INSTEAD OF THE PREVAILING MATERIALISTIC WORLDVIEW, THE AUTHOR USES IN HIS PATAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY A "CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED WORLDVIEW ", IN WHICH MATTER AS SUCH IS ILLUSORY. 'pATAPHYSICS IS THE "SCIENCE" OF IMAGINARY SOLUTIONS. iN HIS IMAGINATION, THE AUTHOR PENETRATES THE SPIRITUAL WORLD INTO ITS VERY KERNEL: A "sPIRITUAL sINGULARITY". hE APPLIES THE FOUND SPIRITUAL PHENOMENA IN THEIR PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION AS UNDERLYING AND CLARIFYING BACKGROUND FOR SEVERAL SCIENTIFIC PHYSICAL PHENOMENA. hE ALSO CONSIDERS NON-PHYSICAL ISSUES SUCH AS "FREE WILL", "THE MEANING OF HUMAN LIFE" AND "LIFE After Death". A series of relevant "synchronicities" seems to support the mainlines of his theory. The author comes to very extraordinary (and likely for the vast majority of PEOPLE unbelievable) conclusions about our PHYSICAL world, thAT IN THIS FORM HAVE NEVER BEEN REPORTED (AT LEAST TO THE AUTHOR'S KNOWLEDGE). tHE CONCERNING ESSAY "A PATAPHYSICAL VIEW ON ORIGIN AN EXISTENCE OF OUR PHYSICAL WORLD" / "AN ALTERNATIVE THEORY ON gOD AND WORLD, BASED ON PERSONAL IMAGINATION" CAN BE FOUND AT THIS LINK
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Interim CONCLUSIONS of essay in the making “Is our physical world a Soul-experienced virtual reality?”
◼ “All there is” (spiritual or physical, such as our immense universe) originates from an eternal, immutable, and infinitely compressed “Spiritual Singularity” (in our philosophy also indicated as “Heaven”) and fully(!) takes place in this Spiritual Singularity!
◼ The “Spiritual Singularity” can be imagined as a “point” of Consciousness with infinite density/intensity and infinite depth; in other words, a point of infinite Consciousness.
◼ All so-called “realities” are virtual(!), except for the “Spiritual Singularity”(including its content) which is the only real(!) Reality (therefore our previous statement that everything, but absolutely everything, takes place in this Spiritual Singularity!). Through its content, that is to say, the “AllSoul” (Infinite Consciousness), “AllSpirit” (All-Embracing Plan), “AllReality” and its inner Experiencer “God”, it indeed possesses the “ingredients” needed for the “realization” of the virtual spiritual Realities and virtual physical realities.
◼ The mentioned four Entities, that form the content of the “Spiritual Singularity”, are equal(!) but distinguishable in their meaning (this is crucial in our theory!). Since the “Spiritual Singularity” is real, eternal, and immutable, also the constituent Entities are each real, eternal, and immutable.
◼ As regards the relational meaning of the Entities in the “Spiritual Singularity”, the following applies here: the “AllSoul” experiences the “All-Embracing Plan” (AllSpirit) as “AllReality” (including its inner Experiencer “God”).
◼ In our theory, “God” is the inner Experiencer of but also equal to the “AllReality” in the “Spiritual Singularity”. In this respect, we see God as an extension of the God of Spinoza. Moreover, God reflects the Divine Trinity {AllSoul, AllSpirit, AllReality}, which represents essentially “all there is”.
◼ The “AllSpirit” (All-Embracing Plan) is the most fundamental of the four constituent Entities in the “Spiritual Singularity”. The All-Embracing Plan is an infinite set of spiritual relations: “top-down spiritual relations” (as regards the virtual spiritual(!) Reality) and an infinite set of corresponding "bottom-up spiritual relations” (as regards the virtual physical(!) reality). Thus, the entire virtual Reality consists of a virtual spiritual Reality and a virtual physical reality.
