Much simpler than I had thought. That's what I'm doing---following my passion in life and not expecting anything.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3248493348675158

Fascinating podcast of two seasoned astral travelers (Out Of Body Experiencers) and their observations on and experiences with this phenomenon. I am encouraged that they distinguish it from being in a lucid dream as I had thought that was all it was. Now I wanna try it myself.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2151489682131663

What's interesting is the idea that some things do indeed get too big to put them back in the bottle because their creator is politically incorrect to one faction or another. Fortunately for Rowling, she didn't make it on the new commie list till the late 2010s. Potter was too much of a pandemic by then.

Otherwise, nothing new. Even funded educational systems have made targets out of individuals and movements in the classroom going back to the turn of the 20th-century. Surely Monty Python and scores of other entertainment programs on the BBC parodied or degraded or criticized somebody across the many decades. Not just BBC documentary programming.
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JON DEL ARROZ
https://youtu.be/X3uu-NHA3Po

VIDEO EXCERPTS: When you look at the hate that gets leveled at JK Rowling, it's absolutely absurd. I'm a relative nobody in the world of fantasy fiction online, compared to her. She's the master of everything at this point. But I know exactly what it means to cross the narrative and have these people go at you over and over again with spurious, awful things. It weighs on you.

But it's amazing that she can just let this slide off. So, I guess if you're a billionaire, it helps. It helps. You've got a billion reasons to not worry about it. It would be nice to get to that level, of course.

Now, in a lot of ways, Harry Potter got so big culturally that it's too big to fail and that they cannot remove it from the culture. They really can't do anything. And that's why she can be so smug all the time in response, which is just a glorious way to react to things and makes me like her all the more.

Now the BBC is going at her directly at this point, and it's pretty weird. When I saw this story, I was like, how can this be legal? Because the BBC is not just some random media entity making a gotcha thing. They're taxpayer-funded. They are state-funded. They're state controlled.

So this means the actual state of the UK is actively trying to incite hatred against its own citizen, JK Rowling. That is what's happening here. That's the implication of this.

[...] This is a two-part JK Rowling documentary that they are putting out on her. And the second episode is not about her. It's not about going off on her views concerning gender identity. So, it is an entire episode with the intention of directing hate against her. Says it places her at the heart of increasingly bitter online exchanges. JK Rowling will not be interviewed for this.

The film's working title is called JK Rowling. It's made by Rogan Scotland and green lit by BBC 2, BBC Scotland, and iPlayer.

It's due on the BBC next year after Harry Potter's HBO series releases in December. In an effort to incite hate when the TV show comes up. And I've said this is very weird because we talked about Will Wheaton earlier this week saying that all the actors should be ashamed of themselves and going at them. Remember, there are child actors involved here. So these people are trying to harass child actors; that's what it comes down to. All because of JK Rowling's views.

Now the first episode will spotlight the creation of Harry Potter, the stratospheric success of the wizarding universe created by Rowling. There's nothing wrong with that. That is a legitimate documentary. The second one will examine her interventions on Scottish independence, feminism, free speech, and gender identity, which place her at the heart of increasingly bitter online exchanges. It's obviously a hit piece and a hatchet job on her. The new series will draw on archive material...

The BBC used taxpayer money to make a hit piece on JK Rowling ... https://youtu.be/X3uu-NHA3Po

[b]The CTMU’s metaphysical axioms center on reality as a self-contained, self-descriptive, self-processing structure, expressed through principles like the Reality Principle, Linguistic Reducibility, Syndiffeonesis, Closure, and the Metaphysical Autology Principle (MAP).[/b]
Overview
The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU), developed by Christopher Langan, presents a formal metaphysical system grounded in logic, self-reference, and linguistic structure. The CTMU Wiki and related formalizations outline several axioms and principles that function as its metaphysical foundation.
Core CTMU Metaphysical Axioms (from ctmu.oak formalization)
These axioms are presented in a formal logical style and represent the metaphysical structure of reality according to the CTMU.

• [b]Reality Principle:[/b] Everything that exists is in reality.
  Axiom: For all x, x ∈ reality.
  
