Holding Patterns

Life is a holding pattern. That idea, 'life is a holding pattern", is itself a holding pattern. Let's play with this "holding pattern".

Physics long ago penetrated the secret of the universe, which is that It-All merely IS mass-energy, which is merely itself AS Light. My favorite holding pattern is the hard-to-understand-to-the-bones electromagnetic spectrum of Light. Yes, in our scientifically dumbed down CW, the mass of heavy brothers can only see light as the ROY G BIV visible waving lengths that impinge on their eyeballs. However, what you hear, touch, smell, feel and even think are all simply other forms of patterns of light that hold your attention.

Another certain aspect of the universe as a holding pattern of light is that of entropy. A useful guide to the universal insight that always takes this into account is the Realization that you are always already dead, not just 'going' to die in the putative future---which is perhaps the ultimate illusory holding pattern. On this basis, playing the odds can be fun, since there's nothing to lose. Every held pattern always contains a core of total Truth. For me, taking seriously the holding pattern known as astrology, when I found out Bob Dylan was born three days and a year before I was, and thus a fellow Gemini, it was easy to understand why his holding pattern songs had plucked my correlative holding pattern, before I found out about our similarities. Thus, one of his early songs became a major key, a la symphonies---"When you ain't got nothing, you ain't got nothing to lose".

Another way of expressing this is "Be in the world, but not of it."

This all relates quite nicely with the way humans have decided how to make and keep and destroy order. To the things, themselves! Proving, yet again, that It-All, AS Light, prevails--- or is that un-veils?--- in all kinds of physical forms that come from ideas: therefore is It-All called, sometimes, Mind. Oui, we are patterns of mass-energy crawling around and on and AS God's Mind. It's as if there existed some moveable feasting entity in our own brain---hey, there's no 'as if'! Science knows that blood cells DO run on their holding pattern runways there.

Thus, a stock market is the holding pattern, ne plus ultra, on which all other holding patterns can be seen as based. Every thing is a thinking man's 'stock', and the pattern having to do with all things, considered real, that comes directly from a physical first principle, is to not only hold, but to buy and sell---that is itself another kind of holding pattern. We're back to the faux future, with 1.) Brahma = Yahweh = Creator, 2.) Vishnu = Jesus = Sustainer, 3.) Shiva = Devil = Destroyer.

Salesmen try to convince other people to buy their pattern; and we're all salesmen, using whatever powerful stocks we control. Others, who move thingly stocks from creator to consumer = destroyer, may be a buyer who helps build up the requisite inventory, where things are held in their pattern, for a while. Seemingly so, with seams to the right of us, seams to the left of us.

Reality can be understood as It-All holding court, as we all play at being judges as the apparently unique holding pattern that we are. Do you see the playful Yin/Yang = Ground/Background = Motion/Rest that 'holding pattern' not only points to, but IS? To 'hold' is big and bold in its deadly rest, or apparent non-motion, even while it quivers like a speeding fan bullet, as an infinitely fast 'pattern'. Or is it vice versa?

A profound understanding of the nature of Reality as a Field that just IS can break the screaming seeming CW held pattern; to wit that all entities are born, live for a while, and finally die. Thus can the apparent paradox of 'action at a distance' dance be pierced. I am at the center of the physical universe! Not only that holding pattern truth, but I am also at the infinite 'edge' of it, as well as every space-time in between! But, of course, this "I" is not absolutely different and unique in this Big Bang holding pattern understanding. All this is true for any entity, including thoughtful humans.

Just as science appears to know that the universe is expanding, which means space is stretching and each star is at the center of the universe, the same 'stocky' thing is true for we wee people, we sixteen billion cells of mass-energy who scurry our holding patterns across earth and in her sky and under her waters and ground.

Hold these self-evident patterns at 'your' essential heart, and mind your understandable piss and vinegar salad days and nights!

I hold your hands, thusly!

posted by James at 1:52 PM
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