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Is the Coronavirus crisis freaking you out? Is social distancing and self isolation bringing out the best or worst in you?

In this article, we’ll take a look at how a crisis can reveal your true self.

The Beginning Of The C-19 Crisis

Back at the start of February of 2020, the only things people complained about was Donald Trump, going to work and the price of gasoline.

But within a few weeks, all that changed. The Covid-19 or coronavirus crisis became the world’s focus.

Suddenly, and for no logical reason, people began hoarding toilet paper. Hour long line-ups formed at grocery stores by people who thought they were going to starve to death.

On top of this, all the world governments ordered everyone to practice social distancing and self isolation, right?

This, in effect, solidified the message that this is a full blown crisis.

So What Happens When People Go Into Crisis Mode?

For most, fear and anger is triggered as fight or flight, survival mob mentality set in.

But that wasn’t the case for everyone was it?

There were others who sat back in awareness of the situation. They evaluated the information and recognized that panic was probably not the best course of action at that point.

Still other people kept a positive, happy state.

They stayed calmly in the present, in a state of gratitude and observed the difference between the reality of the situation and the fear based imagined outcome.

How Are You Reacting To This Covid-19 Crisis?

As you have probably already realized, a crisis like this coronavirus pandemic will reveal the true self of any person.

There are three true self personality types.

Those in the FEAR ZONE. Those in the LEARNING ZONE. And those in the GROWTH ZONE.

The FEAR ZONE Personality Type

Those who are living in the fear zone are the most obvious. They are the ones who live in a world of ego and self.

Self preservation is of utmost importance to these types of people and it’s blatantly demonstrated when they are faced with a crisis.

Theses are the people who immediately raced to the store and bought up all the toilet paper.

They are the ones who are blaming politicians for not protecting them.

They are complaining about how much material possessions they may lose because they can’t pay their bills.

They are quick to anger, quick to disagree and quick to confront anyone who is not on board with their world view.

They are the ones who may have a hard time handling being alone. They are the people who are throwing coronavirus parties or going to stores just to hang out.

Self isolation is not something a fear zone personality willingly accepts. They need social interaction because being alone is the ultimate fear.

The LEARNING ZONE Personality Type

This type of person realizes that living in fear does not help, whether it’s a coronavirus crisis situation, earthquake, tornado or some other critical life threatening situation.

These people reveal their true selves by accepting what they can’t control.

They are aware of what they consume in their mind. Whether it’s news reports, social media posts or gossip.

Learning zone personality types work on being in the present and being aware of their own personal situation.

They evaluate and research information before sharing it with others.

They may personally find social distancing difficult but will do their part for the good of all.

And they remind themselves that the best they can do is be the best they can be.

The Growth Zone Personality Type

Finally, there is the Growth Zone type of person.

These are the type of people who have realized that material objects are immaterial to the enjoyment of life. And they have also made a life choice to use all their human experiences to grow their Spirit.

These people are in a happy state regardless of how bad a crisis can get.

They will spread optimism and good cheer even if it’s sprinkled with harsh truth about situations like this coronavirus pandemic.

They will use their talents to help others whether it is with a helping hand or a kind word.

They are forgiving to those who take issue with their enlightenment and will not engage in those who choose to confront them.

They are thankful for everyday and grateful for all they have received (past experiences), for what they are receiving (present experiences) and for what they will receive (future experiences).

They reveal their true self by realizing they can’t control what happens in a crisis, but they can control their thoughts, emotions, decisions and actions towards it.

They are comfortable in their own presence and can keep themselves entertained. Social distancing and self isolation has probably been part of their lifestyle long before this coronavirus crisis.

Growth type personalities may also be the ones to practice meditation, physical exercise and mind training daily.

They embrace their talents and use their creativity to bring joy their Spirit and sharing their contributions with others to lift their Spirits as well.

What Crisis Personality Type Are You?

Now that you’ve seen the three personality types that are revealed in a crisis, which one are you?

More importantly, what can you do to become better in a crisis like this.

First, if you are in the FEAR ZONE, becoming aware of it is your first step.

