By Cogitator
Everyone exercises self-control at one time or another, whether holding anger back or biting one's tongue instead of speaking what's on one's mind. What is this "self" we all wish we could control better?
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." Aristotle.
The self is our personality or ego. It is the source of all humanity's woes and problems. It is an artificial (man-made) mind created by its ability to think, feel and experience its worldly existence. It is the differentiating factor between the human animal and all other natural life forms. It seeks to be independent in its self-defined universe, even though there is no such thing as independence for any life form. All life is dependent on all other life in order to "be."
"Learn to see. Everything is connected." Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo was not the only one to recognize this basic truth. Gauthama Siddartha, the first Buddha, said the same thing when referring to the oneness of everything. Carl Jung made the same observation, and Albert Einstein's Relativity equation boils down to depicting that all forms are manifestations of energy. The first step to understanding the self and bringing it under control is accepting that truth.
"If you want to understand the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." Nikola Tesla.
We are born (usually) with five physical senses to experience our worldly travels. These senses provide input to the brain for evaluation and action (or inaction.) Each sense is "tuned in" to a specific range of vibrations that allow it to communicate its findings to our inner being. If we allow the ego to make comparisons or judgments of those findings, we will suffer consequences. Only our intuition will "feel" the truth of the stimuli we experience. Personality comes from the word "persona," which means mask or veil. Ego falls quite short in its ability to discern the connectivity of its observations because the senses provide only a tiny slice of what is actually there. Because of its stubborn insistence for seeing itself as separate and judgmental, it spoils the harmony and synchronicity of life itself.
We have a bicameral brain -- two chambers. In general terms, the left hemisphere receives energy waves in terms of frequency while the right interprets the same waves in terms of amplitude. Frequency gives us the concept of time and number while amplitude supplies the concept of space and size. It is important to note that everything we envision is seen within our natural mind, not "outside." Helen Keller is probably the best example of this fact. Blind and deaf from an early age, she was yet able to write fourteen books and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. Obviously, she did that from within her natural mind. Ego thinks in subjective terms when judging its observations, thus is always at least partially faulty in its evaluations. Helen Keller had no ego to spoil her accomplishments.
"We are all born geniuses; society de-geniuses us." R. Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller.
We are all born perfect in the sense of containing the truth. From the moment we are born, the ego is subjected to indoctrination, propaganda, false beliefs and values, as well as fantasy, fiction and folklore, thereby eventually becoming a slave to others' thoughts. To return to our innate truth and gain the self-control we want, we must peel away all the vestiges of untruth -- like peeling an onion. Truth doesn't care about the ego's perspective. It will remain what it is. There is no conflict of good and evil; the real conflict is between truth and untruth.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein.
When we interpret waves of energy as frequency, we imagine Time and number. The only time that exists in truth is the moment we call NOW. There is no such thing as past or future in truth. Our inborn consciousness resides in NOW. We imagine Space and size by interpreting the amplitude and size of the energy waves from our Point of View. That consciousness represents HERE. Our true self has always been and will always be HERE and NOW and designates the center of our universe. It is our Point of View.
We will never experience death. The combination of HERE/NOW is the Space/Time continuum Einstein refers to and will always exist.
The third part of consciousness is Understanding. The only ignorant element in our envisioned universe is the imagined ego. To tame it from going against the natural order it has to grow its understanding of its view of the universe. Ego has the ability to change its point of view, but it cannot change what the view really is. Developing our universe necessitates gaining more understanding of what it is as well as what we are.
Tartang Tulku published "Time, Space and Knowledge." In it, he differentiates Great Time, Great Space and Great Knowledge from ordinary time, ordinary space and ordinary knowledge. This differentiation can be compared to Leonardo's "everything is connected" versus the ego's understanding of its peculiar view. There are about three dozen exercises in the book to help seekers of truth delve into their spiritual nature.
"Wisdom begins with the definition of terms." Aristotle.
"The first chapter of wisdom is truth." Thomas Jefferson.
