Vicious Circle III

CONTENTS

These blogs cover the time from

June 2013 until June 2014

HUMAN POTENTIAL SERIES

FOREWORD

The Self and the Ego

The Likeness of God?

The Real Purpose

You can end World Starvation

Fragility of YOUR Life

Science, Religion, Hawking and I

Hawking, the Universe, and YOU

You and the Big Brother

You can make the World Richer

The Genius is within YOU

Land of the Free

More about the Many and the Few

The Problem with Ethics

The Shortest Route to indescribable Wealth

Casting Pearls before Swine?

An Eye for a Camel

Some of us got it All Wrong

The Purpose of Life

The Power of ONE

Politics

Permanent Peace in the World

Thou shalt NOT kill?

Indivisibility

Democracy is Dead

Strange Mathematics

Yes, you can take it with You

We DO take it with us

Givers and Takers

Fragmentation

Kindergarten of the Earth

A Lot of Hot Air

Instinct for Self-Preservation?

The Hidden Mirror

All Debts are ALWAYS paid

The Enigma of Peter & Paul

Mysteries are OURS to Solve

Wonder Children

Wisdom of the American Forefathers

Hidden Wealth

Gods: Work in Progress

Absurd Abundance

Longevity

Defining the Indefinable

Power over the Opposites

Intolerable Evil

Our True Nature?

The Real Heaven

Satan

Trinity

Of Animals and Men

On Evolution and Devolution

Dominion and Jurisdiction

Creating True Reality

An Aspect of the Expanding Universe

The Mystery of Dualism

The Two-edged Sword

Buddha’s Secret

We are both, more and less than we imagine

Now you see me, now you don’t

Equal Opportunity Employer

Animal Kingdom

The Beginning of the End

Democracy

The Medical Profession

Of Gods and Men

Aquarius Trilogy

Semblance of Truth

In Search of Freedom

Teeth

True Freedom

On Love and Hate

Within and Without

I AM

POSTSCRIPT

INTERMEDIATE CONCLUSIONS

A Word about the Author

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FOREWORD

We need a 'global system of secular ethics'

Dalai Lama

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PETER & PAUL, the title adopted for my blogs, represent two divergent methods leading to enlightenment. Peter caters to the Few, Paul to the Many. It is reasonable to assume that only when many are listening, a few might emerge that can and will fathom the depth of Peter’s message. Thereafter, Paul deals principally with the ‘result’, i.e. with the phenomenal Universe, while Peter concerns himself exclusively with the message he received from Yeshûa, which deals with the Cause. Under Peter’s guidance the Being turns into Becoming, under Paul’s guidance, it gets organized. Unfortunately, the process of organization dilutes the essence of Peter’s teaching. It is up to each one of us, individually, to discern the difference between the two.

The important thing is to accept that Peter never had the slightest intention of creating a new religion. This cannot be said, with any certainty, of Paul, but his contribution was a necessary one, to make people of his day aware that there is more to us than flesh and blood. Although he appears to have done so unwittingly, he also realized this in his final days. I hope we all do, before it becomes too late for us in this reincarnation, and we shall be forced, by Universal Laws, to repeat the process again.

June 1, 2013

The Self and the Ego

The Question of Immortality

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If you think you’re immortal, think again. Before we can make that claim, we must define very, very clearly, what we mean by who or what we are. We must define how we identify ourselves.

We must differentiate between Self and Ego.

From the day we are born we begin to accumulate little quirks of character, which make us different from all other people we meet. Good or bad, no matter, but different. The more we drift away from the essence of our being, the stronger our ego becomes. Yet, we need ego for our survival in the physical reality. We must retain, indeed develop, sufficient egotism to maintain our transient, and to a great extend illusory body, while our consciousness spends an equally illusory time here, on Earth. Or in any material environment.

But we must never confuse our ego with our self.

Ego, like religions, is what sets us apart. Self, like faith, brings us together. Within the entity of self we accumulate and store forever the traits of character, which by definition are immortal. The components of our ego, which also by definition, we need for our survival in material reality, we discard together with our physical bodies when we vacate them. They are unnecessary or superfluous in the ‘real’ world; in the world in which we spend most of our existence. Just in case anyone is sorry to leave them behind, be assured that they consist of atoms which are 99.9999999999999% empty space.

Imagine running out of money in one of your dreams. There is no ‘my’ or ‘yours’ in the true reality. The higher we rise on the evolutionary scale the harder it is for us to differentiate between ‘you’ and ‘me’. Between us and them.

Hence, faith and religion.

We all believe in something. We all claim to have some sort of ethics and, until distorted by our egos, those ethics are very similar to each other.

When religions step in, people who can benefit materially from exacerbating differences between us, build up mountains of rules and regulations that serve to set us apart.

If you prick us, do we not bleed? asks Shylock, in the Merchant of Venice.

