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Life feeds on negative entropy.

Entropy is a measure of disorder and dispersion in a system.
Something which is highly concentrated and ordered with a great
degree of symmetry possesses a large amount of negative entropy.
Negative entropy possesses a great deal of potential energy which is
locked up or engaged in maintaining the high level of concentration
and order and symmetry.

Life is also a localized system of negative entropy. Life is a
process or, more specifically, a meme, which is a process with the
ability to propagate and repeat itself. That which is alive is
constantly expending energy in the process which struggles against
dissolution and strives towards replication and renewal. The tendency
of all matter and energy is to disperse and seek a common
denominator; a lowest degree of organization spread out into the
greatest possible space. Jung states in his monograph, "On the Nature
of the Psyche," that matter has a psychoid aspect which strives
towards consciousness, while, conversely, consciousness has a
material aspect which yearns to be inert once again (Freud's death
wish.)

We are back to our old dynamic duo of darkness and light, chaos and
order; our superhero, Light, and his comical sidekick, Chaos. They
started out as a Vaudeville team. Next it became a book, then a play,
then a movie, and currently a television series (and entering into
reruns). The first season will be available soon in DVD.

Ideas can be memes too, with a life of their own. Ideas dwell in the
matrix of minds, in the substratum of a culture's collective
consciousness. The living pattern of an idea or ideology propagates
from one generation to the next, just like Glaukos and Diomedes image
of leaves from season to season, but the ideologies are the acorns
amongst the leaves. Note carefully that an acorn is a kind of nut.

Most living things are parasitic upon something else, taking
possession and control of that other in some fashion and slowly
consuming it.

Someone from Australia was discussing
the huntsman spider in a chat room. I did a google.com search out of
curiosity and came across a fascinating photograph of a spider and a
teacup with a long worm in it. The worm is a species of nematode
parasite which infects spiders. It lives inside the spider, feeding
upon it, but carefully preserving all of the spider's organs so as
not to kill it outright. When the worm is ready to hatch, it
fiendishly begins to absorb enough of the spider's body fluids so as
to drive it mad with thirst, forcing the spider to seek out the
nearest water. The worm needs to be born in a body of water. The
spider enters the water and the worm bursts forth from the spider's
body, must like that sci-fi movie, "Alien." The spider then crawls
off to die.

A black hole is a portion of a universe which is dying in some sense.
Inside the black hole is another big bang baby universe, much like a
parasite inside a spider. It is no coincidence that Hindu mythology
depicts the sleeping god Vishnu, who dreams a foaming froth of bubble
universes, as reclining on an infinite serpent named Sheshe.

Rupert Sheldrake and Shankaracharya and the Vedas are all correct in
their notion of morphic resonance, that thoughts and ideas come from
outside of us and we are like little radio or television receivers.
Shankaracharya said that thoughts pour into the mind like molten
metal into a form. The Vedas say, "May noble thoughts come to us from
all sides." This static of thought and ideas is what escapes from the
dying universe and enters into the baby universe. This is why there
is nothing new under the sun, as King Solomon said. This is why the
love being born in Crete four thousand years ago is the love which
ended yesterday in Texas, as Thomas Wolfe wrote.

Thinking does make it so, just so. God is an idea, a good idea. God
is a savior in the sense that we are remembered. Why do prayers
say, "eternal be their memory." Tony Alamo points out that "God
remembered Noah." Imagination is being inchoate. What God remembers
exists. Being is thought and thought is being.

This is why the Qu'ran describes Allah as "Lord of the WORLDS" (note
the plural form) and not "Lord of the world." We might substitute the
word universes for worlds, and we may designate the universe of all
universes as the Multiverse.

This is why, in the Bhagavad-gita, Book 7, verse 7, Krishna
says, "All the many worlds are strung upon me as black pearls upon a
thread (sutra)." A line of thought is a thread. A series of posts is
a thread. Penelope and the Three fates use fibers and threads to
weave their tapestry.

If we shall always be remembered, then we need not fear oblivion. If
death is rebirth then there is no death.

An infinite regression was not absurd after all, but rather, quite
necessary! Escher is transferred to the shelf on Romanticism.

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