Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe

What is a great book, what I want to show you in this class is that a great book is something that makes you fully human by revealing to you the secrets of the universe and the secrets of what it means to be human. Now, in school, you've been taught that a person comes from evolution, right? We evolved from monkeys. 99% of our DNA is that of a chimpanzee. And you're taught that the world is primarily materialistic. The world is what you can see, what you can observe, what you can measure, and that's it. And this is the great lie, the great deception that we teach you in school. And we know it's a lie. It's a deception. Because everything that you've been taught in school, everything that you've learned here, that you will learn university, in graduate school, in science, in life, does not answer a fundamental question. What is consciousness? Why do we see the world the way it is? How do we think? How do we have ideas? How do we communicate? You're not allowed to ask this question, and therefore you're not allowed to ask the question, what does it mean to be human? What does it. What is human? Okay, And I will show you in this class that there are two aspects of being human. There is, of course, the material aspect. You have a body, but you also have a soul. Okay? You also have a soul that connects you to the spiritual or the divine. Okay? And that's who you are. In the spiritual divine, there's a spark inside of you that comes from God. And this spark is what allows you to love and to imagine. So being a human means to engage in two fundamental acts. The act of love, of loving someone, which allows you to unify with God, and the act of imagination to expand your consciousness, which allows you to. To be God itself. Okay? Love is the unifying force of the universe, the God force. The imagination is the animating force of the universe. And this is the great secret of the universe. The universe is not material. It is conscious, is conscious itself. Okay? So this is a really hard concept to understand. Okay? So let's work for it slowly. Okay, so we have Emmanuel Kant, And we'll read Emmanuel Kant later on, okay? And he's trying to figure out what reality is. How do we perceive reality? And his solution is this. He believes that the world is divided into reality itself, called the no mana. No mana just means the things in themselves, the objective reality. And then there is the phenomena. And what we do basically is that we perceive or we engage with the no mana and we translate it. Into the phenomena. The things in themselves become the things to us, the things that appear to us. And we do this by filtering the no mana through time and space. So our brains are constructed in a way that allows us to perceive the spiritual and turn it into material. So another man named Julian James, he is a American psychologist and he takes this idea and he gives it a physical basis. Basically what he says is that our brains have both a right hemisphere and a left hemisphere, okay? Right, left. So what the right hemisphere does is it connects to the no mana, the things in themselves that we can never know. And then the left translates it into the phenomena. Okay? So this is a mechanism in the brain that does this. The right hemisphere gets all this information from the nominal, the spiritual, and then the left brain for our eyes, for our senses, translates into the phenomena. Okay? Are we clear? All right, so another question then is. Oops. Okay, so now the question then is, what is the no mana? Okay? And this is a question that mystics, monks have been struggling with for all human history. And so we can never describe the no mana because it is beyond space and time. It's beyond our capacity to describe it. So I can only explain to you metaphorically, okay, what the nomana really is, is consciousness. Consciousness comes from energy, vibrations, okay? So all the entire universe, it's vibrations. Vibrations carry information. Information becomes consciousness. Alright, so let's. So let's metaphorically, what we say is there's a source called a monad, okay? The one, okay? The center of the universe, God. And how the monad works is through breathing, emanation. And this creates vibrations throughout the universe, okay? So the monad breathes in and breathes out. And this is the basis of the universe, these vibrational fields, okay? But through this process, this also creates other entities as well. And we call these the dyads. And so these are all the basic structure of the universe. And then the diet create other forces as well, okay? And as the universe keeps on vibrating, the vibrations, the frequencies become slower, right? You go from high, ah. To low. Oh. And because it's going slow now, physicality, materialism develops and this creates the material universe, okay? But the thing to understand is that material is always connected to, to the spiritual. This entire force, entire universe, it's all interconnected together. It's both everything and nothing at the same time, okay? The problem though is that eventually our world is created and then what happens is our world is materialistic and we have bodies. So our bodies are part of this material world, but our consciousness comes from