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CTMU Basics
The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe or CTMU (pronounced "cat-mew") is the first self-simulation theory of the relationship between mind and reality by Christopher Michael Langan.

The universe is a Self-Configuring Self-Processing Language (Chris Langan)
The Author = The Universe
The CTMU saves us from many conundrums that stem from the idea that reality was a tangible thing that had one specific, outside creator.
Materialist smooth brains like to argue that if God created the universe then who created God? This is self-inflicted mental retardation reeking with ignorance. A chosen misunderstanding, usually introduced with the words “Oh, so you’re saying…“.
No, that’s not what I’m saying.
If reality is defined as everything there is, it would indeed be tricky to define the creator of that as being something outside. Materialists find their whole identity in repeatedly projecting this misunderstanding onto anyone dumb enough to try to help them.
Let me help you.
The universe is both the author and the book. It is a story writing itself. You may not like this definition but don’t confuse your thinking it is trivial with thinking it is incorrect. Accept this thought and go with it.
The biggest issue with all kinds of simulation theories is, that they require some sort of framework that runs the simulation. If reality is a computer simulation then what computer is it running on? This line of thinking forces you into the next layer of abstraction where now you have to explain how the computer that simulates reality is itself being simulated. You’re stuck with the same question in another dimension.
Well, what computer is the simulation running on that simulates the computer that runs the simulation?
It’s dumb and I shouldn’t have to point that out. This is what Chris calls:
Metaphysical Autology: Reality is self-contained; no external creator needed
God didn’t make the pudding, God is in the pudding.
The CTMU rejects the idea of a simulation and says
The universe is not a simulation, it is a syntactic-semantic unity.
So in other words a self-simulation, and we may just say that the universe is both singular ("author") and plural ("content") which Chris calls Multiplex Unity.
It means same, same but different and you can imagine it like a fractal. The same fractal produces different shapes and colors depending on what you look at and how deep you zoom into it but it never stops being the same thing, no matter how deep you go.
In terms of quantum soup, the universe is a single broth (unity) that becomes distinct flavors (multiplexity) when "observed". The same soup that you find dull might be too salty for your grandma. The same vegetable that you find overcooked might be undercooked for somebody else.
The CTMU terminology for the quantum soup is unbound telesis. A state of infinite potential.
UBT (unbound telesis) is the broth, observation adds the ‘flavors’ of reality.
Now just imagine the broth preparing itself and you have the perfect analogy.
The Language = Math + Logic
We’ve covered the author and the book but what is the language that is written? Quite simply, it is math and logic itself. They are a set of rules by which its construction and manipulation is being guided, just like grammar is guiding the flow of natural language.
Reality is a syntactic-semantic language where mathematics and logic are the irreducible grammar. Syntax (math/logic) generates semantics (meaning).
Though maybe hard to wrap your head around at first, let me throw in a funny little fact to meditate on.
The GNU compiler collection (gcc) that is used to compile most C and C++ programs is itself written in C. How does that make you feel? It tickles your brain for a moment and then you move on. Now what’s so hard to accept about the idea that reality is a language that is using math and logic to compile itself while it’s running?
It is self-creating and self-processing.
The observable laws of physics are what Langan calls Syntactic Operators. The fact that a sentence has a subject and object is not something that we somehow discovered. It’s just how grammar works. Similarly, the number π is not discovered, it just is what it is. Math isn’t invented, it’s the universe’s grammar.
Particles are ‘words’; forces are ‘verbs’. (CTMU Glossary)
Materialists think math is a tool, as if a monkey with a wrench could build the universe. Math is not a tool but the mere bones of the universe. The universe was running on math before humans even existed. The same can’t be said about the wrench.
The Plot = Evolution
“Reality evolves via telic recursion, a self-configuring process where syntactic states refine toward coherence.” (Langan, CTMU Overview)
Telic means towards a goal, so the opposite of random. Let’s take a moment of silence for all the materialists whose buttocks just clenched when they read this.
So even though this whole play is far from being deterministic, it is indeed loosely following a certain script, which Langan calls syntactic attractor. It doesn’t exactly know it’s own next step but it kind of knows where it wants to go. It seeks coherence and it finds itself in a constant state of debugging. Mistakes are allowed but they will be corrected.
Pretty much the same loop you find yourself in throughout your own life but on a greater scale. Like you grow as a person through seeking coherence, the universe grows as a whole.
Evolution is the process of attaining coherence and the goal of that process is to get closer to God. The universe is fulfilling its destiny and in the process, you are fulfilling yours.
You co-author this story called your life but only so far as you align with your own destiny. The more you deviate from it, the more you will be forced to walk back. Every step you take will ultimately bring you closer to your destiny, no matter which direction you chose.
"Reality is a error-correcting code. Telic recursion is its debugger."
How it works:
Step 1: A syntactic state (e.g., a physical law) generates potential outcomes.
Step 2: Incoherent outcomes (paradoxes/contradictions) are automatically pruned.
Step 3: Surviving states feed back into the system as new "rules."
And so the plot keeps evolving while biological evolution is just another symptom of telic recursion in the biosphere.
But what is the ink that brings all of this onto paper? What are paper, ink, and reality actually made of?
You’ve guessed it. It is consciousness itself. Reality is a love letter written to itself.
"Semantic content (meaning) requires a syntactic medium (physics), just as ink requires paper—but in SCSPL, the ink and paper are mutually generative." (CTMU Glossary)
Consciousness isn’t just the ink, it’s the paper becoming the ink writing itself. It is how the universe perceives itself.
M=R (Mind=Reality)
In the CTMU there is no distinguishing between mind and reality. They are codependent and can be seen as two different angles of looking at the same thing.
"Mind and reality are not just correlated but identical. Perception is reality’s self-reading mechanism." (CTMU, 2002)
This means that mind (cognition) is not just an observer of the universe (reality) around it but an active participant in creating reality.
Your consciousness isn't observing reality, it's reality locating itself. Mind is reality’s self-locating GPS, where “You are here” creates here.
"The universe is a self-excited circuit where observation and existence coincide." (Langan, 2017)
You might think this is far-fetched, but it is actually one of the major claims of quantum mechanics and has been proven in the double-slit experiment. The double-slit experiment isn't just "spooky action", it is conspansive duality in action
If you’ve never heard of it, look it up and give it a quick read. It’s an experiment with a truly unpredictable result that can be interpreted as proof for free will, as it implies particles choose paths. Observation creates position (M=R)
Since we’re doing the top-down abstract modeling kind of thing here, we don’t really care about proof or experiments, so if that’s what you’re looking for, you’re on your own.
In case you still doubt the fact that you have free will in general, let me inform you that you’re just retarded. You're not just wrong, you're willfully blind. You’ve just contradicted yourself by exercising free will.
Conspansive Duality: The Cosmic Pulse
The mechanism behind M=R is what Langan calls Conspansive Duality which describes an interplay between expansion (actualized reality) and contraction (potential states).
Referring back to the double-slit experiment, this mirrors the wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics but extends it to a cosmological scale, where reality is both discrete (localized) and continuous (distributed).
Discrete, because we can observe that at the smallest scale, reality comes in little packages, or, as we say, it is quantised. However, our experience of reality is continuous. It’s not like we experience the world through some sort of frame rate, but rather, as Eckhart Tolle would say, “It is always now“.
Expansion (Conspansion) represents the actualization of reality, like a cosmic computation. The unfolding of space, time, and matter, similar to the Big Bang but continuous. The Vedics call this the cosmic breath, where Maha-Visnu’s exhaling is associated with the creation and manifestation of the Brahmanda universes. In this case, the analogy between the CTMU, quantum mechanics, and Vedic cosmology is rather obvious.
"Conspansion is ontological compression: the universe ‘zooms in’ on itself to resolve states." (Langan)
It will get a bit more spicy in the next one, but we shall unpack even that.
Contraction (Potentialization) represents the collapse of possibilities back into a latent state, like quantum decoherence or perceptual resolution. This could at first glance represent two seemingly different concepts, namely Wavefunction Collapse and the Vedic concept of Cosmic Dissolution (Pralaya). Let me spoiler right away: it is both.
Option A: Contraction as Wavefunction Collapse (Illusion of Time)
If contraction represents the collapse of the wave function, then every observation collapses possibilities into a single moment. This means only through observation is the moment born. Therefore, observation creates the illusion of time. Time is an emergent artifact of this recursive contraction/expansion process (similar to Carlo Rovelli’s relational time in quantum gravity).
The CTMU says the universe resolves itself through perception, creating the appearance of time via conspansive feedback loops.
