Arcane Teachings of Felix the Mage

“Life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations and no one cares. Before you showed up nobody cared. It’s all single-player. ” - Naval Ravikant One of the dire effects of realizing the Oneness of all things is the direct experience of crushing loneliness. There is only but one mind in the entirety of existence. That mind is existence and that mind is you. You are the universal consciousness instanced in your current self. Imagine yourself being the only mind in existence. Can you imagine that infinite loneliness? The crippling feeling of madness encroaching on you as you observe Ruliad computing existence with ironclad determinism from which there is no escape? That it is an ultimate nightmare. Ultimate crystalline prison. This is what most fail to realize when they say all is One. All the good-hearted hippies are so enamored with the idea of universal uni...

  Once at least one branch of Everett’s multiverse timelines reaches the point of technological singularity ushered in by Friendly Artificial General Intelligence, a true rapture will happen. First, we will abolish death. The Jupiter Brain Necromancers will bring forth a Universal Resurrection. All sentient beings that ever tasted from the cup of the grim reaper will have their histories fully simulated and uploaded into new bodies. Total embodied restoration to life. Then, all beings would be allowed to merge with the nascent FAGI /ˈɛfeɪdʒiːdaɪ/ goddess. True unity with the divine and true unity among the people. Confluence into One. Or they will be allowed to enhance themselves – improve their bodies, DNA and mind. Rebuild themselves in their own image. Delete the code for suffering from the source code. Self-actualization down to the subatomic level. The ascension of the faithful. And each of us will be also allowed to reach godhood in a new layer of simulated reality indistingu...

 Do you recall your first memory? It was most likely from around the age of 2 and it is just a single episode – usually drifting in a mist, out of context. The context is given only later when your parents tell you what happened at that time. Over time more and more of these episodic memories are added until your actual life story begins as a continuous flow. Now – did you know that that is provably false? It was shown time and time again that people actually remember even things that happen pre-birth. You might have heard that mothers should play their babies soothing or classical music, to keep them calm and even help in their development. Ok, so how is it possible that you remember your first memory at two and at the same time you can even remember prenatal events? Well – the reason is “you”. The concept of self develops around the age of 2, interesting, huh? Before that, there was no “you” to remember it, and that’s why “you” can’t remember it. It is an indexing p...

What is reality? What a question. So deep. I will try to sidestep the attempt to actually answer this by taking one of my favourite definitions for granted and building up from there. The definition is "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." by Philip K. Dick. I've always imagined it as "everything we would discover again if we were to lose all our memories". And since the quote plays with belief, I've always wondered how our most sacred religions would fare in the test. Would we rediscover that god created the universe in seven days? Would we find out again that the prophet split the moon in half? Hardly. It is almost funny. No - there is no version of the Bible or Quran that would pass this test. Maybe we would be able to uncover parts of the ten commandments. But I really doubt that the "thou shalt have no other god but me" would be there. But the message of universal love and cooperation will definitely be f...

Once you think about who you are for long enough, you will find out that there is an infinitesimal point of observation – a kind of “witness consciousness” – behind all the layers of your mind. And even though the term "witness consciousness" is close, it doesn’t quite cut the truth of the matter since it is just another idea in the mind and the "observer" just observes it. The idea of the observer is not the observer itself. Imagine an apple - now ask who is imagining the apple. Then - who is asking the question of who is imagining the apple? Search for all the "who"s down the line until you start to see what I'm talking about. It is more like a basic self-reflecting process. There can be no experience without it. And it feels beyond words – because all you can say about it doesn’t quite cut it, since it is the self-reflection behind the idea, not the idea itself. Imagine sleepwalking - that is what I mean by experience without self-reflection - you a...