Our brain doesn’t work the way we thought it did. It’s been obvious for quite some time. We honestly and sincerely try to create a world of joy and beauty, but end up curtailing joy, destroying beauty and mass-producing wars. Recent research has ascertained how the brain works and what prevents us from reaching those goals. Knowledge that provides advice for how we can achieve them. The advice comes with two guarantees.

No one will like it.

It will work.

Our brain, and first and foremost our intelligence, does not rule our inner world as we’ve believed. The brain is an obedient slave to the underlying idea we have about reality. Not to the theoretical ideas of religions or philosophy. But to the idea we’ve practiced every day since the beginning of civilization. The idea that has led to the normalization of wars and destruction, and guaranteed less freedom, beauty and joy is that we are temporal visitors in a world of competition, coercion, robbery, meaninglessness, death and annihilation.

Having our own corpse in the cargo like this brings us considerable emotional pain.

The anguish felt at the idea of one’s own death governs how the brain works. Intelligence’s uppermost goal of maximizing joy is reduces to staving off death for as long as possible and forgetting about it as often as possible.

The dynamics are simple. Intelligence pushes the idea of death and existential anguish deep down into the subconscious. Normally, we consciously sense only a subtle alarm in the form of a barely perceptible, persistent discomfort. But the moment we think or act in a way that threatens the postponement and oblivion of our death, the alarm and discomfort increase in intensity. The urge for relief from discomfort gains a power over us as inescapable as gravity (Experiment 1). Intelligence directs us to choose ideas and actions that promote prosperity, prestige, friends, social interaction, health, exciting pastimes and everything that safeguards its goal of postponement and oblivion. Reason, facts and morals are demoted to ensure ideas and actions that support postponement and oblivion can come to the fore. So much so, that this demotion is institutionalized. At the national level, through forms of government, culture, all levels of education, and so on. Exams, diplomas and CVs guarantee we both accept and help develop ideas and emotions where the deterioration of our good intentions is built in:

With the fear of Death underlying all, the tool most effective in achieving postponement and oblivion automatically becomes to control others through fear. Wielding it automatically gives rise to Power. Power uses lies, oppression and murder to achieve them. Morality, ethics, and reason that would normally hinder the expansion of Power, is gradually relegated to the background. Actively supporting established Power brings rewards. You get better opportunities for postponement and oblivion and a place in the more peaceful recesses of perdition.

To understand why the advice is what it is, it’s necessary to have had a hands-on personal experience of what the discomfort feels like. We’ve come to the point in this introduction where it’s necessary to sound some low-key alarms in praxis. And we’ll start by providing an experience of the characteristic discomfort felt by scientists and those who trust science by citing facts and the history of science.

Science has been certain it knows how the world is constructed and works. That matter is cause and everything else are effects of matter and material processes. Thar there is no underlying meaning behind creation, everything is created by random chance. That when we die, our material components disintegrate. And that what was once a living, conscious human being is obliterated. In fact, the science community was so sure about this, it tied itself to the mast with an ingenious premise: “If we understand the ingredients from which everything is made, we can understand everything.” But then, about 50 years ago, they were faced with facts that removed all hope of a material understanding of everything. They understood nothing about the ingredients.

• The cause behind the fundamental phenomena is not to be found in the world of physics. The material understanding of the ingredients is lacking. Thus, the foundation needed to understand everything else is also lacking.
• Even matter, which has rendered its name to today’s understanding, is missing. Where science expected matter to be, it found nothing. Only the invisible centers of forces within the atom.

So, the material theory died 50 years ago. For 50 years it has been science’s duty to do what reason and facts oblige it to do – call a press conference, inform the public that our idea of the world has passed away, and arrange its public funeral. Instead, it has remained silent. Why? Let’s go back to the dynamics.

The men and women of science have built their lives on the role of providing fact-based truth. In addition to securing respect and admiration, the role is supposed to pay for a house, car, recreation, and all the rest. In other words, all the factors that contribute to the illusion that everything is fine and simultaneously supports postponement and oblivion. For scientists to comply with reason would be the same as telling the world the purveyors of truth have been making good money selling a theory that isn’t true. Obeying reason would eliminate their source of postponement and oblivion and make their worst fears rise to the surface. Intelligence prevents this from happening with an alarm and a lightning-fast cleanup. The alarm, while inextricably tethered to the catastrophe our subconscious is painfully aware of, slightly increases the discomfort we’re consciously aware of. The cleanup consists of our switching from seeking the truth to stifling the alarm. Death’s version of gravity brings the whole of science crashing down.

