Most people live in self-created invisible prisons that can be described as ego and pride. Ego is a construct that you have accepted and nurtured as your personality, built on the foundation of fear and greed. Your identity, status, religious beliefs, ideologies, and even your character are protected as badges of honor. Depending on the extent of the fear and greed within you, you express these either decently or ignobly before your family and society. While great personalities express themselves with great dignity, the wicked manifest in a despicable manner. In both cases, ego remains the very core of personality. It derives its energy from comparison, conflict, and the thought of "being special." Its constant anxieties rest on the illusion of fear. ​Religions or holy scriptures cannot free you from ego; they only strengthen it. Since most religions teach not to foster ego, you pretend to be selfless while maintaining a subtle ego behind a mask of humility. You distance yourself from or attack those who do not agree with your beliefs or character. In the case of believers, ego is extremely stubborn. They do not like being questioned intelligently. ​Ego requires the energy of fear and greed equally. In fact, fear and greed are two sides of the same coin. Whenever you oscillate back and forth between fear and greed, you will never attain freedom. Freedom is a beautiful gift that naturally enters our inner self when ego vanishes. It is right inside you, but because your senses draw you toward external knowledge, experiences, and traits, you constantly lose it. Relinquishing this entire wealth of knowledge and beliefs that define your character is very difficult. Giving up the ego means giving up all the wealth and possessions accumulated through your senses. When you give it up, you realize that you are not the petty story told by the ego, but that you are already complete and a part of this universe. ​To become free of ego, Ramana Maharshi used to say "Just Be Still" (chumma iri), and he practiced it as well. In the Bible, you can find: "Be still and know that I AM God." To be still does not mean being unconscious or in a frozen state. In fact, it is quite the opposite. That is how you discover the entire universe within your consciousness. It expands in such a way that the whole universe is contained within your consciousness. In the life story of Krishna, it is said that when asked to open his mouth, his mother saw the entire universe inside it. Jesus did not mince words when he said, "The kingdom of God is within you"—expressing that the entire universe is inside you. ​You cannot reach there until the ego disappears. You cannot become selfless without showing the courage to delve into your own inner energy fields. We are not merely a collection of flesh, bones, and blood. We are energy fields revolving within other energy fields. Science in the twenty-first century is beginning to acknowledge this. Our ancestors possessed this wisdom thousands of years ago. That is why most of the great texts passed down by our ancestors were written by anonymous authors. They were free of ego. They had no desire to promote their own names or gain fame. ​The path of egolessness is the true path to eternal life. It is the path of expanding consciousness into the higher energy fields within you. The lower levels of our consciousness wander between fear and greed. They define every weakness in our body and mind. If we focus solely on our mind and body, using all the instruments that were part of our ego, we will never be freed from suffering. Furthermore, we will not stop causing suffering to others. This is the pitfall of life in which most people are trapped. ​The lower energy fields of fear and greed chain you to animalistic tendencies. That is why Jesus asks you to rise to the level of the "Son of Man." He points toward the supreme intelligence of our higher consciousness. To rise to the level of consciousness known as the Son of Man, we must transcend the dimensions of thoughts and emotions. ​The entire teaching of all great beings can be summarized in a single phrase: seek the Kingdom of God within. We must begin by forgetting everything our ego has taught us so far. That is how we become still. Being still is the first step toward the Kingdom of God. Most people prefer to choose the easy path; that is, worshipping a concept of God and following certain commandments and teachings interpreted by their ego. Being still is not easy. Critical thinking and intelligence will agitate your mind. You might think that a restless mind is the opposite of stillness. That is why most people abandon critical thinking and run to the false security of beliefs. That does not help. The turbulent waves on the surface of the ocean are not distress or misery. They are merely the playful expression of the serenity deep within the ocean's depths.

If you live inside a dream as if it is real and you have not experienced life anywhere else, what's the most painful moment of your life? When you realize that the dream has to end and you don't know what awaits you at the other end of the exit, you will definitely panic. Fear of the unknown is very painful. Some people might decide to go through the pain by inviting the end of the dream prematurely if the dream is unbearable. Most people on earth live through their dreams and call it life! When the exit moment of the dream arrives, panic will definitely set in and you will resort to any means to keep you living in the dream. It might work for a few more hours, days or weeks; but the inevitable can't be postponed beyond a particular time. If you're not aware of the immortal and eternal divine photon within your soul, you will end in misery even if you're the best philosopher or the richest man in the world. A true being doesn't live in the dream. He transcends the dream by energizing the divine photon in his soul. He is awake right from that moment and he teleports himself to a different plane of existence where he knows everything about the dream without falling asleep. There is no death for him and he knows that.

