#25 How did Jesus walk on water? Part 6: Bubbles of reality

A couple quotes from the Buddha frame this question:

When a man considers the world as a bubble of froth, and as the illusion of an appearance, then the king of death has no power over him.

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Material shape is like a ball of foam, feelings unto a bubble blown, perceptions like a mirage are, the constructions like a plantain tree, consciousness like an illusion: so said the Kinsman of the Sun.

And here’s a quote from an article in Scientific American written by physicists Raphael Buosso and Joseph Polchinski entitled “The String Theory Landscape” (September, 2004): 

The whole universe is therefore a foam of expanding bubbles within bubbles, each with its own laws of physics. Extremely few of the bubbles are suitable for the formation of complex structures such as galaxies and life. Our entire visible universe [more than 20 billion light years in diameter] is a relatively small region within one of these bubbles.

Buosso and Polchinski call their bubble-enclosed universes “bubbles of reality.” Fans of American mystic Edgar Cayce may recognize a similar term from his work: “spheres of consciousness.”

The frame and the picture

A Course in Miracles talks about frames that determine the contents of their pictures. This was written about thirty years before the Scientific American article quoted above and about 20 years before physicist Leonard Susskind and Gerard ‘t Hoooft coined the term holographic bound.

Here’s the opening of a Wikipedia article on the holographic principle, as it’s called:

The holographic principle is a physical property of theories proposed by Gerard ‘t Hooft and Leonard Susskind…The principle states that the description of a volume of space should be thought of as encoded on a boundary to the region…

In a larger and more speculative sense, the theory suggests that the entire universe can be seen as a two-dimensional information structure “painted” on the cosmological horizon, so that the three dimensions we observe are only an effective description at low energies

What that means is that we might live inside a four-dimensional bubble (three spatial dimensions and one dimension of time). But all the three-dimensional objects we see—trees, stars, water, our bodies—are really two-dimensional information “painted” on the surface of this distant boundary.

Let’s bring this confusing idea down to earth. Ever seen a souvenir snow globe with a mini city inside of it? 

The holographic theory says it is possible than our physical universe would be constructed in a similar fashion. The glass of the globe would be akin to the holographic bound. Our 3D reality, existing at a distance from that bound, would be like the mini city inside the glass globe.

But instead of the freestanding city just being there in the globe, the holographic theory suggests that the 3D objects we see all around us—stars, trees, water, bodies, rocks, mini cities inside snow globes—everything would actually be information residing on the “glass of the globe” (this holographic bound thing) and projected inside of spacetime. See Fig. 25.1.

So, does this fit with our assertion that energy is nothing but projected thought (see question #24). I don’t think a physicist would say so; they would simply say there is some evidence we live inside a projected physical reality that is holographic in nature. And that they haven’t discovered the actual holographic boundary that may contain the 2D information about our 3D physical universe.

And they won’t find that boundary, I will argue here, because it’s being generated by what Gary Renard calls the transtemporal mind—i.e. your split mind—residing outside of, but adjacent to, spacetime. (We’ll explore this idea at length in our next question). That transtemporal mind is the part of your mind “split off” from Heaven and residing “between” Heaven and spacetime in your mentally projected fantasy. This mind is what physicist Heinz Pagels explored as the Demiurge, and what physicists half-mockingly call the Ghost in the Machine. It is the creator of spacetime, and no, it’s not God; it’s a mind fragment from your mind. ( I highly encourage your to read Gary Renard’s The Disappearance of the Universe and Your Immortal Reality in this regard.)

So, a master realizes his body is not this standalone thing created on earth and residing on earth. But is instead some kind of projected object arising from a distance. If the Buddha is right and all of space is coming out of our mind, then these holographic bodies are indeed being projected out of our minds, what I collectively call the transtemporal mind (see Fig. 25_2 below).

Zero point energy is a good candidate for animating this projected universe of ours

Students of A Course in Miracles are all over the ideas of projected realities and bodies and such—all animated by a split mind. And they would say the energy animating all this projection is simply projected thought—an idea we explored in Question #24.

For a parallel scientific idea to explore, you may wish to consider Harold “Hal” Puthoff’s (and other’s) research into zero point energy. We mentioned this earlier as the energy that is present even in empty space, and is also known as vacuum energy or quantum fluctuation energy. You can think of it as energy existing inside of, or immediately behind, the fabric of spacetime itself—metaphorically like a massive reservoir of water under a lawn. 

This energy, physicists speculate, could be a massive pool—a giant, “under-space” reservoir of energy, although it’s unclear exactly how much there is. This zero point energy is believed to “animate” the incessant motion of sub-atomic particles in spacetime. Electrons, for example, are continuously whirling around atoms like busy bees circling a flower. But physicists don’t know exactly where those electrons get their energy from.

I like to think of zero point energy as like hidden power under the floor of those bumper-car rides at the  fair. You know those cars—with the long rods on the back that run up to an electrified grid on the ceiling? Now mentally take that grid and imagine it’s hidden right under the floor of that ride, powering all the cars as they move around and bump into each other. (Probably not too safe; especially if you stepped out of the car, but it’s a metaphor, so what the heck).

Zero point energy is not electricity, it’s energy, but one theory is that it animates all those particles that zoom around and make up objects in spacetime, just like the under-floor electric grid animating the motion of those bumper cars.

The problem scientists are working on, is how does this hidden zero point energy pool “know” how much energy the particles inside of spacetime need to run? Those particles are continuously changing states. Taking on energy, giving off energy. Up again, down again. And if they weren’t continuously energized just right, they would be like the moon running out of energy, losing orbit power, and crashing into the earth.

All matter would fall apart if these whirling electrons weren’t continuously energized exactly, precisely right.

We know how the electric grid running those bumper cars “knows” how much energy the cars need to run—because an engineer designed both the cars and the grid. The cars suck exactly as much energy as they need to move—not a bit more or a bit less. 

Hal Puthoff’s research suggests that this zero point energy has a similar symbiotic relationship to the particles it energizes in spacetime; the energy supplied and the energy used appear to arise together as one in a symbiotic relationship. If we didn’t know an engineer had designed the electric grid and the bumper cars, we would also observe they have some kind of symbiotic relationship; the car asks for exactly as much energy as it needs and lo and behold, the electric grid provides exactly that much.

That’s because a common intelligence—or multiple people with the same knowledge of electricity—designed both.

Could zero point energy be projected thought?

Is their evidence this zero point energy is conscious, projected thought? Well, no. But there is evidence it is a projected form of energy.

Zero point energy appears to manifest as a “stimulated emission” from the fabric of spacetime—which means it is projected energy similar to a laser beam. What better way to animate the hologram of spacetime than energy that functions like a laser—the preferred light source (called coherent light) used to animate film holograms.

If you were to buy one of those expensive, 2D film holograms to project a 3D holographic image into your living room, for example, the best type of light to project through that film and make a sharp, 3D image is a laser. Lasers are known as coherent stimulated emission sources, like zero point energy.