the divine okay, does that make sense? So our bodies are created for evolution, but our consciousness is created through the vibrations of the universe. Our consciousness is connected with the universe itself. So another way we can understand this concept is imagine these people together, okay? You have all these people together. So how conscious works is it's an infinite dimensional consciousness. So this is what happens, right? Your consciousness is expanding infinitely into the universe. And as you can see, at one level, you are by yourself, okay? Your consciousness is. Is unique to you. But another level, at a higher level is that you connect with someone else, and then you're connected to another person, okay? And you go on and on until you connect with everything. So renewal consciousness is a capacity to connect with the entire universe, but it's really far, far away. Okay, okay, so this is complicated. And so different philosophers throughout history have tried to figure out how to best articulate this truth, this great secret to humanity. And the best metaphor that we have is something called Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Plato's Cave. And this helps us understand who we are, where we came from, and where we're going. Okay, so this is a metaphor, an allegory that helped us understand what it means to be human and the human condition. Okay? So what Plato says is this. Imagine you have these prisoners, okay? And they're all tied down. They're chained to the ground. Their necks are chained, their arms are chained. So you can't move your head, you can't get up, okay? And what you're doing is you're watching a wall. This is a wall. And behind the wall behind you is this great fire. And from behind this fire are these people. We don't know who they are actually, okay? But they are putting up these figures. And so they are projecting shadows onto a wall. And because we, the prisoners, cannot see the entirety of a reality, we believe that the wall itself is reality. Okay? So an example of this, of course, is movies. We watch movies and we think this is a reality. Okay? So the question then is, why are these people making this effort to fool us into believing that this wall, these movies, are real? And the answer is because they're trying to enslave us. Okay? Slavery. But then you're like, okay, but slavery means that I take a gun and I say, if you don't do what I say, I'll kill you. But that's not what slavery is. If the universe is conscious, okay? Our energy comes from our attention. Attention and is energy. So what they want is our energy, okay? That's true wealth. They're Able to focus our energy, capture imagination. They can construct reality in the way that they want it, okay? Because reality is what we imagine it to be. The imagination is the animating force of the universe, right? So they can focus our attention for us. They can create their own reality. All right? Now we understand why we watch movies. Now we understand why we have the Internet. Now we understand why the school wants you to love artificial intelligence. Because it's to enslave you. It's. All of human history is about enslavement, okay? That's what progress is. You think that, oh, my God, I can now watch movies. Oh, my God, I have now social media. I can communicate with anyone. Oh, my God, I have ChatGPT, and ChatGPT can tell me the truth about the world. No. All these things are created to enslave your mind because you have access to God. And so what they're trying to do is trick you into believing that this reality is a true reality. Because once you believe that, this reality becomes the only reality, okay? Then the question is, like, who are these people? Well, we don't know, okay? You can say they're the elite. They're the powers that be. You can also say they're demons. We don't know, okay? But they're interested in fooling us. Into. Believing Believing that the movies that we see are real, the Internet is real, social media is real. So then the question then is, okay, if this is slavery, what is freedom? What freedom is, is to escape this system and to be able to think for yourself, to see for yourself, to be yourself. So Plato goes on and says, okay, this one guy, for whatever reason, his chains break loose and he stumbles out, out of the cave into the wilderness, okay? The wilderness. And he sees the sun. And son, of course, is God. And at first he's blinded by the light. Yes? You have a question? Yeah, so. So So sorry. Yeah, can you. Can you speak into the microphone, please? So I have a question before, like, we talk about the freedom, because, like. Yeah. Can I first explain what freedom is? Okay, Okay, sure. Thanks. Thanks. Thank Thank you. All right, all right. It all makes sense. Okay, all right, all right. So you go out into the world, and at first you're blinded by the light, okay? And you hate it. But you struggle. And then you teach your eyes to see. And then you recognize that this world is beautiful. It is infinite. It's diverse, it's alive. This world that you thought was real is just a corpse. It's a dead zombie world, okay? This is what life is, okay? And that's what Freedom is. Freedom means that you are now finally able to awake from this terrible nightmare, see everything that is around