metaphysical mumbo-jumbo: 10/1/07

magical reality

Every person helps to create reality. Some create consciously, others unconsciously. It can take a while, a long while, to learn how to create consciously. But every person gets there in the end.

It’s not about thinking. It's about knowing. The less you think, the more you remember how to know. People who think they know, don't know, not properly. Thinking gets you know where.

Part of it is convincing your self and your mind that you don’t want or need anything, that you are not invested in any specific outcomes, that you are not attached even to the concept of having outcomes in general.

Know this: what you think is real. But what you know is more real. So let’s get real. Reality is magical. Here’s how to make magic. Here’s how to kill and save Schrodinger’s cat, with or without observers. Here's how to make uncertainty certain. Here's how to complete incompleteness, complement complementarity. Here’s the real thing, the big one, the secret of ages, the philosopher’s stone, the elixir of life, the one ring to bind them all.

So listen closely and I’ll explain the nature of reality, and the meaning and purpose of life. But before I do, answer me two questions: Why do you want to know? And what are you going to do with the information?

Your Creator knows that somewhere in the forbidden chambers of your innermost mind, somewhere within you is a place to which you may never return. Or, out of fear or ignorance, have never entered. In that place is the knowledge you fear and love above all else. And to make progress in this or any life, you must open the door to that secret chamber, and lovingly welcome that which you find there.

And if you can’t, tough shit.

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bye the rivers of Babble On

"Morning all, hope we are all well and having fun today on this bright and sunny morn," said the Multiverse to zer parts.

"Not bad, thanks Lord, under the circumstances, all things considered," responded a few of the parts.

"Has anyone seen my Son anywhere?" asked the Multiverse, aka God aka Everything That Is (ETI).

"Not in ages," responded sum of ETI's parts, "nor even aeons, or eras, nor even a couple thousand years or so, Lord, to be precise."

"No, no, not that son, the other one, the udder brudder, you know… Lucifer, the Fallen, the Evil One… that one."

"That one is always with us, Lord," replied some of the parts, "and making a bit of a nuisance of himself, Lord, to tell the truth."

"Mmm," mused ETI, "Why didn't you tell me this before? The little Beast should have been home aeons ago. I specifically told him to come straight home from Evil School!"

"We tried telling you, Lord, but you were otherwise engaged," said a brave little part.

"Say, what?!"

"Tried calling you, Lord, quite a large number of times, but just got your voicemail, so I figured you'd popped out for a coffee and doughnut."

"Why didn't you leave a message?" asked ETI.

"Gosh, Lord," said the part, "I did leave a message, several in fact. But don't you already know that, what with the omniscience and all?"

"Well, you see, here’s the thing" said ETI, "I don't want to instruct you in the meaning of your own words, tried that once before in Babble On, by the rivers of, but you see, being omniscient doesn't mean that I know everything. It means I know everything there is to know."

"Um... if you say so, Lord," asked the confused little part, "But what's the difference between knowing everything and knowing everything there is to know? Lord?"

"If you don't know now you never will," replied ETI, "but I'll give you a hint: the difference is a similar difference to that which applies between the All and the One."

"Well that's just clear as mud," said the part, "thanks heaps Lord, you've been a great help."

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," replied ETI, subsuming the One into the All.

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scissors, paper, rock

Rock blunts scissors: the dead weight of ignorance and superstition dulls the keen, sharp mind seeking truth and knowledge.

Scissors cuts paper: the keen, sharp mind is too eager and in its haste cuts the paper on which truth and knowledge are written into disconnected fragments of reductionism and limited perspective.

Paper wraps rock: the dead weight of ignorance and superstition is completely enfolded and rendered invisible by the lightness, universality and breadth of truth and knowledge.

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all ways right

Everyone is right about God. All concepts of God are correct. All ways to God are right. God is always right.

God has no particular shape or form. God is all forms--from burning bush to pillar of smoke to golden calf and everything in between.

God has no particular purpose. God embraces all purposes: from good to evil from right to wrong and everything in between.

God has no particular attributes. All attributes are the attributes of God: from large to small from white to black from light to dark from round to square and everything in between.

God has no particular name. All names are the names of God: from Apollo to Zeus to Yahweh to Jesus to Beelzebub to Allah to Quetzalcoatl to Ahura Mazda and everyname between.

God has no particular relationship with anyone or anything. God is all relationships.

God issues no commandments. All commandments are God's commandments.

God has no power. God is all powers.

The nature of God is all natures.

The time of God is all times: God is constantly being born.

There are no words to describe God: all words describe God.

