The Narration of A Future Past
Expanded on June 24, 2009
"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." -Heisenberg
Beyond the new mythology of 2012, there may be a metaphoric recognition of an outcome that is perhaps as inevitable as the passage of the seasons or more specifically the successive generations of our own kind, each have a birth, a youth, a middle age followed by old age and then death. The cyclical theory of human history is such that all causal events occur in cycles that are more or less alike in their rotation. It has two main forms, one that posits cosmic or the cycles of the natural world and one that posits these cycles, or rotations only in human affairs, which seemingly assumes that the two are quite existential in relation to one another.. Though the second of these concepts is "logically" independent of the first, based on the surface of appearances,it is sometimes found as interdependent, in company with it in esoteric literature sometimes broadly hinted at and at times, in these texts irrefutably linked in the relationship of the mind through thought, then upon matter.In our own case we see that the thought upon behavior of certain critical assumptions has essentially altered, perhaps irrevocably, the forces of nature leading to our destruction.
Contained within "Beyond Quantum Theory: A Realist Psycho-Biological Interpretation of Reality Revisited" by the Nobel Scientist,Brian D. Josephson essentially restates this ancient axiom of "as above, so below", as perhaps, predicted by Aristotle, by relating the following thesis;
"It is hypothesized, following Conrad et al, that quantum physics is not the ultimate theory of nature, but merely a theoretical account of the phenomena manifested in nature under particular conditions. These phenomena parallel cognitive phenomena in biosystems in a number of ways and are assumed to arise from related mechanisms. Quantum and biological accounts are complementary in the sense of Bohr and quantum accounts may be incomplete. In particular, following ideas of Stapp, 'the observer' is a system that, while lying outside the descriptive capacities of quantum mechanics, creates observable phenomena such as wave function collapse through its probing activities. Better understanding of such processes may pave the way to new science."
In a thought provoking article,"The Origin of Conceptual Thought in Living Systems" by Dr A. E. Wilder-Smith, the subject returns to a different form of a interdependent origin narrative, suggestive of superimposition, which also infers a sentient universe as one side of a parallel organizing principle to Joesphson's, inasmuch there may be more dimensions to superimposition than we currently realize ;
"The grand question in origins, then, is whether codes and languages as such ever arise by chance, and selection over long periods of time in inorganic matter. To invoke natural selection as the source of such conceptual information or thought constitutes a huge begging of the whole question. For natural selection to occur in any plane, life and its concepts must already pre-exist. Thus, to explain the origin of life together with its concepts and selection of molecular forms by any methods which presuppose the prior existence of life, is a huge begging of the whole question. Life as we know it could not have started as a mixture of forms, which then, by natural selection, performed the separation of forms. The development of other concepts on the DNA molecule would require the origin of the concepts we are trying to explain."
In this we come to a nexus of conceptual orientations, the dying consensus versus the emerging reorientation of our models all of which defy mechanical interpretations of reality posed as if Newton and Descartes were the leading edge proponents of exploration. Far from it. This game of denial has more to do with power structures and certainty rather than a coherent reality.
Earth is a ball of rock that harbors life. The rock is unconnected to life versus Earth's upper crust and atmosphere have been largely created by life. Life is a brutal, bloody struggle for existence, competitive to the death. Nature is red in tooth and claw versus Living systems are essentially cooperative. Symbiosis and Partnership are the essential patterns of life.The basic pattern of life is competing with all others for scarce resources versus The basic pattern of plant and animal cells is symbiotic. Eucaryote cells arose by symbiogenesis. Evolution takes place species by species versus Co-Evolution takes place in community, by community.Living systems happened by accident, by chance versus Living systems are autopoetic; they organize themselves.Natural entities exist context-free versus Nothing is natural outside of context. A wolf in a cage is not a wolf. Scientific description is objective, independent of the observer and of the process of knowing versus Objectivity is an illusion. Heisenberg: "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
Reductionism: You understand wholes by analysis, by dissection: meaning is in the parts versus Holism: You understand the parts through synthesis (putting together the parts) of the whole. "Parts" includes every relationship within the whole. Meaning is in the whole. Science uses the building metaphor: It has foundations, building blocks versus the Network metaphor: no thing is more fundamental than another thing. Each element of a system may be coequal. Living systems (organisms) are in a state of equilibrium; Entropy applies to life; heat lost is just waste versus Living systems are open and far from equilibrium; homeostasis applies; entropy does not apply. Heat "lost" is energy used well. Entropy is always increasing and the entire universe is running down and will eventually halt in Heat Death versus Open systems cannot be understood by classical thermodynamics. Living systems increase order. Living systems, such as the Biosphere, evolve toward ever-increasing complexity.
