It's a Cult!
Will the real Jim Jones please stand up?
Steve Kirsch has been a brave warrior in the trenches of Covid mania, and he has experienced first hand repeatedly how a cult works by the censorship he has been subjected to. The question is, when will we ever learn? Australia has now attempted a fake inquiry into the Covid period, and it is interesting to see how the sacred cows are being protected.
First, Steve Kirsch gave expression to his experience that AI is typically acting as an invisible fence around the prevailing paradigm. So all of our shared reality as a society is politicized in the extreme, for the people in power to retain that power by controlling the narrative. But, reflecting on my recent musings on how we give away our power, we always have to remain aware of how it takes two to tango. The ego system at its base is a dualistic system. Within the Oneness of Eternity, the “tiny, mad idea” of separation seems to arise, which still would not be a problem except we entertained it seriously, and that is the moment when we gave our power away. This notion is of the essence in understanding what Jesus teaches in modern form through A Course in Miracles, namely that the Miracle, and ultimately Salvation, is nothing but a change of mind. Jesus always teaches that, even though it became covered over by the development of Christianity, but even in the New Testament Gospels, the word he uses is metanoia, change of mind, which is very different from the notion of repentance that was developed by the apostles, and later followers, starting with the dominant influence of Peter and Paul.
Controlling the narrative is the ego’s fundamental idea, for it chooses its own reality, and since it is not the truth. So censorship is the ego’s game. With the separation we see ourselves as separate individual identities and we think of the whole world the same way. It is a house of mirrors, full of distorted reflections of that first distortion, which was the idea of the separation itself. The ego cries out that I am not as God created me, and I am going to prove it to you. It produces a continuous string of witnesses to its own reality. All of our relationships serve no other purpose but that. Eventually then, because the separation was our choice, Enlightenment would be a simple thing, very simple indeed:
Why wait for Heaven? ²Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. ³The light is in them now. ⁴Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. ⁵Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. ⁶The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. ⁷It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. ⁸It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home. (ACIM, W-188.1:1-8)
Since we made the choice, and only because it was our choice, we are able to make another choice, we are able to choose metanoia, a change of mind.
The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself. ²No matter what the form of the attack, this still is true. ³Whoever takes the role of enemy and of attacker, still is this the truth. ⁴Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true. ⁵For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. ⁶Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize it is your dream. (ACIM, T-27.VIII.10:1-6)
In short, if we gave our power away, we can also take it back. And we take our power back when we choose the second place to gain the first (c.f. ACIM, W-328) , i.e. when we tune our receiver to the Holy Spirit (aka The Voice for God) instead of the Ego, for it is the very separation thought by which we trade in everything for something we think we can call our own, my mind, instead of the Mind, which is One.
The ego system self-replicates as if to prove its point and it manifests as just a series of Russian dolls and every instance of it is a repeat of the original error. So as you encounter these errors, you can either fight them or forgive them. It is always the same choice. If you fight the error, you are making it real, but you end up making yourself right instead of being at peace. If you step back from the issue, and instead of stepping into a role on the stage with your sword, you sit with Jesus in the balcony of the theater, and watch the scene unfold, and you forgive everyone for what they have not done, namely affecting your mood, and stealing the Peace of God from you. Taking offense is an option, which condemns you to being the bouncing ball that is bouncing around among all the bastard who surround you. Forgiving is the other option that restores your peace, it is the decision not to take offense, which you can only do with the help of the Holy Spirit to see the situation differently, and to change your mind about it.
Down the path of forgiveness at some point the mirror system of the ego’s house of mirrors will become evident to you, namely that you always accuse your brother of something you are doing in yourself, but which you do not want to see in yourself, but which you only recognize because you are doing it yourself, except in a different form.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? (Bible:KJV, MT 7:3)
In short, you start recognizing the mechanics of the ego thought system, and as you practice more and more, your experience will deepen, for behind the censorship is the fear of being wrong, and the ego is a lie from the outset, and it does everything it can to never have to admit that it is wrong in even one instant. Eventually then, the whole system of lies rolls up into nothing.
