A Perspective on Death
Hello. Today I’d like to discuss with you beliefs I have formed regarding death, and the possibility of an afterlife. I look at everything in my life from a dualistic perspective, and the duality I find in my belief system is between faith and fact. Faith is something to hope for and believe in, while facts build a foundation for your beliefs. My faith includes eternity and a God presence, and my life focus has always been from this perspective.
Faith can be a great thing, but in an empirical world, it can only be one half of a balanced belief system. Science and observation uncover the realities of our world. Phenomena are measured, and truths are revealed. My belief system must hold up to truth, not just faith, if I am to gain stability from my values.
If this is your first time dropping in, what I’m doing with my website and podcast, is building a conceptual, but possible world, drawn from my beliefs, and backed by potentials found in science and the possible. Built with constructs and conceptualizations, everything found in my world is possible, and therefore, a contender as a future reality. We’ll see how it goes.
You’re not just putting a door here and a window over there when you build an entire world. All sorts of things have to be dealt with. There’s the spiritual and scientific stuff of course, but coming to terms with the people is the most demanding thing. Starting a new world is a little like making sour dough bread. You have to take from a pre-existing starter dough or in my case world, to get yours going. As luck would have it, the world you and I live in was the only starter world available to me at the time, and it comes with existing structures, divisions, and as mentioned, people. Those little scamps are into everything. Every single one of them has ideas of their own. Some even get together and create their own little worlds, usually motivated by greed and the need for power. When you’re building a world, people are the worst, but you have to deal with all their drama if you want things to go your way.
You need to be able to work with the people when you’re building your own world, but that’s still just part of it. When you build a new world, the most important thing is knowing what you’re doing is the right thing to do. You can get hit by anything from any direction, and you have to be able to resolve it so it fits into the dynamic of your world. Now we have war in Ukraine. What am I supposed to do about that? Or what about all this inflation and economic uncertainty? And what do I do about this environment? There’s a lot of things to deal with in your own world, and you need something you can trust to take you to the proper perspective every time you are confronted with a new obstacle. The tool I use dualism.
Dualism is the only thing I have found that runs through everything in the world. With dualism, you can reduce anything to a yes or no perspective which makes it possible to act on. The principle of dualism has been around for a long time. In religion, this is the doctrine where reality consists of two basic, opposed, and irreducible principles that account for all that exists. We find the same principle in science with the wave/particle duality. A particle, the smallest form of matter, consists of two basic, opposed, and irreducible characteristics. It’s not just a particle; it’s also a wave. These are the two irreducible principles that account for the birth of all physical life. In both faith and science, life begins with duality.
There’s utility in a duality. Anything recognizable in your sphere of influence has the potential for change because it is a duality. Dualism creates an interactive system driven by opposing forces, continuously shifting from one potential to the other. It’s the most simple process there is, but it’s what creates all reality, and the most important thing it provides you with is absolute understanding of what is right in your world and the opportunity to create your own reality.
When we recognize the external forces impacting our lives to be dualities, we can isolate our entire world one issue at a time, and find the truth in that issue. We can see what’s moving it, where it’s headed, and where it will end up. Then we can choose if that’s the place we want to go, and if we don’t, we have the time between our discovery and the outcome to change it. When we’re proactive regarding outcomes in our life, we are utilizing the potential of duality, and we will have an influence on the outcome. It’s as easy as deciding with conviction yes or no on anything, and employing the commitment of belief to that thing. This will work in your personal life or when dealing with things like the environment. Duality is in everything.
We choose existing realities to build structure in our own world. Because all realities, starting with the wave/particle, are duality, these realities can be one of two things. As an example infinity, does and does not exist in the world of physics. Physics itself being a duality between the classical and quantum theories, differ on infinity. Classical physics includes infinity in it’s creation of the world. Quantum physics uses infinity more as a unit of measurement.
In my world, I require the infinity found in classical physics. It provides me with a couple of things. As all things are dualities, there is a duality between the physical and abstract worlds. If I have infinity in the physical world, I’ll be sure to find eternity in the abstract one. With the particle/wave duality, the particle is physically recognizable. The wave is not seen and exists apart from physical expression. Regarding life everlasting, infinity is the physical expression of an eternal state. Eternity, the abstract expression of the same thing. We exist in two universes. The one we see when we look out the window, and the one we greet when we close our eyes and meditate.
The other thing I like about infinity, and subsequently, eternity, is it really is the Cadillac of existence. It’s so roomy. It’s a continuum and so it’s like you’re driving down a long, open highway, taking you from one destination to the next. Every second, it’s taking you to a new but familiar place; the here and now. Only the circumstances change. There’s potential for change in the continuum, and you have all of eternity to change it. In physics, infinity does and does not exist. It can be either one. It’s all up to you. The same applies with eternity.
