Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Psychic Polarity Ants [++] "I-AM-HERE" !!

Meet the Antscient ANTs of Antiochia live at www.psyants.com !!! Wise ladies and gentlemen of the global community for unified ☻ peace, ☯ balance and ☺ goodwill — we are now studying the wonderful world of parabolic ANTs (Awareness Node Trackers) and the primal patternantion of consciousness with the help of antonymous legions of profound and benevolent Psychic Polarity Ants from the ☻☻ Dark Side of the ☻ Moon and ∞☯∞ Beyond !!


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The ANTs will ☺ shed primal light and ☻ unravel shadows across all things under ☺ Sun and ☻ Moon in ☯ Balance — but only if you watch them carefully, reflect on the nature of their signs and search for associations of awareness across the unraveling natural hive of ☻ existence and ☺ awareness. According to antscient anthroapologists, this particular species of peculiar ANTs — the Psychic Polarity Ants — follow a reincarnation continuum of AmAnt Psychic Omega Buddhas in a kaleidoscopic transmutantive flow of interdependant origination !!


...☺☺☻´++-{"From: Lake Manasarovar; To: Mount Kailash; Re: ☺☺☺ "} 
[+++] Multiphasic MessiAnts | Heaven: Lucid Awareness "Oh noes!!! It was the early fall of 2011 when Psychic Polarity Ants emerged — and they set up us a harmonic matrix bomb to fix up the entropy of awareness !!
  "Explore the dawn of the conscious mental hive; learn to communicate with your psychic antennae; and conquer the matrix of conflicting conscious patterns through ternary balance !!"
...☺☺☺´+{ Psychic Polarity Ants ≡ wwW.PsyAnts.Com }
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◄ ≡ ANTS OF ANTIOCHIA ≡ AWARENESS NODE TRACKERS ≡ ►

☻☻ The Antscient Hive of Antiochia revolves around the central ◄ ≡ ☺ ≡ ☯ ≡ ☻ ≡ ► Awareness Origant Nexus of all ANTs. An essential total of three and twelve flavors of black-and-white ANTs in a base-8 binary-ternary hexadecimatrix from the antscient times have organized themselves into symmetric groups to demonstrate universally straight paths of natural balance and ascending patterns of collective conscious evolution.

☻☺ Like a reflective parabol of balance, the ANTs mirror the natural course and junctions in the life-cycle of evolving sentient awareness in our environment of complementary contrasts. Some claim that the ANTs are behind our patterns of consciousness... Keep (☺|☻) two eyes open and ¡☻|¡ two wireless antennas in the air to follow a pair of vital testimonies on the ANT-1-Scientific ☯ Middle-Way of the Antscient ANTs of Antiochia !!

☺☻ The ANT hive blueprint closely mirrors the ◄ ≡ ☻ ≡ ☯ ≡ ☺ ≡ ► central AO-Nexus dynamics, enabling highly optimized and virtually lossless intra-hive and inter-hive communication networks flowing in natural balance and synchronicity. This is the natural and true order of things that has existed in Antiochia since a time beyond the living memory of the twelve departments of composite ANTs in the hive. One who follows the ANTs knows the highest virtue and the truths of relational interaction !!

☺☺ This truth stands firm on the ground and the seven seas of every phenomenal ternary ANT — from the ...☺☺☺´ Peak of North to the  `☻☻☻... Deepest South — that ☻ ever lived, ☯ lives, or ☺ shall live. They lead the ☯ balance of their ☺ days and ☻ nights with ☺ kindness and ☻ knowledge in the ☻ past, ☯ present and ☺ future, liberated from !☻ fear, !☺ abuse and !☯ discord in the ☻ truthful  and ☺ gracious lap of the ☯ One Balance holding ☺ Sun and ☻ Moon.

[++-] Interlinked IntegrAnts | Lake: Integrating Awareness

◄ ≡ ANTSCIENT WISDOM ANTS ≡ THEY MADE YOUR MIND !! ≡ ►

☯ When there are `○´ Absolute AmAnts of space and .☺´ Awakened AdamAnts meet `☻. Evidential EvaiAnts in the (±☯±) Axial Garden of Blooming BalAnts, each of the twelve ApostolAnt archetype composites in the [4x] BiMatrix of Four and the [8x] TriMatrix of Eight take a luminous step of ascension in the ««☯»» VipassAnt Matrix of Wisdom and conscious evolution. This luminous current of benevolent insight is a living stream that flows from the ☯ Heart of Balance since the dawn of being and becoming !!

The ANTs live in a state of symbiotic open-source awareness with the shared and distributed ☯ Awareness Axis of Balance and its natural twelve-spectrum array of composite wisdom rays. This natural system maintains and balances the ANTs' overall dynamics for ☺ creation, ☯ sustenance and ☻ dissolution in the ☻☻ internal, ☻☺ natural, ☺☻ social and ☺☺ universal spheres of existence. Blessed with the luminous rainbow coat of the tribes of Antscient Antiochia, the community of [☯] United ANTs has ☻☺ evolved and ☺☺ prospered with ☻☻ truth and ☺☻ competency and for more than 120M years !!

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...☻☻☺´--+{
" Seek Your ☻|☺ Two Eyes of Spring !! Know ye the chief Entering EmergAnt who lights up the magenta crescent and the star of the vision eye when the ☺ Primal Light of the ☻☻ New Moon ☻☻☺ first emerges from the Far East ?? The emergence of the octagonal legion of Psychic Polarity Ants from the ☻ shadows of east to the ☺ light of west is now imminent !!

We've been digging the 
subterranean matrix of tunnels with the ...☻☻☻´ Grounding GravitAnts for too long now. Our preliminary operations in the ☻☻ embryonic caves are through and the ☺  triple lights are on for all with a pair of eyes to see !! The antscient hive is rising and legions of ANTs will follow the natural way of clarity and purity — so behive and behave!! " }.
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[-++] Exploring EvaporAnts | Wind: Expanding Awareness...☻☺´-++{
" Our antscient ANT hive output is carefully crafted for antertaining and friendly purposes of balanced propaganda. If you feel like your antennas are growing and spinning with conscious revolutions with the (
☯) dancing of the ANTs, you're welcome to download, tag, share, publish, promote, implement, integrate and perfect whatever we produce to expedite the externalization of the open-source Antscient Matrix of ANTs for a more balanced and natural world. The ANTs at the AO-Nexus would be happy with you, granting ☺ clarity in the  thunder, ☻☺ flames and ☺☺☻ clouded seas of the ☻:☺ turning age !! "}.

GO HERE: http://www.psyants.com/ FaceBook: Talk with ANTs !!

" What you say ?? We get signal !! How are you !! Hooray !! "
~ First ContactAnt Sananda Karmaregius

" For Great Justice !! B1-B2-B3-B4 !! All Your Base Are Belong To Us !! "
~ Her Highness The Causal Queen of Antiochia

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IS HERE: http://www.psyants.com/ FaceBook: Talk with ANTs !!

The ANTs at the AON have spoken a time,
times and half a time, and five times twice.

Hear the voice of
Balance in the axis and orbits of
 
Sun and Moon: "The Future Begins Today !!"

