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.
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≡ 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.
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≡ 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
God,
Universal 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.
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≡ 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.
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≡ 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.
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[∞] 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.
| Generic Terms | Singularity | Balance | Dynamis | Neutralis |
| Base State | Singularity | Dual Unity | Positive | Negative |
| Base Polarity | ∞0 | ±1 | +1 | -1 |
| Binary Sign | ∞ | 1/0 | 1 | 0 |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| Base Cognition | Nondual Wisdom | Mirror Awareness | Specifying Awareness | Unifying Awareness |
| Base Emotions | Tranquil | Reflective | Desire | Aversion |
| General Ethics | Neutral | Balanced | Good | Evil |
| Human Situation | Unity | Humanity | Macrocosm | Microcosm |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| General Cosmogeny | Singularity | Explosion | Radiation | Particles |
| Fundamental States | Unknown = Immeasurable | Oscillating = Quantum | On = Dynamic | Off = Static |
| States of Matter | Plasma | Gaseous | Liquid | Solid |
| General Physical States | Still | Interacting | Influence | Resistance |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| General Bonding | Commonality | Relationship | Meeting | Separation |
| General Interaction | Purpose | Exchange | Giving | Receiving |
| General Politics | Unified | Harmonic | Progressive | Conservative |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| Alchemy | Primal State | Transmutation | As Above | So Below |
| Base Elements | Space | Air | Fire | Water |
| Phenomenal Principles | Unbeing = Non-Existence | Being = Existence | Chaos = Expanding, Scattering | Logos = Stabilizing, Contracting |
| Primal Realities | Primal Void | Fullness of Duality | Process of Formation | Compatible Materials |
| Operative Absorption | Inaction-in-Action | Action-in-Inaction | Dynamic Action | Static Inaction |
| Existentiality | Transcendence | Immanence | Spirit | Matter |
| Faith Perspectives | Monism | Pantheism | Theism, Monotheism | Atheism, Materialism |
| States of Being | Ascension = Ultimate Freedom | God-Man Union = Divine Manifestation | Divine = Expansive Being | Human = Limited Being |
| Path of Integration | Singularity = Ego Dissolution | Duality = Ego Penetration | Proactive = Process of Discrimination | Reactive = Process of Elimination |
| General Theology | Mono-God | Two-As-One God | Creator/Loving God | Destroyer/Redeeming God |
| General Creationism | Empty & Formless | Light & Darkness | Heaven Above | Earth Below |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| Particle Physics: Primal Cosmogeny | Singularity | Big Bang | Radiation | Particles |
| Fusion Analogy: Solar Dynamics | Sun = Massive Unity of Solar Field | Emanation = Internal Transmutation | Solar Heat = Life-Generating Property | Sunlight = Vision-Granting Property |
| Neurobiology: Cerebral Structures | Neocortex = Higher Cognitive Functions | Cerebrum-Cerebellum = Volitional Action, Balance, Orientation, Patterns | Right Hemisphere = Approximation, Impressions, Abstraction, Association, Innovation, Tone of Language | Left Hemisphere = Comparison, Fact Retrieval, Precision, Categorization, Formalization, Structure of Language |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| Greece: Metaphysics of Psyche | Nous = Immortal Primal Mind | Noema = Object & Perceiver | Dianoia = Rational Thought | Noesis = Intuitive Thought |
