Zarathustra's Out-of-Body Experience: How Humans Become Angels

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Z A R AT H U S T R A’ S O U TOF-BODY EXPERIENCE How Humans Become Angels

Jack Tanner Copyright © Jack Tanner 2019 All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof in any form. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored, in any form or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical without the express written permission of the author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review. Metamorphosis Publishing

Table of Contents Zarathustra’s Out-Of-Body Experience The Descent Zarathustra Hypnosis The Seminal Dream Movie Limbo Language Dreams Without Language Reality REM Paralysis Musical OBEs Swedenborg Undirected Thinking The Floating Body Near-Death Experiences and Enlightenment Dream Awareness Soul Techs Life and Death Angels and OBEs Our Dream Consciousness Deep Lucid Dreaming: How to Change Your World Hemispheric Waves? Conclusion

THE DESCENT ust as he had done once before many years earlier, Zarathustra descended from the mountain-top to the picturesque village at the mountain’s foot. The curious villagers immediately gathered around the venerable old man. Some thought him a great wizard, others a noble sage, others a silly old eccentric. “I have come to teach you the secret path to understanding everything,” Zarathustra said, his voice noticeably weaker than the last time he had spoken here. The years had taken their toll, yet his eyes remained bright with his genius and determination. “You will experience the Truth for yourself. You don’t need to accept anyone’s word for it.” The people looked at each other and weren’t sure what to make of what the old man was saying. A generation earlier, the adults had called him crazy and the children had made rude gestures and thrown stones at him. The old man smiled. “Let me be clear. Everything you think about reality is based on having a physical body in a physical world. What I want to ask you is what if you could still be in this world but without a physical body? What if you had a spirit body, free of all physical constraints? Wouldn’t you see everything with totally different eyes? Wouldn’t your perspective on everything change? “What you currently believe is based on what you currently experience via your physical senses, your embodied senses. If you had a completely different sensory experience, a discarnate sensory experience, you would have completely different beliefs. Your entire worldview would be transformed. Life would never be the same again. At last, your eyes would be truly opened.” “Are you a miracle worker?” a villager asked. “A magician?” “How are you going to accomplish this wonder you speak of?” another villager asked. “I have come to teach you the secret of out-of-body experiences,” Zarathustra said resolutely, his jaw jutting out. Stormclouds immediately appeared overhead. Fierce lightning flashed across the sky. Zarathustra

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grinned. “You see, the Archons are angry. They want to stop me from revealing the truth. They want to stop you acquiring the same powers they enjoy.” The villagers seemed afraid. Was the old man defying the gods? Was he stealing their sacred fire, their holy thunder, their forbidden lightning bolts? Mortals must never challenge the gods. Zarathustra gestured to everyone to be calm. “Gather round, friends. Let me explain everything.” He gave a gentle smile. “I shall speak first of the two trees.” The villagers looked quizzically at the old man. “The universe is made of two trees,” Zarathustra said, “namely, the Tree of Mind and the Tree of Body. The Tree of Mind exists outside space and time while the Tree of Body exists in space and time.” His eyes twinkled, as if he were opening presents for expectant children. “What does it mean to be outside space and time? It means to be in an eternal, immaterial Singularity. The Singularity is ‘nothing’ with regard to space and time, but something with regard to itself. The Singularity is both something and nothing: a something with a net value of nothing. Science can’t get at it because science, when it tries to find the Singularity, sees only ‘nothing’. “Science, catastrophically, is unable to distinguish between nothing at all, and net nothing resulting from a perfectly balanced something with exactly equal positive and negative components. All of the problems of science stem from this simple fact of being unable to explore the true nature of nothing. The mind is net nothing, which is exactly why science can say nothing about the mind and cannot detect the mind. Science irrationally concludes that mind doesn’t exist, rather than reach the alternative rational conclusion that there are rational entities that, of their nature, cannot be part of the scientific paradigm, but can certainly be part of a greater paradigm that knows how to accommodate the two numbers zero and infinity, both of which are forbidden by science. It is simply astounding how much science has been handicapped by its inability to understand and address zero and infinity. The omission of these two numbers from science has rendered science inconsistent, incomplete and incoherent. These two numbers are the Mind Numbers, the two numbers science cannot accommodate. Descartes said centuries ago that mind was ‘unextended’ and matter ‘extended’. This equates to ‘mind is defined by zero and infinity’ and ‘matter by everything between zero and infinity’. Reality – zero to infinity, with everything in between – requires

mind and matter to both be addressed, but science deliberately excludes mind, the unextended, the dimensionless, the net zero, the unobservable. That’s exactly where science goes wrong. “To return to the Tree of Mind, it is, according to Plato, the perfect, unchangeable Form of the Tree. It’s an incorruptible Idea. It has no physical location. You don’t see actual trees in your dreams – physical trees – you see only tree forms; ideas of trees. “As for the Tree of Body, it is always changing. It decays. Its death is certain. It is informed by the Form of the Tree of Mind, but it is a material object. It has particular content, and all particular content is temporal and contingent. “Mind is outside space and time, while matter belongs to space and time. When your body, your matter, dies, your mind does not. Your mind was never in space and time in the first place and therefore cannot die in space and time. Your mind is eternal, not temporal. It has always existed, and it always will exist. To exist is its essence. Its existence is necessary. It is impossible for it not to exist. It is zero-infinity, and zero-infinity can never perish. It goes on infinitely, forever. Nothing can stop nothing, nothing can destroy nothing, nothing needs nothing, so nothing is therefore inevitable and everlasting. Nothing is the most stable thing there is. ‘Nothing’ is mind. Mind is ontological zero (net zero) that lasts forever (infinitely). “Beyond this valley, brothers and sisters, you will find the scientists who will tell you that mind exists in space and time because it is constructed from matter, and therefore dies when the material body dies. This is the Greatest Lie. You will never understand reality if you listen to the scientists. “The scientists say you are an illusion. They say you are unreal. They say you are just an ephemeral collection of atoms – meaningless, purposeless, pointless and valueless. They say you have no free will. They say you are simply the puppet or robot of scientific forces. Scientists are the prophets of nihilism. “Do not venture into their valley. You will never understand existence if you do. In their valley, they refuse to accept the Tree of Mind. They cannot see it. For these people, only what is perceived by the senses exists. They refuse to accept the existence of what is conceived by the mind. What the mind mathematically conceives is what the mind constructs. This is a mentally, which is to say mathematically, constructed reality.” A little girl, playing in a puddle, stopped splashing and pushed forward.

“Without a physical body, anyone can fly,” she said excitedly. Zarathustra smiled. “You see, even the children understand.” He threw the girl a shiny red apple as a reward. “Now we come to another two trees,” he said. “These are the Tree of the Unconscious and the Tree of the Conscious. Each belongs to the Tree of Mind. Each needs an outlet to the Tree of Body.” Zarathustra’s grey hair was perfect for a sage. He looked like the archetypal Wise Old Man. “Most people imagine they have one brain and one mind,” he said. “In fact, the brain has two hemispheres, capable of independent existence. Two brains means two minds, one for each hemisphere, each with its own separate and distinct nature. The conscious mind links to the left hemisphere and the unconscious mind to the right hemisphere.” “What is the difference between the conscious and the unconscious?”, the little girl asked, before taking a big, loud bite of her apple. Zarathustra clapped his hands. “Wonderful question.” His eyes gleamed and his face beamed. “With the unconscious, we experience the world. With the conscious, we reflect on our experiences, both now and in the past, and we imagine experiences we might have in the future. “We might refer to the unconscious mind as the passive, instinctive mind and the conscious mind as the active, reasoning mind. Or we might say that the unconscious mind is our animal mind – the mind we have in common with animals – and the conscious mind is what makes us human.” “But what is it that makes us conscious?” the girl asked, impatiently waving her apple in front of her. “What allows us to reflect?” Zarathustra’s old face seemed to shed many years, as if the girl had miraculously renewed his youth. “She will grow up to be your leader,” he said. “One so wise so young will become a wondrous guide for you all.” He stroked his chin, a thoughtful look passing over his intense, piercing blue eyes. “You cannot reflect on your experiences with your experiences,” he said. “You cannot reflect on love with love. If you feel love, you feel love. That’s the love right there. It’s not anywhere else. To reflect on love, you must deal with something that does not belong to feelings, something that is separate from feelings since it is not itself a feeling. There is only one thing that concerns love but on the face of it has nothing to do with the feeling of love. Can anyone tell me what it is?” The little girl eagerly threw up her hand. “The concept of love,” she

yelled. “Top of the class,” Zarathustra said, clearly delighted with the response. “A philosopher can discuss the concept of love even though he himself has never once been in love. The experience of love is a totally different thing from the discussion of love, although the discussion will of course be far superior if all the participants have known love in their own lives. “Consciousness is about language, about concepts. With concepts, we can label things, including feelings, and then we can discuss the labels, independently of our direct experience of them. “Everyone discusses God. How many have met God? People that refer to God are never talking about their personal experience of God. They are talking about the concept of God. The concept of God exists even if no such being as God exists, even if there is no one to objectively instantiate the concept. With concepts, we can make things up. Concepts take on a life of their own. “Consciousness is where we ponder concepts. We can be conscious of God – just by thinking about the concept of God – even if there is no actual God. “Provided we have given conceptual labels to all of our experiences – our feelings, perceptions, intuitions, desires, and so on – we can then reflect on these concepts to our heart’s content. That’s what consciousness is … simply that process of applying concepts to percepts, or, indeed, to other concepts. It’s about applying the idea of something to the actual thing. Our idea of the thing and the thing are not the same thing, which is exactly how we create a gap between them, where we do our reflection. Only humans can do this. Animals have no concepts, so no animals are conscious. “If you removed any human’s conceptualizing ability, you would remove their consciousness. They would still be sentient – they would still sense and feel, they would still have an unconscious – but now they would be just like animals. You have removed what made them human. “A human that spent his whole life on a desert island and never acquired any language, any concept-making ability, would never become conscious. “Conceptualizing, using language, thinking, reasoning, problem solving, takes a lot of mental effort. Your brain goes into a high-frequency mode and generates beta brain waves. To be conscious means to be in beta mode. You are aware, conscious, alert, capable of exercising free will. You have agency. You can do stuff. You can make decisions. You can choose. You are active.

You have passed the consciousness activation energy barrier.” “What happens if the brain frequency gets reduced?” the clever little girl shouted. Zarathustra grinned once again. He couldn’t have been more impressed by the girl’s questions. What a sharp mind she had. “If the brain reduces its consciousness frequency,” he said, “which is usually thanks to tiredness, then it slips into a reduced conscious state known as the alpha state. Alpha brain waves replace beta brain waves. Consciousness becomes degraded. The person becomes relaxed, drowsy, less alert, less aware. His will weakens, his agency vanishes, he loses the ability to solve problems. He becomes highly suggestible. His consciousness has gone through a phase transition from active to passive.” “What happens next?” the girl asked. “What happens when we keep reducing the brain’s frequency?” Zarathustra’s eye sparkled. “Well, first of all we enter the theta state. Theta waves replace alpha waves. That means we have entered light sleep. Afterwards, we descend into the delta state, where we enter deep sleep. The stage beyond is coma, and the stage beyond that is death – where our brain frequency flatlines, where all brain activity has ceased. The connection between mind and brain has broken. The mind is no longer communicating with the body. It’s no longer controlling it.” Zarathustra abruptly clapped his hands. “I promised to tell you about mastering out-of-body experiences, and now I have explained enough to show how it is done.” The villagers looked at each other and raised their eyebrows. “When you enter the dream state in theta mode,” Zarathustra said, “your conscious mind is totally passive. It has no ability to work out what is going on or to influence anything. It is being pushed around like a weakling. “Only two things can serve up content to the conscious mind: the external world and the internal unconscious. The external world delivers objective, public content; the unconscious delivers subjective, private content. But the unconscious is so good, so creative, that it can produce worlds, situations, events, people, dialogue, dramas, and so on, that are so convincing we accept them as objective reality while we are in the dream state. “The passive consciousness simply reacts emotionally to one event after another, all of which are served up by the unconscious mind. The conscious has no control in this environment. It can’t solve problems. It can’t plan. It

has no agency. “If you think about how you dream, about what happens in your dreams, you will realize that you hardly ever read anything in a dream, you hardly ever calculate, you very rarely do problem solving, you never do anything requiring careful reasoning and logical analysis. You still understand concepts and language and you can certainly converse with people in your dreams, but you’re never on top of anything. Everything is always slipping away from you. You’re being driven along by events. You’re never in the driving seat. That’s because it’s your other mind, your second mind, the unconscious, that is running the show. The unconscious is not a conceptual mind like your consciousness. It’s not language-driven as your consciousness is. It’s a substantively different kind of mental agent with drastically different mental activity. It’s what you get when you change the ‘I’ from active to passive and the non-I then becomes active and sets the agenda.” “So, what is lucid dreaming?” the little girl piped up. “How does it work?” For one so young, she seemed insatiably hungry for knowledge. “Good question,” Zarathustra said. “A normal dream means that overall you are in a theta mode of light sleep – because your unconscious is now dominant. However, your consciousness is not in theta. It typically exists at a passive alpha mode level. The key to lucid dreaming, the sine qua non, is for you to transition your dream consciousness from alpha to beta mode – normal active consciousness – within your dream. “Such a transition has the most incredible consequences. In a normal dream, the unconscious mind is active and serving up its own content to the passive conscious mind. In a lucid dream, the roles are reversed. The conscious mind becomes active – it can read, think, plan, act – and the unconscious mind is rendered passive, as it is in the normal waking state. This means that the conscious mind can then demand that the unconscious mind serves up the content the conscious mind desires. This has the effect of turning the lucid dreamer into a god. He can instruct the unconscious mind to deliver any content he desires, any content whatsoever. He can create worlds, just as the gods do. He is the master of all he surveys. He is the Master Builder, the Great Architect, and the unconscious mind is his tireless worker, able to produce whatever design-plan it is given by the conscious mind. “To dream lucidly is to possess, more or less, the normal beta activity of consciousness within the normal theta activity of dreaming, to such an extent that the conscious mind is dominant and the unconscious mind submissive,

the reverse of the normal state of affairs in a dream.” “So, how can we achieve lucid dreaming?” the girl asked. Zarathustra took a small red gadget out of his pocket. “Lucid dreamers have to painstakingly train their mind to enable normal consciousness to exist within the dreaming state. Very few people succeed in becoming authentic lucid dreamers. Certain drugs can help. As for me, as I am drifting off to sleep, I apply a specially designed gadget – called the LUCIDATOR – which generates and applies a beta frequency to certain locations on my left hemisphere. This has the effect of establishing a beta domain within my theta wave sleep pattern, allowing me to dream lucidly. “It’s a tricky balancing act. At the moment, the gadget achieves its goal only a third of the time, but I’m always refining it. I aim to make it ninety percent reliable. I doubt any percentage better than that can be achieved.” He nodded to himself, as if congratulating himself on his ingenuity. “There is something even more extraordinary to consider,” he said after a pause. “If you retain beta mode as you enter the very deepest levels of dreaming, you leave the world served up by the personal unconscious and reach instead the world served up by the collective unconscious. The personal unconscious is an outcrop of the collective unconscious, so if you pass through the whole personal unconscious, you arrive at the collective unconscious, the common substratum that underpins all personal unconsciousnesses.” Zarathustra looked pained as he tried to explain a particularly difficult concept to his audience. “But there’s something quite different about the dreams of the collective unconscious and the dreams of the personal unconscious.” He gazed into his audience’s eyes to search for signs of understanding. “When all minds dream together,” he said, “they produce the actual world, the objective world. It is not a dream world, it is reality itself. So, and this is absolutely essential to grasp, if you break on through to the bottom level of dreams, and you still have your beta mode intact, you have in fact actually left your dreams and entered the real world, but you are now free of your physical body … because it is fast asleep on your bed. You are now awake – conscious – in the actual world, but unencumbered by a physical body. In this new state, you do not require any body at all, but your mind can, if it likes, imagine one for you. This is known as your residual body image.” He gave a little fist pump. “You have now entered the world of out-of-body experiences!”

“I understand!” the clever little girl exclaimed. “What you are saying is that the collective unconscious projects a world, which is actually physical reality. The personal unconscious projects a world too, and we accept it as reality while we are in it, but it’s just a subjective dreamworld that only we can access. No one else knows anything about it. It’s not objective. “We enter our subjective dreamworld by going to sleep, by deactivating our body, and then, if we keep going deeper and deeper into the dream, we drop out of our personal unconscious and enter the collective unconscious below it. Now we are in objective reality, except we are seeing it from a completely different perspective from the one we’re used to. We normally view it from the local perspective of our body, physically located in the world. Now we are seeing the world from the non-local perspective of our mind, located in the mental Singularity, yet able to see the entire physical universe.” The girl was possessed of a remarkable fluency, almost as if she were channeling Zarathustra himself. “We have accessed a back door to the world,” she said. “It requires only our mind. The body has become redundant. “Out-of-body experiences are possible only because we actually live in a mental reality, not physical, but our habitual perspective is the limited, local one supplied by our physical body. We have been deluded into believing physical reality is real because we see it from a physical body, but it’s all just a mental illusion. Our body itself is a mental construct. With its limited senses, it provides a reducing valve. It filters out most of the information available to us, leaving just what is available to our spacetime senses, which can only observe our immediate, local environment. It is completely cut off from the non-local domain of mind, outside space, time and matter.” Zarathustra shook his head in disbelief. “I couldn’t have put it any better myself, young lady. “Our body enters the physical world via the local front door, so to speak, and has an in-body experience. Our mind, by contrast, has its own route into the world, a non-local back door, allowing us to have an out-of-body experience.” The little girl nodded enthusiastically. “It’s all so obvious, isn’t it?” she trilled. The adults all looked at each other. They seemed baffled. They hadn’t understood a word. “I have revealed this great secret to you,” Zarathustra said, “… that lucid dreaming is the precursor of out-of-body experiences. With this knowledge,

everything will change for you. “Humans who can master out-of-body experiences become angels. Angels are simply those creatures that permanently have out-of-body experiences. Angels always view reality from the non-local perspective of the disembodied mind rather than the local perspective of the embodied mind.” The adults raised their eyebrows again. Some smiled. Who doesn’t want to have the power of angels? “What’s a near-death-experience?” one of them asked. “My grandpa said he had one.” Zarathustra nodded thoughtfully. “A near-death-experience is the most extreme version of the out-of-body experience. It happens when, while you are still in beta-mode consciousness, you leave spacetime entirely and access the Singularity containing all souls, all minds. You can now contact the dead! Not only the dead, but also all the other minds of the living. You can directly interact with the dreams of another person, thus engaging in ‘dream telepathy’, which is also called ‘telepathic dreaming’ or ‘telepathic lucid dreaming’. “Have you understood? Do you see? Let me run through it again. A betamode conscious person with a body goes to sleep. If he retains his beta-mode consciousness, he can engage in lucid dreaming, where he can control his personal unconscious and make it do his bidding. If he can then access the collective unconscious from the personal unconscious, while still retaining his beta-mode consciousness, he can enjoy out-of-body experiences where he can non-locally travel anywhere in the entire physical universe. He can go wherever he likes, just by thinking about it. He is ruled by the power of pure thought, just like angels. “Of course, he mostly knows his own world and own solar system, so that’s where he explores. If he wishes to push the boundaries to the ultimate extent, he can leave behind spacetime altogether and enter the immaterial Singularity of Mind, the very thing accomplished by near-death-experiences and, of course, by death itself. Yet this can also be achieved by out-of-body experiences. “Those that can truly master out-of-body experiences, through first mastering lucid dreaming, can, with nothing but the power of the mind, reach all the way to the Source – the Singularity itself. They can then not only understand ultimate existence, but also directly experience ultimate existence. They have truly become as gods.”

The adults all looked at each other with bright eyes, captivated by the thought of becoming divine. “This is a mental reality,” Zarathustra said. “It’s not physical. When you have an authentic out-of-body experience, you know that beyond any doubt. “While your consciousness is attached to your physical body, you imagine that reality is physical, as scientists do. When you attach your consciousness to first your own dreams and then to the objective, collective dream that lies beyond all personal dreams, you find yourself back in the physical world, but now you are present as pure mind. You have escaped all the limitations of the body. You now know that the mind has nothing to do with the body, that it has an entirely separate existence. You know you will not die when your body dies. Your disembodied mind is the proof. And now you have understood the true nature of reality. “Let me tell you this. When a big enough star implodes, it forms a black hole singularity. The original star was a physical object in space and time while the singularity is an immaterial object absent from space and time. Do you see what has happened? The star’s contents have left the physical order and joined the mental order. All matter, with mass, with dimensions has been turned into light, with no mass and no dimensions. “If you could accelerate matter to light speed it would become massless, which is to say maximally length contracted and time dilated. That is, it would have left space and time entirely. “If you rewound the physical universe all the way back to t = 0, the instant before the beginning of time, you would by that process leave the physical universe and reach pure mind, the Singularity. “If you depart the material world, you arrive at all only one place – Mind. Scientists have never grasped that matter is exactly that which is in space and time, and mind exactly that which is not in space and time. “Matter is what you observe. Mind is unobservable. Science – an ideology predicated on observation – is entirely unable to analyze mind.” “My people, we must all go beyond science. We must become oneironauts – dream travelers. We must consciously travel within dreams. We must go further than any astronaut or psychonaut. Nothing will restrain us. We acknowledge no limits. There are no barriers that can stop us. We are Faustians, Prometheans, Hyperboreans. We are the Illuminated Ones. “My people, we must become masters of oneirogens – dream drugs. There are secret societies that have a wide range of dream drugs that enable

all depths of dreams to be reached. “We must become masters of dream technology. We must fully understand the difference between the two brain hemispheres, and also the function of the corpus callosum, the vital band of tissue that links them. “Another way of reaching deep dream levels is by way of hypnosis. The true power and scope of hypnosis has been barely touched upon. The villagers scowled. “It all sounds like hard work,” they grumbled. “But think of the rewards,” Zarathustra said. “Think of the power you will acquire. You will be far more powerful than the scientists in the next valley. “We are all being held back by scientists who deny the existence of mind, dismiss the significance of dreams, deny the reality of out-of-bodyexperiences and near-death-experiences, ridicule dream telepathy and refuse to accept that a mental Singularity preceded and originated the ‘physical’ universe. They are blocking human potential. They are stopping us from becoming gods. “Dreams are the royal road to understanding reality. They are the gateway to out-of-body experiences. These prove definitively, experiencewise, that reality is mental. “Beta, beta, beta!” the little girl exclaimed. “It’s all about beta.” Zarathustra nodded. “What is humanity’s defining problem? It’s that humans cannot maintain beta-mode consciousness in all circumstances, in their sleep and dreams. If humanity could sustain beta waves in every situation, every human would realize how truly wondrous reality is. But beta mode requires too much energy, and it disrupts the rest and recuperation of sleep. Humanity would go insane if it had beta consciousness the whole time. It would never be able take a break from itself. “Evolution has seen the need to simplify and reduce our mental powers. Aldous Huxley said, ‘To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet.’” “I tell you,” Zarathustra said, “evolution has made us what we are – feeble and pathetic, really. Evolution went for simplicity. Can you imagine the contest between violent, focused, primitive humans that thought too little, and distracted, unfocused humans that thought too much? The latter were

wiped out by natural selection … the savages slaughtered them. Evolution hasn’t yet provided the scope to allow our minds to explore their full potential. The task has proved too complicated and expensive thus far. The simple-minded masses kill off or isolate the rare humans who could lead us to a more evolved future. Everyone like me is forced to become a hermit and hide out. Some of us live in caves, others in forests, others on the tops of mountains. ‘6000 feet beyond man and time,’ as Nietzsche said. “Imagine that hundreds of thousands of years ago there were humans that could routinely engage in lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences. They would be constantly distracted, not fully present to the moment. Simple, brutal humans – with totally degraded and focused consciousness – would make mincemeat of them, and kill them off. Only now do we have a civilization that can afford powerful minds.” “Is there a higher frequency mode than beta?” the girl asked, as a yapping dog ran past her. “Yes,” Zarathustra said. “Beta waves, at their maximum, deal with discursive reasoning, which means step-by-step reasoning. Above beta waves are gamma waves. When you enter gamma mode, you have epiphanies, eureka moments. You are seized by incredible flashes of intuition that give you the big picture all at once. No steps are involved. Everything is presented whole and entire. This is the mode where you truly feel like God. People associate the gamma state with enlightenment, with gnosis, where some people say that all conscious perceptions are united in one grand view of all of reality. A feeling of ecstasy, bliss, contentment or universal love is often encountered. The mind is fully alert, awake, expanded. Everything is operating at maximum. All brain capacity is used at once. Nothing is left out. All systems are go. “No one can sustain this state. It goes as quickly as it comes. If you could remain in this state, you really would be a god.” Zarathustra smiled and suddenly the village and all of its inhabitants vanished. He woke up. His lucid dream was over for tonight. If he really did attempt to venture down into the real village at the foot of his mountain, he knew the people would kill him. They despised the mountain hermits. They always had.

