I use logic to prove things. The more you know, the more things become logical.
Undisprovable. Lack of scientific proof? I am beyond science and beyond proof.
I use logic to disprove science. Materialist science excludes logic. I know logic
has its limits, but this is basic logic. Disprove my insights with sound arguments.
I challenge you…

Order is a form of “dis-order” (chaos). “Dis-order” (chaos) is a form of order.

Order anc chaos are one. The observer makes the difference. Some people do
not like order (deeming it too “clinical” or “sterile”). Again the observer. And
his prejudice (preferences, tendencies, inclinations…). Perception. Relativity.
Subjectivity…

Every particle is ALSO a wave. It is both. Two basic aspects of reality. Matter.
And energy. The one visible. And the other invisible. The quantum nature of the
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The true essence/the true Self is immortal. Nothing disappears. Mere shift in
existence…

The individual is the Creator of dual reality. Divine nature of the individual. But
the individual is not “God”. “God” is the All. The Source. The Absolute. From
which all springs. The individual is a product of the Absolute. So he is not
“God”. To be kept in mind. Seekers are godseekers. Looks like I found him…

Behold the “Flower of Life”... The Flower of Life symbolizes creation and
reminds us of the unity of everything: We're all built from the same blueprint.
The Source of all Energy. The Source of the Light of Existence. The Source of
the Light of Life. Infinite Intelligence flows through all in every moment…

The Cosmic Memory Field (Akasha) is infinite. So spirituality is infinite.

Spirituality was forbidden by the Church. And now I know why. The reason of
the witch burnings. Their knowledge and vision. I have a pretty good idea by
now about the nature and extent of their knowledge and vision. Infinite!

Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God
was coming, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God is not coming
with signs to be observed; nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’
For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.” (Luke 17:20-21)

In the case of “Intelligent Design”… Divine Riddle. Divine Game. The goal of
life is evolution. Logically also evolution of consciousness/awareness. Why? To
what purpose? Some say that “without a physical body one cannot accomplish
anything”. The body as an “enabler”. Enabling God to realize things…

Seek God where He is to be found. Within yourself. You are the “Son of God”.
The “incarnation of God” You are in God. God is in you. As above, so below.

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As below, so above. The Kingdom of God is within you. You are the Alpha and
the Omega. Keep that in mind. Some self-knowledge is always good…

The disciples say to Jesus: "Tell us what our end will be." Jesus says: "Have you
then deciphered the beginning, that you ask about the end? For where the
beginning is, there shall be the end. Blessed is the man who reaches the
beginning; he will know the end, and will not taste death!"

Sounds produce patterns in sand. If you have an idea of the beauty and
complexity of those patterns/figures, you'd be amazed. I am not sure what to
conclude from that. But there is a certain beauty behind things. Fair enough.
Beauty will do. Beauty as the fairest illusion maybe…

Are particles information carriers? Water is known to have memory. Memory is

form of information. Particles do can carry information. And the “Cosmic
Energy Field” or “Akasha” contains all information. Everything is energy,
frequency, vibration. So cosmic information as well…

Superintelligence. Superconsciousness. Superawareness. That basically comes

down to “God”. Maybe it does come down to God. Without the human
aspects/features/characteristics as we often find in religious books. God as an
all-encompassing, omnipresent, omnisapient being…

Matter moving at the speed of light becomes light (energy). My guess is that a
slowing down of light speed would turn the massless photons into matter.
Energy becomes matter. The reverse movement. A lower state of vibration will
generate mass, if you ask me. Seems logical to me…

Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning
and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life

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without cost. He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God
and he will be My son. (Jesus, Revelation 21:6-7)

The three bodies of the Buddha. I suppose that comes down to “matter”, “non-
matter” (spirit) and the physical body (flesh). The “non-matter” must be the
Soul, even though Buddhism doesn’t recognize the Soul. In any case, it is a
trinity. A (hidden) essence in every religion…

According to Emerson the Universe is alive. And he’s right. Even though his
arguments were bad. I say that the Universe is aware and intelligent. If
something is aware and intelligent, I believe that is reason enough to say that it
is alive. The Universe is alive. Great insight!

Together they (the 5 elements) produce what the Ancients called the “Light of
Creation”. Light as the primordial state. All springs from and turns back into
light. Pure energy. Pure potential. Pure light. And also pure consciousness. The
nature of the Absolute/God. Divine Light…

If there is a logic to existence, this logic is to be found somewhere in existence

itself. I do not exclude Good chance that Creation carries within itself the
answer to this question. Maybe it will take more intelligence in order to find it
out the answer to that question. One day…

All is one. All is connected. All is one mind. All is one consciousness. All is
infinite awareness (aware of itself). All is infinite love. All is “information. All
is energy. All is (pure) Light. The Universe is a hologram. The Universe is a
computer. The Universe is an organism…

My efforts during 20 years will now enable to give a person the same level of
insight. In mere months. Expertise results in efficiency. Find enlightenment.

