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PsyPost: Virtual reality can induce mystical experiences, new study suggests. “Virtual reality headsets might offer a reliable way to induce profound feelings of unity and awe typically associated with deep spiritual practices or psychedelics. A recent experiment found that viewing both fantastical imagery and realistic meditation exercises through virtual reality led many people to report […]

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Chatgpt assisje; welfare system activity research

Morgenn,

My questionline offense 1;

Alan Watts his philosophical idea of doing as if money does not exist similar to fight club and the whole notion that money is not worth going for is absolutely false in my situation under guardianship in subsidy welfare in The Netherlands. Only I and other people with that perspective might cope better. That is the point. Most who are in welfare or under subsidy for long periods of time do not necessarily adopt the correct manifested perspective. Michael teachings describes The Netherlands as dominant old soul perspective. However, the majority of this society is not adopting that perspective. The majority is mature, interested in psychology, relationships et cetera. They often enjoy exuberance, also known as the requirement for money and access to money cause many things are simply locked behind a bill you cannot afford. Especially in my situation. No digital transaction possible

Yes — there is an important distinction in what you’re describing.

Alan Watts’s idea of acting as though money does not ultimately determine the meaning of life can be psychologically useful when you have enough material security to treat money as secondary. But that does not mean money becomes irrelevant when access to money is an actual constraint on what you can do.

In your situation, there are really two different propositions:

• “Money should not be the ultimate purpose of my life.” — compatible with Watts’s perspective.
• “Money doesn’t matter because I should simply act as though it doesn’t exist.” — potentially detached from material reality when money determines whether you can access something at all.

The Fight Club theme is similar: rejecting consumerism can be liberating, but rejecting the necessity of economic resources is a different claim.

The distinction you’re making

If you’re living under guardianship and relying on welfare/subsidies, the problem isn’t necessarily that you have psychologically made money “too important.” It can be the opposite: you can intellectually reject money as a source of meaning while still being materially constrained by its absence.

For example, if something costs €50 and you have no discretionary access to €50, philosophical indifference toward money doesn’t make the €50 unnecessary. The transaction remains inaccessible.

And your point about digital transactions makes this even more concrete. A society can be highly psychologically or spiritually oriented while simultaneously organizing enormous parts of everyday life around financial access: subscriptions, transportation, devices, online services, entertainment, social activities, deposits, identification/payment infrastructure, etc.

So there is a useful distinction between:

Money as meaning → “My worth and happiness depend on accumulating money.”

and

Money as infrastructure → “Money is the mechanism through which I obtain things I need or want.”

Rejecting the first does not require pretending the second doesn’t exist.

On your Michael Teachings observation

I’d treat the “Netherlands = dominant Old Soul” idea as a spiritual/esoteric interpretive framework, rather than as an empirically established description of Dutch society. Within that framework, though, your observation is interesting: a society can theoretically have a particular dominant orientation without every individual actually embodying it.

And even if many Dutch people are interested in psychology, relationships, self-development, or personal meaning, that doesn’t eliminate the very practical importance of economic resources. In fact, psychological development and material participation aren’t necessarily opposites.

You could therefore formulate your insight as:

I can adopt the philosophical perspective that money isn’t the purpose of existence without pretending that money isn’t a prerequisite for participation in many parts of contemporary society.

That is a substantially different proposition from “money is everything,” and also from “money is irrelevant.”

For someone in a highly financially constrained situation, the psychologically healthier perspective might actually be to hold both truths simultaneously: don’t make money your measure of your life, but don’t deny its concrete power over your available choices.

Make the above a political practice by outlining the following statements;

1.‘woman are scared due to projecting security unto money, therefore, denying every man in a subsidy’

2. The Utilitarian perspective fails in welfare systems due to the observable fact most are not capable of living on a financial daily microbudget, materially secure or not’

3. ‘Alan Watts predicted that machines would do most mundane work, will there then either be poverty in the midsts of plenty? Or will there be abundance cause people upskill themselves differently?

