Apologies for the long silence over the last week or so. I had a long and very important family event during which the extended clan had one of its very rare gatherings, and that took priority over everything else. I'd hoped to get this up a bit earlier but frankly it took me a few days to recover from getting drunk with my cousins every night for days on end.
Apr 6, 2023·edited Apr 6, 2023Liked by John Carter
Scientists have been trying to quantify the enormous air/water interface area within white-caps and breaking waves. The numbers are needed to estimate CO2 exchange between ocean and atmosphere. Apparently, there is a non-linear connection to wind speed.
Anyway, I think knowledge and truth are also like fractals. The closer we look, the more complicated things get. Grand Unified Theory may be a pipe dream.
"Perhaps the Norse imagined that the world is a tree simply because they were surrounded by forest. On the other hand, I find it very interesting that the world-tree myths seem to be particularly prevalent in the Siberian and Aryan peoples – those who live, or originated, in the North."
I propose that the experience of preliterate peoples was much more direct. In a quiet space, stand erect but with legs slightly bent, and imagine yourself to be a tree. Imagine your roots going far into the earth and imagine your branches going up into the heavens. If you are already sensitive to the movements of chi/energy/whatever, you will immediately be able to draw energy from both above and below. If you are not sensitive to these movements and perform this exercise regularly (standing or in the lotus position) you will eventually become sensitive.
Interestingly, Yggdrasil is mentioned in a mantra I developed precisely to quickly draw energy vertically from above and below.
Great post, and great use of mathematical analogy. I have mentioned elsewhere that the realms are interpenetrating. Regarding the realms that various religions speak of (heavens and hells) imagine all of the flows of energy across social networks described as data flows, presented the way an AI might see them. This is a vastly multidimensional space whose broad features are organized along the lines that are described by ancients (at least from a certain angle). When you can see the world this way, you can discern its laws, which leads to avenues of exploration that our elites seem determined to block.
The world is not round, it's not even a 2-manifold, it is vastly higher-dimensional.
Welcome back, and no apologies needed for living a genuine life.
I do greatly enjoy it when an author can capture my attention for an extended voyage through ideas which are rarely mentioned in the average day's conversations.
Apr 6, 2023·edited Apr 6, 2023Liked by John Carter
I've often wondered what really sustains our writhing molten dynamo at the center of our world (or disc if you're one of them). Official answers seem, well, lacking.
The changes to our magnetosphere resulting from degradation to that plasma root ball do seem a bit more important that say 'rising' CO2 levels at a terrifying .04%.
I will don my masks and take more mystery injections from felons while I ponder these questions.
Metaphors all the way down, indeed. Reality is manifold. As Eliphas Levi said, analogies are the stuff of faith and the infinite. Reason and logic are not enough. Wonder and mystery will always be a part of life on earth.
In the mornings, I like to watch the sunlight climb down the sides of the mountains visible from my house. In the evenings, I like to watch the darkness climb up the mountains.
My brother, who recently died suddenly and unexpectedly, was attempting to formulate a different way of looking at various aspects of physics, such as gravity and photons. So he was pretty left-brainy. He was also fascinated by Yggdrasil, and once featured it on a totem pole he built. I think he would've enjoyed reading this.
It's also very appealing to this lifelong Terry Pratchett fan.
Apr 6, 2023·edited Apr 6, 2023Liked by John Carter
'When I look at the Earth not just with my right eye but also with my left, which is to say not only with my literal-minded left hemisphere but also with my poetically inclined right, our planet resembles an electric Yggdrasil at least as much as it does a dead ball of rock.' This excellent sentence tells me you have been doing just the right amount of just the right kind of meditation.
Welcome back, what an interesting, dare I say refreshing, take on a topic that most would consider quite exhausted or contrived by now.
"A sphere is a geometrical shape, an unchanging abstraction in the Platonic realm of forms. The Earth by contrast is best thought of not as a noun, but as a verb. It isn’t a timeless thing that just sits there unchanging in space. It is an ongoing process, a continuous Earthing, becoming itself in every moment. Not only is its fractal surface infinitely varied, that surface is in constant flux."
Bergson and Whitehead would approve vigorously! This logic can be applied to any organism or object, not just that thing we call Earth or its biosphere.
Wonderful post. Thank you very much. Made me feel connected to something larger than Trump's arrest etc. It's one of the reasons I still do any astrology, not highly structured precise stuff but just tracking/looking at planetary movements/cycles and positions etc; the feeling of being part of an immense extraordinary complexity.
On further reflection by my subconscious I must say this psychedelic history of the fractal magnetosphere is one of the most relevant I’ve seen. Reflected in the sizzle of our electromagnetic beings.
