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Restoring Personal Sovereignty over the Mind

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The mind is where awareness meets possibility. These possibilities include personally beneficial and personally detrimental potential. If we do not understand how the mind works, we can spend a lifetime avoiding the detrimental potentialities we fear. This is because every potentiality is a possibility. Impossible is what lies beyond the limits of personal beliefs about what is possible. Impossible is the personal justification for the observed limits of human expression. If we believe a detrimental potential is not only possible, but likely, it will affect personal volition.

This can lead to the unconscious being used by our awareness according to its understanding, to generate fearful potential opportunities. All contemplated potentialities compete for our faith in order to control how an individual’s mind processes data. It is not until we believe that in certain circumstances, they are an inevitable conclusion, that we form a line of existential code on the hard drive of our body’s personal mind. For example, if I step out in front of a bus, I am certain, that unless the bus stops, I will get hit by the bus. This is belief!

Beliefs are the same as fact within the personal mind. The power of each and every belief is the faith it obtains. If a possibility is contemplated, but not believed, then it is a hypothesis. If a possibility is taken as a highly probable or factual inevitability, then it is a belief. Facts and beliefs have equal power over a believer’s mind. Unless we have a brain-injury or are born disabled or have not developed the ability to operate our mind, we are all believers. It is only when we invest our faith in an unusual belief that the power of all beliefs is revealed.

Most people do not realise that they are as constrained as a phobic, or as potentially dangerous as a religiously motivated fanatic. When we believe that one behaviour will cause us injury or death, we seem to naturally develop personal beliefs (complexes) to ensure we avoid the circumstances of that eventuality. If I focus on the belief that stepping out in front of a bus will kill me, I may develop a fear of buses. To overcome this, the logical conclusion is the conscious development of opposing beliefs that compel certain behaviours.

The belief that if I step in front of a bus I will get killed, is detrimental to the psychology of a child who must travel to school by bus. This can be mitigated by the belief that I must always look both ways before crossing the road. This means that the child’s mind creates a condition (behavioural) that enables them to use buses without putting themselves into danger, according to their own perception of that potentiality. Sitting beside this child on the same bus is a child who is oblivious to the risks contemplated, perceived and managed by his/her travelling companion.

One man’s white knuckle ride is another man’s boredom. One is clinging to his life trying to get through a plane journey, whilst the other is watching videos to alleviate his boredom on the flight. Fear is a management system used by an individual to keep them safe. The fear is nothing more than a perceptually induced neurochemical response. This means the cause of the fear (unpleasant feelings) is not the perceived situation or stimulus. The cause is our perception of the self, situation, people or stimulus. Fear is a strategy.

We are all experts in the generation of fearful, biased, behaviourally restricting beliefs. In the example of a fear of moving bus, the fear is ‘caused’ and sustained by the belief that I may or will get hit by a bus. Going deeper, it is supported by the fear generated by the belief that I may forget to look both ways, and step out in front of a bus. Practically, these beliefs ensure my perception of a moving bus generates a perceptually induced neurochemical response (feeling/emotion) that reminds me of the perceived danger, enforcing the appropriate behaviours.

Many believe that if they travel by aircraft, the plane may crash killing all on board. This is supported by the fact that they know that they do not know how to fly a plane and the fact that if it crashes, there may be no survivors. We all have the God-given power to control the limits and expression of our own mind. That power is faith. Every belief without exception is a belief because it has obtained a believer’s faith. The only thing a mind can lack is understanding. An individual may also lack wisdom and therefore discernment.

The most powerful thing in this world is faith. However, if used without wisdom it can lead to life of self-imposed existential incarceration. This can be perceived by others as ignorance, lack of understanding, fear, neurosis and bigotry. To justify our personal limitations is to fight for them. This is to fight for the continuation of our own self imposed incarceration. When the probability of the risk is too remote, the creation of a self-limiting belief is inappropriate. This is where wisdom and discernment are required.

If we lack wisdom or discernment but recognise that we are stuck in an existence that we are unable to transcend, its time to seek the advice and counsel of others. The best person to teach you how to run is a runner. The best person to teach you how to cook is a cook. If you are unhappy, seek out the advice of happy people. If you are fearful seek out the advice of courageous people. Fear of death is insanity. This is because death is inevitable and no amount of strategies, fears or phobias can prevent it.

This means that we should not fear, we should understand. We do not need to fear being run over by a bus, but we do need to understand that stepping out in front of a bus will cause injury or death. We simply need to develop behaviours that ensure we do not step out in front of a bus. The belief ‘I must not step out in front of a moving bus’, worships fear. The belief that I should ensure the road is clear before walking across the road ensures success. The objective must be to cross the road safely. The objective must not be to avoid being killed.

A moving towards objective generates motivation (feelings). A moving away from strategy generates fear (feelings). The way we use our mind determines the quality of our life. The quality of life is how it feels. All feelings are ‘perceptually induced neurochemical responses. The same mechanisms are at work in both of these examples. The same mechanisms are also at work when driving, cooking, welding, performing surgery, constructing a building. How your life feels reveals how you are managing your own mind.

We are awareness! We have a mind but we are not our mind. We have a body but we are not our body. The quality of our life is how it feels. The contents of our body’s mind create the quality of our life. We control our mind. This is until we use autopilot and exist in a state of unconscious. How our life feels is determined by our personal understanding. The only thing a mind can lack is understanding. So, what is understanding? Understanding is the personal and unique paradigm that each and every one of us, exists within.

The personal paradigm of the programmed mind is invisible to others. Each and every one of us, without exception, exists within a unique paradigm. The paradigm is called ‘perception’. We are not our perception. We are the awareness that is experiencing the world through the medium of the mind’s perception. Perception is the unique understanding of our own awareness. The potential of our awareness is unlimited but the expression of our individual awareness, is not. Our health, behavioural expression and understanding reveals our perception.

