I’m about to do a little marketing of this site and they were asking me for a keyword to describe what this site is about. Now, all of my other sites are both informational and marketing sites. Some sell me and my services as a clinical hypnotherapist and coach or different products.
This is a vanity site. I write about things I like to write about. You could say this is a hobby site – the sit is about my hobby of writing this site – a strange self reference.
Anyway the keyword I came up with is quantum psycho-philosophy. I thought I better write what it is. It is the combination of modern physics especially quantum mechanics and the implications of EPR-Bell (Einstein Podenki Rosen thought experiment as developed by Bell so it could be actually tested) on consciousness and philosophy.
Or on the other hand or is it foot or ear or eye – we are more or less symmetrical as far as left right symmetry is concerned.
And yet the heart (the seat of the soul symbolically according to mystics and language) is slightly to left of center (politically the right side of history) and thus associated to the right brain. So the symmetry is broken the same way that in quantum mechanics as the universe cooled down various symmetries broke.
So quantum psycho-philosophy is whatever this site is about – another self reference.
Talking about self reference – I remember reading a supposedly scientific paper many years ago about intelligence. It started to say, “We will define intelligence as that which the IQ test measures,” and then continued as though IQ measures a really important characteristic. As someone who has extreme high IQ but not so much street smarts I can assure you many idiots have high IQs and are not that successful.
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You have heard of OBE (out of body experience) now discover Out of time experience (OTE).
Unless we are having a mystical experience we are never one hundred percent present (living in the present moment). We are always living in the past or the future. Depending on our mood we may be nostalgic and reminiscing good times past and dreaming of the good coming times in the future.
Or if we feel bad we could be remembering all the bad times, failures, rejections, betrayals and so on and dreading the same type of events in the future.
The fact is that the only time which actually exists is the present eternal moment. All other times are illusions. The past is never the way we remember it. Remember we were never there. We were not present then. We were having and OTE (out of time experience) even then either living in the past or the future.
So our memories are in themselves distortions (we never remember one hundred percent correctly – we distort, delete and generalize) of distortions. We see the past and future through the distorted lens of today (but not this moment as we are in an OTE).
So it is OTEs within OTEs within OTEs. No wonder we live in the Plato’s cave where the illusory shadows and echoes pass for reality.
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As I was writing the above sentence I remembered that the word illusion comes from the Latin root of Ludere which means to play. This is the same idea as maya in Sanskrit which also means to play. It is those shadows on the wall.
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Typically if I see a spider in the house I’ll do my best to save it by getting hold of it in a tissue paper and put it outside where it can live freely.
A couple of nights ago I saw a spider in a bath tub that I do not use. I was in a hurry and forgot all about saving the spider. Yesterday I walked in that bathroom again and saw the spider in the bath tub but I suppose since its presence was no longer novel I did not notice it.
Note I did see it – in retrospect I remember going to that bathroom and seeing the black spider in the tub, but it did not register into my consciousness.
We see and sense much more than we perceive and become conscious of. Most of what we sense we are not aware of – they become subliminal messages which pass us by.
However, thank God (at least the spider God) this morning I went into the same bathroom and at last I did notice the spider. So I took a tissue paper and manged to gently pick it up (it’s not easy for me as I’m a little afraid of this type of spider) without crushing it and take it outside and allow it to live in peace without bothering me or me bothering it.
I’m wondering how many opportunities (yes saving a beings life is an opportunity for me – I’m not judging others and see nothing wrong if someone else is more afraid of spiders and crushes them – it’s just that if possible I prefer to let the spider live) we let go of because we don’t notice – because we are not aware or conscious enough.
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You may know that I’m currently going through “A Course in Miracles” workbook. I started on November first and am going through the sixteenth day today.
This afternoon I ended up walking in Dana Point harbor through a series of unforeseen events. I was going to the library and was going to go for a walk to celebrate reaching a minor goal. However, I remembered to go to my dentists office to find out the hour of my changed appointment tomorrow.
Since I was next to the post office I decided to drive there to drop off some Netflix DVDs and then I was next to the harbor and I thought I might as well go for a walk there rather than in a park I was going to walk in.
It was a wonderful walk and I was really enjoying the celebration of reaching a small goal.
Then it happened. I had this minor miracle.
