15. The Observer Effect

Summing up the above, the so-called Observer Effect can be formulated:

The state of consciousness of the observer (his beliefs, convictions, desires, feelings, thoughts, and the linguistic worldview that sustains them) determines the reality he observes.

Different observers have different realities. The worldview anchored in the consciousness of the observer, that is, his template of perception, is primary in relation to reality and determines it, and therefore the entire life of him, the observer. An observer is each of us, every human being, every bearer of consciousness. If an observer's worldview changes, his reality changes as well. There is no sense in arguing which reality is more real, or which worldview is more correct. The only thing that makes sense to examine is whether You are happy in Your worldview and the reality it generates, or not.

Different observers have different realities. But why, after all, do we generally perceive reality in a similar way, why can we speak of certain things common to all as objectively existing, perceived identically by everyone, and, moreover, build upon this basis an entire system of social relations: production, economics, law, state, and social institutions? Because we have a basic

linguistic worldview where a chair is a chair, a table is a table, a wardrobe is a wardrobe (though with the state and the economy it is already more complex). Language allows us to understand one another, to agree on things and interact effectively—not merely at the level of transmitting information, but at the level of the very creation of collective reality—thanks to language, we single out, that is, we form, from the quantum soup of all possible states of the world, an understandable picture of our actuality.

But what is to be done if we suddenly discover that our worldview, our template of perceiving reality, does not make us happy? If because of it we are forced to struggle with one another and with nature for our own survival, if we suffer, fall ill, and die? If our collective reality has become a factory of suffering to which we supply ever new generations of our children? And moreover, if we as a society have already agreed to this as the norm, and now—in schools and universities—simply study the laws of “objective reality,” essentially reinforcing this image of an alien and in every sense dangerous surrounding actuality, where if not nature, then the economy, politics, competitors, a military foe, weapons of mass destruction, improper nutrition, a robber, a maniac, an illness, a medical error, bad governance, an accident, and aging will kill us anyway? What are we to do with all this? How are we to change our worldview, our template of perception?

To begin with—to desire it. For desires at the quantum level fulfill themselves. To desire to change our beliefs and convictions regarding “objective reality, existing independently of us.” To acknowledge the truth that we are hostages (read “slaves”) of this faith, to begin calling by name those feelings, those emotions that proceeded from this faith and customarily possessed us: to acknowledge fears, resentments, guilt, wrath, the shame of our own insignificance; to acknowledge those desires which, proceeding from the premises of our faith, just like emotions, possessed us, crossing over into the category of addictions—gluttony, lust, fornication, movie addiction, passion for spectacles, addiction to money and external comfort, greed, the striving for gain and pleasures at any cost, addiction to coffee, to sweets, to various kinds of stimulants and energy drinks, the desire for superiority over others, the striving for power, the perpetual search for the guilty and for an external enemy…

And when You recognize the existing state of affairs as abnormal. When the desire to change this grows strong within You. When You have tried everything—from psychotherapy, affirmations, visualizations, meditations, NLP techniques, and motivational trainings of renowned gurus to transurfing, ayahuasca, mushrooms, and the proper setting of intentions, and… discover that none of it works, or that it has a limited duration and ultimately turns into equal in force and opposite in sign rollbacks, failures, and emotional burnouts, then You will agree that it would be better if God existed, and better if He were the One who seeks not our worship, but

helps us ourselves become the creators of our reality, that is, to master our own worldview, to master the ability to change our template of perception.

This is why we need God. Not to protect us from dangers and bestow blessings upon us, but to teach us to master our consciousness, our truly divine consciousness, to create our reality consciously. For we are already creating it—every second, every moment—whether we are aware of it or not. But God can teach us how to do this consciously. God can help us change our template of perception, step out of the state of a victim into the state of a conscious Creator of our world.

You will ask, why did He not do this sooner? Why did He doom us at all to this experience of suffering, fear, and the struggle for survival, if all of it was merely faith, faith in an objective reality, and this can be changed? Everything is very simple, because He, such a God, simply did not exist; I remind you that God is a collective belief, and we as humanity carried and gave birth to such a God precisely as a result of our suffering and fears and struggle for survival.

God is the pinnacle of the evolution of our consciousness, This Is Our Cumulative Highest Potential. And as we progressed along our evolutionary path, our God as a collective belief evolved as well—at first, It was simply a Higher Power, then this Power divides Itself in two, and there appear Good and Evil, temptation, sin,

the Law and Punishment for non-fulfillment, then on one of the poles the Image of All-Attractiveness, of Highest Divine Qualities and Highest Delight is formed, and finally, Divine Love and Supreme Reason appear, so All-Encompassing that God Himself sacrifices Himself to redeem us from slavery (a slavery necessary in our becoming), the slavery of dual consciousness and the slavery of material actuality.

We changed—and our faith changed, our God changed. And now He does not merely redeem us by His Own Sacrifice from the slavery of the former faith, but He teaches us ourselves to be gods, to be Love, to love unconditionally and to create Love Itself.

Christ is the point of agreement, and our way—gestated by collective faith and the efforts of the saints—to change our individual and collective worldview, our template of perception. A way to master oneself. Our way to become conscious creators of the universe. Of the entire creation. Of Consciousness Itself, which generates from within itself the entire creation.

This is what it means to be God—to create One's Very Self out of Oneself, to create Consciousness out of Consciousness. We are the Collective God. And right now we are becoming Him.

And Christ, preparing this work as the Collective God of the saints who dedicated themselves to His creation, makes

us all into gods, redeeming us from the slavery of former faiths and dual experience so that we may become particles of the Body of the One God, helping us to regain wholeness, uniting in us the poles of dual consciousness—God and human, the Masculine and the Feminine, above and below, past and future—in a new third, in Love. A Love That never began and will never cease to be. A Love Absolute, Unconditional, Eternal. In Which...