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the perspective of the body, you live in a vast external world of space, F rom time and matter. From the perspective of the mind, you live in an immaterial Singularity, outside space and time. All of the information of the spacetime universe is mathematically encoded inside the Singularity. The spacetime world is just a perspective, a representation, a projection of mental information, a hologram. That’s why an out-of-body experience can reveal the entire universe to you. The universe is a mental construct, and your mind can explore any part of the construct, without reference to any limited, restricted body fixed in a particular portion of space and time. Reality is a giant wave interference pattern where the whole is present in every part, so you always have access to the whole, if you can achieve the right perspective.

Come and See you understand the connection between lucid dreaming and out-ofD obody experiences? What constitutes the ultimate empirical evidence that materialism is false? It’s when you have an out-of-body experience and are able to see what’s going on anywhere in the room where your body is lying fast asleep. But you can do much more than that, of course. You can travel anywhere in the world, anywhere in the galaxy, anywhere in the universe. You can go into black holes, entirely unscathed. After all, you have no body that can suffer any damage. Moreover, you can pop out of the black hole anywhere you like. The black hole singularity is part of the Singularity that interconnects the whole of spacetime and serves as the ultimate “wormhole.” Isn’t it time to not only learn the secrets of the universe, but actually experience them too? Aren’t you tired of human limitations? It’s time to transform yourself into an incorporeal angel. Angels naturally exist in the OBE state.

Natural OBEs ow do out-of-body experiences occur naturally? Some people are born with

fewer barriers between the waking and dreaming states. A person who H far talks in their sleep, who sleepwalks, who has incredibly vivid dreams, who remembers most of their dreams, who suffers from extreme insomnia, or narcolepsy, or sleep terrors, and so on across a wide spectrum of sleep disorders, is much more predisposed to lucid dreaming and then out-ofbody experiences, than anyone who enjoys tranquil, undisturbed sleep. It’s almost impossible for a “happy” sleeper to have an out-of-body experience in normal circumstances. They would need to take drugs, apply technology, impose extreme states of fasting or meditation on themselves, or something similar, to put themselves in a sufficiently abnormal state to have an out-of-body experience.

Authority n a critical encounter between Freud and Jung, Freud said, “I cannot risk my authority.” Jung later said, “At that moment, he lost all of his authority.” The close relationship of the two great psychologists collapsed. In trying to preserve his authority, Freud made it impossible to retain it. His weakness was patent to Jung.

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Ego and Self he Jungian Self, to the extent that it can be physically located, is in the right hemisphere of the brain. The Jungian Ego is in the left hemisphere. Why? Because the Ego is associated with language. Language runs constantly in our head, producing a continuous narrative in our waking mind. That is simply what the ego is – that continuous language-mediated story. The persona, the mask we don in public, is the censored Ego, the Ego that is forced to say what is socially acceptable rather than what it is really thinking. Without language, there is no Ego. Animals have no Ego. Nor do some humans – such as severe autistics – who have no language capacity. The Ego uses language. The Self, by contrast, is wordless. The Self understands reality numerically, not verbally. It is mathematics that allows us

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to bridge the gap between ego and Self … numerical language rather than verbal language. New Agers and many followers of Eastern religion believe that language is what stops us from getting in touch with core reality. In fact, language – mathematical language – is core reality. You can’t escape from language. The real task is to migrate from fallacious manmade language to nature’s own language of mathematics, not to abandon language entirely. A language universe is an ordered universe, a Cosmos. A non-language universe is a Chaos. Such a universe is impossible since no part of it would be able to communicate with any other part. A Chaos would be infinitely unstable and self-destruct instantly.

ZARATHUSTRA arathustra said, “Friends, here is the highest wisdom. You must go into yourself, into your inner world, in order to come out into the outer world, as a mind, freed of bodily limitations. “The physical universe is just a mental hologram being projected within a Collective Mind. With a finite body and its limited physical senses, you can see only a tiny portion of the universe. Freed of this physical reducing valve, you can see the entire universe. You have become Mind at Large. As William Blake said, ‘If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.’ The mind freed of the body has Total Perception. “By definition, you cannot have an out-of-body experience within a body. So, how do you escape from your body? Only by utilizing the incredible potentialities and capacities of your mind. “Your normal conscious mind is so tied to your body that it practically identifies with your body. To liberate the power of your mind, you need to overcome this identification. You first of all need to descend into the amazing world of your personal unconscious (katabasis – go down) where only your own capacity for creation limits what you can do. You then drop into the collective unconscious where you can encounter the whole universe, but from the mind’s perspective, not that of the body. In some sense, you have gone full circle and gone up (anabasis). “The mind, unlike the body, is free to travel wherever it likes. It can fly – since it does not experience gravity. It can travel at light speed. It never tires. Its range is unlimited. It requires no oxygen, no food, no water, no fuel. “Do you understand, friends? The universe has a backdoor – your own mind!!! Via this backdoor – this mental portal to the physical universe, a Mind Gate – you can access the physical universe via mind, not body. That’s what an out-of-body experience is. “The science of the out-of-body experience is in its infancy because science denies the reality of such an experience and dismisses it as mere illusion and delusion, as nothing but an invention of a troubled mind, or a

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mind in some peculiar state of distress, or reflecting abnormal chemistry. These people will never get it. “When you master out-of-body experiences, your power is more or less unlimited. You are, in effect, a god. You can go anywhere, visit anyone and anywhere you like, discover any secret information hidden anywhere. “In the movie Inception, dream hackers crack the secrets of subjects by manipulating their dreams. In an out-of-body experience, you can see inside any safe, you can enter any locked room, you can engage with any other mind via its most secret telepathic passageways. “But, my friends, do not delude yourself that this divine gift, to which we all have access, comes without cost. The danger of psychosis is high. Regular practitioners of out-of-body experiences can easily lose touch with reality, or become bored and uninterested in physical reality. “I teach you this, my brothers and sisters – you must first practice lucid dreaming before moving on to OBEs. Lucid dreaming brings you before the gates of heaven. However, be much more cautious about out-of-body experiences. The experts say it should be practiced only a few times a year. They have the drugs that make it possible to engineer OBEs almost at will. But they strictly ration these drugs, and they give them only to the most stable and robust oneironauts. These drugs are the most precious on earth, the drugs that allow humans to be gods. No high is greater … but such highs are also the most addictive and thus the most destructive. This is no game. “Oneironauts that go too far undergo Jungian inflation and acquire an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Where a true god should be humble and altruistic, a false god – a devil – is arrogant and selfish. That fate must be avoided at all costs. “Who were the Fallen Angels? They were the Biblical Watchers. They were human but had a genetic mutation that allowed them to have OBEs at will. Using their out-of-body expertise, they could watch over the human race and see everything that was going on. They became intoxicated by their power and turned wicked. However, it was in fact the extraordinary powers, talents and capabilities they manifested that made the masses become hyper religious and certain of the existence of gods. “In bicameral times, ordinary humans were much more capable of lucid dreaming and OBEs than the people of today. What has happened is that left brain discursive reasoning – beta mode consciousness – has altered the frequency patterns of the brain and bound us much more closely to the

physical world than the mental. Our physical senses have become much sharper, entrenching us in physicalism. The physical, thanks to our senses, seems incredibly real. “Bicameral humans were mostly alpha-mode beings, with only a primitive beta-mode (left-hemisphere consciousness). They had a gammamode numinous god in their right hemisphere, a master of intuitive flashes, whom they obeyed without question. The boundary between the physical world and the personal dream world was highly permeable, and everyone was highly suggestible. “Bicameral humans experienced reality entirely different from us. They did so in a far more religious and spiritual way. “It’s clear that the ‘ba’ and ‘ka’ soul components of ancient Egyptian religion were not abstract concepts but concrete entities of which the Egyptians all had direct experience. The ba was the entity that underwent outof-body experiences, hence could travel to the afterlife after death. The ka was an astral body, a residual image – a double of the physical body (kha) – that stayed in the vicinity of its physical doppelganger. It could be liberated only by entering into union with the ba to form the akh, an immortal being. “No one invented the idea of the soul. In ancient times, the soul was once a completely natural part of everyone’s life. There were no atheists, no materialists, no skeptics, no nihilists. “Why did things change? The ancient Greeks were the first to achieve well-developed beta waves. The Greek philosophers were the first truly conscious individuals. The Greek Atomists and Skeptics were the first atheists, the first to lose the ability to relate to the soul, the first to become locked into sensory mode and physicalism. They were probably the first humans to appear on the autistic spectrum. “Science finds the whole idea of the soul absurd. It even reduces the mind – the very thing by which all scientists think – to some emergent property of aggregates of mindless things. “What kind of diseased mind is eager to deny its own reality, in order to promote the reality of some mindless, lifeless thing – matter? There is nothing stranger than that materialists deny primary reality (mental reality) in favor of secondary reality (what mind perceives). Without mind, nothing would be perceived, and no scientist would know anything at all about ‘matter’.”

Suggestibility humanity was highly suggestible. It operated as a mass rather B icameral than as a group of individuals. Bicameral humans were like Jews at the Wailing Wall, Catholics at St Peter’s Square, Muslims at Mecca, Republicans at a Trump rally, or Nazis at Nuremberg. In bicameral times, there were no anarchists, libertarians or extreme individualists. People were highly conformist. A highly suggestible person accepts as real whatever is suggested to him in the moment. Such a person is highly prone to false memories, suggested by his own Ego trying to defend its self-image. He always allows personal, subjective content and wishful thinking to leak into public, objective content. Mass suggestibility isn’t alien to today’s humanity. Look at how many other-directed people there are. Look at how many conform to fashion, fads, trends, whatever’s popular. They have no time for the difficult and unpopular. Things go viral because people are conformist, not because people are anti-conformist. Conspiracy theories succeed because they are spread by manipulative, dominant, fanatical individuals who are highly persuasive to submissive, suggestible individuals. Religions are based on conformism and suggestibility. So are political ideologies, so are philosophies. So is science. The rise of beta waves changed humanity from highly suggestible to a lower degree of suggestibility. People became that bit more individualistic. Individualistic religions, political ideologies and philosophies sprang up. The “collective” became demonized in some circumstances. Nevertheless, multitudes of humanity remain more or less bicameral and suggestible. All religious believers are of this kind.

Brain Waves: How to Change Your World rain waves – brain frequencies – are the basis of our physical reality.

Sinusoidal waves rules mental reality while brain B (wavefunctions made from sinusoids) rule our physical reality.

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To change our reality, all we need to do is change our brain-wave patterns. Easier said than done, of course. Drugs are the easiest way to change brain-wave states. A hypnotist can be highly effective too, as can immersion in a crowd (a mob), as can technology, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation – a technique which applies magnetic pulses to the brain. The frequency of pulse delivery influences whether brain activity is increased or decreased. Stimulation of the left side of the brain can have opposite effects on mood regulation compared with stimulation of the right side of the brain.

HYPNOSIS ow does hypnosis work? The hypnotist sends the subject from beta mode into alpha mode. This means that the subject is no longer able to exercise his own will, his own agency. He is now suggestible. He can be commanded. His alpha-mode passive mind is receptive to commands, unlike his beta-mode active mind, which itself likes to command. When a mind drops out of beta waves into alpha waves, it becomes easy to manipulate. Many people barely reach an effective beta mode. They are essentially in alpha mode all the time, hence are easy to exploit. They are highly suggestible. Julian Jaynes’s bicameral humans were of this kind. The kind of people that show up at Donald Trump’s rallies are clearly not beta-mode individuals. They constantly exhibit Mass Mind behavior. While proclaiming themselves great individuals, they show no individuality at all. All are wearing the Trump uniform of red MAGA hat and red T-shirt. Colin Wilson wrote, “Pierre Janet recognized that an illness like schizophrenia is a scattering of attention, a loss of concentration; we express it precisely when we say that someone is ‘not all there’. All where? All there, where the mind should be focused. Focusing, concentration, is a mental act, and it is a function of the will just as breathing is a function of the lungs or digestion of the stomach. The definition of a healthy person is a person who is focusing and concentrating with a sense of vital purpose.” Beta mode is all about focus. Alpha mode is where focus is lost. The person has relaxed too much to exert focus. If you notice yourself daydreaming or partially nodding off, you will realize that you have little or no focus in this state. A hypnotist can externally supply focus for someone via hypnotic commands. Someone with intrinsic lack of focus, or who acquired a mental illness that degraded their capacity to focus, might start hallucinating internal voices and succumb to schizophrenia, or even multiple personality syndrome. These are diseases of the will, of focus. An unfocused mind is a mad mind.

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Under hypnosis, a person told that he will be paralyzed when he wakes up, is indeed paralyzed. Under hypnosis, a person told that his finger has been touched by a red-hot iron, wakes up with a terrible blister on his finger. What does this tell us? The suggestion of the affliction – rather than the actual affliction – causes real physical consequences. This is impossible in a material world, but not in a mental world. Mind can do anything it likes, if it puts its mind to it. If mind can create the effects of a disease or affliction that does not physically exist, it can also create the cure for a disease that does exist.

Active Imagination f, in lucid dreaming, we can have beta consciousness in a theta dream state, then symmetry demands that we can have a theta dream state in beta consciousness. Colin Wilson wrote, “Jung made what might be regarded as his most important discovery: that he could, in fact, ‘dream’ while awake, create an inner world of imagination with such vividness that it became a reality. He called it ‘active imagination’.” Jung wrote, “Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking. ... The method of ‘active imagination’ … is the most important auxiliary for the production of those contents of the unconscious which lie, as it were, immediately below the threshold of consciousness, and, when intensified, are the most likely to irrupt spontaneously into the conscious mind.” Jung developed techniques to enhance his reveries. He wrote, “In order to seize hold of these fantasies, I frequently imagined a steep descent. I even

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made several attempts to get to very bottom. The first time I reached, as it were, a depth of about a thousand feet; the next time I found myself at the edge of a cosmic abyss. It was like a voyage to the moon, or a descent into empty space. First came the image of a Crater, and I had the feeling I was in the land of the dead. The atmosphere was that of the other world.” Jung could turn his dream characters into personalities that he accepted as having reality in themselves. In Jung’s mind, the archetypal figure of the wise old man condensed into a sage he encountered “for real”, whom he called Philemon. Jung wrote, “Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life. Philemon represented a force which was not myself. In my fantasies I held conversations with him, and he said things which I had not consciously thought. For I observed clearly that it was he who spoke, not I. He said I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air, and added, ‘If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.’ “It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. Through him the distinction was clarified between myself and the object of my thought. He confronted me in an objective manner, and I understood that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend, things which may even be directed against me. … Philemon represented superior insight. At times he seemed to me quite real, as if he were a living person personality. I went walking up and down the garden with him, and to me he was what the Indians call a guru.” Did Mohammed conjure the Angel Gabriel, as Jung conjured Philemon? Did Moses conjure Jehovah in like manner? Did Jesus conjure a higher being and then identify with that higher being?

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If the lucid conscious can make the unconscious do stuff in the dream world, the “lucid” (active) unconscious can make the physical body do stuff in the physical world, without the person having the slightest degree of conscious awareness. When you come across any phenomenon at all, you can be more or less certain that it has a mirror image because there is no sufficient reason for something to exist, but not its reflection. Symmetry always applies. Sleepwalking may be regarded as the unconscious mind having an inbody-experience, as opposed to the conscious mind having an out-of-body experience. The unconscious is much more attuned to the mental Singularity. The conscious mind is much more attuned to the spacetime world of matter.

Lucid Dreaming experience is to the collective dream what lucid dreaming A nis out-of-body to the individual dream. You are conscious in your environment and unencumbered by a physical body. You have complete mental freedom.

THE SEMINAL DREAM MOVIE nception is a wonderful movie of ideas. It’s the ultimate take on lucid dreaming. The lucid dreamers are so skillful that they can steal (extract) secrets from others in shared dreams, or implant (via inception) seminal ideas in others. Inception is all about shared dreaming, facilitated by a specific device: The Portable Automated Somnacin IntraVenous (PASIV) device. This technology administers the drug Somnacin to those taking part. This remarkable (fictional) drug initiates dream sharing and lucid dreaming. A central button – the Infusion Trigger – activates all intravenous lines at once. Configurable control settings allow for the adjustment of the Somnacin level to achieve specific effects, such as multi-level dreaming. Somnacin is the legal brand drug used for shared dreaming. The “underground” use illegal versions of the drug. They seek to enhance Somnacin to make dreams deeper, more stable, longer lasting. In Inception, four roles are defined with regard to the shared dream:

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Architect: The Architect is the designer of the shared dream space. The Architect resembles a video game designer, but he constructs the dream space with his mind rather than with computer code. Architects can build different levels of dream, to allow deeper interaction with the target of the shared dream. Dreamer: The Dreamer creates and maintains the shared dream space. The Dreamer is usually the Architect, although this is not essential. The Dreamer brings a subject (target) into the pre-prepared dream space, designed by the Architect. In a shared dream, it’s essential for one person to take on the role of the Dreamer. There can only be one Dreamer. Multiple Dreamers would destroy the coherence of the dream by causing different architectures to clash head on. A Dreamer’s basic needs, such as the need to urinate, will unconsciously affect the dream. The Dreamer’s fundamental role is to provide the tailored space that the subject of the dream can then populate with his subconscious content, which is achieved in the form of the subject’s

mental projections. If the subject’s subconscious suspects it’s in a dream controlled by someone else, its projections will seek out and kill the Dreamer and any other foreign presences they detect. Subject: The Subject populates the dream space with projections of his subconscious. The Subject is the focus of the shared dream. The subject subconsciously fills in details of the dream that would be impossible for the Dreamer to construct. Indeed, the whole point of a shared dream (as arranged for espionage purposes), is to get the Subject to provide the means to others to manipulate his subconscious. The method of Extraction relies on the Subject’s mind trying to hide secrets within the dream space, which the Extractors can then discover and steal. Other Sleepers: Other Sleepers are lucid dreamers, present in the shared dream to manipulate the Subject and either extract secrets from them, or implant ideas in them (inception). Other sleepers can affect the dream events by their actions, but they cannot alter the fundamental structure of the dream. In some cases, they can drag their own subconscious projections into the shared dream. In Inception, Cobb, the protagonist, often projects his wife “Mal” into the dream, either as herself, as an agent determined to thwart him, or in symbolic form such as a freight train that crashes through the dream space, creating havoc. A sleeper’s dream body within a dream is a projection of their mind and is their avatar in the dream via which they carry out their actions. ✽

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In an individual dream, as opposed to a shared dream, the personal unconscious serves as the Dream Architect, the Dreamer and the Subject, and it generates all of the projections. It probes its own secrets! The passive consciousness is “another Sleeper” in the dream, but it has no clue what is going on and is often getting “attacked” by the dream, as if it were an unwelcome foreign presence. If the conscious can switch to active mode then it becomes a lucid dreamer and that means it can direct the personal unconscious to change the dream architecture and events of the dream. In the collective dream of all monads, the Collective Mind serves as both the Dream Architect and the Dreamer, and it generates projections, which are all the things of the world, including all avatars (bodies). The subjects of this particular shared dream are the active consciousnesses of all of us, and also

the unconscious minds of all animals, and also plants. All conscious minds are all trying to extract each other’s secrets, or initiate inception. We can all change the dream architecture via our own individual actions and behavior. The more conscious we are, the more change we can effect. Unconscious animals can bring about much less change than conscious humans, and plants even less.

Somnacin magine if we could give Somnacin, the drug that enables shared dreaming, to everyone in the world and have everyone involved in a single, public, lucid dream. In fact, we don’t need to. The “real” world is none other than the collective dream, the shared dream. The real world is the public objective dream, not the private subjective dream. It is objective because all of us are participants in it. No mind is left out. The trouble is that we have not achieved “lucidity”. Why not? For the simple reason that humanity has not understood that it is actually in a collective dream. It still hasn’t understood that this is a mental reality, not a physical reality. Everything will change when humans grasp that the mind, not matter, makes everything; that ontological mathematics is right and science wrong. The sole reason why science seems to work is that it uses mathematics. Without mathematics it would be useless. When we dreamers in the shared dream become lucid, we can then all cooperate to change the architecture of this dream and make it a paradise for all of us. What is “heaven”? It is the world that collective lucid dreamers create once they realize that reality is just one vast mental construct, a dream.