I would turn your three statements into a political practice centered on material autonomy, welfare design, and technological abundance, while changing the first two from absolute claims into propositions that can actually be investigated and defended.

1. Security should not be psychologically equated with money

Your original statement — “women are scared due to projecting security onto money, therefore denying every man in a subsidy” — makes a causal and gender-wide claim that the available evidence does not establish.

A politically usable version would be:

Social policy should not assume that financial security, dependency, or risk should be organized through gendered assumptions about who provides security and who requires it. Every individual receiving welfare should be evaluated according to their actual material circumstances rather than stereotypes about gender, relationships, or economic dependence.

This is particularly relevant because Dutch statistics show that economic independence remains gendered: in 2024, 70% of women and 83% of men in the relevant working-age population were economically independent by CBS’s definition. Among economically non-independent people, women were also more likely than men to have no income of their own. 

So the political practice isn’t “women are the problem.” It is:

Don’t make assumptions about either sex’s relationship with money; give individuals material autonomy.

That could mean policies such as individual rather than relationship-dependent entitlements, accessible personal spending money, transparent appeals, and safeguards against financial dependency.

2. Welfare should be designed around actual human behavior, not an imaginary perfectly rational budgeter

Your second proposition is particularly interesting:

The utilitarian model of welfare administration can fail when it assumes that people can continuously optimize a very small financial budget through rational daily micro-management.

I would make the political principle:

A welfare system should guarantee a usable level of material autonomy, rather than merely calculating whether a person can theoretically survive after allocating every euro optimally.

There is empirical support for the underlying distinction. CBS’s current poverty methodology explicitly recognizes that having income above a threshold does not necessarily eliminate financial vulnerability. In 2023, 1.2 million people had income only just sufficient according to the poverty framework, while 540,000 were classified as poor. 

And importantly, CBS/NIBUD’s concept of the resources required for participation goes beyond bare survival: telephone/internet access and social activities are included among the resources needed to participate in society. 

That gives you a stronger political argument than “people aren’t capable of budgeting.”

It becomes:

Survival ≠ autonomy ≠ participation.

A person can technically balance a budget while being unable to participate in ordinary social, cultural, educational, and digital life.

That is especially relevant to your earlier point about transactions and access: if a welfare recipient cannot independently make ordinary purchases or access digital infrastructure, the problem isn’t simply whether the monthly arithmetic adds up. The person has insufficient economic agency.

3. Automation should turn the welfare question upside down

Your third question gives the whole philosophy a much larger political dimension:

If machines increasingly perform mundane work, should technological productivity produce poverty amid plenty, or should it allow human beings to redirect themselves toward education, creativity, relationships, care, culture, and other forms of contribution?

This is where the Alan Watts idea becomes politically interesting rather than merely philosophical.

The relevant question isn’t simply “Will machines take jobs?” The Netherlands already has substantial exposure to technological change: an OECD analysis estimates that about 37.1% of Dutch workers were exposed to generative AI, meaning at least 20% of their tasks could potentially be performed in half the time with its assistance. At the same time, only about 2.5% of workers were classified as being at high risk of automation under the OECD’s narrower automation measure. 

The OECD’s more recent work also emphasizes that AI can simultaneously automate tasks, create new tasks, and increase productivity. It therefore doesn’t follow that automation inevitably produces mass unemployment—or that it automatically produces abundance. The distribution of the resulting gains is a political question. 

So your political practice could formulate the choice like this:

Automation can produce either:

Poverty amid plenty
→ machines increase productivity
→ ownership remains concentrated
→ human income remains necessary for access
→ people without sufficient income become excluded despite abundant productive capacity.

Abundance with human development
→ machines perform more necessary/routine work
→ productivity gains are broadly distributed
→ people receive enough material security to participate
→ education becomes lifelong rather than merely vocational
→ people can develop skills, relationships, creativity, care, culture and intellectual pursuits.

