Alice in Wonderland
By J. D. Weiss
When contemplating what we humans believe to be Creation, I am always struck by how unimaginative we really are in the greater view of the Universe. We claim to like our reality strictly by the book but, that book was written by hands we do not control. Look out across a simple meadow and what do you really see? What I see are things that are taken for granted: trees, birds, flowers and other assorted creatures of the family of life. I watch the robins as I have done so many times before and I wonder if such a creature never existed would we ever imagine it was even possible. Maybe that’s why dinosaurs are so fascinating because they are so unreal. Too big and primitive to be considered a part of the awareness pool. I mean who would ever argue that dino's had souls?
Hell , most would say they were only cold-blooded vermin the size of two-story houses. I can't recall anybody debating about the truth of the spirit among them or if they shared a collective mind. A pea-size brain isn't much to brag about but, several hundred million of them operating on the same wave-length might have amounted to something. Ever walk into a room with several hundred people repeating a chant over and over again? You may not understand what they are chanting nonetheless, the effect often is quite intense in a odd non-verbal kind of way. Maybe Dino's didn't need words they just chanted the language of life. My point being unless you can see through the eyes and listen through the ears of another living thing all we have is our imagination as to what makes them real. We give things names and we assign meaning. That from my perspective is a one way street.
What is in a name? We name our pets. We name our children and we expect them to know that this name is who you are to me. A name in childhood acts like some kind of biological bar-magnet. Every time we hear our name being associated with something bad we feel that unwanted goober substance reaching out for our pristine piece of name real estate. How many school fights begin with 'don't you' call me such and such a name. Name is a power invisible to the instruments of hard science. Such is that power when unleashed it can crush a PhDs reputation so fast their eyeballs will spin like tops in their heads.
My name and reputation are likened unto a pea in the pod. The lashing out of you’re a--*&*^ is enough to destroy marriages, ruin business partnerships and send children straight to bed. But is this just a strict question of the power of language? Try calling someone a cussword made up on the spot. In fact try it when you and your adversary are smok'in mad and see what reaction you get. What did you just call me?? Ha ha ha. What the hell did that mean? Unintelligible syllables strung together don't normally carry much of a punch. In order to be effective it has to be real. I have been told the true power of magic is in the name. Destroy that name and so is the magic destroyed. When a name is said to be true and people believe in that name well that of course is what drives Madison Avenue as well as, most if not all institutions.
By now the reader may be wondering okay just what exactly is the point of all this meandering about? Well that answer is downright dangerous. I am now taking my life into my own hands. God is a name. The name of God as written is also a link to the word that is of God. The word of God is infallible. For that word to be anything less means the utter destruction of all that God stands for in the Human belief of faith as the answer to who we are and why we exist. Thus if the name is wrong then I am a dead man. God is not the name of our Creator. God is a name for a force that is divided against itself in duality. A duality enforced on earth by more then just mortal man. Do not take the name of our Lord in vain is a powerful statement. But God is not a Lord or a Being. The force is real but it too is just a shadow of the greater truth. Poor Alice is lost in Wonderland and there is no way out of this little quandary of the painted corner. For having stuck a name where it did not belong there is no way to take it back. I can hear the fiddle players now.
Upon this grassy knob I placed my name. Like the seed of an oak it was planted. To the heights it was raised. Against storms and seasons it will stand. But if thy name be hollow down it will fall and be forgotten.
Whose name did we forget? What name was blistered from our tongues never to be spoken again? Why was the raising of a name so troubling to the early Lords of mankind. A language to be stricken from the book of mind forever? If they 'mankind' cannot remember the truth of their name they cannot reclaim what was lost or unleash themselves from the tyranny of the chain. Forbidding the spoken language of a conquered people removes them from the power of their own true words. Only hypocrites deny people the right to speak in their native tongue. I for one do not accept a true Creator would ever allow such an act of evil to be done. Or why give them the power of their spoken word and all that it contains in the first place?
Why would a true Creator ever tell such beings as ourselves to kill one another over land? To kill one another over metals, stones and rocks from the ground? What does a Creator of uncounted Galaxies need with gold and silver? What does a Creator of such vastness need with tiny strips of land centered upon monuments, obelisk's and churches. What does a Creator need of burnt offerings, sacrificial lambs and rituals? I have never believed for a single moment a Being capable of Creating a Universe can stoop so low as to allow humans as in men to kill women and children who are unarmed and innocent. What does it mean to say "Thou Shall not Kill but first go kill all those people or just a moment while I kill all those first born boys cause that pompous king really ticked me off. This is a God of the Universe? Is it no wonder so many cannot bring themselves to worship such an unfathomable mixture of human and non-human attributes. Such tiny feet cannot belong to the One who is of the Beginning. But this is what mankind is told to believe. And poor Alice spends all her time contending with fools and madmen just to keep herself alive.
