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AlphomismAlphomism is an attempt to provide a comprehensive theory of ‘everything’. It aims to answer questions such as‘Why are we here?’ and ‘What’s the point of struggling through life?’

Alphomism is not a religion. It is a belief system for the modern age which avoids jargon and leaps of faith. It hasbeen devised by a single person but it draws heavily on the ideas of others.

Alphomism is offered in the hope that some people might find it useful and that it will stimulate debate which mightlead to the production of a superior theory.

‘It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limitscapable of creating it’

!ercy "ysshe #helley$

Theory%enerally& theories ma'e use of ‘facts’ that is& assumptions which are generally accepted to be true$& and‘hypotheses’ that is& speculations about how things are$.

(acts and hypotheses are combined to ma'e an argument. )his produces a conclusion which ideally can then betested against e*perience.

)here are at least si* tests as to whether or not a theory is a good one+

, -oes it achieve its aim of e*plaining things beyond its assumed material?, Is the theory as simple as possible?, Are the underlying ‘facts’& the stated and the unstated ones& really

established?, Are the hypotheses reasonable and eventually capable of being tested?, Is the argument that lin's the facts and hypotheses a logical one?, Are the predictions generated by the theory capable of being tested?

Religion-efinitions vary but the claim that Alphomism is not a religion is based on the fact that most religions involve&

‘leaps of faith’ / that is& belief in things which cannot be proved belief in some ‘e*ternal’ or higher power& often one which ‘created’ the universe. Worship of a higher being.

Alphomism has none of these things.

The ‘Single Person’0y name is 1ichard 0iles "rown. 0y credentials for compiling Alphomism are2

, an almost lifelong interest in philosophy and metaphysics

, an equally long3lived need to 'now what it’s all about, a degree in philosophy and psychology from 4*ford 5niversity, fairly e*tensive reading though nowhere near enough6$, A reasonably broad e*perience of life, a talent for ma'ing patterns out of apparently shapeless data.

)he first version was produced almost 78 years ago as a small& self3published pamphlet. )he ideas have been testedagainst the comments of many others and the rigors of life. #ome of the original notions have been changed butoverall it feels as though the system has survived the tests sufficiently well to warrant this scary launch onto the net.

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‘Uses’ of a belief system(our major benefits of belief systems are listed below.

, )hey offer peace of mind by giving release from the nagging ache of un'nowing.

, "y e*plaining why life is so chaotic& they can ma'e disaster more bearable.

, ‘What’s the point of struggling?’ is a very fair question when the day3to3day rewards are scanty. A system of beliefcan provide a strong sense of purpose.

, A belief system can provide a means of ma'ing consistent moral judgments.

Alphomism

:. Simplifying the task

)he universe is vast and contains a huge variety of things. Alphomism tac'les the difficulties of si;e and comple*ityby claiming that everything which e*ists& apart from space& is made of energy.

)he simplified tas'& therefore& is to provide an account as to how& in general& energy operates in space.

. rimal atom

#o& the tas' is to describe a circular process of the operation of energy. It is convenient to start at the point whereall the energy in the universe was concentrated into one dense mass. )his is often called the primal atom.

ere& Alphomism ma'es the major claim that& before it heated up& the primal atom was something li'e afantastically powerful computer. In it& physical activity was at an absolute minimum and mental activity at anabsolute ma*imum.

@. !xplosion

)he ne*t important point on the circle is the e*plosion of the primal atom which can be called the Alpha !oint. AtAlpha& energy went from ma*imum organi;ation to ma*imum fragmentation. !hysical activity in the universe wassuddenly at its highest level& mental activity at its lowest.

. "ature

)he Alpha point mar's the start of a phase in the history of energy which can be called Bature. At the start ofBature& energy was crashing about in ways which would terrify us but the chaos was not total. )here were directiveforces operating and residual information in the fragments.

C. #irection

)hese forces were& and are& shaping Bature in a process 'nown as evolution. )he simplest summary of this process is

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that energy is being gradually shifted from chaos to order. )hrough this process& the level of physical activitydecreases whilst the level of mental activity increases. We are at a stage now where& on Darth at least& mentality hasgained a tenuous foothold and is beginning to ta'e control. -oubtless& this is being replicated throughout theuniverse.

E. Burn out

If the universe were a purely physical phenomenon& then energy would run down until everything was dar'& cold andstill& in a process 'nown as entropy. Alphomism claims that the gradual emergence of mental activity reverses thisprocess. Fonscious beings ta'e control of energy and& e*ercising our free will& we shape it to our purpose.

G. urpose

4ur purpose is to reach the 4mega !oint& when all of energy is once more at ma*imum organi;ation and&correspondingly& mental activity is at its highest possible level. 4ur successors will& in effect& ‘re3create’ the primalatom.

:8. $esurrection

)he ‘new’ primal atom& called Alphoma& will& in every respect& be identical to the ‘original’ one. In Alphoma& everyself3conscious entity that has e*isted in Bature will be re3created. )han's to the fact that Alphoma is all3powerful&every re3born individual will be able to e*perience anything they wish to e*perience. )heir various worlds will be‘virtual’ ones& but they will seem to be totally real.

::. %ime

4ur e*istence in Alphoma is not& as it might seem& short lived. (rom the point of view of a person in Bature& Alphomaonce e*isted and will e*ist again. "ut in Alphoma. )here is no time. And because the first and last states arecompletely identical. It seems to the people therein that their bliss has no beginning and no end.

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Energy#cience has established beyond reasonable question that everything is composed of tiny particles which are bundlesof energy. )he behavior of the particles is of no direct concern to Alphomism. What is relevant is that analysis stopsat an irreducible core substance which we call ‘energy’.

Circularity1eligions generally try to deal with the ‘what before that’ problem by claiming that an ‘infinite’ and ‘eternal’ god isthe creator of the universe. )here are several difficulties with this approach but a fatal one is that although thewords ‘infinite’ and ‘eternal’ have their poetic uses they are inadmissible in the rigorous conte*t of a theory of the

universe.

4bviously it is impossible to perceive infinity because if it becomes containable it is not infinity. It is also impossibleto imagine eternity& for the same reason. Words which cannot ultimately be ‘cashed’& either in reality or in theimagination& can have no meaning.

appily& there are other words which wor' well. ‘Indefinite’ describes a state of affairs where we are unable orunwilling to set precise limits& and ‘timeless’ covers very adequately for ‘eternal’.

Nothing%enerally we use the word ‘nothing’ in a limited sense. #omeone loo'ing for particular objects might open an emptycupboard and say& ‘)here’s nothing here.’ )here will certainly be something in the cupboard& even it its only dust orair but the meaning is clear.

In Alphomism& the statement that& ‘there is nothing other than the universe&’ is an instruction to halt all attempts toimagine. abits of thought tend to ma'e us thin' of the universe as being surrounded by dar'ness. "ut dar'nessimplies empty space. )he Alphomist insists that& alone amongst words& ‘nothing’ requires no effort of imagination. Itis the mind’s final punctuation mar'.

The Primal Atom(or a long time there was a debate about whether the universe could best be described by a theory of ‘continuouscreation’ or by the notion that energy was once totally concentrated into a ‘primal atom’ which e*ploded.

Almost unanimously& scientists now subscribe to the primal atom idea.

If it turns out that the primal atom theory is incorrect it will almost certainly be fatal for Alphomism.

The Physical an the !ental(or centuries& philosophers have debated as to whether or not physical objects continue to e*ist when they are notbeing observed. Are physical objects ‘real’ or are they the product of imagination?

Alphomism suggests that much of the heat of this debate stems from the search for an absolute answer. )he onlyabsolutes& it is claimed& are space and energy. With everything else& what we should always be loo'ing for is the mosteconomical theory.

Whilst it is vaguely possible that the outer world is nothing but a mental construct& it would be fiendishly difficult towor' out a theory as to how objects pop in and out of e*istence so conveniently. Dasily the simplest approach is toma'e use of the clear notions of an outer and an inner world.

