The Back & Forth Motion of Creation
Ken Drummond October 27, 2005
Perhaps
one of the most basic universal motions is a back and forth motion. If
we assume that everything starts from a unity, a oneness, a single
point -- there are two possible things that can occur. One of them is a
non-occurrence -- nothing happens, there is no motion, everything stays
the same. The other possibility (the only other one) is an expansion or
outwardness. Once this expansion or outwardness has happened, even to a
miniscule degree, we then have three possibilities: There can be no
change; there can be a shrinking or inward return; or there can be
further expansion or outwardness.
If the case is a return to or
toward the original unity, oneness, or single pointedness -- we have
completed one cycle, more or less. There may be further cycles which
include a repetition of previous cycles or cycles of a different
degree, or there may be non-action.
As soon as there is an outward
and/or inward motion, there is obviously an establishment of time. Time
does not occur or cannot be detected if there is no action, but it is
integral to motion. Progression of time favors repetition. That is, as
time goes by (there are more inward and/or outward movements of various
degrees) it becomes more and more likely that there will be
repetitions, either exact repetitions of some previous cycles, or
cycles that are closer and closer to previous ones. We can look at
these repeating cycles on a grand scale or on a miniscule scale. How we
view them is both relative and arbitrary.
Creation or
universal manifestation, from both cosmological and metaphysical
viewpoints, both seem to default to this back and forth representation
of everything. The difference, in the big picture, is apparently
irrelevant, since in both cases it is for us an exercise in imagination
or visualization. Cosmologically we can think of all matter as
beginning or ending as an infinitely miniscule point. Where it came
from or how it manifested we do not know. Metaphysically we can
understand creation as a manifestation or concretization of thought,
which projected, vibrated, or cycled out from an origin in unity or
oneness.
The source of our own conceptualization of these ideas
emanates from our mind or consciousness, which seems to be tied up with
our outward perceptions or input of information from the universe. The
act of visualizing the underlying structure or mechanism of everything,
either in a material or a mental form, would seem to be the same
process. We might say that the universe we perceive through our senses
is either a construct of thought, or that our thought is a phenomenon
of the seemingly complex workings of the universe. The two views are
apparently inextricably intertwined. Thus approaching our understanding
of everything from an analysis of what we perceive through the physical
senses or of what we fathom though our intuition or inner certitude
will bring us to a single sense of knowing.
It is time for the
battle between inward and outward sources of knowledge to end. The only
thing that seems to variegate those sources of knowledge is that we
cling to our pet ideas of how things have to be. It is an insecurity
based on lack of imagination. We have found the inner and outer
resources or answers to our questions up to now and we will continue to
do so, in whatever direction we turn our inward or outward gaze. Truth
is not limited to certain corners of the universe or of thought. Truth
is inherent everywhere in all manifestations of mind and matter. It is
there for the discovery, the infinite adventure of discovery.