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A. MISSION

FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY

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the classical memory of the reality perceived and conceived by the finite faith of our earthly first attention and
the doubting hope of the devilish Mesoamerican demigod Coatl-Quetzal (serpent-bird), kept by quantum coherence in his/her going with the Morning Star and the infinity of our second attention
unite in the saving nothingness of quantum decoherence, the charitable return of a saintly Quetzal-coatl (bird-serpent) to the Earth with the Evening Star, and our third attention.

Thus, if we need to express orally and for the first time the past tense of the verb "to need," infinite speed (2) will help us explore in no time the memory (1) of irregularly tensed and rhymed verbs (e.g., feed-fed). After that, the classical finiteness of the rule that expresses the past of a verb by adding the suffix "ed" to the stem of a word will place us on the nothingness by which we will try (3) the word "needed" before the word "ned."

In another example, the measurable finiteness (1) of Einsteins's gravitation and the dark energy of invisible quantum infinity (2) are different between them, necessary, and insufficient! Creation can come only (3) out of the nothingness hidden in the dark matter of the universe and of the human mind. According to the "logos heuristics," dark matter derives from the union of autistic gravity with artistic dark energy.

The union (e.g., Cassella's "logos heuristics") of our visible first attention (1) with the invisible coherence of the Morning Star in our second attention (2) offers a universal Vision of quantum decoherence, the third attention (3), or the return of Quetzalcoatl to Earth with the Evening Star.

The Third Attention enlivens any Sacred Text, philosophy, language, masterpiece, natural system, and the charitable human mind. Autistics (+1) lack the second attention; and unmedicated schizophrenics (-1), who cannot engage decoherence in adulthood, end up losing the first (1), the second (2), and the third (3) attention (the case of the devilish Lord Voldemort at the end of Harry Potter's adventures).

After basing his hypotheses on the performance of autistics in key neuropsychological tests, Cassella included in his logos heuristics the practice of charity and meditation. They may lead us to the personal illumination provided by the Third Point (the case of Albus Dumbledore at Potter's Hogwarts School).

Almost all humans can arrive at a shared Vision of the Third Attention. As with the "Tathagata" (gone and returned) Buddha, Gandhi, Laozi, Dumbledore, and Saint Francis of Assisi, however, the Third Point that illuminates most normal humans in early childhood, will illuminate perhaps one adult in 100.000.

Besides spreading the reality of the Third Attention and willing the Third Point of others, our MISSION seeks to understand and help autistics and schizophrenics, stop the killing of the young of nonhuman species, and save our own grandchildren from mental involution and extinction before the turn of the 21st century.

B. FROM JACOB TO ISRAEL

JACOB'S DREAM AT BETHEL AND ISRAEL'S DEADLOCK AT PENUEL

In Bethel, Jacob dreamt of a ramp, the quantum computing that enlivens the second and the third attention. The ramp went from the earth (autism and the snake-coatl) to the heaven (schizophrenia and the bird-quetzal). Within quantum coherence, the angels of God ( or thoughts in the human mind) ascended the ramp; and within quantum decoherence, they descended it.

Jacob understood that Vision. Instead of continuing to deceive others, he worked for his uncle and father-in-law Laban 20 years to deserve his wives Leah and Rachel and to get himself very rich. Yet in Penuel the face of God (the Archangel Michael?) wanted to test the Will of the Third Point of Jacob. After realizing that Jacob had controlled his innate egoism, Michael changed then and there the name of "Jacob" (the "supplanter" or "deceiver") to "I-sra-el" ("Whoever-fights with and wins with-God") before letting him continue his return to the familiar grounds in which he had grown up.

Although Genesis does not say so, it is licit to conclude that Israel smiled after his nocturnal fight with the Face of God. Similarly, Quetzalcoatl will smile after the decoherence that will help him jump from the Morning Star to the Evening Star.

Progress, instead of the anthropogenic extinction of most nonhuman species and Homo sapiens, hides behind the smile by which our brainstem crossed (3) in infancy . . .

the finite and faithful memory adored by our first attention (1) (classical computing, 1 or 0) in the autistic facet lodged in our cerebral cortex with the . . .
fantasy appreciated by our infinite second attention (2) (quantum computing, 1 and 0) in the artistic facet that dreams in our cerebellar cortex.

As with the dreaming Jacob in Bethel, knowledge of the reality of the Third Attention might defeat the early death that may meet most of our grandchildren. Moreover, similar to the deadlock between Israel and the Archangel Michael in Penuel, we need to pass the test in which we show God that we have re-learned how to read nature, our Sacred Texts, and our minds.

