Conciliation.
Your Thoughts have gone rotten and reek of War!
The hardest thing is to break through a millennium of Meanings!
I am going to tell you a very strange Tale of how Programmers Rediscovered exactly How the Universe is Built. At first this tale will seem like Nonsense. Then you will become Frightened of it! Then you will Notice that for some reason it works! And you will even try it yourself! All your life it will keep seeming like nonsense to you, but oddly enough — it all Works! That it really is built this way is not nonsense at all. The whole “problem” lies in the “Clay”! But about that — later…
For many thousands of years humanity has been tormented by several questions:
1) Is there a God?
2) If God is good — why is there so much Evil and Sickness in the world?
3) Is there Magic? And why have most people never seen it?
We are going to build one very strange model and show how it works. How it reveals the causes of many phenomena and explains, in a single language, many techniques and events.
We will begin in the language of Programming. Because that way it becomes clearer how everything works.
So! Let’s begin! The Curtain Opens!
Distributed Databases + AI Training + Blockchain
You have a set of Distributed Databases! Not one shared storage for everyone — but many independent databases, separate from one another. Your task is to make sure all of them contain the same information. And to make it more interesting — there will be no Opinion Leaders!
Now we discover that we have no common “language” through which we communicate with each database! Each DB has its own set of Sensors, and they aren’t even calibrated. Some sensors are similar, some differ greatly. The First DB has a sensor for “Greenness” — how “green” the visible object is — and for the object’s weight. The second has a sensor for “greenness” and for the object’s size.
Now our task is to teach these DBs to understand what a Cucumber is. We show both of them a cucumber. Both react with the “greenness” indicator. The first “registers” how much it weighs; the second — its size. We get feedback from them, realize that on the first attempt they aren’t yet used to the cucumber, and repeat the process until it becomes clear to them that cucumbers come in different brightness of green and different masses and sizes. This is similar to how we train a network in AI. For such systems a numerical algorithm has been developed which iteratively approximates, with a chosen precision, the weights of each “sensor” (Projection Onto Convex Sets, von Neumann 1949).
Over time our DBs become accustomed — each to its own stimulus: one ends up favoring cucumbers, another favors marbled beef!
Blockchain: our task is to make sure all DBs possess all the information (or at least the part that concerns them). And all past data is immutable — only the difference (changes) gets added.
Everything seems simple and elegant. But now we introduce a constraint — we don’t have infinite data transfer speed. Let’s say the databases manage to react in time, but the data bus we have is shared by all of them — that’s the kind of strange engineer-architect we got!
The problem with this Architect is that he likes everything to be Unambiguous and Uniform, and so he made only one Data Bus. Full single-handed control of everything through one entity.
And now many interesting phenomena appear. If only one DB is being trained on a new frog — the operation of numerical convergence can be carried out very quickly. If two DBs already — we need to bring the Data into Conciliation between them. If our “indicators” overlap strongly — the process is faster; if not — more operations are spent! And if 10 DBs — the complexity becomes proportional to N² (quadratic).
That is, if we gather 50,000 DBs and have them walk in circles around the Kaaba in Mecca, no bus will handle such a load — even if the DBs themselves are quite similar.
What happens when the bus can’t keep up? The bus manages to bring into Conciliation only the most important indicator parameters — what is seen as Figure — while the unimportant ones (the Background) are conciliated with a quality of ±50%.
What happens when Conciliation fails? Strange phenomena begin to “leak” into the World of DBs! You’ll feel the touch of Allah, or a cloud will descend as an Angel! And these are Not Glitches!
The bus simply doesn’t manage to “explain” these phenomena through “understandable” indicators.
This is how ordinary people come into contact with the Incomprehensible, the Strange, the Magical, the Marvelous. Here Magic isn’t really Sorcery — it is everything that contemporary Science cannot explain.
