Chapter 55: Compassion and Addiction, Synchronicity is a Proverb, the Placebo Effect and the Government’s Responsibility for Compassion
Abstract: love and compassion are orgenes and would be expected to be similar, but they are not. Compassion is a modern addiction of the mind and is the cause of our current extinction event fuelled through the placebo effect. Synchronicity is shown to be a Proverb, and compassion has evolved and is desirable, but needs to be managed through social security and the responsibility lies with government.
Orgenes have appeared in the last two chapters as the death orgene and the determination orgene and it is becoming apparent that there are a number of these, such as love, compassion etc. that link the life processes with non-logical operations so as to allow evolution. Whilst death might be a ‘stable state’ and something that we can comprehend easily, determination, love and compassion are a little ‘touchy feely’ and could do with a solid scientific base to make them more ‘usable’ and definable.
Let’s go back to basics, so from previously, where: the Half-truth may be true, false, ‘true some of the time and false the rest of the time’, and ‘both true and false at the same time’.
Formal logic is true/false, ‘true some of the time and false the rest of the time’ led us into existence and ‘both true and false at the same time’ was said to be indeterminate/chaos and too difficult to comprehend and would be left for later. The Half-truth, presents a reality because it is continuous and covers all possibilities and so it should cover the ‘touchy feely’ cases as well, and we find that the ‘true and false at the same time’ term is where we need to look.
The orgene is a combination of the logical and the non-logical at the same time and this is necessary because it is being done and it is only being done because of the Rule of Life. In other words, the organization might be complex, but the logic is simple (and there is no going back) and there are logical aspects and non-logical aspects. Is there any difference between true/logical and false/non-logical? The definition of the Half-truth doesn’t appear to see any difference, so I’ll press on.
I am going to be quoting from a book entitled ‘Love and Survival: the scientific basis for the healing power of intimacy’ by Dr. Dean Ornish. Many instances are given where discussion groups and support groups have lengthened the life of people that have had heart problems, cancer etc. This type of interaction has been looked at previously in chapter 40: The Placebo – Nocebo Continuum, chapter 41: The Cell to the Placebo Effect, and chapter 42: The Second Law of Life with Stress and Placebo.
Dr.Ornish’s book cites a large range of experiments that seem particularly compelling and provides an opportunity to look at more orgenes. I might restate that the first Law of Life is about creation of life, the second about the environment and the third about the family with the proviso that the three laws are inter-related. Now the third law has not been discussed much before because it relates to the family and family relationships have grown out of the need to teach the young to give them a better chance of survival on their own and has become more important as the size (of both the animal and thus the investment) has grown.
The death orgene is a step away from componentization and the determination orgene is a step away from iteration, and both of these are factors in the first Law of Life. Now love/compassion are orgenes that are a step away from the third Law of Life and whether they are separate or two sides of the same thing, we will have to decide and that will lead to some surprises. In dealing with many of the concepts, it is difficult to ‘pigeon hole’ them because, as mentioned previously, we, in our world O, use a different type of measurement units than is used in the universe, world P. In the same way, we use the vast majority of words, such as love and compassion etc. without a basic single definition. A look in a dictionary will confirm the multitude of ‘shades’ to a word, and I have tended to use a ‘/’ to denote these ‘shades’.
For example, science admits to space-time and that there is a fifth dimension, but it is unknown, as stated in the paper by Kaluza and Klein, whereas I believe there is a fifth dimension of entanglement/measurement and our universe is a probability space, as mentioned earlier. How does one describe the relationship between two points in a probability field where the sum of all points must always be 1? We know that there is entanglement in the determinacy of different types of particles, as mentioned previously, and also, by definition that we can measures the value between two points.
‘Grace is also the organizing force behind “coincidences”, the synchronistic experiences in our lives that some consider chance but are definitely not random.’ (Invisible Acts of Power, Caroline Myss, p 17) This quotation contains the word ‘grace’ that will be looked at later, but ‘synchronicity’ is interesting because it is supposed to be a relationship between people/things that changes, presumably by the mind. From above, I do believe that there is entanglement/measurement between two points, but synchronicity is a higher order that I don’t believe that we can be justified in contemplating. It is tempting, because synchronicity is similar or aligns with entanglement/measurement, but finding patterns (confabulation) from fragments is heritable, and is a more likely explanation. It is also likely, from the Rule of Life that if there were an effect from synchronicity, the effect would change reality and have been used and would still be with us.
Synchronicity was put forward by Jung a hundred years ago and his standing and reputation was such, that the word has come into the language without a real definition, only a vague ‘sense’. Perhaps, all that we can say is simply that randomicity is not synchronicity and synchronicity is not randomicity, but what is it? From above, we showed that it is probably not physical, which means it is mental and can only be a concept and we have a general method of dealing with concepts, so the Mathematics of the Mind should help us.