The Alpha PointHust as the e*istence of the primal atom is scarcely any longer in dispute& so do few question the idea that there wasan immense e*plosion.

Dnergy burst outwards& creating space as it traveled. )he intricate organi;ation of the primal atom was destroyed.

"ecause energy was massively fragmented& there were no beings to observe the chaos. )he universe was almostcompletely physical.

"orcesFonscious beings 'now what it is to be forced. A strong wind or a push can send us in a direction we have not chosen.


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"y analogy we transfer this notion to the physical world. A leaf pic'ed up by a bree;e is forced to flutter through theair.

#cience supports the notion of forces operating in the physical world. )he simplest way to account for the regularityof action and reaction is to assume that forces are operating. 4ften the forces& li'e that of an impacting billiard ballfor e*ample& are directly perceivable by humans.

Evolution(rom the moment the primal atom e*ploded there were forces& physical and chemical& operating to repair thefantastic damage. )he raw material began to recombine.

Dventually& on Darth and doubtless elsewhere& ever more comple* structures emerged. When the higher gradeorganisms reproduced themselves& they passed on most of their characteristics to the ne*t generation but built intothe process was an element of uncertainty. )he genes which provided the template for the progeny were capable ofapparently spontaneous change. Instead of e*actly reproducing the parent organisms& the offspring sometimesshowed new characteristics. )he fittest of these survived. )he process was guaranteed to produce ever more viablebeings.

(or a long time& the amount of power which the emerging creatures possessed in relation to the forces operating onthem was small but with each advance there was a shift in the balance. Bew species emerged with even greater

powers. )hey were no longer totally subject to the wor'ings of the great machine of nature. )hey could ma'e tools&harness power and form testable theories about how Bature wor'ed.

Entropy(or energy to be useable& it has to be able to flow from a higher to a lower level. It is sometimes claimed that therecan be no significant outcome to the process of evolution because with every transaction that ta'es place& the totalstoc' of useable energy is run down.

If energy were a purely physical phenomenon this is undoubtedly true. "ut energy has two aspects. It operates in aphysical& determinedly mechanistic way but it also generates mental phenomena. Alphomism ma'es the predictionthat the laws which relate to mental energy will be the inverse of those which relate to the physical version.

)he justification for ma'ing such a bold pronouncement is twofold. (irstly& it fits with all the other aspects of the

theory& it ‘ma'es sense’. 0any scientific predictions have been made on such a basis and have been testedsubsequently. #econdly& the notion is in accord with subjective e*perience. We seem to be able to e*ercise ‘willpower’2 we have a strong notion that we can ‘ma'e an effort’.

)he technology for an actual scientific testing is probably a long way from current capability. )he technique wouldinvolve measuring all the energy transactions in a brain and wor'ing out a balance sheet. )he specific hypothesiswould be that for a brain which is engaging in willed activity the overall energy economy would show an advantagewhen compared with a brain which is ‘ma'ing no effort.’

If& as supposed& there is a generating effect then& far from running down& the universe will be re3energi;ed as thelevel of mentality increases.

"ree #ill

umans 'now what it is to be influenced by an e*terior force. When they go against it& they feel to be e*ercisingtheir freedom of will. "ut some people& 'nown as ‘determinists’& suggest that there are imperceptible forcesoperating in the brain which ma'e the feeling of freedom illusory.

)his resolution of the debate is to be found not through theory but by e*periment. )here are physical processes inthe brain which correspond with mental events. We need to as'+ ‘Are those processes always the result of theoperation of physical forces& or are there some brain events which would seem& to an observing scientist& to appearto happen ‘at random’?

4ne of the crucial predictions made in Alphomism is that we will find that there are brain events which have noidentifiable physical causes and that these are associated with the operation of will.

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In support of the prediction it can be said that the acceptance of free will e*plains a great deal whereas it ise*tremely difficult& if not impossible& to concoct a satisfying account of the universe based purely on determinism.)here is the further point that if the billions upon billions of humans who thin' that they sometimes act freely aredeluded& then some account must be given& by the unswerving determinist& of the significance of this phenomenon.What is the purpose of such vast self3deception?

The $mega PointIt is almost certain that there are other conscious beings in the universe. It is also reasonably clear that we have onlyjust begun to e*plore the subtleties and comple*ities of the operation of energy. 1elatively spea'ing& we are

primitives.

Alphomism holds that in the millennia to come& there will be communication between all the inhabitants of theuniverse and that the power of conscious beings to control universal processes will grow e*ponentially. It will becomeapparent that the evolutionary process is leading towards one outcome2 the re3creation of the primal atom.

And it will also become apparent that the purpose of evolution has always been our purpose. As the physical aspectof the universe reduces& and the mental one increases& mental forces will begin to dominate. )he power which willdrag the fragments of energy bac' into the original unity will be not gravity but love. !robably in a final rush& theparts will be loc'ed together and the primal atom will be recreated. )he universe will have reached the 4mega!oint.

%irtuality

0odern technology can give us some idea of potency of the virtual world. #ome simulated e*periences come veryclose to seeming real. Alphoma will& of course& be vastly more sophisticated. At our relatively primitive stage ofevolution we can but vaguely guess at what the final state will be li'e. )he crucial point is that it will certainly bepossible to generate mental processes which ma'e events seem totally ‘real’. And there will be no pain and nodecay.

Time)ime depends upon discontinuity. In Alphoma& the vast majority of the universal stoc' of energy will be formed into ahomogenous mass of seamless flows. Within this mental sphere there will be virtual time& at the absolute control ofthe inhabitants& but there will be no real time.

)here will& however& be a residual element of physical& discontinuous energy as an underpinning to Alphoma2otherwise the e*plosion could never happen. 1eal time completes its circuit but in Alphoma it loses its power.

(rom the perspective of us in Bature& the universe started with the primal atom and ends with its re3creation. (orthe Alphoma inhabitants there is no perceivable brea'. )he bliss is uninterrupted.

&uestions)he questions listed here are the ones which have most frequently been as'ed by people who have read& or heard ane*position of& Alphomism.

)here are doubtless do;ens more and a facility for raising issues is provided through the forum.

, Alpha4mega / which came first?

, Fan there be contact between Alphoma and Bature?

, -oes the AlphomaBature cycle repeat itself?

, What information about the universe can be gathered purely from thin'ing?

, What sense can we ma'e of ‘timelessness’?

, Why could there not have been unchanging happiness?

, What will the path to 4mega be li'e?

, ow will Alphoma be created?

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, What will life in Alphoma be li'e?

, Fould Darthly civili;ation come to a sudden end?

, If the Darth is dispensable& what’s the point in struggling to advance?

, If Alphoma is inevitable& does this not mean that determinism is true?

, Is there such a thing as fate?

, What are the implications of fate for the theory of evolution?

, If free will is a real force& can there be social sciences?

Alpha'$mega ( )hich came first*We are creatures of linearity2 our strong impulse is to thin' in terms of cause and effect. "ut the only viable way toconstrue the universe is as a complete self3contained system where questions of precedence are irrelevant.

A useful device is to imagine Alphoma as a la'e. At one e*treme& water pours violently out of a huge drain andcascades down mountainous roc's until it spreads into a turbulent river. Along its course& the waterway becomes lessprecipitous and begins to run more smoothly. It would just run away and eventually empty the la'e e*cept that at

some stage on its journey it reaches pumps which lift it upwards. "ecoming ever more broad and tranquil& thepumped flow enters the la'e and brings the system into equilibrium

Imagine that the circulating water always follows precisely the same route& down to the tiniest sprays and splashings.Imagine also that the currents in the la'e are such that there is a body of liquid in the middle which never moves.Jet us suppose that individual drops are conscious beings. A creature in the unmoving part will be aware of its‘perpetual’ surroundings whereas a drop in the stream 'nows only its brief moment of e*istence before it perishes ona roc' to be replaced by new entities.

