This chapter deals with different views of the same thing.
We each experience the world alone in our own personal universe of the internal reflective ‘I’ and the external projective ‘not-I’. All of one’s personal experience of self, and one’s personal experience of the not-self are together one duality perspective of all things. This experience is part of the universe of experience of all things. Each entity experiences one part of the totality of all experience. Self and not-self both occur in, by, with, and for that higher level of mutual reality we all share, the common reality of both and neither .
All things exist in terms of the self, the not self, and both and neither both and neither. These paths of existence are static perspectives on a dynamic merging of the three into one interaction terminal. This can be seen with the subjective right brain as the same as me, the objective left brain as the same as not me, and the integration of the two different views by the corpus callosum into both perspectives of the same thing. Awareness processes similarities and differences.
Being is an active process that integrates opposing internal and external flows of energy/information/imagery, each feeding back to the other. Doing is the action of controlling motion and stillness. Having growth is completing the cycle or moving on to the next node in an expanding pattern.
To see things as different and similar at the same time is to see how contradictories can actually be in agreement; a significant step towards an enlightened perspective.
The hypotenuse is a representation of both X and Y. From one perspective, the hypotenuse is the same length as the X value, and from another perspective, the hypotenuse is the same length as the Y value.
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It is obvious that locally, the hypotenuse is neither parallel nor the same length as either the X axis or the Y axis components alone.
The place from which to view the length of the X axis (and of the hypotenuse) is from some great distance along the Y axis. By extending the distance along the Y axis that the X value and the hypotenuse are viewed from, the X value and hypotenuse can reasonably be seen to be the same length and parallel to each other.
From a point an infinite distance along the Y axis, there is no angular difference between the hypotenuse and the X dimensional value, so they seem to be the same length.
Also, at this infinite distance, the greater distance to the far end of the hypotenuse does not seem farther than the closer end of the hypotenuse or any point along the X axis. It is nearly the same distance to the points along the X axis as it is to the points along the hypotenuse.
From infinitely far away, the hypotenuse and the X axis appear to be the same length as each other and parallel to each other. The same process holds for viewing the Y axis from a distance along the X axis. An infinite depth of field is created. From two opposing infinite perspectives, the hypotenuse, at all slopes, is parallel to and the same length as both X and Y.
There can be many different right answers to the same question. If a juggler does one trick in one hand, and simultaneously does another trick in the other hand, the juggler can be said to be doing one, two, or three tricks. One trick is two things at once, two tricks is one in each hand, and three tricks is two tricks and both of them at once. Perceptions are not right or wrong, they are similar or different.
Our continuing drive to exist includes modifying ourselves to continue to exist. We perform the changes that alter things so that we may persist, and we perform the changes that keep things the same so that we may persist. Doing one is the same as doing the other, and not.
As new and different changes to seek persistence are attempted, differing results will reinforce the changes or not. New changes do things that have not been done before. Reinforced new changes are kept and become entrenched. Entrenched changes do the same things repeatedly to support an ever more enhanced persistence. An enhanced stable base of change supports yet a higher subtler level of even newer changes to be tested.
Changing change is the same and different as unchanging change. Motion and stillness are relative to each other.
All that exists is the universe of all things. All of experience is of the unity indirectly. This indirect experience is of the self, the not-self, and both and neither. On the abstract plane of unity, concepts of ‘me’ and ‘not-me’ vanish. We are still all part of the same thing. Parts of ‘me’ are not me. (I am not my body.) Parts of “not-me” are me. (My family is a part of me.)
The slope of the hypotenuse passes at a diagonal through the X,Y grid. Where this line can be seen as a rational fraction that passes through a specific number of units of distance X for each specific number units of distance Y, then the slope can also be seen to be reflected within a single rectangular unit of XY eventually back to the origin. Reflecting around within a geodesic is similar to projecting across a similar flat grid.
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In our three dimensional view of the world, locally observed object’s surfaces often reflect waves directly back to an observer object, but as distance grows, so do the misses to direct reflection. A truly global perspective has a real but extremely remote chance of a mutual reflective gaze.
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Direct self-reflection with the point of higher dimensional unity is not a linear possibility. All events in reality occur in time and space. To reflect on the higher reality, we would have to see ourselves reflected in all things at once. Indirect self-reflection is the nature of experiential existence. It is the perpendicular tangent to a slope that indirectly represents the direct reflection to the point of unity. Indirect self-reflection can be an explicit perpendicular to a slope line between two separated points, or implicit, from the self, reflected back to the self. One is the same as the other. As simple ratios of indirect self-reflection are established, subtler ratios of slope become the new levels of reality. These higher harmonics of self-reflection are the subtler levels of being.
Through opposing structural tension (along the grid of nodes) and harmonic resonance, each level of an expanding wave entity participates in mutual process of cause and effect with all other entities.
Reflective and projective exchanges are the interactions of reality. These interactions, all real, can be objective or subjective. Two people who reflect each other’s gaze well can connect in a very real but subjective way.
Each entity is a wave and a surface of projections and reflections, absorptions and emissions, pushes and pulls. Some exchanges can be created, blocked, focused or intensified by specific materials and configurations. This would include the forces of electricity and magnetism.