It so happens that I use a saying that ‘everything turns out for the best’ because it is the act of looking at the problem and seeing where the best is, and the fact of that ‘looking’ often finds a better solution, or a better result occurs because of the ‘looking’. It is a method of positive thinking, and it works. For example, I have completely uncivilized ‘boat-people’ housed next to my unit and to stop hearing them, I play the guitar and sing and I am getting quite good with the guitar, so ‘everything turns out for the best’! I am becoming proficient with the guitar. Simple general solutions to the Mathematics of the Mind are proverbs that work most of the time, but not to be replied upon, as mentioned previously (chapter 22: Magic, Proverbs, Politics and the Voting System).
Given that synchronicity is not randomicity, it must be something that produces the ‘feeling’ of ‘things going our way’ and yet it is not physical, so, I believe that synchronicity is a proverb with the same basis as ‘everything turns out for the best’, as described above. In other words, the concept that the mind influences everything in the material and the immaterial world to help us in some way, has the same effect as saying that I use my mind to seek out possibilities that I have not previously considered that will benefit me. If the reader is not convinced that synchronicity is a proverb, remember that the aim of this book is to simplify so that we can absorb and use concepts more easily and I am prepared to think that synchronicity, without a firm definition, is equivalent to ‘everything turns out for the best’.
From above, ‘grace is also the organizing force’, so what is grace? ‘In theology, grace is defined as unmerited divine assistance, aid given to help us regenerate our spirits and lives – a virtue coming from God. The concept of grace exists around the world. In secular history, kings, as representatives of divine power on earth, would grant mercy and pardon, or grace, to their subjects. In Greek mythology, the three graces were sister goddesses, daughters of Zeus, who bestowed joy, charm, and beauty on mortals.’ (p 16)
From above, a difficulty occurs because of the range of meanings for words, and the simplest method is to give them a unique meaning and so I’ll take the graces from Greek mythology, which ‘were sister goddesses, daughters of Zeus, who bestowed joy, charm, and beauty on mortals’. These graces could be considered to be useful and heritable and thus, could be called anti-orgenes. This contrasts with two other forces that are well-known orgenes that are not logical, and in fact, so illogical, that the World is in the grip of an extinction event that the planet has not seen since the Cambrian. These are love and compassion and will arise out of the problem below.
I have tried to simplify throughout this book and I’ll do so again. The experiments referred to above in Dr.Ornish’s book are A: longevity increases, correlated with the warmth of the relationship with parents decades before, B: longevity increases, correlated with marriage/confidant, C: longevity increases, correlated with support groups, D: longevity increases, correlated with owning a pet or being petted. I have condensed many experiments over many pages in Dr. Ornish’s book to the above four lines and written them in such a way that the results are obvious and not easily forgotten.
The mind/brain evolved hundreds of millions of years ago in fish, probably around the time of the Cambrian, as mentioned previously, and is best thought of as a component and comes into this world in a ‘cut-down’ form for a number of reasons to do with the physics of delivery at birth. Essentially, the neurons are there, but not the connections and the state of mind is thus dependent on upbringing. In A above, the warmth of the relationship with parents decades before, presumably ‘sets the state’ of mind for the decades later, and brings A into line with the other cases B, C and D.
Then, to explain all of the cases A to D, I believe that we need look no further than the placebo/nocebo effect, and whilst several chapters have been cited above, a simple restatement might be useful. Single celled organisms joined together to form multicellular organisms to enable them to evolve lensed eyes and consciousness/creativity in the Cambrian. This increase in size produced a reality unattainable to single cells, and a covenant had to be put in place that every cell had communication with the brain and the brain produced a mind/brain that attained consciousness/creativity and could make decisions. As each cell contributes to the mind/brain, the mind/brain sends messages to the cells and this produces the placebo/nocebo effect. As has been mentioned before, an exalted level of mental view affects the cells of the body and increases longevity and explains A to D.
If this is a little short and simple, a deeper investigation of B should increase the understanding. The participants that were married with or without a confidant and those single with a confidant followed the same path of longevity into the future, whereas single without a confidant had much shorter longevity, showing, I believe, that mental stimulation feeds back to the cells and stimulates them and produces health and longevity.
As an example of how ‘strong’ is the physical effect that comes from mental thought, around 1550, ‘Bloody’ Mary, Queen of England announced twice that she was pregnant and both times they were ‘phantom’ pregnancies, so great was her desire for an heir. This indicates the degree of ‘motivation’ handed to the cells by the mind wanting to become pregnant to continue the succession.
Love that ultimately produces children and spending time and money on the less successful people are orgenes from a logical perspective. However, other people have different ideas. ‘A man in one of my workshops took me aside to tell me the story of his divorce. It remains unique in my experience. This man told me that his wife found his compassion for others impossible to live with. As he told me, “my ex-wife believes that people should take care of themselves. I have always believed people should take care of other people”’. (p 143)
If love and compassion are orgenes from a logical perspective, the paragraph above shows clearly that many people do not agree with that premise. A little further back we considered cases A to D and found that mental stimulation was good for longevity and the body in general, but this presents a disastrous situation where the vast majority of people are thinking and acting illogically! Let me restate that love produces offspring to compete with us and the helping of the unfortunate to compete with us must be considered orgenes and not in our best interests from a logical standpoint, but obviously we do this because it makes us feel good mentally which flows through to the body through the placebo/nocebo effect.
