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Fade Away Home

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On September 26, 2020

In Philosphing

Did you ever notice that things age and fall apart? Stars die. Mountains crumble. Metals oxidize. Organics rot, Memories fade…

Why is that? Why don’t they become better and stronger over time? Why do our bodies weaken and die? Why does the quantum field lose coherence over time?

Well, it’s all about boredom.

You can’t have Something without Nothing. They arise and are defined by each other. The background field of reality is Consciousness. What we might call “God”. By that I do not mean a distant spirit-king. I mean You. With all your “stuff” striped away. With all your “somethings” removed.

Words fail here of course and I have tried to explain why elsewhere.

Conscious attention combining Will and Imagination is how all the “somethings” are created and how they are shaped and manipulated. As a thing is being created, it does become better and stronger over time. This is the growth stage of all creations. Consciousness is sharply focused during this phase because it is interested. It is learning and experiencing novelty.

The creation will peak at the point of maximum interest. After that, with more and more processes being relegated to autopilot programming, familiarity breeds at least apathy if not contempt and the creation begins to lose it’s fascination.

What we see as being the material world is held together by God’s Will and Imagination.

You are God. Your life is your creation. You can wipe the slate clean anytime you wish. Lose your will to live and your life (meaning the avatar) will end. It may happen suddenly, as in the case of letting it be killed or it may simply drift away into the dissolution of old age and senescence. Then, with your attention removed entirely, the creat-ure will turn to dust and be gone.

Grandma didn’t lose her mind to dementia. She just got tired of her creation. Tired of missing those who’ve gone before. Tired of the pains and illnesses she’s allowed herself to experience. Her True Self is off working on a new reality. Creating another Something as only the indestructible Conscious No-Thing can do.

The Land Down Under

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On September 25, 2020

In Philosphing

The Underworld.

That which lies beneath the world.

A place that seems illusory from our vantage point. Inhabited by fairies and monsters. Devils and gods. The dead and gone.

The dark and murky waters from whence come our dreams and to where go our memories. The vasty subconscious mind.

It’s where we go whenever we cease to concentrate upon our Creation. Indeed, we are partly there now. Just because we wake up in the morning does not mean that we are no longer dreaming.

These “realities” we create exist like temporary islands floating in an infinite sea of imaginal potential. For just a little while they float along in the sunshine of our awareness. Then, inevitably they sink back into the chthonic depths.

As “children of God” (meaning God Itself as filtered through each unique persona or avatar), we are constantly creating our reality. Because we are at our core the One True God, our ability to create and change The Creation is precise and masterful. This contributes to the illusion that there is a solid and true reality. You may be tempted to say, “If I could create my own reality it certainly wouldn’t be this!”

Bullshit! Look closer. Know Thyself and all else will follow. If your reality seems to be messed up, it means you have lessons to learn. Learn them. Why do you think you are seeking knowledge?

Notice what happens when we stray out to the edge though. When we dabble with magic; when we hunt for bigfoot or UFO’s; when we pray to angels and saints. The things you will encounter exist in a quasi-real state until you solidify them through your belief and attention to become truly real to you. Suddenly you become an Experiencer. Your reality has shifted in amazing ways. You realize that you have gained Powers. If this happens with a comprehension of Who you are and what you are doing, you will become a mystic master. If it happens randomly with no understanding on your part, you will become a delusional mental patient.

Pay attention to your dreams. Study the symbolism. Be conscious of the world around you. Again, study the symbolic nature of what you see. As above, so below. As below, so above. This is the key to the Underworld. Once you have it, you can open the gates as far as you dare.

Your imagination is God’s Imagination.

Lethe

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On June 20, 2020

In Philosphing

Do you remember ever being unconscious?

Seems like a stupid question but it gets to the heart of a very common, almost universal misconception. The idea that consciousness can end.

What happens when we wake up? We remember who we are and where we are. What we need to do. The memory of where we just came from begins to fade immediately.

What happens when we fall asleep? We dream. Sometimes as we dream, we realize that we have another life that we had forgotten about. This one.

“Lucid dreaming” is what we call the experience of realizing that we are dreaming during the experience. We become conscious of the fact that we are dreaming while our bodies are sleeping. With practice, it is possible to gain the ability to retain our self-awareness as we pass from waking consciousness into the dream state. Once you are able to do this, you will realize that consciousness remains unbroken at all times.

The memory of it however…

I was once placed under anesthesia whilst undergoing a major surgical procedure. I retain no memory of what I experienced during most of this “unconscious” period but I do remember the last few moments before I “woke up”.

I was deep in conversation with another person (who it was I cannot recall), when I suddenly became aware that the anesthesiologist was trying to wake me up. I remember informing my unknown friend of this and that it was time for me to leave. We bid each other farewell and I distinctly remember knowing that we would meet again.

I then woke up on my gurney to the voices of the doctors and nurses around me. There was no break in my actual consciousness. Just the segue to a different scene with the memory of what came before receding as if it had been merely a dream…

What’s the difference between dream and reality? Is the memory of a dream a real memory? Certainly nothing you remember now is real anymore. All that remains of everything you’ve ever experienced are memories. The vast majority of which are forgotten forever.

Memories are so fragile. They can be false. They can change. They can fade away and be lost forever like the wake of a ship in the night.

Who will you be when your body is gone? When your brain is gone? When all your memories are gone?

