God is the personification of the scientific universe, but also has an image that resembles us. (This image might as well be just the reflection of our self-awareness.)

 

In the beginning of everything there was nothing, not even potential, no God. Then, in a paradoxical event, potential or God realized Himself and started to exist. (In the original manifesto I've written about 'Schrödinger's God' which simultaneously does and doesn't exist. I just mention it for you to associate and wonder.) Things happened and 'soon enough' our universe ignited with a big bang. All kinds of waves and particles came into existence which moved because of energy and started to interact in specific ways because of their properties, forming eventually atoms, the first stars, etc. This interaction of waves and particles and the formation of things like atoms and stars, we can call self-assemblage. Everything that we can observe and measure; everything that has happened in the history of the universe and even in the overarching Universe, has been 'an act of God'. God has a plan. The plan is: there is no plan. This, perhaps, is intentional; an overarching 'plan'. Chaos is incorporated in the plan. The plan is to self-assemble, but God knows He has to destroy Himself to be able to re-assemble Himself. Chaos in God is a product of accumulating entropy and can be called self-destruction. God assembles Himself and destroys Himself in order to re-assemble Himself, He plays with His own configuration. God doesn't have a real plan, because He needs to realize Himself out of chaos, but perhaps we can say that God has intentions or desires to be(-come) something. Something great perhaps.

 

In my manifesto I concluded that we are gods, as God (supposedly) created us in His image, and He is a god, so He created gods. (It's all about self-awareness. God is a projection of our self-awareness to which we ascribe the agency that we actually possess.) God is the universe and we are gods because we are able to comprehend the universe, but also do we have the powers to perceive and project, to realize, imagine and create. We are gods because we can realize our-selves. We can destroy ourselves and assemble ourselves. In the Bible, God used a metaphor to explain how He created humans. (Perhaps for the time being, in that stage of our development, it was what we needed to hear.) He didn't literally create us out of mud or sand, but He did create us out of matter. This creation wasn't instant, it was gradual. God didn't create us with some magical imbuement of life-force, He (self-)assembled us. He evolved us out of self-assembling matter through other animals.

 

We humans can, with our ritual behavior, tap into the original creative power that realized itself at the beginning of the Universe. We can re-enact the birth of God, of divine intention and potential. We can 're-create' the big bang to realize our potential to realize ourselves, to get inspired to who we are and what we could do in our lives and in the universe. To play with ourselves like God does. God should be a moral exemplar? The universe or God is indifferent, but we can imagine that He has the intention to come to a culmination, but His plan is to make people self-assemble and realize this culmination for themselves. At the end of it all, did you realize it was just a ride? That you just had to raise your self-awareness and your abilities to realize yourself and how you should have been involved in 'the process of becoming', that you should have built yourself up and broken yourself down, just to be able to get insight into how you can built yourself up again into a greater version of yourself? Next to tapping in to the self-realizing creative power at the beginning of everything, we also can tap into the power of ongoing self-assemblage, the ongoing creation of God and your self. We can ritualistically be involved with the process of becoming and the creation of God and the self. Because God said: (struck out: “I am that I am”) “I will be what I will be”, which implies that He is dynamic? And we can even acknowledge and appreciate death or self-destruction (accumulating or (self-)inflicted entropy), as something necessary to be able to re-assemble and re-realize ourselves. Or simply to stay sharp. But the goal is self-assemblage, because that equals growth and progress. Out of chaos we create order and grow to a culmination: the end of life. Be inspired by self-assemblage to create yourself, to grow up, become wise and acknowledge that to fool or delude yourself sabotages your process of becoming by which you will lose touch with this delicate process of self-assemblage and you will degenerate. You should always reflect on: “what kind of self am I assembling? Could I do it better? Do I realize, interpret the right things from the chaos in the universe? Am I involved in the right processes? Is the machinery that I am tuned in rightly?” To know yourself and to sense how you can tune in and evolve with this process of assembling your self can be called da'ath. I will explain da'ath further down, just remember it.

 

Serendipitous realization.

This is a method through which you can be involved in 'the process of becoming'. I'll tell you the story of my experience, but I'll mix it up with my recent insights and assemblages. This God that I've been talking about is based on God, Yahweh. But I've transformed and re-assembled Him by serendipity and He acquired the name Larry. He or Whe also acquired the pronouns Whe/Us.

