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Misapprehension

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I was thinking about something in quite a roundabout way, so please bear with me.

I’ve heard photographers talk about “3D pop” effect of certain lenses, and initially I didn’t understand what they are talking about, because it’s stupid. Then I understood what they were saying, but I still think it’s stupid.

You see, the so called “3D pop” effect in a picture isn’t caused by the lens, it’s caused by the light and what it does in a scene. If the light is “flat”, basically if the weather is cloudy and the whole sky is a softbox, the volumes in the images aren’t being lit in ways that show their 3D nature. Also, lighting can help separate the planes; if there’s a vehicle in the mid-plane, and it’s lit horizontally by sunlight, and the mid-plane is additionally separated by the depth of field, it’s going to “pop”, appearing quite three-dimensional.

The effect is magnified if the lens is sharp and contrasty, so that the shadows and reflections are precisely defined, and there is no haze in the image.

The effect is reduced if the lens is not stopped down correctly, if the depth of field is too shallow or too great. If it’s too shallow, it doesn’t encompass the whole motive in focus; if it’s too great, it doesn’t allow the foreground and background to fade, isolating the motive and allowing it to stand out. So, basically, for the most part it has nothing to do with some magical property of Zeiss or other lenses; it’s about illumination of the scene and basic photographic technique. People who talk about this have noticed that something is going on, but they mistakenly think it’s about the lens.

3D pop with the most basic 50mm lens

Why am I talking about this?

I was wondering why the American Christians are so aggressively helping Israel, when the modern Jews are by definition the part of the Hebrew religious community that is defined by their rejection of Christ. One could say that the Jews accept most of what Christians call the Bible, which is technically true, except for the fact that they reject the part that matters most to the Christians because it defines their entire faith, and they accept the part which the Christians have included for the sake of historical context, to explain why Jesus was important, why his teaching is exceptional, and why there was no salvation without him. Essentially, in order for the solution presented by the Christ to be understandable, they had to show what the problem was, and the problem was exactly the part of the Bible that the Jews believe in, while the solution is the part they vehemently reject. By all rational standards, the Christians should not like the Jews very much, and historically that was exactly the case. They thought of them as slanderers of Jesus and Mary, as blasphemers and liars, and considering what was revealed to me recently, that seems to be exactly the case. So, why are the American Christians so intensely supportive of Israel?

From what I can tell, they think the world will end when the conditions described in the Revelation of John, also known as the Apocalypse, are fulfilled, and since it’s all about the events that are happening in the territory presently known as Israel, they concluded that a Jewish state needs to exist there in order for the battle of Megiddo to take place; the Harlot, Beast and Antichrist to be revealed and destroyed by the second coming of Christ, and the world to end.

The problem with the Revelation is that it’s part rehashing of the Old Testament, part insane rambling. It’s the part of the Bible most beloved by crazy people, and it’s obvious why. Some part of it might indeed be prophetic or inspired. Most of it, however, is raving madness. If you’re informing your worldview by that text, you have a serious problem.

A large number of people are doing exactly that, and they are going even further: they are actively working on making it come true, by setting up what they see as necessary conditions for the second coming of Christ. This unfortunately isn’t without precedent, because Jesus did certain things “to fulfil the scriptures”. Essentially, it’s like “predicting” that you’ll die on a certain day and then killing yourself so that you get to be a prophet.

Essentially, those people seem to think that God is somewhat stupid and can’t seem to get his shit together about the end of the world, so they’ll get out and push, basically. They’ll set up the conditions described in the Bible as preceding the end of the world, and they will even make the battle of of Megiddo take place. Not only that: they will even make other things described in the Revelation a reality, as if to bring reality closer to their religious framework, and then use that as an argument – “you see, it’s all coming true!”

You can see why I started with the story about the “3D pop” effect. People tend to perceive something real, but then confuse all sorts of things and derive all sorts of weird conclusions, and I see this sort of weird thinking everywhere. In this case, I’m afraid, we have a weird cult of American crazies who are trying to enact Armageddon so that their JeeeEEEzasss!!! would finally come, and they are used by another cult of Jewish crazies who are trying to enact the supposed conditions for the arrival of their Messiah. Both think God is stupid and senile and needs to be prodded a little because he can’t seem to get his shit together, so they need to get out and push.

Fejka

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I’ve been wondering why LLM fake-AI systems manage to be so effective, since they are essentially glorified autocomplete; basically, they are a neural network based probability engine that determines what’s the most likely next word in a sentence.

Maybe because most humans are a neural-network based probability engine that’s also very good at figuring out the next thing that’s expected for them to say. And then this crossed my mind:

“FEJKA artificial potted plants don’t require a green thumb. Perfect when you have better things to do than water plants and pick up dead leaves. You’ll have everyone fooled because they look so lifelike.”

That’s what most people are. They are a fejka. LLM systems merely stumbled upon this fact by accident. A fake artificial intelligence can learn to finish sentences, paragraphs and entire articles in passable ways because that’s what fake human intelligence does – finish sentences in a “correct” way in order to avoid ridicule and punishment. Everybody knows what to say and all their conversations are formulaic and predictable to the point where someone learned how to make a computer system that does the same thing.

It’s not just text. People learn how to take photographs in a formulaic way that gets them acclaim and avoids ridicule. They learn how to have spiritual experiences that will get them acclaim and avoid ridicule, because they are of the exact same kind as everybody else’s, which is what created the idea of religions having the same origin and goal and it’s all the same thing. It’s because everybody has been copying homework from others. They are all fejka plastic potted plants. Looks like the real thing, but even better, because you don’t have to water it.