Other exchanges (like gravity) are transparent to any interruption and act directly, each entity to every other entity. The gravitational exchanges of each particle are its interference interactions with every other particle. The fields of each particle are reach virtually infinitely far reaching into space and are virtually infinitely weak at those near infinite distances, but real.
In three dimensions, the forces exchanged for electricity, magnetism, and gravity all decrease or increase as the inverse of the square of the distance between each set of reflecting objects. This relationship can also be seen in the view of the self in a flat reflector. The size of a reflected image varies as the inverse of the square of the distance between the object and its reflection. Each gravitationally reflecting object forms a flat reflecting surface directly to every other gravitationally reflective object. Every object sees itself in every other object. A three dimensional flat reflector is created by three flat mutually perpendicular planes.
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Attraction (force/energy) and resistance (mass/inertia) follow cube / square laws and limits the scalability of specific structures, which is why there are no twenty foot tall people or neutron stars over a given mass.
Three dimensional space is not delineated by the three axes of space, X,Y, and Z. Space is divided by the planes that are perpendicular to those three axes. Space is occupied by three pairs of planes limiting space in three dimensions. This shape is the cube. The opposing diagonals of these parallel sets of three perpendiculars are a pair of tetrahedrons.
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A three dimensional point of reflection (where three mutually perpendicular planes intersect) directly reflect all objects in three dimensions, back to each object of reflection. This point of reflection in space integrates three two-dimensional direct reflectors into one three-dimensional direct reflector. The reflected image in the three dimensional reflector is seen as if having been passed through a single point at the intersection of the three planes and projected onto a plane equidistant beyond the reflector. The difference between a three-dimensional direct reflector’s image and a one-dimensional flat direct reflector’s image is that the three dimensional reflection is rotated 180 degrees around the axis of direct reflection. This is the same relationship between object and image as is found in a pinhole camera.
How an object sees its own reflection depends upon the kind of reflector. Different reflectors (objects) give different kinds of reflections at different ranges and perspectives of symmetry. Reflective surfaces can be grouped by curvature, topology, and by the number of dimensions involved.
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A wave pulse can be an expanding sphere that is hollow in the inside. Whether the hollow is virtually all or none of the sphere’s volume, the wave, (or mass), of the sphere interacts gravitationally with other spherical objects / waves as if all the individual mass points of each spherical object were located at a point of omnidirectionally direct reflection at the center of that sphere. The cumulative effect of the forces of the individual members in a group sphere is gravitationally equivalent to the same amount of mass all at a single point in the center of the objects. As a massive wave sphere expands toward an observer, the gravitational attraction to that observer remains constant and unchanged. The reflected image of the observer, however, seen on such an expanding sphere would increase from virtually nothing at a point sized sphere to complete flat local reflection where the sphere touches the object.
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Once an expanding sphere has surrounded another sphere, the gravitational force between the two bodies falls to zero. Any increase in the force of gravity, caused by a greater closeness to one part of the larger sphere’s mass, is offset by a greater amount of mass therefor remaining on the other side of the internal object. The magnified image of the self is reflected back inside the sphere. Direct reflection happens one of two ways. Either the internal object is offset from the center, or it is centered. If it is centered, there is a direct reflection in every direction. If the object is offset, there will be two images, opposing in direction and orientation along the axis of the center and the object.
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Other forces in our universe do not follow the inverse square of the distance laws. The strong nuclear force is much stronger than other forces at very close distances and much weaker at greater distances. The strong force falls off at the 7th power, not the 2nd power like gravity, electricity and magnetism. The strong force is virtually zero at just a few nuclear diameters of distance. This can also be explained in terms of self-reflection. This enormous change in attraction over distance will not change with only three flat dimensions. Instead of using flat reflectors, however, curved reflectors can be used. Imagine the smooth curved surfaces of two spherical nucleons. As they approach each other, the two curved surfaces that face each other can get so close together that, when and where they touch, the curvature of the surface is virtually flat and the strong force is fully reflected back and forth.
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At this very close local distance, little image reduction occurs between reflections and the full strength of the reflective interaction is felt. As the two nucleons move apart, curvature becomes apparent. The size of the reflected image on the spherical reflectors falls off quickly as the objects get just a few diameters apart and a reflectively diminished global curved perspective is acquired. At large distances, only the most infinitesimal image is reflected, and the strong force would be negligible. This fall off effect can be increased to greater powers of magnitude by multiple reflection iterations back and forth between curved reflectors.
The number of dimensions on the reflecting surface changes the rate of reflective fall off. The reason sounds can carry so well on the surface of a body of water is that the sound energy falls off more slowly when it expands smoothly across two dimensions instead of out into three dimensions.
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All objects are physically linked by the interactions of their mutually reflected images and interactive exchanges. Different combinations of reflections and projections give an array of cumulative attractions and repulsions. Global opposing forces may effectively cancel each other out, leaving a locally neutral interaction for particular force combinations. The process of being the ‘I’ and ‘not I’ as interactors, group within group, level after level, layer upon layer, is the self supporting process of existence.
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