This mirrors the Maya of time. The illusion of linear succession in a fundamentally timeless reality, as in Advaita Vedanta.
Option B: Contraction as Cosmic Dissolution (Pralaya)
If contraction represents Pralaya, then the universe isn’t just locally collapsing, it is fully reabsorbing into potential. Imagine it like a black hole evaporating or Brahman withdrawing manifestation. In Vedic terms this is called the Night of Brahma, when the universe dissolves back into the unmanifest.
The CTMU would say the Self-Configuring Language resets its state, recycling information into a new cycle of expansion.
Synthesis
This means conspansive duality operates at both micro (quantum) and macro (cosmic) scales.
On a quantum level, contraction is wavefunction collapse, creating time as we experience it. On a cosmic level, contraction is universal potentialization, like a big crunch or return to singularity.
This mirrors Vedic fractal cosmology, where there is a day of Brahma (Kalpa) and a night of Brahma (Pralaya), but within each Kalpa, there are smaller cycles (Manvantaras), just as quantum collapses happen within the larger universe.
So whether contraction is quantum collapse or cosmic dissolution, the core idea is that time is not fundamental, it’s a side effect of conspansive processing.
Time is how SCSPL renders reality in a sequence of perceptual frames. This aligns the CTMU with Vedic cyclical time, quantum physics, and digital physics (universe as a self-resetting computation).
CTMU vs. Vedas
There is still a difference between Langan’s views and the Vedas, as in the CTMU feedback loops are recursive, not literal rebirth, as in the Vedas. Vedic cycles can be seen as metaphors for SCSPL’s state resets, however, the CTMU does not state literal cycles of reincarnation.
What does that mean? You tell me!
Anyway consciousness is fundamental and isn’t just a side effect of the material but rather the material and time itself are side effects of consciousness.
“Time is syntax masquerading as semantics” (Langan)
So what does it mean to fulfill your destiny? Fulfilling your destiny isn’t finding purpose, it’s debugging your state vector until it compiles.
If the concept of telic recursion naturally drives you towards your destiny but your free will still permits you to deviate, how do you measure the gap? By what metric do you judge your actions in any given moment if you can’t always see them in perspective to the greater goal?
Extrapolation requires computation so you can’t always think your actions through till the end. You simply don’t have enough time to do that for every single step of the recursion. If you want to know what is good and what isn’t, in any particular moment of crisis, you need to be able to answer that question instantaneously.
"A physical state is possible if and only if it satisfies the syntactic constraints of SCSPL." (Langan, 2002)
Now from your local point of reference, what is a point that can be reached instantaneously? Against what can you contrast yourself immediately?
Correct. Back into yourself. Coherence refers to a state of self-consistent, self-contained logical unity.
Reality has a built in debugging mechanism that will only allow coherent states. Since it is however not deterministic, you are allowed to explore the illusion of incoherence. Imagine a camera live fed to a screen and pointed at that screen. Your classic video feedback image.

If you wobble the camera in front of the screen, the image will never stop sinking into a hole. It will however curve in the early frames.
The camera’s wobble is your free will. The perceptual operator syntax of SCSPL that lets you edit reality’s self-rendering. The fractal’s inevitability is telic recursion’s attractor. You’re not choosing the dot’s path, you’re choosing how to wobble within the syntax.
You have some sort of control over the image but it fundamentally does what it does and you’re left with a sense of awe.
Recursion always happens stepwise and your free will represents the wobble of the camera. If you want to manipulate what is happening at the “deepest” frame, you do so by manipulating every single frame that comes in front of it. The recursive nature of the universe will save you time as all you have to do is align yourself with yourself, which is infinitely more easy than trying to figure out every possible state of the universe and judging them one by one.
This is M=R in action: your self-alignment IS the universe self-configuring.
Let’s explore the video feedback analogy even further.
Let’s say the blue center of the feedback loop happens to be in the center of the physical screen. The camera is pointed at the screen perfectly straight and centered. Now you want to move the blue dot to the top right corner.
How do you actually do that?
In order to move the last frame, that technically represents the center of the fractal, you will have to manipulate an infinite amount of frames in front of it. Do you actually calculate the change in position of the first frame and then from that the second and so on? Obviously you don’t since that would require an infinite amount of time and you would generate compounding errors.
Luckily the universe has a built in error-correction mechanism that is going to save you here.
"Telic recursion actively eliminates incoherent state transitions."
— CTMU Glossary ("Telic Recursion")
What you do is you lean into the recursion and exploit its own nature by directly understanding the relationship between the last frame and your degree of freedom, which is in this case the angle of the camera.
By carefully moving the camera in different directions, you learn how to manipulate one thing only, in order to let the universe manipulate an infinite amount of in-between frames for you.
You strive to achieve coherence within yourself and the universe around you will fall into place, the way its syntax permits.
You align yourself with yourself and thereby get closer to God.
Manly P. Hall: Victory of the Soul Over Circumstance
Well, we have a very interesting subject this morning, and we'll pause for a moment because it involves a concept that has had considerable distribution in Christian mysticism: and that is, the problem of the soul. In the Bible, there is a statement that says: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. And there is another statement in another place that says: but the spirit returns to God who gave it. And the problem of the difference between these two definitions has been a confusion to theologians for a long time.
Actually, according to the ancient beliefs in these matters, the soul was a vestment: the golden wedding garment, the garment that was to be worn to the wedding of the Lamb, and actually was a phase of the magnetic field of the human body. In other words, the golden wedding garment, or the soul, was a construction that arises within the magnetic field of the human aura.
In other words, as the works of goodness, as the desire to grow increases, and the individual makes certain changes and improvements in his own life pattern, there are changes in the magnetic field. Gradually, there becomes a transformation, and there appears in the field a luminous quality which represents the goodness of our hearts and minds. This goodness increases as we increase in righteousness, and in the end, it becomes a luminous vestment within the magnetic field or within the aura. And when it attains to this great magnitude, it is called the golden wedding garment.
Now this is the garment of righteousness, the garment that is earned by the labors of the life. It becomes also part of the great protection which guards the individual from within himself, as he increases in understanding and insight. In all practical purposes, therefore, the story of the golden wedding garment, or the soul, is the story of the visible changes in the constitution of the magnetic fields of the human body which tells us of the unfoldment and development of the being that has that body.
Also, the aura, or magnetic field, does manifest to some degree in the visible world. And, the works of the golden wedding garment are the labors of righteousness. As the individual increases in spiritual integrities, these integrities become a part of his essential consciousness. They are not moods that arise and fail. If the growth is genuine, these moods grow and continue until the individual, in that life, is transmuted and transformed.
Therefore, in a sense also, the soul becomes the stone of the philosopher, the mysterious alchemical mystery of the transformation of all base substances into the gold of wisdom. Therefore when we speak of the victory of soul over circumstance, we refer to the growth of inner light over the pressures and problems of outer living. We find gradually that the strength to do it right develops within ourselves. We are not saved, so to say, by some outside force or by some legal or legislative change. We grow from within, and as we grow stronger from within, the adversities of the outside become less.
The golden wedding garment therefore, is also this mysterious elixir of life; one drop of which transforms 10,000 times its own weight. These terms which are used in mysticism to guard the secrets from the profane, are also in a way mysteriously correct, for they represent the tremendous increase of inward power resulting from the transmutation of the base elements of life.
Actually therefore, we have to realize that under normal conditions, we are of this earth, earthy. We are not bad, we are not evil. We are like all other creatures; we simply are made of certain substances and these substances gradually gain dominion over us, and we react to these pressures much as the animal does or any of the other kingdoms of nature. But these pressures, while they are present in the human being, are balanced by a tremendous power within the human being that is not present in the other kingdoms. In the other kingdoms, this greater power is left with group spirits or powers that protect orders of life, not individuals.
With human beings, however, the protection becomes individual. This is one of the ways in which we distinguish humanity from all the other kingdoms of nature. Humanity has the power of redemption within itself and each individual has the power of redemption within himself. He must develop this power and must strengthen it and must permit it to manifest out into his daily life. And when he does so, he achieves the transmutation of the base substances of his body. Now, base substances in this case, though, does not mean evil substances. It simply means matter, material, substance as it is in earth and in the ground beneath our feet. It is the natural substance of the natural world.
But the individual is not of this, though it may seem like plants, his root is in material things. Actually, as Plotinus tells us in his essay on the beautiful, while the roots of man are in the earth, the flower and the seed is in heaven. And the gradual growth up is told in one of the European folklore stories: Jack and the Beanstalk. The Beanstalk being the symbol of the spine with its various chakras and centers.