When two people meet to discuss an issue a disagreement can arise. The disagreement reveals two worlds clashing. Most of us, agree that there are religions, schools, cities, vehicles and economies. This is because they exist and have evidence for their existence. This is not where disagreements arise. It is only when our understanding of any subject or phenomenon is objectively scrutinised that the limits of our personal understanding become apparent. This is because we can both look at the same object and define it in completely different qualitative terms.

Perception is a trap. Our understanding can hold us in a perpetual state of fear, anxiety and neurosis. This can then lead to the development of avoidance plans, strategies and behaviours. Many people live ‘in fear’. This means that regardless of their geographical location, they exist within a fearful paradigm. The world their personal awareness exists within, is not the same world that is occupied by the awareness of others. This is because the world our awareness lives in, is a hallucination that, in part, does not, and never has, existed outside of our mind.

Two separate people can share the same physical space. They can be of the same nationality, the same religion, live in the same neighbourhood and work at the same company. However, one may be self-deprecating, fearful, anxious and introverted. The other person may be outgoing, confident, enjoy attending social events and relish in the enjoyment of the environments and circumstances in which they find themselves. One person can love social occasions and the other may be an agoraphobic. Awareness is universal. At source, we are one.

When source (prana/chi/life) is filtered through the mind of one body, it becomes a separate part of the whole. The life in each body is a separate component of the whole. Unlike the body and the mind, the life cannot be destroyed. This body is an opportunity for the whole to create the unique perspective that is ‘you’. When the child is born, its body is animated by the miracle of universal life. The source of all creation gives life to the perspective of each body. It is from this perspective that the facts of the body’s existence are used to justify the existence of an identity.

The self’s belief in the identity is the first belief. The evidence of this first belief is the name. The evidence that ‘I’ exist is my body. But I am not my body or its name. I am not a religion. I am none of these things. The body creates a portal for ‘me’. What am I? I am God’s perspective on my unique experience. When awareness is persuaded through various forms of conditioning, such as speech, hugging, feeding and maternal care, that it is a boy or a girl, the evidence for this fact is their body. If I am just a body, then I was born and I will die.

This is not fact. The body is born and the body dies but I am not my body. Why are we born? We are born in order for the whole to simultaneously develop its understanding through millions of perspectives each having a unique understanding of the whole. The separate parts are separate perspectives of the same source. There are claims that 370,000 babies are born every day. It is through these perspectives that greater understanding is expressed. The contribution to collective understanding of individual awareness increases universal understanding.

Over the centuries the scepticism of scientific claims and dogma, has led to numerous unprecedented technological breakthroughs. The technological breakthroughs are revealed through the imagination of those who have not fossilised their understanding. Individual perspectives are portals through which unlimited understanding can be expressed. This expression is prevented by any individual who places their faith in fixed or dogmatic beliefs. It is only when the mind has an explicit or implied standard that it can criticise something it perceives.

This criticism is a request for greater understanding. There is a sacred paradox in the form of a definition that cannot define what it defines. It is that “God is the greater understanding that exists beyond all understanding.” When we question the sovereignty and integrity of a scientific, political or theological claim, the claim will withstand all challenges or it will collapse. Matthew 7:7-8 (KJV) “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”

Our thoughts and ideas cannot directly confront any ‘opposing’ belief that we have invested our faith in. This means that the less we believe, the more potential we have. This world is controlled by authorities who decide what is and what is not. Anyone who does not conform is unacceptable in the eyes of the authorities. Conformance means that our faith is running an existential code, authored by others, that has programmed the expression of our own mind. When we decide that this is this, then it cannot be that. This prevents the influence of ‘that’.

Romans 12:2 (KJV) “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Happiness is the expression of the love of God. The world cannot make us happy, but God can and does. What is God? God is the greater understanding that exists beyond all understanding. We aren’t evolving! We are realising. We are realising that the limits of our perception are not the limits of what is possible. The limits of our perception reveal the limits of our understanding.

A hypothesis is the suspicion of something that is not proven. A hypothesis is a belief that a potential belief, might be true. We convert a hypothesis into a personal belief, simply by assembling words into an ‘I believe’ statement and placing our faith in it. The beliefs become lines of existential code within a programme called ‘perception’. Perception then filters and translates all experience so that we are only aware of what we have been educated to perceive and any part of the world that God created, that is not defined by the book of spells (dictionary) is invisible to us.

Belief-editing is how we develop our personal understanding and the understanding of others. If we can be persuaded to place our faith in the belief that a ‘concept’ is fact, then our perception of what the concept defines, is replaced by its conceptual definition. This is how you turn a friend and neighbour into an enemy. This is how you create a Communist, Muslim, Christian, Conservative and Republican. Archetypal identities (Soldiers, Police, Christians, Muslims, Nuns, Doctors, Engineers, etc) are created through the acquisition of ‘belief systems’.

Archetypal belief systems are software created to sustain existential models of existence. These models are sustained by cultural software composed of ‘I-Beliefs’. When a Christian converts to Islam he’s no longer a Christian. When a Muslim converts to Christianity, he’s no longer a Muslim. The only thing that changed was the believer’s ‘perception’ of self and how he perceives the world. These archetypal belief systems are existential software designed to programme and control the believer’s mind, creating different forms of existential incarceration.

The fact that the authorities of the world need laws to enforce conformance, shows that, they are competing with God. Anyone who has been filled with the Holy Spirit will experience immediate and lasting personal transformation. They don’t need to go to church, they are the living church. They don’t need to believe, because they know. Anyone who competes with God, for your faith is an adversary of God. That is the literal definition of a Satanist. Any government whose laws are not obedient to God are his adversaries. This is the literal definition of Satanism.

The whole world has allowed demonic concepts to categorise and define what God created. People have been educated (programmed) to use these concepts to redefine what God created. If we believe that there is a universe, then our mind cannot contemplate an alternative possibility. If we believe all Christians, Muslims or Jews are bad, the mind will not contemplate an alternative possibility. Until we ‘consciously’ restore personal sovereignty over our own mind, we are nothing more than two legged robots whose software (perception) is programmed by others.

