Page 3 - Artist Kernodle - Eldonrek's Omicron Diary
03-01-2007
SUBSTANCE whose smallest part never can be reached. . .
. . . whose existence never can be grasped . . .
. . . whose existence never can be known truly by human minds . . .
This seems to leave us dangling, just as other ways of thinking do.
Dangling, yes, but not like contradictory use of words leave us lost.
Dangling, yes,... like a leaf in air,... like a fish in water,... like a planet in the heavens.
Even this dangling conception seems to lend itself to fluid. Something always exists outside a fluid conception to hold it, or else this very conception could not be.
What else could hold this conceptual form and still remain formless around it? Again, some sort of liquid whose thinnning always and forever stays ahead of its own conception.
This simply works for human minds. It works to help our words in daily life stay true to one another.
03-02-2007
There is no end to BEING. There is no final thing, therefore, to grasp. The verb, "being", thus outruns the noun. Remember, BEING is BOTH noun and verb,... both substance and its motion.
We know infinity only as we know our will to keep on moving further, further, further. We know the substance of infinity as well.
There is NO START.
There is NO FINISH.
FLUID BEING simply IS forever, and HUMAN FORM... a product of FOREVER.
We live. We die. We dance. We cry. The tears we shed recall an endless sea that births a life they grieve.
03-03-2007
So, how can HUMAN BODY have foundation in such endlessness?
How can SUBSTANCE still be substance when it dissipates past all our grasp?
How can we find comfort in a BODY FORM that seems to dissipate in endlessness?
The angst of endlessness seems to be our greatest mental ill.
But why should it bother us that we come from forever and return to forever?... that our BODY FORM bubbles up from constant churning infinity?... that the form of a self does NOT endure in this forever?... that new selves are created endlessly?
The bother that we feel is fear of being gone,... a selfish bother, really,... wanting to keep forever on hold as one form. We call this sense of being gone..."death"...and dress it up as a demon, when really we might do better to praise the life that such a death defines.
The foundation, thus, of HUMAN BODY FORM afloat in endlessness is ITSELF... in its own time of BEING.
03-04-2007
This is the precious value of a given life - it is a flicker in infinity, a blink of light in a darker sky.
Just as stars are beautiful against the night, so is life as beautiful against its plight of death.
Strange, then, why we seek our greatest worth somewhere past the substance of ourselves that we perceive. We try to grasp ourselves beyond the means of self-form's grasping capability. We try to use the hands that dissipate in endless thinning... to keep on grabbing,... when these hands' very definition of "to grab" has ceased.
03-05-2007
SUBSTANCE of the HUMAN BODY FORM is our main foundation.
SUBSTANCE of the HUMAN BODY FORM is our main identity. This identity, thus, dissipates with its form. Forever does NOT hold this identity. Forever is the ONE IDENTITY of infinite eternal substance from which all individual expressions of identity condense.
Each individual identity is a variation of the same forever. We all are cells of the same infinity.
Remember the steam cloud rising,... how it knots and twirls, curling into centers, then releasing into thin streams endlessly. Each of us is a center in the steam,... forming and deforming quickly on the time scale of eternity.
We are witness to our own forming,... so profound to sense eternity curling into us,... a moment NOT to waste, defame or prematurely end on empty hopes of afterlife or heaven, where we walk with angels.
03-06-2007
So what of the immortal soul? ANSWER: There is none.
SUBSTANCE is one continuity from thin to thicker densities.
BODY FORM is somewhere in between the thinnest and the thickest we conceive.
There is NO non-substantial thinner version of the BODY somehow floating deep inside a thicker body,... separated by an ultimate divide in essence (MIND, BODY, SOUL).
Instead, there is ONE substance of different forms, all relating only through a unity of the ONE.
In a very loose sense, we might say that there is only one soul of the universe that permeates its separate realizations - only one breath that plays its separate notes. And all this playing is a sort of super symphony. And all this playing happens NOT from one central orchestrating mind, but from the sheer nature of being's substance which forms many minds in unison.
03-07-2007
SUBSTANCE is spirit,... as is BODY,... as is MIND - the same substance in different densities.
SUBSTANCE is endless forever. SPIRIT is our sense of this.
SPIRIT is the weight of forever bearing on the BODY's MIND.
It is more a way of thinking than a final thing,... more a way of temporary grounding on a ground that ultimately is groundless in its infinite granularity, while wholy continuous for the same reason.
SPIRIT gives us a sense of motion, rather than a comfortable final resting place to stop, since there is no ultimate stop.
SPIRIT is NOT inside us, but everywhere (in or out) beyond us infinitely and eternally. It is the potential for moving always,... the potential that moves BODY,... the promise that there always is another place to go.
