An attempt at an analogy between modern 3d>4d>5d CAD Aplications and reality creation (management).
As some of you know i design and build furniture. In doing that i use a CAD (Computer Aided Design) application, actually most of the tome i spend in front of the computer is using AutoCad. Most CAD programs deal with 3d very well, one can virtually build any kind of thing using them. They are called 3d modeling programs and more than being just a drafting aid they are becoming 3d management systems, with a lot more stuff added to the project information than is possible in a simple flat page. You can turn parts on and off, and see sheets of data related to that part, you can rotate an object, and see it rendered in many ways under different lights and made of different materials, you can calculate mass, center of gravity, heat dissipation. You name the phisical property.
Recently these programs heve been developing from 3d into 4d, as programers realized that they could bring time into the picture. The 4d axis allows one to program the assembly order, or any step taken in actualizing the project in assembly. This is a plus for analizing production times, automated tooling and etcetera. It seems pretty obvious to add the time component to a modeling program, many animation programs do just that. The difference is that these are project dedicated programs, and in them you deal with time differently than you would in a past to future animation program. You deal with time as a potential, as a space where you try different configurations, where you split this and that way so you can test the best possibility when it comes to materializing the project at hand, and manage the time involved. Not only in materializing i should say, but in plant processes management, in cycles of use for architectural spaces, in some aspects of logistics. The project generated in such programs agregate great amounts of information about the object and become managing tools completely integrated to that very object.
I always felt that when we esoterics talk about 3d we are using a less than apropriate term, since the time axis is very present for us. But perhaps we are more immersed in it than in the other 3 dimensions we lose sight of it. I guess it is right to say we are so planted in a 4d platform in order to deal with 3d that we do not really consider it.
Nowadays 4d CAD programs seem to be adding still another axis, a 5th one into managing projects. This development is related to what specialists call Information and Comunication Technology. This 5th axis is dedicated to the integration between a CAD and other different applications but also, and this seems to be the major purpose of this dimension in designing, to the cost, resource and pricing aspect of a project. But how all this techno crap serves at all to make a good analogy here? I think it does.
A project manager is challenged always to make the best use of limited resources, begining with the formal aspects of development, from a point idea (1d), to a sheet drawing (2d) to an actual object (3d), fabricated in time (4d) with just an exact amount of resources and materials (5d). In making things i always feel you can do the ugliest most useless thing or a very worthy object with about the same resources. Actually it seems the ugliest ones take more of anything, and last least than the best. Design is an integrated thing, that in some aspects actually confers an object with a kind of a soul.
Also Design is becoming a major force in modern life, as it integrates many different disciplines into one seamless purpose. The word Design has a meaning when you think about an object´s design, and an expanded one when you thing of God´s Designs. Design in all is a good thing, and when it is not skin deep it is something that brings a lot more into the picture and into the object than is observable.
I hope you do not find it all too arid, male, and rational but I find meaningfull that programers added that 5th axis to CAD applications and related that additional axis to resource management.
I always felt that walking into 5d would not mean that now we have the Genie under control, and that our every wish and desire would promptly materialize, as many seem to believe, regardless of limitations. To me walking into 5d means we will become more aware of the resources we have, and learn to manage them to “perfection”.
I think the perspective acquired from 5d is actually a very sobering one, that the resources that are given to one are limited, unique and precious. Isn´t that what we are learning all around, from water to air, from our lifespan to the people we meet in it, from how we spend our life and how we take care of our health. I believe the “investment” that the life force, God, or whatever name you like, will do in us is proportional to our ability to manage the givens. The givens in our lives, any karmic bondage or conscious affection, life setting and condition, geographical, economical, genetical... strengths, flaws, abilities, networks, isolation, whatever that is right in front of us or within our grasp to imagine, take, mold, accept.
I remember reading somewhere that many souls were departing to no longer incarnate because they were unwilling to face all the work ahead. To me, if we read the trends evident all over, we will see no fireworks, but we will get to the inevitable point of having to acknowledge we entered an era of communication and of relationship, an era were mankind must mature into a more responsible, wise and altogether compact and efficient body, an era of limited resources that will force us to get and work closer together, but also an era of warmer bonfires under the skyes, of breaking into laughter after all the stress and hardwork, of being helped through the highest pass. An era of finally getting over fear, and decisively seeing our Destiny in the eternity of the stars.
