oh cosmic!

[Digit]

with those opening words... that the universe is queerer than we can suppose ...and having seen a few snippets of queer suppositions which on their own respective level(s) are true, one starts to get an idea of just how "queer" that really entails.

for example, religious cosmologies often interlink with each other in interesting ways which would be missed by those seeking parallel descriptions. one of my favourite examples of the richness of this "queerness" as far as it reaches in our maps of the cosmos, is Hindu cosmology.

the talk of scale in the video, of how perception, particularly prioritisation of perception of forces, i consider Hinduism to be one of the few to actually make progress in stretching our capacities to perceive at different scales. how long is a day of brahma? or siva?

the qualities of our understanding, the form of our interpretation, can be a large contributing factor to our philosophy.

the increasing "queerness", is pretty much the same increase to saturation of novelty that Terence Mckenna spoke of.

it is so, because it is the evolution of consciousness which ian xel lungold showed us that the mayan people had knowledge and maps of.

Terence Mckenna himself pointed to the i-ching and king wen sequence, as his source of having come across his discoveries, showing that china too has knowledge of this.

as much as these are different approaches, the congruences are large and entangled enough to lend credibility. for approaching a decade now, i have been attempting to convey to people how science has come full circle to be confirming some of the most fantastic tales from our old religions, spirituality and many a philosophical nugget. and still, all existing approaches (AND MORE) are required if we are to have any chance of truly expanding our perception.

if someone had blinkers on, intent on always staring at only a tiny spot on the ground, would you trust their interpretation of the universe? or would you seek a second opinion from someone who always sought a second opinion?

let me walk you through this playground of thought further...

imagining the ten dimensions.



jain cosmology, specifically the part about the cyclic universe, the great six staged cycle that repeats eternally...

is that not a bubble of perhaps what in "imagining the tenth dimension" describes as the 7th dimension? sounds like it to me. or maybe it doesnt even require that many, perhaps jain cosmology doesnt consider the three times.

three times?

what's that?

so, lets see if i can recall this correctly... we have physical time, spirit time, and phase time. so i heard from montalk's key concepts page, and i presume it to be something which i have experienced and i suspect you have too. if my presumption is correct and it is speaking about that, then it's far less peculiar and ridiculous than it might first sound.



ok, lets take a little leap....

strings n things.
this video does well to depict the basics. though i dont think those little graphics help at all in understanding.


i took to string theory like a duck to water because i felt i had already been envisioning environments, worlds and universes constructed from "strings" already thnx to my proficiency and training in 3d software. some of you may already get what i am on about. bezier curves and nurbs... you can construct "solid" stuff from that. but more so, f-curves. at least that's what they are called in softimage|XSI. these curves depict not only form, but describe acceleration curves and any other types of interactions and correlations you can imagine.... and more. because remember.... it's queerer than we can suppose.

so this does take it out of the hands of a physicist. we can describe emotions, relationships, motives, cycles, and all kinds of other things generally not thought to be in the purview of the physicist, whom, to draw a rather unflattering stereo-type, has often been seen as rather cold, un-human, even heartless at times in their dedication to logic and fact.
in reality however, this is often not true, most famously perhaps, in Einstein, whose passion and drive to understand the universe around him, to understand the god in which he is part, and quite largely, to understand light. so great was his reverie it has taken on religious proportions and connotations now when people speak of Einsteinian Reverie for the universe. (although strangely, i just did a web search for the term again, and it only brought up two results, one of which was mine... so maybe i spelled it wrong?)

personally, i see more humble respect from those with genuine curiosity and inquisitiveness about the universe around them, than those who talk a talk of "goodness" but have sold out to ignorance and premature conclusion.

not knowing is ok. ok? it's ok, it's ok, it's ok.
knowing you dont know is great! it takes you half way to knowing what you did not know before.

who said that before me? Socrates? Buddha?

anyway, where was I?

oh yes... cosmology...



more cosmology...





"ALL THIS COMPLEXITY ARGH!? CANT YOU JUST TELL ME LIKE IT IS?"
ok, here's some sweet relief:


so why does simplicity sell? the TimeWave Zero, if you looked up what Terrence McKenna was on about already, you'll have seen the line on the graph veer away from novelty. when we want it to be like the good ol days when we could more easily comprehend everything.

well we're all in this together...
... the general trend seems pretty conclusive....
it's not going to get simpler.

so strap in, gear up, and embrace the.... the....


