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)This is completely the opposite of what I have heard. 6 is a perfect number, in many ways. It is the sum of its divisors (ie 1 x 2 x 3 = 1 + 2 + 3), which is the literal definition of 'perfect number' in mathematics. It is also the first who number that is teh combination of two distinct primes.
Geometrically, it is expressed as the hexagon, which is the most complex of the regular, convex polygons that can tile a plane without gaps. Also, of all regular, convex polygons, it provides the highest ratio of space emcompassed to parameter, thus providing the most economical regular shape yoy can make with straight lines. Additionally, if you mark off the radius of a circle along its circumference, you get six equal arcs.
Conversely, 7 is a pain. It is the largest prime in the first 10 numbers. Also, 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 = 8 x 9 x 10. 7 is the dividing point in this series. Geometrically, the septagon is the only of the first ten regular polygons that cannot be drawn exactly with a compass and straight-edge. Also, of the same set, it is the only one with an irrational central angle.
The Pythagoreans saw six as the symbol of order and structure. Seven, however, was the abyss, the number of mysteries and the hidden world you had to pass to continue on enlightenment.
So I heard a different story ;)