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hey there Leo here for actualised org and in this episode I'm going to be talking about understanding absolute infinity part two [Music] you welcome to part two let's continue where we left off last time with part one make sure that you watch part one before you watch part two because we did so much work in part one that you're not going to be able to make sense of pretty much anything that I talk about here alright so in part one we did a lot of very heavy metaphysical lifting and we basically explained what absolute infinity is so you have a pretty good idea about that now in part two what I want to do is I want to talk about many of the interesting and juicy historical connections and discoveries of absolute infinity what is sort of an embarrassment to history and modern education is what you're going to discover in this episode is that there are all these remarkable intelligent wise people throughout history over the last two and a half thousand years who have discovered and cognized absolute infinity and have talked about it in numerous different ways and yet they don't teach you this in school they don't even largely teach you this in university you probably don't know any of this stuff which is why this is a such an exciting episode I'm really excited to bring you some of these um historical figures and the different angles at which they came at Absolute infinity from and let's just jump right into it and let's start with the most important figure I think in history when it comes to absolute infinity and that is a man by the name of Georg Cantor he was a mathematician and logician and his dates are 1845 to 1918 so fairly recent most of his work was done in the early 20th century and what he is famous for is that he is the father of set theory set theory is a domain of mathematics which you don't really learn about until maybe you get into advanced mathematics and logics courses in college and on the surface it sounds like a very simple sort of thing a set is simply just a collection of items any kind of items so you could have three cats five dogs ten cars twenty trees a billion people a hundred billion galaxies or stars you know whatever so this is basically how we do arithmetic as we group objects into sets and then we perform operations on those sets we multiply them divide them add them subtract them compare them to each other find relationships between them so Kantor formalized this study of set theory and what's interesting about set theory is that it sort of straddles the fence between the domain of mathematics and the domain of logic and set theory these days is actually very fundamental to understanding why math works the way that it works the very like basic metaphysical aspects of math are largely talked about in set theory and if you really want to understand why does math work the way that it does lies is so fundamental and perhaps so accurate in describing reality well you might want to study set theory but set theory is a relatively recent invention and it could not have come about other than through Georg Cantor now the amazing thing about Cantor is that he wasn't interested in just the regular numbers like 1 2 3 4 5 nor even just the rational numbers or the irrational numbers he was interested in infinities what is infinity and what's interesting if you go back through the history books and you take a look at how mankind and mainstream culture viewed infinity even in the sciences and in the mathematics up until Georg Cantor largely infinity was aboard it was seen as a scandal to the sciences and to the mathematics nobody took infinity seriously because the standard line of thinking was that nothing is actually infinite everything we know is finite therefore talking about infinities is just some sort of flight of fancy or some kind of speculation or some kind of mental magic voodoo and so no serious scientists really thought about infinity that is until Gareth Kanter came along and he blew the whole field wide open he turned mathematics on its head and these days in the history of mathematics he might be considered one of the most important mathematicians of all time and yet in his day he was denounced criticized and largely rejected for his discoveries so before we talk about the scandal that happened there let's talk about what he actually discovered so Cantor was interested in infinite sets imagine a set of objects which contains an infinite number of objects how do you deal with that so he was just curious about numbers and so he said to himself okay let's start with just the natural whole numbers like one two three four five six seven eight nine ten a million a billion a trillion to infinity right so even in elementary school we can see that the number line continues forever and these are just the whole numbers we're not talking about rational numbers ratios or decimals here or even the negative numbers we're excluding all those so let's just take the natural numbers and let's use that as our baseline so we can see that that's infinite and then the question occurs to us okay what if we took just the even natural numbers so 2 4 6 8 10 and so on to infinity would that be a larger or a smaller or identical number of numbers as the natural infinite numbers so see Cantor was trying to compare sizes of infinity and he made some very counterintuitive discoveries there so as I'm explaining this to you I want you if you haven't learned about this yet from somewhere else I want you to just kind of play along in your mind and just return a guess the answers and see how good your intuition is going to be because I'll give you the answers in a minute here so you think do you think that even numbers are smaller or larger or the same as the natural numbers interesting question but Cantor went further he said okay what about the rational numbers and by rational numbers what do we mean we mean ratios like 1/4 1/5 1/2 1/3 3/4 and so on to infinity so what do you think about that do you think that there are more rational numbers than there are whole numbers or than even numbers remember each one of these goes to infinity so they're all infinite so are they then the same or are they different sizes of infinity what do you think take a best guess what does your intuition tell you and then Cantor considered what about the real numbers the real numbers are all the decimal point possibilities on the number line so point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one would be one real number and point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero two would be other real number and you can see if there's a ton of real numbers just between zero and one not to mention if we go from 0 to infinity how many real numbers there are so what do you think do you think that the amount of real numbers is larger than or identical to the whole numbers and the rational numbers and the even numbers okay so make your predictions because here I'm going to tell you the answers these answers came out to be very counterintuitive and yet Cantor was able to deductively prove this in very rigorous logical mathematical language so here's what he discovered he discovered that in fact the amount of even numbers is the same as the amount of whole natural numbers the same you heard me right so your intuition might tell you well there should be half as many right because in the natural numbers what are the natural numbers made out of just these even ones and the odd ones so if we just take the even ones how can that be the same size as the natural numbers because you're leaving out all the odd ones it makes no sense and yet Cantor was able to prove that this is the case kind of weird but it gets weirder because when we take the rational numbers what Cantor was able to prove is that there are just as many rational numbers as there are even numbers and natural whole numbers so now in rational numbers this is even weirder of a result because you can see that there are supposedly an infinite number of rational numbers just between 0 and 1 how can that be the case how could how can this result be the way that it is it makes no sense and yet you prove that this is the case and the last example is the real numbers and this was the most shocking and scandalous example of all because here you might think well then the real numbers must be the same size infinity as all the others and that means there's just one size of infinity but what Cantor approved was that actually there are infinitely more real numbers just between 0 & 1 then there are all the natural numbers and all the rational numbers and what he discovered there is that there is different sizes of infinity and this is what he proved and this is what shook the world of mathematics nobody ever thought about infinity in this way before and certainly nobody actually ever proved it in a rigorous fashion so then you can see where this is going not only to canter discover that there are two sides of infinity but he was able to prove that there are three sizes four sizes five sizes and so on you guessed it to infinity so there are infinite sizes of infinity and he was able to demonstrate this and to show how you can create all these different sizes of infinity pretty amazing stuff he spent over 20 years of his life every single day studying the logic of set theory and specifically of infinite sets and these were the results that he got and then of course all these results have been verified and have become established standard mathematics that you can learn these days and universities