UFOs as sensate and objectified objects take on many forms as they are subjectively identified by our senses. In their least differentiated sensate form, they are seen as spheres of light. When viewed at closer proximity, they can take on various forms of technological prowess in advance of our own, we can feel heat, experience or observe the effects of irradiation, equidistant soil impressions from footings, see indecipherable cryptographic symbols, observe instantaneous vanishings, multiplications and appearances of form all of which are dependant upon the both the specific observer witness’s testimony or photographic images, They have a random history of manifesting themselves. Their behavior is paradoxical and appears to have no purpose. They can appear and disappear from radar at will.
What is a common thread between all of these sensate impressions or cognitions?
They are transcendent.
tran•scen•dent
1 a : exceeding usual limits b : extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience c: in Kantian philosophy : being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge 2 : being beyond comprehension 3 : transcending the universe or material existence 4 : universally applicable or significant
In a question and answer session with a Sufi Sheikh, someone stood and bravely asked what the purpose of UFOs were. His reply was confined to three words worthy of our consideration; “To Inspire Awe.” If there was a revisionist dictionary, perhaps that intent could be listed as primary among the many others filed under “UFO.”
If I were going to sit at my desk in an existential frame of mind and reflected upon a world experienced through the development of synthetic realities, the exponential arising of technological wonders as an everyday occurrence, our empirical capabilities as experienced through a science devoted to our comfort and expediency, what could I possibly design to reawaken a lost sense of necessary awe to the world , in order for it to transcend it’s tunnel vision?
It would have to be something paradoxical, it would have to violate our paradigms of logic, purpose, utility, knowledge, science, sense of self, sense of the possible, and perhaps consciousness itself based on sensate input as applied to all of the above.
Quite a tall order, in this case the medium would have to be the message in of itself.
If this is the intent and purpose behind this phenomenon, where does it originate and of course we must assume a sentient source either in direct manifestation or indirectly through deductive logic.
What is Awe?
1 : an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime 2 archaic a :dread, terror b : the power to inspire dread.
This deliverance of awe from the transcendent would naturally and certainly arrive as a cultural, sociological, religious and most definitely an empirical shock.
What is Shock?
daze: the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally, surprise greatly, strike with disgust or revulsion, strike with horror or terror collide violently, an unpleasant or disappointing surprise, traumatize
After a shock, one would react either physically or mentally by pausing or in other words, you would need time to recollect perhaps both capabilities to deal with the advent of a shock. Perhaps this pause could be more accurately described as an interval.
Some definitions of Interval
• With regards to time, an interval is the duration between two events or occurrences of similar events. It is related to the mathematical concept of interval in that the interval contains all of the points of time between the two events.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(time)
• In music theory, an interval is the distance in pitch between two notes, the lower and higher members of the interval. It often refers to those two notes themselves (otherwise known as a dyad). Larger intervals are described as wide and smaller ones as narrow, but these are only relative terms.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)
• In mathematics, interval is a concept relating to the sequence and set-membership of one or more numbers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(analysis)
• a break between acts (usually first and second, but some plays have three or more acts).
www.answers.com/topic/theater-terms
• A set of values between two endpoints.
www.riverdeep.net/students/glossaries/algebra/Glossary.jhtml
• The distance between two notes.
www.melbay.com/guitarglossary.asp
• Point on a scale with defined interval but no zero point. Eg
techref.massmind.org/techref/glossary.htm
• The distance between two pitches, played simultaneously or arpeggio.
laura.soydesign.net/music/glossary.html
• The distance or relation between two pitches
acdaonline.org/states/SD/Musical%20Terminology.htm
• the distance between two pitches. General intervals are measured according to the number of scale degrees between the pitches (beginning with 1=unison). Specific intervals add a modifier (Major, minor, augmented, diminished) to the general interval, and specify the exact size of the interval in half-steps. See also the section on intervals for more information.
www.smu.edu/totw/def.htm
• Image integration time, in seconds (typically, 5.575). Two raw filtergram images (one red-shifted and one blue-shifted) are taken to compute each Dopplergram. The time separation of the start of these two images is 5 seconds. The integration time for each image is roughly 0.575 seconds. The INTERVAL is computed as the time separation of the original two filtergrams plus the integration time of the second image.
physics.usc.edu/solar/FITS.html
• An interval is a measure of time (24-microsecond = 1 interval) that is examined for errors. Interval and threshold values (see threshold) work together.
