John Brodix Merryman Jr.
3 min readJan 29, 2024

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In extracting signals from the noise, it is what resonates and synchronizes with our prior beliefs, maps, models, that is what we get.

Then we bond to those on similar wavelengths.

This is a centripetal process.

Like galaxies, the structure coalesces in.

Yet, like galaxies, the energy radiates out.

Fusion and fission.

The energy radiated away is the noise we don't absorb.

Given this energy fades away, as energy from other sources is absorbed by our reception, like starlight, the overall effect is harmonization.

The problem is that centripetal process is a dynamic with a central point of focus, like the eye of a storm, the black hole at the center of a galaxy, or even the grain of sand at the center of a pearl.

It is our God. As such, it is the ideal. Like truth, beauty, platonic forms, the creed, code, heroes, narratives at the center our cultures are ideals.

Yet they are not absolutes.

The universal is the elemental, so a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the images and narratives playing out on it.

While there are multitudes of centers of gravity spread across the universe, as there are multitudes of cultures around the world.

Ancient Greek religions originated out of fertility rites. The young god born in the spring, to the old sky god and the earth mother. Though by the age of the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal. As the old are frequently loathe to give way to the young.

Which provided fertile ground for the story of Jesus, risen in the spring.

Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion.

So originally Christianity was a form of revolution, against the old and the powerful. He was all peace, love and turn the other cheek, except when it came to the moneychangers and that's when they crucified him.

Yet by the time Rome adopted it as state religion, 300 years later, it too had started to calcify, so it was the monotheism that served to validate the Empire rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules.

The origins of the Trinity shrouded in the Holy Ghost, as the Catholic Church didn't do renewal, or women.

Though Martin Luther did try pushing the reset button, but only for the corruption, not the tradition.

When the West went back to democracy and republicanism, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.

So it's not even just about dealing with the spiritual, as basic aspects of life that we build stories around.

Even today, Math is the omniscient omniscience, with Science as its Jesus.

Art looks to the ideals, science looks to the elements.

The fact is knowledge is very much a function of the frame, the map and model. An objective point of view is an oxymoron.

Too much information reverts to noise and breaks down. Fission. Whiteout.

The energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it is the digestive system processing the energy, feeding the flame, the nervous system sorting the information and the circulation system as feedback in the middle.

Thermodynamics Rules.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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