A (Very!) Rough Guide to the Cosmos! With Oliver Baum & Nicholas Rosseinsky

At least: this is how it currently seems to us! ...

Ground-of-Being, One-Being, Souls
Veils' tentative view begins at the most fundamental Reality-level. We see a Self-Sourcing Ground-of-Being, distinct from the True Self of Eastern non-dual traditions, but also very distinct from a punitive, patriarchal, anthropomorphic God.

The Ground is the deepest: there's nothing beyond. In Creation, the Ground replicates itself (in a non-separative way!), birthing the One-Being. The One (similar to True Self, Buddha Nature, Christ Consciousness, very loosely speaking!)  has all the functions/capacities of the Ground. But the One differs in an absolutely-vital way: the Ground is self-Creating, self-Sourcing; the One is Created by the Ground.

Souls are then created (again in a non-separating way), when the One focuses in on each of its infinite aspects (each focus birthing a specific Soul), and then on the infinity-upon-infinity-upon-infinity of aspect-combinations (more Souls!).

The Ocean of Form-based Universes
Everything so far happens in a Formless way, meaning, without sound, shapes, texture etc. (For a metaphorical sketch of Formlessness, imagine a psychic communication of pure meaning, without words or images!)

But real-Reality (aka the Cosmos) is more than just the Formless realm. Amongst other things, there’s a limitless Ocean, in which every drop is itself a Form-based Universe (i.e. – in some cases – a Universe somewhat like ours!).

Enlightenment, real-Reality
We use ‘Enlightenment’ to label the eternal condition of real-Reality – non-separate, Absolutely Loving, Intelligent etc. Clearly (to most of us!) our Universe isn't in that condition! (E.g.: everything seems to be separate!) In fact, our Universe as typically experienced is displaced from the Cosmos, in a specific sense.

'What Went Wrong?!'
We use ‘alleged-Reality’ to describe a Dream-of-Separation that our Universe (unlike almost all others) can support. This Dream – an apparent departure from real-Reality – occurs because one or more Souls try to make themselves self-Creating, which Souls' innate other-Created nature just makes impossible.

Cosmic Glitch, Primal Wound
Souls’ insistence on impossibility leads to Splitting of their Will from the Ground's Will (simply: for Souls to be Free, Loving, Creators!), and to the Great AS/IF (‘Alleged Separation’/’Imagined Fall’). All this is a sort of 'Cosmic Glitch’, pre-dating the Big Bang – but still pervading our Universe, enabling a so-called Primal Wound (and all wounds,  all suffering!).

The ARC, Veils, the Modern World
There's a solution to this Glitch, should it occur: the Agency-that-Restructures-Consciousness (‘ARC’).  Ultimately, this is what we call on, to drop Veils, and birth Spirit into a Modern World hell-bent on insisting on the primacy of matter!

Thanks for listening!

Find out more:
For Oliver's Psycho-Spiritual work with Individuals, Couples and Groups, please visit http://www.oliverbaum.co.uk.
For Nicholas' In-Person work, please visit http://www.liveyourdeepestself.com.
For Nicholas' Scientific work, please visit http://www.cfdis.org.

Thanks for listening!

Find out more:
For Oliver's Psycho-Spiritual work with Individuals, Couples and Groups, please visit http://www.oliverbaum.co.uk.
For Nicholas' In-Person work, please visit http://www.liveyourdeepestself.com.
For Nicholas' Scientific work, please visit http://www.cfdis.org.

This Universe can be a place for hiding out from GoB*. (Repeatedly, in successive Universe-incarnations/cycles.) Or, it can be a place for the kindest, most joy-full, re-awakening to GoB-relationship!

Equivalently, there are two major versions of science, describing and enacting these 'two uses for a material Universe'!

Mainstream Science is a Veil!
Mainstream science is a huge (and ungrounded!) obstacle to Birthing Spirit in the Modern World. Why? It claims everything can be explained in terms of matter-energy (plus spacetime). And then defines those constructs (without grounds!) to exclude GoB, Spirit, etc. 

A New Science: One Mainstream-Alternative
We discuss one of many mainstream-alternatives, which preserves the rigorous, experiment-based precision of institutional science. How can science both change (to this 'alternative') and stay the same (keep precision, etc.)? Mainly: do the experiments it currently rejects.  Then, integrate the results - with rigor and precision ...!

A New Science, Part 1: 'One Experiment' to Change the World
The single most important experiment for the 21st-century (and beyond) isn't in particle- or astro-physics. It's in the science of conscious experience. By comparing a detailed computer-simulation of a matter-only brain with actual brain-data we can see if conscious experience sends information 'back' into the brain. (Matter-brain activity is based on things like red- & green-wavelength light. Consciousness includes redness & greenness.  Red/redness are distinct information classes.)

