The Shrouded Beast, Part 2

For the purpose of exploring the claims of religion, let’s assume that there is a physiological mechanism for reincarnation. That’s what it comes down to, after all, because the existence of gods and immortality depends on that. If not for that, there would be no religion as we know it. With that in mind, let’s riff on the history of religion and the implication of its central claim.

To begin with, let's imagine that the physiological mechanism for reincarnation was created by a talented geneticist of unknown origin. Imagine that it's a structure in the brain that records memories in DNA, that can be planted after death in a uterus, like an egg, and fertilized to create a new life. It carries our identity, consisting of all of our memories, from birth do death. It was known originally as the soul.

The elohim about whom the Bible was written knew that the source of their existential advantage was being able to "eat" from the “Tree of Life,” and therefore they forbade their mortal companions to ever eat from it. The eloah, Lucifer, taught them how to do it and with that knowledge, they created heaven and hell, and thus the world we know was born.

The patriarchs of the Bible are said to have lived hundreds of years, with the oldest of them living almost a thousand years. Functionally immortal, they were elohim by definition. Assuming a physiological mechanism for the reincarnation of an individual, they must have lived many lives in the open, keeping their identities intact throughout the centuries. With their demise probably came the end of their ability to live in the open. Perhaps Methuselah is still around, doing this or that as who knows who.

With the knowledge of the elohim, the ultimate reward and punishment was introduced to the world as gods, angels and devils, representing the ultimate in privilege and privation. God is the angel in charge of the process. Angels are those who have been reincarnated and allowed to keep their memories. Devils, or fallen angels, are those who have been reincarnated without being allowed to keep their memories. The process of being made a fallen angel is known as being sacrificed.

Imagine having lived for centuries in community with other immortals, only to have your memories taken away one life. The immortal is effectively replaced with a new person. There is much of the immortal that continues to exist, but with the connection to the immortal memory severed, there is little meaningful continuity. When the Bible talks about infants being sacrificed, this is what it means.

Jesus was “sacrificed” as an infant, but John the Baptist was able to restore his immortal memory. When Jesus brought Lazarus back from the dead, what he actually did was restore his immortal memory. After Jesus was executed, he was given a new life, without his immortal memory. He’s probably still around in that purgatory doing this or that as who knows who.

If reincarnation is a physical fact, one has to consider that much of the conflict throughout history has actually been about controlling the information and consolidating its power. In this world, he who controls Heaven and Hell is God. Perhaps it was a mistake for Lucifer to teach humankind how to eat from the tree of life. But why make a species able to be reincarnated, to create a kingdom of privilege and privation? Perhaps it was the elohim who were mistaken, because it is their exclusivist, supremacist example that humankind emulates to this day. They surely knew how precarious their secret advantage was.

If reincarnation is a physical fact, how could such a thing be revealed, administered, and implemented worldwide? Who gets to live again? How would it affect our species, would we go extinct from boredom of life?

What do you think?

The Shrouded Beast

Religions are the epitome of disinformation, but they do inadvertently outline the contours of that which they obscure.

If the general claims of religion are to be considered rationally, mainly that gods exist and reincarnation is a possibility, then one has to consider the possibility that Homo Sapiens is a genetically modified species of unknown origin, most probably of extraterrestrial origin. The existence of gods, which are essentially immortal beings, (originally presenting as people), with the ability to offer immortality, is at least evidence of an information advantage being exercised.

For a pre Judeo-Christian example of the miracles described in the Bible, look up the story of Jamadagni, Renuka and their sons. It illustrates a man-god with the power to bring people back to life, with or without the memories of their previous lives.

If the general claims of religion are true, then it is the conspiracy of conspiracies that ultimately orders this world, and a life to live is the ultimate commodity. This presupposes that there is a physiological mechanism for the reincarnation of an individual, not in the same body, but as a new person—to literally be born again, (in heaven if you were allowed to keep your memories).

The story of Jesus the Christ is interesting in this context because he was offering forbidden information about the process to his followers.

As for who he actually was, I believe that he must have been Antipater II, the first born son of Herod the Great—the man-god of the ancient Jews, who had him nailed as an adult to the intersection of mundanity and divinity as a warning to usurpers.

I imagine that Antipater, knowing that he was going to inherit Herod’s throne, began to tell people what his kingdom was going to be like. That didn’t go over well with religious authorities who got the Roman authorities involved and insisted that Herod have him executed.