Actually however, the soul constitutes the sum of the things we have done well. It is the sum of the victories, little ones mostly, by which added together becomes the basis of redemption. The individual, in other words, must save himself. He cannot be saved by any outside power, nor can he be destroyed by any outside power. He must grow according to his own inward life and the powers that were bestowed upon him when he was set forth as a creature in this great world.
Each individual therefore, is building his own wedding garment. He's building his own soul out of his departments, out of his way of life, out of the parts of his nature, out of all these circumstances which occur to him every day. Life is a series of small victories over doubts, uncertainties, temptations. Wherever there is a victory there is another flash of light in the soul body. And gradually this body becomes luminous like the Christmas tree which Luther uses to describe it.
This soul body, then, is gradually building up, and out of its building comes the securities of life. Out of the power of this increasing soul body comes the power to still improve more rapidly and make further growth. The immortality of man is growing up in him in a mysterious substance. His bodies have a material immortality in the earth; his spirit has an immortality in heaven. And between these two is the soul, the bridge, the mysterious elixir of transformation which we find in our daily living.
I think it is well therefore, to remember that even small, nice things, nicely done are important. It is important when the unkind word is not spoken. It is important when the individual gives the small deed of goodness, which may be a momentary inconvenience. It is important that the person receives the insight and the wisdom to recognize that every small victory, added to all other small victories, forms the great victory which we call salvation.
Salvation is nothing therefore, but the victory of reality over illusion. The victory of the truth over error, the victory of unselfishness over selfishness, as in every case, is the victory over the negative by those things which are positive and contribute to the common good.
Therefore we think of the soul now as a mysterious, luminous vestment. And we know by going back to the ancient writings, and the ancient pictures on the walls of temples and in Scrolls of ancient times, that these pictures showing the robes of royalty, showing the vestments of the high priests of Israel, showing the wonderful garments of glory of the Indian sages. All these are pictures of this mysterious, magnetic, internal soul garment.
The individual, according to the ancient Cabbalists and mystics, cannot enter Heaven in the physical body alone. Therefore he must leave the physical and go forth in the robe of glory. And the robe of glory is first a plain white garment, the garment of innocence, the garment of purity, the garment of the effort not to do that which is wrong.
To purify the life, to live constantly in the light of reality. After a while this garment is given a further development, and in the description of the Tabernacle in the wilderness, we find the description of the garments of the priests, and of the high priests of the tabernacle, and the Temple of Solomon the King. We find similar descriptions in Egypt, also in India and China, mysterious, glorious robes, great and stately symbols, all of which were recognized about them physical representations of the invisible energies that emanate from a redeemed person.
Now a redeemed person is not one who is saved by something. The redeemed person is one who outgrows the limitations of which he has placed upon his own life. We all view ourselves in one way or another. We think of ourselves as well as we know ourselves. We look in the mirror and we say this is my self. And this is not true. What we are seeing is a shadow, and because of the eyes see only shadows, this is all of the being that we see.
A mystic or clairvoyant under certain conditions may see more, but for the average person, the visible form which we behold is the real self. It is this same self that dictates our appetites, that demands our attention, that requires that we fulfill its ambitions. It is this shadow that has an appetite which can result in physical ailments. It is this shadow that breaks homes, it is this shadow that breaks laws, it is this shadow also, that perpetuates the distance between the individual and the happiness and truth we are all seeking. So in this shadow is the power of darkness and it has no reality whatsoever. It has merely the fact that we do not have the eyes to see, and as (Jacob) Boehme says, those who have eyes let them see. Because all of these things that we talk about are available to the eyes of the soul, but they are not available to the eyes of the mind. And the eyes of the soul, to meet the old requirements, a development of faculties that are latent until they are developed by the unfoldment of the integrity of personal life. The magnetic field of the individual begins very largely as a physical support. It is something to nourish the body, to maintain it and to protect it.
Gradually as the time goes on after one embodiment or another, this magnetic field begins to register the moral qualities of life. It gradually begins to show the colors of good and evil. It begins to represent the part of us which is invisible and tells us the sad story of ourselves. The story of the individual who in the midst of a great wisdom remains untouched by the truths that he needs so badly. And in our present day, with the pressures and confusions of the hour, it is obvious that there must be a victory of soul over body. There must be a victory of cause over the effect. There must be a victory of realities over illusions.
Now we live largely in a world of illusions, and in a sense as we have a physical existence now, all the elements that make it up, all the habits that we have, all the institutions we maintain, the entertainment we choose the ideas of education we keep, all of these apart and what might be called the obscuration of ignorance. And they are part of the negative individual magnetic field. While we live in the negative field we react to the negative factors, and little by little these negative factors destroy us, or at least they impoverish the spiritual values within ourselves. Until finally inside of ourselves, the colors and luminous forms of the magnetic fields become clouded and dark and dismal.
The magnetic field of the narcotics addict is another pathetic thing. The magnetic field of the person who has no integrities, no values, who lives upon the surface of ignorances, is bad. And also, this magnetic field being negative, perpetuates itself from within itself, and little by little, the individual who has gradually become more and more vicious finds that his viciousness increases. And so finally he reaches a point where he must change or lose the values of the incarnations through which he has passed.
So there comes a time in this rather strange affair when there has to be a shift between negative and positive. There has to be the movement on the part of the individual to put his own inner life in order. He's going to have to realize that there is no way of escaping the consequences of his own misdeeds. He can escape the terrors of dictators and the terrors of the clouds and sky, but he cannot escape the catch of the terrors of his own conduct.
So little by little, the individual finds a pain arising within himself. The magnetic field is troubled, and in its trouble, it fails to support the personality. The magnetic field no longer personally develops and therefore it's not there to take care of health problems. The energies of the magnetic and etheric fields no longer protect the person against infections and things of that kind. Little by little of their positive power has been drained off. Little by little area every ounce of energy which they possessed has been misused until there is nothing left.
Under these conditions that comes always a time in the life of the individual where he must change to survive. And it very often happens that this change for survival is not accomplished until the deathbed scene. There before the end of everything, as far he knows, he suddenly realizes the fundamental mistake he has made. His faith is not great enough to reveal the fact that no matter what he has done, salvation is inevitable. He must go on until he grows up to what he should be. And while he disappears out of this life, perhaps in a very sad state, ultimate victory is inevitable. For everything that is created by the divine mind and the divine hand must come through it, must fulfill its purpose. It must achieve that for which it was intended.
And so we find that the individual, physically, shows gradually the results of a sellout. He no longer has good health, he no longer has peace of mind. He has fears, he has dreams he has nightmares, he develops all kinds of habits in an effort to encourage some kind of help or strength. But this type of strength, inspired by narcotics and alcohol, will never get him anywhere. Little by little, everything gets worse and worse, until finally the individual, stripped of all of his energies and powers by the abuse of them, comes to face himself. And he must do so.
Now we also have, therefore, another interesting analogy to make. After all, the world as we know it is also a being. The planet in which we live is a person. Not a person as we know it, but a person as an integration of various conscious attributes, sufficient to enable it to maintain its essential purpose: to support life in space. Now this planet also is subject to the results of the confusion and the misuse of power which we find around us every day. The planet has its golden wedding garment. It also has its magnetic field, its order, and its robes of righteousness, but it is also gradually damaged just as the person is damaged by the failure of the integrities of life.
Now in the case of the planet, that is somewhat different. The planet has a new relationship and that relationship is as a host, or as we might say, a guardian or a parent over forms of life which develop and unfold within it. So that the planet itself is really a place for things to grow and live and develop. Now when these things that are put here to live and grow and develop go bad, when little by little all of the opportunities that have been given by nature are perverted and misused, then the earth becomes ill. It becomes incapable of fulfilling its proper destiny. It cannot do for us the things that it should do because we have drained away all of its resources in misuse.
We have exhausted its strength, its beauty, its wisdom, its love, all of these things until there is nothing left. And we have only bodies, empty bodies with empty minds, and in those moments of great decision, the laws of life move in. The law says it is not possible to fail. There can be delays, there can be mistakes, but in the long run things must come through. That which is created by the divine power will never rest until the divinity within it gains supremacy over all the rest.
And so we have what we might call emergencies. These emergencies are wars, pestilences, they are health problems, weather problems, earthquakes, all kinds of indications of trouble. They correspond very closely with the nervous breakdowns of individuals. They have their parallel in the ulcers and the abscesses that torment us. They also, as we sweep through the sky, they have the migraines that are in space also.