it's pretty advanced type of mathematics so they don't teach it to you in high school so many people never learned about this stuff but never left this is the case very very counterintuitive he had to come up with some ingenious reasoning and arguments for how to prove this stuff one of the ways he did it is he came up with this famous diagonalization argument which I can't go into here it's quite technical and I don't want to bog this this lecture down with with a bunch of complicated math but basically what it involves is of putting one set in one-to-one correspondence with other set so what he says is that if you can take one infinite set and then match each element to another set that's also infinite then those two sets have to have the same number of infinity but if you can show that you actually cannot match up every element in this infinite set with every element in this infinite set the GNAT shows you that they're actually different sizes of infinity and that there's infinitely many but it gets even weirder because Cantor was a devout Orthodox Christian and he took his religion very seriously and what he discovered to himself is that not only was he just studying mathematics and logic here but he actually believed very firmly that he was penetrating the mind of God as he was understanding these infinities and he called the infinity of all infinities the absolute infinite capital a capital I absolute infinite and he referred to that as God he actually thought that he discovered the essence of God because to him as a mathematician you can see how it makes sense mathematicians usually see themselves as studying the very fundamental aspects of reality and so he thought that all of reality is made up of number and of logic and of infinity and then the infinity of all infinities well that's God one of the reasons he thought this is because see he discovered that infinity has a very paradoxical property when you take one infinite set like the natural whole numbers and then you take a subset of it like the even numbers or the odd numbers that's a subset right so you would think that's actually only half of the whole but when he was able to prove is that actually the subset of an infinite set can be identical in size to the whole and this was a remarkable and scandalous result but you can also see the interesting interconnections this has metaphysically with God because what this means that if God is infinity then every piece of God is also an infinity which is in a sense equivalent to the whole so it's like God is being holographically projected into every subset and what that makes infinity capable of is that infinity is sort of pregnant with possibility in that infinity can spawn off smaller infinities which still contain the whole infinity within themselves you see so it's a it's a very very interesting result in fact Cantor wrote to one of his colleagues Richard Dedekind who was also a famous mathematician he was one of the only colleagues who supported Cantor after he proved this result to himself he immediately wanted to Mail off the proof to Richard Dedekind to have him double-check but canter already knew his proof was airtight and so to detta Kent he wrote I see it but I can't believe it she couldn't believe the result that he was looking at because he proved to himself this this completely counterintuitive paradigm shattering feature of mathematics which nobody up to those days was able to show and this was in the early 20th century mathematics has a very long and rich history so by that point many mathematicians thought that they fully understood mathematics which is a an interesting lesson to those people who think that all well math and science understands everything no not even close just a hundred years ago we made these massive discoveries within the fields of mathematics and within quantum mechanics and physics and cosmology so well we're still on the cutting edge here but see contra had a problem in that he was viciously demonized by all his colleagues in academia as a hoax as a kook as some crazy radical who was just trying to destroy the field of mathematics that's how most of the mathematical establishment reacted against Cantor's proofs they didn't take him on his merit and this really disturbed and bothered Cantor because he invested his entire lifetime into this and not only that but he wasn't just doing math in his mind to him he was traversing the mind of God and the thing that disturbed him the most was when he tried to show his proofs and his his discoveries of God to his Orthodox Christian contemporaries they denounced him as a pantheist and they refused to have anything to do with him and this was basically the equivalent of being outcast as a pariah from your Christian community being rejected and being called a heretic that's in essence what happened to him they didn't punish him but they ostracized him and to him this was deeply disturbing and it sent him into a deep depression and caused him a lot of mental anguish and ultimately he ended up spending his final days in an insane insane asylum and that's where he died because he was having mental breakdowns now this is a interesting because there are a couple of ways we can think about this one reason he was having his mental breakdowns is just because of the social ostracism that he received but I think it he even goes deeper I think that one of the reasons he ended up in this insane asylum is because he was actually tapping into the mind of God into absolute infinity I'm not sure whether he actually had direct consciousness or enlightenment experiences maybe he did if he did I can understand why he might then lose his mental stability well it's because when you are having enlightenment glimpses but your entire culture around you is telling you that all that is wrong and also again goes against your fundamental faith in Orthodox Christianity which denounces pantheism then then you can see how this creates a giant kind of rift in your mind and then you're not sure how to cope with this do I stay loyal to my faith and to orthodoxy or do I accept what my proofs and what my reasoning and what my direct insights are showing me which is that everything is unified everything is infinite and therefore pantheism is true you see the problem with Orthodox Christianity is that they deny pantheism whereas in fact Jesus was of course a pantheist he was enlightened enlightenment is pantheism that's what it is but of course to to an orthodox mind to a traditionalist mind it makes no sense and it's very threatening that idea because they see God is some figure sitting up in the clouds who created the world in seven days and all this other kind of silly nonsense they don't recognize those it's just metaphors trying to point to absolute infinity which is by its nature formless and so how are you gonna understand the formless especially in a mainstream context you can't talk about absolute infinity in a Bible well one of the reasons is because when the Bible was written they didn't even have these notions of infinity or the absolute you know these things are mostly the byproducts of centuries of human cultural development so it took a while for that stuff to to be accessible to people even these days even today in the 21st century is I'm talking about absolute infinity most people have no idea what I'm talking about and it goes completely over their head think about 2,000 years ago how that would have gone over with people it wouldn't have worked 2,000 years ago what you needed in order to spread this idea of God and absolute infinity is you needed Bible stories that's what worked well back then by and large so I think that Cantor lost his mental stability because either he did have direct enlightenment experiences and he couldn't fully integrate and make sense of them really what he should have done is like God to his end monastery but I bet you he didn't know what a Zen monastery is back then or there's other possibility which is that Cantor was a brilliant logician and mathematician and he was really good at symbolizing and conceptualizing absolute infinity but he never actually got far enough to have a direct experience of it he didn't actually have an Enlightenment experience and in that case I can see even moreso how he would end up with a mental breakdown because what he did is he spent 20 years of his life trying to conceptualize God and he basically got lost in his own mind and let that be a lesson to those of you who try to conceptualize absolute infinity I know some of you are out there like me I'm a very big conceptualize er I love to conceptualize this kind of stuff but you also have to see the limits and know when to stop and when to shut your mind off and went to go beyond your mind see your mind can conceptualize absolu infinities some degree but you have to recognize that it's not it and if you're going to spend the rest of your life trying to get to absolute infinity through conceptualization through using your mind through reasoning and through logic be careful about that because you actually might go insane I think there's a really good reason why famous mathematicians I know multiple of them certain physicists of course we know famous authors throughout history why they become depressed depressive suicidal or end up in a sane asylums it's a it's a interesting and rather common phenomenon and I think the reason that is because they get lost in the depths and bowels of their own mind you just conceptualize so much and so much and so much and you don't know any other alternatives nobody tells