And, as a final note, think that a Master is Masterfull not because he takes a lot, or has unlimited resources at his disposal, but because he made the finite resources infinite and sacred by his Reality Management. The Master overcomes material limitation pouring into it infinite perspective.
By Antonio (Guga Casari)
quarta-feira, agosto 24, 2005
terça-feira, agosto 23, 2005
MATRIX AGAIN
Upon some reflection I came to realize that again the MATRIX parable is very applicable in bringing to attention some aspects of our present lives. In a way we are feeding the world wide economic and informatic machine we created, with all we have, with our souls even. It is not really the machine's fault, since by definition machines are soulless.
The intense acceleration we feel coming from the fast communications and the time freed by computer efficiency and intelligence, only to be occupied by increased workloads and a demand for increased personal efficiency, coupled with the disappearance of the learning curve beyond the horizon of possible human achievement, is making us Humans feel obsolete, futile things that hardly deserve to be living. And for lack of collective vision this machinery is making us only more efficient locusts blindly destroying the world and ourselves in the process.
We are becoming amazingly rich and fat, but not less hungry, softened by all the pillows we created, but not more comfortable, self indulging and addicted to all sorts of somatic rewards, never pleased. Some of us are like that and some of us are on the otherside of the spectrum, drained of all hope, incapable to envision any salvation but the one promised on another world. From hoping it all goes to hell in a basket to actually taking their own lives to jump on comets, from being bombed to being mistaken for a terrorist and killed (unarmed) from the back with 5 shots in the head by ScotlandYard, hopeless things…
And all the while there seems to be huge concentrations of wealth, killing people, and huge lacks of it, also killing people. Of course world problems cannot be reduced to wealth problems alone, but I feel it is undeniable that wealth distribution is one of the greatest indicators if things are going in the right direction. I think it cannot be denied that if you divide the present worldwealth by the world population we are much richer no than we've ever been, but how many Ox carts to the Lamborghinis, how many brandless sweatshirts and jeans to the Prada?
As the fairness of wealth distribution is in all practicality a nonexisting concept, being more a dream that we collectively don't actupon, the need for wealth destroyers arise. They are all over, destroying lives, their own (bomb men), destroying wealth by corruption, by accumulation, by warring and piling up arsenals, by just buying the latest gas guzzling muscle car because "I deserve some reward for being myself".
All this world wide aspect of manifest destruction and hopelessness is in part because we groupally cannot make the minute personal destruction (and transformation) of self sacrifice, of self abasement, of self criticism, of Forgiveness. All this reductive pressure upon us comes from our own personal inflation of demands,of wants and needs, of attention. We depreciate the world and ourselves by our exagerated needs.
If you think of what is really necessary to live, all that really matters, all that is completely and totally rich is like a pearl, round, shiny, solid, natural, beautiful and long lasting. On the other hand, if we compile all we think we need it would look more like a party balloon, feisty, full of gas, explosive, futile, short lived, artificial and cheap… Put that pearl inside the balloon, put all balloons in the world inside a room and you take all the air from it, you restrict all movement also. It becomes impossible for one pearl to get close enough to another to really understand its take on things, not to say it is impossible to collectively get together on what is really important and to closely appreciate each other's "Pearliness". No wonder from time to time one of us pops and goes postal, or feels like throwing a plane into a building or occupying another country, or from public office deceiving the people and stealing from public money, or robbing a national central bank vault (both of this last things are happening and happened herein Brazil).
Coming back to the MATRIX argument, at this point we are only feeding a soulless machine. We did not yet grasp how off center we were before the information age, and how even more off center we are right now. We are hypnotized by all the pixels blinking in front ofus, giving us the illusion and futile Pavlovian reward of electronic control. We are feeding this Global machine with our souls, hoping we are doing the right thing, but the machine itself does not know what to do or where to go, and apparently its programming needs a huge adjustment or we are into a big reality check. It comes to mind the image of the benign thinking helmet or hat, that you put on (or take off) to become more intelligent to do all the good things you must, or the malignant implanted chip that controls your every move and thought and commands you to do things you do not want to do.
