The distinctions between dream experiences, and events in the "real world,” appear to be a logical dichotomy. – How do the premonitions in some dreams create a particular framework of "Time" as it appears to the dream senses, compared with (1) the "rational sense" of time, (2) the evolving of scientific understanding of "time", and (3) the experience of “time” oriented to the senses ?

As a literary device, the rhetorical principle of Prolepsis is the same means used in the literary and film genres of Science Fiction -where events are built up on previous fictional circumstances, some or all of which take place in the “future” of the time of composition. – This principle can also come about in archaeological or forensic discoveries of previously unknown events, which in turn redefine other previously discovered phenomena. – In some cases, a paradigm shift of historical perspective is produced. Prolepsis: is from the Greek , [prolambanein] and means literally "to take" something "beforehand". In this seemingly obvious definition we may discover both the principle and the effect of anticipation : the assumption or representation of a future act or eventuality as if it were already accomplished or existing.

When an adjective clause follows a preposition "like" or "as"-- it remains within the realm of evident effects and is considered to be poetic simile, as likeness. Beyond "likeness,” comparison becomes equivalence, identification, relation, or hyperbole -- that is, metaphor.

-- For me the description of dreams in prose proved inadequate early-on to describe a continuous sequence that told a story. How did this esoteric word come to me? Oddly enough, the exact memory is murky: indeed, it came into my awareness sometime in my mid-teen years when I began writing down memories of my dreams in as much detail as I could re-member. “Murky” for certain, as in my early teenage studies of ESP experiments and research being done at Duke University, the thought was that I had lived, in a previous incarnation, on a planet in the “Prolepsis Nebula,” an other-worldly word, such as would be named in an episode of Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits!





The Atomist philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE) explored the aspects of “Anticipation” (Gk.
prolepsis), in order to define the existent world as what is true, and what does not meet the qualifications of Truth.
This is a multi-level dialectical problem, as, in addition to “Truth” & “Being” there is also the recognition of Metaphor as a valid vehicle of the Mind, so that there is a “categorical” distinction between Truth and Metaphor in language, poetry, and dramatic Theatre.

It is my purpose to speak of dialectic, in addition to its multiple meanings, in the sense and understanding here of the development of an historical stream of philosophical thought as it becomes a “river in time” down through the lifetimes of pedagogues and writers, and the centuries of hypo-thetical and theoretical propositions, speculations, arguments, contradictions, and supplements. As such, there can be perceived as a dialectic of “natural philosophy” [i.e. to be called “science” in the 19th century]; the development of literary forms in fiction; architectural forms and styles through the ages; and the stages of formal “movements” in music history (such as Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Romantic, and Modern).

Dialectic thereby becomes a continuum of debate passing down through time, where a philosopher can openly debate the ideas of their elders and predecessors, and perhaps anticipate their descendants ! In the role of the “philosopher” following the renewed sense of the term by Pythagoras (570-495 BCE), as a “lover of Wisdom,” the principles of Ethics, Metaphysics, Being, and Geometry of the so-called “Pre-Socratics” in the following centuries had reached a “golden age” in the time of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, as renown figures in the history of education and in the organization of categorical thinking.

Epicurus, 40 years younger than Aristotle, devised to develop the principles of empiricism, as knowledge gained only through experience. He developed an advanced description of the Motion of Atoms comparable in understanding to the theorems of 20th century Quantum Physics and String Theory, but instead became known colloquially as a "philo-sopher of Taste,” identified with Hedonists. But he defined the essence of “Truth” in terms of Three Levels: (1) the sensations (experience of the past); (2) Anticipation - Prolepsis - anticipated future activity; and (3) Feelings (present activity). The philological system of conscious logical dialog was conceived by the Stoic philosophers in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BCE, for instance by the Athenian Chrysippus of Soli (279-206 BCE). This is not to say that dialog before this time was non-logical, but only that such a system was recognized at this time. Curiously enough, the cause of this Chrysippus' death was attributed to laughter! But his grammar was constructed on the analysis of propositional logic, in which the smallest unit of speech is the “assertible.” Such assertibles have a truth value depending on the conditions when they are spoken, such as to say “it is morning” is only truthful only before the hour of noon. In this system of propositional logic there are numerous aspects regarding the conditional validity and connectivity of statements including the naming and reference of objects, the senses and perception, the estimations of physical, atomistic, and cosmological reality and structure. Chrysippus' constructs of what is real also relates to his predecessor Parmemides' (535-c475 BCE) principle of the co-existence of Being and Non-Being. – And in regard to “assertibles”we can identify the phenomena of prolepsis aspropositional and conjectural arguments of near-future events.

[Wikipedia: Chrysippius]

Dionysius Thrax (170-90 BCE), was a student of Aristarchus who was one of the earliest proponents of the Helio-centric system of the cosmos, was also a grammarian of the Stoic school of philosophy. Dionysius identified the parts of speech: nouns, verbs, predicates, conjunctions; further stating that grammatike, what we might nowadays call "literary analysis" comprises six parts:

(a) anágnosis: reading aloud with correct pronunciation, accent and punctuation.
(b) exegesis: exposition of the tropes/, the figurative language of texts.
(c) glossai: exposition of obsolete words and subject matter.
(d) etumología: finding the correct meaning of words, by etymology.
(e) análogías eklogismós: setting forth or considering analogies.
(f) krísis poiemeton: critical judgement of the works examined.

[Wikipedia: Dionysius Thrax]

Martianus Capella, most active 410-420 CE – developed the Roman educational system noted as The 7 Liberal Arts, in which to organize knowledge in the Pre-Socratic and Aristotelian systems for the teaching in “grammar schools”: these were the Trivium (Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric), and the Quadrivium (Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, and Harmony). Capella's book, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury was the most widely used schoolbook through late Roman times continuing into the later Middle Ages. These topics were taught through amusing stories of allegory, and courtship of the gods of the Classical Pantheon.

The late Roman philosopher Boethius (477-524 CE) (better known for his Consolation of PhiloSophia, which was written while in prison awaiting execution) earlier, in his De topicis differentiis , further developed the understanding of “arguments” in the literary sense as premise, asserting that there are three types of arguments: (1) those of necessity,
(2) of ready believability, and (3) of sophistry. He follows Aristotle in defining one sort of Topic as the maximal proposition, a proposition which is somehow shown to be the “universal or readily believable.” The other sort of Topic, the differentiae, are "Topics that contain and include the maximal propositions;" these are those which are
suited for what syllogisms devise as logical." 

Boethius distinguishes between argument (that which constitutes belief) and argumentation (that which demonstrates belief). Propositions are divided into three parts: those that are universal, those that are particular, and those that are some-where in between. These distinctions are applicable to both rhetorical and dialectical.arguments. Topical argumentation is at the core of Boethius's conception of dialectic, which "have categorical rather than conditional conclusions.”

[Wikipedia: Boethius]


In the context of Boethius' division of argumentation, we propose that prolepsis is a conditional argument, specifically in terms of grammar, that it represents a proposition in the future plus perfect tense: that which is forecasted to occur following other events forecasted in the nearer future.

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Story-telling can be narrated in any of these three tenses, past, present, or future. Situations in a “future scenario” can be built on the platform of projected “past” events in a future chronology, which, of course, can be fictitious fabrications, or even prognostications of the author's own constructive reality.

Story-telling in a literary novel can work with different effects: it can build the value of compassion or invoke less ideal emotions. -- Just as it is crucial that our perceptions recognize and adapt to new situations brought about by new scientific discoveries and new technological abilities, we also need to enable the recognition of portrayed elements of human life. In the context of certain literary works, moral solutions (or immoral ones) can positively resolve social situations or dilemmas. In contrast, a literary work which actively portrays a panorama of life without taking sides in a moral dilemma, generates a different kind of "landscape" of reality. In the case in which a new narrative is developed where a moral situation is not specific, or not defined -- this "landscape" then reveals intrinsic characteristics in the story, locale, or persons - in other words "the picture tells the story…"

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) in his groundbreaking 1964 book Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man, understood the history of all tools and technology used by humans and other animals as extensions of bodily limbs
and systems. With his catch phrase "the medium is the message," he recounted the cultural changes brought about by the introduction of moveable type characters and Gutenberg's printing press in the 1430s, which brought about the distribution of news by printed newspapers. The discovery of electrical impulses and wire transmission was applied by telegraph lines, the electric lightbulb, and thus film and moving pictures. The achievement of transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves brought about radio, television, then coded computer languages and the main-frame data processor.

Writing in the 1960s and early 1970s, and popularizing his theories in his books like The Medium is the Massage and War and Peace in the Global Village, McLuhan went on to predict many of the developments of electronic miniaturization in the later 20th century, the Personal Computer in the 1980s, and the personal miniature portable telephone – the cell phone. Each of these inventions and applications has also had its own effect on the patterns of human perception. The Aristotelian linear principle of Cause-and-Effect has now been surpassed by the general acceptance, especially in modern film-making techniques in main-stream movies, of flash-back, “flash-forward,”
“flash-intro-spection,” dream-sequences, and visionary CGI (Computer Graphics Interface.) McLuhan further draws the distinction between the photographic moving picture and the video image stream used in television. Whereas, the movie creates a linear perceptual continuity, through the eye and ear, in the visual and audio cortex of the brain producing a storyline via a flickering series of photo images at 24 frames per second on a movie screen along with an accompanying audio soundtrack with voices and embedded musical performance. – In contrast, the video presentation operates subliminally via a single electron beam crossing back-and-forth across the television or monitor at the rate of 525 lines per second, thus creating a story continuity directly through the nervous system into the brain.

