Post by Matt on Jul 23, 2014 18:56:29 GMT -7
I didn't think this was fitting for the blog, but I do think its a pretty interesting view on the subject that I wanted to break down and explain in layman's terms, for those of us that are "vulgar".
This is perhaps the greatest explanation of Chaos I know of, as described by HG Wells.
What is Chaos?
"Chaos is the field that underlies all things which exist. In the beginning there was Chaos. Before the big bang all order was bound into the mono-block, a point smaller than an electron. All else was Chaos. After the big bang the various dimensions of order were spontaneously created by the inherent symmetry of the original matrix. These dimensions continue to expand through the continuum, but still the underlying Chaos remains active and potent. The nature of the Chaos field is dimly understood. Is it the complete absence of order, or does it correspond to an order not comprehended by Man? Fundamentally it is the uncoordinated source of creation. From Chaos does creation rise, to be formed by other forces. The Greeks called this the Cornucopia; a twisted tube within which is nothingness, but from the mouth of which spews all manner of things. This is interestingly similar to modern theories concerning black holes. Physicists, such as Stephen Hawking, postulate that the structure of black holes may be that of a twisted tube, (called a "wormhole"), within which is a chaos without any predictable physical laws, (called a "singularity").
Further it is stated that these wormholes may have a terminus in another spatial/temporal/dimensional location, (called a "white hole"). It is a matter of form passing through chaos becoming form again in another aspect. Here is a quality of the Chaos field, that it serves to reprocess matter/energy, breaking them down into components so that it may be reused in the various dimensional matrices. In these matrices, our universe for instance, the energy matrices that form planets, stars, bodies, minds, etc, cannot be entirely broken apart, they retain some similarity. For example, the energy matrix of a body, upon deactivation of the governing principle, goes on to combine with similar matrices. The corpse feeds the tree and the worm. It reshapes the consumed matrix into similar organic constructions. If this combining is delayed, say by isolation within volcanic rock, than the matrix will combine with the less energetic rock, the process of fossilization. With sentient creatures there are actually two matrices working in combination, the physical matrix and the mental matrix. What has been said about physical matrices generally applies to the mental, with this difference; that where the physical is usually recombined, except when the matrix is very weak or more energy is required to maintain equilibrium in the Chaos field, the mental rarely recombines, (this is termed possession when it combines with an already functioning matrix and called reincarnation when it uses a latent matrix), instead it usually enters the Chaos field, wherein various things may occur. A special set of circumstances applies to mental matrices in Chaos. These may be generalized in three ways:
It may be reprocessed; When this occurs the individual matrix is broken down completely. This is dissolution.
It may be partially reprocessed; It sometimes happens that mental matrices enter Chaos, but the primal will to exist is strong enough to prevent it from being completely reprocessed. in these cases the intellectual qualities do not survive, but the remainder retains some integrity. These are just machines of a sort, what Qabalahists refer to as Qliphoths, (shells).
It may preserve its integrity; It may be that the individuals mental matrix is possessed of not only a strong will to exist, but also of a powerfully focused intellectual fixation. the individual matrix can preserve its discreetness if it can maintain clarity, a very difficult thing to do during conditions of dis-corporation. Managing this feat will raise another question, "what now?"