So we have more and more evidence that suggests indeed we may be living inside a projected holographic reality of some kind—a fantasy island we call spacetime—mentally projected over the infinite ocean of God’s love that is our true reality. I’ve argued all along that mental projection is the source of this fantasy. More and more evidence from how our universe is constructed seems to bear this out.

(For more on our holographic reality, see Ken Wilber’s The Holographic Paradigm and Michael Talbot’s The Holographic Universe).

As we explored in Question #24, it is Gary Renard’s assertion (and I agree) that energy is projected thought. My guess is that scientists will never discover the source of zero point energy until they come to accept it is projected thought coming from their own mind—the transtemporal mind. And they’ll never find those holgoraphic bounds in spacetime, because they are also coming out of the transtemporal mind.

If you’re confused about all this stuff, don’t sweat it. In our next question we’ll get into many more examples to help you really get these ideas under your belt.

#24 How did Jesus walk on water? Part 5: It ain’t about energy

In earlier posts we said our true nature was formless, spaceless love; perfect togetherness. In this reality the “part” and the “whole” are seamlessly integrated in one unified understanding. An earthly symbol of this understanding would be how we perceive the Internet as both individual Web sites integrated into the unified whole of the Internet.

So, too, in our stargazing, we perceive either standalone stars, or we clump them together and mentally project unifying patterns on them called “constellations” as in Fig. 24.1 below. 

Also we discussed in Question #20, Assumption #3: The Wheeler Participatory Universe, quantum mechanics discovered the true nature of particles of light called “quanta” was that they were simultaneously like interconnected waves—akin to the interconnected nature of Web sites, and that they were standalone “particles”—akin to individual Web sites. That is their wave nature and their particle nature are inseparably interwoven into the essence of light. This is called the wave-particle complementarity.

We can see in Fig. 24.1 that the “lines” connecting each networked point must really run right through that point, otherwise the flowing network information would stop  at each point. So, let’s represent the wave-particle complementarity with Fig. 24.2. Notice how this contrasts with both a “standalone” point and a “standalone” line—which are incorrectly perceived. In truth, every point has a connection to the whole, and the whole is made up of interconnected points.

So, the first thing a master knows about spacetime, is that any time he is looking at a “part,” or “point” that is, any standalone object—a tree, a rock, a pen, a table, a body, the Red Sea—it is really like Fig 24.2 shows; part of an interconnected whole.

It’s odd to think a standalone object like a rock has some kind of wave-like nature, but modern physics shows that’s true. Every particle in the universe has a wave function built right into it.

The brain is not the seat of sentience

Here’s a practical takeway. Ask the next person you encounter who insists the seat of human consciousness exists solely in the brain if they know what a wave function is. Have them Google it.

What quantum mechanics reveals—the most experimentally verified branch of modern physics—is that every particle that exists in the universe has a wave function, and that wave function, while most likely to be in the vicinity of that particle’s observed physical location in spacetime, can, in fact, be spread out over the entire universe.

So this means every particle of matter in your brain has a built-in, irrevocable capacity to be spread out over the entire universe. So even though the brain cells creating consciousness in your brain are free to roam the cosmos, your consciousness is created wholly inside your head? Yow!

The bricks of the prison cell are more free than the prisoner?

So, according to this argument, Einstein’s consciousness was free to roam the cosmos, which it did with stunning scientific result (imagination is more important than knowledge, he said), and the particles of Einstein’s brain cells were free to physically exist across the cosmos, but the source of Einstein’s consciousness was wholly inside his head?

No wonder EInstein said our individual identity was “an optical delusion of our consciousness” and a “kind of prison.” His philosophical view is what the evidence of his field supports.

Maybe you could show me along a probability curve where that impenetrable wall is that limits Einstein’s brain cells to his head, and therefore contains that universe-spanning consciousness of his? You’re arguing from behind the Spam Filter from Hell.

No such wall exists. The wave funciton of any particle is a probability curve, not an absolute—like walls of a prison. The probability curve is like a breeze that can pass right through the prison wall we call the human skull. An irrevocable, unstoppable wave that absolutely can take any particle in our brains on a journey across space and time.

The wave and particle function of anything—including brain cells—are inseparable.

See Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos for the scientific fact that there is a teeny, tiny possibility that the particles that make up your brain could pass right through your head. Then where would the seat of your sentience be?

The door to the prison you call your body is open by the laws of quantum mechanics. Anyone who insists your consciousness exists solely as a result of brain processes inside your head is ignorant of modern physics. There is no such thing as a mathematical, absolute certainty that the particles constituting your brain are always inside your head. No such thing.

A master knows the brain is a creation of the mind; not vice-versa.

The ego will do everything it can to convince you the real “you” is nothing but that body of yours and its internal components. Even though modern physics tells us with laboratory evidence that the sub-atomic particles that make up those physical components of yours are free to roam the cosmos. Do you really want your mind to be less free than your body?

How you “left” Heaven by creating dimension and space

Is this Web site you are reading right now on the left side of the Internet or the right? How about the top or the bottom of the Internet? Front or back? As we explored earlier, the Internet is a spaceless, dimensionless experience, like true reality in the absolute universe we call Heaven.

So how fast is this Web site going, in miles per hour? Zero, of course. 

Any time you enter its Web address you’re there. It’s not a moving target. You don’t need a really fast Internet connection to catch up to it.

So, think about Web sites on the Internet for a moment. They exist, at least in your experience of them, as spaceless, dimensionless “points.” 

So, if the entire, non-spatial, non-dimensional universe is the Internet, and it has these things called Web sites, which we’ve already discussed aren’t moving, and these Web sites has an unbreakable connection to this Internet, how would a Web site move?

Being spaceless, it would have to invent space itself! It would have to invent this place “outside” the Internet (which in our metaphor we defined as the entire universe). So this Web site with the itch to move would have to pretend it occupied space and that it could somehow detach itself from its true, interconnected whole, and then move “outside” that spaceless whole.

It would have to imagine that there really was a left and a right. A top and a bottom. A front and a back. Even though its whole existence it has lived inside a universe of the Internet where those ideas are completely nonsensical. As is the idea of a Web site physically moving in space. A Web site may change Web addresses, but we don’t perceive that it is now “farther away” or “more distant” from our computer, right?

So when the mystics say God is closer to us than our jugular veins, what they mean is, our true reality is like the spaceless, dimensionless, motionless Internet. We are like a Web site in that Internet with immediate and total access to every scrap of information it contains. Truth is perfect togetherness, as we have explored.

How far is a Web site from the Internet? Zero distance. How far are we from God? Zero distance. Yet the real “us” the real “we” is some imaginary distance from our jugular veins, which are imaginary protections laid over our true, spaceless reality. So the true us is closer to God than those jugular veins.

So now you know the basic idea about how you, Mr. or Ms. Pretend Singularity left a spaceless, dimensionless, formless, absolute universe of love and pretended to enter this thing called space, where you could “move.” 

Bouncing off formless, spaceless wholeness

The Internet, while certainly not infinite, appears that it will keep on extending forever. I use the word “extend” because while one could argue it is certainly expanding, when I use it I know there is certainly more information there, and more Web sites, but I don’t feel like the Internet is getting taller. Or fatter. Or thicker front to back.