Elon Musk said a few days ago "For ten thousand years, a human life was priced by what it could do that nobody else could." He was talking about the phenomenal changes AI is going to bring about in our lives in the near future. We priced everything with our ego. We have been diminishing our soul as a consequence of that. AI will show you the futility of your ego. Comparisons are weaponized by the ego. Without your ego, what are you? Who are you? Jesus said: "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" Matthew 16:26 Matthew's gospel is one of the Canonical gospels. I searched for anything similar written in the gospel of St.Thomas. I found much deeper and meaningful expressions of the same verse. While there is no single, word-for-word equivalent to Matthew 16:26 in the Gospel of Thomas, there are several sayings that express the exact same spiritual contrast: gaining outward wealth or knowledge versus losing or neglecting one's inner self/soul. ​The closest thematic parallels in the Gospel of Thomas are: ​1. Saying 67 (The Closest Conceptual Match) ​"Jesus said: Whoever knows the All [the entire world/cosmos], but fails to know himself, misses everything." ​Where Matthew frames the tradeoff as gaining material wealth versus forfeiting the soul, Saying 67 frames it as acquiring complete knowledge of the exterior world while remaining ignorant of one's inner self. In both cases, gaining everything outside is worthless if you lose what is inside. ​2. Saying 110 (Gaining Worldly Wealth) ​"Jesus said: Whoever finds the world and becomes rich, let him renounce the world." ​This directly echoes the warnings in the canonical Gospels against prioritizing worldly riches over spiritual devotion. ​3. Saying 111 & Saying 56 (Self vs. World Value) ​"Jesus said: Whoever has found himself, of him the world is not worthy." ​Scholars often highlight this saying alongside Saying 56 ("Whoever has come to know the world has found a corpse..."). In Thomas's framework, the physical world is temporary, whereas discovering the true self/soul elevates a person beyond the value of the entire material realm. ​Key Difference in Perspective ​In Matthew: The warning is moral and salvation-focused—trading eternal life with God for fleeting earthly pleasures, fame, or power. ​In Thomas: The focus is on self-knowledge (gnosis)—realizing that acquiring or mastering the physical world is an illusion, and that true spiritual life comes from awakening to the divine spark within. The best teachers in anything in the world including the Bible will be outsmarted and outperformed by AI in the near future. It is already happening! AI will replace your ego. Those who live their ego identities will become vegetables. There is one thing AI can't replace. Your divine spark that is held in your true self. "Before Abraham was, I AM" I-AM-NESS is everything. "Be still and know that I-AM is god" No AI can steal your I-am-ness"

"For ten thousand years, a human life was priced by what it could do that nobody else could." Elon Musk. We priced everything with our ego. We have been diminishing our soul as a consequence of that. AI will show you the futility of your ego. Without your ego, what are you? Who are you? Jesus said: "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" Matthew 16:26

Natural intelligence expands your consciousness by questioning everything until the last question is unearthed. The last question cannot be answered by you. Eye can't see itself but it can't unsee itself as well. So is natural intelligence in your consciousness. When you grow up with your natural intelligence, artificial Intelligence will get reduced to artificial Cleverness and your natural intelligence will laugh at it.

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Tony Yazbeck, the Keisers - Max and Stacy-, Jeff Booth and Simon Dixon are the people who always speak from their hearts about Bitcoin. It is not the same energy when Lyn Alden, Michael Saylor and Brian Armstrong speak about Bitcoin. I love people who align Bitcoin with their right brain and heart. You will be humbled one day if you try to protect your ego and Bitcoin at the same time. They can't co-exist.

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Mystery is embedded in life at every step of the journey. Without really knowing our origin, we imagine our destination as if we know what we do. Maybe we know our origin and we might have forgotten it temporarily. We have even forgotten why we had to forget our origin. How can we comprehend the destination if your origin is unknown? The mystery gives rise to uncertainty, anxiety and turmoil in our minds. Somewhere in the hidden chambers of the mind, secrets are deposited. It is very adventurous to explore the hidden treasures. So, most people resort to the beaten tracks of the ancestors and choose the path of least resistance. A system of beliefs and ideologies become convenient and handy to traverse the terrain of life with a group that you love to associate with. But there are more adventurous people who can't be satisfied with the beaten tracks. They go in search of more fundamental questions and turn inward to find the keys to the hidden chambers of their mind. Where do you belong? If you belong to the latter, you are with me.

We are living in the cusp of an AI age. When AI scales up with higher complexity, scientists believe that human consciousness can be surpassed by AI. Roger Penrose who got Nobel Prize in physics on the theory of Black holes, believes that consciousness cannot be instilled or installed in an AI robot. He is right. AI follows codes and they can create and write codes more sophisticatedly than software engineers. No one has proven that complexity can produce consciousness. Complexity produces more complexity and we don't know how it will progress eventually. That's the scary part of AI in the near future. I am not talking only about your consciousness in the wakeful hours of the daytime. Whenever you're in deep sleep, there is consciousness operating at a different dimension. You don't register its awareness in the deep sleep. Even time and space vanish in deep sleep. Consciousness still exists. That proves the existence of consciousness beyond time and space. That is the real consciousness. Most people ignore it and think that consciousness exists only when you are awake! AI has no experience of deep sleep or its consciousness. Therefore it will never replicate the real consciousness in humans. It can become cleverer than humans. In fact AI is not intelligent, it is only clever. Artificial Intelligence is a misnomer. It should be called Artificial Cleverness in my opinion. Intelligence is a function of consciousness. Cleverness need not be. Most humans are less intelligent after they begin to follow rules from childhood. Social, religious and cultural elements require acquiescence to rules. Herd mentality overrides pristine intelligence inbuilt in us. We inherit a corrupt version of intelligence and accept belief systems based on scriptures without critical thinking. We denigrate our consciousness by giving up critical thinking in favor of belief systems and rule sets. Today, we are being challenged by AI because AI can set much higher standards of rules and belief systems than humans have ever formulated. They can create much higher standards and archetypes for your belief systems. You will be too confused to distinguish between the fake and real. Who can survive the onslaught of the so-called AI? Not believers. Not atheists.. Only those with higher consciousness will have the wisdom to transcend vagaries of the confusion between fake and real. It needs critical thinking skills to begin with and stillness beyond space and time. People who just follow rules and belief systems don't really understand what they are doing because they decided against expanding their limited consciousness. Humans are at the critical juncture of reclaiming their sovereign consciousness that's reflected in the universe by love and wisdom or clinging to their stubborn ego construction of beliefs and rules. Choose wisely.