The God Secret

By Mike Hockney

Everyone has an ultimate secret, even God. Since the dawn of time, humanity has sought to discover this most precious of all things. Our finest minds, noblest souls and most adventurous spirits have quested for the Holy Grail, the Philosopher’s Stone and the mystical Blue Flower of transcendent perfection.

Prometheus stole the fire of the gods to give to humanity, and suffered a terrible punishment for his beneficence and audacity. Faust obsessively pursued the infinite and unreachable, and was willing to pay any price, even if it cost him his soul.

Lowest humanity gets on its knees and belly to “God”. Highest humanity will never rest until it knows the Mind of God, and takes possession of the key to the innermost secrets of existence.

This book provides the astonishing answer to the supreme question that has haunted humanity for so long – what is the meaning of life? The answer is as wondrous and beautiful as it ought to be. Despite appearances, we really do live in the best of all possible worlds, one that is gradually turning us into exactly what we want to be – the Gods themselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Hockney
• Release date: May 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310021688

Mike Hockney

Mike Hockney invites you to play the God Game. Are you ready to transform yourself? Are you ready to be one of the Special Ones, the Illuminated Ones? Are you ready to play the Ultimate Game? Only the strongest, the smartest, the boldest, can play. This is not a drill. This is your life. Stop being what you have been. Become what you were meant to be. See the Light. Join the Hyperboreans. Become a HyperHuman, an UltraHuman. Only the highest, only the noblest, only the most courageous are called. A new dawn is coming... the birth of Hyperreason. It's time for HyperHumanity to enter HyperReality.

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Introduction

Everyone has an ultimate secret, even God. Since the dawn of time, humanity has sought to discover this most precious of all things. Our finest minds, noblest souls and most adventurous spirits have quested for the Holy Grail, the Philosopher’s Stone and the mystical Blue Flower of transcendent perfection.

Prometheus stole the fire of the gods to give to humanity, and suffered a terrible punishment for his beneficence and audacity. Faust obsessively pursued the infinite and unreachable, and was willing to pay any price, even if it cost him his soul.

Lowest humanity gets on its knees and belly to God. Highest humanity will never rest until it knows the Mind of God, and takes possession of the key to the innermost secrets of existence.

This book provides the astonishing answer to the supreme question that has haunted humanity for so long – what is the meaning of life? The answer is as wondrous and beautiful as it ought to be. Despite appearances, we really do live in the best of all possible worlds, one that is gradually turning us into exactly what we want to be – the Gods themselves.

Which Pill?

Red Pill: See how deep the rabbit hole goes. – Morpheus, The Matrix

Blue Pill: The story ends, you wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. – Morpheus

"The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are pop culture symbols representing the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue) and embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red). The terms, popularized in science fiction culture, derive from the 1999 film The Matrix. In the movie, the main character Neo is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill. The blue pill would allow him to remain in the Matrix, a fictional computer-generated world. The red pill would lead to his escape out of the Matrix and into the ‘real world.’" – Wikipedia

Well, what’s it to be? – blue or red? Faith, mysticism and science are all blue pills. Mathematics is the only red pill. Are you brave enough for it? Are you strong enough? Are you smart enough?

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All quests have obstacles. The search for final truth reaches, for most people, an impossible, uncrossable chasm straight away. The problem is as bad as it could possibly be: you simply might not be constituted to know the truth. Who ever said that truth should be universally available? Those who said that anyone could know the truth lied. Is the truth accessible to animals? Well, nor is it available to human beings of a distinctly animalistic kind.

So, do you have the right kind of brain for intellectually making the great leap of truth?

The Four Jungian Leaps

Jung spoke of four mental functions, coming in two binary pairs: Thinking versus Feeling and Sensing versus Intuition. People can therefore take four basic leaps:

The Leap of Faith. This is based on feelings and scrupulously avoids reason and facts (thinking). People develop an emotional relationship with a prophet, a Saviour, a Messiah, a God, a holy text or simply with fellow believers. Once in, it’s too much of an emotional wrench to leave the community of faith and feeling. Such people understand everything through the prism of faith and feelings and they can’t think their way beyond it. The Leap of Faith is always a stupid leap. It’s not about real answers and truth; it’s about feeling good and emotional connectedness. It’s highly personalised. People LOVE their prophets and gods. This leap is strongly associated with emotional narrative – Mythos. The Bible is just a series of stories. It has no rational truth content at all. Reason is explicitly rejected (Reason is the Devil’s whore, to quote Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism). This leap offers a truth available to all: anything believed by anyone is true for that person. That, of course, doesn’t make it actually true. Subjective and objective truths are radically different. In fact, they have nothing in common.

The Leap of Reason. This is a leap based on reason and logic: thinking. This is a cold, clinical, calculating, analytic, machine-like, computerised, algorithmic understanding of life. Feeling is discounted. Idealist metaphysics is the classic example; Kant is a key exemplar.