...well, everything.

because thats what we have the eyes the ears the taste buds the nerves the cerebral cortex for.

to quote G'Kar:

when asked "What is truth, and what is god?" he explained:
“ If I take a lamp and shine toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often we assume the light on the wall is God, but the light is not the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search, who does not bring a lantern with him, sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light, pure and unblemished. Not understanding that it comes from us, sometimes, we stand in front of the light and assume we are the center of the universe. God looks astonishingly like we do. Or we turn to look at our shadow and assume all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose - which is use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and all it flaws, and in so doing, better understand the world around us."


some of the stuff said in the last video, needs to be rebutted....


"WHAT ARE YOU DOING DIGIT!? YOU'RE VEERING WILDLY OFF TOPIC IN YOUR OWN THREAD EVEN IN THE FIRST POST!"

ah, but am i?

is this not part of the cosmos?

remember earlier i said our understanding is a big part of shaping our philosophy?

well our philosophy also shapes our understanding.

many of the people who are embarking on the

)freedom software movement
)open source model
)linux way

(whatever you want to call it)

have experienced their understanding enhanced by a change of philosophy.

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basically i see the comparison between open-source and "proprietary" to be a very powerful analogy in this epic which we live. i see it as a time echo ((yes, thats me harking back to terrence mckenna's timewave zero, yet again))of man's progress of overcoming whatever adversities are faced. and we have to face yet more iterations of this echo, as with all that we do now, and have done in previous now. reverberations in the strings we dangle from stretching across the temporal landscape.
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a change of philosophy can dramatically alter your motivations and interactions. a change in motivations and interactions, can take you to new avenues of experience, "open new doors", and take you to have information presented to you that without your change of philosophy, without your cosmological map, without your change of paradigm, you would not have come into contact with.

understanding this can make you more open to both taking advise from ancient knowledge and wisdom of our ancestors and elders, as well as taking on new ideas. its a process that gets easier every step you take.

... and thats a very key component here.

its a process that gets easier every step you take.

every step into novelty makes stepping into novelty easier.

every step outside your comfort zone expands your comfort zone.

soon you may find that your comfort zone itself is an ever shifting motivation thats forever becoming uncomfortable, because what was your comfort zone, you can now see as stagnant, and not living.

this is getting the ball rolling in "spirit time". the richness of experience is among the greatest in lending expedience to your spiritual evolution. your spiritual evolution, i suppose it could be said, is but your progress through spirit time, tallied against physical linear time.

anyhoo, to use a "politically correct" term, lets carry on seeing how "spiritually challenged" we are yet.







so remember...

there is a very compelling case for optimism.

thankyou.
















ps, for more hope, optimism and solutions, please keep exploring www.ted.com/talks and also, to keep yourself reminded that it's aledgedly queerer than we can suppose, (maybe we can suppose it the way it really is, maybe we can expand our capacity... maybe) and other video links on http://www.guba.com and a specific hotspot for such films that take you far beyond the confines of even the bleeding edge:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...8-2c1bd50984e3
and please, do keep exploring, and sharing with others the wonders that enhance your experience on the ride we call life.

[BubbleFunker]

What's the tuition for this course Digit?
(going back to Short Attention Span TV)

[Digit]

this shit is free. i aint in it for the profit. i'm in it for the love. as in, cos i loves you all.

[GH057]

Originally Posted by Digit

this shit is free. i aint in it for the profit. i'm in it for the love. as in, cos i loves you all.

Some of your stuff I've gotten into... Other things not so much, but thats me.
You seem really into this; have you considered writing a book?

[BubbleFunker]

Yeah, you should write a theory-based sci-fi fantasy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Digit]

yeah.... i got a construct for a new kind of film ready to be scripted... it'd borrow heavily from this kinda thing that i've been sharing with you, but really take you on/in the ride n give a taste of more dimensions n stuff...

heh, yeah.... u could almost consider threads like this my practice run for the book. or maybe i'll consider this "published" enough, and just keep working on improving my delivery and, refining & augmenting my knowledge through subsequent versions.