From any Web site on the ‘Net, I can leap to any other Web site by typing in an address and making a single click. So this “infinitely extending” Internet is also amazingly intimate as well. People from around the world can share their interests, their knowledge, their family life. Everything. 

That’s cool! Ever-expanding information—extending to infinity, not spatially, but experientially—plus this really cool, intimate connection. An infinite plus intimate experience wound inextricably together is a characteristic of a true networked phenomena—like Heaven. It is the true nature of your real home.

You can extend forever in Heaven and still be intimately connected to the details of everyone’s existence. The party is infinite, and you know everyone there like a best friend. 

But spacetime doesn’t give us that infinite/intimate experience. We are clueless about what’s happening on planets trillions of miles from here. We can’t dial up their Web sites and check them out. Spacetime severs our connection between infinite and intimate perceptually. We can grasp how big the universe is—we can even measure it’s seemingly “infinite” nature, but we can’t experience it directly, like we can with people’s lives around us. And as we said true, or absolute knowledge is experiential knowledge. Perception is observational knowledge you can know without becoming intimately connected to it.

I can know about Mars without feeling like I am Mars. 

A master knows that that separation between infinite and intimate experiential knowledge is only an illusion. 

There is scientific evidence that we really are connected to the whole universe, at least physically. Modern quantum mechanics reveals that all information in the universe is entangled, or intertwined. Just like every Web site can be entangled or intertwined with links to each other, etc. Read up on quantum entanglement and see how your true physical reality here in spacetime is a fully interconnected reality. In fact, scientists are busily working on quantum computers that take advantage of this universal connectivity. Google it and see!)

How to lose your connection between intimate and infinite

But you, Mr. or Ms. Singularity, are busily maintaining a reality “outside” of your true home of Heaven. So one thing you’re doing is continuously pretending to lose that characteristic of a networked reality—your experiential connection to the infinite and intimate nature of true knowledge. 

You devised a simple mind trick. You won’t let yourself get too close to anything—too intimate—and you won’t let yourself get too far from anything—too infinite. As long as you avoid the totally intimate, you can avoid accidentally melting back into the absolute intimacy of Heaven. Like avoiding getting too close to a friend at a party. And as long as you don’t let yourself get too expansive, then you won’t accidentally run into the absolutely infinite nature of Heaven, like finding out that the party never ends.

So you set some boundaries. And you say, “Nothing too close and nothing too far.” No absolute intimacy, nor absolute infinity.”

Wisdom for future generations from Richard Feynman

And that’s exactly what physicist and Nobelist Richard Feynman wanted to pass along to future generations. He didn’t say “avoiding infinite and intimate”, he used physics terms. He said when objects get too far apart they attract each other, and when they get too close, they repel each other (can someone help me with the reference for this? I read it somewhere but can’t find it…)

Why would this distinguished physicist with a long, innovative career, involving all kinds of complex physics in many different areas, want to leave us with this one simple observation? I would surmise because it has something fundamental to do with the way our universe is constructed at the deepest levels.

I would interpret it as the way we separated ourselves from our true home in Heaven. You may want to investigate ideas like gravity, anti-gravity, dark matter and dark energy to see how this “pull together” and “push apart” forces are wired into the basic fabric of spacetime. 

We get too infinite, and we pull back; we pull together. We get too intimate, and we push apart; we repel each other. 

Our Universe oscillates between intimate and infinite; never reaching either absolute

We can observe this process at work in our own physical universe. In the beginning it was really, really close—really intimate—formed into a tiny singularity no bigger than a grain of sand. Before the Big Bang all the planets, stars, dust, energy—everything in spacetime—was crammed inside that unimaginably dense, ultra-tiny singularity.

But it didn’t maintain that sense of intimacy. It blew apart. And with that rapid expansion, blew out a bubble, or “skin” of spacetime on which everything we see in the universe is riding. Every planet, star, galaxy, and human are like ants riding on the surface of that expanding “balloon”—as astronomers Charles Lineweaver and Tamara Davis explore in Scientific American, March, 2005).

So one could speculate, that maybe that singularity got too close? Too intimate? So it blew apart? Again, I will freely intermingle physics and psychological ideas in our exploration, per the Pauli-Jung Assumption in Question #20.

But this universe of ours won’t go on expanding forever. It won’t allow itself to approach infinity. Some physicists believe it will reach a limit of expansion and then begin contracting again, like a kid sucking in a bubblegum bubble that got too big. This theory says everything in the contracting universe will then wind up in a Big Crunch—back at that tiny singularity again.

The Hindu’s believed that the gods breathed the cosmos in and out in regular cycles—like a child blowing a series of bubblegum bubbles and sucking them back in again. An idea not too far off from the scientific evidence of a Big Bang and its theoretical Big Crunch.

So imagine now that at the heart of that singularity, that tiny, impossibly dense speck of universe-building stuff is the simple idea of “Don’t get too close, or you’ll run into Heaven.” And that at the farthest reaches of that expanding universe of ours is the simple idea, “Don’t get too infinite. Don’t expand too far or you’ll run into Heaven.”

(Students of chaos theory (non-linear dynamics) may wish to explore the circulation pattern of a single particle moving through the Lozenz’ attractor (the butterfly attractor). See how it approaches the center point, but never hits it, and then heads out towards infinity, but it is drawn back again to that center point. You may find some online animations of this phenomena by Googling “Lorenz attractor animation.”)

And of course, what is an orbit, but an object not getting too close or too far from what it’s circling? It neither becomes perfectly intimate and actually joins that object, nor does it go sailing off away from it and become perfectly free, or infinite.

Your right mind (see Question #23) knows that Heaven is absolute intimacy and absolute infinity together as one. Endless extension. The inversion of this idea, translated into spatial symbols, creates the observable phenomena Feynman described: never too close or too far.

My interpretation is that Feynman was leaving future generations knowledge of how they created the fantasy of separation from their true reality.

The sine wave bounces between a maximum and minimum as well

Now let’s check out another common oscillation between minimum and maximum—the sine wave we see in Fig. 24.3. Imagine with me that the fear of absolute intimacy is the minimum at the bottom—keeping the wave from getting too close to intimate togetherness, and the fear of our absolutely infinite nature is the maximum at the top. Bouncing from one extreme to the other, the line never meets either its intimate or infinite Self.

This would cause Fenynman’s observation: when objects get too far apart (i.e. they reach the maximum in Fig. 24.3) they appear to attract each other, and are thus drawn back down to the minimum. And when they get too close, they appear to repel each other, thus leaving the minimum and heading back to the maximum. This “repel-attract” energy forms the continuously moving sine wave in 24.3(c).

That construction of oscillating between a minimum and a maximum forms the basis for all of space and time. (We’ll examine this structure in Dante’s two-sphere universe (Riemann’s hypersphere) in our next question.) When viewed as moving through time, it is the sine wave, the shape of moving light. 

In quantum mechanics, this endless oscillation is called quantum fluctuation energy, or zero point energy, or vaccum energy—because this energy is built right into the fabric of empty space itself (known as the vacuum).

