I played with several approaches on how to solve the problem of this world. Of course, for people who are completely out of the loop, who don’t understand the overall context and are uninformed about what actually exists beyond this place, all of it will sound completely unrealistic, but let’s stop teaching kindergarten for a moment and ignore the completely ignorant people.

Let’s assume that the audience’s level of knowledge is on the level of the Gods or close enough. This means understanding of all Creation, understanding of how it’s all layered, what the laws are and how it all works, and the ability to direct consciousness in such a way as to realize specific goals.

Essentially, this means that you can perceive the Creation as split into more-less dense astral substance which begins with matter and ends with the mental plane, and supramental planes of Divine substances beginning with blue vajra and ending with whatever you call the manifested totality of God.

Physical matter feels very much like astral matter of a very, very low frequency, but modified with a “spell” of some kind, which imposed a specific set of rules. If you wanted an analogy, you could invent some kind of a virtual reality inducing immersion tank on the physical plane, which works by plugging a computer into your brain and putting your body in a Matrix-like tank, where you would be trapped inside a lucid dream you cannot wake up from. The analogy isn’t really good, but since everyone and their dog watched Matrix, I feel almost compelled to use it. What I actually want to say is that you can use the physical matter in order to produce a computer that simulates virtual universes – every decent game console or a graphics card can do it. This simulation is rather crude and poor compared to what you can perceive with your physical senses; the simulation is a narrowed-down experience compared to the direct sensory input.

The trick is, that’s exactly what yogis, saints and NDE survivors report, that they wake up in the actual reality compared to which this is almost concentrated limitation and suffering. The real world they report is a wider, richer experience, and the most realistic and parsimonic explanation for this is that their experience and reports should be taken at face value – we are indeed living inside a restricting simulated reality and one can get out by either failure of the physical brain to interface with the soul, or in rare cases by attaining spiritual experiences.

To set aside the question of who made this simulated world, with what reasons and why that was allowed, because I dealt with it in other places to the best of my ability, I will now go through my thoughts as they arose from the time I started figuring out the reality of the situation.

The first thing I did was to attempt to form a coherent model of the simulation – if I had to do something like this, how would I approach the problem? Basically, I needed to understand the necessary prerequisites and the general parameters of this place.

The first problem is, what is differentia specifica of this place compared to the deeper genus. Essentially, this is an astral world with additional constraints and limitations. “Physical matter” doesn’t exist as a completely independent category of reality or a universe, just as “videogame” doesn’t exist as a completely independent category of reality or a universe. It exists as a sensory illusion created by a computer, which is made of physical matter. I need to point out this precedent in order to show that something can be perceived as real, it can be interacted with, it can be immersive, and yet its actual nature can be wholly different from the perceived. What I’m saying that the illusion looks like this:

…and the reality looks like this:

Remember, this is merely an analogy whose purpose is to make a precedent, so that you wouldn’t think that the virtual reality engines that create one world-type within a completely different world-type are completely fictional and hypothetical. In fact, you are reading this on one such device. Furthermore, there are computer games in which you can play meta-games. You could play pool within the Duke Nukem 3d game, and you can play Gwent within the Witcher 3 game. Essentially, you can create an n-th order metasimulation, with each level of recursion creating a poorer, more limited experience.

Essentially, the theory is sound, the only point with which you could possibly disagree is whether it is actually true. On this, I can only point you to the already existing evidence that was mentioned above, and if that doesn’t convince you because it doesn’t correlate with your personal experience, I will just say that I have no personal experience of atoms but I still believe they exist because the theory, as I understand it, is sound.

I didn’t initially understand the problem in those terms; I started with the premise that this word exists in some way, and is different from other worlds that also exist, and the differences don’t make it better. In fact, the main difference seems to impose a “salary cap”, basically reducing all incarnated beings to a more-less fixed and invariable set of capabilities of the body. This essentially means that a generic astral soul and a God will have the same level of (dis)ability. One can call it an equal playing field, but I call it injustice, because what differentiates a God from a common person is that a God was working for millions of years to harness certain abilities and to become what he is. To take that away is like taking away an Olympic sprinter’s years of training so that he could compete “fairly” with a geek who didn’t train for a day his entire life. This isn’t fairness, this is injustice. Fairness is when everyone has what he earned with his efforts, not when everyone has the same regardless of the amount of effort invested. Fairness doesn’t look like some sort of cosmic communism. It looks like very strict laws of righteousness, and no glass ceiling or a safety net.