◼ Everything, be it spiritual or physical, is in deepest essence Spirit, and based on the aforementioned spiritual realities. Because of the equality of AllSoul, AllSpirit, AllReality, and God, they all are represented by the same set of spiritual relations with however distinguishable meanings.
◼ Rules and laws in the virtual physical(!) reality, such as physical laws and evolutionary laws, have their conceptual origin in the switching from top-down to corresponding bottom-up spiritual relations, in other words from spiritual to physical. The virtual spiritual(!) Reality is thought to be ruleless and lawless.
◼ Through an eternal (timeless) “process of Emanation”, the AllSoul diverges in infinitely many mutually integrated “aspects of Consciousness” (called “Souls”), with a trend of a continually decreasing level of Consciousness. The phrase “eternal process” might be confusing; in our philosophy, it reflects a “state of eternal immutable being”, which has always been and always will be, without beginning and without end.
◼ The Soul as an integrated aspect of the real, eternal, and immutable AllSoul, is of course also real, eternal, and immutable. The Soul’s eternal Experience represents a “state of eternal immutable being”, just like the “process of Emanation”.
◼ We define a Soul (a lower-order aspect of the “AllSoul”) as an Experience of a correlated Plan (a lower-order aspect of the “All-Embracing Plan”) as if(!) this Plan, consisting of top-down or bottom-up spiritual relations, is respectively spiritual Reality or physical reality (correlated lower-order aspects of the “AllReality”). So, the Soul is the Experience(!) behind a virtual(!) spiritual Reality and a virtual(!) physical reality; we speak of Soul-experienced virtual spiritual Reality and Soul-experienced virtual physical reality.
◼ Since the Entities “AllSoul”, “AllSpirit”, and “AllReality” are equal in the “Spiritual Singularity, their lower-order aspects are assumed to be correlated. For instance, as an illustrative example, the Soul experiences its correlated Plan as a correlated virtual physical reality; in other words, the Soul experiences its own dedicated Plan as its own dedicated virtual physical reality.
◼ We regard the Souls as the “neurons of a Divine Brain” in which, through an eternal (timeless) “process of Consciousness”, Consciousness is built up to Infinite Consciousness. Although the same “state of eternal immutable being”, the “process of Consciousness” is in its meaning the reverse of the “process of Emanation”.
◼ A threatening stagnation in the initial phase of the “process of Consciousness”, because of the Soul’s insufficient 4-dimensional Consciousness at this extremely low level of Consciousness, forces the Soul to move to a side road in the “process of Consciousness”. In the first instance, one could think that the Soul transits from the main road to the side road and later vice versa. However, because of the Soul’s eternity and immutability, the Soul is already and has always been on the side road; actually, it is on both the main and side road, for all eternity, without beginning and end.
◼ The eternal Soul’s Experience on the side road should enable an eternal avoidance of stagnation and an eternal gaining of a little (more) 4-dimensional Consciousness on the main road of the “process of Consciousness”. (The underlying mechanism for this is discussed in six points of conclusion further on in the text.) Essentially, this is why an eternal Soul-experienced virtual physical(!) reality (on the side road) exists in addition to the eternal Soul-experienced virtual spiritual(!) Reality (on the main road).
◼ Just like the Soul-experienced virtual spiritual(!) Reality, the Soul-experienced virtual physical(!) reality is as Experience a “state of eternal immutable being” (which suggests a state of full parallelism). For the virtual spiritual(!) Reality, this is comprehensible because of its fully parallel nature. However, for the virtual physical(!) reality, this might sound incomprehensible since in this case sequential dependencies are experienced in the Soul, which contradicts full parallelism. To gain a little bit of understanding about this mysterious phenomenon, we could refer to the old analog (parallel) computer, in which sequential dependencies in big composite algebraic relations are handled in parallel and practically simultaneously.
◼ Both the Soul-experienced virtual spiritual(!) Reality and the Soul-experienced virtual physical(!) reality encompass virtual Entities, that experience their virtual world and virtual themselves illusorily(!) as objectively real. (Compare this with our own “virtual me” in a human-made virtual reality, in case we close ourselves mentally completely off from our physical world and we are mentally fully absorbed in the virtual reality so that we experience this virtual world as real.)
