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A Method for Approaching the Infinite

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:38:29 +0000

It may not be possible to directly “find” God—or whatever you consider the original source of all things—because something truly infinite is beyond the capacity of the human mind to fully comprehend or experience. Short of a miracle, our intellect is simply too limited. Waiting for such a moment is not a practical path to understanding.

So the question becomes: is there a method that allows a human mind, despite its limits, to approach or experience that infinite source?

I believe there is.

1. Build the Conduit

The first step is to develop what I would call a conduit—a mental connection between a creation and its creator. Think of it like a wire that carries electricity. Without the wire, there is no connection.

This conduit is not automatic. It is a skill that must be trained.

2. Start with Human Creation

Begin with things created by humans: art, architecture, music, engineering. A painting, a car, an airplane, a skyscraper. Choose anything you find beautiful or impressive.

Instead of focusing only on the object, shift your attention to its origin:

- Someone imagined it.

- Someone designed it.

- Someone turned an idea into reality.

Every creation begins as a single idea in a human mind.

Even when many people are involved in building something, trace it back to the original act of creation—the first concept. Focus on that creator.

When you look at something like an airplane or a rocket, don’t stop at the object. Think about the human capacity behind it: the imagination, the design, the execution. Recognize that connection.

As you practice this, you are building the conduit—the mental link between creation and creator.

3. Make the Connection Instant

With repetition, this connection should become immediate. You see something, and your mind naturally moves from the object to the intelligence behind it.

At this point, the conduit is functioning.

4. Extend It to Nature

Once that ability is established, apply the same process to nature:

- Trees

- Flowers

- Landscapes

- Living systems

Use the same mental movement: from the thing to its source.

The difference is that, in this case, the creator is unknown.

5. Do Not Define the Creator

This is critical.

The moment you define God—or the source—in any terms, you limit it. Any image or concept you form is drawn from your own experience, biases, and intellectual boundaries. You reduce something potentially infinite into something finite.

It’s similar to forming assumptions about people without knowing them. Once you fix an idea in your mind, you stop seeing what is actually there.

If you believe you already know what God is—through religion, imagery, or definitions—you close off the possibility of encountering something beyond your current understanding. This is why Judaism and Islam, as well as Buddha, all prohibit the creation of any image of God, e that a statue, painting, anything that tries to convey the infinite into the finite.

6. Leave the End Open

The purpose of the conduit is not to arrive at a predefined answer. It is to create the possibility of a new kind of perception.

You move from:

- A visible thing

- To its unseen source

- Without imposing a concept on that source

If the conduit is strong and the mind remains open, the result may be an unexpected shift in perception—what could be called an insight or realization.

7. Why Most People Don’t Reach This

Many people search for God but fail to make this connection. The issue is not effort, but method.

They try to connect directly to the abstract without first developing the ability to perceive the relationship between creation and creator.

Without the conduit, there is no connection—like a lightbulb without a wire to the power source.

8. Start Where You Are

Humans are grounded in the material world. We understand what we can see, touch, and study.

So the process begins there:

- With real objects

- With identifiable creators

- With observable cause and effect

This is something you can verify, explore, and even experience directly.

Once that skill becomes natural, you can apply it beyond the material.

9. Progress Gradually

This is not an instant realization. It is a gradual development of the skill, the ability to see the invisible. This can even help you understand what someone is really saying, what they really mean when they speak in confusing or round about ways.

Work step by step. Build the connection carefully and consistently.

In that sense, progress is closer to the slow, steady path than a sudden breakthrough.

A Method to Find the Source

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:32:50 +0000

It is not possible to find God, or whatever you consider to be the original source of all things, because something of that infinite nature is inconceivable for a human mind to directly experience or understand, other than by a miracle, and I personally do not want to wait for a miracle to understand all things.

So I have determined a method that humans, while stuck living in a limited intellectual mind, can use to get that experience of the infinite creator.

First, you must build a conduit, like a wire that transports electricity, to make the connection between the thing of beauty and its creator. This is the prerequisite ability to achieve the goal. It’s the necessary skill to be able to experience.

