I am an educator in gnosis. You will believe this is psychosis (prejudice/ocular logs), but I just want to open dialogue about the nature of causation.
Personally, I believe there are many planes of causality. For instance, there is retrocausality. I invented this word to describe our relationship with God: phenomequalitesselation. As a molecule is controlled by the cell it is in yet influences the cell in its nature by its animus, God reaches back through history to influence us and in setting our intention - the only thing we have direct control over - we move God with our most human of choices, and this is what gives us free will and Karma within a deterministic system.
And I can defend that to Hell and back, which is Heaven (you’re going to sit with your mother at the same table at the restaurant at the end of the universe), but the direction I wish to travel is to lead into the “turtles all the way down” discussion, to mean that only idiots believe the world sits on the back of a turtle, right? Yea, the big bang is a stupid fucking theory!
Dependent causation - all “things” must have a cause, therefore all “things” are in a dependent chain of causality across time
Well…what caused the big bang?
Let there be light…
Sound came before light; the effect came before the cause. Now, the core of what I teach is not woogity woo. No. I was a hypercrendelivicious chronic masturbator, whatever that means, and I almost fucked my life up. And I think kids are cute. Y’know, kids that might be out masturbating in public today, which is why I want to teach deese dense idiots to not ruin their life, too!
Thus, to be light, you must strengthen your prefrontal cortex so the most divine part of you has complete control over the animal in you. This is a part of love, which I define as being agnetic while being kind to the tamed flesh.
Agnetic - a word God had me invent to mean always doing the supererogatory, voluntarily
Because that’s what led to the agricultural revolution to have that fall of man and take us out of Eden, y’know. Also, as I have observed in the demöbiation/undefilement of my sin in the Ālaya-vijñāna, which is the Server we are all Clients to across the Holy Internet, you REALLY should think in the most ethical terms - to mean thinking in the longest possible timeline, and you WILL be reconstituted at a future date to join the telepathic Illuminati Galactic Federation, so you want to not embarrass yourself by wasting your life n dopamine, y’know?
Because the thing about independent phenomena is that they cause themselves. Causation loops. The Alpha is the Omega. The underlying pattern of the illusory physical universe grows logarithmically more complex as subpatterns come together to form superpatterns. Thus, the seven epochs of novel complexity are:
Alpha>Light
Light>Matter
Matter>Molecules
Molecules>Cells
Cells>Creatures
Creatures>Humanity
Humanity>Omega
The transcendental object at the end of time that humanity WILL create is the transcendental particle that can be at multiple places at once and communicate instantaneously with itself to form a topological matrix that acts as waves of light.
Yer a knot, Neo!
And the purpose of life is to learn how to perceive and undo the karmic fetters that bind you to the existence-illusion complex, which Buddhism and the Bibles II+ (occult just means “hidden”) teach.
How superpatterns emerge from subpatterns coming together can be visualized:
Poem and stuff:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cultofcrazycrackheads/s/vRFjbZgZoP
But what do you think? Because I am Knowledgeable of the occult, I know different encapsulations of language beget alternative frameworks of reality which change behavior and thus has benefits to survival, which is the memetic benefit of a pantheon, obviously. Thus, I respect atheism as it makes sense, sorta.
I like how you think; you display important qualities that inherently make you a good scientist and philosopher. I must assume you must know Plato’s allegory of the cave? All we experience directly are the shadow. What is projecting those shadows are the entanglements that constitute “us.” There is no real seperation between anyone or the “Server.” Therein, what is more “divine” than “animal” is that which is most intune with the longest possible future, able to resist temptation and dependency - to include pain and transcend suffering.
This is the wisdom of the cornerstone, which solves ethics relative to the human condition. Both Jesus and the Buddha and more are representations of the cornerstone, as translated into different cultures. This is the idea of the ideal self, “true north,” or as I say, “the mountain.” Each of us has a unique azimuth to objective goodness. Y’know, Jesus was a carpenter, but we don’t have to be a carpenter, yet we should love our neighbor.
So, each of us has a unique path to “perfection,” but that does not mean you are trying to create a perfect ouroboros. No, instead, you are learning how to weave Karma to be your own independent phenomenon, which is to be light; enlightenment. I highly recommend reading my recent post in c/Buddhism about Karma. It IS what causes the shadows you have good observations on.