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is dreaming together, but not one where no one is dreaming at C everyone all. Dreams don’t dream themselves. Empiricists, since they can’t see any dreamer but only the dreamworld content, are the sorts of people who bizarrely imagine that dreams are self-dreaming. In similar fashion, materialists believe that matter is self-making and requires no Designer, no Builder, no author, no Mind. The empiricists and materialists are equally deluded. This is a mathematical reality of mind and reason, not a scientific reality of matter and unreason.

One Step Removed n routine dreams, the best our normal consciousness can do is recall it, usually feebly. We do not live the dream with our normal consciousness as we live waking reality with our normal consciousness. The dream is in a sense done to us. We have precious little will and agency in our dreams. We are always reactive and never proactive. Only a lucid dreamer is proactive. In waking reality, we are proactive. In dreams, we are reactive. In waking reality, we live. In dreams, we are lived, so to speak. It is our unconscious mind that is living and acting in normal dreams. In waking reality, we are participants. In dreams, we are more like observers. We observe experiences and events being done to us by the unconscious mind.

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Lucid Dreaming is lucid dreaming? It’s about waking up inside a dream and then W hat remaining inside that dream. It’s about carefully preventing oneself from waking up into everyday reality. To wake up inside the dream permits regular consciousness to take control of the dream and direct it. Consciousness becomes the active driver of the dream rather than its passive passenger. If humanity woke up inside the collective dream, it could then direct that

portion of the dream concerned with humanity and the earth.

The Goal he supreme goal is to have a lucid dream in waking reality, not merely in private dreams. The gods are those that know that “material” reality is itself a dream, a construct of mind, hence something that can be adjusted by mind. We are not prisoners of matter. We are the makers of matter, the architects of matter, the controllers of matter.

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LIMBO n Inception, Limbo is defined as “unconstructed dream space … raw, infinite subconscious.” The character Arthur says, “Nothing is down there. Except for whatever that might have been left behind by whoever’s sharing the dream who was trapped down there before.” Limbo is like an unbuilt video game – where there is infinite potential to build any kind of game, any game world. Limbo is the dream world beneath all constructed dreams. So, when you fall out of the last level of constructed dream, the only place where you can end up is Limbo, where you may be trapped forever, unless you can wake up. Time down there passes much more slowly down. Minutes in the real world could equate to months or years in Limbo. According to the theory presented by Inception, Limbo exists as a space that is not dreamt by any one individual. It’s a shared space where any mind can make alterations of any kind, without limits or obstacles. Three stable levels of dreams can be constructed and beneath them is Limbo. You enter Limbo by going to sleep, or “dying”, in Level 3. You can’t dream a constructed dream in that level (3), so when you drop down from there, you necessarily enter unconstructed dreamspace. If you die in Level 3, you will enter Limbo but now you are likely to become lost in Limbo and take it for true reality, as Inception illustrates in the case of the character Saito. Unfortunately, there are numerous logical difficulties with the concept of Limbo in Inception. It’s talked of as unconstructed dream space, but that’s true of any dream as it begins. Prior to a dream, there is nothing there. Everything is unconstructed, everything has to be made from scratch as the dream unfolds, and it is the unconscious that is going to build everything in order for the conscious mind to experience it. So, “Limbo” is really just the state prior to the beginning of any dream. In Inception, Limbo takes on the appearance of an endless ocean. That’s a suitable image. Or maybe nothing at all would suffice, or an empty white room.

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Limbo in Inception is talked about as a place with no limits, a dimension that can allow a dreamer to manifest their deepest desires. But, again, that’s true of any dream. No one stops any dream from expressing the dreamer’s deepest desires. In fact, it’s a curious feature of Inception that the Subject’s projections that are inserted into the dreamworld are so dull, and so conditioned by the dreamworld. Why aren’t they rapidly mutating as they do in normal dreams? Why don’t all the dreamers switch between first and third person viewpoints? Why don’t they caught in hyper-loops where they become totally preoccupied with a particular emotion, or fixated on a particular person or situation, as happens in normal dreams? Why is there so little sex and kink, so little anxiety and mania? The dreamworld of Inception is so unlike a normal dreamworld that no one in it would ever be fooled. It would be experienced more as a shared virtual reality game than a shared dream. In Inception, we are told that Cobb and his wife Mal performed experiments to see how deep they could travel within their minds. Eventually, they manually dreamt themselves into Limbo, where they were able to create a perfect environment together and “feel like gods”. But what would stop them from doing exactly the same thing in a Level One dream of their own mutual construction and design? Why did they have to go to Limbo? Any dreamworld provides what Limbo provided: a blank canvas, an empty slate. Every time we dream, we start off with no dream content, and then the unconscious mind generates the content on the hoof. Inception talks about Cobb and Mal unwittingly trapping themselves in a world where they lose their awareness that the world they have created is not reality. But that’s the case in any dream where you have failed to achieve lucidity. Inception talks about Limbo having nothing in it except whatever was left behind by whoever was sharing the dream and been trapped down there before. Cobb and Mal previously built an enormous and elaborate city there, which had fallen into ruin and decay since their departure. But why would it decay? By what force? After all, it’s not in physical space and time. There are bigger problems than that. Why would cities in Limbo go on existing at all? No subjective dream survives the simple act of waking up. No one can go back and visit a dreamworld they made years before. Inception makes it seem like Limbo is something that a dreamer carries around in their mind forever, and moreover is available for others to access if

they share a dream with someone who had previously been there. In the normal logic of Inception, a Dreamer produces a dreamspace, which is shared by all those participating in the shared dream. Yet, in the movie, the dreamers end up accessing a dreamspace (Limbo) designed by people other than the Dreamer, namely Cobb and Mal. In fact, all the sharers of the dreamspace have their own Limbo, which is blank for all of them (since they have never been there), except Cobb. So, why don’t their blank Limbos count for more than Cobb’s populated Limbo? Why don’t they take priority since there are more of them? The logic of shared dreaming in Inception is that the participants are all inside a collective mental space established by the Dreamer who establishes the dream design. But Limbo then takes them out of that and places them in a dream designed years earlier by someone who is not the Dreamer. They have accessed a completely different mental space, independent of the dream architecture and actually dredged up from one participant’s mind, but not accessing the corresponding feature in the minds of the other participants. This makes no sense. The most logical person to supply Limbo is of course the Dreamer himself, the person who designed the rest of the dream, with its three levels. His mind, as the controlling mind, should be one that furnishes Limbo. But, of course, that would be no good for the plot of the movie. Many movies, for the sake of the plot, have to sacrifice the core logic of the scenario. The trick is to pull it off as unobtrusively as possible. Inception does it well. You need to think hard about it to see the fundamental problems.

Real Dreams nception provides a fascinating exploration of the theory and practice of shared dreaming, but it has almost no connection to reality. Each of us dreams via our personal unconscious, and we can create dreams within dreams. We don’t fall into Limbo when we leave the dreamspace of the personal unconscious. Rather, we fall into the collective dreamspace of the Collective Unconscious. The Collective Dreamspace is none other than the real world, the objective world! The critical consideration to bear in mind is that the real world can be presented from two different perspectives: 1) from physical bodies inside the material world of space and time, and 2) from immaterial minds outside the material world of space and time. Both are accessing exactly the same world and information, but from opposite perspectives. One is from inside spacetime and the other is from outside spacetime; one is the inside view and the other the outside view; one is the local view and the other the non-local view. An OBE is possible, of course, only from the latter perspective. You are no longer seeing the world from a local, fixed position (fixed, that is, by your fixed physical body) but from a perspective not limited by physicality. In an OBE, people typically explore the geographical area they are familiar with. If they wished, they could go to other planets, other stars, other galaxies, and to even more exotic destinations of the mind, but that rarely occurs to them. Most people in an OBE are highly provincial and parochial. It has to be stressed that in OBE you are not moving through space and time. You are not in space and time at all. You are in the mental Singularity. What you are doing is processing spacetime information from a Singularity perspective and converting it in your mind into what your mind is familiar with – the spacetime experience normally provided via your body.

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The Collective Architect Inception, one person – the Architect – designs the dreamworld. In I nreality, the true Architect is the Collective Unconscious and it designs the real, objective world that we all live in. In Inception, one person is the subject of the shared dream. In reality, we are all the subjects of the shared dream. We are all linked to the Collective Unconscious, with its archetypal instincts. In this real world, we all have active consciousness. We are lucid dreamers in this world (up to a point). We are having a lucid experience. But we are not lucid enough. In particular, we are not lucid enough to know that this lucid experience is itself still essentially a dream. We don’t realize that we can collectively alter this dream, just as a private lucid dreamer can privately alter their private dream. Only then, when we have reached that realization, will we have become truly lucid. In private dreaming, the personal unconscious is the dream architect. In a private dream, the conscious mind, in passive mode, is the pseudo-subject (the real subject is the unconscious itself). In lucid dreaming, the conscious mind becomes active and can use the personal unconscious to serve as its personal architect, designing for it rather than allowing it to do its own thing. The same considerations apply to collective lucidity. We are far from that point, and science (materialism) and religion (faith and mysticism) are the central obstacles.

The Collective Unconscious is entirely contained within a single point – the Singularity. This R eality Singularity is an immaterial Hive Mind, outside space and time. Space and time are simply mathematical perspectives that can be achieved within this Singularity, and they constitute “material” reality, based on physical bodies. Their task is to create the local, as opposed to the non-local. Information is locally available to physical bodies, via physical sense organs. The same information, and much more besides – global information, not local information – is available to the mind freed of the body (the nonlocal mind).

So, to be clear, all of the information in the Singularity is purely mental information, but it can be divided up into space and time information, thus providing a “physical” spacetime perspective and framework. The mind, as a mathematical processor, can easily view the information coming to it in these terms. It can do exactly what the body does, but on a much grander scale. The trouble is that this non-local, mental perspective fails to provide the individuation that minds crave. It is spacetime that provides us with a local, individuated presence where we can learn about ourselves and others in a manageable, limited, “reducing valve” way. Dunbar’s number is relevant. Wikipedia says, “Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships – relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. This number was first proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships. Dunbar explained it informally as ‘the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you happened to bump into them in a bar’.” The mind, the Mind-at-Large, has simply vast potential, beyond the imagining. A reducing valve, a filter, needs to be applied to allow the mind to manageably build up its knowledge from nothing to that of divinity. Spacetime and physicality is exactly what allows the mind to find itself, to evolve, in a controlled way where we don’t get overwhelmed by information (which would lead to analysis paralysis, information anxiety, and information overload).

No Body f you can have an authentic out-of-body experience, it proves definitively (for the empirically minded) that materialism is false. It also proves definitively that you will have an afterlife. You would imagine, given their awesome significance, that OBEs would be the most studied phenomenon on earth. In fact, they are barely studied at all, and science’s sole interest is in debunking them and writing them off as

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LANGUAGE n dreams, language abilities are enormously degraded. No one ever finds themselves carefully penning a book in a dream. No one finds themselves in lengthy philosophical discussions. No one conducts careful scientific experiments and undertakes precise mathematical proofs. Language is the defining tool of consciousness, so any degradation of consciousness, as happens in dreams, entails a degradation of language. Literacy and numeracy are compromised, while feelings and perceptions are luridly magnified. In dreams, our sentience rather than our consciousness is emphasized. We experience the dreamworld in much the same way as animals experience waking reality – in an extremely fuzzy way. Compared with conscious human beings, all animals are the equivalents of sleepwalkers. They are doing things, often quite complex things, without any conscious awareness. Language is intimately related to memory. What is it that we actually remember? We recall a first-person continuous narrative, which is always language-mediated. You could perhaps imagine memory comprising nothing but a succession of recalled images, but that’s not what memory is. Memory involves the recollection of filmic story fragments, with the story revolving the central character, the protagonist – “I” … a construct of language and story. Animals barely remember anything. They have no film or story to recall. They have no “I”. Little humans – toddlers – do quite complex things, including speaking (unlike any animals), but what they are not doing is remembering. None of us can remember much from before we reached the age of five. From that point, school is then the dominant frame for our personal stories. We do not establish a true “I” (true consciousness) until our language skills are good enough. School is primarily responsible for getting us up to speed with reading and writing. Some people, those that never become literate, never become properly conscious. They always have a degraded consciousness because they cannot

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construct sufficiently complex thoughts to sustain a sufficiently complex narrative. If you ever see footage of primitive tribespeople in remote parts of the world, you can immediately see that their consciousness is drastically different from ours. Their existence is much closer to that of animals. One of the least talked-about subjects is the difference in consciousness between different groups of people. Huge chunks of humanity have an incredibly primitive consciousness, which is why they are so prone to mainstream religion, prayer, faith, fanaticism, mob thinking, superstition, mysticism, conspiracy theories … Mythos in general. The rise of consciousness is actually the rise of Logos. Perhaps only ten percent of humans engage meaningfully with Logos. In the advanced world – more associated with Logos – mainstream religion continues to shrink, while it continues to grow apace in the Third World, still ruled by Mythos. Islam is an entire religion devoted to restricting consciousness by preventing clear and critical thinking. It does not want anyone to question the Koran. In Europe, Christianity is more or less dead because the Christian Bible has been so exhaustively deconstructed and debunked that no halfintelligent person could now take one word of it seriously. It’s always the badly educated – i.e. the less conscious – who cling to mainstream religion. Most Muslims and most Bible punchers have little or no education. They are defined by their primitive minds. When you hear them speaking and debating, you realize they are not truly conscious. They are more like parrots than humans, simply mimicking conscious humans, while not actually being conscious themselves. Geniuses are way more conscious than other people. There are precious few geniuses in our world. More’s the pity. Boo hoo, it’s so lonely! When you read a genius like Nietzsche, it’s amazing how much more aware of reality he comes across than virtually all of his contemporaries, and also the social media masses of today. He had thoughts that simply could never occur to them. The ability to conceive ideas that could never be thought by others makes you much more conscious than they are. How did humanity become the masters of the animal world? It was because they could have ideas animals could not. Similarly, people become

geniuses because they have thoughts that others cannot have. The wider the range of thoughts you can have, the more conscious you are. Our books, which cover a simply enormous range, show vastly more consciousness than you ever detect in the dreary books of groupthinking Mandarins, who often display a worryingly restricted consciousness based around materialism (a mind-hating and mind-rejecting ideology). Serious questions have to be asked about the consciousness of materialists and empiricists, i.e. those dominated by their physical senses and who are extremely dubious about the conscious, free will and mental causation, to the point of dismissing them as unreal and illusory. They want to eliminate any reference to mind as having its own reality. Paul M. Churchland wrote, “Eliminative materialism is the thesis that our common-sense conception of psychological phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so fundamentally defective that both the principles and the ontology of that theory will eventually be displaced, rather than smoothly reduced, by completed neuroscience.” In fact, eliminative idealism proves that materialism constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so fundamentally defective that both the principles and the ontology of that theory will be completely displaced by completed ontological mathematics. Mathematics is the keystone of idealism. Mathematics is the antidote to materialism. Mathematics will eliminate materialism by showing that all matter is strictly mathematical – made of mathematical sinusoids, which are ontological basis thoughts.

DREAMS WITHOUT LANGUAGE the dreams of animals like? W hat are What were the dreams of humans like before humans had language? No human would have been able to communicate with any others about their dream experiences. No one could swap notes. How mysterious dreams must have seemed. How much would the human psyche have been shaped by dreams? Dreams would have been interpreted as mysterious journeys to another world, one free of the limitations of this one, one where the dead could reappear, people could fly, animals could speak, where everything and everyone underwent drastic transformations and metamorphoses. Why did shamans become so influential in tribal societies? It was because they were taken as the experts at communicating with the Other World, at discerning the wishes of those that controlled it. The waking world is public. The dream world is private, yet everyone dreams, so everyone wondered if these private dreams all in fact lead to another shared world, but one that we never access all at once as we do the waking world. We all have to go to the Other World one by one, using our own private route. In the waking world, all sorts of things are prohibited. In dreams, everything is possible. The Order of Assassins said, “Nothing is true; everything is permitted.” That could be the motto of dreams, the ultimate expression of the subjective and relative where there is no absolute, objective truth. It could be said that New Ageism and Eastern mysticism, with their common doctrine of “All paths, all truths … everyone has their own path and own truth and no one is allowed to gainsay them” is about asserting that dreams are real and objective, while waking reality is somehow unreal. These people have inverted reality in order to say that everyone is right, that everyone has a part of the truth. In fact, the average human is completely

wrong, has no part of the truth, no inkling of the truth, and lies to himself all the time using artificial, manmade language and concepts, practically designed to lead us astray.

Two Routes here are two routes to lucid dreaming: 1) Developing awareness from within the dream (waking up within the dream; realizing you are dreaming and then controlling the dream); and 2) Consciously entering a dream directly upon going to sleep (i.e. you bring your waking consciousness, relatively intact, straight into your sleep and then your dreams). With 1), you need to paradoxically wake up within the dream without actually waking up (which would of course take you out of the dream). With 2), you need to paradoxically stay awake as you go to sleep. How can we make any sense of these blatant contradictions? The task is to realize that waking has many components and sleeping too has many components. We are rarely fully awake or fully asleep. Some sleeping components tend to be active during waking, which is why we can so easily drift off, or daydream, and why narcolepsy (extreme tendency to fall asleep) is possible. Equally, some waking components remain present in sleep. We wake up very rapidly when our alarm goes off. We must therefore have modules that remain highly attuned to external physical reality even when we are asleep. These components are dimmed by sleep, not switched off. So, we are in a sense still awake during sleep, but at a low level of wakingness. Leibniz wrote, “Therefore, since on awakening after a period of unconsciousness we become conscious of our perceptions, we must, without having been conscious of them, have had perceptions immediately before; for one perception can come in a natural way only from another perception, just as a motion can come in a natural way only from a motion. It is evident from this that if we were to have nothing distinctive, or so to speak prominent, and of a higher flavor in our perceptions, we should be in a continual state of stupor. This is the condition of monads which are wholly bare.” The trick to lucid dreaming, whether achieved by route 1) or 2), is to boost certain waking components during sleep, but without crossing any threshold that will actually wake us up. We are trying to achieve maximum

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wakingness within sleep, i.e. maximum wakingness compatible with sleep. With route 1), we need to trigger these components from within the dream. With route 2), we need to turn these components down enough for us to fall asleep, but not so much that we lose awareness. What’s for sure, however, is that our consciousness will necessarily be at a lower level than waking consciousness. That is unavoidable.

The New Churches dreaming and OBEs allow you to angelize yourself. You lose your L ucid body, but retain your mind, and thus you have transformed into an angel. Imagine every Catholic church replaced by an Angel church where everyone goes to explore their hidden angelic nature. Everyone in an Angel church is taught ontological mathematics so that they can understand the true nature of reality. Then they are given talks by experts in lucid dreaming, OBEs, hypnosis, brain waves, the hemispheric brain, bicameralism, oneirogens (dream drugs), and so on. All sorts of technology is at hand to facilitate lucid dream and OBEs. Wouldn’t you much rather go to churches like that? Well, let’s make it happen! Let’s have an Oneiric Religion – a dream religion – devoted to oneirology, the study of dreams. Dreams are the antidote to materialism. In what possible way do dreams make any sense in a materialist world? What theory of lifeless, mindless, purposeless could ever have resulted in any prediction that human beings would dream? It’s impossible to bridge the gap between matter and dreams.

REALITY umans are not in the habit of questioning “reality”. When you are awake, you do not question waking reality, and when you are dreaming, you do not question dream reality. Lucid dreaming is so hard to achieve because it requires you to challenge the reality you are experiencing, and that’s just not what humans do. Reality is always taken for granted. The last people to question reality are scientists. They go out of their way to say that what they observe is reality (“to be is to be perceived”). Once you have adopted that definition, there’s no way out. In fact, true reality is exactly what we don’t observe. True reality is mental. It’s about thought. We can’t see mind and we can’t see thoughts. The observability criterion is why scientists fall victim to the delusion that “matter” is reality. Crucially, they can see it (or at least imagine they can, because they are totally clueless about what matter actually is). However, true reality is about conception, not perception. It’s about thinking, not observing. It’s about reason and logic, not the fallible and limited human sense organs. Are you capable of looking around at this waking world in which you are immersed and asking, “Is this a dream?” That’s exactly what it is. It’s a collective dream, and you are one of the collective dreamers. You are a node of the dream. You need to be amongst the greatest of clear and critical thinkers to wake up from this dream, from the collective rather than the personal dream. Hardly anyone can achieve it. Dreaming, as all we all know, is associated with foggy logic and poor reasoning ability. We are easily deceived in our dreams, and Descartes extended this to waking reality too. Wikipedia says, “Descartes imagines that an evil demon, of ‘utmost power and cunning has employed all his energies in order to deceive me.’ This evil demon is imagined to present a complete illusion of an external world, so that Descartes can say, ‘I shall think that the sky, the air, the earth, colors, shapes, sounds and all external things are merely the delusions of dreams which he has devised to ensnare my judgement. I shall consider myself as not having hands or eyes, or flesh, or

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blood or senses, but as falsely believing that I have all these things.’” The Matrix is about this exact scenario. When you slavishly believe the testimony of your limited, fallible senses, you’re in real trouble. It was centuries ago that Descartes pointed out that our senses are easily deceived and cannot show us true reality. Only the certainty of reason and logic can reveal the truth. Science promptly rejected Descartes and staked everything on sensory observation, on empiricism. What is the central task of lucid dreaming? It’s to raise the capacity of dream consciousness for critical thinking so that it can work out that it’s in a dream and then set about controlling the dream. Exactly the same is true in relation to waking reality. You must become a vastly superior critical thinker if you want to wake up from this collective dream and reach true reality – the non-dream … ultimate existence. To escape from a dream, or to control a dream, you must first realize that you are dreaming. Only critical thinking permits you to do this. Perception, by contrast, is exactly what entrenches you in the dream. When you say that observation shows you reality then you can never escape from dreams since that’s what dreams do, i.e. give you things to observe, which you then believe are reality. In The Matrix, if sensory empiricism was all that Neo and the others cared about, they would never have escaped from the computer simulation. They would have accepted it as reality. It was intuition – the antidote to the senses – that made them realize something was badly wrong. Scientists, with their sensory obsession and defective intuition, would never grasp that anything bizarre was going on. Sensory autistics find the regular world of people hard enough to grasp, never mind the notion that this isn’t reality at all, that reality lies beyond the senses and matter. It has been said that lucid dreaming is to routine dreaming what peak experiences are to normal waking reality. In fact, the ultimate peak experiences – transcendent experiences, divine experiences – involve the realization that waking reality is itself just dreaming, namely collective dreaming rather than individual dreaming. Divine lucid dreaming is when you have the same relationship to the waking world as a lucid dreamer does to his dreamworld. You must know you are dreaming to be able to control the dream. Most people have no clue they are dreaming, hence they have no clue

how to control the dream. To become the ultimate lucid dreamers, you must become ultimate experts in the field of consciousness. That means you must grasp that consciousness is about conception, not perception; about language, not “things”. The world is made of language, made of thought, and thus can be changed by thought, by conception. “Matter” itself is just a particular type of thought, projected via the mathematical framing thoughts of “space” and “time”. By conceiving of a different reality, you change reality. Dinosaurs ruled the world for 165 million years and never once changed reality. Humans, in the last few hundred years, have changed every part of earthly reality. That’s what consciousness – language, conceptualization – has accomplished. Imagine what super-consciousness would accomplish. We would truly build a Community of Gods, a Society of the Divine. Yet there are always New Agers like Alan Watts, with their irrational hatred of concepts and ideas, and their love of dwelling mindlessly in the moment as creatures of mere perception, trying to drag us back to the state of the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs have only one function – to become extinct. That goes for New Agers and Eastern mystics too. Their “mindfulness” is the purest mindlessness. It is the great and perverse desire to annihilate consciousness and exist in an eternal now of unthinking perception of nothing at all. It is the most nihilistic vision there has ever been. It is “nirvana” – absolute nothingness, the state of infinite anti-consciousness. If we ever encountered an alien species, it could be superior to us only if it were more conscious than us, meaning that it had a superior culture to us, superior language, superior ability to conceptualize. Its superiority would be nothing to do with its sense organs and perceptions. Animals have vastly superior sense organs to us yet are enormously inferior to us, exactly because they are not conscious. Consciousness is the ultimate game changer. The human race would be totally transformed if it were radically more conscious, which is to say if we had a culture that promoted reason, logic, conceptualization, intelligence, mathematics, science, philosophy, engineering, design, art, creativity, psychology, sociology … Logos in general. As it is, we live in a culture of bread and circuses, divide and rule, junk entertainment and junk food … a dumbed down culture of self-gratification,

self-indulgence, instant-gratification, narcissism, selfies, and Mythos, a culture that hates books, study, analysis, critical thinking, clear thinking … anything at all that’s hard, demanding and difficult. If aliens came to this world, they would no doubt be masters of ontological mathematics. That’s what would furnish them with their supreme advantage.

