Post by stardustpilgrim on Jan 5, 2024 9:30:46 GMT -5
Two & 1/2 years ago I gave my grandson the secret of life, he was ten. I know he was ten because I visited him when he was 18 months, in Washington State, ten years ago, that's locked in my mind, as that's when I retired. He at two and just after my granddaughter was born they moved to Spain for six years, my then son-in-law was in the Navy. So they grew up speaking Spanish for the most part. They came back to the states 3 years ago. GD did very well, she slipped right into school and zoomed on. GS did not do so well (they are both very intelligent, like their Mom). He struggled shifting from learning in Spanish to learning in English. He was held back a grade. Come next year he was still struggling. There was talk of holding him back another grade. I am not one to give advice, I wanted to say please! please! please! do not hold him back. I did not ask, I didn't know until school started, he was advanced, and has been doing well ever since. But GS had a kind of lazy streak in him, he worked in school, and in life, only at what he liked. So I drew a single line wave for him, several crests and troughs, and explained how all of life is like that wave. Now, I did this also for all my kids, at fifteen. Oldest was 16 before I got the idea, so he got it a year late. Oldest daughter got it late too, for various reasons. Oldest son I carved his name and the date into a stick, and explained that every stick has two ends. Oldest daughter I gave a rose, with thorns, explained that all roses have thorns. Gave the same to youngest daughter. To my youngest son I gave a one dollar coin, a coin with heads and tails. Explained to all, similarly as below.
OK, back to GS. I explained that everything is life has a wave form, a crest and a trough. I pointed out the crest moving upward, it reaches a peak, and then moves downward to the trough. I explained that it takes effort to move up to the peak, that everything in life requires effort at times. So, school requires effort even when we do not like to make efforts. But then at the peak the wave moving downward does not require effort, it's easy. So there are times in life when you have to work, then times when you don't, I explained that work is payment for the fun times, that that's just how life works. His Dad likes to hunt and fish, fishing is how Florida got picked for the next duty station. (They usually alternate picking duty stations. They all liked Spain, S-in-law found plenty of hunting and hunting buddies, so they picked and were allowed to stay in Spain for a second 3 years, Rota). So I told him that he needed to look at the reward of hunting and fishing, with Dad, as the movement down to the trough, free and easy. I explained that everything in life will work this way, always and everywhere. And I left it at that. I didn't tell daughter, except very briefly in passing. As I said, I didn't even know if he would be passed on to the next grade, until the next school year. (He was tested coming from Spain to USA, was held back one grade from the beginning).
OK, that got long, but this is Gopal's rollercoaster. All of the universe, the manifest world, operates from three forces. There is active force, which is positive also in the sense of polarity. There is passive force, negative in polarity, it is the force of resistance. We know only vaguely about the third force, it is a reconciling force, a balancing force, neutralizing force (as mentioned previously, we know it somewhat as neutrons in an atom, as a catalyst in chemical reactions). Yin is second force, resistance, negation, movement downward, the trough of a wave. Yang is active force, positive, initiative, moving upward, the crest of a wave. Third force, neutralizing force, is kind-of like the hub of a wheel, the central point the wheel revolves around, the still point. It's kind-of-like the point a pendulum is attached, the unmoving point. Seeing 3rd force is difficult, it's illusive, but it always enters, it's always there. The Tai Chi Supreme Ultimate symbol should be looked at as a moving symbol, the white dot in the black, expands, to become almost-all-white, but with a black dot in the white, repeat, like a wave.
OK, here is the key point. First force-active force ALWAYS attracts second force, negating force. When you initiate any task, second force always shows up, opposition always shows up. It can show up in many forms. At some point, second force will equal first force, and you have stalemate. If one is to continue to complete the task at hand, something is needed to break the stalemate, third force must enter, reconciling force. All of the universe is built on these three forces. They are also called the 3 Gunas. Tamas is second force, negating force. Rajas is first force, active force, positive force. Sattva is 3rd force, reconciling force, balancing force, neutralizing force.