The Leap of the Senses. This is a leap based on physicalism, on the evidence of the senses. Seeing is believing. There is absolute hostility towards anything not apparent to the senses. Feelings and rationalism are downplayed or discounted. Empiricist materialist science is the archetypal example. Science brands reason as metaphysics as soon as it goes beyond the domain of the sensory. Reason is the strict servant of empiricism in this view, and is never allowed to contradict empiricism. This places such a constraint on reason as to render it irrational. Reason is being forced to deliver outcomes in accordance with empiricism, just as in religious faith, reason is accepted only when it agrees with revelation and never when it contradicts revelation. As soon as reason is treated as a tool of something else, it is no longer reason – as scientific materialism and religious faith have demonstrated.

The Leap of Intuition. This is a leap based on an all-embracing intuitive understanding of what lies beyond. It’s often highly mystical. Eastern religion is the archetypal example.

Here we see our whole familiar world laid bare: Abrahamism versus metaphysics versus science versus Eastern mysticism. Virtually everyone on earth has signed up to one of these camps. Isn’t it remarkable? – the world’s beliefs originate in the psychological types of human beings.

By pairing compatible Jungian mental functions, a further four leaps can be listed:

Feelings and sensing – which tend to support Abrahamism (feelings take the lead).

Feelings and intuition – which tend to support Eastern mysticism (intuition takes the lead).

Thinking and sensing – which tend to support empiricist materialist science (sensing takes the lead).

Thinking and intuition – which tend to support idealist metaphysics (thinking takes the lead).

This last leap is the one associated with ILLUMINISM. It’s the Logos leap, the leap of reason, of hyperreason that rejects faith and the senses. It’s a combination of reason and intuition and it revolves around mathematics, the supreme rationalist subject which involves no faith and has no need of sensory data.

Of course, only one of all the leaps we have described is valid and an authentic route to the truth. The others are self-deluded and false. That’s a fact. Some optimists think that all roads lead to the truth in the end. That’s completely wrong. Faith can never reach the truth; nor can the senses; intuition can reach the truth but will be pure mysticism unless allied with reason, which it rarely is. In the final analysis, only the Illuminist leap is about ABSOLUTE TRUTH. It combines the power of thinking and intuition.

Animal Self versus God Self

You can’t sense or feel your way to the truth. You can only reason or intuit your way there. Animals don’t and can’t know the truth of existence, and nor can sensing and feeling humans.

Feelings and senses are our most primitive aspects, the aspects we have in common with the animals. It’s our reason and intuition that make us human and these evolved long after the others. They are our godlike (Platonic) rather than bestial qualities.

Those locked into sensing and feeling have only recently reincarnated from the animal domain: they are young souls, far from enlightenment, still consumed by animal lusts and preoccupations.

Science is a curious subject because it lays claim to reason yet is fundamentally about the animal senses (empiricism and materialism) rather than rationalism, hence is also far from enlightenment.

Dreams

One of the most mysterious aspects of human existence is that when we go to sleep we enter a dreamworld. What is this extraordinary world and how does it relate to the waking world?

Normal consciousness interacts with the objective world, so we might alternatively designate this as objective consciousness. But what about the kind of consciousness we have in dreams? This is subjective consciousness and it’s marked by a lack of formal causality and an absence of a fixed and objective time and space framework. Another of its key features is that we have to invent our interactions with others who appear in our dreamworld. We put words in their mouths; we control their movements and behaviour – as if we were Gods, or at any rate storytellers constructing a novel in our mind.

Just as a novelist is the dictator of his story world, deciding everything that happens, so each of us is the dictator and creative director of our dreamworld. Novels are nothing but dreams on paper. Movies are dreams on celluloid or digital media. They are all about Mythos. Dreams have almost no Logos content. They are mostly about the emotions and heightened senses, and now and again powerful intuitions come to us. Yet reason, the youngest and most immature feature of the human condition, barely features.

Dreams evolved long before reason did and they take us back to a more primitive time. In our dreams, we return to what humans were like at the dawn of human time. It’s a world of magic rather than science; where anything can happen and there’s no tyranny of objective laws.

We can do anything we want in our dreams. We can resurrect the dead and have vivid encounters with them, we can have fantastic sex with dream lovers, we can be plunged into the worst nightmares conceivable, and so on.

Dreams are perhaps the most incredible phenomenon of human existence. Humanity’s religious thinking derived from dreams because they pointed to the existence of another domain beyond this one where the dead still lived.

Dreams do indeed give us a glimpse of a radically different reality, one not dependent on objectivity. Dreams foreshadow the possibility of death admitting us to a purely subjective mental experience where we survive indefinitely but we have to make up all of the events that happen to us, because nothing objective can ever enter this subjective fantasy. Dreams show how we could, mentally, survive objective, physical death. Reincarnation is the post-mortem process that releases us from this subjective fantasy world and places us back in a body in the objective world. Gnosis is the final process that allows us to escape the cycle of reincarnation and gives us an objective, not subjective, God consciousness whereby we remain without a physical body but possess an objective rather than subjective consciousness. We can know all things and interact with all things – objectively rather than in a fantasy of our own creation.