◼ The Entities mentioned above (in their illusorily real shape!) are called respectively “spiritual Beings” and “human beings”. In truth, they are of course Soul-experienced virtual spiritual Beings and Soul-experienced virtual human beings. In our philosophy, the “spiritual Beings” and “human beings” are in deepest essence “aspects” of the real God as Experiencer of the real AllReality in the “Spiritual Singularity”!
◼ With a view to the illusory real human beings, we speak of a human-experienced physical reality, that we humans illusorily(!) experience as objectively real. This is the physical world in which we humans feel to be born, to live (with joy and sadness), to think, to have our emotions, and to die. Perhaps redundantly, we emphasize again that this human-experienced physical reality is essentially based on and inseparably linked with the Soul-experienced virtual(!) physical reality. (Note: we make a clear distinction between “virtual“ and “illusory”, which should be comprehensible from their context.)
◼ The human-experienced physical reality is an illusion. It is not materialistic and not based on matter (as we humans think it is), but based on Soul Consciousness (Experience) and at a still deeper level on Divine Spirit! We emphasize here that this “Soul Consciousness” doesn’t only reflect quantitative aspects (dominated by arithmetic numbers) but also qualitative aspects, such as feelings of good, bad, beautiful, ugly, smelling nice, tasting good, etc.
◼ An intriguing question is what the mechanism is behind the avoidance of stagnation on the main road of the “process of Consciousness”, through the Soul’s eternal presence on both the main and side road. On the side road, the Soul experiences its corresponding virtual “human being and human life” in a virtual physical(!) reality (we speak of the Soul’s eternal “incarnation”). At the Soul-experienced virtual human death, a Soul’s introspection of the finished virtual human life, but now “timeless and spaceless”(in the virtual sense), provides exactly the information that, in the Soul-experienced virtual spiritual(!) reality, avoids stagnation on the main road of the “process of Consciousness” (we speak of the Soul’s eternal “excarnation”). Moreover, the Soul gains a little (more) 4-dimensional Consciousness on the main road of the “process of Consciousness”.
◼ Because of the eternity of the Soul, the described mechanism (after all, a Soul’s Experience!) is also eternal. Consequently, the Soul’s incarnation and excarnation, the Soul’s introspection of the virtual human life, and therefore also the avoidance of stagnation and gaining of 4-dimensional Consciousness, are eternal. They have always been and always will be, without beginning and end. We consider the described mechanism or more in particular, the Soul-experienced virtual physical(!) reality with its inseparable human-experienced physical(!) reality, as a condition for the eternal “process of Consciousness” and consequently for the eternal ”Spiritual Singularity”(in other words, for “all there is”). Speaking of the purpose and the “why” of us humans, we could say that without humans there would be absolutely nothing.
◼ The information gained by the introspection of the virtual human life in the Soulexperienced virtual physical(!) reality (on the side road) and “injected” into the Soulexperienced virtual spiritual(!) Reality (on the main road) means that both Soulexperienced virtual Realities are each other counterparts. Consequently, the afore-defined “spiritual Being” and corresponding ”human being”, who both experience their virtual Realities including their virtual themselves illusorily as objectively real(!), are also each other counterparts. The “spiritual Being” concerned is in our theory called the human-related “astral Being”. Said again, the “astral Being” and corresponding “human being” are each other counterparts! The “human being” is however doomed to die in his illusorily real physical reality, while the “astral Being” is eternal in its illusorily real spiritual Reality! (Nine points of conclusion further on in the text, we will discuss that also the human being is eternal, as strange as this sounds at this place!)
◼ We repeat our earlier statement that the Soul-experienced virtual physical reality and so the human-experienced physical reality are based on “bottom-up spiritual relations”, which in our theory are assumed to be subdivided into layers of “bottom-up spiritual relations”. Compare this with software relations in computer programs.
