Ancient Systems, Possibilies and Error
Published May 21st, 2006 in Reality, Possibilities, ErrorAncient Systems
Ancient systems which have seemed to be shown as ‘primitive’ by our western egotistic virtues, have lately been shown to be more than just hocus pocus.
Chinese and mayan history both show examples of civilisations living close to nature, observing what happens and assigning perpetual names and systems to these.
In Chinese medicine, there are the five elements which are fire, wood, metal, earth and water - of which they are not talking about the usual physical elements, rather these names have been given to describe different types of energy flow within living organisms.
In Mayan culture, they have built a 260 day calendar not because they are primitive - far from the truth, they have one of the most accurate systems for measuring planetary cycles and happen to be the first civilisation to invent the concept of zero - so much so their dates in what is called the long count have zeros where as we are still living on a calendar based on the earth going around the sun, having leap years, months with inordinate numbers of days used to shoe-horn in the seven-day concept from the bible which has been completely mis-interpreted by the babylonian empires.
Really what is occuring is an ever-exponentially increasing ‘novelty’ - the novellness, the building upon more and more complex systems as the rate of change rapidly accelerates effectively altering the global conciousness.
The balance in life is so apparent, and important - without this balance nothing would live, even atoms. If you look at opposing sides for a moment you begin to see that they are really just two parts of the whole. Power and resistance is a concept often used to describe electronic circuits, without this resistance you would have an overloaded circuit so if you look at anything there is balance. Too much, it overpowers us, too little we become weak. We forget this in daily life and carry on making more and more money, and forget to relax, and take a break. always moving, always doing something, always quick never stopping - this is the western way.
One reason that i have been given for this is climate, the cold weather makes us move quickly, whereas in the east, people move slowly and are more relaxed because it is warmer, no reason to go quickly - if you do that you will collapse!
Possibilities
Over our physical genetic structure; which defines how we move, act and think we are in all truth, including all species of life, part of the eternal source, that gives us the ever-changing realm of possibilites that we call time. Our measurement of time comes from a quartz crystal, radioisotope, mechanical movements or the number of rotations of the earth around the sun.
It is something we hold on to and think that is constant. It is not, it is moving and evolving just like the so-called 3 dimensional universe ( to call it 3-dimensional is inherently wrong, as it is a simplistic way of thinking about possibilies).
We are in fact moving in all directions at the same time, expanding so quickly that gravity occurs - but this is only part of the truth. The spinning motion is caused by the space between every atom on the planet causing the movement, like the tracks of a caterpillar. We are infact navigating through realms of possibility and the physical manefestation of this is part and parcel of these probablilies.
For example: if you had 100 years and pointed a camera anywhere in the universe and recorded it in time-lapse, nothing would be the same - it would not be possible for it to stay the same! i.e there would have to be possibilies! To prove that there are possibilies and they are balanced, toss a coin and see if it evens out over time.
If there was an infinite number of possibilies in the smallest density, as we come to the ‘outer layers of the onion’ the possibilies dilute and probability becomes more stable - such as atoms, then chemistry, dna, cells, cellular structures and so on.
So what is the mind? It is a vehicle for navigating probabilities. What are the probablilies? It depends on where you are within the field of probabilies. The mind is actually much more powerful than anyone can imagine, we have the ability to shape and change things in our lives without doing any real action but play out these scenarios in our mind, NAVIGATING THE FIELD OF PROBABILITY.
When you want to learn something, what do you do? You do the same action over and over again (practice). Why? To strengthen those links with those probabilities to be able to make that action occur with less and less error, the ‘error correction’ that we have to induce into our minds, it is not designed to repeat and remember the same things.
Error
‘Error’ is inherrent in everything, even electronic communications have error-correction such as TCP/IP which is used to send information without errors. You don’t see how many errors occur on the connection, but they do occur frequently. Just as errors or mutations as they are called allow biological entities to evolve, time evolves as more and more possibilies happen as the novelty factor becomes more and more dense building upon layers and layers like an onion.
Learning is through error, it is an important part of life and is often punished. If someone makes a mistake, just accept it was an error, and move on, learn from it.
Learning is a process of navigating probabilities.