Friday, October 17, 2008

Memento Mori, Refracted Reflections, As Above So Below





1111 x 1111 = 1234321

The number 4 is prevalent everywhere as the backbone to the anatomy of numbers

Four Elements: Water, Earth, Fire, Air
Four Seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
Four Directions: North, South, East, West

Furthermore, consider the pyramids – these phenomenal temples are constructed upon a base of four. Similarly, our homes are founded upon square (four) angles. This is no coincidence. Over the ages humankind has recognized the stability presented by the number Four and has utilized it to his greatest advantage.




1234321 = 7 digits
Number of additive colors = 7

The chinese and japanese also use these extremely old and expressive 4 character proverbs which contain many levels of meaning in those four characters.

For example, one of my personal favorites is...



The first kanji is 'Awakening', or in a universal sense, 'Birth'...


The second kanji is 'Development', or in the universal sense, 'Growth'...


The third kanji is 'Turn', or in the universal sense, 'Change/Evolution'...


The forth and final kanji is 'Conclusion', or in the universal sense, 'Death/Rebirth'...

All of reality is cyclic...

All linear flawed modes of causality and thought must eventually succumb to and bow down to this cyclical precept of time and space...

Either way, their silly linear reality bubble will pop along with the finite meat bag they call a body proving itself false naturally...

The great equalizer of death always brings everyone back to 0... A perfect circle... nothingness and wholeness... Beyond distinction and duality...

Immediately humbling all things, no matter how indignant they are, to the mystery of all that is...

Remember: What you are looking for is what is looking


Mirrors have the power to disturb, or please us. Gazing at our reflection in the mirror, we most often see what we want to see--the image of ourselves with which we are most comfortable. We tend not to look too closely, ignoring the wrinkles, and blemishes. But if we do look hard at the reflected image we sometimes feel that we are seeing ourselves as others see us, as a person among other people, an object rather than a subject. For some, that feeling unsettles us and makes us shudder-- we see ourselves, but from the outside, minus the thoughts, spirits, and soul that fill our consciousness. We are a thing. Other times, we feel we are seeing ourselves as we see others, as separate but connected, separate objects to the same subject. For those, it brings a sense of oneness and relief-- they can see and feel the connective driving force behind the hall of mirrors like subjective sparks reflecting and flitting about the neural pathways telling the story of the greater whole. A life within the lifelessness. The mirror reflects only what you're willing to look at, and accept. What do you see; Life, or lifelessness? Perhaps, both? Perhaps, neither?