The same question can be asked of any member of any religion on earth and expect the same answer. Yet... religions continue to set us apart. Perhaps in this oncoming Age of Aquarius we shall derive knowledge from all great men of the past. And we shall concentrate on what joins us together. After all, once we get rid of our egos, we become essentially one, even if we regard this oneness from diverse points of view.

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In my novel WALL—Love, Sex, and Immortality, I suggest that even in the process of quantum tunneling, our ego (though not our individualization, i.e. awareness of Self) stays behind. Perhaps, one day, we shall learn to cleanse our consciousness in such a fashion. What do you think?

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June 5, 2013

The Likeness of God?

Ignorance is no longer bliss...

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Ignorance is no longer bliss. When others had been paid to think for us, paid handsomely, we obeyed. Alas, all good things come to an end. Nothing lasts forever. No organization has been created unto the likeness of god, hence be immortal. We have. You and I. And sooner of later we must begin to act like gods. Independent. Thinking for ourselves. Accept responsibility for our actions. Blame no one for our misfortunes.

It won’t be easy.

Yet, all power always comes to an end. Political, economical, military, hereditary, and yes, even religious powerhouses—will fall. Every single one of them. They ALWAYS do. Nothing, nothing at all, in this reality is permanent. Nothing endures forever except for that which is within us. The intangible. The seemingly ethereal. Yet, the only reality that sustains us—a reality which many of us don’t even accept that it exists.

And so, all giants will fall—individual and corporate. For quite a while there will be chaos. Anarchy. This too will pass.

Many will find this truth inconvenient. Yet it is quite unavoidable. And the change, no matter how painful, is implicit in our reality. Rather like a toothache that results from a rotten root. It must be pulled out. Our only anesthetic is knowledge. Only the truth will set us free. We can avoid the pain by being prepared.

We shall witness the destruction of the old to make room for the new. This is called the Pluto Effect. It makes room for a better world, as different from the world today as ours is from the world of 2000 years ago.

Most think that we have evolved. I’m not so sure. Our technology enables us to stop thinking; to stop working. Soon robots will do the work for us, many already do.  Imagine, the previous pope said that work is our punishment for the original sin. For me work is the most ennobling activity I can think of. It is the reward for biting into Eve’s apple.

Yet, our world is crumbling.

All who have eyes and the courage to face the truth can see that. Every spring, Arab or otherwise, will be followed by the doldrums of summer, and go on to wither and die, eventually, under a blanket of snow.

Only then we shall rise again. We shall rise to a new and glorious world in which we shall begin to act like adults. So you see, we have nothing to worry about. Our future is a bright as the spring, the real spring, which will sprout new consciousness throughout the whole world. And gradually we shall all contribute to a new Earth, and new Heaven. Soon you’ll be able to read about it in Pluto Effect. But until it’s published try the Headless World. It’s yet another way that the world can change for the better.

Or... we shall screw things up. Again.

But, as always, it will be up to us.

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June 9, 2013

The Real Purpose

You own your own Universe

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Ultimately, we are here but for one purpose. We must learn to make this reality as malleable as the reality of our dreams. If physical realization can only take place through the intercession of a conscious mind, then we hadn’t created the world (reality) we live in. According so some, it had been imagined by Elohim, better known as gods, or intelligent entities who are perhaps millions, possibly billions of years ahead of us in the evolution of their consciousness.

At our present stage of evolution we are still in a destructive mode of existence. We don’t create our world, it’s mostly already there, or here, but we tend to destroy it. If enough people put their minds to it, we can kill 60 million in a single war. We’ve done it in WWII. We blame Hitler for it, but without participations of many he couldn’t have done it. We have the power to do so again. And with the nukes we are hiding from public opinion, we can put an end to the human kind at a press of a button.

Until recently, science of astrophysics claimed that we live in an expanding universe resulting from a big bang. Everything, they said, must have its beginning and its end. Only they’ve run out of matter to give the universe sufficient gravitational pull to, ultimately, cause a big crunch. Did they give up? No! They began making up black matter, then black energy, all invisible and very much like the stuff we hear from any pulpit in any church, equally as lost in search of reality we live in. Did they find it?

No.

The concept of beginning and end holds true as regards the illusory universe we make up with our imagination. In other words, it is true only of the material, or physical reality. It is not true of our true selves, of our consciousness, indeed of any consciousness that precedes ours. In a way, there is only One Consciousness, and we, past and present, are merely individualizations of it. All great masters and mystics knew that.

Regardless of any of the above, even more recently, our illustrious scientists decided that there are more dimensions than the original three + time (quantum mechanics lately talk of eleven) and, lo and behold, there are many universes. In fact, possibly they say, an infinite number of them. They now call it the Multiverse.

Boys will be boys.

If you really want to know how universes are created read my Elohim—Masters & Minions, Book Two of the Winston Trilogy. There may be