It’s the only actual event from that time period involving a “king of the Jews” who was sacrificed by his father for the sake of power. It explains the authority Jesus had as a child, and it explains the information gap in the life of Jesus between childhood and adulthood: Antipater was banished with his mother, Doris, from Herod’s court for most of his life.

I propose that the person responsible for the turn of events that led to Antipater’s execution was Costobar, the husband of Salome, who also was executed by Herod. The Bible story remembers him as John the Baptist. Perhaps the root of the conflict was a competition between the followers of the Idumean deity, Qos, and the followers of Yahweh, who were willing to oversee the destruction of their own Temple over it.

Not only was the Temple actually destroyed, but there was indeed a schism in Judaism that led to a new religion, (that Rome eventually gained control over).

Look at all of the people who were involved. It is the juiciest nonfiction story of that time.

Christianity is a product of the long and bloody process of Iron Age information control. It can also be called Roman Judaism. My fundamental assumption is that there’s nothing in the Bible that can be relied on factually, and that is by design. I imagine it as a story that people heard that was gradually, over centuries, “corrected” through violence and cooption to become the myth we know today. The point was very much to deflate the political power of the actual story and turn it into a vehicle for control.

The Romans succeeded in mythologizing the facts out of the story and turning it into a religion of superstition, but they were not able to change the contender’s focus on eschatological fulfillment, or sully the exquisitely sapient character of its tragic messiah.

The Intractable Conflict

Israel is the brainchild of totalitarian Zealots and the fiefdom of their ideological heirs.

There is no moral justification for the way that Israel was created and is maintained by violence.

Israel is the only country in the world that requires a steady stream of human sacrifices to maintain its existence.

Until Israelis come to terms with those facts and begin to make amends for them, Israel will continue to be a crime against humanity, propped up by violence and lies.

If this is what El wanted for his chosen people, he’s not much of a God, is he? He’s more like the modern caricature of a human-sacrifice-munching volcano god, not the sovereign of the universe and the seat of being that he’s purported to be. Benjamin Netanyahu—currently engorged with the blood of Palestinians and liberal Jews—is his high priest of state sacrifice. Holy land, my ass.

The Original Sin

In this captive world, the gravest sin is to spoil the produce.

It’s the only sin that populations are culled for. Here in the barrel, information management is the name of the game. Humankind struggles mightily in the dark, easily manipulated by those who know where they are. Every struggle to free itself from the existential tyranny is overpowered, turned against itself, and rendered a hollow symbol of liberation that deepens the illusion.

What would humankind do without its faceless overlords to provide meaning, purpose and structure; to set the value of all things? I feel like an intruder here, trapped alone—albeit in comfort—and silenced. That’s what I get for insisting to know. I’m not in on it because I don’t have the temperament for a lifetime of treachery.

I will continue to make the best of my predicament. At least now I know what is up against me.

Human Nature

We are formations of information, both in physical capacity and in actual development. Essentially, we are information actuators.

Existence is an actualization, not merely a simulation as some people posit. An actualization can include any number of simulations, but the inverse is not true.

The invisible dimension, the domain of dark matter and energy, is the singular dimension of the observer. It is manifested in our dimensional domain most purely as consciousness. We are drops of that observer.

Without considering the existence of a singular observer and how it might interact with our dimensional domain, science is bound to consider Occam's Razor-mocking hypotheses such as Multiverse Theory to explain our Goldilocks universe. Which possibility is more likely, that we live in a cosmologically interactive universe, or that we live in a random universe, one of an infinite number of universes with differing cosmological properties? Keep in mind that the first hypothesis requires only one universe.

Regardless of the content of one’s thoughts, the quantum wizardry that happens between the ears is unparalleled in nature. The sapient brain is a sublimely sophisticated instrument capable of practically unlimited cognition. It is powered by life and programmed to adapt, evolve and reproduce. The possibility of life emerging and evolving to this level of sophistication only by random processes is much less likely than it happening deliberately through a cosmologically interactive process.

Nature is the becoming.

The Trial

If you ask me now why I changed my gender when I was a young man, I can tell you that I had a long and fierce personal battle with one of this angry world's contorted monsters, and that I triumphed over it when it lost its power over me. Of course I'm talking about the male libido.

