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Fractal of the Day
by Jim Muth
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Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image has been given no name and no rating. It is part of the parent fractal that results when negative Z and negative (1/Z) are combined and C is added. Most of the interest was achieved by rendering the image with the outside set to 'summ'. With a render time of 4-3/4 minutes, the parameter file finishes fast. And as always, the finished image is available on the FOTD web site at: I am giving my FOTD fractals no names or ratings because all my energy is being directed toward the philosophy, which continues in the philofractal version of this discussion. I will resume giving the FOTD images names and ratings when the current outburst of philofractal philosophy runs its course. When I claim that we are surrounded by higher realities, I am met with various responses. Some reply that they are not surprised. They tell me that I have just figured out that the astral plane exists. More reasonable thinkers tend to remain silent, not wishing to get involved in a fruitless debate. Sometimes I am asked where I assume these higher realities are located. People ask whether I feel that the invisible realities interpenetrate our own, with invisible spirit people, including our lost loved ones, walking among us. Or, they ask, do I see these realities as lying somewhere out in space, crystal cities and continents drifting invisibly among the stars. To answer this question of location I can only refer to the world of dreams. I sometimes have what are known as lucid dreams. While dreaming I find myself wide awake in the dream, with full awareness that I am dreaming, and full continuity with my waking life. I know what day it is as well as what I did the day before and will do the day after. I find myself in a new world, a world that is based upon the waking world, but with some differences. While in this condition, I am able to think logically. I realize that everything I am experiencing originates inside my sleeping mind, my brain if you will. My dream body is all in my mind. My dream thoughts are in my mind. The landscape and buildings I see around me are in my mind. The distant stars in the sky at night and the large silvery sun at day are all in my mind. The other people I sometimes meet in my dreams are all in my mind. The thoughts of the other people come from my sleeping mind. In short, everything that I am aware of in the dream exists only in my sleeping brain. But then I ask myself in the dream, where is the meaty mush of this sleeping brain located? If everything I observe is in my brain, why can I not see my brain? Does it exist invisibly, interpenetrating the solid appearing dream landscape around me? Does it exist invisibly among the stars in the outer space of my dream? Could a sufficiently powerful dream telescope find my dreaming brain? Does it exist down in the sub-atomic dream realm, waiting to be discovered by a dream microscope? Is my brain a delusion that exists only in my dream mind? Where could I search to find the thing that is creating the entire dream universe and everything in it? The answer is that, regardless of where or how hard I might search my dream universe, I would fail to find the creating power, the sleeping brain that is dreaming the dream, for that power does not lie in the outer world of my dream. It lies on a higher level of reality that can be accessed only by going within my dream self and waking up. Asking where the higher realities are located proves to be a wrong question based on a wrong assumption. The higher inner realities are related to the so-called real physical world in exactly the same way as physical reality is related to the world of dreams. The higher realities are not invisibly interpenetrating the world we see around us. They are not located in some far off place in outer space, waiting for us to die and arrive there. They are not in a fourth physical dimension, as interesting as this would be. The higher realities are on a higher level of consciousness, where location has no meaning in reference to this world. To find them, one must look within. But in the modern world all the emphasis is on looking without. The loss of hope and meaning in our modern scientific world is actually a loss of inner reality. In its effort to reduce everything to the material level, where it can easily be dissected and analyzed, science has gone too far. It has reduced the entire inner multiverse to brain activity, thereby declaring it not real and leaving us in an immense but ultimately meaningless material flatland. But science did not develop with the purpose of eliminating inner reality. It took its present shape because the scientific way was found to be a better way of solving the mysteries of the universe. All this inner reality stuff is interesting, but man has advanced beyond the days when superstition ruled. In our modern world we demand hard proof of our claims. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof. Something that exists only in the mind must be considered an extremely weak proof, if any proof at all. Have we come so far only to be sidetracked because things of the mind cannot be considered real without physical proof, and physical proof is impossible? Is everything I have said to this point just so much more wishful thinking? I am certain that some would say yes, but the story is not yet finished, so stay tuned for further developments. The weather here at Fractal Central on Sunday was totally perfect, as were the fractal cats. The great cat is indeed rewarding their good behavior. My day was fair enough, and today, which is starting absolutely perfect, promises to be equally good. The philosophy and fractals will continue in the next FOTD, due to appear in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and be ever alert. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com |
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