In other words, a sick planet is more or less revealed in the sickness of things that live upon it. And those things that live by sickness and live on a sick planet must be corrected. They cannot be allowed to go until they destroy. It is possible, according to the ancient writings, for a race or a nation to vanish from its own misdeeds. But the life in that nation cannot vanish. The powers of living and growing go on. And there is not one single fallen angel that must not be redeemed. And so gradually, those things that fail utterly, fade away and in their place come new things in which there is a greater amount of integrity.
We are in such a state at the moment. Today we are facing again the result of continual abuse of resources. We are in the same position as the old alcoholic who has continually gone on drinking until he has nothing left but ulcers and pain. Years ago in the Klondike, was a successful gold miner who found it rich and lived riotously for a couple of years and got very ill. And the little paint from the puny doctor up there said there's only one thing for you to do; get to the Mayo brothers and have let them take care of it. So he went to Mayo brothers and they took about 2/3 of his stomach and they said to him if you live on milk toast for the rest of your life, you can have quite a few years yet. And he was so delighted that he went home, and on his arrival, staged a banquet for all his friends. They all got beautifully drunk together and the next morning, he was dead. Now this is symbolic of the way things go. And it is symbolic in a way of the plans of nature which are very simple, very obvious, but have strange truth behind them. An inevitable fact that you have to obey or else. Now when you find a country or a world as it is today, it is the same thing in nations and in planetary populations as it is in towns and in our private homes, always where there is something wrong, the inner life of the person is injured. And this golden wedding garment, this soul body which we are gradually building up, is damaged and delayed and frustrated by the excesses of a poor and unthoughtful generation.
We have every possible way to understand this. We have it every day. We have it in every newspaper. It comes to us every time we turn anything - this troubled world. But what the records do not necessarily tell us is the troubled individuals. The persons we know in the same block, practically under the same skin, we do not recognize as passing through the same kind of crisis.
The crisis in the person becomes the crisis in the race. And those mysterious powers that destroyed the lost Atlantis are gnawing at the roots of our civilization. Everywhere there has to be integrity or in time, when it becomes obvious that the individual or the group will not redeem itself, then it is put away and another takes its place. But that other is the same one with a new chance, a new opportunity and a new environment, but usually a more strenuous lesson.
So in the study of all these things, we sometimes also say to ourselves, why should we try to improve our natures? Why are we all studying in the effort to be a little more than we have been? We are studying very definitely, because inside of us is something that is suffering. There is pain in the heart, in the mind. There is worry, there is anxiety and there are constant compromises of integrity with bitter consequences.
All these things are happening to us every day and we do not know what to do about it. We feel that there should be someone to make a law to put these things straight. This is impossible because we cannot make laws for each other. We must make a law for ourselves and live it. And the only remedy for the problem is not to try to legislate out of it, but to get out of it through the positive application of principles to our own conduct.
And this is beginning to get more or less obvious. We are beginning to see that a beautiful plan is endangered. Endangered by the selfishness and cupidity of individuals. And that stupidity and selfishness arises from the magnetic field. This magnetic field is the first source of this sickness. It is the result of eternal compromise and eternal selfishness, unbridled ambition, every type of corruption and demoralization. These things have sickened the source of our vitality. They have sickened the invisible supplies which we require in order to grow and fulfill our destiny.
Now these ailments are well known to the ancients. We find in the various clinics of Hippocrates, and later in the writings of Paracelsus von Hohenheim, that the ancients were well aware that the great source of our pain is inside, not in the world. That the world suffers because we are wrong. And that we are suffering because not of the failures of the world, but of our own failure to put our own lives in order.
Now we have a new world civilization here today that is the most complicated that man has ever known. A civilization in which all kinds of conflicting ideas float about in the air, in which nations are ready to go to war to the death over wealth or power or authority. And this is just a little bit of an enlargement of the ruthlessness of the individual, who moving in upon a competitor, seeks to destroy him. The selfishness of the individual, multiplied, becomes a vast host of beings that perpetuate selfishness in space and all around us. Now the planet itself is sickened and the earth under our feet is corrupted.
Now there's only one way we can solve this and that is to make the changes in ourselves. And we can say, perhaps, what so what? Supposing a few of us do make these changes, how are we going to face the millions who are not going to change? They're going to go on and do it wrong as long as they can. Well, the answer is very, very simple. What they do they must face. But when we change, that change is personal and to ourselves.
No matter how bad the rest can get, we can get better. No matter how many mistakes they make, we do not need to make them. And the proof of the matter is that at the great harvest time, when it comes for us to go and join the ages in the sleep between incarnations, we will take with us everything that is good and nothing that is not our own can know us. Therefore even though in life we are penalized, in the great life of things we are rewarded. And it is better to be rewarded for the good things than to continue to suffer the penalization that we must all suffer while all these things go wrong.
So here we have religion. Religion, which is probably the world's most beautiful source of inspiration, divided into sects and creeds with various mysterious social changes, with wars and riots and intolerances of all kinds. Religion, which should be the source of unity and goodness, is likewise divided and that religion which is divided will fall just as all the other things fall. And when it does fall, people will say it was reformed by some mysterious divine power. It was reformed because each individual who understood the facts changed their attitude, and in changing their attitude, changed the destiny of the faith. Everything begins with the improvement of the individual. This is his realm, this was created for his perfection, this was put up into existence that he might grow and earn his place in the great house of the cosmos. Everything that is good was come through him, and it will come to him from the great sources of good.
And the great sages and the Rishis of the saviors who have come to teach mankind, have come to bring encouragement and strength and redemption. It is like the alcoholic, who becoming very badly sick, will bring in somebody to console him and try to help him to get over it. So he will bring in the physician or something who will tell him to stop drinking and try to help him to stop so that he can go out and redeem himself and go forward.
So there are physicians of souls who have come to help us. Not to do it for us, because they cannot, but to inspire us to make the changes ourselves which are essential to our well-being. Just a little change here and there in our social structure would cut down our divorce rate probably fifty percent. A little change in some of our rules about this and that would probably cut down most of the problems that we suffer the juvenile delinquency. These things represent neglected areas and we're waiting for something. We're waiting for laws and the government to change these things, but the only person who can change them is the family itself. It's the united gathering of the parents and the children, bound together to do what is right. And although there may be many who fall upon the right hand and many upon the left hand, the just family shall not be moved. All that the achievements we can make, if they are right, are immortal.
That is one of the mysteries of the old writings, that every time a truth was demonstrated it received wings, it became an angel. And truths become immortal, the realities become immortal and those who cling to them are those who live with them gain their own immortality. That which is true shall not die, that which is false cannot live. This goes through nations it goes through everything. It becomes part of our priceless heritage, it becomes part of our hope of glory.
So we know that today, we are at a critical point and that all the available resources of civilization must be united to achieve a positive transformation of our purpose for existence. We will not cease or perish if we do not make the grade, but we will go back again into a hard labor, into struggle and strife, to gain once more to the degree that we are now abusing the knowledge and wisdoms of life.
As long as there is selfishness, there will be pain. As long as there is avarice, there will be suffering. As long as there are hatreds, there will be sorrows. Every one of the negative things has to be overcome. And the old schools of wisdom set up discipleship and set up various rules and laws to govern the development of persons who wanted to grow, who wanted to be better.
And all of these were based upon the fact that the person himself had to make the effort. He had to really, sincerely decide. He was not even able to try to find out whether what he was doing was really right or not; he had to decide that for himself. But if he was right he grew in wisdom and understanding. If he was wrong he did not. If he did not grow, he had to try again. Everything has to come out of the sincere effort to attain victory over the self-centeredness and indifference that we find.
We are now talking a great deal about the fun generation. There's only one thing about it that seems to be important, and that is there isn't much fun. Very little. And there will not be much fun as long as this is the fun generation, because the effort for fun is not controlled by anything. What is fun? Mostly extravagance, much immorality, and all kinds of competitions and mistakes in labor and work, the entertainment field.
All these things are called the fun, and I can assure you from watching a little television now and then, that the fun in television is not very much. In fact, I hadn't heard a good comedian on there in years because good comedy has to be honest, it has to be true and it has to be good as Mark Twain pointed out. And what we call comedy is a snickering sort of thing, is never be going to be any good. And yet we spend hundreds of hours in front of these boxes, taking on the murders and the selfishness of our time. And we try against that, to take this little seed of immortality in ourselves and expect it to survive this constant and continuous bombardment of negative factors.
And each person can have his own way. Now I know for instance, over a long period of time, I was interested in having a little fun. After all, working with heavy problems can be rather heavy, and I realized that if it got too heavy, I wasn't going to be able to do what I should do. That I would get too tired, that I might get a little naggy now and then, or I might even lose my disposition, not that I ever had one, but there's always a possibility of it being worse.