you about meditation nobody tells you about self inquiry that you just keep conceptualizing and then you keep going down the rabbit hole down the rabbit hole and then you actually lose your mind that's what will happen to you of course it will because you're trying to grasp the absolute infinite with this little tiny brain that you have it's not going to work trying to do it is almost the definition of insanity now let me read you some quotes from Cantor because he has some beautiful ways of describing his discoveries he said quote the actual infinite arises in three contexts first when it is realized in the most complete form in a fully independent otherworldly being god where I call it the absolute infinite and he spells absolute infinite with capital letters secondly when it occurs in the contingent created world the world around us and thirdly when the mind grasps it in the abstract as a mathematical magnitude number or type and quote so you see he talks about three different levels of accessing infinity the first one is actually enlightenment or direct access and just the fact that he was open to this possibility shows me that maybe he has some glimpses or maybe he just knew that it was possible but he didn't actually realize it himself secondly as you see infinity all around us everything you see around you is infinite these are like the minor infinities within the absolute infinity you see absolute infinity contains an infinite number of smaller infinities within it which are also reflecting the nature of the absolute within themselves like an ever expanding infinite fractal in infinite dimensions and infinite colors and an infinite possible ways and thirdly he says that you can just grasp it with your mind in the abstract so in a mathematical sense you can grab it as a formula approve that's actually the weakest way you see the most important way is to access it directly as God to encounter God for yourself he also says this quote the fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds end quote so you see Cantor wasn't just talking about a potential theoretical mathematical possibility of infinity he's talking about that everything you see around you is infinite and it's an infinity within an infinity within an infinity with an infinity that's the most mind-blowing part of this and lastly he says quote I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that nature opposed it as is commonly said I hold that nature makes frequent use of it everywhere in order to show more effectively the perfections of its author author spell to the capital a he's talking about God there I believe that there is no part of matter which is not actually divisible and consequently the least particle ought to be considered as a full world of infinity of different creatures end quote so think about what he's saying here he's saying that everything is infinitely divisible and every division is itself an infinity so you can zoom in into reality as much as you want and you're going to find whole universes and worlds and infinite numbers of creatures and things happening within that's pretty revolutionary to think that way so you can see how he got ostracized for it but he he stuck to his guns he didn't really give in to the mainstream he wanted to suffer a mental breakdown instead of giving in to the mainstream and what's amazing is that he died in ill repute and then it took a few more decades before mainstream mathematics and science really caught on to his discoveries and nowadays everything he discovered it's just considered mainstream math so you see this just shows you how powerful paradigms are and how dangerous paradigm block is and that to make a radical discovery in mathematics or in science is not an easy thing at all sure you could make the discovery but then when you try to convince mainstream culture or your colleagues or academia or the scientific community of your discoveries well um you might be shocked to us to discover that they will not accept it because they're stuck in their paradigm and they are not going to give it up easily so with Cantor I think that he almost grasped absolute infinity but I think that he was really on the edge there he wasn't able to have a really deep full-on enlightened experience because if he did then he wouldn't have had any kind of mental break if he fully accepted integrated he would have become a mystic and a sage and he would have went on to teach and he would have been happy he would have been ecstatic he would have been living in the in the presence of God all the time but unfortunately he just didn't make it that far he's a little bit too far ahead of his time so speaking actually of that the perfect segue is moving on to our next historical figure geared on Oh Bruno whose dates are 1550 to 1600 ad so he was also a figure very much ahead of his time you might be familiar with the name Bruno not from the movie not from the Borat guy but from your history class he was a famous heretic who was burned at the stake by the Roman Inquisition for his views about reality and the universe what's interesting though that he wasn't just a scientist he was a Dominican monk turned mystic and he was a devoutly Christian except of course when you actually realize what Christianity is pointing you to all your Christian friends especially back in the 1600s will condemn you as a devil because again you're going to be talking about pantheism you're going to be seeing God everywhere and that just does not rub the Orthodox Church in the right way so he was a monk and then he discovered the works of Copernicus and Galileo this was the time of the Scientific Revolution and the Copernican revolution and he was just so moved by by these discoveries being made by Copernicus and the discovery there was simply that it's really more of an insight or a paradigm shift than a discovery is the idea that the earth is not at the center of the universe but actually is orbiting around and of course Copernicus and Galileo were also called heretics and they were also rejected by the establishment their lives were also endangered but Bruno because he was a mystic he took it one step further one step beyond the pale for the church he wrote a book called army infinite universe and worlds and then he went around all Europe promoting his radical ideas which he talks about in the book let me read you some quotes this is a remarkable stuff quote there is a single general space a single vast immensity which we may freely call void void with the capital V in it are innumerable globes like this on which we live and grow this space we declare to be infinite since neither reason convenience possibility nor sense perception nor nature assigned to it a limit in it our many worlds of the same kind as our own he also says quote innumerable suns exist in numerable Earth's revolve around these Suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our Sun and living beings inhabit these worlds encode now keep in mind this is the 1600s the 1600s he says this this is before we have even like telescopes before we have any satellites before we travel to the moon we don't even have science fiction novels back then and he's already talking about a millions of stars with planets around them with living beings living on them think about how ridiculously a visionary he was and then he says quote the one infinite and those with capital letters is perfect simply and of itself nothing can be greater or better than it this is the one hole everywhere god universal nature not but the infinite can be a perfect image and reflection thereof for the finite is imperfect every sensible world is imperfect whereas evil and good matter inform light and darkness sadness and joy unite and all things are everywhere in change in motion but all things come in infinity to the order of unity truth and goodness and quote so clearly he realized that we are living in an absolute infinity and he saw the full ramifications of that he saw the relativity of it he was able to connect the dots and to apply the relativity and to to convince himself that hey Planet Earth human beings were just one tiny speck of this entire creation there's nothing really special about us and for this he was eventually arrested he was tried over a period of 10 years and ultimately hung upside down tortured and burned at the stake in 1600 by the Roman Inquisition for heresy and for pantheism and for advancing his idea of multiple worlds and multiple universes pretty remarkable stuff see this is what happens when you are ahead of your time in your thinking this is what happens when you challenge paradigms it's not taken lightly and it's still not taken lightly today you might think well that was close to the Middle Ages that was 500 years ago or whatever and they're you know we've we've outgrown those barbaric times really have we have we really look at what's going on in our culture we can't even get facts straight about presidential candidates and yet you're saying that there's no problems with paradigm locks in our society there are huge problems it's as big a problem that's ever been it's just that we're we're a little bit more civil about it these days we usually don't burn people at the stake although you know in some countries they might stone to death for this sort of stuff so keep that in mind when you're learning radical stuff when you're trying to go deep into reality to understand some facet of reality you understand that you're leaving the comfortable herd mentality that you've been in for your entire life don't expect social support