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PolandDear Sebastian,
In one sense, I found what I was looking for - peace of mind, sometimes called "serenity of beingness." Part of it came from understanding what the experts are telling us - that we live in a holographic universe - which satisfied my need for a much more logical explanation for "reality" than I had been given before. And an even bigger part came from the development of a Model that included an external source ("Infinite I") for our experiences.
Am I still looking for something? Yes. I would like a better understanding of what I term my "Infinite I." In other words, I want to know more about the "something or someone" who is choosing my holographic experiences, which is why I am really fascinated with the theory of ancestor simulations.
My bigger dream is to live in a community of people who are together to actively work on letting go of their opinions, beliefs, judgments and fears, and experiencing life without so much ego. I imagine it might be quite exciting and liberating. (I did live for a while in an intentional community that came close, called Tamera, in Portugal.)
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WashingtonDear Tom,
What a beautiful video! And a good message from Alan Watts. And you're a lucky man to have had a mother like that!
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CADear Randall,
There's nothing pithy I can add, except to reinforce your gratitude for a wife who gets you! What a gift!
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CAGreat advice, Randall. I would only add to your quote from Jed a quote from Chapter 18 of my book.... "All resistance is based on a judgment.... Although I don’t want to state this as “Truth,” it has been my experience that as long as I judge and resist something, I stay in that experience. Only when I stop judging, and therefore automatically stop resisting, is it possible for my experience to change."
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NYDear Gsil,
Not quite sure what you mean by "the screen the movie is played on and not the player." I thought I was quite clear in my book that you ARE the Player, and the movie is being created in your brain, which is projecting it out all around you as if you were wearing a virtual reality headset. So I don't know what I can say to you. Do you want to try again and rephrase your question?
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CADear Randall,
Watts makes some good points. One of them - that the game must include both order and randomness - led me to think about the Model. What's the randomness in the Model? I think it is the fact that while the experience is set in stone, the reaction/response is not. In fact, the reaction/response is always in the full control of the Player's free will.
Just a thought....
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WashingtonDear Tom,
Great, GREAT story! And spot on. Yes, it seems that the Model works, and I appreciate hearing about your experiences with it. Keep us posted!
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WashingtonDear Tom,
When research (like the double slit experiment) proves that electrons are waves until observed by consciousness, we need to adjust our thinking accordingly. The article Randall referred to is suggesting (among other things) that the speed of light proves we are living in a simulation, and offers some (apparently) pretty good logic to back up this theory.
For me, proof like that simply supports The Model I suggest in my book - which remains a model that still needs to be tested in real life. But we shouldn't ignore valid research that can take that model and support it, and expand it.
My point is that using YOUR logic, when the double slit experiment was first performed on electrons by Davisson and Germer in 1927, you would have said that "I don't think there is any way that humans are right about this. If you've got any experience with humans, then you already know why they aren't right about these sorts of things."
For me, the question of whether we live in a holographic universe has been answered. But exactly who is calling the shots (creating our experiences) is not quite as clear. If we indeed live in a simulation, it gives us a clue to who that might be (i.e., a better understanding of the identity of the "Infinite I"). I find that to be an exciting prospect, and therefore I take the approach of: If Fouad Khan is right, let's assume a simulation, and now what would that mean in our daily lives?
After all, don't forget we're on a ride in an amusement park, as Bill Hicks would say, and try not to take it so seriously.
I will try to find the time to listen to Mark Twain's book. Thanks for the link.
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CADear Randall,
I absolutely LOVE articles like this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
I don't claim to understand it all, but when he says "The speed of light is a hardware artifact showing we live in a simulated universe" - that I get. And the logic behind it is beautiful, and hopefully true.
And then, "we must not forget what the simulation hypothesis really is. It is the ultimate conspiracy theory. The mother of all conspiracy theories, the one that says that everything, with the exception of nothing, is fake and a conspiracy designed to fool our senses. All our worst fears about powerful forces at play controlling our lives unbeknownst to us, have now come true. And yet this absolute powerlessness, this perfect deceit offers us no way out in its reveal. All we can do is come to terms with the reality of the simulation and make of it what we can." So well said! And in my mind underlines the whole point I was trying to make in my book: We have no power to change the experience, only the free will to choose how we want to react and/or respond to it - "make of it what we can."
I'm really stoked after reading this article!!!! Thanks again!
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WADear Tom,
I have to apologize.... For some reason, I did not become aware of this comment until tonight (April 4, 2021). Don't know how it fell through the cracks, but it did.
As for your statement that the simulation hypothesis "feels cold whereas the Infinite-I model has a warmth about it," that may simply be the result of learning how to talk about it - what language to use - since the whole simulation concept is so new. For example, please take a look at Randall's comment above and go read the actual article and then let me know what you think....
Like the sentence, "as with characters in Grand Theft Auto, our product mostly likely is for the benefit of someone experiencing our lives through us." I immediately went to that imaginary conversation between two Infinite Is that you mentioned from my book.
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WADear Tom,
Well said!