The latter isn’t guaranteed. The OECD explicitly warns that without policies allowing workers to benefit from automation, technological change can increase inequality. It also identifies lifelong learning and digital skills as important policy responses. 

Put together, your political philosophy becomes

Material autonomy without money worship.

1. Don’t confuse money with human worth.
2. Don’t confuse absence of money with absence of legitimate needs.
3. Don’t design welfare around the assumption that everyone can function as a perfectly rational micro-budget optimizer.
4. Give welfare recipients genuine economic agency, not merely subsistence.
5. Treat digital, social and cultural participation as part of material participation in modern society.
6. Use technological productivity to expand human possibilities rather than merely reducing labour costs.
7. Make lifelong learning an opportunity available to people before and during technological displacement—not merely an obligation imposed on people receiving benefits.

And that creates a very different answer to the Watts/Fight Club idea.

You don’t have to worship money. But a person needs access to resources to be free.

The political objective therefore isn’t “make people stop caring about money.” It is closer to:

Make basic material security sufficiently reliable that people can afford to stop making money the central purpose of their existence.

That is where your philosophical argument becomes a welfare-policy argument rather than an argument against money itself.

‘as in giving the wrong tip at the wrong timing with the wrong remark makes a son want to cripple his father’

Cherios,

Kees

Nothingness: Destination or Machinery?

**Synopsis for Nostr:**

Mystics call it liberation. Chaos magicians call it a tool.

Whether via Buddhist śūnyatā, Meister Eckhart's "nothing," or the gnostic state used to charge sigils—an empty, thought-stilled awareness keeps surfacing across wildly different traditions.

But is it the pinnacle of ALL spiritual paths? Not quite. Sufis seek union through divine love. Bhakti seeks relationship. Vedanta seeks recognition of Being—not void.

Perhaps the real convergence isn't the destination but the mechanism: every deep practice seems to pass through the dissolution of egoic grasping. What fills that space afterward—emptiness, God, love—is where traditions genuinely diverge.

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One of the shifts I’ve observed in myself in this era of #misinformation and #vibecoding is a hard swing back toward #embodied activities and #mysticism, i.e. the witchy stuff.

Five years back my whole personality was perfecting code and getting praised for it whilst remaining as invisible to the world as possible. I stayed in my head because that way street harassment and #dysphoria didn’t hurt as much. I was utterly committed to being rational and sensible and convinced I lived in a world where logic and facts were ultimately in charge.

But they’re not, are they?

Something cracked in that hard shell when I started #singing again, and that soupy mess inside it had changed. My choir sisters and my song circle gently coaxed me out of there over a couple of years. (Also, I fell in love. Like, hard. There are fewer things more transformative.)

All of this was magical in itself. But it also felt like an existential risk, that in reclaiming all this I’d ultimately be cast out of the modest place of safety I’d found in writing software. That fear came true for me this year, and I don’t yet know if I’ll make it back in. Even if I do, I don’t think it’ll be ‘safe’ any more: precarity is a way of life now.

But it feels to me like the whole industry has, at this point, also turned its back on rationality.

So my #jobhunt effort is now informed by a daily #tarot pull, and my engineering efforts might be assisted by a bit of improvised #chaosMagic - how’s that so different from the stochastic output of an LLM and the smoke and mirrors of the tech industry, or for that matter mainstream politics?

We’re _not_ rational beings. We’re dancing points of impossible light and darkness, made of matter that’s mostly empty space, improbable beings of living language existing at an extraordinary nexus of life-and-death planetary events.

We can’t even draw a simple circle without irrational numbers.

So I’m absolutely going to keep embracing the witchy shit, and enjoy the ride.

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The Body as Energy-Equivalent Form Held Within the Singular Reality

The soul dwells in the body.

The body has been well compared to the walls of a city.

In time of war, not only the city and its in-dwellers must be under the rule of the king, but specially the walls.