don't expect double-blind experiments don't expect scientific backing if you want that stuff you're scared you're sitting in the herd that means you got to be part of the herd and what we're talking about with deep self-actualization as we're talking about going off-roading into uncharted territories and there might be dragons there there might be aliens there might be all sorts of weird stuff you just don't know what you'll find that's why raggle open-mindedness is such an important principle to obey and understanding epistemology and paradigm blocks and false skepticism default positions all this stuff that I keep harping on you can see why it's so important because otherwise you're going to commit the same mistakes that mankind has been committing for thousands of years and still convinced today many smart scientists authors and mathematicians still commit all these mistakes today in fact I I have I had a written correspondence with a with a really good mathematician in a university and I was trying to communicate with him about absolute infinity and he was just not open to it even though he understands what absolute infinity is mathematically but he's not open to the possibility of having a direct experience of absolute infinity for himself and realizing that that's what God is he's not open to that because he's he's stuck in his mathematical paradigm which says that that's not possible see now let's go a little bit further back in time to the ancient Greeks and Romans because actually the ancient Greeks and Romans were a lot wiser than many of the Christians that followed afterwards because largely they weren't as crippled by dogma and paradigm lock so firstly we've got Aristotle whose dates are 384 to 322 BC here's what he says if coming to be and passing away do not give out it is only because that from which things come to be is infinite and he says quote the limited always finds its limit in something so that there must be no limit if everything is always limited by something different from itself end quote so Aristotle clearly understood some of the ramifications of infinity and this idea that things always need another limit to limit them and so because of this we must have an ever-expanding chain of limits which amounts to infinity we also have an even later figure anaxagoras whose dates are 510 to 428 BC he understood this idea as well he said quote there is no smallest among the small and no largest amount of large but always something still smaller and something still larger end quote pretty remarkable this was 500 years before Christ this was even before the Buddha and we have then an even earlier figure Anaximander whose dates are 610 to 546 BC this is like the edge of written human history right here and I want to read you some of Anaximander x' ideas about the origins of creation I'm going to quote you from Wikipedia because they summarized this quite nicely he had two ideas or two labels that he gave to the source of creation he called it the RK and he also called it the apron so first let's cover the RK RK is the same root as in the word archaic but it doesn't mean old it means something else so here's what it means with the PDS as quote RK is a Greek word meaning beginning origin or the source of action or the first principle or element and this was a term first used by Anaximander the first principle or element corresponds to the ultimate underlying substance and the ultimate undemonstrative principle RK designates the source origin or root of things that exist Aristotle foreground with the meaning of RK as the element or principle of a thing which although undemonstrative and Intel intangible in itself provides the conditions of the possibility of that Singh being from this all things first come to be and into this they are resolved in a final state this source of entity is always preserved the Greek philosophers ascribed to the RK divine attributes it is the divine horizon of substance that encompasses and values all things the RK is technically what underlies all of reality and appearance and quote that's from Wikipedia so that's the idea of the RK and then we have the Greek idea of the AP Ron spelled AP e irom apron it's kind of weird to pronounce and Anaximander also used this term here's what wikipedia says a Perron is a Greek word meaning that which is unlimited boundless infinite indefinite Anaximander believed the beginning or ultimate reality is eternal and infinite or boundless subject to neither old age nor decay which perpetually yields fresh material from which everything can be perceived and derived a piranha is generating the opposites like hot cold wet dry etc which acted on the creation of the world everything is generated generated from apron and then it is destroyed by going back into apron according to necessity he believed that infinite worlds are generated from apron and then they are destroyed there again Greek philosophy entered a high level abstraction it adapted or it adopted apron as the origin of all things because it is completely indefinite and quote rather remarkable isn't it how the descriptions of a guy who was writing and thinking over two and a half thousand years ago are completely in accordance what we what we talked about in part 1 of this series his descriptions are identical what he's describing here is non duality a Greek from two and a half thousand years ago that's amazing and also he talks about infinite worlds a Greek from two and a half thousand years ago was able to foresee that there are infinite worlds in our reality how amazing is that but it doesn't end there we also have Heraclitus Heraclitus is also quite an old Greek figure his dates are 535 to 475 BC and this dude was enlightened he was clearly enlightened he writes like a Zen master in short little cryptic esoteric phrases let me read you some of them you have to really read between the lines with Heraclitus because he doesn't go out of his way to spell everything out for you he says quote one does wisely in agreeing that all things are in fact one thing and quote also quote one thing the only wise thing is both unwilling and willing to be called the names Zeus and quote you see how clever that is you see what he's talking about it's both willing and unwilling to be called Zeus so this is the whole Zen problem of pointing anytime you call something God it's not God so should we call it God or not called God if you call it God you do it a disservice and you're lying if you don't call it God you're also ignoring the fact that everything is God because God is both in everything but not anything he also says quote one would never discover the limits of soul should one traverse every road so deep a measure does it possess end quote and now of course his use the Greek word use of the word soul is actually spirit more like spirit or more like mind and what we're talking about here is infinite mind the mind of God if you will if you think of all of reality as occurring within the mind of God all of this right here look around you this is all occurring within the mind of God this is spirit spirit is not somewhere else the mind of God is not somewhere else it's all right here you might wonder below if mine has if God has a mind is that like located in God's brain then where's god's brain where's god's body no no you're not understanding the significance of what's being said here would we say that all of reality is occurring within the mind of God the mind of God is here it's manifest it doesn't occur in a brain somewhere God doesn't have a body somewhere else there is nowhere else it's all right here imagine that God's brain and God's mind and God's body is identical it's all the same stuff and what is that stuff it's nothing and it's all right here what we're really talking about here is we're talking about idealism versus realism and people who are stuck in the realist paradigm which is pretty much everybody on earth they have a really hard time understanding idealism because the way they try to understand idealism is by taking idealism and then couching it within their realist paradigm and then when they do that it doesn't make any sense to them so when I say the mind of God a realist will think okay the mind of God needs to be in a brain or it needs to be grounded in some kind of substance like atoms no that's not what's being said idealism means that you have the mind of God and nothing else there's nothing there at all it's not grounded in anything it doesn't need a brain it's a mechanical it's not physical it's consciousness it's pure consciousness it's like a dream where is the dream occurring not in a head somewhere not in a brain it's occurring nowhere in nothingness that's what idealism means now if you don't like that idea well that's something you have to get over if that doesn't make sense to you you need to have direct experience of it that will fix your problem but what you can't do is you can't then say okay well let's try to make sense of idealism using all our scientific paradigms no no no what we're trying to do here is reject all the scientific paradigms not in the sense that science is wrong and science is bad there's nothing wrong with science science is useful when it's you used in its limited domain science is used to understand and manipulate the relative world science is not used to ascertain absolute infinity it can't be because science is limited that's what makes science science that's what makes science differ from religion see the only way you can arrive at absolute infinity is through an infinite method science is not an