Бесплатный фрагмент - Production of Happiness

I HAVE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU

It’s not that I have no one to talk to about myself or that I need your attention and recognition. No, it doesn’t matter. But the truth is that the subject of the book is happiness, and it cannot be understood in isolation from the person. Because this is not physics, or chemistry, or religious dogmas, where the essence of what is written does not depend on the author.

All evidence of happiness necessarily has a personal nature.

My path to writing this book has been far from straight. Yet it now emerges due to my belief in my impunity, huge self-confidence and the trampled sense of natural intellectuality. This was nourished by so many unnecessary books or inherited from my mother.

Once upon a time I used to drink a lot, without clinking glasses, without company, without unnecessary toasts, it was not a social matter. I liked the angels singing in my head (until I had had too much), the light of an awakening heart and the flowing knowledge of the miracle lying in the bottle.

But at dawn the angel turned into a demon, obsessed with the idea of making me atone for the evening’s inspiration and the dirty thoughts.

And I… quit! Stopped!

So what? Shit!

Happiness was in no hurry to my abode. And life circumstances took an ominous turn.

My soul screamed out,

«Drink and be happy! Or don’t drink, you won’t be happy anyway.»

«Desecrate common sense in the name of the Lord and yourself.»

«Do not seek, as you will not find it.»

«For when you seek, you find what you believe in.»

So this sober life awakened an even more desperate «addict» in myself.

Too weak to bridle my privy parts and not to run riot at the sight of a nice woman, I fell into the original sin of loving many of them.

This is such a queer mixture: an alcoholic, a scientist, a womanizer, an entrepreneur, a failed poet, and a thrill-seeker.

I have diverse knowledge about people from different worlds. I manage to live on two sides of the Moon that never overlap.

And the conclusion was this: you shouldn’t destroy evil in yourself. In its place, tomorrow there may grow even worse demons.

I want to decorate the path to myself and to the readers’ hearts with holy, pure truths. But it turns out that any truth contains exactly half a lie. Imperfection is better than perfection. I found such a balance. This kept me from falling into the temptation to avoid extremes and not to stick to the river bank of the «righteous.»

I learned to laugh at myself, and this taught me to respect and love myself, with all my faults. You would always find something comic in yourself. I grasped this, calmed down and rejoiced.

Inspired by my personal experience of struggling with the happiness that had befallen me and completely stunned, I decided that I could print and send this book around the world. It didn’t cost me much money, which I had nowhere to spend anyway.

Well, where is your admiring pause after the words of such a person?

Why, how can we trust someone who did not receive any but A-grades at the university? Where can life hide in this gloomy, boring perennial top student? He must lack true feelings and is so impeccably static.

What’s the point of my confession? Strange! In Russian, the word confession (ispoved’) sounds similar with the word underwear (ispodneye). Have you ever smelled fragrant human underwear? It’s a cocktail of sweat, urine, sticky fear and the shameful hiding of the beast inside. This is the real smell of truths and revelations.

There is only one redeeming point. Through love and respect for myself, from my feelings, thoughts and mistakes, I have woven this book, out of my conscious and concise sincerity.

I understand that I will often sound like an irresponsible cynic. But I do accept responsibility for my words and decisions always rely on what I know.

Of course, I do not know enough of this world. And there is nothing fundamentally new in the book (just like in any other). But, despite numerous quotes and references, it grew entirely out of myself. Reading the book, I can analyze myself and my happiness.

My main goal is for the Prince of this world to become the Prince of Happiness. But there is no universal recipe for this yet.

God, I love this book of mine! How wonderfully You inspired me to dump so much crap on those who will never read it! I could not even imagine that You could cause such an avalanche of verbiage from a tiny thought that once occurred to me.

I hope the book turns out to be short and I do not spew out all the stupidity I could.

Having read this couple of pages, you can then skip all the nonsense below and, without losing much, go straight to the latter sections: 6, 7 and 8. Reading books from cover to cover is the lot of boring scientists and single women.

1. THE IDEA

As paradoxical as it may seem, most of our problems — aging, death, illness, fear and others — are associated not so much with environmental pressure or lifestyle, but are caused by the fact that a person thinks of himself separately, outside the world. By changing your perspective on your relationship with reality and combining it with the achievements of modern science, you can get completely new ideas for maintaining mental and physical health.

Man is a part of the whole which we call the «Universe,» a part limited in time and space. However, he perceives himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from this whole, which can be called a kind of optical illusion of consciousness. …Do not harbor them [thoughts and feelings that man is separate from the Universe], but try to overcome them — this is the way to an achievable peace of mind.

Albert Einstein

2. WHAT A PERSON REALLY WANTS AND ACHIEVES. THE ANATOMY OF HAPPINESS

The comprehension of meaning, true joy and happiness is, in fact, the main occupation for the human mind and body. This is what every person seeks and craves.

…The purpose of life is to find happiness.