So Gopal is correct, in the circumstances of life, there is always yin and yang. The 3 forces operate throughout the Cosmos, and in man. This is the Hermetic principle, As above, so below. Swedenborg discovered this as the law of correspondence, the higher is mirrored in the lower. Mathematics has discovered this as fractals. Computer movie graphics, pioneered by George Lucas, his Industrial Light & Magic, he needed it to make the Star Wars prequels, is based on fractal math. This is also the principle of holograms, we live in a holographic universe, the part contains the whole. This is also what Federico Fa ggin saw. In the video posted he compared what he saw to the human body, every cell has a copy of the whole genetic structure. This is the law of correspondence, as above, so below. Fa ggin also says all this is why AI will never become conscious, can't. Consciousness is first and primary, you can never reach consciousness from the bottom up. AI is a bottom-up enterprise.
So if there is no force of negation in your life, you are in a larger flow, you are in a flow, so no opposition. So, then, the only question is, is that a good thing? If you don't initiate action, there will be no opposition, no first force, no second force. If you initiate action, opposition will always come in the form of second force, negation happens. (That's why Gopal is correct). So the question is, is your goal worth the opposition which inevitably comes? I woke up this morning with so much more, but this is long enough. But incidentally, 99.99% of all physicists accept that Quantum Field Theory is presently the best theory of how the universe works. You hear about particles and waves, and everything can be either, is both, but it goes a little deeper. Particles are derivative, particles don't exist in and of themselves. Particles exist because quantum fields are more basic than particles, particle is the part, fields are spread-out-Whole. Now, what makes Federico Fa ggin so fascinating is that as a physicist he already understood all this, before his literally mind blowing experience. So his background allows him to fill in all the blanks. And, incidentally, because of Amazon's logarithms, it popped up that he has a new book coming out in June 2024, can't wait.
OK, one last thing. How is the universe constructed from triads? First there was One. Then One became Two, the Two became Three. So, 1 + 2 + 3, makes a new first force (this is someNOTHING's emanation, his diagram). So that triad begets another triad, begets another triad, keeps replicating, until you have the ten thousands things. And from the holographic principle, all of the ten thousand things, return to the One (that's Plotinus), that is, they are-already One (and that's Ouroboros).
Now, is Gopal right, without qualification? No. But he can't see a way to move forward. His present way is to just stay in the flow of the stream, take no initiative. But, again, is that always a good thing? Depends upon your aim. But that depends upon from-where your aim arises. So, it's all not so easy. ...Note, the stupid bad-language-filter is messing up the link to try to link Federico Fa ggin.
OK, back to GS. I explained that everything is life has a wave form, a crest and a trough. I pointed out the crest moving upward, it reaches a peak, and then moves downward to the trough. I explained that it takes effort to move up to the peak, that everything in life requires effort at times. So, school requires effort even when we do not like to make efforts. But then at the peak the wave moving downward does not require effort, it's easy. So there are times in life when you have to work, then times when you don't, I explained that work is payment for the fun times, that that's just how life works. His Dad likes to hunt and fish, fishing is how Florida got picked for the next duty station. (They usually alternate picking duty stations. They all liked Spain, S-in-law found plenty of hunting and hunting buddies, so they picked and were allowed to stay in Spain for a second 3 years, Rota). So I told him that he needed to look at the reward of hunting and fishing, with Dad, as the movement down to the trough, free and easy. I explained that everything in life will work this way, always and everywhere. And I left it at that. I didn't tell daughter, except very briefly in passing. As I said, I didn't even know if he would be passed on to the next grade, until the next school year. (He was tested coming from Spain to USA, was held back one grade from the beginning).