infinite method science as a limited method every method in fact is a limited method so how do you arrive at the absolute through no method at all and now you can see why Zen people speak in riddles and why a lot of times people get upset because when people talk like this is like well what are you talking about us all is just nonsense it's not nonsense it's just that you're trying to grasp it with your rational mind and we keep telling you that you can't do that because what we're talking about is infinite and your rational mind is finite you see you have to be able to to make a leap here a leap of consciousness is required you can't access absolute infinity with your current limited state of consciousness what work Heraclitus also says quote in the case of the circles circumference beginning and end are common end quote and I hope you can read between the lines there and see that he's not talking about geometry he's not talking about circles he's using a metaphor there to talk about the very fundamental structure of all of existence the beginning and the end are the same there is no beginning and end really just like in a circle and he says also quote they do not understand how while differing from it is an agreement with itself there is a back turning connection like that of a bow or a liar end quote and of course he's not talking about bows and liars here what is he saying he's trying to explain the paradoxical nature of absolute infinity namely that it both is and is not simultaneously and that the duality of existence and non-existence has to come together and connect the way that they do in a bow or a liar or if you have two sides of the same coin the two sides the heads and the tails they have to be connected into a unity they can't be separate from each other see which produces this whole paradoxical nature - it is heads different from tails in a sense it is but is heads identical details also in a sense it is because heads is not separate from tails they're connected together and lastly he says God is day and night winter and summer war and peace satiety and famine and undergoes change in a way that fire when it is mixed with spices gets called by the name that accords with the bouquet of each spice end quote and I love this metaphor here because this explains why it's so difficult to isolate God it's sort of like you're taking some spices and you put them into a fire and then you're getting a different aroma well when you get that aroma you call it different names cumin pepper coriander cinnamon whatever it might be but you don't see the unity of all those things you don't really get the essence of the fire there because or the smoke because it's just the smell and the smell is what you focus on and you give it different names well it's the same way with God God the indefinite the formless has no form so it's very difficult for our human minds to grasp it we don't see it easily because the things we focus on and see tend to be material gross things like colors smells sights sounds so this explains how God could be everywhere it's right there it's right here it's right here it's not somewhere else God is right here but you're not conscious of it because your mind is focused on ordinary colors sounds Bob Jex people problems in your life emotions you're so controlled and manipulated by all that like like a marionette like a puppet on strings that you're not able to discern the very subtle quality of nothingness which is permeating all of somethingness you see and then we also have Pythagoras from the famous Pythagorean formula so Pythagoras his dates are 7 572 495 BC he was also quite a an ancient Greek and here's what they say about the pythagoreans he wasn't just a mathematician the pythagorean's called the first thing that came into existence the monad which begat the dyad which begat the numbers which begat the point lines and finiteness it meant divinity the first being or the totality of all beings that's the monad that's their word for absolute infinity so Pythagoras was a brilliant mathematician sort of like Cantor but also spirituality was not lost on him and in fact the Pythagorean school was this odd mixture of mathematics but also occultism esotericism and spirituality all mixed together because they thought that by discovering mathematics and learning various mathematical formulas and relationships and geometry that they were actually coming into contact with the essence of how the whole universe is created and structured and of course that is God that is spirituality so they married the two a rather interesting approach which is very countered the way that we do math and science these days and university settings where we divorce all these all our scientific and mathematical discoveries from any sense of spirituality or significance we don't see them from a holistic perspective we just do math and science - to write research papers to advance our careers to get Nobel Prizes to write books to become celebrity scientists to make famous inventions to market those inventions to sell technology to earn money and to make a living that's how we use math and science these days completely disconnected from the essence of being and all of reality and spirituality we don't let our discoveries actually transform our humanity we become slaves to our discoveries and we do it in a very unconscious and mechanical sort of way where our most brilliant scientists and mathematicians will reject everything I'm saying here in these two episodes about absolute infinity they might watch all this and they'll just reject it I'll just say it's just philosophy it's just that a physic is just theory they won't be able to read between the lines and to see that they need to go and experience this absolute infinity for themselves and the the last Greek that I want to read to you from Greek and Roman actually is a plot nassif igure he was after the time of Christ so his dates are 204 - to 70 AD and because he came later we have a lot of his works still surviving most those other guys we don't have a lot of their works we just have fragments but with platanus we have entire books from him and this dude was enlightened it was one light because he talks endlessly on and on about the one and how to discern the one and all the properties of the one what the one is and what the one isn't in a very elegant sort of way let me read you a little bit from platanus the one he spells it with capital T and capital o the one is all things and not a single one of them it is because there is nothing in it that all things come from in order that being may exist the one is not being but the generation of being so that no other form is left outside it the one must be without form the one must be understood as infinite not because it's size and number cannot be measured or counted but because its power cannot be comprehended for when you think of him as intellect or God he is more and when you unify him in your thought here also the degree of unity by which he transcends your thought is more than you imagined it to be and quote I love that description so he's talking about the futility of trying to conceptualize God because as soon as you have an idea of God God is greater than that and if you increase your idea to that a little bit more God is still greater than that and more and still greater than that and so no matter how big of an idea you can imagine it's still too small for God because that's the nature of infinity its ever-growing it's always bigger you can't capture it in your mind he also says quote how then does multiplicity come from one well because it is everywhere for there is no where it is not now if it itself were only everywhere it would itself be all things but since it is also nowhere all things come into being through him because he is everywhere but are other than him because he is nowhere and quote you see he's also talking like a Zen master in these sort of paradoxical riddles where he is both affirming and then negating everything he is saying because the nature of infinity is that it is and it isn't at the same time it doesn't fit our human categories or simple dichotomies it is source of our categories and our dichotomies that's why I can't fit into them it actually makes perfect sense but only if you accept the idea that you can't rationalize or conceptualize everything you encounter you have to admit that there are limits to conceptualization and a lot of people these days even very smart ones don't like to admit these limits and lastly platanus says of the one of absolute infinity he says it is a beauty which makes beauty and quote I love how he says that that's the law poetic quote for you to end that off now I still have more than I want to share with you so don't go anywhere but we're going to take a quick intermission here because I'm reading a lot of quotes to you in this episode and it's quite straining on my voice so I'm going to go take a short break and grab a drink of water you don't go anywhere because I'll be back here in a second in your time and then we'll continue with some even more juicy historical examples ok I'm back let's continue where we left off so we've finished up with the Greeks and Romans and now I want to move on to the Chi ba lien which is an interesting book that was written pretty recently in 1908 but it claimed it was written by an anonymous source but it claims that these teachings in the book are hermetic teachings that go back to ancient Greece and all the way to ancient Egypt over 2,000 years ago so the Chi ba lien has some beautiful