So, humans have different types of consciousness:

objective consciousness (awareness of the objective world; this consciousness dies when the objective body dies).

subjective consciousness (awareness of a dream space disconnected from objective reality; this consciousness does not perish with the body but the price it pays is that it engages with a wholly fabricated reality).

the possibility of a God consciousness that remains objective even without a physical body.

Mental illness is where subjective consciousness (the fantasy space) spills into objective consciousness and creates a catastrophic mixture of fact and fantasy. In a way, most ordinary Mythos human beings are seriously mentally ill because they allow their Mythos fantasies to determine their attitudes to life. Jews, Christians and Muslims bring to bear on reality a ludicrous, disproved set of unbelievable stories which then, paradoxically, help to shape reality. All non-Abrahamists are forced, whether they like it or not, to engage with the fantasy world the Abrahamists have dragged with them and intruded into objective reality via their crazy behaviour. Only Logos thinkers have a rational, objective consciousness.

Logos consciousness is true objective consciousness while Mythos consciousness – the type possessed by most human beings – is a bizarre hybrid of objective and subjective consciousness, of reality and fantasy. Since Mythos people can’t truly distinguish fact from fantasy, they have a hyperreal consciousness rather than a real consciousness. They do not recognise a reality principle but rather a hyperreality principle where absurd fantasy elements are treated as objective reality (e.g. God spoke to an illiterate Arab in a cave via the Angel Gabriel).

Humanity might be said to have a Hollywood consciousness where most people go through life as if they were watching and participating in a big Hollywood blockbuster. They have suspended their disbelief (suspended the reality principle) and treated the Mythos as reality. Jews, Christians and Muslims believe things that are objectively insane and yet are regarded as the firmest reality by billions of people. Mad propositions are treated with the utmost seriousness, and no one blinks an eye. What a world! This is a planetary mental asylum and always will be while Mythos rules and Logos is subservient. The roles must be reversed. Logos thinkers must seize power from the Mythos rulers of the world. We must make this world sane – at long last.

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Julian Jaynes proposed that the bicameral mind preceded consciousness. Bicameralism is about the left hemisphere of the brain being the agent of the right hemisphere, and robotically obeying its orders. According to Jaynes, the right hemisphere generated authoritative voices (like those of the gods) which gave commands to be followed by the left hemisphere, in which dwelled the entity that would eventually evolve into the self, the ego, the I. At this early bicameral stage, I was just a mindless slave being bossed around by its right hemisphere master. The master-slave model was literally hardwired into the brains of our ancestors, and much of the same architecture is present in modern humans, overlaid by a thin veneer of consciousness that can be easily bypassed, most obviously in the cases of hypnosis and mass hysteria (the mob mentality).

Mythos expresses the quintessential character of the old bicameral mind. It’s about a narrative, a running commentary, life as a story driven by emotion and desire. The Mythos mind is not really conscious at all. It ought to be described as exhibiting narratised sentience. Jews, Christians and Muslims are not authentically conscious. Their minds are directed by the voice of God, to whom they personally pray. The direct voice of God can be replaced by that of priests, rabbis, imams, preachers, prophets, vicars, pastors, reverends, popes and, above all, by holy texts, revealing the commands of God. Billions of human beings allow their lives to be dictated by absurd, disproven stories in ancient books. Hence, they are not conscious; they are bicameral, being guided by voices and narratives of the gods.

Modern consciousness – Logos consciousness – was born in ancient Greece and its colonies. This was when the left hemisphere began to dominate, and the right hemisphere faded into the unconscious. Logos thinkers are rational, logical individuals who study mathematics, philosophy, science, psychology, political, social theory, and so on, and who reject Mythos-based accounts of existence, which they regard as arrant nonsense and fantasy. To Logos thinkers, bicameral Abrahamists are deranged and deluded about the nature of reality.

The Logos left hemisphere is where our objective consciousness resides, and the Mythos right hemisphere is where our subjective consciousness dwells. When we dream, left hemisphere processing is largely replaced by right-hemisphere processing, which is much more emotional. The left hemisphere is where our concepts of time, space and causality are applied to consciousness. These concepts are not absent from the right hemisphere, but they are not properly integrated with the right hemisphere, which is essentially under emotional or intuitive control. That’s why dreams are never exercises in reason and logic, but always vivid, emotional or mystical experiences.

Mythos is all about trying to recreate the dream world in the objective world, and Hollywood does it better than anything else.

The key struggles in human evolution are:

Mythos (emotional majority) versus Logos (rational minority).

Right hemisphere (otherworldly; religious and spiritual) versus Left hemisphere (this worldly; rational and scientific).