And science is doing worse and worse with explanations. Humanity poked around in matter for a long time and crawled all the way down to the insides of atoms. And there — utter chaos. The Strongest minds have been gnawing on this Incomprehensible structure for 100 years and still can’t finish gnawing. The problem is that “inside” the “atom” — there is full freedom and anarchy. I am simultaneously Smart and Beautiful (with beauty along the X-axis, smartness along the Y-axis, and I am the entire plane). But the moment this quantum object pokes its head out, it becomes boring — it is either beautiful or smart. This is called Superposition. And everything would be fine, except that the indeterminacy of a small particle, when one tries to connect it with the large one into which it has emerged, leads to indeterminacy of the large one as well (Wigner’s Friend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend — and the extension to 3 Wigners with 3 friends), and Schrödinger’s Cat — none of us has personally met. Our Cats are usually definitely either dead or alive. But when physicists went further — they noticed that even a laser beam doesn’t shine in a straight line:
https://youtu.be/qJZ1Ez28C-A&t=1571
And our macro-objects don’t move in straight lines either. They are simply so large that the “vibration” of their movement is too small:
https://youtu.be/qJZ1Ez28C-A&t=1523
And then theorists of quantum physics arrived at a strange revelation. In 2018 Frauchiger and Renner proved a theorem which makes this principle irreversible: quantum theory cannot consistently describe its own use, if we assume that (Q) it is universal, (C) different observers can coherently use each other’s conclusions, and (S) every measurement has one real outcome. One of these three assumptions must be false. The experiments of Proietti et al. (2019) and Bong et al. (2020) confirmed: the assumption of absolute, observer-independent facts is incompatible with the predictions of quantum theory.
So Vasya sees that the cat is alive, while Katya sees that it is dead. At the same time! About the same cat!
Magic, Vectors, Eidos
So Magic — is when the Bus “glitches.” In each of us there are Vectors of Perception (the DB’s sensors) — our Meanings, Ideas, which gather into a certain Picture of the World. Some Vectors are Important, others are very minor. And the Architect brings our “realities” into Conciliation for us! But because his resources are limited (in the data bus) — he has to resort to “tricks.” It will be much easier for him if you have a small set of super-important vectors, which he will feed with quality, while on the unimportant ones he will allow ±10% Conciliation error — and you won’t notice anything down there at all! And then your important vectors begin to grow in weight and become even more important (a self-fulfilling prophecy occurs). And the Architect feeds you more and more events that make you flare up brighter through 1–3 vectors and forget about everything else. And the same event can flare up different vectors in different people. The Architect sees this as if he were playing on a vast piano, where every key is a vector of perception, and the music he creates looks like flashes of bright lights (super-vectors). He chooses ideal transitions between tones, depths of varied sound. And what we get is — earthquakes and hurricanes.
And here problems begin. If your life unfolds so that only one vector becomes the most important — then psychiatry begins. You are only Napoleon — everything else doesn’t matter to you at all! And it is impossible to distract you with other vectors. Only as a result of therapy or medication can this vector be reduced — and then you might notice that you are, in fact, a woman. The same with depression — you have ended up in such vectors that everything becomes meaningless. It is impossible to cheer you up — these vectors carry insignificant weight. OCD and PTSD work in the same way.
So what to do? You had a traumatic experience. That is a Fact. It cannot be changed. But! You can ReInterpret it! Find other vectors of perception and re-explain the situation through them. It was: “you were robbed in an alley.” You reinterpret: “in a past life I took something from this man, and now he has taken his debt back from me in this way.” In fact, not every explanation works — but more on that later. This is exactly how psychotherapy and Hellinger’s family constellations work.
Gestalt therapy uncovers the background figure on which your problem rests, and through that figure re-explains your inner conflict. Hellinger’s constellations show that it isn’t just “someone killed your great-grandfather in the war,” but “the soul of your great-grandfather now lives in the murderer’s lineage, and that is precisely why his great-grandson is now trying to push this money on you.” That is, in essence, your great-grandfather did not die — he continues to feed you and your whole lineage. And if the murderer’s lineage acts up — he arranges suicides for them and other entertainments.
