The Tail of Divisional Multiplication.
This post is about the codification of transitional states as steering mechanisms. If this were a zen koan perhaps it would say something like "to be literate is the height of illiteracy" My favored pet and personal antagonist once again becomes grist for the mill. To say that looking at a musical score is to experience music and yet largely, this is one of several chief features of my fellow transitional states having names like Bob or Katy through the "human condition." Lets go sit upon a ledge and dangle our feet in the air observing the ground our fellow inhabitants trod upon in a roundabout, as well as the resulting traffic, all moving with codification having become realities, which hide in plain sight. The Janus face of the paranormal and the normal. Certainly as one physicist observed perhaps as a species we cannot cope with uncertainty and so we all sit atop platforms we have borrowed without any valuation of where these sign posts lead us ultimately as predictors of future barricades set against transitional states. Then again. is metaphysical materialism a reflection of scientific materialism?
“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching
“I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.”
― Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
One could say that there is a mirror effect between the aims of Taoism and Surrealism as their mutual aim is to pull the curtain back from codification. Zen much like Buddhism pulls apart the daisy chain of codification and then there is the disruptive fallacies of organic substances like LSD and so forth that create caricatures through the metaphors of the precepts they are based upon. Of course there is the delusion that enlightenment is a steady state and so forth and so on.
We all have innate and latent predispositions almost as if they were default steering mechanisms. In metaphysics they use the term essence as if one ground down all the constituent aspects of a flower to determine a scent, rather than a dissection of the various relationships of a flower's individuated components that comprise appearance, behavior, subsystems, food input, transforming quality and the end product being seen as a singular manifestation. Of course then they went further in attempting to simplify essence into dynamic principles that were imaged by numerical relationships such as the number three representing a triad of dynamics that were thought to be universally applicable. The reconciling principle, the passive principle and the active principle. Of course transpositions were made into negative, positive and neutral dynamics much like alternating current.
However, the visible geometry of relations transposed into symbology represents the same illiteracy of all referents in that language and math constitutes as conceptual models of the dynamics inherent in any transitional manifestation represented falsely as a sum.
A very good example is what is termed as the "magical arts". This geometry of dynamics resulted in everything from five pointed stars to circles to squares being seen as symbology or referents having a active quality in of themselves. I can draw the aspects of a transformer but what I have created is a representation not the transformer or it's qualities and relations but rather a simplified image. To think otherwise that the drawing itself contains this capability is lunacy and yet conceptual representations have a steering effect into an almost delusional state of mixing oranges to be the same as apples when the manifestation is not a fruit of either.
All three of which, it was supposed to be a sort of necessity to create a transitional manifestation in a material sense in the correspondence between the visible and invisible realms. One could perhaps call this the essence of life as manifested between the sun, the earth and the moon but then there is the microcosm of an ant or a whale or a human being all busty transforming this or that, always into something else all together just as human beings have their behavior dictated by a default directive that results in fire building or stealth aircraft. The work being done in a sense is both servile and selfish at once depending on what chair you occupy to observe this flurry of activity termed life, yet this relationship is in essence, indivisible.