Week 7 -- Chaos Theory

• “Ordered chaos” – does this sound familiar?
• Fractals as patterns of complex systems
• Consciousness out of chaos?

• My room has mostly been a great example of ordered chaos. To many people (mostly meaning my mother) it was very chaotic while I could find everything quite well. The term 'Ordered Chaos' is very interesting in that it is like an oxymoron from a western perspective yet makes perfect sense from an eastern position. The Yang within the yin or yon within the yang. Harmony and balance in the midst of constant change. The beautiful dance of the universe, the creativity of creation. As things grow, so must they die (transform). From death comes new life and new more complex systems. The seasons don't fear the reaper so we might as well enjoy the ride.
• Fractals are really cool to watch on video and can really put one into a semi-altered state. The parallels between fractals patterns and say that of an atom to the solar system are very interesting. It leans on the idea of the holographic universe in which even the tiniest piece of the universe contains the code for the entire universe. Just as every cell of a living being contains the coding for the whole being. ---DNA---. I am thinking that the univeres's DNA may look like a fractal pattern and may take more colors or dimensions to get all the coding right.
• Consciousness out of Chaos---If the OM was pure consciousness and all things existed together as one, we may assume that in that absoluteness there was a bit of chaos. From the expansion into what we call reality we may deduce that the OM came into being to experience. This experience has developed consciousness and has from that consciousness began a refinement process until all things merge back into absoluteness again in one way or another. The OM is of course the doer and maker and is contained within the creation and is inseparable from any aspect of the creation for the creation is made of OM. This idea can be explained through these words : " Tudh aapay srist sabh upaa-ee jee, tudh aapay siraj sabh go-ee." -- You Yourself created the entire universe, and having fashioned it, You Yourself shall transform it all.
• --So Purkh; Guru Ram Das; 1574 A.D.