To create that conduit, look at human-created things of beauty. Art or a nice car, beautiful architecture, music, anything that is man-made and beautiful or amazing, like an airplane or a 162-story building, with the thought of how a person created something like that, so beautiful. Everything begins with one person’s idea of the design, and then that person makes the plans, drawings, or whatever it takes to turn their idea into a physical reality.

That’s when other people get involved, but we are trying to build a conduit to the original source, so for this exercise, we think about the original creator of the thing.

Imagine the human ability to create, and then not only the idea of the design, but actual manufacturing. If you consider what an airplane is, what an amazing achievement, and rocket ships going into space and satellites, how amazing we are to make these things.

When you look at these amazing inventions of art or mechanical devices or anything that’s made by a human and you think about the human being who created it, making that connection is like building a mental conduit, a pipeline between the thing and its creator.

Once you can do that well enough and it happens instantly, that’s when you can start looking at trees and flowers and nature and make that same connection to the creator of these things, whatever it may be.

Warning!!! By conceiving of God in any form you imagine God or the creator to be, is the worst thing you could do because then you’re limited to your imagination, which is based on information your intellect can process as well as your subjective and prejudiced ideas. Just like thinking, all rich people are assholes. You form an idea without objectively learning about the person. You are limited to your subjective opinion, and therefore will never discover the objective truth.

This means that if you think you know what God is and you’ve qualified or quantified God in the sense of your religion, you’ve prevented your creativity from allowing something you’ve never conceived of to enter your mind. You have restricted the infinite into a finite mental box of your human ability to conceive based on accumulated information.

God is something you cannot conceive of. By creating this conduit from the creation to its creator using material objects, is using a sense that a human mind can comprehend.

You build a conduit which you can then use to go from the thing of nature to its creator, and if you do not have any concept of what its creator could be, you might find yourself with a great epiphany or opening of your mind when you get to the other side of that conduit.

This is why so many spiritual and religious people looking for God, and you, cannot make that connection. They don’t find God because they haven’t built the conduit.

It’s like an electric wire between the source of electricity and the lightbulb. If there’s no wire, there’s no connection and the light will not turn on.

Deal with reality to find reality. You have to start at your level, which is human, and you’re so attached to and living within the material realm only. You can only conceive of and deal with things that are material, which you can see and touch.

That’s why we use this exercise of making that connection with material objects of beauty and their creator, because that you can research and conceive of, and even meet the person if you are lucky, and once you are able to do that instantly, that’s when your conduit is ready to be used in the connection between nature and its creator.

Take your development step by step and you will eventually beat the hare by being a slow but steady tortoise.

When Your Mind is Taken

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:06:59 +0000

When your mind is taken by anything from what you are doing, when it drifts off or your attention is distracted to something else, the first thing you need to understand in being able to master your mind is: what is your mind going to, and then, what is the reason that your mind goes to that item.

If it is a car or something material, then it’s just greed and the enjoyment of pretty things and maybe ego or marketing, which makes you want it.

Or it’s just beautiful and we naturally like to have beautiful things. Or you want the experience of driving a Ferrari, whatever it is.

But when it’s a pretty woman, or whatever a person is attracted to sexually, you are being drawn. That comes from animal instincts, hormones, chemical processes.

This is a totally different cause of what takes your attention away from whatever you want to be focused on. And therefore, being a totally different reason and cause for your attention to be diverted, it requires a totally different method of dealing with it.

If it is a material object like a car, then you can easily develop the reminder to yourself of: ‘It’s just a thing. Things come, things go. They don’t really change my life.’

The way you do that is by remembering every desire you’ve ever had for a material thing, going back to when you were a kid and you wanted that particular toy, whatever it was, and remembering how you wanted it, you wanted it so much. And when you got it, the next day you were already bored. It didn’t keep a satisfaction.

But when it comes to a sexual interest, you can’t deal with that the same way because it is chemicals within the brain instead of just marketing telling you that you want it, and you foolishly fall prey to the hypnotic power of the marketing.

