The Matrix of Illusion

Should check out Ram Dass on youtube.

Lift not the painted veil which those who live

Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,

And it but mimic all we would believe

With colours idly spread, --- behind, lurk Fear

And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave

Their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and drear.

I knew one who had lifted it --- he sought,

For his lost heart was tender, things to love,

But found them not, alas ! nor was there aught

The world contains, the which he could approve.

Through the unheeding many he did move,

A splendour among shadows, a bright blot

Upon this gloomy scene, a Spirit that strove

For truth, and like the Preacher found it not.

by Percy B. Shelley

Very interesting link abook! A great book is 'The Self-Aware Universe, how consciousness creates the material world' by Amit Goswami, PHD, he is a western physicists who is the son of a eastern mystic. It is tough read but very intriguing. Some of the things he touches on is follows:

Consciousness is a quantum state until awareness from any particular stimulus collapses the quantum state into a matter of choice or measurement. Our brains our basically storage devices, hard drives, where we can reference and make correlations to pass stimuli and occurrences (decisions) and referencing memories from the brain over time gives us the ability to predict outcomes. For example, in my field there are numerous procedures and clinical steps of which I have to be aware of possible outcomes. In short, learning how to be analytical. In contrast, to show how a consciousness of a child, very young, or one that has no collection of memories or experiences that an adult would have, the possibilities of any problem in their mind at that point really are a quantum state, meaning that even possibilities that don't fit or make sense are considered. For example, my daughter thought that I could hide behind the toilet when we played hide and seek. There is a correlation between creativity and it being diminished by the substrata in our minds by the analytical processes. These processes can be looked at as logical statements and groups. Logic is the software of the the software which comprises our computers. Code and scripts have to follow a linear logical sequence and can not be discontinuous. All of high mathematics (calculus and theoretical ) focus on the importance of continuous functions. To have a range of inputs and then to have a range of outputs where some of which are unknown is a discontinuity. Creativity in contrast to logic is a discontinuity. There is a sudden 'jump' from what is known to something new that was previously unknown with no indication of where or how that jump was made. You just kind of arrived there, it is an inspired moment. In other words, a discontinuity is that quantum pool of infinite probability from which miracles can be represented. Godel's theorem supports that, that a complete system is inconsistent. Creativity is a function of consciousness and likewise logic can only be manifested where there is a consciousness stepping through it. You can not run an if/then statement if there is no consciousness to step through that measurement. The 'I' is an illusory discontinuity collapsed by our brain/mind measuring device ( consciousness.)

i must have accidentally willed myself into a ball of snot and mucus. I've been coughing up lung oysters for days.