Apologies for the long silence over the last week or so. I had a long and very important family event during which the extended clan had one of its very rare gatherings, and that took priority over everything else. I'd hoped to get this up a bit earlier but frankly it took me a few days to recover from getting drunk with my cousins every night for days on end.
Scientists have been trying to quantify the enormous air/water interface area within white-caps and breaking waves. The numbers are needed to estimate CO2 exchange between ocean and atmosphere. Apparently, there is a non-linear connection to wind speed.
Anyway, I think knowledge and truth are also like fractals. The closer we look, the more complicated things get. Grand Unified Theory may be a pipe dream.
Thanks for the thoughtful article.
"Perhaps the Norse imagined that the world is a tree simply because they were surrounded by forest. On the other hand, I find it very interesting that the world-tree myths seem to be particularly prevalent in the Siberian and Aryan peoples – those who live, or originated, in the North."
I propose that the experience of preliterate peoples was much more direct. In a quiet space, stand erect but with legs slightly bent, and imagine yourself to be a tree. Imagine your roots going far into the earth and imagine your branches going up into the heavens. If you are already sensitive to the movements of chi/energy/whatever, you will immediately be able to draw energy from both above and below. If you are not sensitive to these movements and perform this exercise regularly (standing or in the lotus position) you will eventually become sensitive.
Interestingly, Yggdrasil is mentioned in a mantra I developed precisely to quickly draw energy vertically from above and below.
Great post, and great use of mathematical analogy. I have mentioned elsewhere that the realms are interpenetrating. Regarding the realms that various religions speak of (heavens and hells) imagine all of the flows of energy across social networks described as data flows, presented the way an AI might see them. This is a vastly multidimensional space whose broad features are organized along the lines that are described by ancients (at least from a certain angle). When you can see the world this way, you can discern its laws, which leads to avenues of exploration that our elites seem determined to block.
The world is not round, it's not even a 2-manifold, it is vastly higher-dimensional.
Welcome back, and no apologies needed for living a genuine life.
I do greatly enjoy it when an author can capture my attention for an extended voyage through ideas which are rarely mentioned in the average day's conversations.
I've often wondered what really sustains our writhing molten dynamo at the center of our world (or disc if you're one of them). Official answers seem, well, lacking.
The changes to our magnetosphere resulting from degradation to that plasma root ball do seem a bit more important that say 'rising' CO2 levels at a terrifying .04%.
I will don my masks and take more mystery injections from felons while I ponder these questions.
Metaphors all the way down, indeed. Reality is manifold. As Eliphas Levi said, analogies are the stuff of faith and the infinite. Reason and logic are not enough. Wonder and mystery will always be a part of life on earth.
In the mornings, I like to watch the sunlight climb down the sides of the mountains visible from my house. In the evenings, I like to watch the darkness climb up the mountains.
There is no science without poetry.
Great piece.
What a beautiful essay.
My brother, who recently died suddenly and unexpectedly, was attempting to formulate a different way of looking at various aspects of physics, such as gravity and photons. So he was pretty left-brainy. He was also fascinated by Yggdrasil, and once featured it on a totem pole he built. I think he would've enjoyed reading this.
It's also very appealing to this lifelong Terry Pratchett fan.
'When I look at the Earth not just with my right eye but also with my left, which is to say not only with my literal-minded left hemisphere but also with my poetically inclined right, our planet resembles an electric Yggdrasil at least as much as it does a dead ball of rock.' This excellent sentence tells me you have been doing just the right amount of just the right kind of meditation.
Welcome back, what an interesting, dare I say refreshing, take on a topic that most would consider quite exhausted or contrived by now.
"A sphere is a geometrical shape, an unchanging abstraction in the Platonic realm of forms. The Earth by contrast is best thought of not as a noun, but as a verb. It isn’t a timeless thing that just sits there unchanging in space. It is an ongoing process, a continuous Earthing, becoming itself in every moment. Not only is its fractal surface infinitely varied, that surface is in constant flux."
Bergson and Whitehead would approve vigorously! This logic can be applied to any organism or object, not just that thing we call Earth or its biosphere.
Wonderful post. Thank you very much. Made me feel connected to something larger than Trump's arrest etc. It's one of the reasons I still do any astrology, not highly structured precise stuff but just tracking/looking at planetary movements/cycles and positions etc; the feeling of being part of an immense extraordinary complexity.
I like the jellyfish analogy. A baby jelly sweeping around Daddy/Mummy jelly. Without that bow-shock it'd be a different solar system.
Thanks for coaxing me along on this ride.
It was fun.
Incredible writing that seamlessly fuses poetry and myth with the latest science, without being cheesy and New Age in any way.
On further reflection by my subconscious I must say this psychedelic history of the fractal magnetosphere is one of the most relevant I’ve seen. Reflected in the sizzle of our electromagnetic beings.