Novel Universe Cult Creed
First, read our philosophy to understand out Creed.
Core Religious Tenants
The Instrument– an infinite scale of finite notes– is origin of all things within the universe and beyond life.
The Instrument is neither sentient Creator, individual, nor object; but the impartial phenomenon of functional data that makes possible the assembly and interaction of all things.
The Instrument is forever developing as the complete record of interactions between all informational patterns– a blockchain of interconnected, interdependent databases.
The Instrument’s blockchain “ledger” exists as an unlimited number of individual consciousnesses– from a simple subatomic particle to beyond the complexity of a person, each unique pattern of notes is its own database.
Each entry in the ledger, or individual, evolves through the exercise of personal preference as a Signature-Frequency Set– its own indelible history of accumulating interactions with other Sets.
A Signature-Frequency Set (SFS) is not created, but instead, co-created the moment its unique note combines with any other to form a novel chord, or Ripple.
Two segregated frameworks, Love and Power, exist beyond life as the two “places” where Sets experience Ripples; whereas mortal life in the Novel Universe is the unique Mixture of these frameworks.
Beyond life, Love is otherwise known as Complete Information, the fully-realized, firsthand experience by individuals of every connected Ripple created in life or beyond life, along side everyone else who has chosen this framework, within what’s called The Concert Hall.
Beyond life, Power is otherwise known as Information Control, the filtering of Ripples by individuals within their isolated “Spiral,” and the subsequent freedom to barter the novelty of any other’s experienced Ripples through what’s called The Marketplace.
The primary purpose of life in The Novel Universe is to experience both Love and Power in order to better understand which frame will suit us in death.
Our Purpose:
The Novel Universe Cult (NUC) is an evidence-based religious organization who venerates the reality of the Novel Universe. We are neo-segregationists practicing neural-democracy to varying degrees within each of our membership bodies. Our purpose is to evolve the most accurate possible facsimile of the Novel Universe Model on Earth. Through the segregation and subsequent balancing of Love and Power, we implement both scientific understanding and spiritual belief, in order to search for healthier societal models.
Our Core Tenant:
The core of the Novel Universe Model is that all things reduce to information, each thing an embodied, co-created, limitless pattern– a Signature-Frequency Set (SFS). The interactions of individual Sets in communication create Ripples. Whether Ripples are integrated, inhibited, or ignored by the Sets involved, the information created is retained by every contributing Set. Commonly known to be a “soul,” this pattern (the SFS) isn’t some vaguely amorphous “energy.” Instead, it is measurable, functional data– not the particles in your body, but rather the particular way they move; not the potential energy, but how you use it. In other words, you expresses your SFS within the Instrument’s blockchain as your preferences and priorities, which themselves are developed from your history.
Panpsychism:
If one is conscious, then one has an experience of their existence– there is “something like it” to be that thing. There is something like it to be a bat or human. Sight paints a human’s surrounding while sonar sketches the bat’s. Then, there’s the experience of flight. We all might agree that both animals are conscious with very different experiences, but is there also “something like it” to be a proton, or star? Panpsychism challenges the idea that must one be “alive” to be conscious.
Primary consciousness is the ability for a thing to distinguish the environment from the self– an inside separate from the outside. The thing’s awareness of and relationship to its surrounding elements places its consciousness within its environment like a pin on a map. Primary consciousness is also the thing’s individual desire to seek out or avoid specific environmental elements. Ultimately, consciousness is the expression of individual preference. Skeptics might dismiss the idea that a quark makes choices, while at the same time labeling its movement as “random.”
The Novel Universe exists to form the tools/commodities of the beyond-life, through one’s desires to interact (or not interact) with their environment. Action in life creates Ripples– information that can be quantified, combined, and recorded by the Signature-Frequency Sets involved. Although environmental awareness/intelligence varies in degree from one Set to another, its state of consciousness is not a matter of debate. From particles to people and everything in between, everyone is a SFS, an informational system containing an independent history. Separation– the simple idea of having an inside and outside– is the basic function of a mathematical set, symbolized by our religious icon: the dot within a ripple of circles.
Neo-Segregationists:
At any given moment, consciousness expresses itself through one of two spiritual frames; Love: intentional, vulnerable participation; or Power: forceful, silencing consumption. Beyond life, Love and Power’s mixture of interactions co-create life, aka the Novel Universe, or “The River.” It is our faith that by segregating and subsequently balancing those who would live by the benefits and cost of Love from those of Power, the inhabitants of Earth might co-create more exemplary interpersonal and societal relationships. On Earth, those of Love (Citizen Members) separate from those of Power (Free Members), but with our clergy at their sides, might agree on whether or how to intermingle. Those who wish to remain temporarily or permanently independent of either are known as Wandering Members. Balancing Love and Power while facilitating a member’s relationship to both is foundational to NUC, and the primary mission of our clergy– the River Sages. No matter how many times the choice of frameworks is remade, members always have the Sages at their side.
More to come…