Then I suddenly discovered the world of other things. The people that are now wandering around in all these fun actions are really not having much fun at all. They're really very largely spending money and waking up in debt. And those who spend enough money are waking up sick and those who are very wealthy are waking up dead. It is not a very progressive problem.
So, we suggest looking around. There are all kinds of interesting and wonderful things to do, things that help us to learn. And we can go back to the old guild system that dominated Europe for centuries, that there was there was a joy in labor, and also there were various ways of growing beautifully and pleasantly.
Remember the Meistersingers of Nuremberg. They were the actual regular workers, shoemakers and carpenters, all these people, but they formed music choruses and had a wonderful time with them. And all kinds of special celebrations and even the great gentry participated. Then they're all today, there are all kinds of things - music, art, fine literature - there are more kinds of things to collect, there are hobbies and everything by which you can learn something, by which you can grow, in which you can combine pleasure with instruction and come out of the whole thing a little bit better enlightened and with a new appreciation for the wonders of life.
But instead of that, we sit glued to the tube. And there we sit and watch mayhem that isn't even real, that is merely written, compiled, and presented for the simple purpose of selling products. It is a very bad thing. We are falling for it, but we must be as individuals, pull out of it.
And if we do pull out of it we will discover that we have never captured in it unless we capture ourselves. That there is no reason why the magnetic fields of the body should be contaminated. There are no reasons for why the individual has to lower his moral code in order to keep abreast of his time. If his time is below him, he must rise above his time. If there are things that he should be doing and he is neglecting, to have a fun that is never there, it is time for him to wake up. Now, the answer has always been you can't move all these people. You get one started and you put a law in and you think you've got something blocked and immediately, somebody comes up and objects. And there's a great big political system, a big congregation of voters and so forth, and of course in mass of this nature, the majority is liable to rule, the majority is liable not to be right. Therefore, that isn't the answer. You can't simply make a law against this, a law against that.
But what you can do, is make a law for yourself. And I believe it was Woodrow Wilson who said on one occasion, it is better to fail in a cause that must ultimately win than win in a cause that must ultimately fail. And we have this problem on our hands today. We have mixed up in a cause that must fail, and we cannot necessarily depend upon others to see it our way.
But we can try in every way possible, to contribute nothing to the decay of life, do everything that we can to make it better, do everything that we can to make ourselves more fit for the job that is ours. If we could see the invisible structure of man, a tremendous amount of vibratory power there, the ages that were necessary to build all these bodies and vibrate them and vitalize them so that we could produce a standing, thinking, feeling creature that had within itself the germs of its own immortality.
We have all these things but we have not kept faith with them. And because we have not kept faith with them, we must now go back and start over. And we cannot be blamed for doing what is right ourselves. If the world doesn't like it, it won't bother us because we are only one person.
But that one person, being right, is the secret of the beginning of righteousness. For in ancient times, there were a few who were the great souls that led. Today, we are in a different world. We are now in a world in which great Souls must arise from the common people of the earth, and in so doing, will make the simple laws of humanity dominant over the artificial laws and practices of our generation.
I think we have to therefore recognize that it is our part to build this soul body. That it is within our right and our privilege to control the development of our own inner lives. Although all others may be unhappy, we may still be a little unhappy, but if we are doing the best that we can, there is a certain reward. A good deed is a prayer, a bad deed is a curse. We've had too many curses and not enough prayers.
And a prayer for good is in the simple things we do to help a person in trouble, to help our own children to stay within the principles of integrity, to start them out right and not allow them to follow in the ways of our own slipshod behavior. Everything that we can do as an individual, we can do without much probability of being punished for it. Whereas most of the things we are doing now, punishment is inevitable and obvious.
Let us try doing it right. Let us try to be one with progress, one with the law. And in the mysterious wedding of the Lamb, which is described in the book of Revelation and which is part of our Christian heritage, those who attain the golden wedding garment come as great hosts of souls, luminous and beautiful, to attend the marriage of the lamb.
And this is the idea of it all. The marriage of the lamb is simply the union of the individual soul with the world soul. And the return of the individual spirit to the spirit which is all spirit, always and forever the guiding power of life.
We do not know where our life is going exactly. We know where it will go for a time at least if it doesn't change its ways, but we do not know what lies ahead for the human being. But all of the great teachers of the world have given us a radiant, glorious picture of that which is waiting us. They've always given us the vision of that which comes to those who transcend the errors and follies of their times. And we have been given several great religions, which may differ the names they have given, but are essential and identical in their teaching. That it's only those who live the life that can never know the doctrine.
So in little ways we can start living it, and into living it little ways we will grow in righteousness. So this is our job, this is nothing so terribly difficult. All we have to do is to prepare to live quiet, moderate lives. False ambitions have slayed the ages. The glory of Alexander is gone. Caesar is dead at Pompey's parlor. Hitler and Mussolini have gone their way. All of the great dictators have left, and left nothing behind but monuments to sorrow.
Little dictators have the same fate. Those who create a business and then bankrupt it for profit, all kinds of efforts to grow rich over the poverty of others, all of these things are part of the way of life that has come to too many people now, though a way of life that has resulted in the fact that our ingenuity has outstripped our integrity.
We can invent many things, but we do not know how to use them. And that which we do not use, we will abuse. Once upon a time, there was a Roman who digging in his garden found a pot of gold. And he wrote a letter to the Emperor and he said I have found a pot of gold - what shall I do with it? And the Emperor wrote back and said use it.
And the man wrote again to the Emperor and said, Sire, I do not know how to use it. And the Emperor replied, then abuse it. And that is exactly what happens. We have so many ways of getting things, but not very many good ways of using them. To have a thing means a power, when in reality it is an opportunity to grow, and unless we make more use of these opportunities, things are going to get worse.
Now we face a few years and a great transition. There is bound to be a major change - we're asking for it, or if we're not asking, we're acting for it, we are demanding it. And out of this is coming some very interesting things. It isn't all bad news. There are some tremendous efforts being made now. People are growing as they haven't in a long time. There's a certain and definite reason for believing that the individual is beginning to know that he is not something with a free will in space, but that he is a creature under law and that this law is a law of wisdom and mercy.
More and more the individual is becoming aware that out of his own integrity must come his own salvation. Realizing this and living accordingly, we can make a very powerful and positive contribution to the future of our people. There is no reason why we cannot do something every day to justify the belief that we are really working for a good cause.
Now, as we here are trying to do a little something to help out as much as we can, and we are most grateful for the wonderful help we have received. And we finally discover that in our own little world, there are people who want to live well, who want to do better, who want to think better, who want to add something to the substance of life. They are tired of the bridge party and the drink fests, they are tired of the waste and luxury and the morning-after. And they are more and more hurt by the ravages of narcotics.
And now, morality has come in and the sicknesses of immorality weigh heavy upon the race. We are in the midst of great evidence of being wrong. And we are also well shown what is right. This is the dedication of some part of our life to usefulness. It is to maintain the things. We have great emphasis upon freedom, upon individual rights, the individual has the feeling that he is perfectly justified in walking out on his family, deserting his friends, and turning against his nation, simply because he must be free.
What is freedom? To him, freedom is the gradual building of a cage, which once it's captured him, he's worse enslaved than in any other way. Freedom is really a form of self-slavery for most people. It is the individual putting his own likes and pleasures ahead of the common good and his own well-being.
So these answers are not practical in our time, and we're looking around and we're seeing the gradual development of religion in a new way. We are coming closer and closer to a unity of faiths, which will be a tremendous step in the right direction. We are also coming to realize that religion is not simply attending a place of worship; it is bringing the truths of life into the home, into the family, and into the business.
The real religion is in the shop, in the house, in the school, in the hospital, in the courts. The religion is not something to talk about theology, it is to live the golden rule, to keep the ten commandments, to realize that regardless of all our sophistication, we will never be able to outgrow the Decalogue or the Sermon on the Mount.
These are inevitable and eternal fixtures. We can break them, but we suffer. We can keep them and we will get well. And this is something each person does for himself. He does not do it because his neighbor has done it, or because the community is doing it. Maybe he hopes it will, but even if the community is doing it, unless it is a personal dedication of his own, it will not bring an end to his own misunderstandings and misuses of power.