All religions are essentially tools to help people become more perfect. Whereas in some religions the main practice involves recitation of prayers, and in others — the curbing of the flesh, the essence of Buddhist practice lies in the transformation and improvement of the mind.

The Dalai Lama

Despite the diversity of approaches and phrasing, all religions produce a small number of identical truths, which give rise to certain practices. Their goal is to improve our consciousness and achieve a state that can be internally assessed as joy or happiness.

To test the possibility of achieving such a state, it is necessary to turn to the structure of our psyche.

Whether happiness exists per se

or is merely a product of faith, a myth, a legend of consciousness guarding its loneliness?

Historically, happiness was believed to be a state of individual faith rather than of external circumstances. But faith as such does not make us happy.

I support the idea that happiness comes from objective states of the body and psyche.

Sterilization of happiness

as a pure concept or state is impossible. This is a quantity that is equally variable with suffering and obscurations. A person cannot be happy and joyful and sad at the same time. He is either asleep, joyful and happy, or sad. If there are no such sensations, he must be dead drunk.

Our long-lasting states are just long shifts in the balance between these polarities.

For example, my angel and demon live in my head simultaneously, then in my heart, then visit my intestines, and most often, my genitals. But they have never met.

Happiness and Nature

What a lot of time is lost and how many misfortunes befall those who seek happiness outside the laws of Nature. To pacify them, temples of tolerance and tranquility were erected. But they are empty, and those who serve in them do not hear their own or other people’s voices. The icons in these temples in their beautiful frames are saturated with deadly poison.

But the shining truths of Nature are not forgotten or broken. It has created many perfect things from inert matter of stone.

The best of the best in man are laughter and joy. And they are above love and compassion.

We must respect Nature. We should observe her, not bother her with advice. And it is quite helpful to reduce your exorbitant self-conceit as a Great Essence to a cog in the mechanism of the Universe.

Happiness and personal experience.

Personal experience is the source of choosing the route to happiness. It is also the source of the main misconceptions about it.

We are all just like our happiness, as much as we are not similar to ourselves.

Is happiness possible?

Or are we simply fulfilling our biological purpose: breeding, continuing the victorious path of the Code of Life? Is our happiness contained in the gonads and is its size proportional to them? Do we become happy only by effectively performing these functions?

This is one of the paradigms of happiness: to squeeze everything out of your reproductive organs and continue to live at any cost. And happiness has nothing to do with anything else. For a man it is only in a woman, and vice versa.

But a long life is often of no use. Much of what we consider alive is already food to worms and torn apart by chaos.

How close

do you have to approach happiness in order to recognize it?

Happiness becomes happiness only at a happy distance. At a certain distance, even a flock of gray sparrows may seem like a bird from a fairytale.

In accordance with the principle of complementarity that permeates nature, every mental development… has its own optimum, which, if exceeded… turns into its opposite.

Carl Gustav Jung

Don’t come too close to your happiness. Otherwise it may turn into a misery, and its fine nuances become sticky, causing obsessiveness and suffering.

Happiness is relative and all truths are half-truths.

Dynamics of happiness.

Does happiness require any specific object or state for a strictly defined definition? If it does, it quickly outdates, turns into a fossilized creature and perishes. Happiness cannot be a static, immovable dogma. Like everything in life, it is subject to change. Today’s happiness is likely to decay and transform into misfortune tomorrow. True happiness must have something deeper than any situation and time when it happens. It must fit in with the sequence of events as its highlight, it requires form and direction. For example, these could come from knowledge.

Happiness can appear and exist only in accordance with the laws of Nature. It fluctuates between different poles. It is a dynamic process, not a state. Otherwise, it would quickly exhaust its vital resource. A smooth graph of the human psyche points to fear and dying.

The dynamism of happiness is a challenge for the human mind.

Happiness is a type of mental energy that can also be wasted, meaninglessly and uncontrollably.

All roads lead to happiness, but not everyone is happy along the way. But at the end of life, descending into the collective unconscious and below, everyone becomes impeccably calm.

Readiness for happiness

Why cannot we, although we understand a lot, become happy immediately, right now? We do not want and are afraid to become happy. This is the essence of the game. Inner fears stop us in front of the open door of happiness. It is fear that as soon as we enter it, our existence will cease. We are almost always ready to exchange happiness itself for the time of expecting it. How many wonderful thoughts I had! Of these, the most beautiful was the idea of not turning thoughts into deeds.

At one pole we view free choice, a subjective readiness, at the other one there is unconscious inhibition. This oscillatory process often does not have a final stationary solution and can continue throughout a whole life.

The possibility of achieving happiness is the result of subjective readiness to accept it. Therefore, it is necessary to look for opportunities to cultivate your happiness.

To paraphrase Jung, you can help one to become happy only if s/he wants it by all means. But if their actual goal is not to become happy at all costs, help them not to do this; only then will they be fine.

