To remember

[greatblondelf]

I had a long series of dreams last night in which I was shown in excruciatingly exact detail the proper technique to be used, by which to gain knowledge and therefore control over known objects and systems, physical and conceptual, for the furtherance of understanding of these subjects. Unfortunately, given the interplay between the tenuousness of

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[guenievre]

I think Ophiel said something about the importance of paying attention to opposites. Doesn't that tie into one of the laws in the visualization book?

It also reminds me of our conversation about the zen garden.

Also, I think that the Taoists belive that while the universe is full of interplays between polar opposites, all these sets of opposites are essentially unified. Furthermore, I think there's a tenet saying that whenever you want to achieve anything, you should start with its opposite; and another stating that in order to retain something, you have to admit something from its opposite.

I also recall reading something from Western mysticism that went something like: In order to achieve enlightenment, you must believe something very strongly, and then set out to believe its opposite just as strongly; only then will you be able to sort of rise above this world... maybe it was Crowley? I'm pretty sure it was written during the 1920s, but I can't remember where I read it.

[tiny_muse]

I'm not much into mysticism or that kind of thing, but isn't this all kind of a variation on "you can't appreciate light without darkness"?

I may be over-simplifying...

[daraknor]

Taoists origin of everything says that in the beginning there was one, then there were two and they were opposite, and then 10,000 things came from that. (They impressed enough by 10k and didn't need to resort to 1 million.) I think that is the only origin of everything that has similarity to physics, reading some variations on physics theories some were similar (involving planck energy? - it has been a decade

[daraknor]

maybe i should reread the Tao te Ching and Chang Tze now that I'm into systems theory...