Where we’re at: 2022/08/17, SPX 4270, FOMC Dovishness, 10% UK Inflation, The Rhine is empty, and kids are getting fat cause climate change. Everything but the date signals the Collapse of the West… IMO.

Most of the underlying metaphysics of Creation seems to follow a “realization” model, and I call it a “realization” model because it is a mechanism for a birth of consciousness.

(Something → Nothing → Duality) → Trinity → Counterbalancing

…also written as…

(1 → 0 → 2) → 3 → 4

This is like pseudocode for self-awareness.

Many philosophers have come to the conclusion that the smallest chunk of information the human brain can assimilate is in the form of a “story;” there is some construct and it has a relationship with some other construct.

The simplest story is that of existence in relationship to no existence. Many interpret the allegory of the birth of the Biblical Adam (unsurprisingly a homonym of “atom”) as a realization of self-awareness (1). All realizations of some-thing as a separate entity from other things is that this thing is not the same as other things (0). This is a metaphysics equation: One begets Zero. Something begets its opposite: Nothing. Many mystic cosmologies turn this backwards and claim “Out of Nothing, Everything is Created” or Ex nihilo nihil fit.

You may choose to see it either way, but that is also a necessary outcome from this equation: out of the necessary relationship (2) between something and nothing, there are now two things. So here we have: something contradicts itself by recognizing it is different than what it is not, and that juxtaposition is an instantaneous duality required for the initial recognition of that something.

I apologize for the abstract language, but this mechanism is important for understanding the relativity of all things, and how the conception of anything requires a full atom of a story: the thing and its relationship to that which is not the thing. And this is why just about every single perennial or sacred philosophy with a cosmology story includes some form of a trinity. In most of these systems, the trinity is a pair of opposites with some supernal singularity between them (the Christian trinity is somewhat different).

The number four emerges when motion is implied on the opposites. This isn’t too difficult to understand if you think of the duality of opposites as the polar ends of a continuous spectrum that oscillate or balance one another. Taoist ideas are beautiful for conceptualizing this metaphysics. Yin and Yang are archetypes of emptiness and fullness, existing more as verbs instead of nouns. Each requires the existence of the other, and thus there is always a movement from Yang into Yin or vice versa; from this interplay emerges a construct of balancing (4).

If you want to go further down this rabbit hole, explore the internet and search for “sacred geometry” or “sacred numbers”. Here’s a few anecdotes if you’d like to jump into a specific topic: the pagan symbol for Jupiter gives us the Arabic 4. The pagan symbol for Saturn gives us the Arabic 5. The Arabic ‘1’ is phallic. The number ‘0’ is an empty hole. The maximum number of 3-D spheres that can be packed around one sphere is 12, and when you add that central sphere to the total number of spheres, you get 13; 12 disciples, 12 months, 12 hours, 12 tribes, … and 12 is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6… each very typical of the measurement of cyclic phenomena, days, years, seasons, etc. The Vesica Piscis is a perfect demonstration of how the reflection of a circle on itself gives rise to sqrt(2), sqrt(3), and even the sqrt(5). This page has similar explanations about Pythagorean number symbolism.

IMO, anyone who likes a good story may find reason to care. Anyone who is eager to uncover kernels of pattern recognition could use this system as a tool for organizing concepts. Seekers who are looking for ways to integrate a mental practice can use this for enhancing their relationship with themselves. You might ask “how the F do you think this stupid pseudo-intellectualism number BS is useful in any manner whatsoever?”

First, we all use descriptive language. Some people use affirming language, while others may use negating language… this is already an application of the dialectic above. Every relationship I have with a food, or a drug, or a person, I can decipher the information under the emotional relationship by being more objective about what I feel when I interact with that other person juxtaposed against what I didn’t feel when I wasn’t interacting with him/her. Is there some void in my relationship with myself that this drug provides me? Am I in a balanced relationship with this “other” thing that fundamentally adds or takes away from my growth as a person? Another example is the scarcity or abundance mindset that can transform our sense of self-worth. I am a man who is short in stature. Someone on the opposite side of the height bell curve would probably be about 6’6”. I can find reasons to tell myself that it sucks to be a short man, or I can be happy that I’m not so tall that I have health issues, bad posture, or am limited by uncomfortable spaces and clothes. Height is a spectrum, and there wouldn’t even be a concept of “tall” or “short” if everyone was the exact same height.