(rom the point of view of the static creature& the system is a closed one. %ravity causes the falling of the water& thepumps cause the rising& and the la'e persists. )here is no first and last& the system is simply as it is. If as'ed todecide whether the pumps cause the la'e which ma'es the out3pouring possible or whether& on the other hand& thehole in the base of the la'e is the prime mover of the system& the static entity would have no way of saying. Indeed&being unmoving& the concept of time& and therefore precedence& would be unreal to it.

Can there be contact bet)een Alphoma an Nature*-irect communication between our timeless and time3based selves is impossible& because Alphoma actually ceases toe*ist. All that we have are our fragmentary notions of a much better e*istence and our longing for that ultimatepeace.

owever& our Alphoma versions will have access to all events in the evolutionary phase. )here is no reason&therefore& why we should not ‘tal'’ to our all3'nowing selves2 if only just to show that we have wor'ed out part ofthe pu;;le of e*istence6 "ut there is clearly no point in e*pecting our Alphoma selves to intervene. )he e*istencesare completely separate.

+oes the Alphoma,nature cycle repeat itself*

It might seem that there are two possible interpretations of this question.

It could be suggested that precisely the same cycle recurs indefinitely. )he primal atom e*plodes& history repeatsitself in every detail and Alphoma is created. "ut if the repeats are identical we have no way of distinguishing onefrom the other. (rom the timeless Alphoma perspective& the evolutionary phase of Bature is li'e a static structure2any aspect of it can be e*amined at will. (or us in the temporal phase& an identical repeat of our lives has nomeaning.

4n the other interpretation& there could conceivably be repeated e*plosions of the primal atom followed by differentchains of history which& through the underpinning processes of causation and ‘steered’ evolution& lead to theinevitable conclusion.

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If this& in fact& happens& then it is sure that we as discrete individuals play a part in only one cycle. 4ur identity isdetermined by a comple* mi*ture of physical and mental characteristics. A different cycle could not& by definition&reproduce the same comple*es.

4verall& the chances of there being repeat cycles seem small. It is e*tremely difficult to imagine why there would bemore than one process and until there is some evidence of repetition there is no point in detailed speculation aboutit.

#hat information about the universe can be gathere purely from thin-ing*

According to current science& a large proportion of genetic material seems to have no purpose. It is& in the scientists’terminology& ‘jun'’. Alphomism maintains that this ‘rubbish’ very li'ely contains encoded fragments of information.Almost certainly& this information helps to steer the evolutionary process but it also provides us with a researchsource. Indeed& the good question& ‘Where do ideas come from?’ can be answered by saying that they originate fromour inherited store which can usually be accessed only by hard mental wor'.

It is suggested that as the evolutionary process creates ever more comple* structures& the pu;;le fragments createdby the "ig "ang begin to slot together. #ome individuals& religious leaders& scientists and artists for e*ample& havemore felicitously arranged fragments than others. )hey have access to more of the picture. )hrough preaching&research and creative output& they lay out their broader picture for the benefit of the rest of us.

In support of this fairly e*travagant claim is the fact that there have been people& of both se*es& from diversecultures and in many ages& who have cut themselves off from the physical world and spent almost all of their

energies on an e*ploration of the interior. Dating and drin'ing the absolute minimum& shutting off their sensesagainst heat and cold& they filled hour after hour with meditation. )hey are 'nown as mystics.

)hey were people who sensed that they had access to some particularly interesting fragments of the universalpicture. (inding the way through all the confused piles of obscuring matter was easy for none of them but them all&separately and without any possibility of collaboration& ended with more or less the same vision as to what theculmination of life will be.

In the end& they reported& there is a massive& love3bonded unity of beings. And in that same end& each one of us is%od.

(or the Alphomist& the mystics are the brave e*plorers of the interior world. !utting their physical welfare aside& andperhaps ris'ing their mental health& they e*cavated ever deeper. )he Alphomist view is that their discoveries arelargely true. )hey used the word ‘eternity’ rather than ‘timelessness&’ but they surely won for themselves glimpsesof that unearthly state.

#hat sense can )e ma-e of timelessness*)he physical definition of a timeless world is2 ‘an arrangement of energy that has no discontinuity’. )his can bereadily reali;ed in the mind by picturing a series of discontinuous events and ju*taposing it against the oppositenotion of a seamless band.

)here are subjective pointers& too.

0any people claim to have had parado*ical e*periences which they call ‘timeless moments’. Kery often these occurwhilst listening to music& contemplating a wor' of art or being immersed in a beautiful natural scene.

"ut there is a more everyday phenomenon with which many will be familiar.

#ometimes we dream a comple* sequence which seems to ta'e hours or even days which leads to& and somehow‘e*plains’& a particular noise or other sensation. )he real event wa'es us. It is happening& or has just happened& yetwe have the firm notion that the dream long preceded it.

!resumably the neurological brain event which corresponds to the dream occurs ‘in a flash’ but from a mental pointof view it is in a totally different time perspective.

)his gives us just an in'ling of the way that the timelessness of Alphoma will be independent of the wor'ings of thephysical substratum.

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religious faith& who loo' forward to ‘praising god for ever’ sometimes shudder at the prospect of endlessness.Fontrollable time is a much more acceptable notion.

#hy coul there not have been unchanging happiness*4ne of the several difficulties faced by religious theories of the universe is that an all3powerful& totally benign godwould surely not have created a system which generates so much suffering. )he attempts to e*plain our sorry stateby reference to free will and a fall from grace are not very convincing. )he question still remains2 would it not havebeen better for the all3seeing god& who was perfectly happy anyway& to leave well alone?

In Alphomism& there is no choice in the matter. )he universe is as it is and the logic of the system e*plains why therehas to be suffering. )he two phases of the system& Alphoma and Bature& are mutually dependent. )he paradise is avirtual one. All of us enjoy there the ultimate in bliss but we do so only because the Bature phase of the systemprovides us with the mental raw materials. Kirtual reality feeds off actual reality in two ways.

(irstly& if there were no fragmentation of energy& there would be no ‘opposites’& such as lightdar'&positivenegative. Without these contrasts there could be no basis for meaning. All of our thin'ing about actualreality is dependent on these polarities. Without the e*istence& at least somewhere and sometime& of pain&‘pleasure’ can have no meaning. Without agony& there can be no bliss.

#econdly& Alphoma needs billions of individuals in order to be able to convert physical activity into mental. )he time3based creatures become the sentient raw material for the process of conversion. Without love as the cohesive force&and willpower to produce the essential energy& Alphoma cannot be. All of us individuals provide these forces. We are

not a whim of a lonely god2 we are essential to the process.

#hat )ill the path to $mega be li-e*)he past few decades on Darth have shown that there is indefinitely more in nature than has been dreamt in ourphilosophies Fomputers which were once the si;e of large rooms have been shrun' to minuscule proportions. #pacetravel has become possible2 communications e*pand e*ponentially. Impossible dreams are now legitimate researchgoals. )here seems to be no limit.

In the face of this advance& some preach caution or even a retreat but it is certain that here& or in other places inthe universe& the prevailing evolutionary forces will drive things along. Individuals& even whole communities& can optout but there will always be those whose desire to discover is too powerful to suppress.

Dventually& we will ma'e contact with conscious beings from other parts of the universe. !roblems which seem

insoluble at the moment& to do with speed of travel& communication over vast distances& the provision of adequatenutrition& coping with radiation and so forth will be overcome& as have so many other barriers in the past.

!robably the e*ploration of space will mirror& on a vast scale& that of the Darth. )he first travelers will bee*ceedingly brave. "eings from other places will surely seem strange at first but it will be obvious that we are allmade up of the same raw materials.

)here will& of course& be the chance of conflict and perhaps there will be some terrible ‘star wars’. )here is reasonto hope& though& that any civili;ation which has reached the level of sophistication which allows long3distance spacetravel would also have acquired enough 'nowledge and control to ma'e competitive coloni;ation unnecessary. It is byno means impossible that creatures that have advanced beyond us have surveyed our planet and reali;ed that we arenot yet sufficiently mature to join in the inter3galactic community.