There was this gentleman who was balancing rocks on top of each other – unfortunately I did not have my camera with me. I’ll see if any are left tomorrow when I go to my dentist and take photos.
He had made an ephemeral sculpture garden (the wind will make all the finely balanced stone fall – but for a moment he had produced a fantastic beautiful work of art).
I did not wish to disturb him and continued walking. There was a beautiful long necked sea bird (something akin to a sea crane) further on.
Then I returned and the artist was in a place that I could talk to him. I thanked him for his wonderful work and let him know how much I appreciated his work. We talked for five to ten minutes and it ended up that we know each other from the gym. Then it was time top move on. I wished him a wonderful evening and he wished me a balanced evening.
Find your miracles wherever they are
Appreciate life!
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There is a case to be made that we do most things we do thanks to force of habit and we only imagine we are in control. There are good cognitive science experiments showing that our conscious willing is at least at times and perhaps always illusory.
Even if our will power may be very limited it is something that we can strengthen through exercise.
One of my teachers Stuart Wilde
writes about doing something innocuous and yet not easy to improve one’s will power. He mentions that he would move twelve heavy stones each day from one part of his garden to another. This was to demonstrate to his weaker parts of the personality who is in charge – to improve his will power.
A thought that comes up is that the next time you “have to” do something you don’t like, do it as a practice to improve your will power. Thus someone asks you to wash the dishes (perhaps it is you who asks) think gladly. Do it the best way you have ever done. Wash the dishes lovingly, knowing that you are exercising your will power and strengthening it.
I mentioned “have to” in quotation markes because in truth you do not have to do anything. There are some automatic bodily functions which will happen by themselves in time (like breathing) but there is nothing else that you have to do. The sooner you understand that and do anything you do because you decided that it is the best compromise the better off you are. i’ll be writing about “have to” vs. “want to” later on.
The Trick to Money Is Having Some by Stuart Wilde
Also by Wilde: Grace, Gaia, and the End of Days: An Alternative Way for the Advanced Soul
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When I was a software engineeer we had a saying: “The first ninty percent of a job takes the first ninty percent of the time and the next five percent takes the next ninty percent of the time…”
Of course the implication was that the last five percent was more or less never done.
When managing any project it is very important to understand when something is good enough. I found thed best way to do engineering projects is to do it in whatever way gets something working and slowly improve the project through stepwise evolution.
One of my favorite projects was when I programmed fifty transitions (dissolves and so on) for a non-linear video editing machine.
The original prototype code I was given to demonstrate the hardware capabilities was thirty kilobytes and was a simple dissolve.
My first version of the code did eight transitions. This allowed me to understand how the hardware worked. I next improved the software by evolving it to add more features.
The software was basically composed of a table driven graphics engine and a small table for each transition. Each time I would improve the software by making the engine better. Of course this wouls increase the parameters in the tables and I would just add the new parameters for the old transitions. In fact the way the engine developed was that the old tables would just end up with nulls (zeros added) for parameters needed for newer more complex transitions.
The final product ended with fifty transitions and took just slightly less than fifty kilobytes.
As I’m writing this I remember that one could say that anything done really creatively is channeled. That is to say one is most creative when one allows one’s unconscious mind take over and do the task. That’s how the above prject went. It was so easy.
I simply got out of the way and allowed the software to write itself like a beautiful painting.
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Back to the last five percent. A project can never be done one hundred percent. The nearer a project hets to total completion (whatever that may mean – say fewer bugs discovered per year) the more difficult to get rid of other problems. That last five percent ends up costing many times more than the first ninety five percent which typically is plenty good enough.
In good project management it is important to know when good is good enough.
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I have recently started going through “A Course in Miracles” workbook for the Nth time.
“A Course in Miracles” is a channeled book. It’s supposed author is Jesus Christ written through a psychologist who was agnostic and from a Jewish background.
So what are we to make of channeling?
Channeling is when the writer’s conscious mind is not the author of the piece. To a certain extent every piece of good writing is channeled. I know when I’m writing fiction I get out of the way and once I give life to the characters they take over and I’m just the typist.
The same is true when I’m doing hypnotherapy. I enter the trance with my client and allow my unconscious to lead me.
The Greeks had a great idea when they talked about the Genius of a person (Daemonium). This was to a certain extent part of the person (actually a more real part of the person than the persona – the role we play) but apart from the ego.
