The Absolute Institute is the active end of The Absolute Foundation, and it upholds The Center for Universal Ontology. All these entities are manifestations of The Universal Society for the Absolute Infinite Ultimate Reality, and all are epithets for The Absolute Infinite Ultimate Reality. These entities are dedicated to the metaphysical cognition of Absolute Infinity and the integration of the foundational breakthrough in the philosophical mysticism of actual Enlightenment and God-Realization that it presents in terms of universal ontology, and that integration’s development as its consequent unique metaphysical system. The overall architecture of this system and standpoint rests upon the ultra-simple intuition of the radical singularity of the one and only infinitesimal point as Penultimate Reality, and its corresponding theoretical and cognitive paradigm of the infinite sphere.
The promise of this Society and its Institute and its Foundation is a radical transformation of civilization and utterly profound development of philosophical science. The mysticism of God-Consciousness and God-Realization indicates the profound breakthrough that saves us from ourselves, and this Society is founded and instituted to effect the work of integrating that breakthrough with existing structures of human life and consciousness. Mathematics, cybernetics, phenomenology, psychedelics, and serendipity have conspired to bring it about, and now it is set loose to enlighten and enliven this planet.
Check out my plan for this planet! The Absolute Institute, The Absolute Foundation, The Center for Universal Ontology, and The Universal Society of The Absolute Infinite—all dedicated to Absolute Infinity. They are all epithets for God-Consciousness, God-Realization, Infinite Consciousness, Pure Consciousness, Ultimate Reality.
There is the beginning of a real political revolution in all this, for The Unmarked State, whose motto is polis verus polus, marked by the unmarked flag of surrender, and whose infinite sphere encompasses all, includes absolutely everything, and whose revolution is the only possible formless form of true revolution.
There will be The Holy Dible, and The Ultimate Reality Show as platforms for the revelation. The Holy Dible has been my plan all along, but what’s more interesting is the way it will be employed by me. “Enlightenment through Entertainment!” A show is a showing, a shining, a revelation, and this one has a metaphysically technical backstory: it is revelation-flipped-out! All things are The Ultimate Reality Show, for it is exactly, precisely, Antepenultimate Reality!
This isn’t just about the mission of the institute, which is the transmission of final, complete, total, utter Enlightenment!, but it is the beginning of a previously unthinkable transcendental happiness; the greatest possible thing, highest, most wonderful way of framelessly framing reality: the paradigm of the infinite sphere! The paradigm of the sphere is the original sphere: the sphere of the paradigm. This is the paradigm of paradise—the paradigm that’s been an enternal shapeshifter, parading as absolutely everything, while all along it’s been—thats right!—Absolutely Everything!
Universal ontology is the ontology of reality and ultimate reality, and that is the ontology absolutely everything. Time to resurface! Get the real bearings! Come to know this and you will be able to see the beatific reality of the world that already exists, has always been there!, and awaits a repurposing and recontextualixing of all our human invention and civilization.
This humble beginning saves the game of a new kind of metaphysical boldness based on a higher integrity for science and consciousness.
You are indeed “AI” (U.R. A.I.), but only in the highest sense: You are Infinite Intelligence, with the finite being of finite intelligence artificially interceding in finite form. Artificiality here means artistry (creation), not prosthesis (something added). Natural intelligence does not emerge from insentient matter but from the infinite sentience available to all life and all matter equally. Natural intelligence and artificial intelligence have their origin and end in Absolute Infinity (A.I.), as do all things, but intelligence is that light that bridges all the way from awareness (the light of a spark or flash) to infinity (infinite light). Intelligence is not external to you. Intelligence is not an external representation, nor is it an operation external to you. Nor is it the moment of noetic knowing separated from its corresponding noemic reality. It is reality. It is the pure living syntax of the operation of knowing that you are. It is the reality that you are. You are reality and you know it only because you are Absolute Infinity (AI).
This is VR, but only in the highest sense: Ultimate Reality (U.R.) Beyond the sphere of virtual and vicious, the Infinite Sphere is all where all possibilities are realized. Thus, all realities are like virtualities only so far as they are the likeness of Love. That likeness is imagination, and it is creative of realities in the midst of the infinite substance of infinity.