Over the bridge between these linear and non-linear phases of history in the 20th century, there have already been non-linear attempts to describe various social panorama and interior personal experiences: Anyone who has done historical research, crime detection, jig-saw puzzles, or computer analysis will testify that the parts which lead to the solution of any kind of puzzle are very often discovered out of linear sequence.

In 20th century Literature, it is already understood that several novels, such as as James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, have already moved narrative beyond the limits of coherent understanding: This literary observation has only just begun to make evident this structural shift from descriptions of concrete reality into the frontiers of Incomprehension. In psychological terms, any development of a literary form which further opens the thematic limits of the human imagination must be understood as a structural shift in concrete reality. This kind of development should therefore be considered as a barometric or seismographic tool which aids in the estimation of the dimensions of psychological and psychic "reality."

“CONTENT”
1, The Dialectic of Prolmhyeis and the Landscape of History
6, Philosophical Background of Characterization
8, “Dream of Consciousness” and the Narrative of Metaphor
15, Pattern Circuits Interrupts
15, Prolepsis: The Rhetoric of Definition
18, Entity= 1/Subject vs. Object
20, The Semantic Argument of the Dream
24, Narrative Style: “dream of consciousness”
26, The Monad
30, The Geometry of Anticipation
33, The Theurgy of Matter
35, The Dream Reflection in the face of the Deep 36, The Bridge (back from Paradox)

Individuation:
The Philosophical background of "Characterization" which established the modern principle of the individual:

After Sir Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) philosophical scientific method based on inductive logic had revealved the fallibility of Aristotle's categorization of all knowledge, which had been epitomized for millennia, Rene' Descartes' (1596-1650) neo-Rationalist methodology next incorporated innate ideas in the individual (other than those of religion): specifically mathematics, spatial Vortices that construct real objects; a skepticism of perception; and developed a foundation built on Thought and Cognition.

[Wikipedia: Sir Francis Bacon; Rene' Descartes]

Political and empiricist Enlightenment philosopher John Locke's (1632-1704) emphasis on sense perception, and reflective experience, built onto the Pre-Socratic principles of Human Perception, democratic idealism of society,
and the principle that Knowledge is acquired by experience. His theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers. He was the first to define
the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate, or tabula rasa. Contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on pre-existing concepts, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception, a concept now known as empiricism.

[Wikipedia: John Locke]

Mathematician and alchemist Gottfreid Wilhelm Leibniz' (1646-1716) idea of the phenomena of Mind; mathematical reasoning, produced his invention of The Calculus. Some of his metaphysics were derived from Plato – such as the concept of the Monad : the impenetrable invisible columns of Time and Space which construct the underlying hypostases that hold-up, support, and balance the individual Dimensions of the Universe that we know……...

[Wikipedia: Gottfreid Wilhelm Leibniz]

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To understand fiction, E.M. Forster, in his 1927 Aspects of the Novel, made the distinctions between two kinds of narration used to produce the story line : In one approach, Forster observes how the author creates a deliberate arrangement of events which advances not only the narrator's voice but also his deterministic mindset and personal agenda. In this scenario, when the author is detected to speak through the words or actions of his main character, the role and degree of subtlety of that character, then become specifically an expression of his personal philosophy i.e. propaganda.

In the second kind of approach, the narrator takes a neutral editorial perspective in order to objectively describe the lay out of the landscape, setting, or place, and the proceedings of the action. This indicates the author's existential under-standing of Space/ Time itself. One example of the distinctions that Forster gives is a comparison of the novels
of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: In many of Tolstoy's works, one or several characters set a moral example of behavior (a Kantian "Categorical Imperative" for his 19th and 20th century contemporary social peers) -- whereas in a Dostoevsky novel each character represents a complex of multiple self-contradictory motives, and frequently self-defeating behaviors.

In both Georg Lukacs' 1915 Theory of the Novel and Yale's Eric Auerbach's 1953 Mimesis and Representation in Western Literature have attempted to substantiate the terms of any Rationalism which work behind the series of sequences to compose any continuity of plot. "Cause and effect" is generally the method which fabricates the continuity.In the parallel period of literary history, such novels as James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, and those of William S. Burroughs, Italo Calvino, and Jose Saramago were eventually recognized as legitimate literary forms. But these works remain at the frontier of "amorphous literary form," and the "mainstream" novel has since been stabilized in a consensus of literary agents and book publishers to retreat to the median forms from the reading difficulties of the general public posed by these advanced works. Clear "logical" continuity and comprehensibility has been reestablished as the test of readable meaning. In prose, experiments in language, and the associated experiential paradoxes of Being, are to be suppressed, at least for the benefit of commercial readability, if not in the interest of social stasis against the spread of avant-garde culture.

To write about life is one thing -- to write about dreams and to interweave them to create a continuous story is also to write about life, as the dreams we experience in the night also originate in the natural psyche. How do these images move and weave themselves into sensible stories? This requires perhaps a shift in the understanding of history itself, the psychological necessity to recognize the meaning of symbols as they pertain to the uncertainty of the future. So it is also with the difficulty of a positively unfolding future of humanity -- that a collective social awareness of the issues of the day creates a pattern with which we commonly trace the occurrence of a multitude of events into a forward motion of current history as interpreted by news reporters in our daily media. In the art of the 20th century, the Surrealist movement developed a creative system which in many diverse visions and dream-like narratives yet served the psychoanalytic purpose of both Freud and Jung, and others, to express the reality of the Unconscious in its real formlessness, its real Oceanic experience, its Karma of life-and-longer-than-life Intentions and yearnings of the Human Soul - the reality of the Soul, as the Compendium of human experience and life… In my own style of fiction writing, especially where the text pertains to the description of dreams, I do purposefully push the conventional limits of phraseology to a fusion of poetic and prose language, in order to test the very cohesion of Matter and Consciousness. This is "rebel Epistemology."

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“Dream of Consciousness” and the Narrative of Metaphor

The use of metaphor as a form of narrative in the novel over the last three hundred years, while it has lived in an environment of self-conscious awareness created by empirical philosophy, has generated only occasional reflection on its elaborate means of representing and interpreting reality or the imagination. Often the mainstream and the popular novel have demonstrated superficial contrivance in its motivational progression of plot, even frequently as a display of solipsism in terms of its actual feasibility.... Cinematic "suspension of belief" is thereby required for continuity.

So, little has been demonstrated about the description of dreams in prose where it pertains to a storyline in a novel,
and the symbolism, metaphysical, and illogic of sequence and location further exacerbate the superficiality of the
conventional plotline, as to make the storyline of a dream to become incomprehensible.

Story-telling in a novel can work with different effects: it can build the value of compassion or invoke less ideal emotions. Just as it is crucial that our perceptions recognize and adapt to new situations brought about by new scientific discoveries and new technological abilities, we also need to enable the recognition of portrayed elements
of human life. In the context of certain literary works, moral solutions (or immoral ones) resolve social situations or dilemmas.

In contrast, a literary work which actively portrays a panorama of life without taking sides in a moral dilemma, generates a different kind of “landscape” of reality. In the case in which a new narrative is developed where a moral situation is not specific, or not defined, this “landscape” then reveals inherent or intrinsic characteristics in the dimensions of the story, locale, or persons, via the on-going narrative itself – in other words “the picture tells the story…”

The purpose of this essay will not be to analyze the symbolism of dreams, but to explain my narrative presentation of a sequence of dreams which create a panoramic and psychological story. Considering human progress in the means of story-telling of the past three thousand years, from the times of oral-traditions being handed-down from generation to generation, to the establishment of learning academies, to the copying of literary and illustrated manuscripts in medieval times, to the wide publication of books of literature with Guttenberg’s printing technology, to the dissemination of electronic books, digitalized audio readings and on-line file downloading, we finally begin to understand the physical principles of Media themselves and to appreciate their dynamics. As mentioned, a wide discussion and analysis of these principles was presented by McLuhan in Understanding Media. Thus aware of the evolution and jumps of methods and technology, we then perceive the gap between the linear perceptions of thinking enabled by literacy, along the lines of logical/linguistic Aristotelian “categories” of knowledge -- and the non-linear thought processes enabled by electronic technologies. This gap between linear and “post-linear” media can easily widen, eventually causing a breach in the historical continuity between these two basic steps in human evolution : It is the very communication between successive periods of technological development in which we have the continuity of History itself, in the arts, in literature and poetry -- and in the historical phases of music, architecture, style and fashion.

Over the bridge between these linear and non-linear phases of history in the 20th century, there have already been non-linear attempts to describe various social panorama and interior personal experiences, but few critical or academic explanations of these literary works have done much to make them more accessible, or comprehensible, or to provide an outline to their importance in building this bridge between successive histories.

In psychological terms, any development of a literary form which pushes further open the thematic limits of the human imagination must be understood as a structural shift in concrete reality. This kind of development should therefore be considered as a barometric or seismographic tool which aids in the estimation of the dimensions of psychological and psychic “reality.”

Just as extreme new forms of comedy and satire can seem to stretch the limits of conventional “sanity” (sometimes being whimsically perceived as “insane”), so too, in prose writing, must new themes and novel modes of human thought also be taken into account as reasonably “sane.”

