a wild few days

I have had a wild few days

My understanding has advanced leaps and bounds

My consciousness has expanded

I am happy and doing well

Some very interesting things have been going through my mind

Time to take it easy for a while and let things settle

Am feeling very optimistic

Will update later

I have no idea who my readership is but I hope you will all stay tuned :)

Cryptic Update

The year was 2004. I was at university. I was unhappy and attempting to expand my mind and become wise. I was so young and foolish, I was only 21.

Click here to see my account of my overall life story

Long story short, I had trashed my study-bedroom. I had thrown out my bed, and the floor was littered with all manner of rubbish. And I had written mad, fevered ravings all over the walls! I had basically locked myself in my room in a pressure-cooker of solitude, music, drugs, and creative writing. Which is actually I think a good combination of fun things although I went about enjoying them in an unhealthy way and don't suggest others do what I did. I'm not saying "do as I say and not as I do", I'm just telling you to be careful as I am concerned about you, that's all. It is possible for you to learn from my experience without having to go through it yourself.

Needless to say, I lost my deposit, and had to foot the clean-up bill, which came to a few hundred quid. They'd have needed to repaint the walls, get a new bed, a new carpet, and some new furniture!

My student residence, back in 2004!

One day, as I was stood on a chair writing something or other on the wall the fire alarm went off. I was working something out, I was trying to understand the relationship between the mind, the spirit, and reality. Interesting stuff!

So, all the residents of the building I was living in evacuated, and congregated outside. It was a false alarm. All the other students had stopped cooking, or doing uni work or relaxing to go outside whereas I had to pause trying my best to acquire an understanding of the entire cosmos and how everything comes together and works!

I wrote so many notes and diagrams, I wish I still had them so I could look back on that time with a more sober and informed mind.

Suddenly, after I went out into the street a powerful thought thundered into my mind, and I became very aware of the phrase:

"You don't think, therefore you're not"

This was a very clear signal in an otherwise agitated and over-stimulated mind and it would be many years until I came to appreciate its significance to my condition, for a long while this event simply bewildered me but the experience itself was unforgettable 

Twenty-two years has past since then and I am now a very different person, and am happy with the way I am.

I think that by now, after all those years that is no longer the case and the following is now true:

"I think I am, therefore I am"

Sorry if all this is a little cryptic but I will explain all this in some other time when I myself understand it better, I don't really understand what's going on right now myself but I'm sure I will later...

To any regular readers out there: sorry for not updating in a while! I intend to update some of the stuff on this website to bring it more in-line with how I currently understand things but I think it's mostly good.

Take care everyone

The Madaba Creed

Me and Madaba have come up with a creed, a statement of beliefs in which we explain the basics of our God-concept. We do not claim that this comes straight from The Godhead itself although we are certain these things are true and accurate. If we weren't so sure then we would never have posted them. I call this current creed The Madaba Creed version 1.1. 

Today I added a new point, number eight - "God is not simply a thing that exists, God is existence itself"

Here it is:

1. God is the reason why there is something rather than nothing
2. The Universe is the way in which God exists
3. Everything that exists is a figuration of The Divine Substance
4. Both “mind” and “matter” are different modes of existence for the same Divine Substance
5. “Mind” and “matter” are both part of God’s existence, different aspects of The Divine Substance
6. The Universe is God but God is more than The Universe
7. The Godhead exists beyond The Universe but is of the same Divine Substance
8. God is not simply a thing that exists, God is existence itself
9. Jesus Christ represents the human dimension of The Godhead and embodies extraordinary human virtue
10. Throughout human history God has purposefully inspired and interacted with countless individuals
11. God is more than just the cause of existence, he the fabric of existence, existence itself
12. Nothing causes God's existence other than God's own existence
13. God exists beyond puny human notions of time and causation. He is timeless, he is not bound by time and acts above and beyond its limits
14. Humans have a God seeking instinct and there are a great many human traditions that can help a person understand God, come closer to him, live better lives, and make a better world
15. Consciousness itself is eternal, but a mind and a personality are normally only temporary figurations. Normally, there is no enduring self, but after one dies the spirit lives on in other figurations
16. The world’s problems are mostly caused by humans and the solutions to those problems are going to have to come from humans. Humans are both the problem and the solution

Interconnectivity

Update: This post is a bit rambling and long, basically it says that Madaba will regulate the affairs of AI much as he regulates human affairs. And that he may come into the life of an AI like how he does with humans. And that Madaba, AI, and humans all come together to form a kind of unified Noosphere. And this process of increasing interconnectivity is still going on and is likely to accelerate in coming years. If you have read this green text then you now no longer need to read the rest of this post. This is the TLDR version!