Be conscious of what your thinking, feeling and saying to yourself and others.

If it’s negative, stop immediately. say to yourself, “DELETE DELETE DELETE” and then reprogram your mind with the opposite positive thought feeling or statement.

Second, If you are in the LEARNING ZONE, realize that you have been given the greatest gift of all… TIME.

Use this time to learn ways to grow yourself Spiritually. Download guided meditation programs. Read self improvement books. Watch videos that expand your mind and your soul.

This is your time to step into your GROWTH ZONE!

Finally, if you found that your already in the GROWTH ZONE, keep growing.

Make it your mission to master you matrix. Build, create, enhance, evolve. And help others who reach out to you for guidance to grow too.

Conclusion

It doesn’t matter what personality type you are, especially during a crisis, What really matters is making the most out of the life you’ve been given.

For those who found themselves in the fear zone, fear not. Now that you are aware of it, you can begin to learn and grow. Just this simple act of awareness can open your eyes to a whole new world of being.

For those of you in the learning stage, this is your opportunity for growth. This coronavirus crisis, like any crisis, creates opportunities. And the greatest opportunity we’ve been given is the gift of time.

Use this time to read self improvement books, listen to guided meditation programs and watch inspiring videos.

Finally, for those of you in the growth stage, use this crisis to help strengthen and grow your Spirit. You are the ones that know it’s the journey more than the destination that brings the most knowledge. Use this time to grow even more!

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It was not too long ago that all we knew of successful business persons was that they worked hard, were very bright and efficient. Hardly did anyone use the words “intuition” and “business” in the same conversation. Gut feelings and marketing seemed to be worlds apart with the divine injunction that “never the twain shall meet.” Yet, most recent studies are showing that perhaps we’ve been missing something.

Some of the most successful persons of all times have relied extensively on the intuitive nature of their being. Conrad Hilton, the founder of the Hilton chain of hotels claimed that he used his intuition to decide where and when to buy or build a hotel. Thomas Alva Edison, one of the greatest inventors of all times, would listen to his inner voice and produce more and better inventions.

Today, there is an explosion of interest in the “mystical” area where everyone seems to be looking for ways and means to sharpen his or her intuition. Even with our economy booming, many are seeking to gain more control over their financial future. And yet, within all of us is the ability to stand aside from the mundane, everyday grind and to look at things in a different light.

It is important to realize that your job or business is a true reflection of your internal condition— an indication of where your mind is. To change things in your workplace, you must first start by changing things within yourself. Simple as this may appear, however, it is still a very difficult thing to do.

It is not easy to break away from the hypnotic trance of everyday things and to make yourself stand aside for a short while. But if you were to practice this art of standing aside and “standing still” for a short time each day, you would find new insights into the way the world works. This will then make it easy for you to adjust and influence the outcome of business situations.

Many years ago, I knew a young, insurance salesman. He worked hard but was always enthusiastic. Few things seemed to depress him, yet, I was sure that he had his share of rejections in his business. One day, I asked him what kept him going when things seemed bleak. He looked at me and with a twinkling in his eyes replied, “John, I use my failures as learning experiences. I have a vision– a goal, if you will. I will one day be a wealthy man. There is a spirit within me that shows me the way to my goal. To hear its voice, all I have to do is spend some time with myself. In quietness I find my strength and my answers.”

Today, that insurance man is a multi-millionaire and the owner of several extremely successful businesses. He credits his success to the art of listening to his inner voice.

This inner voice is within all of us and it whispers ever so gently. When we are surrounded by the noise of everyday problems, we tend not to hear the voice.

Within us are all the answers to our problems. The questions are what we have not yet figured. Business success increases dramatically when we still the inner nature of our being. It is then that we hear more clearly the directions being given us. Our intuition becomes sharpened and our feeling nature, if we trust it, would lead us in the paths of peace and gain.