The choice between making these appendages iron balls that bind usto very restricted and grey efficiency stalls, or feathery wings that help us enjoy being human even more greatly resides at everyone of us wanting to be at the center and not wanting to be the center. We are actually trying to answer the question that asks ifmachines (mechanical behavior) will take us over. If "they" do they would only be jumping into oblivion with us. And I qualifythis "they" as the Mechanical / Hierarchical / Patriarchal aspect of our own personalities, an aspect that surrenders all its own volition to the demands of a system. I believe this is something that springs, of all the unexpected things, of our own insufficient animal nature. Well, you say, how can a mechanical behavior come from animal nature? I say it is possible because we are animals that, besides being technologically inclined, can deny our deepest feelings, our instincts and natural souls.
I saw a short news flic that showed North Koreans under a huge statue of their former president (nuke crazed and present little king KIM JongII´s daddy), they were bowing to the statue in reverence, as to a Buddha, which he surely was not. That impressed me deeply, as right now in Brazil the government is under the biggest and most widespread corruption investigation that ever seem to have happened in a democratic country. And despite all logical indications that our President is involved most people deny the fact or make political compromises so he stays in power, or else things would get too messed up. We must not forget we are monkeys, and we fear the biggest gorilla and feel we need his parental protection. God in heaven being the greatest of great apes.
In most cases we resist in seeing daddy's shortcomings, or the shortcomings of daddy's system, or the placement "he" gave us in the pecking order. We proceed in the belief that if I push that lever as I am supposed to all will be well and dad's tribe will take care of me, never knowing that this is that life sucking chip whispering in our ears. We proceed in surrendering all responsibility to an external agent, an oppressor, a protector, a seducer, a whisperer, a split personality character…
What is the blue pill, what are its effects, how shall we make theMATRIX work for us and for all life? How do we become the Uncorrupted Souls that came to play in this Heavenly Garden, that came to explore the joys of this Infinite Universe, that came to Become Reunited with the Center of It All, that came to Transmute it All back into Light and Return it a thousand fold shinier to the Creator? How do we overcome the limited nature of our crib, and transmute into Eternal Beings?
Do you feel you are getting nearer the pass? Can you envision the singularity? Can you create it? Would you accelerate towards it, and compress all that is not necessary out of the equation, zipping up your personal history to reach that nexus? Realize that all that will happen is a Deja "Not" Vu, a positive glitch in the MATRIX where all is exactly the same but now you see it all completely renewed and different. You see the code.
--- Operator?....
The intense acceleration we feel coming from the fast communications and the time freed by computer efficiency and intelligence, only to be occupied by increased workloads and a demand for increased personal efficiency, coupled with the disappearance of the learning curve beyond the horizon of possible human achievement, is making us Humans feel obsolete, futile things that hardly deserve to be living. And for lack of collective vision this machinery is making us only more efficient locusts blindly destroying the world and ourselves in the process.
We are becoming amazingly rich and fat, but not less hungry, softened by all the pillows we created, but not more comfortable, self indulging and addicted to all sorts of somatic rewards, never pleased. Some of us are like that and some of us are on the otherside of the spectrum, drained of all hope, incapable to envision any salvation but the one promised on another world. From hoping it all goes to hell in a basket to actually taking their own lives to jump on comets, from being bombed to being mistaken for a terrorist and killed (unarmed) from the back with 5 shots in the head by ScotlandYard, hopeless things…
And all the while there seems to be huge concentrations of wealth, killing people, and huge lacks of it, also killing people. Of course world problems cannot be reduced to wealth problems alone, but I feel it is undeniable that wealth distribution is one of the greatest indicators if things are going in the right direction. I think it cannot be denied that if you divide the present worldwealth by the world population we are much richer no than we've ever been, but how many Ox carts to the Lamborghinis, how many brandless sweatshirts and jeans to the Prada?
As the fairness of wealth distribution is in all practicality a nonexisting concept, being more a dream that we collectively don't actupon, the need for wealth destroyers arise. They are all over, destroying lives, their own (bomb men), destroying wealth by corruption, by accumulation, by warring and piling up arsenals, by just buying the latest gas guzzling muscle car because "I deserve some reward for being myself".