-- As a valid state of the logical mind, we shall explore aspects of the In-Comprehensible in personal perception, perspective, and communication in the development of Post-Aristotelian and post-medieval philosophy from Descartes’ neo-Rationalist methodology incorporating innate ideas; to John Locke’s emphasis on sense perception, reflective experience, and the phenomena of mind; the mathematician Leibniz’ metaphysics from Plato. David Hume developed an empiricism, that is, a supremacy of perception. Immanuel Kant reconstructed the categories of knowledge and the logical criteria of the critical faculties. Hegel qualified Aesthetics in art as one of the main operations of “Dialectics,” that is, a critical process to understand and appreciate truth and beauty and the synthesis of opposites.
In the 20th century, Husserl developed a system of scrupulous introspection, Phenomenology, which analyzes the experience of external events upon the individual’s conscious mind, and their comparative essential meanings upon different people.

A natural difficulty in the understanding of academic science is, of course, the degree of complexity involved in operating measuring instruments and in the properties and interactive behavior of properties. The scientific parallel of the reader’s ability or inability to follow the non- linear visual and verbal patterns of such novels is the inadequate public understanding of 19th century Quantum Theory. The general difficulty in fathoming the behavior and functions of subatomic particles has given rise to the concept of the “Counter-Intuitive Theory,” wherein we think certain functions of matter to be beyond, or contrary to, our intuitive reference points. Perhaps this is because the development of Rationalism in the realm of Logic and the intellect occurred during the same historical phase as the early discoveries of atomic structure: The principle of Atomic Weight was well apparent in the 19th century in the easily identifiable differing weights of mineral and metallic elements, according to their varying displacement of water of by objects of identical size but differing density.

In the mid-19th century, experimental science had reached a period of logical stasis, and there was a period of hostility between many scientists and philosophers over their apparently separate paths of development in the use of Reason. The atomic principle was defined an indivisible particle, according to the consistent physics of Democritus, Aristotle, and Newton.

A turning point in the expected results of logical experiment did occur, however, in a single mundane experiment being performed by Max Planck, with the super heating of an iron ball: the measured decline of its temperature back down somehow revealed unexpected and inexplicable spikes of thermal energy on the graph being released in the cooling process…. Max Planck’s radical inductive synectic analysis then shifted to a new Principle of Atomic Number, described by the Quantum Theory which explained these spikes as bursts of layers of multiple atomic shells. After more than 2,200 years, the atom could no longer be considered indivisible!

By the beginning of the 20th century, new forms of Logic provided by a struggling reconciliation of Science and Philosophy, and by new powers of microscopic instruments, could be used to recognize the existence and behavior of viruses and subatomic particles, but these discoveries were not fully synthesized into stable learning tools in their contemporary systems of public education. Indeed, even at the highest levels of scientific debate, medical observations of biology and mathematical findings of atomic theory were not allowed to academic acceptance when they yet conflicted with Aristotelian categories of knowledge and they could not be actually seen by contemporary state-of-the-art microscopes or telescopes.

In July, 1945, after 50 years of severe tribulations, a “theory” of atomic structure, still unverified by visual technology, did lead indisputably to an effective method to release an atomic explosion. The atomic nucleus still had not been visually seen.

In the extreme narrative forms used by these authors, it is the narrative thought impressions or abstract dialog between characters which drives the personal interactions of a story. In the “mainstream novel” these thought-forms are lacking or become peripheral or experientially marginalized if present.

In spoken and written language, it is the ordering of phrases and of the words in the passage which conveys the understanding of a description or sequence. That which is presented first in a sentence automatically becomes the basis of any coherent knowledge of the information being presented to the reader. It is the pretense of the scene itself. To explain in advance to the reader the dynamics of the story being related there must be a common identifiable visual or sequential pattern of action.

The descriptive passage of text into a sensible continuity making up a story generates a presumed reality -- Just as in the common sensibility of an audience watching a dramatic story in a movie theatre: so in solitude is the “suspension of disbelief.” in the thought process of the reader reading a fictional story.

To write about life is one thing -- to write about dreams and to interweave them to create a continuous story is also to write about life, as the dreams we experience in the night also originate in the natural psyche. How these images move and weave themselves into sensible stories is still a matter of psychological debate, but they clearly represent and visualize certain interpersonal situations. The understanding of dream experience requires perhaps a shift in understanding of history itself, the psychological necessity to realize the meaning of symbols as they pertain to the uncertainty of the future. It is within the range from optimism to pessimism to apathy that we witness the daily unfolding of news events, and estimate the future of humanity. The shared consciousness of events creates a pattern of the forward motion of current history, as interpreted by news reporters.

In much the same manner, the acceptance by the individual of the responsibilities of life does form a continuum in the concurrent exercise of the imagination.

In scientific terms this exercise involves the realization and analysis of possible connections between emerging tech-nologies. But the problem is two-fold. First, there are the benefits to the course of invention, applications which will develop the human race through the creation of personal labor-saving devices, and the potential expansion of available time. But second, there is the importance in historical terms, which involves building an understanding of the relations between all the arts and sciences during any given time period. This constitutes an inductive principle and, by extension, applies to an understanding of the time in which an individual is aware of the future implications of each day’s events which are witnessed on television news programs or read about in the newspaper.

Here, in this perspective is the very danger of thought -- that of the means by which we apply our prejudices which are based upon our own seeming deductive reasoning process. Another, more conscious method of approach to this problem is the use of an awareness of the historical conditions which pertain to the situation being viewed.

In the artwork of the 20th century, the Surrealist movement developed a creative system which in many diverse visions and dream-like narratives yet served the psychoanalytic purpose of both Freud and Jung, and others, to express the reality of the Unconscious in its real formlessness, its real Oceanic experience, its Karma of life and-longer-than-life Intentions and yearnings of the Human Soul – the reality of the Soul, as the Compendium of human experience and life…

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We often overlook the phenomenon that the patterns of language in everyday use do change over a period of time,
and that words and phrases, derived from the need to identify and describe the events and objects in our realm of material experience, come into general use already having set meanings which may persist for a long time. These usages gradually become added into associ-ations and connotations to contemporary events and ideas, layering this sediment into any later references in spoken or written contexts. The range of understanding is eventually opened up or expanded by these inter-relations, and sometimes in the negative sense, becomes overheated by this form of overuse. The definitions provided by historical use often become the reason that the name of the object itself becomes consciously altered, such as with the name of an emerging nation, so that its acquired connotations can be eliminated, in order to restore the object to a purified state.

Conversely, we have seen a corruption of language carried out, especially by military and corporate agencies whose interest has been to portray the destructive effects of their policies, activities, and actions in a diminished light of reality. The most familiar of these terms is “collateral damage” which refers to non-target human casualties of military actions: The effect here is to absolve blame in the murder of innocent civilians situated near military targets.

Explained in the psychological terms of the past century, my own effort to reach an understanding about the communication links (static and dynamic) between the Mind and the Unconscious, may present the appearance to others that I, as a publicly involved activist in the art field, have occasionally taken my imagination out onto a tangent of thought—In the method of my own analysis though, I am confident to believe this tangent to be a limb of the Tree of Knowledge in need of exploration.

As a speaker in the public forum on the subject of creativity, I am well-conscious of the hazards of the use of metaphor, that it is much like crossing the ice formed over a river in winter, one cannot be positive about the safety of support of one’s weight, that the thickness of the ice cannot -- as perhaps affected by unseen currents below the frozen surface -- be surely gauged unless a broken edge is seen. As my climb of the Tree of Knowledge brings me to look out over the landscape of signals and signs, I realize that I might not be able to make myself heard fully and clearly understood without some detailed explanation to those still gathered around the trunk of the Tree, who, failing to look aloft, wonder onto what side-trails I have wandered off…

Such is the point and the problem of metaphor, as we hope to convey our new experience by writing down a description of the continuity, as we hope to reconstruct a world into which we have traveled between the covers of a book ...

The Tree of Knowledge of which we speak is really the system of learning which has come down to us through the ages: the ancient practices and principles of metallurgy and agriculture from Sumeria and Egypt, of medicine, mathe-matics, and astronomy, of philosophy, art and drama, and of the psychology of life, thought, and religion. Also filtering in to this knowledge, have been the perceptions of mystics and the forms of systems of the spiritual dimensions that have been proposed by prophets, visionaries, and theologians.

Therefore, in any new understanding of thinking and perception, we must account for these existing perspectives and as well bring into bearing the new and accepted theories of science in our own time. These theories have already had subtle or subliminal influences on how and what we can see, and how we express to one another. The next and unavoidable step is to continue the exploration of the relations of our perceptions to our communications.

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The primary duty of non-fictional writing is the explanation of the writer’s ideas and definitions in a clear enough manner that they will describe the structure of images, patterns, or phenomena of the subject of the writing. This convention is extended, to some degrees, into any kind of writing that is being employed: fiction, prose, poetry—any story, bit, or system of science or general knowledge presented in essay or outline form.

Anyone who has done historical research, crime detection, jig-saw puzzles, or computer analysis will testify that the parts which lead to the solution of any kind of puzzle are very often discovered out of linear sequence. These known parts must be subjectively arranged and rearranged as more parts of the puzzle are located, until a cohesive pattern can be ascertained, or it can be demonstrated that missing parts to the puzzle are lost or not yet available. This is the process of non-linear logic.In my own style of fiction writing, especially where the text pertains to the description of dreams, I have purposefully often pushed the conventional limits of phraseology to a fusion of poetic and prose language, in order to test the very cohesion of Matter and Consciousness. This is “rebel Epistemology.”

Along with the historical use of fable, such as in Aesop, Leonardo, and La Fontaine, there has also been employed the use of allegory, that is, a story line which creates a parallel to the description of a scientific principle, which serves as a device to specifically explain or illustrate that scientific thought. Examples of literary allegory in prose are to be found in such works as the Hypneroticamachia Polifili, 1499, Rablais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel, 1536, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, 1725, Voltaire’s Candide, 1765, Anatole France’s Penguin Island, 1909, and William S. Burroughs’ The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, and Nova Express of the 1960s.