Bicameralism versus Consciousness.

Subjective mind versus Objective mind.

The aim is not to eliminate Mythos and the right hemisphere, but to properly subordinate them to Logos and the left hemisphere, and then to dialectically integrate them at a much higher level where they can be invaluable in our pursuit of God consciousness.

Mythos and the right brain have incredible value. They are immensely seductive and potent, but if they are allowed to dominate then they create a fantasy world, a hyperreality where nonsense and madness rule (as in the preposterous and evil Abrahamic religions).

Look at Orthodox Jews, Fundamentalist Christians and virtually all Muslims – aren’t these people dangerously mad? Think of suicide bombers and witch burnings, jihads and crusades, inquisitions and persecutions, intolerance and fanaticism, lethal hatred of infidels, apostates and heretics. These people think this is all healthy and acceptable. In fact, it’s sick, evil, disgusting and unacceptable in every way. The Abrahamists are people who worship a God who orders fathers to commit human sacrifice on their own sons, and they see nothing odd or strange in this. Is that not the definition of psychopathy?

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Bicameralism is the source of our strong sense of divinity, of gods and spirits. Our left brain (home of our ordinary self) is yoked to our mysterious right brain, the seat of the unconscious, of strangeness, otherness, of the great unknown, of intuition and transcendence.

Scientific materialists are those who over-identify with the left brain (Logos) and reject all otherworldly notions. Religious believers are those who over-indentify with the right brain (Mythos) and scoff at reason and logic in favour of faith, superstition, ignorance and divine revelation.

Optimised humans are Logos thinkers with a healthy respect for the right brain and effective links to the right brain world, and who accept that it is the door to a profound, immaterial unknown.

We need a synthesis of Logos and Mythos, not an unconditional victory of Logos. Reason must not kill emotion. We need to be human thinkers not machine thinkers.

No computer could ever invent a good story. Mythos goes to the heart of our humanity. What is needed is to readjust the balance between Logos and Mythos, and make Logos the dominant partner. We want to live in the real, rational world, not a fantasy world. But we want to have a fantasy space to explore for inspiration, recreation and entertainment. Mythos gives us far better access to spiritual experiences than Logos. Logos gives us far better access to the reality principle than Mythos.

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The subjective mental space outside space, time and causality is often called inner space, hyperspace or dream space. This dream world is telling us incredible things about the nature of consciousness. It’s about time we started investigating dreams properly, painstakingly revealing all the differences between objective and subjective consciousness.

Never forget, in dreams there is no objective reality whatsoever. It is a world that each of us constructs in its entirety. We are all the Gods, the Creators, of our dream world. Every time we dream, we say, Let there be Light and we create a world from nothing. We summon it into existence and direct everything that happens there. Is that not astounding? We can bring back the dead, restore the living and make them do our bidding (or not as the case may be). We can even invent new people and beings. We can create a dialogue between beings of the imagination and produce incredible narratives that would put Hollywood to shame. We can open locked doors of the mind and release terrible nightmares. Everything is much more acute and vivid than in objective reality. The Dream World shows the astonishing creative power of our minds – and it must also surely warn us about how easily these subjective fantasies might be able to leak into objective reality where they have no right to be. Mainstream religion is a dream inserted into objective reality, with disastrous results.

When the objective and subjective minds become too closely entwined, madness is the inevitable result. The majority of human beings are on the insanity spectrum. All Mythos-people are deemed sane only because billions of other lunatics accept their mad ideas. Our world is a place where certain types of insanity are institutionalised and normalised. For instance, a man who says he is Napoleon is called mad but a man who believes that the Creator of the Universe was born in a stable to a 14-year-old Jewish virgin 2,000 years ago is called Mr President. That’s how mad our world is.

It’s frighteningly mad. The God that rules over a planetary mental asylum is of course not God. He’s SATAN (aka Jehovah, Allah, Christ, the Demiurge).

When will humanity become sane? We have no psychiatrist to consult. We must cure ourselves, and Logos is the only answer.

Objective consciousness is dimensional (recognises strict causality within space and time). Subjective consciousness (dream consciousness) is dimensionless (disregards strict causality, space and time). Dream consciousness demonstrates that we do not need objective dimensional input in order to be alive and consciousness. Therefore, when we die, there is no a priori reason to imagine that the death of subjective consciousness necessarily follows.

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In dreams, we do something remarkable. We simulate the behaviour and dialogue of other characters – people we know, colleagues, friends, lovers, enemies, dead people, celebrities, teachers, and even invented people.

In fact, even when we are awake, we continue to run these simulations of others. We use empathy and theory of mind – our idea of the emotional and mental states of others – to estimate how they will behave, and to try to get them to do what we want.

What is psychosis? It’s when subjective dream content and simulations are allowed to spill into objective consciousness, so that the two states become muddled rather than distinct. When you can no longer tell dream from reality you are in deep trouble.

