Closing The Loop: Integro-Relativistic Interpretations Of Directionality As the Basis Of Ideological Purpose
Identity is purpose & purpose is identity?
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Please note that what you are about to read below has been written by our great friend of the show, Lewis! I (Dave) will identify in this article when Lewis’ piece ends & mine begins, but the two go hand in hand and one cannot be read without reading the other!
What do we say when we talk about something, or someone, being ‘stuck on a loop’? Well we say it’s (they’re) going around in circles. It’s a continuous event, moment, perspective, opinion or behaviour. It’s something which repeats itself, much like Pacman here who does the same thing on and on.
Notice Pacman has an ‘eye’ which is also a circle. This isn’t an eye, at least in my estimation. What it is, is a symbol of your reluctance to ‘see’ the problem. It is the ‘comfort zone’, it is the ‘world’ around you. Your world, or at least you think it is. You remain inside it, going round and round, repeating the same things you’ve always done. It is your fixed perspective. You don’t know you’re stuck within Pacman, for if you did, you would see the mouth. You would then see the opening, the gap, the hole and what do you do with holes - you fill them (no pun intended). You fill them, as in, making them whole. Closing the gap. Closing the loop.
“In Hinduism, Lord Shiva is often shown wearing a crescent moon on his head symbolising that the lord is the master of time and is himself timeless.” Perhaps this is why, among other reasons, that Pacman doesn’t wear a Crescent moon, he IS the crescent moon. He is the epitome, the definition, the very essence of what is timeless and he is the master of time (yes I’m assuming his gender). The master of time keeps you within his ‘eye’ to stop you escaping. For if you escaped you would complete the circle, you would solve the problem and therefore destroy him. What you’re doing is you are creating a circle from a crescent, therefore closing the loop. Maybe you’re stuck in multiple Pacmen? Perhaps, as you will know if you read my previous Multidimensionality of Consciousness article, our issues remain in different Pacmen, we need only complete the circle, close the loop and we are free. Another part of us comes back to us. Often when we solve the issues in our life, we feel ‘complete’, we feel ‘whole again’. Maybe if we can manage this more than once, we are doing this?
This allows us to then conjoin the solved problems creating what?
This
For the ‘practical’ people reading, closing the loop refers to completion. Completion has many forms, finishing a project, moving an obstacle or organising yourself. Perhaps there's a ‘hole in your life’ which you need to fill, a crescent you need to circle? By doing this you will be creating your own fulfilment through the achievement of completion. Achievement in your eyes, however, is the only way to grasp, to hold onto the fulfilment you will receive from completion. The joy IS in the journey, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate the peak of the mountain. You only require your version of achievement, for someone else’s idea of achievement won’t ‘fulfil’ (full fill) you. It won’t give you the energy you need, that fullness will be lacking.
So how do you go about solving a problem and gaining that well deserved feeling of fulfilment? That answer is too long for either me or Dave to answer in this short article, but start by knowing and choosing what you want to happen after the completion of your mission. You will find, when you’ve finished your task, that you will be looking for the next mission, the next journey. Where you want to go is usually not the state you want to reside in. You never want to stay still, stay motionless, staying still is stagnancy and stagnancy does not lead to evolution. As Daves brilliant piece last week states, the pendulum never stops. Think of a pendulum in this instance as a skateboarder going up and down a c shaped ramp.
You never want to stay at the top of that ramp, you may reside there for a moment, but only to propel you forward towards the next movement. You must remain in motion, for when you stop, you lose the energy, the momentum of the pendulum stops and it's much more difficult to reach the next stage of the pendulum swing. You have shortened, lessened the momentum it once had. You have 'slowed down', taken a break and now you require a whole lot more effort and energy to get that pendulum where it once was.
On the swings as a kid, you'd have to swing for a while before you could get to the level you wanted to be. What did you hear kids shouting as children, 'higher higher'. The thrill, the joy is in the elevation from one state to the other. It is the 'swing' which we enjoy. This is especially true when more energy is being produced by going 'higher and higher'. Perhaps to reach the next stage of your conscious evolution, you need to go higher, you need to swing more and reach that peak you so desperately need.
Are you holding yourself back from completion due to pride? Are you looking at things from one point of view? You can push all you want against a door, until you realise it's a pull door. Try a different angle, a different perspective. Ask for help. Achieving something requires knowledge that you are conscious of. At the moment you realise you aren't conscious of it, else the problem would be fixed. Don't be afraid to ask for help, for learning is just that, learning. It matters not what form it comes in. Everything is your teacher, me, that book, that car, that annoying coworker, that obstacle. Everything, complete the circle, by consciously attaining the tools to close the gap. The gaping hole in your life will be filled just as soon as you choose to build yourself, it matters not where you get the bricks.
Let us now continue with Dave’s Contribution to Lewis’ great piece:
After reading all that Lewis has written in a very well-explained and elegant regard to help provide contextual basis and understanding for our article here, let us continue to consider this “loop” closing;
Who closes a loop? What is a loop? Why is a loop?