| Socratic Method: Structured Dialogue | Logoi = Evident Conclusion | Synthesis & Aporia = Unifying Assertion & Puzzlement | Antithesis = Opposing View | Thesis = Initial View |
| Plato: Allegory of the Cave | Sun = Release from Subjective Cave | Twilight = Inside the Subjective Cave | Reality = Objective Light and Life | Impressions = Perceived Shadows on Wall |
| Plato: Analogy of the Divided Line | Noesis = Philosophy, The Form of the Good | Dianoia = Mathematics, Abstract Objects | Pistis = Beliefs about Physical Objects | Eikasia = Projections and Shadows |
| Plato and Aristotle: Theory of Forms | Great Infinity = Actual Infinity | Small Infinity = Potential Infinity | Ideal Forms = Animator, Pattern Structure | Matter = Fabric of Existence |
| Neoplatonism: Cosmology | One Monad = Absolute Source of Being | Henosis = Divine Oneness | Anima mundi = World-Soul | Phenomena = Material World |
| Pyrrhonism: Peace in Total Scepticism | Ataraxia = Mental Imperturbability | Epokhe = 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 Movement | Nature = Seminal Reason, Existence Itself, God-Nature | Fate = Universal Drive & Purpose | Matter = Passive & Malliable Material Substance |
| Gnosticism | Monad, Proarkhe = One, Before Beginning | Pleroma, Aeons = Fullness of Power, Eternal Beings | Demiurge = Masculine, Incomplete Creator God | Sophia = Feminine, Divine Knowledge and Wisdom |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| Judaism: Cosmology | YHWH = One Indivisible Unknowable God | Covenant = Communion with God of Israel | Elohim (Pneuma) = All Powers, Forces and Causes | Torah (Logos) = The Word, Primal Law |
| Judaism: Mystic Kabbalah Theogenesis | Ohr Ein Sof = Limitless Light | Tzimtzum, Etz Chaim = Filtered Divinity, Tree of Life | Ohrot = Lights | Keilim = Vessels |
| Genesis: Primal Sin, Fall from Grace | Godlike Knowledge and Eternal Life | Temptation, Separation = Dichotomy of Interest | Adam = Original Man, Violator | Eve = Original Woman, Supporter |
| Christianity: Fundamental Theology | Holy Spirit = Uncreated Spirit of God | Agape: 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 Logos | Jesus Christ = Hypostatic union = Temptation, Transfiguration | Rex Iudean = Son of God, Messiah Come | Jesus Nazarene = Son of Man, God in Flesh |
| Christianity: Eastern Orthodox Mysticism | Ousia = God's Essence, Separate and As-Is | Nous, Kardia = Soul-Mind, Opening Eye of Heart | Tabor = Longing Spirit, Uncreated Light of God | Logos = Jesus Prayer, Primal Word and Purpose |
| Christianity: Catholic Mysteries of Rosary | Glorious Mysteries = Resurrection, Ascension, Descent of Holy Spirit, Assumption of Mary, Coronation of Mary | Luminous Mysteries = Baptism, Wedding, Proclamation of Kingdom of God, Transfiguration, Eucharist | Joyful Mysteries = Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Finding as Child at Temple, Presentation at Temple | Sorrowful Mysteries = Agony in Garden, Scourging at Pillar, Crowning with Thorns, Carrying the Cross, Crucifixion |
| Islam: Functional Cosmology | Allah = Great God, One God | Islam = Surrender to Allah, Wahdat-al-Wujud = Loss of Self, Union with God | Al-Rahman = Compassionate God | Islamic prophets, Mahdi = Guided One, One of the Moon |
| Baha'i: Theological Unity | Unity of God | Elimination of Extremes | Unity of Humanity | Unity of Religion |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| Generic Mythological Archetypes | Infinite Void = Primal Being | Axis Mundi = Cosmic Conduit | Primal God = Pervading Creator | Primal Goddess = Receptive Fabric |