www.emulex.com/ts/docfc/glossary.htm
In Part Two, we will examine more closely a conceptual model of an interval.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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"The immortal EGO is an entity of which man can become thoroughly conscious while here on earth, but to arrive at this consciousness necessitates the entire abandonment of all the petty considerations involved in the transient and subordinate EGO, which is the only self of which the unenlightened man is conscious. Let him who desires to reach this inner consciousness enter his inner sanctuary, wherever that sanctuary may be; it matters not whether it be his own chamber, the open field, the mountain top, the seashore, the stately cathedral, or the humble village chapel. Let him realize fully the transient character of his own personality and contrast therewith his eager longing to know the immortal. Let him concentrate his whole consciousness upon his personality, fully arousing all his personal conditions as a distinct individual; then with all the aspiration of which this personality is capable, let him beseech of the immortal EGO - which is eternal and does not incarnate, but overshadows all incarnations, waiting until one is formed capable of illumination, to whom it may reveal itself - to consider him worthy of illumination, and according to his preparedness to receive illumination will it then be granted. He who asks this, knows not what he asks; for were the prayer answered, life henceforth for such an one would be a weary round, as Hamlet says: "to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow brings in this weary round of life"; for, having seen the glory of this immortal EGO, all else seems so base, so commonplace and mean, so inglorious, that oftentimes the personality has utterly collapsed when thrown back from the radiant vision of this glorious immortal entity possessed by all alike, though scarcely dreamed of by any save the very few who, discontented with the ignorance and emptiness of terrene existence, aspire to know the great reality of the supernal. As the incarnations of every entity, passing through certain orders of experience through numerous lives, inevitably culminate in this moment of conscious realization of the immortal entity; the Buddha says: "All shall reach the sunlit snows."
You who through your daily life move on unthinking, not caring, inactive, you shall hear when your supplications reach this high entity, "Lo! thou didst not even try, knowing that even thy failures were acceptable to me." Dashed Against the Rock http://www.svpvril.com/DParticles1.html#Actienic
Hi Al,
This reminds me of The Divine Governance of The Human Kingdom by Ibn Al Rabi which sets as its conceptual from, a discourse toward between the various facets within an individual as members of a Divine Kingdom and how it can be governed. Thanks for sharing this.
I awoke with an overriding sense of the illusionary nature of our lives.
Thinking of the woman on TV the other day, who was an authority on something or other; stating that “most cancers are curable these days” and having looked at the UK government statistics shortly before. These tell a clearly opposite story that the incidence of deaths from cancer have not changed since 1950. And, there is a graph with an unwavering straight line from then to now.
Hamlets Mill speaks of the far distant past and the “Golden Age” and the gut feeling of then and now, that things are getting worse and have been since antiquity, juxtaposed against the silly optimism of these days, that some outside entity will come and show us the way and the error of our ways. That the slimy Greys are our saviours and somehow bring an occult message of hope for all mankind.
That we are told by our atheistic science that gives pessimistic statistics and at the same time a message of forlorn and baseless hope; that after spending countless millions on research, hope and faith are all we can expect. The arbiters of official reality, who tell us that UfO's are swamp gas are the authors of the lie that we all want to believe.
Good Afternoon Al,
There is more than enough sophistry and lunacy that is considered a practicality rather than a horse imagining its a cow.
I heard one this morning as well.
A reporter in Miami Beach Florida was doing a report on rising ocean swells and the result being that sand beaches have been, for the most part washed away.Rather than recognising that this is an upward trending of increasing ocean levels as well as the general increasing instability of weather systems, they plan to literally shovel sand into the tide.
Our fresh water in North Carolina is drying up. Water restrictions are in force while the middle portion of the country is being battered in a continuing onslaught of flooding. Never the less, every day my neighbors water their lawn ( that has no purpose other than to be green) in defiance of the law so as to have retain this green lawn....
I am an admirer of Colin Wilson and have been on a spiritual/philosophical quest most of my life since reading The Outsider when I was 21. I am now 60. Unfortunately, I have experienced a good deal of doubt and over-reliance on rationality over the years! I have longed to transcend the limited Ego [as described in the Blog by Al?] but have had little release from anxiety and an over-active mind. This continual dissatisfaction and thinking too much has, I feel,eroded my spirit so that I suffer from anhedonia most of the time. There are many people who advise against focussing too much on the spiritual. What do others think?
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