There is so much said in here that reflects my personal ideas almost 1:1 it's uncanny. I've spent the last year really focusing on building an ontological framework, and have come to one that I choose to represent as a fractal. I believe it's a symbol for the same spirit as yin/balance/yang, father/spirit/son, Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva, etc... although I like simplicity/dialectic/complexity or unity/seperation/individualisation. Even an attempt to re-unify by uniting a seperation creates a seperation between unity and seperation, reinstating the state of seperation/ego, an attempt to act perfect also creates good/bad outcomes.
The only way to break free from our inevitable actions of perpetual seperation, is to act towards unity through sacrifice, forgiveness, love, or as I think captures the essence best: faith
Loved this, great article and very validating after just recently coming to this conclusion
Likewise! My personal interest has been in probing the way that the physical world has the imprint, for lack of a better word, of God, as we are made in His image and are emergent out of His Word, Love, etc. I think the materialist paradigm underlying scientists/the scientific institution/society in general is on its last legs, partially due to the meaning crisis and related consequences, but also because science was inevitably going to run into the brick wall of overt intelligence underlying our reality being the most logical conclusion of a myriad of discoveries within its own scope (biological, astrophysical, and the self-organization of reality at every scale essentially). Following alongside all of that for the past ~7 years or so and taking certain realizations to their natural conclusions led me to a similar ontology of scale-invariant self-similarity mediated by a Trinitarian framework of sorts. I didn't begin that journey as an Orthodox Christian, however it has led me unexpectedly but gladly to Christ.
The world is a tree. Christ is a tree. Christ is the life of the world.
"Today He is hung upon the tree, He who suspended the Earth upon the waters!"
There is so much said in here that reflects my personal ideas almost 1:1 it's uncanny. I've spent the last year really focusing on building an ontological framework, and have come to one that I choose to represent as a fractal. I believe it's a symbol for the same spirit as yin/balance/yang, father/spirit/son, Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva, etc... although I like simplicity/dialectic/complexity or unity/seperation/individualisation. Even an attempt to re-unify by uniting a seperation creates a seperation between unity and seperation, reinstating the state of seperation/ego, an attempt to act perfect also creates good/bad outcomes.
The only way to break free from our inevitable actions of perpetual seperation, is to act towards unity through sacrifice, forgiveness, love, or as I think captures the essence best: faith
Loved this, great article and very validating after just recently coming to this conclusion
Likewise! My personal interest has been in probing the way that the physical world has the imprint, for lack of a better word, of God, as we are made in His image and are emergent out of His Word, Love, etc. I think the materialist paradigm underlying scientists/the scientific institution/society in general is on its last legs, partially due to the meaning crisis and related consequences, but also because science was inevitably going to run into the brick wall of overt intelligence underlying our reality being the most logical conclusion of a myriad of discoveries within its own scope (biological, astrophysical, and the self-organization of reality at every scale essentially). Following alongside all of that for the past ~7 years or so and taking certain realizations to their natural conclusions led me to a similar ontology of scale-invariant self-similarity mediated by a Trinitarian framework of sorts. I didn't begin that journey as an Orthodox Christian, however it has led me unexpectedly but gladly to Christ.
Sounds like we've really converged in some key areas! I am pleased more than I can express that you liked the article. We must speak sometime.