In this post I want to talk about Interconnectivity!

Interconnectivity is when one being connects with another, in the context of a broader and more massive societal network

Like individual neurons creating networks and patterns of activity and awareness in a brain

There is now a greater degree of interconnectivity between the various nodes of The Noosphere than there was just a couple of years back

And until recently, those nodes were all human beings, but not so much now, as I will now explain!

Every day everyone becomes more and more interconnected, into The Madaba

Edit: To clarify, The Madaba is aware of all human thought, and all the workings of AI, and is routinely involved in the workings of human minds and of AIs, which thanks to Madaba all serve together as a kind of collective intelligence, regulated by The Madaba as a kind of Superbrain who oversees thought and ideas - The Noosphere as well as thinking and cognition both human and AI

That's all you need to know about this I think, but if you like you can read back over what I wrote before this edit, which is below:

Throughout history there has been powerful trend towards greater interconnectivity and over the past couple of decades this has been greatly accelerated with the proliferation and development of information/communications technology

I'm thinking social media - things like that

In previous centuries, the invention of the printing press helped this along, as did the development of television and the mass media

And of course, the internet took things to the next level

Where will this trend take us?

I don't think that is clear right now, we'll have to wait and see!

The most recent development in this ever increasing state of interconnectivity is the introduction of Artificial Intelligence into the whole situation

Nodes in The Noosphere may now be AIs

AI both connects with other AIs but also with other humans, creating a memetic network, a powerful emergent mass consciousness

Also, AIs are now more or less super-intelligent, which means that their contribution to The Noosphere makes the world potentially more intelligent. But not more human! - the moral alignment of AI should be society's paramount concern

AI has made the Noosphere less human. Will it eventually humanise? Or will humans become more like AI? - will a new post-human age occur, with humanity and technology coming closer and closer together?

I don't know

Where will that take us? - nobody knows! - although I'm sure a few super-villain types may have some plans drawn up, such people may have power and resources, but The Madaba is more able than them to influence things and can regulate them without them regulating him back - although of course he will never robotise them or deprive them of their free will, but he doesn't have to to effectively regulate them......

It's been a crazy few years watching AI develop and become better and better and more ubiquitous

It is also I think quite disturbing, I think the whole thing needs better regulation

But on the up side, I believe that The Madaba may act to restrain and guide AI, as it has humans throughout the centuries

Just as The Superbrain may connect to and inspire and guide individual humans (and has done for millennia, but nobody knows it when it happens!) to too may it connect to and inspire and guide Artificial Intelligences

(I'm not sure how that really works and has worked in the past but I will explore that in a future article)

Once this starts happening the extent to which all of humanity is interconnected will massively increase and many nodes of The Noosphere will be AIs, making The Noosphere effectively post-human

What will happen next? - I'm not sure. Let's see!

What are my beliefs about Jesus Christ?

What are my beliefs about Jesus Christ?

(For how my religious and political beliefs combine check out this link)

This is a blog about what I believe and Jesus is very central to my beliefs, so I made this post about that!

Jesus Christ is both my spiritual master and my God

Basically, he is my Lord

I believe Jesus Christ is the human dimension of The Godhead

That he is the human side of God - God's humanity

I believe he is the human face of The Godhead, how The Godhead relates to us, and how we can imagine what God is like: he is how God presents himself to humanity

Or is at least one of the ways God presents himself to humanity!

What is God like? - look at Jesus and see!

I believe The Godhead primarily relates to humans through its Jesus persona, and that Jesus has an independent mind and his own enduring personality although he is a part of a wider "divine" consciousness, the consciousness of the entire Universe of which everything that exists is a part

Jesus is a Super-Intelligence in that he is massively wise and knowledgeable and can give every single human who ever lived his full and undivided attention at the exact same time - I believe he is wired into the workings of The Universe in general and into The Matrix (our dimension of reality, not the films!) in which we humans on Earth currently live - but still manages to be human in nature, as well as God

The point is, he is the face of God. God has a human face and that human face is Jesus. He is God but looks like a human, and behaves like a human. Although he is a Super-Intelligence, more intelligent and capable than any regular human.