| Shamanism: Cosmology | Earth Mother = Ground of Being, Integrality | Shaman = Spirit World, World Tree, Stability | Heaven = Enthusing Trance, Explosion/Ascension | Underworld = Revealing Trance, Implosion/Descension |
| Mythological Heroic Quests | Supreme Victory = Axis Mundi, Conquest of Heaven | Great Potentive Secret = Holy Grail, Philosophers' Stone, Tree of Life, Forgotten Treasure | Battle for Good, Life and Light | Defeat of Evil, Death and Darkness |
| Ancient Egyptian Cosmogeny | Nu = Waters of Infinite Primal Expanse | Duat = Dimension of Death and Rebirth / Maat = Cohesive Principle, Eternal Order of Universe | Nut = Goddess of Sky Arch | Geb = God of Earth Plane |
| Greek and Roman Cosmogeny | Chaos = Primal Void | Phanes-Phusis = Light-Bringer & Nature | Erebus = Pervading Shadows | Nyx = Goddess of Night |
| Native American Cosmology | Taboo = Omnipresent Invisible Force | Spirits = Land of Natural World | Creator = Revered Deity | Hero = Mythic Teacher |
| Norse / Germanic Cosmology | Yggdrasil = Unifying World Tree, Three Roots | Hel = Beyond, Hell and Death, Journey in Underworld | Well of Mimir = Above, Wisdom, Jötnar Frost Giants | Well of Urdr = Below, Fate, Female Norns and Æsir |
| Fenno-Ugrean Kalevala Cosmogeny | Waters = Root Existence | Primal Egg = Source of Cosmos | Heaven = Upper Half | Terra = Lower Half |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| Alchemy: Process for Elixir | Perfected State = Synthetic Gold | Transmutation of Elements | Coagula = Joining Together | Solve = Separating |
| Alchemy: Fundamental Elements | Nigredo = Beyond, Dissolution, Blackening, Existential Individuation, Immortal True Self | Rubedo = Middle, Unification, Reddening, Man & God, Limited & Unlimited | Citrinitas = Above, Sun, Gold, Yellowing, Technological, Operative, Spiritualization | Albedo = Below, Moon, Silver, Whitening, Psychological, Contemplative, Purification |
| Hermetic Cosmology | The All = The One, Supreme Mind, Universal Mother | Theurgy = All Stars, Above & Below, Evil/Divine Spirits | Sun = Alchemy, Investigation, Experimentation | Moon = Astrology, Patterns, Planetary Cycles |
| Thelema: Symbolic Phenomenology | City of Pyramids = Unified in Primal Dissolution | Thelema, Night of Pan = Great Abyss Between Domains, Ego Death | Ritual = Pattern of Transformation | Babalon = Surrender as Babe of the Abyss |
| Thelema: Mystical Cultivation | Ipsissimus = Non-dual Unlimited Source | Silent Higher Self = Holy Guardian Angel | Magus = Potent Transformative Wisdom | Magick = Potent Accessible Formulae |
| Conspiracies: Illuminati Hierarchy | White Brotherhood | Special Positions | Hierarchy Level | Anarchy Level |
| Theosophy: Domains in Spiritual Hierarchy | Highest Nirvana | Great Cosmic Solar Orb | Alpha = Heavenly Father | Omega = Heavenly Mother |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| Buddhist Paths | Bodhi, Buddha = Enlightenment, The Enlightened One | Vajrayana, Tantrayana = Diamond Vehicle, Tantric Vehicle | Mahayana = Large Vehicle, Universal Salvation | Hinayana = Small Vehicle, Individual Salvation |
| Four Steps to Nirvana | Arhat = Conqueror of Foes, Nirvana | Anagami = Non-Returner, Balance | Sakridagami = Once-Returner, Progress | Srotapanna = Stream-Enterer, Neutralization |
| Theravada Buddhist Practice | Parinirvana = Ultimate Cessation | Nirvana = Cessation of Being | Vipassana = Perceptive Meditation | Samatha = Tranquilizing Meditation |
| Arupa-Jhanas: Four Formless Meditative Absorptions | Fourth = No Perception, No Non-perception | Third = Perception of Infinite Nothingness | Second = Perception of Infinite Consciousness | First = Perception of Infinite Space |
