I have a theory that basically everything in the universe on an Accumulation/ Discharge cycle (In Karmic terms this is known as The Pendulum Effect and in purely physical terms as The Vacuole Effect [We suck in new experiences from outside and eject old ones from inside (filling and draining tasks)] - the tides, seasons, emotions, sex, life and death as a single unit of existence (positive to negative poles), thought and action (again as a single unit), stress and relaxation, volcanic activity, earthquakes, pulsars, vibration, the body's pulse of blood, the digestive system, black holes and white (w)holes, time(movement of attention [energy] from past through to the future, across the medium of the present), space (movement of matter across a gap - here to there) etc. etc.
I call this The Systemic Universe or Two Worlds Exchange Theory (The Tao [or The Way, in modern terms]).
This creates equations of equal but opposite realities (or opinions, in human terms).
Thought stops action - action stops thought
or when viewed as a continuum of human endevour, or perception of existence as a chain, it becomes a scale or grade e.g. past, present, future/ colours - white, yellow,orange, red, brown, green, blue, black.
War and peace even follows this path.
What we understand we can control. What we cannot control leaves us feeling frustrated and helpless (a victim of a greater reality, bigger than we are - think of learning anything, be it in a classroom or the workplace).
When things become too complex for us (mysterious/ inexplicable), we panic and attack them, thereby reducing them as a threat to our ego, by simplifying our existence. This state of insanity is simply the inability to understandand therefore cope with changed circumstances (trauma - the shock of the new/ different). This is the seat of all prejudice: The only thing we ever trult fight is our own ignorance.
Why does the unknown (paranormal/new/different) frighten us? Because it is the tap on the shoulder, reminding us that we are not alone in the universe (the only form of life/ existence there is) and that we don't know everything there is to know about reality; which reduces our status to that of a child again, instead of the pretentious adult we all like to think of ourselves as (This is why death scares so many people too). It wakes us from the dream of the ego that tells us we are God and reminds us that we are mortal after all (All pilgrims on the road to the undiscovered country) - "Come in number six, your time is up". It is the bigger self, telling the smaller self, that there is more to life than this tiny pinprick in time and space, which we call 'present reality' (Star Trek, "The Squire of Gothos" TV episode).
Courage (learning/ enquiry) goes with not knowing. This is because if you don't 'think' you know what's going on, you'll investigate to find out the answer. If however you do think you know the answer already, you won't look because you're sure you have the truth already (prejudice is a full stop on your life as innocense is its door).
Fear keeps us in motion because we're afraid of stopping and discovering the truth (Life works in two phases - the first is standing back and viewing reality, and the second is stepping forward to alter it (observer and participator - the artist effect).
The true cause of the world's problems is poverty - poverty of mind (ideas/ imagination), poverty of body (material resources) and poverty of spirit (the energy to go on).
Positivism is taking response-ability for things - negativity is avoiding it by blaming external resources or ourselves, rather than getting on with it i.e. religion versus politics or all things are as they should be versus nothing is fair (Life is the effort we put into reality - death, the failure to put anything back into existence or to even take back out of it what we originally put in - that is ourselves). We make God in our unity and the Devil by our disunity.
Violence is the easy way out (the door marked exit) - tolerance, the hard way in to life (We destroy the world when we revolt against it and create it when we conform (escape or imprison ourselves - commit or run away from reality). Violence is the language of despair (giving up effort) as peace is the patient (trusting in the unknown, the uncreated) building or rebuilding; brick by brick, stone by stone.
Age brings patience, tolerance and generosity because you realise you have all the time in the world - youth is impatient because it sees only limits (no time to think/ no room to act).
Only an addict knows fear. This is because they are terrified of losing what they have (their addiction), instead of being overjoyed at the prospect of gaining something new which they haven't got and that will take them out of their boredom quotient.
Boredom is a prison cell for the soul - interest, its release (Our prejudices keep us trapped in the past - dumping our fears frees us to enter the future and explore what our hatred has kept us isolated from).