The Key are entirely convincing to us while we are in them. It is exactly this D reams feature that obstructs lucid dreaming. While you accept the reality of the dream – i.e. you accept that these dream events are really happening to you – you cannot be lucid within the dream. The fundamental requirement of lucid dreaming is to know that you are dreaming. Only then can you manipulate the dream. You basically wake up your consciousness from its passivity and start actively changing the dream. Exactly the same goes for the Monadic Collective. While we all accept the collective dream as reality, we cannot change anything. When we all realize that we are in a collective dream then at long last we all become lucid and can do whatever we like with “reality.” We can make it into paradise for us all. “God” was, so to speak, the first lucid dreamer. To be more accurate, “God” is simply a designation for the Collective Mind when it achieves collective lucidity.

REM PARALYSIS uring REM sleep, the body is paralyzed – except of course for your respiratory muscles. You wouldn’t want to suffocate in your sleep, would you? And, of course, your eyes aren’t paralyzed. They are moving rapidly. But why are they moving? It’s not as if they are open and looking at anything. Yet dreams are highly visual so why wouldn’t they stimulate the visual circuitry of the brain, at the end of which are the eyes? However, dreams can also occur during NREM (non-REM) sleep, where the eyes don’t move. Why the discrepancy? REM sleep is close to the waking state. Brain waves during REM sleep are starting to resemble brain waves during wakefulness. That’s not the case with NREM sleep. Our brain is rehearsing consciousness during REM sleep. It’s the last stage of REM sleep that precedes waking up. The eyes, we might conclude, move during REM sleep because the brain wants to be ready to spring into action. During NREM sleep, the brain is not getting ready to activate. Visual circuitry is not gearing up to see in the waking world.

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How could a dreamer signal to the outside world that he had become lucid in his dream? He has only two possibilities: to signal by changing his breathing pattern in some coded way, or by using his eyes to deliver a deliberate, prearranged signal. Ocular signals can be recorded using an electrooculogram (EOG) machine. Intentional ocular signaling from within dreams has indeed been proven to happen. Lucid dreaming is therefore a real phenomenon. Dream researcher Dr. Keith Hearne wrote, “Suddenly, out of the jumbled senseless tos and fros of the two eye-movement recording channels [linked to the sleeping subject], a regular set of large zigzags appeared on the chart. Instantly, I was alert and felt the greatest exhilaration on realizing that I was observing the first ever deliberate signals sent from within a dream to the

outside. The signals were coming from another world – the world of dreams – and they were as exciting as if they were emanating from some other solar system in space.” Hearne went on to invent a Dream Machine. It was designed to relieve nightmares and also to induce lucid dreaming. In the latter case, it did so by detecting REM sleep via the rapid or irregular breathing this type of sleep generates and then sending regular electrical impulses to a wrist gadget. These were not enough to wake the dreamer, but sufficient to prompt them that this was a dream (because they would realize they were receiving signals from outside the dream). They would then become lucid and able to take control of the dream. A stronger set of impulses would wake them up from the lucid dream. Imagine if in the waking world we suddenly started receiving a mysterious regular pulse across every continent on earth. We would then all realize this is a dream and there is a reality outside – true reality. ✽

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Another thing that isn’t paralyzed during REM sleep is the genital region. Men routinely wake up with erections.

Sleep Masks ight is crucial to the sleep cycle. Lack of light puts us to sleep, while the presence of light wakes us up. If you want to intensify your lucid dreaming, wear a sleep mask. Block out the light. Lucid dreamers report far better recall of dreams when they wear sleep masks. Ear plugs are another accessory used by lucid dreamers. Some lucid dreamers have special crystals to induce lucid dreams. Others use pendants, or homeopathic remedies, or special herbs and drugs, or sound recordings, or calibrated light sequences. When it comes to waking from a lucid dream with maximum recall, many lucid dreamers make sure they have alarm clocks that play music. They experiment with different types of music and different volumes and test how these affect the transition from their lucid dreams to waking. The best set-up for both lucid dreaming and OBEs is the sensory

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deprivation tank. The more you can reduce sensory physicality, the more you can explore the purely mental world.

Sleep Memory would be entirely different if it could recall its dreams, if it could H umanity recall its past lives. But would that be useful? Aren’t our filters essential to us to block out the “noise” of prior lives, or fantastical dreams?

Dream Cures the ancient world, people went to temples of the god of medicine and I narranged to sleep there, with the hope that the god would appear to them in a dream and either cure them or advise them of the cure. The act of carefully preparing yourself in order to influence what you dream of is known as “dream incubation”. It was common practice in the ancient world.

No Death is no permanent death in dreams. There are no permanent cemeteries T here or crematoria in dreams. All of the dead can live again in dreams. If we encounter a dead person in a dream, is it actually just a dream character, or is it the dead person’s actual soul?

Changing the Pattern to take drugs that suppress REM sleep during the first half of I t’sthe possible night and also intensify deep sleep. Since the body seeks to compensate for any lost REM sleep, it therefore increases the amount of REM sleep in the second half of the night. This can help to establish longer and better lucid

dreaming sessions prior to waking.

DILDs and WILDs ost lucid dreams are Dream Initiated Lucid Dreams (DILDs), whereby the dreamer makes himself lucid from within the dream. Much rarer lucid dreams are Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams (WILDs), whereby an awake person falls directly into a lucid dream. This type of lucid dream is much more likely to lead to a subsequent OBE or experience of “astral projection”.

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excessive tendency to fall asleep whenever in relaxing surroundings – is thought to be caused in many cases by a lack of a brain chemical called orexin (also known as hypocretin), which regulates sleep. It has been speculated that this deficiency results from the immune system mistakenly attacking the parts of the brain that produce orexin. Orexin is a neurotransmitter linked to arousal and wakefulness and almost exclusively produced in the hypothalamus.

Melatonin is the hormone most intimately associated with the sleep-wake M elatonin cycle. Melatonin levels are high at night (during sleep) and low during the day (during wakefulness). The levels of melatonin in circulation respond to the amount of light in the environment. So, the darker the environment, the more melatonin there is.

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter, the lack of which is associated with S erotonin depression. Serotonin helps to maintain arousal and cortical responsiveness. It inhibits REM sleep. Adjustments to melatonin, orexin and serotonin levels all have a marked influence on the quality and nature of sleep. Some chemicals make lucid dreams and OBEs more likely, and some less likely.

The Sleepwalkers n bicameral times (prior to the dawn of modern human consciousness), did humans routinely have OBEs? Did they easily go into trances? Was sleepwalking common? Did humans have a much less stable and grounded reality? Were they much more linked to the spiritual order? Were the pyramids built by trance-prone humans, whose trances were induced by rhythmic chanting and drumming? In sleepwalking, the unconscious displaces the conscious. The body is awake, consciousness is asleep (i.e. in its sleep mode), and the unconscious is awake. In OBEs, conscious brain waves displace unconscious brain waves. During the day, the body is awake, consciousness is active and the unconscious is passive. At night, the body is asleep, the unconscious is active and the conscious is passive. In lucid dreaming, the body is asleep, the unconscious is passive and the conscious is active. In an OBE, the body is asleep, the unconscious is ultra passive and has given way to the Collective Unconscious, and the conscious is active. According to some people, all of us have OBEs every night, but almost all of us lose all memory of these journeys as we wake up. Those who talk about OBEs are not so much those rare people who have them, but those rare people who can remember them. This is therefore similar to the situation with reincarnation. Everyone reincarnates, but hardly anyone remembers!

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The Two Souls shamanic cultures believed in a “corporeal” soul that stayed with the M any body, and a free soul that could leave the body to explore other realms. Shamans wished to be the masters of the free soul.

MUSICAL OBES n an OBE, the mind separates from the physical body, allowing perception by means other than those enabled by the physical senses. Are you interested in a musical way of achieving OBEs? Claims are made that the “Hemi-Sync” technique can lead you to the borderland sleep state, and then to push through it, to where you can experience the out-ofbody state with full conscious awareness. Wikipedia says, “Hemi-Sync is a trademarked brand name for a patented process used to create audio patterns containing binaural beats, which are commercialized in the form of audio CDs. Interstate Industries Inc., created by Hemi-Sync founder Robert Monroe, is the owner of the Hemi-Sync technology. “Hemi-Sync is short for Hemispheric Synchronization, also known as brainwave synchronization. Monroe claimed that the technique synchronizes the two hemispheres of one’s brain, thereby creating a ‘frequency-following response’ designed to evoke certain effects. Hemi-Sync has been used for many purposes, including relaxation and sleep induction, learning and memory aids, helping those with physical and mental difficulties, and reaching altered states of consciousness through the use of sound. “The technique involves using sound waves to entrain brain waves. Wearing headphones, Monroe claimed that brains respond by producing a third sound (called binaural beats) that encouraged various brainwave activity changes.” Monroe’s technique involves feeding a tone into one ear and a different tone into the other ear. The brain then tries to synchronize them (just as the eyes try to blend the vision from each eye into a unified image). The right and left ears listen to two slightly different frequency tones yet perceive the tone as one. This brings the two hemispheres into closer alignment and harmony. Given that the left hemisphere is spacetime facing and the right hemisphere Singularity facing, the increased presence of right-hemisphere functionality with regard to left-hemisphere consciousness paves the way for consciousness to enjoy an OBE.

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It is the enormous dominance of the left hemisphere that makes OBEs so rare. Anything that boosts right hemispheric activity boosts the chances of OBEs. Bicameral humanity, which had a dominant right-hemisphere, would have been far more likely to have OBEs, which is probably why belief in angels (flying beings) was so widespread. Monroe wrote, “In exploration of consciousness, most of the research has been conducted by placing the subject in a booth that insures an isolated environment. Through methods and techniques employing varying patterns of sound, the subject is given the means to enter into different states of consciousness. Outside the booth, a technician operates the audio and various items of electronic measuring equipment and records the subject’s brain waves and other physical responses, while a person acting as monitor is in voice communication with the subject in the booth. The stereo headphones worn by the subject give the effect of the monitor being inside the subject’s head. As such, the monitor becomes a surrogate left brain of the subject, encouraging the subject to utilize more of his or her own intellect to know and understand what he or she is doing.” The person monitoring you can speak to you as if he is in your head and is your own consciousness. It’s all the more effective if the monitor is a hypnotist. You can be talked to and instructed into having an OBE. It’s a bit like flight control teaching a novice how to fly and how to land a plane.

OBEs and Consciousness practitioners say they retain their memory when out of their body, but O BE they are aware that their intellectual and analytical abilities are significantly diminished, as is their language capacity. Their feelings seem enhanced, raw, and exposed. Communication is non-verbal and basically intuitive. So, OBE consciousness isn’t total consciousness. It isn’t conventional consciousness. The most typical OBE involves a degraded consciousness with a dreamlike feel to the experience rather than a sharp and analytic aspect.

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of your passage through the Death Current – leading to reincarnation T hink – as an experience where you can either be in a dreamlike state, with no agency, or in a lucid state, with agency. If you are in the former state, you will get a random reincarnational outcome. If you are in the latter state, you will get a deliberate, calculated outcome. You will be able to shape how you reincarnate – what body you will get, what parents, what part of the world, what looks, what talents you will have, and so on. What could be more important?! To be lucid, you need substantive knowledge. Ontological mathematics provides it. Your future depends on how well you can grasp ontological mathematics. Luckily for some people, they can grasp it very well intuitively, without being too skilled at it discursively. Music is a good way of approaching mathematics in an intuitive rather than analytic way. Schopenhauer said, “Music is the melody whose text is the world. ... Music is so easy to explain, yet so inexplicable, as it reproduces all the emotions of our inner being without reality, remote from pain. ... The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.” Nietzsche said, “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Schelling said, “Architecture in general is frozen music.” Beethoven said, “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” Victor Hugo said, “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” Leibniz said, “Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.” ✽

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Being lucid in the afterlife means that, at death, you were able to and successful in transferring your consciousness into non-spacetime reality (consciousness is normally spacetime-facing). The fate of those that do not succeed in transferring their consciousness in this way is that they become one of the “bewildered”. They enter the Bewildered State where they are at the mercy of whatever is done to them. They have to take whatever they are given. They have no control. They are helpless. They are like the bewildered souls in the dismal Hades depicted by

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Shamans hamans use many techniques to make contact with the Other World. Some use drumming ceremonies. The rhythmic beats change their brain waves. It’s said that shamans naturally have superior hemispheric balance than ordinary people. They have superior frequency awareness and have better control of brain waves.

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Soul Loss to materialists, bodies die because they break down. They are A ccording just biological machines where some vital component goes awry and can’t be repaired. According to idealists, bodies die due to soul loss. The connection between the soul and the body breaks, meaning that the soul ceases to control the body, which then disintegrates. The soulless body turns to dust. The body is a mental construct (of the Collective Unconscious), kept together and controlled by a single monadic mind. When the link to the single monadic mind breaks, the body no longer holds together and disintegrates into its component atoms.

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The logic of Harry Potter is somewhat lacking. The story involves the successive destruction of the various horcruxes hosting Lord Voldemort’s split soul. This ought to mean that he gets weaker and weaker as the story progresses, given that his life force is being progressively annihilated. In fact, the exact opposite happens – he gets stronger and stronger. Oops.

Soul Fragments hamanic cultures believed that trauma could cause a person’s soul to lose fragments. Shamans would then have travel to the Other World to retrieve the lost parts. They could heal the person by making them whole again, by restoring their complete soul. Lost soul fragments are considered to enjoy an autonomous existence. They are self-aware in their own right. Shamans are the soul retrievers, the soul repairers, the soul healers. There are too many divided souls, and not enough shamans. The world’s soul is unhealed. Can a soul be watched in the process of division? Can it be observed shedding fragments?

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Imagine if you could split into two – into pure emotion and pure reason, into one person who couldn’t think and one person who couldn’t feel. What would feeling types do if they lost all feeling? What would thinking types do if they lost their reason? In reality, souls cannot be split. They are integral, whole unities (monads). People are more or less imagining them as material objects – the opposite of what they are – if they imagine they can be chopped up, or bits can fall off them, like limbs of a physical body. Although the soul cannot be divided into separate parts, it can certainly internally fragment, i.e. different soul components can exist within a unitary monadic mind. Plato spoke of three soul components. Freud, Jung and many others broke the psyche down into numerous components. We can loosely talk of these as “separate” souls, but we always have to bear in mind that they do not detach from and exist outside their monadic host.

Monadic Detachment W asked, “Can you detach your monad from your vessel and influence/possesses other people’s vessel?” If you detach your monad from your vessel, your vessel dies. After all, it’s your monad that animates the vessel. However, it’s certainly possible to influence/possess other people’s vessel. If a person has weak control of their avatar, other minds – powerful minds – can link to the same avatar and take it over. (The original host monadic mind then takes a back seat.) Remember, all bodies (avatars) are in spacetime, and all monadic minds are in the mental Singularity. Minds link to bodies. If a mind strongly links to a body, no other mind can get in. If, however, the link is naturally weak, or weakened by some trauma, it becomes possible for other monads to link to the same avatar. They have been given their opening. Very powerful minds – such as those of Phosters and Archons – can link to almost any avatar, like the Agents in The Matrix.

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ll that minds do is dream, individually and collectively, and in doing so they generate the world we all experience. The fundamental activity of the mind is dreaming. Dreaming is an entirely mathematical process, driven by Fourier mathematics.

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The Two Souls e have a noetic soul (the Jungian thinking faculty, using reason and logic, and culminating in ontological mathematical thinking), and a psychical soul (comprising the Jungian feeling, sensing and intuitive faculties, and culminating in anything other than ontological mathematics). If you lose your noetic soul, you become an animal. The noetic soul is the conscious soul. On earth, only humans have it, and even most humans are barely better than beasts. The noetic soul is also known as the spirit. The psychical soul is known simply as the soul. According to some commentators, the noetic soul is mobile and reincarnates, while the psychical soul is fixed and cannot rise again until it is resurrected via a particular body to which it is uniquely related. It is claimed by some that the psyche splits at death, with the two souls – noetic and psychic – going their separate ways, unless they can manage to effect a union and transform into a single, higher soul. When the spirit and soul become one, they form a super-consciousness. When people achieve gnosis (enlightenment), they have thereby effected the union of their two souls, and this means they can now choose not to reincarnate, or they can choose to come back as a Great Soul or Phoster (Illuminated One, Enlightened One, Illuminator) to help others. We can also talk of the noetic soul as opposed to the discursive soul. The latter is directed at spacetime and proceeds in steps, stages, parts. The former is directed at non-spacetime (at the interconnected Singularity) and is holistic. We can talk of a soul that faces spacetime (the physical universe) and another soul that faces the frequency domain (the mental Singularity).

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SWEDENBORG he Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg said the soul was composed of two parts, an inner part and an outer part. He associated the outer part with thought and speech, the inner part with emotions and subjectivity. Swedenborg wrote, “We may gather from this that we have two thought processes, one that is superficial [outward] and one that is deeper in us [inward], and that the words we say come from our superficial thinking; but our feelings, which are something else altogether, come from our deeper thoughts. Furthermore, these two thought processes have been separated, because care must be taken to prevent the inner from flowing into the outer and becoming visible in some way.” Our outer nature places us in the physical world and our inner nature places us in the spiritual world. Angels, unlike humans, exist only in the spiritual realm. Swedenborg wrote, “Over and above what angels have, though, there is the fact that we are not just in a spiritual world by virtue of our inner natures but are at the same time in a natural world by virtue of our outward natures. These outward things that are in the natural world are all the contents of our natural or outer memory and the thinking and imaging we do on that basis. In general, this includes our insights and information together with their delights and charm to the extent that they have a worldly flavor, and all the pleasures that derive from our physical senses. Then too, there are those senses themselves and our words and actions.” Science acknowledges only a physical, outward dimension to human beings. Scientists claim that the mind, such as it is, is produced entirely by aggregates of lifeless, mindless atoms, structured into a brain. Swedenborg wrote, “…the ultimate form of the divine pattern is in us, and since it is the ultimate form, it is the basis and foundation. ... I have been told from heaven that the earliest people had direct revelation because their inner natures were turned toward heaven, and that this was the source of the Lord’s union with the human race at that time. After those times, though, there was not the same kind of direct revelation, but an indirect revelation

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through correspondences. ... Once all knowledge of correspondences and representations had been lost, then a Word was written in which all the words and the meanings of the words are correspondences and therefore contain that spiritual or inner meaning in which angels are engaged. So when we read the Word and grasp it in its literal or outward meaning, angels grasp it in its inner or spiritual meaning. In fact, all the thought of angels is spiritual, while ours is natural. These two kinds of thought do seem different, but they are one because they correspond. “This is why, after we had moved away from heaven and broken the connection, the Lord provided that there should be a means of union of heaven with us through the Word.” The true Word is the Logos, which is reason and logic, which culminates in ontological mathematics, the supreme Logos. The Logos is the PSR. The PSR is God, the True God, responsible for everything. Swedenborg wrote, “We could not think or will anything if there were nothing supporting our thought and will – some substance where thinking and willing arise and in which they take place.” This is a crucial ontological point, to which Buddhists and empiricists are entirely oblivious. Thinking is not free-floating. It is the thinking of something (something does the thinking), not thinking that generates itself out of nothing at all and is done by nothing at all, as empiricists more or less claim. Swedenborg wrote, “We may imagine something happening apart from a supporting substance, but nothing like that exists.” This is right. Everything, ultimately, resides within eternal, necessary monads. There is nothing but monadic minds and their thoughts. Nothing else exists. Swedenborg wrote, “We can tell this from the fact that we could not see without an organ that supports our sight, or hear without an organ that supports our hearing. Apart from these, sight and hearing would be nothing, would not exist. The same holds true for thought, which is inner sight, and for perception, which is inner hearing. Unless these arose from and happened in substances that took the form of supporting organs, they would not happen at all. We may gather from this that our spirit is also in a form, that its form is that of a human being, and that it possesses its senses and sensory organs when it is separated from its body just as it did when it was in its body. We

may gather that the entire experience of the eye, the entire experience of the ear, in fact our sensory experience as a whole belongs not to the body but to the spirit, which occupies the sensory organs completely, right through to their smallest feature.” This explains why humans having an out-of-body experience can continue to sense the world. Mathematically, they are detecting the same information as before, but processing it via a different route, yet reaching the same effect, albeit from a radically altered perspective from outside the body. Swedenborg wrote, “This is why spirits see and hear and experience their senses just as much as we do, though after they have left the body this sensing does not take place in the physical world but in the spiritual one. When they were in the body, their mental experience of the senses on the physical level occurred through the material part that was an added element to their spirit. However, they were throughout that time having mental experiences purely on the spiritual level through their thinking and willing. “I have presented this to persuade rational people that, when seen for what we really are, we are spirits, and that the physical part added to us so that we can function in the physical and material world is not the real person but only the tool of our spirit.” The world would be utterly transformed if everyone understood this. Materialism has made it impossible for many people to grasp the truth. The world has undergone the Empirical Turn where the “intellectuals” only believe the evidence of their senses. The world needs to undergo the Rational Turn where the intelligentsia always turn to reason and logic.

