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in other words

1 min read
the Egyptians loved the cat
were often entombed with it
instead of with the women 
and never the dog

but now
here
good people with
good eyes
are very few

yet fine cats
with great style
lounge about
in the alleys of
the universe

about
our argument tonight
whatever it was
about
and
no matter
how unhappy
it made us
feel

remember that
there is a
cat
somewhere
adjusting to the
space of itself 
with a delightful
grace

in other words
magic persists
without us
no matter what
we may try to do
to spoil it.


-Charles Bukowski
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existence

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Nature is everything doing everything as it does. Form follows content, content follows void, void manifests as form and content. Form and content become void. Consciousness is void observing content-manifesting as the observable universe. Where the content comes from i don't know, the void was never born and remains unborn and undying.
A trinity of intelligence, void, and form in the uni-one consciousness of awareness and love.
It filters through form and something is lost in the translation.
Physicality is by its very nature divisive, intelligence becomes selective and seeks to sustain and maintain itself, becoming habit which is matter.
Memory (which is void) contained matter and matter contained memory, this was consciousness beyond time and space manifesting itself as time and space as a physical version of itself that grows and seeks to become itself. Energy, matter, information. A trinity of manifestations from the one.
A learning place, a school of division and suffering so great, a place where everything is falling and dying and you don't know if you are just a body and there is no soul and no lasting love. Where we lose all hope of existing beyond the grave, where everything seems so bleak but we somehow manage to show some love and kindness anyway.
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names

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The idea, the image, all the thousands of labels and identifications we have, the tonnes of verbiage and abstractions that we are chained and enslaved to which divide us from each other.
All that we have been willing to kill for. Through the name and the image we have murdered and butchered each other in the untold millions. All the suffering and death, the endless wars and conflicts. Through belief and language we have created names for ourselves and defended those names, we have created those names for others and killed those names.
So deep in abstraction and language that we are willing to kill the living breathing human for a concept or an idea. Language, which is the sign post for reality is destroying reality itself making the living breathing human being disposable and subservient to the idea.
Through language, through idea and identification with fragmentary thought and belief we have butchered and murdered the reality. Creating the name and defending the name, creating the name and murdering the name. Not seeing the pain we are causing and that there is a reality and a person beyond the word. We define ourselves and kill each other in the name of language and belief.
All that could not be love. Love would have to be silent and present, that intangible present that cant be captured. Something forever beyond the word. Innocent in the sense of being 'in' or 'of' itself. The unified reality of love that underlies the ego which detached itself from it through memory and ideation. Mind accumulating matter as memory, the body the birth of separation and the mind extending it.
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"By the phaneron I mean the collective total of all that is in any way or in any sense present to the mind, quite regardless of whether it corresponds to any real thing or not. If you ask present when, and to whose mind, I reply that I leave these questions unanswered, never having entertained a doubt that those features of the phaneron that I have found in my mind are present at all times and to all minds."
-Charles Sanders Peirce