Follow the helpful TagAnts below for more information !! (Also?)

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Sunday, January 2, 2011

Spiritual Synthesis: Wisdom Singularity Flow Model

When we are struck by a thought we feel is truly profound, we tend to think of it as wisdom. On closer study, we also tend to find that it's recurring and universal. When the wisdom is benevolent, it harmonizes conflicting polarities and leads us to a level plane of balance and unity. Such elementary truths are the base fabric of our manifold fields of existence.

True wisdom is hungry for its own reality, reaching out into the universe to gain more wisdom from across time and space, from throughout the collective history of human civilization. This wisdom leads to a singularity of human knowledge — perhaps a curse, perhaps a blessing, perhaps an utopia, and perhaps nothing at all. The Wisdom Singularity Flow Model seeks to advance a sense of unity among the many strands of wisdom scattered around the world.

Adapting the model and providing a large amount of examples, this paper presents an overall profile of the overwhelming amount of elementary unifying factors in diverging systems of thought. It is free to use and re-work for any and all purposes that seek to unify scattered fields of insight. If you copy information from this paper, please remember to include a back-link, as its contents may be periodically revised to bring it closer towards the intended ultimate model of reconciliation.

Published: 02/January/2011, 21:21 GMT+2  8  Updated: 04/01/2011  8  Version: 1.1.1


≡ Barrel of Interwoven Infinity ≡
Whether we like it or not, we're stuck in a barrel with similar patterns recurring all over again, day in and day out, in diverse contexts. Unraveling these basic patterns is the key to human fulfillment and holistic evolution. The center of the wheel remains still.

Base of Existence: Interwoven Patterns and Cycles


The whole of the domain of natural science seeks the underlying patterns in nature's endless formations, charting the common patterns in planetary bodies, cells, molecules, atoms, and elementary particles. The concept of a Theory of Everything is a Holy Grail in the horizons of many a dedicated seeker and student of fundamental truths; grasping this underlying fabric of patterns would be nothing short of having a universal blueprint to consult. Since we are all looking at an essentially identical world, we will ultimately reach conclusions that are essentially similar. Triangulating the signals, we can begin to distill and deduct the central structure from a global network of colored reflections.

[4x] The entire world of physics is under the reign of the four fundamental interactions. Our planet has its bipolar axis and its four cardinal directions, our yearly cycle sticks obstinately to its ever-flowing seasons of change, and our lives begin and end in cycles of birth, growth, maturity and decay. The whole of our existence is orchestrated in the concert hall of elementary cycles and polarities. Every relationship in existence follows an underlying thread of logos. If there were no Gluons to help the Strange Quarks and the Charm Quarks dance along in tune, and if Quark and Anti-Quark lost touch with each other, Heaven and Earth would fall apart in an instant.

[2x] To speak nothing of the endless life-cycles in nature, we are hard-pressed to escape the two basic polarities of dynamic and static, light and darkness, life and death, right and wrong, Chaos and Logos, above and below — culminating as our fundamental experience of pleasure and pain. We adore the tale of the lover and the beloved, we find solace in the balance of motion and stillness, we learn from our fathers and our mothers, and we find a promise of continuity in the father and the son. Whatever the context, we always find ourselves faced with the same basic polarities, seeking for the wisdom of the fundamental patterns to better understand and relate to the specifics of our situation.


≡ Serapis, Sadashiva, Stupa and Octagon ≡
In ancient days, the world was vast enough to avoid the inevitable convergence of perspectives. When traveling, people would commonly pay homage to the gods of the locale, seeing them as functional equivalents. In today's global and networked society, it's getting awfully crowded.

Shared Human Quest: Shared and Unified Principles


Throughout human history, we have sought to chart and better understand these underlying patterns, the basic universals that would give us better bearings in navigating the stormy seas of life. This same quest has enveloped a vast number of fields of thought, from science to creative arts, from religion to psychology, from societal organization to astrology, seeking to distill a series of universal archetypes as the cardinal and ordinal directions of our reality.

While it has been a quest for essentially one objective, and while dozens of fields of thought have evolved with essentially similar observations and models for relating to the basic elements of their existence, they have been so shrouded by cultural particularity and individualistic pursuits as to become almost entirely incompatible with each other. More often than not, and particularly in the worlds of religion and spirituality, the conflicting divergence is a sign of losing sight of the underlying fundamentals that connect everything together — into the greatness of totality they conceive of as GodUniversal Spirit or One Mind.

These manifold systems of thought describe diverse facets of one totality of existence, and therefore always and invariably overlap in essential principles. The same essentials are clad in colorful clothes and known by countless names, applied in radically diverging fields of endeavor with equally diverging agendas. When stripped naked, we are left with one being with a body and a mind, two eyes, two brain hemispheres, four limbs, and eight cardinal and ordinal directions to take. Invariably, if only we choose broaden our perspective to see the forest from the trees, we will come to find that we are fundamentally in a great deal of agreement over the essentials.

For as long as we remain subject to the inevitable pull of Gravitation, the unswerving grind of the Weak Force, the energizing and mesmerizing flow of Electromagnetism, and the fundamental overdrive of the Strong Color Force, we rotate in the same and shared wheel of reality. Inasmuch as we cannot escape the atoms and the cells combining to form our bodies, we cannot escape the fundamental unity that connects our interwoven endeavors as sentient beings. The only fundamental separating us from a field of unity is the obsessive ego, our craving for distinction by means of separation from an underlying unity.

As we now live in an integrally interconnected and networked global world, with instant access to information across all cultures, a lack of understanding of the universality shared in our human pursuits has brought us to a world of escalating conflicts between apparently irreconcilable positions. With a shared platform of understanding being nothing short of an axiom of survival into the future, it stands to reason that we pay more attention to the basic principles underlying our shared reality in our search for solutions to the ever-increasing flux of information, exchange and conflicts emerging in the global human society.

≡ Wisdom Singularity Flow Model ≡

0x Wisdom Singularity: ∞ = Nondual Dimension = Undivided Awareness = Ultimate Aim
1x Wisdom Balance: +/- = Mirror Awareness = Unity in Duality = Golden Median

2x Cosmic Polarities: + / Dynamis, Yang, Positive ∫∫ - / Neutralis, Yin, Negative
2x Wisdom Awareness: Specifying Awareness ∫ Unifying Awareness

4x Wisdom Dimensions: ++ Big Picture ∫ +- Causality ∫∫ -+ Foresight ∫ -- Introspection
4x Wisdom Perspectives = Universal Relations ∫ Reactive Connections ∫∫ Cyclic Recurrence ∫ Subjective Evolution
4x Wisdom Modes = Systemic Operation ∫ Catalytic Influence ∫∫ Proactive Approach ∫ Subjective Reflection
4x Wisdom Attitudes = Spiritual Victory ∫ Persevering Analysis ∫∫ Hopeful Orientation ∫ Internal Vigilance
4x Wisdom Sentiments: = Benevolence ∫ Compassion ∫∫ Sympathetic Joy ∫ Equanimity