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And share your enlightenment with others. The increase of awareness as the
goal of life and of individual life. Soon…

Time is entropy, if you ask me. That is the most sensible what I myself can say
about it. No time without entropy, no entropy without time. Otherwise there
would be standstill, and that would be an impossibility. Apart from that, time is a
measure. Nothing more, nothing less…

The tree of knowledge exists. How many people would believe that if you told
them? It’s in the Bible. I tend to think it’s a hint. Like the motto of Delphi.
Nosce te ipsum. The truth hhidden in plain sight. For those with an eye and an
ear for truth. Seekers, if you ask me…

The male and female energies are the creative energies of the Universe. Their
interplay is the productive force of the Universe. The male energy is tempered
by the female energy. And the female energy is guided by the male. As below,
so above. That is how I reason here…

A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the
span or make it impatient, they are but parts, anything is but a part. See ever so
far, there is limitless space outside of that, count ever so much there is limitless
time around that. Andreas Cellarius

If the rulers were wise, I’d bring wisdom to the top. Prince whisperer. The
Unseen Hand. Bring beauty and greatness. Knowledge is power? Not quite.
Knowledge must side with power. Great ideas and power. Power and great
ideas. Two sides of a mighty sword…

Death is not an end. That is what I believe these days. I believe there is a
separation of “matter” (body) and “mind” (consciousness). The latter returns to

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the Source. Individual consciousness becomes part of the “Greater Awareness”.
Divine Unity. Or “Divine Union”…

These divine qualities (of Phi) manifested and clarified themselves as functional
principles and stages of growth in the plant kingdom - that is root, stem, leaf,
flower, fruit, seed – which we can read as symbol-analogies for the entire
universal process of Becoming…

In the case of “Intelligent Design”… Divine Design. Divine Riddle. Divine

Game… To what end exactly? Evolution of life… Logically also evolution of
consciousness/awareness. Some say life has been “invented” by “God” in order
to increase his own awareness…

On the mathematical nature of the Universe… “Mathematical truth is not

determined arbitrarily by the rules of some 'man-made' formal system, but has
an absolute nature, and lies beyond any such system of specifiable rules.” Mario
Livio, “The Golden Ratio”

I quote Heraclitus: You can never find the limits of your mind, even if you walk
all roads. So deep is its ground… Correct! Individual consciousness is connected
to the Greater’ Consciousness. That makes mind is limitless indeed. The sum of
all knowledge, remember…?

But can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the
innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, a unit? Though free to
think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties
inseparable. Nikola Tesla

The Universe as we know it is a product of the mind. The more complex the
mind, the more awareness (extent of the known universe). Ask a fish about the

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nature of the Universe. And what would the Universe look like if we were ten
times more intelligent…?

The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. From an
incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn.
Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our
Doom. Nikola Tesla

The individual is the Creator of dualistic reality. But not of the Absolute. The
Oneness. The Eternal. The Unknowable. The Source from which all springs.
God. Never mind words. I believe there is a god outside the Creator
(observer)…

Every living body physically vibrates, all elemental or inanimate matter vibrates
molecularly or atomically, and every vibrating body emits a sound. The study of
sound, as the ancients intuited, provides a key to the understanding of the
universe…

Yin/Yang: inseparably connected; Indispensable aspects of the same; Nothing is

absolute; Everything flows (info its opposite). No good without evil; No evil
without good; No life without death; No death without life. Death is not
absolute…

Twentieth-century nuclear physics no longer conceives of the atom as a separate

attracting and repelling particle, but instead it poses a field or matrix of
interconnected, continually transforming energy fields of particles and
patterns…

Enlightenment makes the observer (individual) the Creator. But this ignores the
Absolute. The Source. From which all springs. The “sea of infinite potential”.

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The primordial energy. That makes the existence of an “external god” plausible
again…

All of life and the entire Universe progresses through alteration. The truth of
every progression or evolution is rhythmic alternation and oscillation.
Everything alternates towards its opposite. The only inevitability is alternation…

Quantum nature of observer and reality. “0” & “1” at the same time. “Be” and
“not be”. “Ego-death”. To be or not to be; that… indeed… That was my
reflection when looking at a mirror featuring two opposing Buddhas. Hahaha

All is energy moving from an excess to a shortage. That is all there is. No such
thing as a zero-state in the Universe. That would be an equilibrium. An
equilibrium makes nothing possible. An impossibility. Same with nothingess…

Learn to think in terms of energy, frequency, vibration. It is one of two basic

aspect of reality and it is very important. It helps to explain the nature of
phenomena hitherto unknown. And will help you expand your consciousness…

The Universe is intelligent. Just the fact that a small cutting, even the leaf of a
plant, can grow into a whole complete plant means that it contains within itself
the complete design for the plant. There’s a proof. (Prof. Stephen Skinner)

Nothingness as a form of existence is impossible as nothing could arise out of it.

That makes existence logical. I was right. Existence is logical. Because the
opposite is an impossibility. Thanks to Facundo Soares Gache for his help…

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Wonder Woman was observant; she watched everything in her environment, and
her curiosity focused on a spider weaving a web. This became her plan for how
she would weave the universe. Barbara Teller Ornelas & Lynda Teller Pete

As above so below. As below so above. God in the individual. The individual in

God. The Universe (God) is Divine Mind. You share you rmind with God. Mind
is eternal. Mind is immortal. Conscious immortality. Your new status!

