01-15-2025, 05:23 AM
A singularity would be infinite, seemingly. Most if not all cosmogonies point towards a singularity. Beyond that the suspicion is usually 0/nothing or God.
I've never met a psychonaut that's claimed to go beyond the proverbial alpha or omega and the theme I've gathered from reading over the years is there's nothing comprehensible beyond those points for anything created within.
Enter gnosis...
"Behold! The firmament, a mirror! I declare to thee my form is a dog and I shall bite my tail!"
Just saying in a jokingly way that you or I are hardly the first to "chase the tail" of the infinite question.
Personal opinion is that existence is finite and that it is a closed system but that doesn't offer any answers towards the immeasurable aspects of reality such as consciousness. Maybe we'll find a way to measure it, we wouldn't say consciousness is nothing and if we put aside spirituality for a second we would most likely conclude it is finite too. Yet, the loss of a life does nothing to existence in the material sense.
I know I'm hardly doing any justice to the countless hours dedicated to this particular discussion, I figured a few more words on a page wouldn't hurt. Nice thread, my suspicions is there's always a level of certainty to be found within the defined, I suspect the system we exist in is finite too but I'm open-minded about the possibilities.
I've never met a psychonaut that's claimed to go beyond the proverbial alpha or omega and the theme I've gathered from reading over the years is there's nothing comprehensible beyond those points for anything created within.
Enter gnosis...
"Behold! The firmament, a mirror! I declare to thee my form is a dog and I shall bite my tail!"
Just saying in a jokingly way that you or I are hardly the first to "chase the tail" of the infinite question.
Personal opinion is that existence is finite and that it is a closed system but that doesn't offer any answers towards the immeasurable aspects of reality such as consciousness. Maybe we'll find a way to measure it, we wouldn't say consciousness is nothing and if we put aside spirituality for a second we would most likely conclude it is finite too. Yet, the loss of a life does nothing to existence in the material sense.
I know I'm hardly doing any justice to the countless hours dedicated to this particular discussion, I figured a few more words on a page wouldn't hurt. Nice thread, my suspicions is there's always a level of certainty to be found within the defined, I suspect the system we exist in is finite too but I'm open-minded about the possibilities.