Less understood is the principal of metaphor. Though widely used in poetry as a means to create a “bridge” between two dissimilar sensations or visions -- the use of metaphor in prose writing specifically conflicts with the prose methodology of linear exposition of descriptions and the narrative sequencing of events in order to tell a story.

However, when one wishes to record in writing the remembered sequence of events in a nighttime dream, one is soon perplexed by the difficulty to build a “sensible” continuity of dream events in strangely unfamiliar or eerily familiar locations – along with a sequence of objects which have varying aspects of appropriate presence in the dream story. This pattern of “non sequitur” connections gives rise to the perception of objects as symbols, both within the dream sleep experience -- and in the waking reflection, or “piecing-together,” the parts of a dream memory, and the consideration of its “meaning.”

There are ideas about the little explored avenues of information which are connected into the Unconscious, in all of its own practical, psychosocial, erotic, and metaphorical references. These ideas require a means of description in order to take something as formless and/or suggestive as the images in our dreams, and to somehow fit them together into these sometimes meaningful, symbolic, or ominous stories.

In Behaviorist Psychology, the speculation is that dreams are merely disjoined, independent images. But I must regard this proposition as purely Reductionism, as it is clear that dreams contain many conver-sations, which cannot be relegated as disjoined, meaningless images. This Behaviorist point of view on this question does beg the question: just what is it that provokes this attitude on the metaphysics of dreams?

One paradoxical effect of reading is the phenomenon of confusion when one reaches the bottom of a page and not knowing what one has just read, whether this is caused by distraction, tiredness, or lack of clarity in the writing. This is a common event in reading any type of text, but when reading the description of a dream, there may be a desired side-effect, that this lapse of conscious attention might allow a sympathetic resonance effect to take place: that the reader may experience one of their own forgotten dreams emerging from the Unconscious mind into the Conscious awareness.

Pattern Circuit Interrupts

In early cybernetic theory, the principle of Pattern Interrupts recommended the implementation of auto-prompt microcode instructions that would detect when input activity put workflow into a program loop.

There is a tendency in some interpersonal communication for one individual to perpetuate the dialog with a kind of continuous stream of speaking. In this mode, the dialog becomes a particular kind of seamless monologue, in which the speaker progresses from topic to topic, with no recognizable pause between topics, so that the other member of the dialog would have the opportunity to interject a reply, an objection, or even a supportive comment. In some instances, such a comment will be inter-preted as an interruption, purposely interjected to derail the first speaker's continuous stream of thought. It might appear to the first speaker that the second speaker begins to speak simultaneously with the first as a deliberate form of continuity interrupt.

However, what this indicates, is an incidence of conversational dominance, in effect a form of negative prolepsis.

Prolepsis: The Rhetoric of Definition

“Prolepsis” is from the Greek prolambanein, and means literally “to take” something “beforehand”.

In this seemingly obvious definition we may discover both the principle and the effect of anticipation : the assumption or representation of a future act or eventuality as if it were already accomplished or existing.We will explore how the practice of “definition” and the process of “description” differ. Briefly, the former represents stasis, that is, a static and possessive interpretation of conventional “reality” as it is constructed in everyday experience. Whereas, description enables a fluid semantic of a variety of phenomena, even those which have been established in any given period of history as deterministic and/or as constant(s). As with the function of the "hand," from the Greek ancient "hchehri" or modern "heree" or the Latin hensus, prolepsis means really the act of the mind to get or to grasp -- in the possessive sense of seizing or holding something -- the object of a thought, before that object has even begun to appear. In this principle of comprehension, in the "hensile" meaning the brain acts as the extension of the hand; that is to say, where the brain relays back to the hand the enablement of its own will or emotional intention ...to touch, but in more or less of the certainty (or uncertainty) of to have.

In the 20th Century we watched this principle be carried to its monstrous extreme, when the metaphor of atavistic darkness assumed itself to power in the abdication of “enlightenment” -- when the force of naked Certainty, in the name of Adolph Hitler, clad himself in the glorified Will of tyranny, and purpose-fully took the rhetorical device to rationalize a Holocaust in the 20th Century of immeasurable proportions of suffering and murder: “...Future generations thank us for our efforts...” The statement was made grammarically in the present-tense, but the actual grammaric tense would be in the plus perfect tense. (Example: as one would say, early in the day: “by 10pm I will have eaten dinner,” to describe the aftermath of a still future action, dinner.)

It is this problem that we wish to explore, the bias in the possessive sense of "reality" itself in psychology and society: the intention to possess "reality", in part, parcel, or in the realty of property, as well as the appropriation of objects by a subject, becomes therefore the agenda of possession, which we might term (perhaps not so tongue-in-cheek) "Reality Chauvinism."

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In the grammar of speech, prolepsis can occur as naturally as by the implication in the selection of a particular adjective to qualify a noun (either object or subject,) where the result of the completion of the action of its verb is already anticipated: ... “Oxen turn the furrowed plain.”

In the formal argumentation of classical Rhetoric, prolepsis is a discipline which teaches the student to build into his opening proposition the responses to the possible "objections" to his argument, in order to rebuttal them in advance, and thus preempt from his opponent the effect or statement of those objections. We will also consider what it is in language that generates or enables the rhetoric of the “objection.”

When the usage of an adjective clause following the preposition “like” or “as” remains within the realm of evident effects understood by its contemporary science but more often pertinent to another type of association, that description is considered to enter the realm of poetic simile, as likeness.

A figure of speech expressed in a manner which is beyond the terms of "likeness", enters the dimensions of equivalence, identification, relation, or hyperbole: that is, metaphor.

Could the evolved human form of consciousness ever be stated as a direct evolutionary result of a primitive exercise
of human species brain power? The theory of Behaviorism that was advanced in the 1960's, appears in retrospect little more sensible than Bishop George Berkeley's Empirical theory in the 18th Century, that nothing exists in reality outside of what we individually perceive in the immediate, even as we move from room to room. In terms of experiential phenomena, this becomes an “existential” actuality of solipsism, that is, a form of reality, in which there is only one entity in the universe of Time & Space, perhaps a privileged world, but an existentially desolate one. Nihilism.
On the evidence of simple survey, the data surely suggests that there are too many individuals perceiving concurrently, and witnessing a consensus of events, for the fabric of reality to be non-cohesive outside the range of one's presence.
However, in the light of the brain science developed with colorful MRI views of brain activity, we may grant that Berkeley's speculations that perception is a dimension of cognitive organization. As the17th and 18th century experiential philosophy of Empiricism in which Berkeley was working out his theories, we should consider its basis in its significant ancestor of Epicurus, whose Letter to Herodotus developed the sensual phenomenon of anticipation in
an explanation of the workings of atomic structure, after Democritus. This Letter was indeed a dialectical treatise in the sense of a continuum of philosophical inquiry as a correspondence addressed to enlighten the mind and system of Herodotus whose identity my research has not identified as a pupil or individual contemporary of Epicurus. If he was writing to the 6th century BCE author of “The Histories,” his predecessor by 140 years, then this activity would support my understanding of Dialectics as a system not governed by chronology, but by philosophical theme…..

As well, we might conclusively say that it is our individual attractions that impel each of us towards the object and objects of our desire in various positive or negative actions; but it does not follow that there is no consideration of choice that takes place in the thought process: we do not blindly cast ourselves headlong in the direction of each and every stimulus, even as our appetite might suggest.

Simply amplified brain-aggression (or brain-posturing), the confidence contained in a subject's assertion of his own attributes or qualities (as they previously exist by development, acquisition, or heredity) could only be made under the support of an ego formation which has been buttressed into an unconscious, submerged personality trait. In social situations, this phenomenon takes place by a method of feedback of the attention or praise given by one's listeners: The first subject preempts or captures the attributes of another subject before they have been made manifest in the interval of time it takes to speak.

Prolepsis is also implied in the common “transitive” construction in every compound sentence in human language: Where a subject has a direct object of discussion or possession, this assumption if uncontested becomes the very statement of possession: When C is held by B, and B by A, then C is also held by A. The object of the discussion is held as a relation to the property of the subject him/her-self -- This is the very meaning of definition -- A bridge is desired to be built and perhaps a foreign continent to be occupied. Can one not see the metaphor to the human body?

Contrasting this form of aggression or territorial bordering, when epithet is used as a device of humor, (from Greek: epithenai, “to put on”,) there is also the deliberate or spontaneous occurrence of prolepsis. This is the scheme which often occurs in speech : the substitution of one term by another more abstract, so ascribing or anticipating an insinuated condition or impending situation.

To explore some of the inherent paradoxes of anticipation, I will use a discussion of the particular style of my own writing on dreams as a means to gauge the nature and grounds of knowledge (an epistemology), and also to examine the limits and validity of physical matter, even as experienced in the dream state.

These elements will also lead me into the later discussion of “Abstraction” in art as it is made of distinct objects from their non-objective or subjective perspectives.

As one will stare into the facets of a crystal from time to time, or contemplate scientific and philosophical advances and the effect on an unfolding basis of existence, I accordingly hope to describe a principle of the normal forward motion of time, and then to propose an understanding of the intrinsic “self ” as perceptive of the nature and the presence of anticipation itself, harmonic with the unfolding of events.

As a kind of “mathematical proof ”, this essay was prompted by the insight of a geometric interaction of subtle forces, a revelation which occurred during a conversation with painter/writer Joey Tomorrow, sculptor Suzan Shutan, and Andy Firk on the evening of January 28, 1992.