OK, that got long, but this is Gopal's rollercoaster. All of the universe, the manifest world, operates from three forces. There is active force, which is positive also in the sense of polarity. There is passive force, negative in polarity, it is the force of resistance. We know only vaguely about the third force, it is a reconciling force, a balancing force, neutralizing force (as mentioned previously, we know it somewhat as neutrons in an atom, as a catalyst in chemical reactions). Yin is second force, resistance, negation, movement downward, the trough of a wave. Yang is active force, positive, initiative, moving upward, the crest of a wave. Third force, neutralizing force, is kind-of like the hub of a wheel, the central point the wheel revolves around, the still point. It's kind-of-like the point a pendulum is attached, the unmoving point. Seeing 3rd force is difficult, it's illusive, but it always enters, it's always there. The Tai Chi Supreme Ultimate symbol should be looked at as a moving symbol, the white dot in the black, expands, to become almost-all-white, but with a black dot in the white, repeat, like a wave.
OK, here is the key point. First force-active force ALWAYS attracts second force, negating force. When you initiate any task, second force always shows up, opposition always shows up. It can show up in many forms. At some point, second force will equal first force, and you have stalemate. If one is to continue to complete the task at hand, something is needed to break the stalemate, third force must enter, reconciling force. All of the universe is built on these three forces. They are also called the 3 Gunas. Tamas is second force, negating force. Rajas is first force, active force, positive force. Sattva is 3rd force, reconciling force, balancing force, neutralizing force.
So Gopal is correct, in the circumstances of life, there is always yin and yang. The 3 forces operate throughout the Cosmos, and in man. This is the Hermetic principle, As above, so below. Swedenborg discovered this as the law of correspondence, the higher is mirrored in the lower. Mathematics has discovered this as fractals. Computer movie graphics, pioneered by George Lucas, his Industrial Light & Magic, he needed it to make the Star Wars prequels, is based on fractal math. This is also the principle of holograms, we live in a holographic universe, the part contains the whole. This is also what Federico Fa ggin saw. In the video posted he compared what he saw to the human body, every cell has a copy of the whole genetic structure. This is the law of correspondence, as above, so below. Fa ggin also says all this is why AI will never become conscious, can't. Consciousness is first and primary, you can never reach consciousness from the bottom up. AI is a bottom-up enterprise.
So if there is no force of negation in your life, you are in a larger flow, you are in a flow, so no opposition. So, then, the only question is, is that a good thing? If you don't initiate action, there will be no opposition, no first force, no second force. If you initiate action, opposition will always come in the form of second force, negation happens. (That's why Gopal is correct). So the question is, is your goal worth the opposition which inevitably comes? I woke up this morning with so much more, but this is long enough. But incidentally, 99.99% of all physicists accept that Quantum Field Theory is presently the best theory of how the universe works. You hear about particles and waves, and everything can be either, is both, but it goes a little deeper. Particles are derivative, particles don't exist in and of themselves. Particles exist because quantum fields are more basic than particles, particle is the part, fields are spread-out-Whole. Now, what makes Federico Fa ggin so fascinating is that as a physicist he already understood all this, before his literally mind blowing experience. So his background allows him to fill in all the blanks. And, incidentally, because of Amazon's logarithms, it popped up that he has a new book coming out in June 2024, can't wait.
OK, one last thing. How is the universe constructed from triads? First there was One. Then One became Two, the Two became Three. So, 1 + 2 + 3, makes a new first force (this is someNOTHING's emanation, his diagram). So that triad begets another triad, begets another triad, keeps replicating, until you have the ten thousands things. And from the holographic principle, all of the ten thousand things, return to the One (that's Plotinus), that is, they are-already One (and that's Ouroboros).
Now, is Gopal right, without qualification? No. But he can't see a way to move forward. His present way is to just stay in the flow of the stream, take no initiative. But, again, is that always a good thing? Depends upon your aim. But that depends upon from-where your aim arises. So, it's all not so easy. ...Note, the stupid bad-language-filter is messing up the link to try to link Federico Fa ggin.