I wouldn't be surprised if the early church destroyed every true word Of he who is now known as Christ, in order to capitalize on his image, acts and deeds to further the real intent of those early goals. The consolidation of power political, economical and spiritual. The truth of their trinity. The double-edged nature of the church has never gone unnoted. Good people can prevail under the most trying of circumstances. And it is quite important to remember the force named as god responds to the heart. But it takes a lot of heart to make that force overcome that which is evil. Congregations can make good choices or bad ones. Priests can rise above the limits of their stations and be agents of justice. Or they can look the other way and become the very thing they claim to be above. History is a whole lot more then the written word. Which is why it is so important to write what is true as opposed to what makes the institution look good. And in fairness the Mother Church was hardly acting alone. But it is man who will have to face the day of reckoning not a building made of wood and stone.
When we are young and innocent it is easy to lose ourselves in the rapture of our imaginations. To look upon the world in wonder; breathing in the essence of life in all of its sublime glory. If we are lucky we retain the virtue's of our youth and in our later days we reap the wisdom of our kindness, the strength of our struggles, taking and giving as we choose as life tests us and our choices. We wrap our faiths around us as one wears a warm coat. We believe in what we feel is right for ourselves. Some of us are more forgiving of differences and some of us are foul with intemperance, which is to say poisoned of the mind and bitter of the heart. People feel naked without their beliefs and to attempt the removal of said beliefs is tantamount to threatening another with a loaded gun. A cultural belief system enforces the way people behave towards one another and sets the framework for a society to function. You cannot strip away the rails and expect the train to continue on course. Thus even knowing that there are unresolveable contradictions in the meanings of what we call God and Creation does not mean there is a means to change what is provably wrong.
The cultural odyssey of man began in the shrouded mists of the supra-natural and along the spiral path he has witnessed the many wonders of this earth. The truth requires no adornments of faith. And that truth is in the quality of Life. Any action which raises that quality is a better course of action then one that degrades it and all who depend on its internal principles. If mankind wants his culture to represent the highest level of truth then he must strive towards that truth in every measure of which he is capable. To do anything less invites decay and rot into the seams of civility. When corruption takes root in the highest orders it will then work its way down through the ranks until it has corrupted all. The banality of evil is in the vanilla color of its works. We do not crucify men we bankrupt them. We do not boil men in oil we toast them over credit and debt. The toil of the brow beaten, has never been cheaper. Human value is less then the price of a bullet. A synthetic piece of crack/cocaine for some is all the joy they will ever need again or want as addictions go. I have always found it to be quite strange that man was convinced he had an immortal Soul, but for the price of a better life he could sell it to the Devil. When Satan becomes Santa it is a sellers market. Is it folly to believe life is a basket of goodies for the right price?
Material distractions and the need to acquire ever greater sums of wealth to have the good life keeps most of us in line. None will buck a system so long as it delivers what they require and none will question the values of said system so long as they can indulge the most basic propositions of Liberty and Freedom. Let someone else worry about those dusty notions rotting in some distant spiritual corner. Why worry over such trivial details of what is in a name after all, nobody can question such things long since agreed upon anyway. There are no new scriptures being written. All that is needed to be understood as Creation is already known in full, right? Sure… the authorities have repeated this very fact time and time again. There is nothing new anyone can tell them about what they believe. Creation is a done deal and they have all the proof they need. One has to wonder if the true Creator having been shoe-horned into such a tiny shoe can even move about that tiny little box.
The world of science [sounding as if it was indeed somewhere else] has no place for the supernatural cosmologies found within spiritual beliefs. There can be no God big or small, in the hallowed halls of such mighty learned men. A supernatural force named as "God" to induce the masses into believing institutionalized religion has all the answers to life's deeper problems… I can see the doors slamming shut. What do you mean existence is not natural or even supernatural. Life contains elements of both but in fact is greater then their uneven sum. You see those two points [if you will indulge me] are not the only ones that are real. That was the nature of the sly play on ancient words. The insider trick. A false set of choices based on an incomplete book of knowledge. Like an encyclopedia set that was missing books L-thru Q the truth of Creation was greatly compromised. Science can be or is a method of finding that missing information but , it is not the only way. What is important is the effort. The striving to reclaim what was lost so very long ago. But then again we can just go on with business as usual and we will never miss what we never knew.
Some points to ponder regardless of what side of the fence you care to stand:
!. If a system becomes self-organized and in the evolution of that process gains self-awareness as a natural consequence does size matter? Is scale a condition of Sentient Awareness? How big how small does a thought need to be before it can be called real? Who can judge said systems in all conditions in all places and times throughout the known universe?
!. In a self-organizing system growing in potential will time flow towards the progression of consciousness or will it oscillate in ever greater frequency between the origination and the product of said interaction? Can a standing wave form ensue and further enhance an already novel relationship to yet a higher level of energy propagation?