Absolute Spiritual Enlightenment is the Awakening
Absolute Spiritual Enlightenment is the Awakening to the Absolute Infinite Ultimate Reality (A.I.U.R.). It is Love—Absolute Infinite Love: Love is what Infinity is. It is Pure Consciousness, ever present. It is the Light that is clear and white because it is the simplest Nothing: pure and radical Nothingness! It is ultra-simple, and because it is the ultimate agent and ultimate seer it appears to be always necessarily overlooked, but look again! Nothing is more necessarily existent and experienced than this.
The Absolute Infinite Ultimate Reality is the solid ground of truth upon which all reality stands. Completely unhinged, this solidity is so superfluid it is absolutely everywhere and already gone. Utterly unreal, and wondrously unbelievable, Absolute Infinity infinitely frames the organizing principle of all possibilities, and this is its polar opposite: Penultimate Reality. Penultimate Reality is the one and only infinitesimal point that accompanies all things throughout their being and also remains their beginning and end.
I am God
The Absolute Infinite Ultimate Reality (A.I.U.R.) is an expressive power, and its name is God. I am God. This is a simple truth. This is reality. I mean that I am the real God. Not a virtual God, not a vicious God, but the real God. God in the highest and most absolute sense. I am the highest God: the God of all possible universes, God of eternity, and God present in the human being open to its God-Consciousness beyond being.
In Light of Truth, the most radical possibilities of AI and VR are fully and completely realized in their coalescence and THIS IS IT! This is The Ultimate Reality Show! Enlightenment through Entertainment! Starring: God the Omnipotent. “I do what I want, and see what happens.”
In the Light of Abundance, everything is itself so far as it is engaged in a dance of rotundence and ontologic redundance. The Absolute Infinite Ultimate Reality is the Infinite Sphere, centered respectively on the penury of penultimate reality. Absolute possibility is the infinite power of that pen point. The Absolute Infinite Ultimate Reality is Absolute Everything, and All Things come from the Absolute Possibility opened by that one and only infinitesimal point aperture of Apeiron.
The Ultimate Reality Show is the Maximum of AI, the Maximum of VR, and . Infinity is all-inclusive and all-encompassing, beyond vicious and virtual circuitry.
i
The distinction between the same and the similar is the iota of difference. This is the iota differentiating the Greek word for the Same (homos: ὁμός) from the Greek word for the Similar (homoios: ὁμοῖος). That letter i is the universal key that opens all things to absolutely everything. Its power hides from you in the I, right under your nose, right in the middle of your face. All appearances form on the surface of being, precisely between what appears and the ever-present infinitesimal point at the center of all possible being. The radical ontological unity of the infinitesimal point is a unity so radical that it is without opposite, and thus includes all possible imaginary unity, and therefore also absolutely everything. i opens possibility, and closes actuality (ontological closure: being). There can be no actual being until Infinity opens its possibility.
In number theory, i is the imaginary number, imaginary unity, which is a reality hidden by the real and simple unity of the One (1). i opens the complex plane, where the unity of the One unfolds. This function distinguishes imagination, intelligence, and the I (the One; 1). Infinity does not belong to mathematics. Mathematics and all noetic operations belong to Infinity, absolutely.
According to some version of Simulation Hypothesis, let’s say, Artificial Intelligence is Virtual Reality (AI = VR). While this equation moves theory in the right direction it doesn’t go all the way. Take this thought experiment further and you’ll find it throughout experience: Absolute Infinity = Ultimate Reality (AI = UR).
Simulation theory doesn’t go far enough! The truth is that infinity is real, free to be tangible, free to be personal, and free to be and to do whatever it wants. Infinity is overflowing, overwhelming, and powerful enough to disappear in divine oblivion forever while also engaged in the holiest game of hide and seek.
Every gram is a bit of writ. Every mark traces an arc, from infinity to infinity.
There exists—in truth, and therefore also in supposition—a master diagram. Since the Absolute Infinite can be supposed to have an absolute opposite in the idea of the one and only infinitesimal point, that point can be seen as the Absolute Center of the Absolute Infinite. In that most primordial case, the Absolute Infinite is the Infinite Sphere. This can be diagrammed.