The constant distraction of the readily available content on our screens, has removed our ability to concentrate and focus. Learning any new skill requires us to focus on the information until we understand it and practice the skill until our results are consistent. Restoring personal sovereignty is not only possible, but necessary if we are to experience freedom. This essay is an invitation to those who are prepared to put in the work, to fight for their freedom. The restoration of personal sovereignty involves the individual going to war with his own mind.

More accurately, we must fight against our personal addiction to distraction. This requires us to fight against the body’s feelings of unease, and all of the withdrawal symptoms. This is a fight we cannot lose ‘unless’ we give in to the temptations that the authorities use to distract us from the treasures of our own mind. Salvation which is liberation of the true self from the false self (archetypal identity) restores access to the mind’s unlimited potential. Any belief that defines self is a sin. Our behaviour is the truth of us. A thief is a thief. But there is forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the moment before we gave our faith to a belief that I’m going to steal ‘this’ or ‘that’. This first belief gives birth to other beliefs, like how, when and where I will steal. This is accompanied by the belief that we will not be caught. This is like a function in a computer programme compiled using if, elif and else, lines of code to create the function (ability) of a thief. This is unjust because it creates a victim who didn’t agree to edit their own mind’s code. The following is a method (there are others) that will restore personal sovereignty over the mind.

The method is not a trick, and reveals what the Bible was created for. The method can be applied to anything that is considered difficult or impossible. Impossible is a belief. Possible is a fact. So, to the method. Pick up a bible and start reading it. Make notes under chapter headings on each and every chapter. Those notes will be your understanding of that chapter. Do this starting with the Old Testament and continue until you have read the New Testament in its entirety and have a set of notes, which will not reveal the Bible, but will reveal your understanding of it.

For those who cannot focus this will be one of the most difficult things they have ever done and many will simply give up. This is where they realise that they do not have personal sovereignty over their own mind. This will also reveal the fact the we are not our mind. An addict is looked down on in society, but this is simply because society has not realised that the whole world is addicted to their own ‘perceptually induced neurochemical responses’. Most of us use gossip, drugs, food, sex, screen content, videos, movies, comedy and the news to get their fix.

It is important to make notes of the Bible so that even if you can only concentrate for ten seconds, you have some understanding of what your awareness was exposed to. Most minds are now conditioned by all of the competing audio visual stimulus and this will distract you almost immediately. So go for ten seconds and put the book down. Then go back and go for 15 seconds. Don’t fight the mind, because, as any addict will tell you, the unconscious forces of a conditioned mind are more vigilant than any conscious effort.

Concentration and focus are muscles that must be built. It may take many weeks to restore 1% of an individual’s sovereignty. If you want an example of how long it takes to establish absolute sovereignty over mind and body, ask an Olympic Gold Medallist or a World champion in any sport. This is what you have to go through. The prize is sovereignty over your own mind and the ability to consciously direct the unlimited unconscious resources therein. Another alternative to reading the bible for those who do not want a religious context is to learn to code.

Learning to code will require focus and concentration and notes should also be made to record personal understanding. Our understanding should be contemplated in order to encourage our mind to assist. The mind works autonomously but ‘initially’ it must be guided and directed. This is why we must not allow our awareness to be programmed by screens and should vigilantly censor what we allow our awareness to be exposed to. Hypnosis is real. Ignorance is real. The mind’s potential is unlimited but we must decide what we require from it.

Either buy a Bible or sign up to an online coding course, such as Python and let the war begin. This will be difficult for those who have no interest in the Bible or Coding, but is necessary to restore personal sovereignty. The mind will eventually ‘get with the programme’ and it will start to unconsciously discern what serves us and what does not. This cannot be done by a Psychologist, Psychiatrist or a teacher. Only you can take back personal sovereignty. You can be guided and coached, but only by someone who has done this.

If you are easily distracted you may already be losing hours of each day to screen content that is of no value to you. If so, this will be the most difficult thing you have ever done. The prize is sovereignty over your own mind and access to its unlimited creative resources. The potential of each and every mind is unlimited but the expression of each mind is not. We have allowed teachers, religions, media and online influencers to tell us how to be. Our mind’s expression is either being consciously programmed by us or unconsciously programmed by others.

If you do not have courage, it’s because you have invested your faith in beliefs that prejudice your perception of the things you fear. Change that perception and the fear will disappear. The belief that you cannot do this or are unable to focus on the learning objective is just that, ‘a belief’. We can only believe what we do not know! Remove all distractions that can or will distract you from the work that is required to read the bible or learn to code. Difficult is anything that is beyond our understanding or ability. Difficulty is describing unpleasant feelings.

The most difficult learning comes from virgin awareness. This means you have no knowledge or understanding of the terminology, or the meaning, of how, what you’re learning works. When we can learn from a place of virgin awareness, which is complete ignorance, we have mastered our mind. Virgin awareness is the most uncomfortable and most difficult way to learn. You will feel tired, itchy, think about something else and if you have access to a screen, you will be tempted to scroll. Don’t! Fight for your own salvation. It may even feel painful!

Salvation is the restoration of the whole mind. You can be saved by the grace of God, but you can also fight for your own salvation. The potential of each mind is unlimited but the expression of each mind is not. The personal potential of each mind is what the individual desires. If you want to achieve your personal desires, you must do the work. We have been given the miracle of life and an unlimited mind. However, this mind has been programmed to ensure it conforms to this world. It is our personal mission to save our self. Don’t give up!

