Perception 2: Natural Perpetrators
I created a scenario for you in perception 1. I tried to show with examples and links how the new technologies could manipulate the individual to ‘become’ something he is not. I think I put a good case across with examples and links to suggest how technologies today could be used to influence us through our natural sensors – sight, sound, smell, and touch – to influence us with all the emotions that can be conjured up with these natural sensors. A convincing case can be made up to seem that it is real and it becomes real. Hearing is a particularly interesting sensor as there is the audible and the inaudible aspect of it ( further perpetuating the idea.) Subliminal messages on ‘silent mode’ can be transmitted to where there might be ‘no’ audible sound to the individual but it is no different to that of what you can hear. The subliminal message still gets across. They bounce off what’s around you and arrive in a muffle. You see I am still trying to convince you and the more I do it the more it becomes believable, like writing fiction. Today science and technology has got closer to manipulating the ‘self’. To the artist who wants to cross-the-line for the new, to manifest that which is not there, he has yet, as seen above, another obstacle to overcome. But then you want to ask: has the individual ever been free to create the ‘new’ or is he really ever was always shackled to the structure of the process: from the big bang of zero consciousness to the created morphogenetic field (Rupert Sheldrake) that evolved as a result of us being creative. We created our past and we are at present living off it. We are not living in an absolute world. Not that there is not the Truth of things: the laws of nature is the bottom line: you look towards it for inspiration. This is even more relevant today: we created a Disney land of ideas as to how best to live our lives, feeding off a collection of ideas, piling one of top of each other, well off the path of the Truth of the natural laws of the universe and we have reached the tipping point for those set of ideas and it is crumbling off the top. So the artist and his ideas: no different. Might it just be that the new is just not possible: it is all only a permutation of the ‘Disneyland of ideas’ that we created for ourselves and we are living off it and in that illusion, while feeding off the morphic field created from the past. As has been said and with good reason: one has to see, ‘what is’ (J. Krishnamurti) and live with those limitations for nothing new is ahead of us but just a crumbling of old ideas and making of another off the old past and the cycle is repeated. So how does one come off this circle, where the ‘beginning is the ending’ and for ever doomed to repetition of social cycles spanning time that is too long for one to remember when the last one ended. Memory in mind might be erased on passing, but the past is something that the living continues to carry around with them.
There is 2 sides to all of us: the visible and the invisible. I hope with today’s advancements in quantum mechanics we can say this without having to make excuses. Programs on TV today put across the facts quiet simply for anyone to see science today as it is. Each atom I gather on each individual can radiate out about a kilometre around that individual. So unless you are alone in the desert, that energy is going to interact with the energy of the 100’s that are walking past you and with a possible discovery of the Higgs Boson, we are all living in a sieve of treacle as we interact with each other. (something to think about is that isolation, like the recognised prophets have done in the past, does allow for a clear uninterrupted field of ‘vision’ from individuals) There are no individuals in the cities: there are groups of people creating their collective morphogenetic fields in the ether and collectively living off it and these fields probably cross oceans and people are affected by what goes on in places they do not even know about. The properties of the field is organic: not the same from one moment to another as new ideas are added to it. A good example for this is today’s financial crises: I gather a new idea by the investment bankers of creating a certain kind of derivative that was not easy to quantify and money was borrowed on these derivatives – great idea at the time, create something that looks like something which turned out to be nothing and lets borrow money on it pretending that it is something. Sounds like a great painting idea – after it is conceived, make it and set a value for it after the idea has been manifested. It will be valuable if the idea is ‘new’ but what if the ‘new’ comes off the old. The human being as an entity is not going anywhere but into itself. It is held in place by the limitations of its sensors that make up its visible world and also by its invisible world by being held in its place by the energies that surround it. The individual can only make itself of itself and of the collective entity (the morphic field). It makes an illusionary world that it then inhabits thinking that it is real. It only takes a derivative trader with a good ‘new’ idea to show you how vulnerable the system can be and you want to consider that the good ‘new’ idea of the last century, carefully building on itself, has reached its tipping point and it might be just too close to us for us to see its end. It has been said that they come in stages of dips and plateaus. A dip is corrected temporarily to a plateau and then the next dip comes along until there are no more resources to contain it any more. You must think of it as a whole entity of a big idea this thing called ‘society’. Every big idea will have its tipping point as you can push it only so far before it runs dry. Art and creativity I think is not sitting tall outside of all of this but is actually the driving force behind this illusion, creating the unreal and perpetuating the illusion. It is the engine of the Morphogenetic field. A natural perpetrator of the illusion.