What quantum mechanics has discovered about our universe, is that no matter how rock-solid, unmoving, never-budged-an-inch an object appears to be, the sub-atomic particles that make it up are a wiggly, oscillating, jittery mess. For example, no matter how much a boulder looks like it hasn’t budged in a billion years, it is made up of particles that are continuously in motion—without ceasing. This is proven science.

Is the snake in the Garden of Eden a wiggly sine wave?

It this sine-wave, universe-creating oscillation the origin of the slithering snake story in the Garden of Eden—see Fig. 24.3(c). Yep. It’s an archetype buried in our collective unconscious. That symbolic, sine-wave snake was a liar because in truth, formless, spaceless, dimensionless beings don’t oscillate. They don’t wiggle from side-to-side like sidewinders do.

Oscillation is a spatial idea, and space is a mentally projected fantasy laid over the truth of your non-spatial reality in Heaven. Einstein’s relativity showed us that geometry—lines, points, angles, shapes, curves, sine waves—are not absolute constructions unchanging in time and space, but in fact change with our observation of a physical system in motion.

In his book The Tao of Physics, physicist Fritjof Capra observes:

It took an Einstein to make scientists and philosophers realize that geometry is not inherent in nature, but is imposed upon it by the mind. In the words of Henry Margenau,

‘The central recognition of the theory of relativity is that geometry…is a construct of the intellect. Only when this discovery is accepted can the mind feel free to tamper with the time-honoured notions of space and time…’

Sorry Elvis. Heaven doesn’t wiggle.

Heaven, like the Internet, doesn’t move. So here’s your first clue you’re not in Heaven; the universe around you is built on oscillation, all the way down to the fabric of spacetime itself—vacuum energy as its called.

The master knows Heaven doesn’t wiggle. And that his true power comes from the “unmoved mover” we call God, not spacetime and its wiggly, sine-wave snakes.

Energy is change by force; it is not love and it is not Spirit

Energy is the capacity to cause change; i.e. for the little singularity in 24.3(a) to change its position back and forth from top to bottom, or to move through space and time, like in 24.3(b) or (c).

Change in the form of motion is the illusion of disappearing from one spot and appearing in another.

How can a non-spatial, infinite being disappear if you’re everywhere at once? You can’t. You’re non-local (Google this physics term if you’re not familiar with it.) Non-local means you’re both here and there at the same time.

That means you can’t “leave” point A and “arrive” at point B, because you’re already at point B before you left. And you can’t disappear from point A in order to get to point B because you’re everywhere, which means you’re still there at point A.

They say you can’t steal second base with your foot on first, but a master knows you’re already on second and first—and third and home.

Want to walk on water? Skip the energy drinks. And the charka-massages.

So much of modern New Age thought is built on the idea of energy. Energy, like motion in spacetime, is built on the fantasy of change (see Question #4 for an in-depth look at why change is an illusion.) Energy is everywhere in New Age thought. Manipulating energy to heal. Becoming one with the energy of cosmic consciousness. Studying the energy flow of ki, and auras and charkras.

My sacred brothers and sisters, energy is no more spiritual than the Easter Bunny. Energy and Spirit are wholly unrelated. They occupy two universes that combine only in the mind of the one holding them both together as real. (Search for Reality Stapler in this blog for more info).

A master knows that energy and Spirit do not exchange effects whatsover because they lack a common background context to do so. A Course in Miracles says all expressions of love i true reality are maximal. This means turned up all the way all the time.

All expressions of energy are not maximal. It increases, it decreases. We can experience a little heat energy and roast a marshmallow, or a lot of heat energy from a forest fire.

That maximal expression of love is Heaven is Spirit is you! Your true Self is maximal love all the time! No ups and downs. No yin-yang cycles. That symbol may be popular, but it has nothing to do with Spirit. God has no opposites, does not cycle through opposites, does not trade places or take turns with opposites.

God has no opposite. Period. And if God doesn’t you don’t either! As Baruch Spinoza said, God can only create like Himself. And as C.S. Lewis said, God has no opposites. First you take the Crazy Step, then you start believing in opposites.

The Buddha said, “The truth is one. There is no second.” Perfect togetherness does not cycle, go up and down, oscillate, vibrate or ebb and flow. Your perfect, sacred, God-given love is always at a max; like an eternal sun that shines at is maximum potential continuously. Only turning away from that sun—or putting clouds in front of it—appears to make it diminish.

Energy can cause suffering. God can’t.

The Buddha said his Self did not suffer or change. Energy is the capacity to cause change—and ask the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—it can unleash a whole mess of suffering.

Want to learn how to walk on water? Lose your fascination with energy. It’s dreamstuff. 

In Assumption #2 in Question #20 we explored the idea that all true power comes from God, and God is outside of spacetime. Energy is in spacetime and is part of the illusion. Even empty space has energy, as we’ve explored. A master does not summon the energy of the cosmos to overcome matter—or gravity—that would be using the illusion to manipulate an illusion.

Spirit is formless. It has no shape. Energy travels in waves and packets and bundles. Energy can harm. Spirit cannot. Energy blows things up; your Self does not.

Energy kills. Jesus said God is the God of the living, not the dead. 

A master knows the difference between energy—which is based on nature’s force—and true power, which comes only from the love of God (see Dr. David Hawkins Power vs. Force). God’s power—flawless love—has never harmed, does not harm now and will not harm in the future.

Energy: Not a big fan of free will

Energy does not consider the free will of what it destroys—including humans—which means it is not of God. When the energy of the atomic bomb was released on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it didn’t politely knock on the door and ask them if it would be okay to destory them. “Hi, this is energy. I was just wondering if it would be O.K. to incinerate you folks this morning?” 

Energy, my brothers and sisters, violates the free will of everything it encounters. When the sun shines on me, it doesn’t ask first if it’s O.K. to give me a sunburn, or even if I wanted to be warmer. Maybe I like being nice and cool.

When the energy of a sonic boom from a fighter jet hits a window, it doesn’t ask permission if it’s O.K. to shatter that window. Maybe a child was sitting right inside that window looking out.

Remember, we are exploring that the structure of spacetime mirrors structures in your mind (the Pauli-Jung Assumption in Question #20). Energy never extends a voluntary definition to join in union with it, which means it is absolutely not of God, whose very definition of existence is voluntary union—which is what love is.

Energy just does what it does without consideration for what’s around it. Energy released in the form of a tsunami doesn’t stop before the beach and make sure all the little kids have their life vests on.

Energy changes by force, without compassion, without benevolence without consideration.

Energy is the foundation of hell istelf; it absolutely is not of Heaven. Is the belief that one can be changed without their permission in order for another to experience an altered version of that one. That’s the mechanism of Dorothy’s nightmare in the Wizard of Oz. She alters her family members without their permission in her dream and it gets away from her.

 It is the very mechanism of mental projection itself. It is the mechanism of perceptual alteration. When you look at a star and clump it into the Big Dipper, did you ask those stars if they wanted to be arranged that way, or did you just go ahead and perceive them that way? 