"attles or not& eventually the processes which have pushed Darthlings to create international cooperativeorgani;ations will bring similar inter3stellar associations. #elf3conscious beings throughout the universe will begin toshare 'nowledge. Whatever the setbac's& love will pull peoples together.

Lnowing& by this time& that the cooperative end3point is to the benefit of everyone& the universal community willwor' in harmony to put the pieces of the energy pu;;le together. Dvery last fragment will be drawn into the centreand slotted into place.

.o) )ill Alphoma be create*"y the time that Alphoma is being designed& the creation of self3consciousness will no longer depend on mating andbirth processes. )here will still be individuals but they will be planned and nurtured so as to eliminate disease andmental misery. Jife spans will be indefinitely long and the main& perhaps the only& cause of death will be suicide.


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Individuals will be schooled to understand that their interests can best be met by promoting the interests of all.

)hrough the development of virtual reality devices there will be the potential for the creation of perfect lives butour successors will be fully aware that for as long as energy remains fragmented& there can be no guarantee ofsafety. (inal peace will come only when the entire stoc' of energy is drawn into one self3sustaining ball.

(or the creation of Alphoma& our successors will need mental raw material. )he energy stoc' of the universe has tobe spun& as it were& from straw into gold. Without a huge assembly of conscious individuals the system would not beself3sustaining. )he accumulated& concerted will power is necessary for the final atom to subsist.

Without other considerations& the simplest solution would be to create billions of tailor3made individuals& all of themready to enter Alphoma. "ut the energy with which the designers will be wor'ing is not new. All of it will have beenchanged over and over again through the evolutionary process. )he encrypted history of energy will have to beincorporated into Alphoma2 otherwise the ‘solution’ will not contain everything in the universe. 5nless every piece isslotted into place& the jig3saw will not be properly reassembled.

(or their mental raw material& therefore& the Alphoma technologists will set about the virtual regeneration of everyentity that has e*isted. )his may sound an impossible tas' but only two factors are requisite.

In the first place& our successors will have to have complete access to history. )hey will have this because theuniverse is a massive web of causal lin's. Dvery action& whether determined by nature or effected through willpower& has effects. )he Alphoma designers will be able to build their absolute picture which will show eachhappening.

)he second factor will also be well within their grasp. In order to regenerate an individual& the designers need onlyto reproduce the mapped memories and psychological traits of that person.

)he Alphoma architects will not in any way regret that the wor' has to be done. In the first place& the history mapwill finally satisfy the human drive of curiosity. #econdly& they will be impelled by love. "y then they will 'now& invivid detail& the agonies of pain and loneliness which billions upon billions of their predecessors suffered. )hey will'now that such suffering was part of the process which helped the universe towards its perfect ending and they willwant everyone to share in the ultimate bliss.

When the research and the planning are complete& the process of resurrection will begin.

(or each of us& though we have been dead for eons& there will be no gap between cessation of our time3based life

and the moment of our re3creation. (rom our perspective& we die and then& ‘instantly’& we are aware of the newe*istence. "ut we will not be in paradise.

It might be suggested that the regenerators could do us all a favor and& in the detail of the design of ourreconstructed selves& build in a readiness to join with everyone else in the unity of Alphoma. "ut if they ma'e anychanges& we would not be ourselves and the requisite to be true to history would not have been met.

Dach of us& by time of our death& will have reached a point of self3development and understanding. We will need togo through a process of education and change before we are ready to be incorporated into the final solution. "ecausethe bliss3state will be tantali;ingly close& there will& unavoidably& be a last unease as we come to understand ourplace in history and reali;e what we have to do to prepare ourselves for the fantastic moment of final release.

In preparation for timelessness& our resurrected selves will be ageless. All of our life events will be accessible but we

will not see ourselves as old or young.

Although this last journey will not be blissful& we will ma'e it very gladly 'nowing that at the end of our road is thetimeless state of overwhelming contentment.

When everything is ready& we will fold ourselves and everything else in the universe& into the Alphoma ball. !robablythe condensation will ta'e place& li'e the "ig "ang& in a glorious rush. #pace will accordingly contract and all thate*ists will be Alphoma.

#hat )ill life in Alphoma be li-e*(rom the purely physical point of view& Alphoma will be a seamless aggregation of all energy. owever& for thee*perience to have any meaning for us we must retain our identities. With this imperative& it is easiest to thin' of


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each sentient creature as having a particular fragment of the energy mass as their physical base.

!robably& though& this will not be so. )here are some brain functions which seem to be not place3specific. #omemental powers seem to persist& albeit in a wea'ened form& even after radical surgery. 0ore than li'ely& Alphoma willphysically be li'e a vast and comple* brain. Dach one of us will have total access to its fantastic power withoutdetracting in any way from the potency of anybody else.

1egardless of underlying energy arrangements& each one of us will be aware of our historical identity and will havetotal freedom to do anything we please. Hust what this will actually entail is a matter for speculation. In the matterof the mental we are primitives. )hrough the arts& music particularly& occasionally through intense humaninteraction& especially in love3ma'ing& we gain the tiniest of insights into paradise. 4ur circumscribed minds cannotbegin to grasp the detail of what it will be li'e to be the holder of total power.

)he best we can do& perhaps& li'e our forebears who had to cast their theories in the homely terms of family life& ise*press Alphoma life in the language of our times.

We will be able to fulfill our heart’s desires.

We will be free live in the most idyllic villa by a perfect sea and enjoy the finest food. We can have ‘apparentpeople’ or machines or whatever to attend to our slightest whim. We can be any age we choose& have any physique.#imply by ma'ing the decision we can change any aspect of our lives. We could move& for e*ample& to a mountainlodge or a glittering palace.

Available to us& as a picture show or as something we can e*perience through virtuality& will be the entire history ofthe universe. Dvery event on every planet will be recorded and replayable in as real a fashion as we wish.

We will& without ceding power& be able to interact with real individuals& not in time3 based& place3boundcircumstances but in the modes we choose. 4ne may be deep in a tropical jungle& the other perhaps in the heart of afantastic city2 the surroundings will be according to choice& the virtual actions of each individual appropriate& butthe essence of individuality will persist.

)here will be no wearisome& indeed terrifying& sense of things going on ‘for ever’& because time will be not our rulerbut our servant.

Coul earthly civili/ation come to a suen en*All that is guaranteed by Alphomism is that consciousness will survive and flourish somewhere in the universe. Ifthere is& and will be& no source of consciousness other than Darth& then we or our coloni;ing successors will certainlysurvive.

If& on the other hand& there are other sentient beings in the universe& then our particular flic'ering flame could bee*tinguished at any time. A stri'e by a huge comet or meteor& self3destruction through mismanagement of theplanet’s resources2 these and doubtless many other catastrophes could bring an end to all our wonderful progress.

0f the earth is ispensable1 )hat is the point in struggling to avance*)he first consideration is that& even if the Darth is smashed to tiny pieces& nothing that we have achieved will beirretrievably lost. )he universal process is a chain of causes and effects. Dven in the chaos of massive e*plosionsthere are interactions which follow fi*ed patterns. It is well beyond our ability& at this stage& to reconstruct a picturefrom the debris but one day this will be possible. Intelligent beings& whether of Darthly ancestry or not& will be able

to trace the map of our history and reap the benefits of our productivity.

)here is also the consideration that light travels from the Darth. )here is a huge wealth of information in the energythat spreads out from our small but brilliant sphere. 4thers will be able to interpret this information and to ma'egood use of all that we have achieved.

)he second component to this answer comes in the form of a prediction.

Alphomism predicts that energy which has been organi;ed via an act of will is very slightly& though permanently&changed by that process. A statue& a motor car engine& a piece of paper that is written on2 the energy from whichthey are made becomes upgraded. 4ne day we will have instruments sufficiently sensitive to measure these changes.


