Metaphysical Art Explained
"COMPLEXITY"
by Adam Blatner
Posted September 1, 2013
First of all, the Universe is complex beyond the human power of
imagination. It's varied and many-leveled, with seed forms
literally in-form-ing subsequent levels as they unfold, and their
"experiences" in turn modify the "higher" or more essential
levels. This is true at all levels, so experience affects the
formation of the embryo's and infant's nervous system. There's a
rich interplay between nature and nurture, individual and social
network, individual and culture (language, history, how one rests,
what one finds tasty or disgusting, etc.), collectives and
environment, and so forth.
The outer layers give energy and life to what we imagine to be
"reality," but "it" is not final, "given," ultimate. We don't just
adjust to reality, we individually and collectively co-create it,
far more than was believed in the past---and more than what most
folks believe today.
Transdimensionality
Only recently are people beginning to consider that there well
might "be" dimensions beyond the 3-D of space, plus time. Mind
dimensions also operate in the cosmos, and at some levels what is
mind and what is matter is not clearly divided. In this picture,
which is just two dimensions, there's a hint of three dimensions
and a hint of the quality of more dimensions penetrating and
informing those three. As in the book "Flatland," what if what we
call reality in three dimensions were being penetrated with a
vastly more complex being? If it were 3-D ovoid, it would appear
first as a dot in a 2-D surface it was traveling through, then
grow, then shrink and disappear, and we flat-landers would call it
birth, infancy, growth, elderhood, and death.
So too, all sorts of things have their lives, rise and fall,
emergence and disappearance. This picture tries to hint at that
emergent process. This is why at least one aspect of God is the
Becoming Everything. It's a creative process and responsive to how
you co-create it.