The autistics' inability to undergo quantum coherence (within the infinite speed behind fantasy, hope, doubt, problems, paradox, and the normal use of pronouns) shows the fragility of the finite perfection that feeds classical computing.
And schizophrenics' difficulty to return with quantum decoherence (in solving a problem or in sharing with others relevant reinterpretations of perceivable reality) shows the dangers hidden in less-than-perfect quantum computing.

A verse of the Scottish song "Auld lang syne," for example, " . . . and we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet," picked up by the Scot bard Robert Burns in the 17th. century, suggests that we should not forget Values as forgiveness, kindness, and love. Social Values and Creativity rest in the fraternal crossing of autistic finiteness (1) with artistic infinity (2) when Jacob becomes Israel and Quetzalcoatl returns (3).

In line with the intuitive and emotional feelings of Robert Burns, the American actor and singer Gene Autry popularized in 1946 the Canadian song "Red River Valley" . . .

"Come and sit by my side if you Love me,

Do not hasten to bid me adieu,

But remember the Red River Valley

And the one that has loved you so true."

If we understood the drama of autistics and schizophrenics, our grandchildren might keep their smile through life, stop the ongoing sixth extinction of non-human species, and avoid the imminent first extinction of Homo sapiens.

C. THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

THE THIRD ATTENTION AND THE THIRD POINT

Besides the finiteness of a unitary faith, the Progress of our grandchildren needs the infinity of hope. Hope will allow us to escape the temptations hidden in the power of quantum computing by opening (0) the closed door of the nothingness (0) that follows the quantum infinity unleashed by coherence in our 2nd. attention.

After opening the door of quantum nothingness (0), we may reach the collective Vision of the Third Attention and in time the individual Will of the Third Point. Awareness of the reality of the Third Attention in most people and individual altruism in some of us will stop the sixth anthropogenic extinction of non-human species and the first extinction of Homo sapiens.

The nothingness of empathic Coincidence ("Put yourself in my shoes!" ["without ever leaving your shoes"]), the general Vision of the Third Attention, and the charitable will that characterizes our particular Third Point will allow us to return into a fraternal spacetime renewed for all remaining species. Under the influence of a personal Third Point, some individuals will help other humans see the Third Attention and will their own Third Point. That happened in the fourth millennium BCE, when the Indus Valley Civilization fed simultaneously equality, freedom, and fraternity (égalité, liberté, fraternité) in its neighbors.

Today, such a fraternity remains inaccessible to lying tyrants, their cynical partners, and their faithful acolytes. The pride, narcissism, and arrogance (hubris) of authoritarian leaders, the corruption of their accomplices, and the blind faith of their loyal, hatred-filled, and fearful slaves dispel all hope (2) and compassion (3) (e.g., the Holocaust-Shoah).

Unlike envious tyrants, their partners, and their blind followers, as a liberator of his brothers and of humanity, Moses sewed the crystals Thummim and Urim by God's request in the sacred mantle-ephod that his brother Aaron (the first High Priest of the Hebrews) kept in the Ark of the Covenant.

The stone Thummim reflects two down-to-earth principles of classical computing:

"Nothing can be in separate places simultaneously" (Locality, or Einstein's finite speed of light in his relativity) and
"separate objects cannot share the same space at the same time" (Impenetrability, or Pauli'Exclusion Principle).

And the stone Urim reflects two magical principles of quantum computing:

"Anything may exist in separate places simultaneously" (Ubiquity or Entanglement in quantum coherence), and
"separate objects may share the same space at the same time" (Coincidence or Superposition in the possibility of quantum decoherence).

Coincidence, or quantum Superposition, may go with coherence (escape door closed, 0) or with the decoherence (escape door open, 0) of the Third Attention. As with Jacob after his dream at Bethel, knowledge of the reality of the Third Attention may place us on the benevolent way that leads to our Third Point.

Hence, the union of the crystals Thummim and Urim on Aaron's heart and in the Ark of the Covenant makes a metaphor for the finiteness-infinity-nothingness that lies hidden in the brainstem of every human being and in the divine creativity that drove the increase of new nonhuman species in the forests and seas that covered Earth before and after the first five natural extinctions.

The power of the Third Point in a few humans will stop more than the anthropogenic sixth extinction of nonhuman species on Earth. Illuminated minds might also stop the first extinction of humans (see "the cosmos" page in this website).

As with Moses, instead of becoming slaves, slave-masters, or tyrants, our grandchildren will remember their frame of knowledge (1), develop the humorous courage to face problems (2), and display new solutions through a magical smile (3).

