“Anyone confused? Physical creatures without the capacity of creating a shared virtual world to function within are incapable of good and evil. The efficient functioning of an intelligent machine world may appear just and caring from our perspective, but, in truth, is no more than a ‘well-designed’ process. They may experience pain and pleasure, but as they are not self-conscious they cannot suffer. It is just sensory data. Do not misunderstand me, higher mammals and primates possess rudimentary awareness and so seem to suffer. Elephants and chimpanzees appear to grieve at the loss of a close relative or companion.”
“Subsequently, if the sole existence available for a living creature is material, then the experiences of that creature are material. They may share a common set of behaviors when challenged, approximating Jung’s collective, but nothing more. They lack, not only a theory of mind, but, the capacity to share information via similarly functioning minds which emerged out of biological evolution. This is why, I teach that our human notions of good and evil, though oftentimes differing due to cultural biasing, arise from two major inputs. First, every child is inculcated by the particularities of its local mores system so to encourage the assimilation of useful behaviors and values to guide its life. This is useful, but nothing special, as every machine society would be forced to establish similar educational programs.”
“The second input is much more interesting from a psychoistic view–the presence of a mental factor which we call conscience. Conscience is much deeper than the social mores engendered during the enculturation of a child. We all know conscience, as all of us have experienced it many times. Conscience calls to us, birthing a subtle feeling or by direct knowledge, that our proposed actions, overt or covert, are inappropriate and harmful. When we fail to heed conscience, we generally experience guilt and sometimes shame.”
“True conscience is a qualia which is not begotten by physicality. It arises solely within physical creatures neurologically advanced so to possess self-awareness and a theory of mind. The central nervous systems of such creatures do not create conscience, for conscience is an aphysical qualia, but can experience the ‘feeling of conscience’ as it passes into the mind-brain unit. Conscience is the very first evidence that God may exist! Conscience comprises what Christians know as the Holy Ghost or Comforter.”
“Moreover, unlike less biologically evolved creatures, human mind-brains are able to exchange information between each other without the exchange of sensorial data. You may be thinking, ‘How can he prove his conjecture?’ Paranormal experience? Spiritualism? Mediumship? Nope. Our school possesses a very unusual mental experiment in which participants are able to share experiential information between each other when joined together as a single mental unit focused upon a common goal. Technically, the Institute calls it the ‘Individuation Within the Conjoint Mind Exercise;’ in the vulgate, we call it the ‘Group Mind Exercise.’”
“Tristan will teach it one day when you are ready. Doing this experiment, even one time with a properly prepared individual, opens such his or her awareness so to encompass the vastness of the aphysical universe. Conscience is the first taste of God, and Direct Knowing is the second taste of God. And Direct Knowing is how Tristan and I stay connected no matter where we are in time and space.”
Elaine exclaimed, “Gabriel, then there is an Absolute, a Cosmic Mind, God?”
Smiling, Gabriel said, “Not so fast, little one. Intellectually, the Limitless, the Ein-Sof, the Ground, the Ultimate Nothingness, the Brahman, the Atman, the Merciful, and so on, resides beyond your grasp. We must approach the Grand Metric slowly and carefully so not to be misleading. Have patience. If you persevere, you will find what you need.”
“At last, I can return to St. George’s question as to how our personal beliefs, feelings, and desires influences our collective mind, or metapsychoism.”
“The basic structure of our peripheral and central nervous system is such that we respond to stimuli in our local environments so to survive and benefit. We each possess afferent neurons for communication of sensory data to the central nervous system for meaningful processing, and then efferent neurons to execute appropriate motor responses. The threefold design of our nervous system, input-evaluate-output, is evolutionarily very ancient. It is seen in all animals, beginning with the invertebrates, though in simple forms. Moreover, we find the predecessor system in single cells, to be a threefold information processor, ‘stimulus-evaluation-response,’ functioning through cell member receptor-enzymatic cytosol-cell membrane cilia. There are an input channel, a data-sensitive evaluator, and an output channel.”
“The reason I keep reverting to the physical is to remind you how powerful evolutionary processes really are and how nature retains what works. This is true even in the aphysical world of mentality.”
“Tristan discussed the imago operators and how their functionality grew richer over evolutionary experimentation. He also explained how the human body exists in corporeality, but the human mind exists within a virtual world manufactured by its imago operators. This means, boys and girls, we all live in a most unusual dream world manufactured by the mind-brains of conscious creatures such as yourselves. And the number of governing rules in the dream world is less than in physicality–which is why Magick works in Camelot and elsewhere.”
“Moreover, physical creatures are limited to making observations in that portion of ten-dimensional space allowed for physical matter and energy–our normal three-dimensional space, though in truth our physical world is really four-dimensional. This is why quanta do not move through three dimensional physical space, but simply disappear and reappear, being restrained only by the conservation laws. For physical observers the fourth dimension is not perceivable as it appears to us as collapsed to Planck’s Length. And the objects we observe are only seen when they are stopped onto the Grand Metric, as all physical objects are so to be present in only three-space. I realize it sounds confusing and I am sure all of you are going to go bonkers when Tristan explains his physics–it is utterly overwhelming and original. If he ever publishes, he will overshadow Einstein and Newton.”
“And guess what? This collapsed fourth dimension opens up when we are in our virtual world and so we perceive all four dimensions. This is why ‘virtual physical’ objects actually move in this four-space and our minds can make things disappear, translate, and reappear into four-space with Magick. Magick requires the aphysical and mind.”