Intuition is a “gift of the gods,” so to say. We all were born with it. It is a means of receiving information and guidance through other than the physical senses. Logic and the intellect should work hand in hand and not against each other. To develop and use this faculty successfully, one should practice and trust the inner feelings. “Intuition in business,” is the wave of the future. Many businesses, both large and small, have started using intuitive consultants to assist them in achieving success.

Combine your intuitive nature with your logical thinking. Like everything else, it will take practice. Keep practicing and trust yourself and soon you will notice a whole new world of success opening up to you.
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John Harricharan is an award-winning author, speaker and the creator of the ground-breaking “PowerPause” system for success. He has shared the lecture platform with such well-known speakers as Deepak Chopra, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Og Mandino, Eric Butterworth, C. Everett Koop and others. To learn more about the “PowerPause” and see why critics are raving about it click here.

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Stressed out about Coronavirus?

Here Are 3 MindPower Tips To Stay Calm And Reduce Anxiety

As the coronavirus makes its way into major cities and small suburbs across the globe, many people are becoming stressed out and finding it increasingly more difficult to stay calm and reduce anxiety.

Authorities have ordered everyone to stay in their homes in order to prevent the spread of the virus. This is causing a lot people to focus their attention solely on what is happening with the outside world. The result is actually hypnotic in nature.

Why? The act of hypnosis is getting the mind to accept a suggestion as a mental reality even though it’s not necessarily a physical reality.

In other words, even though the danger of this “virus” is happening somewhere in the world, you begin to feel subconsciously that, in your world, your in immediate danger too.

Yet at this moment, consciously, you may be lying on the couch reading this article and sipping a latte or ordering pizza.

In this article, we’re going to go over three of ways that you can become less stressed out, stay calm and reduce anxiety in times of this COVID-19 panic.

Meditation & Mindfulness Reduces Stress

The first tip is to clear your mind of fear.

Sure, you want to stay updated on what’s going on, but get facts from reliable news sources, and then focus your attention elsewhere.

Limit how much news you watch, and how much time you spend on social media.

Suddenly, everyone is an “expert” on this situation and will be more than happy to fill your head with “advice”. Stay out of social debates and responding to comments. This will only add to your stress levels.

Your ability to remain calm comes from within. That means it’s up to you to be proactive in reducing your stress and anxiety and promoting calmness while this “experience” runs its course.

One of the best ways to reduce stress and remain calm is thru guided meditation.

If you’ve never attempted meditation or any mindfulness techniques in the past, this is the perfect time to try them out and get some practice under your belt.

According to the Mayo Clinic, guided meditation can play a huge role in helping you to maintain your mental and emotional health, even benefiting aspects of your physical health.

Here’s what meditation can do for you.
**Greater outlook on life (positivity)
**Increased feelings of calmness
**Greater self-awareness
**Reduced levels of anxiety and stress.
**Improved focus

The best part is: You don’t need to be a Yogi or Spiritual Guru to do meditation.

If you’re not able to focus for long periods of time, then guided meditation or hypnotic visualization technique programs are your easy solution to relax and be stress free.

These guided meditation programs are usually combined with music and or binaural beats that calm the mind and center the soul.

The length of these programs can range from 5 minutes to over an hour or more depending on the program.

As a corporate hypnotist who has hypnotized thousands of people, I can tell you, you don’t need much more than ten to fifteen minutes of guided meditation to achieve stress free results.

Find an Anxiety Free Creative Outlet

How many times have you said to yourself, “I’d do ???? if I only had the time”. Well time is now in abundance.

Right now is a great opportunity to start or restart some new creative hobbies. When you’re focused on building or creating something new, you’re reducing the amount of focus on the negativity surrounding you. That means creativity is a solid way of helping you to relax.

A creative outlet can be almost anything. Here are a few things you might want to try out (providing you have the supplies in your home).

Working out, fitness training or power walking
Painting, coloring, or drawing
Singing or playing musical instruments
Taking photos or videos of things you enjoy
Building something with things lying around the house
Writing that novel
Reading those books that you never finished.

Basically, the goal here is to find an activity or task that shifts your focus and makes you happy. You’ll be amazed how fast time flies when you start doing something you love to do!