What is a stereotype but the same process of mental projection on another.

The bottom line is that the master knows energy is projected thought—as author Gary Renard says in The Disappearance of the Universe. Mental projection and energy are synonymous.

Ask a scientist to show you a picture of energy. They can’t do it. Ask them to hold energy in their hand. They can’t. Ask them what energy really is, and they will tell you—if they are honest—that they don’t know.

Let’s define energy as a master would:

Energy is projected thought. It is one believing they can change the essence of another without that other’s free-will participation. It negates the invitation to join in union (love) and replaces that invitation with a mentally projected forced relationship. Energy is natural force. Love is never forced. Love is Divine power and comes from God and God alone.

There is no energy in Heaven. A master knows this. What are constellations but a mentally projected forced relationship?

Oscillation. Vibration. Motion. Light waves. Energy. Change. It’s all based on the idea of space and time; which is not your true reality. It’s all part of the fantasy island we call spacetime (see Question #1).

A master knows his true home—and the true source of his power and ability to perform miracles—is not a single inch away from where he is, no matter where he is, or how fast he’s moving or what he’s doing in spacetime. A master knows that whatever contains vibration is not his true Self. 

And that means spacetime all the way down to its very fabric.

#23 How did Jesus walk on water? Part 4: Four Tools of the Right Mind

In Question #20 we said the human mind was capable of being split, what we called the Harris-Renard Split-Mind Assumption. This is testified to in our lives daily.

When we sleep, part of our mind is generating the sleeping reality of our dreams, and part of the mind is busy operating our physical body functions. Keeping our heart and lungs chugging along. Listening to sounds in the room around us. Waking us up if it deems something is out of the ordinary. 

When we drive down the road part of our mind is keeping the car going straight and steady, and part of our split mind may be engaged in a daydream. Suddenly we “wake up” from this moving daydream and realize we have gone past our exit. The steady lull of the road can hypnotize us into splitting our mind between two realities; literally two universes of thought.

In a movie theater (an analogy American mystic Edgar Cayce used), part of our mind keeps our body functions going and monitors our real environment. If a spider were to walk up our arm, this part of our mind would notice, and cause us to jump a bit maybe and flick it off. Or if someone kept kicking our seat, this reality-monitoring aspect of our split mind would become annoyed and tell them to stop. Yet part of our mind is also deeply engrossed in the movie. That where the focus of our attention is (our awareness).

These three examples show us that our mind can be split between two realities; one that we would regard as physically real (our body and our immediate physical environment) and one “pretend”—the contents of our dreams at night, the road-induced daydream and the movie.

So too, your mind is, this very moment, split between your true reality in Heaven and this daydream you call spacetime.

In all three cases the “real us” has not been lost to these pretend worlds, only the focus of our awareness—the locus, or focal point, of our attention. The real you doesn’t climb into the movie, only your awareness.

The Four Tools of the Right Mind

We can watch a movie with such joyful, reckless abandon because the Four Tools of the Right Mind exist in the part of your mind that is maintaining a connection to your actual reality. We will call the part of our mind that maintains a connection to our actual reality in Heaven our right mind our higher mind or our higher self. 

This is not the same as your true Self, with a capital S, because that Self (or Spirit, Essence or Soul) is perfectly whole and knows that the idea of a split is a pure fantasy. As silly as beieving you could spit half of your real, human DNA into duck DNA and live the life of a duck. The split itself is a daydream; not just the contents of that dream.

When you wake up to Heaven and say, “Oh, man, my mind was split and I dreamt this thing called spacetime, it was so wild…”  Everyone will look at you and say, “Your mind was what? Look around you, there is only wholeness. Nothing at all will ever testify to the truth that your mind could actually split in the first place. The belief that you could split your mind was, in itself, part of the dream.”

To your unified Spirit or True Essence, the idea of a “higher mind” and “lower mind” are absolute nonsense. There are no levels, strata, splits, layers, repression, unconscious, subconscious or any other split-mind constructions in Heaven. Heaven is formless love. Spirit is formless love. You and your real mind are formless love. In order to split you need to create form; and that can only be done inside the fantasy.

The belief in the split mind is in itself the first part of the fantasy, as we explored in Question #17.

A Course in Miracles clearly states that our right mind is where the Holy Spirit resides. And naturally, our right mind is where these four capabilities of the right mind exist.

In a movie theater you would call your right mind your “theatre seat mind”—the aspect that maintains your connection to the real world. Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz would call her right mind her “Kansas mind”—the aspect of her dream that is her connection back to Kansas. 

Here are those Four Tool of the Right Mind, some of which we’ve explored in earlier posts. We’ll use the movie scene as our example throughout. As we go through this exercise, ask yourself how many of these characteristics did Jesus manifest?

Know that these tools were placed in your right mind by God himself. They are Divine tools that cannot be lost to you. CANNOT. Understand that they are universally holographically available at every point of every fantasy universe you have ever created throughout all of space and time. They are your tools and cannot be lost to you, no matter how you define yourself.

Tool #1  Absolute confidence in your ability to return to your true reality

You can watch a movie with total, reckless abandon and really enjoy yourself because you know—with absolute confidence—that your awareness will not be permanently lost inside the movie. Are you afraid for a single second that you might actually get mentally trapped inside the movie and not be able to escape? No. You don’t give it a second thought. Just as when you were a child playing an imaginary game, did you ever think, “What if I get trapped inside this game”?

Probably not.

Sure some people that really, really love movies—like Star Wars—become groupies and you swear they’ve actually been swallowed whole by the movie. Or some people that really, really love Star Trek become Trekkies and dress up like their favorite characters and attend Star Trek conventions. 

But any of those people are free to put their fantasy lives behind them and return to their real lives. We will call this the Tool of Absolute Confidence of the right mind. It means you wholly trust yourself to be able to translate between realities, separate truth from fiction, and return your awareness to your actual reality (all traits of what the Holy Spirit does).

Now some psychologists may argue that people do drift off into various mental conditions and permanently lose their touch with reality. I assert here that ultimately—from your right mind—these mental conditions are seen as part of the show; the ego’s sick idea of how to preserve your attachment to fantasy.

Dr. David Hawkins discusses cures of profound mental illness he was able to bring about by silently communicating to his patients it was their own egos causing them to suffer, not God.

Your true mind that God gave you is free of disease, dysfunction, decay and the effects of old age. But people go to their graves mentally ill and fully out of touch with reality, you might argue. 

This is where a belief in reincarnation becomes helpful, because it allows you to understand that indeed, you do “live” a string of “lives” providing continuous connection all the way back to the moment you left Heaven. I will, throughout my posts here, assume that reincarnation is real. We don’t need to go too far down that road, because it can become a distraction from your true spiritual work, which, as A Course in Miracles teaches, is forgiveness without exception. That’s what gets you out of the dream most quickly.

So when I say you’ve been in the universe for 13.7 billion human years, it’s because I believe you have been reincarnating in various forms throughout all that time. Your mind has been continuously present in spacetime all those years, even if you don’t remember it (according to the Split-Mind Assumption, you are free to suppress information you once knew, and actually do so continuously.)

