Seth, Elias – What is the Truth?

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Do you choose blissful ignorance of the truth and live satisfied with the illusion or do you embrace the painful truth of reality? Respectively the blue pill or the red pill coined this decision in the box office smash of ‘The Matrix’? Well the illusion could be painful and the reality could be bliss so the choice of the red pill is without question. The only problem it seems is that there are a countless number of red pills to choose from – which logically would sound absurd – and the truth is, you don’t need to take either. The rabbit hole is as deep as your intellect can cope with and if you use the Internet as the source of information to navigate the truth you rapidly become overwhelmed. This is both a burden and a blessing, because although you now have this growing library to enlighten you it does make it obvious which way to go to prevent yourself being swamped. It points back to you, the reader, the learner, the one who is asking the questions. The truth may not be in the form of facts, data and information existing, changing and hard to find. Truth may just be a concept in itself that belongs only to this world of information. Beyond that world is the person experiencing what that information means and feeling another form that exists within the self.

OK – this sounds as if there may be great meaning behind the words but they are just words. The meaning inside that is created is something else. No matter the language they are spoken in, somehow we understand things from the words that create a conceptual world within. One that we can play with, reject, or use further when we think things related.

This conceptual world held my attention for a long time, trying to understand it, trying at times to talk about it. There seems to be all sorts of creations there, things that couldn’t be seen or heard, but some could be felt. I tried years ago to create a language from these concepts, trying to identify the landscapes within. It seemed my ideas were impossible to create and harder than my capacity to work through it all. I am still intrigued by the things that exist here and can get lost wandering through its connections and meanings. If I could spend time here but function expectedly in the real world then I would continue. For the time being it just exists, occasionally calling, with just the acknowledgement of myself that it exists. Thoughts all meander in here, connecting and changing, or indeed travelling across an already existing landscape. But for now I accept that I can neither understand it or perceive it clearly enough.

So between the ever expanding library on the outside, to the ever present world it gets experienced in is the person, considering which way to go, to really understand reality.

Science has been my friend throughout life, offering explanations based on what appears to be happening in the universe. Mathematics offering what seems to be an absolute framework that promises to hold securely the relationships between objective things. But missing is the important stuff, the people and their experiences, the beauty of art, music and the philosophies of subjective things.

If I look to the metaphysical then it promises a confusing world of explanations that border on fantasy, or are just fantastic, with seemingly no visible or logical means of navigating for the truth. The interesting concepts created by Seth, information created of, or through, Jane Roberts did perhaps expand my thinking of other possibilities. This was truly a drama unfolding, reading through the experiences of both her and Robert Butts. Up until the time that Jane died it continued to expand and I felt it was a serious challenge both in thinking and emotions for them both.

Then there are the transcripts of Elisha, through Mary Ennis, that appears to expand further along the same lines, but I am concerned by what truth can lie there. Especially when I read that Elisha states that the planets revolve clockwise as an explanation of a tendency for rotation. If that is wrong then what else is wrong with it.

There is still a redeeming quality to both of these characters however, they both insist on fallibility and push the responsibility back upon the person. They both also allow anyone to expand upon their imagination, or even mind, to open up to possibilities that may not readily be available in everyday thought. Both those qualities appeal to me more than any other. It does force me down a particular path. Whatever truth may come can only come from one source – that is yourself. So between the ever growing but confusing library and the world of the mind then action must be taken to find it out for yourself.

So my next steps in the journey are to find out for myself.

At this moment I do not know how but in a sense I feel that in some way I am already doing it.

You Create Your Own Reality?

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‘You Create Your Own Reality?’ This is a phrase I am suddenly seeing a lot of and by the looks of it has been on the increase since the 1970′s. It appears now to be known in places as YCYOR to save time obviously. Is it right? Do you create your own reality?

It makes me wonder then, who exactly is the ‘You’ when you are creating? Because the reality seems exclusively ‘yours’. To also ‘create’ are you making something new or rearranging what is already there? Also, what is reality anyway? There must be a lot of distinct realities going around if you is an individual. Or is it the plural ‘you’, a kind of shared effort between reality engineers creating common or one particular reality? Another thought, is the reality exclusively mine or can I invite anyone into it?