This “geometry” was contained in the realization that the electric energy occurring during the thought of a creative idea in the brain could easily be viewed as a tangential line at a right angle to Time. We view time, in terms of relativity, as the continuity of the arrival of light from a gravitational source. Depending on the source of a thought, whether perceptual or conceptual, the path of this line would flow either into or away from an instantaneous point in the stream of photons of light (represented by the cyclic motion of the hands of a clock, or the marking of measured seconds in a digital time piece.

Being hard-pressed to explain my geometric perception in an analogy which everyone in the conversation found comprehensible, I will take the time now to provide background and evidence for this proof in the third section, “The Semantic Argument of the Dream,” and will then recount “parallels” in older philosophical systems, quantum and physical science in the section called “Perpendicular Forces.” Therefore I owe this investigation to the instigation of my visual artists friends.

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Entity= 1/ Subject vs. Object

An examination of the basic principles which distinguishes something as either an "object" or a "subject" will help to reveal the hidden implications and assumptions in our verbal descriptions, and in our thoughts and speech. This is naturally the means by which we interpret to our own minds the unfolding or occurrence of events in the forward moving flow of time.

The semantic context of what it is which forms an objection in the rhetorical sense, or an objective condition in the practical dimension -- and that which predicates a subject or a subjective situation in a verbal statement -- seems to underlie the very critical issues in our civilization of property, the differential of power and privilege in gender discrimination, and of sexual expression and communication.

Two major senses of the word "object" are understood: (1) as a noun, something that is capable of being seen, touched, or otherwise sensed, or which arouses emotion in an observer, and (2) as a verb, to cite something firmly in opposition, and usually with words or argument, or to regard something in distaste. Both of these senses of meaning are derived from the same Latin word root obicere (having the same root as the word "obscene"), meaning "something which is thrown in the way."

By contrast, the word "subject" derives from the Latin subicere, "to throw under", with the meaning of one which is placed under authority or control. Within this denotation, there are several types of meaning in use in general language: (1) one that is placed under authority or control, (2) one under the rule of a monarch and governed by his law, or lives in a territory, enjoying the protection of, and owing allegiance to a sovereign or state; (3) that of which a quality, attribute or relation may be affirmed or in which it may inhere; (4) a substratum as a material or essential substance; (5) the mind, ego, or agent of whatever sort that sustains or assumes the form of thought or consciousness; (6) a department of knowledge or learning; (7) one that is acted upon, or an individual whose reactions or responses are studied; (8) a corpse used for anatomical study; (9) something indicated or represented in a work of art; (10) the term of a logical proposition that denotes the entity of which something is affirmed or denied; (11) a word or word group that of which something is predicated; (12) the principal melodic phrase on which a musical composition or movement n based.

In all of these definitions, it is denoted or at least clearly implied that the subject is not the primum mobilum, but itself subservient to a greater entity, be it the state, the monarch, the mind, the affirmation, the representative, the art, the ego or the superego.

That which can be considered objective function also is defined in several senses. It is that which is (1) of or relating to an object of action or feeling; (2) only known in relation to an existing subject or willing agent; (3) that which is existent independent of mind; (4) belonging to the sensible world and being observable or verifiable especially by scientific methods.

As it is related to the "subject", the objective is that which emphasizes or expresses the nature of reality as it is apart from personal feelings or reflections; it is the entities which have no lives of their own, but are the side-products of the Social Contract.

An object is defined also as something physical or mental of which a subject is cognitively aware. Even while the multiple meanings of the adjective "subjective" differ widely regarding its political source of control, exterior or interior, the noun "subject" stands for a sentient entity which acts or perceives: the active noun in a statement.

As strictly described by the current state of 20th Century science and theology, sentience is a faculty attributed only to the "voluntary" behavior of Human Beings and the higher species of the "Animal Kingdom." In the case of humans, at least in Western thought, questions of ethics, morality and evil are inevitably associated with these voluntary behaviors.

By contrast, actions taken by "lower forms" of animal li fe are normally attributed to the effects of involuntary energies which are called the "instincts", such as hunger, reproductive drives, and colonizing organization. In the "Plant Kingdom" kinetic actions are normally attributed to growth, breakage or decay.

In the "Mineral Kingdom," activity is considered due to external elements such as weather or erosion, interior geologic pressures such as in volcanic magma or petroleum deposits, and crystallization. It is thus that existent forms considered non-sentient are viewed as virtual "objects." Any suggestions of sentience in these organic and inorganic forms, except in the current speculations of biophysicists about viral colonial behavior, are most often regarded with scoffing skepticism.

It is also thus that these forms are forgiven their faults.

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The Semantic Argument of the Dream

The subject of my creative writing in two novels, "Fires Eternal Morning", and "Rain of the Ti'amat", is the exploration of the link of the dream with the archetypes of human history. Archetypes can be defined as the personal images and scenes which seem to undertake mythic proportions. In this essay I wish also to explore the link of the dream with religious propitiation, and with the anticipation and unconscious precipitation of events.

To explore the meaning of archetypal experience is to evaluate the perceptual faculties and come to a recognition of the forms and patterns which are recurrent in the sounds and visual structures of our world, or recurrent in the smells and tastes present in our towns or homes as related to organic processes, or from the elements, from cooking, flowering plants or sexual activity, from excretive functions, refuse matter, or other unidentifiable sources.

The existence of archetypes has a great deal of evidence in the commonality and persistence of the visual images of patterns which often seem to be outside of the individual's own range of experience. Images, such as the subdued view within an extensive interior of low arched colonnades in dreamy mist, the mouth of a stone grotto, or the still surface of a pond surrounded by quietly inhabited stone dwellings, seem to have been present also in ancient and Renaissance times, often appearing as the background motives in paintings or tapestries.

One may also vaguely remember spending times with a relative or childhood friend whom one cannot name or see clearly in the memory but might have had similar likes to one's own mature tastes in reading or music. Perhaps these impressions could be actual genetic echoes of the personality traits of one's own ancestors, but as inner images of unknown source, I will consider such occurrences to be possible proto-types in the greater category of archetypes.

The human body is often the focus of archetypal images: in my own memory there is a view of myself lying on a sandy beach, seen as though from standing above my own head, overlooking my body with my feet pointed out to sea, the interior of my featureless silhouette, filling with endless waves rolling and undulating and washing slowly to shore.

One might speculate whether these references are echoes of the individual self, strains of childhood memory, or possibly the shadows of ineffable beings.

Experiences of this sort seem to carry a relaxing effect, akin to opiate-induced visions, and these effects are basically tonic to the nervous system.

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The human question remains unanswered by all fields of psychology, by science or medicine, and all the worlds major religions : What is the nature and the significance of dreams? As demonstrated by all sleep experiments, (in my own knowledge for example, those of the late Dr. Robbie Watson, at the Sleep Research Center at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut during the 1970's and 1980's,) there is a compelling importance of R.E.M. sleep to the physical and mental health of the organism. Without the free activity of dreaming, the function of the system on many levels, physiological and psychological, rapidly goes out of balance, including the measurable distortion of brain-waves often resulting in psychosis.

Most of the world's primitive and aboriginal religions believe the dream to be a specific doorway to the experience of an "Outer-Life", a dimension having different proportions and contingencies to the activity of waking life. For instance, the first excursion into the altjurenga, or "dream-time", by the young Australian Aboriginal male, marks the rite of passage into manhood as a solitary journey through the wilderness : a test of survival in terms of both the resourceful location of sustenance and the learning of the principles of spiritual propitiation of the elemental forces who appear to control the land and sky.

Even in civilized life, the time sense of the dream is rarely set in any conscious continuity with the memory of the moments just prior to passing into the sleep state, and this is consistent with the measurements of alpha waves in an inactive phase in the cycle of moments following the lapse into the sleep state. By contrast, during the more active cycle following, the anticipation of tasks to be performed upon awakening often filter in to the semi-conscious mind, and sometimes act as a trigger to the illogical or horrific events which may take place in the dream story.

Excepting in reports of shamanic self-projection into the dream sequence, it seems that literally anything can happen in the dream. Psychoanalytic explanations of the source of the dream story, most notably Freud's theories of sexual fantasy and Oedipal wish fulfillment, remain insufficient to the broader subjective symbolism and personality associations often presented.

As dreaming is the most ultimately personal form of experience, it would seem to require a highly democratic and individualized form of description and association. It has been intriguing to me from a self-psychological point of view, that over various periods in my life (and similarly that of late 20th Century history), I have detected a certain alternation, or an overlapping parallel of styles, as I construct these dream narrations into a "fictional device," between the two modes of : (1) chronology and (2) selective determination.

In the former mode, chronology, as reflected in natural behavior, the manifestation of the instincts takes place and is later viewed in a retrospective of events described in the grammatical present-tense, if considered in words at all.

Similarly as in the writing of medieval chronicles (agrarian village histories and gathered news reports spanning periods of decades), the unfolding of events is recorded in a basic personal style. In the chronicle, only limited descriptions of the historical significance of present circumstances are related, as though they were commonly known to all. Yet there is a kind of hypnotic fascination with detail which tends to override the natural capacity to foresee the logical consequences of actions taken.

In agrarian society, previous to the introduction of print and newspapers, the passage of time was marked socially by those experiences held in common by their unusual nature: the births, marriages or deaths of prominent persons or loved ones, or by the extremes of war or weather resulting in permanent changes to the environment. In our own day, a famine, severe hurricane, flood, or blizzard is often spoken about for 100 years or more.

