Spiritual Journal, 10/30/01
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novapsyche3:38 p.m.
As an American Studies grad major, I could study the history of entertainment in America. I think that progress really has driven the whole of the country's pursuits, in all fields. All fields. People in America simply want a good time, and all of our good times have been known in times of economic boom. (Though, even in bust times, or perhaps especially so, entertainment venues were everpresent/ubiquitous.) We venerate business and capitalism. The class structure produced by capitalism bothers few people. It is merely a matter of course. It's inevitable. [It's nearly acknowledged as a fundamental law of nature.]
With time travel, could money systems return to a barter[-driven] economy? The barter system was rendered obsolete because in the face of global trade, crossing such distances for direct one-for-one trade was impossible.
You can't figure out light travel [as a process] by traveling within the speed of light. Every problem must be solved at the meta level. And we humans... our thought structure enables us to always conceive of the next meta level. We can do this unto infinity.
Planetary Traveler (or Infinity's Child [both DVDs of computer animation]) says their crafts travel at the speed of thought. Doesn't it make sense that thought travels faster than light? Our minds interpret light--light is our tool. We are not bound by light. Thus, we already operate at a meta-light level, mentally. We must look to ourselves, our own selves as microcosms (illustrations of systems in the physical cosmos) in order to solve time/space travel.
I feel, if consciousness is driven by microscopic cellular communication, then figuring out how consciousness is effected in the CNS will directly lead to finding out how electrical impulses can travel faster than the speed of light. Because there has to be some unknown point, or series of points, that all of our mental information is relayed to and interpreted by. There is a meta level of our own consciousness that we have not been able to pinpoint [, that we are not wakefully privy to]. Science bears out that we will be able to identify this/these point(s) at a cellular/molecular level.
Science, too, is merely a tool of human society [and human understanding]. In a way, it is rational magick. We've found physically sound and replicable ways to manipulate the physical universe. But though the physical universe as a whole is or may be rational, we as humans are living proof that not all in the universe is constrained by logic and rationality. Science can't explain consciousness (and hence religious experience) because consciousness is meta-physical, and thus meta-rational. One necessarily can't explain or reproduce it with mere rational tools or explanations.
We exist as singularities in the universe. We are mobile microuniverses in the whole of the universe. We can create entire realities in our own minds (and in fact do this every moment of our lives).
Of course we have a sixth sense. That would mean our meta-sense level, that which is the interpreter, would be (at least) the seventh level. Relying on merely five senses reduces the mind to operating at 6, and 6, as F reminded me last night, is the number of imperfection. [7 represents synthesis and perfection.]
As an American Studies grad major, I could study the history of entertainment in America. I think that progress really has driven the whole of the country's pursuits, in all fields. All fields. People in America simply want a good time, and all of our good times have been known in times of economic boom. (Though, even in bust times, or perhaps especially so, entertainment venues were everpresent/ubiquitous.) We venerate business and capitalism. The class structure produced by capitalism bothers few people. It is merely a matter of course. It's inevitable. [It's nearly acknowledged as a fundamental law of nature.]
With time travel, could money systems return to a barter[-driven] economy? The barter system was rendered obsolete because in the face of global trade, crossing such distances for direct one-for-one trade was impossible.
You can't figure out light travel [as a process] by traveling within the speed of light. Every problem must be solved at the meta level. And we humans... our thought structure enables us to always conceive of the next meta level. We can do this unto infinity.
Planetary Traveler (or Infinity's Child [both DVDs of computer animation]) says their crafts travel at the speed of thought. Doesn't it make sense that thought travels faster than light? Our minds interpret light--light is our tool. We are not bound by light. Thus, we already operate at a meta-light level, mentally. We must look to ourselves, our own selves as microcosms (illustrations of systems in the physical cosmos) in order to solve time/space travel.
I feel, if consciousness is driven by microscopic cellular communication, then figuring out how consciousness is effected in the CNS will directly lead to finding out how electrical impulses can travel faster than the speed of light. Because there has to be some unknown point, or series of points, that all of our mental information is relayed to and interpreted by. There is a meta level of our own consciousness that we have not been able to pinpoint [, that we are not wakefully privy to]. Science bears out that we will be able to identify this/these point(s) at a cellular/molecular level.
Science, too, is merely a tool of human society [and human understanding]. In a way, it is rational magick. We've found physically sound and replicable ways to manipulate the physical universe. But though the physical universe as a whole is or may be rational, we as humans are living proof that not all in the universe is constrained by logic and rationality. Science can't explain consciousness (and hence religious experience) because consciousness is meta-physical, and thus meta-rational. One necessarily can't explain or reproduce it with mere rational tools or explanations.
We exist as singularities in the universe. We are mobile microuniverses in the whole of the universe. We can create entire realities in our own minds (and in fact do this every moment of our lives).
Of course we have a sixth sense. That would mean our meta-sense level, that which is the interpreter, would be (at least) the seventh level. Relying on merely five senses reduces the mind to operating at 6, and 6, as F reminded me last night, is the number of imperfection. [7 represents synthesis and perfection.]
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Date: 2001-10-31 07:35 am (UTC)Doesn't it make sense that thought travels faster than light?
Actually, this makes a lot of sense. Current quantum mechanical theory states that there must be something that moves faster than light. That is one of the possible consequences of Bell's Theorum (either that quantum mechanics is just wrong, that something must move faster than the speed of light, or that objective reality simply doesn't exist). A lot of physicists don't like the implications, but a few see the issue of non-locality (i.e. things that move faster than the speed of light) as the most likely one.
Now, what it is that moves faster than light is still up in the air (so to speak). A number of physicists have suggested that it is information, with information defined as an order. The farther out physicist or two have suggested that consciousness is this superluminal thing.
Amazing how science is comign around to magick in a lot of ways, no?
Science bears out that we will be able to identify this/these point(s) at a cellular/molecular level.
Actually, this is exactly Timothy Leary's opinion. That our metalevel consciousness is a function of our microscopic building blocks - specifically DNA. And as consciousness expands (not transcends, but expands) that conscious use of these levels for communication become available.
This is an interesting analog for the idea of implosion into the Unmanifest that The New Magus talks about. This is the idea that introspection and inward focusing of energty will, at its singularity point, will implode into the realm of the ineffible and thus cause an explosion of willful change into reality.
Oddly enough, it also has an analog in the idea of using gravity wells to slingshot a spacecraft around it and away at higher speeds.
Science, too, is merely a tool of human society [and human understanding]. In a way, it is rational magick.
To quote Clarke's First Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I would assert that we have already past the point of sufficiently advanced in reference to our inherent capabilities as human beings.
We exist as singularities in the universe. We are mobile microuniverses in the whole of the universe. We can create entire realities in our own minds (and in fact do this every moment of our lives).
Reminds me of a few things I wrote in High School: "People are universes." and "It's the end of the world every second of every day."
Now, there is a caveat to this, I think. People are singularities, but it is not their nature to be singular. Part of human power comes from connection and correspondence. Connections between people, correspondence between ideas and concepts. We our own universes, but these universes are not isolated, but interconnected. We can create our own universes, but not without creating friction with the other worlds we encounter. Thus, the need for consensual reality.