Sufi George

new paradigm metaphysician

Sufi George (George Arthur Lareau) developed and teaches Consciousness Management (CM)

as a clear method for changing or creating one's reality, and for achieving enlightenment.

A welcome message from Sufi George

Welcome to an adventure in self-discovery!

What I present to you is the result of over 40 years of diligent searching and experimenting, extensive reading and research, and demanding creative thought.

Perhaps your burning questions are similar to those I began with: Who am I really? What is reality? Is there a God? Am I alone in the universe? What is life and how does it work? What is the purpose of life? Does fate control my life or do I have freedom? What is truth? What is enlightenment and how can I achieve it?

Are you wondering whether I really have answers to all of these questions? Well, we all have some kind of answers for them. I've always had answers; it's just that my answers kept changing over time. When I caught on to this, I realized that I needed to set my standards as high as possible so that I could get the highest quality answers possible.

In our day and age, the highest standard of knowledge is set by our sciences. According to science, there is no knowledge until a theory has been proven experimentally. Rational or logical thinking is just the first step. There must be proof as well. So science satisfies my desire for rational answers of the highest possible quality.

But does science have answers about these metaphysical questions? Curiously, it doesn't, individually. That is, because science is so specialized into different branches that seldom communicate with each other, scientists have difficulty putting together a broad picture of things. But by putting together discoveries made here and there in different branches, as I have done, an overall picture emerges.

The sciences of particular interest here are modern physics, psychophysiology, and morphic field theory. I'm no scientist, and you may not be either, but some able writers have presented the essential information in understandable formats.

My writings offer you a concept by concept approach to a new paradigm, a new perspective on yourself and reality. These concepts build a new understanding of who and where you are, and what you're doing. The result is satisfying, both rationally and intuitively. You can confirm the theory with experience, and the experience with theory.

My most important personal contribution to this effort is Sufi George's Dynamic Model of Consciousness. The DMC gives you a visual way of understanding the components of consciousness and their behaviors. It illustrates how we experience, and when you understand that, you can change your experience or create new experience. I call this Consciousness Management (CM), which is the practical application of my teachings.

The sublime application is achieving enlightenment. For this purpose, it is important to understand that our experience comes from outside of ourselves, and it can be turned off by not paying attention to it. When we experience nothing, we experience enlightenment. "Nothing," in this case, is pure awareness that isn't aware of anything other than itself. This experience confirms the theory that awareness is the fundamental reality in the universe, and that because we have it, we are a fundamental part of the universe.

This experience of pure awareness convinces us that this is who we fundamentally are, and that our daily experience is irrelevant to achieving enlightenment. This experience of pure awareness shows us how all people are the same, fundamentally, what I call the Generic Human Being. We are fundamentally a consciousness system that is able to experience.

There is a great liberation that comes with this enlightenment. Nagging questions vanish, pressure ceases, and a peaceful calm descends.

It used to be that enlightenment was a nearly impossible lifetime pursuit. Nowadays, it can be learned and achieved like any other subject or skill.

Creating reality is performed with morphic robots, based on the morphic field theory of Rupert Sheldrake.

Enlightenment is achieved through lucid dreaming, a modern scientific approach to consciousness exploration established by Stephen LaBerge at Stanford University.

Understanding consciousness is approached from the opposite end of the current research spectrum, beginning with awareness itself rather than with the physical brain.

Consciousness Management is principally a matter of controlling one's attention, focusing it deliberately on experience patterns that one wishes to change.

I have created an innovative Dynamic Model of Consciousness. Understanding the DMC reveals the nature of reality and experience. The DMC shows that we are fundamentally nothing more than our awareness, and that all of our experience comes to us as frequency wave patterns that travel through us.

My writings demystify metaphysics by drawing on 20th century scientific discoveries that answer most metaphysical questions. Of greatest import are the discoveries of particle physicists.

I have attracted many thousands of students around the world in the past ten years online.

I can be called a "Sufi" only loosely. I am not affiliated with any Sufic organization or tradition, but am an independent worker for humanity. However, I identify with the Sufi spirit of innovation and humor in my approach to teaching Consciousness Management.

So, help yourself to what I offer you. This is my "humanitarian effort," after having focused my effort for so long on myself only.