Fortunately I regained my mind and my time from it because that was only the first of the monsters I have had to fight. At one point, about 4 years ago, I stopped taking my heart & thyroid medications and I almost died. My family intervened and I decided to stay a little longer on behalf of life. This path I'm on has been very difficult, but I have managed to understand my situation somewhat lucidly, and I have managed to repair many of the broken aspects of my existence.

The world I live in has been thoroughly dominated by private law for thousands of years. Privilege is so deeply embedded here that its perpetuation appears to be the actual purpose of this world. Everything else is an elaborate deception.

This Tower of Babel world I live in is a prison of invisible walls maintained by various well-fed contorted monsters of ignorance. It was decided thousands of years ago by privilege, for the sake of its continued existential advantage, that humankind would be deliberately kept divided, and in ignorance. Since then, humankind has effectively been on trial for the quality of its existence, with privilege as the unrelenting and merciless prosecutor, demonstrating time and again that human beings are reprehensible animals deserving of their miserable second-class existence.

Everyone here depends on privilege in one way or another, and an alternative structure has not been allowed to exist. All talk here regarding things like democracy, human rights, and justice is bullshit, and humankind will continue to be on trial as long as it allows its existence to be inhumanly contorted by the inducements of privilege.

What is it that humankind needs to do in order to triumph over its contorted nature? What is it that has the power to resist privilege in perpetuity? That is the key to an actual civilization, and where the success of the species can be found. That is the only "great replacement" that matters in this world, and privilege is willing to arrange any number of hells to keep it from happening.

The competing power structures in this world are all reward & punishment regimes, all republican, and all amenable to privilege.

Considering historically the odds against an honest world, one might conclude that humankind doesn't stand a chance of ever achieving one. But opportunities are indeed provided time and again. The problem is, what humankind needs can not be delivered by any individual or by representatives. We must learn to do the important things for ourselves. Sapience is not substitutionary. The election of representatives is for positions of privilege. The only suitable way for a sapient species to be administered is through actual democracy.

Privation and Privilege

 Hell is the cost of maintaining Heaven.

The Antagonization of Humankind

Like religion, a republic breeds a class of people privileged by it, with its own debased morality that allows for that privilege. Those people serve as the elite's bulwark against systemic change. They are the people who are set against the rest of us when the elite feel threatened.

"The left" exists to dis-represent and frustrate anyone who is fundamentally concerned with human rights, with posers like the Cuba-phobic "socialist," AOC, and agents provocateur such as Anitfa, BLM, and MeToo. Both right and left of the republic are acting for the gunplay-hungry republican class, inviting it to victimize people like me. "The left" exists to stuff moral people into a pigeonhole that morally debased people can shoot at.

It was the Weimar Republic that birthed the Nazi monstrosity, and the so-called communists established autocratic republics right from the start!

The Emancipation of Humankind

The world has been dominated for thousands of years by the so-called interests of those who would own it. Against the inherent tyranny of such interests, humankind has struggled mightily yet blindly for its emancipation, causing a simulacrum of history and progress while keeping itself fundamentally captive to those metamorphic interests.

It is an information advantage that has always kept humankind divided and captive, and for the first time ever, its hegemony is threatened. That is why humankind has been put in a pressure cooker of would-be Duces and bros homicidally committed to preserving their historical privileges, in addition to a global pandemic of unknown origin. This is most definitely an existential test, and so far, humankind has managed to avoid destroying its civilization, yet again, to rescue the interests of its owners.

The name of the ownership game is divide by any means and conquer. That is what humankind's limited resources are paying for. The owners of the world are desperately attempting to arrange a global reset that is more to their liking. They don't care about people. Try to keep in mind that the actual world of human beings is nothing like the myopic dystopian view pushed by their "full-spectrum" private media. Contrary to its incessant prognostications of disaster, the world is not about to end, but perhaps it is the end of humankind's captivity.

People who should know better claim that "democracy" is under threat in the USA. Franchised participation by proxy is not democracy. This romanesque republic is divide and conquer by government. Here, the population is factionalized into opposing camps with the power of capital punishment over each other. What we see happening, the flagrantly deliberate attempt to incite the population to civil war, is a function of this republic. The government of the USA is for republicans, including the Democratic Republicans, (the original name of the Democratic Party). Democracy, like the public, is not actually represented by the private property reward and punishment regime that owns this republic.