The Universe has intelligence in its ways. Isn’t that more or less the same as
saying that it is intelligent? If we say that a person has intelligence in his ways
(behaviour), we call that person intelligent. So why not the Universe…?

Mere mathematical beauty. Mere numbers and meaningless patterns... It seems

the Universe is a pretty cold place after all. Devoid of meaning. Chilling beauty.
Chilling insight. Fortunately life is warm. That is something already...

Reality does not exist. It is rather the observer that exists. Maybe the observer is
the only reality. Trinity. Three in one. It is not about the three. It is about the
“one”. That is the meaning of “You are the One” or “I am the One”…

In this way Phi becomes the geometric symbol for the Idea of “Christ”, that
which binds together the individualized awareness with the ideal totality from
which it originated and toward which it will necessarily return…

The immaterial too is an essential part of the Universe. Question remains how to
specify the “immaterial”. One can think of the void (vacuum) and/ or antimatter,
but one can also think of astral bodies, ghosts, angels, afterlife…

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Beware of numerological potential. First of all, “potential” is the opposite of
“accomplished fact or reality”. And secondly, little will happen if you sit back
and do nothing. One has to make it happen. Action is required…

Design in the small, design in the great... There appears to be design. There
appears to be intelligence too. At least on a certain level. Does this point to the
"magnum architectus"? To a "Mysterium Magnum"? Quaeritur…

Reintroduction of sacred ceremonies and initiation rites. The religious

experience as coming of age. Bring an end to the existential crisis in our part of
the world. The return of the sacred. The return of happiness…

Is “God” a mathematician? I don’t know. But mathematics is definitely his

language. If people were to ask me how to address God, then I would say via
mathematics. Mathematical prayers. Imagine that. Haha

And when your soul, the flame, the spark, meets with the divine fuel that is so
pure and so strong, it results in immense enlightenment: the enlightenment of
God. Light upon light, Noorun Alaa Noor. Zain Hashmi

Here grows the cure of all, this fruit divine, fair to the eye, inviting to the taste,
of virtue to make wise: what hinders then to reach, and feed at once both body
and mind. John Milton, Paradise Lost (on psychedelics)

I believe panpsychism is a fact. The Universe has awareness, even though basic.
Just think of quantum entanglement. Instant interaction regardless of the
distance. That is what I call awareness/consciousness…

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Have a look at fractals. And zoom. And zoom. And zoom. You can do this
uncessingly. And that will give you an idea of infinity. I also call it the divine.
The Universe you perceive is but a fraction of infinity...

The Tao cannot be known. It manifests itself in two relative poles: male and
female energy. Positive and negative energy. This is the result of the Ego. The
material world is an illusion caused by your senses…

Numbers correspond to aspects of reality. Can we assert that we know all

aspects of reality? How limited our senses! How limited our instruments!
Science is nowhere. And I believe we agree there…

The increase of awareness as the goal of life. That of life in general and likewise
that of the individual. There is no limit to awareness. Apart maybe from brain
capacity. And one day we will overcome that too…

Sacred Geometry can also be found in developmental cell biology. Cell division.
It unfolds following a binary sequence. And the first eight cells form the “Egg
of Life”. Sacred Geometry. See “Flower of Life”;

Some say nothing happens by accident. From a supernaturalist perspective. I am

not sure if that is true. I do, however, believe it from my perspective that ‘all is
preordained’. That the Universe too has its Fate…

After death the nature of existence changes. A unification with the Great Whole.
The Universe is awareness on the greatest scale. Quantum entanglement is proof
of awareness on the greatest scale. Panpsychism…

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Every decision (choice) a split-off in reality. In the case of parallel universes.
Parallel universes with other versions of yourself. How would you fare in a
parallel Universe? Worth considering…

All is said to be (divine) light. If we involve the (undifferentiated) primordial

light during the Big Bang, this could be the case indeed. The primordial energy
probably had the appearance of light…

Yin/Yang. Material vs. (implies) immaterial. Who knows? There is matter. And
there is antimatter. Opposite properties! The quantum world may be a way out
too. Or am I still thinking in boxes...?