Happiness as an inherited archetype.

Happiness cannot be a spontaneous state, arising out of nothing. The possibility and readiness for happiness grow from the unconscious inside us. Otherwise, it could not be realized at all, even when influenced by favorable objective factors.

We would like to believe in our will, in our energy, in the fact that we can do something, but when something has to be done, we discover that we are only capable of this to a certain extent, because those little devils — our complexes — interfere with us. …Our personal unconscious consists of an indefinite number of complexes or fragmented personalities.

Carl Gustav Jung

DNA transmits to children the mental traits of their parents and their experiences from the past. Happiness and the predisposition to it, like eyes, skin and other external features, are inherited properties. We are hostages of the sediments of experiences of past generations contained in our unconscious. To a certain extent, happiness is an innate historical category and represents a hereditary archetype.

Therefore, happiness as a legacy can be achieved easily, but may also never be achieved, regardless of external circumstances. There is a category of people who remain unhappy in any conditions. In this case, artificial influences on the psyche can only reduce inherited suffering.

Happiness and suffering are innate properties of our personalities. Therefore, although in most cases we are accustomed to referring to external circumstances, we should not exaggerate their significance. Much, if not all, is contained within the individual.

Happiness and external conditions.

Although consciousness and its various states grow from the unconscious, they are at the same time a product of the external environment, which forcefully transforms human instincts. Herein lies the possibility of external artificial control of these states. The unconscious itself also changes under the impact of the coercive force of reality.

Happiness and the valley of roses.

The wholeness and fullness of life require a balance of joy and suffering… happiness is poisoned if a portion of suffering was not applied.

Carl Gustav Jung

The way to happiness is inevitably painful and certainly does not run through a valley of roses. Suffering and fear are inevitable, but they are also evidence of movement. These indestructible polarities will fuse in a person into a single essence and provide energy for development. Happiness always has a price and is never given for free.

Encounter with oneself.

We all seek God and go to Him. But the main thing is not to meet yourself or your shadow on this path. Yet true, deep, unfaltering happiness cannot be achieved without meeting yourself.

He who goes to himself risks meeting with himself.

Encounter with oneself is among the most unpleasant.

Self-discovery is an adventure that takes you unexpectedly far. Even a moderately deep acquaintance with the «shadow» may cause great confusion and darkness of mind, since it creates personal problems that the person never suspected before.

Carl Gustav Jung

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

Only a few people have been able to meet themselves and completely free themselves from predispositions and prejudices.

In order for you to wake up, everyone else should fall asleep.

3. DIALOGUE LANGUAGE

3.1. Material and spiritual technologies

Mental (spiritual) technologies (MT) are directly aimed at reducing suffering and finding happiness. But their capabilities remain unknown to many people.

Technologies of material production (NT — natural technologies), growing from the natural material foundations, are widely spread and exert much more influence. Their stated goal is to achieve the most comfortable material components of life, but at the same time they embody man’s internal need for knowledge and mastery of the forces of Nature. This is a manifestation in man of a universal law operating at all levels of matter. Nietzsche called it «the will to power.»

While defining their goals in different ways, both directions of technology coincide in the main thing: they move towards each other, implementing the same thing in different spheres. They have no fundamental contradictions. Neither has superiority. The imaginary one-sidedness of the goal of material technologies in the form of achieving material well-being even at the expense of the spiritual component is not essential. They do not contain any semantic coloring within themselves. This is the problem of their use by individuals.

We say that science is knowledge about external phenomena and application of such knowledge. But the other sphere of knowledge constitutes the approach and methods aimed at understanding and applying primarily internal phenomena, such as consciousness or mind. Moreover, in both cases the same goal is pursued: achieving happiness and satisfaction, i.e. the deepest desires of every human being.

The East has always been more concerned with comprehension of the mind, and the West, with the knowledge of matter. Now that they have met, the spiritual and materialistic components of the knowledge of life can be better harmonized.

The Dalai Lama

At a time when one part of mankind was degrading itself with struggle for power, wars and other such activities, abundantly shedding blood on their way, and the other part was toiling hard, simply in order to survive, Buddhists, inspired by their Teacher, were already solving the problems of human consciousness with might and main, saving mankind from suffering, gaining happiness, etc. And they did this quite scientifically and pragmatically.

F. Nietzsche was probably the first Western philosopher to understand the practical essence of Buddhism.

…Based on these physiological conditions, a state of depression arose, and Buddha spoke out against it with his hygiene. …He demands performances, calming or amusing, he invents means to separate himself from others. He understands kindness, a benevolent mood as a requirement for sound health… Buddhism is a philosophy for later people, for kind and gentle races who have reached the highest degree of spirituality, who are too susceptible to pain (Europe is not yet fully ripe for it), it is their return to peace and cheerfulness, to a diet of the spirit and a certain hardening of the body…

Buddha is a profound physiologist. His «philosophy» could most appropriately be called hygiene, so as not to be confused with such pitiful things as Christianity.

