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Size Does Matter(A Brief History of the Mad Gods of Mars)
How can you be two places at once, when you’re getting nowhere? Both are the kind of real-world musings which intrude upon the thoughts of non-Philosophers from time to time. Things used to be a bit different. Prior to the Fall, those who I am calling the
Martians (but humans, not the First Ones mentioned above) were
trans-dimensional beings, They existed on several planes of Reality
simultaneously. This particular material one was one of many. That
probably needs a little explanation… There are various concepts in physics, mathematics,
mysticism and philosophy about
multiple Realities. You have your
mathematical, metric-derived
dimensions which are necessary to
explain the rest of the basic elements of mathematics. You have your
alternate
universes, used to help explain things like probability, black (and
white) holes, quantum theory, and anything else that seems to have some
connections outside the Box. You have your
planes of existence or
bardos
that are used to describe the realms of existence beyond
this physical environment and provide context for Life after Death and
soul travel. Every intellectual camp has their own proprietary
definitions for these, but ultimately any are used as required by all.
The common thread is the acceptance of the idea that there are
other realms, knowable or not, inhabited or not.
Really, you are a multi-dimensional being, too-
just not the same kind as the Martians. Your essential Self is manifest
on numerous streams of probability, but your Consciousness only tracks
one at a time. You have a slight awareness of the “nearby” streams,
which can cause hunches, omens, Feelings of Vague Dread, or dejá vù,
but you don’t interact on a physical level. Good thing, too- if you were
directly aware of multiple manifestations of Reality and needed to deal
with them all at once, you’d-.well, that way lies Madness. See where
we are going? Before the Fall, the Martians had it pretty good.
It is good to be a god- but there is a downside to anything. Remember
something for later: whoever you are, you are largely a child of your
environment. Put another way, in the basic metaphor of Country music,
you never know how good things are until they’re gone. Let’s examine
that earlier epoch.
The material world is stubborn. It does not
automatically adjust to your every thought- but it can be
manipulated. To a being whose primary existence is on a non-material
plane, this makes the physical world interesting, in the way the virtual
world of a video game is to us. Beyond that, it is necessary to have a
diversity of realms to have the possibility of individuality. In
mathematics, one point just is. Two points, and you can have a line.
More, and the possibilities expand further. It is the linkages between
realms that make all things possible, but the dimensions, planes, etc.,
need to have autonomous internal symmetry for the connections to be
established. Sure, from a “god” perspective, you can always relate
to things at a “larger” scale, since at some level there will be an
overall balance, but if you want to ride the Local attractions, the
Local environment needs to be in balance. The reason I use the labels
resonance and
affinity
science where others use the term
hyperdimensional physics
for essentially the same thing, is just a matter of context. I am trying
to present more of an abstracted view, not
attempting to somehow fit a
new parameter into the familiar mainstream toolbox. I think the
separation of the “other” physics from the conventional perspective
is more important than integration, if it all is to make any real sense.
Maybe that is just me- but it’s hard to talk about harmonics and
fractal expressions
conventionally without being asked, “of
what”? Don’t link, just go with the flow for a moment. As I have done before, I’ll misspeak about
fractals for the sake of easier description. There is actually no such thing
as a fractal, no legitimate noun for that type of mathematical equation,
but let’s pretend there is; the sentences will be a lot shorter, and I
won’t have to include any serious math. OK? That said, fractals are
the derivatives of lopsided equations, where the environment will partly
determine how the expression extends. A simple bit of arithmetic with an
equal sign in the middle is a
thing. Wherever you put it, it remains
that same thing. A fractal is an
effect, in that context.
Consistent, but not always going to express as a particular thing. There
are several classes of fractals that have been given names, and you have
probably seen most of them on a screensaver. Very pretty- I think the
Julia Set is particularly attractive myself, but the classic is the
Mandelbrot, named for the mathematician who coined the term fractal. It
sometimes looks sort of
like a teddy bear shape. Oh, yeah, those things. What has this got to do
with Martians? Coming right up, just keep reading. Fractal expressions are what allow things to grow.
Life is fractal. Crystals are fractal, Consciousness is fractal.
The connections between dimensions, such as they are, represent fractal
relationships. So any resonance between realms need not have anything to
do with metric size. It’s the shape of the teddy bear that matters,
not the size. When a profound change in the dynamic structure of the
Solar System caused its underlying essential nature to change from, let
us say arbitrarily, a Mandelbrot to a Julia Set, the local denizens of
that environment, to wit, our Martians, were left holding their teddy
bears with nowhere else to go. I now pause, with apologies, to permit
any mathematicians reading this to hold their heads and weep over that
pathetic explanation, but the rest of you probably get the idea. If you could see into other alternate Realities,
you might find a nearby Earth where your favorite beach was unoccupied.
No hotels, no traffic, just idyllic splendor there for your personal
pleasure. Or you could find endless alternate sources for whatever you
desired. The idea that an “alternate universe” automatically has an
analog of each of us, plodding along a slightly divergent path, is a
little short sighted. Those could more properly be called
probability
streams . If the nomenclature of such things was a bit less muddled,
those would all be considered aspects of a single alternity. The
Multiverse is bigger than that. There are permutations of the physical
Earth where Man never arrived. Our predecessors utilized several of those, and
spread their civilization across them. They took the dimensional travel
for granted. After the Fall, they were stuck- at least the ones here
were stuck here. This was a very traumatic turn of events. Some
explanation would no doubt be helpful. Everything everywhere relates through
resonance. Even
the alternate universes, dimensions,
et al, comprise a big harmonic Happening. The restructuring of
our Solar System was a local event, not a Multiverse-wide change, and it
threw our plane out of sync with the rest. Obviously, on a gross scale,
the system was still here, so the whole matter was not a major event
except for the inhabitants of this particular plane. However, the subtle
harmonic relationship which had allowed them to access the other worlds
was broken. What is it like to be a god? That’s where size
comes in. If you could expand your Consciousness beyond the frame of
reference determined by your physical senses, you might view this planet
as no more than a marble and ponder the interactions with the other
marbles. If you could manifest at such a scale, you could pluck a
moon from its orbit. At the other end of the scale, you might find it
more enjoyable to watch the mutations of a subatomic particle
vacillating from one dimension to another. Flexibility of existence of
that sort automatically makes Time irrelevant. Think of a wheel- the
outer rim turns much faster than the hub, just to keep up. If you
“normally” occupied a spot on the rim, but could expand to be
“bigger” than the wheel and back again, at will, you could relocate
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