TETRAGRAMMATON

In order to play the game of master magician, you must understand the game board on which you play. Learn to grasp the deeper mysteries of reality by applying the principles of game theory.

Spiritual Warfare 102: Understanding the "Game Board."

In order to be a spiritual warrior, you must understand the landscape on which you do battle. The theatre of war spans all of space and time and has at its disposal all of matter and energy. To understand your powers, techniques, obstacles, enemies, allies and goals, you must first understand the intrinsic field on which you do battle.

The Space-Time-Energy-Matter Matrix

A master magician must be willing and able to see the world for what it truly is. The many uninitiated are tied up in fantasy stories and false cosmologies that reduce them to mere tools in someone else’s vision and design for the future. In order to break the chains of these magicians’ magical systems, we must break free of our false assumptions and beliefs about the very nature of our reality.

We can never truly act upon the real world when we do so with an inaccurate story. Whether it’s atheism, the modern Abrahamic tradition, materialism or any other existential philosophy; we will always be limited by the ideology’s confined borders of observation and understanding. Regarding the greater reality all those philosophies reside within: How could they ever be talking about the whole of reality if they themselves are just a small piece of it? Start to view all “official doctrines” in the form of sciences, philosophies and religions, as incomplete maps or colored lenses through which people see the world. Some of their tenets and teachings may be useful when applied to everyday life. And they may even have some of the answers to the mysteries of reality. But they can never be perfect or complete, no matter how many times they try to tell you they are!

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Helpful Metaphors to Improve Understanding of Reality vs. Perception

Lens Versus the Light: Imagine you are looking upon an elderly woman. The way in which you “see” her is often mitigated by the “pair of lenses” you are wearing. If you tend to wear a lens of nihilism, you might first “see” the concept of aging and decay, and relate the woman directly to the inevitability of death and the process of entropy. But if you look at her with the lens of some more optimistic ideology (Those Rose-Colored Glasses), you might see the beauty of long life and the richness of history the elders often carry in their many experiences and stories. If you are apt to wearing a certain pair of political lenses you might see a “boomer” and automatically blame her for the hardships of the modern times.

All of these lenses corrupt and distort the reality of what you actually see, confusing it with what you intellectually “see.” What you actually see is simply matter and energy, torqued by time, and moving through space. This is the essential truth. All other aspects of biology, sociology, religion, etc. are lenses that the master magician can take off and on at their leisure.

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Map Versus the Territory: Another way of looking at this is with the analogy of the map versus the territory. The map is like a lens. Though instead of just making you see things different it also directs your navigation in the world. Someone using a Christian map will avoid certain paths that are incongruent with the Christian teachings. The same is true for an atheist map. Imagine a transparency with marks and directions that is overlaid on the world that guides your five sense, cognition and decision-making in specific ways based on the contents and priorities of the map. The map is never real; it is only an attempt to navigate the unspeakable and undefinable territory. The map itself should never be confused with the actual territory. Unfortunately, billions of people make this mistake everyday. Don’t be one of the lost sheep blindly following the false prophets and treacherous shepherds. Pave your own way in the valley of the real.

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The Spoon Versus the Paint: What is a spoon? An eating utensil? Well, that is what we say it is. But even though we created the spoon for a specific purpose, it only has that purpose as long as human beings are there to fulfill it. If the human race were to forget the purpose of the spoon, or if we were to disappear altogether from this place, the spoon would no longer be a spoon. Just as when you look at a painting and identify objects in the picture, only to realize that they are not objects at all, but instead a simulation of an object using paint to create an illusion of light, shadow, texture and color, so do the subatomic particles of our reality simulate the objectivity of any given thing. It is all, at one level, an illusion. And our labels, descriptions, concepts, context and ideas about these things are secondary even to that illusion. These are just map markers that label a thing to help us identify and communicate about it with others. Though the labels and beliefs about the thing are always superficial. It is only a spoon, or an elephant, or a cool breeze, because we call it as such. But all things can exist in your mind without labels or intellectual meaning. When you can remove the glasses, and toss the map, then you can explore the world in its rawest and truest form.

The Meaning of Zen Statues: Few people know the true meaning of the Zen Statues in Buddhism. Their inherent purpose is to ground the Zen practitioner who has broken free of ideology and intellectual attachment to the world. When you truly toss the map and take off the tinted glasses, it will be an overwhelming experience. Life will rush upon you in all its splendor and audacity. This can cause something akin to a mental breakdown or temporary psychosis. These systems of thought have been your anchors all your life. When you break free of them, it is like returning to the garden just as Adam and Eve have taken a bite of the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. You are left naked to the great expanses of awareness. Zen statues help the Zen Buddhists anchor themselves to something stable. Something they can put all their focus into. Almost as if to simulate belief in an ideology that they pretend to believe in, in order to help the mind acclimate to the realization of the infinite. The mind and spirit will become unseated and lofty in these moments. Remember to keep anchors at the ready when you feel like you’re floating away. The concept of human love, a physical gemstone or a fond memory are great examples of “Zen Statues” you can use to ground yourself to the familiar.

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