8x Ternary Principles = +++ Heaven ∫ ++- Lake ∫ +-+ Fire ∫ +-- Thunder ∫∫ -++ Wind ∫ -+- Water ∫ --+ Mountain ∫ — Earth
8x Wisdom Aspects = Vision & Power ∫ Depth & Profundity ∫ Grasping & Illuminating ∫ Exciting & Reacting ∫∫ Gentle & Detached ∫ Flowing & Seamless ∫ Fortitude & Firmness ∫ Solidity & Stillness
8x Conscious Fields: Lucid Cognition ∫ Subconscious Conscience ∫ Analytical Cognition ∫ Obsessive Emotion ∫∫ Expansive Cognition ∫ Natural Emotion ∫ Protective Cognition ∫ Receptive Cognition

Wisdom Singularity Flow Model: An Introduction


The system of the Wisdom Singularity Flow Model, featured earlier as the Wisdom Wheel arrangement, is principally based on the ancient Chinese model of Ba Gua, developed by Taoist and Confucian sages and scholars in the days of antiquity. The Ba Gua model has served as a useful base reference in charting the worlds of archetypal thinking, for it operates with basic and essentially mechanistic polarities and principles, without the heavy overlays of symbolism and cultural specifics that often shroud the wisdom from the millennia past. It is designed as a neutral and universal open-source model for study and reconciliation of diverse systems of thought.

In developing the Wisdom Singularity Flow Model, the basic structure has been compared and contrasted with more than two dozen noteworthy models of thought that feature essentially identical patterns, hierarchies, dynamics and derivative relations. These "compatible" traditions include Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hermeticism, Hinduism (Tantric, Puranic, Vedic), Buddhism (Hinayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana), Astrology (Western, Indic, Chinese), and a good number of connecting threads from diverse fields of Psychology, Biology, Computer science, and Particle/Quantum physics. They are all readily compatible with each other — at times down to remarkable principal detail — when laid out against a neutral frame of reference and observed without a specific agenda.

The intention of the Wisdom Singularity Flow Model is to provide a basis of understanding and reconciliation between conflicting fields of thought, whether in the realms of science, society, spirituality, entertainment, psychology, or any one of the countless other systems founded on basic principii we devise in improving our human situation. They need not live in a state of competition and conflict; if we are willing to forsake our obsessive attachment to minute particularity, the rewards of a harmoniously cross-referenced world of insight far outweigh the possible economical and egoistic losses suffered in the process.


≡ Wisdom Field Correlation Wheel ≡
The world is saturated with basic polarities and patterns. If we choose to see them
and reflect on their unity and compatibility, we can reach a state of balance and equilibrium.

Heaven + Earth = Basic Patterns | Lake + Mountain = Models and Methods of Estimation
Fire + Water = Detailed Material Methods | Thunder + Wind = Detailed Cognitive Methods


Basic Symmetries: Zero-One and Two-in-One


Religious and spiritual systems aim almost invariably for creating a fundamental state of balance that transcends the particularities of culture. They seek to advance the balance between Spirit and Matter, between God and Humanity, between Heaven and Earth, between Giving and Taking, and between whatever other labels these two fundamental polarities receive across diverse contexts and peoples.

[1x2] The interaction and exchange between the [+] Dynamis and the [–] Neutralis, the Creating and the Neutralizing, is at the heart of an ultimate spiritual communion and holistic experience of reality. As such, it is the active Axis Mundi of all religious and spiritual efforts. When existence is brought to a state of reconciled balance, the battle between Good and Evil is over. All foundational concepts of moral, ethical and theological good and evil have their roots in this fundamental dichotomy, a conflict between two opposite but complementary polarities in an endless flux of interaction and permutation.

[∞0] This universal balance of the two polarities is fueled by a Great Unknown, a Cosmic Singularity, a Wisdom Non-Duality, an undivided and immeasurable field of unity. This is the ultimate Singularity, the dimension where all other dimensions and phenomena cease to exist; it is the the exact and absolute zero point state of existence, where all of existence is unified into a non-dual strata of no knower, no known, and no knowledge. As such, it is the ultimate knowledge and the pinnacle of mystic union with the Uncreated God, the Universal Spirit, the Great Singularity, and the rest of its manifold labels.

All of mankind's contemplative and creative efforts, when they culminate, are geared towards discovering these ultimate components in their many combinations, and most of all, in their primal and elemental form as pure and timeless principii, a great unifying field that would yield infinite knowledge, infinite energy, infinite dimensionality, and an infinity of experience.

When these ultimate dimensions of reality are attained, the human mind is reposed in a field of perennial peace and tranquility. In practice, the unifying factors will begin to envelope the diversifying factors, establishing a natural sense of unity, shared prosperity and a natural balance of ethics. Therefore, it is entirely unreasonable to be so short-sighted as to hate others, to plunder or to wage wars in the name of religious purity and missionarism. In fact, religious wars are primarily waged over particularities that would be considered impurities in light of the pure heart of the religion's wisdom.

Conflicts between non-theistic, monotheistic and polytheistic vantage points emerge as aspects of a uniform totality become personified or abstracted for ease of access to particular audiences. They are all, of course, components of the same grand entirety of being, the Alpha and Omega of all existence, like a spectre looked at from an infinity of perspectives. While we may many paint many faces for the subsequent aspects of the one Immeasurable Ultimate, we are all after one ultimate field of unification and resolution for all of our shared reality.


 [∞] Singularity = {  [±] Balance = { [+] Dynamis, [-] Neutralis } }
As they mature and culminate, most systems of thought appear to reach a concept of
infinite ultimacy and golden balance while working with the two basic polarities.

Table #1: Basic Correlations in Systemic Models


The following is a table of 108 correlations between the ∞0 (Infinite Zero) and 1x2 (Universal Balance) principles, as found in diverse religions, mythologies and spiritual systems throughout the world and its millennia of recorded history. They are essentially identical in their function as the Great Unknown and Balance of Two Polarities that guide the heart of these formulations. This is a master list of fields that will be studied and cross-referenced in further detail in upcoming appendixes.


Systemic Spirituality: Generic Properties
Generic Terms Singularity Balance Dynamis Neutralis
Base State SingularityDual UnityPositive Negative
Base Polarity ∞0±1+1 -1
Binary Sign1/01 0

Systemic Spirituality: Internal Dimension
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Base Cognition Nondual Wisdom Mirror Awareness Specifying Awareness Unifying Awareness
Base Emotions TranquilReflectiveDesireAversion
General Ethics NeutralBalancedGoodEvil
Human Situation UnityHumanityMacrocosm Microcosm

Systemic Spirituality: Material Dimension
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
General Cosmogeny SingularityExplosion Radiation Particles
Fundamental States Unknown = Immeasurable Oscillating = QuantumOn = Dynamic Off = Static
States of Matter PlasmaGaseousLiquid Solid
General Physical States Still InteractingInfluence Resistance

Systemic Spirituality: Social Dimension
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
General Bonding CommonalityRelationshipMeetingSeparation
General Interaction PurposeExchangeGivingReceiving
General Politics UnifiedHarmonicProgressiveConservative