Literacy has a huge impact on the size of an ego's universe. The higher our literacy skills, the greater the universe. A piece of knowledge is mere trivia until it finds its connection(s) in our overall knowledge base. A piece of a picture puzzle is meaningless until we find the corresponding shape in which it fits. It's easy to apprehend a new piece of information, but we must comprehend how and why it fits in our universal view for it to develop. It is comprehension that makes our universe grow. Without a high level of literacy, the puzzle will remain unsolved. Until the ego is motivated to remove its ignorance, it will remain a victim and a slave to others' thoughts and goals. There is a simple difference between ignorance and stupidity - Ignorance is not knowing and stupidity is refusing to comprehend.
The human form is constantly being bombarded by waves of energy that convey meaning to the brain. Those waves are the energy, frequency and vibrations Tesla referred to. Ego is similar to a radio listener. (Thank Tesla for radio, as well.) Most radios have AM/FM capabilities. That means they can receive energy waves using Amplitude Modulation or Frequency Modulation. That's what our human brain does, with the exception that it can interpret both amplitude and frequency simultaneously to create the HERE/NOW. The ego is able to make decisions about what it wants to "tune into." For the most part, ego will choose to tune in to vibrations it "likes" rather than explore the unknown. That is what keeps it ignorant.
We are also like a radar antenna. We project our thought energy outward and wait for the echo. If the echo is not what we expected, it is either because we projected incorrect or incomplete thoughts, are misreading the echo, or both.
Ego is very much like a gatekeeper to its perceived universe. Its job is to gather input from our physical senses and submit it to our true mind, but it has the ability to reject new information from entering if the information threatens its Comfort Zone. It does not like to change when it feels comfortable. If pressured, ego will activate its "fight or flight" reflex to relieve the pressure. The other option is to stay indifferent to the stimulus and simply do nothing.
Running away from truth and/or remaining as an obedient animal doesn't improve our perceived universe. It is when ego attempts to fight truth that we have the opportunity to improve. It is impossible for truth to be defeated, but the conflict may allow the ego to recognize the faulty thoughts it had harbored. In the effort to prove itself right, the ego may "see the light" of truth.
There are numerous ways to be aware of when the ego is taking charge of our actions. Anger, greed, fear, lust, pride, vanity, dominance, and other selfish behaviors are ego traits and easily recognized (and/or manipulated) by the ruling class. They indicate a lack of understanding. To remove any ego trait, we must fight to remove it by knowing why we exhibit it.
Scientists are working on the Grand Unification Theory (GUT) in order to mathematically define the connections between the microcosm and the macrocosm of the observable universe. The terms needing definition are microcosm and macrocosm. If successful, the equations would prove the validity of Leonardo's "everything is connected." In higher mathematics, there is no room for incorrect or incomplete thoughts when explaining truth. The primary purpose of scientific inquiry is to create PROOF.
Einstein's Relativity equation was further developed into Quantum Mechanics. Fermilab and other atom smashers delved deeper into the atom's construction and eventually came up with the dual nature of Wave/Particle. Many experiments stunned physicists when they observed particles behaving according to what they were thinking. Thought transfer!
It makes sense that the Wave/Particle be the microcosm of the universe. It is nature's Consciousness Mirror. Just as our mirrors reflect the equal and opposite image of what we are, so does the Wave/Particle. In their interaction, they create THOUGHT. The universe is expanding because more and more thoughts are being generated. There is no limit to the size of universal thought. The macrocosm will continue to grow.
"Nothing pains some people more than having to think." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Using the electron as an analogy, we can visualize thought as a complete cycle of energy orbiting the atom's nucleus. Regardless of any point we choose on the path, the electron will never repeat an identical path, simply because energy is in constant motion. That slight variation is what allows for adaptation and evolution.
The human ego has the unique ability to stop a thought and contemplate it. The cycle of thought processing goes through several stages -- Awareness, Focus, Analysis, Action and Adaption. The place to be while executing these steps is in our Corpus Callosum. That is the center and balance point of our consciousness. It can be had by meditation. It is our Creative Thinking Center. Ego has no control when we are in this meditative state. We will have achieved self-control. We will be able to change the perception of our universe by changing our thoughts.
"The simple secret of the universe is that we create our own reality." Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and founder of Noetic Sciences.
Noetic Sciences deals with the mystical qualities of the intellect and consciousness.