Another emotionally fulfilling reason to meditate on these number relationships is to contemplate how other people interpret themselves in relationship to their world. There is a saying among the hippy dippy crowd: “Change Your Mind and Change The Universe.” Our interaction with the story we tell ourselves about the world around us is formative in our experience of it. A few hundred years ago, there was no concept of bacteria or viruses… people thought sickness and plague was a supernatural phenomenon, they did not look at water and contemplate the need to purify it. Three years ago, we did not ever assume that masks were a behavioral norm, nor that drag queens would soon enter our children’s kindergarten classes.

Every new idea that enters into your imagination reshapes your relationship with the universe. All things emerge from the invisible. Do these things cause you to have a psychological fracture, or do you think about your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual relationship with these new ideas? What new ideas would you welcome into your life to see the world in a new way?

Numbers are quite an invention. Most people naively accept that numbers “exist.” They are a human language. While language may have some unprovable alien or divine origin, the most likely history is that some ancient Isaac Newton made his fellow neanderthals count for some reason or another (members in the tribe? fruits from a tree?).

For me, logic and order and beauty are born from reinterpreting these concepts as a geometry. The ONE is a resplendent concept of a Monad. I am a 1. The Universe is a 1. God would be a 1. My consciousness, from what I can tell, is a 1. Being alive is a 1. Hsing-Hi, as a Yang-Striking-Penetrating martial art is a 1. The Higher Self is a 1. A black hole is called a singularity for multiple reasons. The circle is one dimensionless point situated a fixed distance from a second one-dimensional point that is visualized as a two-dimensional arc with no end or beginning: e.g. where does the circle start, where does it begin, and if traveling along the circle, would you even know that there was a center? At the point where you are in the Universe, there will only ever be ONE NOW; that same NOW was always present since the Big Bang, which means that you, in your NOW, are in the same NOW as the Big Bang.

Another inspirational concept I take from this juxtaposition (1-0-2) concept is an opposite to the expansion of the universe: if you saw the Earth shrinking, you might think it was moving farther away. What if our local universe is shrinking into a denser space of higher and higher entropy, literally stretching space as it sinks deeper into that gravitational sinkhole? Said another way: what if time is slowing down wherever there is a net positive flux of information, and it only gives the appearance that the rest of the universe’s galaxies are moving away from us? This change in interpretation gave me the idea that gravity may simply be the intrinsic tendency towards simultaneity: that every perceivable quantum of information/mass seeks to coexist at the exact same time.

Both Einstein and Newton studied mystical ideas. Einstein believed in a grand theory. Newton attributed the Qaballist concept of the descent of the “prima facie” energy blasting through the Sephiroth, giving language to the “Force”, which was then used as the language for the supernatural power in Star Wars. If anyone is familiar with the feeling of moving Chi/Qi through their body, the language of force and/or energy is a clear and obvious metaphor.

In summary: Everything we perceive has an alternative explanation.

The act of loving the opportunity that your mind is equipped to reflect on new ideas is worthy of a religion. Mystical systems abound which encourage this form of raja yoga. Slicing and dicing the data that your brain automagically parses is to assert a meta-system on top of an instinctual, subconscious process. It can become part of your evolution.

Integrating an understanding of this metaphysical perspective provides a new inspiration for a deeper salience in pattern recognition. In other words, mathematical modeling preaches the Law of Parsimony, and the number sequence revered in mystical geometries is another expression of the Law of Parsimony as Ontological Building Blocks. Presented in this way, they are Objectivist/Materialist legos of Logos.

Can you make these legos subjective and integral to your core beliefs? Do you already have a subjective relationship with a metaphysical system that feeds you with purpose, faith, or inspiration? Can these concepts enrich your appreciation of simple things? For example, a deep understanding of nuclear physics/fusion can inspire the curious mind to think more deeply about our Sun and its life-giving plasma/photon engine.

The yin-yang principle is at work in all things: Energy impregnates Being and Being moves Energy. My relationship with my wife has push and pull. My relationship with my daughter is loving and stern. My dog needs excitement and discipline.

I want to create and appreciate. And I’m learning through writing this diatribe that I personally need much more of the latter than the former.

