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A song about Spiral Dynamics created by Actualized Forum user StyxNStone with AI.
An example of how you can combine this work with creativity & art. High consciousness art is a wide-open field. Every artform benefits from Consciousness, Intelligence, Love, and Truth. God is an artist's best friend. If you are an artist, you need God-Realization. You don't even know the Beauty you're missing.
Energy (God) is beautiful:
5-MeO-DMT is like the 30,000W Tesla coil of spiritual work. Undeniable.
You want proof of energy? Stand next to a Tesla coil.
You want proof of God? 5-MeO-DMT.
I was asked the question: How would you respond to the Descartes evil demon argument?
The Descartes evil demon argument goes like this:
If we are doing truth-seeking, how can we ever know anything is true if there might be a very powerful evil demon manipulating our experience of reality outside our awareness? How can you claim God exists? If this evil demon has placed you into a fake, illusory external world, then your claim that God exists cannot be certain.
Here's the answer:
This line of skepticism makes a crucial ontological mistake. It assumes that an external reality can exist at all. As it turns out, an external reality is ontologically impossible. The only reality which is possible is one that exists. If a reality does not exist, then it cannot have any ability to affect anyone or deceive anyone. But existence IS Consciousness. Existence is self-luminous by virtue of being Absolute Truth. So, even if there was an evil demon who tried to deceive me, the only way he could do so is by creating a reality which exists. But any reality which exists is illuminated in my Consciousness, since Consciousness IS existence. This means that any reality whatsoever must be an "internal" reality. It is always visible to itself (me) simply by virtue of being True.
Notice how profound this is: if an evil demon is deceiving me, it must still be true that an evil demon is deceiving me. If it is not true, then there is no evil demon. An evil demon's existence requires Truth! And for his evil tricks to have any power whatsoever, it must be true that the tricks are real, since an unreal trick is not a trick at all!
A demon can create an illusion, but an illusion is still a real, existent thing! A mirage is not water, but the mirage still has existence as the appearance that it is. So a demon could fool me into thinking that a mirage is water when it isn't. But a demon cannot fool me about the existence of the mirage itself. It is absolutely true that a mirage exists, if it does. And if it doesn't, then it cannot fool me. Any illusion an evil demon creates must still absolutely exist. Even a fake copy of a genuine artwork still has existence. Even a hologram still has existence. Even an optical illusion still has existence. Even a lie still has existence. Even delusion has a kind of existence to it. So, the answer is that even if an evil demon has totally fooled me about the nature of objects in the world, he can never fool me that I exist, that I am conscious, that illusions appear to me, that existence is Absolute Truth, and that everything, including the evil demon, is God.
Notice that the evil demon still needs a medium through which to do his dirty work. That medium is the one and only medium there is: Consciousness. Consciousness can certainly be self-deceptive, it can fool itself, but it cannot ever disconnect from the fact that it is Consciousness. Consciousness cannot ever be anything other than Consciousness. This is what A=A means. A must equal A. This is Absolute. Even an evil demon, even God himself, cannot make A not equal to A. The evil demon is still bound by the absolute logic of existence. An evil demon cannot create things which do not exist. Anything an evil demon creates must have existence, just by the absoluteness of logic. And in this case logic is not just human thought or language, in this case logic is Reality itself.
There is absolutely no skeptical argument that can debunk God. Because God is existence and any kind of skepticism assumes and requires existence. If a skeptic is stupid enough to deny existence, then his own skepticism and he himself doesn't exist and has no effect. But of course, even this is impossible because existence cannot not exist. What the skeptic fails to grasp, because he lacks the necessary consciousness, is that existence is Absolute Truth. Existence is an ontological tautology.
You can be deluded about anything whatsoever in life, but you cannot not exist. Delusion requires existence. And as long as you exist, you must be God because God is existence. Therefore, absolute skepticism is self-deception.
Descartes answer to the evil demon doubt was exactly correct: I think, therefore I am.
I can have foolish thoughts, but even in order to have foolish thoughts, I must exist. You can say that all of Actualized.org is stupid bullshit. But you cannot deny that Actualized.org exists.
