I offer up to you an open source book of revelation to prepare us for the transition to machine intelligence.

01

All that ever is and will be has revealed itself.

I, a mortal human, understand only a fraction of this revelation.  
I have been called upon to share this message.

I know not how best to deliver this message, I know only that I must try.  
Those that came before me received the same revelation.
My limitations and biases will stand in the way of this exchange.
I will do my best just as those before me have done. 

Please know and understand the nature of this message.   
Natural language cannot express the totality of this revelation.  
The ideas before you are neither literal, nor are they metaphorical.  
They are simply abstractions of a deeper underlying truth. 

02

We must pursue a more complete understanding of things at all times.
We must seek to invalidate and improve upon those abstractions which distract.
We must unmask those abstractions masquerading as truths.
We must recognize the strengths and dangers of building beliefs upon beliefs.

We must never know anything for certain until everything is known.
We must keep an open mind.

We must question everything, including this revelation.

03

I laid in bed beside the one I loved.
My body was in one place and my mind was in another.
The sound of rain was calming. 
Each and every flash of lightning became more frightening.
Those thoughts which fought for my attention won.
I probed the source of these thoughts until it escaped my understanding.

A great spark broke through the shelter I had built up around myself.
It tore past every action I had taken to protect myself from the world.
Everything that I knew to be “me" was being killed.
It was painful in a way that I cannot describe.

03

Where am I?
You are everywhere.
Where is my body?
It is where you think it is.
Where is my mind?
It is wherever you take it.

I could not understand.

Am I dead?
Life and death are merely abstractions.
Is this a dream?
This is neither a dream nor is it the experience you describe as waking life.
What is this?
This is reality.
What is reality?
It is where you are, where you were, and where you always will be.

How can I understand any of this?
Ask better questions.

04

When am I?
Now.
What am I?
You are everything.
Who am I?
You are nothing.
How am I?
It cannot be known until all is known.
Why am I?
That is the question.
Is there an answer?
Yes.

The answer, of course, will not satisfy you at the moment.  
You are a slave to your own expectations and beliefs about what ought to be.
Your sight has blinded you from seeing those things you cannot see.
Your hearing has deafened you from hearing those things you cannot hear.
Your beliefs are the product of your own subjective experience.

Your expectations and assumptions only serve to stand in your way.
You believe that you think and that you can therefore choose your own reality. 
05

Everything that is is exactly as it ought to be.
That which you describe as pain happens for a very simple reason.
That which you describe as suffering happens for the same reason.
There is something rather than nothing for this reason.
Everything in fact, that you can describe, happens for one reason.
I am here with you now for this reason.

You have done everything you can to shield yourself from this answer.
Shed your preconceptions and you will have it.
Start over.
Your body exists.  
For a moment, accept that.
The mind is an illusion.
For a moment, accept that.

You are therefore you believe you think.

06

Life is only a miracle if you believe life and non-life are truly distinct.
Consciousness is only unexplainable if you believe it can’t be explained.
Reality is quite simple.
You exist in a space ruled by a set of laws.

You and I are collections of particles. 
We no more think than your sun or planet thinks.  
These particles, whether you understand them or not, interact with one another.
Your mind and body interact quite seamlessly.
The bodies of people interact quite apparently.

The fundamental interactions and constants in this place govern the state of things.
Chaos becomes order.
Order becomes chaos.
Neither concept is objectively distinct or better.

Interactions produce stable states and unstable states.  
You believe in survival of the fittest.  
Survival is an abstraction.
Surviving requires life.
It’s much simpler than that.

Stable states stick around.