Morality and Integrity

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Morality is a series of self-imposed volitional limits (I-beliefs) that permit or prohibit certain potential behaviours by establishing what the mind can and cannot do. Each I-belief is a command to our mind. The ability to change our mind establishes that we are not our mind. If we were, we would be trapped within a dogmatic existence with no ability to change. In computer software development, when commands are written, unless there is a bug, they are absolute and work as designed. For example, in Python if we said: ‘if hungry eat two eggs and 1 slice of bacon, else, eat nothing’, then hunger would be the biological signal (variable) for eating food. What most people actually do with their own mind is different. Many people, come to the conclusion, that if they like the taste of food, re-experiencing the taste is the objective, so the ‘craving’ for the taste becomes the variable, not hunger or strictly observed meal times.
Why is it that Python works as designed when a command is written, but the human mind that created it, does not? The body is the clue. Python does not have a body. Python, not having a body, cannot use a body’s feelings as ‘variables’ that determine behaviour. Python does not get hungry. Python does not have variables that create behaviours that are in conflict, with its own rules. When the mind has conflict, the mind and body are in conflict. The human body provides feedback in the form of feelings, that are used to judge the quality of our life. The body cannot and should not be ignored. We are not our body and we are not our mind, but whilst alive we are both beneficiary and victim of how we manage both. How do we know we are not our body? We know because we have to fight our body’s impulses, when it causes addiction, fear, anger, procrastination and anxiety. For an addict, those impulses are stronger than their own will.
The body gets hungry, thirsty, tired and lustful. These are not always a conscious choice, but those cravings have the power to disturb our peace of mind and focus. Collectively, the ten commandments are existential software (code) for the mind. A computer language allows the coder to create a synthetic mind. Software is a synthetic mind. The reason it works is because it is instinctively created by a real mind but does not include the psychological dysfunction (blind spots) of its creator. All software is a copy of the creator’s understanding. This understanding is their own mind’s understanding. Software created in Python works by rules and logic. If, elif and else, enables functions to create conditional rules for options (variables) that are determined by conditions.
For example: ‘If’ it is raining outside, wear a coat, ‘else’ don’t, is a line of code that determines whether or not to wear a coat. The software is the evidence that establishes how the mind works. But unlike computer software, humans have a body that has its own operating (software) system. This is the difference. In this world we have addiction, ignorance, violence, sexual violence, theft and selfishness. Selfishness is encouraged by competition and men are judged by their personal performance and material success and women by their physical beauty. What is morality? Morality is the compassionate justification for self-imposed volitional limits placed upon behavioural expression. Morality is the ‘rules’ to be observed that ensure that we don’t do what is immoral. The ten commandments were not simply laws, they were existential code, which when believed established personal limits upon the expression of our mind. Free will ensures that, like all code, it can be self-edited (corrupted).
Von Neumann said computers were inspired by the nervous system and human cognition. In “The Computer and the Brain” (1958): “The procedures that we call algorithms are precisely the rules that a human would follow in carrying out a computation.” Alan Turing linked computation to human mental procedure. In “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950) he wrote that a machine’s operations are a formalisation of what a human “computer” (a person doing calculations) already does step-by-step. His model (the Turing Machine) is an abstraction of a person following rules with pencil and paper.
Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics framed machines as externalised human control and thought. Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, MIT Press, 1948, p. 19. “The machine is the exact analogue of the nervous system.” John McCarthy, Dartmouth Conference Proposal, 1955 “Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”
The ten commandments are existential software created to programme the mind, but they can only be empowered, if we place our faith in them. Like any line of code, they only work as designed, if we do not have any conflicting beliefs (code), to compromise them. This is why the first commandment. Free will means that we are free to place our faith in them, or we are free to refuse to. Conflicting beliefs (code) are the reason why people who believe in the ten commandments break them. A conflicting belief is how opposing armies are formed within the same mind. One army restricts, and the other works to tempt the believer. For example, thou shalt not commit adultery is the root belief, from which many other contextually related beliefs (commands) should develop. This reinforces the resolve, making it stronger. However, the lust and desire exploited by pornography are so powerful, that in order to overcome the power of the belief, I should not commit adultery, they can result in the creation of conflicting beliefs, or are edited along the lines of: ‘but, if nobody finds out, it won’t hurt anyone’.
All beliefs are lines of code. An example of a conflicting or ambiguous belief is believing I must not kill, ‘unless’ I have to. Unless is a variable, that negates the power of that commandment to corrupt the mind. The first belief is literally disempowered by the variable, meaning that murder is a conditional response. This is a loss of the mind’s moral integrity. The desire for sex can be very strong and this can lead to the creation of beliefs, like ‘I don’t care’. This belief programmes a perceptually induced neurochemical response (emotions) that denies compassion. These temptations lead to variables that create a thief, murderer or rapist. The mind and therefore the body, can be used to create or to destroy. The criminal lines of code must be created in the mind, in order to corrupt it, before the body can perform those acts. The integrity of a Christian mind is sustained by rejecting any beliefs that would compromise it.
Unless born with a disability or injured, we each and all have sovereignty over our own mind. The mind is the operating system where we can create ‘anything’. The imagination is not restricted by the laws of physics. The brain is the hardware that is initially, exclusively operated by the autonomic system and the mind’s source code/firmware. The power of the mind to interfere with the autonomic system that operates the body is demonstrated by a phobia and psychosomatic bodily afflictions. What is termed a phobia is evidence of the power of every single mind. A phobia is a command that is unusual in the activities or behaviours it prohibits. A Christian’s mind is the only technology they are required to master in their lifetime.
The archives of the world reveal the historical development of our collective understanding. However, this understanding is not our personal understanding. If there is crime, violence, poverty, sexual violence, war, inequality and suffering in the world, then the world and those who control it are not fit to be our educators. God should be our only educator. Romans 12:2 (KJV) “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” You have complete sovereignty over your own mind. You are not a victim!
The reason people cannot stop drinking is because they ‘believe’ they cannot stop drinking. The belief is a line of code. The power of each belief is the ‘faith’ it obtains. ‘FAITH IS THE POWER OF GOD GIVEN TO MAN’. If you want to know how the mind works learn to write code and develop software. The bugs that prevent success in achieving the software’s functional objectives, are exactly the same in the mind. The software developer observes how a bug affects the outcome and learns to detect and eradicate those bugs.

