Why I Stay Away From Metaphysics

Reality, at least in its nearest approximation to what we can conceive of in our four-dimensional understanding, is that most perfect of shapes, a sphere. This sphere is a tumultuous rock-tumbler of energetic tides, rolling and spiraling and fractalling about. The movement of this energy is the fourth dimension, it is time. Now, when a person attempts to describe the “ultimate” nature of this reality, there are a number of factors preventing the formulation of a complete metaphysics.

The first, of course, is that we are at the beginning only conceiving of this reality in terms of the four dimensions that we are familiar with, and we have no way of knowing or even guessing whether or not this is even close to being the complete set of dimensions.

The second problem is the problem of language itself. Language—being created within this sphere as an outgrowth of creatures which are themselves an eventual outgrowth of the energetic substrate and the laws by which it functions—is simply insufficient to represent the entirety of the universe. Language is in the universe, and thus it cannot be big enough to wholly describe or circumscribe the universe. Just as language, which is itself an eventual creation of the interacting energetic flows of this universe, is poorly suited to the description of those energetic flows. The building blocks of words are simply the wrong size and shape to build a proper representation of our universe.

Thirdly, it is indeed conceivable that the size, scope, and source of our very ideas is insufficient for the task. Our descriptions can offer a linear sample, shot through the sphere, or perhaps at best a plane of our reality reproduced and explained. The totality, however, is beyond the means of any human being to communicate, describe, represent, or understand. It may be that the entirety of the universe is represented holographically in the smallest of its parts, but it remains unknown whether such a part can, through self-awareness, know that entirety. The very nature of logical, discursive, rational thought, with its basis in the division and naming of separate things renders any true knowledge of the whole impossible. If knowing such a thing is possible it is so only in a state of mind/awareness that has left behind such dualistic conceptions in favor of a singularity of consciousness, suggesting that only during some sort of mystic or enlightenment experience can a human being truly understand this universe and such an experience cannot be communicated, only the path is transmittable.

Of course if such a state of mind is achieved and a small mind expands to fill the larger Mind, and in this act the nature of Mind as well as of the smaller mind is filled with a recognition of the indivisibility and unity of all once-apparently separate things, then it could be that enlightenment experiences may be reached by all beings at once and unexpectedly, as the universal mind reaches some sort of natural apex, before that particular energetic peak has fully played itself out or some other fashion of thing occurs which returns the state of the universe to its previous divergence into a multitude and the world-mind-cycle begins again, perhaps from a point of creation from a seed-point such as the big bang or perhaps in a state that appears to be (and for all intents and purposes is) already mid-stream, such as the year 2006. Or perhaps simply at the emergence of self-awareness for if consciousness is that which knows, and there can be no observed without an observer, then how can a universal consciousness exist without some sort of co-created “other?