Leave, then, the transfer of your learning to the One Who really understands its laws, and Who will guarantee that they remain unviolated and unlimited. ²Your part is merely to apply what He has taught you to yourself, and He will do the rest. ³And it is thus the power of your learning will be proved to you by all the many different witnesses it finds. ⁴Your brother first among them will be seen, but thousands stand behind him, and beyond each one of them there are a thousand more. ⁵Each one may seem to have a problem that is different from the rest. ⁶Yet they are solved together. ⁷And their common answer shows the questions could not have been separate. (ACIM, T-27.V.10:1-7)
The hard part comes when it is your job in the world to exercise judgment. Even then you can recognize that it is possible to judge in worldly terms with vengeance in your heart or with a loving intent. A loving intent would mean acting for the greater good of all concerned. Taking away the firearms from a mass murderer is a loving idea - he cannot go on hurting himself or others.
In short, the people who stood up and told us masks were effective and the vaccines were safe and effective, were inmates in the same asylum as us. They were defending their own fear of contagion, even though contagion is but a hypothesis, and not a fact. In this process it becomes clear that the Covid protocols were fundamentally an answer to a hypothetical problem, which however introduced real risk, real damage. The resulting mass psychosis was a completely irrational defense against a hypothetical problem, that became real as a direct result of our fighting it. All the way around better nutrition and lifestyle would do more to reduce risk than a hypothetical vaccine even if it would have NO side effects.
In short, this is a cult, fighting a hypothetical problem, and in the process harming millions. That is almost the definition of a cult, and there were thousands of Jim Joneses stating the vaccines were safe and effective, even while Pfizer was busy trying to hide the information. In the end then, the whole process is about recognizing that we are fighting windmills, for behind the seeming certainty about vaccination is nothing but fear. The forgiveness process first forgives these issues one by one, but ultimately all the dominoes fall, when our forgiveness is complete as we realize that all the evil censors are nothing but scared people who are trying to maintain their sanity in an insane world, and we ourselves are trying to do the same, but in the end we no longer buy the lies of the ego, and that is the exit from the matrix.
Like every other tool mankind has ever invented, AI can be and is being abused. What else is new. The fundamental mistake is that Truth is not a materialistic, reductionist phenomenon, and on the other hand nothing in the material universe is true, for it is all relative. Thus AI may be a useful tool at times, but it will keep us within the matrix, it merely automates the lie. The way it is being glorified at the moment, it is clearly a cult, and a fairly dangerous one at that. It is a suicidal pact to drink Jim Jones’s coolaid, by giving us seemingly limitless power within a paradigm that is itself a limit on truth and therefore a lie. If you want to know and understand what relative truth is all about, you can experiment with the Internet Court of Truth, by Robert Thibadeau, it is a modern high-speed way of experiencing the outlook of sophistry, in which, as individuals, truth is different for everyone except for partial overlaps, which are in the nature of perception.
We have been emphasizing perception, and have said very little about knowledge as yet. ²This is because perception must be straightened out before you can know anything. ³To know is to be certain. ⁴Uncertainty means that you do not know. ⁵Knowledge is power because it is certain, and certainty is strength. ⁶Perception is temporary. ⁷As an attribute of the belief in space and time, it is subject to either fear or love. ⁸Misperceptions produce fear and true perceptions foster love, but neither brings certainty because all perception varies. ⁹That is why it is not knowledge. ¹⁰True perception is the basis for knowledge, but knowing is the affirmation of truth and beyond all perceptions. (ACIM, T-3.III.1:1-10)
Knowledge, as A Course in Miracles would look at it, and which was once known as gnosis, is a name for the instant Knowledge that is limitless, eternal, and infinite, for it is the realm of spirit and entirely outside of time and space. It is all encompassing, whereas in the world of time and space, the best we can conceive of as infinity is and endlessly large number, but there is always a larger number by adding one, but it loses all meaning for the reductionist, materialistic mind cannot understand or deal with such categories.