Every genius who has known something of the inner light of consciousness is bound to be a little difficult to be absorbed; he is going to be an upsetting force. Most egos don't want to be disturbed, even though they may be in misery. They are in misery, but they are accustomed to the misery. And anybody who is not miserable looks like a stranger. He who has achieved self-control is the greatest stranger in the world; he does not seem to belong to anybody. No organization confines him, no community, no society nor nation. His very way of being is rebellious - not because he is fighting against anybody or anything, but because he has discovered his own true nature and is determined to live in accordance with it. He challenges us to be courageous enough to take responsibility for who and what we are and to live according to truth.
Homo Sapiens' brains have evolved to the point where they can stop a thought. That is the differentiating factor of people versus most animals. If we visualize our lives as a moving picture, holding a view in our MindSpace is like pausing the movie. We can freeze the image, behold it on a template and contemplate it as we look at a mirror. This is the point of control used to change our future scenarios.
Truth's within us, of this be sure
Shining brightly, grounded and pure
All that we think as well as feel
Must pass its test to know what's real
What we observe is our own thought
Ancient knowledge, battles we've fought
The Truth is here; pay attention
We're in constant evolution
It's always Now -- Eternity
Forever Here -- Infinity
Understanding expands insight
Until we find our divine Light
Decisions occur from our Point of View. While in the calm state of meditation and contemplation, our mind seeks meaning related to our initial thought. If we stay long enough in this meditative state, we can eventually relate all ideas to create our very own "MindSpace." The size of this personal vision depends on the beholder's understanding of many elements. In Captain Edgar Mitchell's words, "The simple secret of the Universe is that we create our own reality."
Helen Keller's MindSpace is notable. Deaf and blind from illness at nineteen months of age, Helen created her vision because of Anne Sullivan. Anne Sullivan is one of Perkins School for the Blind's best-known students. After graduating from Perkins in 1886, she traveled to Alabama to educate Helen Keller and remained Keller's instructor, interpreter, and friend until she died in 1936.
Sullivan learned finger-spelling from Laura Bridgman. A graduate of Perkins, Bridgman was the first person with deafblindness to get a formal education. The two spent time together when Sullivan was a student at Perkins, and Bridgman taught her how to form letters with her fingers to spell out words into the palm of a hand. Sullivan used that finger-spelling method to teach Helen Keller how to communicate.
There is no growth in MindSpace without communicating. Communication is the method to add or subtract meaning from that space. Miss Keller eventually graduated cum laude from Radcliffe, wrote fourteen books, co-founded the ACLU, and many other astounding accomplishments, including studying French. Her notable quote: "There is nothing more pathetic than having sight, but no vision."
For the most part, the multitude
Is not using its aptitude
Realities need to include
Understanding of what we've viewed
Education is a prelude
To understand thoughts to include
And rid us of ineptitude
It all begins with attitude
Meditation in solitude
Provides insight of magnitude
Physical worlds can be subdued
We find the Truth with certitude
Ignorance has no latitude
Communicates just to intrude
Is more involved in servitude
Than attempting more altitude
The wiser soul has gratitude
Pushes aside all platitude
Truth must be used as our soul food
Then our soul search, we can conclude
Another wonder woman is Mary Baker Eddy. The mid to late nineteenth century was an era of immensely significant advances in science and enlightened thinking. After being cured by Dr. Parkhurst Quimby from a debilitating disease, she founded Christian Science with her book "Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures." She discovered that the Universal Mind most would call "God" only seeks to regain balance in all life forms and heal any ills. Christian Science was pegged as quackery by materialists and industrialists throughout the twentieth century. Voltaire said: "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
Eddy's book has a clear message. It is not physical interpretations that explain our relationship to existence. It is the metaphysical understanding of our thoughts that carves our creations.
Men inflict upon themselves far-reaching sufferings and pass through indescribable torments, both of body and soul, through lack of self-control. By self-control, a man manifests his divine power and ascends toward divine wisdom and perfection.
Calling or not calling upon God or Jesus, Brahma or Buddha, Spirits or Masters, will not avail men who refuse to govern themselves and purify their hearts. Believing or disbelieving that Jesus is God, that Buddha is omniscient, or the Spirits or Masters guide human affairs, cannot help men who continue to cling to the elements of strife and ignorance and corruption within themselves.