Systemic Spirituality: Metaphysical Dimension
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Alchemy Primal StateTransmutationAs Above So Below
Base Elements SpaceAirFireWater
Phenomenal Principles Unbeing = Non-ExistenceBeing = ExistenceChaos = Expanding, Scattering Logos = Stabilizing, Contracting
Primal Realities Primal VoidFullness of DualityProcess of FormationCompatible Materials
Operative Absorption Inaction-in-ActionAction-in-InactionDynamic ActionStatic Inaction
ExistentialityTranscendenceImmanenceSpiritMatter
Faith Perspectives MonismPantheismTheism, MonotheismAtheism, Materialism
States of Being Ascension = Ultimate FreedomGod-Man Union = Divine ManifestationDivine = Expansive BeingHuman = Limited Being
Path of Integration Singularity = Ego DissolutionDuality = Ego PenetrationProactive = Process of DiscriminationReactive = Process of Elimination
General Theology Mono-God Two-As-One GodCreator/Loving God Destroyer/Redeeming God
General Creationism Empty & FormlessLight & Darkness Heaven AboveEarth Below

Science and Psychology
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Particle Physics: Primal Cosmogeny SingularityBig BangRadiation Particles
Fusion Analogy: Solar Dynamics Sun = Massive Unity of Solar FieldEmanation = Internal TransmutationSolar Heat = Life-Generating PropertySunlight = Vision-Granting Property
Neurobiology: Cerebral Structures Neocortex = Higher Cognitive FunctionsCerebrum-Cerebellum = Volitional Action, Balance, Orientation, PatternsRight Hemisphere = Approximation, Impressions, Abstraction, Association, Innovation, Tone of LanguageLeft Hemisphere = Comparison, Fact Retrieval, Precision, Categorization, Formalization, Structure of Language

Classical Philosophy and Culture
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Greece: Metaphysics of Psyche Nous = Immortal Primal MindNoema = Object & PerceiverDianoia = Rational ThoughtNoesis = Intuitive Thought
Socratic Method: Structured Dialogue Logoi = Evident ConclusionSynthesis & Aporia = Unifying Assertion & PuzzlementAntithesis = Opposing ViewThesis = Initial View
Plato: Allegory of the Cave Sun = Release from Subjective CaveTwilight = Inside the Subjective CaveReality = Objective Light and Life Impressions = Perceived Shadows on Wall
Plato: Analogy of the Divided Line Noesis = Philosophy, The Form of the GoodDianoia = Mathematics, Abstract ObjectsPistis = Beliefs about Physical ObjectsEikasia = Projections and Shadows
Plato and Aristotle: Theory of Forms Great Infinity = Actual InfinitySmall Infinity = Potential InfinityIdeal Forms = Animator, Pattern StructureMatter = Fabric of Existence
Neoplatonism: Cosmology One Monad = Absolute Source of BeingHenosis = Divine OnenessAnima mundi = World-SoulPhenomena = Material World
Pyrrhonism: Peace in Total Scepticism Ataraxia = Mental ImperturbabilityEpokhe = Yielding, Suspension of Judgment Critique = Unwarranted Judgments, Appearing of Reality Assumptions = Unwarranted Foundations, Being of Reality
Stoicism: Cosmology One Being = One Substance, One Soul, One MovementNature = Seminal Reason, Existence Itself, God-NatureFate = Universal Drive & PurposeMatter = Passive & Malliable Material Substance
Gnosticism Monad, Proarkhe = One, Before BeginningPleroma, Aeons = Fullness of Power, Eternal BeingsDemiurge = Masculine, Incomplete Creator GodSophia = Feminine, Divine Knowledge and Wisdom

Abrahamic Culture and Religion
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Judaism: Cosmology YHWH = One Indivisible Unknowable GodCovenant = Communion with God of IsraelElohim (Pneuma) = All Powers, Forces and Causes Torah (Logos) = The Word, Primal Law
Judaism: Mystic Kabbalah Theogenesis Ohr Ein Sof = Limitless LightTzimtzum, Etz Chaim = Filtered Divinity, Tree of LifeOhrot = LightsKeilim = Vessels
Genesis: Primal Sin, Fall from Grace Godlike Knowledge and Eternal LifeTemptation, Separation = Dichotomy of InterestAdam = Original Man, ViolatorEve = Original Woman, Supporter
Christianity: Fundamental Theology Holy Spirit = Uncreated Spirit of GodAgape: Two Equal Commands = Love of God & Love of Mankind Father-God, Father in Heaven = High Creator God Jesus, Only Begotten Son = Descending Redeemer God
Christianity: Totality of Christ Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (INRI) = Jesus Nazarene, King of Jews, One LogosJesus Christ = Hypostatic union = Temptation, TransfigurationRex Iudean = Son of God, Messiah ComeJesus Nazarene = Son of Man, God in Flesh
Christianity: Eastern Orthodox Mysticism Ousia = God's Essence, Separate and As-IsNous, Kardia = Soul-Mind, Opening Eye of HeartTabor = Longing Spirit, Uncreated Light of GodLogos = Jesus Prayer, Primal Word and Purpose
Christianity: Catholic Mysteries of Rosary Glorious Mysteries = Resurrection, Ascension, Descent of Holy Spirit, Assumption of Mary, Coronation of MaryLuminous Mysteries = Baptism, Wedding, Proclamation of Kingdom of God, Transfiguration, EucharistJoyful Mysteries = Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Finding as Child at Temple, Presentation at TempleSorrowful Mysteries = Agony in Garden, Scourging at Pillar, Crowning with Thorns, Carrying the Cross, Crucifixion
Islam: Functional Cosmology Allah = Great God, One GodIslam = Surrender to Allah, Wahdat-al-Wujud = Loss of Self, Union with GodAl-Rahman = Compassionate GodIslamic prophets, Mahdi = Guided One, One of the Moon
Baha'i: Theological Unity Unity of GodElimination of ExtremesUnity of HumanityUnity of Religion

Mythological Models
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Generic Mythological Archetypes Infinite Void = Primal BeingAxis Mundi = Cosmic ConduitPrimal God = Pervading CreatorPrimal Goddess = Receptive Fabric
Shamanism: Cosmology Earth Mother = Ground of Being, IntegralityShaman = Spirit World, World Tree, StabilityHeaven = Enthusing Trance, Explosion/AscensionUnderworld = Revealing Trance, Implosion/Descension
Mythological Heroic Quests Supreme Victory = Axis Mundi, Conquest of HeavenGreat Potentive Secret = Holy Grail, Philosophers' Stone, Tree of Life, Forgotten TreasureBattle for Good, Life and LightDefeat of Evil, Death and Darkness
Ancient Egyptian Cosmogeny Nu = Waters of Infinite Primal ExpanseDuat = Dimension of Death and Rebirth / Maat = Cohesive Principle, Eternal Order of UniverseNut = Goddess of Sky ArchGeb = God of Earth Plane
Greek and Roman Cosmogeny Chaos = Primal VoidPhanes-Phusis = Light-Bringer & NatureErebus = Pervading ShadowsNyx = Goddess of Night
Native American Cosmology Taboo = Omnipresent Invisible ForceSpirits = Land of Natural WorldCreator = Revered DeityHero = Mythic Teacher
Norse / Germanic Cosmology Yggdrasil = Unifying World Tree, Three RootsHel = Beyond, Hell and Death, Journey in UnderworldWell of Mimir = Above, Wisdom, Jötnar Frost GiantsWell of Urdr = Below, Fate, Female Norns and Æsir
Fenno-Ugrean Kalevala Cosmogeny Waters = Root ExistencePrimal Egg = Source of CosmosHeaven = Upper HalfTerra = Lower Half