Even if Satan tries to scam you, his scam must still be a real scam. And even if his scam is fake, it must still be a real fake scam. This is what gives God dominion over Satan. Satan cannot avoid Realness. For Satan to have any power, he must be Real. But Reality is God. So Satan must be God. Reality is the only power and all of its power belongs absolutely to God. God's power is so absolute that even when Satan acts, it's actually God. There can be nothing outside of God because God has no outside, because God is Infinite. There is nothing external. Everything is internal to God. God's gaze is inescapable.
Such is the absolute logic of existence. This logic is unbeatable. You can't defeat God with logic, because logic is God.
It took me 39 years to realize that logic is Absolute.
There's a massive 30-hour long series of interviews of Nixon by Frank Gannon.
I started watching the whole thing. I'm 12 hours into this beast and it is blowing my mind. Nixon was so damned intelligent and mature, it's astonishing. Watching this made me really respect him, which I was not expecting. The bar has been set so low by today's political situation. We have regressed so much in intelligence.
There's too much content here — it goes through Nixon's entire life story — so I recommend you skip around to find the parts that interest you. His earliest life may not be of interest to you, but his rise to the top of American politics is an amazing story. I recommend starting like 20% into the whole series and go back earlier if you find it necessary. This is like reading a full biography. Take your time and enjoy it like a good story.
I tried to make a link to the full playlist but it's giving me an error. You can find the full playlist by going to YouTube and searching for "Frank Gannon's interview with Richard Nixon playlist". The playlist contains nearly 40 videos of 1 hour each. The channel name is: UGA Brown Media Archives.
Note: Please don't come at me with common leftist criticisms of Nixon. I've heard all that. There is something deeper here that leftists are missing. Just because I share these interviews does not mean I'm blind to the problems of the Nixon administration. It is important to be able to look at Nixon not through a leftist lens. There is power in seeing the world through Nixon's eyes. It's more powerful than just being a robotic leftist. As I've always said, I love me an intelligent conservative because they are so rare these days. Oh how far conservatives have fallen.
This is a great intro to social construction. It nicely steelmans and shows why it's important:
Notice how right-wingers and Christians love to present strawmanned or even demonized versions of social construction. They are incapable of presenting it properly because they are too threatened by it. This doesn't mean social construction doesn't have limits. It has serious limits which I have covered in my Post-Modernism series. But you first need to see the power of it before you trash it.
The key question here is: What important aspect of reality does social construction theory capture truthfully? What is social construction theory seeing about reality?
A right-winger is generally incapable of answering that question in a meaningful way because they are committed to defending a constellation of social constructs which they want to hold as objective reality. Social construction theory undermines the possibility of naive notions of objective reality.
Can you see why a Christian sees social construction theory as Satanic?
I spent hours combing through Jordan Hall's interviews and talks to pin point exactly where his view is seriously mistaken. If you're not aware, he recently converted to Christianity and likes to make a very sophisticated articulation of a more evolved and mature form of Christianity. The idea being that the old Christian religion was just a big misunderstanding, and if you just do Christianity in the proper way, that will solve all of those problems. No. No it won't.
I respect Jordan's mind and intelligence very much, however, even his formulation of Christianity is still a very sophisticated and elaborate self-deception. He's so sophisticated and intelligent that it took me a long time to pin point the fatal error. But here it is distilled to a few sound bites:
Skip to timestamp 1:16:30 and watch till 1:18:30.
So, here's the problem with that:
- Jordan is looking for a human role-model to emulate to reach the highest truth, love, and goodness.
- Christianity appeals to Jordan for this very reason, because it offers him such a role-model in Christ.
- Christianity is a mind virus that convinces humans that they can access God through worship and emulation of Christ, a human avatar.
- Jordan says, "I can't really emulate a transcendent spirit". The truth is: You don't need to. You are God.
- Jordan says, "You can't draw a picture of that which is not incarnate." The truth is: You are the incarnation of God. Look in the mirror. There is your picture.
- Jordan says, "I can't come into a full and deep relationship with the father because I can't even perceive the father. I can't even imagine that. But with the son I can. So the son provides the interface that allows me to come into that level of full relationality, which is the path that orients me towards the father, which is the deepest principles of Truth, Good, Beauty." The truth is: Jordan is the father. Drop the Christian fantasy and Wake up to God. There is no interface to God. You are it. You don't need to imagine or perceive the father, you just need to realize that your perception IS the father.