The individual cannot retain itself in the Chaos field indefinitely, it would inevitably break apart. Therefore the mind must travel. This raises another quality of Chaos. The chaos field has no dimensions, no time, no distance, at least in our mode of thinking. Basic laws that apply in the dimensional matrices do not apply in Chaos. Different objects can occupy the same space at the same time, effect can proceed cause, and every point in every location is congruent. Everything is everywhere, always. One can enter Chaos from any particular location, and exit it at any other particular dimensional location, assuming integrity is preserved. The major difficulty in this mode of travel is navigation. A very nearly infinite number of choices is presented, no easy task sorting this out, and once one makes his exit, his individual matrix will adapt itself to local conditions, perhaps forgetting himself entirely. Most people have no idea where it is they want to be, in fact many do not even know where they are. They would become lost. There is a method for successful navigation. This method is possible because it is not required to die in order to enter the Chaos field. Travelling the Chaos is referred to by the vulgar as "astral travel". Few understand the nature of this. They use it as a sort of mental vacationing, talking to cretinous shells and gawking at illusions. The inhabitants of Chaos are generally useless to the individual, exceptions perhaps being other more experienced travelers (not always human), who might provide some insight. There, as here, you must always be on the lookout for charlatans. The use of travelling chaos before death is that it is much easier to keep individual integrity while possessing a body. The individuals body acts as a beacon to draw back the wandering mind. If the individual wants to use the Chaos field to plot his after life travel plans, it is required that the person know his true Will, for this will tell him where it would be best for him to manifest. Without this the individual can not go to where he should be, for he would not know what, or where, this is. But knowing ones true will in this area will raise sympathies which will lead one to his particular "portal of becoming". It is important to avoid fascination, or the individual may find himself getting exactly what he thinks he wants, which may be hideously inappropriate. The chaos field is not in itself horrible, although it contains some horrors. Chaos is not hell, although it is inhabited by some types of demons. It is potential, the realm where possibility is born. It is the Apsu, the abyss of the Babylonians. The place of naked, formless creation. It becomes existent when given form by Enki, which is Wisdom and Intellect."
So, to break this down; Chaos is what loosely structured the Universe before it had an observable physical structure, aside from a single condensed form of balanced Order. This, the building block for all existence as we currently understand it, the Universe that now surrounds us, was once so compact and lost in an ocean of chaotic energy that it would have gone completely unrecognized in today's world, had it not been initially sparked by that disorderly energy around it and basically opened up so that it could grow and expand.
Order and Discord, Balance and Chaos, whatever names you wish to give them, fundamentally do not exist without each other, neither physically nor conceptually. All other contrasting concepts rely on these to some extent. But for now, it is only important to understand that the two are so dependent upon each other that one cannot exist without the other. They are both equally important. But, why focus only on the Chaos then?
Because, at the core nature of all things is still uncertainty and Chaos keeping the balanced world in check. In a way, it still guides our world. And what better way to understand and gain an understanding and ultimately control over Order, than to intimately understand its counterpart equally as well? When the Universe as we know it came to be, things were still uncertain, until a balance was established and the Chaos became sublimated to the background of Order. It is still there, and it is still very much integrated with the very fabric of our existance, dictating the uncertain nature of most things in our world from a more vast world, largely unexplored and expanding infinitely just as our own Universe. In the simplest terms, it is another plane of existance that overlaps our own.
At the very core of existence, and from the beginning of all things, Order has been, in a sense, formed from Chaos through the most unpredictable laws and principles that nature has to offer. Essentially, Chaos in itself is a matrix, a medium or mold that processes, breaks down, and shapes or reshapes Order, both in our physical dimension, and the Astral. The Astral Plane is very simply put, a timeless, infinite, and formless dimension encompassing and connected to the physical, or rather in the big picture it is a much larger part of the same puzzle, though many may only process or perceive certain aspects based on sensory perception. The Chaos field is both its own plane, and also a buffer between our world of Order. Basically, the Astral is too complex and complicated for the mind to fully comprehend in physical form and is much more commonly associated with the subconscious.
Think of it like this, the conscious is Order, the unbconscious is much more open and expansive, but also much more unpredictable and Chaotic, while the conscious is still part of the unconscious, Chaos operates outside the bounds of our 4-Dimensional world. I say four dimensional because there are three parts space (length, width, depth) and one part time, that allows our mental frames of reference to blend together seemlessly and allows us to consciously perceive movement in a concept we call Time.
There are many different matrices that are governed by and born of the Chaos. In scientific terms, they are understood to be the governing laws of physics, how various facets of our surrounding world function on the most fundamentally basic level. All other matrices, are all part of the main two though, Order and Chaos, physical and mental/energy/astral. You may give it whichever name you want, but at the basis of everything, it boils down to the polar integrity and back and forth of these two on some level or another. There are times of balance and times of disorder in both parallel dimensions, when and where are irrelevant.