I’m not being rhetorical here. Really think about those last questions. If you can slay this particular dragon, you will find yourself ensconced in an unassailable Fortress.

Creation

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On February 16, 2020

In Philosphing

At the macro-scale, we have a Consciousness that uses it’s own “imagination” to create the universe. Presumably because the existence of consciousness brings about a requirement that there be something to be conscious of.

So what can this mean for those of us on the micro-scale? How do we small bits of God create our own small bits of the universe?

The same way. We build out upon the foundation of our existence. We know We Are. We know It Is. Well, what shall we make of this? What shall we think about it? What shall we imagine the world to be? What will be our story?

We are all story-telling our individual lives but we are surrounded by other small bits of God who are story-telling their own lives and some of them are including us in their stories just as we include some of them in our stories.

So who controls our reality? God does of course. (Hint: It’s you.) Therefore you have no free-will. (Hint: Complete free-will.)

Please remember that the Center is paradoxical in nature.

You life is simultaneously under your control and out of your control. In other words, you can sail your ship to the best of your abilities but the ocean around you belongs to God.

“Consensus reality” or the world we all (more or less) agree upon is generally assumed to be outside of us. When we believe that this reality is different from what the majority of the others believe, we become delusional in their eyes. So to believe that we have any extraordinary control (magic and prayer) makes us crazy in the eyes of academically approved science.

But what if the nature of reality is not an outside world that is separate from us but rather an inside world that is a part of us? A Dream we are free to dream in any way we wish? We just mustn’t be disappointed that others will prefer different dreams that may not coincide with ours. Miracles can not happen in the lives of those who do not believe in miracles.

Belief is the catalyst that allows our imagination to shape the “none-self” part of us. On three different occasions Jesus of Nazareth is recorded to have told people who had just been miraculously healed that, “Your faith has healed you.” In other words, Jesus didn’t heal them.

The relationship between the words “faith” and “belief” can be difficult to grasp. This is especially true when translating into English from the Greek version of the original memory of an Aramaic quote.

See if you can rise above the level of labels and words to experience what these words mean to satisfy yourself that they actually mean the same thing. The will and the confidence that a thing is.

“Your belief has healed you.” is no different than “Your belief has made you rich.” or “Your belief has brought you happiness”.

What and how much you believe in a thing is the key to all power. You can have it blend into consensus reality or depart from it quite radically. It is your belief to have and your belief to change. Tell yourself that you love everyone and everything. Tell yourself that you truly care about the world and can see beauty and truth everywhere you look. Your faith has saved you.

Conversely, start telling yourself what a loser you are and watch yourself become one. Tell yourself you don’t deserve to live enough times and you eventually won’t. Tell yourself that your body is becoming ill. Tell yourself that it’s just getting worse. Tell your self that you are dying. Your faith has destroyed you.

Your world and your reality are exactly as you wish (or fear) them to be. Your control is perfect and masterful. It is your attention and belief that brings it about. It is your imagination that shapes it.

(Believe it or not.)

Strange Highness

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On January 25, 2020

In Philosphing

Being addicted to something that brings pleasure can cause a lot of pain.

The metaphorical creation of a thing must bring into existence it’s opposite. All things (except the One) are poles of another thing and so exist in pairs. For example, there can be no heat without the existence of cold.

Here we can begin to understand the phenomenon we call addiction. At it’s core it is the overemphasis of a pleasure that leads to the inevitable pain it creates in the life of the addict.

We can observe this same principle in reverse with the practice of self-denial or even masochism. People will hurt themselves in order to enjoy pride or the self-satisfaction derived by punishing the “self” which they have defined as being the enemy.

The reason an addiction can be so difficult to break is because the addict does not want to quit. The pleasure (for the moment) outweighs the pain whether it takes the form of physical illness, relational problems or something else. The turnaround point is only reached when the pain eclipses the enjoyment.

Either way, the predicament arises because the perpetrator/victim is allowing outside circumstance to dictate their behavior. When the ruler abdicates the throne, chaos reigns.

Three Ears

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On November 15, 2019

In Philosphing

“As a scientist, I can tell you that love is just a trick of evolution to make us procreate, care for our progeny and avoid unnecessary violence. It’s nothing special. Recognizing and accepting this basic truth makes me a clear thinker. I understand reality better than you do because I approach it with simple logic. You are a foolish dreamer seduced by perception filtered through chemical reactions in a complex biological system. I know the truth of this matter better than you do.”

“As a holy-man, I can tell you that love is the very spirit of of God. It is the center of existence. The ineffable pinnacle of consciousness and the ultimate reason for all there is. To try to couch this intoxicating experience in a frame of logic simply proves that you have no experience with spiritual reality. You miss the whole point by even trying to understand it. You are a soulless robot seduced by a desire to explain the unexplainable. I know the truth of this matter better than you do.”

As a magician, I can tell you whatever you will accept to be true. What do you wish love to be? The imaginary gentlemen whose opinions were written above have created very different worlds in which to live. Who is right? Or should we ask, “Who is more right”? There is only a disagreement here because we are asking the wrong question. Or perhaps asking the right question wrongly. It is entirely up to us what love is. We are the Gods of our own Creations. You know the truth of this matter better than I do.

The title of this post is also a play on words in honor of today being the third birthday of this Hearts of Paradox ‘blog. Woo-hoo!

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