Enmity does not end with enmity; enmity ends with friendship, — this lies at the root of Buddha’s teaching: it is not morality that dictates it — it is physiology that says so.

F. Nietzsche

In this respect, Buddhism pursues «heretical» goals, in the worldview of «the lower races» (F. Nietzsche) and low-context thinking.

Spiritual practices are, in essence, mental cybernetics, the science of the mind. Its main techniques are as follows:

— attaining peace of mind, which decreases the intensity of mental and physiological flows at all levels of the body and increases the degree of openness of consciousness to the outside world;

— development of empathy, changing the angle of view, «therapeutic» stress, — these destroy a person’s obsession with himself, increase the tone of consciousness;

— meditation stops the action of factors that disturb consciousness, improves the mental state, and promotes awareness of reality.

These methods are very useful in the modern world, although they do not show the digital dimension we are accustomed to. Mental technologies — eliminating suffering, obsessiveness, finding calmness, switching attention, overcoming a «shock wave» and others — are aimed at maintaining the natural flows of energy and matter, saving the reserves and capabilities of the body and consciousness. And our mental expenses are perhaps the highest payments in life. Using these methods, we can live longer and, most importantly, happier lives.

The spiritual practices of Buddhism, in fact, possess all the characteristics of technologies of material production. The only difference from the latter is that they are implemented in the mental sphere. Like science, Buddhism is pragmatic and devoid of moral prejudices. Buddhists investigate what is necessary and where practical results are possible, and, in fact, use scientific methods to do this.

The most serious argument in their favor is their historical success in the largest experiments in human history, with billions of participants. With their help, huge numbers of people were able to reduce suffering, cognize their own nature, and fill their existence with meaning.

Therefore, it is Buddhist practices that have the greatest likelihood of successfully connecting with material technologies to the common benefit of both.

3.2. The principles of translation

Spiritual practices and material technologies result from evolution of different levels of matter: spiritual and material. The essential laws of these levels are the same. There should be no illusions that our soul and our «self» are things completely separate from the body, from the physical world.

But the higher levels of organization of matter are often, due to their complexity and lack of knowledge about them, so different from the lower ones that they seem to be a different, independent phenomenon.

Mental activity is more subtle and difficult to control when compared to physical and verbal actions. …In this sense, spiritual practices whose object is the mind are more subtle and require more effort.

The Dalai Lama

But Nature does not tolerate interruptions, and there are no substrates or areas in time and space between which there would be no relationship. The things existent and those existing outside them are whole and inseparable.

The general laws work at all levels of reality: resonance, rhythm, vibration, polarity, etc.

«As above, so below.» This fundamental principle makes it possible to «freely» and effectively transfer our knowledge about one level to another and to clarify uncertain points, even without experimental data. This enables the interchange between mental and material practices and makes it beneficial.

This mutual combination is nothing new. It has been the most important principle for creating new technologies, materials and devices.

Defining the connections between spiritual teachings and modern science has been underway for a long time. Among the authors, we can name many famous physicists: Tesla, Heisenberg, Bohm, Capra, and others. Recently, the spiritual practices of Buddhism have been actively studied by neuroscientists. But until now, these two branches of technology have not truly intersected.

And even long before that:

Buddha always emphasized a balance of wisdom and compassion: a good brain and a good heart should work together.

The Dalai Lama

My goal is to translate the philosophical results and spiritual (mental) practices of Buddhism into the language of natural sciences and technologies, to «physicalize» these concepts: compassion, happiness, joy, cooperation, tranquility, etc.

When incorporated into material technologies, the methods of spiritual practices can significantly increase their efficiency and contribute to development of new materials and processes, including those related to information. On the other hand, this translation should make future technologies more humanistic and safe for future generations. Ultimately, they will be able to solve the most important goal of human life — achieving health and happiness.

Despite their seeming non-physicality and non-scientific nature, spiritual methods may ultimately prove to be more effective than those used today (chemical reactions, fields, vibrations, radiation, etc.). Due to their fundamental commonality and correspondence to natural movements, they will set the vector for development of scientific methods and may significantly enrich the technologies of material production, information, business, and other areas of practice.

Interpenetration of technologies will make it possible to clarify the true meaning of our efforts to transform reality. Our ultimate goal just cannot be just to sit safely on a soft sofa surrounded by cyber servants and plentiful food!

The true goals of material technologies are to acquire energies that can be produced everywhere, at all times, and in quantities necessary to meet human needs at a level that allows us not to fight for them, but to obtain active progress in the mental sphere. The awareness of these goals as spiritual states of a person has conceptual significance, and also can seriously influence the course of the evolution of material production and give rise to new areas of knowledge and practice. This work is devoted to substantiating this idea and defining the contours of future technologies.