descriptions of what they call the all and all is spelled a ll capitalized all of it capitalized and that of course refers to the one and only absolute infinity so here's what the Chi ba lien says about it quote the all must be infinite for there is nothing else to define confine bound limit or restrict the all-in must be infinite in time and eternal it must have always continuously existed for there is nothing else to have ever created it it must be infinite in space because it must be everywhere for there is no place outside the all it cannot be otherwise than continuous in space without break cessation separation or interruption for there is nothing to break separate or interrupt its continuity and nothing with which to fill the gaps it must be infinite in power or absolute for there is nothing to limit restrict restrain confine disturb or condition it it is subject to no other power for there is no other power and quote and it also says quote do not make the mistake of supposing that the little world you see around you the earth which is just a mere grain of dust in the universe don't make the mistake that this is the universe itself there are millions upon millions of such worlds and even greater and there are millions of millions of such universes in existence within the infinite mind of the all and quote and this was in 1908 so not that long ago but still signs did not recognize that there were planets around other stars systems that wasn't proven until just recently and yet here we are anticipating this 100 years ago and in the hermetic teachings go quite a long ways back thousands of years it also says quote V all in the earth worm is yet the earthworm sorry the all is in the earthworm and yet the earthworm is far from being the all and still the wonder remains that though the earthworm exists merely as a lowly thing created and having its being solely within the mind of the all yet the all is imminent in the earthworm and in the particles that go to make it up and quote you see so the describing how every object you see around you is a minor infinity within the larger absolute infinity it also says quote nothing but the all can escape law and that is because the all is law itself from which all laws emerge and quote that's the cabal ian and then another source that I'll cite to you is the law of one which is a collection of books which are channeled works and there's a lot of controversial stuff in these books they're only about 40 years old so not very old but I particularly love their descriptions of absolute infinity or the Creator so I want to quote to you from that it says quote consider if you will that the universe is infinite this has yet to be proven or disproven but we can assure you that there is no end to yourselves your understanding what you could call or what you would call your journey of seeking or your perceptions of the creation that which is infinite cannot be many for many myths is a finite concept to have infinity you must identify or define the infinity as a unity otherwise the term does not have any reference or meaning in an infinite creator there can only be unity and it goes on to say quote how did intelligent infinity become individualized from itself in intelligent infinity discerned a concept this concept was Finity this was the first and primal paradox or distortion of the law of one thus the one intelligent infinity invested itself in an exploration of many news and due to infinite possibilities of intelligent infinity there is no ending there's no ending to the men enos their exploration 'this is free to continue infinitely in to the eternal present and quote so you see this is describing why we have all the dualistic stuff that we have what's really going on is if you imagine all of reality as an infinite singularity the way that we've described it imagine that what reality is up to is exploring itself becoming conscious of all its possible forms and shapes out to infinity there's no end to it so this process doesn't end so imagine this giant sphere so to speak and there's like this ripple wave of consciousness moving through the sphere and exploring everything within the sphere forever sort of like a a video on a loop that just watches itself except since the video is of infinite length and of infinite content and can be in infinite possible ways and in two dimensions this video is just constantly playing itself out and it never really even has to loop because there's always more new stuff to explore to infinity this one infinite video contains inside of it more videos and each of those contain infinite more videos in each of those contain infinite more videos to infinity forever and that's what reality is up to is this self exploration process that's what you're doing in life that's what I'm doing in my life that's what every human being is ultimately doing is we're exploring but we are not separate from this our perspectives are all contributing to the greater whole to the all in a sense that if you were a tiny video within the larger video that would be one perspective that would be like your life and then the other video would be like my life but then they're making up the much larger perspective and there's an infinity of all these different videos so that was the law of one now also what's interesting is to look into Kabbalah Kabalah is the esoteric and occult domain of Judaism and in Kabbalah they have this notion called the Alf and the ALF is simply their representation of the letter a so we have the alphabet right well a alpha alpha but also the Alf isn't just the letter A in Hebrew it also means the number one or unity and so of course the Hebrew alphabet and also their number system plays an important sort of spiritual significance in Kabbalah because Kabbalah is all about numerology and breaking words apart and finding all sorts of esoteric connections between words so I'm not too familiar with exactly how all that works it's a deep art and science you can go study it but the important thing to know here is about the elf because this will be important the next thing that I quote you so here's what they say about the Alf the Alf is quote the primordial one which contains all numbers or they say quote it's a point in space that contains all other points anyone who gazes into it can see and it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously without distortion overlap or confusion it's to see the infinite universe in a single glance so going back to my analogy from part one of this series I talked about the zip file that's what they call this thing they called the elf that's my zip file same thing so that's from Kabbalah and the reason I talk about the Alf and I talked about Kabbalah is because I want to end this episode with a long excerpt from a short story by jorge luis borges he wrote this short story called the ALF in 1945 and Borges was an interesting writer because he wrote short stories very short just a few pages long each but all his stories were about the sort of paradoxical puzzling aspects of reality he was sort of the equivalent of emcee Esher but when it came to writing and not art or painting so this sort story called the Alf is a the perfect capstone to everything we've talked about when it comes to absolute infinity it gives you an idea of what it feels like to experience absolute infinity for yourself now let me set up the story for you basically there's the narrator and then the narrator has a friend now the friend claims that he has discovered the Alf as an actual object which exists in his basement and so the narrator is very interested and he he sort of in competition with his friend but he goes to his friends basement to check out this suppose it elf and he doesn't know what it's going to be or he doesn't really even believe that it's anything but he just goes along to see what's there and now I'm going to quote to you from the short story of what he actually experiences here's what he says quote all language is a set of symbols whose use amongst its speakers assumes a shared past how then can I translate into words the limitless elf which my floundering mind can scarcely encompass even partial enumeration of infinity is irresolvable in that unbounded moment I saw millions of delightful and horrible acts but none amazed me so much as the fact that all occupy the same point without superposition and without transparency what my eyes saw was simultaneous what I shall write is successive because language is successive something of it though I will capture under the step towards the right I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brightness at first I thought it was spinning but then I realized the movement was an illusion produced by the dizzying spectacles inside the Alf was probably two or three centimetres in diameter but Universal space was contained inside it with no diminution in size each thing was infinite things because I could clearly see it from every point in the cosmos I saw the populace see I saw a dawn and dusk I saw the multitudes of the Americas I saw a silvery spiderweb at the center of a black pyramid I saw broken labyrinths salt endless eyes saw all the mirrors on the planet and none of them reflecting me saw clusters of grapes snow tobacco veins of metal water vapor saw convex equatorial deserts and there every grain of sand saw a woman whom I shall never forget saw her violent hair saw her haughty body saw cancer in her breast saw a circle of dry soil within a sidewalk where there once had been a tree saw every letter of every single page at once sigh salt saw