Where we’re at: 2022/08/17, SPX 4270, FOMC Dovishness, 10% UK Inflation, The Rhine is empty, and kids are getting fat cause climate change. Everything but the date signals the Collapse of the West… IMO.

Most of the underlying metaphysics of Creation seems to follow a “realization” model, and I call it a “realization” model because it is a mechanism for a birth of consciousness.

(Something → Nothing → Duality) → Trinity → Counterbalancing

…also written as…

(1 → 0 → 2) → 3 → 4

This is like pseudocode for self-awareness.

Many philosophers have come to the conclusion that the smallest chunk of information the human brain can assimilate is in the form of a “story;” there is some construct and it has a relationship with some other construct.

The simplest story is that of existence in relationship to no existence. Many interpret the allegory of the birth of the Biblical Adam (unsurprisingly a homonym of “atom”) as a realization of self-awareness (1). All realizations of some-thing as a separate entity from other things is that this thing is not the same as other things (0). This is a metaphysics equation: One begets Zero. Something begets its opposite: Nothing. Many mystic cosmologies turn this backwards and claim “Out of Nothing, Everything is Created” or Ex nihilo nihil fit.

You may choose to see it either way, but that is also a necessary outcome from this equation: out of the necessary relationship (2) between something and nothing, there are now two things. So here we have: something contradicts itself by recognizing it is different than what it is not, and that juxtaposition is an instantaneous duality required for the initial recognition of that something.

I apologize for the abstract language, but this mechanism is important for understanding the relativity of all things, and how the conception of anything requires a full atom of a story: the thing and its relationship to that which is not the thing. And this is why just about every single perennial or sacred philosophy with a cosmology story includes some form of a trinity. In most of these systems, the trinity is a pair of opposites with some supernal singularity between them (the Christian trinity is somewhat different).

The number four emerges when motion is implied on the opposites. This isn’t too difficult to understand if you think of the duality of opposites as the polar ends of a continuous spectrum that oscillate or balance one another. Taoist ideas are beautiful for conceptualizing this metaphysics. Yin and Yang are archetypes of emptiness and fullness, existing more as verbs instead of nouns. Each requires the existence of the other, and thus there is always a movement from Yang into Yin or vice versa; from this interplay emerges a construct of balancing (4).

If you want to go further down this rabbit hole, explore the internet and search for “sacred geometry” or “sacred numbers”. Here’s a few anecdotes if you’d like to jump into a specific topic: the pagan symbol for Jupiter gives us the Arabic 4. The pagan symbol for Saturn gives us the Arabic 5. The Arabic ‘1’ is phallic. The number ‘0’ is an empty hole. The maximum number of 3-D spheres that can be packed around one sphere is 12, and when you add that central sphere to the total number of spheres, you get 13; 12 disciples, 12 months, 12 hours, 12 tribes, … and 12 is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6… each very typical of the measurement of cyclic phenomena, days, years, seasons, etc. The Vesica Piscis is a perfect demonstration of how the reflection of a circle on itself gives rise to sqrt(2), sqrt(3), and even the sqrt(5). This page has similar explanations about Pythagorean number symbolism.

IMO, anyone who likes a good story may find reason to care. Anyone who is eager to uncover kernels of pattern recognition could use this system as a tool for organizing concepts. Seekers who are looking for ways to integrate a mental practice can use this for enhancing their relationship with themselves. You might ask “how the F do you think this stupid pseudo-intellectualism number BS is useful in any manner whatsoever?”

First, we all use descriptive language. Some people use affirming language, while others may use negating language… this is already an application of the dialectic above. Every relationship I have with a food, or a drug, or a person, I can decipher the information under the emotional relationship by being more objective about what I feel when I interact with that other person juxtaposed against what I didn’t feel when I wasn’t interacting with him/her. Is there some void in my relationship with myself that this drug provides me? Am I in a balanced relationship with this “other” thing that fundamentally adds or takes away from my growth as a person? Another example is the scarcity or abundance mindset that can transform our sense of self-worth. I am a man who is short in stature. Someone on the opposite side of the height bell curve would probably be about 6’6”. I can find reasons to tell myself that it sucks to be a short man, or I can be happy that I’m not so tall that I have health issues, bad posture, or am limited by uncomfortable spaces and clothes. Height is a spectrum, and there wouldn’t even be a concept of “tall” or “short” if everyone was the exact same height.