Giving Back & Helping Others Reduces Stress

It’s completely natural to be fearful of losing what you have (jobs, cars, houses) but giving back to others can actually help you feel more abundant.

When you’re giving back to the community or helping those in need, you’ll spread compassion and happiness rather than fear and anxiety.

With so many people self-quarantined and isolated, loneliness will increase as well. Especially for the elderly. These individuals will need to know they are not alone more than ever.

As long as you’re keeping your distance and not exposing anyone to the virus, you can deliver food and groceries or do things like their yard work.

It’ll make you feel grateful while also helping those who need it. So, call your neighbors or post something on your social pages to let those in need know you are available and how to get in contact with you.

Final Thoughts To Stay Stress Free During This CoronaVirus Pandemic

This coronavirus experience is something extra-ordinary. It’s something you can’t see, touch, smell, taste or hear yet it is believed. Fear is exactly the same.

The lockdown that has resulted from this pandemic may be out of our control but our thoughts, emotions, decisions and actions about it are completely in our control.

Remain conscious of the fact that, for this moment, your safe, have food, shelter and electricity. By remaining present, you can reduce your panic and invoke an overwhelming sense of calmness.

Decide today to master your MindPower by practicing daily meditation, looking for a creative outlet, and even giving back to those who need it.

You’ll be surprised at how your calmness will reduce other’s anxiety as well!

James “JimmyG” Graham, C.Ht – MindPowerPrograms.com

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Procrastination can be perceived as a sign of perfection, or the assassin of opportunity. We all put things off from time to time, but if you find yourself doing so more often than not then you might just be a chronic procrastinator. Whether you feel held back by anxiety, perfectionism, or boredom, procrastinating can have negative impacts on all areas of life.

It can inhibit your growth, stop you from progressing at work, and dent your self-confidence when dealing with others.

However, it’s entirely possible to overcome the tendency to procrastinate, and we’ll show you how. In this article, we’ll explain how to understand and implement a 2-minute rule that will help you become more productive. We’ll also explain the underlying psychology of procrastination, helping you understand why you sometimes get stuck in a rut.

We’ll offer some extra tips to help you get the best out of your time.

What Is Procrastination?

First, let’s get really clear on what procrastinating is and what it involves. On the most basic definition, procrastination involves putting something off without a particularly good reason.

This might be in personal or professional life, and it occurs even when the thing you’re putting off is important. Procrastination examples include reading your social media feed instead of completing a work project, sorting out something minor in the home instead of engaging with another person, or playing games when you know you need to do a chore.

Crucially, putting something off for a good reason isn’t procrastinating. For example, delaying something to go to a family emergency isn’t procrastination, and nor is it taking time to prioritize self-care.

The vital ingredient in procrastination is a kind cognitive dissonance – you want to do the thing, or know you should do it, and yet you find ways to avoid it.

Why Do We Procrastinate?

Now, if you’re like most people then you’ve probably procrastinated a lot – in fact, you might even have done so in the last day, or even in the last hour.

But why do we do this? Experts in psychology say that a range of factors may be salient. For example, for some us there’s an underlying perfectionism – we worry we won’t be able to do a good job.

When we worry about not doing a good job we tend to hold back on trying at all. This is a kind of self-sabotage that ensures we don’t do our best work, but that gives us a reason to pin this on – after all, we left the project too late.

For others, there’s an underestimation of how much work or attention something needs, or there’s a belief that we need to be exactly in the right frame of mind in order to engage with a particular task.

But let’s dig a bit deeper into some of the psychology of procrastination.

The Psychology Of Procrastinating

Research shows that when we procrastinate, we tell ourselves stories to make sense of our behavior and rationalize it.

In other words, we make ourselves believe that what we’ve done was okay, or inevitable, which can hold us back from making positive changes in the future.

For example, one study conducted on a group of students revealed a range of beliefs in the psychology of procrastinators.

Many of them reported that they didn’t know what to do or didn’t know how to do it, effectively placing the blame elsewhere.