The smile that unites our cerebral cortex and cerebellar microcomplexes in the brainstem makes the Progress linked to the general Vision of the Third Attention and the Will of the Third Point in an illuminated human mind.

According to the prophet Zechariah, if we do not help God, we will lose first the staff No'am (the Grace of the second attention); and after that we will lose the staff Hovalim (Union, or the brotherhood of the first attention).

If we lose our second attention (as the global increase of autism predicts) and then our first attention (as the global increase of mental illnesses predicts), or the first two miracles of civilization, we will also lose the miracle of their cosmic union.

According to Zechariah, two thirds of us will die in the headless chaos in which a neighbor will attempt to kill another neighbor. However, this prophecy will not become real if we understand its meaning: the importance of the miraculous staff Hovalim, the miraculous staff No'am and of their miraculous altruistic use.

D. THE THREE MIRACLES OF PROGRESS

CREATION FROM NOTHINGNESS

The three miracles of Progress arise when algebraic zero (0) in the first attention changes into the quantum nothingness (0) that follows quantum infinity (or coherence in the second attention), and finally, into the nothingness (0) that re-creates reality within the Third Attention and the return of Quetzalcoatl. In mathematical terms: +1-1 = 0; 0 = 0 ; and 0 = 0. Quetzalcoatl will return when we understand that we may grow with others through three miracles:

The finite speed and locality of classical computing (in the certain spacetime of our first attention, repetitive memory, "yes or no," and perfect faith in our cerebral cortex) makes the first necessary, but insufficient, MIRACLE. That miracle might end in the sterile nothingness (+1-1 = 0) caused by our victory or by our autistic subserviency to the alleged infallibility of a masculine tyrannical authority, unless we make real the second miracle.
In the second MIRACLE, we "reach simultaneously distinct places" through the ambiguous hyperspace of the problems raised by the second attention impaired in autism. If we do not solve them, however, infinite speed, nonlocality, the ubiquity of quantum computing, the paradoxical imagination of "yes and no" of our artistic side, quantum coherence, less-than-perfect hope, or quantum nothingness (0) may end up into the worst: schizophrenic insanity (-1, 0, or the wrong answer of a computer).
And in the third MIRACLE (which lying tyrants and our schizophrenic side cannot witness), the alliance between masculine classical computing and feminine quantum computing allows us to: a) suspend remembered reality, b) abandon malice and mockery, c) solve the problem at hand, d) open (0) the closed door (0) of nonlocality, e) escape madness, and f) reach quantum decoherence in the return of Quetzalcoatl.

In its turn, decoherence and the return of Quetzalcoatl help us re-create visible reality out of quantum nothingness, smile after a wordplay, laugh after our falls, cry when others fall, and laugh and cry simultaneously in helping others get the Third Attention and walk their way to their own Third Point.

If we return with Quetzalcoatl, after grasping the three miracles of Progress and helping others reach their Third Point, our grandchildren would grow in a new Teotihuacan, or the Third Rome. Then and there, they would be free from the despair caused by sterile ideology, the malice unleashed by diabolical, corrupt, or stupid leaders, the menace of weapons of mass destruction, and the destruction brought by replacing the natural global cooling of Earth with anthropogenic global warming .

E. THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN FROM TEOTIHUACANS AND TOLTECS

QUETZALCOATL WILL RETURN WITH ANY ALTRUISTIC MIND

As the anthropologist Carlos Castaneda implied before dying, knowledge of the cognitive frame pointed out by the Yaqui shaman don Juan frees any heroic human mind that decides to re-interpret visible reality for the good of all.

We can overcome global warming, tyranny, the menace of weapons of mass destruction, deadly viruses, and madness. The way to do it is allying our perfect 1st. attention with the less-than-perfect coherence of our 2nd. attention, into the decoherence of the third attention. Here are some examples:

The transfiguration of Christ (3) on a mountain, between the esoteric teachings offered by Elias (2) and the laws given by Moses (1) (Mark 9:2-8);
the stones Thummim (1) and Urim (2), kept by Moses in the Ark of the Covenant;
the meeting of Kong-Fuzi and Laozi (5th century Before the Common Era, BCE);
the Will of Sita to protect Rama's progeny from the perfidy of Ravana;
Krishna's advice to Arjuna to transfigure the potential victims of his Gandiva bow;
the prudent and fraternal use of the power bestowed on whoever understood the meaning of two inscriptions on the Excalibur sword of King Arthur: "Take me up" on one side and "Cast me away" on the other side.
the Love between the Persian King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I) and the hope-drenched Queen Esther;
wal-Mi'raj, or Muhammad's return to the Black Stone in Mecca, after his al-'Isra' journey to the infinity of the farthest mosque; and
Quetzalcoatl's promise, before leaving Mesoamerica with the Morning Star (Venus) in the 9th century BCE, that someday he or she would return.

