Opinion / observation here. If you wanted to trap a being that had unlimited potential and prevent them from exercising it, you would start like any good stage magician by redirecting and redefining their perception. So you take a world in which every atom is vibrating and jiggling in unison with every other part of the ambient environment, where most of what we can measure is empty space and force-fields, feed it through limited sensory organs that make it look solid and “tangible”, real even, even though that solidity is a limited appreciation of a deeper reality, identify that visual illusion of solidity with the object itself.
Then you take some “purpose” such as making someone feel good about themselves, teaching people some technique, love, feeding the homeless etc, even being the world’s best fighter pilot. Attribute that same “solidity” to “actions” which are considered “tangible” or “physical”, even though they originate in the non physical domain, and say that this purpose takes place in “the concrete world”, even though all the influence on our fellow humans takes place in their consciousness.
By misidentifying our actions as having a “physical”, tangible origin, the old “beings of meat” trope is reinforced. Identification which what is seen or felt through the senses localizes the consciousness, makes it believe you are “here” on Earth, take something that is infinite and force it to think in limited, finite terms, until that finite world is all that its mental world is outfitted to think about.
Any purpose that looks like it is restricted to the concrete world, can be seen to be a process initiated and executed in the non tangible, spiritual realm. The tangible outcomes valued so much are the result of the exercising of a spiritual power which is much more immanent and real than the shifting matter that gives a clue to its presence.
OT: not advocating believing everything you read on the internet (or off the internet) here. But I’m glad there are people out there exploring ideas like these. Anything that reminds us that what we see is only a very limited sliver of reality, and that an invisible world exists. is highly worthwhile in my opinion. Especially if it leads people in the direction of things like Tesla’s ability to floridly hallucinate machines he was building in his head, or to wander about the world gaining experiences as he admitted without leaving the comfort of his bed (his out of body experiences aren’t much spoken of).
He even said " My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists"
Acknowledging things like that is probably why he ended up making contact.
[Edit: Probably a big part of the reason I’m looking forward to BLITW. Any sub inspired by Tesla and his ability to go beyond the limitations of ordinary human cognition has to be something special
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