In modern television news reporting -- where the anchorperson speaks into the all-knowing, un-informed eye of the public archetype -- the style of chronology unconsciously employs the system of Darwin's Theory of Evolution: Daily developments, natural and anthropological, are boiled down to the depiction events as isolated individual phenomena -- categorizing the objective case, without regard to any pattern recognition or subjective correlation to related events, except in the moralistic sense based on the commonality of its consensual audience. The sense of the perceived reception is based on the internal recognition by the speaker in the present tense that people of all stripes of the moral and everywhere on the political spectrum are simultaneously listening to the live broadcast.. This actually is a specific pattern of the so-called morphic resonance of events which take place in contemporaneous time.

The disruption of the fabric of a minor culture, or the forced adaptation of an isolated individual are subliminally viewed under the two dimensional closure of the television screen, encapsulating a panorama of emotions displayed by interviewed participants, witnesses, and onlookers.

By contrast, when writing in the latter mode, that of selective determination, my selections of particular dreams to construct a story line are seemingly more representative of the exercise of making choices by a unified psyche. But to examine the dynamics of the term "determination", outside of a strict literal reading, still raises questions regarding the relation-ships of personal and biological motivations.

Where is the dividing line between the use of the intellect for such purposes, and the benefit of ulterior motivations of contrivance such as sexual and sensual desire and power, by the manipulation of the behavior of written characters ?

The higher faculties of the rational Will of "thought" are themselves a microcosm of all other instincts and processes. Thought is also at times conscious of itself: 'it's "Self"' : "Who" is thinking about "what" ? It would seem, moreover, that the "self" which represents the instinctual/intuitive being, the physical/ mental person as witnessed in the dream, is the most integrated, or seamless of the inner personalities.

Narrative style : "dream of consciousness"

In my youth I determined to design a form of composition which would blend and arrange my own nocturnal visions, early experiences, and childhood games, into a working plot. So I then sought to develop a style which is both a purely sequential chronology of my morning records, and alternatively, a selective organization. As the writing developed of its own experiential non-linear logic, its style as a combination of poetry and prose, a naturalistic prose-poetry, emerged.

The purpose of that composition at the beginning, to record the symbolism of erotic, morbid and mysterious dreams, dictated a perhaps casual use of form: an experiment of poetic phrasing and sense of time, an enclosed or abrupt scope of episode, culminating in a resolution of emotion with prophecy in a form akin to epic.

However, in the midst of that experiment of form, a recognizable pattern quickly emerged to my under-standing, showing several parallel threads of continuity of action and purpose, and also showing the similarities of circumstance and mood.

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Streams of the energies and events of life -- that is, the undercurrents of motivation, facets hormonal/ emotional/ spiritual, and those mental/ intellectual/ commercial -- are often developed in literature as an unfolding of the narrator's experience. However, the recurrence of dreams over a period of time also strongly implies that there are recurrent messages in the deeper psyche. The "stream" if regarded by the above described principles of chronology and determination, would appear more as a concentrated view from a raft into the forest of trees on either bank as one passed downstream, or perhaps the focus of attention on the brightly colored stones seen on the bottom : Linear drift or propulsion is forward in time, the lateral perceptions the activity witnessed along the way. One stands walking backwards into forward time, visible of the past, the rest still cloaked in shadow.

This principle is in slow-motion the same as the sensation which Albert Einstein as a young man experienced on his famous tram-car ride through Berne, Switzerland in 1900 when, on his way to work at his clerical job in the patent office, he noticed that the activities on the busy avenues, and the widths of buildings passed by, seemed com- pressed together to his view by the forward velocity of the car in which he rode. His question: "What would the world look like if I rode on a beam of light?" His concluding observation: "The hands on the clock tower would be frozen. I, the tram, this box riding on the beam of light, would be fixed in time. Time would have a stop."

Even if the dream "plot" is merely the faculty of pattern-recognition applied to the random firing of photon images in the synapses in the visual cortex of the brain during sleep, as suggested by some researchers, one might still wonder if that "pattern-recognition" has its own discernable psychological elements. If these elements are representative of both hemi-spheres of the brain, then both linear and non-linear perceptions and motifs are at work.

In my two novels, separate experiences of historical and primal myth are explored, attempting to address problems of survival and alienation.

"Fires Eternal Morning", works with the element of psychic fire in the dream and the possibility of material annihilation that its use poses, the sense of loss of family and safety, the environment returned to primitive hostility: the setting of a middle American social fabric such as it existed in the Cold War Period, disrupted by an apocalyptic political upheaval triggering natural catastrophes.

"Rain of Ti'amat" describes a modern society undermined by the natural elemental forces that its own contemporary politics, therapeutics, and goods, have sought to suppress and send to oblivion. It is an atavistic resurgence of the nightmare powers of the unbelievably primordial mother dragon remembered from the dawn of civilization, the Monster of the Id, which threatens anew to sink it into an irresistible entropy of darkness and control.

The principle of prolepsis often comes into play in the course of the plot of a dream as it unfolds. In this scenario, a person's emotional or mental anticipation, or their certain fears or phobias, then predetermine or foretell events or behavior. In some scenarios, these conditions establish the recognition of an unknown or long-forgotten person. This anticipation may be concerned with an emotional response to an experienced feeling, or to the expectation of another's actions.

Mood plays an important role in the experience of dreams; the dream content may be animated by vivid color, or may be dark and sinister to invoke anxiety...

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The Monad

The philosophical model which represents the most seamless and integrated of forms is that which is called the "Monad", proposed by the mathematician G.F. Leibniz (1646-1716), also the inventor of infinitesimal calculus. The story of the Monad goes back at least to Pythagoras; it is the ancient Greek monas, the “singularity,” and monos, “the alone.” It is spoken of as this “singularity” by Plato.

One must consider a diagramic structure of thought itself, in the same sense as in the lesson of diagramming a sentence in elementary grammar class (a nasty example, to be sure) in order to discuss the perpendicular geometric effect of thought as it comes into convergence with relativistic world-lines.

I would like to compare the effect of tangential lines with this earlier prototypical model which Leibniz has created of an egg-shaped or indefinite column-shaped integral form. I would also like to begin to show how these models are both mathematically and conceptually related in a historical relationship which has been at work beneath the threshold of perception.

In the late medieval period, as scientific experimentation had become more wide-spread in the West, especially with the refinement of clocks, telescopes and other optical instruments, one of the most important issues of discussion in theology and philosophy had become the concept of the Absolute, the formula of an Aristotelian static universe that had been adapted and expanded over the centuries as the foundation of the dimensions of astronomy, geometry, and social order. Indeed, the NeoPlatonist, Martinanus Capella, who flourished 410 to 420 CE, categorized his schoolbook, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, which was used through Roman times and the Middle Ages, into two stages of learning for students, the Trivium (Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric), and the Quadrivium (Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, and Harmony).

The growing prominence of foreign trade with the East from the late Thirteenth Century onward had brought about the emergence of a mercantile class whose wealth began to surpass that of the landed gentry of the ancient patrician and feudal aristocracy. Spices were greatly desired in order to improve the taste and preservation of meat; silks as a relief from the coarseness of European textiles.

In seafaring towns and cities job opportunities arose in the many levels of commerce which would allow an escape from the static, landlocked worlds of peasant and vassal alike.

In the North countries, removed from the strongest influence of the Church's sovereignty over the moral and economic order of society, the old finite universe of feudalism seemed ready to disintegrate and lay bare its essentials and underpinnings to the eyes of mathematical scrutiny. Johann (Meister) Eckhart's writings on Christian symbolism in the 13th Century, proposed direct communion with God, bypassing the catechistic authority of the Church. Such also was the visual understanding later contained in the artworks of Albrecht Durer, Pieter Brueghel, and Hieronymous Bosch.

Writing on the sense of the Absolute around the turn of the 18th Century, Leibniz derives from Plato and Plotinus this model to discuss the spatial aspects and distinctions between the concepts of object and subject.

The principle of objectification was descended from the philosophy of Aristotle (Analytica Posteriora). The egg of the deductive process of syllogism was hatching in Leibniz' time as the scientific (post-alchemical) methods of experimentation and forensics. As an alter- native, Leibniz incorporated two other principles of Aristotle: the inductive process (also Analytica Posteriora) and (via Descartes and Thomas Aquinas) the soul (De Anima).

Monads which exist in the Absolute of Time/Space (that is to say, outside of space/time) each as an "singular" entity, reflect all other Monads from all of their facets, as well as all of the entire universe.

In Leibniz's formula: "the Monad is the integral unit of activity, mirroring all other monads, but incapable of fusion or interface. Each Monad exists as in a series, each in its own place mirroring all the others, the last in the series being the most active, therefore God."

This seemingly abstract theory, proposed during the same period as the finite mechanized universe of Sir Isaac Newton, was to gradually submerge in the subsequent layers of conceptual philosophies build upon its basis of the symbolic logic of 18th Century scientists, until its reapplication to the conceptual structures of "logical entities" and the communication of parameters utilized by the digital computer. Norbert Wiener, one of the builders of the first working computer, the ENIAC, gives Leibniz' principle of the calculus ratiocinator the credit of the first reasoning machine design, the machina ratiocinatrix.

Leibniz replaces the pair of corresponding elements, mind and matter, proposed in Spinoza's geometry as the self-contained attributes of God, with a continuum of corresponding elements: the monads. In his 1949 book Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and Machine, Norbert Wiener (himself a pupil of Bertrand Russell) explains : "While these are conceived after a pattern of the soul, each monad lives in its own closed universe, with a perfect causal chain from the creation or from minus infinity in time to the indefinitely remote future; but closed as they are, they correspond to one another through the pre-established harmony of God. Leibniz compares them to clocks, made with God's perfect workmanship, which have been so wound up as to keep time together from the creation through all of eternity."