us. Movies, the AI School, as prison, as a. As hell. And then you're able to look inside yourself and then connect back to God. Okay? The spiritual, to look beyond the phenomena and return to the no mana. To peer into the no mana, which is vibrations, energy. Okay? All right, so let's play with algorithm of the cave. This makes sense right now. This raises a question which is, okay, that's fine, but how do we escape? Okay, how do we seek freedom? Okay? So if you look at every single religious tradition, whether it's Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, Christianity, Judaism, doesn't matter. Okay? Every single religion proposes the same solution, which is meditation. Okay, what's meditation? Okay, let's. All right, so let's start. If the world is vibration, if it flows, there must be a logic to this flow. There must be a certain structure to this movement, okay? And the Egyptians proposed that what governs this flow is the idea of sacred geometry. Okay? Sacred geometry, okay? This is what they just spent thousands of years figuring out, that the vibrational energy flows in certain geometric patterns, okay? And these geometric patterns are the basis for the universe itself. So now if we understand this sacred geometry, what we can do now is construct our conscious in a way that allows us to match the vibrational flow of the universe, okay? To harmonize with the universe. Right? And how do you do that? You do that through breathing, okay? Breath work. Because by breathing, you can structure your consciousness in a way that becomes part of the universe itself. All right? And And this will take decades, but you can do this. And then when you're able to harmonize with vibrational flow of the universe, then reality itself reveals itself to you, okay? You see this world as false. You're able now to connect to the true spiritual universe. Okay? So this is true consciousness, and this is what all monks in the world are trying to do, okay? You're trying to leave your body and embrace the spiritual, because when you do that, it allows you to connect with the divine and discover the secrets of the universe. You're able to see both the phenomena as well as a no mana, okay? And this is a great secret of all religions. This is what all religions practice at the same time. There are actually some hacks, okay? Hacks. So meditation is what you're supposed to do. But a lot of people are like, you know what? This is a long time. Like decades and decades of isolation, of just meditation, of trying to figure out how to connect the universe okay. That's decades and decades, possibly a hundred years. There must be easier way. And there are, okay? They're not great, but there are, and we figured it out, okay? So the first hack that you can use is psychedelics. Right? So So these drugs, and they could be magic mushrooms, they could be ayahuasca, peyote, whatever, okay? But they alter your conscious in a way that disrupts your left hemisphere and allows you to focus on your right hemisphere, which allows you to see the Nomad. Okay? When you see the. You're like, oh, my God. It's just energy, okay? It's just colors, colors, colors. So if you go online and you see artwork from people who use psychedelics, you will see that it's very colorful, okay? And it's very strong. It's all vibrational. Okay? So that's one hack. Another hack that you can use is self denial. So it's possible you can starve yourself fasting, okay? It's possible that you go out naked in the cold, okay? But when you collapse your body and you're approaching death, your consciousness shifts into the spiritual. So what's important to understand is death is at the end. Death is released because this world that we live in, our bodies are the prison. Okay? So don't fear death. It's just part of the natural cycle. Okay? And And the third is something called NDEs, Near Death Experiences. So these are people who don't want to die, but they might be in a car accident or they could have drowned, okay? And they died for like five minutes. What happens? And they all come back and say the same thing. When they die, they escape into the spiritual realm and they meet God. Okay? And these are people who don't know each other, but they say the same thing about the near death experience, which is the world that they go into. And it is Plato's world. It's like escaping the cave and going to the world of the light. It is a world of compassion, of love or forgiveness. It is as though you're connected again with the divine. Okay. All right. And then. But there's also another way, and this is what the Christians believe. Okay? So let's talk about Jesus. So Christians, mystics believe that there's a way for Jesus to connect fully with the divine. Okay? And this is the idea of the Christ consciousness. Okay? Okay. So I'm explaining slowly how this works, but it's very complicated. Okay? So interrupt me if this is confusing. All right? So what's important to understand is that we're not just passive observers of reality. We're active participants in reality. That's why Kant teaches us, okay? So, so as we are receiving all these vibrations, we ourselves are vibrating. Are vibrating, okay? For our imagination. Does that make. Does that make sense? So as we are receiving information which allows to