If I am creating my own reality I want lessons in doing it properly. Mine is broken in places and I wouldn’t mind fixing it. Maybe a ‘Reality Creators 101′ might be in order – or say ‘Reality Creation for Dummies’ along with the Top 10 tips for usefulness.

My feeling is probably that ‘you’ is quite a complex subject and involves a lot to do with your personal perception of reality. I know that reality has a tendency to be a lot stranger and more wonderful than it first appears because I guess you get used to it being what it is already.

The creation bit really is an interesting thought, because in everything that could possibly exist it seems you are adding some more to it. I guess infinity doesn’t mind being added to but it does tend to still be infinity no matter what you add to it.

I wonder how these realities all hang out. Do they add together, are they are part of a greater reality or are they somehow all the same? What are they made of? What are they connected to ‘you’ with and how can it be personalised? Do you ever have the problem of somehow picking someone else’s reality one morning and have a really confusing day?

It does feel to be a beautiful idea in itself. That would possibly mean I can create just whatever I want, whenever I want and however I want. Something in it feels right, though I am sure it needs to be worked out.

Currently my reality isn’t all it could possibly be at the moment, there are things going on that are frustrating, sad, annoying and just plain confusing. Or is that just me? Am I creating all that no matter what? That brings on the biggest surprise of all, what a responsibility that all must be. No more being the victim if you are actually creating it. In fact, if you are being the victim in any sense then you must be creating it. Why would you want to do that? Maybe a bit of ‘victim experience’ is a good break to have from all this power that must be available.
It also means I cannot blame anyone else – for anything. Well – not unless I wanted to create that?

What about other people’s realities? How do they impact on yours? Do you share a reality in full or in part?

It is interesting that it isn’t ‘you create reality’, which you must do, but it is also not ‘you create your reality’, you own it somehow. It must belong to you. So what is this reality that is so unique to you. If indeed you are unique?

Is it possible too for reality not to exist? Or perhaps ‘you’ can exist with no reality?

Opposing this, how do you know reality is real? What does that mean and can it be proved?

I know there is a correspondence to this statement somewhere along the lines because we do actually change things. Which then results in things that we experience. So it seems obvious at that level. I use also my everyday experience of reality which although quite personal to me I guess does share a bit of crossover with many other people or I would seem quite mad. Or maybe not be seen at all if I think more about it.

A separation exists too. The reality is not you in a sense. You have created it so it exists as something you made. Is it a part of you or actually separate then.

Assuming too that realities are being changed – or more exact – created all the time then what happens to old ones. Where are all the realities yet to be? Is there an infinite set of realities? This draws my attention to time. There does seem to be an element of the present in that statement. I assume that it applies to now. Is it an eternal statement. Will I be creating reality in the next moment, have I always created it?

How would you prove this statement to be true or false?
Why would you bother?
Other than it sounding like it is one of the most important statements you can ever take on.

So where do you begin?

I guess I shall create a reality in which I am fully aware of everything that goes on in the reality and understand it all. Sounds a bit god-like and impossible doesn’t it?

But it’s MY reality! I can do what I like with it!

Bringing your Product Idea to Life

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After chatting on Skype with someone who has a brilliant idea for a product but not quite knowing how to take it to the next step I made a suggestion. Not with the idea itself because in reality it is actually a brilliant one but in the way of getting these ideas into the first solid step you can take. One that I know helps you clear up a lot of the issues you face when you have a great idea and want to bring it to reality. The idea is based on storyboarding and prototyping and is a method I got involved with when I was working on usability.

The problem is always at the beginning, what do you do to flesh out an idea and make it into something real. In the IT world you would be expected to create a detailed specification of what you want but often it isn’t people with that kind of experience that have the idea. So you need enough to be able to describe fully your idea to someone who can actually do the work, write the code, create the product and make it something you can sell.

Of course having an idea in your head is not enough. You need to at least know that it solves the problem that created it. You need to create your imaginary product in your mind and test it all out in real life. This is the most efficient place to make changes to it, anywhere later will cost you time and money. Now assuming you don’t have the capacity of a great inventor like Tesla then you need to make some notes and drawings. This is where the storyboarding comes in.

Now whatever you artistic skills are and thankfully it doesn’t matter when you do this you need to draw how the product will be used. You draw up each function it performs and put in just enough to spark the imagine of seeing it for real. Even if you have to draw a little stick-man operating or using the product it will help you see its use more clearly.