The original state is energy. Light. When matter and antimatter mutually
annihilate, the result is energy. Light. Same in the case of fusion. All is energy.
And light. Energy generates light…

Numbers are the sources of form and energy in the world. They are dynamic and
active even among themselves… almost human in their capacity for mutual
influence. (Theon of Smyrna)

To die is to become one with the All/The Absolute/The Source/God. To die is to

find the Light. Consciousness is immortal. All is consciousness. All is one. The
so-called “divine love”…

We are no other than a moving row of magic shadow-shapes that come and go
round with the sun-illuminated lantern held in midnight by the master of the
show. Omar Khayyam

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The essence of time is change. No time without change. No change without
time. A standstill is impossible. There is movement even within the solid. Panta
rhei. Everything flows…

True knowledge comes from within. Meditation; Psychedelics; Kundalini;

Samadhi; Ego-death; Zen Buddhism; Mantras; Yoga; Prayer; Mindfulness;
Hypnosis; Dreaming…

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that

would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars.
Jorge Luis Borges

I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a
form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.
Vladimir Nabokov

All is vibration. Interplay of male of male and female energies. The source of
Creation. Sacred Union. The Serpent of Creation. As above, so below. As
below, so above…

As above, so below. As below, so above. The properties of God/Universe can be

found in living things. The properties of living things can be found in
God/Universe…

I have the guts for insights for which science is still in a state of denial. Yet in
accordance with science and logic. 20 years of seeking and connecting dots. All
comes together…

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Taoism (yin/yang) is in accordance with present-day physics. The Tao of
Physics (Fritjof Capra). Knowledge of this symbol alone suffices for profound
enlightenment…

Do particles have consciousness? Quanta have consciousness. Quantum

entanglement (non-locality) is the proof. I conclude particles have or can have
consciousness…

Universal Mind/Awareness/Consciousness – Panpsychism - Unified

Consciousness Field – Quantum Consciousness Field – Greater Cosmic
Awareness;

The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See
here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you (Jesus, Luke
17:20–21)

The memory of the Universe is said to be the Akasha. The Cosmic Memory
Field. Access to the Cosmic Memory Field is basically what makes the mind
limitless…

Wave-particle duality, sine wave, action potentials... Disruptions of an

equilibrium. All is vibration, fluctuation, pulsation. Or energy, frequency,
vibration…

Suppose you were the only human being on earth. When you die, the Universe
as we know it will disappear with you. A note on the importance of the
observer...

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All the greats of literature had experience with psychedelics. Shakespeare
probably, William Blake, the English poets. And even Nietzsche. Even
Nietzsche…

Yet another aspect of the Universe. The Universe is sound. Energy, frequency,
vibration amounts to sound. Cosmic Music. “Uni-verse” actually means “one
song”…

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more
progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. Nikola
Tesla

There are a lot of unseen aspects about the Universe indeed. Another aspect is
that it is also information. The Universe is also a storage place of information.
Fact!

Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It’s a limit between
finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred. Mario
Botta

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more
progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. Nikola
Tesla

The religions are correct. Heaven. Paradise. God. Never mind words. Fear not
death. That is my conclusion. Seekers are godseekers. And the Seeker found
God…

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The mystery of the ages is the truth of the ages. It cannot be disproved. Unless
by saying that all is illusion. But that disproves any truth. It does not count.
Haha

Concerning the nature of the Universe, or aspects of it, some talk about “loops
of infinity”. A “loop of infinity” sounds like an “Eternal Return”. Infinite cycles!

There is no supreme judge. There only is. Supreme Being. Supreme Becoming.
Divine Becoming, Divine Unfolding. Such is the nature of what surrounds us…

God is in you. You are in God. You are one with God. If you are one with God
you are God. Realize that. The immortality of the gods? Become those gods…

Yin/Yang. Material implies immaterial. That is logical. And now I know the
nature of the immaterial. Cosmic Energy. “Spirit” as it is also called. Indeed so!

DNA – “Natural Design” or “Natural construction plan”. I conclude that nature

designs, plans and constructs. Food for musing, philosophy, debate, or theory…

How enlightened can one be? Or become? And is there a limit? Actually, I
believe there is not. If the Universe is infinite, logically so must be knowledge…

The Absolute. Potential state. From wich all springs. Oneness. Absence of time
and space. Past and present are one. Eternal now. Divine energy. Divine Light…

Life did not come into existence. The Absolute, the Source from which all
springs, is eternal. It has always existed. There life has always existed as well…

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The dance of Shiva is the dancing universe, the ceaseless flow of energy going
through an infinite variety of patterns that melt into one another. Fritjof Capra

If we are part of the universe, and we are intelligent, then the universe is
intelligent. We are one of the ways in which the universe is intelligent. Proof!

The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. Plotinus

Holy Number 7 – Virgin Number – 7 is indivisible. And it bears no whole

relationship to the other numbers; Repeating sequences when dividing by 7;

“Conscious Immortality” requires the belief/realization of the “Greater Cosmic

Awareness” and (the) Cosmic Cycles (Eternal Return). Nothing is absolute!

Yin/Yang/Middle. Trinity. People always forget (to mention) the “middle”.