◼ The upper layer is the most relevant and important. Imposed by the All-Embracing Plan, in this layer the bottom-up spiritual relations are interpreted by the Soul as physical relations. The upper layer contains the bottom-up spiritual relations that underlie the human-experienced physical reality in the human-experienced past, present, and future. The lower layers (each of which has its impact on the layers higher up and finally on the upper layer!) contain the spiritual relations that, through their impact in the upper layer, determine the human-experienced (theoretical and material) physical findings about an evolutionary past. However ….., the human-experienced physical reality is an illusion, and its evolution is an illusion within this illusion of physical reality.
◼ Importantly, in all layers of bottom-up spiritual relations, many so-called “black spiritual relations” are present. Black spiritual relations are relations that are not yet interpreted by the Soul to be physically manifest in the upper layer (because of the still too-low level of Consciousness). As the level of Consciousness in the eternal “process of Consciousness” grows (i.e., as we consider higher and higher levels in the “eternal state of being”, which the “process of Consciousness” actually is!), more and more black spiritual relations become white (this could be seen as an eternal process of whitening of black “bottom-up spiritual relations”).
◼ The whitening of black “bottom-up spiritual relations”, as a consequence of increasing Consciousness, is the actual mechanism through which in the human-experienced physical world over time more and more scientific insight (theoretical and experimental) is gained about our physical world and its evolutionary past. In this respect, we could comparatively think of the scientifically assumed existence of “black matter” and “black energy”, which essentially are examples of physically interpreted “black spiritual relations”.
◼ Speaking of “scientific”, science/scientific research is regarded in our philosophy as the Soul’s investigation of bottom-up spiritual relations in their physical meaning, especially those in the lower layers (which manifest themselves physically to us humans, in particular the scientists, in the upper layer). In this respect, we repeat once again that the bottom-up spiritual relations on the side road of the “process of Consciousness” are interpreted by the Soul (and so by the humans in the illusory human-experienced physical reality) in the upper layer as physical relations.
◼ We are convinced that the mysterious conceptual origin of “consciousness” (experience) and “life” shall never be understood and explained in science; it is beyond the scope of science! Human pataphysical imagination might provide the possibility to gain some insight into these mysteries. In our philosophy, “Consciousness” and “life” originate conceptually from respectively the AllSoul and AllSpirit (or All-Embracing Plan) in the “Spiritual Singularity”. (The AllSoul experiences the All-Embracing Plan; the All-Embracing Plan includes inherently a capacity(!) to be experienced. In our opinion, this could well be the conceptual origin of “life”.)
◼ Before the humans (we mean here the “civilization men”, for we don’t believe in a divine manifestation in lower-order humanoids) there was, of course, no humanexperienced physical reality. That we nevertheless find and have found for instance skeletons of dinosaurs, is explained by the consistent impact of the concerning lowerlayer “bottom-up spiritual relations” on spiritual relations in the upper layer. In the (illusory) human-experienced physical reality, this makes us humans believe and take for sure that indeed dinosaurs have lived in the far evolutionary past, and makes us find their skeletons as well (a result of the whitening of certain dark spiritual relations in lower layers and its (whitening) effect in the upper layer, provided the Consciousness has the sufficient level).
◼ As said (eleven points of conclusion earlier in the text), the human-experienced physical reality is an illusion. Based on the oldest human civilization (Sumerian civilization), we estimate the age of the human-experienced physical reality at about 6000 years (this corresponds with biblical statements). The evolution(!) of the human-experienced physical reality is an illusion within the illusion of this physical reality; based on science (in our theory the investigation of among others the lowest bottom-up spiritual relations in their physical meaning), its beginning was 13.8 billion years ago.
◼ The missing or insufficient 4-dimensional Consciousness of the Souls, in the initial phase of the “process of Consciousness”, was the reason in our theory for introducing a side road to avoid stagnation on the main road of the “process of Consciousness”. Along the main road of the eternal “process of Consciousness”, the 4-dimensional Consciousness of the Soul grows continually, up to the level that the side road is not needed anymore. Above this level of Consciousness, there is no Soul-experienced virtual physical reality and therefore no human-experienced physical reality anymore. In the first instance, one could think of the end of the human-experienced physical reality and the disappearance of human-experienced physical time.