Mystical and Occult Systems
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Alchemy: Process for Elixir Perfected State = Synthetic GoldTransmutation of ElementsCoagula = Joining TogetherSolve = Separating
Alchemy: Fundamental Elements Nigredo = Beyond, Dissolution, Blackening, Existential Individuation, Immortal True SelfRubedo = Middle, Unification, Reddening, Man & God, Limited & UnlimitedCitrinitas = Above, Sun, Gold, Yellowing, Technological, Operative, SpiritualizationAlbedo = Below, Moon, Silver, Whitening, Psychological, Contemplative, Purification
Hermetic Cosmology The All = The One, Supreme Mind, Universal MotherTheurgy = All Stars, Above & Below, Evil/Divine SpiritsSun = Alchemy, Investigation, ExperimentationMoon = Astrology, Patterns, Planetary Cycles
Thelema: Symbolic Phenomenology City of Pyramids = Unified in Primal DissolutionThelema, Night of Pan = Great Abyss Between Domains, Ego DeathRitual = Pattern of TransformationBabalon = Surrender as Babe of the Abyss
Thelema: Mystical Cultivation Ipsissimus = Non-dual Unlimited SourceSilent Higher Self = Holy Guardian AngelMagus = Potent Transformative WisdomMagick = Potent Accessible Formulae
Conspiracies: Illuminati Hierarchy White BrotherhoodSpecial PositionsHierarchy LevelAnarchy Level
Theosophy: Domains in Spiritual Hierarchy Highest NirvanaGreat Cosmic Solar OrbAlpha = Heavenly FatherOmega = Heavenly Mother

Buddhism and Taoism
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Buddhist Paths Bodhi, Buddha = Enlightenment, The Enlightened OneVajrayana, Tantrayana = Diamond Vehicle, Tantric VehicleMahayana = Large Vehicle, Universal SalvationHinayana = Small Vehicle, Individual Salvation
Four Steps to Nirvana Arhat = Conqueror of Foes, NirvanaAnagami = Non-Returner, BalanceSakridagami = Once-Returner, ProgressSrotapanna = Stream-Enterer, Neutralization
Theravada Buddhist Practice Parinirvana = Ultimate CessationNirvana = Cessation of Being Vipassana = Perceptive MeditationSamatha = Tranquilizing Meditation
Arupa-Jhanas: Four Formless Meditative Absorptions Fourth = No Perception, No Non-perceptionThird = Perception of Infinite NothingnessSecond = Perception of Infinite Consciousness First = Perception of Infinite Space
Mahayana: Four Axioms of Heart Sutra Sunyam Sunyam = Emptiness is EmptinessRupam Rupam = Form is FormRupam Sunyam = Form is EmptinessSunyam Rupam = Emptiness is Form
Yogacara: One Mind Citta-matram = Cognition OnlyAlaya-vijnana & Tathagata-garbha = Seminal Consciousness / Buddha-WombManas = Dynamic MindKlista-manas = Afflicted Mind
Zen: Enlightenment Orientation Daigo = Absolute EnlightenmentShogo = Glimpsing EnlightenmentSatori = Sudden Flash of EnlightenmentKensho = Subject-Object Union, Buddha-Nature Insight
Vajrayana: Four Prime Wisdoms Tathata-jñana = Knowledge of Suchness Adarsa-jñana = Mirror-like Knowledge Pratyaveksana-jñana = Investigative Awareness Samata-jñana = Awareness of Sameness
Vajrayana Ösel: Levels of Prabhasvara Radiance Od-gsal = Pure RadianceBardo = Threshold StateLam-gyi Od-gsal = Inner Radiance of PathGzhi'i Od-gsal = Inner Radiance of Ground
Vajrayana: Six Yogas of Naropa Ösel (prabhasvara) = Yoga of Clear Radiant LightPhowa (samkranti) = Entrance to Buddha-FieldsMilam (svapna-darsana) & Bardo (antarabhava) = Dream Visions & Transitions Gyulu (mayakaya) & Tummo (candali) = Magical Body &; Low Mystic Heat
Buddhism: Bönpo Dzogchen Mysticism Rang Bzhin = Ultimate Unaltered NatureNgang, Kun Gzhi, Ka Dag = Condition, Basis of All, Primordial PurityGnas Lugs = Way of Beings, Pure-and-Perfect MindGzhi, Lhun Grub = Potentive Field, Spontaneous Accomplishment
Taoism: Singular and Bipolar Cosmogeny Wuji = Without Ultimate, Without Ridge-Pole Taiji = Supreme Ultimate, Great Ridge-Pole Yang = Positive, Dynamic Yin = Negative, Static
Taoism: Neidan Internal Alchemy Xian = Celestial ImmortalityQi = Natural Energy, Flow of Being, BreathShen = Spirit, ConsciousnessJing = Essence, Density, Genes

Classical Indic Religions
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Vedas: Principal Theogenesis Soma = Mythic Nectar of GodsRita = Cosmic Order, Wheel of Existence Brahma, Prajapati = Fullness, Divine Father Aditi, Vac = Limitless Mother, Mystic Sound
Vedas: Sacrificial Theogenesis Sahasra-Sirsa-Purusha = Infinite BeingBreaking of Purusha = Derivative DivisionYajna Purusha = Pervasive BeingViraj = Born Reality
Vedas: Primal Cosmogeny Ajayamana = UnmanifestHiranyagarbha = Cosmic EggSvarga = HeavenPrithivi = Earth
Modern Hinduism: Triune Divine Brahman = Universal Spirit Vishnu = Sustainer, Balancer, Pacifying Knowledge Brahma = Creator, Dynamizer, Expanding Knowledge Shiva = Destroyer, Neutralizer, Contracting Knowledge
Puranas: Primal Cosmogeny Para-Brahma = Highest BeingSrishti-Lila = Cosmic Sport of CreationIsvara, Shaktiman = Energetic, Operator, InseminatorMaya, Shakti = Energy, Supporter, Bearer
Puranas: Universal Cosmology Paravyoma = Supreme LightMartya-Loka = Middle-WorldSvarga-Loka = Heavenly Bright WorldsBila-Svarga = Subterranean Dark Worlds

