sat chit ananda

Try not thinking for just one minute. Then imagine working on stopping the thought process entirely. Sound easy? The way to end vexation and suffering within you is via introspection. Upon inquiry into one's own thought-action process, understanding is gained about how one's entire subjective experience operates. You actually begin to see the subtle workings of the mind. This is basically becoming aware of what is labelled the subconscious. The more one pays attention to the thought-action process, the more understanding is gained and from is understanding one can work on vexation at it's source. Just as one can understand the subtle more fundamental workings of the physical realm via mathematics, so can one understand the more fundamental workings of the Self, and all of humanity, via introspection into the source of thought. Understanding via thought can bring understanding about what you are thinking about. Understand thought itself and you understand everything. Doesn't sound weird at all. True insight comes from something outside all the mental churning. The thinking seems to be different from the insight.

Perhaps. I would submit that those systems that offer an answer to the problem of vexation and suffering should be given the most attention. Can QM and the newly developing physics possibly address this issue? If consciousness is involved, and it is accepted as being involved, then maybe it's not too big of a stretch to see physics integrating with other fields such as psychology and spirituality to help shed light on the cause and cessation of suffering. I believe what you say is true about mathematics. It does seem that it reveals a more fundamental level of reality than that which is the physicality of our senses. However, not even pure thought is ultimate Reality. I understand things beyond what any language can describe. One ceases to even care about the "how" when they understand the "why". If you want to understand yourself and all of reality, give meditation a try. Seriously.

All systems of thought (even mathematics) are analogy. I don't take any of them seriously.

David Bohm used the analogy of two cameras focused on a fish in an aquarium in an attempt to better understand QM. Would you ask him if the cameras could be held by orangutans? I have a feeling you guys would be treating what he was saying a little differently than what I am saying, even though we are saying pretty much the same thing. A lot of people are trying to makes sense of what QM is telling us about reality. I just happened to see that the phenomena of two mirrors facing each other produces results that are exactly like those resulting from quantum theory. If there is no way to apply math to the analogy then it is of no use. If there is a place to start (perhaps the interaction of light between two mirrors) and the math produces something familiar, then maybe you're onto something. How do I feel about human consciousness being biased toward physicality? Like we are all characters in a dream. Some of us are aware of true Self, as in a lucid dream, and most of us believe we are the dream character.

It is, as always, whatever you want it to be.

I don't know. I'm not sure how the mind operates when working in the realm of mathematics. I would assume that, at least every now and then, a correlation with physicality forms in the mind's eye. If the image that forms is less coherent with physicality, then the resulting thought processes (equations in this case) will reflect this. If it so happens that having an image of two mirrors facing each other brings about a new and more coherent path for/of thought, then that would be cool. Simple ideas (eg: falling at the same speed of an elevator) can bring about profound shifts in perspective.

This is merely a proposal of a workable metaphor. It may be of use in the same way that the metaphor of gravity being the curvature of spacetime is useful. Sometimes the simplest of ideas can be the catalyst to a major shift in discovery and understanding. I offer this as an idea in the hopes that the model might be useful. What if the membranes in M theory had mirror-like qualities? The use of two mirrors facing each other as a metaphor presents some interesting parallels to how physics describes the functioning of reality. If a particle (and all of physicality) is actually more like the image in a mirror and we have two mirrors facing each other, such an interaction describes phenomena such as: how it appears as though there are many electrons where there may actually only be one. How it appears as though there are infinite universes where there may actually only be one. Why it is that each particle appears to have a pair particle with exactly opposing qualities. Entanglement and the observation/WF collapse issue. Two mirrors facing each other would give the appearance of there being two particles interacting instantaneously, each having opposing qualities, but in actuality it would be a singular entity. QM is able to “look at both mirrors” simultaneously. And/or, it is able to investigate the qualities of the mirrors rather than focusing on the image in the mirrors. The purely objective “consciousness” of mathematics is not distracted by the “spell of maya” that human consciousness is. Human consciousness has a deeply-rooted bias toward focusing on physicality. We cannot help but focus on the image in the mirror. When looked at through the filter of mathematics, consciousness is better able to investigate itself free from such bias. Inflation. The moment one mirror is placed in front of another mirror, there is a procreation of the image in both mirrors that occurs at the speed of light. If the mirrors are very close together this would produce an almost instantaneous and infinite “expansion” of the image. I'm guessing that the math describing such an interaction would reveal something very similar to that of the inflationary epoch. Quantum jumps between energy orbits is the focusing on each successive image in the mirror. Nothing is really moving in all of this, other than consciousness. The only “movement” is the act of the focusing of consciousness. Consciousness can focus on the images, which brings about the appearance of physicality, or it can focus on the mirror, via “pure thought”, or it can focus on itself, which is getting into spirituality, which I won't do here. Mirrors are used in the making of a hologram. If the holographic principle is a workable metaphor, then there must be a mirror-like aspect to the process. I have the strong intuition that the fundamental “mirrors” are the interaction of thought and matter. Causation is fundamentally not at the physical level, but rather is the interaction of thought and physicality mirroring each other. Both are mutually dependant, but not really causally related. This metaphor may also be of use in other fields such as psychology (thought-action) and biology.