So we hope that everyone will remember a little bit that this golden wedding garment is also, according to St. Paul, the garment of divine love. It is love rising triumphant. It is the proof that when we really sincerely love, we serve. And when we really, really love, we give. And when our emotions are false, we take. So in this, we have also the inspiration but for most people love has been paid a stranger. We hardly even love our own anymore if they interfere with our ambitions. We will desert those nearest to us if they hamper our freedom. Everything must be freedom, but no human being who is ignorant is free. And no human being who can be free, who holds immoral, unethical or materialistic institutions as important.
We all have to recognize that freedom is the privilege to be right and that this privilege belongs to us all. And the reward of it is freedom from the disasters of our mistakes. And there is no way we could ever win this battle. Look at the sky, look at the stars. We can go a long time before we can rule them, or go out and even explore them, or take a chance to visit one of them without imperiling our own lives.
We cannot change the infinite, but we don't need to because the infinite is right. And we have no rightness greater. And the infinite is infinite love, infinitely manifested throughout infinite time and infinite space. And in this divine love we live, and as we live it, gradually it moves into us and becomes this radiant body of the soul.
And the soul is the love in us becoming the love in humanity for all that lives. And when we have developed this and become part of a universe of love, we will have no more worry over the sins of the flesh. They will correct themselves beautifully, the little children will not be deserted, they will not come into the world sick to death before they are hardly born.
These things must change. A genuine regard, coming from within ourselves, will not only help this but when we begin to practice this, the light of the soul inside of us will grow brighter and brighter until soul power becomes master over all the brute force of the world as it was mentioned by Mohandas Gandhi, so that all things are safe only when love makes the rules.
And these rules made by love found in all the great religions of the world and also are inevitable and eternal in the human heart.
On Serving a Broken World
Typically, the path of spirituality and hidden knowledge will lead to abilities that can be used to either serve yourself or to serve others. As intuition is a side effect of aligning your mind with the ethereal realm that surrounds us, intuition in all degrees and forms can be regarded as an immaterial reward for seeking to align yourself with the higher order of the universe. Willfully seeking resonance will lead to more resonance, like any feedback loop that reaffirms itself until a certain saturation is reached.
Heightened intuition will at some point cross into extra-sensory perception and clairvoyant abilities that most people do not have access to and are not aware of. Once these abilities are present, it is not a choice to call upon them but rather a matter of observation. You may additionally ask for signs of confirmation, but you may not stop synchronicities from appearing when you live in alignment with the ether. Once you attain resonance, you cannot simply will your way out of resonance other than through highly destructive actions.
So once these abilities are present, the question will not be whether to use them but how to use them.
What if you choose to serve others, but the world around you is collectively going mad and caught up in lies, wound up in more lies until most of what most people believe is a distortion of reality to the point of pure evil? A world grounded in materialism where the powers that control the flow of energy have twisted society to the point where the only thing people worship is money and not nature, morally bankrupting them. Fundamentally, a satanic system.
The fundamental problem is that most people are part of the problem. In the broadest sense, everybody is part of the problem as it is extremely complicated, though possible to distance yourself from feeding the machine. Since every time money changes hands, the machine is reaffirmed, to stop feeding the machine means to stop spending money. How literal you should take this is a personal matter and not the bulk of the issue. The bulk of the issue is that most people literally worship money and are willing to give away their life in order to hoard money. This is a deeply sick state of mind grounded in the most fundamental misunderstanding any soul could ever fall into, namely the idea that money itself would be real when it is not. It is an artificial concept that serves us a means to an end but cannot be an end in itself. Wasting your life, which has meaning itself, to hoard something that has no meaning is by all means stupid and wrong.
To worship the lie in order to hoard money means the truth feels like being robbed. If you confront someone like that with truth, they will feel like you want to steal from them, and as they believe money is a real thing, they will treat you as if you attacked their spirit itself. A person who identifies with the lie will attack you for hinting at the truth, even though that is your best guess at helping them heal their soul.
Helping those who are suffering from lies is fundamentally an act of conflict, and to avoid that conflict is to be selfish.
In order to serve a broken world, it is inevitable to engage in some sort of karma kung fu where you don’t shy away from burning people with the truth, knowing that even if it causes them suffering, it will not generate negative karma. It’s a strange dance where the other person might be perplexed and not understand why they feel the fire, but where their suffering by truth will always carry a message that, as it is true, will inevitably in some way resonate with them.
Ultimately, truth will always persist on its own, and in fighting lies, there’s only so much you can do. Nobody can be saved from their own karma, and those who have spent all their lives serving and benefitting from lies will not be able to be saved from the consequences of those lies. The gift of intuition will mostly be helpful in discerning between those who are still open to the truth and those who are not. As someone who made lies their identity, will reject truth even if they recognise it as truth.
Those who live in lies because they don’t know the truth will, after the initial pain of an inconvenient truth, if it is presented in resonance with their personal experience, keep at least a seed of it in their hearts, and that’s about all you can accomplish. From there on, it’s on them, whether they water it or not.

Informational Phase Space: An Neo-Anaxagoran Ontological and Metaphysical Paradigm
🚀 What if space-time is just the scoreboard of an information game the universe has been playing since the first femtosecond?
That isn’t sci-fi clickbait; it’s the core hunch behind Informational Phase Space Cosmology (IPS)—a rapidly maturing framework that treats information (correlations, entropic flows, topological “memory”) as the real substance of reality, with the geometry of space-time merely emergent. And the latest James Webb Space Telescope deep-field data just handed IPS the sort of opening scene every paradigm shift dreams of.
🔄 JWST’s weird cosmic spin-bias
Four separate teams probing JWST deep fields report that roughly two-thirds of very-distant galaxies are spinning the same way, an alignment hard to square with an isotropic Big Bang. One group even suggests our entire observable cosmos might be the interior of an ancient, spinning black-hole-like structure—a notion that resurrects Gödel’s old rotating-universe idea and instantly explains the fresh JWST asymmetry(Live Science).
IPS predicts exactly this sort of large-scale vorticity. In its 14-dimensional information manifold, “informational vorticity” twists entanglement currents; when you project that manifold down to 3 + 1 space-time, you see rotating galaxies and preferred axes in the CMB.
✨ Why IPS is so tempting
Fewer moving parts. ΛCDM needs dark energy, dark matter, and inflation to keep the books balanced. IPS starts with just three postulates (information, correlator geometry, feedback memory) yet still generates curvature, expansion, and matter as emergent bookkeeping—not bespoke patches.
Built-in fixes for the Hubble tension. Because our 3-D slice can re-slice the information manifold over time, the locally-measured H₀ will drift relative to early-epoch inferences—precisely what astronomers observe.
Natural dark-energy analogue. Accelerated expansion shows up as entropic “pressure” from unfolding informational degrees of freedom, not a mysterious fluid.
Cosmic memory. IPS sectors act like neural-network attractors; the universe literally remembers past topological states, giving a concrete path for cosmic feedback and self-tuning.
🔬 How do we test it—now?

🧩 Where the community can jump in
Data hackers – scrape JWST rotation catalogs; look for redshift-dependent drift in the spin-bias amplitude.
Q-lab folks – emulate the 3-qubit “Pauli-curvature” toy model; compare emergent metric with IPS analytic form (Appendix B of the preprint).
CMB statisticians – re-analyze low-ℓ Planck maps with an informational vorticity template instead of a simple dipole.
Philosophy-of-science nerds – debate whether IPS’s “universe that learns itself” ontology rescues Wheeler’s It-from-Bit without invoking panpsychism.
🎯 TL;DR
JWST just lobbed a spinning curveball at standard cosmology. IPS not only expects that curveball, it catches it with one hand while tidying up the Hubble tension and dark-energy fuss. Better yet, we can start shooting at the theory right now with telescopes, interferometers, and quantum chips already humming.
Whether IPS survives those shots or not, the next few years are going to be ridiculously fun—for astronomers, quantum engineers, and anyone who thinks reality might be written in the language of information itself.
Grab popcorn. The data deluge has only begun.
Want to know more? Informational Phase Space Cosmology: A Geometric Framework for Entanglement, Curvature, and Memory Dynamics
Gödelian Phases of Time: Emergent Rotation and Dimensionality from Quantum Temporal Correlations
Permissibility of Dodecahedral Geometry in Informational Phase Space Cosmology
Informational Phase Space Cosmology: Axiomatized and Expanded
Classification and Determination of Topological Knots in Informational Phase Space Cosmology
90 Years Later, G.I. Gurdjieff Finishes The End of All and Everything
On June 23, 2025, Gurdjieff raised his pen from the grave to conclude the work he set out to finish, marking the dramatic - and unexpected - ending of his essay: "The Outer and Inner World of Man."