If any more clarification is needed, feel free to comment and let me know what isn't understandable and I will do my best to explain in greater detail.
This is perhaps the greatest explanation of Chaos I know of, as described by HG Wells.
What is Chaos?
"Chaos is the field that underlies all things which exist. In the beginning there was Chaos. Before the big bang all order was bound into the mono-block, a point smaller than an electron. All else was Chaos. After the big bang the various dimensions of order were spontaneously created by the inherent symmetry of the original matrix. These dimensions continue to expand through the continuum, but still the underlying Chaos remains active and potent. The nature of the Chaos field is dimly understood. Is it the complete absence of order, or does it correspond to an order not comprehended by Man? Fundamentally it is the uncoordinated source of creation. From Chaos does creation rise, to be formed by other forces. The Greeks called this the Cornucopia; a twisted tube within which is nothingness, but from the mouth of which spews all manner of things. This is interestingly similar to modern theories concerning black holes. Physicists, such as Stephen Hawking, postulate that the structure of black holes may be that of a twisted tube, (called a "wormhole"), within which is a chaos without any predictable physical laws, (called a "singularity").
Further it is stated that these wormholes may have a terminus in another spatial/temporal/dimensional location, (called a "white hole"). It is a matter of form passing through chaos becoming form again in another aspect. Here is a quality of the Chaos field, that it serves to reprocess matter/energy, breaking them down into components so that it may be reused in the various dimensional matrices. In these matrices, our universe for instance, the energy matrices that form planets, stars, bodies, minds, etc, cannot be entirely broken apart, they retain some similarity. For example, the energy matrix of a body, upon deactivation of the governing principle, goes on to combine with similar matrices. The corpse feeds the tree and the worm. It reshapes the consumed matrix into similar organic constructions. If this combining is delayed, say by isolation within volcanic rock, than the matrix will combine with the less energetic rock, the process of fossilization. With sentient creatures there are actually two matrices working in combination, the physical matrix and the mental matrix. What has been said about physical matrices generally applies to the mental, with this difference; that where the physical is usually recombined, except when the matrix is very weak or more energy is required to maintain equilibrium in the Chaos field, the mental rarely recombines, (this is termed possession when it combines with an already functioning matrix and called reincarnation when it uses a latent matrix), instead it usually enters the Chaos field, wherein various things may occur. A special set of circumstances applies to mental matrices in Chaos. These may be generalized in three ways:
It may be reprocessed; When this occurs the individual matrix is broken down completely. This is dissolution.
It may be partially reprocessed; It sometimes happens that mental matrices enter Chaos, but the primal will to exist is strong enough to prevent it from being completely reprocessed. in these cases the intellectual qualities do not survive, but the remainder retains some integrity. These are just machines of a sort, what Qabalahists refer to as Qliphoths, (shells).
It may preserve its integrity; It may be that the individuals mental matrix is possessed of not only a strong will to exist, but also of a powerfully focused intellectual fixation. the individual matrix can preserve its discreetness if it can maintain clarity, a very difficult thing to do during conditions of dis-corporation. Managing this feat will raise another question, "what now?"