Within our world of time and space, obviously our use of AI in various forms can be helpful, in my book especially as pure machine learning where large data collections are made useful by accelerated, incremental learning. However we can also see the limits. The conversation around Tesla’s “full self-driving” technology is a case in point, and after years of maintaining that their cars would be capable of doing it with software upgrades, recently Elon Musk admitted that based on the old hardware they never could. This is merely an example, of how, because of limitations on perception, as in this case the absence of Lidar from the hardware, a conformal mapping of the environment could never be a sufficiently close representation to be acceptably safe. FSD in any form would only make sense if it exceeded human capabilities. However, it behooves us to see that even with Lidar, any perceptual approach to conformal mapping remains an approximation, but there is a point where, with our increasing computational capabilities we maybe able to exceed human perception, within a given set of parameters. Those parameters are always a subset of reality, and they define the limits of perception. In the hands of informed, and discerning users it may be helpful, but if it is mistaken for intelligence, it is dangerous.
Right perception is necessary before God can communicate directly to His altars, which He established in His Sons. ²There He can communicate His certainty, and His knowledge will bring peace without question. ³God is not a stranger to His Sons, and His Sons are not strangers to each other. ⁴Knowledge preceded both perception and time, and will ultimately replace them. ⁵That is the real meaning of “Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,” and “Before Abraham was I am.” ⁶Perception can and must be stabilized, but knowledge is stable. ⁷“Fear God and keep His commandments” becomes “Know God and accept His certainty.” (ACIM, T-3.III.6:1-7)
In short, AI is potentially useful in the realm of perception, but perception is not truth. As long as we are living in this world, AI may seem helpful, but not if it is mistaken for reality, for then it becomes a cult, a cult within a cult, within a cult, which is the psychosis we all share of being separated individuals, but all still within the matrix of the separation, which is not real in the first place, and the current AI mania is absolutely a cult, and nothing more, just another cult. Anytime we mistake AI for reality, we are going to go down in flames, in the style of LTCM (Long Term Capital Markets). Their drama amounted to exactly this, a sophisticated computer model that at one point was a serviceable approach to a conformal map of the economic landscape and then there was a fault line that formed in the actual landscape and they continued to work with a map that was no longer up to date. As we get deeper into AI, these types accidents will increase, and they will out the limits of our perception, and the false assumptions we make all the time. AI is like Tesla’s FSD for the mind: limited to the perceptions which it is able to process, and blind to anything outside that pre-programmed field of vision. If the underlying assumptions and the perceptive capabilities are too limited, it will increase risk, not decrease it.
If you want to know more about the ego-matrix in your own life, and the way in and out of it, this podcast with Grace Avalon, author of the book Thank God I am Crazy, My Journey to Sanity, may be helpful to you. The thing to do with the person or system that is lying to you, and selling your a truth that is itself of necessity a lie, is not to attack them, but to forgive them by recognizing that the insanity you see in them merely mirrors your own insanity, and is thus a God-given opportunity to let go of a piece of your insanity, and to assume the return journey, the Odyssee, which is a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed, for only Truth is true, and everything else is a lie.
I share with God the knowledge of the value He puts upon you. ²My devotion to you is of Him, being born of my knowledge of myself and Him. ³We cannot be separated. ⁴Whom God has joined cannot be separated, and God has joined all His Sons with Himself. ⁵Can you be separated from your life and your being? ⁶The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever. ⁷It is a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed. ⁸Truth can only be experienced. ⁹It cannot be described and it cannot be explained. ¹⁰I can make you aware of the conditions of truth, but the experience is of God. ¹¹Together we can meet its conditions, but truth will dawn upon you of itself. (ACIM, T-8.VI.9:1-11)