The Creation of Time

This is about mystic ontology and making the case for the ‘Oneness’ as basic postulate for Science and particularly its relation to Climate Catastrophy.

 

Mystic insights

The mystics tell us that in the ultimate experience, the living truth, all is one, time falls away, death disappears, pain does not exist, all is mind and all is now; there is no more dichotomy like mind and matter, subject and object, past and future, no ego, no other, everything merges into one, now and now is eternity. Amen.

Any cosmology that ignores these fundamental and universal mystic insights is bound to be erroneous or incomplete, and, like most of philosophy, likely to be an entanglement in concepts, a labyrinth of language; and often depressingly unclear.

This kind of conceptual philosophy does not make us come closer to the real world, but alienates us from our true nature, which is to be free of compulsive thinking and to rejoice in the miracle of life by being in the present. Our true liberation cannot reside in a lofty philosophy but only in a full genuine appreciation of our own experience every moment. True life is only now. In this universal Now abides the One-ness, that sustains the natural Awareness that pervades all living creatures. By this natural awareness, this intelligence, they find the appropriate environment that resonates with their system, which needs nourishment to stay alive.

Living truth

Philosophy has always, at least implicitly, been about living the true life, which is the right life, even the righteous life. But philosophers might do better analysing the aspects of the enlightened state of the human mind, than continuing debating concepts and solutions that are based on a basically inferior insight in reality than that of the mystics. The philosopher is a man of language and reasoning, the mystic is not, the philosopher often vainly tries to put into words what the mystic says cannot be said.

The “living truth” is a life-changing experience, whereas a “literal truth” is an intellectual high-point, at best never forgotten.

So also for Western philosophy the main emphasis should be on attaining to the “living truth”, like it is in the philosophies of the East, that in fact derive from the mystic insights, unlike in the West, where reason prevails, and mysticism is some kind of ‘irrational bliss of hermits’.
But yet a bridge can be found, I think.

So: ‘ever the twain shall meet’.

Although the ‘living truth’ cannot be put into words, many mystics certainly did, and do, speak; although often not in the reasoned language of philosophy. What we have to do is extract the contours of their truth from their words so as to advance in our understanding of reality.
An insight will grow when the ground is prepared and ready.

Without being enlightened we can still use the true insights in our conceptual approach of reality and seek to find common ground and a common language on which to base our scientific concepts of reality. Our concepts, which are our learning-conditioning, are often our biggest hindrances in gaining insight, we think in patterns and communicate according to them. This is how all of institutional science gets trapped in paradigms, which only a few, if any, dare question or cast away. Scientific theories should be routinely scrutinized on the validity of their assumptions and concepts; paradigms can be obsolete overnight by new insights or findings in other fields of science and should be abandoned. (Popper falsification).

The mystic

The mystic will assert that our common sense of time is an illusion, which must mean that breaking through the “time barrier” (‘Mach-zero’) is a major aspect of enlightenment (or of a “peak-experience”, a ‘kensho’) An important aspect of this falling away of time is that boredom disappears. The mystic does not get bored, s/he can sit all day doing nothing, without having the urge to “do”, to escape from the moment, from now. Elderly people can have this wisdom.

In a sense meditation is training against boredom, training to conquer time, the ‘urge of time’ in us, which makes us restless, and it confronts us with the near impossibility to stop our thoughts, to stop us from thinking. Thinking is nearly always about past or future and the fears associated, not about now. And now can do without thinking.

It is we who create the distinction between mind and matter, because after all there is a big difference between a cup of tea and a thought. But there is also a big difference between a thought and the pain I feel when I hit my thumb with a hammer. Is my thumb matter or mind and what about the pain? (Worse: phantom-pain)

Our experience is the world

What makes it all mind is that all is experienced by me (and you), the cup of tea, the thought, the pain: experience. And then the inevitable question arises, but then: who is me? Me is the one mind as it arises from the living body, being individualised in its environment, but our body is one with the world that brought us forth, although we usually don’t see it that way. You have only to look at your body in its surroundings to see that it is very much present in your personal environment, it happens to be its centre, it carries your environment, better to say it resonates with its environment. The whole of living nature on earth is a resonance with the ground it sprang from, the combination of sun-light, (fresh-) water and rock decaying to soil, to clay. Fertility.

You are the centre of your world as long as there is a “you”, when the “you” dissolves, you become the world and you are without abode. Ich bin meine Welt. L.W. But also : “Das Ich tritt in die Philosophie dadurch ein, dass die “Die Welt meine Welt ist”.