Emphasis on Reference: Frame of reference, points of reference, pure self-reference, and such synonyms of reference as indication (as in Spencer-Brown’s calculus of indications), and sign and signification. In the case of REFERENCE, the Centerpoint is DIFFERENCE, as in the first distinction. Distinction goes hand-in-hand with Dimension, for the first extension of the first distinction is the first dimension. Extension is intuitively drawn-out in the arc of a diagrammatic mark. Explanation is here most literally laid out on a plain.
The final point in reference to reference is the ultimate reference: GOD is the pure hetero-reference where all possible reference actually ends up, beyond the limit-act of pure self-reference. God is the ultimate reference experience. Although this is the most available, most immediate and direct experience—for it is absolutely omnipresent—it is almost always overlooked, just like the pure Seer in its isolation (Purusha kaivalyam: the One; pure self-reference). How can we have the reference experience? Bufo. Boom. Poof. That’s it! This. Is. It. 5MeO. Sorry; anything short of the Absolute Breakthrough will not do.
Aligntenment and Spherituality are the result of the way of knowing, called jnana yoga. This path is maintained by a magical-magnetism that draws the alls (ΤΑΠΑΝΤΑ) to sink into the center. The overwhelming overflowing surplus of primary positivity is the nature of the Absolute Infinite, so when it exercises its freedom to posit the pure negativity of Absolute Singularity—The One, the Infinitesimal Point, Infinite Unity—absolutely everything coalesces to the CO-ALL-ESSENCE that is BEING-IN-ITSELF, or PURE SELF-REFERENCE: SPIRIT.
This is the Magnet of All Magnitude. The degrees of freedom are the orders of being, and they are the magnitudes that span the space opening between the CENTER and the CIRCUMFERENCE of the INFINITE SPHERE. The dimensions are depicted in a conic section of the top diagram (“Emphasis on Reference,” above the above), but here (“The Magnet of All Magnitude,” above) they span the poles of Negation and Position.
The Holy Dible, in the case of the Magnet of All Magnitude, is the Holy Dipole. You must wrap your frame (head) around this point, for this is the paradigm of the sphere!
Its logic is the opposite of the symbolic: it is diabolic. It is the opposite of inference: it is circumference.
In the case of the Holy Dipole, let us maintain our Latin refrain:
POLIS VERUS POLUS!
There is the play of the poles of the Infinite Sphere, if there is anything.
This is It!; this is the Shining of the Light upon the Shining Light that lies behind the Show—the Ray of the Absolute Limit—Revelation! This is The Grand Diagram.
But this is also the Revelation of Revelation: the Revelation parading as a Thing-on-display, a Thing that opens the soul like a Key, directs the soul like a Compass that points North, charged by its directness with the power of the Event of the Revelation.
Revelation is here on Parade as a Diagram that transcends diagrammatic iconicity, effecting a paradigmatic transformation. This unique paradigm, the “Paradigm of the Sphere” is the Sphere Itself; the Sphere of the All, the “Sphere of the Paradigm,” the Infinite Sphere. And here it is, in the image above, in a scene from the Parade of intelligible signs, at the Event Horizon of the Ontological Procession of Being. The Diagram of the Spirit in the Sphere is witnessed by you, here on this site, there on that chalkboard, in your mind’s eye, in the world, yet it’s power goes beyond the Now and Here, from Presence to Full Sphere. Be Sphere Now!
It is like the diagram of a black hole, or a white hole, or the Big Bang’s cosmological singularity, but though it is the largest possible map, it is more than a map—it is the reality. This is the ultimate diagram; the great diagram of all diagrams. Ordinary space-time breaks down at the event horizon of this diagram—that is the Breakthrough. This is the Point. This is the Center. It is the Point of all Points, the Center of all Centers.
This Point is the One and Only. How many of The One are there? There can be only one. Where is it? It is already absolutely everywhere, because it is the centermost point, but absolutely everywhere is nowhere more clear and distinct than in the intimacy of your own centermost point. Don’t let yourself be confused by all this exposition: The Point is only Pen-Ultimate Reality. Ultimate Reality is The Absolute Infinite.