Your Genius surprises you and often the people who channel a work resist it at first. The lady who channeled “A Course in miracles,” was surprised and thought that she may have been going crazy. She contacted a colleague who later helped edit the work. The colleague told her that she was not going crazy and she should continue.
On the other hand there are times when people chanel entities at will and don’t mind doing it in public and making money from the channeling.
Are they truly channeling (that’s to say the thoughts do not come from their conscious mind) or are they faking it? I don’t know and I don’t really think it is important.
I think the real issue is the wrting or thoughts in themselves. As my teacher Stephan Hoeller said, “Just because you are dead or come from a different dimension does not make you wise.”
And unfortunately often supposed channeled works are not wise and are rehashing of new age thoughts. However, A Course in Miracle
stands on its own as a wonderful work of wisdom.
Good book by Stephan Hoeller: The Fool’s Pilgrimage, Second Edition: Kabbalistic Meditations on the Tarot
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After exercising in the gym I went to the sauna to rest and detoxify my body. A gentleman was talking very loud (exactly what I do not enjoy – especially in the sauna). To make matters worse he was a fundamentalist Christian (my spirituality is eclectic and is not too compatible with those which claim their tiny version of whatever is right and all others are wrong).
So, I started to judge my brother. I remembered that I was just reading a piece about a Buddhist loving kindness meditation. I had to laugh internally. Here I’m doing A Course in Miracles and practicing compassion and yet being harsh and judgmental to a fellow human being.
I remembered the final affirmation in the loving kindness meditation:
“May all beings be free of suffering. May all beings dwell in the heart of healing. May all beings be at peace.”
My heart softened, I stopped judging and let the natural love that exists in all human beings pour out. I sent out love and appreciated this person for the truth in his heart. I still disagree with his fundamentalism but could see beyond that and see the Self (the Christ, Buddha, or Love) within.
This really demonstrated that I become upset because I see something (the superficial in this case) that’s not there. And of course once you get beyond things that are not there and get to the inner truth your own life becomes so much easier. I had been slightly annoyed and not at peace when I was judging. Once I looked at the scene from love, I was relieved and happy.
A Course in Miracle
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I was walking this afternoon and I don’t remember how it was. I suddenly remembered the Buddha’s statement that “life is suffering.”
Unfortunately I was having too good a time from walking meditation so I got thinking about this idea that life is suffering. Of course it is – so what.
OK, I got to a totally different mind set (a Candide mind set – the universe is the best it can ever be). So as I was continuing walking I kept thinking that if it is so – the suffering – it must be perfect.
That’s the way I feel when I am in my deepest meditation. I imagine I could change the universe in anyway I want. I end up believing it totally.
I may be scared that it would not work _ it’s like “thou shall not testy thy lod thy God…”
However, the point is that in my imagination I’m the master of the universe (no not that one – the real one) and I can change anything in it. At these times (in deep, deep meditation) I do believe that I can rewrite all things in the universe.
And at these times I know the universe is perfect. The universe does not need any changing.
So back to the walk. I knew life was suffering and enjoyable – the universe is so damned perfect.
But then it might be that I have just started another session of going through “A Course in Miracle” workbook.
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I don’t know when I first developed Javad’s Law. It was after 1995 when Windows 95 was released. I noticed that each time computer hardware became more powerful (number of transistors in integrated circuits double about every two years) the software became more complex and thus the response time hardly improved over time. In fact as far as word processing is concerned (the number one use of computers) the response time never gets any faster. So that is basically Javad’s Law which states:
No matter how fast the hardware becomes software will get larger, more complex, more buggy to slow down the response time.
The above link gives you a better definition of Javad’s Law.
Now for something completely different – or is it for something completely the same:
More’s law only applies to classical computers. We do not know how things will work out once quantum computing becomes normal. We don’t even know exactly how quantum computers will be programed (other than for some simple applications – factoring two large numbers needed for breaking cryptography).
When and if quantum computers work and become common Moore’s law will become irrellivant as will Javad’s law. Chances are that by then user interface will be direct interface with the brain.
Chances are that we already have a working quantum computer and that is the whole shebang (the universe or more probably the multiverse). In fact we are (all matter) just programs running in this quantum computer. To put it two other ways:
- “We are such things as dreams are made of….”
- The universe is dreams in the mind of God (ultimate reality, infinite intelligence, or whatever makes sense to you).
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