This is why we say, "The spirit moves us."
03-08-2007
If we never arrive at an ultimate granule or an ultimate limit of substance, then how can we claim to grasp it?
Seemingly the basis of SUBSTANCE is as tenuous as the basis of SPIRIT or MIND, hence the basis of BODY is as tenuous too.
We never can touch or grasp the ultimate reality, so how does this leave us any better off?
ANSWER: It makes perception more consistent and description less contradictory in our common communication. It grounds us in the things we do touch and see, with knowledge that our motions are the life these things decree.
We need not know an ultimate end, in order to have great meaning. It is sufficient to know how to see ourselves in motion.
As a wave in water, we interact with other waves. We know ourselves by hitting other waves. These other waves collide with ours and give us momentary boundaries.
We see, touch, taste and feel because of wave-collision motion. Senses are a crashing of the waves. Without the waves, there are NO grasping senses. We cannot sense or grasp what lies between the peaks or troughs.
Waves, thus, cannot know their water. They can only guess there's water in between.
03-09-2007
EXISTENCE never ends.
EXISTENCE never began.
EXISTENCE simply is, always has been, always will be - moving, changing, organizing, stabilizing, disorganizing, reorganizing again and again and again.
There can be no NON-existence ultimately, because there is no place outside of existence for existence to be, since existence is all there is.
But "existence" names a quality of substance. "Existence" cannot apply to non-substance, non-thingness, non-objectiveness. Eventually, the mind begs for the THING that existence is, or the THING from which existence derives its meaning.
The mind requires this word, "existing", to have a subject, and the project here is to accomodate mind with the most useful subject.
03-10-2007
"Thoughts exist", some people might object, "and thoughts are not substance".
But thoughts must trace back to substance eventually, or else they have no basis. "Thought" is not an empty room; it has something in it.
What best accomodates all descriptions of something? What has the greatest degree of freedom and malleability?
Again, we're back to what the mind handles best as a malleable substance - FLUID.
FLUID unifies - as opposed to tiny atomic pellets, and sub-atomic pellets, and pellets below even these. In what do these pellets exist? Existence still is in force between them. These pellets cannot float in non-existence. So, we have to admit to some substance in between.
The best we can say is FLUID.
03-11-2007
Pellets are particles of a fluid, and each of these particles is itself a denser sort of fluid.
Planets are particles of a fluid, and galaxies ... a bigger particle in a bigger fluid.
At every level of perception, we find a particle whose containment is an ocean. In every particle, we find a smaller ocean.
From the smallest to the greatest scale we conceive, there are endless levels of organization where one level stands as particle, and another level moves as its fluid.
In this way, we might speak roughly of FORM and FORMLESSNESS operating together. We might speak roughly of ORDER and CHAOS partnering in the same BEING.
03-12-2007
Here let's review. Let's repeat again. Repetition fortifies and clarifies.
BEING is SUBSTANCE.
BEING is MOTION.
BEING simultaneously and indivisibly is both substance and its motion - both noun and its activating verb.
If BEING were not substance, then what could it be? A thought? Then who thinks it? Even a thought requires its thinker, and its thinker requires its body, and its body requires substance to define it.
Conceptual grasp requires establishing boundaries to create form. At the same time, conceptual grasp requires that these bounded forms have a ground of existence - a place of being.
Form cannot exist in non-existent grounds or on a ground of non-existence. Even the ground must be something too.
SPACE, therefore, cannot be void. SPACE cannot be empty absolutely. SPACE is only relatively empty, by comparison to denser forms against which thinner forms appear invisible at the bigger form's scale.
Why can SPACE not be void? ANSWER: "Void" means non-existing of anything. Again, a void space places us in severe contradiction, by requiring something to exist in non-existence, or something to exist in nothing.
SPACE has to be something itself, in order to hold anything else.
The SPACE of BEING is a SUBSTANCE, and this substance is best considered FLUID.
FLUID is a concept with both boundaries and infinite extent to accomodate the greatest malleability of reality.
03-13-2007
The art of Eldonrek seemingly has had a deep connection to fluidity from the start.
From Dancers from Chaos inspired by a fluid stick figure,... to The Omicrons insistence on a fluid continuity beyond visible massive anatomy,... to Headpieces capturing the limit of a fluid living form's self understanding,... to Celestial Glyphs and Celestial Dancers realizing the fluid commonality of symbolic lettering, human and cosmic bodies,... in every artistic encounter, ... never has the apparent underlying nature of physical reality been far away.
This underlying fluid nature of physical reality, thus, has come to color the artist's efforts, leading him to the only possible transformation,... bringing this diary to its conclusion:
Fluidism
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