There may be a number of ways that the product is used so for each one you can think of draw little pictures of how it will look. When you go through a function or action with it you can use a comic book like style to show each of the steps. If you have many pictures of certain aspects of the product then you can reuse them as you think of how the product will be interacted with. All this helps your cognitive functions analyse and imagine all the pieces that are necessary for the product to work.

I know that film walkthroughs are done this way, at least showing the ingredients of each action as the idea is fleshed out. Of course it is so simple and quick to change, rearrange, throw out and add to the story line this way you can see the film being someone using your product.

The next thing is that once you have thrown every problem and possible function at your product on paper you will then want someone to prototype it. Well the sketches will help for this too. If you are able to it will give you plenty of information for writing a specification. At least it will give you enough to know what you are asking for should you go online to a freelancing auction or service provider. The one thing that will always save you time, money and communication problems is having as complete a specification as possible when approaching a service provider. You could possible even just use the sketches or storyboard as the means of describing what you want and have the service provider help you get round any technical issues.

Creating a storyboard will help you make your idea a reality by helping your imagination flow in creating it, forcing you to consider it fully for any issues it might have and ease the communication you need in telling someone else what you need to create the idea into a prototype.

I did find a number of sites that describe this method though any search for ‘storyboarding prototyping’ should bring up more than enough background info.
http://projects.staffs.ac.uk/suniwe/project/prototypeuserinterface.html
http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/Sketching/sk31.htm
http://www.usabilitybok.org/methods/storyboard

Everything is real?

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In the infinite there must be an infinite of everything. This seems absurd for it would suggest that everything has an infinite number of states. But with the suggestion of everything within infinity they all must be as real as each other. If there is a dimension, a term that at the moment I use without fully understanding its definition, then there must be an infinite number of dimensions. If there is an ‘I’ then why is it only singular. The singularity and the infinite seem to be the same thing, though logically, mathematically, rationally it is hard to define. Everything, although infinite is a singular thing. The universe although infinite is a singular thing. Whatever ‘I’ exists in the universe must be the singular ‘I’. This singular ‘I’ is what? God, Everything, or ‘I’ in its infinite form.

Pulling back, if there is an infinite of things, then everything within it is real. Everything must be as real as each other. Anything that imagine not to be real therefore must be. Every thought, every perception whether seen or imagined must be in fact real.

Another implication is of connectivity. Everything is connected to everything else. If anything could be taken away then the whole thing could not exist. Everything has to be. Everything thing has a direct, absolute and real effect on everything else.

So take it to an extreme which doesn’t make sense at the moment, every thought or imagination must have an effect upon everything else.

I am aware of the theories of multiverses and probabilities within the fringes of science but it is certainly hard to visualise every possibility splitting up into its components. It only seems to be perceived by the capacity of thought anyway. Every moment having an infinite number of possibilities. There must be something of a filter to be able to create anything.

Another thought that makes this interesting is where if everything exists then the beauty of mathematics will collapse it into a singular framework. Its beauty has been in its ability to describe and prove itself. A mathematically proof is a thing that proves a singular result, loosely speaking, and collapses probabilities down to something of a framework. Is it possible to ever have 1+1=3? So does this collapse everything into a singular structured framework or is there a possibility that in some respects this can exist?

So where do you begin?

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I can wander, or indeed wonder around the information that is present to me about the true reality of life but I feel that I need to be in direct experience of it. I will undoubtedly not be able to fully understand the interactions that seemingly take place on another level if I try to process it all intellectually.

What I need is real, actual, current experience in a framework that specifically for me will enable the most effective understanding.

Where would I start?

I must admit to myself that intellectually I have no idea of where to start – I need more than that.

So if I trust that life is created in a fashion that enables the ‘I’ that I sense to be able to achieve its objectives then should it not work. I need to initiate this journey somehow, fully trusting that it is not a wasteful or misdirected one. Maybe the journey itself does not have a destination? But it must have a direction toward more understanding of myself and the universe in which I live.

I ask of the universe, of whatever it consists of to direct and formulate this journey. In this statement is the trust that however far I can define the ultimate reality of God, the universe, or indeed myself, that it would not have any inclination to misguide me. If this has a direction then in that direction I must place my request. To know, experience, to understand the truth from wherever I am here.

