GPT4 says.
I recently began exploring BING CHAT, Microsoft’s implementation of OpenAI’s GPT4 product. I am curious about what it will says about topics that interest me.
A Course In Miracles (ACIM)
This morning, I asked GPT4 some questions about ACIM which I read and practiced, and for which I led a study group nearly thirty years ago.
The answers it provided were not particularly illuminating. This is likely because the common belief about ACIM is quite superficial in the same way that its reputation was during that New Age era (the 1970s). While it had a profound and lifelong impact on me and my thinking about consciousness, ACIM was mostly a fad that passed quickly for that majority of its former fans.
Next, I asked GPT4 :
“What does Gene Balfour write about consciousness?”
Answer.
Gene Balfour is a writer who has written about consciousness on his blog “My Life Lens” on Substack. In one of his posts, he describes consciousness as “the lens through which we engage with Life and its many circumstances” and that “Free Will enables our Choices as participants in Life” 1. In another post, he writes that “Consciousness is God. Nothing exists but God. Everything exists in Consciousness as a dream. There is no space because space cannot exist in a dream. There is no time if there is no space” 2
I recently completed the first draft of a new ebook to be called “God is Consciousness”. It tells the story of my personal evolution from the beliefs I held as a Catholic boy in the 1950s and 60s to what I believe today. I man left organized religions by age 16 and only look back to identify that “aha” moments that shaped my ideas today.
Life Lens is universal.
Of course, my life journey has been unique to me and it informs and explains my choices. This development of one’s own life lens is equally true for all human beings. It's how their metaphysical beliefs are shaped, whether they be religious, atheist or “alternative” like mine.
As a Libertarian, I respect the choices that others make as long as they don’t insist on imposing them on me. I wish that were true of many deeply religious people I have met who consider me to be some kind of heretic with “unacceptable ideas” who must be silenced, censored and ostracized from the public sphere.
The recently passed federal bills which restrict and punish free speach in Canada is as un-Libertarian as one can get. I can’t wait for the day that voters wrest the anti-democratic, authoritarian bull whip from the grubby hands of the current Liberal regime in Ottawa.
ACIM says a ‘miracle’ is a “change in perseption”. If I were a praying man, I would pray for a nationwide miracle to take place in the minds of all electors such that they overwhelmingly choose political leaders and representatives who will faithfully protect all Canadians from the greatest threat we all face - too much government. Until that miraculous day, this threat will continue to worsen and inevitably push our nation towards a day of reckoning that no one will want.