A careful reading of Gurdjieff's narrative concerning Atlantis, linking behavior to natural catastrophes is also found in the South American "myths" that report a great babble, a confusion of tongues resulting in a great conflagration arising from the natural world. Much like the history of our own country, that of Atlantis as related by Plato, had ,in it's youth, had singularly altruistic ideals, much as Jefferson or Adams or Franklin expressed and enfolded into "democracy" arising from the Age of Reason. Plato interlinked the death of Atlantis to the loss of such ideals, it becoming a global superpower with imperialistic strategies to dominate the known world, rather than continuing down the path of evolving internally, the society it had originally envisioned. In a strange form of evolutionary force, this contagion of disorientation toward the natural world was erased by a simultaneous catastrophic lift and descent of the earths geologic surface as well as perhaps an enormous tidal pull when the earth reoriented itself in relation to it's axis of rotation. As envisioned by several, Atlantis was entombed beneath a sheath of ice at the bottom of the world, or descended into the depths of the oceans, perhaps this in of itself is a strange form of entrainment. Existential claims aside, we are a significant although small portion of a living system in nature, and so perhaps nature is not estranged from us, as when we attempt to "improve" it without a corresponding behavior of us toward it as coherent portion, it turns the tables upon us to restore it's own homeostasis. Thought as a aspect of sentience,, this intangible materiality, as it is a mystery to it's possessors may have a more enfolded nature, as Brian Josephson has suggested, in relation to it's environment.
One must also distinguish those thinkers, like Plato and Aristotle, who believed in periodic cataclysms and beginnings, from those, like the Stoics, who believed in the return of identical events. The doctrine in some of its forms is found in ancient India, in Babylonia,and in Greece.
However these two cycles may also be interlinked inasmuch as the previous form of a civilization as in the form of a exoskeleton is often consumed as it decays in an opportunistic and parasitic manner by the viral contagion of it's exterior form by the emergence of new orientations. These are reformed toward the natural and human world and the corresponding creation of a new play or script, that these reinactors of mythology utilize to frame their innovated narrations of the past.The young human child and the youth of human civilizations correspond in this.
The good civil occupants of Pompeii merge as superimposed into a future past, driving their Roman automobiles upon errands under apparently clear skies unaware of the subterranean rifts about to violently tear at the fabric of the market square, under a suburban mall. In this realm, the forces of geologic, historic, astronomical, and biological time zones cross the shadow boundaries between myth and outcomes, across the divide between cause and effect, the mind and the material as one has impacted the other. Perhaps also the mythological basis in a search for the fifty rowers in search of The Golden Fleece, the fifty denizens of Gomorrah, the fifty conscious human beings in Gurdjieff's cosmology merge together as the nexus of some new seed who will rewrite these as yet unwritten mythologies of our present at the steps of temple found in the dense swamp at the Temple of Lincoln God, covered in moss and equal mystery.
In India the doctrine appears in the form of the four yugas, or ages, which make up the mahâyuga (Great Year), a period lasting for 4,320,000 solar years. Each of the yugas differs from its predecessor much as the Ages of Hesiod did, in that wickedness and general evil grow greater in a form of cultural sociopathy.. The last yuga in the series is our own, and will come to an end with a great conflagration followed by a deluge. Between each two ages there is a twilight and a dawn lasting for one tenth of the duration of the preceding or following age. By the time the fourth age, the Kaliyuga. The first, the Satyayuga, interestingly, is corresponding to the Golden Age in Greek mythology,was the longest; the Kaliyuga, which began on 18
February 3102 B.C. will be the shortest. The acceleration of time as well as the passage from childhood to old age correspond proportionately to that of a human life span.
Neda Soltan, who recently was murdered by the self same forces of rigidity and decay masquerading as posturing intermediaries toward the heavens, had a straightforward personality and loved poetry,who was the subject of my last post, was not an activist by nature, as her fiance ,Makan said. "She didn't believe that we always have to fight and quarrel and be violent and have death," he said. "There's only one thing [Iranians] must fight and that's ignorance. And you don't fight ignorance with a sword or a gun. You turn on a light." Her name translated is a calling and a voice that was globally sent around this world community as a potent sign of these times between childhood and old age, promise versus the results of certainty in a monarchical universe and perhaps the indication of a litmus test for exactly how interdependent we (in actuality) are.... as well as a form of the darkness that always proceeds a storm in the extinguishing of her life so autonomically, calls us to question our own assumptions and valuations, toward the purpose of a life unlived both figuratively in a world of warring nation states and empirically in a pool of blood clotting on a "civilized" city street.