We are who or what we tell ourselves we are (likewise the external world reflects back at us our attitude towards it). When we stop reinforcing our views by repeating them to ourselves and others around us like a mantra, they dissolve and we see the world and ourselves for what we and it truly are - enjoyable nonsense to be explored, not serious sense to be believed in (Only a fool who's fooling himself, can fool another fool).
Alan Watts, the philosopher, said that he thought we were 'tubes for experiencing things'. I'd go further and say life is just a question of filling and emptying things (minds, bodies, spirits of thoughts, sensations, feelings (emotions) and materials): Like a vacuole (or black hole), we suck in new experiences from outside and blow out old ones from inside (fulfilling and draining tasks).
........................................................................Systemic Universe.................................................................................
............................................(Two Worlds Exchange* - or Accumulation/ Discharge Cycle).................................................
Down and in............................................................................................................Up and out.......................................
Left (suck in)...........................................................................................................Right (blow out)................................
Thought (withdraw)...................................................................................................Action (advance).............................
Gravity (heavy)........................................................................................................Levity(light)......................................
Attract (fill)..............................................................................................................Repulse (empty)...............................
Dark (absorb)...........................................................................................................Light (radiate)..................................
Accumulate (resist)..................................................................................................Discharge (surrender).......................
Past (matter)............................................................................................................Future (energy)................................
Knowledge (guilt).....................................................................................................Imagination (innocense)....................
Imprison (fusion).......................................................................................................Release (fission).............................
Depth (complexity)...................................................................................................Shallowness (simplicity)...................
Arrive (grab hold)......................................................................................................Depart (let go).................................
Revolt (reject)...........................................................................................................Conform (accept)............................
Hell (pain).................................................................................................................Heaven (pleasure)...........................
Reality (nightmare)....................................................................................................Fantasy (dream)..............................
Fear (suppression)....................................................................................................Courage (expression).......................
Destruction (defend)..................................................................................................Creation (explore)............................
Sever (scarcity)........................................................................................................Connect (abundance).......................
Serious (ignore).........................................................................................................Humorous (notice)..........................
Stagnate (solidify)......................................................................................................Flow (liquefy).................................
Death (age)................................................................................................................Life (youth)....................................
Introvert (struggle)......................................................................................................Extrovert (relax).............................
Cold (hard).................................................................................................................Warm (soft)...................................
Contract (male)...........................................................................................................Expand (female)............................
Order (presence).........................................................................................................Chaos (absence)...........................
Deny (no)...................................................................................................................Affirm (yes)...................................
Microcosm (black hole)...............................................................................................Macrocosm (white hole).................
Self (selfish)..............................................................................................................Other (altruism)..............................
Sick (panic)...............................................................................................................Well (calm)....................................
Input (control)...........................................................................................................Output (abandonment).....................
Destroy (arrogance)....................................................................................................Build (humility)...............................
Ignorance (slavery)....................................................................................................Awareness(freedom).......................
Enforce (cowardice)..................................................................................................Allow (strength)...............................
War (crime)...............................................................................................................Peace (Law)...................................
Individual (disown).....................................................................................................Society (own).................................
Cover Up (hide).........................................................................................................Display (honesty)............................
etc...........................................................................................................................etc.................................................
(*Some words may be on the wrong side: This is still a fledgling theory after all, misled by assumptions and misinterpreted data).
This is the attempt at a balanced equation, based upon standing on the cusp of two worlds - the created (past/ real/ decided) and the uncreated (future/ fantasy/ possible) - hence the bicarmel mind/ left and right sides of body. The universe is a binary system, made up of the manifest and unmanifest. Action is about converting one state into the other - that is creating something out of nothing (turning an idea into a concrete reality) and nothing out of something (destroying what is here and sending it back into the world of dreams (ideas/ thought)).
Everything and its opposite are equally true and it is only through comparison of these polar forms that the truth can be discovered. Life is an experiment and every time you do something new, you're asking what is the end result going to be and can I control it to produce an effect I want? Every interface with the unknown is scary because of this as it's a total mystery what you will find and how you'll respond to it.
All that follows is based upon this preceding theory............