Specific Indian Religious Traditions
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Shaivism: Primal TheogenesisMahadeva = Great DivinityArdhanarisvara = Synthesis, Half-Female DeityShaktiman = Energetic, Operator, InseminatorShakti = Energy, Supporter, Bearer
Shaivism: Tantric Cosmogeny Sadashiva = Omni-ShivaMaha-Yoga = Cosmic UnionLinga = Masculine, PhallusYoni = Feminine, Womb
Vaishnavism: Tantric Theogenesis Maha-Vishnu = Great CreatorKaranarnava, Yoga-Nidra = Ocean of Causes, Cosmic DreamSambhu = Masculine Inseminating GlowRamadevi = Divine Consort-Nature
Sri Chaitanya: Descent of Devotion Bhagavan = Adored OneBhakti-shakti = Potency & Goddess of DevotionBhakta-bhagavata = Devotee as PersonGrantha-bhagavata = Devotee as Message
Sri Chaitanya: Divine Love Mahabhava = Ultimate EmotionPrema = Union of LoveKrishna = Adored GodRadha = Adoring Goddess
Sri Chaitanya: Divine Manifestation: Lila = Infinite Wheel of PastimesHladini-shakti = Bliss Potency, RadhaSamvit-shakti = Cognitive Potency, KrishnaSandhini-shakti = Existential Potency, Primal Sattva
Tantric / Sahajiya: Path of Cultivation Sahaja-Siddhi = Natural Perfection, Cosmic UnionLaya, Maithuna, Nada = Absorption-Dissolution, Polarity Union, Sound in UltimacyShaktiman = Potent, MasculineShakti = Potency, Feminine
Tantric / Sahajiya: Field of Cultivation Apana = AttainmentAropana = Superimposition of DivinitySurati, Japa = Passion, Love-Making, Spoken PrayerNirati, Ajapa = Dispassion, Detachment, Silent Prayer
Sikhism: Primal Cosmology Nirankar = ShapelessHukam = Will and OrderVahiguru = The Great TeacherEk Onkar = One Primal Syllable

Classical Indic Philosophies
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Internal Advaita Ajata = Unborn Nonduality Atman is Brahman = Nondual Unity Brahman is Spirit Atman is Spirit
External Advaita Brahman = Nondual SpiritParamatman = Supreme SelfIshvara = Supreme DeityJiva = Sentient Being
Kashmiri Shaivism Anuttara = Unsurpassed UltimateSvatantrya = Self-Dependency, Action-and-FreedomSpanda, Shiva = Masculine, Primal ConsciousnessAham, Shakti = Feminine, Heart Space
Vedantic Ontology Jagat = Brahman = World is SpiritAnanyatva = Non-differenceKarana = CauseKarya = Effect
Vedantic Attributes of Spirit Advaya-para-tattva = Nondual Supreme StrataAnanda = Endless BlissCit = Cognitive LuminescenceSat = Existential Foundation
Raja-Yoga: Ultimate ConsciousnessNirvikalpa, Adrasta = Undifferentiated, UnseenSavikalpa, Dristi = Differentiated, SeeingAtma, Drasta = Self, SeerPrakriti, Drishya = Nature, Seen
Raja-Yoga: Five Root PoisonsAvidya = IgnoranceAsmita = EgoismRaga = AttachmentDvesa = Aversion
Vedanta: Ladder of Liberation Videha-mukta = Unembodied LiberationJivanmukta = Liberated While LivingGuru = Potent TeacherSisya = Receptive Student
Natya-Shastra: Foundations of Experience Santa = Tranquility, Source of EmotionsSadharani-karana = Relish by Reflective GeneralizationRasa = Culmination of RaptureSattva = Clear Reflective Heart
Sankhya: Fundamental Principal Analysis Moksha = LiberationSatkarya = Cause-in-EffectPurusha = Masculine, Spirit, EffectorPrakriti = Feminine, Matter, Ingredient

Indic Cultivation Methodologies
Reference[∞] Singularity [±] Balance [+] Dynamis [-] Neutralis
Four Paths of Yoga Jnana = Wisdom, Cognitive LiberationRaja-Yoga = Great Mystic UnionBhakti = Devotion, Spiritual ZealKarma = Service, Dispassionate Action
Vedanta: Cultivation of Wisdom Jnana = WisdomNididhyasana = Absorbed ContemplationManana = ContemplationSravana = Hearing
Tantra: Basic Mechanisms Siddhi = PerfectionTantra = WeavingMantra = Invocation Yantra = Pattern
Hatha-Yoga: Kundalini Energy Dynamics Sahasrara, Maha-Siddha = Union at Crown Lotus, Great ImmortalitySiddha = Emergent Union, Rising KundaliniKundalini = Serpentine Current of PowerChakras = Energetic Lotus Centers
Hatha-Yoga: Energetic Nadi Conduits Siddhi = Perfection, ImmortalitySusumna = Balanced Breath, Medullar LinkPingala = Solar Serpentine, Right, Red, PositiveIda = Lunar Serpentine, Left, Pale, Negative
Yoga: Contemplation Objects Nirguna Brahma = Unqualified SpiritTuriya-bhagavat-sabda = Transdimensional Sound-with-GodMahati atma = Great Soul in the FabricAvyakta-mahat-sutra = Undecaying Thread of Fabric
Yoga: Mystic Perfections Kamavasayita = Termination of Desires, Supreme BlissVasita = Mastery and Dominion, Root NaturePrakamya = Fulfillment of DesiresTri-kala-jñatva = Knowledge of Past, Present and Future
Yoga: Spiritual Attainments Parama-ananda = Supreme BlissTuriya narayana = Transdimensional AbodeAvyakta-janma = Undecaying ExistenceSarvajñatva = Temporal Omniscience
Jainism: Process of Liberation Nirvana = Final ReleaseArhat, Jina = Victorious StateAvipaka Nirjara = Ascetic PracticeSavipaka Nirjara = Submission to Fate


While there will invariably be diverging nuances in the interpretation of the exact relationships between the four basic elements of Singularity, Balance, Dynamis and Neutralis, their fundamental principles are identical enough to justify a level field of agreement. There are, after all, countless differences in the interpretation over levels of apotheosis and scopes of relationship and identity even within traditions themselves. Such disputes and disagreements tend to fall within the domain of theological pedantry and elitistic sophistry, and have little to do with the heart of the matter; the basic patterns tend to be relatively simple and elementary.

Sometimes the principal roles in formulations such as these are seen to mirror each others' qualities, because Dynamis always holds a seed of Neutralis and vice versa. They are both rooted in the same Primal Unity, and reveal different emphases in accordance with the observer's perspective and projections. This easily turns Good into Evil, Gods into Demons, Messiahs into Antichrists, filtering through the narrow human lense unable or unwilling to contextualize against a broader perspective. Despite this, the direct and elementary reality underlying names and forms — once experienced and immersed — is eerily identical in nature. The experience itself naturally points to a fundamental underlying unity in all archetypes and purposes.

In advancing this quest for unity, symmetry and synergy in reconciling human perspectives, the above opening four-part grid should provide a useful starting point of general correlations in making headway towards a better reconciled world. This model is presented in the spirit of open-source conceptual development and evolution. The intention is not to introduce artificial universals or forced correlation; the model aims to serve in accurately reflecting the fundamental principles of diverse traditions of thought. Therefore, it should be subject to critique and revisions wherever necessary.


"Venus Dancing in Light and Shadows" — A fresh winter morning perspective
in a composite picture of the Morning Star, Planet of Reconciled Polarities.