• [b]Realness:[/b] Something is real iff it is relevant to reality.
  Axiom: x is real ⇔ relevant_to(x, reality).
  

• A system is self-contained iff it contains exactly what is relevant to it.
  Axiom: S is self_contained ⇔ ∀x (x ∈ S ⇔ relevant_to(x, S)).
  

• [b]Absolute Difference:[/b] Two things are absolutely different if they share no properties.
  
• [b]Syndiffeonesis:[/b] “Difference-in-sameness”; no two elements of a system are absolutely different.
  Axiom: S is syndiffeonic ⇔ ∀x,y ∈ S, ¬absolutely_different(x,y).
  

• Anything describable has linguistic structure.
  Axiom: has_linguistic_structure(x) ⇔ can_be_described(x).
  
• [b]Language:[/b] x is a language iff it has linguistic structure.
  

• [b]Self-reading, self-writing, self-configuring:[/b] Defined via closure under predicates like reads, writes, configures.
  
• [b]Self-Processing:[/b] x is self-processing iff it is both self-reading and self-writing.
  
• [b]SCSPL:[/b] Reality is a Self-Configuring Self-Processing Language.
  Axiom: SCSPL(x) ⇔ x is a self-configuring, self-processing language.
  

• Information and cognition are unified.
  Axiom: infocognition(x) ⇔ information(x) ∧ self_processing(x).
  

• [b]Omnipresent:[/b] x is omnipresent iff self-distributed.
  
• [b]Omniscient:[/b] x is omniscient iff self-reading.
  
• [b]Omnipotent:[/b] x is omnipotent iff self-configuring and self-processing.
  
• [b]God:[/b] x is God iff omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.
  

• Reality cannot have external components.
  
• All explanations must be internal to reality.
  
• Reality forms a “closed descriptive manifold.”
  

  
  
  
  

  ctmucommunity.org
  

• [b]MAP (Closure)[/b] – reality is descriptively closed.
  
• [b]M=R (Comprehensiveness)[/b] – the model equals reality.
  
• [b]MU (Consistency)[/b] – reality is self-consistent.
  

  
  
  
  

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Excellent description of this fundamental mystery at the root of consciousness studies..

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1840436390735482

The bigger mystery? How did the conscious construction of the outer world, and the containing physical world itself, become so interchangeable---so seamlessly mistakeable--for each other? There was never any survival advantage to noticing their difference. It became a necessary illusion, like seeing ourselves in the mirror, and was programmed into our genes for millions of years. It required the evolution of certain kind of mind called a philosopher to expose their inherent differences.

This next year will bring a whole wave of elections in the various European countries. Here's how they appear to stack up, according to the National Pulse

Bulgaria
Bulgaria holds its presidential election on October 25th, 2026. Current President Iliana Yotova, backed by Prime Minister Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria movement, leads the field by a wide margin in recent surveys. A Yotova victory would lock in the preference for a negotiated settlement in Ukraine over continued arms shipments to Kyiv, giving war hawk voices less weight in EU foreign policy.

Spain
Spain will vote on November 29th, 2026, after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a snap election. Multiple polls put the center/squishy-right People’s Party in the lead, with populist-nationalist Vox doing well enough to give both parties an absolute majority if they work together. The currently ruling Socialist Workers’ Party is facing intense criticism for pushing an amnesty supposedly for 500,000 illegal aliens. (More than a million applied for the amnesty.) The mass migrant crossings into Ceuta has pushed immigration, where the Socialists are weakest, to the top of Spanish issues.

France.
The first round of France’s presidential election falls on April 18th, 2027. Marine Le Pen of the National Rally (RN) party leads first-round surveys, which she has done before but lost in the second round when the other parties united against her. This time, polls suggest she might win the second round. In September, National Rally president Jordan Bardella signed a memorandum of understanding with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party at the latter’s conference. The document commits both sides, if in power, to intercept migrant boats in the English Channel and return their passengers to France pending ultimate repatriation to their countries of origin. It also calls for shared costs and tighter controls on illegal working and welfare access. A Le Pen presidency would place a longstanding critic of open borders at the head of a founding EU member and radically alter discussions on migration returns and EU integration.

