Vicious Circle VI

By Stan I.S. Law

94 Blogs In Search of Secular Ethics inspired by HH Dalai Lama. 

 

As mentioned in previous collections, the author does not aspire to infallibility. He does hope, however, to stir readers' minds to join him in the Search for Ethics that would free us from the fundamentalistic dogmas of both science and religion.

 

VICIOUS CIRCLES will never end. After all, we are immortal.

 

Kapuscinski holds that the Circles represent Life itself. They are the substance of the ever-expanding, eternally metamorphosing, Phenomenal Universe. New religions will come and go, and we shall forever continue to explore SECULAR ETHICS that will gradually unify us into a diverse yet single expression of the CREATIVE ENERGY, of the Omnipresent, Eternal, Indestructible, Energy of CONSCIOUSNESS. He illustrates this philosophy in all his novels.

 

A few SELECTED BLOGS: (Aug. 2017—Dec 2018)

 

Key to Immortality

New Eden

Of Gods and Men

Catharsis of Men

The Consummate Atheist

The Quintessential Avatar

The Culture of Death

Delusions

Hermaphrodites

The Power of Knowledge

Cycles of Devolution

The Eternal Mystery

The Problem with Infinity

 

As, apparently, our author is a world-famous, completely unknown writer, we took the liberty to include a few blurbs from readers who seem at odds with this definition. Now, at the onset of the Age of Aquarius, with social, political, economic and religious upheavals, the search for Secular Ethics that would unify humanity is particularly important.

 

Feel free to comment on our author's efforts, write a review, and thus partake in the ongoing search.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stan I.S. Law
• Release date: Oct 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781987864724

Book preview

THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT

Ray Kurzweil, the renowned futurist, warns us that the onset of AI is at hand. Steven Hawkins, even more famous physicist, insists that AI is bound to spell doom for the human race.

They are both right.

We seem to forget, that AI already exists. We, humans, are biological robots endowed with artificial intelligence. We seem quite unaware that we have created a brain, some 100 billion neurons, to generate artificial intelligence, which can, and does, control some 37.2 trillion cells of our body. Most of the time the brain is set to work automatically, responding to past experience, stored in our subconscious. This seems to suffice to maintain our bodies in good working order.

We do not seem to accept the fact that we are little more than very brief visitors in the constructs we had created, to experience and learn from the consequences of our creative acts. We achieved this, of course, through trial and error, better known as the evolutionary process.

And that is no mean achievement, although, over the infinity of time, we have created, and continue to create, endless transient universes. The only constant reality is the potential energy. All else is transient.

Our brain, a biological computer, is naturally disposed to experiment with diversity, a natural consequence of the singularity of its Source. Not singularity of space or time. In fact, just the opposite. Our Source is, eternal, ubiquitous, and amorphous. It is hardly surprising that the inherent desire of the Infinite Potential Energy is to diversify throughout space time, while maintaining its attributes throughout its creation. Each creative act is experimental and hence transient.

As for the destruction of the human race, well, we had a good innings. Our 200,000 years, with the last 6,000 being reasonably civilized, is long enough to prove that we are not doing a very good job with our biological computers. Even worse, some DNA tests suggest that we have split from the apes some six million years ago.

By contrast, our precursors, the dinosaurs, were around for some 65,000,000 years. They were much better behaved than we are. As for lizards, they were born some 320 million years ago and still around.

We completely forgot what is our purpose. Our egos, which were designed to serve, took over as masters.

Perhaps, at the very least, we shall contribute elements necessary for the creation of a new species, which will eliminate the negative traits of humanity. It is high time we did that, or at least before we destroy the planet, which has shared its wealth with us. Planet created by anther species, some 4.5 billions years ago.

It seems that we no longer deserve it. Hopefully, the future individualizations diversifying the Omnipresent Amorphous Energy endowed with infinite creative potential will show greater awareness of their origins and purpose.

We, the real WE, shall see.

Every now and then you come across a book you wished you had read years ago. DELUSIONS - Pragmatic Realism is one of these books. It tackles the biggest philosophical, religious and scientific issues head on.

From 5-star review by Fred Shaefer, Author.

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Reviews are gratefully appreciated. 

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DELUSIONS

Pragmatic Realism

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January 10th, 2017

AWAKENING—THE EVENT HORIZON

Consciousness is like Spirit. In a way, all-powerful. It creates realities. It is omnipresent. You think of the moon and, in your mind, you’re there. You might as well think of Andromeda. Or the French Riviera. In your mind, they are equal distance apart. Almost. Your mind is not the same as your Consciousness, but it’s the next best thing. Your Consciousness is already there—your mind takes you there—in no time at all. One day we shall learn to increase our rate of vibrations and manifest there physically.

Consciousness is all-inclusive. It is replete with infinite potential. Like everything in the Universe, it is the source of quanta and vibrations.

We are Its individualizations.