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Dnergy which has been organi;ed by conscious beings is& through this process& made more malleable for future users.)he universe is a giant factory producing consciousness which in turn nudges energy towards a more amenablecondition.

If this prediction is true& it is worth the while of anyone at any time and in any place putting their creative stamp onthe environment. A destroyer can demolish structures and burn wor's of art but the image of those higher3levelconstructions is forever implanted. Bothing is ultimately lost.

0f Alphoma is inevitable1 oes this not mean that eterminism is true*

In a very broad sense& the universe is determined. We 'now that the process wor's out because we e*ist. )heoutcome is guaranteed& and it is not in the least surprising that very many people have a sense of inevitability.

"ut this does not have to imply that the system is mechanistic. )he circular nature of things resolves the parado*because crucial to the circle is the operation of free will. It is& in fact& the combined will3power of conscious beingswhich is the force that guarantees the inevitability.

0s there such a thing as 2fate2*It is not uncommon for individuals to have an in'ling that something was ‘meant to be’. )he fact that the notion offate has persisted so strongly suggests that it is significant.

)he implication is that the designers of Bature built in two types of force& a strong set the laws of nature$ and awea' set. "oth sets are essential for the pushing of evolution in the direction of energy re3convergence.

An analogy& imperfect as always& is perhaps the clearest way of e*pressing the notion of fate in relation to everydaylives.

)he picture is of individuals ma'ing voyages in small dinghies. #ome of the forces impacting on the vessel areirresistible. A strong tide or a ferocious wind can totally determine the fate of a particular craft. "ut some& such as awea' current or a light bree;e& can offer choices. #hould the individual run with the wind for a while or should theyput hands to the oars and aim resolutely for their chosen destination?

Dach of us is somewhere in the sea of e*istence. #ometimes we allow the light bree;e to blow us along and& insteadof reaching our intended destination& we come to somewhere une*pected. )here is& for us& the tric'y business ofdeciding whether we need to ta'e control or sit bac' and see where fate might ta'e us.

Kery li'ely the wea' forces are physically manifested in the apparently ‘random’ movements of nuclear particles.)hey can be seen& perhaps& as the e*pression of an underlying common will. Whereas the laws of nature producepredictable outcomes& the wea' forces give us only probabilities. And& just as in terms of biological evolution amutation survives or it does not& so it is in life choices. We can’t always 'now whether a wea' force is pushing in apositive direction but given that the overall trend is positive it seems wise sometimes to allow ourselves a degree ofcooperation with the promptings of fate.

#hat are the implications of fate for the theory of evolution*When -arwin insisted that all biological improvement comes about through the mechanisms of mutation and naturalselection there were plenty who found this difficult to accept. #ome of the inventions of nature seemed far tooclever to be ascribable completely to undirected processes. Fritics were driven by this worry to suggest thatcreatures were genetically changed by the things learned during their lifetimes. An acquired characteristic could& onthis suggestion& ma'e the process of improvement easier for the ne*t generation.

It seems almost certain that inheritance of acquired characteristics does not& in fact& happen& yet the unease stillremains. Bature has produced such astonishing artifacts. Fan they all be the result of random processes?

Alphomism does not allow the notion of randomness& e*cept in the limited sense covering circumstances where wechoose not to investigate causes. What it does suggest is that the wea'er forces& built into the process by theAlphoma creators& set up favorable conditions for progress without precisely specifying what line that progress mustta'e.

)he principles of genetic mutation and survival of the fittest are& on this formulation& very much preserved but withthe added notion that evolution is steered by in3built tendencies for mutations to wor' towards ever more comple*structures.


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0f free )ill is a real force1 can there be social sciences*#cience depends on regularity. It is only because forces operate in a consistent way& and ma'e things happenpredictably& that scientists can produce results. If& as Alphomism maintains& humans are only partly governed bynatural forces it follows that their behavior is to a degree unpredictable and therefore that there is no hope thatsocial sciences can have the same level of predictive success as the natural sciences.

)his is by no means to say that there should be no areas of study called ‘sociology’ and ‘economics’& only that theapproach of wor'ers in these fields should be quite different from that of the students of physics and chemistry.

Instead of loo'ing for iron laws and over3arching theories& the social scientists should be loo'ing for broadcorrelations and trends. )hey should then devote most of their efforts to wor'ing out ways of putting some order intothe confusion. !redictability in social science will come from the establishment of systems and the passing of lawsrather than from in3built certainties.

#ome studies& psychology for e*ample& come somewhere in the middle of the spectrum of the sciences. )o somee*tent psychologists can wor' e*perimentally& especially where their inquiries stray towards the territory of thescience of physiology.

E3planations4ne of the tests of the power and value of a theory is the number of phenomena which it can e*plain.

)his section offers a selection of specific e*planations but it by no means e*hausts the Alphomist range.

, Why life is so unfair6

, Why there are laws of nature

, Why people sometimes seem to remember ‘former lives’

, Why people sometimes seem to be able to communicate over distance using their minds

, Why religion too' such a hold

, Why we have fleeting feelings of bliss and dread

, Why art and music pervade all cultures

, Why we love to solve pu;;les

, ow people can be drawn into mass suicide cults

#hy is life so unfair4)he universe is in transition from almost complete chaos after the "ig "ang to complete order. Dven allowing for ane*ponential growth of 'nowledge and the rapid advances in technological e*pertise it is certain that we are at a veryearly point in the historical process.

)here is& therefore& no reason to e*pect life to be fair. With only the underlying laws and promptings to provide‘shape’& nature pursues its evolutionary e*periments without regard for individuals. When people spea' of ‘naturaljustice’ they ma'e the assumption that there is an entity or a process which balances the scales. "ut there is no suchthing.

)hus& an individual caught in an avalanche or felled by a falling tree is not paying for past sins& they just have badluc'. Bature 'nows no justice. Hustice is a proper and necessary invention of self3conscious beings. We should use ourgrowing power to minimi;e the harm done by nature but for the foreseeable future we just have to accept thatdisasters will occur. Bature is neither right nor wrong& 'ind or cruel. )he only ‘reasons’ we need to find for naturalphenomena are the forces which determine them.

)he case is different& of course& with events which involve human factors. It is legitimate to as' questions about

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underlying unconscious causes of accidents. "ut this still does not lead to anything li'e fairness. )he car driver whocrashes because of a deep& unreali;ed drive towards suicide is not balancing any boo's for the others caught up inthe disaster. )hey just have the bad luc' to be there.

#hy there are la)s of natureWe tend to ta'e the e*istence of natural laws absolutely for granted. %ravity pervades& the electro3magneticprocesses go about their comple* ways and so forth.

=et the scientist& who wants an account of everything& should really as'2 why do things behave in this way?

It is a difficult question for a determinist to answer. )he laws of nature deliver their certainties but what agencyguarantees the laws?

Alphomism escapes this trap via the circular model. )he laws of nature originate with the Alphoma planners. )heforces& both strong and wea'& which guide evolution are the manifestations of the common will of the universe.

#hat people sometimes seem to be able to remember former lives*#ome people claim to have e*isted previously. )hey often cite reincarnation or a migration of souls as a loosee*planation of the phenomenon.

In everyday parlance& two factors define ‘a person’& their physical form and their mental attributes. !resumably&nobody who claims to have e*isted previously suggests that there has been a physical continuance2 the assertion is

made on the basis of mental phenomena. )hose who claim a previous e*istence apparently have an array ofmemories relating to a former life or lives.

(or the Alphomist& the most li'ely e*planation of the ‘former lives’ phenomenon& if it is real& is similar to theaccount as to how some people have access to scientific and artistic insights. Dverything that was in Alphoma beforethe e*plosion is within the universe in fragmented form. )he information& whether it is in the form of a brilliant ideaor an array of memories& comes from a felicitous rearrangement of energy.

)he same e*planation can be used for cases where people feel une*pectedly ‘at home’ or have powerful dMjN vue*periences.

