Reflections on TLS

The other day I ran into a video that Paul did about this little corner, and then he tacked on a live stream that he had with Grim and Jacob, and some other TLC  members that I don’t think were at Chino, so I don’t think I’ve met like Sam and Kale and some other people. It was nice to see and reminded me that maybe I want to say a little something.

I just wanted to acknowledge the great stuff I’ve been following in this little corner: Jacob’s intense chats attended regularly by the Chino crew, Friday Night Nameless aka Chad the Alcoholic’s channel that makes points mostly about religion with brilliant superimpositions, and of course Grim, who sees the underlying structure and synthesis in a way that is pure genius. Griim’s one of the smartest people I know, to be quite honest.

I still think there is a something of a solution to the problem of where to go spiritually for the world I guess, or for secular people who are having a hard time with legacy religion – and that is start with philosophy. That is one thing that the secular types can glom onto, because good philosophy can really

So I want to talk about a couple of things that are on my mind.

The first thing is this: it’s coming up all over the place…in the latest podcast with Michael Levin and Bernardo Kastrup, also mentioned by Scott Adams in that the brain is not necessarily the seat of consciousness, Ken Wheeler and his theory that the water in our body is an antenna and we are like a radio, and Pirsig in the sense that Quality hits us pre-intellectually – seemingly from the outside, and of course theists: the idea that

God has told us already that we will never be able to see or know him fully. That’s what I have seen in both the Neoplatonist readings and the one early church father I have read – St. Ephraim the Syrian. Also, Pirsig – you can’t define Quality but you know what it is. it is known that God or the Good cannot be known. He can only be inferred, identified in the moment, or whose work, high patterns of Quality can be identified as well.

But he has given us this compulsion, to always be looking, seeking him. Seeking the Good is the gift that God has given us. We always seek the good, even when we’re misguided. Ultimately, at the bottom of it is a desire for what’s better. That’s what God gives us, that choice. So if you ask how if God is good, why is the world so awful? It’s because God gives us the choice, always, even in the worst circumstances to choose something better. When we spite God and choose the worse thing, knowing better, that’s evil roughly.

So, this being the case, the model I outlined that is emergeing is our collective consciousness, God driven, ratcheting up a level trying to find God who we can never find. But as a new perception of truth, in this case the model of consciousness being something we recive like a radio, versus an epiphenomenon of neurons or whatever, is the next Quality understanding we have trying to get closer to God. That’s why theories and models are good for a while, then they evolve. God always moves us dynamically toward a Good we will never reach. But it is in the seeking that meaning, vitality and holiness live.

So I think really one of the best things we as individuals can do is find a good metaphysics. All good metaphysics are structured in the same way. There is a point of attention of purity and goodness, Purity in the sense of total Good. and we strive for that. You will find this laid out in the Pageau’s work, or in monism, with the center of the circle, the top of the hierarchy. That’s where God belongs and that should be the tacit focus of all that we do

So I hope that makes sense, and I will talk to you soon