[image error] “Alas, poor Yorick,…” Sarah Bernhardt, London, as Hamlet. Photo: #62850_1920 WikiImages (CC0) Pixabay.

To scratch or not to scratch, that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of an outrageous itch,
Or to take up Fingers against a Skin of irritations,
And by scratching end them: to relieve, to relax;
No more; and by a relaxation, to say we end
The aggravation, and the thousand natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to?
—Soliloquy inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Philosophers have debated for centuries whether or not we have free will. We now have the answer, but most people won’t like it at first glance.

In most cases, free will is an illusion. But there is one slender thread of free will. Jesus Christ described it.

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matthew 7:13 –15).

Every choice most humans make is driven by deterministic, action-reaction ego. That means, there is an entire absence of free will at work. Sure, the person has lots of choices within the machine, and that looks like free will, but it isn’t. Every one of those choices are usually and only made by ego for one or another selfish purpose.

Free will, on the other hand, comes when we act as spirit, rather than as ego.

Examples of free will in action include,

True forgiveness—completely letting go of any and all attachment to the source of potential resentment.Inspiration—non sequitur ideas that come from spirit, rather than from an unbroken chain of observation and logic.True altruism—Giving to others without any concern for self.Unconditional love—The only True form of love; all other forms are a variety of selfish need.Utter humility—Putting the needs of others first. Putting the Truth of God above our own ideas of what is true or not. And remaining open to learn no matter how much certainty others have that they are right.Perfect responsibility—Being responsible for everything in the universe—not only what we create ourselves, but also what others do to us, what others do to others, and every other event in the universe.Fearless confidence—Perfection of certainty. We can be certain in the power of God, but not necessarily know “how” He does it all. This is not certainty of our own ideas or beliefs.Faith—Humble confidence. Confidence without humility frequently descends into arrogant blindness or blind belief. Faith is never blind.



[image error] Jesus in wilderness, building his own Prosperity Engine. Russian Painting: 1872, Ivan Kramskoy. From #1023419_1920 Timeship (CC0) Pixabay.

Those who say they “forgive but cannot forget” are betraying their lie. Obviously, they do not know what forgiveness is all about. True forgiveness is forgetting—not the forgetting of “memory loss,” but the forgetting of “losing importance.”

Look at that dust speck sitting on your computer keyboard. There may be lots of them, but look at “that one.” See how “important” it is? Doesn’t it infuriate you the sheer arrogance of that tiny strand of dust by the fact that it exists, mocking your own existence? (Do you detect a note of sarcasm, here?)

The memory of hurt you suffered should be as “important” as that speck of dust you had not noticed until only a few moments ago. That is part of True forgiveness.

The “altruism” pursued by the political Left is toxic, and full of self-concern; they want others to sacrifice their selves for the good of the group. They “hate” selfishness, but cannot see their own selfishness. Secular Rightists, like the late Ayn Rand, are correct in rejecting such toxic, fake altruism. But both groups are missing the Truth, entirely. They remain stuck in the physical machine. They ignore the spirit. True altruism is frequently anonymous, for it does not need the praise of others. And true altruism can sometimes seem to betray a group by delivering to it a far more valuable lesson, nudging it away from corruption and oblivion.

Perfect responsibility is never a burden; blame is the burden. Blame is evil; True responsibility is divine.

Certainty without spirit is merely imperfect belief. It can be wrong and frequently is. Such imperfect, physical certainty reduces awareness and thus also reduces intelligence. Some of those with the highest IQs have fairly low levels of Effective Intelligence.

Free Will and the Prosperity Engine



[image error] Jesus walking on the storm-tossed Sea of Galilee, helping his disciple, Peter. Christ’s Prosperity Engine, here, is working fully.

The creation of a Prosperity Engine involves utilizing the only slender thread of free will available to us. If we approach building our own Prosperity Engine from the viewpoint of “importance” or “self-concern,” we turn our backs on that narrow gateway which leads to spirit, and we end up pursuing a fantasy in the so-called “real” world.

Any logical goal is possible. Creating a Prosperity Engine without spirit and selflessness is like baking a cake without flour, eggs and sugar; it’s illogical.

God created this universe as the complete opposite of His own traits. If we choose to follow the physical, we choose death, for physical matter does not contain the spark of life—only spirit has that. If we choose the temporary, selfish fix of finite prosperity for the sake of self, we risk fleeting satisfaction and long-term suffering. If we choose God and the infinite prosperity of spirit, we can have unending prosperity and life, because they are not tarnished by physical decay.

God created “man” in his inverse image. It is the image of God, but convex instead of concave (think plaster cast of your own face). He created us to “receive” all that He wants to “give” to us. But the key thing He wants to give us are His own traits which are entirely opposite those of the physical universe.

Space—The opposite of Love, for space separates us.Time—The opposite of Responsibility, for persistence only occurs by shirking responsibility for a creation (think God’s day of rest).Energy—The opposite of Humility, for power is a braggart which claims the ability to do anything.Mass—The opposite of Confidence, for the ultimate in mass does not allow even light to escape.