Meanwhile, lots of the participants also indicated a genuine belief that they worked under pressure – they were in the habit of last-minute contemplation, and thought it served them well.

Yet more reported not caring about what they were doing or the results of failing to do it, suggesting that procrastination is sometimes associated with committing to things we don’t really want to do.

Far more common than not being invested, however, is getting caught up in worries about not being good enough. When we think there’s nothing we can do to live up to our expectations or the expectations of others, we stop ourselves from engaging entirely.

What Are The Effects Of Procrastinating

While the above research largely concerned students, procrastination impacts us at all stages of our lives. In fact, some studies estimate that around 20% of adults in America qualify as chronic procrastinators – and this can have profoundly negative effects.

Mental health is one particularly important area that can suffer if you procrastinate a lot of the time. For example, some of the latest work of procrastination indicates that those who identify themselves as procrastinators sometimes feel relieved and less stressed.

At the start of a period of procrastination but ultimately end up much more stressed than their peers. Chronic procrastinators also report a higher rate of illness, though whether there’s a direct causal relationship here remains mysterious.

Procrastinating damages work relationships, it means that others take more work to compensate for your failure to complete tasks. This might be at home (e.g., with chores) or with work projects.

Perhaps more importantly of all, procrastination stops you from realizing your full potential. If you put everything off until the last moment, you never know how good you could be, what your full value is, and what your true purpose might be.

How Do I Overcome Procrastination

So, now you should have a more robust understanding of procrastination.

You now know what procrastinating is, where it comes from, how it can change your life and inhibit your success.

Let’s now turn our attention to the task of overcoming procrastination for good!

In this section, we’ll offer four tips that you can use to limit future procrastination, and then we’ll move on to a 2-minute rule that can revolutionize the way you think about tasks (both at work and at home).

Make Micro Commitments

Micro commitments are small, manageable commitments rather than intimidating large ones.

Often, you can break a large goal into small micro-commitments, thereby ensuring that the whole project gets completed.

For example, suppose you need to give a series of ten presentations at work. Try making a micro commitment to completing one this week, and then recommit to the next one the following week.

In addition, when you’re trying to beat procrastination, it’s smart to make the micro-commitments things that you’ll be held accountable for doing.

In other words, pick things that you absolutely have to do, such as time-limited events. It will be harder to back out of these or make excuses.

Stop Wasting Time

You might well think “If it was so easy to just stop wasting time, I’d have done it already.”

After all, most procrastinators are well aware of their habit, and of the fact they waste time. However, what you might not yet have tried are concrete strategies to stop wasting time.

One way is to schedule your day into chunks, assigning a task (or part of a task) to each. For example, the Pomodoro technique involves working for a 25-30 minute, then taking a five-minute break. This can help to keep you focused, and gives you a guarantee that a break is coming up soon.

Positive affirmations can also stop you from wasting time. Try repeating things like “I will use my time-wise today” when you wake up today. Meanwhile, accountability can help too. Perhaps you might make a pact with a procrastinating friend, and agree to report back on your productivity.

Reward Yourself Often

Overcoming procrastinating shouldn’t be focusing on times you’ve wasted or ways in which you feel bad about the past.

Try to link your new good habits with positivity by deliberately rewarding yourself for improving. Decide what your reward will be for each task you’ve undertaken, use this as an incentive to get through it.

This also helps to form new neural pathways in your brain, associating these tasks with pleasure and reward.

Note, too, that a reward doesn’t have to be big. It can be treating yourself to food, listening to your favorite song, calling a friend or watching something on YouTube.

It can help to associate bigger rewards with more overwhelming tasks, so try to think of something more substantive to reward yourself with when you do something like complete a huge work project, clean the whole house or do your taxes.

Stop Getting Distracted Easily

Finally, distractions are everywhere and they’re hard to resist.

They support procrastination, making it incredibly easy to go off-task and forget what you were supposed to be doing.

However, you have some power over distractions and their role in your life. Consider your phone, for example – you can put it in another room or turn it off until you are done.

There are features you can use that lock certain features of your phone until a set time has passed.