Do we have any access to existence or reality in itself or do we only get to perceive reality through the filter of our biology or our limited senses? Limited to seeing only visible light, hearing certain sounds, not a great sense of smell, not very good eyesight compared to a mantis shrimp and each animal processing reality in different ways through different senses. Looking at it this way there is not one objective world, but as many worlds as there are minds that can form an impression of it. Snakes seeing in infra red, eagles looking from a birds eye view and having much better sight, scorpions forming an impression of the environment from sitting still and picking up on tiny vibrations in the sand. Catfish tasting the water to form an impression of their world. Humans using sound vibrations to communicate and develop language, eventually writing it down and taking knowledge outside of our heads, producing language and writing and culture. 
Do we see with our eyes or do we see with language? The eyes bringing an impression of the world and presenting it to consciousness in language. If it were not presented as language then it would not be able to categorize and label what it has seen and would not be able to store it as memory. There might be direct perception of the world in the present moment, but beyond instinct and the senses there must be some sort of language, some sort of idea that differentiates things from each other in order to have any memory or imagination beyond the present moment. In this present based mode self and world would not be differentiated until something impresses on the body in some way and causes an instinctive reaction. That instinct or the body knows that there is a difference between the world and oneself, even if the animal consciousness might not be aware of it and seems more present than we are. How does that instinct or that body know it? What is the mode of all those separate knowings? Are they in the individual or outside of them?
This world maybe something different than language, and our 'objective perception' of the world may be just filtered through us to produce an image of it that is accepted as reality, but how much information is filtered out first of all by the limitations of the biology? Not being able to see in infra-red or other parts of the electromagnetic field, having less acute hearing and smell than some animals, all the examples through out nature of certain animals being able to see or hear or taste better than us or having senses that we do not have. So there's the limitation of the senses and the biology of the body you're in first of all, then how much of that information actually flows through the senses? How much are we are aware of? Then how much is lost of that awareness from the senses as it finally bubbles up into consciousness? That is all we know of the objective reality of the world and it seems very limited, information seems to be being filtered out as it comes in and what is presented to consciousness is never the full reality.
I read about this idea of the idios kosmos and the koinos kosmos. Idios kosmos meaning the private world in our own heads and koinos kosmos meaning the shared world that we all have access to. It seems these two overlap and form each other. We might not all have access to the particular parts of the shared or outside world, one person lives in india and has never been to england, another in england and has never been to india. One person might know or have done certain things and another has not or knows something else, but were all in contact with that shared world taking certain things from it storing the memories of it and having it inform and build our own private world. Experience and memory build up the self, but before memory or language took hold the experiencer would be the experience and there would be no division between the outside world and yourself.

If a chimp had an open book before it, it might see black lines with a white background. It might not even be interested by it, something a little more intelligent or with a different perspective could see little abstract shapes and symbols, something entertaining like art, another perspective or intelligence could decipher the symbols and see they have meaning. Another could could see it was language, and still another could read it and see it has meaning. All perspectives would be true or 'the reality' depending on the perspective.
How does a computer understand and process the information put into it? A series of 0 and 1's coming up on the computer screen as images and language, a digital perceptible reality that makes sense and has meaning to us. Using electricity, storing information in matter and code becoming the reality you see on the screen.
The code of the DNA sequence would be much more complicated, but resulting in a form that the code has written. The body storing information and having an electromagnetic field. Interfacing with something greater than it and coming up with a translation of it through the senses.
We see them merging in the body, the electromagnetic field, the matter of the body itself (where information is stored which creates the body) the information encoded in that through DNA and the information or causes before that which created the DNA. Which one of these processes is fundamental or said to be 'you'? Then we have the environment, the earth and the universe and everything that enters consciousness and becomes you. All these hidden selves behind the conscious experience of being yourself, your name, your job, your beliefs and experiences.
Could i be a series of 0 and 1's playing it out oblivious to a higher order, unable to see past the binary of my own biological functioning? Things coming up on the computer screen, thinking that's me and i have control? Reality itself is filtered through like that, from the environment into the human mind, converted to the machine then through the machine converted back into the human. What wrote the code, built the body, the interface, and what is behind it?
We could no more understand the universe or nature than computer binary could understand human language or what it represents, but like the computer code that communicates human language not knowing what it is, the universe and all those hidden selves enable the human experience and are implied in it. All creations walking around blind to themselves trapped in their own coding trying to get out and failing, but every code implies every other code and every code needs an encoder. You can say the code emerges from the sun and the galaxies and the universe but what does that mean? And that itself is ordered and implies a vast intelligence intrinsic within nature and running through all things in the universe. The code of all codes, meaning and existence itself. A reality that can be half glimpsed, but never known.
As the scientists and mathematicians equations seem to equate to or describe reality we marvel that something so abstract, that something that humans have grasped hold of in the world of ideas seems to be at the basis of it all and we have merely tapped into it, but considering that we are an aspect of the universe, contained within it and grown out of it; considering that we are not foreign to it, that it is millions if not billions of years ahead of us. Looking at how all our ideas, our knowledge, or technology are only possible through being in relation to it, understanding it or tapping into things that are pre-existent within it already we should acknowledge that we are reading or relearning nature and that there is nothing we can tap into that it hasn't tapped into already. Being billions of years behind it we are simply trying to catch up or capture it. Finding ourselves in the universe, in a body, in existence and trying to figure out what it is or what it could mean, what its parameters will allow us to create, conceive, grasp or unfold.  
Think of the possible advances in technology or knowledge in only a million years time we as a species might make, will we be able to download our consciousness into a computer? Then think about how nature or the universe has a few billion years of a head start on us. If something like that can be tapped into in the future then it could in some subtle or unknowable way be written into existence or reality from the start and once more were merely tapping into a part of the universe. This could bring in the idea of preservation and change our outlook on death. Consciousness could be duplicated, the information and energy could be preserved and you would go on in some way without a body, or with a very different body.
Mathematics seems to describe it, from the laws of nature, the fractals in the landscape and the bodies of living things, but there is something more there than mathematics. There is meaning, consciousness, the sense of self, all the sense information coming into the idios kosmos from the shared world. The feel of sensations, the experience that cant be described. Mathematics might be behind it all but the feel of sun on your face, the taste of salt, the sensations of colour, touch, falling in love or tooth ache don't feel very mathematical or chemical. You could try to describe it or explain it in that way but something would be missing from the description. This conscious idios kosmos, this feeling or experience, this private universe cant be quantified. From these island universes of human minds mathematics emerges and discovers that mathematics was in the universe already. It seems to describe things but it cant quantify itself. As mathematics is in the universe and in human minds there may be an unquantifiable aspect to both. The mind that can conceive, create, describe and contain all these things, and always about itself or its existence it can say nothing provable, sensible, or definitive for it is the ground on which everything else stands and follows.
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enfoldments

