Saturday's outing to Durham meant a visit to the Oxfam bookshop and, after years of charity shop book buying, the first Krishnamurti book ... seems they are rarely gifted ... maybe the last attachment, being so full of wisdom ... this is the 2nd Krishnamurti Reader, edited by Mary Lutyens ... discovered on the spirituality shelf ... meanwhile, over on the philosophy shelf, lies Infinity by Brian Clegg ... though it could equally well have been on the science shelf, since it has lots of numbers and algebraic symbols in it ... along with the more helpful (for this discalculic reader) quotes from the mystics:
Plutarch: Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?"
Blake: If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Einstein: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Clegg makes no mention of Hugh Everett's work on infinite parallel universes, later developed into the Many Worlds Theory, nor David Bohm's Implicate Order, nor this insightful poem from ee cummings:
“Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds”
... pointing to not only infinity but also the ground of being, the ultimate, that which cannot be described ... from which all arises and returns ... perhaps ...
As for the shelves and classification, it is often rather random which book belongs where ... supporters of the humourless atheist Richard Dawkins delight in inserting his "The God Delusion" among the religious or spiritual titles ... fellow scientist and Dawkins nemesis, Rupert Sheldrake, wrote "The Science Delusion" for balance ... though on which shelf one may find it requires further investigation ... the APtB library, in its first version, addressed the category question by colour coding the covers ... from light to dark ... why not?
Back in the mainstream consensus reality, where the President of the "United" States of America is temporarily distracted from continuing the conquest of the Middle East with an attack on Iran, by rather recklessly opening two fronts, first in traditional territory southwards ... the oil-rich Venezuela, then revisiting old adversary North Korea, which is reputed to be rich in useful minerals ... either way, all three allegedly reject the Money Delusion of the Almighty Dollar ...
Having been asked by a concerned friend about the ongoing obsession with infinity and other unanswerable questions ... and unconcerned with necessarily providing answers to anything too quickly ... the parallel universe possibilities are tempting, if they offer a way out of consensus realities which are so bizarre as to be beyond belief ... yet if consensus reality is thought constructed through the attention energy of millions (please note the "if"), then we had better focus on less dangerous delusions ... a tricky conundrum, since it makes more "common" sense to oppose that which appears evil ... and sometimes battles may be necessary .... a paradox perhaps ... anyway, until faced with a clear and pressing situation to act otherwise, the awareness stays in all round view, attention and its energy is focused firmly on finer frequencies ...
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