UNDIRECTED THINKING olin Wilson wrote, “The opening chapter of [Jung’s] Symbols of Transformation is called ‘Two Kinds of Thinking’. The first type is ‘directed thinking’, thinking in language; this is obviously left-brain thinking. According to Jung, the second type of thinking, ‘undirected thinking’, is fantasy, free association – the kind we indulge in as we lie awake in the middle of the night. He equates this with dreaming, and argues that that the thinking of primitive man is of this type – this he sees as the origin of myths.” Imagine that all of humanity was once full of undirected thinkers, or thinkers who could not maintain any discipline or clear direction of thought. They all thought in a dreamlike way and perceived reality in a dreamlike way. The barriers between waking and dreaming were much finer than they are now. Social media is full of undirected thinking and is a kind of dreamlike medium, mixing all manner of content in one global cyber hodgepodge. Humanity, with its increasingly short attention span and constant distractions, is rapidly regressing. Intelligent humanity arose from the ability of the neocortex to support high frequency beta waves, which established directed thinking. People are gradually slipping into a lower-frequency alpha-wave mode. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman described a dichotomy between two modes of thought. “System 1” thinking is fast, instinctive, synthetic and emotional, while “System 2” thinking is slow, deliberative, analytic and logical. System 2 thinking – because it is so intensive and directed – needs a lot of energy, hence requires high energy beta waves to support it. System 1 thinking – because it is so quick, shallow and instinctive – does not require much energy, so is associated with lower energy alpha waves. Old humanity, and most of modern humanity, are System 1 thinkers. All intense, directed thinking has been removed. Look at social media. It’s all about System 1 thinking. System 2 thinking is more or less entirely absent.

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System 2 thinking is proper beta-wave thinking. Humans don’t do much of it. They can’t sustain focus, direction, a clear line of rational and logical thought. If they could, the world would be entirely different. It would be analytical, rational and logical. Humanity needs to achieve much better understanding of brain waves and become better able to manipulate them, especially hemisphere by hemisphere. Imagine being able to put the left hemisphere into beta mode and the right hemisphere into alpha mode, or vice versa, leading to drastically different ways of thinking. This would enormously expand the range of human thinking. Drugs, technology and hypnosis may all prove useful in this regard. Could we imagine drugs that affect only the right hemisphere, and other drugs that only affect the left hemisphere? How remarkable would that be? The best way to bring about sustained beta-wave thinking is via education. The more intelligent you are, the more you can engage in directed, productive thinking. Humanity would be absolutely transformed by a proper education system. It would bring about a stunning revolution in the human condition. Jung believed that “mythological thinking” opposed directed thinking. If we link directed thinking to reason and logic, mathematics, philosophy and science, we can therefore link mythological thinking to emotionalism, faith, mysticism and mainstream religion. Most humans are mythological thinkers. They use story logic to navigate the world, not actual logic. Humans are an emotional, story species, not a rational, analytic species. They are Mythos people, not Logos people. That’s why it’s so hard for humanity to solve its problems. You cannot address the complexities of the world with fairytales, Netflix box sets, video games and Taylor Swift songs.

THE FLOATING BODY olin Wilson wrote, “[Jung] describes how a woman patient almost died after a difficult birth, and found herself in the air above her body, looking down on it. She could see that the doctor was slightly hysterical; then her family came in, and she observed their reactions. Behind her, she knew – although she could not see – there was a marvelous, park-like landscape with spring flowers, which she knew to be the entrance to ‘the other world’. She knew that if she looked at it, she might be tempted not to re-enter her body, so kept her eyes in the other direction. When she woke up, she was able to describe to the nurse what she had seen, and the nurse was obliged to admit that the patient was correct about the doctor and other matters.” So, perception is possible independently of the body, of sense organs, of locality. People always make a mistake when they think of out-of-body and neardeath experiences. They imagine some kind of astral body leaving the physical body and floating above it. No such thing happens. Remember, no one in the operating theater saw anything other than the woman’s body lying in front of them. There was no visible body hovering over them. The physical body is strictly in space and time. No other body is located in space and time. It is the mind – which is not in the body at all (it is located in the immaterial Singularity outside space and time) – that is surveying the scene from an unusual perspective. People are already succumbing to a kind of physicalism when they talk of “astral bodies”. They seem unable to comprehend discarnate, purely mental existence, entirely free of a body. Jung’s account shows that the mind needs no eyes in order to see. The mind, since it is located in a Singularity, beyond space and time, can choose any viewpoint from which to survey the world, although it normally stays near and above the body. The mind typically “sees” the world via the body’s eyes. When the mind escapes from physicality by descending lucidly into the personal unconscious and then into the collective unconscious, it is then free of the body and can

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look at spacetime from the God perspective of the Singularity. If it chooses, the mind can equip itself with a body of sorts. In The Matrix, Morpheus says to Neo, “Your appearance now is what we call residual self-image. It is the mental projection of your digital self.” The residual self-image (RSI) is the appearance of a human while they are connected to the Matrix. It is not their objective appearance in the real world (where they are fast asleep and functioning as human batteries for their A.I. overlords). Each person has a computerized representation – an avatar – that appears within the Matrix. The avatar reflects and projects the residual selfimage.

Oneironauts neironauts are dream travelers. We are all in fact oneironauts, individually and collectively. Let’s push the psychonauts out of the way. The oneironauts are much cooler.

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UFOs ung claimed that flying saucers are “projections” of the collective unconscious. They are circular, like mandalas, hence denote our unconscious craving for a Savior, for wholeness, for completeness. However, Jung also said that UFOs can be photographed and cause signals on radar screens, meaning that they are physical. So, was he suggesting that collective mental projections are objectively, physically real? Can individual mental projections – such as someone’s residual selfimage – be objectively detected by others? We might imagine that people with particularly sensitive minds can tune into another person’s projected self-image. Most people cannot.

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ormally, a hypnotist gradually brings someone down from beta to alpha to theta to delta mode. In rapid hypnosis, the goal is to take the subject straight from beta to theta, or even delta. This is especially possible in the case of somnambulists (the most suggestible people).

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Remote Viewing ikipedia says “Remote viewing (RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target, purportedly using extrasensory perception (ESP) or ‘sensing’ with the mind. ... In early occult and spiritualist literature, remote viewing was known as telesthesia and traveling clairvoyance. Rosemary Guiley described it as ‘seeing remote or hidden objects clairvoyantly with the inner eye, or in alleged out-of-body travel.’” The easiest way to explain remote viewing is by telepathy whereby one person links to the mind of a person at the target remote location, or by the agent having an OBE and traveling to the location themselves, without bodily hindrance and physical limitation.

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In normal life, people might go and see a psychiatrist who will attempt to discover whatever is causing them so much anguish. In the terms of the framework for shared dreaming described in Inception, the person would take the roles of the Dreamer, Architect and the Subject, and they would bring the psychiatrist in as an “Other Sleeper”, whose task it would be to track down the person’s hidden secrets and extract them. Wouldn’t that be much more fun for all concerned than psychiatry? Would you let your partner into your mind to probe your deepest secrets? Do you trust your friends enough to let them in?

The Worldwide Church are those that say that once upon a time, the whole of the ancient T here world belonged to a single church. We might call this the Church of Babel. The members wanted to build a tower so high that they could climb to the top and converse with God himself. But factions arose and started squabbling with each other. War erupted and the Universal Church split into a host of national religions, languages and identities. The One World Order of human unity was destroyed by nationalism and sectarianism.

A Scientific Medium scientist who had a near-fatal motorcycle accident accompanied by a near-death experience, completely transformed his worldview as a direct consequence and found himself delving into mediumship and becoming highly effective at it. He said that as a scientist he was an ESTJ, but he performed as a medium using his mirror aspect (INFP). He said that the NDE gave him two personalities which he could switch between at will: his ESTJ normal self and his alternative INFP self that he had previously repressed. Only as an intuitive feeling type did he have the capacity to reach the “Spirit World”. Mediums go into gamma-wave mode, associated with higher perception, not beta-wave mode, associated with normal perception. It’s said that in

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NDE Reincarnation has been said that an NDE instantiates reincarnation. You die, then your I tsoul reconnects to a body, except in this case it is your old body and not a brand new body. However, if you can reconnect to one body, even if it’s just your old one, you can also reconnect to a new body, hence reincarnation is true. The famous story of Lazarus, allegedly brought back from the dead by Jesus Christ, would constitute reincarnation to the same body. In fact, resurrection could be defined simply as reincarnation to one particular body rather than to any body, i.e. it’s a specific type of reincarnation, not entirely different from reincarnation.

NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES AND ENLIGHTENMENT Bruce Greyson developed a sixteen point scale to measure T hethepsychiatrist extent of any claimed near-death experience: Cognitive Component 1) Did time seem to speed up or slow down? You get a mark of 0 if the answer is no, 1 if time seemed to go faster or slower than usual, and 2 if everything seemed to be happening at once; or time seemed to stop, or lose all meaning. 2)

Were your thoughts speeded up? You get a mark of 0 for no, 1 for faster than usual, and 2 for incredibly fast.

3) Did scenes from your past come back to you? You get a mark of 0 for no, 1 if you remembered many past events, and 2 if your past flashed before you, out of your control. 4) Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? You get a mark of 0 for no, 1 if you seemed to understand everything about yourself or others, and 2 if you seemed to understand everything about the universe. Affective Component 5) Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness? You get a mark of 0 for no, 1 for relief or calmness, and 2 for incredible peace or pleasantness 6)

Did you have a feeling of joy? You get a mark of 0 for no, 1 for happiness, and 2 for incredible joy or bliss.

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OBEs and NDEs explode the scientific worldview, hence are dismissed by science as mere delusion and hallucination. Consider what people who have NDEs typically experience. Wikipedia says, “Common traits that have been reported by NDErs are as follows: A sense/awareness of being dead; a sense of peace, well-being and painlessness. Positive emotions. A sense of removal from the world; an out-of-body experience. A perception of one’s body from an outside position, sometimes observing medical professionals performing resuscitation efforts; a ‘tunnel experience’ or entering a darkness. A sense of moving up, or through, a passageway or staircase; a rapid movement toward and/or sudden immersion in a powerful light (or ‘Being of Light’) which communicates with the person; an intense feeling of unconditional love and acceptance; encountering ‘Beings of Light’, ‘Beings dressed in white’, or similar. Also, the possibility

of being reunited with deceased loved ones; receiving a life review, commonly referred to as ‘seeing one’s life flash before one’s eyes’; approaching a border or a decision by oneself or others to return to one’s body, often accompanied by a reluctance to return; suddenly finding oneself back inside one’s body; connection to the cultural beliefs held by the individual, which seem to dictate some of the phenomena experienced in the NDE and particularly the later interpretation thereof.” People have to form some understanding of what is happening to them in an NDE, so it’s no surprise that they bring their cultural and religious beliefs, schemas and frameworks to bear on what they experience. Feeling types and mystical intuitive never bring reason, logic and analysis to the party, that’s for sure. The Buddha sat under a tree and had one emotional and mystical experience after another, which he regarded as “enlightenment”. What is 100% factual is that he had no rational and logical epiphany, no “thinking enlightenment.” New Age guru Ken Wilber is a modern Buddha whose mystical beliefs never at any point intersect with ontology, epistemology, reason and logic. ✽

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Kenneth Ring divided an NDE into a five-stage process. It starts with a feeling of peace and tranquility, is followed by an experience of body separation, then entering darkness (some kind of tunnel), then seeing the light (at the end of the tunnel), and then entering the domain of light. As ever, there is never any thinking component. No one having an NDE ever reports becoming perfect as regards reason and logic, and achieving a total rational and logical understanding of reality. Funny that.

Enlightenment Experiences Experiences (EEs) should be classed alongside OBEs and E nlightenment NDEs. They are all on the same spectrum. An Enlightenment Experience is, in most cases, a meditation-induced or drug-induced experience similar to an affective NDE, but where you do not believe you are dying. It would transform the understanding of “Enlightenment” if it were treated as a pre-NDE. It’s stronger than an OBE, but not as strong as an NDE.

It is associated with “oceanic feelings”. For the vast majority, it never has any thinking component. The Buddha never once talked of a logical and rational enlightenment. He never had any kind of knowledge enlightenment. He was useless at mathematics, science and philosophy.

Love and Light and lighters are those who have purely affective NDEs and L ove enlightenment experiences. They never have any regard for reason and logic, which they fundamentally despise and reject. They never experience cognitive enlightenment. They wouldn’t know what it was. It would be useless to them. How can a Dunning-Kruger individual experience intelligence? They wouldn’t recognize it.

NDE n NDE occurs in two stages: a dark stage followed by a light stage. You go into a tunnel, and then, after a while, you see the light at the end of the tunnel. Why don’t people go through a door leading from ignorance to knowledge?

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Out-of-Body Hypnosis people who participated in stage hypnotism performances said that S ome they had no memory at all of what they did in response to the hypnotist’s suggestions. Others said they had a kind of out-of-body experience. They perceived themselves as if they were outside of their body and curiously watched what they did in response to the hypnotist’s suggestions. Unlike the others, they could remember what took place. Did the others create a subpersonality with its own autonomous memory chain, which could only be recalled with re-hypnotization?

Hypnosis puts the ego to sleep. A suggestible non-ego then takes over. The H ypnosis beta-wave active consciousness is replaced by an alpha-wave passive consciousness, with no will or focus.

DREAM AWARENESS e are not unconscious in dreams. Nor are we conscious in our normal way. We are differently conscious. Our capacity for clear and critical thinking is almost entirely absent. If you want to be able to dream lucidly, you need to be aware that you are dreaming. Why is it so hard to realize, when you are in a dream, that you are dreaming? It’s because the very thing you require – clear and critical thinking – is denied to you. This is a perfect Catch-22. Our emotions and perceptions are enhanced in dreams. Our thinking is drastically degraded, and our intuition is generally useless (as a direct result of our defective thinking). Our dream consciousness stands between normal consciousness and the unconscious. In fact, it probably provides a glimpse of the bicameral mind. Ancient humans probably had a form of consciousness closer to dream consciousness than what we now take as consciousness, and were much more prone to auditory and visual hallucinations, to influence by the Collective Unconscious and archetypes. Their critical thinking abilities were not seriously engaged. What is it that boosts critical thinking? It’s reading, studying, analyzing. It’s immersing yourself in mathematics, science and philosophy. Ancient humanity, on the whole, couldn’t read, and mathematicians, scientists and philosophers were the rarest of species. Critical thinking wasn’t a thing. Credulous thinking and suggestibility ruled the roost. That’s how you get faith, superstition and mysticism. That’s the basis of mainstream religion. Even today, the vast majority of human beings can hardly be considered critical thinkers in any serious way. They fall over themselves to be duped by the latest conspiracy theories. Hard, analytic thinking nauseates them. They just can’t do it. Being inebriated degrades our consciousness. Dreaming is equivalent to being inebriated. Alcohol is replaced by brain chemistry, which provides the chemicals to make us mentally drunk and disoriented. We stagger around in the mind, lurching from one bizarre episode to the next.

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The Sleep Cycle are four distinct sleep stages. Stage N1 involves the transition from T here alpha waves (relaxed waking) to theta waves (light sleep). Stage N2 involves the transition from light to deep sleep. Stage N3 is deep sleep proper. Delta waves are evident. Night terrors, sleep talking and sleepwalking occur during this stage. It is the stage where it is hardest to wake people up. This is also the stage where we are most distant from waking consciousness, where our physicality is most suppressed. This is therefore the stage where OBEs and NDEs are best achieved. REM sleep follows NREM sleep (the typical sequence is N1 > N2 > N3 > N2 > N1 > REM). Brainwaves during REM sleep speed up to waking levels. The vast majority of remembered dreams occur in REM sleep. Think of how many adjustments must have been required by evolution to get the balance between all these phases (N1, N2, N3, REM sleep and waking) just right. But what is the right balance? Merely that sufficient to produce a “reducing valve” trickle of consciousness? What if we wanted super consciousness? Wouldn’t we have to entirely change the balance?

The Gates . Allan Hobson wrote, “…the brain opens and closes its gates. But these are not the ‘Gates of Horn and Ivory’. They are the gates of sensory input and motor output. Thus, as the brain self-activates in sleep, it shuts its gates so that outside information has difficulty accessing the brain. It is equally difficult for the sleep-activated brain to realize the motor acts that it generates. We experience them consciously as dream movement, but they are not, fortunately, read out as movement. What this means is that the sleepactivated brain is off-line to normally effective inputs and outputs. It is doing its own thing, as it were. “…the brain not only self-activates and isolates itself from the world, but it changes its chemical climate very radically. … two of the chemical systems necessary to waking consciousness are completely shut off when the brain self-activates in sleep. Without noradrenaline and serotonin, the dreaming brain cannot do certain things such as direct its thoughts, engage in analytical

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Who Has Agency? n bicameralism, the gods (the collective unconscious), have agency. The human follower (the personal unconscious) does not. The classic example is Abraham in the Bible. He was incapable of taking a decision to defy his God and save his son. He was human robot, just like all religious fanatics today, incapable of taking their own decisions regardless of “holy” books. In conventional waking, your active consciousness has agency. In conventional sleeping, your unconscious has agency and your consciousness becomes passive, unable to control events. In lucid dreaming, your consciousness again regains agency, but now within the dreamworld rather than the actual world. In sleepwalking, your unconscious has agency in the actual world and is able to make your body do complex things without your consciousness knowing anything about it. In a coma, the unconscious has permanent agency. Consciousness has become completely passive. It’s one long dream. In an OBE, consciousness is active and has agency, but is no longer restricted by a body. So, there are three sources of agency: consciousness, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. According to scientism, nothing has agency. There is nothing other than mindless, lifeless, purposeless matter under the control of the laws of physics, which are themselves mindless, lifeless and purposeless. Things change via random mutation and natural selection (“evolution”). There is no design, no intentionality, no teleology. Things “emerge”. Things happen without causes. Today, our daily waking lives are guided by our consciousness. In sleep, our life is dictated by the personal unconscious. In bicameralism, the collective unconscious guided us. The collective unconscious drives the animal and plant worlds, and also the inorganic world. The collective unconscious is the original agent. From it evolves the

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personal unconscious, and from that develops the personal conscious. The ultimate conclusion is the arrival of the collective conscious (“God”).

The Bioelectric Field an episode of Star Trek Voyager, an enemy spaceship emits a massive I nenergy field that causes hallucinations among the crew. One character says, “It’s bioelectric, modulating on a delta wave frequency. It has psionic properties, and it’s permeating the hull. … A psionic field has a psychoactive effect. That would explain the hallucinations.” The crew “remodulate” to cure the problem. Imagine such fields being directed at the whole human population. Could all of humanity be sent into a hallucinatory state? Humanity is not yet a truly beta-wave species. It’s still much closer to alpha and theta, to the bicameral mode.

SOUL TECHS By PG are some suggestions for technology that would enhance our soul H ere experiences: Monad-interactive software and hardware: AI and robotics with a “DNAlike” design structure which directly interacts with disincarnated monads. Dream-tech: Technologies which directly project scenarios into a person’s dream. A software/dream system, which can be used like a videogame to project scenarios and simulations, and to convey messages. Brainwave entraining tech: machines which externally induce desired mental states. OBE Inducers. Starships that warp spacetime with frequency functions. Telekinesis tech. Telepathy/anti-telepathy tech. The Soul Camera. …and the slew of other developments associated with “The God Project” (hitherto only confined within a secretive niche). ✽

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Great suggestions by PG. What can you come up with? If you want to be rich, there’s a fortune to be made in this field for the right tech.

Eleusis riting of the Eleusinian mysteries, Plutarch said, “Wandering astray in

beginning, tiresome walkings in circles, some frightening paths in W the darkness that lead nowhere; then immediately before the end all the terrible things, panic and shivering and sweat and bewilderment. And then some wonderful light comes to meet you, pure regions and meadows are there to greet you, with sounds and dances and solemn, sacred words and holy views; and there the initiate, perfect by now, set free and loose from all bondage, walks about crowned with a wreath, celebrating the festival together with the other sacred and pure people, and he looks down on the uninitiated, unpurified crowd in this world in mud and fog beneath his feet.” Plutarch is describing a kind of ritual exploration or simulation of a neardeath experience. Imagine that the ancient mystery schools were all about teaching initiates about OBEs and NDEs, thus empirically proving the existence of the immaterial soul. Consider the famous tale of Daedalus and Icarus. Was Icarus in fact an initiate being taught by a psychopompos (conductor of souls; a spiritual guide of a living person’s soul) how to have an out-of-body experience, i.e. how to “fly”? When Icarus “fell”, was he actually being taught how to have a neardeath experience?

Escaping Hell not abandon all hope if you find yourself in hell. You can give yourself D orespite by lucidly dreaming of heaven. Once you master OBEs, you can remove your mind from hell and make it go wherever you like. All the power of Satan cannot defeat the power of your mind!

The Birth a baby is born, it’s entirely under the control of the archetypal W hen instincts of the collective unconscious. As things happen to the baby in the big, bad world, it develops a personal unconscious. As it is socialized and educated, and, in particular, given a language, it evolves a

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The Hive God ome and join the Revolution. A whole new paradigm has come ... God as the Cosmic Hive Mind, and you are one of its nodes. God cannot be complete without you. God is the One and the Many. At zero entropy, we are all One. When we are subject to entropy, we are all Many. When we are One, we cooperate perfectly. When we are many, we compete and fight and squabble. If God is the One, the Devil is the Many. “I am Legion, for we are Many.”

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Aristotelian OBEs Aristotle were to attempt an explanation of OBEs, he would of course I frefer to his theory of hylomorphism. Wikipedia says, “Hylomorphism is a philosophical theory developed by Aristotle, which conceives being (ousia) as a compound of matter and form.” Aristotle would say that the soul, the form of the body, was no longer engaging with the hylic part of the world, but simply extracting the morphe (form) aspect of reality. The soul has, in the terms of Thomas Aquinas, become an angel, with no hylic parts.