What gives us personality is our will, our decision where and how to place our attention. Two people regarding exactly the same object, reading the same book, listening to the same song sang by a bird, a rock-band, or played by a symphony orchestra, will receive them all in a completely different way. We create our realities by the way we interpret the potential wheeling within us and without us. And then we become the consequences of the way we place and exercise our attention.

In this sense we are gods. Almighty.

It is all up to us. Up to our attention.

Attention is what builds our individuality, our soul. The grand total of our experience is stored in our subconscious. When we leave the transient, illusory, phenomenal reality, the incredible storehouse of subconscious gives us our illusion of heaven. There, we no longer suffer the consequences of our mistakes. There we know that our reality is no more than an echo of our transient experiences; that all is but a manifestation of the energy of consciousness, which we can mold through diverse rates of vibration, into endless forms, into endless realities.

Yet only at the slowest vibration, we can experience the consequences of our actions. It is the fastest way to learn.

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And yet, though our Consciousness is already there; it’s a long journey. We are creatures of habit—shifting attention is not easy. We start with the AVATAR SYNDROME, perhaps by unifying the two hemispheres of our brain?

Here are a few 5-STAR blurbs:

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Fantastic Book

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Scientific and Spiritual

Endearing and Enlightening!

A tale of an extraordinary life!

The marriage of creativity and genius

Thought-provoking and masterful work!

Another great spiritual journey from Law

Impressive, deep and intelligent! Loved it!

And continues in HEADLESS WORLD...

Brilliant!

Excellent!

Amazing Book!

The Amnesia Machine...

As deadly as it is cathartic. Amazing!

An intelligent and thrilling adventure...

Another stunning book by Stan I. S. Law!

An outstanding sequel to The Avatar Syndrome

Awesome What If. Timely and Totally Believable!

And finally, there comes AWAKENING. The awareness of who and what we really are. We hover at the Event Horizon until...

... well, find out for yourself...

Let me know what you think, or better still, say so in writing...

Reviews are gratefully appreciated.

Your thoughts are important to me.

The Avatar Syndrome

Books One

Headless World

Book Two

AWAKENING—Event Horizon

Book Three of the Avatar Trilogy

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January 18th 2017

KEY to IMMORTALITY

Of Gods and Men

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Most people still seem unaware that their true self, the consciousness that constitutes and defines the individuality of their being, that takes part in becoming, is not generated by their physical body, but rather by an energy at such high rate of vibrations that is undetectable to our physical, emotional nor even mental awareness.

This should come as no surprise to us, as we are unable to see in the infrared range, cannot see nor feel radio waves, are quite unaware of cosmic radiation, nor can we detect countless other energies of which our Universe consists. Our true consciousness is synonymous with the energy of life. In the past people referred to it as spiritual energy, making it undetectable by definition.

This is not to dismiss the value of our phenomenal bodies. Such, although transient and made up of energies at their lowest rates of vibration, serve to illustrate the consequences of our attempts to translate various aspects of infinite potential resting in our unconscious, into kinetic manifestation. It is only when we become fully aware of the results of our creative endeavours that we can judge their efficacy.

As for consciousness generated by our bodies, principally by the 100 billion neurons of our brains, those serve, principally, to maintain our physical bodies in a good working order. After all, our true Selves need biological robots, i.e. to experience and enrich the countless phenomenal universes which contribute to our reality of becoming. They, the robots, also generate our egos, necessary for the survival in the transient phenomenal form.

The ancients seemed well aware of the essence of our being. The Gospel of Thomas is a perfect illustration of this. Only recently, however, thanks to a number of scientists, we have learned that the universe consists exclusively of indestructible energy at different rates of vibration. This offers us a new vocabulary to explain the past knowledge. They, the ancients, seemed well aware of the difficulty we all face in understanding the reality in which we live.

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The Gospel of Thomas states: Whosoever finds the explanation of these words shall not taste death. We are endowed with the gene of immortality. Our genome can endure thousands, perhaps millions of years. But what of our consciousness?

My book offers us the Key to Immortality.

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Let me know if the KEY led you to deeper understanding, or better still, share it with us all...

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KEY TO IMMORTALITY

Exegesis: Gospel of Thomas

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January 26th 2017

EVOLUTION

Masters and Minions

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Regrettably, few of us heard about the Universal Laws, and fewer still decided to follow them. Hence, some evolve, and the vast majority sustains the status quo. The difference between the two groups is the degree to which they manage to sublimate their ego to free their individual Self.

Not an easy proposition.

There is another problem. At each stage of evolution, we think that we, or at least some of us, have reached the stage wherein the truth we have gained is absolute. That we have the word of God, and hence nothing can possibly improve it, adjust it, or add to it.

Not so.