Jesus, for whom God prepared a body, who offered His body, knows to keep the body too.

The mystery of the incarnation is that Godhead dwelt in a body.

The mystery of atonement, the one offering of the body of Christ.

The mystery of full redemption, that the Holy Spirit dwells in and sanctifies wholly the body too.

“Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you? Glorify God, therefore, in your body.”

Did you ever know that the Holy Spirit is specially given for the body: to regulate its functions, and sanctify it wholly?

Nature of the Body in the Light of Scripture

This paper presents a COFE-CYEM reflection on the nature of the body in the light of Scripture, the Fourth Truth, and insights from modern physics.

The body is not an independently self-grounding material ultimate. What appears as solid form through ordinary sight is not metaphysically self-existent in the way common perception assumes.

The body is energy-equivalent physical form held within creation. It is not an ultimate “second” reality existing apart from the singular ground of all being.

The Fourth Truth declares that there has never been a second, and therefore the body finds its true meaning and purpose when it is fully surrendered to the One who created it, redeemed it, and indwells it. The body is a temple, a vessel, an instrument through which the living God can manifest His glory.

The Body in Scripture and Theology

The body is not an afterthought in creation, nor is it a temporary prison for the soul. From the beginning, God created humanity as embodied beings.

The creation account declares that God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into him the breath of life.

The body and the breath together constitute the living soul. The body is not merely a container for the spiritual; it is an integral part of what it means to be human.

The incarnation is the ultimate affirmation of the body. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. God did not merely appear in human form; He took on human nature, body and soul.

The body of Jesus was not a disguise but a true human body, subject to hunger, thirst, fatigue, and death. The incarnation reveals that God does not despise embodied form but embraces it, redeems it, and glorifies it.

The atonement is the offering of the body of Christ. The writer of Hebrews declares, “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.” The body of Jesus was the instrument of our salvation. It was through the body that He suffered, through the blood that He cleansed, through the death that He conquered.

The offering of the body of Christ is the foundation of our redemption. The body is not something to be escaped but something to be offered. The body of Christ was offered once for all, and in that offering, the body is sanctified.

The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the sanctification of the body. The Apostle Paul asks, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you?” The Holy Spirit is given not only for the soul but also for the body.

The Spirit dwells in the body, regulates its functions, and sanctifies it wholly. The body is not an obstacle to spirituality but the very sphere in which the life of Christ is to be manifested. The Holy Spirit does not save us from the body but saves the body for the service of the living God. The body becomes a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God.

The Scientific Insight and Its Theological Bridge

Modern physics, through Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence, has established that the mass of the physical body possesses an enormous rest-energy equivalent. What we perceive as solid bodily form is matter whose mass has a corresponding energy equivalent. Mass and energy are deeply related, not ultimately independent realities.

The equation E=mc² reveals that mass is a form of energy, and energy is the fundamental reality of which mass is a manifestation. This scientific insight provides a legitimate bridge for theological reflection.

The body cannot be treated as an independently self-grounding material ultimate. What appears as solid form through ordinary sight is not metaphysically self-existent in the way common perception assumes. The body is energy-equivalent physical form held within creation.

The scientific insight does not reduce the body to mere energy in a materialistic sense. It reveals that the solidity of the body is not an ultimate property but a form of energy held within the structure of creation. The body is not an illusion to be denied, but a form that exists within the singular Reality.

The apparent solidity of the body is a manifestation of energy, and energy itself is not the ultimate ground of reality. Energy is part of creation, held within the one Life of God. The body, therefore, is not an independent reality but an expression of the singular Reality.

This scientific recognition takes on profound meaning in the light of the Fourth Truth.

If there has never been a second, then the body cannot be an ultimate reality separate from God. The body is energy-equivalent physical form held within the singular Reality.

The solidity of the body is not a denial of the singular Reality but an expression of it. The body is not an illusion to be denied but a form to be sanctified. The incarnation shows us that God does not reject embodied form but redeems it.