From childhood, we begin hiding our inner self away. We learn to adapt and survive in the outside world. Our families and peers teach us socially acceptable behavior. Our educational system teaches us the technical and social skills we need to sustain a material life. As adults, we are thrust into a society geared towards materialism and maintaining the status quo. Rarely, especially in the early formative years, are we taught inner development, emphasizing intuition, the subconscious mind, independent thinking, self-esteem, self-confidence, psychic or inner spiritual growth. The road to enlightenment is an arduous one but is available to all. That road is not one of learning something new but instead discovering what was always there.
Mystic: "A person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the absolute by spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect."
Through mysticism, we develop spiritual wisdom, expanded awareness, and a sense of connectedness with everything and everyone around us. In the process, we become captains of our ship and masters of our fate. This state of mind is evidenced by the Toltec Spiritual Warrior, the Buddha of Buddhism, the Hindu yogi of hatha yoga, the Jesus (Christ Nature) of Christianity, and the Sufi of Islam and other examples. Reaching this level of enlightenment necessitates a complete understanding of what we are. Everyone can find their mystical being, but few will make an effort to do so. The mystic lives in a perfect state of being. He becomes oblivious to mundane human activities. He has risen above and beyond his animal body because he lives according to Natural Law.
Natural Law is that set of laws that is the working basis of all creation and without which no manifestation can occur and exist. It is universal in scope and manner of operation, direct and straightforward. Natural Law is always constructive, even when it seems indisputably destructive. It is the expression or manifestation of Cosmic Energy and order that humanity can discern.
There is no such thing as supernatural law. There is nothing more divine than nature, nothing super beyond the natural. The greatest of miracles are not the result of artificial law but of natural law. The mystic has removed all vestiges of fantasy, indoctrination, false beliefs, and false values and is synchronized and harmonized with the symphony of life.
Mystics do everything they can to cultivate and maintain four primary virtues: understanding, service, compassion, and love. These virtues all flow into one another and merge into perfect unity and form one entity. Willpower, perseverance, and trust are three other virtues that need to be manifested to achieve spiritual elevation. The choice is ours, for we have our free will.
Our MindSpace, once expanded by a new idea, can never return to its previous dimension.
By Cogitator
All religions are isms or "schools of thought." Political systems are isms, and personal belief systems such as sexism, racism, and the like also fit the description. Every ism is at least partially false, and each can be called religion, whether the deity is the dollar, the American Idol winner, one's own Ego, etc. For example, worshipping the dollar is a religion called capitalism. All of us contain many isms we consult to make decisions about the scenario we currently inhabit.
We consider making decisions when we feel unbalanced. All organisms (schools of thought that create organs) must maintain homeostasis to experience living. In us, we call it Comfort Zone. Motivation happens when our Comfort Zone feels pain, physical, and/or psychical. We seek some action that can counterbalance our self-generated anguish. That may send us looking for some group that will provide temporary shelter from our ignorance.
Abraham Maslow published his "Hierarchy of Needs" in 1949 (circa). This concept has been developed to a much more satisfactory degree by many students of the thought. Our first resolution is to accept and understand that there are no "needs" other than consciousness. All decisions are based on the desire to maintain homeostasis in our existence first. We begin by ensuring that our temporary housing has enough food, water, sleep, shelter, etc. We genuinely need no more than a loincloth, a cave, and a supply of food from the bounty of Mother Earth to survive.
What do we seek after this initial step is satisfied?
Company. As all animals do, we gather in groups. The herd instinct is undeniable. It affords the sense of security that comes from not feeling isolated. Since all animals procreate for the propagation of the species, Socialization happens by training people or animals to behave in a way that others think is suitable. This level can be excruciatingly complex for underdeveloped minds. To belong, we craft a "personality" that will allow the group to accept us as a member. The world is a stage, and we are the personae in the cast. Our role is whatever we choose to be. Our agony comes when we act against our purpose.
Carl Jung's definition of personality: "The image and character that someone wants to show the outside world." We must agree that we often project a false front for others to evaluate. (Check out Facebook.)