create memories, we then implant our memories into this consciousness, which changes the universe. So think of the Internet, right? You have a computer, have a laptop. It works because it connects to the Internet, and it's receiving information from the Internet. But then you change this information, it goes back into the Internet. Okay? Okay? So for memories, through the construction of memories, you are participating in the universe. Okay? All right. Another metaphor that we can use is think of an ocean of ocean, right? And all these pebbles are dropping the ocean which creates vibrations. You are that pebble, okay? And your role in the world is to create as much of a splash as possible, okay? To vibrate. The Greeks have a term for this called eudaimonia, which is the purpose of life is to be your creative best, to flourish, to blossom, to imagine, to vibrate as much as possible. Okay? So what is important is that if we all, at the same time imagine something to be true, it becomes true. Okay? So who's the most famous person in the world? Jesus. Right, so Jesus is immortal. He's eternal. Because there are 2 billion people in the world who love him, who imagine him all the time, who believe that he's part of their lives. And because of their imagination, Jesus still is still with us today. But he's at a higher vibration. Okay, so he's a high vibration Jesus. Then the question is, how do you resurrect Jesus? How do you bring him back? And the answer is by making your body a vessel for Jesus to return in, okay? Your body can become a portal for Jesus to inhabit, to possess, if you welcome Jesus through certain spiritual practices, okay? Including love, generosity, forgiveness. All right, if someone killed your son, you may hate that person, but if you're able to forgive that person and show true forgiveness, because, listen, if someone killed my children, I'd be pissed off, okay? I would hate that person forever. But if you're able to yourself forgive that person of your own free choice, you open yourself up to divinity, okay? And this divinity can now flow into you. And this is what we call the Christ consciousness, or the second coming of Jesus. So if you are Christian, you believe the second coming, that Jesus will return. And Christian mystics believe that, yes, he can always return if you open your heart to Jesus. But you have to construct your body, your mind, your consciousness in a way that allows for Jesus to inhabit you. Okay? So this is the secret of the universe, the world. The universe exists in our consciousness. The consciousness is what's real. The material is what's false. And as we imagine we participate in the universe, we change the universe and we focus on reality. That reality becomes manifest. It becomes reality itself. Okay? And by living in the memories of others, we become immortal, like Jesus. And by constructing our own lives in a way that allows for Jesus to return, we can resurrect Jesus in ourselves. Okay? So that's a good secret of the universe. This is a secret to immortality, reincarnation and godhood, these three things. And most of us will fail, but it's okay, because why? Because our conscious is forever. So reincarnation means that when we die, we can escape back in the spiritual, and then maybe a thousand years later, we come back. Okay? So it's a constant cycle where we're trying to achieve these three things. Immortality, reincarnation, and godhood. And the secret is love powering our imagination. Okay? Okay? We're here to imagine things. Okay? So this is a great secret of the universe. This is a secret that religions have passed on through thousands of years of human history and which schools, science, government, all the powers that be tried to suppress because it is a direct threat to this reality. Okay? This reality is false, but they want to make it real because they derive power from this reality. Okay? Does Does that make sense, guys? Okay. Okay. Everything Everything that you've been taught in school, everything that you've learned in science class is complete and utter nonsense. This is what's true. Okay? Okay. So now that we understand all of this, we can also understand the great books. Because what I will show you this semester is if you truly want to achieve these three things, mortality, reincarnation, godhood. The secret lies in the Great books. The great books are constructed in a way that allows you to access the entire secrets of the universe. Okay? So what the great books are, it is a capturing of the universe in a state. And as a result, there's a universe within the great books. And by embracing the great books, by letting the great books come into you and then you enter the great books, you have the capacity to travel in a new universe, but you also have the capacity now to create your own universe. And that's what the great books are, okay? They are the secret of what it means to be human. They provide a secret of how to be true, truly fully human. All right? And we. And what we'll do is this. We. This is not meant to be, okay? A Semester later on, like three months from now. Oh, you'll be immortal. You'll be God. No, no, that's not the way it works. Okay? Okay? What I will show you is a path. But it's up to you to focus and sacrifice yourself on this path