This perfect universe, that intellectually must contain everything, must contain the very thing I am trying to implore. In that context it is then that very thing that is providing within me this imploration. This desire must stem from within it and must therefore have an answer.

I am aware that this may not all exist in what I perceive, it may not require the intellect or reason, it may not be anything that I at this present moment understand. But it must be, or these words will never have been written.

So it begins now.

It must be all accessible, it exists already. I must trust, accept and imagine that this journey has begun.

Thinking about Thoughts

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I have been doing a lot of thinking recently, thinking about thoughts, wondering what they are. You see I like thinking, I do a lot of it, but I don’t really know what it is and I really feel I should find out. I don’t want to do it wrong, I want to think correctly, I don’t want to reach a time when for whatever reason the thinking will stop so I need to think deeply, do some investigation and research to find out what thoughts are, what power they have, how I can control them and what good they can do for me.

Here begins my thought project, I am going to enjoy getting to the bottom of this.

Well first before looking elsewhere, what do I think I know about them? It will be interesting to see how this changes as I delve deeper.

They seem to be active things, at least in the sense of thinking, they seem to change with ease. However, I can perform certain kinds of thought that feel like they require a lot of energy, like if I do something like multiply numbers in my head. So this would suggest they take energy to perform, or should I say to think, which is the use of thought.

They do not appear to have mass or act like tangible things. However I can associate thought to a mass and a tangible thing. So is it the thought or the thing which is tangible?

They do not seem to have power in themselves, but their use can change physical reality. Physical reality seems happy going about its business abiding strict laws but a thought can come along and change it. The change, the net effect of the thought appears then to be immeasurable. A person who has perhaps access to a red doomsday button can think about pressing it and destroying a whole world, or perhaps the person thinks about pressing a button on his keyboard and changing the reality on the monitor. An erratic thought then might be responsible for mixing up the reality to this person and in its have unlimited potential energy.

Thoughts don’t care about time. They can appear in any time. But it does seem to take time, so their action, thinking may be time dependant.

Thoughts don’t seem to have any regard for space. They can exist anywhere in space in many forms. In the mind of a person, who is able to travel freely wherever the physical laws will allow. In different contexts, like in the written word, in a book, electronically stored files, in pictures and shapes. The contexts seem to have no bounds and can stimulate a thought in a thinking being from across all time and space. The context seems to require a space to be placed containing a thought, but thought itself does not seem to take up space.

It is interesting that the universe is being changed in places based upon the decisions of thinking beings. If change takes place in any relative perspective then there should be physical laws that they belong to.

There are theories that thought is in fact a fundamental feature of the universe by which we live in and controls how it works. If that is true then this project could get really interesting.

What do you think?

The Ultimate Truth – Everything is Perfect

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The answer to life the universe and everything is to live.
Of course the question of how to live seems to be a stumbling point.
Well, I don’t know to be honest…
How should you live?

I have read most recently of a movement of thinking called ‘New Thought’ and following how it came to be is interesting. The ideas within it sound good don’t they? Something missing? Well I think I have my own answer for the time being. Strange how I had almost forgotten them all but dear Wallace helped me remember – this time I must make sure they become part of me.

The answer lies in an idea. EVERYTHING IS PERFECT.

The means of carrying out this kind of thinking is – no matter how it seems the universe is perfect in every way. If you can find the highest ideals within yourself of how perfect the universe is, if you can imagine it being perfect in every way then that is the direction for your understanding. Knowing that the destination of your understanding is possibly more perfect than you can currently imagine or understand.

This means EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK. In fact better than OK – it is going to be perfect.

Inside you have an understanding of what is good, of what is right, and that is part of the perfect universe telling you of what is.

Everything you see around you has a meaning, is there for a purpose. Of course the purpose and meaning will be perfect. You may not understand it, but the reason you don’t is for a reason, you will find out and it will be a perfect reason, that you know inside will be exactly as you would wish, perfect in every detail.

Everything that goes wrong, appears wrong, isn’t really. Nothing can really be wrong but there is a perfect reason for it to appear to you like this. It is part of something that will make perfect sense to you one day when you see the reason why it was like this.

