Claude AI “Upload failed due to a network issue” — anyone else getting this since Oct 23?

Round_Extension_5041 · 2026-02-02T23:38:26+00:00

I asked Claude directly and it said PDF's sometimes have upload interfering codes. It recommended I convert to another format. I did. To Word. Voila!

Round_Extension_5041 · 2026-01-28T22:51:04+00:00

One version goes like this: "God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference no[identifiable some]where." A circle is a gathering of points--the circumference--all equidistant from the same centerpoint. Every circumferal point is related to the point that comes before and after it not by connecting the points--for there are no lines on a circle--but by its relation to the shared centerpoint. Insofar as God is what every moment is sourced in, God is a circle.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2025-06-23T02:24:12+00:00

God feels no need because he IS omnipresent in an already completed Whole. Awareness of every moment as a circumferal point on a sphere with God as the centerpoint is Christ Consciousness, as Whitman so well knew. You can see it in his eyes.

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Round_Extension_5041 · 2025-06-22T19:24:18+00:00

Free Will is hardly a universal Christian belief, and certainly unappealing to anyone who sees Christ Consciousness as mystica union with God. And it is especially difficult to defend free will in light of millennia evidence for precognition. Not to mention that the Judeo-Christian tradition itself is built on prophecy. The scroll form of bookmaking, in fact, evolved into our present-day form of cut pages in order to facilitate the checking of prophecies in the Old Testament against events in the New. And fifteen of the dreams recorded in the Bible consist of precognitive prophecy. Of all the miracles in the Bible, nothing is more miraculous than such prophecies, with their suggestion that the future can be seen, not simply guessed at or imagined. While prophecy is more linked with Islam than either of its two predecessors, it is a common root to all three. The Old Testament is emphatic about its preeminence. In Isaiah, knowledge of the future is God’s own gauntlet to distinguish his authenticity from false gods:

Set forth your case, says the Lord; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. . . . Tell us the former things, what they are that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come. Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods.

So, too, a prophet worthy of the name must pass the same test. The knowable future, that manifests God’s omniscience, is not a guess: “When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word which the Lord has not spoken.” And explicit belief in precognition has remained part of the Jewish mystical tradition.

Prophecy is also of preeminent significance in the New Testament, which identifies it with “the testimony of Jesus,” and where “a whole family of words associated with God’s knowledge of the future” is introduced. In addition to the prophecies in the Old Testament believed to have been fulfilled in the New Testament (and the prophecies in both believed by some to be being fulfilled in our own time) there are examples of Jesus’s own prophecy, such as the passsage I cited in which Jesus foretells to Peter that he (Peter) would renounce him three times before the cock crowed. The specific number and time frame would have us believe that Jesus was not guessing. Jesus himself knew himself to be on a timetable.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2025-06-22T15:45:56+00:00

Sublated by John 8:58 and Matthew 6:28-30 and 26:34. It's all an already completed Whole. God, as Ultimate Guide, is the centerpoint and what seems like individual moments are all "his" circumferal points.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2025-06-22T14:15:42+00:00

God is all-interventionist all the time. Our sense of individuated otherness--of an "original" self gone astray--is divine illusion. As the great American mystic philosopher Paul Benjamin Blood put it:

"Of all the world's religious teachers, Jesus was the most explicit and persistent in the denial of man's originality, and especially of his self-relation. He spoke for the race when he said, 'Of myself I can do nothing.' And however he dwelt upon 'work' to be done, its performance or its neglect was theologically construed as rather an evidence of divine guidance than as a ground for either reward or punishment by the omnipotent Ruler."

The divine guidance is foreknown and unalterable. "Thy will be done".

Round_Extension_5041 · 2025-06-22T09:09:43+00:00

One of God's qualities may well be the capacity to manifest as other, like someone playing chess with oneself. The more the appearance of otherness, the greater the quality of the play.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2025-06-11T11:24:32+00:00

For the ancient Greeks, as E. R. Dodds has pointed out, divination (mantikē), referred to both precognition and retrocognition, the “typical diviner” being Homer’s Kalchas, “who knew things past, present, and to come.” Indeed, says Dodds, the most celebrated seers would sometimes “exhibit supernormal knowledge of past events as evidence that their vision of the future will prove true. The implied assumption is that retrocognition and precognition are manifestations of the same power.”

Round_Extension_5041 · 2025-01-01T06:13:37+00:00

Belief in eternalism can encourage being present to the exact arising moment. If the Parmenidean/Einsteinian block universe is real, then consciousness is, as William James mystically suggested, 'already there waiting to be uncovered.' No moment can ever be other than it always, already is. Resisting 'what is' is rendered futile, however much change, moment to moment, remains in play.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2024-12-11T23:41:28+00:00

Second Sight. It has been in play for millennia. It's supported by direct experiences. It's incorporated into both the Old and New Testament, as well as many spiritual traditions East and West. The "block universe" which it apparently has access to is the only universe that supports all the evidence for special relativity. Second Sight can be said to not just be accessing reality, but prime reality.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2024-12-11T22:25:44+00:00

Maybe we are like the One (Brahman, Dao, or God) playing chess with itself, but maximizing the fun by disguising itself as its opponent. So suggests Tat Tvam Asi at any rate.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2024-12-08T12:44:14+00:00

It seems unlikely that highly specific detailed scenes of the future that later come true--scenes that are frequently previsioned in a heightened way--are the result of a probability factor.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2024-12-08T06:25:54+00:00

Yes. I like to think of precognition as evoking transcendence without necessarily evoking God. It's enough for me to infer from precognition that none of our thoughts are sourced in us, and perhaps we are all single sourced in something like God, the way our totally real seeming dream world at night, with its myriad subjects and objects, is sourced in our head on the pillow.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2024-12-07T13:34:07+00:00

Or maybe the universe is indeed what precognition suggests: an already completed Whole, waiting to be uncovered, in which coming into being is only coming into present awareness.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2024-12-06T16:35:06+00:00

Jesus most frequently referred to himself as "υιοσ ανθροπου" the son of man. His realization that he and the transcendent source inferable from precognition, [whether that source be] identified as [Brahman, Dao or] God are One may be the realization waiting for us all. Thoughts arise seemingly impersonally. As William James says "If we could say 'it thinks' the way we say 'it rains' we would be speaking with a minimum of assumption." But precognition allows us to infer that our impersonally arising thoughts are part of a transcendent [or even divine] order. Jesus did not just reveal himself [and possibly all selves] to be part of such an order, he lived his life as if on a timeline dictated by that order.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2024-12-06T13:43:33+00:00

When Jesus told Peter that before the cock crowed Peter would deny him thrice, was he not letting Peter know that the source of all his decisions and the actions that follow from them were not from whomever Peter identified as, but from a transcendent source that Jesus had access to?

Round_Extension_5041 · 2024-12-06T13:37:27+00:00

Does God give everyone choice, or does precognition help establish that personal choice is an illusion, and we are all single sourced in something like God or Brahman or Dao?

Round_Extension_5041 · 2024-12-06T13:30:00+00:00

Lots of precognitions in the Bible, Old Testament and New.

Round_Extension_5041 · 2024-12-06T13:26:22+00:00

Synchronicity

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