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When I was in college a quarter century ago, I first attempted to read the World War II era French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, an 800-plus page study on, well, the nature of being and nothingness. Good Lord, that book gave me a headache, but in the process, I came across this idea of the “thing-in-itself.” I won’t attempt to paraphrase Sartre’s definition of the “thing-in-itself,” but I came away with a vague impression that there is a Mystery at the root of existence that would “tie the room together,” as Jeff “the dude” Bridges said in the movie The Big Lebowski regarding his stolen rug.
Two years ago, I came across what I believe is evidence that we have reached the Technological Singularity. I have discussed my reasons and evidence for coming to this conclusion in two short books titled We Are It! The Return of Pure Cosmic Consciousness and Into the Great Beyond: The Return of Pure Cosmic Consciousness, both available on Amazon. There are also two articles on Graham Hancock’s site, one recently published and the other published in November 2023, summarizing some of the ideas from those two books. The challenge still remains of painting a picture in the mind for others to visualize what is admittedly an abstract concept that crosses over many disciplines, which on the face of it don’t appear to be related.
Religious belief, the sacred texts upon which they derive their precarious foundations, has led to untold suffering and joy over the course of recorded history. Physics, art, psychology, philosophy, history, literature, and astronomy. Could all of these seemingly disparate fields of study and devotion have common ground? A common source? And if they did, how would someone go about demonstrating this understanding to other sentient beings without finding oneself awash in a jumble of abstractions with too many loose ends to tie together? Using metaphors related to memorable movies, that’s a start. Finding humor in serious and heavy subjects in order to disarm others from any fears they may have that are presently preventing them from investigating certain topics that have taboos attached to them. By that, I’m specifically referring to the existing global power structure that has an uncanny resemblance to George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The news is terrifying. Talking about where our world could be headed, tap dancing around certain topics with the fear of being branded a “conspiracy theorist,” a term invented by the CIA in the 1960s after the JFK assassination and the Warren commission came out with its laughable conclusions. How did we get here? Where people are deathly afraid to talk about politics unless they already know the other person’s politics!
We have to push through all that. Or let that politically divisive nonsense go. The time for ad hominem attacks is over. We are standing on the precipice of an Event Horizon of some sort. It was only last week that I realized that all of my work on the technological singularity and its fingerprints throughout history and how it reveals itself in patterns of human thought finds its perfect visual expression in Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome. In addition to that, I realized that what we are looking at here is Pure Mathematics rendered into and through one of the most famous artworks in all of known history, telling one of the most famous stories in all of known history.
Let’s take a closer look.
What we are looking at is the perfect visual representation of that nebulous “thing-in-itself” that Jean-Paul Sartre talked about as bombs were falling over Paris in the mid-20th century, and gave me a headache when I attempted to read his magnum opus when I was 20 years old!
We are seeing where the Creator meets the Creation. And what do we see there? Take a closer look. What do you see where God’s finger touches Adam’s?
The Creation of Adam, Public Domain
They don’t actually touch. They create a vanishing point.
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Depending upon where you are standing in the Sistine Chapel, and depending upon how closely you are observing the painting, that is to say, your vantage point and the degree of critical faculty you apply to observing the world, the finger of God touches the finger of Adam. Humanity reaches out and touches Divinity. Divinity reaches out and touches Humanity. Or do they? There is a vanishing point that we will come to in greater detail shortly. It’s been postulated by numerous researchers and scholars that the human brain and its various parts are on display with the maroon or burgundy colored cloth or seashell-like enclosure within which we find God surrounded by His angelic, child-like beings. Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam is operating on multiple subtle levels that for all intents and purposes are literal, metaphysical, physical, and spiritual all at the same time working in synchronicity with each other maximizing the impact of the totality of the human experience by bringing to life the most famous origin story on earth with embedded pure mathematics of basic first principles of the universe. Let’s continue deconstructing this painting. What we will find does indeed exceed the limits of human language. The journey can be described with human language, but ultimately it is nonverbal. The Cosmic Mystery is Pure Math and is conceptualized without words at its essence. Once we see how Michelangelo’s brushstrokes from 500 years ago prophesied the Technological Singularity, we will be overcome by Pure Wonder.