Italy.
Italy must hold parliamentary elections by December 2027. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) continues to be Italy's most popular individual party (there are lots of parties). Italian conservatives and President Trump in the US have been critical about the surprisingly slow pace with which Meloni has addressed her campaign promises and her apparent willingness to court the EU establishment in Brussels. This has led to the rise of increased populist opposition to her right. But her government has begun to record some modest results in reducing seaborne migration. Deals with Tunisia and Libya, reinforced border measures, and a potentially trend-setting offshore processing center in Albania have contributed.

Poland.
Poland’s parliamentary election is due by autumn 2027. Globalist and pro-EU Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition leads individual polls, yet the combined strength of the formerly governing Law and Justice party (PiS), the populist-nationalist Konfederacja (Confederation), and smaller national-conservative groupings remains substantial enough that cooperation among them could produce a right-leaning coalition government. The right already holds the Polish presidency. A stronger parliamentary result for the right in 2027 would likely orient the country further away from permissive immigration policies, climate politics, and a relaxed attitude towards migration.

Germany.
Germany holds multiple state elections in 2027. The eurosceptic, anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party leads national polls after winning nearly 44 percent in eastern Germany's Saxony-Anhalt. Germany’s establishment parties have responded by renewing discussion on potentially banning the populist party.

Estonia.
Estonia votes on March 7th, 2027. The national-conservative Isamaa has frequently led or placed near the top of the polls.

Finland.
The populist Finns Party is already part of the governing center-right coalition. The Social Democrats are challenging.

Greece.
Greece is scheduled to vote by late July. PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s center-right New Democracy holds a clear lead.

Slovakia.
Robert Fico’s currently ruling Smer-SD faces progressive opponents in a close race. Fico has questioned the automatic invocation of NATO’s Article 5, resumed military attaché contacts with Russia, and opposed EU financial packages for Kiev that he argues will prolong the war in Ukraine, instead pushing for negotiations.

Don’t how or why that thought just popped into my head a few minutes ago. Was thinking if the universe works like some sort of cosmic operating system then perhaps it acts as a massive digital engine processor. So if things align correctly then it can generate RNA, DNA or whatever and produce a life form.

Upon thinking it over some more, an information universe might contain codes to spark life into existence. Universe might possibly be a a digital to biological converter of some kind. Starting to think that life isn’t going to be produced in a lab anytime soon. We need those codes. How you’d get them I don’t know but from what I just looked at, apparently we can do the reverse but can’t put Humpty-Dumpty together again. Biological to digital ok in a lab, that Ventner guy supposedly has done this, but biological to digital to biological not happening.

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. […] Personally I find nothing upsetting about silence at all. In fact it can’t get too quiet for me.”
--William S. Burroughs

This quote comes from “The Job,” although Burroughs expressed his belief that silence was important many times. He of course believed that language was a virus and that this meant people were compulsively verbalising—not only speaking aloud but with an internal voice. As words essentially controlled people, silence was resistance to that control. He believed silence was highly beneficial, perhaps even leading to the cure of certain diseases, and would try to sit silently and halt his “subvocal speech” whenever possible."
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"We live in a world that doesn’t stop talking. Notifications ding, podcasts play on a loop, TVs run in the background, and even when we’re alone, we fill the quiet with noise. For many of us, silence feels uncomfortable, even unbearable. If you can’t eat a meal without the television on, can’t read without music in the background, or can’t stand the sound of your own thoughts in the car, this blog is for you.

The question is: what does that restlessness around silence really mean? And more importantly, what is it costing us?

The Science of Silence

Most people think silence is simply the absence of noise, but to your brain, it’s an active healing state. Studies found that just two hours of silence a day promoted new cell growth in the hippocampus, the region responsible for memory and emotional regulation. Other research shows even a few minutes of quiet lowers blood pressure, reduces cortisol, and allows the nervous system to shift out of fight-or-flight into repair mode.

Silence isn’t emptiness though, it’s medicine."

https://elissagoodman.com/health/the-hea...ness-tool/