LIFE AND DEATH veryone knows that a body dies. Everyone knows someone who has died. Many people have seen others dying. They have seen when the life goes out of the body. This raises many interesting problems. How did the body manage to manifest life at all if it is inherently a dead thing, as science claims? Science says that a body is just an aggregate of atoms, each of which does not possess the property of life. In the Western tradition, two philosophers – Plato and Descartes – have made decisive contributions to the life-death debate. Sarah Jean Broadie wrote, “Although they are often grouped together in comparison with nondualist theories, Plato’s soul-body dualism, and Descartes’ mind-body dualism, are fundamentally different. … The main difference, from which others flow, lies in Plato’s acceptance and Descartes’ rejection of the assumption that the soul (= intellect) is identical with what animates the body. “Socrates [who states the Platonist position] explicitly appeals to the idea that it is the soul that animates the body of a living thing: ‘What is it that, when present in a body, makes it living? – A soul.’” For Plato and Socrates, there is an immortal living entity – the soul – which links to non-living things (bodies) and brings them to life by virtue of its presence and control. A body is alive while it is connected to a soul, and dead when it is not. A central idea here is that life can establish a link to non-life, and this link can later be broken, resulting in a body returning to its natural, non-living state. Descartes, the first modern philosopher, highly aware of the new scientific currents appearing all around him, came up with an extraordinary new idea. He regarded the body as a biological machine. It lived while its machinery worked, and it ceased to work when its machinery broke down. An animal is a kind of living automobile, which eventually suffers mechanical failure and stops operating. Descartes denied that animals had souls. They were instead soulless living mechanisms … automata.

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When it came to humans, Descartes acknowledged that humans, unlike animals, did have souls. The human soul could link to a body and control it. However, the human body was, as in the animal case, a mere mechanism. It lived while its machinery worked and died when its machinery failed. Its intrinsic life was nothing to do with the soul. The soul was what supplied it with reason and free will, what made it a moral agent in the empire of God. Its soul was not what made it alive. Animals, for Descartes, have no reason, no free will, no morality, and no consciousness. They are, in modern terms, like programmed A.I.s. They execute software code until their hardware breaks down. Descartes took a dualistic view of life. Souls were alive and bodies were alive too. A body was alive by virtue of being a certain kind of mechanism. It would continue to live while its machinery functioned, and it would cease to live when its machinery stopped functioning. Its life had no connection to the soul and had no requirement of the soul. Animals had life in the absence of any soul. The Cartesian human soul was an ethical agent that linked to one of these animal machines and supplied it with qualities not present in other animal machines. It supplied it with reason, logic, free will, choice, a moral and ethical code, subjective experiences (qualia), interiority, and so on. Given Descartes’ views, a human soul could in principle alternatively link to an animal body and do the same for it, or even to an A.I. and do the same for it. The Cartesian soul is immortal, non-mechanical life that links to mortal, mechanical life and gives it subjective agency and the capacity to exercise free will, but it is not essential to life. Plato had a monistic rather than dualistic view of life: souls were alive and bodies were not; bodies became alive thanks to souls and were not alive otherwise. When science came to the fore, it rejected Plato’s worldview concerning the soul, and it did the same for everything that Descartes said about the soul too. However, it enthusiastically and entirely retained the Cartesian idea of bodies being soulless living machines … biological automata. It eagerly extended this idea to humans, making humans just the same as all other animals. The modern scientific materialist claim is that we are strictly material machines, and we function for a certain amount of time while our machinery

works. All of the things that Descartes claimed were added to the human machine (body) by the external human soul, were instead claimed by science to be generated by particular internal machinery, especially that of the brain. The brain, for scientists, replaced the Cartesian “soul”. God was not involved in life, and this brain was as mortal as the body that produced it. So, the Western idea of life has gone through three great transitions: 1) Plato said that souls are alive and immortal and can link to non-living bodies and make them alive for a time (bodies are strictly mortal, and souls strictly immortal). 2) Descartes said that bodies are living machines that remain alive while their machinery works, and die as soon as their machinery fails. Immortal living souls can link to these machines and control them until the machinery fails. The soul provides subjectivity. 3)

Science completely denied the existence of the soul, leaving nothing but the living machine, which dies when the machinery ceases to work. Science has turned us into objects that generate a mere illusion of subjectivity.

Where Plato had a strongly religious view, science has an entirely atheistic view. Descartes had an intermediate position. His view of animals as mere biological machines was highly scientific. His view of human-body machines having souls was religious. Science swiftly got rid of any idea of humans being special animals, and made them biological machines like all the others, but simply with more sophisticated machinery that gave rise to the unique human properties that Descartes had previously ascribed to the human soul. This view is Darwinism 101. Evolution produces more and more adaptive machinery, and humans have the most general and most adaptive piece of machinery of all – the human brain. Plato’s views were compatible with reincarnation: a soul could link to one body after another. His views were incompatible with resurrection. Once a body was dead, it was well and truly dead. Descartes’ views were also compatible with reincarnation – a human soul could in principle link to any body, any machine. However, his views could also accommodate resurrection. If God, at the Last Judgment, reactivated all of the dead bodies, the broken machines, and now made them immortal machines that would never break down, the immortal human soul could then

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Another towering western thinker whose views concerning life must be considered is Aristotle. Aristotle’s understanding of reality involved matter (potentiality), form (actuality), and compounds of matter and form (making up natural substances). His system was labeled hylomorphism (hyle for matter, and morphe for form). The system was bookended by formless matter (Prime Matter = pure potentiality) and matterless form (God = pure actuality). All natural substances lay between these two extremes. Where Plato believed that the soul reflected the Form of Life and was something whose existence was independent of the existence of the body. Aristotle – who was keen to remove Plato’s Forms from their transcendent realm and locate them in the immanent, empirical world – designated the soul as the form of the body, i.e. he made it body dependent rather than body independent. Where, for Plato, the soul is separate from the body without qualification, this is not the case for Aristotle. The Aristotelian soul is entirely qualified by the body; it is always embodied; it is always expressed in and through matter. It is not the shape of the body (although it determines this), but its actuality … that in virtue of which it is the kind of living thing it is. Aristotle said that the soul “requires a body; for it is not a body, but it belongs to a body, and for that reason it is present in a body, and in this sort of body.” The soul is an organization of material so that there exists a living body. Aristotle referred to the soul as the “first actuality” of the body. It made it possible for the body to engage in secondary actualities such as eating, drinking, sleeping, growing, moving, perceiving, feeling, thinking, and so on. The Aristotelian soul gives the living body the potential to engage in these activities and make them actual. The soul contributes to the body a capacity to act in ways characteristic of the body. For Aristotle, an actuality without qualification is the form of an existence that cannot be different at different times, something whose

existence is therefore eternally complete and full. Such an actuality does not have potentials that it exercises in different circumstances. Only God qualifies as pure life. For Plato, by contrast, a soul did not require a body, but, rather, was curious about bodies, so “fell” into them, or was placed in them by the gods in order to test the soul’s mettle. Intriguingly, Aristotle raised a controversial topic that has come to be known as the problem of the “active intellect”, which some have suggested can exist apart from the body, in a Godlike manner (God has no body, no matter). In his account of the process of thinking, Aristotle said that the intellect, like everything else, must have two parts: 1) something analogous to matter (potentiality), and 2) something analogous to form (actuality). The first is the passive intellect, the second the active intellect. Aristotle wrote, “Intellect in this sense is separable, impassible, unmixed, since it is in its essential nature activity… When intellect is set free from its present conditions, it appears as just what it is and nothing more: it alone is immortal and eternal… and without it nothing thinks.” Given Aristotle’s belief that only God is pure actuality then many commentators inferred that Aristotle was asserting that all humans contained a divine spark. The active intellect wasn’t an aspect of the human soul but an entity existing independently of man. It was, it seemed, a power external to the human mind, and therefore there was a natural tendency to identify it with God. This topic became of great importance to medieval Muslim and Christian theologians who were heavily influenced by Aristotle. Wikipedia says, “The more strictly Aristotelian Muslims (in particular Avempace and Averroes) wrote about how one could conjoin oneself with the active intellect, thus attaining philosophical nirvana. “The reason of the Islamic and Jewish Aristotelians for positing a single external Agent Intellect is that all (rational) human beings are considered by Aristotelians to possess or have access to a fixed and stable set of concepts, a unified correct knowledge of the universe. The only way that all human minds could possess the same correct knowledge is if they all had access to some central knowledge store, as terminals might have access to a mainframe computer. This mainframe is the Agent Intellect, the ‘mind’ of the universe, which makes all other cognition possible.”

Thomas Aquinas argued, against Averroes, that the active intellect is part of the individual human personality. Science, naturally, has no truck with ideas such as the active intellect and matterless form (pure actuality). Aristotle posited a hierarchy of souls, of which God was the highest. Professor Brandon Look wrote, “Aristotle begins his discussion of the different functions of souls, which leads to his account of the hierarchy of souls: 1) Nutritive soul. All living beings have ‘an internal potentiality and principle through which they both grow and decay in contrary directions. For they grow up and down and in all directions alike, not just up rather than down; they are continually nourished, and they stay alive as long as they can absorb nutrition.’ That is, this is basic and common to all forms of life; 2) Perceptive soul. All animals have the ability to perceive their environment, at the very least by the sense of touch. And if an animal has the perceptive part, they also have desire. Further, some animals have the ability to move themselves; 3) Rational soul. Human beings and ‘any thinking being that is different from, or superior to a human being’ have a thinking part (dianoētikon) and intellect (nous). “Another way to think of this hierarchy is: human beings have the rational, perceptive, and nutritive souls; other animals have only perceptive and nutritive souls; and plants have simply the nutritive soul. Now, according to Aristotle, the soul exists as a cause in three of the four ways discussed in the Physics: ‘as the source of motion [efficient cause], as what something is for [final cause], and as the substance of ensouled bodies [formal cause].’ [JT: The body in its own right is the remaining cause, the material cause.]” Describing the nature of perception, Aristotle said, “Each sense receives the perceptible forms (eidea) without the matter.” This is a fascinating point. Clearly, we do not accept the actual matter of the world into our brain. According to Aristotle, what goes into the brain, and is perceived, is the object’s form (or that aspect of form which is perceptible), separate from its matter. For Catholicism, Saint Thomas Aquinas was the key interpreter of Aristotle from a Christian perspective. Aquinas took Aristotle’s hylomorphic system and elegantly modified it. For Aristotle, the soul was so intimately bound to the body that it necessarily died with it, except the active intellect, which was not part of the body at all, but part of God, or in some way related to God. For Aquinas,

although a complete human person comprised both a body and a soul, the soul, as an immaterial form, could survive the death of the body, but would then recover its body at the resurrection of the dead (the Last Judgment). For Aquinas, the soul, unlike the physical body, was, by its nature, incorruptible. After resurrection, the body too would become incorruptible and immortal. In Aquinas’s system, the soul, during the period between death and resurrection, existed in a disembodied state as pure intellect capable of viewing the Beatific Vision, much as the enlightened soul, in Plato’s system, could intellectually “see” all the perfect forms in the transcendent realm. Wikipedia says, “The soul is a ‘substantial form’; it is a part of a substance, but it is not a substance by itself. Nevertheless, the soul exists separately from the body, and continues, after death, in many of the capacities we think of as human. Substantial form is what makes a thing a member of the species to which it belongs, and substantial form is also the structure or configuration that provides the object with the abilities that make the object what it is. For humans, those abilities are those of the rational animal. “These distinctions can be better understood in the light of Thomas’s understanding of matter and form, a hylomorphic (‘matter/form’) theory derived from Aristotle. In any given substance, matter and form are necessarily united, and each is a necessary aspect of that substance. However, they are conceptually separable. Matter represents what is changeable about the substance – what is potentially something else. … In contrast, form is what determines some particular chunk of matter to be a specific substance and no other. When Thomas says that the human body is only partly composed of matter, he means the material body is only potentially a human being. The soul is what actualizes that potential into an existing human being. Consequently, the fact that a human body is live human tissue entails that a human soul is wholly present in each part of the human.” The view that that the soul is present whole and entire in every part of the body is known as holenmerism, and is one of the most important concepts that ontological mathematics relies on, but it is completely rejected by scientific materialism, which dismisses the mind/soul entirely and reduces everything to mere material parts (atoms). Wikipedia says, “Human beings are material, but the human person can survive the death of the body through continued existence of the soul, which persists. The human soul straddles the spiritual and material worlds, and is

both a configured subsistent form as well as a configurer of matter into that of a living, bodily human. Because it is spiritual, the human soul does not depend on matter and may exist separately. Because the human being is a soul-matter composite, the body has a part in what it is to be human. Perfected human nature consists in the human dual nature, embodied and intellecting. … Thomas believes the soul persists after the death and corruption of the body, and is capable of existence, separated from the body between the time of death and the resurrection.” In Catholicism, the resurrected body is not spiritual by being made out of, or transformed into, a spiritual substance. It is spiritual by virtue of being completely subject to the spirit of its possessor. Aquinas wrote, “But such is the disposition of a glorified body that it is spiritual, i.e. subject to the spirit, as the Apostle says (1 Cor. 15:44). Now in order for the body to be entirely subject to the spirit, it is necessary for the body’s every action to be subject to the will of the spirit. Again, that an object be seen is due to the action of the visible object upon the sight, as the Philosopher [Aristotle] shows. Consequently, whoever has a glorified body has it in his power to be seen when he so wishes, and not to be seen when he does not wish it.” Aquinas regarded angels as the extreme of what is possible for an intellectual nature to be, outside of God himself. He wrote, “There must be some incorporeal creatures. For what is principally intended by God in creatures is good, and this consists in assimilation to God Himself. And the perfect assimilation of an effect to a cause is accomplished when the effect imitates the cause according to that whereby the cause produces the effect; as heat makes heat. Now, God produces the creature by His intellect and will. Hence the perfection of the universe requires that there should be intellectual creatures. Now intelligence cannot be the action of a body, nor of any corporeal faculty; for every body is limited to ‘here’ and ‘now.’ Hence the perfection of the universe requires the existence of an incorporeal creature [the angel].” Angels aren’t all sweetness and light. They are cosmic geniuses! According to Aquinas, angels are pure spirit, i.e. self-subsistent forms (devoid of matter). They are completely incorporeal. They have no bodies of any kind, although they can use their awesome minds to create, assume or project bodies. In particular, they can make bodies from the air. Aquinas wrote, “Although air as long as it is in a state of rarefaction has neither shape

nor color, yet when condensed it can both be shaped and colored as appears in the clouds. Even so the angels assume bodies of air, condensing it by the Divine power in so far as is needful for forming the assumed body.” The Franciscan theologian St. Bonaventure, by contrast, believed that everything other than God was composed of matter and form, including angels. For Bonaventure, where empirical things had corporeal matter, angels had spiritual matter. In Aquinas’s system, because angels are pure intellects without natural bodies, they know things in a way that’s completely alien to how humans act and know. They are perfectly suited to understanding ontological mathematics! For Aquinas, a human body is alive because it is naturally entwined with a human soul. The bodies that angels assumed to interact with humans could not be alive since angels have no natural bodies. For the body assumed by an angel to be living, it would have to serve as the angel’s inherent matter, but it cannot perform such a role since an angel is intrinsically incorporeal. According to Aquinas, the fact that the body which an angel assumes is not alive means that it does not speak, see, hear, taste, and so on, in any human-like way since these are functions of biologically living things. The angel does not receive sensory input in a human way, and does not derive any enjoyment from physicality. Aquinas insisted that angels do not engage in sex with their assumed bodies. He said that angels propose the intelligible truth to men and strengthen the human mind by an intellectual operation, thus bringing about angelic illumination of men. Humans rise with angelic assistance to a more perfect knowledge of God. Ah, he ought to have been an ontological mathematician!

ANGELS AND OBES or Thomas Aquinas, God is pure intellect, pure form, pure actuality, with no matter at all. An angel is a purely intellectual substance too – all form and no matter – yet an angel is a created being and is in a state of potentiality with regard to God. An angel does not have all knowledge, as God does, but receives knowledge from God. Its mind is illuminated by God. As for humans, they are both form and matter. They are both rational and empirical, intellectual and sensory. Where angels (celestial intelligences) receive their universal notions directly from God, humans (earthly intelligences) receive their universal notions from the world. The human mind abstracts universal notions – intelligible forms – from the sensory world. It does not get them directly from their proper domain, the intellectual world. The human soul is unlike the souls of beasts and plants, whose forms are entirely tied up with matter. The human soul is a unique type of soul. It straddles both the intelligible and sensible worlds. God and his angels belong to the intelligible world, although angels can enter the sensible world to pass on messages (and God, so we are told by Christians, incarnated in the world as Jesus Christ to experience the human condition). Humans properly belong to both worlds, intelligible and sensible. The human is an embodied intellect, not a disembodied intellect like an angel. Each angel is disincarnate. It has no matter. In Aquinas’s system, matter serves as the determinant of separation within a species, i.e. it provides the means to individuate different members of a species. Since angels lack matter, matter cannot individuate them. Since angels are nevertheless all different, each angel must in fact be its own unique species. All humans, as embodied (hence with specific matter to distinguish one from the other), belong to the same species, even after death and the removal of the body. But how is that possible if humans are disembodied after death? Haven’t humans become just like angels? Eleonore Stump wrote, “It is possible for one separated soul to be distinguished from another on the basis of its past connection with matter,

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God is a single, pure, active intellect. Angels are many disembodied intellects – defined by potentiality, not actuality, filled by what God’s intellect gives them. Humans are embodied intellects – also defined by potentiality, not actuality – and filled by what the sensory world, rather than God, gives them. But they can still receive truth from God, Aquinas says, via messenger angels, revelations by prophets, and the incarnation of God via Jesus Christ. All angels are natural practitioners of OBEs since they do not have bodies. They can view all of the world, and go instantaneously to anywhere in the world, and can also assume bodies to interact with the world when that is required. A human becomes “angelic” when they leave their body – via the route of deep dreaming – and achieves disembodied access to the world via lucidly entering the public dream of the Collective Unconscious. The person is now in the world, but without a body, just like an angel. OBEs and NDEs are angelic experiences. They are all about the human being freed from the body. They are all about the metamorphosis of a human into a higher being.

Hylomorphic OBEs

the normal world, i.e. the hylic (material) world of spacetime, you are I npresented with endless material objects which you detect with your material senses, process with your material brain, then pass to your morphic mind. In an OBE, you disengage from the hylic world. Your body is asleep while your mind is fully active in the Singularity. It is processing exactly the same information, but without any intervening physical organs. It exists non-locally (in frequency terms) rather than locally (in spacetime terms).

Platonist OBEs would explain an OBE by saying the soul had reached the intelligible P lato domain of Forms, outside spacetime, and was now looking down on the material, sensible domain of space and time, but from the mind’s perspective rather than the body’s perspective. There is nothing within the paradigm of materialism to accommodate OBEs in any way, so the focus of scientists is to write off OBEs as mental aberrations, as hallucinatory. That’s why OBEs are so vital. They can formally falsify materialism, in empirical terms, if they furnish objective information that cannot be dismissed as subjective “delusion”.

OBEs versus NDEs experiences occur in the physical realm. Near-death O ut-of-body experiences involve a conventional OBE, followed by a journey to the “spirit world”, followed by a return to physicality. An ELE (end-of-life experience) involves a physical OBE, followed by an NDE, without any return to the world, followed by making a full transition to death.

The World and the Mind

lato spoke of an intelligible, real world of mind, available to the intellect, and a sensible, unreal world of matter, available to the senses. Humans are embodied in relation to the material world of the senses, and disembodied in relation to the world of the mind. All the problems of human understanding are located in this dichotomy. Empiricists are worldfacing individuals, and swear by their senses and experiences. Rationalists are mind-facing individuals, and swear by their reason and logic. Empiricists are human-all-too-human, while rationalists are angelic. They are practically two different species. You must choose which side you are on. You cannot be on both sides. An embodied human is embedded in the world. A disembodied human is not. Only the latter can have OBEs. A human becomes disembodied via lucid dreaming and the subsequent mastery of OBEs. In the disembodied state, a human is converted into an effective angel, freed from all bodily constraint. An OBE can take place in two ways: 1) A mind, released from its body, can explore the sensible world, but from a bodiless perspective; 2) Plato provided the template for the other type of OBE: a purely mental OBE. Plato imagined souls, at the outermost edge of heaven, gazing upon the eternal Forms. D. D. McGibbon wrote, “In the myth of Phaedrus Plato sets forth a picture of the life of discarnate souls in heaven. He represents these souls by the symbol of a winged charioteer driving winged horses. In the case of the gods (theoi), the charioteers and horses are good. In the case of the other souls whom Plato calls daimones, and among whom our own souls are included, the soul is represented by a charioteer with two horses of which the right one is good but the left one evil. It is generally agreed that the right and left horses represent thumos [spiritedness] and passion respectively, while the charioteer symbolizes reason. Plato goes on to describe a procession which the gods and daimones make up to the outer edge of heaven in order to contemplate the Forms which lie beyond.” Plato clearly had a kind of mental OBE when he pictured this scene. As a rationalist, he was naturally more mind than body oriented. D. D. McGibbon went on, “The gods, we are told, make the ascent easily and when they reach the edge of heaven have no difficulty in staying there and beholding the Forms. The daimones, however, experience difficulty due to the recalcitrance of the evil horse, which all their chariots possess.”

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It is passion, emotion, feeling, desire, appetite, empiricism that prevents people from being intellectual. As Jung pointed out, feeling is the opposite of thinking. Philosophically, empiricism is the opposite of rationalism. Platonically, the sensible is the opposite of the intelligible. For Aristotle, matter is the opposite of form: matter is chaos and form is order. You apply form to matter to bring order from chaos. D. D. McGibbon went on, “Plato divided the daimones into three main groups: those who succeed in beholding the Forms though with difficulty; those whose vision is only partial; those, finally, who fail to see the Forms at all.” This brings to mind the Gnostic idea of the three classes of people: hylics (somatics – the material people, the people of the body and the senses); the psychics (the people of the soul); and the pneumatics (the intellectuals; the people of the spirit). D. D. McGibbon went on, “Since contemplation of the Forms provides the nourishment by which the wings of the soul are nurtured, those daimones who fail to see the Forms at all lose their wings and fall to earth.” The empiricists and emotionalists are those blind to the Forms. They are the wingless ones, the ones incapable of OBEs. They see only the material world. Just look at scientists, wholly estranged from the world of the intellect, fully locked into the sensory world. No one is less likely to have an OBE than a scientific materialist on the autistic spectrum.

The Journey you waking up from your long slumber? You have followed A reZarathustra’s incredible journey through lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, and near-death experiences. Have you joined Zarathustra’s entourage? Are you a rationalist angel focused on reason and logic, the nonlocal and holistic, or an empiricist human focused on the physical senses, the local and parts?