#hy people seem to be able to communicate over istance using only their mins)here seems to be evidence that under certain conditions people can communicate without the need for sight& sound

or touch. )he phenomenon seems to be associated with peoples who have not been much involved in thedevelopment of scientific ways of thin'ing. )here is also evidence that animals pic' up signals of which most humanshave not the slightest in'ling. (or e*ample& dogs start to prepare for their owner’s return long before the actualarrival. 1egardless of routines& they seem to sense the start of the return process.

)here is& according to Alphomism& nothing mystical about this. "rains are electrical devices. Wea' electro3magneticfields surrounding the heads of conscious beings can be photographed. It is very li'ely that some creatures& especiallythose whose lives are relatively uncluttered and who e*perience comparatively little ‘noise’ from the outside world&can pic' up ideas over long distances. )here is no difference in principle between this and the process of radiobroadcasts& the only factor is one of sensitivity.

If& as seems to be the case& subtle long3distance perception is possible we face the interesting tas' of discovering thewor'ings of the transmitter and receptor mechanisms and of identifying the subtle forces.

#hy religion too- such a hol)o a modern scientific mind& many religious notions seem incredible yet they have persisted over a very long time.Alphomism maintains that they did so because they are very close to the truth. )he religious thin'ers& delving intothe inner world& came up with good appro*imations. )here are& of course& considerable differences between creedsbut generally religions have some of all of several crucial elements+

, a belief that there is more to individual significance than the here and now, a perfect place !aradise& Birvana etc$, an entity with total 'nowledge, a catastrophic ‘fall from grace’, a hot and horrific aspect ades& ell etc$


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, a belief that there is some point in struggling against the difficulties life brings, a belief that the lives of our ancestors are lin'ed to our own., the resurrection of the dead

It is understandable that religious thin'ers had to e*press themselves in very human terms and that& given the scaleand power they were trying to encompass& they resorted to the notion of gods. "ut it is surely not too fanciful to see&in the Fhristian tradition for e*ample& the pre3"ig "ang state as ‘god the father’& Bature& with all its suffering& as‘god the son’ and the emergent Alphoma as ‘god the holy ghost’.

#tic'ing to the Fhristian tradition& it is also interesting that the idea that the human species began with one womanwho lived in a fertile place& has recently been supported with a claim that we are all ultimately descended from asingle African female.

It might seem& given the insatiable human thirst for truth& that the thin'ers who focused on the e*terior world wouldhave held centre stage in the early phase of human development. #urvival depended absolutely on the success of thescientific method. "ut in fact& those with a gift for introspection acquired great power. )here are at least tworeasons for this.

(irstly& the objective method is slow. #cience and technology require patience. It too' a long time for the separateelements of objective understanding to begin to lin' up.

#econdly& people doubtless sensed that& however effective the scientists might become& there was a rift between the

inner and outer worlds which could never be bridged. When the early thin'ers who could ma'e some appro*imatesense of things announced their ideas& listeners doubtless accepted or rejected them on the basis of their own vagueperceptions. Where a significant number of people came to accept a theory derived from the inner world as ‘true’this became an enshrined part of that community’s culture.

#hy )e have fleeting thoughts of bliss an rea0any people have fragmentary tastes of the purest happiness. 0any more& sadly& suffer from feelings of deepforeboding.

"oth are ‘memories’. Bo individual e*perienced the e*plosion of the primal atom but the fact of that disintegrationis written into the causal history of the universe. )o a small e*tent we ‘'now’ of the heat& the dar'ness and thedisintegration. )he whole truth about the universe is contained within the fragments.

"y the same to'en& we ‘'now’ vaguely about the state of perfect peace. Whenever an individual e*periences eitherof the e*tremes they are tuning into small fragments of data about the history of the universe.

)he dread& which the ‘memory’ of the e*plosion generates& comes because the historical place and function of thatevent are not immediately understood. It can be ameliorated by reminding ourselves that although the hellish firesburned they did not hurt any individual and indeed they are a necessary phase of the evolutionary process.

#hat art an music pervae all cultures*An artist& in whatever medium& generally starts with a blan' sheet. Words or shapes or notes are put& in some 'ind of order& onto the sheet. )hroughout the process of producing a wor' of art& hundreds& maybe thousands of decisionsare made. )he finished wor' is a summary of all these decisions.

In ma'ing the decisions& a line here& a blob of color there& the artist is delving into the huge treasure chest of theunconscious. )he promptings which come to the artist are of a different quality to those sei;ed upon by the scientist.)he images are vaguer& they cannot be formulated into coherent theories& they say nothing that can be testedagainst reality.

=et this does not invalidate them. An observer of an art wor' may not be able to ma'e any significant connectionbetween the shapes and the real world but it is certain that the process of observation causes changes in theobserver’s brain. )here is& in some degree& a process of unconscious communication going on.

)he vague notions& e*pressed by the artist& are to some e*tent absorbed by the observer& who is changed by thee*perience. It is quite possible that sometimes the changes are radical enough to produce a shift in physical behaviorbut more often than not the new information simply plays its part in shaping future thoughts.


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With the words of prose and poetry& the forms produced by dance& the paintings& drawings and sculptures of theartist& there is usually some reference to the real world. 4ften& referential shapes can emerge without the consciousintention of the artist.

)he case with music& the most abstract of the arts& is different. )his spea's the most profoundly of ideas and statesof being which are only just accessible and which defy linguistic or graphic e*pression. )he composer delves deepinto the store. Botions which are too subtle for us& at this stage of evolution& to e*press in other forms& emerge astunes and rhythms.

When we understand much more& and when technology is very much further advanced& we will be able to show howthe process of listening to music changes our ways of thin'ing. %enerally the shifts are too subtle for us to log themeven subjectively but occasionally& music causes an observable seismic event in the mind. Fonditions have to be justright2 we& and probably the performers and the audience about us& have to be in a particularly fortuitous state. )henit can happen that listeners believe that they have gained an ine*pressible insight into the most profound andpositive depths.

)hose who have bravely tried to pin down such relatively rare e*periences have sometimes written of ‘the timelessmoment’. )his is& of course a contradiction but for the Alphomist it suggests that music can occasionally provide uswith the briefest& faintest illumination on the timeless glory that is to come.

#hy )e love to solve pu//lesIn virtually all cultures there are pu;;les or ritual re3shapings. )he almost ubiquitous Fat’s Fradle starts with a simple

closed loop and becomes ever more comple* until& in some versions& it reverts to the original. )his is a perfectrepresentation of the universal process.

Hig saw pu;;les also e*ert a wide fascination and these can readily be seen as simple models of the process ofcyclical destruction and creation. )hey show& too& in an appro*imate way& the necessity of the destructive phasebecause& obviously& without this there is no challenge and no satisfying process.

!u;;les are popular because people sense that we are all part of a massive ‘pass3time’ process and they reassure usthat order can and will one day be restored.

.o) people can be ra)n into mass suicie cultsFult leaders usually ma'e absurd claims. -etached observers wonder how anybody could be ta'en in& yet hithertosensible citi;ens abandon their normal habitats and& eventually& give up their lives.

)he Alphomist account is that those who are vulnerable to cult influences doubtless have a strong sense that death isthe quic' route to peace. )hey are not quite as irrational as they often seem.

!orality0orality comes into play when a general rule of behavior conflicts with current desires. ‘I want to steal the moneybut I 'now I ought not to’ is an e*ample. In most societies& the moral rules have a religious origin but in Alphomismthere is no higher power to deliver the tablets of stone.

It might seem that& without a god to dictate how we should behave& everyone can be free to pursue their ownimmediate interests regardless of general rules. "ut if Alphomism is true& then immediate self3interest is not theonly& nor even the major& consideration. )he creation of Alphoma will bring self3fulfillment far beyond anythingachievable in Bature. It therefore ma'es sense for individuals to do what they can to further the process of Alphoma3

creation.

=et an individual might still argue that Alphoma is going to happen anyway and that therefore there is nothing to besaid against a life of immediate gratification.