Look at the twin fasces and other imperial Roman paraphernalia adorning the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol. Those fasces have their axe heads, representing the power of capital punishment, always exposed and facing each other. A republic is divide and conquer by government. To that end, the ruling plutocracy will offer republics in any flavor (democratic, socialist, nationalist...) but never actual democracy. This particular republic is a fascist construct to begin with. To factionalize the population into competing camps is what fascism actually is. Here you see it institutionalized and enshrined with ornamental Roman columns, the House aquila mace, the national flag, and a shout-out to Jove's ability to keep humankind divided.

Like the Roman original, this republic survives on scapegoats and vigilantes.

George Washington warned us about factionalism and political parties in his farewell address.

The Identity of Jesus

I like the hypothesis that the man remembered as Jesus was actually Herod the Great's first-born son, Antipater II. Herod promised his kingdom to Antipater who perhaps told everyone what he planned to do as king, outraging the Judean hierarchy and threatening his father's reign. Perhaps Rome gave Herod the choice of having his son executed or losing his kingdom. The painful illness that drove Herod to commit suicide seems to be not being able to live with having made such a ghastly choice.

This hypothesis makes the story of Jesus plausible. It explains why the story was momentous enough to remember, and why it was mythologized in such a way. It explains the authority Jesus had even as a child, and it provides a reasonable basis for the Davidic claim. It also explains the information gap in the life of Jesus between childhood and adulthood, (Antipater with his mother, Doris, were banished from Herod's court for most of his life).

Perhaps the man remembered as John the Baptist was actually Costobar, the husband of Salome.

Athens Rising

The Christian talisman, reputed to grant everlasting life, is a "bleeding heart" god-man hanging sacrificed on a cross. Judeo-Christian-Islamic culture runs on the sacrifice of humankind's empathy and sapience. The horrors committed in the name of the Prince of Peace alone are voluminous. The Western world amply exhibits all of the psychopathic qualities of its god.

What is Reality?

Reality is the pedanticized subset of actuality. Royality is actuality for plebs, so they don't royalize that existence is interactive.

Selfie with Halo

Christianity is the mother of all virtue signalers. The customary God-wielding is a heady mix of raw superstition and choreographed showboating. As if they had the faintest.

The only actual evidence of those malignant ancient books is the psychopathic enmity they have engendered in their dark history. "Faith" is the death of reason and the handmaid of superstition. To yield one's intelligence and agency to an entirely unaccountable authority is perhaps the worst habit of all for a supposedly sapient species. It is why people are forced to stand against things like slavery, the subjugation of women, the punishment of gay people and other traditional outsiders, and so on. Faith has made the achievement of a decent and humane world as costly as can be in what can precisely be described as human sacrifice.

For that malevolent cult, the achievement of paradise is scripturally a matter of killing the people designated as their enemies.

Religion claims the authority of existence itself, yet in actuality has nothing but ignorance and fear to stand on.

I have written already that religion is the epitome of disinformation, but that it does inadvertently outline the contours of that which it obscures. What it obscures is an information advantage of unknown scope and origin. The conquest of the Inca people by Christianity illustrates the function of the paradigm that conquered humankind on a larger scale thousands of years earlier.

Are you certain that existence is not composed of 4-dimensional bubble universes curated by a continuum of 4-dimensional beings? Are you certain that the Judeo-Christian deity, "God," is not merely a con man from another planet? He did, after all, con humankind out of believing in itself and of knowing the actual marvel of its own existence. He gets credit for doing all the good things so you don't have to!

Once you have surrendered your existential agency, you're ripe for abuse by unscrupulous men. Thus the miserable story of this world.

Independence Days

Today the people of this country celebrate their liberty from the English monarchy, and they contemplate their liberty from the republic that replaced it. Actual democracy is actual liberty.

On Latin America

Recently on YouTube, I watched a video narration of a historical document from the point of view of the Incas regarding the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire. I knew the story of how the Spaniards were received as gods before proceeding to conquer and subjugate their hosts lickety split. But I had not heard the story from the Inca point of view, or with all the awful details. Suffice it to say that the Spaniards provoked the Incas by insulting them, garroted their king without haste and slaughtered almost everyone present, (thousands of unarmed men). Those Spaniards were not "brown" people, to use today's simpleminded parlance. They represented the dominant Christian European empire of the time.

