Anatomy of Miracles, Langan & Wheeler applied, part 2 A Course in Miracles

Watch full part 1 to understand Wheeler's diagram, used in part 2. Brief expalantion in this one. • Wheeler & Langan Conce...
Chris Langan is called the smartest man in America. His 200 I.Q. alone is not the reason for his notoriety--the brain quotient was born into the circumstances of a tough life, plus he worked as a bouncer, cowboy and lifts weights. He might fit well in a Fantastic "Four" remodel. I bring it up because in interviews he explains why his CTMU (Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe) goes largely un-noticed--he is not in "the club" made up of more urbanely situated individuals in elite academic circles. His theoretic model is also theistic whereas the club has decided to find their way to "heaven" without a creator-God, much less Cosmic Father such as figured in A Course in Miracles. Would Wheeler or Langan approve of my appropriating their ideas into the tome channeled at the Psyche Dept at Columbia in the 60's/70's? Dunno. But there is, for me, an irresistable desire to whine endlessly that they are all on the exact same page, however distant those sheafs may be across the library stack, bookstore shelves. or algorithmic You Tube tabs.
Why does it matter? Rather, does it matter at all--who or what a 'Holy Spirit' is and from whence the 'mad idea'? Mad idea, who says so? And does mapping metaphysical concepts somehow prove something useful? In order of questions, Who said it matters? It doesn't,' sez Him, and, not necessarily. A Catholic priest I know, loves maps. Ten percent of his sermons revolve around road and destination lore. He likes these diagrams of geography because they represent possibilities. The many highways and byways offer solace to one who has chosen a stalwart 'yessir, no sir! path of the professional cleric. A map is a hole punched into a world where maps don't matter. Everyone else sees red and blue spider veins sprawled across random rectangles and accidentals because they live there. Fr. Highroad [made up name to protect the possibilities] lives in a place where these optional conduits are fantasy. That's us if you haven't gathered. I would not know my own best interest if it stared me down in a poorly lit alley. I could not fabricate a miracle if my alimony payment depended on it. I cannot forgive anybody for anything no matter how hard I try. Yet, all of these things happen somehow. Obviously "I" am at the center of the events, but the action seems to originate elsewhere.
The effort to diagram the Course is a mapping exercise for one who needs a hole punched into a world that mostly labels such maps as useless sacramentals in a made-up religion where things actually fit together coherently--conventional wisdon says they do not. They are accidentals, nothing sacred or coherent about them. Strangely enough ACIM agrees with the big-bang atheists on some points. Both camps [Jesus in the Course and Ray Kurzweil over at Google] see this world as absolute mayem that requires powerful agencies to bring the randomness to heel {or heal...]. AND Ray thinks he is man enough to lead the way, while Jesus says he is Christ enough to fix the chaos. There is a lot of agreement there. Mr. Kurzweil, however, wants to download the comprehensive qualities of individuality onto self-replicating hard-drives to seminate the cosmos with the disaster of nihilism, as though a LOT of nihilism will become meaningful. The Spirit-identified-Galilean draws the conclusion that it's better to avoid as much replication as possible to bring the Kafka-esque dreamscape to a fitting end. That would be the Atonement--God as the only "hard-drive" worth uploading to.
It helps me to see it as Mr. Langan or Wheeler might. Drawing vector lines between representative circles, labeling them, and setting up sequences gives my mind something to orbit. It seems meaningful for now. One has to stand amazed at the mind, sunk in a cycle of despair and self-loathing, it can one day decide to act. That mind looks squarely into a jumbled drawer of mis-matched socks and unfolded underwear and rolls up mental sleeves. The process of matching, folding, and stacking articles of vaguely-stained stretch-cotton in "military-fashion" creates order where there was chaos--the drawer becomes a happy witness to disciplined effort, the mind basks in a renewal of meaning, and the world is healed in rippling waves accordingly. Go figure.

[@eelectricblue]

The diagrams are really helpful. Thought provoking as always. Intrigued by the idea that the holy spirit can 'complete the circuit' of any flawed earthly situation to bring forgiveness and wholeness.

[@hamiltonconstellation]

Thanks! The idea of a true'rectification' of duality-imbalances seems like an inevitable fact of any Creation that starts at some Point. Call it big-bang or God--this thing has a conceptual beginning which 'ought' to be perfect...what do you think?

[@ctmuist]

>"The son is the quality of the Father who appreciates the Father, that sees the Father".
I've listened to so much said about Christianity, and yet I have never before heard this truth.

[@hamiltonconstellation]

Thank-you--this means a lot to me.