Angelic Brain Waves

verything in human reality is about brain waves, just as everything about reality is about sinusoidal waves (and brain waves are themselves reducible to sinusoidal wavefunctions). What brain waves do angels have? Do angels even have brains? Or are they pure minds, pure intellects, that always engage in out-of-body experiences? Don’t you want to undergo a metamorphosis into a higher being, an angel?

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Hypnosis Waves someone is under hypnosis, their brain waves always drop out of W hen beta, and then, depending on the depth of their hypnosis, into alpha (light hypnosis), theta (intermediate hypnosis) or delta (deep hypnosis). Each level has its own potentialities. For a hypnotist to be able to extract past life information from subjects, or prepare them for OBEs, they would need to get the subjects to delta. Theta may however be more suitable for lucid dreaming. Empirical consciousness – day-to-day consciousness – occurs in beta mode. Transcendent consciousness – super-consciousness, we might say – occurs in gamma mode. This is the highest-frequency level of thinking, hence requires the most energy. Geniuses access this level much more than ordinary people.

The Basis is the basis of ordinary lucid dreaming? It’s that you exercise beta W hat activity within a theta state. In normal dreaming, you exercise alpha activity within a theta state. It’s all about mastery of the frequency of the brain waves.

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wrote, “Odysseus, noble son of Laertes, you shall none of you stay H omer here any longer if you do not want to, but there is another journey which you have got to take before you can sail homewards. You must go to the house of Hades and of dread Proserpine to consult the ghost of the blind Theban prophet Teiresias whose reason is still unshaken. To him alone has Proserpine left his understanding even in death, but the other ghosts flit about aimlessly.” Imagine being the one person in the land of the dead who still had reason and understanding. Teiresias was the only shade in Hades capable of betawave activity. All the rest were sunk in delta waves. We know how Teiresias feels. Ontological mathematicians are the company of Teiresias, while scientific materialists are the dismal shades stuck in the grey fields of Asphodel, fading into oblivion.

OUR DREAM CONSCIOUSNESS dream consciousness isn’t the same as our normal consciousness. It’s O urstripped of external sensory input, largely stripped of its will and agency, its reasoning abilities are degraded, and its emotional responses are magnified. It is subject not to the world but to the unconscious mind, which is driven by our opposite Myers-Briggs type. For example, the opposite of INTJ is ESFP. It’s also the case that since our dream consciousness is so much under the control of the opposite MBTI, it absorbs many of the features of that opposite. A thinking type in normal life will find themselves much more emotional in dreams. A feeling type in normal life will find themselves trying to be more analytic, more rational, although that ambition has little prospect of success given the general deterioration of intelligence and rationality in dream consciousness. Jung pointed out that when people are engaging with their Shadow functions, they are not very good at it because they are not at all familiar with it. It’s an alien way of doing things. A thinking person is not good at being emotional, hence does it hysterically, without control. Equally, a feeling person is not good at being a thinker, so their thinking is either pedantic, or full of spurious reasoning and pseudo-logic, which they think is very clever but is actually hopeless and embarrassing. Their thinking is out of control. Most of the truly laughable comments we find on social media are from emotional hysterics trying to posture as though they have legitimate rational arguments to make. They have no clue what reason and logic really are, so their pseudo-rationalism is always comical and pathetic. Most of the dunces that attack Illuminism haven’t got a clue what they are attacking and make the most embarrassing attempts to argue with the principle of sufficient reason, Occam’s razor and mathematics. It’s comedy gold. One of the reasons why dreams are so bizarre is that we being presented with content by our Shadow, and our normal consciousness is being steadily

hijacked and possessed by that Shadow, so we are very unlike our normal selves in dreams. Only with lucid dreaming are we much more like ourselves.

The Catholic Group OBE atholicism has at its core a kind of mass OBE, centered on the concept of the so-called Beatific Vision. Wikipedia says, “In Christian theology, the beatific vision is the ultimate direct self-communication of God to the individual person. A person possessing the beatific vision reaches, as a member of redeemed humanity in the communion of saints, perfect salvation in its entirety, i.e. heaven. The notion of vision stresses the intellectual component of salvation, though it encompasses the whole of human experience of joy, happiness coming from seeing God finally face to face and not imperfectly through faith.” In Paradiso, Dante imagined the centerpiece of heaven as an enormous rose – a kind of great roselike stadium – where all the saved souls enjoyed the Beatific Vision. Wikipedia says, “Dante sees an enormous rose, symbolizing divine love, the petals of which are the enthroned souls of the faithful (both those of the Old Testament and those of the New Testament). All the souls he has met in Heaven … have their home in this rose. Angels fly around the rose like bees, distributing peace and love. … Dante has passed beyond theology in directly contemplating God … Finally, Dante comes face-to-face with God Himself. God appears as three equally large circles occupying the same space, representing the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” This is a group OBE. All the discarnate souls gaze on perfection, just like Platonic souls. At the Resurrection, all the souls become embodied. Their mass OBE is over.

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vangelical Christians believe in the Rapture – when Jesus will supposedly take true believers up into the air, leaving behind all the non-believers to

suffer trials and tribulations on earth. Is this a description of a mass OBE, sustained by Christian belief? What do the true believers do up in the air? Do they watch the spectacle below them – like a planetary Game of Thrones – and munch popcorn? Are they warmly wrapped up to keep out the cold? It’s chilly up there in the sky! Where do they go to the toilet? Hmmm, so many questions.

Half-Brained Felser wrote, “What is our chief problem? As Bob Monroe observes J oseph in Far Journeys, it’s that we are a ‘half-brained society.’ That half, of course, would be the left side of the brain: our rational intellect. But what about the other half of us – the right brain of feeling, intuition, psychic sensitivity, and imagination? This creatively fertile, ‘magical’ aspect has, by and large, fallen asleep. In psychological terms, this means it has fallen into the unconscious, where it becomes an unknown object of fear and misunderstanding.” You often hear claims like this, but where’s the evidence? The evidence actually points the exact opposite way. We live in a right-brained world of emotional hysteria – driven by entertainment, sport, rabid politics, and narcissistic social media. Where is the rational intellect? Nowhere to be seen, totally absent. How many average people could name a single living mathematician, scientist or philosopher, yet the names of thousands of vacuous celebrities will effortlessly roll off their tongues. It’s an extremely serious problem that the lie is put about that this is a left-brained society. It’s the opposite. We need it to be left-brained, with Logos in charge rather than Mythos. Bob Monroe said, “Our prime and fundamental purpose, aside from learning through experience in being human, is to acquire and develop what we label intellect: left-brain consciousness.” That’s exactly right. Monroe subscribes to the holographic model. Joseph Felser wrote, “The holographic model suggests that the human brain-mind, as well as the universe it cognizes, is structured like a hologram in which each part replicates the plan of the whole.” This is why OBEs are possible. They furnish access to spacetime information via a different holographic

perspective – from the frequency viewpoint of mind rather than the spacetime viewpoint of body. The body is “here”. The mind is “there”. Normal consciousness is attuned to “here”. OBEs take us “there”. Felser wrote, “Bob conceived this holistic unity in terms of ‘hemispheric synchronization.’ As he writes in Ultimate Journey: ‘Peak performance comes when both left and right brain thinking are integrated, unified, synchronous.’ However, he says, ‘The trick is to get both left and right brain into simultaneous and synchronous action, nudging the left brain more and more into taking part in the “There” activity.’ To which he immediately adds, ‘You should never abandon one for the other.’ “This is key. As Bob often emphasized, we must also nudge the right brain into taking part in the Here activity, by making practical use of the subtle non-physical data we are receiving (but not consciously processing) all the time. Borrowing his favorite metaphor, we could say that the aim of Hemi-Sync is to get the traffic flowing smoothly and evenly in both directions, at once, on the bridges of the Interstate. As Bob notes: ‘Every single thing we learn [Here], no matter how small or seemingly inconsequential, is of immense value There – beyond time-space.’” Humanity needs to start thinking holographically. Scientific materialism militates against this. Science is about parts whereas holographic thinking is holistic. Mind concerns wholes. Matter concerns parts. The very nature of materialist and empiricist thinking is to concentrate on parts. The whole cannot be seen. It can be conceived, but not perceived. Perception always leads us away from the whole truth. Only conception can take us to it. Kant said, “The law of reason to seek unity is necessary, since without it we would have no reason, and without that, no coherent use of the understanding…”

The Beginning a poll, 13.1% of lucid dreamers said they were under 12 when they first I nbegan lucid dreaming. 75.0% were between 13 and 18, 9.4% between 19 and 24, and 2.5% above 24. So, the adolescent brain seems best suited to lucid dreaming, and thus to out-of-body experiences too. It’s well-known that the adolescent brain goes through enormous changes

before settling down into the adult brain. The adult brain – set in its ways – is much less plastic and flexible, and much less able to naturally and spontaneously explore rarer brain states. Adult brains tend to require drugs to change their capacities. The brains of babies and children are unquestionably the best for experiencing extraordinary states, but babies cannot remember their dreams, and children have not established a firm narrative ego and memory. Many children have “imaginary friends”. Are these indicative of dream states being present in their consciousness? Adolescents are much more impulsive than adults, and dreams are likewise much more impulsive than waking, hence the adolescent mind is much more attuned to dream states. Adolescence itself is a kind of technicolor dream. Dreams are characterized by the logic centers being largely turned off in the brain. Crazy things occur without logical objection. Many religions rely on people being in a kind of dream state of faith or mysticism where logic (involving clear, critical, analytic thinking) is disengaged, allowing people to be credulous, gullible and suggestible. Ancient humanity had their logic centers disengaged most of the time. The rise of the power of the logic centers of the brain began with the Greek philosophers. Had humanity followed the likes of Pythagoras and Plato, it would now be much more logical. Instead, humanity followed, the emotionalism of Christianity, the mysticism of the Buddha, and the authoritarianism of Mohammed. It did not pursue logic, which is why humanity to this day is so infected by irrationalism and illogic and all manner of crazy beliefs and conspiracy theories.

Really Real hat’s really real? – mindless, purposeless, meaningless matter, or purposeful, meaningful, directed mind? Does the universe exist for a reason, or for no reason at all? The PSR guarantees that we live in a rational, purposeful universe with a rational point. Everything has a reason. Everything counts.

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The Unconditioned Shakespeare wrote, “In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant (1929) S teven argues that reason aims at the unconditioned, in the sense of a totality of all conditions. This makes intuitive sense; if reason is seeking for a complete explanatory account of objects and events in the world, it cannot rest only with a partial account of their conditions. Colloquially, we might say that reason restlessly seeks the big picture: a full explanation of every conditioned reality whatever. Only the unconditioned can provide that.” Science which is not based on reason but on observation has absolutely no tendency towards the holistic, final solution to everything. It’s not in its gift. Anything cut off from reason cannot provide a rational explanation for everything. Ontological mathematics, which is predicated on reason, is all about reaching the final rational explanation of reality. Steven Shakespeare wrote, “However, there is for Kant a vital caveat. Reason may aim at the unconditioned, but this would take us beyond the bounds of possible experience.” This is in fact the whole point: empiricism cannot take us to the final answer, only rationalism can. Science cannot deliver a final theory of existence, only mathematics can. Steven Shakespeare wrote, “Is reason’s teleological orientation toward the unconditioned therefore illusory? It certainly cannot give us cognitive access to the unconditioned, since the unconditioned is not a possible object of experience.” The unconditioned [that which is not subject to an antecedent condition] certainly isn’t perceptual. It is however conceptual. Kant railed against “pure reason”. However, it is exactly pure reason that explains reality. The Principle of Sufficient Reason is the foundation of reality. Hegel rejected Kant’s conclusions concerning pure reason and said, “What is rational is real, and what is real is rational. … The truth is the whole.” Hegel sought a holistic, rational explanation for everything … that which explains all conditions. Kant reduced pure reason to a merely regulative role. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says, “For Kant, the ‘constitutive’ use of our faculties helps to constitute the objects of knowledge, by providing their form as objects of possible experience. Constitutive principles thereby have a

strong objective standing – the paradigm case being the categories of the understanding. Regulative principles, by contrast, govern our theoretical activities but offer no (constitutive) guarantees about the objects under investigation.” Ontological mathematics is the subject that inverts Kant’s philosophy by making regulative principles constitutive, i.e. it’s pure reason that determines ontology, hence objective reality is mathematical. In other words, where Kant rejected pure reason as constitutive in favor of the transcendental categories of the understanding, and made pure reason merely regulative, ontological mathematics makes pure reason both regulative and constitutive and gets rid of Kant’s complicated and arbitrary categories of the understanding in favor of a single all-explanatory principle: the principle of sufficient reason.

DEEP LUCID DREAMING: HOW TO CHANGE YOUR WORLD n extraordinary power is available to all of us, but it’s also extraordinarily difficult to access. You’ve all heard of lucid dreaming. That’s impressive enough, but Deep Lucid dreaming allows you to access the power of the gods. You have probably never heard of Deep Lucid dreaming. To understand what it does, you first have to understand the theory of ordinary lucid dreaming and another phenomenon to which it is closely related, namely hypnosis. The key to unlocking the secrets of the brain, and thus lucid dreaming, is the phenomenon of brain waves. Most people don’t think about brain waves. If they do, they probably imagine that the brain operates in two modes: waking and sleeping, each with its own pattern of brain waves. In fact, there are five distinct types of brain waves – gamma, beta, alpha, theta, and delta, and this schema produces the scope for all of the extraordinary human behavior we witness everywhere. The issues are made more complex when two different brain hemispheres are taken into consideration. Does each hemisphere have its own separate relation to brain waves? For example, can you have beta waves in one hemisphere and delta waves in the other? The brain waves associated with normal waking consciousness are beta waves. This is alert, active consciousness. Alpha waves are associated with the lowest state of consciousness. This is relaxed, passive consciousness. Theta waves are associated with light sleep and delta waves with deep sleep. Gamma waves are those above beta waves, hence can be associated with elevated consciousness.

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Before we can really drill down into brain waves and their effects, we need to define what consciousness actually is. A good starting point is Jungian psychology. It features three basic layers: the collective unconscious, the personal unconscious and the conscious. The collective unconscious is the foundation and the personal unconscious is an individual development from it, from which a further individual step can be taken – the decisive step concerned with the creation of the personal conscious. Concerning the collective unconscious, Jung wrote, “It must be pointed out that just as the human body shows a common anatomy over and above all racial differences, so, too, the psyche possesses a common substratum transcending all differences in culture and consciousness. I have called this substratum the collective unconscious. This unconscious psyche, common to all mankind, does not consist merely of contents capable of becoming conscious, but of latent dispositions towards certain identical reactions. Thus the fact of the collective unconscious is simply the psychic expression of the identity of brain-structure irrespective of all racial differences. This explains the analogy, sometimes even identity, between various myth-motifs, and symbols, and the possibility of human beings making themselves mutually understood. The various lines of psychic development start from one common stock whose roots reach back into all the strata of the past. This also explains the psychological parallelisms with animals.” If that’s the collective unconscious, what is the personal unconscious? For Freud, it’s where we store repressed contents of consciousness, hence it’s dependent on consciousness, i.e. the conscious mind must exist in order for the unconscious mind to exist. Wikipedia says, “The personal unconscious includes anything which is not presently conscious but can be. The personal unconscious is made up essentially of contents which have at one time been conscious but have disappeared from consciousness through having been forgotten or repressed. The personal unconscious is like most people’s understanding of the unconscious in that it includes both memories that are easily brought to mind and those that have been suppressed for some reason. Jung’s theory of a personal unconscious is quite similar to Freud’s creation of a region containing a person’s repressed, forgotten or ignored experiences. However, Jung considered the personal unconscious to be a ‘more or less superficial layer of the unconscious.’” So, with Freud, consciousness is primary, and the unconscious is its derivative. With Jung, the collective unconscious is primary and the personal

unconscious and the personal conscious are derived from it. In terms of ontology and epistemology, these are staggeringly different theories. For Freud, animals don’t have an unconscious in any meaningful sense. After all, they don’t repress anything. Animals are therefore just sentient, instinctive creatures. Neither the conscious nor unconscious applies to them. For Jung, the personal unconscious isn’t just a repository of the repressed. It’s an entity in its own right, derived from the collective unconscious and designed to individually express the archetypes of the collective unconscious, and ultimately intended to create consciousness. In Jungian terms, all animals have a personal unconscious (sitting on top of the collective unconscious) and thus the potentiality, however slim, of generating consciousness. Jung wrote, “There is good reason for supposing that the archetypes are the unconscious images of the instincts themselves, in other words, that they are patterns of instinctual behavior.” The vast majority of the animal world is under direct archetypal control, i.e. it is purely instinctual. The personal unconscious of animals allows them a small degree of individual adjustment of archetypes to suit their particular circumstances and can lead them to their exhibiting behavior associated with curiosity and some limited degree of personality. According to Julian Jaynes, the road to human consciousness began with a state of the psyche known as “bicameralism”, reflecting the two hemispheres (chambers) of the brain. Jaynes wrote, “The preposterous hypothesis we have come to … is that at one time human nature was split in two, an executive part called a god, and a follower part called a man. Neither part was conscious.” In Jungian terms, the archetypes of the collective unconscious are authoritarian gods, demanding obedience. They speak via hallucinated voices in the right hemisphere of the brain. Their audience is the passive, personal unconscious in the left hemisphere of the brain, which robotically obeys the commands given to it. The classic example is that of Abraham, who was willing to kill his son – without question – because a powerful voice of command inside his head demanded it. The personal unconscious was the puppet and slave of archetypal voices. Jaynes wrote, “The characters of the Iliad do not sit down and think out what to do. They have no conscious minds such as we say we have, and

certainly no introspections. It is impossible for us with our subjectivity to appreciate what it was like. When Agamemnon, king of men, robs Achilles of his mistress, it is a god that grasps Achilles by his yellow hair and warns him not to strike Agamemnon. … It is the gods who start quarrels among men that really cause the war, and then plan its strategy. It is one god who makes Achilles promise not to go into battle, another who urges him to go, and another who then clothes him in a golden fire reaching up to heaven and screams through his throat across the bloodied trench at the Trojans, rousing in them ungovernable panic. In fact, the gods take the place of consciousness.” This is a key point. The gods, the archetypes, serve the command and control function now associated with consciousness. Without consciousness, something else must take decisions, and that thing is instinct, conveyed by archetypes. Descartes believed that humans had souls and animals did not. Humans could take decisions and exhibit free will while animals could not. Animals were mere biological mechanisms … programmed automata, purely instinctual. Jaynes went on, “The beginnings of action are not in conscious plans, reasons, and motives; they are in the actions and speeches of gods. To another, a man seems to be the cause of his own behavior. But not to the man himself. When, toward the end of the war, Achilles reminds Agamemnon of how he robbed him of his mistress, the king of men declares, ‘Not I was the cause of this act, but Zeus, and my portion, and the Erinyes who walk in darkness: they it was in the assembly put wild ate upon me on that day when I arbitrarily took Achilles’ prize from him, so what could I do? Gods always have their way.’” So, bicameral humans can reflect on the fact of being given orders, but they cannot resist these orders. They see themselves as powerless before the will of the gods. They don’t even imagine resisting since they assume that the consequences of disobedience will be much worse than obeying even the most grotesque of orders. All bicameral humans are “victims”. When it comes to all important decisions, they have no agency. Gods dictate all strategy and, at best, bicameral humans are free only to deal with the day-to-day tactics necessary to implement the strategy. The key to Jung’s vision is that instincts, which are silent in animals and

executed automatically, are in bicameral humans hallucinated and vocalized and have a numinous quality. The “god” speaks and the “man” obeys, yet the man, unlike any animal, can express regret over his instinctual behavior. Agamemnon instinctively took Achilles’ mistress – which, for him, meant that the gods ordered it – but he was able to see that this was a problematic action that was probably best avoided if possible. However, it wasn’t possible to resist. The gods cannot be defied. Yet here we already see glimmers of consciousness coming into play. An “instinctive” action is no longer simply executed like a computer instruction, but actually creates doubt, reluctance, a wish for an alternative. Thus we see the birth of reflection, of introspection, and the possibility that if the “gods” were ignored, the “man” could make the decision himself, possibly a very different decision. Consciousness was created when the “man” did indeed become the agent of decision, and thus there was no longer any need for the gods, which promptly fell silent. In Homer’s work, we don’t in fact see the absence of consciousness, as Jaynes maintained, but the first signs of consciousness. The very fact that Agamemnon could worry about the decisions of the gods already proves that he was no simple automaton, doing whatever he was told. He was already showing a capacity, that would develop over the years, to worry about, doubt and finally reject the voice of the gods. The bicameral psyche evolved. In the beginning, bicameral humans would never have doubted the word of the gods. As bicameralism developed, the “man” became more and more dubious about the “god” and, ultimately, the man wondered whether or not it was best to cut out the god. Consciousness was the result. The man himself was now the decision maker. The fact that so many people remain religious in today’s world, and still slavishly obey “holy” texts, shows that bicameralism has never actually disappeared. It’s a spectrum condition. The most conscious people are lowest on the spectrum. The most religious people – those that wish to abdicate their decision-making to some God, or prophet, or guru, or demagogue, or holy book – are highest on the bicameral spectrum and still ache and pine for the divine voice to give them orders. All ancient texts reflect bicameralism. Even the great philosopher Socrates had a daemon, an inner numinous voice, that advised him regarding

all of the most important matters, and which he always obeyed. Moses heard voices, so did Jesus, so did St. Paul, so did Mohammed, so did Joan of Arc. The Oracles channeled the voices of the gods. The Romans were incredibly superstitious and always consulted augurs before deciding what to do, especially before embarking on war. The Salem witch trials in America took place in 1692, as the Enlightenment was starting in Europe. That was a bicameral trial. The participants, including the judges, were not enlightened, conscious people. They still believed in witchcraft, black magic, curses, devils and demons. Today, billions still believe in ancient gods and superstitions, and many millions daily consult their astrological charts. Many millions more believe in conspiracy theories involving shape-shifting, pan-dimensional reptilian aliens. They believe in the “Deep State” as some sort of latter-day Satan, thwarting the forces of “God”. All of this means that most people are still more or less bicameral. Consciousness is merely a thin veneer over the old psyche, and can easily slip back into that mode. The mob mentality is particularly effective at removing individual conscious agency. At a Trump rally, you see bicameralism on full display, with Trump serving as the “god” giving the masses their orders. For Julian Jaynes, bicameralism failed because the gods in the end weren’t hands-on enough. They only gave intermittent commands, not constant commands, thus creating the decisional gap, the evolutionary vacuum, in which consciousness arose. The bicameral human was someone who was always waiting – for the gods. Waiting for Godot was the central story of bicameralism. In evolutionary terms, this was disastrous. When strongly bicameral humans came up against less bicameral humans – humans that had started to develop their own agency and no longer had to wait for the gods to tell them what to do – there could only be one winner. It wasn’t that these less bicameral humans didn’t need the gods anymore. Rather, it was that they believed that they could anticipate what the gods wanted and expected of them. They had successfully internalized the voice of the gods. They believed they were doing the gods’ will, with the gods’ full approval. What is the difference between the ancient Romans and the modern French Revolutionaries? The Romans believed that their actions served the requirements of their gods. The French Revolutionaries, driven by