Socializing includes establishing a "pecking order" within the group. Corporations provide organizational charts to depict this sequence. Maslow's chart also applies to these imaginary and artificial constructs. Each of us will allow our Ego to consider self-worth as it relates to the herd mentality.
We all communicate our being, both to the outer and inner world we imagine. We are the only creatures who lie and accept lies by design. Why do we? We get embarrassed, feel anger, hold grudges, judge others, and a whole lot more of the seven deadly sins kind of behavior. What is this proud thing called Ego, and how can we relegate it to its actual function?
Ego is an artificial structure built by the brain's interaction and experience while treading the planet. It is desCartes' "I think, therefore I am." The I/AM is the consciousness that relates to the divine ocean of thought. Our temporary housing is the "in-formation" of what we are.
The "I/AM" of Being is unlimited and thus allows Divinity to manifest as a HIM for humanity to observe, as in Jesus, Buddha, and ourselves as well.. Divinity can take form, even though it is indeed formless, and still be one with Infinity. A wave looks separate from the ocean, but is always connected.
Buddha taught the oneness of things. There is Only One Consciousness. Metaphysics teaches that every form is created by our own being's ability to think and sense other thoughts. There is no substance in consciousness other than thought. Our egoistic bodies, however, continually attempt to separate their Bubba from the unity of all. The body's paltry sensory ability is ridiculously inadequate when compared to what is available to sense. Ego continually tries to identify, sort, categorize, and assign value to evanescence. That is what creates assumptions.
Its primary purpose is to maintain balance, or homeostasis, for our body, but it begins to build its own existence in us. Its real goal is to use our physical senses to navigate through our human life. However, it goes beyond his job description by amassing beliefs and values from experience in Society. It becomes a self-appointed judge. Not only does this judge provide sentencing of others, but it also judges our real being. It tries to maintain control by creating the illusion of guilt. It uses the uniquely human trait of emotion to achieve this control. Ego Guilt is an artificial feeling created by religion(s).
Building a pecking order requires a value system. We must compare one value to another to make decisions. This is simple when balancing our checking account but gets dicey when attempting to balance our spiritual performance. We must include meaning (Common Sense) in our formula. Value pertains to our temporary housing, while sense is created by relationship. Most religions will relate to an anthropomorphized image of whatever deity they want to envision to create belief systems in immature egos.
No belief can contain the whole Truth because it is an assumption. All opinions are merely assumptions bolstered by group agreements. Once an ego adopts a belief system, it becomes like concrete. The individual's thoughts are faulty but permanently set. Belief spawns pain. Deniers of Truth agonize because of their own ignorance. Truth hurts, perhaps, but it can only hurt liars.
There is no supernatural anything. All living creatures either follow Natural Law or suffer. The first decision to make is whether our Ego wants to synchronize and align with Absolute Truth or deny it. Resistance to Truth is gauged by how much psychic pain we can withstand. Resistance is futile.
Ah! Dreaded Ego
Our Ego craves humanity
The real me wants Divinity
It's bad enough to work and slave
Ego worries about the grave
It doesn't get Infinity
Has no clue of Eternity
Tries to create Identity
Please go to sleep Nonentity
If Truth be known, we are endless
Only Past dies, that's a promise
The future comes as we decide
So, come Ego, enjoy the ride
Copyright - 2004
The artificial Ego can be a control freak. For us to control it, we must not allow it to judge. Our intuition uses all the understanding (tuition of previous experiences) to create the gut-feel for the correct path to follow. Joseph Campbell articulates this attitude as following our bliss. If we are not happy doing what we currently do, we should stop doing it. Einstein proposes that energy creates the manifestations of form in his Relativity Theory. He also contends that doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results is the first sign of insanity. Normal state of the ego is insanity.
Freemasonry differentiates ego attitudes as materialistic and idealistic. Idealists can navigate reality from either point of view, but a materialist does not think of ideals. Capitalists are materialistic. Many believe that money can solve problems. In Truth, this is insane. We may be billionaires, but if the grocery stores are empty, dollar bill salads are useless.