All software is a series of commands that take into account a number of contemplated variables. For example, in order to ensure that I do not drink alcohol and drive, using Python I may write code as follows:
if drink == “alcohol”:
action = “taxi”
else:
action = “drive”
This is not only how Python works but how the human mind works. We are not our mind and we are not our body. Why then, if we know we should not drink and drive, do we? Because in order to feel certain ‘feelings’, that we crave, we succumb to that temptation, by creating conflicting code that gives us a choice to sustain integrity or to temporarily abandon it. In life, we do everything for the ‘feeling’. A friend may say to us, ‘I drink and drive all the time and I have never been caught’. This may lead to the conclusion (belief) that I’m not going to be caught, which could also be supported by the creation of the belief, ‘I drive as good drunk as I do sober’. The motive for this loss of integrity is almost exclusively the feelings we experience whilst drinking alcohol. Alcohol and drugs can feel so good that we may want to prolong the experience through continued consumption. Unfortunately, alcohol can impair judgement and physical performance. The moral compromise is created using code that is assembled along the following lines.
The believer, compromises his own mind by knowingly introducing a variable about risk or consequences:
if drink == “alcohol” and chance_of_being_caught > 0.5:
action = “taxi”
else:
action = “drive”
The desire for sex is not only an effect of consuming alcohol. Alcohol also has a profound effect on the mind’s ability to sustain its discernment and judgement which has been a factor in many violent crimes, including rape. Alcohol is used as a tool to temporarily shut down the moral constraints that prevent enjoyment, laughter and in many cases, arousal. The two biggest forces that cause us to edit our mind’s personal code (beliefs) are ‘fear’ and ‘desire’. Galatians 5:19-21 (KJV) “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
When someone gets between us and our ‘desires’ we can become jealous, violent, hateful, heretical, dishonest, selfish and this can lead to the development of numerous commands (beliefs), which our mind can and will act upon. Listen to a football hooligan talk about the fans of an opposing football team and it is like listening to someone talking about their enemy. This can and does lead to violence. Listen to a constituent who votes for one political party talk about someone who votes for the opposing party.
Propaganda is produced in order to obtain the faith of the masses. Propaganda is a number of proposed beliefs that ‘demonise’ a target group. This leads to beliefs that not only justify disrespect, hatred and violence, but if believed, will literally edit the mind’s perception of the target group, leading to a change in our behaviour towards them. The power of beliefs to control the mind of a believer is ‘absolute’. That power is faith. The body’s fear of pain, can create what some refer to as a coward. This label is not helpful. Fear is a ‘perceptually induced neurochemical response’ that is felt in the body. It is a function (belief) that is created to inhibit.
Proverbs 9:10 (KJV) “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” We have the power (faith) to do anything, unless we believe we cannot. This is because the belief that we cannot is also empowered by faith. Each and every one of our beliefs has faith. The following saying is attributed to Henry Ford: “A man who believes he can and man who believes he cannot, are both right”. This is sometimes stated as: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.” This literally describes how faith works.
The commandments were given to create a world that we can all share in peace and harmony. These commands are lines of existential code. They can only be empowered by ‘faith’. Every ‘I-belief’ is a rule-enforcing instruction. These instructions are absolute unless and until we create an ‘if’, ‘elif’ and/or ‘then’ rule. So as children our friends may say why don’t you throw stones and break some windows in a derelict or abandoned house. My response may be: ‘because its wrong, and if I do, I will be punished’. Then our friends may say, ‘only if you get caught’.
This indicates that the child has been educated (programmed) to believe that they will be punished and fear of punishment is much stronger than the moral argument that it is wrong to damage someone else’s property. If the child can be persuaded to believe they won’t get caught and therefore will not be punished, they may create new line of code (belief), along the lines of: “If I don’t tell anyone, no one will know and I won’t get punished”. Then they unconsciously construct a belief that supports the breaking of windows, using ‘if’ or ‘elif’ or ‘else’ statements. The desire (feelings) to fit in and be liked may be stronger than the awareness of their personal moral responsibility and obligation. The obligation is to ‘self’.