Wow! We are, in the main, addicted to doing good works, and this act is supported by the Churches and government. The Churches help the poor and the government gives welfare to the poor and those that can’t work and we all feel happy! This state of euphoria is destroying our civilization and causing a worldwide extinction event! Where is the world going to, when at least one Church discourages contraception? Similarly for governments, that in the last chapter, we showed that they were giving social security handouts to the wrong people and here it is again! Remember that governments have the ‘strength’ of reality and Churches do not have a reality and are actually dependant on governments, as discussed earlier, so governments have to enforce their will. A Church that does not listen and work with the government is a terrorist organization as discussed in chapter 38: Stopping Terrorism – a General Solution.
Looking at the world in terms of reality, it has been shown that the government, police and judiciary obey reality and the same can be said for the United Nations as well as business and workers, in all probability because they operate under Survival of the Fittest. From this, the reality of civilization, points to the fact that social security, from above, is an orgene and is illogical and is not a reality and not sustainable. Compassion is not part of Survival of the Fittest, but love and procreation is necessary for evolution. Compassion is an orgene that has only been (effectively) in existence in modern times. Our minds have ‘twisted’ the basis (or logic) of multicellular organisms and compassion could be called a ‘cancer’ of the organism in the same way that cancer is a ‘modern’ disease. This ‘cancer’ of the mind is an addiction caused by a modern orgene that was unknown for 3000 million years.
Wow, again! Our modern lifestyle has not only created the ‘modern’ diseases like cancer, heart problems etc. it has created a perversion of the reality imposed by the formation of multicellular organisms which is throwing evolution into reverse! We have taken over from Survival of the Fittest (iteration) by using our mind/brain and mathematics to undo evolution in a few hundred years. The full Mathematics of the Mind has to be used to convert the Selection of the Indifferent (that we have at present: mind/mathematics) to selection of the Best (mind/Mathematics of the Mind).
Under Survival of the Fittest, there was very limited capacity to carry those that couldn’t support themselves, and even over the last 10,000 years as the mind/brain took over, only a limited number of people could be ‘carried’, however, over the last hundred years, our society has changed and welfare spending has ‘blown out’. I don’t want to get involved in this area because everyone knows that there are grave problems and it is up to the government to sort this out.
A small ‘sharpening’ of our focus might be informative. From previously, the organisational logic behind a cell is similar to the organisational logic of the body and should be similar to our government because they all possess reality. The people (cells) vote for and elect a government (brain) that passes laws for the benefit of the voters (cells) by using parliamentary process (mind) to the benefit of the voters (cells). Thus, this process is the same as goes on in our bodies (and cells) because of the Rule of Life. We previously determined that government is a reality, and the illustration clarifies the situation. Further, it is apparent that world government is similar and it is the government that is ultimately responsible for who should breed and for managing Survival of the Best. However, if government is lacking foresight/application, there is the Forever Club, as mentioned previously.
I have used the word ‘addiction’ and perhaps I should justify this. ‘The Rule of 3 states that you CANNOT survive:
3 seconds without spirit or hope,
3 minutes without air,
3 hours without shelter in extreme conditions,
3 days without water,
3 weeks without food, and
3 months without companionship or love. (The Survivors Club, Ben Sherwood, p 128) ‘I had not considered, before writing this book, that caring for others and going that extra mile for family, friends, coworkers, or strangers could have a connection to our physical health. Now I believe that the human spirit needs to develop generosity and compassion to be healthy.’ (Invisible Acts of Power, Caroline Myss, p 6)
The above shows that companionship/love is necessary for survival and generosity/compassion to be healthy and that is for the family/tribe (third Law of Life) so it is not difficult to imagine that compassion etc. could be expanded to include the whole world (second Law of Life), as most religions state (as I have said that the laws are interdependent). So, when predation is removed, we have a problem with overpopulation worldwide.
To stop the extinction event that we are in, due to overpopulation, we can support those that are alive, at present, but a scheme as described in the previous chapter must be implemented to change evolution and stop the breeding of those people that don’t show determination. This is a scheme that can be put in place and that does not eliminate compassion from the population, but it allows the government control of it in a positive way, and I suspect, it will pay for itself by reducing social security, cost of prisons, mental health savings etc. and then the positives of working longer, reduced nursing home costs etc., and this has all been considered previously.
To restate this important point, using the Mathematics of the Mind, it is necessary to understand and solve the problem of compassion, which is a good ‘force’, but if used without understanding, can cause an extinction event, as it is doing. We need the Survival of the Best, to speed up evolution, but it must be handled properly because we can wipe out (up to) 3,000 million years of evolution if the climate ‘flips’. This may not be likely, but there is a non-zero probability of it happening, and so, why take the risk?
Conclusion: I don’t know what the conclusion will be! I have outlined the problem and the solution and it is up to those in government to get the world back on track by limiting compassion because compassion is foreign and addictive to our minds, and is a modern ‘disease’ brought on by our attempt to control our destiny without the proper tools. Compassion seems to be a good thing, but it is an orgene and consequently must be handled ‘with care’ because it is illogical and addictive.
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