People create their own issues when they ignore Natural Law. Religions may be a stepping-stone leading to Natural Truth, but, in the current society, they do not provide anything more than obedience to societal laws through indoctrination. Doctrines are isms.
The Essenes were a Jewish mystical sect somewhat resembling the Pharisees. They lived lives of ritual purity and separation in their communes. They originated about 100 B.C. and disappeared from history after the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Essenes likely produced the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Illuminati may have originated from their communes. They were committed to sharing wisdom only when the recipient was prepared. Initiates were required to follow a strict process on the path to becoming a Master.
He was born of a virgin mother
Soon to become like no other
Avatar of Divine Spirit
Kingdom on earth to inherit
When he came near to puberty
Is when he took his liberty
For many years he traveled far
To learn to be an Avatar
Yogis, gurus, lamas were consulted
And shared wisdom that resulted
In forging all the litanies
That created hostilities
He knew the plan -- get himself killed
So his purpose could be fulfilled
Avatars know there is no death
There's no such thing as the last breath
The body is rental housing
We land on earth to do browsing
That's what Jesus demonstrated
It's not really complicated
The Order of the Blue Rose was established by Mary Magdalene after the crucifixion of Yahshua. ('Yahshua' is the real name that has come into English as 'Jesus'), to be a particular order for only the most faithful followers of the Essene Way. Immediately after the crucifixion, many of Yahshua's male followers ('Jesus') refused to accept a woman -- Mary Magdalene -- as their leader. Magdalene, the rightful successor to Yahshua, established The Order of the Blue Rose for those who remained faithful. She founded the order in Israel shortly after the crucifixion, then escaped to France carrying the baby of her husband and co-Messiah, Yahshua.
Misogyny is common in scriptural texts. Constantine also rejected female influence from his version of the Bible by removing Mary Magdalene's gospel from scripture. For some reason, some believers have difficulty in visualizing Jesus having sex. Miriam and Yahshua were our Divine Couple. You saw it here first.
The Essenes do not exist openly today. However, there are fringe groups that call themselves Essenes. One such group is the Essene Church of Christ, which declares itself to be "the authorized custodians and chief disseminators of the true teachings of Lord Christ and Lady Christ."
The Koran is a continuation of the Bible. Mohammed needed to tame the Bedouin tribes of Arabia from destroying each other. The Sharia was primarily intended to delineate punishments for violating the Ten Commandments. There are many versions of these directives. Choose one.
1. Why would a Supreme Being acknowledge other gods? Why would a Supreme Being even
care about our stupidity? Godliness is metaphysical. Godliness is Supreme BEING, the
verb.
2. Ridiculous
3. God has no name, no face, and contains no human foibles like anger, jealousy, etc. This
is even more ridiculous. Thinking otherwise is anthropomorphism.
4. Every day is a holiday (Holy Day).
5. If we have to be told this, we cannot handle our problems in one reading.
6. Kill what? If we actually believe we have eternal life, how can we also believe in death?
7. When people lack true love, they commit not adultery but mutual masturbation.
8. No one owns anything but consciousness. Mother earth will want her atoms back when
we stop using her energy to exist. Truth is that there is no such thing as stealing.
9. Ego lies to protect its personae.
10. Coveting, when internalized, creates goals.
Everyone starts out being an atheist. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated with parental, societal, and peer beliefs. We are all born with Life Principles ingrained as intuition through our DNA. No ism is necessary to be loving, kind, compassionate, and honest.
Children are taught to hate and lie. We must teach them HOW to learn, not what to learn. Show them how to research the Internet, not Facebook.
Helen Keller was blind and deaf from birth and wrote fourteen books. What do you think she saw in her mind with her limited senses? If we talk to a blind person and ask what they have in mind, we may be quite surprised. I once thought writing a science fiction novel about how everyone on earth would be blinded and deafened for one day and could communicate only by touch. There would be a great awakening of the population created by this experience. We live in and use Eternal Mind to fashion this human life. Ignorance of this is why people feel pain. Every Ego, including Group ego, creates its own pain. If there is sin, its name is ignorance.
Now, Politics...
By Cogitator
Many elements of the IBM Autocoder training class I attended in 1963 have been proven resilient and remain in today's technological environment. Flow charts and block diagrams are the same now as then.