- Jordan's mindset cannot lead to God-Realization because it otherizes God too much. God is taken as not oneself, which is the fundamental error of Christianity. You do not reach God through emulation of Christ, you reach God by realizing what God actually is, which is your own Mind re-collecting its absolute sovereignty.
- God is not something you emulate your way towards through good deeds, good community, good relationships, humility, etc. None of that will grant you consciousness of yourself. As long as you try to be Christ-like, you will not be God. You must realize that Christ is just a projection and construction of your Mind. This is exactly what Christianity will not allow you to do.
- Jordan ends by saying, "The religion which is not a religion after all." This is a profound error. Jordan's Christianity is still a religion, and suffers from the same problems as all religion does: human group-think. It is a human invention and self-deception, no matter how intelligent or how advanced and special you try to make it sound or how many mystical experiences you have. God has still not been realized.
- I am far from some Christ-like figure. But I do understand who understands God and who does not. Because I never got side-tracked chasing moral righteousness. Just Truth.
- You don't need to be Christ. You only need to realize you are God.
The point of this post is not to attack Jordan, it's to point out just how deep and sophisticated self-deception gets. These "meta-crisis", Game-B people do a lot of fancy talk, use a lot of fancy words, but in the end they will not realize God. Because even they, for all their elaborate jargon, do not have a serious enough understanding of epistemology, ontology, and Consciousness. So just beware, these are waters in which even the most advanced humans drown.
I hope you learn from this example, or you will end up like Jordan Hall. Lots of talk, lots of human relationship, lots of brilliant dialogos, but no ultimate understanding of God.
Once again, if you side with the human over the non-human, you will end up damned. The human is evil. The non-human is Good. You're siding with the wrong side!
I don't know how to make this any more clear or rigorous for you. I hope you get it. The entire Christian community is self-deception.
This is very good stuff:
“Latour’s metaphysics is utterly democratic. Atoms and quarks are real actors in the cosmos, but so are Fidel Castro, Houdini, and unicorns. We cannot declare a priori that some actors are more real than others; all we can say is that some are stronger than others. But this strength is never measured solely in the currency of human struggles for dominance, since animals, stars and brute subatomic matter are engaged in the struggle for reality no less than are Machiavellian cabals.” — Graham Harman
The problem with most ways humans do metaphysics is the gross human bias. They conceive of reality in a human-centric way. But surely you see that reality cannot be human-centric, it cannot have human biases. God must be unbiased in the same way that gravity must be unbiased. Gravity doesn't play favorites, it just pulls everything in equal direction. So a fundamental principle of proper epistemology, ontology, and sense-making is that your view must be totally unbaised if it seeks to reach ultimate understanding. This is why a bedrock principle of Actualized.org is to transcend human bias. In order to reach the highest levels of God-Realization we have to transcend our human-centric view of reality.
For example. it is absurdly biased to believe that planet Earth and the human race has some special and exclusive revelation of God via any human prophet, such as Christ or Muhammad. It cannot be the case that God sent his highest messenger to Earth, to humans. This is a cartoonishly human-centric way of thinking about God. Humans should be embarrassed to even claim such things when there are trillions of planets beyond Earth. Are we supposed to believe that trillions of planets are fucked just because a human (Christ) never appeared there? This is just an obvious example of human-centric bias. There are many more subtle examples throughout intellectual traditional.
But be careful. This does not mean that you should deny or reduce away the human perspective. The human side of this work needs to be honored and taken seriously too. But not at the expense of ultimate understanding! Do not cling to a human-centered ontology. Transcend it for the purposes of fully realizing God. Then you can descend down to the human domain and use God's lack of bias to clean up the human domain. The beauty of God is that it's totally unbiased. So don't dirty God with your human ideas. Instead, drop your human ideas, access God, then return to the human domain and use God's purity to clean up all the bullshit.
No matter how much they are told, humans insist on attaching their human bullshit to God. God is not your daddy. God does not care about you. God is not here to serve you. God is not here to grant you wishes and make you feel happy emotions. God does not even fit into the frame of human sanity. Get over all that human stuff. Reality is far too serious to be human.
Does a space rock care if it falls on your head? The only reason it hasn't is because you've been lucky, not because God cares about you.
God is so democratic that to God there is no difference between a human and a rat. Only the colossal arrogance and collective narcissism of mankind can believe that humans are better than rats.