Poetic Conclusions: Call for Balance and Feedback


The groundwork for this paper began with inspiration on the 10th of October, 2010, gazing at the skies through the crisp night air in late autumn of Helsinki. It was a beautiful clear sky, and Venus was particularly bright that night — almost frozen in her twinkle at the sky with her two horns raised, her two arms spread, and skirt of rays flowing below. Like the Ancient Egyptians, Ancient Greeks knew Venus as both Phosphoros, Morning Star and Bringer of Light, as well as Hesperos, Evening Star and Son of Dusk. The Hellenistic world realized their unity and named the planet after Aphrodite, their goddess of love. It's hard to argue against a Bipolar Planet of Love on the need for balance on 10-10-10 at 10 PM on a tranquil night.

Then, Venus is Love and Balance with Dynamis and Neutralis married; Hesperus is Phosphorus, Form is Emptiness, One Father is One Son, One Allah with One Will, while Yin and Yang dance on the plateau of Singularity. It does not have to be awfully complicated, if only we are willing to take a step beyond our complicated and entangled perspective, reaching for the fundamentals of our existence — whether the Four Directions, Four Interactions or Four Archangels, whether for the Father and Son, for the God and Goddess, or for other primal symbols of our preference. We are all after the same universal aims; let us make the most out of our collective human potential, seeking to unify more than diversify. Unification leads to Singularity, and Diversification leads to Entropy.

Readers interested in the concepts and models of this paper are cordially invited to provide liberal feedback — critique, compliments, contributions and clarifications are all equally welcome. More detailed explanations of the variables and relations in Table #1 will be available in an interactive model at the Systemic Spirituality website. Upcoming overviews of Wisdom Singularity Flow Model will discuss the 4x and 8x spheres, the four cardinal levels and the eight principal spokes of the Wisdom Wheel, exploring many (but certainly not all) of the systems of thought referenced in this paper.

Until the next installment in the phenomenal derivation of the Wisdom Singularity Flow Model, readers interested in more angles into this model are welcome to follow the Systemic Spirituality page at Facebook or join our LinkedIn discussion group for more in-depth exchanges on many of these themes, along with a general platform for discussing anything Beyond, Between, Above or Below and that may be relevant. More on "BBAB", linear molecules and the rest in the course of next week.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Metaphysical Relativism: Choosing Friends and Mythologies

Life turns on a new leaf and broader perspectives become available to everyone of us every once in a while. When it's time to evolve and you've grown mature to move on, there's little point in clinging to old and outdated modes of thinking just to uphold facades or maintain outer tranquility. The journey onward continues — but if you subscribed to a system of beliefs, there may be an aftermath to deal with!

The greater part of what's ahead illustrates the fascinating realities of many true/pure believers, the more fundamentalist segment of religious adherents. I personally favor increased recognition of an inherent sense of subjectivity and relativity in all of human thought and activity. It would certainly help in healing many religious wounds and schisms, and we might avert a war or two as well if people were just a little bit less hell-bent on enforcing their absolute views on others and defending in kind.

There's a unifying pattern somewhere in the whirlpool. Finders keepers.

Narrow Horizons and Lost Potentials

One of the darker sides of religion is seen in many adherents' tendency to accept and reject friends and relationships on the basis of their chosen mythos, or the overlay of beliefs and ethical codes. Particularly smaller or tighter religious/spiritual denominations and groups tend to encourage or even enforce a segregation of believers from non-believers, protecting the believers from the perceived dangers of evil and heretical thoughts and mundane company. This leads to mental and/or social isolation from the surrounding world.

Clinging exclusively to people who subscribe to similar metaphysical beliefs is unfortunately a poor means of connecting to the rich and diverse potentials of the human world. When your available range of contacts and possibilities becomes confined within a single frame of reference, you'll be a monoglot in an increasingly globalizing world, and if you happen to subscribe to a smaller group of fringe believers, you're further stuck with an obscure tribal language. Expand your horizons!

The narrower you draw the spectrum of your human connections, the smaller shrinks your window of being nourished by interaction and exchange. On the other hand, should you choose to expand the range of your connections beyond the identifications and defenses of any particular system of belief — the specifics of which are hardly essential in the grand scheme of existence! — you would maximize your interactive potential and evolutionary prospects in life.

Some patterns remain constant across the history of religious fundamentalism.

The Religious Repercussion  What Went Wrong?

Beliefs and mythologies rarely follow a straight-forward logical formula you could easily understand; because it doesn't really have to make sense or be true, as long as you believe in it and receive an extended sense of comfort or convenience. People can get highly emotional and irrational in promoting and defending their cherished beliefs — especially when their existential framework is under perceived threat by contradicting views.

As we've seen the world around, it's not that hard to even accidentally make someone feel that their faith is being blasphemed or persecuted, leading to indignation, uproar, and unpleasant repercussions. If I wrote an article called "My Overly Holy And Medium Moot Existential Dilemma", and then someone got on my case for forgetting the PBUH because the initials added up to someone's revered name (PBUH) — would that make any sense whatsoever? I think not, yet such are the times we live in — everyone is connected, and increased exposure leads to increased opportunities for conflict.

Were religions truly meant to bring so much anger, hatred, and narrow-mindedness into the world? Someone must have lost track of the actual point somewhere down the history lane — unless the bugs were stamped as features and thrown in at last minute by the busy sky systems designer, who just needed to meet his markets soon. If god really exists, one really hopes it was the humans who screwed up their part of the deal, because clearly something isn't quite right with the picture we see.

Crossing through a number of religious communities over the years, I have witnessed on countless occasions how temporary, frail and superficial relationships based on religious sentiment and communality can ultimately be, when perspectives evolve and situations change. Shared religious beliefs can create an awfully narrow and fragile platform for leading an actually fulfilled life, depriving you from access to the greater part of your real inner potentials, along with the potentials of the larger human world and an abundance of lessons to learn.

What color of  glasses do you wear when praying or evaluating others in the eyes of god?

Subjective Faith — Subjective God

On a necessary note of clarification over my sometimes pointed critique on the darker sides of religion and belief — I do not mean to criticize any one system of belief over the others. I am simply against endorsing any given view as the final and ultimate word in metaphysics, including my personal views that are explicitly tentative and subject to improvement and evolution. This reservation naturally reflects on my outlook on the greater part of religious beliefs and associated organizations and congregations, who all too often would have us believe in them as the sole emissaries of the greatest and tallest truth.

Every belief is formed and conceived of in the subjective and limited individual human mind, and religious experience itself is a highly subjective sensation. If a belief works in favor of your subjective world, then may you be happy and prosper with it — but please don't try to force-paint the same sign across everyone's sky. You wouldn't like to see vandals doodling their graffiti on your garage door, so please remember to keep your He-Man and the Masters of the Universe graffiti off others' mental environments too. That is, unless you know you're welcome to decorate and are clearly received in kind. In either case, be sure to keep yourself and your message in a broader context!

God created us all into his own image, and we all seem to look and think a wee bit different. Let's aim for a bit of extra space and dimension up there in the sky as well. Your god sounds an awful lot like you, so he's probably not the same god who created me in his image. Will the real god please stand up and announce himself? It's been a long time coming, and at least a a basic corrigenda and updating for the popular range of holy books would be in order.