| Mahayana: Four Axioms of Heart Sutra | Sunyam Sunyam = Emptiness is Emptiness | Rupam Rupam = Form is Form | Rupam Sunyam = Form is Emptiness | Sunyam Rupam = Emptiness is Form |
| Yogacara: One Mind | Citta-matram = Cognition Only | Alaya-vijnana & Tathagata-garbha = Seminal Consciousness / Buddha-Womb | Manas = Dynamic Mind | Klista-manas = Afflicted Mind |
| Zen: Enlightenment Orientation | Daigo = Absolute Enlightenment | Shogo = Glimpsing Enlightenment | Satori = Sudden Flash of Enlightenment | Kensho = 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 Radiance | Bardo = Threshold State | Lam-gyi Od-gsal = Inner Radiance of Path | Gzhi'i Od-gsal = Inner Radiance of Ground |
| Vajrayana: Six Yogas of Naropa | Ösel (prabhasvara) = Yoga of Clear Radiant Light | Phowa (samkranti) = Entrance to Buddha-Fields | Milam (svapna-darsana) & Bardo (antarabhava) = Dream Visions & Transitions | Gyulu (mayakaya) & Tummo (candali) = Magical Body &; Low Mystic Heat |
| Buddhism: Bönpo Dzogchen Mysticism | Rang Bzhin = Ultimate Unaltered Nature | Ngang, Kun Gzhi, Ka Dag = Condition, Basis of All, Primordial Purity | Gnas Lugs = Way of Beings, Pure-and-Perfect Mind | Gzhi, 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 Immortality | Qi = Natural Energy, Flow of Being, Breath | Shen = Spirit, Consciousness | Jing = Essence, Density, Genes |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| Vedas: Principal Theogenesis | Soma = Mythic Nectar of Gods | Rita = Cosmic Order, Wheel of Existence | Brahma, Prajapati = Fullness, Divine Father | Aditi, Vac = Limitless Mother, Mystic Sound |
| Vedas: Sacrificial Theogenesis | Sahasra-Sirsa-Purusha = Infinite Being | Breaking of Purusha = Derivative Division | Yajna Purusha = Pervasive Being | Viraj = Born Reality |
| Vedas: Primal Cosmogeny | Ajayamana = Unmanifest | Hiranyagarbha = Cosmic Egg | Svarga = Heaven | Prithivi = 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 Being | Srishti-Lila = Cosmic Sport of Creation | Isvara, Shaktiman = Energetic, Operator, Inseminator | Maya, Shakti = Energy, Supporter, Bearer |
| Puranas: Universal Cosmology | Paravyoma = Supreme Light | Martya-Loka = Middle-World | Svarga-Loka = Heavenly Bright Worlds | Bila-Svarga = Subterranean Dark Worlds |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| Shaivism: Primal Theogenesis | Mahadeva = Great Divinity | Ardhanarisvara = Synthesis, Half-Female Deity | Shaktiman = Energetic, Operator, Inseminator | Shakti = Energy, Supporter, Bearer |
| Shaivism: Tantric Cosmogeny | Sadashiva = Omni-Shiva | Maha-Yoga = Cosmic Union | Linga = Masculine, Phallus | Yoni = Feminine, Womb |
| Vaishnavism: Tantric Theogenesis | Maha-Vishnu = Great Creator | Karanarnava, Yoga-Nidra = Ocean of Causes, Cosmic Dream | Sambhu = Masculine Inseminating Glow | Ramadevi = Divine Consort-Nature |
| Sri Chaitanya: Descent of Devotion | Bhagavan = Adored One | Bhakti-shakti = Potency & Goddess of Devotion | Bhakta-bhagavata = Devotee as Person | Grantha-bhagavata = Devotee as Message |
| Sri Chaitanya: Divine Love | Mahabhava = Ultimate Emotion | Prema = Union of Love | Krishna = Adored God | Radha = Adoring Goddess |
| Sri Chaitanya: Divine Manifestation: | Lila = Infinite Wheel of Pastimes | Hladini-shakti = Bliss Potency, Radha | Samvit-shakti = Cognitive Potency, Krishna | Sandhini-shakti = Existential Potency, Primal Sattva |
| Tantric / Sahajiya: Path of Cultivation | Sahaja-Siddhi = Natural Perfection, Cosmic Union | Laya, Maithuna, Nada = Absorption-Dissolution, Polarity Union, Sound in Ultimacy | Shaktiman = Potent, Masculine | Shakti = Potency, Feminine |
