Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything: The Enlightened Perspective

by Jed McKenna

Awakening isn’t a theory, it’s a journey. You don’t arrive in C-Rex by convincing yourself that you’re already there, but by destroying every shred of the illusion that you’re not.

Meaning & Belief

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Don’t get too hung up on all this meaning of life business. It’s a rabbit-hole issue that falsely posits the existence of meaning, life, and you. A more appropriate question to an I-Am/Consciousness entity would be, What is the meaning of consciousness?, and the only possible answer would be, Consciousness Is.

We yearn for meaning, but since no-self is true self, the realization of one’s perfect meaninglessness is the key to liberation.

The journey of self-discovery is not one of self-exploration but of self-annihilation. You must illuminate the shadowlands of your interior spaces and sever the tendrils of emotional energy that anchor you to selfhood and the dreamstate. There is no reconciling the irreconcilable, and apart from I Am, the only thing we can say for sure is that we can’t say anything else for sure. It bears repeating; knowing what we cannot know is one of the most important things we can know, and except I Am, no conscious entity can ever know anything. Everything we know about who and what we are is false.

The Veil of Perception

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“The only thing you perceive directly is perception itself; consciousness.” “Like my hands.” “No, like your perception of your hands.” “But not my actual hands?” “Not so actual, actually.” In philosophy this is called the Veil of Perception, meaning that all we really perceive is ideas of things, never the things themselves.

There’s no proof, or even evidence, that physical reality is real.

Hence, the strange loop of consensus reality; we all agree that the universe is really out there, those agreeing with us being themselves out there.

I am not aware of my hands, rather, the three – I, awareness and hands – are one; perceiver-perception-perceived. Consciousness.

I see no mystery or possibility of mystery anywhere, and I see that there’s no place for mystery to hide.

Speculation & Make-Believe

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Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, “But how can it be like that?” because you will get “down the drain,” into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that. Richard P. Feynman

The trick is drawing a distinct line between real and true. We can’t accept anything as true except I-Am/Consciousness, but whatever we believe is real, is real.

I like to pretend that I’m sane and that I have free will. Might as well, right? I also pretend that I am my character, that my memories are trustworthy, and that time and space and the world are as they seem. Kinda gotta.

PIos.

Perfect Intelligence operating system

No-self is true self, but actors on a stage need personas and costumes and backstories, and I already have all that, so that’s how I roll. The mountain is a mountain again. What else would I do, walk around as no-self? Not an option. There is no such thing as an enlightened person in the dreamstate because you can’t be true in a false context, or unlimited in a limited context.

The apparent world, starting with my apparent brain and working outward, is easy to believe, and is a necessary convention of life in the dreamstate. The wysiwyg universe is where I live, this is where my mountain is a mountain again. I call it home, but I never confuse it with truth. I may inhabit the dreamstate, but I never slip back into non-lucidity.

But when I duck back down the rabbit-hole and into the amusement park of mixed metaphors and infinite possibilities, I can passively grant the existence of innumerable other I-Am/Entities. To do so is to speculate that every I-Am/Entity is the center of their own dreamstate universe, just as I am of mine.

Even having granted the You-Are Multiverse in which you and innumerable others are self-aware entities like myself, it’s still a far cry from granting that we share a Matrix-like reality. When we speculate this, we are speculating innumerable discreet consciousnesses operating in parallel in a shared timespace environment; parallel universes.

Leibniz' monads

When I speculate a parallel universe, then Karl and I are sharing a virtual environment in consciousness, perceiving the same stars from different perspectives. That last scenario, Karl‘s and my universes operating apart but in parallel – Parallel Universes – is the most obvious and least likely.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

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The Truman Show

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The black rage guy didn’t want to become something true, he wanted to unbecome something false. That is achievable, and that’s the only way it works.

The Enlightened Perspective

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Give a man a match and he’ll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchet

No one could actually transition into C-Rex except by transitioning out of U-Rex, but maybe this glimpse could nudge you toward a more belief-defying life.

No wonder I think the universe is a big playful puppy. Yeah, maybe I’ll get ass cancer tomorrow and decide the universe is a rabid fuckin’ pitbull, but for now I’m just going with the flow and playing this unlikely role.

Because Brahmanic Consciousness is infinite and without attribute, we can only say what it’s not, not what it is. Unsatisfying, right? I know, but I don’t make the rules, and this one can’t be broken. Everyone tries to break it, of course, by ascribing attributes to Brahman/Truth/God/Consciousness, but when you take all attributes away, you are left with the infinite otherlessness that we are calling Brahmanic Consciousness.

"infinite otherlessness"

Can we say that Brahman/Truth/God/Consciousness is fractal and/or holographic? Sure, why not. But wouldn’t that be an attribute? No, it’s just a way of describing the infinite to say that as much as you zoom in or out, you can always zoom further in or out, so that any part is the equal of the whole. If that’s what we mean by fractal or holographic, fine, but is it significant? Only insofar as your I Am-ness makes you a part of the whole, and therefore, the whole whole.

I see everything, I understand everything, I know nothing.

If, truth is all, and, consciousness exists, then, consciousness is all. It’s

The Last Religion

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