With best wishes,

Sufi George

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In Fritjof Capra's book, "Belonging to the Universe" (1992 Penguin Books) he developed a list of the characteristics for "new-paradigm thinking" in science which I quote here:

New Paradigm Thinking in Science, by Fritjof Capra

The old scientific paradigm may be called Cartesian, Newtonian, or Baconian, since its main characteristics were formulated by Descartes, Newton and Bacon.

The new paradigm may be called holistic, ecological, or systemic, but none of these adjectives characterises it completely.

New-paradigm thinking in science includes the following five criteria - the first two refer to our view of nature, the other three to our epistemology.

1. Shift from the Part to the Whole

In the old paradigm it was believed that in any complex system the dynamics of the whole could be understood from the properties of the parts.

In the new paradigm, the relationship between the parts and the whole is reversed. The properties of the parts can be understood only from the dynamics of the whole. Ultimately, there are no parts at all. What we call a part is merely a pattern in an inseparable web of relationships.

2. Shift from Structure to Process

In the old paradigm it was thought that there were fundamental structures, and then there were forces and mechanisms through which these interacted, thus giving rise to processes.

In the new paradigm every structure is seen as the manifestation of an underlying process. The entire web of relationships is intrinsically dynamic.

3. Shift from Objective Science to "Epistemic Science"

In the old paradigm scientific descriptions were believed to be objective, i.e. independent of the human observer and the process of knowledge.

In the new paradigm it is believed that epistemology - the understanding of the process of knowledge - is to be included explicitly in the description of natural phenomena. At this point there is no consensus about what the proper epistemology is, but there is an emerging consensus that epistemology will have to be an integral part of every scientific theory.

4. Shift from Building to Network as Metaphor of Knowledge

The metaphor of knowledge as building - fundamental laws, fundamental principles, basic building blocks, etc - has been used in Western science and philosophy for thousands of years. During paradigm shifts it was felt that the foundations of knowledge were crumbling.

In the new paradigm this metaphor is being replaced by that of the network. As we perceive reality as a network of relationships, our descriptions, too, form an interconnected network representing the observed phenomena.

In such a network there will be neither hierarchies nor foundations. Shifting from the building to the network also implies abandoning the idea of physics as the ideal against which all other sciences are modelled and judged, and as the main source of metaphors for scientific descriptions.

5. Shift from Truth to Approximate Descriptions

The Cartesian paradigm was based on the belief that scientific knowledge could achieve absolute certainty.

In the new paradigm, it is recognised that all concepts, theories, and findings are limited and approximate. Science can never provide any complete and definitive understanding of reality.

Scientists do not deal with truth (in the sense of exact correspondence between the description and the described phenomena); they deal with limited and approximate descriptions of reality.

The Absence of Morals in a New Paradigm Society

When the time comes that our common sense is updated with today's scientific knowledge, morality will disappear from our societies.

Any who continue to believe in the prescientific superstitions of the past will be considered insane-out of touch with reality.

World religions will become passé, anachronisms. Because religions are the major foundation of morality, morality will also be relegated to the past.

Blind faith belief in dogma will be replaced by an understanding of the universe from the new paradigm scientific perspective. This understanding will develop into an understanding of humanity as a single family.

This "prophecy" describes the inevitable changes that will occur as the scientific knowledge of today gradually sinks into our common sense. New knowledge has always become part of our common sense, sooner or later.

New paradigm science is a mystery to most lay people, and a brief description of it is in order. As it applies to morality, it describes a universe that has as its essence nothing more than an infinite pool of probabilities, none of which has any meaning by itself. Without meaning, there can be no morality.

Probabilities are not material; they are mathematical. So our universe is not material. Some other explanation of apparent material reality is required, and this leads to awareness theories where awareness is the fundamental reality. Without awareness, even mathematical probabilities cannot be said to exist.

The new paradigm may be called holistic, ecological, or systemic. Broadly, we can divide new paradigm thinking into two parts, our view of nature and our epistemology.

In nature, there are no parts, but only "a pattern of an inseparable web of relationships," say Fritjof Capra, a noted theoretical physicist. We can understand parts only by looking at the whole and its dynamics.

There are no structures in the new paradigm view, only a dynamic web of relationships.

Capra says, "In the new paradigm it is believed that epistemology--the understanding of the process of knowledge--is to be included explicitly in the description of natural phenomena."
The new paradigm perspective sees everything as an interconnected network. Gone are the basic building blocks and fundamental laws, the hierarchies and foundations.
Also gone is the ideal that science can achieve certainty about anything. Certainty is replaced with approximate descriptions of reality.
Moral certainty is likewise impossible in the new paradigm society.

