Gaia: The Poet with the Soul of a Scientist - Transcendental Stuff

Re: Beginnings

http://dbroadwell.gaia.com — Mon, 28 May 2007 00:00:21 GMT

Our galaxy is born of dead collided galaxies after the big bang. We are the second generation of life to inhabit this part of existence. Best to measure time between the blinks of entropic stillness.

Vajrayana Buddhism in the Nyingma tradition.

http://gakkaiguy.gaia.com — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:04:57 GMT

At the invitation of Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo (KPC Spiritual Director), His
Holiness Pema Norbu (Penor) Rinpoche, 11th Throneholder of the Palyul
lineage, returns to KPC-MD to give empowerments.

Saturday Aug 26, 10 am - Chimed Sog Thig;

Sunday Aug 27, 10 am - Guru Rinpoche, 3 pm - Amitabha

The suggested contribution is US$175 for two days; US$60 for an
individual ceremony. Ordained are complimentary but are invited to
contribute to the honoraria. Space is limited; preregistration is encouraged. No
one is turned away for financial hardship.

Kunzang Palyul Choling is a center for the study and practice of
Vajrayana Buddhism in the Nyingma tradition.

Address: 18400 River Road Poolesville MD 20837, U.S.

Visit www.tara.org, e-mail http://us.f502.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=kpcinmd@gmail.com&YY=62714&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b or call 301.349.0440

The Lying Sign (flash fiction)

http://etceterist.gaia.com — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:24:51 GMT

Near my house there is a yellow sign with black lettering. This sign is at an intersection that I must go through to get to work. The black lettering declares "NO EXIT" for one of the roads.

When I walked, I saw the sign, and believed it. I took another road to work.

When I bought a bicycle, I decided to be a little adventurous. One day, I took the road marked NO EXIT and son of a gun! The road came up to a park, and the park had a path, and the path got me closer to work! Son of a gun, the sign was a lie! I could have shaved minutes off my walk going through the park.

On my bike, I would ride by and look the sign square in the "I" and say, "You're a lie!"

The sign was a lie, but the city had put the sign up. The city must be a lie. And all the people in the city, and the road, and the park, and the world. It must all be a lie, or why would that sign say NO EXIT when obviously there was an exit.

When I bought a car, I rode by the sign and yelled, "You're a lie!" at the lying sign, and drove my new car into the park.

Don't worry, no one died during my accident. Kids don't play in the park anymore.

Re: Beginnings

http://etceterist.gaia.com — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:36:17 GMT

It's impossible to say when the beginning was. One could look at the Universe now (for some specific and therefore finite now that has already passed). Every proton is involved in however many relationships are in its vicinity. This could be anything from anhydrogen ion to one of many in a vastly complex molecule we haven't the means to grasp yet.

One Planck second after now, at least one of the protonic relationships will have changed, and this is true for every subsequent Planck second until the Universe is composed totally of entropy.

This now I'm talking about here, the first now, is compared to some equally finite point in the future (defined as having more overall entropy). Eventually, every proton will be in a completely different set of relationships than they are now.

This goes backwards, too. At some point in the past, the first relationship of all the relationships that exist now formed. That point could be the beginning of now.

What if this predates the Big Bang? II used to think that question had no meaning, like asking what's East of the South Pole? There could be something before then, but the Big Bang is the earliest possible point for the beginning of now as described above.

A more relevant beginning may be set much later, like when all the protons in our planetary system (instead of Universe) were in different relationships, so 4.5 billion years rather than 13.7 for everything.

Mirror Mind Metaphor

http://etceterist.gaia.com — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:35:16 GMT

Not one mirror, but two, one for each hemisphere of the brain.

This came back to me after finding a new pod to post to. The third of only three that were tagged with 'science' but that's a metamessage.

I was reminded of my mirror mind metaphor.

Stand between two mirrors. No, this isn't one of those, 'now try to take a picture without the camera in the shot'. Two mirrors, facing each other as parallel as you can get them (although this doesn't really matter in the long run).

Now try to see behind your head.

Sure looks infinite and (ignoring light degradation from cheap mirror surfacing) might as well be, but you'll NEVER see it!

It's like that inside my head (and maybe yours too, but I'm not confident enough to speak for others). There are two Hubble class mirrors compacted inside me. Usually, they reflect what's going on outside my skull but when I aim them at each other, I get the same effect as standing between two mirrors.

Where Two Are

http://etceterist.gaia.com — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:02:40 GMT

Was it Jesus who first said, "Where two are gathered in my name, there I am."

I'd love feedback about this concept.

(Something I'm trying...y'know, asking for input instead of just blathering on for a couple hundred words).

Beginnings

http://etceterist.gaia.com — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:31:17 GMT

Random influences, contingency, stochatic events are encompassed and depicted as white noise: the energy pattern of entropic equilibrium.. When conditions suited (critical threshholds can eventually be reached through non-linear events), the white noise of existence shot forth a peak of order that didn't immediately degrade back into white noise. Metaphorically, a pure tone rang forth with ripples of harmony in the near vicinity.

This 'tone' represents an emergent phenomenon from the repeated churning of near-isolated systems. Once this 'tone' manifested, the ripples it caused made the vicinity likely to repeat the event.

Herein lies the conspiracy.

Herein is the beginning of the fundamental ordering principal of the Universe.

I call this principal "Viral Happiness".