Prosperity Engine Progress



[image error] Here, Cypher, in The Matrix, contemplates being placed back into the machine as an “important” cog. Copyright 1999 Warner Bros.

It’s amazing how we can remain blind to things for years, or even decades. We’re simply looking in the wrong direction or thinking we already know some aspect. That “certainty” narrows our ability to see. After my period of strong, experimental miracles (1974–1986), I hadn’t merely taken a break in order to learn something new, as I once thought, even as recently as a week ago. I realized this last week that I had abandoned the spiritual and had taken up again the physical viewpoint. Like The Matrix (1999) and its character, Cypher, I had forsaken the Red Pill and had plugged myself back into the physical, action-reaction universe. I had decided—unknowingly—to become, once again, a cog in the machine. Ouch!

This had not been a conscious decision, but merely one of subconscious forgetfulness or creeping darkness, like the crepuscule of evening as Earth rotates away from the bright light of day.

My writing about these things, over the past decade, has helped to bring me back. And this series of blogs has helped to accelerate the process.

Meditation, Self-Sacrifice, True Altruism and Politics

I’m still having difficulty with the morning meditation. Pinpointing the specifics of a dark belief—or barrage of dark beliefs—is still relatively difficult. Underlying these feelings, though, is a solid confidence in the power of spirit to overcome all barriers, plus a willingness (most of the time) to give up this separate viewpoint for the benefit of others. The willingness to sacrifice self is part of the vital ingredient of humility. This does not mean we actively pursue self-destruction. Quite the contrary. But it does mean that we sever all attachments to the physical self and its needs, as we might detach ourselves from a wrecked automobile.

Ironically, one group of freedom seekers rejects such humble altruism, declaring it to be evil Leftism. I’ve already mentioned this, above, but it bears further exploration.

Farthest Left = 100% Government; 0% Individual Liberty and Responsibility;
Farthest Right = 0% Government; 100% Individual Liberty and Responsibility;
Americanism ~5–10% Government.

Rejecting valid altruism? This is particularly true of the followers of Ayn Rand. Despite her genius and logic, she could never rise above the physical to include spirit in her equations.

There are some aspects of Leftism which “look like” the more spiritual attitudes, but they remain a lower level copycat with the wrong motivation—and pointing in the wrong direction. For example, Leftists and even some Rightists conflate responsibility with blame; they are not the same thing. In fact, responsibility and blame are opposites.

Leftism operates from fear—fear of individual freedom. In other words, they want Big Government to protect them from the evil others might do with their freedom. But they forget that governments are made up of fallible humans, and that evil people tend to crave power far more than do the good people among us.

The selfishness of those on the Left is driving us right into the hands of the ruthless psychopaths who would destroy civilization and remake it in their image of “Nirvana”—a Neo-Feudalistic New World Order, run by a few thousand “elites,” and assisted by a few million “serfs,” with most of humanity disposed of as “excess population”—the great “culling” that one “royal” female bragged was starting.

Let’s not lose sight of the goal, however. This dark reality is merely more fuel for our fire to launch our own Prosperity Engine. Remember, the Globalist-Leftists think of their goal as “important” enough to lie, steal and murder. And “importance” like theirs is physical—forcing them to remain cogs in the machine of physical reality. They have no spiritual power; they only use darkness or evil. Ultimately, they will lose because of these things.

But the lessons of God need to move forward. For this entire turmoil is part of the “birthing process” of our “Spiritual Rebirth.” Like physical birth, our Spiritual Rebirth will involve pain to help wake us up. I don’t like the fact that others will suffer. This is all the more reason for us to build our Prosperity Engines to help wake up others to their own spiritual nature, and to turn their backs on physical, selfish needs.

Spirit depends on the freedom that the Left fears. Their version of altruism is fake—forced generosity for the Collective, rather than for the oneness of spirit. Their version is physical, leading deeper into physical territory, rather than offering freedom from physical entrapment (think: Islamic suicide bomber, as an example of fake altruism).

Leftism is motivated by the dangerous selfishness of others (thieves, murderers, conquerors, corporate criminals, etc.), plus the Leftists’ own unwitting selfishness to protect themselves from such dangers. Thus, they fight against the American 2nd Amendment, which guarantees that the government will not infringe on their God-given right to self-defense. But too late! The government has already infringed countless times.

But the far Right isn’t the answer, either. The far Right—wrongly defined by Leftist Academics and their friendly Dinosaur Media—is still on the physical level. Far Right is 100% individual freedom and 0% government; not the chaos and violence represented in the political cartoons of the last century and a half.

Physicalists, like Rand and her followers, are missing the fundamental purpose of this universe. The purpose is not to win for individual freedom, and to be a prosperous, physical cog in the machine of physical reality.

