Belief Clinic

Many people will have seen AI1-generated images or videos of male politicians dressed in bikinis, saying or doing things they would never say or do in real life.

AI-generated images and videos are now so good that Grok, the AI chat-bot on X (formerly Twitter) is often asked, @grok, is this video real or AI?

We can expect the technology will improve in due course, to the extent that some billionaires have said we won’t need most humans in the future.

But those billionaires have either forgotten or kept quiet about something that’s elementary.

What is that ‘elementary something’?

• 1. "AI" Artificial Intelligence

Summary:

• A mindful, masculine individual is not easily, if at all, offended, for she or he has a firm sense of self - they take responsibility for their emotional responses. They are not 'triggered', or 'victims' - they recognize their co-creation of events and circumstances, and work to improve, correct, or heal.
• The lack of 'masculine men' creates an imbalance that has deleterious cultural side-effects. "Weak men create hard times".

TL;DR (Key concepts)

• A holo-dynamic system is a participatory, creative, self-organising system in which choice is fundamental, such that each part, including all particles, proteins1 and people, co-create2 our experienced reality.
• Perceived divisions –separate, independent states (e.g. heaven, hell, perfection)– are limited perceptions within a greater, creative, inexpressible 'wholeness'.
• In essence, 'holodynamic' means, effectively, that "The Kingdom of God is within you" [KJV Bible, Luke 17:21] translates in modern parlance to "the kingdom, power and wisdom of God is latent within you, awaiting your attention and application".

• 1. This has profound implications for healing and well-being
• 2. e,g, fractals in Nature are the interface of quantum-wave-possibility with actual physicality in the form of river deltas, tree branches and leaves etc.

Dr Kelly Turner has extensively researched the factors involved in radical remissions of cancer (typically called "spontaneous remissions" or spontaneous regressions in the medical literature) and found there are nine factors that are common to all such cases. They are ... (see the full article for details).1

• 1. I explain elsewhere at this site that those who strongly criticize natural healing regimens risk losing income/profits from expensive medical procedures, technologies and medications. As many have said, if you want to understand what's really going on, just follow the money.

In recent times I've observed a growing trend for people (e.g. in online forums) to write "I find that offensive" in response to someone's ideas or opinions.

In my experience, online forums are relatively feckless forms of communication, in that they lack the immediacy of face-to-face interactions. Venues at which people get to meet and really dig deep (e.g. via Bohmian/OpenSpace/World-Cafe style groups) can be extraordinary experiences.

I often hear of, or run across people who espouse all sorts of ... well, quite frankly, incoherent, contradictory ideas and beliefs.

Here's a few ideas that might reset standard thinking.

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Update (August, 2016) - see latest regarding the dynamics of gender

When writing Be and Become during the latter half of the 90's, the various revisions of the manuscript1 included chapter (Nine) titled as "Men are particles, women are waves".

"Men are particles, women are waves" quite adroitly and succinctly expresses the inherent dynamics of life towards individualism, and collectivism -- men and male animals do (as a general rule!) bias themselves towards the hard, physical, individualistic side to life (characteristic of particles). Women do bias themselves towards the soft, inter-connective, cooperative, relationship side to life (characteristic of waves and fields).

• 1. As archived in the Library of Congress

While visiting a friend in Barkandji Country (Aboriginal country around Wilcannia, NSW, Australia, and along the Darling River), I was given a book 'Voices of the first day', by Robert Lawlor. It contains concepts and ideas which are highly congruent with my basic model of The Theory of One and All that I intuited and explained in my book, BE and BECOME.

When researching materials to support the ideas in BE and BECOME I came across a number of leading physicists who voiced a more technical explanation: within certain bounds and constraints (via various 'lattice-works' or matrices, such as fractals), matter and energy is

Picked up an interesting book at a friend's place -- Diarmuid O'Murchu's "Adult Faith: Growing in Wisdom and Understanding"1

Diarmuid speaks of needing to engage paradox and the many related implications:

First comes paradox! ... A paradox does not make sense to our rational minds. A paradox captivates a surplus of meaning that cannot be contained with the structure of rational discourse. For an adult spirituality of our time this is a crucial issue. Adults today are rarely satisfied with compelling rational explanations; there is a "surplus of meaning" that transcends rationality, yet to mature adults it feels essential in our search for deeper meaning. The ability to embrace paradox is central to this sense of maturity.

But what most impressed me2 was his explanation of the art of 'letting go'

• 1. Diarmuid O'Murchu, Adult Faith: Growing in Wisdom and Understanding, Orbis Books, New York, 2010.
• 2. Some sections "mightily unimpressed" me as well, particularly some of his ideas regarding individuality

As has been more clearly and forcefully articulated by (Emeritus) Prof. Robert Jahn of Princeton, understanding the deeper complimentary and interdependent nature of 'masculine' and 'feminine' is immensely important to the future survival of our species.

There appears to be a large and significant blind-spot in the awareness of many people. This blind-spot can’t usually be seen or recognised directly. Like a galactic black-hole, we usually only learn of its presence by how it sucks the life and light out of surrounding bodies — in this case, ourselves and others in our communities, cities and world.

We can learn of its presence by the high and growing incidence of depression which is now recognised by the World Health Organization as “the leading cause of disability.”1

To some extent this black-hole, or blind-spot can be ignored by being busy, taking drugs, acquiring wealth or enjoying ourselves … but it remains in the background, sucking the energy and light from all. And no more importantly is its effect felt, than in the area of health and wellbeing ...

• 1. “Depression is the leading cause of disability as measured by YLDs and the 4th leading contributor to the global burden of disease (DALYs) in 2000.”