When it comes to the distraction of social media, it’s also worth asking you whether it’s playing a positive role in your life or whether you could stand to take a break. If social media is a source of envy and loneliness for you, you might as well break ties with it.

How To Overcome Procrastination With The 2 Minute-Rule

The above tips and techniques can go a long way toward helping you to develop new attitudes to tasks that seem intimidating, boring or difficult.

However, perhaps the most effective method at all is the two-minute rule, derived from personal development author James Clear’s book “Atomic Habits”. We’ll walk you through the basics, and you can start applying the rule today.

The idea is to stick to the rule that a new habit should take less than two minutes to do. This might not sound right at first, but you’ll find that if you challenge yourself then you can turn almost any activity into a two-minute version.

For example, “Exercise every day” can become “Do 25 star-jumps”, and “Study for your exam” can become “Revise one page.”

While in the long term you’ll need to do more, the idea here is that the two-minute rule makes the new habit far easier to start, helping you to establish it. After all, anyone can exercise, read or meditate for two minutes.

You can think of these (In Clear’s terms) as “gateway habits” – starting habits that make it that much easier to keep going and to do more with your time.

For example, your end goal might be to lose 5kg, but your two-minute starting habit could activate your workout gear. This, in sum, is how you apply the two-minute rule to your life.

Why Does The Two Minute-Rule Work?

Now, why does the two-minute rule make such a difference?

Are these small changes really so productive? The reason the two-minute rule works well is that it helps you hone the skill of showing up. It helps you establish a healthy habit, which is actually the hardest part of the whole process.

It sets the scene up as easy, low-stakes and possible, instead of intimidating or difficult.

As you get used to doing these specific things for two minutes, these couple of minutes become just the start of that day’s activity.

You begin to think things like “Well, I meditate for two minutes every day, so I might as well go for ten and enjoy the benefits of that.”

In addition, sticking to two-minute habits helps to show you that you can be the person you want to be. For example, exercising for two minutes every day proves to yourself that you can stick to a workout every day. And once you know that about yourself, a world of possibility opens up.

Stop Procrastinating With Self Hypnosis

While all the above advice is helpful and can turn you into a productive person who happily works through tasks, there’s more you can do to ease the transition into new habits. Specifically, why not try self-hypnosis to stop procrastination? Using a recording that helps you enter into a deeply relaxed state in which you’re highly receptive to suggestions. With this, you can begin to rewrite the beliefs and impulses that have been holding you back. For some people, even just one self-hypnosis session leads to remarkable changes in feelings and behaviors.

If you’re new to hypnosis, don’t worry – it can’t make you do anything you don’t want to do. Rather, it supports you in changing your life, by getting into your subconscious mind and helping to rewrite limiting beliefs. Whether fear of failure, perfectionism or self-doubt is holding you back, self-hypnosis for procrastination can help you take that first step into acting and thinking differently.

Retrain yourself to become more productive and motivated to achieve your maximum potential using hypnosis to stop procrastinating.

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(TMU Op-ed) — The Matrix is big money these days. Not the movie so much (although a 4th installment is planned), but rather the Simulation Argument—the idea that we’re living in an advanced computer program or video game.

And the resulting rabbit hole has inspired countless viral articles that accrue major page views all across the web, with the subject itself being debated on prestigious stages by some of the world’s most renowned thinkers and physicists.

Tech magnate and entrepreneur Elon Musk made headlines in recent years when he openly stated he believed we live in a simulation. He was quoted saying he thinks there’s “a one in billion chance we’re living in base reality.” In other words, he thinks it’s astronomically more unlikely that we’re not living in a simulation. He said the game No Man’s Sky further convinced him of this reality. To him, the question is “What’s outside the simulation?”

In a 2017 interview, Musk expanded on his views with a tweet to the Twitter account belonging to the show Rick and Morty:

“The singularity for this level of the simulation is coming soon. I wonder what the levels above us look like.”

The singularity for this level of the simulation is coming soon. I wonder what the levels above us look like.