This is how the mind works! The introduction of this kind of compromise creates moral conflict. The moral conflict is created to permit immoral behaviour. This is assisted by creating contemplated contexts that justify where and when some behaviours are acceptable and when and where they are not. This is how we corrupt our own mind. Corruption of the mind is like corruption of the code. If we do not run the code several times under different conditions a bug may be present that is not apparent and is not detected immediately. What works perfectly at six years of age may create a profound psychological problem later in life. The mind is eternal and once the code is created it operates ‘perfectly’ until it is edited. Many people live with limitation for their entire life, not realising that every mind is not only equal, but it’s potential is unlimited. If when you enter 2 + 2, the result equals 9, and you know that the result is incorrect, this means that the method of calculation is incorrect. The only thing a mind can lack is understanding.
Integrity is required to ensure that our personal code (beliefs) is not compromised. The belief that I must love my wife and children and be faithful, must not be compromised by conflicting beliefs. The reason an individual may create conflicting code (beliefs) may be due to a loss of sexual attraction, sexual attraction to someone outside of the marriage or a lack of sexual fulfilment within it. In life, we do everything for the feeling! This may lead to the belief (code) that ‘I DESERVE MORE’. This belief opens the door to thoughts about what ‘MORE’ looks like. If it looks like someone else, a believer may use their mind to create fantasies about someone else.
This in itself is not the act of infidelity or adultery, but it is likely to lead to an addiction to those thoughts, which lead to ideas. Matthew 5:27–28 (KJV) “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” As long as the individual does not change the belief that I must be faithful, or create a conflicting belief that disempowers it, they will be faithful. However, the belief that I deserve more, can bring thoughts that could result in the creation of an awareness of what something more looks like. This is where any qualifying people who fit the role of our fantasy, become the focus of our attention. This is when there is a risk to our mind’s integrity. If we strike up a conversation and there is rapport, the fantasy now has a subject which may lead to the creation of new, conflicting beliefs that remove the mind’s moral integrity. This removes the behavioural (volitional) limits that are necessary for a life of integrity.
This is where statements like: ‘I know I should not, but’ begin to contaminate how we contemplate potential opportunities for sin. The contemplation of situations and opportunities, where the person will not get caught, begin to enter the mind. This leads to fantasies about how to cheat without getting caught. This can become a compelling fantasy and bring a person closer to acquiring a conflicting belief that compromises and diminishes the power of the belief: ‘I must be faithful’. Contemplating doing something that goes against our own values, as long as the other person does not find out, is a temptation.
We succumb to temptation through self-deception. For example, the belief: “if I could sleep with someone else without my spouse ever finding out, it would do not harm.” This is a contextually specific example of how we compromise the integrity of our own mind. We are born with sovereignty over our own mind. The ability to self-programme the mind is something that is God-given. This ability is exploited by others who seek to vicariously programme our mind for their benefit of the benefit of the systemic paradigm they personally exploit. Religion, Education, Politics, Marketing, Sales, Potential Spouses and those seeking one night stands all compete for our faith in their words, through the manipulation of our perception.
Faith is the power of God given to man. Beliefs about others determine our perception of them. Every single emotional response, ‘without exception’, is a perceptually induced neurochemical response. What we believe about our self in existential terms, we will become. To be born again means to take back sovereignty over our own mind and withdraw our faith in all the beliefs that compromise our integrity. This is the end of personal doubt. When we know, we have no need of beliefs, because we know. An addict’s integrity is compromised by the fact that they want to stop the lows but they don’t want to stop experiencing the highs.
Mark 3:25 KJV “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” The whole mind is collective, not personal. The whole mind is the kingdom of heaven, where all prayers are answered. ‘I can’, creates the karma of some and ‘I can’t’ creates the karma for others. Our life, is the answer to our prayers. Beliefs are prayers and all prayers are answered. The belief ‘I can’ and the belief ‘I cannot’ are both realised. Matthew 7:7-8 (KJV) “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
Integrity is a mind that does not have conflicting beliefs. A software that has conflicting lines of code will create bugs. The cause of these bugs will be one or more lines of conflicting code working to achieve conflicting objectives. This is experienced by the feeling of ‘doubt’ when faced with the conflicting choice of desire or obligation. Once detected by a software engineer, the bug is fixed and the functional objective is achieved. In life, theft, dishonesty, rape and murder are the effect of bugs in the mind. We can say that the person lacks morality or that they are evil. That is an easy and extremely lazy way of looking at how the mind operates. If we compare a criminal with a person who does not commit crime, they may look the same and they may dress the same. What is different is the code (beliefs) that operates their individual minds. The mind is a subtle form of the body. The body is a denser form of the mind.

