Infinite Potential
This will make little sense, since I am writing all of this as it gushes out. I don’t know how other people do it but I can’t think or write any moment I choose. I can sit there all day and won’t have a clue as to what to write about or how to say it. But there are these things or moments I call “waves” of inspiration. If you are an artist, musician, poet, writer, or contemplative thinker, you’ll know exactly what I am talking about.
When that “wave” hits you scramble for pen and paper or computer or your phone to write down what will Flow out. When you’re in that wave, ideas just gush out. We don’t make the insights, we actually have to write as fast as we can to keep up with the wave and gushing of wordless essence. We try to scramble in our heads for the words and ideas or notes or rhythm or picture to express the wordless stuff.
I learned early that if I miss this wave, I’d have to wait for the next wave to come. Before I would be hanging out with friends, and this wave would hit at the most odd moments when I am busy with no means to jot notes down. I would think to myself that’s I’ll remember it when I get home in the evening. So when quiet time in the evening comes, I’d sit there empty brained and frustrated! Fortunately now I have an excellent notation app on my phone. It’s like having a fold-up surf board with you at all times. So when the wave hits anywhere, I’m ready to ride it out.
Potentiality
When I think about the wave of inspiration and the wordless essence that flows through, I think of something I would call “Potential Stuff.” It’s not real tangible stuff, its stuff in a state or condition of potential possibility. That Potentiality must be Unfolded and Expressed Causally with words and idea, to express the unexpressed potential.
Thus, we have two sets of “stuff” to deal with. Potential Stuff and Causal Stuff. An article I wrote would be the Causal Stuff. We can look at an article and ask ourselves: “Where did this come from?” “Who wrote it?” “How did it come into Being?” “What caused it?” And such questions would be rationally easy to answer. If it is something I personally wrote, I Caused it into Being.
BUT, there is a side to that article which existed BEFORE it was caused into Being: it’s Unexpressed Potential State. If we speak of this specific unexpressed potentiality as a possible potential, and we asked those same questions, can we rationally come up with answers? What “caused” that potentiality into existence? Did it even “exist” as a “something?” If a Potential “exists” before causal cause, is it a-causal?
The key question is: Does a Potential for something have a cause?
I’ll use Pi as an example again. There are probably other number sequences by we all know Pi better. Pi has a Potentially Infinite sequence of numbers. When we act on the sequence to unravel the string of numbers, we can say that we are the Cause of the number sequence being Expressed. But when we don’t touch it; when Pi stays asleep in a circle; this number sequence “exists” in a Potential State. So what caused that Potentiality to be? Does a Potentiality need a cause?
Another example to draw out the point is a game I have on my phone. I think it’s called bejeweled or something. It’s that game with all these colored jewels at the top of the screen and you shoot random colored jewels at the mess of jewels to make 3 or more in a row, and the row falls off. So as I play this game on my phone, I can say that my acting on the game Unravels or Causes into Being certain conditions. Except on the “other side” of the game – the software level – every possible potential already exists simultaneously: superimposition of all potential configurations. All I am really doing is literally Unraveling a set of configurations, or drawing out from the co-existent sea of all potential configurations causally.
Acausality
I half-mindedly mentioned somewhere else that I see the Acausal part of the cosmos as some sort of Nucleus of the causal/physical/expressed side of the cosmos. I didn’t realize there was more meaning to that idea. Acausal here meaning not acausal energy, or life force, but an essence or substance or thing that exists beyond the ”jurisdiction” of causal space and time. If we go back to using the Star Game as an example, we can draw out this point.
We have constructed our 7 boards and pieces and we’re looking at the contraption sitting on a table. As we look at the Star Game sitting on the table we notice deep inside that every possible/potential configuration of this game co-exists as simultaneous potentiality. What caused that sea of potentiality? If you really think about every potential configuration, causal sequence, piece placement, pattern, and out come of the Star Game exists because of only a handful of simple rules or laws. As we play the Star Game we only act as “nexions” thru which certain potentials of this game unwinds Causally.
So looking at the Star Game with this state of mind we discern two “aspects” of the Star Game. The first is the visible Causal aspect which consists of the boards and pieces and the causal moves. The second aspect is the invisible superimposition of potentiality simultaneously co-existing in a Potential State BEFORE Causation is initiated: the Acausal side of the game. All we are as players are nexions for that wound up acausal potential to unwind causally.
If we take that same concept and superimpose it onto the Cosmos, then the Acausal side of the Cosmos takes on a new and interesting face. The acausal side of the cosmos isn’t just a sea of Life Force. It is a sea of all potential – Infinite Potential – co-existing in a state of Chaos [chaos as the Greeks used it]. Does Potentiality need a cause to “exist” if we can even use such words as “exist?”
There is this concept or thought experiment which goes that if you give a chimp a computer and if given enough time – eternity – sometime within that eternity the chimp will eventually end up typing out Shakespeare stuff. In other words, eternity is so big and vast that the Potential for a monkey to write out Shakespears work word for word “exists.” The Question is what Caused that Potential to “exist?” Could the answer be the infinite vastness of Eternity? Governed by the simple “law” that all things are Possible within the limits of some rules and order?
If we think about it – in a Taoist way – the more laws and rules there are, the less Freedom and Possibility will exist. While the less laws and rules there are, the more Freedom and Potential will exist. If this is the case, and we have an [potential/folded] eternal infinity with zero laws, what are the number of possible Potentialities?
The more I think about it, the more the Acausal is like a Nucleus of a cells in which is wound up the coding and sequencing of all possible potentials. But this is all just rambling and speculation. This wounded up ocean of potentiality in my mind is like a ocean full of balls of yarn. And as the Unfolders or Nexions between the acausal and causal we are like fisherman on a boat in this sea of wound up yarn. We cast our nets out and draw up a handful of balls of yarn, and then we crochet sweaters and hats.
There was something I read or heard long ago that changed the way I would see everything after I was exposed to the thought. The thought was that if I held a seed of an orange in my hand, I am also holding in my hand millions of orange trees, millions of groves, billions of orange fruit, and billions of orange blossoms. All in the palm of my hand neatly tucked away in that orange seed.
Now looking back at that concept, I can make more sense of it. There is an acausal something connected to that seed in which is contained every possible tree, blossom, and fruit in a state of raveled up Potentiality. Which Potentiality has no cause, because they don’t yet “exist” in the causal. That seed is merely a Causal-Seed that will set a chain reaction across time. This causal chain reaction of a sapling growing into a tree; a tree baring fruit; the fruit falling, decaying, and dropping it fruits in the earth; and more trees growing from them; is the Causal Unfoldment of that infinite acausal potential. Which unfoldment occurs and comes into Being within the frameowork of causal space and time.
If given enough time, that original orange seed would have produced millions of trees. If given an eternity to unravel its endless potential, it would Unfold into an infinite number of trees. Every tree that can ever come out and manifest causally, first was an acausal potential encoded or embedded in some acausal field. We don’t even have to use seeds. It still works with quantum foam. Everything that exists or can possibly exist is Expressed/Unfolded into the causal through the “fabric” of that foam, and what that foam can become.
This is just speculative rambling. An attempt of one mind to better understand what it exists in. The essence of the thought is there. I just don’t have the right words and ideas to dress them up in for them to perhaps be understood. Hopefully, someone out there will grasp the essence, and someday do a better job at conveying the essence. The key ideas is Unmanifested and Manifested. Folded up Potential and Unfolded Causal Expression. Acausal and Causal. I’m sure that as time goes by I’ll come back to this idea and further develop it into something more articulate. The idea in my other recent writings was about Potential Infinity. This is the reverse: Infinite Potentiality.
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