The above are all valid intellectual proclivities in which uphold equally valid truths to themselves when asking any formidable question in perhaps almost any formidable manner. But what if our reality is not formidable? What if we made it appear to be formidable, and then forgot to realize that we hold control over such formidability's? Therefore implying that such modalities of formidability’s were never “formidable” to begin with… because they never existed unless we made such a perspective so common amongst our peers, that we began to believe in the very deceit we intended to not consciously fall into? To the extent in which such potential modalities of what we coin as “existence” only become “modal” based on if we choose to allow a doorway of neuronal inputs to mirror that of our neuronal outputs relative to the environment we are in…
In other words, allow me to ask a simple question: why did you click on this particular Substack article? You probably noticed a very neat header image with some intriguingly interesting symbols engrained onto some sort of smooth, gradient curvature apparatus in which you were presuming either I, Dave, or Lewis were going to address.
In other words, you “closed the loop” on the input/output modality of your mind wanting to inquire about such an image and you - perhaps - wanted to inquire about the potential correlations to the image in the article and the words being written below said image.
To provide an additional perspective, that of which would be no more - nor less - truthful than any other perspective in fairness to the grander scheme of such principles, you as the reader, have “closed” the first “loop” of your personal inquiry and so therefore that initial loop doesn’t “matter” at present, but holds a set of information within its loop respectfully, in which you could potentially make correlations to in other ways, means and areas - albeit perhaps just not at this very moment. But we consider the aforementioned “loop #1”.
“Loop #2” would be your pursuing the intellectual and stimulating excitement that is modally-stimulated and inputted into your brain, which is then accepted into your mind (yes, there’s a difference), as a set of information “packets” (of which would be in a crystalline structure for our visual readers showcased below):
Image Source: news.mit.edu
Now let us notice that each layer of said information packets (yellow, red, purple, etc), although respectively operating independently, can also orient itself in any direction to then immediately “loop” in with another information packet, layer, or “sphere” that we see in the above-image. Once the appropriate information packets are then oriented in the “right” direction (relative to that of your mind during decision-making processes determining how much or little information packets are needed to be cross-referenced for a “right” or “final” answer to then be modulated accordingly to that of an input-output function), you then begin to either “speak your mind” literally, or internally, making direct pattern connections to previous memories of which you took the chance to inherently tap into via your “bank of memories” - and all of this was done in under a picosecond… which speaks to “time” being only that of a perceived notion relative to action starting from one focal point and ending at another but that is beyond the scope of today’s article.
Let us now realize that there is no right or wrong direction in which any of these information packets within us can take. It’s purely and truly relative to the “loop” in which you must feel to have closed or “zipped-up”. This is largely what we would call at the end of a long day and heading home from work, a “successful day, because I accomplished a lot!”
You mean to tell me Dave, that there is a correlation to all of the above-described, and dopamine releases in the brain?
Absolutely. And that’s just the start! And perhaps many of you are familiar with such already! If you are, you’ve “closed a loop long ago” (establishing a correlation to completing tasks and dopamine) that has only been “reopened” to be “re-furbished” and then re-”closed” up again but with a stronger binding to the initial loop; akin to a ball weaving through fibres to make a thread…
And so, every time a loop is closed, a task is fulfilled, and the loops are arguably interlinked through that of the “invisible realm” AKA the “aether”, of which are omni-directional, or non-directional, because they have no direction until given necessary purpose, by you, to attain a direction for that specific task, or sub-set of tasks.
This then brings us to purpose and identity, and the means of identifying such within that of a conflictual “tit for tat” scenario; is my purpose my identity or is my identity my purpose?
When asked of ones self deeply, this can really hit-home. However one can make the strong argument, as is yours-truly, that it only “hits-home” if you let it. One can have a day job they despise yet have their true purpose be the three to four hours in which they spend painting or writing or even playing video games in the evening for that manner; and there is nothing wrong with such. There is only something “wrong” with such, when you allow others to influence your internal sub-loops that keep moving around sporadically to try and get you to finish that next chapter, or complete that final piece of canvas of your painting, etc.
The objective, however, is to take those set of sub-loops that truly drive your sense of being and purpose (or the other way around) to then expand and grow into areas of your life where the “dull” loops - if any were to exist in the “part” of the mind where one doesn’t enjoy a task or process whatsoever - begin to grow and blossom just like a plant growing from the earth, and perhaps even link-in with the other loops of your mind in which are blossoming and teeming with life. What then happens from such, is that the larger loops of vitality and strength begin to give some of their energy to the “loops” of lesser vitality and strength.
All of this sounds fine and dandy, but the question then becomes: what does this mean in practical day-to-day life?
All of the above speaks to a higher sense of purpose, and therefore, identity relative to your even going for a walk with your pet, your family, or even on your own for that matter. One begins to “close loops” in a positive manner just by being; so the same dopamine release you would get when completing a painting, drawing, paragraph, or even a round or two in a video game, is now the same release in which you receive and experience when waking up in the morning before you head to work - even if you still don’t like your nine to five job, you dis-like it a little bit less. There’s a difference. Because you have something to work towards after that distasteful job to then continue to build into stronger loops and eventually turn into something that sets you free in the way YOU so-desire; NOBODY else.
And as “woo” as that may sound, one can make a strong argument that all of the above-described, is Quantum Physics - well, a small part of it but a vital one nonetheless aha.
- Dave :)