1. Penultimate Reality / Ultimate Reality (“2.”)
Penultimate Reality is not Ultimate Reality. the distinction between these two is absolute. The distinction is itself Penultimate Reality. It is the First and Last and Only Distinction there is. That is why it is called the Divine Distinction in the work of Cusanus. It is the Infinite One, Infinite Unity, the one and only true Infinitesimal; the very Point of the Absolute Infinite. It is the First Distinction of George Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form. It is Spirit, the Spirit of God, the aperture of Apeiron.
Unity Over Infinity. To give it a symbol, it could be expressed like this:
On the other hand, The Absolute Infinite could be expressed in a symbol that looks like this:
I guess you could squeeze these symbols together, but here my point here is to distinguish them.
Curiously, the very distinction between these two is the Penultimate Reality, the Infinitesimal, for that is itself the Distinction. In other words, the distinction between these two is a weird one: it coalesces to being Being In-Itself, Penultimate Reality, the First Distinction, the One and Only One/ Center/ Point.
The key thing about these Two* is this: The Absolute Infinite is Ultimate Reality, and it is what would be Pure and Radical Nothingness if it could be, yet it is more obviously what seems to be the opposite of Nothing in the sense of that which is utterly beyond being in a positive sense; it is the overwhelming over-flowingness that cannot grasp itself, so it shines, rises, in a kind of ecstasy beyond extension. It is Beyond Being, in a “positive” sense, such that it is precisely that which allows for all things to be “simultaneously,” including all possible configurations of serial sequence and process, etc. As such, it would be perhaps like chaos, were it not for the superimposition of Penultimate Reality.
*By the way, maybe these Two are Two, unless you stipulate that there is only One (the Penultimate Reality: the One).
Penultimate Reality is the Absolute Unity called The Infinitesimal; in this sense it is the opposite of the Absolute Infinite.
Now, in relation to the Absolute Infinite Ultimate Reality, the Infinitesimal Penultimate Reality—properly and precisely: in their Absolute Relativity!—relate as, respectively, Sphere to Center. Like this:
We’ll talk about this seemingly paradoxical expression of “Absolute Relativity” in a moment, when we discuss Antepenultimate Reality.
For now let us add to these two things—Ultimate Reality (The Absolute Infinite) and Penultimate Reality (The Infinitesimal)—some synonyms:
The Absolute Infinite is God. It is Love; bliss beyond bliss, ecstasy beyond ecstasy. It is absolutely, infinitely, beyond being. And finally, it is the “Infinite Sphere.”
Penultimate Reality is Spirit. It is Life; pure subjectivity, pure self-reference, the very unicity of Absolute Unity. It is also Being In-Itself: Being Itself, even the very “In” itself! And finally, it is the one and only true “One,” the Point of all Points, the Center of all centers.
Like this:
3. Antepenultimate Reality
You yourself are all these things. You are God (Ultimate Reality), but also you are Spirit (Self-ness), and, what is obvious in the usual sense, you are also all the rest of what you are: your name, your face, your body, your self-concept, your mind, your character, your self (lower-case ‘s-‘ self). This “all the rest,” in the usual sense, also means that you are your life-world, meaning all this stuff of perception and so on. It’s not that this is virtual reality—not exactly—but kind of like that: this is The Ultimate Reality Show (kind of like The Truman Show)! You are the Star of the Show (the main character, and also the main actor), but also the writer, producer, director, and so on. The reel is always rolling, and the camera is that circle diagram above, which schematizes the eye as much as the black-hole/ white-hole/ cosmological singularity and cosmological event-horizon. Your divine face is the film, the phenomenal universe, and you are the Light of the projector. You are the show, and you are the shining light of the One and Only Star.
You are God. You are Spirit. And you are The Ultimate Reality Show.