| Tantric / Sahajiya: Field of Cultivation | Apana = Attainment | Aropana = Superimposition of Divinity | Surati, Japa = Passion, Love-Making, Spoken Prayer | Nirati, Ajapa = Dispassion, Detachment, Silent Prayer |
| Sikhism: Primal Cosmology | Nirankar = Shapeless | Hukam = Will and Order | Vahiguru = The Great Teacher | Ek Onkar = One Primal Syllable |
| 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 Spirit | Paramatman = Supreme Self | Ishvara = Supreme Deity | Jiva = Sentient Being |
| Kashmiri Shaivism | Anuttara = Unsurpassed Ultimate | Svatantrya = Self-Dependency, Action-and-Freedom | Spanda, Shiva = Masculine, Primal Consciousness | Aham, Shakti = Feminine, Heart Space |
| Vedantic Ontology | Jagat = Brahman = World is Spirit | Ananyatva = Non-difference | Karana = Cause | Karya = Effect |
| Vedantic Attributes of Spirit | Advaya-para-tattva = Nondual Supreme Strata | Ananda = Endless Bliss | Cit = Cognitive Luminescence | Sat = Existential Foundation |
| Raja-Yoga: Ultimate Consciousness | Nirvikalpa, Adrasta = Undifferentiated, Unseen | Savikalpa, Dristi = Differentiated, Seeing | Atma, Drasta = Self, Seer | Prakriti, Drishya = Nature, Seen |
| Raja-Yoga: Five Root Poisons | Avidya = Ignorance | Asmita = Egoism | Raga = Attachment | Dvesa = Aversion |
| Vedanta: Ladder of Liberation | Videha-mukta = Unembodied Liberation | Jivanmukta = Liberated While Living | Guru = Potent Teacher | Sisya = Receptive Student |
| Natya-Shastra: Foundations of Experience | Santa = Tranquility, Source of Emotions | Sadharani-karana = Relish by Reflective Generalization | Rasa = Culmination of Rapture | Sattva = Clear Reflective Heart |
| Sankhya: Fundamental Principal Analysis | Moksha = Liberation | Satkarya = Cause-in-Effect | Purusha = Masculine, Spirit, Effector | Prakriti = Feminine, Matter, Ingredient |
| Reference | [∞] Singularity | [±] Balance | [+] Dynamis | [-] Neutralis |
| Four Paths of Yoga | Jnana = Wisdom, Cognitive Liberation | Raja-Yoga = Great Mystic Union | Bhakti = Devotion, Spiritual Zeal | Karma = Service, Dispassionate Action |
| Vedanta: Cultivation of Wisdom | Jnana = Wisdom | Nididhyasana = Absorbed Contemplation | Manana = Contemplation | Sravana = Hearing |
| Tantra: Basic Mechanisms | Siddhi = Perfection | Tantra = Weaving | Mantra = Invocation | Yantra = Pattern |
| Hatha-Yoga: Kundalini Energy Dynamics | Sahasrara, Maha-Siddha = Union at Crown Lotus, Great Immortality | Siddha = Emergent Union, Rising Kundalini | Kundalini = Serpentine Current of Power | Chakras = Energetic Lotus Centers |
| Hatha-Yoga: Energetic Nadi Conduits | Siddhi = Perfection, Immortality | Susumna = Balanced Breath, Medullar Link | Pingala = Solar Serpentine, Right, Red, Positive | Ida = Lunar Serpentine, Left, Pale, Negative |
| Yoga: Contemplation Objects | Nirguna Brahma = Unqualified Spirit | Turiya-bhagavat-sabda = Transdimensional Sound-with-God | Mahati atma = Great Soul in the Fabric | Avyakta-mahat-sutra = Undecaying Thread of Fabric |
| Yoga: Mystic Perfections | Kamavasayita = Termination of Desires, Supreme Bliss | Vasita = Mastery and Dominion, Root Nature | Prakamya = Fulfillment of Desires | Tri-kala-jñatva = Knowledge of Past, Present and Future |
| Yoga: Spiritual Attainments | Parama-ananda = Supreme Bliss | Turiya narayana = Transdimensional Abode | Avyakta-janma = Undecaying Existence | Sarvajñatva = Temporal Omniscience |
| Jainism: Process of Liberation | Nirvana = Final Release | Arhat, Jina = Victorious State | Avipaka Nirjara = Ascetic Practice | Savipaka Nirjara = Submission to Fate |
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.
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"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
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