In the hypothetical "logos heuristics" (or "Λ"), found by Antonio Cassella after exploring the autistic brain and crossing classical science with quantum physics, philosophy, and mysticism, the bird-serpent "Quetzal-coatl" (under the beneficial influence of the Moon) will abandon the diabolical use of quantum computing in the Morning Star; and return with the Evening Star (Venus).

Accompanied by the grace of Guadalupe, Coatlaxopeuh (Shekhinah-Gabriel), Quetzalcoatl will return to lead some of us to our particular Third Point. Quetzalcoatl will return with an explanation of the nature of Progress in the universe and in the anti-universe (described in the page "cosmos" at researchautism.com).

F. THE RETURN OF QUETZALCOATL WITH COATLAXOPEUH (GUADALUPE)

FROM AUTISM TO MADNESS, THE THIRD ATTENTION, THE THIRD POINT, AND PROGRESS

In the 9th century BCE (Before the Common Era), the Olmecs (and later the Maya, the Teotihuacans, the Toltecs, and the Aztecs) did not know that planets turn around the Sun. However, they noticed that the light of the Morning Star becomes weaker for 263 days before vanishing for 50 days (superior conjunction in the figure above). In the guise of the Evening Star, the light of Venus turns stronger for another 263 days, and disappears for 8 days (inferior conjunction), before the repeat of Venus's synodic cycle.

Ancient Mesoamericans associated the weakening light of the Morning Star with the going journey of a demigod that the Aztecs called later Quetzal-coatl (herein called Coatl-quetzal [serpent-bird] in his/her going journey); and the increasing luminosity of the Evening Star, with the return from Venus to Earth of that demigod (or any human) as Quetzal-coatl (Feathered serpent), the bearer of the Third Attention.

The Hindu Vedas (more ancient by five centuries than the Olmec legends about Quetzalcoatl) reflected the Third Attention with the syllable OM (pronounced "AUM"). The sequence of sounds "aaaaaaaaa," "uuuuuuuu," and "mmmmmmm" (open, half-open, and closed) evokes the dharma by which the visible reality of the first attention is transformed into the suspended reality of the second attention, and, finally, into a new truth brought by the Third Attention.

Knowledge of the limitations of autism and the first attention may help many people transform the doubts of their second attention into the universal truths of the Third Attention of all; and later, into the personal illumination of one's own third point. The Third Point might knock at our door if we catch (Vision) the reality of the alliance (3) between:

perfect memory, in the classical computing of being/"yes" opposed to nonbeing/"no," the 1st. attention, finite spacetime, grammar in our native language, the shared rules, routines, or prototypical schemata adored by our autistic facet and negated by our schizophrenic facet; and the . . .
less-than-perfect imagination adored by our artistic, creative, malicious, graceful, infinite, or diabolical/angelical facet.

Quantum computing echoes the fruit of the biblical Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil, being-and-nonbeing, "maybe," the 2nd. attention, infinite hyperspace, doubt, dilemma, paradox, hope, humor, the unknown, deceit, the immersion in a problem, the contrasting hypotheses about potential solutions; and the pragmatics behind the use of quantum coherence in figures of speech, the subjunctive, the conditional and the correct use of pronouns, which autistics cannot fathom.

For different reasons, both autistics and schizophrenics cannot seize the union of classical computing (1) with quantum computing (2) into the third attention (3) or the biblical Tree of Life.

Autistics, who imagine what they see (sanity), oppose schizophrenics, who see what they imagine (insanity). And both miss the mental fluidity that invites dancers who can imagine what they see and see what they imagine into flying with beauty, elegance, grace, and charm.

At the age of one year, an autistic boy will not be able to tease an unknown visitor by giving and not giving him a sweet.
At the age of two years, most autistics show that they cannot step on the bridge of quantum coherence, and embrace our schizophrenic facet and our autistic facet simultaneously (pretend play) whereas . . .
in adulthood, schizophrenics cannot find the bridge of quantum decoherence in returning from fictional pretense to a renovated reality and the social triumph of shared Progress.
Unmedicated schizophrenics cannot feign madness, as they did when at the age of two years they engaged in fictional pretense. They are mad!

We need to recover at least a vision of the Third Attention (e.g., the logos heuristics). When at the turn of the 18th century, French revolutionaries exalted the values of equality, liberty, and fraternity, they unconsciously highlighted the values of faith, hope, and charity in the Third Attention of the priests they forced to marry or to abandon France. Both the French revolutionaries and their victims missed values buried about 10 millennia ago at Göbekli Tepe (Turkey).

