Information Reality

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A New about page for the site – New Direction

Oct 20

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This site is all about my exploration on the nature of reality, human civilization and consciousnesses. Here is just a random sample of  some of the things you might find me talking about here.

  • How do we know the things we know.  What is the direction of modern science? What are some of the more fascinating viewpoints and theories that are currently being discovered? What is my opinion on this.
  • What role does the ideas of information theory have on areas such as consciousness, genetics, time, consciousness and the fabric of reality
  • How is our understanding changing about topics such as UFO’s, Aliens, Shamanism, The Occult, meditative spiritual practice, psychedelics, ghosts, cryptozoology. Why is there so much overlap between these subjects? What are the commonalities and differences.
  • Why is there such a wide range of paranormal entities encountered and described. Why are there very few set ‘types’.
  • Is there a connection between ceremonial magick ’summoned’ entities and modern spontaneously encountered entities.
  • What is the role of the signal and noise principal in enlightenment and understanding of reality.

Some notable thinkers whose views that I will pick apart and discuss at some stage will be Ken Wilbur, Krishnamurti, Robert Anton Wilson, Terence Mckenna, Jacques Vallee, Gurdjeff, Jed Mckenna, buddhist texts, vedanta texts, tarot symbolism, occult books and libers.

I won’t claim to come up with any answers at all, and I will relate some of my experiences along the way. All we can be at best is mirrors pointing towards the truth. The real truth is the eternal spiritual mystery, the no-thing at the center of all things.

Oh yeah, and I am always up for a chat via email at info (at) informationreality (dot) com

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Heretics and Information Integrity

May 11

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In the past thousands of years (as soon as some kind of orthodox religion sets in and gets a recognized priesthood), as soon as people develop within themselves spiritually, and continue to remain inside a traditional organisation, they are labeled a heretic and most people do not want to hear their views.

Those in power actively suppress and persecute them, and those in the group who do not also realise the new truth quickly will shun them.

Its like those in charge know that just being exposed to an idea that has dissonance with the consensus world view changes the receiver of the message.

I think at some level it is not the “truth” of the claims by the heretic that those in the established power do not want others to hear, it is more that they want to hold up the “Information Integrity” (there’s a new term for you) of the established tradition.

Introducing evolutionary noise into their closed system will transform it, destroy it. It will break down the power hierarchies (that’s one of the best things that free flowing information does) and open people up to new world views.

The internet has been great for this, and for showing people that there are many other free thinkers out there. And sure, a lot of it may be rubbish, and your own internal filters get better and better and sorting that out as you progress. Better have the choice to use your internal filtering system than having information sanitised and drip fed to you.

This whole idea of internal filters is something that I have talked about elsewhere in the past. It’s this whole yin / yang concept.  It’s about having a dynamic balance between a closed and open mind. By looking for the interesting, genuine and wondrous while still remaining skeptical, balanced and grounded. There are no clear answers for this, its all about knowing what the correct action is in the present moment (that one of my own definitions for enlightenment by the way.)

And another thing while I perch on the virtual soapbox a second longer, what is the point of having ’spiritual movements’, if they don’t allow people to spiritually grow? Spiritual growth isn’t learning to do the practice better, the rituals more precisely, to recite the dogma straight from the text the clearest.

It’s about having insight, and using these to grow, share, create and live.

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Buddha Routes The System

Apr 28

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For a message to be understood from any source of information, first you must have the algorithm/filter to uncompress, translate or understand it. You must have a pre-defined understanding, like know the language, or the symbol set used, in order interpret the reality in front of you in the right context.

For the full understanding to arise you must uncompress the concept held in the words, symbols or data

The Buddha talks of nirvana as an uncompressed reality, and a unity of all consciousness. The Buddha obtained this state is by shutting down the external Inputs and Outputs to your consciousness. Block out all the data that is possible coming in to be processed. Once that is achieved, starts to look for something else to process. It works over its backlog of thoughts and starts to bring things to the surface.

The Buddha would then start to shut down the internal Inputs/Outputs’ between the minds internal systems. Not identify with any of the thoughts, see each arising and departing separately. The internal thought filters that you use start to fall away, and  you start to get a sense of the whole system as one thing.

Perhaps this nirvana is seeing the whole stream of data as one indefinable chunk. Of not labeling internal or external, of just living a pure, undifferentiated, unlabelled experience (or at least having a living comprehension of this idea). An un-compressed, unfiltered view of reality.

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