In 2012, the wheels of the cycles in historic, mythological narrative converge,in the increase in the depth and volume of the worlds oceans, the polar sheath freed from an age of ice perhaps signals the reappearance of a oceanic Atlantis in the furies of the South Antarctic Ocean, as the gravitational field and slowing rotational speed of our planet are increasingly effected by the forces of tidal lift and drag, as the predicted peak of solar storms arising from the sun occur in that same year, within the realm of a weakened magnetosphere, as well as the reappearance of earth's second moon in Toro 1685. respective of strange astrologers, looking for the portents of alignment under a moon of uncertainty.
Aristotle pulls no punches as he flatly says in the Metaphysics that the arts and sciences have been lost and regained many times; and then in the Politics, that all ideas of any value have already been discovered and tried; and in De Caelo, mirroring Nietzsche, that the same doctrines have been discovered innumerable times.
The varying velocities of these time keeping calendars as a measurement tool, see also the predicted recurrence of great mass migrations that signal our dispersal that is echoed across the Bering Strait, from the desertification and monsoon rains that disperse populations beyond the managerial capacity of bureaucrats, due to the driving force of natural systems. The tables are turned upon presumptions.
The maintenance of power generating stations manned by governmental agencies perhaps keep their stations in the endless interim as a matter of national security in the name of a contingent organization in it's death throes, as new diseases and influenza formerly contained by predictable weather patterns descend upon new territories in a migration, that has just begun.
As GI Gurdjieff noted, you do not need psychic powers to see the future if the present remains unchanged, as these effects are already being studied as I have documented in previous posts, by various universities and global organizations. We represent the diameter of a slender hair in geological time as the causes supersede these effects as nature is reinventing itself and perhaps reorienting the observer to the observed, as the hawk loosed from his handler's grasp circles the skies in search of a future life, a sign of life in a post technological series of community whose history as an archive, I perhaps type, into a present tense. Storms, strange seasons and the destructive power of hurricanes and tornadic winds of an unusually high velocity have begun scour the earth.
When the current pressure lessens and the flow ceases across the towers of their long distance transmission, the record of these words which have been recorded onto an electronic page will disperse as surely as water evaporates beneath the sun, and so another sort of page is turned. The is no archivist for electricity, as water cannot be transposed onto stone. Reverberations in the stillness of a pond that the eyes cannot encounter are felt as the lunacy of currency in the form of tokens as representative of our values has taken a steep decline. The fallacy of work-less work whereas we have become functionaries and automatons already to the machines of convenience we have created is no future event such as a singularity, as that has already occurred, as the unemployment rate rises as the waters of the oceans that no amount of printing presses creating more paper tokens can alleviate, as the forests of their origin, decline and\or burn.
What form of humanity will appear beyond 2012, in the next post, we speculate upon the shifting tide and gather grains of sand. Perhaps we may as well read the augers from rune stones, but then again, this is the freedom of acknowledgment without fear, without panic, without certainties and without a precedent, or is there one we can read?Then in all of these intersecting and interdependent cycles or rotations we have two movements assigned to both a heavenly and our earthly bodies assigned to the mind by the counterbalance of the moon to matter in a liquid state observed by the tides of our affairs as a metaphor, that it is on earth as it is in the heavens.
"The two great systems of body liquids -those of blood and lymph -have one fundamental difference, however. The blood-system has a built-in pump, the heart, which keeps it in constant circulation against the terrestrial and lunar pulls. And the heart is powered by the Sun. The lymph-system has no such pump. Of itself it is a stagnant system, maintained in suspension by the Moon, and communicating with the other only by osmosis. Yet in order to cleanse the body and dispose of poisons, it has to circulate. This circulation is made possible only by the constant motion of all parts of the body, which act as innumerable vascular pumps at all stages of its network. The moon-suspended lymph thus demands movement. And if there is no movement for an appreciable length of time, accumulation of poisons produces a muscular irritation which becomes unbearable. This irritation is relieved by movement, which renews lymph circulation. In this way, we may say that the Moon induces movement in man, whether he will or no. Move he must. But he has a choice whether this movement be deliberate, intentional and useful to his aims: or involuntary, aimless and unproductive."
-The Theory of Celestial Influence-Rodney Collin.
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