In his Monadology (1714), Leibniz addresses this theory to a theological issue: "It is impossible that there should be no souls because souls are the simple substances of which the universe consists and therefore were there no souls there would be no bodies. Bodies are composites, and the simples of which composites consist are the monads. All the monads are not souls, but souls only differ from simple monads by their position in the hierarchy. The reason there can be no interaction between mind and body is not because they are sub-stantially different, but because the monads which constitute the reality of the body do not give it the status of the body. It is only for the dominant monad or mind that the body is body, the mind therefore could only act on the body by acting on the monads which constitute the body, and there is no interaction between monads."

Rather than viewing the universe in a mechanized model, Leibniz turns an organic insight: "Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each animal is also such a garden or pond."

In this statement he refers to living organisms as plenum, wherein other living organisms, such as blood corpuscles have many if not all of the attributes of living matter.

In form, the Monad can be visualized in multiple objectified models: 1. as an impervious, impenetrable chromium spheroid, reflecting with a precision that is mercurial with warmth and depth. 2. The universe of monads can be thought of as a line of endlessly rising pure marble columns coming around in a chain to form a vast endless spiral, each a pillar of space supporting the history of Time, in this case of the planet Earth, beginning in the mists of the void, and crowned by the dewy, unfolding petals of the scarlet rose.
3. Thirdly, in the concentric rings of undulating water, or liquid, in the middle of which an unknown object, or stone, had somehow been dropped…. These are but three models among limitless possibilities, which have in common only the condition of being of infinite form.

Were the Monads to be named in chronological order, as if they were a pond full of gardens, we might call them: ...the void...the origin...the past...the physical present...the potential...the ideal...the eternal...the dream...the vastness…

In the mechanized universe according to Isaac Newton, the law of gravity (the force pulling all objects inward towards mass density) determines that the planets must move along elliptical orbits around the sun in agreement with the empirical laws discovered by Johannes Kepler. Einstein, seeing gravity in perspective stipulated that all movements should be considered in a four-dimensional world (length, height, width, and time), which is "curved" if a gravitational field is present.

A simple model of comparison between a three- and a four-dimensional structure would be to estimate the position of the Earth on a certain day of the year. Astrophysicists have determined that our sun is moving at a rate of approximately 200 miles per second in the relative direction of the constellation Virgo. So, in this regard, the elliptical path of each planet in its orbit, is further extended by the velocity of the star in its own orbital path within the galaxy, and the galaxy's directional movement in the so-called “red-shift.” This “red-shift” is actually, the shift of the element calcium in the chemical spectrum, indicating the increasing distance of an object in Space. Therefore, the elliptical orbits of the planets in our solar system, and all others, are actually respectively moving in forward spirals through extra-galactic Space. These are the spirals of growth cycles described by Rupert Shelldrake in his theory of Morphic Resonance, and also the spirals that are shown in the spirals emerging from the Golden Section point into the Fibonacci expansion. Beyond Virgo is also the area in intergalactic space which measures the warmest in the background field of "radio-activity" considered to be left over from the BIG BANG, the Singularity before symmetry. It is also the direction in which all galaxies appear to be moving, as they mutually expand, according to the evidence of the red-shift of the Doppler.

The fact that our sun follows its own orbit in the turning galaxy, and the galaxy itself is moving out into the void of space, would require us to trace a "world-line" of the Earth's location, spiraling forward into time, much as our own Moon follows its own orbital path around the Earth in motion.

Leibniz interpreted the monads as occurring in a series, the last being the most active. However, in the light of 20th Century theories we will attempt to interpolate:

Investigations begun in 1929 by Edwin Hubble at Mount Wilson Observatory are currently continuing to determine whether the number of galaxies within various distances from us increases in (1) direct proportion to, (2) faster than; or (3) more slowly than, the cubes of these distances. If the first possibility is true, the space of the universe is Euclidean (static); in the second case, the universe has a negative curvature, being wide open in all directions; in the third case, space has a positive curvature and must eventually close upon itself.

In the first case, in a static universe, the series of monads would indeed form an endless straight line forward into time. Both of the other possibilities would require us to consider all of the monads forming a circle along the edge of the curvature of space.

In the second case, a negative curvature strongly suggests the ancient Gnostic vision of "The Pleroma", described by Valentinus in the Second Century: the sense of the Absolute of the "fullness" of a universe of totally expansive depths, such as an unfathomable ocean, indeed the well of the subjective cosmic/oceanic experience spoken of by diverse mystics over the ages.

Perhaps in the third case, that of a positive curvature, as predicted by Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity, the diameter of this circular spiral of monads would measure the Conceptual times the Speed of Thought squared.…

The Geometry of Anticipation

Until routine laboratory experiments, at the turn of the 20th Century, produced puzzling results, the Uniform Wave Theory of Radiation, an aspect of Newton's wave mechanics, had been accepted as a given. This theory stated that, as space and time were uniform, a regular continuity was the principle at work in the behavior of radiant energy where the size of the wave narrows as the frequency of the waves is incremented. (This relationship can be easily illustrated to anyone who uses both AM and FM radio receivers: At 880 in the AM band [880,000 wave cycles of electro-magnetic energy per second] the approximate distance between the crest of each wave is 180 meters. But at 100.1 in the FM band [100,000,000.1 wave cycles per second] the approximate distance between wave crests is only 4 meters. -- Imagine a child swinging a skip-rope, slowly at first, up and down in wide arcs, then faster and faster, shortening the arcs more and more until the rope stings his or her own nose.)

In scientific experiments at the turn of the 20th Century, instruments called black bodies (dense metallic objects) were used to gauge the release of emissions in electro-chemical reactions. The black body is a useful testing apparatus as its composition will completely absorb all radiant energy focused onto it with no reflection and should naturally give off a continuous spectrum of heat and light, as opposed to the testing characteristics of various other chemical elements.

It was then detected that when heated to a given temperature the black body itself gave off a maximum amount of energy at a particular wavelength, decreasing as the temperature was increased.

This effect presented a dilemma to experimenters, because previous theories had stated specifically that if electro-magnetic oscillations were given out by naturally vibrating materials, the quantity of energy released would increase indefinitely as the wavelength of the radiation was decreased, thus according to the principle of frequency undulation.

In 1900, Max Planck derived a solution to the phenomenon by suggesting that if the radiation from the black body were given out discontinuously in quanta, where the energy of a single quantum was proportional to the frequency of the radiation, the emission of the longer wavelengths towards the red end of the spectrum would be favored at low temperatures, as the energy of the quanta would be small. At higher temperatures more energy would be released, with the emission of larger quanta at the shorter wavelengths. Thus a maximum amount of energy (the "quanta") was emitted at a certain wavelength, and the wavelength shifted towards the short end of the spectrum as the temperature was increased.

It is as if a dam were built without gates and so perfectly level that the water accumulating in its deep reservoir would eventually fill to the brim, inching out over the wall until the resistance of surface pressure were suddenly exceeded, and the water released, spilling out in a massive rush, uniformly over its top.

Until the existence of electrons had been demonstrated by J.J. Thompson in 1897, the atom had been considered indivisible. Planck's inductive finding later proved the key in revealing the deeper structure of the atom, leading at first to the understanding of the shell of electrons orbiting around a nucleus, and thirty years later to the distinction of the constituent parts of the nucleus as positively charged and neutral particles: protons and neutrons.

Expectations of scientific certainty in the finite sciences of the past have come up woefully inadequate and counterproductive to new understandings of the working principles of physics of astronomy and particle science. It is the certainty of the expected results of experimentation which has failed, the identification of the behavior of a thing with the nature of the observer himself.

But in scientific experimentation and in the language of mathematical formula, the meaning of probability directly counteracts the anticipation of logical results.

If seen in its geometric perspective, the concept of prolepsis is the basis of the simple (normal) duality of object vs. subject. It proposes the subject as a figure (the interior, contained body), in mutual or parity orbit with its object (the exterior, other body) –But this principle is directly challenged by the theory of Probability which accepts that the interior contents of any object cannot ever be definitively known according to any rational principle of absolute location. In other words, the single identity or the mirror image of "subject" (first-person) with object (second- or third-person singular) can only be considered of incidental correlation.

So the whole nature of anticipation becomes transformed from the possibility of the possession of a fixed object, and raised to a scientific level, in terms of the question of probability to: Where is anything?

Alfred North Whitehead, writing an admonition to physicists and philosophers in Science and The Modern World, 1928, and Adventures in Ideas, 1954, elaborated a phenomenon which he called "The Fallacy of Absolute Location," warning that the logic of mathematics indicates, (and that the science of Quantum Mechanics would forseeably demonstrate), that two objects could and sometimes do occupy the same "space", and that a single object can exist in two places at once. This principle definitively occurs on a microscopic scale.

In 1979, physicists Abdus Salaam, Yogesh Pathi and Sheldon Glashaw won the Nobel Prize for their work in formulating the Electro-Weak Theory, uniting the Weak and the Electromagnetic Forces in one model. This is the union of two very different principles at work in the micro- and macro-scopic worlds: the symmetry patterns combining both immensely charged particles, such as the polarized and massive iron atom, with the so-called "Charmed Quark" which carries virtually no charge at all nor possesses any mass. We might suggest that these forces operate in succession as they did when the Universe was in its early stages of explosion, unmanifested expansion, chaos of elements, and organization of its cooling and crystalizing particulate matter.