Carlos Castaneda was a brilliant storyteller who managed to gather the ideas of 200 books and his own experience with the plant of power — Peyote — into an almost coherent story. Like any brilliant poet — in the search for resonating words — he found forms close to the working ones. But, having not lived all of this through deeply himself, having no mentor, and not understanding how it all is built — he was wrong in some places.
For example, his technique of “recapitulation” — we descend into a traumatic experience, breathe out what doesn’t belong to us, and breathe in what was taken from us. As a technique of allowing and accepting it works to a degree. But in cases of depression or PTSD it is guaranteed to drive a person even deeper into the problem. What is needed is precisely to ReInterpret the Experience! And then it will simply cease to be traumatic! We’ve all heard the phrase: “You can’t change the past! You can only change your relationship to it!” Only how exactly to change the relationship — they forgot to tell us. Or “look at the situation from the side.” All these formulas are really about the same thing — ReInterpretation. A shift of vectors of perception from super-important to several ordinary ones.
There is another important tool from Castaneda — erasing personal history. Essentially: head off into the desert, “lie” to everyone about yourself, and everyone will forget about you! Then you become a Free Magician. But if your super-important Vectors remain the same, then your loved ones, simply by thinking about you, will keep collecting you back into the same vectors of perception and thereby reinforce them — and you will be in their trap forever. You need to take the important step — ReInterpret yourself!
Want to see how This Works? Run an experiment on your loved ones — only don’t tell them about it, and don’t push it too intensely (at first). When you next see one of them — imagine that you are seeing this person for the First time, and ask yourself: “who is he, really? what is he like? what does he love? what exactly does he do? what is valuable to him?” Act as you usually do. But you will quickly see a strange reaction from the person, and discover much that is new! You are constantly enchanting one another with your vectors!
Vectors of perception are assembled out of common Eidos. Eidos was discovered by Plato in Ancient Greece. They are Things-in-Themselves. The Essence of Things. They form a finite set of stable categories: “dangerous/safe,” “kin/stranger,” “just/unjust,” “sacred/profane,” “victim/aggressor.” These forms are not individual. They are Common to all people.
This is established empirically through comparative cultural research: amid all the diversity of concrete narratives, the basic categories of perception are remarkably the same across different cultures and epochs. Jung called them archetypes; Husserl — noematic eidos; cognitive linguists — basic conceptual metaphors. All these traditions independently arrive at the same conclusion: the forms of perception are common; only the configurations are individual.
But how we assemble Eidos into our meanings — that is already individual vectors of perception.
And Now Let Us Open Our Questions
Magic is local (as are all quantum phenomena). Building a quantum computer is very difficult precisely because these quanta keep “bumping” into macro-objects! And isolating them from everything is extremely hard! To make it so that everyone sees a Miracle at once is almost unrealistic. Even Jesus performed miracles in front of not very many people. So who is going to believe him now? 🙂 But between two people who have entered some kind of Flow (of Conciliation errors) — it is already quite possible. This is where Synchronicity (Jung) and other unexplained phenomena come from. The vectors of perception of these people have been loosened — by stress or by meditation. And they begin to do all kinds of UnConciliated Madness. Castaneda has a wonderful story about how his teacher began to fly over the trees, while the local villagers only saw him running around like a madman, banging his head against the trees. Yes, the level of strangeness of this action was high — but the events were different. The Architect simply managed to make this event unimportant for ordinary people. These people were not performing any joint “ritual” — so their integrity was not under threat — and an event that is unimportant to them (it’s not as if the Pope had arrived) can be flushed down the toilet through minor vectors. Devaluation and forgetting — the typical methods the Architect uses to clean up the consequences of “Miracles.”
Magic is an error of Conciliation. You’ll have to either gather together in large numbers (which is what cults do), or genuinely tune in to one another — Love! Or loosen your vectors so that the Architect can no longer get a grip on them. And when you perform Magic — the waves of Conciliation will be damped down with the increasing distance from you, in terms of the number of people. And then the few chosen ones will have their memory “adjusted” so that they don’t get nervous, or simply forget it! That is precisely why Magicians teach: “do not share your miracles.” Otherwise the Architect will “count” them, and they will “leave” you.