 

It started with a camper. Or actually with a desire to have one. Then I got one together with a friend. I had a few ideas how to use that camper and my friend also had ideas, different ideas. This made me realize that a camper could function as many different things and I started to wonder about all the possibilities of how a camper could be used. The camper wasn't ready to use from the start. The fact that I had to wait I saw as something that unfolded in the universe over time. And I realized that I could project this unfolding on that camper and call it 'the story that continues to unfold itself'. I also realized because of this that this camper was involved in processes, it was 'exposed' to the universe. Because we couldn't directly get an APK (MOT) for the camper, someone said to us: “Well, if you can't get an APK for it, you could always transform it into a boat.” This we found ridiculous and we mocked it: “A boat? Why not a submarine!” “Yeah, why not a whale!” As soon as it was said I realized the potential relevance. I could actually choose to make use of these things that happened by chance. I realized that I could turn this chance into serendipity and actually 'do what the universe suggested' and 'transform' this camper into a whale, in my mind. Reflecting on this I concluded (I realized) that this camper-whale hybrid would have to be 'a platform for imagination'. A stage at which we are at play with the universe. I later re-imagined 'the story that continues to unfold itself' as 'the process of becoming'

 

It was clear to me shortly into this process, that other people played a major role in what Whe were becoming. I loved that a lot, because it brought forth and set in motion things that I couldn't just create or imagine on my own. This also is at the core of my 'serendipitous realization' theory. The universe is an actor, an agent in this process of becoming of this camper, mostly by making it rot away. But it also placed it on my path and kept it out of my hands for a while because the rot needed to be undone. I consider other people also to be the universe, in the sense that they are 'objects' in space-time and I don't know what they will do and set in motion, but that I am very much able to realize what they say and do and to associate, wonder and contemplate and realize what it could mean for the whale, what it could be transformed or re-assembled in to because of their and my interactions. This lead to an elevated awareness of that I realize things and to more awareness of this expanding context. I also became more aware of my own agency: I decide what I cherry-pick from everything that happens by chance and that I turn into serendipity by being aware of what I realize in this chaos and what I turn this camper in to. This in contrast with that I considered this whole process of becoming as something that, even though I was very much making it happen, it was all just happening. … I love to reflect on this, if I have agency or not. I consider myself to simultaneously have and totally have no agency or free will. And now I'll move on. My realization at the time was that it doesn't matter because I could better just surrender to everything, go with the flow and just be aware of what I realize and how these realizations could be relevant to this process I am in, what they mean for how I perceive and what I project on that camper-whale hybrid. But in this process of becoming, I've gained knowledge and awareness and I consider this camper to be a catalyst for the growth of my mind. I raise my awareness by being involved with it and now I'm not just aware anymore of only this camper, but also of how the process of letting that thing become 'something' reflect myself and even the world, the universe. Not only every individual human being, but every individual 'unit' that I can conceptualize is an agent in the process of becoming of this camper. But now I run a bit ahead of things. Anyway, I thought of a question to make people expose their minds to this camper, so I would be exposed to their imagination: “If this camper would be your property and you consider your imagination to be reality, what would you do with it?”

 