The One Experiment can crack open the tragically-mistaken foundations of mainstream science, by demonstrating a supra-material information-stream coupling with the brain. This doesn't 'disprove science': it creates a new, bigger, one!

A New Science, Part 2: The Riemann Hypothesis & the Awakening of Matter
To get to an Intelligent science (!!!), we must also set matter in a psychospiritual context, and analyze the matter-field's basic problem: how can its random-&-mechanical (quantum-theoretic!) activity to return to 'Life'?

We discuss a remarkable hypothesis: the putative truth of the Riemann Hypothesis proves this return will happen in finite time (despite appearances!). And an even more remarkable idea: people who truly 'grok' this, can communicate it to matter, and thus actively catalyze return!

But Isn't 'Quantum Spirituality' the New Science?!
Personal appeals to 'quantum spirituality' are unproblematic. But in the collective interfacing of science & spirituality, they're generally a disaster! They try to explain real-Reality* in terms of a feature within the AS/IF*-Dream!

Science, Spirituality ... and Magic!
One current spiritual theme is 'down-play science, to re-enchant Nature'. This is wrong. Science is needed for re-enchantment. And temporary squashing of magic by science was also needed - to get to the New Science, parts 1 & 2!

* For more on 'GoB' & other neologisms, please refer to E1 and/or E18.

Thanks for listening!

Find out more:
For Oliver's Psycho-Spiritual work with Individuals, Couples and Groups, please visit http://www.oliverbaum.co.uk.
For Nicholas' In-Person work, please visit http://www.liveyourdeepestself.com.
For Nicholas' Scientific work, please visit http://www.cfdis.org.

Thanks for listening!

Find out more:
For Oliver's Psycho-Spiritual work with Individuals, Couples and Groups, please visit http://www.oliverbaum.co.uk.
For Nicholas' In-Person work, please visit http://www.liveyourdeepestself.com.
For Nicholas' Scientific work, please visit http://www.cfdis.org.

Thanks for listening!

Find out more:
For Oliver's Psycho-Spiritual work with Individuals, Couples and Groups, please visit http://www.oliverbaum.co.uk.
For Nicholas' In-Person work, please visit http://www.liveyourdeepestself.com.
For Nicholas' Scientific work, please visit http://www.cfdis.org.

Thanks for listening!

Find out more:
For Oliver's Psycho-Spiritual work with Individuals, Couples and Groups, please visit http://www.oliverbaum.co.uk.
For Nicholas' In-Person work, please visit http://www.liveyourdeepestself.com.
For Nicholas' Scientific work, please visit http://www.cfdis.org.

Thanks for listening!

Find out more:
For Oliver's Psycho-Spiritual work with Individuals, Couples and Groups, please visit http://www.oliverbaum.co.uk.
For Nicholas' In-Person work, please visit http://www.liveyourdeepestself.com.
For Nicholas' Scientific work, please visit http://www.cfdis.org.

Thanks for listening!

Find out more:
For Oliver's Psycho-Spiritual work with Individuals, Couples and Groups, please visit http://www.oliverbaum.co.uk.
For Nicholas' In-Person work, please visit http://www.liveyourdeepestself.com.
For Nicholas' Scientific work, please visit http://www.cfdis.org.

Previous Work: 'Sacred'/'Deep'/... Economy
A lot of great work identifies alternatives to current economic theory/practice, as 'Sacred', 'Deep' etc. [As well as Butterworth, authors that Nicholas appreciates but 'spaced' in the Episode include Eisenstein and McKibben.] We use 'Divine Economy' here to point to something distinct, and far more radical.

Ideas: 'The Perfect Good'
Nicholas re-purposes the term 'perfect good' ('good' in the sense of 'goods and services'), here to describe something that can be shared with others and kept at the same time. ('Non-rivalrous' is the actual econ-term.) Ideas are 'perfect' in this sense. A super-important nuance for Divine Economy is the difference between solely-imaginative ideas ('a pink elephant'), and capital-I Ideas as existences-in-the-Mind-of-the-Ground* (e.g., Souls' very existence is as Ideas of this kind!)

The Matter with Matter
An Idea can be given from one Mind to all other Minds and still exist equally in all of them. A cup made-of-matter can't be shared in this way! ('Mind' here is closer to 'Cosmic Consciousness' than 'the space in the head where thoughts appear'!) Matter derives from Split Will* and is an obstacle to Divine Economy. So, the realization of Divine Economy in our sub-reality depends on disinvestment from Split Will. But Divine Economy itself continually exists in real-Reality (and always has!).

The Heart of Divine Economy:
Imagine GoB metaphorically as a Circle, full of Light. Now imagine the GoB-Circle Creates a dozen empty circles 'around Itself'. Then picture GoB sharing that Light - as a perfect good! -  with-and-into the dozen. If that Light is 'everything' (in some sense!), there's now more-Everything!