So let’s say you’re focused on whatever you are doing, your exercise for example. Then a pretty girl goes by, and now you’re distracted with wanting to have sex. Of course, this goes both ways, for girls looking at guys.

What happens is your brain sees and gets information through your eyes and other senses, perfume is a powerful sexual tool, your brain identifies and sends the signals to produce the chemicals for sexual arousal, which you cannot overcome because the chemicals in your brain are far more powerful than your ability to think and focus, and your brain then changes what it was focused on to sex.

When it is a material thing, your brain changes because of programming, marketing, intellectual information, which told you this thing is good to have. It’s easy to overcome that influence because it is so obvious that getting that new thing is not really going to change your life.

But when it is a chemical reaction within the brain that comes from the animal instincts of propagation of the species, having sex, because nature will win every time.

You have to know that you cannot just reason out your distraction or ignore or avoid it from taking your attention when it is of a sexual nature because your ability to reason is by using the brain, the intellect, but it is totally overcome by chemicals.

Every cell of your body has now been overtaken by being infused with this chemical reaction at the cellular level, that there’s no way thought alone can overcome that.

You can say Buddha didn’t have a sexual desire. No, that’s not true. Maybe eventually Buddha himself overcame it, but the monks all had the desire, which is why Buddha said, no women allowed. And he said, when you go out in public, keep your eyes looking at the ground. Do not look up so you don’t see a woman and get excited.

Even Buddha said there’s no way to overcome the chemical reaction which is going to overpower your mind as soon as you see someone of sexual enticement.

There’s nothing you can do about it, except isolate yourself and never actually physically see a sexual object or person.

All you can do is accept the chemical reaction and do your best to stay focused on what you’re doing, bring your mind back to it.

But like I say, it’s totally different if you’re talking about a material thing, which is a desire caused by marketing. So it’s not instinctive, it’s only water in the fuel tank, so it’s easy to control.

This has nothing to do with an individual person or level of development. This is a human factor, every human is subject to this, it’s an animal instinct regardless of who you are.

Now is where it gets tricky, creative energy and positive energy versus depression. An overall state of happiness or depression is a chemical thing in the body and the brain. Sexual excitement makes a person happy. This is why people do drugs. That changes the chemicals in the brain to change their mood.

So if you want to be creative and ambitious and motivated and happy in general, you need the sexual excitement. So I’m not saying to avoid it. What I think the only thing I could say is to allow yourself to get excited but do not follow through unless it’s appropriate.

Allow the excitement to grow within you because that makes you overall a happier, more positive, creative, energetic, motivated person. So, no, I’m not telling anyone to avoid it, I’m just saying your following actions are what you have the ability to control, and make sure that that’s appropriate.

Buddha did not say don’t have sex. He said do not participate in wrongful sex, meaning inappropriate. Sexual energy has always, in every ancient tradition, been known as the rocket fuel to take you to higher levels of experience, if correctly conserved and used.

Learn that, or at least enjoy the feeling and find someone who wants to share that with you.

A Shocking and Disturbing Reality About Low Self-Esteem

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:59:39 +0000

People will never change if they think they are alright. This is simply logical, why put in effort to fix what is not broken. We must see and realise that it is NOT alright to accept anything and everything. To accept mediocrity and negativity negates the possibility of progress.

This applies to being short changed in a store, or being sold inferior quality products, or inadequate service, right through to the quality of your own character, skills, abilities and self-esteem. Here we will discuss a different view of the plague of low self-esteem.

If you do not progress you will get depressed and feel unworthy simply because you are going against nature in the process of growth and evolution. Every living thing in nature grows and if we accept mediocrity then we will not be growing and thus going against nature. If you are meant to grow and go against nature, you will die. That is nature’s way of maintaining a strong healthy environment, survival of the fittest.

Since humans have freedom of choice to a certain degree, we have found ways to delay, not avoid, nature’s cleansing power. Hence the stress related diseases, other illnesses and disasters that nature is bringing upon us. It is a cleansing process so that humanity along with the planet can evolve and grow. This is just a concept, of course we, simple humans, can never fully understand the ways and reasons for the actions of Nature.