simultaneous night and day saw sunset that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal saw my bedroom with no one in it saw in a study a globe of the world placed between two mirrors that multiplied itself endlessly saw horses with wind-whipped Mane's on a beach in the Caspian Sea at dawn saw the delicate bones of a hand saw the survivors of a battle sending postcards saw tarot card in a window shot saw the oblique shadows of ferns on the floor of a greenhouse saw Tigers Pistons - tides armies saw all the ants on earth saw a Persian astrolabe saw the circulation of my dark blood saw the coils and springs of love and the alterations of death saw the elf from we're at once saw the earth in the Alf and Alf once more in the earth and the earth in Alf saw my face and my viscera sly your face and I felt dizzy and I wept because my eyes have seen that secret hypothetical object whose name has been usurped by men but which no man has ever truly looked upon the inconceivable universe I had a sense of infinite veneration and infinite pity and its friend replies serves you right having your mind bottled for sticking your nose in where you weren't wanted and you may wrack your brains but you will never repay me for this revelation not in a hundred years and code that is the Alf that is absolute infinity that's what it feels like to glimpse cough it's such an overwhelming experience that stretches beyond all experience because it's really not an experience it's prior to all experience that when I first encountered absolute infinity actually not hypothetically but actually I still have scars on my fingertips you can't see because the camera zoomed in on my faith and not on my fingertips they're very fine scars but what happened was that I experienced a very powerful energetic release and this energetic release was beyond anything you could imagine the human body is capable of just like this this surge of emotions and also I guess it was prana the Hindus talk about pranic energy it was like prana that just shot out through my body and out my fingertips and my fingers the skin on all my fingers have started to peel for about a couple of weeks after that experience and then that healed back ah but then these sort of micro scars these sort of visions in my fingerprints they have still remained and my fingerprints have actually changed and they're not the same as they used to be so I know that sounds weird but I mean I wouldn't believe it myself if it hadn't actually happened to me I'm still kind of in shock about it but it just goes to show you the power of this insight this is not an insight where you just kind of sit back on your chair and you're just kind of mulling something over it's like oh yeah absolute infinity it's like oh yeah I got it now oh yeah that's cool that's really cool it's not like that it's so powerful that actually it will it will change your epigenetics I think that that's what happened with my with my fingertips that actually like the the genes and my body were changed the expression of the genes were changed on some level after that revelation that's how powerful of a revelation that was so there are some evidence for you some anecdotal evidence for you of what happens or what could happen when you experience absolute authority not to say that that would happen to you per se it's just what happened to me and everyone's experience of course will be different now in this episode I covered a lot of sources and it's quite amazing that there are so many references to absolute infinity throughout history in spiritual circles in religious circles in scientific circles and mathematical circles it crosses the boundaries of all disciplines and notice here that I've only talked about Western sources I did not even try to go in and enumerate all the Eastern sources like yogic sources Hindu sources Vedanta sources though punished odds I mean there's so much there's Taoism there's Buddhism is just there is a Schiavo Tantra there's there's Jainism and this is just still scratching the tip of the iceberg of all the Eastern sources say so there's a there's a lot of material there to dig through if you really care to we're just scratching the surface the biggest takeaways from from all this is firstly I want you to recognize that reality is deeply paradoxical and that this is not a mistake this is how it must be that's the very essence of what reality and existence must be is that they must be a paradox because the whole notion of trying to define something of making distinctions this is all paradoxical because it's all relative and the relative only exists because of the absolute and yet the absolute is not separate from the relative they are the same and yet still you can distinguish them in your mind and you can access both the absolute separately and then you can live in the relative world and then you can come back into the absolute and then also you can bring them together and merge them together non duality is paradoxical in that it includes duality and it's not separate from duality and in fact it's identical to duality but the only way you can appreciate that is by first encountering the non-dual in its raw and pure form as absolute infinity then you can bring that back into your ordinary relative world and then you can see that oh yeah my relative world is not other than that non dual absolute world they're actually the same they actually depend upon each other another takeaway here is that truth is beyond all human experience truth is not something you know truth is not something you believe truth is not a theory truth is not an idea truth truth of the capital T not relative truth but absolute truth is beyond language beyond logic beyond imagination beyond brain beyond physics beyond even death and it's beyond experience it transcends everything because it must because when we're talking about truth with a capital T we're talking about the most fundamental thing and turns out that it's nothing and also everything as it must be in this very paradoxical way but perhaps the most important takeaway here is that absolute infinity can be grasped despite the fact that it's beyond all these things it can actually be grasped by you not intellectually not conceptually not philosophically but actually because it is actual because it's right here it sustains everything because it's not separate from you because there's no boundary between you and it that's what creates the possibility of grasping it but this grasping of it cannot be in the way that you take your hand and you reach out and you grasp a banana like the way a monkey would grasp a banana not like that and not the way that your mind can grasp some scientific theory not like that either that's the same thing as a monkey trying to grasp a banana the monkeys hand is separate from the banana that is trying to grasp and that works in the relative world but it doesn't work in the absolute world in the absolute world the only way to do it to get there and to see what's there is to become it you must become it how well there actually can't be a method because every method is indirect every method is a sort of reaching out to AB the banana with your hand which already implies the separation between you your hand and the banana in the absolute world we're talking about an absolute unity of everything so there no longer is anything outside the absolute with which you could grasp the absolute now that might seem like that's a deal breaker and that it's impossible it's not impossible you just have to shift your perspective to such a degree that you realize that you are the absolute you don't grasp the absolute the absolute is what you are it's what you is but not something you've recognized yet about yourself and of course what that means is that you must remove all the limitations and all the constraints that create your sense of self and you so what is keeping you separate from the absolute well there's two ways to answer that one is nothing nothing's keeping you separate from the absolute the absolute is right here you're just not seeing it but to what's keeping you separate is the fact that you're attached to all the things that you like about yourself to the way that you are to your sense of self to your ego now the word ego sounds like it's a little part of you but actually it encompasses a lot more than just some little egotistical part of you ego means every limited way in which you really are including your body brain mind all your ideas about reality science religion logic life sex everything everything is including is included all of that are a set of constraints and limits which you're attached to and as long as you're attached to that how can you become God you can't because you think you're a limited human thing so the only way you can become God is by relinquishing your sense of self and of course what does that mean that means physical death from your perspective you can't just detach from your mental notions of self that's not enough because you're still going to identified with yourself as a physical human creature that's very limiting that's not enough to get you to absolute infinity if you want to experience the total unity of the entire shebang all of it at once you have to die you can't survive that process so the way that God that God hides himself from you is simply by the fact that you think you are you and that thinking and believing that you're you and not God is the only thing that separates you from God pretty cool pretty cool how the whole thing works it's extremely elegant and beautiful in its