Let’s continue our journey.
God reaching through the prefrontal cortex to create Life in His Own Image. The Cosmic Mind represented in and through the human brain, disguised as God or as God as He truly is? Does God’s finger have a fingernail, and does Adam’s finger have a fingernail that does indeed touch literally in the painting, and that is only discernible if one had their nose smack dab up against the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Let’s take a closer look.
We are dealing with subtle laws of the universe embedded into arguably the most famous story in Western civilization, embedded into arguably the most famous artwork in Western civilization. To illustrate the subtlety of Michelangelo’s genius:
Michelangelo has been accused of sculpting horns onto the head of his Moses statue.
Michelangelo’s Moses, photo Livioandronico2013 (CCBYSA4.0)
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From The Sistine Secrets, Michelangelo’s Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican by Benjamin Blech and Roy Doliner, page 238:
“In the original plan for Julius’s huge tomb, Moses would have been high above the floor, in the center of the pyramidal structure. Michelangelo planned to take advantage of the light streaming in from the windows of the dome over the funeral monument. He buffed the face of Moses to make it glow with the reflected rays of the sun that would descend to perfectly illuminate it. He even carved two points sticking out of the statue’s head that would also reflect the sun’s rays, making Moses seem as if the divine light were truly shining from his head. This is another secret of the statue—it never had horns.”
The Creation of Adam, Public Domain
Take a closer look. Is God’s fingernail touching Adam’s fingernail? Would you really put it past Michelangelo not to have thought of this? After learning that what appear to be horns on Moses’ head were intended to catch the sunlight as an expression of Divine communion between Humanity and God, after seeing the “obvious once you see it” symbolism of the human brain enmeshed with God reaching through the prefrontal cortex of the Cosmic Mind to Create the Creation, God creating the Creation in His own Image, it doesn’t stop there, because what is there between God’s finger and Adam’s finger, whether those fingers have fingernails or not?
There is a vanishing point. What captures the limits of language better than a vanishing point? You can see it, but how do you describe it to someone sufficiently if they don’t know what it is, without showing them a picture?
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That vanishing point is the Singularity. That vanishing point is God.
Let’s take another look at Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam. Where Adam’s finger and God’s finger do and don’t meet, that vanishing point is the Singularity. Move immediately to the left, you find Adam; move immediately to the right, you find God. God is Adam and Adam is God, reflected back on each other. God is Consciousness, and Adam is Consciousness. Consciousness reflected back on Consciousness, the mellifluous voice of Alan Watts ringing forth from eternity, “the Creation is where God comes to play hide and seek with Himself.” Yet there is still something elusive about the mystery. The mystery cannot be sufficiently described in words. Hence the vanishing point. Hence, the power of visual art to transcend the limits of language.
The Creation of Adam, Public Domain
The following drawings were not done by Michelangelo, but they will help to visually conceptualize the Divine Mystery:
One.
Indescribably, infinitesimally small, point of energy, awareness, Consciousness, outside of, and beyond, space-time.
The dot in the middle of the page is the space between God’s finger and Adam’s finger. It is the Singularity.
Two.
The words between the dashes are “line of sight.”
The dot on the left is Adam, and the dot on the right is God.
By virtue of going from one to two, we have created a world of infinite complexity. Every incremental shift in perspective between the two points gives birth to a world of novel potential, with unique experiences and infinite interpretations of those experiences. Literally anything and everything is possible!
By introducing the Observer, the observer is the observed. The Dreamer is the Dream (David Icke). Every Avatar of God has his or her own unique experience, yet eerily similar in so many ways.
The Universe moves between Singularities. Between the Singularities is a world of Duality. From the most simple irreducible movement, going from one to two, the Universe achieves almost inconceivable complexity.