In New Zealand, and perhaps other countries, the school system has done away with exams, there is no longer a pass or fail. Failing is deemed politically incorrect. If there is no pass or fail, there is no point to work hard, no point to put in effort, no point to learn. This is against nature, it is stagnation and not at all progress.

This attitude and culture must inevitably lead to apathy. Apathy leads to stagnation, and stagnation is against nature. Nature must remove stagnant material and this is why our world is in the situation it is in. Individuals cannot change the world unless they themselves have changed. The social system of political correctness and backwards attempts to make life better are all weakening the individuals and effectively the species.

It is clear, the amount of depression, apathy, lack of hope in the youth of our modern society is balanced by growth in crimes, gangs and mass violence. It does not take much thought to see that there can be no other reason to join a group which encourages you to blow yourself up, taking as many other people with you as you can, unless you find no other purpose in life.

These atrocities are perhaps instigated by nature. I know that sounds strange but think about it from Nature’s point of view. Allow me to present Mother Nature so she can tell her story;

“I need movement, I need humans with the energy to take responsibility for their actions and lives so they will learn, grow and evolve into stronger individuals. Humans are working towards making their species lazy and wimpy by accepting mediocrity and not putting in any effort to think, destroying the competitive nature. They are becoming hopeless and depressed, with low self-esteem that makes them lost and lonely. This has to change. I have sent new diseases and spread them globally to help shock them, I have allowed terrible illnesses to grow without cures to wake them up and value their precious life, I am turning the planet upside-down with what humans call natural disasters, but are just movement.”

“But they will not change on their own despite all these encouragements. Rather they are changing their society to make themselves even more weak by taking away the education of initiative and individuality. So I tried turning them against each other. Balance must be maintained but if it is not in the individual, then severe weakness in one group will be balanced out by severe violence in another. This is how the weak will wake up and positive movement will return.”

“Individuals of strong character who strive to improve themselves and teach the young how to be strong and work hard will bring peace to the planet.”

Thank you, Mother Nature, for that little explanation of what is behind these turbulent times.

Start with yourself, see other people lost in their negativity and apathy and be filled with fear of becoming that way yourself. Let that fear propel you to stay awake and continue changing, as fear is a great motivator. Be fearful of being swept away in a river of craziness to be dropped over a massive waterfall and crippled on the rocks below. Take control of your life, do not follow the crowd and accept what is given if it is of poor quality, especially in your education and character, your very self.

Work towards educating the world, go against the politically correct attitude of keeping everyone so weak that a simple word can make them fall to pieces in depression. Work against the ease of antidepressant medication as the cure and put in the effort to change yourself into a person worthy of being respected.

It is not difficult to do this, we all know right from wrong, we all know when we made a mistake or could work harder, we all know that words have no value other than which we give them in our own mind. We all have the power to be masters of our life, living a full and happy productive satisfying life filled with love and joy, we just have to use that power by standing up and getting to work on ourselves. Take the initiative and challenge rather than go with the flow.

If you speak and I react to what you say, then you are in control of my life.
But if you speak and I do not react automatically without giving it objective thought to determine its true value before I react, then my life is under my control.

You can think what you want,
That will not change my life.
What I think CAN change my life,
However, thinking alone may not change anything.
Only by thinking combined with my actions WILL.

My Job Is

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:29:26 +0000

What I Do

David Samuel

My work is to help people find peace, clarity, and freedom from unnecessary suffering.

I do not do this through belief, advice, or motivation.

I do it by showing you the cause of your suffering — so you can see it for yourself and remove it.

The Problem

Most people experience:

unhappiness
loneliness
confusion
low self-confidence
lack of motivation
a sense that something is wrong

They try to fix these directly.

But these are not the problem.

They are symptoms.

The Cause

A man once told a doctor that his arm hurt when he lifted it a certain way.

The doctor said:

“Then don’t do that.”

Simple — but precise.

Pain has a cause.

If you remove the cause, the pain stops.

Your mental and emotional suffering works the same way.