◼ However …., the Soul-experienced virtual physical reality, and so the human-experienced physical reality, is eternal (of course in the appropriate range of levels of Consciousness). The question now is, how must eternity be understood in the illusory time-bound human-experienced physical reality? How must the eternity of a mortal human being in the human-experienced physical reality be understood? How should the eternity of “a period of human life followed by a period of “nothing” after human death in the human-experienced physical reality” be understood? In our philosophy, eternity has in this case the meaning that the whole human-experienced physical reality starts all over again. This is repeated again and again, for all eternity.
◼ The Soul-experienced virtual physical reality and the inseparably linked human-experienced physical reality have always been and will always be, for all eternity, without beginning and end. We speak of an eternally ongoing sequence of “cycles of existence” of the human-experienced physical reality. The life that we humans live now has already been lived infinitely many times and still will be lived infinitely times more; each time the same life in the same physical circumstances because of the Soul’s immutability. (Note: the “cycles of existence” should not be confused with the Souls’ incarnations; any “cycle of existence” contains many incarnations of many Souls.)
◼ We have previously introduced the so-called “astral Being” (see twelve points of conclusion earlier in the text). The “astral Being” and related “human being” are each other counterparts. During the Soul’s “incarnation”, the Soul experiences its corresponding “human being in his/her human-experienced physical reality” (on the side road of the “process of Consciousness”), but also its corresponding “astral Being in the astral-Being-experienced spiritual Reality” (on the main road of the “process of Consciousness”). The “astral Being” is of course not experienced in the humanexperienced physical reality.
◼ When in any “cycle of existence” of the (illusory) human-experienced physical reality a human dies, the corresponding Soul experiences in the eternal counterpart of the Soul-experienced virtual physical(!) reality in question (i.e., the corresponding eternal Soul-experienced virtual spiritual(!) reality) its “astral Being”, that experiences a real spiritual Reality, albeit illusorily. The restrictions of and suffering in the humanexperienced physical reality aren’t experienced anymore in the Soul.
◼ According to our philosophy, everything, absolutely everything, is eternal and immutable. In the human-experienced physical reality, this is expressed in the eternal sequence of “cycles of existence”, which in their content are always, down to the very slightest detail, the same. The human life follows herewith the immutable Plan (an aspect of the All-Embracing Plan) that is correlated to the corresponding Soul. We estimate the length of a “cycle of existence” at about 10.000 years, based on our opinion that we are over halfway in the current cycle.
◼ Except for the aforementioned eternity and immutability, everything is also dominated by “unity”. In the human-experienced physical reality, this is for instance expressed by the human’s being one with nature and with fellow humans (just like “God” being equal to the “AllReality” in the “Spiritual Singularity” and based on the unifying mutual integration of Souls). If we humans harm nature or fellow humans, we harm ourselves; we have seen this in many painful human experiences in the past and present!
◼ Extremely surprisingly, a considerable number of so-called “synchronicities” (meaningful coincidences, discovered by Carl G. Jung) cover mainlines of our philosophy, such as the “process of Emanation” and the “process of Consciousness”. With a view to the infinite Intelligence of the All-Embracing Plan (AllSpirit) in the “Spiritual Singularity”, we are inclined to see this cautiously as some kind of evidence.
◼ Finally, as a last point, we would like to repeat the very first of the above points of conclusion, saying that “all there is”, and absolutely “all there is”, originates and happens in the real (so non-virtual) infinitely dense “Spiritual Singularity” (as said, in our theory also indicated as “Heaven”). In the human-experienced physical reality, physically everything originates, according to science, from an infinitely dense “physical singularity”, called the “Bing Bang”. We see the “Big Bang” in its shape of physical singularity therefore as the physical interpretation of the “Spiritual Singularity” (say, Heaven). The whole Conclusion above is actually our compilation of Heaven!