Physicists have made discoveries that boggle the mind, including their own. A physicist can detect a particle or a wave depending on which he is looking for. Neither actually exists until it is looked for. It is the looking itself that determines which is seen. This inescapably unites reality with consciousness, awareness.

Bell's Theorem shows that a pair of electrons with opposite spin can be separated, even at a distance of galaxies, and if the spin of one is changed, the spin of the other changes instantly. Light doesn't travel this fast. This communication happens in the network of universal awareness which is always everywhere at once.

In fact, the universe is now understood as a single network, a vast web of relationships. And material reality is a mental interpretation of the frequency waves that are at the heart of this network. Reality is a picture in our minds, including the reality we call ourselves.

Reducing this to the social level, we understand that all people are part of this network. At best, we are each a generic human being, and we are all interconnected with each other as well as with all and everything.

This means that we are not separate beings. We are in the same network, and the network permeates each of us. Our responsibility to ourselves is in concert with our responsibility to others.

The absence of morality, of absolute anything, means that no one has authority over another. No one is "right" enough to give orders to another. This leads to cooperation as the only viable mechanism for social interactions.

Steven Moyer, a political philosopher and creator of the Synergy Nation, advocates virtue as the overriding goal of human behavior. Virtue, he states, results in actions that are good for humanity. Good, in this case, is not a moral parameter but a consensual value.

The absence of morals in a new paradigm society creates a human family in which every person has autonomy and lives in cooperation according to what is consensually deemed virtuous.

George Arthur Lareau (Sufi George) Biographical Sketch

Occupations, relationships, senses of identity, all flash by in the life of George Arthur Lareau.

As a high school senior in Athol, Massachusetts, he was president of seven organizations. He was a licensed Methodist minister at age 16 serving in Belleville, Illinois, a Boston beatnik poet at age 19 selling his first book, The Hunting Poise, sold encyclopedias, was director of advertising for United Trading Stamp Company in Boston, built a mail order business, was a dispatcher in Washington, D.C., finished college as an English major, married a University of Illinois anthropologist, was a child welfare social worker in Rockford, Illinois, starred in and directed plays in college and community theatre, established a major group for an Indian guru in Urbana, Illinois (Ruhani Satsang), produced and directed films (Jap Ji, Surprising Lake of the Woods), produced and hosted a radio show, produced an audio-visual in Delhi, India, edited a magazine for Burgess Battery Company, published a poetry anthology (Poesie), freelanced as a writer-photographer, was a city beat news reporter (Champaign-Urbana News Gazette), edited two trade magazines (Water Well Journal and Irrigation Journal), owned a print and silkscreen shop, published a trade magazine (Freelance Photographer), was president of the Chicago chapter of ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers), was an Urbana city department administrator, built an ad agency, sang classical music professionally in St. Petersburg, Florida and El Paso, Texas, was an estate and financial planner with American Express and authored financial planning software, founded a new religion chartered in Arizona (CNASRA, Church of the New Age Spiritual Revolution of America), was a systems analyst for the Mass. Dept of Public Health and McDonnell-Douglas Helicopter Co, worked nine telemarketing jobs, built an eBay business (Mamamiya! Photo of Tucson), and taught English and managed a foreigners guest house in Tokyo.

In his search for truth about the nature of reality and consciousness, he read over 5000 books, experimented with dozens of “paths,” and made many personal discoveries. He analyzed the ways that truth is created and wrote Three Peaks, a Model for Understanding Truth.  He explored mystical enlightenment and achieved an experience compatible with the “new physics.” Then he went to Beijing for six years where he managed the largest oral English school in China

Returning to Phoenix, he created Sufi George, wrote Mind Blow, Understanding Consciousness, and Sufi George’s Coloring Book of Consciousness Management Study Aids, built a popular web site (The Sufi George Phenomenon!), taught classes, made radio and television appearances and gave speeches. He created a science-based dynamic model of consciousness that explains how reality is created and experienced using frequency waves. In Phoenix, he worked as a child protective services worker.

He is also author of The Game is Played on a Delicate Foundation and even better poems, When I Was the King (short stories), Second Coming (drama), and two books for photographers, The Composition Course, Exercises in Visual Reorientation, and A Simplified Zone System for 35mm Photography.

He currently lives in Tucson with his wife, Ye Xing, creates photographic wall art, markets his books, and wonders what to do next.

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