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Autistics are known to have poor empathy and grasp of theory of mind (awareness that other people have different thoughts from their own, i.e. we do not all share the same thoughts). Do they have radically different dreams from normal people? Do they have autistic dreams? Are they able to invent other characters in their dreams and give them different mental and emotional states? If not, how bizarre must their dreams be?

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People who have objectively gone blind subjectively regain their sight in the dream world. Is that not incredible? Those who lost limbs can regain them. Those who have lost loved ones can resurrect them. In fact, the dream state is reminiscent of the Abrahamic vision of resurrection where everyone’s bodies become perfect and imperishable, where the dead reappear, and so on. The big problem is that dreams are subjective, not objective.

But imagine if you COULD make the dream state objective, and a place where only good things happen. Would that not be heaven?

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No one has ever noticed that dreams formally disprove Kant’s philosophy. Kant claimed that our minds create reality and impose space, time and causality on a noumenal reality and thus render it intelligible to our minds (which it otherwise wouldn’t be). But, of course, if our own minds have created time and space – which are thus subjective rather than objective – then why do we have a second mind-created reality – the dream space – where formal causality is absent and time and space are infinitely fluid and might be said not to exist at all? It’s one thing for the mind to create one reality, but for it to create TWO realities is surely asking too much.

Why would the mind create one reality based on space, time and causality, and another reality (the dream reality) without any of those ingredients, and then switch between the two every day? It makes no sense.

Leibnizian Neoplatonism

All mainstream religions are ambiguous, speculative, irrational, muddled and, frankly, preposterous. If Illuminism were a religion like all the others, it would be cranky nonsense too – unworthy of anyone taking it seriously.

Illuminism has a radical appeal for atheists, agnostics and skeptics because it shows that true religion is simply ontological mathematics, and what could be more impressive to the rational mind than mathematics? Mathematics removes all of the obfuscation (bullshit!) from religion. It removes any need for faith. It makes concepts precise. Any errors are visible and can’t be explained away. A mathematical statement is either right or wrong. There’s no grey area where charlatans who talk the talk can befuddle people. The purity and clinical precision of mathematics are breathtaking. What else can truth mean other than something devoid of error or ambiguity? What is true about the Bible? Nothing at all.

Illuminism, thanks to Pythagoras, always had mathematics at its core, but the Illuminati couldn’t find a way to give it the precise and unarguable mathematical form they desired. In the ancient world, the Neoplatonic view was as close as they got, but it was unsatisfying because it lacked mathematical rigour. It was only when the philosophical, scientific and mathematical genius Gottfried Leibniz became the Grand Master of the Illuminati that Illuminism was given the shape of which Pythagoras had dreamt: that of infallible ontological mathematics.

Leibniz took all of the key concepts of Neoplatonism and set about translating them into mathematics. Now, for the first time, his wondrous system can be revealed to the world.

The One – the Key to Existence in Neoplatonism

Leibniz began with the simplest unit of all – the indivisible, indestructible, immortal dimensionless point (which he called the monad: the unit/unity). What could a dimensionless point possibly contain?

The principle of sufficient reason revealed that if one point can exist then an infinite number of points can also exist since there’s no sufficient reason why the conditions that permitted one to exist should not permit endless copies. To say that there was some limit would be to appeal to some ad hoc, logically unjustifiable principle. Unless a sufficient reason for a constraint can be identified then there are no constraints. Which leads us automatically into the domain of infinity and infinite repetition.

Thus, one existential point is inevitably accompanied by an infinity of points just like itself. Being dimensionless, these points all occupy no physical space at all. Using the Cartesian definition that non-extension corresponds to mind, and extension to matter, Leibniz concluded that each point is an individual, unique mind and the space the infinite points occupy is mental rather than physical.

Descartes demonstrated that the only thing of which we can be certain is that thinking is taking place. While I think therefore I am has been philosophically challenged, what no one has ever disputed is that a statement such as, There is thinking, is the most fundamental and irrefutable statement of all.

In fact, Descartes’ position, as originally stated, can be robustly defended against its critics. If there is thinking, something must be doing the thinking. What might it be? Is there one thinking entity, or many? There is no sufficient reason why if one thinking entity exists, an infinite number should not exist, since the conditions that allowed one to exist must be equally valid for infinite others. There can be no arbitrary, ad hoc prohibitions against this. (A key argument against the supposed Abrahamic Creator God is that if one such God can logically exist, an infinite number can exist, hence he is neither a monotheistic God, nor the Creator.) Logically, there must be infinite thinking entities. We are literally in an infinite ocean of thought.

Instead of Descartes’ formulation, we might prefer to say, It thinks therefore it is. This allows us to avoid the complexities of the subject I. If we refer to it thinking, we are referring to UNCONSCIOUS thought. This is the default mode of thinking in the universe. When Descartes declared, I think therefore I am, he was claiming that thinking is an inherently conscious activity. Leibniz championed the primacy of unconscious thinking (such thinking was an obvious corollary of Spinoza’s pantheistic system where mind and matter are always found together: there is no body without mind and no mind without body – that is true of everything, including rocks and air).