Enlightenment ideas, had no such notions. They believed the Revolution served the people and humanity itself. Although the Romans were conscious, their consciousness had not liberated itself from the old bicameral gods. Rather, they obeyed the gods at all times. Where Agamemnon often disliked what the gods demanded of him – thus revealing a split psyche – the new consciousness always knew what was required of it by the gods. Look at Muslims. They know what is required of them at all times, don’t they? It’s all in the Koran. They don’t need to hear Mohammed, or the Angel Gabriel, or Allah. They have already internalized the divine voice. If they do anything contrary to the divine mandate, they will feel guilt and shame and consider their immortal soul in jeopardy. So, the gods fell silent because their intermittent “external” voices were replaced by a constant inner voice. No one now needed to wait for a divine command. People could tell themselves at any time what the gods wanted. Imagine a bicameral Greek waiting for the gods to give him orders against a conscious Greek who already knew what the gods wanted because he had internalized the divine voices. The latter would be far more responsive, have much greater agency, hence would win every time. In these terms, bicameralism broke down because it was numinous but inefficient. The gods simply didn’t speak often enough to make the system viable. The long gaps between divine pronouncements proved fatal. Moment-by-moment responsiveness was bound to beat intermittent responsiveness. Consciousness sacrificed the actual voice of the gods – no matter how wondrous – for the internalized understanding of the gods. People stopped waiting for the gods to speak and instead predicted what the gods would say. If you’ve read the Koran, you know what Islam requires of you. You don’t need to wait for anyone to tell you. Of course, Mohammed himself, the founder of Islam, in the beginning had no Koran to read. So, he himself literally did have to wait for the Angel Gabriel – the God-substitute – to instruct him what to do. Once Mohammed had been told everything by the Angel Gabriel, and everything had been duly written down in the Koran, there was no need for any other Muslim to hear the Angel Gabriel. Given these considerations, Jaynes’s bicameral theory can be completely recast in an alternative form. Ordinary people didn’t hear the gods. Only the leaders of society – men like Moses, Jesus, St. Paul and Mohammed – did. They then communicated their instructions to the people. Because these

leaders were full of passion and conviction – believing themselves personally chosen by the gods – they were highly dominant and the submissive masses readily obeyed them. The masses didn’t hear any voices. The masses were instead people of low consciousness. We can imagine them being in a constant alpha state. They never, or rarely, reached beta. They were extremely suggestible, easily hypnotized. Demagogues always have the power to control the masses. In these terms, there was no widespread state of bicameralism, as Jaynes believed. Rather, humanity comprised on the one hand a few bicamerals – the kings, prophets, priests, shamans, oracles (all the most influential individuals in society) – and on the other hand a great mass of conscious people, but where this consciousness was of a very low grade, dominated by alpha rather than beta, and these people were incredibly suggestible, even more so than they are today. The ancient masses were profoundly credulous and gullible. They were spectacularly susceptible to “Big Lie Syndrome”, best described by Adolf Hitler: “All this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true within itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. “It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.” Old humanity was caught in a trap. Humans had very poor critical thinking faculties and were easily suggestible. So, if anyone told them a vast lie, it immediately seemed true (thanks to their suggestibility), and they didn’t have the reasoning skills and skepticism to doubt it and challenge it. So, when charismatic, persuasive, dominant people said crazy things, these things were almost always accepted as being true, hence all of the world’s

mainstream religions – absurdities one and all – came into being. All mainstream religions are about dominant minorities controlling submissive majorities. You don’t need to look far around the world today to see millions and even billions of people fanatically believing self-evident nonsense. The average human is still credulous, gullible, suggestible and immensely prone to believing the Big Lie. In this modified bicameral scheme, humanity wasn’t bicameral as a generality. Only the leaders channeled archetypes via the hallucinated voices of the gods. Average humanity, meanwhile, was highly suggestible, and therefore readily hypnotizable. Dominant humans have continuously hypnotized submissive humans. We can see it today at music gigs, at Trump rallies, at celebrity appearances. We can see it when “influencers” launch new content. We can see it with conspiracy theories, with social media content going viral, and with the continuing power and influence of silly old religions and superstitions. Julian Jaynes, in these terms, was wrong. The psyche of old humanity was very similar to that of today’s humanity. What has really changed is that, thanks to education, people have better reasoning skills and therefore are that bit more skeptical. But not by much. The likes of Churchill, Hitler and Trump show that the old tricks still work. The propaganda of dominants still succeeds. The masses still believe and obey. The real issue to be examined, in this scenario, is not bicameralism. Rather, it’s suggestibility. Why are so many humans so suggestible? It’s an astounding fact. Yet suggestibility is essential to change. You could never reach a tipping point unless people were suggestible enough to succumb to new ideas. There is actual textual evidence in Homer’s Iliad that the bicameral hypothesis is false. The disproof is contained in the singular passage concerning the anti-hero Thersites – the first working class figure, the first commoner, ever to feature in literature. Homer wrote, “While the others were seated and packed in close, the endlessly talkative Thersites alone let his tongue run on, his mind filled with a store of unruly words, baiting the leaders wildly and recklessly, aiming to raise a laugh among the men. He was the ugliest of all who had come to Ilium, bandy-legged and lame of foot; rounded shoulders hunched over his chest; and above them a narrow head with a scant few hairs. He was loathed

above all by Odysseus and Achilles, his favorites for abuse; but now his shrill cry rose against noble Agamemnon, despite the deep anger and indignation of the Achaeans. At the top of his voice he reviled the King: ‘Son of Atreus, what’s your problem now, what more do you need? Your huts are filled with bronze, crowded with women, the pick of the spoils we Achaeans grant you when we sack a city. Is it gold you want now, the ransom for his son some horse-taming Trojan shall bring you out of Ilium, the son that I or some other Achaean have bound and led away? Or a young girl to sleep with, one for you alone? Is it right for our leader to wrong us in this way? Fools, shameful weaklings, Achaean women, since you’re no longer men, home then with our ships, and leave this fellow here, at Troy, to contemplate his prizes, let him learn how much he depends on us, this man who insulted Achilles, a better man than he, by arrogantly snatching his prize. Surely Achilles has a heart free of anger, to accept it; or, son of Atreus, that insolent act would be your last.’ “So Thersites railed at Agamemnon, leader of men, but noble Odysseus was soon at his side, and rage in his look, lashed him with harsh words: ‘Take care what you say, Thersites, so eloquent, so reckless, take care when you challenge princes, alone.’” There is no suggestion here that Thersites was in any way being directed by the gods to ridicule the Greek leaders, or that Odysseus was under divine instruction to rebuke him. Why didn’t the gods order this “troublemaker” to be executed? Thersites, we can imagine, was in reality a highly charismatic and influential soldier – a kind of trade union leader – complaining on behalf of the ordinary soldiers about the disastrous tactics and strategies of the Greek kings, which were inflicting incredible hardships on the ordinary soldiers. He speaks exactly like any critic of the establishment to be found in the world today. He at no time attributes divine motives and orders to the Greek generals and kings. He gives them entirely human motivations, of the very worst kind. Let’s face it, Homer was a writer and why should we not accept that it was simply a literary device of his to attribute heroes’ actions to dramatic decisions taken by gods. This device raised the stakes. It made everything much grander and more cosmic. But Thersites gives the game away. He was a real, conscious character trying to overthrow the awful kings, and Homer was compelled to depict him as utterly repulsive to stop the sheen of the

kings from being tarnished. Thersites is the first normal character ever featured in literature, and Homer felt he had to be demonized to the maximum possible extent to leave the stage exclusively for the kings and gods. Hegel wrote, “The Thersites of Homer who abuses the kings is a standing figure for all times. He does not get in every age the blows that he gets in Homer. But his envy, his egotism, is the thorn which he has to carry in his flesh. And the undying worm that gnaws him is the tormenting consideration that his excellent views and vituperations remain absolutely without result in the world. But our satisfaction at the fate of Thersitism may also have its sinister side.” Thersites is actually the first working-class hero, the original class warrior, daring to challenge the power of the elites. He is the first Spartacus. He also proves that the ordinary people are conscious, calculating, disgruntled and willing to disobey and criticize their inept leaders. Lions led by donkeys! Thersites comes across as defiantly unsuggestible. He was wholly unwilling to go along with the propaganda of the kings. Yet suggestibility can, in the right circumstances, be remarkably useful. After all, how did the human use of language take off? It was because a few dominants were able to make the suggestible masses agree to adopt the language which they themselves – the dominants – devised. In these terms, what bicameralism was really all about was Alpha Ape Syndrome. Wikipedia says, “In studies of social animals, the highest ranking individual is sometimes designated as the alpha. ... “Beta animals often act as second-in-command to the reigning alpha or alphas and will act as new alpha animals if an alpha dies or is otherwise no longer considered an alpha. … “Omega is an antonym used to refer to the lowest caste of the hierarchical society. Omega animals are subordinate to all others in the community, and are expected by others in the group to remain submissive to everyone. Omega animals may also be used as communal scapegoats or outlets for frustration, or given the lowest priority when distributing food.” The human world, unlike nature, has an apex system of inheritance. If you are born into the right family – a royal family or a super-rich family – you become an alpha for that reason alone. You don’t have to do anything. You don’t have to be an actual alpha. You don’t have to fight anyone or have

any talent. If you have all the alpha “padding”, all the status, that does the job for you. “Status”, especially when not earned, has always been the greatest liar. ✽

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With ordinary lucid dreaming, you explore your personal unconscious and harness its creative abilities. With deep lucid dreaming, you go past the personal unconscious into the collective unconscious. You harness its archetypes and creative abilities, within your own dreamspace, thus giving you archetypal, numinous, maximally creative dreams, just like those of God!

Drunk you ever dreamt about drinking beer and then becoming seriously H ave drunk as a result? Some people have. Yet there is no actual alcohol involved. How did they get drunk in their dream without the involvement of physical alcohol? People can in fact become drunk in the real world simply by being told they are drinking alcohol, even though it’s actually nonalcoholic. It’s all in the mind!

The Bubble lucid dreaming, it’s necessary to create a kind of dissociation: part of the I nbrain is the waking state (associated with beta waves), while the rest is in the dreaming state (associated with theta waves). A lucid dreamer has created an active, conscious bubble within the dream state. In normal dreaming, consciousness is degraded, passive, reactive, feeble, with little or no will of its own. It’s a passenger rather than a driver. Lucidity puts it firmly behind the steering wheel once more.

HEMISPHERIC WAVES? hat is never discussed in any analysis of brain waves is hemispheric dominance. This could lead to a completely new understanding of how the brain/mind complex operates. Instead of saying that the brain as a whole has five distinct brain wave states, let’s say that each hemisphere of the brain has five distinct brain wave states, leading to twenty-five possible combinations between the two hemispheres. We shall assign consciousness to the left hemisphere where the language center of the brain is located, and therefore the right hemisphere is where the unconscious is located. The five states for each hemisphere work in the opposite direction. So, for example, “beta” denotes a high level of conscious activity and thus a low level of unconscious activity, while “delta” denotes a low level of conscious activity and thus a high level of unconscious activity. If we designate the left hemisphere as LH and the right hemisphere as RH, we get the following combinations:

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1) LH-beta; RH-beta: normal, active conscious; passive unconscious. The normal waking state. 2)

LH-beta; RH-alpha: normal, active conscious; a more active unconscious. Frequent daydreaming. Easily distracted. Lack of focus and direction. Scatter-brained.

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LH-beta; RH-theta: normal, active conscious; an even more active unconscious. Possible mental illness. Possible schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and so on. If the RH is dominant (you are asleep) then this state is associated with lucid dreaming.

4) LH-beta; RH-delta: normal, active conscious; most active unconscious. Genius; visionary breakthroughs; great poetry and art. If the RH is dominant (you are asleep) then this state is associated with OBEs. 5)

LH-beta; RH-gamma: normal, active conscious; most passive

unconscious. Hyper focus. Certain types of logical and rational discursive genius can happen here. 6) LH-alpha; RH-beta: passive, relaxed conscious; passive unconscious. A highly suggestible state. 7)

LH-alpha; RH-alpha: passive, relaxed conscious; a more active unconscious. Highly active daydreaming.

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LH-alpha; RH-theta: passive, relaxed conscious; an even more active unconscious. Deep visions. The Dreamtime. Spirit Quests.

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LH-alpha; RH-delta: passive, relaxed conscious; most active unconscious. Possible contact with the Collective Unconscious. Possible visionary breakthroughs, epiphanies, eureka moments and oceanic feelings.

10) LH-alpha; RH-gamma: passive, relaxed conscious; most passive unconscious. A hyper suggestible state. 11) LH-theta; RH-beta: quite inactive conscious; passive unconscious. A mental state progressing towards coma. 12) LH-theta; RH-alpha: quite inactive conscious; a more active unconscious. A deep sleep with some dreaming. 13) LH-theta; RH-theta: quite inactive conscious; an even more active unconscious. A deep sleep with a lot of dreaming. 14) LH-theta; RH-delta: quite inactive conscious; most active unconscious. A deep sleep with possible interaction with the archetypes of the collective unconscious. 15) LH-theta; RH-gamma: quite inactive conscious; most passive unconscious. Nearing coma. 16) LH-delta; RH-beta: most inactive conscious; passive unconscious. Precoma state. 17) LH-delta; RH-alpha: most inactive conscious; a more active unconscious. Deep dreaming. 18) LH-delta; RH-theta: most inactive conscious; an even more active unconscious. Very deep dreaming.

19) LH-delta; RH-delta: most inactive conscious; most active unconscious. Highest contact with collective unconscious. 20) LH-delta; RH-gamma: most inactive conscious; most passive unconscious. Full coma state. If caused by a sudden emergency state, this could trigger a near-death experience. DMT could wash through the body. 21) LH-gamma; RH-beta: most active conscious; passive unconscious. This is a highly focused state of consciousness with enormous potential for rational and logical thinking of a very high order. 22) LH-gamma; RH-alpha: most active conscious; more active unconscious. In this state, unconscious content can contribute to this highly conscious state. 23) LH-gamma; RH-theta: most active conscious; even more active unconscious. In this state, the highly conscious state can receive very high intuitive contributions. 24) LH-gamma; RH-delta: most active conscious; most active unconscious. This is the maximum state of mental activity, with both the conscious and unconscious operating at maximum. This is where integration of the conscious and unconscious is most likely. It is the best location for the operation of the Jungian transcendent unconscious and for Jungian individuation to proceed apace. If the RH is dominant (you are asleep) then this state is associated with Godlike lucid dreaming. Optimal lucid dreaming. 25) LH-gamma; RH-gamma: most active conscious; most passive unconscious. This is the purest state of consciousness possible. This is the superconscious. This is where the greatest powers of reason and logic can be exercised. This is where maximum discursive knowledge of ontological mathematics can be achieved. If the RH is dominant (you are asleep) then this state is associated with Godlike OBEs. Optimal OBEs. In effect, you can achieve gnosis and divinity. If you want to become a God, you should make a note of all possible mental states available to you, and desirable for you, and seek to progressively access all of these different states, concluding with the final two. Expand your mind to the maximum! Forget meditation and mindfulness. Practice

lucid dreaming and OBEs instead. Technology could be used to inhibit one hemisphere while stimulating the other to create the necessary hemispheric imbalances. Can the corpus callosum linking the two hemispheres be enhanced to improve hemispheric communication and integration, or can it be suppressed to create independent hemispheric operations? The sky’s the limit regarding brain-wave manipulation. The human race has barely scratched the surface of the potentialities of the brain-mind complex. It has hardly even begun to explore the power of sleeping and dreaming and unlocking the full, awesome power of the unconscious, and going beyond the personal unconscious to the transcendent collective unconscious. Scientific materialism and religion both hold back the investigation of the complete spectrum of mental powers. Scientific materialism denies the real existence of mind (reducing it to a mere product of matter), hence is unable to develop technology for something it completely misunderstands and misinterprets, and for which it has no theory. Only ontological mathematics supplies the necessary theory. As for religion, it too wholly lacks the necessary ontology and epistemology, and it is much more interested in faith, prayer, ritual, mysticism, meditation and mindfulness than it is in sleep, dreams, the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious, the superconscious, dream drugs, dream technology, and so on. Religion wants to make you subservient to some prophet, guru, high priest, pope, holy text or God. It has no interest in liberating the extraordinary potential of your mind where you yourself become a god and have no need of any religion. Wake up. Get real. You are your own savior. All of us contain the divine spark. We just need to realize it and act upon it.

Practical Steps f you want to get serious about lucid dreaming and OBEs, you need to get together with a like-minded person and start carrying out experiments along the lines of those described in this book. Drugs can certainly help, but they have considerable dangers. Hypnosis is a far better way forward, but

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then you need to know a cooperative hypnotist who shares your passion for these topics and has the lust to explore. Never forget, lucid dreaming and OBEs can be life-changing, but this “game” comes with serious risks. People with fragile minds can crack. Inception reveals how dangerous to the health of the psyche lucid dreaming potentially is. You can become “lost”, like Cobb’s wife, or highly disturbed, like Cobb himself, never sure of what reality is.

Gnosis r. Thomas Stark wrote, “Gnosis is when you achieve complete semantic control over syntax, i.e. you can enact whatever you think (within reason … you may of course be up against other Godlike minds, which can stop you from doing certain things). The different stages through which Neo passes in The Matrix provide a valuable depiction of the journey to gnosis. At the end, Neo can stop bullets through mind power alone. He can warp the fabric of the Matrix. He has a complete understanding of the Matrix. “A gnosis spectrum can be posited. All of us have in fact passed the first stage of gnosis. We have successfully escaped from our own mind and dreamworld, and connected to a body in the objective, shared world. This is an astonishing achievement by itself, but is conducted unconsciously, hence constitutes unconscious gnosis. “The second stage of gnosis is lucid dreaming. The third stage is OBE mastery. The fourth stage is controlling, with your own mind, small amounts of matter that do not belong to your own body (we are talking about telekinesis, for example). The fifth stage is controlling large amounts of such matter. The sixth stage is controlling spacetime itself (being able to warp it). The seventh stage is being able to do more or less whatever you like with matter and spacetime. The eighth, ninth and tenth belong to the mental domain and the highest mental operations, but we are not going to discuss those since this knowledge is strictly reserved for the Illuminati.” Don’t waste your time on prayer, meditation and mindfulness. It’s time to get on the ladder to gnosis. Become experts at lucid dreaming and OBEs.

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Beta Waves and Mindfulness brain waves are associated with alertness, awareness, logic, critical B eta reasoning and day to day consciousness. We go through everyday life in beta. Beta is our problem-solving mode. No animal has human-like beta functionality. Yet the very fact and act of problem solving already presupposes something troublesome – the existence of problems. Solving problems means being immersed in problems, and problems generate stress, anxiety and restlessness. Problems require effort, judgment, the possibility, perhaps even probability, of error. Error is stressful. Error produces gloom, angst, depression. What are meditation and mindfulness all about? They are actually antibeta activities. The people that engage in these practices basically want to eradicate beta activity. They hate problems, problem-solving, judgment. They want a stress-free, effort-free life. So, their real agenda is to eliminate beta, to eliminate consciousness itself. Has there ever been a more perverse ambition? These people want to be sheep. They aspire to the condition of animals. They want to be in alpha mode, or theta mode, or even delta mode. Beta mode is not for them. You often hear people describing beta mode as their inner critic, the nagging voice lecturing them, and getting louder and louder, and more and more relentless and oppressive. The meditation gang and the mindfulness industry are all about banishing beta mode. We say life is all about developing and enhancing beta mode and getting up to gamma mode and even beyond. We’re the opposite of the Eastern mystics and New Agers. We are rationalists. We are logicians. We are mathematicians and philosophers. We are scientists and engineers. Problemsolving is what we do. We love problem-solving. Our entire purpose is to solve the ultimate problems of existence. The task of the meditators and the mindfulness advocates is to flee from every problem, solve no problems, and become animals, devoid of consciousness, untroubled by judgment. They dream of living non-judgmentally in the moment. That’s what cows do. The message of Eastern mysticism and New Ageism is Become a Cow! Dream of the universal Cow Mind, where all cows tune into mindless

nirvana. The All is one giant Cow oblivion! That’s what the Fat Buddha concluded. He ought to have eaten more hamburgers! Mmmmm.

CONCLUSION eality is nothing like how the ordinary person imagines it to be. All of the delusions of the average person stem from a complete failure to understand the ontology and epistemology of mathematics, and in particular the fact that reality is made of monads comprised of sinusoidal waves and that these monads exist in an immaterial Singularity that isn’t in space and time but which gives rise to space, time and matter via specific mathematical operations concerning the phase properties of waves. The masses succumb to the Sensory Delusion that particularly afflicts every scientist. They believe in “matter”. They believe that their senses show them reality. In fact, their senses show them only a particular interpretation or perspective of reality. It is merely a representation, or more accurately a misrepresentation, of what is actually there. The best rational way to understand reality is of course to use reason and logic. If you’re an empirical type of person and you like to experience things directly for yourself then the way to free yourself of any trace of materialism is to become a master of lucid dreaming and then use that as the launchpad to enter the extraordinary domain of OBEs where you cease to be a human and become none other than an incorporeal angel. Your body is asleep on a bed somewhere, but your mind is roaming the galaxies and can even enter black holes. You can access the Source itself, the Singularity, and encounter every other mind. You will truly be a god. It is humanity’s destiny to become a divine species, and ontological mathematics and Illuminism are the platform to enable this numinous phase transition. Are you ready? The hour of destiny is at hand. Join our enlightened movement. We shall bring the second and final Enlightenment, the Enlightenment of the Mind. Humanity has been held back by the antienlightenment of Matter – mindless, lifeless, purposeless, directionless stuff with no value, no worth, no meaning, and no point. Science – materialism, empiricism, and physics – is blocking human progress and providing a false consciousness. Ontological mathematics –

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idealism, rationalism, and metaphysics, which encapsulates and explains the whole of science – is the means to at last liberate humanity and realize the full potential of all of us, making us all maximally conscious. It’s time to immanentize the eschaton. Come with us!