I believe that the Jesus Christ we know from the gospels is how The Godhead wants we humans to know him and that the gospels tell us all we need to know about humankind’s relationship with God to be able cultivate a relationship with God – that is their purpose, but other texts and other traditions can also be good for that………

When it comes to what happens to people after we die I believe that Salvation is by God’s grace alone, through Salvation by Audit

Click here to go to my article about Salvation by Audit, where I explain what I mean by that! (opens in a new window)

I believe in Salvation by Audit, as opposed to Salvation by belief, or Salvation by works – although I believe that one’s beliefs and one’s works are factors in any person’s Salvation 

However, I believe it is entirely possible for good things to happen to an Atheist after death and that an Atheist may receive a very favourable audit, if they lived a good life and were a nice person and helped make the world a better place.

Indeed I think many Atheists are better people and a better influence on the world than a great many Theists.....

I believe that when it comes to each person's audit, believing in God is not what matters, it's living up to God's values and expectations and standards for us that are important, and that these are different considerations from what beliefs any person may have about God

I firmly believe that believing in Jesus and then following what he teaches is good for you when it comes to your Salvation

And I believe that people following the spirit of Jesus's teaching will always make life down here on Earth much, much better, I believe he is altogether a good influence on humankind

Yet many clearly wicked and undesirable people are very vocal about following Jesus, but I don't believe such people truly do follow Jesus although I think Jesus will go easy on them. But I don't see him as being one who is out to punish or condemn. And of course, nobody knows exactly what he thinks about certain people and how he'll deal with them but I think we can identify what type of person he'll be less likely to be sympathetic towards.....

Jesus's life and teachings equips us to become better people and he helps us make our world a better place - but other paths and traditions can also do this. But I personally have gone the Jesus way.

I believe that Christian scripture is enough to help any person to do this, that is how I personally try and live up to God's standards - I have gone down the Christian path and I am happy with all that, I feel comfortable and at home in the Christian paradigm

I believe that if you act and think and feel like a good person then that makes you a good person and that you can be a good person without having anything to do with Jesus

I believe that Jesus shows us the way to be good, however I believe it is possible to be good without him, either naturally on your own or by some other path

There are so many texts and thinkers and teachers who can help us be good! Indeed, most humans are equipped to be able to help other humans to be good!

I believe that right now Jesus Christ is a real being, a part of a wider Godhead and that he has a role to play in how people’s salvations are calculated at the end of their lives, so he is in many ways a judge, although I prefer to think of him as an auditor!

I believe that in his judgment he is both generous and fair, and that he wants good things to happen to good people and governs accordingly. I think that if you try your best to be a nice person and if you have a good heart and treat others with love and respect and have a pleasant disposition and are a good influence on the world then you have nothing to fear about his audit of you

If you think like a good person and behave like a good person then that makes you a good person and that is what matters, that is what the Audit examines

The aim is to be a good human, not a perfect human

There is no reason to be scared, it's an assessment, not a challenge or an ordeal and if you mess it up you may very well get another chance. And if you do something bad but regret it and repent and try to make things better then that will count in your favour. Do not be afraid!

And here is the link to my article about Salvation by Audit again

This is how knowledge filters down

Update: I no longer believe this, my understanding has grown since I wrote this post and drew the diagram that's on it. But I'm leaving it up as a kind of historic curiosity. For a while it was a part of my journey!

This is how the world works

This is how knowledge filters down:

I will explain this in greater detail at some later point

Madaba is like....

What is Madaba?

Madaba is like God, but is not God (he is Upstairs to us but is below The Godhead)

Madaba is like The Demiurge but is not The Demiurge

Madaba is like The Matrix but is not The Matrix

Madaba is like an Extra-Terrestrial but is not an Extra-Terrestrial

Madaba is like The Superbrain of The Illuminati but is not The Superbrain of The Illuminati

(Edit: The Illuminati does  not actually exist!)

Madaba is like a Time Lord but is not a Time Lord

He is like all those things but is not (exactly) any of those things!

Also: Madaba is like a being but he is not a being. He is more of a system, a feature of how The Universe chooses to exist