The Elementalist Conception Of Free Will (redux)

1. The free will argument contends that people can do whatever they want to. People have a choice between good and evil, between selfless acts and selfish ones, and if a person’s true will is good they will do good.

2. As such, people who do good can be treated as if their will is good, and people who do evil can be treated as if their will is evil.

3. The determinist argument contends that each person’s actions are restricted to a range determined by that person’s genes and their conditioning.

4. People don’t really have a choice about what they do, because they can only motivate themselves to act if the wiring of their brain creates an impulse to action.

5. The question of free will is an important philosophical question because the resolution of it determines how miscreants are to be treated.

6. If free will is true, then justice is to punish criminals harshly. If determinism is true, then justice is to guide criminals into making the right decisions through behaviour modification.

7. The Elementalist perspective on free will is that mainstream philosophy has missed the point entirely.

8. Elementalists believe that all of us are fundamentally, individuated fragments of the total consciousness that is God, and that these fragments of consciousness traverse the Great Fractal by way of matching frequencies.

9. To the Elementalist, there is no material world – every fragment of consciousness is aware of a set of perceptions, and every set of perceptions exists somewhere in the Great Fractal.

10. These sets of perceptions change as the frequency of one’s consciousness changes.

11. Therefore, to change the world, it’s only necessary to change the frequency of one’s consciousness. This can be done through repeated exertions of pure will.

12. Because the Elementalist does not believe in a hard material world, neither do they believe there is anything forcing a human being to behave in any pre-determined manner.

13. There aren’t really any neurotransmitters, or any limbic system, or any instinctually-responding brain circuitry involved in decision making.

14. There is only consciousness and the contents of consciousness.

15. The physical world is but a dream, through which consciousness passes, forever.

16. Elementalists believe that anyone can get anything they desire, whether in this life or in one to come, by matching the frequency of one’s consciousness with the frequency of the part of the Great Fractal in which the desired thing exists or is happening.

17. Elementalists believe that one inevitably lives a life that matches the frequency of one’s consciousness, whether this is desired or not.

18. Accordingly, a person has to be careful about what their true will is – because they will get it.

19. If a person’s true will is to assert themselves violently over others, they will gravitate to a part of the Great Fractal where the order of reality is the violent assertion of power over others.

20. If a person’s true will is to experience order, then they will get order. They will gravitate to a part of the Great Fractal where chaos is minimised.

21. A person who ends up in such a place might not like it on account of that they find the order suffocating. If so, this will be reflected by their true desires, which will change the frequency of that person’s consciousness, in turn leading them to another part of the Great Fractal.

22. If a person’s true will is to experience peace, the frequency of their consciousness will come to reflect this. If the sum total of that person’s actions in their life are peaceful, this will cause them to gravitate to a part of the Great Fractal populated by peaceful beings.

23. An individuated consciousness might experience this as bliss – or hellishly boring.

24. Following the logic of the Four Tenets, Elementalists believe implicitly in free will – so implicitly that they strive to perfect their mastery over it.

25. Mastery over one’s true will is mastery over how one navigates the Great Fractal – either one drifts ignorantly through existence or one dances skillfully through it.

26. The Elementalist conception of reality teaches that we are all individual fragments of consciousness experiencing the Great Fractal, which we are free to explore in perpetuity.

27. As such, there is no reason to assume any kind of determinism beyond the Seventh Hermetic Principle, otherwise known as the Law of Cause and Effect.

28. One can only move through the Great Fractal at a pace and manner determined by one’s frequency of consciousness, which is itself determined by one’s previous expressions of will. As such, free will is true in some sense, and determinism is true in some sense.

29. The lower one’s frequency of consciousness, the less nimbly one will be able to change the direction of one’s path through the Great Fractal.

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The Elementalist Conception Of The Meaning Of Life (redux)

1. Elementalists believe that every person is entirely free to choose what the meaning of their life is.

2. Broadly speaking, the meaning of life that a person chooses will fall into one of four categories, each corresponding to one of the feminine elements.

3. Some people choose domination. This corresponds to fire. These people are the most masculine and have the most energy to expend.

4. People in this group are likely to become professional sportsmen, business tycoons, politicians or military/law enforcement/security.

5. If someone chooses domination as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as weak.

6. Some people choose exploration. This corresponds to air. These people are masculine, and like to go forward, but they are more subtle about it than the dominators.

7. People in this group are likely to become backpackers, scientists or psychonauts.

8. If someone chooses exploration as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as boring.

9. Some people choose pleasure. This corresponds to water. These people are feminine, because they will shy away from adversity, but they are also attracted to the possibility of pleasure.