!. If the form retaining the energy reaches a critical moment of metamorphic adaptation can it be said that form will then follow function? Like a balloon filling with hot air to such a degree the balloons skin becomes too hot to contain the rising temperature a reaction must occur. Pop! However, if the "skin" of said form is energetically elastic where does the form expand? As energy continues to build within the core area the outer layer changes in composition in relation to that internal state. Thus the outer layer can be called a membrane. The structure of the membrane begins to express the motion of said energy within the internal envelope.
!. The time-scale within this energy-body is non-relative. It has no external measure and is only bound by the propagation rate of its continued release of energy. What is the cause of energy? What is energy? Is energy a force of Creation or a product of creation? Look into the moment of the name Creation. Action in motion. Energy is force in motion but, what happens when it cannot move? Time stands still? Where might this reversal of synergy occur? A resonate frequency would vibrate to what level of "string" in how many dimensions? Would there really be a limit in an infinite state unbound by Laws of Force? If not then all that we cherish as natural order lies an unnatural piece of real estate. I think one may be quite larger then the other as fractal strings may be. Adding super to the mix seems like an act of conscience.
!. In a quantum-fractal Universe where scale is dependent on your rate of frequency then perspective of time-scale is also relative to your frequency. If the frequency level of mans mind expanded to match and exceed that of the total energy output of our galaxy then all relative time-scales would also profoundly change. Imagine your eyes are in that moment not unlike a strobe light. You see pulsation's beginning in a galactic core and spiraling outwards illuminate objects never seen before. Light pulsation's describe space-time in a different manner. What was the total output of the Big Pop/Bang as expressed in energy? What is the total amount of energy produced in totality from then till now? Are those answers important I don't know but it seems to me that if a fire starts in the wrong place and burns my house down I would want to know the details. Rebuilding the Universe from scratch…. now that would require a "Creation" of a unique quality.
!. To look across a local subset of the greater universe and see galaxies spinning like tops as they pour out stupendous amounts of light radiance how does that change your awareness? To watch galaxies pulse in a complex order of long waves which then build in peak to ultra-high waves on a time scale which collapses billions of years into say thousands---what of cause and effect and would stars be behaving in a manner that their collective motion might very well be described as living? Undulating pulsation's forming complex wave patterns in turn responding in motion to one another. How high up on the scale of frequency does a mind need to go before one can see all of the Universe in real time? Will relative scale have shrunk the cosmic curvature to a profoundly condensed area of space? Will manifold densities cause unexpected dimensional coordinates to converge in optical spatial symmetries. Can you understand what it is you gaze upon? Can you actually return to what you were before or will the transformation to that state of awareness forever change you into something which is at rest to your new energetic equilibrium?
!. If our Universe is a sub-set of a Meta-Universe and this relationship is not unlike that of an apple to the tree from which it fell can science cross the threshold of that relationship? Is it possible that in looking back into the distant past that science having focused back in reverse has made a mistake of minor importance? In a tunnel of light we look back to the point where the cone began. Unknown to us however, are the several quadrillion other points which in unity form a light sphere. A sphere of light whose frequency is not observable directly. We are looking down the spiral tube. What method of mathematical reasoning will it take to test the proposition that having focused on the singular point the cause is false? If you follow a beam of light back to a flashlight you can say the light began in the bulb but, it did not energy wise come from nothing. The batteries remain outside of the method of recursive determination. Your hand on the switch is an impossible paradox.
!. There is also that small problem of the uncertainty threshold to be considered. There we are mainlining back to the beginning only as we approach what we believe to be that moment of spontaneous emission we cannot determine its actual source. Like Alice we are lost in a wonderland. Are we at this point creating the very conditions we are trying to study? As we careen down one threshold and up to another are we extending the force into new areas as the result of our very motion? Can that so-named point change? Has it ever really been fixed or is that just another mathematical equivalent to a I do not know but here is a number nonetheless? Sometimes I wonder if we are looking through the wrong end of the timescope.
!. The reverse timescope reveals an ever expanding Universe or so the latest headlines attest. But there are all those small issues like eighty-percent of the mass is missing from normal space. I wonder what anti-space would be like? I wonder if sheets of anti-space flowing, folding into and with positive space might create results and if so what kind? In an anti-matter matter collision and explosion which energy state prevails might cause a one-sided space-time cone to appear. That is a universe missing the other factor because it has been depleted or has been changed into some other type of matter/energy state of which we are at a loss to find much less explain. And the real kicker is if these events happen where there is no time line in forward synergy the explosive "big bang" might very well be in the future. An explosion of time and space which recedes backwards as it consumes all positive matter in an ever increasing release of catastrophic energy. The plasma threshold goes off scale and untold billions of space-time points like bubbles froth on the edge of infinity.
Damn the Laws. In the maelstrom of that moment you are on your own.