In doing systems analysis and design, the key to a successful program and/or system is the Flow Chart's decision block. It also exists in the Block Diagram as a more detailed version depicting components comprising the information content and flow. This block is shaped like a diamond and represents a thought being evaluated. Information enters the top of the diamond and considers which exit point to take to continue the program logic and instructions. Whether pitiful or grand, every decision made MUST wend its way through and submit to the force of reason for the path to be valid. This works in both computers and humans.
Using a baseball field as a model, we can create a visual in our mind to better grasp what is upcoming.
Home plate is where our mind starts this process with the intent of returning to where we started after we complete our cycle. After completion, we have experienced scoring a run. That experience will be enhanced and embellished through future at-bats.
What could be going through a batter's mind as he enters the batter's box? A plethora of decisions need to be considered in the attempt to get on base. Some of them are made by the coach, like sacrificing a batter through bunting or hitting a long fly ball to advance a runner. A mature batter understands that the objective of the scenario is for the TEAM to amass more cycles than the opposing team. Any individual decision can be overruled for the more significant benefit of all.
(The all-American game of baseball grew from a British game called Rounders. Abner Doubleday is credited with the creation, but he was too busy doing military stuff. As a general, his exploits were dutifully recorded for posterity, and none of his biographies mentions the sport.
Baseball, like all games, has rules of play. Rules are defined for any individual and team games and must be followed when playing the game. Whether we play games according to Hoyle or according to the Constitution, the results must follow the rules to be valid. Every action we express in a game is to achieve a predefined goal. Clearing the cards in Solitaire or dominating the planet demands a clear, complete, and valid understanding of goal components. Only then can we design the Path of Least Resistance. That is the program we execute for success. We may have to adapt to changing circumstances, but these may be considered detours rather than obstacles to success. We must keep our eyes on the prize while adjusting the path.
Rule changes happen. If we change baseball rules to allow the batter to run either to first or third safely, players must adjust strategies. To score a run, players must tag four bases (the home plate is a base.) If the batter chooses third base, the next move is to second. From that base, we can again go in either direction to reach home. This would create an exciting scenario when bases are loaded. If we allowed more than one runner on a bag, we could camp three players on second and wait for the fireworks when the next batter hits the ball. Running across the mound to score is an automatic out. Brand new game, right?
Changing rules in the United States Constitution requires a constitutional amendment.
Political games determine who will establish rules of conduct within a group. Religious games do the same. All of us play many games during our waking day. We do so by choice. The groups we join as members reflect our individual mental and emotional states. How we are willing to behave in a group will determine our inclusion or exclusion. This decision molds our thoughts as isms. To control our own group, we can invent a religion/political party and set the rules for anyone who feels like joining. Members of the Jonestown massacre and the Hale-Bopp fantasy are examples of mind control by delusional leaders. Mega-churches have a penchant for worshipping money before any illusory patriarch. Monopoly does not have a Go-To-Heaven card.
An ism is a School of Thought. In computers, this is a program. Those of us who adhere to "GroupThink" will react to changing conditions without using our own thinking process. The herding instinct of human animals can overcome logic. It activates a knee-jerk reaction thoughtlessly, much like Pavlov's dog. Unless a school of thought includes all living creatures, it is erroneous in its design.
Every rule we establish for societal conduct is created by mutual agreement. Any group whose practices do not harmonize with Natural Law is invalidated, regardless of members' resistance. Truth is not subject to a majority vote. The herd(s) we choose to join is the issue. Crime is not a problem. Criminals are a symptom of a corrupt and/or unfair society.
There is no truth in the word "supernatural." Nothing is beyond or above Natural Law. Only ignorant personae attempt to be above Natural Law. The artificial facades we don when we interact within our self-defined Universe are no more than holograms or avatars. Faith and beliefs are created by imagination.
NOW is the only time. As we proceed in our existence, we create moments of experience that register in our brain. These moments become memories, and they can be recalled for reactivation.
We are trained to perform functions and gain expertise and experience in whatever task(s) we execute. These are the routines of our earthly endeavors. Computer programs are routines that implement the thought process of the programmer using binary code. There are many computer languages, but all result in zeroes and ones.