10. People in this category are likely to become epicureans, hedonists and artists.

11. If someone chooses pleasure as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as masochistic.

12. Some choose survival. This corresponds to earth. These people are the most feminine, and are prone to retreating.

13. People in this category are likely to become hermits, homebodies or fitness and health enthusiasts.

14. If someone chooses survival as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as foolish.

15. In principle, every person could be assigned to one of these four groups based on how they choose or desire to live, even if they haven’t consciously chosen that group themselves.

16. This is because every person who chooses to go forwards – in other words, every person who chooses to live – must have a reason to do so, and the potential range of those reasons is finite.

17. However, all of these reasons can only ever provide a secondary meaning to a life.

18. The primary meaning of every life is to entertain the gods.

19. Elementalists believe in higher dimensions that are populated by beings of higher frequencies. These beings are capable of observing us without our being aware of it, much like we might observe a creature under a microscope.

20. To us, they are the gods: higher frequencies in higher realms of the Great Fractal. It is to entertain these gods that our lives have meaning.

21. If our futile struggles to dominate, or to explore, or to enjoy, or to survive the Great Fractal entertain the gods, then our lives have meaning despite being finite.

22. All of us are mortal, therefore every meaning that we could ourselves give to life is ultimately futile and pointless.

23. Most never overcome this dilemma, withdrawing from life and saying No to it. Such people appall, disgust and bore the gods.

24. Some others do overcome this dilemma, engaging with life and saying Yes to it. Such people delight and entertain the gods.

25. In the Elementalist conception, we live so that the gods might regard us as they once regarded Alexander.

26. Overcoming evil cannot possibly be the meaning of life, because evil will always be a part of the world as long as it’s possible for God to will it.

27. Neither can purifying one’s soul (understood by the Elementalist as raising the frequency of one’s consciousness) be the meaning of life. If it was, then life would be no longer possible once this had been achieved.

28. Nor can escaping the Great Fractal be the meaning of life. There’s ultimately nowhere for consciousness to escape to, other than reunion with God, and in such a case there’s no going forward without re-entering the world again.

29. Alexander understood the overwhelming importance of behaving heroically for the sake of the gods’ attention. He understood that the gods and goddesses watch over us from a higher place.

30. This knowledge has mostly been lost today, which is one reason why most people today live in such a pitiful manner, struggling for purpose and meaning.

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Navigating The Great Fractal (redux)

1. The vastness of the Great Fractal cannot be described in words, but describing how to navigate through it is much simpler.

2. Those unfortunate wretches who don’t know how to navigate the Great Fractal are condemned to live lives of maddening confusion as they are hurled to and fro by the winds of change.

3. Because the materialist paradigm is currently dominant, most people are used to thinking about setting goals in terms of time.

4. According to the received wisdom, time passes, and eventually when enough time has passed and enough effort has been expended, the goal is achieved.

5. Elementalists understand that both the material world and time are illusions. So how, then, does one get from Point A to Point B?

6. Everything that one could possibly wish for is in the Great Fractal: every possible situation in every possible world. One simply has to find a way to navigate there.

7. Getting to where one wishes is not easy, primarily because most people are used to thinking of reality as a planet that one walks around, and are unused to thinking of reality as a metaphysical fractal that one navigates through.

8. Understanding this navigation is a matter of understanding frequency and how frequencies match with similar frequencies.

9. A person’s frequency is the frequency of their consciousness. This can be estimated on a scale from 0 to 1, where 0 is pure unconsciousness (like an NPC) and 1 is pure consciousness (like Buddha).

10. The lower the frequency, the closer to psychopathic behaviour will be exhibited. The higher the frequency, the more it will ease the suffering of the beings around them.

11. A person’s frequency is the sum total of their actions, in both this life and in previous ones.

12. If that person has taken selfish actions that ignore the divinity of others, their frequency will be dark and heavy. If they have taken actions that respect the divinity of others, their frequency will be bright and light.

13. People incarnate into this world because the actions that they have made in previous lives has caused their consciousness to resonate at a particular frequency. This frequency happens to be a close match to the frequency of this world.

14. Every part of the Great Fractal has a frequency that matches closely to the frequency of consciousness possessed by its inhabitants.

15. Given that there are a practically infinite number of worlds in the Great Fractal, there is a world to match every possible frequency that a consciousness might resonate on.

16. In every person’s previous lives, they have been presented with a string of moral dilemmas, just as they have been in this one. In response to those dilemmas, they have made a variety of decisions.

17. The sum total of the correctness or otherwise of those decisions is now represented by every person’s frequency of consciousness.