No one is lost, nothing is lost, no one disappears, everyone is always in existence and absolutely safe and in perfect existence. Pain and suffering are essential even though they do not appear to be, they will have meaning to you as you progress and will be absolutely grateful for everything that has ever happened to you. Your life is perfect.

Shall I write more on this????

The Science, The Secret and the Shock

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The safety of science has been a comfortable place to stay – but the machinery exists in a fantastic awe inspiring universe and things beyond science also belong. It is time to be shocked?

I have recently gone through a real shock and it is one that appears to remain as lonely as the cause of the shock. It is as if a mighty explosion took place somewhere that I was part of but nobody noticed. In fact I cannot get anyone to understand the severity of the shock when I tell them about it, it cannot be understood it seems except by me.

The shock came from writing that was a hundred years old at least and seeming like it was something I wrote.

I remember when young reading in a comic book about a writer who was plagiarised by another years before the writing took place. It involved the writer of the past being able to see into the future and copying the words of the forthcoming writer and printing it as his own. This of course meant that the modern day writer wrote his book but was immediately accused of plagiarising a writer of the past.

Well it really felt like that when I read the words in May. First of all a familiar feeling came over me, then an odd familiarity occurred that maybe I was looking at something I did earlier.

But this was something somebody else had written many years ago.

When trying to comprehend this I really wanted proof, but I didn’t have it, my memories of writing something is all that is left. I know that there is very little chance that the writing survived the years, but some things do turn up now and again that surprise and delight me. Unfortunately nothing yet of the kind of thing I am looking for here as proof – even to myself.

The thoughts that were associated with the reading of the book however brought back a torrent of long lost feelings that again are hard to describe. To describe it physically I felt electrified, my hairs stood on end and the feeling went in electrical waves throughout my body, most noticeably on the arms. But I already have that skill and is something I can do at will if I really want to. Then more significantly came the feeling of being safe, secure, as if everything was back in control, that the whole universe apparently was under my control and I really could do whatever I wanted, and I must say that feeling is a really powerful one. Whether true or not, it is a wonderful feeling to have. Then I must say the tears came, I am not sure why, but they came and I felt that should I explore it further I have quite a few to shed to get over things that have occurred.

So how did these two things get connected…

Is there something inherent in our understanding of the universe that brings these things out. Is there a kind of truth within us all that doesn’t require understanding of God or Universe or anything, just the inherent sense of what is, eternally here and now.

Is it a coincidence. Just one of the many things that occur when you have so much information available to you. Of course it is possible that many forms of fantasy can be co-created many times over as we pass through this experience. If I think of this as the cause I am a little annoyed that it took almost thirty years for the coincidence to be noticed.

The troubling thing is that this odd little book, written a hundred years ago by a rather frail looking person with a funny name is actually a big thing to many people around today. I guess I cannot talk about the name, mine in fact is just as funny and is a result of a change, the reason I am still not sure of yet. In fact part of the reason I came across it was because of the publishing of the ideas in The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. The book that apparently was part of the influence on her when creating The Secret was the book by Wallace D. Wattles called The Science of Getting Rich. It is only later I realise how big this book is and this has quite an effect on me. You see I dropped all that thinking long ago. It became a worry to me.

I think I started with the idea of a perfect universe and a perfect God and started from there. With the acceptance of perfection around me even though I couldn’t perceive it I tried to work out the elements of what was going on around me. I tired many time to pin the ideas down and understand them completely but got lost often on what I considered to be a conceptual landscape, where in fact all ideas existed and their associations could be explored , the motion being thought. Now this landscape just is. It just exists and nothing changes it. I would guess that it would in some way come perfectly from a source, an ideal, a singularity, the original cause or whatever but miraculously became this complexity that exists, the complexity that is. Now thoughts require time, the are the traversing of these concepts but they are in essence able to be understood by everything and anything in the universe. Beyond language, the ideas are all in existence and can be travelled. Through this everyone understands what is good, what makes sense, what is logical, what is mathematically perfect, etcetera as long as they travel the concepts correctly and perfection can be found. Now the rules that appear to come out from this can be considered fundamental laws of the universe, and the understanding of them can be a fascinating discovery. We have concepts bound together, good and bad, right and wrong, equal and unequal and the laws are loosely bound according to our perception of the universe that we see, feel, hear, touch, smell and many others. I could see many things leading out from this existence and at the time my writing and drawings would flow, it was such an invigorating thing to do. But at time I seemed to be doing it automatically, it just seemed to come fast and thick with information that would take me longer and longer to understand. After a while I was worried that I was in fact producing rubbish, a sort of mental and loosely connected jibberish that meant nothing and certainly not of any use to the world or myself. I missed the fact that it made me feel good.

