Zero

#zero

This introduces the concept of the source of the line. Before the beginning and after much searching for a rational form of this, the mystics and shamans had, from the very beginning of history, been working with and from … this Source. Through this exploration, we came up with the mind-bending concept of zero, or nothingness. In the words of Monty Python: “This parrot is no longer a parrot! It was! The parrot is no more. It is dead, extinguished, gone!”

Hold on there, cowboy. How can there be Nothing, when all I see, all I know shows me that everywhere I look, everywhere I explore is filled with things, and now, with energy.

But, counters the חכם, the clever one, we now “know” from the latest scientific theories (QP in a nutshell!) that all matter is made up of mostly “nothing!” …

Before continuing deeper into the debacle, let me remind you that this “nothing” that we are referring to is

1. A state of not-something,
   For we, and what we are able to perceive/measure—albeit always “incompletely” according to Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem—is the something that we can recognise. In other words, we are looking for/at something, and the “eyes” will see what the mind is looking for/at!
   If not, it might precipitate a spiritual crises. In fact, one of the classic Buddhist techniques, call the Koan, is meant to do just that by concentrating on a logical contradiction which is meant to send the rational part of your brain into a tailspin.

This Nothingness, this Zero, is also know as the “point of origin”, the centre of the circle, the still point of the turning wheel and the place of transformation

This is why constraint is necessary for any transformation. In ancient times this was referred to as a sacrifice, though this is a pity, for the emphasis is that it is required to atone for one’s sins. However, this could be looked at as not atoning for a sin, but to rectify a local (system) error. This is a spiritual healing technique applicable to living things/beings/entities.

The constraining of errors will reduce the pull, disregarding its requirements, by nourishing it less, weakening it. If it is essential, and cannot be extinguished, it will at least be much easier to control.

Let me explain it this way:

If you encounter an error in, say, behaviour, then in order to rectify it, you first have to constrain, ideally eliminate, it—thus one must sacrifice something for these ‘sins’. Which, one could say, is that one has to remove something—often something that one desires—so that one can enter a state of nothingness for it is from that place that transformation is possible. This is using middle pillar work, which is aligning the four worlds along the axis mundi, represented by the central pillar of the Kabbalistic Tree.

Then a practice needs to be introduced to keep that space clear until this practice takes root in the ground of your being, thus becoming uniquely yours.

In conclusion, little can really be said about this true Nothingness—for there is nothing, no way to express its nothingness.

How does a something experience nothing(ness)? How does a fish have an experience of a waterless world? Be careful, for if you touch this nothingness, it might blow your mind, and you will never be that same again. This is the pool within which the true mystery of our existence, the unknowable, infinite primordial light/energy exists.

There is a facet of what I must highlight. Nothing exists in this state—except perhaps for Nothing itself. It can be represented as $\text{\{\}}$ or $\{\varnothing\}$ or simply $\varnothing$ which represent the empty set. It is the zero point set, the “portal” to the infinite mystery of true nothing.