Consciousness is a late phase of unconscious thinking, an evolutionary development of it, and is extremely closely linked to language. Arguably, consciousness is simply the ability to say I and state an endless sequence of things that I does, thus establishing a continuous narrative. If we link this narrative to an effective memory then a person takes on an enduring, unique identity, and is thus transformed into a consciousness rather than something such as an animal that simply exists but has no idea of what it is, where it is, why it is, or anything else. Animals are the ultimate existentialists (existence precedes essence). They exist and do things, but at no stage do they ever ponder their own essence and therefore they have no essence. An animal’s soul is not an accountable soul. An animal has zero morality. Arguably, many human beings are distinctly bestial and they too have no moral dimension. (They’re usually called Republicans, anarcho-capitalist libertarians and Abrahamists!)

The existence of matter can legitimately and logically be denied, but not the existence of thinking. This is a crucial issue because although mental activity is the most fundamental entity of all – providing a prima facie case for idealism – materialists claim that unprovable matter is the most fundamental entity of all, and that thinking is something that is somehow caused by matter, and can’t exist without matter.

If we apply Occam’s razor of not multiplying entities unnecessarily, there is no reason to accept the materialist contention. We would be appealing to something of which we have no sure knowledge (the existence of matter) to explain something of which we have sure knowledge (the existence of mental activity). Occam’s razor inherently supports the idealist view of reality.

Since matter – by unanimous agreement – is defined as possessing extension then dimensionless points cannot be material, hence they are mental. Since each point is not dependent on any others for its existence (hence, technically, is a separate, unique substance) then it is a self-sustaining life force. Since it is a dimensionless point, it has no parts and cannot be broken down. It cannot perish. It cannot cease to exist. It logically must have eternal energy because otherwise it would have expended all of its energy by now and ceased to function. Moreover, according to the principle of sufficient reason, if a point has energy at one instant, there is no sufficient reason why it should not have exactly the same energy as any other instant since what could possibly cause its energy to change or be depleted in any way if it is an autonomous, unique substance with no intrinsic dependency on anything else? We would have to appeal to some unstated, ad hoc principle. Consider the first law of motion which states that a body moves in a straight line at constant speed forever unless acted upon by some force. This is entirely consistent with Leibniz’s view. All things continue forever at a constant rate unless there is a sufficient reason why they should not. In the case of autonomous monads, there is never any sufficient reason why they should ever stop.

Leibniz’s position amounts to a logical statement that all monads have eternal energy = eternal life. Philosopher Anthony Quinton wrote, "[Leibniz] took the position that motion or energy or activity, which is perhaps the most suitable general term, is intrinsic to the ultimate constituents of the world." That’s exactly so.

We are all used to the idea of things running out of useful energy (but of course no energy is actually lost thanks to the first law of thermodynamics which states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed). In Leibniz’s system, energy is always conserved, life is always conserved, and energy and life are synonymous at the ultimate level. Life is precisely that which is moving forever as a Cartesian thinking subject. (It is not physically moving; it is mentally moving, i.e. thinking.) So, these infinite dimensionless mathematical points (monads) are also life forces (souls).

A monad certainly doesn’t have any independent internal parts or components because in that case it wouldn’t be the most basic unit of existence. It would be possible to divide it into more basic units. Yet it must contain something or it would be a total nothingness, incapable of doing anything.

A monad in fact consists of infinite numbers: infinite positive real numbers; infinite negative real numbers; infinite positive imaginary numbers; infinite negative imaginary numbers, all of which cancel to ZERO. It is precisely because all of a monad’s parts (they are dependent rather than independent parts) necessarily and inescapably sum to zero that it is simultaneously nothing and something. You cannot remove any of its parts because you would then destroy its overall nothingness (it would no longer equal zero).

In terms of sufficient reason, if a monad contains ONE number, there is no sufficient reason why it shouldn’t contain infinite numbers, but there IS a sufficient reason why all of those numbers must cancel to zero. If they didn’t, the monad wouldn’t be a zero – a dimensionless entity. It would be divisible rather than indivisible, hence wouldn’t be the most basic unit of existence.

Numbers can ontologically be defined in terms of amplitudes and frequencies, i.e. numbers are inherently linked to waves. Numbers in fact are cosine and sine energy waves (defined by Euler’s Formula: eix = cos x + i sin x). They are not abstract symbols on pieces of paper. Such marks obscure what numbers are in their real, ontological sense: ENERGY, specifically wave energy (which is the only type of energy).