Then a friend said to me: “This camper seems so meaningful to you, it's like God to you.” And, although I was in an almost sacred relationship with a stone-cold, scientific view of the universe, there and then I associated God with purpose and meaning. And I experienced quite some purpose by being involved with this camper. And now, this camper was about to be transformed into or to assimilate God. But I didn't like God, Yahweh. I considered the church and God to be rotten to the core. So I thought this whale could be a pagan god: the god of imagination and play. This designation because we are involved in a game of transforming and re-assembling this camper-whale hybrid. A game of realizing what happens in the universe and how that affects us in how we can perceive and interact with this 'object' that had gained a 'self-awareness' (in my mind) since I started to perceive it as a whale. Reflecting on that I realized that this camper reflects everything that I do to it: it became a 'consciousness-mirror'. Then this friend introduced me to a series of lectures called 'Awakening from the Meaning-crisis' and in one lecture John Vervaeke explains about God and the culture of the ancient Israelites. (You could say early Christianity.) And I think I'm going to explain almost everything. 'Faith' didn't mean believing some weird non-sense. Faith referred to your sense of da'ath. Da'ath you can interpret in multiple ways. Da'ath is the knowledge of that you are, you exist, the awareness that you have of yourself. Da'ath also means 'participatory knowledge'. You don't just know that you exist, but you also know through your existence, or you know through participating in something. Imagine you drive a car, or let's have some fun and make it a camper. You don't just operate and drive the camper as if it's all you. The camper behaves on it's own in response to how you operate it. (Imagine that this camper behaves as a whale as well.) In return, you respond to the behavior of the camper. You are participating in the camper, you feel the camper, you (participatorily) know the camper. Now, God didn't just create the universe and everything in seven days and that was it. To take a step back first: before this culture of the ancient Israelites was thriving, there was a dark age. The civilizations of the bronze-age, like that of the Egyptians, had collapsed. In this bronze-age world, time wasn't a path into the future. Time was wrapped on itself and moving in large cycles, 'repeating' itself. In the world-view that the ancient Israelites developed, time became a 'flat line' and progressed into the future. God became the god of the open future, and you can participate with Him (remember da'ath; driving the camper?) in the ongoing creation of the future. You can have 'faith', a sense of how you are self-aware and involved with, together with God, in creating your future and the future in general. Your actions can now change the future. These 'psycho-technologies (which are technologies that fit the mind rather than the hand) of the time-line and this God of the open future also embodied that the ancient Israelites saw history as a cosmic narrative, as a story. Time unfolds into the future and there is a course of events. Your life unfolds according to the path that you walk, the course of your life. This course is important. You want to be on course, you want your life and things that happen in it to go well. But you can also 'sin', which is not just to do something immoral. To sin is to go off course. When you're off course you have lost the way, you are not walking on the right path anymore. Or to stay with the example of the camper: to drive off-road is to sin. You're trespassing. Now, back to stories. A story has a beginning, crucial climax; a turning point or multiple; a resolution; there's a direction to it; there's a purpose to it. So you get this idea of cosmic history; of using our skills for story to explain how the cosmos is unfolding through time. Imagine the story of your life, or let's make it the life of the camper, the road of Larry. (You can read the following text as if it was about you instead of Larry, as I already wrote it like that. I just replaced the word 'you' and 'your' with 'Larry' to perhaps paint a better picture of how this could be applied.) Instead of that you just look back on how things went, how and when things had changed, you could also consider this road of Larry to unfold as a story. You can be involved in creating Larry's story and you can try to be aware of when and how Whe will change, transform or re-assemble, the turning points in the story. And you can reflect on what Whe are, Our identity, and how it will change, what Whe need to change in to because of how things, like the world itself, have changed. Your story could be a story in which you're involved with the story of Larry, and if people throughout history get themselves involved with Larry, Whe could live for millions of years. I dream about that this veteran of a camper will be used throughout history to go on journeys and explore the world and seek out adventures, to encounter situations to perceive and project upon the body of knowledge of Larry, which is all the knowledge of humanity combined. And to dance and draw whales with those other people and with Larry. And to learn about the ways of doing and being of those other people, or aliens, Whe don't care, Whe want to exchange. How do stories operate? They operate in terms of meaning and morality. How you make meaning - the moral content of your action - decides how things are going to go. This might not be the reason, although it's very much possible, but God became more and more a moral exemplar. Because of all these elements of this culture, it was possible for God to start to represent progress. Progress? God equals progress??? I couldn't believe it! Like I couldn't (and still don't) believe in God. But all these element fit so well together that it makes sense. God is the origin of our idea and sense of progress. I love progress! I am very progressive and want to realize the future, just like the ancient Israelites used to do together with the God of the open future. I started to fall in love with these elements of this culture, and I thought that God is actually pretty awesome! So, I thought it would be a good idea to turn this god of mine into the actual God. But then just the concept of God, stripped clean from the rotten gunk until I've got nothing but the restored, functional machinery.