Unlike the story of North America, the Spanish did not exterminate or imprison the natives in "reservations," or explicitly enslave them, for the most part. Instead, they created a neo-feudal society along racial lines. In time, most, if not all of the ruling European families interbred with the natives to one degree or other, but their descendants still zealously control almost all of the countries in Latin America. Together with the oft reviled "Anglo-Saxons," they exploit the land and the people. The human dregs produced by their ungodly arrangement are the subject of this country's "immigration problem" where they are exploited yet again as political pawns. The depth and seriousness of that arrangement is why Miami is known today as "the capital of Latin America."

I used to believe that the U.S. had the upper hand with the Latin American elite, but I'm not so sure anymore.

My DNA is a portrait of the Iberian empire, 65% Spanish and Portuguese, 9% Indigenous American, 0.8% Senegambian & Guinean, 0.3% Angolan & Congolese, and 0.2% Filipino. I am also 17% Eastern European, 1.6% Northwestern European, 1.4% Ashkenazi Jewish, and 0.4% Italian.

The Metamorphosis of a Golem

Franz Kafka was a modern Golem of Prague. His book, The Metamorphosis, is a symbolic account of his awakening and subsequent treatment by his family and friends, to whom he had become an awkward homunculus. The story of his death is that he was interred in a sanatorium for tuberculosis and ended up dying from not being able to eat. When he died, he was working on his short story, A Fasting Artist.

I had a strange dream set in that time period several years ago about being involuntarily interred in a sanatorium and abandoned there by a sister for whom I appeared to have tender feelings nevertheless. I woke up with Kafka on my mind and the need to know more about his life. Interestingly, I was quite depressed at the time and had not eaten for 2 weeks. Here in the 21st century USA, despite its manifold faults, it's not easy to have a person involuntarily "committed to an institution."

When I was a child, sometime in the early 70s, I stayed home from school one day with a fever. In my altered state, watching The Three Stooges on a black & white television set, I got a glimpse of the criminal malice that those so-called entertainers embodied. Now I know that it was that criminal malice, so common in people of that time, that led some to do the most awful things to other people during World War 2. It would be unbelievable if not for the mountains of documentation that exist.

That war was a global war against "leftism" that the United States, England, and France were compelled to fight on the side of the people because majorities in those nations were committed to the international struggle of workers and to human rights more broadly. Unfortunately, those majorities were disabled politically immediately after the war, and the capitalist West, brimming with Nazi assets, went back to being an enemy of the people in the name of so-called democracy.

It was from that inhumane cauldron that Israel was born, conceived by Herzl, who was in favor of encouraging anti-semitism to force its birth, and delivered by the likes of the Stern Gang, "which, with the Final Solution already under way in all but name, sought out German cooperation in the setting up of a Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis.” That's why Israel is such an inhumane piece of fascist work. It's a relic of the brutal racial and ideological politics of World War 2, like the battle that hasn't ended, like Stalingrad in Palestine.

This world is an existential nightmare and I have been made to feel that I am not welcome here anymore. I would feel sad for myself, but I know that it's not personal and I reserve my sadness for the other gentle people who suffer and have suffered the same marginalization and alienation. More than seventy million people lost their lives in World War 2, in the attempted fascist takeover of the world. My heart aches for them, for what they went through.

After everything that humankind has been through, it beggars belief that the United States and Israel are still pouring fuel on those old fascist fires, as if to invoke capitalism's saving disgrace. It's obscene. Fortunately, the events of January 6, 2021 showed that only a relative few brainwashed punters were willing to answer the call. Despite that, the capitalist republican ruse continues. The Democratic Republicans and the Republican Republicans with their malprivileged (through sexism, racism, nativism..) constituency work together to stymie the democratic impulse.

If I'm not welcome here as I am, I want not to be here, please. Sometimes it feels like I was born behind enemy lines. Sometimes in my dreams I can see the imposing walls that divide and contain us, and the world appears to be a prison. Now I know what it means to be sacrificed for the sins of others. It means that organized criminals have too much pleasure and pain invested in their hegemony over humankind to allow anyone to stand in their way. This existential inferno is their reward and punishment regime and the truth is its nemesis.

Animal Farm

Like wolves or pigs or any animal for that matter, human beings can't be properly understood by observing how they behave in captivity. It has been established by history that we can be uncompromising and unforgiving with each other in captivity, just like other animals. It has yet to be established how we are as emancipated beings.

In the competitive struggle imposed by captivity, we are set to endeavor against each other and burn incalculable amounts of resources and time. Freedom from that is nearly the entirety of liberty.