The so-called "Weak Force", formerly described as "the cosmic alchemist" due to its property of inertia which merely organized the resultant field after the expression of the stronger forces, gravitational and nuclear. The Weak Force would now be described in its secondary effect as "the star breaker" by its provision of a dynamic equilibrium to the field.

In the 1970's, speaking of the Quark particle, now believed to constitute the basic building blocks of the proton, three to each, Salaam argued against the so-called "Dogma of Exact Confinement" advanced by certain physicists working in the field who had predicted that any evidence of the quark would only be detected by experiment within the boundaries of the proton, and that the electric charges carried by the associated electrons would be measured at one-third and two-thirds the charge of their proton nuclei.

In order to state the probability of a non-confined pattern of quark particles, and their hypothesis that quarks and electron particles were directly related in their display of so-called "color" ("up", "down", "strangeness", and "charm"), Salaam and his camp, with tongues firmly in cheek, formed the "Quark Liberation Front."

In Alfred Whitehead's thinking, the accepted idea of the "absolute location" of any object reflects a distinct dualism between the space where the object is situated and "other" space wherein that same object is not situated.

The concept of a so-called "space" wherein an object is situated had been challenged in 1935 by Werner Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle," stating that particles are contained in predictable positions only according to the laws of Probability, rather than any temporal observation through an electron microscope. This means that a given particle is nearly unobservable in a predictable location.

The Theurgy of Matter

The use of Abstraction in the imagery of 20th Century painting poses the question to human compre-hension, of a visually represented expression of qualities which are apart from the nature of discernible or existent objects. Thus, the emergence of so-called “Non-objective painting”--- Modern Abstraction had started off in the art world in the mid-1800s as nearly a contradiction-in-terms to the then-contemporary convention of art, as there was minimal bearing of the historically marginal practitioners of abstraction in 15th century European art. In the incidental sense of “marginal,” one can see forms of abstraction in the complexity of compositional drapery, cloudy skies, and in large edge sections of mural-size paintings.

The "abstract" is literally that having only intrinsic form, with little or no attempt at a "pictorial" representation or objectification. (Were I to have composed the previous sentence as "that subject having" I would have effectively perverted the meaning of subjectivity into its opposite, objectivity.) The essence of the “subject” is that which is only one step above the self, that is, its envelope of self-consciousness; or else its compliment, the next Monad in the endless series.

The intrinsic is that belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing as its inner architecture or in the amorphous parts of a thing. The thing itself might be an objective object or it might be a subjective entity. At least in the case of the latter, as the development of the entity expands in terms of its own growth, some of those constituent parts might be shown to be subjective factors, that is simply, in terms of the individual's own specific experiences, that which having occurred or being later viewed in a particular emotional color or light.

In terms of the natural tendencies of painting in art, the principle of abstraction must by definition denote the individual experience of the artist expressed by the artist, whether that experience be of their own perception of a geometrical or mathematical space in his own terms, or of an amorphous, polymorphous, or metamorphous space.

In art history, many of these forms of expression have already been demonstrated and applied. Geometric; Op-Art and Photo-Realism have demonstrated the geometric and mathematical experience. Amorphous representation has been illustrated by Impressionism, Indian Space Painting, and Abstract Expressionism. Polymorphous art has been created by Pointillism, Fauve, Bauhaus design, Dadism, Futurism, Pop-Art, and the Anachronistici. And metamorphic representation has been demonstrated with Cubism, Surrealism, and many examples of so-called "Outsider Art."

In magic, as in art, the mysterious etheric forms which are cast from the hands of a magus, and from the brush in the hand of an artist, emerge as thought-forms, “Thought-Forms,” compiled from the heart, mind, will, and soul of that individual. –
The following are the experiential topics for investigation and contemplation:

Amorphous

Polymorphous

Metamorphous

Ineffability

Eventualities (not a style or movement):

Culture:
Medieval –> Renaissance --> Baroque --> Romanticism ? Modernism ? Post-Modernism

The Dream Reflection in the face of the Deep

The dream then is more than a doorway into fantasy or other times: It is a manifestation of the possibilities intrinsic in the various realities that we know. These images are the reflections of reality upon the chromium surface of the monad, as detected or organized by the eye of the unconscious mind.

Unlike matter/energy time/space which must obey the equation of E=MC2, each monad that exists eternally, or one that is actually created from nothingness, reflects everything which surrounds or confronts it, but does not manifest its internal contents.

What then are these internal contents?

Does this mean that the contents are oblique and/or opaque to external reality?

The Monad, whether it is representative or perfect actually carries two separate forces in operation:

(1) The external force, which in a "representative mode" may also be non-objective, abstract, or figurative (of the figure's postural model), but yet remains in each sense a simile or a copy -- or in a "perfect mode" is prismatic, or absolutely reflective only of another Monad.

Similitude is the principle by which the activity of growth proceeds by extension, and/or recognition, and/or abridgement.

Abridgement is the effect of elongation and return to itself. Recognition here is the conscious realization of likeness in another or in the self.

Extension is the principle of (2) The internal force, which is entirely organic of itself, and operates without given revelation only according to its own structure of chemically balanced secretions, electrically active pulsations, and ultimately according to its own encodations of matched linkages.

Recognition is the conscious awakening of the ramifications of one's current activities, and the realizations of one's own influence on the unfolding future results, courses, paths, and consequences
of present actions. These realizations constitute the Yoga of Action.

The Bridge (back from Paradox)

In the final analysis as sentient beings we must confront the reality of our own bodies, certainly as they have evolved up to the present stage. As Sandor Ferenczi, the contemporary and correspondent of Freud, stated in Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality, "an individual life, as well as human history, represents the recapitulation of the entire evolution of life from the first ameno acid, the first metabolic cell, the tree of life, the phylogeny of all species."

To continue as a species, and to ensure the survival of all the species of life, we must begin to resolve the dilema and the dicotomy of object and subject, to form a democracy of beings and of all king doms of existence, and to accept not only the mechanistic nature of our biological instincts but also the mystery of our own sexuality.

One basic realization of the scientific mind in the 20th Century is that the anticipation of predictable phenomena is limited to a mechanistic universe, the middle dimension between the atomic microcosm and the cosmological macrocosm.

Even here in this middle domain the ephemeral situation presents itself in the intrinsic problems of the workings of the psyche, the nature of emotions, and the confrontations and juxtapositions of both with mental thought.

It is, however, non-predictable phenomena which can be anticipated. This is not to state the obvious, but to attempt a recognition of the amorphous quality which cloaks the potentiality, a cloud of dark shadow; and also to attempt a realization, an unfolding of the seeds of those hidden qualities.

The categories of the mind are only the perception of the duality of these amorphous and overlapping realms, the intersection of two perpendicular planes, each formed by a pair of orbital circles
in planar phase. A geometric construction of four points, it is sometimes experienced intuitively as the single repetition of an event within a closed span of time, the "parity" establishes the "phase" of events along the path of one trip.

Sometimes the distinctions or the parallels of activity or energy are clearly revealed with frightening consequences, such as when the sighting of a dead animal by the roadside occurs coincidentally at the moment an important consideration or decision in thought. The question of mortality is somehow affirmed.

The literal sense of the term "confrontation" should be understood as the adjacent, oppositional, frontal border of two separate entities, where the biologic stresses provide pressures from the inside of each border. The most obvious model of this interaction is the model of sexual behavior in the human, both in intercourse and in the emotional embrace. The element of time given to the expression, either protracted or brief, determines the degree and nature of the systems response and resolution of these intrinsic forces. This is to say that time is required for the organism to remotivate, restage, relive and relieve the forces of instinctual energies.

This formula contains an implied recognition of the identity (the sameness in parity) of the inmost pressuring forces, and therefore an identity of subject and object, on the most human level of biologic need, apart from personal differences.

It is often argued, in both Eastern Yoga and Western contemporary anti-sexist culture, that the conscious abstinence from sexuality elevates or liberates the rest of the organism from this need. But many facets to this theme remain recurrent, which continually frustrate this singular purpose of mind. In the East, a resolution is offered to this problem in the tenets of the Yoga of Action, which recognizes the objective purpose of an enlightenment of the mind, as well as a view without prejudice of a "concurrent totality" of the presence of divine creation and manifestation.

The forces of chronology can be identified as those in biology which compose the basic sexual drive itself: (1) instinctal attraction and desire made conscious; (2) common confrontation and affection with the object; (3) the penetration and/or compression of the sexual organs; (4) release in orgasm, relaxation, and physiological tonus; (5) gestation and reproduction; (6) perpetuation of the species; (7) sleep and dream; (8) aging and progression; (9) death and silence.

There is a region of correspondence, however, between chronology and determination in this model of behavior, and this correspondence is clearly expressed in the Hindu culture with its historical pre- occupation with sensuality, the erotic, and the languid landscape of the body, suggesting a transcendency
of chronology.

Most mysteriously, it is the function of uncertain possibility and its possible reward of fulfillment that replenishes the motivating spiritual purpose of all action -- to reconnect the totality of animate souls.

The nature of the intimacy of the emotions is, by contrast to chronology, the etermination to reveal Time by the opening up of unknown potentialities. The Bridge represents the equation of the qualities, the constants and variables of each of the meeting parties, multiplied, divided, or exponentialized, across the coupula of the is, crossing the short parallel span of two horizontal lines, the equal sign. Time presses forward with the urgency of giving birth to the universe itself to be.

The Bridge, employed as the metaphor for life's directions, combinations, and separations is the same as in the promise: "We will cross that bridge when we come to it..."

~ Johnes Ruta
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