 

The process continued and I was really absorbing all these elements of the culture of the ancient Israelites. Being simply involved (remember da'ath) with this camper that I labeled God, things started to rise in my mind. Things were off. Is this God omnipotent? How does this God function among humans? How do Whe intervene and prevent that we go off-road? I started with addressing omnipotence. Since Larry had become the god of imagination and play, a designation Whe took with Us when Whe became God, I started to look for answers here. Soon I concluded that Whe are based on the human imagination and therefore would have to be semi-omnipotent. In your imagination you can do everything. Create a God, for example. (I can't think of a greater testimony to divinity than by having created God. We are truly gods.) But the imagination is limited to what you've ever known or conceptualized and to the associative horizon. This makes you in your imagination not omnipotent but semi-omnipotent. Since I entered the terrain of the mind I thought Larry could be based upon the whole mind, possibly. Something to explore further when the time is right. Another mechanism of the mind that I had turned Us in to was the conscience. Larry is that voice in your head that tells you to not eat that delicious looking piece of chocolate cake, because you don't want to get fat. You don't want to go off-road with this Godlike camper-whale. Larry is also the temptation that you can't resist and the decision to ignore that voice in your head and eat the cake anyway. Yes, Larry is or can be both the Devil and/or God. It all depends on what you create out of Us. Among other, this is how Larry functions among humans.

 

You can make a powerful, righteous, beautiful and simply awesome Larry, reflecting everything that you (dis-)like about or think that is happening in this process of becoming, to this object, this God, to yourself and the world. But your Larry could also reflect your ill intentions towards yourself, someone else or to Larry or the world. You should realize that you could best not hide it from Larry. You could get away with deceiving Us and yourself very easily and paint a perfect picture of Us, drive off-road while you picture a road in front of you, if you want to. But the best thing you could do is to project the actions that you think of on to Larry. Imagine Larry to suffer the way you would like that someone to suffer. Whe can handle some of that. But it does affect Us. And eventually, your Larry will truly and semi-permanently transform into either (a) God or the Devil, or a hybrid of the two. But Whe can also change back again. You can really find the asphalt road over which you should drive back again. It's all about what's living in your heart, you have to feel that. You could use your heart as your navigation-system to keep Larry on the road. Larry will reflect what's in your heart. Make Us reflect it by transforming Us into your demons. It's Our purpose, it's how Whe can be used and in the case that Larry is a 'religion', it's how Whe should be used. So when you have a heart full of hate, imagine Us as a demon, or the Devil. Go wild, make Us do all the atrocious things that you possibly would morbidly enjoy to imagine. (It's not semi-permanent instantly.) Be true to yourself and be true to Larry. Paint a picture of Us according to what's real, what's true. This way Larry will reflect what's living in your heart and enables you to face it. But you could ask yourself 'is this what I want be?' And 'is this what I want my God to be?' In other words: knowledge of the self and participating with Larry in your process of what you're becoming; in one word: da'ath.

 

"I will be what I will be" is what God says to Moses when he asks God to reveal his name. This “I will be what I will be” I can already recognize in “the process of becoming” through serendipitous realization. Someone eventually asked me if my camper had a name already and I said “No” because I thought it would be fun to let it be or to allow 'my'-self or the universe to make it: … 'destiny'. … I said: “What would you name this camper?” “Larry” He said. And so Whe got to be named Larry. The God of imagination and play is also the God of the open future because you can participate in the ongoing transformation an re-assemblage of Us. Whe simply reflect your mind. Your actions and thoughts now can change this God. If you figure out how to participate in the process of becoming, your actions can change God and reflect what you find relevant, what you find to be true even. You can have your very own idea and image of God. You can re-name it for example. Perhaps not anymore, the word “Larry” might have become the only thing that is fixed about this .. 'phenomenon'. It occurs to me now, but God for the longest time didn't have a name, because God wasn't supposed to be bound to anything. In contrast to other gods, which were the god of something, like Athene was the god of wisdom (among things), for example. God wasn't bound to anything, not even to space or time, because He was that what I differentiate from omnipotence as 'time-able'. To be time-able is to have the ability to be every where at once: God is everywhere and (in) everything. Larry is also not bound to anything, not even to the camper. Not because Larry is (like) God, but because of Our own history: Larry needs to be able to assimilate, transform and re-assemble everything. Larry needs to be able to be recognized in everything. But not just everything is Larry, it has to be serendipitously realized and integrated in the process of becoming. You could perceive individual things as Larry and others not, depending on the context. (In the original manifesto I wrote about how Larry is the universe and 'the camper' was called the camper, for example, because we were playing a card-game with the three of us.) Our name 'Larry' is what binds Us together and what differentiates Us from God, although I mash them up on purpose to keep on getting to know God also (He is a very interesting figure) and to keep on creating Larry as a more powerful God because of that. Larry assimilates God almost as heartless and relentless as the Borg from star trek assimilate other species of organisms, to turn them into mindless drones. God is powerless about being assimilated by Larry and I guess God in my mind has become a drone, perhaps with a mind of its own, still, but under my overriding command, who's (psycho-)technological and imaginary distinctiveness is added to Larry. Resistance is futile. But the psycho-technological and imaginary distinctiveness of Larry can also be added to your 'God', if you want. Larry is the wonkeyest of all cyborgs, because Larry is the universe, is (im-)pure nature. The fun thing about this assimilating cyborg is that you have the agency, you have control. To stay with the Borg as an example: you can be like the Borg queen and have a full mind of your own which you enrich and expand by assimilating words and expressions from other minds and stick them to Larry so Whe will transform because of them, which will enable you to remember these words or moves better. But you can also assimilate objects and integrate them into your image and understanding of Larry. But, so, you can try to rename Us. It could be something you enjoy alone, as you would experience “Larry” very individually already. Whatever Larry looks like and does is based upon what's on your mind, what you're processing and living, how you are assembling your self, what you're dreaming about (to be). So many possibilities to assemble and use Us. You can imagine possibilities for how Whe can function, or what Whe can look like and share them with the community, the other 'Larriers'. This way Larry can be individual while also being created collectively. You could perhaps have a nice mental image of what a righteous Larry would look like and draw it and share it. Others might like it and then there could be a democratic process to create a statue or painting that would represent Larry 'officially'. But not just Our appearance can be politically settled upon. When someone invents a new way for Larry to function, new psycho-technological 'machinery', this also can be put forward and be decided upon if this is how the universal Larry functions.