A monad is therefore a dimensionless mathematical point with infinite mathematical wave energy of four distinct types (positive real, negative real, positive imaginary and negative imaginary), that all mathematically cancel to zero (real energy is based on cosine waves and imaginary energy on sine waves). Hence, it’s a point with infinite energy capacity and yet zero net energy! The mystery of existence – of how there is something rather than nothing – is contained in that mathematical paradox. This is the most certain and fundamental truth of existence. Yet it is a truth accessible only to reason. It can NEVER be subjected to a scientific experiment. In any case, science explicitly rejects the existence of anything dimensionless and unobservable (thus science will never be a means of understanding rational reality.)

Science cannot explain why there is something rather than nothing. It simply talks about randomness and quantum fluctuations. Where are the laws that control randomness and quantum fluctuations? A deadly silence. In science, the Leibnizian concept of the sufficient reason – the bedrock of logic and causality – is rejected.

For Leibniz, the world is not a place where randomness reigns. It’s a place of absolute logic and reason. For science, the world is based on magic (or randomness as they call it), where things happen at the quantum level for no sufficient reason at all. It’s outrageous that scientists lay claim to rationality when they are in fact a priesthood of magicians who think that the material universe can be summoned from absolute nothingness thanks to fluctuations undergoing inflation. Fluctuations in what? Inflation of what? And what is it (whatever it may be!) inflating into?

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An infinity of dimensionless points comprises … a dimensionless point! But this collective dimensionless point is different from all the individual dimensionless points. In set theory, a set doesn’t need to include itself as a member: the set of all penguins is not a penguin. A point that contains all points need not be the same as the points. The point that contains all monads is not itself a monad in the strict sense. Leibniz called this point Alpha. It’s the only point that’s not a monad; instead, it’s made of monads.

Alpha is the point that contains all points, and is different from all the points. It’s equivalent to a Gestalt: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The Alpha is made of monads but is greater than the monads. Sometimes it is referred to as the Monad (with a capital M to distinguish it from ordinary monads); it is therefore the Monad of monads, the God of gods. Where each monad is an individual mind, the Monad is the Mind of minds. Where monads are composed of the stuff of minds, so to speak, the Monad is composed of minds themselves and reflects all of the thinking in the universe. It is the ultimate and unique God. It is the Monadic Whole. It is the level above minds. It is the Mind Collective.

We can think of the collective Monad as being in a feedback relationship with the individual monads. As each monad evolves, its more advanced state is reflected in the Monad, and this is true of all the monads. But the Monad can then reflect itself back to the monads, and reveal to each monad the development of ALL monads, leading to accelerated evolution of the whole monadic ensemble.

The Leibnizian Alpha is the Kabbalistic Aleph, which, in turn is the Neoplatonic One. It is the origin, the source of all. It contains all. It is everything.

Although Leibniz originally defined monads as formally unique, in his final, unpublished (and complete) version of his Monadology, he considered that in practice there would be two types: indistinguishable and distinguishable. Monads would all begin as perfectly blank (pure potential), all occupying the same location (the cosmic dimensionless point), and hence it would be impossible to differentiate between them. Something would be required to allow them to express unique qualities and make them distinguishable.

This situation neatly corresponds to the concept in modern physics of two fundamental types of particles: fermions (matter particles) and bosons (force particles). Any number of bosons can occupy the same state while fermions are subject to an exclusion principle which means that nothing else can occupy any fermion’s state, making it unique (more exactly, the state itself rather than the fermion is unique).

Bosonic monads are defined as being indistinguishable from each other and sharing the same coordinates.

Fermionic monads are those that have unique coordinates, which no other monads are allowed to copy (just as no fermionic matter particle can have the same quantum numbers as any other fermionic matter particle, meaning that every fermionic state is unique).

The mathematical function of the Alpha Point (the Neoplatonic One) is simply to convert bosonic monads into fermionic monads by assigning them unique coordinates (which it alone can do because it has an overview of all monads).

In Neoplatonism, the One is the pleroma, the plenum, the fullness, the completeness, the Whole. It is the region of the divine light. It is the existential source of life itself. The One is alive and is composed of infinite life forms – souls.

It is the Soul domain, yet its resident souls are not fully-fledged, conscious souls. Rather, they are elementary minds full of potential, and the processes of existence are such as to convert this potential into actualisation.

The One is the spiritual source of everything that emanates from the pleroma. It is the ultimate source of cosmic illumination, and it can be contrasted with the spiritual darkness of all those who don’t understand the One.

The Neoplatonic One is known by various other names:

the Monad

the Alpha

the Aleph

the Singularity

the Genesis Singularity

the God Singularity

the Origin

the Source

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The second element of Neoplatonism – the first emanation of the One – is the Mind/Spirit known as Nous. This is the divine mind that contains all of the perfect Platonic Forms.

It thinks at infinite speed since it understands all things perfectly – except the One itself, which it endlessly contemplates. It can’t grasp the One because the One is quintessentially infinite to the uttermost degree (bad infinity rather than good infinity") and such an infinity defies comprehension.