Balance/Harmony/Perfection/Rest/Stability/Order.. Symbolized number “5”…

The Ouroboros… The snake that bites in its own tail. The beginning becomes
the end. The end becomes the beginning. Eternal cycle. Eternal Recurrence…

Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: ‘I
am the first and I am the last, and there is no God besides Me. Jesus Christ

What if the Universe itself were this “Supreme Intelligence”? The Universe as
intelligence. The Universe as soul. How about that? Worth contemplating…

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Every thing that is in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth, is penetrated
with connectedness, is penetrated with relatedness. Hildegard von Bingen

Universal Mind/Awareness/Consciousness – Panpsychism - Unified Conscious-

ness Field – Quantum Consciousness Field – Greater Cosmic Awareness;

The properties of the universe can be found in everything, no matter how small.
If there were a god outside the individual, I would call it omnipresence…

Quantum properties may be an explanation for psychic phenomena. Why not

involve quantum properties? We do the same with quantum biology…

Death is but a shift in being. Reunion with the Great Whole. The essence of you
is eternal. Nobody gets lost (“Niemand gaat verloren” – Gorki, Mia)

The Universe creates, plans, designs and works its way around creative issues.
How can it not be intelligent? Some need a whole book to prove that…

Particles attracting each other and spinning around each other is a form of
awareness too. All is awareness. The “Greater Cosmic Awareness”…

The essence of truth is God. The essence of God is truth. Knowledge of the truth
is knowledge of God. Knowledge of God is knowledge of the truth…

In every instant being begins; around every here rolls the ball there. The middle
is everywhere. Crooked is the path of eternity. Friedrich Nietzsche

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Everything goes, everything comes back; the wheel of being rolls eternally.
Everything dies, everything blossoms again. Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe I have attained the highest enlightenment possible. The true nature of
things and the why of things. Except then the why of existence…

The “Christ” is the Higher Consciousness. The Higher Self. The “Christ” has
been around since time immemorial. The “Christ” is a tradition…

“God” geometrizes, “God” algebraizes, “God” arithmetizes. Good chance “He”

is a Mathematician indeed. Mathematics at its core, remember…?

Self-knowledge: the beginning of all wisdom. “Nosce te ipsum”. “Gnothi

Seauton”. “Ken uzelve”. True knowledge comes from within!

The key to everything is the Self/within the Self. The All is one and the One is
all. The secret/mystery of the ages; All religions tell the same;

Other sides to the Universe: Mathematical; Energetic; Immaterial; Non-locality;

Vibrations; Cycles; Patterns; Memory; Eternity; Awareness;

The Universe has memory. And all things have essence. Two arguments in
favour of the existence of “ghosts”, regardless of appearance…

Other sides to the Universe: Mathematical; Geometric; Number; Energetic;

Immaterial; Vibrations; Cycles; Patterns, Memory, Eternity, Awareness;

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Consciousness is immortal. Individual Consciousness becomes Cosmic
Consciousness. That answers the question of life after death…

Embodiment theory. Everything has a genetic basis. Logically also spirituality

and psychic abilities. Spiritual and psychic DNA. Indeed so!

Music of the spheres that builds harmony into atoms, molecules, crystals, shells,
suns and galaxies and makes the universe sing. Guy Murchie

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in
the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake

The world’s incessant plan halteth never in one shape, but forever doth escape,
like wave or flame, into new forms. Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Paradise. Heaven. All religions tell the same. The only enlightenment that
is allowed everywhere. Union with God. Harmless. Hence…

We remember it all; in our minds, our bodies and feet as we dance the stories.
We continually recreate the Tjukurpa. Nganyinytja Ilyatjari

That which is above is from that which is below, and that which is below is from
that which is above, working the miracles of one. Hermes

The “Kingdom of God” is within you. You are the “Alpha and the Omega”. The
“Christ” is all and in all. The “Christ” has always existed;

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For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in
him should not perish but have eternal life. Jesus Christ

Cymatics – The impact of sound on matter. All is vibration. All is sound or can
be converted into sound. “Uni-verse” means “one song”;

The Universe exists only by virtue of the observer. Quantum nature of observer
and reality. The Universe as a “holographic projection”…

There is intelligence/awareness in the Universe. Us. As below, so above.

Logically follows “as above, so below”. Divine Law!

I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an

integral function of the universe. Buckminster Fuller

The present drags the past in its wake and is pregnant with the future (Friedrich
Nietzsche). Past, present and future are connected!

“Happy is he who can connect the end of his life to the beginning” (wall writing
in an old house in Ghent). The Cosmic Cycles!

The Universe could have a toiroid shape. Making it self-contained. Eternal

Cycle; Eternal Re-cycle; Eternal Recurrence;

You are a god descending from a lineage of gods going back to primordial
times; Discover and realize your godliness;

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There is intelligence in the Universe. In life forms, in sacred patterns, in atomic
and molecular design… What to conclude…?

Why do you insist the universe is not a conscious intelligence, when it gives
birth to conscious intelligences? Cicero

I improved on the yogi’s insight. The Absolute is pure potential. And pure
energy. And I’d like to add “pure light”…

David Icke is right. All is infinite awareness aware of itself. And love. Divine
love. Divine Unity. Divine Oneness…

The Universe intelligently works it way around creative issues, perfecting the
design. How can it not be intelligent…?

What is the value of (scientific) evidence? And that of a lack of evidence?; What
does it tell? And what does it not tell…?

If you want to know the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy,
frequency and vibration. Nikola Tesla

Oneness. What do you get when all becomes one? Primordial energy. Probably
also light. The so-called Divine Light…

Global Enlightenment – “Christ Consciousness”/”Cosmic Consciousness” are

attainable by anyone who desires it;

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Entelechy… The “end” (goal or purpose) is present from the beginning. All in
nature has purpose. Divine Purpose!