No particular value: all values.

No particular context. All contexts.

No particular meaning: all meanings.

God is nothing. God is everything, and everything in between.

God requires nothing: God requires everything.

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music of the spheres

Most people enjoy listening to music. I know I do. But music is also a fascinating thing to think about. The connections between music and mathematics (and chess, for that matter) are well-known, and therefore will not be explored in this post. What will be explored are the following interesting questions and speculations:

Are there any connections between Fibonacci series, Bode's Law and the diatonic (tone, tone, semi-tone) scale? Are they different manifestations of a meta law? Is one a version of the other?

White is all the other colours added together. Is "white noise" all the frequencies of sound waves added together?

Why does some music sound "sad" (ie, invoke the emotion of sadness)? Why and how does music invoke specific emotions in the music-hearer (and presumably music-maker)? Are the emotions invoked by hearing music the same emotions invoked irrespective of the nature of the music-hearer, eg in terms of culture, musical tradition, and background? In so-called "Western culture", music in a minor key invokes a range of "saddish" emotions including regret, loneliness, sorrow, unrequited love, etc. Does music in a minor key always invoke emotions related to sadness in every person, irrespective of culture, musical tradition, and background?

The connections between music, emotion, mathematics and human psychology would make an interesting set of hypotheses for anthropological, sociological or psychological research.

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awareness of presence of awareness

First a confession. Let me clearly state up front, the words that start after the second colon (“:”) in this post are not mine. They were created by someone else. I can’t remember who created them. I found them on the web one day many years ago, but I’ve forgotten where or how. I congratulate the author on a fine piece of writing and on some very interesting ideas, and I apologise for using zer material without attribution. With that confession and apology out the way, here goes:

Where does the feeling of helplessness, which is the essence of feeling victimized, come from? It may come from the thought that there is something "wrong" with "me" for being so helpless. Thus, we see that this experience of suffering may have as its roots identification with a self-image of inadequacy, plus a negative judgment about it. (Clearly, inadequacy also implies a doer that is inadequate. Without the concept of "doership", there could be no victim and no suffering, not to mention no victimizer. But imagined doership is the problem in identification at the second level.)

There are two important lessons to be learned from this example. The first is that the image I see in my mind of myself as victim means that I cannot be the victim! I am what is looking at the image, so I cannot be the image! This is the most fundamental step that anybody can take in disidentification. Whatever I am aware of cannot be me because I am what is aware! This one realization is enough to produce a gigantic crack in the bonds of identification.

The second important lesson is just a generalization of the first. Since nothing that I see can be me, there is no object, thing, or entity that can be me. I am not a person, not a mind, not a body, not a being, not a thought, not a feeling, not an image, not an observer, not anything. And most importantly, I am not a doer, not a thinker, not a decider, and not a chooser. Now we have progressed to disidentification at the second level.

If I am not anything, then what am I? The answer is simple: I am the pure Awareness that is aware of all things, and the pure Presence that is the Presence in all things. I am the Awareness of Presence, and the Presence of Awareness. What could be more simple, and yet so profound and so liberating?

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Everything That Is

Everything That Is, has been, will be and could be (ETI) comprises all living and inanimate things and everything else, including non-material as well as material things, in this and/or any other universe or reality. And when I say "everything" I do mean "everything": Atoms and breakfasts and mountain goats and clever tactics and cabbages and kings and sealing wax and theories and vacuums and memories and nothingnesses and infinities (ask georg) and emptinesses and neurons and fables and ghosts and non-existent things and the past and the future and membranes and p-branes and topology and mobius bands and galaxies and light and everything. ETI is that which binds it all together.

Omniscience? All the knowledge there is, is part of ETI. (Note, this does not mean ETI is infinite knowledge necessarily. Rather it means that ETI is or contains all the knowledge there is, was, will be or could be.)

Omnipotence? All the power there is, is part of ETI. (Note, this does not mean ETI is infinite power necessarily. Rather, it means that ETI is or contains all the power there is, was, will be or could be.)

Omnipresence? Like the Scarlet Pimpernel, ETI is everywhere there is to be. (Note, this does not mean ETI is in infinite places necessarily. Rather it means that God is or contains or is in all the places there are, have been, will be or could be. And by the way, remember the Beatles song, "Strawberry Fields", and the line that goes, "...there's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."?)

I don't like to use the word/name "God" because of the potential for confusion, misunderstanding, argument and disagreement about the nature and name of ETI.

ETI is context-independent, values-free, cares for nothing and everything... but more on this later; I'm tired and want to go to bed.

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