This is what the Mandela Effect is about. Conciliation can simply go along events that didn’t really happen. Because those vectors turned out to be more convenient.
Where does the “kind” “God” get “Evil, illness, and war”? If our vectors are stuck strongly, then reality will keep hammering us to the very end. And at “the end” there live: illness, cancer, evil, murder, war. If you do not work on yourself — sooner or later one of them will catch up with you. In Psychotherapy this is called Projections and Hypnosis. You do not meet a real person — you hypnotize him and yourself with your own vectors.
This is where all those Hermetic sayings come from — “as within, so without” — it is simply easier for the Architect to plant a certain reality on top of your vectors.
The problem is that when these Vectors grow to maximum weight, they become your prison. Now you Live Through Them! You no longer just pay attention to “kin/stranger” — you now devote your life to genocide against them. Any vector is just a compass needle. The compass, of course, is needed — but trying to become this needle is an extremely dangerous occupation. All the meanings you have are no more than needles. And you can gradually step off them and notice the wide world outside. Many wonderful things will happen: colours will become a thousand times brighter, tastes richer, and the unusual will start crawling out of every crack!
How to do this Today? Our entire life is walking on rails. We perform the same actions every day. We perceive ourselves and the world in the same way. You can begin with micro-movements of the hands. Just slowly move your hand. Then find a new way to rotate it. Do this for about five minutes. Each time, search for a new way of moving the hand. You must try not to land on any rails. This is called Increasing the Complexity of Modeling. This way you enter a flow of UnConciliatedness. It is impossible to bring into Conciliation if you are creating nonsense and not repeating yourself in it. Then engage the entire body. Then allow this movement inside your body. Relax / tense the micro-muscles even where there are none! No effort — only micro-movements. Then try to “cut” the sensations in your body into new vectors: not “my knee aches” but “something is breaking through it” — and so on, dozens of times about the same sensation (confuse the Architect), and then in the whole body. Then look at the World! And the Architect will choke!
The Trinity, in brief
Beyond the Architect — whom the Bible calls “the first angel / the voice of God” — Metatron (God-the-Son) (it is precisely thanks to him that we have this magnificent kindergarten playground — our shared world) — there is also the River of Life. We call Him Time — the Holy Spirit. You will not find his name in any Holy Scripture. For a Name is a fact of Conciliation. And He is not about that. The River allows all of this to Exist! It is the frozen drops of this River that form the needles of the compass. And the river of life flows through all your meanings. But you keep trying to stuff it into little boxes — meanings. And then you live through the boxes — not through Life!
Here we shift the bar relative to standard Christian theology. God-the-Father in our picture is the Absolute, who has no name. God-the-Son is the Logos, who functionally corresponds to the Architect / Metatron, performing the work of Conciliation; in our picture he “seized the throne” and came to be perceived as the highest Divinity, although he is a functional entity. Jesus is the local incarnation of the Logos within our “world-egg.” This position is structurally close to the gnostic tradition and to the kabbalistic distinction between Ein Sof and the sefirot.
Castaneda has a wonderful practice — ISD (Internal Silent Dialogue stopping). It is a transition to a level of awareness where flocks of thoughts no longer run through your head. But this is only the first step. You can Stop the Meanings themselves. This is shown beautifully in the film Blueberry.
It is precisely the River that bursts forth as Insights, that comes as Geniuses (such beings existed in Ancient Greece) to people who have somehow opened their vectors to the New — to the Creators of Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Science. They all say with one voice: “this isn’t us! It came to us by itself!”
So Where Did We Lose God?
A hint is given by the thought “the Absolute”! This is That: Where everything happens, Everything that happens, and That from which everything happens. We are all merely Fantasies of the Absolute!
Want me to teach you? Imagine Vasya and Katya. But they cannot meet without a bench on which they can sit down. Making it so that their bottoms can sit on the same bench — only the Architect can do that! Don’t sit too long! Your bottoms will begin to ache! And from there it isn’t far to war!
P.S. Elon Musk — yes, the world does “smell” of a simulation, but unfortunately the aliens are not going to help us.
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