Twinkle Twinkle

OK. So we began these confessions with Waving Hello. A sweeping broadcast of hope... a toss of bread upon the waters...

That evolved into Back Story. Which attempted to fill in the ground under our feet.... prepare the background of this multi-media canvas.

And now we witness the appearance of Twinkle Twinkle..... What could this all mean? One might ask.

As I have stated. I am interested in exploring… the true nature of reality, instead of what reality appears to be…

And so. With this stated intention... with the sweet notes of Adi Da’s “manifesto” on Transcendental Realism echoing in the background... let me introduce three new points of potential interest!

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

The discovery of CMB is landmark evidence of the Big Bang origin of the universe. When the universe was young, before the formation of stars and planets, it was denser, much hotter, and filled with a uniform glow from a white-hot fog of hydrogen plasma. As the universe expanded, both the plasma and the radiation filling it grew cooler. When the universe cooled enough, protons and electrons combined to form neutral hydrogen atoms. Unlike the uncombined protons and electrons, these newly conceived atoms could not absorb the thermal radiation, and so the universe became transparent instead of being an opaque fog.[3] Cosmologists refer to the time period when neutral atoms first formed as the recombination epoch, and the event shortly afterwards when photons started to travel freely through space rather than constantly being scattered by electrons and protons in plasma is referred to as photon decoupling. (Wikipedia>>Cosmic Microwave Background)

Genesis 1:1 - 1:8

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. (Wikipedia>> Genesis))

Camera Obscura

Western artists and philosophers used the Arab findings in new frameworks of epistemic relevance.[67] E.g. Leonardo da Vinci used the camera obscura as a model of the eye, René Descartes for eye and mind and John Locke started to use the camera obscura as a metaphor of human understanding per se. (Wikipedia>> Camera Obscura)

Da Vinci used the camera obscura as a model for the eye
Descartes for eye and mind
Locke started to use the camera obscura as a metaphor of human understanding…

And Adi Da Samraj used the MODERN CAMERA as a metaphor for
the human body-mind.

I quote extensively from the catalogue ADI DA SAMRAJ, the Quandra Loka Suite, 52 views, p. 13, Artist’s Statement:

“The camera is “point of view” incarnate. The event of the camera registering an image on a piece of film replicates the human idea of what it is to see light: The light of the “outside” world enters through a small aperture and is registered on a light-sensitive material. Thus, both the camera and the human being are mechanisms for registering reality from a particular “point of view” in space-time. The camera—like the human being—is a “point-of-view machine.” Thus, the process of making photographs reflects the nature of the human event, of human experiencing.”

“The human individual in the midst of reality is like a camera in a room—perceiving everything from a fixed “point of view.” But what does the room really look like? The room can be viewed from every possible “point of view” in space-time—not merely from any particular “point of view,” or even a finite collection of “points of view.” Therefore, no “point of view” can reveal the room, or reality itself…”

“Reality itself always already exists. Reality itself is what exists prior to “point of view,” before any individual “point of view” constructs its version of presumed “reality.””

Let us consider this point: “Reality itself always already exists. Reality is what exists prior to “point of view”

Now, let us begin this further consideration with the oblique question: What is it that appears within the viewfinder of a camera with the lens cap on?

Well. One… might speculate... that a dark, generally rectangular field appears?

When the lens cap is removed, and, in the case of a digital camera, when the camera is switched on. Allowing the motorized diaphragm… the multi-leafed oculus, or, iris-shaped portal… the mechanical shutter of the camera lens… to electronically open. And the electronic program of the camera to engage

Sunlight, starlight, or some dire species of artificial light is allowed to enter and register… sign its unique photon-graphic signature… make its indigenous claw mark… scintillating, heinous scratch… upon a light-sensitive, optical record book, or, holy ministerial registry… which then translates mysteriously mutated squiggling, fractious bits… particles, photons, quanta, atoms, molecules... quarks, muons, gluons, bosons…......... startling wave-monsters of shadowy insinuation and bright compulsion… into a perfectly incomprehensible series of esoteric zeros and ones… insidious on-off switches, impossible pulses and pusillanimous minuses… that become prodigious tribes of malicious bytes… kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes… coded matrices of great-white scoundrel data… that form into scurrilous pixel armies...

Thanks to Grand Dude Ex Machina!! Alleluia!! Pixels and Apple be praised!!

Then, these hard-working, self-sacrificing pixel pawns… arrayed upon an electronic grid... tiny square bundles of malleable data… the electromagnetic mud and mind-fermenting clay of cyberspace… the primordial digital protoplasm of cyber-generative reality… derived from mystical mathematical equivalencies… from the higher Platonic realm of numbers, then… these cyber-morhphological, mind-numbingly logical squares… tiny timid boxes… by somehow magically dressing themselves up… in poke-a-dots, pin-stripes, loud plaids and lambent paisleys… these unsung, geeky heroes… and heroines... these never-even-considered odd winks on the margin of bliss… the lowest-of-the-low on the cyber-erotic totem pole… these billion-points-of-light pixels… are thereby transformed into hallowed information… visible as graphic and word pictures, and… hopefully comprehensible to the radiant field of awareness of... a rare and exquisite human viewer.

Not to mention, Awesome Digital Art!!

The Resurrection of Stephen Hermes Trismegistus… on The Verdant Tablet?

Starring Pixelated Poimandres!!

And the Hammer and Anvil of Algorithmic Delight!!!

So... “visible light”... a tiny slice of the electromagnetic pie... appears miraculously and makes it possible to see so-called “worldly” objects, or, photographic subjects, which the light illuminates, or, defines as shapes with outlines, contrast and shading through refraction and reflection. All rendered into tiny pixel pictures, or, “ digitized images of reality.”

But! Not without human recognition, not until the human camera-eye, and thusly the human camera-mind… are allowed to engage with the subjects framed within the viewfinder.

Until then, what could possibly exist?

Alone in the dark, just prior to fully waking from deep sleep, the pristine, primordial field of human awareness appears as a black amorphous field of wave patterns dancing, or, shimmering in blackness.

What is this dancing, shimmering ocean of dark energy? So like unto the darkness hiding inside of a camera?

Is it possibly the subjective equivalent of cosmic microwave background radiation... the transcendental, temporal... psychic echo of the Mythical Big Bang?

Does that make it somehow akin to “darkness upon the face of the deep” and… the “Spirit of God mov(ing) upon the face of the waters” just prior to God’s decree: “Let there be light…”?

Which brings us to the Big Bang of further and further.... questions: Who was this preposterous biblical character God anyway?

And who is on the Who's Who List prior to God? “Before Abraham, I am…”

Was God the Big Bang Itself? KABOOOOOOM! And now he... she... it.... is all in pieces... such that... "all the king's horses and all the king's men..."

Or. Was God prior to the Big Bang? And, then he decided to let a really big flaming, gaseous cloud go rip? BRRRROOOOMMM!!!!

So. You see. At some point, very early on in my essential quest… this exploration of the true nature of reality

In my nascent attempts to understand
The How, The Who, The What, The When, and The Where?
"Somewhere over the rainbow," then…
In the field of infinite conscious space that is the inherent mind of man and simultaneously.... always simultaneously

REALITY ITSELF

There had to be a starry starry night
A black field filled with dazzling points of light
A grand silence measured in heartbeats
Pulses of breathing life

And the unanswerable, inevitable question behind all questions:

Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle twinkle little star

How I wonder who you are?

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