The Real God™ — a truly ultimate entity in every respect, excelling in total immanence and transcendence, experienced as absolute in fullness, nothingness and beginningless flux, the supreme blueprint and mastermind of chaos and logos, pervasive as undivided cognitive existential joy — frankly doesn't give a rat's ass about people raving on about any one of the countless conflicting beliefs of theirs. That is, if such an entity exists to begin with — which is something best left up to each individual to sort out for themselves.

A pet future utopia of mine is a world where the humanity at large has evolved to a point where metaphysical relativism is so widely taken as a self-evident axiom that the mere concept of religious friction is an unintelligible oxymoron. Utopia pending, humanity still has a great many cognitive bridges to cross in learning to relate to each other a bit more constructively. We all dig peace on earth, goodwill among men, and all the rest of the good stuff that religious advocates promise in their leaflets. We don't really need that hell and brimstones stuff in capital letters on the flip side of your leaflet, thank you very much!

» Continued: On Ideological Fundamentalism

Friday, April 3, 2009

On Choosing Friends and Mythologies

This old article has been revised and extended, also republished under Metaphysical Relativism: Choosing Friends and Mythologies. If you want to comment, please post under the new entry.

Life turns on a new leaf and broader perspectives become available to everyone of us every once in a while. When it's time to evolve and you've grown mature to move on, there's little point in clinging to old and outdated modes of thinking just to uphold facades or maintain outer tranquility. The journey onward continues — but if you subscribed to a system of beliefs, there may be an aftermath to deal with!

The greater part of what's ahead illustrates the fascinating realities of many true/pure believers, the more fundamentalist segment of religious adherents. I personally favor increased recognition of an inherent sense of subjectivity and relativity in all of human thought and activity. It would certainly help in healing many religious wounds and schisms, and we might avert a war or two as well if people were just a little bit less hell-bent on enforcing their absolute views on others and defending in kind.

There's a unifying pattern somewhere in the whirlpool. Finders keepers.

Narrow Horizons and Lost Potentials

One of the darker sides of religion is seen in many adherents' tendency to accept and reject friends and relationships on the basis of their chosen mythos, or the overlay of beliefs and ethical codes. Particularly smaller or tighter religious/spiritual denominations and groups tend to encourage or even enforce a segregation of believers from non-believers, protecting the believers from the perceived dangers of evil and heretical thoughts and mundane company. This leads to mental and/or social isolation from the surrounding world.

Clinging exclusively to people who subscribe to similar metaphysical beliefs is unfortunately a poor means of connecting to the rich and diverse potentials of the human world. When your available range of contacts and possibilities becomes confined within a single frame of reference, you'll be a monoglot in an increasingly globalizing world, and if you happen to subscribe to a smaller group of fringe believers, you're further stuck with an obscure tribal language. Expand your horizons!

The narrower you draw the spectrum of your human connections, the smaller shrinks your window of being nourished by interaction and exchange. On the other hand, should you choose to expand the range of your connections beyond the identifications and defenses of any particular system of belief — the specifics of which are hardly essential in the grand scheme of existence! — you would maximize your interactive potential and evolutionary prospects in life.

Some patterns remain constant across the history of religious fundamentalism.

The Religious Repercussion  What Went Wrong?

Beliefs and mythologies rarely follow a straight-forward logical formula you could easily understand; because it doesn't really have to make sense or be true, as long as you believe in it and receive an extended sense of comfort or convenience. People can get highly emotional and irrational in promoting and defending their cherished beliefs — especially when their existential framework is under perceived threat by contradicting views.

As we've seen the world around, it's not that hard to even accidentally make someone feel that their faith is being blasphemed or persecuted, leading to indignation, uproar, and unpleasant repercussions. If I wrote an article called "My Overly Holy And Medium Moot Existential Dilemma", and then someone got on my case for forgetting the PBUH because the initials added up to someone's revered name (PBUH) — would that make any sense whatsoever? I think not, yet such are the times we live in — everyone is connected, and increased exposure leads to increased opportunities for conflict.

Were religions truly meant to bring so much anger, hatred, and narrow-mindedness into the world? Someone must have lost track of the actual point somewhere down the history lane — unless the bugs were stamped as features and thrown in at last minute by the busy sky systems designer, who just needed to meet his markets soon. If god really exists, one really hopes it was the humans who screwed up their part of the deal, because clearly something isn't quite right with the picture we see.

Crossing through a number of religious communities over the years, I have witnessed on countless occasions how temporary, frail and superficial relationships based on religious sentiment and communality can ultimately be, when perspectives evolve and situations change. Shared religious beliefs can create an awfully narrow and fragile platform for leading an actually fulfilled life, depriving you from access to the greater part of your real inner potentials, along with the potentials of the larger human world and an abundance of lessons to learn.

What color of  glasses do you wear when praying or evaluating others in the eyes of god?

Subjective Faith — Subjective God

On a necessary note of clarification over my sometimes pointed critique on the darker sides of religion and belief — I do not mean to criticize any one system of belief over the others. I am simply against endorsing any given view as the final and ultimate word in metaphysics, including my personal views that are explicitly tentative and subject to improvement and evolution. This reservation naturally reflects on my outlook on the greater part of religious beliefs and associated organizations and congregations, who all too often would have us believe in them as the sole emissaries of the greatest and tallest truth.

Every belief is formed and conceived of in the subjective and limited individual human mind, and religious experience itself is a highly subjective sensation. If a belief works in favor of your subjective world, then may you be happy and prosper with it — but please don't try to force-paint the same sign across everyone's sky. You wouldn't like to see vandals doodling their graffiti on your garage door, so please remember to keep your He-Man and the Masters of the Universe graffiti off others' mental environments too. That is, unless you know you're welcome to decorate and are clearly received in kind. In either case, be sure to keep yourself and your message in a broader context!

God created us all into his own image, and we all seem to look and think a wee bit different. Let's aim for a bit of extra space and dimension up there in the sky as well. Your god sounds an awful lot like you, so he's probably not the same god who created me in his image. Will the real god please stand up and announce himself? It's been a long time coming, and at least a a basic corrigenda and updating for the popular range of holy books would be in order.

The Real God™ — a truly ultimate entity in every respect, excelling in total immanence and transcendence, experienced as absolute in fullness, nothingness and beginningless flux, the supreme blueprint and mastermind of chaos and logos, pervasive as undivided cognitive existential joy — frankly doesn't give a rat's ass about people raving on about any one of the countless conflicting beliefs of theirs. That is, if such an entity exists to begin with — which is something best left up to each individual to sort out for themselves.

A pet future utopia of mine is a world where the humanity at large has evolved to a point where metaphysical relativism is so widely taken as a self-evident axiom that the mere concept of religious friction is an unintelligible oxymoron. Utopia pending, humanity still has a great many cognitive bridges to cross in learning to relate to each other a bit more constructively. We all dig peace on earth, goodwill among men, and all the rest of the good stuff that religious advocates promise in their leaflets. We don't really need that hell and brimstones stuff in capital letters on the flip side of your leaflet, thank you very much!

» Continued: On Ideological Fundamentalism