G. THE FOUR ENEMIES OF A WARRIOR

FROM GÖBEKLI-TEPE TO THE AZTECS

About 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens learned from Homo neanderthalensis that the tension (A) created by pulling the opposite extremes of a bow (2) simultaneously could be used to please others (by singing, or by playing a flute and a lyre, [e.g., the Egyptian khitara]), instead of killing them. Indeed, the use of quantum computing to create weapons of mass destruction denotes an inability to read, the proof of cognitive blindness.

In B, an ideal circular temple of Göbekli-Tepe (built by hunter-gatherers in 11,000 BCE [Before the Common Era]) stands as a metaphor for the distributed organization of the human mind. If they overcome the fear of their enemies, the martyrs who learn in infancy how to shoot a bazooka, before they learn by heart (without reading them) the verses of their preferred Sacred Text, will die surrounded by their initial clarity, as do the obedient followers who will die in the cognitive trap of the finite autistic side of their minds.

The masters of terrorists (continue with B) might walk the way of the infinity associated with the power to lie to and deceive others. If they escape the trap of madness (-1), however, tyrants and their corrupt associates will die (0) without finding the decoherence door to a better Vision of the Third Attention and their own Third Point. In reality, men- and women-of-knowledge, capable of crossing walls through nothingness, do not need to open a closed door to reach a Vision of the Third Attention and their Third Point (at the center of an ideal circular Temple at Göbekli-Tepe).

Ancient Egyptians (C) built in 10,000 BCE their first Giza's Sphinx (2) in the image of a saber-tooth tiger ('Abu Alhul,' or the Father of Terror), a metaphor for the destructive and creative power of the 2nd. attention. However, around 2,580 BCE, Pharaoh Khufu re-sculpted the head of Giza's tiger in the image of his head. That trick, which transformed the second into the Third Attention, convinced Egyptian commoners of the immortality of the Pharaoh buried in a pyramid and of their possibility to share his wonderful resurrection.

The same beliefs animated the people who built the circle of Stonehenge around 5,000 BCE. In any circle, every finite radius that leaves the circumference reaches the nothingness that welcomes infinite radii at the same time in its center. Stonehenge shows that any circle is a metaphor for the alliance of finiteness with infinity into nothingness. Although they cannot enter the infinity of quantum coherence, and even less the nothingness of decoherence, autistic children are fond of rotating lids on the floor, as if they were missing the freedom to choose between the devil and the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Perhaps, as early as the third millennium BCE (D), the Yellow Emperor or an unknown Sage devised in China the circular yang-yin symbol, well known by Laozi and his Taoism in the 6th century BCE. With the Yang-Yin circle, the Yellow Emperor pointed at the meeting of the first with the second attention; beyond the enmity of opposites in the first attention.

The Hindu centered the same meaning in the OM syllable (pronounced "aaaaauuuummm"). They sought to reflect the three components of the Third Attention in the embrace (Brahma) of Vishnu (the preserver) and Shiva (the destroyer). The Hindu Trimurti and the syllable OM stand at the center of the Hindu Dharma and of all religions.

The need to ally finiteness with infinity through nothingness hidden in the heart of the dwellers of a country and their leader was known to the priests of the ancient Egyptian "House of Thoth," to Moses, and to Queen Nefertari (F), the main wife of Pharaoh Ramses II. Moses placed the Thummim and Urim crystals in his Ark (G), under a veiled truth, that the mariners of the Queen of Sheba (who visited King Solomon and saw his Ark) possibly brought into the Olmecs, and ultimately into the Aztec myth of the return of Quetzalcoatl (H); under the protection of the goddess Coatlaxopeuh (or Shekhinah in the Jewish Kabbalah).

In modern times, autistics cannot seize either the malice of the Green Goblin (a metaphor for the devil) or the advice of Uncle Ben (a metaphor for the Virgin of Guadalupe); and schizophrenics cannot step into the shoes of Spider-man. The former cannot go; and the latter cannot return.

Neither autistics nor schizophrenics can follow without help the primeval grace of Coatlaxopeuh (the Virgin of Guadalupe, Tonantzin, Coatlicue, or Shekhinah) to convert our inner exploring Quetzalcoatl from a demon into a Saint.

Very few people in the world are aware of the reality of the 3rd. Attention and of the possibility of our resurrection (through our own Third Point) if we help others before dying.

January 09, 2022

Welcome to the union of finitude, infinity, and nothingness!