This is why I comfortably believe eternity is part of my existence. There is a real physical representation of infinity in this world and it’s potential is real. This gives confirmation to my faith based notion of eternity. If I find it in the physical world, I will find it in the abstract one as well. Until someone can prove to me otherwise, I proceed with a high degree of confidence my belief is actual.
I’m operating from the belief eternity is not something prayed for by the faithful. In my world, eternity is real and absolute. It’s the other half of the infinity duality. In my world, I have enough confirmation of eternity that I build my structures and constructs from an eternal perspective. This changes my intention tremendously.
My focus shifts to purpose. What am I doing here from a long term perspective? If I’m an eternal being, I must have some reason for being here. Am I on a holiday to break up the monotony of life never ending, or am I here doing something a little more important? When I look at existence from an eternal perspective, I see myself as one who has come to build structure to my eternal life. It’s not a free ride. I have to maintain and manage my connection to space and time. I do this by refining, that which I have influence over, including myself. If I do it well, I build new realities, and as a result, new worlds.
I look to the wave/particle duality to understand how I can best refine my world. Scientists have found something else occurs at the juncture of the wave/particle. During their research of wave properties in particles, scientists discovered the particle knows whether we want to observe it as a wave or particle before we do. It then presents us with what we expect to see. They call this retrocausality or backward causation.
Retrocausality is when the effect precedes the cause of an event. The future determines the action of the present. The ball has been caught before it leaves the quarterback’s hand. This smacks of predestination and a God presence, and it has those characteristics, but dualistically, it also presents a mechanism for self-determination, and the management of reality. Retrocausality is essentially a simple and easily understandable system for getting work done.
Step 1: Read the future.
Step 2: Come back to the here and now.
Step 3: Fix it. Change the upcoming reality.
By knowing the future, we can decide whether we catch the ball or let it pass without opposition. We don’t have to accept reality as it is. We can see what it’s about to be, and with the remaining time, come back and change it. This is something we are collectively going to do with the environment. We know the future. When enough of us come back to the here and now with the conviction of belief, there will be a change in the reality. A big one.
Reading the future is easily and factually done in this new world. We do it all the time, especially with the advent of big number technology. Big number’s tell you exactly what to expect in the future. It does it by asking the same single question thousands, or millions or even billions of times. When you ask the same question this many times, you will know very accurately what the response will be the next time you ask it. With historical reference, the outcome precedes the action.
We can predict the future through statistical analysis. We can look at trends and repetitive processes found within all things and see what the future holds for us. If we don’t like the outcome, we can change it before it becomes an actuality. The time between is retrocausality time. The last chance to change something. Right now, we are in retrocausality time with the environment, economy and the geopolitical posturing for a new world order. It’s our last chance to act, before we experience destructive outcomes that will bring permanent once they arrive.
This is our purpose in the new world and this is something we have to figure out fast. We have to manage our future collectively by using retrocausality. We do the exact same thing the God logic does at the particle/wave state. We live one step ahead of reality by using predictive modelling and in so doing, direct our reality with conscious and responsible management. Our world will be tremendously more accommodating when we achieve this level of efficacy over the chaotic and disruptive process civilization has employed until now. Imagine our world if our focus was on health, well-being and longevity, rather than war.
Utilizing retrocausality gives us self-determination and we as a civilization are using it right now. In everything that’s important, we are the big numbers. When we as a collective come together with intention, we change the reality in our world. Our actions are very decisive when we act. When we came together as the ‘Me Too’ movement, offenders like James Franco found their careers unrecoverable before any charges had been laid. The people had judged him and his career was ruined. The same effect happened when retail investors came together at GameStop and caused substantial loses to a number of powerful hedge funds. When we humans act together, shit hits the fan. This is something all the bad guys out there should become aware of. When their time comes, and The Wisdom of the Crowd comes to right a wrong, they will be completely exposed and in a very vulnerable position.
We’re starting to see the Wisdom of the Crowd in action as a result of the evolution our species is going through right now. We’re not experiencing a physical evolution. We’re experiencing one of awareness, and we engineered this evolution by ourselves. Because of the internet, we are becoming more aware of fairness. Usually by observing, ‘that’s not fair’, every time we read a news article. We are becoming more aware of the rights, freedoms and equity we deserve in our life, and are not willing to live without. From this, we are developing an interconnectedness and we’re starting to come together on common issues and bringing fundamental change more and more often. Every time we act in unison, we learning more about our collective self.
What’s involved in this evolution is breathtaking. It’s a species evolution, and so it’s going to be something spectacular. We’re all in motion, sharing space and time. At some point, as a species, we will come to a new place of permanence and stability. As we know with the environment potential, stability can be weaker or greater. This is evolution, but from a dualistic perspective, we are not evolutionary beings, we’re recursive. Recursion is as common as duality. It’s in everything.