The offering of Christ’s body on the cross and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit demonstrate that the body is a temple to be sanctified, not a prison to be escaped.

The Fourth Truth and the Nature of the Body

In the light of the Fourth Truth, the body is seen as energy-equivalent physical form held within the singular Reality of God in Christ. It is not an independently ultimate reality. The apparent solidity of the body is not an illusion to be denied, but a form that exists within the singular Reality.

The body is not a second reality existing apart from God. It is an expression of the one Life, a form held within the one Reality. The Fourth Truth does not deny the reality of the body; it reveals its true ground. The body is real because it is held in Christ. It is not self-existent but Christ-existent.

The Incarnation shows us that God does not reject embodied form but redeems it. The Word became flesh. God took on a human body. He did not merely appear as a man; He became a man. The body of Jesus was not a disguise but a true human body. The incarnation is the affirmation of the body, not its denial.

God loves embodied form and redeems it for His glory. The offering of Christ’s body on the cross is the demonstration of the value of the body. The body of Christ was offered for the salvation of the world. The body is not something to be despised but something to be offered.

The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the sanctification of the body. The Holy Spirit dwells in the body of the believer. The body becomes a temple of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit sanctifies the body wholly, regulating its functions and using it for the service of the living God.

The body is not discarded in redemption; it is glorified. The resurrection and ascension of Christ are the guarantee that embodied form finds its fulfilment in union with God, not in separation from Him. The body is not a prison to be escaped but a temple to be sanctified.

The Fourth Truth declares that the body, like all creation, is held within the one Life. In Christ, the body becomes what it was always meant to be — a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God.

The Mystery and the Glory

The body is not “just pure spiritual energy” in a simplistic scientific reduction. It is energy-equivalent physical form held within the singular Reality of God in Christ. There has never been a second. The body is not an ultimate independent reality. It is a temple of the Holy Spirit, a place where the living God dwells and works.

The mystery of the incarnation, the atonement, and the indwelling Spirit all point to this: God loves embodied form and redeems it for His glory. The mystery of the incarnation is that Godhead dwelt in a body. The mystery of atonement is the one offering of the body of Christ. The mystery of full redemption is that the Holy Spirit dwells in and sanctifies wholly the body too.

The glory of redemption is that God does not save us from the body but saves the body for His service. The Holy Spirit dwells in the body to sanctify it wholly. The believer who has entered the Holiest of All does not leave the body behind but offers it daily as a living sacrifice. In this way, the energy-equivalent form that is the body becomes a channel of divine life and glory in the world.

The body becomes an instrument through which the living God can manifest His glory. The body is not an obstacle to spirituality but the very sphere in which the life of Christ is to be manifested. The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, the vessel of divine life, the instrument of divine service.

The body, once offered and sanctified, becomes the place where the Holy Spirit regulates its functions and uses it for the service of the living God. The priests of old were set apart by the sprinkling of blood so they could minister before the Lord. In the same way, the believer whose body is cleansed by the blood of Christ is fitted to serve the living God in the power of the endless life.

The body is not an obstacle to spirituality but the very sphere in which the life of Christ is to be manifested. This is the glory of redemption: God does not save us from the body but saves the body for His service. The Holy Spirit dwells in the body to sanctify it wholly.

The Service of the Sanctified Body

The body, once offered and sanctified, becomes the place where the Holy Spirit regulates its functions and uses it for the service of the living God. The priests of old were set apart by the sprinkling of blood so they could minister before the Lord.

In the same way, the believer whose body is cleansed by the blood of Christ is fitted to serve the living God in the power of the endless life. The body is not an obstacle to spirituality but the very sphere in which the life of Christ is to be manifested.

The body is not something to be suppressed but something to be offered. The body is not something to be escaped but something to be glorified.

The service of the sanctified body is the service of the living God. The believer who has offered the body to God does not live for self but for God. The body becomes an instrument of divine love, a channel of divine grace, a vessel of divine power. The body is not a burden to be carried but a gift to be offered.