Morality and Integrity

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Morality is a series of self-imposed volitional limits (I-beliefs) that permit or prohibit certain potential behaviours by establishing what the mind can and cannot do. Each I-belief is a command to our mind. The ability to change our mind establishes that we are not our mind. If we were, we would be trapped within a dogmatic existence with no ability to change. In computer software development, when commands are written, unless there is a bug, they are absolute and work as designed. For example, in Python if we said: ‘if hungry eat two eggs and 1 slice of bacon, else, eat nothing’, then hunger would be the biological signal (variable) for eating food. What most people actually do with their own mind is different. Many people, come to the conclusion, that if they like the taste of food, re-experiencing the taste is the objective, so the ‘craving’ for the taste becomes the variable, not hunger or strictly observed meal times.
Why is it that Python works as designed when a command is written, but the human mind that created it, does not? The body is the clue. Python does not have a body. Python, not having a body, cannot use a body’s feelings as ‘variables’ that determine behaviour. Python does not get hungry. Python does not have variables that create behaviours that are in conflict, with its own rules. When the mind has conflict, the mind and body are in conflict. The human body provides feedback in the form of feelings, that are used to judge the quality of our life. The body cannot and should not be ignored. We are not our body and we are not our mind, but whilst alive we are both beneficiary and victim of how we manage both. How do we know we are not our body? We know because we have to fight our body’s impulses, when it causes addiction, fear, anger, procrastination and anxiety. For an addict, those impulses are stronger than their own will.
The body gets hungry, thirsty, tired and lustful. These are not always a conscious choice, but those cravings have the power to disturb our peace of mind and focus. Collectively, the ten commandments are existential software (code) for the mind. A computer language allows the coder to create a synthetic mind. Software is a synthetic mind. The reason it works is because it is instinctively created by a real mind but does not include the psychological dysfunction (blind spots) of its creator. All software is a copy of the creator’s understanding. This understanding is their own mind’s understanding. Software created in Python works by rules and logic. If, elif and else, enables functions to create conditional rules for options (variables) that are determined by conditions.
For example: ‘If’ it is raining outside, wear a coat, ‘else’ don’t, is a line of code that determines whether or not to wear a coat. The software is the evidence that establishes how the mind works. But unlike computer software, humans have a body that has its own operating (software) system. This is the difference. In this world we have addiction, ignorance, violence, sexual violence, theft and selfishness. Selfishness is encouraged by competition and men are judged by their personal performance and material success and women by their physical beauty. What is morality? Morality is the compassionate justification for self-imposed volitional limits placed upon behavioural expression. Morality is the ‘rules’ to be observed that ensure that we don’t do what is immoral. The ten commandments were not simply laws, they were existential code, which when believed established personal limits upon the expression of our mind. Free will ensures that, like all code, it can be self-edited (corrupted).
Von Neumann said computers were inspired by the nervous system and human cognition. In “The Computer and the Brain” (1958): “The procedures that we call algorithms are precisely the rules that a human would follow in carrying out a computation.” Alan Turing linked computation to human mental procedure. In “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950) he wrote that a machine’s operations are a formalisation of what a human “computer” (a person doing calculations) already does step-by-step. His model (the Turing Machine) is an abstraction of a person following rules with pencil and paper.
Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics framed machines as externalised human control and thought. Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, MIT Press, 1948, p. 19. “The machine is the exact analogue of the nervous system.” John McCarthy, Dartmouth Conference Proposal, 1955 “Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”
The ten commandments are existential software created to programme the mind, but they can only be empowered, if we place our faith in them. Like any line of code, they only work as designed, if we do not have any conflicting beliefs (code), to compromise them. This is why the first commandment. Free will means that we are free to place our faith in them, or we are free to refuse to. Conflicting beliefs (code) are the reason why people who believe in the ten commandments break them. A conflicting belief is how opposing armies are formed within the same mind. One army restricts, and the other works to tempt the believer. For example, thou shalt not commit adultery is the root belief, from which many other contextually related beliefs (commands) should develop. This reinforces the resolve, making it stronger. However, the lust and desire exploited by pornography are so powerful, that in order to overcome the power of the belief, I should not commit adultery, they can result in the creation of conflicting beliefs, or are edited along the lines of: ‘but, if nobody finds out, it won’t hurt anyone’.
All beliefs are lines of code. An example of a conflicting or ambiguous belief is believing I must not kill, ‘unless’ I have to. Unless is a variable, that negates the power of that commandment to corrupt the mind. The first belief is literally disempowered by the variable, meaning that murder is a conditional response. This is a loss of the mind’s moral integrity. The desire for sex can be very strong and this can lead to the creation of beliefs, like ‘I don’t care’. This belief programmes a perceptually induced neurochemical response (emotions) that denies compassion. These temptations lead to variables that create a thief, murderer or rapist. The mind and therefore the body, can be used to create or to destroy. The criminal lines of code must be created in the mind, in order to corrupt it, before the body can perform those acts. The integrity of a Christian mind is sustained by rejecting any beliefs that would compromise it.
Unless born with a disability or injured, we each and all have sovereignty over our own mind. The mind is the operating system where we can create ‘anything’. The imagination is not restricted by the laws of physics. The brain is the hardware that is initially, exclusively operated by the autonomic system and the mind’s source code/firmware. The power of the mind to interfere with the autonomic system that operates the body is demonstrated by a phobia and psychosomatic bodily afflictions. What is termed a phobia is evidence of the power of every single mind. A phobia is a command that is unusual in the activities or behaviours it prohibits. A Christian’s mind is the only technology they are required to master in their lifetime.
The archives of the world reveal the historical development of our collective understanding. However, this understanding is not our personal understanding. If there is crime, violence, poverty, sexual violence, war, inequality and suffering in the world, then the world and those who control it are not fit to be our educators. God should be our only educator. Romans 12:2 (KJV) “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” You have complete sovereignty over your own mind. You are not a victim!
The reason people cannot stop drinking is because they ‘believe’ they cannot stop drinking. The belief is a line of code. The power of each belief is the ‘faith’ it obtains. ‘FAITH IS THE POWER OF GOD GIVEN TO MAN’. If you want to know how the mind works learn to write code and develop software. The bugs that prevent success in achieving the software’s functional objectives, are exactly the same in the mind. The software developer observes how a bug affects the outcome and learn to detect and eradicate those bugs.