Another emotionally fulfilling reason to meditate on these number relationships is to contemplate how other people interpret themselves in relationship to their world. There is a saying among the hippy dippy crowd: “Change Your Mind and Change The Universe.” Our interaction with the story we tell ourselves about the world around us is formative in our experience of it. A few hundred years ago, there was no concept of bacteria or viruses… people thought sickness and plague was a supernatural phenomenon, they did not look at water and contemplate the need to purify it. Three years ago, we did not ever assume that masks were a behavioral norm, nor that drag queens would soon enter our children’s kindergarten classes.

Every new idea that enters into your imagination reshapes your relationship with the universe. All things emerge from the invisible. Do these things cause you to have a psychological fracture, or do you think about your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual relationship with these new ideas? What new ideas would you welcome into your life to see the world in a new way?

Numbers are quite an invention. Most people naively accept that numbers “exist.” They are a human language. While language may have some unprovable alien or divine origin, the most likely history is that some ancient Isaac Newton made his fellow neanderthals count for some reason or another (members in the tribe? fruits from a tree?).

For me, logic and order and beauty are born from reinterpreting these concepts as a geometry. The ONE is a resplendent concept of a Monad. I am a 1. The Universe is a 1. God would be a 1. My consciousness, from what I can tell, is a 1. Being alive is a 1. Hsing-Hi, as a Yang-Striking-Penetrating martial art is a 1. The Higher Self is a 1. A black hole is called a singularity for multiple reasons. The circle is one dimensionless point situated a fixed distance from a second one-dimensional point that is visualized as a two-dimensional arc with no end or beginning: e.g. where does the circle start, where does it begin, and if traveling along the circle, would you even know that there was a center? At the point where you are in the Universe, there will only ever be ONE NOW; that same NOW was always present since the Big Bang, which means that you, in your NOW, are in the same NOW as the Big Bang.

Another inspirational concept I take from this juxtaposition (1-0-2) concept is an opposite to the expansion of the universe: if you saw the Earth shrinking, you might think it was moving farther away. What if our local universe is shrinking into a denser space of higher and higher entropy, literally stretching space as it sinks deeper into that gravitational sinkhole? Said another way: what if time is slowing down wherever there is a net positive flux of information, and it only gives the appearance that the rest of the universe’s galaxies are moving away from us? This change in interpretation gave me the idea that gravity may simply be the intrinsic tendency towards simultaneity: that every perceivable quantum of information/mass seeks to coexist at the exact same time.

Both Einstein and Newton studied mystical ideas. Einstein believed in a grand theory. Newton attributed the Qaballist concept of the descent of the “prima facie” energy blasting through the Sephiroth, giving language to the “Force”, which was then used as the language for the supernatural power in Star Wars. If anyone is familiar with the feeling of moving Chi/Qi through their body, the language of force and/or energy is a clear and obvious metaphor.

In summary: Everything we perceive has an alternative explanation.

The act of loving the opportunity that your mind is equipped to reflect on new ideas is worthy of a religion. Mystical systems abound which encourage this form of raja yoga. Slicing and dicing the data that your brain automagically parses is to assert a meta-system on top of an instinctual, subconscious process. It can become part of your evolution.

Integrating an understanding of this metaphysical perspective provides a new inspiration for a deeper salience in pattern recognition. In other words, mathematical modeling preaches the Law of Parsimony, and the number sequence revered in mystical geometries is another expression of the Law of Parsimony as Ontological Building Blocks. Presented in this way, they are Objectivist/Materialist legos of Logos.

Can you make these legos subjective and integral to your core beliefs? Do you already have a subjective relationship with a metaphysical system that feeds you with purpose, faith, or inspiration? Can these concepts enrich your appreciation of simple things? For example, a deep understanding of nuclear physics/fusion can inspire the curious mind to think more deeply about our Sun and its life-giving plasma/photon engine.

The yin-yang principle is at work in all things: Energy impregnates Being and Being moves Energy. My relationship with my wife has push and pull. My relationship with my daughter is loving and stern. My dog needs excitement and discipline.

I want to create and appreciate. And I’m learning through writing this diatribe that I personally need much more of the latter than the former.