Such a synthesis should solve one of the most important issues of modern science and return science to its beginning, including man and consciousness in the picture of the world. Science must ultimately find «color, warmth, and voice.»

Science has reached numerous heights in mastering the material world, but it has very little dealt with consciousness. But soon it will be the turn of nature’s main task: dealing with the human psyche, using all the experience accumulated in communicating with matter.

The current absence of scientific results in the field of psychic research does not mean that they cannot be obtained. On the one hand, this is due to the historically established lack of interest in this object, and most likely, to something more important, perhaps fear of the object itself.

Being multidimensional and complex, spiritual teachings and practices do not lend themselves to decomposition into simple components, which can then be used separately.

Time will show how effective spiritual practices will be implemented or not. However, I am convinced that the distance separating both branches of technology is only a temporary barrier. The connection between mental processes and the physical world is unknown to science, yet it contains a challenge to our intellect and a lot of opportunities for unusual technologies.

Mutual fertilization of mental and physical technologies will radically change and improve our civilization… unless, of course, it manages to completely destroy humanity before that.

Of course, not all spiritual practices can be directly translated into the language of natural sciences. We cannot claim to transform all spiritual knowledge into practical technologies. Part of it will remain at the mental level for the time being. We should let it stay there as long as possible. This wish has many prerequisites, generated by the blood-drenched history of mankind.

Age-old philosophical and spiritual wisdom hides many future technologies for achieving happiness, for obtaining a healthy, joyful body and material well-being. This is precisely what this book is devoted to. It would be a great pity if a person found a simple artificial «medicine» for happiness without improving himself from within. But I hope Nature is not so rash and wasteful.

Another goal of the work is the reverse transfer of the achievements of natural sciences and technologies into the sphere of spiritual practices.

But is it possible to control material means with an intangible, unconscious, and individual feeling of happiness and joy?

…The main source of happiness is a healthy body and a warm heart.

The Dalai Lama

The qualities of a «healthy body» are more or less clear. But what is a «warm heart»? Based on millennia of experience, we can assume that it «warms up» if we pursue a certain mode of life. In its turn, this lifestyle is formed, among other things, through well-known spiritual imperatives and practices, i.e., instructions. In my opinion, some spiritual practices can be explored and enhanced through physical intervention, and in some cases, perhaps replaced by the latter.

The possibility of such a substitution is inherent in the nature of biological matter itself, which is an immediate derivative of the inorganic physical world. This also applies to all forms of consciousness: love, compassion, suffering, stress, and others.

Of course, it would be great to directly apply our physical and information theories to mental processes. Unfortunately, they cannot help many people. The laws of physics: classical and quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, the theories of relativity and of information, etc. reasonably explain the phenomena of the material world, but are directly inapplicable not only to consciousness, but also to the body. You should not look for answers in these, despite the exciting prospects and the external similarity of the terms used.

The information theory applies «only to systems that do not contain semantics.» It does not contain provisions that would make it possible to quantify the meaning of a message, which is the most important property of the energy circulating in living systems.

Neither classical or quantum mechanics, nor thermodynamics are able to explain the nature of self-organization, etc.

But the fact that the possibilities of theories are limited does not mean that there are no connections or parallels between the mental and the physical levels of reality.

We can use the fundamental laws of resonance, conservation, electromagnetism, partially thermodynamics, etc., to improve mental technologies.

A number of methods can be directly borrowed from material technologies and applied to spiritual practices:

— study of the spectrum of vibrations and their amplification;

— use of feedback;

— increased reproducibility of results;

— increasing the capacity of communication channels;

— compensation of external interference («Practice»);

— preliminary preparation of the object before exposure to external influence, etc.

And in the future this list will grow.

This will help us to

— increase the effectiveness of practices;

— differentiate processes into positive and negative ones;

— understand the patterns of information and energy functioning in biosystems;

— establish the boundaries of applicability of spiritual practices;

— distinguish between really effective practices and fraud/metaphysical manipulations;

— create new algorithms for processing information.

3.3. Healing technologies

Medicine is an autonomous area of material technologies (therapeutic technologies). Its goal is to take care of the health of a physical body and psyche, to solve problems of physical activity and longevity, and ultimately achieve immortality.

As such, healing technologies grew out of physics, chemistry, and biology. Thus, they can give very little to other technologies. But it is in relation to them that spiritual practices have the greatest potential, since both have the same object of influence: a person.

Mental technologies can be directly used in psychotherapy. On their basis, it is possible to develop fundamentally new methods of prevention, diagnostics and treatment, which are discussed in this book.

Comparing modern medicine with spiritual practices allows us to identify its main problems:

— of the total amount of resources involved, only a tiny portion is spent on prevention and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle;

— it practically never uses the connections between the mental and physical worlds of a person;

— the focus of modern medicine on the physical body does not allow us to approach the main goal: finding happiness and joy. The use of modern genetic, pharmacological and other similar technologies will never make a person truly happy.