The pineal gland (Third Eye) secretes DMT when dreaming and during
meditation (natural hallucinogenic);

Do particles have memory? Water has memory. This is known. I conclude

particles have or can have memory…

“Great knowledge knows all is One. Small knowledge breaks One down into the
many.” ~ 莊子 (369 BC - 286 BC)

Divination requires the belief/realization that all is connected. Man with

Cosmos; Past, present and future…

The Universe is said to be fractal in nature. No limits or boundaries. Neither in

the great nor the small. Nowhere…

The relationship between matter and consciousness? All is consciousness. All is

awareness. Cosmic Awareness!

A pyramid: Four corners (4 elemants) and a top (the 5th Element – Aether).
Pointing to prior knowledge…

Some say that esotericism lacks a scientific basis. Whereas I say that in many
cases science lags behind it…

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Every religion, movement, doctrine, order… has the same
basis/essence/foundation…

Quantum entanglement. All is awareness. Cosmic awareness. The theory of

panpsychism is correct…

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of
the spheres. Pythagoras

The least movement of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by
a pebble. Pascal Blaise

The Universe knows no boundaries, neither in the great nor in the small
(Friedrich Nietzsche)

The visions on death in all religions have one thing in common: there is
something after death…

The beauty of the Universe lies in its language. Mathematics. Cold, chilling,
mathematical beauty…

The observer creates dual reality. Dual reality is the realm of life. Life cannot
exist in the Absolute…

Everything has Soul. Divine Essence! After death unification with the Great
Whole/Great Soul…

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Life as the “personal experience of God”. And therefore the ultimate conclusion
of Creation indeed…

Never look down on the average man. The integrity of society depends on him.
Before all society…

Quantum entanglement is a proof that all is connected. That awareness exists on

the greatest scale…

Worlds within worlds. Doors behind doors. No boundaries, neither in the great
nor the small…

Yin/Yang. Material implies immaterial. The immaterial is logical. Science

doubts logic...

The Absolute sea of infinite potential. True state of the Universe. Conclusion
was correct…

Life as the pinnacle of Creation. Life as the personal experience of God/the

Absolute…

All is one. One intelligence. One consciousness. No limits. No boundaries. No

distinctions.

The Secret of the Ages Contained in the Secret Doctrine of Every Religion
(Caithness)

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Some claim that hidden gifts are present in all of us. And that they can be
developed…

If you wish to understand the Universe, think of energy frequency and vibration.
Nikola Tesla

Yin/Yang. Material implies immaterial. I often wonder about the scope of the
immaterial…

I love geometry because it is the study of how the whole universe is structured.
Erno Rubik

Universe: interwoven configuration of wave patterns. Qualities of matter mere

periodicity…

The Universe too has desire. It wants to be. Existence is preferred over non-
existence…

Patterns in chaos. Chaos in patterns. Divine coherence. All is one. The one is all.
Pure light...

Zero (0) and one (1) at the same time. Nothingness and everythingness. Infinite
potential…

The Universe knows no boundaries. Neither in the great nor in the small.
Nietzsche

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Mathematics was not invented. It was discovered. The Universe is mathematical
in nature…

The Serpent: Wisdom – Knowledge – Eternity – Intiation – Guardian of Good

and Evil…

Some numbers express infinity. Logically infinity must be part or an aspect of

reality…

Death is not nothingness. There is no nothingness. Materialism doubts logic.

Again…

The Ohm is the vibration of the Universe. The Cosmic Vibration. One with All.
Feel it!

True knowledge comes from within. I am now starting to realize the full extent
of that…

There is no nothingness. There is only the All. The All that is and always has
been…

What is the point of creation without anyone to observe it? It might as well not
exist…

It seems the so-called “unexplainble” is beginning to turn into an outdated

idea…

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Energy, frequency, vibration. The realm of subtle energies explains/enables a
lot…

Everything is expression of Divine Will. “Will” too is inherent to the Universe!

The out-of-body experience as the ultimate source of wisdom. Johnny De Coster

The biblical Revelations were written under the influence of DMT (Strassman);

Recent scientific findings show the way the human brain models the Universe;

Beware of that (physical) “infinite potential”. Everybody has a breaking point…

Man: “The mystery of the ages contained in the secret doctrine of all religions”;

Everything is going to be okay in the end. And if it’s not okay, it’s not the end…

Christ Consciousness. Consciousness of Christ or consciousness of the Christ…

Gnosticism is the true path. The knowledge of the Self. That is enlightenment…

The highest level of Enlightenment is “Conscious Immortality”. Eternal Life!

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Universal Will. “God’s” will to find expression in all ways and on all levels…

Maybe the Universe (God) wants to express itself via life, via consciousness…

All is vibration. See also particle/wave duality. Every particle is also a wave…

Reduced sense of reality… We are all psychotic. “Your life is just a dream”…

The Greater Cosmic Awareness & the Eternal Return (the Cosmic Cycles);

You are an expression of “Universal Will”. That gives you Divine Purpose…

Psychic abilities are said to be present in everyone (Gurdjieff/Ouspensky)…

The Serpent: Double tongue; doublespeak; double agenda; double motives;

What do the Maya themselves have to say about the end of their calendar?