)here are two arguments against this. (irstly& our successors who designed the system built into it an element we callconscience. )his ensures that we cannot be happy unless we are ta'ing at least some account of the general process.A strong Alphomist prediction is that& when we have discovered more sophisticated ways of measuring brainprocesses& it will become clear that those who ignore the general interest are less happy than those who give it ameasure of priority.

#econdly& although there will be no question of crude retribution following the pre3Alphoma resurrection& we will all

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have to go through a process of preparation. )hose who have failed to develop love for others during their lifetimeswill have a harder time in training for Alphoma than those who are already in the loving mode. Alphomism suggeststhat we can minimi;e our post3resurrection discomfort by ma'ing ourselves as Alphoma3worthy as possible during ourlife times.

)his entails the development of a healthy level of self3esteem as well as a comprehensive love for others. As far asself3love is concerned& it is important to note that by properly loving ourselves we ma'e it easier for others to loveus and therefore we increase the total of love in the universe.

In pursuit of the goals of satisfying conscience and preparing ourselves for Alphoma& therefore& Alphomism generatestwo moral imperatives.

It might seem that a morality based on the pursuit of long term happiness is one rooted in selfishness but ultimatelythere is no escape from this 'ind of selfishness and indeed there is nothing wrong with it.

ConscienceAccording to Alphomism& conscience is a mechanism which evolves along with consciousness. It is a device built intoBature to ensure that we consider needs other than our own immediate ones and thereby ta'e the process ofevolution forwards. Fonscience wor's by triggering generally unwelcome feelings of shame and guilt.

!oral 0mperatives)he evolutionary process is aimed towards the creation of Alphoma. (or this to be achieved we need+

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%iolenceIt is evidently an unloving act to inflict unsolicited pain on another. Acts of violence& other than those necessary forself3defense& are therefore clearly immoral.

SuicieAlphomism holds that we should do what we can in the drive towards the creation of Alphoma. )he universal processdepends upon billions of individuals striving to reach the common end. )here is& therefore& a general injunction to'eep going. Dach individual can ma'e a contribution.

owever& there are circumstances where it is reasonable for an individual to opt out. )here are some people forwhom the attainment of a reasonable degree of self love seems impossible. Whilst those around such people shoulddo everything reasonable to help& there must always be respect for the decision of someone who finds the battleintolerable.

)he same applies to those in acute& persistent physical pain.

Se3At its best& se* is a massively powerful way for humans to e*press love& for themselves and for others. #ometimes inse*ual union people have sublime insights into the nature of the Alphoma unity. (or as long as se*ual activity isguided by love& it is to be treasured and cultivated.

At a lesser level& se* provides also a highly enjoyable series of sensations. )his is entirely acceptable provided that

there is no unloving e*ploitation of those who& through age& mental impairment& economic circumstances& powerrelationships or any other factors& are not fully aware& or in control& of what they are doing.

)hese parameters apply whether the se*ual interaction is between members of the opposite or same se* andwhatever the numbers of people involved.

5nfortunately& many conventional moralities have generated rules and taboos about se* that are not appropriate tothe modern age. 0ost people acquire& largely through psychological conditioning in childhood& fantasies and fetishesabout se*. (or as long as these are not e*pressed in the e*ploitation of others& they can provide a very acceptablebonus in se*ual interactions.

!rovided that no injury is done to others& individuals should be free to e*press their se*ual natures in whatevermanner they choose. )hey should use the rational approach to morality to free themselves of the burdens of

inappropriate shame and guilt which so often& through an inappropriate conditioning process& attach themselves tose*ual behavior.

Contraception%iven the need to fill the universe with consciousness& there might seem to be a duty to produce as many offspringas possible but this would be to ignore the comple* needs of adults and children. It would evidently be foolish toadvocate an unlimited e*pansion of population.

"uilt into Bature is a very powerful reproductive drive. )here would seem to be few worries that the supply of newbeings will run dry. 5nder these circumstances the clearly loving course is to allow adults to ma'e their own decisionsas to when to conceive. #ince se* can be a highly positive e*pression of inter3personal love there can surely be noargument against the right to ma'e use of contraceptives.

Euthanasia!rovided that elaborate safeguards are in place to avoid e*ploitation& it must surely be allowed that people who feelthat they have come to the end of their useful lives can request& and be given& a dignified end. It is a very unlovingact to 'eep someone who is in great pain& or who feels continuous self3disgust through loss of mental or physicalcontrol& alive against their clearly e*pressed will.

Abortion)he moral calculus concerning abortion involves matching the well3being of a mature human against that of anembryo. )he calculus generally wor's out overwhelmingly in favor of the potential parent. Although a fetusundoubtedly has a level of consciousness it is certainly very far below that of someone who has had years ofe*perience of the world. )he embryo has no relationships& aspirations and loving memories2 there is no awareness of


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the future and all the other things that shape a fully fledged person.

)hus& although abortion should surely be a last resort& it must be permissible if it seems highly li'ely that the parentwould suffer acute hardship if the pregnancy came to full term. In fact& very often when abortion is beingconsidered& the difficulties facing the potential parent would also entail a troubled life for the infant.

It is a hard and traumatic thing to have to do but there are no grounds& in Alphomist terms& for declaring the act ofabortion to be immoral.

SelfishnessDven the most apparently self3denying person& who follows the strictest moral code& is acting in their own interests.Whether the underlying drive is fear& love of god& a desire to ma'e a viable society or indeed anything else& theperson cannot help but do what they ultimately want to do.

As in many other aspects of life& the apparent parado* of selfishness can be resolved by abandoning the search forthe absolute. )here is a clear distinction between an immediate focus on our own needs& usually called ‘selfishness’&and a broader approach& usually called ‘altruism’.

)here is no need for the uneasy conflict between selfishness and altruism. )he universe is so constructed that longterm ‘selfishness’ promotes the well3being of everyone else. )he search for the ultimate self3sacrifice is futile.

Super,nature

#ome people claim that there are phenomena which are somehow above nature and which are therefore to a degreemysterious.

Alphomism does not allow of anything which is ultimately beyond our understanding. It is tempting& therefore& todismiss all supposedly supernatural phenomena as illusions or delusions. "ut there is too much personal e*perience&and too long a tradition of belief in such phenomena& for them to be lightly brushed aside.

Kery probably& many supposedly ‘supernatural’ events are real. )hey are natural& but they are ‘super’ in the sensethat they are e*citing and indicative that there are many more things in the mental world than are generally dreamtof in more prosaic systems of thought.

#peculative attempts to account for some of these phenomena are given here. , %od , %hosts

, Bear death , #oulspirit , %raceprayer , 0editation , 1itual , (aith healing , Keneration

5o%od is for many the ultimate supernatural& the ma'er of nature and its guarantor. !eople from all parts of the worldand at all times have had a strong sense of a god or gods. It is a notion not to be lightly dismissed.

‘%od’ is normally used to refer to a being who can intervene in the wor'ings of the world& who lays down certain

standards of behavior& who ultimately judges& who e*pects to be worshipped by humans and who possesses all'nowledge and all power.

It will be obvious that Alphomism does not support the idea of such a god but it nevertheless provides an account asto why people feel so positively about the idea of a supreme being. Alphoma is a state of total 'nowledge and the4mega designers set up the parameters for the operation of the temporal phase. )he idea that omniscience andomnipotence are real states is& therefore& true.

)he difference is that in Alphomism& the state of totality ceased to e*ist with the "ig "ang. It has no continuinge*ecutive power. )here is nothing to worship& no divine being to please& no recipient of prayer& no guarantor of dailyjustice& no judge and& mercifully& no condemnation to ell.

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)he fact that people have imbued the deity with e*ecutive power is e*plained by pointing out that the early thin'ershad e*tremely little on which to base their theory. )he nearest analogy they had was that of parenthood. It seemsentirely natural to e*tend the particular to the general and to characteri;e the deity as a mother or father. #o muchwas mysterious to our ancestors that it is no wonder that they concluded that an almighty god created the universe.

