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“Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence. Some of the various densities of the aether have only a partial or probablistic differentiation into existence, and are somewhat indeterminate in space and time. In the same way that mass exists as a curvature in space-time, extending with a gradually diminishing force to infinity that we recognize as gravity, so do all events, particularly events involving the human mind, send ripples through all creation.”
“Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.”
“Why do you choose to exist?”
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As conscious beings, we each bring something to the world that must be born into the light. Whether one would like to argue for a universe driven by purpose, or a meaningless existence beyond what we ascribe to it, I believe that we have a duty to leave the patch of grass we stand upon better than we found it. We only have one planet, and the way we leave it is our legacy to future generations.
“Life was given to me without my consent… my own existence filled me with astonishment.”
“I’d woken up early, & I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars, human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”
Well now, I was just pondering this…
(via mysticmementos)
Alive
Sometimes I find myself in complete bewilderment at the fact that I am a living, breathing, conscious being. Does anyone ever stop in the midst of their day, wonderstruck—Holy fuck, I’m alive? I’m guessing not so many, for why is there so much strife in the world then? Fear. We cannot bear to witness what a fleeting miracle it is that we are even here at all. And there is no fooling oneself; no matter how beautiful, no matter how brilliant, we are all mayflies in the eyes of the universe.
Questions For Humanity
“Does the universe as a whole exhibit any kind of consciousness that we can interact with? Does the universe seek to evolve greater complexity and more sophisticated consciousness? Could it use some help from us in this? Do all species seem worth preserving regardless of their economic value to us? Does some mysterious circularity in time connect consciousness and the very existence of the universe?”
— Peter J. Carroll
J. W. Nicholas
![“Cogito means ‘I think.’ … The mystal no-mind is not achieved by suspending mental process but by eliminating mental content. The cogitating Descartes thought about thinking in a way that proved his existence…
Philosophers know the syllogistic conjunction ergo/therefore requires two premises to balance a conclusion, but Descarte presented only one premise—‘I think.’ His statement either fails as logic or transcends logic. I believe it transcends.
The view that all knowledge is logically derivable gets one into a limitless proliferation of prior premises, an infinite regress, a reverse martingale, unacceptable to the practical cogitator. We need some premises that are not prior conclusions, or there will be no base on which to build the logical structure. I judge Descartes’s sum/I-am to be one such fundamental premise, needing no antecedent. As Ouroboros swallows his tails, so: [I AM].”
— J. W. Nicholas](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltwjauHdmv1qa31pso1_400.jpg)
“Cogito means ‘I think.’ … The mystal no-mind is not achieved by suspending mental process but by eliminating mental content. The cogitating Descartes thought about thinking in a way that proved his existence…
Philosophers know the syllogistic conjunction ergo/therefore requires two premises to balance a conclusion, but Descarte presented only one premise—‘I think.’ His statement either fails as logic or transcends logic. I believe it transcends.
The view that all knowledge is logically derivable gets one into a limitless proliferation of prior premises, an infinite regress, a reverse martingale, unacceptable to the practical cogitator. We need some premises that are not prior conclusions, or there will be no base on which to build the logical structure. I judge Descartes’s sum/I-am to be one such fundamental premise, needing no antecedent. As Ouroboros swallows his tails, so: [I AM].”
— J. W. Nicholas
No Man’s Land
How can I express
what weighs within when
I falter, knowing
there are no words that convey,
no space to speak,
no audience to hear.
It is a void,
populated by many,
this No Man’s Land
between mind and matter.
Do you ever sense,
looking to those walking along—
by you, but not with you—
that they may feel
the same way,
without ever meeting?
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