The individual cannot retain itself in the Chaos field indefinitely, it would inevitably break apart. Therefore the mind must travel. This raises another quality of Chaos. The chaos field has no dimensions, no time, no distance, at least in our mode of thinking. Basic laws that apply in the dimensional matrices do not apply in Chaos. Different objects can occupy the same space at the same time, effect can proceed cause, and every point in every location is congruent. Everything is everywhere, always. One can enter Chaos from any particular location, and exit it at any other particular dimensional location, assuming integrity is preserved. The major difficulty in this mode of travel is navigation. A very nearly infinite number of choices is presented, no easy task sorting this out, and once one makes his exit, his individual matrix will adapt itself to local conditions, perhaps forgetting himself entirely. Most people have no idea where it is they want to be, in fact many do not even know where they are. They would become lost. There is a method for successful navigation. This method is possible because it is not required to die in order to enter the Chaos field. Travelling the Chaos is referred to by the vulgar as "astral travel". Few understand the nature of this. They use it as a sort of mental vacationing, talking to cretinous shells and gawking at illusions. The inhabitants of Chaos are generally useless to the individual, exceptions perhaps being other more experienced travelers (not always human), who might provide some insight. There, as here, you must always be on the lookout for charlatans. The use of travelling chaos before death is that it is much easier to keep individual integrity while possessing a body. The individuals body acts as a beacon to draw back the wandering mind. If the individual wants to use the Chaos field to plot his after life travel plans, it is required that the person know his true Will, for this will tell him where it would be best for him to manifest. Without this the individual can not go to where he should be, for he would not know what, or where, this is. But knowing ones true will in this area will raise sympathies which will lead one to his particular "portal of becoming". It is important to avoid fascination, or the individual may find himself getting exactly what he thinks he wants, which may be hideously inappropriate. The chaos field is not in itself horrible, although it contains some horrors. Chaos is not hell, although it is inhabited by some types of demons. It is potential, the realm where possibility is born. It is the Apsu, the abyss of the Babylonians. The place of naked, formless creation. It becomes existent when given form by Enki, which is Wisdom and Intellect."
So, to break this down; Chaos is what loosely structured the Universe before it had an observable physical structure, aside from a single condensed form of balanced Order. This, the building block for all existence as we currently understand it, the Universe that now surrounds us, was once so compact and lost in an ocean of chaotic energy that it would have gone completely unrecognized in today's world, had it not been initially sparked by that disorderly energy around it and basically opened up so that it could grow and expand.
Order and Discord, Balance and Chaos, whatever names you wish to give them, fundamentally do not exist without each other, neither physically nor conceptually. All other contrasting concepts rely on these to some extent. But for now, it is only important to understand that the two are so dependent upon each other that one cannot exist without the other. They are both equally important. But, why focus only on the Chaos then?
Because, at the core nature of all things is still uncertainty and Chaos keeping the balanced world in check. In a way, it still guides our world. And what better way to understand and gain an understanding and ultimately control over Order, than to intimately understand its counterpart equally as well? When the Universe as we know it came to be, things were still uncertain, until a balance was established and the Chaos became sublimated to the background of Order. It is still there, and it is still very much integrated with the very fabric of our existance, dictating the uncertain nature of most things in our world from a more vast world, largely unexplored and expanding infinitely just as our own Universe. In the simplest terms, it is another plane of existance that overlaps our own.
At the very core of existence, and from the beginning of all things, Order has been, in a sense, formed from Chaos through the most unpredictable laws and principles that nature has to offer. Essentially, Chaos in itself is a matrix, a medium or mold that processes, breaks down, and shapes or reshapes Order, both in our physical dimension, and the Astral. The Astral Plane is very simply put, a timeless, infinite, and formless dimension encompassing and connected to the physical, or rather in the big picture it is a much larger part of the same puzzle, though many may only process or perceive certain aspects based on sensory perception. The Chaos field is both its own plane, and also a buffer between our world of Order. Basically, the Astral is too complex and complicated for the mind to fully comprehend in physical form and is much more commonly associated with the subconscious.
Think of it like this, the conscious is Order, the unbconscious is much more open and expansive, but also much more unpredictable and Chaotic, while the conscious is still part of the unconscious, Chaos operates outside the bounds of our 4-Dimensional world. I say four dimensional because there are three parts space (length, width, depth) and one part time, that allows our mental frames of reference to blend together seemlessly and allows us to consciously perceive movement in a concept we call Time.
There are many different matrices that are governed by and born of the Chaos. In scientific terms, they are understood to be the governing laws of physics, how various facets of our surrounding world function on the most fundamentally basic level. All other matrices, are all part of the main two though, Order and Chaos, physical and mental/energy/astral. You may give it whichever name you want, but at the basis of everything, it boils down to the polar integrity and back and forth of these two on some level or another. There are times of balance and times of disorder in both parallel dimensions, when and where are irrelevant.
If any more clarification is needed, feel free to comment and let me know what isn't understandable and I will do my best to explain in greater detail.
