Thread by @TomMontalk

@Deepfryguy76 1. That article needs updating but I never got around to it, so it's still not on my main site. For updates, first, I'd say God is not only reality and its inhabitants, but exists beyond it too. Panentheism, which PKD considered the only logical conclusion.

@Deepfryguy76 2. Zero order beings per this article are basically the Aeons of gnosticism, emanations of God. What the article fails to do is incorporate the Demiurge. One of the aeons created the Demiurge illegitimately, and it rules over a false reality in which we exist according to lore.

@Deepfryguy76 3. The Demiurge is a thoughtform, so it would be a 2nd order being per this article's nomenclature. It lacks true spirit and sentience, and acts per its programming. Hence the gnostics calling it a blind god with a little 'g'. But it's taken on the role of a Zero Order Being.

@Deepfryguy76 4. In the sense that, the Demiurge projects physical reality, and our soul is drawn from it like water from a well, i.e. made of the same etheric and astral stuff. The Demiurge has been known since Greek times as the Soul of the Universe, as your soul is the soul of your body.

@Deepfryguy76 5. But it's a 2nd Order Being. Like our soul and body, the Demiurge should not be our master, but our servant. The roles have become reversed. It's only a god because we exist in its false creation. It created a virtualized reality by whose rules we now abide, e.g. physics.

@Deepfryguy76 6. This article fails to emphasize that we are composites of true and false components. The false components are the physical, etheric, and astral bodies that are of the Demiurge. The true component is the Spirit, which has some dominion over the upper astral parts of our being.

@Deepfryguy76 7. It's just like the Matrix movie. Man created machine, machine created a false reality, and man became imprisoned in that false reality in false bodies, master and servant roles reversed. Bound by their own (in a general sense) creation. The gnostics were aware of this.

@Deepfryguy76 8. Our Spirit connects to Zero Order and God. It's of that realm, which gnostics call the Pleroma and Christians call the Kingdom of Heaven. But we exist in corrupted form in a corrupted reality. Inner and outer realities, inextricably linked, both share the same Amfortas wound.

@Deepfryguy76 9. Next, 2nd Order beings can indeed influence probability by using up their own energy, of which they have a finite supply unless they harvest it from us. This is the energy they were given in their creation, so really it's their higher order creator's or energy donor's fault.

@Deepfryguy76 10. Further, we as 1st Order can in fact break the laws of physics, just not as freely as Zero Order. It requires a higher degree of probability distortion than normally feasible. Bending probability and breaking physics are two spots on the same sliding scale. Code is code.

@Deepfryguy76 11. Just a matter of permission levels, like superuser vs. user vs. guest access in an operating system. And if you as a 1st Order Being cannot create miracles, a higher being can do it for/with you under the right conditions. You may initiate the process, but it does the work.

@Deepfryguy76 12. The game programmer metaphor needs to take into account that the character and player are both conscious in their own way, simultaneously. There is a real functional split between human and higher self, as they can communicate with each other and defy each other.

@Deepfryguy76 13. Lastly, people who have strong manifesting abilities are not always psychic with strong psi energy fields. They bend probability via more subtle mechanisms, likely high astral energies vs. crude etheric ones. Emotion matters, but theta/gamma state seems more important.

@Deepfryguy76 14. Manifesting in this sense never involves something literally materializing before your eyes. Rather, it is synchronistic, which is really a euphemism for bits in the past being flipped to vector you into a different probable future where the improbable thing happens.

@Deepfryguy76 15. Those are some of the many changes I'd make. There are more, but this thread is long enough. That's why I never reworked it, opting to just write new articles. I keep it on my server for posterity. Glad you like it though.

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