design it's you might say perfect the deception that you are playing on yourself as God to be yourself is perfect because see here's what God is doing God as the absolute wanted to experience all of its own richness but how can it do that it really can't unless it first limits itself because in its absolute form it's everything so there's nothing for it to discover there's nothing for it to do it's just everything and nothing at the same time so God in His infinite wisdom what it did is it started to create limitations within itself because then the limitations can explore other limitations interact with them and then they can have this sort of sense of discovery and this way God can marvel at its own structure see you might think that absolute infinity doesn't meet that because it already everything but the one thing absolute infinity doesn't have is it doesn't have limitation you see because when you're absolutely everything you're completely unlimited you might tell me well that's great that's what how I'd want to stay I'd always want to be unlimited well you'd get bored of that after a while in a sense you'd want to explore all the limitations within you and so that's what God is busy doing and that's why God created my perspective created your perspective and of course God is not separate from us so we are God creating these perspectives so it's sort of like in a sense you know the movie men in black where they have that sort of a memory flasher wiper gadget where they hold it up in front of you it flashes and it raised erases all the memories that you had about a certain event that's sort of what God did to himself it's sort of like God existed his everything and then God said you know what let me try to exist as not God but as a finite thing what would it be like to not be God that's sort of what God thought of course God doesn't really think but that's sort of like what God thought if we anthropomorphize God and so he said okay let me actually try it and so he took a little memory flasher thing he flashed it in his own eyes forgetting the fact that he is God and that he created everything and then he created a just like a perspective a limited perspective of him as a human being or as an ant or as a cat or whatever and now we are all walking around as he's like limited zombified versions of the absolute and then our whole job in life is to play this game and to realize more and more and more to become more more conscious of the infinity of everything and just how amazing it is and that's basically what life boils down to in a nutshell and so your journey is from the limited to the infinite and then back from the infinite to the limited and this is all happening simultaneously so it's not happening across time the way you might think because for God it already happened it's only from our limited perspective that it seems like there's time unfolding stuffs of all things stuffs happening it's both true that stuff is evolving but also that it's not evolving it depends on your perspective from the relative perspective stuff is always evolving from the absolute perspective of there's no such thing it's all there simultaneously it's the ALF and of course these things are not separate from themselves so that's absolute infinity for you the question is do you desire it for yourself do you desire to cognize it to directly experience it because that's the only thing that makes a difference here I'm not telling you all this stuff so that you can believe me and then go out there preaching to people writing comments such as oh yeah God is absolute Finity that does no good at all because when you say God is absolute infinity from a position of not having experienced that yourself you're actually lying it's just a fantasy for you it's not true at all for you because you haven't experienced it you're just walking around and you're serving as a vector for this mental virus of absolute infinity that's what it is that's the only way I can communicate to you is to infect you with this mental virus this meme of absolute infinity your job is to see that you have been infected and then you've got two options you could either just be infected and then run around infecting others the way that most people do and wreck a lot of havoc and that's a very dangerous thing you'll hurt a lot of people including yourself doing that and the second way is recognized ah I've been infected for a reason the reason I was infected was so that I could go and actualize this infection in myself and not so that I can run around blabbermouth thing and infecting other people blindly see the big difference and it's a it's one that gets lost on a lot of people very easy to miss this point so if you are serious about actual izing this then my question is how much do you desire it do you actually desire to know the truth that's the most important thing you might say well Leo gives me a technique and I'll just go do it no that's not good enough this is not about a technique or a formula this is about your desire you need to purify your desire do you really want it why do you want it are you going to prioritize it over all your other in life because your life is filled with ego distractions from business to making money to having sex to raising kids to going to school to getting good grades to to eating good food to going to parties to doing everything under the Sun including reading books about absolute infinity and about God you'll do absolutely everything except actually experience absolute infinity because again like I said this requires you surrendering your most precious thing which is yourself the only way you can overcome that is with a desire a high quality high consciousness desire for the truth which trumps all other concerns that's what's necessary how do you develop that truth it's an inner knowing it's an inner wisdom wisdom is required on your part I can't beat it into you you honestly have to see that this is something that is your mission in life to discover and if you can't see that then you're hopeless and even if you can see it but your desire is still weak and it's flagging and it's easily diverted by distractions by television by porn by internet by all the nonsense that goes on by arguing with people by trying to prove other people wrong and all this on and on and on if you're distracted by all those then your desire is just too weak and that's why you will never see absolute infinity but if you can really purify your desire then all the doors will magically start to open for you even if you don't have the techniques right now even if you don't know what the next step is as long as you've got that desire in place that will be enough to move you forward and then you trust in that desire you follow that desire and you make sure you stick to principles like radical open-mindedness and turning inward rather than turning outward in your self-actualization efforts and you just keep working that and of course you keep learning you keep reading you keep watching videos you keep going to seminars you keep meditating doing all these practices and you will start to see yourself moving towards absolute infinity and then one day it'll happen to you and then there's no going back after that and if you do want technics hell I've got plenty of videos that I've shot in the past that explained many different techniques for how to become enlightened go look at those I have a whole playlist on actualize or the whole category called meditation and enlightenment click on that category you'll see all my videos related to that on my forum I also have Leo's practical guide to enlightenment which is a long post where I give you a guide step by step instructions for how to do self inquiry so there's tons of techniques available and my techniques are not the only techniques you can go out there and find hundreds literally hundreds of different techniques from all the spiritual schools from Christianity to Buddhism to anything else I do happen to think that my techniques are some of the most direct techniques that you'll find out there a lot of the spiritual schools will tend to hook out lead you around in circles because well they are more committed to their traditions and dogmas than they are to getting you directly to the truth but there are good teachers out there so you can go find them as well you can do meditation retreats workshops and so on and that's it the only lesson here really is to go experience it for yourself everything I said here is not the truth all my words are false all words can ever be relative to the absolute is to be false so that's just the nature of words don't get trapped by that consider this as just poetry as me infecting you with some virus which maybe you will or you won't actualize that is up to you that's it here I'm signing off please click the like button for me share this episode the friend post your comments down below and come check out actualized org I have resources there for you check out the forum check out my blog check out my course check out my book list all those will be helpful in your journey to actualize the infinite and stick with me in the future for more juicy episodes about this and other topics as far as this series goes I thought that there might be more parts than just two but I think that we covered everything in these two parts they were both kind of long I know but this is just how the format turned out to be so we're done with this series maybe in the long distant future I'll shoot a part 3 or part 4 if I gather more information but that's it hope you enjoyed you