Mathematical meditation
Oct. 7th, 2001 05:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheThese days, when I describe meditation, I talk about "becoming the naught" and bring in concepts of infinity and negative infinity. I'll try to explain what I mean.
When I imagine my inner being, I sense my center of balance. That place, for me, is the starting or center point. I am my self, I am my whole. But I wish to be filled with the All (e.g., God, or the Universe), so I try to imagine myself growing smaller and smaller. Miniscule. Reducing my self to such minute proportions is "becoming the naught"--becoming, in effect, the zero, the nothing, so that you may realize the All.
The next time I meditate, I plan to use the metaphor of a black hole, that I'm effecting a black hole in the center of my gravity. I mean to take the natural gravitational forces my body already holds, use it in relation to myself, so that my self will conceptually move exponentially toward -infinity so that the rest of me can become filled with +infinity.
I realize how kooky this may sound. I've come to the idea that despite the weirdness of the words that inevitably come out of my mouth, I must say them. Otherwise, I'll never get to the revision process.
When I imagine my inner being, I sense my center of balance. That place, for me, is the starting or center point. I am my self, I am my whole. But I wish to be filled with the All (e.g., God, or the Universe), so I try to imagine myself growing smaller and smaller. Miniscule. Reducing my self to such minute proportions is "becoming the naught"--becoming, in effect, the zero, the nothing, so that you may realize the All.
The next time I meditate, I plan to use the metaphor of a black hole, that I'm effecting a black hole in the center of my gravity. I mean to take the natural gravitational forces my body already holds, use it in relation to myself, so that my self will conceptually move exponentially toward -infinity so that the rest of me can become filled with +infinity.
I realize how kooky this may sound. I've come to the idea that despite the weirdness of the words that inevitably come out of my mouth, I must say them. Otherwise, I'll never get to the revision process.
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Date: 2001-10-24 09:48 am (UTC)Essentially, even though we have the concept of negative numbers, they don't exist in the real universe. Negative doesn't apply to scalars at all and only to vectors if you consider negative to mean 'backward'.
But, if you decrease a scalar (such as volume), you eventually get to zero - i.e. nothingness. If you can continue to decrease, you 'implode' into negative dimensions. According to the New Magus those negative dimensions are the Unmanifest, sorta the All or Ein Sof. That implosion forces an intrusion of reality into the Unmanifest. But sense the Unmanifest cannot be limited (limitation is a feature of manifestation), the implosion is ejected from the Unmanifest into reality (i.e. the Manifest). Thus, we have a burst of creation of form.
If you can engineer the implosion correctly, the resulting explosion can be a desired manifestation. Thsu, magick is acheived.
It's an interesting idea.