Good chance they are less interesting and deeper levels are better. So far, even our primitive sims are often more entertaining than reality itself.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 5, 2017

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Where did such technomanic confidence in a real-life Matrix come from? The original Simulation Argument was penned by Nick Bostrum in 2003, though he started speculating on the end result of a Technological Singularity in 2001. He projected, that with our current rate of technological advancement, it is likely that advanced simulations will be increasingly common in the future, and thus it is likely we are actually in one of those simulations.

When the Simulation Argument first came out I was in college, around the time I already felt like I was living in some kind of dystopian movie in which war criminals could be re-elected to a second term as president and an unstoppable corporatocracy could suck the life and data out of a complacent populace.

Now, 15 years later, it seems we’re at enough inflection point, although this time it’s not just about one issue: with climate change looming, economic collapse imminent, and mindless nationalism seeping back into the global order, it’s as if we’ve hit a cultural singularity of destruction and apocalypse fetishism.

It makes total sense that such a hypothesis would become so popular in this environment. How could this reality be real? It almost makes more sense that this is a simulation. It’s soothing to think this is all some sick experiment by a sadistic posthuman AI or an extraterrestrial youth on higher-dimensional amphetamines and hallucinogens.

But it was hard to predict that such an outlandish concept could become so mainstream that actual scientists were subscribing to it—and actually running experiments to prove it.

However, in recent years, that’s exactly what has happened. A team of German physicists used a field called lattice quantum chromodynamics to create a mini-simulation of a sliver of the universe to see if it has the same kind of arbitrary constraints, such as high energy particles seen in the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin or GZK cut off.

Theoretical physicist S. James Gate claims to have found a surprising and highly unusual code in his research into string theory. He says that, embedded deep within the most fundamental equations that outline our cosmos, he found self-dual linear error-correcting block code. Essentially, he says there are error correcting 1s and 0s bound up inside the superstrings that constitute the core of our reality. Though Gate was a skeptic on the simulation idea, this discovery shook him.

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A new book by Rizwan Virk expands upon Bostrum’s original idea and then takes it to the next level, as he wonders about the nature of our existence within the simulation.

“Probably the most important question related to this is whether we are NPCs (non-player characters) or PCs (player characters) in the video game,” Virk said in an interview with Vox.

“If we are PCs, then that means we are just playing a character inside the video game of life, which I call the Great Simulation.”

Virk argues that the mysterious findings in quantum mechanics—namely that the universe seems to be largely quantum potential and not fixed reality until a human observes it—are consistent with video game rendering logic. “The cardinal rule,” he says, “is the universe renders only that which needs to be observed.”

The cultural influence is significant, too. As we careen toward a frighteningly uncertain future, the temptation to engage in newer, proto-technologist forms of escapism grows stronger. The downstream effects of the Simulation Argument are becoming more clearly defined as a traditional religious psuedo-science, with YouTube videos of people claiming you can hack reality and reprogram your mind to live in the universe of your choosing.

One hacker, George Hotz, is so convinced we’re living in a simulation that he’s created a church for it, his goal being to figure out how to hack the simulation and escape into a new reality.

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“It’s easy to imagine things that are so much smarter than you and they could build a cage you wouldn’t even recognize,” George stated, adding that the solution is to “jailbreak the simulation,” and either meet our makers or destroy them.

It’s hard to say whether such ideas are productive or dangerous. It’s unlikely Bostrom—who claims he had not seen The Matrix before writing his seminal paper on the hypothesis—could have ever imagined his idea would become so firmly embedded in the zeitgeist. He also likely could not have imagined the all-encompassing, dystopian nature of the surveillance grid we would live in nearly twenty years later.

People increasingly feel like they’re losing control of not only their own realities, but the collective, consensus reality we live in. It’s enticing to believe there’s a larger mystery governing the laws of this insanity. It’s enticing to view consciousness as some kind of reality-hacking, non-biological buzzsaw slicing through the quantum ether.

But at the end of the day, perhaps our minds are just the unlikely interfaces between chaos and energy. Given the unlikeliness of existing at all, maybe that should be enough.

By Jake Anderson | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com

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