WHAT DOES IT MATTER
that we might commit
suicide—negligent or
otherwise—and take
the rest of the
neighborhood down
with us already?
Is it really
a cosmic crime?
Yeah sure it’s
a crime by any
of our own
value systems
that purport to
matter but
really in the
larger scheme
of things with
the Earth just an
infinitesimally
small mote in an
infinitely expansive
starry simoom
what does it
really matter if
the strange attractions
of one particular
particle change
their colors to
those of an
arch-rival charm
school? To live
and die by
colors who’d
be so petty so
silly so careless
so stereotypical?
Because after all
those of us who
really know or
at least believe
we know—even
if we know we
only believe we
know—know
that all is one
anyway right?
And if it’s all
one in the larger
scheme of things
then it is what it is
that’s all she wrote
fuggeddaboutit.
Don’t worry be happy.
But then here’s the
conundrum. If all
is oneness what is
an avatar? What
is that apparent
opening to a
higher dimension
that appears among
the denizens of
lesser levels of
consciousness
we the unwashed
who can only
think and conceive
in binary terms
of worthiness?
I have a theory.
At least it might
look like a theory
to anyone not
me for whom
it is actually my
Kosmosanschauung
my way of experiencing
being.
I call it the fractiverse
and it is particularly one.
To explain it
I need to draw
a mental picture.
- Imagine a glass sphere
of say twelve inches
in diameter. Now
imagine a four inch
long glass tube
bent into the
shape of a U. - Embed this
tube into the
interior surface
of the sphere
so the U-tube’s
openings each
open to and
fuse with the
exterior surface
of the sphere. - Connect an inverted
U-tube to the outside
of the sphere so that
one end opens to the
interior surface of
the sphere and the
other end connects
to one end of
the first U-tube. - What we have
now is a structure
that I call an
S-tube made up
of two U-tubes
connecting together
at the surface of the
sphere and each
opening to the
opposite side of
the sphere from
the other. - For the sake
of conceptual
clarity let’s have
each end of
the S-tube open
to it’s surface of
the sphere in a
trumpet-bell-shaped
curving funnel so
that each surface
of the sphere—the
exterior and the
interior—connects
to the interior of
the S-tube in
a smooth and
seamless transition. - Notice now
that an adventurous
ant can take a
stroll on the exterior
surface of the sphere
and ease down into
the S-tube opening
and traverse it
end to end
until the S-tube
opens gracefully
into and onto the
interior surface
of the sphere.
(Notice also that
the ant has
travelled from the
outside of the
sphere to its
inside while
staying always
on the self same
surface.
A topologist—those
mathematicians
who cannot tell the
difference between
a coffee cup and
a donut—will
recognize in a
Cupertino nanosecond
that the glass globe
with the embedded
U-tube is actually a
Klein Bottle.) - Now imagine
that the exterior
opening of the S-tube
is like a whirlpool
and the surface of
the sphere is being
sucked downward
into the S-tube
and flowing outward
onto the interior
surface of the sphere. - Imagine a second
S-tube with a flow
from the interior to
the exterior to balance
out the influx from
the first S-tube. - Our glass globe
now has a flow from
its exterior surface
down into the first
S-tube out onto its
interior surface then
up into the second
S-tube and out
again onto its
exterior surface
where it began.
We have now
what is known as
a closed system. - Imagine
now hundreds
thousands trillions
septillions
an infinite
number of
S-tube pairs
in the surface
of our globe.
(Let’s let it
be infinitely
larger than
twelve inches
in diameter
to facilitate
this image.) - Now let
us imagine an
infinite profusion
of smaller S-tubes
embedded in the
surface of our
existing S-tubes. - And again let
us consider more
S-tubes embedded
in S-tubes and continue
the progression
ad infinitum. - Now let us
define the inward
flowing S-tubes
as black holes
and the outward
flowing S-tubes
as stars.
For the sake of
familiarity we
can call the larger
collections of S-tubes
within S-tubes
galaxies and nebulae. - The medium sized
collections of S-tubes
we can call recognizable
matter for example
mountain ranges
butterflies test
tubes redwood trees
and polycarbonate
refuse. - The smaller sized
collections of S-tubes
we can call atoms
and subatomic
particles. - Needless to say
larger medium
and smaller are
only characteristics
of an infinite
spectrum of scale
of S-tubes within
S-tubes. - If we take this
fractiverse as our
Kosmosanschauung
we can see there is
a complete balance
of expansion—the
outflow from
S-tubes—with
contraction—the
inflow into S-tubes.
Thus we see that
the conventional view
of a big bang and an
expanding universe
is merely a parochial
perspective in an
infinitesimally limited
sub-section of the
entire fabric of
the fractiverse. - With the model
this cosmogeny offers
we see that the unified
integrity of the
fractiverse comprises
an enduring state of
primordial oneness and
at the same time a
profoundly infinite
profusion of
particularity. - Everything we
see in our limited
scope of scale-constrained
perceptivity is at once
the apparent material
of the effusion of outward
flowing S-tubes coupled
with its invisible inward
flowing anti-material
counterbalance.
So is there a
cosmic code of
ethics? I think
it is rational to
consider that if
there are ethics
at any scale of
the fractiverse
they will be
reflected at
all scales so
yes there is a
cosmic code of ethics
and yes it matters
if we commit
suicide—negligently
or otherwise.
:: categories: cosmology, interconnection
:: tags: cosmogony, fractiverse, kosmosanschauung, oneness, primordial, suicides, universal flow, values, what does it matter?
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