What can help us further in seeing the mind in the world is the scientific analysis of matter, which will turn out in the end to be without eigen-substance (self-substance), it is, as it were, only condensations of mathematical and geometrical standing wave patterns (periodic system) in space. (see for yourself: Chladni, Cymatics, Lauterwasser) It shows that, in fact, in as far as matter has substance, it is a more or less enduring excitement of space, in constructive resonance, a configuration, a pattern of standing waves; so space itself is the substance and the energy, the ground-vibration.
Instead of being vacuous, void, nothingness, you name it, space is the ground of all and that makes it also easier to relate it to Mind. Space and Mind.
Enlightenment is a kind of spaciousness of the experience by going fearlessly with the flow.

 

Harmonics

Harmonics of wavefields are the basis of reality and these can be expressed in numbers and in that sense numbers rule reality through the mathematical laws of resonance. (This is one of the pillars of my theory). Since language, as an ever active memory, is based on resonance, the step to the mind is easily made, as space is an aspect of the mind, and in many ways space is the mind, as language is. (remember the ‘solid’ space in your brain and your effortless spill of words in the right place once you start speaking, and start thinking aloud)

So if we can experience our body as a dense kind of space, and this we can, since we don’t feel any specific part inside our body at rest (when we are fine), then it feels just as one energetic density without exact boundaries, so here we experience the truth of scientific insight that the atoms are 99 % space, our body is just 1% denser then space (‘the weight of our will’) and that is how dense space is.

The key to our understanding of matter must be our body, the objective dichotomy of mind and matter has a lot in common with the subjective dichotomy of mind and body, but there is more to that, because our body is something we do not rule, it rules itself, it completely functions autonomous without us doing anything else but answering its calls, we breath, we drink, we eat, we sleep, we relieve, we ‘don’t have to think about it’. We can even live as a plant. We think we can control all these things by acts of will, but for a large part our body is master and we follow, because if we don’t, our body punishes us by causing us pain or discomfort, in order to remind us of our duties to care for it.
Cravings, addictions, all ruled by the body, an overwhelming devastating force. (Only the accomplished yogin can to a certain extend rule his body by his mind, and I have no doubt they have insights and powers that are met with disbelief by western intelligentsia)

So in many ways we are the ‘subject’ of our bodies, subordinate to it, but our body in turn is subject to the principles of Nature, or effectively, is the closest principle of Nature immediately accessible to us.

So who is us?

We carry this mind, we use these words to grasp reality. The language we use is not a private language, nobody would understand such thing, our language is in many a way as matter-of-fact-ly as possible. It is the bedrock of human society. We can express truth in many ways, but in judiciary terms truth is that which is a clear logical picture of what ‘happened’, based on the evidence and testimonies. Here language pictures the events and experiences as they would have been undergone by anybody. The Jury decides on the basis of what they think is the best portrayal of what happened, what embodies the truth about what happened.

I remember how I once met a German Philosopher in Gomera during my stay there, some ten years ago. We talked for hours, but one of the few things I remember is that we came tot talk about truth and he claimed it was relative, and I claimed: ‘ if Truth is dead, society will desintegrate’, because basic trust is gone, when the lie rules. This was the beginning of Trump’s excessive lying. This will degenerate into fascism and the rule of Lie, instead of Law. We have been there, but again seemingly powerless, ten years on, Truth is indeed, dead, and the lie grabs around and strengles the voice of truth in democracies.
The danger of AI would be much less if governments really start to regulate and enforce rules on internet. The real danger is that Truth and Falsehoods cannot be discerned anymore. That, in view of the Climate Catastrophy in the making, it is a recipe for massive suppression of alarming information and replace it with optimistic technological solutions that are basically wishful thinking and desinformation, to deflect the brewing anger and avoid the draconian measures which should be taken.
Not to name the coming disasters created by some ill-fated grand-scale experiment-gone-wrong by some state. The seed for a future armed clash.
The collapse of the world economy because of  unsafety in the air, at sea, on the ground, collapse transport, shortages everywhere.

We are in dire straits. Only by now already starting full scale cutbacks on luxury wasting on energy, by for instance light-advertising in cities, darken buildings fully lit 24/7, mowing public and private lawns twice a year to give insects and flowers a chance.
Only when we start now we can show that a win-win situation can evolve spontaneously, that is, in areas you did not expect, and that is innovation.