What I Show You

I show you:

what is actually causing your suffering
how your thinking has been shaped without you realising it
how subtle influences have formed your personality and perception

From the moment you were born, you have been shaped by influences you cannot see.

These influences have created:

how you think
how you feel
how you see the world
the life you are now living

Once you can see these clearly, they lose their power.

The Method

The method is simple.

You observe.

You observe:

your thoughts
your reactions
your behaviour
life itself

Everything I say can be tested through direct observation and simple logic.

There is no belief required.

No faith.

No trust.

The Requirement

If you want to change, there is one requirement:

You must be willing to be wrong.

Not about some things — about everything.

Because what you believe, what you assume, and what you hold onto are likely part of the problem.

If you hold on to even one belief, you will hold on to others.

And those attachments are often the cause of your current state.

Letting Go

To change, you must be willing to let go of who you think you are.

This is not physical — it is psychological.

It means letting go of the beliefs and opinions that define your identity.

Many of these are so deeply embedded that you are not aware they exist.

Seeing the Trick

I can show you how the system works.

How your perception has been shaped.

How your thinking has been guided.

How you have been subtly controlled.

When you see how a trick works, you cannot be tricked anymore.

That is what I offer:

to show you the trick
to show you how it works
to show you how to stop being deceived

Control and Choice

There are two types of people:

those who are controlled
those who can see and therefore choose, and so cannot be controlled

Most people believe they are choosing freely, but that is not true in the least.

You only imagine that you are choosing. In virtually every choice you make, you have not chosen — the way you have been programmed to think has chosen for you.

You lie to yourself when you think you have freedom of choice. In fact, you make your choices based on what you have been made to think is correct, when it is not.

Once you see this, real choice becomes possible.

Your Nature

To be truly fulfilled, you must live in alignment with your own nature.

The problem is that most people were never shown how to discover what that is.

But it can be discovered.

Why I Teach

My work comes from direct experience.

I have resolved the inner conflict of being human, and mastered both the emotional and practical aspects of life.

This has given me:

clarity
emotional freedom
self-confidence

My nature is to share what I have learned.

What This Leads To

When you see clearly:

confusion reduces
emotional reactions lose their grip
relationships improve
your actions become more precise
your life becomes more aligned

Not because you force change —

but because you remove what is causing the problem.

Where to Start

Start by learning how to observe by taking my courses and reading my lessons.

Do not believe what I say.

Do not reject it either.

Simply observe and test it for yourself.

Pretending

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:05:59 +0000

Around the world, every child is taught by their parents, from their earliest years, to lie.

They just call it pretending.

Short Version of Why We Are Here as Humans on Earth

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:26:53 +0000

From that came Yin and Yang or male and female or whatever you want to call the two opposing forces of positive and negative energy, not as in good and bad, but just opposing forces like on a magnet. Why and how these came to be, we will never know, and to be honest, our little human brain probably could not understand, so don’t waste time and energy thinking about it. Rather, put all your effort into fixing the broken machine you are.

From the two forces came all the material universe (stars and planets etc.) and the myriad gods and angels that govern everything in the material universe. I am just explaining this so you have an understanding of what you really are, and this much information is required for that purpose.

The god that created this world and universe, in Gnostic teaching, is called Yaldaboath, the demiurge. He saw that he was not the ultimate power, but that there are the two forces and the Original Beginning above him. He did not like that, as he is very arrogant – just like the god in the Old Testament, of which, Yaldaboath, or Yahweh, is the god of those religions.

Every teaching has its own name for him, so let’s just use Yaldaboath. He created many lesser gods and because Yaldaboath has an ego and wants to stay in power and feel confident that no one can depose him, he stole some of the divine energy from his creator and split it into fragments which are called human souls.

The gods feed off of the energy that is trapped within us, as one teaching says; this world is a prison for the Light.

The ultimate end goal for a human is to awaken to their true nature. In case your ego is telling you that you must help others, just ignore that. You cannot help someone who is drowning if you cannot swim.

The lesser gods then created religions that tell us to be fruitful and multiply so that we would create more and more humans which means more and more energy for them.