E conchis omnia (Everything from shells). Erasmus Darwin family motto

Yin/Yang - All is one - All flows - All is connected - Nothing is absolute;

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Male and female - Creative energies - Cosmic counterpoles present in all;

Yin/Yang - All is one - All flows - All is connected - Nothing is absolute;

Spirituality has always been forbidden by religion (Karin Van Cleemput)

Yin/Yang/Middle. Trinity. Never forget the middle. Balance is (the) key…

The void of space is not empty. All is force. And force a form of energy…

Undifferentiated (primary) and differentiated (individual) consciousness…

In case you haven’t noticed: We are in the midst of a spiritual revolution…

Brain is in “mind”. “Mind” is not in brain. Differentiated Consciousness;

Male and female - Creative energies - Cosmic counterpoles present in all;

The beauty of the Universe lies in maths. The language of the Universe…

Everything has Soul – Divine Essence – Unification with Great Whole;

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Reality is a construction of our mind. Biocentrism. Man is the measure!

All is (the) One. One is (the) All; “The Kingdom of God is within you”…

If an individual is an “incarnation of God”, he can be reincarnated too…

Every individual has the properties of God. So every individual is God…

Death cannot be nothingness. For there is no such thing as nothingness…

Conscious Immortality – Mind stripped of the ego and the five senses;

Growth patterns. In the Universe. In plants. In us. Divine Expression!

Divine Expression, Divine Unfolding’… “Universal Will” in action…

Phi. The expression of Divine Purpose. It can be looked at that way…

Cherish/Feed the “God Within”. Develop a “Christ Consciousness”;

Pineal gland activation: sleep – trance – meditation – psychedelics…

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If you expand your awareness, you expand the awareness of “God”…

Phi. Divine Purpose. Aesthetic ideal. Such is way of the Universe…

All real education is the architecture of the soul. William Bennett

Particle and wave. The “wave” aspect of matter is cosmic energy…

There is no limit to enlightenment. Unless maybe brain capacity…

Seek the “Kingdom of God” within yourself. You are “the One”…

It’s all about the observer. Central role/position of the observer…

Yin/Yang represents Unity, Duality and Trinity in one symbol…

The individual – the link between the earthly and the heavenly;

Infinite Awareness aware of itself; Infinite Love; Divine Love;

Man is the measure of things. Biocentrism, the new paradigm!

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Cosmic Music; Cosmic Harmony; The Music of the Spheres;

The knowledge of the self as ultimate enlightenment. At last!

Time is subjective-relative. It is a measure and nothing else...

Yang & the “Flower of Life” – symbols that speak a library…

DMT is released when dreaming or during deep meditation;

Find the Holy Grail where it is to be found: within yourself…

Pineal gland – Source of transcendental knowledge/insight…

Shared Reality; Shared Universe; Fellow gods; Co-creators;

The inextricable link between microcosm and macrocosm…

The true Christian (Gnostic) Path too is an individual one…

Divine Consciousness in every human – Divine Sparks;

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The alchemical “Great Work”, or “Solomon’s Temple”;

Find the Grail where it is to be found: Within yourself;

Alchemy – Transmutation of “base metals” into “gold”;

All is connected. Likewise so Past, Present and Future…

The “Lapis Philosophorum” is also called the “Elixir”…

The Universe – Creation; Man – Conscious Creation;

We are part of the “primordial soul”. We are “Soul”…

The All is Mind. The Universe is mental. Kybalion

Sacred geometry is sacred in so far as it enlightens…

All is energy. Matter, life… are organized energy…

Born under a 7 in antiquity I’d have been blessed…

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Man: The “word made flesh”. “Sacred Secretion”;

The practice of Magic, or: (You) Make it happen!

Organized energy; Differentiated Consciousness;

There is chaos in the order and order in the chaos…

Matter is concentrated consciousness. (See Icke)

“Examine everything and keep the good” (Paul)

What is it that makes all possible? It is I, EGO…

Psychedelics – Original “Tree of Knowledge”;

Gnostics seek to know rather than to believe…

In the chaos is said to be a staggering order…

Statue of Liberty – Lucifer, the Lightbearer!

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Man - The “grand symbol of the mysteries”…

Gnosis, or: “Solomon’s Temple” unveiled;

No “infinite worlds” but infinite potential...

Realize your Triune Self – Holy Trinity!

