Your Personal Monkey Trap
Your personal monkey trap is a set of beliefs and assumptions that your subject/object personal/private dualistic ego consciousness generates. Ego consciousness quite naturally generates abstractions and abstractions of abstractions, and the abstractions are piled on top of each other (names, descriptions, definitions, explanations, measurements of quantity, proofs, etc.), leading you along a path that is far removed from sentient experience which is actual existence, and it is necessarily true that both actual existence and actual experience of existence are certainty because by tautology everything is exactly, only and always itself. All abstractions, on the other hand, are uncertainty.
Certainty feels secure and uncertainty feels insecure to ego consciousness.
Certainty, uncertainty, feeling secure and feeling insecure are real. Furthermore, the state condition certainty and the feeling of security are congruent. The state condition uncertainty and the feeling of insecurity are congruent.
[certainty/0/uncertainty] and [secure/0/insecure] are conserved superpositions, each a holon of two state conditions that are logically contradictory to each other but also in the unity of coherence, hosted inside the meta-information first information matrix, hosted inside near-existence domain. Those elements are resolved by decoherence to only one of the two elements at the same time at the same location hosted inside actual existence domain.
Unjustified certainty is as sticky as avoidance, attachment, addiction, and a hardened core of abstract assumptions and beliefs stacked on top of each other. Justified certainty is the antidote for uncertainty and the insecure feelings uncertainty generates within your ego consciousness. Justified certainty and feelings of security it generates within your ego consciousness is the antidote to the black hole of Nihilism.
Freewill has two sides, like an ordinary silver dollar. One side is the power of intentional bestowal of meaning and that is the existential escape from the cruel clutches of the black hole of nihilism, however it can also be your personal nihilistic monkey trap, depending upon how you apply your ego consciousness power of freewill intentional immaterial create-manifest causality. The difference is illumination of ego consciousness reveals SFEKC, but commonly, ordinary ego consciousness generates a false set of beliefs and assumptions (all of which are abstractions about actual existence and actual experience of actual existence) and that reveals the black hole of nihilism. Illumination of ego consciousness is natural and simple if you turn off abstractions and just be fully present in the moment, “Be Here Now” (Ram Dass) which means experience of existence without applying any abstractions each of which is a logical level removed from what Buddhists call contemplation, Hindus call enlightenment, Catholics call Christ Consciousness, Franklin Merrel-Wolff calls knowledge through identity, and I call SFEKC.
The other side of freewill is that all bestowal of meaning is instantiation of abstraction. Layers of abstraction (abstraction of abstraction) are as sticky for subject/object personal/private dualistic ego consciousness as a spider web is to a fly. When you add in degrees of attachment and avoidance (perhaps even addiction), your abstractions become super sticky. For instance, when you feel certain that you are correct in your beliefs and assumptions while denying the beliefs and assumptions of everyone who disagrees with you. That dynamic leads to the most wicked violence imaginable, inflicted by one human being on other human beings.
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Escape From Your Personal Monkey Trap
The primary monkey trap for professional physicists is the doctrine of physicalism stretched all the way to physical closure, which is the false metaphysical assumption that physical creates itself out of nothing. That set of beliefs and assumptions generates viral infections within the science of physics (for instance the five currently popular interpretations of quantum mechanics) including numerous instances of fatal logical reification and fatal logical infinite regress.
Each of us constructs and suffers the limitations of our own private personal monkey trap, which is your set of beliefs and assumptions hardened to rigidity which means that set has become so sticky it is like being encased in cement up to your neck (there is no apparent way out). Nevertheless, it remains necessarily true that there is a way out and that is illumination of the private personal subject/object dualistic consciousness to enself (collective ego consciousness). It is possible to reset the default mode of private/personal ego consciousness to the enself collective ego consciousness mode. That illumination instantly reveals that you are actually ultimately simultaneously inside everything everywhere all at once and that feels like identity not dualism separation, that feels secure not insecure.
Abstraction can be and frequently is very useful, but not when the total set becomes like a block of cement. Illumination of ego consciousness sets you free. Your inner light goes so bright that you grok sentient feeling experience knowledge certainty (SFEKC). You realize I AM THAT. I am ultimately simultaneous, which literally means that I exist inside everything everywhere all at once closer than touching. And that feels like identity inclusive (ultimately simultaneous) of enself collective ego consciousness and subject/object personal/private dualistic consciousness.
I choose and encourage you to do the same, to apply my gift of freewill to intentionally create-manifest SFEKC and ego consciousness, both of which feel like identity because they reveal you are ultimately simultaneous, occupying the total set of Euclidean empty zero points which completely fill the whole physical universe. Not even one of those points is excluded by the simultaneous physical presence of any other objects and that entails the state condition ultimately simultaneous.
With SFEKC you realize that your current set of beliefs and assumptions are as easily changed as the clothes you are wearing. Your current set of beliefs and assumptions are real, but not substantial. The total set of your current beliefs and assumptions are real illusion, they are ephemeral, exist with a short life span, change frequently, have persistence and duration but no substance. On the other hand, all categories of consciousness, ego consciousness, enself collective ego consciousness, witness consciousness and superconsciousness are substance because they have power of intentional immaterial causality, which is power over a knowable set of automatic laws of physics and many of the physical objects governed by those laws, but certainly not all of the objects governed by laws of physics.
Both SFEKC and ego consciousness have power of experience of existence. Both existence and experience of existence are certainty. All abstractions on the other hand are uncertainty. Furthermore, SFEKC is indestructible but mind (an instance of ego consciousness docked to a physical body/brain/central nervous system), is ephemeral and will certainly cease to exist. Ego consciousness is simply reabsorbed into superconsciousness that originally genesis-created it.