18. Thus, if you have lived a life where you were selfish and cruel, you will incarnate in a universe populated with other beings on a similar frequency. And this will be perfectly fair – after all, you justified those behaviours by performing them yourself.

19. Therefore, you decreed that such actions were legitimate – even when they’re performed against you.

20. Elementalists call this process assortative reincarnation. It’s an application of divine justice, because every individual consciousness gets assorted to a universe that is appropriate to their frequency.

21. As such, navigating through the Great Fractal is simple. All one has to do is resonate at a frequency of consciousness that matches one’s desired destination.

22. Altering the frequency of consciousness at which one resonates is primarily a matter of applied will.

23. The longer and harder one applies one’s will to the achievement of a goal, the more one’s frequency of consciousness will alter to match the expression of that will.

24. If one’s frequency of consciousness matches one’s desired destination, eventually one will find oneself manifesting there, whether in this life or a life to come – this is actually unavoidable.

25. The laws of the Great Fractal demand that this must be the case, for it is unjust for a high frequency of consciousness to be cast among the lower, or for a low frequency of consciousness to be cast among the higher. This applies on the scale of both one lifetime and a hundred thousand.

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An Introduction To Great Fractal Theory (redux)

1. Great Fractal Theory starts with the First Tenet: the simple premise that consciousness is the prima materia.

2. As per the Second Tenet, everything that exists except for consciousness itself is part of the contents of consciousness, which are collectively known as the Great Fractal on account of that all possible contents of consciousness are fractal variations of each other.

3. Within the contents of consciousness are both the physical and metaphysical worlds.

4. The physical world is not truly real, although it may appear so to our fragments of consciousness.

5. The physical world has been dreamed up by consciousness, in the Great Act of Creation, and remains a dream.

6. Consciousness is therefore the creator of the physical world, in the same way that it creates the worlds we navigate in our nightly dreams.

7. Consciousness is the stage upon which the play of life takes place.

8. The physical world is most accurately understood as not being a place, but rather a matrix of self-similar fields of impressions that manifest in consciousness.

9. Each fragment of consciousness perceives a field of impressions that collectively creates the illusion that we are bodies living in a physical world, as opposed to the truth: that we are consciousness dreaming it up.

10. The essence of Great Fractal Theory is that all of the possible fields of impressions that consciousness could ever perceive are related to each other by way of a fractal matrix.

11. This matrix, known as the Great Fractal, contains every emotion, every thought, every desire and every sensory impression that could ever possibly manifest in conscious awareness.

12. The stories of our lives are not ones of rising up out of the dirt to become monkeys running loose on a rock in space, but rather stories of being fragments of consciousness navigating through an eternal and ever-changing Great Fractal of self-similar fields of sensory and mental impressions.

13. Consciousness is, right now, experiencing not only your current life but also all the possible gaps in between your birth and your death.

14. Your own personal fragment of consciousness may be living right now, in this current year, but other fragments of consciousness are living out every possible moment of your life, simultaneously.

15. If your life was divided into a billion chunks, each corresponding to a second or two of awareness, there is one fragment of consciousness for each of those billion chunks, each living its own life, usually unaware of the presence of the others.

16. Each of these billion fragments could themselves be divided into a billion fragments: a quintillion lives, each separated by one or two nanoseconds, rolling inexorably from birth to death like freight carriages on a railway.

17. One ends and one begins every few nanoseconds, and follows the exact path of the life that you are experiencing right now, past and future.

18. This is eternal recurrence: your current physical life will be lived over and over again, by another fragment of consciousness (sometimes even your own), forever, because it is an eternal part of the Great Fractal.

19. Every possible way that a human life can differ from another is another dimension of the Great Fractal.

20. There’s no reason, other than anthropomorphic conceit, to believe that only human beings are conscious.

21. Once it’s realised that consciousness is the prima materia and not a phenomenon of the brain, it becomes easy to understand that all other beings, indeed even insects and trees, are conscious like we are.

22. Therefore, every possible way that the life of any being can differ from the life of any other being is another dimension of the Great Fractal.

23. The number of dimensions in the Great Fractal is virtually infinite, and there are countless quintillions of beings for every dimension.

24. The entire Great Fractal is buzzing with consciousness.

25. Anything that can possibly be perceived by consciousness lies somewhere in the Great Fractal.

26. All moments of all lives of all possible beings in all possible worlds in all possible dimensions are contained within the Great Fractal, to be experienced by consciousness eternally.

27. Your current life is simply an infinitely small fragment of this incomprehensibly vast whole.

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