The Central Processing Unit (CPU) contains the Operating System for the computer environment. Our operating system is Natural Law for Mother Earth and its inhabitants.
Our reality is created by the wave/particle's dual nature, as proven by Quantum Mechanics. Computers mirror those thoughts using zero and one as substitutes for wave/particle. That is how we get speeding tickets in the mail. It is also how we can merge the thoughts of thousands of engineers, scientists, and builders and transform their harmonized ideas into the sequential series of zeros and ones that allow astronauts to tread the moon and return. This was achieved with computers whose total capacity approximated that of an iPhone 12. Using the Internet, anyone with a smartphone has access to the truth. We can lead minds to knowledge, but we can't make them think.
COBOL means "COmmon Business-Oriented Language." Decisions in COBOL are made using the IF/THEN statement--If this is true, then this other path must be true (or untrue). Boolean logic may be applied to create nested statements of tremendous complexity. These multi-purpose decisions may then be converted to algorithms. All isms are algorithms.
Automation is a word first used by Henry Ford in 1947. It may have formed the basis for designing the first assembly line. For our purpose, it means the elimination of a human decision.
Automaton: a machine that operates on its own without human control. A cuckoo clock is an automaton. Talking figures are automatons. They include those of us who act like a machine, without thinking or feeling. We can be like cogs in the wheels of any ism. Self-control is the only way to think outside the boxes of isms.
Zig Ziglar was a good old boy from Texas and a motivational speaker. He was a big part of the self-help movement and Napoleon Hill, Og Mandino, W. Clement Stone, Norman Vincent Peale, and others. He has a folksy way of blending his talks with homey anecdotes that make sense. One of these anecdotes is about a flea circus. He starts speaking:
"In the old days, when entertainment was hard to come by, traveling circuses would wend their way from town to town across the West and set up camp just outside each burg. They would form a midway of tents for the folks to amble past. Oddities and performers would be contained in the tents, and the populace would pay some charge to enter. Usually, one of these had a flea circus.
The barker outside would entice the folks to enter and, when the tent was full, he would retreat into it and close the entry. Inside was a table covered with a white tablecloth and a large jar atop it covered by a towel. The man would remove the cloth, say a few words, and dump a bunch of fleas onto the tablecloth. The fleas would begin jumping up and down but would not leave the tabletop. Applause and egress."
Zig would continue by describing how a flea trainer would achieve this feat. The trainer would catch a bunch of fleas and place them in the jar and watch and wait. Initially, the little beasties would jump as hard as they could to get out and bump against the top and sides of the jar. After a while, they realized how far they could jump without hurting themselves, so they limited their jumps to stop just short of hitting the surfaces. Voila - a flea circus! Zig ends his anecdote by asking the group: "What would you rather be, a flea or a flea trainer?"
The majority of the world population is made up of flea mentalities. Their box is any ism they choose to download and is like the training jar - it represents their comfort zone. When some major calamity happens in a community, many will climb out to give aid and comfort to others. That is the spirit and attitude that needs to be awakened. "Comfort Zone" should include the entire planet and all its inhabitants. Thinking outside the box means smashing the jar because it represents a closed mind.
Self-control is the Door to Heaven; it leads to light and peace. Enlightenment happens when we admit we create Hell on earth--Mother Earth already occupies Heaven. She lends us some atoms to experience life on her face until we give them back. She needs a total makeover to restore her to her natural beauty. We should be stewards, not despoilers.
By self-control, we manifest our divine power and ascend toward divine wisdom and perfection. Everyone can practice it. Self-control is the doorway to freedom, and the truth is the key. The truth will indeed set us free when we accept it. That entails ridding ourselves of isms that do not adhere to Universal Natural Law.
The self is our personality or ego. . It is an artificial (man-made) mind created by its ability to think, feel, and experience its worldly existence. It is the differentiating factor between the human-animal and all other natural life forms. It seeks to be independent in its self-defined Universe, even though there is no such thing as independence for any life form. All life is dependent on all other life to "be" whatever form it adopts. No man is an island because all islands are connected by their relationship to Mother Earth.
To be continued...
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