5hosts#o many people claim to have seen or heard spoo'y beings that it would be foolish simply to dismiss the notion. =et&unli'e solid objects such as tables and chairs& ghosts do not appear reliably in place and time. )hey need a different'ind of theory from that which accounts for material things.

In search of this account we must& however& guard against a common error of thin'ing. We must remember that justbecause there is a collection of phenomena which we call ‘ghostly e*periences’ there is not necessarily one storywhich covers them all.

As far as apparitions are concerned& the most commonly offered e*planation& and the most li'ely one& is that theyare ‘record and playbac'’ phenomena. )he suggestion is that objects other than magnetic tapes and wa*y discs canrecord events. !articularly dramatic happenings doubtless become more imprinted than others. (or the most part&the recorded message is too feint for us to access and most of us are far too preoccupied to be sufficiently receptive.#ometimes& though& a highly sensitive person who just happens to be ‘tuned’ to the right frequencies pic's up suchrecorded data.

Another type of ghost e*perience& which involves the movement of material things& clearly cannot be simply a ‘play

bac'’ phenomenon. We need to e*plain what causes the hairbrush or whatever to fly across a room.

)he most li'ely hypothesis is that the agency is a human one. 0any poltergeist episodes are associated with peoplewho are in mental turmoil. #ome humans& it seems& are capable of generating sufficient electro3magnetic force intheir brains to project it outwards and to disturb the physical order.

)o those many people who have e*perimented with psycho3'inesis& and concluded that it is not available to humans&it can be said only that we are a very long way from a full understanding of the interaction between the physical andthe mental worlds. "oth are manifestations of energy. Kery li'ely the circumstances under which mentally generatedenergy interferes substantially with the physical world are peculiar. #urely& it is far better to see the poltergeistphenomenon as unfinished research business than to invent unverifiable entities. 4ne day& after a doubtless long andtric'y process& we will understand how these mental hurricanes can generate themselves from what are normallybarely perceptible bree;es.

In this& as in several other aspects of Alphomism& the avoidance of irrationality depends upon the assumption that theuniverse is a very subtle and sophisticated entity. Dnergy is capable of some astonishing feats.

Near +eath E3periences0any people who have been very close to death claim to have had unusual e*periences. As with ghostly encounters&there are too many of these reports for them to be dismissed. %enerally people say that they glimpsed an idyllicstate but then came to reali;e that they had to go bac'& because their wor' was not completed.

"ut how& if Alphoma does not actually e*ist during the temporal phase of the universe& can there be any in'ling of alife beyond the one we 'now?

)he Alphomist answer is that there is a mass of information in the unconscious part of the brain to which we normally

have very little access. )he partially re3organi;ed fragments of the primal atom contain significant chun's of the fullpicture. )he reason that we cannot normally log into this data is that our primary concern& quite rightly& is survival.4ur tas'& as it were& is to deal with the physical universe. We will ma'e greater use of the inner store in the fullnessof time.

)he proposition is that as the bodily functions and life3preoccupations shut down& people close to death becomesomething li'e the mystics2 they gain much greater access to the inner store. )he ‘noise’ of reality is largely turnedoff. )hey glimpse Alphoma but they also perceive that their lives have some time yet to run. It is a very naturalresponse for such people to account for such insights by claiming that they heard a voice telling them that there wasyet more to do.

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It is possible to imagine a definition of the word ‘soul’ which would give it utility beyond the realms of religiousfaith. It might refer to a combination of personality& behavioral traits& memories& tastes& aspirations and perhapsother attributes that uniquely define an individual. Kery often& but with less poetic effect& the words ‘self’ or ‘being’could be substituted without loss of meaning.

What is confidently predicted by Alphomism is that there are neither ethereal entities nor blobs of ectoplasm whichmysteriously inhabit bodies& giving them life& and which then float off to some other place at physical death.

5race'Prayer

)here being no divine patron& there is no flow of godly energy to humans. As far as our temporal selves areconcerned& Alphoma does not currently e*ist. )here is no point in appealing to it. owever& this does not negate thenotions of grace and prayer. )hey have been e*tant for thousands of years and they are therefore li'ely to have somebasis in fact.

)he strong probability is that humans possess considerable powers which rely on relatively wea' energy effects. (orthe time being these forces are beyond the scope of our research instruments but the prediction is that one day theywill be measurable. Dvidence for this comes from innumerable personal e*periences and from powerful& undeniablephenomena such as the emotion3enhancing effects of crowds.

It is by no means unreasonable& therefore& to assume that by focusing the mind& some effect on others can beachieved. It is also acceptable to assume that gathering together and focusing can multiply the effect. And researchwill very li'ely eventually show that a belief amongst participants that something positive is happening enhances the

effect whilst s'epticism probably inhibits it.

)he outcome for the Alphomist is that it is entirely rational to engage in something a'in to prayer and to believe thatsomething positive& which might be called ‘grace’& is being transmitted. "ut the power of prayer& if it does indeedturn out to e*ist& is a human one and ‘grace’ is a natural force.

)here is nothing illogical& therefore& in Alphomists gathering& if they so choose& to create the li'ely multiplying effectwhich closeness has on the subtler human forces. )hey will not be as'ing any other entity for support& they will bema'ing use of their own powers.

It follows from this that all of the religious efforts over the centuries have not by any means been wasted. )he factthat prayer has usually been based on a belief in a god will surely not reduce its efficacy. owever& one bigadvantage of non3deistic prayer is that it removes the anomaly of as'ing a god to ma'e good something which& iftheism is true& the god could have prevented.

!eitationOuite often& though by no means invariably& meditation is associated with a getting in touch with some mysteriousother plane or an unspecifiable other dimension.

(or an Alphomist& meditation is a very worthwhile activity but it is a form of inner e*ploration. If it turns out& asseems li'ely& that thought really can be transmitted directly between brains& meditation is also a way of ‘listening’&not just to other humans but to the bac'ground noise of nature.

It is different from ordinary thin'ing& which involves firing up the conscious aspect of the brain to the highest levels.In meditation& the aim is to switch off as much as possible of the intellectual& self3directed& babble and to allow themore subtle influences to register.

0any people& who have wrestled with comple* problems& or even something as mundane as a crossword clue& havehad the e*perience of putting the struggle aside and maybe going for a wal'. )he unconscious carries on wor'ingwhilst we admire the view or listen to the birds and the solution to the problem pops into the conscious mind.

#witching off is sometimes productive and it is certainly a worthwhile thing to do.

RitualFlosely associated with a belief in the supernatural are rituals such as those which are used for weddings andfunerals.

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love and joy. (unerals allow the discharge of otherwise unbearable measures of grief.

)he abandonment of the notion of a god by no means entails the loss of ritual. )he power of such gatherings comesentirely from the uniting of subtle human powers. Alphomists can devise their own forms of ceremony for ma'ingcommitments& welcoming a new child& saying goodbye to someone who has died and for all the other occasions ofhuman sorrow and joy.

)here is also no reason whatsoever for an Alphomist to shun religious buildings. If it is true& as claimed& that oursurroundings are subtly changed by events& then churches are in general sure to have benign atmospheres for thestaging of life’s rituals.

"aith healing)here seems to be no definitive evidence that something li'e faith healing is efficacious but this is another ideawhich pervades and persists. 0any people are convinced that they can influence their own healing by thin'ingpositively. And it has been shown& for e*ample& that patients who have beautiful scenery outside their hospitalwindows recover faster than those with nothing pleasant to behold.

)he Alphomist prediction is that it will eventually be demonstrated that healing can be accelerated both by apositive attitude on the part of the sic' person and by mental input from others.

)here is nothing unscientific about this. )he probability is that the e*tremely powerful anti3viral and anti3bacterialmechanisms in the body are inhibited by stress and by a lac' of positive attitude. All that self3healing involves is the

mental effort to rela* as much as possible

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