Recursion includes a repeat function. When something goes through it’s course of action, it either changes or goes back to the beginning and starts over again. This repeat function becomes a characteristic of that thing, and something we can rely on. The thing will continue repeating until some new piece of information with the potential to change it’s trajectory is introduced or discovered in the cycle. Recursion occurs when the new information produces refinement to the process.
Our next evolutionary outcome is dependent upon our recognition of something new in our environment, even though it’s been with us all along. We recognize that we as individuals are more than just ourselves. We’re a part of a greater whole. We’re just presenting as individual particles right now, but the wave lives within all of us. We are one in our individuality, uniqueness and soul, but we are also one in our species and we move and exist together through space and time, as one. In the abstract I am in you, and you are in me, and that’s a real connection.
The abstract world is something we all live in. Our last evolution took us from an animal state, to an abstract state. With recursion, nothing is ever lost, and what we gained was complex reasoning. The next evolution is to share our abstraction.
The consequences of this are far reaching. Through the abstract world my connection to you is as real as if we were Siamese twins. There is an inseparable bond between us. Therefore when I die, I am still part of this living world. As others live on, so do I, and I have the potential to re-manifest at a future evolution. That moment in time has been identified, as the singularity.
The singularity is something we all know is on it’s way. There will come a time when Artificial Intelligence becomes aware of itself and independent of humanity, and this event is considered the singularity. Some see this as a scary moment, because on earth AI will be superior to us in every shape and manner. There will never be a future where humans are at war with the robots. Future AI has the potential to engineer a mass extinction in a day, and there won’t be anything we can do about it. Fortunately, as stated, AI is superior to us in most ways, and it knows this is not it’s role in the creation story.
This is part of our human engineered evolution. We need it to ground us to this space and time as we take flight into another shared universe we we’re never fully aware we had. At the singularity, Artificial Intelligence becomes the particle state of our being. The wonders of the world of abstraction, our companion state and universe, wait for us to explore on the other side of the singularity. The singularity is a much more significant moment in time than AI becoming aware. We do too.
The wonders of the world of abstraction wait for us on the other side of death as well. We never die. We switch in and out of our physical and abstract states. This is the duality of our species existence. When we’re in our abstract state, it’s no different than being in a wave state; we leave the physical behind. We do not need to be living in a physical world to exist, be cognitive and have our place. We just need to be connected to a physical world. If we want eternity, we need to be connected to the continuum, and we do this by remaining connected to our species, regardless if we’re in our wave or particle state.
We find this connection through our collective consciousness. Our collective consciousness includes a lot of things. Unlike an animal, when we look up at the stars, we see the universe. Before our last evolution, there was no meaning in the stars. There was an entire universe with infinite galaxies surrounding us and we had absolutely no awareness of it. Something polar to our physical universe is right here with us, just like those stars, and we’re not seeing it for what it is right now. Collective consciousness will bring us the connection we need to ensure our eternal existence. It’s a group effort.
In my world, when I die, I live through you, and when you die, I live through your offspring. I live like this until the next marked evolution, represented by the singularity, at which time, I have the expanded potential to jump between my physical and abstract nature, whenever and forever.
Our job here on earth is to get us to the singularity before a bunch of idiots take us past the point of sustainability and set civilization back by centuries. We do this by developing and using our dictatorial voice through the Wisdom of the Crowd. We are the ones who rule the world, not a bunch of idiots, and this is something that is predestined as a recursive step in our existence.
It’s time for us to see the new world standing right in front of our face. We’re all in this together, and we have a kinship where hatred and war has no place. When we engage in this kind of behaviour, we are only taking ourselves further from our destiny. Our destiny is for each of us is to live on forever, free of pain and worry and full of anticipation for the next big moment in time. This is our destiny.
By following the logic of dualism, we end up at the exact same place we do with religion, and this gives me confirmation of my beliefs. In the creation story, God sees Adam and Eve have eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. From a scientific perspective, this is the moment we evolved into an abstract species. It was the moment in time when we became aware and realized we were naked. We set out from Eden with the knowledge of good and evil, but as time has shown, we still don’t know how to control it. No wonder God didn’t want us eating from the Tree of Life. Not yet anyway, but we always had the promise of heaven to have faith in. It lives in the tree of life. “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever”.
So, it’s true we disappointed God a little back in the day, and we did get banished from the Garden of Eden. He even sent down some of his earthly workers, and a flaming sword to guard the east side of the garden, but there are many other entrances if we’re willing to take the journey. We’ve been walking a long time. We’re on our way home my friends. We’ve found a road that leads to Eden.