But your right mind has absolute confidence that it can escape the effects of space and time forever—if it so chooses.

Tool #2  Vertical time

Along with that absolute confidence in your ability to mentally leave the movie of spacetime and return your awareness to your real life back to your seat next to God, comes an understanding of the concept of vertical time.

I have given a different name here to a quantum mechanical concept called “imaginary time”—see Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, or The Universe in a Nutshell. Imaginary time is time measured in what are called “imaginary numbers.” (Google these terms and check them out.)

I call imaginary time vertical time because I define the contents of spacetime, including time itself, as imaginary. Your capacity to overcome this fantasy of space and time using the Tool of Vertical Time is not only real, it was a gift given to you by God and cannot be lost. It is one of the Four Tools of the Right Mind. 

Einstein himself showed us that time was not some kind of absolute, universal clock, but indeed could change based on our perceptions. It can run faster or slower based on our motion. So that changing, relative time we experience in our daily lives is more appropriately named imaginary.

So I call what physics call imaginary time, vertical time. I call it vertical because Stephen Hawking says it runs perpendicular to the time we experience in our daily lives. (Vertical time also runs perpendicular to evolution, btw.)

We think of our own lives running from our point of birth to our point of death along a horizontal line—what we call a timeline. We’ve all had to make those timelines in school where we list a long string of events that say, happened during a war we’re studying.

When we make those timelines, or we imagine our life line, we think of it existing along a horizontal axis, or what we called the “x” axis in geometry class. The past exists to the left of the line, and the future to the right. 

But physicists say there is the concept of imaginary time that runs perpendicular to this “x-axis” time of ours. So it would run from the top to the bottom of the paper—along the “y” axis. So I call it vertical time as opposed to the horizontal-line-time we imagine our life unfolding along.

Even when we play video games we think of “game time” as moving along this horizontal axis from beginning to end. Or when we watch a sporting event. The game clock runs from beginning to end along a horizontal axis in our minds.

We usually don’t think of time as running from the sky to the earth, at least I don’t. (In fact, it was a direct experience of vertical time that was my first mystical experience.)

So vertical time exists in your right mind and you can’t lose it, no matter what. Look how intensely artifical time can hold your attention. Playing a video game you frantically try to beat the clock, or record your “best time” for a race. A movie’s editing makes all the scenes seem real and sucks you into the “movie time” drama. A close-scoring sporting event winds down to its final seconds and coaches frantically call time outs while fans sit on the edges of their seats.

Every one of these events has pretend time. The video games clock isn’t real; you can pause it while you go grab a snack. The movie’s time isn’t real; those scenes weren’t actually shot in that order to that duration. An editor made the whole thing up according to a script. TIme in a sporting event isn’t real, the clock can be stopped after every play; even rewound if the referee determines a could seconds ticked off by accident.

Yet look how attached we get to these pretend experiences of time! Vertical time is God’s guarantee to you that you will never, ever become permanently lost in a universe where everythign around you—from beating atoms, to a rising sun, to changing seasons, to the march of evolution, to the decay of carbon-14, to your growling stomach, to your aging body, to a gazillion ticking clocks—testify to you that time is real.

Vertical time is your absolute out in any universe where you experience time. You can simply stand up and say, “I’m done with this.” Just like you can at a movie. Or a football game. Or when you’re playing a video game. 

At any point in those activities, and their drama-creating clocks, you can simply stand up vertically and leave. That’s why I like to call vertical time stand-up time as well. And after you get experienced with quantum forgiveness, as Gary Renard calls it—forgiving without exception—then you’ll see that vertical time is also forgiveness time, because forgiveness scales your perception above and beyond your current level of reality the most quickly. Forgive and you will see this situation differently, A Course in Miracles teaches. I have found that to be true over and over again; it literally scales out, or zooms back, your perception above and beyond the drama-induced, time dependent game the ego loves you play with you.

Forgiveness is Ego Spray; it keeps the little pest away.

Eventually, you will tell your friend sitting next to you in this theater of the absurd called spacetime, “This is lame, let’s go get a bite to eat at God’s banquet in Heaven.” And you both will stand up vertically, leave and go do something more worthy of a child of God.

Interestingly, physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a strong dream symbol that he explored with Carl Jung. The symbol consisted of two clocks; one running horizontally and one running vertically, just like we described as horizontal and vertical time here. See David Lindorff’s Pauli and Jung, The meeting of two great minds for more information.

Also, Arthur Young (in his book The Reflexive Universe), notes that when we step into imaginary time (what I call vertical time) we leave our big, expanded relativisitic lives and head into the realm of quantum mechanics—an interesting point we will examine in our next couple of posts.

A master of space and time like Jesus knew about vertical time. He could drop out of the time clock we consider real—our unfolding “horizontal” life line—and enter vertical time at will. Since this time runs perpendicular to our everyday horizontally unfolding sense of time, he could spend all the time in the world in this veritcal realm and not lose a second of earth time.

And in our own lives we can observe ourselves moving in and out of the experience of time. We’ve explored at length that togetherness helps us overcome the experience of time. When we are together with great friends at a party, the experience of time slips away. At the end of the night we say, “Where has the time gone?” Not wanting to be together with the dentist’s drill, or a boring school class makes time slow to a crawl.

See Stephen King’s Insomnia for an exploration of the concept of vertical time. Remember, we also call it stand-up time, because you can just stand up vertically and say, “I’ve had enough!” at any time you want. Also forgiveness time. A vital tool in the mind of a master of spacetime.

Tool #3  Handle off the Fridge

This tool is closely associated with #1 Absolute Confidence, and #2 Vertical Time. And it simply this. God, your eternal Father, has a responsibility to his eternal children. And that is, no matter how free they are to explore universe after universe of imagination—a freedom He gave them— they must have absolute confidence that no matter how complex that universe gets in its structure, they will never become eternally trapped in it.

This is what I call “taking the handle off the fridge.” When I was a kid you’d hear news stories every once in a while about kids that decided to play in old, discarded refrigerators. They would shut the door behind them, and, because there was no internal opening mechanism, they would suffocate and die.

In earlier posts we explored the C.S. Lewis idea that the gates of hell are held shut on the inside by one voluntarily choosing to be there. And we’ve said a formless God doesn’t build gates or walls of any kind. So hell is created in the imagination of a child of God and the door to hell is being mentally and voluntarily held shut by that child.

But the real you, safely preserved in your right mind, wholly agrees with God on this one—you really, really don’t want to become trapped inside a universe of fantasy. Would you like to endure torture forever?

How could you enter into a fantasy for exploration knowing you really could become lost in that fantasy forever? What if it got away from you?

What if you imagined people dropping nuclear bombs on sleeping civilians? Or napalm that would light children on fire? Or bombs that kill people but leave buildings intact? Or an Ebola virus that literally causes people to bleed to death out every orifice of their bodies?

What if your imaginary universe had 16,000 children under the age of five dying every day from the effects of malnutrition? 