The body is not a prison to be escaped but a temple to be sanctified. The service of the sanctified body is the service of the Melchizedek priesthood, the service of the Priest-King who lives forever in the power of an endless life.

The service of the sanctified body is the service of the Fourth Truth. The body is held within the singular Reality of God in Christ. It is not a second reality existing apart from God. It is an expression of the one Life, a form held within the one Reality.

The service of the body is the service of the singular Reality. The believer who serves with the body serves the living God. The believer who offers the body offers it to the One who created it, redeemed it, and indwells it. The service of the body is the service of the Fourth Truth.

Energy-Equivalent Physical Form

The body is energy-equivalent physical form held within the singular Reality of God in Christ. It is not an ultimate second. It is a temple of the Holy Spirit, a vessel to be offered, and an instrument to be used for the glory of the living God.

The Fourth Truth declares that there has never been a second, and therefore the body finds its true meaning and purpose when it is fully surrendered to the One who created it, redeemed it, and indwells it.

The body is not discarded in redemption; it is glorified. The resurrection and ascension of Christ are the guarantee that embodied form finds its fulfilment in union with God, not in separation from Him.

The soul dwells in the body. The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. The body is the vessel of divine life. The body is the instrument of divine service.

The body is held within the singular Reality of God in Christ. There has never been a second.

The body is His temple. The energy is His. The life is one. The Fourth Truth stands. The dialogue continues. The fruit remains.

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"Starry Night," Wenzel August Hablik, 1909.

Hablik (1881-1934) was a German painter, graphic artist, architect, and craftsman who, along with others of the period, had a fascination with combining mysticism with science.

While some artists made abstracts of clouds or exploding suns, he created here an orderly vision of a swirling universe, all the stars and planets in a continual dance around a central point....which may be a divine Eye that keeps things going.

Many of Hablik's works shared a utopian vision, and a fascination with crystals and natural forms. Here, for instance, you can see the maybe-mountain in the foreground is covered with jutting crystals.

While so many explored abstract chaos, Hablik shows us here an orderly universe, a world with purpose and vision. It's an image both beautiful and comforting.

From the Wenzel Hablik Museum, Itzenhoe, Germany.

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This is a brilliant site that takes public domain books, and does a really nice job of formatting them as eBooks. What I personally like about the site is that it includes a lot of #history, #philosophy, #religion, #occult, #mysticism books, ones that aren't as well covered by sites like Standard Ebooks.

The Gospel of Thomas begins with a strange signature: Didymos Judas Thomas — “the Twin.” Not Peter the Rock, not John the Beloved, but Thomas the Double. The text starts as theology and algebra: Jesus is not only followed. Jesus is mirrored.
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03/07/2026
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LSD and the Mind of the Universe: A Book Recommendation

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New Blog Entry: The Gnostics -- Where Are They Now?

@ the Sant Mat Radhasoami Blog: https://santmatradhasoami.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-gnostics-where-are-they-now-by.html

@ Medium: https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/the-gnostics-where-are-they-now-by-james-bean-efbf6e0c579f

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#EvelynUnderhill: “ #Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.” People who've developed innate mystical capacities don't need ideologies or projections. They are free to know the world & its divine Source, w/o judgments. No more condemnation of self & others. Simply union. https://linkly.link/2krmJ

Another brilliant book by the critical social theorist, Seyed Javad Miri. #Sufism #mysticism #Iran #shiism #persian #Islam #philosophy #theology #Safavid https://www.ekpyrosispress.com

The Living Altar of the Great Sacrifice: The Altóir Bheò and the Iobairt Mhór

https://ardnemeton.ca/2026/06/09/the-living-altar-of-the-great-sacrifice-the-altoir-bheo-and-the-iobairt-mhor/

The Inspiration for Tiered Democratic Governance

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=30&id=8

It was a mystical experience!

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05/06/2026
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