All software is a series of commands that take into account a number of contemplated variables. For example, in order to ensure that I do not drink alcohol and drive, using Python I may write code as follows:
if drink == “alcohol”:
action = “taxi”
else:
action = “drive”
This is not only how Python works but how the human mind works. We are not our mind and we are not our body. Why then, if we know we should not drink and drive, do we? Because in order to feel certain ‘feelings’, that we crave, we succumb to that temptation, by creating conflicting code that gives us a choice to sustain integrity or to temporarily abandon it. In life, we do everything for the ‘feeling’. A friend may say to us, ‘I drink and drive all the time and I have never been caught’. This may lead to the conclusion (belief) that I’m not going to be caught, which could also be supported by the creation of the belief, ‘I drive as good drunk as I do sober’. The motive for this loss of integrity is almost exclusively the feelings we experience whilst drinking alcohol. Alcohol and drugs can feel so good that we may want to prolong the experience through continued consumption. Unfortunately, alcohol can impair judgement and physical performance. The moral compromise is created using code that is assembled along the following lines.
The believer, compromises his own mind by knowingly introducing a variable about risk or consequences:
if drink == “alcohol” and chance_of_being_caught > 0.5:
action = “taxi”
else:
action = “drive”
The desire for sex is not only an effect of consuming alcohol. Alcohol also has a profound effect on the mind’s ability to sustain its discernment and judgement which has been a factor in many violent crimes, including rape. Alcohol is used as a tool to temporarily shut down the moral constraints that prevent enjoyment, laughter and in many cases, arousal. The two biggest forces that cause us to edit our mind’s personal code (beliefs) are ‘fear’ and ‘desire’. Galatians 5:19-21 (KJV) “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
When someone gets between us and our ‘desires’ we can become jealous, violent, hateful, heretical, dishonest, selfish and this can lead to the development of numerous commands (beliefs), which our mind can and will act upon. Listen to a football hooligan talk about the fans of an opposing football team and it is like listening to someone talking about their enemy. This can and does lead to violence. Listen to a constituent who votes for one political party talk about someone who votes for the opposing party.
Propaganda is produced in order to obtain the faith of the masses. Propaganda is a number of proposed beliefs that ‘demonise’ a target group. This leads to beliefs that not only justify disrespect, hatred and violence, but if believed, will literally edit the mind’s perception of the target group, leading to a change in our behaviour towards them. The power of beliefs to control the mind of a believer is ‘absolute’. That power is faith. The body’s fear of pain, can create what some refer to as a coward. This label is not helpful. Fear is a ‘perceptually induced neurochemical response’ that is felt in the body. It is a function (belief) that is created to inhibit.
Proverbs 9:10 (KJV) “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” We have the power (faith) to do anything, unless we believe we cannot. This is because the belief that we cannot is also empowered by faith. Each and every one of our beliefs has faith. The following saying is attributed to Henry Ford: “A man who believes he can and man who believes he cannot, are both right”. This is sometimes stated as: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.” This literally describes how faith works.
The commandments were given to create a world that we can all share in peace and harmony. These commands are lines of existential code. They can only be empowered by ‘faith’. Every ‘I-belief’ is a rule-enforcing instruction. These instructions are absolute unless and until we create an ‘if’, ‘elif’ and/or ‘then’ rule. So as children our friends may say why don’t you throw stones and break some windows in a derelict or abandoned house. My response may be: ‘because its wrong, and if I do, I will be punished’. Then our friends may say, ‘only if you get caught’.
This indicates that the child has been educated (programmed) to believe that they will be punished and fear of punishment is much stronger than the moral argument that it is wrong to damage someone else’s property. If the child can be persuaded to believe they won’t get caught and therefore will not be punished, they may create new line of code (belief), along the lines of: “If I don’t tell anyone, no one will know and I won’t get punished”. Then they unconsciously construct a belief that supports the breaking of windows, using ‘if’ or ‘elif’ or ‘else’ statements. The desire (feelings) to fit in and be liked may be stronger than the awareness of their personal moral responsibility and obligation. The obligation is to ‘self’.
This is how the mind works! The introduction of this kind of compromise creates moral conflict. The moral conflict is created to permit immoral behaviour. This is assisted by creating contemplated contexts that justify where and when some behaviours are acceptable and when and where they are not. This is how we corrupt our own mind. Corruption of the mind is like corruption of the code. If we do not run the code several times under different conditions a bug may be present that is not apparent and is not detected immediately. What works perfectly at six years of age may create a profound psychological problem later in life. The mind is eternal and once the code is created it operates ‘perfectly’ until it is edited. Many people live with limitation for their entire life, not realising that every mind is not only equal, but it’s potential is unlimited. If when you enter 2 + 2, the result equals 9, and you know that the result is incorrect, this means that the method of calculation is incorrect. The only thing a mind can lack is understanding.
Integrity is required to ensure that our personal code (beliefs) is not compromised. The belief that I must love my wife and children and be faithful, must not be compromised by conflicting beliefs. The reason an individual may create conflicting code (beliefs) may be due to a loss of sexual attraction, sexual attraction to someone outside of the marriage or a lack of sexual fulfilment within it. In life, we do everything for the feeling! This may lead to the belief (code) that ‘I DESERVE MORE’. This belief opens the door to thoughts about what ‘MORE’ looks like. If it looks like someone else, a believer may use their mind to create fantasies about someone else.
This in itself is not the act of infidelity or adultery, but it is likely to lead to an addiction to those thoughts, which lead to ideas. Matthew 5:27–28 (KJV) “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” As long as the individual does not change the belief that I must be faithful, or create a conflicting belief that disempowers it, they will be faithful. However, the belief that I deserve more, can bring thoughts that could result in the creation of an awareness of what something more looks like. This is where any qualifying people who fit the role of our fantasy, become the focus of our attention. This is when there is a risk to our mind’s integrity. If we strike up a conversation and there is rapport, the fantasy now has a subject which may lead to the creation of new, conflicting beliefs that remove the mind’s moral integrity. This removes the behavioural (volitional) limits that are necessary for a life of integrity.
This is where statements like: ‘I know I should not, but’ begin to contaminate how we contemplate potential opportunities for sin. The contemplation of situations and opportunities, where the person will not get caught, begin to enter the mind. This leads to fantasies about how to cheat without getting caught. This can become a compelling fantasy and bring a person closer to acquiring a conflicting belief that compromises and diminishes the power of the belief: ‘I must be faithful’. Contemplating doing something that goes against our own values, as long as the other person does not find out, is a temptation.
We succumb to temptation through self-deception. For example, the belief: “if I could sleep with someone else without my spouse ever finding out, it would do not harm.” This is a contextually specific example of how we compromise the integrity of our own mind. We are born with sovereignty over our own mind. The ability to self-programme the mind is something that is God-given. This ability is exploited by others who seek to vicariously programme our mind for their benefit of the benefit of the systemic paradigm they personally exploit. Religion, Education, Politics, Marketing, Sales, Potential Spouses and those seeking one night stands all compete for our faith in their words, through the manipulation of our perception.
Faith is the power of God given to man. Beliefs about others determine our perception of them. Every single emotional response, ‘without exception’, is a perceptually induced neurochemical response. What we believe about our self in existential terms, we will become. To be born again means to take back sovereignty over our own mind and withdraw our faith in all the beliefs that compromise our integrity. This is the end of personal doubt. When we know, we have no need of beliefs, because we know. An addict’s integrity is compromised by the fact that they want to stop the lows but they don’t want to stop experiencing the highs.
Mark 3:25 KJV “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” The whole mind is collective, not personal. The whole mind is the kingdom of heaven, where all prayers are answered. ‘I can’, creates the karma of some and ‘I can’t’ creates the karma for others. Our life, is the answer to our prayers. Beliefs are prayers and all prayers are answered. The belief ‘I can’ and the belief ‘I cannot’ are both realised. Matthew 7:7-8 (KJV) “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
Integrity is a mind that does not have conflicting beliefs. A software that has conflicting lines of code will create bugs. The cause of these bugs will be one or more lines of conflicting code working to achieve conflicting objectives. This is experienced by the feeling of ‘doubt’ when faced with the conflicting choice of desire or obligation. Once detected by a software engineer, the bug is fixed and the functional objective is achieved. In life, theft, dishonesty, rape and murder are the effect of bugs in the mind. We can say that the person lacks morality or that they are evil. That is an easy and extremely lazy way of looking at how the mind operates. If we compare a criminal with a person who does not commit crime, they may look the same and they may dress the same. What is different is the code (beliefs) that operates their individual minds. The mind is a subtle form of the body. The body is a denser form of the mind.