You would want to know, that if your nightmare became that real to you, and its problems to seemingly hopeless to overcome—AIDS, global warming, poverty, cancer, tsunamis, earthquakes, genocide, religion-inspired war, ethic cleansing—that somewhere, somehow you could find the truth inside your own mind. The truth that the handle on the fridge really was been removed by God himself before you crawled in, and you can always kick the door open and say “Enough!” Even if spacetime itself has wired your perception to hide that instantaeous salvation from you. It will delay it. It will offset it. It will use tricks like negative time, which we’ll explore.  

My brothers and sisters, this fantasy ended immediately after you experienced the slightest bit of fear. You were like a child tossed into the air above his his Father’s head; a Father who never let go (see the famous “Footsteps” metaphor in modern Christian literature), but simply lightened His grip on your awareness. You asked God to do it; like a child begging to be thrown into the air because she thinks it’s great fun.

You experienced a spiit second of terror and in that moment literally blew out an entire universe of suffering—actually multiple universes—populated with as many characters, roles and fantasies of suffering as there are grains of sand on a beach. But, in reality, you were back in your Father’s embrace before you knew it. Just like that little angle tossed into the sky. Over in a split second.

Yet not every aspect of the Transtemporal mind you created has realized that the moment of terror is actually over. Like troops fighting in the woods not hearing from the top brass that the conflict is done and peace has been declared. Your ego’s job, as it sees it, is to keep you identifying with the soldiers in the woods and not with the top brass—the resurrected Christ in you.

You are like a person at a cemetery, endlessly watching a video replay of your own imagined death over and over and over again. You write different scripts for this drama, called universes, produce endless video segments you call “your life” but it always ends the same way, doesn’t it? You die. You need to let that fantasy go. The accident happened a long, long time ago. Stop gawking at the scene. It’s over.

Nothing to see here folks but replayed memories of suffering long-since healed.

As humans remove the handles off of discarded refrigerators to prevent children from suffocating, so too, God took the handle off the fridge of spacetime. You cannot suffocate your true Self using your small, ego-driven self. No matter how good it is at math. Or making bombs. Or unified field theories.

Somewhere in the dark recesses of every human being’s mind—whether they realize it in this life or the next—is that spark of Divinity that is your true Self.  When discovered and identified with as your true Self has the power to overcome every effect of spacetime.

You will discover the absolute confidence to use vertical time to experience for yourself that God indeed took the handle off the discarded fridge of spacetime. And that you truly are free to kick the door to spacetime open yourself, leap out, and standing up vertically, shout “Screw this! I’ve had enough!”

It’s your story, Harry Potter. It ends when you want it to end.

Tool #4 Your True Self at Every Point 

The muslim mystics tells us God is closer to us than our own jugular veins. In Question #1 we said that the distance from an island mirage to the ocean was zero distance. Tool #4 reflects these truths: No matter what point you imagine yourself to be in your game, no matter how complex, multi-dimensional, or ornate your fantasy is, loaded with sense objects (to use a Buddhist terms), drama, emotion, game clocks or reincarnated lives, you can always find your real Self right where you are.

Even if you deny this Self to the ends of the earth, still there it is right with you. You can ignore it; you just can’t lose it. No matter how far you try to project it away from yourself mentally, there it is right with you.

In time and space we will observe over and over again, the lower mind, or egoic mind, attempts to cover up this immutable law of your mind with all kinds of constructions. It will literally try every trick it can to hide your real Self from the little self you’re currently pretending to be.

Yet your real Self will appear again and again as a “gap” in the structures of spacetime.

Einstein’s relativity and quantum mechanics are both right, but they don’t fit together. There’s a gap. What is that gap? My friend, it’s not a mathematical puzzle to be solved by mega-complicated, eleven-dimensional math, that gap is you! It is your higher self, your right mind, waving and saying, “Hi, remember me?”

The solution to the unified field theory is that you eventually discover it is your conscious choice, your free will, to decide whether to observe spacetime as interconnected geometry (relativity) or as standalone point (quantum mechanics). The same choice humans have been making for tens of thousands of years every night. It’s called star-gazing. The choice to view those tiny white dots in the sky as unified constellations (like relativity) or individual stars (like quantum mechanics). Assigning fantasies to our capacity to flip our perception from part to whole (naming constellations), Bradley Schaefer explores in Scientific American, may be the oldest invention on earth.

Because that same process is now dressed up in fancy eleven-dimensional mathematics and called string theory doesn’t change it a bit. You will see that Tool #4 is continuously popping up in spacetime, like rays of sun breaking through the clouds. Your ego will try to throw a blanket over your emerging sense of Self with whatever it can. Mathematical theories. Evolution hiding the moment of now. Obsession with the past, worrying about the future. Eckhart Tolle describes numerous techniques for avoiding the ego’s time-based blanket tossed over your true Self in his books The Power of Now and The New Earth.)

All of these “gaps” are evidence of your higher self breaking through to meet your little self: Leaky dimensions proposed by string theory. The strong force, weak force and electromagnetic force coming close but not quite touching (see Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe). An infinitely small singularity at the center of a toroidal universe (the Einstein-Eddington universe—see Arthur Young’s The Reflexive Universe). Perfect coherence in holographically projected zero point energy animating a multi-dimensional spacetime (see Harold “Hal” Puthoff’s zero-point energy theories). A universe pre-wired to come alive at a certain point in the future (see James Gardner’s Biocosm.) Olfaction being directly wired into your brain (see Sam Harris’ The End of Faith).

All of these my brothers and sisters in science, are evidence helping you to find your true Self. Gentle, sacred invitations to awaken to your true Self in your dream. So gentle. So unforced. The flawlessly gentle invitation of the Holy Spirit inviting you to come home. A choice you must make on your own. God will never, ever force your return to Heaven.

Every one of those scientific principles I listed are sacred invitations to wake up that I call the Belly Button Effect. In spacetime you are like a child who has a belly button but has no idea how or why it got there. Your belly button doesn’t frighten you. You’re at peace with it. These sacred invitations to discover your true Self are like an invitation to discover what your belly button is, how it got there and what it was for. It was your connection to your mother; to life itself. A metaphor for the immutable law of Heaven that no child of God will ever be able to sever his or her connection to God, or to their true reality.

You are guaranteed to return to Heaven; not by “force,” which is your ego’s fantasy, but by love.

Why? For a couple reasons. One, you never left Heaven, that’s where you really are right now. Two, the first step into your fantasy was the absolute confidence you can overcome it. Absolute confidence means, that no matter how far down you have slipped into the fantasy of spacetime, no matter how attached you become to matter and your body, no matter how many times you split your mind, or try to throw away your Divine power and play small, the first step in your mind was one of absolute confidence that you can overcome it all. “We shall overcome,” Martin Luther King Jr. said.

A confidence that can never, ever be taken away from you.

Look at the life of Jesus. If there is a better model of absolute confidence I haven’t found one. He says if he doesn’t say who he really is the rocks will literally shout it out. He never hedges or waffles on Who God is either. His connection to God is absolute—”I and the Father are one,” he says. Regarding questions about God, He never says “I don’t know” or “I’m not sure” or “I’ll get back to you on that.” He is a living, breathing model of the Four Tools of the Right Mind.

