"When Myth Incarnates in the Waking World"
Alchemy, Nirvana, Kingdom of Heaven ... Neutron Star!
I can't say I have a thorough rational understanding of the various details of alchemy but in general I tend to approach things by absorbing ideas and perhaps forgetting the rational details and being left with an effect. So like a river in ancient time that lays down endless sedimentary details which get compressed into something else where some things are lost, I am left with a sedimentary layer in my own mind which hopefully can hold insights (fossils?) of my own without knowing the exact details.
I have read Carl Jung's ideas of Alchemy in relation to dreams but can't recall really recall details of that text but that's ok with me. I'll probably read it many times more as reading the same text from different states of time and thinking can lead to new results. But still, I think an effect is left that has altered my mind and so any thoughts that arise have been influenced by such readings.
I have come to the conclusion that our lives themselves are alchemical processes and if reincarnation is a reality, the process continues (although perhaps the actual memories are erased) by the gravitation of the "soul" onto whatever new life formation ('body' within so-called "physical matter" or even some other unknown level of formation) it feels drawn towards during death (so the process needs exposure to certain experiences that are felt to be needed to further the interaction). People we meet, things we read, music we listen to over and over again for the unexplainable effect all are like some elements mixed into the process which affect the overall flow of the process.
So-called "negative" or painful experiences (as are so-called positive or pleasant effects) are like an interaction of substances which cause a reaction. By accepting these experiences for as long as they are needed, the process can manifest the change that is natural. Unfortunately , modern typical reaction to pain and discomfort is to cover over the symptoms with pills and other instant methods to try to end the process and destroy the alchemical/psychological reaction prematurly.
If the mind experiences a time of desiring some resolution of negative experience, only through the interation of positive input (wisedom and enlightening information/experience) can that interaction lead to a flowing pathway towards some new level or "transmutation" into a new element or substance (mental/"spiritual" state). The modern typical reacion of covering over such feelings with pills is to try to put a cloth over the experimental aperatus and forget about it. This is a temporary "solution" but ultimately will not lead to any new creation of substance within the "mind/soul".
Perhaps people who have unresolved difficulties within this life who do not face the alchemical reactions needed will automatically gravitate towards a new physical form (assuming reincarnation is real) to continue until they find the needed alchemical reactions they can go through where higher substances can be formed.
The entirity of the Universe is a multitude of swarming alchemical reactions unfolding and mutating into other "forms".
If you think of the early known Universe (or at least this particular local 'bubble within the possibly much more vast Universe existing on perhaps countless unknown "levels"... and at least as percieved and rationalized through the 'filter' of human ability to see "Reality"), hydrogen was the simplest element formed from more simple "particles" [for lack of a better word] (and those themselves could be formed eventually from one fundamental "particle" that can only exist for theoretically 0 seconds at the very instance between collapse and expansion between incarnations of this Universe or localized bubble within the Universe ... when density was at maximum).
Even now hydrogen is the most abundant element. As concentrations of hydrogen accumulate, their pull condenses to cause localized abundances (clusters of galaxies and galaxies). Furher sub-concentrations lead to dense localizations that cause fusion we label with the word "stars" and becomes so compact and gravitationally powerful that their particles transmute into heavier elements over time. As the reaction within them goes on, and time within a certain type of reaction continues, that element decreases as heavier ones are formed and therefore the amount of reaction decreases and the outward pressure of the star's reactive pressure decreases and gravity gets the upper hand. As gravity gets the upper hand, the pressure increases which can fuse those heavier elements into even heavier elements. This continues on until iron is the result in the core ... and in massive stars, the lack of reaction once that level is reached in the core (or "heart"... or "soul") of the star causes a collapse. This results in a massive reaction (perhaps this could be even labelled an "enlightenment", nirvana or satori of the star) and the heavy elements created in the life of the massive star are exploded into space (in addition to even heavier elments such as uranium created in this reaction) to seed other gaseous nebula (the deaths of these massive stars in the past directly relate to our existance now ... our physical bodies being composed of heavy elements formed during their reactionary deaths).
One potential path for the remaining remnant of the star is as a nuetron star and as the name inplies, it is composed of "balanced matter" ("enlightened matter" free from the tug of "duality") as opposed to positive and negatively charged matter (duality). This could be thought of as a symbolic representaion of the end of "duality" as described in the Buddhist "nirvana", satori, moksha or even "Christ consciousness"
[[Neutron star after a supernova as a symbol of "Christ consciousness"!]]
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~ Gospel of Thomas -
"Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."
[two into one, inner like the outer, uter like the inner, upper like the lower = end of clinging to one aspect of duality!)
~ Tao Te Ching ~
"The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners." ....... "Hold on to the center"
['Tao doesn't take sides' = Jesus saying 'When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower'... 'then you will enter the kingdom' or "understand" the Tao]
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The Nuetron star as a potential result of the massive star's evolution can be seen as a symbol of making the duality into "one" (ie, no electrons , no protons, no duality .... composed of nuetral nuetrons) ... it is a symbol of what is said above from those two sources.
And so the nuetral quickly spinning 'nuetron star' is a symbol of being at the centre of the Buddhist wheel or being within the "Kingdom of Heaven" of the gnostic 'Christian' gospels as opposed to the realm of feeling the duality of things when attached to the edge of the wheel. The massive star's alchemical life of going through processes and transmutation of elements is like the human (perhaps through multiple lifetimes as stages of alchemical process) experience whereby the understanding attains higher "spiritual" (for lack of a better word) levels of refinement until the neutralized condensed end of dualtiy occurs ... which could be labelled with terms such as nirvana, moksha, "Kingdom of Heaven".