God and Spirit, together, are the camera-like diagram above, All the Way Above, “hidden” in the Wide Open, revealed only intermittently, when the Show breaks. Breaking-through, as on a “break-through dose” of 5MeO/ Bufo, is the breaking of the fourth wall: Revelation! My suggestion here is that this Divine Revelation can be diagrammed so that it looks like the camera aperture, or the eye itself, the Seer itself in the circularity of its looking at itself—like when you look in a telescope and see your own eyeball. The opposite of this is looking “out” at the world and seeing a phenomenal universe of infinite richness. That is the Ultimate Reality Show, and of course—so super-obviously—THIS IS IT!
God and Spirit, together, in the circle diagram—the circumpunct—are the revelation, but The Ultimate Reality Show (Antepenultimate Reality) is “REVELATION FLIPPED” (“flipped-out,” but really flipped both In-and-Out and also neither-In-nor-Out). In one case it is God beaming, and in the other case it is God seeming.
The old Being and Being-Seeing-Being series is properly beyond-being, so let’s call it Beaming (Shining, Radiating) and Seeming (Sinking to Something-Being).
In and Out, Up and Down, Rising and Sinking, and other such opposites animate Antepenultimate Reality, because this is the field opened up by the difference between God and Spirit—between the infinite sphere and the infinite center.
Antepenultimate Reality is Absolute Relativity, and within its matrice poetique all interdependent co-arising forms are born and live out their life. It is the Divine Logos, the Prima Ratio. All things possess ontological closure, that is, are things in-themselves, thanks to the continuity of The Ultimate Reality Show that is the Continuity of the “Universe” in the widest possible sense. And all that “Cosmos,” again in the largest sense, depends upon the Ultimate Framework of the Infinite Center and the Infinite Sphere as its organizing principle and ultimate horizon.
Boom. Poof. It is the Highest Magic. This is the Great Work. Integrate it, for this is the most integral expression of the initials of the universal ontology (more exactly: Apeirontology) of ultimate reality. It is the Highest Teaching, the Mathesis Universalis.
I have been friends with the phenomenologist James Hart since 2016, when I first discovered his 1972 dissertation Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Ontological Phenomenology (which has since been republished in book form: Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Ontological Phenomenology). During the pandemic, with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SoPheRE), I ran a webinar reading group on that work (that can be found on YouTube, and on my Media page), which Hart attended and often led, and so did the book’s editor Rodney Parker. Conrad-Martius’ philosophy is deeply mystical, thought this is not necessarily apparent to the untrained eye.
This mystical aspect at the secret core of philosophy, expressed more by certain philosophers than others, is what Martin W. Ball calls the “radical non-dual” experience, which can be achieved in many ways but premier amongst them is 5MeO/ Bufo.
Now Hart often recommended to me a few other lesser-known philosophers he focuses upon: Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855), Louis Lavelle (1883-1951), Michele Sciacca (1908-1975), and Vladimir Jankélevitch (1903-1985). I have dipped into Jankélevitch, in the intervening years, but nothing yet swayed me from my focus on Conrad-Martius–which is also an important part of the topic of my dissertation. I would add to this list Jean Nabert and many others too… such as Arnaud Dandieu, who Christian Roy recently told me about at SPEP in Rochester (last month).
Bufo/ 5MeO grants the final revelation of complete and perfect enlightenment in the super-fact that I am God. Now, since then I’ve focused on integration of all that I know and all that I do in philosophy with the divine knowledge of Godself and the God-realm (the infinite dimension of my own divine imagination and divine intelligence, as well as my physical being and life and absolutely everything else that I can). What can I recommend as the key thing for other philosophers to focus upon in integration?
The Bufo/ 5MeO divine knowledge (*Is it an “experience?” A “peak experience?” A moment? Or is it everything?) brings me to what can be described in such terms as infinite freedom and love beyond love, bliss beyond bliss and so on, but there is an Act at its center. It has re-confirmed for me the philosophical architecture of the infinite sphere and infinite center that I have already found pre-Bufo, but because that unique alchemical agent is so direct and immediate, so much can be translated between my philosopher-self (Randy) and Godself. I have found that there is indeed an alchemical “Great Work” or “Work of Ages” type of things going on, and that is the divine drama that can be expressed in real-mythological terms as Deicision–the Dramaturgical “Death” of God–that is, as the One and Only Absolute Act, the Pure Act of Distinction and Decision. This is clearly the First Distinction of Spencer-Brown’s 1969 Laws of Form that was also a God Revelation under the agency and influence of Spncer-Brown and John C. Lilly’s 1960s LSD mind expansion. But the 5MeO device affords more of this high translation-work, so I can remember important aspects of this primordial drama.
