2.4 The Greater System: AUM and Subsystems

You close your eyes. The chatter of your mind fades… and there’s a sense — hard to put into words — of something vast. Not “out there” in space, not “inside” your head, but everywhere and nowhere at once.

In MBT, that “something” is given a name: AUM — the Absolute Unbounded Manifold. Not a person. Not a place. Not an object. But the entirety of consciousness itself — the fundamental system from which all experiences arise.

🌊 Think of AUM as an ocean of awareness. Within it, every ripple is a perspective, every wave a story, every drop a unit of consciousness. Yet the ocean remains one — whole, unbroken, continuous.

💡 AUM is the Larger Consciousness System — a living, evolving process that lowers its entropy by creating opportunities for interaction, growth, and love.

AUM and the LCS (Larger Consciousness System) refer to the same fundamental system viewed from two angles: LCS names the total system of consciousness; AUM names that same system as an active, evolving process. Same “ocean,” different emphasis.

Imagine that the ocean of AUM decides to explore itself in detail. To do that, it divides into countless drops — but each drop is still water, still connected to the whole. These “drops” are IUOCs — Individuated Units of Consciousness. Each IUOC is like a unique processor within the larger network, capable of having its own experiences and making its own choices.

🎮 But in the same way you might open a specific “player profile” in a game, each IUOC can run one or more FWAUs — Free Will Awareness Units. Your FWAU is the focused part of you that plays this lifetime in this virtual reality. When you dream, meditate, or have an out-of-body experience, you may be accessing other “game windows” your IUOC is running.

💡 IUOCs are like the “full accounts” in the system, while FWAUs are the “logged-in sessions” playing in specific virtual realities.

Your conscious mind is like your phone screen: it shows what you’re working on right now, in this app, in this moment. It feels like the whole device… until you remember there are apps you can’t see, processes running in the background, and cloud services storing more than you could ever hold locally.

In MBT terms:
• The Conscious Mind is the processing surface of your FWAU.
• Intuitive Guidance is like a push notification from your IUOC or even from AUM — a nudge toward lower-entropy choices.
• The System Databases are vast archives of all possibilities and all actualized events — accessible through altered states, intention, and connection.

💡 The conscious mind is the tip of the iceberg; intuition and database access are deeper channels to the Larger Consciousness System.

Every interaction you have — every choice, every mistake, every moment of courage — feeds back into the Larger Consciousness System.

If you act with fear, the feedback shows increased noise in your processing. If you act with clarity and love, the feedback reflects higher coherence. The LCS uses this feedback to evolve, and your IUOC uses it to refine your quality of being.

🪞 It’s not a scoreboard. It’s a mirror. And the clearer the mirror, the more effectively you can align your intent with the evolution of the whole.

💡 Personal growth is not separate from system growth — each choice you make is part of the LCS’s ongoing self-optimization.