That is why the achievements of material technology and medicine must be combined with spiritual practices.

3.4. Limitations and paradoxes

Limitations in the use of natural scientific theories in the mental sphere are directly related to the limitations of language. For all its dissimilarity to matter, it is just its manifestation, reflection, one of its forms and structures. Although it is not directly derived from it and is not it.

The same applies to logic, which is closely related to language. Although logic is generated by reality (naturalness), it does not directly reflect it. Logic and language are descriptive means, but not reality as such. Therefore, logic is not natural, as naturalness itself is not logical. For example, logic is absent in the processes of creating physical and mathematical theories, but they do have logical structures!

Neither language nor logic can express self-awareness or immobility as the highest form of movement.

What is it all for?

With interchange between both branches of technologies, the emergence of paradoxes is inevitable, and they cannot be resolved by existing means of language and logic (similar to quantum mechanics).

When order was established, names appeared. Since names arose, people had to know the limitations of their use. Knowing the limit helps to avoid danger.

Laozi

Some or all of these approaches may not solve the problem of human joy and happiness. Over time, they will become obsolete and exhaust their potential. But the history of mankind is only just beginning. At the same time, over the known past period, humanity has not become much happier. This means that caution in assessing their role and capabilities is certainly necessary for the future appearance of alternatives.

3.5. Conclusions

The main conclusion: interpenetration of spiritual and material technologies is fundamentally possible. It corresponds to the global vector of human evolution and expands opportunities in both areas.

All technologies have a single origin: man. They serve him and in him they will inevitably merge into a single language of dialogue with reality (Figure 1).

But will this symbiosis be useful and safe? The apparent obviousness of the answer is inversely proportional to reality.

In the future, statements of great thinkers are used as sources for expressing the essence of spiritual practices: Laozi (treatise «Tao Te Ching»), the Dalai Lama («The Book of Joy», «In My Own Words»), Viktor Frankl («Man’s Search for Meaning», «Yes to Life»), Carl Jung (various works), Albert Einstein (selected quotes), and others. This list of brilliant minds could be greatly expanded. The list can legally include apologists of other major religions: Christianity and Islam.

Of course, thought and language, due to their twists and intricacies, have given rise to millions of phrases that captivate with their phrasing and deep meaning. But I try to be pragmatic and with a dose of cynicism use only those that convey the very essence of mental technologies.

Unworthy as I am, I have little understanding of Buddhist practices. Therefore, I apologize for the self-confidence in their presentation and any unintentional errors.

The format of this work does not contain a technical description of practical methods developed on the principles of spiritual practices. This does not mean that they do not exist, they are deliberately omitted for the following reasons:

— the main meaning of the work may become vague or even be lost when using detailed descriptions;

— each method is an independent task, and often remains debatable;

— what I considered necessary to show can be found in my other work, which I will refer to as «Practice» (in print). Another part of the material is presented in my book «Field of the Code. Artificial Genetic Machines» (hereinafter referred to as Field of the Code).

4. MUTUAL FERTILIZATION OF TECHNOLOGIES

4.1. The value of life

Science has a great cognitive interest in the phenomenon of life, but has not yet discovered any independent value in it.

Buddhism preaches the uniqueness and great value of life.

We have all inherited the precious human form. If we can use this form for good ends, it will be of value in the future. Then our human existence will become truly priceless.

The Dalai Lama

In the Buddhist vision, this calls for the person’s positive actions and the transformation of the mind to a state that is free from suffering. This is probably a more pragmatic position compared to other religions. (If Buddhism is to be considered a religion.)

It may seem that this kind of information, especially when relating to an intangible substance, is difficult to consider scientific and to put to practical use.

But the meaning may be as follows.

In any dynamic process there are subjects that change over time: chemical reactions, moving energy charges and particles, masses of matter. They generate radiation, fields and vibrations that spread inside and outside. All biological objects present such generating dynamic structures, including humans. Our body as a whole and each organ, cell, and genetic code constantly generate and emit vibrations of different nature, shape and frequency. Most of these are absorbed and converted within the body, and some are emitted outside (Figure 2).

This is the material energy essence of life. And if a person produces a positive configuration of these vibrations, it will be useful to other subjects. All biofields and radiations are of the same nature as radiations emitted from processes in inorganic matter. They can be applied, the way it is done in material technologies. They have enormous potential in therapeutic technologies.

Intrinsic radiation and fields emitted by living objects can be detected, recorded and then reproduced. They can influence the source itself, other biological objects and even inorganic substances. Such contactless transfer of information is a scientific experimental fact, but so far, unfortunately, insufficiently studied and practically never used (M. Cifra, J. Fields, A. Farhadi. Electromagnetic cellular interactions. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. XXX (2010), pp. 1 –24).

The body’s intrinsic vibrations can be divided into periods of life: vital — at the beginning of life, mitogenic — during the lifetime, and necrobiotic — at the moment of dying. Naturally, their impacts will be completely different.