into enlightenment. Okay, Metaphor. A simple analogy is everyone knows swimming is the best exercise in the world, right? Well, if I. If I just say go swim doesn't mean you learn how to swim in one day. It'll take you decades to learn how to swim. Really? Well, we all know meditation is really good for you, right? But it'll take you decades to fully learn how to meditate. Well, okay, so this is a journey that is lifelong, but it's a journey that requires sacrifice. It's a journey that requires you to fully learn the great books. I can't teach you all the great books. I can't teach you all the secrets of the great books. I can only give you a framework. Okay? And you must abandon this material reality that is thoughts, okay? Abandoned money, power, sex, fame, and focus on embracing the great books. And when you do that, the universe comes into you. Okay? Christians want to be possessed by Jesus. They want Jesus to enter them and resurrect Jesus. Create the Christ conscious in them. What we want to do is we want to welcome the greatest minds of human civilization, the prophets of our time, the prophets of humanity, including Homer, Plato, Dante, caught into our consciousness so we can be fully human. Okay? So we're going to do what the Christians want to do, but instead of Jesus, we'll have Homer, Dante, Kant, Plato, and anyone else you want. Okay? Okay? Who, Who, like, it's your choice who you want to come and possess you, who want to come and enter you, you have now you. Now I will teach you the power, the secret to resurrect Homer and Dante inside of you. But again, first of all, it's your choice. Second of all, you must abandon the world to do this. And third of all, you must dedicate entire life to do. To doing this. Okay? So this class is meant to be a sample, okay. But it's not meant to provide all the answers. Okay. Any questions? So you have a question? Yeah. Yeah. So. So like. So back to the motto you draw on the. On the screen about the wall and the shadow. So for people who you said be slaves and like, for the people who create a shadow that they are trying to create the reality for those people who was called slave, but for those slave people that they think this is like the. The shadow, unwo those things are the reality. And those things for them are the menomina of the world. So, like, so how could they, like, to escape them and to chase the real. Okay, I understand. Okay, okay, you don't really understand what's going on. Okay, all right, let's explain again. Okay? Okay? Okay. You think you know, okay, but you don't know what's really happening. Okay, all right, These prisoners, they're the ones who have the capacity to create reality. Okay? Okay? You You understand this now, the powers behind them, these people have the power to create reality. So what I need to do is trick them into creating the reality that I want them to create. Does that make sense? Okay, so these are the powers that. Be. Be. And they hide in the shadows and they give you tricks. They use deception, manipulation in order to trick you into thinking that you're a slave. And they're tricking you into wanting to create a reality that they want you to create, but which you think you want to create, okay? And that's how the world works. We are the ones with the power of God, with the ones with imagination. The. The ones behind us don't have an imagination. They have power, but they don't have imagination. Okay? So they need to trick us into wanting to create the world they want us to create. And this is how the world works, guys, right? Why are you in school being a slave? We say, I'm not being a slave. I'm being free. I'm in school so I can get into a good college, make a lot of money and live a happy life. Okay? You've been tricked, but the truth is. No, no, no, you don't need money to be happy. You don't need anything to be happy. You have yourself, okay? You have your imagination. You have the capacity to love anyone. If you just love your mother, if you just love your father, if you love everyone around you, you'll be happy. Don't need money. Like, no, no, no, I need. I need a billion dollars to buy my brother a Porsche. I need to buy my mother a yacht. That's what my mother really wants. You've been tricked, okay? That's how the world works. So it's really easy. Just say to yourself, I'm a slave, and I refuse to be a slave. I refuse to listen to what everyone tells me. And that's the hardest thing to do in the world because, like, it would mean your rejection from reality, right? It would mean, oh, I have no more friends, my parents hate me, I'm a loser, everyone makes fun of me at school. All right? So that's the reality we live in. We fear so. So isolation. We fear being laughed at. So we just go with the flow. Even though in our hearts we know this is all a lie. This school, what the teachers teach us, it's all nonsense. Chatgpt. It's lying to us all the time. Seeking money is going to make me unhappy. Why am I seeking money? Not for yourself, but because you fear social canonization. You fear being laughed at. That's why you want money. That's why you want to do well in school. Once you accept that, then you are free. Can you do that? No, no, no, you can't do that. Because all your life you've been brainwashed and you're thinking, like, the thing you see is what's real, okay? Through movies, through school, through parenting, through friends, through reality. Okay? So that's what Plato's algorithm teaches us. So guess what, guys? You'll probably fail, but if you're able to succeed, you'll be truly free and happy and imaginative. And that will allow you to ascend into immortality. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there's this state of being free and the state of being enslaved. Can there be a slate? Can there be a slave that consciously realizes that they're being enslaved and also consciously refuses to go out to, like, embrace freedom? Sorry, that. That's what a slave is though, right? A slave is someone who wants to be a slave, who chooses to be a slave. Because it's all choice. It's all free will. Right? I cannot make you do this. I cannot. I cannot make you, force you to lie to yourself. You have to lie. You have to choose to lie to yourself. You understand? Don't think you're being coerced. Don't think you are being enslaved. You choose to come to school. You choose to be. To be lied to. You choose to accept the things as they are. Free will is the number one principle of the universe. Okay, when you say, like, I'm forced to be a slave, you're lying to yourself. It's always been your choice. Okay? Does Does that make sense? It's always been your choice. These prisoners. They. I mean, like, they can't break those chains. They probably could. Okay, and what do you think is going to happen when this guy who's seen the real world, when he comes and tells everyone, hey, guys, I've seen the real world. Let's get out of here. What's going to happen to him? They're going to kill him, right? That's what Plato says. If you dare speak the truth and people know the truth. They will kill you for speaking the truth. All right? So don't try to convince anyone of the truth. Just know the truth for yourself and be free yourself. But you can never, ever convince someone who doesn't want to listen, okay? Don't try it. You'll just. They'll just kill you. Okay? Did you have a question? Does that make sense? Okay, so this is really important for you to understand. It's always been your choice, but it's easier for you to think. No, no, it's not my choice. I've been coerced. It's not my choice to come to school. It's not my choice to go get a job, because if I don't get a job, I'm going to starve. No, you won't. Okay? And remember, in the real world, death doesn't really mean anything, okay? Death just means a release. It's. You trick yourself into thinking that death is the worst thing that could happen to you, when in reality, it's slavery. That's the worst thing that can happen to you. You fear death, but you are living death right now. Okay? And And that's what the great books will teach you. Yeah, what about the subjective physical feeling of pain in reality? Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. So. The question is, why do we feel pain and why do we have bodies? And the reason why is that the universe is constructed in a way to promote imagination, okay? Because the universe, what it's trying to do is vibrate more. Vibrate more, which just means imagine more. And if you can't feel pain, if you can't suffer, if you can't lose, if there's no evil, you can't imagine things. Does that make sense? Right? If everything was so easy, nothing would ever have any meaning. Okay? So So let's just say you want a really good body and you go to the gym. And then, you know, you just drink some water, you just lie around for like 10 hours. And then you have this amazing physique. Well, that would. That wouldn't. That would just not be beneficial to anyone, okay? If you want to have meaning, you have to struggle for it, and that requires pain and suffering. So even though. Yeah. The question then is like, if. If this world is one of death, of one of pain, one of suffering, why are we in this world to improve our imagination, okay? Because only through pain and suffering can you truly achieve your full potential as a human. That's why these monks meditate for decades in the snow, because they understand that pain is what allows you to focus your mind well, evil, there can be no good. If everyone's good, then, like, what's the point of being good? It's only when everyone is evil and you choose to be good. That's what gives meaning to your life. That's what gives meaning to universe. Does that make sense? All right, any more questions? Okay, and again, I know this sounds kind of strange, but you actually read the great books. First of all, you will recognize that's what they're saying. But also, what's more important is they're going to give you the energy, the strength, the power to liberate yourself if you truly open your heart to the great books. Okay, so the great books we will start with is the Iliad by Homer. Then we'll go to the Odyssey again by Homer. Then the Republic by Plato, the Ennead by Virgil, which is not a great book, by the way, but we have to read it anyway. Okay. Okay. And And then Divine Comedy by Dante. And then I'll figure out some other books we can read, depending on how things go. Okay, so I like to read Kant, the Critique of Pure, of pure Reason. But we may not have time. Okay, so that's a plan for the semester. Sam, sa.