Minds, in order to understand things, are necessarily in the business of individuating things, limiting things, finitizing them, drawing boundaries around things, separating them. How could any mind hope to say anything meaningful about infinite infinity? You can give it a label, but you can’t seem to do anything else with it. Yet you can know something about it. The infinite is nothing but the limitless repetition of the finite. A mind, by grasping the finite, rationally understands the infinite (as above, so below; as finite, so infinite), but it can never truly confront infinite infinity directly. It’s unfathomable. That’s why the Nous is engaged forever in contemplating the eternal enigma of the One.

Where the One is infinite infinity (bad infinity), the Nous is finite infinity (good infinity). The Nous is the prerequisite for a demarcated, comprehensible universe. Otherwise, incomprehensible infinity overwhelms everything.

The Nous is the mathematical mind of God. It is the whole of mathematics presented as one, instantaneously and forever. It is unconscious. It might be conceived in terms of the ultimate supercomputer working at infinite speed across infinity.

Mathematically, the Nous is simply a perfect arrangement of mathematical points (monads) in a perfect Cartesian arena. In Illuminism, the Cartesian arena is defined as six-dimensional (three real number axes and three imaginary number axes) since this is the optimal number in which physical reality can be played out. However, although the first six coordinates are the critical ones in terms of materialism, there’s no reason why a monad can’t have infinite coordinates and belong to an infinitely dimensional mathematical space (Hilbert space). Unless a sufficient reason can be given why a limited number of coordinates should be applied to a monad, then an infinite number must be assigned (even if in practice most are superfluous).

The Magic of Six

Six has numerous fascinating properties, a few of which are listed below:

Six equals the sum of its three proper divisors (1, 2 and 3), hence is a so-called perfect number, of which it is the smallest.

It is the first number which is neither a square number nor a prime number.

Six is the first biprime (created by multiplying two primes; in this case, 2 and 3).

It’s the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers (1, 2 and 3).

In physics, there are 6 types of quark and 6 types of lepton (quarks and leptons are the two kinds of fermions (matter particles)).

6 is the atomic number of carbon, the basic atom of human life.

Arguably, there are six forces: electricity, magnetism, weak force, strong force, gravity and mind (culminating in consciousness and free will).

6 is the number of Patrick McGoohan’s legendary character in The Prisoner.

Six is the number of faces of the cube.

So, Nous – the Divine Mind – is none other than the Cartesian Coordinate Grid, so familiar from school. It is an ONTOLOGICAL grid, i.e. it actually exists, and on a cosmic scale (indeed it defines the cosmos). The whole of physical reality plays out within this perfect mathematical arena, in which all of the laws of mathematics are inbuilt. It is of course an immaterial arena; it is purely mental because it is made of a perfect array of monads (minds). Moreover, it is alive! It is a living mathematical six-dimensional grid, containing all of the laws of mathematics that, in turn, define the laws of physics (of Nature, the material world).

Thus, the physical world is actually a mental construct, and all physical things take place within a perfectly constructed mental grid. The Nous is like the God of Bishop Berkeley that observes everything at all times, thus ensuring objective reality.

Where does energy come from? From monads – from minds. All energy is fundamentally mental. So why do we think of energy as being non-mental? The answer is objective mathematics. When mental energy from any monad finds itself travelling through the Cartesian arena, it is no longer subjective, unextended and mental; it is objective, extended and physical.

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a physical world. The word objective is far more accurate and suitable, i.e. there is a subjective world of zero and infinity (mind), and an objective world of all the numbers in between (which is wrongly called physical or material; in truth, it’s just a special type of mental existence).

The Cartesian arena itself is what is responsible for space and time, for individuation, for materialism, for an objective world. The Cartesian arena imposes extension on things – it creates Pythagorean distances between different entities. It thus establishes ALL of the ingredients necessary for an objective, physical world.

The Power of Zero

Kant said that minds create phenomenal reality by imposing structures on an unknowable, noumenal (true) reality. We say that the Cartesian-Leibnizian mind-manifold, of its essence, creates the phenomenal, scientific, material world. We have thus rendered the noumenal domain entirely knowable and shown how the phenomenal domain is its logically inevitable consequence.

The phenomenal world is a mathematical product of the noumenal word, hence is formulated according to the laws of mathematics. Naturally, a conscious mind in the phenomenal world will find mathematics everywhere – what is nature if not a mathematical wonderland? Space and time are not Kantian intuitions given to minds as prerequisites for understanding the phenomenal world. Rather, space and time are actual, objective properties of the Nous, the cosmic mathematical mind. Individual minds don’t invent space and time. It’s objectively out there, created by the collective mind of the knowable, but unobservable, noumenal world.

As soon as you have two entities with unique coordinates, you have an objective mathematical distance between them, which, in a flat topology, can be directly measured via Pythagoras’s theorem. Things separated by distance have extension, i.e. belong to the Cartesian extended, material world. It really is as simple as that.