And that’s exactly what this world introduces as differences from the real world. It introduces a glass ceiling, prohibiting significant personal growth and instead encouraging formation of society, and it introduces a safety net of compassion, which saves those who have proven to be unworthy of salvation, and at the price of taking from those who are the most worthy and deserving.

Essentially, that makes it a shithole that is inherently in opposition to the nature of God and to the nature of reality that exists everywhere except here.

The pre-determined upper limits on the incarnation vehicle also make the beings vulnerable to the lack of resources and to external force. That sounds obvious, but it’s not normal. On an astral world you are completely impervious to outside forces. You are never hungry or thirsty, you cannot be damaged by heat or cold, and the only way someone can harm you is in proportional retaliation for some sin that you committed against him. Basically, your normally impervious defenses become porous if you offend someone, and that person can whack you in retaliation, but only to the extent of repaying for the initial offense, to the exact same degree, after which your defenses are impervious again because you repaid your debt. Essentially, in the astral world you cannot be forced to pay taxes or be imprisoned. You cannot be forced to obey others. You cannot be sold into slavery or raped or kept in someone’s cellar and tortured. It is physically not possible. The difference between this world and the astral world is what made it all possible. The difference is that this world is designed to promote and alleviate evil. For all intents and purposes, without this world evil would either not exist, or it would have no weapons other than persuasion and seduction; it wouldn’t have fangs.

As for the beautiful things in this world, they exist, but if you had any experience with the astral reality you’d know that they are all basically stolen from there, captured in restricted form and are merely a shadow and mockery. The actual introductions and innovations are exclusively the restrictions.

And here comes the point where I understood that I am in a position to actually do something about it, by redeeming this world-entity from its creator.

The first option was to leave it as it is and simply get the fuck out. I considered it and decided against it, because this place is a trap and its sole purpose is evil. It trains the souls in things opposite of useful for spiritual growth, and allowing it to continue without intervention, when able to intervene, would amount to sin by inaction. It was out of the question.

The second option was to modify it in such a way as to negate all the harmful effects it has, and allow free exit for those who feel like leaving and deserve such freedom. That would actually be very easy to do – simply restore the basic law-set that applies on the astral plane, which is to remove the salary cap, the glass ceiling. The beings that naturally have certain abilities and liberties stemming from their level of spiritual growth, would have abilities consistent with their status. Essentially, an incarnated God would have godly powers, and an incarnated animal-soul would have nothing but physical abilities, but would have to witness the existence of Gods in his world, and could no longer live in an illusion that he is anyone’s equal.

I actually thought this was an excellent plan and I developed it for a few weeks; I even said some things about it out loud, talking about my intent to “fork the species”, meaning of course that the removal of the glass ceiling, or the salary cap, would split the human species into the part that has only the basic human abilities, and the part that has godly powers, which would completely change the way the world works, most importantly by saving the incarnated higher beings from a submissive position that is currently imposed on them. They would simply no longer have to play under the inferior species’ rules and would create a society of their own, with laws of their own, and if the animalistic humans got any aggressive ideas, they would soon learn why people used to fear Gods. They would learn what it’s like to be an inferior species, which is a great thing because knowing you’re not worth much is a great incentive for growth.

The idea was, this place would be modified in such a way that the main source of injustice is removed, that the ways in and out are free for those who have the inherent ability to move between worlds and change shapes (which is actually quite common), and the “muggles” would be forced into humility of understanding their actual status, casting aside all egalitarian hogwash they are normally indoctrinated with.

And then I understood the truth. This modification would actually destroy this world in every meaningful sense. Everything that would remain would still be a reduction of the astral world without any worthy and significant contributions that make it worth keeping. That’s when I shrugged and got a glimpse of what needs to be done and what seems to be the Gods’ plan all along. This world will be destroyed and all the souls will then proceed to the fate they would naturally have according to the original law-set that is of God. That is the only just and proper outcome and I see that it is good.