We can use vibrations of individual subsystems of the body, including the genetic code. You can find more details about the fields and vibrations of the Code in the monograph «Field of the Code. Artificial genetic machines» and in «Practice.»

It is a promising idea to apply biological radiations to inorganic materials.

The opposite process is also possible: control of biological objects using radiation and fields arising in the inorganic world. Information about these can also be recorded and reproduced at a certain time. This will make it possible to transfer their effects to organisms and other objects without direct use of the substrates themselves (medicines, flavor/smell agents, etc.).

There also exists another energetic dimension of a person’s value. The body dissipates heat, electricity and other types of energy into its environment. With technical means designed in special geometrical shapes, they can be captured and put to useful purposes or even returned back to the body, in a new quality. We call it secondary environmentally friendly processing of biological energy («Practice»).

Another important idea in the Buddhist understanding of life value is that it lies in the human form itself. This «Form Effect» is described in Section 4.3 and has a huge potential.

There are many practical options for using the proposed concept of life value («Practice»). It will inevitably change our technologies and the image of civilization.

Most likely, the mystical value of life will acquire physical meaning due to such an understanding. But I do not believe that in the end it will be completely reduced to physical laws and analyzed in science. Because science, with its fundamental internal logic, always answers the question «How?» but can never answer «Why?» And life in its essence contains the answer.

4.2. All inside

The ultimate source of happiness is within us.

…We ourselves erect many of the obstacles that prevent us from enjoying life and becoming happy.

Even the source of physical health is inside, not outside.

You create yourself, and the state of things depends on you…

...It is worth directing half of your energy outward and half inward. Think more about what you are...Think, think, and think.

Our situation is very encouraging, because the seed of liberation is always within us.

The Dalai Lama

«Salvation lies within,» — this is the most important idea in the majority of spiritual teachings. Despite our apparent helplessness against the forces of nature, we have a potentially unlimited opportunity to become happy. If we learn to use the internal reserves of consciousness and the organism, if we strengthen and involve them in life activity, then the effect will be much greater than all the achievements of modern medicine.

Using the logic of this idea, we come up with one of the possible practical methods of using the body’s internal resources can. Let’s call it autostimulation (AS).

As we said, part of a biological object’s own radiation, fields and vibrations, which have a creative potential, is absorbed inside, and part is emitted outside.

If we apply a «mirror» with the appropriate reflection spectrum, we return the part emitted outward back into the body and possibly enhance it, then a loop of positive feedback will arise (Figure 3). The system will influence itself. The effect can be quite impressive, which is proven experimentally («Practice»).

Special methods will enable us to extract, strengthen and return to the body part of the energy and information circulating inside that does not come out under normal conditions («Practice»).

This method can be used both to enhance useful internal processes and to suppress harmful ones, e.g., spreading infection in the organism.

The following version of AS is promising enough. A person’s intrinsic radiations and vibrations in childhood, adolescence, youth, or in a healthy state can be captured and recorded on some medium. In subsequent periods of life, they are reproduced, intensified and transmitted to the same organism (Figure 4). It is possible to use electromagnetic or acoustic generators for this task.

The AS method should be controlled and limited only to certain cases. It is important to maintain a balance of the radiation returned with the necessary degree of openness of the body to the environment from which it receives air, nutrition and impressions.

The laser is a bright example of practical use of autostimulation. The laser principle can play an important role in the development of various technologies, including therapeutic ones. With its help, you can effectively stimulate the system, transferring it to new modes of behavior.

Another option is to use the radiation received from it in relation to other objects (Figure 5). In this case, it is not necessary to achieve the generation of classical coherent laser radiation.

When using the autostimulation principle, the methods of material technologies can give rise to new unusual ways of influencing the body and consciousness and significantly enrich spiritual practices. Some of the options will be presented in the book called «Practice».

Using AS as a method of self-treatment is non-toxic and most effective, since in this case like interacts with like and ensures ideal compatibility.

AS can be regarded as a natural filter. With its help, the system independently corrects defects that have arisen. We just need to give this opportunity.

The AS method has a considerable potential. Its use may bring about unusual effects that cannot be obtains by other means.

Consciousness itself is a phenomenon of AS.

The main conclusion is that in order to solve many problems, a person only needs his own resources, which can be artificially enhanced. We simply must give the body the opportunity to deal with the problem on its own, and not rush to help immediately. We are not creators, but we know how to organize ourselves and build up self-confidence. In such cases, this is very important.

I have experienced firsthand the benefits of an interruption of treatment several times. Those were cases when feeling unwell, I would give my body an opportunity to correct the situation on its own, instead of taking medicines.

