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BenevolentM -> RE: Why should we preserve Iran (11/17/2012 8:19:39 PM)
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I found what Kirata wrote in Post 288 in Indoctrination interesting and I thought to comment on it.
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ORIGINAL: Kirata
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ORIGINAL: Aswad
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'Word' in that phrase has multiple possible meanings.
Quite.
Well, no. Actually, it has a very specific meaning. But since this has become a subject of discussion, I'll elaborate.
First some physics:
We have confirmed, only recently in the 21st century, that mass is frequency: that the proximate cause of our universe existing, and that which maintains it, is the vibrating pure energy of void space. No to put too fine a point on it:
The masses of particles are -- not are like, or similar to, or metaphorically suggested by -- they are the tones, the frequencies, of these vibration patterns... These are very hard, rigorously tested, battle worn consequences... so, I mean, as scientific facts, as hard as they get... there really is that rigorous sense in which mass is frequency.
Reference: Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate Lecture Series, March 2005, MIT
But this is only new news to us. The Spanda Karika said the same thing more than a thousand years earlier, namely, that the universe arises from the action of spanda sakti (spanda: vibration, sakti: energy), the vibrating energy of the Void. The Void, incidentally, is a metaphor for pure consciousness, Siva, which is beyond all limitation of time and space. Sakti, the Goddess, is the active aspect of Siva, of consciousness; hence it is said to be Siva's will that causes her to give rise to the universe.
There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. ~Max Planck
Everything we know about Nature is in accord with the idea that the fundamental process of Nature lies outside space-time... but generates events that can be located in space-time. ~Henry Stapp
In Brahmanism, the universe is said to arise when Saraswati plucks the strings of her vina (a musical instrument), the metaphor of sound representing the vibration of the energies. In a similar vein, and for the same reason, the letters of the Sanskit alphabet are called the matrikas, the Mothers. We find the metaphor again in Genesis, where God "speaks" the worlds into being, and in Psalm 33 ("By the word of the Lord were the heavens made").
Sakti follows her Lord's will, and those familiar with some of the more esoteric martial arts will recognize the relationship immediately: energy follows consciousness, the Mind leads Ki (the Mind here being not the ratiocinating processing mind, but rather the "no-mind" of Zen, i.e., consciousness itself). It is evident, too, in what we call the "placebo effect."
Had the partriarchal chauvinism of our Western monotheisms not eradicated the feminine wherever it found it, John 1:1 might have been written as:
In the beginning was the Goddess, and the Goddess was with God, and God and the Goddess were one.
Or in less religious terms:
In the beginning was energy, and the energy was with consciousness, and the energy was consciousness.
Unfortunately, the meaning of many metaphors has been largely forgotten, and the texts containing them adapted to the prevailing religious (and other) purposes of the later cultures that inherited them.
K.
If everyone has not already noticed I have an affinity for the divine feminine. I am familiar with the notion of a God and a Goddess. I am well acquainted. When I met Christ that notion went to the wayside, however. There is no Goddess. There are spiritual beings that are feminine though. If you want to believe it is just patriarchal chauvinism, I don't know what to tell you. The God Goddess duality makes a lot of sense, but I know better.
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