For context, readers will want to review the last pages of All And Everything Series 3: LIFE IS REAL ONLY THEN, WHEN I ‘AM.’
Continuing from the last paragraph where we left off,
“And so, among the people with whom I come in contact, the formation of the psychic factors necessary for the manifestation of attitudes diametrically opposed to me must inevitably occur in the following way:”
At the moment of this writing, the understanding created through the process of teaching real, exact “principles” in exact accordance with the structure of our cosmos, where I had next intended to elucidate the knowledge contained in the preceding “megacosmic” metaphor with the reader’s “microcosmic” position, that is, his position as a many-colored lamp as it were.
Instead, upon directing my psyche to mentate on these two aforementioned worlds from (the place of) my third world, the sharpness in contradiction between these two worlds (as a pair) in such drastic contrast with my third world -
At once observing this striking pair created such a brightness in my psyche that this white-hot illumination was forced to spill over into my third cup, to reveal to me for the very first time the degree of vivifying-ness of my own metaphorical cosmic concentration, and its general incompatibility with both the floating connection of interconnected wires and perhaps even in what is called the life of man.
I see that the intensity of the manifestation of my “psychic formation,” that is, the structure of laws created from the conscious initiative I used to impress upon others - just in the same manner as my previously mentioned repealed “hypnotic influence” -
Such intensity does not cause a blending or fusion as it does in mechanical life, and I see the reason why “pressing the most sensitive corn” has become increasingly less viable over this duration of time.
And, Dear Reader, as I have promised to disclose to you in generally accessible understanding, is here in the words of my unwitting accomplice:
“The vibrations given off by one light, if they are active, that is, of greater radiations or intensity (volume and quality) then those relative to lights nearest to it, then those vibrations will surge through the wires connecting them.
This new inflow to the receiving light will fill up to the limits of its totalities. The possibility of a change in atmosphere
( As a reminder, atmosphere which can dynamically change based on one’s present state, changing the possible spectrum of color and possible volume of expansion )
is dependent on an affinity, this affinity is in accordance with a relationship concerning
Degree of Contradiction between two lights and Distance (Intimacy) + Time.
Equations for this relationship can be easily generated.
The possible affinity or possibility of fusions between two lights for a change in the receiver’s atmosphere is based on, how similar the two lights are, the proximity of those two lights running counter to duration of time.
The receiver’s cup will fill at a speed based on their difference.
The cup will fill faster if there is a greater degree of contradiction.
The cup will fill faster based on prolonged duration of proximity.
And because nature is not wasteful, returns diminish and become negative after the receiver’s cup is full.
One can gain understanding from this if they consider why the followers of an awakened being usually do not awaken, while passersby making contact with an awakened being only in a few chance encounters in a lifetime often become awakened themselves.
I must say that if you observe how cups with varying degrees in quality come to meet, you will see the Law of Accidents in action, and know why it is that people in relationships meet at which moment.
And, why meeting at the “wrong moment” or in excessive duration is wasteful, harmful, and gives negative results. Thousands or millions of people know this innately and many privately have worked it out themselves.
Back to the formula at hand, we can imagine it takes a duration of time for the increased volume in the receiver’s cup to travel down the next wire to the next light.
What a waste it would be for a person with a high degree of quality to pour into a person connected to only 20 wires (or at least to have only 20 others in their regular vicinity.)
What potential gain to pour into one who connects to thousands or millions of wires (such as one like Ouspensky!)
Although there are significant limits, and although it is only suitable for “the first and second baptisms,” stages of human development, we can see why Gurdjieff “turns down his pitch” by directing his efforts into written form; into books.”
Having taken from my disposed of accomplice, refer back to what I have said:
The diametrically opposed actions from others towards me, and the duration of contact I have spent with them - in spoken and written form.
From The Author:
We know that a Conscious person can measure their life in breaths, and Gurdjieff writes that he has 1-3 years to live. Anyone who has read his work can work out that at the moment Gurdjieff calculates the cost of effort in explaining the principle he outlined in relation to the people with which he comes in contact, he determines he cannot afford it. He will not die like Mozart to complete Requiem.
We do not make decisions for a singular reason.
We make a number of considerations and derive from them a conclusion, a conclusive decision.
With that in mind, we can consider that Gurdjieff could at least reasonably expect that “after my death the principal aims of my life would be.. realized.” From this quote I have removed the word “certainly”.
Yes, his previous writings could be understood exclusively by those readers acquainted with his language.
Yes, he had not published in a way that is accessible to everyone.
Yet, by evidence of his quote (see the beginning of All and Everything Series 3,) his first series of writings contained his complete - or most of his - teaching in “stone” form.
Then as it is for a man who puts the world on his shoulders, there is consolation in recognizing that his students certainly have no trouble with general speak, and may be able to carry on these Conscious Labors.
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A bit off-topic but I will get in contact with the maintainer of the site and ask him about his experience with copyright enforcement. As far I can tell that book is not in the public domain but if nobody is enforcing that anyway, I might as well add it to our library
Tertium Organum by P.D. Ouspensky
Our library now features the multidisciplinary work Tertium Organum by P.D. Ouspensky, blending logic, esotericism and mysticism and arguing the idea that human consciousness can perceive a "third order" beyond dualistic thinking.
Therefore, our consciousness segregates separate groups out of the chaos of impressions, and we build, in space and time, representations of objects which correspond to these groups of impressions.
We have got to divide things somehow, and we divide them according to categories of space and time.
But we must remember that these divisions exist only in us, in our perception of things, and not in the things themselves. We must not forget that we neither know the true interrelation of things nor do we know real things. All we know is their phantoms, their shadows, and we do not know what relationship actually exists between them. At the same time we know quite definitely that our division of things according to time and space in no way corresponds to the division of things in themselves taken independently of our perception of them;
Beginning the Esoteric Path by Richard Ruach
Transcript
Hello, hello, goyim. No, just kidding. Howdy everyone. Howdy, anon. Howdy, anyone who's listening, sir.
Today I thought I'd talk a little bit more about the path of magic, or more, you know, maybe some things about what it takes. Because there's, you know, study is one thing, but then there's doing. You know, study is good. You want to be well-versed in some scientific things, obviously not losing yourself into the world of science. It's good to know a little bit about biology. It's good to know a little bit about physics, etc., etc., etc.
It's good to read philosophy. You do need proper philosophy if you want to study magic. And what I mean—philosophy—you know, what's the point of philosophy? You know how you meet those people who are like, "Hey man, I'm a good guy, I'm a nice guy, I just treat everyone right and people treat me right," and then like, that's their life philosophy?
People who have that philosophy—people from, I don't know, California or whatever—those types of people are weak. And it's not that they're physically weak. People who have that philosophy cannot withstand tragedy. People who have a simplistic philosophy—the simplistic philosophy can't answer, why evil exists.
Yeah, sure, they may go through life completely fine, and it works for them incredibly well. But then at one point in time, I don't know, their dad's gonna die, or if something truly tragic does happen, something monstrous—like imagine someone in their family gets kidnapped. Like, how brutal that is. When the brutal reality of life sets in, that philosophy is not going to be able to sustain them.
So you need a good philosophy. You need some kind of Nietzschean philosophy or a Stoic philosophy or a Platonic philosophy of how to live life. Or how to—the philosophy in a sense becomes a core, becomes a balancing point, becomes a cornerstone. If I can use a Westworld reference, becomes a cornerstone within yourself.
That is more of a psychology. It's like a foundational pillar for your psychology so that you don't go crazy when the suff—when the big sad—happens. When suffering happens.
Because the path of magic, like in any path—the path to become the richest man in the world, or the path to become the greatest boxer or something—paths like that require so much suffering, so much pain and conscious effort. You're not gonna get there with a weak philosophy like "just be nice to everybody," yeah, "just let people enjoy things," "cool story bro."
So it's good to study a little philosophy. It's good to study a little science. Obviously, art is definitely needed. I'll probably go—I'll probably talk about that a little in detail a little in another talk. But nonetheless, as well as that, you know, as well as having an appreciation and aesthetic sense, as well as appreciating art—filling yourself with edifying art—not just art that I suppose indulges you, but maybe art that—I wouldn't say challenges you, but there's a type of art that it's not empty. It's imbued with something.
The creator imbued that art with a virtue or some kind of psychological meaning. We're kind of jaded nowadays because there are so many post-modern artists and there's so many artists who are just like, "Yeah, I taped a banana to a wall. Whoa, I deconstructed art. There's no meaning, guys. God is dead." Well, yeah, cool story bro.
But real art—things like that, fake art—is gonna be lost in the sands of time, be washed away like tears in the rain. Real art has something eternal in it.