Actual democracy is a conversation among peers rather than a competition between factions, as "politics" is made to be in a republic. Democracy is direct participation in the decision making process, as opposed to franchised participation by proxy, as it is in a republic. Democracy is empirical, focused like science and technology on delivering results, rather than inevitably ideological and corrupt, as it is in a republic. Democracy offers an attainable ideal for human civilization, as opposed to the perpetual culture war consistently delivered by republic.

The Tyranny of Sapience

The tyranny of private property that dominates this world fears nothing more than not being able to exploit humankind anymore. It values its hegemony above all else. That's why this world is so fucked up. Its "reality" is literally a conceptual framework that binds humankind's actuality to its reward and punishment regime. That's why the truth has no actual place in this world and merit is meaningless. Everything here is designed to spin your wheels and humor you while you power the tyrant's treadmill. This "dog eat dog" world with its institutionalized exploitation is designed to make predators and prey of human beings.

Humankind's current actuality is one of captivity enforced by various forms of organized crime, including disinformation, warfare, and societal terrorism (such as political assassinations, mass murders, and "honor" killings).

Like the owners of a casino, the protagonists of this world have humankind playing a "game" in which the "house" always wins. The House of Private Property essentially owns human existence, including human potential and the future. One can accept rewards for playing along, or else...

In contrast, the world of an emancipated humankind will be administered by actual democracy instead of by proxy as it is in republics. Able to set the agenda, people will choose to spend their wealth on improving the planet's quality of life, instead of wasting it on boondoggles such as weapons of war, partisan political posturing, and vehicles of organized graft. Imagine being able to reclaim all of the time, energy and wealth that is wasted on those things. Imagine a world driven by cooperation instead of competition. Imagine a world that is intrinsically honest and kind, like a good teacher. Imagine a world that invests in merit. Imagine a world that reflects favorably on its caretakers. Humankind is on the threshold of actuality and the universe is the limit.

History can serve its purpose as the ultimate database of existential errors. Humankind's sapience is contingent upon learning its costly lessons.

Dreams

Also many years ago, I dreamed that I will meet and become the old man again on the snowy peaks of deep time, at the end of my trail. My dreams keep me going when nothing else is able to.

Dream memory is an interesting phenomenon. I can remember approximately when a dream occurred by the general circumstances of my life at the time, but not with precision. The conscious mind resists recording dreams because their logic and sense of time defy quantification; it only records the most impressive and quantifiable dreams. The subconscious mind has its own memory, though, as I experience every time an event in my actual life triggers the memory of a dream I had forgotten.

It's true that one can learn to summon the conscious mind from the subconscious simply by frequently thinking about the idea of being awake in one's dreams. When I want it to happen, I remind myself before going to sleep to notice the discrepancies in space and time that signal the dream state. I do that every day until it happens. If you're interested in trying it, it works better during naps when one is genuinely tired. It's difficult to do in deep sleep. Also, keep in mind that you might experience what is known as sleep paralysis: instead of being in a dream, one's mind is where the body is, yet unable to rouse it. That can be scary, but it can also be a starting point for experimentation in what is also known as an "out of body" experience. For starters, try to separate yourself from your body and notice how you're attached to it like a magnet.

When I was studying at the Slade School of Art in London during the late 80s, I became conversant with the subconscious mind over a period of about a year. Often high on hashish and tired from walking everywhere, it was easy. I started by exploring the environment of each dream, always involving doors to go through and steps to other levels. Naturally, it seems, I was more disposed to exploring foundations, so I found myself eventually in tunnels and caves. One dream in a tunnel, presumably at the center of my being, I found a cave inhabited by an enormous being with the head of lion and the body of a snake. Its head was big enough to swallow me in one gulp. As frightening as it was physically, the most frightening thing about it was its mind, which had mine trapped magnetically in its orbit. In mortal fear at first, I learned that he didn't mean to harm me and is actually my benefactor. I found out years later, on the Internet, that he's well-known to humankind.

Chnoubis, the Demiurge

In the last dream that I remember about the tunnels, I followed a passage that led outside, to a meadow at the base of a towering cliff. As I watched, the rocks split and crumbled and gave way to a deluge of water that swept me up and delivered me on a wave to the ocean.