Science perceives the discomfort as both evidence that the ideas that threaten their life’s project are wrong, and as a call to ignore, ridicule or refute them.

It won’t matter that this book uses facts from science’s own research to support claims that the material theory is dead. Intelligence’s cleanup makes it impossible to return to reason and facts. Yet, we must return to reason and facts in order to solve the crises we’ve created due to the flawed material theory and way of thinking.

For every scientific crisis that’s been resolved, the process began by finding ideas outside the realm of what was scientifically accepted at the time. The world-renowned physicist David Bohm acknowledged the material theory was in a state of crisis. He suggested going to religions to borrow the idea of “a spiritual principle” and then add the insistent realities everyone in established science had access to.

• “Something” was the Cause of the Big Bang. This “something” had sparked the existence of every particle, force and law in the Universe. This “something” was the origin of every creature and every event – past, present, and future.
• By its very nature, this “something” could not have arisen from nothing. It must be eternal.

It doesn’t take genius to imagine what this new understanding of the world would be like. We’re looking at a scientific theory with glaring religious features.

• Cause is “a spiritual principle”, an entity of Consciousness and Intelligence with free license to create. Matter is effect. Eternity has arrived. Death, as in annihilation, is gone.
• Cause itself, just as we scattered fragments, becomes a participant in its own perspective of reality. Thus, Cause has every reason to imagine and create a maximally joyful world.

With this, it’s reasonable to assume scientists and those who trust science now know what the discomfort feels like. Therefore, they also know the alarm has sounded and it’s time to apply the advice that comes at the end of this introduction. Moving on to the religious.

For the religious, many of their essential ideas are confirmed already in the outline of the new governing theory. Fundamental Cause, Eternity, intelligent Creation, extreme Joy, Meaning. But the spiritual principle used as the basis has been developed into a new scientific theory with the help of “Occam’s razor”. This means the new theory has none of the peculiarities that individual religions have had to add to the essentials in order to survive those in power. As their particular individualisms are not included, the religious will also perceive the new theory as a threat to their source of postponement and oblivion.

With this, it is reasonable to assume the members of various religions now know what the discomfort will feel like. Now they, too, know that when they feel it, the alarm has sounded and it’s time to use the advice.

These dynamics don’t apply to only religion and science alone. We all have the same underlying goal postponement and oblivion. The alarm will sound as soon as we suspect something’s afoot that could threaten the fruits of our labors.

The guarantee that the advice will work

• The old perspective makes Death and Destruction the framework for our lives. The result is automatically competition, strife, fear, dictatorship and murder.
• The new perspective makes Eternity and Joy the framework for our lives. The result is automatically cooperation, peace, joy, freedom and life.

The advice

Give the alarm a new purpose.

It is essential to remain mindful. As you read the presentations of the new theory, you will come across ideas that threaten your own life ‘s project, your access to postponement and oblivion. In your encounter with the new theory, the new idea about the world and how it works, the alarm will go off. This is when you must remain alert. Your Intelligence will try to silence the alarm by triggering skepticism, resistance, or even call upon you to belittle or attack the ideas that triggered it.

Instead of using the new idea and its premises to assess how well the new theory explains the world, you’ll be tempted to reject it entirely because it’s too foreign to the old way of thinking. Instead of using new types of experiments to verify the theory’s conclusions, you’ll be tempted to reject the new experiments because they don’t resemble the experiments used under the old theory. Remember, the old idea is what underlies the discomfort and perpetuates the gradual expansion of lies, oppression and murder. Therefore, when you feel the discomfort, give the alarm a new purpose. See it as a signal to push on to something new, maybe even groundbreaking.

 When you know the alarm exists and understand how it works, it’s possible to stop interpreting it as a stop sign. And instead, recognize it for what it is.

The alarm is not a stop sign.

It is a signpost pointing the way,

calling upon you to continue on to something important.

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