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I hope this rambling texts brings useful ideas to others who read it.
I have read Carl Jung's ideas of Alchemy in relation to dreams but can't recall really recall details of that text but that's ok with me. I'll probably read it many times more as reading the same text from different states of time and thinking can lead to new results. But still, I think an effect is left that has altered my mind and so any thoughts that arise have been influenced by such readings.
I have come to the conclusion that our lives themselves are alchemical processes and if reincarnation is a reality, the process continues (although perhaps the actual memories are erased) by the gravitation of the "soul" onto whatever new life formation ('body' within so-called "physical matter" or even some other unknown level of formation) it feels drawn towards during death (so the process needs exposure to certain experiences that are felt to be needed to further the interaction). People we meet, things we read, music we listen to over and over again for the unexplainable effect all are like some elements mixed into the process which affect the overall flow of the process.
So-called "negative" or painful experiences (as are so-called positive or pleasant effects) are like an interaction of substances which cause a reaction. By accepting these experiences for as long as they are needed, the process can manifest the change that is natural. Unfortunately , modern typical reaction to pain and discomfort is to cover over the symptoms with pills and other instant methods to try to end the process and destroy the alchemical/psychological reaction prematurly.
If the mind experiences a time of desiring some resolution of negative experience, only through the interation of positive input (wisedom and enlightening information/experience) can that interaction lead to a flowing pathway towards some new level or "transmutation" into a new element or substance (mental/"spiritual" state). The modern typical reacion of covering over such feelings with pills is to try to put a cloth over the experimental aperatus and forget about it. This is a temporary "solution" but ultimately will not lead to any new creation of substance within the "mind/soul".
Perhaps people who have unresolved difficulties within this life who do not face the alchemical reactions needed will automatically gravitate towards a new physical form (assuming reincarnation is real) to continue until they find the needed alchemical reactions they can go through where higher substances can be formed.
The entirity of the Universe is a multitude of swarming alchemical reactions unfolding and mutating into other "forms".
If you think of the early known Universe (or at least this particular local 'bubble within the possibly much more vast Universe existing on perhaps countless unknown "levels"... and at least as percieved and rationalized through the 'filter' of human ability to see "Reality"), hydrogen was the simplest element formed from more simple "particles" [for lack of a better word] (and those themselves could be formed eventually from one fundamental "particle" that can only exist for theoretically 0 seconds at the very instance between collapse and expansion between incarnations of this Universe or localized bubble within the Universe ... when density was at maximum).
Even now hydrogen is the most abundant element. As concentrations of hydrogen accumulate, their pull condenses to cause localized abundances (clusters of galaxies and galaxies). Furher sub-concentrations lead to dense localizations that cause fusion we label with the word "stars" and becomes so compact and gravitationally powerful that their particles transmute into heavier elements over time. As the reaction within them goes on, and time within a certain type of reaction continues, that element decreases as heavier ones are formed and therefore the amount of reaction decreases and the outward pressure of the star's reactive pressure decreases and gravity gets the upper hand. As gravity gets the upper hand, the pressure increases which can fuse those heavier elements into even heavier elements. This continues on until iron is the result in the core ... and in massive stars, the lack of reaction once that level is reached in the core (or "heart"... or "soul") of the star causes a collapse. This results in a massive reaction (perhaps this could be even labelled an "enlightenment", nirvana or satori of the star) and the heavy elements created in the life of the massive star are exploded into space (in addition to even heavier elments such as uranium created in this reaction) to seed other gaseous nebula (the deaths of these massive stars in the past directly relate to our existance now ... our physical bodies being composed of heavy elements formed during their reactionary deaths).
One potential path for the remaining remnant of the star is as a nuetron star and as the name inplies, it is composed of "balanced matter" ("enlightened matter" free from the tug of "duality") as opposed to positive and negatively charged matter (duality). This could be thought of as a symbolic representaion of the end of "duality" as described in the Buddhist "nirvana", satori, moksha or even "Christ consciousness"
[[Neutron star after a supernova as a symbol of "Christ consciousness"!]]
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~ Gospel of Thomas -
"Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."
[two into one, inner like the outer, uter like the inner, upper like the lower = end of clinging to one aspect of duality!)
~ Tao Te Ching ~
"The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners." ....... "Hold on to the center"
['Tao doesn't take sides' = Jesus saying 'When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower'... 'then you will enter the kingdom' or "understand" the Tao]
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The Nuetron star as a potential result of the massive star's evolution can be seen as a symbol of making the duality into "one" (ie, no electrons , no protons, no duality .... composed of nuetral nuetrons) ... it is a symbol of what is said above from those two sources.
And so the nuetral quickly spinning 'nuetron star' is a symbol of being at the centre of the Buddhist wheel or being within the "Kingdom of Heaven" of the gnostic 'Christian' gospels as opposed to the realm of feeling the duality of things when attached to the edge of the wheel. The massive star's alchemical life of going through processes and transmutation of elements is like the human (perhaps through multiple lifetimes as stages of alchemical process) experience whereby the understanding attains higher "spiritual" (for lack of a better word) levels of refinement until the neutralized condensed end of dualtiy occurs ... which could be labelled with terms such as nirvana, moksha, "Kingdom of Heaven".
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I hope this rambling texts brings useful ideas to others who read it.
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