All this world wide aspect of manifest destruction and hopelessness is in part because we groupally cannot make the minute personal destruction (and transformation) of self sacrifice, of self abasement, of self criticism, of Forgiveness. All this reductive pressure upon us comes from our own personal inflation of demands,of wants and needs, of attention. We depreciate the world and ourselves by our exagerated needs.
If you think of what is really necessary to live, all that really matters, all that is completely and totally rich is like a pearl, round, shiny, solid, natural, beautiful and long lasting. On the other hand, if we compile all we think we need it would look more like a party balloon, feisty, full of gas, explosive, futile, short lived, artificial and cheap… Put that pearl inside the balloon, put all balloons in the world inside a room and you take all the air from it, you restrict all movement also. It becomes impossible for one pearl to get close enough to another to really understand its take on things, not to say it is impossible to collectively get together on what is really important and to closely appreciate each other's "Pearliness". No wonder from time to time one of us pops and goes postal, or feels like throwing a plane into a building or occupying another country, or from public office deceiving the people and stealing from public money, or robbing a national central bank vault (both of this last things are happening and happened herein Brazil).
Coming back to the MATRIX argument, at this point we are only feeding a soulless machine. We did not yet grasp how off center we were before the information age, and how even more off center we are right now. We are hypnotized by all the pixels blinking in front ofus, giving us the illusion and futile Pavlovian reward of electronic control. We are feeding this Global machine with our souls, hoping we are doing the right thing, but the machine itself does not know what to do or where to go, and apparently its programming needs a huge adjustment or we are into a big reality check. It comes to mind the image of the benign thinking helmet or hat, that you put on (or take off) to become more intelligent to do all the good things you must, or the malignant implanted chip that controls your every move and thought and commands you to do things you do not want to do.
The choice between making these appendages iron balls that bind usto very restricted and grey efficiency stalls, or feathery wings that help us enjoy being human even more greatly resides at everyone of us wanting to be at the center and not wanting to be the center. We are actually trying to answer the question that asks ifmachines (mechanical behavior) will take us over. If "they" do they would only be jumping into oblivion with us. And I qualifythis "they" as the Mechanical / Hierarchical / Patriarchal aspect of our own personalities, an aspect that surrenders all its own volition to the demands of a system. I believe this is something that springs, of all the unexpected things, of our own insufficient animal nature. Well, you say, how can a mechanical behavior come from animal nature? I say it is possible because we are animals that, besides being technologically inclined, can deny our deepest feelings, our instincts and natural souls.
I saw a short news flic that showed North Koreans under a huge statue of their former president (nuke crazed and present little king KIM JongII´s daddy), they were bowing to the statue in reverence, as to a Buddha, which he surely was not. That impressed me deeply, as right now in Brazil the government is under the biggest and most widespread corruption investigation that ever seem to have happened in a democratic country. And despite all logical indications that our President is involved most people deny the fact or make political compromises so he stays in power, or else things would get too messed up. We must not forget we are monkeys, and we fear the biggest gorilla and feel we need his parental protection. God in heaven being the greatest of great apes.
In most cases we resist in seeing daddy's shortcomings, or the shortcomings of daddy's system, or the placement "he" gave us in the pecking order. We proceed in the belief that if I push that lever as I am supposed to all will be well and dad's tribe will take care of me, never knowing that this is that life sucking chip whispering in our ears. We proceed in surrendering all responsibility to an external agent, an oppressor, a protector, a seducer, a whisperer, a split personality character…
What is the blue pill, what are its effects, how shall we make theMATRIX work for us and for all life? How do we become the Uncorrupted Souls that came to play in this Heavenly Garden, that came to explore the joys of this Infinite Universe, that came to Become Reunited with the Center of It All, that came to Transmute it All back into Light and Return it a thousand fold shinier to the Creator? How do we overcome the limited nature of our crib, and transmute into Eternal Beings?
Do you feel you are getting nearer the pass? Can you envision the singularity? Can you create it? Would you accelerate towards it, and compress all that is not necessary out of the equation, zipping up your personal history to reach that nexus? Realize that all that will happen is a Deja "Not" Vu, a positive glitch in the MATRIX where all is exactly the same but now you see it all completely renewed and different. You see the code.
--- Operator?....
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