New ideas do turn up at times. Something might look like a new idea and it might look like it is coming from outside the energy field that keeps the past, but then is it possible that field itself generates these so called new ideas from itself. One must remember that the morphogenetic field
is an energy field with an array of patterns and forms: like that in a painting. Shapes and things and patterns and colour. In these energy fields the information is stored in patterns of energy, forms and shapes.
According to Swedenborg, “the uninterrupted creativity of the universe comes from, in which there an endless multiplicity of forms of which none resembles the other”. So how then does the new idea arise.
Rupert Sheldrake: “New fields (morphic fields) start off as insights, intuitive leaps, guesses, hypotheses or conjectures. They are like mental mutations. New associations or patterns of connections come into being suddenly by a kind of Gestalt-switch”.
I can understand that a set of patterns put together can form new associations and patterns but if you put a bunch of tomatoes together and jumble it up and look at it again you are not going to get asparagus. You cannot get away from that which you have created in the first place. The truly new has to come from outside of the limits of the ‘what is’ to be truly new. If we live of what we create and cannot come off it then there is no going anywhere but only to where disorder prevails. Even the ever expanding universe cannot escape this as nothing stands still. One second is different from the next. And society as an idea of the human mind that came off the past and from the generating of ideas from within itself for ever evolving from the desires of the mind, getting more complex and expanding might find that what it sits on was not made to hold up what it has become.
Hopefully in the circle, it is not getting close to the beginning of where the end is.
So just as Society is an idea of the mind as all Art is in its forms is a thing of its collective past or a mutation of it. (Ursula Groll in “Swedenborg and New Paradigm Science”) describes Swedenborg in his visionary work how the spirit works on the body and how all changes in the body are caused by perception. For people are, above all, “spiritual figures,” to whom the “inner world” lends form.
Humanity is linked through the inner world to the whole cosmos, in morphic resonance to use Sheldrake’s words. Each human being is connected with every other human being and thereby subject, consciously or unconsciously, to all good and evil influences.
Swedenborg: nothing in the universe can “ arise and exist without ordering itself within a collective.”
Sheldrake’s hypothesis also suggests “that the entire history of the human spirit that derived from a unified immaterial common spirit, which then took form in the development of the different arts, cultures, religions and sciences.”
The Arts might not show us what the Truth is if it only deals with its own content, but the process does have one thing going for it: it does naturally take you into the inner world and gives you inner sight for understanding your invisible world. IF you would allow me to say this: too many material beings are living with only a part of themselves in existence: they see only what their sensors tell them. You meet the Truth with both your visible and the invisible worlds. Art can make you do this because the process allows for it. But can it manifest from outside its past and create the truly ‘new’ is doubtful. Perhaps it can only go round in circles, feeding off what it has already created, until we find a way out of our limitations.
AS with the new technologies that can alter our perception, so can the natural perpetrators of the invisible processes of the ‘self’. Boom and bust is not only a trait for the financial world but possibly also tied up with the social cycles of the past and with the limitations of the mind and its processes.
Until the day, the mind, can find a way to work outside its limitations and free itself from its past then perhaps creativity can find a way to create the truly new.
I end this wth a quote from J.Krishnamurti:
“The known can never know the Unknown. Sirs, this is not just a statement; but if you listen to it, if you listen to the real meaning of it, you will know the truth of it. But the man of vanity, the man of knowledge, the scholar, the man who is pursuing a result, can never know the Unknown; therefore he cannot be a creative being. And at the present time it is the creative being—the man who is creative—that is essential in our daily life, not a man who has a new technique, a new panacea. And there can be no creativeness if there is already a residue of knowledge. The mind must be empty to be creative. It means the mind must be totally and completely humble. Then only is there a possibility of that creativity to come into being.” – J. Krishnamurti