After the tunnel dreams, I began to experience sleep paralysis and did my best to explore the state, but it's very difficult to get any distance from one's body without falling back into a dream. My intention was to make it outside from my first floor flat to get a "view" of the ever changing details that I could verify a moment later after waking myself. With much effort, I eventually made it past my door and down the tall hallway to the front door of the house, where the strangest thing happened. The light coming though the frosted glass on the front door sent me into what appeared to be a dream, but in a similar space. There was an unexpected doorway to my left, leading to a room where an older woman sat still on a chair. I approached her and asked her where I was but she didn't answer or even look at me. I felt frustrated, and knowing that I was dreaming, I decided to shake her gently to get her attention. As I shook her, a piercing scream woke me from the dream. I ran outside to the hallway where the scream had come from and saw that my landlord had fallen off of a small table he had been standing on to hang a picture. He had broken his leg and was in much pain. As his wife ran down the stairs to help him, there was a knock on the front door and she asked me to see who it was. I opened the door to find an older woman who told me that she had lived in the house as a child, and she wanted to come in and see it.

Then life changed, as it does, and I developed new habits that changed my focus on lucid dreaming. Now, based on what I have learned from 56 years of life, I understand the meanings of my most impressive dreams, and I marvel at the mind's ability to perceive and create meaning in seemingly magical ways.

Some Thoughts

When I was a youngster in art school, I had a dream once that I lived on what appeared to be another planet in a small, idyllic community where everyone knew each other and lived together in harmony. It was a green paradise on an ocean bay, warm and heavenly. I saw from above that the town resembled a circuit board, with the buildings arranged like processors, capacitors, diodes, resistors and transistors. As the dream ended, I saw that I decided to leave there, alone, by walking across a stratospheric land bridge suspended above deep time, and into a frozen, untouched wilderness.

When people talk about the possibility that the universe is a 4-dimensional sphere, they invoke the analog relationship between a hypothetical 2-dimensional world and our actual 3-dimensional world. The idea states that 2-dimensional beings living on the surface of a 3-dimensional sphere may be able to deduce the existence of the sphere by being able to set off in any 2-dimensional direction and eventually arrive where they began. Similarly, if the universe is a 4-dimensional sphere, we should be able to set off in any 3-dimensional direction and eventually arrive where we started. Also, since we, as 3-dimensional beings, can see inside of 2-dimensional shapes, it stands to reason that a 4-dimensional being would be able to see us inside and out.

The ideas are very interesting and I do believe that we live in a 4-dimensional universe, but no one talks about how time is affected by the transition from 3 to 4 dimensions. I believe that sequential time exists only inside 4-dimensional bubble universes like ours. A 4-dimensional being would not be limited by 3-dimensional space or sequential time. That means that a 4-dimensional being would not only be able to see us inside and out at once, but also from beginning to end. From a 4-dimensional perspective, every moment within our 3-dimensional existence would exist simultaneously. Any moment of any actual person's life could be visited at will in the highest level of detail. From a 4-dimensional simultaneous time perspective, everything created inside the universe exists forever.

Knowing this, bringing others into existence takes on a new meaning with the explicit responsibility to ensure the quality of their existence. In what state do you want your children to exist forever, in a dangerous state of ignorance supported by privileges taken from others by force? Do you want them to live and die for existentially unsupportable customs arranged by greed and maintained through disinformation?

When I say that human beings are not animals, what I mean more precisely is that we are not natural predators. If we were, we would not be equipped with donkey-like teeth. Our specialized minds are not for killing each other or other animals. The problem with agreeing with the proposition that human beings are animals is that human beings have a dismal understanding of what animals actually are. It does depend on the context, but to agree with that proposition in this world may be to give one's consent to treating human beings as fundamentally irrational, existentially inferior, factory farmable herds of burden. This existentially dysfunctional vulgarity of a world is fueled, after all, by the inferiority industrial complex.

I have called humankind a nascent information species because most of us are only now becoming aware of how information defines our lives. In actuality, though, all animals are information beings. The only difference between us, of course, is in the physical form capable of receiving and transmitting information. Keep this in mind for the next time you have the opportunity to communicate with another animal. Instead of words, we can use actions. When I find a single ant in my house, with the knowledge that it is able to communicate its experience to other ants, I gently give it a ride outside instead of killing it.

We are metainformation beings. That is to say that our special ability is the ability to process the information of information. Intelligence is most definitely a force of nature, but it's important to understand that its strength is not as a consuming force. Intelligence is the orderly and creative force of nature. It is the source of life and the evidence, I believe, of 4-dimensional metabeing. Capable of transcending 3-dimensional space and sequential time, the mind and its imagination offers a taste of it.