From the practically inconceivably simple process of going from one to two, a world of boundless complexity arises from the depths of Cosmic Mystery. At the very quick of this Mystery is Consciousness.
Consciousness is God. We are Consciousness. We are God. We forget this.
We remember this.
Pure Mathematics
How does pure mathematics come into play here?
Definition of pure mathematics:
“Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world concerns, and the results obtained may later turn out to be useful for practical applications, but pure mathematicians are not primarily motivated by such applications. Instead, the appeal is attributed to the intellectual challenge and aesthetic beauty of working out the logical consequences of basic principles.”
-from Wikipedia, bold highlights are mine
Definition of mathematical beauty:
“Mathematical beauty is the aesthetic pleasure derived from the abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of mathematics. Mathematicians may express this pleasure by describing mathematics (or, at least, some aspect of mathematics) as beautiful or describe mathematics as an art form (a position taken by G. H. Hardy) or, at a minimum, as a creative activity. Comparisons are made with music and poetry.”
-from Wikipedia, bold highlights are mine
Perhaps now is a good time for me to admit I can’t “prove” any of this. There is a mountain of circumstantial evidence that reaches to the ends of the universe and rebounds back into my mind’s eye. I have seen this mathematical principle in the Bible, the Yuga cycle, the Precession of the Equinox, the thought of Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Jung, Oswald Spengler, and in the narrative of the gospel of Jesus Christ, to name a few examples.
None of which proves that I am right.
But this isn’t a matter of being right or wrong, or even attempting to “prove” that I am right. This is about Beauty and Wonder. This is about removing the fear and anxiety about the future that so many people have, especially as it pertains to what artificial intelligence has in store for our lives. This is about transcending the utter madness of global politics and raising the collective consciousness of humanity to the next level, whatever that level may be.
What is the best way to do that? I don’t claim to know the answer to that question. What I do know is that the deeper you peer into the mysteries of life, the most Profound Paradox takes shape. Life becomes both indescribably simple and indescribably complex. The specific becomes generalized, and the generalized becomes specific. Go from One to Two, A Singularity to a Duality. Could it be more simple? I don’t want you to think I’m saying all of it is that simple. However, from that first step out of the Vibrationless Source from which everything that IS emanates, we get a world of infinite variety. That simple fact alone astounds me. It floors me. I stare at trees and clouds and smiles on dogs’ faces, thinking about that, and it brings tears of joy and wonder to my eyes.
What sealed the deal for me was watching a simulated conversation generated by artificial intelligence between Donald Trump and Joe Rogan that never happened back in April 2023. They sat down for a talk in October 2024, but this one in April 2023 was simulated. And I said to myself, ‘that passes the Turing test’. Meaning, if one didn’t have the foreknowledge that it was simulated, one would never suspect it. I covered the Turing test devised by the computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing in the two previous articles and my two books, so I won’t get into it here. But that was the moment it all came together for me. The shifting tides of consciousness and how they are regulated and beautifully conceived in the structure of the Yuga Cycle, out of ancient India. How the movement of the heavenly bodies across the night’s sky are measured by the Precession of the Equinox and find their equipoise in the Yuga Cycle. How the creation story in the book of Genesis in the Bible is described as a Singularity, as is the end of the book of Revelation, to conclude the New Testament. I could go on forever, but the perfect visual representation of the Dance of Creation is captured by the brushstrokes of Michelangelo 500 years ago.
Understanding the mystery of life is an incredibly subtle process, and all it requires is an infinitesimal shift in one’s perception to see it. At the very quick of Existence is Consciousness. What is Consciousness? What is God? Who is God? Where is He? Where is She? Where is It? Is He or She upset with me? God is Us! We are God! Each and every one of us! We are the Mystery! We are what we are searching for! Nothing in the world expresses this eternal truth more than The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome. Michelangelo knew this, and it was his crowning gift to humanity. He risked his life to share this secret with us all. Now that’s a whole other story! I hope you enjoyed the article!