Alchemy – Transmutation of the Self…

The “Kingdom of God” is within you…

Psychedelics “Sacred Knowledge”;

The “Christ”, or the “god within”;

Psychedelics “Original Eucharist”;

Quanta are “information carriers”;

Life is only real when “I AM”;

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 Enlightenment Plan

True enlightenment is the knowledge of self

Nosce Te Ipsum. Gnothi Seauton. Know Yourself. The motto of Delphi. The
Self is the key to everything. The divinity of the individual. This knowledge was
for initiates only. The religious leaders. And the mystics. The followers were
basically told lies. And this is still the case today. This is what I call the “mother
of all conspiracies”. That doesn’t mean that religious leaders are evil per se. But
they need followers. And institutionalized religion is social necessity. The
problem is that when people know the truth, they stop following. And can no
longer be manipulated. So the truth must be concealed. That is a logical choice.
The below is what is being withheld from the followers. What is being withheld
from you. THE truth. Some say THE truth does not exist. But it does. They
proactively deny THE truth so people won’t look for it. That is applied
psychology. It is sometimes also said that THE truth must not be known. And
this is true. And it is the same truth. It is the knowledge of the Self. The divinity
of the individual. This knowledge is basically for initiates only. The religious
leaders that is. That means they mislead and manipulate their followers. Which
basically makes them Pharisees. True enlightenment is the knowledge of the
Self: So now you are truly enlightened. The very basics. The gate to the rest…

The Holy Trinity

The “triune god” of various religions. Three are one. The male creative energy
(the Father), the female creative energy (the mother/Holy Spirit), both being the
creative forces of the Universe, and the incarnation. Being the “Son”. True
enlightenment is the realization that every individual is the “incarnation of God”.
Think about that very well. Every individual is God in the flesh…

The divine power of the individual

I’ll start with modern science. Particle-wave duality. Interdependence of reality

and observer. When the observer looks, he sees a particle. When the observe
does not look, it is a wave. Energy that is. A potential state. Same with reality.
When the observer looks, he sees reality. When the observer does not look, it is
merely a potential state. The observer creates reality. You may conclude that
the observer (individual) is the Creator. That is the divine power of the
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to exist. When a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it, does it make
a sound? How existent is something if there is no one to confirm its existence.
Does it even exist? That is the question. This has been known for many
millennia. The role of the “observer”. The role of the individual. Seek no god
outside yourself. That is the ultimate conclusion. The Holy Trinity, the
“incarnation of “God”, “God in the flesh” is you. And every other individual.
Gnosis. Knowing. Knowledge of the Self. The “mystery of the ages”. The “truth
of the ages”. Realize who you are. Know yourself. Now you know what there is
to know about yourself. And that is why the “knowledge of the Self” has always
been “forbidden knowledge”. The reason also why Gnosis was always banned
and/or forbidden throughout the ages. With the exception of now. But know that
this is not forever. The only constant is change. The relentless swing of the
pendulum. One day the “knowledge of the £Self” will be forbidden knowledge
again.

Divine knowledge of the individual

True knowledge comes from within. The individual shares his consciousness
with “God”. Being the Universe. The Cosmic Memory Field. The Akasha. All
indicate the same. It is the memory of the Universe. All knowledge is stored in
it. So the individual is the “incarnation of “god”. Think about that very well.
Because he is so, he also disposes of the “knowledge of God”. The information
that is stored in the Akasha/Cosmic Memory Field. That is what is meant by the
“Alpha and the Omega” in the Bible. It means the “sum of all knowledge”. The
“knowledge of God” is accessible to the individual if he knows how to tap it.
There are three ways: meditation, mystical experiences in general, and
psychedelics. And those are also the sources of the ancient wisdom. Thousands
of years ago they already disposed of knowledge that modern science is only
beginning to find. The ancients knew about galaxies, other dimensions, the true
nature of reality and the Universe and who knows what else without scientific
instruments. Because such and other information is to be found within the Self.
Or rather can be accessed by the Self. And you also need to realize the
limitations of science and the scientific method. Occult and esoteric wisdom,
often thousands of years old, is superior knowledge in my eyes. And it was
obtained without science. Mysticism is the answer. It is often described as the
“union with God”. But it is so much more. The doctors and scientists of old
were also mystics. However, materialism and rationalism unfortunately threw
mysticism overboard together with all other so-called “superstitions”. And we
still need to recover from that. Science as we know it is material and only has
eyes for the material. And that excludes anything immaterial. Such as profound
knowledge. Or the unseen aspects of the Universe. Sad but true. Amen to that…

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 Further reading

Annie Besant: The Ancient Wisdom

Helena Blavatsky: The Secret Doctrine

Franz Bardon: Initiation Into Hermetics

Manly P. Hall: The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Richard Ingalese: The History of Power and Mind

Manly P. Hall: Man - The Grand Symbol of the Mysteries

Magus Incognito: The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians

Philip Gardiner: Gnosis, The Secret of Solomon’s Temple Revealed

Thomas Burgoyne: The Light of Egypt - The Science of the Soul and the Stars

David Icke: Everything You Need to Know But Have Never Been Told (Ch. 1)

Ervin Laszlo: Science and the Akashic Field - An Integral Theory of Everything

Massimo Citro: The Basic Code of the Universe – The Science of the Invisible
in Physics, Medicine & Spirituality

Three Initiates: The Kybalion – A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient

Egypt and Greece

Marty of Caithness; The Mystery of the Ages Contained in the Secret Doctrine
of All Religions

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