The fundamental purpose of this universe is to get us to choose spirit over both sides of the Left-Right dichotomy. In other words—to walk away from both sides, and to choose spirit.

But the best position may well be on the Right of the political spectrum, so long as we don’t lose sight of the overall purpose.

The problem is, most people on the Right have lost sight of this purpose, so they may require a stiff dose of Leftist tyranny to kick them out of their spiritual laziness and intellectual blindness.

Prosperity Engine and the Political Perspective



[image error] Tricky Vice President, Joe Biden, who bragged about Ukrainian collusion, and President Donald Trump, acquitted of Russian collusion. Part of the Left-Right paradigm. Official Photos: (PD).

What does this political discussion have to do with building a Prosperity Engine? Quite frankly, everything. The patterns of motivation found in society-at-large can be found within each individual’s subconscious. One mirrors the other. This is why the act of “not forgiving” the Globalist-Leftists will make us also “not forgiven.”

When we are generous and loving enough to give forgiveness to our enemies, then we deserve infinite forgiveness for ourselves—including the forgiveness of ancient karma that has not yet been triggered on us. This one point is huge for our future health and prosperity. Being stingy or hoarding tends to dry up the source of infinite abundance. These are related concepts.

The problems in society are very similar, and connected to, the problems we face in building our Prosperity Engine.

Ego has figuratively kicked me in the teeth over the last few weeks. This series of articles is full of the bumps, pitfalls and warts from me doing my own internal work. I include all of these dark details in these articles for two reasons:

To let you, the reader, know that you are not alone in your quest for self-improvement of any kind—your struggles are not unique, andTo document for myself the details of my own journey so that I may make more sense of it all.

But there is also a seemingly selfish reason, too. Later, I hope to distill all this learning process into a more efficient, pre-packaged batch of wisdom for a book to help others.

How could this last idea be selfish? Some people might view it that way, especially if I make lots of money helping other people make lots of money. But it only seems selfish from that viewpoint. Perfecting the Prosperity Engine makes individual prosperity a shared, altruistic prosperity—a responsible prosperity.

Ego would want from us one or more of a number of conflicting behaviors:

Hoarding the prosperity (Silas Marner stinginess).Giving away some to appear “good” to others.Giving all of it away to appear “good” to others.

Doing any of the above to satisfy ego would be motivated by various forms of selfishness or self-concern.

Doing any of the above as fully responsible spirit might look like selfishness, but would be entirely devoid of selfishness.

Social ‘Goodness’ vs. Responsible Management of Prosperity



[image error] Gold treasure. This is okay, but it is not the real prosperity of the Prosperity Engine. Photo: #1633073_1920 TimCGundert (CC0) Pixabay.

Even seemingly “hoarding” wealth honestly earned can be entirely loving and altruistic. This is because the motivation is one of responsible management for the benefit of others.

And yes, ego can fake this last one, too. Only God and the individual know for certain the true motivation. And perhaps others who are operating as spirit—the Enlightened, like Christ, Buddha and perhaps Lao Tzu—may also know who has the pure heart.

When a selfish individual asks a rich person for help, the one with the fully operational Prosperity Engine needs to use care in relinquishing funds.

Sometimes, the person asking needs a different kind of help—a “No” answer, for instance. Such a person may accuse the rich man of being selfish, but this is their ego talking. This is the poor person being selfish and resentful.

“For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath” (Matthew 13:12 ).

For the truly worthy person, whether or not they ask, the rich man, with a fully operational Prosperity Engine, may reject the request in public, but in private will see that the needy person is helped anonymously. And a worthy person who asks and who is publicly rejected, will remain grateful for the opportunity to ask. Thus, he remains worthy.

Can ego fake this “gratitude?” Of course it can. Thus, the rich man with the Prosperity Engine needs to see into the heart of those who ask, in order to know for certain. Operating as spirit, this becomes easy. Remember, Christ could even see that Peter would renounce his master three times on that fateful night. Christ could see that Judas would be the perfect betrayer needed for Christ’s mission. And despite knowing the wisdom of “living by the sword leading to dying by the sword,” Christ could also attract a disciple with this fatal flaw, which helped to galvanize the temple guards against Christ on the night of his betrayal.

And if the righteous need ever becomes great enough, the rich man with the Prosperity Engine may give up his entire fortune to help others. After giving away the physical wealth, he is still a rich man, for his prosperity is not based on physical continuity—like interest-bearing savings accounts or rent-generating property—but based on the Source of infinite prosperity.

Coming Up Next

Next week, the article will tackle the rather odd question: “Is time itself evil?” The creation of time involves the application of “darkness.” Oh, boy! This is going to be good!

Coming after that, the next article will look at what I call the “Prosperity Paradox”—overcoming every layer of negativity concerning prosperity. And there is one layer that is powerful—the very act of creation itself has a negative element involved. All the more reason not to become attached to any of the prosperity we create. Hoarding clogs up the Prosperity Engine.