Religion was quite a task master in many forms and looking into the field where people apparently let themselves go into this area stories of losing control and ending up with devils crawling in and out of the participant was enough to put aside this whole area once and for all. I became a very technically focused person, using only the scientific, the mathematical and the programming paradigm to understand the universe, there was no room for any fantasy. Religion was always there in one form or another, acting like some kind of catch 22 of life.

Something was definitely missing…

I always had inside me that I would do something wonderful. Something that I would only share with my nearest but something that was very powerful. I imagined maybe that I would conquer death, that forever remove the barriers for the living and the dead, or that I would achieve some kind of immortality and forever be able to travel the universe appreciating the wonders of it in one form or another. The euphoria of it would come out in either the highest ideals I could think of or the most fantastic and effective imaginings that I could do.

Now admittedly not a sensible kind of thought that I would comfortably let on to those around me but I guess here I often felt after the madness of it.

But what has happened here is quite significant. I am becoming more aware of a whole load of people with closer thoughts than I imagined. They have been around a long time and seem to have a connection way back through history and before.

My life is absolutely the opposite of any of this thought…
… I am beginning to wonder what I have done to cause this
…or whether it could be perfectly engineered by myself to have caused this
…everything seems to possibly have meaning again

What I do know now. Reading through and listening to what Wallace actually wrote that it wasn’t complete by any means. There is a level of understanding missing, something to discover within the concepts themselves before it all comes together. It is like the understanding of fire, being used and performing things but not the true understanding of what fire is.

Before oxidising, before the transfers of energy and going back to the original concepts that are fuelling everything that is, back to the source…

Without this understanding then it can feel inappropriate imagining everything into existence, or manifesting as I see it called, there are certain things that do not light up when the fire is placed on them and you do need to understand why.

I am pleased that already the refocusing of myself with who I am since – shall I say – going back to this journey has given me the strength to get rid of one of the most annoying problems I have had in my life that has caused me so many problems. The addiction to smoking. I stopped on June 10th and know that I do not need to smoke any more. I am certainly not going to prevent the experience of having one ever again but I have challenged the addiction. Having to deal with this as I go forward is helping me learn what challenges you have in the mind when dealing with such a big change and is making me a lot stronger.

My focus is something that I have always seemed to have in mind but not had the elements for, that is ‘to be all you can be’. I will try to understand what that means as time goes by and work it through.

I am going to find out what this all means. In fact I feel strongly that in some sense I already know. I just need to take a little more of the journey to understand a few things that were put there… but it is going to be wonderful… a great journey…

Cuddly reasons for saving trees

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If you give money to a charity you expect it to go for a purpose – the purpose being the reason you are giving. OK. This isn’t going to be one of those ‘how most of your money is wasted in charity administration’ posts – though the temptation is there…

So what else can go wrong…

Well, it’s the giving of money to save trees and getting a cuddly toy that seems a bit wrong?
Why would you do it?

Some of the money may get to saving a tree by the bark of its trunk after probably most of it getting wasted in admin, but to also throw the most important bit left on a cuddly piece of carbon footprint simply seems an extremely odd thing to do, in fact quite childish.

“Now, now children, before you go to bed clean your teeth and I will give you a lovely sweet to sleep on”…

The Wonderful Point of the Here and Now

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Right now with a flurry of Google Plus invites going on – and off apparently, I see Google has temporarily shut them down – another channel is opened up for communication. I cannot help feeling now though that there are so many things going on, that in the moment of something happening, you will have loads of people taking photos, tweeting, updating their statuses, now I guess hanging out on Google Plus and nobody was actually there to experience the moment.

There is the temptation to become a sort of ‘mobile CCTV’ recording precious moments but losing the point of actually being there to enjoy the moment?

Be selfish – leave the recording to everyone else – Be There!!