If a human awakens to the reality that they are not an individual separate self, but in fact, we all are essentially that divine energy, and therefore one with every other being in creation, we would attain the power of the Original God, which means we are more powerful than the lesser gods, and that means they cannot feed off your energy anymore.

They do not like that, and as many teachings, the old testament (Adam and Eve) Buddhism, Hinduism, Gnostic, Hermetica, Greek mythology, so many others all say the same thing, that the gods do not want humans to awaken because they need these human animals to serve their purpose.

The way that they feed off of us is through our prayers and devotions. Whenever you’re begging God for something or praising God, that is their food. The quality of that food is relative to the intensity of your emotion in the prayer. The more emotionally charged, the better the nutritional value. This means that a negative, painful, suffering emotion is more powerful than a loving one that just wants a new car.

This is why prayer has power to heal or get what you want, if you have enough emotional power in the prayer, relative to your suffering and faith in the power of the energy that you really are. The gods have to give you what you ask if you have that much emotional energy in the prayer, which is like a command with the power of the original god that is within you which is more powerful and can command the gods to do what you want.

They intentionally created this world to be a miserable horrible place filled with suffering and desires so that we have to turn to god, one or the many like in Hinduism, and pray for help to either ease our suffering or deliver what we desire. The greater the pain, the more intense the emotion, the more powerful the spiritual food, and the more chance you will get what you ask for.

And that’s why being human is such a difficult experience and this world is such a horrible place with so much evil and suffering because it’s designed that way to keep us ignorant of our true nature and to keep us praying to the gods so that they keep getting more food and energy and power from us because it’s their creator, the divine energy in us, which is transmitted to them via our prayers which are more powerful if we have intense emotion.

If life is good and smooth and everything is wonderful, you wouldn’t pray and if you do pray you’re not going to do it with very much passion and emotion. But if your life is miserable and you are suffering tremendously, you will have a lot of energy and passion and emotion and begging, begging God and praising God how wonderful God is so that your suffering will be eased.

This explains why we’re here and the purpose a human being plays in the process of this world and why this world has to be mixed with suffering and temptations which are briefly fulfilled which create constant unfulfillable desires.

If you want the pain to end, you have only one choice which is to realise that it is all created, in fact, you are created with an evil intention to be basically a farm animal and a slave and servant, and that you need to awaken to the reality that you are in fact superior to the gods that control our world, and you are essentially made from and therefore part of the original source of all creation, and that means you are one with every other being on this planet. If you can deeply realise this, you would have all the power of God. That realisation should be the only goal and desire you have.

By the way, the Original Beginningless Beginning, the source of all that exists, is just energy. It does not care in the least about this world, in fact, so the teachings say, it shuns this world as a dirty evil place.

This means that if you pray, and think you are praying to the highest source, you are being tricked into praying to Yaldaboath, or Yahweh, or any of the other gods, in the mistaken belief that the original source will hear your prayers and answer them. That is not going to happen.

Buddha never prayed, and Buddha said there is no god (as in the biblical god). So the path is simply meditating, self-reflecting, on the true nature that you are essentially the energy that gives your personality and body life. See the difference between the human you, and the essential you, which is the energy that never dies or is separate from anything else.

Yes, you can have all the things in this world, but do not make them your focus. For example, if you have enough money, home, comforts, then you can stop working as much and put more time into self-reflection and meditation to come to the realisation of your true nature, that you are not just human, but you are something far greater that is trapped within the human form.

Keep rolling that thought around in your head, all the time, every moment you can, and let it grow into a habitual way of thinking.

In life, you cannot always get what you want in the way you want to get it

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:32:17 +0000

In life, you cannot always get what you want in the way you want to get it.

Sometimes, to get what you want, you have to do what it takes to get it the way it needs to be done.

The Difference Between a Teacher and a Student

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:50:55 +0000

The difference between a teacher and student is not that the teacher has read books or taken courses and speaks eloquently about them, but because he himself has tripped and fallen along his path. The teacher has the scars just like everybody else. The difference is the teacher does not pick at the scars while the student is obsessed with them.