But there's more! (Always, it turns out!) Now envision the dozen inside the Original Circle (because GoB Creates in a non-separate way). Not only is there more-Everything, but GoB HerSelf Is more-Everything, after sharing. (Before, She was 1-Everything. Now, She's 13!) And it goes on (and on): each small circle actually 'contains' (non-separatively) all the others, so ...

The Heart: ideas can be given from one mind to all minds; and, if Minds are non-separate, one act of giving increases Reality* infinitely in each Mind. (This takes a little reflection to see!)

Giving, Receiving, & Divine Economy
In the foundations of real-Reality, Reality itself is maintained (in an eternally-expanding way!) by the Ground giving All-to-All, and by Souls receiving and then re-sharing All, Everywhere! All problems with human finances/economics/ money, are to do with our distancing ourselves from real-Reality, and nomos-of-Its-oikos! ('Economics' is direction/stewardship of the household, in Greek.)

Veils and the Gap
In a Veils-enacted gap between real-Reality/Divine-economy and alleged-Reality/human-economy, we discuss many things, ranging from payment-and-exchange in therapy-and-healing, to the price-of-a-ticket to this sub-Reality, to lack, abundance, and the Law of Attraction, to economic growth, to what 'should' the arrow of human economy be ... and MORE!

*For more on Ground, Split Will etc., please visit E1 or E18.

Thanks for listening!

Find out more:
For Oliver's Psycho-Spiritual work with Individuals, Couples and Groups, please visit http://www.oliverbaum.co.uk.
For Nicholas' In-Person work, please visit http://www.liveyourdeepestself.com.
For Nicholas' Scientific work, please visit http://www.cfdis.org.

Culture has many definitions: we discuss values/ethics, religion, and a non-contradictory patchwork of cultural components (art, morality, spirituality/religion, science).

Ethical Systems
What's right and wrong? What do these words mean - right/wrong for purpose, or morally good/bad? Is there an objective truth about moral action, or is it culturally-contingent? Are there universal 'moral laws' ?!

Without answering all these questions (!), we look at Split Will* as the source of suffering. One moral near-Absolute is that disinvestment from Split Will reduces separation, and therefore suffering. However, navigating this pointer in any actual context demands the Intelligence of the ARC* (whch is literally made-to-do-this!).

An Awakened Culture
Culture on a planet of Awakened Beings need not be monolithic. E.g., in terms of economic values, forms of both socialism and capitalism could be present. Moreover, 'Awakening' (at least currently!) describes a variety of different states, and so culture could contain a corresponding variety of religions/spiritualities. And - in fact! - science of a specific kind can also (implicitly!) be a path to Awakening. Finally, ethical behavior need not depend on any code or scientific/spiritual narrative: it can simply arise, in an undistorted Being.

A Non-Contradictory Patchwork
On the way to the Total-Awakening-of-the-Universe* - and a joyful firework-completion of this-Universe-as-'Game'! - humanity must at some point create an enduring/sustainable culture. This would be a patchwork quilt of components, non-contradictory 'horizontally' (with each other) and 'vertically' (with real-Reality!).

Obviously, what we have now, instead, is a fragmented, conflicting, jumble! Sometimes it seems the insanity will go on forever ...

Schism
The foundation of Veils' theocosmology is that Souls have creative freedom to induce separation from real-Reality. Separation as a transient Dream is called alleged-Reality*. Separation forever (in time) would be called Schism. Schism is one of the trickiest issues facing humankind - and almost completely neglected.

To illustrate a touch of a hint of the nuance: realization of Schism would correspond to the creation of an actual Hell, and is therefore impossible. Nevertheless, there are forces driving in that direction. What's to be done? Nothing, if Schism is impossible. Everything, to avoid the loss-of-everything that Schism would entail! Here's the Koan: Schism is impossible, but there are things we must do to ensure that impossibility!

Religion
Many forms of religion/spirituality are needed, to respond to separation. But not every form is a situationally-optimal contribution. We consider traditional ('punitive God') Christianity, and a 'cleaned up' version as a powerful cultural artefact. This must partner with a 'cleaned up' (and deepened!) science, open forms of non-dual Eastern spiritualities, shamanic/indigenous traditions, and various (non-contradictory!) systems-for-living. All this will be necessary, to found the next great phase of civilization, and avoid Schism in the kindest, most-Loving way .  

*For more on Split Will, ARC, etc., please visit E1 or E18.

Thanks for listening!

Find out more:
For Oliver's Psycho-Spiritual work with Individuals, Couples and Groups, please visit http://www.oliverbaum.co.uk.
For Nicholas' In-Person work, please visit http://www.liveyourdeepestself.com.
For Nicholas' Scientific work, please visit http://www.cfdis.org.