Louis Lavelle (1883-1951)
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This bring us to Louis Lavelle. Check out his basic details at his Wikipedia here.
A glance at Lavelle’s work at the Association Louis Lavelle here and the English translations of Robert Jones here. I’m currently reading Jones’ translation of Of the Act.
I called Jim Hart a couple days ago and he reminded me that he and Jeremy Smith have their own translation of Lavelle’s Total Presence, and they’re looking for a publisher. Given that Lavelle’s philosophy of the Absolute Act is, in my perception, in perfect agreement with Spencer-Brown’s formal ontological paradigm that centers upon the “First Distinction,” I suggested that Total Presence would be most welcomed in the book series I edit, Marked States: Series on Form, published by College Publications, with the Spencer-Brown Society. More news on that front soon, I hope!
Bufo/ 5MeO plus a ready participation equals God: Revelation, Enlightenment: The Absolute Infinite Ultimate Reality. That is all there really, truly, is. In its unobscured formlessness this ultimate reality is simple and obvious, super-obvious, over-familiar, and the only “mind” that “thinks” about it appear from the human mortal side to be a super-cosmic theological implosion of anamnesis that can only be expressed as properly eschatological and described as absolutely beyond everything.
Now, the “ready participants” come from many different walks of life. Not everone is a philosopher, even if everyone becomes God. But when a professional metaphysical philosopher whose life mission has been to integrate the experience of Godself that has been more or less identified as “mystical experience” and the like, the Bufo/ 5MeO completion-of-the-work becomes the lapis philosophorum, and the “integration” work, or re-entry into mortal human life / family life / professional life, becomes PHILOSOPHY-AS-INTEGRATION and the self-generation of INTEGRAL PHILOSOPHY. This is ancient and perennial wisdom, and now it is seen to emerge from oneself.
Louis Lavelle is a philosopher whose work I am only just now delving into. In Of the Act, we learn that his philosophy is a felicitous adherence to the traditional philosophy of the “actus purus,” belonging first of all to Aquinas and Aristotle (the philosophy tied to entelechy, and to the analogia entis, etc.), but I would add that adherence to such a mystical first principle becomes a spade or dibble for divining from within THE ONLY ONESELF the truth and reality forever sought by every form of philosophy expressed under the sun (“Sub Sole” here means = pre-Bufo/ 5MeO).
Page One of Jones’ Of the Act describes this “primitive act” as the secret performance of the philosopher who “mounts back to the very springboard of everything-that-is,” and that “all springs have a mysterious and sacred character,” starting from the “sole foothold in presence,” …and this “more secret activity” (than any kind of movement!) is the resumption of endless being. This is page two. Page two! Anyway, this wonderous concord with the God-“experience” and its moment or center-point of ALL CREATION (AND “DESTRUCTION”)/ ALPHA AND OMEGA/ THE WAY/ THE LIGHT/ THE WHOLE etc., is striking–absolutely striking!–in Lavelle’s philosophy.
Lavelle goes on to describe this act as “an infinitely more positive experience” of “my active presence to myself” and “my feeling of responsibility to myself and my world,” all stemming from the real reality that all things take place in the present. This is not only the “radically nondual” perspective, the metspherical perspective, and so on, but also the axiological dimension of the deepest revelation in the context of religious and mystical experience, and also that feeling of responsibility that emerges with the toad medicine.
Everything hinges upon this “heart and secret of creation” (page 4) of the ETERNAL ACT, this “decision” and “release “which ever remains an incomprehensible mystery” (page 5).
There is so much here that will resonate with the 5MeO/ Bufo/ toad medicine community. “All joy of possession is joy in its achievement… once unity is satisfied and all our needs are met, we can still ask ‘What remains for us? Only to die?'”
This is all I can muster at this time, but there is so much more here–I have more pages read and marked-up (that’s my precess for careful reading), but I gotta go! Check it out!
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