byss/abyss

"time is a hole in space, space is a hole in time". I think higgs's metaphor is describing the same wave/particle-duality relationship that david wilcock proposes (the hypothesized time-space/space-time inversion in the pineal gland during dream consciousness). laffoley is concerned with this inversion as well; he calls temporality the "great within of the universe", following de chardin's concept of the within and without of all things. it would seem that the universe has a holarchical topology where each holon's outside is its mass manifestation in space and its inside is its energy manifestation in time. consciousness is the inside of a holon, the body is the outside. hence why consciousness is intangible, utterly dynamic, and imperceptable as a static physical entity, except in dreams where our consciousness becomes a navigable physical world.

A monk asked Tozen when he was weighing some flax, "What is Buddha?"

Tozen said, "This flax weighs three pounds."

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"...my spontaneous attitude towards the universe... it’s a very dark one. The first thesis would have been a kind of total vanity: there is nothing, basically. If you look at the universe, it’s one big void. But then how do things emerge? Here, I feel a kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics, where the idea there is that the universe is a void, but a kind of positively charged void. And then particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed. And I like this idea spontaneously very much, the fact that it’s not just nothing. Things are out there."
- Slavoj Zizek, in Zizek!

ॐ

Without risk there is no faith.  Faith is precisely the contradiction between the infinite passion of the individual's inwardness and the objective uncertainty.  If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.  If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty, so as to remain out upon the deep, over 70000 fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.
- Kierkegaard

Reversely, one could imagine a delight and a power of self-determining, and a freedom of will whereby a spirit could bid farewell to every belief, to every wish for certainty, accustomed as it would be to support itself on slender cords and possibilities, and to dance even on the verge of abysses. Such a spirit would be the free spirit par excellence.
- Nietzsche

let's bury the hatchet like the beatles and the stones.