The real you wants to go home, the little you, not so much

So when I say “you” absolutely will return to Heaven, I am talking to a ridiculously tiny, self-created, ego-encircled, mind-slice trying to fight against the absolute confidence in your own mind! You are so far downstream from your theatre-seat mind right now, after so many mind-splits you can’t even count them, so wrapped up in the movie of spacetime, that you have created this character called the “ego” who flies around on the multi-dimensional screen of spacetime in a wildly, furiously angry panic that at any minute your higher self (right mind) is going to exercise its God-given right to absolute confidence, and vertical time, and simply stand up and walk out of spacetime mentally—and Spiritually.

And in that instant the ego will be destroyed. Not because God kills, or you kill, but because you choose to wake up to your true reality. You don’t “kill” the contents of a dream when you wake up because they were never alive to begin with. The idea of death, as we’ve explored extensively in this blog, remains interior to the fantasy; God has absolutely no idea what death is. None. The only reason you have to “kill” the contents of your dream in order to wake up, is because you invented the idea of killing inside that dream.

Just like a little boy refusing to give up a game of pirate ship because he believes he will have to make all his imaginary friends walk the plank. The ego will use this device on you as a last resort. Once it sees you going for the escape hatch to hell, it will literally try to convince you that you will cause everyone you know to suffer and die if you do. It’s last desperate gambit (see the Hindu Vedas for an exploration of the idea.)

Yet your “small life” must meet your theater-set life; you have ordained it, right along with God Himself. In Heaven your will is one. You no more want to suffer forever than God does. Life must meet life. That’s what James Gardner’s Biocosm is really all about. This is what Omega point theory is really all about. This is what Jesus saying if the disciples kept quiet about his true identity, the stones would shout out the truth about him means (see Luke 19:28-40). It means that God (with your enthusiastic support) has ordained that life cannot be denied forever. If it could be denied forever, then you truly could be lost in hell forever. God will simply not allow that to happen—nor will your higher self. The Holy Spirit, as we call it in Christian tradition.

This universe must come alive, my sacred brothers and sisters.

The ego is like a fearful thought trying to convince a finger (your body) attached to a hand (the earth) attached to an arm (spacetime) controlled by a mind (the Transtemporal mind) split off from its true Self (your Spirit) that the finger is all there is. Regarding your return to Heaven, the ego would have you wholly identify with your finger and try to convince you that something “upstream”—your hand, your arm, your mind, your spirit—is trying to “force” you to throw it all away. Only the ego could confuse salvation with force. For love never forces anything. The Holy Spirit heals only with love.

To use (yet) another metaphor, it’s like you have identified yourself as your toe in that move theater, and the rest of your body wants to go get some popcorn in Heaven. But your toe wants to stay right where it is; in the Sticky Theater Floor from Hell we call spacetime.

Your ego is the Toe Ring from Hell (aka the Ring of Gyges, Tolien’s One Ring to Bind them All in The Lord of the Rings, Ellie’s mathematical ring of freedom at the end of Contact, the unified field theory…).  It is desperately, furiously trying to cut off circulation from the rest of your body so you can’t ever recieve the “kill signal”; that one ultimate communication from your own mind that says you’ve had enough and the fantasy is over. It’s time to go home.

That thought will be “Hey, I’m not an indvidual toe! My true Self is a unified Self in complete union with my brothers and sisters. I’m not alone in this theater and never was. I never killed anyone. I am life, and have not become the maker of death. The “I’ I thought “I” was, is actually part and whole inseparably unifed as one. E pluribus unum. We are unified children of God and we’re outta here!”

You “left” Heaven in a state of unified awareness, and you shall “return” in the same way. A journey without distance, as Robert Skutch says in his book of the same name.

Sorry Toedude, aka Duckman, but a child of God’s mind has ultimate authority over spacetime, and has the absolute confidence to end the show at any time. Identify with the ego and you will fear what your own mind wants—and has absolute confidence and authority to get.

Your higher self will be gentle—radically, peacefully so, with your frightened toe-self—it’s not going to pull the carpet out from underneath “you.” It will heal every aspect of your shattered mind gently and sacredly, no matter how many universes they span. Will your toe-self be forced back into Heaven? My brother in Christ, only your toe-self believes in such an idea as force. Your higher self, or right mind, knows there is only love. Force is the ego’s perceptual interpretation—it’s inversion—of love. Only a really disorientated victim trapped in suffering far too long would consider the love of salvation “forcing.”

Again, I encourage all to read Hampton Sides’ Ghost Soldiers. See how the allied prisoners of Cabanatuan felt like the liberating Army Rangers were “forcing them” to become free. The Army Rangers literally had to give some of them a kick in the ass! The prisoners had completely confused salvation with force.

See how, after it was done, the prisoners couldn’t have been more glad those Army Rangers came for them. It is possible for the transtemporal mind to become so hopelessly trapped in bondage that it literally fights the own liberating elements within itself. In your own mind right now, you believe you are a prisoner of Cabanatuan, the guards doing the torturing and the liberating Army Rangers. (Google Raid at Cabanatuan to get the gist of the story.)

Who will you identify with? Jesus chose to identify with the Holy Spirit and thus literally became the saving aspect of our collective mind. He realized at that ultimate level of salvation, there is no such thing as violent liberation. In the end, only love frees.

Violence is part of the fantasy; it is Under the Bed as we have explored in this blog. And as Einstein said, you can’t solve one problem at the same level of thinking that created it. Love heals violence; violence doesn’t heal violence. A lesson Gandhi demonstrated throughout his life.

You are really messed up! So have a good laugh about it. Watch some Mystery Science Theater and laugh yourself silly about this lame sci-fi flick we call spacetime! Go ahead, poke fun at it. It will make you feel better. It important to let off steam and stress as you awaken spiritually. Laughter is the best medicine, as Reader’s Digest notes. Joy keeps the monsters out. See for yourself in M. Night Shyamalan’s movie Signs. 

Do you see now why Einstein understood that the secret to escaping this optical delusion of a prison is to lose that confining, toe-like sense of self you call “I”; bound by your ego to a separate body on a separate planet in a separate galaxy in a separate universe separate from God?

Together, these Four Tools of the Right Mind form a deep, radiant truth within you that you can overcome the effects of space and time once and for all. They are, to use spiritual language, four characteristics of the Holy Spirit. Will you choose to wholly self-identify with them as Jesus did? To literally become them?

They are God’s safety plan for His eternal children in any universe of thought they can imagine.

God put those capabilities in your mind; you absolutely cannot remove them, nor can you forever blind yourself to them. You may live a thousand lifetimes—even a million—but you will eventually wake up to these truths in your right mind. Jesus did, and manifested them perfectly so we could observe and eventually wake up to these traits in ourselves. “Greater things than these shall you do,” Jesus said. He knew we had the four capabilities of the Holy Spirit in our right mind; a safety feature God put in there and we absolutely cannot lose.