COMPUTERS R US
From the perspective of a retired Software Engineer who became a Spiritualist
By John M. Kohlenberger
Steps along Our Paths of Biological Spirituality
PREFACE
The Idea and title for this book came about when I was a Computer Scientist working in an Engineering environment. It came fairly early in my new-found Spiritual growth cycle as I was studying the wisdom of Seth and at the same time, sitting Under the Plum Tree or walking the paths in The Forest of Kahn with an Old Chinese Sage, while being employed by The Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, CA.
There was an earlier version of this book, but somewhere in the process of moving files from one computer to another, to another and yet again, that book/computer file was lost. So, this is a new, updated and fresh version that you are viewing now.
In my early days as a computer programmer, we only had "main frame" computers that were composed of rooms full of equipment thus were located off sight, usually in their own building. Thus, my computer program, which consisted of up to 7 boxes of "IBM Cards", each with one line of decision code or instructions on it, was shuttled by a courier to and from the computer facility.
As our computers grew more powerful, faster and began to shrink in size, the "computer rooms" began to be co-located in the same building, so I became my own shuttle with quicker response or turn-around time. It was sometime, when I was in this environment, that I submitted a computer program, with my latest refinements to make it do a better job at what it was being designed to do, that one of the several programs I was working on came back from the computer with an "error". as a result, it would not execute or run. So I took it to one of our "systems" department to look over the "core dump" to find what the computer indicated the problem was.
After nearly two days, the after two people had looked over what I gave them, they told me that they could not find what the error was. So, realizing that I was not in the best frame of mind when I submitted that program to the computer a few days earlier, I set my mind into a positive frame this time, expecting success, and the next time the results of my computer program came back they were just fine. It had done what I expected, with no change what so ever.
At that point I realized that I had influence over the computer and it was as much me as it was itself. In effect, I was The Wizard of OZ ... the man behind the computer.
It was, then , out of this realization that I also realized that computers are merely the externalization of processes that go on inside our minds and bodies all the time. Thus, the name for this book, "Computers R Us"
This discourse/book is being presented here so that you can absorb some new ideas about nature, reality and the nature of reality so that you might better understand how we fit within the framework of the Universal Creative Forces. This is an opportunity to discover the power we have within ourselves and within that universal framework, so we may see our choices and realize ourselves stepping into our power … or not. You are always “connected”, so Why not simply Power Up and boot up, and pick yourself up by your own built-in boot straps!
Life and Love are one – inseparable! Thus, Life is Love Lived! - Me
INTRODUCTION
WHY HAVE WE EXTERNALIZED OUR OWN THOUGHT PROCESSES?
To start off with, let's jump right into the spirituality of our physical lives. We are upon this school called Earth to learn more about ourselves as creatures of creation - as seeds of Creator spreading throughout Creation ... as creators ourselves. While this idea may shock many, as it is not a part of the usual consensus reality, I invite the reader to read on and see if there might be a small grain or atom of truth in that statement.
It is my belief that we have externalized many of our internal processes so that we might examine them more closely, so that we might understand ourselves and our place in the cosmos better. Thus, as we study and "perfect" computers and other electromagnetic and optical devices, to be more and more "human", we are coming to a better understanding of our own perfection, as particles of creation and Creator.
This just may be an adventure to find our own creative genius ... The Genie Within, which is as the ancients called it, "the Living Spirit" of God-Goddess and All-That-Is.
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