Now that I think about it more, human brain seems to be very good at doing the human autocomplete thing on autopilot when there’s no soul in the driver’s seat. The corollary is that spiritual awakening is the point where a soul wakes up in the body and actually starts perceiving things, paying attention and controlling actions – “oh fuck, I’m driving a car”. That’s why actual souls can be perceived as weird compared to a fejka NPC – a fejka knows what it has to say next. An actual soul has to figure it out, and is likely to say the “wrong thing”.

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I recently had too much on my plate to be able to write anything relevant; karmic processing isn’t fun, and both Biljana and I have been under it quite severely. We barely even managed to go out and take pictures, and that really says something.

But, some pictures do get taken:

Biljana got her new Canon R5 body, which would normally mean lots of photography, but, as I said, karmic processing is no joke.

We are taking things very slowly and carefully. My new A7CR body and compact lenses are in the mail, and will arrive eventually.

A mini tripod did arrive, and that’s something I will eventually be able to put in the backpack and do some mountaintop astrophotography, unless end of the world comes first.

As for the war that’s currently going on, it’s proceeding as expected: the American attractor is empty; I removed its power cells, and now America can no longer sell its bullshit and everybody hates them. Similar things are happening with Israel, with a distinction that I didn’t have to do anything. In fact, I was careful not to mess with it, lest I collapse an avalanche of karmic rubble upon myself, now that I’m already overextended. Fortunately, Biljana is now strong enough to be able to help, so I don’t have to do everything on my own. She probably doesn’t feel all that fortunate at the moment, but that’s how that works. 🙂

Just a heads up, really; we are struggling, but managing to stay afloat. We had much worse in the early years; having money helps. Hvar also helps, but only in the recovery phase, after the karmic processing; we can heal from the damage more quickly here, and in the Plitvice lakes, than anywhere else. But while this stuff is ongoing, nothing really helps, and many things can make it worse.

Israel

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There must be some attractor placed around Israel. There are just too many flies gathered there for it to be an accident, or, as Jesus put it, “wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together”.

Also, the people who used to be bound to the American attractor are now perfectly happy to sacrifice America in order to do Israel’s bidding, which is indicative. I didn’t personally see the spiritual structure there, and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to, because I have more than enough on my plate already, but circumstantial evidence is pretty strong. I mean, a worldly thing or a place that presents itself as spiritual, there are not many of those. Varanasi for the Hindus, and Israel. Maybe Mecca for the Muslims, but I don’t see anything even remotely spiritual about it.

Errors that never mattered

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If you look at my old books and other writing, it’s obvious that I was under several serious misapprehensions. I also didn’t understand all of it correctly. How is it, then, that I was not harmed by those misapprehensions – like, at all? And how is it that my former students could never be justified in disobeying me?

Some of the misapprehensions look quite serious – I thought Sanat Kumar was the Purusha of the Earth, basically the aspect of God dedicated to spiritual evolution in this place. This sounds very much like thinking Satan is in fact God. Which I did. I also thought his plan of evolving people to higher initiation was good. So, I basically said “excellent plan, let me help you with that”, and I assisted people in evolving to attain higher initiation.

Yes, I thought he was God. So I focused on God, saw what is the right thing to do, and did it. I suspect Satan was not at all happy with how that went, but basically, you can’t deceive someone who already has a connection to God. You either pretend you’re God well enough to pass, in which case you can’t effectively do anything harmful, or you try to deceive and you are ignored because it’s not of God. He tried deceiving me both personally and through his sock puppet of Sai Baba, and he used all kinds of sophisticated deceptions, the stuff that would make your skin crawl, on the limits of nirvikalpa samadhi. When I was deceived, it was because deceptions were very good. However, nothing sticks. I went to India, saw that Sai Baba doesn’t have the mantric signature of God, and used the mantric signature of God to break down his playground. Deceiving me works about as well for Satan as catching a big hornet works for a small spider. Successfully caught hornet in net. Net broken.

So, whatever I did then, it had the mantric signature of God and led to God. When I was under some misapprehension, I charged it with the mantric signature of God. The “guys up there” were not allowed to reveal the truth about Sanat Kumar; I had to figure it out myself first before they could confirm it. They could, however, show me enough of the real stuff for his deceptions to fail. I also didn’t know how exactly and why the Kundalini techniques I used work. I knew that they do. The entire theory was gradually revealed decades later. I didn’t have to change a single thing about the techniques, because those were revealed in perfect form very early on, before I started working with students. That’s why nobody is justified in renouncing me by citing my mistakes and misapprehensions. It all had the mantric signature of God. The technical system works. The theoretical understanding came later, but that’s the least important part, and one can attain higher initiation without it, obviously.

That’s why I left my old books as they are, without revising them. It’s a historic record of how things were revealed to me and how my understanding evolved. To say it was all there at once would be wrong, and it would misrepresent the process. It also shows that it doesn’t matter if all is not revealed at once, because what is revealed early is what is needed to reach the point where you get more. Reject that, and you rejected God. That’s how it is. Also, God did this as a test. I was deliberately imperfect, flawed and weakened, so that there would be a possibility of failure to correctly identify me and act accordingly. I also don’t think Satan would allow something that is completely unambiguous to manifest in his world – there always must be room for doubt, so that he could have something to work with.