The Open-sourced Reality

The ultimate goal of reality hacking, is to turn the black box of the "reality coding" into open-sourced (white boxed). Not only "Radical transparency" and "Participatory culture and technology" are timely and necessary (open-sourced religion, open source Wicca, open-source politics, open source society such as poc21, etc), reality hacking would kicks things up to another notch, exposing the inner workings of this so-called "consensus reality". Once we understand reality is engineered by both social constructs and collective ignorance, the light would shine through the "un-realness" of reality, then true revelation will begin, that is: the "virtualization" of reality - the world turns "inside-out" (instead of upside-down). Actually this process already started, as reality has turned into reality show, the day a formal reality show star became the most powerful person in the world. He is the "ultimate boss" in the final stage of THE video game.

It is actually not difficult to comprehend the "un-realiness" of reality, if we pay attention to hard sciences, soft sciences, liberal arts and spiritual practices. Theories about DNA and meme taught us that humans were never in control: we are mere vehicles to spread the underlining "messages/codes"; "Big history" recasts evolution as "energy optimization"; Quantum physics and relativity theory continue to demonstrate that reality is stranger than fiction; "Self is an illusion" is not just preached by Buddha and other gurus, but is advocated by neuroscientists (eg., "Wake Up" by New Atheists's Sam Harris).

Of course, Rome can not be re-factored in one day. There are six roads leading to reality hacking: Reality Deconstruction, Reality Charting, Reality Mining, Reality Simulation, Reality Gaming and Self-realization. All six are based Reality Coding. Reality Coding is where science meets magick, and should only be taught to the next generation: the children of our future. Children of the future can easily understand that two most dominant forces in this reality are illusions: Power and Money. Power is Voltage and Money is Currency. They keep the electrical system running and thus keeping the characters inside the box. Future is actually ready waiting at the gate, on the other side of the Portal. They will be available to us if the collective makes the jump. Not just collective consciousness, per se, but the whole infrastructure as well. To quote Ken Wilber 4 Quadrants: The whole "I-It-We-They" has to go one octave higher. A new color, a new tune, if you may:


"In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
.......
.......
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.

When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll."

- "Stairway to heaven"

On wicker problems

Reality Hacker's mission is not about self realization, but to find the most fundamental ways to solve the "wicked problems" in our world. Our world need more young social entrepreneurs, not "enlightened" gurus. All the core spiritual lessons were taught in kindergarten yet we forgot or threw away on our way to adult society. Reality hackers aim to solve the "world-knot", once and for all. Only when one possesses the three qualities could one become reality hacker: compassion, wisdom, power, and in that exact order. Compassion leads to wisdom, wisdom leads to mystical powers. Knowledge is teachable, but heart is not. One day if universe burns out with only one thing left, I wish that one thing is compassion. In fact, compassion might be the only real alchemy element in reality.

https://www.wickedproblems.com/1_wicked_problems.php

A wicked problem is a social or cultural problem that is difficult or impossible to solve for as many as four reasons: incomplete or contradictory knowledge, the number of people and opinions involved, the large economic burden, and the interconnected nature of these problems with other problems. Poverty is linked with education, nutrition with poverty, the economy with nutrition, and so on.

On Timing:

Timing is everything. Behind everything we see, timing controls how events unfold, branching into different directions. Bad timing turns comedies to tragedies, and vice versa. Timing acts like railroad switches. Just as large stations may have hundreds switches, there exist countless switch points in the invisible world of "Karma Railroad Tracks". (pic 1) Timing is also about synchronization. Our universe was synchronized to begin with, thus we are in this fine-tuned universe trying to make sense of the anthropic principle. Chaos and order was synchronized in a data-flow programming fashion, so that indeterminacy and determinacy converges. It is both predictable and unpredictable, an ultimate paradox.  

So how do one create new world orders? By controlling timing. The most effective way of control timing is through the timing mechanism - calendar and clock. "Calendar Reform" would have profound effects on how the world shapes up, although it's destined to meet resistances from the old guards. However, old orders will fall, and the new era will begin. When the time comes, societies should start applying "Design Thinking" to rebuild this new earth, from ideals and fresh perspectives. Creativity and innovation WAS the original universal intent.

Here I am proposing a new calendar and new clock design:

(1) The New Earth Calendar (pic 2):

   A perpetual calendar to rid of all religious baggages from old days. Controversial? Sure. But we need radical changes. 

(2) A 24/60 clock face, instead of the old 12-hour clock face (pic 3):

   24 also corresponds to the 24 directional Chinese Feng-Shui Compass (the "24 mountains". pic 4). Combined together, a simple instrument could be use to help "visualizing" the space-time continuum, and to connect to it.

Timing is everything and there's nothing else. Why? because all tracks are laid already. By switching timing at critical junctures, the human stories continues.

Code,running on platforms, of laws and rules

To say everything is code is only half the truth. Code has to run on something (platform, for example). However, platforms are built from rules grounds-up. Perhaps rules are the most fundamental. In the end, it might just be Truth Tables. The Universe was built from spreadsheets, the prototypical data-flowing programming paradigm.

後設時刻 (The "Meta-Moment")

"生命中總有舒伯特也無言以对的時刻"。當這种時刻出現，現實突然由寫實手法轉為魔幻，宛如第四牆的帷幕被掀起，不自覺的戲中人此時短暫地"偶開天眼覷紅塵"。我稱這种時刻為"後設時刻"。

La La Land 裏有這种後設時刻的描述。男女主角一再巧遇，其中的神秘性連縶是一首鋼琴曲。最後當女主角徬徨不決，餐廳裏音響"恰巧"傳來此曲。她於是一笑走出，離開現仼男友，聽從"宇宙" 或是"天意"的呼喚。

我和我生命中的两個女人，都共同經歷过這种戲劇性的後設時刻。然而也像電影裹一樣，魔法不保証永恆。在經过20年，10年之後，我們終究分開了。过去為此黯然良久，如今則瞭解這是靈性逆成長的必然。Why? Because each person has to find his or her own path. "Follow Your Own Bliss", as Joseph Campbell once said,  and you may find your own La La Land, together, or alone.