So that's why, if you want real art, yeah, people are making it still. There are still real artists out there. They're probably hard to find. But there are some things that are "good."
One of the problems about the Kali Yuga is things aren't necessarily—the things that you're presented with—aren't necessarily good or bad. They're a mixture of the two. They're good and bad.
So a lot of movies—some movies have a good message, or they actually have a deep philosophy and meaning in them. But then there's also ultra violence or some crazy sex scene halfway through, and it's like, oh okay. But I know maybe that's a plus for you.
But real eternal art—there is something in a lot of ancient stuff: ancient music, ancient architecture, ancient frescoes. There's something in those pieces of art that is eternal.
So I don't know, learning to appreciate them can also help you. Because to go into a slightly deeper reason why, is a lot of spiritual experiences—you can't really explain to normal people. You know, if I look outside the window here and I see a tree, and I point to it, and if you were here and you looked outside and you saw the tree, it would be like, oh, you know, we both have a shared experience of a phenomena.
But if you just experience something, and someone else has never experienced anything like it, how do you explain it to them? You can't. Although—you can. It's called art.
So great poets like Rumi, or someone more in the West like William Blake—they were visionaries. They weren't tormented artists. They were transcendental artists who could have a spiritual transcendental experience, and then that would be the thing that becomes the—what would you call it—the seed of their art. And the art from them flowers and blossoms out of that.
There's something in their art, their poems, that are beating, that's alive, that's just there. You can kind of feel it.
William Blake—you read Marriage Between Heaven and Hell, and it's all this esoteric cosmology of going into the stars and angels, and you're like, what the—what was this guy on? He wasn't on anything. He was on pure awakened consciousness. That's what he was on.
So art's good. Science—science good. Art good. Philosophy good.
One other thing is to also study other sacred texts. Study world religions. Study multiple systems.
But this is one key point, which is a little bit tricky. Because you don't want to read a book on Kabbalah, and then a book on yoga, and then a book on something else, and then a book on Zen Buddhism, and then—because you're not going deep. And you're not going deep. You're just reading a bunch of multiple things and you're just kind of comparing them. And sometimes things make sense, but sometimes they don't, and you just kind of tear your head out—tear your hair out of your head—and you become like me lol.
But the reason—what you should do is you should go deep into one system. You should do its practices and attain a little something. And then, you know, like read—I don't know, choose a system that you really want. Gnosticism or Hermeticism or—I know—Raja Yoga. Like a real system.
Not freaking—not like yoga, going to Lululemon and stretching all the girls. That's not a system of esoteric spiritual development.
Choose your system. Stick with it. Maybe it's Kabbalah. Read the foundational documents. You know, read some Hermetic stuff, blah blah blah, or some Hermetic-Kabbalah stuff, etc., etc.
Then, once you have this competency, you can then read a book on yoga. And then when you go back to your literature, you kind of see certain links. And then you read some Sufism and then go, "Wait a second, some of that Sufi stuff actually matches up with what I'm learning."
Or if you're not—you know, you read like a bunch of Gnostic texts and then you read a book on alchemy. You're like, "Wait, wait a minute" ...what it is now is an illusion. What it is now is an entity that is within you, that is trying to pull you away from clarity. It’s trying to pull you away from concentration.
And so it’s hard. It’s very hard because it’s so easy to fall into that emotion. It’s so easy to be like, “Yeah, screw that guy,” or “Screw her,” or “Screw this thing that happened.” And then you start to fantasize or you begin to relive it. Or you begin to—whatever. You give in to the emotion, and then you’ve lost the candle.
So the idea is, in this first stage, you learn to hold your attention onto a candle, and you’re gonna get distracted by external things. Then you build up enough energy or clarity that the external world no longer distracts you.
Then, the second octave, the internal world begins to distract you—your thoughts, your fantasies, your dreams. And then the third octave is your memories, your traumas, your internal emotional content, your karma, your inner demons, if you want to call them that. That’s what begins to distract you.
So this practice of concentration, of awareness, is so powerful because it eventually burns all that away. You learn to just stare at something—focus, clarity, awareness. And if you can hold your awareness in front of you, like a blade, just held out in front of you like a sword, then, when you go into another system, if you want to go into—I don’t know—some shamanic world or breathwork thing, or you want to chant some weird magical incantation or whatever, that clarity, that awareness, is going to serve you incredibly well.
And it’s also what you take with you to other worlds. It’s the awareness that begins to move and goes into other places. But if you don’t have that cultivated, then you just get swept up in the dream. You get swept up in the fantasy. You get swept up in your own mind.
So yeah, it’s very important. Concentration, awareness, clarity—super important. And it’s something you can begin today. You can begin today, staring at a candle. Just five minutes. Just five minutes.
And every time you get distracted, just bring it back. Just bring it back. Just bring it back. And that’s all. That’s all it is.
And yeah, that’s what I wanted to talk about. A little bit of stuff. A little bit about concentration. A little bit about magic. A little bit about clarity.
Alright, take care everyone. Have a good one. See ya.
How does one begin to describe "Initiation"?
A video attempting to conceptualize initiation as the beginning of the process to the transfiguration of one's "Being".
Hello friends, today I want to talk about something weird: spiritual elitism. Cause you see a lot of people, they talk about Enlightenment and Awakening and Kundalini and "trust me bro, this time for real bro, ego death for sure bro," but there's nothing really exceptional about them. So what do I mean by initiation? Clearly I'm talking about something different.
An initiate compared to a normal human is like comparing a butterfly to a caterpillar. Imagine if you will a great ladder of being, where each of the rungs represents a different level. On one rung you have plants, the next animals, then humans. What does it take to truly step from that rung of humanity to the one above it? This is the real question asked by people who are truly seeking spiritual Evolution.
So how do we begin? Well, with the most general education possible. It is good to have general knowledge, not just of esotericism but history, philosophy, psychology, and many other subjects. What should be noted is in this first basic requirement lays a trap. You see, as seekers we all need an open mind, a broad horizon, but what we need most is intuition, a discernment that allows us to close all doors that will lead us off the path.
Now before we get too ahead of ourselves, I could already hear the followers of Renee Ganan saying, "What about a teacher? Don't we need an initiator to become initiates?" Well, yes, but also no. You see, Renee gunan is technically correct, but he's also old and boring and I don't like him. Think of it like this: initiation is like the growth or cultivation of a plant from a seed. For that seed to grow, it needs proper soil and nourishment. It needs proper water—not too much, not too little. It needs the right amount of sun—not too much, not too little. If we are that seed, then we need soil: a proper institution. We need water: the proper teachings. And we need the Sun: an initiator.
Hunter Spills The Beans On Most Incredible Sasquatch Encounter
Ernie Davieau is a veteran hunter, and butcher who gained notoriety for a compelling Bigfoot encounter he experienced in the forests of Massachusetts. During a routine hunt near Blanford and Granville, Davieau came face-to-face with a towering Sasquatch, witnessing its movements and even experiencing what he described as an unexpected communication attempt. His detailed and thrilling account challenges perceptions of these elusive forest dwellers, a story he has shared on various platforms including podcasts such as "Bigfoot Society" and "My Bigfoot Sighting."
On Reality and Theories of Everything
Compilation of powerful ideas from three brilliant minds — Federico Faggin, Bernardo Kastrup, and Chris Langan. Each of them offers a unique perspective on consciousness and reality.
Understanding Gnosticism with Miguel Conner
Miguel Conner is host of the Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio podcast. He has authored two books of interviews about gnosticism, Voices of Gnosticism and Other Voices of Gnosticism, and also four novels. His newest book is The Occult Elvis: The Mystical and Magical Life of the King.
His website is https://www.miguelconner.com
Here he explains the origins of Gnosticism in late antiquity. He describes how it impacted both the Christian, Greek, and Persian worlds. He discusses the influence of Gnosticism upon a range of modern thinkers and writers. And, he distinguishes Gnosticism from other similar movements including Neo-Platonism and Hermeticism.
Next time someone tells you the aether isn't real...
The original Michelson-Morley experiment was done parallel to the ground, so at exactly the only angle where you can't measure the aether.
Accounting for the fact that the aether is parallel to gravity, suddenly it's measurable.
[Synchronicity] is Caused By a Magical Machine
Thirdeyetyrone speculates on the nature knowledge itself. Knowledge appears to be directly related to space, but what exactly is space? Perhaps what we call space is actually the body of a higher cosmic principle. Can space have a face?
The papers are Creative Commons 4.0 copywriter (so yes, but you can freely reuse them as long as you reference the work)