The main postulate of modern medical science is that effective correction of a sick person’s condition should be carried out artificially from the outside. If something goes wrong, medical marketing instructs you to immediately use the remedies they offer. This haste is unnatural. The patient’s own resources are often left without regard. And then the body does not get the opportunity to identify the problem, make a decision and use its own powers to correct it. We ourselves disorient and weaken such capabilities. It’s not at all harmless. And the core of this abuse is unscrupulous exploitation of human fear of illness and death and the stupid arrogance of the mind in relation to the person’s own nature, which come at a high cost. (According to the World Health Organization, most medicines sold are harmless at best.)

Therefore, in our thoroughly mercantile world, it should not be surprising that autostimulation is hardly ever used in medicine. Why, it’s a free thing!!!

4.3. Rhythm

Rhythmical change is one of the most important principles of Nature: our heart rate, daily fluctuations, rotation of planets and particles, etc. With the help of resonance and synchronization of rhythms, Nature maintains the integrity of its forms and manifestations. They may look different, but they have a common principle — similarity or equality of systemic frequencies.

Rhythm is widely used in spiritual practices, in such forms as various breathing exercises, meditation, singing mantras, etc.

Moreover, true masters can interrupt rhythmic changes, reducing their effects to a minimum extent.

In Buddhism, this technique is used to achieve a state of unshakable quiet (Section 5.1). Its algorithm can also be translated into material practices. A system can be transferred from its current state to the required one and remain maintained in it by the elimination of digressing oscillations («Practice»).

The phenomena of resonance and oscillation synchronization (rhythms) are widely used in material technologies. The «Practice» book proposes new methods of their application, including medical: introduction of a standard, specific modulation of external influences, etc.

All physiological and mental processes follow rhythms of their own. When their physical parameters are identified, the processes can be controlled: weakened or reinforced. Natural sciences have been quite successful in this. But the use of their achievements in medicine is very limited («Practice»).

Resonance and synchronization can also appear if the controlled and controlling subjects are topologically equivalent (Figure 6). This is a topological resonance, or the shape effect (SE) («Practice»). In this case, the spatiotemporal forms of organization of matter or field have to coincide. This phenomenon has a different meaning than resonance or synchronization that occurs when the frequencies of systems are close to each other.

Artificially creating a certain control shape, you can control the flows of various processes. You can place the controlled object in the shape or, vice versa, place the shape inside the object. This is a passive effect. By connecting the shape to sources of external radiation or fields, we can make it active («Practice»).

Possibly, the effect of shape does not depend on the size of the objects associated with it, their nature, etc. It is also possible that the shape has a long-range effect and travels through barriers at a speed greater than light velocity, as shown in the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment with separated photons. This may explain many strange results.

In general, the nature of this phenomenon remains practically unexplored. What is known for certain is the dependence of the behavior and structure of the system on the form to which it is limited. This was found both in biological objects (R. Venkatachalapathy et al. PNAS, 2018, v/115, n/21, p. 4741–4750) and in the structuring of inorganic environments («Knowledge of the Complex. Introduction» by I. Prigogine, G. Nikolis, 2014).

4.4. Using natural movements

We were carried away by nature’s beauty, which we had missed for so long.

Viktor Frankl

When you feel bad — listen to nature. The silence of the world reassures better than millions of unnecessary words.

Confucius

Many Oriental practices use movements and processes of nature. Thus, practitioners of taiji and yoga imitate natural flowing processes: the flow of water, blowing wind, shapes of trees, movements of animals, etc.

Following nature enables us to minimize the resistance of the external environment and even extract energy from it; this improves the circulation of internal flows, and gives an object new and unique properties.

Nature constantly uses this method. It employs its law to improve another law, to help the higher replace the lower, inverting resistance of the environment for Nature’s own purposes. It skillfully transforms dead and inorganic matter into life, all the time.

Similarly, in the martial art of Aikido, the opponent’s energy is turned against himself through inverted movements.

Fields, radiations, vibrations used to correct the body and consciousness, and flows in material technologies can be reorganized in space, for example, in the form of spiral movements. (Abramochkin E.G., Volostnikov V.G. Spiral Light Beams. UFN, 174, pp. 1273—1300 (2004)).

Even types of movement and external influences that are destructive to the body can be transformed and inverted into constructive ones, if appropriately modulated in time and space.

N. Tesla, V. Schauberger and others successfully developed principles and devices based on this concept. We describe the methods for using natural topologies in medical and material technologies in our «Practice» book.

In case of external influences on the human body (therapy, physiotherapy), it is necessary to take into account that straight lines and acute angles in space and time are alien to Nature. The body may overreact to amplitude or impulse exposure (they are often used in medicine), causing damage to itself. In such cases, internal resistance to the environment increases. But gradually increasing external influences make it possible to overcome the inertia of the system. Specialists in material technologies understand it all too well, but medical specialists often do not take it into account. Exposure to impulses will be effective in the opposite case, if we want to destroy biological objects.

4.5. Preventive approach

A most important, but often unnoticed aspect of spiritual practices is their preventive nature, anticipation of problems.