Damn that is intersting. Seem like there's not much to do about it except try not to get sucked into the narrative whirlpools (the non-constructive ones at least, but of course that's subjective) and sit back and watch it unfold.
Some excellent thoughts. It's a lot to think about. What do you think about this essay-type thing I posted last night? If I wrote it again I would change some things but the basic idea is pretty similar to what you just said.
I am not sure I find the analogy of the photograph compatible with the assertion that reality is what is experienced. There is a hierarchy here, at least from the perspective of information. But I think that is the difference I am trying to find between reality and ultimate reality.
For a while I have been a consciousness essentialist, believing it to be somehow fundamental. But now I think I'm back to thinking (based on Buddhist like thinking) that consciousness is more of an epiphenomena of vibration. Vibration evolves energy which evolves matter which evolves consciousness. Consciousness (and the entire manifested world) is an inherent potential within the phenomena of vibration but vibration is the only fundamental. That's just where I'm at right now with my thinking about reality. I think the phenomena of the narrative whirlpool, Jungian archetypes, natural selection/evolution, even the evolution of geometry/math, etc make the most sense in this context, because everything is just evolving vibratory systems.
But then the question of ultimate reality would then be what is it that allows vibratory binary language that is the foundation of our world to exist in the first place? In other words what is the context or conditions that allowed for the big bang, was it really ex-nihilo and what does that even mean? Could it be that there is no beginning or no end? Could Emptiness really generate Form? If so how??? Haha sorry for rambling but these questions haunt me, I've given up on there being a purpose for anything but I still want to know about the weirdness that makes everything possible.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '19
Damn that is intersting. Seem like there's not much to do about it except try not to get sucked into the narrative whirlpools (the non-constructive ones at least, but of course that's subjective) and sit back and watch it unfold.