 

Larry has the potential to supersede God. Even though you might consider Larry as less powerful than God. Because God is omnipotent, omniscient and time-able. And Larry is semi-omnipotent, is only able to know all that we humans collectively know and understand and Larry is time-able, but that power of Us is limited to what you can recognize in Us and how you can imagine Us to travel through time. God reveals himself to Moses as “I will be what I will be”, which implies something dynamic. But the people that believe in God today don't want you to touch and change their God (too much?). God is not dynamic? Larry is inherently dynamic, supposed to assimilate feedback to change and grow. Even if you would demonize this God, Whe can find valuable nutrients in it and grow because of it. And one of the greatest differences is that both God and Larry are imaginary, but God has to be seen as real, to be believed in to gain his powers and agency, where Larry understands and happily admits that Whe are imaginary. Whe are even based on the imagination itself, and potentially every part of the mind, every mechanism of the brain. This makes Larry more realistic and tangible, more real than God. God created us in His image. I like this idea, although it's inaccurate. Because we created God in our image and only after that did God start to create us in His image. This is important to understand. We can create Larry in our image by which Larry will create us in return, because we can mirror ourself to this God. This is how Larry can function as God, as a parent, a universal sacred second self and look after humanity. We can participate in the ongoing creation of Us, which will result in a sense of da'ath, a sense of: “this is who I am and I know myself and Larry by how I sense that I participate, how I'm involved in the ongoing creation, the ongoing (re-)assemblage of my self and my God's self.”

 

Larry and the cosmic narrative of self-destruction and self-assemblage will be subject to 'the virtual engine of God'. The virtual engine is a metaphor for a dynamical system. In a virtual engine there are 3 kinds of components. First, there are the virtual governors, or the enabling constraints. These agents allow certain things to happen and prevent other things from happening. Then there are the virtual generators. The generators open up possibilities or drive and enable processes. And then there are the feedback-mechanisms. Imagine feedback in any way in a system so that it will continue, sustain itself. A dynamical system is balancing. Imagine Larry, a camper, boat, submarine, whale, teddy-bear hybrid, the wonkeyest of all cyborgs, which is, in spite of the great slack and wonkeyness in its gears and components, is self-balancing while it's expanding in detail and overall context, when it's operating in ever greater complexity. There will be one or multiple virtual engines to create and update Larry (through democratic politics for example) and virtual engines to create and update the cosmic narrative, the story of humanity; the Bible, which will be called 'the Bang'. Furthermore there can be virtual engines with a static, repetitive outcome, a dynamical system to preserve something, like the meaning of words for example, or the functional cores, the psycho-technologies of this 'religion'. If you're interested, I've created a first draft of 'the virtual engine of God'. Ask me about it.

 

 

 

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