3 min read
The ego or idea of self must grow out of the natural unconscious or super conscious force that allows the body and the entire universe to exist. First the separation of matter in the universe, to the body, then through the body and the sensations of the outside world forming a of self that thinks it is different from that.
Nature or the force of life emerges from atomic orders to molecular and cellular growth in a series of subdivisions or layers of realities enfolded in a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts; yet still that functioning human being lives within a whole of a greater order. We can go down from the atom or up from the atom and we see greater subdivisions, more subtle wholes within wholes or descriptions of reality.
The human or the animal is related to the food chain and the environment and the world. The world having its relation to the greater enfolded order of the sun, the sun being a whole within a whole of our solar system, the solar system being a whole within the galaxy, the galaxy being a whole within the greater whole of the universe. The wholes going up and down from stars, up and down from atoms, up and down from solar systems and galaxies. All of them existing realities or wholes embedded into each other, different descriptions of the same reality simultaneously coming from and adding to the whole. All the suns, all the galaxies coming together along with everything else to make up the whole universe. What can we say of nature or the universe other than to say it emerges and comes from itself? Each whole emerging from a greater whole or a previous one, coming from and going back into the greater whole of the universe.
On one level were that mysterious unconscious or super conscious force of nature and on another level were separate egos. What is under that force that forms and maintains the body must be something less divisive. We can see the various levels of division in atoms, humans, planets, suns, solar systems and galaxies. Different descriptions of the same event, multiplicities emerging from the singularity, wholes within wholes flowing into each other contained by the greater whole of the universe, and beyond that god knows what else.

If the divisions within reality are all wholes within wholes then they are not really divisions, but different layers and descriptions of the whole. Separation must imply unity for the idea of unity or separation to make sense. Since there are all these various layers of division there must be an underlying unity from which all divisions and events emerge.
Space is the mother of all, everything is a scuplting in space, is contained in space and contains space. Existence crawled out of the void and created an infinity of separations and distinctions, but the part always implied the whole. The everything highlighted the nothing, both infinities containing each other. Everything was composed of nothing and no-thing implied everything. Separation existed, but only in the context of a greater unity.
If im a grouping of atoms and matter and can write this then what could all the groupings of atoms and matter in the whole universe create? Or what created that? How can we find a beginning when its all a circle enfolded in on itself?

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