Thousands of years ago people thought they arrived at the truth. Thousands of years later they thought the Earth was flat. Now we are told that there is no matter, that all is energy. In another thousand years, we might learn that all is just consciousness, and the reality we experience is no more than our vision of it. Who can tell what ‘truth’ humanity, or any other intelligent embodiments of consciousness, might arrive at, a million or two, let alone a billion years from now? After all, the latest we hear from the scientists that the Big Bang was a false alarm, that even the phenomenal universe might be renewing itself in an eternal cycle.

We live and learn, but only if we do not pretend that we have already arrived at the truth.

Science, to quote Carl Sagan, is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. The absorption of truth requires an open mind, not one stuck in a fundamentalist doctrine of either religion or science. 

Each creative act is experimental and therefore transient. We, the instruments of creation, the mobile self-replicating biological computers, achieve best results when not distracted by the propensities imposed by the struggle of physical existence. The mystics and great artists insist that such creativity can only take place when we completely negate our egos. Only then we can draw on the Source, on our unconscious, to initiate a creative process.

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As we advance along the taxing steps of evolution, the scope of our creative endeavours increases proportionally to our awareness of our purpose. The scope of our responsibilities increases even as our consciousness expands. After all, we are gods. Well, potential gods. Gods in waiting.

The Winston Trilogy takes us through various stages of evolution. We begin low, increase our influence through indirect means, invariably staying in the shadows. Gradually we might rise to planetary if not galactic realms, guiding and serving ever greater multitudes.

A few 5-STAR blurbs for One Just Man, book one of the Winston Trilogy...

Great Book!

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Books 2 and 3 of the Trilogy collected similar accolades. Find out for yourself, and then share your thoughts with us.

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ONE JUST MAN

ELOHIM—MASTERS & MINIONS

WINSTON’S KINGDOM

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February 3rd, 2017

HEAVEN & EARTH & HELL

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Most of us remember the saying: Many are called, but Few are chosen. First, we must ask what of the many, many, more who have not been called, who never heard the Word. What is to happen to them? I call them the Third Party. It seems that the nomenclature needs elucidation.

Those who rely on biblical statements and who heard the Word are, reputedly, amongst those that have been called. The question is, what word have they heard. If they rely on scriptural statements that are veiled in symbolic meanings to protect them, lest the pearls be cast among the swine, then they must decipher ancient symbolism. If not, then whatever they heard is relatively close to nonsense. People like Richard Dawkins ridicule the word, as they are totally ignorant of their symbolic meaning.

Yet even those who have heard and understood it, still have a choice to put the knowledge into practice or to ignore it. Only those who actually practice the word are among the ‘Few’. Very, very Few...

The rest, the vast majority, are the Third Party.

If this vast majority reacts to the dictates of nature, they cannot be blamed. After all good and evil is a purely human invention. We forget that what is good for some, might well be bad, let alone evil, for someone else. Democrats and Republicans will attest to that.

No. There is only a state of balance.

After all, strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life. And here comes symbolism. There was no nomenclature available 2000 years ago, to explain the issue. The gate is the narrow range of alpha brainwaves through which we can enter the inner reality. As for the narrow way — it corresponds to the Event Horizon. It is the narrow path from which we can either fall into the dissolution (the black hole), or spread our wings to increase the diversity of the Infinite Potential, of which we are but tiny individualizations.  After all, as above, so below...

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These subjects are both elaborated in my books. The secret doctrine can be studied with the aid of my DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL SYMBOLISM. As for the Event Horizon, AWAKENING, book 3 of the Avatar Trilogy, delves into the reality of Heavens. The inner realities begin in our subconscious and end in infinity. Even our scientists, some of them avowed atheist, accept the concept of infinity with a magnanimous gesture. Until recently,  only God was infinite. God, the Infinite Potential in the timeless condition of being. Now, the stage of becoming joined the divine. And becoming is Life itself.

A few blurbs from 5-STAR reviews for Avatar Syndrome:

Just Brilliant!

Fantastic Book

Very Good Book

Scientific and Spiritual

Profound and Inspiring

Endearing and Enlightening!

A tale of an extraordinary life

The marriage of creativity and genius

Thought-provoking and masterful work!

Another great spiritual journey from Law

Impressive, deep and intelligent! Loved it!

And many more...

Avatar Syndrome, Headless World, and Awakening take us on a trip from phenomenal reality to First Heaven. Let me know what you think, preferably with a review. I need your thoughts.

AVATAR SYNDROME

HEADLESS WORLD

The Vatican Incident

AWAKENING

Event Horizon

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February 11th, 2017

UNIVERSAL LAWS

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Each man receives according to his ability to receive. The saying originates in the Bible with the story of talents, and is picked up, if a little inaccurately though surprisingly, by Karl Marx. The point is, however, that neither Bible nor Marx affirms that this is a truism derived from nature. The saying teaches neither religion, nor even social justice, but simply conveys the manner in which the universe works. It is true of man, of all animals, all fauna and even flora. Every living creature can only